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Thanks in no small part to its open market approach and consistent
support for pro-arbitration policies, over the past few decades, Hong Kong
has emerged as one of the world's leading centers for international
arbitration.

To address the navigation and positioning demands for military, marine, surveying, mapping, civil construction and many other uses, a number of innovative technologies have been developed to suit different environments, including technologies based on global navigation satellite system (GNSS), inertial navigation system (INS), terrestrial ranging, vision-based navigation, WIFI signals and others. The different characteristics of these individual systems result in a number of challenges for successful integration. One of the most challenging issues is the fault detection and exclusion (FDE) procedure used within integrated multi-sensor navigation systems. The primary objective of this thesis is to investigate from a geometrical perspective the benefits of integrating multiple sensors to system stability and reliability. Issues such as separability analysis of FDE are studied and applied to GNSS/INS, GNSS/Locata/INS, and GNSS/WIFI/INS integration systems. The major contributions of this research are: a) A theoretical extension of the separability analysis of the data-snooping FDE method. The outlier (fault) detection test with two alternative hypotheses has been extended to handle multiple alternative hypotheses. The geometrical effects that cause missed detection and wrong exclusion were studied. A more accurate and reliable estimation of the minimal detectable bias (MDB) has been proposed so as to improve the success rate of the outlier detection procedure. Performance studies were conduct using a single-epoch GPS point positioning scenario. b) An optimal receiver autonomous integrity monitoring (RAIM)-based FDE method was applied to GPS. It has been found that the probabilities of committing missed detection and wrong exclusion can be theoretically estimated to aiding in deciding whether or not the faulty pseudorange data can be correctly identified. c) The FDE performance of loosely and tightly coupled GPS/INS integration system for land vehicle navigation was investigated and evaluated using some road tests. ...

"This book explores how political, economic, social, cultural and technological forces are (re)shaping the meanings of love and intimacy in China's public culture. It focuses on a range of cultural and media forms including literature, film, television, music and new media, examines new cultural practices such as online activism, virtual intimacy and relationship counselling, and discusses how far love and romance have come to assume new shapes and forms in the new millennium. The book provides deep insights into how the huge transformation of China over the last four decades has impacted the micro lives of ordinary Chinese people"--

Japanese anime experiences a bumpy road on mainland China's online platforms, with constant removals and edits. This has led audiences to express dissatisfaction and scholars to call on the government to develop a systematic censorship system. However, the need for improved censorship measures is not limited to the government. At least three types of subjects are involved in the censorship process of Japanese anime on online platforms. Taking Bilibili, a Chinese video platform, as a case study, we classify censorship on Japanese anime into government censorship, public censorship, and self-censorship. As the case study shows, these three types of censorship demonstrate dynamic relationships of opposition, coordination, and unity, instead of a unilateral act of government pressure, and there is no simple antagonistic relationship between the subjects. We propose advice for each subject, expecting to alleviate the current conflicts and establish more reasonable interactions between the three parties for introducing and censoring Japanese anime.

Danmei is the Chinese term for boys' love, a genre of male–male romance created by and for women and sexual minorities. This commentary focuses on Xianqing, a well-known danmei forum established under the aegis of a women-oriented literature website in 2003. Although mainly dedicated to popular media consumption, Xianqing has over the years become both a part of the larger online public sphere in China and a unique queer public sphere that defies any simple classification, offering pleasures, meanings, and identities to numerous diehard danmei fans residing in and out of China, despite recurrent technical problems, managerial failures, and increasing censorship. Through revealing some of the paradoxes and ambiguities of this alternative public sphere, we seek to highlight the understudied gendered dimension of the online public sphere in China and question the rigid distinction between politics and entertainment in academic discourse.