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The emphasis in this paper will be on the illustration and explanation of the concepts and terminology defining the research framework within which the research programme was developed. Having crossed a somehow wide field, which ranges from two extremes which could be identified as "experience" and "experiment", has prompted us to a reflection on the similarities and distinctions between these two terms and also on the dimensions among which this diversity is expressed. Research trajectory that started with the construction of a Role-Playing Game (RPG) to support local participatory decision-making about water management, continued with the development of an experimental protocol to test economic hypotheses exhibited by the RPG and developed into the analysis of the influence of context on players' behaviour. RPG decomposition started from the definition of the concept of "context" that groups several informational dimensions: the game instructions; communication among players; and their involvement. In this presentation, only the two first dimensions are treated. They open perspectives to study the third one and the relations between these three attributes of the game context.

This article describes the use of "Voyant Tools", an open access text analysis application, to examine a corpus of articles from open access journals, dealing with the topic of digital humanities. The corpus consisted of 404 articles recorded in the "Clarivate Analytics Web of Science" and "Scopus ScienceDirect" databases. The authors discuss how "Voyant Tools" aids to identify the dominant fields of research through quantitative methods and to reveal the main discourse themes using distant reading and interactive reading capabilities. They also identify some problems encountered during the analyses, and also discuss the usefulness of data visualization for research and interpretation. Computer tools can be useful for experienced researchers who are interested in quantitative text analysis, as well as for beginners, as it provides an opportunity to acquire basic knowledge that will lead to a deeper interest in textual analysis methods.

The Component Sizing Tool is an online tool, which can be used for the sizing of system compo-nents used within Alternating Current (AC), Direct Current (DC) and hybrid Alternating Current and Direct Current (ACDC) networks. The Deliverable of the Component sizing Tool is an online Component Sizing Tool, with an additional report explaining the calculations and simulations in the background. The simulation model and the online tool, however, remain the intellectual property of Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT), the code itself will not be made public. The component sizing tool for technical and economic optimization within the HYPERRIDE project is lead by AIT who is responsible for the tool development and implementation, in collaboration with additional partners EMOTION and ASM, whos role are to provide the neccessary profile data for the simulations. The component sizing tool for economic optimisation will provide a technical and economic base for finding the optimal component size solution for three different use cases within the HYPERRIDE project. The first use case is as an addition to the Grid Planning Tool for the development of Hybrid ACDC microgrids, for the simplified simulation of battery storages within Hybrid ACDC micro grids. Secondly, the tool will be used for simulations in the Italian pilot as EMOTION and ASM are the main contributors. Therefore, input data from the partners will be pre-implemented into the online tool to simplify the tool usage. As a third use case, the tool will be used to generate input parameters for creating business models, regulatory assessment and identify consumers. The online Component Sizing Tool is currently available under http://sizing-tool.hyperride.eu (Username: HYPERRIDE, password: Component-sizing-Tool).

Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- References -- Chapter 2: Geoparticipation and Democratic Theory -- 2.1 The Big Question: How Much Participation? -- 2.1.1 A Fragile Democracy? -- 2.1.2 A Strong Democracy? -- 2.2 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Geospatial Technologies for Geoparticipation -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Traditional Approaches to Urban Planning -- 3.3 Modern Approaches to Urban Planning -- 3.3.1 Participation of Residents -- 3.3.2 Smart City -- 3.3.3 Geodesign -- 3.3.4 Analysis, Modelling and Simulation -- 3.4 Selected Models, Applications and Tools -- 3.4.1 Data Collection Tools -- 3.4.1.1 ArcGIS Survey123 -- 3.4.1.2 Pocitovemapy.cz // EmotionalMaps.eu -- 3.4.1.3 Ushahidi -- 3.4.1.4 KoBoToolbox (https://www.kobotoolbox.org/) -- 3.4.1.5 ZmapujTo (zmapujto.cz) -- 3.4.1.6 ArcGIS Collector and ArcGIS Field Maps -- 3.4.2 Tools for Geodesign -- 3.4.2.1 Phoenix+ ("Phoenix - Geodan" 2017) -- 3.4.2.2 CommunityViz (Lieske and Hamerlinck 2015 -- Pelzer et al. 2015) -- 3.4.2.3 UPlan (Walker et al. 2007) -- 3.4.2.4 GeoPlanner ("GeoPlannerfor ArcGIS" 2017) -- 3.4.2.5 Priority Places (McElvaney 2012) -- 3.4.3 Tools for Analytical Processing and Modelling -- 3.4.3.1 CityScope (Baeza et al. 2021 -- MIT CityScope 2021) -- 3.4.3.2 Mestometer (Velebný 2021) -- 3.4.3.3 iCity - Irregular City (Stevens et al. 2007) -- 3.4.3.4 UrbanSIM (e.g. Waddell 2002 -- Waddell et al. 2008) -- 3.4.3.5 Index Online and SPARC ("SPARC" 2017) -- 3.4.3.6 Envision Tomorrow (Geertman et al. 2015 -- "Envision Tomorrow" 2017) -- 3.4.3.7 UrbanAPI - Urban Agile Policy Implementation (Gebetsroither-Geringer 2014 -- Khan et al. 2014 -- "urbanAPI" 2017) -- References -- Chapter 4: Open Data and Its Role in Geoparticipation -- 4.1 Open Data and the Publishing Process -- 4.1.1 Introduction -- 4.1.2 Open Data -- 4.1.2.1 Definition.

The book explores the key factors affecting the successful implementation of public participation spatial systems in participatory planning as part of the urban governance system. It brings insight from nation-wide research in the Czech Republic and the implications to other countries in the region and beyond. The main aim of the proposed book is to analyse the state-of-the-art of using geoparticipatory tools for citizens participation in community decision-making process and to suggest the effective implementation of the geoparticipatory tools available in urban governance. This book explores the situation in the Czech Republic as a representative of for Eastern Bloc country, three decades after the political transition, on its way to public participation in local and urban governance. The active involvement of the citizens into the local and urban decision making process via geoparticipatory spatial tools is becoming a popular research field among human geographers, behavioural geographers, GIS scientists, environmental psychologists, policy scientists and many others scientific areas.

'Der Beitrag skizziert die Theorie der Positionierung als eine - vor allem auf Konflikte fokussierende - Diskursanalyse von Interaktionen. Darüber hinaus wird dieser Ansatz für die Erforschung virtueller Umgebungen als einem neuen Anwendungsbereich bzw. Forschungsfeld für die Sozialwissenschaften fruchtbar gemacht. Der Beitrag geht dabei in folgenden Schritten vor: Zuerst werden aus sozialpsychologischer Sicht die wichtigen Aspekte von Konflikten thematisiert. Daraufhin folgt eine Darstellung virtueller Umgebungen als sozialwissenschaftliche Analysefelder. Als Drittes wird die Verbindung der Theorie der Positionierung und ihrer Foucaultschen Fundamente und Bezüge entfaltet, um deren Angemessenheit und Verwendbarkeit für die Analyse konflikthafter Interaktionssituationen zu beurteilen. Als empirisches Anwendungsbeispiel hierfür dient die Analyse von Interaktionssequenzen in einer spezifischen virtuellen Umgebung, dem Studierendenforum Humanitats i Filologia Catalana an der Universität Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). Mithilfe der Theorie der Positionierung können die Effekte, die konflikthafte Interaktionssequenzen auf die Konstitution der Gemeinschaft haben, in der sie auftreten, verstanden und erklärt werden.' (Autorenreferat)

Risk-sensitive capital requirements, such as those established in Basel 2/3, and loan loss provisions based on incurred losses or on short-horizon expected losses, increase procyclicality in the banking system. They could, therefore, contribute to fuelling credit bubbles in good times, as rising risks are not properly covered either with capital or provisions, and credit crunches in bad times, as requirements are sharply increased to compensate for the former undercapitalisation and under-provisioning, and banks respond by cutting credit to households and firms. This paper shows that the procyclicality of current and envisaged capital requirements and loan loss provisions is a serious concern. But, at the same time, it can be dealt with using countercyclical macroprudential tools, first, by smoothing minimum capital requirements using a very simple and intuitive formula based on GDP growth and, secondly, by using forward-looking provisions such as the Spanish dynamic provisions, a working macroprudential mechanism for more than a decade and a full lending cycle.

Not Available ; Agricultural partnership between US and India, to achieve global food security was announced during November, 2010 during the state visit of US President Mr. Barak Obama to India in November 2010. Thereof a MoU signed on India-US trilateral cooperation with Africa to address the food security challenge by adapting technological advances and innovative solutions. Initially as a pilot scheme, National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE), Hyderabad and National Institute of Agricultural Marketing (NIAM), Jaipur conducted 7 program in training of 219 executives from Kenya, Liberia and Malawi. Based on the impact assessment suggesting extremely successful and overwhelming response, it was considered to further extend the program to African and Asian countries. Accordingly, USAID and Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), India identified additional countries among those involved in GOI-supported development programs and redefined the program as Feed the Future-India Triangular Training Program (FTF-ITT) and was launched on 25th July, 2016. Subsequently, 17 such countries partner from Africa and Asia were considered. Those include Afghanistan, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Mongolia, Vietnam, Botswana (Asian countries) and Kenya, Malawi, Liberia, Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Tanzania & Sudan (African countries), It was envisaged that during the program period till 2020, approximately 1400 agricultural professionals from these countries will be trained with skill enhancement. The modus operandi of this program include conducting of 32 such training program on various aspect of agricultural development and livelihood security at selected Indian Institutions and each training program shall include 25 participants. The course module mostly focused on the themes for which Indian institutions of repute has demonstrated the comparative expertise that could effectively contribute in enhancement of human capital on agricultural development and livelihood security to the target countries' existing human resource capacity. The MANAGE, Hyderabad is implementing this program in collaboration with various Subject Matter Institutions. Accordingly, the MANAGE, identified Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (ICAR-CRIDA) as a potential institute to impart training on one of the 5 important theme of "Strategies for Enhancement of Farmers Income in Dryland Agriculture". Thus MANAGE requested ICAR-CRIDA to organize one 15-days international training program for 22 international executives representing partner countries from Africa and Asia. In view of above, the present international training had been conducted in accordance with standard operating procedure for implementation of FTF-ITT as devised by MANAGE, Hyderabad ; Not Available