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Today the world's largest economies and corporations trade in data
and its products to generate value in new disruptive markets.
Within these markets vast streams of data are often inaccessible or
untapped and controlled by powerful monopolies. Counter to this
exclusive use of data is a promising world-wide "open-data"
movement, promoting freely accessible information to share, reuse
and redistribute. The provision and application of open data has
enormous potential to transform exclusive, technocratic "smart
cities" into inclusive and responsive "open-cities". This book
argues that those who contribute urban data should benefit from its
production. Like the city itself, the information landscape is a
public asset produced through collective effort, attention, and
resources. People produce data through their engagement with the
city, creating digital footprints through social medial, mobility
applications, and city sensors. By opening up data there is
potential to generate greater value by supporting unforeseen
collaborations, spontaneous urban innovations and solutions, and
improved decision-making insights. Yet achieving more open cities
is made challenging by conflicting desires for urban anonymity,
sociability, privacy and transparency. This book engages with these
issues through a variety of critical perspectives, and presents
strategies, tools and case studies that enable this transformation.
This book provides a comprehensive view of the quality of life of
older people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD)
backgrounds living in Australia. The book is unique and significant
because the descriptions and arguments presented are based on the
lived experience and hence provide deep insights into the
complexity and dynamics of CALD older migrants. Key areas of
exploration include social connectedness and inclusion,
post-retirement economic activities, living arrangement and housing
choice, practice of care, intergenerational exchange, and life
satisfaction. A focus is placed on the diversity of ageing
experience. Pathways of ageing are one of the key factors in
investigating inter and intra-ethnic commonalities and disparities.
The policy and research implications presented will appeal to
policy makers, practitioners and researchers.
This book summarizes some of the most exciting theoretical
developments in the topological phenomena of skyrmions in
noncentrosymmetric magnetic systems over recent decades. After
presenting pedagogical backgrounds to the Berry phase and homotopy
theory, the author systematically discusses skyrmions in the order
of their development, from the Ginzburg-Landau theory, CP1 theory,
Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert theory, and Monte Carlo numerical
approaches. Modern topics, such as the skyrmion-electron
interaction, skyrmion-magnon interaction, and various generation
mechanisms of the skyrmion are examined with a focus on their
general theoretical aspects. The book concludes with a chapter on
the skyrmion phenomena in the cold atom context. The topics are
presented at a level accessible to beginning graduate students
without a substantial background in field theory. The book can also
be used as a text for those who wish to engage in the physics of
skyrmions in magnetic systems, or as an introduction to the various
theoretical methods used in studying current condensed-matter
systems.
Today the world's largest economies and corporations trade in data
and its products to generate value in new disruptive markets.
Within these markets vast streams of data are often inaccessible or
untapped and controlled by powerful monopolies. Counter to this
exclusive use of data is a promising world-wide "open-data"
movement, promoting freely accessible information to share, reuse
and redistribute. The provision and application of open data has
enormous potential to transform exclusive, technocratic "smart
cities" into inclusive and responsive "open-cities". This book
argues that those who contribute urban data should benefit from its
production. Like the city itself, the information landscape is a
public asset produced through collective effort, attention, and
resources. People produce data through their engagement with the
city, creating digital footprints through social medial, mobility
applications, and city sensors. By opening up data there is
potential to generate greater value by supporting unforeseen
collaborations, spontaneous urban innovations and solutions, and
improved decision-making insights. Yet achieving more open cities
is made challenging by conflicting desires for urban anonymity,
sociability, privacy and transparency. This book engages with these
issues through a variety of critical perspectives, and presents
strategies, tools and case studies that enable this transformation.
This book summarizes some of the most exciting theoretical
developments in the topological phenomena of skyrmions in
noncentrosymmetric magnetic systems over recent decades. After
presenting pedagogical backgrounds to the Berry phase and homotopy
theory, the author systematically discusses skyrmions in the order
of their development, from the Ginzburg-Landau theory, CP1 theory,
Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert theory, and Monte Carlo numerical
approaches. Modern topics, such as the skyrmion-electron
interaction, skyrmion-magnon interaction, and various generation
mechanisms of the skyrmion are examined with a focus on their
general theoretical aspects. The book concludes with a chapter on
the skyrmion phenomena in the cold atom context. The topics are
presented at a level accessible to beginning graduate students
without a substantial background in field theory. The book can also
be used as a text for those who wish to engage in the physics of
skyrmions in magnetic systems, or as an introduction to the various
theoretical methods used in studying current condensed-matter
systems.
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