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The work consists of two parts. The first part deals exclusively with the aspect properties of Russian prefigured verbs. A perfective analysis for Russian is proposed, which allows to grasp the semantic differences between imperfective Simplizia and its derivative derivatives in semantic terms. The second part of the thesis is an application of the proposed perfective analysis to Russian pere-prefixed verbs. It is shown that the meaning variants of pere-prefixed verbs in Russian can be derived from a general prefix scheme and the semantics of the stem verb.

Japan in the Heisei Era (1989–2019) provides a retrospective and multidisciplinary account of a society in flux. Featuring analyses from leading scholars around the globe, this textbook examines the evolving contexts of Japan throughout the Heisei era and how longstanding verities and values have been called into question. Asking what this holds for Japan’s future relations with the world and within its own communities, chapters delve beneath the layers of a complex and increasingly diverse society, exploring topics including simmering ethnonationalism, economic torpor, political stagnation, and cultural dynamics. Features of this textbook include: Analysis of key social issues ranging from immigration, civil society, press freedom, politics, labour and the economy, to diversity, the marginalisation of women, Shinto, and Aum Shinrikyo Evaluation of the legacy of Emperor Akihito on war memory, the imperial institution, art, regional relations, and constitutional revision Multidisciplinary insights from both the social sciences and humanities Rich illustrations for visual analysis of developments in contemporary Japanese literature, film, art, and pop culture Providing students with dynamic analyses of how contemporary Japanese society continues to transform, this textbook is essential reading for students of Japanese Studies, including Japanese culture, society, history, and politics. The Introduction and Chapter 19 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

The international trade regulatory system is a dynamic system that has been evolving throughout its history. Tension and conflict are part of the system. While calls for the abolition of the principal trade regulation authority, the WTO, have failed to understand this nature of the system, proponents for reforms have so far not paid sufficient attention to the evolving nature of tension and conflict. This book examines the evolving dynamics in international trade regulation from the conclusion of GATT in 1947 to the current crisis facing the WTO, from a perspective of emerging powers of developing countries with a focus of China as the latest force that demands reforms of the international trade regulatory regime. There is an extensive body of scholarship on ideological struggles, the rise of developing countries, geopolitical contest, the emerging powers (especially China), the use, misuse or abuse of trading rules and so on. There is, however, a lack of a single concise research book that synthesises these underlying causes and factors into a coherent and precise analytical theme. This book attempts to fill this research gap by building upon the existing scholarship and placing the various tensions and conflicts in a perspective that treats them as dynamic factors that have propelled a continuing process of evolution of the international trade regulation. The book will interest those researching on international trade regulation as well as development studies.

Institutions all over the world are setting up microcredentials in responses to calls from governments and industry. These are short courses, usually offered online, with an emphasis on the needs of the workplace. More targeted than typical degree courses, they cover role-specific knowledge and help with essential workplace skills. They enable learners to study alongside their work, refreshing and updating their skills. With microcredentials, individuals can access the qualifications they need to get the jobs they want, retraining and upskilling whenever necessary. These are exciting possibilities, but how can they be achieved? Written for everyone with an interest in the policy, practice, or production of microcredentials, this book takes a realistic look at what is possible. Rooted in experience, research and practice, it identifies what makes these new courses distinctive and provides guidance on how to go about producing them and supporting learners. Differences in scale, funding, learners, and presentation are just some of the factors that mean microcredentials are not typical courses. Setting them up and sustaining them effectively requires thought and change in all areas of an institution, as well as new or extended partnerships with employers and professional organisations. Microcredentials for Excellence: A Practical Guide examines the range of roles that contribute to a successful microcredential as well as processes and frameworks developed to help with the development of a microcredentials programme. The book: - describes approaches to teaching and learning that work well with these courses; - identifies methods of course production and learning design that have proved successful when making the move to microcredentials; - suggests ways in which learners can be supported during their studies, especially in terms of wellbeing, accessibility, and mental health; - examines innovative practices in assessment and feedback that address some of the challenges for microcredentials in these areas; - explores the internal and external quality standards that may be applied, together with ways of evaluating and developing courses to meet these standards; and - looks ahead to possible futures for microcredentials, taking into account the different visions proposed by those developing them and those influencing that development.

New developments - scientific, technical, societal and political - influence not only the agenda for research but also research structures, resource requirements (human and otherwise), education and training programs and interfaces with partners and the users of research. They also have an impact on research funding and management and the way research is evaluated and monitored. This book deals with the business of doing research in Europe's public research and development organisations, with a particular focus on their strategic management challenges. It is the third e-book produced by EURAGRI and draws on contributions made at the 31st EURAGRI annual conference held in Dublin (Ireland) in September 2017.

Commercial cinema has been among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization in South Asia. So argues Iftikhar Dadi in his provocative examination of cinema produced between 1956 and 1969—the long sixties—in Lahore, Pakistan, following the 1947 Partition of South Asia. These films drew freely from Bengali performance traditions, Hindu mythology, Parsi theater, Sufi conceptions of the self, Urdu lyric poetry, and Hollywood musicals, bringing these traditions into dialogue with melodrama and neorealism. Examining this layered context offers insights into a period of rapid modernization and into cultural affiliation in the South Asian present, when frameworks of multiplicity and plurality are in jeopardy. Lahore Cinema probes the role of language, rhetoric, lyric, and form in the making of cinematic meaning as well as the relevance of the Urdu cultural universe to midcentury Bombay filmmaking. Challenging the assumption of popular cinema as apolitical, Dadi explores how films allowed their audiences to navigate an accelerating modernity and tense politics by anchoring social change across the terrain of deeper cultural imaginaries. By constituting publics beyond social divides of regional, ethnic, and sectarian affiliations, commercial cinema played an influential progressive role during the mid- and later twentieth century in South Asia. Lahore Cinema is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of Cornell University. DOI: 10.6069/9780295750804

The project of a tax as an own resource of the European Union stems from dissatisfaction with the financial set-up of the EU, which has never had true financial autonomy. It also draws new and unexpected inspiration from the proposals for reforming the European budget, aimed at containing the crisis generated by the Covid-19 pandemic and supporting the economic recovery of the member states. In this context, an own tax would allow the Union greater financial autonomy, new own resources to support post-pandemic economic recovery, and greater visibility to European citizens. The essay outlines the possible legal basis and the essential features of a European corporate income tax, while highlighting the implementation perplexities related to the unanimity mechanism for its approval.

Im Zentrum dieses Werkes stehen die französischen Schulen im Libanon in der historischen Zeitepoche der wachsenden französischen Einflussnahme von 1909 bis 1943. Anhand der verschiedenen politischen Regime des Osmanischen Reiches und des französischen Völkerbundmandats über den Libanon wird die These untermauert, dass diese Schulen immer stärker zu Instrumenten kolonialer Machtausübung wurden. Gleichzeitig zeigt Esther Möller, dass die Bildungseinrichtungen ebenso stark von der Akzeptanz und den Erwartungen der libanesischen Bevölkerung abhingen und von dieser zur kulturellen, religiösen und nationalen Identitätsstiftung genutzt wurden. Indem die Studie die komplexen Prozesse aufzeigt, welche die französische Zivilisierungsmission im Libanon begleiteten, leistet sie einen wichtigen Beitrag zur hochaktuellen Debatte um Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten und Grenzen von Zivilisierungsmissionen.

This collection brings together established and emerging scholars for a critical framing of sustainability through the lens of language and communication, social semiotics, and media studies. The volume underscores the importance of re-envisioning sustainability around not only climate change and biodiversity loss but in broader systems of ecological, social, and economic imbalances on a global scale. The book begins with a visual essay which provides a semiotic foundation for understandings of sustainability across disciplinary approaches in the chapters that follow. Subsequent chapters are organized around four thematic parts: reframing sustainability in a colonial world; the semiotics of sustainability; communicating sustainability in everyday life; and sustainability communication in the arts. A closing commentary by Crispin Thurlow offers critical reflections on sustainability within language and communication research and beyond. This book will be of interest to scholars addressing sustainability across diverse disciplines, including language and communication, social semiotics, linguistic anthropology, environmental communication, media studies, and development studies.

The debates surrounding the decentralization of academia in Germany can be illustrated using the example of African Studies. The contributors examine the history of the field while presenting concepts for its reconfiguration. Organized in the form of a glossary with a focus on African Studies and Bayreuth, it addresses themes such as intersectionality and decoloniality, memory and future-making, relationality and reflexivity, and diaspora and African nation states. This volume dedicated to Rüdiger Seesemann reflects his influential role in introducing »reconfiguration« to German academia and shaping institutional strategies for future scholarship.

Mass media was an important technology of sexual enlightenment in the Brezhnev-era USSR. In the Latvian SSR, sex education materials positioned medical experts working within the state healthcare system as the chief authority on matters related to both sexual health and sexual morality. Expert knowledge was entangled with broader political programs, as doctors lent their authoritative voices to further state goals, such as prosecuting those who transmitted VD ‘maliciously’ and addressing declining fertility. In this context, medical experts played a key role in the articulation of specificspecificspecificspecific ideas about sexual health that aligned with the pro-natalist priorities of the Soviet government and addressed demographic decline in the western republics of the USSR. The role assigned to doctors at the Latvian Republican VD Dispensary required them to step outside their area of expertise (venereology) and discuss a broad range of issues related to sexual morality and sexual behaviour. Despite the push for mass sex education with the goal of reducing rates of VD, the messages pushed in articles, brochures, lectures, radio broadcasts, and films were often in conflict with the broader public health outcomes that state official officials set out to achieve. In casting syphilis and gonorrhoea as illnesses contracted primarily by amoral and antisocial individuals and constantly reminding their audience about the criminalisation of VD transmission, the sex education materials prepared by staffstaffstaff at Latvia’s Republican VD Dispensary disincentivised seeking treatment within the state healthcare system and likely contributed to high rates of venereal infection

Der Zweck der beigelegten Zusammenstellung soll eine Information darüber sein, welche Bücherfonds auch ein ausländischer Forscher mit Hilfe von gedruckten Katalogen und Verzeichnissen einsehen kann. Die Untersuchungen geben - in chronologischer Reihenfolge - Informationen über die Betreuung, über die Organisation der Verwaltung und über die Problematik der Bearbeitung dieser Fonds in der Nachkriegszeit.

Angesichts des hohen Nebenstromverhältnisses moderner Flugtriebwerke wird die Einführung eines Getriebes zwischen Niederdruckturbine und Fan attraktiv. Ein solches Getriebe stellt aufgrund der hohen übertragenen Leistung und den stark gegensätzlichen Forderungen nach geringem Gewicht, geringem Bauraum, hoher Zuverlässigkeit und hohem Wirkungsgrad eine große Herausforderung dar und erfordert die genaue Kenntnis aller beteiligten Vorgänge. Einer dieser Vorgänge ist der Wärmeübergang durch Einspritzkühlung. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird eine neuartige experimentelle Methode vorgestellt, mit der dieser am rotierenden Zahnrad ortsaufgelöst und mit hoher Genauigkeit bestimmt werden kann. Der Wärmeübergang wird mit dieser Methode für einen breiten Betriebsbereich ermittelt. Der Einfluss von Ölvolumenstrom, Drehzahl und Düsenwinkel auf den Wärmeübergang wird anhand dieser ortsaufgelösten Daten erstmalig beschrieben. Es zeigt sich die Existenz einer kritischen Drehzahl, bei deren Überschreitung ein deutlicher Rückgang des Wärmeübergangs auftritt. Durch Verwendung eines kinematischen Modells des Ölaufpralls können die beobachteten Zusammenhänge erklärt werden. Örtlich aufgelöste Messungen des Wärmeübergangs sind durch die vorliegende Arbeit erstmalig und für einen weiten Parameterbereich verfügbar. Dies versetzt den Entwickler in die Lage, eine ausreichende Kühlung der Zahnflanken sicherzustellen, ohne dabei Wirkungsgradverluste durch zu hohe eingesetzte Ölvolumenströme zu riskieren.

This open access book adopts two approaches developed in political philosophy, "ideal" and "non-ideal" theory, to develop a new approach to bioethics. It argues that both ideal theory and non-ideal theory may be preferable depending on the situation. On this basis, it proposes a new decision-making approach using five criteria to analyze different situations and to decide which one to choose. This approach is introduced theoretically and considered practically using current examples like reproductive rights, the Covid pandemic, or the feminist analysis practice of vulnerability and relational autonomy. This book is of interest to researchers, students, and practitioners in the fields of bioethics, medical ethics, public health, and gender studies.

This collection spotlights the diachronic dimensions of the linguistic landscape, the importance of exploring temporal dissonances in historical events in order to better understand semiotic, political, and social transformations across different communities over the last century. The volume seeks to expand the current borders of linguistic landscape (LL) research by situating the analysis of signs in the LL within their time–space organization, which has been understudied in existing scholarship. The book, featuring chapters from established and emerging scholars, argues that a focus on the historicity of the city text can reveal unique insights into the role of semiotic processes as precursors and support mechanisms for political and social changes. The collection is structured around different temporal clusters and geographic contexts across the globe where shorter and longer waves of politically driven resemioticization can be most sharply observed– post-colonial communities; post-communist societies; and recent and current sociopolitical upheavals. Taken together, the volume proposes a kaleidoscope view of the complex temporalities that underpin multimodal discourses in contested public spaces, offering new directions for research. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, semiotics, visual anthropology, and political science.