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This open access book explores how Italy experienced the crucial period of transition that has come to be known as the ‘Shock of the Global’ during the 1970s.This decade marked a change between the prevailing socio-political and economic structures of the post-war world...
This open access book reports on recent developments of artificial intelligence applications in the manufacturing industry. Gathering contributions to the second European Symposium on Artificial Intelligence in Manufacturing, held on October 16, 2024, in...
This open access book investigates a topic underexplored in policy transfer: time. Drawing on well-known theories from comparative education, public policy studies, political science, and sociology, but written in an easy-to-understand language, the author discusses...
This open access book attempts to answer the question, “Why are so many severely mentally ill people homeless or incarcerated?” Updated since it’s original 1988 release, this book tracks the history of this question in the United States. The answer begins in...
This innovative, open access volume explores the core characteristics of the halal industry through case studies of five East and Southeast Asian countries—Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Japan, Indonesia and China—representing both Muslim-majority and...
This open access book presents a good overview of the current research landscape of assembly, handling and industrial robotics. The objective of MHI Colloquium is the successful networking at both academic and management levels. Thereby, the colloquium focuses an...
This Open Access book provides an in-depth analysis of the role held by media and journalists in a fragmented and polarized communication ecosystem that faces the uncertainty of major challenges, such as the impact of the disintermediation process, the pressure of...
The evolutionary biologist Julian Huxley (1887–1975) attempted to promote a “religion for the future,” which he would come to refer to as Transhumanism. Transhumanism was an attempt to unite a more traditional humanistic view of the human as containing some form of core...
Renal anemia, one of the common complications in patients with chronic kidney disease, has a high prevalence and seriously affects the quality of life and prognosis of patients. This open access book provides advanced information on clinical management of renal anemia...
Contract farming is an institutional arrangement between farmers and businesses to produce and transact agricultural commodities at predetermined prices and conditions, and it has recently received a heightened amount of attention despite being a relatively old...
We are often told that the women’s movement of the 1960s and 1970s led to the rediscovery of forgotten women writers. Without feminist presses such as Virago, these women would have sunk into obscurity. Thanks to Carmen Callil and other trailblazing feminist publishers,...
This open access book is an ambitious study about how to use comparative methods to analyze contemporary military strategy in the maritime domain. Based on the three strategic concepts of area denial, sea control and power projection, this book analyzes the intensive...
This is an open access book. Culture is the spiritual activity and product of human society relative to economy and politics. The traditional concept of human beings believes that culture is a social phenomenon, a product created by human beings for a long time, and at...
This is an open access book that addresses how we treat others and, in particular, infants and children, with first-person authority. We respond to people’s first-person authority when we give our interlocutor’s communication of their mental states more significance in...
This is an open access book. As advancements in technology continue to reshape the educational landscape, 2024 Seminar on Educational Technology and Management Information Systems (ETMIS 2024) has become critical in promoting effective learning environments and...
Until recently the Russian Federation used to be one of the largest markets for outbound travel. Among Russians’ favourite destinations were cities that used to be part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and are now located in the independent nation-states...
Fueled by the recent cost of living crisis and compounding social policy challenges, absolute poverty measurement is rapidly gaining relevance in many advanced economies. Focusing on individuals’ and households’ minimum financial needs, absolute measures of...
This open access book surveys the dynamic landscape of professional arts and design education research, examining salient concepts and issues through the lens of signature pedagogies as an analytical framework. The arts and design professions covered...
This is an open access book. The Faculty of Business and Finance, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) is pleased to organize the 12th International Conference on Business, Accounting, Finance, and Economics (BAFE 2024) on 23rd October 2024 in hybrid...
This open access proceedings volume provides the premier interdisciplinary forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners to present their latest research results, ideas, developments, and applications in the area of manufacturing, advanced materials and...
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