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Geschenke und Gefälligkeiten, Entlassungen, Mobbing, Billiglohnproduktion oder Einsatz von Cookies oder Persönlichkeitsprofilen – Das Spektrum an möglichen Spannungsfeldern im Unternehmensalltag ist groß. Mit der Digitalisierung sind die ethischen Herausforderungen noch größer. Dieses Open Access Buch führt Führungskräfte in die Erfassung und Lösung ethischer Dilemmas im Unternehmensalltag ein. Praxisnah und konkret stellt es sieben Leitideen als ethisches Fundament und ein Ablaufschema zur Lösung ethischer Dilemmas vor. 32 häufige Spannungsfelder werden anhand von kurzen Fallbeispielen analysiert und diskutiert. Das Buch präsentiert zudem einfache, aber auch umfassende Good Practices eines modernen Integritätsmanagements. In Zeiten, in denen der Ruf nach der Wahrnehmung von sozialer, gesellschaftlicher und digitaler Verantwortung von Unternehmen immer lauter wird, gibt dieses Lehrmittel den Führungskräften einen Leitfaden an die Hand, wie sie ethische Dilemmas im Unternehmensalltag strukturiert angehen können. Die zweite Auflage enthält ein völlig neues Kapitel mit sieben Fallbeispielen zur Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR), das heißt, zur Verantwortung von Unternehmen im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung. Der Inhalt Grundbegriffe der Ethik Spannungsfelder in Organisationen Ethische Dilemmas Leitideen guter Zusammenarbeit Fallbeispiele zum Integritätsmanagement Fallbeispiele zur Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR) Good Practices im Integritätsmanagement Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch. ;

Antonio Alatorre da en este libro testimonio de su amor por la literatura española del Siglo de Oro, una época de la lengua en que comenzó a ensayarse una nueva forma de expresión poética originada en Italia, el soneto, que había conocido su cumbre en la obra de Francesco Petrarca. Dice Alatorre de su libro: "Hay muchas antologías de poesías del Siglo de Oro. La mía es muy modesta, pues se limita a recoger una docena de sonetos. Pero añade como lujo y como aliciente, los textos italianos de donde proceden. No es desdeñable la oportunidad de calibrar el métier del traductor: ver cuándo el poeta español consigue mantenerlos consonantes del original, cuándo se aparta de él, rebajando a veces la expresión, metiendo a veces rellenos o ripios, sustituyendo a veces unas imágenes hermosas por otras igualmente hermosas, etc., tarea que se hace más interesante cuando pueden confrontarse aciertos y fallas de diversas traducciones. Pero, sobre todo, la lectura del original italiano suele aumentar los quilates de la traducción/adaptación".

From the reorganization of the Archive of the Society of Naturalists in Naples, some drawings of insects and plants by Domenico Cirillo (1739-1799) reappear after two hundred and twenty years, fortunately escaped the fury of the Sanfedisti when they sacked and destroyed his house. They were confused among the papers of his pupil and friend Filippo Cavolini (1756-1810). Carefully studied in this volume, they are for the first time made known to scholars and admirers of the great physician and naturalist, who died for his ideals of justice and for the renewal of the old regime society. In addition to contributions documenting the contacts that Cirillo had with artists and printers, the volume also includes information on the costs he incurred for the publication of his books, to which is added the history that occurred to the manuscript papers of Filippo Cavolini and its descendants, the family De Mellis, which merged into the Society of Naturalists.

For over three centuries Piero della Francesca’s Flagellation has sparked great interest among scholars and academics all around the world who have built complex demonstration plans in order to reveal its true meaning, in attempt to identify historical events that could form a correct chronology. The intent of these pages is to insert the painting in the centuries-old iconographic tradition, an essential reference to Piero and his commissioners, that can clarify its meaning. Hints to the Montefeltro dukes’ conspiracies and joyful or unpleasant events, or Costantinopoli’s fall, alongside the call to the crusade against the Turks, have been set aside. It will now be possible to go back to enjoy the painting in its absolute formal perfection.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.routledge.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license. Motion structures are simply assemblies of resistant bodies connected by movable joints. Unlike conventional structures, they allow large shape transformations to satisfy practical requirements and they can be used in: shelters, emergency structures and exhibition stands aircraft morphing wings satellite solar panels and space antennas morphing core materials for composites medical implants for minimum invasive surgery. Though traditionally the subject falls within structural engineering, motion structures are more closely related to other mechanisms, and they draw on the principles of kinematic and geometrical analysis in their design. Indeed their design and analysis can be viewed as an extension of the theory of mechanisms, such as rigid origami, and can make effective use of a wealth of mathematical principles. This book outlines the relevant underlying theory of motion structural concepts, and uses a number of innovative but simple structures as examples.

This open access volume compiles student reports from the 2023 Simula Summer School in Computational Physiology. The reports provide an overview of some tools available to model physiology in excitable tissues across scales and scientific questions. In 2023, Simula held the nineth annual Summer School in Computational Physiology in collaboration with the University of Oslo (UiO) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Each year, the course focuses on modeling excitable tissues, with a special interest in cardiac physiology and neuroscience. Group research projects conducted by graduate students from around the world result in reports addressing problems of physiological importance. Reports may not necessarily represent new scientific results; rather, they can reproduce or supplement earlier studies. Reports from seven of the summer projects are included as separate chapters. The topics represented include multiscale mechanics, electrophysiology, pharmacology, and machine learning. This is an open access book.

Accretion-ejection around compact objects, mainly around black holes, both in low mass, supermassive, and intermediate-mass, are rich and has been studied exhaustively. However, the subject is expanding and growing rapidly after the launch of different space-based satellites and ground-based telescopes in multiwavelength bands, leaving a range of questions on accretion and ejection mechanisms. The proper understanding of the underlying physical mechanisms responsible for observational evidence is still lacking for several reasons. With the advent of high-resolution satellite observations, it is possible to look at the problems globally as a complete package in a more consistent way. Recently, many new low mass black hole candidates have been discovered; however, very little is known about those systems, e.g., mass, spin parameter, and orbital period. The study in the spectro-temporal domain also needs proper understanding of spectral state change, quasi-periodic oscillation frequency evolution, hardness intensity diagram, and line emissions. The goal and motivation of this book are to focus on top-quality original works in the above-mentioned context, with important research facts that are written in a highly understandable way, from a theoretical, observational, and numerical simulation ground.This book is a collection of high-quality research work, which will give a compact and concise description of the overall view of the subject.

The present collection of articles focuses on the mechanical strength properties at micro- and nanoscale dimensions of body-centered cubic, face-centered cubic and hexagonal close-packed crystal structures. The advent of micro-pillar test specimens is shown to provide a new dimensional scale for the investigation of crystal deformation properties. The ultra-small dimensional scale at which these properties are measured is shown to approach the atomic-scale level at which model dislocation mechanics descriptions of crystal slip and deformation twinning behaviors are proposed to be operative, including the achievement of atomic force microscopic measurements of dislocation pile-up interactions with crystal grain boundaries or with hard surface coatings. A special advantage of engineering designs made at such small crystal and polycrystalline dimensions is the achievement of an approximate order-of-magnitude increase in mechanical strength levels. Reasonable extrapolation of macro-scale continuum mechanics descriptions of crystal strength properties at micro- to nano-indentation hardness measurements are demonstrated, in addition to reports on persistent slip band observations and fatigue cracking behaviors. High-entropy alloy, superalloy and energetic crystal properties are reported along with descriptions of deformation rate sensitivities, grain boundary structures, nano-cutting, void nucleation/growth micromechanics and micro-composite electrical properties.

Du poids des denrées à la superficie des champs, de la valeur des monnaies aux dimensions des corps, la mesure occupe une place centrale dans l'univers médiéval pour lequel « tout est proportion ». C'est donc à ce thème majeur et à son actualité dans les recherches en cours que le XLIIIe Congrès de la Société des historiens médiévistes de l'Enseignement supérieur public, réuni à Tours en juin 2012, a choisi de se consacrer. Vingt-cinq communications issues de ces échanges en révèlent la dimension plurielle, recouvrant par l'exemple les domaines multiples où s'exerce la quantification : économie, démographie et sociologie, culture et science, cartographie et géométrie, danse ou alimentation. Les voies d'entrée dans ces domaines ne sont pas moins nombreuses : métrologie, numismatique, lexicologie, archivistique, codicologie, archéologie, etc. Ces approches croisées donnent ainsi à relire les méthodes mises en œuvre, à prendre aussi la mesure du travail des historiens et des chantiers à venir.

The book features the findings of computational linguistics research on the automatic decoding of referential relations in Polish texts. The author presents a specific definition of coreference, constructs a representative corpus of coreference using texts from the National Corpus of Polish, implements systems for detecting mentions and coreferences, and evaluates them, achieving results comparable with systems of this kind for other languages.

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.

This book is about the idea of the university in modern Germany. Its primary focus is how the transformation of the Humboldtian tradition gave direction to debates around higher education. By combining approaches from intellectual history, conceptual history and the history of knowledge, the study investigates the ways in which Humboldt’s ideas have been appropriated for various purposes in different historical contexts and epochs. Ultimately, it shows that Humboldt’s ideals are not timeless – they are historical phenomena and have always been determined by the predicaments and issues of the day. Nevertheless, many of the key concepts and fundamental ideas have endured throughout the twentieth century, though they have been interpreted in different ways.

This book began life with the inaugural conference of the international research project ‘The healthy self as body capital: Individuals, market-based societies, body politics and visual media in the twentieth century Europe’, held in Strasbourg from 23 to 25 February 2017. The editors would like to thank all participants for their stimulating input during this outstanding event. The presentations and discussions influenced this book in many ways. The research project and the book are funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 694817) and receive significant support from the University of Strasbourg, the Research Unit SAGE (UMR 7363), and the Max Planck Institute for Human Development Berlin (Center for the History of Emotions). We owe gratitude to Tricia Close Koenig, Thérèse Vicente, Lionel Boutton, Fatima Gomis, and Assia Hammali for material support with our research and Elisabeth Fuchs for translation work and subtitling (all University of Strasbourg). We would also like to thank our editor at Amsterdam University Press, Maryse Elliott, for her support in the production of the book. Moreover, we thank our contributors for their inspiring ideas and indepth research. We would like to thank the artists VALIE EXPORT for her collaboration with one of the chapters and Sascha Kürschner for working with us on the book cover. We hope that his drawing ‘FEELING REAL’ from his series ‘PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS’ provides a fitting visual prelude to an interesting read.

This open access book presents the first results from the third cycle of the IEA International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS 2023). This study investigated how young people are prepared for life in a world where the capacity to use computers and digital information responsibly, safely, and effectively is essential. The study reports on data collected from 34 countries across Europe, the Americas, and Asia. This first volume in the ICILS 2023 International Report Series focuses on Grade 8 students’ achievement in the two areas tested in the study: i) their capacity to use digital technologies to collect and manage digital information and to produce and exchange information with others; and ii) in a subset of 22 participating countries, students’ ability to plan and execute computer-based algorithmic solutions to real-world problems. This book also presents information about the school-based and out-of-school contexts in which students are learning these skills and how aspects of these contexts are associated with student achievement.

"This collaborative work provides a detailed snapshot of child oral health in Australia. In doing so, it describes the levels of dental caries and its components, dental fluorosis and other oral health conditions and how they vary by social characteristics. It also describes protective factors such as toothbrushing, the use of fluoridated toothpastes and making dental visits. The 2012–14 National Child Oral Health Survey (NCOHS) was a cross-sectional study of the child population aged 5 to 14 years in Australia. A total of 24,664 children from 841 participating schools completed the study. The study sample was selected in a complex multistage, stratified sampling design. Sophisticated weighting procedure was employed to adjust for variations in probabilities of selection and response rates. Therefore, this report presents estimates as representative of child oral health in Australia. Information was collected via a parental questionnaire and a detailed dental examination by trained dental professionals. Despite some improvement, child oral health has remained a significant population health issue in Australia in the 21st Century. The evidence described in this book has pointed to substantial social patterning of oral health status, dental service use and dental and general health behaviours among Australian children. The identification of the numerous factors and the relation between them at an individual child, family, school and community level poses both difficulties and opportunities for programs to make improvements to and reduce social inequalities in child oral health."