Publications
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Chapter 4 Godofredo and Françoise Travel Around the World
(2024)
This chapter focuses on Françoise, a dummy figure of the upper part of the female human body used for calibrating radiation detectors in laboratories around the world. From spring 1962 to the end of 1965, Godofredo Gómez ...
Chapter 8 Research Strategies for Investigating Protein Ubiquitination in Lung Diseases
(2024)
ch. 8 Post-translational modification (PTMs) determines protein’s cellular functions including enzyme activity, localization, protein-protein interaction, and protein stability. Ubiquitin is a 7-kDa protein. Ubiquitination ...
Healthy Ageing
(2019)
What does it mean to age well? This important new book redefines what ‘successful’ ageing means, challenging the idea that physical health is the only criteria to gauge the ageing process and that an ageing population is ...
Chapter 1 Introduction
(2017)
Despite decades of effort and billions of dollars spent, two thirds of people in sub-Saharan Africa still lack access to electricity, a vital pre-cursor to economic development and poverty reduction. Ambitious international ...
Constructing Suburbs
(1999)
Examining the debate between activists and professional planners over the vision of the future of a large growth corridor in Sydney, Australia, this case study maps the history of development from the late sixties to the ...
Embracing the Future: Creative Industries for Environment and Advanced Society 5.0 in a Post-Pandemic Era
(2022)
By delivering the mindful writings from our selected authors, this book portrays one big idea: a new Human-Centered society that balances economics to resolve problems, especially in the use of an integrated area in ...
The Return of the Buddha
(2014)
The Return of the Buddha traces the development of Buddhist archaeology in colonial India, examines its impact on the reconstruction of India’s Buddhist past, and the making of a public and academic discourse around these ...
The Self, Civic Virtue, and Public Life
(2024)
This volume showcases new and interesting ways in which the possession of civic virtues can contribute to people’s abilities to engage in public life in meaningful ways. What is the role of civic virtues in public life? ...
Chapter 2 WeChat as migration infrastructure
(2022)
This chapter focuses on one Russian province, the Irkutsk Oblast, which due to its location has become a trans-shipment point for legal and illegal migration of the Chinese, as well as a place of their settling, permanent ...
Linkage Power Europe
(2023)
This book looks at the history of the EU’s trade negotiations with China from 1975 to 2019 from a distinctive perspective – the EU as a linkage power. The author explains how the EU through linkage strategies speaks with ...
Reading the Qur'an in the Twenty-First Century
(2014)
Reading the Qur’an in the Twenty-First Century considers the development of Qur’anic interpretation and highlights modern debates around new approaches to interpretation. It explores how Muslims from various theological, ...
Drylands Facing Change
(2023)
This edited volume examines the changes that arise from the entanglement of global interests and narratives with the local struggles that have always existed in the drylands of Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia/Inner ...
Freedom and Adaptive Preferences OPEN ACCESS Creative Commons, CC BY-NC-ND Book Freedom and Adaptive Preferences
(2024)
Traditional welfare economics works with the assumption of the fully rational economic agent (homo economicus) whose preferences are fixed: that is, they are not influenced by their economic environment. To the contrary, ...
The Biopolitics of Dementia
(2024)
This book explores how dementia studies relates to dementia’s growing public profile and corresponding research economy.
The book argues that a neuropsychiatric biopolitics of dementia positions dementia as a syndrome ...
Children’s English in Singapore
(2020)
Combining the World Englishes framework with First Language Acquisition methodology, this book investigates children’s acquisition of L1 English in the context of multilingual Singapore, one of the traditional Kachruvian ...
Order and Security in Southeast Asia
(2006)
Michael Leifer, who died in 2001, was one of the leading scholars of Southeast Asian international relations. He was hugely influential through his extensive writings and his contacts with people in government and business ...
Reconfiguration of Business Models and Ecosystems
(2023)
Decoupling of business models and ecosystems is the disconnection of certain characteristic activities originally planned and completed in coincidence. It could bring in an immense adverse shock in the functioning of ...
Chapter 13 One Health Education, Training, and Capacity Building
(2025)
While many terms relate to One Health, the idea remains the same: to think outside a chosen area of specialty and work collaboratively as part of a team to improve health status around the world. This involves the collective ...
Chapter 17 Greek inscriptions and documentary texts and the Graeco-Roman historical tradition
(2021)
This chapters explores how three philological traditions Graeco-Roman, South Asian and Chinese have been and can be used to contribute to our understanding of Central Asia in the Hellenistic period. It outlines the current ...
The Seven Virtues of Highly Compassionate People
(2024)
What are the practical implications of truly caring about yourself and others, of approaching each day with an open mind, an open heart, and a desire to reduce the suffering of all living beings? Can we learn compassion ...