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This book is a comprehensive set of articles reflecting on the application of symbolic and/or numerical computation in a range of scientific areas within the fields of engineering and science. These articles constitute extended versions of communications presented at the 4th International Conference on Numerical and Symbolic Computation—SYMCOMP 2019—that took place in Porto, Portugal, from 11 to 12 April 2019 The different chapters present diverse perspectives on the existing effective connections between mathematical methods and procedures and other knowledge areas. The intrinsic multidisciplinary character is visible throughout the whole book as a result of the applicability of the scope and the applications considered. The reader will find this book to be a useful resource for identifying problems of interest in different engineering and science areas, and in the development of mathematical models and procedures used in the context of prediction or verification computational tools as well as in the aided-learning/teaching context. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the recent developments and applications of symbolic and numerical computation for a number of multidisciplinary engineering and science problems.

Non-Western perspective on the international history of intellectual property rights. Politics in Publishing focuses on Japan's involvement in shaping international copyright law over a seventy-year period following the country's 1899 accession to the Berne Convention, the first multilateral copyright treaty. During this time, Japanese state officials collaborated with various stakeholders such as publishers, translators, and legal experts to strategically influence the international revision process of the treaty. The involvement of these actors in international organizations such as the League of Nations and the United Nations affected global copyright norms even as Japan advanced its imperial – national after 1945 – and capitalist interests. Taking a previously lacking non-Western perspective on the history of international copyright law, Politics in Publishing highlights the complex interplay between state and private actors and between domestic and international power relations, as well as administrative transformations in the formation of the modern, global international order. Grounded in an impressive body of primary source material, this book will make a substantial contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship on intellectual property, and copyright history in particular. Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Autoimmune disorders are known to affect a substantial number of people worldwide, demonstrating a gender bias and are the second largest cause of chronic illness. Recently, the attention has been focused on lifestyle changes as a major factor in the rise of autoimmune disease frequency. The two sections of this book are focused on the new opportunities for moving research forward, leading to a new approach to prevention and treatment of autoimmune diseases. A better understanding of the mechanisms of gene expression and triggering signaling pathways, which is involved in autoimmune pathogenesis simultaneously with current data for the interaction of microbiota with human immune system, will help to better understand the immune imbalance implicated in autoimmunity.

Die duale Ausbildung ist ein wichtiger Faktor für die Integration Geflüchteter. In seiner Dissertation untersucht der Autor aus einer betrieblichen Perspektive, unter welchen Voraussetzungen und Bedingungen die Ausbildung gelingen kann. Grundlage der Studie sind 29 problemzentrierte Interviews, die mit Betrieben in Nordrhein-Westfalen geführt wurden. Anhand der Auswertungen werden betriebliche Prozesse veranschaulicht und analysiert. Hierbei zeigen sich die Bedingungen, unter denen die Ausbildung Geflüchteter gelingen kann, sowie die Herausforderungen für die Betriebe. Der Band bietet wertvolle Informationen aus der Praxis für Bildungsforscher:innen, Betriebe und Ausbilder:innen.

Women’s gambling remains largely under the radar and often escapes research findings. It shows characteristics that do not fully overlap with the trajectories of male gamblers. Beyond the biomedical approach, which generally frames the analysis of gambling, it is necessary to take into account the social dimension of female players, as well as the role of social networks and the predominance of social factors influencing women’s propensity to gamble. Gender differences concern not only the frequency of gambling, but also the specific features of women’s approach, which may also reflect the echoes of demands for female emancipation. After reviewing theoretical frameworks and sociological research on women’s gambling, the book—drawing on interviews conducted with female gamblers—offers an analysis of their “gambling careers,” identifying distinctive traits and patterns. The concluding section presents an ethical analysis of the complex relationship between the State and gambling.

Profesor Krzysztof Skotnicki jest cenionym i uznanym znawcą prawa konstytucyjnego, autorem licznych publikacji, nauczycielem akademickim, wychowawcą wielu pokoleń prawników. W roku 2023 mieliśmy zaszczyt i przyjemność świętować rocznicę siedemdziesięciolecia urodzin Pana Profesora. Święto to stało się okazją do uhonorowania Pana Profesora, czego wyrazem jest niniejsza publikacja. Księga dedykowana Panu Profesorowi, przygotowana została przez przyjaciół i współpracowników z polskich i zagranicznych ośrodków badawczych. Składa się z dwóch tomów, a ich struktura podyktowana została różnorodnością tematyczną tekstów nadesłanych przez ponad stu autorów. Artykuły poświęcone zostały podstawowym instytucjom ustrojowym i ich organom, demokracji, wolności, prawom człowieka i obywatela, prawu wyborczemu oraz sądownictwu. Odrębny rozdział stanowią teksty zagranicznych przyjaciół Pana Profesora opublikowane, w znacznej części, w ojczystym języku autorów. Życzymy Panu Profesorowi dalszych sukcesów!

This thesis is concerned with intention recognition for a humanoid robot and investigates how the challenges of uncertain and incomplete observations, a high degree of detail of the used models, and real-time inference may be addressed by modeling the human rationale as hybrid, dynamic Bayesian networks and performing inference with these models. The key focus lies on the automatic identification of the employed nonlinear stochastic dependencies and the situation-specific inference.

Open Mathematics is a challenging notion for theoretical modeling, technical analysis, and numerical simulation in the fields of physics and mathematics, among others, as highly correlated nonlinear phenomena, evolving over a large range of time and length scales, control the underlying systems and processes in their spatiotemporal evolution. Indeed, available data, be they physical, biological, or financial, and technologically complex systems and stochastic systems, such as mechanical or electronic devices, can be managed from the same conceptual approach, both analytically and through computer simulation, using effective nonlinear dynamics methods. The aim of this Special Issue is to highlight papers that show the dynamics, control, optimization, and applications of nonlinear systems. This has recently become an increasingly popular subject, with impressive growth concerning applications in engineering, economics, biology, and medicine, and can be considered a veritable contribution to the literature. Original papers relating to the objective presented above are especially welcome subjects. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Stability analysis of discrete and continuous dynamical systems; Nonlinear dynamics in biological complex systems; Stability and stabilization of stochastic systems; Mathematical models in statistics and probability; Synchronization of oscillators and chaotic systems; Optimization methods of complex systems; Reliability modeling and system optimization; Computation and control over networked systems.

Managing Risk and Information Security: Protect to Enable, an ApressOpen title, describes the changing risk environment and why a fresh approach to information security is needed. Because almost every aspect of an enterprise is now dependent on technology, the focus of IT security must shift from locking down assets to enabling the business while managing and surviving risk. This compact book discusses business risk from a broader perspective, including privacy and regulatory considerations. It describes the increasing number of threats and vulnerabilities, but also offers strategies for developing solutions. These include discussions of how enterprises can take advantage of new and emerging technologies—such as social media and the huge proliferation of Internet-enabled devices—while minimizing risk.

Envisager l’histoire de la domination romaine à travers l’étude des organisations humaines et des modes d’habiter, telle est l’ambition de cet ouvrage. Il est conçu comme un dialogue entre archéologues, historiens de l’art, historiens et spécialistes de littérature ancienne, tous élèves ou collègues de Xavier Lafon, à qui ce livre est offert. Au cœur de cet ouvrage se trouvent l’Italie, le monde celtique et les villes du sud de la Gaule, depuis leur conquête par Rome jusqu’à la fin de l’Antiquité. Les modes d’habiter sont envisagés depuis l’échelle la plus large, l’occupation et l’aménagement du territoire, jusqu’aux détails des formes architecturales et du décor – dans leurs aspects techniques autant qu’esthétiques. C’est donc un parcours dans l’espace des villes romaines qui est proposé, entre monuments et maisons, mais aussi dans le monde romain, depuis la Grèce où Rome trouve un répertoire des formes architecturales et décoratives jusqu’aux villes d’Occident qui prennent à leur tour Rome pour modèle.

This is the first of two volumes of a state-of-the-art survey article collection which originates from three commutative algebra sessions at the 2009 Fall Southeastern American Mathematical Society Meeting at Florida Atlantic University. The articles reach into diverse areas of commutative algebra and build a bridge between Noetherian and non-Noetherian commutative algebra. These volumes present current trends in two of the most active areas of commutative algebra: non-noetherian rings (factorization, ideal theory, integrality), and noetherian rings (the local theory, graded situation, and interactions with combinatorics and geometry). This volume contains combinatorial and homological surveys. The combinatorial papers document some of the increasing focus in commutative algebra recently on the interaction between algebra and combinatorics. Specifically, one can use combinatorial techniques to investigate resolutions and other algebraic structures as with the papers of Fløystad on Boij-Söderburg theory, of Geramita, Harbourne and Migliore, and of Cooper on Hilbert functions, of Clark on minimal poset resolutions and of Mermin on simplicial resolutions. One can also utilize algebraic invariants to understand combinatorial structures like graphs, hypergraphs, and simplicial complexes such as in the paper of Morey and Villarreal on edge ideals. Homological techniques have become indispensable tools for the study of noetherian rings. These ideas have yielded amazing levels of interaction with other fields like algebraic topology (via differential graded techniques as well as the foundations of homological algebra), analysis (via the study of D-modules), and combinatorics (as described in the previous paragraph). The homological art

The Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria are exceptional for the copresence among them of three religious traditions: Islam, Christianity, and the indigenous orisa religion. In this comparative study, at once historical and anthropological, Peel explores the intertwined character of the three religions and the dense imbrication of religion in all aspects of Yoruba history up to the present. For over 400 years, the Yoruba have straddled two geocultural spheres: one reaching north over the Sahara to the world of Islam, the other linking them to the Euro-American world via the Atlantic. These two external spheres were the source of contrasting cultural influences, notably those emanating from the world religions. However, the Yoruba not only imported Islam and Christianity but also exported their own orisa religion to the New World. Before the voluntary modern diaspora that has brought many Yoruba to Europe and the Americas, tens of thousands were sold as slaves in the New World, bringing with them the worship of the orisa. Peel offers deep insight into important contemporary themes such as religious conversion, new religious movements, relations between world religions, the conditions of religious violence, the transnational flows of contemporary religion, and the interplay between tradition and the demands of an ever-changing present. In the process, he makes a major theoretical contribution to the anthropology of world religions. “A rigorous analysis of the social character of religion in light of historical changes and enduring cultural practices... lucid and probing, a work of real skill and erudition, and a critical standard of scholarship.” -LAMIN SANNEH, Yale Divinity School “[This book] is a revivifying shot in the arm for comparatism and an invitation to think afresh about the relations between Christianity, Islam and orisa religion both within Nigeria and in the wider world.” -KARIN BARBER, University of Birmingham “This great book restores value and merit both to comparative methodology and the historical approach, while uncompromisingly affirming the centrality of religion to all aspects of society.” -TOYIN FALOLA, University of Texas at Austin J.D.Y. PEEL (1941–2015) died shortly before this book went to press. He was Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Sociology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. This is his last major work.

Computational Science and Engineering; software Engineering; Programming Techniques

Cönks are valuable sources containing rich material on Turkish folk literature, folklore, and culture. These notebooks, compiled by enthusiasts, are collected in the National Library and major provincial public libraries. The publication of these cönks transcribed into the Latin alphabet is of great importance, especially for Turkish folk literature. This cönk, obtained from the Amasya Bayazıt Provincial Public Library, contains various poems by many folk poets, notably Aşık Ömer and Gevherî, as well as a complete version of the Kerem and Aslı Story. The page numbers in the original text (at the end of the original page) have been preserved, but each poem in this book starts at the top of the page. The original text has been added to the end of the book as a facsimile for the convenience of researchers. The poems in the cönk have been compared with different works, and the necessary information has been provided. For the convenience of biographical studies, an alphabetical index based on the last letter of the closing lines of the poems in the cönk, an index of place and personal names, and a bibliography providing information about the cönk have been added to the book.