Orientadora: Ana Silvia Davi Lopes Médola / Banca: Laan Mendes de Barros / Banca: Jean Cristtus Portela / Banca: Paolo Demeru / Banca: Alan César Belo Angeluci / Resumo: A linguagem audiovisual é uma linguagem sincrética, e ao longo de um século de seu desenvolvimento, foi e é marcada por remediações e hibridizações. Nesse sentido, entende-se que a partir do advento das tecnologias digitais de produção e circulação de conteúdos possibilitou-se o progresso de novas formas expressivas do fazer audiovisual. Assim, o videoclipe interativo, um formato nativo do ambiente digital é em sua essência um produto híbrido que se manifesta em suportes remediados que possibilitam uma sincretização de linguagens distinta das formas de textualização desenvolvidas até então na comunicação audiovisual. O objetivo central desta tese é compreender o fenômeno dos videoclipes interativos a partir dos processos de remediação, hibridização e dos mecanismos de interação decorrentes da articulação de diferentes sistemas de significação na perspectiva do sincretismo de linguagens, postulado na semiótica discursiva. Para constituição do corpus, foi realizado o mapeamento da primeira década de videoclipes interativos (2007-2016), totalizando 152 projetos, posteriormente sistematizados e disponibilizados em um de banco de dados no site https://interactivemusicvideo.blogspot.com. A revisão bibliográfica dos conceitos de remediação e de hibridização permitiram identificar na primeira parte do trabalho as principais arquiteturas presentes nestes videoclipes, apontando para a necessidade de investigar o papel do sincretismo de linguagens nas estratégias enunciativas voltadas à... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: Audiovisual language is a syncretic language, and over its one century of development, it has been, and still is, characterized by remediation and hybridization. In that sense, the advent of digital content production and circulation technologies has enabled progress in newly expressive ways of audiovisual making. Thus, interactive video clips, a digital environment native format, are, in fact, a hybrid product, expressing themselves in remedied media, which allow for a language syncretism that is distinct from the textualization forms developed in audiovisual communication until then. The main goal in this thesis is to understand the interactive video clip phenomena from the remediation and hybridization processes and the mechanisms arising from articulating different significance systems, through the language syncretism perspective, as postulated on discursive semiotics. For corpus constitution, there has been a mapping of the first decade of interactive video clips (2007-2016), totalizing 152 projects, which have been subsequently systematized and made available through a database at the website: https://interactivemusicvideo.blogspot.com/. A bibliographical review of remediation and hybridization concepts allows us to define, in the first part of this paper, the main architectures that are present in those video clips, pointing out to the need of investigating the role of language syncretism in enunciative strategies focused on interaction meaning effects production. With... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

by Lai Hin Lun. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 54-57). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgement --- p.iv / Table of Contents --- p.v / List of Figures --- p.vii / Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- Related Works --- p.8 / Chapter 2.1 --- Source Modeling --- p.9 / Chapter 2.2 --- CBR Scheduler for VBR Delivery --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3 --- Brute Force Scheduler: --- p.15 / Chapter 2.4 --- Temporal Smoothing Scheduler: --- p.16 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Decreasing Rate Scheduling --- p.22 / Chapter 3.1 --- MDRS with Minimum Buffer Requirement --- p.25 / Chapter 3.2 --- 2-Rate MDRS --- p.31 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Performance Evaluation --- p.33 / Chapter 4.1 --- Buffer Requirement --- p.35 / Chapter 4.2 --- Startup Delay --- p.38 / Chapter 4.3 --- Disk Utilization --- p.39 / Chapter 4.4 --- Complexity --- p.43 / Chapter Chapter 5 --- Conclusion --- p.49 / Appendix --- p.51 / Bibliography --- p.54

My creative practice addresses two research questions: how does ubiquitous computation affect the visual operations of the contemporary control society and what does this mean for the use of visual media in contesting such control? Through photographic and video work in digital formats, I explore the movements and arrests of informatic flows that constitute the operation of control, and the potential for resistance that may be felt in the turbulence of the interface, as a dynamic threshold where such flows meet. In this turn to the interface, I theorise the impacts of computationality on the loss of the image as a stable site of representational resistance, with the unsettling of perspectival representation in the topology of informational space and the ambiguity of a digital visuality whose software hides as it shows. When brought together with recent work on the de-materialisation wrought by informational Capital, the digital image comes to be seen as an instantiation of anxiety about the abstracted nature of power that increasingly operates as control. It is less to the digital image itself, but rather to the circulations and patternings of data expressed as light on the screen, that we must attend if we are to confront the digital visuality of control. The ‘image-machine of control' is the infrastructure that modulates these data circulations and patternings through inciting the making, sharing and watching of images. Drawing on affect theory, I emphasise the role that affects of insecurity, at the level of the dividuated subject and the abstracted socius, play in inciting an interactivity with the screen on which the State and Corporation alike rely for their accumulation and circulation of data. The digital-visual interface, being the encounter with the screen, becomes a sitemoment to explore its dynamic boundary condition, whose turbulence of data flows may open up ‘lines of flight' from the striated grid of control. These lines of flight help us see beyond the workings of the faciality system, and the subject-object relations of the gaze. Specificity of positioning in scopic regimes of control still matters, but posthumanist theorising suggests that such positioning be understood as vector and not point, whose movements we need to stay in touch with. Using digital photography to open up the everyday practice of image-making to its potential to disrupt the informatic flows of control, my first photographic work, medium specific, makes use of photomontage to look at the topology of informational space through its ‘folds', as a first experiment in disrupting the tempo of the image-machine's visual incitements through a ‘pleating' of its data. I use haptic photography in the pieces figure ground, surface gaze and touch light to stay in touch with the smooth space of the interface as a time-space of contingency, potentially resistant to the gridded striations of control. My exploration of the contingency of the interface continues with two video works, look screen and moving still, which address its vibrational ontology. I put the concept of the vibrational interface to use in confronting the rhythms of control deployed by the image-machine. Being a rhythm of not only circulation but also capture, not merely movement but also arrest, I suggest that understanding the ontology of the interface in terms of its vibrational forces is useful for disrupting, through its moving stillness, the rhythm of flow and stasis on which control depends. Both videos use visual and sonic vibrations to set up counter-rhythms and oscillations, whose trembling may release energies for change.

Li Ngai. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references. / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Chapter Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1-1 / Chapter 1.1. --- A Brief Review on Pattern Matching --- p.1-1 / Chapter 1.2. --- Objective of the Research Work --- p.1-5 / Chapter 1.3. --- Organization of the Thesis --- p.1-6 / Chapter 1.4. --- Notes on Publications --- p.1-7 / Chapter Chapter 2. --- Background Information --- p.2-1 / Chapter 2.1. --- Introduction --- p.2-1 / Chapter 2.2. --- Review of Block Based Pattern Matching --- p.2-3 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- Gradient Descent Strategy --- p.2-3 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- Simplified Matching Operations --- p.2-10 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- Fast Full-Search Methods --- p.2-14 / Chapter 2.2.4 --- Transform-domain Manipulations --- p.2-19 / Chapter Chapter 3. --- Statistical Rejection Threshold for Pattern Matching --- p.3-1 / Chapter 3.1. --- Introduction --- p.3-1 / Chapter 3.2. --- Walsh Hadamard Transform --- p.3-3 / Chapter 3.3. --- Coarse-to-fine Pattern Matching in Walsh Hadamard Domain --- p.3-4 / Chapter 3.3.1. --- Bounding Euclidean Distance in Walsh Hadamard Domain --- p.3-5 / Chapter 3.3.2. --- Fast Projection Scheme --- p.3-9 / Chapter 3.3.3. --- Using the Projection Scheme for Pattern Matching --- p.3-17 / Chapter 3.4. --- Statistical Rejection Threshold --- p.3-18 / Chapter 3.5. --- Experimental Results --- p.3-22 / Chapter 3.6. --- Conclusions --- p.3-29 / Chapter 3.7. --- Notes on Publication --- p.3-30 / Chapter Chapter 4. --- Fast Walsh Search --- p.4-1 / Chapter 4.1. --- Introduction --- p.4-1 / Chapter 4.2. --- Approximating Sum-of-absolute Difference Using PS AD --- p.4-3 / Chapter 4.3. --- Two-level Threshold Scheme --- p.4-6 / Chapter 4.4. --- Block Matching Using SADDCC --- p.4-10 / Chapter 4.5. --- Optimization of Threshold and Number of Coefficients in PSAD --- p.4-15 / Chapter 4.6. --- Candidate Elimination by the Mean of PSAD --- p.4-23 / Chapter 4.7. --- Computation Requirement --- p.4-28 / Chapter 4.8. --- Experimental Results --- p.4-32 / Chapter 4.9. --- Conclusions --- p.4-45 / Chapter 4.10. --- Notes on Publications --- p.4-46 / Chapter Chapter 5. --- Conclusions & Future Works --- p.5-1 / Chapter 5.1. --- Contributions and Conclusions --- p.5-1 / Chapter 5.1.1. --- Statistical Rejection Threshold for Pattern Matching --- p.5-2 / Chapter 5.1.2. --- Fast Walsh Search --- p.5-3 / Chapter 5.2. --- Future Works --- p.5-4 / References --- p.I

Yim, Ka Yee. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 43). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgements --- p.vii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.viii / LIST OF TABLES --- p.x / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.xi / Chapter CHAPTER 1 : --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1. --- Motivation --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2. --- Overview --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3. --- H.264 Overview --- p.2 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 : --- CABAC --- p.7 / Chapter 2.1. --- Introduction --- p.7 / Chapter 2.2. --- CABAC Decoder Implementation Review --- p.7 / Chapter 2.3. --- CABAC Algorithm Review --- p.9 / Chapter 2.4. --- Proposed CABAC Decoder Implementation --- p.13 / Chapter 2.5. --- FSM Method Bin Matching --- p.20 / Chapter 2.6. --- CABAC Experimental Results --- p.22 / Chapter 2.7. --- Summary --- p.26 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 : --- INTEGRATION --- p.27 / Chapter 3.1. --- Introduction --- p.27 / Chapter 3.2. --- Reused Baseline Decoder Review --- p.27 / Chapter 3.3. --- Integration --- p.30 / Chapter 3.4. --- Proposed Solution for Motion Vector Decoding --- p.33 / Chapter 3.5. --- Synthesis Result and Performance Analysis --- p.37 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 : --- CONCLUSION --- p.39 / Chapter 4.1. --- Main Contribution --- p.39 / Chapter 4.2. --- Reflection on the Development --- p.39 / Chapter 4.3. --- Future Work --- p.41 / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.43

Besides ABT with higher order transform, a transform based template matching is also investigated. A fast method of template matching, called Fast Walsh Search, is developed. This search method has similar accuracy as exhaustive search but significantly lower computation requirement. / In this thesis, the development of simple but efficient order-16 transforms will be shown. Analysis and comparison with existing order-16 transforms have been carried out. The proposed order-16 transforms were integrated to the existing coding standard reference software individually so as to achieve a new ABT system. In the proposed ABT system, order-4, order-8 and order-16 transforms coexist. The selection of the most appropriate transform is based on the rate-distortion performance of these transforms. A remarkable improvement in coding performance is shown in the experiment results. A significant bit rate reduction can be achieved with our proposed ABT system with both subjective and objective qualities remain unchanged. / Prior knowledge of the coefficient distribution is a key to achieve better coding performance. This is very useful in many areas in coding such as rate control, rate distortion optimization, etc. It is also shown that coefficient distribution of predicted residue is closer to Cauchy distribution rather than traditionally expected Laplace distribution. This can effectively improve the existing processing techniques. / Three kinds of order-l 6 orthogonal DCT-like integer transforms are proposed in this thesis. The first one is the simple integer transform, which is expanded from existing order-8 ICT. The second one is the hybrid integer transform from the Dyadic Weighted Walsh Transform (DWWT). It is shown that it has a better performance than simple integer transform. The last one is a recursive transform. Order-2N transform can be derived from order-N one. It is very close to the DCT. This recursive transform can be implemented in two different ways and they are denoted as LLMICT and CSFICT. They have excellent coding performance. These proposed transforms are investigated and are implemented into the reference software of H.264 and AVS. They are also compared with other order-16 orthogonal integer transform. Experimental results show that the proposed transforms give excellent coding performance and ease to compute. / Transform is a very important coding tool in video coding. It decorrelates the pixel data and removes the redundancy among pixels so as to achieve compression. Traditionally, order-S transform is used in video and image coding. Latest video coding standards, such as H.264/AVC, adopt both order-4 and order-8 transforms. The adaptive use of more than one transforms of different sizes is known as Arbitrary Block-size Transform (ABT). Transforms other than order-4 and order-8 can also be used in ABT. It is expected larger transform size such as order-16 will benefit more in video sequences with higher resolutions such as nap and 1a8ap sequences. As a result, order-16 transform is introduced into ABT system. / Fong, Chi Keung. / Adviser: Wai Kuen Cham. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 73-04, Section: B, page: . / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. / Includes bibliographical references. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [201-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract also in Chinese.

Videoblogging is a form of cultural production that emerged in the early 2000s as a result of the increasing availability of cheap digital recording equipment, new videoediting software, video website hosting and innovative distribution networks across the internet. This thesis explores the close entanglement of culture and technology in this early and under-examined area of media production – most notably in the self-definition and development of a specific community around video practices and technologies between 2004-2009. These videobloggers' digital works are presented as an original case study of material digital culture on the internet, which also produced a distinctive aesthetic style. The thesis traces the discourses and technological infrastructures that were developed both within and around the community of videobloggers and that created the important pre-conditions for the video artefacts they produced. Through an ethnographically-informed cultural history of the practices and technologies of videoblogging, this thesis engages with the way in which new forms of cultural and technical hybrids have emerged in an increasingly digital age. The ethnographic research is informed by histories of film and video, which contribute to the theoretical understanding and contextualisation of videoblogging – as an early digital community – which has been somewhat neglected in favour of research on mainstream online video websites, such as YouTube. The thesis also contributes to scholarly understanding of contemporary digital video practices, and explores how the history of earlier amateur and semi-professional film and video has been influential on the practices, technologies and aesthetic styles of the videobloggers. It is also shown how their aesthetic has been drawn on and amplified in network culture, mainstream media, and contemporary media and cultural production. Through a critical mapping of the socio-technical structures of videoblogging, the thesis argues that the trajectories of future media and cultural production draws heavily from the practices and aesthetics of these early hybrid networked cultural-technical communities.

by Kelvin Kwok-wai Law. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-68). / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgments --- p.iii / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Background --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Motivation --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- Scope --- p.3 / Chapter 1.4 --- Dissertation Outline --- p.4 / Chapter 2 --- Background and Related Researches --- p.6 / Chapter 2.1 --- Interactive Services --- p.6 / Chapter 2.2 --- VOD Architecture --- p.7 / Chapter 2.3 --- Video Compression --- p.10 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- DCT Based Compression --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Subband Video Compression --- p.12 / Chapter 2.4 --- Related Research --- p.14 / Chapter 3 --- Multiple Resolutions Video File System --- p.16 / Chapter 3.1 --- Physical Disk Storage System --- p.16 / Chapter 3.2 --- Multi-resolution Video Data Placement Scheme --- p.17 / Chapter 3.3 --- Example of our Video Block Assignment Algorithm --- p.23 / Chapter 3.4 --- An Assignment Algorithm for Homogeneous Video Files --- p.26 / Chapter 4 --- Disk Scheduling and Admission Control --- p.33 / Chapter 4.1 --- Disk Scheduling Algorithm --- p.33 / Chapter 4.2 --- Admission Control --- p.40 / Chapter 5 --- Load Balancing of the Disk System --- p.43 / Chapter 6 --- Buffer Management --- p.49 / Chapter 6.1 --- Buffer Organization --- p.49 / Chapter 6.2 --- Buffer Requirement For Different Video Playback Mode --- p.51 / Chapter 7 --- Conclusions --- p.63 / Bibliography --- p.66

As the bandwidth has become much cheaper in the recent years, video applications are more popular than before. However, the demand of high video resolution, high frame rate, or high bit-depth has continued to increase more rapidly than the cost of video transmission and storage bandwidth. It requires more efficient compression techniques, and hence many international video coding standards are developed in the past decades such as the MPEG-1/2/4 part 2, H.264/MPEG-4 part 10 AVC and the latest High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standards. The main objective of this thesis is to consider the problems in analyzing the characteristics of video signals and providing efficient compression and transmission solutions in both H.264/AVC and HEVC video systems. Three main parts of this work are briey summarized below. / The first part concerns transform coding. Transform coding has been widely used to remove spatial redundancy of prediction residuals in the modern video coding standards. However, since the residual blocks exhibit diverse characteristics in a video sequence, conventional sinusoidal transforms with fixed transform kernels may result in low coding efficiency. To tackle this problem, we propose a novel content adaptive transform framework for H.264/AVC-based video coding. We propose to utilize pixel rearrangement to dynamically adjust the transform kernels to adapt to the video signals. In addition, unlike the traditional adaptive transforms, the proposed method obtains the transform kernels from the reconstructed block, and hence it consumes only one logic indicator for each transform unit. Moreover, a spiral-scanning method is developed to reorder the transform coefficients for better entropy coding. Experimental results on the Key Technical Area (KTA) platform show that the proposed method can achieve a significant bits reduction under both the all-intra and low-delay configurations. / The second part investigates the next-generation video coding. Due to increase of display resolution from High-definition (HD) to Ultra-HD, how to efficiently compress the Ultra-HD signals are essential in the development of future video compression systems. High-resolution video coding benefits from a larger prediction block size and thereof transform and quantization of prediction residues. However, in the current HEVC video coding standard, the maximum coding tree unit (CTU) size is 64x64, which can limit a possible larger prediction block in Ultra-HD video coding, and hence cause negative effects on coding efficiency. Thus, we propose to extend CTU to a super coding unit (SCU) for next-generation video coding, and two separate coding structures are designed to encode a SCU, including Direct-CTU and SCU-to-CTU modes. In Direct-CTU, an SCU is first split into a number of predefined CTUs, and then, the best encoding parameters are searched from the current CTU to the possible minimum coding unit (MCU). Similarly, in SCU-to-CTU, the best encoding parameters are searched from SCU to CTU. In addition, the adaptive loop filter (ALF) and sample adaptive offset (SAO) methods are investigated in SCU based video coding framework. We propose to change the filtering control from SCU level to the coding unit (CU) level, and an improved CU level ALF signaling method is also proposed to further improve the coding efficiency. Furthermore, an adaptive SAO block method is also proposed, and this flexibility of SAO blocks can further improve the performance of the traditional method in the Ultra HD video coding. / In the last part, we explore the bit rate control of video transmission. Rate control serves as an important technique to regulate the bit rate of video transmission over a limited bandwidth and to maximize the overall video quality. Video quality fluctuation plays a key role in human visual perception, and hence many rate control algorithms have been widely developed to maintain a consistent quality for video communication. We propose a novel rate control framework based on the Lagrange multiplier in HEVC. With the assumption of constant quality control, a new relationship between the distortion and the Lagrange multiplier is established. Based on the proposed distortion model and buffer status, we obtain a computationally feasible solution to the problem of minimizing the distortion variation across video frames at the coding tree unit level. Extensive simulation results show that our method outperforms the HEVC rate control by providing a more accurate rate regulation, lower video quality fluctuation and stabler buffer fullness. / 近些年，隨著帶寬費用變得越來越便宜，各種視頻應用比以前更為流行了。然而，人們對于高視頻分辨率，高幀率，或更高比特像素的需求增加了視頻傳輸和存儲帶寬的成本。滿足這樣的需求需要更有效的壓縮技術，因此在過去的幾十年裏，很多國際視頻編碼標准被開發出來，例如MPEG-1/2/4 part2, H264/MPEG-4 part 10 AVC和最新高效視頻編碼標准(HEVC)。本論文的主要目的是研究視頻信號的特點，在H.264和HEVC視頻系統中提供高效的壓縮和傳輸解決方案。論文分三部分，簡要總結如下。 / 第壹部分涉及變換編碼。在現代視頻編碼標准中，變換編碼已被廣泛用于消除預測殘差的空間冗余度。然而，由于在視頻序列中的預測殘差塊有著不同的特性，傳統的變換采用固定變換矩陣可能會導致低的編碼效率。為了解決這個問題，我們提出了壺種新的基于內容自適應變換方案的視頻編碼框架。我們利用重排像素，動態調整的變換矩陣以適應當前的視頻信號。此外，與傳統的自適應變換不同之處在于，我們所提出的方法得到的變換矩陣不需要傳輸到解碼端，而它僅消耗壺個邏輯單元指示當前變換矩陣。此外，我們提出了相應的變換系數掃描方法以達到更有效的熵編碼。在關鍵技術領域(KTA)平台，實驗結果表明本方法可以有效的改善幀內和低延遲的配置下的編碼效率。 / 第二部分探討了新壹代視頻編碼。由于主流顯示分辨率從高清到超高清的變化，如何有效地壓縮超高清視頻信號是未來視頻壓縮技術發展的關鍵。超高分辨率視頻編碼的好處在于可從壹個更大的預測塊對其預測殘差進行變換和量化。然而，在目前HEVC視頻編碼標準，最大編碼榭單元尺寸（CTU）是64x64，其可能限制較大的預測塊，從而影響編碼效率。因此，我們提出了擴展CTU為SCU。其中編碼壹個SCU可能用到兩個獨立的編碼模式，包括Direct-CTU和SCU-to-CTU。在Direct-CTU模式中，SCU被分割成許多預定義的CTUs，然後，最佳的編碼參數搜索範圍為CTU到MCU。同樣，在SCU-to-CTU模式中，最佳的編碼參數搜索範圍是SCU到CTU。此外，自適應環路濾波器（ALF）和自適應采偏移（SAO）在新的SCU編碼框架下進行了研究。我們提出濾波控制從SCU級別更改為CU級別，並提出了新的ALF信號傳送方法進壹步提高傳統的方法在超高清視頻編碼的中性能。 / 在最後壹部分，我們探討了視頻傳輸中的碼率控制。碼率控制作為壹種重要的技術，在有限的帶寬條件下，以最大限度地提高整體的視頻質量。視頻質量波動在人眼視覺感知中起著至關重要的作用，因此許多碼率控制方法得到了廣泛的發展，以追求提供穩定的視頻通信質量。我們提出了壹個新基于HEVC拉格日乘數碼率控制框架。在平穩視頻質量的假設下，我們提出了壹種新的失真和拉格日乘子之間的關係。基于新提出的失真模型和緩沖區的狀態，我們得到壹個計算上可行的解決方案，以最大限度地減少在編碼榭單元級的視頻幀的失真變化。大量的仿真結果表明，我們的方法優于HEVC的碼率控制，它可以提供更精確的碼率調節，降低視頻質量波動，以及維護穩定的緩沖區占有率。 / Wang, Miaohui. / Thesis Ph.D. Chinese University of Hong Kong 2015. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 158-164). / Abstracts and acknowledgements also in Chinese. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on 11, October, 2016). / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only.

"October 2002 (Revised May 2003)"--T.p. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 256-264).