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Les stratégies de développement priorisées correspondent-elles à la réalité et aux besoins locaux dans la société haïtienne ? Les acteurs locaux participent-ils au processus de développement économique ? Quelle place occupe le local dans la fabrication des décisions collectives ? La classe dirigeante et les décideurs publics éprouvent-ils une certaine volonté pour que le processus du développement local et la décentralisation soient une réalité effective en Haïti ? Les fondements des deux notions tout juste évoquées voudraient que les acteurs, les citoyens et les pouvoirs locaux prennent part au processus décisionnel devant aboutir à la formulation des politiques de développement. Or, dans les faits, la planification locale du développement est une réalité difficile à institutionnaliser. Basée essentiellement sur une interprétation multidimensionnelle du développement et sur une approche institutionnelle de l’analyse des politiques publiques, la réflexion que propose Lovinski incite à interroger les politiques de développement priorisées par les décideurs publics. L’auteur examine les démarches entreprises dans la conduite des politiques de développement et montre à quoi elles ont abouti tout comme il saisit les dynamiques en marche et en appréhende les ambiguïtés. Cet ouvrage est disponible en libre accès. . ; Are the priorities of sustainable strategies aligned with the local realities and needs of Haitian society? Are local actors involved in the economic development process? What role does the local community play in collective decision making? Do the ruling class and policy makers have the will to make local development and decentralization an effective reality in Haiti? The foundations of these concepts assume that community, actors, citizens, and authorities should be included in the decision-making process. Aimed to leading to the development of sustainable policies, however, local development planning is difficult to institutionalize. Lovinski’s analysis is based on a multifaceted interpretation of development and takes an institutional approach to public policy. Thereby, prompting an interrogation of sustainable policies prioritized by policy makers. This investigation examines the steps taken to achieve sustainable policies and shows the results and considering the dynamics and their ambiguities.

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The Representation of Science and Scientists on Postage Stamps examines how the postal authorities of the world have developed unique techniques to portray science and scientists in order to convey a message behind the stamp issue. It is a multi-disciplinary examination that investigates visual representation, semiotics, science, science history and politics, amongst other issues. The author introduces and describes a technique for looking at how and why images may have been chosen. Is the image a mirror reflecting a known reality or is it a lens to challenge, to prompt further thought or action? He also hypothesises that the Internet created a real change to science communication, influencing the way images of science were used. The stamp message changed from that of pursuing a public understanding approach to an awareness of science with its increasing contextual content.

Comme l’explique René Girault dans la préface de cette réédition de sa thèse publiée pour la première fois en 1973,« l’histoire des emprunts russes est simple, le mythe est édifiant. À la fin du XIXe siècle les rentiers français ont prêté leur or à l’allié russe ; la révolution bolchevique a brutalement renié les dettes de l’ancien régime, en 1918, sans jamais payer d’indemnités aux anciens créanciers ou investisseurs jusqu’aux récents accords de 1996 qui replacent cette vieille histoire dans l’actualité immédiate. [...] L’ampleur des sommes prêtées, la large diffusion des « papiers russes » dans le public français, le rôle joué par la presse dans la formation d’une conscience collective française vis-à-vis de la Russie tsariste, puis bolchevique, le bouleversement social qui suivit la première guerre mondiale avec la disparition du « rentier »,- personnage symbolique de la Belle Époque [...] - avaient abouti à la création d’un mythe fort et d’une réalité navrante : le petit bourgeois français qui avait prêté son or à la Russie, l’entrepreneur français qui avait investi en Russie, autant par intérêt raisonné que par réflexe patriotique, a été grugé, dépossédé, trompé par des dirigeants sans foi ni loi ; toute morale est ainsi bafouée [...]. » Mais de son côté, ajoute R. Girault, « l’historien doit raisonner sur les faits et se garder de porter des jugements de valeur sur l’attitude des .épargnants de la Belle Époque. L’histoire des emprunts russes appartient à l’histoire globale des relations internationales avec tout ce que celle-ci comporte d’implications politiques économiques et sociales pour les pays concernés. Il convient de répondre aux trois questions classiques : quand, pourquoi, comment emprunts et investissements français en Russie ? ». Cette étude donne très clairement bien des réponses. C’est pourquoi, au-delà de l’actualité immédiate qui, avec le lancement de la procédure d’indemnisation a relancé « la vieille affaire » des emprunts russes, le Comité pour l’histoire économique et financière de la France a voulu par cette réédition remettre à la disposition du public un ouvrage fondamental sur l’histoire de la France et de la Russie au début du siècle.

An overview of the 'new extractivist paradigm' for the Arctic - including renewable energies, tourism, and science - which could bring viable futures for local and indigenous communities. A global team of interdisciplinary researchers also discuss pressures and uncertainties in a region under geopolitical and environmental stress.

This Ouverture introduces the theme of the volume and highlights the convergences and inter- actions between the Commune of Florence and the Dominican convent of Santa Maria Novella by referring to a number of Remigio de’ Girolami’s sermons.

Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis and cause of joint pain in adults. It affects more than 500 million people worldwide. Patients develop osteoarthritis when the structure of the protective cartilage that covers the bones begins to deteriorate. Recent research shows that multiple drugs in development are promising to treat osteoarthritis. Yet, most physicians agree that we still do not have enough effective treatments for this condition. What works for one person might not work for someone else. Consequently, osteoarthritis research is very important because understanding what causes osteoarthritis or why it progresses remains controversial. In fact, although articular cartilage is the primary target of the disease, both subchondral bone and synovium are often actively involved. This book describes the details of both surgical and non-surgical treatment options for osteoarthritis.

Singapour et Johor, l’État malaisien voisin, entretiennent des liens étroits du fait de leur histoire commune et d’intenses interactions économiques et sociales. Résidents d’une métropole mondiale moderne, les Singapouriens bénéficient d’un fort pouvoir d’achat mais doivent aussi faire face à des coûts de la vie élevés. En comparaison, Johor, et plus particulièrement la région métropolitaine de Johor Bahru, leur offre des prix compétitifs aussi bien pour le logement, la consommation courante, que pour les activités de loisirs. Au-delà de l’avantage économique, l’État voisin représente aussi un espace qui aurait conservé des aspects du Singapour d’antan tels le kampung (village traditionnel) et la nature “sauvage”. Dans cette perspective, se sont établies à Johor de nouvelles fermes agrotouristiques recréant des paysages associés à la ruralité et offrant aux visiteurs des espaces, des personnages et des expériences à l’opposé de ce qui est considéré comme urbain. Pour autant, ces lieux ayant été fabriqués à l’image des attentes d’un public citadin, ce livre émet l’hypothèse que ces espaces font partie intégrante de l’urbanisation. Ainsi, si la plupart des études urbaines sont centrées sur les espaces bâtis tels que les villes et les zones commerciales ou industrielles, l’auteure offre ici un nouveau regard sur l’urbain en dehors de ces paysages bâtis conventionnels.

Divided into ten points, this paper aims to illustrate how fashion produced modernity, understood as valuing the present, especially its progressive and evolving elements. A process that focused on amplifying “personal visibility”, and in which the abilities of tailors played a crucial role. The effects on the economy of “modern” fashion, born in the Middle Ages, have been significant. Since the thirteenth century, treatisers and preachers, as well as legislators, focused on the way people dressed as a means to regulate society, while artisanal shops invented, ever so often, new objects and prepared unseen social and political scenarios. For all these and many other reasons, we can state that fashion moved and was a metaphor of modernity.

The murky history behind municipal laws criminalizing disability In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, municipal laws targeting "unsightly beggars" sprang up in cities across America. Seeming to criminalize disability and thus offering a visceral example of discrimination, these “ugly laws” have become a sort of shorthand for oppression in disability studies, law, and the arts. In this watershed study of the ugly laws, Susan M. Schweik uncovers the murky history behind the laws, situating the varied legislation in its historical context and exploring in detail what the laws meant. Illustrating how the laws join the history of the disabled and the poor, Schweik not only gives the reader a deeper understanding of the ugly laws and the cities where they were generated, she locates the laws at a crucial intersection of evolving and unstable concepts of race, nation, sex, class, and gender. Moreover, she explores the history of resistance to the ordinances, using the often harrowing life stories of those most affected by their passage. Moving to the laws’ more recent history, Schweik analyzes the shifting cultural memory of the ugly laws, examining how they have been used—and misused—by academics, activists, artists, lawyers, and legislators.

In Two Crows Denies It, R. H. Barnes undertakes an ambitious historical analysis of anthropological scholarship about Omaha kinship systems. His groundbreaking work offers a critique of this established scholarship, including the work of Lévi-Strauss, Dorsey, and Fletcher. In comparing the primary and secondary accounts of Omaha descent, relationship, and naming systems, Barnes reveals the dissonance between the reality of Omaha society and the scholarship that has formed around it. Not only does he put forth a new and more realistic interpretation of Omaha sociology specifically, but in so doing he provides a reinterpretation of an aspect of anthropological theory.

Reaktionäres Denken ist wieder in Mode. Aber was ist das eigentlich? Wodurch unterscheidet es sich von anderen Formen des Denkens? Und welche philosophischen Instrumente können gegen dessen erneutes Erstarken wirken? Robert Hugo Ziegler analysiert beispielhaft Autoren wie Jünger, Heidegger, Schmitt und Rand und schlägt einen systematischen Begriff des reaktionären Denkens vor. Damit entmystifiziert er eine Diskursform, die letztlich nur in der eigenen Mystifizierung besteht, und bezieht auch politisch Stellung gegen das Wiederaufleben der Reaktion.

Title in English: 57th Annual Cytogenomics Conference: Collection of abstracts The collection contains abstracts of lectures and posters presented at the 57th Annual Cytogenomics Conference, which took place on September 5–6, 2024 in Brno. Individual contributions cover the two main areas of cytogenomics, oncocytogenomics and clinical cytogenomics. In the oncocytogenomics section, the results of analyzes were presented mainly from the field of hematological malignancies, such as leukemia and lymphomas, but also from the field of solid tumors of both children and adults. The field of clinical cytogenomics was presented with statistical overviews of the occurrence of congenital developmental defects and interesting findings of congenital chromosomal and gene aberrations, interesting case reports from routine clinical practice. Both areas of cytogenomics then together showed the importance and use of the method of optical genome mapping (OGM) in the section Advanced methods in cytogenomics.

Security, Religion, and the Rule of Law argues that true, substantive, and sustainable national security is only possible through respect for the rule of law, human rights, and religious freedom. Despite the emphasis on national security and the war on terror that has preoccupied governments for over two decades, nations – and the world – seem to be more divided than ever, with a concomitant impact of increasing the risk of terrorism and religious and political violence. The national security paradigm, previously reserved primarily for foreign threats, has been turned increasingly inwards, focusing on a state’s own citizens as potential threats. This is often along religious lines, threatening fundamental human freedoms. This book provides a series of critical engagements on some of the most pressing issues at the interface of religion and security today, including proposing a deeper engagement with theology when dealing with freedom of religious belief, exploring a better understanding between domestic peace and international relations, abiding by the rule of law while countering terrorism, and developing a broader understanding of identities and of the nature of citizenship. It provides the resources to further reflect upon and address these topics, as well as stimulate further discussions on religion and security matters across a range of different disciplines. Wide-ranging case studies consider Australia, China, Europe, the Kurdish people, Nigeria, Russia, Ukraine, the United Nations, and the United States. This book will appeal to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including international relations, law, philosophy, political science, religious studies, security studies, and theology. It will also appeal to human rights lawyers, judges, NGO researchers, governmental agency specialists, and policy makers. Chapter 5 of this book is 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.

Esta obra pretende produzir reflexões sobre a saúde mental e apresenta um estudo do município de Santa Rosa (RS). A assistência ao doente mental, por muitos anos, foi centrada nos hospitais psiquiátricos, locais da prática e do saber médico. O modelo de atenção constituía-se de internação e medicalização dos sintomas do transtorno mental, excluindo os sujeitos dos seus vínculos familiares e sociais. Somente em 2001 ocorreu a Reforma Psiquiátrica, o que proporcionou o começo da reorganização da saúde mental no Brasil, que foi avançando, aos poucos, conforme surgiam novas legislações brasileiras e internacionais. “Políticas públicas de saúde mental como promotoras de cidadania e (re)inserção social: um novo lugar para ser feliz?” defende, entre outros aspectos: a importância da rede de atendimentos em saúde mental; a necessidade de superar desafios e estigmas ainda existentes nessa trajetória de mudança do modelo de cuidado prestado ao indivíduo com transtorno mental; a construção de políticas intersetoriais integradas que ampliem o acesso e a rede de oferta de serviços; a integralidade, que se materializa à medida que o acolhimento, o vínculo e a responsabilização permitem a aproximação entre os atores envolvidos e eles dialogam e produzem novas possibilidades de vida, novas capacidades e novas habilidades.