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Now that energy efficiency is becoming a global imperative, Europe is finding new export markets for its energy technologies, which are as advanced as they are diverse. It's a good example of public and private agendas in step – tough environmental controls by EU member states breeding a leaner, greener energy industry. The next challenge for the politicians is to integrate research and development with socio‐economic sustainability – a subject that is at the heart of a number of recent national foresight studies.

This paper examines future trends in the environment and clean technologies (ECT) sector. Seven national technology foresight studies have been reviewed with the purpose of (i) screening the main issues linked to environmental and clean technologies (ii) highlighting major developments that are likely to play a crucial role for future paths towards sustainability.

Blue force tracking represents an essential task in the field of military applications. A blue force tracking system provides the location information of their own forces on a map to commanders. For the command post, this results in more efficient operation control with increasing safety. In underground structures (e.g., tunnels or subways), the localisation is challenging due to the lack of GNSS signals. This paper presents a localisation system for military or emergency forces tailored to usage in complex underground structures. In a particle filter, position changes from a dual foot-mounted INS are fused with opportunistic UWB ranges and data from a 3D tunnel model to derive position information. A concept to deal with the absence of UWB infrastructure or 3D tunnel models is illustrated. Recurrent neural network methodologies are applied to cope with different motion types of the operators. The evaluation of the positioning algorithm took place in a street tunnel. If a fully installed infrastructure was available, positioning errors under one metre were reached. The results also showed that the INS can bridge UWB outages. A particle-filter-based approach to UWB anchor mapping is presented, and the first simulation results showed its viability.

Aus einer Kritik traditioneller Ansätze für Wahlstudien entwickeln die Autoren eine demokratieorientierte Programmatik der Wahlforschung. Sie untersuchen die Entwicklung der Wahlwerbung in Österreich seit 1945 und die gesellschaftliche Bedingungen, vor allem den Zerfall der Öffentlichkeit und der damit verbundenen Veränderung der Wahlkampfsfunktion, um die veränderten Wahlkonzeptionen zu erklären. Schwerpunkt der Untersuchung ist die Nationalratswahl von 1975 für die sowohl der rhetorische Aspekt der politischen Sprache anhand des Wahlwerbematerials von ÖVP und SPÖ, wie auch die SPÖ-Belangssendungen im Fernsehen untersucht werden. Aus der Analyse ergeben sich folgende Schlußfolgerungen: es findet eine zunehmende Verflechtung wirtschaftlicher und politischer Interessen statt, die Mehrheit der Wähler wird politisch endmündigt und die Wahlwerbung zielt auf eine Entpolitisierung der Bürger ab. Dieser Entwicklung wird die Forderung nach einer umfassenden Demokratisierung aller Gesellschaftsbereiche entgegengesetzt. (BG)

10 pags., 5 figs. ; We realize tunable coupling between two superconducting transmission line resonators. The coupling is mediated by a non-hysteretic rf SQUID acting as a flux-tunable mutual inductance between the resonators. We present a spectroscopic characterization of the device. In particular, we observe couplings g/2π ranging between –320 MHz and 37 MHz. In the case of g 0, the microwave power cross transmission between the two resonators is reduced by almost four orders of magnitude as compared to the case where the coupling is switched on. ; The authors acknowledge support from the German Research Foundation through SFB 631 and FE 1564/1-1; the EU projects CCQED, PROMISCE and SCALEQIT; the doctorate program ExQM of the Elite Network of Bavaria; the Spanish MINECO projects FIS2012-33022, FIS2012-36673-C03-02, and FIS2015-69983-P; the CAM Research Network QUITEMAD+; the Basque Government IT472-10 and UPV/EHU UFI 11/55.