Publications
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Lives in Peace Research
(2022)
This open access book explains how PRIO, the world’s oldest peace research institute, was founded and how it survived through crises. In this book, twenty-four of its researchers and associates, including Johan Galtung, ...
Modern Cryptography Volume 1
(2022)
This open access book systematically explores the statistical characteristics of cryptographic systems, the computational complexity theory of cryptographic algorithms and the mathematical principles behind various encryption ...
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
(2020)
This open access two-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2020, which took place in Dublin, Ireland, in ...
Rethinking Interdisciplinarity across the Social Sciences and Neurosciences
(2015)
This book offers a provocative account of interdisciplinary research across the neurosciences, social sciences and humanities. Setting itself against standard accounts of interdisciplinary 'integration,' and rooting itself ...
Demographic and Family Transition in Southeast Asia
(2022)
This open access book presents the trends and patterns of demographic and family changes from all eleven countries in the region for the past 50 years. The rich data are coupled with historical, cultural and policy background ...
Researching Values
(2022)
This open access book presents new approaches for researching values as they are performed or materialized. Values have been an important topic in academic literature for a long time; they are at the core of institutional ...
Towards a Natural Social Contract
(2021)
This open access book states that the societal fault lines of our times are deeply intertwined and that they confront us with challenges affecting the security, fairness and sustainability of our societies. The author, ...
Affirmative Aesthetics and Wilful Women
(2020)
Fifty years of feminist thought have made the idea that women stay at home while men dominate the streets seem outdated; nevertheless, Ceuterick argues that theoretical considerations of gender, space, and power in film ...
Sustainable Development Disciplines for Society
(2023)
This multidisciplinary Open Access book provides nine problem-solving lectures for sustainable development for the planet and prosperity. Those are two of the five keywords for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): ...
Recognizing Green Skills Through Non-formal Learning
(2022)
This open access book looks into the roles and practices of small and micro-enterprises in formal and informal economies across seven countries and one territory in terms of how they contribute to environmental and sustainable ...
Precision Oncology and Cancer Biomarkers
(2022)
This open access book reflects on matters of social and ethical concern raised in the daily practices of those working in and around precision oncology. Each chapter addresses the experiences, concerns and issues at stake ...
The World of the Seafarer
(2021)
This open access book constitutes an ethnographic mosaic which depicts the contextual complexities of the life and work of seafarers who are employed in the international merchant cargo fleet. The collection is based upon ...
The Asymmetric Nature of Time
(2022)
This open access monograph offers a detailed study and a systematic defense of a key intuition we typically have, as human beings, with respect to the nature of time: the intuition that the future is open, whereas the past ...
From Opinion Mining to Financial Argument Mining
(2021)
Opinion mining is a prevalent research issue in many domains. In the financial domain, however, it is still in the early stages. Most of the researches on this topic only focus on the coarse-grained market sentiment analysis, ...
Cultural Representations of Gender Vulnerability and Resistance
(2022)
This Open Access book considers the cultural representation of gender violence, vulnerability and resistance with a focus on the transnational dimension of our contemporary visual and literary cultures in English. Contributors ...
Revisiting Premodern Islamic Science and Experience
(2025)
This open access book takes a fresh look at the nature and place of experience in premodern Islamic science. It seeks to answer two questions: What kind of experience constituted premodern Islamic science? And in what ways ...
Language Technologies for the Challenges of the Digital Age
(2018)
semantics; artificial intelligence; natural language processing systems; natural language processing; NLP; machine learning; social networking; named entities; support vector machines; SVM
Chapter Developing a Model to Simulate the Effect of Hypothermia on Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism
(2020)
Hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) is a significant cause of death and neurological disability in newborns. Therapeutic hypothermia at 33.5 °C is one of the most common treatments in HIE and generally improves outcome; ...
Chapter Slow Violence and Slow Going
(2023)
This This chapter reads Beckett’s fascination with what Steven Connor has called ‘slow going’ alongside Rob Nixon’s description of the ‘slow violence’ of climate breakdown. Following Nixon’s suggestion that ‘slow violence’ ...
Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals
(2022)
This open access book is designed as a continuation of the editor’s 2019 book Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals. This volume provides an in-depth analysis of industry sectors globally, and its purpose is to present ...