Humanities & Social Sciences

Administrative asylum procedures are permeated by tensions between rationalities of legality, efficiency, and deterrence in asylum casework and their various effects on cases. Based on ethnographic research in the Swiss asylum administration, this book unveils the pragmatics and politics of rendering asylum cases resolvable by re-cording the lives of applicants in terms of asylum. With his reading of power and agency in administrations, Ephraim Pörtner offers a critical view of the intricate relationship between practices of asylum casework and the governmental need to resolve claims of people seeking protection.

Der erste Teil der vorliegenden Arbeit will eine Bestandsaufnahme der ausgewählten Werke geben und die Stellung der Dichter innerhalb der neubulgarischen Literatur umreißen. Danach bietet der zweite Teil Einzelanalysen von Romanen und Erzählungen, deren Handlung Stoffe des bulgarischen Mittelalters zugrundeliegen.

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.

How do we better involve young children in the decision-making of their own social care? This book, developed from the Erasmus+ funded PANDA project, explores the development of knowledge and resources to educate and support social workers in their collaboration with children aged 12 and under. Featuring real-life practice vignettes, reflective questions and evidence-informed implications for practice – plus free additional resources on the PANDA project website – the book provides valuable insights that combine the work of academic and professional practice from a European perspective. With contributions from authors in Belgium, Northern Ireland, Norway and Spain, this essential resource empowers practitioners and policy makers to promote the participation rights of young children in decision-making processes and to help children find their voice in challenging times.

This work contains updated and clinically relevant information about tuberculosis. It is aimed at providing a succinct overview of history and disease epidemiology, clinical presentation and the most recent scientific developments in the field of tuberculosis research, with an emphasis on diagnosis and treatment. It may serve as a practical resource for students, clinicians and researchers who work in the field of infectious diseases.

Die Sozioökonomische Berichterstattung - soeb - nimmt die Veränderungen im Zusammenspiel von Wirtschafts- und Lebensweise von Ökonomie, Politik, Institutionen und Individuen unter die Lupe. In soeb 3 - dem dritten Bericht zur sozioökonomischen Entwicklung - haben die Forschungsgruppen quantitative und qualitative Daten aus verschiedenen Quellen zusammengetragen und sie im Rahmen eines deutschen Produktions- und Sozialmodells gedeutet. Der Bericht verbindet ökonomische und demografische Befunde mit Analysen zu betrieblichen Bedingungen und Haushaltskonstellationen für Erwerbsteilhabe und mit Szenarien zur Entwicklung von Einkommen und Vermögen, zur sozialen Differenzierung der Lebensverläufe, zum Altersübergang und zu Konsummustern. Soeb 3 ist das Ergebnis eines umfangreichen Forschungsvorhabens, das von 2013 bis 2016 vom Forschungsverbund Sozioökonomische Berichterstattung (SOEB), bestehend aus Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftler:innen, durchgeführt wurde. Gefördert wurde das Projekt vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF).

Optical physics

Omega-3 (ω-3) and omega-6 (ω-6) are polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) that play critical role in human health and have to be provided by food. In the brain, PUFAs are also precursors of endocannabinoids. The aim of this chapter is to review the existing literature on how dietary PUFAs impact on the endocannabinoid system in the brain and what are the consequences for brain function and dysfunction. In this chapter, we will first describe how PUFAs enter the brain, what are their metabolism processes and roles in brain function. We will describe the pathways from PUFAs to endocannabinoid production. Then, we will review the literature on how dietary ω-6/ω-3 ratio impacts the endocannabinoid system, in terms of endocannabinoid levels, proteins and endocannabinoid-dependent synaptic plasticity. In the next part, we will describe what we know about the interactions between PUFAs and endocannabinoids in neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders. Finally, we will conclude on the possible implications of the interactions between dietary PUFAs and endocannabinoids in the normal and pathological brain. In particular, we will discuss how dietary PUFAs, as homeostatic regulators of endocannabinoids, can constitute interesting therapeutic strategies for the prevention and/or treatment of neurological disorders with endocannabinoids impairment.

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351527927, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license The start of the new millennium will be remembered for deadly climate-related disasters - the great floods in Thailand in 2011, Super Storm Sandy in the United States in 2012, and Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines in 2013, to name a few. In 2014, 17.5 million people were displaced by climate-related disasters, ten times more than the 1.7 million displaced by geophysical hazards. What is causing the increase in natural disasters and what effect does it have on the economy? Climate Change and Natural Disasters sends three messages: human-made factors exert a growing influence on climate-related disasters; because of the link to anthropogenic factors, there is a pressing need for climate mitigation; and prevention, including climate adaptation, ought not to be viewed as a cost to economic growth but as an investment. Ultimately, attention to climate-related disasters, arguably the most tangible manifestation of global warming, may help mobilize broader climate action. It can also be instrumental in transitioning to a path of low-carbon, green growth, improving disaster resilience, improving natural resource use, and caring for the urban environment. Vinod Thomas proposes that economic growth will become sustainable only if governments, political actors, and local communities combine natural disaster prevention and controlling climate change into national growth strategies. When considering all types of capital, particularly human capital, climate action can drive economic growth, rather than hinder it.

Industrial, Organisational and Economic Psychology; Social Policy; Political Science, general

For children and young people, belonging is crucial. The need for community and security shapes their identity, relationships, and experience of community in everyday life, but can also lead to boundaries between ""us"" and ""them"" and trigger processes of inclusion and exclusion, power and powerlessness, continuity and change. Through real-life examples, this anthology explores how children and young people create and experience belonging to peers, places, and things. The first part examines how material goods influence children's social belonging, with examples such as food, clothing, and digital games. The second part looks at how belonging takes shape in various social arenas, from children's birthday parties and the football field to more challenging contexts such as criminal activity. The third part addresses children's belonging from a professional perspective, with insights from social workers, public health nurses, teachers, and other professional groups who play a central role in children's lives. The book is primarily aimed at master's students, educators, and researchers in the field of children and youth, but will also be relevant to professionals in politics and civil society.

As organisations of all sizes become increasingly digitalised, a core management challenge remains unresolved. The ability to successfully and sustainably connect the stated vision of an organisation with its strategic plans and, in turn, with the reported reality of day-to-day operations, is largely an elusive ambition, despite the many stated advantages provided by contemporary technologies. In this book, the case is made for visual management as a method of communications, planning, learning and reporting that connects the organisation in a single, meaningful and seamless way. Throughout this book, visual management is theorised around the position that all forms of management documentation are an artefact of human construction and of the organisation itself that reflect learned patterns of activity. The book places visual management as a more intuitive and seamless method of coordinating, learning and communicating across an organisation than more traditional formats of presenting management documents. Consciously assembling the artefacts of an organisation in order to manage it introduces a layer of criticality that encourages reflection and consistency that is often absent from current management practice. The benefits that a visual approach brings to organisational management are an increasing necessity, as machine learning, robotics and process automation remove traditional roles from organisations and necessitate new views on how individuals now fit into a data-informed business. The book contributes to the academic debate regarding resource-based and knowledge-based views of the organisation by advocating a different, more holistic viewpoint and will thus appeal to academics and researchers in this area. It would also benefit students across business disciplines, whilst the practical models and tools offered will benefit directors and managers looking to implement their own visual organisational language.

Dans les sociétés postindustrielles contemporaines, les migrants ont généralement des risques de décès inférieurs aux populations des pays d’accueil bien qu’ils soient tendanciellement plus vulnérables en raison de moindres capitaux humains, sociaux et économiques. Il s’agit là d’un véritable paradoxe épidémiologique car ces facteurs sont considérés comme les causes fondamentales des inégalités de longévité. A travers le prisme de la société suisse, cette thèse présente les dernières tendances en termes de mortalité différentielle entre les populations suisse et étrangères. Par une vision globale et compréhensive, nous mettons en exergue les particularités des populations migrantes afin d’offrir des clés d’interprétation à ce fameux paradoxe. L’étude tente d’approcher la migration dans toute sa profondeur en investiguant les différentiels en fonction de l’origine et du statut migratoire. En partant des outils de la démographie classique, en passant par des modèles de régression et des arbres d’induction, pour finir par des modèles multiniveaux exprimant des risques spatiaux, la connaissance des processus et des populations s’affermit. Au terme de ce manuscrit, nous aboutissons à une synthèse sur les principaux mécanismes explicatifs. La discussion reviendra sur deux axes clés qui expriment, selon nous, l’essentiel de l’avantage observé : des biais de sélection à l’entrée et à la sortie ainsi qu’une « culture de la migration ».

Sport was an integral part of life in camps during the twentieth century, even in Nazi concentrations camps or in the Soviet Gulag. Traditionally perceived as a symbol of equality, play, and peacefulness, sport under such unexpected circumstances irritates most observers, back then and today. This volume studies the irritating fact of sport in penal and internment camps as an important insight into the history of camps. The authors enquire into case studies of sport being played in different forms of camps around the globe and throughout the twentieth century. They challenge our understanding of camps, question the dichotomy of insiders and outsiders, inner-camp hierarchies, and the everyday experience of violence. This fresh perspective complements the existing camp studies and gives way for the subjectivity of camp inmates and their action.

New eras rather than the end of eras? The cyclical nature and evolution of a concept are subjected to interdisciplinary scrutiny. The swan song for eras has long been unmistakable in the humanities: too contrived, yet too naïve; outdated in an age of constant acceleration; obsolete in the immensity of the ‘Anthropocene’. Nevertheless, there is no less of a shortage of refreshed or new definitions of epochs in the sciences than in public discourse, where turning points are observed, asserted or wished for in order to achieve political goals. Examples include the recent proclamation of a ‘turning point’ as well as other, older definitions of ‘turning points’, which appear more or less plausible. These include the turning point of 1989 – particularly in contrast to the formula of the ‘spiritual and moral turning point’ in the Federal Republic of Germany just under a decade earlier – or the transport, energy and climate transitions of recent years. The authors examine the contemporary use of the construct ‘epoch’ from an interdisciplinary perspective, incorporating questions of global history. In doing so, they also explore the hypothesis that the recent trends in epoch-making can be attributed to a shift in thinking about what it means to define epochs and for what purposes this is done.