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This volume of case studies focuses on the geographies of COVID-19 around the world. These geographies are located in both time and space concentrating on both first- and second-order impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. First-order impacts are those associated with the immediate response to the pandemic that include tracking number of deaths and cases, testing, access to hospitals, impacts on essential workers, searching for the origins of the virus and preventive treatments such as vaccines and contact tracing. Second-order impacts are the result of actions, practices, and policies in response to the spread of the virus, with longer-term effects on food security, access to health services, loss of livelihoods, evictions, and migration. Further, the COVID-19 pandemic will be prolonged due to the onset of variants as well as setting the stage for similar future events. This volume provides a synopsis of how geography and geospatial approaches are used to understand this event andthe emerging “new normal.” The volume's approach is necessarily selective due to the global reach of the pandemic and the broad sweep of second-order impacts where important issues may be left out. However, the book is envisioned as the prelude to an extended conversation about adaptation to complex circumstances using geospatial tools.Using case studies and examples of geospatial analyses, this volume adopts a geographic lens to highlight the differences and commonalities across space and time where fundamental inequities are exposed, the governmental response is varied, and outcomes remain uncertain. This moment of global collective experience starkly reveals how inequality is ubiquitous and vulnerable populations – those unable to access basic needs – are increasing. This place-based approach identifies how geospatial analyses and resulting maps depict the pandemic as it ebbs and flows across the globe. Data-driven decision making is needed as we navigate the pandemic and determine ways to address future such events to enable local and regional governments in prioritizing limited resources to mitigate the long-term consequences of COVID-19.

The globally distributed health impacts of environmental degradation and widening inequalities require a fundamental shift in understandings of healthy urbanism. This book redefines the meaning and form of healthy urban environments, urging planners and design professionals to consider how their work impacts population health and wellbeing at multiple spatial and temporal scales. The concepts of equity, inclusion and sustainability are central to this framing, reversing the traditional focus on individuals, their genes and ‘lifestyle choices'to one of structural factors that affect health. Integrating theory and concepts from social epidemiology, sustainable development and systems thinking with practical case studies, this book will be of value for students and practitioners.

From posters to cars, design is everywhere. While we often discuss the aesthetics of design, we don't always dig deeper to unearth the ways design can overtly, and covertly, convince us of a certain way of thinking. How Design Makes Us Think collects hundreds of examples across graphic design, product design, industrial design, and architecture to illustrate how design can inspire, provoke, amuse, anger, or reassure us.Graphic designer Sean Adams walks us through the power of design to attract attention and convey meaning. The book delves into the sociological, psychological, and historical reasons for our responses to design, offering practitioners and clients alike a new appreciation of their responsibility to create design with the best intentions. How Design Makes Us Think is an essential read for designers, advertisers, marketing professionals, and anyone who wants to understand how the design around us makes us think, feel, and do things.

This open access volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th biennial conference of the German Society for Computational Linguistics and Language Technology, GSCL 2017, held in Berlin, Germany, in September 2017, which focused on language technologies for the digital age. The 16 full papers and 10 short papers included in the proceedings were carefully selected from 36 submissions. Topics covered include text processing of the German language, online media and online content, semantics and reasoning, sentiment analysis, and semantic web description languages.

Anatomy of Design dissects fifty examples of graphic design piece by piece, revealing an array of influences and inspirations. These pieces represent contemporary artifacts that are well conceived, finely crafted, and filled with hidden treasures. Some are overtly complex. Others are so simple that it is hard to believe there's a storehouse of inspiration hidden underneath. The selections include all kinds of design work including posters, packages, and more. Each exhibit is selected for its ubiquity, thematic import, and aesthetic significance, and every page shows how great work is derived from various inspirational and physical sources, some well-known, some unknown.

Intense global competition in manufacturing has compelled manufacturers to incorporate repetitive processing and automation for improving productivity. Modern manufacturing systems use robotic cells – a particular type of computer-controlled system in cellular manufacturing. Throughput optimization in robotic cells provides practitioners, researchers, and students with up-to-date algorithmic results on sequencing of robot moves and scheduling of parts in robotic cells. It brings together the structural results developed over the last 25 years for the various realistic models of robotic cells. After describing industrial applications of robotic cells and presenting fundamental results about cyclic production, several advanced features, such as dual-grippers, parallel machines, multi-part-type production, and multiple robots, are treated. Important open problems in the area are also identified. This book is an excellent text for use in a graduate course or a research seminar on robotic cells.

Mit der Stratigraphie von Deutschland, Band XII, Zechstein legt die Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission in der Reihe Stratigraphie von Deutschland den Band Zechstein als Heft 89 der Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften vor. Er vereinigt auf 648 Seiten 62 Beiträge zur Stratigraphie des Zechsteins in Deutschland von 37 Autoren. Der Band ist ein unentbehrliches Nachschlagewerk für alle Fragen, die mit dem Zechstein zusammenhängen und fasst das gesamte Wissen bis zum Jahr 2018 in einem umfangreichen Werk zusammen. Die permische Zechstein-Gruppe wird vor allem durch mächtige Salzablagerungen geprägt. Andererseits liegt in den Karbonaten und Tonsteinen eine große Vielfalt verschiedener Fazies vor, die vom euxinischen Kupferschiefer bis zu mikrobiellen Riffen reicht. Schwerpunkt des Bandes ist die Lithostratigraphie. Es werden die Grundlagen der stratigraphischen Gliederung des Zechsteins, die angewandten Methoden, ihr Fossilinhalt (Makro- und Mikro-Flora, Vertebraten und Invertebraten), Magnetostratigraphie, Zyklo- und Sequenzstratigraphie, das Klima und die Klima-Zyklen und die Paläogeographie des Zechsteins vorgestellt. Besonderen Wert wurde auf die Beschreibung und Deutung der randlichen, vorwiegend terrestrischen Sedimente des Zechstein-Beckens gelegt, die bislang weitgehend vernachlässigt waren. Sie sind hier detailliert beschrieben, genetisch gedeutet und – soweit möglich – mit der Beckenfazies korreliert worden. Einen breiten Raum nehmen die für den Zechstein typischen Salinarstrukturen des Norddeutschen Beckens ein. Ihre Entstehung und ihre verschiedenen Formen, ihr Internbau und schließlich die Subrosion der Salze werden ausführlich beschrieben und diskutiert. Insgesamt ist es ein Beitrag, der bei der Suche eines Endlagers für radioaktive Abfälle nicht uninteressant sein wird. Die Zechstein-Karbonate sind sowohl Mutter- und Speichergestein für Kohlenwasserstoff-Lagerstätten. Im Zechstein findet der einzige in Deutschland zurzeit rentable Bergbau auf Kali- und Steinsalz statt. Die relativ neuen Methoden des Kavernenbaus oder aber die Nutzung als Untertagedeponie werden ausführlich behandelt. Auch für die Steine- und Erden-Industrie ist der Zechstein ein bedeutender Rohstofflieferant. Das Werk enthält abschließend als wertvolle Handreichung für den Leser und Anwender eine vollständige Liste aller aktuellen lithostratigraphischen Begriffe des Zechsteins sowie Verzeichnisse mariner und kontinentaler Evaporitminerale und –gesteine.