This book offers a fascinating exploration of the relationship between information and communication technologies (ICTs) and spatial planning, expanding the concept of “urban smartness” from the usual scale of buildings or urban projects to the regional dimension. In particular, it presents the outcomes of research undertaken at Politecnico di Milano, in collaboration with Telecom Italia, that had three principal goals: to investigate the use of ICTs for the representation, promotion, mana...

River RestorationRiver restoration initiatives are now widespread across the world. The research efforts undertaken to support them are increasingly interdisciplinary, focusing on ecological, chemical, physical as well as societal issues. River Restoration: Political, Social, and Economic Perspectives provides a comprehensive overview of research in the field of river restoration in humanities and the social sciences. It illustrates how, in the last thirty...

With honesty, humor, candor and clarity, Donna Lynn Morandi discusses her life as a wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend. Donna Lynn's personal journey through motherhood exposes both her failures and successes while depicting life in a chaotic, yet hilarious way. Many stories are told regarding family, marriage, friends, and how life never seems to go as planned. While raising four children can be stressful, Donna Lynn finds a way to laugh at the insanity, enjoy the chaos, and relis...

This book offers new perspectives through which to observe and interpret mega-events. Using the specific case studies of World’s Fairs, Di Vita and Morandi present a report of the Milan Expo 2015 and its trans-scalar legacies. While the event and post-event have been affected by the world crisis, the locations of exhibition areas have greatly expanded, encompassing regional as well as post-metropolitan spaces. The two main aims of comparing Milan to previous expos such as Lisbon 1998, Zara...

This proceedings volume collects contributions from the 5th AIRO Young Workshop and AIRO PhD School 2021 joint event on “Optimization and Data Science: Trends and Applications”, held online, from February 8 to 12, 2021. The joint event was organized by AIROYoung representatives and the Operations Research Group of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the University “Federico II” of Naples.The selected contributions represent the state-of-the-art kn...

This book focuses on evidence-based occupational therapy in the care of older adults in different clinical settings, from home to acute hospital, from intensive care unit to rehabilitation centers and nursing homes. Occupational therapy has progressively developed as a new discipline aiming to improve the daily life of individuals of different ages, from children to older adults.The book first reviews the interaction between occupational therapy and geriatrics and then discusses in...

This book begins by introducing the topic of knowledge in literature, including its scientific foundations. Due to the ever-increasing number of scientific publications, literature reviews are becoming more and more essential to stay updated. Literature Reviews describes an innovative system for creating systematic literature reviews, through reviewing, analyzing, and synthesizing scientific and technological literature.It then discusses systematic literature reviews, cont...

Peach is a highly valuable temperate fruit crop with significant consumer demand and nutraceutical benefits. This book provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage on sustainable production processes for peach and nectarine. The latter is a natural mutation of peach that lacks fuzzy skin. It includes fundamental information to help reduce production risks for growers, improve fruit quality, and increase potential market returns, whilst addressing current emerging issues such as climate c...

This book explores Āyurveda's authentic nature through a unique "via negativa" approach, examining eight common misconceptions. By systematically analyzing what Ayurveda is not, the text builds a comprehensive understanding of this traditional medical system's true scope and identity.Each chapter addresses specific misconceptions: Āyurveda as merely a wellness system, alternative medicine, massage technique, religion, exclusive practice, simple methodology, herbal medicine, or Indi...

Santa’s tales is a collection of fairy tales for the whole family.They are tender, often amusing, sometimes strange and occasionally poetic. They are written for children of all ages, perfect for Christmas but not only then...Let them enchant you!

This book presents selected papers from the fourth edition of the GraphX conference series, GraphITA 2015. Its content range from fundamentals to applications of graphene and other 2D material such as silicene, BN and MoS2. The newest technological challenges in the field are described in this book, written by worldwide known scientists working with 2D materials.The chapter 'Morphing Graphene-Based Systems for Applications: Perspectives from Simulations' is published open access un...

Sociological Realism presents a clear and updated discussion of the main tenets and issues of social theory, written by some of the top scholars within the critical realist and relational approach. It connects such approaches systematically to other strands of thought that are central in contemporary sociology, like systems theory and rational choice theory.Divided into three parts, social ontology, sociological theory, and methodology, each part includes a systematic pres...