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Wheeled Mobile Robot Control : Theory, Simulation, and Experimentation
| Wheeled Mobile Robot Control : Theory, Simulation, and Experimentation |
| Autore | Martins Nardênio Almeida |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (220 pages) |
| Altri autori (Persone) | BertolDouglas Wildgrube |
| Collana | Studies in Systems, Decision and Control Ser. |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 3-030-77912-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Authors -- 1 Background on DWMR System Modeling -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 DWMR Modeling and Description -- 1.2.1 Kinematic Model -- 1.2.2 Dynamic Model -- 1.2.3 Inclusion of Actuator Dynamics -- 1.2.4 Formulation of the Dynamic State-Space Model -- 1.2.5 Controllability of the Dynamic Model -- References -- 2 Background on Control Problems and Systems -- 2.1 Trajectory Tracking Problem -- 2.2 PD Dynamic Control -- 2.3 Posture Error Dynamics -- 2.4 Robustness Considerations -- 2.5 Generic Model for Nonlinear Systems -- References -- 3 Background on Simulation and Experimentation Environments -- 3.1 Implementation Environment -- 3.1.1 PowerBot DWMR -- 3.1.2 Trajectory Adopted -- 3.1.3 Ideal Scenario -- 3.1.4 Realistic Scenario -- 3.1.5 Experimental Scenario -- References -- 4 Backstepping Control -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Control Design -- 4.3 Simulations Using Matlab and/or MobileSim Simulator -- 4.3.1 Ideal Scenario -- 4.3.2 Realistic Scenario -- 4.4 Experimental Results Using PowerBot DWMR -- 4.5 Analysis and Discussion of Results -- 4.6 General Considerations -- References -- 5 Robust Control: First-Order Sliding Mode Control Techniques -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Control Design -- 5.2.1 Control Technique -- 5.2.2 Stability Analysis -- 5.2.3 Controller Synthesis -- 5.2.4 Controller Variants -- 5.3 Simulations Using Matlab and/or MobileSim Simulator -- 5.3.1 Ideal Scenario -- 5.3.2 Realistic Scenario -- 5.4 Experimental Results Using Powerbot DWMR -- 5.5 Analysis and Discussion of Results -- 5.6 General Considerations -- References -- 6 Approximated Robust Control: First-Order Quasi-sliding Mode Control Techniques -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Control Design -- 6.2.1 Approximated Controller Variants -- 6.2.2 Stability Analysis -- 6.3 Simulations Using Matlab and/or MobileSim Simulator.
6.3.1 Ideal Scenario -- 6.3.2 Realistic Scenario -- 6.4 Experimental Results Using PowerBot DWMR -- 6.5 Analysis and Discussion of Results -- 6.6 General Considerations -- References -- 7 Adaptive Robust Control: Adaptive Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control Technique -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Background on Fuzzy Systems -- 7.3 Control Design -- 7.3.1 Controller Synthesis -- 7.3.2 Stability Analysis -- 7.3.3 Augmented Adaptation Law for Removing the PE Condition -- 7.3.4 Extraction of the Rule Base -- 7.4 Simulations Using Matlab and/or MobileSim Simulator -- 7.4.1 Ideal Scenario -- 7.4.2 Realistic Scenario -- 7.5 Experimental Results Using PowerBot DWMR -- 7.6 Analysis and Discussion of Results -- 7.7 General Considerations -- References -- 8 Adaptive Robust Control: Adaptive Neural Sliding Mode Control Technique -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Background -- 8.2.1 GL Notation -- 8.2.2 Approximation by RBFNNs -- 8.2.3 Modeling by RBFNNs -- 8.3 Control Design -- 8.3.1 Controller Synthesis -- 8.3.2 Stability Analysis -- 8.4 Simulations Using Matlab And/or MobileSim Simulator -- 8.4.1 Ideal Scenario -- 8.4.2 Realistic Scenario -- 8.5 Experimental Results Using PowerBot DWMR -- 8.6 Analysis and Discussion of Results -- 8.7 General Considerations -- References -- 9 Formation Control of DWMRs: Sliding Mode Control Techniques -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Problem Formulation -- 9.2.1 Kinematic and Dynamic Models of the DWMR -- 9.2.2 Trajectory Tracking -- 9.2.3 Leader-Follower Formation Control -- 9.3 Control Design -- 9.3.1 Leader Control Structure -- 9.3.2 Leader-Follower Trajectory Tracking Control -- 9.3.3 Formation Stability Analysis -- 9.4 Simulations Using Matlab and/or MobileSim Simulator -- 9.4.1 Ideal Scenario -- 9.4.2 Realistic Scenario -- 9.5 General Considerations -- References. |
| Altri titoli varianti | Wheeled Mobile Robot Control |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910497099103321 |
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When Do People Obey Laws? : Towards an Integrated Approach to Compliance
| When Do People Obey Laws? : Towards an Integrated Approach to Compliance |
| Autore | Roy Shubhangi |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (168 pages) |
| Collana | International Law and Economics Series |
| ISBN | 3-031-53055-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Focusing on When Do People Obey Laws and Why It Matters -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Existing Approaches to Explaining Compliance Decisions -- 2.1 Motivational Explanations for Compliance -- 2.1.1 Deterrence-Driven Compliance -- 2.1.2 Legitimacy and Procedural Justice-Driven Compliance -- 2.1.3 Legal Expression-Driven Compliance -- 2.2 Compliance Within Frameworks -- 3 The Missing "Context" in Explanations for Compliance: Focusing on "When" Do People Obey Laws -- 4 Understanding When People Obey Laws Through the Integrated Approach to Compliance -- Part I: Developing the Integrated Approach to Compliance -- Chapter 2: The Integrated Framework of Compliance with Law as Social Influence: When Law Changes Behaviors -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Social Influence and Kelman's Motivational Processes -- 3 Adapting the Motivational Processes to Legal Compliance -- 3.1 Legal Compliance Through Acquiescence -- 3.1.1 Motivational Goal: To Avoid Direct Punishment/Gain Reward from the State -- 3.1.2 The Influencing Agent's Authority: Perception on Enforcement and Visible Enforcement of Laws -- 3.1.3 Limitation of Choice Behaviors: Perception that Non-compliance Is the Costlier Course of Action -- 3.2 Legal Compliance Through Identification -- 3.2.1 Understanding "Social Anchorage" as a Motivational Goal: The Material and Psychological Importance of Social Identities -- 3.2.2 Salient and Prominent Identities: When Is State an Attractive Influencing Agent? -- 3.2.3 Entrenched Identities, Fuzzy Roles: Delineating Roles to Ensure Compliance Through Identification -- 3.3 Legal Compliance Through Internalization -- 3.3.1 Concern with Value Congruence: Laws as Sources of Information -- 3.3.2 Credibility of the Influencing Agent: Expertise of the Regulator.
3.3.3 Reorganization of Means-End Framework: Ease and Cost of Compliance -- 4 The Integrated Framework of Compliance -- Chapter 3: When Law Changes Attitudes Within the Integrated Approach -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Continued Compliance Through the Same Motivational Process -- 2.1 Continued Compliance Through Acquiescence -- 2.2 Continued Compliance Through Identification -- 2.3 Compliance Through Internalization -- 3 Ideal-Type Transitions Between Motivational Processes Over Time: When Initial Compliance Decisions Create Further and Deeper Compliance to Law -- 3.1 When Can Cognitive Dissonance Create Attitude Change in Favor of Legally Prescribed Behavior -- 3.1.1 Induced Compliance and Attitude/Belief Change to Stay Consistent with This Behavioral Commitment -- 3.1.2 Why Dissonance May Not Be Adequate to Change Attitudes? -- 3.2 Regularity in Behavior Through Compliance Creates Future Socialization in Favor of Compliance -- 3.2.1 Behavioral Regularity with Respect to Specific Behaviors: Social Scripts -- 3.2.2 Behavioral Regularity with Respect to Legal Institutions: Legal Scripts -- 3.3 Initial Compliance Decisions Shape Social Expectations and Have a Multiplying Effect on Voluntary Compliance -- 4 Non-ideal Movements Between Motivational Processes -- 5 Role of Laws in Creating Social Change Within the Integrated Approach -- Part II: Applying the Integrated Approach to Compliance to Motivational Mechanisms of Why People Obey Laws -- Chapter 4: Understanding the Powers and Limits of Legal Expression to Create Change Through the Integrated Approach to Compliance -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Expressive Function: A Brief Review -- 3 Placing Expressive Explanations Within the Integrated Framework -- 3.1 Expressive Function of Law Through Identification -- 3.1.1 The Law's Attractiveness for the Relevant Identity. 3.1.2 What Does the Content of Law Say About One's Existing Identity: Delineation of Roles or Demeaning the Identity? -- 3.2 Expressive Function of Law Through Internalization -- 4 Costs of Successful and Unsuccessful Legal Expression: Dynamic Considerations -- 4.1 Overutilizing Legal Expression Can Create Perceptions in Favor of Non-compliance -- 4.2 Limits to Utilizing Shaming as a Tool to Create Compliance Through Legal Expression -- 5 Legal Expression as a Tool for Behavioral Change Within the Integrated Approach to Compliance -- Chapter 5: Understanding the Role of Procedural Justice in Compliance Through the Integrated Framework -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Procedural Justice Explanation: A Brief Overview -- 3 Understanding Why and When Procedural Justice Is Likely to Create an Obligation to Comply with Law in the Short Run -- 3.1 A Positive Citizen Identity Is Crucial and Cannot Be Presumed -- 3.2 Identities Are Internalized and Sticky: A Norm in Favor of Compliance and Legitimacy of State Authorities Shape How We Respond in Future Interactions -- 3.3 Citizen Identity Is Not Always Salient -- 4 Procedural Justice Gives Information that Extends Beyond Information About Social Identities -- 4.1 Procedural Justice Within Compliance Through Acquiescence: It Shapes Expectations About Behavior of Legal Agents and Outcomes -- 4.1.1 Expectations About Legal Processes and How that Shapes Our Decisions About Compliance: Bribe, Evade, or Comply with Laws -- 4.1.2 Reporting a Crime, Demanding Justice: Expectations About Procedural Justice Influences Whether We Report to Formal Legal Institutions Which, in Turn, Impacts the Probability of Detection -- 4.2 Procedural Justice Within Compliance Through Internalization: It Shapes Our Decision on Whether Involving the Formal Legal Institutions Is Useful. 4.2.1 Perceptions About Procedural Justice and Trust in Intentions of The Legal Agents Improve Credibility of Legal Information -- 4.2.2 Procedural Fairness Also Provides Information About How Effective and Fair the Outcome Will Be -- 5 Procedural Justice Is Crucial to Creating Attitude Change in the Long Run -- 5.1 Positive Perceptions About Procedural Justice Shape Social Expectations and Create Social Scripts in Favor of Compliance and Citizen Identity -- 5.2 Continued Compliance and Positive Perception About Procedural Justice Enable Dissonance-Related Attitudinal Shifts by Taking Away the Excuse of the "Bad" State Agent -- 6 Positive Perceptions About Legal Processes Within the Integrated Approach to Compliance -- Chapter 6: Understanding When Do People Obey Laws Through an Integrated Approach to Compliance: Concluding Remarks -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Understanding the Integrated Framework of Compliance Through a Chef's Approach to Cooking -- 3 Implications of an Integrated Approach to Understanding Compliance -- 3.1 An Integrated Approach Provides the Framework in Which to Locate and Operationalize Different Motivational Mechanisms in Understanding Compliance in the Real World -- 3.2 An Integrated Approach Provides a Theoretical Foundation and Causal Direction to Existing Frameworks/Typologies in Regulation Literature -- 4 Implications of an Integrated Approach to Improving Compliance -- 5 Toward an Integrated Approach to Compliance -- Bibliography -- Journal Articles and Book Chapters -- Books -- Working Paper -- Reports -- Internet Articles and Websites. |
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When Gender Equality Policies in Practice Matter : A Comparative Study in France
| When Gender Equality Policies in Practice Matter : A Comparative Study in France |
| Autore | Engeli Isabelle |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 pages) |
| Altri autori (Persone) | MazurAmy G |
| ISBN | 3-031-44108-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Editors -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction: Goals, Research Questions and Comparative Framework -- Introduction -- The GEPP Approach: Gendering Equality Policy in Practice -- Negotiating Gender Equality in Practice -- The GEPP Model -- Taking Seriously Intersectionality and Causality -- The Potential List of Ingredients for Gender Equality Policy Success: The French Policy Lab -- Where Do Path Dependency and the Influence of Institutions Fit-in? -- Outline of the Book -- References -- Part I: Policy Practice in Political Representation -- Party Penalties for Parity: Less Than Meets the Eye -- Introduction -- Getting Parity Sanctions on the Socialist Decision Agenda in the 1990s -- The Politics of Diluted Legislation Under Cohabitation, 1999-2000 -- The Mix of Implementation and Evaluation Instruments -- Setting the Stage: The Politics of Political Party Funding -- Mapping Implementation and Evaluation -- Parity Party Penalties in Action, 2002-2017 -- The Practice of a Limited Policy -- The State Feminist Lobby Enhances Elite Women's Representation -- Gender Accommodation Over Transformation, 2000-2018 -- Was Real Parity in Legislative Elections Achieved? -- The Limits of the "Routinization" of Parity -- Conclusion -- References -- Gender Quotas in the French Bureaucratic Elite: The Soft Power of Restricted Coercion -- The Slow Construction of Equal Employment Policy in the Public Administration Prior to 2000 -- From the Gender Parity Reform to the Routinization of Gender Quotas in Decision-Making Sites (2000-2010) -- A "Balanced Representation" at the Top: The Diffusion of the Parity Grammar -- Reinforced Women's Policy Agencies Mobilizing for Gender Quotas -- Women Elite Networks Promoting the Women's Elite Cause.
The Adoption of the Sauvadet Law: An Opportunity Under Constraints (2011-2012) -- A Coercive and Monitored Policy Tool -- A Feminist Implementation by Mainstream Bureaucratic Actors -- A Restrictive Yet Coercive Tool with Incremental Effects -- A Mitigated Quantitative Effect: A Smoothed Curve -- Beyond Numbers: Gender Transformation Through Symbolic Impact -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Policy Practice in Reconciliation and Equal Employment -- Elder Care Allowances in Action: Missed Opportunities for Gender Transformation -- Introduction -- Situating France in the European Context -- The Gender-Blind Frame in Agenda Setting and APA Adoption -- The APA: A Gender-Blind Policy Instrument -- Eligibility Criteria -- User Fees -- The Services Provided in the Help Plan -- The Funding and Governance of the APA -- Room for Manoeuvre at the Departmental Level: Implementation in Action -- Orienting APA Applicants -- The Definition of Dependency in Practice -- The Negotiation of the Help Plans in Practice -- The Externalization of the Services to Providers -- Gender-Blind Policy Evaluation -- Assessing Success in Outcomes and Impact: Gender Accommodation -- Selective Empowerment -- Gender Norms Among Beneficiaries -- Outcomes for Relatives -- Gender and Paid Care Work -- Conclusion -- References -- Pay Equity Through Collective Bargaining: When Voluntary State Feminism Meets Selective Business Practice -- Introduction -- The Genesis of State-Managed Bargaining on Equal Pay: From a Symbolic Commitment (1983-2006) to … -- … to the Adoption of More Concrete Incentives (2010-2012) -- Tools for Collective Bargaining on Equal Pay: A Prescriptive Framework that Provides for Company Flexibility -- Equal Pay Evaluation and Implementation: A Gap Between Policy Expectations and the Practices of Companies. Limited Descriptive and Substantive Empowerment of Women in the Firms -- Gender Accommodation in Employment Practices and Equality Polices in the Firm -- A Feminist Mobilization and Rising Interest in Pay Equity Since 2015 -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III: Policy Practice in Gender-Based Violence -- Cross-Sectoral Training to Reduce Violence Against Women: A New Feminist Opportunity? -- Getting Political Attention: Training as a Feminist Tool Prior to 2000 -- Adopting a Cross-Sectoral Approach to In-Service Training: A National Decision with Ambivalent Consequences at the Regional Level -- The Institutionalization of Training Sessions at Multiple Levels -- An Ambivalent Opportunity for Feminist Organizations -- The Relative Monopoly of Feminist Organizations on National and Local Levels -- Cross-Sectoral Training in Practice Since the Mid-2000s: A Strong Symbolic Tool Implemented by Weak Institutions -- Limited National Government Commitment -- Stability… and Unexpected Competition Among Feminist Organizations -- Training Outcomes: Changing the Perception and Treatment of Domestic Violence -- Empowering Workers to Better Deal with Survivors: Creating a "Common Culture" and Networks -- Transformation in the Long Run: Developing Training, Increasing the Visibility of Domestic Violence, Transforming Gender Relations? -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Methodology -- References -- Forced Marriage and Gender Transformation: Feminist State and Civil Society Networks at the Local Level -- Introduction -- Methods -- Forced Marriage and the Public Imaginary: The Role of Associations -- The State Steps In -- Ascertaining Consent at the Time of Marriage and Annulling Marriages Where Consent Was Lacking -- Raising the Legal Minimum Age of Marriage for Women to 18 -- Making Forced Marriage an Aggravating Circumstance or a Specific Offence -- Implementation. Implementing Forced Marriage Policy by Civil Society Organisations -- Preventing Forced Marriage -- Protecting Young Women and Girls from Forced Marriage -- Public Awareness Raising -- Evaluation of Forced Marriage Policy -- Conclusion -- References -- Untitled -- The Gender Equality Potential of New Anti-prostitution Policy: A Critical Juncture for Concrete Reform -- Introduction -- Framing Prostitution Policy -- Gender Equality and Prostitution Policy in France Until 2011: Symbolic Policies Implement a Piecemeal Abolitionist Regime -- Getting Criminalisation on the Parliamentary Agenda in 2011 -- The Adoption of the 2016 Law: A Neo-abolitionist Regime Is Born -- The Policy Instruments of the 2016 Loi Visant à Renforcer la Lutte Contre le Système Prostitutionnel -- Implementing the Social Pillar in Practice: The Exit Programme -- Implementing the Criminal Justice Pillar in Practice: Client Criminalisation -- Assessing Empowerment and Gender Transformation in the Context of the 2016 Law -- Conclusion -- References -- The Search for the Elusive Recipe for Gender Equality: Comparative Lessons from Policy Practice in France -- Introduction -- Comparative Findings Through the GEPP Model -- The Mix of Implementation Instruments: Approach, Scope and Authority -- Practice and Inclusive Policy Empowerment: Weak Intersectional Representation -- Gender Transformation: Glass Half Full or Empty? -- Explaining the Partial Success Imperative -- Does Post-adoption Matter? -- What Is the Combination of Ingredients for Success? -- Where Do We Go from Here? Scholarly and Practical Perspectives -- References. |
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When Music Takes over in Film
| When Music Takes over in Film |
| Autore | Windisch Anna K |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2023 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (265 pages) |
| Disciplina | 781.542 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
TieberClaus
PowriePhil |
| Collana | Palgrave Studies in Audio-Visual Culture Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Motion picture music - History and criticism
Motion pictures and music |
| ISBN | 3-030-89155-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910720083603321 |
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Windisch Anna K
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Where Is Science Leading Us? : And What Can We Do to Steer It?
| Where Is Science Leading Us? : And What Can We Do to Steer It? |
| Autore | Jaeger Lars |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (341 pages) |
| Altri autori (Persone) | DacorognaMichel |
| ISBN | 3-031-47138-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Takeover of Scientific Leadership -- Geniuses Create a New World -- The Shift of the Scientific Gravity Centre from Europe to the USA -- Philosophical Implications of Quantum Theory - The Concept of Reality Called into Question -- Highly Controversial Philosophical Discussions Among Physicists in the 1930s -- How Europe and Philosophy Both Lost Their Dominance in Science -- Pragmatism Now Governing Science - With Consequences -- Philosophy for Quantum Physics - Still Essential Today -- Scientific Revolutions Beyond Physics -- 3 Publicly Backed Science in Competition with Private Companies -- The Transition from Fundamental Scientific Research to Technological Applications -- Relationship of Sciences and Technological Applications Today -- Who Finances Modern Science? -- How Do We Judge the Quality of Scientific Papers Today? -- Where Should We Go in Science? -- Three Past Examples from Fundamental Research to Revolutionary Technology - Penicillin, PCR and the Atomic Bomb -- Penicillin -- Atomic Bomb -- Polymerase Chain Reaction PCR -- The Most Important Technological Efforts Today - And Those in the Future -- 4 Philosophy in Science Is Over -- The Tradition of Science Interacting with Philosophy -- The Breakdown of Absolute Knowledge in Science Is a Profound Philosophical Challenge -- Does Philosophy Still Have an Importance for Science? -- Open Questions in Science Today Are as Well Open Philosophical Questions -- Why the Influence of Philosophy into Science, Besides All Its Needs, Is Still so Low Today -- A Key Mathematician Steps Out of Science Protesting Against Its Nature of Leaving Out Important Topics -- A Good Example for an Interaction of Philosophy and Science: Research on the Nature of the Human Ego-Consciousness -- More and More Important: The Relationship Between Science and Ethics.
5 Promising and Scary Developments in Future Technologies -- The Future Technological Application Changing the World and Human Beings -- Artificial Intelligence - Improving or Controlling Our Lives? -- Quantum Computers - Millions of Times Faster Computation or Just a Dream by Physicists? -- CO2-Neutrality - Can We Create Enough Alternative Energies in the Next Few Years to Prevent a Climate Catastrophe -- Nuclear Fusion - The Solution of Our Energy Problems or Just a Topic of a Century of Dreaming? -- Genetics - The Victory Over Cancer or Manipulation of Mankind? -- Internet of Things - New Industrial Technologies and Smart Fabrications or a Full Invasion of Privacy? -- Neuro-Enhancements - Improving Our Thinking and Acting or Move Away From Today's Reality? -- Understanding Our Minds Through VR-Technologies - Finding Our Ego Or Is It Unfindable for Scientists? -- Digital Algorithms and Big Data - New Profiles for Our Lives or Controlling Humans' Thinking and Acting? -- Blockchain Technology - Is It a Groundbreaking Innovation or Just a Passing Trend? -- Cybersecurity - Is It a Consistently Significant Concern or Merely an Occasional Problem? -- Nanotechnology - Creation of Things from "Nothing" or Just a Dream? -- Stem Cells - Using Cells That Can Do Everything. Also for Our Entire Body and Mind? -- Biotechnology - From Frogs for Pharmacists to Nano-Robots in Our Bodies, a Medical Dream or Future Reality? -- New Food Technologies - How We Will Provide Food to 10 Billion People or Just a Science Dream Story? -- Synthetic Life- When Humans Play God: Part I -- Life Prolongation - When Humans Play God: Part II -- Are These All the Technologies that Will Shape Our Future? -- 6 Physics from 1960 to Today -- The New Quantum World - How to Deal With An Uncountable Number of New Particles -- A First Theory Integrating Various Particles and the Strong Force. The Standard Model of Elementary Particles -- "Chaos" Theory and Emergence Patterns in Today's Physics -- Today's Situation in the Macrocosm - Will We Soon Get Answers to the Fundamental Questions About the Universe? -- How Realistic Is a Unifying Theory for Physics? -- Research in Physics Today -- Philosophy of Physics Today -- 7 Computers, Nanotechnology, Internet and Many Other Technologies -- What New Technologies Physics Has Brought Us: A Tremendous Amount of Life Improvements and a Few Important Open Questions -- Nuclear Technologies -- Electronics, Digital Technologies and the Miniaturisation of Processors -- Digital Revolution (also Known as the "Third Industrial Revolution" or "Microelectronic Revolution") -- Lasers -- Mobile Phones -- Internet -- Superconductivity and Superfluidity -- Satellites in and Beyond the Atmosphere -- New Materials That Do Not Exist in Nature -- Solid-State Physics -- Quantum Computer -- Nano Particles and Nanotechnologies -- Where Are We Going? -- 8 Biology from 1953 to 2023: Major Breakthroughs and Their Ethical Issues -- The Second Foundation of Biology: Genetics -- First Steps in "Genetic Engineering" -- The Development of Life on Earth -- The Origin of Life -- Genetics Since the 1970s -- Revolution of Genetics in 2012 - As Amazing as Scary New Technologies -- Synthetic Life -- Life Prolongation - When Humans Want to Play God II -- Ethics for Today's Biology -- Humans as a Bull in a China Shop -- 9 Brain Research Since the 1990s -- History of Brain Research Until 1990s - A Rather Short Story Compared with What Happened Thereafter -- Early Brain Research as of 1990 - First Insights and Many Problems Left -- Research About Our Consciousness - How the Brain Generates Our Mind -- About Our ("Ego-")consciousness - Fundamental Open Problems -- More Methods and Results of Research on Our Consciousness. And Yes, It Does Change - The Plasticity of Our Brain -- Key Technologies - "Improving" Our Minds with Neuro-Enhancements -- More Philosophical Questions -- Our Inner Model as Virtual Reality -- Our Mind and Self-Consciousness - More Empirical Studies, Dramatic Applied Technologies and - yet Again - Ethical Issues -- Summary: Scientific Knowledge, Philosophical and Ethical Questions, and Remaining Openness -- New Questions on Social Relationships -- What is a Human Being and What Should a Human Being Be? -- 10 Artificial Intelligence from Its Origins Via Today to the Future -- History of Artificial Intelligence -- History of Computers and Computer Science -- Where AI Stands Today -- The Current Interaction of AI and Our Brain - Does that Eventually Lead to Superhuman Intelligence? -- How AI Shapes Our Society -- Who Should Deal with the Decline of Our Privacy? -- The Development of Big Data -- Artificial Intelligence's Possible Consciousness of (Strong) AI -- 11 The Path Towards Modern Mathematics -- Mathematics Before 1920 -- The Crisis in Mathematics -- The Revolution -- The Path Towards Modern Mathematics - More and More Abstraction -- Dealing with Concrete Problems Through Numerical Methods -- Mathematics Today and in the Future -- 12 Astronomical Research -- A (Very) Brief History of Astronomy Prior to 1960 -- A Rather Recent Revolution in Observing the Universe -- New Discoveries in the Last 25 Years -- Cosmology - The Origin of the Universe -- Cosmology - How the Universe is Developing -- The Current Unified Theory of the Universe - Many Open Questions -- 13 The Future of Sciences/Technologies? -- More of the Promising and Challenging Areas in Science and Technology -- CO2-Neutrality -- Nuclear Fusion -- Food Technology -- Synthetic Life and Life Prolongation -- Historical Issues. "We Go Under" Versus "Yes, We Can" - Dystopian Pessimism Versus Utopian Optimism -- Social Drivers -- Us -- 14 The Myth of the Optimally Functional Invisible Hand -- The Legend of an Invisible Hand -- Who is Likely to Best Govern the Scientific Future? - I. The Side Actors: Cultural Figures, Journalists or the Church? -- Who is Likely to Best Govern the Scientific Future? - II. The - Democratically Elected - Government? -- Who is Likely to Best Govern the Scientific Future? - III. The Scientists Themselves? -- Who is Likely to Best Govern the Scientific Future? - IV. All of Us! -- 15 Science, Technology and Spirituality -- How New Technologies Shape Up the Economy - In the Right Direction? -- More Openness, Less Dogmatism -- Rationally Irrational -- How Can Broad Knowledge About Science and Technologies and Its Rational and Democratic Assessments Make the World a Safer and Better Place -- A New Way of Approaching "Spirituality" -- Summary: Ideas Instead of Ideologies -- Name Index. |
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White-Collar Crime Online : Deviance, Organizational Behaviour and Risk
| White-Collar Crime Online : Deviance, Organizational Behaviour and Risk |
| Autore | Gottschalk Petter |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (330 pages) |
| Disciplina | 364.168 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | HamertonChristopher |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 3-030-82132-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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Whiteness and Stigma in the Workplace : Organisation and Work in South Africa
| Whiteness and Stigma in the Workplace : Organisation and Work in South Africa |
| Autore | Crafford Anne |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (317 pages) |
| Disciplina | 331.1330968 |
| ISBN |
9783031098116
9783031098109 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910590046103321 |
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Crafford Anne
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Who Gives to Whom? Reframing Africa in the Humanitarian Imaginary
| Who Gives to Whom? Reframing Africa in the Humanitarian Imaginary |
| Autore | Kemedjio Cilas |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (266 pages) |
| Disciplina | 337.6 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | LynchCecelia |
| Collana | Culture and Religion in International Relations Series |
| ISBN | 3-031-46553-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910845087703321 |
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Whole Slide Imaging : Current Applications and Future Directions
| Whole Slide Imaging : Current Applications and Future Directions |
| Autore | Parwani Anil V |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (253 pages) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 3-030-83332-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910508467803321 |
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Whole-Body Control for Multi-Contact Balancing of Humanoid Robots : Design and Experiments
| Whole-Body Control for Multi-Contact Balancing of Humanoid Robots : Design and Experiments |
| Autore | Henze Bernd |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (209 pages) |
| Collana | Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics Ser. |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 3-030-87212-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Altri titoli varianti | Whole-Body Control for Multi-Contact Balancing of Humanoid Robots |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910508465303321 |
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