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Anticoagulation : Current Perspectives
Thrombotic diseases are some of the leading causes of death in the world. Anticoagulation is a mainstay approach for the prophylaxis and treatment of thrombotic diseases. This book includes six chapters regarding the mechanisms of anticoagulation and…
Keratinocyte Biology: Structure and Function in the Epidermis
Keratinocytes have various functions to maintain epidermal homeostasis. Many inflammatory skin diseases can develop due to suppressed or defective anti-inflammatory properties of keratinocytes. This book discusses the structural, biological, and…
Atopic Dermatitis: Essential Issues
Atopic dermatitis is a chronic skin condition that has a critical impact on patient quality of life. Recently described pathophysiological aspects and new therapeutic approaches have benefitted greatly the management of patients with this condition.…
Ground Truths: Community-Engaged Research for Environmental Justice
Ground Truths shows how community-engaged research contributes to environmental justice for Black, Indigenous, people of color, and low-income communities by centering local knowledge, building truth from the ground up, producing data that can…
Data Power in Action: Urban Data Politics in Times of Crisis
EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Today, the intensive use of data is changing politics, power relations and everyday life. Drawing on the study of different cities in the Global South, this book explores how data have…
Care and the City: Encounters with Urban Studies
Care and the City is a cross-disciplinary collection of chapters examining urban social spaces, in which caring and uncaring practices intersect and shape people’s everyday lives. While asking how care and uncare are embedded in the urban condition,…
Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Chile: The experience of Peruvian migrants
What does it mean to be ageing in Chile as a migrant? What does it mean to be late middle-aged nowadays? How does living half of your life in a foreign country impact perspectives on later life? Is retirement an opportunity to go back to the home…
Developing Modern Livestock Production in Tropical Countries: Proceedings of the 5th Animal Production International Seminar (APIS 2022), Malang, Indonesia, 10 November 2022
The Animal Production International Seminar (APIS) is the first international conference held by the Faculty of Animal Science, Universitas Brawijaya. APIS was held for the first time in 2010 and was repeated every three years. In 2022, the 5th APIS…
Manufacturing Driving Circular Economy: Proceedings of the 18th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing, October 5-7, 2022, Berlin
This is an open access book. It gathers the proceedings of the 18th Global Conference on Sustainable Manufacturing, held on October 5-7, 2022, as a hybrid event, in/from Berlin, Germany. With a focus on manufacturing advances and practices driving…
An Introduction to Waste Management and Circular Economy
This introductory textbook provides an essential interdisciplinary guide to waste management and circular economy. It helps students to understand the drivers of waste, the environmental, social, and economic impacts of waste generation, and best…