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Rural Transformation through Servitization: A Qualitative Structure Approach
by Dalia Vidickienė Živilė Gedminaitė-Raudonė Vitalija Simonaitytė Rita Lankauskienė Rasa MelnikienėRural development paradigms after the Second World War depended on a set of assumptions relevant to the mass-scale industrialization of the agricultural sector. However, most of these assumptions are now invalid and we need strategies for redesigning the industrial economic system to co-create value according to the rules of post-industrial society. To grasp better what drives today's rural development, this book conducts an analysis of qualitative changes in economic and social life caused by a major innovation model inherent to post-industrial society – servitization. The book aims to contribute to the scarce literature on the role of servitization in farming and rural development. It offers a conceptual and empirical understanding of the ways of servitization in agriculture and rural development, examined through the prism of an evolutionary approach based on the theory of qualitative structure. The method of qualitative structure explains why and how a switch from product-oriented business logic to service-oriented business logic happens and helps to find many new insights useful for improving farm management and socio-economic development of rural regions. It combines a systematic and evolutionary analysis of literature on servitization and agricultural production strategies with case studies of farming and territorial servitization projects implemented in Lithuania. It will be of great interest to researchers and students in the field of rural development studies, servitization and business model innovation.
Solanum tuberosum: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology #2354)
by Kristina Gruden David Dobnik Živa Ramšak Anna CollThis volume offers a comprehensive collection of experimental approaches to study Solanum tuberosum (potato). Chapters are divided into five sections covering a general overview of potato, the research fields of molecular biology, omics approaches, and bioinformatics, and finally, the application of the generated knowledge for crop improvement. Written in the format of the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series, each wet-lab chapter includes an introduction to the topic, lists necessary materials and reagents, includes tips on troubleshooting and known pitfalls, and step-by-step, readily reproducible protocols. Authoritative and practical, Solanum tuberosum: Methods and Protocols aims to provide a collection of methods for the potato research community that will enable scientists gain insight into the world of the potato.Chapter 2 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Small Volume Biopsy in Pediatric Tumors
by Jerzy Klijanienko Živa Pohar Marinšek Henryk A DomanskiThis richly illustrated book will help presurgically diagnose pediatric/young adult tumors. The content is divided into two parts. The first part shows step-by-step how to perform a small volume specimen such as fine needle aspiration/core needle biopsy and how to correlate the morphology with the clinical, radiological, and/or molecular information. In turn, the second part presents a comprehensive overview of the various tumor entities. The content represents diagnostic modalities from the major diagnostic centers worldwide, and is supplemented by the authors` 25 years of experience in diagnosing pediatric tumors. This book will successfully guide practitioners, researchers and oncology pediatricians through the process of sample harvesting and diagnosing. Pediatric tumors represent a large variety of lesions including pseudotumors of inflammatory and non-inflammatory origin, various types of lympadenopathy, benign lesions, specific sarcomas, and blastemal malignancies. These age-specific and histotype-specific tumors of various origin, evolution and prognosis are often characteristic in morphological and molecular levels, making their diagnosis highly specialized.
Military Families' Health and Well-Being: A Socioecological Model of Risks
by Janja Vuga Beršnak Jelena Juvan Živa Humer Andreja Živoder Ljubica Jelušič Alenka Švab Bojana LobeThis book examines military families' well-being and health outcomes by providing a critical theoretical perspective on their position and the risks and challenges affecting them. Authors explore the tension between demands made by two greedy institutions—the military and the family—and how the well-being of families is negotiated between the two. Uniquely, the book employs an integrative approach to observing and analyzing military-specific risk and protective factors for health outcomes of military families on various social-ecological levels, including relationship satisfaction and dissatisfaction, intimate partnership violence, parent-child relationships, child well-being, psychoactive substance abuse, depression, and PTSD. Throughout the chapters, the authors analyze research findings that reveal new health outcomes and present an empirically-tested model of military-specific risk and protective factors.
Biomedical Image Registration: 11th International Workshop, WBIR 2024, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco, October 6, 2024, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15249)
by Marc Modat Ivor Simpson Žiga Špiclin Alessa Hering Wietske Bastiaansen Tony C. W. MokThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration, WBIR 2024, held in conjunction with the 27th International conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2024, in Marrakesh, Morocco in October 2024. The 28 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. These papers have been categorized under the following topical sections: Architectures; Robustness; Atlas/ Fusion; Feature/ Similarity Learning & Efficiency.
Biomedical Image Registration: 9th International Workshop, WBIR 2020, Portorož, Slovenia, December 1–2, 2020, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #12120)
by Orcun Goksel Žiga Špiclin Jamie McClelland Jan KybicThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration, WBIR 2020, which was supposed to be held in Portorož, Slovenia, in June 2020. The conference was postponed until December 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 16 full and poster papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submitted papers. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Registration initialization and acceleration, interventional registration, landmark based registration, multi-channel registration, and sliding motion.
Environmental Histories of the Dinaric Karst (Environmental History #17)
by Matija Zorn Borna Fuerst-Bjeliš Jelena Mrgić Hrvoje Petrić Žiga ZwitterThis multi- and interdisciplinary book will offer novel environmental history (EH) research on Dinaric Karst, one of European largest continuous karstic areas, from prehistory to contemporary history. Various methodological approaches will be applied (e.g., archival investigations, oral-history interviews, field work and laboratory analyses). Historical human adaptations to karstic environmental conditions, human interventions in environment, environmental dynamics and impacts of environmental change will be dealt with by focusing on historical uses of natural resources, their further ecological implications (e.g., fire hazard) and their change over time, on natural and social impacts of changes in weather and climate, on pollution and on intellectual EH. General characteristics and local peculiarities will be identified based on comparisons with foreign literature. Primary audience are historians, geographers, archaeologists, anthropologists, ethnologists, foresters and landscapearchitects.Chapters 1, 5, 12 and 16 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Web Information Systems and Technologies
by Tim A. Majchrzak Karl-Heinz Krempels Valérie Monfort Žiga TurkThis book constitutes revisedselected papers from the 11th International Conference on WebInformation Systems and Technologies, WEBIST 2015, held in Lisbon, Portugal,May 20-22, 2015, organized by the Institute for Systems and Technologies ofInformation, Control and Communication (INSTICC), and technically sponsored bythe European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS). The purpose of the WEBISTseries of conferences is to bring together researches, engineers andpractitioners interested in technological advances and business applications ofweb-based information systems. The 17 full papers presentedin this volume were carefully reviewed and selected originally 115 papersubmissions. They were organized in topical sections names: web interfaces andapplications; internet technology; society, e-business and e-government; webintelligence; and mobile information systems.
5th International Colloquium on Transformer Research and Asset Management (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #671)
by Bojan Trkulja Željko Štih Žarko JanićThis book presents the proceedings of the 5th International Colloquium “Transformer Research and Asset Management,” held in Opatija, Croatia, on October 9–12, 2019.The papers chiefly focus on three groups of topics:1. Numerical Modeling: Electromagnetic fields—Coupled fields—Transients—Numerical modeling in design2. Materials, Components and New Technologies: Insulating materials—Magnetic materials and transformer noise—Transformer components—New transformer technologies3. Transformer Lifecycle Management: Diagnostics and monitoring—Failure—Asset management—In-service experiences.The Colloquium was organized by the Croatian National Committee of CIGRE together with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing in Zagreb and the Centre of Excellence for Transformers
Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian: An Essential Grammar (Routledge Essential Grammars)
by Željko VrabecBosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian: An Essential Grammar is intended for beginners and intermediate students who need a reference that explains grammar in straightforward terms. It covers all the main areas of the modern single BCMS grammatical system in an accessible way, and free from jargon. When linguistic terminology is used, it is explained in layman’s terms, the logic of a rule is presented simply and near parallels are drawn with English. This book covers all the grammar necessary for everyday communication (reaching B1 and B2 of the CEFR, ACTFL Intermediate-Intermediate- Mid). The book comprises of extensive chapters on all parts of speech, the creation of different word forms (endings for cases in nouns and adjectives, case forms for pronouns, tenses, verbal modes, verbal aspect etc.) and their uses in sentences. Each rule is illustrated with numerous examples from everyday living language used in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Serbia. It is a unique reference book in English aimed at this level of language study that treats BCMS as a single grammar system, explaining and highlighting all the small differences between the four variants of this polycentric language.
Time and Economics: The Concept of Functional Time
by Željko RohatinskiThis book links the philosophical perception of time and Einstein’s theory of special relativity to economic processes, showing that the phenomena of time dilation and length contraction seen in physics can be identified within – and adapted to – an economic framework. The author expands on Marx’s model of reproduction with the additional variable of time, which is represented as a relative or functional category. In addition to allowing a more precise understanding of both static and dynamic relations between economic systems, this concept examines approaches to time proposed by Smith, Marshall and Keynes, and challenges the equilibrium and disequilibrium economic models. Rohatinski suggests that by understanding the differences in economic activity perceived across different time periods we are better able to influence that activity at micro- and macroeconomic levels.
Product, Process and Plant Design Using Subcritical and Supercritical Fluids for Industrial Application
by Christoph Lütge Željko KnezThis book describes cutting edge technology using supercritical fluids for the production of foodstuffs, medicals, and polymers. It illustrates the importance and use of basic data for design and operation at industrial scale units. The book's authors have several decades of experience of applied research on how to develop large scale industrial units. It provides readers complete insight in design and operation of industrial high pressure process plants. The book is written so it may be understood for people (with?) little or no background on high pressure process technology. It will provide information on how some foodstuffs, medicals, polymers are produced using high pressure technologies. The book demonstrates the importance of fundamental data, how to measure them and how to apply them to design industrial plants. At the same time, it also serves as a textbook for students.
Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems
by Naim H. Afgan Željko Bogdan Neven DuićThis work contains a collection of selected, peer-reviewed papers that were presented at the First Dubrovnik Conference on Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems, held in Dubrovnik, Croatia in 2002. This conference was focussed on the following objectives: More...to discuss sustainability concepts of energy, water and envi
Advancing Culture of Living with Landslides: Volume 3 Advances in Landslide Technology
by Kyoji Sassa Yueping Yin Matjaž Mikoš Željko ArbanasThis volume includes papers from 4 different sessions pertinent to the main theme - ADVANCES IN LANDSLIDE SCIENCE. The related session descriptions include - a) LANDSLIDE FIELD RECOGNITION IDENTIFICATION: REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES, FIELD TECHNIQUES, b) LANDSLIDE INVESTIGATION: FIELD INVESTIGATIONS, LABORATORY TESTING, c) LANDSLIDE MODELING: LANDSLIDE MECHANICS AND SIMULATION MODELS, and d) LANDSLIDE HAZARD, RISK ASSESSMENT & PREDICTION: LANDSLIDE INVENTORIES & SUSCEPTIBILITY, HAZARD MAPPING METHODS, DAMAGE POTENTIAL
Landslide Dynamics: ISDR-ICL Landslide Interactive Teaching Tools
by Kyoji Sassa Fausto Guzzetti Hiromitsu Yamagishi Željko Arbanas Nicola Casagli Mauri McSaveney Khang DangThis interactive book presents comprehensive information on the fundamentals of landslide types and dynamics, while also providing a set of PPT, PDF, and text tools for education and capacity development. As the core activity of the Sendai Partnerships, the International Consortium of Landslides has created this two-volume work, which will be regularly updated and improved over the coming years, based on responses from users and lessons learned during its application.
Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 1 Issue 1, 2022 (Progress in Landslide Research and Technology)
by Kyoji Sassa Željko Arbanas Binod Tiwari Kazuo Konagai Shinji SassaThis open access book provides an overview of the progress in landslide research and technology and is part of a book series of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). The book provides a common platform for the publication of recent progress in landslide research and technology for practical applications and the benefit for the society contributing to the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020, which is expected to continue up to 2030 and even beyond to globally promote the understanding and reduction of landslide disaster risk, as well as to address the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals.
Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 1 Issue 2, 2022 (Progress in Landslide Research and Technology)
by Irasema Alcántara-Ayala Kyoji Sassa Matjaž Mikoš Željko Arbanas Binod Tiwari Kazuo Konagai Shinji Sassa David Huntley Huiming TangThis open access book provides an overview of the progress in landslide research and technology and is part of a book series of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). It gives an overview of recent progress in landslide research and technology for practical applications and the benefit for the society contributing to understanding and reducing landslide disaster risk.
Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 2 Issue 1, 2023 (Progress in Landslide Research and Technology)
by Irasema Alcántara-Ayala Kyoji Sassa Matjaž Mikoš Željko Arbanas Binod Tiwari Kazuo Konagai Shinji Sassa Snježana Mihalić Arbanas Sabatino Cuomo David Huntley Huiming TangThis open access book provides an overview of the progress in landslide research and technology and is part of a book series of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). The book provides a common platform for the publication of recent progress in landslide research and technology for practical applications and the benefit for the society contributing to the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020, which is expected to continue up to 2030 and even beyond to globally promote the understanding and reduction of landslide disaster risk, as well as to address the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals.
Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 2 Issue 2, 2023 (Progress in Landslide Research and Technology)
by Irasema Alcántara-Ayala Kyoji Sassa Matjaž Mikoš Željko Arbanas Binod Tiwari Kazuo Konagai Shinji Sassa Snježana Mihalić Arbanas David Huntley Huiming Tang Maneesha V. RameshThis open access book provides an overview of the progress in landslide research and technology and is part of a book series of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). The book provides a common platform for the publication of recent progress in landslide research and technology for practical applications and the benefit for the society contributing to the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020, which is expected to continue up to 2030 and even beyond to globally promote the understanding and reduction of landslide disaster risk, as well as to address the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals.
Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 3 Issue 1, 2024 (Progress in Landslide Research and Technology)
by Irasema Alcántara-Ayala Kyoji Sassa Matjaž Mikoš Željko Arbanas Binod Tiwari Kazuo Konagai Shinji Sassa Snježana Mihalić Arbanas David Huntley Huiming Tang Maneesha V. Ramesh Biljana AbolmasovThis open access book provides an overview of the progress in landslide research and technology and is part of a book series of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). The book provides a common platform for the publication of recent progress in landslide research and technology for practical applications and the benefit for the society contributing to the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020, which is expected to continue up to 2030 and even beyond to globally promote the understanding and reduction of landslide disaster risk, as well as to address the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals.
Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 3 Issue 2, 2024 (Progress in Landslide Research and Technology)
by Irasema Alcántara-Ayala Kyoji Sassa Matjaž Mikoš Željko Arbanas Binod Tiwari Kazuo Konagai Shinji Sassa David Huntley Biljana AbolmasovThis open access book provides an overview of the progress in landslide research and technology and is part of a book series of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). The book provides a common platform for the publication of recent progress in landslide research and technology for practical applications and the benefit for the society contributing to the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020, which is expected to continue up to 2030 and even beyond to globally promote the understanding and reduction of landslide disaster risk, as well as to address the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals.This is an open access book.
Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 4 Issue 1, 2025 (Progress in Landslide Research and Technology)
by Irasema Alcántara-Ayala Kyoji Sassa Matjaž Mikoš Željko Arbanas Binod Tiwari Kazuo Konagai Shinji Sassa Veronica Tofani Biljana AbolmasovThis open access book provides an overview of the progress in landslide research and technology and is part of a book series of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). The book provides a common platform for the publication of recent progress in landslide research and technology for practical applications and the benefit for the society contributing to the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020, which is expected to continue up to 2030 and even beyond to globally promote the understanding and reduction of landslide disaster risk, as well as to address the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals.
Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk: Volume 6 Specific Topics in Landslide Science and Applications (ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction)
by Peter T. Bobrowsky Kyoji Sassa Željko Arbanas Kaoru Takara Kazuo KonagaiThis book is a part of ICL new book series “ICL Contribution to Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction” founded in 2019. Peer-reviewed papers submitted to the Fifth World Landslide Forum were published in six volumes of this book series. This book contains the following parts:• Impact of Large Ground Deformations near Seismic Faults on Critically Important Civil Infrastructures• Recent Progress in the Landslide Initiating Science• Earth Observation and Machine Learning in Landslide Science• General Landslide StudiesProfessor Željko Arbanas is the Vice President of International Consortium on Landslides. He is a Professor of Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Rijeka, Croatia. He is the Assistant Editor-in-Chief of International Journal Landslides.Professor Peter Bobrowsky is the President of International Consortium on Landslides. He is a Senior Scientist of Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.Professor Kazuo Konagai is Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo and Principal Researcher at the ICL Headquarters. He serves as the Secretary-General of the Fifth World Landslide Forum.Professor Kyoji Sassa is the Founding President and the Secretary-General of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). He has been the Editor-in-Chief of International Journal Landslides since its foundation in 2004.Professor Kaoru Takara is the Executive Director of International Consortium on Landslides. He is a Professor and Dean of Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies (GSAIS) in Human Survivability (Shishu-Kan), Kyoto University.
Children’s Literature in Place: Surveying the Landscapes of Children’s Culture (Children's Literature and Culture)
by Jennifer M. Miskec Željka FlegarChildren’s Literature in Place: Surveying the Landscapes of Children’s Culture is an edited collection dedicated to individual, international, and interdisciplinary considerations of the places and spaces of children’s literature, media, and culture, from content to methodology, in fictional, virtual, and material settings. This volume proposes a survey of the changing landscapes of children’s culture, the expected and unexpected spaces and places that emerge as and because of children’s culture. The places and spaces of children’s literature are varied and diverse. By making place studies a guiding principle, this book builds on the impressive body of international research on place in children’s literature, media, and culture to bring together and provide a comprehensive overview of how to study place in children’s and young adult literature. This volume provides a wide range of approaches and international perspectives of place in children’s literature, media, and culture and contributes to this growing and relevant field by showcasing various scholarly aspects and approaches to children’s literature, and the place of children’s literature in the context of international scholarship.
Aesthetics and the Iconoclasm of Contemporary Art: Pictures Without a World (SpringerBriefs in Philosophy)
by Žarko PaićThe main themes and aims of this book are understanding aesthetics, contemporary art and the end of the avant-garde not from the traditional viewpoint of the metaphysics of the beautiful and the sublime but rather thru close connection to the techno-genesis of virtual worlds. This book tackles problems in contemporary art theory such as the body in space and time of digital technologies, along with other issues in visual studies and image science. Further intentions exhibit the fundamental reasons for the disappearance of the picture in the era of virtual reality starting from the notion of contemporary art as realized iconoclasm; art has no world for its "image". The author argues that the iconoclasm of contemporary art has severe consequences. This text appeals to philosophers of art and those interested in contemporary art theory.