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This book is dedicated to all the people interested in the CoRoT mission and the beautiful data that were delivered during its six year duration. Either amateurs, professional, young or senior researchers, they will find treasures not only at the time of this publication but also in the future twenty or thirty years. It presents the data in their final version, explains how they have been obtained, how to handle them, describes the tools necessary to understand them, and where to find them. It also highlights the most striking first results obtained up to now. CoRoT has opened several unexpected directions of research and certainly new ones still to be discovered.

This book will be useful to practitioners, policymakers, graduate students and researchers of environmental law, environmental studies, human rights, sustainable development, social justice and area studies on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and West Asia. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Entre 1794 et 1811, la France révolutionnaire puis impériale confisque plusieurs milliers d’œuvres d’art et de livres précieux dans les pays d’Europe occupés par ses armées. Cette politique d’appropriation est légitimée par une doctrine audacieuse selon laquelle les œuvres « d’art et de sciences », fruit du génie de la liberté, doivent séjourner au pays de la liberté. Officiellement destinés à promouvoir l’instruction publique et le progrès des arts, ces objets répartis dans les collections nationales françaises, mais aussi dans les palais impériaux, ont été pour la plupart restitués à leurs propriétaires légitimes après la chute de l’Empire. Cette étude décrit les modalités et les effets des saisies pratiquées par la France dans le domaine allemand. Elle évoque les principaux acteurs, aux noms souvent prestigieux, impliqués dans les opérations des deux côtés du Rhin : Vivant Denon, Jacob Grimm, les frères Humboldt. Elle éclaire le rôle déterminant que cette politique d’appropriation a joué dans la prise de conscience patrimoniale des États germaniques au début du XIXe siècle. Elle examine enfin le sort effectivement réservé, en France, aux œuvres confisquées dans les collections allemandes. Le second tome est consacré à la spectaculaire exposition au Louvre, en 1807-1808, des œuvres confisquées par Vivant Denon dans les collections d’Allemagne du Nord. S’appuyant principalement sur la notice sommaire qui accompagnait l’exposition, sur les procès-verbaux dressés lors des saisies (la plupart sont publiés ici pour la première fois) et sur les listes d’objets restitués, ce catalogue propose une reconstitution inédite et amplement illustrée de l’événement, sans précédent dans l’histoire des musées allemands, et de l’évolution du goût en Europe.

Mit der Digitalisierung geht eine Entgrenzung der Öffentlichkeit einher. Medientechnologien stellen nicht nur Möglichkeitsräume bereit, in denen Konflikte verhandelt werden. Sie transformieren auch den politischen Diskurs. Vor allem »die sozialen Medien« werden oft als Bedrohung einer konstruktiven Debattenkultur betrachtet. Die Beiträger*innen treten einen Schritt zurück und fragen aus sozial-, kulturwissenschaftlicher und philosophischer Perspektive, wie Öffentlichkeiten hergestellt und transformiert werden. Sie erörtern theoretische sowie empirische Perspektiven und analysieren normative Fragestellungen, die angesichts globaler Dynamiken und neuer Formen von Kulturkonflikten an Bedeutung gewinnen.

Focusing on the hot-button issues of migration and sovereignty, this volume highlights the radical reconfiguration of territory, rights, and jurisdiction taking place at different levels and examines its implications for the future of democratic governance within and across borders. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

In this new and updated edition---with a foreword by Lora Tom, chairwoman of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah---Holt recounts the survival of a people against all odds. A compound of rapid white settlement of the most productive Southern Paiute homelands, especially their farmlands near tributaries of the Colorado River; conversion by and labor for the Mormon settlers; and government neglect placed the Utah Paiutes in a state of dependency that ironically culminated in the 1957 termination of their status as federally recognized Indians. The recognition and attendant services were not restored until 1980, but the act revived the Paiutes' identity, self-government, land ownership, and sense of possibility.

In Governance, Democracy and Ethics in Crisis-decision-making, we reflect on what it means to govern ethically in a pandemic. We explore what it means to be in a situation in which rational or epistemic framings of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on data and scientific ways of knowing the world, rub up against the way people experienced the pandemic, as an unexpected, and often harmful, event in their own lives. The book brings together findings from The Pandemic and Beyond research projects linked by a focus on how decisions have been made, but looking at the pandemic from very different perspectives. In their exploration of decision-making processes from the everyday to the global, the contributors consider whether and how values have featured in decision-making, and sometimes why they have not. Exploring issues ranging from the authority of the World Health Organization and the power of data during an emergency, to the role of public engagement as a source of policy evidence, contributors consider whether (and how) the expected standards and norms of public life and decision-making should be different in times of crisis. We also reflect that the pandemic seems impossible to disentangle from matters of trust in power and authority. The answers to the questions discussed in this book will be vital in reviewing our experiences of emergency decision-making. As we emerge from the pandemic, the essential lessons drawn out in this book should direct and constrain future decision-makers in both ordinary times and extraordinary emergencies.

We will discuss in detail the two exhibitions and their vicissitudes in the paragraphs to come, focusing on the emotional public reactions they both evoked, albeit to different degrees.

Numerous books have already been published specializing in one of the well known areas that comprise Mechatronics: mechanical engineering, electronic control and systems. The goal of this book is to collect state-of-the-art contributions that discuss recent developments which show a more coherent synergistic integration between the mentioned areas. The book is divided in three sections. The first section, divided into five chapters, deals with Automatic Control and Artificial Intelligence. The second section discusses Robotics and Vision with six chapters, and the third section considers Other Applications and Theory with two chapters.

Este trabajo propone que la gran variedad en las definiciones y los tratamientos del fenómeno de cogestión en la organización industrial no refleja un simple pluralismo conceptual, si no una división fundamental entre diferentes paradigmas de esta organización, los cuales permiten entender concepciones divergentes en este fenómeno se plantea, además, que esta división paradigmática permita explicar el papel clave de los experimentos llevados a cabo en los países de menor desarrollo (PMD) en explicar las condiciones favorables a ciertos tipos de cogestión, a pesar de que estos se hayan considerado a menudo marginales y/ o atípicos (Whyte y Alberti, 1977; Kannappan y Krishnan, 1977; Dore, 1974)

One of the highest priorities for human societies in the 21st century, under the challenges of predicted great environmental changes, is to conserve all kinds of biodiversity across the planet. Among all the biota that exist on Earth, forest ecosystems demonstrate a high degree of biodiversity, being thought to comprise the most diverse ecosystems, as most of the terrestrial species in the world dwell in these ecosystems. Forest biodiversity is interlinked to a web of socio-economic factors, providing an array of goods and services that range from timber and non-timber forest resources to mitigating climate change and conservation of genetic resources; therefore, it is innately linked to ecosystems and human well-being. However, in recent decades, the decrease in forest biodiversity has been a crucial and ongoing environmental issue that needs special attention and adapted ecosystem management. This Special Issue book on forest biodiversity (FB) includes a selected number of research works from all over the world dealing with emerging issues, for understanding FB and its needs for conservation, ecological processes, disturbances, climate change and ecosystems resilience, structural complexity and ecosystem functions, ecological theories and silvicultural practices, and ecosystems stability. More specifically, it includes papers focused on the indicators and methods for assessing and monitoring forest biodiversity, evaluation of practices, planting and silvicultural treatments, and management and monitoring methods, with an overall goal to provide new insights on forest biodiversity conservation, conservation of forest biodiversity in protected areas, treatments of endangered or threatened forest habitats, and sustainable management of forest resources.

Traditional publication products are the object of tensions between the interests of authors regarding copyright, the changing opinions of the public,and the economic interests of publishers. The goal of this paper is to develop approaches to publishing traditional publication products with contents that ethically or legally no longer publishable publication products in their range of offers? To answer, the contents of Jim Button and Luke the Engine modern public opinion deems offensive. The research question is: What are concrete steps a publishing house can take to keep Driver by Michael Ende were analysed. Specifically, it was examined whether the novel contains unconstitutional or youth-corrupting elements. The analysis shows that the indexation according to child protection is possible. Building on this, the following approaches were developed: modification of future author’s agreements, transmedial processing of the material, addition of supplementary material, translation to non-discriminatory language, and editing the original work. Which of these approaches is suitable for the product depends on the legal agreements between author and publisher.

In this second edition, Susan Carroll updates her pioneering study of women candidates and their campaigns in the aftermath of the "Year of the Woman." Although in many regards the political climate has become vastly more favorable for female candidates, opportunities are still limited by the political structure. Carroll examines a number of possible reforms and actual developments which may eventually mean larger numbers of women being elected to public office.

In einer Zeit, da private Sicherheits- und Militärunternehmungen an Bedeutung gewinnen und Staaten ihr Monopol auf die militärische Gewaltanwendung in zahlreichen asymmetrischen Kriegen aufzugeben scheinen, hat die Solddienstproblematik eine neue Aktualität gewonnen. Das bereits in der Antike betriebene Geschäft mit Söldnern erlebte in der Frühen Neuzeit seine Blüte. Die gesellschaftlichen, ökonomischen, kulturellen und politischen Implikationen dieses Gewaltmarkts sind deshalb ein wichtiges Thema für die Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit. Der wissenschaftliche Diskurs wird allerdings stark von nationalen Narrativen dominiert. Diese unangemessene Engführung versucht der vorliegende Sammelband zu durchbrechen. In einer vergleichenden, transnationalen Perspektive wird die Frage, warum sich in der frühen Neuzeit bestimmte Räume zu erfolgreichen Rekrutierungsmärkten für Söldner entwickelt haben und somit zu Söldnerlandschaften geworden sind, von ausgewiesenen Fachleuten erörtert und diskutiert.

Ferdinand III. inherited the Thirty Years' war from its father, Ferdinand II.. In the centre of his reign, the war ended in 1648 with the Peace of Westphalia and thereby the long time of the confessional arguments going along with denomination questions. The Peace of Westphalia was at the same time an important stage in the decay of the alliance of the Spanish and Austrian Habsburger which had emerged under Karl of the V. and which had polarised Europe about for one century. Now the Peace helped to create sovereign member states in Europe. For Ferdinand III. this multilayered epoch change presented itself as a number of dilemmas. These resulted from his search for peace and at the same time his attempts to fight for more favourable peace conditions; his separation from Spain against his consent and nevertheless his attempts to hold on to his Iberian relatives which were nevertheless slipping away; his timid protection of peace after 1648 and nevertheless his return against his consent to the European wars of the 1650er-Jahre. For a new comprehension of the time of Ferdinand III, it seemed important it to me to particularly stress some structural aspects, above all the close entwinement of the controversy over denominations and rule rights. In his elective monarchies, in the Empire, and in Hungary, Ferdinand III. pursued a pragmatically moderated confessional policy, in his hereditary countries, Austria and Bohemia, he was a rigid counter reformer. His counter reformation however was not only motivated religiously, but it was directed at the same time against the almost autonomous rule of the aristocracy over the rural subjects. Both confessional pragmatism and the counter reformation based on the regionally established church were a burden on the relationship Ferdinand III. to the papacy, who anyhow resisted to the dominance of the house of Habsbourg in Italy. The manuscript also provides new aspects regarding the cultural dimension of early-modern rule. The text essential stresses the pictures and terms, the symbols and rituals on which the Emperor's self understanding and his relation to the world was based and lived accordingly. Education, environment and ceremoniality take therefore much space. Rulers of the early modern times knew themselves observed and acted thereafter. If it is so difficult to determine precisely the share of Ferdinands III. of 'his' government, this is not only due to institutionalised discussions and the separation of functions within a complex government machinery. It is furthermore not only due to the fact that the Court was for the Emperor and courtiers a convincingly handled instrument of the self-manifestation with representative stage appearances on the one hand and useful concealments on the other hand. It is due above all to the fact that this Emperor did not understand governance in a modern, comprehensive sense as politics. Governance did not serve the realisation of an utopia formulated from an individual point of view or from the society. The cosmos for Ferdinand III.was still God-given, an allegedly natural order. The task of princes therein was limited, and the protection and the development of princes' rule considering the complexity of confessional and political goals and problems were in practice difficult enough. That this Emperor took up the idea of state sovereignty was a step of detachment from what he once learned to be correct. In alchemy, in magnetism and in music, Ferdinand III. continued to look for an expression of the natural order of the things. On the other hand (also here the Emperor stands at an epoch change) he was interested in a phenomenon, whose physical and artistic developments in the 17. Century destroyed the bases of his mental world: in seeing. The Emperor learned that not only the regarded object, but also the person seeing takes part in the construction of one's picture.