Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene, Volume 2

This volume, a follow up to Reimagining Science Education in the Anthropocene (2021), continues a transdisciplinary conversation around reconceptualizing science education in the era of the Anthropocene. Drawing educators from many walks of life and areas of practice together in a creative work that helps reorient science education toward the problems and peculiarities associated with this cont…

Rechtsgemeinschaft mit Tieren

Die Missstände in der Tierhaltung führen auch in der Schweiz immer wieder zu Schlagzeilen: So wurden etwa im Frühling 2023 die Urteile in einem der grössten Tierschutzfälle der Schweiz, dem «Fall Hefenhofen», breit diskutiert,1 im Herbst 2022 machten verstörende Videos aus der Geflügelzucht Schlagzeilen2 und im Sommer 2019 erschien in verschiedenen Medien der TA-Gruppe eine gan…

Recent Development of Alternating Current Field Measurement Combine with New …

Alternating current field measurement (ACFM) technology has been used for sizing underwater structure cracks. However, conventional ACFM is more sensitive to cracks perpendicular to the induced current than cracks with other angles. In this paper, a rotating alternating current field measurement (RACFM) method and underwater test system are present for the detection of arbitrary-angle cr…

Managing Distributed Cloud Applications and Infrastructure

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Heterogeneity, High Performance Computing, Self-Organization and the Cloud

This book is open access under a CC BY NC ND license. It addresses the most recent developments in cloud computing such as HPC in the Cloud, heterogeneous cloud, self-organising and self-management, and discusses the business implications of cloud computing adoption. Establishing the need for a new architecture for cloud computing, it discusses a novel cloud management and delivery architecture…

Measuring the Business Value of Cloud Computing

The importance of demonstrating the value achieved from IT investments is long established in the Computer Science (CS) and Information Systems (IS) literature. However, emerging technologies such as the ever-changing complex area of cloud computing present new challenges and opportunities for demonstrating how IT investments lead to business value. Recent reviews of extant literature highlight…

Ecological Jurisprudence: The Law of Nature and the Nature of Law

This open access book explores the rise of ecological jurisprudence, a transformative legal theory that challenges traditional legal boundaries. Drawing on over 15 years of research and teaching, the book offers a comprehensive theoretical exploration of this new approach to law, via a comprehensive examination of a wide range of initiatives from around the world, as well as a deep theoretical …

White-Collar Crime in the Shadow Economy

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Energy-Efficient and Semi-automated Truck Platooning

This open access book presents research and evaluation results of the Austrian flagship project “Connecting Austria,” illustrating the wide range of research needs and questions that arise when semi-automated truck platooning is deployed in Austria. The work presented is introduced in the context of work in similar research areas around the world. This interdisciplinary research effort cons…

Ecological Connectivity of Forest Ecosystems

This is an open access book. This professional volume provides scientific background and practical guidance on forest management in light of ecological connectivity. Readers will gain a great understanding of shifting species in response to climate change and the resulting loss of various resources. The main drivers of these variations are the quality of the availability, quantity, and quality …