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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. ...

Section 1: Marriage in trouble, Chapter 1 Love stories in contemporary China: cultural production in the new millennium, Wanning Sun and Ling Yang, Chapter 2 Is it better to cry in a BMW or laugh on a bicycle? Television shows, marriage and the production of class in urban China Roberta Zavoretti, Chapter 3 Successology for women: relationship experts and sociobiological discourses Haiping Liu, Chapter 4 Holding virtual hands: an ethical practice against male infidelity in digital China, Yi Zhou, Section 2: Rural-urban inequality, Chapter 5 'Phoenix men': changing representations of urban-rural marriages in contemporary China, Guoqing Zheng, Chapter 6 Negotiating class and the rural-urban divide in urban homes: configuring the maid in literature and popular culture Yanwen Li, Chapter 7 Wounded masculinities: the subaltern between online longings and offline realities Tingting Liu, Section 3: Gender, race and class, Chapter 8 Women in rural romantic love: gender politics in television dramas, Huike Wen Chapter 9 Tiny Times, persistent love: gender, class and relationships in post-1980s bestsellers Ling Yang Chapter 10 The 'social factory' of China's male 'virtual lovers' Chris K. K. Tan and Zhiwei Xu, Chapter 11 International romance: changing discourses of Chinese-foreign intimacy in the decades of economic reforms Pan Wang, Section 4: Queer voices, Chapter 12 The emerging 'national husband': queer female fantasy in popular culture Jamie J. Zhao, Chapter 13 'Revolution plus love?' Online fandom of the television drama series The Disguiser Xiqing Zheng, Chapter 14 A love story: Li Yuchun's fans and contemporary Chinese singledom Maud Lavin

AbstractNews media play an indispensable role in disseminating information and shaping public perception during times of crisis. This study, integrating sentiment, emotion, discourse, and timeline analyses together, conducts a corpus-based sentiment analysis of the news articles on unemployment from the New York Times in 2020 to capture the emotional dynamics conveyed by the newspaper as the pandemic-induced unemployment developed in the US. The results reveal that positive sentiment in the news articles on unemployment is significantly higher than negative sentiment. In emotion analysis, "trust" and "anticipation" rank the first and second among the eight emotions, while "fear" and "sadness" top the negative emotions. Complemented with a discourse analysis approach, the study reveals that the change of the sentiments and emotions over time is linked with the evolution of the pandemic and unemployment, the policy response as well as the protests against ethnic inequalities. This study highlights the important role mainstream news media play in information dissemination and solution-focused reportage at the time of severe crisis.

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.