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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 -
Additive Manufacturing for the Circular Built Environment: Towards Circular Construction with Earth-Based Materials
(2024)Circular Economy and Sustainability ~ A Circular Built Environment in the Digital AgeBy making rapid prototyping accessible and inexpensive, additive manufacturing (AM) has transformed the fabrication industry. The adaptability of the process to various materials makes it applicable to multiple fields ranging from complex nanoscale production in the medical field to the manufacturing of large-scale structures in the construction industry. AM methods are constantly evolving, enabling the production of complex products with ...Book Chapter -
Leadership Skills for Inbound and Outbound Open Innovation
(2024)The Oxford Handbook of Open InnovationBook Chapter -
Doing reflexivity in a self-directed learning setting
(2024)The Fabrication of the Autonomous Learner: Ethnographies of Educational Practices in Switzerland, France and GermanySelf-reflection is becoming an increasingly important concern in compulsory school education, at least in German-speaking countries. Self-reflection is supposed to support pupils’ autonomy and to improve their learning process. In this chapter, we contextualize this claim in the context of reflexive modernity and turn to the challenges of reflection in everyday school routines. With a practice-theoretical perspective, we analyse the use ...Book 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 -
Why do we need critical sustainability sciences?
(2024)Critical Sustainability SciencesIn this chapter, we first outline the development of “environmental movements” beginning in the early 1960s up through the endorsement of the 2030 Agenda sustainable development goals (SDGs) in 2015, by all member states of the United Nations. Second, we explore how the concept of sustainable development, as articulated in the 2030 Agenda, was linked to establishment of the field of sustainability science. Indeed, this field played a key ...Book Chapter