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The aim of this reprint is to present the current state of knowledge in the broad unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) discipline. With the rapid development of new applications and simulation methods, UAVs can now operate in a wide range of environmental conditions, thus extending the range of human activities due to their flexibility, autonomous control, size, low cost, and high adaptability. For this reason, the widely carried out multidisciplinary UAV research is of great importance in many fields. The intention of this collection was to bring together the work of leading researchers in the field of UAVs with an interest in their control, design, navigation, and autonomy. The papers included in this reprint present the key challenges of UAVs. The authors propose new solutions, approaches, and methodologies to address today's UAV challenges.

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La historia del pueblo ainu constituye un episodio poco conocido de la historia de Japón marcado por la lucha de resistencia pacífica frente a las políticas de asimilación puestas en marcha a partir de la anexión formal de Jokkaidoo, en 1869. Este libro es un estudio que subraya la complejidad de los espacios de intersección de género y etnicidad a partir del análisis de la producción literaria de autoras que, firmes en su postura contra la discriminación racial, han defendido el orgullo de su pueblo y continúan luchando para que se reconozcan plenamente sus derechos como pueblo indígena de Japón.

The paper illustrates the strategies of a “communicated epigraphy” to the public, adopted in the Sapienza University of Rome project Compitare per via: itineraria epigrafici digitali nella Roma medievale (XI-XV secolo), for which I am the Scientific Director. Using new tools (including the “exploded digital cast”), the micro-stories entrusted to the stone will be read, to trace thematic epigraphic itineraries aimed at recreating the same mechanisms of communicative effectiveness of the past time on the modern user, in order to overcome the well-known dichotomy between epigraphy used as main medium of communication in the ancient world and epigraphy hardly intelligible to the modern eye and which must therefore be “communicated”.

This book brings together scientists and provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of some recent developments in the field of adhesive bonding with the contributions of internationally recognized authors. This book is divided into three sections: "Structural Adhesive Bonding," "Wood Adhesive Bonding," and "Adhesive Bonding in Medical Applications." Each section presents an important review and some applications of the adhesive bonding in various different disciplines. I hope that the book published in open access will help researchers to benefit from it.

This reprint of the Topical Collection: “Buildings' Thermal Behaviour and Energy Efficiency for a Sustainable Construction”, published in journal Buildings (mpdi), includes 22 contributions (19 articles, 1 review, 1 perspective and 1 systematic review), from across the world, with very interesting and actual research topics, such as: Energy Resilience Performance; Indoor Air Quality; Chopped Straw as an Insulation Material; Energy Retrofitting Practices; Sustainability Assessment of Cementitious Ceramic Tile Adhesives; Solar Radiation of Deciduous Trees’ Shade; Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) façades; Environmental Dissatisfaction and Underheating Lowers Self-Perceived Health; Parameters Measured to Characterize Classrooms’ Indoor Environmental Quality; Uncertainty Assessment of Mean Radiant Temperature Estimation for Indoor Thermal Comfort; Energy, Environmental and Economic Costs of Buildings’ Thermal Insulation; Retrofit Strategies on Thermal Insulation Applied in Buildings; Estimating Heating Load in Residential Buildings; Sustainable and Universal Approach to Retrofitting Residential Buildings; Optimum Building Envelope Parameters of a Room Concerning Window-to-Wall Ratio, Orientation, Insulation Thickness and Window Type; Thermo-Energy Performance of LSF Constructions; Reuse of Insulators from CDW to Produce Lime Mortars; Renovation of Modernist Architecture; Evaluation of Non-Autoclaved Aerated Concrete for Energy Behaviors; Water Vapour Resistivity Properties; Thermal Performance of Double-Pane LSF Walls with and without a Reflective Foil; BIM-Based Energy Analysis and Sustainability Assessment.

The political economy of the European 18th century declares economics to be a basic human condition. This phenomenon is summed up in the present study under the term “anthropologizing of the economic” and examines how treatises by Spanish reform economists from the late 18th century are reflected in sentimental economic comedies of the late Enlightenment. For the first time since Schumpeter, the study, located at the interface between literary studies, cultural studies and the history of economic theory, offers a German-language overview of the currents of economic thought in Enlightenment Spain and its predecessors, based on current research. In doing so, she establishes references to developments in France, England and Germany on the levels of economic and theater reform. Based on the knowledge that when talking about economic people (homo oeconomicus), the economic man (vir oeconomicus) is usually meant, she develops a set of conceptual tools for Analysis of the recurring economic character types in Spanish reform theatre. By examining comedies from the period between 1762 and 1805, she differentiates between gender-specific incarnations of good and bad management in trade, industry and agriculture, ranging from the vir oeconomicus to the femina profusa are sufficient. In addition to the transfer processes between economic and theatrical discourse, the study pays special attention to the burgeoning liberalism and to a connection between the economic and the religious that is specific to Spain. For its interdisciplinary character, it was awarded the sponsorship prize of the University Society of Münster e.V

The here collected contributions relating to the 46th International Conference of the Representation Disciplines Teachers, organized jointly by Sapienza University of Rome, Roma Tre University, and San Raffaele Roma University, aim to offer the scientific community a reflection on the theoretical and methodological aspects related to the concept of èkphrasis, a term that, in the field of representation, concerns descriptive, analogical, and digital activities that generate new knowledge in several areas of application. The Conference aims to place at the center of the discussion an interpretation of the concept of research that, without neglecting an idea of study, protection, and enhancement of environmental and cultural heritage, focuses on the needs of contemporary society and its possible developments, making use of innovative theoretical, methodological, and operational activities, including those characterized by an interdisciplinary approach. According to this interpretation, research can also be seen as a foreshadowing of the definition and testing of experimental proposals aimed at exploring new areas of investigation: this opens up imaginative and utopian perspectives in the relationship between the sciences, the arts, and the disciplines that contribute to common goals, through the experimentation of methods, techniques, and languages for conceiving, prefiguring, designing, and representing.

This book provides useful information about bioremediation, phytoremediation, and mycoremediation of wastewater and some aspects of the chemical wastewater treatment processes, including ion exchange, neutralization, adsorption, and disinfection. Additionally, this book elucidates and illustrates the wastewater treatment plants in terms of plant sizing, plant layout, plant design, and plant location. Cutting-edge topics include wet air oxidation of aqueous wastes, biodegradation of nitroaromatic compounds, biological treatment of sanitary landfill leachate, bacterial strains for the bioremediation of olive mill wastewater, gelation of arabinoxylans from maize wastewater, and modeling wastewater evolution.

Even amid despair, there could be positive aspects to the persecution suicides of the deportation period. This volume describes them as a distinct phenomenon that should be firmly integrated into emigration and resistance research. It carefully examines the final months of Arthur Nicolaier – the physician who discovered tetanus and fell into relative obscurity after committing suicide – along with the support networks in his milieu.

Robot arms have been developing since 1960's, and those are widely used in industrial factories such as welding, painting, assembly, transportation, etc. Nowadays, the robot arms are indispensable for automation of factories. Moreover, applications of the robot arms are not limited to the industrial factory but expanded to living space or outer space. The robot arm is an integrated technology, and its technological elements are actuators, sensors, mechanism, control and system, etc.

Damit der Praxistransfer von Schulprojekten gelingt, müssen die personellen und strukturellen Rahmenbedingungen der Schulen oder Bereiche mitgedacht werden, die Ergebnisse oder Innovationen aufgreifen wollen. Dieser Sammelband reflektiert, wie der Transfer von Schulentwicklungsprojekten in die Praxis erfolgreich umgesetzt werden kann. Nach einer Konkretisierung des Transferbegriffs werden zunächst die Kriterien einer gelingenden Transferarbeit erläutert. Aufbauend auf dieser theoretischen Grundlage stellen die Autorinnen und Autoren vier Pilotprojekte und deren praktische Umsetzung der Transferkriterien vor und leiten anschließend Handlungsempfehlungen und -strategien ab. Zentrale Themen sind Transferprozesse, Transferarbeit, Kooperations- und Nachhaltigkeitsstrategien, Kommunikation und Partizipation, Gelingensbedingungen von Transfer. Der Band richtet sich insbesondere an die Verantwortlichen in der Schulverwaltung, in Stiftungen und an Schulleitungen.

This book contributes to the fundamental understanding of the physical mechanisms that take place in pseudo turbulent particulate flows. In the present work we have considered the sedimentation of large numbers of spherical rigid particles in an initially quiescent flow field. We have performed direct numerical simulations employing an immersed boundary method for the representation of the fluid-solid interface. The results evidence that depending on the particle settling regime (i.e. Galileo number and particle-to-fluid density ratio) the particles may exhibit strong inhomogeneous spatial distribution. It is found that the particles are preferentially located in regions with downward fluid motion. The particles inside clusters experience larger settling velocities than the average. The flow in all flow cases is observed to exhibit characteristic features of pseudo-turbulence. The particle-induced flow field is further found to be highly anisotropic with dominant vertical components. The results indicate that, in the present flow configurations, the collective and mobility effects play significant role for the particle and fluid motion.

Créée le 7 octobre 1949, la République démocratique allemande (RDA) affichait l’ambition de former l’homme socialiste nouveau. À côté de l’entreprise, l’école devait être le lieu de réalisation de ce projet pédagogique prométhéen car cette instance centrale de socialisation était considérée par les dirigeants du parti socialiste unifié (SED) comme l’un des instruments principaux d’ingénierie sociale visant à transformer de fond en comble la société. Plus qu’une machine à instruire, l’école est une machine à construire une société. Dans quelle mesure l’établissement progressif d’un système éducatif socialiste débouche-t-il sur une domination plus efficace du SED ? Qu’est-ce qu’éduquer veut dire dire dans un « pays du socialisme réellement existant » ? En mobilisant une grande richesse d’archives écrites, photographiques et orales, l’auteur vise dans cet ouvrage à analyser la façon dont les logiques sociales, politiques et culturelles de la société socialiste s’expriment à l’école. L’institution scolaire est considérée dans ce livre comme un observatoire privilégié du communisme au quotidien car elle constitue une zone-frontière entre la société et le pouvoir. L’institution scolaire constitue un lieu où s’exprime la tension entre l’utopie éducative du régime et les différents acteurs de ce microcosme social (enseignants, élèves, parents, fonctionnaires du Parti et des organisations de jeunesse, officiers de l’armée du Peuple et de la police politique). En embrassant les quarante années d’existence de la RDA, l’approche à la fois générationnelle et socio-historique permet de souligner les effets sociaux et politiques (voulus ou non) que la volonté des dirigeants est-allemands pouvait produire. En dépit d’un certain nombre de limites structurelles ou humaines, l’école socialiste en RDA a bien été un instrument de consolidation de la domination et de la stabilité relative du pouvoir socialiste.

This book is the first to comprehensively develop the concept of childism to understand, study, and analyze age-based discrimination against children. It presents a critical theory to help comprehend intersecting prejudice against children and to examine the weak implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and in what ways violations against children can be analyzed through the intersections of racist, sexist, and ableist discrimination. The book further offers scholars a new perspective when studying structural forms of discrimination and oppression against children and provides professionals with a new vocabulary on prejudice targeting children when assessing theory, policy, and praxis on ‘child-friendly’ and ‘child-centered’ initiatives that overlook the need to protect children against discrimination. This book will be of key interest to scholars, students, and practitioners of human rights, child and youth studies, education, prejudice studies, the United Nations and child law, and more broadly to sociology, social policy, psychology, and social work.