Publications
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Transitioning to Responsible Consumption and Production
(2020)
Responsible Consumption and Production, the twelfth UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 12), calls for significant change in how we view both production and consumption norms. It is predicted that, at the current rate of ...
Transitioning to Good Health and Well-Being
(2022)
Transitioning to Good Health and Well-Being addresses critical issues of health in the context of sustainability, which need to be tackled in order to achieve Agenda 2030. Acknowledging the dramatic improvements that have ...
Principles of Neurosurgery: A Concise Text
(2024)
Neurosurgery is a vast subspecialty in medical sciences. A brief textbook covering all aspects of neurosurgery is probably rare, especially for postgraduate students, undergraduate students as well as general physicians. ...
Transitioning to Zero Hunger
(2023)
In 2015, the United Nations decided to establish the goal of achieving “zero hunger” in the world by 2030 through “outcome targets” such as eliminating hunger and improving access to food, ending all forms of malnutrition, ...
Transitioning to Sustainable Life on Land
(2021)
Sustainable Life on Land, the fifteenth UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 15), calls for the protection, restoration and promotion of the sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems. Among others, it requires societies ...
Self-Representation in an Expanded Field
(2021)
Defined as a self-image made with a hand-held mobile device and shared via social media platforms, the selfie has facilitated self-imaging becoming a ubiquitous part of globally networked contemporary life. Beyond this ...
Smart Textiles Production
(2019)
The research field of smart textiles is currently witnessing a rapidly growing number of applications integrating intelligent functions in textile substrates. With an increasing amount of new developed product prototypes, ...
Transitioning to Decent Work and Economic Growth
(2021)
According to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the private sector plays a key role in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). ...
Transitioning to Gender Equality
(2021)
Gender Equality, the fifth UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 5), aims for the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women and girls. It thereby addresses all forms of violence, unpaid and unacknowledged ...
Applied Mathematics in Ferroelectricity and Piezoelectricity
(2023)
This textbook, Applied Mathematics in Ferroelectricity and Piezoelectricity, was authored to provide the reader with a solid mathematical background for studying “ferroelectricity and piezoelectricity” as a supplemental ...
Under Construction
(2021)
While currently identitarian ideologies and essentialist notions of identity that tend to simplify and reduce life experience to simple factors are globally regaining massive attention, it becomes inevitable to recollect ...
Electrochemical and Corrosion Behavior of Metallic Glasses
(2021)
Metallic glasses are multi-component metallic alloys with disordered atomic distribution
unlike their crystalline counterparts with long range periodicity in arrangement of atoms.
Metallic glasses of different compositions ...
Bionanotechnology to Save the Environment
(2019)
Nanotechnology is the science of manipulating atoms and molecules in the nanoscale thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair. The world market for products that contain nanomaterials is expected to increase ...
Transitioning to Affordable and Clean Energy
(2022)
Transitioning to Affordable and Clean Energy is a collective volume which combines original contributions and review papers that address the question how the transition to clean and affordable energy can be governed. It ...