This book focuses on mechanical and electric designing, body shape sensing and tip motion control of various types of light slender robots based on tendon-sheath transmission. From the theoretical concise figures and practical examples of tendon-sheath transmitted mechanisms illustrated succinctly and clearly with 3D color drawings in this book, the proposed readers, including the researchers and students, might get inspirations in their own robotic system design or just following this boo...

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the scientific satellite events that were held in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2016, held in Banff, AB, Canada, in October 2016.The ICSOC 2016 workshop track consisted of three workshops on a wide range of topics that fall into the general area of service computing:ASOCA 2016: The rst Workshop on Adaptive Service-oriented and Cloud Applications...

This open access book is the second edition of Education in China and the World: Achievements and Contemporary Issues. It builds upon the commitment to provide a comprehensive analysis on education in China to a global audience. Focusing on seven education segments, from basic to post-secondary education, this edition draws on the latest literature, official data, and statistical resources to reflect the trends and development in Chinese education. Based on the groundwork built pr...

This book investigates in detail the theory and method of automatically formed mining roadway (AFR). The AFR method utilizes mining pressure and broken expansion characteristics of the collapsed rock mass in the gob to automatically form roadways, which changes the traditional “long cantilever beam” to “short cantilever beam” structure, and eliminate roadway excavation and coal pillar reserve. Key technologies are developed under the guidance of the “equilibrium mining” theory, such as in ...

This book examines the field of surrounding rock control mechanisms and support technologies in underground engineering, and proposes a high-strength support system to address the complex conditions in underground engineering, such as high stress, extremely soft rocks, fault fracture zone and strong mining activity. It also comprehensively discusses the concept and bearing mechanisms of the supporting system, design calculation methods, field application and key construction technologies.

This book provides readers with practical, culturally aware and engaging ways to research migrant culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities. Through the diverse disciplinary perspectives of Communication Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Education, Business, and Data Science, the case studies documented in this book offer readers effective methodologies leading to deep and nuanced knowledge of CALD migrants and the communities they belong to. This book loo...

The eight-volume set LNCS 13431, 13432, 13433, 13434, 13435, 13436, 13437, and 13438 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2022, which was held in Singapore in September 2022.The 574 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 1831 submissions in a double-blind review process. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I:...

This book brings together research-practice partnerships that aim to improve language teaching and learning across varied educational contexts. This book examines how teachers, researchers, school leaders, policymakers and communities collaborate to create evidence-informed language education, and why some partnership efforts succeed while others face challenges.The chapters present projects from local schools to international networks, showing how sustained dialogue and shared goa...

This book presents cutting-edge papers and perspectives on the transport of oxygen to tissues by scientists in a multitude of disciplines such as biochemistry, engineering, mathematics, medicine, physics, physiology, veterinary and complementary medicine. The book is composed of the following 8 parts: Honorary Lectures, Measuring Tissue Oxygen in vivo, Membrane-Level Transport, Hypoxia and Metabolic Regulation, Hemodynamic Physiology, Brain Functional Dynamics, Cerebral Hemodynami...

This proceedings constitutes the revised selected papers of the 17th International Conference on Mobile Multimedia Communications, MOBIMEDIA 2024, held in Hangzhou, China, during September 27–29, 2024.The 8 full papers were included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. They focus on 5G communication technologies, multimedia services and applications, AI Inspired Future Technologies.

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online.This Festschrift honors the life of Dr. Edward L. Fink, Professor Emeritus and former Laura H. Carnell Professor of Media and Communication at Temple University, and Professor Emeritus from the University of Maryland. Dr. Fink spent more than fifty years as a scholar of communication, persuasion, and quantitative research methods. Dr. Fink is a Fellow of the International Communicati...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of 4th International Symposium on Intelligent Unmanned Systems and Artificial Intelligence, SIUSAI 2025, in Hohhot, China, during August 15–17, 2025.The 37 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Perception and Scene Understanding for Intelligent Unmanned System; AI-Driven Control, Planning and Decision-Mak...