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Understanding China''s Real Estate Markets: A Brief Introduction.- Part I: Structural and Macro Economic Aspects of Real Estate in China.- The Evolving Real Estate Market Structure in China.- Navigating the Property Data Landscape.- China''s Economy at the Crossroads.- China''s Provinces: Addressing the Discrepancies at the Local Level.- Hong Kong: A Review of Its Land System, Real Estate Market, and Related Matters.- Part II: Legal and Regulatory Environment for China''s Real Estate Markets.- Legal Framework for Real Estate Investment in China.- Real Estate Valuation in China.- The Regulation of Leasing Activities.- Tax Framework for Accessing Real Estate Asset Classes.- Part III: Finance and Investment for Real Estate Development.- The Leverage Game: From Offshore to Onshore.- Housing Financing at the Crossroads: Access and Affordability in an Aging Society.- Listings and M&As of Chinese Real Estate Enterprises.- Scenarios of Real-Estate-Backed Securitization and Financing.- The Development of REIT Markets in Greater China.- Real Estate Private Equity Investing in China: From a Practitioner''s Perspective.- Part IV: Real Estate as a Physical and Social Asset Type.- Sustainable Buildings and Practice in China.- Thoughts on China''s Real Estate Policies.- Minding the Strategies: A Progressive Development Model.- China''s Housing Markets.- Hotel Markets and Development in China.- The Rise of Platform-Based Networks: Outlook for the Real Estate Brokerage Industry.

This book presents different techniques and methodologies that used to help improve the decision-making process and increase the likelihood of success in sector as follows: agriculture, financial services, logistics, energy services, health and others.

Preface.- Part I: Intelligent Scene Modeling.- Introduction.- Object Detection: State of the Art and Beyond.- NBNN-Based Discriminative 3D Action and Gesture Recognition.- Random Forests with Optimized Leaves for Hough-Voting.- Modeling Human Perception of 3D Scenes.- Model Reconstruction of Real-world 3D Objects: An Application with Microsoft HoloLens.- Semantic Modeling and Rendering.- Content-aware Semantic Indoor Scene Modeling from a Single Image.- Interactive Labeling for Generation of CityGML Building Models from Meshes.- TooltY: An Approach for the Combination of Motion Capture and 3D Reconstruction to Present Tool Usage in 3D Environments.- Generating 3D Facial Expressions with Recurrent Neural Networks.- Part 2: Human-computer Interaction.- Facilitating Decision Making with Multimodal Interfaces in Collaborative Analytical Sessions.- Human - Technology Interaction: The State of the Art and the Lack of Naturalism.- Survey of Speechless Interaction Techniques in Social Robotics.- Exploring Potential and Acceptance of Socially Intelligent Robot.

- Introduction: Expanding Worldviews: Astrobiology, Big History and Cosmic Perspectives. - "The Keen Longing for Unified, All-Embracing Knowledge": Big History, Cosmic Evolution, and New Research Agendas. - From Planetary Dynamics to Global Trade and Human Genetics: A Big History Narrative. - How Big History Could Change the World for the Better. - Expanding World Views: Can SETI Expand Its Own Horizons and that of Big History Too?. - The Summons of a Silent Universe: The Relationship Between Existential Risk and Cosmic Silence. - The Visibility of Big History. - Re-encountering Signs of Agency: Surveying the Appearance of ''Layering'' Patterns Within Our Interstellar Messaging Record as Representational Signs for Earth. - COGITO in Space. - The Overview Effect and Well-Being. - The Biological Overview Effect. - Is the Universe Enough? Can It Suffice as a Basis for Worldviews?. - The Universe Decentered: Transcultural Perspectives on Astrobiology and Big History. - "Unfathomable, Bottomless, Very Deep": Waterworld Imaginaries. - Astrobiology and the Outer Limits of Human Ethics. - Big History and the Significance of the 1969-1972 Apollo Lunar Landings. - Towards a Planetary Polity: The Formation of Global Identity and State Structures. - Widening Perspectives: The Intellectual and Social Benefits of Astrobiology, Big History, and the Exploration of Space.

This book provides a comprehensive practical guide to the plethora of devices that have been developed to support the failing heart. Case-Based Device Therapy for Heart Failure describes how to properly use a range of available devices to treat heart failure.

This fourth book in the series Silicon Photonics gathers together reviews of recent advances in the field of silicon photonics that go beyond already established and applied concepts in this technology.

1. Introduction.- 2. Fault Tolerance in Networked Control Systems by Flexible Task Assignment.- 3. Resilient Control under Denial-of-Service: Results and Research Directions.- 4. Stealthy False Data Injection Attacks in Feedback Systems Revisited.- 5. Detection of Attacks in Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory and Applications.- 6. Security Metrics for Control Systems.- 7. The Secure State Estimation Problem.- 8. A Survey on Watermark Design For Cyber-Physical Systems.- 9. Detection of Cyber-Attacks: a Multiplicative Watermarking Scheme.- 9. Differentially Private Anomaly Detection for Interconnected Systems.- 10. Remote State Estimation in the Presence of an Eavesdropper.- 11. Secure Networked Control Systems Design using semi-homomorphic Encryption.- 12. Deception-As-Defense Framework for Cyber-Physical Systems.- 13. Cyber Risk: CPS vs. ITS.- 14. Cyber Insurance.- 15. Conclusions.

It brings together an authoritative group of specialists who approach the subject from a number of different viewpoints in the electric power industry, including electricity distribution companies, aggregators, power market retailers, and power generation companies.

In this regard, genetic information has been harnessed, through (i) sequencing of the progenitor and cultivated cotton species, (ii) ongoing mega pan-genome sequencing projects, (iii) genetic and physical mapping, and (iv) introgression of genes from alien sources, that resulted in the development of resilient cotton cultivars.

This book tackles the ethical problems of the "Fourth Industrial Revolution" (4IR) and offers readers an overview of the ethical challenges connected to Artificial Intelligence (AI), encryption and the finance industry.

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. How an Innovator Thinks: Applied Evangelism.- Chapter 3. The Founder.- Chapter 4. Pioneer in Assisted Living.- Chapter 5. A Revolutionary in Aging.- Chapter 6. Changing the World: From Government to Assisted Living.- Chapter 7. Memory Care Futurist.- Chapter 8. From Pro Athlete to Senior Living to Pro Sports. Chapter 9. Leading the Way, South of the Border.- Chapter 10. Competition channeled into Leadership. Chapter 11. A Social Entrepreneur.- Chapter 12.  Hippie at the Helm.- Chapter 13. Breaking the Mold.- Chapter 14. Innovating Senior Living.- Chapter 15. Making Decisions Without All the Information.- Chapter 16. Marketing My Way into Senior Living.- Chapter 17. Transforming an Organization.- Chapter 18. Financial Leadership.

Is everything Information? This is a tantalizing question which emerges in modern physics, life sciences, astronomy and in today's information and technology-driven society. In Powers of Two expert authors undertake a unique expedition - in words and images - throughout the world (and scales) of information. The story resembles, in a way, the classic Powers of Ten journeys through space: from us to the macro and the micro worlds . However, by following Powers of Two through the world of information, a completely different and timely paradigm unfolds. Every power of two, 1, 2, 4, 8.... tells us a different story: starting from the creation of the very first bit at the Big Bang and the evolution of life, through 50 years of computational science, and finally into deep space, describing the information in black holes and even in the entire universe and beyond.... All this to address one question: Is our universe made of information? In this book, we experience the Information Universe in nature and in our society and how information lies at the very foundation of our understanding of the Universe.From the Foreword by Robbert Dijkgraaf: This book is in many ways a vastly extended version of Shannon's one-page blueprint. It carries us all the way to the total information content of the Universe. And it bears testimony of how widespread the use of data has become in all aspects of life. Information is the connective tissue of the modern sciences. [...] Undoubtedly, future generations will look back at this time, so much enthralled by Big Data and quantum computers, as beholden to the information metaphor. But that is exactly the value of this book. With its crisp descriptions and evocative illustrations, it brings the reader into the here and now, at the very frontier of scientific research, including the excitement and promise of all the outstanding questions and future discoveries.Message for the e-reader of the book Powers of TwoThe book has been designed to be read in two-page spreads in full screen mode. For optimal reader experience in a downloaded .pdf file we strongly recommend you use the following settings in Adobe Acrobat Reader:> Page Display > two page view - Taskbar: View > Page Display > Show Cover Page in Two Page View - Taskbar: ^ Preferences > Full Screen > deselect " Fill screen with one page at a time" - Taskbar: View > Full screen mode or ctrl L (cmd L on a Mac)*****Note: for reading the previews on Spinger link (and on-line reading in a browser), the full screen two-page view only works with these browsers:Firefox>> (which is a drop-down menu) >> even double pages - Fullscreen: F11 or Control+Cmd+F with MacEdge - Taskbar middle: Two-page view and select show cover page separately

This reader-friendly textbook presents a comprehensive review of the essentials of image data mining, and the latest cutting-edge techniques used in the field. discusses techniques for indexing, image ranking, and image presentation, along with image database visualization methods;

This book is the first collection of scholarship featuring both Canadian and American scholarship on the resurgent right-wing extremist movement in the two countries. It is particularly timely given the recent rise in political populism that has engendered renewed activism from extreme right contingents. Trump¿s right-wing populist and white nationalist political campaign has galvanized Canadian and American white supremacist ideologies, identities, movements and practices. Leading Canadian and American scholars are brought together to explore a contemporary array of current dynamics, patterns and characteristics associated with the movement in each country. Split into four sections, it provides an introduction to extremism in the 21st century, it examines studying extremism, forms of extremist activity and violence, and the responses. The collection allows comparisons to be drawn out from the distinct treatments of each country. It speaks to students as well as scholarsin social sciences departments, including criminology, sociology, social justice, and terrorism, peace and security studies, and political-violence related programs.