As a former senior air safety investigator and current assistant professor, I have dedicated my career to understanding and improving air safety. In this book, "Air Safety Investigation: The Journey", I draw on my years of experience investigating airplane accidents and incidents in order to provide a comprehensive guide to the principles and practices of air safety investigation.
Democracy and Empire theorizes the material bases of popular sovereignty via the Black radical tradition. Popular sovereignty contains an affective attachment to wealth, secured through collective agreements to dominate others, that is, self-and-other-determination. Inés Valdez expands on racial capitalism by theorizing its Anglo-European-based popular politics, which authorize capital a…
The Twin Transition concept is born of the belief that we need to bring digitization and sustainability agendas together, unlocking the potential of IT and data products to achieve our sustainability goals (Greening by IT) and for sustainable thinking to green our technology and data assets and infrastructures (Greening of IT)
Recent public debate on common ownership by institutional investors has brought awareness to one of the many intersections between the corporate and antitrust worlds. But the interplay between these two fields dates back to the dawn of US antitrust. This volume shines a light on the often underplayed and misunderstood connections between antitrust and corporate law and finance. It offers a mu…
Very few airport CEOs would dispute the need to incorporate more digitization into the businesses they lead. As highlighted by ACI World’s recent traffic forecasts, many regions are now exceeding their pre-pandemic passenger traffic levels, with forecast numbers continuing to grow significantly over the next 20 years. Global passenger traffic is expected to reach nearly 20 bill…
One-Stop security is the concept where transfer passengers and/or hold baggage are not re-screened at transfer airports if they were adequately screened at the airport of origin.
Challenging many established narratives of literary history, this book investigates how the earliest known Greek poets (seventh to fifth centuries bce) signposted their debts to their predecessors and prior traditions – placing markers in their works for audiences to recognise (much like the ‘Easter eggs’ of modern cinema). Within antiquity, such …
Artiï¬Âcial Intelligence is now everywhere and fuels both industry and daily life all over the world. We are in the era of “big data,†and huge sums of information can be obtained which are too cumbersome for people to process themselves. These big data are even with much complex correlations behind them in various areas, such as computer vision and social …
The Digital Earth project has been an exciting and very valuable journey, to create a step-change in connecting data science and Earth system sciences. We had unique and intense collaboration between eight centers of the Helmholtz Association in the ï¬Âeld of Earth and Environment. Our success would not have been possible without the support and dedication of several individuals.
The “Rhodesian crisis†of the 1960s and 1970s, and the early 1980s crisis of independent Zimbabwe, can be understood against the background of Cold War historical transformations brought on by, among other things, African decolonization in the 1960s; the failure of American power in Vietnam and the rise of Third World political power at the UN and elsewhere. In this…