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Systemic Risk and Complex Networks in Modern Financial Systems
This open access book is a groundbreaking exploration of systemic risk in modern financial systems. Through its theoretical and empirical investigations, it reveals the multidimensionality of systemic risk, the transmission channels of crises, and the interlinkages between physical, transition, and financial risks. It introduces cutting-edge methodologies, including prediction and optimization …
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- 978-3-031-64916-5
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- XXIII, 412
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Symbiotic Intelligence: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Co…
This open access book is a compilation of selected papers from The 6th International Conference on Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication (CDRF 2024). The work focuses on novel techniques for computational design and robotic fabrication. The contents make valuable contributions to academic researchers, designers, and engineers in the industry. Also, readers will encounter new ideas about …
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- 978-981-96-3433-0
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- XV, 551
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Sustainable Manufacturing as a Driver for Growth: Proceedings of the 19th Glo…
This is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of the 19th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing, held on December 4-6, 2023, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. With a focus on sustainable manufacturing advances and practices as a driver for growth, the chapters selected for this book report on sustainable production technologies for the mobility, energy and construction sector, and …
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- 1
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- 978-3-031-77429-4
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- XXI, 863
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Sustainable Aging: Cases and Cooperation in China and Germany
This open access book discusses three areas in which Germany has long-standing experience and solutions that are valuable for other countries—care education, care insurance and standards for age-friendly city neighborhoods. It introduces the development background, application and shortcomings in the German and Chinese context, providing examples for from around the globe and showcasing the r…
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- 978-3-662-69139-7
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- XXI, 303
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Food Economics
Food Economics provides a unified introduction to the economics of agricultural production, business decisions, consumer behavior, and the government policies that shape our food system. This open access textbook begins with economic principles derived using graphical techniques to explain and predict observed prices, quantities, and other outcomes as a result of individual choices influence…
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- 9783031538407
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First-in-Family Students, University Experience and Family Life
This open access book, now in its second edition, offers a comprehensive overview of the experiences of First in Family (FiF) or first-generation students in higher education. It draws upon narratives of students and their family members and spans the entire university student life cycle (pre-entry, commencement, progression and graduation) with a focus on specific cohorts including mature-aged…
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- 1st Edition
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- 9783031344510
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The Architecture of “Society 5.0: Six Key Factors for a People-Centric and …
This open access book introduces H-UTokyo Lab’s ideas about the architecture for Society 5.0, including the process and organizational infrastructure for building smart cities that embody the Society 5.0 vision. It introduces six factors critical to the success of efforts to build people-centric sustainable smart cities. Each factor represents something needed to enable a local government to …
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- 978-981-96-2929-9
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- XXVIII, 256
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The Aspect-Sensitive Agent Omission in Mandarin
This open access book aims to provide an explanatory account for the phenomenon of absent external arguments in Mandarin Chinese. It starts from the observation that although expletivizing an agent is considered impossible cross-linguistically, it is possible in Mandarin. To account for this exceptional behavior, it proposes the M parameter, which suggests that English and Chinese differ in whe…
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- 978-981-96-2987-9
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- VII, 148
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The Balancing Act of Working Mothers and Caring Fathers: Impact of Family Pol…
This Open-Access-book explores how egalitarian parental leave policies can support a more balanced division of paid work and caregiving. Introducing a novel analysis grid and a unique dataset, Meret Lütolf examines parental leave policies in five countries – United States, Switzerland, Germany, Finland, and Sweden – revealing how fully paid, non-transferable leave can promote gender-neutra…
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- 978-3-658-47716-5
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- XVII, 220
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The Belt and Road Initiative: Past, Present, Future
This open access book presents the main theme which advances the significance of cultural dialogue between China and Europe. The essence of the historical ties between China and Europe has resurfaced, much because of the Belt and Road Initiative launched in 2013 by China’s President Xi Jinping. The Belt and Road Initiative aims to bring China closer to Europe, Africa, and other parts of the w…
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- 978-981-96-1128-7
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- XVII, 317
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