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Following the classical work of Norbert Wiener, Ross Ashby, Ludwig von Bertalanffy and many others, the concept of System has been elaborated in different disciplinary fields, allowing interdisciplinary approaches in areas such as Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Cognitive Science, Economics, Engineering, Social Sciences, Mathematics, Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and Philosophy. The new challenge of Complexity and Emergence has made the concept of System even more relevant to the study of problems with high contextuality. This Special Issue focuses on the nature of new problems arising from the study and modelling of complexity, their eventual common aspects, properties and approaches—already partially considered by different disciplines—as well as focusing on new, possibly unitary, theoretical frameworks. This Special Issue aims to introduce fresh impetus into systems research when the possible detection and correction of mistakes require the development of new knowledge. This book contains contributions presenting new approaches and results, problems and proposals. The context is an interdisciplinary framework dealing, in order, with electronic engineering problems; the problem of the observer; transdisciplinarity; problems of organised complexity; theoretical incompleteness; design of digital systems in a user-centred way; reaction networks as a framework for systems modelling; emergence of a stable system in reaction networks; emergence at the fundamental systems level; behavioural realization of memoryless functions.

Uncertainty --- Noise --- Memory Less Functions --- Self-Organisation --- Complexity --- Design --- Meta-Structures --- Scale Invariance --- Organisations --- Quantum-Like Systems --- Emergence --- Observer --- Cybernetic Approach --- Power Laws --- Reaction Networks --- Simulations --- Uniqueness --- Irreversibility --- Systems --- Incompleteness --- Computation --- Non-Linearity --- Coherence

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This collection brings together a diverse range of scholars, including historians of pre-colonial, colonial, and contemporary Africa, along with anthropologists, who develop fresh arguments and reassessments of religious, cultural, and social change pertaining to Africa. The result is a fascinating array of research that offers critical, creative, and constructive analyses of religious change on the African continent, from the medieval period to the present.

Orthodox Christianity --- conversion --- ritualism --- religiosity --- Uganda --- modernity --- post-coloniality --- globalism --- anti-globalism --- Ethiopian Orthodox Church --- religious conversion --- women --- representation --- medieval Christianity --- hagiography --- social engagement --- faith-based NGO --- Ahmadiyya --- Burkina Faso --- France --- Pentecostal/charismatic missionization --- spiritual warfare --- networks --- Roman Catholicism --- reconversion --- linearity --- missionaries --- Mozambique --- Mormonism --- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints --- Anthony Obinna --- southeastern Nigeria --- Rastafari --- Ghana --- Jamaica --- Pan-African --- trodding the path --- livity --- Africa --- anthropology of Christianity --- history --- Africana religions --- historiography --- n/a

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Due to the intensive development of the global economy, many problems are constantly emerging connected to the safety of ships’ motion in the context of increasing marine traffic. These problems seem to be especially significant for the further development of marine transportation services, with the need to considerably increase their efficiency and reliability. One of the most commonly used approaches to ensuring safety and efficiency is the wide implementation of various automated systems for guidance and control, including such popular systems as marine autopilots, dynamic positioning systems, speed control systems, automatic routing installations, etc. This Special Issue focuses on various problems related to the analysis, design, modelling, and operation of the aforementioned systems. It covers such actual problems as tracking control, path following control, ship weather routing, course keeping control, control of autonomous underwater vehicles, ship collision avoidance. These problems are investigated using methods such as neural networks, sliding mode control, genetic algorithms, L2-gain approach, optimal damping concept, fuzzy logic and others. This Special Issue is intended to present and discuss significant contemporary problems in the areas of automatic control and the routing of marine vessels.

Technology: general issues --- History of engineering & technology --- collision avoidance --- ship domain --- fuzzy inference --- collision risk --- early warning system --- marine vessel --- tracking controller --- stability --- functional --- optimal damping --- fin stabilizer --- ship turning --- heel/roll reduction --- L2-gain --- uncertainty --- non-linearity --- ship motion control --- path-following --- guidance algorithm --- nonlinear feedback --- AIS Data --- trajectory prediction --- waterway transportation --- neural networks --- autonomous navigation --- multi-joint autonomous underwater vehicle (MJ-AUV) --- 3-dimensional modeling --- LQR --- LESO --- multicriteria route planning --- genetic algorithm --- particle swarm optimization --- oceanic meteorological routing --- cooperative game theory --- supply chain management --- supply disruption --- unmanned surface vehicle --- Guidance, Navigation and Control --- course keeping --- adaptive sliding mode --- unmanned surface vehicle (USV) --- system identification --- traditional neural network --- physics-informed neural network --- zigzag test --- n/a

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The aim of this Special Issue is to explore new advanced solutions in electronic systems and interfaces to be employed in sensors, describing best practices, implementations, and applications. The selected papers in particular concern photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) and silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) interfaces and applications, techniques for monitoring radiation levels, electronics for biomedical applications, design and applications of time-to-digital converters, interfaces for image sensors, and general-purpose theory and topologies for electronic interfaces.

CMOS image sensor --- linearity --- adaptive nonlinear ramp --- fully differential pipeline --- double auto-zeroing --- high framerate --- fixed pattern noise --- floating diffusion --- readout scheme --- ramp generator circuit --- ultrasound --- PMUT --- high-voltage (HV) transmitter --- low-voltage receiver (RX) amplifier --- ultrasound application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) --- monolithical integration --- CMOS --- MEMS --- electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) --- time-to-digital converter (TDC) --- time interpolator --- phase --- polar demodulator --- quantization --- reconfigurability --- current mode --- sensor interface --- silicon photomultiplier --- transimpedance amplifier --- voltage current conveyor --- field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) --- non-uniform multiphase (NUMP) method --- temperature correction --- radiation sensor interface --- silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) --- mobile dosimeter --- analog-to-digital converter (ADC) --- magnetic bioreactor --- magnetoactive scaffolds --- tissue engineering --- magnetic actuator --- magnetoelectric stimulation --- selectable gain amplifier --- resistive-sensor --- current divider --- current reference --- front-end electronics --- single-photon response --- timing accuracy --- ultrasonic gas flowmeter --- the principle of time-difference method --- data filtering --- low-power measurement --- auto-balancing bridge method --- FIR filter --- FPGA --- impedance --- inductive-loop sensor --- multifrequency --- vehicle magnetic profile --- vector voltmeter --- signal processing --- background radiation monitoring system --- Atmel AVR ATmega328 microcontroller (MC) --- Geiger-Mueller counter --- Petri net model --- fifth-order low-pass filter --- operational transconductance amplifier --- multiple-input bulk-driven technique --- subthreshold region --- nanopower --- temperature compensation --- hysteresis --- quartz flexible accelerometer --- aerial inertial navigation system --- thermal effect --- creep effect --- electronic nose --- convolutional neural network --- component analysis --- xenon TPC --- trigger concepts --- data acquisition circuits --- n/a