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Switzerland is known for its multilingualism, yet not all languages are represented equally in society. The situation is exacerbated by the influx of heritage languages and English through migration and globalization processes which challenge the…

Aquatic environments, including freshwater and marine ecosystems, raw and treated sewage, sludge, and sediments, are home to a huge variety of microorganisms that mediate the recycling of dissolved organic carbon and recalcitrant substrata into food…

Autism is a profoundly contested idea. The focus of this book is not what autism is or what autistic people are, but rather, it grapples with the central question: what does it take for autistic people to participate in a shared world as equals with…

Polyphenols are a heterogeneous group of bioactive compounds mainly found in plant-based foods. Numerous clinical and epidemiological studies have led to the result that polyphenol intake may protect against chronic diseases such as cardiovascular…

I appreciate how the Statement of Cash Flows has a separate chapter towards the end of the book.

Invading species are a factor for the ecology and health of an ecosystem, which is getting
more and more important. There exist cases where non-indigenous species have had a
negative impact on the native ecosystem, as well as economic…

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set an ambitious agenda for global problem-solving and create a framework to achieve it through the power of…

Researchers, corporate leaders, and other stakeholders have shown increasing interest in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)—a company’s discretionary actions and policies that appear to advance societal well-being beyond its immediate financial…

This book explains and explores how collaborations can be built and strengthened between African universities and farming communities to address real-world contemporary challenges.

The book focuses on Community Action Research Platforms, an…

Pharmacologists and other experimental life scientists study samples to infer
conclusions about how a molecule, cell, organ, and/or organism work in health
and disease and how this can be altered by drugs. The concept of inference implies
that…