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Nickel Eclipse is a merging of personal and cultural history. Structured in part like the alternating colored beads on a wampum belt, patterns emerge from this exploration of contemporary life on an eastern Indian reservation and the sometimes tenuous persistence of a culture after centuries of survival within another, more dominant, culture. The poems, while highly personalized, reflect the tension of speakers surviving within-though never fully of-that larger culture, where lives are formed and meaning defined by their inherent separateness. Gansworth's paintings complement the poems, using the metaphor of the cycle of moons identified in the traditional Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) culture's calendar. These paintings of the different lunar phases serve to organize the poems around a common image, breaking them into sections through the use of an eclipse. Additionally, the relationships indigenous communities have had with the United States-from thriving to near extinction to eventual re- emergence-are symbolized in the progression of that eclipse across the moon. Symbols common to the culture appear throughout the cycles: the Three Sisters (Corn, Beans, and Squash), Strawberries, and Green Corn, from the ceremonies named for them, and more consistently, wampum beads-within which Haudenosaunee culture is iconographically documented-appear in various incarnations, from the earliest shell groupings, through isolated shaped beads, small strings, and full- belt formations.

Ce rapport apporte un éclairage sur les difficultés que nos sociétés sont susceptibles de rencontrer dans le domaine de l'eau, à court, moyen et long terme, en France et dans le reste du monde. Les difficultés envisagées concernent les insécurités ou crises liées au manque d'eau, aux excès d'eau et à la détérioration de la qualité de l'eau et des écosystèmes aquatiques. L'analyse de ces difficultés potentielles, dont tout le monde pressent que les conséquences pourraient être dramatiques …

The report investigates the barriers that service-disabled veteran-owned small businesses (SDVOSBs) may face when attempting to contract with the federal government and the Department of Defense. The government and DoD goals are to award 3 percent of prime-contract dollars to SDVOSBs but current contracting falls below that level.

"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time. The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised historical research on cultural landscapes. Additionally, the opening up of increasingly diverse collections of source material, often incomplete and difficult to interpret, has led to methodologically innovative experiments. One of today’s major challenges, however, concerns the concepts and tools to be deployed for mapping processes of transformation—that is, interpreting and imagining the relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes, both in space and in time, at micro- and macro-scale. Mapping Landscapes in Transformation gathers experts from different disciplines, active in the fields of historical geography, urban and landscape history, archaeology and heritage conservation. They are specialised in a wide variety of space-time contexts, including regions within Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and periods from antiquity to the 21st century."

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The work of Wittgenstein has so far received little attention from scholars working in the philosophy of technology. In this chapter, I relate my Wittgenstein-inspired account of moral certainty, which conceives of moral certainty as the certainty of morally competent agents, to recent work on socially disruptive technologies and the phenomenon of technosocial disruption. In a complex interplay with other factors, technologies such as artificially intelligent systems and robots challenge norms, practices, and concepts that play a fundamental role in human life. I argue that technosocial disruption involves the disruption of moral certainty, and that we should refine our notion of moral certainty by integrating the idea of technological mediation. In our technological world, technology mediates how something acquires the role of a moral certainty or loses it, and how moral certainty is manifested in different contexts. I discuss two examples of contexts in which technological developments challenge moral agency at the level of moral certainty: the introduction of robots in elderly care practices and the potential use of ectogestative technology for foetal development.

Im vorliegenden Buch stehen der Kinderschutz und die Prävention von sexualisierter Gewalt in der verbandlichen Jugendarbeit im Fokus. Miriam Günderoth vermittelt Basiswissen für all diejenigen, die in der Jugendarbeit tätig sind oder mit diesem Tätigkeitsfeld im regen Austausch stehen.Die Autorin geht auf die Spezifika der verbandlichen Jugendarbeit ein und erklärt die gesetzlichen Bestimmungen für diesen Arbeitsbereich. Sie gibt Anregungen für die Auseinandersetzung mit und für die Entwicklung von verbandsspezifischen Regelungen und Schulungskonzepten und macht deutlich, wie ein angemessener Umgang mit Kindern und Jugendlichen gestaltet werden kann und wie Mitarbeiter und Ehrenamtliche für das Thema Prävention von sexualisierter Gewalt sensibilisiert werden können.

Bien que les plus anciennes informations sur la découverte d'outils lithiques en Grèce remontent à la fin du xixe s., il a fallu attendre l’époque de la Seconde Guerre mondiale pour qu’une première fouille soit effectuée sur un site paléolithique. Par la suite, prospections et fouilles se succéderont et s’étaleront sur toute la période d’après-guerre, notamment au cours de la décennie 1960-70, partagées entre plusieurs écoles archéologiques : les Anglais travailleront en Épire. Les Américains en Argolide, les Français en Élide, les Allemands et les Grecs en Thessalie. Quarante ans après, les fruits de cette activité scientifique internationale sont là. Mais aucun bilan n'a jamais été fait, aucune synthèse n'a été tentée. C’est en cela que le livre de Georgia Kourtessi-Philippakis est une première. L’auteur, après avoir parcouru le territoire de la Grèce continentale, visité les sites et étudié leur matériel archéologique, entreprend ici une mise au point qui va au-delà d’un bilan historique. Dans un premier temps tous les sites paléolithiques connus sont présentés, région par région. Une note, dont les dimensions sont fonction de l’intérêt scientifique du gisement, fouillé ou non, fait état de sa localisation, des conditions de découverte, de la stratigraphie, des industries, de la faune, de la bibliographie s’y rapportant. Suivent les discussions, remises en question, hypothèses personnelles autour des thèmes classiques tels que le paléoenvironnement, l'organisation de l’économie, le mode de vie, l’outillage, le cadre chronologique. Dans le dernier chapitre sont exposées les conclusions scientifiques et sont analysés les problèmes posés par l’étude du Paléolithique grec en vue d’une amplification de cette recherche, si vitale pour une meilleure connaissance de la Préhistoire du Sud-Est Européen.

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The aim of the monograph is to systematize the current knowledge on the supplier involvement in product development (SIPD) and to deepen it the light of key challenges for the management of contemporary supply chains. There are four chapters in the monograph, only the first of which is the theoretical one. It introduces the key definitions, approaches and concepts related to the product development in value chain. The second chapter is a systematic literature review, which resulted in the analysis of 170 scientific articles. The description of the SLR outcomes was presented in eight thematic areas and led to the identification of various measures and existing research gaps. They became the basis for the development of research questionnaires and designing empirical research. The survey covered 500 manufacturing companies operating in Poland. It allowed answering eight research questions, including the recognition of the impact of SIPD on building resilient relationships with suppliers and designing products with reduced environmental impact. Case studies deepen the topic of Design for Environment and circular economy, presenting examples of cooperation with suppliers in the light of the NPD process and stages of the product life cycle. The monograph ends with, inter alia, recommendations for enterprises wishing to achieve better results in the product development chain as well as future research directions. This monograph is a product of the science project ‘Flexibility in relationships with suppliers in terms of supplier–purchaser models of cooperation on product development in the B2B market’, no. 2016/21/B/HS4/00665, financed by the National Science Centre (NCN) in Poland.

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This book explains how True Cost Accounting is an effective tool we can use to address the pervasive imbalance in our food system. Calls are coming from all quarters that the food system is broken and needs a radical transformation. A system that feeds many yet continues to create both extreme hunger and diet-related diseases, and one which has significant environmental impacts, is not serving the world adequately. This volume argues that True Cost Accounting in our food system can create a framework for a systemic shift. What sounds on the surface like a practice relegated to accountants is ultimately a call for a new lens on the valuation of food and a new relationship with the food we eat, starting with the reform of a system out of balance. From the true cost of corn, rice and water, to incentives for soil health, the chapters economically compare conventional and regenerative, more equitable farming practices in and food system structures, including taking an unflinching look at the true cost of cheap labour. Overall, this volume points towards the potential for our food system to be more human-centred than profit-centred and one that has a more respectful relationship to the planet. It sets forth a path forward based on True Cost Accounting for food. This path seeks to fix our current food metrics, in policy and in practice, by applying a holistic lens that evaluates the actual costs and benefits of different food systems, and the impacts and dependencies between natural systems, human systems, agriculture and food systems. This volume is essential reading for professionals and policymakers involved in developing and reforming the food system, as well as students and scholars working on food policy, food systems and sustainability.

This volume describes and analyzes the cultural history and representation of the Cold War from an international perspective. That innovative approach focuses on master narratives of the Cold War, places of memory, public and private memorialization, popular culture, and schoolbooks. These general themes are illustrated through a case study of Cold War memory in Berlin, which was a unique former center of Cold War confrontation and competition.

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Ascorbic acid is a small, simple, water soluble molecule, synthesised by most plants and animals, with the exception of humans and some animal species due to mutations in the gene encoding the terminal enzyme in the biosynthetic pathway. For humans, it is thus a vitamin (vitamin C) that must be obtained from the diet, with complete deficiency resulting in the fatal disease scurvy. Many functions have been attributed to this fascinating molecule and, despite nearly 90 years of research since its discovery, new roles are still being uncovered, including recent discoveries that it acts as a regulator of epigenetic marks and transcription factors (1). In this volume we begin with a review by Michels and Frei on specific factors that need to be taken into consideration when carrying out vitamin C research. Translational research normally comprises a progression from in vitro/cell culture studies to animal models and finally to clinical trials. At each of these stages, there are requirements specific to vitamin C research that need to be integrated into study designs and this review describes these in detail. [...]