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Keeping Watch along the Digital Silk Road: CCTV Surveillance and Central Asians’ Right to Privacy
(2025)Seeing China’s Belt and Road ~ Seeing China's Belt and RoadChinese technology firms are promoting and selling their closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras to Central Asia under the banner of China’s Digital Silk Road (DSR). This is problematic because not only are these cameras used by local elites to track people’s whereabouts, but they also enable Chinese businesses and, by extension, Chinese authorities to collect and store big data on Central Asian citizens. This chapter uses an interpretative ...Book Chapter -
Intellectual property and time: a behavioral example
(2025)Research Handbooks in Legal Theory ~ Research Handbook on Law and TimeThis chapter presents an empirical study exploring how people perceive future incentive effects created by copyright law. In particular, we explore whether financial incentives created by copyright protection far in the future have a relevant impact on the present incentive to create. In a utilitarian copyright system, such questions of intertemporal decision-making may directly affect how long copyright protection should last. As our ...Book Chapter -
Language Models in Molecular Discovery
(2024)Drug Development Supported by InformaticsThe success of language models, especially transformer-based architectures, has trickled into other scientific domains, giving rise to the concept of “scientific language models” that operate on small molecules, proteins, or polymers. In chemistry, language models contribute to accelerating the molecule discovery cycle as evidenced by promising recent findings in early-stage drug discovery. In this chapter, we review the role of language ...Book Chapter -
Bringing Religion to the Outer Solar System
(2024)Religion Matters: Further Explorations of Connectedness: Volume 2Mankind is at the brink of colonizing the moon and eventually the nearby solar system. Will religion be left behind or come to life in these new territories? The latter is assumed so in the recent book "Mission to Saturn" by Arnold Benz and Samuel Vollenweider. Here five reasons are discussed why and how religion may spread to outer space. First, religion is related to human experience in the direct perception of reality. Then, the Overview ...Book Chapter -
Molecular Modeling: Basic Principles and Applications
(1996)Methods and Principles in Medicinal ChemistryWritten by experienced experts in molecular modeling, this books describes the basics to the extent that is necessary if one wants to be able to reliably judge the results from molecular modeling calculations. Its main objective is the description of the various pitfalls to be avoided. Without unnecessary overhead it leads the reader from simple calculations on small molecules to the modeling of proteins and other relevant biomolecules. ...Monograph -
Zu Lernen, über das Erbe der Mehrheit hinauszusehen. Learning to See Beyond the Heritage of the Majority.
(2025)A future for whose Past?Book Chapter -
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Wozu Gott? Moderne Antworten gemäß Joseph Roth und Sigmund Freud / Why God? Modern answers by Joseph Roth and Sigmund Freud
(2025)G*tt: Die großen Fragen zwischen Himmel und ErdeBook Chapter -
Interacting with a Fully Simulated Self-Balancing Bipedal Character in Augmented and Virtual Reality
(2024)Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and GamesBook Chapter -
Multimodal Optoacoustic Imaging
(2024)Biomedical Photoacoustics: Technology and ApplicationsOptoacoustic (OA) or photoacoustic imaging is an emerging technique synergistically combining optical excitation with ultrasonic detection to acquire diverse functional, anatomical, molecular, and metabolic information from living tissues across various scales, from organelles and cells to whole organs and organisms. Despite its powerful capabilities, the technique is hindered with limited specificity, penetration depth, and primarily ...Book Chapter -
City games: Designing the new Sarajevo Olympic Legacy 1984-2024-2064
(2025)KULiSA: Cultural District Sarajevoigre i grad / city games: Designing the new Sarajevo Olympic Legacy 1984-2024-2064 explores how the Olympic spirit can be reimagined as a transformative force for Sarajevo’s urban future. Building on the legacy of the 1984 Winter Olympics, this project investigates sustainable urbanisation strategies rooted in architecture, urbanism, and citizen engagement. ETH Zurich master’s students, in collaboration with the University of Sarajevo and ...Book Chapter -
Agent-Based Modelling and Machine Learning: A New Paradigm for Complexity Economics and Sustainability Transitions? 1
(2024)Routledge International Handbook of Complexity EconomicsComplexity economics and transitions studies face the challenging task of accounting for complexity to explain the dynamics of socio-economic systems against the backdrop of grand societal challenges. A promising method to represent and better understand complex systems through simulation is the practice of agent-based modelling (ABM). However, researchers using ABM face the trade-off between capturing the complexity and the ease of ...Book Chapter -
The politics of knowledge, positionality and power: The ‘inclusivity’ of Indigenous women in peacemaking in Turtle Island (North America)
(2025)The Production of Gendered Knowledge of War: Women and Epistemic PowerThis chapter focuses on the narrative agency of Indigenous women producing knowledge on peace and conflict resolution in Turtle Island (an Indigenous term for North America). The concept of ‘inclusive peace’ is problematized as a normative imperative promoted by the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda to ensure greater meaningful inclusion of women in peace processes. This agenda is promoted primarily in armed conflicts territorially ...Book Chapter -
Socio-Economic Implications of the Digital Revolution
(2024)Routledge International Handbook of Complexity EconomicsThe digital revolution is reinventing business models, reshaping economic sectors, and changing entire societal institutions. Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, profiling and targeting, and several other technological developments are now fundamentally changing the ways economies work. This contribution discusses opportunities and threats of the "Attention Economy" and "Surveillance Capitalism", focusing on systemic changes. These are ...Book Chapter -
Realising the Societal Dimensions of the Right to Freedom of Thought in the Digital Age through Strategic Litigation
(2025)The Cambridge Handbook of the Right to Freedom of ThoughtFocusing on the right to Freedom of Thought(FoT) in the digital age, this chapter sheds light on the societal dimensions of FoT by drawing on the broader and relational concept of thought. It discusses the societal dimensions in light of the four attributes of the right to FoT – the right not to reveal our thoughts; not to be punished for our thoughts; not to have our thoughts manipulated; and, the state duty to create an enabling environment ...Book Chapter -
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Interoception and Physical Health
(2024)Interoception: A Comprehensive GuideIn this chapter, we will consider the relationship between physical health and interoceptive processing. We will focus on the specific physiological conditions of cardiorespiratory disease, chronic pain, and metabolic disease, as well as the potential role of both nutrition and physical activity in interoception. In general, it appears that many chronic physiological diseases are related to disruptions in interoceptive processing. However, ...Book Chapter -
Switzerland: Not a Candidate But a Partner in EU Enlargement
(2023)Enlargement and the Future of Europe: Views from the CapitalsSwitzerland has neither membership ambitions nor a formal role in EU decision-making on enlargement, but it is affected by EU enlargement - through the opening of markets and migration - and involved in supporting the European integration of Eastern Europe. The chapter describes Swiss support for the new member states and proposes that it should be shifted to the candidate countries in the next funding period.Book Chapter -
Optimizing nitrogen use efficiency in European livestock systems: From feed to plant growth
(2025)Advances in Agronomy ~ Advances in AgronomyNitrogen (N) is a crucial nutrient for agriculture. Its unlimited provision by the Haber-Bosch process has led to high N surplus in agriculture, causing severe negative environmental externalities. The reduction of N losses in livestock systems and consequent enhancement of their nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) represents a key lever to substantially reduce the N surplus to meet European environmental policy targets. This review evaluates ...Book Chapter