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This book reports on the latest advancements of non-destructive testing and structural techniques as applied on a wide range of cultural heritage applications.

This book examines the critical intersection of religion, democracy, and political leadership in three prominent Muslim-majority states—Malaysia, Pakistan, and Turkey.

This book is an ambitious research work that incorporates recent findings on communication and knowledge in organizations and includes contributions from global researchers.

The textbook provides a comprehensive yet practical look at optimization theory and applications, with examples and MATLAB programs.

This book covers the period from the approach of Allied and Soviet armies to the Reich frontiers in late summer 1944 right up to the final collapse in May 1945.

This book focuses on the global goal of inclusivity and sustainability in heritage as defined by the United Nations and UNESCO.

This book explores why state violence has proliferated across Latin America despite the adoption of extensive political and legal reforms intended to deter such violence.

In an increasingly interconnected and complex world, businesses face environmental, social, and economic challenges that demand thoughtful reflection and a shift in operational approaches.

This book offers novel insights into how expert fund managers—those who demonstrate superior performance over the long term—make their judgments and decisions.

This book examines urbanization in Haiti as a laboratory of crisis and resilience, where the absence of state capacity collides with the creativity of grassroots actors.

This book examines traditional approaches to conflict resolution in Northern Nigeria, tracing their development from the pre-colonial period through to the present day.

This book collects contributions that discuss the spread of AI, AI-GEN, and XR tools in the fields of cultural heritage and innovative design and their relationships with representation disciplines.

This book explores Kierkegaardian concepts within pop culture.

This book traces the history, sociolinguistics and structure of world Englishes and examines the complexities of English(es) and the transmedia narratives of their users in modern-day international universities and workplaces.

South Asia is the most densely populated region in Asia, while Asia is the most populous region globally.

Against the macro backdrop of global digital economic transformation, this book systematically reveals the transformation logic of China's manufacturing industry through the collaborative evolution of technology, institutions, and markets, with "e;how digital trade reconstructs the value creation system of enterprise manufacturing"e; as its core thread.

This book explores Kierkegaardian concepts within pop culture.

The three-volume set constitutes revised selected papers of the 21st International Conference on Information Security and Cryptology, Inscrypt 2025, held in Xi'an, China, on October 19, 2025.

Feistel networks are one of the easiest ways to build pseudorandom permutations.

This textbook is an accessible, readable, and comprehensive introduction to contemporary analytic metaphysics.

This book is the third in a series of books dedicated to publishing extended abstracts of the activities of ICMAM Latin America (International Community of Mathematicians from Latin America).

This book offers an original and innovative study of how the intersection of the Doppelganger and the Gothic reveals repressed aspects of our singular and collective past, while also serving as a lens to investigate ourselves and our historical moment.

This book examines traditional approaches to conflict resolution in Northern Nigeria, tracing their development from the pre-colonial period through to the present day.

This book explores the shifts in global power from a single dominant superpower to a world with many influential players.

This book traces the history, sociolinguistics and structure of world Englishes and examines the complexities of English(es) and the transmedia narratives of their users in modern-day international universities and workplaces.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 5th International Workshop on Distributed Computing for Emerging Smart Networks, DiCES-N 2025, held in Hammamet, Tunisia, during April 26-27, 2025.

This book examines urbanization in Haiti as a laboratory of crisis and resilience, where the absence of state capacity collides with the creativity of grassroots actors.

Literaturkritik hat heute zwischen feuilletonistischer Debatte, YouTube-Kanal und universitärem Seminar viele neue Formen angenommen und in der digitalen Form ihre Reichweite enorm ausgedehnt.

This book contains revised selected papers from the 32nd International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2025, held in Toronto, ON, Canada, in August 2025.

This volume, LNCS 16349, constitutes revised selected papers from the 10th International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing, ALGOCLOUD 2025, held in Warsaw, Poland, during September 15–16, 2025.

This book focuses on dissipative Caputo fractional differential equations (FDEs) with an autonomous vector field.

This book is the third in a series of books dedicated to publishing extended abstracts of the activities of ICMAM Latin America (International Community of Mathematicians from Latin America).

This book explores the potential for economic development within rural areas.

This book places print media at the centre of studying queer German history.

This book represents a comprehensive exploration of the most recent advancements and applications at the intersection of machine learning, cyber-physical systems, and industrial processes.

This edited volume attempts to reimagine South Asia through narratives proffered by Indian scholars.

This book explores the transformation of Qatar's foreign policy strategies since gaining independence, with a specific focus on its gradual political emancipation from Saudi influence over the past five decades.

This book examines truthfulness in transmedia practices, particularly in relation to scientific knowledge and the mediation of our perception of the world.

Complementarity functions lie at the heart of modern optimization, offering a powerful way to reformulate the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions and the original optimization problem into more tractable forms, either as systems of equations or unconstrained minimization problems.

This book explores why state violence has proliferated across Latin America despite the adoption of extensive political and legal reforms intended to deter such violence.

This book explores the architecture and framework for co-creating the most valuable and promising data in the future Internet, often referred to as Web 3.

This book presents key technologies and applications of smart cities, covering a wide range of areas including smart transportation, autonomous driving, wireless communication, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT), cybersecurity, digital twins, disaster management, environmental monitoring, and smart buildings.

This book examines drone warfare – primarily understood now as an issue of technology, military strategy, and law – through popular cultural forms: fiction, film, drama, theater, art, performance, and dance.

This book provides a thorough guide to Quantum Operations that closes the gap between quantum computing theory and practical IT operations.

This book explores how South-South Cooperation (SSC) is influencing Latin America’s foreign policy and development choices in a changing world shaped by China’s growing global role.

This book places print media at the centre of studying queer German history.

This book features research presented and discussed during the Research & Innovation Forum (Rii Forum) 2025.

This project draws on African feminisms to propose major questions about the agency of girls.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th Ecuadorian Conference on Information and Communication Technologies, TICEC 2025, held in Quito, Ecuador, during October 16–17, 2025.