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This open access book addresses a critical challenge in modern construction: ensuring the safety of hazardous and complex engineering structures, such as super-tall buildings and large-span structures characterized by their slenderness and scale. The widespread use of...
This open access book explores the multifaceted implications of military AI across a broad spectrum of applications, including autonomous weapon systems, decision-support technologies, and AI-augmented human capabilities. Building on the work of the DILEMA project...
This open access book offers a groundbreaking exploration of how iconicity: language's resemblance to its referents—is central to classical Chinese poetry and how it intersects with the visual expressiveness of English digital poetry. Drawing on semiotic theory...
This open access book collects the official discussers’ reports and all floor discussions, including the replies by the committees, presented at the 22nd International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC 2025) held in Wuxi, China, on September 22–26,...
This Open Access book addresses the critical gap in current literacy education by integrating multimodal literacies with social justice, providing educators and policymakers with innovative strategies and practical insights. It brings together leading scholars from...
The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world for future generations. While political philosophers have regarded intergenerational justice as an important field of study since the 1970s, the history...
This is an open access book. Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics and Finance (UEF) is pleased to announce the International Conference on Sustainable Economics and Finance (INCOSEF 2025).This international academic event brings together researchers, scholars, and...
This book covers the history of neuroradiology as written by the member societies of the World Federation of Neuroradiological Societies (WFNRS). Neuroradiology, as a specialty, received increasing recognition in the 1980’s. Before this, the pioneering work of Professor...
The book is a comprehensive examination of the current state of urban and regional development in the Balkan and Eastern European region. With a focus on demographics, governance and institutions, and smart growth in cities, this book provides a detailed analysis of the...
This open access book presents a multidisciplinary synthesis of research on animal navigation, integrating perspectives from behavior, neuroscience, and ecology to advance understanding of how animals orient and move within their environments. Successful navigation is...
This open-access book examines the military applications of the Internet of Things in three main parts: (I) Motivation and Use Cases, (II) Challenges and Solutions, and (III) Experimental Results and Recommendations. The first part describes the motivation and selected...
This is an open access book. This conference explores the synergy between artificial intelligence, science, literature, and communication to design innovative and inclusive learning systems. It will highlight how these disciplines can collaborate to transform e-learning...
Cancer centers across the world serve both dense urban centers and remote rural areas including Indigenous populations. This book advances knowledge in cancer data discussions for and with Indigenous populations, academics, researchers, Nations, and institutions, as...
Climate change and biodiversity loss are among the most pressing challenges of the Anthropocene, affecting all Earth systems and demanding both global and local responses. Local ecosystems, with their unique characteristics, are often best understood through the lived...
This open access volume presents the select peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Secure Data Analytics (ICAISDA 2025).
In controlled human infection (CHI) research, researchers intentionally expose people to pathogens to gain scientific insights. During the COVID-19 pandemic, proposals to use CHI research to speed up vaccine development captured public imagination and bioethicists’...
This open access book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intricate interplay between nostalgia and displacement in contemporary European cinema. Through the lens of significant films, it navigates the profound impact of these concepts on storytelling and audience...
This open access volume presents the select peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Recent Trends in Intelligent Computing, Manufacturing, and Electronics (rTIME 2025).
This open access volume presents the select proceedings of ATLAS International Design Conference 2025 (AIDC 2025). It centres around the principles of reducing, reusing, recycling, and recovering available resources, as well as focusing on a circular economy.
This book is open access, What makes people competent at work?This question is becoming complicated with the emergence of new technologies and the hastened pace of global economic exchanges. While there is less consensus about what people should know and be able to do...
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