scholarly journals Bærekraftdidaktikk som forskningsfelt

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Ole Andreas Kvamme ◽  
Elin Sæther ◽  
Marianne Ødegaard
Keyword(s):  
Sustainability Education ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Special Issue

Environmental and sustainability education is briefly delineated as a research field internationally and within a Norwegian context, followed by a presentation of the particular contributions to this special issue.

scholarly journals Assessment and Governance of Sustainable Soil Management

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharina Helming ◽  
Katrin Daedlow ◽  
Bernd Hansjürgens ◽  
Thomas Koellner
Keyword(s):  
Driving Forces ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Soil Management ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Soil Functions ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Arable Soils ◽  
Sustainable Soil Management ◽  
Production Conditions

The globally increasing demand for food, fiber, and bio-based products interferes with the ability of arable soils to perform their multiple functions and support sustainable development. Sustainable soil management under high production conditions means that soil functions contribute to ecosystem services and biodiversity, natural and economic resources are utilized efficiently, farming remains profitable, and production conditions adhere to ethical and health standards. Research in support of sustainable soil management requires an interdisciplinary approach to three interconnected challenges: (i) understanding the impacts of soil management on soil processes and soil functions; (ii) assessing the sustainability impacts of soil management, taking into account the heterogeneity of geophysical and socioeconomic conditions; and (iii) having a systemic understanding of the driving forces and constraints of farmers’ decision-making on soil management and how governance instruments may, interacting with other driving forces, steer sustainable soil management. The intention of this special issue is to take stock of an emerging interdisciplinary research field addressing the three challenges of sustainable soil management in various geographic settings. In this editorial, we summarize the contributions to the special issue and place them in the context of the state of the art. We conclude with an outline of future research needs.

scholarly journals Introduction to special issue: the <i>TransBrom Sonne</i> expedition in the tropical West Pacific

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1401-1418 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Krüger ◽  
B. Quack
Keyword(s):  
Research Field ◽  
Biological Parameters ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Multidisciplinary Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Transport Pathways ◽  
West Pacific ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Scientific Results

Abstract. This special issue provides an overview of scientific results from the TransBrom Sonne expedition in the tropical West Pacific, conducted during October 2009. The ship cruise was part of the national research project TransBrom Sonne, investigating very short lived bromine compounds in the ocean and their transport pathways into the stratosphere. For this purpose chemical and biological parameters were analysed in the ocean and the atmosphere, accompanied by intense meteorological measurements, to derive more insights in this multidisciplinary research field. This introduction paper presents the scientific goals and the meteorological and oceanographic background. The main research findings of the TransBrom Sonne expedition are highlighted.

scholarly journals Many Body Quantum Chaos

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Sandro Wimberger
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Chaos ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Many Body ◽  
Founding Fathers

This editorial remembers Shmuel Fishman, one of the founding fathers of the research field “quantum chaos”, and puts into context his contributions to the scientific community with respect to the twelve papers that form the special issue.

scholarly journals Insect Physical Control: Electric Field-Based Pest Management Approach

Insects ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 480
Author(s):  
Hideyoshi Toyoda
Keyword(s):  
Electric Field ◽  
Pest Management ◽  
Electric Fields ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Physical Control ◽  
New Research ◽  
Electric Field Generation

The Special Issue ‘Insect physical control: electric field-based pest management approach’ was launched to showcase valuable new research on pest control using applied electrostatic engineering. Some phenomena generated in static and dynamic electric fields can be used to build new devices to capture or kill target insects using an attractive force or a force striking insects entering an electric field. This research field is new, and there are few researchers currently working within it. Consequently, this editorial introduces the history and general principles of electric field generation. I then discuss future directions for this field.

scholarly journals Special Issue on Advances in Deep Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 3172
Author(s):  
Diego Gragnaniello ◽  
Andrea Bottino ◽  
Sandro Cumani ◽  
Wonjoon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Autonomous Driving ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Automatic Indexing ◽  
Automatic Translation ◽  
Indexing And Retrieval ◽  
Tremendous Impact

Nowadays, deep learning is the fastest growing research field in machine learning and has a tremendous impact on a plethora of daily life applications, ranging from security and surveillance to autonomous driving, automatic indexing and retrieval of media content, text analysis, speech recognition, automatic translation, and many others [...]

scholarly journals Imaginary economies: the case of the 3D printer

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Schröter
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Research Field ◽  
3D Printer ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Social Imaginaries ◽  
3D Printers

AbstractIn the call for the special issue for the EAEPE Journal, we can find the word “scenario.” The question is if the authors can imagine scenarios in which “potential strategies for the appropriation of existing capitalist infrastructures […] in order to provoke the emergence of post-capitalist infrastructures” can be described. Obviously, the call verges on the border of science fiction—and this is not a bad thing. Diverse strands of media studies and science and technology studies have shown (e.g., Schröter 2004; Kirby 2010; Jasanoff and Kim 2015; McNeil et al. 2017) that not only the development of science and (media) technology is deeply interwoven in social imaginaries about possible outcomes and their implicated futures, but there is a whole theoretical tradition in which societies as such are fundamentally constituted by imaginary relations (Castoriadis 1975/2005). But in all these discussions, one notion very seldom appears: that of an “imaginary economy,” meaning a collectively held system of more or less vague or detailed ideas, what an economy is, how it works, and how it should be (especially in the future; but see the somewhat different usage recently in Fabbri 2018). The aim of the paper is to outline a notion of “imaginary economy” and its necessary functions in the stabilization of a given economy, but even more so in the transformation to another economy—how should a transformation take place if there’s not at least a vague image where to go? Of course, we could also imagine a blind evolutionary process without any imaginary process but that seems not to be the way in which human societies—and economies—work. Obviously a gigantic research field opens up—so in the proposed paper, only one type of “imaginary economy” can be analyzed: It is the field that formed recently around the proposed usages and functions of 3D printing. In publications as diverse as Eversmann (2014) and Rifkin (2014), the 3D printer operates as a technology that seems to open up a post-capitalist future—and thereby it is directly connected to the highly imaginary “replicator” from Star Trek. In these scenarios, a localized omnipotent production—a post-scarcity scenario (see Panayotakis 2011)—overcomes by itself capitalism: But symptomatically enough, questions of work, environment, and planetary computation are (mostly) absent from these scenarios. Who owns the templates for producing goods with 3D printers? What about the energy supply? In a critical and symptomatic reading, this imaginary economy, very present in a plethora of discourses nowadays, is deconstructed and possible implications for a post-capitalist construction are discussed.

scholarly journals Architecture and Engineering: The Challenges—Trends—Achievements

Buildings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 181
Author(s):  
Oleg Kapliński ◽  
Wojciech Bonenberg
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Laboratory Tests ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Cost Calculation ◽  
Spatial Structures ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Field Investigations ◽  
New Research ◽  
Current Special Issue

The current Special Issue is addressed to architects and engineers. Design and research are areas connecting their activities. A review of 17 published articles confirms the fact that the interface between architecture and engineering is multidimensional. The ways of finding points of contact between the two industries are highlighted. This is favoured by the dynamically changing reality, supported by new design paradigms and new research techniques. The multi-threaded subject matter of the articles is reduced to six blocks: research scopes, methods, design aspects, context, nature of research, and economy and cost calculation. Each of the articles in these six blocks has its weight, and so, in the “Nature of research” block, the following areas have been underscored: laboratory tests, in situ research, field investigations, and street perception experiments. The “Design aspects” block includes design-oriented thinking, geometrical forms, location of buildings, cost prediction, attractor and distractor elements, and shaping spatial structures. The new design and research tools are an inspiration and a keystone bonding architects and engineers.

Isolation and Extraction of Microplastics from Environmental Samples: An Evaluation of Practical Approaches and Recommendations for Further Harmonization

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (9) ◽  
pp. 1049-1065 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy L. Lusher ◽  
Keenan Munno ◽  
Ludovic Hermabessiere ◽  
Steve Carr
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Samples ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Organic Content ◽  
Environmental Pollutant ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Sample Collection ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Density Separation

Researchers have been identifying microplastics in environmental samples dating back to the 1970s. Today, microplastics are a recognized environmental pollutant attracting a large amount of public and government attention, and in the last few years the number of scientific publications has grown exponentially. An underlying theme within this research field is to achieve a consensus for adopting a set of appropriate procedures to accurately identify and quantify microplastics within diverse matrices. These methods should then be harmonized to produce quantifiable data that is reproducible and comparable around the world. In addition, clear and concise guidelines for standard analytical protocols should be made available to researchers. In keeping with the theme of this special issue, the goals of this focal point review are to provide researchers with an overview of approaches to isolate and extract microplastics from different matrices, highlight associated methodological constraints and the necessary steps for conducting procedural controls and quality assurance. Simple samples, including water and sediments with low organic content, can be filtered and sieved. Stepwise procedures require density separation or digestion before filtration. Finally, complex matrices require more extensive steps with both digestion and density adjustments to assist plastic isolation. Implementing appropriate methods with a harmonized approach from sample collection to data analysis will allow comparisons across the research community.

scholarly journals Special Issue on Automatic Application Tuning for HPC Architectures

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 259-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siegfried Benkner ◽  
Franz Franchetti ◽  
Hans Michael Gerndt ◽  
Jeffrey K. Hollingsworth
Keyword(s):  
High Performance ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Performance Tuning ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The World ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Application Tuning ◽  
Performance Computing

High Performance Computing architectures have become incredibly complex and exploiting their full potential is becoming more and more challenging. As a consequence, automatic performance tuning (autotuning) of HPC applications is of growing interest and many research groups around the world are currently involved. Autotuning is still a rapidly evolving research field with many different approaches being taken. This special issue features selected papers presented at the Dagstuhl seminar on “Automatic Application Tuning for HPC Architectures” in October 2013, which brought together researchers from the areas of autotuning and performance analysis in order to exchange ideas and steer future collaborations.

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