ITAS Newsletter --- Nr. 100 - 18. Dezember 2023
Research
TATuP journal
Policy advice
Job offers
From ITAS
Events
ITAS in the media
Researchers in focus
Publications
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Research
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EU PROJECT ON ALTERNATIVE STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES
Global demand for lithium batteries is increasing – bottlenecks in the
supply of raw materials seem unavoidable. In the EU project MUSIC, ITAS
researchers analyze whether sodium-based supercapacitors could be a
sustainable alternative.
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ENERGY GRID OF THE FUTURE: ENSURE LAUNCHES THIRD PHASE
To achieve its climate targets, Germany wants to convert its electricity
supply to as much renewable energy as possible by 2045. Researchers are
developing practical recommendations for the necessary transformation of
the power grid.
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SECTOR COUPLING: GUIDANCE FOR MUNICIPALITIES
How can cities or rural districts effectively interconnect their
electricity, heat, and transport infrastructures and thus advance the
energy transition? This question was the focus of the ZuSkE project, the
results of which have now been presented.
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PROJECT ON DIGITALIZATION IN RURAL AREAS
How can agriculture and forestry benefit from digitalization? For four
years, the partners of the DESIRA project dealt with questions of
digital transformation in rural areas across Europe. Now they have
completed the project.
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TATuP - Journal for TA in Theory and Practice
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TATUP ON TECHNOLOGY HYPES
What causes hypes to emerge, be fueled further, end suddenly, or gain
momentum? The Special topic in the new TATuP issue aims to contribute to
a better understanding of the dynamics behind technology hypes.
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Policy advice
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THE DIGITAL FUTURE OF CRITICAL MUNICIPAL INFRASTRUCTURES
The TAB report sheds light on the use of digital solutions in water and
waste management. It identifies ways in which municipalities can exploit
the potential of digitalization while ensuring the security of supply
and disposal.
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EPTA CONFERENCE ON OPPORTUNITIES AND RISKS OF GENERATIVE AI
This year’s conference of parliamentary TA institutions took place in
Barcelona on 9 October 2023. Researchers and parliamentarians from all
over Europe discussed the challenges of generative AI for politics,
society, and regulators.
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E-VOTING – STATUS QUO AND PERSPECTIVES FOR GERMANY
The short study provides an overview of the advantages and disadvantages
of internet voting compared to ballot box and postal voting. The
analysis includes case studies on Estonia, Switzerland, and Norway,
where there is already experience with online voting.
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From ITAS
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CALL FOR PAPERS: INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL
This year’s edition of the Summer School in San Sebastián, jointly
organized by ITAS, RWTH Aachen, and the University of the Basque
Country, will focus on “The transformation challenge: Re-thinking
cultures of research.” Doctoral students can apply until 15 January
2024.
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LOOKING BACK: THEME WEEK “KARLSRUHE – ROBOT CAPITAL?”
How do we want to “live together” with robots? Can they help us with
care? And what kind of robots do we want? From 21 to 25 November 2023,
ITAS invited citizens to explore these questions during a theme week.
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VIDEO: URBAN FORESTRY IN KARLSRUHE
How can urban forests become more resilient and adaptable in the face of
climate change? In a new video, scientists from the ITAS research group
Sylvanus report on their work in the “GrüneLunge” project.
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CLIMATE PROTECTION THAT PAYS OFF! ITAS AT THE KIT SCIENCE WEEK 2023
What would happen if we were rewarded for every climate protection
measure in our everyday lives? What could appropriate rewards look like
and would they be desirable at all? These questions were the focus of
the citizens’ dialogue on 14 October 2023 at the KIT Science Week
2023.
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Visitors at the Science Week also had the opportunity to see the first
results of the Karlsruhe Real-World Lab for Sustainable Climate
Protection (KARLA).
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100 ISSUES OF THE ITAS NEWSLETTER
Since January 2009, ITAS has regularly published a newsletter every six
to eight weeks with information on current research activities, new
publications, events, and the work of its staff. All one hundred issues
published to date are available online.
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Personalia:
Martina Baumann completed her doctorate at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at KIT. Her work aimed to contribute to the discussion on ethics in
health technology assessment and to raise awareness of the issue of
justice in the healthcare system using the example of arm and leg
prosthetics.
Armin Grunwald, long-time director of ITAS, accepted the Bad Herrenalber Academy Award for his institute on 29 October 2023. The award recognizes the
achievements of technology assessment in Karlsruhe in the dialogue
between science, society, and theology.
Julia Hahn is a new member of the Steering Committee of #FactoryWisskomm of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Together with ITAS colleagues
Pauline Riousset and Franziska Sörgel, she initiated the task force for
the further development of science communication for political decisions
under new, more uncertain conditions.
Jaewon Son received the KIST Europe Scholarship Award from the Korean Scientists
and Engineers Association in Germany (VeKNI) on 4 November 2023. She was
honored for her outstanding research achievements and her contribution
to promoting the exchange of Korean scientists in Germany.
New staff members:
Wolfgang Eppler (Digital Technologies and Societal Change)
Tim Fraske (Designing Real-World Laboratory Research)
Nina Frölich (Designing Real-World Laboratory Research)
Friedrich Jasper (Research for Sustainable Energy Technologies)
Arjita Mital (Digital Technologies and Societal Change)
Utku Norman (Digital Technologies and Societal Change)
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Events
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21.12.2023
THEATERPERFORMANCE: EINSAME BÄUME IN EINEM DSCHUNGEL AUS
BETON
ITAS, Karlstraße 11, Karlsruhe
20.02.2024
UERA-SEMINAR UND GENERALVERSAMMLUNG
Karlsruhe
11.04.2024
REALLABOR-KONFERENZ "REALLABORE – EXPERIMENTIERRÄUME FÜR DEN WEG IN EINE NACHHALTIGE GESELLSCHAFT"
Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden
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ITAS in the media
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Presseinformation des KIT (07.12.2023)
ENERGIEWENDE IN KOMMUNEN: STROM, WÄRME UND VERKEHR GEMEINSAM DENKEN with Dirk Scheer and Ines Jendritzki on the ZuSkE project
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Campus Report (05.12.2023)
„OHNE KLIMAGERECHTIGKEIT WIRD ES NICHT GEHEN“ – DER KIT
NACHHALTIGKEITSEXPERTE VOLKER STELZER ZUM VERLAUF DER COP28 with Volker Stelzer
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modus | extrem (28.11.2023)
KÜNSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ – WIE VERÄNDERT SIE TERRORISMUS UND
RADIKALISIERUNG? with Georg Plattner
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SWR Ökochecker (14.11.2023)
EIGENE ENERGIE VOM DACH: UNABHÄNGIG VOM STROMANBIETER WERDEN with Volker Stelzer, starting at minute 13:55
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PHILOSOPH UND PHYSIKER ARMIN GRUNWALD BEKOMMT AKADEMIEPREIS IN BAD HERRENALB
Badische Neueste Nachrichten | 30.10.2023
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Netzpolitik.org (19.10.2023)
MIT WASSERZEICHEN GEGEN DIE BABYLONISCHE VERWIRRUNG with Jutta Jahnel
more
Campus Report (10.10.2023)
„WIRKEN UNTERSCHIEDLICHE BAUMARTEN BESSER GEGEN STÄDTISCHEN
STRESS?“- DAS FUTUREBIOCITY-PROJEKT about the project FutureBioCity
with Somidh Saha
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Deutschlandfunk Kultur (21.09.2023)
VIER-TAGE-WOCHE – EIN ZUKUNFTSMODELL? with Philipp Frey
more
lookKIT (2023/03)
REGIONALES LITHIUM FÜR MEHR UNABHÄNGIGKEIT with Marcel Weil
more
lookKIT (2023/03)
AUS DER LUFT GEGRIFFEN with Christine Rösch
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lookKIT (2023/03)
WIE GEHT'S WEITER MIT DEM DEUTSCHEN WALD? with Somidh Saha
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Researchers in focus
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“In real-world labs, we as researchers work together with citizens to
find ways toward a sustainable future. But how can this social impact of
real-world labs, a research format we have been doing in Karlsruhe for a
long time, be measured? My PhD project at ITAS deals with precisely this
question and aims to include the perspectives of the civil society
actors involved.”
Helena Trenks, PhD student and research associate
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Publications
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BOOKS AND REPORTS
Baumann, M.; Gudowsky-Blatakes, N.; Kehl, C.; König, H.;
Krieger-Lamina, J.; Nentwich, M.; Peissl, W.; Riousset, P.; Weil, M.
Foresight und Technikfolgenabschätzung: Monitoring von Zukunftsthemen
für das Österreichische Parlament, November 2023
2023. Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung (ITA) Wien
more <https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000165057>
Baumann, M.; Weil, M.
Batteriesysteme der Zukunft - Foresight & Technikfolgenabschätzung:
Monitoring November 2023
2023. Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung (ITA) Wien
more <https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000165056>
Gudowsky-Blatakes, N.; Kehl, C.; König, H.; Krieger-Lamina, J.;
Nentwich, M.; Peissl, W.; Riousset, P.; Weinberger, N.
Foresight und Technikfolgenabschätzung: Monitoring von Zukunftsthemen
für das Österreichische Parlament, Mai 2023
2023. Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung (ITA) Wien
more <https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000164392>
Hacking, I.
Die Zähmung des Zufalls
2023. (D. Mahr, Übers.; P. Schneider, Eds.), Edition Patrick Frey
more <https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000164476>
Kemmesies, U.; Wetzels, P.; Austin, B.; Büscher, C.; Dessecker, A.;
Hutter, S.; Rieger, D. (Eds.)
MOTRA-Monitor 2022
2023. Monitoringsystem und Transferplattform Radikalisierung (MOTRA).
doi:10.53168/ISBN.978-3-9818469-6-6_2023_MOTRA <https://doi.org/10.53168/ISBN.978-3-9818469-6-6_2023_MOTRA>
Riousset, P.; Steiger, S.; Caviezel, C.
Chancen und Risiken der Digitalisierung kritischer kommunaler
Infrastrukturen an den Beispielen der Wasser- und Abfallwirtschaft.
Endbericht zum TA-Projekt
2023. Büro für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung beim Deutschen Bundestag
(TAB)
doi:10.5445/IR/1000163177 <https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000163177>
Riousset, P.; Steiger, S.; Caviezel, C.
Chancen und Risiken der Digitalisierung kritischer kommunaler
Infrastrukturen an den Beispielen der Wasser- und Abfallwirtschaft.
TAB-Fokus
2023. Büro für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung beim Deutschen Bundestag
(TAB)
doi:10.5445/IR/1000163181 <https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000163181>
Riousset, P.; Steiger, S.; Caviezel, C.
Opportunities and risks of the digitisation of critical municipal
infrastructures using water and waste management as examples. TAB-Fokus
2023. Büro für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung beim Deutschen Bundestag
(TAB)
doi:10.5445/IR/1000164519 <https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000164519>
BOOK CHAPTERS AND PROCEEDINGS
Albiez, M.; Schopp, K.
Das Ende der Bonusmeile. Sollten Flugreisen begrenzt werden?
2023. “Ich lehne mich jetzt mal ganz konkret aus dem Fenster:
[…]”. Eine Festschrift für Thomas Potthast. Eds.: C. Brand et al.,
163–171, Tübingen Library Publishing
more <https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000162983>
Gazos, A.
Die soziomaterielle Konstitution von Cybersicherheit in der Dynamik
kritischer Informationsinfrastrukturen
2023. Polarisierte Welten: Verhandlungen des 41. Kongresses der
Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 2022. Ed.: P.-I. Villa
more <https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000163022>
Gondolf, J.
Instagram, Reddit & YouTube als „Neuartige Kulturelle Erscheinungen“
Ein Blick auf Soziale Medien als sozio-epistemische Praktik
2023. Homo technologicus – Menschenbilder in den Technikwissenschaften
des 21. Jahrhunderts. Ed.: K. Liggieri, 93–110, Springer Verlag.
doi:10.1007/978-3-662-68272-2_7 <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-68272-2_7>
Grunwald, A.
Digitale Erlösungsfantasien. Neue Optionen für ein gutes Leben im 21.
Jahrhundert?
2023. Vom guten (digitalen) Leben. Ed.: T. Gremsl, 31–46,
Tyrolia-Verlag
more <https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000164878>
Grunwald, A.
Disruption in Zeitlupe
2023. “Ich lehne mich jetzt mal ganz konkret aus dem Fenster:
[…]”. Eine Festschrift für Thomas Potthast. Eds.: C. Brand et al.,
447–456, Tübingen Library Publishing
more <https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000163239>
Grunwald, A.
Epistemologische Aspekte transdisziplinärer Forschung: Wissenstypen
2023. Kiprijanow, K. S.; Philipp, T.; Roelcke, T. (Eds.):
Transferwissenschaften: Mode oder Mehrwert?, 21–36, Peter Lang
International Academic Publishers
more <https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000162946>
Grunwald, A.
Menschen und Roboter – Grenzauflösungen zwischen Mensch und Technik.
Englische Fassung: Humans and Robots – Abolishing the Boundaries
between Humankind and Technology
2023. Grunwald, A.; Rüppell, K.; Schmidt, F.: human error: Louisa
Clement. Katalog zur Ausstellung Louisa Clement, Paula Modersohn Museum,
Berlin, 46–59, Deutscher Kunstverlag
more <https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000163972>
Grunwald, A.
Water
2023. Wallenhorst, N.; Wulf, C. (Eds.): Handbook of the Anthropocene.
Humans between Heritage and Future, 189 – 193, Springer Cham
more <https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000163975>
Laborgne, P.; Klöcker, P.
Exploring PPGIS as a Way of Digital Participation on the Example of Heat
Relief Planning
2023. The ‘New Normal’ in Planning, Governance and Participation:
Transforming Urban Governance in a Post-pandemic World. Ed.: E.
Lissandrello, 191–202, Springer.
doi:10.1007/978-3-031-32664-6_15 <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32664-6_15>
Laborgne, P.; Radtke, J.
Akzeptanz und Partizipation in der Energiewende
2023. Handbuch Umweltsoziologie. Ed.: M. Sonnberger, 1–15, Springer
Fachmedien Wiesbaden.
doi:10.1007/978-3-658-37222-4_54-1 <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-37222-4_54-1>
Madeira, O.; Plattner, G.; Gazos, A.; Röller, T.; Büscher, C.
Technologiemonitoring: Das Potenzial von Metaverse und KI für
extremistische Verwendungszwecke
2023. MOTRA-Monitor 2022. Ed.: U. Kemmesies, 226–252, Monitoringsystem
und Transferplattform Radikalisierung (MOTRA)
more <https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000164541>
Mahr, D.
Woher kommt die neue Transfeindlichkeit? - Entstehung und Strategien
eines reaktionär biologistischen Gegenfeminismus
2023. Antifeminismus und Feminismen der Migrationsgesellschaft. Ed.: A.
Drücker, 36–42, Informations- und Dokumentationszentrum für
Antirassismusarbeit (IDA)
more <https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000164566>
Milchram, C.; Skalamera, M.
Exploring the geopolitical impacts of energy justice: an
interdisciplinary research agenda
2023. Handbook on the Geopolitics of the Energy Transition, 232–246,
Edward Elgar Publishing.
doi:10.4337/9781800370432.00019 <https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800370432.00019>
Rösch, C.
Bioeconomy
2023. Handbook of the Anthropocene: Humans between Heritage and Future.
Ed.: N. Wallenhorst, 1101–1106, Springer International Publishing.
doi:10.1007/978-3-031-25910-4_179 <https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25910-4_179>
Weiser, A.; Meyer, S.; Bernert, P.; Lang, D. J.
Problem- und projektorientierte Lehre transdisziplinär gestalten
2023. Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung in der Hochschule. Ed.: G.
Michelsen, 25–44, Verlag Barbara Budrich
more <https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000163452>
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Bareis, J.
BigTech’s Efforts to Derail the AI Act
2023. Verfassungsblog, 1–5
more <https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000165278>
Barth, M.; Jiménez-Aceituno, A.; Lam, D. P. M.; Bürgener, L.; Lang, D.
J.
Transdisciplinary learning as a key leverage for sustainability
transformations
2023. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 64, Article no.:
101361.
doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101361 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2023.101361>
Bernert, P.; Wahl, D.; von Wehrden, H.; Lang, D. J.
Cross-case knowledge transfer in transformative research: enabling
learning in and across sustainability-oriented labs through case
reporting
2023. Urban Transformations, 5 (1), Article no.: 12.
doi:10.1186/s42854-023-00056-w <https://doi.org/10.1186/s42854-023-00056-w>
Enderle, S.; Bechthold, E.
Solving problems collectively in nuclear waste governance
2023. Safety of Nuclear Waste Disposal, 2, 267.
doi:10.5194/sand-2-267-2023 <https://doi.org/10.5194/sand-2-267-2023>
Hennen, L.; Kopfmüller, J.; Maia, M.; Nierling, L.; Scherz, C.
Ways towards Transformation: Conceptual Approaches and Challenges
2023. Sustainability, 15 (20), Article no.: 14867.
doi:10.3390/su152014867 <https://doi.org/10.3390/su152014867>
Huang, L.; Ladikas, M.; Schippl, J.; He, G.; Hahn, J.
Knowledge mapping of an artificial intelligence application scenario: A
bibliometric analysis of the basic research of data-driven autonomous
vehicles
2023. Technology in Society, 75, Article no.: 102360.
doi:10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102360 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102360>
Krings, B.-J.
New Work und die Zukunft der Arbeit
2023. Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 73 (46), 04–09
more <https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000164341>
Krischel, M.; Kühl, R.; Mahr, D.
Neue Forschungsfragen in der Geschichte der deutschsprachigen
Sexualwissenschaft und Sexualmedizin = New research issues in the
history of German sexology and sexual medicine
2023. Die Urologie, 62 (11), 1204–1210.
doi:10.1007/s00120-023-02091-8 <https://doi.org/10.1007/s00120-023-02091-8>
Lovink, G.; Lin, N.
Optimist by Nature, Pessimist by Design: Writing Network Cultures
2023. Technology and language, 4 (3), 118–128.
doi:10.48417/technolang.2023.03.09 <https://doi.org/10.48417/technolang.2023.03.09>
Mahr, D.
Does It Make Sense to Professionalize and Institutionalize Citizen
Science?
2023. NanoEthics, 17 (2), Article no.: 11.
doi:10.1007/s11569-023-00446-1 <https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-023-00446-1>
Mahr, D.
Macht und Wissen neu verteilen. Erfahrungswissen, öffentliche
Beteiligung und kritische Wissenschaftsbewegungen in den 1970er-Jahren
2023. Spurensuche. Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Erwachsenenbildung
und Wissenschaftspopularisierung, 122–135.
more <https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000164407>
Schmerbeck, J.; Saha, S.; Srimathi, A.; Einhellinger, B.; Hangsing, M.
Tropical montane forest (Shola) tree species can regenerate under
abandoned exotic tree plantations in the Western Ghats of India
2023. Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research.
doi:10.1093/forestry/cpad050 <https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpad050>
Weiser, A.; Wanner, M.; Stelzer, F.; Lang, D. J.; Berger, H.; Förster,
A.; Liedtke, C.; Micklitz, H.-W.; Niewöhner, J.; Parodi, O.; Potthast,
T.; Schneider, F.; Sörgel, F.; Ziehl, M.; Ziemer, G.
Exploring fruitful links between real-world laboratory and disciplinary
research : Introduction of the DKN Future Earth working group LinkLab
2023. GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 32 (3),
335–337.
doi:10.14512/gaia.32.3.13 <https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.32.3.13>
Yaddanapudi, L.; Hahn, J.
Is scientific knowledge or trust responsible for preventive behaviours
during COVID-19 pandemic?
2023. European Journal of Public Health, 33 (Supplement_2).
doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckad160.1459 <https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad160.1459>
Yaddanapudi, L.; Hahn, J.; Ladikas, M.
Decreasing trust in health institutions in EU during COVID-19: A
Spatio-temporal analysis
2023. European Journal of Public Health, 33 (Supplement_2).
doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckad160.594 <https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckad160.594>
Yao, D.; Lin, N.
Future Writing: Editorial Introduction
2023. Technology and Language, 3 (4), 1–6.
doi:10.48417/technolang.2023.03.01 <https://doi.org/10.48417/technolang.2023.03.01>
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