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This open access book provides insights into research topics related to geotechnical engineering simulations, and collects selected papers from the 2024 7th International Symposium on Traffic Transportation and Civil Architecture (ISTTCA 2024), 21-23 June 2024, held in...
Digital innovation is significantly reshaping the financial services landscape, pioneering new avenues for sustainable access, distribution, and management of financial resources. A myriad of real-world applications, such as enabling digital supply chain finance across...
This open access book on Surgery in Uremic Patients is a comprehensive guide for general surgeons about the management of the most prevalent surgical challenges and procedures in patients with renal failure. It covers preoperative assessment, anesthetic...
This is an open access book on the pathophysiology, diagnosis and surgical techniques of functional diseases of the esophagus. In the past, these diseases were only studied and treated in a few centres. However, in the last thirty years, thanks to the advent of...
Palliative care is a medically and morally imperative response to any suffering - physical, psychological, social or spiritual, chronic or acute - that is associated with serious illness, serious injury, or severe emotional trauma, and that is not promptly relieved by...
This open-access book provides a comprehensive reference on the discovery and development of praziquantel. It presents the full research and development (R&D) journey of this essential anthelmintic drug, combining foundational science with practical insights. The...
This open access book provides a novel framework for understanding the connections between philosophy and public administration. It proposes four key directions of inquiry to help better understand the relationship between these two areas of research and practice:...
In the face of planetary crises -- from biodiversity loss to climate change to food security -- transdisciplinary methods promise effective and just responses through equal collaborations. However, transdisciplinarity also creates complex challenges by bringing together...
This is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of the 10th edition of Transport Research Arena (TRA 2024), held on 15-18 April, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland. Contributions cover a wide range of research findings, methodological aspects, technologies and policy...
The otolith, a calcified structure in the inner ear of fish, evolves throughout the life of an individual and is generally used to estimate the age of the fish. So how do we analyse this tiny mineral particle, and what does it tell us about each species of fish?This...
This open access volume presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, Healthcare and Sciences (ICAIEHS-2025). It explores the transformative role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across diverse domains. It covers...
This open access book offers a thorough examination of the most important actor in schooling children from the Indigenous Sámi during the nineteenth century, namely the Swedish Missionary Society (SMS). In the late 1830s, the SMS created its first schools...
This open access book provides an interdisciplinary perspective on energy metabolism in the brain and body in neuropsychiatric disorders and suggests future research directions. Multiple lines of evidence indicate that energy metabolism is aberrant in the body and brain...
This open access book presents the results and conclusions of research conducted by the author, and assisted by a team of young researchers brought together in the PuppetPlays project funded by the European Research Council. It is the first international survey to...
The open access volume is a collection of technical papers related to different domains of the power sector. It provides a glimpse of the research and scientific activities in several key areas of the power sector, like carbon capture and utilization (CCU),...
This is an open access book that addresses the need for hybridization in energy storage, offering a fresh perspective on integrating diverse storage solutions to support a successful energy transition. It fills a significant gap in the literature by presenting a...
This is an Open access book.This work addresses the presence and participation of adults in play with children. Rather than discussing this issue on ideological ground, the international contributions build on empirical data and report research conducted in many...
This open access book explores the mechanisms by which different audiences hearing the same comments made by the same speaker in the same context come to different interpretations as to the meanings behind them. The study uses a ‘pragmacognitive’ approach...
Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) systems. As 6G networks advance, the need for more efficient data collection, more intelligent system adaptability, and more accurate localization results. Traditional outdoor localization methods like GPS are limited indoors...
The most pressing policy challenges of our time require complex and coordinated strategies that transcend territorial borders. Issues such as climate mitigation, sustainable development and the migration crisis all require policy solutions that compel sub-national...
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