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Exploration of the Influence of Additive Manufacturing Design Potentials on Vehicle Conception
No full textIn this Open Access book Daniel Fuchs analyzes the potential impact of additive manufacturing-related design freedom on vehicle conception. In this context, the term Additive Manufacturing (AM) incorporates the technology field often referred to as 3D-Printing. The motivation for this work is derived from alternative design solutions presented in state-of-the-art AM use cases, in which additional design freedom is leveraged to achieve significant product- and process-related improvements. This book systematically explores the impact of AM-related design freedom on vehicle conception, leveraging novel design potentials from the part to the complete vehicle level
Managing Marine Plastic Pollution in Norway
No full textBased on the collaborative, interdisciplinary research project Shift-Plastics this book establish sustainable circular value chains for managing plastics in the fisheries and aquaculture industries, which are significant causes of ocean plastic pollution. Focused on reducing plastic production and consumption by examining the entire life cycle and taking upstream measures, the Norwegian case presented in this book highlights globally relevant insights into how to manage the complexity of plastic pollution and the systemic changes needed for a sustainable circular economy (SCE). This book takes a transdisciplinary approach, incorporating academic perspectives and collaborating with industry and public bodies to improve plastic handling in the fisheries and aquaculture industries. It integrates multiple scientific disciplines, including technological science, policy science, economics, environmental science, design thinking, and systems thinking. It also investigates the value chain of plastic use in the fisheries and aquaculture industries to map their management practices and pinpoint issues that can be improved throughout the process. In doing so, it provides practical advice on how to create effective policies in line with a SCE for both businesses and policymakers. Further, it highlights how plastic production can be reduced through extended usability, ways to apply eco-design principles to create products that can easily be disassembled, repaired, and recycled, and options for using bioplastics and recycled materials. Finally, it presents a roadmap that connects changes in industrial practices, infrastructure needs and policy design in the short, medium, and long term to achieve reduced plastic use and plastic pollution in the fisheries and aquaculture industries. Managing Marine Plastic Pollution in Norway will be an important research reference and tool for academics, students, policymakers, industry and business professionals in pollution and waste management, sustainability, circular economy, and marine, fishery, and environmental management
Experimental Design for Data Science and Engineering
No full textTheory, experiments, computation, and data are considered as the four pillars of science and engineering. Experimental Design for Data Science and Engineering describes efficient statistical methods for making the experiments cheaper and computations faster for extracting valuable information from data and help identify discrepancies in the theory. The book also includes recent advances in experimental designs for dealing with large amounts of observational data. Traditionally the design and analysis of physical and computer experiments are treated differently, but this book attempts to create a unified framework using Gaussian process models. Although optimal designs are formulated using Gaussian process models, the focus is on obtaining practical experimental designs that are robust to model assumptions. A wide variety of topics are covered in the book -- from designs for interpolating or integrating simple functions to designs that are useful for optimizing and calibrating complex computer models. It draws techniques that are spread across the fields of statistics, applied mathematics, operations research, uncertainty quantification, and information theory, and build experimental design as a fundamental data analytic tool for engineering and scientific discoveries. Designs for both computer and physical experiments are discussed in a unified framework. Integrates several concepts from numerical analysis, Monte Carlo methods, sensitivity analysis, optimization, and machine learning with experimental design techniques in statistics. Methods are explained using many real experiments from physical sciences and engineering. Experimental design techniques for analysis and compression of big data are discussed. All the numerical illustrations in the book are reproducible using R and Python codes provided in the author’s GitHub site
Transnational Activism in North America
No full textThis open access book brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to examine how North American civil society organizations have actively mobilized within and across borders in response to the tumultuous social and economic changes in the region since the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Contributors from the three countries address the implications of recent changes in areas such trade, labour, migration and human rights. They draw on a rich and varied set of empirical case studies to detail the opportunities and constraints that activists have encountered as they navigate a changing landscape marked by the renegotiation of NAFTA, Trump’s threats to build a US-Mexico border wall, the COVID-19 pandemic and continued restrictions on migration. The contributors highlight organizing strategies, the potential for new alliances and pose critical questions about the nature of transnational activism in the current conjuncture
Postmigrant Counterpublics
No full textCan we move beyond the politics of community when it comes to understanding minoritized life in postmigrant, sexually diverse societies marked by racism? In a set of interconnected essays, Kira Kosnick explores the conflicting dynamics of community and subcultural socialities in racialized and sexually dissident urban contexts in Germany. Drawing on many years of ethnographic fieldwork, she examines how dominant framings of community turn into a burden of representation for minoritized groups. Against such framings, urban nightlife and queer, postmigrant club scenes are shown to work as counterpublics that offer spaces for dissident articulations of sexuality and postmigrant identities
