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Twin-Control: A Digital Twin Approach to Improve Machine Tools Lifecycle
This open access book summarizes the results of the European research project “Twin-model based virtual manufacturing for machine tool-process simulation and control” (Twin-Control). The first part reviews the applications of ICTs in machine tools and manufacturing, from a scientific and industrial point of view, and introduces the Twin-Control approach, while Part 2 discusses the developme…
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- 1
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- 9783030022037
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- XVI, 296 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Decidim, a Technopolitical Network for Participatory Democracy: Philosophy, P…
This Open Access book explains the philosophy, design principles, and community organization of Decidim and provides essential insights into how the platform works. Decidim is the world leading digital infrastructure for participatory democracy, built entirely and collaboratively as free software, and used by more than 500 institutions with over three million users worldwide. The platform al…
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- 978-3-031-50783-0
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- XVI, 133
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- SpringerBriefs in Political Science (BRIEFSPOLITICAL)
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- 320 BAR d
National Constitutions in European and Global Governance: Democracy, Rights, …
This two-volume book, published open access, brings together leading scholars of constitutional law from twenty-nine European countries to revisit the role of national constitutions at a time when decision-making has increasingly shifted to the European and transnational level. It offers important insights into three areas. First, it explores how constitutions reflect the transfer of powers fro…
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- 1
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- 9789462652736
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- XXIV, 1522 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Agroecological Transitions: From Theory to Practice in Local Participatory De…
This Open Access book presents feedback from the ‘Territorial Agroecological Transition in Action’- TATA-BOX research project, which was devoted to these specific issues. The multidisciplinary and multi-organisation research team steered a four-year action-research process in two territories of France. It also presents: i) the key dimensions to be considered when dealing with agroecologi…
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- 1
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- 9783030019532
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- XVI, 335 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Human Rights Dissemination in Central Asia : Human Rights Education and Capac…
This open access book explores the field of human rights dissemination in Central Asia. Offering a comparative perspective on five post-Soviet Central Asian states—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan, it examines compliance with international human rights standards in these countries. The contributions capture various aspects of human rights dissemination through …
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- 978-3-031-27971-3
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- VII, 133
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- SpringerBriefs in Political Science (BRIEFSPOLITICAL)
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- 320 HUM
Researching Central Asia : Navigating Positionality in the Field
This open access book explores some of the struggles and challenges that researchers and practitioners face when conducting research in the Central Asian research setting. Written for scholars still in the planning stages of their research, it addresses key questions, including: How shall we problematize and reconceptualize the concept of positionality through lenses of local voices from the re…
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- 978-3-031-39024-1
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- X, 104
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- SpringerBriefs in Political Science (BRIEFSPOLITICAL)
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- 320 RES
Inquisitive Logic: Consequence and Inference in the Realm of Questions
This open access book makes a case for extending logic beyond its traditional boundaries, to encompass not only statements but also also questions. The motivations for this extension are examined in detail. It is shown that important notions, including logical answerhood and dependency, emerge as facets of the fundamental notion of entailment once logic is extended to questions, and can therefo…
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- Volume 60
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- 978-3-031-09705-8
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- XX, 272
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Harmony and Paradox: Intensional Aspects of Proof-Theoretic Semantics
This open access book investigates the role played by identity of proofs in proof-theoretic semantics. It develops a conception of proof-theoretic semantics as primarily concerned with the relationship between proofs (understood as abstract entities) and derivations (the linguistic representations of proofs). It demonstrates that identity of proof is a key both to clarify some —still not whol…
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- 1
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- 9783031469213
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- XV, 184
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Glocal Governance : How to Govern in the Anthropocene?
This open access book develops a conceptual framework for glocal governance as a multi-stakeholder local governance approach based on global human rights norms and democratic principles. It discusses glocal governance as part of an ongoing global transformation process that began in the 1990s, when democracy and individualizing responsibilities for governance became the dominant political syste…
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- 978-3-031-02108-4
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- X, 135
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- SpringerBriefs in Political Science (BRIEFSPOLITICAL)
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- 350 GLO
The Logical Writings of Karl Popper
This open access book is the first ever collection of Karl Popper's writings on deductive logic. Karl R. Popper (1902-1994) was one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. His philosophy of science ("falsificationism") and his social and political philosophy ("open society") have been widely discussed way beyond academic philosophy. What is not so well known is that Poppe…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-94926-6
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- XXIV, 552
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