Humanities & Social Sciences

Established institutions and policies of dealing with religious diversity in liberal democratic states are increasingly under pressure. Practical politics and political theory is caught in a trap between a fully secularized state (strict separation of state and politics from completely privatized religions based on an idealized version of American denominationalism or French republicanism) and neo-corporatist or 'pillarized' regimes of selective cooperation between states and organized religions. The book offers an original, comprehensive conceptual, theoretical and practical approach to problems of governance of religious diversity from a multi-disciplinary perspective combining moral and political philosophy, constitutional law, history, sociology and anthropology of religions and comparative institutionalism. Proposals of associative democracy - a moderately libertarian, flexible version of democratic institutional pluralism - are introduced and scrutinized whether they can serve as as plausible third way overcoming the inherent deficiencies of the predominant models in theory and practice.

Indonesia

Economic policy; Economic integration; Foreign economic relations; Pacific area

Accounts of the development of the Russian language during the eighteenth century concentrate on the formation of a new literary language, and on the language of a few male authors. But what about the linguistic situation outside the elites? Why do general handbooks have so little to say about the language of ordinary people? Why is there such a focus on the language of imaginative literature when, for most of the century, there were so few original works? These are some of the questions raised in this investigation of Russian in the 1740s.

Recent Dutch studies show that more than half of students in higher education experiences emotional and psychological complaints to a greater or lesser extent and that a wide majority of students indicate that they often or very often experience stress as a result of the study and experienced pressure to perform. The corona crisis also has a lot of extra stress for many students taken care of. High stress levels and high pressure and urgency to perform are seen as important explanations for lower well-being of students in higher education. Students struggle with stress and fears, and this has consequences for their study success, among other things. student well-being is defined as a sustained positive mental state in combination with a absence of psychological complaints and is influenced by factors within and outside the study. Higher education institutions and courses do not influence all these factors, but can offer students support through policy and measures. The question is whether this support is mainly aimed at symptom control, or at prevention and on culture change towards less emphasis on the nominally studying “model student”. In a social context in which there is an active pursuit of diversity and inclusion in higher education education, it is important that students who do not resemble that model student also feel connected to the training and feel the space to ask for support. This overview study focuses on the question of what higher education institutions can do do to promote the mental well-being of students and how and when a differentiated approach is helpful. The basic premise is that the overview study produces sound knowledge that is more or less directly applicable for educational practice and policy in higher education institutions and courses.

Data Mining; Text Mining; Health Informatics; Health Care Information Systems; Medical Terminologies; Natural Language Processing; Text Analysis; Support Vector Machines

Este segundo volumen de homenaje a Joseph Snow, en el que han participado reconocidos especialistas internacionales, contiene un conjunto de acercamientos a los grandes poemas del mester de clerecía, así como varios trabajos sobre prosa castellana medieval. Se abordan cuestiones relativas al Libro de buen amor o a la obra de Berceo, pero también a Gil Vicente, la tradición oral o la herencia medieval de los siglos XV y XVI. El volumen constituye una valiosa presentación de los grandes motivos de la poesía y la prosa castellanas en los primeros siglos de la literatura española.

In the first half of the 20th century, Vienna developed its own ‘academic culture’, which was expressed in the field of law and political science in particular by the Vienna School of Legal Theory founded by Hans Kelsen. To mark the 50th anniversary of Hans Kelsen's death, a one-day symposium was organised in Buchpublikationen - Metadatenformular 3 / 4 October 2023, which was dedicated to this ‘Austrian academic culture’ and its special features in the field of constitutional and legal sciences.

The here collected contributions relating to the 46th International Conference of the Representation Disciplines Teachers, organized jointly by Sapienza University of Rome, Roma Tre University, and San Raffaele Roma University, aim to offer the scientific community a reflection on the theoretical and methodological aspects related to the concept of èkphrasis, a term that, in the field of representation, concerns descriptive, analogical, and digital activities that generate new knowledge in several areas of application. The Conference aims to place at the center of the discussion an interpretation of the concept of research that, without neglecting an idea of study, protection, and enhancement of environmental and cultural heritage, focuses on the needs of contemporary society and its possible developments, making use of innovative theoretical, methodological, and operational activities, including those characterized by an interdisciplinary approach. According to this interpretation, research can also be seen as a foreshadowing of the definition and testing of experimental proposals aimed at exploring new areas of investigation: this opens up imaginative and utopian perspectives in the relationship between the sciences, the arts, and the disciplines that contribute to common goals, through the experimentation of methods, techniques, and languages for conceiving, prefiguring, designing, and representing.

During the last two decades, we have witnessed the spreading of shared spaces of work and production in different urban contexts, attracting attention from both policymakers and scholars in economic geography and urban studies. In particular, Fablabs are considered open workshops for grassroots innovation, which is enabled by the availability of shared digital fabrication machines and by the possibility to share knowledge with peers and work together on a project, either in person or online. People attending Fablabs are usually called Makers and, according to the discourse surrounding them, they are deemed the harbingers of a democratisation of production and part of a broader transformation of urban economies and work in the era of digital capitalism. The book is the result of a PhD research on Makers and Fablabs in Turin, mainly based on an ethnographic observation conducted at Fablab Torino. It offers an original theoretical framework inspired by the recent strand of post-structuralist economic geography, together with a reliance on ontological tenets coming from Actor-Network Theory and Science and Technology Studies. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the study is therefore of interest for scholars in different social sciences who study the reconfiguration of work and production in cities and digitally mediated economic transformations. The analysis unpacks the enactment of Making as a new form of work and production through three different conceptual foci – knowledge, materiality, and work. Notably, the inquiry looks at how Fablab Torino and the urban ‘Maker scene’ in Turin are performatively enacted through the entanglement between economic theories on the phenomenon with specific socio-technical arrangements aiming at making those economic theories true. The geographical relevance of the phenomenon is identified not in some static spatial configuration but, on the one hand, in the heterogeneous and emergent spatialities that emerge from individual practices of Making and, on the other, in the sociomaterial practices of organising that bring into being economic organisations such as Fablabs.

This open access anthology explores intersections and boundaries between public procurement and contract law, examining how these legal regimes diverge, influence, and occasionally overlap during the performance stage of public contracts. While public procurement processes are largely harmonised across Europe through the EU Public Procurement Directives, the performance phase is only partially regulated. A sizeable part of public contract implementation remains subject to national laws, governed through a combination of administrative and contract law. This gives rise to a set of foundational questions: Does public procurement law fully occupy the legal space of public contract performance? In which instances—if any—does contract law retain relevance? Are classical contract law concepts transformed or distorted when applied to public contracts, and how does this affect mechanisms such as arbitration? To what extent do the answers to these questions vary depending on the regulatory model adopted by a given jurisdiction? Part 1 introduces the topic, covering regulatory models for public contracts from procurement and contract law perspectives. Part 2 examines general issues such as legal review asymmetries, tacit modifications, due diligence, loyalty obligations, and the doctrine of hardship under EU law. Part 3 explores contemporary challenges, including digitalisation and sustainability. Part 4 analyses arbitration in public contract disputes. This book is an essential resource for scholars, lawyers, practitioners, policymakers, and students, providing analytical depth and practical guidance to help navigate the complexities of public contracts. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

In dieser Arbeit wird ein innovativer Herstellungsprozess für die Laserstrukturierung von Aluminiumoxidkeramiken entwickelt, um die Möglichkeiten der LDS-Technologie auf keramische Materialien zu erweitern. Diese Weiterentwicklung ist motiviert durch die steigende Nachfrage nach robusten elektronischen Komponenten für Hochtemperatur- und Hochleistungsanwendungen, wo herkömmliche thermoplastische Materialien an ihre Grenzen stoßen. Der Prozess verwendet eine temporäre Laser-Absorptionsschicht, die die Absorption des Nahinfrarot-Lasers bei 1.064 nm verbessert und eine effiziente Strukturierung von Aluminiumoxid bei geringerer Laserenergie ermöglicht. Die Experimente zeigen, dass insbesondere das Kreidespray als Laser-Absorptionsschicht herausragende Ergebnisse liefert, indem es eine stabile und reproduzierbare Metallisierung mit einer hohen Haftfestigkeit von über 10 N/mm² ermöglicht. Durch die gezielte Anpassung der Laserparameter und die Analyse der aktivierten Oberflächen wird nachgewiesen, dass Gitterverzerrungen im Aluminiumoxid die katalytische Aktivität im nasschemischen Kupferbad hervorrufen. Dieses positive Ergebnis bestätigt die Forschungsthese und zeigt das Potenzial des Verfahrens für die Herstellung präziser keramischer 3D-Elektronik. Der Prozess wird erfolgreich auf Bondversuche und die Erstellung von Antennenlayouts angewendet, was das breite Anwendungsspektrum der Methode verdeutlicht.

This collection of essays raises a new critical reflection on a controversial and exciting topic that has brought historiographical, philological, and ethical reflections on the reenactment and the study of the history of exhibitions and performances since the 1990s. The issue of exhibition reenactment has led to a reflection in two areas: on the one hand, the reenactment not only of those auroral exhibitions of the 1970s in which performative acts were grafted onto a terrain of process art/‘arte povera’ or of those underground contexts or festivals that made a significant part of art history, but also with respect to early twentieth-century exhibitions. On the other hand, video art has to be addressed by considering its complex issues of preservation, as well as its possible transmutation into other media, when it should be defined as a document of a performance and when it should instead be considered a video-work to all intents and purposes even by the artist-creator. This book therefore covers topics ranging from the dialogue on the protagonists of the International Exhibitions of the Roman Secession between 1913 and 1916 to the establishment of the Milanese group Nuove Tendenze and their 1914 exhibition reenacted in 1980; from the reenactment of a section of the 1972 Venice Biennale in Comportamento. Venice Biennale 1972. Padiglione Italia 2017 set up at the Centro per l’arte contemporanea “Luigi Pecci di Prato” in 2017 to didactic experiences by Bruno Munari, to the performances by Tania Bruguera or Marina Abramović. The multiple lives of contemporary artistic practices are therefore analysed and enhanced through specific case studies and multiple voices.

Increasing life expectancy and the growing number of chronic diseases have changed the kind of patients who need to be assisted. This paper presents a qualitative study conducted with a group of nursing students near graduation, aimed at describing and discussing vocational preferences and desirable healthcare settings for future employment

The book - as the outcome of a research performed by the University of Florence and the United States Institute of Peace of Washington - explores the role of law in the process of democratic transition in South Africa. More specifically it emphasize how constitutional law may contribute to "civilize" apparently unreconcilable conflicts, a part from laying down the foundations of the new legal order and institutions.