Humanities & Social Sciences

From his cavernous voice and unparalleled artistry to his fearless struggle for human rights, Paul Robeson was one of the twentieth century's greatest icons and polymaths. In Everything Man Shana L. Redmond traces Robeson's continuing cultural resonances in popular culture and politics. She follows his appearance throughout the twentieth century in the forms of sonic and visual vibration and holography; theater, art, and play; and the physical environment. Redmond thereby creates an imaginative cartography in which Robeson remains present and accountable to all those he inspired and defended. With her bold and unique theorization of antiphonal life, Redmond charts the possibility of continued communication, care, and collectivity with those who are dead but never gone.

Die Chiffre '68' steht für Protest und Aufbruchsstimmung, für längst fällige Öffnungen und Reformen. Der Band legt Ergebnisse vor, die dieses Narrativ des radikalen Wandels in Frage stellen. In drei länderübergreifenden Fallstudien werden Ambivalenzen und Bruchlinien rekonstruiert. Sichtbar wird das Nebeneinander von Neuem und Altem, von plötzlichen Ereignissen des Wandels und gleichzeitigen langlebigen Beharrungen. Mit einer vielschichtigen Analyse von Reformdynamiken leistet der Band einen Beitrag zum vertieften Verständnis von Transformationsprozessen in der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe.

The Comparative Agendas Project (CAP) brings together data on government activities in over twenty countries, and provides a consistent categorizing system to understand when a given institution of government in a particular country took action on any issue of public policy. All topics are covered, comprehensively, over several decades, in some countries going back to World War II. Because of the open-data philosophy that animates the international network of scholars involved in the project and their meticulous attention to comparability and common data coding conventions, the databases of the CAP represent an unprecedented resource for the study of public policy across national borders. In this major new book, leaders of each national team provide the background and information needed for anyone to understand how best to make use of these newly available historical databases. Interested users will range from novice students of public policy to accomplished scholars, from interested citizens to professional journalists, political or partisan activists, and professional staff of legislative assemblies or national administrative agencies. The book’s sections include chapters introducing the CAP to a new audience, describing each national project, illustrating various cross-national uses and analyses that the CAP data allow, and concluding with ideas for further practical and research uses.

Epidicus, a light-hearted comedy by Plautus about the machinations of a trickster slave and the inadequacies of his bumbling masters, appears here in both its original Latin and a sparkling new translation by Catherine Tracy. Epidicus, the cunning slave, is charged with finding his master’s illegitimate daughter and the secret girlfriend of his master’s son, but a comedy of mistaken identities and competing interests ensues. Amid the mayhem, Epidicus aims to win his freedom whilst risking some of the grislier punishments the Romans inflicted on their unfortunate slaves. This parallel edition in both Latin and English, with its accessible introduction and comprehensive notes, guides the reader through this popular Roman play. Tracy explores Epidicus’s roots in Greek drama, its rich social resonances for a Roman audience and its life in performance. She transforms Plautus' colloquial Latin poetry into lively modern English prose, illuminating the play’s many comedic references to the world of the Roman republic. This fine introduction to an enduring play will be of great use and enjoyment for undergraduate students of Latin drama and the general reader alike.

This edited volume brings together international experts to address one of today's most urgent challenges: how blockchain technology can support climate action and improve the transparency and integrity of voluntary carbon markets (VCM). By analyzing the tokenization of Voluntary Carbon Credits (VCCs), this book provides a holistic view of the economic, legal, and technical issues at play. It explores how blockchain's unique attributes - immutability, security, and digital accessibility - can help build trust in the respective data and carbon offset claims across global supply chains. From international carbon regulation to real-world pilot projects and digital asset standards, this book speaks to a rapidly evolving landscape. With insights from leading scholars and cutting-edge research, it offers valuable guidance for academics, policymakers, legal professionals, fintech innovators, and sustainability leaders alike.

Sur la responsabilité, Hannah Arendt a livré des réflexions importantes mais éparses. Or le versant éthique de La Condition de l’homme moderne n’est explicitement développé nulle part dans son œuvre. Le présent ouvrage poursuit un double objectif. Expliciter l’esquisse d’une éthique chez Hanna Arendt, en la faisant dialoguer avec celles de Karl Jaspers, Hans Jonas, John Dewey, mais aussi Paul Ricœur. Ce faisant, trouver aussi un guide pour articuler de manière efficace les multiples conceptions existantes de la responsabilité, tant en philosophie qu’en sciences sociales : responsabilité collective, responsabilité sans faute, responsabilité-dette, responsabilité-promesse, responsabilité partagée... Cet effort d’éclaircissement conceptuel est requis par les incessantes références à la responsabilité dans nombre de nos débats contemporains. Mais il offre surtout une réponse inédite à une question en apparence triviale : pourquoi certains hommes nous sont-ils étrangers ? L’humanité, selon Arendt, est constituée d’une pluralité d’êtres singuliers, tous irréductiblement distincts les uns des autres – nul n’a donc de raison de nous être plus étranger qu’un autre. Et parce que c’est au sein de cette pluralité humaine que nous agissons, nos actions ont sur les autres hommes des conséquences imprévisibles, qui excèdent toujours nos intentions. Jusqu’à quelle limite acceptons-nous alors d’être tenus pour responsables de ces conséquences que nous n’avons pas voulues ? Refuser d’avoir des comptes à rendre à certaines personnes affectées par nos actions, refuser par conséquent de nous montrer responsables à leur égard, n’est-ce pas là notre motif pour les désigner comme étrangères ? La pluralité lance donc un défi à la responsabilité : jusqu’à quel point sommes-nous capables d’assumer l’humanité ?

The port of Salerno, one of the largest on the Tyrrhenian coast, was implanted in the Middle Ages west of the city. Deteriorated over time due to neglect and serious problems of cover-up afflicting the area, it was replanted after the unification of Italy, creating a closed basin with the mouth turned to the east. The wrong orientation and the massive landfill phenomena supervening, led to the severe erosion of the eastern beach, on which it stood the city. In order to cope with the phenomena, in the last decades of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, multiple defense interventions were carried out by sheltered cliffs that filled the coast with the total metamorphosis of the coastal strip.

The impact of neoliberal governance on indigenous peoples in liberal settler states may be both enabling and constraining. This book is distinctive in drawing comparisons between three such states—Australia, Canada and New Zealand. In a series of empirically grounded, interpretive micro-studies, it draws out a shared policy coherence, but also exposes idiosyncrasies in the operational dynamics of neoliberal governance both within each state and between them. Read together as a collection, these studies broaden the debate about and the analysis of contemporary government policy.The individual studies reveal the forms of actually existing neoliberalism that are variegated by historical, geographical and legal contexts and complex state arrangements. At the same time, they present examples of a more nuanced agential, bottom-up indigenous governmentality. Focusing on intense and complex matters of social policy rather than on resource development and land rights, they demonstrate how indigenous actors engage in trying to govern various fields of activity by acting on the conduct and contexts of everyday neoliberal life, and also on the conduct of state and corporate actors.

The MAVEBA Workshop proceedings, held on a biannual basis, collect the scientific papers presented both as oral and poster contributions, during the conference. The main subjects are: development of theoretical and mechanical models as an aid to the study of main phonatory dysfunctions, as well as the biomedical engineering methods for the analysis of voice signals and images, as a support to clinical diagnosis and classification of vocal pathologies. The Workshop has the sponsorship of: Ente Cassa Risparmio di Firenze, COST Action 2103, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control Journal (Elsevier Eds.), IEEE Biomedical Engineering Soc. Special Issues of International Journals have been, and will be, published, collecting selected papers from the conference.

Nowadays, the innovation in space technologies creates a new trend for the Earth observation and monitoring from space. This book contains high quality and compressive work on both microwave and optical remote sensing applications. This book is divided into five sections: (i) remote sensing for biomass estimation, (ii) remote sensing-based glacier studies, (iii) remote sensing for coastal and ocean applications, (iv) sewage leaks and environment disasters, and (v) remote sensing image processing. Each chapter offers an opportunity to expand the knowledge about various remote sensing techniques and persuade researchers to deliver new research novelty for environment studies.

The physical body has often been seen as a prison, as something to be escaped by any means necessary: technology, mechanization, drugs and sensory deprivation, alien abduction, Rapture, or even death and extinction. Taking in horror movies from David Cronenberg and UFO encounters, metal bands such as Godflesh, ketamine experiments, AI, and cybernetics, Escape Philosophy is an exploration of the ways that human beings have sought to make this escape, to transcend the limits of the human body, to find a way out. As the physical world continues to crumble at an ever-accelerating rate, and we are faced with a particularly 21st-century kind of dread and dehumanization in the face of climate collapse and a global pandemic, Escape Philosophy asks what this escape from our bodies might look like, and if it is even possible.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Written by a leading expert in the field, this book analyses the complex relations between the European Union (EU) as a regional organization and the United Nations (UN) as an international, global governance institution. The book explores how collaboration between the EU and the UN has evolved and how the two entities collaborate both structurally and in day-to-day work. It shows how the EU acts within institutions such as the United Nations General Assembly and how UN agencies, funds and entities, such as UNHRC, UNICEF and UN Women, interact with the EU and its member states. Through its analysis, the book demonstrates how, despite recent criticism, patterns of multilateralism and cooperation between regional and international institutions can be central to stable patterns of rules-based regional and global governance.

In sozialrechtlichen Streitigkeiten tritt bei Rechtsuchenden eine Vielzahl sozialer Probleme zu Tage. Können aber die Kläger im Sozialprozess aufgrund prozessualer Hindernisse ihre Ansprüche nicht durchsetzen, so bleiben die sozialen Rechte lediglich ein theoretisches Konstrukt. Die vorliegende Studie befasst sich mit der Frage, wie effektiver Rechtsschutz in sozialrechtlichen Streitigkeiten gewährleistet werden kann. Sie erarbeitet die theoretischen Grundlagen des effektiven Rechtsschutzes in sozialrechtlichen Streitigkeiten. Anhand eines Rechtsvergleichs zwischen den verschieden angelegten Sozialgerichtsverfahren in Deutschland und Slowenien wird systematisch untersucht, inwieweit jeweils effektiver Rechtsschutz gewährleistet wird.

Das gestiegene ökologische Bewusstsein in der Gesellschaft führt zur Verabschiedung von immer mehr gesetzlichen Regelungen und Programmen zur Verringerung des Energiebedarfs und der Verbesserung der Ressourceneffizienz. Mit Hilfe der Kaltmassivumformung ist eine ressourceneffiziente Herstellung von Bauteilen mit sehr guten mechanischen Eigenschaften möglich. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit erfolgte eine ganzheitliche Charakterisierung des Einflusses unterschiedlicher Prozessschritte aus der Prozesskette der Kaltmassivumformung auf die resultierenden Bauteileigenschaften. Im Fokus der Untersuchungen stehen dabei die Bauteileigenschaften aus der gesamten Prozesskette einer mehrstufigen Kaltmassivumformung mit besonderer Berücksichtigung verschiedener Wärmebehandlungsmethoden. Die Grundlage für die systematischen Untersuchungen bildet die ganzheitliche Charakterisierung der Eigenschaften der umformtechnisch hergestellten Bauteile. Bestandteil der Untersuchungen waren hierbei die Kaltverfestigung beziehungsweise Härte, die Topografie und die Rauheit, die Mikrostruktur des Werkstoffes und die resultierenden Eigenspannungen. Parallel hierzu erfolgt eine simulative Abbildung des Umformprozesses, um Zusammenhänge zwischen Werkstofffluss, Spannungsverlauf und resultierenden Bauteileigenschaften zu analysieren. Aufbauend auf diesen Erkenntnissen wurde die dynamische Beanspruchbarkeit mit Hilfe von bauteilspezifisch entwickelten Prüfvorrichtungen ermittelt. Abschließend erfolgte eine Analyse des Einflusses der fertigungsbedingten Bauteileigenschaften auf die dynamische Beanspruchbarkeit. Durch die Korrelation der Bauteileigenschaften mit den ermittelten dynamischen Beanspruchbarkeiten konnten die grundlegenden Einflüsse und deren Wechselwirkungen für unterschiedliche dynamische Beanspruchungen identifiziert werden. Anhand der gewonnen Erkenntnisse werden zudem Empfehlungen zur Auslegung der entsprechenden Prozesse zur gezielten Einstellung der Bauteileigenschaften gegeben. Durch die Untersuchungen ist es möglich, die Vorteile kaltmassivumgeformter Bauteile gezielter zu nutzen und neben der Auslegung für statische Beanspruchungen auch die dynamische Beanspruchbarkeit zu berücksichtigen.

Over the past years, a considerable amount of effort has been devoted, both in industry and academia, towards the development of basic technology as well as innovative applications for the Internet of Things. Adaptive Middleware for the Internet of Things introduces a scalable, interoperable and privacy-preserving approach to realize IoT applications and discusses abstractions and mechanisms at the middleware level that simplify the realization of services that can adapt autonomously to the behavior of their users. Technical topics discussed in the book include:Behavior-driven Autonomous ServicesGAMBAS Middleware ArchitectureGeneric and Efficient Data AcquisitionInteroperable and Scalable Data ProcessingAutomated Privacy PreservationAdaptive Middleware for the Internet of Things summarizes the results of the GAMBAS research project funded by the European Commission under Framework Programme 7. It provides an in-depth description of the middleware system developed by the project consortium. In addition, the book describes several innovative mobility and monitoring applications that have been built, deployed and operated to evaluate the middleware under realistic conditions with a large number of users. Adaptive Middleware for the Internet of Things is ideal for personnel in the computer and communication industries as well as academic staff and research students in computer science interested in the development of systems and applications for the Internet of Things.