C.C. Jay Kuo & Ying Li 
Video Content Analysis Using Multimodal Information [PDF ebook] 
For Movie Content Extraction, Indexing and Representation

Years of rapprochement between Taiwan and China had convinced many that the Taiwan issue had been resolved, and that it was only a matter of time before the two former opponents would reunite under O …

Environmentally sustainable development has become one of the world”s most urgent priorities. But countries cannot achieve it alone: it depends on international coordination and action. Greening Int …

In this study the views of Japan”s leading experts on the globalization of Japanese business, management and industrial relations explain how traditional Japanese-style management is responding to t …

Changing Family Values offers a comprehensive introduction to contemporary debates and new research surrounding the family. It explores how we define traditional family values and how these values ar …

Tuten shows how the Jewish National Fund (JNF) proved to be flexible in its fundraising to obtain its land-purchase objectives during the Second World War. He provides a detailed examination of the J …

First Published in 2004. Since the second half of the seventies, a period of economic recession, a growing interest for technological change can be noticed in all ‘old’ industrial countries. The reas …

The first study of state feminism in a non-western nation state, this volume focuses on the activities and roles of the Women”s Bureau of the Ministry of Labor in post-World War II Japan. While stat …

First Published in 1990. This study is an important landmark in our understanding of the complexities of pluralistic medical systems. It is an unusual study as it provides an overview of the indigeno …

First published in 1989. During the days follow­ing Kwame Nkrumah”s death in 1972, the idea of writing this book first took form. During the past fifteen years, Africa has gone through a major traum …

This edited collection examines joint efforts by Latinos and African Americans to confront problems faced by populations of both groups in urban settings (in particular, socioeconomic disadvantage an …