This book aims to provide a complete overview of the current status of lifestyle and transport changes in China, focusing on the ongoing trends in lifestyle and transport technologies, which are shaping a new lifestyle and transport system. An additional focus is to discuss the mechanism behind the influence of transport on lifestyles, and analyze the influence of transport facilities on lifestyles, which will help to give efficient and effective transport solutions. Using macro statistics and survey data from Beijing and Chinese villages and towns, this book explores the interactive development of lifestyle and transportation in China over the past 40 years. The analyses and findings in this book would enhance our existing knowledge of the relationship lifestyle and transport. The policies discussed in the book would provide fresh evidences for policy-making on updating transport services in order to cope with the changes of people’s lifestyle. This book will be of great interest to scholars and governmental agencies interested in transport development, transport policy, social transition, sustainable transport, urban planning, urban governance, and is relevant to China and other developing countries.
Happiness was like a mirage to Daisy, the closer she got, the further away it went. She had just reunited with Edward when everything fell apart. An ex-girlfriend shows up, claiming to be carrying Edward's child. Her stepsister, whom her father abandoned her to raise, tries to seduce Edward.And other things preyed on her mind -- why were Edward's parents acting so strangely? Why did her father hate her? And who was trying to damage her reputation in the military that she'd worked so hard to build? And why are you still reading this and not opening the book to find out?
This book aims to provide a complete overview of the current status of lifestyle and transport changes in China, focusing on the ongoing trends in lifestyle and transport technologies, which are shaping a new lifestyle and transport system. An additional focus is to discuss the mechanism behind the influence of transport on lifestyles, and analyze the influence of transport facilities on lifestyles, which will help to give efficient and effective transport solutions. Using macro statistics and survey data from Beijing and Chinese villages and towns, this book explores the interactive development of lifestyle and transportation in China over the past 40 years. The analyses and findings in this book would enhance our existing knowledge of the relationship lifestyle and transport. The policies discussed in the book would provide fresh evidences for policy-making on updating transport services in order to cope with the changes of people’s lifestyle. This book will be of great interest to scholars and governmental agencies interested in transport development, transport policy, social transition, sustainable transport, urban planning, urban governance, and is relevant to China and other developing countries.
Happiness was like a mirage to Daisy, the closer she got, the further away it went. She had just reunited with Edward when everything fell apart. An ex-girlfriend shows up, claiming to be carrying Edward's child. Her stepsister, whom her father abandoned her to raise, tries to seduce Edward.And other things preyed on her mind -- why were Edward's parents acting so strangely? Why did her father hate her? And who was trying to damage her reputation in the military that she'd worked so hard to build? And why are you still reading this and not opening the book to find out?
Happiness was like a mirage to Daisy, the closer she got, the further away it went. She had just reunited with Edward when everything fell apart. An ex-girlfriend shows up, claiming to be carrying Edward's child. Her stepsister, whom her father abandoned her to raise, tries to seduce Edward.And other things preyed on her mind -- why were Edward's parents acting so strangely? Why did her father hate her? And who was trying to damage her reputation in the military that she'd worked so hard to build? And why are you still reading this and not opening the book to find out?
Incomplete big data are frequently encountered in many industrial applications, such as recommender systems, the Internet of Things, intelligent transportation, cloud computing, and so on. It is of great significance to analyze them for mining rich and valuable knowledge and patterns. Latent feature analysis (LFA) is one of the most popular representation learning methods tailored for incomplete big data due to its high accuracy, computational efficiency, and ease of scalability. The crux of analyzing incomplete big data lies in addressing the uncertainty problem caused by their incomplete characteristics. However, existing LFA methods do not fully consider such uncertainty. In this book, the author introduces several robust latent feature learning methods to address such uncertainty for effectively and efficiently analyzing incomplete big data, including robust latent feature learning based on smooth L1-norm, improving robustness of latent feature learning using L1-norm, improving robustness of latent feature learning using double-space, data-characteristic-aware latent feature learning, posterior-neighborhood-regularized latent feature learning, and generalized deep latent feature learning. Readers can obtain an overview of the challenges of analyzing incomplete big data and how to employ latent feature learning to build a robust model to analyze incomplete big data. In addition, this book provides several algorithms and real application cases, which can help students, researchers, and professionals easily build their models to analyze incomplete big data.
Happiness was like a mirage to Daisy, the closer she got, the further away it went. She had just reunited with Edward when everything fell apart. An ex-girlfriend shows up, claiming to be carrying Edward's child. Her stepsister, whom her father abandoned her to raise, tries to seduce Edward.And other things preyed on her mind -- why were Edward's parents acting so strangely? Why did her father hate her? And who was trying to damage her reputation in the military that she'd worked so hard to build? And why are you still reading this and not opening the book to find out?
Happiness was like a mirage to Daisy, the closer she got, the further away it went. She had just reunited with Edward when everything fell apart. An ex-girlfriend shows up, claiming to be carrying Edward's child. Her stepsister, whom her father abandoned her to raise, tries to seduce Edward.And other things preyed on her mind -- why were Edward's parents acting so strangely? Why did her father hate her? And who was trying to damage her reputation in the military that she'd worked so hard to build? And why are you still reading this and not opening the book to find out?Book 14: Chapter 729-784
Happiness was like a mirage to Daisy, the closer she got, the further away it went. She had just reunited with Edward when everything fell apart. An ex-girlfriend shows up, claiming to be carrying Edward's child. Her stepsister, whom her father abandoned her to raise, tries to seduce Edward.And other things preyed on her mind -- why were Edward's parents acting so strangely? Why did her father hate her? And who was trying to damage her reputation in the military that she'd worked so hard to build? And why are you still reading this and not opening the book to find out?
Happiness was like a mirage to Daisy, the closer she got, the further away it went. She had just reunited with Edward when everything fell apart. An ex-girlfriend shows up, claiming to be carrying Edward's child. Her stepsister, whom her father abandoned her to raise, tries to seduce Edward.And other things preyed on her mind -- why were Edward's parents acting so strangely? Why did her father hate her? And who was trying to damage her reputation in the military that she'd worked so hard to build? And why are you still reading this and not opening the book to find out?
Both of them were victims of their family interests. It seemed that this marriage had a price to pay. She had never contacted him and he had forgotten all about her existence. He had never thought that he would have a baby with his one-night-only wife. Would their son bind them together? See for yourself!
Both of them were victims of their family interests. It seemed that this marriage had a price to pay. She had never contacted him and he had forgotten all about her existence. He had never thought that he would have a baby with his one-night-only wife. Would their son bind them together? See for yourself!
Happiness was like a mirage to Daisy, the closer she got, the further away it went. She had just reunited with Edward when everything fell apart. An ex-girlfriend shows up, claiming to be carrying Edward's child. Her stepsister, whom her father abandoned her to raise, tries to seduce Edward.And other things preyed on her mind -- why were Edward's parents acting so strangely? Why did her father hate her? And who was trying to damage her reputation in the military that she'd worked so hard to build? And why are you still reading this and not opening the book to find out?
Happiness was like a mirage to Daisy, the closer she got, the further away it went. She had just reunited with Edward when everything fell apart. An ex-girlfriend shows up, claiming to be carrying Edward's child. Her stepsister, whom her father abandoned her to raise, tries to seduce Edward.And other things preyed on her mind -- why were Edward's parents acting so strangely? Why did her father hate her? And who was trying to damage her reputation in the military that she'd worked so hard to build? And why are you still reading this and not opening the book to find out?Book 16: Chapter 841-896
Happiness was like a mirage to Daisy, the closer she got, the further away it went. She had just reunited with Edward when everything fell apart. An ex-girlfriend shows up, claiming to be carrying Edward's child. Her stepsister, whom her father abandoned her to raise, tries to seduce Edward.And other things preyed on her mind -- why were Edward's parents acting so strangely? Why did her father hate her? And who was trying to damage her reputation in the military that she'd worked so hard to build? And why are you still reading this and not opening the book to find out?
Happiness was like a mirage to Daisy, the closer she got, the further away it went. She had just reunited with Edward when everything fell apart. An ex-girlfriend shows up, claiming to be carrying Edward's child. Her stepsister, whom her father abandoned her to raise, tries to seduce Edward.And other things preyed on her mind -- why were Edward's parents acting so strangely? Why did her father hate her? And who was trying to damage her reputation in the military that she'd worked so hard to build? And why are you still reading this and not opening the book to find out?Book 12: Chapter 617-672
Happiness was like a mirage to Daisy, the closer she got, the further away it went. She had just reunited with Edward when everything fell apart. An ex-girlfriend shows up, claiming to be carrying Edward's child. Her stepsister, whom her father abandoned her to raise, tries to seduce Edward.And other things preyed on her mind -- why were Edward's parents acting so strangely? Why did her father hate her? And who was trying to damage her reputation in the military that she'd worked so hard to build? And why are you still reading this and not opening the book to find out?
Happiness was like a mirage to Daisy, the closer she got, the further away it went. She had just reunited with Edward when everything fell apart. An ex-girlfriend shows up, claiming to be carrying Edward's child. Her stepsister, whom her father abandoned her to raise, tries to seduce Edward.And other things preyed on her mind -- why were Edward's parents acting so strangely? Why did her father hate her? And who was trying to damage her reputation in the military that she'd worked so hard to build? And why are you still reading this and not opening the book to find out?
Happiness was like a mirage to Daisy, the closer she got, the further away it went. She had just reunited with Edward when everything fell apart. An ex-girlfriend shows up, claiming to be carrying Edward's child. Her stepsister, whom her father abandoned her to raise, tries to seduce Edward.And other things preyed on her mind -- why were Edward's parents acting so strangely? Why did her father hate her? And who was trying to damage her reputation in the military that she'd worked so hard to build? And why are you still reading this and not opening the book to find out?Book 13: Chapter 673-728
Both of them were victims of their family interests. It seemed that this marriage had a price to pay. She had never contacted him and he had forgotten all about her existence. He had never thought that he would have a baby with his one-night-only wife. Would their son bind them together? See for yourself!
Happiness was like a mirage to Daisy, the closer she got, the further away it went. She had just reunited with Edward when everything fell apart. An ex-girlfriend shows up, claiming to be carrying Edward's child. Her stepsister, whom her father abandoned her to raise, tries to seduce Edward.And other things preyed on her mind -- why were Edward's parents acting so strangely? Why did her father hate her? And who was trying to damage her reputation in the military that she'd worked so hard to build? And why are you still reading this and not opening the book to find out?Book 15: Chapter 785-840
Happiness was like a mirage to Daisy, the closer she got, the further away it went. She had just reunited with Edward when everything fell apart. An ex-girlfriend shows up, claiming to be carrying Edward's child. Her stepsister, whom her father abandoned her to raise, tries to seduce Edward.And other things preyed on her mind -- why were Edward's parents acting so strangely? Why did her father hate her? And who was trying to damage her reputation in the military that she'd worked so hard to build? And why are you still reading this and not opening the book to find out?
Diazo compounds are versatile substances with diverse transformations in organic synthesis and other fields. Studies of diazo compounds have been ongoing for a very long time but still attract significant attention within the organic chemistry community, with new papers related to diazo compounds appearing at a daily pace. Over the past twenty years, there have been over fifty reviews and accounts related to the reactions of diazo compounds, but most of them cover limited aspects of diazo compounds. In addition to organic synthesis, diazo compounds have found applications in interdisciplinary fields such as material sciences, chemical biology and also polymerization.In this comprehensive book, the authors cover the most recent advances in the fields related to diazo compounds, including the application of donor-acceptor carbenes, carbene-based cross-coupling reactions and polymerizations, as well as the breakthrough in catalytic asymmetric carbene O-H, S-H, and N-H bond insertions. They also cover the application of flow chemistry in diazo reactions. The authors aim to provide a contemporary and comprehensive review for investigators engaged in or with interest in diazo compounds to boost further developments in this fascinating field.
This book is the fourteenth volume in the Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine series and is essential for Chinese medicine practitioners interested in treating unipolar depression using Chinese medicine. It uses a 'whole evidence' approach and provides an in-depth analysis of Chinese medicine treatments for depression, including a summary of Chinese medicine treatments used in classical Chinese medicine literature, as well as treatments that have been tested in clinical trials.High-quality and rigorous scientific methodology is used to evaluate the clinical trial literature of Chinese medicine treatments for unipolar depression, treatment modalities including Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture and other Chinese medicine therapies. The findings are analyzed and potential implications for clinical practice and research are explored.Chinese medicine practitioners and students who want to keep up to date with the latest research to support and incorporate into their clinical practice, this book is ideal.The different modalities of treatment for unipolar depression covered in this book includes herbal medicine, acupuncture and combination of these therapies. Treatment effects for depression are described in change in depression severity, change in quality of life and relapse rate. Further, herbal formulae, herb ingredients and acupuncture points are analyzed and discussed in relation to treatment. Findings from this book can provide guidance for Chinese medicine practitioners when treating depression.
Happiness was like a mirage to Daisy, the closer she got, the further away it went. She had just reunited with Edward when everything fell apart. An ex-girlfriend shows up, claiming to be carrying Edward's child. Her stepsister, whom her father abandoned her to raise, tries to seduce Edward.And other things preyed on her mind -- why were Edward's parents acting so strangely? Why did her father hate her? And who was trying to damage her reputation in the military that she'd worked so hard to build? And why are you still reading this and not opening the book to find out?Book 17: Chapter 897-952
Within a unified switched-control framework, this book investigates the high-performance control designs and theoretic analyses for teleoperation systems, including the joint space and task space teleoperations, the homogeneous and heterogeneous teleoperations, and the single-master single-slave and multi-master multi-slave teleoperations. The book begins with an introduction to the concepts and challenges of networked teleoperation systems. Then, it investigates a new adaptive control framework based on auxiliary switched filters for the bilateral teleoperation systems to handle the model uncertainty and non-passive external forces. To overcome the input constraints of robotic systems, this adaptive method is also extended to the anti-windup adaptive control case. Furthermore, to apply to multi-robot remote collaboration scenarios and heterogeneous teleoperations, two tele-coordination methods and an adaptive semi-autonomous control method are respectively developed. Finally, the authors examine two finite-time control schemes and two types of improved prescribed performance controls for teleoperation systems to improve the transient-state and steady-state synchronization performances. This title will be an essential reference for researchers and engineers interested in teleoperation, robotic systems, and nonlinear control systems. It would also prove useful to graduate students in the fields of science, engineering, and computer science.
The true measure of any society is how it treats its children, who are in turn that society’s future. Making use of data from the longitudinal Chinese Family Panel Studies survey, the authors of this timely study provide a multi-faceted description and analysis of China’s younger generations. They assess the economic, physical, and social-emotional well-being as well as the cognitive performance and educational attainment of China's children and youth. They pay special attention to the significance of family and community contexts, including the impact of parental absence on millions of left-behind children. Throughout the volume, the authors delineate various forms of disparities, especially the structural inequalities maintained by the Chinese Party-state and the vulnerabilities of children and youth in fragile families and communities. They also analyze the social attitudes and values of Chinese youth. Having grown up in a period of sustained prosperity and greater individual choice, the younger Chinese cohorts are more independent in spirit, more open-minded socially, and significantly less deferential to authority than older cohorts. There is growing recognition in China of the importance of investing in children’s future and of helping the less advantaged. Substantial improvements in child and youth well-being have been achieved in a time of growing economic prosperity. Strong political commitment is needed to sustain existing efforts and to overcome the many obstacles that remain. This book will be of considerable interest to researchers of Chinese society and development.
Keep sensitive user data safe and secure without sacrificing the performance and accuracy of your machine learning models. In Privacy Preserving Machine Learning, you will learn: Privacy considerations in machine learning Differential privacy techniques for machine learning Privacy-preserving synthetic data generation Privacy-enhancing technologies for data mining and database applications Compressive privacy for machine learning Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning is a comprehensive guide to avoiding data breaches in your machine learning projects. You’ll get to grips with modern privacy-enhancing techniques such as differential privacy, compressive privacy, and synthetic data generation. Based on years of DARPA-funded cybersecurity research, ML engineers of all skill levels will benefit from incorporating these privacy-preserving practices into their model development. By the time you’re done reading, you’ll be able to create machine learning systems that preserve user privacy without sacrificing data quality and model performance. About the Technology Machine learning applications need massive amounts of data. It’s up to you to keep the sensitive information in those data sets private and secure. Privacy preservation happens at every point in the ML process, from data collection and ingestion to model development and deployment. This practical book teaches you the skills you’ll need to secure your data pipelines end to end. About the Book Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning explores privacy preservation techniques through real-world use cases in facial recognition, cloud data storage, and more. You’ll learn about practical implementations you can deploy now, future privacy challenges, and how to adapt existing technologies to your needs. Your new skills build towards a complete security data platform project you’ll develop in the final chapter. What’s Inside Differential and compressive privacy techniques Privacy for frequency or mean estimation, naive Bayes classifier, and deep learning Privacy-preserving synthetic data generation Enhanced privacy for data mining and database applications About the Reader For machine learning engineers and developers. Examples in Python and Java. About the Author J. Morris Chang is a professor at the University of South Florida. His research projects have been funded by DARPA and the DoD. Di Zhuang is a security engineer at Snap Inc. Dumindu Samaraweera is an assistant research professor at the University of South Florida. The technical editor for this book, Wilko Henecka, is a senior software engineer at Ambiata where he builds privacy-preserving software. Table of Contents PART 1 - BASICS OF PRIVACY-PRESERVING MACHINE LEARNING WITH DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY 1 Privacy considerations in machine learning 2 Differential privacy for machine learning 3 Advanced concepts of differential privacy for machine learning PART 2 - LOCAL DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY AND SYNTHETIC DATA GENERATION 4 Local differential privacy for machine learning 5 Advanced LDP mechanisms for machine learning 6 Privacy-preserving synthetic data generation PART 3 - BUILDING PRIVACY-ASSURED MACHINE LEARNING APPLICATIONS 7 Privacy-preserving data mining techniques 8 Privacy-preserving data management and operations 9 Compressive privacy for machine learning 10 Putting it all together: Designing a privacy-enhanced platform (DataHub)
This book revises the strategic objectives of Information Warfare, interpreting them according to the modern canons of information age, focusing on the fabric of society, the economy, and critical Infrastructures. The authors build plausible detailed real-world scenarios for each entity, showing the related possible threats from the Information Warfare point of view. In addition, the authors dive into the description of the still open problems, especially when it comes to critical infrastructures, and the countermeasures that can be implemented, possibly inspiring further research in the domain. This book intends to provide a conceptual framework and a methodological guide, enriched with vivid and compelling use cases for the readers (e.g. technologists, academicians, military, government) interested in what Information Warfare really means, when its lenses are applied to current technology. Without sacrificing accuracy, rigor and, most importantly, the big picture of Information Warfare, this book dives into several relevant and up-to-date critical domains. The authors illustrate how finance (an always green target of Information Warfare) is intertwined with Social Media, and how an opponent could exploit these latter ones to reach its objectives. Also, how cryptocurrencies are going to reshape the economy, and the risks involved by this paradigm shift. Even more compelling is how the very fabric of society is going to be reshaped by technology, for instance how our democratic elections are exposed to risks that are even greater than what appears in the current public discussions. Not to mention how our Critical Infrastructure is becoming exposed to a series of novel threats, ranging from state-supported malware to drones. A detailed discussion of possible countermeasures and what the open issues are for each of the highlighted threats complete this book. This book targets a widespread audience that includes researchers and advanced level students studying and working in computer science with a focus on security. Military officers, government officials and professionals working in this field will also find this book useful as a reference.
Happiness was like a mirage to Daisy, the closer she got, the further away it went. She had just reunited with Edward when everything fell apart. An ex-girlfriend shows up, claiming to be carrying Edward's child. Her stepsister, whom her father abandoned her to raise, tries to seduce Edward.And other things preyed on her mind -- why were Edward's parents acting so strangely? Why did her father hate her? And who was trying to damage her reputation in the military that she'd worked so hard to build? And why are you still reading this and not opening the book to find out?Book 17: Chapter 953-1008
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a chronic progressive disease characterised by hyperglycaemia. It affects many people around the world and creates burden for the individual as well as the economy. Chinese medicine can be used to support the management of Type 2 diabetes mellitus symptoms. Chapter 1 of the book summarises the conventional understanding of Type 2 diabetes mellitus, including aetiology, diagnosis and current available treatments.This book uses the 'whole evidence' approach to give an overview of the available evidence for Chinese medicine treatment for Type 2 diabetes mellitus, from classical literature to clinical evidence. Evidence from clinical studies are evaluated using high-quality and rigorous scientific methodology. Clinical trial literature of Chinese medicine treatments for Type 2 diabetes mellitus are described, with treatment modalities including Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture and other Chinese medicine therapies. The findings are analysed and potential implications for clinical practice and research are explored. Experimental studies that describe the potential mechanisms of action of key herbs are summarised. Current evidence of Chinese medicine for Type 2 diabetes mellitus is synthesised in the final chapter, and suggestions for contemporary clinical practice and future research are also offered.Targeted at clinicians and students of Chinese and integrative medicine, this book is a convenient reference that provides comprehensive synthesis of both classical and contemporary knowledge, which can support and be incorporated into their clinical practice.
This monograph provides comprehensive coverage of the collection, management, and use of big data obtained from remote sensing. The book begins with an introduction to the basics of big data and remote sensing, laying the groundwork for the more specialized information to follow. The volume then goes on to address a wide variety of topics related to the use and management of remote sensing big data, including hot topics such as analysis through machine learning, cyberinfrastructure, and modeling. Examples on how to use the results of big data analysis of remotely sensed data for concrete decision-making are offered as well. The closing chapters discuss geospatial big data initiatives throughout the world and future challenges and opportunities for remote sensing big data applications. The audience for this book includes researchers at the intersection of geoscience and data science, senior undergraduate and graduate students, and anyone else interested in how large datasets obtained through remote sensing can be best utilized. The book presents a culmination of 30 years of research from renowned spatial scientists Drs. Liping Di and Eugene Yu.
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