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This volume discusses novel concepts in cancer biology, focusing on different factors that affect the tumor microenvironment. Topics covered include sex-based differences in the tumor microenironment, dormancy in the tumor microenvironment, the influence of obesity on the tumor microenvironment, and much more. Taken alongside its companion volumes, Tumor Microenvironment: Novel Concepts covers the latest research on various aspects of the tumor microenvironment, as well as future directions. Useful for introducing the newer generation of researchers to the history of how scientists studied the tumor microenvironment as well as how this knowledge is currently applied for cancer treatments, it will be essential reading for advanced cell biology and cancer biology students, as well as researchers seeking an update on research on the tumor microenvironment.

It analyzes problems concerning the dynamic interactions of elements in mechanical oscillatory systems, constructing suitable mathematical models, estimating their dynamic properties, and adapting structural mathematical models to the equivalent forms.

This IAMSE Manual, Mentoring Across the Continuum, is a product of its co-editors' and authors' lifetime work in mentoring faculty and studying the impact of this mentoring.

Part 1: Opening.- Microservices: The evolution and Extinction of Web Services?.- Size matters: Microservices Research and Applications.- Part 2: Migration.- Migrating to microservices.- Assessing your Microservice migration readiness.- Part 3: Modeling.- Microservices Anti-Patterns: A Taxonomy.- Modeling Microservice Conversations with RESTalk.- Graphical and Textual Model-driven Microservice Development.- Part 4: Development and Deployment.- A Formal Approach to Microservice Architecture Deployment.- Autonomic Decentralised Microservices with Gru.- A Hybrid Approach to Microservices Load Balancing.- Part 5: Applications.- Towards the digital factory: a microservice-based middleware for real-to-digital synchronization.- Using microservices to customize multi-tenant SaaS.- You are not Netflix.- Part 6: Education.- DevOps and its Philosophy : Education Matters!.

This book focuses on C-type lectin receptors, a newly emerging family of pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs) and a crucial part of the human innate immune system.

Introduction.- Challenges toward the extension of multi-carrier energy networks.- Optimal operation of multi-carrier energy networks.- Energy markets of multi-carrier energy networks.- The role of energy storage technologies in operation of multi-carrier energy networks.- The role of demand side management in operation of multi-carrier energy networks.- Economic analysis of operation of multi-carrier energy networks.- Environmental analysis of operation of multi-carrier energy networks.- Uncertainty modeling in operation of multi-carrier energy networks.- Risk modeling in operation of multi-carrier energy networks.- Optimal planning and design of multi-carrier energy networks.- Network expansion planning of multi-carrier energy networks.- The role of energy storage technologies in multi-carrier energy networks.- Economic analysis of planning of multi-carrier energy networks.- Environmental analysis of planning of multi-carrier energy networks.- Uncertainty modeling in planning of multi-carrier energy networks.- Risk modeling in planning of multi-carrier energy networks.

This book considers and assesses essential financial issues by utilizing data science and fuzzy multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) methods. Given its scope, the book will help readers broaden their perspective on the assessment and evaluation of financial issues using data science and MCDM approaches.

This book explores the connections between the processes of social structuring and sensibilities in contemporary cities.

This book, written decades into the HIV epidemic, reflects critically on the idea that the socially excluded populations often focused on in HIV research are in fact difficult to access and reach.

This book tackles the recent research directions in using the newly emerged technologies during the era of COVID-19 pandemic. It also provides insights into the current challenges and constraints in using technologies during the era of COVID-19 pandemic and exposes new opportunities for future research in the domain.

The enzymology of milk and other products is of enormous significance for the production and quality of almost every dairy product.

Resources are defined broadly to include (1) physical resources: metals, non-metallic minerals, energy, and water (2) biological resources: food, forestry, land, ecological systems, etc., and (3) "misplaced" resources: air emissions, water pollutants, and solid waste.

This volume explores the rich interplay between number theory and wireless communications, reviewing the surprisingly deep connections between these fields and presenting new research directions to inspire future research.

This edited volume contributes to the ongoing research and practice on applying performance management to university governance. A specific focus is also placed on using performance governance applied to higher education institutions' Third Mission, and on enhancing decision makers' ability to frame dynamic complexity.

Particularly focusing on the geomechanical aspects of the production of hydrocarbons, including the laborious extraction of oils, it also includes contributions on ecological problems related to the biosphere.

This competitive environment jeopardizes the sustainability of the smaller companies, which often are driven out of business by the more powerful global players. This book discusses financial strategies for small and middle size companies to increase their competitiveness in the global markets.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of structural health monitoring (SHM) and more broadly in the fields of smart materials and intelligent systems.

Held every five years, the conference offers a forum for mathematicians using semigroup theory to discover what is happening outside their particular field of research and helps establish new links between various sub-disciplines of semigroup theory, stochastic processes, differential equations and the applied fields.

This book is intended as a guide to and manual on modeling complex problems in Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM). Once this matrix has been constructed, the Decision Maker (DM) can select from more than a hundred MCDM methods the one that best fits the requirements and conditions of the matrix.

This book provides a range of application areas of data and knowledge management and their solutions for the fields related to the convergence of information and communication technology (ICT), healthcare, and telecommunication services.

Covering topics such as rings and algebras, representation theory, number theory, operator algebras, category theory, group theory and information theory, it opens up new avenues of study for graduate students and young researchers.

This book provides a unique and comprehensive overview of the latest advances, challenges and accomplishments in the rapidly growing field of theoretical and computational materials science.

This book gathers new empirical findings fostering advances in the areas of digital and communication design, web, multimedia and motion design, graphic design, branding, and related ones.

This Open Access book presents an international group of scholars seeking to understand how youth from different cultures relate to modern multidimensional concepts of citizenship, and the roles that education and society have in shaping the views of the world's future citizens.

A polymath, Jonathan Borwein ranks among the most wide ranging and influential mathematicians of the last 50 years, making significant contributions to an exceptional diversity of areas and substantially expanding the use of the computer as a tool of the research mathematician.

This volume provides insights on how recruitment patterns develop for two related types of criminal networks: organized crime and terrorism. It specifically explores the social, situational, psychological, and economic drivers of recruitment. Although organized crime networks and terrorism networks can differ in underlying goals and motivations, this volume demonstrates common drivers in their recruitment, which will provide insights for crime prevention and intervention.The goal of the book is to explore the current knowledge about these common drivers, as well as highlight emerging research, to identify and prioritize a research agenda for scholars, as well as policymakers. The research presented in this work aims to fill existing gaps in the knowledge of recruitment to both organized crime and terrorism. For each area, it provides a systematic review of the existing research on social, psychological, and economic drivers of recruitment. It then presents findings fromindependent original research aimed to explore new ground not covered in these previous studies. The contributions to this volume were the result of a research project funded by a European Union Horizon 2020 grant, and present a diverse, international mix of expertise and cases. It will be of interest to researchers in criminology and criminal justice, as well as related fields such as sociology, psychology, and international relations. Chapter 13 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.