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The combination of image and text is a central element of Roman mosaics from the third to fifth centuries. This volume is the first to present a comprehensive media studies analysis of the complex medial configuration of these artworks that views both media as equal. It reveals mosaics’ communicative strategies within their spatial contexts but also in light of their social and cultural background.

Ce Cahier ouvre la série sur un problème majeur : le rapport entre diversité culturelle et pratique « unifiante » du développement économique. Le choix du titre répond à une double exigence : d’une part, reconnaître la diversité culturelle et les déterminations spécifiques à chaque société comme point de départ de toute réflexion théorique ; d’autre part, considérer la diversité des approches épistémologiques comme indispensable ; à « la pluralité des mondes culturels » doit correspondre une ...

Sollte Wahrheit, wie formuliert worden ist, wirklich die „Erfindung eines Lügners“ sein, so läge auf der Rede von Wahrheit im Recht eine doppelte moralische Hypothek. Wahrheitsansprüche im Recht sind mit Legitimationsansprüchen untrennbar verknüpft. Eine Entscheidung, die sich auf die Wahrheit der ihr zugrundeliegenden Rechtsbehauptung berufen kann, ist nicht mehr in Zweifel zu ziehen.Die Arbeit versucht, die Frage nach der Berechtigung von Wahrheitsansprüchen im Recht sowohl erkenntnistheoretisch als auch in Hinblick auf ihre praktische Bedeutung zu beantworten. Während die theoretische Analyse die Unhaltbarkeit der Theorie der „einzig richtigen Entscheidung“ (Dworkin) bestätigt, ergibt sich auf der Ebene der Funktionsanalyse ein differenziertes Bild. In bestimmten institutionellen Kontexten des Rechts ist die Vorstellung einer einzig richtigen Entscheidung als regulative Idee unverzichtbar. So beruht die Kontrolle von Verwaltungsentscheidungen durch Gerichte, aber auch die Überprüfung von Gerichtsurteilen im Instanzenzug auf dem Gedanken, dass es in jedem Fall eine und nur eine richtige Entscheidung gibt. Auf der anderen Seite gerät das Modell der einzig richtigen Entscheidung dort zur schlechten Fiktion, wo es, wie etwa im Bereich der Rückwirkung von Rechtsprechungsänderungen der Strafgerichte, zur Verkürzung von Grundrechtspositionen des Bürgers eingesetzt wird.

"Encounters, breaks and bonds: a study of the mother work in the Supermammat peer group This study explores a peer group for mothers, which is presented by the pseudonym Supermammat. The group is a third sector agent, which has served mothers and their children almost three decades. In the Supermammat group mothers get opportunity for carrying out functional programme, taking their children to organized childcare, sharing peer support and receiving professional aid. In addition to weekly meetings, outings, camps and other recreational activities are organized in the group. The aim of the operation is to support motherhood. The objective of the study is to describe practices of supporting mothers in the operation of the Supermammat group. The objective is approached by treating group’s history, current operation and principles directing it together with workers and their job towards supporting mothers participating in the operation of the Supermammat group. However, the study par excellence gives voice to people for whom the group has established. It’s most central aim is to tell what kind of meaning the operation of the group has for mothers. This is ethnographically executed case study, which starting point is to explore restricted research subject by utilizing different perspectives and datas. The core data consists of interviews of mothers participated in the operation of the Supermammat group (N=23) and fieldnotes gathered during participant observation. In addition, interviews of persons worked on the group (N=11) are included in the data. The data gathered is supplemented by the documents from the operation of the group. Research findings indicate that the operation of the group has turned more professional and functionally more various in the course of time. The operation consists of many elements, reaches dozens of mothers annually and requires contribution of several agents. Participating in the operation gets it’s meaning as encounters, breaks and bonds. The group gives an opportunity for encounters forming both peer support and professional aid. At the same time, it constructs a chance of withdrawing from everyday life by producing breaks to mother’s routines. In addition, participating in the operation of the Supermammat group gives space for constructing an affinity, various relationships and connections fastened on the group. "

Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749013At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China’s formative era of pharmacy (200–800 CE), poisons were strategically employed as healing agents to cure everything from abdominal pain to epidemic disease. Healing with Poisons explores the ways physicians, religious figures, court officials, and laypersons used toxic substances to both relieve acute illnesses and enhance life. It illustrates how the Chinese concept of du—a word carrying a core meaning of “potency”—led practitioners to devise a variety of methods to transform dangerous poisons into effective medicines.Recounting scandals and controversies involving poisons from the Era of Division to the Tang, historian Yan Liu considers how the concept of du was central to how the people of medieval China perceived both their bodies and the body politic. He also examines the wide range of toxic minerals, plants, and animal products used in classical Chinese pharmacy, including everything from the herb aconite to the popular recreational drug Five-Stone Powder. By recovering alternative modes of understanding wellness and the body’s interaction with foreign substances, this study cautions against arbitrary classifications and exemplifies the importance of paying attention to the technical, political, and cultural conditions in which substances become truly meaningful.Healing with Poisons is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of the University of Buffalo.

This book presents a review of recent advances in ZnO-based nanomaterials and devices. ZnO as a nanomaterial has gained substantial interest in the research area of wide bandgap semiconductors and is considered to be one of the major candidates for electronic and photonic applications. ZnO has distinguished and interesting electrical and optical properties and is considered to be a potential material in optoelectronic applications such as solar cells, surface acoustic wave devices, and UV emitters. ZnO's unique properties have attracted several researchers to study its electrical and optical properties. As a nanostructured material, ZnO exhibits many advantages for nanodevices. Moreover, it has the ability to absorb the UV radiation.

Cryopreservation is the preservation of cells at sub-zero temperatures. Although useful, the process is not without its challenges. One of the major challenges is the formation of ice crystals in the cells to be preserved. However, vitrification, where glass is formed instead of crystals, can be achieved using cryoprotection agents (CPAs). This book provides a comprehensive overview of cryopreservation and its applications. It discusses advancements in the field, challenges, guidelines, and recommendations for successful germplasm conservation. Chapters discuss the use of CPAs, cryopreservation of fish sperm, cryopreservation of oocytes and sperms, female fertility preservation, cryopreservation of large structures and tissues, and much more.

Shadow economy and tax evasion are widely studied topics in economics and behavioural sciences. Still, determinants of the tax behaviour of individuals and firms (including psychological aspects and social and cultural norms and customs) are not fully understood. Additionally, questions related to the evolution, operation, and design of formal institutions capable of effectively counteracting these two widespread and related phenomena remain (substantially) unanswered. Finally, fiscal policies fighting against shadow economy and tax evasion could (at least in the short term and in some countries) have adverse effects on economic growth and unemployment. This Special Issue Reprint contributed to improving the understanding of several aspects of shadow economy and tax evasion. It comprises 12 papers, both theoretical and empirical, by scholars and experts in the field.

Since its discovery in 1943, the Cortijo de Alcaide necropolis has occupied a prominent place in the prehistory of the Iberian Peninsula. The large number of tombs located there, the good condition of the hypogeums and the relatively good preservation of the archaeological contexts recovered aroused the interest of the leading researchers of the time from the outset. Years later, this interest was further heightened when the site, or at least most of its tombs, were excavated using modern methodology when, in the 1980s, the University of Malaga (UMA) took over the archaeological activities at the site. This research work, both in its early days and in recent times, has generated a significant amount of archaeological information over almost eighty years. Thus, newspaper reviews, conference papers and numerous scientific articles have been published on this site. All of this also explains why it has been mentioned in various peninsular synthesis publications on megalithism in general and funerary hypogeism in particular. However, the site lacked a summary that condensed all the information known to date and also incorporated documentation that was still unpublished. In addition, in recent years, the study of funerary hypogeism in the south of the peninsula has undergone significant development. This contingency has generated a new and more precise research context in which it was essential to relocate the Alcaide site and its possible historical significance. These circumstances have justified our decision to undertake the task of publishing a monograph such as the one presented here.

Cette édition entièrement refondue d’une biographie de Racine (parue en 1992) bénéficie de réflexions de l’auteur plus approfondies. Elle tire parti de récentes découvertes, hypothèses et interprétations, grâce aux travaux effectués lors du tricentenaire de sa mort en 1999 et à la biographie de Georges Forestier, parue en 2006.Tous les aspects de la vie du dramaturge, et particulièrement son œuvre théâtrale, sont explorés. L’interprétation d’Andromaque, de Britannicus, de Bérénice, de Phèdre et d’Athalie est renouvelée. Les préfaces et dédicaces de Racine y sont comparées avec celles de ses contemporains de manière inédite et révélatrice. Son comportement est étudié dans divers domaines et époques de sa vie. Cette tentative de reconstitution de sa personnalité, de sa logique et de son caractère, n’avait jamais été faite jusqu’à présent. Elle est évidemment hypothétique, mais destinée à nourrir un débat et soutenue par ce qu’elle permet d’expliquer.

O aparecimento datemática do Lazer nos planos de estudos dos cursos de Geografia e de Turismo,Lazer e Património e a necessidade de um manual escolar para os alunos destescursos motivou a recolha de um conjunto de trabalhos inéditos ou poucodivulgados sobre o tema.</p> A centralidade dolazer na sociedade contemporânea é desde há três dezenas de anos um factoincontornável. O lazer como fuga

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This volume contains the proceedings of the East Asia Joint Symposium on Fields and Strings 2021, held at the Media Center of Osaka City University on November 22-27, 2021. About 160 physicists from all over East Asia attended physically or joined online this symposium and more than 50 researchers presented their results in the invited lectures, the short talks or the poster session. Quantum field theory and string theory in the context of several exciting developments were discussed, which include frontiers of supersymmetric gauge theory, anomalies and higher form symmetries, and several issues on quantum gravity and black holes.

This small-sized book concentrates on highlighting some basic sciences mainly related to infertility and menstruation. The readers will find detailed answers to many controversial issues.