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In this work we analzyse the Stochastic Cauchy Problem driven by a cylindrical Wiener process. Given the existence of solutions we show regularity of the paths of the solution. In dependence on properties of the operators in the equation or on geometrical properties of the underlying Banachspace we derive space time regularity results for the paths of the solution.

L'outil en pierre est, dans la plupart des cas, le seul témoin de la présence des hommes dans les temps reculés du Paléolithique. Notre connaissance des hommes anciens s'appuie donc essentiellement sur ces fragiles vestiges qui ont traversé le temps. L'homme du XXIe siècle, est souvent démuni face au mystère de leur fabrication, de leur emploi et même des motivations de l'artisan. Pourtant, dès les débuts du siècle dernier, les chercheurs ont élaboré des stratégies pour caractériser ces outils et échafauder des hypothèses pour cerner leur utilisation. Ces approches, à cause de leur lexique spécialisé, étaient par définition affaires de professionnels. Le présent ouvrage s'est fixé pour objectif premier de s'adresser à deux types de lecteurs : - à l'étudiant qui suit un cursus universitaire archéologique et qui trouvera au fil des pages un complément pratique aux enseignements. - à tous ceux qui, au cours d'une visite dans un musée, restent interloqués face aux vitrines, si énigmatiques, des objets en pierre. Ce livre, par son format et sa conception, sera un compagnon érudit et pratique. Il est essentiellement centré sur l'outil en pierre, c'est pourquoi les renseignements donnés sur les climats anciens, les datations et les productions artistiques le sont à titre indicatif. À qui sait l'observer et le questionner, l'outil en pierre est riche d'enseignements. Il traduit un projet de conception et d'utilisation de la part d'un homme qui, s'il est loin dans le temps, nous apparaît proche dans sa démarche et sa motivation à faire de la pierre brute un outil de sa vie quotidienne. Plus largement, l'outil trace les limites des territoires investis et mérite d'être regardé comme le témoin privilégié d'échanges culturels entre groupes sociaux. Au fil des pages, le lecteur découvrira que derrière l'approche technique se cache l'homme, héros principal porteur de culture. La connaissance de l'enchaînement des cultures paléolithiques aide à la perception mentale de la construction du temps. En ce sens l'outil dépasse largement sa seule réalité matérielle.

Metal fused filament fabrication (MF3) with metal-filled filaments is an indirect process that uses polymeric binders for additive shaping of green bodies. These are processed into solid metal parts after debinding and sintering. Due to the filament-based shaping, this process can be used for the additive manufacturing of all sinterable powder materials requiring low investment costs. The MF3 process could thus provide a cost-effective and material-flexible alternative to powder bed fusion (PBF) manufacturing of small metallic components with complex shapes. To enable a successful process application, parameter optimization as well as the selection of the furnace atmosphere for each individual process step is crucial to achieve a high final density. In this context, the applied parameters have a significant influence on the microstructure and the functional and mechanical properties of the manufactured components. It is the aim of this work to identify suitable parameter sets for the individual process steps and to evaluate the applicability of MF3 for AM of various high-value metal alloys. This includes a general parameter optimization for each step of the entire process chain of shaping, debinding and sintering, independently of the processed metal powder. Based on the general process implementation, systematic parameter studies were performed for 316L, Ampersint 1557.02, cp-Ti, IN 718, CoWAlloy3mod, and 99 % pure Cu to derive the best processing strategies for each of these metals. Das Metallextrusionsverfahren (engl. metal fused filament fabrication (MF3)) unter Verwendung metallgefüllter Filamente ist ein indirektes Verfahren, das polymere Bindemittel für die additive Formgebung von Grünkörpern verwendet, aus denen nach dem Entbindern und Sintern kompakte Metallteile hergestellt werden. Aufgrund der filamentbasierten Formgebung kann dieses Verfahren für die additive Fertigung aller sinterfähigen Pulverwerkstoffe bei geringen Investitionskosten eingesetzt werden. Das MF3-Verfahren stellt somit eine kostengünstige und werkstoffflexible Alternative zu Pulverbettverfahren für kleine metallische Bauteile komplexer Geometrie dar. Für eine erfolgreiche Prozessanwendung sind eine Parameteroptimierung sowie die Wahl der Ofenatmosphäre für jeden einzelnen Prozessschritt entscheidend, um eine hohe Enddichte zu erreichen. In diesem Zusammenhang haben die angewandten Parameter einen wesentlichen Einfluss auf die Mikrostruktur und die funktionellen und mechanischen Eigenschaften der hergestellten Bauteile. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, geeignete Parametersätze für die einzelnen Prozessschritte zu identifizieren und die Anwendbarkeit von MF3 für verschiedene hochwertige Metalllegierungen zu bewerten. Dies beinhaltet eine generelle Parameteroptimierung jedes Schrittes der gesamten Prozesskette von Formgebung, Entbindern und Sintern, unabhängig vom verarbeiteten Metallpulver. Auf der Grundlage der allgemeinen Prozessimplementierung werden systematische Parameterstudien für 316L, Ampersint 1557.02, cp-Ti, IN 718, CoWAlloy3mod und 99 % reines Cu durchgeführt, um die besten Verarbeitungsstrategien für jedes dieser Metalle abzuleiten.

"This book studies the ”grey area” of the success story of rural lending libraries in the Nordic countries through the activities of people’s libraries in one area of Central Finland. The study explores the influence of social, cultural, geographical and economic phenomena, such as the spread of revivalist movements, on the reading habits of the local population and reveals interesting reasons why the establishment of elementary schools and popular libraries and the growth of functional literacy did not automaticallyincrease the informational capital of the common people of remote regions or lead to their social advancement. This study represents a methodological experiment in describing the life history of a people’s library. The combination of collective biographical and transnational comparative methods with rarely utilized original sources in this study is innovative and has not been used before in Finnish historical research on functional literacy and popular libraries. The advantage of the comparison is that it reveals the attitudes to libraries that were characteristic of each of the cultures involved. For the people of the Finnish countryside in the late nineteenth century, libraries represented a way of acquiring new information that was still strange and unwelcome. The distribution of immaterial capital was extremely unevenwith regard to age, gender and social rank. In the earlier Finnish research has not very often been analysed, how the communal status of the peasant reader and his or her personal networks in the local community affected the quality of his or her reading habits. This book shows, that the location of the library in its local community and on the other hand the status and position of its customers in their networks, had a great significance on the use of the library and thus to the improvement of reading skills."

"In this chapter, I argue that Aristotle's doctrine of hylomorphism, which con- ceived the natural world as consisting of substances which are metaphysically composed of matter and form, is ripe for rehabilitation in the light of quantum physics. I begin by discussing Aristotle's conception of matter and form, as it was understood by Aquinas, and how Aristotle's doctrine of hylomorphism was `physicalised' and eventually abandoned with the rise of microphysicalism. I argue that the phenomenon of quantum entanglement, and the emergence of irreducibly macroscopic phenomena in nite temperature quantum systems, have given us good reasons to doubt the truth of microphysicalism. In support of my argument, I show how to construct a hylomorphic interpretation of the de Broglie-Bohm theory that posits a single Cosmic Substance. I then show how to construct a hylomorphic interpretation of an alternative `contextual' wave function collapse theory (recently proposed by the physicists Barbara Drossel and George Ellis) which posits a plurality of Thermal Substances. Both of these neo-Aristotelian ontologies reject the microphysicalist dogma that nature consists fundamentally of some set of microscopic constituents."

Présent dans toute politique environnementale et pourtant s'en distinguant précisément parce qu’il n’est pas ce qui nous entoure mais ce qui existe pour et par lui-même, le vivant ne se laisse pas enfermer par les humains – pas si facilement, dirait-on avec nuance – et c’est cet acte de résistance qui le rend politique.

This handbook is written for patients and members of the public who want to understand more about the approaches, methods and language used by health-services researchers. Patient and public involvement (PPI) in research is now a requirement of most major health-research programmes, and this book is designed to equip these individuals with the knowledge and skills necessary for meaningful participation. Edited by award-winning mental-health researchers, the book has been produced in partnership with mental-health-service users and carers with experience of research involvement. It includes personal reflections from these individuals alongside detailed information on quantitative, qualitative and health-economics research methods, and comprehensively covers all the basics needed for large-scale health research projects: systematic reviews; research design and analysis using both qualitative and quantitative approaches; health economics; research ethics; impact and dissemination. This book was developed during a five-year research programme funded by the UK’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) called Enhancing the Quality of User Involved Care Planning in Mental Health Services (EQUIP). The handbook clearly outlines research practices, and gives an insight into how public and patient representatives can be involved in them and shape decisions. Each chapter ends with a reflective exercise, and there are also some suggested sources of additional reading. People who get involved in health research as experts from experience now have a textbook to support their research involvement journey.

"For many of us, our earliest and most meaningful experiences with literature occur through the medium of a translated children’s book. This volume focuses on the complex interplay that happens between text and context when works of children’s literature are translated. What contexts of production and reception account for how translated children’s books come to be made and read as they are? How are translated children’s books adapted to suit the context of a new culture? Spanning the disciplines of Children’s Literature Studies and Translation Studies, this book brings together established and emerging voices to provide an overview of the analytical, empirical and geographic richness of current research in this field and to identify and reflect on common insights, analytical perspectives and trajectories for future interdisciplinary research. This volume will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience of scholars and students in Translation Studies and Children’s Literature Studies and related disciplines. It has a broad geographic and cultural scope, with contributions dealing with translated children’s literature in the United Kingdom, the United States, Israel, Ireland, Spain, France, Brazil, Poland, Slovenia, Hungary, China, the former Yugoslavia, Sweden, Germany, and Belgium."

In 24 theoretischen und praxisbezogenen Beiträgen nähern sich Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus Deutschland, Österreich und Polen den aktuellen Problemen aus dem weit verstandenen Gebiet der angewandten Linguistik an. Die Beiträge stammen aus den folgenden thematischen Gebieten: Pragma- und Soziolinguistikstudien, kontrastive Studien, Interkulturalität, Spracherwerbs- und Sprachlehrforschung, Fachsprachen, Übersetzen und Dolmetschen sowie Lingustic Landscapes. Der vorliegende Band greift damit die vielseitigen Forschungsinteressen von Prof. Dr. habil. Izabela Prokop auf, die im Jahr 2021 ihr 70. Lebensjahr vollendet. The present book is a collection of 24 theoretical and empirical contributions which approach current problems within a widely understood field of applied linguistics. Their authors come from Germany, Austria and Poland and represent major academic institutions in these countries. The chapters included in the monograph treat about the most recent issues in the field and are organized into seven thematic foci: Pragma- and sociolinguistics, contrastive studies, interculturality, language acquisition and language teaching research, specialised languages, translation and translation studies, and research in linguistic landscape. The incentive for putting this monograph together is the 70th birthday of prof. Izabela Prokop.

Learn how to accelerate C++ programs using data parallelism. This open access book enables C++ programmers to be at the forefront of this exciting and important new development that is helping to push computing to new levels. It is full of practical advice, detailed explanations, and code examples to illustrate key topics. Data parallelism in C++ enables access to parallel resources in a modern heterogeneous system, freeing you from being locked into any particular computing device. Now a single C++ application can use any combination of devices—including GPUs, CPUs, FPGAs and AI ASICs—that are suitable to the problems at hand. This book begins by introducing data parallelism and foundational topics for effective use of the SYCL standard from the Khronos Group and Data Parallel C++ (DPC++), the open source compiler used in this book. Later chapters cover advanced topics including error handling, hardware-specific programming, communication and synchronization, and memory model considerations. Data Parallel C++ provides you with everything needed to use SYCL for programming heterogeneous systems. What You'll Learn Accelerate C++ programs using data-parallel programming Target multiple device types (e.g. CPU, GPU, FPGA) Use SYCL and SYCL compilers Connect with computing’s heterogeneous future via Intel’s oneAPI initiative Who This Book Is For Those new data-parallel programming and computer programmers interested in data-parallel programming using C++.

Rufus of Ephesus' (fl. ca. AD 100) On Melancholy deals with a medical condition oscillating between madness, depression, and bouts of great creativity. This collection of the Greek, Latin, and Arabic fragments makes this text easily available for the first time.

This volume argues that contemporary narratives evince a great deal of resilience by promoting an ecology of attention based on poetic options that develop an ethics of the particularist type. The contributors draw on critical and theoretical literature hailing from various fields: including psychology and sociology, but more prominently phenomenology, political philosophy, analytical philosophy (essentially Ordinary Language Philosophy), alongside the Ethics of Care and Vulnerability. This volume is designed as an innovative contribution to the nascent field of the study of attention in literary criticism, an area that is full of potential. Its scope is wide, as it embraces a great deal of the Anglophone world, with Britain, Ireland, the USA, but also Australia and even Malta. Its chapters focus on well-established authors, like Kazuo Ishiguro (whose work is revisited here in a completely new light) or more confidential ones like Melissa Harrison or Sarah Moss. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

An inside look at how patients living with terminal illness created one of the country’s first medical marijuana collectives Marijuana as medicine has been a politically charged topic in this country for more than three decades. Despite overwhelming public support and growing scientific evidence of its therapeutic effects (relief of the nausea caused by chemotherapy for cancer and AIDS, control over seizures or spasticity caused by epilepsy or MS, and relief from chronic and acute pain, to name a few), the drug remains illegal under federal law. In Dying to Get High , noted sociologist Wendy Chapkis and Richard J. Webb investigate one community of seriously-ill patients fighting the federal government for the right to use physician-recommended marijuana. Based in Santa Cruz, California, the Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana (WAMM) is a unique patient-caregiver cooperative providing marijuana free of charge to mostly terminally ill members. For a brief period in 2004, it even operated the only legal non-governmental medical marijuana garden in the country, protected by the federal courts against the DEA. Using as their stage this fascinating profile of one remarkable organization, Chapkis and Webb tackle the broader, complex history of medical marijuana in America. Through compelling interviews with patients, public officials, law enforcement officers and physicians, Chapkis and Webb ask what distinguishes a legitimate patient from an illegitimate pothead, good drugs from bad, medicinal effects from just getting high. Dying to Get High combines abstract argument and the messier terrain of how people actually live, suffer and die, and offers a moving account of what is at stake in ongoing debates over the legalization of medical marijuana.

This reprint represents a general view of what and how the research on plants at the molecular level (genetics, genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and so on) contributes to a good equilibrium among human needs, food security, and future strategies for mitigating the effects of global climate changes. Now more than ever, it is critical to understand the genetics and evolution of the gene mechanisms and the networks of different molecular pathways acting on plant abiotic stress tolerance in order to find new solutions for modern agricultural problems.This reprint is full of technical and specialized terms and, for this reason, its target audience is scientists and students trained in plant functional genomics, breeding, agronomy, and genetics. It is an exciting virtual tour through plant molecular responses to various environmental stresses, and new ideas and applications will be derived.

Corporate financing by mezzanine capital gives rise to various questions in connection with the protection of the company's third-party creditors. The study examines to what extent providers of mezzanine capital are subject to those statutory provisions that impose restrictions on conventional equity investors in the interest of the company's creditors. Furthermore, it examines the relevance of such clauses by which the parties explicitly assign a creditor-protecting function to mezzanine capital.