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Investor-State Dispute Settlement and National Courts : Current Framework and…
This open access book examines the multiple intersections between national and international courts in the field of investment protection, and suggests possible modes for regulating future jurisdictional interactions between domestic courts and international tribunals. The current system of foreign investment protection consists of more than 3,000 international investment agreements (IIAs), m…
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- 978-3-030-44164-7
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- X, 117
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- European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EUROYEAR)
- Call Number
- 340 KAU i
From Bilateral Arbitral Tribunals and Investment Courts to a Multilateral Inv…
This open access book considers the potential setup for a future Multilateral Investment Court (MIC). The option of an MIC was first discussed by the EU Commission in 2016 and has since been made an official element of the EU Common Commercial Policy. In 2017, UNCITRAL also decided to discuss the possibility of an MIC, and on 20 March 2018, the Council of the EU gave the EU Commission the manda…
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- 978-3-662-59732-3
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- XIV, 222
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- European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EUROYEAR)
- Call Number
- 340 BUN b
Values for a Post-Pandemic Future
This open access book shows how value sensitive design (VSD), responsible innovation, and comprehensive engineering can guide the rapid development of technological responses to the COVID-19 crisis. Responding to the ethical challenges of data-driven technologies and other tools requires thinking about values in the context of a pandemic as well as in a post-COVID world. Instilling values must …
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- 978-3-031-08424-9
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- X, 250
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- Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (POET, volume 40)
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- 600 VAL
Continental Philosophy of Technoscience
The key objective of this volume is to allow philosophy students and early-stage researchers to become practicing philosophers in technoscientific settings. Zwart focuses on the methodological issue of how to practice continental philosophy of technoscience today. This text draws upon continental authors such as Hegel, Engels, Heidegger, Bachelard and Lacan (and their fields of dialectics, p…
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- 978-3-030-84570-4
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- VII, 245
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- Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (POET, volume 38)
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- 500 ZWA c
Monitoring State Compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child…
This open access book presents a discussion on human rights-based attributes for each article pertinent to the substantive rights of children, as defined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). It provides the reader with a unique and clear overview of the scope and core content of the articles, together with an analysis of the latest jurisprudence of the UN Committ…
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- 978-3-030-84647-3
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- XII, 435
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- Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research (CHIR, volume 25)
- Call Number
- 370 MON
A Decade of Research Activities at the Department of Industrial Engineering (…
This open access book celebrates the decennial of the Department of Industrial Engineering of Università di Napoli Federico II, Italy. It covers the main research achievements developed at the department in the fields of aerospace, marine, energy, statistical, mechanical and management engineering. Five pre-existing departments merged in 2013, and the research results are here summarized to ce…
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- 978-3-031-53397-6
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- XI, 161
- Series Title
- Springer Aerospace Technology (SAT)
- Call Number
- 620 DEC
Structural Health Monitoring Damage Detection Systems for Aerospace
This open access book presents established methods of structural health monitoring (SHM) and discusses their technological merit in the current aerospace environment. While the aerospace industry aims for weight reduction to improve fuel efficiency, reduce environmental impact, and to decrease maintenance time and operating costs, aircraft structures are often designed and built heavier than re…
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- 978-3-030-72192-3
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- XII, 284
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- Springer Aerospace Technology (SAT)
- Call Number
- 620 STR
Managing Innovation and Standards : A Case in the European Heating Industry
This book provides an in-depth study of the management of standards and regulation in sustainable and radical innovation development. It considers the case of micro Combined Heat and Power (mCHP) technology. The developers of this radical innovation in the European heating sector encountered major conflicts when attempting to create or adapt standards when bringing the technology to market. Ut…
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- 9783030015329
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- XIII, 171 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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- -
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Transmedial Narration : Narratives and Stories in Different Media
This open access book is a methodical treatise on narration in different types of media. A theoretical rather than a historical study, Transmedial Narration is relevant for an understanding of narration in all times, including our own. By reconstructing the theoretical framework of transmedial narration, this book enables the inclusion of all kinds of communicative media forms on their own term…
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- 1
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- 9783030012946
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- VIII, 152 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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- -
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The Prehistoric Maritime Frontier of Southeast China : Indigenous Bai Yue and…
This open access book presents multidisciplinary research on the cultural history, ethnic connectivity, and oceanic transportation of the ancient Indigenous Bai Yue (百越) in the prehistoric maritime region of southeast China and southeast Asia. In this maritime Frontier of China, historical documents demonstrate the development of the “barbarian” Bai Yue and Island Yi (岛夷) and their …
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- 1
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- 9789811640797
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- XXIII, 264 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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- 4
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- -
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