The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Peace And Conflict ◽  
Conceptual Foundations ◽  
Critical Overview ◽  
Local Levels

The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation offers an authoritative and comprehensive overview of peacebuilding, statebuilding, and peace formation. With contributions from over thirty distinguished and leading scholars, the Handbook provides a timely, engaging, and critical overview of conceptual foundations, political implications, and tensions at the global, regional, and local levels. It examines the key policies, practices, examples, and discourses underlining various segments of peacebuilding, statebuilding, and peace formation both as discursive formulations and as policy practices. Organized around four major thematic sections, the Handbook offers a state-of-the-art synthesis of the most pressing contemporary peace and conflict issues and charts new pathways for responding to transnational insecurities.

scholarly journals Macroporous materials: microfluidic fabrication, functionalization and applications

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 855-914 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bingjie Wang ◽  
Pepijn Prinsen ◽  
Huizhi Wang ◽  
Zhishan Bai ◽  
Hualin Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Macroporous Materials

This article provides an up-to-date highly comprehensive overview (594 references) on the state of the art of the synthesis and design of macroporous materials using microfluidics and their applications in different fields.

State-of-the-Art Master Slave Flip-Flop Designs for Low Power VLSI Systems

2016 ◽  
pp. 166-198
Author(s):  
Kunwar Singh ◽  
Satish Chandra Tiwari ◽  
Maneesha Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Low Power ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Relative Power ◽  
Power Budget ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Feedback Strategy ◽  
Flip Flop ◽  
Simulation Results

This chapter presents a comprehensive overview of the conventional fully static master slave flip-flops used in low power VLSI systems where power budget is critical. In addition, the chapter also presents alternative realization of fully static master-slave flip-flops utilizing a modified feedback strategy. The flip-flops designed on the basis of modified architecture have been explained in detail and compared with state-of-the-art master slave flip-flop designs available in the literature. Extensive capacitance calculations have been performed in terms of clock load and capacitance at internal nodes has also been estimated for all the flip-flop configurations. This is executed in order to compare their relative power and delay characteristics which are well supported by simulation results.

scholarly journals Using digital technology for home monitoring, adherence and self-management in cystic fibrosis: a state-of-the-art review

Thorax ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Jane Calthorpe ◽  
Sherie Smith ◽  
Katie Gathercole ◽  
Alan Robert Smyth
Keyword(s):  
Cystic Fibrosis ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Digital Health ◽  
Home Monitoring ◽  
Global Strategy ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Treatment Regimens

Digital healthcare is a rapidly growing healthcare sector. Its importance has been recognised at both national and international level, with the WHO recently publishing its first global strategy for digital health. The use of digital technology within cystic fibrosis (CF) has also increased. CF is a chronic, life-limiting condition, in which the treatment burden is high and treatment regimens are not static. Digital technologies present an opportunity to support the lives of people with CF. We included 59 articles and protocols in this state-of-the-art review, relating to 48 studies from 1999 until 2019. This provides a comprehensive overview of the expansion and evolution of the use of digital technology. Technology has been used with the aim of increasing accessibility to healthcare, earlier detection of pulmonary exacerbations and objective electronic adherence monitoring. It may also be used to promote adherence and self-management through education, treatment management Apps and social media.

Hemostatic polymers: the concept, state of the art and perspectives

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (23) ◽  
pp. 3567-3577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio di Lena
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Hemostatic Agents ◽  
Critical Overview

This article presents a critical overview of the most significant developments in the use of polymers as hemostatic agents.

scholarly journals Deep Learning-Based Monocular Depth Estimation Methods—A State-of-the-Art Review

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 2272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faisal Khan ◽  
Saqib Salahuddin ◽  
Hossein Javidnia
Keyword(s):  
Deep Learning ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Depth Estimation ◽  
Autonomous Driving ◽  
Estimation Methods ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Ill Posed ◽  
Monocular Depth

Monocular depth estimation from Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images is a well-studied ill-posed problem in computer vision which has been investigated intensively over the past decade using Deep Learning (DL) approaches. The recent approaches for monocular depth estimation mostly rely on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). Estimating depth from two-dimensional images plays an important role in various applications including scene reconstruction, 3D object-detection, robotics and autonomous driving. This survey provides a comprehensive overview of this research topic including the problem representation and a short description of traditional methods for depth estimation. Relevant datasets and 13 state-of-the-art deep learning-based approaches for monocular depth estimation are reviewed, evaluated and discussed. We conclude this paper with a perspective towards future research work requiring further investigation in monocular depth estimation challenges.

scholarly journals Recycling Tire Rubber in Asphalt Pavements: State of the Art

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 9076
Author(s):  
Saud A. Alfayez ◽  
Ahmed R. Suleiman ◽  
Moncef L. Nehdi
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
Permanent Deformation ◽  
Engineering Properties ◽  
Asphalt Pavements ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Tire Rubber ◽  
Durability Assessment ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
Pavement Construction ◽  
Critical Overview

The use of recycled tire rubber in asphalt pavements to improve the overall performance, economy, and sustainability of pavements has gained considerable attention over the last few decades. Several studies have indicated that recycled tire rubber can reduce the permanent deformation of flexible pavements and enhance its resistance to rutting, reduce pavement construction and maintenance costs, and improve the resistance to fatigue damage. This paper provides a systematic and critical overview of the research on and practice of using recycled tire rubber in asphalt pavements in terms of engineering properties, performance, and durability assessment. This critical analysis of the state-of-the-art should enhance the understanding of using recycled tire rubber in asphalt pavements, define pertinent recommendations, identify knowledge gaps, and highlight the need for concerted future research.

Improvisation: the State of the Art

1985 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-175
Author(s):  
Malcolm Barry
Keyword(s):  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Improvised Music

The writer examines the development of improvisation in Britain and especially jazz. The administrative and political implications of improvised music are explored and problems are identified to do with the freedom and excitement of such music and the dangers of education in improvisation.

Critical evaluation of the state of the art of the analysis of light elements in thin films demonstrated using the examples of SiOXNY and AlOXNY films (IUPAC Technical Report)

2004 ◽  
Vol 76 (6) ◽  
pp. 1161-1213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Dreer ◽  
P. Wilhartitz
Keyword(s):  
Thin Films ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Analytical Techniques ◽  
The State ◽  
Model Systems ◽  
Light Elements ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Technical Report

The quantitative analysis of thin films containing light elements is very important in improving the coating processes and technological properties of the products. In order to review the state of the art of modern analytical techniques for such applications, the model systems SiOXNY and AlOXNY were selected. Over 1000 abstracts were screened, and the relevant literature was evaluated to give a comprehensive overview of instruments, analytical procedures and results, film types, deposition methods, and investigation goals. From more than 150 citations, the limitations, drawbacks, and pitfalls of the different methods were extracted and reviewed critically, while in addition, improvements were proposed where possible. These suggestions are combined with the newest results of investigation by the authors of this paper. Recommendations concerning the optimized combination of analytical methods for different analytical problems have been worked out on the basis of all results. Analysis of various multicomponent systems containing light elements demonstrated the applicability of the different methods of analysis in combination to all film systems with related compositions.

scholarly journals The future of multimodal corpora

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 391-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dawn Knight
Keyword(s):  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
Multimodal Corpora ◽  
The Future ◽  
Multimodal Corpus ◽  
Critical Overview

This paper takes stock of the current state-of-the-art in multimodal corpus linguistics, and proposes some projections of future developments in this field. It provides a critical overview of key multimodal corpora that have been constructed over the past decade and presents a wish-list of future technological and methodological advancements that may help to increase the availability, utility and functionality of such corpora for linguistic research.

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