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Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology: Neuroscientific Basis and Practical Applications
by Stephen M. StahlLong established as the preeminent source in its field, the eagerly anticipated fifth edition of Dr Stahl's essential textbook of psychopharmacology is here! With its use of icons and figures that form Dr Stahl's unique 'visual language', the book is the single most readable source of information on disease and drug mechanisms for all students and mental health professionals seeking to understand and utilize current therapeutics, and to anticipate the future for novel medications. Every aspect of the book has been updated, with the clarity of explanation that only Dr Stahl can bring. The new edition includes over 500 new or refreshed figures, an intuitive color scheme, fourteen new uses for older drugs and eighteen brand new drugs, coverage of Parkinson's Disease Psychosis, behavioural symptoms of dementia, and mixed features in major depressive episodes, and expanded information on the medical uses of cannabis and hallucinogen assisted psychotherapy.
Freedom and Power in Classical Athens
by Naomi T. CampaAthenian democracy was distinguished from other ancient constitutions by its emphasis on freedom. This was understood, Naomi T. Campa argues, as being able to do 'whatever one wished,' a widely attested phrase. Citizen agency and power constituted the core of democratic ideology and institutions. Rather than create anarchy, as ancient critics claimed, positive freedom underpinned a system that ideally protected both the individual and the collective. Even freedom, however, can be dangerous. The notion of citizen autonomy both empowered and oppressed individuals within a democratic hierarchy. These topics strike at the heart of democracies ancient and modern, from the discursive principles that structure political procedures to the citizen's navigation between the limitations of law and expression of individual will to the status of noncitizens within a state. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Place and Performance in Ancient Greece, Rome, and China (Antiquity in Global Context)
by Hans Beck Griet VankeerberghenThis book examines the construction of space and place in early China and the ancient Mediterranean through the lens of performances conducted in specific locations. It highlights conceptions of place and performance, seeing both as crucial to the production of cultural meaning and communal cohesion, and as heavily dependent on the prevailing political culture. Whether urban or rural, global or local, central or fringe, public or private, real or imagined, theatrical or ritual, the places and performances highlighted serve to show both commonalities and differences between the ancient Mediterranean and early China. The range of places of comparison is also very diverse, including roads, gardens, neighbourhoods, hydraulic infrastructures, funerary performance, spectacles at court, and the everyday display of authority through clothing and fashion. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Implementing Climate Change Policy: Designing and Deploying Net Zero Carbon Governance
by Ottavio Quirico Walter BaberThe chapters in this volume provide an interdisciplinary and comparative analysis of the implementation of climate change policies worldwide to assess whether they are meeting the aims set out in the 'Paris Agreement'. The first part compares climate policies employed by the EU, the US, Latin America, Russia, China, the Middle East, and Africa. The second explores ways of improving key regulatory mechanisms to increase the effectiveness of greenhouse gas mitigation and adaptation measures. This book argues that the international community should improve the effectiveness of enforcement mechanisms from the standpoint of secondary norms through an integrated approach. It is an indispensable resource for undergraduate and graduate students of environmental policy and governance, public policy, law and political science, as well as policy makers. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available as Open Access. Check our website - Cambridge Core - for details. (150, 992)
The London Restoration
by Rachel McMillanThe secrets that might save a nation could shatter a marriage.Madly in love, Diana Foyle and Brent Somerville married in London as the bombs of World War II dropped on their beloved city. Without time for a honeymoon, the couple spent the next four years apart. Diana, an architectural historian, took a top-secret intelligence post at Bletchley Park. Brent, a professor of theology at King&’s College, believed his wife was working for the Foreign Office as a translator when he was injured in an attack on the European front.Now that the war is over, the Somervilles&’ long-anticipated reunion is strained by everything they cannot speak of. Diana&’s extensive knowledge of London&’s churches could help bring down a Russian agent named Eternity. She&’s eager to help MI6 thwart Communist efforts to start a new war, but because of the Official Secrets Act, Diana can&’t tell Brent the truth about her work.Determined to save their marriage and rebuild the city they call home, Diana and Brent&’s love is put to the ultimate test as they navigate the rubble of war and the ruins of broken trust.
Leerboek kinderverpleegkunde
by R. Ulijn-ter Wal C. Van VeldenEen kinderverpleegkundige verzorgt en verpleegt kinderen die in het ziekenhuis liggen of thuis. Dit vraagt om een specifieke deskundigheid en benadering. Een kinderverpleegkundige stemt de zorg altijd af op de specifieke situatie van het kind en werkt gedurende het ziekteproces nauw samen met ouders of verzorgenden. Een respectvolle benadering van het kind en zijn ouders is in elk facet van dit Leerboek kinderverpleegkunde het uitgangspunt. In deze zesde, volledig geactualiseerde editie worden de vele aspecten van de kinderverpleegkunde op een overzichtelijke wijze bij elkaar gebracht en beschreven. Daarnaast heeft de redactie getracht de veranderingen op het gebied van kinderverpleegkunde, de meest recente protocollen en richtlijnen van de kinderverpleegkunde in zowel Nederland en Vlaanderen weer te geven, ondersteund door actuele websites, links en ander verdiepend materiaal. Naast informatie over de ontwikkeling van het gezonde kind en zorg bij acute en chronische zorgvragen is in dit boek actuele informatie over kindermishandeling en reanimatie van kinderen verwerkt. Tevens komen onderwerpen als de zorg door de kinderwijkverpleegkundige thuis, transitie van zorg, delier en posttraumatische stresssyndroom bij kinderen aan de orde. Tevens is er aandacht voor transgenderzorg en is ook het hoofdstuk over palliatieve en stervenszorg volledig geactualiseerd. Alle auteurs zijn ervaren kinderverpleegkundigen of anderszins gespecialiseerd in de zorg voor kinderen. Zij delen kun kennis en ervaring graag met wie zich wil verdiepen in wat het betekent om kinderen te verplegen.
Science, Engineering Management and Information Technology: 5th International Conference, SEMIT 2025, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, September 11–13, 2025, Proceedings, Part I (Communications in Computer and Information Science #2651)
by Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber Zohreh Molamohamadi Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee Babek Erdebilli A. MirzazadehThe two-volume set CCIS 2651 + 2652 constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Science, Engineering Management and Information Technology, SEMIT 2025, held in Dubai, UAE, during September 11–13, 2025. The 35 full papers and 4 short papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 221 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: AI in Public Services & Industry; Educational Technology & E-Learning; Smart Manufacturing & Industry 4.0; Smart Cities & Urban Innovation; Digital Governance & Transformation; Sustainable & Circular Decision-Making; and Computational Intelligence and Data Privacy in Healthcare, IT, and Public Services.
Multi-Omics Analysis of the Human Microbiome: From Technology to Clinical Applications
by Vijai Singh Indra ManiThis book introduces the rapidly evolving field of multi-omics in understanding the human microbiome. The book focuses on the technology used to generate multi-omics data, including advances in next-generation sequencing and other high-throughput methods. It also covers the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms to the analysis of multi-omics data, providing readers with an overview of the powerful computational tools that are driving innovation in this field. The chapter also explores the various bioinformatics databases and tools available for the analysis of multi-omics data. The book also delves into the application of multi-omics technology to the study of microbial diversity, including metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, and metaproteomics. The book also explores the use of these techniques to identify and characterize microbial communities in different environments, from the gut and oral microbiome to the skin microbiome and beyond. Towards theend, it focuses on the use of multi-omics in the study of microbial consortia, including mycology and the viral microbiome. The book also explores the potential of multi-omics to identify genes of biotechnological importance, providing readers with an understanding of the role that this technology could play in advancing biotech research. Finally, the book concludes with a discussion of the clinical applications of multi-omics technology, including its potential to identify disease biomarkers and develop personalized medicine approaches. Overall, this book provides readers with a comprehensive overview of this exciting field, highlighting the potential for multi-omics to transform our understanding of the microbial world.
History by Algorithms: AI and the Future of Historical Research
by Zvi LotkerThis book offers a first step towards getting machines to understand history in terms of analysing historical narratives. It uses computational intelligence and history texts as keys to ask different questions than have been asked about our human history so far. The book is divided into three main parts. The first part discusses the mathematical language of history, the second part uses simple models to analyse historical laws written in mathematical language, and the third part discusses the impact of general Large Language Models (LLMs) on the study of history.
Biomedical and Other Applications of Soft Computing (Studies in Computational Intelligence #1045)
by Vladik Kreinovich Nguyen Hoang PhuongThis book describes current and potential use of artificial intelligence and computational intelligence techniques in biomedicine and other application areas. Medical applications range from general diagnostics to processing of X-ray images to e-medicine-related privacy issues. Medical community understandably prefers methods that have been successful other on other application areas, where possible mistakes are not that critical. This book describes many promising methods related to deep learning, fuzzy techniques, knowledge graphs, and quantum computing. It also describes the results of testing these new methods in communication networks, education, environmental studies, food industry, retail industry, transportation engineering, and many other areas. This book helps practitioners and researchers to learn more about computational intelligence methods and their biomedical applications—and to further develop this important research direction.
The Making of Intellectual Property Law in Vietnam: From Colonial Laboratory To Socialist Legality 1864 – 1994 (Global Vietnam: Across Time, Space and Community)
by Tran KienThis book is about the making of intellectual property law in Vietnam across colonial and socialist space and time from 1864 to 1994. It provides a completely new, provoking narrative, disproving previously published scholarship which claimed that there was no intellectual property law in Vietnam during the colonial and socialist periods. In doing so, the book engages with an emerging field of historiographical inquiry into the intellectual property law history in Vietnam and worldwide, which investigates how and why the scholarship about the history of intellectual property law has been construed and framed as such within a specific period and space. This book is comprised of three knowledge components. The first involves the reconstruction of the lost intellectual property law from 1864 to 1994 in Vietnam doctrinally. Relying on newly discovered archives in Vietnam and worldwide, it unravels a corpus of statutory and regulatory provisions and interesting, at times contradictory, juridical decisions that governed and interpreted copyright, patent, and trademark. The second is the historiographical inquiry of the making of the intellectual property law history scholarship in Vietnam. This will answer the questions of how and why the particular histories had been construed and framed as such at a particular time. This involves the debate about sociopolitical ideologies underlying the meaning and application of the laws, most notably colonialism and socialism. Finally, the third engages with the theory of legal transplantation. It addresses a hypothetical question of colonial laboratory as a form of legal transplantation: a new concept that this book offers to the global scholarship. It demonstrates that the colonial empire had tried to use Vietnam as a laboratory for its legal reform and then transplanted the successful and feasible results back to the empire. This book explains the distinctively ideological principles underlying the understanding and application of the law.
Driving Quality Management and Sustainability in VUCA Environments: 4th International Conference on Quality Innovation and Sustainability (ICQIS), Setubal, Portugal, May 22-23, 2023 (Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics)
by João Reis Tiago Pinho Vítor Barbosa Luís Barreto Sandrina B. Moreira Pedro Pardal João Nabais Carlos Mata Ana MendesThis proceedings volume provides in-depth research in the fields of quality innovation, sustainability, and operations management. It features contributions from the 4th International Conference on Quality Innovation and Sustainability (ICQIS) that explore how research in quality and innovation boost sustainability and includes solutions to complex industrial problems presented by researchers, professionals, and managers in the field. It also examines the drivers of quality management and sustainability in VUCA environments, with a special focus on supply chain management and innovation. Featuring real business cases on quality and sustainability, this book is useful for researchers, scholars, students, and academics interested in quality management, supply chain management, circular economy, and sustainability.
Celestial Banquet
by Roselle LimIron Chef meets The Hunger Games in Roselle Lim&’s dazzling YA fantasy debut, following a young noodle chef who competes in a cutthroat cooking competition for the gods. &“Celestial Banquet is a magical and delectable adventure through a culinary landscape rich in East Asian tradition. It is also a very real look at family, home, and how food ties into both, with an empowered and resilient teen girl at the center. Equal parts action-packed and heartfelt, I cannot wait for readers to devour it.&” —Ayesha Curry, Sweet July Books Once every generation, the Major Gods hold a Celestial Banquet, inviting chefs from all over the Continent to prepare mouthwatering fantastical feasts. The winner is awarded the fabled Peaches of Immortality, along with a lifetime of fame and fortune. The losers perish per the whims of the fickle gods. Hot-headed noodle chef Cai enters the competition with dreams of owning her own restaurant and supporting her impoverished Peninsula town. Along with the drunken Minor God Kama, her childhood crush-turned-friend Bo, and dreamy noble Seon, Cai must now compete against the Continent&’s finest culinary masters in trials that range from hunting and serving up mystical sea serpents to preparing a magical omurice from the eggs of the legendary Jian bird. Battling impossible odds and inconvenient feelings for both Bo and Seon, Cai is determined to prepare a feast fit for the gods—even if she loses her life. Set in a spectacular world inspired by Chinese and Southeast Asian folklore, Celestial Banquet is an ode to food, home, and family, wrapped in an epic and thrilling adventure.
Heir of Illusion: A fast-paced fantasy romance with gods and fae (The Verran Isles Series Book 1)
by Madeline Taylor&“This is how you do romantasy!&” —Brigitte Knightley, Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your EnemyAn alliance between enemies. A weapon of untold power. And a bond that could rewrite fate. Fall into the viral, propulsive dark romantasy everyone is reading. A fae assassin with the power of illusion, sworn to a king she despises. An enigmatic grim reaper, searching for freedom. Enemies collide in an unlikely alliance, brimming with desire and destruction. She is not the pet they tamed. Blessed with the power of illusion, Iverson Pomeroy has many tricks up her sleeve. However, none of them are a match for the enchanted collar at her throat that keeps her bound as assassin and mistress to a ruthless king. Forced to play the role of his obedient pet, she plots in secret to destroy him and claim the freedom she has always been denied. She is the beast they let inside. When a mysterious reaper, Thorne, arrives in the city with his sights set on the same weapon Ivy needs—the only artifact that can remove her collar—she must decide how far she&’s willing to go. And she will show no mercy. With a tenuous alliance tying them together, Ivy learns there is more to her reluctant companion than meets the eye... He sparks her curiosity and ignites dangerous desires within her. But will the secrets they harbor destroy each other? And does it even matter, when anyone who so much as touches Thorne dies? Tropes Enemies to lovers / shadow daddy / female assassin / who did this to you / unlikely alliance / he falls first / banter / touch her and die / slow burn / morally gray MMC
The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You
by Julie ZhuoInstant Wall Street Journal Bestseller!Congratulations, you're a manager! After you pop the champagne, accept the shiny new title, and step into this thrilling next chapter of your career, the truth descends like a fog: you don't really know what you're doing.That's exactly how Julie Zhuo felt when she became a rookie manager at the age of 25. She stared at a long list of logistics--from hiring to firing, from meeting to messaging, from planning to pitching--and faced a thousand questions and uncertainties. How was she supposed to spin teamwork into value? How could she be a good steward of her reports' careers? What was the secret to leading with confidence in new and unexpected situations?Now, having managed dozens of teams spanning tens to hundreds of people, Julie knows the most important lesson of all: great managers are made, not born. If you care enough to be reading this, then you care enough to be a great manager.The Making of a Manager is a modern field guide packed everyday examples and transformative insights, including: * How to tell a great manager from an average manager (illustrations included) * When you should look past an awkward interview and hire someone anyway * How to build trust with your reports through not being a boss * Where to look when you lose faith and lack the answersWhether you're new to the job, a veteran leader, or looking to be promoted, this is the handbook you need to be the kind of manager you wish you had.
The Resilience of Traditional Knowledge Systems for a Sustainable Future: A Focus on Agriculture and Food Practices in the Himalayas (Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research)
by Pardeep Singh Anwesha BorthakurThis book is an effort to draw attention to the resilience of traditional knowledge systems for a sustainable future in the Himalayas with a particular focus on agriculture and food practices. Through examples from the region, it underscores the importance of these practices in navigating contemporary global environmental challenges. The Himalayan region, known for its socio-cultural diversity and unique agricultural ecology, emerges as a major hotspot of climate change. Therefore, acknowledging and recognizing the lived experiences of the locals along with their traditional knowledge associated with agriculture and food systems becomes imperative for devising adaptation and mitigation strategies amidst the unfolding environmental and climate crisis. Drawing upon insights from local communities and experts deeply rooted in the Himalayan context, this book not only documents traditional agricultural and food systems but also sheds light on the pressing anthropogenic challenges threatening their sustainability. We believe that research and documentation of traditional knowledge practices of the local and indigenous communities are essential for tackling the current and projected global environmental challenges.This book advocates for a holistic approach to addressing both current and future global environmental challenges. It serves as a timely call to action for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners alike.
Leerboek interne geneeskunde
by A. Thijs C.D.A. Stehouwer R. P. KoopmansInterne geneeskunde is dé kerndiscipline binnen de curatieve geneeskunde en daarmee binnen de medische opleiding. Door de jaren heen is er een onverminderde behoefte aan een Nederlandstalig boek op dit gebied blijven bestaan. Dit boek – begonnen als &‘Den Ottolander&’ – verscheen voor het eerst in 1969 en heeft zich, als Leerboek interne geneeskunde, sinds die tijd ontwikkeld tot hét Nederlandse standaardwerk. Het boek heeft grotendeels een ziektekundige benadering, waardoor het naadloos aansluit bij de pathofysiologische kennis die studenten zich meester maken in de eerste fase van hun opleiding. Vanuit dit gezichtspunt wordt de interne geneeskunde zo breed en zo geïntegreerd mogelijk behandeld: alle deelgebieden (zoals endocrinologie, oncologie, nefrologie en IC) komen aan bod, maar ook verwante &‘interne&’ specialismen (zoals cardiologie, longziekten, maagdarm- leverziekten, reumatologie en geriatrie), gerelateerde specialismen (zoals klinische genetica, radiologie en psychiatrie), en enkele basisvakken (zoals epidemiologie, farmacologie en immunologie). In alle hoofdstukken wordt pathofysiologische kennis gekoppeld aan ziektekundige kennis. Door deze opzet legt het boek voor de lezer een grondige basis om essentiële klinische kennis niet alleen te verwerven, maar ook goed te doorgronden en toe te passen. Bijna tweeduizend casuïstiekartikelen uit het Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde complementeren deze ziektegeoriënteerde benadering: juist in de beschrijving van zoveel individuele patiënten komt brede variatie in ziektepresentatie naar voren. Deze zijn bereikbaar via de website bij het boek, waarbij ze gekoppeld zijn aan het relevante hoofdstuk. Deze nieuwe, 16e druk is weer volledig geactualiseerd. Sommige hoofdstukken zijn herschreven, illustraties zijn opnieuw verzorgd en er zijn twee hoofdstukken toegevoegd: psychiatrie en transitiegeneeskunde voor zover relevant voor de interne geneeskunde. Leerboek interne geneeskunde is niet alleen geschreven voor studenten geneeskunde, maar ook voor artsen die kennis van de interne geneeskunde in hun praktijk nodig hebben. Meer dan 70 vooraanstaande experts hebben meegewerkt aan dit rijk geïllustreerde standaardwerk.
Emerging Leaders in Academic Medicine: A Concise Guide to Navigating the Path to Leadership Success
by Fahad Aziz Dana Clark Arjang DjamaliIn the fast-paced and dynamic environment of medicine, academic leaders are crucial to driving innovation, fostering collaboration, and advancing the field to new heights. For early-stage physicians embarking on their academic careers, the journey to becoming effective leaders can be both challenging and rewarding. This book, Emerging Leaders in Academic Medicine: A Concise Guide to Navigating the Path to Leadership, is designed as a guide for aspiring academic leaders as they navigate the complexities of leadership, unlock their potential, and achieve success in their careers. By exploring topics such as personal identity, leadership styles, conflict management, feedback, mentorship, and practical considerations for academic growth, this book prepares readers with the knowledge and tools necessary to thrive as effective leaders in the complex landscape of academic institutions. Through self-reflection, skill development, and strategic planning, emerging leaders can navigate challenges, seize opportunities, and make a lasting impact on the future of healthcare and medical education.
Atlas of Surgical Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease
by Tomas M. HeimannThis atlas provides high-quality images of surgical inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). The treatment of IBD continues to be developed and updated surgical imaging of IBD is critical to the care of patients with IBD. To better aid readers, chapters are organized by breaking down different diseases, including: Crohn's disease with Jejunoileitis, Crohn’s disease with Ileocolitis, Crohn’s disease with granulomatous colitis, Recurrent ileitis, Ulcerative Colitis, Indeterminate Colitis, Colorectal Cancer in Ulcerative Colitis, and Intestinal Cancer in Crohn’s disease. Emphasizing core surgical images of IBD, this atlas will be of interest to all physicians who care for patients with IBD, including gastroenterologists, surgeons, internists and even ancillary personnel such as nurses and nutritionists.
Proceedings of AWAM International Conference on Civil Engineering 2022 - Volume 3: AICCE, Sustainability and Resiliency (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering #386)
by Nuridah SabtuThis book gathers the latest research, innovations, and applications in the field of civil engineering, as presented by leading national and international academics, researchers, engineers, and postgraduate students at the AWAM International Conference on Civil Engineering 2022 (AICCE’22), held in Penang, Malaysia on February 15-17, 2022. The book covers highly diverse topics in the main fields of civil engineering, including structural and earthquake engineering, environmental engineering, geotechnical engineering, highway and transportation engineering, water resources engineering, and geomatic and construction management. In line with the conference theme, “Sustainability And Resiliency: Re-Engineering the Future”, which relates to the United Nations’ 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development, it highlights important elements in the planning and development stages to establish design standards beneficial to the environment and its surroundings. The contributions introduce numerous exciting ideas that spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaborations between various specialists in the field of civil engineering.This book is part of a 3-volume series of these conference proceedings, it represents Volume 3 in the series.
A Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945
by Rebecca BallStanley Rice, born in London in 1905, began his autobiography by stating that his life was ‘an ordinary average life with all its ups and downs’. Stanley may have described his life as ordinary, and yet he lived through a period of rapid social change, including two world wars. Despite this, Stanley assumed that his life story would be of little interest to most readers, as he had not achieved great fame or any notable accolades. This book argues that this is exactly why historians should focus on such life stories, as there is much to be gained by focusing on memories of ‘ordinary average lives’, as they can expand our knowledge of the past, often revealing firsthand experiences that have been excluded from the historical record. This book does not intend to be a general social history of the working class. Rather, it is a work of memory, drawing upon a microhistory methodology to examine how a sample of one hundred working-class autobiographers remembered and wrote about living through years that were punctuated by two worldwide conflicts and a global economic depression.
Science, Engineering Management and Information Technology: 5th International Conference, SEMIT 2025, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, September 11–13, 2025, Proceedings, Part II (Communications in Computer and Information Science #2652)
by Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber Zohreh Molamohamadi Erfan Babaee Tirkolaee Babek Erdebilli A. MirzazadehThe two-volume set CCIS 2651 + 2652 constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Science, Engineering Management and Information Technology, SEMIT 2025, held in Dubai, UAE, during September 11–13, 2025. The 35 full papers and 4 short papers included in the proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 221 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: AI in Public Services & Industry; Educational Technology & E-Learning; Smart Manufacturing & Industry 4.0; Smart Cities & Urban Innovation; Digital Governance & Transformation; Sustainable & Circular Decision-Making; and Computational Intelligence and Data Privacy in Healthcare, IT, and Public Services.
Advanced Intelligent Computing Technology and Applications: 21st International Conference, ICIC 2025, Ningbo, China, July 26–29, 2025, Proceedings, Part I (Communications in Computer and Information Science #2564)
by De-Shuang Huang Bo Li Chuanlei Zhang Haiming ChenThe 12-volume set CCIS 2564-2575, together with the 28-volume set LNCS/LNAI/LNBI 15842-15869, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2025, held in Ningbo, China, during July 26-29, 2025. The 523 papers presented in these proceedings books were carefully reviewed and selected from 4032 submissions. This year, the conference concentrated mainly on the theories and methodologies as well as the emerging applications of intelligent computing. Its aim was to unify the picture of contemporary intelligent computing techniques as an integral concept that highlights the trends in advanced computational intelligence and bridges theoretical research with applications. Therefore, the theme for this conference was "Advanced Intelligent Computing Technology and Applications".
A Neighbor of Neighbors: China’s Policy Toward Afghanistan, 1949–2024 (IPP Studies in the Frontiers of China’s Public Policy)
by Feng ZhangThis book explores China's role, past, present and future, in Afghanistan. The chaotic withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan in August 2021 after a 20-year intervention left China as the biggest regional country capable of playing a critical role in future Afghan affairs dominated by the Taliban. What is China&’s policy toward Afghanistan after the US withdrawal? How will it seek to increase its influence? To answer these pressing questions, it is necessary to understand how China&’s policy toward Afghanistan has evolved historically. This book examines China&’s relations with Afghanistan from a combination of theoretical and historical perspectives, highlighting the goals of amity, security, and influence in Chinese policy. This is a study that will be of great value to scholars of Asian politics and geopolitics, and the emerging order in Central Asia.
Small-Town Renaissance: Bridging Technology, Heritage and Planning in Shrinking Italy (Research for Development)
by Brent D. Ryan Giovanna Fossa Carmelo IgnaccoloCan digital innovation revitalize rural communities and preserve cultural heritage at the same time? This book dives into the transformative power of digitization in rural regions—where technology isn&’t just a tool, but a lifeline for local culture, economic resilience, and future development. Born from a unique research collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Politecnico di Milano, supported by the Roberto Rocca Foundation and MIT Italy, this book brings together cutting-edge data-driven scholarly work on shrinking towns, economic development, and digital innovation. Together with local authorities, small business owners, and community leaders in Sicily and Lombardy, the project tackled some of the most pressing challenges facing rural Italy—from population decline to economic stagnation—all through the lens of digital transformation. But this story isn&’t just about Italy. Similar struggles play out in rural communities across Japan, Korea, Spain, the United States, Germany, and beyond. Amid the global acceleration of digital technologies sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic, this volume offers a bold roadmap for blending innovation with tradition, proposing smart platforms to amplify local voices, promote heritage-based economies, and design collaborative workspaces that anchor rural resilience. Whether you&’re a policymaker, urban planner, designer, tech innovator, or heritage advocate, this book offers fresh insights, actionable strategies, and a compelling vision for the future of rural development in the digital age.