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Symmetry is found everywhere, to a greater or lesser degree. It is essential in all sciences and also as the basic substrate in all arts. The same happens with Complex Networks, which are the majority of all those that interest for advanced knowledge, that is, for research. That is why these two themes have been unified here, whose intersection we are dealing with: in its first part, of fundamentals, and in its second part of applications, which are multiple in the world today.

This thematic issue seeks to provide a more nuanced and more complicated history of how historical narratives about the life of Jesus were produced and circulated in European culture. The focus on media is one of the most innovative ways to provide such an involved history, pointing to the cultural history of scholarship and the many ways in which societies produce historical representations of theological themes.

Berufliche Lehrkräftebildung wird in dieser Anthologie in ihren historischen Entwicklungslinien, aktuellen Veränderungskontexten und internationalen Bezügen analysiert. Die Beiträge zeichnen unterschiedliche Ausprägungen in Bundesrepublik und DDR nach, ordnen Professionalisierungs- und Qualifizierungsprozesse ein und diskutieren, wie hohe Professionsstandards strukturell gesichert werden. Für die Gegenwart werden Grundlinien der Modernisierung sowie Modelle an Standorten der beruflichen Lehrkräftebildung dargestellt, mit denen auf akute Lehrkräftebedarfe reagiert wird. Internationale Perspektiven ermöglichen den Vergleich von Trends und Handlungsoptionen. Der Band richtet sich an Forschende, Studierende und Lehrende der Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik sowie an bildungspolitische und administrative Akteur:innen der beruflichen Bildung.

The purpose is to present a complete course on global analysis topics and establish some orbital applications of the integration on topological groups and their algebras to harmonic analysis and induced representations in representation theory.

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 book investigates the complex ethical dilemmas underpinning AI regulation, analysing the EU Artificial Intelligence Act in the context of the fundamental values and ambitious expectations that have accompanied it initially. This book posits a pioneering regulatory framework to ensure the ethical development and equitable deployment of AI technologies for societal benefit. The expanding integration of AI and its deepening interaction with humans raise profound ethical dilemmas. As legislators endeavour to address these rapid developments and ensure AI serves the public good and does not cause harm, this book discusses the ethical complexities which pose a significant challenge for the EU and beyond. The book posits the discussion on AI regulation in a broader global background and refers to human agency, trustworthiness, risk classifications, the attribution of liability for deficiencies arising from its improper implementation, and other problems that the AI-based systems may cause. Additionally, it seeks to familiarise the reader with the AI Act and critically expands on the burdens the new law may impose on subjects. This book will be of interest to researchers, policymakers, students and practitioners with an interest in the legal and ethical dimensions of technology law, governance, EU law, and artificial intelligence. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

This edited collection explores the visibility of modernization in architecture produced in different capitalist regions across the world and provides readers with a historico-theoretical and historico-geographical discussion. Focusing on a particular building type, an influential architect’s work, as well as relevant texts and documents, each chapter addresses the many facets of "delay" which are central to the problematization of capitalism’s progressive dissemination of technological and aesthetic regimes of modernism. This collection underlines the centrality of temporality for a critical understanding of colonialism, modernism, and capitalism. The book is primarily concerned with the historical timeline, the tangential point when a nation enters modernization processes. In exploring modernism in diverse regions such as East Asia, Pacific, Eastern Europe, and Iran, each chapter addresses the historiographic and architectonic unfolding of modernization beyond the western hemisphere. The exploration of these diverse case-studies will be of interest to students of architecture and researchers working on the collision of temporalities and the subject's critical importance for different country’s built-environments.

This book analyses main lines of legal development in the area of proprietary security rights in movable assets (comprising pledges/charges, transfer of ownership for security purposes, assignment of claims for security purposes, and retention of title), starting from Roman law through the era of European codifications up to the present law in particular in Austria, then continues by analysing main questions of this area of law – above all isues concerning registration systems for security rights – in Germany, the Netherlands, France, Belgium and England, and finally analyses, on that basis, whether the “Draft Common Frame of Reference“ (DCFR), presented by an international group of experts in 2009, provides adequate solutions which are suitable to continue these legal developments consequently. The results achieved in this research show that the DCFR offers attractive solutions that are apt for the future development of the law in almost all areas investigated.

In many cases, the available space on a Marine Expeditionary Unit’s (MEU’s) ships falls far short of what is needed to transport the full set of required equipment. A RAND-developed software tool, the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Equipment Structural Assessment (MESA) application, was designed to assist MEU mission planners in maximizing the effectiveness of limited equipment inventories.

Paper recalls importance of basic concepts related to oral cavity, which should be considered as a complete system of muscles and bones. There are discussed relations of muscle functions and structure of dental arches. Particular attention was concentrated on influence of the face muscles’ malfunctions on the shape of dental arches. It was emphasized that face proportions have crucial influence on the oral cavity organs. Especially stressed was importance of structure and function of muscles and dentoskeletal system on articulation of created.

The “End of work” theories targeted the transition towards a digital and service society stating the end of full employment, widespread prosperity and endless economic development. The increase of unemployment and the (historically recurrent) fear of new technologies inspired theoretical attempts to identify a new era in substitution of the Industrial Society revolved around the ‘abstract labour’. Beyond the ideology arguing (without being able to demonstrate) the complete technological displacement and the consequent dawn of a Jobless Society and beyond the provocation of overstating the effects of the digital transition, scholars as Rifkin, Meda, Beck, and others, contributed to draft a new pattern of Capitalism where labour is still central but unstable and unable to guarantee social rights and identity.

Erstmals werden mit diesem Buch visuelle Darstellungen von Migrant*innen im Kontext der Arbeitsmigration in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland anhand von Presse- und Privatfotografien untersucht. Für den Zeitraum von 1960 bis 1982 analysiert Claudia Valeska Czycholl in Spiegel und Stern kursierende Fremdbilder von Migrant*innen. Sie zeichnet diskursive Verläufe nach, fokussiert zentrale Stadien und Themen und identifiziert dominante Repräsentationsmuster. Zudem hinterfragt sie mittels fotografischer Selbstkonstruktionen von Migrant*innen diese hegemonialen Darstellungsweisen und hierarchisierenden Erzählungen von ›Uns‹ und ›Ihnen‹, von ›Wir‹ und den ›Anderen‹. Die Studie gibt so Einblick in tradierte Differenzkonstruktionen und stereotype Vorstellungen und liefert Materialien sowie theoretisch-methodische Ansätze, um sie zu hinterfragen.

Crowdwork ist eine junge Arbeitsform, bei der einzelne Arbeitstätigkeiten über Online-Plattformen an externe Arbeitskräfte vergeben werden. Der Band präsentiert Erkenntnisse aus einem breit angelegten Forschungsprojekt, in dem arbeitssoziologische, berufs- und wirtschaftspädagogische Perspektiven auf das Tätigsein, auf Lernpraktiken von Crowdworker*innen und auf die individuelle Bedeutung plattformbasierter Arbeit eingenommen werden. Die Beiträge setzen sich mit Aspekten wie Subjektivierung, Wissensgenerierung, Kompetenzentwicklung, Beruflichkeit und Lernen in der plattformbasierten Arbeit auseinander.

A vast amount has been written about NIV, including books and guidelines hence we thought to produce a book called "Noninvasive Ventilation in Medicine - Recent Updates" to cover the untouched components of such this machine. In this book, we tried to include advances in the NIV and the how NIV could be used in synchrony with the mechanical ventilator including a weaning stage. The clinical scope of NIV is changing day-to-day and its rapidly emerging and constantly changing field includes many more indications of utilization of NIV. The current book contains a rich extract from the masters in the NIV field who have vast experience of NIV in areas other than conventional indications and would like to share their experience with all of the readers. Various challenges in NIV patient care include noncompliance, confused, hypercapnic patient or small children coping with a mask, avoiding interface leaks, and balancing ventilatory needs with patient tolerance.