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This is an open access book. With great pleasure and anticipation, we extend our warmest welcome to the 2024 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Communication (ICAIC 2024). As we embark on this journey of intellectual exchange and collaboration, we...
This open access book investigates the ways in which young people around the world are prepared to undertake their roles as citizens. It presents the international results from the third cycle of the study IEA’s International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS...
This open access book presents the evaluation of undiscovered oil and gas resources and reserves growth in 468 basins around the world, as well as the potential of unconventional recoverable resources of seven types, including shale oil, heavy oil, oil sands, oil shale,...
This open access book examines how the adoption of Design Thinking (DT) can support public organisations in overcoming some of the current barriers in e-participation. Scholars have discussed the adoption of technology to strengthen public engagement through...
Foundational theories of meaning, and the broader metasemantic projects they contribute to, promise to answer the seemingly simple yet intractable question of what meaning consists in and where it comes from. Naturally, they build upon expressions that we already know...
This open access book describes the nondestructive assay techniques that are used for the measurement of nuclear material (primarily uranium and plutonium) for nuclear material accountancy purposes. It is a substantial revision to the so-called PANDA manual that has...
This open access book highlights the negative and positive health effects of chronic exposure to environmental sound. It describes the state of the art in the field from a public health point of view and puts it in a broad societal perspective looking at sound from...
This open access book intends to contribute to the debate on migrant labour exploitation by exploring the extent to which the EU and the European countries provide a standard for protecting migrant workers. It moves from a socio-legal and theoretical perspective and...
This open access book takes a human-focused multidisciplinary look at the ways in which autonomous technology shapes experience, affecting human lives and ways of working in settings ranging from the arts, design, and service to maritime and industry. The book focuses...
This open access book develops a typology of cities by exploring how current levels of migration-related diversity and segregation relate to three groups of factors: international mobilities, inequalities and political-institutional aspects of local governance. Based on...
This book is open access. About ESFCT 2024 2024 3rd International Conference on Economics, Smart Finance and Contemporary Trade ESFCT2022 has been successfully held on July 22-24, 2022 in Xi’an, China. ESFCT2023 has been held on July 28-30, 2023 in Dali, China. In...
This is an open access book. The 4th International Conference on Public Administration, Health and Humanity Development (PAHHD 2024), will be held on August 16-18 2024 in Shanghai, China. The basic function of public management is to provide public...
This open access book offers a guide to core principles and practices of manufacturing engineering. It covers the design of, together with technological and measurement issues for, technical systems. Locating charts and setup schemes describing different machining...
This book describes the fundamental concepts underlying radiation-induced failure mechanisms in electronic components operating in harsh environments, such as in space missions or in particle accelerators. In addition to providing an extensive overview of the dynamics...
This is an open access book. The 2nd International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Sustainable Business Practices (ICETSBP-24) aims to bring together researchers, academicians, industry experts, and practitioners from around the globe to explore and...
This is an Open Access book. International Conference of Science Technology and Social Sciences (ICONSTAS 2023) ICONSTAS 2023 is organized by Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) in collaboration with Universitas Hasanuddin (UNHAS), Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), IPB...
This open access book is a groundbreaking exploration of systemic risk in modern financial systems. Through its theoretical and empirical investigations, it reveals the multidimensionality of systemic risk, the transmission channels of crises, and the interlinkages...
This open access book focuses on the distinctive experiences of freelance and self-employed live performers in the UK’s live entertainment industries It provides an in-depth account of their working lives during COVID-19, showing how their experiences of the pandemic...
This open access book delves into the fundamental principles and cutting-edge techniques of plenoptic imaging and processing. Derived from the Latin words "plenus" (meaning "full") and "optic," plenoptic imaging offers a transformative approach to optical imaging....
This open access book is the first comprehensive guide to identifying antisemitism online today, in both its explicit and implicit (or coded) forms. Developed through years of on-the-ground analysis of over 100,000 authentic comments posted by social media users in the...
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