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The volume addresses three key aspects of today’s book culture: independent publishing, book fairs and literary festivals. Using an innovative theoretical framework (a literary "value criticism"), it offers an in-depth field study of some 349 independent publishers as well as 10 book fairs and festivals in Spain and the Americas to shed light on new production, circulation and reception processes in contemporary literary culture.

The emerging massive density of human-held and machine-type nodes implies larger traffic deviatiolns in the future than we are facing today. In the future, the network will be characterized by a high degree of flexibility, allowing it to adapt smoothly, autonomously, and efficiently to the quickly changing traffic demands both in time and space. This flexibility cannot be achieved when the network’s infrastructure remains static. To this end, the topic of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) have enabled wireless communications, and networking has received increased attention. As mentioned above, the network must serve a massive density of nodes that can be either human-held (user devices) or machine-type nodes (sensors). If we wish to properly serve these nodes and optimize their data, a proper wireless connection is fundamental. This can be achieved by using UAV-enabled communication and networks. This Special Issue addresses the many existing issues that still exist to allow UAV-enabled wireless communications and networking to be properly rolled out.

Networks, communications, and computing have become ubiquitous and inseparable parts of everyday life. This book is based on a Special Issue of the Algorithms journal, and it is devoted to the exploration of the many-faceted relationship of networks, communications, and computing. The included papers explore the current state-of-the-art research in these areas, with a particular interest in the interactions among the fields.

In the Middle Ages, the very existence of Benedictine monasteries was based on their proclaimed isolation from the world, a tenet diametrically opposed to their means of subsistence. Indeed, in order to extract goods from society (oblates, food, protection…), abbeys had to provide tangible goods and services in exchange (political support, hospitality…); monasteries were deeply integrated into medieval society while claiming to be isolated from it. This paradox of monastic life is often referred to in the Ordenforschungen or study of the monastic orders, but it is rarely used when it comes to studying specific institutions. This book aims to test the validity of this theoretical framework against the reality as lived by the monks of the Abbey of St Peter of Lobbes (Hainault, Belgium), from its founding until the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries. In particular, it analyses the interactions between the abbey and its political and economic environment.

For a long period, Greeks, Phoenicians, and Etruscans frequented, at the same time, the Mediterranean Sea. This forced their seafaring to behave, at the same time, as pirates at sea, to break down competition, and as traders in the emporia, to sell their goods. Navigation was based on the experience of sailors since there were no instruments and methods to estimate sailing parameters. The empirical knowledge of seafarers was based on the observation of environmental and astronomical daymarks, and on their ability to perceive signals from the atmosphere, and from sea animals. Navigation was mainly carried out at such a distance from the coast as not to lose sight of it; but in the Mediterranean Sea the coasts, often mountainous, allowed us to have in sight elevated points of reference, which also allowed offshore navigation. Merchant vessels were not as fast as combat, but they could carry large loads of goods to be sold in any emporia. The average speed of a ship was around 5-6 knots, therefore the longest voyages could require considering stops for rest and bad weather. In this case the journey required a winter stopover, and the navigation continued into the following season. Therefore, we understand the importance of “weather forecasting” which could be done with a careful analysis of the warning signs that came from the sky, from the flight of birds and the behavior of fish and other aquatic animals.

This book, entitled “Selected papers from IEEE ICKII 2019”, selected 13 excellent papers from the 260 papers presented in the IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Innovation and Invention (IEEE ICKII) 2019 on energies. The 2nd IEEE ICKII 2019 was held in Seoul, South Korea, 12–15 July, 2019, and provided a unified communication platform for research on information technology, innovation design, communication science and engineering, industrial design, creative design, applied mathematics, computer science, electrical and electronic engineering, mechanical and automation engineering, green technology and architecture engineering, material science, and other related fields. The ICKII conference enables interdisciplinary collaboration of science and engineering technologists in the academic and industrial fields, as well as international networking. This book is a collection of 13 research papers. The fields included are as follows: energy fundamentals, energy sources and energy carriers, energy exploration, intermediate and final energy use, energy conversion systems, and energy research and development. The main goals of this book are to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible, and to discover new scientific knowledge relevant to the topics of energies.

Intra-individual variation is an emerging research field in linguistics with a rapidly growing number of studies. In historical sociolinguistics, this trend has been slow, as it is still largely dominated by the macroscopic approaches of earlier sociolinguistics. Microscopic studies focusing on intra-individual variation in writing, i.e. intra-writer variation, however, are able to reveal how writers functionalize social or text-type variation for reasons such as audience design or persona creation. They may also provide insights into how ongoing changes were perceived by speakers and writers. In general, micro-approaches are able to uncover a wide array of possible factors influencing variation, which may not always carry sociolinguistic functions. This volume comprises twenty-two research articles on a wide range of languages and periods, all closely connected by their focus on intra-writer variation in historical texts and by their use of empirical and corpus-based approaches. The studies demonstrate that the challenges that historical material have for research on intra-individual variation can certainly be met and that the insights gleaned from analysing variation in individual writers are considerable.

Die Studie vergleicht drei rechtsphilosophisch orientierte Veröffentlichungen bedeutender deutscher Rechtswissenschaftler aus der Zeit des Zweiten Weltkriegs, Franz Wieacker, Carl Schmitt und Erik Wolf. Der Vergleich der Autoren wird unter dem Gesichtspunkt vorgenommen, ob seinerzeit Kritik an der Diktatur mit Maßstäben rechtsphilosophischen Denkens von deutschen Rechtslehrern geäußert wurde.Die Interpretation der Texte geht von der zeitgeschichtlichen Situation aus, in der die Autoren mit der Möglichkeit einer katastrophalen Niederlage Deutschlands rechnen mußten. Alle Texte zeigen ein Bewußtsein von der Krise des Rechts und Untertöne vorsichtiger Distanzierung vom Gewaltregime. Der in der Forschung zur Rechtsgeschichte des Nationalsozialismus bisher meist herausgestellte Enthusiasmus aus den Jahren seit 1933 ist weitgehend einer Suche nach anderen Anknüpfungspunkten in Rechtsgeschichte und Literatur gewichen.Die Studie richtet sich an Juristen, Philosophen und Zeithistoriker. Sie zeigt, wie sich führende deutsche Juristen mit der Konstellation von Diktatur, Krieg und drohender Niederlage geistig auseinandersetzten.Der Autor Peter Landau ist Professor an der Universität München.

Phytochemicals are biologically active compounds present in plants used for food and medicine. A great deal of interest has been generated recently in the isolation, characterization and biological activity of these phytochemicals. This book is in response to the need for more current and global scope of phytochemicals. It contains chapters written by internationally recognized authors. The topics covered in the book range from their occurrence, chemical and physical characteristics, analytical procedures, biological activity, safety and industrial applications. The book has been planned to meet the needs of the researchers, health professionals, government regulatory agencies and industries. This book will serve as a standard reference book in this important and fast growing area of phytochemicals, human nutrition and health.

an account of the response of the Russian Symbolist poets to the Great War and the Russian revolutions of 1917. Readership: All interested in Russian modernism, especially Symbolism, and Russian history of the war years 1914-1918 and the revolutions of 1917.

Thoroughly illustrated edition, translation and commentary of all religious Norican inscriptions with a probably Celtic-speaking background, together with an in-depth linguistic and historical discussion of the single numina and an iconographic study in Fasc. 1. Fasc 1: https://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:1424 Fasc 2: https://e-book.fwf.ac.at/o:1425

In the past decade, Pakistan has witnessed incidents such as the public lynching of a student on a university campus, a Christian couple being torched alive, attacks on entire neighbourhoods by angry mobs and the assassination of a provincial governor by his own security guard over allegations of blasphemy. Finding the Enemy Within unpacks the meanings and motivations behind accusations of blasphemy and subsequent violence in Pakistan. This is the first ethnographic study of its kind analysing the perspectives of a range of different actors including accusers, religious scholars and lawyers involved in blasphemy-related incidents in Pakistan. Bringing together anthropological perspectives on religion, violence and law, this book reworks prevalent analytical dichotomies of reason/emotion, culture/religion, traditional/Western, state/nonstate and legal/extralegal to extend our understanding of the upsurge of blasphemy-related violence in Pakistan. Through the case study of blasphemy accusations in Pakistan, this book addresses broader questions of difference, individual and collective identities, social and symbolic boundaries, and conflict and violence in modern nation-states.

Public Art and Youth: An Aesthetic Dialogic Experience is aimed at male and female readers that are interested in art. It is an interdisciplinary work of research with an academic profile supported by group techniques that explores youth’s life possibilities and all of their universe of senses, emotions, and rationalities upon contact with public art in Colima, Mexico. Three public sculptures were referenced for the work of research: José Luis Cuevas’s La Figura Obscena (The Obscene Figure); Juan Soriano’s El Toro Echado (The Lying Bull); and the replica of a Pre-Columbian sculpture by Guillermo Ríos Alcalá called Perritos Colimotes (Little Dogs from Colima). The book proposes the idea of the aesthetic dialogic experience as a vast richness of analysis possibilities between public art and society.

La gestion participative des ressources naturelles a été imposée aux pays en développement par les bailleurs de fonds internationaux dans les années 1990. Cette nouvelle modalité de gestion des ressources se construit en théorie avec l’appui des populations locales pour leur propre bénéfice. Dans la réalité, elle tend plutôt à s’imposer à elles. Elle les détourne de l’accès à des ressources sanctuarisées. Elle favorise globalement la captation de rente par l’État et certaines ONG de conservation. Les projets de gestion participative se révèlent alors souvent inadaptés pour les populations. Ils renforcent les inégalités sociales au niveau local et ne parviennent pas à réduire de manière substantielle la dégradation des ressources naturelles. Un tel constat plaide donc pour une reconfiguration de cette gestion sur la base d’une véritable démocratie participative et pour le développement de processus longs permettant un véritable apprentissage collectif.

This book represents recent progress and development of the photodiodes including the fundamental reviews and the specific applications developed by the authors themselves. The key idea of this book is that it allows authors to deal with a wide range of backgrounds and research progresses in photodiode-related areas. With respect to the original collection of the book chapters, this book contains several improvements and new problems and related solutions are also discussed in the areas from fundamental physics and design to device and circuit applications. The book is intended for graduate students, engineers, and researchers who are especially interested in the area of optoelectronic device applications, including photodiodes, solar cells, CMOS image sensors, Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits, etc.