Heat transfer is vital for efficient power production. This book covers efficiently utilizing energy by integrating heat exchangers into power production units. It provides descriptions of heat transfer applications in everyday life and industry, supported by practical examples.
This book explores the genetics of human diseases, covering clinical diagnostic techniques, developmental anomalies, birth defects, and risk factors in genetic disorders.
Place-Based Sustainability
As climate change and urbanization challenge our world, this book explores the critical cultural relationship between people and their environment. It reveals new pathways for stewardship of our cities and countryside, essential for building a sustainable future.
This book explores the relationship between Ruskin and Turner through their mutual fascination with water, focusing on The Harbours of England. It reveals how water became a multifaceted symbol of tradition, progress, and nationalism in the nineteenth century.
How can we live philosophically? Drawing on Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Plato, these essays probe life’s great questions through aesthetics, poetry, and existentialism. This challenging, interdisciplinary guide explores ethics, meaning, and philosophy as a way of life.
This volume explores approaches to monitoring sustainable tourism at seaside destinations, focusing on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. It presents a systematic process of gathering data to assess and manage development. Essential for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners.
This book analyses data from floods, earthquakes, and bio-infections to provide a model of ethnological disaster research. It focuses on communities’ quality of life, offering contributions to policy for disaster prevention, response, and recovery.
This book deals with the relationship between São Paulo and its water resources, from the city’s birth to the present. It discusses the consequences of reconfiguring natural water courses for urban expansion and its impact on the urban environment and landscape.
Dealing with Multilingualism in TV Series
This book analyzes multilingualism in TV series and explores how dubbing affects the plot and characterisation of the original shows. A specific focus on Italian dubbing provides detailed insight into this complex and fascinating phenomenon.
Satellite images often suffer from interpretability issues and lost details due to sensor limitations. This book exploits deep learning to boost minute details and improve classification, showing how super-resolution improves spatial detail for precise decision-making.
Monetary Policy and Financial Stability
This book explores how monetary policy and a stable financial system promote growth. Analyzing central bank responses to the global financial crisis, it offers insights for students, researchers, and practitioners into the unending quest to reconcile growth and stability.
Design Concepts for Seismic-Resistant Buildings
This book proposes a quantitative shaking evaluation for seismic-resistant buildings, with guidance to calculate the shaking quantity scale. It also demonstrates using Artificial Intelligence to predict this scale, which is highly important for earthquake early warning systems.
Can a mind observe itself? Without experiential awareness, culture, the arts, and science would not make sense. This volume provides a rich array of views on human nature and the way it shows up in the strange land of human identity.
A comprehensive review of advancements in microbial physiology, covering topics like bacterial virulence, bioluminescence, and heat shock proteins. This book is essential for students, researchers, and teachers in microbiology, medical sciences, and life sciences.
This book provides up-to-date information on the treatment of acute and chronic viral hepatitis A-E. It summarizes treatment to guide clinical practice, details the pharmacology of all drugs, and is a resource for students, physicians, gastroenterologists, and pharmacists.
In 18th-century Britain, castrato singers challenged cultural and sexual norms. This book investigates fears that their sensual Italian music could feminize men and weaken the nation, while also examining the castrati’s contributions as cultural leaders.
This collection explores Western representations of Egypt from 1750-1956, a fascination sparked by Napoleon’s expedition. Essays analyse works by writers like Charles Dickens and Florence Nightingale, alongside perspectives from explorers, painters, and colonial administrators.
This collection of essays examines the molecular basis of metamorphosis in the white wax scale insect, a fascinating species where males and females transform differently. Discover how this insect has provided economic and medical benefits to humans for thousands of years.
Literature and the Great War
This book traces an overall picture of the literature born from the Great War. Focused on Italy, but rich in European references, it is a journey through history and the human soul, between hopes and fears, from the eve of war to the trenches and the return home.
How, where, and when does innovation occur in creative writing teaching? This volume explores such innovation, gathering contributors whose teaching stories provide direction, stimulus, and encouragement for those seeking to innovate in how creative writing is taught and learnt.
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