Crime Modeling and Mapping Using Geospatial Technologies

Sustaining Landscapes: Governance and Ecology in Chinese Visual Culture, 960–1368 CE examines ecological thought contested amid the rise of the Chinese landscape genre, tracing its intersections with infrastructure governance, natural resource management, and geospatial knowledge. It traces the pre-industrial notion of “sustainability” in policy debates, legal regulations, and arts. Landscape imagery on paintings, maps, as well as mass-produced artifacts such as fans and ceramic pillows documented both appropriate and exploitative use of natural resources, and critiqued on social inequity and political turmoil. This book breaks new ground by bringing together research on visual and material culture with analysis of politics and ecology. Wang argues that the Chinese landscape genre embodied a holistic approach to negotiating debates on human-nature interdependence and people-state relationships. It joins the increasing literature on ecocriticism and offers alternative perspectives to ad

Evolution of language has evolved at multiple levels—from changes in the cognitive processes by which language is acquired in the individual, to language change by diffusion of acquired linguistic features across populations of individuals, to the emergence of linguistic features over phylogenetic time scales. Evolution of language at each of these levels interacts with that at each other level. This volume is a collection of essays by noted researchers from diverse fields that deals with a broad spectrum of issues in the study of language evolution. The principle topics addressed here include: the genetic and cognitive bases for the phylogenetic emergence of language; several distinct accounts of the underlying cognitive processes by which children learn to acquire language; a critique of the methods employed by historical linguists in the last century; the modeling of language evolution using mathematical and computational techniques; discussions on the complexity of language.

The book presents an innovative method that will free you from using the trial-and-error method of finding solutions to your problems, pointing you in the direction of a strong solution. This is a targeted search method. You will save time and effort, and you will get a solution without disadvantages using this method. The method has five steps, so it is easy to use, and easy to get good results. It has been refined and improved over 40 years by incorporating what we learned from using it, and incorporating the experiences of many others. This book should be useful to engineers, scientists, students, inventors, and people solving complex problems in business, government, and social environments, as well as everyday problem solvers.

Prof. William S-Y. Wang, an eminent linguist, has made significant contributions to the field regarding lexical diffusion, experimental phonetic studies, language simulation and modeling, and aging and language. To celebrate his 90th birthday, colleagues and friends worldwide have contributed over 30 articles to a two-volume Festschrift. The English volume includes topics such as Chinese language evolution, the relationship between language and music, and the brain processes involved in language production. This Festschrift is written by and for experienced language researchers and is also suitable for students of Chinese linguistics and those interested in Chinese culture, history, and neurology.

In The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature, Kuei-fen Chiu and Yingjin Zhang aim to bridge the distance between the scholarship of world literature and that of Chinese and Sinophone literary studies. This edited volume advances research on world literature by bringing in new developments in Chinese/Sinophone literatures and adds a much-needed new global perspective on Chinese literary studies beyond the traditional national literature paradigm and its recent critique by Sinophone studies. In addition to a critical mapping of the domains of world literature, Sinophone literature, and world literature in Chinese to delineate the nuanced differences of these three disciplines, the book addresses the issues of translation, genre, and the impact of media and technology on our understanding of “literature” and “literary prestige.” It also provides critical studies of the complicated ways in which Chinese and Sinophone literatures are translated, received, and reinveste

您了解身處的這座城市擁有的產業群聚面貌嗎？ 世界先進國家紛紛列為未來群聚研究的發展重點「cluster mapping」是什麼？ 所謂的「cluster mapping」，即是指以「地圖化」的方式呈現出各產業於城市之群聚現象。為使各界能更深入的了解cluster mapping的概念及台灣產業群聚概況，工研院IEK於2013年始定期盤點各界資訊，彙編《台灣產業群聚發展地圖-Taiwan Cluster Mapping》一書，以各式調查指標具體呈現台灣各縣市於各面向發展與全國的相對狀態，透明化各縣市之優勢群聚產業。透過產業群聚資訊的完整彙整、紀錄，期使各界對台灣發展產業群聚的過程及現況有更深入的了解。 《台灣產業群聚發展地圖-Taiwan Cluster Mapping》一書宛如為台灣各城市量身訂做之體檢書，挖掘地方鮮明特色，以兩大部分精密探討各城市產業之「身體狀況」；第一部分針對cluster mapping的概念作簡單扼要之說明，第二部分針對台灣各縣市的基礎環境及產業群聚概況，透過不同的指標、面向及角度來描繪該縣市產業群聚的產業群聚的發展動能與競爭表現，包括「基本環境」、「產業競爭力」、「產業創新力」三大構面共31項指標，供您依不同目的參考運用，並清楚看出不同指標下，各縣市對應出的群聚優勢產業為何，相當專業實用。 不同於呆版難讀的產業分析理論書，本書創新以最簡單的圖面、最直接的論述講述台灣產業在空間上的分布狀況，旁徵博引，直指核心。深入淺出之敘述搭配精美圖示，將城市未來脈動及產業發展趨勢躍然於紙上；無論您來自何種專業領域，本書將能啟發您對於產業的全新見解，是一本值得您品味擁有的經典好書。

The Glasgow Climate Pact signed on the 26th Conference of the Parties of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 2021, saws representatives' determination for carbon neutrality by 2050. Meanwhile, "Net Zero by 2050: a Roadmap for the Global Energy Sector" proposed by International Energy Agency has suggested hydrogen as a decarbonization technology in various fields. As a clean, stable power with diverse sources, hydrogen provides a promising solution for energy, industry, and transportation, making hydrogen economy a prominent international topic, prompted developed countries actively investing in hydrogen technologies, setting out development pathways, offering policies and subsidies for short, mid and long-term goals. With net-zero by 2050 commitment, Taiwan introduced its goals in 2021, followed by "Taiwan's Pathway to Net-Zero Emissions in 2050" proposed by the National Development Council in 2022, unveiling a cross-ministerial aggregate strategy. Among its twelve

結合Matlab與ROS快速上手無人自走車 波士頓顧問公司(BCG)預測2025 年全球自動駕駛車市場銷售上探 420 億美元，而了解自駕車 AI 原理最好方式就是從無人自走車開始。本書以深入淺出方式帶領對自走車技術有興趣的社會人士或是高中職、大專程度學生了解無人自走車原理與實現方式，並透過本書實驗範例與程式可以在家動手實作無人自走車。 ‧本書提出以 MATLAB®　圖形化的元件程式環境與 ROS 整合方式，相較完全以 ROS 的開發方式，本書方法大幅降低無人自走車程式門檻 ‧本書使用 TurtleBot3自走車套件，硬體包括單板電腦、馬達驅動板、雷射測距感測器 ‧本書介紹常用自走車演算法包括快速隨機搜索樹演算法(Rapidly-exploring random tree, RRT)、單純追踪演算法 (Pure Pursuit)、向量直方圖演算法 (Vector Field Histogram, VFH)、佔據柵格地圖 (Occupancy grid map)、同步定位與地圖建構 (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, SLAM)。 ‧本書提供無人自走車初階與高階實驗範例與程式，讓讀者可以按部就班的在家操作並經歷實現自走車的成就感。 本書利用 MATLAB® 及 ROS2 的軟體整合，並使用 TurtleBot3 自走車套件來引領讀者輕鬆實現「路徑導航 (Navigation)」、「避障 (Obstacle Avoidance)」、「同步定位與地圖建構 (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, SLAM)」。對於需要進行專題實驗的學生或是工作上有需要的社會人士，本書將是不可或缺的一本參考書籍。

數位生活科技研討會(Symposium on Digital Life Technologies)是國內在數位生活科技領域規模最盛大的學術會議之一，本著「人本．創意．智慧」之核心理念，歡迎各界專家投稿與分享研究成果，以期達到數位生活相關之技術與創新應用的目的。

An individual’s health depends on their personal lifestyle and living conditions, which are influenced by a host of complex physical, social, and economic determinants. The same is true of organisational and community health. This book explains the Healthy Settings Approach as a means to define population and health standards as well as a framework to promote and evaluate health in daily living activities. The determinants affecting public health go beyond the availability and quality of healthcare, and a concerted effort from all sectors of the community is required to bring about sustained improvements. Using the Healthy Settings Approach to facilitate the “right to health”, this book argues that promoting health in multiple and varied settings concurrently will ensure healthy living throughout the community and, ultimately, the world. The author uses real life experiences from different countries, with a focus on Hong Kong, and discusses many initiatives that have been enacted (alth

Using the insurrection by the Malayan Communist Party (1948-1960) as an example, this book argues that resorting to violence sped up the decolonisation of British Malaya, begging the question: if a late colonial state was subjective, then how did it claim a sufficiently objective mantle to rule and how did ideological techniques enable this?

Having analysed the most common English errors made in over 600 academic papers written by Chinese undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers, Steve Hart has written an essential, practical guide specifically for the native Chinese speaker on how to write good academic English. English Exposed: Common Mistakes Made by Chinese Speakers is divided into three main sections. The first section examines errors made with verbs, nouns, prepositions, and other grammatical classes of words. The second section focuses on problems of word choice. In addition to helping the reader find the right word, it provides instruction for selecting the right style too. The third section covers a variety of other areas essential for the academic writer, such as using punctuation, adding appropriate references, referring to tables and figures, and selecting among various English date and time phrases. Using English Exposed will allow a writer to produce material where content and ideas—not language mist

The genre of poems that may be read both forward and backward, producing different creations was known as the “flight of wild geese.” These poems were often sent so that a distant lover, like the migrating birds, would return. Its greatest practitioner, and the focus of this critical anthology, is Su Hui, a woman who, in the 4th Century, embroidered a silk for her distant husband using a grid of 840 characters that created perhaps 12,000 ways to read this poem. With examples from the 3rd to the 19th centuries, Michele Metail describes reversible poems as “a singular adventure at the edge of meaning, of language, and of writing.”

Kung Fu has evolved from a traditional means of defence to become a system of attacking and defending oneself, with or without weapons, exercising the body and maintaining good physical and mental health. As such, these practices have found an international following. Yet what has remained a largely unexplored area is the scientific principles behind these martial arts. This book not only covers the brief history of Chinese martial arts, but also brings together the wisdom of a Kung Fu grand master with a scientist and teacher to explain the scientific reasons why Kung Fu is the powerful practice that it is. Using the principles of physics, biomechanics and biology, with a number of drawings showing some basic postures of Kung Fu, the authors present a deep understanding of how the styles, the specific movements and methods of attack and defence operate.

Candlestick technical analysis is an old trading technique that tracks the short-term price movements by employing the relationship between open, high, low, and close prices. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the predictive power of candlestick trading strategies by using the Taiwan 151 component stocks daily data for the period from 2 January 1992 to 31 December 2009. The main contribution of this thesis is using a fourprice- level approach to categorize the single-line patterns constructed by candlestick charting in a systematical manner. The approach adopted in this thesis permits us to release for the limitation of recognition in a manner not previously possible. Moreover, we not only consider transaction costs and risk but also mitigate data-snooping problems conscientiously by several appropriate methods, including the bootstrap methodology and sub-sample and out-of-sample tests. We find evidence that four patterns are profitable for the Taiwan stock market after transacti

The R&D activity in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) industrial sectors is an important factor in boosting the competitiveness of the European economy, and it stands high on the European political agenda (European Council held in Lisbon, March 2000). As an extension of existing research efforts, IPTS (DG Joint Research Centre, European Commission) has launched a research tender focused on R&D in ICT sectors in India, China and Taiwan, in order to gain a better understanding of major ICT R&D capabilities in that part of the world. The research exercise includes the preparation of three national Country Reports, supported by a Dataset and a Technical Annex for each country. Contract title: “Study on the trends in public and private investments in ICT R&D in China, India and Taiwan, and on the globalization of R&D and the competitiveness of their innovation systems in ICT”. Contract number: 150970-2008 F1SC-HU The contract was awarded by: Institute of Prosp

This book’s discussion is based on Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action. Jürgen Habermas, is known for his work on the concept of modernity, particularly with respect to the discussions of rationalization originally set forth by Max Weber; arguing it has a limited view of human action. By using and to extend the concept of Habermas’s Theory, Chan handles this book by focusing how social reproduction was possible in school education, how school education was worked in general, and how school education was developed. This book focuses on how social reproduction was possible in school education, how school education was worked in general, and how school education was developed. In this book, Chan states that, “(i)n my personal experience as a secondary school teacher in Hong Kong, I observed that many of my students with little family support were not admitted into higher education. They entered into the job world after completing their secondary studies. I wondered whether, in my

Li shang wanglai is a phrase that combines practice and principle. It is what others have discussed as Confucianism. But it is the summation of what is practised in daily life and without the leadership of an elite intelligentsia. With this phrase the author has brought together what had been separately discussed: the social philosophy of bao (asymmetrical reciprocity), the central importance of mianzi and lian (face), the moral economy of renqing (human relationships of fellow-feeling), the art of making guanxiwang (social networks), and much else. She shows how they work together in what might be called a discursive constellation. Using sociological and anthropological theorisations of reciprocal relations in China and Japan, she creates a framework of four dimensions, namely, principled rational calculation, human-feeling, moral, and religious, and four kinds of relationships, namely, instrumental, expressive, negative and generous.

Vulnerable young people lacking self-esteem and aspiration are usually regarded as more at-risk. They deserve transformational change to ease rising problems associated with property crime, violence, illegal drugs, truancy and exclusion, etc. Written by a host of scholars, frontline practitioners and supervisors of related expertise, this edited volume in nine chapters is a welcome addition to the study of the problems and practical issues of Youth-at-risk (YAR) in the context of Hong Kong. With an excellent and interesting analysis of a wide range of intervention programmes, this volume will help readers explore different initiatives for working with YAR, both theoretically and practically. This book will certainly be of interest to social work and welfare academics, professionals from a range of youth services and voluntary organisations, carers, parents and family networks. Social policy specialists and youth justice students will also find the description of initiatives in the lo

A number of research groups around the world have begun to study how the brain acquires and processes language, but we still know comparatively little about it. Many such groups work on very specific, often narrow, problems. This approach is certainly necessary, but a broad perspective can be helpful, if not essential, too. This volume consists of an important collection of papers presented at the Seminar on Language, Evolution, and the Brain (SLEB), hosted by the International Institute for Advanced Studies in Kyoto, Japan, bringing together distinguished researchers with background in cognitive science, anthropology, linguistics, robotics, physics, etc. Major topics discussed here include: Creoles and pidgins, and their implications regarding language evolution. Quantitative analysis and modeling of various aspects of language evolution, including the evolution of lexical items and color terms, the emergence of linguistics categories, and the dynamics of language competition. The ev

The digital divide and the inequalities of the availability and deployment of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) between developed and developing countries have long been a source of concern. Global institutions such as the United Nations, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the World Bank, as well as regional and national level agencies, have set up task forces to investigate how ICTs can be enacted most effectively in developing countries. How this shared vision should be put into practice is a complex undertaking, but it is already taking place. In this volume, we go beyond the theoretical, the polemical and the philosophical to consider practical issues as they are encountered by stakeholders in the developing country context. 15 author teams explore key issues organized into four sections: (1) Theoretical Background and Culture; (2) Telecentres; (3) Applications; and (4) Key Concepts with Country Specific Studies. Examples of these applications are

The Tropic of Cancer Sustainability Belt Sustainability is a global trend, and a global lingua franca. How can Taiwan use sustainability to tell our story on an international stage? How can Taiwan create a sustainability brand that is equipped with a global perspective? The National Park Service (NPS) considers the Tropic of Cancer a great place to start. By connecting the dots of Taiwan’s mountain resources, ocean resources, and sustainability partners into a line, and then making that line into a belt, we can turn the Tropic of Cancer – which many think of as just a bunch of geographic markers – into a whole new window for getting to know Taiwan. As the 180km north-south Tropic of Cancer Belt crosses Taiwan, it crosses coasts, wetlands, foothills, high mountains, oceans, cities, and villages. Along the way, it encompasses every form of ecology, life, and production, forming world-class environmental marvels. The NPS is using the Tropic of Cancer Sustainability Belt project to put

Mindfulness and meditation, practices that are rooted in Buddhism, have become mainstream treatments in counseling and psychotherapy that provide evidence of successful outcomes among secular clients. However, for clients from non-Western backgrounds, dissociating mindfulness practice from the core Buddhist teachings can dilute the transformative power of these practices, causing cultural confusion and lowering the effectiveness of treatment. This book is the first to present Early Buddhist Teachings as a theoretical orientation for the millions of individuals affiliated with Buddhism to create a culturally congruent counseling model. Using original sources in Pāli, it explores key Buddhist concepts such as dependent co-arising, non-self, impermanence, and many others. The authors then compare them with Western psychological concepts, furthering ongoing dialogue between Buddhism and psychotherapy and fostering powerful integrations. This volume also demonstrates how to use the Buddhi

「公民地理資訊」研究課題，是上世紀末以來地理資訊科學界對於社會實踐的主要回應之一。受惠於公民意識的覺醒、網際網路的發展，以及空間定位工具的革新，公民地理資訊對社會的影響力不僅加深而且加速，成為形塑社會的新興力量。本書共分六章，第一章從整體性的觀點，說明公民地理資訊的意義與內涵，其餘各章分別論述組成公民地理資訊的各個新興研究課題，包括公眾參與地理資訊系統（public participation geographic information systems，PPGIS）、對抗性地圖（counter mapping）、自發性地理資訊（volunteered geographic information，VGI）、地理公民科學（geographical citizen science），以及這些課題所形成之地理媒體（geomedia）效應對社會的影響。總結來說，這些研究課題均擁有一個共同的理念，即如何讓一般民眾重新取回地理資訊的生產權力，並藉由這種由下而上的公民地理資訊落實公民社會的理想。

Women We Love: Femininities and the Korean Wave is an edited volume exploring femininities in and around the Korean Wave since 2000. While studies on the Korean Wave are abundant, there is a dearth of thought put toward the female-identifying stars, characters, and fans who shape and lead this crucial cultural movement. This collection of essays is one of the first works to focus on gender and the key female actors of this global phenomenon. Using “women” as an inclusive term extending to all those who self-define as women, this volume examines the role of women in K-pop and K-drama industries and fandom spaces, encompassing crucial intersectional topics such as queering of gender, dissemination of media, and fan culture. In addition to the communities engaged with visual culture of the Korean Wave, the audience for Women We Love will reflect the contributors to this text. They are K-pop and K-drama fans, queer, international; they are also academics of Asian histories, sociology, gen

In Modern Chinese Counter-Enlightenment: Affect, Reason, and the Transcultural Lexicon, Peng Hsiao-yen argues that a trend of Counter-Enlightenment had grown from the late Qing to the May Fourth era in the 1910s to the 1920s and continued to the 1940s. She demonstrates how Counter-Enlightenment was manifested with case studies such as Lu Xun’s writings in the late 1900s, the Aesthetic Education movement from the 1910s to 1920s, and the Science and Lifeview debate in the 1920s. During the period, the life philosophy movement, highlighting the epistemic debate on affect and reason, was connected with its counterparts in Germany, France, and Japan. The movement had widespread and long-term impact on Chinese philosophy and literature. Using the transcultural lexicon as methodology, this book traces how the German term Lebensanschauung (lifeview), a key concept in Rudolf Eucken’s life philosophy, constituted a global tide of Counter-Enlightenment that inspired the thought of leading Chinese

Python資料視覺化 從2D到3D使用matplotlib實作 王者歸來 內容簡介 ★★★★★【國內作者第 1 本】【全彩印刷】【資料視覺化】★★★★★ ☆☆☆☆☆【國內作者第 1 本】【Python + matplotlib專業書籍】☆☆☆☆☆ 【32個主題】，【509個程式實例】 這本書的第一版書名是「matplotlib 2D到3D資料視覺化」，這版內容只是書名更改，整本書內容如下： ★ 完整解說操作matplotlib需要的Numpy知識 ☆ 認識座標軸與圖表內容設計 ★ 繪製多個圖表 ☆ 圖表的註解 ★ 建立與徹底認識圖表數學符號 ☆ 折線圖與堆疊折線圖 ★ 散點圖 ☆ 色彩映射Color mapping ★ 色彩條Colorbars ☆ 建立數據圖表 ★ 長條圖與橫條圖 ☆ 直方圖 ★ 圓餅圖 ☆ 箱線圖 ★ 極座標繪圖 ☆ 階梯圖 ★ 棉棒圖 ☆ 影像金字塔 ★ 間斷長條圖 ☆ 小提琴圖 ★ 誤差條 ☆ 輪廓圖 ★ 箭袋圖 ☆ 幾何圖形 ★ 表格製作 ☆ 基礎3D繪圖 ★ 3D曲面設計 ☆ 3D長條圖 ★ 設計動畫 整本書程式實例豐富，相信讀者只要遵循本書內容必定可以在最短時間精通使用Python + matplotlib完成資料視覺化。

孫易新博士融合心智圖的最佳運用，戰勝108課綱最強學習法：KMST知識地圖學習法（knowledge mapping study technical）+RMMR學習法（Reading Mapping Memorizing Revising） 國高中生應考必備的讀書法、筆記術與解題技巧。 華人心智圖法大師孫易新專為國高中生寫的考題拆解與閱讀法， 書中以課本內容為範例，以大量且詳細的步驟圖解， 說明如何整合點、線、面知識，跨學科學習， 強效提升思考力與記憶力。 108課綱考題大多是敘述式的長文寫法，所以如何快速抓到題目重點， 也就是在最短的時間內，看懂題目在問什麼，變成答題的關鍵。 孫易新老師結合速讀、心智圖、筆記術等方法，讓讀者能快速看懂題目、擷取重點、迅速作答； 運用在平時課堂的學習，還能有效率地記好筆記以及靈活運用，增強記憶。 本書可以幫助你 寫好筆記，靈活運用：上課迅速做好學習筆記，掌握每科重點。 心智圖法，增強記憶：活用心智圖快速記憶，且能長期記住不忘。 輕鬆讀懂長文和考題：快速拆解題目，看懂題目，迅速找出解答。 理組、文組都適用的心智圖法高效筆記術 國文科：原來文言文可以這樣記筆記，快速看出文章架構，理解內容、以水平及垂直思考來養成修辭技巧，輕鬆閱讀長文，還能寫出生動又切題的作文。 數學科：看懂冗長的敘述式題目，抓住考題重點，迅速掌握解題方法。 英文科：學校沒教的「心智圖拆解英文單字與文法」，再難的單字與文法也能快速記憶、熟悉與應用。 社會與科學：題目冗長，重點常隱藏難尋、圖表多分析耗時，透過心智圖拆解與整合題目，就能輕鬆戰勝考題。

Malaysian Cinema in the New Millennium offers a new approach to the study of multiculturalism in cinema by analysing how a new wave of filmmakers champion cultural diversity using cosmopolitan themes. Adrian Lee offers a new inquiry of Malaysian cinema that examines how the ‘Malaysian Digital Indies’ (MDI) have in recent years repositioned Malaysian cinema within the global arena. The book shines a new light on how politics and socioeconomics have influenced new forms and genres of the post-2000s generation of filmmakers, and provides a clear picture of the interactions between commercial cinema and politics and socioeconomics in the first two decades of the new millennium. It also assesses how the MDI movement was successful in creating a transnational cinema by displacing and deterritorialising itself from the context of the national, and illustrates how MDI functions as a site for questioning and proposing a new national identity in the era of advanced global capitalism and new Isla

本书旨在对工业制造行业政策、产业发展与投资趋势等问题做出分析与展望，同时结合企业案例，与读者分享来自一线的实践与认知。全书分为两部分，“总报告”分析了中国工业制造领域的行业政策与发展趋势；“投资行业与案例篇”总结了公司投资团队在投资和研究过程中的智慧成果，复盘了部分公司投资项目的投资逻辑（晶澳科技），从不同行业的发展特点、竞争格局分析了潜在投资案例（Lamina Technologies、宏伟供应链），还分析了公司关注的一些行业和赛道（储能行业、汽车智能化行业、动态血糖监测行业、口腔正畸行业）。

It is written from an objective, external viewpoint and paints a colourful and lively picture of Sanguinetti in a voice that could almost be his own. Using Sanguinetti' s life experiences, the biographer touches on various historical events, including the Mau Mau revolution in Kenya and the 1957 riots in Hong Kong, and details the social and political problems of the times, such as lingering colonialism, class structure issues, and human rights violations, among others. These glimpses of history through Sanguinetti' s eyes are accessible, thought-provoking, and truly representative of the man himself.Offering a well-rounded image of the eccentric subject, this book fulfils Sanguinetti' s common response to questions about both his personal and professional life — “ more when I know you better” . It will undoubtedly be of interest to those who knew Sanguinetti as well as legal professionals, young barristers, and readers with an interest in post-war history in Gibraltar, Kenya, and espe

matplotlib 2D到3D資料視覺化 王者歸來 | 全彩印刷 | ★★★★★ 【國內作者第１本】【全彩印刷】【資料視覺化】 ★★★★★ ☆☆☆☆☆ 【國內作者第１本】【matplotlib書籍】 ☆☆☆☆☆ 本書包含【32個主題】、【509個程式實例】，整本書內容如下： ★ 完整解說操作matplotlib需要的Numpy知識 ☆ 認識座標軸與圖表內容設計 ★ 繪製多個圖表 ☆ 圖表的註解 ★ 建立與徹底認識圖表數學符號 ☆ 折線圖與堆疊折線圖 ★ 散點圖 ☆ 色彩映射Color mapping ★ 色彩條Colorbars ☆ 建立數據圖表 ★ 長條圖與橫條圖 ☆ 直方圖 ★ 圓餅圖 ☆ 箱線圖 ★ 極座標繪圖 ☆ 階梯圖 ★ 棉棒圖 ☆ 影像金字塔 ★ 間斷長條圖 ☆ 小提琴圖 ★ 誤差條 ☆ 輪廓圖 ★ 箭袋圖 ☆ 幾何圖形 ★ 表格製作 ☆ 基礎3D繪圖 ★ 3D曲面設計 ☆ 3D長條圖 ★ 設計動畫 本書程式實例豐富，相信讀者只要遵循本書內容必定可以在最短時間精通使用Python + matplotlib完成資料視覺化。

Mementoes of HMS Tamar abound in Hong Kong, but what is really known about this troopship and her role in the maintenance of British imperial rule? Using logbooks, newspapers, and numerous other sources, this book pieces together the multifaceted and largely unknown history of the Tamar . From her launch into service to her roles as a hospital, theatre stage, and transport for military personnel, the Tamar carried not just people, but also their mundane dreams and ambitions— for friends, families, and staying alive. Any ideas or concerns about sustaining the empire seldom featured in their minds at all, but it was this empire that the Tamar served for seventy-nine years, steaming the equivalent of thirty-two times around the Earth and transporting tens of thousands of people to what would seem to them another world. In this engaging narrative, the Tamar’s exploits and the experiences of her crew and passengers parallel those of the British Empire and its subjects, bringing to life t

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

Eros of International Relations: Self-Feminizing and the Claiming of Postcolonial Chineseness is a distinctive work that explores the much-neglected Chinese perspective in broader international relations theory. Using the concept of “self-feminizing”—adoption of a feminine identity to oblige and achieve mutual caring as a relational strategy—this book argues that postcolonial actors have employed gendered identities in order to survive the squeezing pressure of globalization and nationalism in their own ways. Sovereign actors who have historically claimed to act on behalf of Chineseness have taken advantage of the images of femininity thrust upon them by transnational capitalism, the media, or intellectual thought. Shih illustrates the feminist potential for emancipation through a range of empirical examples, showing that women of various Chinese characteristics, acting on behalf of their nation, city, and corporations, reject the masculinization of their groups of belonging as remedy

St. Stephen’s Girls’ College is one of the many schools run under the auspices of the Anglican Church in Hong Kong. Starting as a tiny missionary school for upper-class Chinese girls and their younger brothers, it has evolved into a large establishment, comprising kindergarten, primary and secondary sections, playing its full part in the public sector of education and now serving a complete socio-economic cross-section of the community. As one of the earliest schools for girls in the territory, St. Stephen’s played a significant role in the opening up of educational opportunities for Chinese girls. This book records the history and development of the school and is written for its 90th Anniversary, using much original source material. The author, who was head of the school for over thirty years, has set this history within the educational, social and political context of the times. This book will be of obvious interest to those who have a connection with the school: council members, t

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

Leung Ping Kwan brought as much talent and inspiration to the writing of his short stories as he did to his poems. ‘I have drawn on magical realism to explore the absurdity of Hong Kong,’ he wrote of the story ‘See Mun and the Dragon’ (1975) in which we find him using a simple, clipped style. The later story ‘Drowned Souls’ (2007) was written in a more symbolic, lyrical and more complex manner. Although the two stories are separated by over thirty years, and are in many ways so very different, dragons play a prominent part in both. The dragon has always been a fascinating creature, a complex embodiment of the timeless soul of China, symbol of the universal power of the imagination, of the creative energy and transformative possibilities of the Tao. Both of these enchanting stories are anchored in the author’s idea of freedom and liberation.

“Without a clear idea of the history of the New Territories, the history of Hong Kong as a whole would be impossible to bring to any sort of satisfactory completion. ... Elucidating the development of a village, a clan, a temple, or a market-town is also, in and of itself, real and valuable history, and abundantly justifies the time and effort spent on it.” This book is a history of village communities in the New Territories of Hong Kong, including those in the areas of Ha Tsuen, Hung Shui Kiu, and Sha Tin as well as those on the islands of Lamma, Ma Wan, and Tung Ping Chau. Elaborating on primary interviews with village elders, government documents, and public information, this book places the individual histories of each area into the context of Hong Kong’s rich past. The introduction sets up the rest of the book, outlining common themes and highlighting the dangers of using the communal memories of village communities while, at the same time, showing the valuable information doing

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