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This chapter follows the logic of the national case studies, elaborated in the previous four chapters, in which the authors analysed, in the first instance, a country’s development of its integratory path with Europe and then put it in the evolution of its capitalism-type context. However, in this section, they compare the four countries of Germany, Poland, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, and, to do so, apply more formalized indices representing differentiation (the degree of integration with the EU) and the variety of capitalism (the dominant coordination mechanisms). The authors eventually sketch the dynamic, core-periphery model of European integration and capitalism involving the shifts that occurred in these two dimensions over last three decades.

For nearly two centuries, Hawaii's leaders have endeavored to forge a unique international role for the Islands in Pacific and even in world affairs. Colorful figures such as Kalakaua, Walter Murray Gibson, and a host of others labored mightily to transform the Islands into an oceanic political power. Although their campaigns eventually failed, Hawaii was put forever on the diplomatic map with such ventures as the attempted annexation of a distant South Pacific islands group, the provocation of a quarrel with Germany that led to the brink of war, and the persistent defense of the interests of Pacific islanders in the capitals of Europe and America. A very different but nonetheless ambitious surge of activism followed Hawaii's annexation by the United States at the turn of the present century. Shortly after World War I, local internationalists formed the Pan-Pacific Union and the Institute of Pacific Relations as the foci of a concerted effort to foster greater political and cultural understanding throughout the Pacific and the world. While both groups frequently created headlines with various programs and proposals, the latter organization became widely known when it came under the attack of the anticommunist movement during the late 1940's and 1950's. Related endeavors in more recent years have produced numerous activities in educational, political, scientific, and commercial circles that presently involve a fair proportion of the Island establishment as well as numerous prominent figures from abroad. Elusive Destiny brings the details of this little-known but always present impulse in Hawaiian history together for the first time and goes on to speculate about the likely causes of successes or failures. Carefully researched and documented, richly illustrated, and concisely written, the book should interest all persons concerned with the modern Hawaiian experience.

Si les sans-abri, figures extrêmes de l’exclusion, suscitent une attention médiatique saisonnière, ils ne sont cependant que la partie visible d’une précarité résidentielle grandissante qui recoupe des réalités très diverses. Un nombre croissant de personnes vivent ainsi dans des centres d’hébergement mais aussi dans des campings, des camions ou même des voitures, des cabanes, des abris de fortune, sans oublier la rue et ses corollaires, gares, métro… Quelles trajectoires ont conduit ces personnes à vivre aux marges du logement ordinaire ? Comment vivent-elles cette situation ? Quelles ressources et quelles stratégies mettent-elles en place pour (sur)vivre et quels liens entretiennent-elles avec les services d’aide ? À partir d’entretiens effectués dans le cadre de plusieurs enquêtes, ce livre offre une immersion dans leur vie quotidienne. Loin des enjeux politiques et médiatiques, l’ouvrage souligne la diversité mais aussi l’épaisseur des existences de celles et ceux qui sont à la fois inaudibles et invisibles.

This open-access edited collection, focusing on Ghana and Nigeria, offers a transatlantic, transnational exploration of barriers that threaten the wellbeing of West African youth—ranging from Black immigrant youth in the American city of Newark, New Jersey, to students in Almajiri Islamic schools in Northern Nigeria. Incorporating themes of migration, vulnerability, and agency and aspirations, the book conveys the resilience of African youth transitioning toward adulthood in a world of structural inequality. It thus crosses the academic divide between Youth Studies and African Studies, while challenging conventional framings of Black youth as deficient and deviant—positing instead their individual and collective creativity and assets. The contributors employ different methodological approaches, including field research and autoethnography, from varying multidisciplinary and practitioner perspectives.

Starke Beschleunigungsvorgänge in schweren Nutzfahrzeugen führen aufgrund elastischer Bauelemente im Fahrzeug zu Schwingungen im Antriebsstrang. Diese übetragen sich auch auf den Fahrer, wodurch der Fahrkomfort stark vermindert wird. Bisher konnte nur unter erheblichen Einbußen bei der Fahrdynamik Abhilfe geschaffen werden. In dieser Arbeit werden verschiedene Lösungsmethoden, deren Analyse und Übertragung auf unterschiedliche Fahrzeugtypen zur optimalen Lösung dieses Konflikts vorgestellt.

This thesis highlights how deeply digital media are embedded in everyday life and how difficult it is to escape their influence. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, media use has increased significantly, and cases of media addiction are rising. Against this background, the thesis examines the growing loss of control in media use, which can substantially contribute to the development of media addiction and has so far received little attention in educational practice. The aim is to analyze the causes and triggers of this loss of control and to identify preventive approaches. The study is based on a literature review comparing and integrating different theoretical models. Findings show that loss of control arises when media are unconsciously used for emotion regulation and need satisfaction. This is reinforced by self-optimization pressures, neuropsychological mechanisms, and digital product design aimed at repeated use. Preventive strategies include education, psychoeducation, and raising awareness of media mechanisms. Key approaches involve conscious dopamine management, strengthening self-reflection and self-regulation, and fostering emotional competencies. It is crucial to meet needs in real-life contexts to maintain an attractive life reality. At the educational level, early promotion of emotional skills, strengthening problem-solving abilities, and targeted media education are essential. Furthermore, professionals should be sensitized to neuropsychological mechanisms and vicious cycles of media use to ensure effective prevention.

Chaque année depuis 1994, les journées du longitudinal (JDL) constituent un temps fort de la vie scientifique du Céreq. Elles sont co-organisées par le Céreq et un des centres associés de son réseau et réunissent des chercheurs et chercheuses autour d’une problématique inscrite dans une approche longitudinale de l’analyse de la relation formation-emploi. Les actes des rencontres sont édités tous les ans par le Céreq.C’est le centre associé d’Aix-en-Provence (Laboratoire d’économie et de sociologie du travail [LEST], UMR 7317) qui accueille les 29e journées sur la thématique : « Crises et transitions : quelles données pour quelles analyses ? ». Comment les crises et les transitions (économique, sociale, migratoire, sanitaire…) affectent les parcours de vie ? Quel les transformations imposent-elles ?Il s’agit de penser en particulier les recompositions des parcours éducatifs et professionnels mais aussi de s’intéresser aux types de données et méthodes permettant de saisir la multidimensionnalité des éléments constitutifs de ces trajectoires.

Focusing on § 9 FamFG, the legal position of minors in family court proceedings in German law is examined. The author argues, based on a comparison with Swiss law, for a change in the law that breaks away from age limits and focuses on individual abilities. The dissertation shows which regulatory options are already available under German law. Findings from the perspectives of developmental psychology and sociology are presented and suggestions for further research are made.

The short life of hacker Aaron Swartz, who died by suicide on 11 January 2013, has many incredible aspects. A small computer genius who grew up in a Chicago suburb, he met, as a teenager, scholars of the calibre of Tim Berners-Lee and Lawrence Lessig and worked with them to build the computer architectures, and licences, of the future. In a radical change of life, he will then decide to devote himself to political and technological activism; in the meantime, his talented colleagues are taking advantage of the Silicon Valley wave to get rich. Instead, he will devote his energies, and talent, to fight for open access, secure communications, anonymity, and freeing content and culture from the confines, and paywalls, of big databases. At some point, however, the US government will target him and, slowly, the powerful American judicial machine will crush him. His teaching, his theories, his passion are still today, ten years after his death, an example for many users, hackers and citizens of the information society.

The "Pannonische Glanztonware" (PGW) is a type of ceramics, which was wide-spread in Pannonia from the end of the 1st well into the 3rd century A.D. It is a product of local potteries, in which the influence of ceramics in the La Tène tradition and of imported Roman ceramics joined to create a new, typical Pannonian ware. In the PGW was produced exclusively table ware. The shapes of the vessels are to a large extent taken over from the Terra Sigillata resp. influenced by it; some of them also show the influence of the raetic-germanic area and the local utility ware. The vessels have a fine paste, a slip and are fired at the beginning of production, in most cases in a reducing atmosphere. But from the beginning oxidized fired pieces also appeared; their portion is - regionally scattered - increasing in the 3rd century. A number of the vessels are decorated in a for typical PGW way with stamps either inside at the base or outside; most of them, however are undecorated. The basis of the investigations into the PGW are the finds, which were unearthened at the excavations 1977-1988 conducted by H. Stiglitz in the auxiliary fort of Carnuntum. The finds of the "Steinkastell I" and the over it lying levelling layer give a representative view of the PGW in the second third of the 2nd century in the area of Carnuntum. On the basis of the finds published here, a open classification-system was created, so that it can be expanded with further finds, which are until now only known from unpublished locations or from other publications. Regarding the material of the vessels five fabrics ("STyp 1-5") and four types of slip ("ÜTyp A-D") could be distinguished. Petrographic and heavy mineral analysis, which were carried out by R. Sauer, showed that the vessels of fabric 2, 3 and 5 were probably produced in the area of Carnuntum. Apart from the emphasis on north-western Pannonia, which results from the basis of the finds of Carnuntum, a summary is given of the spectrum of the PGW, the potter's stamps, workshops and finds from dated locations in eastern and south-western Pannonia. A short discourse on the stamped ceramics found in south-eastern Pannonia, Moesia and Dacia completes the picture.

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The FISH Handbook for Biological Wastewater Treatment provides all the required information for the user to be able to identify and quantify important microorganisms in activated sludge and biofilms by using fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) and epifluorescence microscopy. It has for some years been clear that most microorganisms in biological wastewater systems cannot be reliably identified and quantified by conventional microscopy or by traditional culture-dependent methods such as plate counts. Therefore, molecular biological methods are vital and must be introduced instead of, or in addition to, conventional methods. At present, FISH is the most widely used and best tested of these methods. This handbook presents all relevant information from the literature and, based on the extensive experience of the authors, advice and recommendations are given for reliable FISH identification and quantification.

The rise of neo-nationalism is having a profound and troubling impact on leading national universities and the societies they serve. This is the first comparative study of how today's right-wing populist movements and authoritarian governments are threatening higher education.Universities have long been at the forefront of both national development and global integration. But the political and policy world in which they operate is undergoing a transition, one that is reflective of a significant change in domestic politics and international relations: a populist turn inward among a key group of nation-states, often led by demagogues, that includes China and Hong Kong, Turkey, Hungary, Russia, Brazil, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In many parts of the world, the COVID-19 pandemic provided an opportunity for populists and autocrats to further consolidate their power. Within right-wing political ecosystems, universities, in effect, offer the proverbial canary in the coal mine—a clear window into the extent of civil liberties and the political environment and trajectory of nation-states.In Neo-nationalism and Universities, John Aubrey Douglass provides the first significant examination of the rise of neo-nationalism and its impact on the missions, activities, behaviors, and productivity of leading national universities. Douglass presents a major comparative exploration of the role of national politics and norms in shaping the role of universities in nation-states—and vice versa. He also explores when universities are societal leaders or followers: When they are agents of social and economic change, or simply agents reinforcing and supporting an existing social and political order.In a series of case studies, Douglass and contributors examine troubling trends that threaten the societal role of universities, including attacks on civil liberties, free speech, and the validity of science; the firing and jailing of academics; anti-immigrant rhetoric; and restrictions on visas with consequences for the mobility of academic talent. The book also offers recommendations to preserve the autonomy and academic freedom of universities and their constituents. Neo-nationalism and Universities is written for a broad public readership interested and concerned about the rise of nationalist movements, illiberal democracies, and autocratic leaders.Contributors: José Augusto Guilhon Albuquerque, Elizabeth Balbachevsky, Thomas Brunotte, Igor Chirikov, Igor Fedyukin, Karin Fischer, Wilhelm Krull, Brendan O'Malley, Bryan E. Penprase, Marijk van der Wende

Abel Salazar presents the considerations of a traveler-storyteller about some Italian cities in his book of travel narratives, Uma Primavera em Itália (2003), the central corpus of our research. Starting from an introduction about the author, the text, the perspectives of travel literature in the first half of the twentieth century, its categorization and reflecting on the tourist and traveler profile, we intend, with this research, to present a critical analysis of the interpretation of the figure of the traveler and its facets by the eclectic Portuguese author Abel Salazar, praised and criticized in his travel narratives.

This Special Issue “Grid-to-Vehicle (G2V) and Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Technologies” was in session from 1 May 2019 to 31 May 2020. For this Special issue, we invited articles on current state-of-the-art technologies and solutions in G2V and V2G, including but not limited to the operation and control of gridable vehicles, energy storage and management systems, charging infrastructure and chargers, EV demand and load forecasting, V2G interfaces and applications, V2G and energy reliability and security, environmental impacts, and economic benefits as well as demonstration projects and case studies in the aforementioned areas. Articles that deal with the latest hot topics in V2G are of particular interest, such as V2G and demand-side response control technique, smart charging infrastructure and grid planning, advanced power electronics for V2G systems, adaptation of V2G systems in the smart grid, adaptation of smart cities for a large number of EVs, integration, and the optimization of V2G systems, utilities and transportation assets for advanced V2G systems, wireless power transfer systems for advanced V2G systems, fault detection, maintenance and diagnostics in V2G processes, communications protocols for V2G systems, energy management system (EMS) in V2G systems, IoT for V2G systems, distributed energy and storage systems for V2G, transportation networks and V2G, energy management for V2G, smart charging/discharging stations for efficient V2G, environmental and socio-economic benefits and challenges of V2G systems, and building integrated V2G systems (BIV2G). Five manuscripts are published in this Special Issue, including “An Ensemble Stochastic Forecasting Framework for Variable Distributed Demand Loads” by Agyeman et al., “Where Will You Park? Predicting Vehicle Locations for Vehicle-to-Grid, An MPC Scheme with Enhanced Active Voltage Vector Region for V2G Inverter” by Shipman et al., “Electric Vehicles Energy Management with V2G/G2V Multifactor Optimization of Smart Grids” by Xia et al., and “A Review on Communication Standards and Charging Topologies of V2G and V2H Operation Strategies” by Savitti et al.