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The Market for Corporate Control

1st Edition
Volume 1
August 1, 2025
Bjørn Espen Eckbo
English

Structural Biology of Amyloid Fibrils

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Vijay Kumar + 1 more
English

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.

Plastics in Coastal and Marine Environments

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Nelson Guillermo Rangel Buitrago
English

Plastics in Coastal and Marine Environments: A Global Crisis is the first foundational reference book focused on plastics and their impacts on coasts and oceans. Plastic litter is one of the most pervasive and fastest-growing anthropogenic alterations of the world's coasts and oceans and its magnitude, distribution, and collateral effects have been suggested as a geological indicator of the Anthropocene stage and specifically of the Plasticene age.The chapters of the book are arranged to follow a narrative that will allow readers to understand the plastic problem in coastal and marine environments. The book begins with the invention of plastics and finishes with their indelible mark on Earth through new types of rocks generated by plastic production and use (the Plasticene era). It concludes with possible strategies to tackle the inexorable rising of plastic litter in coastal and marine environments.Combining core theory and diverse strategies and case studies, Plastics in Coastal and Marine Environments: A Global Crisis is an essential reference for researchers in oceanographers, geology, and biologists

The End of Driving

2nd Edition
August 1, 2025
Bern Grush + 2 more
English

The End of Driving: Transportation Systems and Public Policy Planning for Automated Vehicles, Second Edition explores both the potential of vehicle automation technology and the barriers it faces when considering coherent urban deployment. The book evaluates the case for deliberate development of automated public transportation and mobility-as-a-service as paths towards sustainable mobility, describing critical approaches to the planning and management of vehicle automation technology. It serves as a reference for understanding the full life cycle of the multi-year transportation systems planning processes, including novel regulation, planning, and acquisition tools for regional transportation.Application-oriented, research-based, and solution-oriented, this book concludes with a detailed discussion of the systems design needed for accomplishing this shift. This thoroughly updated second edition covers the future technology application milestones that will mark the rate of progress in the years ahead, including some that may not come to pass. More importantly, reasons for the existing lack of consensus on environmental impacts of vehicle automation will be tied to the visible milestones. I

Exploring Asian-Pacific Co-operatives in Theory and Practice

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Morris Altman + 1 more
English

Exploring Asian-Pacific Co-operatives in Theory and Practice: Resilience and Thriving between the State and the Market investigates Asian Pacific co-op models mainly through the analytical lenses of Asian Pacific researchers. It consists of theoretical analysis on transversal themes from interdisciplinary studies and national case studies covering new sectors and new countries. It focuses on a variety of challenging issues using different analytical approaches to co-operative challenges in the Asian Pacific and examines the traditional dichotomy between the State and the Market. This book gives voice to co-operative scholars in the Asian Pacific to investigate and interrogate the co-operative business model and co-operatives in the Asian Pacific context where the history and evolution of co-operatives often differs from their ‘Western’ counterparts. The demise of state socialism has led to a wide range of deregulation and globalization while market fundamentalism has been questioned by widening socio-economic gap among people and nations, financial crises, COVID-19, and the climate challenge. Co-operatives represent a fourth sector related to and intersecting with the State, Market, and Community. This book examines the extent to which co-operatives represent a vibrant and sustainable component of the broader economy. In spite of the challenges faced by co-operatives in the Asian-Pacific region, some co-op models have demonstrated resilience and sustainability while maintaining their Co-operative Identity, remaining operationally consistent with co-operative principles. The authors also examine why some co-operatives are transforming into public or conventional companies through public polices and/or market competition. Overall, this volume explores how co-operatives emerged and evolved between the State and Market in light of the Co-operative Identity and Principles. Exploring Asian-Pacific Co-operatives in Theory and Practice broadens our understanding of co-operatives by placing our narrative in the Asian Pacific context using multiple case studies, addressing an array of socio-economic challenges, and engaging in different modeling approaches.

Culturally Informed Therapy for Muslims

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Amy Weisman de Mamani + 3 more
English

There are currently over 3 million Muslims living in the United States and that number is rapidly rising. Muslims frequently face Islamophobia, hate crimes and discrimination leading to depression and anxiety and a higher rate of suicide. Culturally Informed Therapy for Muslim Americans: A Group Based Intervention provides evidence-based interventions designed to specifically to help Muslims with a broad range of mental disorders and symptoms, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and depression. This book reviews the literature on the mental health of Muslims and outlines a step-by-step, cognitive behavioral approach tailored to meet their unique needs. The five modules of Culturally Informed Therapy Collectivism will be presented including: Psychoeducation, Spirituality, Communication Training, and Problem-Solving. Detailed case examples to help illustrate each of the modules will also be included.

Blockchain in Finance

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
English

"Blockchain in Finance" provides an in-depth overview of how blockchain and digital assets drive financial economics with a truly global approach. Easy to digest and yet comprehensive in its treatment, this textbook covers blockchain technologies, infrastructure, applications, regulatory and legal aspects, offering both a quick introduction for beginners and numerous, practical case studies to engage advanced students and working professionals. Here, after discussing blockchain fundamentals, this expert author team considers blockchain contracts, scalability, CBDCs, tokenization, stablecoins, NFTs, decentralized finance (DeFi), and the metaverse, among other topics, with applications explored across the financial world. Each chapter adopts a consistent structure and pedagogy. These are accompanied by over 120 illustrations across the book, as well as a blockchain glossary. An instructor website includes a complete set of lecture slides supporting undergraduate, graduate, certificate, and professional course faculty across the globe.

Reliable Decision-Making for Sustainable Transportation

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Gholamreza Haseli + 2 more
English

Reliable Decision-Making for Sustainable Transportation explores decision-making methods that incorporate expert and decision-maker opinions for improved reliability. It examines fuzzy sets that capture ambiguity and enable a more comprehensive analysis of stakeholder perspectives, focusing on transportation case studies to demonstrate techniques for weighing criteria, ranking alternatives, and selecting optimal and reliable decisions. The book seeks to advance transportation planning, traffic engineering, road safety, and sustainability by integrating state-of-the-art decision support systems that leverage AI and multiple stakeholder viewpoints. This approach will benefit researchers and professionals across transportation, decision sciences, supply chain management, and operations looking for innovative ways to model uncertainty and decision-maker reliability, providing methodologies and frameworks for more robust group decisions.

Commercial Banking

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Allen N. Berger + 2 more
English

Commercial Banking: Distinct Value, Roles, and Methods is a thorough, applied, and accessible introduction to the modern theory and practice of financial intermediation as enabled by commercial banks. This book begins by answering the simple questions: What do banks do? What are the core roles and methods of banks, and what unique value do they provide? From here, the textbook considers key issues in banking, regulation, coping with bank risk, competition amongst banks, global banking, careers in banking, and future directions. Throughout the book, emphasis is placed on differentiating between bank and non-bank financial firms, the impact of technology on banking, evolving regulatory environments, the economic importance of banking, and innovation in banking services. Perfect for undergraduate, graduate level, and professional courses in banking, bank management, and commercial banking, this book is reinforced with full-color figures, charts, tables, learning objectives, and key term definitions, as well as lecture slides hosted on an accompany instructor site, to support teaching and understanding.

Digital Psychiatry

1st Edition
July 1, 2025
Luis Sandoval + 1 more
English

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.