This book adopts various newly emerged and established approaches to text analysis, including pragmatics, discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, ethnography and artificial intelligence to explore multilayered meaning-making in text and discourse.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the Poznan School of Archaeology, an original mode of archaeological thought that emerged in Poznan in the 1960s and 1970s.
This book focuses on “human-smart city interaction,” exploring how people engage with smart technologies and how human factors influence the “citizen experience.
This book explores the transformative impact of advanced technologies on the development of innovative business models, with a focus on how AI, blockchain, and the Internet of Things are shaping the future of business.
This book adopts various newly emerged and established approaches to text analysis, including pragmatics, discourse analysis, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics, ethnography and artificial intelligence to explore multilayered meaning-making in text and discourse.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Congress on Blockchain and Applications 2025, BLOCKCHAIN’25, held at the University of Lille (France) from June 25 to 27, 2025.
This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 54th Annual Conference of the Southern African Computer Lecturers' Association, SACLA 2025, held in Bloemfontein, South Africa, during July 30 – August 1, 2025.
Geography encompasses knowledge, provides skills, and creates unique opportunities that help us understand and engage with the changes happening in the world.
This is the only textbook designed to provide current information in the area of cosmetic science, the various product's formulation and new and future technologies associated with the discovery, development and formulation of cosmetic products.
Dieser Fachleitfaden bietet einen erweiterten Überblick über die Landschaft der deutschen Familienunternehmen, einschließlich ihrer Struktur und Branchenverteilung.
This book offers innovative and integrative psychological theorizing on the meaning of parasocial relationships, drawing on cutting-edge empirical insights and clinical observations.
This book examines the feasibility of realising the plurilingual vision of the Barcelona Summit Agreement (mother tongue plus two additional languages) through the second-level education system by employing three strategies: 1) harmonising postprimary modern foreign language (MFL) classes in line with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) through cross-age teaching; 2) replacing the current state second-level MFL exams with CEFR international exams; and 3) implementing Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL).
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Innovative Perspectives on Computational Intelligence and Data Science, InnoComp 2025, held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, in October 22-24, 2025.
This book addresses the timely research field of Afropean identity politics and provides a first account of the lived experience of Afroczechs and Africans in Czechia.
This two-volume set LNCS 16167–16168 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, ICIAP 2025, held in Rome, Italy, during September 15–19, 2025.
This book examines the current needs of identified vulnerable sub-groups in Guyana, including children under the care of the state, persons living with disabilities, and migrant children.
This book examines truthfulness in transmedia practices, particularly in relation to scientific knowledge and the mediation of our perception of the world.
This handbook provides an accessible and thought-provoking guide to the Meaning of the Child Interview (MotC), a tool for understanding family relationships.
This edited book brings together researchers, partners, Ministry staff, disability activists, teachers, and influential commentators to present a constructive dialogue around the opportunities associated with inclusive and equitable education.
This book presents a selection of 42 original and peer-reviewed research papers from the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Security and Networking (CAISN 2024) held at the Faculty of Sciences, Ibn Tofail University, Kenitra, Morocco.
The scientific understanding of energy, matter, and spacetime has advanced rapidly, whereas the study of information—its properties, behavior, and dynamics—remains underdeveloped.
Im Saarland leben etwa 20 % der Bewohner in der Landeshauptstadt und eine sehr große Anzahl von Menschen kommen dazu noch täglich nach Saarbrücken, um hier zu arbeiten, einzukaufen oder ihre Freizeit zu verbringen.
This book traces the creation, implementation, and evolution of the police institutions within British colonial Natal during ‘the formative period’ of the colony between 1845 and 1899.
The book explores the institution of the insurance ombudsman – an alternative dispute resolution service outside of the court dedicated to resolving complaints filed by customers against insurers and insurance intermediaries.
This book collects a selection of papers presented at the 19th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management and XXIX Congreso de Ingeniería de Organización (CIO2025), that took place on 3 and 4 July 2025 in Seville.
This book includes selected papers from the Fifth International Conference on Agriculture Digitalization and Organic Production (ADOP 2025), held in Barnaul, Altai Region, Russia, during June 03-06, 2025.
This book focuses on the integration of self-evolving Digital Twins (DTs) with wireless networks, exploring critical methodologies for dynamic twin construction and real-time service interaction.
The CAA-GR 2024 Conference Proceedings capture the spirit and substance of the fifth national meeting on computer applications in archaeology and cultural heritage, held in Serres, Greece.
This book presents the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Innovative Technologies in Intelligent Systems & Industrial Application (CITISIA), held in virtual mode in Sydney, Australia and Jakarta, Indonesia, on December 13-15, 2024.
Ecology, as a descriptive science, is not only a framework for describing biological relations between living beings, but a way of thinking and cognizing entities in transcendental terms.
The purpose of this book is to reaffirm the significance of the link between taxation and public spending as essential to the very existence of the social contract and to the system of rights and duties on which social cooperation in a democracy is based.
Anticipatory Biographies is a collection of future scenarios written in the form of individual biographies that span the breadth of human experience: from the privileged to the marginalized and across diverse cultures.
This book reports the successful optimization of the Compact Mupn Solenoid (CMS) tau trigger algorithm for the Run-3 (Phase-1) of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and a completely new and original design of a machine learning based tau triggering algorithm for the High Luminosity LHC (or Phase-2).
This book offers the first full-length scholarly study of Sistren Theatre Collective, one of the most significant theatre companies in the history of Caribbean drama.