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Let’s be honest—life gets hard sometimes. And it gets even harder for those living with unhealthy self-esteem. When our self-worth is low, it becomes much more difficult to build meaningful connections, attract positivity, and recognize the possibilities around us. Thankfully, healing is possible, transformation is within reach, and we all have the capacity to reclaim our worth—one intentional act at a time. In a practical guide, Yu-Shan Chen shares insights, tools, and encouragement to su...

In this era of rapidly advancing technology and global challenges, it has become crucial to adopt an integrated approach that bridges the gap between scientific principles and their practical applications. The chapters compiled in this book reflect this need for synergy and presents an eclectic selection of studies that address sustainable composite materials technology, emerging materials for sustainable energy, and environment, health, and sustainable development.The book explore...

This open access book explores new research directions in social inequality and urban segregation. With the goal of fostering an ongoing dialogue between scholars in Europe and China, it brings together an impressive team of international researchers to shed light on the entwined processes of inequality and segregation, and the implications for urban development. Through a rich collection of empirical studies at the city, regional and national levels, the book explores the impact of migrat...

“This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th CCF Conference on BigData 2024, which took place in Qingdao, China, in August 2024” to “This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th CCF Conference on BigData 2024, which took place in Qingdao, China, during 9-11 August, 2024.The 26 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 219 submissions. The topics of accepted papers include Big data, Data Science, System Architecture a...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th China Intelligent Robotics Annual Conference on Intelligent Robotics, CIRAC 2025, held in Nantong, China, during September 20–22, 2025.The 12 full papers and 3 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 26 submissions.They are grouped into the following topics: UAV Technology; Robot Mechanism & Control; SLAM & Visual Navigation; Medical Robotics & Perception; Robotic Radar Percept...

Tactile Sensing, Skill Learning and Robotic Dexterous Manipulation focuses on cross-disciplinary lines of research and groundbreaking research ideas in three research lines: tactile sensing, skill learning and dexterous control. The book introduces recent work about human dexterous skill representation and learning, along with discussions of tactile sensing and its applications on unknown objects' property recognition and reconstruction. Sections also introduce the adaptive control schema ...

Complementarity functions lie at the heart of modern optimization, offering a powerful way to reformulate the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions and the original optimization problem into more tractable forms, either as systems of equations or unconstrained minimization problems. These reformulations not only deepen theoretical understanding but also inspire innovative approaches for solving complex optimization challenges.This book centers on complementarity functions, offering a...

From contaminated infant formula to a spate of all-too familiar headlines in recent years, food safety has emerged as one of the harsher realities behind China's economic miracle. Tainted beef, horse meat and dioxin outbreaks in the western world have also put food safety in the global spotlight.Food Safety in China: Science, Technology, Management and Regulation presents a comprehensive overview of the history and current state of food safety in China, along with emerging...

The oceans cover approximately 71% of Earth’s surface, 90% of the biosphere and contains 97% of Earth’s water. Since the first launch of SEASAT satellite in 1978, an increasing number of SAR satellites have or will become available, such as the European Space Agency’s ERS-1/-2, ENVISAT, and Sentinel-1 series; the Canadian RADARSAT-1/-2 and the upcoming RADARSAT Constellation Mission series satellites; the Italian COSMO-SkyMed satellites, the German TERRASAR-X and TANDEM-X, and the Chinese ...

This edited volume makes a valuable contribution to the burgeoning research field of English as a lingua franca. In a pioneering step, the collection is exclusively devoted to the English email discourse of Chinese speakers. The studies address innovative topics related to various contexts and relationships, using several different approaches and theories, which taken together shed light on how English serves as a lingua franca in multiple types of global written communication. The researc...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems, Broadnets 2020, which took place in Qingdao, China, in December 2020. The 13 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers are thematically grouped as a session on wireless network and security and a session on communication quality.

The primary aim of this volume is to provide researchers and engineers from both academic and industry with up-to-date coverage of new results in the field of robotic welding, intelligent systems and automation. The book is mainly based on papers selected from the 2014 International Conference on Robotic Welding, Intelligence and Automation (RWIA’2014), held Oct. 25-27, 2014, at Shanghai, China. The articles show that the intelligentized welding manufacturing (IWM) is becoming an inevitabl...