The past decade has witnessed an explosion of interest in research and education in causal inference, due to its wide applications in biomedical research, social sciences, artificial intelligence etc. This textbook, based on the author's course on causal inference at UC Berkeley taught over the past seven years, only requires basic knowledge of probability theory, statistical inference, and linear and logistic regressions. It assumes minimal knowledge of causal inference, and reviews basic...

Edge AI at Home: Run Local LLMs on Your Windows GPU is a practical, step-by-step handbook for anyone who wants to run powerful AI locally—right on a Windows GPU laptop or desktop—without relying on the cloud.Instead of getting stuck in theory, you'll follow clear, hands-on instructions to set up a local AI environment and start using it immediately for real work and creative projects. You'll learn how to run local models, build privacy-friendly workflows, and turn your own PC into ...

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of public hospital reform in China, which is a hot topic for China’s new round of health sector reform. The authors use rich data from both health provider side and service user side and conduct a cross-sectional study in China with some comparative analysis between different locations. It provides the audience with a big picture of China’s public hospital and other components of health system as well. The book reviews the main policy measur...

This six-volume set LNCS 15986-15991 constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2025, held in Singapore, during May 26–29, 2025.The 136 full papers presented in this book together with 89 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 731 submissions. They cover topics such asPart I-Machine Learning and Text.Part II-Emerging Application; NLP and Spatial-Temporal.Part III- Graph;...

This book introduces experiential knowledge of the intersectionality of disability, sexuality, and gender equality issues. Scholars and disabled persons’ organizations in different Asian countries such as China, Vietnam, Myanmar, Nepal, and Japan have contributed to the book. It is a preliminary introduction of the frontline practice of Asian disability activism and the experience of women and LGBTIQ people with disabilities. It presents the direct participation of disability advocates in ...

This six-volume set LNCS 15986-15991 constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2025, held in Singapore, during May 26–29, 2025.The 136 full papers presented in this book together with 89 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 731 submissions.They cover topics such asPart I-Machine Learning and Text.Part II-Emerging Application; NLP and Spatial-Temporal.Part III- Graph; ...

This six-volume set LNCS 15986-15991 constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2025, held in Singapore, during May 26–29, 2025.The 136 full papers presented in this book together with 89 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 731 submissions.They cover topics such asPart I-Machine Learning and Text.Part II-Emerging Application; NLP and Spatial-Temporal.Part III- Graph; ...

This six-volume set LNCS 15986-15991 constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2025, held in Singapore, during May 26–29, 2025.The 136 full papers presented in this book together with 89 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 731 submissions.They cover topics such asPart I-Machine Learning and Text.Part II-Emerging Application; NLP and Spatial-Temporal.Part III- Graph; ...

This six-volume set LNCS 15986-15991 constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2025, held in Singapore, during May 26–29, 2025.The 136 full papers presented in this book together with 89 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 731 submissions. They cover topics such asPart I-Machine Learning and Text.Part II-Emerging Application; NLP and Spatial-Temporal.Part III- Graph;...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 29th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, LCPC 2016, held in Rochester, NY, USA, in September 2016.The 20 revised full papers presented together with 4 short papers were carefully reviewed. The papers are organized in topical sections on large scale parallelism, resilience and persistence, compiler analysis and optimization, dynamic computation and languages, GPUs a...

This six-volume set LNCS 15986-15991 constitutes the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2025, held in Singapore, during May 26–29, 2025.The 136 full papers presented in this book together with 89 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 731 submissions. They cover topics such asPart I-Machine Learning and Text.Part II-Emerging Application; NLP and Spatial-Temporal.Part III- Graph;...