Buku akses terbuka ini mengungkap fenomena serial "Game of Thrones" dari berbagai perspektif ilmiah: Perspektif hukum bertemu dengan perspektif linguistik, musik, sastra, dan ilmu sosial, serta perspektif (seni) sejarah, psikologis, dan teologis. Kontribusi-kontribusi ini menunjukkan bahwa serial ini menyediakan banyak titik lekat untuk penelitian ilmiah dari berbagai disiplin ilmu, yang juga m…
Kumpulan kisah nyata yang dikumpulkan dari masyarakat Appalachian Selatan, buku ini mencerminkan adat istiadat dan nilai-nilai era lain. Diterbitkan pada tahun 1974, cerita-cerita yang dikumpulkan dalam "... A Right Good People" awalnya diterbitkan di ###Charlotte Observer,# surat kabar terbesar di Carolina pada tahun 1970-an. Kisah-kisah ini ditulis dengan tujuan untuk menggambarkan warisan ma…
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Sejak pergantian Millennium, inisiatif dari sektor swasta di seluruh dunia telah membalikkan lingkungan regulasi untuk bisnis makanan. Untuk pertama kalinya dalam literatur hukum, buku ini menganalisis inisiatif hukum privat yang terkait dengan rantai makanan, yang sering disebut sebagai standar atau skema privat (sukarela). Standar privat digunakan untuk memperbaiki kelemahan dalam legislatif,…
Plastics are crucial materials that are used in daily life. They are manufactured and used until they become waste that negatively impacts the environment and public health. These plastic wastes break down into small particles known as microplastics (MPs) via changes in environmental conditions (i.e., sunlight, temperature, weathering, and irradiation). This reduction in size increases the toxi…
The electric vehicle revival reflects negotiations between public policy, which promotes clean, fuel-efficient vehicles, and the auto industry, which promotes high-performance vehicles. Electric cars were once as numerous as internal combustion engine cars before all but vanishing from American roads around World War I. Now, we are in the midst of an electric vehicle revival, and the goal fo…
This book highlights the important need for more efficient and environmentally sound combustion technologies that utilise renewable fuels to be continuously developed and adopted. The central theme here is two-fold: internal combustion engines and fuel solutions for combustion systems. Internal combustion engines remain as the main propulsion system used for ground transportation, and the numbe…
The first comprehensive treatment of active inference, an integrative perspective on brain, cognition, and behavior used across multiple disciplines. Active inference is a way of understanding sentient behavior—a theory that characterizes perception, planning, and action in terms of probabilistic inference. Developed by theoretical neuroscientist Karl Friston over years of groundbreaking rese…
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…
The Mediterranean region has faced a significant number of challenges that have stemmed from turbulent events taking place on its Southern shores: conflicts and instability, the migration crisis, disruptions of regional value chains, souring regional relations, and foreign power interferences that have severely affected the region. The Covid-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on the Southern Mediterrane…