Although the field of mixed reality has grown significantly over the last decade, there have been few published books about augmented reality, particularly the interface design aspects. ""Emerging Technologies of Augmented Reality: Interfaces and Design"" provides a foundation of the main concepts of augmented reality (AR), with a particular emphasis on user interfaces, design, and practical AR techniques, from tracking algorithms to design principles for AR interfaces. ""Emerging Technologies of Augmented Reality: Interfaces and Design"" contains comprehensive information focusing on the following topics: technologies that support AR, development environments, interface design and evaluation of applications, and case studies of AR applications.

This issue of Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinics of North America provides the endocrinologist with essential updates on treatment of type 1 diabetes, with an eye toward future trends and developments.? The Guest Editors brought together a remarkable group of notable authors, such as Paul Robertson, President of the National Diabetes Association.? Topics covered include epidemiology; economics; contemporary management; inpatient management; update on insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitoring systems; update on studies aimed at interdicting and preventing type 1 diabetes; advances in the prediction, natural history, and mechanisms leading to type 1 diabetes; complications; hypoglycemia in type 1 diabetes; new lessons from animal models; the role of the gut in the genesis of type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune diseases; and an update on transplantation for reversing type 1 diabetes.

BrunoBuchberger This book is a synopsis of basic and applied research done at the various re search institutions of the Softwarepark Hagenberg in Austria. Starting with 15 coworkers in my Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC), I initiated the Softwarepark Hagenberg in 1987 on request of the Upper Aus trian Government with the objective of creating a scienti?c, technological, and economic impulse for the region and the international community. In the meantime, in a joint e?ort, the Softwarepark Hagenberg has grown to the current (2009) size of over 1000 R&D employees and 1300 students in six research institutions, 40 companies and 20 academic study programs on the bachelor, master's and PhD level. The goal of the Softwarepark Hagenberg is innovation of economy in one of the most important current technologies: software. It is the message of this book that this can only be achieved and guaranteed long term by "watering the root", namely emphasis on research, both basic and applied. In this book, we summarize what has been achieved in terms of research in the various research institutions in the Softwarepark Hagenberg and what research vision we have for the imminent future. When I founded the Softwarepark Hagenberg, in addition to the "watering the root" principle, I had the vision that such a technology park can only prosper if we realize the "magic triangle", i.e. the close interaction of research, academic education, and business applications at one site, see Figure 1.

BrunoBuchberger This book is a synopsis of basic and applied research done at the various re search institutions of the Softwarepark Hagenberg in Austria. Starting with 15 coworkers in my Research Institute for Symbolic Computation (RISC), I initiated the Softwarepark Hagenberg in 1987 on request of the Upper Aus trian Government with the objective of creating a scienti?c, technological, and economic impulse for the region and the international community. In the meantime, in a joint e?ort, the Softwarepark Hagenberg has grown to the current (2009) size of over 1000 R&D employees and 1300 students in six research institutions, 40 companies and 20 academic study programs on the bachelor, master's and PhD level. The goal of the Softwarepark Hagenberg is innovation of economy in one of the most important current technologies: software. It is the message of this book that this can only be achieved and guaranteed long term by "watering the root," namely emphasis on research, both basic and applied. In this book, we summarize what has been achieved in terms of research in the various research institutions in the Softwarepark Hagenberg and what research vision we have for the imminent future. When I founded the Softwarepark Hagenberg, in addition to the "watering the root" principle, I had the vision that such a technology park can only prosper if we realize the "magic triangle," i.e. the close interaction of research, academic education, and business applications at one site, see Figure 1.

Knapp 90% der Deutschen trinken gerne Kaffee, Sie auch? Dann tauchen Sie mit Barista und Kaffee-Sommelier Michael Haller in die Welt des Kaffees ein! Er erklärt Ihnen, was einen guten Kaffee ausmacht, was Sie über Herkunft, Verarbeitung und Röstung der Bohnen wissen sollten und welche Zubereitungsarten es gibt. Lernen Sie, wie Sie Ihren Gästen perfekten Espresso oder Cappuccino mit super-fluffigem Milchschaum servieren und was es darüber hinaus für besondere Kaffee-Spezialitäten gibt.

Die von Thilo Sarrazin heraufbeschworenen Untergangsszenarien sind uralt. Schon im vorletzten Jahrhundert waren es angeblich die Falschen," die am meisten Kinder bekamen: Ungebildete, Unterschichten und Volksfremde. Doch die befurchtete Degeneration blieb aus; die offene, moderne Gesellschaft erwies sich als leistungsfahiges Erfolgsmodell. Worin liegt die Popularitat der Sarrazin-Thesen begrundet? Der vorliegende Sammelband diskutiert aus Sicht verschiedener Wissenschaftsdisziplinen die Behauptung, in modernen Gesellschaften finde eine Gegenauslese zu Gunsten der Dummen" statt. Die Autoren weisen dieser inzwischen weit verbreiteten Argumentation zahlreiche Fehler und Missverstandnisse nach. Sie zeigen, dass die von Sarrazin angestossene Debatte um eugenische Ideen kreist und sich zu weiten Teilen auf dubiose Forschungsergebnisse eines internationalen Zitierkartells stutzt."

Auf der Basis einer internationalen Fachtagung zum Thema "Massenmedien - Geschaft ohne Moral?" verweist der Band auf die offentlichen Forderungen nach starkerer Beachtung ethischer Grundsatze in den Medien, beleuchtet den Stand der Diskussion in der Bundesrepublik sowie im deutschsprachigen Ausland (Osterreich, Schweiz). Wie sieht journalistisches Handeln in der Praxis aus? Funktioniert journalistische Selbstkontrolle? Die Autoren stellen die Ertrage der Kommunikations- und Medienforschung fur die Ethikdebatte vor, befassen sich mit der Bedeutung des Medienrechts. Der Wandel derMedienlandschaft wird auf seine Auswirkungen hinsichtlich ethischer Fragen untersucht: Bedingen neue Medien eine neue Moral?"(...) Besonders der Interdisziplinaritat wegen, aber auch aufgrund der Diskurse, die kein Allheilmittel, sondern einen Denkanstoss liefern, erweist sich das Buch als beachtenswerte Publikation zur Frage nach einer Medien-Ethik."Soziologische Revue, 10/93"