Introduction to Programming Concepts With Case Studies in Python

This volume is the first book-length monograph on the most widespread and deadly infectious disease in China, both historically and today: tuberculosis (TB). Weaving together interviews with data from periodicals and local archives in Shanghai, Rachel Core examines the rise and fall of TB control in China from the 1950s to the 1990s. The answer to this, Core argues, lies in the socialist work-unit system. Under the work-unit system, the vast majority of people had guaranteed employment, a host of benefits tied to their workplace, and there was little mobility—factors that made the delivery of medical and public health services possible in both urban and rural areas. The dismantling of work units amid wider market reforms in the 1980s and 1990s led to the rise of temporary and casual employment and a huge migrant worker population, with little access to health care, creating new challenges in TB control. This study of Shanghai has major implications for institutional research on diseas

We visit Earth in current life and maybe head to others in next. It is our instinct to carry over DNA in reincarnation, to taste unknown desires, and to experience seven emotions with six sensory pleasures; however, everything in action shall be as nature as possible. Nobody really knows who dominate on life-stage, it can be actor/actress themselves, or drama writer, else screen director, or else audience instead. Metropolitan exits with multiple values; usually, cause of event is unclear to define from individual’s irrationally protection of interest or selfishly defending portion of pie. People usually capture one section of story and miss the other part of puzzle. Living chaos is daily usual. no matter you are wealthy, majestic, poor, or underclass, once doom day arrives, bell on stage rings off, curtain pulls down, light shuts off, everything is buried under dirt of history. No matter how successfully achieved in history, or how remarkably accomplished in professional field; it

Build for a Vibrant Future We all face environmental issues such as oceanic warming, glacier calving, spreading pollution, and species extinctions. Because of this, national governments around the world are trying to deal with the problems in every possible way, from policy, to investment, to education, and more.

How do public markets, as ordinary as they seem, carry the weight of a city’s history? How do such everyday buildings reflect a city’s changing political, social, and economic needs, through their yearslong transformations in forms, functions, and management? Integrating architecture and history, this book invites readers to go through the growth and governance of colonial Hong Kong by tracing the past and present of public markets as a study of extensive firsthand historical materials. As the readers witness the changes in Hong Kong markets from hawker pitches to classical market halls to clean modernist municipal complexes, the book offers a new perspective of understanding the familiar everyday markets with historical contexts possibly unfamiliar to most, studying markets as a microcosm of the city and a capsule of its history. This book is a robust and in-depth study of the market building history of Hong Kong since the 1840s and contributes to a holistic understanding of everyday

COVID-19 alongside the Russia-Ukraine war have brought about an enormous across-the-globe impact to demonstrate no one can remain insulated from the global change. US-China’s rivalry, coupled with Japan’s and Korea’s ceaseless moves, plus ASEAN countries’ & South Asian nations’ significant advances are likely to herald an era of unprecedented change. Is Taiwan well prepared to avert falling victim to the war of two superpowers? Never count on a handful of aces up your sleeve, a game-changer may just turn your longstanding advantage into a future liability. Semiconductors and the supply chains are Taiwan’s most significant strategic assets to engage with the international community. In retrospect, Taiwan’s semiconductor industry led by industry leaders like Morris Chang and Ming-Kai Tsai, had achieved a global leading position. Corporate strategies employed by Taiwan’s representative rivals as Intel, U.S. and Samsung, Korea all feed into their distinct future development. Semiconducto

Grounded in a desire to bring back to life rare items from the University of Hong Kong’s Fung Ping Shan Library that are entwined within the world of music and to place them in a context of books and images in American, British, and other Asian collections, Chinese Music in Print views the library as a repository not of information but of artifact, and then uses these artifacts as a means for generating scholarly narrative. It begins by assessing seminal texts in the Confucian canon set against the delicacy of the concubine and amanuensis Shen Cai’s calligraphy and poetry. Confucianism was itself a crucial aspect of courtly life, and an exploration of its ritual is the book’s second theme. Vernacular genres of opera and song are represented in the third chapter, while the Great Sage returns in the fourth for an exploration of the repertoire and richness of his favourite instrument, the qin. The final chapter ends the journey with discussion of the legacy of generations of Europeans who

A Contemporary History of the Chinese Zheng traces the twentieth- and twenty-first-century development of an important Chinese musical instrument in greater China.The zheng was transformed over the course of the twentieth century, becoming a solo instrument with virtuosic capacity. In the past, the zheng had appeared in small instrumental ensembles and supplied improvised accompaniments to song. Zheng music became a means of nation-building and was eventually promoted as a marker of Chinese identity in Hong Kong. Ann L. Silverberg uses evidence from the greater China area to show how the narrative history of the zheng created on the mainland did not represent zheng music as it had been in the past. Silverberg ultimately argues that the zheng’s older repertory was poorly represented by efforts to collect and promote zheng music in the twentieth century. This book contends that the restored “traditional Chinese music” created and promulgated from the 1920s forward—and solo zheng music in

With the society developing, the legislators of education would naturally put more attention to special education in order to protect the minority and those neglected. The history of special education mirrors the social development of Macau, it is an important indicator of the status in Macau society, reflecting the cultural quality at present and predicting the prospects in the future.

★★★★★【688張全彩圖例】+【圖解演算法原理和邏輯思維】★★★★★ ★★★★★【20個主題】+【220個Python程式實例】★★★★★ ★★★★★【邏輯思維】+【Python實作】=【演算法的精髓】★★★★★ 本書的第一版曾經獲得博客來與天瓏暢銷排行榜第1名，撰寫這本書時採用下列原則。 1：彩色圖片引導讀者認識演算法的邏輯思維。 2：Python程式實作演算法原理。 3：章節習題引導讀者複習與自我練習。 學習演算法最重要是要瞭解資料在記憶體的組織結構和程式設計的邏輯思維，相較於市面上其他書籍空洞的解說．甚至沒有解說，這本書在講解演算法時，更強調敘述每個步驟資料在記憶體的變化，以及講解程式設計的邏輯思維。例如：二元樹的前序列印程式只有6行，這本書卻用了19個步驟與圖形徹底解說。河內塔問題只需6行程式，這本書也使用了18個步驟與記憶體圖形做講解。深度優先搜尋法、廣度優先搜尋法、貪婪演算法、選課問題、背包問題、電台業務、業務員旅行 … 等，完全使用記憶體圖形解說，讀者可以從程式配合彩色圖片輕鬆學習。 當讀者遵循這步驟學習時，相信一定可以完整學習演算法的相關知識，本書的主體內容如下： ☆20個主題 ★ 認識時間複雜度和空間複雜度 ☆7大資料結構完整圖說與程式實例 ★ 7大排序法完整圖說與程式實例 ☆遞迴與回溯演算法 ★ 電腦領域的經典演算法八皇后和河內塔 ☆ 碎形與VLSI設計應用 ★ 圖形理論 ☆ 深度、寬度優先搜尋 ★ Bellman-Ford演算法 ☆ Dijkstra’s演算法 ★ 貪婪演算法 ☆ 動態規劃演算法 ★ 資訊安全演算法 ☆ 摩斯與凱薩密碼 ★ 金鑰系統觀念，解說設計金鑰方法或是應用目前市面上成熟的金鑰 ☆ 訊息鑑別碼(Message authentication code) ★ 數位簽章(Digital Signature) ☆ 數位憑證(Digital certificate) ★ 基礎機器學習KNN演算法 ☆ K-means演算法 ★ 網頁排名演算法 ☆ 常見的演算法考題與Leetcode考題

◎This is the Part-One (Radical Index - Stroke No. 1-2) of Twelve printouts from the on-line dictionary that is currently under developing. ◎This unprecedented, intelligent, convenient and useful Tool provides “Pin Yin” (spelled in English) of Traditional Chinese characters. ◎Along with Stroke-by-Stroke writings for each character’s Radical and additional strokes, it is possible to learn Chinese ubiquitously. The stroke-sequences for writing radical-characters are also included in a separate nineteen-page section with the order of radical stroke number and sequence. All the multiple ways of “Pin Yin” will also appear under multiple English letters. However, an unique sort key for the Last Name found in 百家姓 (the Hundred Family Surnames) is highlighted and used for grouping the same Last Name in Traditional Character with different Last Name in English. For example, 鄭 can be found as Cheng, Jeng and Zheng in all 3 places with Cheng marked as sort-key. Therefore, all 鄭s will be grouped u

破譯武林招式，看懂程式設計！ ．郭靖的小紅馬在Scratch裡能任意變色？ ．韋小寶加盟天地會誓詞是高階程式語言？ ．黃蓉的計算能力比Python還強？ ．用費波那契數列就能進入桃花島？ 以武俠小說的場景為媒介，讓武林絕招和程式設計理論緊密結合。只要你摸過電腦、玩過電動遊戲，熟悉鍵盤和滑鼠的操作，就能讀懂本書的程式邏輯。 讀者朋友可以一邊學習編寫程式的基礎知識，一邊跟著範例練習編寫代碼，不但能真正感受到程式設計的樂趣，還能解決生活中很多意想不到的大小問題。 本書從用PowerPoint製作基本動畫講起，再進入麻省理工學院開發的入門級動畫軟體Scratch，最後敲開程式設計的利器Python，循序漸進帶領讀者朋友理解程式世界的奧祕，並享受數位科技帶來的樂趣。 「如果你擁有電腦，卻沒有安裝Python，那叫暴殄天物。」──李開周

《如果島嶼會作夢》結合近代創傷研究中對夢的觀察解析及馬祖當地的祈夢傳統，大膽提出假說：藝術家是否能扮演代夢者，採集失落的夢境同時，也召喚關於未來的想像？本計畫以當代視覺藝術、聲音採集、舞踏表演及文字攝影工作坊等多重形式，挖掘潛伏的記憶與情感，投影疊合居民對於當下及未來的思考，也為馬祖建構出屬於地方的時空檔案。 When Islands Dream extends analysis of dreams in recent trauma studies to the Dreaming Ceremony in Matsu, and boldly asks: can artists play the role of “dreamers”, collecting lost dreams while also evoking imaginations about the future? This project incorporates sound collection, dance performances, video installation and photo-cartography workshops to uncover latent memories and emotions, projecting and overlaying residents' thoughts on the present and future, and constructing a local spatial and temporal archive for Matsu.

The Genera of Orchidaceae in Hong Kong is a handy reference for both amateurs and professional botanists in Asia who wish to enter the field of modern orchidology. Orchid appreciation is an art deeply rooted in Asian cultures. But in 1977, when this book was first published, orchidology as a science was new to people there. The technical vocabulary was unfamiliar and the subject matter difficult to understand. Therefore, this volume was intended as a general, easy-to-use reference book, with illustrations of the basic structure of orchids and their habit and habitat clearly described in Chapter I. The book may also be used as a self-help guide for naturalists and gardeners in Hong Kong who wish to identify an orchid new to them. In Chapter II, keys, descriptions, and illustrations are given to allow the reader to look up and gain information about individual orchid species. Chapter III provides an analysis of the composition and an interpretation of the phytogeographic significance of

In Painting Architecture: Jiehua in Yuan China, 1271–1368, Leqi Yu has conducted comprehensive research on jiehua or ruled-line painting, a unique painting genre in fourteenth-century China. This genre relies on tools such as rulers to represent architectural details and structures accurately. Such technical consideration and mechanical perfection linked this painting category with the builder’s art, which led to Chinese elites’ belittlement and won Mongol patrons’ admiration. Yu suggests that painters in the Yuan dynasty made new efforts towards a unique modular system and an unsurpassable plain-drawing tradition. She argues that these two strategies made architectural paintings in the Yuan dynasty entirely different from their predecessors, as well as making the art form extremely difficult for subsequent painters to imitate.

In On Saving Face, Michael Keevak traces the Western reception of the Chinese concept of “face” during the past two hundred years, arguing that it has always been linked to nineteenth-century colonialism. “Lose face” and “save face” have become so normalized in modern European languages that most users do not even realize that they are of Chinese origin. “Face” is an extremely complex and varied notion in all East Asian cultures. It involves proper behavior and the avoidance of conflict, encompassing every aspect of one’s place in society as well as one’s relationships with other people. One can “give face,” “get face,” “fight for face,” “tear up face,” and a host of other expressions. But when it began to become known to the Western trading community in China beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, it was distorted and reduced to two phrases only, “lose face” and “save face,” both of which were used to suggest distinctly Western ideas of humiliation, embarrassment, honor, a

Masculinity, fast-changing and regularly declared to be in the throes of crisis, is attracting more popular and scholarly debate in China than ever before. At the same time, Chinese literature since 1989 has been characterized as brimming with countercultural ‘attitude’. This book probes the link between literary rebellion and manhood in China, showing how male writers, as they critique the outcomes of decades of market reform, also ask the same question: how best to be a man in the new postsocialist order? In this first full-length discussion of masculinity in post-1989 Chinese literature, Pamela Hunt offers a detailed analysis of four contemporary authors in particular: Zhu Wen, Feng Tang, Xu Zechen, and Han Han. In a series of insightful readings, she explores how all four writers show the same preoccupation with the figure of the man on the edges of society. Drawing on longstanding Chinese and global models of maverick and marginal masculinity, and responding to a desire to retain

This book, Chiang Yee and His Circle: Chinese Artistic and Intellectual Life in Britain, 1930–1950, celebrates the life and work of Chiang Yee (1903–1977), a Chinese writer, poet, and painter who made his home in London, England during the 1930s and 1940s. It examines Chiang’s relationship with his circle of friends and colleagues in the English capital, and assesses the work he produced during his sojourn there. This edited volume, with contributions from eleven distinguished scholars, tells a story of a Chinese intellectual community in London that up to now has been largely overlooked. It portrays a dynamic picture of the London-based émigré life during the years that led up to the war and during the conflict that was the catalyst for many of them moving on. In addition, the book broadens our understanding of cultural interactions between China and the West in Hampstead, one of the most vibrant artistic communities in London.

Set against the backdrop of regional and international post–Second World War tensions, Grounded at Kai Tak is the most comprehensive account of the complex legal struggle for ownership of 71 airplanes belonging to the two main Chinese airlines, which were stranded at Kai Tak airfield in Hong Kong at the end of the Chinese civil war. The resulting contest for possession of them took place in the courts and among politicians and diplomats on three continents. In the process, the struggle became entangled with the anti-communist policies of the United States in the emerging ‘Cold War’, British hopes for restoration of her pre-war commercial position in China, disagreements between nations about recognition of the new government in Peking, and the delicate balance that the colonial government of Hong Kong had to keep to preserve that colony’s interests. Merry tells the tale of this legal saga by weaving together archival documents and news reports of the day, revealing the international a

The ultimate goal of this thesis is to construct an optimal global portfolio with ETFs. We choose the iShares MSCI country index ETFs as our assets. We start with the calculation of correlation between these countries. We find out that there is potential benefit undertaking international diversification. While comparing with the former research, the potential benefit is smaller. We examine the effect of investing internationally of each country. And we can see that not all countries are benefit from international diversification. While considering international diversification, investors have to look at the characteristic of the domestic country to make decision. In the international level, we can see that the investment risk would decrease and the return would increase. And the marginal effect decreases. In our test, the return, risk and efficiency come stable after adding the 14th asset into the global portfolio. Therefore we construct our global portfolio with 13 assets. We can see

"The fact that Snow did not sneak into “red China” to gather information constituting the basis of his Red Start over China all alone is in many instances misunderstood even by scholars. Mao Zedong’s biography has been the subject of an international mountain of commentary in China and elsewhere. Biographies praising Mao and those slandering him are all based on the American journalist Edgar Snow’s (1905–1972) account in Red Star over China for the route Mao traveled from early childhood through his youth. How the “Red Star” Rose introduces the image of Mao and the biographical information made known to the world through the publication of Red Star, and with its publication the circumstances which they fundamentally undermined. Ishikawa Yoshihiro uses Mao Zedong as raw material to examine from whence and how ordinary historical information and images which we habitually use unconsciously come into being. He desires to help readers to reconsider the historicity of the generation of no

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

The purpose of this book is to explain both the historical context and current practices of land administration in Hong Kong. Although Hong Kong has an open and business-friendly environment, it is underpinned by a socialist leasehold land tenure system. The government is landlord to virtually all land and so it plays a pivotal role in the administration of this scarce, and therefore, valuable resource.As land administration is governed by private contract law rather than legislation, it is constantly evolving with the courts handing down significant decisions on a regular basis. Government practice has to respond to this, as well as the community’s concern on how best land can be administered. The fifth edition has some substantial and important updates which should continue to be useful to both students and practitioners of surveying, architecture, planning and law, as well as the wider business and financial community.

“…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

In Hong Kong’s Last English Bishop, Philip L. Wickeri explores the life and times of John Gilbert Hindley Baker, who served as Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Hong Kong and Macao from 1966 to 1981. Baker lived through exciting times, as a missionary in wartime and revolutionary China, as a priest in America during the early years of the Cold War, and as a mission leader in the Church of England when churches in many parts of the world were becoming independent, before returning to Hong Kong where he was elected bishop. He was a faithful correspondent and a prolific writer throughout his life, offering a personal commentary on the churches and the societies in which he lived. Wickeri has made extensive use of Baker’s writings and other archival materials to provide a vivid picture of his life and work. Bishop Baker was instrumental in working for reconciliation after the 1967 riots, expanding the work of the diocese, and engaging Hong Kong with the wider world. In 1971, he opened a ne

Python網路爬蟲 大數據擷取、清洗、儲存與分析 王者歸來(第二版) ★★★本書第一版是【博客來2020年】【電腦書年度暢銷榜第3名】★★★ ★★★★★【26個主題】+【400個實例】★★★★★ ★★★★★從【零】開始的【網路爬蟲入門書籍】★★★★★ ★★★★★大數據【擷取】、【清洗】、【儲存與分析】★★★★★ ★★★★★【網路趨勢】+【了解輿情】★★★★★ 第二版和第一版做比較，增加下列內容： ★：全書增加約50個程式實例 ★：網路趨勢，了解輿情 ★：網路關鍵字查詢 ★：YouBike資訊 ★：國際金融資料查詢 ★：博客來圖書排行榜 ★：中央氣象局 ★：租屋網站 ★：生活應用 下列是本書有關網路爬蟲知識的主要內容： ★：認識搜尋引擎與網路爬蟲 ★：認識約定成俗的協議robots.txt ★：從零開始解析HTML網頁 ★：認識與使用Chrome開發人員環境解析網頁 ★：認識Python內建urllib、urllib2模組，同時介紹好用的requests模組 ★：說明lxml模組 ★：XPath方法解說 ★：css定位網頁元素 ★：Cookie觀念 ★：自動填寫表單 ★：使用IP代理服務與實作 ★：偵測IP ★：更進一步解說更新的模組Requests-HTML ★：認識適用大型爬蟲框架的Scrapy模組 在書籍內容，筆者設計爬蟲程式探索下列相關網站： ☆：國際與國內股市資訊 ☆：基金資訊 ☆：股市數據 ☆：人力銀行 ☆：維基網站 ☆：主流媒體網站 ☆：政府開放數據網站 ☆：YouBike服務網站 ☆：PTT網站 ☆：電影網站 ☆：星座網站 ☆：小說網站 ☆：博客來網站 ☆：中央氣象局 ☆：露天拍賣網站 ☆：httpbin網站 ☆：python.org網站 ☆：github.com網站 ☆：ipstack.com網站API實作 ☆：Google API實作 ☆：Facebook API實作 探索網站成功後，筆者也說明下列如何下載或儲存不同資料格式的數據： ★：CSV檔案格式 ★：JSON檔案格式 ★：XML、Pickle ★：Excel ★：SQLit

國內外最具代表性案例，9大專題實戰、15個分類實例 Google Colab、Microsoft Azure兩大雲端應用，人臉辨識、自然語言、文字識別、語音轉換、分析預測、物件自動標示、影像辦識真正實練，從資料收集整理、模型訓練調整，檢測修正到產出全面解秘！ 資料科學(Data Science)技術崛起後，人工智慧(Artificial Intelligence)、機器學習(Machine Learning)與深度學習(Deep Learning)儼然成為電腦科學最熱門的話題。其實，人工智慧的應用早已出現在我們生活周遭，如即時車牌影像辨識，以及智慧型手機中的臉部指紋辨識解鎖、影像轉文字翻譯、智慧語音助理…等。 在人工智慧領域中最重要也最適合作為入門的程式語言非Python莫屬。本書就以TensorFlow、Keras為基底，運用Python進行實作，深入人工智慧技術，掌握機器學習與深度學習的真正強大應用。 程式人、工程師挑戰人工智慧最佳學習地圖由類神經網路基礎到AI應用實戰訓練、模型、預測、辨識、分析與驗證全面深入機器學習與深度學習技術核心 ■打造專屬Python、TensorFlow與Keras最強開發環境。 ■圖解簡化複雜難懂的類神經網路觀念，涵蓋多層感知器(MLP)、卷積神經網路(CNN)與循環神經網路(RNN)。 ■整合最夯的人工智慧雲端開發平台：Google Colab，應用雲端提供的充沛資源，全面提升運算效能。 ■加碼最新的機器學習雲端應用平台：Microsoft Azure，連結功能強大、方向多元的Web API，豐富專業應用領域。 ■顛覆只重視理論或產生結果的傳統機器學習內容，實際挑戰從資料收集與準備、模型訓練與調整、檢測修正到結果產出的最完整機器學習實戰流程。 ■全面深入不同應用面向：印刷文字辨識、手寫文字辨識、遠端圖片分析、本機圖片分析、辨識圖片地標或名人、臉部辨識、人臉比對、語言識別、文字翻譯、黑白照片上色、人臉情緒偵測、圖片物件偵測、人工智慧製作縮圖、圖片場景偵測、汽車型號及年份偵測、自動標示物件、資料走勢預測… ■網羅國內外最具代表性案例：手寫文字辨識、圖片分類、即時匯率分析、文字雲與文章自動摘要、YouTube影片加上字幕、股票走勢分析、臉部辨識登入系統、擷取車牌、即時車牌影像辨識…等，進行有系統而扎實的真正演練。 ■一次領略機器學習與深

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

In War and Revolution in South China, Edward Rhoads recounts his childhood and early teenage years during the Sino-Japanese War and the early postwar years. Rhoads came from a biracial family. His father was an American professor while his Chinese mother was a typist and stenographer. In the late 1930s and the 1940s, the Rhoads family lived through the turbulent years in southern China and Hong Kong. The book follows Rhoads’ childhood in Guangzhou, his family’s evacuation to Hong Kong, his father’s internment and repatriation to the United States, and his and his mother’s flight to Free China. He recalls his reunion with family members in northern Guangdong Province in 1943, their retreat to China’s wartime capital of Chongqing, where his father worked for the American government, and how they returned to Guangzhou after the war. The Rhoads family then witnessed the socioeconomic recovery in the city and the regime change in 1949. The book ends with their departure from China to the Un

拉丁詞語是英文法律乃至歐洲法律的一大語言特色。作為專業術語，拉丁詞語濃縮了法律人士之間的共識，其在醫學領域也有同樣的作用。掌握這些拉丁術語很有挑戰性，但也大有裨益。 本書是第一本以香港常用的拉丁法律詞彙翻譯為主題的中英文法律專書，挑選了在香港法律領域中105個最常用的拉丁詞語作解釋。本書除提供基本資訊，如詞性、讀音和詞義外，更提供詞語的中英文翻譯、從雙語法律文本中篩選的適當例句，以及根據雙語判決書提供每個詞彙的使用率。 《香港法律語言常見拉丁詞彙》極具實用參考價值，有助律師、法律從業員、翻譯人員、法律系學生等掌握拉丁法律詞語的用法，亦有助其他讀者認識法律語言及了解香港語言狀況。 Latin terms constitute a special feature of English legal language as well as the language of Law in many European countries. They encapsulate specific meanings shared across the legal professions internationally, as is the case with medical terms in Latin. Mastering them can be both challenging and rewarding. Featuring 105 Latin legal terms, this is the first Chinese-English book to describe the most commonly used Latin words and phrases found in Hong Kong’s legal instruments and laws. The bilingual examples were meticulously collected from statutory and judicial sources to help readers better understand their meanings and their actual usage in the context of Hong Kong. The provision of usage

“For this brief moment, the two sisters could be ‘together in heart and affection’, and through such letters bridge the distance of empire.” We often learn about the commerce, diplomacy, and military campaigns of the British empire without reference to the intimate side of life in these times—the development of self, the position of women, and the importance of family. In this book, the story of empire, so often told from a man’s perspective, is given a unique vantage point through Eliza Hillier’s letters to her younger sister, Martha. Written largely from Hong Kong, Shanghai, England, and Siam, the letters allow us to become a member of her family and follow the daily tribulations associated with the life of a young British woman in the port cities of Asia. We are thus able to share Eliza’s experiences as she leaves home to embark on married life, starts and raises a family, grieves at the abrupt and tragic loss of her husband, Charles Batten Hillier, and then sets about re-building

這幾年心中總想寫一本可以讓擁有高中數學程度的讀者即可看懂人工智慧、機器學習或深度學習的書籍，或是說看了不會想睡覺的機器學習書籍，這個理念成為我撰寫這本書籍很重要的動力。為了卸除數學心房，筆者撰寫此書依循原則如下： ★：數學原理彩色圖解。 ★：手工計算基礎數學。 ★：Python程式高效實作。 這本數撰寫的幾個特色如下： ☆：全數共用約205個Python實例，講解機器學習的基礎數學 ☆：極詳細、超清楚、帶領讀者從畏懼數學到喜歡數學 ☆：複雜的數學符號重新拆解，原來可以很容易 ☆：了解機器學習的數學原理，讓機器學習程式充滿智慧靈魂 在徹底研究機器學習後，筆者體會許多基礎數學不是不會與艱難而是生疏了，如果機器學習的書籍可以將複雜公式從基礎開始一步一步推導，其實可以很容易帶領讀者進入這個領域，同時感受數學不再如此艱澀，這也是我撰寫本書時時提醒自己要留意的事項。 研究機器學習雖然有很多模組可以使用，但是如果不懂相關數學原理，坦白說筆者不會相信未來你在這個領域會有所成就，這本書講解了下列相關數學的基本知識。 ■ 資料視覺化使用matplotlib、Seaborn ■ 基礎數學模組Math ■ 基礎數學模組Sympy ■ 數學應用模組Numpy ■ 將LaTeX應用在圖表 ■ 機器學習基本觀念 ■ 從方程式到函數 ■ 方程式與機器學習 ■ 從畢氏定理看機器學習 ■ 聯立方程式與聯立不等式與機器學習 ■ 機器學習需要知道的二次函數與三次函數 ■ 數據擬合、決定係數與迴歸曲線製作 ■ 數據預測 ■ 機器學習的最小平方法 ■ 機器學習必須知道的集合與機率 ■ 機率觀念與貝式定理的運用－COVID-19的全民普篩準確性推估 ■ 筆者講解指數與對數的運算規則，同時驗證這些規則 ■ 除了講解機器學習很重要的歐拉數(Euler’s Number)，更說明歐拉數的由來 ■ 認識邏輯(logistic)函數與logit函數 ■ 三角函數 ■ 大型運算子運算 ■ 向量、矩陣與線性迴歸 ■ 統計知識 ■ 機器學習模組scikit-learn，監督學習與無監督學習。 相關書籍 這本書是筆者所著機器學習系列書的起點，讀者還可以閱讀下列書籍：

“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

在徹底研究機器學習後，筆者體會許多基礎數學不是不會與艱難而是生疏了，如果機器學習的書籍可以將複雜公式從基礎開始一步一步推導，其實可以很容易帶領讀者進入這個領域，同時感受數學不再如此艱澀，這也是我撰寫本書時時提醒自己要留意的事項。 研究機器學習雖然有很多模組可以使用，但是如果不懂相關數學原理，坦白說筆者不會相信未來你在這個領域會有所成就。 這本書講解了下列相關數學的基本知識。 ► 資料視覺化使用matplotlib ► 基礎數學模組Math ► 基礎數學模組Sympy ► 數學應用模組Numpy ► 機器學習基本觀念 ► 從方程式到函數 ► 方程式與機器學習 ► 從畢氏定理看機器學習 ► 聯立方程式與聯立不等式與機器學習 ► 機器學習需要知道的二次函數 ► 機器學習的最小平方法 ► 機器學習必須知道的集合與機率 ► 機率觀念與貝式定理的運用－COVID-19的全民普篩準確性推估 ► 筆者講解指數與對數的運算規則，同時驗證這些規則 ► 除了講解機器學習很重要的歐拉數(Euler’s Number)，更說明歐拉數的由來 ► 認識邏輯(logistic)函數與logit函數 ► 三角函數 ► 大型運算子運算 ► 向量、矩陣與線性迴歸 未來相關書籍 這本書是筆者機器學習系列書的起點，未來還將撰寫下列書籍： 機器學習：彩色圖解 + 微積分篇 + Python實作 本書特色 這幾年心中總想寫一本可以讓擁有高中數學程度的讀者即可看懂人工智慧、機器學習或深度學習的書籍，或是說看了不會想睡覺的機器學習書籍，這個理念成為我撰寫這本書籍很重要的動力。為了卸除數學心房，筆者撰寫此書依循原則如下： 1：數學原理彩色圖解。 2：手工計算基礎數學。 3：Python程式高效實作。 這本書撰寫的幾個特色如下： 1：全書共用150個Python實例，講解機器學習的基礎數學 2：極詳細、超清楚、帶領讀者從畏懼數學到喜歡數學 3：複雜的數學符號重新拆解，原來可以很容易 4：了解機器學習的數學原理，讓機器學習程式充滿智慧靈魂

本书特色：(1)文字说明、源代码与运行结果穿插呈现，结合理论知识与实践经验。 (2)凸显第四代与第三代程序语言不同之处，掌握数据驱动程序设计的特点。 (3)左手用R，右手用Python，厚植追随**数据科学家的实力。 (4)配套资源丰富，来自各行业的数据处理与分析案例、R/Python对比的源代码、完整的教学课件。 (5)深入浅出地介绍统计机器学习理论与实务，做中学、学中做，迈向术道兼修的境界。 凝聚数据挖掘、机器学习等多学科的领悟R 与 Python兼修，配套课件、案例、源代码简单直白的叙述，带领读者认识数据分析与数据科学程序，通过案例代入练习，帮助读者快速建立数据科学的重要概念。 ——东吴大学巨量资料管理学院院长 许晋雄 博士学者的研究主题多半固定在某些范围内，很少人能像邹教授一样，醉心追求人工智能的*新趋势、数学分析方法及软件，让相关技术落地生根。 ——明志科技大学机械工程系特聘教授兼工程学院院长 梁晶炜 博士邹教授结合自己多年来的研究经验和体会，深入浅出地介绍了机器学习基础及各种统计学习方式下的数据分析方法，对高校学生及相关领域科技工作者有很好的启发。 ——南京理工大学教授博导、江苏省应用统计学会秘书长 程龙生 博士来自不同领域的资料处理与分析范例，同时掌握资料分析两大主流工具 —— R 与 Python，深入浅出地介绍统计机器学习理论与实务。

The Landscape of Historical Memory explores the place of museums and memorial culture in the contestation over historical memory in post–martial law Taiwan. The book is particularly oriented toward the role of politics—especially political parties—in the establishment, administration, architectural design, and historical narratives of museums. It is framed around the wrangling between the “blue camp” (the Nationalist Party, or KMT, and its supporters) and the “green camp” (Democratic Progressive Party, or DPP, and its supporters) over what facets of the past should be remembered and how they should be displayed in museums. Organized into chapters focused on particular types of museums and memorial spaces (such as archaeology museums, history museums, martyrs’ shrines, war museums, memorial halls, literature museums, ethnology museums, and ecomuseums), the book presents a broad overview of the state of museums in Taiwan in the past three decades. The case of Taiwan museums tells us much

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

This collection of selected works by Professor Albert H.Y. Chen shows the contours of the author’s scholarship as it developed over 35 years of his academic career, from 1984 to the present. The essays are divided into three sections which cover the three major domains of Professor Chen’s research. Part I covers the legal developments and controversies of “One Country, Two Systems” since the Hong Kong interpretation on “the right of abode” in 1999 to the anti-extradition movement of 2019. Part II shifts to focus on tradition and modernity in Chinese Law, including China’s Confucian and Legalist traditions and how the socialist legal system in China evolved and modernized in the era of “reform and opening”. Part III examines the transplantation of Western thinking and constitutionalism to East Asia in modern times and discusses the achievements and failures of these efforts. In conjunction with an introductory chapter that sets out the basic orientation and paradigm of these legal and c

內容簡介:【嚴選經典】美國矽谷創業家/全球科技大廠與業界指定工研院顧問講師親自錄製231支影音教學影片，如臨現場授課！【聯合推薦】嘉義基督教醫院兒童醫學部主任、嘉基創新育成中心主任周信旭醫師Eco-City智慧生活科技區域整合中心執行長、國立交通大學土木工程系曾仁杰教授台北榮民總醫院神經外科、國立陽明大學研究所兼任助理教授關艾琛醫師本書為作者柯博文老師繼《Python+TensorFlow人工智慧、機器學習、大數據｜超炫專案與完全實戰》規劃的進階書籍，歷經業界頂尖的工程師學員多次考驗，實戰多年後才匯集成冊。包含Python、機器學習、人工智慧、TensorFlow、Keras、OpenCV等相關API的使用方法，且每個範例都是實戰程式。◎提供豐富的線上下載：204個範例程式、231支影音教學影片。◎介紹人工智慧的開發技巧，並且近乎100%準確度。◎大量使用業界數據、OpenData開放資料進行分析和預測，上百萬種數據讓你應用。◎以Python撰寫類神經的數學公式，讓讀者理解人工智慧演算法的來龍去脈，進而調整數學式讓準確度更好。◎範例豐富多元，將人工智慧運用在農業、氣象預報、手寫OCR、圖片學習等人工智慧實戰。◎結合Tensorflow.Keras和OpenCV自行產生數據庫，使用WebCam即時辨識圖片，並且實際應用在專案中。◎使用最新高難度的VGG16、VGG19、ResNet50、Xception、Inception、DenseNet121、FastR-CNN等演算法，並訓練自己的物件，使用COCO和ImageNet辨識近萬種物體。

Developmental social work emphasizes interdisciplinary collaborations and believes it can accurately respond to the issues and the needs of our society. Therefore, more and more non-profit organizations are involved in this field. In Taiwan, the recent social issues, such as the poverty of young adults and the Long-term Care, all indicate a need for fresh thoughts and working methods. Responding to this need, “social innovation” has been seen as a way of developmental social work practice. Since 2015, Eden Social Welfare Foundation has collaborated with the Department of Social Work of National Taiwan University to hold three international conferences regarding developmental social work. We published two conference proceedings Developmental Social Work: Theory and Practice and Developmental Social Work: Advancing Policy and Practice. This book focuses on the theme of “social innovation” and contains various innovative ongoing cases of developmental social work. It also compiles lectu

本书主要内容包括人工智能起源发展，特别是新一代人工智能的驱动因素和关键技术，并介绍通过Python编程语言的学习和数据统计、*优化方法等理论学习掌握人工智能的开发工具和方法。进而引出深度学习与神经网络、GPU并行计算与CUDA编程等新一代人工智能的核心技术和方法，对于以往较为忽视的数据采集与数据集制作部分专门做一章节来介绍。*后以TensorFlow为平台，通过各种与实际生产生活联系紧密的热点应用为案例改编为实验，达到提升创新素养和提高技能水平的人才培养目标。 汇聚新一代人工智能核心技术!全面掌握从理论到应用、从数据到模型、从编程语言到案例实现的全过程! 中国智慧城市专家委员会首席科学家 刘志刚 作序！ 汇聚新一代人工智能核心技术全面掌握从理论到应用、从数据到模型、从编程语言到案例实现的全过程