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Introduction -- Space race 2.0 -- The rocket-industrial complex -- The rocket monopoly -- The Internet guy -- Friday afternoon space club -- The tyranny of the rocket -- Never a straight answer -- A method of reaching extreme altitudes -- Test as we fly -- Change versus more of the same -- Capture the flag -- Space race 2.0 -- Reduce, reuse, recycle -- Pushing the envelope -- Rocket billionaires -- Beyond earth orbit -- Epilogue: a spacefaring civilization

To improve livability in cities and to meet stringent regulations set by the European Union, municipalities are striving to reduce the amount of green house gas (GHG) and particular matter (PM) emissions. Adaptive Network Signal Control (ANSC) strategies have been developed with the main goal of improving the flow of traffic in urban areas by reducing travel times and the number of stops on the strategic network. However, in addition to improving traffic flow, ANSC strategies could prove to be a useful means for reducing the GHG and PM emissions from traffic in urban areas. In order to test this hypothesis, real trajectory data from test sites in Germany was collected and is analyzed using the EnViVer model (based on VERSIT+) from TNO [Eijk et al., 2011], which takes into account the velocity-time profiles of individual vehicles and estimates the emitted CO2, NOx and PM10. Trajectory data was separately collected within the framework of the two different German research initiatives TRAVOLUTION [Braun et al., 2009] and AMONES [Boltze et al., 2011]. In TRAVOLUTION, a test site for the ANSC BALANCE [Friedrich, 1999] was installed in Ingolstadt. In Hamburg and Bremerhaven, the ANSC systems BALANCE and Motion [Busch and Kruse, 1993] were evaluated within the AMONES project. In both cases, trajectory data was gathered with and without the ANSC system. For each individual vehicle, the extended floating vehicle data (xFVD) - in a temporal resolution of two Hertz – includes the current vehicle speed and acceleration, the gas pedal position, the current gear as well as the engine speed. More than 2000 vehicle trajectories from the three test sites are evaluated. Because GHG and PM emissions are highly dependent on realistic individual driving behavior, the use of field operational test (FOT) driving trajectory data is preferable over traffic simulation data. The study shows, that ANSC is able to achieve significant reductions in GHG and PM emissions on the strategic network in cities. Due to the change in driving behavior, which can be determined accurately from the data, a change in fuel consumption and thus a reduction of emissions can be observed. The paper examines the correlation between different driving patterns and its effects on the emission of different pollutants.

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To improve livability in cities and to meet stringent regulations set by the European Union, municipalities are striving to reduce the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) and particular matter (PM) emissions (39. Bundesimmissionsschutzverordnung (BImSchV)). Adaptive Network Signal Control (ANSC) strategies have been developed with the main goal of improving the flow of traffic in urban areas by reducing travel times and the number of stops on the strategic network. However, in addition to improving traffic flow, ANSC strategies could prove to be a useful means for reducing the GHG and PM emissions from traffic in urban areas. In order to test this hypothesis, real trajectory data from test sites in Germany was collected and is analyzed using the EnViVer model (based on VERSIT+) from TNO (Eijk et al., 2011), which takes into account the velocity-time profiles of individual vehicles and estimates the emitted CO2, NOx and PM10. Trajectory data was separately collected within the framework of the two different German research initiatives TRAVOLUTION (Braun et al., 2009) and AMONES (Boltze et al., 2011). In TRAVOLUTION, a test site for the ANSC BALANCE (Friedrich, 1999) was installed in Ingolstadt. In Hamburg and Bremerhaven, the ANSC systems BALANCE and Motion (Busch and Kruse, 1993) were evaluated within the AMONES project. In both cases, trajectory data was gathered with and without the ANSC system. The study shows, that ANSC is able to achieve reductions in GHG and PM emissions on the strategic network in cities. Due to the change in driving behavior, which can be determined accurately from the data, a change in fuel consumption and thus a reduction of emissions can be observed. The paper examines the effects of different ANSC systems on the emission of different pollutants.

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This paper is focused on two dimensions, which are considered to be essential for understanding of post-Soviet dynamics of party systems that are level of elite consolidation and role and potential of ruling party. Based on their analysis 5 types of party systems are singled out, starting from quite competitive ones to party systems characterized by insignificant role of parties, which are playing minor role in political agenda-setting. Besides, analysis of economic, socio-cultural and institutional determinants and modernization level reveals their possible impact on trajectories of party systems development.

This article invites the reader to reflect on the practice and teaching of sociology through reflexivity in India in a new emerging space of liberal arts in private universities. These spaces can be considered as the fringe of sociology teaching. I argue that students in private universities grapple with a 'crisis of relatedness' regarding sociological discourse, and the debates they study leave them with different questions. I suggest that the understanding of social facts and issues is different and distant from those studying in public universities. The different lived experiences produce different sociological imaginations with the engagement of the same sociological texts. Teaching sociology in liberal arts spaces could mark the emergence of a generation of sociologists in India who have their training rooted in private universities. This new location of sociology students asks us to revisit the ongoing debate of skill-based sociology versus critical sociology that generates new questions for reflexivity and social location of both practitioner and student of sociology.

This paper presents the strategic development plan of winged rockets WIRES (WInged REusable Sounding rocket) aiming at unmanned suborbital winged rocket for demonstrating future fully reusable space transportation technologies, such as aerodynamics, Navigation, Guidance and Control (NGC), composite structure, propulsion system, and cryogenic tanks etc., by universities in collaboration with government and industries, as well as the past and current flight test results.