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Walking and Pedrestrians

• 1st Edition
• Volume 15
• February 1, 2025
• Winnie Daamen + 3 more
• English
• Hardback 978-0-443-29396-2

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• eBook 978-0-443-29397-9

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Walking and pedrestrians series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

Digital Transformation in Retail Supply Chain Management for Logistics 5.0

• 1st Edition
• February 1, 2025
• English

Digital Transformation in Retail Supply Chain Management for Logistics 5.0 delves into how Industry 5.0-enabled Logistics 5.0 technologies are reshaping retail supply chain management and provides insights into the industry’s future. It elucidates the digital tools and strategies organizations can employ to optimize their retail supply chain management, minimize costs, enhance customer satisfaction, and achieve sustainability objectives through Industry 5.0-enabled technologies. It innovatively blends the details of recent advancements across retail supply chains and supply chain-related digital transformations. This resource imparts knowledge on harnessing the potential of industry 5.0-enabled logistics 5.0 technologies, optimizing retail omnichannel operations, enhancing retail supply chain procedures, and improving logistics and product retailing strategies to reach consumers better. It also provides insights into human resource and talent development tailored for Industry 5.0 and advanced retail logistics operations. It explores the nuances of the Supply Network 5.0, discussing the synergy between humans and machines, especially in the context of robotic process automation systems and artificial intelligence tools in the “new normal” of retail supply chain management. It specifically addresses textile products, FMCG, online products, construction, food and beverages, the shoe industry, SMEs, and other manufacturing sectors. The “Implications of Industry 5.0 and Logistics 5.0 on Environmental Sustainability” section also delves into the often-overlooked environmental sustainability ramifications of the Fifth Industrial Revolution. This book’s cutting-edge perspective makes it an invaluable asset for industry professionals, policymakers, business owners, managers, researchers, practitioners, academicians, instructors, and students in retail, logistics supply chain management, digital business, and innovation.

Neurobiology of Addiction

• 2nd Edition
• January 1, 2025
• George F. Koob + 3 more
• English

Neurobiology of Addiction is conceived as a current survey and synthesis of the most important findings in our understanding of the neurobiological mechanisms of addiction over the past 50 years. The book includes a scholarly introduction, thorough descriptions of animal models of addiction, and separate chapters on the neurobiological mechanisms of addiction for psychostimulants, opioids, alcohol, nicotine and cannabinoids. Key information is provided about the history, sources, and pharmacokinetics and psychopathology of addiction of each drug class, as well as the behavioral and neurobiological mechanism of action for each drug class at the molecular, cellular and neurocircuitry level of analysis. A chapter on neuroimaging and drug addiction provides a synthesis of exciting new data from neuroimaging in human addicts a unique perspective unavailable from animal studies. The final chapters explore theories of addiction at the neurobiological and neuroadaptational level both from a historical and integrative perspective. The book incorporates diverse finding with an emphasis on integration and synthesis rather than discrepancies or differences in the literature.

Performance Evaluation and Attribution Volume 1

• 2nd Edition
• January 1, 2025
• Russ Wermers + 1 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-12-818297-0

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Performance Evaluation and Attribution Volume 1: Asset Pricing and Models, Second Edition, presents an updated, comprehensive exploration of portfolio evaluation. Based on the authors’ Performance Evaluation and Attribution of Security Portfolios (2012) this Second Edition adds four new chapters and updated content throughout in its practical approach to measuring manager skills and using recent statistical techniques to solve investment problems. Added are new factor models, including the newly developed q-factor model and the new models of Fama and French; new examples; and new work on qualitative considerations used in performance evaluation. Highly detailed, Performance Evaluation and Attribution Volume 1: Asset Pricing and Models, Second Edition, Second Edition, combines academic rigor with practical applications and guidance for applications of diverse approaches.

Performance Attribution Volume 2

• 2nd Edition
• January 1, 2025
• Brian Singer + 2 more
• English
• Paperback 978-0-12-818301-4

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Performance Attribution Volume 2: Analysis and Reporting, Second Edition explains the practical aspects of building or interpreting a top-to-bottom performance attribution system applicable to many asset classes. Requiring a familiarity with the principal concepts of portfolio analysis, it features standard methodologies and alternative approaches to the attribution of diverse assets, including derivatives, fixed income, and hedge funds. Based on the authors’ Performance Evaluation and Attribution of Security Portfolios (2012), its concentration on the ethical standards embodied by GIPS includes a summary of provisions for the presentation of risk in a firm’s investments.

Handbook on New Paradigms in Smart Charging for E-Mobility

• 1st Edition
• January 1, 2025
• Abhishek Kumar + 3 more
• English

Handbook on New Paradigms in Smart Charging for E-Mobility: Global Trends, Policies and Practices provides a complete package for understanding and developing smart chargers for e-mobility applications. It discusses various concepts required for developing charging infrastructure and usage of different kinds of storage technologies, power electronics converters, controllers, communication requirements, grid infrastructure, sustainable technologies, policy frameworks, and all other related crucial aspects of E-mobility.Each part of the book covers a subdomain of e-mobility, beginning with an introductory chapter reviewing existing literature; the subsequent chapters are arranged to each follow the previous one. Other available books focus on specific technical subdomains of e-mobility, but none provides the wider outlook to meet the requirements of all audiences. This book uniquely brings together topics that are not otherwise easily accessible or available to these audiences.This book will be beneficial for engineers, scientists, and researchers, providing them with a comprehensive standard benchmark work to explore the evolving aspects of charging infrastructure for E-mobility. Further, it will also help policymakers, practitioners and government entities to formulate policies for successful implementations of E-motility for their masses. The techno-socio-economic focus will serve as standard literature for all.

Sustainability

• 1st Edition
• January 1, 2025
• Liliana L. Mammino
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-13417-3

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Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Endeavour offers a comprehensive overview of the contributions of various disciplines to sustainability, along with possible synergies that could develop among them. The first part of the book covers sustainability science from each related scientific discipline, such as environmental science, engineering, and medicine and economy, highlighting cross disciplinary pathways. The second half of the book offers insights into how each of the green sciences relate to each other and to education on sustainability. This framework is ideal for scientists and researchers in adjacent areas of sustainability.

Smart City Standardization

• 1st Edition
• January 1, 2025
• Leonidas Anthopoulos
• English
• Paperback 978-0-443-14144-7

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Smart City Standardization: International and National Implementations contains presents the current state of smart city standards at both international and national levels and demonstrates how smart city innovation is clarified via standardization and how competitive solutions compromise under international and national negotiations in standardization bodies. The book starts with international and supranational levels and proceeds to national approaches. It is a valuable resource for researchers, policymakers, and other practitioners who need to understand how they can use smart cities to strengthen city resilience, but it is also ideal for instructors of courses in urban studies, ICT, security, public health, and more.Chapters address the problem of smart city standardization and aims to provide answers to the crucial questions: 1. What is the purpose of standardization in smart cities? 2. How is smart city standardization established, and by whom? 3. Which standards exist for smart cities? 4. How do national standards transform international recommendations into smaller scale norms? Moreover, the standardization ecosystem is depicted, and the existing international standards are briefly explained. Finally, the interrelation between international and national standardization helps readers understand how the standardization is brought from high-level policymaking to national practices.

Empowerment Self-Defense

• 1st Edition
• January 1, 2025
• Lindsay M. Orchowski + 1 more
• English

Empowerment Self-Defense: Theory, Research and Practice explores the theory, research, and practice of empowerment self-defense as a sexual assault prevention approach. This book begins with introductory chapters that introduce key issues and theory, including the theoretical underpinnings of empowerment self-defense, the difference between empowerment self-defense and martial arts, as well as myths and misconceptions about the approach. The second section include a series of chapters that summarize research on empowerment self-defense. The final section of the book will address special topics, including implementation of empowerment self-defense for indigenous population, individuals with disabilities, and transgender women.Nationwide, 81% of women have reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment and/or assault in their lifetime. Sexual assault prevention programs vary in their approaches and one approach empowerment self-defense, strengthens an individual’s ability to prevent and respond to threat, and holds great promise for stopping violence and reducing inequality.

Navigating Education 5.0 into the Metaverse

• 1st Edition
• January 1, 2025
• Robertas Damaševičius
• English

Navigating Education 5.0 into the Metaverse: Educational Technologies of the Future addresses the informational needs and daily challenges of readers by providing a comprehensive, up-to-date resource on the latest ideas and advances in educational technologies, and by offering guidance on how to effectively integrate these technologies into teaching practice and design technology-enhanced learning experiences. This is an area of key current interest to educators, librarians and researchers.