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This book develops the concept of feminist technoecologies as a
theoretical and methodological tool for examining the
co-constitutive relation between technology and ecology, which have
typically been considered as distinct objects of studies. In
underscoring how their dynamic relationality troubles the location
of agency, this book challenges the idea that technology, as the
marker of the innovative capacity of the human, either corrupts or
saves ecology. The contributions to the volume present feminist
approaches that contextualise and historicize such issues as
multi-species survival, border control regimes, solar power,
bioart, artificial intelligence and air pollution. They insist on
the centrality of corporeality, affects, ethics and vulnerability
in the materialisation of technoecological relations, and call into
question the exceptional status of the figure of (hu)Man. Together
they offer critical and creative tools or modes of inquiry for
imagining alternative modalities of practicing care and thinking
environmental sustainability. As a creative contribution to the
growing literature on new configurations of bodies, technologies
and environments against the backdrop of ecological degradation,
digital technologization, and precarity in late capitalism,
Feminist Technoecologies extends the interchanges between feminist
materialisms, environmental humanities and feminist technosciences
studies, and will be a resource for all those interested in these
fields. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Australian Feminist Studies.
Anglo-Chinese Encounters Before the Opium War: A Tale of Two
Empires Over Two Centuries studies the fascinating encounters
between the two historic empires from Queen Elizabeth I's first
letter to the Ming Emperor Wanli in 1583, to Lord Palmerston's
letter to the Minister of China in 1840. Starting with Queen
Elizabeth I's letter to the Chinese Emperor and ending with the
letter from Lord Palmerston to the Minister of China just before
the Opium War, this book explores the long journey in between from
cultural diplomacy to gunboat diplomacy. It interweaves the most
known diplomatic efforts at the official level with the much
unknown intellectual interactions at the people-to-people level,
from missionaries to scholars, from merchants to travelers and from
artists to scientists. This book adopts a novel "mirror" approach
by pairing and comparing people, texts, commodities, artworks,
architecture, ideologies, operating systems and world views of the
two empires. Using letters, gifts and traded goods as fulcrums, and
by adopting these unique lenses, it puts China into the world
history narratives to contextualise Anglo-Chinese relations, thus
providing a fresh analysis of the surviving evidence. Xin Liu casts
a new light on understanding the Sino-centric and Anglo-centric
world views in driving the complex relations between the two
empires, and the reversals of power shifts that are still unfolding
today. The book is not intended for specialists in history, but a
general audience wishing to learn more about China's historical
engagement with the world.
This book examines China's contemporary global cultural footprints
through its recent development of cultural diplomacy. The volume
presents an alternative analytical framework to examine China's
cultural diplomacy, which goes beyond the Western-defined concept
of 'soft power' that prevails in the current literature. This new
approach constructs a three-dimensional framework on Orientalism,
cultural hegemony and nationalism to decipher the multiple
contexts, which China inhabits historically, internationally and
domestically. The book presents multiple case studies of the
Confucius Institute, and compares the global programme located
around the world with its Western counterparts, and also with other
Chinese government-sponsored endeavours and
non-government-initiated programmes. The author aims to solve the
puzzle of why China's efforts in cultural diplomacy are perceived
differently around the world and helps to outline the distinctive
features of China's cultural diplomacy. This book will be of much
interest to students of diplomacy, Chinese politics, foreign policy
and International Relations in general.
This book examines China's contemporary global cultural footprints
through its recent development of cultural diplomacy. The volume
presents an alternative analytical framework to examine China's
cultural diplomacy, which goes beyond the Western-defined concept
of 'soft power' that prevails in the current literature. This new
approach constructs a three-dimensional framework on Orientalism,
cultural hegemony and nationalism to decipher the multiple
contexts, which China inhabits historically, internationally and
domestically. The book presents multiple case studies of the
Confucius Institute, and compares the global programme located
around the world with its Western counterparts, and also with other
Chinese government-sponsored endeavours and
non-government-initiated programmes. The author aims to solve the
puzzle of why China's efforts in cultural diplomacy are perceived
differently around the world and helps to outline the distinctive
features of China's cultural diplomacy. This book will be of much
interest to students of diplomacy, Chinese politics, foreign policy
and International Relations in general.
Computational Trust Models and Machine Learning provides a detailed
introduction to the concept of trust and its application in various
computer science areas, including multi-agent systems, online
social networks, and communication systems. Identifying trust
modeling challenges that cannot be addressed by traditional
approaches, this book: Explains how reputation-based systems are
used to determine trust in diverse online communities Describes how
machine learning techniques are employed to build robust reputation
systems Explores two distinctive approaches to determining
credibility of resources-one where the human role is implicit, and
one that leverages human input explicitly Shows how decision
support can be facilitated by computational trust models Discusses
collaborative filtering-based trust aware recommendation systems
Defines a framework for translating a trust modeling problem into a
learning problem Investigates the objectivity of human feedback,
emphasizing the need to filter out outlying opinions Computational
Trust Models and Machine Learning effectively demonstrates how
novel machine learning techniques can improve the accuracy of trust
assessment.
This book develops the concept of feminist technoecologies as a
theoretical and methodological tool for examining the
co-constitutive relation between technology and ecology, which have
typically been considered as distinct objects of studies. In
underscoring how their dynamic relationality troubles the location
of agency, this book challenges the idea that technology, as the
marker of the innovative capacity of the human, either corrupts or
saves ecology. The contributions to the volume present feminist
approaches that contextualise and historicize such issues as
multi-species survival, border control regimes, solar power,
bioart, artificial intelligence and air pollution. They insist on
the centrality of corporeality, affects, ethics and vulnerability
in the materialisation of technoecological relations, and call into
question the exceptional status of the figure of (hu)Man. Together
they offer critical and creative tools or modes of inquiry for
imagining alternative modalities of practicing care and thinking
environmental sustainability. As a creative contribution to the
growing literature on new configurations of bodies, technologies
and environments against the backdrop of ecological degradation,
digital technologization, and precarity in late capitalism,
Feminist Technoecologies extends the interchanges between feminist
materialisms, environmental humanities and feminist technosciences
studies, and will be a resource for all those interested in these
fields. This book was originally published as a special issue of
Australian Feminist Studies.
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Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems, Vol. 2 (1st ed. 2022)
Qilian Liang, Wei Wang, Xin Liu, Zhenyu Na, Baoju Zhang
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This book brings together papers presented at the 2021
International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and
Systems, which provides a venue to disseminate the latest
developments and to discuss the interactions and links between
these multidisciplinary fields. Spanning topics ranging from
communications, signal processing and systems, this book is aimed
at undergraduate and graduate students in Electrical Engineering,
Computer Science and Mathematics, researchers and engineers from
academia and industry as well as government employees (such as NSF,
DOD and DOE).
This book brings together papers presented at The 2nd International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence in China (ChinaAI) 2020,
which provides a venue to disseminate the latest developments and
to discuss the interactions and links between these
multidisciplinary fields. Spanning topics covering all topics in
artificial intelligence with new development in China, this book is
aimed at undergraduate and graduate students in Electrical
Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, researchers and
engineers from academia and industry as well as government
employees (such as NSF, DOD and DOE).
This book brings together papers presented at the International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence in China (ChinaAI) 2019,
which provided a venue for disseminating the latest advances and
discussing the interactions and links between the various subfields
of AI. Addressing topics that cover virtually all aspects of AI and
the latest developments in China, the book is chiefly intended for
undergraduate and graduate students in Electrical Engineering,
Computer Science, and Mathematics, for researchers and engineers
from academia and industry, and for government employees (e.g. at
the NSF, DOD, and DOE).
This book brings together papers presented at The 2nd International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence in China (ChinaAI) 2020,
which provides a venue to disseminate the latest developments and
to discuss the interactions and links between these
multidisciplinary fields. Spanning topics covering all topics in
artificial intelligence with new development in China, this book is
aimed at undergraduate and graduate students in Electrical
Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, researchers and
engineers from academia and industry as well as government
employees (such as NSF, DOD and DOE).
This book brings together papers presented at the International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence in China (ChinaAI) 2019,
which provided a venue for disseminating the latest advances and
discussing the interactions and links between the various subfields
of AI. Addressing topics that cover virtually all aspects of AI and
the latest developments in China, the book is chiefly intended for
undergraduate and graduate students in Electrical Engineering,
Computer Science, and Mathematics, for researchers and engineers
from academia and industry, and for government employees (e.g. at
the NSF, DOD, and DOE).
This book presents recent results on nonlinear evolutionary fluid
equations such as the compressible (radiative) magnetohydrodynamics
(MHD) equations, compressible viscous micropolar fluid equations,
the full non-Newtonian fluid equations and non-autonomous
compressible Navier-Stokes equations. It summarizes recently
published research by the authors and their colleagues and also
includes new and unpublished material. This type of partial
differential equations arises in many fields of mathematics, but
also in other branches of science such as physics and fluid
dynamics. This book will be a valuable resource for graduate
students and researchers interested in partial differential
equations, and will also benefit practitioners in physics and
engineering.
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Wireless Internet - 6th International ICST Conference, WICON 2011, Xi'an, China, October 19-21, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
Pinyi Ren, Chao Zhang, Xin Liu, Pei Liu, Song Ci
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R1,653
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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference
proceedings of the 6th International ICST Conference on Wireless
Internet (WICON 2011) held in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China in October
2011. The 55 revised full papers were carefully selected from
numerous submissions and focus on research in telecommunication and
networking and development in information and communication
technologies. The papers are presented in 10 technical sessions and
cover topics as video streaming over OFDMA downlink systems,
cognitive radio networks, distributed antenna systems, joint source
channel coding, multiuser MIMO systems, signal detection, frequency
synchronization in 3GPP LTE systems, visual cognitive radio,
wireless relay networks, and network flow identifying methods.
This book brings together papers presented at the 3rd International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence in China (ChinaAI), which
provides a venue to disseminate the latest developments and to
discuss the interactions and links between these multidisciplinary
fields. Spanning topics covering all topics in Artificial
Intelligence with new development in China, this book is aimed at
undergraduate and graduate students in Electrical Engineering,
Computer Science and Mathematics, researchers and engineers from
academia and industry as well as government employees (such as NSF,
DOD, DOE, etc).
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Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems, Vol. 2 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Qilian Liang, Wei Wang, Xin Liu, Zhenyu Na, Baoju Zhang
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R9,970
Discovery Miles 99 700
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This book brings together papers presented at the 2021
International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and
Systems, which provides a venue to disseminate the latest
developments and to discuss the interactions and links between
these multidisciplinary fields. Spanning topics ranging from
communications, signal processing and systems, this book is aimed
at undergraduate and graduate students in Electrical Engineering,
Computer Science and Mathematics, researchers and engineers from
academia and industry as well as government employees (such as NSF,
DOD and DOE).
This book brings together papers presented at the 3rd International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence in China (ChinaAI), which
provides a venue to disseminate the latest developments and to
discuss the interactions and links between these multidisciplinary
fields. Spanning topics covering all topics in Artificial
Intelligence with new development in China, this book is aimed at
undergraduate and graduate students in Electrical Engineering,
Computer Science and Mathematics, researchers and engineers from
academia and industry as well as government employees (such as NSF,
DOD, DOE, etc).
This book brings together papers from the 2018 International
Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems, which
was held in Dalian, China on July 14-16, 2018. Presenting the
latest developments and discussing the interactions and links
between these multidisciplinary fields, the book spans topics
ranging from communications, signal processing and systems. It is
aimed at undergraduate and graduate electrical engineering,
computer science and mathematics students, researchers and
engineers from academia and industry as well as government
employees.
This book reports on the findings of a series of studies on the
development of zero-to-three-year-old Chinese children supported by
the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities. The
studies were conducted by a research group at the Institute of
Early Childhood Education, Beijing Normal University. In the first
part of the book, findings concerning the developmental trajectory
are presented, including physical and motor development, cognitive
development, language development, social and emotional
development. The focus of the second part is on the effect of
family environment and practices. Specifically, the authors provide
empirical evidence allowing readers to better understand how the
home environment and educational practice in the family impact the
psychological development of children in their early years. In the
last part, culture-specific issues like the new universal two-child
policy in China are discussed. Most of the parts are based on
large-scale investigations and analysis of the status quo,
complemented by small-sample studies and case studies. The findings
presented here will promote theory building and public
understanding of early care and education in China. Moreover, the
behavior observation scales and assessment tools developed by the
research group are cultural appropriate and may serve as a
foundation for further studies on early care and education in the
Chinese cultural context.
This book brings together papers from the 2018 International
Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems, which
was held in Dalian, China on July 14-16, 2018. Presenting the
latest developments and discussing the interactions and links
between these multidisciplinary fields, the book spans topics
ranging from communications, signal processing and systems. It is
aimed at undergraduate and graduate electrical engineering,
computer science and mathematics students, researchers and
engineers from academia and industry as well as government
employees.
Today's world is one marked by the signs of digital capitalism and
global capitalist expansion, and China is increasingly being
integrated into this global system of production and consumption.
As a result, China's immediate material impact is now felt almost
everywhere in the world; however, the significance and process of
this integration is far from understood. This study shows how the a
priori categories of statistical reasoning came to be re-born and
re-lived in the People's Republic - as essential conditions for the
possibility of a new mode of knowledge and governance. From the
ruins of the Maoist revolution China has risen through a mode of
quantitative self-objectification. As the author argues, an
epistemological rift has separated the Maoist years from the
present age of the People's Republic, which appears on the global
stage as a mirage. This study is an ethnographic investigation of
concepts - of the conceptual forces that have produced and been
produced by - two forms of knowledge, life, and governance. As the
author shows, the world of China, contrary to the common view, is
not the Chinese world; it is a symptomatic moment of our world at
the present time.
Today's world is one marked by the signs of digital capitalism and
global capitalist expansion, and China is increasingly being
integrated into this global system of production and consumption.
As a result, China's immediate material impact is now felt almost
everywhere in the world; however, the significance and process of
this integration is far from understood. This study shows how the a
priori categories of statistical reasoning came to be re-born and
re-lived in the People's Republic - as essential conditions for the
possibility of a new mode of knowledge and governance. From the
ruins of the Maoist revolution China has risen through a mode of
quantitative self-objectification. As the author argues, an
epistemological rift has separated the Maoist years from the
present age of the People's Republic, which appears on the global
stage as a mirage. This study is an ethnographic investigation of
concepts - of the conceptual forces that have produced and been
produced by - two forms of knowledge, life, and governance. As the
author shows, the world of China, contrary to the common view, is
not the Chinese world; it is a symptomatic moment of our world at
the present time.
An exploration of the conflict between traditional Chinese ideology
and modern Chinese business practice
Alongside China's vast material development, there came a change of
its mental habits, largely affected by the technological revolution
in the means of mass communication. This book shows how such a
change has brought - and yet been brought by - a new form of
pictorial thought, essentially sensuous and imagery, which is
suggesting a possible future for the world. Today's China is
different from what it used to be; the Maoist years appear, even to
the official mind, an absurdity; and this difference is evident in
the replacement of the Maoist mass-politics by what should be
called 'Moral politics', which is petty and personal. It is the
moralizing practice that characterizes today's China, when the
birth of so-called 'ordinary people', taken as a collection of
individual authors of their own private lives and personal stories,
became an acknowledged social fact, proliferating in all kinds of
mass media. This study traces the birth of 'ordinary people' to the
beginning of the century, when the reformation of the political in
terms of personal dilemmas or moral groans began. From the
beginning of this century, the moral content of Chinese politics is
more and more fulfilled by such as problems of marriage or sexual
affairs. In other words, this is participant observation of an
affective change in the Chinese mind, where and when sociology
became photographic, i.e. the photographer a natural sociologist,
and the mold of Facebook or Wechat communication has reshaped the
ideographic tradition of its writing system. This is yet another
'Cultural Revolution' on the ruins of the Maoist revolution.
Computational Trust Models and Machine Learning provides a detailed
introduction to the concept of trust and its application in various
computer science areas, including multi-agent systems, online
social networks, and communication systems. Identifying trust
modeling challenges that cannot be addressed by traditional
approaches, this book: Explains how reputation-based systems are
used to determine trust in diverse online communities Describes how
machine learning techniques are employed to build robust reputation
systems Explores two distinctive approaches to determining
credibility of resources-one where the human role is implicit, and
one that leverages human input explicitly Shows how decision
support can be facilitated by computational trust models Discusses
collaborative filtering-based trust aware recommendation systems
Defines a framework for translating a trust modeling problem into a
learning problem Investigates the objectivity of human feedback,
emphasizing the need to filter out outlying opinions Computational
Trust Models and Machine Learning effectively demonstrates how
novel machine learning techniques can improve the accuracy of trust
assessment.
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