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This two-volume set LNAI 14839-14840 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Rough Sets, IJCRS 2024, held in Halifax, NS, Canada, during May 17–20, 2024. The 43 full papers included in this book were carefully...

Research on healthcare and social service including professional social work is inherently an international subject. Each nation has a story of coping with the recent pandemic in the context of its political economy and cultural-historical settings. A...

This comprehensive volume examines developments in diplomatic technique and changes in the diplomatic and political structures which both shape, and are shaped, by international relations and the international order.It provides a comprehensive foundation...

This book presents an update on the state of the art in nanobiology and various nanoparticle synthesis and characterization methods. Further, the application of nanomaterials in agriculture (nanobiofertilizers and nanobiopesticides), environmental...

During the 1940s, Greece experienced some of the most significant moments in the contemporary history of the country, defining the socio-political environment to this day. Greece in the 1940s presents a deep dive into this time in history, as seen...

In today's dynamic workplace environment, ensuring the safety and well-being of employees has never been more critical. This book explores cutting-edge technologies intersecting with workplace safety to deliver effective and practical results.Artificial...

This book takes a deep dive into the industrial sphere, exploring subjects such as aerospace development, knowledge management in higher education, and the emergence of a nation as a player in the global space race. This insightful compilation of...

This new edition provides a step-by-step guide to applying the Rasch model in R, a probabilistic model used by researchers across the social sciences to measure unobservable (“latent”) variables. Although the focus is on simple R code, the book provides...

This book explores how actors practise sovereignty as a force in a multiscalar context.Among the various power structures that perform sovereignty, such as the head of state, a legislative body, or the military, one aspect is clear: the practice of...

This book is a concise practical guide to some of the most relevant ways of thinking and doing international legal research today. It is designed to help students and early career researchers to get acquainted with the theory and practice of a selection...

Dieses Buch erörtert die Rolle chronischer Erkrankungen als entscheidende Herausforderung für die Zukunft der Medizin in einer Zeit alternder Bevölkerungen und der stetigen Zunahme nicht übertragbarer Begleiterkrankungen. Es beschreibt, wie...

Based on original interviews with World War II veterans, The First Black Marines chronicles the powerful stories of the first African American men who trained and served in the US Marine Corps during the Jim Crow era. As a highly accessible introduction...

The proverbial benefits of prevention over cure are self-evident-and yet we are reluctant to invest in protecting and improving our health. When a high-risk, high-value hazard can be averted rapidly, with certainty and relatively low cost, protecting...

A compassionate, interactive guide filled with practical skills and essential information for adults who love someone with a mental illness or history of trauma.Family members and friends of adults with a mental illness often navigate difficult journeys,...

In this important and timely book, scientists from a broad range of disciplines detail their personal responses to the climate change and ecological crisis which led them to form Scientists for XR and work tirelessly within it. Whether inspiration comes...

Mulki Al-Sharmani examines the goals, approaches and methodologies which key scholars have adopted in their efforts at crafting an Islamic feminist discourse. The position of women in Islam remains deeply contentious. While conservative elements both...

This edited volume is the first systematic philosophical investigation of the complex and multifarious relationships between dreaming and memory. Featuring fifteen chapters by leading researchers, it explores a range of issues that arise when dreaming...

This textbook is intended for students of Mathematical Economics and is based on my lectures on Linear Algebra delivered at Satbayev University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The program closely aligns with that of the London School of Economics. The textbook...

This book delves into the fascinating realm of eukaryotic gene regulation. The specific expression of genes shapes the phenotype of cells and tissues. The regulation of gene expression, including up- and downregulation, is a fundamental aspect of nearly...

What makes indignation ‘political’ and why should we care about it? Drawing on fieldwork among four movements in Belgium (2017-2021) – The Youth for Climate movement, the Citizen platform for refugee support, the Yellow Vests movement and the...

When is bankruptcy moral? Is there such a thing as illegitimate debate? And what are tyrants owed? Drawing on new archival sources, this book shows how Latin American nations have wrestled with the morality of indebtedness and insolvency since their...

An urgent book on generative artificial interlligence from one of the top US journalists in the tech field, exploring the risk and benefits looming.

This reference book collates traditional and modern applications of remote sensing in aquatic ecosystem monitoring. It covers conventional assessment methods like sampling, surveying, macroinvertebrates, and chlorophyll estimation for aquatic ecosystem...

This innovative textbook on the theories, approaches and methodologies that inform political geography is brought together by past and present editors of the journal of the same name. The book fills the current gap in the literature through a reflection...

The book covers the state of the art in hybrid manufacturing in terms of processing and resulting properties. The book progresses from traditional hybrid manufacturing processes such as compression molding (CM), injection molding (IM), sheet molding...

This book is a comprehensive guide to Linear Algebra and covers all the fundamental topics such as vector spaces, linear independence, basis, linear transformations, matrices, determinants, inner products, eigenvectors, bilinear forms, and canonical...

War was coming. Everyone knew that confrontation with Nazi Germany was inevitable and that London was likely to be a prime target of Hitler’s bombers. So, in January 1939, Aylmer Firebrace, the Chief Officer of London Fire Brigade, was seconded to the...

This book argues that cybersecurity’s informational ontology offers empirical challenges, and introduces a new interdisciplinary theoretical and conceptual framework of ‘entropic security’.

Immigration remains a cornerstone of national policy, although it has undergone significant transformations across economic, family, and refugee admission streams in the past two decades. Reshaping the Mosaic offers an insightful exploration of Canada's...

Set in Gitxsan territory in Northern British Columbia, At the Crossroads provides a first-hand account of a cultural resource management (CRM) project. Beginning with the initial client call, the book lays out the challenges of a tight timeline, limited...

This book explores the secrets of white light-emitting materials, shedding light on their fundamental characteristics, fabrication techniques, and potential applications. The book begins by providing an overview of white light emission and its...

This textbook is an introduction to systems and computational neuroscience with a special focus on cognition. It consists of three parts: Part I covers basic concepts and mathematical models of computational neuroscience, as well as cutting-edge topics...

We live in a digital world. In the 30 years since we've been online, we've created connections, crossed boundaries and discovered new worlds. We have done things generations before us could never have imagined. But at what cost?Growing up as a Gen Z,...

We live in a digital world. In the 30 years since we've been online, we've created connections, crossed boundaries and discovered new worlds. We have done things generations before us could never have imagined. But at what cost?Growing up as a Gen Z,...

‘Why does my daughter rebuff my advice?’ ‘Why was my dad never this patient with me?’ ‘I didn’t expect to feel all this.’ The birth of a grandchild is a cause for celebration. But when a child becomes a parent themselves, existing family structures are...

A unique text providing a roadmap through the deprivation of liberty of children, from spotting the initial signs that a child may be deprived of their liberty or a deprivation of liberty may be required, through to taking an application to court and the...

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Fossil fuels have been key to major powers' foreign policies for a long time. In the context of the current global energy transition, renewables and low-carbon technologies are emerging as elements that can have a similarly important impact on...

This book offers you a hands-on experience using models from OpenAI, Antrophic, and the Hugging Face library. You will use various tools and work on small projects, gradually applying the new knowledge you gain.   The book is divided into three parts...

Quantitative Human Physiology: An Introduction, winner of a 2018 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty), is the first text to meet the needs of the undergraduate bioengineering student who is being exposed to physiology for the first time but requires a more...