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Polish queen Marie Casimire Sobieska, French by birth, left the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after the death of her husband king John III and settled in Rome in 1699. Supported by her son, Prince Aleksander Sobieski, the queen dowager created at her Roman residence in Palazzo Zuccari one of Rome’s most important opera theatres. She used music and drama to uphold her social status and political plans, satisfy her aesthetic needs, and provide entertainment for the granddaughter under her care, along with her ever more ailing son. This is the first monograph about Sobieska’s music patronage. The book describes works by such eminent artists as Carlo S. Capece, Filippo Juvarra, and Domenico Scarlatti, along with the atmosphere of Rome of that time, the sociopolitical role of the festa, and the music theatre genres it employed.

Die im vorliegenden Band dokumentierte Tagung hatte es sich zum Zielgesetzt, eine genauso internationale wie interdisziplinäreForschergruppe zum Thema Soziale Kontrolle zu befragen.Wenngleich mit Athen und Rom die antike mediterrane Welt im Vordergrundstand, war der kulturelle und historische Bezugsrahmen großzügigbemessen, so dass aktuelle theoretische Modelle, begriffsgeschichtlicheDiskurse und komparative Perspektiven Eingang finden konnten. DieAutor(inn)en nutzten die ganze Bandbreite der Untersuchungsfelder undspürten Formen sozialer Kontrolle in Glaube und Aberglaube, ingesellschaftlichen und sozialen Ge- und Verboten, inFamilientraditionen, geschlechtsspezifischen Rollenverständnissen,wirtschaftlichen Netzwerken und nicht zuletzt in politischenInteraktionen auf. Im Ergebnis waren sich alle Forscher(innen) einig:Soziale Kontrolle wird in Staat und Gesellschaft ständig neu erfunden,sie ist nicht starr und endgültig, sondern wandelbar undanpassungsfähig.

The volume, dedicated to the 44th International Conference of the Italian Union for Drawing, investigates the theme of ‘Transitions’, which particularly effectively represents our time and the current condition of the discipline of Drawing. The term, beyond its generic meaning of an intermediate stage in a process in which a condition changes from one state to another, has always been used in various fields, from music to geophysics. In fact, the disciplines of drawing have always been confronted with themes and issues relating to transitions from one condition to another. The history of representation tells us of transformations, even epochal ones, relating to ‘drawing’, with all that such transitions entail: suffice it to think of the evolution of forms of representation, of instrumental apparatuses, of the mutability of supports, of the analogical-digital transition underway, of the new modes of communication on platforms, of the hypertrophic offer of images also on the net that confirms Guy Debord’s intuitions relating to the new spectacularisation of society. Similarly, representation triggers transitions in the prefiguration and communication of design, the anticipation and foreshadowing of future events.The challenges posed by the digital pose open questions whose scope can only be glimpsed, such as the relationship between drawing and the act of modelling, and the construction of new paradigms of visual language and communication. ‘Transitions’, almost implicitly, points to possible futures, the evolution of technique and the search for new modes of expression; at the same time, however, it can suggest silences and reflections in a process of connection between history, theory, criticism and construction.

Reducing Water Use and Carbon Footprint: Working toward a circular economy tackles some of today's most pressing environmental, economic, and social challenges. Aligned with the principles of the Circular Economy, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and the European Green Deal, it showcases groundbreaking technologies that reduce carbon and water footprints, improve air quality, and promote smarter, more sustainable water and waste management. Designed for scientists, graduate students, industry professionals, policymakers, and environmentally conscious readers, this publication provides both the scientific foundation for and practical insights into efficient, cost-effective methods for exhaust gas purification and post-process waste utilization, framed within the Circular Economy's 6R concept - refuse, reduce, reuse, repair, recycle, rethink. Particular attention is given to novel carbon capture techniques using water-soluble sorbents and ferriferrohydrosol (FFH) - an innovative, affordable, and environmentally friendly reagent with catalytic and coagulating properties. The first part of the book provides an overview of modern CO2 capture technologies, comparative analyses of removal costs in solid fuel conversion processes, and the evolving regulatory framework for greenhouse gas emissions in small and medium-sized enterprises. The second part turns to innovative solutions for industrial waste and water management, including steam plasma processing of biomass and organic waste to generate hydrogen-enriched syngas and biochar, and the incorporation of fine granite waste into ceramic tile production to boost durability and reduce water absorption. Blending cutting-edge technologies and sustainable strategies, this book offers practical pathways toward lower CO2 emissions and water use, supporting the global transition to a low-carbon circular economy and resource-efficient future.

The sequencing of the entire human genome has opened up unprecedented possibilities for healthcare, but also ethical and social dilemmas about how these can be achieved, particularly in developing countries. UNESCO's Bioethics Programme was established to address such issues in 1993. Since then, it has adopted three declarations on human genetics and bioethics (1997, 2003 and 2005), set up numerous training programmes around the world and debated the need for an international convention on human reproductive cloning. Negotiating Bioethics presents Langlois' research on the negotiation and implementation of the three declarations and the human cloning debate, based on fieldwork carried out in Kenya, South Africa, France and the UK, among policy-makers, geneticists, ethicists, civil society representatives and industry professionals. The book examines whether the UNESCO Bioethics Programme is an effective forum for (a) decision-making on bioethics issues and (b) ensuring ethical practice. Considering two different aspects of the UNESCO Bioethics Programme - deliberation and implementation - at international and national levels, Langlois explores: - how relations between developed and developing countries can be made more equal - who should be involved in global level decision-making and how this should proceed - how overlap between initiatives can be avoided - what can be done to improve the implementation of international norms by sovereign states - how far universal norms can be contextualized - what impact the efficacy of national level governance has at international level Drawing on extensive empirical research, Negotiating Bioethics presents a truly global perspective on bioethics

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This volume offers international, human rights, family and medical lawyers a comprehensive analysis of topical issues in human reproduction, from donor insemination to posthumous conception, integrating the systematic examination of international case-law on procreative autonomy and family life with underlying ethical debates.

En los últimos años la adquisición del lenguaje ha estado en el centro del interés de los estudios de la lingüística mexicana. Los hallazgos sobre la adquisición y desarrollo del español empiezan a oírse con voz propia y fuerte. Precisamente, en este libro, el habla de niños entre dos y nueve años, hablantes de español mexicano, es el personaje principal. Su habla es atravesada por diferentes miradas teóricas, métodos y tipos de análisis para dar cuenta de algún nivel de estructuración: se va de lo fonético a lo pragmático pasando por lo sintáctico y lo semántico en búsqueda de respuestas a las preguntas nucleares que vertebran el libro ¿cuáles son los rasgos distintivos en diversos momentos de desarrollo?, ¿hay diferencias significativas en la producción?, ¿en qué nivel y de qué manera se dan? Los resultados apuntan hacia un habla infantil en movimiento que cambia, construyéndose dentro de la compleja tríada lingüística, cognoscitiva y social que le da vida.

This edited volume, Intellectual Property Rights – Patent, is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters, offering a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the field of patents and its issues. The book comprises chapters authored by various researchers and edited by experts active in the pharmaceutical research area. All chapters are complete in itself but united under a common research study topic. This publication aims to provide a thorough overview of the latest research efforts on patenting and the related issues for legal experts and the scientific community and open new possible research paths for further novel developments.

Lysosomal storage disorders are a heterogenoeus group of rare genetic conditions affecting worldwide population and often exhibiting severe clinical manifestations. During the last two decades, the joined collaboration between scientists and clinicians has allowed to offer valuable therapeutic options to affected patients. Therefore, the tight connection between basic science and clinical medicine represents the gold standard approach to these disorders. In this context, the present book collects a piece of current scientific advances in the knowledge of disease pathogenesis and in the development of novel diagnostic and therapeutic strategies for some of these diseases. Altogether, these articles define and recapitulate which essential steps are required during the clinical management of a rare inherited disorder and describe forthcoming advances and a breakthrough in the field of lysosomal diseases.

The central theme of this volume is the work of Sabahattin Ali, the Turkish author and translator from German into Turkish who achieved posthumous success with his novel Kürk Mantolu Madonna (The Madonna in the Fur Coat). Our contributors analyze this novel, which takes place largely in Germany, and several other texts by Ali in the context of world literature, (cultural) translation, and intertextuality. Their articles go far beyond the intercultural love affair that has typically dominated the discussion of Madonna. Other articles consider Zafer Şenocak’s essay collection Deutschsein and transcultural learning through picture books. An interview with Selim Özdoğan rounds out the issue.

This book is about the novel aspects and future trends of the hyperspectral imaging in agriculture, food, and environment. The topics covered by this book are hyperspectral imaging and their applications in the nondestructive quality assessment of fruits and vegetables, hyperspectral imaging for assessing quality and safety of meat, multimode hyperspectral imaging for food quality and safety, models fitting to pattern recognition in hyperspectral images, sequential classification of hyperspectral images, graph construction for hyperspectral data unmixing, target visualization method to process hyperspectral image, and soil contamination mapping with hyperspectral imagery. This book is a general reference work for students, professional engineers, and readers with interest in the subject.

Entropy is publishing a Special Issue in honor of the twentieth anniversary of Kaniadakis entropy’s introduction. This then-new entropy is one of the most viable candidates for explaining the experimentally observed power-law-tailed statistical distributions in various physical, natural, and artificial complex systems. In this reprint, readers can find information about the recent applications of Kaniadakis entropy in mechanical statistics, high-energy physics, cosmology, information geometry, biology, and economic sciences. We hope that the papers gathered in this Special Issue may inspire the reader and encourage them to continue the development of this expanding field of statistical physics.

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