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Christianity Today Book Award Finalist—Missions/Global ChurchReader's Choice Award WinnerThroughout China's rapidly growing cities, a new wave of unregistered house churches is growing. They are developing rich theological perspectives that are both uniquely Chinese and rooted in the historical doctrines of the faith. To understand how they have endured despite government pressure and cultural marginalization, we m...

This volume brings together educators and researchers from across East and Southeast Asia – spanning Korea, Japan, China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, Macao, Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore – to explore how authenticity and autonomy are reshaping English language education.Drawing on a unique three-take structure, practitioners share their first-hand experiences implementing authenticity and autonomy strategies; colleagues from comparable contexts offer insights; and international...

AI in MRI-based Brain Disease Prediction presents a comprehensive exploration of artificial intelligence technologies in the analysis of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for brain disease prediction. Bridging medical imaging, neuroscience, and AI, this volume covers core methodologies—such as deep learning, multimodal fusion, and fast MRI processing—and applies them to neurological disorders including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, stroke, glioma, and autism. Featuring theoretical foun...

Dive into the cutting-edge integration of deep learning with audio signal processing in this authoritative guide. Designed for audio engineers, data scientists, and tech enthusiasts, this book demystifies the complex world of deep neural networks, including CNNs and RNNs, and their applications in speech recognition, music transcription, and sound event detection.Explore the practical side of deep learning with hands-on tutorials using TensorFlow and PyTorch, building your intuitio...

This book describes Soft robotics is considered as one of the most promising frontiers for robotic research and versatile applications. As an interdisciplinary field, soft robotics brings together material science, manufacture, mechatronics and control. This book focuses on actuation, perception, control and applications of soft robots, showing their new functions and behaviors based on unique small-strain mechanisms, to offer readers a wide guidance for interdisciplinary exploration on so...

The book is a compilation of selected papers from the 14th International Workshop of Advanced Manufacturing and Automation (IWAMA 2024), held in Kunming University of Science and Technology, China on 11-12 October, 2024. Topics focusing on novel techniques for manufacturing and automation in Industry 4.0 are now vital factors for the maintenance and improvement of the economy of a nation and the quality of life. It will help academic researchers and engineering to implement the concept, th...

This book presents the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Future Information Technology (FutureTech 2025) held in Changsha, China, April 24-26, 2025. It also discusses the state of the art in the development of Hybrid Information Technology, High Performance Computing, Cloud and Cluster Computing, Digital Convergence, Multimedia Convergence, Human-centric Computing and Social Networks, and Bioinformatics and Bio-Inspired Computing in engineering, science, and other discipl...

Chinese for Working Professionals is for learners who intend to use Chinese in a multinational global workplace. It has eight thematic units focusing on developing learners’ transferrable skills in addition to expanding the cross-cultural competences required in a real-world work-place.Key features:Topical themes expose the ongoing changes in China for working professionals such as career preparation, economic development, business etiquet...

The Heritage Turn in China: The Reinvention, Dissemination and Consumption of Heritage focuses on heritage discourse and practice in China today as it has evolved from the 'heritage turn' that can be dated to the 1990s. Using a variety of disciplinary approaches to regionally and topically diverse case studies, the contributors to this edited volume show how particular versions of the past are selected, (re)invented, disseminated and consumed for contemporary purposes. These studi...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th Chinese Conference on Image and Graphics Technologies and Applications, IGTA 2025, held in Beijing, China, during August 9-10, 2025.The 25 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions. The papers focus on image processing, computer graphics, and related topics, including but not limited to image analysis and understanding, computer vision and pattern recognition, data mining, v...

This book challenges the common perceptions of Australian dependence upon great-power allies in the conduct of its foreign relations through a critical examination of Australia's relations with the People's Republic of China. The author focuses on the economic and political dimensions of the policy-making process from the founding of the PRC in 1949 to the present era, against an analytical framework that takes into account both internal and external factors in the formulation and implemen...

This conference is one of the most significant annual events of the China Electrotechnical Society, showcasing the latest research trends, methodologies, and experimental results in electrical, electronic, and networked energy systems. The proceedings cover a wide range of cutting-edge theories and ideas, including topics such as power systems, power electronics, smart grids, renewable energy, energy integration in transportation, advanced power technologies, and the energy internet.