A comprehensive survey of the valuable work undertaken by Britain's network of bird observatories, with summaries and tables of noteworthy events and much historical background.Bird observatories are research stations established mainly for the study of migration, particularly by means of ringing. There are now 18 scattered around the Britain and Ireland at key points on migration routes, on coastal promontories or small islands. Part of their attraction is the reg...

This book contains the contributions presented at the 12th international KES conference on Smart Education and e-Learning (SEEL 2025). This book is being held on June 25–27, 2025, in Solin, Croatia, in both in-person and online modes. This book contains high-quality peer-reviewed papers that are grouped into several interconnected parts: Part 1—Smart Education, Part 2—Smart e-Learning, Part 3—Smart University, Part 4—Smart Education: Case Studies and Research, and Part 5—Smart Company: Cas...

This book discusses how facts travel, and when and why they sometimes travel well enough to acquire a life of their own. Whether or not facts travel in this manner depends not only on their character and ability to play useful roles elsewhere, but also on the labels, packaging, vehicles and company that take them across difficult terrains and over disciplinary boundaries. These diverse stories of travelling facts, ranging from architecture to nanotechnology and from romance fiction to clim...