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Chapter Nucleated Red Blood Cells Contribute to the Host Immune Response Against Pathogens
(2019)
It has recently come to light that nucleated red blood cells (RBCs) of fish, amphibians, reptiles and birds are multifunctional cells, because in addition to being involved in gas exchange and transport, it has also been ...
Iconographies of Occupation
(2021)
Iconographies of Occupation is the first book to address how the “collaborationist” Reorganized National Government (RNG) in Japanese-occupied China sought to visualize its leader, Wang Jingwei (1883–1944); the Chinese ...
Adhesive Bonding of Aircraft Composite Structures
(2021)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. It presents the results of the ComBoNDT European project, which aimed at the development of more secure, time- and cost-saving extended non-destructive inspection tools ...
Chapter Power, Patronage, and Confessionalism
(2019)
The present article aims to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of both the
politics of Sufism and the practice of politics in the Ottoman Empire in the late sixteenth
century through a contextual study of the ...
Towards Interoperable Research Infrastructures for Environmental and Earth Sciences
(2020)
This open access book summarises the latest developments on data management in the EU H2020 ENVRIplus project, which brought together more than 20 environmental and Earth science research infrastructures into a single ...
Knowledge Graphs and Big Data Processing
(2020)
This open access book is part of the LAMBDA Project (Learning, Applying, Multiplying Big Data Analytics), funded by the European Union, GA No. 809965. Data Analytics involves applying algorithmic processes to derive insights. ...
Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class
(2020)
This open access book carefully explores the relationship between social democracy and its working-class electorate in Western Europe. Relying on different indicators, it demonstrates an important transformation in the ...
Arrival Cities
(2020)
Exile and migration played a critical role in the diffusion and development of modernism around the globe, yet have remained largely understudied phenomena within art historiography. Focusing on the intersections of exile, ...
Chapter 15 Epistemic Gains and Epistemic Games
(2020)
In this paper I analyse the dissent around evidence standards in medicine
and pharmacology as a result of distinct ways to address epistemic losses in
our game with nature and the scientific ecosystem: an “elitist” and ...
Chapter Preface
(2020)
Uncertainty Management in Pharmacology, Causality Medical Epistemology,
Big Data in Bioeconomy
(2021)
This edited open access book presents the comprehensive outcome of The European DataBio Project, which examined new data-driven methods to shape a bioeconomy. These methods are used to develop new and sustainable ways to ...
Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England
(2021)
What did it mean to be a stranger in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England? How were other nations, cultures, and religions perceived? What happened when individuals moved between languages, countries, religions, and ...
Principles of Decoration in the Roman World
(2021)
Principles of Decoration in the Roman World explores the manner in which architectural settings and action contexts influenced the perception of decorative elements in Roman culture. By examining the relationship between ...
Chapter Analogy-Based Inference Patterns in Pharmacological Research
(2020)
Analogical arguments are ubiquitous vehicles of knowledge transfer in science and medicine. This paper outlines a Bayesian evidence-amalgamation framework for the purpose of formally exploring different analogy-based ...
Shooting to Kill
(2016)
Terrorism, the use of military force in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, and the fatal police shootings of unarmed persons have all contributed to renewed interest in the ethics of police and military use of lethal force and ...
Chapter 13 The Swedish way
(2021)
This chapter examines public belief formation in Sweden during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on theories of sociotropic belief formation, we analyze how citizens’ ideology, personal experience, ...
Sri Ksetra Museum Collection Inventory
(2022)
The Sri Ksetra Museum Inventory is the most comprehensive single source of Myanmar's Pyu material culture. With artifacts dating from the early centuries of the first millennium, the inventory includes material retrieved ...
Aristotle and the Ontology of St. Bonaventure
(2023)
Bonaventure’s metaphysical thought and
his interpretation of Aristotle
Contemporary scholarship on Bonaventure has characterized him as the Neo-platonic foil to the Aristotelianism of his day. The present book, however, ...
Inquisitive Logic
(2022)
This open access book makes a case for extending logic beyond its traditional boundaries, to encompass not only statements but also also questions. The motivations for this extension are examined in detail. It is shown ...
Chapter 6 Reconfiguring the Viewer
(2024)
Cultural organizations are increasingly turning to immersive technologies such as Extended Reality to create more embodied and interactive experiences of remote cultural objects. Yet, museum computing’s overriding focus ...
Chapter 1 Presence, Museums, and Immersive Technologies
(2024)
Recently there has been a re-articulation of the concept of ‘presence’, which has evolved into an important trend in the humanities. Despite the many cross-disciplinary endeavours to define what ‘presence’ is, it proves a ...
Representation in Cognitive Science
(2018)
"Our thoughts are meaningful. We think about things in the outside world; how can that be so? This is one of the deepest questions in contemporary philosophy. Ever since the 'cognitive revolution', states with meaning-mental ...
Compositionality and Concepts in Linguistics and Psychology
(2017)
cognitive science; semantics; language
Earth Observation Open Science and Innovation
(2018)
geospatial analytics; social observatory; big earth data; open data; citizen science; open innovation; earth system science; crowdsourced geospatial data; citizen science; science in society; data science
Non-scribal Communication Media in the Bronze Age Aegean and Surrounding Areas
(2017)
This volume is intended to be the first in a series that will focus on the origin of script
and the boundaries of non-scribal communication media in proto-literate and literate
societies. Over the last 30 years, the ...
The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe
(2017)
The essays in this volume shed light on how, for what purposes and to what extent the Arabic language was taught and studied by European scholars, theologian, merchants, diplomats and prisoners in early modern Europe.
Language Dispersal Beyond Farming
(2017)
Why do some languages wither and die, while others prosper and spread? Around the turn of the millennium a number of archaeologists such as Colin Renfrew and Peter Bellwood made the controversial claim that many of the ...
Global History and New Polycentric Approaches
(2018)
Rethinking the ways global history is envisioned and conceptualized in diverse countries such as China, Japan, Mexico or Spain, this collections considers how global issues are connected with our local and national ...
Chapter Bottom-Up Fabrication of Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons
(2018)
Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) make up an extremely interesting class of
materials. On the one hand GNRs share many of the superlative properties of
graphene, while on the other hand they display an exceptional degree of ...
Chapter 3 Optoelectronics and Bio Devices on Paper Powered by Solar Cells
(2017)
The employment of printing techniques as cost-effective methods to fabricate low cost,
flexible, disposable and sustainable solar cells is intimately dependent on the substrate
properties and the adequate electronic ...
Chapter 5 Mercury Tonics (Rasāyana) in Sanskrit Medical Literature
(2016)
This chapter will provide a brief survey of the uses of mercury preparations
in rasāyana therapy, discussing their position within rejuvenation
therapy in regard to other rasāyana formulations and exploring their link
with ...
On-Surface Synthesis II
(2018)
On-surface synthesis is appearing as an extremely promising strategy to create organic nanoarchitectures with atomic precision. Molecular building blocks holding adequate functional groups are dosed onto surfaces that ...
Magnifying perspectives
(2017)
Magnifying Perspectives is a festschrift for Robert Ross, Emeritus Professor of African History at Leiden University. The contributions have been written by the students and colleagues of Robert Ross, reflecting his ...
Combating Fiscal Fraud and Empowering Regulators
(2021)
This book showcases a multidisciplinary set of work on the impact of regulatory innovation on the scale and nature of tax evasion, tax avoidance, and money laundering. We consider the international tax environment an ...
The Political Carousel
(2019)
"This research project examines how various political events and factors influence the composition of senior government elites in a range of African states. Using a newly created dataset of African cabinet ministers, this ...
Essays on Political Elites and Violence in Changing Political Orders of Middle East and Africa
(2020)
"This research project addresses the question of how political elites’ behaviour varies when competition among them is heightened. Focusing on changing political orders across Africa and the Middle East, it seeks to ...
Accounts and Accountability in Late Medieval Europe
(2020)
This volume stems from a conference organised in November 2018 at the
University of Bucharest in the frame of the European Research Council
project CASTELLANY ACCOUNTS, “Record-keeping, fiscal reform, and
the rise of ...
Chapter Violence and Politics in Zimbabwe from 2008-2018
(2020)
"Zimbabwe’s ZANU-PF party has been locked in an internal battle of political survival which intensified as the country democratized. Political violence has become a common feature in these internal struggles and underscores ...
Chapter The Perspective of “Coup Forces,” Saleh and Houthi Elements
(2020)
"From the onset of the Saada wars (2004 – 2010), the Houthis have been described as an Iranian proxy and a security threat. Ali Abdullah Saleh long deployed this Iranian narrative to obtain budgetary and military support ...
Chapter 27 Observing Yoga
(2020)
The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques. The book ...
Comradely objects
(2020)
The major part of this book project was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 700913.<br/>This book is about two distinct but ...
The Entrepreneurial Society
(2020)
This open access book is an outcome of the EU’s Horizon 2020 project ‘Financial and Institutional Reforms for an Entrepreneurial Society’ (FIRES). Building on historical, economic and legal analysis, and combining methods ...
Chapter Identifying, Classifying and Searching Graphic Symbols in the NOTAE System
(2020)
The use of graphic symbols in documentary records from the 5th to the 9th century has so far received scant attention. What we mean by graphic symbols are graphic signs (including alphabetical ones) drawn as a visual unit ...
Towards Socially Integrative Cities
(2021)
This book is based on the results of the TRANSURBAN-EU-CHINA project. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 770141. The material ...
Chapter 4 The Scholar-Practitioner of Yoga in the Western Academy
(2020)
The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques. The book ...
Chapter 12 Yoga and Meditation as a Health Intervention
(2020)
The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques. The book ...
Chapter 1 Reframing Yoga and Meditation Studies
(2020)
The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques. The book ...
Chapter 9 Early Hathayoga
(2020)
The Routledge Handbook of Yoga and Meditation Studies is a comprehensive and interdisciplinary resource, which frames and contextualises the rapidly expanding fields that explore yoga and meditative techniques. The book ...
Le lettere di Dante
(2020)
Religious Narratives in Italian Literature after the Second Vatican Council
(2019)
This book presents a semiotic study of the re-elaboration of Christian narratives and values in a corpus of Italian novels published after the Second Vatican Council (1960s). It tackles the complex set of ideas expressed ...
Body, Capital, and Screens:
(2020)
This book began life with the inaugural conference of the international
research project ‘The healthy self as body capital: Individuals, market-based
societies, body politics and visual media in the twentieth century ...
Curating (Post-)Socialist Environments
(2021)
In which ways are environments (post-)socialist and how do they come about? How is the relationship between the built environment, memory, and debates on identity enacted? What are the spatial, material, visual, and aesthetic ...
Global Literary Studies
(2022)
This book sets the grounds for Global Literary Studies as an emergent field. It innovatively looks at cross-border cultural phenomena through the concepts of space, scale, time, connectivity and agency, channeling the ...
Post-Global Aesthetics
(2022)
Phenomena such as the Covid-19 pandemic, climate change, or the surge of political populism show that the current phase of accelerated globalization is over. New concepts are needed in order to respond to this exhaustion ...
Translation and State
(2022)
In 1587, Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak – a favourite at the Mughal court and author of the Akbarnāmah – completed his Preface to the Persian translation of the Mahābhārata. This book is the first detailed study of Abū al-Faz̤l's ...
The Rise of State Capital
(2023)
The past two decades have seen a rapid rise in large-scale, state-led transnational investment from countries as different as China, Norway and Russia. By bundling economic resources, these countries have entered global ...
Naming and Mapping the Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean
(2022)
Gods dwell in human environments in multiple ways. They move into imaginary spaces and explore the cosmos. This book analyzes the mapping of gods through a specific lens: their naming. By proposing this new perspective, ...
The Marketisation of Welfare-To-Work in Ireland
(2023)
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
This book assesses how the practice of contracting-out public employment services via competitive tendering and Payment-by-Results is transforming welfare-to-work ...
Immaginare l’altrove nell’epoca dell’Antropocene
(2023)
This book explores the processes through which particular places take shape in the imaginaries, perceptions and narratives of people who do not inhabit them, or who have inhabited them only recently. The ways in which we ...
Chapter 6 Virtual Energy Storage Systems for Virtual Power Plants
(2023)
This book provides a general overview of virtual power plants (VPP) as a key technology in future energy communities and active distribution and transmission networks for managing distributed energy resources, providing ...
Chapter 34 Affective Witnessing of the Hijab
(2023)
The hijab has triggered affects for centuries. It has sparked narratives of “saving” Muslim women from the shackles of Muslim men and Islam. In recent years, we have seen several examples of individuals and collectives who ...
Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice
(2023)
Girls, gender and identity in comicsSugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice offers an innovative, wide-ranging and geographically diverse book-length treatment of girlhood in comics. The various contributing authors and artists ...
Biometric Identification, Law and Ethics
(2021)
This book is open access. This book undertakes a multifaceted and integrated examination of biometric identification, including the current state of the technology, how it is being used, the key ethical issues, and the ...
Having Too Much
(2023)
Having Too Much is the first academic volume devoted to limitarianism: the idea that the use of economic or ecosystem resources should not exceed certain limits.
This concept has deep roots in economic and political ...
Humans and Aquatic Animals in Early Modern America and Africa
(2023)
This book deals with peoples’ practices, perceptions, emotions and feelings towards aquatic animals, their ecosystems and nature on the early modern Atlantic coasts by addressing exploitation, use, fear, empathy, otherness, ...
Chapter 11 National Theatres in Africa Between Modular Modernity and Cultural Heritage
(2024)
In sub-Saharan Africa a number of national theatres were established from the 1950s onwards. Their construction involved British colonial administration, American philanthropy and Chinese development aid. While each history ...
Chapter 8 Brecht as a Model for Cultural Development
(2024)
Despite the non-governmental status of the UNESCO-affiliated International Theatre Institute (ITI), its organisational structures enabled its member states to use it as an instrument of cultural representation for national ...
Chapter 4 Theatre for Influence
(2024)
Emerging from the superpowers’ covert attempts to counter their political and ideological influence without direct military confrontations, the Cold War was also enacted in the cultural sphere of many third world countries, ...
Chapter 1 Introduction
(2024)
The introduction outlines the main trajectories of the Cultural Cold War, starting with the revelations in the late 1960s that the CIA was using various front organizations to fund culture abroad as a way to combat Soviet ...
What Would Hercules Do?
(2023)
One day, according to the Ancient Greek author Xenophon, the hero Hercules “went out to a quiet place and sat, pondering”. This book explores what happened here and how and why it can resonate with autistic young people. ...
Sovereign Wealth Funds
(2022)
What constitutes a sovereign wealth fund is contested. In general, however, it is a state-sponsored institutional investor that is answerable only to the state and makes investments according to the interests and mandate ...
Öffentliche Räume in Pompeji
(2023)
Caucasian Albania
(2023)
The handbook illustrates the present state of knowledge on the region of Albania in the Southern Caucasus and its inhabitants with a focus on its late antique and medieval history, its language and its written heritage, ...
A Mist Connection
(2023)
In 1783, an eruption occurred in Iceland. Soon after, a dry fog descended upon mainland Europe. These two events long went unconnected. "A Mist Connection" documents the Laki eruption and its consequences for Iceland and ...
The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri at Ninety
(2023)
This book engages the Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri, one of the most important collections of early manuscripts of Jewish scripture and the New Testament, by placing them within larger conversations relating to ancient ...
Television with Stanley Cavell in Mind
(2023)
This collection of new work on the philosophical importance of television starts from a model for reading films proposed by Stanley Cavell, whereby film in its entirety—actors and production included—brings its own ...
Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century
(2022)
Agricultural workers have long been underrepresented in labour history. This volume aims to change this by bringing together a collection of studies on the largest group of the global work force. The contributions cover ...
Florilegia Syriaca: Mapping a Knowledge-Organizing Practice in the Syriac World
(2023)
From the 6th century onwards, Syriac patristic florilegia – collections of Greek patristic excerpts in Syriac translation – progressively became a prominent form through which Syriac and Arab Christians shaped their knowledge ...
Moral Teleology
(2023)
This book develops a unified theory of moral progress. The author argues that there are mechanisms in place that consistently drive societies towards moral improvement and that a sophisticated, naturalistically respectable ...
Cosmopolitan Norms and European Values
(2024)
This volume offers a systematic philosophical analysis of the normative challenges facing European refugee policy, focusing on whether the response to it can be based on European values. By considering the refugee policy ...
Chapter 3 Beyond Ring Composition
(2021)
In this chapter, the author discovers Michel Cuypers’ pioneering application to the Qur’an of the Semitic rhetorical analysis of Roland Meynet. It takes the reader through the first 33 verses of Surat Maryam to show how a ...
Active Rheology Control of Cementitious Materials
(2023)
This book reports on cutting-edge research within the new field of active rheology control of cementitious materials, presenting new ideas developed within the ERC Advanced Grant Project, SmartCast (hosted at Ghent ...
Parties as Governments in Eurasia, 1913–1991
(2022)
This book examines the political parties which emerged on the territories of the former Ottoman, Qing, Russian, and Habsburg empires and not only took over government power but merged with government itself. It discusses ...
How People Compare
(2023)
This book focuses on comparison in anthropology, turning an ethnographic lens onto the diversity of comparative practice. It seeks to understand how, why and with what consequences diversely situated groups of people – ...
European Modernity and the Passionate South
(2022)
In the long nineteenth century, dominant stereotypes presented people of the Mediterranean South as particularly passionate and unruly, therefore incapable of adapting to the moral and political duties imposed by European ...
Classical Mythology and Children’s Literature...
(2022)
Hale and Riverlea form the core of the Our Mythical Childhood project’s Australasian team, and Classical Mythology and Children’s Literature... An Alphabetical Odyssey incorporates reflection on children’s literature from ...
Hybrid Threats and the Law of the Sea
(2022)
Hybrid Threats and the Law of the Sea debates the practice of states that have resorted to discriminatory navigational restrictions or aggression against foreign ships and aircraft in densely navigated straits. The book ...
Microhistories of Technology
(2023)
In this open access book, Mikael Hård tells a story of how people around the world challenged the production techniques and products brought by globalization. Retaining their autonomy and freedom, creative individuals ...
Warranty Obligations in Western France, 1040–1270
(2023)
This open access book examines warranty obligations in western France during the central Middle Ages. Warranty refers to the commitments that an individual undertook when alienating property to protect the transfer from ...
Chapter 6 Dilemmas of humanitarian negotiations with the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan
(2024)
This book examines authoritarian practices in relation to humanitarian negotiations. Utilising a wide variety of perspectives and examining a range of contexts, the book considers how humanitarians assess and engage with ...
Chapter Commentary (end of Chapter 8)
(2024)
This book examines authoritarian practices in relation to humanitarian negotiations. Utilising a wide variety of perspectives and examining a range of contexts, the book considers how humanitarians assess and engage with ...
Chapter AI Overview: Methods and Structures
(2021)
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Chapter Machine Learning Models for Industrial Applications
(2021)
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Chapter Polyimide Films for Digital Isolators
(2021)
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