Love was never part of the map."She saved him once. Now she will burn an empire to do it again."Malacca, 1509. The greatest fortress in the East. A city of stone and secrets, where the Portuguese rule with iron and fire.Inês de Almeida has survived shipwrecks, storms, and the hunting knives of empires. She carries the globe — the living map of the old ones, a treasure that could reshape the world. But when Yusuf Demir, the Ottoman ...

Twenty-four envelopes. One murdered man. And a Christmas secret buried for twenty-five years.When investigative consultant Clara Vale arrives at Bellweather House just before Christmas, she expects to investigate a family mystery.She doesn't expect a body.At midnight, the first envelope is opened.HE DID NOT DIE THAT NIGHT.Minutes later, a man is found dead in the library.His watch has stopped at 11:24.But Clara quickly discovers that ...

WINNER, Amazon Canada First Novel Award; Lambda Literary Award; Firecracker Award for FictionFinalist, Carol Shields Winnipeg Book AwardA Globe and Mail Best Book of the YearIt's the dead of winter in Winnipeg and Wendy Reimer, a thirty-year-old trans woman, feels like her life is frozen in place. When her Oma passes away Wendy receives an unexpected phone call from a distant family friend with a startling ...

This book offers a roadmap to the future, addressing pressing challenges such as energy sustainability, environmental preservation, and advancements in biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. From the exploration of novel perovskite materials for environmental NO reduction to the development of game-changing biotechnological strategies for simultaneous CO2 capture and H2S conversion, this book spans a diverse range of topics. The content dives into the realms of artificial intelligence, nanotec...

This volume celebrates the career of Prof. Ricardo de Almeida Falbo on the occasion of his formal retirement. The volume includes reflections from collaborators and former students, casting light on his academic work and contributions.The chapters show how Falbo's original contributions have influenced a number of developments in the application of Software Engineering practices to Ontology Engineering and in the application of Ontologies in Software Engineering.A few perso...

In this book, the authors discuss some of the main challenges and new opportunities in science and engineering research, which involve combining computational and experimental approaches as a promising strategy for arriving at new insights into composition–structure–property relations, even at the nanoscale. From a practical standpoint, the authors show that significant improvements in the material/biomolecular foresight by design, including a fundamental understanding of their physical an...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the international workshops associated with the 36th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2024, which was held in Limassol, Cyprus, during June 2024.The total of 25 full and 5 short papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. They stem from the following workshops:– International Workshop on Blockchain for Information Systems...

Explore how we judge humans and machines differently, depending on the scenario—from losing your job to AI to the failure of a natural disaster alert system.How would you feel about losing your job to a machine? How about a tsunami alert system that fails? Would you react differently to acts of discrimination depending on whether they were carried out by a machine or by a human? What about public surveillance?How Humans Judge Machines compares peop...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER 2023, held in Lisbon, Portugal, during November 6-9, 2023. The 21 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. Additionally, the book contains 4 keynote speeches and 3 tutorials, and one invited paper corresponding to one of the keynote speeches.The papers cover a broad spectrum of classical and modern topics on conceptual modeling, including rese...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing, EDOC 2022, which took place in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, in October 2022.The 15 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: enterprise security; enterprise architecture; business process modeling and monitoring; business process mining and discovery; and process-dri...

This specially curated collection features three reviews of current and key research on nutraceuticals in fruit and vegetables.The first chapter provides a brief description of the chemistry of bioactive compounds (BCs) and their presence in temperate fruits, and discusses recent advances in strategies towards improving sustainable crop production for nutraceuticals. It examines polyphenols, carotenoids, vitamin C and production practices that influence bioactive c...

The growth of peer-to-peer (P2P) accommodation has been remarkable. However, the rapid expansion of the phenomenon has yielded several concerns over its potentially negative economic, social and environmental impacts. These impacts are highlighted in policy agendas as an emerging problem encountered by many local communities in destinations experiencing a boom in P2P accommodation. Specifically, concerns have been raised over the impact of the growth of P2P accommodation on local housing m...