Democratic planning allows us to effectively address the multiple crises of our time through cooperative modes of collective coordination. Given the destructive consequences of contemporary capitalism, such a structural alternative to market economies is needed more than ever.This accessible work examines various approaches that theorise, practise and nurture a creative construction towards varieties of democratic planning. Drawing from current socio-economic and ecological movemen...

This atlas offers a comprehensive overview of neuromuscular diseases. It discusses all aspects of neuromuscular disorders, including general tools, the cranial and spinal nerves, the nerve plexus, peripheral nerves, mono- and polyneuropathies, entrapment syndromes, the neuromuscular junction, motor neuron diseases, muscle disease, and autonomic involvement.Each chapter is structured into the following sections: anatomy, symptoms, signs, pathogenesis, diagnosis and differential diag...

′This volume is the most comprehensive overview to date of sociologically orientated approaches to text and discourse analysis and is worth reading even for those who are interested only in purely linguistiv approaches to text and discourse. Its main merit, I think, is that it intorduces approaches which up to now have hardley been admitted into the universe of scientific discourse′ - Discourse StudiesMethods of Text and Discourse Analysis provides the most compreh...

Comprehensive review of the development of plant phenotyping as a research field in a wide range of scientific communitiesExplores key advances in the use of plant phenotyping techniques to improve yield, growth and resource-use efficiency, such as robotics, aerial systems, sensors and controlled environmentsOffers a detailed analysis of the benefits of plant phenotyping through selected case studies that demonstrate the use of phenotyping techniques in analysing ...

This collection of German–English sentence pairs is designed as a practical learning tool for expanding vocabulary and improving comprehension. Each entry begins with a short list of individual German nouns, verbs, and adjectives, followed by a sample sentence in both German and English. The vocabulary is drawn from a wide range of everyday topics, including people, objects, nature, technology, and emotions. A quick caveat: the sentences are not always perfectly logical or realistic. In so...

This book attempts to establish how courts of general jurisdiction differ from specialized human rights courts in their approach to the implementation and development of international human rights. Why do courts of general jurisdiction face particular problems in relation to the application of international human rights law and why, in other cases, are they better placed than specialized human rights courts to act as guardians of international human rights?At the international leve...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2021, which took place in October 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.The papers included in this volume deal with the latest advances in fundamental research, innovative technology, and applications of the Semantic Web, linked data, knowledge graphs, and knowledge processing on the Web. Papers are organized in a research track, resources and in-use track. The r...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshops Nemesis, UrbReas, SoGood, IWAISe, and Green Data Mining, held at the 18th European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2018, in Dublin, Ireland, in September 2018.The 20 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 32 submissions.The workshops included are:Nemesis 2018: First Workshop on Recent Advances in Adversarial Ma...