Cristina's son was about to embark on gender-affirming care that would likely cause infertility, when she realised the need to support both her child and the adult he would become, and give him the right to have children of his own. In doing so she discovered a future - where living your life authentically doesn't mean giving up your fertility - that may be accessible to many, many more trans people in the coming years.Through interviews with trans thought leaders, letters to her so...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2016, held in Coimbra, Portugal, in June/July 2016. IJCAR 2014 was a merger of three leading events in automated reasoning, namely CADE (International Conference on Automated Deduction), FroCoS (International Symposium on Frontiers of Combining Systems) and TABLEAUX (International Conference on Automated Reasoning with Analytic Tableaux and Related Methods).The 26 ...

Genetic Programming Theory and Practice brings together some of the most impactful researchers in the field of genetic programming (GP), each one working on unique and interesting intersections of theoretical development and practical applications of this evolutionary-based machine learning paradigm. Topics of particular interest for this year's volume include powerful modeling techniques through GP-based symbolic regression, novel selection mechanisms that help guide the evolutionary proc...

The 8th installment of the REWAS conference series held at the TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition focuses on circular economy for the energy transition. The papers in this volume explore the latest technical and societal developments enabling sustainability within our global economy with an emphasis on recycling and waste management. The 2025 collection includes contributions from the following symposia:Automation and Digitalization in Recycling ProcessesSustainable En...

Collects Thanos (2019) #1-6. Thanos is dead! The Mad Titan has been executed by the deadliest assassin in the galaxy: his adopted daughter, Gamora! But long before their twisted familial relationship came to a bloody end, how did it begin? Travel back to Gamora’s childhood and the day her life changed forever. What kind of a father figure was the brutal and merciless Thanos of Titan? And did he mold her into what she became, or was Gamora born to be one of the most ferocious warriors in th...

Collecting Death of the Inhumans #1-5. The alien Kree are on a killing spree, leaving behind a message: Join or die. Thousands of Inhumans have already made their choice — the evidence floats, bleeding, in space. Attilan died screaming without its king. Now Black Bolt, monarch of the Inhumans, sets out for vengeance — but will he lead the last of his people to their deaths? The Kree have a weapon of their own — one that will teach the Silent King what it truly means to be voiceless. When V...

Recent technological developments have broadened considerably the role of magnetic resonance imaging in the evaluation of liver pathology. Today, MR imaging is not looked upon merely as a problem-solving technique but is widely considered the principal imaging modality for both the detection and accurate diagnosis of focal and diffuse liver disease. Advances in hardware and sequence design and the advent of novel contrast agents with liver-specific properties have contributed towards makin...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 30th International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity, SIROCCO 2023, held in Alcalá de Henares, Spain, during June 6–9, 2023.The 26 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. SIROCCO is devoted to the study of the interplay between structural knowledge, communication, and computing in decentralized systems of multiple communicating entities. Special...

The 7th installment of the REWAS conference series held at the TMS Annual Meeting& Exhibition focuses on developing tomorrow’s technical cycles. The papers in thiscollection explore the latest technical and societal developments enabling sustainabilitywithin our global economy with an emphasis on recycling and waste management. The2022 collection includes contributions from the following symposia:• Coupling Metallurgy and Sustainability: An EPD Sympo...

This collection focuses on energy efficient technologies including innovative ore beneficiation, smelting technologies, recycling and waste heat recovery. The volume also covers various technological aspects of sustainable energy ecosystems, processes that improve energy efficiency, reduce thermal emissions, and reduce carbon dioxide and other greenhouse emissions. Papers addressing renewable energy resources for metals and materials production, waste heat recovery and other industrial ene...

This collection addresses the pressing needs for sustainable technologies with reduced energy consumption and environmental pollutions and the development and application of alternative sustainable energy to maintain a green environment and efficient and long-lasting energy supply. Contributors represent both industry and academia and focus on new and efficient energy technologies including innovative ore beneficiation, smelting technologies, and recycling and waste heat recovery, as well ...

Every sector faces unique challenges in the transition to sustainability. Across each, materials will play a key role. That will depend on novel materials and processes, but these will only be effective with a solid understanding of the trends in the market. For each respective sector, the papers in this collection will explore the trends and drivers toward sustainability, the enabling materials technologies and challenges, and the tools to evaluate their implications.Major section...