Lu Chen

Shenglian Guo

This book presents an overview of copula theory and its application in hydrology, and provides valuable insights, useful methods and practical applications for multivariate hydrological analysis using copulas. In addition, it extends the traditional bivariate model to trivariate or multivariate models. The specific applications covered include the study of flood frequency analysis, drought frequency analysis, dependence analysis, flood coincidence risk analysis and statistical simulation using copulas. The book offers a valuable guide for researchers, scientists and engineers working in hydrology and water resources, and will also benefit graduate or doctoral students with a basic grasp of copula functions who want to learn about the latest research developments in the field.

Copulas and Its Application in Hydrology and Water Resources

Hua Wang

Feng Zhang

Rui Zhou

Mahmoud Barhamgi

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2023, held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in October 2023. The 33 full and 40 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 137 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: text and sentiment analysis; question answering and information retrieval; social media and news analysis; security and privacy; web technologies; graph embeddings and link predictions; predictive analysis and machine learning; recommendation systems; natural language processing (NLP) and databases; data analysis and optimization; anomaly and threat detection; streaming data; miscellaneous; explainability and scalability in AI.

24th International Conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, October 25–27, 2023, Proceedings

Web Information Systems Engineering – WISE 2023

Haiyang Yu

Yuling Qiu

Shun-Fa Yang

The Fate of Cancer: Focusing on Pure Compounds Derived From Traditional Chinese Medicine

Qing Li

Chaoyi Pang

Elvira Popescu

Tianyong Hao

Yunjun Gao

Guanliang Chen

Bailing Zhang

Silvia Margarita Baldiris Navarro

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2020, and 5th International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education, SETE 2020, held in Ningbo, China in October 2020. Together for the ICWL 2020 Conference and SETE 2020 Symposium 39 full papers were accepted together with 31 short papers out of 233 submissions. The papers focus on the following subjects: Semantic Web for E-Learning, through Learning Analytics, Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, Assessment, Pedagogical Issues, E-learning Platforms, and Tools, to Mobile Learning and much more.

19th International Conference on Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2020, and 5th International Symposium on Emerging Technologies for Education, SETE 2020, Ningbo, China, October 22–24, 2020, Proceedings

Learning Technologies and Systems

How can Japanese popular culture gain numerous fans in China, despite pervasive anti-Japanese sentiment? How is it that there’s such a strong anti-Korean sentiment in Chinese online fan communities when the official Sino-Korean relationship is quite stable before 2016? Avid fans in China are raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in funding to make gifts to their idols in foreign countries. Tabloid reports on Japanese and Korean celebrities have been known to trigger nationalist protests in China. So, what is the relationship between Chinese fandom of Japanese and Korean popular culture and nationalist sentiment among Chinese youth? Chen discusses how Chinese fans of Japanese and Korean popular culture have formed their own nationalistic discourse since the 1990s. She argues that, as nationalism is constructed from various entangled ideologies, narratives, myths and collective memories, popular culture simply becomes another resource for the construction of nationalism. Fans thus actively select, interpret and reproduce the content of cultural products to suit their own ends. Unlike existing works, which focus on the content of transnational cultural flows in East Asia, this book focuses on the reception and interpretation of the Chinese audience.

Nationalistic Narratives and International Fandom

Chinese Fans of Japanese and Korean Pop Culture

Lu Chen

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