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This open access book seeks to understand how politics is being made in a pluralistic sense, and explores how these political struggles are challenging and transforming gender, sexuality, and colonial norms. As researchers located in Sweden, a nation…

This open access book seeks to understand how politics is being made in a pluralistic sense, and explores how these political struggles are challenging and transforming gender, sexuality, and colonial norms. As researchers located in Sweden, a nation…

Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) is one of the most successful polymers that has been used
to produce medicines, such as drug carriers (DC). This is one of the few polymers that the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) has approved for human…

This book provides the thoracic community and pleura experts with an up-to-date surgical vision of pleura pathology. It provides in-depth knowledge and a better understanding of the indications, positioning techniques, and management of chest drains…

This open access book develops a theoretical concept of teaching that is relevant to early childhood education, and based on children’s learning and development through play. It discusses theoretical premises and research on playing and learning, and…

During the international coronavirus lockdowns of 2020–2021, millions of children, youth, and adults found their usual play areas out of bounds and their friends out of reach. How did the pandemic restrict everyday play and how did the pandemic offer…

The paper by Shahmohammadi Beni and co-workers [21] adds to the application for which the first
plasma medicine tool was originally designed [17], that is the use of a CAP to perform dental treatments in the oral cavity [22,23]. The authors have…

Parliaments are often seen as Western European and North American institutions and their establishment in other parts of the world as a derivative and mostly defective process. This book challenges such Eurocentric visions by retracing the evolution…

This book is designed to introduce the fundamentals of systematics in a simple, concise and balanced manner. The book aims to equip the students with the basics of plant taxonomy and at the same time also update them with the most recent advances in…

Our species has always used plants as medicines, during our 200,000 year existence. This is made obvious by the plant medicines found in mummy burials, around the world, dating back thousands of years. Human beings evolved using plant medicines to…