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Resilient Urban Futures

This book addresses the way in which urban and urbanizing regions profoundly impact and are impacted by climate change. ...

Responsive Open Learning Environments : Outcomes of Research from the ROLE Project

This book presents the outcomes of four years of educational research in the EU-supported project called ROLE (Responsive ...

Rethinking Health Care Ethics

The goal of this open access book is to develop an approach to clinical health care ethics that is more accessible to, and ...

Rethinking Sustainability Towards a Regenerative Economy

This book is based on work from the COST Action “RESTORE - REthinking Sustainability TOwards a Regenerative Economy'', ...

Retirement Home? Ageing Migrant Workers in France and the Question of Return

This open access book offers new insights into the ageing-migration nexus and the nature of home. Documenting the hidden ...

Reuse of Off-the-Shelf Components

Software reuse as an umbrella concept has been around for several decades. Over time, new techniques and approaches have ...

Risk Communication for the Future

The conventional approach to risk communication, based on a centralized and controlled model, has led to blatant failures ...

Riverine Ecosystem Management

This open access book surveys the frontier of scientific river research and provides examples to guide management towards ...

Runtime Verification

Runtime verification is a recent direction in formal methods research, which is complementary to such well-established formal ...

Russia's Turn to the East

This book explores if and how Russian policies towards the Far East region of the country – and East Asia more broadly ...

SOFSEM 2005: Theory and Practice of Computer Science

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer ...

Safety Cultures, Safety Models

The objective of this book is to help at-risk organizations to decipher the “safety cloud”, and to position themselves ...

Sago Palm

This book addresses a wide variety of events and technologies concerning the sago palm, ranging from its botanical characteristics, ...

Security in Computer and Information Sciences

This open access book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the First International ISCIS Security Workshop ...

Selected Areas in Cryptography (vol. # 3897)

This volume contains the papers presented at the SAC 2005, was the 12th in a series of annual workshops on Selected Areas ...

Self-Assembled Molecules – New Kind of Protein Ligands

The subject of this book relates to protein ligands with particular structural and complexation properties. They are composed ...

Sequence Analysis and Modern C++ : The Creation of the SeqAn3 Bioinformatics Library / Hannes Hauswedell

Every developer who previously worked with C++ will enjoy the in-depth chapter on important changes in the language from ...

Sequence Analysis and Related Approaches

This open access book provides innovative methods and original applications of sequence analysis (SA) and related methods ...

Service Availability (vol. # 3335)

Shaping an Inclusive Energy Transition Editors (view affiliations) Margot P. C. WeijnenZofia LukszoSamira Farahani

This book makes a case for a socially inclusive energy transition and illustrates how engineering and public policy professionals ...