This open access volume of the AIDA Europe Research Series on Insurance Law and Regulation offers the first comprehensive legal and regulatory analysis of the Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD). The IDD came into force on 1 October 2018 and regulates the distribution of insurance products in the EU. The book examines the main changes accompanying the IDD and analyses its impact on insurance…
Beberapa tahun terakhir telah menyaksikan kemajuan spektakuler di bidang biologi sirkadian. Hal ini telah menarik minat para peneliti di banyak bidang, termasuk endokrinologi, ilmu saraf, kanker, dan perilaku. Dengan mengintegrasikan pandangan sirkadian dalam bidang endokrinologi dan metabolisme, para peneliti akan dapat mengungkap banyak aspek yang belum diduga sebelumnya tentang bagaimana org…
This open access book highlights the link between Bruno Latour's works and the semiotic perspective on social phenomena analysis. It identifies and relaunches a dialogue that was as heated as it was fruitful, but still little recognized within the social sciences. It asks why the theory of signification has so far been only sporadically acknowledged in literature derived from Latour's work. Sta…
This open access book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the First International ISCIS Security Workshop 2018, Euro-CYBERSEC 2018, held in London, UK, in February 2018. The 12 full papers presented together with an overview paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 31 submissions. Security of distributed interconnected systems, software systems, and the Internet of Th…
This open access book is an outcome of several years of research, practice, and teaching experience of the authors on the challenges that underpin the successful switch to services for manufacturing firms. Ideal for a student as well as a practitioner, the book describes the industrial services ecosystem, the barriers and challenges, and a roadmap for building service excellence. Curated cases …
This open access book summarizes research being pursued within the FENIX project, funded by the EU community under the H2020 programme, the goal of which is to design a new product service paradigm able to promote innovative business models, to open added value to the vessels and to create new market segments. It experiments and validates its approach on three new concepts of added-value specia…
This open access book is based on the conference organised by Accademia dei Lincei and the US National Academy of Sciences and supported by the Italian Ministero degli Affari Esteri. It was attended by about 60 scientists and researchers from 13 countries, including, besides Europe, Iran, Israel, Iraq, Pakistan, India, Japan, Russian Federation and the USA. In an international scenario shaken b…
This open access book offers a concise overview of the theories constructed within the various human sciences around the theme of creativity as a symbolic capacity to link things together: it manifests itself when the individual endowed with a certain type of intelligence encounters cultural and social conditions that enable them to develop that capacity to the maximum, rather than inhibiting i…
Volume ini mengkaji dampak globalisasi terhadap hukum lingkungan internasional dan penerapan pembangunan berkelanjutan di Negara-negara Berkembang. Terdiri dari kontribusi dari para pengacara dari Negara-negara Berkembang atau yang memiliki pengalaman di Negara-negara Berkembang, volume ini disusun menjadi tiga bagian, dengan penyelidikan tematik yang dijalin melalui setiap bab untuk menanyakan…