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Title in English: Proceedings of the Conference on the Didactics of the Sciences DidSci+ 2021 The goal of the DidSci+ conference on the didactics of natural sciences is to enable international exchange of experience in theory and practice of teaching natural sciences. The conference is organized yearly since 2018.

This vibrant and visionary reimagining of the field of cyberlaw through a feminist lens brings together emerging and established scholars and practitioners to explore how gender, race, sexuality, disability, class, and the intersections of these identities affect cyberspace and the laws that govern it. It promises to build a movement of scholars whose work charts a near future where cyberlaw is informed by feminism. “This intellectually exciting collection seamlessly draws together highly original research and reflections on the perils and potential of technology—and imagines the digital futures that might be possible if we heed the insights of feminist scholars.” — ALONDRA NELSON, Institute for Advanced Study “An indispensable resource for legal scholars and practitioners alike attempting to understand how the internet could live up to its true democratic ideals.” — IFEOMA AJUNWA, author of The Quantified Worker: Law and Technology in the Modern Workplace “A welcome and brilliant collection that we need now more than ever. Expertly showing how rules for digital technologies have always been about bodies, social dynamics, and power, these contributions provide an urgent and compelling demonstration of how cyberlaw often loses the thread—and of how to do better.” — WOODROW HARTZOG, author of Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies “Scholarly yet engaging, broad in scope yet cogent in argument, and critical yet hopeful. A must‑read.”—ARI EZRA WALDMAN, author of Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power

The transition towards resource circularity requires firms to use resources that circulate in sustainable resource loops instead of adapting the ‘take-make-use-dispose’ approach. Resource circularity asks for innovative resource loop solutions within and between firms. Through an abductive study of innovation projects developed by Norwegian salmon farming firms, this chapter offers a typology matrix consisting of seven types of resource loop innovations. We propose that firms develop resource loop innovations to reconfigure resource services of inbound, inhouse, and outbound resources, minimize the use of unproductive resources of inbound and outbound resources, and expand the range of resource services of inhouse resources. Through these resource loop innovations, negative externalities are minimized and underutilized resources re-used, which leads to increased resource circularity and more sustainable industries.

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Fantasy, fear, and freedom all play a part in A Story of Witchery, a book-length narrative poem by Jennifer Calkins, and newly illustrated by Thor Harris. Here we meet Emily, our “small and weedy” protagonist, an orphan complicit (perhaps) in her own abandonment who is caught up, as poet Amy Gerstler writes in her Introduction, in a story “entwined with science facts and twisted clinical fictions.” In language rolling and tripping with spare precision, Calkins makes a modern pilgrim progress into the imagination and the dark world of medicine. Rich and haunting images create a seemingly familiar environment which, like the internal landscape of the protagonist, dissolves only to reform, until finally resolving into a healed whole.

The Communism of Thought takes as its point of departure a passage in a letter from Dionys Mascolo to Gilles Deleuze: “I have called this communism of thought in the past. And I placed it under the auspices of Hölderlin, who may have only fled thought because he was unable to live it: ‘The life of the spirit between friends, the thoughts that form in the exchange of words, by writing or in person, are necessary to those who seek. Without that, we are by our own hands outside thought.’” What, in light of that imperative, is a correspondence? What is given to be understood by the word, let alone the phenomenon? What constitutes a correspondence? What occasions it? On what terms and according to what conditions may one enter into that exchange “necessary,” in Hölderlin’s words, “to those who seek”? Pursuant to what vicissitudes may it be conducted? And what end(s) might a correspondence come to have beyond the ostensible end that, to all appearances, it (inevitably) will be said to have had?

It is often pointed out that there is a disproportion between how much literary theory is taught in literature programs in our country and the relatively minor place this discipline occupies in the scientific field of literary studies compared to other areas. Nevertheless, this book seeks to demonstrate the enduring relevance of a particular mode of theoretical thinking and writing in Argentina: the fifteen essays that comprise it, written by some of the most relevant and interesting Argentine voices in their approach to contemporary literary theory, account for a new state of literary theory and its relations with criticism. The phrase that gives the volume its title, “the impossible theory,” seeks to name a certain stubborn commitment to thinking about literature from within literature itself. Each of the essays examines, from the singularity of the experience of literary reading, the boundaries between literature and politics, history, madness, teaching, the essay, and subjectivity.

A regenerative current is rising all around us. Stories of the need to reconnect, heal and transform are becoming more urgent, challenging a dominant worldview built on competition, economic growth, extractivism, militarisation and personal gain. Our planet’s resources are stretched beyond their limits, causing widespread suffering and injustice for both humans and non-humans. Yet, each of us holds the potential to cultivate life-affirming futures. The Art of Regenerative Educatorship offers a hands-on exploration of what it means to answer the call of the regenerative current in the field of education. Grounded in the principles of living systems thinking, this book explores the principles and practices of bringing regeneration into educational spaces. Drawing from a variety of case studies, personal stories and regenerative frameworks, it will inform and inspire your educational artistry. You will find guidance to: • Engage in practical exercises to help transform your educational practice • Navigate the interwoven inner, communal, and whole-system paths of regeneration • Develop four core capabilities to regenerate your practice • Lead collaboratively, rooted in the core virtues of love, presence, and courage The Art of Regenerative Educatorship is a vital resource for those seeking to breathe new life and purpose into their educational practice, in service to their community, (eco)system and society.

Filamentous phage (genus Inovirus) infect almost invariably Gram-negative bacteria. They are distinguished from all other bacteriophage not only by morphology, but also by the mode of their assembly, a secretion-like process that does not kill the host. “Classic” Escherichia coli filamentous phage Ff (f1, fd and M13) are used in display technology and bio/nano/technology, whereas filamentous phage in general have been put to use by their bacterial hosts for adaptation to environment, pathogenesis, biofilm formation, horizontal gene transfer and modulating genome stability. Many filamentous phage have a “symbiotic” life style that is often manifested by inability to form plaques, preventing their identification by standard phage-hunting techniques; while the absence or very low sequence conservation between phage infecting different species often complicates their identification through bioinformatics. Nevertheless, the number of discovered filamentous phage is increasing rapidly, along with realization of their significance. “Temperate” filamentous phage whose genomes are integrated into the bacterial chromosome of pathogenic bacteria often modulate virulence of the host. The Vibrio cholerae phage CTXf genome encodes cholera toxin, whereas many filamentous prophage influence virulence without encoding virulence factors. The nature of their effect on the bacterial pathogenicity and overall physiology is the next frontier in understanding intricate relationship between the filamentous phage and their hosts. Phage display has been widely used as a combinatorial technology of choice for discovery of therapeutic antibodies and peptide leads that have been applied in the vaccine design, diagnostics and drug development or targeting over the past thirty years. Virion proteins of filamentous phage are integral membrane proteins prior to assembly; hence they are ideal for display of bacterial surface and secreted proteins. The use of this technology at the scale of microbial community has potential to identify host-interacting proteins of uncultivable or low-represented community members. Recent applications of Ff filamentous phage extend into protein evolution, synthetic biology and nanotechnology. In many applications, phage serves as a monodisperse long-aspect nano-scaffold of well-defined shape. Chemical or chenetic modifications of this scaffold are used to introduce the necessary functionalities, such as fluorescent labels, ligands that target specific proteins, or peptides that promote formation of inorganic or organic nanostructures. We anticipate that the future holds development of new strategies for particle assembly, site-specific multi-functional modifications and improvement of existing modification strategies. These improvements will render the production of filamentous-phage-templated materials safe and affordable, allowing their applications outside of the laboratory.

This edited volume offers researchers, educators and students of the social sciences insights into the long-term consequences of the historic COVID-19 crisis. It contains contributions based on the longitudinal study ‘Values in Crisis 2020–2022’, in whose surveys more than 2000 respondents took part, by over 20 authors located at Austrian universities and research institutions. The book illuminates various topics such as value orientations, future expectations and the well-being of Austrians during the pandemic. Empirical insights give an overview of social inequalities during the crisis, changes in the assessment of relevant spheres of life, conspiracy mentality and many other pressing issues in contemporary Austrian society.

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This book contains the collected conference proceedings to the lectures of the 8th symposium on 23rd February 2021 in Karlsruhe. The state of research and new developments in the field of drive technology for mobile machines are reported in 11 articles. The conference proceedings are characterised by technical contributions on intelligent machine control systems, innovative electrical drives and development methods for off-highway vehicles.

This Special Issue book covers a wide scope in the research field of 3D-printing, including: the use of 3D printing in system design; AM with binding jetting; powder manufacturing technologies in 3D printing; fatigue performance of additively manufactured metals, such as the Ti-6Al-4V alloy; 3D-printing methods with metallic powder and a laser-based 3D printer; 3D-printed custom-made implants; laser-directed energy deposition (LDED) process of TiC-TMC coatings; Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing; cranial implant fabrication without supports in electron beam melting (EBM) additive manufacturing; the influence of material properties and characteristics in laser powder bed fusion; Design For Additive Manufacturing (DFAM); porosity evaluation of additively manufactured parts; fabrication of coatings by laser additive manufacturing; laser powder bed fusion additive manufacturing; plasma metal deposition (PMD); as-metal-arc (GMA) additive manufacturing process; and spreading process maps for powder-bed additive manufacturing derived from physics model-based machine learning.

Grand palaces of culture, opera theaters marked the center of European cities like the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. As opera cast its spell, almost every European city and society aspired to have its own opera house, and dozens of new theaters were constructed in the course of the "long" nineteenth century. At the time of the French Revolution in 1789, only a few, mostly royal, opera theaters, existed in Europe. However, by the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries nearly every large town possessed a theater in which operas were performed, especially in Central Europe, the region upon which this book concentrates. This volume, a revised and extended version of two well-reviewed books published in German and Czech, explores the social and political background to this "opera mania" in nineteenth century Central Europe. After tracing the major trends in the opera history of the period, including the emergence of national genres of opera and its various social functions and cultural meanings, the author contrasts the histories of the major houses in Dresden (a court theater), Lemberg (a theater built and sponsored by aristocrats), and Prague (a civic institution). Beyond the operatic institutions and their key stage productions, composers such as Carl Maria von Weber, Richard Wagner, Bedřich Smetana, Stanisław Moniuszko, Antonín Dvořák, and Richard Strauss are put in their social and political contexts. The concluding chapter, bringing together the different leitmotifs of social and cultural history explored in the rest of the book, explains the specificities of opera life in Central Europe within a wider European and global framework.

This open access book offers a new management meta-theory to replace Taylorism. It presents a new paradigm in management thinking and a new, practical organizational model for implementing it in our personal and working lives, in our companies, in our communities and nations, and in a sustainable global order. It will offer an understanding of why and how “thinking-as-usual” is failing both business and political leaders in these new times, and it will advocate new thinking and new management practices that are so radically new that they turn everything we have taken for granted inside out and upside down. This new management model is called “Quantum Management Theory”, because it is rooted in the new paradigm bequeathed to us by quantum physics and its younger sibling, complexity science.