1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957090903321

Titolo

The Diaries of the Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 1921-1966 / / edited by C. Chu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2007

ISBN

9786611363321

9781281363329

1281363324

9780230604179

023060417X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2007.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ChuCindy Yik-yi

Disciplina

271/.97

B

Soggetti

Religion - History

Ethnology - Asia

Culture

Asia - History

Social history

Civilization - History

Asia - Politics and government

History of Religion

Asian Culture

Asian History

Social History

Cultural History

Asian Politics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-232) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: The 1920's, People and Weather; Chapter Three: The 1930's, Schools, Visitors, and Visits; Chapter Four: Advent of Japanese, 1938-1941;



Chapter Five: Japanese Occupation and Internment, 1941-1942; Chapter Six: In and Out of the Camp, Releases, and Repatriation, 1941-1942; Chapter Seven: Postwar Years, the 1950's, the Early 1960's, and Refugees; Chapter Eight: Resettlement Areas in the 1950's and the 1960's; Chapter Nine: Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a documentary survey of Hong Kong history, from the 1920s to the mid-1960s, from the perspective of the Maryknoll Sisters, as recorded in their diaries written during that period. It is a priceless collection of first-hand materials on the social history of Hong Kong.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996641267303316

Autore

Ide Ichiro

Titolo

MultiMedia Modeling : 31st International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, MMM 2025, Nara, Japan, January 8–10, 2025, Proceedings, Part IV / / edited by Ichiro Ide, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Changsheng Xu, Keiji Yanai, Wei-Ta Chu, Naoko Nitta, Michael Riegler, Toshihiko Yamasaki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2025

ISBN

9789819620715

9819620716

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (485 pages)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 1611-3349 ; ; 15523

Altri autori (Persone)

KompatsiarisYiannis

XuChangsheng

YanaiKeiji

ChuWei-Ta

NittaNaoko

RieglerMichael

YamasakiToshihiko

Disciplina

006.37

Soggetti

Computer vision

Image processing - Digital techniques

Signal processing

Pattern recognition systems

Application software

Information storage and retrieval systems

Computer Vision

Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics

Signal, Speech and Image Processing

Automated Pattern Recognition

Computer and Information Systems Applications



Information Storage and Retrieval

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Regular Papers -- SES-Net: Multi-dimensional Spot-Edge-Surface Network for Nuclei Segmentation -- Skin-Adapter: Fine-Grained Skin-Color Preservation for Text-to-Image Generation -- Small Tunes Transformer: Exploring Macro & Micro-Level Hierarchies for Skeleton-Conditioned Melody Generation -- SMG-Diff: Adversarial Attack Method Based on Semantic Mask-Guided Diffusion -- SPLGAN-TTS:Learning Semantic and Prosody to Enhance the Text-to-Speech Quality of Lightweight GAN Models -- SSCDUF: Spatial-Spectral Correlation Transformer Based on Deep Unfolding Framework for Hyperspectral Image Reconstruction -- SSDL: Sensor-to-Skeleton Diffusion Model with Lipschitz Regularization for Human Activity Recognition -- Structural Information-guided Fine-grained Texture Image Inpainting -- Style Separation and Content Recovery for Generalizable Sketch Re-identification and A New Benchmark -- Synchronization and Calibration of Video Sequences acquired using Multiple Plenoptic 2.0 Cameras -- Target-Oriented Dynamic Denosing Curriculum Learning for Multimodel Stance Detection -- TDM: Temporally-Consistent Diffusion Model for All-in-One Real-World Video Restoration -- Temporal Closeness for Enhanced Cross-Modal Retrieval of Sensor and Image Data -- The Right to an Explanation under the GDPR and the AI Act -- Toward Appearance-based, Autonomous Landing Site Identification for Multirotor Drones in Unstructured Environments -- Towards Inclusive Education: Multimodal Classification of Textbook Images for Accessibility -- Towards Visual Storytelling by Understanding Narrative Context through Scene-Graphs -- TPS-YOLO: The Efficient Tiny Person Detection Network Based on Improved YOLOv8 and Model Pruning -- Uncertainty-guided Joint Semi-supervised Segmentation and Registration of Cardiac Images -- Understanding the Roles of Visual Modality in Multimodal Dialogue: An Empirical Study -- Vision-Language Pretraining for Variable-shot Image Classification -- Visual Anomaly Detection on Topological Connectivity under Improved YOLOv8 -- Wavelet Integrated Convolutional Neural Network for ECG Signal Denoising -- WavFusion: Towards wav2vec 2.0 Multimodal Speech Emotion Recognition -- Zero-shot Sketch-based Image Retrieval with Hybrid Information Fusion and Sample Relationship Modeling -- Special Session: ExpertSUM: Special Session on Expert-Level Text Summarization from Fine-Grained Multimedia Analytics -- CalorieVoL: Integrating Volumetric Context into Multimodal Large Language Models for Image-based Calorie Estimation -- Can Masking Background and Object Reduce Static Bias for Zero-shot Action Recognition? -- Special Session: MLLMA: Special Session on Multimodal Large Language Models and Applications -- Enhanced Anomaly Detection in 3D Motion through Language-Inspired Occlusion-Aware Modeling -- Evaluating VQA Models' Consistency in the Scientific Domain -- Image2Text2Image: A Novel Framework for Label-Free Evaluation of Image-to-Text Generation with Text-to-Image Diffusion Models -- Quantifying Image-Adjective Associations by Leveraging



Large-Scale Pretrained Models -- TACST: Time-Aware Transformer for Robust Speech Emotion Recognition -- TS-MEFM: A New Multimodal Speech Emotion Recognition Network Based on Speech and Text Fusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This five-volume set LNCS 15520-15524 constitutes the proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, MMM 2025, held in Nara, Japan, January 8–10, 2025. The 135 full papers and 41 short papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 348 submissions. The MMM conference was organized in topics related to multimedia modelling, particularly: audio, image, video processing, coding and compression; multimodal analysis for retrieval applications, and multimedia fusion methods.