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This book constitutes extended and revised versions of the selected papers from the 13th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, BIOSTEC 2020, held in Valletta, Malta, in February 2020.The 29 revised and extended full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 363 submissions.

This book constitutes extended, revised and selected papers from the 10th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2020, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in May 2020.

This book constitutes revised selected papers of the 19th International Conference on Information Technologies and Mathematical Modelling, ITMM 2020, named after A.F.

Bipolar disorder is a common, complex and costly mental health disorder, which sits at the heart of the practice of clinical psychiatry.Effective treatments (pharmacological, psychological and brain stimulation based) have all been discovered serendipitously.

This book constitutes selected papers from the First International Symposium on Geometry and Vision, ISGV 2021, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in January 2021. They cover topics in areas of digital geometry, graphics, image and video technologies, computer vision, and multimedia technologies.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Metadata and Semantic Research, MTSR 2020, held in Madrid, Spain, in December 2020. metadata and semantics for digital libraries, information retrieval, big, linked, social and open data;

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Applications, INTAP 2020, held in Grimstad, Norway, in September 2020.The 30 revised full papers and 4 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 117 submissions.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Third Ibero-American Congress, ICSC-CITIES 2020, held in Costa Rica, in November 2020. The 21 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. The papers are organized on topical sections on Energy Efficiency and Sustainability;

This book constitutes selected, revised and extended papers of the 15th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, ENASE 2020, held in virtual format, in May 2020.The 19 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions. The papers included in this book contribute to the understanding of relevant trends of current research on novel approaches to software engineering for the development and maintenance of systems and applications, specically with relation to: model-driven software engineering, requirements engineering, empirical software engineering, service-oriented software engineering, business process management and engineering, knowledge management and engineering, reverse software engineering, software process improvement, software change and configuration management, software metrics, software patterns and refactoring, application integration, software architecture, cloud computing, and formalmethods.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Modelling and Development of Intelligent Systems, MDIS 2020, held in Sibiu, Romania, in October 2020. intelligent systems for decision support; mathematical models for development of intelligent systems;

This book includes extended and revised selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems, SMARTGREENS 2019, and the 5th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems, VEHITS 2019, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in May 2019.

This book constitutes thoroughly revised and selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development, MODELSWARD 2020, held in Valletta, Malta, in February 2020.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Quantitative Ethnography, ICQE 2020, held in February 2021.

The papers present recent research on challenges of implementing emerging technology solution for online, online learning pedagogical frameworks, facing COVID19 emergency in higher education teaching and learning, online learning technologies in practice, online learning strategies and resources, etc.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Conference on Electronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia, EGOSE 2020, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in November 2020. The 35 full papers and 5 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions.

This book constitutes selected papers from the Second International Workshop on IoT Streams for Data-Driven Predictive Maintenance, IoT Streams 2020, and First International Workshop on IoT, Edge, and Mobile for Embedded Machine Learning, ITEM 2020, co-located with ECML/PKDD 2020 and held in September 2020.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Distributed and Computer and Communication Networks, DCCN 2020, held in Moscow, Russia, in September 2020. analytical modeling of distributed systems, and distributed systems applications.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Security and Internet of Things, ICCISIoT 2020, held in Agartala, India, in December 2020. The 23 full papers and 4 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 113 submissions.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 11th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management, IC3K 2019, held in Vienna, Austria, in September 2019.The 25 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 220 submissions.

The two-volume set CCIS 1332 and 1333 constitutes thoroughly refereed contributions presented at the 27th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2020, held in Bangkok, Thailand, in November 2020.*For ICONIP 2020 a total of 378 papers was carefully reviewed and selected for publication out of 618 submissions.

This volume provides an empirical and conceptual overview of advances in our understanding of impulsivity and impulsive behaviors.

This volume provides an empirical and conceptual overview of advances in our understanding of impulsivity and impulsive behaviors.

This collection of contributions originates from the well-established conference series "Fractal Geometry and Stochastics" which brings together researchers from different fields using concepts and methods from fractal geometry.Carefully selected papers from keynote and invited speakers are included, both discussing exciting new trends and results and giving a gentle introduction to some recent developments. The topics covered include Assouad dimensions and their connection to analysis, multifractal properties of functions and measures, renewal theorems in dynamics, dimensions and topology of random discrete structures, self-similar trees, p-hyperbolicity, phase transitions from continuous to discrete scale invariance, scaling limits of stochastic processes, stemi-stable distributions and fractional differential equations, and diffusion limited aggregation.Representing a rich source of ideas and a good starting point for more advanced topics in fractal geometry, the volume will appeal to both established experts and newcomers.

The molecular genetics of the cholinergic system including both muscarinic and nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, cholinesterases, acetylcholine synthesis and release have provided significant insights into potential targeting for pharmacological intervention.

This book investigates the multifaceted nature of change in today¿s Nordic Arctic and the necessary research and policy development required to address the challenges and opportunities currently faced by this region. It focuses its attention on the recent efforts of the Nordic community to create specialized Centers of Excellence in Arctic Research in order to facilitate this process of scientific inquiry and policy articulation. The volume seeks to describe both the steps that lead to this decision and the manner in which this undertaking as evolved. The work highlights the research efforts of the four Centers and their investigations of a variety of issues including those related to ecosystem and wildlife management, the revitalization resource dependent communities, the emergence of new climate-born diseases and the development of adequate modeling techniques to assist northern communities in their efforts at adaptation and resilience building. Major discoveries and insights arising from these and other efforts are detailed and possible policy implications considered. The book also focuses attention on the challenges of creating and supporting multidisciplinary teams of researchers to investigate such concerns and the methods and means for facilitating their collaboration and the integration of their findings to form new and useful perspectives on the nature of change in the contemporary Arctic. It also provides helpful consideration and examples of how local and indigenous communities can be engaged in the co-production of knowledge regarding the region. The volume discusses how such research findings can be best communicated and shared between scientists, policymakers and northern residents. It considers the challenges of building common concern not just among different research disciplines but also between bureaucracies and the public. Only when this bridge-building effort is undertaken can true pathways to action be established.