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The 1st International Conference on Net-Zero Built Environment: Innovations i…
This open access book provides the latest fundamental and practical advances in reducing the built environment’s carbon footprint based on a collection of papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Net-Zero Built Environment: Innovations in Materials, Structures, and Management Practices, held June 19-21, 2024, in Oslo, Norway. The volume presents research investigations and c…
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- 978-3-031-69626-8
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- XXII, 1947
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Terrorist Risk in Urban Outdoor Built Environment: Measuring and Mitigating v…
This open access book outlines the latest results in analysing, assessing, and managing terrorist risk in the urban outdoor built environment. In detail, contents refer to the outdoor Open Areas (such as streets, squares, urban parks and other public spaces in our cities) exposed to such violent events considering the physical elements and properties of the built environment and users. PThe bui…
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- 978-981-97-6965-0
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- XIV, 126
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Technological Utopianism and the Idea of Justice
This open access book advances a modest defence of technological utopias. While technological utopianism is not devoid of risks and elitism, their benefits should not be discounted in an overall assessment. Rather than rejecting them based on a too narrow definition of utopianism, we must acknowledge their potential to exceed the individualist vs. collectivist dichotomy ascribed to traditional …
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- 978-3-031-75945-1
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- IX, 156
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Teaching and Learning with Research Cognitive Theory: Unlocking Curiosity and…
This open access volume explores the transformative role of Research Cognitive Theory (RCT) in education, emphasizing its application in fostering curiosity, creativity, innovation, problem-solving skills, and cognitive development across all educational levels in students and professional development in teachers. Through detailed discussions on integrating research-based learning with STEM edu…
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- 978-3-031-87544-1
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- XIII, 115
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Teacher Shortage in International Perspectives: Insights and Responses: Non-T…
This Open Access volume aims to inspire innovative and culturally-responsive transformations in teacher education practices and policies within Europe and beyond in the context of teacher shortage. It amalgamates the collaborative efforts during several years between the Center for Teacher Education and Educational Research (ZLSB) at TU Dresden University of Technology (Saxony, Germany) and ele…
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- 978-3-658-45398-5
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- XXI, 357
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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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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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- 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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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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