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1-Microplastics degradation: Macro to Nano scale -- 2-The adsorptive profile of MPs with pharmaceutical compounds -- 3-The adsorptive profile of MPs with textile dyes -- 4-Interaction and adsorption of heavy metal pollutants with microplastics: Causes and consequences in aquatic systems -- 5-Marine MPs and their interactions with living systems: Causes and consequences -- 6-Microalgal interactions with MPs: Merits and demerits -- 7-Qualitative characterization of microplastic and nanoplastics interactions with inorganic and organic pollutants using FTIR, FESEM, Raman and TGA techniques -- 8-The quantitative analysis of monomers and additives in polymers using Pyrolysis GC-ToF-MS technique -- 9-Biotechnological methods for the abatement of microplastics from soil and water systems -- 10-A Sustainable Approach to Reduce Environmental Threats of Microplastics and future research needs.

1. Application of Mutagenesis in food production and sustainable development -- 2. Recent Perspectives of Mutation Breeding for Crop Improvement -- 3. Mutagenesis Breeding for Drought-Tolerance and Improvement of Oil and Seed Quality in Oilseed Crops: Case of Rapeseed and Sesame -- 4. Intellectual property over mutant and gene edited plants -- 5. Genome editing based CRISPR system in crop improvement -- 6. Haploids system in mutation breeding -- 7. Use of chemical mutagens in field crop breeding -- 8. Application of somaclonal variations in crop improvements -- 9. Improvement in fruit crop plants through mutation breeding -- 10. Application of In Vitro Mutagenesis in Plant Tissue Culture for Genetic Improvement of Crop Plants -- 11. Use of Gamma Irradiation in Crop Mutation Breeding -- 12. Genetic Improvement of Rural Landraces through Mutation Research -- 13. Development of Rural Landraces through Mutation Breeding Approaches -- 14. Application of Mutagenesis and Genome editing in crop Plants -- 15. Mutagenesis- A Tool for Improving Rice Landraces -- 16. The development of improved landraces in agriculture for rural development.

1. Smart Dubai: A Post-Modern Utopian Model -- 2. A FRAMEWORK OF THE FINANCIAL REPUTATIONAL RISK: A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS TO CONVERT RISK INTO OPPORTUNITY -- 3. Carry Trades in the Wake of Modern Financial Crisis -- 4. Exchange Rate and Real Output within a SVAR framework: Empirical Evidence From Egypt -- 5. The Dialectical Relationship Between SMEs Financial Support and Funding Determinants -- 6. Iran grand strategy of multi hemispheric interference. From the Middle East to the West -- 7. The Role of Intelligence in the Confrontation of ISIS 3.0 and Recommendations for UAE -- 8. Redressal of Disputes using Online Dispute Resolution – The way forward -- 9. Juvenile Center Creative Writing Program "Atrab" -- 10. Food security in the United Arab Emirates -- 11. Privacy as Design Element in Traditional Emirati House and Attire.

A Comprehensive Survey on IIoT solutions: Challenges and issues -- A review of machine learning for smart building energy management -- A Review of the Artificial Neural Network Models for Water Quality Prediction -- Air Pollution Analysis based Raspberry Pi -- An overview of security and privacy in smart grids based IoT solutions -- Application of artificial neural network modeling for the forecast wastewater treatment -- Big Data for Internet of Things: a comparative study Decision Support System for Water Resources Management -- Edge-based Infrared-ultrasonic Radar System for Robotic Obstacle Tracking, Avoidance and Out-of-Sight Remote Control Applications.-Energy Management for Werless sensors -- Intelligent Urban Transport Decision Analysis System Based Big Data -- IoT and Reality Mining for Real-Time flood Prediction -- IoT based WSN for Air Pollution Monitoring -- IoT solutions for smart irrigation monitoring -- SMART Agriculture using IoT -- Thermochemical study of the degradation of the panels of wings in a space shuttle by utilization of HSC Chemistry Software and its database.

An Approach to Cultural Landscapes in the Age of Resilience -- Resilience: a co-evolutionary concept -- Landscape: definitions and operational concepts -- The "Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato": a UNESCO case study between persistence and change -- The "Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato": new identities and continuation of a cultural landscape -- The "Vineyard Landscape of Piedmont: Langhe-Roero and Monferrato": strategies and objectives for a resilient planning -- The "Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces": a UNESCO case study between persistence and change -- The "Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces": new identities and continuation of a cultural landscape -- An integrated management and governance for a productive UNESCO cultural landscape.

Part I. General Introduction -- Chapter 1. Research questions, aims and expected results -- 1.1. A philosophical problem: research questions and aims -- 1.2. Book structure and expected results -- Chapter 2. Methodological remarks -- 2.1. A methodology between reconstruction and interpretation -- 2.1.1. A focus on Adam Smith's style -- 2.2. Adam Smith's articulation of the concept of 'human being' -- 2.3. Thematic contexts of Smith's elaboration of the concept of the human being -- 2.4. A moral glossary on Smith's conception of human beings: merit, virtue and propriety -- Chapter 3. Adam Smith's historical and biographical context -- 3.1. A sketch of Adam Smith's historical framework -- 3.2. Biographical outline of Adam Smith -- Part II. Adam Smith On Nature And Human Nature -- Chapter 4. A semantic overview of 'nature' and 'natural' in Adam Smith's moral philosophy -- 1.1. Nature, human nature and morality -- 1.2. Conclusion -- Chapter 5. A synthesis of Adam Smith's conception of human nature -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Sources and theoretical contexts of Adam Smith's moral conception of human nature -- 2.3. Sociability, the role of language and the human propensity to exchange -- 2.4. Human nature, harmony and society -- 2.5. Human nature and morality: Adam Smith's conception of self-love -- 2.6. Harmony between oneself and the others in Adam Smith's moral philosophy: the desire to better one's condition and the desire to gain deserved approval -- 2.6.1. Some reflections on the role of happiness in Adam Smith's moral philosophy -- 2.7. Conclusion -- Part III. The Origin And Development Of The Self In Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy: History And Natural Self Correction -- Chapter 6. Philosophy of history, morality and human beings -- 1.1. Adam Smith's philosophy of history: conjectural history and four-stage theory -- 1.1.1. History and human nature -- 1.2. Historical context and the self: Adam Smith's conception of the savage -- 1.3. Conclusion -- Chapter 7. Natural self correction and human beings -- 2.1. Natural self correction and morality: infancy, sympathy and self-development -- 2.2. A focus on the psychological origin of the self -- 2.3. Conclusion -- Part IV. Adam Smith's Model Of The Mind: Sympathy, Imagination, The Impartial Spectator And Immediacy -- Chapter 8. Perfect and imperfect sympathy in Adam Smith's moral philosophy -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Passions in Adam Smith's moral philosophy -- 1.2.1. The immediate dimension of passions -- 1.3. Natural and moral imagination -- 1.4. Perfect and imperfect sympathy -- 1.5. The terminological shades of sympathy -- 1.6. Conclusion -- Chapter 9. Immediacy as philosophical problem in Adam Smith's moral theory -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Imagination, human nature and perception -- 2.2.1. Imagination, harmony and aesthetics -- 2.3. Pleasure and pain in Adam Smith's moral philosophy -- 2.4. Harmony, imagination and the impartial spectator -- 2.5. Prudence, the impartial spectator and immediacy -- 2.6. The origin and expression of moraljudgment: the impartial spectator and immediacy -- 2.7. Conclusion -- Conclusions.

1. Introduction -- 2. Reimagining the colonial condition: understanding unhappiness in context to the colonial wound -- 3. Violent Technologies: A Historico-Philosophical Analysis -- 4. Internal Violence: A Critique of Absolute Socialisations -- 5. Corrective Sexual Violence in South Africa: a crime against the deviant Sexualised Other -- 6. Women, violence, and social activism: From Aba women's protest to #EndSARS protests -- 7. An anger-based contextualist account of justifiable violence: An African case study -- 8. Reimagining Civil-Military Relations from a Quadrumvirate Interaction Perspective -- 9. Reading Contemporary Decolonial Iconoclasm in Belgium with Žižek, Yousfi and Fanon -- 10. A postcolonial theory of recognition: Honneth and Fanon on violence and mutual recognition.

Part I. EXPLORING THE SOURCES OF THE CATHOLIC TRADITION -- Chapter 1. Catholic Theology on Economics and Business: A Long Tradition -- Chapter 2. The Anthropological Grounds of Economic Activity -- Chapter 3. A Person-Friendly Ethics -- Chapter 4. Freedom and Commitment to the Common Good -- Part II. ECONOMIC SYSTEM, BUSINESS AND SOCIETY -- Chapter 5. Ethics in the Free Market Economy -- Chapter 6. Identity and Purpose of the Business Firm -- Chapter 7. Responsibility and Sustainability -- Chapter 8. Economic Policymaking and Corporate Governance -- Part III. LEADING BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS -- Chapter 9. Ethics in Decision-Making -- Chapter 10. The Centrality of Work in the Production Process -- Chapter 11. Service to Customers -- Chapter 12. The Christian Ethos in Leadership and Organizational Cultures.

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