Welcome to The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: Youth Edition!This collection of positive and uplifting written works has been created in response to PoArtMo, a year-long movement launched in 2020 by Auroras & Blossoms. PoArtMo stands for "Positive Actions Rally Thoughts & Momentum."The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology: Youth Edition features poems, short stories, essays, and six-word stories written by young creatives between the ages of 13 and 1...

From one of China’s most famous contemporary writers, who celebrated novel To Live catapulted him to international fame, here is a stunning collection of stories, selected from the best of Yu Hua’s early work, that shows his far-reaching influence on a pivotal period in Chinese literature.In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Yu Hua and other young Chinese writers began to reimagine their national literature. Departing from conventional realism in favor of a more surreal and ...

In this book, Yuxia Qian and Rukhsana Ahmed explore health acculturation, which they argue is a complex, multidimensional communication process involving concerted efforts from migrants, health professionals, researchers, community members, policymakers, and the media, rather than a unidimensional process synonymous with assimilation. Qian and Ahmed examine individual migrant health acculturation experiences, community-based culturally-centered health interventions, and cross-cultural heal...

From one of China’s most famous contemporary writers, who celebrated novel To Live catapulted him to international fame, here is a stunning collection of stories, selected from the best of Yu Hua’s early work, that shows his far-reaching influence on a pivotal period in Chinese literature.In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Yu Hua and other young Chinese writers began to reimagine their national literature. Departing from conventional realism in favor of a more surreal and ...

This book constitutes the refereed post proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Spatial Data and Intelligence, SpatialDI 2025, held in Xiamen, China, during April 17–19, 2025.The 17 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions. The conference focuses on generative AI and spatial data intelligence, spatiotemporal knowledge graphs and large geographic models, digital twins and smart cities, government spatiotemporal big data and data governance, em...

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 188 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: internet of things and communication; education and enterprise; machine learning; big data and signal processing; work...

The four-volume set LNICST 532, 533, 534 and 535 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th EAI International Conference on Multimedia Technology and Enhanced Learning, ICMTEL 2023, held in Leicester, UK, during April 28-29, 2023.The 121 papers presented in the proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 285 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: AI-based education and learning systems; medical and healthcare; computer vision and image p...

The four-volume set LNICST 532, 533, 534 and 535 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th EAI International Conference on Multimedia Technology and Enhanced Learning, ICMTEL 2023, held in Leicester, UK, during April 28-29, 2023.The 121 papers presented in the proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 285 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: AI-based education and learning systems; medical and healthcare; computer vision and image p...

This book presents selected papers from the 6th China National Congress on Thermal Stress. The Congress was hosted by the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and Northwestern Polytechnical University and held on 18~20 April, 2025 in Xi’an, China. The high-speed flight technology of aerospace vehicles will significantly enhance humanity's capabilities to explore and utilize outer space. The new generation of hypersonic vehicles is evolving towards higher altitudes, greater ...

LIGHTSPEED is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF--and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.This month, we have original science fiction by Joseph Allen Hill ("Infinite Love Engine") and Lina Rather ("Seven Permutations of My Daughter"), along with SF reprints ...

The four-volume set LNICST 532, 533, 534 and 535 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th EAI International Conference on Multimedia Technology and Enhanced Learning, ICMTEL 2023, held in Leicester, UK, during April 28-29, 2023.The 121 papers presented in the proceedings set were carefully reviewed and selected from 285 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: AI-based education and learning systems; medical and healthcare; computer vision and image p...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts, AIST 2015, held in Yekaterinburg, Russia, in April 2015.The 24 full and 8 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 140 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on analysis of images and videos; pattern recognition and machine learning; social network analysis; text mining and natural language processing.