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Focuses on the use of storytelling to respond to the fundamental need to share experiences while also inspiring world-changing solutions through the stimulation of curiosity, imagination, and reflection. Topics covered include digital storytelling, narrative schema, and mediation.

Presents research on the main approaches and techniques used in urban goods transport modelling while addressing planning and management issues. The book highlights a range of topics, including urban logistics, vehicle routing, and greenhouse emissions.

Presents research on the methods and applications of policies and other strategies that identify and prevent online harassment among school students. Among the strategies discussed are the involvement of school institutions and families in planning well-structured awareness activities, and running effective initiatives for intervention.

Discusses the role of open education in improving the quality of education, as well as facilitating policy dialogue, knowledge sharing, and capacity building. The book features research on a wide range of topics, including design theory, competence development, and adaptive learning.

Presents research on the methods and applications of the structures of binary compounds. The book explores the study of geometry polytopes from a higher-dimensional perspective, taking into account the features of polytopes that are models of chemical compounds.

Presents research on the application of research evaluation, specifically through the lens of scientometrics. While highlighting topics such as bibliometrics and the h-index, this publication explores a full range of research indicators available for the evaluation and assessment of scientific literature.

Provides innovative insights into shared workspaces as independent socio-economic environments. The publication explores the ideas of knowledge sharing, work culture, and economic planning, and it covers topics centred on the importance of workspace design and organisation.

Provides a systemic study of a soft system called the Time Bank, a reciprocal service exchange that uses units of time as currency. The book explores the contemporary context of Time Bank and describes the most recent research methodologies and results.

Explores how a manager's personal values can be used for the development of innovative working strategies to influence organisations and their individual employees. Taking a cross-cultural approach, the authors compare managers' ideals between organisations worldwide to determine best leadership strategies.

Provides innovative insights into online bullying and methods of early identification, mitigation, and prevention of harassing speech and activity. Explanations and reasoning for each of these applied methods are provided as well as their pros and cons when applied to the language of online bullying.

Presents emerging perspectives on the theoretical and practical aspects of data analysis tools and techniques within business applications. The book provides concrete examples and case studies of successful uses of data-driven projects as well as the challenges and opportunities of generating value from data using analytics.

Provides innovative insights into the historical, socio-psychological, cognitive, political, and economic processes that impact social responsibility within corporate and financial markets. The publication highlights topics such as global governance, financial social responsibility, and political divestiture.

Discusses investigative trends in mobile devices and the internet of things, examining malicious mobile network traffic and traffic irregularities, as well as software-defined mobile network backbones. The book features research on topics such as lawful interception, system architecture, and networking environments.

Provides guidelines on how SMEs can achieve sustainability through positive marketing outcomes and effective customer services. Featuring a braod range of research, this publication provides new models for managers, industry professionals, academics, and researchers.

Explains why people leave Africa, what they encounter, interactions with the host community, strategies of inclusion, and perceived exclusions from the mainstream of British society. The book also provides information on the social changes and policies that African countries are adopting to negotiate immigration and emigration processes.

Provides innovative insights into how an ethical hacking knowledge base can be used for testing and improving the network and system security posture of an organisation. Highlighting topics including cyber operations, server security, and network statistics, this book is aimed at technical experts, students, academics, and industry professionals.

Argues that digital games can potentially help to solve the problems of minority students' insufficient academic preparation, and that a game-based learning environment can help to engage these students with the content and facilitate academic achievement.

Illuminates and consolidates multiple views of social innovation theory, research, and practice. The book provides an in-depth theoretical and practical understanding coupled with an assessment of the current research in multidisciplinary perspectives complemented by case studies representing each knowledge cluster in social innovation research.

Explores the behavioural and constructivist approaches to learning, focusing on the particular cognitive approach and resulting insights of the 4C-ID model. The results of studies applied to the teaching of electrical circuits, initiation to computer programming using the Alice microworld, and computer programming using Python are presented.

Introduces the concept of reliability fuzzy set theory, including various methods, techniques, and algorithms. The chapters present the latest findings and research in fuzzy reliability theory applications in engineering areas.

Brings together different disciplines and research approaches to provide a comprehensive analysis of the phenomenology of God and spirituality, as well as offering an effective epistemological apparatus capable of dealing with this concept.

Introduces the concept of reliability fuzzy set theory, including various methods, techniques, and algorithms. The chapters present the latest findings and research in fuzzy reliability theory applications in engineering areas.

Highlights the important role of Latin American women in IT by disseminating their research contributions in order to provide more visibility and inspire greater participation of women within computer science. The book provides an analysis of these women's paths to high quality theoretical and applied research in computer science and IT.

Presents insights on how deep learning, together with IoT, impacts various sectors such as healthcare, agriculture, cyber security, and social media analysis applications. Chapters present solutions to various real-world problems using these methods from various researchers' points of view.

Highlights the important role of Latin American women in IT by disseminating their research contributions in order to provide more visibility and inspire greater participation of women within computer science. The book provides an analysis of these women's paths to high quality theoretical and applied research in computer science and IT.

Presents innovative approaches, methods, and ideas in education for climate change, environment strategies, and sustainability along with the development of curriculum and strategies for sustainable development goals. The book covers multiple disciplines, including geology, geography, remote sensing, GIS, and environmental science.

Provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in electromagnetic compatibility and electromagnetic interference for the aerospace industry. The book highlights a range of topics, including artificial intelligence, electromagnetic testing, environmental shielding, and EMC modelling techniques.

Compares different approaches to the industrial internet of things and explores the direct impact blockchain and AI technology have on the betterment of the human life. The book presents the latest advances in the field and provides insights and concerns on the concept and growth of the industrial internet of things.

Deepens knowledge on museum and art education and civic engagement and bridges the gap from theory to practice. The chapters focus on various sectors of this research, including diversity and inclusion in museum experiences, engaging communities through new techniques, and museum and university partnerships.

Shares new approaches and methodologies to build e-health solutions using gamification, and identifies new trends on this topic from pedagogical strategies to technological approaches. The book serves as a collection of knowledge that builds the theoretical foundations that can be helpful in creating sustainable e-health solutions in the future.