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This book presents collective works published in the recent Special Issue (SI) entitled "Recent Developments on Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks and Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks”. These works expose the readership to the latest solutions and techniques for MANETs and VANETs. They cover interesting topics such as power-aware optimization solutions for MANETs, data dissemination in VANETs, adaptive multi-hop broadcast schemes for VANETs, multi-metric routing protocols for VANETs, and incentive mechanisms to encourage the distribution of information in VANETs. The book demonstrates pioneering work in these fields, investigates novel solutions and methods, and discusses future trends in these fields

Film, TV & radio --- routing protocols --- intelligent transportation systems --- VANETs --- vehicle routing --- vehicular networks --- data dissemination --- epidemic algorithms --- MANET --- energy-efficient routing --- transmission power control --- power-aware routing metrics --- power-aware optimization --- cross-layer optimization --- hybrid optimization --- fuzzy logic --- bloom filter --- nearest neighbor --- contention window size --- transmission range --- VANET broadcast --- vehicular ad-hoc networks --- loss aversion --- incentive mechanism --- message transmission --- n/a

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This book presents collective works published in the recent Special Issue (SI) entitled "Recent Developments on Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks and Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks”. These works expose the readership to the latest solutions and techniques for MANETs and VANETs. They cover interesting topics such as power-aware optimization solutions for MANETs, data dissemination in VANETs, adaptive multi-hop broadcast schemes for VANETs, multi-metric routing protocols for VANETs, and incentive mechanisms to encourage the distribution of information in VANETs. The book demonstrates pioneering work in these fields, investigates novel solutions and methods, and discusses future trends in these fields

routing protocols --- intelligent transportation systems --- VANETs --- vehicle routing --- vehicular networks --- data dissemination --- epidemic algorithms --- MANET --- energy-efficient routing --- transmission power control --- power-aware routing metrics --- power-aware optimization --- cross-layer optimization --- hybrid optimization --- fuzzy logic --- bloom filter --- nearest neighbor --- contention window size --- transmission range --- VANET broadcast --- vehicular ad-hoc networks --- loss aversion --- incentive mechanism --- message transmission --- n/a

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Information and communication technology (ICT) is reponsible for up to 10% of world power consumption. In particular, communications and computing systems are indispensable elements in ICT; thus, determining how to improve the energy efficiency in communications and computing systems has become one of the most important issues for realizing green ICT. Even though a number of studies have been conducted, most of them focused on one aspect—either communications or computing systems. However, salient features in communications and computing systems should be jointly considered, and novel holistic approaches across communications and computing systems are strongly required to implement energy-efficient systems. In addition, emerging systems, such as energy-harvesting IoT devices, cyber-physical systems (CPSs), autonomous vehicles (AVs), and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), require new approaches to satisfy their strict energy consumption requirements in mission-critical situations. The goal of this Special Issue is to disseminate the recent advances in energy-efficient communications and computing systems. Review and survey papers on these topics are welcome. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following: • energy-efficient communications: from physical layer to application layer; • energy-efficient computing systems; • energy-efficient network architecture: through SDN/NFV/network slicing; • energy-efficient system design; • energy-efficient Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT (IIoT); • energy-efficient edge/fog/cloud computing; • new approaches for energy-efficient computing and communications (e.g., AI/ML and data-driven approaches); • new performance metrics on energy efficiency in emerging systems; • energy harvesting and simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT); • smart grid and vehicle-to-grid (V2G); and • standardization and open source activities for energy efficient systems.

UAV --- relay --- cooperative communications --- buffer --- power control --- energy efficiency --- energy-neutral operation --- wireless powered sensor network --- simultaneous wireless information and power transfer --- energy harvesting --- clustering --- offloading --- Internet of Things (IoT) --- energy --- constraint Markov decision process (CMDP) --- optimization --- computation offloading --- mobile edge computing --- lyapunov optimization --- 1-bit unit cell --- coding metasurface --- adaptive beam focusing --- wireless power transfer --- UAV network --- topology control --- space division

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In an age when the nature of reality is complicated daily by advances in bioengineering, cloning, and artificial intelligence, it is easy to forget that the ever-evolving boundary between nature and technology has long been a source of ethical and scientific concern: modern anxieties about the possibility of artificial life and the dangers of tinkering with nature more generally were shared by opponents of alchemy long before genetic science delivered us a cloned sheep named Dolly. In Promethean Ambitions, William R. Newman ambitiously uses alchemy to investigate the thinning boundary between the natural and the artificial. Focusing primarily on the period between 1200 and 1700, Newman examines the labors of pioneering alchemists and the impassioned-and often negative-responses to their efforts. By the thirteenth century, Newman argues, alchemy had become a benchmark for determining the abilities of both men and demons, representing the epitome of creative power in the natural world. Newman frames the art-nature debate by contrasting the supposed transmutational power of alchemy with the merely representational abilities of the pictorial and plastic arts-a dispute which found artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Bernard Palissy attacking alchemy as an irreligious fraud. The later assertion by the Paracelsian school that one could make an artificial human being-the homunculus-led to further disparagement of alchemy, but as Newman shows, the immense power over nature promised by the field contributed directly to the technological apologetics of Francis Bacon and his followers. By the mid-seventeenth century, the famous "father of modern chemistry," Robert Boyle, was employing the arguments of medieval alchemists to support the identity of naturally occurring substances with those manufactured by "chymical" means. In using history to highlight the art-nature debate, Newman here shows that alchemy was not an unformed and capricious precursor to chemistry; it was an art founded on coherent philosophical and empirical principles, with vocal supporters and even louder critics, that attracted individuals of first-rate intellect. The historical relationship that Newman charts between human creation and nature has innumerable implications today, and he ably links contemporary issues to alchemical debates on the natural versus the artificial.

Science, Renaissance. --- Alchemy --- Arts, Renaissance. --- History. --- alchemy, perfection, science, bioengineering, ethics, cloning, nature, technology, genetics, artificial life, cyborg, robot, ai, dolly, natural, transformation, transmutation, genetic engineering, creation, power, control, bernard palissy, leonardo da vinci, homunculus, francis bacon, chemistry, chymical, medieval, nonfiction, renaissance, art, synthetic, experiment, visual arts.

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American school teaching is one of few occupations to have undergone a thorough gender shift yet previous explanations have neglected a key feature of the transition: its regional character. By the early 1800's, far higher proportions of women were teaching in the Northeast than in the South, and this regional difference was reproduced as settlers moved West before the Civil War. What explains the creation of these divergent regional arrangements in the East, their recreation in the West, and their eventual disappearance by the next century? In Women's Work the authors blend newly available quantitative evidence with historical narrative to show that distinctive regional school structures and related cultural patterns account for the initial regional difference, while a growing recognition that women could handle the work after they temporarily replaced men during the Civil War helps explain this widespread shift to female teachers later in the century. Yet despite this shift, a significant gender gap in pay and positions remained. This book offers an original and thought-provoking account of a remarkable historical transition.

Women teachers --- Elementary school teachers --- Teachers --- Women as teachers --- Women educators --- History. --- Social conditions. --- Geschiedenis van opvoeding en onderwijs --- handboeken en inleidingen. --- gender, labor, women, teaching, civil war, regionalism, northeast, south, west, frontier, settlers, schoolteachers, female teachers, elementary school, history, new england, migration, feminization, urban, race, nonfiction, politics, mobility, power, control, ethnicity, city, rural, economics, work, masculinity, education, social change. --- History --- Social conditions --- Handboeken en inleidingen.