The two-volume set CCIS 662 and CCIS 663 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition, CCPR 2016, held in Chengdu, China, in November 2016.The 121 revised papers presented in two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 199 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on robotics; computer vision; basic theory of pattern recognition; image and video processing; speech and language; emotion recognition.

The two-volume set CCIS 662 and CCIS 663 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition, CCPR 2016, held in Chengdu, China, in November 2016.The 121 revised papers presented in two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 199 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on robotics; computer vision; basic theory of pattern recognition; image and video processing; speech and language; emotion recognition.

This unique text/reference presents a comprehensive review of the state of the art in sparse representations, modeling and learning. The book examines both the theoretical foundations and details of algorithm implementation, highlighting the practical application of compressed sensing research in visual recognition and computer vision. Topics and features: describes sparse recovery approaches, robust and efficient sparse representation, and large-scale visual recognition; covers feature representation and learning, sparsity induced similarity, and sparse representation and learning-based classifiers; discusses low-rank matrix approximation, graphical models in compressed sensing, collaborative representation-based classification, and high-dimensional nonlinear learning; includes appendices outlining additional computer programming resources, and explaining the essential mathematics required to understand the book.

Autonomous intelligent vehicles pose unique challenges in robotics, that encompass issues of environment perception and modeling, localization and map building, path planning and decision-making, and motion control.

This important text/reference presents state-of-the-art research on intelligent vehicles, covering not only topics of object/obstacle detection and recognition, but also aspects of vehicle motion control. With an emphasis on both high-level concepts, and practical detail, the text links theory, algorithms, and issues of hardware and software implementation in intelligent vehicle research.

Topics and features: presents a thorough introduction to the development and latest progress in intelligent vehicle research, and proposes a basic framework; provides detection and tracking algorithms for structured and unstructured roads, as well as on-road vehicle detection and tracking algorithms using boosted Gabor features; discusses an approach for multiple sensor-based multiple-object tracking, in addition to an integrated DGPS/IMU positioning approach; examines a vehicle navigation approach using global views; introduces algorithms for lateral and longitudinal vehicle motion control.

An essential reference for researchers in the field, the broad coverage of all aspects of this research will also appeal to graduate students of computer science and robotics who are interested in intelligent vehicles.

This important text/reference presents state-of-the-art research on intelligent vehicles, covering not only topics of object/obstacle detection and recognition, but also aspects of vehicle motion control. With an emphasis on both high-level concepts, and practical detail, the text links theory, algorithms, and issues of hardware and software implementation in intelligent vehicle research. Topics and features: presents a thorough introduction to the development and latest progress in intelligent vehicle research, and proposes a basic framework; provides detection and tracking algorithms for structured and unstructured roads, as well as on-road vehicle detection and tracking algorithms using boosted Gabor features; discusses an approach for multiple sensor-based multiple-object tracking, in addition to an integrated DGPS/IMU positioning approach; examines a vehicle navigation approach using global views; introduces algorithms for lateral and longitudinal vehicle motion control.

This book systematically and comprehensively studies on alternative media in Taiwan, using a historical approach and primary data and first hand collected materials to examine how political openness and social movement in the 1980s through the 1990s in Taiwan enabled the rapid growth and wide development of Taiwan’s alternative media, what impact the alternative media in Taiwan had on its socio-political transformation, and what implications Taiwan’s case of alternative media has for other societies, especially for other Asian societies. This book would be a good reading for intellectuals, media professionals, government analysts, and the general public as well, who are interested in this topic.

The 3-volume set LNAI 12712-12714 constitutes the proceedings of the 25th Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2021, which was held during May 11-14, 2021.The 157 papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 628 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Applications of knowledge discovery and data mining of specialized data; Part II: Classical data mining; data mining theory and principles; recommender systems; and text analytics; Part III: Representation learning and embedding, and learning from data.

The 3-volume set LNAI 12712-12714 constitutes the proceedings of the 25th Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2021, which was held during May 11-14, 2021.The 157 papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 628 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Applications of knowledge discovery and data mining of specialized data; Part II: Classical data mining; data mining theory and principles; recommender systems; and text analytics; Part III: Representation learning and embedding, and learning from data.

The 3-volume set LNAI 12712-12714 constitutes the proceedings of the 25th Pacific-Asia Conference on Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2021, which was held during May 11-14, 2021.The 157 papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 628 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Applications of knowledge discovery and data mining of specialized data; Part II: Classical data mining; data mining theory and principles; recommender systems; and text analytics; Part III: Representation learning and embedding, and learning from data.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, ATVA 2019, held in Taipei, Taiwan in October 2019. The 24 regular papers presented together with 3 tool papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The symposium is dedicated to the promotion of research on theoretical and practical aspects of automated analysis, verification and synthesis by providing a forum for interaction between the regional and the international research communities and industry in the field. The papers focus on cyber-physical systems; runtime techniques; testing; automata; synthesis; stochastic systems and model checking.

This book examines the social, psychological, legal, and ethical impact perceived or proven that may result from advertising in the booming Chinese market. The book provides readers with an understanding of the two-way relationship between advertising and Chinese society. Major issues addressed include rising consumerism, consumers' attitudes towards advertising and reactions to advertising appeals, cultural messages conveyed in advertisements, gender representations, sex appeal, offensive advertising, advertising law and regulation, advertising to children and adolescents, symbolic meanings of advertisements, public service advertising, and new media advertising and its social impact. Advertising and Chinese Society resorts to a variety of research techniques including content analysis, survey, experiment, semiotic analysis, and secondary data analysis. The book will enhance the sensitivity of scholars and practitioners interested in Chinese advertising and its social ramifications.

This unique text/reference presents a comprehensive review of the state of the art in sparse representations, modeling and learning. The book examines both the theoretical foundations and details of algorithm implementation, highlighting the practical application of compressed sensing research in visual recognition and computer vision. Topics and features: describes sparse recovery approaches, robust and efficient sparse representation, and large-scale visual recognition; covers feature representation and learning, sparsity induced similarity, and sparse representation and learning-based classifiers; discusses low-rank matrix approximation, graphical models in compressed sensing, collaborative representation-based classification, and high-dimensional nonlinear learning; includes appendices outlining additional computer programming resources, and explaining the essential mathematics required to understand the book.

This book introduces the origin, development and current situation of American nature writing and sorts out many representative authors and works of the complete system of American nature writing into such categories as the influence of transcendentalism, the wilderness complex, the English cultural heritage, female writers, land ethics, and refuge of the heart. As a multi-disciplinary field combining language, literature, philosophy, ecology, botany and ethics, American nature writing seeks to tell the story of places and explore the connection between human spirituality and a particular place, blending natural history with the history of human development. Thus, the focus of this book is on stories of places and the spiritual connection between people and these places. It analyses the representative writers of American nature writing such as Thoreau, Emerson, Burroughs, Olson, etc. and their works and respective relations or stories with nature, which offers the reader with a fascinating insight into American nature writing.

Social Marketing For Public Health Examines How Social Marketing Is Used As A Strategy For Changing Health Behavior In The World Today. Addressing Issues And Trends In Social Marketing And Public Health Globally, It Highlights Successful And Measurable Health Behavior-Changing Campaigns Launched By The Governments, By A Combination Of The Governments And Citizens, Or By The Citizens Themselves In Various Countries. Each Chapter Focuses On One Selected Country, Making The Content Very Accessible. The Text Provides An In-Depth And Up-To-Date Treatment Of The Subject Matter.

"No Secrets Anymore: Identities, Strategies and the Making of the Gay Rights Movement in the Basque Country" provides a reflexive sociology study of the establishment and development of EHGAM and GEHITU, two of the gay rights organizations in the Basque Country. This book offers in-depth interviews and participant observations of members of these two organizations and their social and cultural capitals in the field of regional gay rights movement, from their private "coming out" experiences to public debates on their sexual and political identities. This book focuses on strategies and functions of EHGAM and GEHITU and biographical discourses of gay rights movement activists to explore what capitals they can mobilize. One of the highlights is the story of Iigo Lamarca, the founder of GEHITU, and how his life experience and charisma influenced the founding and growth of the organization. The successes of EHGAM and GEHITU prove that an effective political strategy of gay rights movement should focus on human dignity and social equality in the lives of lesbians, gay men and other sexual diversity.

Retinoic acid (RA) is a signalling molecule involved in many important pathways in every cell. When RA binds to RA receptors and activates them, cell cycle arrest, differentiation and apoptosis can occur. In this book, the authors present topical research in the study of the structure, mechanisms and roles in disease of retinoic acid. Topics discussed include retinoid signalling in mammalian inner ear development; nuclear receptors for retinoids involved in the control of expression activity of p-glycoprotein; retinoic acid signaling and immunotherapy of cancer; using retinoic acid in molecular medicine and retinol/vitamin A signalling and self-renewal of stem cells.