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Migration as a social and political phenomenon is a force that shapes and transforms societies. Historically, it goes back to the formation of diasporas of people fleeing persecution and genocide, and it continues in the present moment in a variety of contexts and for multiple reasons.
This open access book focuses on the regulatory framework for the sustainability of the insurance market. It analyzes its potential impact on insurance undertakings governance and product design. The book is structured into three parts. It firstly explores the general framework on the sustainability for the insurance market, focusing on the regulation at the European Union level. Secondly, it e…
This is an open access book. Based on the analysis of China’s basic national conditions and development trends, this book begins with a general introduction to the study of “modernization with Chinese characteristics,” and then discusses the comprehensive construction of a prosperous society in all respects, unprecedented changes, the new national system, green modernization, and technol…
This open-access proceedings volume brings selected, peer-reviewed contributions presented at the Fourth Stochastic Transport in Upper Ocean Dynamics (STUOD) 2023 Workshop, held at IFREMER in Plouzané, France, September 25–28, 2023. The STUOD project is supported by an ERC Synergy Grant, and led by Imperial College London, the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automatic…
This open access book provides a complete probabilistic analysis method and a performance-based seismic safety evaluation for high concrete faced rockfill dam (CFRD). Combined with random sample generation and reliability analysis methods, the dynamic response characteristics and reliability level of CFRD under various random factors are comprehensively described. In Chapter 2, a random ground …
This open access book investigates the epistemological concept of and the knowledge transfer interwoven with the moveable paper wheels found in medieval and early modern books—the so-called “volvelles.” The earliest known volvelles emerged in the mid-thirteenth century and were cut out and installed by the reader, often appearing in books dealing with astronomical subjects. The brain proc…
The energy budget of the internal tide and its life cycle is investigated with a high resolution numerical simulation and a vertical normal mode decomposition. Two areas of interest are considered: the Azores Islands over the mid Atlantic ridge and the Gulf Stream offshore the North of the US East coast shelf break. Low mode (1 and 2) internal tides are found to propagate from 100 km (mode …
People stopped moving across borders during the COVID-19 pandemic. Travelers, businesspeople, students, migrants, refugees, diplomats, and aid workers all stayed home. Volunteers working abroad were not an exception. Volunteers of the United States Peace Corps (USPC) and Australian Volunteers International (AVI) were, for example, compelled to return home or were no longer deployed to host …
t In the introductory chapter the editors describe the dimensions of sustainable business development from a fundamental and international perspective and encompass aspects of environmental efficiency, social equity, and economic profitability. In addition, they give a short overview of all chapters and the authors