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  • Biomethane Production from Vegetable and Water Hyacinth Waste

    by Wei Ran, Zhao Youcai ...
    Biomethane Production from Vegetable and Water Hyacinth Waste explores the production of biomethane from vegetable waste and water hyacinth via anaerobic fermentation, focusing on effect factors, control methods and optimization. The book introduces principles and key technologies before proceeding into a deeper exploration of the fundamentals of municipal vegetable waste, such as composition, ... Read more

    $159.99 CAD

  • Advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    Bridging Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs

    by Wendy Ran Wei, Huijun Wu ...
    Build Accurate, Grounded, and Trustworthy AI Systems with Retrieval-Augmented GenerationLarge language models are powerful—but they hallucinate. Advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation offers a complete guide from the foundations of information retrieval (IR) to the cutting-edge frontiers of RAG. Bridging large language models (LLMs) and knowledge graphs (KGs), this book provides the theoretical ... Read more

    $160.99 CAD

  • Miscommunicating the COVID-19 Pandemic

    An Asian Perspective

    by Ran Wei, Ven-Hwei Lo, Dong Dong, Hai Liang, Guanxiong Huang, Sibo Wang, Yi-Hui Huang ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Internationalizing Media Studies
    This book tackles the infodemic—the rapid, widespread diffusion of false, misleading, or inaccurate information about the disease and its ramifications—triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. With a focus on four Asian societies, the book compares and analyzes the spread of COVID-19 misinformation and its broad impacts on the public in Beijing, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Singapore.Providing both a ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • News in their Pockets

    A Cross-City Comparative Study of Mobile News Consumption in Asia

    by Ran Wei, Ven-hwei Lo ...
    Series series Studies in Mobile Communication
    Since the debut of the iPhone in 2007, the mobile phone has become a quick, convenient, and immensely popular gateway for accessing and consuming news. With three billion mobile phone subscribers, Asian countries have led this seismic shift in news consumption. They provide a wide range of opportunities to study how, as mobile technology matures and becomes routinized, mobile news is increasingly ... Read more

    $40.79 CAD

  • Algorithmic Fairness in AI-Mediated Institutional Communication

    A Computational Framework for Multilingual Professional Interaction

    by Ran Yi, Zhensheng Li, Wei Zhang ...
    Series series Artificial Intelligence (R0)
    As Large Language Models increasingly shape professional discourse—legal proceedings, cross-border documentation, and professional education—questions of linguistic equity and algorithmic accountability become urgent. The book develops a computational framework for evaluating fairness in AI-mediated institutional communication.The book introduces a transformer-based benchmarking architecture ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Ecological Discourse Analysis

    Concept, Approaches and Analytical Tools

    by Professor Wei He, Ruijie Zhang, Ran Gao ...
    This book presents the concerns, concepts and methodologies of Ecological Discourse Analysis (EDA) based on the shared positions and practices of previous undertakings of discourse analysis. EDA is regarded as an emerging paradigm in discourse studies which undertakes ecologically motivated study of discourses that influences ecological relations.The authors propose a multifaceted ecosophy that ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Flexible and Stretchable Electronics

    Materials, Design, and Devices

    Edited by Run-Wei Li, Gang Liu ...
    With the recently well developed areas of Internet of Thing, consumer wearable gadgets and artificial intelligence, flexible and stretchable electronic devices have spurred great amount of interest from both the global scientific and industrial communities. As an emerging technology, flexible and stretchable electronics requires the scale-span fabrication of devices involving nano-features, ... Read more

    $206.99 CAD

  • Advances in Foundational Mass Communication Theories

    Edited by Ran Wei ...
    Providing leading-edge perspectives on the legacy theories of mass media and society, this collection advances the foundational theories of mass communications, which have sustained the field of study over the past fifty years. Many of these contributions were originally published as a Deutschmann Scholarly Essay in the Mass Communication and Society journal, and together they comprise a ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • Refining Milestone Mass Communications Theories for the 21st Century

    Edited by Ran Wei ...
    The ‘Milestones’ essays in Mass Communication and Society are reflective and analytical articles by the most notable scholars in the field. These classic essays address 21st century issues from the pioneers of media and communication studies, including Elihu Katz on new media and social movements, George Gerbner on cultivation analysis, and Dietram Scheufele on political communication. As ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • The State of Asian Communication Research and Directions for the 21st Century

    Edited by Ran Wei ...
    The 21st century has been called ‘the Asian Century’ by Eastern and Western academics, largely due to the economic and cultural rise of China and India. This volume explores both what this means for communication research, and the implications of Asia’s rising global power for communication scholars in Asia and from around the world. Hot topics and emerging trends are explored, encapsulating the ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Mobile Media, Political Participation, and Civic Activism in Asia

    Private Chat to Public Communication

    Edited by Ran Wei ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores how personalized content and the inherent networked nature of the mobile media could and do lead to positive externalities in social progress in Asian societies. Empirical studies that examine uses of the mobile phone and apps (voice mailing, SMS, mobile social media, mobile Weibo, mobile WeChat, etc.) are featured as a response to calls for theorization of the mobile media's ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • AI-Driven Mechanism Design

    by Weiran Shen, Pingzhong Tang, Song Zuo ...
    Series series Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
    Due to its huge success in industry, mechanism design has been one of the central research topics at the interface of economics and computer science. However, despite decades of effort, there are still numerous challenges, in terms of both theory and applications. These include the problem of how to design mechanisms for selling multiple items, dynamic auctions, and balancing multiple objectives, ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD