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The M8.0 Wenchuan Earthquake occurred in China on May 12, 2008, killing over 69,000 people and displacing millions from their homes. This was one of the most catastrophic natural disasters on record. This book includes 5 chapters describing the tectonic setting and historical earthquakes around the ... More

This book collects a series of review articles summarizing the outcomes of collaborative research projects on the 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake and the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, two of the largest and most disastrous earthquakes in Asia in the last two decades. The articles cover a broad range of aspects,... More

Food security has always been a major global concern and is getting more attention in recent years. In fact, the global economy and stability has been severely challenged by the precarious state of food security, which was exacerbated by a combination of sharp price volatility and disastrous weathe... More

Food security has always been a major global concern and is getting more attention in recent years. In fact, the global economy and stability has been severely challenged by the precarious state of food security, which was exacerbated by a combination of sharp price volatility and disastrous weathe... More

China is a large developing economy and it has been deeply involved in globalization since its economic reform and opening-up. Simultaneously, China has seen a significant change in the spatial distribution of economic resources, especially capital and labor. In the recent 10 years, economists have ... More

This book argues that as colonialism brought the concept of individual, as opposed to collective, land ownership to indigenous society, along with Western surveying techniques, the changes that resulted altered the relationship of the state to its citizens, and, thereby, the structure of local socie... More

This book discusses chemometric methods for spectroscopy analysis including NIR, MIR, Raman, NMR, and LIBS, from the perspective of practical applied spectroscopy. It covers all aspects of chemometrics associated with analytical spectroscopy, including representative sample selection algorithm, outl... More

This two-volume set of LNICST 414 and 415 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on IoT and Big Data Technologies for Health Care, IoTCARE 2021, which took place in October 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 79 revi... More

This two-volume set of LNICST 414 and 415 constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on IoT and Big Data Technologies for Health Care, IoTCARE 2021, which took place in October 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 79 revi... More

This two-volume book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multimedia Technology and Enhanced Learning, ICMTEL 2021, held in April 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 97 revised full papers have been selected from 208 submis... More

This two-volume book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multimedia Technology and Enhanced Learning, ICMTEL 2021, held in April 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 97 revised full papers have been selected from 208 submis... More

"You need a legal wife. I need a husband in name. I can get him to work with me!"A marriage certificate, she had completely screwed herself over!"You … What are you doing! " Jin Yan gripped the thin blanket tightly, her face was full of caution. Why did this man appear in her room late at night?!He ... More

"You need a legal wife. I need a husband in name. I can get him to work with me!"A marriage certificate, she had completely screwed herself over!"You … What are you doing! " Jin Yan gripped the thin blanket tightly, her face was full of caution. Why did this man appear in her room late at night?!He ... More

"You need a legal wife. I need a husband in name. I can get him to work with me!"A marriage certificate, she had completely screwed herself over!"You … What are you doing! " Jin Yan gripped the thin blanket tightly, her face was full of caution. Why did this man appear in her room late at night?!He ... More

"You need a legal wife. I need a husband in name. I can get him to work with me!"A marriage certificate, she had completely screwed herself over!"You … What are you doing! " Jin Yan gripped the thin blanket tightly, her face was full of caution. Why did this man appear in her room late at night?!He ... More

"You need a legal wife. I need a husband in name. I can get him to work with me!"A marriage certificate, she had completely screwed herself over!"You … What are you doing! " Jin Yan gripped the thin blanket tightly, her face was full of caution. Why did this man appear in her room late at night?!He ... More

The three-volume set CCIS 761, CCIS 762, and CCIS 763 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Life System Modeling and Simulation, LSMS 2017, and of the International Conference on Intelligent Computing for Sustainable Energy and Environment, ICSEE 2017, he... More

This proceedings, ICMTEL 2022, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Multimedia Technology and Enhanced Learning, ICMTEL 2022, held in April 2022. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.The 59 revised full papers have been selected from 1... More

This book includes selected papers from the fourth International Conference on Smart Vehicular Technology, Transportation, Communication and Applications (VTCA 2021), held in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, China, during May 22–24, 2021. The conference is technically co-sponsored by Southwest Jiaoto... More

This book provides detailed practical guidelines on how to develop an efficient pathological brain detection system, reflecting the latest advances in the computer-aided diagnosis of structural magnetic resonance brain images. Matlab codes are provided for most of the functions described. In additio... More

This book highlights the origin of low external quantum efficiency for deep ultraviolet light-emitting diodes (DUV LEDs). In addition, it puts forward solutions for increasing the internal quantum efficiency and the light extraction efficiency of DUV LEDs. The book chiefly concentrates on approaches... More

This two-volume book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Multimedia Technology and Enhanced Learning, ICMTEL 2020, held in Leicester, United Kingdom, in April 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic all papers were presented in YouTubeLive. The 83 revised full p... More

This two-volume book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Multimedia Technology and Enhanced Learning, ICMTEL 2020, held in Leicester, United Kingdom, in April 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic all papers were presented in YouTubeLive. The 83 revised full p... More

Queer people may not have invented sex, but queers have long been pioneers in imagining new ways to have it. Yet their voices have been largely absent from the #MeToo conversation. What can queer people learn from the #MeToo conversation? And what can queer communities teach the rest of the world ab... More