This book critically examines the failures and contradictions of UK drug policy, exposing how current laws disproportionately target marginalised communities while overlooking the widespread harms of legal substances like alcohol.
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of festival-making activities, their cultural significance, and their impact on tourism and community identity.
This book posits that during Australia’s colonial period (1788–1900), all sport, including the hegemonic football codes (rugby union and Australian rules football), was closely tied to British nationalism.
This book discusses the fascinating world of data science and cases in sustainability focusing on topics related to pattern recognition and machine learning, emphasizing applications that directly address topics related to SDG 9 (Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure).
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the dynamics of institutional elderly care in China, with a special focus on resource allocation, spatial optimization, and the temporal-spatial perspective of elderly care provision.
This book will reflect on the various urban complexities with a thorough demonstration on potential sustainable solution essential for cities with various policy measures.
This book provides a comprehensive guide for integrating machine learning techniques to enhance power electronic systems, with a focus on real-time applications, fault detection, and advanced control systems.
This book offers readers an innovative perspective on how intelligent networks can evolve beyond simple device-to-device communication, enabling social interaction, adaptive learning, and predictive intelligence across various domains.
This book provides a comprehensive exploration of luminescence techniques and their practical applications in spectroscopy, materials science, and microscopy.
The scientific exchange between mathematicians, statisticians and econometricians working in actuarial sciences and finance is improving the research on these topics and producing numerous meaningful scientific results.
Written and edited by leading international authorities in the field, this book provides an in-depth review of knowledge of the spinal ligaments of the vertebral column, with emphasis on main ligamentous structures that have the potential to cause illness.
The book underscores the importance of integrating a gender perspective into judicial systems worldwide, revealing how gender sensitivity enhances the legitimacy, equity, and efficacy of the judicial process.
This book focuses on the intersection of climate change and agriculture, specifically addressing how climate variability and change impact agricultural systems in Venezuela.
This book explores various aspects of food security and nutrition in the context of rural Madagascar, a country struggling with poverty and malnutrition.
The book, which systematically analyzes private international law rules contained in the Colombian legal system, contributes to the study and knowledge of this legal field, and also has a positive impact on its practical application.
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 book provides a comprehensive characterization of high-temperature geothermal fields worldwide, encompassing diverse geological settings such as extensional and contractional tectonics, silicic and mafic crustal regions, hypersaline and low-salinity fluid environments, and both brittle and ductile lithospheric layers.
This book presents a comprehensive account of Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC), a fundamental phenomenon in quantum physics that reveals the collective behavior of bosonic systems at ultracold temperatures.