The volume examines the risks and opportunities of a digital society characterized by the increasing importance of knowledge and by the incessant rise and pervasiveness of information and communication technologies (ICTs). At a global level, the pivotal role of ICTs has made it necessary to rethink ways to avoid forms of digital exclusion or digital discrimination. This edited collection comprises of chapters written by respected scholars from a variety of countries, and brings together ne...

本書所述的主角之一，乃是臺灣日治時期社會運動家廬丙丁之妻林氏好。她因先生的職業與她的教學生涯糾結在一起，幸而她擁有一副出色的歌喉，從此踏上了職業音樂人和唱片歌手的路程，單獨撫養三子女，她心靈的掙扎，外界難以洞察。另外兩位則是曾於日本學習小提琴演奏的音樂才子，泰平唱片文藝部長陳運旺及管絃樂團的先驅鄭有忠。三人在泰平唱片短短的一年相聚的時光中，點燃了激情之心，為臺灣的唱片業注入嶄新的氛圍！音樂生命之美，在這短促的歲月裡醞釀茁壯成長！儘管後來他們各自擁有不同的理想，分道揚鑣不再相逢，但歷史時代的巨輪，卻為他們帶來了極為相近的抱負！時光的輪轉為他們帶來一生的曲折與迷茫。在烽火的蔽蔽之下，這三位音樂巨儒以音樂來品味人生，將藏匿於心底深處的情感傾訴而出，曾經的熱情如今則是經歷風霜的印記。或許充滿對過往的懷念，或許緊守著已逝的熱情；但他們走過，並用深情唱出了屬於他們自己的故事，在這樣的過程中，他們也呈現出了日治時期日本統治者與台灣仕紳及知識分子的音樂品味與美學修養。作者吳玲宜，因緣際會之下結識了這幾位巨挈的後代。經過多年的深入交往，作者逐漸...

Recent attention to historical, geographic, and class differences in the studies of women and gender in China has expanded our understanding of the diversity and complexity of gendered China. Nevertheless, the ethnic dimension of this subject matter remains largely overlooked, particularly concerning women’s conditions and gender status. Consequently, the patriarchy and its oppression of women among the Han, the ethnic majority in China, are often inaccurately or erroneously associated wit...

In Future Words, Dominique Chen invites readers into a life shaped by multiple languages, cultures and disciplines. Born in Tokyo, Chen grew up moving between Japan, France and the United States, speaking several languages in overlapping ways. Here his journey – from learning his first French sentences in a Tokyo classroom, to competitive kendo in Paris, to programming early video games, to raising a multilingual daughter – becomes a meditation on how language forms the architectu...

This book offers readers a series of robotic methods for manipulating zebrafish larva, one of the most popular model vertebrates widely used in biomedical research and clinical applications. The authors leverage advanced control theories, image processing algorithms, and artificial intelligence to establish a robot-assisted automated or semi-automated zebrafish larva-targeted micromanipulation system for different experimental purposes. The methods presented are generic and can be translat...

To make the best decisions, you need the best information. However, because most issues in game theory are grey, nearly all recent research has been carried out using a simplified method that considers grey systems as white ones. This often results in a forecasting function that is far from satisfactory when applied to many real situations. Grey Ga

Yi-Shi Duan (1927-2016) was one of the world-renowned pioneers in the study of gauge field theory and general relativity. Trained in the former Soviet Union, Prof. Duan returned to China in 1957 to work in Lanzhou University for 60 years. In 1963, he came up with a general co-variant form of the conservation law of the energy-momentum tensor in general relativity. In 1979, he suggested that the gauge potential could be decomposed, which has important implications to gauge field theory. He ...

This book addresses the molecular mechanisms of food allergies and related control strategies. To do so, it covers a broad range of topics, including: the basic immunology of food allergies, including crosstalk between gut mucosal immunity and allergens; types of food allergens, structure of food allergen epitopes and cross-reactivity; detection and quantification methods for food allergens; in vitro and in vivo models for evaluating allergenicity; novel food processing methods for the dev...

This book discusses recent advances in the estimation and control of networked systems with unacknowledged packet losses: systems usually known as user-datagram-protocol-like. It presents both the optimal and sub-optimal solutions in the form of algorithms, which are designed to be implemented easily by computer routines. It also provides MATLAB® routines for the key algorithms. It shows how these methods and algorithms can solve estimation and control problems effectively, and identifies ...

This book considers the positive and negative impacts of the minimum wage policy in China. Since China enacted its first minimum wage law in 1994, the magnitude and frequency of changes in the minimum wage have been substantial, both over time and across jurisdictions. The results from China’s experience show that rapidly increasing minimum wages have helped increase average wages and reduce the gender wage gap, income inequality, and poverty. However, the fast-rising minimum wage has also...

Literature is an important vehicle to further knowledge of other cultures, and English translations of Okinawan literary works have had a major impact on the field of Okinawan studies. Yet the riches of Okinawa's literature have yet to be adequately mined. Islands of Protest attempts to address this lacuna with this new selection of critically acclaimed modern and contemporary works in English.The anthology includes poetry, fiction, and drama, drawing on Okinawa's distinct...

The six volume set of LNCS 12622-12627 constitutes the proceedings of the 15th Asian Conference on Computer Vision, ACCV 2020, held in Kyoto, Japan, in November/ December 2020.*The total of 254 contributions was carefully reviewed and selected from 768 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers focus on the following topics:Part I: 3D computer vision; segmentation and groupingPart II: low-level vision, image processing; motion and trackin...