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This book presents the proceedings of the 17th Chinese Intelligent Systems Conference, held in Fuzhou, China, on Oct 16-17, 2021. It focuses on new theoretical results and techniques in the field of intelligent systems and control. This is achieved by providing in-depth study on a number of major topics such as Multi-Agent Systems, Complex Networks, Intelligent Robots, Complex System Theory and Swarm Behavior, Event-Triggered Control and Data-Driven Control, Robust and Adaptive Control, Big Data and Brain Science, Process Control, Intelligent Sensor and Detection Technology, Deep learning and Learning Control Guidance, Navigation and Control of Flight Vehicles and so on. The book is particularly suited for readers who are interested in learning intelligent system and control and artificial intelligence. The book can benefit researchers, engineers, and graduate students.

This book comprises the select peer-reviewed proceedings of the National Conference on Renewable Energy and Sustainable Environment (NCRESE) 2019. The book can be useful for beginners, academicians, entrepreneurs, and professionals interested in renewable energy technologies and sustainable environment practices.

This book explores the development of mental health systems in the Pacific Island Countries (PICs) of Samoa and Tonga through an examination of several policy transfer events from the colonial to the contemporary.

This book explores AIDS from a relatively macro perspective rather than concrete operational methods and focuses on the social construction of AIDS issues instead of its transmission level in the context of China.

This book covers virtually all aspects of image formation in medical imaging, including systems based on ionizing radiation (x-rays, gamma rays) and non-ionizing techniques (ultrasound, optical, thermal, magnetic resonance, and magnetic particle imaging) alike.

Part 1: The Fourth Industrial Revolution.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Conceptual Framework.- Chapter 3. Methodology.- Part 2: Industry Sectors & 4IR Impacts.- Chapter 4. Agriculture & Mining.- Chapter 5. Manufacturing & Logistics.- Chapter 6. Health, Medicine & Nursing.- Chapter 7. Education.- Chapter 8. Financial Services.- Chapter 9. Retail.- Chapter 10. Government/public sector.- Chapter 11. Tourism and Hospitality.- Part 3: Comparative Analysis.- Chapter 12. Challenges & Opportunities across Australian industry.- Chapter 13. Conclusion.

This book offers an overview of salt stress, which has a devastating effect on the yields of various agricultural crops around the globe. It is a valuable resource for students, teachers and researchers and anyone interested in agronomy, ecology, stress physiology, environmental science, crop science and molecular biology.

Previous research on fixed/finite-time sliding-mode control focuses on forcing a system state (vector) to converge within a certain time moment, regardless of how each state element converges.

The central theme of this book is national land and infrastructure design in the age of the declining population and the recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake in the affected regions in Japan. Under the ongoing declining population in Japan, an undesirable concentration in Tokyo will proceed further with increasing social cost and risk.

Featuring contributions mainly from China, the biggest carmaker as well as most dynamic car market in the world, the book covers a wide range of automotive topics and the latest technical advances in the industry.

This book presents part of the iM3F 2020 proceedings from the Mechatronics track. The readers are expected to gain an insightful view on the current trends, issues, mitigating factors as well as solutions from this book.

To help readers understand the fundamentals and modeling of soil behaviors, it first introduces the general stress-strain relationship of soils and the principles and modeling approaches of various laboratory tests, before examining the ideas and formulations of constitutive models of soils.

With its discussions on material science, design of delivery vehicles, separation science, additive manufacturing, agriculture and environmental science, this book will be a useful reference for researchers across multiple disciplines.

This informative book compiles the most up-to-date applications of nanobiosensors in fields ranging from agriculture to medicine. The introductory section describes different types of nanobiosensors and use of nanobiosensors towards a sustainable environment.

This book is a compilation of process, technologies and value added products such as high value biochemicals and biofuels produced from different waste biorefineries.

IntroductionEmily Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Rajib Shaw, Keio University, Japan Part 1:Chapter 1: Overview of H-EDRM and health issues in DRR: Practices and challengesEmily Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Rajib Shaw, Keio University, JapanPart 2:Chapter 2: Public health prevention hierarchy in disaster contextEmily Chan, Chinese University of Hong KongChapter 3: Key public health challenges for H-EDRM in the twenty-first century: Demographic and epidemiological transitionsEmily Chan, Chinese University of Hong KongChapter 4: Evidence gaps in bottom-up resilience building of H-EDRM in AsiaEmily Chan, Chinese University of Hong KongChapter 5: H-EDRM in international policy agenda I: Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 Emily Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Rajib Shaw, Keio University, Japan Chapter 6: H-EDRM in international policy agenda III: Paris climate agreementEmily Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Rajib Shaw, Keio University, Japan Chapter 7: H-EDRM in international policy agenda IV: 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and New Urban Agenda (Habitat III)Rajib Shaw, Keio University, Japan, and Emily Chan, Chinese University of Hong KongPart 3:Chapter 8: Health issues and DRR in India: Some reflectionsR. Krishnamurthy, University of Madras, India Chapter 9: Health issues and disaster risk reduction perspectives in ChinaEmily Chan, Chinese University of Hong KongChapter 10: Health emergencies and DRR in Pakistan: examples and achievementsAtta-ur Rahman, University of Peshawar, Pakistan Chapter 11: Bangladesh public health issues and implications to flood risk reductionAkiko Matsuyama and Maiko Sakamoto, University of Tokyo, Japan Chapter 12: Epi-Nurse: health emergency perspectives in NepalSakiko Kanbara, Kochi University, Japan Chapter 13: Health emergency and public involvement in PhilippinesMa. Regina Justina E. Estuar, Ateneo University, PhilippinesChapter 14: Smart water solutions for health emergency in he delta region of BengalBhaswati Ray, University of Calcutta, India, Md. Anwarul Abedin, Bangladesh Agriculture University and Rajib Shaw, Keio University, Japan  Chapter 15: Community networking for healthcare in case of disaster: Examples from small and medium sized cities in JapanKenji Isayama, Hiroshima International University, Japan and Rajib Shaw, Keio University, Japan Part 4:Chapter 16: Future perspectives of H-EDRM and risk reduction in Asia Emily Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Rajib Shaw, Keio University, Japan  

This thesis presents experimental research on the interaction between the optical field and the mechanical oscillator in whispering-gallery mode microcavities.

Man-Machine-Environment System Engineering: Proceedings of the 21st Conference on MMESE is the academic showcase of best research papers selected from more than 500 submissions each year.

This book collects selected papers from the 6th Conference on Signal and Information Processing, Networking and Computers, held in Guiyang, China, on August 13 - 16, 2019.

One of the very basic necessities of life which is soon going to be scarce is water, hence the environmental footprint assessments on any scale essentially includes water footprint which is being measured in various supply chains and across different product categories.

This book is aimed both at researchers and advanced students of Central Asia, the space of the former USSR, and the foreign policy of Russia and China.

Distributed Finite-Time Rotating Encirclement Control for Second-Order Agent Dynamics.- Disturbance observer-based ∩¼ünite-time control for systems.- Position-aware mechanism for aspect-level sentiment analysis.- Pose Ambiguity Elimination Algorithm.- A Novel 3D Lidar-IMU Calibration Method.- Intelligent Frequency Selection of the Sky-wave Radar.- Model Reference Adaptive Control with Output Constraints.- Resistivity Inversion Solving.- Mine Hoist Synchronous Motor Drive System (MHSS).- Sliding Mode Control for a Constant Force Suspension System.

This book contains high-quality papers presented at the First International Forum on Financial Mathematics and Financial Technology.

Part 1: Invited Speakers.- Chapter 1. Trends in Manufacturing for Aspheric & Freeform Optics.- Chapter 2. Silicon Photonics-based Gas Sensors and Components for the mid-IR: Design and Modelling.- Chapter 3. Pixel reassignment in image scanning microscopy.- Chapter 4. Compact and field portable biophotonic sensors for automated cell identification (Plenary Address).- Chapter 5. Wavefront Coding with Jacobi-Fourier phase masks to alleviate random aberrations.- Chapter 6. Designing Submicron Chiral Structure through Phase Engineered Multi-Beam Interference.- Chapter 7. Advanced IR Zoom Lenses for Next Generation Thermal Imaging Applications.- Chapter 8. Advanced Infrared Photodetectors at SCD.- Chapter 9. Characteristics Of One Dimensional Photonics Structures Having Different Types Of Sequences.- CHapter 10. Deep-learning-based dynamic range compression for 3D scene hologram.- Chapter 11. Mode spectra and vortex beam sorting via digital intensity processing.- Chapter 12. Speckle-free digital holographic phase microscopy and tomography using partially spatially coherent monochromatic light with improved image sharpness, resolution and phase noise.- Chapter 13.- Biospeckle Analysis Technique: Some Recent Applications.- Chapter 14. Using Femtosecond Coherent Oscillations to unravel Dynamics.- Chapter 15. Using Femtosecond Coherent Oscillations to unravel Dynamics.- Chapter 16. Suppression of UV emission in ZnO nanorods Complex Systems.- Part 2: Adaptive Optics.- Chapter 17. Features of FPGA using in a fast adaptive optical system.- Chapter 18. Controlling the Degree of Polarization of Speckles from Birefringent Scatterer.- Part 3: Diffractive Optics.- Chapter 19. Experimental demonstration of diffraction of vector field singularities through diamond shaped aperture.- Chapter 20. Controlled generation of self-images of a Microlens array and the second harmonic Talbot effect. Chapter 21. Design of Diffractive Optical Elements for Shaping the Laser Intensity Distribution. Chapter 22.  Electromagnetically induced grating in a 3-level symmetric quantum well.- Chapter 23. Axicon Aberration Generated Tunable Optical Arrays.- Chapter 24. Crafting correlation structure by interference.- Chapter 25. Design of polarization independent silicon nitride one-dimensional gratings using genetic algorithm.- Part 4: Optics & Electro-optics for Strategic Applications.- CHapter 26. Effect of Background Radiation on Laser Receiver having Large Field of View.- Chapter 27. Temperature Compensated Dynamic Strain Measurement using Twin Fiber Bragg Gratings and Tunable Laser Interrogation with Noise Cancelation.- Chapter 28. Geo High Resolution Camera An experimental eye in space - its Integration  Challenges and Mitigation.- Chapter 29. Photodiode transimpedance configuration with dc compensation.- Chapter 30. Concept of Programmable Range Electro-optical Sensor.

China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC 2020) Proceedings presents selected research papers from CSNC 2020 held during 22nd-25th November in Chengdu, China. These papers discuss the technologies and applications of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), and the latest progress made in the China BeiDou System (BDS) especially.

< i="">This book provides a global perspective of Indian Sandalwood categorized as 'Vulnerable' by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. This book explores ways and means for restoring its past glory by creating awareness for its conservation and sustainable utilization.

The book provides significant information on some of the promising edible medicinal plants and how these possess both nutritive as well as medicinal value.

This book presents the timeline of immunodiagnostics evolution, including advancements in immunological/nucleic acid probes, assay design, labelling techniques, and devices for signal transduction and acquisition.