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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book explores the Savings Finance model in Turkey, an interest-free financial system grounded in interest-free finance principles that came into being in the 1990s as an ethical alternative to conventional banking. The study examines the operational mechanisms of the model, particularly the collective savings pools for housing, vehicles, and workplaces. These pools circumvent the use of fixed interest rates by employing profit and loss sharing and managed fund pools. The book integrates theoretical analyses of interest-free finance and global models, such as ROSCAs, with empirical data from a nationwide survey of 662 participants. It assesses factors including public trust, theological sensitivities, and demographic influences on financial preferences.The book discusses the sector's legal framework, operational mechanisms (including inflation-protected and lottery-based models), and its socio-economic impact, highlighting challenges like balancing religious norms with cost competitiveness. It also assesses awareness gaps and strategies to enhance institutional credibility. The book's comprehensive collection of cross-tabulated demographic data and quantitative analyses renders it a valuable resource for scholars of interest-free finance, economists, policymakers, and professionals interested in ethical financial systems. It offers critical insights for those exploring how cultural, religious, and regulatory dynamics shape alternative finance in emerging markets.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book synthesises narrative research on men convicted of intimate femicide/feminicide in Latin America. Based on repeated biographical interviews conducted across eight countries, it offers a sociological exploration of the perpetrators lives and their processes of sense-making through the analysis of their narratives. The book identifies cross-cutting themes and narrative arcs in these men's accounts and examines how these relate to, interweave with one another, and help explain the perpetration of intimate partner violence. By deepening our understanding of harm-doing, it contributes to ongoing debates in criminology, law, public health, the social and human sciences of violence, and gender studies.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This open access book offers a comprehensive overview of nuclear technologies and the nuclear supply chain. It explores nuclear energy as a critical resource through economic, geopolitical, and social lenses, assessing its potential role in combating climate change. The book also addresses key challenges, including nuclear waste management, decommissioning, and back-end operations. By examining both historical hurdles and future policy and industry obstacles, it provides valuable insights for policymakers, researchers, and industry professionals navigating the evolving landscape of nuclear energy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book discusses an integrative approach to the currently high profile topics of artificial intelligence, quantum information, and quantum biology, with applications in the biosciences and the emerging fields of computational phenomenology and basal cognition. Specifically, the book addresses theoretical constructs of artificial intelligence and quantum information within scale-free work space architectures as pertaining to neuroscience and biology as well as to self-organizing systems generally. The past few years have seen a rapid convergence of interests between researchers working in evo-devo biology and neuroscience and those working in AI, machine learning, and the physics of information, with much of this convergence driven by recognition that the Free Energy Principle applies not just to nervous systems, but to physical systems in general. The authors develop a scale-free, minimal architecture that associates a generic semantics with any well-defined physical interaction. The presentation is accessible to a broad audience, including advanced undergraduates. The book is appropriate for students and researchers in AI, the physics of information, and the life sciences, particularly those working in the growing interdisciplinary field of active inference.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book, featuring a trainer manual and facilitator resources, provides correctional agencies with a comprehensive approach to enhancing criminal thinking interventions. By equipping frontline staff with practical tools, it empowers them to actively reduce disruptive behavior in ways aligned with evidence-based rehabilitation models. The manual underscores the critical role correctional officers and unit staff play in influencing behavior, emphasizing how their daily interactions with incarcerated individuals are essential for fostering change.The first section prepares training facilitators by discussing the importance of addressing criminal thinking through a therapeutic, rather than punitive, approach. It outlines the structure of the training, provides guidance on managing sessions and participant engagement, and offers recommendations for evaluating training effectiveness.At the core of the book is a structured training curriculum that delivers practical strategies for addressing criminal thinking in correctional settings. Detailed slide-by-slide annotations support facilitators in delivering each module. The curriculum offers clear instructions on recognizing and managing cognitive distortions contributing to criminal behavior, equipping staff with intervention tools. It also addresses challenges in working with diverse populations, providing strategies for tailoring interventions to different groups.The final section focuses on applying learned principles through hands-on exercises, case studies, and role-playing scenarios, ensuring staff can implement strategies in real-world situations. The manual provides a structured yet adaptable framework, allowing senior correctional officers and administrators to effectively train their teams.With supplemental resources, including worksheets and scripts, this book serves as a practical, evidence-based guide to reducing criminal thinking, improving institutional safety, and enhancing rehabilitation outcomes within correctional facilities.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Learn about the principles of marketing a comprehensive introduction for students and practitionersThis book is an English translation of a German textbook. It conveys the fundamental principles of marketing and consistently draws on practical experience. This application-oriented approach enables readers to analyze marketing problems and develops solutions independently. The book has proven itself in German-speaking countries (Germany, Switzerland, Austria) for decades. It provides an overview of central concepts, methods, and instruments of marketing and is extremely useful for students, lecturers, and practitioners.ContentMarketing as a Management ProcessStrategic MarketingMarket ResearchProduct and Pricing PolicyCommunication and Sales PolicyMarketing Organization and Controlling.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This two-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2025, held in Nara, Japan, during November 2 6, 2025.The 60 full papers included in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 277 submissions. These papers address theoretical, analytical, and empirical aspects of the Semantic Web; promote the sharing of resources that support, enable, or utilize semantic web research; and describe applied research as well as software tools, systems, or architectures that benefit from the use of Semantic Web and Knowledge Graph technologies.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book examines the development of an information technology architecture that promotes automated, agile, and transformative enterprises while adhering to environmental and ethical guidelines. It explores how digital transformation, combined with dynamic business aspects such as fluctuating workloads, agile responses to customer demands, and economic and ecological sustainability requires strategic foresight and careful management.The book also examines the IT infrastructure transformation essential for promoting agile enterprises, including the mental alignment of personnel and organizational structures, from the first steps, to continuous adaptation to a rapidly evolving market and changing technology landscape. In addition, it outlines how an AI-driven methodological approach can be used to monitor the significant consumption of economic and human resources and enable early optimization measures consistent with agility and rapidly changing business objectives.This book is a valuable resource for executives and offers essential insights into shaping the digital transformation toward agile enterprises.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book presents an innovative and thought-provoking argument regarding the foundations of politics and its ethical implications, exploring the difference between what politics is (and/or can be) and what it is not (and/or cannot be). It distinguishes between two fundamental forms of political poverty, namely ontological poverty and theoretical poverty. Ontological poverty depicts the negative foundation upon which the political relies an absence that, paradoxically, underpins the political existence. In contrast, theoretical poverty emerges when this ontological datum is self-delusively denied by politics itself, leading to the loss of political properties of politics, or political poverty, and the resulting dehumanisation of the political subject. Drawing on Aristotelian logic, the volume discloses the aporetic condition of political ontology, deploying phenomenological inquiry through deconstruction. Through close readings of Kafka, Agamben, Derrida, Levinas, and Schmitt among others, it maps the porous threshold between the political and the non-political, illuminating how this tension between being and becoming is conditional to politics itself and simultaneously the site of its potential impoverishment. In this context, theoretical poverty is recognised as the prodromic moment when politics ceases to carry its own name, severing its ties to the ethical and ontological relations that sustain it. This work makes a significant contribution to contemporary debates in political philosophy, political theory, political ontology, and ethics. It will particularly appeal to scholars engaged with continental philosophy and literary theory. It opens a new avenue of inquiry into the political foundations by questioning what politics is and what it risks not becoming.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This comprehensive book explores the multifaceted world of performative arts spaces.Part I establishes a strong foundation by tracing the historical evolution of these spaces, showcasing iconic examples, and emphasizing the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration within diverse cultural contexts. It also examines the relationship between dance, movement, and embodiment in performative spaces, highlighting their transformative power in times of global challenges.Part II takes readers on a visionary journey into the future, exploring the transformative potential of cutting-edge technologies. Chapters in this section discuss the interplay of digital arts and architecture, the integration of immersive technologies, adaptive environments, AI and machine learning, robotics, and digital fabrication. These innovations are explored in relation to their ability to enhance audience experiences, optimize performance spaces, and push the boundaries of creativity.Part III addresses the significant need for comprehensive resources in interior design, digital arts, performing arts, and disruptive technologies. It provides valuable insights for students and professionals alike, covering essential design principles, case studies of notable venues, and the role of performative arts spaces in promoting sustainability amid global crises.Overall, this book presents a holistic exploration of the most important aspects of performative arts spaces blending historical context, architectural design, technological advancements, and educational perspectives. It is an essential resource for anyone interested in the dynamic interplay between architecture, design, and the performing arts.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book offers a comprehensive exploration of research methodology, providing invaluable insights for students and researchers in the AEC industry and engineering fields. Through this book, readers learn the theoretical and practical aspects of research design and academic writing, making it an indispensable resource for anyone engaged in scholarly investigation.This book covers a wide range of topics essential to robust research practices. Readers explore identifying research gaps, formulating problem statements, crafting precise research questions, objectives, and aims. This book delves into the philosophical foundations of different research paradigms ontological and epistemological factors that impact methodological decisions. It also provides an in-depth examination of qualitative methods such as ethnography, grounded theory, narrative analysis; quantitative methods including experimental design, survey techniques; as well as mixed-methods approaches that combine both to yield comprehensive results.In addition to theoretical content, this book offers practical tools like templates for research proposals and checklists for data collection. These resources are designed to aid researchers in efficiently applying their knowledge in real-world settings. The authors emphasize clarity, coherence, and scholarly rigor in academic writing while providing practical techniques to overcome common obstacles faced by researchers.This book is essential for researchers, scholars, students at all levels who seek to enhance their understanding of research methodology. It provides clear guidance on structuring and organizing research articles, performing literature reviews, presenting findings with scholarly rigor. Whether you are a novice researcher or an experienced academician looking to refine your skills or gain new perspectives on methodological practices this book is tailored to meet your needs.Researchers in fields such as architecture, engineering construction (AEC), environmental design find this work particularly beneficial. Its comprehensive scope guarantees its authenticity usefulness rendering it indispensable literary essential study academic writing methodological investigation.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Moving averages of prices serve as the primary tool for tracking trends in financial markets, filtering out noise, and highlighting trend directions. With a plethora of moving averages and trend-following rules at their disposal, traders often find themselves overwhelmed by the sheer variety of choices. Moreover, traders persistently devise new forms of exotic moving averages, each purportedly offering improved responsiveness and smoothness compared to its predecessors. While it is relatively straightforward to visually compare the responsiveness of two different moving averages, assessing their smoothing properties proves to be more challenging. Comparisons made through visual inspection are inherently subjective and prone to biases. A pressing need exists for quantitative metrics to objectively assess the properties of moving averages and their associated trend-following rules.In this book, the authors propose a quantitative assessment of the properties of trend-following rules based on moving averages. They argue that there are three primary properties of trend-following rules: responsiveness, smoothness, and accuracy. Given the prevalent claims that each exotic moving average offers superior responsiveness and smoothness compared to prior versions, the book provides a means to verify the accuracy of these assertions. It offers systematic and comprehensive coverage of various types of moving averages and the trend-following rules based on moving averages, and focuses on identifying the most crucial properties of trend-following rules and proposing quantitative metrics for their evaluation.Despite the plethora of books and academic publications, contemporary trend-following with moving averages remains more of an art than a science. This book injects scientific principles into the practice of trend-following, offering invaluable, distinct, and objective insights tailored for traders and investment professionals involved in trend-following investing alongside academics and students within economic and finance departments.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th IFIP WG 5.4 International TRIZ Future Conference on AI-Powered Innovation and Inventive Design, TFC 2025, held in Paris, France, during November 5 7, 2025.The 48 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. They were focused on topical section as below.Part I: Neuro-Symbolic and AI-Assisted Contradictions; Generative Agents for Ideation and Design; Tech Mining, Forecasting and Cross-Domain Exploration; Modeling, Verification and Optimization of Technical Systems and Frameworks for Digital Transformation and Industry 5.0.Part IICognition, Causality and Systematic Prototyping; Innovation Governance and Standardization; Innovation Governance and Standardization; Data, Forecasting and Intelligent Services and User Experience and Interoperable Public Policies.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th IFIP WG 5.4 International TRIZ Future Conference on AI-Powered Innovation and Inventive Design, TFC 2025, held in Paris, France, during November 5 7, 2025.The 48 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. They were focused on topical section as below.Part I: Neuro-Symbolic and AI-Assisted Contradictions; Generative Agents for Ideation and Design; Tech Mining, Forecasting and Cross-Domain Exploration; Modeling, Verification and Optimization of Technical Systems and Frameworks for Digital Transformation and Industry 5.0.Part IICognition, Causality and Systematic Prototyping; Innovation Governance and Standardization; Innovation Governance and Standardization; Data, Forecasting and Intelligent Services and User Experience and Interoperable Public Policies.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book looks at the way the 2020 Second Nagorno Karabakh War allowed urban spectacular transformation in war actors attitudes towards space and transnationalism. It concentrates on some specific events, including pre- and wartime life in the Nagorno Karabakh political capital Stepanakert and compelling historical and cultural heritage issues in the cultural capital Shushi and its meaning for theArmenianpopulation worldwide.Attention is placed both on wartime social and urban changes and to the destruction, or attempted destruction, of Armenians cultural heritage during the conflict and in post-warAzerbaijanioccupation. The first part of the book reconstructs the historic and religious context of Nagorno Karabakh, linking it with the regional geo-political dimension; meanwhile, the case studies analysed in the second part of the book will help understand spatial meanings (e.g., towns, cultural centres, monasteries) and the symbolic value of urban heritage while also discussingsome conflict markers in the context of theories of transnationalismand diaspora studies.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is the first comprehensive monograph devoted to the work of Theodor Lipps (1851-1914), a major figure in German intellectual life of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who is today mostly remembered as a pioneering theorist of empathy and a key figure in the history of aesthetics. Although Lipps s thought has gained in recognition in recent years and his ideas resonate with many fields of current research, to date no systematic analysis of his work has appeared. The present monograph aims to fill this historiographical gap by revisiting the key aspects of his oeuvre, namely, his contribution to psychology, the theory of empathy, epistemology and logic, the theory of science, metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, and the theory of language. Based on a careful analysis of Lipps s writings, it pays special attention to how, in each of these eight domains, his ideas evolved from the late 1870s to the early 1910s, while placing them in their intellectual context and addressing the question of their reception and critical fortune. The book also discusses the significance and topicality of Lippsian thought in light of recent advances in philosophy and science, especially in affective science, social cognition, and aesthetics.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book presents an original and engaging study of the cultural history and literary significance of hairwork the crafting of decorative objects, such as jewellery, from human hair in Victorian Britain. Hairwork became increasingly fashionable and commercialised in the mid-nineteenth century, before swiftly declining in popularity. Yet, in the Victorian imagination, hairwork held a peculiar capacity to emerge from and capture moments of tension: it was made to mark relationships as they were redefined or consolidated; to process transitions and articulate hope for the future; and to express identities as they were questioned and explored. This book reconstructs and interprets the role of hairwork in revealing and negotiating such desires and anxieties by studying its historical trajectory, surviving artefacts, and practices alongside its literary representations in works by Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Wilkie Collins, and Margaret Oliphant. It shows how the combination of hairwork s matter, form, and craft the material of hair, the designs and uses of hairwork, and the processes of its making expose the complexities and tensions within identity, affective relationships, and social relations and thus contributed to its unique place in Victorian culture.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This edited monograph aims to unpack the discourse surrounding global security from a range of multi-disciplinary perspectives. While various aspects of security such as great power politics, border security, cybersecurity, energy security, and terrorism often absorb the main focus of academic, political, economic and media attention, this book emphasises the significance of a holistic approach and multi-level analysis of security in order to attain a comprehensive insight and understanding. The book explores a range of perspectives, including ontological security, early childhood intervention, migration, cyber peace, the use of autonomous weapons and emerging technologies, as well as critically engaging security from feminist and multicultural perspectives. Overall, the collection intends to raise questions rather than offer answers to the complex and perpetual question of local and global security in all its forms.The contributors are primarily composed of a team of RMIT University researchers within the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies (GUSS), who come from a range of disciplinary backgrounds including, Anthropology, Political Science, Criminology and Social Work and International Studies. Through this collaboration, the researchers will highlight GUSS as leaders in this field. Moreover, the authors also have a wide range of experience, including early and mid-career research as well as senior scholars. This cooperation reinforces the formal and informal mentoring processes at GUSS.Global Security Reimagined: A Multi-Disciplinary Exploration is intended for academics, researchers and policymakers to further expand their thinking around security. It is also particularly aimed at undergraduate and post-graduate students studying security so they can gain a critical and holistic insight into (in)security from a variety of cross-disciplinary perspectives.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A novel, pressing, and challenging issue has emerged in international political economy in recent decades following the rapid rise of Chinese economic power, that is, how to accommodate China as a new economic superpower within the existing structure of global economic governance. This has become not only a highly contentious geopolitical and geoeconomic issue that is complicating already complex relations between major powers, particularly between China and the USA but also a heated issue of scholarly debate in the academia. It is within this context that the editors have decided to collect some relevant articles on this topic that have been published in some of Springer Nature's journals in recent years and turn them into two edited volumes under the title of China and Global Economic Governance.Volume I explores how China's two initiatives of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) have been bringing implications on geopolitics and geoeconomics in general and on global economic governance in particular. Volume II examines how China's active engagement in the BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), and the Group of 20 (G20) has helped shape the development of these groupings and impacted not only geopolitics and geoeconomics at both regional and global levels but also global economic governance.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book delves into the testimonies of 22 pivotal individuals intricately connected to the Petrobras Operation Car Wash scandal, a significant event that exposed the involvement of influential government and business leaders in a complicated web of corruption, impacting Brazil and extending its effects throughout Latin America. Through a diverse array of perspectives including prosecutors, defence attorneys, members of the judiciary, and civil society representatives the book offers a thorough and nuanced analysis of systemic corruption and its extensive repercussions. Each testimony sheds light on the mechanisms of deceit and the interplay between power and accountability, ultimately providing readers with a deeper understanding of the socio-political landscape. The translation has been meticulously refined, benefiting from advanced AI assistance and the expertise of a native English speaker, ensuring clarity and coherence in conveying these critical insights.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This edited volume provides a comprehensive overview of the technology-driven innovations that have transformed National and International Large-Scale Assessments over the past decade, along with the research and considerations that have accompanied these changes. It documents the groundwork for ongoing innovations and explores future directions as these assessments continue to evolve. While the impact of technology on education and assessments is difficult to predict, best practices and emerging principles for transitioning from paper-based to digital formats can be described. The volume offers guidelines and examples from experts who have transitioned assessments like PISA, PIAAC, TIMSS, PIRLS, and NAEP into the digital era. It also highlights research on digital-based assessments, showcasing new insights from log file and process data, as well as innovative domains.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book revisits women s literature in 1922, long hailed as the miracle year of literary modernism, a landmark year of avant-garde innovations in publications that included James Joyce sUlysses, T. S.Eliot sThe Waste Land, and Ezra Pound sThe Cantos. Yet if 1922 has been considered a modernist annus mirabilis, it was many things besides. In 1922 or thereabouts, according to Willa Cather, the literary world broke in two, sequestering traditional writers from those considered modern. Many womenwriters produced work that year across a spectrum of genres, forms, and politics that would not be accepted into Hugh Kenner s modernist canon. Nor, however, did they readily fit into Cather s categories, in some cases rupturing, and in other cases affirming a consensus of modernism as a masculinist, culturally imperialist interwar enterprise. Considering 1922 s historical significance, the essays in this collection seek greater inclusion of women in our memory of this year, including writers from a range of global and regional contexts and cultural backgrounds. Extending other attempts to examine the gender politics of modernism/modernity over the past thirty years, the project draws connections between the significance of 1922, as it has been understood in the new modernist studies, and feminist literary criticism that utilizes single-year approaches, to revisit and reflect on women s history and the gender politics of modernism.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This edited volume operationalizes the figure of the ghost and subsequent hauntings through Derrida s framing of 'hauntology' in an effort to attend to the liminal spaces that exist between presence and absence throughout social studies contexts (and beyond). Traditionally, social studies education and its tenets of economics, civics, geography, government, and history have been concerned with how bodies become (re)produced, (re)located, destroyed, and remembered across vectors of time. However, as this work argues, the maintenance of strict demarcations of time becomes problematic by closing opportunities for students to engage with the complex ways that (material) bodies shift within temporal encounters. As such, this book is primarily concerned with pursuing and positioning such haunted encounters as generative lines of inquiry that grant us (e.g., educators, students, researchers) the ability to think differently about history, the present, and the future. In a distinct move toward a 'pastpresentfuture', this volume challenges the boundaries of social studies teaching, learning, and research by interrupting majoritarian temporal/material positionings that stymie how social and ecological justice is narrativized, understood, and perhaps most significantly, attained in the future.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book provides an in-depth exploration of microbiota profiling and precision medicine, including the underlying mechanisms, delivery methods, treatment strategies, and the impact of biomarker-targeted drug delivery. It incorporates the latest research findings, such as biomarker-targeted drug delivery, clinical assessment and diagnosis, and therapeutic approaches. The book offers a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in biomarker-targeted drug delivery strategies. It addresses the challenges faced by healthcare professionals, offering actionable strategies for effective multidisciplinary care, along with patient and family perspectives, coping mechanisms, and ways to improve quality of life. By combining scientific knowledge, clinical expertise, and patient insights, the book enhances understanding, diagnosis, and treatment options for these complex conditions. These qualities distinguish it from existing publications and make it a valuable resource for readers seeking a thorough and engaging overview of this subject.The chapters cover a broad range of topics, including recent advances in microbiota profiling techniques, microbiota's role in drug metabolism and toxicity, and its immunomodulatory effects. Special focus is given to the involvement of microbiota in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, emphasizing the therapeutic potential of microbiome-targeted strategies. The authors provide expert analysis on integrating microbiota-derived data with innovative tools like nanotechnology and machine learning to improve drug delivery systems. Readers will also gain practical insights from case studies on microbiota-informed therapies for cancer, autoimmune conditions, and gastrointestinal disorders. This book is essential for researchers, clinicians, academicians, and students working in microbiome science, pharmacology, biotechnology, and precision medicine. It addresses key questions such as biomarker validation, data integration, and the ethical considerations necessary for the clinical use of microbiome-based therapies.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book explores the applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in environmental protection, with a focus on pollution monitoring and mitigation. Offering an authoritative perspective on circular and green economies through strategic AI deployment, it covers topics like risk management for human health impacts, optimization of water engineering processes, and real-time monitoring for contamination detection. Particular attention is given to water-quality-related concerns and optimizing operational parameters critical for wastewater treatment. In this book, readers will discover how AI is applied for early warning systems, detecting potential contamination in aquatic, terrestrial, and atmospheric environments. Expert contributors discuss the integration of AI with environmental sustainability, the Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, and automated monitoring techniques. The book also highlights the role of AI-supported low-cost smart sensors in environmental monitoring and climate change mitigation. Other key topics include intelligent control systems for wireless monitoring of waste management in green cities and AI's potential in diagnosing, managing, and forecasting air-pollution-related diseases for atmospheric sustainability. The book concludes with recommendations for maintaining a circular and green economy. Given its breadth, this book is an indispensable resource for researchers, scholars, and practitioners interested in understanding the transformative role of AI in environmental engineering and its contribution to sustainable development.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This edited volume explores the phenomenon of secondary trauma among sub-Saharan African journalists tasked with covering violent events, conflicts, and crises, shedding light on the profound psychological and emotional impacts of witnessing violence indirectly through their professional reporting. By combining empirical studies, theoretical discussions, and case-specific analyses, the book offers a crucial examination of how journalists experience, process, and navigate the psychological burdens associated with reporting traumatic events. The book seeks to contribute to ongoing development of trauma-informed journalistic practices, and a cultural shift towards prioritizing mental health in media organizations.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This edited volume examines the life, works, and influence of Edgar Allan Poe from a variety of critical, biographical, and literary-historical perspectives through diverse lenses of spatiality. Eighteen contributions offer spatially-oriented investigations of the critical, intellectual, cultural, philosophical, and political spaces wherein Poe defined himself as a critic and artist. The collection comes together in four parts focusing on the Temporal and Atemporal Spaces, Social and Political Spaces, Imaginative and Psychological Spaces, and Transnational and Translated Spaces. Authors from the US, Japan, Spain, France, and Portugal represent Poe s pervasive and ongoing international influence.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book includes several special features related to Life Cycle and Techno-Economic Assessment (LCA and TEA) to enhance clarity, understanding, and engagement. It incorporates numerous diagrams, flowcharts, and infographics to visualize complex concepts and methodologies for assessing life cycle energy, emissions, resource depletion, and the techno-economic impact on society. Key data, comparisons, and results are summarized in tables and matrices for easy reference.Additionally, the book presents real-world LCA case studies and scenarios to illustrate practical applications and lessons learned. Interactive elements, such as thought-provoking questions, exercises, and discussion points, encourage active learning. A clear, step-by-step presentation of LCA and TEA methodologies is provided, followed by in-depth analyses and discussions. These features make the book an accessible, user-friendly, and engaging resource for readers from diverse backgrounds and expertise levels.The primary benefit of this book is a comprehensive understanding of the environmental and economic implications of various technologies, processes, and products. Readers will gain in-depth knowledge of LCA and TEA methodologies and their applications, learning how to evaluate and compare the sustainability and feasibility of different options. They will also gain insights into potential environmental and economic impacts and receive guidance on integrating LCA and TEA into decision-making processes. With access to case studies and real-world examples illustrating best practices, this book equips readers to make informed decisions, develop more sustainable solutions, and contribute to an environmentally conscious and economically viable future.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The 1950s heralded an era of unprecedented breakthroughs in psychopharmacology with the introduction of drugs such as chlorpromazine, imipramine and chlordiazepoxide. While much research has since focused on the side-effects of these drugs for the patient, more recently, a shift has occurred toward investigation of the effects on these drugs on the next generation.This volume aims to provide the most recent scientific evidence showing how perinatal drug treatment influences the development of the brain and behavior of the offspring. Authors summarize both human and animal literature. Although authors are aware of the fact that the brains (and behaviors) of animals, particularly rodents, differ in many ways from humans, animal research has been instrumental, particularly in studying the molecular and cellular changes. Moreover, animal research provides important benefits related to investigating the causal relationship between drug exposure and development. For example, psychotropic medication is used by pregnant humans because they suffer from a (mental) illness.The volume focuses both on psychotropic drugs (such as antidepressant and antipsychotic drugs) and on drugs of abuse (including psychostimulants and alcohol). It summarizes the current state of knowledge on the acute and long-term effects of psychoactive drugs on the brain and behavior of the offspring.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This edited book gathers expert scholars and prominent educators from diverse backgrounds and nationalities to foster a rich dialogue on the topic of implementing literature as a tool in English language education. It presents an overview of current trends in literature teaching while also forecasting future developments. The volume takes a global perspective, featuring research-based insights into the role of literature in language education, drawing from empirical studies conducted across various contexts. It seeks to explore the potential of literature in English language learning and teaching, along with effective methodologies for its implementation. With a focus on practical implications, the volume aims to offer relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest research findings, addressing pedagogical considerations that hold global significance. While examining key issues in literature instruction from a global viewpoint, the volume intends to highlight both shared practices and regional differences as well. It is designed for teachers, researchers, teacher trainers, and educators at all levels of education primary, secondary, and higher education who seek practical guidance on incorporating literature into language teaching and learning.