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    Publication Date: 2022-02-01
    Description: To be competitive, companies must develop capabilities that allow them to react rapidly to market demands. The innovation methods of the past are not adapted to the turbulence of the modern world. In the last decade, increasing globalization of markets and Industry 4.0 have caused profound changes in the best way to manage the innovation process. This e-book includes a collection of thirteen papers that discuss theoretical approaches, case studies, and surveys focused on issues related to open innovation and its mechanisms.
    Keywords: eco-innovation ; cleaner production ; strategy ; performance ; natural resource-based view ; stakeholder theory ; decision making ; forest management ; Nash Bayesian Equilibrium (NBE) ; Harsanyi’s Transformation (HT) ; risk management ; project management ; sustainability ; social network analysis ; collaborative networks ; project lifecycle ; project critical success factors ; open innovation ; predictive model ; project outcome likelihood ; organizational competencies ; innovation ecosystem ; evolutionary economics ; Panarchy ; resilience ; adaptation ; competitiveness ; innovation ; new products ; functional framework ; SIFSNPIP ; case studies ; ecosystem ; organic wine ; Tuscany ; virtual enterprise ; fuzzy logic ; systems engineering ; entrepreneurship ; technopreneurial intentions ; grand challenges ; innovation ecosystems ; mission-oriented innovation ; SDGs ; sustainable innovation ; systematic literature review ; SLR ; transformative innovation ; typology ; architecture engineering and construction (AEC) industry ; building information modelling (BIM) ; cultivation ; Technological Readiness Level ; smart farming ; viticulture ; lean ; business model canvas ; circular economy ; user integration ; cars ; electric vehicles ; biofuels ; logit models ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues
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    Publication Date: 2023-01-05
    Description: This Special Issue covers manufacturing of a smart polymer composites via choice of ingredients, such as polymer, filler, and additives, as well as their unique composition. It also covers the smart processing of polymer composites, which is influenced by the choice of mixers, processing condition, processing technique, etc.
    Keywords: thermoplastic polyurethane ; expanded bead ; supercritical CO2 foaming ; expansion ratio ; resilience ; hardness ; poly(lactic acid) ; lignin ; maleic anhydride ; chemical modification ; 3D printing filament ; SEBS ; membrane ; water uptake ; impedance spectroscopy ; ionic conductivity ; phlogopite ; natural rubber (NR) ; ethylene-propylene-diene monomer rubber (EPDM) ; mechanical properties ; compatibility ; nylon 6 ; polyketone ; chain extender ; hydrogen bonding ; chain branching ; chain crosslinking ; melt viscosity ; shape memory polymer ; NIR light responsive ; semicrystalline maleated polyolefin elastomer ; polyaniline ; melt blending ; adhesive ; fluorosilicone ; thermal conductivity ; magnesium oxide ; boron nitride ; syntactic foams ; hyperbranched polymer ; polyamide 6 ; hollow glass microsphere ; lubricant ; compatibilizer ; composites ; silica ; silane ; hydrolysis ; interfacial adhesion ; zinc mechanism ; hybrid flame retardant materials ; influence of gypsum ; minimum total heat release ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-27
    Description: This book brings together recent research related to urban resilience, in particular, taking into account climate change impacts and hydrological hazards. Due to the complexity of our cities, which are vulnerable and continuously evolving systems, urban resilience should be considered as a transversal and multi-sectorial issue, affecting different urban services, several hazards, and all the steps of the risk management cycle. Within this context, the different pieces of research that form this book deal with the topics of multi-risk and urban resilience assessment, analysis of cascading effects, and the proposal and prioritization of adaptation measures and strategies to cope with climate-related hazards through multi-criteria analysis.
    Keywords: RESCCUE project ; Electrical distribution network ; Flooding ; Risk Assessment ; city resiliency ; GIS model ; drought ; water scarcity ; water availability ; climate change ; hydrological modeling ; resilience ; flooding ; hazard mapping ; risk identification ; sustainability ; urban resilience ; traffic modelling ; resilience assessment ; urban services ; cities ; Ecosystem Services (ES) ; Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) ; Resilience Assessment Framework (RAF) ; stakeholders’ validation ; stormwater management and control ; depth‒damage curves ; urban floods ; properties ; claims ; flood expert surveyor ; fluvial ; pluvial ; tidal ; sewer ; flood ; risk ; modelling ; cascading effects ; urban flood ; water quality ; cost-benefit analysis ; combined sewer overflows ; climate change adaptation ; climate risk ; socio-economic assessment ; flood risk assessment ; 1D/2D hydrodynamic model ; Metro system ; subway ; urban mobility ; pluvial floods ; 1D/2D coupled models ; impact assessment ; adaptation strategies ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-30
    Description: The year 2020 is considered by the World Health Organization to be the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife. This book supports the visibility of the contribution of nurses to society. We have included 30 articles on high-quality original research or reviews that provide solid new discoveries that expand current knowledge.
    Keywords: chronic pain ; hallux valgus ; musculoskeletal diseases ; psychology ; learning management system ; higher education ; nursing ; data mining ; career development ; counselling ; cultural perspective ; decision-making process ; East Asian perspective ; filial piety ; nursing education ; nursing shortage ; nursing student ; turnover ; social support ; patient satisfaction ; chronic disease ; family ; homeless ; parenting ; parents ; vulnerable population ; workplace violence ; mental healthcare nurses ; secondary traumatic stress ; burnout ; nursing license ; job demands ; job control ; work–life balance ; nurses ; nurse manager ; competence ; core competencies ; governance ; leadership ; nursing research ; Delphi method ; consensus ; Spain ; Alzheimer’s disease ; comorbidity ; older adults ; elderly ; fibromyalgia ; stigma ; illness uncertainty ; scoping review ; qualitative research ; happiness ; job crafting ; work environment ; turnover intention ; hierarchical clustering ; fatigue ; sleep ; clinical skills ; COVID-19 ; healthcare providers ; implementation ; interpersonal skills ; perception ; telemedicine ; training ; video consultation ; cardiopulmonary resuscitation ; chest compression ; method ; experiential learning ; observation ; CPR ; pandemics ; students ; teaching ; education ; distance ; schools ; Life Changing Events ; clinical placements ; emergency hospital service ; intensive care units ; nursing care ; nursing education research ; nursing students ; circadian rhythm ; chronotype ; midwives ; Morningness–Eveningness Questionnaire (MEQ) ; near misses ; rhythms desynchronization ; risk of medication errors ; shift work ; frailty ; foot deformities ; foot diseases ; foot pain ; integrated care ; social care ; health care ; older people ; person centered care ; lumbar radiculopathy ; neurodynamic tension tests ; orthopedic tension tests ; magnetic resonance ; daylight saving time (DST) ; desynchronization ; chronobiology ; spontaneous delivery ; midwifery ; obstetrics ; multiple sclerosis ; physical activity ; resilience ; sense of coherence ; coping ; child ; parent ; congenital heart disease ; heart surgery ; content analysis ; cross-border care ; transitions ; personal satisfaction ; surveys and questionnaires ; validation studies ; primary care ; workplace ; quality of health care ; nurse’s role ; coronary disease ; cardiac rehabilitation ; health education ; quality of life ; self-care ; cannabis ; adolescents ; stress ; social network analysis ; network ; friendship ; care pathway ; integrated health care ; long-term care ; activities of daily living ; Barthel index ; SARS-CoV-2 ; gender-based violence ; abuse ; survival ; resilient
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-30
    Description: Since the conceptualization of bounded rationality, management scholars started investigating how people—managers and entrepreneurs—really make decisions within (and for) organizations. The aim of this eBook is to deeply investigate trends that have flourished within this pivotal research area in conceptual and/or empirical terms, trying to provide new insights on how managers and entrepreneurs make decisions within and for organizations. In this vein, readers that approach this eBook will be taken by hand and accompanied to the discovery of how the mind of decision makers is at the basis of organizational developments or failures. In this regard, published contributions in this eBook underline how executives and entrepreneurs must be ecologically rational, thus be aware of the negative and positive effects that biases can have depending on the context and use them at their advantage. Managerial and entrepreneurial decision-making are phenomena that cannot be detached from the environment in which executives and entrepreneurs are embedded, claiming to establish new approaches to research that looks at decision-making as an individual/group/organization-environment dialectical and multi-level phenomenon.
    Keywords: behavioral strategy ; decision-making ; core self-evaluations ; intuition ; overconfidence ; performance ; nurse manager ; time pressure ; self-leadership ; stress ; entrepreneurial decision-making ; resource-based view ; opportunity identification ; competitive advantage ; critical assessments ; managerial process ; decision making ; critical infrastructure elements ; resilience ; disruption ; indication ; data lake ; data governance ; data quality ; big data ; digital transformation ; data science ; asset management ; boundary condition ; SME entrepreneurs ; accountants ; cognitive biases ; debiasing ; clinical decision-making process ; clinical reasoning ; orthopaedics ; follow-up decision ; healthcare decision ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KJ Business and Management::KJC Business strategy ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KJ Business and Management::KJM Management and management techniques::KJMV Management of specific areas
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  • 6
    Publication Date: 2023-12-21
    Description: Experiences during early life program the central nervous- and endocrine-systems with consequences for susceptibility to physical and mental disorders. These programming effects depend on genetic and epigenetic factors, and their outcome leads to an adaptive or maladaptive phenotype to a given later environmental context. This Research Topic focused on the hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA)-axis and stress-related phenotypes, and on how HPA-axis programming by the environment precisely occurs. We included original research, mini-review and review papers on a broad range of topics related to HPA-axis programming.
    Keywords: R5-920 ; RC648-665 ; RC321-571 ; Q1-390 ; HPA axis ; Vulnerability ; resilience ; early life stress ; materna ; bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine
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    Publication Date: 2023-01-05
    Description: This book focuses on fundamental and applied research on construction project management. It presents research papers and practice-oriented papers. The execution of construction projects is specific and particularly difficult because each implementation is a unique, complex, and dynamic process that consists of several or more subprocesses that are related to each other, in which various aspects of the investment process participate. Therefore, there is still a vital need to study, research, and conclude the engineering technology and management applied in construction projects. This book present unanimous research approach is a result of many years of studies, conducted by 35 well experienced authors. The common subject of research concerns the development of methods and tools for modeling multi-criteria processes in construction engineering.
    Keywords: earned value method—EVM ; time variances ; cost variances ; schedule ; cadastre ; land surveyor ; construction surveying ; building layout ; polar coordinates ; stake-out methods ; total station ; construction reports ; construction contracts ; natural language processing ; machine learning ; simulation modeling ; bridge expansion and contraction installation (BECI) ; decision making (DM) ; technical condition assessment ; analytic hierarchy process (AHP) ; whale optimization algorithm ; Tent chaotic mapping ; Lévy flight ; resilience ; baseline schedule ; uncertainty ; taxonomy ; construction project ; PERT ; theory of constraint (TOC) ; drum-buffer-rope (DBR) ; construction schedule ; monitoring progress ; construction phase ; automated monitoring ; digital tools ; as-built ; as-planned ; efficiency ; risk ; randomization ; association analysis ; tabu search ; delay ; time schedules ; project risk ; construction project management ; Time-at-Risk (TaR) ; investment-construction process model ; Monte Carlo simulation ; decision-making process ; decision modelling in construction activities ; decisions in civil engineering ; liquid cooling system ; flow calibration ; differential pressure ; experimental method ; aircraft ; building information modelling (BIM) ; automatisation ; facilities design ; domestic plumbing and sanitation ; management ; project cost ; investment schedule ; risk mitigation ; randomness ; fuzziness ; health and safety control ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering & technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: This overview of the most recent advances in the field of SMA research and applications in civil engineering aims to help remove the knowledge barriers across disciplines and sheds considerable light on the opportunity to commercialize SMA products in the construction industry.
    Keywords: seismic analysis ; rocking pier ; shape memory alloy ; ECC material ; bridge engineering ; television transmission tower ; seismic excitation ; shape memory alloy damper ; parametric study ; vibration control ; shape memory alloys ; engineered cementitious composites ; composites materials ; self-recovery capacity ; bending behavior ; machine learning ; artificial neural networks ; superelastic ; parameter identification ; constitutive model ; thermodynamic parameters ; shape memory alloy (SMA) ; self-centering SMA brace ; loading rate ; initial strain ; energy dissipation coefficient ; self-centering ; beam-column joints ; seismic performance ; iron-based shape memory alloy (Fe-SMA) ; shape memory effect ; martensitic transformation ; prestressing ; low cycle fatigue ; seismic ; damping ; transmission tower ; wind excitation ; SMA damper ; energy response ; viscoelastic ; brace ; hybrid control ; seismic resilience ; self-centering rocking (SCR) piers ; seismic fragility ; resilience ; life-cycle loss ; ferrous shape memory alloys ; prestress ; recovery stress ; relaxation ; thermomechanical behavior ; fatigue ; active materials ; low-cost SMAs ; civil engineering applications ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TN Civil engineering, surveying and building::TNK Building construction and materials::TNKX Conservation of buildings and building materials
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  • 9
    Publication Date: 2024-04-05
    Description: The superordinate division of emotions is distributed along a bipolar dimension of affective valence, from approaching rewarding situations to avoiding punitive situations. Avoiding and approaching behaviors determine the disposition to the primary emotions of fear and attachment and the behavioral responses to the environmental stimuli of danger, novelty and reward. Approach or avoidance behaviors are associated with the brain pathways controlling cognitive and attentional function, reward sensitivity and emotional expression, involving prefrontal cortex, amygdala, striatum and cerebellum. Individual differences in approach and avoidance behavior might be modulated by normal variance in the level of functioning of different neurotransmitter systems, such as dopaminergic, serotoninergic, noradrenergic and endocannabinoid systems as well as many peptides such as corticotropin releasing hormone. These substances act at various central target areas to increase intensity of appetitive or defensive motivation. Physiologically, personality temperaments of approach and avoidance are viewed as instigators of propensity. They produce immediate affective, cognitive and behavioral inclinations in response to stimuli and orient individuals across domains and situations in a consistent fashion. Although the action undoubtedly emerges directly from these temperamental proclivities, ultimate behavioral outcomes are often a function of the integration among goal pursuit, self-regulation, and temperament trait. Defective coping strategies to aversive or rewarding stimuli characterize the patho-physiology of anxiety- and stress-related disorders or compulsive and addiction behaviors, respectively. Individuals with neuropsychiatric symptoms such as depression, suicidal behavior, bipolar mania, schizophrenia, substance use disorders, pathological gambling and anxiety disorders have scores which fall at the extreme tails of the normal distribution for a specific temperamental trait. The present Research Topic on the individual differences in emotional and motivational processing emphasizes the link between neuronal pattern and behavioral expression. The Topic includes experimental and clinical researches addressing the individual differences related to approach and avoidance and their behavioral characterization, structural and neurochemical profiles, synaptic connections, and receptor expressions. Studies are organized in a framework that puts in evidence the phenotypic expression and neurobiological patterns characterizing the individual differences and their biological variance.
    Keywords: RC321-571 ; Q1-390 ; Fear System ; stress ; reinforcement sensitivity theory ; Anxiety ; motivational disorders ; personality traits ; rewarding and aversive stimuli ; affective and emotional neuroscience ; dopaminergic and endocannabinoid systems ; resilience ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSA Life sciences: general issues::PSAN Neurosciences
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Description: The reprint showcases a review and empirical studies on life satisfaction and its related aspects. The studies are from several countries on a wide range of samples including university students, faculty, nurses, entrepreneurs, adolescents, national databases, refugees, and community samples.
    Keywords: preference-based health-related quality of life ; refugee ; EQ–5D–5L ; post-migration stressors ; self-efficacy ; recreation specialization ; flow experience ; life satisfaction ; mediating effect ; Gallup World Poll ; New Zealand ; wellbeing ; trust in government ; social security fairness ; social security satisfaction ; social entrepreneur ; exit intention ; prosocial motivation ; gender ; nurses ; quality of life ; protective factors ; coping strategies ; type of practice ; COVID-19 ; ageism ; stereotypes ; discrimination ; work engagement ; conscientiousness ; physical well-being ; subjective well-being ; activities of daily living ; health ; physical activity ; post-COVID-19 condition ; work ; community home-based elderly care ; Chinese older adults ; kindness interventions ; materialism ; satisfaction with life ; self-determination theory ; emotional intelligence ; resilience ; self-esteem ; university students ; happiness ; positive affect ; family functioning ; developmental age ; systematic review ; youth ; adolescence ; normative stressors ; interpersonal stressors ; school stressors ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-21
    Description: This Special Issue provides an overview of pediatric integrative medicine, an emerging field that blends conventional and evidence based complementary therapies with an emphasis on preventive health and wellbeing.
    Keywords: R5-920 ; RJ1-570 ; cognitive behavioral therapy ; pain rehabilitation ; n/a ; education ; pediatric integrative medicine ; musical therapy ; mind-body ; non-pharmacological therapy ; guided imagery ; complementary ; infant ; pediatric ; multidisciplinary pain management strategies ; integrative medicine ; qualitative ; advocacy ; clinic model ; massage ; obesity ; Kneipp ; multidisciplinary ; adolescents ; mindfulness ; sucrose ; program development ; vision ; complementary therapies ; residents ; art therapy ; pastoral care ; academic medicine ; kindergarten ; yoga ; assessment of withdrawal ; clinical practice ; pediatric integrative nursing ; eHealth ; mindful eating ; opioid reduction therapy ; burnout ; resilience ; pediatric blood and marrow transplant ; preventive lifestyle behaviors ; biofeedback ; pain ; migraine ; Integrative therapies ; creative arts therapy ; weaning of opioids ; implementation ; yoga therapy ; mindfulness-based stress reduction ; withdrawal ; music therapy ; hypnosis ; acupuncture ; premature ; chronic illness ; meditation ; pediatrics ; skin-to-skin contact ; opioid therapy ; self-regulation ; headache ; PIMR ; breastfeeding ; bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine
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    Publication Date: 2023-09-11
    Description: This Special Issue aimed to collate recent works regarding the planning and control of energy systems. In particular, this Special Issue focuses on microgrids. This kind of system enables optimal integration of renewable energy sources, electric vehicles, energy storage, and demand-side management strategies, thus proposing a valuable framework through which to implement the decarbonization of the electricity sector. Special attention is given to those works devoted to systems with high penetration of renewables and advanced demand response strategies. Literature reviews are also included in this Special Issue, and some real-life experiences are described and analyzed.
    Keywords: optimization algorithm ; control system ; renewable energy ; PSO ; GWO ; battery storage energy ; electric vehicle ; photovoltaics ; BESS ; optimization ; AOA algorithm ; uncertainty ; distribution network ; DC multi-microgrid system ; carbon emissions ; economic dispatch ; across-time-and-space energy transmission ; cooperative multi-objective optimization ; PV ; wind turbine ; biomass system ; heap-based optimizer ; Franklin’s and Coulomb’s algorithm ; sooty tern optimization ; energy cost ; metaheuristics ; solar cell systems ; elephant herding optimization ; alpha tuned EHO ; cultural-based ; biased initialization ; parameter identification ; single diode ; double diode ; three diodes ; modular multilevel converter (MMC) ; fault-tolerant ; voltage source modular multilevel converter (VSMMC) ; SPWMLSC ; SPWMPSC ; STHILSC ; STHIPSC ; optimal energy management ; multi-agent system ; multi-energy carrier ; renewable energy sources ; microgrids management ; renewable energy resources ; isolated microgrids ; optimization techniques ; demand-side management (DSM) ; distributed generations (DGs) ; energy management systems (EMS) ; renewable energy sources (RES) ; waste to energy (W2E) ; microgrid architecture ; smart infrastructure ; resilience ; optimization model ; critical node identification ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering & technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-28
    Description: System dynamics is a simulation modeling approach to strategic and policy analysis that has been applied to many health care and public health issues since the 1960s and has become increasingly prevalent since the 2000s. The ten articles in this reprint appeared in a Special Issue of Systems and cover a broad cross-section of relevant methodological topics as well as applications to specific health problems.One methodological article describes the use of cascaded system archetypes, with an application to reducing hospital congestion. Another discusses Monte Carlo uncertainty analysis, with an application to the US opioid crisis. Three of the articles describe models of community response to severe shocks, including recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Two other articles address strategies for dealing with myriad chronic diseases and risk factors in a population. Other papers include in-depth analyses of prostate cancer screening, digital prosthetic services for lower-limb amputees, and the complex behavioral health challenge of youth homelessness.This reprint provides an excellent snapshot of the current state of practice in system dynamics as it is applied to public health, health care delivery, and health policy. It offers practical policy guidance and will be of interest to both experienced practitioners and those new to the field.
    Keywords: simulation model ; public health practice ; chronic disease ; prevention ; cardiovascular diseases ; cancer ; COVID-19 ; tourism recovery ; public policy ; system dynamics ; participatory modelling ; health ; social care ; integrated care ; hospital ; delayed hospital discharges ; strategy ; congestion ; capacity ; archetypes ; unintended consequences ; population health and well-being ; equity ; stewardship ; resilience ; simulation modeling ; uncertainty analysis ; optimization ; sensitivity testing ; Monte Carlo randomization ; opioid epidemic ; prosthetics ; major lower-limb amputations ; prosthesis usage ; amputee mobility ; health care system ; health policy ; youth homelessness ; child welfare ; juvenile justice ; mental health ; public health ; decision making ; long-term conditions ; resource allocation ; complex systems ; early detection of cancer ; mass screening ; decision-making ; dissemination ; clinical practice guidelines ; evidence-based guidelines ; policy decision thresholds ; prostate cancer ; natural history of disease ; biomarker ; PSA ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science
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  • 14
    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Global population growth is urban growth and, therefore, most of the water-related challenges and solutions reside in cities. Unless water management and water governance processes are significantly improved within the next decade or so, cities are likely to face serious and prolonged water insecurity, urban floods, and/or heat stress, which may result in social instability and, ultimately, massive migration. Aging water infrastructure, one of the most expensive infrastructures in cities, is a relevant challenge in order to address Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6: clean water and sanitation, SDG 11: sustainable cities and communities, and SDG 13: climate action. The choice of good governance arrangements has important consequences for economic performance, for the well-being of citizens, and for the quality of life in urban areas. The better governance arrangements work in coordinating policies across jurisdictions and policy fields, the better the outcomes. Rapidly-changing global conditions will make future water governance more complex than ever before in human history, and expectations are that water governance and water management will change more during the next 20 years compared to the past 100 years. In this Special Issue of Water, the focus will be on practical concepts and tools for water management and water governance, with a focus on cities.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; flood resilience ; flood risk ; Cape Town ; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ; sustainable development goals ; urban planning ; coordination ; IHP ; storm water management ; stakeholder involvement ; flood risk management ; water management sustainability ; Generalized Likelihood Uncertainty Estimation (GLUE) ; climate change ; urban water cycle ; wastewater management ; water policy ; governance capacity ; greenhouse gas emissions ; intergovernmental ; Urban Water Management Programme ; indicators ; sustainability ; city networks ; water sensitive cities ; water scarcity ; ICLEI ; flood damage assessment ; stakeholder participation ; SuDS ; climate change mitigation ; social network analysis ; water ecology ; SDGs ; urban resilience ; design rainfall event ; cost of inaction ; rainwater harvesting ; co-design ; UNESCO ; rainfall-runoff ; storm water control measure ; decentralized water reclamation with resource recovery ; baseline assessment ; City Blueprint Approach ; urban water management ; urban landscape ; governance strategies ; science and technology ; drinking water ; Integrated Water Resources Management ; resilience ; Sponge City ; stormwater reservoir ; use-attainment ; sustainability assessment ; water security ; Water-Energy-Food Nexus ; water management ; water supply ; Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) ; urban drainage ; lifecycle analysis ; social infrastructure ; urban pluvial flooding ; assessment framework ; footprint ; climate change adaptation ; infrastructure ; total cost of ownership ; water governance ; flood control ; water-reuse ; governance ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-28
    Description: Food systems are under increasing pressure. They must meet the food requirements of a growing world population, and socio-economic changes also influence the type of foods which are under demand. At the same time, food systems are a major contributor to global environmental change, and environmental changes adversely impact agricultural productivity. This Special Issue explores opportunities and challenges towards achieving more sustainable food systems. Essential changes required in food systems are highlighted, such as more effective food distribution, the avoidance or valorisation of food waste, and less meat consumption. How to actually achieve these required changes across food value chains is also presented. This Special Issue supports solution-oriented approaches towards addressing one of most complex challenges of this century. The reader is invited to study the publications included in this Special Issue in detail.
    Keywords: consumer attitudes ; meat avoiders ; meat reducers ; environmental concerns ; global warming ; climate change ; sustainability ; ecology ; planetary health ; food security ; land ; land use consolidation ; land-use planning ; land tenure ; rural development ; Rwanda ; tenure responsive ; tenure responsive land-use planning ; tenure security ; demographic correlates ; food access ; household ; food insecurity experience scale ; Zanzibar ; sub-Saharan Africa ; vulnerability of food systems ; food neophobia ; environmental concern ; global environmental change ; behavior change ; willingness to pay (WTP) ; organic foods ; China ; Bibliometrics ; food rescue ; convention center ; greenhouse gas emissions ; landfill diversion ; anaerobic digestion ; codigestion ; food waste ; organic waste ; energy and resource recovery ; food waste disposal ; loss aversion ; dead hogs ; policy evaluation ; hog production ; chilli pepper ; organic manure ; application rate ; elevated temperature ; rain-shelter plastic house ; greenhouse ; field ; maize ; agrobiodiversity ; traditional food systems ; local knowledge ; cultural practices ; sustainable agriculture ; supply chain coordination ; supply chain sustainability ; livestock industry ; guanxi ; trust ; dynamic environment ; repeated purchase intention ; agricultural food system ; food policy ; food system sustainability ; urban agriculture ; local development ; food governance ; stakeholder engagement ; food systems ; global food regimes ; innovation ; political–economy ; social–ecological systems ; transformation ; regime shifts ; resilience ; sustainability in the food sector ; food supply chains ; food insecurity ; food waste and loss ; innovation and change ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: A key aspect of cyber-physical systems (CPS) is their potential for integrating information technologies with embedded control systems and physical systems to form new or improved functionalities. CPS thus draws upon advances in many areas. This positioning provides unprecedented opportunities for innovation, both within and across existing domains. However, at the same time, it is commonly understood that we are already stretching the limits of existing methodologies. In embarking towards CPS with such unprecedented capabilities, it becomes essential to improve our understanding of CPS complexity and how we can deal with it. Complexity has many facets, including complexity of the CPS itself, of the environments in which the CPS acts, and in terms of the organizations and supporting tools that develop, operate, and maintain CPS. This book is a result of a journal Special Issue, with the objective of providing a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange their latest achievements and to identify critical issues, challenges, opportunities, and future directions for how to deal with the complexity of future CPS. The contributions include 10 papers on the following topics: (I) Systems and Societal Aspects Related to CPS and Their Complexity; (II) Model-Based Development Methods for CPS; (III) CPS Resource Management and Evolving Computing Platforms; and (IV) Architectures for CPS.
    Keywords: component-based software engineering ; mode ; mode-switch ; complexity ; cyber-physical systems ; systems engineering ; uncertainty ; microgrid ; distributed design ; self-similar architecture ; plug-n-play ; distributed control ; distribution network ; field test ; autonomous cyber-physical systems ; resilience ; ethics ; nano-bio-info-cogno technologies ; smart cyber-physical systems ; self-generated intelligence ; ampliative reasoning mechanism ; procedural abduction ; data-driven system control ; run-time acquired data ; computational functions ; self-adaptation capability ; human/socially-centered applications ; embedded systems ; software component ; component-based development ; CBD ; GPU ; GPU component ; allocation ; component allocation ; architecture layer ; time-triggered system ; real-time ; adaptation ; scheduling ; multi-core ; real-time systems ; Fixed-Priority Preemptive Scheduling (FPPS) ; mixed-criticality systems ; n/a ; Cyber Physical Systems ; Reactive Systems ; Model-Based Design ; Embedded Systems ; Automatic Code Generation ; IDE ; Internet of Things ; model testing ; mutation testing ; energy consumption ; EAST-ADL ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-14
    Description: The health and wellbeing of people and the planet is currently receiving a much attention, if only because of the ongoing global crisis instigated by COVID-19. The benefits of nature for human wellbeing have been scientifically studied in multiple disciplines for over three decades. Researchers from disciplines such as ecology, sport science, psychology, tourism, medicine, forestry, environmental studies and architecture have found evidence that being in nature, interacting with nature, and feeling connected to nature are important for good health and wellbeing. In particular, physical activity in nature has been linked to wellbeing. This manuscript explores a particular type of physical activity in nature: adventure and outdoor activity. Adventure in nature is important for wellbeing, and carefully designed interventions and programs can have a profound impact. The work in this book suggests that adventure should be considered an important part of the public health offering.
    Keywords: physical education ; national curriculum ; military personnel ; psychological wellbeing ; outdoor adventure activities ; mental health ; resilience ; mental health problems ; higher education ; outdoor adventure ; multi-variate quantitative analyses ; active components of positive change ; school children ; transitions ; primary and secondary school ; nature ; tailored outdoor education programming ; individuality ; adaptable productive functioning ; green spaces ; health and psychological well-being ; self-determination ; adventure ; armed forces ; physical activity ; recovery ; soldiers ; Nature–based health interventions ; green prescriptions ; wilderness therapy ; forest schools ; green exercise ; adherence ; compliance ; health ; outdoor and adventure activities ; outdoor therapy ; phenomenology ; therapeutic process ; embodiment ; lived-experience ; slow adventure ; time ; slowness ; wellbeing ; cognitive dissonance ; strategies of dissonance reduction ; characteristics of dissonance arousal and modes of reduction ; consonant cognitions ; attitude and behaviour change ; autophenomenology ; adventure education programming ; Ecological Dynamics ; adventure education ; representative design ; outdoor and adventure sports ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-28
    Description: After successful government-led afforestation projects, what are the challenges for forest management in the face of climate change in East Asia? This reprint presents studies from the natural and social sciences related to forest conservation, engineering, disaster sociology, and forest policy in China and Japan. The papers cover a range of topics, including forest owners' attitudes, forest resource utilization, evaluation of forestry mechanization and forest roads, characteristics of damage from torrential rains, resilience of rural communities, economic transformation, and others.
    Keywords: Yangtze River Delta ; forest resources abundance ; economic development ; ESG ; sustainable management ; corporate social responsibility (CSR) ; non-financial disclosure ; emerging market ; key state-owned forest area ; system coupling ; ecological construction ; economic transformation ; grey relational analysis (GRA) ; extreme value analysis ; daily rainfall ; floods ; rainfall-induced landslides ; regional frequency analysis ; station-year method ; Kyushu region ; CO2 emission ; forestry ; Gifu Prefecture ; input–output analysis ; renewable energy ; ripple effect ; eco-efficiency ; sustainable development ; forestry resources ; New Scheme of Forest Management ; Forest Management Law ; private forest ; small-scale forestry ; typology of forest owners ; Japan ; bearing capacity ; road construction method ; roadbed strength ; soil ; spur road ; forest road failure ; streamside ; stream crossing ; zero-order basin ; relative risk ; seisan shinrin kumiai ; ninka chien dantai ; common property resource ; developed countries ; external policy influence ; forest management activities ; local landscape ; observation ; depopulation ; municipal government ; local identity ; revitalization ; outsiders ; collaboration ; resilience ; small-scale forest road ; UAV ; Structure from Motion (SfM) ; earthwork volume ; under tree canopy ; productivity ; harvesting system ; processor tower yarder ; combined machine productivity ; combined labor productivity ; afforestation ; under-utilization ; forestry operation ; clearcutting ; economic losses ; societal losses ; rural community ; disaster-resilient forestry ; East Asia ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNA Agribusiness and primary industries::KNAL Forestry industry
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    Publication Date: 2022-02-01
    Description: In IEEE Standards, a Microgrid is defined as a group of interconnected loads and distributed energy resources with clearly defined electrical boundaries, which acts as a single controllable entity with respect to the grid and can connect and disconnect from the grid to enable it to operate in both grid-connected or island modes. This Special Issue focuses on innovative strategies for the management of the Microgrids and, in response to the call for papers, six high-quality papers were accepted for publication. Consistent with the instructions in the call for papers and with the feedback received from the reviewers, four papers dealt with different types of supervisory energy management systems of Microgrids (i.e., adaptive neuro-fuzzy wavelet-based controls, cost-efficient power-sharing techniques, and two-level hierarchical energy management systems); the proposed energy management systems are of quite general purpose and aim to reduce energy usages and monetary costs. In the last two papers, the authors concentrate their research efforts on the management of specific cases, i.e., Microgrids with electric vehicle charging stations and for all-electric ships.
    Keywords: DC microgrid ; electric vehicles ; resilient microgrid ; solar PV ; wind turbine ; charging station ; control ; hierarchical control ; robust control ; predictive control ; microgrid ; uncertainty ; prediction interval ; energy management system ; hybrid diesel/battery ships ; energy management ; emission management ; home energy management scheme (HEMS) ; smart grid ; renewable energy sources (RESs) ; power sharing algorithm (PSA) ; residence energy management (REM) ; inverter ; supervisory control ; adaptive control ; photovoltaic ; ultra-capacitor ; battery ; wavelets ; economic analysis ; energy storage systems ; resilience ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: This Special Issue presents some of the main emerging research on technological topics of health and education approaches to Internet use-related problems, before and during the beginning of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The objective is to provide an overview to facilitate a comprehensive and practical approach to these new trends to promote research, interventions, education, and prevention. It contains 40 papers, four reviews and thirty-five empirical papers and an editorial introducing everything in a rapid review format. Overall, the empirical ones are of a relational type, associating specific behavioral addictive problems with individual factors, and a few with contextual factors, generally in adult populations. Many have adapted scales to measure these problems, and a few cover experiments and mixed methods studies. The reviews tend to be about the concepts and measures of these problems, intervention options, and prevention. In summary, it seems that these are a global culture trend impacting health and educational domains. Internet use-related addiction problems have emerged in almost all societies, and strategies to cope with them are under development to offer solutions to these contemporary challenges, especially during the pandemic situation that has highlighted the global health problems that we have, and how to holistically tackle them.
    Keywords: smartphone use ; parental management ; scale validation ; attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) ; smartphone addiction ; social media/messenger apps ; Facebook ; WhatsApp ; Internet addiction ; Internet use disorder ; smartphone use disorder ; internet gaming disorder ; stress ; resilience ; escape ; depression ; internet addiction ; PI ; EA ; self-identity ; social exclusion ; surveillance ; Facebook addiction ; online gambling ; self-exclusion ; responsible gambling ; comparative study ; poker ; public health model ; Internet game advertising ; accessibility ; environmental factors ; e-gambling ; e-gambling prevalence ; forms of e-gambling ; problem e-gambling ; problematic smartphone use ; pro-gamers ; Child Behavior Check List ; resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging ; problematic pornography use ; internet pornography use ; problematic pornography consumption scale ; problematic pornography use scale ; the short internet addiction test adapted to online sexual activities ; problematic Internet use ; non-medical use of prescription drugs ; depressive symptoms ; adolescents ; anxiety ; mental well-being ; population-based study ; parental monitoring ; problematic mobile phone use ; escape motivation ; shyness ; cluster analysis ; video game ; video game addiction ; personality ; comorbidity ; Internet Gaming Disorder ; gaming disorder ; gaming addiction ; behavioral addiction ; Internet Gaming Disorder Scale-Short Form ; adolescent internet use ; excessive internet use ; family factors ; parenting styles ; gaming ; social media ; behavior addiction ; sleep quality ; psychological distress ; problematic use ; addiction ; Twitter ; psychopathology ; suicide ; suicide attempts ; intervention ; case management ; adolescence ; marketing ; unhook ; gamification ; social-networks-use disorder ; social media use ; social networking sites ; protective competences ; self-regulation ; social needs ; solution-focused group counseling ; college students ; scientific production ; bibliometric analysis ; scientific mapping ; internet ; Web of Science ; phone ; BMI percentile ; food addiction ; emotional eating ; impulsivity ; emotion regulation ; compulsive buying ; addictive shopping ; online shopping ; dissociation ; problematic usage of pornography ; manifesto ; problematic usage of the internet ; COST action network ; behavioural addiction research. ; generalized Internet addiction ; online gaming addiction ; online gambling addiction ; Europe ; policy option ; prevention ; public health ; confirmatory factor analysis ; Malay version ; medical student ; validation study ; smartphones ; self-perceived addiction ; ROC analysis ; cutoff point ; SPAI–Spain ; video games ; mixed methods research ; stakeholder engagement ; consensus development ; social networking ; body self-esteem ; personality traits ; fsQCA models ; problematic phone use ; pain ; dry eye ; quality of life ; recovery ; prognosis ; cohort ; college student ; distraction ; randomized controlled trial ; social media addiction ; autonomy need dissatisfaction ; boredom proneness ; mobile phone gaming ; multiple mediation ; university student ; MPPUSA ; internet addiction test ; university students ; Peruvian sample ; psychometric properties ; pathological Internet use ; Internet gaming disorder ; social networking site addiction ; problem drinking ; alcohol ; adolescent ; Internet problematic use ; Internet use-related addiction problems ; technologies ; education ; health ; treatment ; COVID-19 ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-30
    Description: Environmental abiotic stresses, such as extreme temperatures, drought, excess light, salinity, and nutrient deficiency, have detrimental effects on plant growth, development, and yield. Plants are equipped with various adaptation mechanisms to cope with such unfavorable conditions. Our understanding of plants’ abiotic stress responses is crucial to maintaining efficient plant productivity. This book on the responses of plants to environmental stresses is an attempt to find answers to several basic questions related to their adaptation and protective mechanisms against abiotic stresses. The following chapters of the book describe examples of plants’ protective strategies, which cover physiological, cellular, biochemical, and genomic mechanisms. This book is aimed for use by advanced students and researchers in the area of stress biology, plant molecular biology and physiology, agriculture, biochemistry, as well as environmental sciences.
    Keywords: Heterogeneous water stress ; Phyllostachys edulis ; Rhizome ; Vascular bundle ; Stress Signal ; Physiological characteristics ; isoprene ; ocimene ; heat stress ; water stress ; ramie (Boehmeria nivea (L.) Gaudich) ; transcriptome ; nitrogen deficiency ; resilience ; nitrogen-use efficiency ; eggplant ; heat shock factor ; gene family ; expression profile ; abiotic stress ; Malus. ‘Prairifire’ ; photosynthetic characteristics ; chlorophyll a fluorescence ; 2-dimensional electrophoresis ; diurnal regulation ; OsGI ; rice ; U-box E3 ligase ; barley ; ABC gene family ; gene expression ; alarm photosynthesis ; Antarctic ; oxalate oxidase ; Elymus sibiricus, seed aging ; isobaric tandem mass tag labeling ; reactive oxygen species ; parallel reaction monitoring ; Dendrobium catenatum ; superoxide dismutase (SOD) ; stresses ; antioxidative enzyme activity ; low pH ; proline ; protein ; wheat ; WRKY transcription factor ; gene structural characteristics ; regulatory mechanism ; drought ; salinity ; heat ; cold ; ultraviolet radiation ; rainfed ; irrigated ; Gossypium hirsutum ; antioxidant activity ; growth inhibition ; ion homeostasis ; salt stress ; rhizoboxes ; gaseous exchange ; sub-Saharan Africa ; root length density
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    Publication Date: 2023-03-07
    Description: This overview of the most recent advances in the field of SMA research and applications in civil engineering aims to help remove the knowledge barriers across disciplines and sheds considerable light on the opportunity to commercialize SMA products in the construction industry.
    Keywords: seismic analysis ; rocking pier ; shape memory alloy ; ECC material ; bridge engineering ; television transmission tower ; seismic excitation ; shape memory alloy damper ; parametric study ; vibration control ; shape memory alloys ; engineered cementitious composites ; composites materials ; self-recovery capacity ; bending behavior ; machine learning ; artificial neural networks ; superelastic ; parameter identification ; constitutive model ; thermodynamic parameters ; shape memory alloy (SMA) ; self-centering SMA brace ; loading rate ; initial strain ; energy dissipation coefficient ; self-centering ; beam-column joints ; seismic performance ; iron-based shape memory alloy (Fe-SMA) ; shape memory effect ; martensitic transformation ; prestressing ; low cycle fatigue ; seismic ; damping ; transmission tower ; wind excitation ; SMA damper ; energy response ; viscoelastic ; brace ; hybrid control ; seismic resilience ; self-centering rocking (SCR) piers ; seismic fragility ; resilience ; life-cycle loss ; ferrous shape memory alloys ; prestress ; recovery stress ; relaxation ; thermomechanical behavior ; fatigue ; active materials ; low-cost SMAs ; civil engineering applications ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering & technology
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This book, a Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, has been curated by three leading international experts on the topic. Following their editorial, there are 14 contributions on the topic of interventions against bullying, including cyberbullying, and similar abusive behaviors such as dating violence. Some contributions also assess positive or protective factors such as well-being, self-efficacy, and school climate. Eight of the contributions directly assess the effects of an intervention, with pre/post test designs and experimental and control groups. The other contributions examine a range of relevant topics, such as teacher attitudes and pupils’ confidence in intervening rather than being passive bystanders. Ten countries are represented among the authors. Most of the articles are about secondary schools (pupils, or teachers), but there are also contributions on early childhood, primary school, and university. This book will be of interest and relevance not only to researchers but also to teachers and educational practitioners concerned with pupil safety and well-being in school, and provides practical ways to reduce bullying and its harmful effects.
    Keywords: HM401-1281 ; H1-99 ; n/a ; successful educational action ; cyber-victim ; mental health ; South Korea ; Prev@cib ; teacher based-intervention ; school ; bystanders ; wellbeing ; self-efficacy ; subgroup analyses ; young children ; Dat-e Adolescence ; social environment ; prevention ; prevention program ; risk factors ; verbal bullying ; tabby intervention program ; coping strategies ; warmth ; adolescents ; minors ; cyber victimization ; moral disengagement ; dating violence ; cyberbullying ; cyberbullying interventions ; school climate ; intervention ; bullying ; Bullying ; hakkyo-pokryuk ; anti-bullying ; cyberbullying and the law ; classroom cohesion ; martial arts ; classroom climate ; willingness to intervene ; relational bullying ; teacher styles ; authoritative leadership ; cybervictimization ; teachers ; traditional victimization ; ecological system theory ; resilience ; moderators ; effectiveness ; intervention program ; Asegúrate program ; class teacher ; special education needs students ; cyber-aggressor ; control ; aggression ; families ; peer support ; pre-service teachers ; threat assessment ; temperament ; educational lifespan ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFP Social interaction
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: This is a reprint of the Special Issue “Urban-Rural-Partnerships: Sustainable and Resilient” in Land, which, based on the URP2020 objectives, invited original contributions dealing with interactions in regional systems, particularly between urban and rural actors, institutions and projects to tackle great societal challenges. The 16 contributions published included conceptual and methodological papers, as well as case studies dedicated to striking examples and providing transferable knowledge and solutions. The guest editors hope that the contributions will stimulate learning processes on various levels, i.e. cross- and transdisciplinary as well as from the local level to entire regions to the broader European and international levels, in order to foster an understanding of integrated regional and urban–rural development.
    Keywords: creativity ; creative actors ; criteria matrix ; regional development ; Slovakia ; sustainable wellbeing ; rural–urban relations ; land management ; local government ; governance ; policy ; case studies ; Europe ; biodiversity offsets ; offset implementation ; production-integrated compensation ; nature conservation ; landscape planning ; agri-environmental policy ; urban–rural continuum ; transdisciplinarity ; deep participation ; co-production ; co-creation ; co-design ; sustainability ; unequal power relations ; New Leipzig Charter ; URP2020 conference ; urban–rural income gap ; spatial pattern ; driving mechanism ; China ; livelihood resilience ; migration ; urbanization ; extreme events ; India ; online business ; online shopping ; spatial diffusion model ; innovation diffusion hypothesis ; efficiency hypothesis ; regional inequality ; rural land tenure ; resilience ; circular migration ; rural-urban migrants ; Beijing ; urban village ; nature-based solutions (NBS) ; green infrastructure ; urban planning ; airshed ; watershed ; natureshed ; peopleshed ; rural–urban fringe ; social and biophysical scales ; agri-food systems ; collective action ; cooperation ; pooling ; urban-rural interlinkages ; short food-supply chains ; regional food systems ; hybrid organizations ; commercial area ; land use governance ; city-regional governance ; goal conflict ; cross-impact balances CIB ; policy mix ; policy design ; policy coherence ; urban and regional development ; structural change ; coal mining ; evidence-based planning ; real-life laboratory ; Service of General interest ; Rhenish coal-mining area ; equal living conditions ; climate change ; climate impact assessment ; scenario corridors ; heat stress ; intermunicipal cooperation ; urban–rural partnership ; sanitation ; faecal sludge management ; wastewater management ; local governance ; local government partnership ; actor-network theory ; just transition ; development strategy ; monoindustrial urban area ; Jiu Valley ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: As the crime of human trafficking/modern slavery is multifaceted, collaborating to counter it across sectors, disciplines, regions, and from local to international levels is widely understood to be of utmost importance. However, the processes of organizing and leading robust collaborations are complex and challenging, and to be sustainable, such processes must result in both positive outcomes for the collaborating partners and demonstrable progress toward countering human trafficking. Despite a growing body of published research on anti-trafficking collaboration, many aspects of it remain understudied. In this Special Issue of Societies, researchers and collaboration leaders in the anti-trafficking field share research findings and evidence-supported practices on how to conceptualize, catalyze, and support collaboration to generate and sustain constructive impacts.
    Keywords: perceptions ; human trafficking ; interagency collaboration ; challenges ; collaboration ; investigations ; law enforcement ; private investigation agencies ; multi-disciplinary team ; sustainability planning ; nonprofit engagement ; community-based participatory research (CBPR) ; anti-trafficking ; antislavery ; multi-agency partnership ; problem profile ; resilience ; task force ; community-based responses ; collaborative response model ; sex trafficking ; DMST ; juvenile justice ; labor trafficking ; anti-human trafficking ; artificial intelligence ; augmented intelligence ; demand reduction ; prostitution ; technology ; labor exploitation ; intervention framework ; agent-based models ; disruption ; worker centers ; well-being economy ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: The construction industry makes a significant contribution to the global economy. Effective management of construction projects is essential to ensuring timely completion that meets quality standards within a project’s prescribed scope and budget. Furthermore, assuring sustainability is crucial to reducing the impact of construction on the environment. The construction industry is also affected by globalization and increasing susceptibility to disasters highlighting the need for health and safety and resilience in the industry, especially after global pandemics and natural disasters. Digitalization and industrialization pave the way to the solution or mitigation of numerous issues in the construction industry by transforming business operations, improving productivity and safety, ensuring quality and compliance to standards, increasing sustainability, among other measures. It is imperative for project managers and other construction stakeholders to be digitally oriented. This reprint comprises of a collection of cutting-edge research articles in construction and project management that explores advances in digital, sustainable, and industrialized construction solutions for prevalent issues in construction and project management and investigates the needs of health and safety and resilience in the construction industry.
    Keywords: digitalization ; industrialization ; health and safety ; construction project management ; sustainability ; resilience ; globalization ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TN Civil engineering, surveying and building::TNK Building construction and materials::TNKX Conservation of buildings and building materials
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-27
    Description: The aim of this book is to empirically identify the school success pathways of migrants for policy actions in schools and communities in order to tackle barriers to migrant students’ school success. These resilience pathways highlight differences in individual and social risks and identify protective factors for young migrants to overcome obstacles linked to discrimination and low educational outcomes. It presents international empirical research comparing and explaining school success factors for migrant students in various countries, namely, Germany, Greece, Russia, and Switzerland.
    Keywords: acculturation ; adjustment ; teachers’ educational practices ; immigrant children ; language support ; academic support ; inclusion ; welcoming school climate ; upper secondary education ; migration ; intersectionality ; success at school ; resilience ; youth ; VET education ; academic self-concept ; immigrant students ; school success ; recognitive justice ; inequality at school ; recognition by teacher ; recognition by peers ; academic achievement ; self-esteem ; ethnic identity ; national identity ; school engagement ; minority youth ; bicultural identity ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: New challenges in water systems toward safety, efficiency, reliability, and system flexibility will be fundamental in the near future. In this book, readers can find different approaches that include safety analysis, system efficiency improvements, and new innovative designs. The risk function is a measure of its vulnerability level and security loss. Analyses of transient flows associated with the most dangerous operating conditions, are compulsory to grant system liability in terms of water quantity, quality, and system management. Specific equipment, such as air valves, is used in pressurized water pipes to manage the air inside, associated with the emptying and filling process. Advanced tools are developed toward near-future smart water grids. The water system efficiency and water–energy nexus, through the implementation of suitable pressure control and energy recovery devices, as well as pumped-storage hydropower, provide guidelines toward the most technical and environmental cost-effective solutions. Integrated analysis of water and energy allows more reliable, flexible, and sustainable eco-design projects, reaching better resilience systems. Hydraulic simulators and computational fluid dynamics (CFD), conjugating with field or experimental tests, supported by advanced smart equipment, allow a better design, control, and complex event anticipation occurrence to attain high levels of water system security and efficiency.
    Keywords: trunk network ; water distribution network ; resilience ; optimization ; energy recovery ; pumps as turbines ; water distribution networks ; EPANET ; safe water ; air valve ; CFD ; hydraulic characterization ; entrapped air ; safety of water supply consumers ; risk ; water supply system ; failure risk analysis ; decision making model ; risk assessment methodology ; experiments ; ultrasonic Doppler velocimetry (UDV) ; flowmeters ; computational fluid dynamics (CFD) ; pipe system efficiency ; pressure reducing valves ; leakage reduction ; water-energy nexus ; air–water interface ; filling ; flow ; pipelines ; transient ; water management ; reservoirs ; hydropower plants ; pumped storage power plants ; hydropeaking ; environmental flows ; smart water management ; smart water grids ; water drinking network ; water losses ; energy production ; pumped-storage ; micro-hydropower ; water networks ; dimensional analysis ; pumping system ; safety and control ; hydraulic transients and CFD analyses ; water systems efficiency ; new design solutions and eco-design ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: The production and development of the built environment relates strongly to the fields of architecture and urban planning. The built environment experiences severe impacts from disasters that have become more frequent and intense around the world due to climate change and other human actions, requiring research on architectural design and urban planning that contributes to resilience. On the other hand, the built environment itself causes environmental impacts through the consumption of energy, land-use change and pressure on ecosystems, among a variety of other factors. Thus, research-informed policies, practices, and strategies relating to the built environment are necessary, requiring innovative and forward-thinking visions for a resilient and sustainable future. The built environment is multifold, with its manifestation determined by economic levels, political systems, demography, and natural resources. Therefore, contextual approaches and solutions in architecture and urban planning are essential to produce a diverse range of research findings. This publication serves as a platform to assemble such recent and innovative research findings relating to resilience and sustainability in the architecture and urban planning fields, and through an open access mode, disseminate this knowledge widely at a time when the world is facing critical challenges posed by disasters and environmental transformation.
    Keywords: social housing ; renovation works ; energy efficiency improvement ; Cappuccinelli Social Housing district ; Trapani ; disaster mitigation ; disaster-risk reduction ; disaster recovery ; design ; architecture ; design thinking ; energy performance gap ; occupant behavior ; residential buildings ; energy efficiency ; sustainability ; resilience ; cyclones ; self-recovery ; shelter ; Vanuatu ; Town Camps ; First Nation communities ; topological mapping ; community infrastructure ; PPGIS ; minimalism ; architectural design ; COVID-19 pandemic ; construction industry ; health and safety ; communication ; construction projects ; Elemental ; Villa Verde ; incremental housing ; adaptation ; urban planning ; tsunami ; Sri Lanka ; multi-hazard ; urban regeneration ; urban renewal ; urban analysis ; urban evaluation ; parameters ; neighborhood evaluation ; climate change ; CMIP6 ; extreme precipitation ; Gandaki Province ; GIS ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-30
    Description: Nurses represent the highest number of healthcare workers globally and have played a critical role in the COVID-19 pandemic. This reprint highlights the issues and challenges faced by nurses practicing in hospital and community settings during the COVID-19 pandemic. The manuscripts herein focus on nurses in various areas of practice, including nurse managers, highlighting the impact, experience, and reality of providing care during the crisis. Interventions and strategies to support practice environments and the mental health and wellbeing of the nursing workforce were identified. Evidence from these manuscripts shed light on how nurse leaders can provide relevant, coordinated, and consistent organizational and leadership support to better establish a safe and healthy work environment that protects and fosters the mental health and wellbeing of all nursing personnel. The pandemic exacerbated the already demanding quality of work environments for nurses, as well as their mental health and wellbeing, thereby inducing a global nursing shortage; therefore, improving these factors, which ultimately influence nurse retention, is critical. We trust that sharing the lived experiences of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic can enable us to leverage their expertise in meeting the complex care needs of patients, including COVID-19 patients, while improving the care needed by nurses in their working environments, alongside preparing for future pandemic waves.
    Keywords: COVID-19 ; coronavirus 2019 ; ICU surge capacity ; nursing surge capacity and strategies ; pandemic ; medical humanities ; attitude ; compliance ; knowledge ; nursing students ; validation ; family ; bonding ; mother ; post-partum ; anxiety ; stress ; depression ; coping mechanism ; resilience ; spirituality ; family functioning ; healthcare providers ; vaccination ; Saudi Arabia ; attitudes ; acceptance ; advocate ; nursing ; qualitative research ; workforce ; coping strategies ; COVID-19 pandemic ; stressors ; coronavirus ; medical staff ; healthcare quality ; human resources ; primary care ; hospitals ; nursing home ; students ; clinical practice ; coping skills ; rural ; public health nursing ; changes ; clinical training ; review ; telehealth ; interprofessionalism ; usability ; coping behaviors ; salutogenesis ; risk factors ; nurses ; coronavirus disease (COVID-19) ; outbreak management ; seasonal farmworkers ; remote rural farms ; culturally and linguistically diverse ; student nurse educators ; e-assessment ; virtual practical examination ; health sciences education
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-27
    Description: The rapid outbreak of the COVID-19 has presented unprecedented challenges on education systems. Closing schools and universities and cancelling face-to-face activities have become a COVID-19 inevitable reality in most parts of the world. To be business-as-usual, many higher education providers have taken steps toward digital transformation, and implementing a range of remote teaching, learning and assessment approaches. This book provides timely research on COVID-19 impacts on education systems and seeks to bring together scholars, educators, policymakers and practitioners to collectively and critically identify, investigate and share best practices that lead to rethinking and reframing the way we deliver education in future.
    Keywords: COVID-19 ; coronavirus infections ; pandemics ; qualitative research ; nursing students ; student experiences ; student perceptions ; student safety ; 3D printing ; CAD/CAM ; engineering education ; tutorial ; educational outcomes ; e-learning ; critical success factors ; distance learning ; COVID-19/Coronavirus pandemic ; AHP-TOPSIS ; COVID-19 pandemic ; global mobility ; higher education ; internationalization ; structural equation modeling (SEM) ; multi-group invariance analysis ; graduate education/research ; chemical engineering ; bioenergetics ; biotechnology ; student/career counseling ; electrical engineering education ; COVID19 ; outcome-based education (OBE) ; learning sciences ; pedagogy ; pandemic ; student learning ; online delivery ; laboratory workshops ; academic integrity ; remote learning and teaching ; emergency remote teaching ; compassion ; engineering ; student experience ; undergraduate students ; general chemistry ; curriculum ; assessment ; laboratory learning ; asynchronous assessment ; health education ; eLearning ; online classes ; examination system ; electronic educational environment ; online education ; online teaching challenges ; university mathematics professors ; teaching mathematics at a distance ; blackboard teacher ; teacher beliefs ; online teaching ; urban design ; public health ; technology ; EdTech ; research methods ; physical therapist educators ; online teaching and learning ; school response ; university response ; testing situations ; testing challenges ; college student ; learning experience ; survey ; anxiety ; depression ; learning mode ; faculty attitudes ; emergency online teaching ; interviews ; Coronavirus Anxiety Scale ; psychology ; working and social adjustment scale ; GAD-7 ; functional impairment ; history of education in England ; apprenticeship schemes ; the Triple Helix Concept ; change management ; technological colleges ; IT in education ; resilience ; university students ; confinement ; student engagement ; heart rate ; active learning ; non-self-report ; self-report ; predominantly undergraduate institutions ; cheating ; course materials ; data analysis ; education ; learning ; online ; teaching ; postgraduate ; online learning and teaching ; blended online learning ; post-pandemic ; digital capabilities ; social identity ; wellbeing ; deaf and hard of hearing ; accessibility ; Saudi Arabia ; Sars-CoV2 ; PLS-SEM ; Ecuador ; educational impact ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
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    Publication Date: 2023-11-30
    Description: Several factors have been identified as interfering with the success, rehabilitation, and fitness of athletes from childhood to adulthood, as well as in para-sport, and special populations, according to research. The performance and health of this population are affected by the relationships between stress, maturation, training load, and recovery. Environmental approaches aim to increase efficiency and physiological adaptations in this sense. In various situations and conditions, however, this stimulus–performance–adaptation relationship varies.As a result, we received contributions related (but not limited) to the following topics: training load monitoring; stress and physiological responses during exercise or sports; recovery process after exercise; changes after stress and/or training load; physiology of training in health and sports performance.
    Keywords: visceral adipose tissue ; military ; metabolic syndrome ; cut-off points ; DXA ; warm-up ; muscle force ; performance ; resistance training ; thermal imaging ; physiology ; backstroke ; breaststroke ; start ; sink ; cortisol ; people with disabilities ; physical activities ; South Korea ; social determinants of health ; focus group interviews ; Paralympic Games ; Tokyo 2020 ; sociodemographic ; well-being ; resilience ; social support ; athletes ; disability ; performance indicators ; sports ; footwork ; reaction time ; agility ; physical activity environment ; relative importance ; priority ; pro bono ; intention ; pre-service physical activity instructor ; theory of planned behavior ; leisure time physical activity ; volunteering ; swimming ; social inclusion ; adapted physical activity ; respite care ; altitude ; hemoglobin ; erythropoietin ; hypoxia ; maximum volume of oxygen ; para powerlifting ; athletes with disabilities ; scoping review ; PAGER framework ; bibliometrics ; physical fitness ; body composition ; health ; measurement ; Down syndrome ; load-velocity relationship ; autoregulation ; load monitoring ; fixed-loading ; Wingate anaerobic performance ; paralympic sport ; para-rowing ; bibliometric analysis ; back pain ; sport ; sleep deficiency ; aerobic exercise ; oxidative stress ; hs-CRP ; stress ; hormones ; salivary glands ; endocrine ; autonomic nervous system ; immune system ; disabled athletes ; infection ; lymphocytes ; cytokines ; narrative review ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine ; bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MF Pre-clinical medicine: basic sciences::MFG Physiology
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-27
    Description: Climatic change causes a mismatch between tree populations on sites they currently occupy and the climate to which they have adapted in the past. The maintenance of productivity and of ecological and societal services requires resilient populations and ecosystems, particularly close to the vulnerable trailing (xeric) range limits. The studies confirm the selective effect of diverse habitat/climate conditions across the species ranges. Soil conditions may mask climate effects and should be considered separately. The unique potential of provenance tests is illustrated by growth response projections that may be less dramatic than provided by usual inventory data analyses. Assisted migration appears to be a feasible management action to compensate for climatic warming. However, the choice of populations needs special care under extreme conditions and outside the limits of current natural distribution ranges. The proper differentiation of measures according to the present and future adaptive challenges require the continuation of long-term analyses and the establishment of better focused field trials in disparate climates that contain populations from a representative range of habitats. The studies present results obtained from diverse regions of the temperate forest zone, from Central and Northwestern Europe, the Mediterranean, Russia, China, North and Central America.
    Keywords: Camptotheca acuminata ; MaxEnt ; climateAP ; suitable habitat ; climate change ; soil ; genetic variation ; seed sourcing ; forest management ; genetic conservation ; Pinus sylvestris ; climate-change impacts ; ecosystem responses to climate ; species distributions ; climatype distributions ; adaptive management ; provenance test ; genecology ; reforestation ; restoration ; conservation ; assisted migration ; climatic change ; climate transfer distance ; dryness index ; Abies religiosa ; survival ; mortality ; biomass ; basal diameter ; Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve ; Picea abies ; field trials ; provenances ; families ; clones ; height growth ; phenotypic stability ; phenotypic plasticity ; mountain forest ; tree species selection ; Scots pine ; adaptation ; wood anatomy ; tracheidogram ; traits ; common garden ; silver fir ; grand fir ; Balkan firs ; drought stress ; resilience ; scots pine seed mass and seed zones ; a provenance trial ; bioclimatic models ; an ensemble of general circulation models ; RCP 2.6 and RCP 8.5 scenarios ; Russia ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
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    Publication Date: 2022-11-17
    Description: This reprint is devoted to understanding the unique and combined effects of family risk and protective factors on child development across multiple dimensions of functioning (e.g., physical, mental, emotional, behavioral, social, and cognitive).
    Keywords: father involvement ; child development ; socioemotional functioning ; behavior problems ; cognitive functioning ; latent profile analysis ; children media use ; parenting style ; parent attitude ; parent media use ; child maltreatment ; path analysis ; neighborhoods ; families ; risk and protective factors ; mobile device ; young children ; gadget ; mental health ; community violence ; black youth ; resilience ; HIV ; PrEP ; adolescents ; stigma ; MSM ; intimate partner violence ; qualitative research ; mothers ; employment ; adaptive functioning ; protective factors ; neglect ; abuse ; adolescence ; healthcare ; educational functioning ; social functioning ; household challenges ; ACEs ; pre-birth ; early development ; reading ; school readiness ; PRAMS ; child flourishing ; adolescent flourishing ; neighborhood social cohesion ; physical neighborhood environments ; family resilience ; adolescent ; young adult ; foster care ; social support ; relationships ; wellbeing ; life satisfaction ; Black youth ; suicide ; positive parenting ; arrests ; conduct problems ; externalizing mental health ; family adversity ; majority world ; minority world ; moderated mediation ; multisystemic resilience ; youth ; parental physical abuse ; violence resilience ; hedonic factors ; eudaimonic factors ; peer status ; internalizing symptoms ; peer acceptance ; peer rejection ; popularity ; exploration ; attachment ; activation ; socioemotional development ; internalizing problems ; externalizing problems ; fathers ; COVID-19 ; parental stress ; parental engagement ; socioemotional problems and skills ; positivity ; coparenting support ; psychotic-like experiences ; emotion regulation ; parents’ relationship ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JM Psychology
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: The world’s transport network has developed over thousands of years; emerging from the need of allowing more comfortable trips to roman soldiers to the modern smooth roads enabling modern vehicles to travel at high speed and to allow heavy airplanes to take off and land safely. However, in the last two decades the world is changing very fast in terms of population growth, mobility and business trades creating greater traffic volumes and demand for minimal disruption to users, but also challenges, such as climate change and more extreme weather events. At the same time, technology development to allow a more sustainable transport sector continue apace. It is within this environment and in close consultation with key stakeholders, that this consortium developed the vision to achieve the paradigm shift to Sustainable Multifunctional Automated and Resilient Transport Infrastructures. SMARTI ETN is a training-through-research programme that empowered Europe by forming a new generation of multi-disciplinary professionals able to conceive the future of transport infrastructures and this Special Issue is a collection of some of the scientific work carried out within this context. Enjoy the read.
    Keywords: accelerated pavement testing (APT) ; fatigue ; piezoelectric sensor ; pavement responses ; longitudinal strain ; pavement management system ; embedded sensors ; piezoelectric sensors ; accelerated pavement testing ; life cycle assessment ; environmental impact ; solar road ; semi-transparent layer ; factorial design ; polyurethane ; road pavement distress ; low-cost technologies ; 3D models ; structure-from-motion ; semi-analytical model ; Joints ; rigid pavement ; falling weight deflectometer ; rolling wheel deflectometer ; load transfer ; monitoring ; instrumentation ; road pavement ; sensors ; mechanomutable asphalt materials ; MAMs ; smart materials ; smart roads ; magnetic fields ; pavement monitoring ; accelerometers ; geophones ; pavement instrumentation ; pavement displacement ; condition assessments ; smart infrastructure ; sustainability ; resilience ; land use optimisation ; transport ; geotechnical asset management ; embankment degradation ; railway track degradation ; maintenance ; Euler Bernoulli beam ; poissonian loading ; tuned mass damper ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2022-01-31
    Description: The interface of 440,000 km long coastline in the world is subject to global change, with an increasing human pressure (land use, buildings, sand mining, dredging) and increasing population. Improving our knowledge on involved mechanisms and sediment transport processes, monitoring the evolution of sedimentary stocks and anticipating changes in littoral and coastal zones is essential for this purpose. The special issue of Water on “Sediment transport in coastal waters” gathers thirteen papers which introduce the current revolution in the scientific research related to coastal and littoral hydrosedimentary dynamics, and reflect the diversity of concerns on which research in coastal sediment transport is based, and current trends — topics and preferred methods — to address them.
    Keywords: GC1-1581 ; Q1-390 ; Cluster analysis ; spit breaching ; Support Vector Regression (SVR) ; sediment trap ; typhoons ; trend ; delta vulnerability ; suspended particulate matter ; morphodynamics ; New Caledonia ; particle transfer process ; nearshore processes ; Bight of Benin ; remote sensing reflectance ; coastal erosion ; analysis of variance (ANOVA) ; climate change ; dry season ; South China Sea ; geochemical map ; geochemistry ; non-cohesive to cohesive transition ; oligotrophic lagoon ; Seto Inland Sea ; suspended sediment ; flocculation ; sediment ; sedimentation ; numerical modelling ; SWAT ; water scarcity ; sand ; shoreline ; erosion ; bathymetry ; Tafna catchment ; aggregates ; soil erosion ; mud ; longshore sediment transport ; turbidity ; cohesive sediments ; ERA hindcast waves ; Langue de Barbarie spit ; tidal current ; fresh water runoff ; Mahalanobis’ generalized distances ; East Coast Low ; seagrass beds ; coastal management ; sand-mud mixture erosion ; North Africa ; recovery ; seasonal cycle ; remote-sensing ; Ni mining ; Southeast Australia ; non cohesive sediments ; Vietnam ; storminess ; river-mouth migration ; coastal hydraulics ; bedload ; Senegal River delta ; resilience ; biomass ; oceanic water intrusion ; reflectance ; seabed colour ; river plume ; hydrodynamics ; MODerate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) ; post-storm recovery ; lagoon ; sediment transport modelling ; monsoon ; sediment transport ; Mekong ; winter monsoon ; mathematical model ; bed shear stress ; waves forcing ; coral reef ; storms
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: On 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation declared novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) an unprecedented global pandemic. Nearly every country across the globe is struggling to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus and to limit its health, societal and economic consequences. As a response to that, with almost immediate effect, students, teachers and workers in general and across the globe were thrown into a new scenario of online work and education. In the midst of this emotional climate laden with fear, uncertainty, sadness and anxiety, millions of students all over the world were confined to their homes and the entire educational community had to adapt to a distance education model. The same occured with workers of different disciplines; they have to balance work and life in the same place. Therefore, homes suddenly became schools, universities and workplaces all at the same time. Against this backdrop, this Special Issue focuses on the study, evaluation and analysis of the opportunities the pandemic offers in three related aspects: first, for building an education for sustainable development. Second, for creating decent working conditions. Finally, to enhance health and well-being both at the workplace and at home. Authors from a range of disciplines, such as education, psychology, management, social sciences and other areas related to sustainable development, have contributed with differrent manuscripts. They address the challenges of studying, working and living in times of uncertainty in order to build sustainable development in those areas from theoretical and applied research.
    Keywords: distance learning systems (DLS) ; higher education institutions (HEI) ; work from home (WFH) ; human resource management (HRM) ; COVID-19 ; principal component analysis (PCA) ; emergency remote teaching and learning (ERTL) ; educational consequences ; parents’ perspectives ; Portugal ; preschool education ; basic education ; secondary education ; digital learning ; sustainable education ; systematic literature review ; university education ; representations ; COVID-19 pandemic ; undergraduate students ; online education ; thematic analysis ; education for sustainable development ; mindfulness ; resilience ; academic performance ; education ; medical ; online learning ; motivation ; classroom education ; pandemic management ; schools closed ; health education ; apprenticeship ; digitization ; distance learning ; school development ; academic dropout ; higher education ; SARS-CoV-2 ; pandemic ; digital competency ; technological resources ; primary education ; post-doctoral researcher ; China ; post-doctoral system ; world-class universities ; internationalization ; teaching ; higher education academy (HEA) ; learning ; STEM ; sustainability ; systematic review ; annotated bibliography ; cultural difference ; group ; post-traumatic stress disorder ; psychological distress ; sleep problems ; internet gaming disorder ; medical education ; medical training ; work life ; Peruvian physicians ; depression ; anxiety ; stress ; burnout ; health-related quality of life ; healthcare professionals ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: In recent years, the building sector has been turning towards intervening in the existing city building stock. In fact, it is generally accepted that the refurbishment of buildings and urban regeneration based on sustainability must form the axis of reformulation of the building sector. At present, achieving sustainable urban development inevitably involves improving existing buildings, thereby preventing the need for city growth, and for the emptying of established neighborhoods. Furthermore, considering the whole life cycle, the great amount of greenhouse emissions derived from the construction sector is well known; thus, in order to reach a decarbonized society, it is important to provide eco-efficient construction materials and solutions, adding the principles of the circular economy and resource efficiency. Therefore, the theme of this Special Issue is the “Decarbonization and Circular Economy in the Sustainable Development and Renovation of Buildings and Neighborhoods” in response to the objectives not only raised in the Horizon 2020 but by all the people who seek a more sustainable world. This Special Issue of Sustainability focuses on, but is not limited to: • Obtaining an overview of the environmental problems that arise from construction activity, focusing on refurbishment as an alternative to the current crisis in the construction sector, as well as on actions designed to minimize environmental effects on the environment; • Searching for new alternatives to conventional construction solutions that minimize the environmental impact of the construction activity, improve indoor environmental quality of buildings, build or refurbish, always from a rentable and optimal cost in time, and implement a circular economy and an efficient resource and waste management; • Minimizing the consumption of material resources, energy consumption and CO2 emissions in construction and looking for the proper management of construction and demolition waste and the opportunities for their recycling and reuse; • Sustainable planning and urban development, for an ordered and sustainable growth.
    Keywords: vegetal waste ; shredded corn cobs ; sunflower stalks ; green concrete ; mineral wool ; cement mortar ; recycling ; circular economy ; construction and demolition waste ; CO2 emissions ; disaggregated model ; dust ; noise and vibration emission ; environmental impact studies ; foundations and structures ; sustainability ; transportation ; social housing ; major renovation ; nZEB renovation ; cultural value ; condominium ; cool roof ; energy efficiency ; energy saving ; dynamic numerical method ; life cycle assessment ; disinvestment ; popular housing ; rehabilitation works ; sustainable construction ; waste management ; selective demolition ; waste quantification ; nearly zero-energy building ; End-of-Life Cost ; hospitality ; hotels ; sustainable assessment ; BREEAM methodology ; green hotel ; carbon footprint ; assessment tool ; dwelling construction ; cost control ; direct evaporative cooling ; new pad materials ; wet fabric ; saturation efficiency ; pressure drop ; citizen participation ; resilience ; urban regeneration ; bioclimatic refurbishment ; sustainable city ; Seville ; guide ; decarbonisation ; construction ; Circular Design ; circular technologies ; reversibility ; durability ; circular potential ; indicators ; service life ; closed material loops ; decarbonization of construction sector ; refurbishment of buildings ; neighbourhood regeneration ; eco-efficient construction solutions ; construction and waste management ; indoor environmental quality ; resource efficiency ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-27
    Description: The field of design and health, formerly known as the domain of healthcare design professionals, has now reached a turning point with the proliferation of a plethora of non-invasive wearable technologies, to provide the objective and near-real-time measurement of the impact of many features of the built environment on aspects of health, wellbeing and performance. In turn, new materials and the Internet of Things are allowing the development of smart buildings, which can interact with occupants to optimize their health, wellbeing, performance and overall experience. Companies that have previously focused on positioning themselves as “green” are now turning to positioning themselves in the marketplace as both green and healthy. This Special Issue will include articles that address new cutting edge technologies and materials at the interface between design and health, and review some of the latest findings related to studies which use these technologies. This SI will also suggest exciting future directions for the field. It will include articles which focus on the objective data gathered to document the effects of the built environment on health. Importantly, it will focus on the use of innovative methods of measurement, such as state-of-the-art wearable and environmental sensors, quantifying some aspects of health, such as stress and relaxation responses, activity, posture, sleep quality, cognitive performance and wellbeing outcomes. It will also examine the impacts of different elements of the built environment on these health and wellbeing outcomes. The published articles will focus on the design interventions informed by these measurements, along with innovative integrated building materials that can shape the design of built environments for better health, productivity, and performance. It will also address the return on investment (ROI) of such design interventions. This Special Issue will provide both the foundational knowledge and fundamentals for characterizing human health and wellbeing in the built environment, as well as the emerging trends and design methods for innovations in this field.
    Keywords: lifestyle ; mood states ; perceived restorativeness scale ; positive and negative affect schedule ; quality of life ; resilience ; restorative outcome scale ; Shinrin-yoku ; stress coping ; subjective vitality scale ; open spaces 2 ; CKD 3 ; renal function ; exercise ; obesity ; urban environment ; walkability ; active transportation ; college students ; supportive soundscape ; sonic environment ; nursing homes ; ageing ; dementia ; green spaces ; cardiovascular risk factors ; gender ; hypercholesterolemia ; hypertension ; diabetes ; bamboo forest therapy ; psychological responses ; physiological responses ; immune system ; violent crime ; urban parks ; greenspace ; green space ; scoping review ; systematic review ; literature review ; urban ; landscape ; brain ; visual ; green ; contemplative ; mental health ; well-being ; FAA ; EEG ; UGS ; depression ; human health ; built environment ; urban open space ; forest healing ; wellbeing ; psychology ; physiology ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-27
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    Keywords: climate change ; reef restoration ; gardening ; ecological engineering ; assisted migration/colonization ; assisted genetics/evolution ; assisted microbiome ; epigenetics ; chimerism ; coral reefs ; macroalgae ; resilience ; species composition ; Taiwan ; coral reef ; marine national park ; nuclear power plant ; community dynamics ; Symbiodiniaceae ; long-term ecological data ; coral ; recruitment ; bleaching ; management ; restoration ; fishing ; tourism ; recovery ; Thailand ; thermal stress ; coral resilience ; bleaching events ; thermally-tolerant symbionts ; acclimatisation ; adaptation ; heterotrophy ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Renewable energy is electricity generated by fuel sources that restore themselves over a short period of time and do not diminish. Although some renewable energy technologies impact the environment, renewables are considered environmentally preferable to conventional sources and, when replacing fossil fuels, have significant potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This book focuses on the environmental and economic benefits of using renewable energy, which include: (i) generating energy that produces no greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and reduces some types of air pollution, (ii) diversifying energy supply and reducing dependence on imported fuels, and (iii) creating economic development and jobs in manufacturing, installation, and more. Local governments can dramatically reduce their carbon footprint by purchasing or directly generating electricity from clean and renewable sources. The most common renewable power technologies include: solar (photovoltaic (PV), solar thermal), wind, biogas (e.g., landfill gas, wastewater treatment digester gas), geothermal, biomass, low-impact hydroelectricity, and emerging technologies such as wave and tidal power. Local governments can lead by example by generating energy on site, purchasing green power, or purchasing renewable energy. Using a combination of renewable energy options can help to meet local government goals, especially in some regions where availability and quality of renewable resources vary. Options for using renewable energy include: generating renewable energy on site, using a system or device at the location where the power is used (e.g., PV panels on a state building, geothermal heat pumps, biomass-fueled combined heat and power), and purchasing renewable energy from an electric utility through a green pricing or green marketing program, where buyers pay a small premium in exchange for electricity generated locally from green power resources.
    Keywords: community energy ; energy storage ; time of use tariff ; home battery ; demand response ; renewable energy ; business model ; global meta-frontier non-radial direction distance function ; energy efficiency ; CO2 emission performance ; benchmark ; potential CO2 emission and energy reduction ; solar home systems (SHS) ; levelized cost of energy (LCOE) ; photovoltaic system ; HOMER ; rice straw ash ; ash-forming elements ; solubility ; sustainable development of both agriculture and biomass energy ; recycling property ; ashing temperature ; municipalities ; public policies ; rural development ; wind farms ; civic energy communities ; local energy initiatives ; grassroots innovation ; energy transition ; social practice theory ; energy practices ; hazardous waste ; contaminated soil ; potential toxic elements ; removal ; mine waste ; biomass power generation ; positive externalities ; support policy ; apple branches ; Jingning ; LCA ; LCC ; photovoltaic ; onshore wind ; prosumers ; renewable energy sources ; Mediterranean wineries ; constraints and enablers ; social–ecological system ; resilience ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: In recent years, we have been witnessing the exponential proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT), networks of physical devices, vehicles, appliances and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators and connectivity that enables these objects to connect and exchange data. Enabling the introduction of highly efficient IoT, wireless sensing and network technologies will reduce the need for traditional processes that are currently be carried out manually, thus freeing up the precious resources of dwindling working staff, to do more meaningful and human-centered work. This reprint aims to bring together innovative developments in areas related to IoT, wireless sensing and networking. The aspects covered include software-defined network (SDN)-based IoT networks, artificial intelligence (AI) for IoT, industrial IoT, smart sensors, optimization of energy efficiency for IoT, and wireless sensor networks, IoT applications for agriculture, smart cities, healthcare, localization and environment monitoring.
    Keywords: lawful interception ; hybrid SDN ; intercept access point ; minimum vertex cover ; text detection ; natural scene ; feature fusion ; soil water content ; sensor networks ; distributed sensing ; IoT measurements ; Precision Agriculture ; moisture sensor ; wireless communication ; LoRa ; LoRaWAN™ ; indoor localisation ; fingerprinting ; landmark ; wearable device ; inertial measurement device ; motion mode detection ; body shadowing compensation ; nearest neighbour ; label-free biosensor ; machine learning ; support vector machine ; artificial neural network ; principal component analysis ; Green IoT ; IIoT ; edge computing ; AI ; edge AI ; sustainability ; digital transition ; digital circular economy ; Industry 5.0 ; direction-of-arrival estimation ; geometric algebra ; ESPRIT algorithm ; electromagnetic vector-sensor array ; hardware security ; electromagnetic sensing ; real time ; cybersecurity ; anomaly detection ; the Internet of Things ; deep learning ; blockchain ; 5G/6G ; URLLC ; tactile Internet ; industrial IoT ; network emulator ; robotic simulator ; virtual testbed ; wireless power transfer ; energy harvesting ; power conversion efficiency ; single diode rectifier ; voltage doubler ; harmonic balance method ; autonomous sensor node ; wireless sensor network ; multi-tone signal ; full-wave simulations of PCB ; millimeter wave ; new radio ; unmanned aerial vehicles ; LoS blockage ; closed-from approximation ; rooftop deployments ; coverage path planning ; unmanned aerial vehicle ; cell decomposition ; decomposition methods ; energy-aware approaches ; energy optimal path ; multi-robot systems ; multi-UAV ; smart cities ; Internet of Things (IoT) ; sensors ; 6G ; wireless communications ; resilience ; climate change ; connectivity ; data ; wireless systems ; mobile sensors ; D2D ; technological development ; Internet of things ; LoRaWAN ; reliability ; downlink ; safety ; IoT ; LPWAN ; proximal soil sensor device ; conventional communication methods ; ultralow power consumption ; long-distance transmission ; economic value ; inventoried sensor devices ; digital twin ; LSTM model ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNB Energy industries and utilities
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue titled “Assessing the Impact of Climate Change on Urban Cultural Heritage” hosted at the Atmosphere journal. This topic has been chosen in light of cities’ ever-growing role and immense potential in the climate adaptation and mitigation discourse and the particular challenges regarding urban heritage making and conservation. It is critical to recognise the complex set of factors governing the physical, social and political future of urban heritage in cityscapes in constant transformation and in an era of planetary urbanisation. The 10 papers (seven research papers, two reviews and one opinion piece) that comprise the issue give a broad cross-section of the issues pertinent to this important topic – accounts on practices and conceptual/methodological improvements in energy retrofit and reuse, risk mapping, urban planning, climate vulnerability assessment, and community engagement by 38 authors from seven countries are used to delineate the implications of current and likely future climates on heritage materials and systems, knowledge and practice gaps, as well as steps that need to be taken to ensure both their safeguarding and their valorisation to achieve climate resiliency.
    Keywords: historic buildings ; risk assessment ; WDR ; resilience ; sustainability ; extreme value analysis ; heritage values ; energy efficiency ; thermal comfort ; heritage conservation ; original features ; system dynamics ; social practices ; decision-making ; historic building ; durability ; performance ; life cycle analysis ; land-use ; tropics ; urban microclimate ; built heritage retrofit ; energy-efficient retrofit policy ; conservation policy ; UK ; Turkey ; earthquakes ; fire ; floods ; historic sites ; landslides ; museums ; insects ; sea level rise ; typhoons ; visitors ; extreme events ; climate projection ; Central Europe ; ProteCHt2save ; climate risk indices ; heritage climatology ; cultural heritage safeguarding ; preparedness ; energy-efficient retrofit ; historic residential buildings ; energy consumption prediction ; heritage buildings ; lithotype ; salt weathering ; kaolinisation ; microcracking ; weather events ; cultural heritage ; urban planning ; climate change ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts
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    Publication Date: 2023-04-05
    Description: Arts therapy is a form of psychotherapy that uses artistic media, the creative process, and artwork as its primary forms of communication. The arts therapies cover six areas of specialization: visual arts, music, dance and movement, drama, psychodrama, and bibliotherapy. Several studies and reviews have demonstrated its effectiveness for adult populations (e.g., Regev and Cohen-Yatziv, 2018), as well as for children and adolescents (e.g., Cohen-Yatziv and Regev, 2019). Academic writing and research, which have evolved extensively in recent decades, have underscored the considerable significance of arts therapies especially for children and adolescents.This Special Issue, “Arts Therapies with Children and Adolescents”, is dedicated to presenting research and clinical writing in the field of the Arts Therapies with Children and Adolescents in a variety of settings, including hospitals, the education system, mental health clinics, and others. I hope that this Special Issue will serve as a repository of knowledge for arts therapists and as a fertile terrain for further research in the field. It should also pave the way for more professionals working with children and adolescents to better understand the meaning and uniqueness of the therapeutic work in arts therapies and the dedicated ways in which arts therapists use assessment tools and arts-based interventions to better understand the world of children and adolescents.
    Keywords: creative arts therapy ; online psychotherapy ; COVID-19 ; education system ; remote therapeutic response ; child abuse ; sexual abuse ; physical abuse ; emotional abuse ; self-figure drawing ; dance movement therapy ; remote therapy ; art therapy ; music therapy ; dramatherapy ; children ; schools ; randomised controlled study (RCT) ; mental health ; well-being ; prevention ; intellectual disability ; adolescents ; mother–adolescent relationship ; joint painting procedure ; music ; PICU ; anxiety ; quality improvement ; questionnaires ; parent-child arts therapy ; Autism Spectrum Disorders ; the creative arts ; OS-ID ; open studio ; identity development ; supported autonomy ; social anxiety ; autism spectrum disorders ; change processes ; OAT ; EAT ; at-risk children ; art ; foster care ; school arts therapies ; behavioral problems ; experience of art making ; art materials ; art process ; art products ; drama therapy ; youth ; review ; psychosocial problems ; mechanisms of change ; psychodrama ; PPAT ; self-potency ; EF ; maternal distress ; political violence ; refugee children/adolescents ; process evaluation ; sense of belonging ; affect ; resilience ; arts therapies ; ultra-Orthodox Jews ; intercultural therapy ; parents’ perceptions ; rehabilitation ; medical clowning ; physiotherapy ; role theory ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: Sustainable education and social networks are two important concepts that are closely related. The combination of sustainable education and social networks can be powerful in promoting positive change and creating a more sustainable future. Here are some ways in which these two concepts can be integrated:1. Online learning.2. Awareness raising.3. Collaboration.4. Engagement.5. Sharing of best practices.In conclusion, the integration of sustainable education and social networks has the potential to promote positive change and create a more sustainable future by making education more accessible, engaging, and impactful.
    Keywords: social network analysis ; group work ; civil engineers ; students’ performance ; information disorders ; fake news ; disinformation ; misinformation ; infodemic ; bibliometric review ; serious game-playing ; CRAAP test ; resilience ; media literacy ; sustainable education ; cyberbullying ; mental health ; university students ; Al-Ahsa ; Saudi Arabia ; social media technologies ; online learning ; COVID-19 pandemic ; constructivism theory ; academic performance ; fake news detection ; Natural Language Processing ; Language Models ; climate change ; WhatsApp ; social networks ; interpersonal relationships ; higher education ; digital communication ; diffusion control ; fake news sharing ; spread of fake news ; digital media ; online fake news ; multimodal fake news detection ; Multimodal Factorized Bilinear pooling ; natural language processing ; social sensing ; misinformation/disinformation ; curriculum reform ; lesson study ; networked learning community ; professional learning community ; program evaluation ; receptivity to change ; teacher beliefs ; teacher behaviors ; teacher change ; teacher learning ; Twitter ; social services ; social participation ; social networking ; socio-political discourse ; election periods ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education
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    Publication Date: 2022-01-31
    Description: This book looks at the ways that energy, food, and water help to create connections between sustainability and security. The concept of security is in our current societies increasingly connected with sustainability, which seeks to ensure that we as humans are able to live and prosper on this planet now and in the future. The concepts of energy security, food security, and water security—used separately or together—manifest the burgeoning linkages between security and sustainability. This book brings together ten scientific articles that look at different aspects of security, sustainability, and resilience with an emphasis on energy, food, and/or water in the context of Finland and Europe. Together, the articles portray a rich picture on the diverse linkages between both energy, food, and water, and between security and sustainability. In sum, the articles and related preface conclude that ensuring sustainable security—or secure sustainability—requires systemic, structured processes that link the policies and actors in these two important but still distant fields.
    Keywords: HN1-995 ; HM401-1281 ; H1-99 ; adaptive governance ; critical infrastructure ; reallocation ; manure treatment ; societal transformation ; environmental security ; energy ; climate change ; energy trade ; interdependencies ; eutrophication ; water-intensive products ; nutrient loading ; water ; sustainability ; co-benefits ; water scarcity ; virtual water ; hydrological modeling ; Finland ; water stress ; security impacts ; animal-based diets ; nexus ; water depletion index ; diet change ; qualitative assessment ; consumer behaviour ; energy and food nexus ; EU law ; Russia ; security ; land use ; indexes ; terrorism ; energy security ; resilience ; import dependence ; sustainable diets ; plant-based diets ; water security ; water protection ; animal agriculture ; groundwater ; energy policy ; food culture ; food ; cattle production ; trade ; consumptive water use ; assessment framework ; preparedness ; regulation ; drought ; global water models ; food security ; environmental policy ; water–energy–food security nexus ; linkages
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: There are many regions worldwide which are susceptible to extreme loads such as earthquakes. These can cause loss of life and adverse impacts on civil infrastructures, the environment, and communities. A series of methods and measures have been used to mitigate the effects of these extreme loads. The adopted approaches and methods must enable civil structures to be resilient and sustainable. Therefore, to reduce damage and downtime in addition to protecting life and promoting safety, new resilient structure technologies must be proposed and developed. This special issue book focuses on methods of enhancing the sustainability and resilience of civil infrastructures in the event of extreme loads (e.g., earthquakes). This book contributes proposals of and theoretical, numerical, and experimental research on new and resilient civil structures and their structural performance under extreme loading events. These works will certainly play a significant role in promoting the application of new recoverable structures. Moreover, this book also introduces some case studies discussing the implementation of low-damage structural systems in buildings as well as articles on the development of design philosophies and performance criteria for resilient buildings and new sustainable communities.
    Keywords: TA1-2040 ; T1-995 ; artificial neural network ; corrosion ; mined-out region ; finite element ; column-top isolation ; pseudodynamic test ; seismic performance ; sustainability prediction ; shear performance ; nonlinear time-history analysis ; shaking table test ; civil infrastructures ; angle section ; seismic connection detail ; cyclic loading test ; extreme loads ; sudden column removal ; flow ; water supply networks ; displacement response spectrum ; cold-formed steel composite shear wall building ; mitigation ; probabilistic framework ; nonlinearity ; optimized section ; corporation ; GM selection ; seismic damage ; natural hazards ; analysis ; spectrum variance ; viscous damper ; Great East Japan Earthquake ; OpenFresco ; Brazier flattening ; substructure ; damage ; model-based ; tapered cross section ; liquefaction ; measurement ; NDE ; settlement ; seismic behavior ; resilience ; hybrid damper ; numerical simulation ; structural response estimates ; probabilistic ; energy-based approximate analysis ; damping effect ; cold-formed steel structure ; silt ; ground motion ; boundary technique ; energy dissipative devices ; reinforced concrete ; cyclic reversal test ; ground improvement ; simplified modeling method ; beam ; girder ; integration algorithm ; force-displacement control ; reinforced concrete frames ; mid-rise ; intermediate column ; time-frequency energy distribution ; single-layer reticulated dome ; structural robustness ; precast slab ; chloride ingress ; dynamic model ; Brazier effect ; earthquake ; sustainability ; carbonation ; replaceable coupling beam ; railway construction ; concrete ; variational method ; shear wall ; progressive collapse ; abnormal loads ; recovery ; earthquakes ; resilience-based design ; disaster ; OpenSees ; seismic analysis ; response surface method ; subway station ; ratcheting effect ; matching pursuit decomposition ; hybrid simulation ; subway induced vibration ; dynamic structural analysis ; numerical simulations ; structural sensitivity ; inflection point ; system restoration ; infinite element boundary ; simulation model ; Monte Carlo simulation ; nonlinear response ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2022-05-06
    Description: COVID-19 is a pandemic that has forced many states to declare restrictive measures in order to prevent its wider spread. These measures are necessary to protect the health of adults, children, and people with disabilities.Long quarantine periods could cause an increase in anxiety crises, fear of contagion, and post-traumatic stress disorder (frustration, boredom, isolation, fear, insomnia, and difficulty concentrating).Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a condition that can develop in subjects who have witnessed a traumatic, catastrophic, or violent event, or who have become aware of a traumatic experience that happened to a loved one.In fact, from current cases, it emerges that the prevalence of PTSD varies from 1% to 9% in the general population and can reach 50%–60% in subgroups of subjects exposed to traumas considered particularly serious. PTSD develops as a consequence of one or more physical or psychological traumatic events, such as exposure to natural disasters such as earthquakes, fires, floods, hurricanes, tsunamis; wars, torture, death threats; road accidents, robbery, air accidents; diseases with unfavorable prognoses; complicated or traumatic mourning; physical and sexual abuse and abuse during childhood; or victimization and discrimination based on gender, sexual orientation, or gender identity. It can also develop following changes in lifestyle habits caused by the COVID-19 epidemic.Thank you for reading the manuscripts in this Special Issue, "The Impact of the COVID-19 Emergency on the Quality of Life of the General Population".
    Keywords: COVID-19 ; pandemic ; anxiety ; psychopathological symptomatology ; mood ; post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) ; emergency ; autism ; children ; diagnosis ; intervention ; parents ; remote ; depression ; EPDS ; pregnancy ; SARS-CoV-2 ; psychiatry ; infectious disease ; healthcare personnel ; psychopathological symptoms ; mental health ; neurological ; psychological ; inflammation ; COVID-19 pandemic ; ERT ; lysosomal storage disease ; psychological impact ; antibodies ; serological test ; SLE ; GAD-7 ; PHQ-9 ; ISI ; quarantine ; burnout ; health professionals ; stress ; prevention ; virus’ transmission ; fear of contagion ; breathing difficulty ; healthy adolescents ; emotion awareness ; state anxiety ; risk perception of COVID-19 ; meaning-based resources ; psychological well-being ; resilience ; emergency services ; adversity ; lockdown ; personality ; public health ; coping ; psychological distress ; public ; Ireland ; physical activity (PA) ; undergraduates ; university students ; chronic pain ; triggers ; well-being ; occupational balance ; social distancing ; home confinement ; coronavirus ; interpersonal violence ; sense of coherence ; Covid-19 ; psychiatric patients ; worry ; risk perception ; mental illness ; attitudes ; knowledge ; practices ; spirituality ; Indonesia ; quality of life ; stress disorder ; living together ; emotional bond ; coronavirus disease ; psychological health ; general population ; somatic symptoms ; Quality of Life ; gender differences ; WHOQOL-BREF ; health ; health psychology ; Italy ; public mental health ; physical activity ; Kosovo ; restrictions ; 15D ; vaccination ; community pharmacists ; DASS-21 ; emotional distress ; chronic diseases ; Hashimoto’s disease ; frailty ; telemedicine ; gerontechnology ; wearable sensors ; shelter-in-place measures ; resting heart rate ; sleep duration ; activity pattern ; consultation ; comprehensive health care ; pandemics ; dentist ; fear ; insomnia ; preventive behavior ; fear of Covid-19 ; Athens Insomnia Scale ; psychological coping ; students ; general self-reported health ; gender ; cross-national study ; primary healthcare ; access to healthcare ; treatment effectiveness ; perceived control over time ; COVID-19 fear ; vitality ; emotion ; general anxiety disorder-7 (GAD-7) ; older adults ; short health anxiety inventory (SHAI) ; state-trait anxiety inventory (STAI) ; stomatognathic system ; COVID-19 confinement ; prospective memory ; working memory ; psychological wellbeing ; emotions ; Egyptian ; coping strategies ; STAI ; BDI-II ; avoidance-oriented coping ; college students ; coping styles ; emotion-oriented coping ; life satisfaction ; perceived stress ; task-oriented coping ; satisfaction with life ; fear of COVID-19 ; elderly population ; parental distress ; executive functioning ; multiple sclerosis ; elder abuse ; risk factors ; postural control ; balance ; detraining ; falls ; inactivity ; ageing ; type of personality ; type D personality ; TMD ; orofacial pain ; masticatory ; COVID-19 emergency ; preventive measures ; Chile ; nursing ; psychological discomfort ; pregnant ; n/a ; adverse childhood experiences ; ACEs ; psychological flexibility ; wellbeing ; help-seeking ; family physician ; primary care ; healthy lifestyle ; pandemic COVID-19 ; neurodegenerative diseases ; public health strategies ; healthy lifestyle behaviors ; telerehabilitation ; Autism Spectrum Disorder ; parenting stress ; depressive symptoms ; economic crisis ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering & technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Description: The concept of resilience has arisen as a “new way of thinking”, becoming a response to both the causes and effects of ongoing global challenges. As it strongly stresses cities’ transformative potential, resilience’s final purpose is to prevent and manage unforeseen events and improve communities’ environmental and social quality. Although the resilience theory has been investigated in depth, several methodological challenges remain, mainly related to the concept’s practical sphere. As a matter of fact, resilience is commonly criticised for being too ambiguous and empty of meaning. At the same time, turning resilience into practice is not easy to do. This will arguably be one of the most impactful global issues for future research on resilience. The Special Issue “Bridging the Gap: The Measure of Urban Resilience” falls under this heading, and it seeks to synthesise state-of-the-art knowledge of theories and practices on measuring resilience. The Special Issue collected 11 papers that address the following questions: “What are the theoretical perspectives of measuring urban resilience? What are the existing methods for measuring urban resilience? What are the main features that a technique for measuring urban resilience needs to have? What is the role of measuring urban resilience in operationalising cities’ ability to adapt, recover and benefit from shocks?”
    Keywords: urban resilience ; spatial planning ; vulnerability ; measuring ; mapping ; decision-making ; multi-risk ; flood ; fire ; indicators ; regional resilience ; adaptive capacity ; sectoral industry composition ; urban vs. inner areas ; green infrastructure ; resilience ; sustainability ; social-ecological indicators ; indicator ; monitoring ; climate change ; climate adaptation ; n/a ; dynamic models ; decision making ; scenario planning ; energetic resilience ; solar radiation ; geographic information system ; land use planning ; urban regulation ; urban energy resilience ; buildings energy balance ; urban hourly model ; residential buildings ; urban variables ; place-based analysis ; community resilience ; systematic overview ; resilience modelling ; knowledge representation ; resilience assessment ; information visualisation ; walkability ; walkability measure ; quantitative ; qualitative and mixed models and methods ; urban planning ; public space ; shift-share analysis ; employment dynamics ; sector composition ; metro-regions ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: The research studies included in this Special Issue highlight the fundamental contribution of the knowledge of environmental history to conscious and efficient environment conservation and management. The long-term perspective of the dynamics that govern the human–climate ecosystem is becoming one of the main focuses of interest in biological and earth system sciences. Multidisciplinary bio-geo-archaeo investigations into the underlying processes of human impact on the landscape are crucial to envisage possible future scenarios of biosphere responses to global warming and biodiversity losses. This Special Issue seeks to engage an interdisciplinary dialog on the dynamic interactions between nature and society, focusing on long-term environmental data as an essential tool for better-informed landscape management decisions to achieve an equilibrium between conservation and sustainable resource exploitation.
    Keywords: GE1-350 ; Q1-390 ; oasis ; Late Holocene ; n/a ; DISP ; spatio-temporal pattern ; medieval age ; Tarim Basin ; forestland governance ; arable land ; Côte d’Ivoire ; landscape change ; landscape change index ; livestock ; middle and lower reaches of Shule River Basin ; human-induced ; land use change ; vegetation change ; land cover ; climate change ; Deforestation ; mitigation ; eco-fragile area ; development ; native forest ; agricultural oasis expansion ; cities ; central Spain ; wetland ; vegetation cover ; urbanization ; human activity intensity ; sustainability ; dike-ponds ; case study ; army ; palaeoenvironmental reconstruction ; paleoecology ; farming radius ; peace ; landscape transformation ; Shunde District ; archaeological sites ; late Holocene ; NPPs ; pollen ; soil carbon ; NDVI ; Costa Rica ; land politics ; historical land-cover/use change ; grasslands ; land use ; land reconstruction ; China ; land-use intensity ; Northeast China ; resilience ; landscape dynamics ; palaeoecology ; political tradition ; forest landscape ; African politics ; pasture indicators ; land use changes ; Landsat ; mid-mountains ; climate ; RESTREND ; driving forces ; carbon neutral ; Mediterranean ; environment ; Horqin Sandy Land ; southern Italy ; land-use degree ; flood management ; bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCN Environmental economics
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-05
    Description: “How can we develop microbial ecological theory?” The development of microbial ecological theory has a long way to reach its goal. Advances in microbial ecological techniques provide novel insights into microbial ecosystems. Articles in this book are challenging to determine the central and general tenets of the ecological theory that describes the features of microbial ecosystems. Their achievements expand the frontiers of current microbial ecology and propose the next step. Assemblage of these diverse articles hopefully helps to go on this long journey with many avenues for advancement of microbial ecology.
    Keywords: QR1-502 ; Q1-390 ; ecological theory ; self-organization ; complex systems ; simulation ; mathematical modeling ; interspecies interaction ; Microbial ecosystems ; evolution ; resilience ; Dynamic equilibrium ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSG Microbiology (non-medical)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-30
    Description: The purpose of this Special Issue is to show progress regarding current research and literature on the theme of “Current Trends in Tourism under COVID-19 and Future Implications for Sustainability”. In particular, this Special Issue of the peer-reviewed international journal Sustainability aspires to expand the discussion and scientific debate on a range of viewpoints, trends, approaches, cases, impacts, challenges, models, and/or frameworks relating to tourism in the time of COVID-19, as well as the possibility of implementing the principles of sustainable tourism development in the post-pandemic period. Restarting the frozen tourism economy is an opportunity to build healthy relations between various groups of tourism stakeholders, including entrepreneurs and tourists. "New tourism" also requires legal and organizational solutions in order to balance the economic relations between global and local market actors in terms of consumer protection, as well as prevent the phenomenon of overtourism. The digitization of tourism services in the areas of marketing and sales should be one of the priorities addressed by entrepreneurs and DMOs. In the literature, as well as in the media and the scientific community, the impact of the pandemic on tourism has been the most commonly discussed topic over the last two years. This Special Issue aims to explore further sustainable tourism practices.
    Keywords: pandemic fatigue ; travelers’ fear of missing out (FOMO) ; destination crisis marketing ; post-COVID-19 tourism ; vaxication intention ; greatest of all trips (GOAT) ; international expats ; theory of planned behavior ; cognitive load theory ; protection motivation theory ; COVID-19 ; safety ; tourism branding ; health-protective behavior ; Greece–Spain ; customer satisfaction ; P2P accommodation market ; exploratory factor analysis ; service quality ; tourism ; impact ; DMO ; support tools ; hotel ; OCC ; ADR ; RevPAR ; revenue management ; Poland ; stakeholder ; social capital ; pandemic ; collective action ; community adaptation ; SEM analysis ; resilience ; absorption ; SARS-CoV-2 ; Tyrol ; marketing ; marketing mix ; crisis management ; COVID-19 epidemic ; catering industry ; restaurants ; risks ; stigmatized ; destinations ; Serbia ; youth ; students ; tourist activity ; COVID-19 pandemic ; trends ; perspectives ; contemporary tourism ; risk perceptions ; travel intentions ; personality traits ; market segmentation ; sustainable tourism ; tourism industry ; sustainable recovery ; health crisis ; tour operator ; travel package ; linked travel arrangements ; insolvency ; destination management organizations ; tourism technology ; content analysis ; thematic analysis ; smart tourism destination ; smart city ; sustainable development ; systematic literature review (SLR) ; research agenda ; package holiday ; tourist decision-making ; tourist behavior ; tourism sustainability ; Masai Mara ; policy interventions ; Kenya ; bibliometric study ; VOS viewer ; R bibliometrix ; government subsidies ; perceived quality ; perceived behavioral control ; predicted risks ; travel intention ; behavioral intention ; online digital exhibition ; competence ; meetings industry ; management ; post-COVID ; museums in a pandemic ; new technologies in museums ; traditional cultural participation ; Madeira ; population density ; correlation significance analysis ; k-means clustering ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic history
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-09
    Description: The pandemic period has caused severe socio-economic damage, but it is accompanied by environmental deterioration that can also affect economic opportunities and social equity. In the face of this double risk, future generations are ready to be resilient and make their contribution not only on the consumption side, but also through their inclusion in all companies by bringing green and circular principles with them. Policy makers can also favor this choice.
    Keywords: mobility choice ; COVID-19 ; best–worst method ; multi-criteria decision making ; air pollution ; air quality ; health effects ; economic burden ; food system ; circular economy ; sustainability ; EU ; Twitter ; COVID-19 pandemic ; local community ; perception analysis ; econometric modeling ; data science ; reflexive governance ; climate change ; infrastructure ; urban resilience ; social sustainability ; economic sustainability ; environmental sustainability ; China ; business ; innovation ecosystem ; innovation strategy ; electric vehicle ; dominant design ; crisis ; pandemic ; higher education ; digitalization ; distance learning ; Covid-19 outbreak ; resilience ; n/a ; strategic resilience ; multi-domain resilience ; strategic agility ; change ; sustainability strategy ; financialization ; TFP ; innovation ; resilience of city ; infectious disease ; urban planning ; supply chain resilience ; IT disruptions ; efficiency measurement ; warehouse logistics ; DEA ; resilient supply chains ; external capital ; customer–supplier relationship ; circular network ; cyber-security ; e-commerce ; Europe ; supply chain collaboration ; small- and medium-sized enterprises ; grey DEMATEL ; fuzzy best-worst method ; agrivoltaic system ; solar photovoltaics ; agronomic management ; crop production ; Food-Energy-Water nexus ; sustainable integration ; women’s leadership ; America Latina ; small and medium-sized enterprises ; renewable energy ; sustainable electricity production ; socio-economic sustainability ; sustainable development goals ; emission level ; levelized cost ; gross domestic product ; pig farmers ; adoption willingness of IoT traceability technology ; Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology ; Latent Moderate Structural Equations ; biomethane ; natural gas grid ; bioenergy ; biogas ; gas supply decarbonization ; incentives ; competences ; digitization ; digital transformation ; Asia Pacific ; CO2 emission ; demand shock ; hypothetical extraction method ; input–output model ; sectoral linkage ; emerging cities ; sustainable operations ; case studies ; the Asian region ; resilience decisions ; cybersecurity ; consumers’ awareness ; methodology ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Extreme hydrometeorological events, which cause severe impacts in terms of injuries, casualties, and socioeconomic losses, are being reported more and more frequently worldwide. Climate variability and anthropogenic changes amplify the impacts of these events. This reprint showcases studies which address challenges related to monitoring, modeling, forecasting, and assessing the impacts of hydrometeorological hazards. These studies focus on: (i) the description of recent relevant extreme hydrometeorological events, accompanied by analyses of spatiotemporal features and trends; (ii) the estimation and projection of the impacts of climate change and land-use transformations on the occurrence and severity of hydrometeorological extreme events, with associated uncertainties; (iii) the integration of remote sensing data or climate forecasts and models to provide timely warnings or reliable predictions; and (iv) the use of advanced statistical methodologies to characterize extreme hydrometeorological events, among other topics.
    Keywords: soil moisture ; dry spells ; time domain reflectometry ; moisture decrease model ; Poland ; extreme events ; hydrological indicators ; SPI ; water resources management ; repeated TLS surveys ; DEM of Difference (DoD), sediment budgeting ; glacial and postglacial surface features ; Svalbard ; floods ; GIS ; natural hazards ; risk management ; spatial management ; risk preparedness ; urban flooding ; resilience ; climate change adaptation ; community involvement ; urban population estimation ; building capacity ; flood impact ; GIS modelling ; flood mitigation ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-28
    Description: This reprint aims to provide a common forum to share knowledge about the growing threat of geohazards such as landslides, earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, coastal changes, and drought, among many others, due to the expanding size of cities and urban areas, the critical use of agricultural lands, the increased use of infrastructure, and the effects of climate change.A total of thirty-one papers (twenty-eight research papers, one review paper, and one technical note) on different topics like coastal changes, landslides, earthquakes, and others are presented in this reprint. The published works have been carried out in different parts of the world, such as Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Hungary, China, South Korea, India, Malaysia, Algeria, Canada, or Mexico.
    Keywords: debris flow ; berm ; mitigation measure ; volumetric concentration ; gas hydrates ; European margins ; geohazard assessment ; electric tomography ; three-dimensional ; electrodes ; seat control ; foundations ; stabilization methodology ; landslide displacement prediction ; decomposition-ensemble model ; recurrent neural network (RNN) ; ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) ; maximal information coefficient (MIC) ; flood vulnerability ; spatial analysis ; logistic regression ; ROC analysis ; flood detection ; site effects ; spectral ratio ; trans-mexican volcanic belt ; landslide ; safety factor ; Central Spanish Pyrenees ; soft rocks ; stabilization measures ; b value ; stable state ; depth ; Longmenshan fault ; flood risk ; cultural heritage sites ; bathymetric data ; manning’s roughness coefficient ; hydrodynamic modelling ; beach erosion ; storm waves ; recovery process ; video monitoring ; pocket beach ; Middle-Chelif sedimentary basin ; HVSR ; array measurement ; frequency–wavenumber (F–K) method ; landslide-induced wave ; lake-tsunami assessment ; mountain lakes ; landslides ; artificial rainfall ; grain size ; rainfall pattern ; pore water pressure ; generator of earthquakes ; low-to-moderate seismicity ; stochastic ; France ; loess ; dry-wet cycles ; triaxial creep test ; creep behavior ; strain-time ; long-term strength ; forest fires ; Cat model ; climate change ; disaster risk ; machine learning ; R programming language ; extreme droughts ; modeling ; crop yield losses ; crop insurance ; landslide dynamics ; landslide classification ; dynamic models ; depth-averaged model ; GIS ; coastal morpho-sedimentary dynamics ; erosion/accretion patterns ; remote sensing ; beach types ; meteo-ocean effects ; landslide susceptibility ; volume ratio ; reserve increase-rate-analysis method ; Loess Plateau ; landslide risk ; natural phenomena ; Reggio Calabria ; AHP method ; multi-hazard ; earthquake ; wind ; flood ; hazards ; hurricane ; mitigation ; resilience ; risk assessment ; bridge ; building ; wind turbine ; control system ; Middle-Chelif Basin ; ambient vibrations ; array techniques ; Vs30 ; site classification ; liquefaction ; electron bursts ; NOAA satellite ; East Pacific earthquakes ; conditional probability ; risk reduction ; validation ; predictive capability ; tropical climate ; Malaysia ; insurance hazard model ; earthquake clustering ; space–time ETAS model ; Hungarian earthquake catalogue ; 2020 Petrinja earthquake ; multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) ; analytical hierarchy process (AHP) ; receiver operating characteristics ; area under the curve (AUC) ; completely weathered granite ; runoff ; sediment production ; slope erosion ; flow velocity hydrodynamic characteristics ; combination weighting method ; cluster analysis ; optimization ; classification of debris flows ; Longmenshan Town ; dune cliff ; land management ; data analysis ; earth fissure ; microtremor testing ; spectrum analysis ; amplification effect ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics
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    Publication Date: 2022-05-06
    Description: Dear Colleagues, A rare disease, also known as an orphan disease, is any disease that affects a small percentage of the population. Although definitions vary from continent to continent, according to the European Union, rare diseases are those with a prevalence of less than 1 in 2000 people. Rare diseases are, in general, chronic, debilitating diseases, which in many cases threaten patients’ lives. It is estimated that 1–2 million people in the European Union are affected by a rare respiratory disease, which is a public health problem. Due to the low prevalence and severity of many of these diseases, whose symptoms often initially manifest in childhood, combined efforts are needed to improve our knowledge of the pathophysiology of these diseases that will lead to the development of new, more effective treatments. Therefore, since rare respiratory diseases represent an important field in medicine, we propose this Special Issue to promote the dissemination of the latest advances in basic and clinical research in these diseases. Prof. Dr. Francisco Dasí Guest Editor
    Keywords: standard diagnosis ; reference centres ; clinical presentation ; cilia ; primary ciliary dyskinesia ; alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency ; rare respiratory diseases ; Mycobacterium avium ; Mycobacterium intracellulare ; nodular bronchiectasis ; non-tuberculous mycobacteria ; pulmonary aspergillosis ; rare pulmonary disease ; miRNA expression ; exhaled breath condensate ; sputum ; severity ; pulmonary exacerbation ; alpha1 antitrypsin deficiency ; augmentation therapy ; replacement therapy ; rare diseases ; gene therapy ; alpha-1-antitrypsin deficit ; cystic fibrosis ; neonatal respiratory distress ; laterality defect ; orphan diseases ; PCD ; immunofluorescence ; antibody ; ALI culture ; bio-resource ; primary nasal epithelium ; diagnostics ; Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency ; liver disease ; glutamate-oxaloacetate transaminase ; glutamate-pyruvate transaminase ; gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase ; resilience ; active lifestyle ; stress levels ; infection control measure ; self-quarantine ; flow cytometry ; nasal epithelium ; oxidative stress ; reactive oxygen species ; endoplasmic reticulum stress ; antioxidant therapies ; idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis ; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ; bronchiectasis ; asthma ; emphysema ; alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency ; transient elastography ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine ; bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MM Other branches of medicine::MMG Pharmacology
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-27
    Description: Many people live in rural areas in tropical regions. Rural development is not merely a contribution to the growth of individual countries. It can be a way to reduce poverty and to increase access to water, health care, and education. Sustainable rural development can also help stop deforestation and reduce livestock, which generate most of the greenhouse gas emissions. However, efforts to achieve a sustainable rural development are often thwarted by floods, drought, heat waves, and hurricanes, which local communities are not very prepared to tackle. Agricultural practices and local planning are still not very risk-informed. These deficiencies are particularly acute in tropical regions, where many Least Developed Countries are located and where there is, however, great potential for rural development. This Special Issue contains 22 studies on best practices for risk awareness; on local risk reduction; on several cases of soil depletion, water pollution, and sustainable access to safe water; and on agronomy, earth sciences, ecology, economy, environmental engineering, geomatics, materials science, and spatial and regional planning in 12 tropical countries.
    Keywords: climate change ; contingency plan ; flood risk ; local development plan ; risk management ; sustainable rural development ; agricultural drought ; heavy rains ; hydrological drought ; meteorological drought ; risk assessment ; Sahel ; early warning ; hydrology ; local communities ; Niger river basin ; rural development ; disaster risk reduction ; official development assistance ; public participation ; risk tracking ; Sendai framework ; sustainable development ; dataset validation ; precipitation ; Kenya ; local climate ; ASALs ; Quantile Mapping ; climate services ; local drought risk reduction ; smallholder farmers ; agrometeorological forecast ; Niger ; natural resources ; Mauritania ; resource management ; regional planning ; participatory approach ; EO data ; water resources ; sustainable management ; local development ; water for food security ; building consolidation ; extreme precipitations ; flood exposure ; satellite remote sensing ; settlement dynamics ; vulnerability ; agriculture ; Nitrate runoff ; real-time monitoring ; water quality ; rural area ; scant data ; nitrate contamination ; water ; flood ; Sinai Peninsula ; flash flood ; CORDEX ; water harvesting ; indigenous farmers ; multinational corporations ; systems thinking ; Nigeria ; sub-Saharan Africa ; drought ; rainfall regime ; soil biogeochemistry ; natural disasters ; flooding ; flood vulnerability ; inequality ; risk premium ; expected annual damages ; certainty equivalent annual damages ; equity weight expected annual damages ; equity weight certainty equivalent annual damage ; soil erosion ; Great Rift Valley Lakes ; ASAL ; desertification ; groundwater resources ; fluoride ; main Ethiopian Rift Valley ; developing countries ; welfare ; panel probit model ; adoption ; propensity score matching ; water crisis in Africa ; water collection and retention systems ; sand dam ; migration ; risk communication ; volcanic hazards ; social risk perception ; resilience ; demonstrator ; scenario ; multi-risk analysis ; climate-smart agriculture ; socio-ecological systems ; extension ; Belize ; milpa ; food security ; sustainability ; photovoltaic energy ; desalination system ; SIDS ; CO2 emissions ; LCOW ; LEOW ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
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    Publication Date: 2022-02-01
    Description: The issue "Mathematical Logic and Its Applications 2020" contains articles related to the following three directions: Descriptive Set Theory (3 articles). Solutions for long-standing problems, including those of A. Tarski and H. Friedman, are presented. Exact combinatorial optimization algorithms, in which the complexity relative to the source data is characterized by a low, or even first degree, polynomial (1 article). III. Applications of mathematical logic and the theory of algorithms (2 articles). The first article deals with the Jacobian and M. Kontsevich’s conjectures, and algorithmic undecidability; for these purposes, non-standard analysis is used. The second article provides a quantitative description of the balance and adaptive resource of a human. Submissions are invited for the next issue "Mathematical Logic and Its Applications 2021"
    Keywords: definability ; nonconstructible reals ; projective hierarchy ; generic models ; almost disjoint forcing ; Harvey Friedman’s problem ; almost-disjoint forcing ; universal algebraic geometry ; affine algebraic geometry ; elementary equivalence ; isotypic algebras ; first order rigidity ; Ind-group ; affine spaces ; automorphisms ; free associative algebras ; Weyl algebra automorphisms ; polynomial symplectomorphisms ; deformation quantization ; infinite prime number ; semi-inner automorphism ; embeddability of varieties ; undecidability ; noncommutative Gröbner-Shirshov basis ; finitely presented algebraic systems ; algorithmic unsolvability ; turing machine ; discrete optimization ; exact algorithm ; additively exact algorithm ; graph transformation ; graph of degree 2 ; chain-cycle graph ; operation cost ; minimization of total cost ; definability of definable ; tarski problem ; type theoretic hierarchy ; adaptive resource ; resilience ; resistance ; tipping point ; theory of catastrophes ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-09
    Description: This Special Issue aims at providing the state-of-the-art on procedures and methodologies developed to improve energy and environmental performance through building renovation. We are greatly thankful to our colleagues building physics experts, building technology researchers, and urban environment scholars who contributed to this Special Issue, for sharing their original works in the field.
    Keywords: CFD ; enclosed building ; wind environment ; group layout ; Hangzhou ; China ; indoor air quality ; IAQ ; enthalpy ; humidity ; thermal comfort ; TC ; dissatisfaction ; panel tests ; nearly zero energy building ; NZEB ; indoor environmental quality ; IEQ ; indoor air quality models ; sustainable building ; multi-criteria decision analysis ; MCDM ; MADM ; user dissatisfaction ; weights system ; building comfort ; PD ; Residential users ; Demand Response ; Flexible loads ; Dwellings clustering ; building-integrated photovoltaics—BIPV ; building heritage ; energy efficiency ; traditional materials ; resilience ; urban regeneration ; adapting to change ; climate performance ; innovative technologies ; smoke ; natural exhaust ; mechanical exhaust ; smoke curtain ; fire dynamics simulator ; drying ; heat and moisture transfer ; hygro-thermal behavior ; masonry walls ; wet wall ; in situ monitoring ; energy benchmarking ; university campus ; energy performance certificate ; CIBSE TM46 ; thermal energy efficiency ; dynamic model ; energy performance of buildings ; low temperature district heating ; indoor comfort ; renovation ; urban scale ; energy requalification ; building envelope ; sustainable development and planning ; standardized interventions of requalification ; Geographic Information System ; biometric data ; biosignals ; non-intrusive sensing ; physiological metrics ; environmental stimuli ; stress detection ; health ; comfort ; human thermal perception ; multi-domain interactions ; noise sensation ; cross-modal perception ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues
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    Publication Date: 2022-10-25
    Description: Coastal dunes are known for their functions in ecological systems in addition to their aesthetic qualities, providing a highly valuable and unique habitat due to their biodiversity of flora and fauna. They also represent the boundary between land and sea, acting as a protective natural barrier against flooding due to storm surges and wave action. Beach–dune systems are highly dynamic features whose evolution is primarily determined by the mutual and complex exchange of sand through hydrodynamic and eolian processes. The sustainable and resilient conservation of beach–dune (eco)systems in a changing climate requires important insights from multidisciplinary studies and approaches. Toward this vision, this Special Issue is dedicated to collecting original scientific contributions based on field observations, laboratory experiments, and/or numerical models.
    Keywords: coastal storms ; tropical cyclones ; coastal hazards ; incipient foredunes ; Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale ; Isle of Palms ; South Carolina ; numerical modeling ; XBeach ; morphodynamic ; dune ; beach ; synthetic storm ; antecedent topography ; uncertainty ; time and space variograms ; intertidal barred beach morphology ; stochastic modeling ; space-time covariance model ; data-based modeling ; dune growth ; storm recovery ; barrier island ; Dauphin Island ; aeolian sediment transport ; wind flow ; field experiments ; nature-based solutions ; sand trapping fences ; erosion ; vulnerability ; eco-recovery ; colloidal nanosilica ; sediment transport ; laboratory experiments ; longevity ; resistance ; erosion potential ; dune erosion ; CART analysis ; New Jersey ; dune systems ; anthropogenic pressure ; shoreline changes ; coastal erosion ; historical cartography ; satellite imagery ; QGIS ; Calabria ; airflow around buildings ; erosion and deposition patterns ; beach structures ; computational fluid dynamics (CFD) ; wave climate ; sea storms ; longshore transport ; river transport ; fragility curves ; probabilistic dune response ; wave–beach/dune interaction ; resilience ; adaptation ; hybrid approaches ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering & technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: Soil fauna plays a significant role at all trophic levels of the soil food web and regulates processes that are crucial for soil functioning, such as nutrient cycling, immobilization and/or degradation of toxic compounds, formation of soil structure, greenhouse gas emissions and C turnover. Although soil fauna is not thought to contribute significantly to soil respiration during litter or soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition, the diversity of soil fauna has been found to strongly influence SOM distribution and dynamics. Yet, the functional contribution of soil fauna to many soil processes is not well understood due to methodological limitations and the high complexity of interactions at various spatiotemporal scales. In general, soil fauna has received far less scientific attention than bacteria and fungi (and lately archaea) in soil studies and has been regularly ignored in global biogeochemical models, with maybe exceptions for some earthworms. However, recent studies are raising the awareness of the influence of soil fauna on ecosystems dynamics. For instance, earthworms have been found to be major players in N2O emissions from soils. They exert a strong influence on C stabilization, and they promote the degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). Less studied, ants and termites have been found to increase crop productivity in drylands, and different lifeforms of Collembola have been shown to impact microorganisms in various ways over time, thereby potentially affecting C and N cycles within farming systems. The influence of soil fauna indeed manifests over a broad ranges of spatiotemporal scales. For example, some effect such as aggregate formation may cumulate over time and finally contribute to the formation of whole soil profiles, which serve as a framework for other soil processes such as water movement, decomposition, etc. Meanwhile, soil biodiversity is impacted by an increasing human pressure through deforestation, agriculture intensification, habitat fragmentation or climate change (increasing temperatures, extreme weather events), which leads to soil biodiversity loss, in particular of soil fauna, with associated consequences on soil functioning and resilience.
    Keywords: protists ; nematodes ; earthworms ; macroarthropods ; microarthropods ; soil functions ; soil structure ; biogeochemical cycles ; greenhouse gas ; C sequestration ; soil alterations ; soil stability ; resilience ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2023-01-05
    Description: Agroforestry is an intensive land management system involving the integration of tree management into crop and animal farming. It provides diverse ecosystem services by bridging agriculture, forestry, and husbandry to offer environmental, economic, and social benefits. In order to improve the benefits of agroforestry to meet development and climate goals, a systematic approach is necessary for understanding agroforestry practices, designing agroforestry policies and associated outcomes. Multiple methodologies, including systematic review and landscape restoration approaches, can be applied to analyzing agroforestry policies and ecosystem services derived from agroforestry practices. Therefore, this Special Issue focuses on systematic approaches to agroforestry policies, strategies, and practices. It includes case studies from several countries from Asia to explore economic, social, and environmental dimensions.
    Keywords: agroforestry ; ecosystem services ; Asia-Pacific region ; systematic map ; agroforestry practices ; adoption determinants ; smallholder farmers ; Nepal ; bamboo handicraft ; bamboo ; income generation ; Laos ; sustainability ; value chain approach ; South Asia ; climate change ; mitigation ; adaptation ; policy ; REDD+ ; national determined contributions ; climate neutrality ; agroforestry systems ; Chure conservation ; livelihood ; community forestry ; agro-forest management ; interpretive structural modelling ; regional autonomy ; social forestry ; adoption ; perception ; behavioural controls ; ethnic minorities ; Viet Nam ; wild-simulated ginseng ; systematic review ; keyword analysis ; topic modelling ; non-timber forest products (NTFPs) ; land restoration ; carbon sequestration ; system adoption ; traditional homegardens ; agroforestry system ; biodiversity and carbon ; optical remote sensing ; food security ; resilience ; Timor-Leste ; Asia ; landscape restoration ; bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KN Industry & industrial studies::KNA Primary industries::KNAC Agriculture & related industries
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: During the past five decades, we have witnessed a tremendous evolution in water resource system management. Three characteristics of this evolution are of particular note: First, the application of the systems approach to complex water management problems has been established as one of the most important advances in the field of water resource management. Second, the past five decades have brought a remarkable transformation of attitude in the water resource management community towards environmental concerns and action to address these concerns. Third, applying the principles of sustainability to water resource decision-making requires major changes in the objectives on which decisions are based, and an understanding of the complicated inter-relationships between existing ecological, economic, and social factors. The Special Issue includes 15 contributions that offer insights into contemporary problems, approaches, and issues related to the management of complex water resources systems. It will be presumptuous to say that these 15 contributions characterize the success or failure of the systems approach to support water resources decision-making. However, these contributions offer interesting lessons from current experiences and highlight possible future work.
    Keywords: system dynamics ; system analysis ; complex water system ; uncertainty assessment ; climate change ; regional climate models ; averaging procedures ; HEC-HMS ; Lim river ; Lim water systems ; n/a ; artificial recharge ; groundwater ; treated wastewater ; freshwater resources ; water footprint ; water management ; wine production ; winemaking sector ; Italy ; SuDS ; decision-making ; Soft Systems ; ANP ; modelling ; stakeholder ; systems analyses ; water resources ; planning ; management ; implementation ; political processes ; innovation ; impact ; multi-purpose dam ; water resources systems ; performance-based engineering ; simulation ; resilience ; disaster ; risk ; perception ; community ; Canada ; integrated urban watershed management ; group decision-support system ; risk analysis ; group consensus ; Kashafroud watershed ; water policy ; water portfolio planning ; water resources management ; systems assessment ; adaptive capacity ; coupled human–natural systems ; integrated water resources management ; sociohydrology ; modeling perspectives ; agent-based modeling ; differential equations ; uncertainty ; artificial intelligence ; machine learning ; water resource modelling ; multiobjective optimisation ; river abstraction ; reservoir operation ; stochastic dynamic programming ; fuzzy optimization ; reservoir-river system ; water quantity-quality management ; socio-hydrology ; hydro-sociology ; human-water systems ; human-nature systems ; social-ecological systems ; CHANS ; SES ; socio-hydrologic modeling ; IWRM ; hydrology ; multireservoir operations ; optimization ; multi-agent reinforcement learning ; aggregation–decomposition ; neural networks ; systems ; complexity ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-30
    Description: The theme of entrepreneurship in the post-pandemic context is essential for the economic and social revitalization of economies. Despite this importance, this theme has hardly been explored, and therefore one of the central aspects of this reprint is to bring the debate on the competitiveness of micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises in various sectors to academic discussion. Through 11 chapters, involving the collaboration of more than 30 authors, this reprint pragmatically discusses a wide range of strategies and critical success factors for fostering entrepreneurship. This reprint also presents a set of practical solutions for various sectors, from tourism to agriculture, covering several countries, from Latin America to Asia to Europe. The various chapters present very diverse methodological approaches.
    Keywords: barriers to innovation ; innovative performance ; product innovation ; process innovation ; innovation ; entrepreneur ; self-confidence ; Venezuelan migration ; taking risks ; seizing opportunities ; Colombia ; post-pandemic ; COVID-19 ; Can Tho city ; resilience ; mitigation ; Vietnam ; drive tourism ; routes ; sustainable ; systematic literature review ; PRISMA ; entrepreneurial self-efficacy ; social entrepreneurial self-efficacy ; innovativeness ; organizational capabilities ; philanthropic CSR ; tourism lifestyle entrepreneurs ; surf ; life satisfaction ; networking ; financial objectives ; Azores ; canyoning ; entrepreneurship ; tourism ; hospitality sector ; soft skills ; hard skills ; human resources ; workers’ perceptions ; COVID-19 pandemic ; comparative study ; empowerment ; human capital ; economic capital ; financial capital ; level of ability of business actors in the agricultural sector ; tourism entrepreneurship ; digital nomads ; self-efficacy ; SMEs ; Latin American entrepreneurship ; COVID-19 economic crisis ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KJ Business and Management::KJC Business strategy
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Healthcare workers are exposed to several different occupational risk factors, and they pay an important tribute in terms of occupational diseases and work-related injuries. Currently, the COVID-19 pandemic has focused the attention on the problem of the infectious risk, which is certainly among the risks typically expected and specifically recognized for the health personnel, but also other occupational risks should not be overlooked, such as, e.g., the risks associated with work-organization factors and with the exposure to chemical and physical agents. The health consequences associated with the exposure to all these factors have relevant impacts in terms of induced diseases, DALYs, sickness absence from work and costs for the health systems. According to these premises, this reprint has collected manuscripts addressing topics related to the prevention of the occupational risks in the healthcare sector, including original articles and reviews on the prevention of work-related illnesses and injuries of the health personnel, as well as on the evaluation of the risks in the healthcare workplaces, and on the topics of risk perception and of the knowledge and attitudes of the workers towards the preventive procedures and the use of protections. The themes of the prevention of occupational infectious risk, biomechanical overload of the musculoskeletal system and work-related psychosocial factors are specifically discussed in the papers collected.
    Keywords: long-term care ; turnover ; semi-structured interview ; Korean LTCI system ; confidence ; disaster ; emergency ; healthcare ; family member ; preparedness ; rehabilitation ; vocational ; stroke ; occupational therapy ; work ; burnout ; nursing ; bibliometrics ; co-authorship network ; health-related quality of life ; health measurement ; work environment ; healthcare workers ; health systems ; key performance indicators ; healthcare system ; pandemic crisis ; COVID-19 ; Algeria ; compassionate care ; compassion satisfaction ; compassion fatigue ; cross-cultural comparison ; physical fatigue ; mental fatigue ; female ; nurses ; health personnel ; pandemics ; emergency room ; workplace violence ; resilience ; intention to leave ; breast cancer ; night work ; shift work ; occupational disease ; working conditions ; prevention ; carcinogens ; safety climate ; safety leadership ; LMICs ; Nigeria ; antimicrobial nanolayer ; bacterial contamination ; healthcare-associated infections ; high-touch objects and surfaces ; discussing pressure ; on-duty mechanism ; motivation ; friendly workplace environment ; high-level medical personnel ; work-related stress ; workplace health promotion ; well-being ; sickness absence ; quality of life ; distress ; return on investment ; cardiovascular diseases ; medical staff ; risk factors ; clustering ; prevalence ; healthcare personnel ; mental health ; mind–body therapies ; work stress ; Italian professional stress scale ; musculoskeletal complaints ; pain ; surgeons ; SARS-CoV-2 ; health surveillance ; risk prevention ; occupational risk factors ; infectious risk ; complaining ; psychiatric ; loneliness ; occupational burnout ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-05
    Description: This book is based on a Special Issue of the journal LAND that draws together a collection of 11 diverse articles at the nexus of climate change, landscapes, and livelihoods in rural Africa; all explore the links between livelihood and landscape change, including shifts in farming practices and natural resource use and management. The articles, which are all place-based case studies across nine African countries, cover three not necessarily mutually exclusive thematic areas, namely: smallholder farming livelihoods under new climate risk (five articles); long-term dynamics of livelihoods and landscape change and future trajectories (two articles); and natural resource management and governance under a changing climate, spanning forests, woodlands, and rangelands (four articles). The commonalities, key messages, and research gaps across the 11 articles are presented in a synthesis article. All the case studies pointed to the need for an integrated and in-depth understanding of the multiple drivers of landscape and livelihood change and how these interact with local histories, knowledge systems, cultures, complexities, and lived realities. Moreover, where there are interventions (such as new governance systems, REDD+ or climate smart agriculture), it is critical to interrogate what is required to ensure a fair and equitable distribution of emerging benefits.
    Keywords: QH301-705.5 ; Q1-390 ; S1-972 ; n/a ; adaptation ; agroforestry ; institution ; precipitation ; assets ; landscape change ; Ex-ACT ; firewood ; agrarian dynamics ; boundaries ; Longitudinal studies ; trends ; climate change ; agent-based-model ; mitigation ; social-ecological systems ; commercial agriculture ; dependency ; Tanzania ; Africa ; Ghana ; vulnerability ; sustainable livelihoods ; cocoa ; governance systems ; conservation ; livelihoods ; South Africa ; farm dwellers ; pastoralists ; REDD+ ; climate smart agriculture ; drivers ; climate-smart agriculture ; natural resources ; grazing ; pastoral mobility ; poverty alleviation ; Samburu pastoralists ; adoption ; resilience ; traditional authorities ; market-based conservation ; precariat ; agency ; savannahs ; rural entrepreneurs ; carbon balance ; small-scale irrigation farming ; Kenya ; religion ; household income ; communal grazing regulations ; perceptions ; Southern Africa ; culture ; Chinyanja Triangle ; neoliberal conservation ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: This book aims to discuss new research and trends on all dimensions of Higher Education, as there is a growing interest in the field of Higher Education, regarding new methodologies, contexts, and technologies. It includes investigations of diverse issues that affect the learning processes in Higher Education: innovations in learning, new pedagogical methods, and new learning contexts.In this sense, original research contributions of research papers, case studies and demonstrations that present original scientific results, methodological aspects, concepts and educational technologies, on the following topics:a) Technological Developments in Higher Education: mobile technology, virtual environments, augmented reality, automation and robotics, and other tools for universal learning, focusing on issues that are not addressed by existing research;b) Digital Higher Education: mobile learning, eLearning, Game-based Learning, social media in education, new learning models and technologies and wearable technologies for education;c) Case Studies in Higher Education: empirical studies in higher education regarding digital technologies, new methodologies, new evaluation techniques and tools, perceptions of learning processes efficiency and digital learning best practice.
    Keywords: higher education students ; social responsibility ; private and state institutions ; Romania ; Patagonia ; trekking ; nature ; goodness of humankind ; culture ; individuality ; reflexivity ; qualitative research ; validation ; mastery ; task ; performance ; ego ; spiritual intelligence ; emotional intelligence ; leadership ; education ; satisfaction ; educational management ; average satisfaction index ; IFPI ; Brazil ; transversal competences ; engineering students ; higher education ; virtual reality ; learning analytics ; STEM education ; instructional design ; accountant ; professions ; digital ; professional bodies ; higher education institutions ; learning models ; use of ICTs ; veterinarian education ; COVID-19 ; learning contexts ; operational assistants ; training ; evaluation ; educational public policies ; academic fraud ; academic integrity ; perceptions ; students ; distance learning ; online learning ; digital pedagogies ; financial education ; personality traits ; financial behavior ; university students ; academic burnout ; stress ; quantitative research ; coping strategies ; medication ; mechatronics ; experiential learning ; creative thinking ; critical thinking ; robotics ; thinking skills ; subsumption architecture ; mobile robot ; educational system ; project-based learning ; employers’ engagement ; employability ; multi-stakeholder partnership ; emergency online learning ; emergency online teaching ; lecturers ; Portugal ; sentiment analysis ; resilience ; validity ; resilience scale-10 ; peer assessment ; peer review ; collaborative evaluation ; rubric ; educational ; virtual environment ; gamification ; 3D modeling ; cultural heritage ; cyber-archaeology ; microscope ; postsecondary education ; community service ; civic engagement ; educational attainment ; OECD country ; hierarchical linear model (HLM) ; PIAAC ; soft skills ; inclusion ; teachers of special education ; teacher profile ; effective communication ; self-directed learning ; learning tasks ; student surveys ; university didactics ; STEM ; undergraduates ; instructional data ; teaching practices ; instructional technology ; assessment ; student reflection on learning ; policy ; architectural education ; architectural studies ; admission exam in drawing ; drawing ; concept ; knowledge integration ; macro-concept ; language of science ; network analysis ; photosynthesis ; biology education ; science education ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education
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    Publication Date: 2022-02-24
    Description: Platelets are critical elements in the blood stream, supporting hemostasis (defense against bleeding), as well as performing even more complex tasks within networks of biological (immunity) and pathophysiological processes, such as cancer and ischemia/reperfusion injury. Changes in the number (and function) of platelets may have a substantial impact on any of these processes. The “simple” finding of a reduced platelet count (thrombocytopenia) has a history (origin) and a consequence (e.g., bleeding). This book brings together international experts to provide an up-to-date overview of the impact of thrombocytopenia from a clinical perspective.
    Keywords: thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura ; depression ; resilience ; quality of life ; inherited thrombocytopenias ; platelets ; bleeding ; TTP ; ADAMTS13 ; treatment ; diagnosis ; follow-up ; review ; caplacizumab ; pseudothrombocytopenia ; hematimetry ; fluorescence ; amikacin ; anticoagulants ; COVID-19 ; platelet ; thrombocytopenia ; cardiac surgery ; inflammation ; biological prosthesis ; extracorporeal life support ; heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) ; new concepts ; pathogenesis ; management ; immune PF4/heparin/antibody complexes ; Bayesian diagnostic thinking ; therapeutic plasma exchange ; intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) ; immune thrombocytopenia ; platelet destruction ; immune tolerance ; megakaryocytes ; ITP treatment ; virus infection ; thrombocytopathy ; aggregation ; HIV ; SARS-CoV-2 ; hantavirus ; coronavirus ; influenza ; platelet disorders ; procoagulant platelets ; activation endpoints ; myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) ; bone marrow failure (BMF) syndromes ; aplastic anemia (AA) ; next-generation sequencing (NGS) ; platelet function tests ; platelet count ; flow cytometry ; anticoagulation ; antifibrinolytic ; antiplatelet ; cancer ; thrombopoietin receptor agonist ; tranexamic acid ; advanced liver disease ; bleeding risk ; cirrhosis ; hemostasis ; thrombopoietin receptor agonists/mimetics ; platelet transfusion guidelines ; platelet transfusion alternatives ; platelet additive solutions ; platelet pathogen inactivation/reduction ; cold stored platelet concentrates ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine
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    Publication Date: 2023-01-05
    Description: This Special Issue welcomes research papers on new approaches that have been applied or are under development to improve preparedness and emergency response. We especially encourage the submission of inter-disciplinary and crosscutting research. We also encourage the submission of manuscripts that focus on various types of disasters, disaster and emergency research, and on policy or management solutions at multiple scales.
    Keywords: alcohol ; ethanol ; pedestrians ; traffic accidents ; flood ; disasters ; emergency preparedness ; hospital preparedness ; Saudi Arabia ; first aid ; education ; basic life support ; cardiopulmonary resuscitation ; feedback device ; simulation ; quality ; skill retention ; motivation ; chest recoil ; mannequin ; contact tracing ; ethics ; pandemic ; psychology ; public education ; public health ; alternative care facilities ; flexible surge capacity ; major incidents and disasters ; surge capacity ; information and communication technology ; smart disaster management system ; Internet of Things ; disaster ; flood early warning ; flood response ; community volunteerism ; disaster volunteer group ; resilience ; governance and planning ; disaster management ; sustainability ; security ; safety ; crisis management ; risk management ; emergencies ; health emergency ; management ; disaster legislation ; preparedness ; COVID-19 ; stress ; stressors ; cortisol ; medical simulation ; low-fidelity simulation ; high-fidelity simulation ; stress appraisal questionnaire ; KOS-B ; nursing ; machine learning ; health geomatics ; geographic information system ; emergency medical services ; spatial filtering ; geo-AI ; resources management ; bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health & preventive medicine
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-27
    Description: This reprint presents a collection of twelve scientific articles that delve into the complex relationship between climate change and food security in various regions of the world. The articles examine the impact of climate change on crop production, water resources, and livestock farming, and they explore potential adaptive measures to mitigate the effects of climate change on food security. The articles cover a wide range of geographic locations, from Southeastern Poland to Central Ethiopia, Algeria, Egypt, South Africa, Afghanistan, and Canada. Each article provides valuable insight into the impact of climate change on food security, including the potential link between drought and wild blueberry production in Maine, the use of geospatial assessments to guide climate adaptation strategies for flood-tolerant rice varieties in India, and the impact of non-conventional agricultural spaces on mitigating the effects of climate change on food security in Quebec, Canada. The authors also explore the impact of climate-smart agriculture interventions on food security and dietary diversity in Myanmar, as well as the determinants of smallholder livestock farmers' household resilience to food insecurity in South Africa. Additionally, the reprint includes a case study on water profitability analysis to improve food security and climate resilience in the Egyptian Nile Delta. Taken together, these articles provide a comprehensive understanding of the impact of climate change on food security and highlight the need for innovative solutions to ensure sustainable food systems in the face of climate change.
    Keywords: climate change ; Kunduz River Basin ; trend analysis ; river discharge ; landcover changes ; temperature ; rainfall ; drought ; weather ; livelihood ; agroclimatic variability ; minimum and maximum temperatures ; maize yield ; rainfall patterns ; Setsoto municipality ; Free State province ; crop yield ; adaptation strategies ; water requirement ; WEAP-MABIA model ; agricultural drought ; resilience ; food insecurity ; assets ; adaptive capacity ; social safety net ; local initiatives ; food miles ; ecological transition ; remote sensing ; GIS ; flood tolerant seeds ; Swarna-Sub1 Rice ; climate adaptation ; climate-smart agriculture ; food security ; dietary diversity ; climate-smart villages ; HFIAS ; HDDS ; wild blueberry barrens ; precipitation ; drought index (SPEI) ; drought impact ; normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) ; enhanced vegetation index (EVI) ; water profitability ; water productivity ; Nile Delta ; water security ; rainfed durum wheat ; AquaCrop ; delta method ; CO2 fertilizing effect ; explorations ; forecasting models ; food access ; late blight ; potato production ; stress ; cultivars temperature yield ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: This compendium describes the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on all aspects of people lives. Data presented in this collection will be useful to understand the disruption in healthcare, learning, and socio-economic aspects amidst the pandemic. The sooner we begin to understand the impact, the better placed we will be to address the unmet needs of vulnerable population groups.
    Keywords: COVID-19 ; novel coronavirus ; social lockdown ; protection motivation theory ; health behavior ; health communication ; pregnant woman ; coronavirus ; infectious disease transmission ; vertical transmission ; obstetric management ; SARS-CoV-2 ; systematic review ; computerized tomography ; pneumonia ; risk factors ; echocardiography ; healthcare ; mental health ; Impact of event scale ; negative attitude ; Saudi Arabian females ; health services ; cost ; manual therapy ; chiropractic ; osteopathy ; physiotherapy ; direct RT-PCR ; molecular detection ; dental care ; dental health services ; dental visits ; dental service use ; postponed dental visits ; check-up ; dental examination ; pain ; dental complaints ; oral health ; Saudi Arabia ; blood donors ; seroprevalence ; ELISA ; antibodies ; lockdown ; multi-theory model ; behavior change ; pandemic ; handwashing ; young adults ; college students ; protective behavior changes ; individual ; family ; environmental factor ; COVID-19 spreading ; online survey ; awareness and knowledge ; ships ; seafarers ; SARS-COV-2 ; anxiety ; depression ; stress ; suicidal ideation ; students ; time-series ; ARIMA ; forecasting ; confirmed cases ; infectious disease ; international cruises ; health policy and regulation ; control strategies ; international cooperation ; global health governance ; ICF ; healthcare services ; interprofessional education ; medical students ; pharmacy students ; telehealth ; older adults ; artificial intelligence ; machine learning ; bibliometric analysis ; health ; novel design ; fabrication ; automated dispenser ; LDR based controller ; reduction of COVID-19 spread ; psychological symptom ; college student ; avoidance of infection ; social distancing ; free tickets for the aged ; subway use demand ; e-learning ; youth and children health ; visual health ; myopia ; routine care ; global pandemic ; role conflict ; role ambiguity ; social support ; dental precautions ; dental students ; India ; infection control ; knowledge ; perception ; survey ; face masks ; young people ; behaviors ; dentist ; infection control practices ; concerns ; dental practice ; social isolation ; social connectedness ; loneliness ; technology ; internet ; smartphones ; m-health ; severe acute respiratory syndrome ; post-graduate year training ; self-efficacy ; emotional traits ; Coronavirus ; prevention ; community ; public health nurse ; telephone consultation ; vaccine literacy ; Japan ; family carers for older adults ; sustainable ageing society ; health communications ; mass media ; HCWs ; personality traits ; intolerance of uncertainty ; coping strategies ; perceived stress ; resilience ; migration ; refugees ; fear ; modeling ; data analysis ; assessment ; effectiveness ; incidence rate ; restriction ; epidemic pattern ; exponential growth ; basic reproduction number (R0) ; spatio-temporal analysis ; demographic risk factor ; observational study ; public health ; Southeast Asia (SEA) ; vaccination rate ; basic reproduction number ; SARS-CoV ; African American ; COVID-19 vaccine ; vaccine hesitancy ; vaccine hesitant ; text classification ; SARS-CoV-2 infection ; survival rate ; hospitalized patients ; Hidalgo Mexico ; multimorbidity ; vaccination ; level 1 trauma ; health care workers ; information source trust ; COVID-19 stressor ; global south ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-28
    Description: This reprint presents information to update the state-of-the-art knowledge on young, professional or recreational, male and female athletes. Moreover, it addresses current gaps in the literature on issues that have an impact on athletes (e.g., Crohn’s disease, Olympic weightlifting, and velocity speed loss). Importantly, this reprint contributes to knowledge on how to improve load monitoring (of training and competition) and health care for athletes through direct or indirect research.
    Keywords: football ; male ; training ; youth ; RPE ; GPS ; running ; high-speed running ; sprint ; performance ; load monitoring ; match load ; player load ; long-term ; talent identification ; team sport ; multivariate analysis ; electromyography ; lower trapezius ; muscle strength ; shoulder kinematics ; sports injuries ; psychological factors ; Bayesian network ; sport metabolomics ; oxidative stress ; hormone signalling ; adiponectin ; basketball ; n/a ; correlation ; external intensity ; inertial device ; internal intensity ; perceived exertion ; SIATE ; agility ; soccer ; flexibility ; predictors ; outcome ; strength ; power ; reactive strength ; players ; plyometric training ; resistance training ; external load ; contextual variables ; amateur ; home match ; away match ; combat sports ; elite athletes ; rapid weight loss ; extreme weight loss ; weight management ; female ; Hooper Index ; internal load ; load ; match ; training load ; inflammation ; bowel ; malnutrition ; physical activity ; high-intensity interval training ; sport ; mental load ; Stroop ; triathlon ; sports medicine ; sports physiology ; female athlete ; VO2 max ; ultra-endurance ; bone mass density ; bone remodelling markers ; bone formation ; bone resorption ; athlete ; exercise ; injury ; aquatic training ; bicycling training ; meniscal allograft transplantation ; rehabilitation ; dynamic balance ; range of motion ; external training load ; technology ; wearable inertial measurement units ; heart rate ; monitoring ; sports technology ; load quantification ; competition phases ; exercise monitoring ; athletic performance ; reproducibility ; coping with stress ; SARS-CoV-2 ; COVID-19 ; cross-cultural research ; blood flow restriction ; body composition ; low-intensity aerobic training ; recreational runner ; physical fitness ; vascular responses ; isometric ; jump ; stability ; static balance ; Clean and Jerk ; Olympic exercises ; Power Clean ; Snatch ; Squat ; weightlifting derivatives ; physical exercise ; saliva ; metabolomics ; proteomics ; sex ; hearing-impaired ; skill ; inspiratory muscle training ; center of pressure ; soccer players ; velocity–based training ; one–repetition maximum ; maximum strength ; training efficiency ; ports physiology ; women ; maximal aerobic speed ; athletics ; sprint/power athletes ; endurance athletes ; VDR ; rs2228570 polymorphism ; personality trials ; Big Five ; resilience ; athletes ; car drivers ; mindfulness ; awareness ; psychosocial variables ; fast day ; adaptation ; lifestyle ; men ; mental health ; interlimb ; symmetry ; injury risk ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-27
    Description: Global ecosystem changes are influenced by a combination of natural and anthropogenic factors. Ongoing changes in rainfall, temperature, and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can affect natural or managed vegetation, such as forest, grassland, or farmland. Moreover, anthropogenic pressures, such as forest clearing, cattle grazing, increasing infrastructural development, intensive management, and expansion of cropland, can contribute to ecosystem degradation. This collection presents a wide range of studies examining natural and anthropogenic drivers in diverse ecosystems in Africa, Asia, and North America.
    Keywords: solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence ; drought ; photosynthesis ; East Africa ; water stress ; NDVI ; climate change ; perceived impact of climate change ; climate change adaptation ; ordered probit regression ; determinants of climate change impact ; adaptive capacity ; climate change vulnerability ; exposure ; resilience ; sensitivity ; vegetation ; conservation ; fire ; grazing ; savanna ; woody vegetation ; vegetation activity ; vegetation anomaly ; random forest ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: The beginning of the 2020s finds connected multimodality at the forefront of urban mobility transformation. Cities grow larger and increasingly face problems caused by transport and traffic. It is expected that Europe's population in urban areas will increase from today's 74% to about 83.7% in 2050. Congestion costs nearly 2% of the EU’s GDP annually, while 85% of the EU’s urban population is exposed to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) at levels deemed harmful to health. To face this challenge, cities increasingly strive to implement SUMPs (Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans) to increase the quality of life in their areas and encourage economic growth. Meanwhile, Urban Air Mobility (UAM) offers a promising opportunity to mitigate road (surface) congestion by integrating an additional modality or dimension into the urban mobility landscape. Nonetheless, on the path to fully urban operations of capable automated autonomous aircraft and integrated UAM services, plenty of questions remain open.
    Keywords: unmanned aerial vehicle ; zoning ; unmanned aircraft system traffic management ; clustering ; collision avoidance ; drone package delivery ; urban air mobility ; UAM ; eVTOL ; vertiport ; literature review ; UAS ; radar ; computer vision ; obstacle detection and avoidance ; autonomous navigation ; vertiports ; 3D Urban Aerial Network ; dynamic links ; urban logistics ; drones ; path planning ; risk cost ; service benefit ; optimization algorithms ; unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) ; lightweight blockchain ; drone security ; assurance ; authentication ; resilience ; tactical path planning ; strategic path planning ; urban airspace ; urban maps ; urban airspace constraints ; test cases ; turbulence ; gust ; UAV ; urban ; severe ; limitation ; survey ; CFD ; city ; buildings ; infrastructure ; air taxi ; advanced air mobility ; certification ; regulation ; operational digital twin ; cloud-in-the-loop simulation ; software aging ; software rejuvenation ; Kubernetes ; Nginx ; K3S ; helicopter ; parachute ; model-based design ; control system ; flight testing ; digital twin (DT) ; unmanned aerial system/unmanned aircraft system (UAS) ; drone ; urban air mobility (UAM) ; advanced air mobility (AAM) ; European Union (EU) regulation ; regulatory framework ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TR Transport technology and trades
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Working life is in a major transition. Furthermore, environmental, societal, and economic problems challenge human activities. The need to develop reliance and sustainability also through higher education is evident. It has been anticipated that emphasis on entrepreneurship competencies will be even stronger in the future. In this book, Entrepreneurial Education Strengthening Resilience, Societal Change and Sustainability, we provide insights on how to develop entrepreneurial competencies within higher education and its existing networks. First, the book guides the reader to understand how political documents steer the implementation of global goals and what could be improved. Second, we present how pedagogical solutions and models can meaningfully support the development of entrepreneurial competencies in the field of higher education. We also show the complexity of this phenomenon, thus developing a deeper understanding of this educational issue. Third, we highlight the essence of developing teacher education in this context. Fourth, we stress that entrepreneurial competencies are also needed in the working life. Lastly, we present some interesting key points for developing entrepreneurial higher education from the entrepreneurial ecosystem point of view. The book consists of 13 articles from international scientific experts in this field. Our book provides new knowledge, ideas and opportunities for creating practices to enhance the development entrepreneurial, sustainable and resilient societies. The book is targeted to researchers, policy-makers, higher education providers, stakeholders, educators and trainers.
    Keywords: universities’ partnerships ; entrepreneurial attitude ; perceived desirability ; perceived feasibility ; entrepreneurial passion ; sustainable entrepreneurship intentions ; human capital ; labor market ; training ; talent management ; corporate governance ; entrepreneurial mindset ; career adaptability ; intolerance of uncertainty ; prospective anxiety ; inhibitory anxiety ; college student ; team learning ; entrepreneurship ; entrepreneurship education ; entrepreneurial competencies ; innovation ; entrepreneurial competences ; learning community ; EntreComp ; EU policy ; entrepreneurial education ; sustainability education ; social change ; creativity ; action competence ; faculty community of practice ; resilience ; COVID-19 ; sustainability-oriented entrepreneurship education ; teaching cases ; university-based ecosystem ; key elements ; development process ; sustainable construction strategy ; entrepreneurial education model ; entrepreneurial university ; graduate entrepreneurship ; progression model ; sustainability in entrepreneurial education modeling ; education for sustainable development ; key sustainability competencies ; transformative learning ; sustainability ; sustainable education ; teacher education ; curriculum ; Nordic education ; entrepreneurial intention ; Theory of Planned Behavior ; multigroup analysis ; Sustainable Development Goals ; social impact ; empowerment ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-27
    Description: Biocultural restoration is a process by which the various connections between humanity and nature, as well as between People and Place are revived to restore the health and function of social-ecological systems. This collection explores the subject of biocultural restoration and does so within the context of Hawaiʻi, the most remote archipelago on the planet. The Hawaiian Renaissance, which started in the 1970s, has led to a revival of Hawaiian language, practices, philosophy, spirituality, knowledge systems, and systems of resource management. Many of the leading Indigenous and local scholars of Hawaiʻi who were born into the time of the Hawaiian Renaissance contributed to this collection. More than a third of the authors are of Indigenous Hawaiian ancestry; each paper had at least one Indigenous Hawaiian author, and several papers had a Hawaiian lead author, making this the largest collection to date of scientific publications authored by Indigenous Hawaiians (Kānaka ʻŌiwi). In addition, the majority of authors are women, and two of the papers had 100 percent authorship by women. This collection represents a new emphasis in applied participatory research that involves academics, government agencies, communities and both private and non-profit sectors.
    Keywords: ridge-to-reef ; groundwater ; land-use ; nutrients ; bleaching ; scenario ; resilience ; collaboration ; scientific tools ; management ; alternative regime state ; portable biocultural toolkit ; social-ecological system theory ; Hawaii ; Colocasia esculenta ; biocultural monitoring ; community engagement ; community-based management ; indigenous knowledge ; indigenous science ; Hawaiʻi ; human land use footprint ; traditional ecological knowledge ; biocultural restoration ; social-ecological system ; Hawaiian Islands ; biocapacity ; sustainability ; sacred ecology ; biocultural conservation ; Hawai‘i ; biocultural resource management (BRM) ; ahupuaa ; social-ecological community ; social-ecological zone ; traditional resource management ; konohiki ; co-management ; institutional fit ; social-ecological systems ; fisheries ; breadfruit ; food systems ; Artocarpus altilis ; indigenous resource management ; traditional agriculture ; indigenous agriculture ; biocultural ; restoration ; food energy water ; ecosystem services ; cultural services ; sustainable agriculture ; taro ; wetland agriculture ; flooded field systems ; lo‘i kalo ; sediment ; cultural revitalization ; sweet potato ; kava ; sugarcane ; research ethics ; mariculture ; aquaculture ; community restoration ; conservation ecology ; Native Hawaiian fishpond ; microbes ; microbial source tracking ; Native Hawaiian ; agro-ecology ; ‘āina momona ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Working life is in a major transition and environmental, societal, and economic problems challenge human activities. The need to develop reliance and sustainability also through higher education is evident. It has been anticipated that emphasis on entrepreneurship competencies will be even stronger in the future. In this reprint, we provide insights on how to develop entrepreneurial competencies within higher education and its existing networks. It guides the reader to understand how political documents steer the implementation of global goals and what could be improved. Second, we present how pedagogical solutions and models can meaningfully support the development of entrepreneurial competencies in the field of higher education. We show the complexity of this phenomenon, thus developing a deeper understanding of this educational issue. Third, we highlight the essence of developing teacher education in this context. Fourth, we stress that entrepreneurial competencies are also needed in the working life. We present some interesting key points for developing entrepreneurial higher education from the entrepreneurial ecosystem point of view. It consists of 13 articles from international scientific experts in this field and provides new knowledge, ideas and opportunities for creating practices to enhance the development entrepreneurial, sustainable and resilient societies. It is targeted to researchers, policy-makers, higher education providers, stakeholders, educators and trainers.
    Keywords: universities’ partnerships ; entrepreneurial attitude ; perceived desirability ; perceived feasibility ; entrepreneurial passion ; sustainable entrepreneurship intentions ; human capital ; labor market ; training ; talent management ; corporate governance ; entrepreneurial mindset ; career adaptability ; intolerance of uncertainty ; prospective anxiety ; inhibitory anxiety ; college student ; team learning ; entrepreneurship ; entrepreneurship education ; entrepreneurial competencies ; innovation ; entrepreneurial competences ; learning community ; EntreComp ; EU policy ; entrepreneurial education ; sustainability education ; social change ; creativity ; action competence ; faculty community of practice ; resilience ; COVID-19 ; sustainability-oriented entrepreneurship education ; teaching cases ; university-based ecosystem ; key elements ; development process ; sustainable construction strategy ; entrepreneurial education model ; entrepreneurial university ; graduate entrepreneurship ; progression model ; sustainability in entrepreneurial education modeling ; education for sustainable development ; key sustainability competencies ; transformative learning ; sustainability ; sustainable education ; teacher education ; curriculum ; Nordic education ; entrepreneurial intention ; Theory of Planned Behavior ; multigroup analysis ; Sustainable Development Goals ; social impact ; empowerment ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Energy efficiency and low-carbon technologies are key contributors to curtailing the emission of greenhouse gases that continue to cause global warming. The efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions also strongly affect electrical power systems. Renewable sources, storage systems, and flexible loads provide new system controls, but power system operators and utilities have to deal with their fluctuating nature, limited storage capabilities, and typically higher infrastructure complexity with a growing number of heterogeneous components. In addition to the technological change of new components, the liberalization of energy markets and new regulatory rules bring contextual change that necessitates the restructuring of the design and operation of future energy systems. Sophisticated component design methods, intelligent information and communication architectures, automation and control concepts, new and advanced markets, as well as proper standards are necessary in order to manage the higher complexity of such intelligent power systems that form smart grids. Due to the considerably higher complexity of such cyber-physical energy systems, constituting the power system, automation, protection, information and communication technology (ICT), and system services, it is expected that the design and validation of smart-grid configurations will play a major role in future technology and system developments. However, an integrated approach for the design and evaluation of smart-grid configurations incorporating these diverse constituent parts remains evasive. The currently available validation approaches focus mainly on component-oriented methods. In order to guarantee a sustainable, affordable, and secure supply of electricity through the transition to a future smart grid with considerably higher complexity and innovation, new design, validation, and testing methods appropriate for cyber-physical systems are required. Therefore, this book summarizes recent research results and developments related to the design and validation of smart grid systems.
    Keywords: TA1-2040 ; T1-995 ; web of cells ; IHE ; distribution grid ; accuracy ; use cases ; Development ; synchrophasors ; underground cabling ; solar photovoltaics (PV) ; laboratory testbed ; conceptual structuration ; Quasi-Dynamic Power-Hardware-in-the-Loop ; coupling method ; time synchronization ; smart energy systems ; substation automation system (SAS) ; testing ; investment ; time delay ; interface algorithm (IA) ; PHIL (power hardware in the loop) ; network outage ; operational range of PHIL ; wind power ; elastic demand bids ; Model-Based Software Engineering ; Enterprise Architecture Management ; plug-in electric vehicle ; Smart Grid Architecture Model ; linear/switching amplifier ; pricing scheme ; average consensus ; traffic reduction technique ; cell ; gazelle ; smart grids control strategies ; real-time simulation and hardware-in-the-loop experiments ; 4G Long Term Evolution—LTE ; power loss allocation ; cyber-physical energy system ; experimentation ; microgrid ; resilience ; integration profiles ; remuneration scheme ; renewable energy sources ; shiftable loads ; droop control ; Power-Hardware-in-the-Loop ; peer-to-peer ; validation techniques for innovative smart grid solutions ; frequency containment control (FCC) ; synchronous power system ; power frequency characteristic ; development and implementation methods for smart grid technologies ; cascading procurement ; IEC 62559 ; device-to-device communication ; DC link ; validation and testing ; information and communication technology ; TOGAF ; battery energy storage system (BESS) ; active distribution network ; stability ; Validation ; synchronized measurements ; Architecture ; locational marginal prices ; SGAM ; network reconfiguration ; interoperability ; seamless communications ; fault management ; real-time simulation ; System-of-Systems ; market design elements ; micro combined heat and power (micro-CHP) ; co-simulation-based assessment methods ; islanded operation ; connectathon ; Software-in-the-Loop ; voltage control ; electricity distribution ; distribution phasor measurement units ; centralised control ; data mining ; robust optimization ; modelling and simulation of smart grid systems ; hardware-in-the-Loop ; smart grids ; cyber physical co-simulation ; design ; decentralised energy system ; procurement scheme ; Smart Grid ; smart grid ; distributed control ; fuzzy logic ; Power Hardware-in-the-Loop (PHIL) ; simulation initialization ; multi-agent system ; adaptive control ; real-time balancing market ; co-simulation ; optimal reserve allocation ; Web-of-Cells ; Hardware-in-the-Loop ; micro-synchrophasors ; linear decision rules ; synchronization ; hardware-in-the-loop ; PMU ; high-availability seamless redundancy (HSR) ; market design ; demand response ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Energy markets are already undergoing considerable transitions to accommodate new (renewable) energy forms, new (decentral) energy players, and new system requirements, e.g. flexibility and resilience. Traditional energy markets for fossil fuels are therefore under pressure, while not-yet-mature (renewable) energy markets are emerging. As a consequence, investments in large-scale and capital intensive (traditional) energy production projects are surrounded by high uncertainty, and are difficult to hedge by private entities. Traditional energy production companies are transforming into energy service suppliers and companies aggregating numerous potential market players are emerging, while regulation and system management are playing an increasing role. To address these increasing uncertainties and complexities, economic analysis, forecasting, modeling and investment assessment require fresh approaches and views. Novel research is thus required to simulate multiple actor interplays and idiosyncratic behavior. The required approaches cannot deal only with energy supply, but need to include active demand and cover systemic aspects. Energy market transitions challenge policy-making. Market coordination failure, the removal of barriers hindering restructuring and the combination of market signals with command-and-control policy measures are some of the new aims of policies.The aim of this Special Issue is to collect research papers that address the above issues using novel methods from any adequate perspective, including economic analysis, modeling of systems, behavioral forecasting, and policy assessment.The issue will include, but is not be limited to: Local control schemes and algorithms for distributed generation systems; Centralized and decentralized sustainable energy management strategies; Communication architectures, protocols and properties of practical applications; Topologies of distributed generation systems improving flexibility, efficiency and power quality; Practical issues in the control design and implementation of distributed generation systems; Energy transition studies for optimized pathway options aiming for high levels of sustainability
    Keywords: TA1-2040 ; T1-995 ; Demand Response ; Energiewende ; energy system modeling ; market value ; interconnector capacities ; energy sector integration ; sector-coupling ; aviation ; renewables ; net metering ; 100% RE pathways ; variable renewable energy sources ; energy transformation ; renewable energy ; blackout prevention ; vehicle-to-grid ; energy market ; energy storage ; road ; electric vehicle ; electrostatic-driven inertia ; RE integration ; carbon dioxide reduction ; Orkney ; energy system optimisation ; transport sector ; island energy system transition ; pumped hydro storage ; storage solutions ; climate policies ; rail ; power-to-gas ; electricity market modeling ; greenhouse gas emissions ; renewable transition ; community ; India ; delayed grid expansion ; wind power ; blockchain ; smart grid technologies ; Åland ; Germany ; solar energy ; renewable integration ; energy system modelling ; Solid State Transformer ; decarbonization ; immunity ; system-friendly renewables ; marine ; transportation demand ; numeric modelling ; microgeneration ; flexibility ; prosumer ; microgrid ; maritime transportation ; European electricity system ; Samsø ; resilience ; smart energy system ; microgrid by design ; global energy system model (GENeSYS-MOD) ; electricity markets ; energy community ; sector coupling ; final energy demand ; energy transition ; energy policy ; electrification ; agent-based modelling ; levelized cost of mobility ; dynamic positioning ; gamification ; ship’s electrical power system ; regulation ; Madeira ; GENeSYS-MOD ; open energy modelling ; Mexico ; 100% renewable energy ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-27
    Description: The present book discusses three significant challenges of the built environment, namely regional and global climate change, vulnerability, and survivability under the changing climate. Synergies between local climate change, energy consumption of buildings and energy poverty, and health risks highlight the necessity to develop mitigation strategies to counterbalance overheating impacts. The studies presented here assess the underlying issues related to urban overheating. Further, the impacts of temperature extremes on the low-income population and increased morbidity and mortality have been discussed. The increasing intensity, duration, and frequency of heatwaves due to human-caused climate change is shown to affect underserved populations. Thus, housing policies on resident exposure to intra-urban heat have been assessed. Finally, opportunities to mitigate urban overheating have been proposed and discussed.
    Keywords: Mediterranean ; semi-arid ; drought ; standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) ; climate warming ; soil moisture ; urban heat islands ; environmental justice ; climate change ; redlining ; heatwave ; diurnal temperature range ; time-series ; relative risk ; health ; transpiration cooling ; coastal cities ; sap flow ; subtropical desert climate ; urban overheating ; cluster analysis ; air temperature ; wind speed and wind directions ; synoptic conditions ; urban heat island ; mitigation ; resilience ; survivability ; low-income population ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Flooding is widely recognized as a global threat, due to the extent and magnitude of damage it causes around the world each year. Reducing flood risk and improving flood resilience are two closely related aspects of flood management. This book presents the latest advances in flood risk and resilience management on the following themes: hazard and risk analysis, flood behaviour analysis, assessment frameworks and metrics and intervention strategies. It can help the reader to understand the current challenges in flood management and the development of sustainable flood management interventions to reduce the social, economic and environmental consequences from flooding.
    Keywords: nonstationarity ; univariate model ; GAMLSS ; bivariate model ; copulas ; floodway ; optimization ; particle swarm optimization ; HEC-RAS ; flood mitigation ; hydraulic modeling ; flood risk perception ; natural flood management ; disaster mitigation ; flood-prone city ; questionnaire survey ; flood hazard ; land use ; urban growth ; Villahermosa ; architecture modelling flood resilience ; resilience engineering ; system-of-systems water systems ; multi-risk matrix ; resilience ; flood risk ; multi-hazard ; risk reduction ; flood resilience index ; flood resilience analysis ; urban floods ; flood risk assessment ; flood inundation modelling ; Artificial Intelligence ; machine learning ; flood ; preparedness ; flood resilience ; blue-green infrastructure ; flood risk management ; sustainable ; drainage systems ; systems ; flood control materials ; intelligent warehousing ; location allocation ; multi-objective optimization ; drone applications ; deployment time ; monitoring ; flood modelling ; evacuation ; rescue ; management strategy ; metrics ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: This resource provides six articles noting current directions in religious education research. The field of religious education can be very broad and is capable of addressing a wide range of issues. This resource looks at six specific cases. First, a new educational tool that allows students to self-reflect on their religious and worldview journey is presented. A second contribution looks at a quantitative study of how adolescents view religion in Spain, utilizing analytical, empirical and social research methods. A critical component that is studied in this context is gender. The third article presents a creative look at how the Tauhidic elements in Islamic religious education can contribute to understanding the environmental challenges we face, looking at how we can be encouraged to take appropriate action to resolve our ecological problems. The fourth article looks at the suitability of religious education in a post-pandemic world in developing discussions on values, and how students can make sense of which values are right for them within the range of competing values. The fifth article also looks at life in a post-pandemic world. As thousands of families and individuals have experienced first-hand the pain of long-term illness and loss, understanding trauma-informed pedagogies can be extremely valuable. The sixth and final contribution looks at the value of using digital stories to foster global interreligious understanding, as well as deeper theological and spiritual understanding, especially in a world that is saturated with media and devices. Overall, the articles reflect a range of perspectives and research interests in the field of religious education.
    Keywords: environmental education ; environmental values ; integration ; Islamic values ; tauhidic elements ; psychic trauma ; trauma-informed pedagogy ; trauma-sensitive pedagogy ; trauma-informed education ; embodiment ; secondary traumatization ; vicarious trauma ; higher education ; religious education ; theological education ; moral compass ; resilience ; values ; interreligious ; Christian education ; Islamic education ; Jewish education ; Hindu education ; faith development ; radicalization ; religious positioning ; international research ; self-analysis ; dialogical self theory (DST) ; self confrontation method (SCM) ; digital stories ; world religions ; Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy ; worldview education ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Landscape is central to tourism. It is key to the development, marketing/promotion, and consumption of tourism destinations, to triggering and sustaining tourism markets, and to enticing tourist dreams, fantasies, and behaviors. From ‘sight-seeing’ practices—at the basis of all tourism activities—landscape figures prominently all the way to the overall spatial planning and management of a destination for tourism development. The intertwined relationship between tourism and landscape comes with a series of costs and benefits, in the context of tourism landscapes. Landscapes of tourism reflect and stage recreational trends, multifunctional livelihood systems, conflicts and opportunities for employment and income generation, as well as human, cultural, and natural resource management and use. This Special Issue aims to enhance the interdisciplinary scientific dialogue on these issues and challenges, while highlighting their range and significance for tourism and the landscape, in terms of theory, empirical practice, approach, policy, ethics, and future prospects. Some of the questions posed for consideration here are: What are landscapes of tourism, for whom and how/why? What is the role of the landscape in tourism promotion, attraction, and experience? How does tourism affect the landscape? What lessons do the history and geography of tourism have to offer to tourism landscape stewardship? How may we best plan for and manage the landscape in the context of various forms of tourism growth and spread, at various scales? Scholarly advances in the past few decades have steadily built on a diverse—but spread-out and not adequately connected—bibliographical basis for future research. Much remains to be understood and exchanged as landscape and tourism—two highly complex and multifaceted scientific areas—come together in the scope of this Special Issue in a variety of ways across time, space, and culture.
    Keywords: resilience ; island tourism ; social-ecological systems ; protected area management ; landscapes ; deliberativeness ; social inclusion ; community engagement ; inclusiveness ; Baltic coast ; coastal resorts ; cultural landscape ; development of seaside resorts ; tourism architecture ; tourism development ; mountain destination ; dynamic landscape ; heterogeneity ; geological time ; anthropogenic modification ; North Japan Alps ; mining heritage ; landscape ; smart tourist promotion ; scenic values ; land consolidation association (LCA) ; tourism ; land fragmentation ; north-west of Italy ; bibliometric analysis ; Web of Science ; SciMAT ; VOSviewer ; sustainability ; campus tourism ; multi-scale perspectives ; color landscapes ; Wangjiang Campus ; thermal landscapes ; landscape services ; architecture-and-landscape integration ; seaside resorts ; cultural tourism attractiveness ; landscape conservation ; hierarchical framework ; Chinese historic districts ; multifunctionality ; rural tourism ; local development ; landscape design ; synergistic plans ; multiple functions ; peri-urban village ; landscapes of tourism ; conceptualization ; experts ; Europe ; tourist landscape ; bibliographic analyses ; content analysis ; imaginary ; cultural heritage site ; cultural conflict ; local communities ; assessment ; geo-interpretation ; geosite value ; geosite cluster ; geotourism ; landscape transformation ; impacts of tourism on the landscape ; sustainable tourism ; Slovakia ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues
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    Publication Date: 2022-12-06
    Description: Locusts are a threat to agriculture and livelihoods in many countries globally. The economic, social, and environmental consequences of these highly migratory pests are so substantial that they are treated as a national priority by many countries; several international commissions have been established to unite efforts. This Special Issue aims to shed light on some overarching questions: what have we learned from historical outbreaks; how serious is the threat; what research is ongoing and is needed to better manage these insects; how should the world respond to plagues today, especially in the context of climate change; are recommended preventive strategies really effective and what are the constraints to their application; and is there a possibility to make better use of biological alternatives to chemical pesticides?
    Keywords: locust swarm ; bio-pesticide ; gregarious locusts ; aggregation behaviour ; linseed oil ; necromones ; aggregation ; density-dependent phase polyphenism ; migration ; night-roosting site choice ; Schistocerca gregaria ; Desert Locust Schistocerca gregaria (Forskål 1775) ; Oriental Migratory Locust Locusta migratoria manilensis (Meyen 1835) ; spectral analysis ; Kalman filter ; spectral coherence ; convergence cross mapping ; sunspot groups ; ENSO ; SOI ; IOD ; NAO ; locust swarms ; Near East ; Mesopotamia ; swarming potential of resident species ; Schistocerca greraria ; Dociostaurus maroccanus ; control ; impediments ; insecurity ; plague ; surveillance ; war ; proaction ; threshold ; upsurge ; locust plagues ; preventative and reactive programs ; moral agents ; capacity-and-capability model ; social connections model ; responsibility ; global justice ; entomophagy ; malnutrition ; desert locust ; outbreak ; food ; insect ; locust ; grasshopper ; biological control ; Nosema locustae ; application ; epizootics ; West Siberian Plain ; distribution ; dynamics ; population ; population management ; plant protection ; environmental governance ; social variables ; locusts ; social sciences ; ecology ; field monitoring ; outbreaks management ; drone ; unmanned aerial vehicle ; early warning ; preventive control ; biopesticide ; Desert locust ; ecosystem processes ; nutrient cycling ; nutritional value ; brown locust ; Locustana pardalina ; Karoo ; outbreak patterns ; control strategy ; integrated pest management ; Tibet ; high altitude plateau ; invasion route ; survival ; natural barrier ; desert locusts ; crop loss ; pastureland ; land cover ; population dynamics ; management ; insecticide disturbance ; barrier treatment ; spray history ; non-target effects ; Coarctotermes clepsydra ; recovery ; resilience ; preventive strategy ; locust biology ; locust ecology ; Metarhizium acridum ; Metarhizium anisopliae ; Beauveria bassiana ; lethal effect ; sublethal effect ; greenhouse ; field efficacy ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact
    Keywords: self-organization ; cyber-physical system ; swarm robotics ; resilience ; scalability ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TN Civil engineering, surveying and building
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: This Special Issue contributes to the debate on land grabbing as commons grabbing with a special focus on how the development of state institutions (formal laws and regulations for agrarian development and compensations) and voluntary corporate social responsibility (CRS) initiatives have enabled the grabbing process. It also looks at how these institutions and CSR programs are used as development strategies of states and companies to legitimate their investments. This Special Issue includes case studies from Kenya, Morocco, Tanzania, Cambodia, Bolivia and Ecuador analysing how these strategies are embedded into neo-liberal ideologies of economic development. We propose looking at James Ferguson’s notion of the Anti-Politics Machine (1990) that served to uncover the hidden political basis of state-driven development strategies. We think it is of interest to test the approach for analysing development discourses and CSR-policies in agrarian investments. We argue based on a New Institutional Political Ecology (NIPE) approach that these legitimize the institutional change from common to state and private property of land and land related common pool resources which is the basis of commons grabbing that also grabbed the capacity for resilience of local people.
    Keywords: pastoral resilience ; co-management concept ; decentralization ; holistic management ; water-shed management plan ; commercialization of herding ; Common Pool Resources (CPRs) ; qualitative ; agro-industrial food system ; actors ; formal and informal rules and regulations ; export horticulture ; common pool resources ; land ; water ; Laikipia County ; land grabbing ; resilience ; commons ; land concessions ; communal land titling ; Southeast Asia ; forest land governance ; Mau Forest ; Ogiek ; institutions ; Community Land Act and customary law ; large-scale land acquisitions ; green energy ; corporate social responsibility ; food systems ; agroecosystems and agroecosystem service ; resilience and commons grabbing ; gender ; sustainable energy ; development policy ; common-pool resources ; common property ; land tenure transformations ; resilience, social anthropology ; conservationism ; identity ; commons grabbing ; protected areas ; institution shopping ; institutional change ; Ecuador ; large scale land acquisitions ; social anthropology ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
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    Publication Date: 2023-11-30
    Description: Nurses represent the highest number of healthcare workers globally and have played a critical role in the COVID-19 pandemic. This reprint highlights the issues and challenges faced by nurses practicing in hospital and community settings during the COVID-19 pandemic. The manuscripts herein focus on nurses in various areas of practice, including nurse managers, highlighting the impact, experience, and reality of providing care during the crisis. Interventions and strategies to support practice environments and the mental health and wellbeing of the nursing workforce were identified. Evidence from these manuscripts shed light on how nurse leaders can provide relevant, coordinated, and consistent organizational and leadership support to better establish a safe and healthy work environment that protects and fosters the mental health and wellbeing of all nursing personnel. The pandemic exacerbated the already demanding quality of work environments for nurses, as well as their mental health and wellbeing, thereby inducing a global nursing shortage; therefore, improving these factors, which ultimately influence nurse retention, is critical. We trust that sharing the lived experiences of nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic can enable us to leverage their expertise in meeting the complex care needs of patients, including COVID-19 patients, while improving the care needed by nurses in their working environments, alongside preparing for future pandemic waves.
    Keywords: SARS-CoV-2 ; pandemic ; confinement ; Spain ; depression ; anxiety ; COVID-19 ; health workforce ; nursing students ; professional identity ; qualitative study ; volunteers ; nurse ; willingness ; relational capital ; post-traumatic growth ; psychological security ; work meaning ; coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ; junior nurses ; transformational experience ; personal protection equipment (PPE) ; protective equipment ; emergency medical services ; post-traumatic stress disorder ; mental status ; sleep disorders ; COVID-19 pandemic ; sexism ; female nurses ; gender equity ; gender bias ; female stereotype ; nursing records ; patient isolation ; nursing care ; nurses ; long-term care ; community nursing ; coronavirus ; workforce ; spirituality ; palliative care ; nursing skills ; end-of-life ; symptoms ; depression symptoms ; frontlines ; meta-analysis ; systematic review ; public health ; insomnia ; nursing ; mitigation measures ; care homes ; wellbeing ; care ethics ; relational care ; narratives ; infectious diseases ; caregiving ; qualitative research ; psychosocial burden ; psychosocial risk scale ; nurse management ; crisis management ; primary healthcare ; COVID-19 ambulatory care ; in-action review ; novel infectious disease ; burnout ; job stress ; resilience ; changes in outlook ; influencing factors ; crisis response ; topic modeling ; ultra-Orthodox ; transcultural ; minority ; cultural competence ; mixed methods ; cross-cultural ; item response theory ; measurement invariance ; mental health ; nursing staff ; pandemics ; validation ; WHO-5 Well-Being Index ; correctional nurses ; occupational health ; work conditions ; prison ; management ; professional roles ; survey ; potentially morally injurious event (PMIE) ; turnover intentions ; basic psychological need satisfaction ; episodic memories ; self-determination theory ; self-disclosure ; perceived autonomy support ; coping strategies ; health ; students ; bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: In the competitive business environment or public domain, the sustainability assessment in supply chain and infrastructure management are important for any organization. Organizations are currently striving to improve their sustainable strategies through preparedness, response, and recovery because of increasing competitiveness, community, and regulatory pressure. Thus, it is necessary to develop a meaningful and more focused understanding of sustainability in supply chain management and infrastructure management practices. In the context of a supply chain, sustainability implies that companies identify, assess, and manage impacts and risks in all the echelons of the supply chain, considering downstream and upstream activities. Similarly, the sustainable infrastructure management indicates the ability of infrastructure to meet the requirements of the present without sacrificing the ability of future generations to address their needs. The complexities regarding sustainable supply chain and infrastructure management have driven managers and professionals to seek different solutions. This Special Issue aims to provide readers with the most recent research results on the aforementioned subjects. In addition, it offers some solutions and also raises some questions for further research and development toward sustainable supply chain and infrastructure management.
    Keywords: green supply chain ; performance measurement ; Bayesian belief network ; sustainability ; trenchless technologies ; pipelines ; construction ; social cost ; fuzzy QFD ; flexibility ; IT flexibility ; importance‒performance analysis ; partial least squared structured equation modelling ; performance gap ; sustainable growth ; higher educational institutions ; academic buildings ; environmental performance ; performance benchmarking ; fuzzy clustering analysis ; metabolic flows ; green supply chain management ; carbon tax and cap ; can-order policy ; mixed-integer programming ; fuzzy constraints ; social sustainability ; small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) ; stakeholder support ; social sustainability awareness ; transport networks ; logistics ; simulation games ; serious games ; innovation ecosystem ; Port of Rotterdam ; complex systems ; truck platooning ; barge transport ; multi-sided platforms ; Bayesian ; geoadditive ; quantile ; P-splines ; boosting optimization ; resilience ; housing infrastructure ; flood hazard and sensitivity analysis ; shipping cost ; risk assessment and management ; conditional value-at-risk ; investment projects ; financial analysis ; economic analysis ; energy efficiency ; public buildings ; literature review ; multi-criteria decision-making ; MCDM methods ; sustainable supply chain management ; SSCM ; efficiency assessment ; operations strategy matrix ; data envelopment analysis ; healthcare systems ; COVID-19 ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-30
    Description: The present reprint contains 11 articles accepted for publication and published in the Special Issue From COVID-19 to Resilience: Quantitative Methods in Economics and Business of the MDPI Mathematics journal. These articles cover a wide range of topics analyzing economics and business situations during and post the COVID-19 pandemic. It is hoped that these selected research papers will be found to be impactful by the international scientific community and that these papers will facilitate further research on quantitative techniques for solving complex problems in various disciplines and application fields.
    Keywords: COVID-19 ; tourism industry ; hospitality sector ; interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy set ; k-means clustering ; system structural harmonicity ; synergetics ; orderliness ; entropy ; generalized golden ratio (GGR) ; quantitative assessment ; road safety ; COVID-19 epidemic ; Russia ; Anscombe’s quartet ; Cook’s distance ; default rate ; expected credit loss ; gross domestic product ; commodities ; structure of copper futures prices ; cointegration ; contango ; backwardation ; extreme event contexts ; entrepreneurial resilience ; creative performance ; institutional orientation ; SEM ; telecommunications ; broadband ; digitization ; resilience ; pandemics ; business performance ; financial analysis ; COVID-19 pandemic ; construction sector ; Slovak enterprises ; rural hospitality and tourism ; agritourism ; micro-businesses ; agritourism performance ; support for agritourism development ; personal resident benefit ; resident–micro-business interaction ; COVID-19 news ; volatility ; granger causality ; time-varying ; time series ; financial markets ; MSGARCH ; symmetry ; regime changes ; safe haven ; hedge properties ; Bitcoin ; gold ; government bond price volatility ; government policy responses ; international financial markets ; containment and closure ; economic support ; panel quantile regression ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCM Development economics and emerging economies
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    Publication Date: 2022-02-01
    Description: Indigenous peoples, in Taiwan and worldwide, need to come up with various ways to cope with and adapt to rapid environmental change. This edited book, which is a follow-up to a conference entitled “Climate Change, Indigenous Resilience and Local Knowledge Systems: Cross-time and Cross-boundary Perspectives” organized by the Research Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, presents 16 papers which explore the various dimensions of Indigenous resilience to climate change and disasters in Taiwan and other regions in the world. This book explores the interrelated themes of climate change and Indigenous knowledge-based responses, and Indigenous (community) resilience with specific reference to Typhoon Morakot and beyond. The goals of this book are to discuss the international experience with Indigenous resilience; to review Indigenous knowledge for adaptation to climate change and disasters; and to generate a conversation among scholars, Indigenous peoples, and policy-makers to move the agenda forward. This book focusses on Indigenous resilience, the ways in which cultural factors such as knowledge and learning, along with the broader political ecology, determine how local and Indigenous people understand, deal with, and adapt to environmental change.
    Keywords: relocation ; post-disaster recovery ; cultural tourism ; build back better ; community-based tourism ; climate change ; country ; coupled human and natural systems ; Decoloniality ; geographical scale ; indigenous peoples ; ontological pluralism ; ontological and existential risk ; social and environmental justice ; policy narratives ; resilience ; climate finance ; rural development ; media ; participation ; development projects ; Pacific ; Malaita ; indigenous people ; social-ecological system ; Taiwan ; A’tolan ; Amis people ; freediving spearfishing ; CBNRM ; TEK ; Southeast Asia ; aggravation of climate change impact ; climatic change discourse ; local and indigenous knowledge systems ; adaptation ; barriers ; drought ; ecosystem products ; enablers ; indigenous and local knowledge systems ; semi-arid areas ; transformation ; Indigenous science ; Indigenous community ; self-determination ; sustainability ; Indigenous peoples ; traditional ecological knowledge ; decolonizing methodologies ; Acknowledgement of Country ; Indigenous geographies ; Tayal people ; situated resilience ; Pranata Mangsa ; local and scientific knowledge ; LINKS ; community resilience ; climate action ; bio-cultural diversity ; millet varieties ; indigenous and local knowledge ; indigenous food sovereignty ; climate change adaptation and mitigation ; local and Indigenous knowledge systems ; South Pacific Island States ; anthropology of climate change ; meta-ethnography ; global climate change ; bibliometric analysis ; Typhoon Morakot ; indigenous knowledge ; Tayal people in Taiwan ; Taiwanese indigenous studies ; cultural heritage ; heritagization ; ecotourism ; indigenous food culture ; weaving ; solidarity economy ; alternative development ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: The chapter ‘Water Engineering in Ancient Societies’ involves the use of modern hydraulic engineering principles to describe the design, construction and use of ancient World Heritage water-system structures in South America and the Middle East.
    Keywords: Petra ; Nabataean ; water systems ; hydraulic analysis ; CFD ; canals ; reservoirs ; pipelines ; flow stability ; pre-Columbian ; urban Tiwanaku ; Bolivia ; hydraulic/hydrological analysis ; surface canals ; perimeter drainage channel ; moat ; subterranean channels ; societal structure ; Roman ; Pont du Gard ; water engineering ; castellum ; aqueduct ; CFD analysis ; hydraulic design ; critical flow ; Machu Picchu ; Inca ; ancient water engineering ; hydraulics ; central-Andes ; engineered landscapes ; political ecology ; Prehispanic ; resilience ; water security ; wetland management ; Roman aqueducts ; inverted siphons ; static pressure ; pressure surges ; lead pipes ; stone conduits ; air entrapment ; Vitruvius ; Inka ; Tipon ; precolumbian ; flow rates ; fountain ; Peru ; Archaic period ; Caral ; CFD models ; beach ridges ; ENSO events ; landscape change ; site termination ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-05
    Description: Radiofrequency (RF) heating has been identified as one potential thermal treatment method with which to replace chemical fumigation and other conventional thermal methods because it is relatively easy to apply and leaves no chemical residues. RF equipment is commercially available today and is commonly used by the baking industry for the final drying of crackers, as well as by other industries. It involves the direct transfer of electromagnetic energy into bulk materials, providing fast and volumetric heating. This Special Issue aims to focus on recent developments in and applications of RF heating in food processing, such as disinfestation, drying, pasteurization, sterilization, temping, and thawing. This Special Issue will provide major methods, research strategies, and protocols used in the development of environmentally friendly food processes based on RF energy.
    Keywords: tempered fillets ; electrode gap ; springiness ; cohesiveness ; resilience ; hardness ; paddy ; rice ; hot air drying ; radio frequency heating ; milling quality ; cooking quality ; tempering ; radio frequency ; quality ; salmon (Salmo salar) ; fish ; dielectric properties ; thermal properties ; walnut components ; pasteurization ; microwave ; radiofrequency ; heating ; energy efficiency ; digital twin ; wild bitter gourd ; ultrasonic extraction ; radio frequency (RF) ; drying ; diabetic mice ; RF sterilization ; beef sausage ; heating uniformity ; almond kernels ; Aspergillus ; thermal inactivation kinetics ; verification ; microstructure ; physicochemical properties ; digestibility ; Wolfiporia cocos ; solid-state fermentation ; almonds ; roasting ; aroma ; RF heating ; superheated water ; poached spicy pork slices ; sterilization ; RTE food ; G. stearothermophilus spores ; radio frequency drying ; finite element method ; heat transfer ; mass transfer ; water vapor concentration ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-28
    Description: During the third decade of the 21st century, human societies across the world are facing significant water-related problems, such as ecosystem degradation, groundwater depletion, natural and anthropogenic droughts and floods, water-borne health issues, and deforestation. These problems are exacerbated by climate change, a phenomenon that has been accelerated due to human intervention in natural systems since the industrial revolution. There is an urgent need to better understand the interaction of hydrological systems in terms of climate variability and the anthropogenic factors that contribute to the dynamics and resilience of coupled human–water systems and effective risk management in the area of water resource management. Socio-hydrology is an interdisciplinary field that integrates natural and social sciences and aims to study the long-term dynamics of bidirectional feedback in coupled human–water systems. This book on socio-hydrology aims to compile cross-disciplinary scientific endeavors and innovations in research on the development, education, and application of coupled human–water systems. The articles published in this book represent diverse and broad aspects of water management in the context of socio-hydrology systems around the globe. The articles and ideas presented in this book represent a significant source of references for interdisciplinary water science programs and provide an excellent guide for experts involved in the future planning and management of water resources. This book is dedicated to friends of the Green Water-Infrastructure Academy and those who pursue cross-disciplinary water research, education, and management.
    Keywords: digital elevation model ; maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) classification ; runoff quality ; social, economic and environmental (SEE) factor ; Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN) ; urbanization ; vegetation density ; stormwater management ; social factors ; green stormwater infrastructure ; society ; risk analysis ; water-related crises ; resilience ; security ; floods ; drinking water ; crisis planning ; landslides ; logistic regression ; slope gradient ; land use ; soil ; Coonoor ; behavior ; trust ; risk ; tap water ; salience ; common pool resources ; integrated water management ; water governance ; water resilience ; socio-hydrology ; irrigation efficiency ; surface water-groundwater interactions ; sustainability ; knowledge coproduction ; integrated local environmental knowledge ; education and training ; community-based water development ; Black Sea ; coastal tourism ; regional climate change ; warming ; wind ; waves ; sea level rise ; upwelling ; heavy rain ; river plume ; algal bloom ; introduced species ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
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    Publication Date: 2022-02-01
    Description: The book collects seven original contributions in the field of climate and underlying human influences on renewable groundwater resources and/or stream–aquifer interactions. The first contribution introduces the following six ones into the overall framework of the topic. The second contribution assesses the impact of climate change scenarios on land subsidence related to groundwater level depletion in detrital aquifers. The third contribution studies the patterns of river infiltration and the associated controlling factors by using a combination of field investigations and modeling techniques. The fourth contribution introduces a method to improve the modeling of streamflow in high-permeability bedrock basins receiving interbasin groundwater flow. The fifth contribution discusses the role of resilience of hydrogeological systems affected by either climate and/or anthropic actions in order to understand how anticipating negative changes and preserving its services. The sixth contribution analyzes the water balance of wetlands, which are systems highly sensitive to climate change and human action. The seventh contribution identifies groundwater bodies with low vulnerability to pumping to be used as potential buffer values for sustainable conjunctive use management during droughts.
    Keywords: ground subsidence ; climate change ; Vega de Granada aquifer ; river-aquifer interaction ; numerical simulation ; sensitivity analysis ; MODFLOW ; Heihe River ; SWAT model ; CMB method ; interbasin groundwater flow ; Castril River ; baseflow filter ; ecosystems ; hydrogeological system ; sustainability ; significant damage ; resilience ; wetlands ; paleo-groundwater ; climate ; sedimentary facies ; geochemistry ; Holocene ; Spain ; drought ; vulnerability to pumping ; residence time ; conjunctive use ; sustainable management ; adaptation strategies ; Spanish GW bodies in quantitative risk ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Entropy theory has wide applications to a range of problems in the fields of environmental and water engineering, including river hydraulic geometry, fluvial hydraulics, water monitoring network design, river flow forecasting, floods and droughts, river network analysis, infiltration, soil moisture, sediment transport, surface water and groundwater quality modeling, ecosystems modeling, water distribution networks, environmental and water resources management, and parameter estimation. Such applications have used several different entropy formulations, such as Shannon, Tsallis, Reacutenyi Burg, Kolmogorov, Kapur, configurational, and relative entropies, which can be derived in time, space, or frequency domains. More recently, entropy-based concepts have been coupled with other theories, including copula and wavelets, to study various issues associated with environmental and water resources systems. Recent studies indicate the enormous scope and potential of entropy theory in advancing research in the fields of environmental and water engineering, including establishing and explaining physical connections between theory and reality. The objective of this Special Issue is to provide a platform for compiling important recent and current research on the applications of entropy theory in environmental and water engineering. The contributions to this Special Issue have addressed many aspects associated with entropy theory applications and have shown the enormous scope and potential of entropy theory in advancing research in the fields of environmental and water engineering.
    Keywords: TA1-2040 ; T1-995 ; TA170-171 ; hydrological risk analysis ; modeling ; water level ; Poyang Lake basin ; trend ; composite multiscale sample entropy ; flood frequency analysis ; canopy flow ; precipitation ; water resources ; complex systems ; frequency analysis ; optimization ; combined forecast ; neural network forecast ; entropy spectral analysis time series analysis ; environmental engineering ; hydrometric network ; sea surface temperature ; kernel density estimation ; robustness ; turbulent flow ; entropy production ; connection entropy ; flux concentration relation ; turbulence ; tropical rainfall ; generalized gamma (GG) distribution ; multi-events ; El Niño ; joint entropy ; entropy weighting method ; Anhui Province ; changing environment ; complexity ; multiplicative cascades ; Tsallis entropy ; Hexi corridor ; coherent structures ; water resources vulnerability ; uncertainty ; variability ; flow entropy ; Hei River basin ; fuzzy analytic hierarchy process ; substitute ; crop yield ; conditional entropy production ; entropy ; flow duration curve ; mean annual runoff ; temperature ; hydrometeorological extremes ; resilience ; Loess Plateau ; information entropy ; scaling ; water distribution networks ; cross entropy ; randomness ; forewarning model ; entropy applications ; quaternary catchment ; spatio-temporal variability ; probability distribution function ; ant colony fuzzy clustering ; radar ; continuous probability distribution functions ; Shannon entropy ; informational entropy ; information ; confidence intervals ; marginal entropy ; rainfall forecast ; entropy of information ; streamflow ; power laws ; bootstrap aggregating ; maximum entropy-copula method ; spatial and dynamics characteristic ; projection pursuit ; set pair analysis ; entropy theory ; water resource carrying capacity ; entropy parameter ; precipitation frequency analysis ; principle of maximum entropy ; information theory ; stochastic processes ; network design ; complement ; cross elasticity ; climacogram ; methods of moments ; hydrology ; bagging ; principle of maximum entropy (POME) ; rainfall network ; entropy ensemble filter ; ensemble model simulation criterion ; Lagrangian function ; Beta-Lognormal model ; cross-entropy minimization ; ANN ; configurational entropy ; variation of information ; statistical scaling ; EEF method ; water monitoring ; maximum likelihood estimation ; GB2 distribution ; NDVI ; four-parameter exponential gamma distribution ; hydraulics ; spatial optimization ; Kolmogorov complexity ; bootstrap neural networks ; mutual information ; accelerating genetic algorithm ; groundwater depth ; rainfall ; tropical Pacific ; water engineering ; monthly streamflow forecasting ; ENSO ; nonlinear relation ; Bayesian technique ; non-point source pollution ; Burg entropy ; data-scarce ; scaling laws ; soil water content ; arid region ; land suitability evaluation ; information transfer ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: Arts therapy is a form of psychotherapy that uses artistic media, the creative process, and artwork as its primary forms of communication. The arts therapies cover six areas of specialization: visual arts, music, dance and movement, drama, psychodrama, and bibliotherapy. Several studies and reviews have demonstrated its effectiveness for adult populations (e.g., Regev and Cohen-Yatziv, 2018), as well as for children and adolescents (e.g., Cohen-Yatziv and Regev, 2019). Academic writing and research, which have evolved extensively in recent decades, have underscored the considerable significance of arts therapies especially for children and adolescents.This Special Issue, “Arts Therapies with Children and Adolescents”, is dedicated to presenting research and clinical writing in the field of the Arts Therapies with Children and Adolescents in a variety of settings, including hospitals, the education system, mental health clinics, and others. I hope that this Special Issue will serve as a repository of knowledge for arts therapists and as a fertile terrain for further research in the field. It should also pave the way for more professionals working with children and adolescents to better understand the meaning and uniqueness of the therapeutic work in arts therapies and the dedicated ways in which arts therapists use assessment tools and arts-based interventions to better understand the world of children and adolescents.
    Keywords: creative arts therapy ; online psychotherapy ; COVID-19 ; education system ; remote therapeutic response ; child abuse ; sexual abuse ; physical abuse ; emotional abuse ; self-figure drawing ; dance movement therapy ; remote therapy ; art therapy ; music therapy ; dramatherapy ; children ; schools ; randomised controlled study (RCT) ; mental health ; well-being ; prevention ; intellectual disability ; adolescents ; mother–adolescent relationship ; joint painting procedure ; music ; PICU ; anxiety ; quality improvement ; questionnaires ; parent-child arts therapy ; Autism Spectrum Disorders ; the creative arts ; OS-ID ; open studio ; identity development ; supported autonomy ; social anxiety ; autism spectrum disorders ; change processes ; OAT ; EAT ; at-risk children ; art ; foster care ; school arts therapies ; behavioral problems ; experience of art making ; art materials ; art process ; art products ; drama therapy ; youth ; review ; psychosocial problems ; mechanisms of change ; psychodrama ; PPAT ; self-potency ; EF ; maternal distress ; political violence ; refugee children/adolescents ; process evaluation ; sense of belonging ; affect ; resilience ; arts therapies ; ultra-Orthodox Jews ; intercultural therapy ; parents’ perceptions ; rehabilitation ; medical clowning ; physiotherapy ; role theory ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFC Paintings and painting
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: In recent times, particularly during the 21st century, there have been significant increases and changes in international migration and resettlement patterns due to factors such as people’s ability to travel, ease of communication and technology, and civil unrest and conflicts. Global populations have increased and integrated across settings, challenging the differentiation between types of migrants, such as refugees (those migrating because of factors such as civil unrest, wars, persecution, or other vulnerability) and economic migrants. This mixture of migration and resettlement patterns will continue for generations due to these diverse, multicultural, and complex communities and we will need more research to provide evidence to inform nations and global responses to any emergences. This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health focused on the migration, resilience, and vulnerability and general migrants’ health accepted original research papers, case reports, reviews, and conference papers. Articles dealing with new approaches to address issues, including migration (opportunities, challenges, and vulnerability), migrants’ health, settlement, and migrant health-care service access and specific migrants’ subgroups were also accepted. Other manuscript types including methodological papers, position papers, policy briefs and reports, and commentaries were sought. We accepted manuscripts from different disciplines, including public health, social and behavioural sciences, anthropology, epidemiology, psychology, and demography. This reprint compiles 30 publications.
    Keywords: population migration ; search query ; Baidu Index ; urban agglomeration ; health-seeking behavior ; access to health care ; emergency department ; refugee ; asylum seeker ; non-urgent complaints ; migrants ; system models ; expert knowledge ; fuzzy-logic cognitive mapping ; unaccompanied minor refugees ; mental health ; post-migration risk factors ; migrant health ; access to health ; sexual and reproductive health ; contraception ; identity discourse ; integration process ; resilience ; resettlement challenges ; CALD ; African youths ; Australia ; migrations ; disability ; superdiversity ; social changes ; social work ; air quality ; income ; settlement intention ; African diaspora ; migration ; belonging ; politics of belonging ; bordering ; racism ; 1.5 generation migrants ; cross-cultural ; religiosity ; humanitarian emergencies ; needs assessment ; refugee health ; disaster health ; refugees ; self-efficacy ; post-migratory stressors ; mental health problems ; non-clinical population ; asylum seekers ; primary healthcare ; general practice ; communication ; patient-centered care ; patient engagement ; African migrant and refugee youths ; alcohol and other drugs ; integration ; South Australia ; North Korean refugee youths (NKRYs) ; depression ; emotional regulation strategy ; expressive suppression ; life satisfaction ; youth ; qualitative research ; adaptation ; mental burden ; psychosocial support ; mental health service ; qualitative analyses ; African migrants ; race ; psychosocial health care ; female ; protective shelter ; unaccompanied ; migrant youth ; mentoring ; mixed methods ; unaccompanied migrant young people ; transition to adulthood ; leaving care ; child welfare ; aftercare support ; special migrants’ populations ; acculturation ; emigration and immigration ; health behaviors ; qualitative method ; Spain ; young women ; vulnerability ; public health ; urban setting ; forced migration ; Lebanon ; Syria ; cross-sectional survey ; urban refugees ; health protection ; health promotion ; well-being ; expatriates ; Westerners ; northeast ; Thailand ; health ; healthcare services ; healthcare access ; barriers ; ethnicity ; immigration ; health risk ; COVID-19 ; survey research ; south-south migration ; women ; work ; discrimination ; Chile ; family separation ; time pressure ; health disparities ; depressive symptoms ; internal migration experience ; middle-aged ; elderly ; China ; body mass index ; hypertension ; migrant workers ; non-communicable diseases ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTP Development studies
    Language: English
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    Publication Date: 2021-06-27
    Description: Social inequalities lead to flood resilience inequalities across social groups, a topic that requires improved documentation and understanding. The objective of this paper is to attend to these differences by investigating self‐stated flood recovery across genders in Vietnam as a conceptual replication of earlier results from Germany. This study employs a regression‐based analysis of 1,010 respondents divided between a rural coastal and an urban community in Thua Thien‐Hue province. The results highlight an important set of recovery process‐related variables. The set of relevant variables is similar across genders in terms of inclusion and influence, and includes age, social capital, internal and external support after a flood, perceived severity of previous flood impacts, and the perception of stress‐resilience. However, women were affected more heavily by flooding in terms of longer recovery times, which should be accounted for in risk management. Overall, the studied variables perform similarly in Vietnam and Germany. This study, therefore, conceptually replicates previous results suggesting that women display slightly slower recovery levels as well as that psychological variables influence recovery rates more than adverse flood impacts. This provides an indication of the results' potentially robust nature due to the different socio‐environmental contexts in Germany and Vietnam.
    Keywords: 333.7 ; flood recovery ; resilience ; societal equity ; vulnerability
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    Publication Date: 2021-09-29
    Description: Coping with the growing impacts of flooding in EU countries, a paradigm shift in flood management can be observed, moving from safety‐based towards risk‐based approaches and holistic perspectives. Flood resilience is a common denominator of most of the approaches. In this article, we present the ‘Flood Resilience Rose’ (FRR), a management tool to promote harmonised action towards flood resilience in European regions and beyond. The FRR is a result of a two‐step process. First, based on scientific concepts as well as analysis of relevant policy documents, we identified three ‘levels of operation’. The first level refers to the EU Floods Directive and an extended multi‐layer safety approach, comprising the four different layers of protection, prevention, preparedness and recovery, and related measures to be taken. This level is not independent but depends both on the institutional (second level) and the wider (third level) context. Second, we used surveys, semi‐structured interviews and group discussions during workshops with experts from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom to validate the definitions and the FRR's practical relevance. The presented FRR is thus the result of rigorous theoretical and practical consideration and provides a tool capable to strengthen flood risk management practice.
    Description: European Regional Development Fund http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100008530
    Keywords: 551.48 ; flood defence measures ; governance and institutions ; integrated flood risk management ; resilience
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