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Experimental Testing, Manufacturing and Numerical Modelling of Composite and Sandwich Structures (Second Edition)
Composite materials can be used in a wide range of applications, including aerospace, automotive, construction, sports equipment, and electronics. These materials have a high strength-to-weight ratio, excellent fatigue and corrosion resistance, and low thermal expansion. However, there are still…
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Das Bundessozialgericht als Tatsacheninstanz
Mit dem Werk wird gezeigt, wie die obersten Bundesgerichte, insbesondere das Bundessozialgericht (BSG), wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse als sogenannte generelle Tatsachen oder ähnliche generelle Tatsachenarten feststellen und in die Rechtsanwendung einbeziehen. Dabei wird das spannungsreiche…
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Salud pública y odontología sostenible: huella de carbono, prácticas verdes
La emergencia climatológica contemporánea ha reconfigurado el nexo entre la salud, la ecología y la sostenibilidad, con la obligación para los sistemas de salud de hacer frente al imperativo de disminuir su huella ecológica sin poner en peligro el calibre de la atención. En este libro se analiza la…
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Kairouan Manuscript Cultures / Cultures des manuscrits à Kairouan
The National Laboratory for the Preservation and Conservation of Parchment and Manuscripts in Raqqada, Tunisia, houses what may be the oldest near-intact collection of Islamic manuscripts in the world, with dozens of manuscripts dated before 900 CE. Known as the Kairouan Collection, these…
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Statins
Statins are aromatic cyclic chemical compounds. Statins inhibit cholesterol synthesis by inactivating the enzyme that catalyzes this process, thereby reducing the risk of heart attack and stroke. In recent years, high doses of statins, along with chemotherapies and other combination therapies such…
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Healthy Ageing
Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence. This book shares insights from the Healthy Ageing Challenge, bringing research, business, policy and practice together to create age-friendly homes, workplaces and communities. Spanning co-design with older people, business collaboration and…
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New Functional Coatings and Thin Films for Sensor and Green Energy Technologies
This Special Issue Reprint is focused on recent developments and achievements in the design and application of new advanced materials for active coatings with a special emphasis on the surface engineering and functionalization of protective, sensitive, and selective coatings for energy conversion…
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Family Relationships in the Digital Era
Family Relationships in the Digital Era explores the adoption of digital technologies within various types of family relationships and discusses their potential to foster connection while also having the capacity to create rifts and distance. The book reconciles the psychological and psychosocial…
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Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory
This Element provides an opinionated survey of the ideal and nonideal theory debate in political philosophy. It adopts a minimal conception of ideal theory as 'theorizing that aims to characterize ideal or perfect justice'. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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Choreo-ethical Assemblages
How can we understand the world around us through our bodies, ethical considerations, and œcological awareness, and how can we actively shape it through cosmopoietic, generative forces? Choreo-ethical Assemblages – Embodied Research as Cosmopoietic Œcology explores the interconnections between…
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Hungarian Perspectives on Ireland
This volume presents the richness and diversity of Irish Studies in Hungary, marking a milestone as the first publication of its kind. It gathers thirteen studies spanning a wide range of subjects, historical periods, and geographical perspectives, from medieval hagiography to contemporary…
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Outlines of Abolition Democracy
This study traces the outlines of democratic theories and practices as they took shape among African American leftists in the 1930s who wrote about the unfinished nature of abolition. Drawing on W.E.B. Du Bois’s framework of abolition democracy, first developed in his 1935 historical study Black…
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Nature-Positive Cities: Adaptive Spatial Planning in Italy for an Ecological Urban Transition
This open access book underscores the importance of a multidisciplinary approach, framed within a broader trans-disciplinary perspective, to move from conventional urban development to nature-positive cities and planning. It is therefore fundamental to assess urban biodiversity, actually not…
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Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas and Beyond
This is the first book-length analysis of Quentin Skinner’s seminal essay ‘Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas’. Skinner’s essay is one of the most influential historical articles ever published, written by one of the world’s most prominent scholars in intellectual history and a…
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Business, Human Rights and Natural Resource Governance
This open access book examines the role played by international, regional and national legal frameworks in holding corporations operating in the natural resource sector accountable for human rights violations in the Global South. Influential scholars from across the world address pressing issues…
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Convergencias del derecho: pluralismo jurídico y derechos humanos
Convergencias del derecho: pluralismo jurídico y derechos humanos, reúne cuatro investigaciones que examinan cómo distintos sistemas normativos coexisten, se tensionan y se articulan para proteger derechos en contextos de emergencia social, conflicto territorial y cambio normativo. Desde un enfoque…
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Diseases Have No Eyes
“Diseases Have No Eyes” is an original study of environmental racism and its health implications for farmworkers and formerly incarcerated people of color who have suffered from Valley Fever, an illness caused by a fungus spore that propagates in soil and spreads through the air. It explores the…
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Natural Products with Pharmaceutical Activities
Nature has long been recognised as a crucial source for developing pharmaceutical agents, with many modern drug discoveries originating from naturally occurring substances. Over two-thirds of all anticancer drugs today are derived directly from unaltered natural compounds or are inspired by natural…
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Emerging Trends in Beverage Industry
The beverage industry is as old as human history, with traditional products such as wine, beer, tea, and coffee with thousands of years of history and tradition. At the same time, it is a modern and dynamic sector, full of innovation and new opportunities. This book compiles recent advances in the…
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Women, 'Failure' and Academia
This open access book examines failures in contemporary academia, and especially the intersections between gender and academic failure. It argues that academic failure is political, and that seemingly personal failures to achieve a standard or expected academic career (tenure, funding…
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