While the Chinese urban movement has successfully transferred surplus labor from the countryside to urban industries that urgently require free and cheap labor, numerous problems have arisen as a result of the unprecedented huge-scale process. Such conditions such as overcrowding, substandard housing, lack of social services, corruption, and abuse of power have often reached crisis stage. American college students often ask: How does the government control the largest urban population in t...

This book focuses on the frontier issues in climate finance and aims to develop a general framework to understand the financial pathways towards a successful energy transition. It builds upon the general descriptions of the current status and future challenges towards carbon neutral targets, and then bring forward a combination of theoretical and empirical analysis on the critical issues related to climate finance.Estimated by the International Energy Agency (IEA), trillions dollar...

Using the methods of economics and psychology, this book studies the driving factors of household energy consumption change, household energy consumption behavior and incentive policies related to energy consumption in China. It evaluates the effect of relevant policies to motivate energy-saving behaviors in residential sectors, and explains the mechanism of energy-saving policies. This book helps to build a full picture of household energy consumption of China.

This book focuses on the hotspots and frontier issues of China’s energy and critical mineral security strategy, aiming to develop a general framework to understand the new security landscape of constructing a modern energy system and accelerating the low-carbon transition. It attempts to sketch out the core issues of energy and critical mineral security in China’s current and future low-carbon transition process and then bring forward a combination of theoretical and empirical analysis on ...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third Workshop on Face and Facial Expression Recognition from Real World Videos, FFER 2018, and the Second International Workshop on Deep Learning for Pattern Recognition, DLPR 2018, held at the 24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2018, in Beijing, China, in August 2018.The 7 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 9 submissions. They deal with topics such as histopathological imag...

This volume consists of papers presented at the 2014 International Symposium on Systems and Computer Technology (ISSCT 2014, Shanghai, China, 15-17 November 2014). The demand for systems and informatics have been constantly increasing, as more and more computer applications have been built. Great efforts have been made to improve the state of the a

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third Workshop on Video Analytics for Audience Measurement, VAAM 2016, and the Second International Workshop on Face and Facial Expression Recognition from Real World Videos, FFER 2016, held at the 23rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2016, in Cancun, Mexico, in December 2016.The 11 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions. They deal with: re-identification; consumer b...