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This open access book presents selected papers from International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Intelligent Systems (SCIS 2025), held on 7–8 November 2025, in University of Canberra, Bruce, Australia. The topics covered in the book are green computing,...
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 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 volume offers the first comprehensive examination of Kakishibu, a traditional Japanese technology based on fermented bitter persimmon juice, now gaining attention as a sustainable alternative to plastics. At its core, Kakishibu is rich in persimmon...
This open access book presents outstanding doctoral dissertations in Information Technology from the Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Information technology has always been highly interdisciplinary, as many...
This open access book collects eight reports from the specialist committees, presented and discussed at the 22nd International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC 2025) held in Wuxi, China, on September 22–26, 2025.This congress aims to further understand...
The open access book with the title “Electronic-Photonic Integrated Systems for Ultrafast Signal Processing” is a final report of the same-titled DFG Priority Programme in the emerging field of integrated electronic-photonic systems using novel...
This open access book collects eight reports from the technical committees, presented and discussed at the 22nd International Ship and Offshore Structures Congress (ISSC 2025) held in Wuxi, China, on September 22-26, 2025.This congress aims to further understand various...
This open access book introduces design for Sustainable Product-Service Systems (S.PSS) and for Sustainable Distributed Economies (S.DE). These are introduced as technical and operative tools for the development of a new generation of designers, responsible and capable...
This open access book explores tiny and high-frequency vibrations called terahertz phonons, which happen in solids and fluids due to small mechanical changes. It shows how these vibrations can trigger nuclear reactions in chemical elements like iron and calcium,...
This open access book presents the collective research outcomes of the German Research Foundation (DFG) funded Priority Program (SPP 2005): Opus Fluidum Futurum—Rheology of reactive, multiscale, multiphase construction materials, a multidisciplinary initiative to...
This open access book explores the complexity of socio-environmental extreme events and the possible ways to cope with them by mobilising critical and spatial thinking. Being set in “critical disaster studies”, it proposes a critique of dominant intellectual...
This open access book presents the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advances in Construction Machinery and Vehicle Engineering (ICACMVE 2025), highlighting the latest advancements and innovative practices in the field. Focusing on the challenges in...
This open access book offers a comprehensive exploration of digital health and care, addressing the profound transformations driven by digital technologies in the healthcare sector. It serves as a vital resource for understanding the evolution, impact and future...
This open access book explores the flame resistance characteristics and underlying mechanisms that contribute to explosion protection in highly active combustible media. It focuses on the flame resistance properties of wire mesh and corrugated flame-retardant systems...
This open access book takes the common bedding rock slopes in engineering practice of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area as the research object. The book adopts a research system of in-site investigation, equipment development, experimental exploration, theoretical...
This open access book presents the proceedings of the 33rd International Symposium on Rarefied Gas Dynamics (RGD33), held in Göttingen, Germany, on July 15-19, 2024. It encompasses applications of space, materials, and propulsion, as well as the basic physics of...
This open access book provides a synthesis of the knowledge generated on relevant and adaptive technologies for the betterment of farmer’s livelihood. The book is based on contribution made primarily by researchers from Africa and especially from Malawi....
This open access book includes original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 2024 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Applications (WCNA 2024), held in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China, from December 20 to 22, 2024. The topics covered...
This Open-Access-Book bundles the knowledge gained from 12 years of research in a joint project (CRC/TRR 129 funded by DFG) on the subject of oxyfuel combustion of solid fuels. Oxyfuel combustion uses an atmosphere of CO2, H2O and O2, which fundamentally changes...
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