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Neben der Zeitschrift Wiener Slawistischer Almanach erscheinen seit 1980 auch 2-3 Mal jährlich Sonderbände (seither 94 Ausgaben) mit literaturwissenschaftlichem oder linguistischem Schwerpunkt. Die literarische Reihe umfasst Monographien oder Tagungsbeiträge aus allen Bereichen der aktuellen slavischen Literaturwissenschaft und weit darüber hinaus (Medientheorie, Kulturwissenschaft, Literaturkritik). Die Beiträge oder Monographien erscheinen in der Regel in deutscher, russischer oder endlischer Sprache. Publikationsvorschläge an [email protected]

Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography. The ever-increasing interest in work in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global environmental issues, especially global climate change and its impacts, creates a demand for authoritative refereed reviews summarising and synthesising the results of both historical and recent research. Six of the ten peer-reviewed contributions in Volume 62 are available to read Open Access via the webpage and on OAPEN. If you are interested in submitting a review for consideration for publication in OMBAR, please email the new co-Editors in Chief, Dr Peter Todd ([email protected]) and Dr Bayden Russell ([email protected]). Supplementary material is provided online on the Support Materials tab, for Reviews 2, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Volume 62 features a review of the biology, ecology and conservation threats to the Iberian harbour porpoise; a look at the potential risk to Mediterranean cetaceans and sea turtles from floating marine macro litter; an overview of the recent history and physical environment of corals in the Andaman Sea; an exploration of the population biology of Snapper fish in South Australia; and a review of historical killings of small cetaceans in the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea, among others. An international Editorial Board ensures global relevance and expert peer review, with editors from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Ireland, Singapore and the UK. The series volumes find a place in the libraries of not only marine laboratories and oceanographic institutes but also universities worldwide.

This book The Transmission Electron Microscope abundantly illustrates necessary insight and guidance of this powerful and versatile material characterization technique with complete figures and thorough explanations. The second edition of the book presents deep understanding of new techniques from introduction to advance levels, covering in-situ transmission electron microscopy, electron and focused ion beam microscopy, and biological diagnostic through TEM. The chapters cover all major aspects of transmission electron microscopy and their uses in material characterization with special emphasis on both the theoretical and experimental aspects of modern electron microscopy techniques. It is believed that this book will provide a solid foundation of electron microscopy to the students, scientists, and engineers working in the field of material science and condensed matter physics.

Ce livre aborde un terrain plutôt méconnu en sciences humaines et sociales, celui de l’émigration française. En s’intéressant à cette expatriation au Canada, notamment dans ses grandes villes anglophones comme Toronto, on se rend compte que ce pays est souvent perçu comme jeune, dynamique et bilingue. A priori, ceci semble garantir aux migrants francophones à la fois le dépaysement et la possibilité sécurisante de recourir au français dans la vie de tous les jours. Même si la découverte de la...

"The Neo-Aramaic dialects are modern vernacular forms of Aramaic, which has a documented history in the Middle East of over 3,000 years. Due to upheavals in the Middle East over the last one hundred years, thousands of speakers of Neo-Aramaic dialects have been forced to migrate from their homes or have perished in massacres. As a result, the dialects are now highly endangered. The dialects exhibit a remarkable diversity of structures. Moreover, the considerable depth of attestation of Aramaic from earlier periods provides evidence for pathways of change. For these reasons the research of Neo-Aramaic is of importance for more general fields of linguistics, in particular language typology and historical linguistics. The papers in this volume represent the full range of research that is currently being carried out on Neo-Aramaic dialects. They advance the field in numerous ways. In order to allow linguists who are not specialists in Neo-Aramaic to benefit from the papers, the examples are fully glossed."

The 2002 Nobel Prize to Imre Kertész is a symptom: Hungary is now weltliterarisch. The historical process – which has seen Hungarian writers working since the 1970s to gain ontological autonomy for their field, to write in a language that is not mendacious, to go beyond the 'modern' of real socialism to a 'postmodern' in which reality is not "described", but "employed", and to anthropic ends – is at a standstill, it is greeted abroad as a common heritage. According to Ungheria 1945-2002. La dimensione letteraria – which concludes a prolonged period of analytical work (see Scrivere postmoderno in Ungheria, 1995, and Scrittori ungheresi allo specchio, 2003) – the Hungarian contribution to the contemporary era lies in its sense for this anthropic function of literature (even though the context now seems to want to thwart this effort).

Tractate Berakhot: Edition, Translation, and Commentary

Dans les « sombres temps » du XXe siècle, le poids de l’Histoire s’est accru des horreurs de masse, jusqu’à affecter l’image même de l’homme : aussi certains appellent-ils le théâtre à éveiller de nouveau, selon la formule d’Aristote, « le sens de l’humain ». L’objet réel peut-il prétendre à ce rôle ? Introduit dans le champ de l’art en 1912, puis, sous son aspect de reste ou de ruine, immédiatement après la Première Guerre mondiale (Schwitters) ou la Seconde (Kantor), il est certain que l’objet pauvre entretient un rapport avec la disparition – des idées, des êtres, des choses. L’observation du théâtre qui, à la marge, se développe depuis une trentaine d’années sous l’égide de l’objet récupéré, permet de cerner comment, malgré son insignifiance, il se présente sur les scènes marionnettiques, des arts de la rue ou d’un certain théâtre « régulier », comme un objecteur : au jeu théâtral, à la représentation, mais aussi à l’obsolescence et l’oubli consécutif que prétendent compenser musées et commémorations. Ce témoin inerte, dont la présence modifie pourtant substantiellement les usages scéniques, donne aujourd’hui naissance à des esthétiques diverses, parfois canularesques, où la mémoire tient du refuge contre les soubresauts de l’Histoire, et de la résistance à l’engloutissement des anonymes. Poétiquement, il exige de l’acteur qu’il ne soit plus seul en scène et dialogue avec celui que Kantor tenait pour un partenaire à part entière. C’est, in fine, du metteur en scène disparu en 1990 que ce travail voudrait inventorier l’héritage, tant sont nombreux ceux qui, du Théâtre du Radeau à la compagnie Deschamps-Makeïeff en passant par les 26 000 couverts, reconnaissent en lui un des inspirateurs de leur propre démarche.

The subterranean fauna of arthropods is one of the richest on our planet. At the same time, however, it is still insufficiently researched. The characteristics of the underground environment have led hypogean arthropods to evolve both morphological and physiological adaptations, such as depigmentation, complete loss of eyes, elongation of appendages, slow metabolism, lower energy consumption, and much more. These animals are excellent models to study the general principles of evolution and the mechanisms of adaptation to a new environment. As the diversity of subterranean arthropods has not been sufficiently studied worldwide and most previous studies have focused on faunal diversity, it is desirable to analyse other aspects of the diversity of this particular group of animals, including morphological, molecular, ecological, chemoecological, and behavioural diversity. As the editors’ expertise covers both troglobitic (associated with terrestrial subterranean environment) and stygobitic (associated with all types of subterranean waters) arthropods, this Special Issue Reprint is dedicated to the study of the diversity of both groups. We hope that it will contribute to a better knowledge of the diversity of subterranean arthropods within several biological disciplines, indicating their great importance in the habitats they inhabit and for humans in general.

Mycotoxins are toxic secondary metabolites produced by fungi. They cause deleterious effects on humans, animals, and plants. More than one hundred mycotoxins are known which contaminate food and feed raw materials. Fungal infection and mycotoxin contamination can occur directly in fields (pre-harvest stage), during storage, or during industrial processing (post-harvest stage). Given the proven toxicity of mycotoxins and their widespread distribution, it is necessary to prevent their occurrence in food and feed. To limit mycotoxin contamination, several techniques can be adopted at the pre-harvest or post-harvest stages. These techniques can reduce mycotoxin concentration through fungal growth reduction or mechanisms leading to mycotoxin degradation or mycotoxin detoxification (i.e., reduction of the toxicity). Until very recently, fungicides were favored to limit mycotoxin contamination by reducing fungal growth. Nonetheless, the sanitary and environmental impacts of these products and their effects on food quality encourage the development of alternative strategies based on biocontrol agents (BCAs) or natural compounds. Moreover, in some cases, fungal growth reduction can stimulate mycotoxin production. The focus of this Special Issue of Toxins is to gather the most recent advances related to reducing mycotoxin contamination in food and feed using BCAs and natural compounds. In this context, two main types of approaches can be proposed: Preventive methods that could be applied in the field, during storage, or during industrial processing and curative methods that detoxify contaminated matrices by eliminating the produced mycotoxin.

St. Gregory of Nazianzus' (ca. AD 330-390) classicizing Christian verse is the earliest Greek verse of its kind that survives in any great quantity. This is a critical edition, with introduction and commentary, of four poems (I.2.17; II.1.10, 19, 32). The commentary is primarily linguistic, but attention is paid to historical and theological matters. The poems' fate in Byzantium is also examined and three Byzantine paraphrases are edited in an appendix. The introduction examines features of Gregory's poetry in general. Gregory was an enthusiastic reader of Callimachus and his use of poetic allusion deserves special attention.

La climatología indudablemente es una ciencia aplicable a todas las áreas del conocimiento y en este caso de enorme trascendencia para el área de la Ingeniería Agronómica, Ambiental y afines. El presente trabajo constituye una aproximación a la climatología del Ecuador continental e insular en base de datos oficiales que propende servir a futuro para estudios de aplicación en el área de ciencias de la vida. Los estudios relativos al clima del Ecuador regularmente han estado enfocados al sector turístico, área importante de desarrollo; sin embargo es menester estructurar una climatología que tenga aplicación en el área agropecuaria y ambiental, fuente de autoconsumo y de generación de divisas. No se encuentra, sin embargo, una climatología estadística sistemática del Ecuador que permita situarse con una cierta amplitud en el contexto de un estudio climático del conjunto del país. A partir de datos oficiales proporcionados por el INAMHI (Instituto Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología del Ecuador), el presente trabajo tiene como objetivo formular una climatología estadística básica que nos permita afrontar trabajos más específicos posteriormente.

Carbon nanotubes, one of carbon allotropes, exhibit remarkable properties and have numerous current and potential applications. Both computational and experimental studies, synthesis, characterization, and applications of carbon nanotubes are unquestionable areas of high interest. Multiple reviews and books have been devoted to various aspects of CNT synthesis, characterization, applications, etc. Our book will be highly attractive and undoubtedly useful for the broad audience of students and researchers interested in the ever-developing area of CNTs, providing them with detailed knowledge of various aspects of this field, its current state-of-the-art, different applications, and perspectives of development.

The book by M. Imran Kozgar aims to cover the problems of mutation breeding in pulse crops in the light of issues related to food insecurity and malnutrition, which according to FAO are the major threats at the present time. So far the research on induction of mutation in pulse crops is negligible compared to cereal crops, though the pulse crops and especially the chickpea are the largest grown crops in India. The main objective of the book is to reveal and explore the possibility of inducing genetic variability in early generations of mutated chickpea, describe the positive aspects of mutagenic treatments, evaluate the content of mineral elements (iron, manganese, zinc and copper) and physiological parameters of isolated high yielding mutant lines. The author hopes that his book will help to advance studies on pulse crops, and that in the long term it will help to reduce the food insecurity and malnutrition problems presently persisting in various developing countries, including India.

In my contribution, I analyze texts by Mykola Zerov, Mychajl’ Semenko, and Mykola Chvyl’ovyj, three leading Ukrainian writers of the 1910s and 1920s, that thematize Ukrainian literature of the first years of the twentieth century, criticizing its alleged backwardness and lack of artistic quality. With their rejection of recent tradition, Zerov, Semenko, and Chvyl’ovyj were pursuing an ambitious program of cultural renewal aimed at elevating Ukrainian poetry and prose to the same level as classical and contemporary European literature. A recurrent name in their poems and pieces of criticism is that of Mykola Voronyj, a key figure of early-twentieth-century Ukrainian culture, whose controversial reception sheds light on the extent to which Zerov and Semenko were eager to radically renew Ukrainian literature after its first modernization attempts, which they deemed unsatisfying.