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Temperature and humidity sensors are fundamental components in a vast array of modern technologies, playing critical roles in industries ranging from environmental monitoring and industrial automation to healthcare and consumer electronics. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of these essential sensing devices, encompassing their underlying principles, diverse technological implementations, wide-ranging applications, and their future development. By delving into the physics and chemistry of temperature and humidity measurement, the book will equip readers with a solid understanding of sensor operation and performance. The various types of sensors, including resistive, capacitive, thermal, and emerging technologies like optical and MEMS-based sensors, will be meticulously examined, detailing their design, fabrication, and calibration. The integration of these sensors into complex systems, addressing signal processing, data acquisition, and wireless communication, will also be highlighted. The application of artificial intelligence in temperature and humidity sensors is mainly reflected in the fields of smart home, industrial automation, and medical equipment. In industrial automation, temperature and humidity sensors can be combined with AI technology for high-precision measurement and control. In medical equipment, temperature and humidity sensors can be combined with AI technology for high-precision measurement and real-time monitoring. Through in-depth discussions of real-world applications, the book will showcase the pivotal role of temperature and humidity sensors in addressing critical challenges in environmental control, industrial processes, and human well-being. This resource will serve as an invaluable guide for researchers, engineers, and practitioners seeking to advance their knowledge and expertise in this crucial field.

Die vorliegende Arbeit setzt sich zum Ziel, einige Aspekte menschlicher Kommunikation im Hinblick auf ähnliche Verfahrensweisen in den Dramen Čechovs und bei Autoren der Neuen Welle sowie bei deren Nachfolgegeneration eingehend zu analysieren. Ein Vergleich mit zeitgenössischen Dramatikern zeigt die Aktualität und die Neuerungen des Čechovschen Dialogs und die weitreichenden Konsequenzen für dessen Weiterentwicklung bis zu den Dialogformen des Absurden Theaters und verdeutlicht, wie viele Techniken des zeitgenössischen dramatischen Dialogs in den Dramen Čechovs bereits angelegt sind.

Scarti, tracce e frammenti: controarchivio e memoria dell’umano. Literature and art, increasingly interested in the dark side of production, now appear as a reservoir of fragments and waste of all sorts. The attraction towards scraps, conceived as anti-goods, testifies the existence of a parallel world where the myths of growth and productivity show their tragic face. Through different textualities and media, waste emerges as a testimony of a subversive marginality from which unexpected perspectives, which can undermine the established order, arise. The volume, using the image of waste, offers a hidden or marginalized counter history, which however 'returns' overbearingly in order to give contemporaneity its shapeless substance.

The word media hype is often used as rhetorical argument to dismiss waves of media attention as overblown, disproportional and exaggerated. But these explosive news waves, as well as - nowadays - the twitter storms, are object of scientific research, because they are an important phenomenon in the public area. Sometimes it is indeed ‘much ado about nothing’ but in many cases these media storms have play an important role in political issues, scandals and crises. Twitter storms sometimes ruin reputations within hours. Although different concepts are used, such as media hypes, news waves, media storms, information cascades or risk amplification, all the studies in this book refer to the same process in which key events trigger a chain of reactions and interactions, building up huge news waves in the media or rapidly spreading social epidemics in the social media.

Warum sind unsere Daten und das Private schützenswert? Diese Frage stellt sich insbesondere in Zeiten der vierten Industriellen Revolution, des Internets der Dinge und des politischen Wandels. Julia Maria Mönig zeigt, dass Hannah Arendts Anliegen, das Private unbedingt zu bewahren, von ihrem Verständnis des antiken Haushalts bis hin zur Verletzung der informationellen Privatheit im Totalitarismus aufschlussreiche Einsichten in aktuelle Debatten - etwa über Cybermobbing - liefert. Das Buch richtet sich an Philosoph_innen ebenso wie an Datenschützer_innen und Privatheitsforscher_innen verschiedener Disziplinen sowie an alle, die sich über die Zukunft und Gegenwart der Demokratie Gedanken machen.

This work offers a detailed analysis of the Slavic translation of a sixth-century Greek liturgical poem that is representative of the poetic genius of the best of the Byzantine melodes. The immediate goal has been to discover to what degree the poetic elements of the original text were reproduced in the translation. The analysis illuminates the question of the quality of the Slavic translations of Byzantine liturgical hymns.

Through the innovative methodological prism of polycentricity and plurality, this collective volume illuminates the rich religious past of Eastern-Central Europe by examining the multifaceted and dynamic relations between its Christianities, considered here as communities of interactions. Following the baptism of Rus’ at the end of the 10th century, religious life in the region tended to centre around Kyiv, while other centres with different significances and profiles developed concurrently. Polycentricity became even more pronounced with the advent of the Reformation, the Counter-Reformation, and the Enlightenment. As a part of global Christianity, the Kyivan Christianities maintained vast connections and navigated a delicate balance between major poles such as Rome and Constantinople.

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

It is commonly known that Italian departments, or at least Italian literature courses, were inaugurated in Chinese universities in the 1980s. Less known is the period of the 1930s, in which a Chinese student who specialized in Foreign Literature at Tsinghua University obtained a scholarship by the Italian government to study in Italy for two years: Tian Dewang 田德望 (1909-2000) was the first Chinese student to study Italian literature in Italy. In the 1980s he became a famous professor and translator of Italian literature, and was the first to complete an entire translation of Dante’s The Divine Comedy into Chinese. This paper is aimed at reconstructing the relation between the Chinese student and his Italian professor, Attilio Momigliano, and how the ‘mobility experience’ of Tian Dewang in Italy inspired and influenced his future academic career.

This book provides a comparative study of the impact of referendums on conflict resolution and peacebuilding in post-conflict societies. Post-conflict referendums have increasingly been held as part of peace processes. While policy-makers are hopeful that these referendums serve peace and democracy, the burgeoning literature on them has expressed significant reservations about their use, particularly on territorial issues, because referendums do not have mechanisms for compromise. To gauge the actual impact of these referendums on peace processes, the book systematically compares three post-conflict referendums on self-determination held with their respective central governments’ consent, in Eritrea, East Timor, and Southern Sudan. Relying on more than 70 elite interviews, it examines (1) the rationales behind the decision to hold referendums; (2) the referendums’ impact on resolving the original self-determination conflicts; and (3) their impact on post-conflict peacebuilding inside the newly independent states. The three case studies reveal various rationales behind such referendums, and show that referendums play a limited, albeit positive, role in settling the original conflicts. Furthermore, holding referendums after civil wars has various positive, negative, and often unexpected impacts on domestic and international peacebuilding efforts inside newly independent states. This book provides careful, thorough, and well-balanced accounts of these referendums’ impact on peace processes. This book will be of much interest to students of peace and conflict studies, African and South-East Asian politics, and International Relations. Chapter 1 of this book is 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.

This open access book provides a unified overview of topological obstructions to the stability and stabilization of dynamical systems defined on manifolds and an overview that is self-contained and accessible to the control-oriented graduate student. The authors review the interplay between the topology of an attractor, its domain of attraction, and the underlying manifold that is supposed to contain these sets. They present some proofs of known results in order to highlight assumptions and to develop extensions, and they provide new results showcasing the most effective methods to cope with these obstructions to stability and stabilization. Moreover, the book shows how Borsuk’s retraction theory and the index-theoretic methodology of Krasnosel’skii and Zabreiko underlie a large fraction of currently known results. This point of view reveals important open problems, and for that reason, this book is of interest to any researcher in control, dynamical systems, topology, or related fields.

Cet ouvrage propose une analyse de l’instabilité régionale en Europe centrale et orientale à travers deux épisodes de désintégration : les Traités de paix de 1920 et la dissolution du CAEM de 1991. Soixante-dix ans séparent les deux événements, relatifs, dans un cas, à la transition de la guerre à la paix, et dans l’autre, à la transition de l’économie planifiée à l’économie de marché. Dans l’entre-deux-guerres, régionalisme et libre échange reculèrent simultanément, et la Clause de la Nation la plus favorisée fut souvent utilisée de manière négative pour faire échouer les tentatives de rapprochement régional. De l’avis même des experts de la Société des Nations, cette stratégie contre productive accentua encore la crise du commerce international. L’estimation quantitative du coût de la désintégration dans l’ancien empire des Habsbourg, replacée dans le contexte de l’entre-deuxguerres, éclaire d’un jour particulièrement favorable la stratégie de démantèlement suivie par la même région d’Europe, sept décennies plus tard. La conjoncture est cette fois-ci différente : régionalisme et libéralisation du commerce européen vont de pair. La même estimation souligne l’aspect positif qui ressort de cette nouvelle direction ; en effet, les gains issus de la réorientation du commerce compensent l’effondrement des échanges régionaux. Le modèle de gravité, sous-estimé dans la littérature théorique, renverse l’analyse traditionnelle du commerce en considérant que la géographie, les coûts de transport, la distance physique sont au coeur des échanges. Il est réhabilité dans cet ouvrage qui lui consacre une annexe substantielle. À l’heure de l’élargissement, Mathilde Maurel apporte une mise en perspective indispensable à la compréhension des enjeux économiques du régionalisme européen.

The standing of French Muslims is undercut by a predominant and persistent elite public discourse that frames Muslims as failed and incomplete French citizens. This situation fosters the very separations, exclusions, and hierarchies it claims to deplore as Muslims face discrimination in education, housing, and employment. In Constructing Muslims in France, Jennifer Fredette provides a deft empirical analysis to show the political diversity and complicated identity politics of this relatively new population. She examines the public identity of French Muslims and evaluates images in popular media to show how stereotyped notions of racial and religious differences pervade French public discourse. While rights may be a sine qua non for fighting legal and political inequality, Fredette shows that additional tools such as media access are needed to combat social inequality, particularly when it comes in the form of unfavorable discursive frames and public disrespect. Presenting the conflicting views of French national identity, Fredette shows how Muslims strive to gain recognition of their diverse views and backgrounds and find full equality as French citizens. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

Emerging as a vital area in collective safeguarding, emergency relief and civil protection require qualified professionals and high-level decision-makers to manage increasingly complex and challenging emergencies. In this sense, training, particularly higher education and research, are fundamental factors not only for personal development, but also for permanent evolution and continuous organizational learning, with a direct impact on the adaptation and updating of emergency relief, in line with the complexity of the emergence of new risks and threats. This book presents a strategic vision of the importance of specific higher education in the field of firefighters and civil protection, thus filling a gap in strategic knowledge in this crucial area of national security. The book Training’s Contributions to Reducing Risk defends the idea that the challenges of managing complex emergencies that modern societies face presuppose a strategy of technical and professional qualification at a higher level, choosing the National School of Firefighters as a possible preferred pedagogical structure, for such a national purpose.