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Models and Applications of Tourists’ Travel Behavior

1st Edition
March 14, 2025
Francesca Pagliara + 2 more
English
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Models and Applications of Tourists’ Travel Behavior offers an exhaustive overview of various approaches to modeling tourists’ travel behavior, aiding readers in selecting the most suitable theoretical approach based on the available data. The book bridges traditional travel behavior theories and tourist studies, introducing specific tourist contexts in travel demand modeling. It transcends theoretical understanding, providing practical insights for choosing the right model and data source. It covers theoretical, descriptive, and statistical approaches to modeling, discussing choice models based on both Stated Preference Data and Revealed Preference Data.The book starts by exploring the role of transport in tourist travel behavior and employs a comprehensive literature review to establish a foundational understanding. The concluding chapters delve into machine learning methods, emphasizing the modeling of transport in tourism, including mode choice, waiting time, and delay modeling. This resource is beneficial for educators, students, and researchers alike, providing a solid foundation for future model development.

Advanced Geospatial and Ground Based Techniques in Forest Monitoring

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Pavan Kumar + 5 more
English
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Advanced Geospatial and Ground Based Techniques in Forest Monitoring provides insights into advanced geospatial technology in the field of forestry. The book provides both traditional and special techniques for monitoring the forest, including biophysical and biochemical parameters, retrieval, species identification, mapping, and classification. In addition, it covers the latest technologies using SAR data, hyperspectral data, and the integration of datasets for the enhanced accuracy of the results and its outcome. This book will benefit the academic and research communities with the latest research ideas and problem-solving skills in forestry and land management.

Blindness and Visual Impairments

1st Edition
Volume 292
May 23, 2025
English
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Blindness, Volume 292 in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Chapters in this new release include Temperature as a circadian timing cue in the visually impaired, Visual experience affects neural correlates of audio-haptic integration: A case study of non-sighted individuals, Visual experience affects neural correlates of audio-haptic integration: A case study of non-sighted individuals, Measuring residual visual function after cerebral damage – a potential path for optimizing rehabilitation approaches, and Persistence of training-induced visual improvements after occipital stroke, amongst other topics.Other chapters in this release include Well-being, mental health, and sleep in children and young people with vision impairment: A narrative review, Changes to the brain due to visual impairment, Information Processing in People with Visual Impairments, Case studies of the migraine aura in the blind or partially sighted, HABEMO: an innovative haptic tool for investigating the bodily representation of mental states in individuals with visual impairments, and Affect in the dark: navigating the complex landscape of social cognition in blindness, and An overview of quality of life and visual outcomes in AMD.

Exploring Asian-Pacific Co-operatives in Theory and Practice

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Morris Altman + 1 more
English
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Exploring Asian-Pacific Cooperatives in Theory and Practice: Resilience and Thriving between the State and the Market investigates Asian-Pacific coop models mainly through the analytical lenses of Asian-Pacific researchers. It consists of theoretical and empirical analyses on transversal themes from interdisciplinary studies and national case studies covering multiple sectors and countries. It focuses on a variety of challenging issues using different analytical approaches to cooperative challenges in the Asian-Pacific and examines the traditional dichotomy between the State and the Market.

Integrated Holistic Mental Healthcare

1st Edition
November 21, 2025
K. Jayasankara Reddy
English
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Integrated Holistic Mental Healthcare: Bridging Minds and Technology is a groundbreaking resource that unites traditional holistic practices with cutting-edge digital innovations to enhance mental health treatment. This comprehensive guide is tailored for mental health professionals seeking practical strategies to improve care efficacy and accessibility. The book begins with foundational concepts of holistic mental health and emphasizes the essential role of mindfulness and meditation as core components of effective care. It explores how technology can complement holistic practices, facilitating behavioral change and habit formation. Readers will discover how digital tools can expand access to mental healthcare through telehealth and virtual care models, while also addressing ethical considerations and stigma associated with mental health treatment. With insights into monitoring outcomes and case studies highlighting integrative approaches for specialized populations, this book equips readers to navigate the evolving mental health landscape. As it looks toward future trends, "Integrated Holistic Mental Healthcare" empowers individuals to enhance their well-being in a rapidly digitizing world, fostering a patient-centered care paradigm that honors both mind and technology.

From Crops and Wastes to Bioenergy

1st Edition
March 13, 2025
Electo silva lora + 2 more
English
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From Crops and Wastes to Bioenergy: Current Status and Challenges is a comprehensive volume on all aspects of biomass utilization for bioenergy, from the fundamentals to the latest commercial and regulatory issues. The book examines all aspects of biomass utilization, from technologies and processes to products. Sections examine the role of biomass in the energy transition, land availability for bioenergy projects, biomass logistics and supply chain, and assesses the lifecycle of bioenergy systems. Chapters are dedicated to each energy conversion route, including thermochemical, biochemical, and chemical, biofuels synthesis, hydrogen from biomass, biorefineries, electricity generation, and waste-to energy.Policy and regulatory issues are also considered. Each chapter reviews the state-of-the-art, discusses disruptive technological approaches, and concludes with specific recommendations on how to achieve commercial competitiveness. Case studies provide examples of real-world applications in each chapter.

The Danube River and The Western Black Sea Coast

1st Edition
July 4, 2025
Jürg Bloesch + 4 more
English
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The Danube River and The Western Black Sea Coast: Complex Transboundary Management is a brand-new volume in the Elsevier Ecohydrology from Catchment to Coast series. The book focuses on the second largest river in Europe and the most transboundary river basin that encompasses 19 countries. Chapters focus on changes to the area in the past decade and a way forward. Made up of three parts, the book starts with an overview, covers The Danube River and its recipient, the Black Sea, including sediment balance, water quality, hydromorphology and aquatic biodiversity.Section two covers the key pressures and implementation of transboundary water management such as aquatic resources, invasive species, climate change, and stakeholder participation. Section three assess visions for a sustainable future in the Danube River Basin with a look to applicable sustainability, ecosystems, human interaction, and improving biodiversity through floodplains. The book concludes with a summary and outlook.

The Psychology of Romantic Relationships

1st Edition
July 2, 2025
Ami Sha'ked + 2 more
English
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Psychology of Romantic Relationships delves into the myriad factors that contribute to successful relationships. Starting with Intimacy in Romantic Relationships, the book unveils new facets of the complex dynamics underpinning successful marriages. From the pivotal role of communication and trust to the delicate balance of gratitude and forgiveness, each chapter provides insightful knowledge to understand and enhance marital bonds. Furthermore, the book covers additional, essential aspects such as the importance of mutual respect, the role of shared activities in bonding, and the impact of individual growth on relationship harmony. It is a must-read for psychologists, therapists, and anyone interested in the intricacies of love.

Human Factors in Traffic Safety for Highway and Traffic Engineers

1st Edition
July 24, 2025
Alexei Tsyganov
English
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Human Factors in Traffic Safety for Highway and Traffic Engineers provides human factors principles and findings to allow nonexperts to consider the road user’s capabilities and limitations more effectively into the practice of design, operations, and safety. It provides data and insights on the needs, capabilities, and limitations of road users, including perception and effects of visual demands, cognition, and influence of expectations on driving behavior. It bridges the gap between human factors research and practical application, presenting complex psychological insights in an accessible manner.This book begins with Part 1 explaining the significance of the traffic safety problem and giving an overview of the importance of human factors in highway design and traffic engineering. Part 2 focuses on driver information perception and processing, including perception of depth and speed, driver’s visual search, how road users search for information, and how mental and information load affects drivers’ performance. Part 3 provides results of investigations of traffic crash causation and reviews major driver errors. Part 4 then describes key principles of road users’ considerations during highway design and traffic operation. Finally, Part 5 focuses on safety analysis and assessment and describes in detail the existing methods to evaluate human factors during safety assessments.This is a valuable resource for professionals in highway and traffic engineering, researchers, policymakers, urban planners, and students to understand how human factors contribute to traffic incidents and how to mitigate these through design and operational strategies.

Handbook of the Economics of Matching

1st Edition
Volume 2
November 1, 2025
English
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Handbook of the Economics of Matching, Volume Two summarizes both classic results and the many recent advances on matching without transfers. Its seven chapters, written by leading researchers, cover both theoretical and empirical work and include sections on Matching under Non-transferable Utility: Theory, Empirical Approaches to Climate Change Impact Quantification, The large markets case, Matching under Non-transferable Utility: Applications, Allocating students to schools: theory and empirical methods, Matching with contracts, Matching with frictions, and Dynamic Matching.

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