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Organic Electronics - From Fundamentals to Applications offers a comprehensive exploration of the rapidly evolving field of organic electronic materials and devices. Bridging the gap between fundamental science and cutting-edge technological applications, this edited volume brings together contributions from leading researchers and experts across academia and industry. The book begins with a solid foundation in chemistry, physics, and materials science underlying organic semiconductors and conductive polymers. It then transitions to the design and fabrication of devices, including organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), organic photovoltaics (OPVs), organic field-effect transistors (OFETs), and sensors. Advanced chapters delve into emerging applications, including wearable electronics, flexible displays, biomedical devices, and sustainable energy systems. This volume is tailored for researchers, graduate students, and professionals in materials science, electrical and electronics engineering, applied physics, and nanotechnology. The clear and accessible presentation, combined with in-depth technical insights, makes it equally valuable for newcomers and seasoned practitioners in the field. By showcasing the latest developments and future directions, Organic Electronics - From Fundamentals to Applications serves as both a foundational resource and a catalyst for innovation in the interdisciplinary world of organic electronics. Whether you aim to understand the basics or seek to advance the frontier of organic device technology, this book will equip you with the knowledge and inspiration to explore new possibilities in flexible, lightweight, and sustainable electronics.

With a particular attention to remote places and marginalised territories, this book provides a conceptualisation of the role of internal and international migration to the local development and resilience of the rural and mountain regions of Europe. The book is a collective effort produced by the international and multi-disciplinary network of the Horizon 2020 project MATILDE. In declaring a public and trans-regional position – in the form of a Manifesto for the renaissance of remote places - the book contributes to a new narrative about migration and rural/mountain territories for the future of the entire continent. Mobilizing new data and scientific-based information, the book calls for putting remote regions and their inhabitants at the core of innovative policies at local, regional, national and EU levels. An important resource for researchers, students and policymakers in human and population geography, rural studies, migration studies, social and political sciences.

Considérée comme un problème de mise en scène, la lettre au cinéma est un motif propice à stimuler l’imagination des cinéastes. Qu’elle soit le motif privilégié d’un cinéaste comme Max Ophuls ou d’un genre comme le mélodrame hollywoodien, l’objet de documentaires à la gloire du General Post Office britannique ou l’occasion de poèmes chez Tony Harrison, envoyée de façon anonyme dans la Treizième lettre, perdue dans Retour à Cold Mountain ou déchirée dans Sueurs froides, la lettre se révèle un agent dramatique à part entière. Jouant des écarts spatiotemporels permettant toutes sortes de circulations spatiales ou signifiantes, elle instaure un mode de communication spécifique au sein du film mais aussi avec le spectateur. Si l’adaptation de récits épistolaires à l’écran reste une gageure, certains cinéastes n’hésitent pas à concevoir leur film comme une lettre adressée à l’absent, que ce soit le père défunt chez Nathaniel Kahn, Dieu chez Neil Jordan ou le futur spectateur chez Jonas Mekas. L’écriture épistolaire rejoint ici celle du journal intime, toutes deux centrées sur l’écriture de soi dans le moment présent. De la missive insérée dans le film au film conçu comme lettre, les articles de ce recueil proposent donc une exploration de l’écriture épistolaire à l’écran dans le domaine du cinéma anglophone, jusqu’à la signature et autres inscriptions du nom propre, clôture de l’identité et du courrier.

This open access book focuses on the discrepancies in biobank research regulations that are among the most significant hurdles to effective research collaboration. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has established stringent requirements for the processing of health and genetic data, while simultaneously allowing considerable multi-level exceptions for the purposes of scientific research. In addition to directly applicable exceptions, the GDPR places the regulatory responsibility for further defining how the Member States strike a balance between the individuals' rights and the public interest in research within their national legal orders. Since Member States' approaches to the trade-off between data subjects' rights on the one hand, and appropriate safeguards on the other, differ according to their ethical and legal traditions, their data protection requirements for research also differ considerably. This study takes a comprehensive approach to determine how the GDPR affects regulatory regimes on the use of personal data in biobanking research, with a particular focus on the balance between individuals' rights, public interest and scientific research. In this regard, it has two main goals: first, to scrutinize the GDPR research regime, its objective and constitutive elements, the impact it has on biobanking, and its role in a changing EU landscape post-Brexit; and second, to examine how various exceptions have been operationalized nationally, and what challenges and opportunities this diversification entails. The book not only captures the complexity GDPR creates for biobanking, but also sheds light on various approaches to tackling the corresponding challenges. It offers the first comprehensive analysis of GDPR for biobanking, and the most up-to-date overview of the national biobank regulatory frameworks in Europe.

Publikacja dotyczy komunikacji marketingowej w środowisku omnikanałowym, szczególnie w odniesieniu do rynku centrów nauki. Model ścieżek zakupowych konsumentów został dostosowany do swoistości centrów nauki oraz rozbudowany na podstawie wyników badań empirycznych przeprowadzonych na próbie ponad ośmiu tysięcy respondentów. W celu uchwycenia pełnego obrazu środowiska omnikanałowego wykorzystano autorski model Omnikanałowej Komunikacji Marketingowej (OKM) oraz odzwierciedlono opisane w nim mechanizmy we wspomnianym modelu ścieżek zakupowych konsumentów. Przedmiotem analiz uczyniono zachowania konsumentów w zakresie spędzania wolnego czasu, korzystania z narzędzi komunikacji marketingowej oraz percepcji centrów nauki jako instytucji kulturalno-edukacyjnych. Książka może zainteresować nie tylko badaczy komunikacji marketingowej, zachowań konsumentów i rynku instytucji kultury, lecz także menedżerów centrów nauki.

Comment devient-on sujet politique ? Comment ce processus s’alimente-t-il des conflits sociaux ? Comment les individus se transforment-ils au gré de leur politisation ? Depuis une vingtaine d’années, les sciences sociales explorent ces questions d’un regard nouveau, à l’aide du concept de subjectivation politique. Sociologues, anthropologues, historiens et politistes testent ce concept philosophique sur leurs terrains : des pratiques militantes, religieuses, éducatives, sexuelles, culturelles ou économiques sont lues au prisme des processus de subjectivation. Ce livre en constitue la première synthèse scientifique. Il interroge les enquêtes et les sources, les méthodologies et les méthodes de recherche auxquelles ouvre l’analyse de la subjectivation politique. Celle-ci met en jeu une pluralité de processus de désidentification et de réidentification qui invalident la naturalité supposée du sujet (social, politique, racial, sexuel). Les trajectoires de subjectivation politique évoquées au fil du livre concernent des parcours d’individus, de groupes, de collectifs situés en marge des normes dominantes. Qu’elles soient genrées, racisées, religieuses, économiques, militantes ou partisanes, les identités assignées ou revendiquées par ces individus sont minoritaires. En documentant empiriquement leur devenir sujet, les enquêtes réunies ici interrogent toute l’ambivalence des rapports de domination et les possibilités d’émancipation qui se jouent en leur sein. Ce faisant, elles déplacent le regard sur le politique : souvent réduit à sa dimension professionnelle ou institutionnelle, il est appréhendé de manière plus phénoménologique comme horizon de l’agir en commun.

Este volume pretende constituir-se como um espaço de debate sobre temas centrais à formação de professores, debatendo temas relativos à supervisão pedagógica e à importância que essa supervisão tem para a construção de uma profissionalidade docente. Mais do que encontrar receitas para a formação de professores, pretendemos suscitar o debate e proporcionar um espaço de reflexão sobre temas centrais da formação de professores para o século XXI. Os textos - da autoria de um leque de especialistas em ciências da educação e supervisão pedagógica, associados a um vasto conjunto de instituições de ensino superior do país – articulam-se em torno de três eixos de análise: i) Supervisão pedagógica e desenvolvimento profissional docente; ii) Ética e profissionalidade na formação inicial de professores e, iii) Supervisão na formação inicial de professores.

Using stories for educational purposes is an effective teaching strategy especially for teaching languages. Most learners enjoy listening to stories. Stories have a power, which can bring students into a world of imagination and draw a colourful picture with interesting characters. Storytelling is one of the most useful techniques to attract students in the learning process effectively. Telling stories provides learners with an opportunity to discover experiences of real life and the language learning together. Storytelling is a teaching method which can help young learners to acquire knowledge, literacy, imagination, creativity and critical thinking. Therefore, storytelling would be very useful in teaching the Polish language in UK.

The proposition that innovation is critical in the cost-effective design and development of successful military aircraft is still subject to some debate. RAND research indicates that innovation is promoted by intense competition among three or more industry competitors. Given the critical policy importance of this issue in the current environment of drastic consolidation of the aerospace defense industry, the authors here examine the history of the major prime contractors in developing jet fighters since World War II. They make use of an extensive RAND database that includes nearly all jet fighters, fighter-attack aircraft, and bombers developed and flown by U.S. industry since 1945, as well as all related prototypes, modifications, upgrades, etc. The report concludes that (1) experience matters, because of the tendency to specialize and thus to develop system-specific expertise; (2) yet the most dramatic innovations and breakthroughs came from secondary or marginal players trying to compete with the industry leaders; and (3) dedicated military R&D conducted or directly funded by the U.S. government has been critical in the development of new higher-performance fighters and bombers.

I denne boken tegner John Brumo et nytt bilde av den norske litterære modernismen. Brumo viser hvordan den norske modernismen vokste fram i en tid der det norske samfunnet gikk gjennom store endringer, og hvordan forfatterne beskrev en ny, moderne virkelighet dominert av nye fenomener som fotografi, radio, bil, tv og datateknologi. Der tidligere framstillinger har sett den norske modernismen som en importert stilart, viser Brumo gjennom nærlesninger av de største norske modernistene hvordan de formet, og ble formet av, sentrale brytninger i det raskt endrede samfunnet de levde og virket i. Boken er bygget opp som en artikkelsamling som veksler mellom dypdykk i enkeltverk og kartlegging av de bredere historiske rammene som har lagt føringer for framveksten av den norske modernismen. Samlingen tar for seg arbeidene til sentrale forfattere som Sigbjørn Obstfelder, Rolf Jacobsen og Kjartan Fløgstad, men løfter også fram mindre kjente og til dels forsømte navn som Paal Brekke, Sverre Udnæs og Marie Takvam.

The Special Issue “Non-Destructive Testing of Structures” has been proposed to present the recent developments in the field of the diagnostics of structural materials and components in civil and mechanical engineering. The papers highlighted in this editorial concern various aspects of non-invasive diagnostics, including such topics as the condition assessments of civil and mechanical structures and the connections of structural elements, the inspection of cultural heritage monuments, the testing of structural materials, structural health monitoring systems, the integration of non-destructive testing methods, advanced signal processing for the non-destructive testing of structures (NDT), damage detection and damage imaging, as well as modeling and numerical analyses for supporting structural health monitoring (SHM) systems.

Abolition and the Nordic discusses the connections of abolitionism and the Nordic, uncovering how abolitionist ideas circulated through Nordic societies in newspapers, literature, theatre, music, visual culture, and political debate from the late 18th century to mid 20th century. Furthermore, it reveals the contradictions embedded within these discussions, and the complexities of condemning slavery while still reproducing racial hierarchies. Colonial history remains an important part of the Nordic legacy that has long been ignored, as the Nordic countries have often imagined themselves as morally removed from Europe’s colonial violence. This anthology brings together history, literary studies, art history, and music studies and initiate an urgently needed conversation about abolition’s forgotten legacies in the Nordic region.

To what extent is Simone de Beauvoir's study The Second Sex still relevant? From her work it emerges that patriarchy is a many-headed monster. Over the past decades, various heads of this monster have been slayed: important breakthroughs have been achieved by and for women in law, politics, and economics. Today, however, we witness movements in the opposite direction, such as a masculinist political revival in different parts of the world, the spread of the neoliberal myth of the Super Woman, the rise of transnational networks of trafficking in women and children, and a new international 'Jihadism'. This suggests that patriarchy is indeed a Hydra: a multi-headed monster that grows several new heads every time one head is cut off. Since different - often hybrid - heads of patriarchy dominate in different settings, feminism requires a variety of strategies. Women's movements all over the world today are critically creating new models of self and society in their own contexts. Drawing on notions of Beauvoir, as well as Michel Foucault, this book outlines a 'feminism in a new key' which consists of women's various freedom practices, each hunting the Hydra in their own key - but with mutual support.

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This Special Issue, entitled "Ice and Snow Properties and Their Applications", aims to advance knowledge in the areas of hydrology, ecology, and engineering by focusing on the changing physical, thermal, and mechanical properties of ice and snow. With climate change rapidly altering the cryosphere, it is crucial to employ interdisciplinary approaches to study these changes. The research in this Special Issue utilizes a range of methods, including remote sensing, numerical modeling, and experimental studies, to improve our understanding of ice and snow behavior. These studies will help provide the data necessary for developing strategies to mitigate the risks associated with ice dynamics, such as flooding and ice-related disasters, and to support the sustainable development of infrastructure and ecosystems in cold regions. By bringing together research from diverse fields, this Special Issue will foster collaboration that will help inform future scientific advancements and practical solutions in the face of a rapidly changing cryosphere.