Humanities & Social Sciences

Buildings are experiencing tremendous transformation, where Internet of things (IoT) is been used to transform traditional buildings into smart structures. While there are viable IoT techniques, developing IoT applications and operations to fully realise the technology's promise is needed. This may be done successfully by bridging the gaps in the present research to establish a foundation for future investigations. This study analysed extant literature in IoT (between 2008 and 2022) through a bibliometric review to tease out critical measures for their integration and transformation. The study adopted a science mapping quantitative literature review approach and employed bibliometric and visualisation techniques to systematically investigate data. The Scopus database was used to collect data and VOSviewer software to analyse the data collected to determine the strengths, weights, clusters, research trends in IoT. Important findings emerging from the study include recent literature by various researchers on IoT applications in buildings. The shift in recent patterns of research from developed to developing countries. Eighty-nine (89) keywords were analysed and divided into six clusters. Each cluster is discussed to present its research area and associated future studies in relation to Smart buildings. This paper uses bibliometric analysis to unpick recent trends in IoT and its relevant application to buildings. The paper provides a blueprint for future IoT research and practice, needed awareness and future strategy directions for IoT applications in construction. This creates opportunities to transition to more sustainable construction sector

Die Frage nach den Möglichkeitsbedingungen und motivationalen Ressourcen von Demokratie scheint heute aktueller denn je. Der vorliegende Band stellt sich dieser Frage und erkundet Perspektiven einer umfassenden Demokratisierung von Gesellschaft. Die Autoren beziehen sich dabei - teils zustimmend, teils kritisch - auf die Positionen eines radikaldemokratischen Diskurses (E. Laclau, Ch. Mouffe, J. Derrida, J. Rancière et al.), der sich gegenwärtig darum bemüht, das Politische und die Demokratie jenseits der etablierten Pfade klassischer politischer Theorien neu zu denken. Damit verbunden ist das übergreifende Anliegen der Beiträger, das Politische, das als Kraft einer demokratischen Selbstinstituierung von Gesellschaft verstanden wird, gegen die zunehmende Ökonomisierung aller Lebensbereiche zu verteidigen.

Freshwater eutrophication is one of the major environmental challenges around the world. There is a range of known factors that are responsible, though the increased flux of nutrients from the sources to the water bodies is a key factor. The aim of this study is to operationalize "integrated valuation" as a way of bridging the gap between cost-effectiveness analysis and economic valuation of benefits in implementation of the Water Framework Directive. The authors begin with a definition of integrated valuation model of ecosystem services as a type of systems analysis, before they move on to describe their site of study and the boundaries of their model. Through applied demonstration, the authors evaluate whether the model meets criteria as an integrated valuation tool and discuss further applicability.

Weder Kapitalismus noch Demokratie galten in den 1920er und 1930er Jahren als Pfeiler der Stabilität. Das begann sich erst nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zu ändern. Dargestellt wird dieser Wandel in der Regel als Triumph von kapitalistischer Konsumgesellschaft und wohlfahrtsstaatlich gesicherter Demokratie über Faschismus und Kommunismus. 70 Jahre Bundesrepublik bieten Anlass, diese Sicht neu zu bewerten. Hermann Bücher zum Beispiel, Vorstandsmitglied des Reichsverbands der Deutschen Industrie, hielt Politiker für ökonomisch inkompetent und Parlamente für ungeeignet, um die wirtschaftlichen Grundlagen moderner Gesellschaften zu gestalten. Dennoch avancierte er nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg zu einem wichtigen Berater der ersten bundesdeutschen Regierung unter Konrad Adenauer. Wie kam es dazu, dass Akteure wie Hermann Bücher in Deutschland, genauso wie andere in Frankreich, demokratische Regierungen als Partner des Kapitalismus akzeptierten? ;Schlüssel dieser Entwicklung waren Vertreter wirtschaftlicher Interessen, die als Unterhändler zwischen Unternehmen und Staat vermittelten. Sie traten für eine Transformation des wirtschaftsliberalen Individualismus zu einem koordinierten Kapitalismus ein. Philipp Müller zeigt, dass die wirtschaftlichen Eliten durch die Regimewechsel nicht nachhaltig berührt wurden und in der Nachkriegszeit zu starkem Einfluss auf die wirtschaftliche und politische Ordnung gelangten. Damit stieg auch ihre Bereitschaft zur Akzeptanz der Demokratie.

Political Science

This book explores how language and linguistic knowledge can be encountered through walks, shared meals, conversations, and daily life rather than being written about in the style and genre of western academic grammar. Through an innovative exploration of the multivocal forms of knowledge transmission about a disappearing language within a small, diverse community in Nigeria, the book reveals a revolutionary perspective on linguistic research by uncovering hidden dimensions of language through stories of both the living and the dead. The author presents valuable insights into how language knowledge persists and transforms in liminal spaces, including ruined sites. Readers will gain a fresh understanding of linguistic description that transcends traditional academic boundaries, revealing magical properties of language and meanings that conventional approaches might miss. In decidedly treading on liminal grounds, the author offers insights into what remains in terms of knowledge after loss. It will therefore be of strong interest to scholars and researchers in linguistics, particularly those focused on endangered languages and linguistic anthropology. It will also appeal to academics working in liminality studies and those interested in alternative approaches to language documentation. Chapters 3, 4 and 10 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Religion meant far more in early modern England than church on Sundays, a baptism, a funeral or a wedding ceremony. The Church was fully enmeshed in the everyday lives of the people; in particular, their morals and religious observance. The Church imposed comprehensive regulations on its flock, such as sex before marriage, adultery and receiving the sacrament, and it employed an army of informers and bureaucrats, headed by a diocesan chancellor, to enable its courts to enforce the rules. Church courts lay, thus, at the very intersection of Church and people. The courts of the seventeenth century – when ‘a cyclonic shattering’ produced a ‘great overturning of everything in England’ – have, surprisingly, had to wait until now for scrutiny. Church Courts and the People in Seventeenth-Century England offers a detailed survey of three dioceses across the whole of the century, examining key aspects such as attendance at court, completion of business and, crucially, the scale of guilt to test the performance of the courts. While the study will capture the interest of lawyers to clergymen, or from local historians to sociologists, its primary appeal will be to researchers in the field of Church history. For students and researchers of the seventeenth century, it provides a full account of court operations, measuring the extent of control, challenging orthodoxies about excommunication, penance and juries, contextualising ecclesiastical justice within major societal issues of the times and, ultimately, presents powerful evidence for a ‘church in danger’ by the end of the century.

Berufsbildungsforschung ist stark von Fragen der Praxis und der Politik geprägt. Hinter den tagesaktuellen Themen - etwa des nationalen Qualifikationsrahmens, des Ausbildungsplatzangebots, der Evaluationsforschung etc. - stehen aber in der Regel grundlegendere Fragestellungen, denen in der zumeist auftragsbezogenen Forschungsarbeit wenig Raum gegeben wird. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes geben Einblick in aktuelle Wissensbestände sowie alte und neue Fragen eines Forschungsfeldes, das vor rund 40 Jahren mit dem Anspruch etabliert wurde, ein zukunftsträchtiges gesellschaftliches Handlungsfeld wissenschaftlich zu erschließen.

The purpose of this book is to provide a group of adults living with intellectual disability (ID), specifically Down syndrome (DS), their own unique instrument to assess functional fitness. Previously, individuals living with DS were pooled with individuals living with ID without DS, even though various academics and researchers have demonstrated that the presence of DS negatively affects test performance. The need arose because many adults living with Down syndrome have poor functional ability, live sedentary lives and are overweight or obese. Consequently, their quality of life decreases dramatically, especially when they reach old age. This scholarly book provides an economical and field-based list of test items that can be used to assess, evaluate and monitor functional fitness. The target audience includes specialists in the disciplines of Sport Science, Psychological Education, and Health Sciences. The book aims to contribute to the scientific discourse reflecting on the functional limitations seen in adults living with Down syndrome.

This book charts the broad cultural impact of the medieval and early modern female performer: how she engages with her historical origins in classical drama, works within contemporary cultural and professional networks, and sets the terms for female performance in subsequent historical periods. Moving beyond the archival evidence that establishes that medieval and early modern women and girls performed, it explores how their performances resonated across national boundaries and historical periods, revealing wide patterns of influence and inspiration. This collection of original essays brings together well-established authorities with new and emerging scholars, offering innovative and ground-breaking discussions of medieval dramatic cultures, the Shakespearean stage, professional actresses in Spain and Italy, the performance of music and dance, artistic representations of the female performer, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century adaptations. Ranging from tenth-century Germany to twenty-first-century London, the chapters in this volume offer a new set of paradigms for understanding and interpreting women and girls on stage.

The present volume focuses on the colophons found in several pothi manuscripts from Central, South and South East Asia. Its contributions discuss the colophons’ defining features, thus exposing their ‘syntax’, focusing particularly on the tracing of recurring patterns. The information extrapolated from colophons is further analysed to obtain a better understanding of these distinct manuscript cultures.

This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture shows how depictions of prostheses complicated the contemporary bodily status quo, which increasingly demanded an appearance of physical wholeness. Revealing how representations of the prostheticized body were inflected significantly by factors such as social class, gender, and age, Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture argues that nineteenth-century prosthesis narratives, though presented in a predominantly ableist and sometimes disablist manner, challenged the dominance of physical completeness as they questioned the logic of prostheticization or presented non-normative subjects in threateningly powerful ways. Considering texts by authors including Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, and Arthur Conan Doyle alongside various cultural, medical, and commercial materials, this book provides an important reappraisal of historical attitudes to not only prostheses but also concepts of physical normalcy and difference.

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This volume brings together an international team of contributors to provide a much-needed examination of climate litigation in Africa. The book outlines how climate litigation in Africa is distinct as well as pinpointing where it connects with the global conversation. Chapters engage with crucial themes such as human rights approaches to climate governance, corporate liability and the role of gender in climate litigation.

The aim of this publication is to expand the program and methodological inventory of discourse linguistics in two ways: firstly, by systematizing the specific descriptive categories and analytical tools available for discourses in digital media (e.g., hashtags). Secondly, it seeks to evaluate and develop digital methods and the methods and tools of corpus linguistics to meet the requirements of discourse linguistics.

Curriculum and all its discourses constitute the heart of education and all its paraphernalia and largely informs the happenings in higher education or universities. As a result of the importance of curriculum, all scholars in the field of education in general claim or appear to claim expertise in all things curriculum and how the field should unfold. These struggles in the field of curriculum studies are made more complex by the unstable times the world as a whole and higher education in particular is currently facing. The world in general and higher education in particular is currently dealing with and striving to readjust to the new normal and abnormalities created by the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the calls for decolonisation, the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and other contextual crises in different nations across the African continent. This book takes on all things curriculum in higher education, placing them within the context of time and circumstances so as to articulate a way forward for the field in this unsettling times.