This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book is a result of the first ever study of the transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores how the single Soviet model that developed across the vast and diverse territory of the Soviet Union over several d…
This is an open access book. Based on the analysis of China’s basic national conditions and development trends, this book begins with a general introduction to the study of “modernization with Chinese characteristics,” and then discusses the comprehensive construction of a prosperous society in all respects, unprecedented changes, the new national system, green modernization, and technol…
This open access book provides a perspective on CO2 capture technologies that employ fluidized bed rectors, (FBRs) involving pre-combustion gasification, oxy-fuel combustion, chemical looping combustion, calcium looping process, and low-temperature sorption. The state-of-the-art progress from the lab-scale FBRs to pilot-scale demonstration facilities is summarized, and the remaining challenges …
This Open Access book constitutes the proceedings from the First Global Internet of Things and Edge Computing Summit, GIECS 2024, held in September 24–25, 2024, in Brussels, Belgium. The 12 full papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. These papers have been organized under the following topical sections: Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Digital…
Digitale Identitäten sind der Schlüssel zur digitalen Souveränität – für Personen, Unternehmen und den öffentlichen Sektor. Dieser Sammelband bündelt die zentralen Erkenntnisse des Forschungsprogramms „Sichere Digitale Identitäten“ und bietet eine fundierte Basis für ein skalierbares, zukunftssicheres Identitätsmanagement. Im Fokus stehen selbstbestimmte Identitäten, mit den…
This open access book presents the outcomes of the “Design for Future – Managed Software Evolution” priority program 1593, which was launched by the German Research Foundation (“Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)”) to develop new approaches to software engineering with a specific focus on long-lived software systems. The different lifecycles of software and hardware platforms lead …
This open access book presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, Martin Waldseemüller’s Carta marina of 1516. By transcribing, translating into English, and detailing the sources of all of the descriptive texts on the map, as well as the sources of many of the images, the book makes the map available to scholars in a wholly unprece…
This open access book examines the impact of political leadership on agricultural transformation to understand why cases of successful agricultural transformation are so rare in the developing world. It highlights the importance of leadership and its interaction with the socio-political system as a key factor impacting agricultural transformation. The book takes a first step in systematically e…
This open access book mainly focuses on the safe control of robot manipulators. The control schemes are mainly developed based on dynamic neural network, which is an important theoretical branch of deep reinforcement learning. In order to enhance the safety performance of robot systems, the control strategies include adaptive tracking control for robots with model uncertainties, compliance cont…
This book describes the fundamental concepts underlying radiation-induced failure mechanisms in electronic components operating in harsh environments, such as in space missions or in particle accelerators. In addition to providing an extensive overview of the dynamics and composition of different radiation environments, the authors discuss the failure mechanisms, known as single-event effects (…