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According to the Chinese zodiac, 2018 was the year of the ‘earthly dog’. In the middle of the long, hot, and feverish dog days of the summer of 2018, some workers at Shenzhen Jasic Technology took their chances and attempted to form an independent union. While this action was met by the harshest repression, it also led to extraordinary demonstrations of solidarity from small groups of radical students from all over the country, which in turn were immediately and severely suppressed. China’s year of the dog was also imbued with the spirit of another canine, Cerberus—the three-headed hound of Hades—with the ravenous advance of the surveillance state and the increasing securitisation of Chinese society, starting from the northwestern region of Xinjiang. This Yearbook traces these latest developments in Chinese society through a collection of 50 original essays on labour, civil society, and human rights in China and beyond, penned by leading scholars and practitioners from around the world.

Labor policy --- Civil society --- China --- Politics and government --- Demonstration --- Human Rights

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In Zeiten vielschichtiger Krisen stellt der beschleunigte soziale Wandel Spaniens zwischen 2011 und 2016 ein Paradebeispiel für polarisierte Gesellschaften dar. Die Platzbesetzungen der Indignados (der »Empörten«) und die ihnen folgenden Entwicklungen in Zivilgesellschaft und Politik veränderten das Land grundlegend. Mit Diskursanalysen, Interviews, Ethnographien und einer historischen Einbettung rekonstruiert Conrad Lluis in einer umfassenden empirischen Studie die politischen Umbrüche Spaniens. Parallel dazu entfaltet er im Dialog mit der Empirie eine Hegemonietheorie, die Laclau und Mouffe weiterdenkt, und ebnet damit den Weg für eine postfundamentalistische Sozialtheorie.

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. --- Civil Society. --- Crisis. --- Democracy. --- Demonstration. --- Discourse. --- Ethnography. --- Hegemony. --- Party. --- Political Ideologies. --- Political Sociology. --- Politics. --- Post-structuralism. --- Protest. --- Social Movement. --- Society. --- Sociological Theory. --- Sociology.

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This book focuses on the recent development of forecasting and risk management techniques for electricity markets. In addition, we discuss research on new trading platforms and environments using blockchain-based peer-to-peer (P2P) markets and computer agents. The book consists of two parts. The first part is entitled “Forecasting and Risk Management Techniques” and contains five chapters related to weather and electricity derivatives, and load and price forecasting for supporting electricity trading. The second part is entitled “Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Electricity Trading System and Strategy” and contains the following five chapters related to the feasibility and enhancement of P2P energy trading from various aspects.

Technology: general issues --- History of engineering & technology --- electricity markets --- non-parametric regression --- minimum variance hedge --- spline basis functions --- cyclic cubic spline --- weather derivatives --- n/a --- distributed energy resources (DER) --- P2P energy trading --- cooperative mechanism --- renewable energy --- multi agent system --- blockchain --- cashflow management of electricity businesses --- electricity derivatives and forwards --- retailers and power producers --- solar power and thermal energy --- optimal hedging using nonparametric techniques --- empirical simulations --- peer-to-peer energy trading --- distributed energy resources --- microgrid --- digital grid --- bidding strategy --- electricity price --- electricity load --- electricity price forecasting --- wind energy --- day-ahead market --- intra-day market --- balancing power market --- peer to peer energy market --- hardware control --- demonstration experiment --- home energy management systems --- electric vehicles --- bidding agent --- electric vehicle --- functional autoregressive model --- functional principle component analysis --- vector autoregressive model --- functional final prediction error (FFPE) --- naive method --- P2P electricity market --- market maker --- liquidity --- price fluctuation --- artificial market simulation

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The rapid urbanization, sometimes lacking adequate planning and design, has led to worsening city syndrome situations, such as urban flooding, water pollution, heat island effects, and ecologic deterioration. Sponge city construction have become the new paradigm for a sustainable urban stormwater management strategy. Deviating from the traditional rapid draining approach, the new paradigm calls for the use of natural systems, such as soil and vegetation, as part of the urban runoff control strategy. It has become a widespread focus in urban water management research and practices globally. In this Special Issue reprint, there are 13 original scientific articles that address the different related urban runoff control issues. We are happy to see that all papers presented findings characterized as innovative and methodologically new. We hope that the readers can enjoy and learn deeply about urban runoff control and sponge city construction using the published material, and we hope that sharing of the researches results with the scientific community, policymakers and stakeholders can prompt the urban runoff control and sponge city construction globally.

urban runoff remediation --- Talipariti tiliaceum --- modular bioretention tree --- field study --- tree-pit --- Green-Ampt method --- infiltration --- overland flow --- urban flood modelling --- 1D/2D coupled modelling --- dual drainage modelling --- extreme rainfall --- flooding --- safety criteria --- urban drainage --- uncertainty --- combined sewer overflows --- optimization --- SWMM --- NSGA-III --- sponge city --- bioretention facility --- rain infiltration --- slope stability --- urban water management --- drainage function --- permeable pavement --- biological retention --- control-oriented model --- urban drainage system --- real-time optimization --- Simuwater --- Sponge City --- aquifer recharge --- urban stormwater --- green infrastructure --- low impact development --- Sustainable Development Goals --- non-point source pollution --- enhanced dephosphorization bioretention --- modified bioretention facility --- road stormwater runoff --- combined soil filter media --- soil moisture conservation rope --- microbial diversity --- urban stormwater runoff management --- field monitoring --- ABC Waters design features --- water quality --- bioretention --- swales --- low-impact development --- pilot exploration --- systematic demonstration --- construction scale --- stakeholders --- multifunctional decision-making framework --- cost-effectiveness --- site suitability --- stakeholders’ preference --- n/a --- stakeholders' preference

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This volume consists of a collection of articles that touch on very different research aspects within a broad scientific field known in recent years as Early Childhood Science Education. The field has gradually emerged from the interaction between three distinct scientific areas of theory and research: Early Childhood Education, Psychology, which is oriented towards the study of learning, and Science Education. At the center of the progress in this field are efforts to initiate children aged 4-8 years in the Physical and Biological Sciences. A wide range of research themes have developed around this main axis: children's mental representations of phenomena of the natural world and scientific concepts, the study of the implementation and effectiveness of specific teaching activities related to curricula or activities focusing on the specific characteristics of teaching processes such as reasoning, explanation, communication, interaction or argumentation, the issue of teachers' relevance to the teaching of science, the use of pecialized teaching materials, the emergence of the issue of scientific skills, the highly contemporary issue of the differentiation and inclusion of children in the world of science, important socio-scientific issues, the role of family-related factors etc. Within this context, this collective book aims to reflect contemporary research trends in the field of Early Childhood Science Education.

shape of the Earth --- conceptual development --- mental models --- astronomy --- EARTH2 test --- knowledge-as-elements --- knowledge-as-theory --- cultural differences --- science --- early childhood --- science education --- literature review --- concepts --- infants --- toddlers --- preschoolers --- preschool --- representations --- epistemology --- preschool children --- explanations --- precursor models --- natural phenomena --- combustion --- argumentation --- competence --- self-efficacy --- design --- problem-solving --- socio-cultural psychology --- collaboration --- genetic epistemology --- mental representations --- physical sciences --- sound --- address --- interpersonal meaning --- involvement --- multimodal texts --- social distance --- socio-cognitive perspective --- verbal text–image relations --- young children --- sustainable development --- early science education --- dual language learners --- low-income --- teacher language use --- integrated e-learning --- inquiry-based learning --- primary school --- 3rd-grade pupils --- project --- Science --- temperature measurement --- STEM education --- problem solving --- observation tool --- perezhivanie --- early childhood science education --- scientific competence --- teaching interventions and activities teacher training --- inquiry --- scientific practice --- health --- school gardens --- sustainability education --- cognitive skills --- experimental skills --- early childhood education --- discovery demonstration and inquiry-based teaching methods --- theory of planned behavior --- kindergarten teacher training --- STEM --- STEAM --- preschools --- parental involvement --- engagement --- kindergarten --- children --- heat --- temperature --- ideas --- experience --- Early Childhood Science Education --- research trends