Two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted a great deal of attention in recent years due to their potential applications in gas/chemical sensors, healthcare monitoring, biomedicine, electronic skin, wearable sensing technology and advanced electronic devices. Graphene is one of today's most popular 2D nanomaterials alongside boron nitrides, molybdenum disulfide, black phosphorus and metal ox…
The book is a compilation of the most important experimental results achieved during the past 60 years at CERN - from the mid-1950s to the latest discovery of the Higgs particle. Covering the results from the early accelerators at CERN to those most recent at the LHC, the contents provide an excellent review of the achievements of this outstanding laboratory. Not only presented is the impressiv…
In the early development of the modern Italian state, individual orphanages were a reflection of the intertwining of politics and charity.Nearly half of the children who lived in the cities of the late Italian Renaissance were under fifteen years of age. Grinding poverty, unstable families, and the death of a parent could make caring for these young children a burden. Many were abandoned, other…
This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researcher…
This open access book is a compilation of advances in sweetpotato genomics, which have been used to improve our understanding of the evolution of sweetpotato, increase our knowledge of crop growth and development, and provided critical information required for genomic-assisted breeding in sweetpotato. Sweetpotato is a critical food staple for millions of people in the developing world that has…
Memori dan Identitas dalam Dunia Pembelajaran menawarkan akun yang rinci dan bervariasi tentang pembentukan komunitas di dunia belajar dan sains awal modern. Buku ini melacak bagaimana identitas kolektif, memori institusional, dan cara pengingat membantu membentuk komunitas ilmiah dan belajar. Studi kasus dalam buku ini menganalisis bagaimana komunitas ilmu pengetahuan dan individu mempersembah…
Koleksi ini mencakup tujuh artikel dari jurnal Open Times, sebuah jendela ke dalam tren akademik kontemporer Tiongkok. Semua artikel membahas topik "petani, pekerja migran, dan tenaga kerja informal," tetapi masing-masing memiliki penekanan yang berbeda. Ini menggambarkan berbagai cara orang dari daerah pedesaan memanfaatkan sumber daya sosial lokal untuk mencari cara menghasilkan mata pencahar…
In Universal Śaivism Peter Bisschop provides a critical edition and annotated translation of the sixth chapter of the Śivadharmaśāstra `Treatise on the Religion of Śiva’, the so-called Śāntyadhyāya 'Chapter on Appeasement’. The Sanskrit text is preceded by an extensive introduction on its composition, transmission and edition. The Śivadharmaśāstra has arguably played a crucial r…