How can Japanese popular culture gain numerous fans in China, despite pervasive anti-Japanese sentiment? How is it that there’s such a strong anti-Korean sentiment in Chinese online fan communities when the official Sino-Korean relationship is quite stable before 2016? Avid fans in China are raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding to make gifts to their idols in foreign countries. Tabloid reports on Japanese and Korean celebrities have been known to trigger nationalist protests...

This book presents an overview of copula theory and its application in hydrology, and provides valuable insights, useful methods and practical applications for multivariate hydrological analysis using copulas. In addition, it extends the traditional bivariate model to trivariate or multivariate models. The specific applications covered include the study of flood frequency analysis, drought frequency analysis, dependence analysis, flood coincidence risk analysis and statistical simulation u...

This 18-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2025, held in Shanghai, China, during October 15-18, 2025.The 692 full papers included in this book, comprising 66 oral presentations and 626 posters, were carefully reviewed and selected from 2370 submissions.PRCV's mission is to serve as a comprehensive platform for dialogues among researchers from both the academic field and the industry....

This two-volume set, CCIS 2274 and CCIS 2275, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 39th National Conference on China Computer Federation, CCF NCCA 2024, held in Harbin, China, during July 15–18, 2024.The 48 full papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 238 submissions. These papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Artificial Intelligence and Applications; Data Science and Technology.Part II: Pattern Recognition & ...

This monograph introduces readers to new theories and methods applying cognitive computing and geometric space transformation to the field of fault diagnosis and prognostics. It summarizes the basic concepts and technical aspects of fault diagnosis and prognostics technology. Existing bottleneck problems are examined, and the advantages of applying cognitive computing and geometric space transformation are explained. In turn, the book highlights fault diagnosis, prognostic, and health asse...

This 18-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2025, held in Shanghai, China, during October 15-18, 2025.The 692 full papers included in this book, comprising 66 oral presentations and 626 posters, were carefully reviewed and selected from 2370 submissions.PRCV's mission is to serve as a comprehensive platform for dialogues among researchers from both the academic field and the industry....

This two-volume set, CCIS 2274 and CCIS 2275, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 39th National Conference on China Computer Federation, CCF NCCA 2024, held in Harbin, China, during July 15–18, 2024.The 48 full papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 238 submissions. These papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Artificial Intelligence and Applications; Data Science and Technology.Part II: Pattern Recognition & ...

Towards Energy-Efficient Buildings: Envelope Technologies and Sustainable Energy Systems examines the intersection of building design and energy systems analysis, paving the way to sustainable, efficient buildings and our communal energy future. This book begins by outlining the major energy challenges for buildings and the fundamentals and opportunities in envelope technology for their increasing the efficiency of their energy systems. Close analysis of various technologies is then carrie...

This two-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2021, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in October 2021.The 55 full, 29 short and 5 demo papers, plus 2 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 229 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: BlockChain and Crowdsourcing; Database System and Workflow; Data Mining and Applications; Knowledge Graph a...

This two-volume set LNCS 13069-13070 constitutes selected papers presented at the First CAAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, held in Hangzhou, China, in June 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was partially held online.The 105 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 307 qualified submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on applications of AI; computer vision; data mining; explainability, understandability, and verifiabil...

This 18-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2025, held in Shanghai, China, during October 15-18, 2025.The 692 full papers included in this book, comprising 66 oral presentations and 626 posters, were carefully reviewed and selected from 2370 submissions.PRCV's mission is to serve as a comprehensive platform for dialogues among researchers from both the academic field and the industry....

Academic selection is the process of selecting students based on academic ability and then providing divergent educational routes depending on the results of the selection. Drawing on international evidence, this book provides detailed discussions on the influence of early-age academic selection on educational effectiveness and equity.Demonstrating its widespread implementation across England, Northern Ireland, Germany, the United States, and China, the book provides a comprehensiv...