1. The book is the first comprehensive review of the 95-year development of Chinese animation. 2. All students and scholars of film studies, especially Chinese animation would benefit from this volume. 3. This book would be a useful reference to learn about the developmental trajectory of Chinese animation.

1. The book is the first comprehensive review of the 95-year development of Chinese animation. 2. All students and scholars of film studies, especially Chinese animation would benefit from this volume. 3. This book would be a useful reference to learn about the developmental trajectory of Chinese animation.

1. The book is the first comprehensive review of the 95-year development of Chinese animation. 2. All students and scholars of film studies, especially Chinese animation would benefit from this volume. 3. This book would be a useful reference to learn about the developmental trajectory of Chinese animation.

Green and Intelligent Technologies for Sustainable and Smart Asphalt Pavements contains 124 papers from 14 different countries which were presented at the 5th International Symposium on Frontiers of Road and Airport Engineering (IFRAE 2021, Delft, the Netherlands, 12-14 July 2021). The contributions focus on research in the areas of "Circular, Sustainable and Smart Airport and Highway Pavement" and collects the state-of-the-art and state-of-practice areas of long-life and circular materials for sustainable, cost-effective smart airport and highway pavement design and construction. The main areas covered by the book include: * Green and sustainable pavement materials * Recycling technology * Warm & cold mix asphalt materials * Functional pavement design * Self-healing pavement materials * Eco-efficiency pavement materials * Pavement preservation, maintenance and rehabilitation * Smart pavement materials and structures * Safety technology for smart roads * Pavement monitoring and big data analysis * Role of transportation engineering in future pavements Green and Intelligent Technologies for Sustainable and Smart Asphalt Pavements aims at researchers, practitioners, and administrators interested in new materials and innovative technologies for achieving sustainable and renewable pavement materials and design methods, and for those involved or working in the broader field of pavement engineering.

Structural Behavior of Asphalt Pavements provides engineers and researchers with a detailed guide to the structural behavioral dynamics of asphalt pavement including: pavement temperature distribution, mechanistic response of pavement structure under the application of heavy vehicles, distress mechanism of pavement, and pavement deterioration performance and dynamic equations. An authoritative guide for understanding the key mechanisms for creating longer lasting pavements, Structural Behavior of Asphalt Pavements describes the intrinsic consistency between macroscopic performance and microscopic response, structure and material, as well as global and local performances, and demonstrates the process of pavement analyses and designs, approaching science from empirical analyses.

China has been one of the first countries to develop its own aesthetic for dynamic images and to create animation films with distinctive characteristics. In recent years, however, and subject to the influence of Western and Japanese animation, the Chinese animation industry has experienced several new stages of development, prompting the question as to where animation in China is heading in the future. This book describes the history, present and future of China's animation industry. The author divides the business's 95-year history into six periods and analyses each of these from an historical, aesthetic, and artistic perspective. In addition, the book focuses on representative works; themes; directions; artistic styles; techniques; industrial development; government support policies; business models; the nurturing of education and talent; broadcasting systems and animation. Scholars and students who are interested in the history of Chinese animation will benefit from this book and it will appeal additionally to readers interested in Chinese film studies.

China has been one of the first countries to develop its own aesthetic for dynamic images and to create animation films with distinctive characteristics. In recent years, however, and subject to the influence of Western and Japanese animation, the Chinese animation industry has experienced several new stages of development, prompting the question as to where animation in China is heading in the future. This book describes the history, present and future of China's animation industry. The author divides the business's 95-year history into six periods and analyses each of these from an historical, aesthetic, and artistic perspective. In addition, the book focuses on representative works; themes; directions; artistic styles; techniques; industrial development; government support policies; business models; the nurturing of education and talent; broadcasting systems and animation. Scholars and students who are interested in the history of Chinese animation will benefit from this book and it will appeal additionally to readers interested in Chinese film studies.

China has been one of the first countries to develop its own aesthetic for dynamic images and to create animation films with distinctive characteristics. In recent years, however, and subject to the influence of Western and Japanese animation, the Chinese animation industry has experienced several new stages of development, prompting the question as to where animation in China is heading in the future. This book describes the history, present and future of China's animation industry. The author divides the business's 95-year history into six periods and analyses each of these from an historical, aesthetic, and artistic perspective. In addition, the book focuses on representative works, themes, directions, artistic styles, techniques, industrial development, government support policies, business models, the nurturing of education and talent, broadcasting systems, and animation. Scholars and students who are interested in the history of Chinese animation will benefit from this book and it will appeal additionally to readers interested in Chinese film studies.

In real-world traffic, rational human drivers can make socially-compatible decisions in complex and crowded scenarios by efficiently negotiating with their surroundings using non-linguistic communications such as gesturing, deictics, and motion cues. Understanding the principles and rules of the dynamic interaction among human drivers in complex traffic scenes allows 1) generating diverse social driving behaviors that leverage beliefs and expectations about others' actions or reactions; 2) predicting the future states of a scene with moving objects, which is essential to building probably safe intelligent vehicles with the capabilities of behavior prediction and potential collision detection; and 3) creating realistic driving simulators. However, this task is not trivial since various social factors exist along the driving interaction process, including social motivation, social perception, and social control. Generally, human driving behavior is compounded by human drivers' social interactions and their physical interactions with the scene. No human drives a car in a vacuum; she/he must negotiate with other road users to achieve their goals in social traffic scenes. A rational human driver can interact with other road users in a socially-compatible way through implicit communications to complete their driving tasks smoothly in interaction-intensive, safety-critical environments. This monograph reviews the existing approaches and theories to help understand and rethink the interactions among human drivers toward social autonomous driving. Fundamental questions which are covered include: 1) What is social interaction in road traffic scenes? 2) How to measure and evaluate social interaction? 3) How to model and reveal the process of social interaction? 4) How do human drivers reach an implicit agreement and negotiate smoothly in social interaction? This monograph reviews various approaches to modeling and learning the social interactions between human drivers, ranging from optimization theory, deep learning, and graphical models to social force theory and behavioral and cognitive science. Also highlighted are some new directions, critical challenges, and opening questions for future research.

This collection contains 33 peer-reviewed papers presented at the 2015 International Symposium on Frontiers of Road and Airport Engineering, held in Shanghai, China, October 26-28, 2015. These papers address innovations in asphalt materials and evaluation technologies applied to road and airport infrastructure. Topics include: performance characteristics of asphalt pavement; structural analysis and asphalt pavement design; and road traffic safety analysis. Pavement engineers, transportation researchers, and practitioners will find these papers valuable.