This book explores the fundamental theories, methodologies, and innovative directions of public finance research, focusing on its relationship with and role in state governance.Public finance is the foundation and an important pillar of state governance. The two mutually reinforce each other at the macro level and in broader contexts, necessitating the reconstruction of a public finance discipline system that meets the needs of Chinese society. This book addresses key theoretical i...

This book focuses on the evaluation methodology for automotive human-machine interaction (HMI), which aim to reduce driving distractions, lower operational loads, optimize user experience design, and enhance user value.The book is divided into three parts. The first part, consisting of Chapters 1–3, introduces the evolution of automotive HMI and proposes a three-dimensional orthogonal evaluation system for automotive HMI that is comprehensive, systematic, and quantifiable. This eva...

Suffocating smog regularly envelops Chinese metropolises from Beijing to Shanghai, clouding the future prospect of China's growth sustainability. Air pollutants do not discriminate between the rich and the poor, the politician and the "average Joe." They put everyone's health and economic prosperity at risk, creating future costs that are difficult to calculate. Yet many people, including some in China, are concerned that addressing environmental challenges will jeopardize economic growth....

Precision motion control is strongly required in many fields, such as precision engineering, micromanufacturing, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. Although great achievements have been made in control engineering, it is still challenging to fulfill the desired performance for precision motion control systems. Substantial works have been presented to reveal an increasing trend to apply optimization approaches in precision engineering to obtain the control system parameters. In this book, w...

Many conventional survival analysis methods, such as the Kaplan-Meier method for survival function estimation and the partial likelihood method for Cox model regression coefficients estimation, were developed under the assumption that survival times are subject to right censoring only. However, in practice, survival time observations may include interval-censored data, especially when the exact time of the event of interest cannot be observed. When interval-censored observations are presen...

This Handbook presents thorough literature reviews and detailed analyses on the development of China’s social sciences research since the reform and opening up in 1978. The handbook is comprised of 4 sections: politics and law, sociology and economics, demography and education, journalism studies and library science. Written and edited by leading scholars from Peking University, each volume critiques the research findings and provides guidance for future investigations of the respective fi...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the First MICCAI Challenge Multi-class Segmentation of the Aorta, AortaSeg 2024, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2024, as a virtual event, during October 2024.The 10 papers included in the book were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submitting teams. This challenge aimed to advance the field of medical image segmentation by introducing the first large-scale, publicly available dataset for multi-class segmentation of the aorta, its bran...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR + InnoBiz 2024, held in Shenzhen, China, during September 25–28, 2024.The 36 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. The theme of this year’s conference was “Social Robotics: Embracing Innovation for Business”, focusing on recent technological innovation in the robotic industry.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the CVPR 2025 Challenge on Foundation Models for 3D Biomedical Image Segmentation, MedSegFM 2025, held in Nashville, TN, USA, during June 11–15, 2025.The 13 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. This conference provides state-of-the-art algorithms for biomedical image segmentation foundation models.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the MICCAI 2024 Challenge, FLARE 2024, held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2024, in Marrakesh, Morocco, during October 2024.The 20 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. They describe the solutions the participants found for automatic abdominal organ and pan-cancer segmentation using the official training dataset released for this pupose.This challenge focuses on both organ and pan-can...

This LNCS conference set constitutes the proceedings of the First Medical Image Segmentation Challenge, MedSAM on Laptop 2024, Held in Conjunction with CVPR 2024, in Seattle, WA, USA, held in June 2024.The 16 full papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 200 submissions. This challenge aims to prompt the development of universal promotable medical image segmentation foundation models that are deployable on laptops or other edge devices without reliance on GPU...

This third of three volumes includes papers from the second series of NODYCON, which was held virtually in February of 2021. The conference papers reflect a broad coverage of topics in nonlinear dynamics, ranging from traditional topics from established streams of research to those from relatively unexplored and emerging venues of research. These include· Complex dynamics of COVID-19: modeling, prediction and control· Nonlinear phenomena in bio-systems and eco-systems