Humanities & Social Sciences

Decision of the Civil Tribunal of Rome on the case of "Villa Borghese" concerning the Diritti di uso pubblico of Roman residents on the Villa.

This book examines an intercultural translation of economics as an academic field from Western to post-Soviet university settings.

What is international development cooperation? A unilateral transfer of financial aid from richer to poorer contexts, or a “positive-sum” game in which each party – different in roles, resources and responsibilities – can benefit trough concrete “doing together”? This volume intends to explore the second perspective by a theoretical and empirical analysis of an emerging concept in the cooperation field: mutual learning. This principle, used as a framework for development projects, policies and strategies, can generate virtuous processes of exchange in which parties have the opportunity to give and receive, to teach and learn from each other. First of all, thanks to some key respondents engaged in different development cooperation sectors, the text attempts to trace the concept boundaries by highlighting its defining elements, conditions of possibility and practical implications, exposing a theoretical/empirical definition of mutual learning. In the next research phase, the direct involvement of four Italian NGOs and the analysis of their development projects allows us to verify whether mutual learning should be considered a buzzword with a purely rhetorical character, or whether it has a real value in orienting the cooperation practice. With the purpose of bringing theoretical reflection and practical experience into dialogue, the volume is aimed at two different categories of actors: firstly, at those who work in the social sciences and want to deepen the study of international development cooperation from a scientific viewpoint; secondly at those who are engaged in the cooperation field and are looking for new tools to guide their design, implementation and evaluation activities.

The book offers an articulated picture of the challenges and opportunities of school inclusion. Starting from a broad and inclusive epistemological framework, the authors delve into the crucial role of Pedagogy and Special Education for the design and construction of inclusive contexts and for guaranteeing cultural accessibility for everyone, with particular attention to people with intellectual disabilities. Through dialogue with the school context and the creation of innovative didactic paths, strategies, and practices are outlined to transform the didactic design into an authentic tool for inclusion and valorization of diversity and differences. Specifically, it is through “I quaderni di Valeria” that the reader will interface with a concrete and participatory didactic proposal. It is intended for teachers, support specialists, students in training, and professionals in the field, and serves as an important testament to the role of Pedagogy and Special Education in promoting inclusion.

"The publications of the interdisciplinary and internationally networked Research Platform “World Order – Religion – Violence” seek to improve our understanding of the relationship between religion, politics and violence. It therefore deals especially with the return of religious themes and symbols into politics, with the analysis of the link between political theory and religion, and finally with the critical discussion of the secularization thesis. At the centre of the research are questions concerning the causes of violent conflict, the possibilities for a just world order and the conditions for peaceful coexistence on a local, regional, national and international/worldwide scale between communities in the face of divergent religious and ideological convictions. Its task is to initiate and coordinate thematically related research-efforts from various disciplinary backgrounds at the University of Innsbruck. It creates a network between departments, research-teams and single researchers working on topics of religion, politics and violence. The overall aim of the research platform World Order-Religion-Violence is to promote excellence in social and human science research on religion and politics at the University of Innsbruck and to guarantee the diffusion of this particular competence on a national and international level."

Die »intellektuelle Anschauung« erhebt um 1800 die Beziehung von Begriff und Bild zum Ausgangspunkt von Erkenntnis. Dabei wird problematisch, wie die Übereinstimmung von Begriff und Bild, die in der klassischen rhetorischen Evidenz noch garantiert war, verfasst sein kann. Aus dieser Konstellation entwickelt sich eine Vielzahl epistemischer Techniken zur Erzeugung von Evidenz. Die Beiträge des Bandes untersuchen diesen Komplex, die Vorgeschichte seit der Renaissance und die Nachspiele in der Gegenwart aus der Perspektive von Literatur-, Medien- und Theaterwissenschaft, Philosophie, Kunst- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte.

Despite recent dramatic advances in computer security regarding the proliferation of services and applications, security threats are still major impediments in the deployment of these services. Paying serious attention to these issues, Security in Distributed, Grid, Mobile, and Pervasive Computing focuses on the increasing demand to guarantee privacy, integrity, and availability of resources in networks and distributed systems. A rich and useful presentation of strategies for security issues, the book covers each computing area in separate sections. It first reviews security issues and challenges in content distribution networks, describes key agreement protocols based on the Diffie-Hellman key exchange and key management protocols for complex distributed systems like the Internet, and discusses securing design patterns for distributed systems. The next section focuses on security in mobile computing and wireless networks, covering wireless authentication methods, secure data aggregation, and anonymous routing protocol. After a section on grid computing security, the book presents an overview of security solutions for pervasive healthcare systems and surveys wireless sensor network security. With more and more vital information stored on computers, security professionals need to know how to combat threats and complications. Offering strategies to tackle these issues, this book provides essential security information for researchers, practitioners, educators, and graduate students in the field.

Wer sich gegenwärtig politischen Ideen in kritischer Absicht stellt, ist mit diversen Problemen konfrontiert, von denen dieser Band einige fokussiert. Ein Teil der Beiträge analysiert die populistische Berufung auf das "Volk" und die "kleinen Leute", während andere Texte rechtsextremistische Strömungen in den Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung stellen - untersucht unter anderem am Beispiel rechter Fußballszenen. Unterschiedliche Perspektiven auf die Krise und Zukunft der Demokratie bilden einen weiteren Schwerpunkt des Buches, das mit Beiträgen zu den Möglichkeiten ideologiekritischer Ansätze und zur Aktualität von Gesellschaftskritik schließt. (unter Mitarbeit von Julia Schmidt)

This open access book aims at deepening the understanding of the relation between cyber-physical systems (CPSs) as socio-technical systems and their digital representations with intertwined artificial intelligence (AI). The authors describe why it is crucial for digital selves to be able to develop emotional behavior and why a humanity-inspired AI is necessary so that humans and humanoids can coexist. The introductory chapter describes major milestones in computer science which form the basis for the implementation of digital twins and digital selves. The subsequent Part I then lays the foundation to develop a socio-technical understanding of the nature of digital twins as representations and trans-human development objects. Following the conceptual understanding of digital twins and how they could be engineered according to cognitive and organizational structures, Part II forms the groundwork for understanding social behavior and its modeling. It discusses various perception-based socio-emotional approaches before sketching behavior-relevant models and their simulation capabilities. In particular, it is shown how emotions can substantially influence the collective behavior of artificial actors. Part III eventually presents a symbiosis showing under which preconditions digital selves might construct and produce digital twins as integrated design elements in trans-human ecosystems. The chapters in this part are dedicated to opportunities and modes of co-creating reflective socio-trans-human systems based on digital twin models, exploring mutual control and continuous development. The final epilog is congenitally speculative in its nature by presenting thoughts on future developments of artificial life in computational substrates. The book is written for researchers and professionals in areas like cyber-physical systems, robotics, social simulation or systems engineering, interested to take a speculative look into the future of digital twins and autonomous agents. It also touches upon philosophical aspects of digital twins, digital selves and humanoids.

The Charleston Conference continues to be a major event for information and idea exchange among librarians, vendors, and publishers. Although 2022 was thankfully a less disruptive year than 2021, changes continued to be seen in the industry. Conference attendees continued to remark on the informative and thought‐provoking sessions in a hybrid environment. This is the eighteenth year that Beth R. Bernhardt, Consortia Account Manager at Oxford University Press, has put together the proceedings from the Conference. It’s the fourteenth year for Leah Hinds, Executive Director, and the sixth year that we are joined by Lars Meyer, Associate University Librarian, Access and Resource Services at Emory University. We are pleased to share some of the learning experiences that we, and other attendees, had at the conference.

Launched in 1950, Penguin’s Russian Classics quickly progressed to include translations of many great works of Russian literature and the series came to be regarded by readers, both academic and general, as the de facto provider of classic Russian literature in English translation, the legacy of which reputation resonates right up to the present day. Through an analysis of the individuals involved, their agendas, and their socio-cultural context, this book, based on extensive original research, examines how Penguin’s decisions and practices when translating and publishing the series played a significant role in deciding how Russian literature would be produced and marketed in English translation. As such the book represents a major contribution to Translation Studies, to the study of Russian literature, to book history and to the history of publishing.

The book is devoted to word-formation in written and spoken German. Corpus analyses trace diamedial usage patterns and functions of word formations in single texts, text complexes, text types as well as in linguistic interaction. From a theoretical point of view, the study draws on textual and interactional linguistic approaches as well as cognitive semantic and constructional grammatical approaches.

While definiteness encodes the information that the sender assumes that the addressee has, specificity encodes the knowledge that the sender has and the anchoring to an item. The chapter focuses on lexical determiners and non-manual marking. As the example below shows, the use of this sign does not have a pejorative meaning, as it can be used in a context where the discourse referent helps the sender. The reading in corresponds to an epistemically specific discourse referent, which is thus identifiable by the sender. The reading in corresponds to an epistemically non-specific and unidentifiable discourse referent. Definiteness and specificity are two interrelated but independent notions. Sign languages are provided with a rich array of lexical signs expressing indefiniteness, but to the best of my knowledge, only few lexical signs have been claimed so far to be specialized for a definiteness.

This Companion brings together leading scholars in the field of Irish studies to explore the significance of twenty-first-century Irish writing and its flourishing popularity worldwide. Focusing on Irish writing published or performed in the twenty-first century, this volume explores genres, modes and styles of writing that are current, relevant and distinctive in today’s classrooms. Examining a host of innovative, key writers, including Sally Rooney, Marion Keyes, Sebastian Barry, Paul Howard, Claire Kilroy, Micheal O’Siadhail, Donal Ryan, Marina Carr, Enda Walsh, Martin McDonagh, Colette Bryce, Leanne Quinn, Sinéad Morrissey, Paula Meehan, Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh and Doireann Ni Ghríofa. This text investigates the sociocultural and theoretical contexts of their aesthetic achievements and innovations. Furthermore, The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First-Century Irish Writing traces the expansion of Irish writing, offering fresh insight to Irish identities across the boundaries of race, class and gender. With its distinctive contemporary focus and comprehensive scope, this multifaceted volume provides the first significant literary history of twenty-first-century Irish literature.

Die Untersuchung von kulturellen und literarischen Konventionen in der «Eulenspiegelliteratur», die ungefähr zwischen 1580 und 1650 im Königreich Polen-Litauen gedruckt wurde, stellt den Gegenstand der Arbeit dar. Den Hintergrund bilden dabei die mit der Kultur der Frühen Neuzeit in Europa verbundenen Veränderungen. Die Texte der älteren polnischen Literatur werden mit ihren lateinischen und deutschen Pendants konfrontiert. Die Verwendung der Topik der verkehrten Welt, der Parodie, der satirischen Destruktion der gesellschaftlichen Hierarchie dient dazu, durch Anti-Werte wahre Werte zu erkennen. Das Hauptproblem der vorliegenden Untersuchung ist eine Antwortsuche auf die Frage nach dem Schicksal der Populärliteratur, die den allgemeineuropäischen Prozessen unterworfen und mit der Geistigkeit in Europa der Frühen Neuzeit verbunden war, ihre Spezifik aber in der altpolnischen Kultur hatte.