"I read The Planetary Atom with great interest. Of course, we are all aware of the major contributions made by legendary researchers such as Ernest Rutherford, who first set up the model known as 'the planetary atom'. But I knew nothing of the much more discrete figure of George Adolphus Schott. I was impressed, on reading this book, to discover the significance and conceptual depth of his work."
"Many questions are dealt with in a clearly written way in this stimulating and innovative book. The reader will quickly become interested in the subject and will be taken on tour through this Periodic Table in a very readable way, both for students and teachers … The number of illustrations is good, and clear. This book is indeed unique and quite thought-provoking … This book is highly recommended for students, teachers, researchers and not only chemists! Geologists, biochemist and also physicists will find it very interesting to read." [Read Full Review]
"Shastry's polemic cites extensive research from experts and exploits the author's knowledge of Asia and his connections to the region's elite, with whom he rubs shoulders at Davos and other summits. What shows through in the book though is Shastry's compassion for the continent's ordinary people."
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Special Issue on Digital Innovation Management
Guest Editors: Andreas Pinkwart, Jörn Block, Dorian Proksch and Christian Fisch The digital transformation leads to strong changes in the business world. Digital business models disrupt well-established industries and the emergence of digitized business processes transforms value creation. The importance of the topic will increase due to the Covid-19 pandemic. An increasing demand for home-office or the implementation of measures of physical distancing now requires companies to organize their processes in a digital way. Digitization offers several opportunities for an improvement of innovation management processes, which constitutes the focus of this special issue. |
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Special Issue on Advanced Software Service Engineering
Guest Editors: Zhongjie Wang, Zhuofeng Zhao and Guobing Zou Service systems are complex socio-technological systems that combine people,physical facilities and software together to offer various types of bus iness services to end users. This special issue is for the scientific and industrial community to present their novel methodologies, techniques, and solutions which can address theoretical and practical issues. It is worth mentioning that the submissions are the selected papers with high quality which have been reported at the CCF 13th International Conference on Service Science (ICSS 2020). These selected papers are seriously improved with substantial extensions and recommended to this special issue. |
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Topical Issue: Solid-State Electrolytes and Solid-State Batteries for Next-Generation Energy Storage
Guest Editors: Hiroki Nagai and Shufeng Song The all-solid-state battery is the “ultimate battery”. It is because there is a possibility to solve the defects of lithium ion secondary batteries used in personal computers and smart-phones. To address the most state-of-the-art progress in the solid-state electrolytes and solid-state batteries, we organized a Topical Issue on “Solid-State Electrolytes and Solid-State Batteries for Next-Generation Energy Storage”. This issue consists of a number of brief reviews and original papers. |