In The Politics of Affective Relations, editors Daniel Bell and Hahm Chaihark refine our understanding of the East Asian conception of the self by examining how that conception was formulated, reproduced, and utilized throughout history. Sparked by a strong dissatisfaction with the state over many discourses regarding East Asian politics, this volume moves beyond the simplistic exchange of polemics regarding "Asian Values" and reaches a more nuanced understanding of "relationality...

"Weltgeschichte ist lange Zeit als eine Geschichte des Aufstiegs und Niedergangs einer kleinen Zahl von 'Hochkulturen' geschrieben worden. Unter diesen Kulturen schienen Europa oder der atlantische 'Westen' während der letzten Jahrhunderte nach den Kriterien Macht, Wohlstand und kulturelle Kreativität zu dominieren. Das neue sechsbändige Werk zur Weltgeschichte, das von einem Team von Historikerinnen und Historikern vorwiegend aus den USA und Deutschland erarbeitet wird und das gleichzeiti...

China has reemerged as a powerhouse in the global economy, reviving a classic question in economic history: why did sustained economic growth arise in Europe rather than in China?Many favor cultural and environmental explanations of the nineteenth-century economic divergence between Europe and the rest of the world. This book, the product of over twenty years of research, takes a sharply different tack. It argues that political differences which crystallized well before 1800 were r...

Une anthologie donnant un aperçu rare de la littérature hongkongaise contemporaine, vingt-cinq ans après la rétrocession de Hong Kong à la Chine. Entrelaçant poèmes et nouvelles d’une quinzaine d’au issus de générations diverses, elle offre au lecteur une succession de lignes de fuite, chacune esquissant les contours d’une spécificité de l’histoire et de l’identité hongkongaises. Alors que cette « âme » hongkongaise est aujourd’hui en pleine recomposition, le temps est ven...

This book presents the proceedings of the ASEAN-Australian Engineering Congress (AAEC2022), held as a virtual event, 13–15 July 2022 with the theme “Engineering Solutions in the Age of Digital Disruption”. The book presents selected papers covering scientific research in the field of Engineering Computing, Network, Communication and Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Materials Science & Manufacturing, Automation and Sensors, Smart Energy & Cities, Simulation & Optim...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First MICCAI Challenge on Ultra-Widefield Fundus Imaging for Diabetic Retinopathy, UWF4DR 2024, held in Marrakesh, Morocco, on October 10, 2024.The 17 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. They present methodologies and results of the challenge which consists of three clinically relevant subtasks: image quality assessment for ultra-widefield fundus (Task 1), identification of referabl...

This book constitutes the MICCAI Challenge, MMAC 2023, that held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2023, Vancouver, BC, Canada, which took place in October 2023.The 11 long papers included in this volume presents a wide range of state-of-the-art deep learning methods developed for the various tasks presented in the challenge.

For an open-access edition and online resources, including video and additional images, visit the CoronAsur page on Manifold. https://manifold.uhpress.hawaii.edu/projects/coronasurBy the summer of 2020, when the coronavirus had fully entered our everyday vocabulary and our lives, religious communities and places of worship around the world were already undergoing profound changes. In Asian and Asian diaspora communities, diverse cultural tropes, beliefs, and artifa...