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Europaweit und darüber hinaus unterliegen Demokratien alarmierender Aushöhlung. Rapider wirtschaftlicher, kultureller, politischer Wandel weckt Unsicherheiten und Aggressionen; Politiker, Parteien, selbst Regierungen versuchen Bürger durch systematische Lügen zu täuschen; neoliberale Deregulierungen schwächen die Bereitschaft zum zivilgesellschaftlichen Engagement; schroffe Einkommens- und Vermögensunterschiede treiben die Demokratie in Richtung Plutokratie; fremdenfeindliche Vorurteile polarisieren Gesellschaften; Antiterrorismus-Strategien untergraben bürgerliche Freiheiten; Vetospieler hemmen klimapolitischen Wandel. Zugleich wird seit Jahren gestritten über die Fragmentierung der Politikwissenschaft, ihre zweifelhafte Relevanz und ihre Abkopplung von der breiten Öffentlichkeit. Dieses Buch ist die erste umfassende Studie, die beide Fragenkomplexe miteinander verknüpft und präzise zu ergründen sucht: Wie kann, wie sollte die Politikwissenschaft dem Niedergang der Demokratie in jedem der erwähnten Bereiche entgegenwirken?Rainer Eisfelds Antworten lauten: Entwicklung einer Wissenschaftskultur öffentlichen Engagements; Auseinandersetzung mit Ursprüngen, Mustern und partizipativer Bewältigung durchgängigen Wandels als Hauptgegenstand der Disziplin; kategorisches Auftreten gegen Tendenzen zu einer Herrschaft notorischer Lügner; Konzentrierung der Forschungsprioritäten auf die Schlüsselbereiche, in denen Demokratie sich zurückbildet; für Laien zugängliche Darstellung gewonnener Resultate; Erweiterung der Analyse zur Präsentation konkreter Gestaltungsvorschläge.Dazu, so Eisfelds Fazit, bedarf es einer Disziplin, die als normativ orientierte, empirisch gestützte Demokratiewissenschaft brisanten Problemen den Vorrang einräumt vor ausgefeilten Methoden und bürgernaher Relevanz vor immer weiterer Spezialisierung.

1 Food Colour and Appearance in Perspective.- 2 The Philosophy of Total Appearance.- 3 Light and Interaction with Materials.- 4 Vision.- 5 Sensory Evaluation of Appearance-Methodology.- 6 Appearance Profile Analysis and Sensory Scales.- 7 Instrumental Specification.- 8 Colour Specification of Food.- 9 Specification of Appearance Properties Other Than Colour.- 10 The Chemistry of Food Colour.- 11 The Environment and Food Display.

1 Spline Functions and the Representation of Linear Functionals.- 2 Multivariate Spline Functions.- 3 Nonlinear Sets of Spline Functions.- 4 Numerical Treatment of the Integral E-Quations.- 5 Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations.- 6 Splines and Finite Elements.- 7 Finite Element Method for Solution of Boundary Problems for Partial Differential Equations.- 8 Spline Functions in Computer Aided Geometric Design.- 9 From Spline to Fractals.- 10 Box Splines.- 11 Spline Wavelets.- 12 References.

1 Reference Material.- 1.1 Introduction.- 1.2 Singular Integral Equations.- 1.3 Improper Integrals.- 1.3.1 The Gamma function.- 1.3.2 The Beta function.- 1.3.3 Another important improper integral.- 1.3.4 A few integral identities.- 1.4 The Lebesgue Integral.- 1.5 Cauchy Principal Value for Integrals.- 1.6 The Hadamard Finite Part.- 1.7 Spaces of Functions and Distributions.- 1.8 Integral Transform Methods.- 1.8.1 Fourier transform.- 1.8.2 Laplace transform.- 1.9 Bibliographical Notes.- 2 Abel's and Related Integral Equations.- 2.1 Introduction.- 2.2 Abel's Equation.- 2.3 Related Integral Equations.- 2.4 The equation $$\int_{0}^{s} {{{{(s - t)}}^{\beta }}g(t)dt = f(s), \Re e \beta > - 1}$$.- 2.5 Path of Integration in the Complex Plane.- 2.6 The Equation $$\int_{{{{C}_{{a\xi }}}}} {\frac{{g(z)dz}}{{{{{(z - \xi )}}^{\nu }}}}} + k\int_{{{{C}_{{\xi b}}}}} {\frac{{g(z)dz}}{{{{{(\xi - z)}}^{\nu }}}}} = f(\xi )$$.- 2.7 Equations on a Closed Curve.- 2.8 Examples.- 2.9 Bibliographical Notes.- 2.10 Problems.- 3 Cauchy Type Integral Equations.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Cauchy Type Equation of the First Kind.- 3.3 An Alternative Approach.- 3.4 Cauchy Type Equations of the Second Kind.- 3.5 Cauchy Type Equations on a Closed Contour.- 3.6 Analytic Representation of Functions.- 3.7 Sectionally Analytic Functions (z?a)n?v(z?b)m+v.- 3.8 Cauchy's Integral Equation on an Open Contour.- 3.9 Disjoint Contours.- 3.10 Contours That Extend to Infinity.- 3.11 The Hilbert Kernel.- 3.12 The Hilbert Equation.- 3.13 Bibliographical Notes.- 3.14 Problems.- 4 Carleman Type Integral Equations.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Carleman Type Equation over a Real Interval.- 4.3 The Riemann-Hilbert Problem.- 4.4 Carleman Type Equations on a Closed Contour.- 4.5 Non-Normal Problems.- 4.6 A Factorization Procedure.- 4.7 An Operational Approach.- 4.8 Solution of a Related Integral Equation.- 4.9 Bibliographical Notes.- 4.10 Problems.- 5 Distributional Solutions of Singular Integral Equations.- 5.1 Introduction.- 5.2 Spaces of Generalized Functions.- 5.3 Generalized Solution of the Abel Equation.- 5.4 Integral Equations Related to Abel's Equation.- 5.5 The Fractional Integration Operators .- 5.6 The Cauchy Integral Equation over a Finite Interval.- 5.7 Analytic Representation of Distributions of ?'[a, b].- 5.8 Boundary Problems in A[a, b].- 5.9 Disjoint Intervals.- 5.9.1 The problem [RjF]j =hj.- 5.9.2 The equation A1?1(0F) + A2?2(F) = G.- 5.10 Equations Involving Periodic Distributions.- 5.11 Bibliographical Notes.- 5.12 Problems.- 6 Distributional Equations on the Whole Line.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Preliminaries.- 6.3 The Hilbert Transform of Distributions.- 6.4 Analytic Representation.- 6.5 Asymptotic Estimates.- 6.6 Distributional Solutions of Integral Equations.- 6.7 Non-Normal Equations.- 6.8 Bibliographical Notes.- 6.9 Problems.- 7 Integral Equations with Logarithmic Kernels.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2 Expansion of the Kernel In x-y.- 7.3 The Equation $$\int_{a}^{b} {\ln } \left {x - y} \rightg(y)dy = f(x)$$.- 7.4 Two Related Operators.- 7.5 Generalized Solutions of Equations with Logarithmic Kernels.- 7.6 The Operator $$\int_{a}^{b} {(P(x - y)\ln \left {x - y} \right + Q(x, y))g(y)dy}$$.- 7.7 Disjoint Intervals of Integration.- 7.8 An Equation Over a Semi-Infinite Interval.- 7.9 The Equation of the Second Kind Over a Semi-Infinite Interval.- 7.10 Asymptotic Behavior of Eigenvalues.- 7.11 Bibliographical Notes.- 7.12 Problems.- 8 Wiener-Hopf Integral Equations.- 8.1 Introduction.- 8.2 The Holomorphic Fourier Transform.- 8.3 The Mathematical Technique.- 8.4 The Distributional Wiener-Hopf Operators.- 8.5 Illustrations.- 8.6 Bibliographical Notes.- 8.7 Problems.- 9 Dual and Triple Integral Equations.- 9.1 Introduction.- 9.2 The Hankel Transform.- 9.3 Dual Equations with Trigonometric Kernels.- 9.4 Beltrami's Dual Integral Equations.- 9.5 Some Triple Integral Equations.- 9.6 Erdélyi-Köber Operators.- 9.7 Dual Integral Equations of the Titchmarsh Type.- 9.8 D

1 Introduction.- 2 Continuous-Time Quadratic Guaranteed Cost Filtering.- 3 Discrete-Time Quadratic Guaranteed Cost Filtering.- 4 Continuous-Time Set-Valued State Estimation and Model Validation.- 5 Discrete-Time Set-Valued State Estimation.- 6 Robust State Estimation with Discrete and Continuous Measurements.- 7 Set-Valued State Estimation with Structured Uncertainty.- 8 Robust H? Filtering with Structured Uncertainty.- 9 Robust Fixed Order H? Filtering.- 10 Set-Valued State Estimation for Nonlinear Uncertain Systems.- 11 Robust Filtering Applied to Induction Motor Control.- References.

The book includes peer-reviewed papers of the International Conference on Sustainable Technology and Advanced Computing in Electrical Engineering (ICSTACE 2021). The main focus of the book is electrical engineering. The conference aims to provide a global platform to the researchers for sharing and showcasing their discoveries/findings/innovations. The book focuses on the areas related to sustainable development and includes research works from academicians and industry experts. The book discusses new challenges and provides solutions at the interface of technology, information, complex systems, and future research directions.

This book presents a novel theory of multibody dynamics with distinct features, including unified continuum theory, multiscale modeling technology of multibody system, and motion formalism implementation. All these features together with the introductions of fundamental concepts of vector, dual vector, tensor, dual tensor, recursive descriptions of joints, and the higher-order implicit solvers formulate the scope of the book¿s content. In this book, a multibody system is defined as a set consisted of flexible and rigid bodies which are connected by any kinds of joints or constraints to achieve the desired motion. Generally, the motion of multibody system includes the translation and rotation; it is more efficient to describe the motion by using the dual vector or dual tensor directly instead of defining two types of variables, the translation and rotation separately. Furthermore, this book addresses the detail of motion formalism and its finite element implementation of the solid, shell-like, and beam-like structures. It also introduces the fundamental concepts of mechanics, such as the definition of vector, dual vector, tensor, and dual tensor, briefly. Without following the Einstein summation convention, the first- and second-order tensor operations in this book are depicted by linear algebraic operation symbols of row array, column array, and two-dimensional matrix, making these operations easier to understand. In addition, for the integral of governing equations of motion, a set of ordinary differential equations for the finite element-based discrete system, the book discussed the implementation of implicit solvers in detail and introduced the well-developed RADAU IIA algorithms based on post-error estimation to make the contents of the book complete.The intended readers of this book are senior engineers and graduate students in related engineering fields.

This edited volume on squint covers newer, advanced surgeries that are now utilized globally to achieve superior patient outcomes. The topics include adjustable sutures, ciliary vessel-sparing surgery, superior oblique split lengthening, pulleys in surgery and pulley Faden, periosteal fixation of lateral rectus, muscle transplantation, loop myopexy, superior rectus transposition, advanced surgeries of inferior oblique and muscle transplantation. Chapters include notes on the surgical technique, personal experience of the expert, problems and limitations of the procedure, tips and tricks for improving outcomes, and modifications that may happen in future. Strabismus surgery has seen major refinements in the last few years. Now surgeons have more options than ever before to consider when planning surgery for their patients. Advances in strabismus surgery is for surgeons who have been doing horizontalstrabismus surgery and are now keen to progress to advanced procedures.

This book provides a unique approach to understand the Nuclear Physics, especially from the experimental end. The highlight of this book is that special care has been taken to provide more experimental information, considering real experimental data which has been published in several journals. Special experimental focus is given to methodologies involving: offline gamma counting and online particle detection. The book provides information about recent developments in accelerators, overview of the detectors and concise information of associated electronics, data acquisition systems and computers for data analysis.

This book is for policy-makers navigating the digital transformation. Global governance is needed to mitigate the disproportionate risks of artificial intelligence but is in a state of deep crisis. Revisiting the era of telecommunication monopolies, this book argues that today¿s return of sovereignty resembles the great reregulation, but of the entire digital economy. Breaking through the previous asymmetrical distribution of technology and institutional power, China threatens the United States¿ technology hegemony. The task is to avert from the straitjacket of hyperdigitalization without causing new silos.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Science and Technology (ICCST 2022), held in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, on August 27¿28, 2022. The respective contributions offer practitioners and researchers a range of new computational techniques and solutions, identify emerging issues, and outline future research directions, while also showing them how to apply the latest large-scale, high-performance computational methods.

This monograph is written based on the author's research on the assessment, control, and repair of cracking of early-age concrete in the recent decade. The technique of internal curing for increasing cracking resistance of early-age concrete is further developed through experimental and theoretical research. It establishes models for predicting the internal relative humidity and autogenous shrinkage of internally cured concrete at early age; reveals the variation law and mechanism of early-age tensile creep of internally cured concrete; and explores the variation law and mechanism of early-age cracking resistance of internally cured concrete under continuous restrained condition or uniaxial restrained condition. It is designed as a reference work for professionals or practitioners and a textbook for undergraduates or postgraduates. As such, this book provides valuable knowledge, useful methods, and practical experience that can be considered in the field of concrete cracking control.