This book presents best selected research papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Soft Computing (CISC 2021), held at Balasore College of Engineering & Technology, Balasore, Odisha, India, from 21–22 August 2021. It highlights, in particular, innovative research in the fields of cognitive informatics, cognitive computing, computational intelligence, advanced computing, and hybrid intelligent models and applications. New algorithms and methods in a variety of fields are presented, together with solution-based approaches. The topics addressed include various theoretical aspects and applications of computer science, artificial intelligence, cybernetics, automation control theory, and software engineering.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Big Data and Security, ICBDS 2020, held in Singapore, Singapore, in December 2020.

The two-volume set LNCS 10735 and 10736 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 18th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2017, held in Harbin, China, in September 2017.
The 184 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 264 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on: Best Paper Candidate; Video Coding; Image Super-resolution, Debluring, and Dehazing; Person Identity and Emotion; Tracking and Action Recognition; Detection and Classification; Multimedia Signal Reconstruction and Recovery; Text and Line Detection/Recognition; Social Media; 3D and Panoramic Vision; Deep Learning for Signal Processing and Understanding; Large-Scale Multimedia Affective Computing; Sensor-enhanced Multimedia Systems; Content Analysis; Coding, Compression, Transmission, and Processing.

The TMS 2015 Annual Meeting Supplemental Proceedings is a collection of papers from the TMS 2015 Annual Meeting & Exhibition, held March 15-19 in Orlando, Florida, USA. The papers in this volume represent 33 symposia from the meeting. This volume, along with the other proceedings volumes published for the meeting, and archival journals, such as Metallurgical and Materials Transactions and Journal of Electronic Materials, represents the available written record of the 73 symposia held at TMS2015. This proceedings volume contains both edited and unedited papers; the unedited papers have not necessarily been reviewed by the symposium organizers and are presented "as is." The opinions and statements expressed within the papers are those of the individual authors only, and no confirmations or endorsements are intended or implied.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, ACIVS 2017, held in Antwerp, Belgium, in September 2017.
The 63 full papers presented in this volume were carefully selected from 134 submissions. They deal with human-computer interaction; classification and recognition; navigation, mapping, robotics, and transports; video processing and retrieval; security, forensics, surveillance; and image processing.

This volume raises awareness of the histories, geographies, and practices of universities and analyzes their role as key actors in today’s global knowledge economy. Universities are centers of research, teaching, and expertise with significant economic, social, and cultural impacts at different geographical scales. Scholars from a variety of disciplines and countries offer original analyses and discussions along five main themes: historical perspectives on the university as a site of knowledge production, cultural encounter, and political interest; institutional perspectives on university governance and the creation of innovative environments; relationships between universities and the city; the impact of universities on national and regional economies and cultures; and the processes of internationalization through student mobility, the creation of education hubs, and global regionalism in higher education.

This book provides an interdisciplinary and comprehensible introduction to bioeconomy. It thus provides basic knowledge for understanding a transformation process that will shape the 21st century and requires the integration of many disciplines and industries that have had little to do with each other up to now. We are talking about the gradual and necessary transition from the age of fossil fuels, which began around 200 years ago, to a global economy based on renewable raw materials (and renewable energies). The success of this transition is key to coping with the challenge of climate change.

This text provides a state-of-the-art overview on Non-Hodgkin`s lymphoma (NHL) in children and adolescents. The volume is divided into seven sections, each of which focuses on a critical component of pediatric NHL, including history and epidemiology, pathology and molecular biology, disease evaluation and response, common and rare sub-types of NHL, and current and novel treatment strategies. The text also comprehensively reviews the late effects of treatment, quality of patient life, and NHL treatment in countries with limited resources.

The vast majority of the global population has pigmented non-Caucasian skin; accordingly, this book focuses on the diagnosis and management of skin diseases in dark-skinned populations, paying particular attention to different reactive profiles, the frequency and the clinical pictures of diseases in pigmented ethnic skin that arise in hot climate zones.

This book is a comprehensive collection of chapters focusing on the core areas of computing and their further applications in the real world.

This book explains how the beautiful goldfish body develops from a single fertilized egg and how this developmental process was changed during the process of domestication. The contents can be categorized as follows: i) numerous high-quality live photo images of embryonic and larval stage goldfish, ii) detailed descriptions of skeletogenesis with fluorescent microscopic and histological images, iii) the most advanced interpretation of the relationship between artificial selection and developmental processes, iv) future perspectives of the application of the genome editing techniques for the ornamental goldfish breeding, and v) methodological descriptions for goldfish developmental biology.