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The health technology has become a hot topic in academic research.
It employs the theory of social networks into the different levels
of the prediction and analysis and has brought new possibilities
for the development of technology. This book is a descriptive
summary of challenges and methods using disease identification with
various case studies from diverse authors across the globe. One of
the new buzzwords in healthcare sector that has become popular over
years is health informatics. Healthcare professionals must deal
with an increasing number of computers and computer programs in
their daily work. With rapid growth of digital data, the role of
analytics in healthcare has created a significant impact on
healthcare professional’s life. Improvements in storage data,
computational power and paral- lelization has also contributed to
uptake this technology. This book is intended for use by
researchers, health informatics professionals, academicians and
undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in knowing more
about health informatics. It aims to provide a brief overview about
informatics, its history and area of practice, laws in health
informatics, challenges and technologies in health informatics,
applica- tion of informatics in various sectors and so on. Finally,
the research avenues in health informatics along with some case
studies are discussed.
Conventional air conditioning is not a sustainable solution to the
challenge of a hot or humid climate. The climate problem is
compounded in so-called Urban Heat Islands, urban areas where the
air can be 3-5 DegreesC hotter than its surrounding areas and where
pollution levels are consequently raised. Including a colour
section with thermal images and maps, this book explores the
complex relationships between climate, buildings and plants,
especially in urban heat islands. These relationships bear very
critically on a range of environmental issues and point to some
corresponding solutions. One chapter highlights some of the
extensive research work carried out in Singapore, especially
investigating the thermal benefits of greenery in buildings in the
urban setting. Though several books have been written on urban heat
islands, this work uniquely examines the linkages between climate,
buildings and plants. It forms a reference for researchers and
professionals such as architects, architectural science, landscape
architects, building services engineers, urban planners and urban
climatologists. It may also be useful for final year undergraduates
or graduate students in these disciplines.
Understanding how the brain works and developing effective
therapeutics are important in advancing neuroscience and improving
clinical patient care. Neurophotonics and Brain Mapping covers
state-of-the-art research and development in optical technologies
and applications for brain mapping and therapeutics. It provides a
comprehensive overview of various methods developed using light,
both microscopic and macroscopic techniques. Recent developments in
minimally-invasive endoscopic imaging of deep brain structure and
function, as well as light-based therapy are also reviewed.
Federated Learning: Theory and Practice provides a holistic
treatment to federated learning, starting with a broad overview on
federated learning as a distributed learning system with various
forms of decentralized data and features. A detailed exposition
then follows of core challenges and practical modeling techniques
and solutions, spanning a variety of aspects in communication
efficiency, theoretical convergence and security, viewed from
different perspectives. Part II features emerging challenges
stemming from many socially driven concerns of federated learning
as a future public machine learning service. To bridge the gap
between academic and industrial research Part III presents a wide
array of industrial applications of federated learning. Part IV
concludes the book with several chapters highlighting potential
venues and visions for federated learning in the near
future.Federated Learning: Theory and Practice provides a
comprehensive and accessible introduction to federated learning
which is suitable for researchers and students in academia, and
industrial practitioners who seek to leverage the latest advance in
machine learning for their entrepreneurial endeavours
In the contemporary world, unprecedented global events are
challenging our ability to protect and enhance cultural heritage
for future generations. Relevance and Application of Heritage in
Contemporary Society examines innovative and flexible approaches to
cultural heritage protection. Bringing together cultural heritage
scholars and activists from across the world, the volume showcases
a spectrum of exciting new approaches to heritage protection,
community involvement, and strategic utilization of expertise. The
contributions deal with a range of highly topical issues, including
armed conflict and non-state actors, as well as broad questions of
public heritage, museum roles in society, heritage tourism,
disputed ownership, and indigenous and local approaches. In so
doing, the volume builds upon, and introduces readers to, a new
cultural heritage declaration codified during a 2016 workshop at
the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada. Offering a clarion call for an
enduring spirit of innovation, collaboration, education, and
outreach, Relevance and Application of Heritage in Contemporary
Society will be important reading for scholars, students, cultural
heritage managers, and local community stakeholders.
Conventional air conditioning is not a sustainable solution to the
challenge of a hot or humid climate. The climate problem is
compounded in so-called Urban Heat Islands, urban areas where the
air can be 3-5 DegreesC hotter than its surrounding areas and where
pollution levels are consequently raised. Including a colour
section with thermal images and maps, this book explores the
complex relationships between climate, buildings and plants,
especially in urban heat islands. These relationships bear very
critically on a range of environmental issues and point to some
corresponding solutions. One chapter highlights some of the
extensive research work carried out in Singapore, especially
investigating the thermal benefits of greenery in buildings in the
urban setting. Though several books have been written on urban heat
islands, this work uniquely examines the linkages between climate,
buildings and plants. It forms a reference for researchers and
professionals such as architects, architectural science, landscape
architects, building services engineers, urban planners and urban
climatologists. It may also be useful for final year undergraduates
or graduate students in these disciplines.
Materials for Additive Manufacturing covers the materials utilized
in the additive manufacturing field, including polymers, metals,
alloys and ceramic materials. A conceptual overview of the
preparation and characterization of the materials and their
processing is given, beginning with theoretical aspects that help
readers better understand fundamental concepts. Emerging
applications in medicine, aerospace, automotive, artwork and rapid
manufacturing are also discussed. This book provides a
comprehensive overview of materials, along with rapid prototyping
technologies.
From an award-winning team of authors, editors, and translators
comes a groundbreaking short story collection that explores the
expanse of Chinese science fiction and fantasy. In The Way Spring
Arrives and Other Stories, you can dine at a restaurant at the end
of the universe, cultivate to immortality in the high mountains,
watch roses perform Shakespeare, or arrive at the island of the
gods on the backs of giant fish to ensure that the world can bloom.
Written, edited, and translated by a female and nonbinary team,
these stories have never before been published in English and
represent both the richly complicated past and the vivid future of
Chinese science fiction and fantasy. Time travel to a winter's day
on the West Lake, explore the very boundaries of death itself, and
meet old gods and new heroes in this stunning new collection.
Hydrogels Based on Natural Polymers presents the latest research on
natural polymer-based hydrogels, covering fundamentals, preparation
methods, synthetic pathways, advanced properties, major application
areas, and novel characterization techniques. The advantages and
disadvantages of each natural polymer-based hydrogel are also
discussed, enabling preparation tactics for specific properties and
applications. Sections cover fundamentals, development,
characteristics, structures and properties. Additional chapters
cover presentation methods and properties based on natural
polymers, including physical and chemical properties,
stimuli-responsive properties, self-healing properties, and
biological properties. The final section presents major
applications areas, including the biomedical field, agriculture,
water treatments, and the food industry. This is a highly valuable
resource for academic researchers, scientists and advanced students
working with hydrogels and natural polymers, as well as across the
fields of polymer science, polymer chemistry, plastics engineering,
biopolymers and biomaterials. The detailed information will also be
of great interest to scientists and R&D professionals, product
designers, technicians and engineers across industries.
Adversarial Robustness for Machine Learning summarizes the recent
progress on this topic and introduces popular algorithms on
adversarial attack, defense and veri?cation. Sections cover
adversarial attack, veri?cation and defense, mainly focusing on
image classi?cation applications which are the standard benchmark
considered in the adversarial robustness community. Other sections
discuss adversarial examples beyond image classification, other
threat models beyond testing time attack, and applications on
adversarial robustness. For researchers, this book provides a
thorough literature review that summarizes latest progress in the
area, which can be a good reference for conducting future research.
In addition, the book can also be used as a textbook for graduate
courses on adversarial robustness or trustworthy machine learning.
While machine learning (ML) algorithms have achieved remarkable
performance in many applications, recent studies have demonstrated
their lack of robustness against adversarial disturbance. The lack
of robustness brings security concerns in ML models for real
applications such as self-driving cars, robotics controls and
healthcare systems.
In the contemporary world, unprecedented global events are
challenging our ability to protect and enhance cultural heritage
for future generations. Relevance and Application of Heritage in
Contemporary Society examines innovative and flexible approaches to
cultural heritage protection. Bringing together cultural heritage
scholars and activists from across the world, the volume showcases
a spectrum of exciting new approaches to heritage protection,
community involvement, and strategic utilization of expertise. The
contributions deal with a range of highly topical issues, including
armed conflict and non-state actors, as well as broad questions of
public heritage, museum roles in society, heritage tourism,
disputed ownership, and indigenous and local approaches. In so
doing, the volume builds upon, and introduces readers to, a new
cultural heritage declaration codified during a 2016 workshop at
the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada. Offering a clarion call for an
enduring spirit of innovation, collaboration, education, and
outreach, Relevance and Application of Heritage in Contemporary
Society will be important reading for scholars, students, cultural
heritage managers, and local community stakeholders.
Taking a unique materials science approach, this text introduces
students to the basic concepts and applications of materials and
biomedical engineering and prepares them for the challenges of the
new interdisciplinary field of biomaterials science. Split into
three sections - Basic Biology Principles, Biological Materials,
and Bioinspired Materials and Biomimetics - it presents biological
materials along with the structural and functional classification
of biopolymers, bioelastomers, foams, and ceramic composites. More
traditional biomimetic designs such as Velcro are then discussed in
conjunction with new developments that mimic the structure of
biological materials at the molecular level, mixing nanoscale with
biomolecular designs. Bioinspired design of materials and
structures is also covered. Focused presentations of biomaterials
are presented throughout the text in succinct boxes, emphasising
biomedical applications, whilst the basic principles of biology are
explained, so no prior knowledge is required. The topics are
supported by approximately 500 illustrations, solved problems, and
end-of-chapter exercises.
This book introduces readers to oracle bone inscriptions (OBI), the
oldest known form of Chinese writing. It presents 120 rubbings made
from unearthed animal bones and turtle shells that the Shang royal
court employed to record royal divinations 3500 years ago, covering
topics ranging from ancestor worship, rituals, and astronomy to
agriculture, war, and hunting. Each rubbing is accompanied by a
graph-to-graph transcription, a translation and a detailed
annotation. The book is intended for both general readers and
scholars who are interested in ancient civilizations and Early
China in particular, acquainting them not only with OBI graphs and
the development of the Chinese writing system, but also the history
of the Shang Dynasty. The didactic and tutorial format makes this
book ideal for teaching and for self-learning. Sumerian, Egyptian,
Chinese OBI and Mayan constitute the four pristine writing systems.
Of these, only Chinese writing has remained logographic and
survived to the present day. The study of OBI not only plays a
pivotal role in connecting archaeology to history, but is also of
great importance to the comparative study of the origin of writing
and civilization. Though there are numerous books on Mayan and
Egyptian hieroglyphs, there are very few on OBI; this book fills
that gap.
In an article for Wired Magazine in 2006, Jeff Howe defined
crowdsourcing as an idea for outsourcing a task that is
traditionally performed by a single employee to a large group of
people in the form of an open call. Since then, by modifying
crowdsourcing into different forms, some of the most successful new
companies on the market have used this idea to make people’s
lives easier and better. On the other hand, software testing has
long been recognized as a time-consuming and expensive activity.
Mobile application testing is especially difficult, largely due to
compatibility issues: a mobile application must work on devices
with different operating systems (e.g. iOS, Android), manufacturers
(e.g. Huawei, Samsung) and keypad types (e.g. virtual keypad, hard
keypad). One cannot be 100% sure that, just because a tested
application works well on one device, it will run smoothly on all
others.Crowdsourced testing is an emerging paradigm that can
improve the cost-effectiveness of software testing and accelerate
the process, especially for mobile applications. It entrusts
testing tasks to online crowdworkers whose diverse testing
devices/contexts, experience, and skill sets can significantly
contribute to more reliable, cost-effective and efficient testing
results. It has already been adopted by many software
organizations, including Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft.
This book provides an intelligent overview of crowdsourced testing
research and practice. It employs machine learning, data mining,
and deep learning techniques to process the data generated during
the crowdsourced testing process, to facilitate the management of
crowdsourced testing, and to improve the quality of crowdsourced
testing.
This open access book introduces the National Health Insurance
(NHI) system of Taiwan with a particular emphasis on its
application of digital technology to improve healthcare access and
quality. The authors explicate how Taiwan integrates its strong
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry with 5G to
construct an information system that facilitates medical
information exchange, collects data for planning and research,
refines medical claims review procedures and even assists in
fighting COVID-19. Taiwan's NHI, launched in 1995, is a
single-payer system funded primarily through payroll-based
premiums. It covers all citizens and foreign residents with the
same comprehensive benefits without the long waiting times seen in
other single-payer systems. Though premium rate adjustment and
various reforms were carried out in 2010, the NHI finds itself at a
crossroads over its financial stability. With the advancement of
technologies and an aging population, it faces challenges of
expanding coverage to newly developed treatments and diagnosis
methods and applying the latest innovations to deliver telemedicine
and more patient-centered services. The NHI, like the national
health systems of other countries, also needs to address the
privacy concerns of the personal health data it collects and the
issues regarding opening this data for research or commercial use.
In this book, the 12 chapters cover the history, characteristics,
current status, innovations and future reform plans of the NHI in
the digital era. Topics explored include: Income Strategy Payment
Structure Pursuing Health Equity Infrastructure of the Medical
Information System Innovative Applications of the Medical
Information Applications of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
Digital Health Care in Taiwan is essential reading for academic
researchers and students in healthcare administration, health
policy, health systems research, and health services delivery, as
well as policymakers and public officials in relevant government
departments. It also would appeal to academics, practitioners, and
other professionals in public health, health sciences, social
welfare, and health and biotechnology law.
This open access book explores new research directions in social
inequality and urban segregation. With the goal of fostering an
ongoing dialogue between scholars in Europe and China, it brings
together an impressive team of international researchers to shed
light on the entwined processes of inequality and segregation, and
the implications for urban development. Through a rich collection
of empirical studies at the city, regional and national levels, the
book explores the impact of migration on cities, the related
problems of social and spatial segregation, and the ramifications
for policy reform. While the literature on both segregation and
inequality has traditionally been dominated by European and North
American studies, there is growing interest in these issues in the
Chinese context. Economic liberalization, rapid industrial
restructuring, the enormous growth of cities, and internal
migration, have all reshaped the country profoundly. What have we
learned from the European and North American experience of
segregation and inequality, and what insights can be gleaned to
inform the bourgeoning interest in these issues in the Chinese
context? How is China different, both in terms of the nature and
the consequences of segregation inequality, and what are the
implications for future research and policy? Given the continued
rise of China's significance in the world, and its recent
declaration of war on poverty, this book offers a timely
contribution to scholarship, identifying the core insights to be
learned from existing research, and providing important guidance on
future directions for policy makers and researchers.
This book addresses the emerging paradigm of data-driven
engineering design. In the big-data era, data is becoming a
strategic asset for global manufacturers. This book shows how the
power of data can be leveraged to drive the engineering design
process, in particular, the early-stage design. Based on novel
combinations of standing design methodology and the emerging data
science, the book presents a collection of theoretically sound and
practically viable design frameworks, which are intended to address
a variety of critical design activities including conceptual
design, complexity management, smart customization, smart product
design, product service integration, and so forth. In addition, it
includes a number of detailed case studies to showcase the
application of data-driven engineering design. The book concludes
with a set of promising research questions that warrant further
investigation. Given its scope, the book will appeal to a broad
readership, including postgraduate students, researchers,
lecturers, and practitioners in the field of engineering design.
This book features high-quality, peer-reviewed papers from the
International Conference on Recent Advancement in Computer,
Communication and Computational Sciences (RACCCS 2019), held at
Aryabhatta College of Engineering & Research Center, Ajmer,
India, on August 16-17, 2019. Presenting the latest developments
and technical solutions in computational sciences, it covers a
variety of topics, such as intelligent hardware and software
design, advanced communications, intelligent computing
technologies, advanced software engineering, the web and
informatics, and intelligent image processing. As such it helps
those in the computer industry and academia to use the advances in
next-generation communication and computational technology to shape
real-world applications.
This book includes high-quality, peer-reviewed papers from the
International Conference on Recent Advancement in Computer,
Communication and Computational Sciences (RACCCS-2018), held at
Aryabhatta College of Engineering & Research Center, Ajmer,
India on August 10-11, 2018, presenting the latest developments and
technical solutions in computational sciences. Networking and
communication are the backbone of data science, data- and knowledge
engineering, which have a wide scope for implementation in
engineering sciences. This book offers insights that reflect the
advances in these fields from upcoming researchers and leading
academicians across the globe. Covering a variety of topics, such
as intelligent hardware and software design, advanced
communications, intelligent computing technologies, advanced
software engineering, the web and informatics, and intelligent
image processing, it helps those in the computer industry and
academia use the advances in next-generation communication and
computational technology to shape real-world applications.
This book brings together the fields of artificial intelligence
(often known as A.I.) and inclusive education in order to speculate
on the future of teaching and learning in increasingly diverse
social, cultural, emotional, and linguistic educational contexts.
This book addresses a pressing need to understand how future
educational practices can promote equity and equality, while at the
same time adopting A.I. systems that are oriented towards
automation, standardisation and efficiency. The contributions in
this edited volume appeal to scholars and students with an interest
in forming a critical understanding of the development of A.I. for
education, as well as an interest in how the processes of inclusive
education might be shaped by future technologies. Grounded in
theoretical engagement, establishing key challenges for future
practice, and outlining the latest research, this book offers a
comprehensive overview of the complex issues arising from the
convergence of A.I. technologies and the necessity of developing
inclusive teaching and learning. To date, there has been little in
the way of direct association between research and practice in
these domains: A.I. has been a predominantly technical field of
research and development, and while intelligent computer systems
and 'smart' software are being increasingly applied in many areas
of industry, economics, social life, and education itself, a
specific engagement with the agenda of inclusion appears lacking.
Although such technology offers exciting possibilities for
education, including software that is designed to 'personalise'
learning or adapt to learner behaviours, these developments are
accompanied by growing concerns about the in-built biases involved
in machine learning techniques driven by 'big data'.
The book includes insights that reflect the advances in the field
of Internet of Things from upcoming researchers and leading
academicians across the globe. It contains the high-quality
peer-reviewed papers of 'International Conference on Internet of
Things for Technological Development (IoT4TD 2017)', held at Kadi
Sarva Vishvavidyalaya, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India during April
1-2, 2017. The book covers variety of topics such as Internet of
things, Intelligent Image Processing, Networks and Mobile
Communications, Big Data and Cloud. The book is helpful for the
perspective readers' from computer industry and academia to derive
the advances of next generation communication and computational
technology and shape them into real life applications.
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