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The present printed edition of the Special Issue “Surface Chemistry and Catalysis” published in Catalysts aims to cover some of the recent advances in the field of heterogeneous catalysis that can be obtained by means of advanced characterization…

This book examines supportive and palliative care and quality of life in cancer patients. Chapters address such topics as anxiety, depression, and delirium in terminally ill cancer patients, ethics in palliative care, palliative care medications,…

Businesses want to be sustainable but how can they promote sufficiency? Sufficiency-oriented business models focus on creating sustainable value, promoting reduced resource consumption and adjusting production volumes to planetary boundaries. The…

The submarine revolutionized naval warfare. Witness the birth and evolution of the submarine from the days of the Civil War to its baptism by fire in WWI to the nuclear subs of today which carry intercontinental missiles and can cruise submerged for…

This open access book gives an overview of cutting-edge work on a new paradigm called the “sublinear computation paradigm,” which was proposed in the large multiyear academic research project “Foundations of Innovative Algorithms for Big Data.” That…

Activities performed in organizations are coordinated via communication

between the people involved. The sentences used to communicate are naturally structured by subject, verb, and object. The subject describes the actor, the verb the action and…

Researchers rarely reveal the details of the methodological choices on which their research is based. The theoretical and practical considerations that have guided them in these choices often remain implicit. In this book, the focus is on methods for…

This open access book contains 13 contributions on global animal law, preceded by an introduction which explains key concepts and methods. Global Animal Law refers to the sum of legal rules and principles (both state-made and non-state-made)…

This open access report explores the nature and extent of students’ misconceptions and misunderstandings related to core concepts in physics and mathematics and physics across grades four, eight and 12. Twenty years of data from the IEA’s Trends in…

Adequate stroke care access not only requires the availability of comprehensive healthcare facilities but also needs affordability and knowledge of the availability of these services. Presentations of stroke syndromes depend on their location, size,…