Libros sobre el tema "Amf. smat"

The Publication is following the yearly Editions of EVA FLORENCE. The State of Art is presented regarding the Application of Technologies (in particular of digital type) to Cultural Heritage. The more recent results of the Researches in the considered Area are presented. Information Technologies of interest for Culture Heritage are presented: multimedia systems, data-bases, data protection, access to digital content, Virtual Galleries. Particular reference is reserved to digital images (Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts), regarding Cultural Institutions (Museums, Libraries, Palace - Monuments, Archaeological Sites). The International Conference includes the following Sessions: Strategic Issues; New Sciences and Culture Developments and Applications; New Technical Developments & Applications; Museums - Virtual Galleries and Related Initiatives; Art and Humanities Ecosystem & Applications; Access to the Culture Information. Two Workshops regard: Innovation and Enterprise; the Cloud Systems connected to the Culture (eCulture Cloud) in the Smart Cities context. The more recent results of the Researches at national and international are reported in the Area of Technologies and Culture Heritage, also with experimental demonstrations of developed Activities.

The Publication is following the yearly Editions of EVA FLORENCE. The State of Art is presented regarding the Application of Technologies (in particular of digital type) to Cultural Heritage. The more recent results of the Researches in the considered Area are presented. Information Technologies of interest for Culture Heritage are presented: multimedia systems, data-bases, data protection, access to digital content, Virtual Galleries. Particular reference is reserved to digital images (Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts), regarding Cultural Institutions (Museums, Libraries, Palace - Monuments, Archaeological Sites). The International Conference includes the following Sessions: Strategic Issues; New Sciences and Culture Developments and Applications; New Technical Developments & Applications; Museums - Virtual Galleries and Related Initiatives; Art and Humanities Ecosystem & Applications; Access to the Culture Information. Two Workshops regard: Innovation and Enterprise; the Cloud Systems connected to the Culture (eCulture Cloud) in the Smart Cities context. The more recent results of the Researches at national and international are reported in the Area of Technologies and Culture Heritage, also with experimental demonstrations of developed Activities.

This book brings together some thought-provoking papers around the theme of “Smart CALL.” The term “smart” nowadays means “connected to and exchanging information with other devices.” The contributions in this volume focus on a more human-centered perspective, namely the definition of smartness in terms of three qualities or dimensions: personalization (adaptation to the learner and the teacher), contextualization (adaptation to the sociocultural, educational, and geotemporal context of the learner) and socialization (the extent to which CALL stimulates interaction and relatedness between the learner, co-learner, teacher, and other stakeholders). Contributing authors are established scholars coming from different continents, using different technologies, and representing different points of view. A smart initiative.

Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Environmental,Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability, hosted by the University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1-3 February 2023. The conference featured researchaddressing the following special focus: “Decentering Sustainability: Towards Local Solutions for Global Environmental Problems” and annual themes: •Theme 1: Multiple Legacies: Heritage, Traditions, Local Ecologies, Knowledge, Values, Protection •Theme 2: Extractions: Food, Water, Energy, Resources, Materials, Reuse, Distribution, Accessibility, Non-Material Extraction •Theme 3: Digital Sustainability: Sustainable Digitalization, Smart Communities, Smart Mobility, Green Technologies, Electronic Waste •Theme 4: Sustaining Crisis: (de)growth, Alternative Economies, Greenwashing, Social and Political Movements.

Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies, hosted by the University of Malta, Malta, 13-14 April 2023. The conference featured research addressing the following special focus: “Smart Education 4.0 Empowering Learners and Educators”and annual themes: •Theme 1: Considering Digital Pedagogies •Theme 2: New Digital Institutions and Spaces •Theme 3: Technologies of Mediation •Theme 4: Designing Social Transformations.

Die Schnelllebigkeit der neuen digitalen Welt wird uns tagtäglich vor Augen geführt: Ständig blinken Icons und weisen eindringlich darauf hin, dass neue Updates, Upgrades oder Patches zur Verfügung stehen. Bereits einfache Alltagsgegenstände sind smart und miteinander im Internet der Dinge (IoT) vernetzt – und bedürfen einer laufenden Aktualisierung, um weiterhin funktionsfähig zu bleiben.   Die Autorin untersucht in diesem Zusammenhang den Begriff der Softwareaktualisierung und widmet sich der Warenkauf- und Digitale-Inhalte-Richtlinie sowie deren Umsetzung ins österreichische Recht. Es werden dabei ua folgende Bereiche erörtert: Anspruch auf Aktualisierung abseits einer etwaigen vertraglichen Vereinbarung Gewährleistung Neu: Warenkauf- und Digitale-Inhalte-Richtlinie und deren Umsetzung ins österreichische Recht Schadenersatzpflicht des Herstellers: Produkthaftung, Produzentenhaftung und Produktbeobachtungspflicht Schadenersatzpflicht des Nutzers bei unterlassener Aktualisierung Wie ist das Verhältnis Hersteller und Händler? Wie ist bei – aus Sicht des Nutzers – unerwünschten Aktualisierungen vorzugehen? Welche Rechtsprobleme gibt es bei fehlerhaften Aktualisierungen, die zu einem neuen Fehler an der ursprünglich mangelfreien Software führen?

Die strukturellen Herausforderungen für das Gesundheitswesen wie die demografische Entwicklung, der kostenintensive medizinische Fortschritt oder der Fachkräftemangel erfordern innovative Denkansätze, wenn auch künftig eine patientenorientierte, für alle zugängliche medizinische Versorgung gewährleistet werden soll. Dazu ist die digitale Transformation das zentrale Instrument. Die Universitätsmedizin Essen begreift Digitalisierung als einmalige Chance, das Krankenhaus der Zukunft zu gestalten – mit einem klaren Fokus auf den Menschen als Patient und als Mitarbeiter. Dies gilt nicht nur im Regelbetrieb, sondern explizit auch für krisenhafte Situationen wie z.B. die Bekämpfung des Corona-Virus. Die Transformation zum „Smart Hospital“ ist ein umfassender und tiefgreifender Change-Prozess. Das Projekt „Smart Hospital“ erfordert neues Denken, eine moderne Unternehmenskultur und ist als unternehmerische Strategie Grundlage aller Entscheidungen, von Investitionen in medizinische Geräte über den Aufbau der notwendigen IT-Infrastruktur bis hin zu Berufungen und Personalentscheidungen. Alle Bereiche – medizinische Leistungen, Pflege und Service für den Patienten – werden im Rahmen der Gesamtstrategie des „Smart Hospital“ gebündelt und miteinander verknüpft. Dieses Buch stellt die großen Strategie- und Handlungsfelder der digitalen Transformation im Gesundheitswesen dar, und zwar im Kontext der Transformation in Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik. Darin liegt der besondere Reiz des Werkes: Nur wer die Herausforderungen annimmt, permanent seinen Horizont erweitert und lernfähig bleibt, kann die zum Teil rasanten Veränderungsprozesse mitgestalten. Das vorliegende Werk ist ein Kompass und Impulsgeber für alle Akteure in Krankenversorgung, Krankenkassen, Selbstverwaltung und Politik. Sie werden Mut und Gestaltungswillen brauchen, damit die digitale Transformation nicht nur innovative Behandlungsmethoden, sondern vor allem auch mehr Menschlichkeit möglich macht.

Dieser VDI-Bericht ist ausschließlich als PDF-Datei erschienen! Sie möchten gerne erfahren, welche Themen auf der 10. VDI-Fachtagung in Bremen präsentiert wurden? Inhalt Eröffnung Erkenntnisse aus digitalisierten Daten von über 3000 Windenergieanlagen im Betrieb 1 B. Hahn, S. Faulstich, Fraunhofer IEE, Kassel BIG DATA Auswertungen und Analysen von Betriebsdaten I Big Data – Smart Data, analytische Datenauswertung von Betriebsdaten 17 W. Holweger, Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG, Herzogenaurach; F. Harzendorf, B. Azzam, CWD RWTH Aachen University, Aachen; J. Fliege, Universität Southampton, Southampton, UK Felderfahrung von Anlagen und Windparks I MSA (Messsystemanalyse) eines back-to-back Getriebeprüfstands 29 T. Jacob (M.Sc.) (VDI), Flender GmbH, Voerde; M. Blomeyer, Flender GmbH, Bocholt Felderfahrung und Ergebnisse aus großen Windparks: Von der Zuverlässigkeits- und CMS-Analyse zur Prognosefähigkeit 41 S. Mtauweg, V. Meimann, MML Solutions GmbH; H. Fritsch, U.

Smart Farming Egal ob Parkassistent oder intelligente Küchenmaschine – in unserem Alltag sind die smarten Assistenzsysteme längst angekommen. Vor allem im Zuge von Industrie 4.0 gewinnen sie auch in der Agrarwirtschaft immer mehr an Bedeutung. Sie übernehmen unangenehme und beschwerliche Aufgaben und erleichtern so das Arbeiten in der Landwirtschaft. Für die Gestalter von User Interfaces ergeben sich dadurch neue Herausforderungen: Wie kann man diese Systeme automatisieren und dem Nutzer gleichzeitig das Gefühl geben, dass er Herr über das Produkt ist? Sind vollautomatisierte Systeme wirklich immer ein sinnvolles Ziel? Brauchen Assistenz-Systeme überhaupt ein klassisches Graphical User Interface? Der Beitrag gibt Antworten auf diese Fragen. Dazu kategorisiert er Assistenz-Systeme hinsichtlich ihres Automatisierungsgrads und zeigt auf, wie sich Automatisierungsgrad, Nutzungserlebnis und User Interface Design wechselseitig beeinflussen. ...

Wenn digitale Technologien wie künstliche Intelligenz, Blockchain und Robotik auf die Medizin treffen, entstehen zwangsläufig ethische Fragestellungen. Diese lassen sich nicht ohne Weiteres mit medizinisch-technologischen, rechtlichen oder ökonomischen Argumenten allein beantworten. Neue Themenfelder wie die sich wandelnde Rolle der Patienten, die neue Verantwortung von Ärzten und Pflegenden, neue digitale Möglichkeiten in der Medizin, Smart Hospitals im Klinikalltag, die gesellschaftliche Legitimität eines möglichen dritten Datengesundheitsmarktes, eine zukunftsfeste Ausbildungslandschaft für den Gesundheits-/Medizinbereich sowie die Grenzen der digitalen Forschung bedürfen einer kritischen und gleichzeitig thematisch breiten Auseinandersetzung mit ethischen Aspekten in der digitalen Gesundheitswirtschaft und Medizin. Dies ist nicht nur inhaltlich wichtig, sondern auch zeitkritisch, denn gerade dieser Sektor hat eine erhebliche globale Marktdynamik. Längst ist „eHealth“ i.w.S. keine Kerninnovation von klassischen Gesundheitsakteuren mehr. Es gehört vielmehr zum Tagesgeschäft der großen US-amerikanischen und chinesischen Game Changer wie Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Alibaba und Tencent. Die verantwortbare, aber auch wettbewerbsfähige Partizipation an diesen Entwicklungen ist vielleicht die drängendste Aufgabe für die Akteure in Wissenschaft, Krankenversorgung, Gesundheitswirtschaft und Politik. Ausgewiesene Experten aus diesen Bereichen stellen sich daher im vorliegenden Werk den oft schwierigen Fragen, die sich auf dem Weg der Transformation zu einem B2B2C-Markt im Gesundheitswesen, der einer ethischen Betrachtung standhält, ergeben.

Ein Blick in die nahe Zukunft der Sozialwirtschaft "Wir wollen Führungskräfte, Lehrende und Studierende mit auf die Reise in die nahe Zukunft sozialer Dienstleister nehmen und zum Mitmachen und Übertragen auf ihre eigenen Organisationen animieren" – so die Intention der Herausgeber. Die Autoren liefern in ihrem Lehrbuch Band 2 Innovation bei sozialen Dienstleistungen Beispiele, wie die praktische Umsetzung gelingt: Smart Metering zur Umsetzung innovativer häuslicher Monitoring- und Alarmierungssysteme (Michael Vilain/Matthias Heuberger) Soziale Innovationen im INTRA Lab (Tobias Gebauer/Rhea Seehaus) Einsatz und Erprobung technischer Unterstützungssysteme in Pflege- und Gesundheitseinrichtungen (Ulrich Johnigk/Melissa Henne) Sektorenübergreifende Dienstleistungserstellung: „Fit für zu Hause“ (Victoria Grabner/Irmtraud Ehrenmüller) Von der Dienstleistung zur Gemeinschaft (Matthias Heuberger/Michael Vilain) Solidarische Landwirtschaft (Anja Plöchl) Mit Reifegraden mehr Effizienz ermöglichen (Paul Brandl) Subjektfinanzierung in der Behindertenpolitik des Kantons Bern (Martin Wild-Näf) Personenzentrierte Leistungen im Sozialraum (Roger Pfiffner/Manuela Grieb) Das Prozessmanual zur dialogisch-systemischen Kindeswohlabklärung. (Brigitte Müller/Stefan Schnurr) Das Büro Leichte Sprache Basel (Cornelia Kabus) Recovery-Konzept der Invalidenversicherungsstelle Graubünden (Thomas Pfiffner) Mit der Neuverblisterung zu mehr Effizienz in der (mobilen) Altenbetreuung und -pflege (Christian Baumgartner/Paul Brandl) Entwicklungsstadien der Wäscheversorgung als Grundlage für Reifegrade (Marlene Harringer-Michlmayr) Alle Beiträge können den Lenkungs-, Unterstützungs- und Kernprozessen des Prozessmanagements zugeordnet werden.

Der Band enthält die Beiträge der 30. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft Junge Zivilrechtswissenschaft e.V., die im September 2019 von Bayreuther Nachwuchswissenschaftlern ausgerichtet wurde. Die Beiträge befassen sich mit den Auswirkungen des digitalen Wandels auf die Entwicklung des Privatrechts in den kommenden Jahrzehnten und behandeln die folgenden Themenfelder: Legal Tech: Grenzen der Personalisierung dispositiven Rechts, Möglichkeiten zur Formalisierung des Rechts und zur automatischen Subsumtion, Rechtsdienstleistungen durch Online-Inkassodienste Vertragsrecht: vertragsrechtliche Erfassung der Plattformwirtschaft, Beteiligung künstlicher Intelligenz in Vertragsverhältnissen sowie Haftungsfragen im Internet der Dinge Sachenrecht: Übertragung von Bitcoins Gesellschaftsrecht: EU Company Law Package und die digitalisierte GmbH, virtuelle Hauptversammlung Prozessrecht: digitale Beweismittel und Smart Enforcement Diskriminierung durch Algorithmen Datenschutzverletzung als Wettbewerbsverstoß <b>Mit Beiträgen von </b> Martin Schmidt-Kessel, Philip Maximilian Bender, Johannes Klug, Sören Segger-Piening, Johannes Warter, Julia Grinzinger, Dimitrios Linardatos, Lena Maute, Miriam Kullmann, Ralf Knaier, Patrick Nutz, Miriam Buiten, Julia Harten, David Markworth, Lukas Klever, Julian Rapp

This book is the first anthology of perspectives on the future of text, one of our most important mediums for thinking and communicating, with a Foreword by the co-inventor of the Internet, Vint. Cerf and a Postscript by the founder of the modern Library of Alexandria, Ismail Serageldin. In a time with astounding developments in computer special effects in movies and the emergence of powerful AI, text has developed little beyond spellcheck and blue links. In this work we look at myriads of perspectives to inspire a rich future of text through contributions from academia, the arts, business and technology. We hope you will be as inspired as we are as to the potential power of text truly unleashed. Contributions by Adam Cheyer • Adam Kampff • Alan Kay • Alessio Antonini • Alex Holcombe • Amaranth Borsuk • Amira Hanafi • Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. • Anastasia Salter • Andy Matuschak & Michael Nielsen • Ann Bessemans & María Pérez Mena • Andries Van Dam • Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Anthon Botha • Azlen Ezla • Barbara Beeton • Belinda Barnet • Ben Shneiderman • Bernard Vatant • Bob Frankston • Bob Horn • Bob Stein • Catherine C. Marshall • Charles Bernstein • Chris Gebhardt • Chris Messina • Christian Bök • Christopher Gutteridge • Claus Atzenbeck • Daniel Russel • Danila Medvedev • Danny Snelson • Daveed Benjamin • Dave King • Dave Winer • David De Roure • David Jablonowski • David Johnson • David Lebow • David M. Durant • David Millard • David Owen Norris • David Price • David Weinberger • Dene Grigar • Denise Schmandt-Besserat • Derek Beaulieu • Doc Searls • Don Norman • Douglas Crockford • Duke Crawford • Ed Leahy • Elaine Treharne • Élika Ortega • Esther Dyson • Esther Wojcicki • Ewan Clayton • Fiona Ross • Fred Benenson & Tyler Shoemaker • Galfromdownunder, aka Lynette Chiang • Garrett Stewart • Gyuri Lajos • Harold Thimbleby • Howard Oakley • Howard Rheingold • Ian Cooke • Iian Neil • Jack Park • Jakob Voß • James Baker • James O’Sullivan • Jamie Blustein • Jane Yellowlees Douglas • Jay David Bolter • Jeremy Helm • Jesse Grosjean • Jessica Rubart • Joe Corneli • Joel Swanson • Johanna Drucker • Johannah Rodgers • John Armstrong • John Cayle • John-Paul Davidson • Joris J. van Zundert • Judy Malloy • Kari Kraus & Matthew Kirschenbaum • Katie Baynes • Keith Houston • Keith Martin • Kenny Hemphill • Ken Perlin • Leigh Nash • Leslie Carr • Lesia Tkacz • Leslie Lamport • Livia Polanyi • Lori Emerson • Luc Beaudoin & Daniel Jomphe • Lynette Chiang • Manuela González • Marc-Antoine Parent • Marc Canter • Mark Anderson • Mark Baker • Mark Bernstein • Martin Kemp • Martin Tiefenthaler • Maryanne Wolf • Matt Mullenweg • Michael Joyce • Mike Zender • Naomi S. Baron • Nasser Hussain • Neil Jefferies • Niels Ole Finnemann • Nick Montfort • Panda Mery • Patrick Lichty • Paul Smart • Peter Cho • Peter Flynn • Peter Jenson & Melissa Morocco • Peter J. Wasilko • Phil Gooch • Pip Willcox • Rafael Nepô • Raine Revere • Richard A. Carter • Richard Price • Richard Saul Wurman • Rollo Carpenter • Sage Jenson & Kit Kuksenok • Shane Gibson • Simon J. Buckingham Shum • Sam Brooker • Sarah Walton • Scott Rettberg • Sofie Beier • Sonja Knecht • Stephan Kreutzer • Stephanie Strickland • Stephen Lekson • Stevan Harnad • Steve Newcomb • Stuart Moulthrop • Ted Nelson • Teodora Petkova • Tiago Forte • Timothy Donaldson • Tim Ingold • Timur Schukin & Irina Antonova • Todd A. Carpenter • Tom Butler-Bowdon • Tom Standage • Tor Nørretranders • Valentina Moressa • Ward Cunningham • Dame Wendy Hall • Zuzana Husárová. Student Competition Winner Niko A. Grupen, and competition runner ups Catherine Brislane, Corrie Kim, Mesut Yilmaz, Elizabeth Train-Brown, Thomas John Moore, Zakaria Aden, Yahye Aden, Ibrahim Yahie, Arushi Jain, Shuby Deshpande, Aishwarya Mudaliar, Finbarr Condon-English, Charlotte Gray, Aditeya Das, Wesley Finck, Jordan Morrison, Duncan Reid, Emma Brodey, Gage Nott, Aditeya Das and Kamil Przespolewski. Edited by Frode Hegland.

New Work. New Mindset. Future Skills. Die digitale Transformation etabliert völlig neue Mechanismen im Gesundheitswesen. Diese Entwicklung wirkt sich enorm auf die Anforderungen an Beschäftigte und Führungskräfte in der Branche aus. Für die Gesundheitswirtschaft ist das eine große Herausforderung, da sie im Spannungsfeld steht zwischen hohem Kostendruck und knappen wirtschaftlichen Ressourcen, der Notwendigkeit, Innovationen in die Gesundheitsversorgung zu bringen, dennoch das alte Kerngeschäft fortzuführen („Innovationsdilemma“) und gleichzeitig die erforderlichen neuen Kompetenzen aufzubauen. Ein professionelles Agieren in einer digitalisierten Welt erfordert erweiterte Fähigkeiten auf der personalen, sozialen und methodischen Ebene. Sei es die Kunst einer gelungenen Kommunikation, die Fähigkeit, Patientinnen und Patienten empathisch zu begegnen oder die Resilienz in einer VUCA-Welt – Future Skills sind im Zuge der digitalen Transformation unerlässlich. Neben einem grundlegenden Verständnis von Digitalisierung und einer unternehmerischen Einstellung in Bezug auf Chancen und Risiken im eigenen Arbeitskontext werden auch scheinbar verstaubte prädigitale Fähigkeiten wieder aufpoliert und in einen neuen digitalen Kontext gesetzt. Es lässt sich somit unterscheiden in: - Classic Skills: Je digitaler die Medizin in Zukunft wird, desto wichtiger werden klassische Werte, Fähigkeiten und Tugenden im Berufsleben sowie für gesellschaftliche Teilhabe. Hierzu gehören beispielsweise Empathie, Selbstreflexion oder Interkulturelle Kompetenz. Wer diese beherrscht, kann sich in neuen Situationen zurechtfinden und Probleme kreativ und nachhaltig lösen. Diese traditionellen Fähigkeiten werden in Zukunft noch wichtiger, denn Aufgaben- und Berufsprofile verändern sich aufgrund von Automatisierung und Digitalisierung rasant. - New Work Skills: Neue Ansätze der Zusammenarbeit sind unabdingbar für das Berufsleben der Zukunft. Wer sich hier Kompetenz aneignet, kann in einer immer stärker digital geprägten Welt kollaborativ und agil arbeiten sowie flexibel kritische Entscheidungen treffen. Hierzu gehören New Leadership, Unternehmerisches Denken und Digitale Ethik. Ob in der Pflege, Medizin oder im Management – ein neues Mindset ist wichtig: Fehlerkultur, Geschwindigkeit und Risikobereitschaft. - Digital Skills: Durch die Digitalisierung entstehen über alle Organisationen hinweg neue Berufsbilder und Aufgaben. Wer die hierfür notwendigen Fähigkeiten mitbringt, verfügt über neuestes (informations-)technologisches Fachwissen und kann es anwenden. Dabei geht es beispielsweise um Digitale Lernkompetenz, Data Literacy oder um Exponentielles Denken. Sie prägen häufig schon heute die Berufsprofile in Start-ups und im Smart Hospital. Das Praxisbuch will mit vielen Anekdoten, harten Fakten und Beispielen Inspiration geben für Ärztinnen und Ärzte, Führungskräfte sowie Gründerinnen und Gründer im Gesundheitswesen. Es geht um einen Paradigmen- und Kulturwechsel – hin zu Technik und Humanitas.

Don't believe everything you're told about food–most of it is highly misleading or completely untrue. Written by a farm and food advocate, this book identifies marketing half-truths and guides you through the aisles of the grocery store to simplify smart food shopping and restore your freedom to enjoy food. What is the only "food" on your dinner table that does not contain hormones? How can animals raised for food also be treated with respect? Is it true that a typical serving of broccoli has more estrogen than a serving of steak? Why is more than 40 percent of food wasted in the United States? Food Truths from Farm to Table: 25 Surprising Ways to Shop & Eat without Guilt answers all of these questions and many more, bringing an unheard voice into the highly emotional food debate. Authored by Michele Payn, a leading farm and food advocate with an in-depth understanding of both sides of the plate, this intriguing book helps readers understand how food is really produced, answers food critics, and points out how food marketing and labels are often half-truths or even "less-than-half truths." These 25 food truths enable an understanding of how food is grown, providing a transparent window into today's farming and ranching practices that empowers you to make informed personal choices and determine what is right for your family. Each chapter presents a farm or ranch story, answers questions around a major issue, provides science-based information, and includes a sidebar section of food truths and myths. Readers will gain insights from a food expert who offers a viewpoint that stands in stark contrast to the typical sensationalist and often negative perspective on fashionable food–accurate information that will help you to better trust the intentions and processes in farming and ranching. The revelations in this book will simplify food shopping, reduce guilt about being a consumer, and give you the freedom to enjoy your food again.

I don’t know what I’m doing but I’m trying very hard (IDKWIDBITVH) is the title of an ongoing series of short videos, between 30 seconds and 5 minutes in length, and commencing in June 2018. The videos are shot on the front-facing camera of an iPhone and each records a monologue spoken by the artist following the exertions of a run. The videos, which appear inverted and focus on the chest and neck area, are characterised by the breathlessness of the voice and the image of sweat-soaked t-shirts. There are to date approximately 100 videos in the series and they are designed to be exhibited as well as as to be made available through a digital repository.The work extends Cruz’s longstanding interest in the use of text within the context of visual art. It brings together an investigation of the place of the autobiographical and confessional within contemporary culture with inquiry into the existence of works of art within the digital ealm, as digital files with a contingent set of possibilities for their manifestation and exhibition. The videos reference a number of characteristics and approaches towards performance developed since the late 1960s, specifically by male artists (Acconci, Nauman, Jan Ader). The videos filter these approaches through the contemporary device of the front-facing smart phone camera, the construct of the selfie and attitudes towards physical fitness and self-improvement. Three of a series of 15 photographs, with which this project originated, were exhibited in Aarhus, Denmark, in a group exhibition, The Catalyst Experiment, 1–30 September 2017. The videos were subsequently exhibited in a solo exhibition at Matt’s Gallery, London (8–16 September 2018), a group exhibition, DataLoam, Vienna (26 February – 8 March 2019) and through an online exhibition at MattFlix, Matt’s Gallery, 2020.They have also been presented at guest lectures at the Royal College of Art, London, CAFA, Beijing and the West Bund Art & Design Fair in Shanghai.

Nationalism: Past as Prologue began as a single volume being compiled by Ad Akande, a scholar from South Africa, who proposed it to me as co-author about two years ago. The original idea was to examine how the damaging roots of nationalism have been corroding political systems around the world, and creating dangerous obstacles for necessary international cooperation. Since I (Bruce E. Johansen) has written profusely about climate change (global warming, a.k.a. infrared forcing), I suggested a concerted effort in that direction. This is a worldwide existential threat that affects every living thing on Earth. It often compounds upon itself, so delays in reducing emissions of fossil fuels are shortening the amount of time remaining to eliminate the use of fossil fuels to preserve a livable planet. Nationalism often impedes solutions to this problem (among many others), as nations place their singular needs above the common good. Our initial proposal got around, and abstracts on many subjects arrived. Within a few weeks, we had enough good material for a 100,000-word book. The book then fattened to two moderate volumes and then to four two very hefty tomes. We tried several different titles as good submissions swelled. We also discovered that our best contributors were experts in their fields, which ranged the world. We settled on three stand-alone books:” 1/ nationalism and racial justice. Our first volume grew as the growth of Black Lives Matter following the brutal killing of George Floyd ignited protests over police brutality and other issues during 2020, following the police assassination of Floyd in Minneapolis. It is estimated that more people took part in protests of police brutality during the summer of 2020 than any other series of marches in United States history. This includes upheavals during the 1960s over racial issues and against the war in Southeast Asia (notably Vietnam). We choose a volume on racism because it is one of nationalism’s main motive forces. This volume provides a worldwide array of work on nationalism’s growth in various countries, usually by authors residing in them, or in the United States with ethnic ties to the nation being examined, often recent immigrants to the United States from them. Our roster of contributors comprises a small United Nations of insightful, well-written research and commentary from Indonesia, New Zealand, Australia, China, India, South Africa, France, Portugal, Estonia, Hungary, Russia, Poland, Kazakhstan, Georgia, and the United States. Volume 2 (this one) describes and analyzes nationalism, by country, around the world, except for the United States; and 3/material directly related to President Donald Trump, and the United States. The first volume is under consideration at the Texas A & M University Press. The other two are under contract to Nova Science Publishers (which includes social sciences). These three volumes may be used individually or as a set. Environmental material is taken up in appropriate places in each of the three books. * * * * * What became the United States of America has been strongly nationalist since the English of present-day Massachusetts and Jamestown first hit North America’s eastern shores. The country propelled itself across North America with the self-serving ideology of “manifest destiny” for four centuries before Donald Trump came along. Anyone who believes that a Trumpian affection for deportation of “illegals” is a new thing ought to take a look at immigration and deportation statistics in Adam Goodman’s The Deportation Machine: America’s Long History of Deporting Immigrants (Princeton University Press, 2020). Between 1920 and 2018, the United States deported 56.3 million people, compared with 51.7 million who were granted legal immigration status during the same dates. Nearly nine of ten deportees were Mexican (Nolan, 2020, 83). This kind of nationalism, has become an assassin of democracy as well as an impediment to solving global problems. Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times (2019:A-25): that “In their 2018 book, How Democracies Die, the political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt documented how this process has played out in many countries, from Vladimir Putin’s Russia, to Recep Erdogan’s Turkey, to Viktor Orban’s Hungary. Add to these India’s Narendra Modi, China’s Xi Jinping, and the United States’ Donald Trump, among others. Bit by bit, the guardrails of democracy have been torn down, as institutions meant to serve the public became tools of ruling parties and self-serving ideologies, weaponized to punish and intimidate opposition parties’ opponents. On paper, these countries are still democracies; in practice, they have become one-party regimes….And it’s happening here [the United States] as we speak. If you are not worried about the future of American democracy, you aren’t paying attention” (Krugmam, 2019, A-25). We are reminded continuously that the late Carl Sagan, one of our most insightful scientific public intellectuals, had an interesting theory about highly developed civilizations. Given the number of stars and planets that must exist in the vast reaches of the universe, he said, there must be other highly developed and organized forms of life. Distance may keep us from making physical contact, but Sagan said that another reason we may never be on speaking terms with another intelligent race is (judging from our own example) could be their penchant for destroying themselves in relatively short order after reaching technological complexity. This book’s chapters, introduction, and conclusion examine the worldwide rise of partisan nationalism and the damage it has wrought on the worldwide pursuit of solutions for issues requiring worldwide scope, such scientific co-operation public health and others, mixing analysis of both. We use both historical description and analysis. This analysis concludes with a description of why we must avoid the isolating nature of nationalism that isolates people and encourages separation if we are to deal with issues of world-wide concern, and to maintain a sustainable, survivable Earth, placing the dominant political movement of our time against the Earth’s existential crises. Our contributors, all experts in their fields, each have assumed responsibility for a country, or two if they are related. This work entwines themes of worldwide concern with the political growth of nationalism because leaders with such a worldview are disinclined to co-operate internationally at a time when nations must find ways to solve common problems, such as the climate crisis. Inability to cooperate at this stage may doom everyone, eventually, to an overheated, stormy future plagued by droughts and deluges portending shortages of food and other essential commodities, meanwhile destroying large coastal urban areas because of rising sea levels. Future historians may look back at our time and wonder why as well as how our world succumbed to isolating nationalism at a time when time was so short for cooperative intervention which is crucial for survival of a sustainable earth. Pride in language and culture is salubrious to individuals’ sense of history and identity. Excess nationalism that prevents international co-operation on harmful worldwide maladies is quite another. As Pope Francis has pointed out: For all of our connectivity due to expansion of social media, ability to communicate can breed contempt as well as mutual trust. “For all our hyper-connectivity,” said Francis, “We witnessed a fragmentation that made it more difficult to resolve problems that affect us all” (Horowitz, 2020, A-12). The pope’s encyclical, titled “Brothers All,” also said: “The forces of myopic, extremist, resentful, and aggressive nationalism are on the rise.” The pope’s document also advocates support for migrants, as well as resistance to nationalist and tribal populism. Francis broadened his critique to the role of market capitalism, as well as nationalism has failed the peoples of the world when they need co-operation and solidarity in the face of the world-wide corona virus pandemic. Humankind needs to unite into “a new sense of the human family [Fratelli Tutti, “Brothers All”], that rejects war at all costs” (Pope, 2020, 6-A). Our journey takes us first to Russia, with the able eye and honed expertise of Richard D. Anderson, Jr. who teaches as UCLA and publishes on the subject of his chapter: “Putin, Russian identity, and Russia’s conduct at home and abroad.” Readers should find Dr. Anderson’s analysis fascinating because Vladimir Putin, the singular leader of Russian foreign and domestic policy these days (and perhaps for the rest of his life, given how malleable Russia’s Constitution has become) may be a short man physically, but has high ambitions. One of these involves restoring the old Russian (and Soviet) empire, which would involve re-subjugating a number of nations that broke off as the old order dissolved about 30 years ago. President (shall we say czar?) Putin also has international ambitions, notably by destabilizing the United States, where election meddling has become a specialty. The sight of Putin and U.S. president Donald Trump, two very rich men (Putin $70-$200 billion; Trump $2.5 billion), nuzzling in friendship would probably set Thomas Jefferson and Vladimir Lenin spinning in their graves. The road of history can take some unanticipated twists and turns. Consider Poland, from which we have an expert native analysis in chapter 2, Bartosz Hlebowicz, who is a Polish anthropologist and journalist. His piece is titled “Lawless and Unjust: How to Quickly Make Your Own Country a Puppet State Run by a Group of Hoodlums – the Hopeless Case of Poland (2015–2020).” When I visited Poland to teach and lecture twice between 2006 and 2008, most people seemed to be walking on air induced by freedom to conduct their own affairs to an unusual degree for a state usually squeezed between nationalists in Germany and Russia. What did the Poles then do in a couple of decades? Read Hlebowicz’ chapter and decide. It certainly isn’t soft-bellied liberalism. In Chapter 3, with Bruce E. Johansen, we visit China’s western provinces, the lands of Tibet as well as the Uighurs and other Muslims in the Xinjiang region, who would most assuredly resent being characterized as being possessed by the Chinese of the Han to the east. As a student of Native American history, I had never before thought of the Tibetans and Uighurs as Native peoples struggling against the Independence-minded peoples of a land that is called an adjunct of China on most of our maps. The random act of sitting next to a young woman on an Air India flight out of Hyderabad, bound for New Delhi taught me that the Tibetans had something to share with the Lakota, the Iroquois, and hundreds of other Native American states and nations in North America. Active resistance to Chinese rule lasted into the mid-nineteenth century, and continues today in a subversive manner, even in song, as I learned in 2018 when I acted as a foreign adjudicator on a Ph.D. dissertation by a Tibetan student at the University of Madras (in what is now in a city called Chennai), in southwestern India on resistance in song during Tibet’s recent history. Tibet is one of very few places on Earth where a young dissident can get shot to death for singing a song that troubles China’s Quest for Lebensraum. The situation in Xinjiang region, where close to a million Muslims have been interned in “reeducation” camps surrounded with brick walls and barbed wire. They sing, too. Come with us and hear the music. Back to Europe now, in Chapter 4, to Portugal and Spain, we find a break in the general pattern of nationalism. Portugal has been more progressive governmentally than most. Spain varies from a liberal majority to military coups, a pattern which has been exported to Latin America. A situation such as this can make use of the term “populism” problematic, because general usage in our time usually ties the word into a right-wing connotative straightjacket. “Populism” can be used to describe progressive (left-wing) insurgencies as well. José Pinto, who is native to Portugal and also researches and writes in Spanish as well as English, in “Populism in Portugal and Spain: a Real Neighbourhood?” provides insight into these historical paradoxes. Hungary shares some historical inclinations with Poland (above). Both emerged from Soviet dominance in an air of developing freedom and multicultural diversity after the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union collapsed. Then, gradually at first, right wing-forces began to tighten up, stripping structures supporting popular freedom, from the courts, mass media, and other institutions. In Chapter 5, Bernard Tamas, in “From Youth Movement to Right-Liberal Wing Authoritarianism: The Rise of Fidesz and the Decline of Hungarian Democracy” puts the renewed growth of political and social repression into a context of worldwide nationalism. Tamas, an associate professor of political science at Valdosta State University, has been a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and a Fulbright scholar at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. His books include From Dissident to Party Politics: The Struggle for Democracy in Post-Communist Hungary (2007). Bear in mind that not everyone shares Orbán’s vision of what will make this nation great, again. On graffiti-covered walls in Budapest, Runes (traditional Hungarian script) has been found that read “Orbán is a motherfucker” (Mikanowski, 2019, 58). Also in Europe, in Chapter 6, Professor Ronan Le Coadic, of the University of Rennes, Rennes, France, in “Is There a Revival of French Nationalism?” Stating this title in the form of a question is quite appropriate because France’s nationalistic shift has built and ebbed several times during the last few decades. For a time after 2000, it came close to assuming the role of a substantial minority, only to ebb after that. In 2017, the candidate of the National Front reached the second round of the French presidential election. This was the second time this nationalist party reached the second round of the presidential election in the history of the Fifth Republic. In 2002, however, Jean-Marie Le Pen had only obtained 17.79% of the votes, while fifteen years later his daughter, Marine Le Pen, almost doubled her father's record, reaching 33.90% of the votes cast. Moreover, in the 2019 European elections, re-named Rassemblement National obtained the largest number of votes of all French political formations and can therefore boast of being "the leading party in France.” The brutality of oppressive nationalism may be expressed in personal relationships, such as child abuse. While Indonesia and Aotearoa [the Maoris’ name for New Zealand] hold very different ranks in the United Nations Human Development Programme assessments, where Indonesia is classified as a medium development country and Aotearoa New Zealand as a very high development country. In Chapter 7, “Domestic Violence Against Women in Indonesia and Aotearoa New Zealand: Making Sense of Differences and Similarities” co-authors, in Chapter 8, Mandy Morgan and Dr. Elli N. Hayati, from New Zealand and Indonesia respectively, found that despite their socio-economic differences, one in three women in each country experience physical or sexual intimate partner violence over their lifetime. In this chapter ther authors aim to deepen understandings of domestic violence through discussion of the socio-economic and demographic characteristics of theit countries to address domestic violence alongside studies of women’s attitudes to gender norms and experiences of intimate partner violence. One of the most surprising and upsetting scholarly journeys that a North American student may take involves Adolf Hitler’s comments on oppression of American Indians and Blacks as he imagined the construction of the Nazi state, a genesis of nationalism that is all but unknown in the United States of America, traced in this volume (Chapter 8) by co-editor Johansen. Beginning in Mein Kampf, during the 1920s, Hitler explicitly used the westward expansion of the United States across North America as a model and justification for Nazi conquest and anticipated colonization by Germans of what the Nazis called the “wild East” – the Slavic nations of Poland, the Baltic states, Ukraine, and Russia, most of which were under control of the Soviet Union. The Volga River (in Russia) was styled by Hitler as the Germans’ Mississippi, and covered wagons were readied for the German “manifest destiny” of imprisoning, eradicating, and replacing peoples the Nazis deemed inferior, all with direct references to events in North America during the previous century. At the same time, with no sense of contradiction, the Nazis partook of a long-standing German romanticism of Native Americans. One of Goebbels’ less propitious schemes was to confer honorary Aryan status on Native American tribes, in the hope that they would rise up against their oppressors. U.S. racial attitudes were “evidence [to the Nazis] that America was evolving in the right direction, despite its specious rhetoric about equality.” Ming Xie, originally from Beijing, in the People’s Republic of China, in Chapter 9, “News Coverage and Public Perceptions of the Social Credit System in China,” writes that The State Council of China in 2014 announced “that a nationwide social credit system would be established” in China. “Under this system, individuals, private companies, social organizations, and governmental agencies are assigned a score which will be calculated based on their trustworthiness and daily actions such as transaction history, professional conduct, obedience to law, corruption, tax evasion, and academic plagiarism.” The “nationalism” in this case is that of the state over the individual. China has 1.4 billion people; this system takes their measure for the purpose of state control. Once fully operational, control will be more subtle. People who are subject to it, through modern technology (most often smart phones) will prompt many people to self-censor. Orwell, modernized, might write: “Your smart phone is watching you.” Ming Xie holds two Ph.Ds, one in Public Administration from University of Nebraska at Omaha and another in Cultural Anthropology from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, where she also worked for more than 10 years at a national think tank in the same institution. While there she summarized news from non-Chinese sources for senior members of the Chinese Communist Party. Ming is presently an assistant professor at the Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice, West Texas A&M University. In Chapter 10, analyzing native peoples and nationhood, Barbara Alice Mann, Professor of Honours at the University of Toledo, in “Divide, et Impera: The Self-Genocide Game” details ways in which European-American invaders deprive the conquered of their sense of nationhood as part of a subjugation system that amounts to genocide, rubbing out their languages and cultures -- and ultimately forcing the native peoples to assimilate on their own, for survival in a culture that is foreign to them. Mann is one of Native American Studies’ most acute critics of conquests’ contradictions, and an author who retrieves Native history with a powerful sense of voice and purpose, having authored roughly a dozen books and numerous book chapters, among many other works, who has traveled around the world lecturing and publishing on many subjects. Nalanda Roy and S. Mae Pedron in Chapter 11, “Understanding the Face of Humanity: The Rohingya Genocide.” describe one of the largest forced migrations in the history of the human race, the removal of 700,000 to 800,000 Muslims from Buddhist Myanmar to Bangladesh, which itself is already one of the most crowded and impoverished nations on Earth. With about 150 million people packed into an area the size of Nebraska and Iowa (population less than a tenth that of Bangladesh, a country that is losing land steadily to rising sea levels and erosion of the Ganges river delta. The Rohingyas’ refugee camp has been squeezed onto a gigantic, eroding, muddy slope that contains nearly no vegetation. However, Bangladesh is majority Muslim, so while the Rohingya may starve, they won’t be shot to death by marauding armies. Both authors of this exquisite (and excruciating) account teach at Georgia Southern University in Savannah, Georgia, Roy as an associate professor of International Studies and Asian politics, and Pedron as a graduate student; Roy originally hails from very eastern India, close to both Myanmar and Bangladesh, so he has special insight into the context of one of the most brutal genocides of our time, or any other. This is our case describing the problems that nationalism has and will pose for the sustainability of the Earth as our little blue-and-green orb becomes more crowded over time. The old ways, in which national arguments often end in devastating wars, are obsolete, given that the Earth and all the people, plants, and other animals that it sustains are faced with the existential threat of a climate crisis that within two centuries, more or less, will flood large parts of coastal cities, and endanger many species of plants and animals. To survive, we must listen to the Earth, and observe her travails, because they are increasingly our own.