This textbook introduces the “Fundamentals of Multimedia”, addressing real issues commonly faced in the workplace. The essential concepts are explained in a practical way to enable students to apply their existing skills to address problems in multimedia. Fully revised and updated, this new edition now includes coverage of such topics as 3D TV, social networks, high-efficiency video compression and conferencing, wireless and mobile networks, and their attendant technologies. Features: presents an overview of the key concepts in multimedia, including color science; reviews lossless and lossy compression methods for image, video and audio data; examines the demands placed by multimedia communications on wired and wireless networks; discusses the impact of social media and cloud computing on information sharing and on multimedia content search and retrieval; includes study exercises at the end of each chapter; provides supplementary resources for both students and instructors at an associated website.
In the half century after the Second World War, oncology has developed greatly both in the world and in China. There are three traditional major treatments: surgery, which has been used to treat tumors for more than a hundred years; radiotherapy, which has been used for ninety years; and chemotherapy, which has been used for nearly seventy years. In the 1980s, there was the rise of biological therapy and immunotherapy. The effects of oncological therapy have made a lot of progress. Many tumors have achieved good results, but there are still many solid tumors whose efficacy are still very poor. In 1985, the author followed up more than three thousand patients who had undergone the general surgical operation and thorax surgical operation. The results showed that most patients relapsed and metastasized within two to three years after surgery. Some patients even relapsed in a few months. This made me deeply realize that surgery is successful and standardized, but the long-term effect is not satisfied or that the long-term treatment is a failure.
Kriging can be used to determine optimal unbiased predictions for regionalized variables and has been shown to be a powerful tool in slope reliability analysis for reliability-based design. This is the first book to systematically cover the basic theory and applications of the method in slope reliability assessment. The book gives an extensive and detailed presentation of principles and applications, introducing geostatistics and the basic theory of Kriging before addressing the challenges in the application of Kriging in slope reliability analysis. The latest advancements in Kriging application methods are introduced, which enhance computational accuracy and reduce model errors. These include optimization algorithms for spatial parameters in Kriging, adaptive modeling of spatial correlation structures, efficient sampling methods based on Monte Carlo simulation, quantitative analysis of slope failure risks, and reliability analysis methods for unreinforced and reinforced slopes based on conditional random fields. Several case studies are presented to illustrate the practical application and implementation procedures, bridging theory, and practical engineering. Kriging in Slope Reliability Analysis particularly suits consulting engineers, researchers, and postgraduate students.
This book is mainly focused on the global impulsive synchronization of complex dynamical networks with different types of couplings, such as general state coupling, nonlinear state coupling, time-varying delay coupling, derivative state coupling, proportional delay coupling and distributed delay coupling. Studies on impulsive synchronization of complex dynamical networks have attracted engineers and scientists from various disciplines, such as electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, mathematics, network science, system engineering. Pursuing a holistic approach, the book establishes a fundamental framework for this topic, while emphasizing the importance of network synchronization and the significant influence of impulsive control in the design and optimization of complex networks. The primary audience for the book would be the scholars and graduate students whose research topics including the network science, control theory, applied mathematics, system science and so on.
This book examines how psycho-educational family intervention can be developed in rural areas for families with persons suffering from schizophrenia. Detailed guidelines for effective family interventions, community mental health services, and social welfare and mental health policy are described.
The International Conference on Gravitation and Astrophysics(ICGA) is to serve the needs of research workers in gravitation and astrophysics in the Asia-Pacific region. This proceedings covers a wide and hot area of research, including cosmological model, gravitational lensing, precision measurement of G, CMB, Kerr space-time, gravitational wave, the LISA, LIGO, LCGT projects in Japan, black hole, dark matter, Yangndash;Mills gravity, neutron star, type la supernovae, quasi-local energy, anti-de Sitter space-time.
Over a hundred of his most trusted subordinates had been killed by strangers for no reason. While they were in a state of anxiety, the president of the Soul Refinement Ghost Guild, Masked Man, had appeared. He was willing to use his techniques to redeem the dead, collect the corpses, and cultivate them to become his powerful puppet team to complete their final plan.It made his son disappointed. He had lost his life in a flirting session with a woman. From then on, it made him more determined to follow her.The world exterminating devil, Xiao Ba, had also been beaten into oblivion by the Nun at Heaven's End. This matter had even been specially arranged for the Cultivation Realm's cultivator s to hold a grand feast for her.
Working with principles from the fields of evolutionary and developmental biology (evo-devo), this fascinating work offers a new approach to analyzing child growth and development, examining each stage and transition in detail, from fetal development to preadulthood. Based on the author's in-depth review of the current literature and his own observations as a pediatric endocrinologist, the book demonstrates how the transitions between human life history phases represent unique periods of evolutionary adaptive response to the environment. In addition, the author explains why an understanding of these transition periods enables us to better understand the sequence and mechanisms of child growth as well as to better diagnose child growth disorders. Logically organized and clearly written, Evo-Devo of Child Growth: Sets a solid foundation of principles such as evolutionary thinking in medicine and child growth, life history theory, and heterochrony and allometry Examines the relationship between child growth and the theory of life history Applies evo-devo theory to fetal growth, infancy, childhood, juvenility, adolescence, and preadulthood Explores the trade-offs and adaptive phenotypic plasticity during transition periods Explains the role of life history theory in understanding and diagnosing growth disorders such as Down syndrome, Noonan syndrome, and Silver-Russell syndrome In addition to the author's own analysis and observations, this book also features notes from leading clinicians and evolutionary biologists, offering additional perspectives on the relationship between evo-devo and child growth and development. Evo-Devo of Child Growth provides a new perspective for evolutionary biologists to understand the phases and transitions of child growth. Moreover, it offers a new approach to help clinicians to better understand and diagnose a broad range of child growth disorders.
Lossless Information Hiding in Images introduces many state-of-the-art lossless hiding schemes, most of which come from the authors' publications in the past five years. After reading this book, readers will be able to immediately grasp the status, the typical algorithms, and the trend of the field of lossless information hiding. Lossless information hiding is a technique that enables images to be authenticated and then restored to their original forms by removing the watermark and replacing overridden images. This book focuses on the lossless information hiding in our most popular media, images, classifying them in three categories, i.e., spatial domain based, transform domain based, and compressed domain based. Furthermore, the compressed domain based methods are classified into VQ based, BTC based, and JPEG/JPEG2000 based. - Focuses specifically on lossless information hiding for images - Covers the most common visual medium, images, and the most common compression schemes, JPEG and JPEG 2000 - Includes recent state-of-the-art techniques in the field of lossless image watermarking - Presents many lossless hiding schemes, most of which come from the authors' publications in the past five years
This book is the scientific summary of the authors treatment experience on oncology surgery during his 50 years of oncology surgical practice and of the author's research achievement during his 20 years of animal cancer experimentation and clinical research. The book is divided into 38 chapters in which the author demonstrates innovative concepts of cancer therapy including a new cognition of cancer etiology and pathogenesis, new concepts and methods of cancer therapy and anti-cancer metastasis and recurrence. The author also demonstrates experimental information and analysis of clinically testified results and new ways of conquering the cancers from many aspects. The cancer existing in the human body has three forms: the two points and a line, and eight steps and three stages of carcinoma metastasis, the third field of anti-carcinoma-metastasis and recurrence treatment, three Steps of therapy of carcinoma metastasis, etc. It includes both the review and recall of traditional surgical and chemotherapy and radioactive therapy and the summary and analysis of the experimental information and clinical testifying results for XZ-C immunologic regulation and control anti-carcinoma traditional Chineses medicine which the author purified from the Chinese herbs. In addition, in this book the author added the scientific methods of the cancer therapy and the strategies and suggests for the overcoming the cancer development. Some part contents of this book have generated great attention in the international field of oncology. In this book the contents are creative and the ideas are new and the theories are related to the practices. There are extremely high scientific value and clinical application, which is a value reference for clinical oncologist, oncology specialists and oncology scientific researcher and the family and caregivers of the cancer patients.
This book is the scientific summary of the authors fifty years of experience in tumor surgery and more than twenty years of cancer research results and clinical validation. The book is divided into three sections and fifteen chapters. The first chapter, Pathfinder, starts from the beginning of the experimental study, which introduced how to explore the etiology and pathogenesis of cancer and learned the new revelation from these and had the new discoveries and new knowledge. In section or chapter 2, Footprint, the author had the multi-angle analysis and comments about the traditional cancer therapy and proposed the suggestion of the cancer treatment, as well as innovative results generated through laboratory research and clinical validation, including cancer initiation and metastasis, a new method of cancer treatment, both of which traditional radical surgery and radiotherapy and chemotherapy case review and reflection, and the experimental results and typical cases of clinical data of the applications of XZ-C anti-cancer immune regulation drug treatment of malignant tumors. In the foreword, the author mainly gives the suggestions and the general strategy of attacking the cancer. In this book, the contents are initiative, the ideas are new, the theories are combined with practice and ideas, theory with practice, has a strong academic value and clinical practicality, is suitable for hospitals at all levels of oncology, cancer specialist clinic doctors, cancer researchers, cancer patients, and their familys reading reference.
Poe Yu-ze Wan argues for a critical realist and systemist social ontology, designed to shed light on current debates in social theory concerning the relationship of social ontology to practical social research, and the nature of 'the social'. It explores the works of the systems theorist Mario Bunge in comparison with the approach of Niklas Luhmann and critical social systems theorists, to challenge the commonly held view that the systems-based approach is holistic in nature and necessarily downplays the role of human agency.
Immunotherapy has the potential to literally end cancer as we know it, noted Vice President Joe Biden, who came to the Johns Hopkins in late April in 2016. We are excited about cancer immunotherapy is the excellent way to help the cancer patients to live longer and to have better quality of life because Dr. Xu Ze in China has been working on oncology immunotherapy more than decades. How did Dr. Xu Ze figure out all of these new concepts and new ideas of cancer treatment, especially immunotherapy? All of these came from his clinical practice and observation and from his animal experiments which showed that the host immune function decreased such as thymus (the place of T cells getting mature) atrophy while the cancer occurred etc. He did plenty of animal and clinical research of searching new ways and new medications for the oncology patients. We discussed to publish this book which is full of new concepts and new ways of cancer immunotherapy and shows that Xu Zes research group dedicates to cancer immunotherapy. The main contents of this book were written by Dr. Xu Ze in China many years ago after he did more than decades of research and oncology clinical practices. This book is full of the innovating ways and concepts how to stop the cancer metastases, especially the oncology immunotherapy and describes the metastases mechanism in details. In Chapter 11 and 21 the cancer cell immunotherapy was discussed in great detail. As we know, the cancer is also called malignancy tumor which are made up of cells that grow out of control. Cells in these tumours can inade nearby tissues and spread to other parts of the body which damages our normal function. This is known as metastasis or secondary cancer. If we stop the metastases, we can control cancer. This book described the cancer characteristics in details such as : development of tumor molecular biology; many factors which influence the occurrence and metastases of cancer in the body; Dr. Xu Zes immunotherapy methods and medications; each metastases step in details; the treatment of cancer thrombus; the review and prospect of oncology surgery; the new understanding of anticancer immunotherapy, etc. In brief, this book summarized Dr. Xu Ze oncology experience and all of his contribution to the oncology immunotherapy. In addition, because we finished this book during such shortly several months and this book is full of new concepts and broad knowledge, it may have some mistakes which please be forgiven by all of our reader and we also wish you can give us your feedback.
Whenever one book was finished, both of my eyes were full of tears. It was extremely hard. Every word in these books concreted Dr. Xu Ze’s hard work and dedication to oncology and to human health. No one knows how hard it was to finish all this work. Science is endless, and only those who are not afraid of danger or difficult work or risk can reach the science peak. This book is volume 5 in this series of walking out of the new way to conquer cancer. This book summarizes Dr. Xu Ze’s thirty items of innovation and explains the detailed concepts about the basis of theories for clinical applications. Dr. Xu Ze has been working in cancer therapy for more than sixty years and works very hard day and night to do the basics and clinical oncology science. The first article is the summary of our research work on cancer prevention and treatment, which has reached the forefront of the world. The second article is a brief description of innovation series of scientific and technology with the research achievements of anti-cancer and anti-cancer metastasis. In brief, no one knows that it was very hard work. Because of the short time, there may be some errors and please forgive us if there is any error. Bin Wu, MD, PhD 02-19-2019 in Timonum
Science is endless, and only those who are not afraid of danger or difficult work can reach the science peak. Dr. Xu Ze has been working in the cancer therapy for more than sixty years and works very hard day and night to do the basis and clinical oncology science for the patients and for all human beings. In this book, all the contents are from his hard work, from his experiments, and from his excellent or superb surgery skills, which has two parts: part I and part II, and three main topics are explained and demonstrated: 1. The reasons and the theoretical foundation of immune therapy; that is, is the theoretical basis of immune therapy that all evidences are from his actual basic and clinical experiments. 2. How do we use our immune therapy to treat the cancer patients? 3. Our clinical verification of our immune therapy is successful.
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is now recognized as a crucial tool in materials science. This book, authored by a team of expert Chinese and international authors, covers many aspects of modern electron microscopy, from the architecture of novel electron microscopes, advanced theories and techniques in TEM and sample preparation, to a variety of hands-on examples of TEM applications. Volume 2 illustrates the important role that TEM is playing in the development and characterization of advanced materials, including nanostructures, interfacial structures, defects, and macromolecular complexes.
Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) is now recognized as a crucial tool in materials science. This book, authored by a team of expert Chinese and international authors, covers many aspects of modern electron microscopy, from the architecture of novel electron microscopes, advanced theories and techniques in TEM and sample preparation, to a variety of hands-on examples of TEM applications. Volume I concentrates on the newly developed concepts and methods which are making TEM a powerful and indispensible tool in materials science.
Six Short Chapters on Automorphic Forms and L-functions" treats the period conjectures of Shimura and the moment conjecture. These conjectures are of central importance in contemporary number theory, but have hitherto remained little discussed in expository form. The book is divided into six short and relatively independent chapters, each with its own theme, and presents a motivated and lively account of the main topics, providing professionals an overall view of the conjectures and providing researchers intending to specialize in the area a guide to the relevant literature. Ze-Li Dou and Qiao Zhang are both associate professors of Mathematics at Texas Christian University, USA.
This book provides systematic descriptions of design methods, typical techniques, and validation methods for lunar soft landers, covering their environmental design, system design, sub-system design, assembly, testing and ground test validation based on the Chang’e-3 mission. Offering readers a comprehensive, systematic and in-depth introduction to the technologies used in China’s lunar soft landers, it presents detailed information on the design process for Chang’e-3, including methods and techniques that will be invaluable in future extraterrestrial soft lander design. As such, the book offers a unique reference guide for all researchers and professionals working on deep-space missions around the globe.
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