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After the 9th and before the 10th national conference on applied geochemistry in China hosted by the committee of applied geochemistry, Chinese Society for Mineralogy, Petrology and Geochemistry (CSMPG), the new advances, challenges, and illustrations in applied geochemistry are gathered to form this Special Issue, which is within the section of Environmental and Earth Sciences. The Guest Editors of this Special Issue are Dr. Gong, a professor from China University of Geosciences (Beijing) and Dr. Shi, a professor from Chengdu University of Technology. A total of 12 scientific papers have been published that capture various relevant and challenging issues in applied geochemistry. These articles cover to the following three broad groups: (i) geochemical exploration, including traditional and non-traditional exploration methods and determination methods for geochemical background values; (ii) environmental geochemistry, including risk assessment, provenance tracing, and the remediation of heavy metals; and (iii) basic applications in geology, including magmatism, mineralization, and tectonic thermal evolution etc. The innovative studies in this Special Issue presented have great application potential in the fields of resources, environments, and social services.

Like its predecessors, Edipo classico e contemporaneo, edited by F. Citti and A. Iannucci (Hildesheim; Zürich; New York, 2012) and Troiane classiche e contemporanee, edited by F. Citti, A. Iannucci, A. Ziosi (Hildesheim; Zürich; New York, 2017) this new volume seeks to stage a dialogue between a Greek play and a Latin one, Aeschylus’s Agamemnon and its Latin rewriting by Seneca. But at the same time, this intertextual dialogue becomes, in turn, a fundamental hypotext for further and varied ‘rewritings’ of the myth and the story of Agamemnon, in plays, opera librettos, novels, films, paintings and reenactments, from the Renaissance to the present day, as many papers in this book show, with new and original insights in the ever-growing realm of Reception studies.

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The book seeks to provide a comprehensive and in-depth reflection on cooperation between the European Union (EU) and Brazil, especially in the field of sustainability and environmental governance. The central objective is to explore, through different contributions, the complex political, economic and scientific relationships that shape the environmental policies of these two regional blocs. And, consequently, to transform them into concrete action, aiming to promote a transition to a greener and more sustainable global economy. In addition, the book also aims to promote the exchange of knowledge between Brazil and the EU, and by supporting the adaptation of European policies to the Brazilian context, it seeks to contribute to the construction of a more sustainable future, as well as to train the next generation of leaders and experts in environmental governance and sustainable innovation. In this way, the book seeks to be a bridge between the two realities, helping to create solutions for shared global challenges, such as combating climate change and preserving ecosystems. The work is a partnership between the Jean Monnet Chair at the Federal University of Goiás, funded by the European Union, the São Paulo State University (UNESP) and the Institute of Public Management and International Relations (IGEPRI).

In dieser Arbeit wird die Frage untersucht, wie Lehrkräfte durch kooperative Unterrichtsentwicklung befähigt werden können, komplexe Nachhaltigkeitsthemen und Kompetenzen einer Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung (BNE) im Fachunterricht zu integrieren. Die Kooperation zwischen Fachlehrkräften wird als ein Hilfsmittel angesehen, um den vielseitigen Dimensionen nachhaltiger Entwicklung gerecht zu werden. Dazu wurde ein neues kooperatives Online-BNE-Seminar für Lehramtstudierende entwickelt und evaluiert. Im Rahmen einer qualitativen Studie mit Lehramtsstudierenden wurden anhand von Leitfadeninterviews (N ,= ,13), Reflexionstexten und Fragebögen die unterschiedlichen Qualitäten der kooperativen Unterrichtsplanung einer monodisziplinären (Fach Physik) und einer interdisziplinären Seminargruppe (u. ,a. die Fächer Biologie, Chemie, Physik, Deutsch) untersucht. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sowohl die monodisziplinäre als auch die interdisziplinäre Kooperation der Studierenden bei der Planung, Erprobung und Reflexion von BNE-Unterricht zu einer hohen Qualität des Unterrichts beitragen. Die Physikstudierenden äußerten jedoch, dass die Perspektive der Physik allein nicht ausreicht, um alle Dimensionen von BNE abzudecken. Das kooperative Online-BNE-Seminar bietet daher eine Möglichkeit, BNE nicht nur in der Physikdidaktik, sondern im gesamten Lehramtsstudium zu verankern. Die Studienergebnisse deuten an, dass große Gruppen (>4) im Online-Format Kommunikationshürden erfahren. Moderation oder kleinere Gruppen können Abhilfe schaffen.

The field of optomechatronics provides synergistic effects of optics, mechanics and electronics for efficient sensor development. Optical sensors for the measurement of mechanical quantities, equipped with appropriate electronic signal (pre)processing means have a wide range of applications, from surface testing, stress monitoring, thin film analysis to biochemical sensing. The aim of this special issue is to provide an overview of actual research and innovative applications of optomechatronics in sensors. Papers addressing, inter alia, optical sensor principles, fiber-optic sensors, electronic speckle pattern interferometry, surface analysis, thin film measurement, FGB sensors, and biochemical sensors are provided.

An indispensable aid to researching a crucial series of policy statements, the present guide provides access to the only continuous source from China which illuminates high-level policy. Includes an extensive subject index.

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

We cannot fail to be struck today by the reference to the term and notion of “value(s)”. Evaluating is both asserting oneself and expressing oneself, but also standing out on a social and political map, in other words exposing oneself to the double meaning of the term as Bernard Harcourt suggests with regard to social networks. Evaluating would be the new avatar of power technologies in the digital age. Wouldn’t any resistance, as long as it is based on the claim and the promotion of (another) axiology, be part of the game it intends to denounce? Isn’t it the very possibility of resistance that seems out of the question? Unless, perhaps, we disconnect judgment from preference. Unless, perhaps, we acknowledge values independently of the subjective assessment that individuals make of them. This is what the Stoics set out to do in their day, and it is this Stoic thinking regarding evaluation—reformulated here in terms of “evaluation device”—that this book is concerned with. It is a question of knowing which concepts and specific practices the Hellenistic and then imperial Stoics refer to when speaking of value and judgment and how these two aspects link together, which involves addressing rich themes like axiology and psychology, the theory of action and the doctrine of passions. In addition to the value of such an analysis given the lack of work specifically devoted to the question of value within Stoic studies, this investigation also intends to have a philosophical scope likely to contribute to the critique of our ways of thinking and acting.

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

COVID-19 continues to cause severe morbidity and ongoing mortality. Covid’s Chronicities documents the shifts that have occurred in the face of the pandemic, the state and community responses to it, its continuing toll on health services, economies and communities, and its compounding effects on people’s health, lives and livelihoods. This volume draws on research from across Europe, North and Latin America, Asia and Africa, providing surprising contrasts and consistencies of experience. As the pandemic has shifted from urgency to chronic unpredictability, everywhere people have struggled to make sense of state actions in infection control, testing strategies and the roll out of vaccines, and to remake social life. The contributing authors illustrate with poignancy how chronic social problems and pandemic effects have worked bidirectionally, compounding multiple inequalities and exacerbating, for some, despair and disassociation. They also demonstrate the ingenuity of communities – of Indigenous ways of knowing and providing care in some settings, and elsewhere, the power of robust local community networks and informal innovations. While this book exposes the pandemic’s exploitation of deep structures of state and societal neglect, and describes the resultant morass, it also illustrates the determination and imaginations of caring communities to withstand Covid’s harms.

La littérature du XXe siècle s'est enrichie d'un nombre croissant de textes écrits en dehors des normes formelles établies. En marge des genres et des sous-genres reconnus se sont manifestés, avec une fréquence et une vigueur de plus en plus nettes, des textes qu'on peut qualifier d'hybrides parce qu'ils échappent à l'horizon des catégories. Les hors-la-loi de l'écriture que sont leurs auteurs ont produit des cohabitations, brouillages, contaminations et couplages textuels divers, très souvent d'un grand intérêt. Ce territoire hors frontières, ce no man's land de la littérature, voilà le champ d'exploration de ce livre. On veut ainsi introduire à la problématique, contribuer à une meilleure compréhension du phénomène, préciser à partir de cas significatifs un projet et des modalités d'écriture, proposer enfin une bibliographie raisonnée pour stimuler la réflexion ultérieure.

Die Entwicklung von softwarebasierten Fahrzeugsystemen unter Befolgung des neuen Standards IO 26262 erfordert ein gemeinsames Verständnis sowie die Verzahnung des Vorgehens in beiden Domänen. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die Berücksichtigung von Anforderungen der funktionalen Sicherheit während der Modellierung von Elektrik/Elektronik Architekturen, ihre formale Zuteilung zu Modellinhalten sowie die Unterstützung nebenläufiger und nachfolgender Aktivitäten der Fahrzeugentwicklung.

The CleanEra project was initiated with the goal of developing revolutionary ideas for civil aviation. These ideas were to offer solutions which would limit and reduce some of the negative aspects of aviation, namely: emissions and the use of resources. This book presents you with the highlights of this journey in search of new technologies for a revolutionary aircraft; an aircraft that not only offers a future of comfortable air travel for the passenger, but a future of sustainable aviation for the planet as well.

This reprint brings together fifteen articles published in the Special Issue of the journal Atmosphere, entitled “High-Performance Computing Serving Atmospheric Transport & Dispersion Modelling”. These articles cover a wide variety of topics related to air quality in urban areas and nature-based solutions to improve it in the context of climate change; impact studies on human health and the environment of facilities and infrastructure projects as well as risk studies; the assessment of emerging threats; and preparations for and responses to emergencies involving toxic, flammable, or explosive atmospheric releases. As the fifteen articles presented here remarkably illustrate, what these contemporary topics have in common is the implementation of multi-scale simulations of atmospheric transport and dispersion by means of physical models of computational fluid dynamics (CFDs), whose potential is enhanced by high-performance computing (HPC). This reprint thus addresses the answers provided by modelling and the most advanced simulations to some societal matters of major interest.