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This is a fascinating look at the origins of the iconic cheongsam
dress, and its social and cultural importance in Singapore.
Spanning almost a century, this book examines the origins and
development of the cheongsam in the social context of Singapore
since its introduction from Shanghai, China, in the 1920s to the
present day. The cheongsam, a one-piece Chinese ladies' dress that
was the epitome of Chinese identity and feminine beauty during the
middle decades of the 20th century. Initially seen as a symbol of a
trendy, new, Republican China, shorn of the shackles of the
imperial system, the cheongsam soon adopted intellectual overtones,
and was favoured by the sophisticated and society's elite at
elaborate social functions. When it was abandoned following the
success of the Communist Party in China, the cheongsam survived in
Singapore as the garment of choice for independent, educated women.
For the Javanese, batik is more than just shirts and sarung, The
patterns and motifs express their various local identities; they
are statements of Javanese life and philosophy.
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Simplifying Medical Ultrasound - Third International Workshop, ASMUS 2022, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2022, Singapore, September 18, 2022, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)
Stephen Aylward, J. Alison Noble, Yipeng Hu, Su-Lin Lee, Zachary Baum, …
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third International
Workshop on Advances in Simplifying Medical UltraSound, ASMUS 2022,
held on September 18, 2022, in conjunction with MICCAI 2022, the
25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and
Computer-Assisted Intervention. The conference took place in
Singapore. The 18 papers presented in this book were carefully
reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. They were organized in
topical sections as follows: classification and detection;
Segmentation and Reconstruction; and Assessment, Guidance and
Robotics. Chapters "Left Ventricle Contouring of Apical
Three-Chamber Views on 2D Echocardiography" and "3D Cardiac Anatomy
Reconstruction from 2D Segmentations: a Study using Synthetic Data"
are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
International License via link.springer.com.
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Simplifying Medical Ultrasound - Second International Workshop, ASMUS 2021, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2021, Strasbourg, France, September 27, 2021, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
J. Alison Noble, Stephen Aylward, Alexander Grimwood, Zhe Min, Su-Lin Lee, …
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the Second International
Workshop on Advances in Simplifying Medical UltraSound, ASMUS 2021,
held on September 27, 2021, in conjunction with MICCAI 2021, the
24th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and
Computer-Assisted Intervention. The conference was planned to take
place in Strasbourg, France, but changed to an online event due to
the Coronavirus pandemic. The 22 papers presented in this book were
carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. They were
organized in topical sections as follows: segmentation and
detection; registration, guidance and robotics; classification and
image synthesis; and quality assessment and quantitative imaging.
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Intravascular Imaging and Computer Assisted Stenting, and Large-Scale Annotation of Biomedical Data and Expert Label Synthesis - 6th Joint International Workshops, CVII-STENT 2017 and Second International Workshop, LABELS 2017, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2017, Quebec City, QC, Canada, September 10-14, 2017, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
M. Jorge Cardoso, Tal Arbel, Su-Lin Lee, Veronika Cheplygina, Simone Balocco, …
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This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of the 6th
Joint International Workshop on Computing and Visualization for
Intravascular Imaging and Computer Assisted Stenting, CVII-STENT
2017, and the Second International Workshop on Large-Scale
Annotation of Biomedical Data and Expert Label Synthesis, LABELS
2017, held in conjunction with the 20th International Conference on
Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2017, in
Quebec City, QC, Canada, in September 2017. The 6 full papers
presented at CVII-STENT 2017 and the 11 full papers presented at
LABELS 2017 were carefully reviewed and selected. The CVII-STENT
papers feature the state of the art in imaging, treatment, and
computer-assisted intervention in the field of endovascular
interventions. The LABELS papers present a variety of approaches
for dealing with few labels, from transfer learning to
crowdsourcing.
Computing and Visualization for Intravascular Imaging and
Computer-Assisted Stenting presents imaging, treatment, and
computed assisted technological techniques for diagnostic and
intraoperative vascular imaging and stenting. These techniques
offer increasingly useful information on vascular anatomy and
function, and are poised to have a dramatic impact on the
diagnosis, analysis, modeling, and treatment of vascular diseases.
After setting out the technical and clinical challenges of vascular
imaging and stenting, the book gives a concise overview of the
basics before presenting state-of-the-art methods for solving these
challenges. Readers will learn about the main challenges in
endovascular procedures, along with new applications of
intravascular imaging and the latest advances in computer assisted
stenting.
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Medical Imaging and Augmented Reality - 7th International Conference, MIAR 2016, Bern, Switzerland, August 24-26, 2016, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Guoyan Zheng, Hongen Liao, Pierre Jannin, Philippe Cattin, Su-Lin Lee
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The 6th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Augmented
Reality, MIAR 2016, was held in Bern, Switzerland during August
2016. The aim of MIAR is to bring together researchers in computer
vision, graphics, robotics, and medical imaging to present the
state-of-the-art developments in this ever-growing research area in
topics such as: Medical Image Formation, Analysis and
Interpretation Augmented Reality, Visualization and Simulation
Computer Assisted Interventional and Robotics, Surgical Planning
Systematic Extra- and Intra-corporeal Imaging Modalities General
Biological and Neuroscience Image Computing
This is a "How To Do It" book written by practitioners who have sat
in the reader's chair. Our Goal: Deliver the definitive book on
innovation by walking through the 10-Step Value Innovation Process
from start to finish using a down to earth, pragmatic approach. By
defining how to deliver exceptional value to the most important
customer in the value chain, all the time, every time, it enables
Blue Ocean Strategy. The end result: sustainable, profitable
growth. Throughout the book, case studies and examples are provided
for companies the reader can relate to (e.g., ADM, Aplicare,
Chevron, Dyson, Procter and Gamble, RE/MAX International, Samsung,
Southwest Airlines, Terex Mining, Thermo King, Virgin Group, plus
many more). Each of the tools is explained and examples provided.
Each chapter ends with a "Next Steps" and "Takeaways" sections. Any
organization of any size, whether its for profit or not-for-profit,
whether it's a manufacturing or services based company, a federal,
state or local government agency, an association or charitable
organization, a university, school or school board, can benefit
from Mastering Value Innovation. As long as there's a customer you
can use Value Innovation methodology and tools. The target
audiences are: CEO's, COO's, VPs, directors, managers and project
leaders of publicly traded and privately held companies; deans and
professors at universities and business schools; students;
officials at the local, State and Federal government level; School
board members and school districts; Staffs of not-for-profit
organizations and Associations .
Cultural heritage tourism is the fasted growing segment in tourism
industry. Malacca was designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO
on July 2008. This enables Malacca boost its cultural heritage
tourism as one of the main industry in Malacca and Malaysia. This
study is to identify the tourist satisfaction on the cultural
heritage destination attributes and examine the differences in
cultural heritage destinations attributes that tourists' select,
based on tourists' demographic and travel behaviour
characteristics. It also identified which cultural heritage
destination attributes that satisfied tourists and which attributes
need to be improve. Therefore, the study should help marketers,
planners and local authorities to understand the satisfied and
dissatisfied cultural heritage destination attributes of tourists,
assist them to plan a good strategic to market cultural heritage
tourism and maintain the cultural heritage site's sustainability.
The Global Financial Crisis has drawn considerable attention from
practitioners in which a more accurate pricing model is required.
Thus the Lower Partial Moment-Capital Asset Pricing Model (LPM-
CAPM) has become increasingly accepted in recent years. This book
is the first study to examine the importance of the LPM-CAPM (or
downside beta) in Australian Listed Property Trusts. It is a unique
and timely book by combining descriptive materials and extensive
empirical evidence to demonstrate the LPM-CAPM model. Four major
parts have been covered in this book to: [ Examine the theoretical
superiorities of the LPM- CAPM. [ Demonstrate the applications of
the model with empirical evidence. [ Explain the significance of
the model with a comprehensive survey of property fund managers. [
Review global REITs.
Taiwan's nativist literature, known as Taiwan hsiang-t'u
literature, originated in the Japanese occupation when Taiwanese
native authors strived to establish a "national" literature
distinct from Japanese and Chinese literatures. Drawing on recent
colonial/postcolonial theory, this project aims to investigate the
process of writing in which the native tongue profoundly undermined
the privileged status of the colonizer's language and through which
natives could articulate their colonial existence. It argues that
the new conception of Taiwanese writing produced a new literature
where the cultural "otherness" was traversed by the language and
literature of the colonized. Concurrently, the practice of
Taiwanese writing as a means of resistance to the writing of the
colonizer constructed a new paradigm for Taiwanese "national"
identity.
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