This open access book provides graduate students and scientists with fundamental knowledge on the mechanics of granular suspensions as well as on the mathematical and numerical techniques that can be adopted to investigate geophysical flows. To this end, three formidably complex problems (sediment transport, flow-like landslide inception, and gravity currents) are considered. The reader will fi…
Renal MRI holds incredible promise for making a quantum leap in improving diagnosis and care of patientswith a multitude of diseases, by moving beyond the limitations and restrictions of current routine clinicalpractice. Clinical and preclinical renal MRI is advancing with ever increasing rapidity, and yet, aside from afew examples of renal MRI in routine use, it is still not good enough. Sever…
Jeremy Bentham’s writings on Australia, new authoritative editions of which are now published in a volume entitled Panopticon versus New South Wales and other writings on Australia1 in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, have had a profound and enduring influence across a number of fields. For instance, according to the historian John Gascoigne, s…
Non-Western perspective on the international history of intellectual property rights. Politics in Publishing focuses on Japan's involvement in shaping international copyright law over a seventy-year period following the country's 1899 accession to the Berne Convention, the first multilateral copyright treaty. During this time, Japanese state officials collaborated with various stakeholders such…
This open access volume assesses the influence of our changing media environment. Today, there is not one single medium that is the driving force of change. With the spread of various technical communication media such as mobile phones and internet platforms, we are confronted with a media manifold of deep mediatization. But how can we investigate its transformative capability? This book answer…
What is the state of our forests and forest soils today? How have they changed overthe past 20 years? What actions have had an effect on their status and how? What arethe risks that continue to play a role or become relevant in the future? The presentreport based on the National Forest Soils Inventory (NFSI) as well as on case studiesfrom Intensive Forest Monitoring sites in Germany (see below)…
In principle, high-precision imaging of human vascular structures, including thoseinside the human hand, is a solved problem. Figure1.1a displays correspondingvessels using a Magnetic Resonance Angiography (MRA) medical imaging device,while Fig.1.1b shows the result of applying hyperspectral imaging using a STEM-MER IMAGING device using their Perception Studio software to visualise the datacapt…
A relationship with technology is central to being human, but it is not well understood. Humans create technology and have done since the earliest times, and this is commonly taken as a sign of what distinguishes humanity from the sub-primates. Equally, though, our technologies create us, enabling the activities and experiences and forms of social organization that make us who we are. This in…
Wildlife trafficking includes the taking, trading, importing, exporting,processing, possessing, obtaining, and purchasing of wild animals, animalparts, and plants in contravention of international or national law. Wildlifetrafficking threatens the existence of many animal and plant species. Themore endangered a species becomes, the greater is the value of theremaining specime…