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Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Rural areas suffer from inadequate infrastructures, low web connection, lack of human capital, and skill gaps, which severely limit their ability to engage fully with the digital transition. To address these pressing barriers, it is necessary to rethink an approach to innovation that cannot be linear but should be characterised by flows of information and knowledge exchanges involving relations within all actors in the territory. This open access contributed volume explores how innovation is reshaping rural agriculture through multi-actor interactions among farmers, cooperatives, institutions, researchers, businesses, and rural communities. Through empirical case studies developed within European and national research projects, the volume examines how these actors collaboratively navigate digital and green transitions, negotiate governance arrangements, and co-create knowledge and innovation within diverse territorial contexts.Chapters investigate rural innovation ecosystems through themes such as digitalisation, Living Labs, Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS), governance, social learning, sustainability transitions, and collaborative innovation processes. Combining qualitative and quantitative approaches, the contributions explore how innovation emerges through experimentation, negotiation, and interactions between local knowledge, technologies, institutions, and policy frameworks. Particular attention is given to multi-actor networks and governance mechanisms that support more inclusive and sustainable rural transitions. It will be of great interest to scholars, policymakers, and practitioners working on rural development, agricultural innovation, sustainability, and digital transition. 437 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book provides a comprehensive and practice-oriented exploration of accountability for artificial intelligence (AI) in policing and security, offering both conceptual foundations and actionable guidance for responsible AI deployment. As law enforcement agencies increasingly adopt AI technologies to combat serious crimes such as terrorism, organized crime, and child sexual exploitation, the need for transparent, ethical, and accountable use becomes critical. This volume brings together leading experts to define AI accountability, outline its legal and societal mandates, and present best practices and tools for achieving accountability across AI design, governance, and organizational processes. Through detailed case studies and practical frameworks, the book equips practitioners, policymakers, and developers with the knowledge and resources to assess, evidence, and uphold accountability in AI systems used in policing and safety applications.This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited accessProvides a comprehensive look at AI accountability in policing and security contextsOffers a practical toolkit for assessing and implementing AI accountability in real-world settingsCombines conceptual depth with case studies across major crime areas for applied relevanceSpringer Nature Customer Service Center GmbH, Europaplatz 3, 69115 Heidelberg 360 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -How do cells keep time For decades, biological timekeeping has been understood through the lens of master clocks: the CDKCyclin oscillator that drives the cell division cycle and the circadian clock that aligns physiology with the daynight cycle. Yet recent discoveries are reshaping this view. Cellular time control is now emerging as a phenomenon governed not solely by such master clocks, but by coupled networks of otherwise independent timing mechanisms dedicated to specific cellular events.This book introduces and defines the emerging concept of autonomous clocks: cellular timing systems that can be entrained by canonical cell-cycle or circadian programs, yet retain the ability to operate independently to time and execute specific biological events. These autonomous clocks are increasingly recognized across organelle biogenesis, transcription, cytoskeletal remodeling, redox metabolism, proteostasis, immunity, nuclear organization, and even cytoplasmic division independent of nuclei and classical cell-cycle control. Together, they reveal a rich temporal architecture of the cellone in which subcellular processes are not merely passive outputs of master clocks but are governed by dedicated oscillators that act as autonomous timing systems.Bringing together leading voices in cell biology, physiology, synthetic biology, biophysics, and mathematical biology, this volume offers the first comprehensive account of autonomous clocks as a unifying framework for biological time control. The chapters span foundational discoveries in autonomous transcriptional, cytoskeletal, redox, proteostasis, immune, and otherwise sub-cellular timing systems, while also exploring how these autonomous cycles couple to broader cellular rhythms, how they may be engineered synthetically, and how their principles can be understood through theory and computation. By synthesizing a decade of rapidly expanding discoveries, this book challenges long-standing textbook models of cellular timekeeping and opens new conceptual ground for understanding how cells coordinate physiology, maintain temporal order, and preserve function when canonical clocks are slowed, suspended, or silenced.Biological Time Control: Autonomous Clocks in Cellular Organization, Dynamics, and Function is an essential resource for students, researchers, and scholars interested in biological time control from the perspective of cell biology, systems biology, synthetic biology, physiology, and the molecular logic of cellular organization. It will be especially valuable to readers seeking a forward-looking framework for how timing mechanisms shape life at the subcellular, cellular, and organismal scales.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 180 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -This book presents a bold and original framework for reimagining cities as living and evolving systems. It argues that the future of urbanism lies in understanding the city as both genetic and quantum: a coded organism shaped by inheritance, memory, and identity, yet animated by uncertainty, feedback, and indeterminacy. Across eight interconnected chapters, the book moves from theory to transformation. It begins by unpacking the concept of 'Urban DNA', showing how cities inherit structures and meanings much like biological organisms. It then introduces 'Quantum Urbanism', a framework that explains how uncertainty, feedback, and probability shape contemporary urban life. In doing so, it explores reprogramming, mutation, and regeneration as key mechanisms of urban evolution, tracing how design, governance, and technology can act as instruments of renewal.Throughout, the book challenges deterministic thinking and the idea that the city can be mastered through prediction, efficiency, or optimization. Instead, it proposes a post-deterministic urbanism that embraces complexity as creative material. In this new paradigm, the planner becomes a curator of conditions, the architect a designer of adaptive frameworks, and governance a platform for continual learning.Springer Nature Customer Service Center GmbH, Europaplatz 3,69115 Heidelberg, Germany, 69115 Heidelberg 352 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book offers a philosophically precise account of what artificial intelligence cannot provide in education. Beginning from the premise of a fully optimized AI school that exceeds human institutions across all measurable domains, Khen Lampert identifies a constitutive absence: the event through which a child comes to matter to a particular other. He terms this event enworlding and distinguishes it from empathy or affirmation as a condition for the emergence of subjectivity. Drawing on phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and critical theory, the book argues that such encounters require finitude, vulnerability, and the capacity to be affected-conditions unavailable to artificial systems. Situating contemporary AI within a longer genealogy of the 'ego-less' servant, Lampert reframes debates on educational technology as fundamentally ontological and political, challenging prevailing assumptions about care, relationality, and the aims of education. Against this background the book develops its constructive answer, generative mentorship: the educational encounter in which an adult's finite, non-demanding presence generates a child's sense of mattering to a particular other-a model no artificial system can instantiate, and no education can do without. 193 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Palgrave Handbook of Criminality, Corruption and Violence brings together 38 contributions from scholars around the world examining the complex and interconnected issues of crime, corruption, violence, and insecurity. Covering topics including gender and violence, social justice, organised crime, security challenges, terrorism, religion, radicalisation, and social cohesion, the volume offers multidisciplinary perspectives on the social, political, cultural, and institutional dimensions of these phenomena. Together, the chapters provide a broad understanding of how criminality and violence are experienced, governed, and contested across diverse global contexts. 727 pp. Englisch. …