By Yujing Liu, Bin Dai, Peidong Zhu, Jinshu Su (auth.), James J. Park, Laurence T. Yang, Changhoon Lee (eds.)

This two-volume-set constitutes the refereed complaints of the sixth foreign convention on destiny details expertise, FutureTech 2011, held in Crete, Greece, in June 2011. The 123 revised complete papers offered in either volumes have been rigorously reviewed and chosen from a variety of submissions. The papers are prepared in topical sections on destiny details know-how, IT carrier and cloud computing; social computing, community, and companies; forensics for destiny new release verbal exchange environments; clever transportation structures and functions; multimedia and semantic applied sciences; info technological know-how and technology.

By J. Georg Bednorz (auth.), Prof. Kaoru Yamafuji, Dr. Tadataka Morishita (eds.)

The box of high-temperature superconductivity has inspired an inter­ disciplinary method of examine. It has required major cooperation and collaboration between researchers, every one of whom has delivered to it a wealthy number of event from many different fields. lately, nice advancements were made within the caliber of analysis. the topic has matured and been embarked on the following degree throughout the resonance among technology and know-how. the present growth of fabrics processing and engineering during this box is similar to that in the past visible within the improvement of semiconductors. those contain the looks of fabrics taking where of YBa2Cu307 as a result of their more advantageous homes (higher severe temperatures and superior flux pin­ ning) within which infrequent earth ions with huge radii (La, Nd, Sm) replacement for Y; the improvement of expertise allowing progress regulate at the nanometer scale; and exact and reproducible measurements that may be used as rigorous checks of theoretical versions, which in flip are anticipated to steer to the strengthen­ ment of latest units. For extra growth in high-T examine, lecturers and c technologists needs to pool their wisdom and event. i am hoping that this quantity will advertise that objective by means of supplying the reader with the newest result of high-temperature superconductor study and may stimulate additional dialogue and collaboration.

By S.Acedanski, P.Chrzastowski, M.Hiron, Ł.Kowalik, M.Kubica, T.Malesinski, A.Niewiarowska, K.Onak, P.Pankov, A.Paterek, J.Pawlewicz, J.Radoszewski, P.Stanczyk, M.Stefaniak, T.Verhoeff, S.Wasik

By Indrajit Ray, Sujeet Shenoi

ADVANCES IN electronic FORENSICS IV Edited by: Indrajit Ray and Sujeet Shenoi electronic forensics offers with the purchase, renovation, exam, research and presentation of digital proof. Networked computing, instant communications and transportable digital units have multiplied the function of electronic forensics past conventional computing device crime investigations. virtually each crime now consists of a few point of electronic proof; electronic forensics offers the ideas and instruments to articulate this facts. electronic forensics additionally has myriad intelligence functions. in addition, it has an important function in details coverage -- investigations of safeguard breaches yield useful details that may be used to layout safer platforms. Advances in electronic Forensics IV describes unique learn effects and cutting edge purposes within the rising self-discipline of electronic forensics. furthermore, it highlights a number of the significant technical and felony concerns on the topic of electronic facts and digital crime investigations. The parts of insurance comprise: - topics and concerns - facts restoration - facts Integrity - proof administration - Forensic innovations - community Forensics - transportable digital gadget Forensics - occasion info Recorder Forensics - Novel research options - Forensic instruments This publication is the fourth quantity within the annual sequence produced through the foreign Federation for info Processing (IFIP) operating staff 11.9 on electronic Forensics, a global group of scientists, engineers and practitioners devoted to advancing the cutting-edge of study and perform in electronic forensics. The publication features a collection of twenty-eight edited papers from the Fourth Annual IFIP WG 11.9 convention on electronic Forensics, held at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan in the spring of 2008. Advances in electronic Forensics IV is a vital source for researchers, school participants and graduate scholars, in addition to for practitioners and members engaged in examine and improvement efforts for the legislations enforcement and intelligence groups. Indrajit Ray is an affiliate Professor of machine technological know-how at Colorado nation collage, citadel Collins, Colorado, united states. Sujeet Shenoi is the F.P. Walter Professor of laptop technology and a valuable with the guts for info safety on the collage of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, united states.

By Hung Cam Thai

Marriage is at the moment the number-one cause humans migrate to the us, and ladies represent the vast majority of beginners becoming a member of husbands who already dwell right here. yet little is understood approximately those marriage and migration streams past the hugely publicized and sometimes sensationalized phenomena of mail-order and armed forces brides. much less in general recognized is that almost all overseas are immigrants of an analogous ethnicity.

In For higher or For Worse, Hung Cam Thai takes a better examine marriage and migration, with a selected specialise in the unions among Vietnamese males residing within the usa and the ladies who marry them. Weaving jointly a chain of non-public tales, he underscores the ironies and demanding situations that those unions face. He comprises the voices of working-class immigrant males facing marginalization of their followed kingdom. those males talk about short of "traditional" other halves who they wish will realize their gendered authority. in the meantime, younger Vietnamese college-educated ladies, bad to bachelors of their personal nation who're looking subservient better halves, convey a choice for males of a similar ethnicity yet with a extra liberal outlook on gender-men they think they are going to locate within the usa.
A feel of foreboding pervades the booklet as Thai captures the incompatible viewpoints of the who seem to be separated not just geographically yet ideologically.

By World Health Organization

The Fifty-eighth international overall healthiness meeting in 2005 followed the revised overseas health and wellbeing rules (IHR). the recent IHR entered into strength on 15 June, 2007. Their acknowledged goal and scope are: to avoid, safeguard opposed to, regulate and supply a public future health reaction to the foreign unfold of illness in ways in which are commensurate with and constrained to public future health dangers, and which stay away from pointless interference with foreign site visitors and exchange. The IHR additionally require states to reinforce center surveillance and reaction capacities on the basic, intermediate and nationwide point, in addition to at particular overseas ports, airports and flooring crossings. They additional introduce a sequence of latest future health files, together with send sanitation certificate and a global certificates of vaccination or prophylaxis for tourists. eventually, this moment variation encompasses a new foreword and the wellbeing and fitness a part of the plane basic assertion (as revised through the foreign Civil Aviation Organization), in addition to Appendices directory: States events to the IHR; and reservations, objections and declarations acquired from States events.

By Birgit Möller, Oliver Greß, Stefan Posch (auth.), James L. Crowley, Bruce A. Draper, Monique Thonnat (eds.)

This booklet constitutes the refereed court cases of the eighth overseas convention on computing device imaginative and prescient platforms, ICVS 2011, held in Sophia Antipolis, France, in September 2009. The 22 revised papers awarded have been conscientiously reviewed and chosen from fifty eight submissions. The papers are geared up in topical sections on imaginative and prescient structures, keep an eye on of notion, functionality assessment, task reputation, and data directed vision.

By A. Eckart, R. Schödel, C. Straubmeier, T. Viehmann, J.-U. Pott, N. Mouawad (auth.), Professor Dr. Hans Volker Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, Professor Dr. Richard Arnowitt (eds.)

The look for darkish subject within the universe has confirmed itself as some of the most interesting and significant fields of astrophysics, particle physics and cosmology. The lectures and talks during this publication emphasize the experimental and theoretical prestige and destiny views, stressing particularly the interaction among astro- and particle physics.

By Milind Tambe (auth.), David Kinny, Jane Yung-jen Hsu, Guido Governatori, Aditya K. Ghose (eds.)

This ebook constitutes the court cases of the 14th foreign convention on rules and perform in Multi-Agent platforms, PRIMA 2011, held in Wollongong, Australia, in November 2011.
The 39 papers provided including three invited talks have been rigorously reviewed and chosen from various submissions. They specialise in sensible elements of multiagent platforms and are organised in topical sections on coalitions and teamwork, studying, mechanisms and vote casting, modeling and simulation, negotiation and coalitions, optimization, sustainability, agent societies and frameworks, argumentation, and applications.

By Heng-Tze Cheng, Feng-Tso Sun, Senaka Buthpitiya, Ying Zhang, Ara V. Nefian (auth.), George Bebis, Richard Boyle, Bahram Parvin, Darko Koracin, Ronald Chung, Riad Hammound, Muhammad Hussain, Tan Kar-Han, Roger Crawfis, Daniel Thalmann, David Kao, Lisa Avil

It is with nice excitement that we current the complaints of the sixth Inter- tional, Symposium on visible Computing (ISVC 2010), which was once held in Las Vegas, Nevada. ISVC presents a standard umbrella for the 4 major components of visible computing together with imaginative and prescient, photos, visualization, and digital truth. The objective is to supply a discussion board for researchers, scientists, engineers, and pr- titioners in the course of the global to provide their most up-to-date examine ?ndings, principles, advancements, and functions within the broader quarter of visible computing. This yr, this system consisted of 14 oral periods, one poster consultation, 7 certain tracks, and six keynote shows. The reaction to the decision for papers used to be excellent; we acquired over three hundred submissions for the most symposium from which we authorized ninety three papers for oral presentation and seventy three papers for poster p- sentation. particular song papers have been solicited individually in the course of the Organizing and software Committees of every song. a complete of forty four papers have been authorised for oral presentation and six papers for poster presentation within the specific tracks.