“The struggle for light” is how the Swiss architect Le Corbusier described the history of architecture in 1935. Today, with the skies crowded out by buildings in modern cities, those words should ring in the ears of policymakers and planners. Skyscraper construction is booming. China is the leader, last year completing 88 of the 143 buildings around the world that are taller than 200 metres (see ‘Vertical growth’). As the nation’s...

Chapter contains advice on which digital games are accessible for children with diverse impairments. It providess a process for choosing the device, the game and adjusting it. It might be of use for therapists, techers and caregivers.

Każdego dnia w systemie transportowym na świecie ginie ponad 3 tys. osób, z czego większość w wypadkach drogowych. W Polsce, podobnie jak w innych krajach UE, obserwuje się podobne dysproporcje pomiędzy skalą wypadków drogowych i wypadków w innych rodzajach transportu. Z punktu widzenia zarządzania bezpieczeństwem, każdy z systemów gałęziowych jest zorganizowany w inny sposób. Dotyczy to baz danych, instytucji zarządzających infrastrukturą...

Sound engineering is an interdisciplinary and rapidly expanding domain. It covers many aspects, such as sound perception, studio and sound mastering technology, music information retrieval including content-based search systems and automatic music transcription frameworks, sound synthesis, sound restoration, electroacoustics, and other ones constituting multimedia technology. Moreover, machine learning methods applied to the topics...