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Blockchains are seen as a technology for the future, which reduce the cost of trust and revolutionize transactions between individuals, companies and governments. The sense of using blockchains is to minimize the probability of errors, successful frauds and paper-intensive processes. For these reasons, blockchains already have and will have a significant impact to the society and every day's life, especially in field of Machine to Machine (M2M) communications, which are one of the basic technologies for Internet of Things (IoT). Therefore, blockchains with their inherent property to provide security, privacy and decentralized operation are engine for todays and future reliable, autonomous and trusted IoT platforms. Specially, a disruptive role of ledger technologies in future smart personal mobility systems, which combine smart car industry, smart energy/smart cities will be explained in the book, considering its importance for development of new industrial and business models.

In his articles Stefan Reif’s articles have dealt with Jewish biblical exegesis and the close analysis of the evolution of Jewish prayer texts. Some fourteen of these that appeared in various collecti

This study provides an interpretation of Nietzsche’s philosophy in the context of 19th century philosophy of mind and cognition. It explains Nietzsche’s notion of truth; his epistemology; his notions

Highly Siderophile and Strongly Chalcophile Elements in High Temperature Geochemistry and Cosmochemistry, Volume 81This RiMG (Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry) volume investigates the applicat

By integrating cognitive linguistics and sociocultural theories, this groundbreaking book presents empirical studies on selected grammatical and semantic aspects that are challenging for second/foreig

The book examines models of relationships between Constantinopolitan holy man and secular and ecclesiastical authorities in the capital of Byzantium. The study explores the ideal underlying the lives

Scholars of philosophy, ontology in particular, explore and extend the debate over whether abstract notions count as actual objects or pseudo-objects that only seem to exist because of linguistic conv

This book intends to place Nick Clements’ contribution to Feature Theory in a historical and contemporary context and to introduce some of his unpublished manuscripts as well as new work with colleagu

This volume describes soil and plant analysis as a tool to detect changes in soils and forest ecosystems due to the impacts of land-use activities. It outlines introductory methods in soil and plant a

This book integrates discursive, cognitive and social approaches in order to better understand processes of memory-making in real-world activities. It investigates discursive acts of remembering that

Reporting on research at the University of Bayreuth into constructive combinatorics based on the use of finite groups actions, the book describes, extends, and applies methods of computer chemistry an

Was Paul a direct influence on Mark? On the basis of the latest methods in New Testament scholarship, the battle over Yes and No to this question is waged within these pages. In the end, no agreement

This book is the third volume in the Handbook of Zoology series which treats the systematics and biology of Coleoptera. With approximately 350,000 described species, Coleoptera are by far the most spe

Linguists in diatectology, register analysis, typology, and quantitative linguistics cross their sub-disciplinary boundaries in the study of linguistic variation, demonstrating their common research g

Supported by the European PhD-Network "Literary and Cultural Studies," a program funded by the German Academic Exchange Service, a conference titled "Turning Points: Crucial Changes in Literary Theory

The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite (600s BCE?) tells the story of a brief encounter between the goddess of love and the cowherd Anchises, which led to the birth of the Trojan hero Aeneas. Less than 300 lin

This collection of ten essays explores individuality in religious texts and practices related to those texts. The essays focus on Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian approaches to religious individuality,

This two part book focuses on the science and art of foreign language teaching in Asia and beyond. Part 1, “Theoretical foundation and research”, examines theoretical and empirical research that has o

The book follows the changing relationship and intense debates between law and literature in U.S. American culture, by discussing exemplary novels by Charles B. Brown, J. Fenimore Cooper, Harper Lee,

This study contains a systematic description of the theologies of Colin E. Gunton (1941-2003) and Oswald Bayer (1939). Their use of the doctrine of creation in systematic theology has remarkable conse