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Efficient clean energy harvesting, conversion, and storage technologies are of immense importance for the sustainable development of human society. To this end, scientists have made significant advances in recent years regarding new materials and devices for improving the energy conversion efficiency for photovoltaics, thermoelectric generation, photoelectrochemical/electrolytic hydrogen generation, and rechargeable metal ion batteries. The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a platform for research scientists and engineers in these areas to demonstrate and exchange their latest research findings. This thematic topic undoubtedly represents an extremely important technological direction, covering materials processing, characterization, simulation, and performance evaluation of thin films used in energy harvesting, conversion, and storage.

photoelectrochemical --- transparent conductive electrode --- lithium ion battery --- heterojunction --- Cu2ZnSn(S --- Ni-rich cathode material --- anode materials --- degradation --- dye-sensitized solar cells --- electron transfer --- water splitting --- energy storage --- bond population --- TiO2 nanotube --- atomic layered deposition --- PbI2 formation --- Ge incorporation --- visible light driven --- nanosheet arrays --- surface --- morphology --- perfect absorption --- organic sensitizers --- energy harvesting --- electronic structures --- water --- Al2O3 oxide --- thin film --- Se)4 --- solar cells --- energy conversion --- solar cell --- polymer --- nickel oxide --- metal-dielectric-metal structure --- color perception --- annealing --- nickel-cobalt-molybdenum metal oxide (NCMO) --- halide perovskite --- LaFeO3 --- few-layer graphene nano-flakes --- photocatalysis --- organic --- synthesis --- perovskite --- nanoparticle deposition system --- Fabry–Perot cavity --- thin films --- semitransparent --- coatings --- density functional theory --- LiNi0.8Co0.1Mn0.1O2 --- mixed metal oxides --- characterization --- density of states --- supercapacitor

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This two volume set LNAI 8917 and 8918 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2014, held in Guangzhou, China, in December 2014. The 109 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 159 submissions. The papers aim at enhancing the sharing of individual experiences and expertise in intelligent robotics with particular emphasis on technical challenges associated with varied applications such as biomedical applications, industrial automations, surveillance, and sustainable mobility.

Computer science. --- Special purpose computers. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Computer graphics. --- Application software. --- Computers and civilization. --- Control engineering. --- Robotics. --- Mechatronics. --- Computer Science. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics. --- Control, Robotics, Mechatronics. --- Computers and Society. --- Computer Applications. --- Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems. --- Computer vision. --- Software engineering. --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Computer software engineering --- Engineering --- Machine vision --- Vision, Computer --- Artificial intelligence --- Image processing --- Pattern recognition systems --- Informatics --- Science --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intellectronics --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Electronic data processing --- Logic machines --- Machine theory --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Robotics --- Optical data processing. --- Control engineering --- Control equipment --- Control theory --- Engineering instruments --- Automation --- Programmable controllers --- Optical computing --- Visual data processing --- Integrated optics --- Photonics --- Computers --- Special purpose computers --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software --- Civilization and computers --- Civilization --- Mechanical engineering --- Microelectronics --- Microelectromechanical systems --- Optical equipment

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The mental representation of language cannot be directly observed but must be inferred and modelled from its effects at second hand. Linguists have traditionally responded to this in two ways, either going for a fairly data-light approach and valuing theoretical creativity, or pursuing just those goals for which data is available and trusting to data-driven descriptive work. More recently, advances in technology and experimental techniques have made data gathering easier and more accessible, so that a theoretically informed but empirically based approach is rapidly growing in popularity. This synthesis permits linguists to combine the intellectual hypothesis generation of the theoreticians with the ability to deliver hard answers of the empiricist. This volume is a collection of papers in this direction, using mostly experiment methods to yield insights into syntactic and semantic structures, language processing, and acquisition. Papers report corpus data, neurological investigations, child language studies, and fieldwork from minority languages.

Linguistics. --- Linguistic analysis (Linguistics) --- Analysis, Linguistic (Linguistics) --- Analysis (Philosophy) --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Linguistic science --- Science of language --- Language and languages --- Psycholinguistics. --- Semantics. --- Syntax.