Humanities & Social Sciences

Based on the discovery of an unknown Latin manuscript, Maria Petyt - A Carmelite Mystic in Wartime provides surprising new information about the seventeenth century Flemish mystic Maria Petyt (1623-1677) who wrote many letters to her spiritual director, Michael of St. Augustine.

Mathematics Education; Learning; Teaching

Sandflies show distribution in a vast geographical area from Europe to Asia, Africa, Australia, and Central and South America where they can transmit a large number of viruses. Between these viruses, the most important are grouped into the Phlebovirus genus (family Phenuiviridae). Among them, several sandfly-borne phleboviruses cause self-limiting febrile disease (sandfly fever) or central and peripheral nervous system infections. Data concerning the geographic distribution of these phleboviruses has drastically increased during the last decade in both the new and the old worlds. The current situation depicts a high viral diversity with taxonomic groups containing human pathogenic and non-pathogenic viruses. This merits to provide insight to address the question of medical and veterinary public health impact of all these viruses, which are poorly studied. To do so, integrated and translational approaches must use ecological, epidemiological, serological and direct clinical evidence. Beside, other viruses transmitted by sandflies and belonging to Rhabdoviridae and Reoviridae families can also be of veterinary and public health importance. The chapter aims to provide a comprehensive view of the sandfly-borne viral pathogens of the public health impact on humans and other vertebrates in the old and new worlds.

This volume explores and elucidates critical ancient world studies (CAWS), a new model for the study of the ancient world operating critically, setting itself against a long history of a discipline formulated to naturalise a hierarchical, white supremacist origin story for an imagined modern West. CAWS is a methodology for the study of antiquity that shifts away from the assumptions and approaches of the discipline known as classical studies and/or classics. Although it seeks to reckon with the discipline’s colonial history, it is not simply the application of decolonial theory or the search to uncover subaltern narratives in a subject that has special relevance to the privileged and powerful. Rather, it dismantles the structures of knowledge that have led to this privileging, and questions the categories, ideas, themes, narratives, and epistemological structures that have been deemed objective and essential within the inherited discipline of classics. The contributions in this book, by an international group of researchers, offer a variety of situated, embodied perspectives on the question of how to imagine a more critical discipline, rather than a unified single view. The volume is divided into four parts – “Critical Epistemologies”, “Critical Philologies”, “Critical Time and Critical Space”, and “Critical Approaches” – and uses these as spaces to propose disciplinary transformation. Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics is a must-read for scholars and practitioners teaching in the field of classical studies, and the breadth of examples also makes it an invaluable resource for anyone working on the ancient world, or on confronting Eurocentrism, within other disciplines.

At bottom, youth also – and perhaps primarily – serves this purpose: to make room for the other, that is deconstructing oneself with a view to a reconstruction that is always implied in such a perspective. Moreover, those who do not manage to do so when they are young will have greater difficulty making room for the gift of the other when they are old, unless they wish to identify with that gift, albeit threatening the survival of critical capacity with a belated and excessive display of the self to the other. (From the author's Foreword)

Rotationsschneiden ist eine eher gering verbreite Technologie und hat sich vornehmlich in der Verpackungs- und Hygieneindustrie als Verfahren für die Verarbeitung zahlreicher weicher und nichtmetallischer Materialien etabliert. Anwendung in der Metallverarbeitung hat das Verfahren in Kombination mit Profilierprozessen erlangt und sich auch in dieser Branche für einfache Profilanwendungen durchgesetzt. Damit überzeugt das Rotationsschneiden als kontinuierliches Verfahren mit seinen Potenzialen in der Massenverarbeitung von dünnen Materialen, so auch hypothetisch von metallischen Funktionsfolien, die in mechatronischen Anwendungen zum Einsatz kommen. Wichtige Vertreter dieser Kategorie sind Elektroband für weichmagnetische Kerne, Kupferfolien für Schaltungsträger, legierte Kupferbänder für Stanzgitter und Lotband für Lotstanz- und Formteile. Im Rahmen dieser Dissertation werden die Einsatzpotenziale der Rotationsschneidtechnologie für die Verarbeitung dieser metallischen Funktionsfolien tiefergehend analysiert und Lösungswege aufgezeigt. Zunächst werden die technologischen Prozessmerkmale zum Aufbau der Prozessstruktur, zur Kinematik des Prozesses sowie zur Statik und Dynamik beim Rotationsschneiden erfasst und auf die Gegebenheiten beim Rotationsschneiden von dünnen Metallfolien hin ausgerichtet. Anschließend werden das rotative Messerschneiden, das rotative Stempel-Matrize-Schneiden und das rotative Elastomer-Schneiden als geeignete Verfahrensalternativen für die Verarbeitung von dünnen Metallfolien für mechatronische Anwendungen identifiziert, auf die hohen Anforderungen mechatronischer Anwendungen hin angepasst und eingehend auf ihre Eignung für die Verarbeitung von ausgesuchten Vertretern für Funktionsfolien untersucht. Abschließend werden die drei rotativen Schneidverfahren bezüglich verschiedener Kriterien kategorisiert, um eine Auswahlhilfe für den spezifischen Anwendungsfall anzubieten. Zuletzt geben zwei exemplarische Anwendungen einen Ausblick auf die gewaltigen technischen und prozessualen Potenziale in der industriellen Verarbeitung von metallischen Funktionsfolien für mechatronische Produkte. Die erste betrachtete Anwendung ist die effiziente rotative Verarbeitung von Elektroband zu magnetischen Kernen. Die zweite Anwendung befasst sich mit der rotativen Verarbeitung von Schaltungsträgern für LED-Leuchtmittel.

This open access book presents a good overview of the current research landscape of assembly, handling and industrial robotics. The objective of MHI Colloquium is the successful networking at both academic and management levels. Thereby, the colloquium focuses an academic exchange at a high level in order to distribute the obtained research results, to determine synergy effects and trends, to connect the actors in person and in conclusion, to strengthen the research field as well as the MHI community. In addition, there is the possibility to become acquainted with the organizing institute. Primary audience is formed by members of the scientific society for assembly, handling and industrial robotics (WGMHI).

The volume, dedicated to the 44th International Conference of the Italian Union for Drawing, investigates the theme of ‘Transitions’, which particularly effectively represents our time and the current condition of the discipline of Drawing. The term, beyond its generic meaning of an intermediate stage in a process in which a condition changes from one state to another, has always been used in various fields, from music to geophysics. In fact, the disciplines of drawing have always been confronted with themes and issues relating to transitions from one condition to another. The history of representation tells us of transformations, even epochal ones, relating to ‘drawing’, with all that such transitions entail: suffice it to think of the evolution of forms of representation, of instrumental apparatuses, of the mutability of supports, of the analogical-digital transition underway, of the new modes of communication on platforms, of the hypertrophic offer of images also on the net that confirms Guy Debord’s intuitions relating to the new spectacularisation of society. Similarly, representation triggers transitions in the prefiguration and communication of design, the anticipation and foreshadowing of future events.The challenges posed by the digital pose open questions whose scope can only be glimpsed, such as the relationship between drawing and the act of modelling, and the construction of new paradigms of visual language and communication. ‘Transitions’, almost implicitly, points to possible futures, the evolution of technique and the search for new modes of expression; at the same time, however, it can suggest silences and reflections in a process of connection between history, theory, criticism and construction.

What is a problem? What’s asked in that question, and how does one even begin to take its measure? How else could one begin, except as one does with any other problem—by way of its impulsion. Of Learned Ignorance: Idea of a Treatise in Philosophy is about philosophy because philosophy is about problems: philosophy, in a word, is where problems become a problem. After Anti-Oedipus, in the Kafka book and in A Thousand Plateaus, what Deleuze and Guattari counsel, strikingly, is sobriety. Sobriety is what they praise in Kafka. And it is sobriety that seems above all else to be necessary here. (Steven Shaviro has pointed out the prominence of structure in Deleuze’s writing: “even when Deleuze’s prose, by himself or with Guattari, seems to be ranging anarchically all over the place, in fact it has a rigid and unvarying architecture, which is what keeps it from falling apart.”) Of Learned Ignorance is a dead letter because it names a problem. It’s a dead letter because it is, cautiously, a love letter. It’s a dead letter because it lovingly stages an experiment in whimsy, and perhaps above all, because it is problematic (in the Kantian sense): It is a (sober) attempt at exemplifying what it talks about — and what eludes it: A series of footnotes, with blank (transcriptive) pages above, effects something like the integration of a differential, the reciprocal determination where the sources enter into in relation to one another in order to produce a paper, essay, or (inexistent) (chap)book. Of Learned Ignorance, in facing down a problem, makes a wager; it courts failure; it puts it all on the line. All, yes, for love — a kind of love … (of wisdom?)

"From extreme heatwaves and wildfires to in North America to the deadly flooding in Western Europe and Asia in 2021, the dramatic rise in catastrophic weather events has repercussions for firms. At the same time, cutting emissions sufficiently to limit global warming will require an overhaul of business models. An increasing share of EU firms realise they need to invest to prepare themselves for climate change and the energy transition, but the COVID-19 crisis weakened their ability to do so. Some key findings from the EIB Investment Survey 2021-2022: 58% of European firms say their business is affected by the physical risks of climate change. The share of European firms investing in climate measures was relatively flat in 2021, likely a result of the pandemic. About 46% of EU firms have plans to invest in climate measures in the future, a significant increase from 2020."

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.

The Czech linguist Josef Filipec, with his many groundbreaking works, has not only established the modern lexicology and lexicography of the Czech language, but has also made significant contributions to general lexicology, which are still too little known outside of Slavic studies. The contributions collected here provide a welcome insight into the author's long-standing findings and are based on rare, mutually stimulating interactions of practical work on the dictionary (see the recent work "Slovnik spisovné češtiny pro školu a veřejnost", 1994). and the theoretical generalization (see the basic work "Česká lexikologie", together with F. Cermák, 1995).

Political Science; European Union

Die Heime der Brüdergemeinde Korntal und Wilhelmsdorf sind ein weiteres „Fallbeispiel“ für die Heimwirklichkeit in den ersten Jahrzehnten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Diese war für viele Kinder gekennzeichnet durch eine strenge religiöse und gewaltförmige Erziehung, die in der Tradition der autoritären Fürsorgeerziehung steht. Die Gespräche mit über 100 ehemaligen Heimkindern und die Analyse von Akten zeigen die Formen und Ausmaße von physischer, sexualisierter und psychischer Gewalt, die Kinder erlitten haben.

Slavery takes many forms. This was also true in Roman antiquity, even though modern scholarship on Roman slavery paints the picture of a very homogenous institution. This volume intends to correct that perception. In it, renowned legal historians analyse juristic writings to showcase the social differences among slaves reflected in these texts. In this way, the papers collected here convey an impression of the complexity of Roman slave law.