This book offers a methodical explanation of our biomass-driven ecosystem, the undeniable uncertainties posed by the response of vegetation to changes in environmental conditions and the fact that humans everywhere have an interest, even an obligation, to cooperate in a global campaign to combat climate change.

Sustainability Assessment is a comprehensive compilation of all the known policy factors related to sustainability. This book outlines all of the elements and considerations of community aspects of policy evaluation in an effort to reduce the future consequences on resources and environmental sustainability. The basic assumption behind it is that sustainability, though oriented to resources and meeting demands, starts from formulation of policy. Policies are so interrelated that all polici...

No matter how troubled a man is. No matter what his age is. No matter what kind of Misuse his body has gone through. The recipes mentioned in this book are Ancient Arab science, entirely Safe, Natural, designed to be Naturally Long-term auspicious, & are easy to make. These are going to be effective even if a man is weak to produce a child.The diets in recent times including the fast foods we eat, the extreme anxiety issues, work-related problems, smoking, alcohol, anxiety pills, h...

This book presents the state-of-the-arts application of digital watermarking in audio, speech, image, video, 3D mesh graph, text, software, natural language, ontology, network stream, relational database, XML, and hardware IPs. It also presents new and recent algorithms in digital watermarking for copyright protection and discusses future trends in the field.Today, the illegal manipulation of genuine digital objects and products represents a considerable problem in the digital worl...

This book is the first major study of provincial history in the Qajar period. Drawing extensively on unpublished Iranian and British documents, it explores the history of Mazandaran, a province in the Caspian region, during 1848-1914, when the province as a part of Iran was exposed to the policies of rival great powers, particularly Tzarist Russia. While showing socio-economic characteristics of Mazandaran and its potential for development, the book examines in detail the transformation of...

A groundbreaking account of how prolonged grassroots mobilization lays the foundations for durable democratizationWhen protests swept through the Middle East at the height of the Arab Spring, the world appeared to be on the verge of a wave of democratization. Yet with the failure of many of these uprisings, it has become clearer than ever that the path to democracy is strewn with obstacles. Mohammad Ali Kadivar examines the conditions leading to th...

Informed by urban political economy and critical social analysis, this book provides a critical comparative analysis of macro- and micro-level spatial design processes in architecture and urban planning. It interrogates the extent to which past and existing approaches to design have catered to social justice issues. With a special focus on the Right to the City approach and recent efforts to democratize urban spaces in the post-COVID 19 pandemic era, the book draws on examples of spatial d...

Psymentology, or Supra-Holistic Mind-Psychology, is a spiritual-based approach that offers a comprehensive view of the human being and human studies. Its primary aim is to understand the human, their existential software, and to provide a framework through which mental and psychological challenges and unexplained experiences may be addressed.In Psymentology, the existential dimensions of the human are considered unlimited; human existence is composed of countless software and hardw...

Some love stories are never spoken... only felt.Set against the rich cultural backdrop of Pakistan, Echoes of Love is a deeply moving story of love, duty, sacrifice, and the silent longings of the human heart.Safdar appears to have everything a man could desire-a successful family business, a respected place in society, a devoted wife, and two beloved children. Yet beneath the surface of his carefully ordered life lies an emptiness he cannot explai...

Silicones have unique properties including thermal oxidative stability, low temperature flow, high compressibility, low surface tension, hydrophobicity and electric properties. These special properties have encouraged the exploration of alternative synthetic routes of well defined controlled microstructures of silicone copolymers, the subject of this Springer Brief. The authors explore the synthesis and characterization of notable block copolymers. Recent advances in controlled radical pol...

This book takes the reader on a journey from the moment that raw wood material enters the factory to the final pellet consumption. It starts by reviewing biomass application and its role for the future development of renewable energies, discussing different biomass conversion methods as alternatives to direct utilization. The second chapter then comprehensively examines densification processes, with a focus on the pelleting process. Chapter three further elaborates on the pelleting process...

This book reports the results of an evidence-based case study for mental disorders which show that PTC has been very successful in bringing about deep and constant therapeutic changes. In response to the need of a more efficient approach for the treatment of psychological disorders, especially the broad spectrum of anxiety disorders, the PTC psychotherapeutic model was developed.Results of the follow-up studies reported in the present book show that the relapse rate in this model i...