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Explaining the socio-economic output of urban regions with a model combining urban scaling and polycentricity
(2024)Urban Scaling: Allometry in Urban Studies and Spatial ScienceUrban scaling theory and polycentric urban development are two well-known concepts that draw parallels between configurations and socio-economic conditions of urban regions. Both concepts, however, have some drawbacks, which could potentially be alleviated by combining them in a new model. In this study, income in urban regions in Switzerland is explained by combining the hierarchy of a region’s commuter network (i.e. indicator for ...Book Chapter -
Smart Wearables in Healthcare
(2024)Dimensions of Intelligent Analytics for Smart Digital Health SolutionsWearable technology has great potential for health care, due to its ability to non-intrusively collect large amounts of longitudinal patient data outside of constant clinical care. Particularly, artificial intelligence (AI) may facilitate the processing and analysis of this data to generate valuable insights for clinical diagnosis and treatment, thus establishing smart wearable technology for health care. This Chapter provides a comprehensive ...Book Chapter -
Technologies for the management of hyperkinetic movement disorders
(2024)Handbook of Digital Technologies in Movement DisordersHyperkinetic movement disorders (HMD) are characterized by abnormal involuntary movements of varying velocity, amplitude, frequency, complexity, and predictability. The integration of novel technological devices in the management of these diseases seems to offer a promising solution in providing more accurate and continuous monitoring. This chapter provides a critical overview of the available technological advances in the management of ...Book Chapter -
Soil water concepts
(2024)Microirrigation for Crop Production: Design, Operation and ManagementMicroirrigation with partial soil wetting from point or line water sources often applied at high frequency gives rise to unique soil water regimes where soil transport properties are more important than soil water storage capacity. We review key soil variables and functions that are required for irrigation design and management and emphasize multidimensional flow patterns and their mathematical representation. Knowledge of wetting patterns ...Book Chapter -
Lightweight cable-net and fabric formwork system for the HiLo unit at NEST
(2024)FABRIC[ated]: Fabric Innovation and Material Responsibility in ArchitectureBook Chapter -
How to Do Maths with Words
(2024)Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Mathematical PracticeRecent years have seen a remarkable development of deep neural network techniques for data analysis, along with their increasing application in scientific research across different disciplines. The field of mathematics has not been exempted from this general trend. The present chapter provides a survey of recent applications of neural models to mathematics and assesses their philosophical significance, related to the role of language in ...Book Chapter -
Leadership Skills for Inbound and Outbound Open Innovation
(2024)The Oxford Handbook of Open InnovationBook Chapter -
Transport of pigs to slaughter and associated handling
(2024)Woodhead Publishing Series in Food Science, Technology and Nutrition ~ Advances in Pig WelfareTransport stress is both an animal welfare issue, resulting in animal losses and fatigued animals at slaughter, and a meat quality issue, resulting in carcass depreciation and meat quality defects. Both issues may result in significant economic losses for the industry. Research and industry reports showed that well-designed loading facilities reduce the incidence of transport losses and carcass condemnations while improving ease of handling ...Book Chapter -
Key areas for critical sustainability sciences
(2024)Critical Sustainability SciencesSix key areas are presented for the creation of sustainability sciences. The first key area concerns engagement with relational ontologies. The second key area addresses the search for adequate conditions of intra- and intercultural dialogue between relational and dualist ontologies. The third explores the roles and conditions under which emancipation, liberation, and autonomy can be integrated into critical sustainably sciences. In the ...Book Chapter -
Outlook and key topics for the construction of critical sustainability sciences
(2024)Critical Sustainability SciencesThe unreflective use of a dualist ontology in sustainability science means ignoring that many problems of unsustainable development – such as oppressive private- or state-based forms of capitalism as well unilaterally materialist notions of scientific, technological, and institutional development – are direct expressions of dualist notions of development as well. Critical sustainability sciences must therefore explore processes of labor ...Book Chapter