Child protection systems across the globe are developing at pace, each reflecting their unique economic, social, and cultural contexts.This book provides an overview of 11 child protection systems from low- and middle-income countries and discusses the formal and informal responses countries are making to the shared problem of child abuse and maltreatment. Within each chapter, vignettes give readers a window into how each country’s child protection system operates in practice....

Based on data from 12 diverse societies, this is the first cross-national comparative study on academic engagement in social policy formulation.The chapters present survey data on the policy involvement of social work academics in different countries and an analysis of this data by country experts. The findings relate to the levels and types of policy engagement of the social work academics, their perceptions regarding this type of activity and the factors associated with this....

Professor Xihua Cao (1920–2005) was a leading scholar at East China Normal University (ECNU) and a famous algebraist in China. His contribution to the Chinese academic circle is particularly the formation of a world-renowned 'ECNU School' in algebra, covering research areas include algebraic groups, quantum groups, algebraic geometry, Lie algebra, algebraic number theory, representation theory and other hot fields. In January 2020, in order to commemorate Professor Xihua Cao's centenary bi...

The Chinese government has recently adopted a radical welfare approach by contracting out social services to non-governmental organisations (NGOs). This is a big departure from its traditional welfare model, whereby all public services were directly delivered by government agencies. This book examines this new welfare approach. It analyses the implementation of various types of services for individuals, families and communities – including medical social services, care of the elderly, prob...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th CCF Conference on BigData 2022, which took place in Chengdu, China, in November 2022.The 8 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. The topics of accepted papers include theories and methods of data science, algorithms and applications of big data.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Computing, ICCC 2020, held as part of SCF 2020 in Honolulu, HI, USA, in September 2020.The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 8 full and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. The papers cover all aspects of Sensing Intelligence (SIJ as a Service (SlaaS). Cognitive Computing is a sensing-driven computing (SDC) sche...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Services, AIMS 2021, held as a virtual conference as part of SCF 2021, during December 10-14, 2021.The 9 full presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. They cover topics in AI Modeling, AI Analysis, AI and Mobile Applications, AI Architecture, AI Management, AI Engineering, mobile backend as a service (MBaaS), user experience of AI and mobile se...