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This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Recent Trends in Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (RTIP2R) 2020, held in Aurangabad, India, in January 2020.The 78 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 329 submissions.

This book focuses on sustaining communities of practice in primary and secondary schools in Australia and internationally for the professional learning of all teachers, and particularly, early career teachers. Informed by the communities of practice research of Wenger-Trayner, it shows what factors are conductive to the sustainability of communities of practice, drawing particularly on a case study of an Australian regional secondary school, and explores how it has sustained support particularly for early career teachers over a three-year period.The first chapters of the book provide longitudinal perspectives using qualitative data and include perspectives from a variety of stakeholders, including the principal, the professional learning coordinator and the early career teachers who have experienced the school¿s Communities of practice over three or more years. It offers practical suggestions on how to implement and improve communities of practice in schools and highlights the increasing importance of online communities to support early career teachers. Policy-makers, school principals, teacher educators and teaching practitioners find the book useful for implementing and sustaining communities of practice in schools.Subsequent chapters explore the value of online communities, such as Twitter communities; the role of collegial support networks in supporting early career teachers in Flemish primary education; and professional learning in Northern Ireland pre- and in-service teacher networked communities.

This book focuses on conveying autoimmune disease expertise to gynecologists and other clinicians, allowing them to approach the treatment of each disease in a pragmatic manner.

This book discusses practices to improve and enrich various microbial communities in order to enhance sustainable and economical biofuel production. It also evaluates various strategies to develop potential microorganisms and microbial consortia to produce highly efficient biofuels at a relatively low cost.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Soft Computing and its Engineering Applications, icSoftComp 2020, held in Changa, India, in December 2020. The papers present recent research on theory and applications in fuzzy computing, neuro computing, and evolutionary computing.

The book presents latest research-based innovations in the field of mechanical infrastructure presented in the International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Infrastructure (ICRAM 2021).

In honor of Raymond Chan IPIP 2018, Beijing, China, April 21-24

This book reviews the impact of water content in lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) as well as the reactivity of anodes, cathodes and electrolytes with water and processes that provide water-resistance to materials in LIBs.

This book discusses the impact of fuels characteristics and their effects on the combustion processes in internal combustion engines. Thighs book will be of interest to those in academia and industry involved in fuels, IC engines, engine instrumentation, and environmental research.

An Approach for Fraction of Vegetation Cover Estimation in Forest Above-Ground Biomass Assessment Using Sentinel-2 Images.- Dynamic Multimodal Biometric System.- Copy-Move Image Forgery Detection using Spatio-structured SIFT Algorithm.- F-UNet: A Modified U-Net Architecture For Segmentation Of Stroke Lesion.- Radial Cumulative Frequency Distribution: A New Imaging Signature to Detect Chromosomal Arms 1p/19q Co-deletion Status in Glioma.- CT Scan Transformation from a Sharp to a Soft Reconstruction Kernel using Filtering Techniques.- Development of an Automated Monitoring and Warning System for Landslide Prone Sites.- Deep neural network for Pneumonia detection using Chest X-rays.- Handwriting Recognition on Filled-in Forms Using CNN.- A Two Side Histogram Shifting Based Reversible Data Hiding Technique In Encrypted Images.- Security of Digital Images Based on Stream Cipher and MDS Matrix.- Retinal Vessel Segmentation using Joint Relative Entropy Thresholding on Bowler Hat Transform.- Semantic segmentation of nuclei from breast histopathological images by incorporating attention in U-Net.- Automated diagnosis of COVID-19 from CT scans based on concatenation of Mobilenetv2 and ResNet50 features.- An Ensemble Method for Efficient Classification of Skin Lesion from Dermoscopy Image.- A Two-Phase Splitting Approach for the Removal of Gaussian-Impulse Noise from Hyperspectral Images.- Enhancement of Deep Learning in Image Classification Performance Using VGG16 with Swish Activation Function for Breast Cancer Detection.- Multi-stream CNN For Face Anti-Spoofing Using Color Space Analysis.- Multi-focus fusion using image matting and geometric mean of DCT-Variance.- Deep learning based lens for mitigating hospital acquired infections.- Edge detection on medical images using intuitionistic fuzzy logic.- Border to border distance based method for detecting Juxta-pleural nodules.- Appearance-invariant Entry-Exit matching using visual soft biometric traits.- A Nonlocal Spatial Coherent Fuzzy C-means Clustering for Bias Field Correction in Brain MR Images.- Securing Biometric Data over Cloud via Shamir''s Secret Sharing.- DarkGAN: Night Image Enhancement using Generative Adversarial Networks.- Cancelable Biometric Template Generation using Convolutional Autoencoder.- A Novel method for Cephalometric Landmark Regression using Convolutional Neural Networks and Local Binary Pattern.- Multi-Class Glioma Classification From MRI Images Using 3D Convolutional Neural Networks.- Accounting for Demographic Differentials in Forensic Error Rate Assessment of Latent Prints via Covariate-Specific ROC Regression.- A Semi-supervised Generative Adversarial Network for Retinal Analysis from Fundus images.- A Graph Spectral Approach for Restoring Images Corrupted by Shot-noise.- ECASR: Efficient Channel Attention based Super-Resolution.- Transfer Learning Based COVID-19 Patient Classification.- Automated Scoring of Metaphase Cell Images and Identification of Dicentric Chromosomes.- Clustering of writers and cluster dependent classifier selection for offline signature verification.- Evaluation of Auto-encoder Network with Photoacoustic Signal for Unsupervised Classification of Prostate Cancer.- An efficient approach for Skin Lesion Segmentation using Dermoscopic Images: A Deep Learning Approach.- SigVer - A Deep Learning based Writer Independent Bangla Signature Verification System.- Colorectal Cancer Segmentation using Atrous Convolution and Residual Enhanced UNet.- Deep Learning Based Detection of Rhinoceros Beetle Infestation in Coconut Trees using Drone Imagery.- Crop Classification From UAV-Based Multi-Spectral Images Using Deep Learning.- A novel Face Print Spoof Detection using color scatter measures in HSI space.- FingerPIN: An Authentication Mechan

This book seeks to interpret connections between the machine brain, mind and vision in an alternative way and promote future research into the Interdisciplinary Evolution of Machine Brain (IEMB).

The technical research works presented here are focused on a number of aspects of smart cities: smart mobility, smart living, smart environment, smart citizens, smart government, and smart waste management systems as well as related technologies and concepts.

This two-volume set, CCIS 1453 and CCIS 1454, constitutes refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data, DMBD 2021, held in Guangzhou, China, in October 2021.

This book presents the design requirements of antenna integration for modern commercial devices such as smartphones, dongles, and access points. High efficiency antennas for 5G base stations is introduced along with a design example on planar all-metallic antenna.

This book belongs to the field of intelligent vehicle control, which is dedicated to the research of nonlinear control problems of intelligent vehicle chassis-by-wire systems.

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second BenchCouncil International Federated Intelligent Computing and Block Chain Conferences, FICC 2020, held in Qingdao, China, in October/ November 2020.The 32 full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions.

This book presents revised selected papers from the 17th International Forum on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2020, held in Shanghai, China, in December 2020.The 21 full papers and 16 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions.

Nowadays, medical data is available in many different forms like MRI images, CT scan images, EHR data, test reports, histopathological data and doctor patient conversation data.

This book provides a detailed description of Japan's telecommunications policies. Written by specialists from MIC, industry and academia, this is the first collaborative work to provide a comprehensive discussion of Japan's ICT policies, allowing readers to gain an understanding of the topic.

This two-wolume set (CCIS 1395-1396) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Futuristic Trends in Network and Communication Technologies, FTNCT 2020, held in Taganrog, Russia, in October 2020.The 80 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 291 submissions.

This two-wolume set (CCIS 1395-1396) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Futuristic Trends in Network and Communication Technologies, FTNCT 2020, held in Taganrog, Russia, in October 2020.The 80 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 291 submissions.

This volume constitutes the revised selected papers of the 15th International Conference on Bio-inspired Computing: Theories and Applications, BIC-TA 2020, held in Qingdao, China, in October 2020.The 43 full papers presented in both volumes were selected from 109 submissions. DNA computing and membrane computing.

The book highlights the importance of prebiotics, probiotics and synbiotics in the signalling mechanism between gut microbiota and brain, also referred to as the gut-brain axis. A stable gut microbiota is essential for normal gut physiology and overall health, since it assists in proper signalling along the brain-gut axis.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2021, held in Phuket, Thailand, in April 2021. The total of 35 full papers accepted for publication in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 291 submissions. network systems and applications;

This two-volume set, CCIS 1453 and CCIS 1454, constitutes refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Data Mining and Big Data, DMBD 2021, held in Guangzhou, China, in October 2021.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th China Conference on Knowledge Graph and Semantic Computing, CCKS 2020, held in Nanchang, China, in November 2020. knowledge extraction: relation; knowledge extraction: event; knowledge applications: question answering, dialogue, decision support, and recommendation.

The book is a comprehensive compilation of applied knowledge for developing resistant varieties to all the major biotrophs, hemibiotrophs and necrotrophs pathogens of crucifers through the use of latest biotechnological approaches. The book includes, multi-component resistance, incorporation of non-host resistance gene, function of particular gene in resistance, expression of age related resistance, enhanced gene resistance, sources of alternative gene which enhance disease resistance, through the use of latest biotechnical approaches like proteomics, omics, transcriptomics and metabolomics.The book also explores the molecular basis of disease resistance, its biometabolomics activities in response to infection and interaction by the various biotrophs, hemibiotrophs and necrotrophs pathogens. The identification of R genes and its incorporation into agronomically superior varieties through use of molecular mechanisms is also explained. This compilation is immensely useful to the researchers especially Brassica breeders, teachers, extension specialists, students, industrialists, farmers, and all others who are interested to grow healthy, and profitable cruciferous crops all over the world.

The volume contains the following thematic blocks: image processing and enhancement techniques (image information acquisition, image/video coding, image/video transmission, image/video storage, compression, completion, dehazing, reconstruction and display, etc.);