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Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology, volume 97 number 6 (November/December 2024)
by Ecological and Evolutionary PhysiologyThis is volume 97 issue 6 of Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology. Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology primarily publishes original research in physiological ecology, ecophysiology, comparative physiology, and evolutionary physiology. Studies at all levels of biological organization from the molecular to the whole organism are welcome, and work that integrates across levels of organization is particularly encouraged. Studies that focus on behavior or morphology are welcome, so long as they include ties to physiology or biochemistry, in addition to having an ecological or evolutionary context. Subdisciplines of interest include nutrition and digestion, salt and water balance, epithelial and membrane transport, gas exchange and transport, acid-base balance, temperature adaptation, energetics, structure and function of macromolecules, chemical coordination and signal transduction, nitrogen metabolism and excretion, locomotion and muscle function, biomechanics, circulation, behavioral, comparative and mechanistic endocrinology, sensory physiology, neural coordination, and ecotoxicology ecoimmunology.
Embedding Resilience in the Built Environment Using the EU Taxonomy
by Elzbieta RynskaTaxonomy is the common name for an EU regulation that supports companies in sustainable environmental and climate action (Regulation [EU] No. 2020/852). It is a classification tool designed for investors, companies, and financial institutions to define the environmental impact of business activities and the requirements that organisations must meet to be considered as sustainable.The aim of this book is to examine the EU taxonomy from the built environment perspective and the ways in which it can be used to build resilience in real estate. It presents the issues, hot points, and possible choices from the designers, construction consultants, and investing bodies' points of view, those who must set forth initial conditions, which should later become the keystones for greener developments. It brings together the expertise of a unique team of both researchers and professionals and presents a methodology, case studies, and solutions which together comprise a novel understanding of the taxonomy’s influence on the pre-construction phase. The book:• describes the role of the built environment within sustainable development and how real estate can be used to build resilience with the use of taxonomy.• describes the characteristics of resilient environmentally friendly cities in the future.• proposes a roadmap to demonstrate urban policies that promote decarbonisation; and•enables investors to compare their products, operations, and strategies in terms of sustainability.Overall, this book is essential reading for decision-makers in the public and private sectors, urban developers, space and spatial designers, architects, planners, community stakeholders, and real estate investors.Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
The Africa Rising Discourse: Tropes, Trophies and Social Actors (Routledge Contemporary Africa)
by Tracy TingaOver the last 25 years, the "Africa Rising" discourse has been used to signify hope and promise for the continent, marking a break from previous pessimistic portrayals. This book critically examines that discourse, analyzing recurring themes, tropes, metaphors, and imagery.It traces the evolution of the "Africa Rising" discourse and its connection with Afro-pessimism, providing valuable insights into how the continent is represented and understood. The book explores the tensions, contradictions and impacts of labeling Africa as "rising". Focusing on both local and global social actors, as well as geopolitical influences, it examines how these forces have shaped the discourse over time. Additionally, it highlights how African actors have engaged with and modified the discourse. For instance, the book assesses how in recent years digital media platforms have offered spaces for counternarratives that challenge stereotypical representations, leading to a more nuanced and diverse understanding of Africa’s rise.This book offers valuable insights for researchers in Media and Communication Studies, Digital Media, Journalism, African Studies, and Global Studies.
Serving Aristocracy: Negotiation, Learning, and Mobility in an Early Modern Knowledge Community (Knowledge Societies in History)
by Anna Nilsson Hammar Svante NorrhemServing Aristocracy is the history of social negotiation and mobility in an early modern knowledge community, centred on the aristocratic De la Gardie family and their sphere of manors and estates in seventeenth-century Sweden.Focusing on underprivileged women and men and the knowledge community that shaped their interactions, social negotiations, and mobility, this book documents ordinary people’s lives and work in an aristocratic sphere. It uses the De la Gardie bureaucracy’s meticulous records to full effect, charting servants’ experiences, learning, and agency. The unique collection of petitions provides an invaluable insight into how servants viewed their own backgrounds, personal predicaments, and hopes for the future, and how they negotiated their work and wage. It reveals the aristocratic estate organization not only as a workplace, but also as a training ground where knowledge circulation was as fundamental as socialization, social negotiation, and networking. At the same time, Serving Aristocracy exposes the flaws in the aristocratic mindset: the De la Gardies’ organization was hierarchical, paternalistic, and feudal, and employees were forced to live at the mercy of their masters.This is the ideal resource for students and scholars interested in knowledge, mobility, and agency in an early modern aristocratic work sphere.
A Modern History of Andorra: Autonomy in the Pyrenean Borderlands (Routledge Studies in Modern European History)
by Martyn LyonsThis book examines the fascinating survival of Andorra, one of Europe's micro-states nestled between France and Spain. Despite its medieval institutional framework, Andorra endured into the late 20th century without an army, police, currency, or customs barriers. The book uncovers how Andorra skilfully exploited its strategic position between two powerful neighbours, using its unique dual sovereignty to navigate the pressures of the modern nation-state era and secure its survival.Exploring a range of historical events, the book delves into the misconceptions found in European travel writing about Andorra, the eccentric 1934 episode when Boris Skossyreff crowned himself King, and the country’s pivotal role as an escape route during World War II. It also highlights Andorra's transformation into a prosperous modern society, built on tourism and commerce. The narrative provides a detailed account of how Andorra evolved from a medieval holdover to a thriving micro-state in the contemporary world.A valuable resource for students of modern French and Spanish history, this book will also appeal to specialists in border studies and anyone interested in the endurance of Europe’s micro-states.
Monarch: A Book on Strategy Across the Industry Life Cycle
by Hanan AlhaddiMonarch: Resilience through Evolution is a comprehensive guide on strategy across the industry life cycle, taking readers on an insightful journey through the dynamic world of business. Drawing inspiration from the resilient and adaptive nature of the monarch butterfly, this book offers a fresh perspective on strategic decision-making in today’s ever-changing business environment. Central to the narrative is the concept of the industry life cycle, which serves as the foundational context for strategy development and deployment in organizations. It considers the complexities of organizations as adaptive systems and industries as aggregates of organizations, emphasizing the importance of adaptability, persistence, and strategic agility. Monarch advocates for approaching strategy as a living process aligned with this perspective. Through insightful analyses and real-world examples, the book illustrates how organizations can navigate uncertainty and thrive in the face of adversity. At each phase of the life cycle, guidance on organizational self-assessment, strategy development, strategy deployment, and common pitfalls to avoid is provided. An innovative approach to the strategy cascade is introduced, using the notion of "magnifying lenses" to ensure strategic alignment across corporate, business, and functional-levels. The book then transitions into pursuing strategy as a negotiation and concludes with a special note on the strategic imperative and considerations for leadership.
Concurrent Programming Interviews: A Practical Guide to Becoming the Standout Candidate (Apress Pocket Guides)
by Bonan LiuAce your software engineering job interviews by preparing yourself for the concurrent programming rounds. This book fills the gap in practical resources designated for concurrency interview prep. It simplifies complex concepts in C++ and provides example questions to help you approach your interview with confidence. Today, interviews for software engineering roles typically include several different rounds: coding, system design, behavioral, and domain knowledge. The domain knowledge round can vary based on the job description, but one extremely common focus is concurrent programming. While not intended to be a comprehensive reference, this book distills the essential interview insights drawn from author Bonan Liu’s personal experiences to stand out from the competition. Key topics include mutexes and locks, condition variables, thread abstraction, STL features, and lock-free implementations, with each concept reinforced through practical exercises like building a file handler cache and implementing read/write locks. Software interviews are more than just exams; they are hours-long conversations with real people. You'll not only develop a solid understanding of concurrency, but also learn how to best showcase your expertise to enhance your performance throughout the entire process, including general coding rounds. What You Will Learn Acquire foundational knowledge of concurrent programming in C++. Practice relevant interview questions for each section of this knowledge. Develop strategies for best demonstrating learned skills in the general coding round. Who This Book Is For Software engineers seeking new career opportunities, particularly SDE II, Senior SDE, and Staff SDE roles. Interviewers might also gain insight into concurrent programming to enhance the evaluation of their candidates, securing top talent.
International Conference on Systems and Technologies for Smart Agriculture: ICSTA 2023 (Springer Proceedings in Information and Communication Technologies)
by Phillip G. Bradford Himadri Nath Saha Hena RayThe book contains peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Systems and Technologies for Smart Agriculture, ICSTA 2023. It focuses on the applications of artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, and robotics technologies to transform traditional agriculture into smart agriculture. The topics covered in this book include cyber-physical systems and IoT, automation and mechanization, artificial intelligence/machine learning, security and blockchain, big data, data management, and analytics, agricultural health, additive technologies and food engineering, sensor and sensing systems, and remote sensing and aerial imaging. This book serves as a bridge between academic research, industry initiatives, and governmental policies.
Development of Mirror-Image VHHs with Less Immunogenicity (Springer Theses)
by Keisuke AokiThis book outlines the chemical synthesis of therapeutic targets and a screening process for unexplored mirror-image single-domain antibodies (D-VHH). This book first describes the chemical synthesis of model VHH and the characteristics of both enantiomeric VHHs, including binding activity, biodistribution and immunogenicity. Immunogenicity testing in mice demonstrated that administration of conventional L-VHH induced the generation of anti-drug antibodies while D-VHH-binding antibodies were not observed in D-VHH-immunized mice. Second, it is explained that the T7-phage-based mirror-image screening system was developed to identify D-VHH antibody fragments capable of binding to vascular endothelial growth factors. Additionally, this book details the chemical synthesis of full-length hepatitis B virus core protein and interleukin-6 for the application of exploring D-VHHs and other mirror-image molecules. Demonstrating that it is possible to develop a D-VHH that preferentially binds the native target protein and exhibits reduced immunogenicity, this book is useful for anyone interested in developing alternative biotherapeutics with reduced immunogenicity by combining chemical and biological approaches.
Conceptual Principles of Natural Philosophy: An Investigation into Time, Space, and the Laws of Nature (Synthese Library #495)
by Gal YehezkelThis book provides a general framework for understanding nature to revive the philosophical study of nature as a complementary research project to the empirical exploration of nature. It demonstrates that the a priori research of nature is a viable science, by articulating its principles and demonstrating their effectiveness in explaining the most fundamental features of nature – time, space, and its laws. The original contribution of this book is twofold. Firstly, it introduces a unique method for undertaking conceptual analysis. The effectiveness of these tools is demonstrated in exploring the most general and fundamental features of nature. Secondly, it introduces a novel conception of nature – "internal relationalism" – that offers an insight into the structure of nature and its most fundamental features. Thus, it offers answers to some of the most fundamental questions that have plagued philosophers and scientists for millennia, concluding with the question “Why is there something rather than nothing?” This book is of interest to metaphysics, philosophers of science who focus on the foundations of physics, and philosophically-minded physicists, especially those whose research interests include the nature of time and space.
Architectures and Circuits for Distributed Quantum Computing (Springer Theses)
by Daniele CuomoThis thesis treats networks providing quantum computation based on distributed paradigms. Compared to architectures relying on one processor, a network promises to be more scalable and less fault-prone. Developing a distributed system able to provide practical quantum computation comes with numerous challenges, each of which need to be faced with careful analysis in order to create a seamless integration of multiple engineered components.In accordance with hardware technologies, currently under development worldwide, telegates represent the fundamental inter-processor operations. Each telegate consists of several tasks: i) entanglement generation and distribution, ii) local operations, and iii) classical communications. Entanglement generation and distribution is an expensive resource, as it is time-consuming. The primary contribution of this thesis lies in the extensive analysis of some complex scenarios of general interest. We propose numerical models that help to identifythe interdependence between computation and communication. With the support of some of the best tools for reasoning -- i.e. network optimization, circuit manipulation, group theory and ZX-calculus -- we lay out new perspectives on the way a distributed quantum computing system should be developed.
Rehabilitation in Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
by Manu Goyal Kanu GoyalThis book on Rehabilitation in Diabetes Peripheral Neuropathy offers an update on the recent advancement in assessment methods and comprehensive rehabilitation. The book comprises ten chapters with different titles, ranging from medical knowledge of Diabetes Peripheral Neuropathy and its improvement in the assessment methods to the importance and role of non-pharmacological interventions to improve the quality of life in such patients. The role of nutrition, orthotics, and the incite into diabetic foot will be the additional topics in the book. By reading this book, the reader will be confident in assessing and managing this chronic complication of diabetes mellitus in a more informative and elaborative manner and will contribute towards preventing the development of the diabetic foot, followed by ulcers in later stages and amputation. This book will enhance the clinical practice of practitioners in dealing with DPN.
Protest and the Ambiguous Politics of Indignation: An Empirical and Conceptual Study of Mobilizing Emotions (The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture)
by Louise KnopsWhat makes indignation ‘political’? And why should we care about it? Drawing on field-work among four movements in Belgium (2017–2021) – The Youth for Climate movement, the Citizen platform for refugee support, the Yellow Vests movement and the radical-right movement Schild & Vrienden – this book investigates both the meanings and implications of indignation in the context of mobilization. In particular, the book argues that what is often reduced to a form of ‘moral anger’ which triggers protest is in fact much more complex and ambiguous. Indignation is not just anger: it is rooted in hate and love. It may also harbour textures of compassion and disgust. It may be a culmination of resentful feelings or a reaction to fear. In some contentious contexts, it displays a distinctive righteous connotation; in others, it is rooted in historical forms of injustice and discrimination. It triggers some of the most disruptive forms of contention, while also reinforcing hegemonic norms and beliefs. Indignation, overall, is one of the most explicitly political affects of mobilization, while also reinforcing broader trends of depoliticization. By unveiling the affective complexity of indignation, the author shows the multiple ways in which the indignation expressed by social movements both politicizes and depoliticizes and what this means for the role played by emotions and affects in today’s landscape of conflictuality.
Haiku Across Borders: Evocative Voice in Second Language Poetry Writing
by Atsushi IidaDrawing on a total of 8,308 haiku poems written by 834 English as a foreign language (EFL) university students in Japan, this book explores the value, possibility, and potential of teaching and researching English-language haiku in second and foreign language (SFL) contexts. The book showcases how haiku is used and taught in the SFL classroom and discusses how the task of reading and writing English-language haiku promotes SFL learning. More specifically, it addresses these questions: What are the textual features of English-language haiku produced by EFL students? How do EFL students read and interpret English-language haiku? What knowledge and skills do EFL students gain through the task of reading and writing English-language haiku? What are the perceptions and attitudes of EFL students in relation to the task of reading and writing haiku in the English classroom? How can English-language haiku be used as a research methodology? With empirical evidence from both quantitative and qualitative data, this book moves the field forward by addressing the methodological and pedagogical issues in relation to the use of poetry writing in SFL teaching and learning. The uniqueness of this book lies in its applicability and practicality both in methodological and pedagogical approaches to haiku writing that students, researchers, and teachers in applied linguistics can replicate in diverse teaching contexts.
Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation (Relational Perspectives Book Series)
by Daniel ShawIn the 2014 edition of Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation, Daniel Shaw introduced a new way of understanding how victims become trapped and subjugated by the abuser Shaw calls "the traumatizing narcissist." In the many clinical vignettes throughout the book, Shaw illustrates the traumatizing narcissist's controlling, subjugating behavior, and the shattering impact the traumatizing narcissist has on the people he draws in and holds captive. Shaw explains how therapists can use the traumatic narcissism theory to help victims recognize the specific ways they have been manipulated and controlled.In the new Introduction to this Classic Edition, Shaw offers insights from his extensive work with these victims and elaborates on the traumatizing narcissist's "delusion of omnipotence," a crucial key to understanding his behavior and what drives it. Additionally, Shaw presents a list of eight characteristic controlling behaviors that support and defend this delusion of omnipotence. Learning to recognize these behaviors will help therapists and patients identify the traumatizing narcissist, and understand how each behavior serves to further deepen his victims' submission and subjugation.Traumatic Narcissism presents therapeutic clinical opportunities for all mental health professionals. Therapy patients and lay readers will also find this book highly readable and illuminating.
Teacher and Learner Agency for Collaborative Learning: Academic Writing in a Blended Environment (Routledge Research in Language Education)
by Yue-en Anita Pu Roger BarnardThis book offers educators practical strategies to cultivate agency in both teachers and learners. By focusing on collaborative learning through writing, blended learning and reflective practice, it equips readers with essential tools to enhance their teaching methods and promote learner autonomy in various educational contexts.Blending theory with real-world applications, the book demonstrates how learner and teacher agency are deeply interconnected, showing how collaboration, technology and reflective practices create more dynamic, student-centred classrooms. The first author’s action research project provides practical insights, illustrating how agency can be fostered in both in-person and blended learning environments. Readers will also gain valuable perspectives from other teachers, who share how reflective practice has helped them improve their own agency, as well as their students’ engagement and independence.Educators, teacher educators and researchers across disciplines will find this book indispensable for its evidence-based strategies, offering actionable approaches to fostering agency, collaboration and professional development in today’s rapidly evolving educational landscape.
Narratives of Precarious Migrancy in the Global South (Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures)
by Gigi Adair Carly McLaughlinThis volume sets out to challenge and expand Anglophone literary migration studies in the global North with a two-fold approach. It proposes precarious migrancy as a conceptual framework to capture hitherto neglected aspects of subaltern displacement, and it turns to the global South as a site of knowledge production about migration. The chapters discuss literary narratives originally written in Chinese, Kurdish and Italian as well as English, and covering a wide geographical range, to ask what experiences and understandings of migration emerge from Southern perspectives. Across the volume, precarious migrancy emerges as a key concept for understanding contemporary globalization in general and migration in the global South in particular. The chapters offer significant reconceptualizations of precarity and migrancy by reading Southern literatures of migration as a mode of theorization of the contemporary world, contributing to the ongoing shift in framings of migration in Anglophone and postcolonial literary studies.This volume will be of significant interest to scholars in literary migration studies, global South studies, and postcolonial studies. It offers readings of rarely studied literary texts, as well as new concepts for scholars interested in understanding the nexus of literature and migration today.
Expressive Iteration: Designing for Meaningful Routines
by Kenny K.N. ChowA ground-breaking guide to thinking about how routine activities can be designed and innovated to develop narrative meaning and a sense of purpose.Iteration is an integral part of daily routines, such as sleep-wake cycles, commuting, workouts, chores, or practising an instrument. While many iterations just monotonously repeat, others can lead to progression or evolution. With subtle variations among iterations, we can create meaning out of repetitive acts, forging narratives from them and thus making them meaningful to us. Chow draws on rhetoric, psychology, narratology, and design-thinking to show both in theory and in practice how we can innovate the design of mundane and routine activities to give them meaning and expression. He does so by examining Asian and European-originated examples, across a range of domains including visual arts, literature, digital art, video games, and mobile applications.A must-read for designers and enthusiasts looking for ways to innovate across all domains and media and transform tedious repetitive activities into acts of intention.
Recent Advances in Sciences, Engineering, Information Technology & Management
by Dinesh Goyal Bhanu Pratap Sandeep Gupta Saurabh Raj Rekha Rani Agrawal Indra KishorThis conference covered various interdisciplinary areas such as applied science, physics, material science, and engineering. The audience got a chance to encircle the various interdisciplinary areas and people working on recent technologies in science, engineering, information technology and management. It was based on the theme of converging interdisciplinary topics into a single platform, which helped the participants to think beyond their area and increase their canvas of research.
Recent Advancements in Computational Intelligence and Design Engineering (Conference Proceedings Series on Intelligent Systems, Data Engineering, and Optimization)
by Dac-Nhuong Le Ranjan Kumar Abhishek Dhar Saravanan Muthaiyah Saurabh AdhikariInternational Conference on Computational Intelligence and Design Engineering (ICCIDE 2023) is a multidisciplinary conference focused on bringing together recent advancements in the field of engineering, computer science and Mathematics. The key features of the conference include a common platform for research and innovation work related to next generation computation, Mathematics in computation as well as engineering research to achieve industry 5.0 mission. The conference covers different aspects of science and technology like applications of AI and ML for sustainable manufacturing and production systems, computational modelling, mathematics and computing.
Saving Orchids: Stories of Species Survival in a Changing World
by Philip Seaton Lawrence W. ZettlerA gorgeously illustrated ode to the beauty and significance of orchids—and to those fighting to save these unique plants across the globe. Until recently, a myriad of lifeforms enriched our lives. In some places, listening to a nighttime chorus of frogs in the neighborhood marsh was an archetypal touchstone of childhood. Children would search for tadpoles, just steps away from native Lady’s Tresses orchids. Year by year, the chorus became quieter. Today, only a few frogs and orchids remain. Is this the world we want our children to inherit? Do we want orchids to slip through our fingers and, eventually, to vanish? For biologists Philip Seaton and Lawrence W. Zettler, and the intrepid orchid defenders they introduce in this book, the answer is no. Seaton and Zettler have traveled the world over the past three decades, studying orchids—flagship species for plant conservation. Stunningly illustrated, this book is a culmination of stories about the people—young and old alike—dedicated to protecting these remarkable plants from extinction. In the 19th century, collectors removed, shipped, and sold vast numbers of orchids from the wild. Today, scientists strive to reverse this harm—to protect and rebuild remnants of orchids’ original habitats against human disruption, including climate change. Seaton and Zettler reveal these plants’ bizarre pollination partners, risky liaisons with fungi, and adaptation to human domestication to show that learning orchids’ scientific secrets—and finding human helpers—is key to these plants’ survival.
American Populist: Huey Long of Louisiana
by Thomas E. PattersonThomas E. Patterson’s monumental biography of Huey Long is a profound reevaluation of his life and legacy, recognizing him as an inspirational progressive thinker, populist hero, and radical influence on the New Deal before an assassin’s bullet ended his life in 1935. First as governor and then as U.S. senator, Long transformed the politics of Louisiana by standing for the interests of citizens whom state officials had historically ignored. He eased suffrage restrictions so that more people could vote, and voters endorsed his program of more robust government services and shifting the tax burden to those better able to pay. In the United States Senate, during the darkest days of the Great Depression, he advocated loudly and ceaselessly for the redistribution of wealth, expanding public works, increasing the money supply, insuring bank deposits, paying old-age pensions and veterans’ benefits, delivering a minimum income for families, and funding college and vocational education. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, along with other politicians and pundits, dismissed Long’s proposals as nonsense put forth by a reckless demagogue in search of votes. Despite several biographies, acclaimed novels, and historical studies in the years since Long’s death, his reputation today is mostly caricature: a spellbinding speaker, a dictator, a populist firebrand who was unprincipled and corrupt. Using previously untapped personal papers of Long and his son Russell, other primary sources, recent scholarship, and his experience as a lawyer, Patterson provides a necessary corrective as he analyzes the contours of Long’s career, deconstructs the elements of his success, undercuts several myths related to his time in office, and explains the circumstances that led to his ultimate downfall. The result is the most comprehensive, balanced, and analytical study of the Kingfish to date.
Caribbean Inhospitality: The Poetics of Strangers at Home (Critical Caribbean Studies)
by Natalie Lauren BelisleThe Caribbean has a global reputation for extending unparalleled hospitality to foreign guests. Yet local citizens express feeling alienated from the Caribbean nations they call home. Here, Natalie Lauren Belisle probes the relationship between these incompatible narratives of Caribbean life. Departing from tourist-centered critiques of the Caribbean’s visitor economy, Belisle instead gives primacy to the political life of the Caribbean citizen-subject within a broader hospitality regime. Reading literary, cinematic, and digital texts that traverse the Spanish, Anglophone, and Francophone Caribbean, Belisle interprets citizens’ estrangement through misdirected political deliberation and demonstrates that inhospitality is institutionalized through the aesthetic, reproducing itself in the laws that condition belonging and membership in the nation-state. Ultimately, Caribbean Inhospitality recasts the decay of nation/state sovereignty in the postcolonial Caribbean within the contours of neoliberalism, international relations, and cosmopolitanism.
Artificial Intelligence for Design and Process Science
by Sang C. SuhThis book provides a focused overview of what role artificial intelligence (AI) plays on the design and process of system development and perspectives on making it more and more relevant and beneficial for our society. It covers topics like large language models, generative AI, intelligenticism, communication dynamics representation, feature selection, smart design and social wellbeing, and it demonstrates the general applicability of AI to various problems in transdisciplinary domains. The book is a Festschrift for two lifetime fellows of the Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS), Bernd Kramer and Murat Tanik, in order to appreciate their work and honor them for lifelong dedication to design and process science. It is based on a special honorary event held at the AI in Design and Process Science (AIDPS) workshop during the 2024 Hawaii International Conference in System Sciences (HICSS). Overall, this book is a source of inspiration for everybody in academia and research sectors working on the vision of creating a strong, fruitful and creative community of design and process science for social wellbeing through the development of AI technologies.
Advancements in Multifunctional Composite Materials: Select Proceedings of IJTRC 2023 (Springer Proceedings in Materials #59)
by Rajesh Kumar Mishra B. K. Behera Masayuki TakateraThis book presents select proceedings of the First Indo-Japan Textile Research Conference (IJTRC 2023) and provides a comprehensive exploration of the transformative field of multifunctional composites in materials engineering. The book covers a wide range of topics such as 3D woven composites, honeycomb composites, woven spacer composites, and textile structural composites. It showcases the remarkable potential of these materials in various industries ranging from automotive to aerospace and from building construction to marine. It also addresses important aspects such as textile waste management, electromagnetic passivity, and fire resistance. This book serves as a valuable resource for researchers, postgraduate students, and professionals interested in staying at the forefront of multifunctional composite materials.