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Russia's Turn to the East
by Helge Blakkisrud, Elana Wilson Rowe
This book explores if and how Russian policies towards the Far East region of the country – and East Asia more broadly – have changed since the onset of the Ukraine crisis and Russia's annexation of Crimea. Following the 2014 annexation and the subsequent enactment of a sanctions regime against the country, the Kremlin has emphasized the e...
Reconsidering Constitutional Formation I National Sovereignty
by Ulrike Müßig
Legal studies and consequently legal history focus on constitutional documents, believing in a nominalist autonomy of constitutional semantics.Reconsidering Constitutional Formation in the late 18th and 19th century, kept historic constitutions from being simply log-books for political experts through a functional approach to the interdependencies ...
Beyond the Limits to Growth
by Hiroshi Komiyama
At a time when contemporary challenges seem to many to be insurmountable, this book offers an optimistic view of the future and provides a road map for societies to get there. Drawing upon extensive research and many years as a thought leader in environmental and sustainability issues in Japan and internationally, Hiroshi Komiyama analyzes the most...
Cognitive Supervision for Robot-Assisted Minimally Invasive Laser Surgery
by Loris Fichera
This thesis lays the groundwork for the automatic supervision of the laser incision process, which aims to complement surgeons' perception of the state of tissues and enhance their control over laser incisions. The research problem is formulated as the estimation of variables that are representative of the state of tissues during laser cutting...
Debating Transformations of National Citizenship
by Rainer Bauböck
This book discusses how national citizenship is being transformed by economic, social and political change. It focuses on the emergence of global markets where citizenship is for sale and on how new reproduction technologies impact citizenship by descent. It also discusses the return of banishment through denationalisation of terrorist suspects, an...
Renewables for Energy Access and Sustainable Development in East Africa
by Manfred Hafner, Simone Tagliapietra, Giacomo Falchetta, Giovanni Occhiali
This short open access book investigates the role of renewable energy in East Africa to provide policy-relevant inputs for the achievement of a cost-effective electrification process in the region. For each country, the authors review the current situation in the domestic power sector, adopt a GIS-based approach to plot renewable energy resources p...
Beyond Safety Training
by Corinne Bieder, Claude Gilbert, Benoît Journé, Hervé Laroche
This book investigates why, despite more and more resources devoted to safety training, expectations are not entirely met, particularly in the industrial sectors that have already achieved a high safety level. It not only reflects the most precious viewpoints of experts from different disciplines, different countries, with experiences in various in...
Optics in Our Time
by Mohammad D. Al-Amri, Mohamed El-Gomati, M. Suhail Zubairy
Light and light based technologies have played an important role in transforming our lives via scientific contributions spanned over thousands of years. In this book we present a vast collection of articles on various aspects of light and its applications in the contemporary world at a popular or semi-popular level. These articles are written by th...
White-Collar Crime in the Shadow Economy
by Petter Gottschalk, Lars Gunnesdal
This book examines the magnitude, causes of, and reactions to white-collar crime, based on the theories and research of those who have uncovered various forms of white-collar crime. It argues that the offenders who are convicted represent only 'the tip of the iceberg' of a much greater problem: because white-collar crime is forced to comp...
Designing Sustainable Energy for All
by Carlo Vezzoli, Fabrizio Ceschin, Lilac Osanjo, Mugendi M’Rithaa, Richie Moalosi, Venny Nakazibwe, Jan Carel Diehl
This book addresses the issue of diffusing sustainable energy access inlow- and middle-income contexts. Access to energy is one of the greatest challenges for many people living in low-income and developing contexts, as around 1.4 billion people lack access to electricity.Distributed Renewable Energy systems (DRE) are considered a promising approa...