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Histoire du présent. Ethnologie du passé. Des royautés guerrières à l’État moderne, en passant par la période coloniale, le cas indien oblige à remettre en question les typologies actuellement proposées des formes d’organisation du politique. Il n’y a pas ici, où la modernité s’affirme dans la référence tou­jours vivante à une Antiquité, plus de centralité royale que de hiérarchie ecclésiale. Les monographies locales ou régionales livrent une diversité de formules qui témoigne de la plasticité morphologique du jeu des principes de la caste et de la parenté, jusqu’à l’Union indienne, toujours marquée par le fractionnement de l’autorité et la superposition de différents droits sur le sol. Si c’est bien une différenciation des points de vue que toute hiérarchisation sociale engendre, c’est dans des processus d’interdépendance, et non dans une fonction d’unification, que le politique fonde sa légitimité.

This Special Issue covers a well-balanced collection of state-of-the-art topics in the prospering and competitive field of anticancer drug design and development, which can address and inspire oncologists, biologists, and medicinal chemists among the readership of this journal.

Es una investigación enfocada al siglo XXI en la ciudad de Toluca sobre la forma en que se habla, muchos de los términos provienen de las lenguas madre de esta localidad, que en este caso, son lenguas indígenas, pero solo retomamos el náhuatl, pues ahí se encuentran los mejores ejemplos que aún conservamos dentro del Spanish. También retomamos algunas definiciones de lingüística, sincronía y teorías como apoyo y poder así dar una mejor explicación sobre el habla y lenguaje que se practica tanto en la ciudad como en el país y cómo es que el Spanish de alguna forma ha modificado los vocablos en su lengua original.

Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology; Environmental Economics; Community & Population Ecology

This open access book brings together insights into Pacific policing, conceptualising policing broadly as order maintenance involving the actions of multiple local, regional and international actors with sometimes competing and conflicting agendas. A complex and multifaceted endeavour, scholarship on this topic is relatively scarce and widely dispersed across diverse sources. It examines how Pacific policing is shaped by changing state-society relations in different national contexts and ongoing processes of globalisation. Particular attention is given to the plural character of Pacific policing, profound challenges of gender equity, changing dynamics of crime, and the prominence of transnational policing in resource and capacity constrained domestic environments. The authors draw on examples from across the Pacific islands to provide a nuanced and contextualised account of policing in this socially diverse and rapidly transforming region.

Is it possible that more than 50 years after the assassination of Che Guevara, and after hundreds and perhaps thousands of biographers, analysts, journalists, and scientists researching the life and legacy of Che Guevara, it has not yet been discovered that one of Guevara’s articles was published with a pseudonym in July 1967 in the most important journal of social sciences in Cuba, Pensamiento Crítico? The author of this book proposes an affirmative answer to this question, revealing for the first time at a worldwide level, Che Guevara’s possible authorship of a brilliant article studying the Bolivia situation in 1967, at the same time that Guevara’s National Liberation Army of Bolivia was fighting against the military dictatorship of Rene Barrientos. The book provides a dense and rich series of arguments to prove this audacious historical conjecture. The reader must judge if these arguments are convincing or not.

"Seit einiger Zeit verstärkt sich der Eindruck, dass der Staat dazu übergeht, seine Bürger zur Tugend im Sinne einer bestimmten Form des guten Lebens hinzuführen; jedenfalls häufen sich Regelungen, die als bevormundend, moralisierend, paternalistisch oder eben auch erzieherisch empfunden werden. Aber geht den liberalen Staat die Tugend seiner Bürger überhaupt etwas an? Oder ist hier nicht vielmehr ein Bereich erreicht, in dem der Einzelne – und nur er – kraft seiner Freiheit selber zur Entscheidung berufen ist? Der Vortrag behandelt diese Fragen aus verfassungsrechtlicher, historischer und sozialphilosophischer Perspektive. Entscheidend für die Antwort, so zeigt sich, wird letztlich sein, wie wir uns den Staat vorstellen, in dem wir zusammen leben wollen. Der Autor ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Rechtsphilosophie und Öffentliches Recht an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz."

“ORURO 1781: SUBLEVACIÓN DE INDIOS Y REBELIÓN CRIOLLA”, es la historia de las repercusiones de la sublevación general de indios de 1780- 82 en las provincias de Paria, Carangas y las comunidades aledañas a la Villa; provincias y comunidades que en la actualidad constituyen el Departamento de Oruro. Es la historia de la rebelión mestiza-criolla del 10 de febrero de 1781, de su relación y de las contradicciones con la sublevación de indios. Es la historia de la minería orureña de la segunda mit...

Industrial / commercial art & design

The monograph considers the notion and scope of senior policy vis-à-vis similar policies, such as social policy on ageing, social policy on old age, and social policy on the elderly. Although retirement policy is unrelated to senior policy, it is also covered in the monograph because of its influence on the financial situation and well-being of the elderly and older adults. A brief review of the demographic situation and main population trends in EU-28 countries is followed by a presentation of senior policies in Hungary, Poland and Russia, and the impact of their retirement policies on the economic situation of older people.

Everyone is familiar with the speed-accuracy trade-off (SAT). To make good choices, we need to balance the conflicting demands of fast and accurate decision making. After all, hasty decisions often lead to poor choices, but accurate decisions may be useless if they take too long. This notion is intuitive because it reflects a fundamental aspect of cognition: not only do we deliberate over the evidence for decisions, but we can control that deliberative process. This control raises many questions for the study of choice behaviour and executive function. For example, how do we figure out the appropriate balance between speed and accuracy on a given task? How do we impose that balance on our decisions, and what is its neural basis? Researchers have addressed these and related questions for decades, using a variety of methods and offering answers at different levels of abstraction. Given this diverse methodology, our aim is to provide a unified view of the SAT. Extensive analysis of choice behaviour suggests that we make decisions by accumulating evidence until some criterion is reached. Thus, adjusting the criterion controls how long we accumulate evidence and therefore the speed and accuracy of decisions. This simple framework provides the platform for our unified view. In the pages that follow, leading experts in decision neuroscience consider the history of SAT research, strategies for determining the optimal balance between speed and accuracy, conditions under which this seemingly ubiquitous phenomenon breaks down, and the neural mechanisms that may implement the computations of our unifying framework.

This book deals with theoretical and experimental aspects of solid-state lasers, including optimum waveguide design of end pumped and diode pumped lasers. Nonlinearity, including the nonlinear conversion, up frequency conversion and chirped pulse oscillators are discussed. Some new rare-earth-doped lasers, including double borate and halide crystals, and feedback in quantum dot semiconductor nanostructures are included.

Re-Design des Lebens: Wissenschaft und Technik rekurrieren zunehmend auf das Prinzip des Synthetischen. Die Synthetische Chemie und seit Neuestem die Synthetische Biologie zielen auf ein Zusammensetzen von Bausteinen, um neue Entitäten zu designen - von Molekülen bis hin zu Stoffwechselnetzwerken in Organismen. Dieser Band unternimmt wissenschaftsphilosophische und -historische Annäherungen an das Prinzip der Syn-Thesis. Die Beiträge fragen: Welche Konstruktionsbedingungen realisieren die synthetischen Wissenschaften? Wie ist das Verhältnis zu analytischen Methoden? Und wo liegen die Grenzen technischer Synthesis?

This book presents an ethnographic study of how grassroots activism in Venezuela during the Chávez presidency can be understood in relation to the country's history as a petro-state. Taking the contested relationship between the popular sectors and the Venezuelan state as a point of departure, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen explores how notions such as class, race, state, bureaucracy, popular politics, capitalism, neoliberalism, consumption, oil wealth, and corruption gained salience in the Bolivarian process. A central argument is that the Bolivarian process was an attempt to challenge the practices, ideas, and values inherited from Venezuela's historical development as an oil-producing state. Drawing on rich ethnographic material from Caracas' shantytowns, state institutions, as well as everyday life and public culture, Strønen explores the complexities and challenges in fostering deep social and political change.

Animal Ecology; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis