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The subjects of building physics, and structural and safety engineering have always been popular research topics globally for scientists across many fields, including, but not limited to, architecture, civil engineering, and safety engineering. In recent years, considerable scientific progress has been achieved regarding the related research themes. This Special Issue is dedicated to recent advances in the design, theoretical, numerical, and experimental study of building physics, structural, and safety engineering, including building systems and materials; energy and environment; green building and architecture; structural engineering; disaster prevention and mitigation projects; smart materials and structures; constructions and composites; structural health monitoring; civil engineering; and architecture. For this event, all these topics were covered in the extensive submissions accepted, but interesting papers on other aspects of building structure were also received. In this reprint, the main research findings of the accepted papers in this Special Issue, including fired control, building insulation, wind comfort, hygrothermal performance, in situ structural evaluation, concrete production, piled raft foundations performance evaluation, wall piers, and pipe heat transfer, are summarized, and a number of research questions and directions are identified.

Deception is a ubiquitous phenomenon in social interactions and has attracted a significant amount of research during the last decades. The majority of studies in this field focused on how deception modulates behavioral, autonomic, and brain responses and whether these changes can be used to validly identify lies. Especially the latter question, which historically gave rise to the development of psychophysiological "lie detection" techniques, has been driving research on deception and its detection until today. The detection of deception and concealed information in forensic examinations currently constitutes one of the most frequent applications of psychophysiological methods in the field. With the increasing use of such methods, the techniques for detecting deception have been controversially discussed in the scientific community. It has been proposed to shift from the original idea of detecting deception per se to a more indirect approach that allows for determining whether a suspect has specific knowledge of crime-related details. This so-called Concealed Information Test is strongly linked to basic psychological concepts concerning memory, attention, orienting, and response monitoring. Although research in this field has intensified with the advancement of neuroimaging techniques such as PET and fMRI in the last decade, basic questions on the psychological mechanisms underlying modulatory effects of deception and information concealment on behavioral, autonomic, and brain responses are still poorly understood. This Research Topic brings together contributions from researchers in experimental psychology, psychophysiology, and neuroscience focusing on the understanding of the broad concept of deception including the detection of concealed information, with respect to basic research questions as well as applied issues. This Research Topic is mainly composed of originalresearch articles but reviews and papers elaborating on novel methodological approaches have also been included. Experimental methods include, but are not limited to, behavioral, autonomic, electroencephalographic or brain imaging techniques that allow for revealing relevant facets of deception on a multimodal level. While this Research Topic primarily includes laboratory work, relevant issues for the field use of such methods are also discussed.

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The aim of this reprint is to immerse interested readers in the evolutionary history and mineralization of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB). The Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB) is the result of long-lived multi-stage tectonic evolution, including Proterozoic to Paleozoic accretion and collision, Mesozoic intracontinental modification, and Cenozoic rapid deformation and uplift. The accretionary and collisional orogenesis of its early history generated a huge orogenic collage consisting of diverse tectonic units including island arcs, ophiolites, accretionary prisms, seamounts, oceanic plateaus, and micro-continents. These incorporated orogenic components preserved valuable detailed information on orogenic processes and continental crust growth, which make the CAOB a key region for the understanding of continental evolution, mantle–crust interaction, and associated mineralization. In this reprint, new data and study advances on tectonic evolution and the mineralization effect of the south domain of the CAOB, including the Kazakhstan–West Junggar orocline system, Altai–East Junggar orogenic belt, Tianshan orogenic belt, Beishan orogenic belt, Xing–Meng orogenic belt, and northern North China Craton, are introduced. Precise zircon U-Pb ages and isotopes from individual parts of the CAOB have been provided. We pave the way to deeply understand accretionary orogeny and mineralization processes in the accretionary orogenic belt.

Sports associations regularly enact or amend the associations’ statutes and, in doing so, establish regulations which can have a restrictive effect on association members, furthermore on third parties. Through this, sports associations usually invoke the association's autonomy, which, however, is subject to (anti-trust) legal limits. The author examines this highly controversial area of law with special reference to the so-called Meca-Medina test, and then applies his approach to numerous practical and highly topical examples. This first comprehensive presentation of sports antitrust law is aimed at sports lawyers, sports associations, those (in)directly affected by sports associations’ regulations, courts, but also at legal scholars as well as students.

This book is a collection of papers covering various aspects of the optimal control of power and energy production from renewable resources (wind, PV, biomass, hydrogen, etc.). In particular, attention is focused both on the optimal control of new technologies and on their integration in buildings, microgrids, and energy markets. The examples presented in this book are among the most promising technologies for satisfying an increasing share of thermal and electrical demands with renewable sources: from solar cooling plants to offshore wind generation; hybrid plants, combining traditional and renewable sources, are also considered, as well as traditional and innovative storage systems. Innovative solutions for transportation systems are also explored for both railway infrastructures and advanced light rail vehicles. The optimization and control of new solutions for the power network are addressed in detail: specifically, special attention is paid to microgrids as new paradigms for distribution networks, but also in other applications (e.g., shipboards). Finally, optimization and simulation models within SCADA and energy management systems are considered. This book is intended for engineers, researchers, and practitioners that work in the field of energy, smart grid, renewable resources, and their optimization and control.

How can narrative theory account for the changing roles of storytelling and storysharing in the public sphere? This essay proposes a new concept of narrative dynamics, one that generates well-constrained descriptions of specific elements, features, or qualities of narratives, as well as programmatic claims concerning their potential uses and effects. Narrative dynamics research is equally interested in the pragmatics of strategic framing and the grand narratives of human rights, in mundane stories of everyday experience and the intangible myths and masterplots which shape organizations, institutions, and cultures. Starting with the formal characteristics and functional qualities of narrative that contribute to its interactivity, the essay discusses phenomena such as narrative aggregation and normalization, event modeling, and narrative chaff. It then demonstrates how these new concepts produce new insights in the narrative ecology of the public sphere, by analysing key moments in European migration discourses since 2015.

Si l'excellence de la viande charolaise est reconnue, moins connus sont les hommes qui l'ont commercialisée, lorsque se construit la filière de production et lorsque se développe l'embouche pour répondre à la demande de viande de la population urbaine, au XIXe siècle. Ce livre, tiré d'une thèse de doctorat en histoire, fondé sur la découverte de plusieurs fonds d'archives privées et sur une longue enquête de terrain, renouvelle l'histoire du commerce du bétail dans le berceau de la charolaise. Nourri de portraits suggestifs, il évoque la réussite des emboucheurs, les succès et les faillites des négociants et des maquignons, et raconte comment de simples métayers bénéficient à leur tour, dans la première moitié du XXe siècle, de la prospérité régionale. Il ne s'arrête pas aux crises que subit la filière bovine à partir des années 1960. Il suit jusqu'à nos jours l'évolution du marché de Saint-Christophe-en- Brionnais et la reconversion du Brionnais-Charolais de l'embouche vers l'élevage-naisseur. Tandis que les maquignons sont éliminés et que les marchands de maigre succèdent aux marchands de gras, la filière connaît un processus de concentration spectaculaire avec l'émergence des coopératives et le développement de l'exportation vers l'Italie. Entre vaincus et vainqueurs, quel est le devenir des commerçants en bestiaux et de l'élevage dans le berceau de la charolaise ?

Aldo Moro, General Secretary of the Christian Democracy, Prime minister in an alliance of center-left, strategist of the government agreement with the Communist Party and finally victim of the political terrorism. Looking at two different stages of Italian political life - the season of center-left coalition and the tragic story of the armed struggle - this volume traces, from multiple perspectives, the tormented path of the leader politician that best sums up the Italian history of the second post-war period.

Fujiwara Teika is known as the premier poet and literary scholar of the early 13th century. It is not so widely known that he also tried his hand at fiction: Mumyōzōshi (Untitled Leaves; ca. 1201) refers to “several works” by Teika and then names Matsura no miya monogatari (The Tale of Matsura; ca. 1190) as the only one that can be considered successful. The work is here translated in full, with annotation. Set in the pre-Nara period, The Tale of Matsura is the story of a young Japanese courtier, Ujitada, who is sent to China with an embassy and has a number of supernatural experiences while there. Affairs of the heart dominate The Tale of Matsura, as is standard for courtly tales. Several of its other features break the usual mold, however: its time and setting; the military episode that would seem to belong instead in a war tale; scenes depicting the sovereign’s daily audiences, in which formal court business is conducted; a substantial degree of specificity in referring to things Chinese; a heavy reliance on fantastic and supernatural elements; an obvious effort to avoid imitating The Tale of Genji as other late-Heian tales had done; and a most inventive ending. The discussion in the introduction briefly touches upon each of these features, and then focuses at some length on how characteristics associated with the poetic ideal of yōen inform the tale. Evidence relating to the date and authorship of the tale is explored in two appendixes.

Der Band untersucht, mit welchen Methoden digitale Disruptionen und Transformationen in Recht und Rechtswissenschaft verarbeitet und wie zentrale Kategorien des Rechts darauf eingestellt werden können. Die Folgen des Medienwechsels für Recht und Rechtswissenschaft werden herausgearbeitet, das methodische Potential und die Grenzen der Analogien zum Analogen untersucht und exemplarisch im Urheberrecht Momente der Fortentwicklung oder des Umbruchs identifiziert. Für die rechtlichen Grundkategorien von Verantwortung und Begründung wird gezeigt, wie sie auf künstliche Intelligenz eingestellt werden können. Eine übergreifende Erfassung der Herausforderungen und die Einordnung in die Innovationsforschung bilden den Rahmen. Mit Beiträgen von Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem, Linda Kuschel, Timo Rademacher, Ingo Schulz-Schaeffer, Thomas Vesting, Thomas Wischmeyer und Herbert Zech

Recently statistical knowledge has become an important requirement and occupies a prominent position in the exercise of various professions. In the real world, the processes have a large volume of data and are naturally multivariate and as such, require a proper treatment. For these conditions it is difficult or practically impossible to use methods of univariate statistics. The wide application of multivariate techniques and the need to spread them more fully in the academic and the business justify the creation of this book. The objective is to demonstrate interdisciplinary applications to identify patterns, trends, association sand dependencies, in the areas of Management, Engineering and Sciences. The book is addressed to both practicing professionals and researchers in the field.

This book analyzes the crisis of the idea of human being based on timeless notions, in the Euroamerican context, as seen primarily through literature and cinema. It focuses on Italy, which has been and remains a crossroads for diverse cultural and political currents—open to Mediterranean cultural influences while remaining within a typically Western cultural context. The “new man,” defined by Corrado Alvaro during his trip in Russia in 1934 as “transitional,” implies a human being with a fundamental need for change. Instead of the “new man,” Italo Calvino in the 1960 preface to his I nostri antenati wrote about the incomplete human being who is always changing, always being completed without ever reaching completion, and thus always in transition. In these pages, the author examines the twentieth- and twenty-first-centuries Italian metamorphosis of the concept of the human being, mirroring closely at every historical turn the contextual demands of the country. From Brignone’s film Sotto la croce del sud (1938), and its faulted “biracial” protagonists to the Netflix series Summertime (2020), characterized by the intentional lack of problematization of a multicultural society; from the fascist manhood represented by Roberto Rossellini’s aviator “modern knight of our time”(1942), to Fellini’s Marcello who chooses to not choose (1959); from Marinetti’s idea of the woman who belonged “to the race’s development” (1919) to Mazzacurati’s Mara, who wishes “to live thirteen different lives” (2007); from Primo Levi’s non-humans and stripped men, to not-belonging, to Arendt’s stateless persons, to migrants crossing the desert and the Mediterranean sea in Segre’s and Rosi’s movies (2008, 2016): the journey chronicled in these pages is a surprising one, as today’s Italy is very different than that imagined toward the second half of the nineteenth century.

This open access book re-evaluates the influence of the ancien régime salons, which were the foremost cultural centres in early modern France. Presided over by women, these salons carved out spaces for poetry recitals, performances, and scientific lectures amid polite conversation, enabling mixed-gender intellectual exchange. But what happened when salon attendees were banished from France and exported the salon to a new national audience? How did visitors of different creeds and nationalities share this space? In other words, what happened when the salon model itself went into exile? In A Salon-in-Exile , Annalisa Nicholson explores the translation of the salon from France to England in the late seventeenth century via the first book-length study of the Mazarin salon. Hosted by Hortense Mancini (Duchess of Mazarin) and Charles de Saint-Évremond, the Mazarin circle quickly became one of the most celebrated salons in Europe and the most vibrant Francophone community in London. Across the chapters, Nicholson examines the establishment of the Mazarin salon in 1676 and the activities that it offered – from conversation and gambling to performance and literary collaboration. As a space that brought together the capital’s community of French and European exiles with Restoration London’s elite, the salon fostered engagement with European thought, French literature, and epicurean philosophy. Attending to this oral and written exchange, A Salon-in-Exile provides a new account of co-existence and collaboration in early modern society with analysis of a wide-ranging corpus of letters, memoirs, plays, operas, and essays. By investigating what happens when the model of the salon moved beyond France's borders, Nicholson argues that the salon transformed into a distinctively pan-European space that accommodated its multilingual and multiconfessional membership. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by UKRI.