Key Features:Unique representation of current state-of-the-art in unconventional and nature-inspired computing; comprehensive and self-contained overviews of advanced prototypes of biologically inspired computing devices and road formations and evolutionStrong topical appeal to general audience;...

Vietnam has attained a strong record of economic growth and poverty reduction since the adoption of market-based economic reforms and pro-poor policies starting in the mid-1980s. Much of this achievement was driven by an untapped, rapidly-growing labor force and the enablement of greater labor...

In Trading Communities, Taco Terpstra shows that long-distance trade in the Roman Empire was conducted through foreign trading communities living overseas, held together by ethnic and geographical identity.

In The Road to Renewal, R. Richard Geddes surveys the current state of U.S. ground transportation and finds that, like the roads themselves, transportation policy is in desperate need of repair. A shift toward increased use of public-private partnerships (PPPs)-contractual agreements that allow...

This study analyzed the relationship between intellectual property protection (IPP) and the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) economic policy optimization performance in the Middle East and North Africa MENA-China strategic geopolitical activism for regional collaboration. The study employed a...