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The proceedings of the conference is going to benefit the researchers, academicians, students and professionals in getting enlightened on latest technologies on structural mechanics, structure and infrastructure engineering.

Making Health Security Decisions: Challenges and Complexities.- Making Reasoned Health Security Decisions: Key Concepts and Main Benefits.- Framing Health Security Decisions.- Specifying Relevant Objectives and Consequences in Health Security Decisions.- Assessing Impacts of Threats and Health Security Actions.- Defining Risk Limits, Trade-Offs, and Marginal Value in Health Security Decisions.- Developing Decision Alternatives for Enhanced Health Security.- Evaluating Health Threats and Health Security Actions with Multiple Consequences.- Evaluating Health Threats and Health Security Actions under Uncertainty.- Selecting the Best Options for Enhanced Health Security.- Deciding and Implementing Health Security Actions and Promoting Systematic Learning.

The seventh volume in the series "Ethology and Behavioral Ecology of Marine Mammals" describes aspects of the often-complex relationship between humans and marine mammals.

For proposal stage:1.      Introduction: Aporias of TranslationThe three main fields of study, education, literature, and philosophy, are introduced in relation to the notion aporias of translation. A brief history of each of the two basic concepts of the book, aporia and translation, is given. These histories provide the reader with the relevant previous research on the two concepts, and also stake out the paths that the studies in the book will follow in relation to aporias of translation. The introduction, moreover, outlines the way aporias of translation as a practice relates to education and pedagogy. Relevant research on education is addressed and accounted for. Important secondary literature on the main themes and fields of study is described and related to the argument of the book. The introduction concludes with short summaries of the seven chapters (including the Coda) which make up the main studies in the book. 2.      The Education of DeathThe chapter consists of an analysis of what the notion of an education of death, as suggested in Thomas Bernhard''s novel Gargoyles (Verst├╢rung), might entail. The primary texts of the chapter are, besides Bernhard''s novel, a passage from Hegel''s Phenomenology of Spirit (Ph├ñnomenologie des Geistes), and Jacques Derrida''s Aporias (Apories). The translations of the primary texts are addressed and problematized, in order to highlight the aporetic character of translation, and how the aporias of translation, further, relates to an education of death. Specifically, when it comes to the notion of aporia, the chapter provides an analysis of Derrida''s thinking concerning aporia and death, which have a direct bearing on the notion of an education of death. The chapter concludes with a return to Bernhard''s Gargoyles in light of the previous analysis of the education of death, and suggests that a possible education of death points beyond the instrumentalism of formal education toward a notion of experience and Bildung developed through the confrontation with death and aporia. 3.      Translation and Aporia in Censorship, Critique, and EducationThe main texts of this chapter are the censored chapter "At Tikhon" in Dostoevsky''s novel Demons, Derrida''s chapter "Vacant Chair: Censorship, Mastery, Magisteriality" in Eyes of the University: Rights to Philosophy 2, and Rodolph Gasch├⌐''s book The Honor of Thinking: Critique, Theory, Philosophy, especially the chapter on Heidegger''s notion of Auseinandersetzung  ("Toward an Ethics of Auseinandersetzung"). These three textual encounters set the stage for rethinking ethics in relation to education, critique, and censorship. The chapter begins with a reading of "At Tikhon," and the correlation between the Dostoevsky and his protagonist in Demons, Stavrogin, concerning censorship. The reading also broaches the relationship between education and censorship, more precisely a certain pedagogical movement discernable in Tikhon''s treatment of Stavrogin, which borders on censorship. The chapter continues with an analysis of Derrida''s deconstruction of censorship in Kant. As Derrida notes in "Vacant Chair," censorship is not limited to state sanctioned intellectual violence (Gewalt) as Kant would have it, but applies to any act to limit free expression. The chapter concludes by proposing an alternative way of doing critique which tries to address the inevitable censorship of any critique, but  in a manner that poses an ethical alternative in the form of Heidegger''s notion of Auseinadersetzung, proposed by Rodolph Gasch├⌐. In sum, the chapter poses the question if not translation, in fact, is a form of censorship. How, for example, can we come to terms with the gaps and omissions in the English translation of Demons? These absences, it is argued, are

Chapter 1. Introduction: Democracy in Times of Crises.- Part 1. Challenges, Crises and Threats to Democracy.- Chapter 2. The Crisis of Democracy and the Importance of Mixed Government.- Chapter 3. Democracy Erodes from the Top. Public Opinion and the Crisis of Democracy in Europe.- Part 2. Defining the Limits of Democratic Governance.- Chapter 4. Limits of Democracy.- Chapter 5. The battle of Salamis and the future of democracy.- Part 3. Policies Towards Improving the Quality of Democratic Governance.- Chapter 6. Policy Making by Randomly Selected Assemblies. The Perspective of Elected Politicians.- Chapter 7. Legislature by Lot. A way out of the Problems of Modern Democracy or Just Another Unrealistic Approach?.- Chapter 8. Asymmetric Information, Social Choices and Democracy.- Part 4. Intertemporal Aspects of Democracy Regarding Ancient and Modern Greece and the World.- Chapter 9. Democracy in Times Ancient and Modern. About the Relevancy of the Ancient Greek Experience for our Own Societies.- Chapter 10. Europe in Modern Greece: The Constant Navarino.- Part 5. Modern Aspects of Law in relation to the Present-Day Democratic Institutions.- Chapter 11. Democracy and Social Rights.- Chapter 12. Public Confidence and the Judiciary in a Democratic Society.

This book conceptualizes ecopedagogies as forms of educational innovation and critique that emerge from, negotiate, debate, produce, resist, and/or overcome the shifting and expansive postdigital ecosystems of humans, machines, nonhuman animals, objects, stuff, and other forms of matter.

The chapters, written for researchers and policy makers interested in Asian-European cooperation, also include discussions on economic systems, globalization, and regionalization, politics, cultures, and digitalization.

This volume offers the latest theory, procedures, techniques and applications pertaining to the bioremediation of pesticides, as well as current case studies.

This book brings together in-depth information on a wide array of bio-engineering topics and their application to enhance human health, performance, comfort, and survival in extreme environments.

1. Introduction"Clean labeling" is a consumer-driven initiative that encourages food developers to create products with easy-to-understand labels, listing natural ingredients and minimal artificial additives. This terminology includes e.g. certified organic foods, which are not only clean-label, but also meet strict standards (there are no standards for clean-label foods). This chapter will discuss relevant definitions, "natural" and "organic" claims, industry activities as well as challenges for ''clean label'' progress.2. Natural emulsifiers as clean label ingredientsThe demand for "clean label" products containing lower amount or no additives or stabilizers is continuously increasing among consumers. This chapter will revise recent studies on the identification, characterization, and utilization of natural food-grade emulsifiers, such as proteins, polysaccharides, phospholipids, and saponins. Particular emphasis will be given to the structural properties of these emulsifiers and to their ability to form and stabilize emulsions. The influence of environmental stresses, such as pH, ionic strength, and temperature, on the performance of natural emulsifiers is discussed. This information should facilitate the rational selection of natural emulsifiers for applications in emulsion-based food, beverage, and other food products. Examples of applications on particular food products (e.g. meat, cheese, bakery) will also be provided.3. Natural antioxidants & flavorings for clean label foodsWith the new concept of functional ingredients and the development of the functional foods market, and the desire for a "clean" label, recent research has focused on finding safe additives with multifunctional effects to ensure food safety and quality. This chapter will discuss natural antioxidants and flavorings for clean label foods. It will also discuss the food safety and food structure (sensory) challenges that need to be taken in consideration when "chemicals" are replace with "natural" ingredient in food and beverage production.4. Clean label foods with reduced fat contentThere has been a strong focus in the food industry on the development of reduced-fat products due to health concerns associated with high calorie diets. However, reduced-fat food products often have limited consumer acceptance and commercial success due to undesirable changes in appearance, flavor, mouth-feel, and texture when fat is removed.  This chapter will discuss the development of clean label foods with reduced fat content. Focus will be given on the effect of these ingredients on food safety (not only on shelf life). Examples of applications on particular food products will also be provided.7. Consumer behavior and industry implicationsConsumers in industrialized countries are nowadays much more interested in information about the production methods and components of the food products that they eat, than they had been 50 years ago. Some production methods are perceived as less "natural" (i.e. conventional agriculture) while some food components are seen as "unhealthy" and "unfamiliar" (i.e. artificial additives). This phenomenon, often referred to as the "clean label" trend, has driven the food industry to communicate whether a certain ingredient or additive is not present or if the food has been produced using a more "natural" production method. This chapter will discuss these issues and identify the factors that drive consumers'' choices on consumer perception of various food categories understood as clean label with the focus on organic, natural and ''free from'' artificial additives/ingredients food products.

We describe a class of semianalytic sets defined by countably many global real analytic functions that is stable under topological properties and under proper holomorphic maps between Stein spaces, that is, verifies a direct image theorem.

Moiseev, providing an insider's view of the history of the Soviet Union from its founding in 1917 to its collapse in 1991, as well as a little of the aftermath.We see vividly the precariousness of life just after the October Revolution;

This present book discusses issues related to languages, cultures, and discourses by addressing a variety of topics ranging from culture and translation, cognitive and linguistic dimensions of discourse, and the role of language in political discourses and bilingualism.

Singularity theory interacts energetically with the rest of mathematics, acting as a crucible where different types of mathematical problems interact, surprising connections are born and simple questions lead to ideas which resonate in other parts of the subject, and in other subjects.

This edited collection marks a new wave of international and philosophical scholarship on "the heart"- that rich dimension of our emotional being in the world. This book takes up the emotional turn in philosophy in general, and phenomenology in particular, advancing this field through innovative and original perspectives.

The book contains 12 chapters written by well-known shock wave researchers from seven different countries. Each researcher provides a brief description of his main research interests and results, thereby providing the readers with an excellent view of shock wave research conducted in the past fifty years.

Simulating for a crisis is far more than creating a simulation of a crisis situation.

Deep Architectures in Visual Transfer Learning.- Deep Reinforcement Learning: A New Frontier in Computer Vision Research.- Deep Learning for Data-driven Predictive Maintenance.- Multi-Criteria Fuzzy Goal Programming under Multi-Uncertainty.- Skeleton-based Human Action Recognition on Large-Scale Datasets.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of construction engineering, as presented by researchers and engineers at the International Conference Environmental and Construction Engineering: Reality and the Future, held in Belgorod, Russia, on May 18-19, 2021.

Since proteoglycans modulate cell adhesion and migration they are important organizers of the extracellular matrix within the proper stem cell niche.

Innovations in Ventilative Cooling: an Introduction.- Ventilative cooling principles, potential and barriers.- Ventilative cooling and comfort models.- Ventilative cooling in standards and regulations.- Ventilative cooling and air pollutants.- Ventilative cooling and control systems.- Ventilative cooling in combination with passive cooling: thermal masses and Phase-Change Materials (PCM).- Ventilative cooling in combination with other natural cooling solutions: Direct Evaporative Cooling systems (DEC).- Ventilative cooling in combination with other natural cooling solutions: Earth-to-Air Heat Exchangers (EAHX).- Ventilative cooling and vertical vegetation.- Ventilative cooling in residential buildings.- Ventilative cooling in tertiary buildings: a school demo-case and parametric analyses under Swiss climate conditions (Central Europe).- Ventilative cooling in historical building renovation.

This book discusses the impact of war on the complex interactions between various actors involved in justice: individuals and social groups on the one hand and 'the justice system' (police, judiciary and professionals working in the prison service) on the other.

The process of consensus building.- Non-invasive ventilation.- High Flow Nasal Cannulae.- Restrictive inspiratory oxygen fraction.- Mechanical ventilation.- Early tracheostomy.- Pharmacological Managment of cardiac arrest.- Non pharmacological Managment of cardiac arrest.- Avoidance of deep sedation.- Hydrocortisone in sepsis; Goal directed therapy.- Levosimendan in cardiogenic shock and low cardiac output syndrome.- Drugs in myocardial infarction.- Tranexamic acid in trauma patients.- Procalcitonin-guided antibiotic discontinuation.- Selective decontamination of digestive tract.- Nutrition.- ECMO.- Ultrasound.- Alternative medicine.- Interventions increasing mortality.- Conflicting.- Latest evidences.

Understanding China''s Real Estate Markets: A Brief Introduction.- Part I: Structural and Macro Economic Aspects of Real Estate in China.- The Evolving Real Estate Market Structure in China.- Navigating the Property Data Landscape.- China''s Economy at the Crossroads.- China''s Provinces: Addressing the Discrepancies at the Local Level.- Hong Kong: A Review of Its Land System, Real Estate Market, and Related Matters.- Part II: Legal and Regulatory Environment for China''s Real Estate Markets.- Legal Framework for Real Estate Investment in China.- Real Estate Valuation in China.- The Regulation of Leasing Activities.- Tax Framework for Accessing Real Estate Asset Classes.- Part III: Finance and Investment for Real Estate Development.- The Leverage Game: From Offshore to Onshore.- Housing Financing at the Crossroads: Access and Affordability in an Aging Society.- Listings and M&As of Chinese Real Estate Enterprises.- Scenarios of Real-Estate-Backed Securitization and Financing.- The Development of REIT Markets in Greater China.- Real Estate Private Equity Investing in China: From a Practitioner''s Perspective.- Part IV: Real Estate as a Physical and Social Asset Type.- Sustainable Buildings and Practice in China.- Thoughts on China''s Real Estate Policies.- Minding the Strategies: A Progressive Development Model.- China''s Housing Markets.- Hotel Markets and Development in China.- The Rise of Platform-Based Networks: Outlook for the Real Estate Brokerage Industry.

This book presents different techniques and methodologies that used to help improve the decision-making process and increase the likelihood of success in sector as follows: agriculture, financial services, logistics, energy services, health and others.

Preface.- Part I: Intelligent Scene Modeling.- Introduction.- Object Detection: State of the Art and Beyond.- NBNN-Based Discriminative 3D Action and Gesture Recognition.- Random Forests with Optimized Leaves for Hough-Voting.- Modeling Human Perception of 3D Scenes.- Model Reconstruction of Real-world 3D Objects: An Application with Microsoft HoloLens.- Semantic Modeling and Rendering.- Content-aware Semantic Indoor Scene Modeling from a Single Image.- Interactive Labeling for Generation of CityGML Building Models from Meshes.- TooltY: An Approach for the Combination of Motion Capture and 3D Reconstruction to Present Tool Usage in 3D Environments.- Generating 3D Facial Expressions with Recurrent Neural Networks.- Part 2: Human-computer Interaction.- Facilitating Decision Making with Multimodal Interfaces in Collaborative Analytical Sessions.- Human - Technology Interaction: The State of the Art and the Lack of Naturalism.- Survey of Speechless Interaction Techniques in Social Robotics.- Exploring Potential and Acceptance of Socially Intelligent Robot.

- Introduction: Expanding Worldviews: Astrobiology, Big History and Cosmic Perspectives. - "The Keen Longing for Unified, All-Embracing Knowledge": Big History, Cosmic Evolution, and New Research Agendas. - From Planetary Dynamics to Global Trade and Human Genetics: A Big History Narrative. - How Big History Could Change the World for the Better. - Expanding World Views: Can SETI Expand Its Own Horizons and that of Big History Too?. - The Summons of a Silent Universe: The Relationship Between Existential Risk and Cosmic Silence. - The Visibility of Big History. - Re-encountering Signs of Agency: Surveying the Appearance of ''Layering'' Patterns Within Our Interstellar Messaging Record as Representational Signs for Earth. - COGITO in Space. - The Overview Effect and Well-Being. - The Biological Overview Effect. - Is the Universe Enough? Can It Suffice as a Basis for Worldviews?. - The Universe Decentered: Transcultural Perspectives on Astrobiology and Big History. - "Unfathomable, Bottomless, Very Deep": Waterworld Imaginaries. - Astrobiology and the Outer Limits of Human Ethics. - Big History and the Significance of the 1969-1972 Apollo Lunar Landings. - Towards a Planetary Polity: The Formation of Global Identity and State Structures. - Widening Perspectives: The Intellectual and Social Benefits of Astrobiology, Big History, and the Exploration of Space.