Internet of things programming with JavaScript

本书从Web开发初学者的视角出发，将理论和实践相结合，循序渐进地讲解日常工作中使用频率非常高的JavaScript核心知识点，让读者在学习的过程中不断提升JavaScript技能水平，并能够将所学知识运用到实际项目开发中。 掌握JavaScript核心知识点快速学会JS页面开发技术

全彩圖解最易懂、觀念解說最清楚、範例導向最實用 適合想徹底學會JavaScript程式設計的您！ JavaScript最初的用途是在用戶端控制瀏覽器和網頁內容，製作一些HTML和CSS所無法達成的效果，增加互動性。近幾年隨著Node.js的出現，JavaScript也可以在伺服器端執行，用途就更廣泛了。 有了本書，無論您有無程式設計的經驗，只要約略具有HTML與CSS的基礎知識，都能看得懂、學得會JavaScript，重點內容： ‧JavaScript的基本語法與內建物件 ‧DOM (Document Object Model，文件物件模型) ‧事件處理 ‧BOM (Browser Object Model，瀏覽器物件模型) ‧jQuery與jQueryUI ‧網頁儲存 (Web Storage) ‧Ajax與JSON

內容簡介:★詳細說明從ES6開始的JavaScript語言新標準*使用微軟跨平台VisualStudioCode程式碼編輯器*使用JavaScript版TensorFlow建構客戶端人工智慧的機器學習應用*完整說明JavaScript基本語法、JavaScript自訂和內建物件。*使用大量程式範例和圖例來說明HTML網頁的DOM。*詳細說明CSS選擇器和如何使用JavaScript程式碼存取CSS樣式。*GoogleChrome開發人員工具的使用和JavaScript程式碼偵錯。*完整說明jQuery語法、包裝者物件、jQuery選擇器、DOM/事件處理、動畫/特效和表單處理。*詳細說明從ES6開始的JavaScript語言新標準、JavaScript非同步程式設計、JSON資料處理、FetchAPI和AJAX。*完整說明TensorFlow.js的張量、張量運算和視覺化圖表的繪製。*實際使用JavaScript+TensorFlow.js的KerasAPI建構神經網路的深度學習。*對於Python+Keras已經訓練好的模型，可以轉換成TensorFlow.js格式後，在客戶端建構人工智慧的機器學習應用。*使用TensorFlow.js預訓練模型建立Web介面的圖片識別和分類，搭配網路攝影機WebCam建構即時物件偵測、人臉辨識和姿勢偵測等人工智慧應用。

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Leung Ping Kwan is one of Hong Kong’s most acclaimed poets. His poems display a unique blend of the literary and the down-to-earth, of the modern and the traditional, of the serious and the humorous, of the local and the universal. In his own words, ‘I want my poems about things to be a dialogue with the world, to learn and be inspired by the shapes, smells and colours of things….’ This collection has been carefully curated, and is arranged under ten thematic sections: Lotus Leaves, Hong Kong, Macao, Foodscape, After the Book of Songs, Strange Tales: After Pu Songling, Clothink, Museum Pieces, Places and Friends, and Bitter-Melon and Others. These translated poems, and the delight they bring, are a celebration of the continuing legacy of a remarkable Hong Kong poet.

Node.js因為使用了Google的V8引擎，所以具有高性能、高併發的特點，尤其適合聊天等即時應用的處理。Node.js使用JavaScript程式設計語言，有利於快速入門學習。本書分為10章，從邏輯上分為四個部分。部分為基礎篇（第1~7章）。該部分介紹了Node.js及JavaScript語言的基礎知識、Node.js的檔管理模組、網路開發模組、訪問MongoDB資料庫模組、分散式模組。通過學習讀者將掌握Node.js及JavaScript語言開發的基礎知識。第二部分為Express.js框架篇（第8章）。 該部分介紹了Node.js的Express.js框架，包括框架的路由、中介軟體、範本引擎、錯誤處理、調試、靜態檔等模組。第三部分為Koa.js框架篇（第9章）。該部分介紹了Node.js的Koa.js框架，框架的級聯、設置、錯誤處理、上下文、中介軟體、路由等模組。第四部分為實踐篇（第10章）。該部分介紹了前端Vue.js框架，並使用前端Vue.js框架和後端Express.js框架，資料庫為MongoDB的前後端分離專案。該項目還具有基本的MVC三層架構。本書適合有一定Web開發基礎的Node.js初學者學習，同樣也適合高等院校和培訓機構相關專業的師生作為教學參考用書。

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內容簡介:全彩印刷，對學習網頁設計極有幫助！經典暢銷書全新改版，快速學會網頁程式設計的關鍵技術！有了本書，讓您一次學會網頁程式設計的關鍵技術：*HTML5的元素和各種表單輸入類型，讓網頁的結構條理分明。*CSS3的BoxModel、定位方式，以及色彩、字型、文字、清單、背景、漸層、表格、陰影、邊界、留白、框線、變形、轉場與媒體查詢等屬性，以根據PC或行動裝置的特徵設計網頁。*JavaScript的核心語法和瀏覽器端的應用，讓靜態網頁具有動態效果，包括DOM、window物件、標準內建物件、環境物件、document物件、element物件、錯誤處理、事件處理、JavaScript程式範例等。*jQuery的核心語法、事件、特效和常用函式，讓網頁設計更快速便利。*jQueryUI的常用元件和佈景主題，讓網頁設計更專業美觀。*Ajax動態網頁技術在背景非同步下載更新的資料，例如伺服器端的資料或氣象、就業、觀光等網際網路上的開放資料，包括普遍使用的JSON格式。*響應式網頁設計(RWD，ResponsiveWebDesign)根據瀏覽器環境自動調整網頁的版面配置，讓網頁完整呈現在PC、平板、手機等裝置。

From the accomplished psychological professional and expert of social etiquette, celebrated blogger and social influencer, counselor and mentor, author and essayist Virginia Leung: [An Original Work] of the most captivating, awe-inspiring writing. Did you know that personality and attitude are the two deciding aspects of your fate? Be crowned with a halo now as I share my top tips for improving your mentality, analytical skills, perspective, mindset, communication, Adversity Quotient, social etiquette- and putting them all into practice! Epigraph For the state of things to change for the better, You must first change yourself for the better; For the state of things to improve even more, You must always be improving yourself even more! Preface Blind spots in our thinking, a lack of emotional intelligence or poor social skills- various problems, like these, admittedly drive away many opportunities. At times, one wonders whether these are foregone conclusions- or are they a result o

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Dr. Tzu Yu Allison Lin achieved her PhD with her study of Virginia Woolf and London narratives at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research interests are visual and verbal representations, literary criticism and language teaching. She has articles and books published in English, including the most recent, Art and Narrative (2019). She is teaching at Gaziantep University, Turkey.

The crisis of masculinity surfaced and converged with the crisis of the nation in the late Qing, after the doors of China were forced open by Opium Wars. The power of physical aggression increasingly overshadowed literary attainments and became a new imperative of male honor in the late Qing and early Republican China. Afflicted with anxiety and indignation about their increasingly effeminate image as perceived by Western colonial powers, Chinese intellectuals strategically distanced themselves from the old literati and reassessed their positions vis-à-vis violence. In Mastery of Words and Swords: Negotiating Intellectual Masculinities in Modern China, 1890s–1930s, Jun Lei explores the formation and evolution of modern Chinese intellectual masculinities as constituted in racial, gender, and class discourses mediated by the West and Japan. This book brings to light a new area of interest in the “Man Question” within gender studies in which women have typically been the focus. To fully r

This book is a comprehensive guide to one’s fate in the year of Tiger, including: 1. The Luck of the Newborn Tiger and Naming Tips; 2. Land Luck, Investment Strategy and Feng Shui Setting-out for the Year of the Tiger; 3. Fortune of Each Zodiac Sign as well as guidelines on Enhancing the Luck of Wealth, Health and Relationship; Chinese Almanac for the Year with suggested Lucky Days for various events.

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“…free my life with words that I felt , /not with words because they rhymed, /but because they touched my soul…” Indeed, Julia only writes what touched her soul, and in so doing takes us with her on a literary journey filled with her thoughts, visons, dreams, joys, and at times, her sorrows. Dr. Chiu Ha Ying Medical Practitioner and Paediatrician With obvious joy and mischief, she picks up each ‘stone’, lovingly and painstakingly cuts, chisels and polishes, bringing out the facets and the sparkles, turns us to the light, revealing all the radiance in a spectrum and multitude of shades and colours. Sharon Evans Partner, Foo and Li, Solicitors and Notaries Like the best portrait artists, Julia has the amazing ability to convey the essence of a person in a few brush strokes and to bring them to life. Barbara Meynert Business and thought leader …the way she “sees beauty in her eyes, hears music in her ears, says words of love from her lips...” makes this world a better place for thos

最熱門的跨平台網頁設計技術大集合！ 6大主題、300個立即可套用範例，全新Bootstrap 5來襲， 最適合全面學習、現學現用的21堂經典關鍵課！ HTML5是最主流的跨平台網頁開發技術，書中以HTML5為主體，綜合當今最經典的跨平台網頁程式設計工具，完整解鎖各項技術，提供最佳學習途徑，現學現用！ 【結合最新前端技術】 全面引進最新的前端框架與技術，無論是HTML5、CSS3、JavaScript、jQuery、jQuery Mobile或是Bootstrap 5，都能銜接學習而快速上手，打造符合新一代標準的跨平台網站。 全新Bootstrap 5更是新一代RWD網站開發中的熱門焦點，能讓網頁因應不同大小的螢幕自動改變內容的配置，確保每個平台的使用者都能得到最好的操作體驗。無論是框架的安裝方式、格線系統的使用、網頁的元件、表單及工具的應用，一直到網頁互動程式的開發，Bootstrap 5都能提供簡單但功能強大的幫助！ 【徹底掌握開發語法】 透過詳細語法解說、大量圖表示意，引領了解各主題的核心概念與重點技術，並利用最適合的開發工具進行範例實作，徹底掌握語法與應用。 【立即套用海量範例】 提供大量範例應用，每個主題都依功能別加入實用範例，可依架構學習，也可以依功能主題立即尋找可套用的範例。 【跨越平台行動優先】 面對行動裝置的普及，網頁就必須跨越不同螢幕尺寸，因應不同作業平台。書中將RWD網頁建置技術徹底解構，進而掌握從電腦到手機版網頁的設計心法，讓跨平台網頁製作更簡單！ 【超值RWD影音教學】 提供RWD(Responsive Web Design，響應式網頁設計)使用Bootstrap 5的實戰影音教學，利用Bootstrap 5引導您從無到有快速打造一個跨平台的RWD網站，快速強化開發實力！ 【超值學習資源】範例程式檔、RWD網頁快速開發：使用Bootstrap 5實戰影音教學

The origins of modern Daoism can be traced to the Church of the Heavenly Master (Tianshidao), reputedly established by the formidable Zhang Daoling. In 142 CE, according to Daoist tradition, Zhang was visited by the Lord on High, who named him his vicar on Earth with the title Heavenly Master. The dispensation articulated an eschatological vision of saving initiates—the pure, those destined to become immortals— by enforcing a strict moral code. Under evolving forms, Tianshidao has remained central to Chinese society, and Daoist priests have upheld their spiritual allegiance to Zhang, their now divinized founder. This book tells the story of the longue durée evolution of the Heavenly Master leadership and institution. Later hagiography credits Zhang Daoling’s great-grandson, putatively the fourth Heavenly Master, with settling the family at Longhushan (Dragon and Tiger Mountain); in time his descendants—down to the present contested sixty-fifth Heavenly Master living in Taiwan— made th

本书在介绍五年制高职学生推荐的计算机基本知识内容的基础上，注重培养学生对计算机基础知识的掌握与应用能力，使学生在以后的工作中能更好地运用办公软件，提高工作效率。内容包括计算机软硬件、信息安全及相关法律法规、互联网以及文献检索等方面的基础知识，以适应当今信息技术应用的发展。全书共分6章，主要包括计算机基础知识、信息安全基础及相关法律法规；操作系统基础知识及Windows10的主要应用；计算机网络、Internet及信息检索与利用；Office2016办公自动化软件中Word、Excel、PowerPoint的应用等内容。

本書是以React hook為核心、入門React.js的指引，適合已有原生Javascript前端開發經驗、初次想要接觸前端框架的讀者。內容分為四個部分，包含： ・解釋前端框架是什麼 ・function component的運用和各個React hook的使用方式 ・從零打造React專案的範例 ・效能處理等進階知識(含class component的使用方式和life-cycle介紹) 改編自作者在第11、12屆IT邦幫忙鐵人賽的文章，本書更帶領讀者探討在開發前端專案中的開發思維，大至如何設計專案結構，小至如何劃分元件。同時詳細說明各個API的出現原因和使用時機，希望讓讀者不只是單純學習使用React，更能理解前端框架的用意，進而具備業界開發React.js專案的能力。 全書共9章，內容如下 ■ 第0章 先備知識 – 使用React 需要知道的Javascript ■ 第1章 什麼是「前端框架」？ ■ 第2章 認識React 和環境建置 ■ 第3章 Hello, React ! ■ 第4章 基礎Function Component ■ 第5章 React-Developer-Tools ■ 第6章 Flux 結構 與 React 的狀態管理方案 ■ 第7章 前端專案的架構設計 ■ 第8章 React 進階 - 效能處理 ■ 第9章 React 進階 – 其他的React 本書的目標除了讓初次接觸前端框架的讀者能夠更容易理解React，也介紹了在以React開發專案時，應該具備哪些基礎的「軟體設計」思維。第2~第7章節是講解React API使用方式，第7章後的範例會帶領讀者從0打造React專案，第8章~第9章是講述較進階的React知識。讀者可以根據自己的需求查閱對應的章節。

“Red and blue appear in stark contrast with one another on the map of America. But the even more profound divide is the alienation in our hearts.” This work is a striking analysis of the struggles faced by American society, written from the perspective of a Chinese professor of history who spent 60 years of his life in the US. As both an insider and outsider to this country, Cho-yun Hsu is able to perceive what many other Americans may take for granted, and it is this viewpoint—together with his decades of experience teaching history at the University of Pittsburgh—that make this work so unusual and worthwhile. This work analyzes American history through a wide range of topics, including culture, politics, economics, industrialization, class, ethnicity, the urban-rural divide, and more. Expertly analyzing the origins of the tension and conflict between different classes and ethnic groups in American society, this book seeks to offer a way forward from a humanistic perspective, in the

Appropriate for use by students at varying levels of competence, Burmese: A Cultural Approach provides a thorough and systematic introduction to the Burmese writing system in Part One and a series of true-to-life conversations in Part Two. Students with some prior knowledge of the spoken language but little familiarity with the Burmese script can use Part One to solidify their grasp of the Burmese sound system as well as its orthography. Intrepid beginners could also start their study of the language by making use of Part One. Doing so would mean making a slower start at formulating phrases as compared to using a romanization system but learners would gain a firmer foundation for the later—and eventually, faster—development of their speaking and reading skills. The conversations in Part Two are extensively annotated in order to illustrate grammatical patterns, characteristic turns of phrase, and typical habits of social interaction. True to an anthropological approach to language le

本書集結六篇論文（第一、三、四、六篇德文，第二篇西班牙文，第五篇義大利文），本書為因應時代變遷下的教育環境及學生職涯挑戰，在教學方法上所提出新的論述及建構。 This book contains essays by various teachers from different universities and departments with the aim of presenting modern teaching methods for the changed learning and study conditions on the basis of theoretical preliminary considerations. Language teachers at Taiwanese universities often encounter similar difficulties in designing lessons: students’ increasing frustration and lack of motivation. Many students experience a high level of frustration and demotivation; they cannot find future prospects in language studies. Confronted with reality of time-consuming internships, part-time jobs and life, many students become painfully aware that a linguistic degree won’t prepare them for later work or provides career opportunities. In addition, they realize their low language skills and life experiences. Aware of that problem, the language departments have to find new teaching methods and create curricula which

It is impossible to reflect on 2020 without discussing Covid-19. The term, literally meaning corona- (CO) virus (VI) disease (D) of 2019, has become synonymous with “the virus”, “corona” and “the pandemic”. The impact of the virus on our lives is unprecedented in modern human history, in terms of scale, depth and resilience. When compared to other epidemics that have plagued the world in recent decades, Covid-19 is often referred to as being much more “deadly” and is associated with advances in technology which scientists have described as “revolutionary”. From politics to economics, spanning families and continents, Covid-19 has unsettled norms: cultural clashes are intensified, politics are even more polarized, and regional tensions and conflicts are on the rise. Global trade patterns and supply chains are increasingly being questioned and redrawn. The world is being atomized, and individuals are forced to accept the “new normal” in their routines. In an attempt to combat the virus

Testimony to the emotional truth of their life together even in these increasingly trying times. The memoir Ordinary Days by the scholar and critic Leo Ou-fan Lee and his wife Esther Yuk-ying Lee brings to this Hong Kong series an intensely personal touch, consciously echoing the great sentimental memoir of 18th-century China, Shen Fu’s Six Chapters of a Floating Life. With disarming candour, Leo and Esther lay bare their hearts so unreservedly, to share with us their story of love and suffering, charting in a series of memorable chapters their shared spiritual quest. This is a brave book. It lays bare in a most unusual way the heart and soul of a charming and highly cultivated Chinese couple, the scholar and critic Leo Ou-fan Lee and his wife Esther Lee Yuk-ying. It charts the love story of two individuals who are no longer young, and it also boldly breaks the taboo surrounding the twin topics of depression and suicide. Set partly against the recent backdrop of some of Hong Kong’s m

Maid to Queer is the first book about Asian female migrant workers who develop same-sex relationships in a host city. Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews with Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong, the book explores the meanings of same-sex relationships to these migrant women. Instead of searching for reasons to explain why they engage in a same-sex relationship, this book provides an ethnographic perspective by addressing their Sunday activities and considering how migration policies and the practices of Hong Kong people unintentionally produce alternative sexuality and desires for them. The author contrasts the migrant experiences of same-sex relationships with the Western discourse that individuals carry a strong sense of sexual identification prior to migration; same-sex desires among Indonesian domestic workers are often not realized until they leave home. Addressing the changes from maid to queer, this book documents the intersections of domestic work, la

The Authorship of Place is the first monograph dedicated to the study of the politics, history, aesthetics, and practices of location shooting for Taiwanese, Mainland Chinese, and coproduced art cinemas shot in rural communities since the late 1970s. Dennis Lo argues that rural location shooting, beyond serving aesthetic and technical needs, constitutes practices of cultural survival in a region beset with disruptive and disorienting social changes, including rapid urbanization, geopolitical shifts, and ecological crises. In response to these social changes, auteurs like Hou Xiaoxian, Jia Zhangke, Chen Kaige, and Li Xing engaged in location shooting to transform sites of film production into symbolically meaningful places of collective memories and aspirations. These production practices ultimately enabled auteurs to experiment with imagining Taiwanese, Mainland Chinese, and cross-strait communities in novel and contentious ways. Deftly guiding readers on a cross-strait tour of promin

The Drunkard is one of the first full-length stream-of-consciousness novels written in Chinese. It has been called the Hong Kong Novel, and was first published in 1962 as a serial in a Hong Kong evening paper. As the unnamed Narrator, a writer at odds with a philistine world, sinks to his drunken nadir, his plight can be seen to represent that of a whole intelligentsia, a whole culture, degraded by the brutal forces of history: the Second Sino-Japanese War and the rampant capitalism of post-war Hong Kong. The often surrealistic description of the Narrator’s inexorable descent through the seedy bars and night-clubs of Hong Kong, of his numerous encounters with dance-girls and his ever more desperate bouts of drinking, is counterpointed by a series of wide-ranging literary essays, analysing the Chinese classical tradition, the popular culture of China and the West, and the modernist movement in Western and Chinese literature. The ambiance of Hong Kong in the early 1960s is graphically

This book presents a rational, research-based critique of the C. Y. Leung Administration that governed in Hong Kong from 2012 to 2017. It is a sweeping and original publication that covers various aspects of governance, including politics, economics, healthcare, human rights, civil service, housing, urban planning, youth, and legislative council elections as well as Hong Kong’s relationship with Taiwan, Mainland China, and Western countries.

English Explained explores the areas of English grammar that are most affected by misinformation and confusion and supplies the learner with the knowledge to finally grasp the workings of this multifaceted language. The fifty sections of English Explained cover the misunderstood, the misleading, and anything that appears to break the standard grammar ‘rules’ we are all taught. The book has been written, in the first instance, for teachers and prospective teachers (TESOL/TEFL) whose first language is not English. A key aim of the book, then, is assisting both students and teachers on a practical level by equipping them with the knowledge and the awareness to answer any challenging questions a teacher or an enquiring student may pose over the course of an English class. It will also prove invaluable to students of all disciplines who seek a better grasp and understanding of English grammar—essential for achieving competency in both writing and reading.

The History of Pendennis: His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy (1848—1850) is a novel by the English author William Makepeace Thackeray. The novel took two years for him to write. Set in 19th century London, England, this novel features a young English gentleman Arthur Pendennis born in the country who sets out to seek his place in life and society. The novel portrays his love affairs with the callous Blanche Amory and poor Fanny. Both of them marry other people, and Pendennis finally weds Laura Bell, his adopted sister, who had always loved him. The characters include the snobbish social hanger-on Major Pendennis and the tipsy Captain Costigan. Miss Amory and Sir Francis Clavering are somewhat reminiscent of Becky Sharp and Sir Pitt from Vanity Fair. In line with other Thackeray's works, Pendennis offers an insightful and satiric picture of human character and aristocratic society. The masterful characterizations include the snobbish Major Pendennis and the

The JINTIAN [今天] series of contemporary literature features new and innovative writing from mainland China and abroad. Titles in the series are edited by Bei Dao, Lydia H. Liu, and Christopher Mattison. A collaborative venture between Zephyr Press, the Jintian Literary Foundation, and The Chinese University Press, each bilingual title highlights the ever-changing literary culture of China while simultaneously expanding the English language with a wave of new voices in translation. “This collection of poems is an amazing clash of classical Chinese poetry, the New York School, postmodern cinema, and the inside of a singular heart-head. ‘Don’t worry. I’ve got no evidence here that can harm you,’ Ya Shi says, and it’s true, I’m not harmed by his tentative relationship with nature in his experimental sonnets, I’m not harmed by his dark humor or his fragmentary leaps into surprise. I’m too invested. Ya Shi deserves the ‘cardiac bang bang of literary fame’ he fears, and to Nick Admussen a

"A “concise encyclopaedia” of Hong Kong in the Belt and Road. With the emergence of the Belt and Road boom have come many related research papers, but few have addressed Hong Kong’s role and opportunities in the initiative. Hong Kong in the Belt and Road Initiative fills this gap. This monograph represents the efforts of some twenty experts from both Hong Kong and the Chinese Mainland, providing a comprehensive introduction to the national initiative and exploring various opportunities for the territory in the Belt and Road as well as Hong Kong’s cooperation with relevant regions along the routes, offering many highly valuable policy recommendations."

Lens on China: Intermediate and Advanced Readings on Film for Learning Chinese is an innovative textbook that uses film to teach Mandarin Chinese. It not only provides students with a non-traditional way to learn Chinese by combining visual and textual materials, but also creates real, sociocultural and linguistic situations where students can use their acquired skills. Each lesson of the textbook focuses on one film in a highly engaging and effective way of learning. Each lesson comes with a comprehensive vocabulary list, detailed grammar explanations, and exercises in various forms. Such a design ensures a balance between basic language training in vocabulary and grammatical structure, and more advanced goals in interactive communication and in-depth reflection. Ten films are chosen to help the student achieve sociocultural knowledge that will deepen their understanding of contemporary China. Half of the films selected are light-hearted works on youth, love, and aspirations, with d

物聯網（Internet of Things, IoT）是透過各式傳感設備，按約定的協議，把任何物品與網際網路相連接，進行信息交換與通信，以實現對物品的智慧化識別、定位、監控、跟蹤和管理的一種網絡。簡言之，物聯網就是「物物相連的網際網路」。其中涵蓋了感測（Thing）、網路（Communication）、智慧應用（AI Services）三個主要層面。網路通訊、感測器與物聯網設備、雲端服務的發展，使得物聯網應用不斷地擴展。 民生公共物聯網（Civil IoT, CIoT）：國外常用名詞為Public IoT Services，其意為政府透過IoT技術提供智慧化公用領域服務（G2C/G2B）。另一方面，除了消費市場物聯網應用外，企業市場物聯網IIoT應用商機更是龐大。IIoT的生態系包含應用服務、聯網載具、通訊、平台、應用服務與分析以及系統整合服務。其中，平台營收占比不高，但卻具備聚合生態系的關鍵角色。IIoT提供各應用領域轉型效益，如提升生產力、降低成本與風險等，客戶漸跳脫過往純硬體需求情境，轉而尋求完整的軟硬整合方案，帶動IIoT應用商機成長。 隨著AI與IoT快速匯流，及物聯網裝置未來將無所不在，越來越多企業致力布局打造AIoT解決方案，同時也開始思考如何將所蒐集的數據多元使用，並應用到各垂直領域，與客戶共同朝向創造社會新價值的目標努力。 中國大陸近期也積極推動工業互聯網發展政策，欲透過物聯網、大數據、人工智慧等技術，提升製造業能力，朝製造強國目標邁進。 此外，各種IoT裝置的電源問題一直是IoT應用擴大的瓶頸。近來採集光、溫差、振動、環境電波的能量，轉換成電力的「能源採集」技術出現突破性進展，可望實現IoT裝置之去電池化。除投入研發已有28年歷史的染料敏化太陽能電池技術課題獲得解決外，具優越機械強度的熱電發電元件，以及原本被認為難以實現之無需溫差的熱發電元件等新技術也陸續出現，與IoT裝置結合將可解決電源問題，進而帶動IoT應用邁向普及的新境界。 本書以物聯網發展為主題，彙整民生公共物聯網、工業物聯網等各面向發展趨勢，國際大廠智慧物聯網布局分析，以及物聯網發展下的智慧化應用案例，供相關業者或研究單位作為參考。

Proportionality is a German, and thus continental European, concept in public law that is applied by both the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The principle specifies that measures adopted by executive authorities should not exceed the limits of what is appropriate and necessary in order to achieve legitimate objectives in the interest of the public. Using a functional comparative approach, this book evaluates the extent to which proportionality has been integrated into the English and Hong Kong judicial systems by comparing case law in these courts with that of the CJEU and the ECtHR. The text also reviews the development of proportionality and presents a topical understanding of why its adoption and application have encountered difficulties, particularly regarding socio-economic rights, in some jurisdictions, such as the United Kingdom and Hong Kong. Written by a scholar with experience from both within the Hong Kong judici

In New Asian Disorder: Rivalries Embroiling the Pacific Century, Lowell Dittmer and his team explore the recent political disorder in East Asia resulting from growing Sino-American polarization. The rise of China in recent years is widely regarded as a momentous shift in the global balance of power. China is now extending sovereignty into the East China Sea and the South China Sea, constructing a new set of global financial institutions and replacing “universal values” with technologically enhanced nationalism. The country’s “Belt and Road Initiative” is also tainted by the vast ambition to realize the “China Dream” within the foreseeable future. In response to China’s challenge, the United States has abandoned its “constructive engagement” policy towards the rising power and engaged in a trade war. Sino-American relations have been at a historical trough since the normalization of their relationship in the late 1970s. This book sheds new light on the current political disorder in the

迴歸分析是一種統計學上分析數據的方法，建立解釋變數與反應變數之間的關聯性。由於現實環境中，所獲得的資料並非都是明確的數值(crisp value)，有些資料本身是模糊的(fuzzy)，致使傳統的分析方法難以使用。為了處理這類型的資料，Zadeh學者在1965年提出模糊理論(Fuzzy set theory)，將不確定性表達於資料型態上，許多學者遂將迴歸分析方法擴展至模糊環境中，做更廣泛的應用。此外，直覺式模糊集合(Intuitionistic fuzzy sets, IFS)為模糊理論之延伸，在歸屬度函數外，加入非歸屬度函數來衡量，因此直覺式模糊集合能表達更多資訊，較貼近於現實環境。本研究根據直覺式模糊集合與模糊迴歸理論，建立直覺式模糊迴歸模型，並利用兩階段法進行求解。 本研究採用迴歸係數為明確值、解釋變數與反應變數為直覺式模糊數(Intuitionistic fuzzy number, IFN)的迴歸估計式。由於所求解的迴歸係數為明確數值，可以獲得解釋變數與反應變數之間的確切關係，提供決策者更明確的決策資訊。本研究在前置階段會先取得直覺式模糊資料。然後是求解階段，採用兩階段法，第一階段先對原始直覺式模糊資料做解模糊化(defuzzified)，轉換成一組明確資料，接著將該資料做傳統最小平方法，求得一組明確的迴歸係數估計值；第二階段，在最小化總誤差量的目標下，根據距離測度建立一個數學規劃(mathematical programming)模型，並使用Arefi and Taheri學者在2015年所提出之範例，在反應變數觀察值與估計值差距最小的目標下，求解直覺式模糊調整變數(Intuitionistic fuzzy adjustment variable)，以減少模糊估計誤差。模式建構完成後，進行誤差值的分析評估，相較於舊有文獻之方法，本研究模型的誤差衡量指標有更理想的表現；而在模型的穩健度上，本研究之模式透過交叉驗證(cross-validation)後所得的結果，可以驗證明此方法之合理性。

What does it mean to be queer in a Confucian society in which kinship roles, ties, and ideologies are of such great importance? This book makes sense of queer cultures in China—a country with one of the largest queer populations in the world—and offers an alternative to Euro-American blueprints of queer individual identity. This book contends that kinship relations must be understood as central to any expression of queer selfhood and culture in contemporary cultural production in China. Using a critical approach—“queering Chinese kinship”—Lin Song scrutinizes the relationship between queerness and family relations, and questions Eurocentric queer culture’s frequent assumption of the separation of queerness from blood family. Offering five case studies of queer representations across a range of media genres, this book also challenges the tendency in current scholarship on Chinese and East Asian queerness to understand queer cultures as predominantly counter-mainstream, marginal, and un