This book makes both empirical and conceptual contributions to the debate on the privatization of Higher Education (HE) in China. Empirically, it aims to fill a gap in our knowledge of the privatization of HE in North China. To this end, I chose Beijing as a case for analysis and visited nine institutes of HE. The case study strategy is also complemented by an extensive review of national policies to reveal problems beyond the specific case of Beijing and of national concern. The effects of the cultural and socio-economic background and the unique state-party controlling system on HE...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, MLMI 2015, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2015, in Munich in October 2015.

The 40 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions. The workshop focuses on major trends and challenges in the area of machine learning in medical imaging and present works aimed to identify new cutting-edge techniques and their use in medical imaging.

This SpringerBrief focuses on crucial issues for device-to-device (D2D) communications within the rapidly expanding 4G LTE toward 5G system. Several critical technical challenges in D2D communications are discussed, and D2D standardization activities in 3GPP are provided. Topics range from proximity discovery and mode selection, to resource management. The authors investigate proximity detection solutions for enabling direct user equipment communication by listening to uplink transmission. The problem of mixed mode selection is demonstrated to meet multiple quality of service (QoS)...

This book examines the privatization of Higher Education in North China. It highlights the unique political, economic and cultural background of China and focus on different practices of and rationales behind privatization.