This textbook provides a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to Semantic Communications, focusing on how deep learning enhances its performance in modern communication systems. The purpose of the book is to offer students, researchers, and engineers a solid understanding of the theoretical principles and practical applications of semantic communication. The text builds from foundational concepts to advanced topics, making it suitable for graduate-level courses and beyond, while also serving ...

This book examines China’s fertility transition over the past seven decades and explores the socioeconomic impacts of the two-child policy.The first half of this book highlights the characteristics of China’s low fertility and the risk of falling to an ultra-low state, aiming to answer the question: How China’s fertility is changing and evolving? How low is China’s fertility? What are the demographic structure, driving forces and institutional characteristics of China’s low fer...

International Hospitality Management: issues and applications brings together the latest developments in global hospitality operations with the contemporary management principles. It provides a truly international perspective on the hospitality and tourism industries and provides a fresh insight into hospitality and tourism management. The text develops a critical view of the management theory and the traditional theories, looking at how appropriate they are in hospitality...

A global banking risk management guide geared toward the practitionerFinancial Risk Management presents an in-depth look at banking risk on a global scale, including comprehensive examination of the U.S. Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review, and the European Banking Authority stress tests. Written by the leaders of global banking risk products and management at SAS, this book provides the most up-to-date information and expert insight into real risk m...

This is not a book just about flying a single engine airplane around theworld.This is the book about identifying the "Big Hairy AudaciousGoal" in our lives and finding a way to accomplish it through focus anddiscipline.The author accomplished three dreams: the dream of coming to theU.S. and getting an MBA degree (when he hardly spoke any English); the dreamof starting a company and becoming a self-made millionaire (when he had nomoney, no business ...

This book provides an overview of the physiological basis of lactic acid bacteria and their applications in minimizing foodborne risks, such as pathogens, heavy metal pollution, biotoxin contamination and food‐based allergies. While highlighting the mechanisms responsible for these biological effects, it also addresses the challenges and opportunities that lactic acid bacteria represent in food safety management.It offers a valuable resource for researchers, graduate students, nutr...

Polarimetric rotation domain interpretation is an innovation in radar image processing and understanding. Orientation rotation is a basic operator well known in the classic polarimetry theory, and significant advancement has been made in recent years. This book presents new and advanced concepts, theories, and methodologies in radar polarimetry and bridges the gaps between target scattering diversity, polarimetric radar data, and their practical applications. It provides a comprehensive su...

Spontaneous potential (SP) well-logging is one of the most common and useful well-logging techniques in petroleum exploitation. This monograph is the first of its kind on the mathematical model of spontaneous potential well-logging and its numerical solutions. The mathematical model established in this book shows the necessity of introducing Sobolev spaces with fractional power, which seriously increases the difficulty of proving the well-posedness and proposing numerical solution schemes....

This book is a valuable resource for understanding the transformative role of artificial intelligence in modern healthcare and aims to inspire continued research and collaboration across disciplines. In recent years, deep learning has emerged as a transformative technology across various fields, with medical image analysis standing out as one of its most impactful applications. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in this fast-evolving domain, bridging found...

The Glasgow Climate Pact signed on the 26th Conference of the Parties of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2021, saws representatives' determination for carbon neutrality by 2050. Meanwhile, "Net Zero by 2050: a Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector" proposed by International Energy Agency has suggested hydrogen as a decarbonization technology in various fields. As a clean, stable power with diverse sources, hydrogen provides a promising solution for energy, industry,...

Building upon the fundamental principles of decision theory, Decision-Based Design: Integrating Consumer Preferences into Engineering Design presents an analytical approach to enterprise-driven Decision-Based Design (DBD) as a rigorous framework for decision making in engineering design. Once the related fundamentals of decision theory, economic analysis, and econometrics modelling are established, the remaining chapters describe the entire process, the associated analytical techniques, an...

Rock Mechanics and Engineering: Prediction and Control of Landslides and Geological Disasters presents the state-of-the-art in monitoring and forecasting geotechnical hazards during the survey and design, construction, and operation of a railway. This volume offers the latest research and practical knowledge on the regularity of disaster-causing activities, and the monitoring and forecasting of rockfalls, landslides, and debris flow induced by rainfall and human activity. The book gives gu...