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Oxide-based electronics have been well established as an alternative to silicon technology; however, typical processing requires complex, high-vacuum equipment, which is a major drawback, particularly when targeting low-cost applications. The possibility to deposit the materials by low-cost techniques such as inkjet printing has drawn tremendous interest in solution processible materials for electronic applications; however, high processing temperatures still required. To overcome this issue, solution combustion synthesis has been recently pursued. Taking advantage of the exothermic nature of the reaction as a source of energy for localized heating, the precursor solutions can be converted into oxides at lower process temperatures. Theoretically, this can be applied to any metal ions to produce the desired oxide, opening unlimited possibilities to materials’ composition and combinations. Solution combustion synthesis has been applied for the production of semiconductor thin films based on ZnO, In2O3, SnO2 and combinations of these oxides, and also for high κ dielectrics (Al2O3). All of which are required for numerous electronic devices and applications such as fully oxide-based thin-film transistors (TFTs). The properties of produced thin films are highly dependent on the precursor solution characteristics; hence, the influence of several processing parameters; organic fuel, solvent and annealing temperature was studied. Although precursor solution degradation/oxide formation mechanisms are not yet fully understood, particularly for thin films, we demonstrate that high-performance devices are obtained with combustion solution-based metal oxide thin films. The results clearly show that solution combustion synthesis is becoming one of the most promising methods for low-temperature flexible electronics.

Several of the most prolific and influential conspiracy theories have originated in Eastern Europe. The far reaching influence of conspiracy narratives can be observed in recent developments in Poland or with regard to the wars waged in Eastern Ukraine and in former Yugoslavia. This volume analyses the history behind this widespread phenomenon as well the role it has played in Eastern European cultures and literature both past and present.

Global food demand is projected to rise by 59–98% by 2050, raising concerns about a potential food crisis. To address this challenge, sustainable food systems—defined by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization as environmentally friendly, socially beneficial, and economically viable—have gained significant attention. Achieving sustainability requires innovation across all stages of the food industry, from production to consumption. This Special Issue aims to highlight challenges and opportunities in developing sustainable food systems, showcase state-of-the-art food processing techniques, and present recent discoveries in fundamental food science that enhance sustainability. It will provide a comprehensive overview of initiatives and advances in sustainable food science and engineering, mainly focusing on, but not limited to, the following areas: agricultural and food waste valorization; eco-friendly and energy-efficient food processing technologies, including innovative biotechnologies, Sustainable food product development, such as plant-based meats and cellular agriculture; smart materials for food packaging and storage; fundamental food science approaches to improve nutritional value; social science perspectives on sustainable food supply chains; consumer behavior; and policy. This Special Issue provides a platform to share insights and solutions to advance sustainable food systems worldwide.

Social scientists have only recently begun to explore the link between health and political engagement. Understanding this relationship is vitally important from both a scholarly and a policy-making perspective. This book is the first to offer a comprehensive account of health and political engagement. Using both individual-level and country-level data drawn from the European Social Survey, World Values Survey and new Finnish survey data, it provides an extensive analysis of how health and political engagement are connected. It measures the impact of various health factors on a wide range of forms of political engagement and attitudes and helps shed light on the mechanisms behind the interaction between health and political engagement. This text is of key interest scholars, students and policy-makers in health, politics, and democracy, and more broadly in the social and health and medical sciences.

The publication is an attempt to describe (without the ambition to be exhaustive) the phenomenon of contrast in language, literature, and culture. Such a wide perspective allows a variety of possible interpretations and provides the topic with an interdisciplinary context. The scientific character of the publication is ensured by an organized choice of content aimed at analyzing the aforementioned points, based on a wide corpus of texts from various eras and countries, and the use of multiple methodologies supported by a carefully selected bibliography. Since the monograph addresses the needs of a wide range of readers (students, literary scholars, philologists, literature lovers and French language speakers), it has the potential to exert considerable social influence.

The author examines the practice of video interrogation for children witnesses. Starting point for their empirical investigation is the question of whether the law reform is not only meant well, but can be implemented practically. Here the author builds on the regulations of the 1998 established law for witness protection, to its feasibility in terms of the intended effective protection of victims, particularly the avoidance of so-called secondary victimization (trauma), experts from the federal state of Lower Saxony - prosecutors, police and courts - report by their own experiencees. In five selected district courts of Lower Saxony, the author has also conducted an extensive document analysis on the use of video testimony, and concluded that the video technology in criminal proceedings is used rarely. In specific reform proposals „de lege ferenda“ also the recent regulations of the Law Reform Act of 2003 victims are included in the evaluative study.

Der vorliegende Band ist herausgewachsen aus dem gleichnamigen Berner Symposium vom Herbst 2017, das wiederum im Kern auf drei grösseren SNF-Projekten basiert, die an der Hochschule der Künste Bern angesiedelt sind: Vom Vortrag zur Interpretation, Annotated Scores und Angewandte Interpretationsforschung. Es geht hier um die Erforschung von Aufführungs- und Interpretationstraditionen, um Methoden angewandter Interpretationsforschung, um die Spannung zwischen kommentierten Ausgaben, Dirigiereintragungen und dem klanglichen Resultat. Seit Anbeginn erwies sich Ludwig van Beethoven und hier insbesondere sein pianistisches und sinfonisches Werk als grösste Herausforderung und beliebtestes Exempel, weshalb wir unser viertägiges Symposium wie auch diesen Band rund um Beethoven gruppierten. Der Band fasst den Interpretationsbegriff bewusst breit und spiegelt damit das Spektrum der Interpretationsforschung an unserer Schule: Editionen, die sich bei ihren Entscheidungen auf bestimmte Interpretationen festlegen müssen, kommentierte Ausgaben, Tonträger, seien es nun auditive oder Welte- und weitere Klavierrollen, die uns quasi den Finger- und den Fussabdruck berühmter Interpretinnen und Interpreten geben, ferner ein Nachspielen als Re-Enactment, aber auch Spuren von Interpretationen, die sich in Bearbeitungen und in der Rezeption finden. Getreu unserer angewandten Forschung, die wir seit 2016 als BFH-Zentrum Arts in Context bündeln, gehen wir aber über das Musikwerk hinaus und diskutieren auch dessen Interpretation durch Regisseurinnen, Choreografen und weitere Komponistinnen. - Von welchen Voraussetzungen wird Improvisation um 1800 bestimmt und welchen Zwecken dient sie? - Welche standardisierten kompositorischen Modelle liegen ihr zugrunde und innerhalb welchen Rahmens von Auffuhrungskonventionen bewegt sie sich? - Inwiefern werden diese Konventionen in ihrer spontanen Kombination gedehnt oder gesprengt? - Welche Hinweise auf Improvisation finden sich in den Quellen zu Kompositionslehre und Auffuhrungspraxis, welchen Stellenwert hat sie in zeitgenössischen Ausbildungskonzepten? - In welchem Verhältnis stehen schriftlich fixierte Komposition und Improvisation?

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781351127264, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Meeting the goals enshrined in the Paris Agreement and limiting global temperature increases to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels demands rapid reductions in global carbon dioxide emissions. Reducing energy demand has a central role in achieving this goal, but existing policy initiatives have been largely incremental in terms of the technological and behavioural changes they encourage. Against this background, this book develops a sociotechnical approach to the challenge of reducing energy demand and illustrates this with a number of empirical case studies from the United Kingdom. In doing so, it explores the emergence, diffusion and impact of low-energy innovations, including electric vehicles and smart meters. The book has the dual aim of improving the academic understanding of sociotechnical transitions and energy demand and providing practical recommendations for public policy. Combining an impressive range of contributions from key thinkers in the field, this book will be of great interest to energy students, scholars and decision-makers.

At the crossroads of urban sociology and economic sociology, this book focuses on the competition unfolding in the urban space of Dakar between different categories of actors: groups of deterritorialized Chinese involved in trading activities, young local cobblers and street vendors. These actors of a globalization “from below”, who discreetly shape the public space, upset the hierarchical order imposed by the wage society, by participating in the constitution of new economic and social hierarchies and new relationships of power. This research is also an invitation to go beyond the usual clichés regarding these local economic actors (referred to by the derogatory terms “baol-baol”, “kaw-kaw”) by focusing on the variety of their skills, the diversity of their backgrounds and their social and professional identities. This book is intended for social scientists interested in the forms of “non-hegemonic globalization” in the African context and in small-scale urban market production and its recent developments. Cina Guèye holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Gaston Berger (Senegal) and the University of Lumière Lyon 2. She is a member of the CIERVAL laboratory (Centre interdisciplinaire d’études et de recherches de la vallée). Her research focuses on migration, labor markets, youth and gender.

Natural phenomena, including human language, are not just series of events but are organized quasi-periodically; sentences have structure, and that structure matters. Howard Lasnik and Juan Uriagereka “were there” when generative grammar was being developed into the Minimalist Program. In this presentation of the universal aspects of human language as a cognitive phenomenon, they rationally reconstruct syntactic structure. In the process, they touch upon structure dependency and its consequences for learnability, nuanced arguments (including global ones) for structure presupposed in standard linguistic analyses, and a formalism to capture long-range correlations. For practitioners, the authors assess whether “all we need is Merge,” while for outsiders, they summarize what needs to be covered when attempting to have structure “emerge.” Reconstructing the essential history of what is at stake when arguing for sentence scaffolding, the authors cover a range of larger issues, from the traditional computational notion of structure (the strong generative capacity of a system) and how far down into words it reaches to whether its variants, as evident across the world's languages, can arise from non-generative systems. While their perspective stems from Noam Chomsky's work, it does so critically, separating rhetoric from results. They consider what they do to be empirical, with the formalism being only a tool to guide their research (of course, they want sharp tools that can be falsified and have predictive power). Reaching out to skeptics, they invite potential collaborations that could arise from mutual examination of one another's work, as they attempt to establish a dialogue beyond generative grammar.

This book expounds fruitful ways of analysing matters of ecology, environments, nature, and the non-human world in a broad spectrum of material in French. Scholars from Canada, France, Great Britain, Spain, and the United States examine the work of writers and thinkers including Michel de Montaigne, Victor Hugo, Émile Zola, Arthur Rimbaud, Marguerite Yourcenar, Gilbert Simondon, Michel Serres, Michel Houellebecq, and Éric Chevillard. The diverse approaches in the volume signal a common desire to bring together form and content, politics and aesthetics, theory and practice, under the aegis of the environmental humanities.

This year, 2020, the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands celebrates its 80th birthday. This paper describes the history of the department since its founding in early 1940, just before the start of World War II in the Netherlands, until present day. The paper will highlight how its research and education developed within the socio-economic context of the Netherlands and the developments in aerospace over the past 80 years.

Climate Change Management and Policy; Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management

The objective three of the project “Eco-epidemiological investigation of the pest Giant African Snail (L. fulica) and its potential impact on the environmental health of Valle del Cauca”, led by the Universidad Santiago de Cali and executed with the collaboration of the Universidad del Valle, is to improve scientific dissemination on the eco-epidemiological conditions of this pest in the region. This chapter presents the educational-communication strategies designed for this purpose. The development of educommunicative strategies began with the formation of a multidisciplinary team of experts in education, psychology, public health and epidemiology. A qualitative participatory action research was used, organizing expectation, sensitization and dissemination workshops in five municipalities of Valle del Cauca: Cali, Caicedonia, Cartago, Buga and Buenaventura. Narrative techniques were used to interpret the qualitative data. Eight educommunicative strategies were created, including expert panels, workshops, video production, brochures, a scientific event and participation in mass media. These activities reached 1820 people from academic, business, government and civil society sectors. The educommunicative strategies are based on participatively generated information, promoting a significant awareness of the Giant African Snail problem. They encourage the appropriation of scientific knowledge, identify relevant territorial particularities, strengthen intersectoral collaboration and organize the community for the management of the pest, promoting a coexistence that minimizes its impact on biodiversity.