Humanities & Social Sciences

Bringing together some of the foremost scholars in the field, this book offers a critical introduction to mainstream news media (dis)trust and its social and political conditions and consequences. Drawing on qualitative and quantitative approaches, the chapters in Mainstream News Media Trust summarize what we know about news media trust today and set out a research agenda to advance our understanding of the topic in the future. The chapters address issues such as trends in news media trust, what factors shape and moderate news media trust, how much news media trust a society needs, how truthful news reporting and trust are related, how institutional trust and false stories shape public opinion, and contemporary challenges to news media trust. In addition, they consider what measures different news media have taken to increase audience trust and engagement. This book adopts a comparative global outlook to provide a well-rounded state of the field art. Mainstream News Media Trust is essential reading for advanced students and researchers in Journalism, Digital Media, and related disciplines. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Im Unterschied zu den meisten anderen Arbeiten, die einen Redeteil herausgreifen und dann analysieren, von welchen Redeteilen die ihm angehörigen Lexeme deriviert sind, wird hier eine andere Richtung verfolgt. Es soll gezeigt werden: a) welche Wörter aus welchen Redeteilen von Angehörigen eines bestimmten Redeteils (des Redeteils "Adjektiv") als abgeleitet gedacht werden können und b) über welche Ausdrucksmittel das Russische verfügt, um aus diesem Fundus von Lexemen mit bestimmten Bedeutungen und Formen andere Lexeme mit modifizierten Bedeutungen abzuleiten, ferner, c) wie diese Mittel kombiniert werden und schließlich d) wie sie sich im Hinblick auf ihre funktionelle Belastung (functional load, funkcional'naja nagruzka) voneinander unterscheiden.

In this book, a new generation of scholars offers fresh perspectives on the history of the Dutch slave trade. Traditionally, Dutch research has focused on business practices, often overlooking the enslaved and the complexities of illegal trade and violence. By experimenting with innovative methodologies and underutilised primary sources, this volume reveals the potential to uncover perspectives of enslaved people aboard slave ships, to investigate unstudied areas like sexual violence, and to examine the roles of Dutch elite in the trade.

With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image – or rather the imagination – of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of Scandinavia through most of the second millennium. Volume III analyses the impact of Jerusalem on Scandinavian Christianity from the middle of the 18. century in a broad context.

In survival analysis, time-varying covariates are endogenous when their measurements are directly related to the event status and incomplete information occur at random points during the follow-up. Consequently, the time-dependent Cox model leads to biased estimates. Joint models (JM) allow to correctly estimate these associations combining a survival and longitudinal sub-models by means of a shared parameter (i.e., random effects of the longitudinal sub-model are inserted in the survival one). This study aims at showing the use of JM to evaluate the association between a set of inflammatory biomarkers and Covid-19 mortality. During Covid-19 pandemic, physicians at Istituto Clinico di Città Studi in Milan collected biomarkers (endogenous time-varying covariates) to understand what might be used as prognostic factors for mortality. Furthermore, in the first epidemic outbreak, physicians did not have standard clinical protocols for management of Covid-19 disease and measurements of biomarkers were highly incomplete especially at the baseline. Between February and March 2020, a total of 403 COVID-19 patients were admitted. Baseline characteristics included sex and age, whereas biomarkers measurements, during hospital stay, included log-ferritin, log-lymphocytes, log-neutrophil granulocytes, log-C-reactive protein, glucose and LDH. A Bayesian approach using Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm were used for fitting JM. Independent and non-informative priors for the fixed effects (age and sex) and for shared parameters were used. Hazard ratios (HR) from a (biased) time-dependent Cox and joint models for log-ferritin levels were 2.10 (1.67-2.64) and 1.73 (1.38-2.20), respectively. In multivariable JM, doubling of biomarker levels resulted in a significantly increase of mortality risk for log-neutrophil granulocytes, HR=1.78 (1.16-2.69); for log-C-reactive protein, HR=1.44 (1.13-1.83); and for LDH, HR=1.28 (1.09-1.49). Increasing of 100 mg/dl of glucose resulted in a HR=2.44 (1.28-4.26). Age, however, showed the strongest effect with mortality risk starting to rise from 60 years.

How did a Late Roman emperor stay on the throne? His position was always precarious, and in contrast to a modern hereditary monarch he could always lose power or even his life to a usurper. The Eastern emperors resided in Constantinople from 395 to 624 without a break. This book shows how they sought the support of the army, the populace, the clergy and the capital`s elite, how they gained it, and how they sometimes lost it. The result is a new picture of the socio-political system of Constantinople and of the Late Roman Empire in general.

Leonard Bloomfield's "Language" (1933) is one of the most important books on linguistics and it is also one of the most frequently quoted. It is very unusual that a scientific book that has been on the market for 67 years has not become outdated. Unbelievably enough, it has never been translated into German, although Bloomfield spoke German like his mother-tongue. His family came from Austria an he specialized in Germanic linguistics. This edition of ,Language" aims to fill this gap and furthermore tries to reflect Bloomfield's ideas in the light of modem linguistics. Therefore it is not a mere translation but a commentated reader , of Bloomfield's ,,Language" and a scientific publication in its own right.

For over seventy years, China has steadfastly asserted its sovereignty over the South China Sea, transforming these waters into a flashpoint of international tension and a focal point of global diplomacy. The Future of the South China Sea intricately explores China’s motivations, unveiling its ambitions in the South China Sea that are anything but static. Despite the prevailing narrative that frames China’s objectives as monolithic and unchanging, its underlying interests in the region have fluctuated in both content and urgency, driven by economic imperatives, historical legacies, domestic pressures, and broader international security concerns. By incorporating negotiation records, such as the 1958 Declaration on China’s Territorial Sea, the 1992 ASEAN Declaration, and the 2005 Tripartite Agreement, Jiye Kim traces how China reshapes its interests into negotiation agendas, providing critical insights into the nation’s diplomacy and making a significant contribution to an existing literature on the South China Sea that has been largely dominated by analyses of great power rivalry. This book sheds light on China’s underlying interests as living and adaptable entities, providing scholars with a detailed, evidence-based understanding of the complexities that define one of the world’s most contested maritime regions.

In dieser Publikation wird die Frage untersucht, ob Recht in technikwissenschaftlich geprägten Regelungsbereichen wissenschaftsadäquat verwirklicht wird. Diese Frage stellt sich sowohl bei der Rechtsetzung als auch bei der Rechtsanwendung. Um sachgerechte Lösungen zu finden, müssen die Grenzen zwischen Recht und Technikwissenschaften durchlässiger gedacht werden. Der Autor führt unterschiedliche Literaturstränge zusammen, um dieses Problem zu untersuchen. Er zeigt auf, dass ein plurales Konzept von Sachverstand, rekursive Abläufe sowie die Arbeit mit überraschungsoffenen Reallaboren in die Rechtsordnung zu integrieren sind. Gleichzeitig strukturiert diese Untersuchung die Reichweite der Wissenschaftsfreiheit und den Nutzen der Wissenschaft für das Rechtssystem im Zeitalter der Technosciences.

Le Concile Vatican II appartient-il à un passé révolu? Ou fait-il tellement partie de la vie de l’Église que nous ne sommes plus conscients qu’il reste «une boussole fiable» pour nous orienter aujourd’hui?Alors que le pape François propose de courageuses réformes et la voie nouvelle de la synodalité, Vatican II refait surface de façon surprenante, offrant les ressources de ses reformulations doctrinales et l’exemple de la responsabilité de ses acteurs. L’ouvrage montre comment la longue histoire où s’inscrit Vatican II, de sa préparation à sa célébration et sa réception, est toujours ouverte. Il nous pousse à valoriser l’héritage conciliaire en fidélité à l’Évangile du Christ et à l’Esprit Saint, pour progresser en Église vers un monde plus fraternel.

Art and Lived Religion explores the dynamic relationship between medieval and early modern religion and art and the people who encountered them. It integrates the lived religion approach with Gillian Rose’s critical visual methodology (CVM) to reveal how religious artworks actively shaped cognition, emotion, and action. Readers will gain a groundbreaking framework for understanding the multisensory and relational nature of religious experience through case studies spanning Western Christian, Orthodox Christian, Hindu, and Aztec contexts. All essays highlight the “dynamism of forces” between art, religion, and human encounter across diverse temporal, geographic, and cultural settings, emphasizing the interplay of visual, material, social, and embodied dimensions in the creation of experience. Methodologically and conceptually ideal for undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars in art history, religious studies, and interdisciplinary research, this book is tailored to those seeking to explore the experiential dynamics of art and devotion across diverse cultural, temporal, and geographic settings. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

This study uncovers the traditions behind the formative Classic Shàngshū (Venerated Documents). It reveals a genre of “Shū” (Documents) practice that was used creatively by contrasting conceptual communities for socio-philosophical ends. Working from Warring States-manuscript texts, it shows how different communities rewrote old cultural capital, becoming political actors by expanding their scope of action through literary thought production.

"This forth volume of “Die Ikonographie Palästinas/Israels und der Alte Orient (IPIAO)” is on Iron Age until the beginning of the Achaemenid’s rule. Almost 1000 objects of the pictorial art of Palestine / Israel are compared to the pictures of the neighbouring cultures. "

Paranormal Britain is the most systematic study available of the nature and scope of paranormal beliefs, experiences, and subcultures in contemporary Britain. Using original survey data from British citizens regarding their beliefs and experiences with UFOs, ghosts, psychics and other paranormal phenomena, this open access book details the prevalence and patterns of paranormalism in the U.K. In addition to presenting original findings based on novel data, the authors also engaged in extensive ethnographic fieldwork with different paranormal subcultures. Among other adventures, readers get to ride along as they spend the night with the ‘most violent poltergeist in history,’ participate in the high ritual of a UFO cult, search for Nessie and werewolves, visit crop circles, learn to read Tarot, talk with alien abductees, and go on shamanic vision quests. Authoritative and systematic, yet readable and entertaining, Paranormal Britain will be of interest to scholars researching the sociology of religion, science, and belief in late modernity. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Chapman University.

A critically annotated edition of the mid-18th century correspondence between the operisti and partners in marriage, Franz and Marianne Pirker.