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This paper shows in its essential points the development of spiritual doctrine of divine love in Italy during four centuries (1350-1750 AD), especially regarding religious ambients, some authors and main texts produced in Florence, Venice, Genoa and Rome. The author explains various steps of diffusion of the spirituals ideas connected to the theology of divine love, and indicates some important writers and ambients whcich had a particular relief concerning this topic. A particular interesting is reserved to a religious order called povari yesuati, that is the principal promoter of this particular devotion, especially promoted by Domenico da Monticchiello and his italian translation of an important work of Hugh of Balma, called “mistica teologia”. The povari yesuati is an religious order not many known but very important in cultural and religious world of late middle age in Italy. It’s also mentioned the origin of Roman sanctuary of our Lady of Divine Love, that is also at the present and many important religious sanctuary for the people of Rome.

Among the thousands of naturally occurring constituents so far identified in plants and exhibiting a long history of safe use, there are none that pose - or reasonably might be expected to pose - a significant risk to human health at current low levels of intake when used as flavoring substances. Due to their natural origin, environmental and genetic factors will influence the chemical composition of the plant essential oils. Factors such as species and subspecies, geographical location, harvest time, plant part used and method of isolation all affect chemical composition of the crude material separated from the plant. The screening of plant extracts and natural products for antioxidative and antimicrobial activity has revealed the potential of higher plants as a source of new agents, to serve the processing of natural products.

The 43rd UID conference, held in Genova, takes up the theme of ‘Dialogues’ as practice and debate on many fundamental topics in our social life, especially in these complex and not yet resolved times. The city of Genova offers the opportunity to ponder on the value of comparison and on the possibilities for the community, naturally focused on the aspects that concern us, as professors, researchers, disseminators of knowledge, or on all the possibile meanings of the discipline of representation and its dialogue with ‘others’, which we have broadly catalogued in three macro areas: History, Semiotics, Science / Technology. Therefore, “dialogue” as a profitable exchange based on a common language, without which it is impossible to comprehend and understand one another; and the graphic sign that connotes the conference is the precise transcription of this concept: the title ‘translated’ into signs, derived from the visual alphabet designed for the visual identity of the UID since 2017. There are many topics which refer to three macro sessions: - Witnessing (signs and history) - Communicating (signs and semiotics) - Experimenting (signs and sciences) Thanks to the different points of view, an exceptional resource of our disciplinary area, we want to try to outline the prevailing theoretical-operational synergies, the collaborative lines of an instrumental nature, the recent updates of the repertoires of images that attest and nourish the relations among representation, history, semiotics, sciences.

The premise that underlies this volume is that there are strong interconnections between wonder, education and human flourishing. And more specifically, that wonder can make a significant difference to how well one’s education progresses and how well one’s life goes. The contributors to this volume – both senior, well-known and beginning researchers and students of wonder – variously explore aspects of these connections from philosophical, empirical, theoretical and practical perspectives. The three chapters that comprise Part I of the book are devoted to the importance of wonder for education and for human flourishing. Part II contains four chapters offering conceptual analyses of wonder and perspectives from developmental psychology and philosophy (Spinoza, Wittgenstein, philosophy of religion). The seven chapters that form Part III contain a wealth of ideas and educational strategies to promote wonder in education and teacher education. This volume not only underlines and articulates the importance of wonder in education and in life but also offers fresh perspectives, allowing us to look with renewed wonder at wonder itself.

In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird die Coronapandemie in besonderen Wohneinrichtungen der Eingliederungshilfe im sozialwissenschaftlichen Blick erfasst. Die Lagebeschreibung spiegelt verschiedene Perspektiven: die Einschätzungen von Menschen mit Beeinträchtigungen, Leitungsverantwortlichen, Fachpersonal und Angehörigen. Die Daten wurden bundesweit während der Lockdown-Phasen in einer qualitativen Feldstudie erhoben. Die Analyse folgt den Rahmungen der ICF (International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health der WHO) und der Behindertenrechtskonvention der Vereinten Nationen (UN-BRK). Faktenbasiert zeigen sich fehlende Brücken zwischen den Handlungsfeldern Gesundheit und Soziales. Im demografischen Wandel bleibt Wohnen in Gesundheit über die Pandemie hinaus ein drängendes Zukunftsthema. Die WoGe-Studie bietet Ansätze zur konstruktiven Auseinandersetzung mit ungleichen Versorgungschancen in Gleichstellung, Teilhabe und Gesundheitssorge. Durch den Blick hinter die Kulissen öffnen sich Lernoptionen und zeigen sich Handlungsnotwendigkeiten bei Risiken der Fremdbestimmung, erheblichen Personalengpässen und anhaltendem Kräfteverschleiß. Auch Bedarfe an mehr Gesundheitsbewusstsein und Präventionsorientierung werden aufgezeigt.

The election of Barack Obama to the presidency marked a conclusive end to the Reagan era, writes John Kenneth White in Barack Obama's America. Reagan symbolized a 1950s and 1960s America, largely white and suburban, with married couples and kids at home, who attended church more often than not. Obama's election marked a new era, the author writes. Whites will be a minority by 2042. Marriage is at an all-time low. Cohabitation has increased from a half-million couples in 1960 to more than 5 million in 2000 to even more this year. Gay marriages and civil unions are redefining what it means to be a family. And organized religions are suffering, even as Americans continue to think of themselves as a religious people. Obama's inauguration was a defining moment in the political destiny of this country, based largely on demographic shifts, as described in Barack Obama's America.

Von Niklas Luhmanns frühem systemtheoretischem Begriff der funktionalen Differenzierung lässt sich sowohl normativ als auch empirisch viel über Verfassungsgerichte lernen. So kann Luhmanns Analyse der rechtlichen Autonomie helfen, das legitimatorische Grundproblem der Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit - die Kontrolle von Parlamentsgesetzen - neu zu beleuchten. Und seine Theorie der Zweiteilung des politischen Systems kann unser begriffliches Verständnis verfassungsgerichtlicher Politisierung schärfen. Das vorliegende Buch veranschaulicht dieses Potential, indem es Legitimation durch Verfahren im Besonderen und Luhmanns frühe Systemtheorie im Allgemeinen auf das Bundesverfassungsgericht und den Supreme Court anwendet.

Kunst und Kultur müssen sich den demografischen Veränderungen stellen. Eine Auseinandersetzung mit diesem Wechselverhältnis blieb bislang aber aus. Welche Auswirkungen haben die Veränderungen auf die kulturelle Infrastruktur und die Kulturfinanzierung? Welche Chancen tun sich auf, wo liegen die Risiken? Welche Rolle spielt die Kultur selbst im Prozess der demografischen Entwicklung? Der Band bündelt erstmals die Sichtweisen von Akteuren aus Kultur, Politik und Wissenschaft zu diesen Fragen und präsentiert Erkenntnisse im internationalen Vergleich. Mit Beiträgen u.a. von Michael Bommes, Francois Héran, Martin Roth, Ralf E. Ulrich.

This collective volume explores the figure of the Prophet Muhammad in early Islam and its pious transformations in later times. It illuminates the interplay of doctrine, literature and visual arts in the formation of a “Prophetic culture”.; Readership: Scientific and general readership interested in Islam and Muslim culture in different regional and historical contexts, Historical Anthropology of Religion, Comparative Religion, Religious Literature and Arts.

In October 2024, researchers, students, and practitioners from Armenia, Chile, Germany, and Japan met at the American University of Armenia for the fourth edition of the Cadassca Workshop on Collaborative Technologies and Data Science in Smart City Applications. This book presents their contributions to emerging methodologies in data science, machine learning, applied and human-centered computing.

Mathematics Education; Teaching; Learning and Instruction

'The Victorian soldier in Africa' re-examines the campaign experience of British soldiers in Africa during the period, 1874-1902 - the zenith of the Victorian imperial expansion - and does so from the perspective of the regimental soldier. Focusing on eight different encounters, the book utilises an unprecedented number of letters and diaries, written by regimental officers and other ranks, to allow soldiers to speak for themselves about their experience of colonial campaigning of the late nineteenth century. The sources demonstrate the adaptability of the British army in fighting in different climates, over demanding terrain and against a diverse array of enemies, including the Asante, Xhosa, Zulus, Egyptians, Mahdists and Boers. They also reveal soldiers' responses to army reforms of the era and the effectiveness of shifts from long-service to short-service terms of enlistment, the abolition of purchase and flogging as well as monitoring responses to the introduction of new technologies of warfare in the form of the machine gun, the smokeless rifle and the dum dum bullet. The book provides commentary on soldiers' views of commanding officers and politicians alongside assessment of war correspondents, colonial auxiliaries and African natives in their roles as bearers, allies and enemies. Overall, the book examines the relationship between how soldiers thought about and recorded their own private experiences of warfare and how this was conveyed to the wider world - to friends and family at home and to the wider newspaper-reading public. Essential reading for specialists in military history and British colonialism this book reveals new insights on imperial and racial attitudes within the army, on relations between soldiers and the media and on the production of information and knowledge and its transmission from frontline to homefront.

What happens in the mind when we translate? And how does our mother tongue influence our speaking, writing, thinking and translating? In the answer to one question lies the resolution of the other. KyeongHwa Lee has explored both questions using eye tracking, writing process analysis, and a survey of study participants. She can prove that people of different native languages store and process the information of a sentence in different ways. The syntactic structure and the information structure of their respective native language obviously play a decisive role. They influence how we understand texts, how we speak and write, and how we translate from one language to another. Similar sentence structure of working languages apparently facilitates the language transfer process. But the influence of the mother tongue goes far beyond that: it also shapes our thinking.

In der Wissenschaft sind Erkenntnisziele, aber auch ein spezieller Weltaufschluss angelegt. Diesen zu vermitteln ist Aufgabe der Wissenschaftsdidaktik. Was aber bedeutet es, Wissenschaft institutionell zu einem Gegenstand des Lehrens und Lernens zu machen? Die Beitragenden des Bandes liefern disziplinübergreifende Antworten auf diese grundlegende Frage und untersuchen aus ihren fachwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven, wie Lehren, Studieren und wissenschaftliches Denken und Handeln disziplinär zusammenhängen. Hochschullehrende sowie praktisch und forschend tätige Personen finden hier leichten Zugang zur Wissenschaftsdidaktik und ihren innovativen Erkenntnispotentialen.

People spontaneously imitate a wide range of different behaviors. The interest in this phenomenon dates back to at least the 18th century when Adam Smith (1759) argued that imitation can be seen as a primitive form of sympathy. Despite the longstanding interest, it was not until the 20th century that different research fields within psychology and neuroscience started empirically investigating this social phenomenon. This book brings together leading researchers from various domains to provide readers with a recent overview of developments in automatic imitation research. This is an open access book.