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Spatial Analysis for Complex Territorial Systems

1st Edition
February 1, 2026
Luca Salvati
English
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Spatial Analysis for Complex Territorial Systems: Geo-information Technologies and European Official Statistics offers a multidisciplinary exploration of spatial analysis, geo-information technologies, and official statistics, focusing on their application to environmental, economic, and planning challenges in Europe and the Mediterranean. Comprising 16 insightful chapters authored by leading scholars from Southern and Eastern Europe, Ireland, and the United States, it delves into the complexities of socio-ecological monitoring through data integration and refined statistical indicators. Key topics include climate monitoring, land degradation, settlement patterns, and disaster resilience, providing a comprehensive understanding of local contexts and policy implications.The book begins with contributions from a traditional ecological/agronomic... vision, then continues with a set of studies having a more strict socio-demographic and economic focus. It then discusses how other quantitative approaches, e.g. based on big data and primary surveys, may clarify the role of policies and planning addressing sustainable development goals in the ‘kaleidoscopic’ European landscapes. The conclusions of this book confirm the urgent need of integrating the vast potential of geo-information techniques, together with spatial analysis and official statistics, into more flexible sustainable development strategies reflecting local conditions and spatially explicit background contexts, starting from the basic demands of local communities and topical environments.Spatial Analysis for Complex Territorial Systems: Geo-information Technologies and European Official Statistics serves as an essential resource for academics, students, spatial planners, policymakers, architects, engineers, sociologists, and environmental demographers. It equips readers with practical tools and theoretical insights to inform data-driven approaches to sustainable development and regional planning, making it a vital addition to any academic curriculum in geographic information systems, applied statistics, and environmental science.

The Neuroscience of Deep Brain Stimulation

1st Edition
March 1, 2026
Yasin Temel + 2 more
English
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Neuroscience of Deep Brain Stimulation: Research and Clinical Applications begins by introducing readers to the foundational research and historical background of DBS, including developmental experimental models for movement and psychiatric disorders. The second section reviews various clinical applications, including numerous and in-depth case studies. The final section identifies the mechanisms of action behind DBS, including cellular, metabolic, and neurochemical mechanisms. Internationally contributed, this book is an essential guide for anyone in the field of DBS.

Digital Psychiatry

1st Edition
March 1, 2026
Luis Sandoval + 2 more
English
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Over the past two decades technology has begun to play an important role in medicine. The synergy of technology and psychiatry now called, telepsychiatry or digital psychiatry, has helped increase treatment access, training and dissemination while reducing cost and stigma associated with mental health disorders. Most of what is known today in telepsychiatry is based on scientific research such as pilot studies, mid to large clinical trial and meta-analysis, which has been conducted in hospital and/or academic settings. Unfortunately, these studies only tell one side of the story, that of the scientists, doctors, clinicians, and professors without taking into account the experience of the patients. This lack of response has driven patients to search for answers independently and solve their own issues by designing simple and innovative ways to complement and treat their chronic and, sometimes, acute mental health conditions. Digital Psychiatry: Case Studies of Patient-Driven Innovations illustrates the clinical perspective of using technology to improve mental health of patients. A series of clinical cases how by modifying and adapting current available technological devices such as video games, apps, movies, and online videos can treat patient’s psychiatric conditions. This book is a prime resource for researchers and clinicians who are trying to understand how to incorporate technology into treatment options for patients.

Neuroscience-Informed Psychoeducation (NIPE) for Brain and Mental Health

1st Edition
Volume 299
February 1, 2026
English
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Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

Autonomous Driving and Traffic Dynamics in Road Transportation

1st Edition
April 1, 2026
Michail Makridis + 1 more
English
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Autonomous Driving and Traffic Dynamics in Road Transportation: Modeling, Simulation, and Control discusses the introduction of autonomous vehicles (AV) on road transport systems and the similarities and differences with human drivers, focusing on key concepts in traffic dynamics and AI-based modeling. Simply treating AVs as conventional vehicles with slightly altered characteristics can lead to inaccurate conclusions, posing risks for researchers, engineers, and policymakers alike. This book addresses these challenges by offering a comprehensive discussion of the unique dynamics introduced by AVs and their impact on congestion, safety, energy, and their role in sustainable future intelligent transportation systems. Part I delves into traditional driving behaviors, examining the basics of car-following, driver characteristics, lateral movement, and how well AI models generalize these behaviors. Part II shifts to autonomous driving systems, analyzing their operational principles and providing comparative evidence with human drivers. Additionally, it assesses the performance of traditional car-following models against artificial intelligence developments highlighting strengths and weaknesses for each approach. Part III integrates human drivers and AVs into broader traffic flow theories, presenting findings on how autonomous driving impacts traffic patterns. It studies the impact from the perspective of traffic dynamics, energy efficiency and safety. Part IV looks at the role of AI and modeling, exploring the pros and cons of various methods and data sources. It emphasizes the need for physics-informed models to improve policy decisions and technical performance. Part V discusses real-world traffic management applications, combining AI and traditional models for traffic estimation, control, and ensuring fair, disruption-resilient outcomes. The book serves as a detailed guide for researchers, engineers, and policymakers who need to understand why there is a need to pay attention on the driving style of autonomous vehicles, where we should use analytical models and where data-driven approaches (or physics-informed ones), see the big picture, and learn about the state of the art in traffic state estimation and traffic management domains with the presence of autonomous vehicles.

Assembling Smart Cyber-Physical Systems

1st Edition
January 1, 2026
Zakaria Benomar + 3 more
English
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Assembling Smart Cyber-Physical Systems: Heterogeneous, Diffuse and Green Technological Infrastructures for Cities and Industries offers a comprehensive approach on how to design, implement, and use Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs)-computing systems with a strong interaction between the physical environment (equipped with sensors and actuators) and the cyber realm (the Cloud). Through a carefully structured methodological approach to systems design, readers will learn how the infrastructure continuum represents our environment, where we can move from edge computing to the Cloud, going through fog resources to set up an entire framework for services deployment and application in smart cities and industries.As dealing with complex systems has become increasingly difficult, CPSs are increasingly critical to cope with integrating software, which people are used to, with hardware, which is distributed among different domains. This book shows how to deal with such systems where there is no distinction among the different parts: computing, storage, networking, and IoT all contribute to setting up the modern processing environments, thus it is mandatory to keep them simultaneously under control.

The Digital Student

1st Edition
January 1, 2026
Andy Phippen + 1 more
English
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The Digital Student: Challenges for Universities in a Post-Covid World and How to Address Them provides a thorough discussion of digital pedagogy, enabling readers to understand effective digital teaching methodologies, particularly post-Covid, to enhance online learning experiences and quality. The book discusses issues that have little coverage elsewhere, including the social dimension of online student life, the needs of neurodiverse students, those with mental health concerns and acknowledges that students differ in their level of awareness and competency of how to operate within the digital world. Insights into the impact of digital technologies on student well-being and mental health are discussed and ways that students can be supported are suggested. Online harms to students posed by digital environments are explored, together with cybersecurity and strategies to mitigate the risks. Guidance is provided on digital policy development and implementation. Strategies are suggested to help universities adapt to the evolving digital landscape. A self-assessment tool is provided enabling universities to benchmark their policies and activities against best practice in order to develop and enhance their digital operations

Global Risks and Energy System Resilience

1st Edition
April 1, 2026
Jun Zhao + 2 more
English
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Global Risks and Energy System Resilience provides a comprehensive examination of the intricate interplay between various global risks and the resilience of energy systems. This essential reference delves into the complex geopolitical, economic, and financial factors that shape energy security today, offering a structured framework for understanding and addressing these challenges. The book covers crucial topics such as the evolution of energy system resilience, the development of an evaluation framework, and the quantification of the impacts of geopolitical, financial, and economic risks. This book follows the logical framework of “indicator measurement-impact assessment-scenario prediction.” It first analyses the current situation and provides an overview of global risks and the energy system resilience, measures the levels of different types of global risks and energy system resilience, and analyses the spatio-temporal evolution law. Second, the theoretical transmission mechanism of different kinds of risks on energy system resilience is analysed through literature review and theoretical review, and the actual impacts of different kinds of risks on energy system resilience are assessed by corresponding econometric models. Then, the influencing factors affecting the resilience of energy systems under the digital background are identified. The future development of the energy system resilience is then predicted. Researchers, policymakers, and industry professionals in energy strategy and policy evaluation, energy system resilience optimization, and risk avoidance policies will find this book invaluable for designing effective strategies to enhance energy security and stability. By bridging theoretical insights with practical applications, it equips readers with the knowledge necessary to navigate the complexities of today's energy landscape.

Mobility Patterns, Big Data and Transport Analytics

2nd Edition
January 1, 2026
Constantinos Antoniou + 2 more
English
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Mobility Patterns, Big Data and Transport Analytics: Tools and Applications for Modeling, Second Edition provides a guide to the new analytical framework and its relation to big data, focusing on capturing, predicting, visualizing, and controlling mobility patterns—a key aspect of transportation modeling. The book features prominent international experts who provide overviews on new analytical frameworks, applications, and concepts in mobility analysis and transportation systems. Fields covered are evolving rapidly, and this new edition updates existing material and provides new chapters that reflect recent developments in the field (such as the emergence of active, transfer and reinforcement learning).Users will find a detailed, mobility ‘structural’ analysis and a look at the extensive behavioral characteristics of transport, observability requirements, limitations for realistic transportation applications, and transportation systems analysis that are related to complex processes and phenomena. This book bridges the gap between big data, data science, and transportation systems analysis with a study of big data’s impact on mobility and an introduction to the tools necessary to apply new techniques.

Structural Biology of Amyloid Fibrils

1st Edition
March 1, 2026
Vijay Kumar + 1 more
English
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Structural Biology of Amyloid Fibrils is a comprehensive reference on the structure of protein aggregates in different neurodegenerative diseases and their molecular bases. Chapters describe these structures in detail, highlighting their similarities and differences across different disease states, alongside an unprecedented overview of current developments and new hypotheses emerging in amyloid fibril structure, stability and mechanisms of formation. This volume also discusses how amyloid structure may affect the ability of fibrils to spread to different sites in a prion-like manner, as well as their role in disease. Featuring chapters on NMR, X-ray crystallography, and Cryo-EM methods, and discussing the structure of amyloid fibrils obtained directly from patients, the book allows readers to understand how polymorphism is associated with disease phenotype and how fibril structure affects and influences the cellular environment. Understanding the molecular architecture of amyloid fibrils and oligomers will be an important step towards developing therapeutic interventions based on targeting the fibrils and oligomers themselves, or the processes that generate them.

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