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This open access book provides an introduction to the role that Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays in the study of nanosystems—ranging from soft and active materials to optics and quantum condensed matter. This role is twofold: On the one hand, Artificial...
This open-access book highlights recent setbacks that threaten women’s human rights and positions achieved through feminist activism and commitment in academia and civil society. Almost three decades after the Beijing Conference and the Platform for Action, this book...
This open access book demonstrates how human biases affect the process of visual data analysis, a subject which has typically been left to researchers in cognitive and perceptual psychology and the social sciences. Human biases affect the way that people interpret and...
This open access book offers unique insights into organizational management in healthcare. It helps healthcare professionals understand how the unique imprints of healthcare organizations shape their identity drawing from practical experiences and evidence-based...
This open access book offers a unique and timely investigation of the multifaceted relationship between migration and European cities. Its chapters critically examine the historical, economic, socio-spatial, cultural and policy–political dimensions of the...
This open-access book explains how whistleblowing channels can be operated according to the best international practices and standards. Using guidance from the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) and the ISO37002 standard, the author discusses the benefits of a...
The open access book sheds light on the diverse forms of anti-gender mobilization in the post-Yugoslav space by exploring its historical trajectories, cultural variances, and different religious frames. It offers a meticulous comparative analysis of seven post-socialist...
This open access book presents a thorough, multidisciplinary examination of children’s rights in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) with a focus on Lithuania. Pursuing a comparative approach, it explores various aspects of children’s rights as established in...
This open access book presents an overview and step-by-step explanation of process management. It starts with the individual participants’ perspectives on their work in a process and its structuring and harmonization, and then moves on to its specification in a...
This open access book offers a critical and empirically grounded re-examination of social capital and civic engagement in Italy, thirty years after the seminal Making Democracy Work (Putnam et al., 1993). Moving beyond the classical North–South regional...
This open access volume presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Innovation with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 2025 (ICSIAIML 2025). It bridges the gap between cutting-edge AI/ML technologies and the critical need for...
This open access volume offers a timely and original contribution to scholarships in the Middle East and North Africa by focusing on governance and public policy in post-conflict contexts. Unlike works that center primarily on conflict and geopolitics, Governance...
This edited open access volume offers a comprehensive analysis of new and traditional funding models for the arts and culture. In the economic and political contexts of reduced art funding, the book takes an objective, pragmatic and heterodox approach to demonstrate how...
This is an open access book. Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of Risk Analysis Council of China Association for Disaster Prevention (RAC 2024).
This open access book summarizes research being pursued within the CIRC-UITS project, funded by the European Union community under the Horizon Europe programme, the goal of which is to demonstrate the improvement of circularity of automotive and mass electronics sectors...
This open access book analyses whether and to what extent fiscal transfers from central to local governments affect democracy at sub-national level. Fiscal transfers are often perceived to undermine democracy, as politicians utilise them to build patronage networks,...
This open access dissertation explores how manufacturing-induced residual stress states in fiber metal laminates (FMLs) affect a structural health monitoring (SHM) system. SHM is a promising technology for monitoring the structural integrity during operation. SHM...
This open access book presents the outcomes of the research developed within the PNRR T4Y PP 4.7.1 technology transfer project entitled “Open Phigital Platform (physical and digital) for user profiling and advanced, dynamic co-design of interventions on existing...
This open access book analyzes how subjectivities are produced and reproduced by urban spatial structures in twenty-first century neoliberal London. In three steps, it examines the continuous processes of intertwining conflicts that constitute urban space: It...
This is an open access book. About the ConferenceIFPLE 2025 is a collaboration between three academic programs at Universitas Prima Indonesia, aiming to bridge psychology, law, and education under the lens of ASEAN trade and labor rights. Conference GoalsTo foster...
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