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Peijun Guo, Witold Pedrycz
The volume delivers a wealth of effective methods to deal with various types of uncertainty inherently existing in human-centric decision problems. It elaborates on comprehensive decision frameworks to handle different decision scenarios, which help use effectively the explicit and tacit …
Alessandro Salice, Bernhard Schmid
This volume features fourteen essays that examine the works of key figures within the phenomenological movement in a clear and accessible way. It presents the fertile, groundbreaking, and unique aspects of phenomenological theorizing against the background of contemporary debate about …
Mukesh Saraswat, Chandreyee Chowdhury, Chintan Kumar Mandal, Amir H. Gandomi
This book gathers outstanding papers presented at the International Conference on Data Science and Applications (ICDSA 2022), organized by Soft Computing Research Society (SCRS) and Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, from 26 to 27 March 2022. It covers theoretical and empirical …

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Creative Processes of Place-Making
Björn Thorsteinsson, Katrín Anna Lund, Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson, Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir
This open access book examines places on the margins and the dynamics through which a marginal position of a place is created. Specifically, it explores how places, mostly in sparsely populated areas, often perceived as immobile and frozen in time, …
Gene W. Yeo
After transcription in the nucleus, RNA binding proteins (RBPs) recognize cis-regulatory RNA elements within pre-mRNA sequence to form mRNA-protein (mRNP) complexes. Similarly to DNA binding proteins such as transcription factors that regulate gene expression by binding to DNA elements in …

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8th Workshop on Engineering Applications, WEA 2021, Medellin, Colombia, October 68, 2021, Proceedings
Juan Carlos Figueroa-García, Yesid Díaz-Gutierrez, Elvis Eduardo Gaona-García, Alvaro David Orjuela-Cañón
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Engineering Applications, WEA 2021, held in Medellin, Colombia, in October 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held in a hybrid mode. The 33 revised full papers …

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Current Trends and Future Outlook10th ICSIMAT, Ionian Islands, Greece, 2023
Androniki Kavoura, Teresa Borges-Tiago, Flavio Tiago
This open access book presents the latest findings of researchers from around the globe who presented their work at the 10th international conference of Strategic Innovative Marketing and Tourism (ICSIMAT) in 2023. It provides an up-to-date information and discusses current …
Clarilza Prado de Sousa, Serena Eréndira Serrano Oswald
The Anthropocene has become a field of studies in which the influence of human activity on the Earth System and nature is both the main threat and the potential solution. Social Representations Theory has been evolving since the 1960s.It links …
Mark C. Leake
This book describes modern biophysical techniques that enable us to understand and examine dynamic processes of infection at the molecular level. Cutting-edge research articles, laboratory protocols, case studies and up-to-date reviews cover topics such as single-molecule observation of DNA replication …

View book details for Modernising European Legal Education (MELE)

Innovative Strategies to Address Urgent Cross-Cutting Challenges
Oskar J. Gstrein, Mareike Fröhlich, Caspar van den Berg, Thomas Giegerich
This open access book presents innovative strategies to address cross-cutting topics and foster transversal competences. The modernization of European legal education presents a compelling challenge that calls for enhanced interdisciplinary collaboration among academic disciplines and innovative teaching methods. The volume …

View book details for Computer-Aided Architectural Design. INTERCONNECTIONS: Co-computing Beyond Boundaries

20th International Conference, CAAD Futures 2023, Delft, The Netherlands, July 57, 2023, Selected Papers
Michela Turrin, Charalampos Andriotis, Azarakhsh Rafiee
This book includes the refereed Selected Papers of the 20th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design. INTERCONNECTIONS: Co-computing Beyond Boundaries, CAAD Futures 2023, held in Delft, The Netherlands, in July 57, 2023. The 43 full papers included in this book …
Aitziber L. Cortajarena, Tijana Z. Grove
This book is devoted to the engineering of protein-based nanostructures and nanomaterials. One key challenge in nanobiotechnology is to be able to exploit the natural repertoire of protein structures and functions to build materials with defined properties at the nanoscale …
Xian-Cheng Jiang
This book provides an up-to-date review of the fundamentals of sphingolipid metabolism and its role in metabolic diseases. Focusing on the sphingolipid de novo synthesis pathway, the effect of sphingomyelin, ceramide, and sphingosine-1-phosphate, and linkage between sphingolipids and other lipids, …
Hiroyuki Shimizu, Akito Murayama
Our societies need to solve difficult issues to attain sustainability. The main challenges include, among others, global warming, demographic change, an energy crisis, and loss of biodiversity. In tackling these issues, a holistic understanding of our living space is important. …

View book details for Advances in Characterization and Analysis of Expansive Soils and Rocks

Proceedings of the 1st GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition, Egypt 2017 on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures
Laureano R. Hoyos, John McCartney
This volume includes a collection of technical papers covering two important research topics in geotechnical engineering: (1) the behavior and treatment of expansive soils, and (2) the characterization of rock properties. The twelve studies on expansive soils include investigations into …
Giuseppina Marsico, Virgínia Dazzani, Marilena Ristum, Ana Cecília de Sousa Bastos
This book provides a context of discussion for researchers and educational experts in order to rethink the relationship between actors, practices and borders within the educational contexts. The research in educational psychology has often challenged the concept of educational context. …
Francisco Pelegri, Michael Danilchik, Ann Sutherland
This book provides a comprehensive overview of topics describing the earliest steps of fertilization, from egg activation and fertilization to the activation of the zygotic genome, in various studied vertebrate model systems. The contribution of maternal and paternal factors and …
John D. Lambris, V. Michael Holers, Daniel Ricklin
This book highlights progress and trends in the rapidly evolving field of complement-related drug discovery and spotlights examples of clinical applications. As an integral part of innate immunity and critical mediator in homeostatic and inflammatory processes, the human complement system …
S. Hsu, N. Perry
Sustainable Development in Malaysia and Indonesia examines a range of topics pertaining to sustainable development in the two countries. While Indonesia and Malaysia are geographically close, Indonesia lags behind Malaysia in terms of well-being, with a lack of social services, …

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Proceedings of the 3rd GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition, Egypt 2019 on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures The Official International Congress of the Soil-Structure Interaction Group in Egypt (SSIGE)
Mohamed Shehata, George Anastasopoulos, Mattei Norma
This book publishes a number of papers that were presented at GeoMEast, Sustainable Civil Infrastructures, an international congress held in Cairo, Egypt, in November 2019. A number of papers were presented about materials for infrastructure sustainability, and those are the …

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7th International Symposium Celebrating Prof. John Campbell's 80th Birthday
Murat Tiryakioğlu, William Griffiths, Mark Jolly
This book contains a collection of papers on the science, engineering, and technology of shape casting, with contributions from researchers worldwide. Among the topics that are addressed are the structure-property-performance relationships, modeling of casting processes, and the effect of casting …
Shivani Bhardwaj Mishra, Ajay Kumar Mishra
This book reviews the work in the field of nanoadsorbents derived from natural polymers, with a special emphasis on materials finding application in water remediation. It includes natural materials both with an organic or an inorganic skeleton, from which the …

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Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms and Therapy
Jie Xu
This book systematically reviews the most important findings on cancer immune checkpoints, sharing essential insights into this rapidly evolving yet largely unexplored research topic. The past decade has seen major advances in cancer immune checkpoint therapy, which has demonstrated impressive …
Sergey S. Stepanov
This book is an introduction into stochastic processes for physicists, biologists and financial analysts. Using an informal approach, all the necessary mathematical tools and techniques are covered, including the stochastic differential equations, mean values, probability distribution functions, stochastic integration and …
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