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The author of this article discusses the issue of defrazeologization in dementia, it means the disruptions in realization of phrasal idioms in people with early stage Alzheimer’s dementia, which manifest in transformations of their formal structure (modifying innovations) and the semantic structure (semantic modifications). These phraseological innovations should be interpreted as the unconscious modifications resulting from the progressive cognitive dysfunctions of people with dementia. The author of this work presents the preliminary results of research conducted in 2015–2017 on the group of 15 people with early stage Alzheimer’s dementia with application of authorial test of lexical and semantic skills in elderly people with dementia.

« Aujourd’hui, le monde entier s’offre à travers le polar. » Ce que l’on appelle couramment le polar, sous ses formes diverses qui vont des plus classiques, le récit à énigmes et le roman noir, aux plus hybrides – thrillers politico-judiciaires, ethniques, histoires de meurtriers en série, à la limite de l’enquête clinique ou du récit d’horreur – est devenu le genre littéraire le plus populaire, le plus transversal et le plus « mondialisé ». Le paradoxe de ces récits, parfois traduits en de nombreuses langues, est leur enracinement dans une réalité sociale, culturelle, historique la plupart du temps très spécifique et très localisée. Ce « lieu » peut être plus fantasmatique que géographique. Cet ouvrage rassemble des études ciblées sur différentes traditions géoculturelles d’Europe, d’Asie, d’Afrique et des Amériques. Les spécialistes qui ont contribué à ce volume analysent l’articulation entre la spécificité de ces traditions ou de ces « ambiances » et le caractère transfrontalier des procédés littéraires mis en oeuvre, qui correspond à l’horizon d’attente de la fiction criminelle.

Qu’il les déplore ou qu’il s’en félicite, l’écrivain du XIXe siècle ne peut ignorer les nouveaux pouvoirs de la publicité appliquée à la littérature. Si de nombreux auteurs ont affiché une résistance farouche contre cette nouvelle donne commerciale qui fait de la littérature une marchandise, d’autres se sont montrés bien plus coopérants. En se généralisant au cours du siècle, la publicité éditoriale a poussé les auteurs à prendre une part de plus en plus active à la promotion ­commerciale de leurs œuvres et de leur personnage médiatique. Comment ont-ils répondu à cette double injonction ? C’est la question à laquelle les contributeurs de ce volume se proposent de répondre.

Gamma knife radiosurgery is a minimally-invasive treatment alternative for intracranial disorders, including tumors, vascular malformations, facial pain and epilepsy. This book will allow the reader to learn when gamma knife radiosurgery is appropriate and what to expect as treatment results.

The most common form of arthritis is osteoarthritis (OA), which most often affects the hip, knee, foot and hand. The degeneration of joint cartilage and changes in underlying bone and supporting tissues such as ligament leads to pain, stiffness, movement problems and activity limitations. This book, containing three major sections in OA research and therapy, is an update of the book Osteoarthritis - Diagnosis, Treatment and Surgery published by InTech in 2012. The authors are experts in the osteoarthritis field, which include biologists, bioengineers, clinicians, and health professionals. The scientific content of the book will be beneficial to patients, students, researchers, educators, physicians, and health care providers who are interested in the recent progress in osteoarthritis research and therapy.

re complex as two parallel nationalist movements – one seeking higher Yugoslav unity, the other arguing for the separate political autonomy of ethnic groups – often complemented one another, but at other times were in open conflict. Moreover, the political and territorial ambitions entailed by the various ethnic nationalisms often collided with each other. Eventually, as elsewhere, a marriage of necessity brought the two together. Yugoslav communists had to acknowledge that nationalism was a potent political force. They thus continued searching for a political project that could successfully combine both social and national emancipation in the context of developed and often mutually exclusive national projects of neighbouring groups. In this chapter, I show how the Yugoslav communists ‘discovered’ the successful federalist formula for the socialist re unification of Yugoslavia after the Second World War as well as how, as with any ‘successful’ formula, its discovery was preceded by numerous fruitless experiments.

The Euthalian tradition is a complex and pervasive set of late ancient prefaces, lists, divisions, and other paratexts transmitted alongside Acts, the Catholic Epistles, and Pauline Epistles, preserved (at least in part) in over 600 Greek manuscripts. This book catalogues the extent of the Euthalian tradition, introducing these features, pointing to their significance for research on the New Testament, and mapping their distribution in manuscripts produced from the sixth century onward. This catalogue is a tool for further research on the New Testament’s Greek manuscripts, reception history, and intellectual context.

The essay reconstructs the role of Political Philosophy and the History of Political Thought in the evolution of the ‘Cesare Alfieri’ Institute in Florence, from its foundation to the present day. Through a historical and institutional analysis, it shows how these two fields of research occupied a hidden, albeit significant, role in the development of the Institute, later acquiring centrality in the political and cultural education of its students. The text traces the stages of academic autonomisation of the ‘History of Political Doctrines’ and ‘Political Philosophy’, highlighting methodological tensions, ideological influences and changes in the relationship with the other social sciences. Along this trajectory, key figures, institutional transformations and a constant confrontation with the European dimension of political knowledge emerge. The boundary between Philosophy and the History of Thought thus proves to be a fertile space, in dialogue with the major cultural and political changes that Higher Education has had to face.

Border security has been high on public-policy agendas in Europe and North America since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City and on the headquarters of the American military in Washington DC. Governments are now confronted with managing secure borders, a policy objective that in this era of increased free trade and globalization must compete with intense cross-border flows of people and goods. Border-security policies must enable security personnel to identify, or filter out, dangerous individuals and substances from among the millions of travelers and tons of goods that cross borders daily, particularly in large cross-border urban regions.This book addresses this gap between security needs and an understanding of borders and borderlands. Specifically, the chapters in this volume ask policy-makers to recognize that two fundamental elements define borders and borderlands: first, human activities (the agency and agent power of individual ties and forces spanning a border), and second, the broader social processes that frame individual action, such as market forces, government activities (law, regulations, and policies), and the regional culture and politics of a borderland.Borders emerge as the historically and geographically variable expression of human ties exercised within social structures of varying force and influence, and it is the interplay and interdependence between people's incentives to act and the surrounding structures (i.e. constructed social processes that contain and constrain individual action) that determine the effectiveness of border security policies.This book argues that the nature of borders is to be porous, which is a problem for security policy makers. It shows that when for economic, cultural, or political reasons human activities increase across a border and borderland, governments need to increase cooperation and collaboration with regard to security policies, if only to avoid implementing mismatched security policies.

Apparues dans le paysage académique au tournant des années 1970, après s’être émancipées des sciences juridiques et des sciences économiques, les sciences de gestion et du management occupent désormais une place centrale dans le dispositif universitaire français. En effet, un étudiant sur cinq y suit un cursus généraliste ou spécialisé en management des organisations, avec des taux d’insertion professionnelle atteignant des niveaux très élevés. Le dynamisme est au moins aussi significatif en matière de recherche, avec la présence d’associations académiques très impliquées dans la diffusion des savoirs théoriques et appliqués. Alors même que de multiples débats se font jour sur la gouvernance du système universitaire, notamment dans le processus de recrutement et de promotion des enseignants-chercheurs, il est essentiel de discuter sereinement des enjeux en présence. Tel est l’objet du présent ouvrage, dont les différents chapitres sont rédigés par 40 membres ou anciens membres de la section 06 du Conseil national des universités (CNU) de la mandature 2019-2023. Leur volonté est d’éclairer les controverses en optant pour une vision réflexive, fondée sur le registre de la disputatio : une discussion entre pairs mobilisant arguments et contre-arguments. Les 18 chapitres, organisés en cinq parties (mesurer, transmettre, s’interroger, explorer, se projeter), abordent des questionnements majeurs devant retenir l’attention de tous les enseignants-chercheurs en sciences de gestion et du management et, plus largement, du grand public qui souhaite mieux appréhender la gouvernance du système universitaire.

La pratique des ouvrages miscellanées ou de « mélanges » n'est pas propre à la Renaissance, mais elle se développe à cette époque en même temps que naît la philologie et qu'apparaissent, avec les nouvelles interprétations des textes canoniques - bibliques, philosophiques, théologiques, politiques, etc. - comme avec la découverte du nouveau monde, de nouvelles constructions de sens et de connaissance, la réorganisation des savoirs. Les miscellanées ressortissent ainsi à des théories de la connaissance. Le développement de l'imprimerie joue un grand rôle dans la diffusion de ce type d'ouvrages. Sans prétendre à l'exhaustivité sur cette question, la journée d'étude de l'École des chartes a eu pour finalité de montrer quelques enjeux d'ouvrages miscellanées majeurs de la Renaissance.

Dr. Cecília Sik Lányi studied Mathematics and Computer Science (M.S.) – József Attila University (1984), and Teacher of Mathematics - Berzsenyi Dániel Teacher Training College in 1988. She obtained the degree of Dr. Univ. at the University of Veszprém, Hungary in Physical-chemistry (1993), and PhD at the University of Veszprém, Hungary in Computer Science (2000). She has worked as a software engineer and as an associate professor for program languages at the University of Pannonia. Currently she is teaching: Virtual Reality and its application, user interface design, and computer graphics for informatics engineering students. PhD and Masters’ supervision has an emphasis on Virtual Reality for the rehabilitation of children with disabilities and patients with mental health issues. She got the “Master teacher” award of the Hungarian Ministry of Education in 2001. She has published more than 300 refereed articles and conference papers, and worked as guest editor for many renowned journals and books. Her research area is Virtual Reality, Human Computer Interaction, Design for All. Virtual Reality (VR) has thousand faces. Why? Because from the moment of VR‘s birth we use it in every field of our life. VR is based on the development of information technology, computer graphics, and strong high speed hardware. VR has high impact not only on research but on our daily living as well. This book has an aim to present applications, trends and newest development in three main disciplines: health sector, education and industry. In this book several new applications are presented in three sections. The first part of the book deals with health care applications. It is followed by a literature review of Augmented Reality (AR). The second section contains industry field education disciplines. The last part shows several industry applications and research. This book will be useful for researchers, engineers and students.

Examining the relationship between German poetry, philosophy, and visual media around 1900, Carsten Strathausen argues that the poetic works of Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Stefan George focused on the visible gestalt of language as a means of competing aesthetically with the increasing popularity and "reality effect" of photography and film. Poetry around 1900 self-reflectively celebrated its own words as both transparent signs and material objects, Strathausen says. In Aestheticism, this means that language harbors the potential to literally present the things it signifies. Rather than simply describing or picturing the physical experience of looking, as critics have commonly maintained, modernist poetry claims to enable a more profound kind of perception that grants intuitive insights into the very texture of the natural world.

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Der vorliegende Band enthält die auf der Jahrestagung 1997 des Ausschusses für Sozialpolitik gehaltenen Referate. Hans Jürgen Rösner behandelt Struktur- und Organisationsprinzipien sozialer Sicherung. Als Funktionen, die ein neues Paradigma zu erfüllen haben, werden Integration, Konsensförderung, Risikoabsicherung, Produktivitätsförderung und Überlebensfähigkeit des Sicherungssystems herausgearbeitet. Roland Eisen befaßt sich mit Alternativen der Pflegesicherung. Es werden die Modelle der privaten freiwilligen Versicherung, der privaten Pflichtversicherung, der staatlichen Sozialversicherung und der Sozialhilfe diskutiert. Darüber hinaus ordnet der Autor ihnen die in 12 Mitgliedsländern der Europäischen Union gewählten Lösungen zu. Ein vertiefter Vergleich des deutschen, englischen und dänischen Systems schließt sich an. Johannes Schwarze betrachtet das amerikanische und das deutsche Alterssicherungssystem im Hinblick auf Sicherungsniveau, Altersarmut und Einkommensverteilung. Der institutionelle Vergleich zeigt, daß das amerikanische Alterssicherungssystem stark auf die Vermeidung von Altersarmut ausgerichtet ist, während das deutsche System über einen breiten Einkommensbereich auf Lebensstandardsicherung zielt. Beim empirischen Vergleich der Einkommenssituation der älteren Bevölkerung ergibt sich jedoch, daß das deutsche System sowohl das Ziel der Armutsvermeidung als auch das Ziel der Lebensstandardsicherung im Alter besser erfüllt. Richard Hauser analysiert Konzeptionen der Mindestsicherung für Alte in zwölf EU-Mitgliedsländern. Auf Basis einer Systematisierung der in den Ländern vorhandenen Regelungen werden institutionell begründete Hypothesen über ihre Wirksamkeit formuliert. Die empirische Analyse anhand von Daten des Luxembourg Income Study Projekts zeigt allerdings, daß in allen Ländern trotz der verschiedenartigen Mindestregelungen Armut im Alter auftritt.