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This book consists of chapters dedicated to the questions of cyber-physical system design and its usage for the chemical industry and new material design.

The range of nanomaterial applications has expanded recently from catalysis, electronics, and filtration to therapeutics, diagnostics, agriculture, and food because of unique properties and potentials of different nanoparticles and nanomaterials.

This open access book examines the political structures and processes that frame and produce understandings of diversity in and through music education.

This book combines multidisciplinary studies on the environmental consequences of intensified use of land and water, and the fusion of land to provide food for a growing population.

This book offers a comprehensive treatise on the recent pursuits of Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) by casting the crucial features of interpretability and explainability in the original framework of Granular Computing.

A timely work that reviews the phenomenon of gender and its many manifestations of equality. Aiming to span a broad scope in time, backgrounds and implementation, this book presents a wide variety of topics, including a historical overview, contemporary gender-based Issues, gender approaches across the disciplines, and cultural influences.

1.Introduction: The Intermittency of Youth Migration Part I 2.Introducing Youth Mobility and Migration 3.Mobility Becoming Migration: Understanding Youth Spatiality in the Twenty-First Century 4.Migration Decision-Making, Mobility Capital and Reflexive Learning 5.Inherited Dreams of ''the West'': Eastern European Students'' Paths to Denmark 6.Unpacking the Mobility Capacities and Imperatives of the ''Global Generation'' 7.Why Student Mobility Does Not Automatically Lead to Better Understanding: Reflections on the Concept of Intercultural Learning Part II 8.Free Movement in Education 9.Youth Educational Mobility: The Start of Intellectual Migration 10.Understanding Educational Migration from Greece to the UK in Times of Crisis 11.Transnational Mobility, Education and Social Positioning between Brazil and Germany 12.Refugees'' Access to Higher Education in Italy: An Opportunity Lost for the ''Lost Generation 13.After Mobility: The Long-Term Impact of Study Abroad on Professional Teacher Behaviour 14.Dispositives of Internationalization in Brazilian Science: The Unified Postgraduate Examination in Physics Part III 15.Institutionalized Mobility Inside and Outside Erasmus 16.Erasmus at 30: Institutional Mobility at Higher Education in Perspective 17.Learning in Transition: Erasmus+ as an Opportunity for Internationalization 18.Mobility and Participation: The Intertwined Movement of Youth and Ideas 19.The Super-Mobile Student: Global Educational Trajectories in Erasmus Mundus 20.Educational Mobility of South African Youth: Insights from Erasmus Mundus Action 2 21.Intra-regional Academic Mobility in Central Asia: The OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 22.South-South Student Mobility: International Students from Portuguese-Speaking Africa in Brazil 23.Mobile and Immobile Students'' Characteristics and Programme Choices 24.Identity Challenges and Pedagogical Consequences: International Students in Higher Education Pathway Programmes in Australia Part IV 25.Working towards Mobility 26.Beyond Skills: Facets of Mobility in Romania''s Vocational Education and Training 27.Using Cross-border Mobility in Vocational Education and Training in the Greater Region SaarLorLux 28.Vocational Learning Abroad: The Case of German VET Mobility 29.Youth as Temporary Workers Abroad: The Experiences of Australia, Canada and New Zealand 30.International Work Placements: Developing Intercultural Skills? 31.Abroad Forever? Embedding Spatial Mobility in Academic Work Trajectories in Italy 32.Italian Youth and the Experience of Highly Qualified Migration to the United Kingdom Part V 33.Mobility at the Margins 34.Mobility Choices in Post-Soviet States: How the EU Attracts Youth in Its Shared Neighbourhood with Russia 35.From Forced Migration to Mobility: Dreaming of Home Within ''Rooted Mobilities'' 36.''I was not prepared to go to Spain'': Work Mobility of Young People at the Margins in Portugal 37.Crossing the Line: Current and Future Challenges in Youth Mobility 38.Youth Mobility, Mental Health and Risky Behaviours 39.Rethinking the Value(s) of Short-Term Youth Mobility: Neoliberal Ideals and Counterhegemonic Possibilities 40.A Wonderful But Uncertain Time: Youth Transitions of Erasmus Students and Lisbon''s Housing Crisis 41.Conclusion: Youth Migration in the Age of Pandemic Immobility

This book provides insights and a capacity to understand the climate change phenomenon, its impact on water resources, and possible remedial measures.

This book presents the latest knowledge of the newly discovered Earth-like exoplanets and reviews improvements in both radio and optical SETI. Exoplanets resembling Earth could well be able to sustain life and support the evolution of technological civilizations, but to date, all searches for such life forms have proved fruitless.

This book covers theoretical work, applications, approaches, and techniques for computational models of information and its presentation by language (artificial, human, or natural in other ways).

This book devises an alternative conceptual framework to understand digital transformation in the cultural heritage sector. This book fills that gap and provides a perspective on the cultural heritage sector, which uses the new social and technology landscape to describe the digital transformation in cultural heritage sectors.

The book addresses the characteristic properties of various symmetry breaking processes by studying field-matter interaction with use of conventional electromagnetic waves and novel types of engineered fields: twisted-photon fields, toroidal fields, and magnetoelectric fields.

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Extensive research conducted by the Hasso Plattner Design Thinking Research Program at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, USA, and the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany, has yielded valuable insights on why and how design thinking works.

This was accompanied by an explosion of new international or national associations of mathematicians with for instance the founding, in 1918, of the International Mathematical Union and the controversial creation of the International Research Council.

Managing Collaborative R&D Projects.- Part I: Literature Reviews.- A Systematic Literature Review of Open Innovation and R&D Managers.- Review of Collaborative Project Management Approaches in R&D Projects.- Part II: Industry Collaborations.- Co-creation of Innovation by Corporates and Start-Ups.- Open Innovation Strategy of an Early-Stage SME.- Overcoming Barriers of Systemic Innovations in a Business Network.- Framework Linking Open Innovation Strategic Goals with Practices.- The Collaboration Paradox: Why Small Firms Fail to Collaboratefor Innovation.- Part III: University-Industry Collaborations.- Managing a Major University-Industry Collaboration R&D Program.- Balancing Industry Value Proposition and Researcher Academic Interests.- Emergence of Governance Structure in Collaborative University-Industry R&D Programs.- Open Innovation Alliances in Technology Colonies.- Part IV: Collaborative Project Management.- Challenges in Managing Large-Scale Collaborative R&D Projects.- Critical Success Factors in Collaborative R&D Projects.- Developing Trust Between Partners in Collaborative R&D Projects.- Part V: Collaboration Impact and Value.- Do Perceptions of Academic Scientists Influence Non-Academic Collaboration?.- Demystifying Value Co-destruction in Collaborative R&D Projects.- Challenges in Measuring Performance of Collaborative R&D Projects.

Chapter 1. Spiritual Life and the Rationalization of Violence: The State Within the State and Evangelical Order in a Venezuelan Prison; Luis Duno-Gottberg (Rice University, United States).Chapter 2. Criminalizing Youth in Latin America: Looking at the Politics of Punishment and Incarceration in Honduras; Lirio Guti├⌐rrez Rivera (National University of Colombia-Bogota).Chapter 3. The ''Cemetery of the Living'': An Exploration of Disposal, (In)visibility, and Change-of-Attitude in Nicaraguan Prison; Julienne Weegels (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands).Chapter 4. Facing the First Command of Capital (PCC): Regarding Ethnography of Brazil''s ''Biggest Prison Gang''; Karina Biondi (State University of Campinas, Brazil).Chapter 5. Carceral Coloniality in Venezuela: Theorizing Beyond the Latin American Penal State; Cory Fischer-Hoffman (State University of New York-Albany, United States).Chapter 6. The Bullet in the Glass. War, Death and the Meanings of Penitentiary Experience in Colombia; Libardo Jos├⌐ Ariza and Manuel Iturralde  (University of the Andes, Colombia).Section One: The Prison Underworld.Chapter 7. When Punishment is not Discipline. The Self-rule of Carceral Order in Venezuela; Andr├⌐s Antillano (Central University of Venezuela-Caracas).Chapter 8. The Mata Escura Penal Compound: An analysis of the prison-neighborhood nexus in Northeast Brazil; Hollis Moore (University of Toronto, Canada).Chapter 9. Fire Next Time: Gangs, State, and the Apocalyptic Image in Honduras; Jon Horne Carter (Appalachian State University, United States).Chapter 10. ''My prisoners or yours?'' Conflicts of authority and legitimacy among criminal justice, civil society, and criminal actors in in Brazil; Fiona MaCauley (Bradford University, United Kingdom).Chapter 11. Prison Order, Violence, and Representation in Venezuela; Chelina Sep├║lveda and Iv├ín Pojomovsky (Central University of Venezuela-Caracas).Section Two: The Informal Prison.Chapter 12. Everyday Survival and Construction of Brazilian Carcerality; Sacha Darke (University of Westminster, United Kingdom) and Oriana Hadler (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil).Chapter 13. Love Triages the State: Female Visitors and Survival in Guatemala''s Prisons; Anthony W Fontes (University of Madison-Wisconsin, United States).Chapter 14. ''He Beat Me'': How Intimate Partner Violence Contributes to the Incarceration of Women in Peru; Stephanie Campos (National Research and Development Institute-New York, United States).Chapter 15. ''Eat To Forget''. The Dangers of Food in San Pedro Prison (La Paz, Bolivia); Francesca Cerbini (State University of Cear├í-Fortaleza, Brazil).Chapter 16. Prison Authority as the Exposure, or the Concealment, of Sexual Violence; Kristen Drybread (University of Colorado-Boulder, United States).Chapter 17. Ecuador''s Prisons of Addiction: Treatment Centers amid Repressive Legal Frames; Ana J├ícome (Latin American Faculty of the Social Sciences, FLACSO-Ecuador).Conclusion

This is a volume in memory of Vladas Sidoravicius who passed away in 2019. Vladas has edited two volumes appeared in this series ("In and Out of Equilibrium") and is now honored by friends and colleagues with research papers reflecting Vladas' interests and contributions to probability theory.

Before the concept of history began, humans undoubtedly acquired life benefits by discovering medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) that were food and medicine.

This book provides an accessible and comprehensive tutorial on the key enabling technologies for 5G and beyond, covering both the fundamentals and the state-of-the-art 5G standards. The book begins with a historical overview of the evolution of cellular technologies and addresses the questions on why 5G and what is 5G.

1. Fundamentals of Relational Mindfulness.- 2. The Skillful Art of "Heartfulness" and "Kindfulness" in Relational Buddhism.- 3. Radical Presence: A Relational Alternative to Mindfulness.- 4. Recovering the Phenomenological and Intersubjective Nature of Mindfulness through the Enactive Approach.- 5. Relationship Enactive Perspective as a Principle of Relational Mindfulness.- 6. The Contribution of Francisco Varela to the Emergency of a New Paradigm in Social Sciences and the Practice of Relational Mindfulness.- 7. Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living: Cultivating Relationality with "Heartful Mind" and "Mindful Heart".- 8. Mindfulness, Compassion, and Embodiment Practices in Contemplative Psychotherapy: Shifting Self-Enclosed Processing to Relational Processing at All Levels of the Human Mind-Brain.- 9. Mindfulness as Relational Ethics.- 10. Mindfulness for the Development of Relational Therapeutic Skills for Health Professionals.- 11. Mindfulness as an Embodied Relational Resource in Psychotherapy.- 12. Relational Mindfulness, Attachment and Deconstruction of the Self.- 13. Relational Awareness: A Stepping-Stone towards Flourishing Organizations.- 14. Mindfulness  and the Generative Perspective: A Dialogue/Virtuous Circle.

This volume of the CRM Conference Series is based on a carefully refereed selection of contributions presented at the "11th International Symposium on Quantum Theory and Symmetries", held in Montreal, Canada from July 1-5, 2019.

however, there is not one inclusive document on the ethnobotany of mountains in Asia.This book provides a comprehensive overview on ethno-ecological knowledge and cross cultural variation in the application of plant species among various communities residing in the mountains of Asia;

Part I: Enabling Environment for an Effective Implementation of Soil Governance in Africa: Challenges to Soil Protection and Sustainable Management in Africa by Francis Marthy Tetteh.- Local Agricultural Intensification Practices and Soil Degradation in Momo Division, North West Cameroon by Tassah Ivo Tawe.- Persistent Organic Pollutants and Soil Protection: National and Global Imperatives by Patricia Kameri-Mbote.- Prospects and Challenges for Soil Protection Law in Zambia by Pamela Towela Sambo.- Combatting Desertification through Soil and Water Conservation and Environmental Rehabilitation Measures: Experiences from the Tigray Region, Ethiopia by Kelemework Tafere Reda and Desta Gebremichael Gidey.- Indigenous Knowledge and Soil Protection: Anthropological Remarks on Experience in Namibia by Manfred O. Hinz.- Land Rights, Land Use Patterns and Soil Fertility Significantly Contribute to the Two-decade Long Regional Conflagration in Eastern Congo by Bila-Isia Inogwabini.- Workshop "Implementing Land Degradation Neutrality in Africa: Means, Legal Instruments and Institutional Challenges?" - Outcome Document by Harald Ginzky, Oliver Ruppel, Robert Kibugi and Walter Engelberg.- Part II: Recent International Developments: The Future of International Soil Governance by Ralph Bodle, Heidi Stockhaus, Franziska Wolff and Sebastian Oberth├╝r.- Critique of the Report "Improving International Soil Governance: Analysis and Recommendations" by Robert Fowler and Ian Hannam.- The Global Soil Partnership: Tackling Global Soil Threats Through Collective Action by Natalia Rodriguez Eugenio.- Part III: Regional/National Reports: Soil Law in Mexico by Jos├⌐ Juan Gonz├ílez M├írquez and Ana Maria Pacheco Ruiz.- Brumadinho''s Disaster, Mine Tailing Dams and the Environmental Licencing in Brazil: Preventing Risks to Human Wellbeing, Soils, and the Environment by Paula Galbiatti Silveira, Marina Demaria Ven├ócio and Jos├⌐ Rubens Morato Leite.- The Healthy Soil Program by Danika Desai.- Soil Protection Governance in Germany by Harald Ginzky.- The EU Common Agricultural Policy and its Contribution to the Protection and Sustainable Use of Soils: New Approaches for the Period 2021-2027 by Markus Raffelsiefen.- Part IV: Cross-cutting Issues: Perceptions of Soil in Catholic Theology by Markus Vogt.- The UN-Habitat Urban-Rural Linkages Guiding Principles - Assessment of the Adoptability to Topical Land Management Challenges in Germany, Kenya and Tanzania by Stephan Bartke et al.- Aspects of a Legislative and Policy Framework to Manage Soil Carbon Sequestration by Ian Hannam.