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Galileo’s abilities as a mathematician were far below that of many of his contemporaries. He made numerous technical mistakes — including several high-profile, mathematically erroneous applications of his own law of fall — that were swiftly spotted and corrected by the leading mathematicians of the day. Many aspects of Galileo’s work can be viewed as consequences of this limited technical proficiency in mathematics. For example, he ignores Kepler’s work and dismisses comets as a chimerical atmospheric phenomena: decisions that are difficult to justify on scientific grounds but which make sense if we grant that Galileo wanted to avoid technical mathematics at all costs. Instead he drops rocks, looks through tubes, rails against Aristotelian philosophers, and expounds at length about basic principles of scientific method: all of which can be seen as dwelling on precisely those parts of the mathematician’s worldview that do not require any actual mathematics.

Philosophy of religion; nature & existence of God

Does it really make sense to distinguish between “Bildung” (formation) and “digital Bildung”? Are “childhood” and “digital childhood” two sides of the same coin? As the boundary between life in and outside the digital is increasingly blurred, the answer may be obvious. But the consequences for children’s and young people’s formation are not as clear. This scientific anthology focuses on digital formation in kindergarten, school, home, and leisure time. The authors explore key aspects of digital formation by studying meeting points between different professional and disciplinary practices and our increasingly digitalized everyday lives. Digital formation refers to a holistic understanding of how we learn, acquire values and attitudes, and develop identity and self-understanding in a digital context. Children’s and young people’s formation concerns us all. At the same time, personal formation lasts a lifetime. Awareness and knowledge about the relationship between formation and the digital is therefore a general need in our medialized present. This anthology will be an important resource and source of inspiration for teacher educators, media researchers, kindergarten and primary school teachers, students, parents, and child and youth workers in various arenas. The editors, Margunn Serigstad Dahle (Associate Professor) and Grete Skjeggestad Meyer (Docent), are both employed at NLA University College. They lead the research group Children, Media and Worldview, from which this anthology stems. The anthology opens with an essay about Mats “Ibelin,” written by his father Robert Steen exclusively for this publication. Through his deeply personal text, he shows how important it is to seek to understand children’s and young people’s digital lives—not least in relation to friendship and experiences of meaning.

Depuis plus d'une dizaine d'années, les théories de la réception ont reconfiguré l'enseignement de la littérature. La recherche dont il est rendu compte a mis à l'épreuve l'un de leurs postulats, selon lequel une lecture en cours serait sous l'influence des lectures déjà opérées. Elle s'est fondée sur l'observation écologique de trois classes de CM2 qui ont abordé un même roman après des parcours de lecture dûment diversifiés. Elle établit que si le postulat n'est pas totalement falsifié, la puissance qu'on peut lui attribuer pour expliquer les divergences entre les élaborations des trois classes est bien moindre que celle qui tient aux options didactiques des enseignants et aux « protocoles interprétatifs » qu'ils promeuvent… L'ouvrage présente une analyse du roman étudié (Taïga de Florence Reynaud) puis une modélisation de l'acte lexique et, spécifiquement, de la lecture scolaire. Il s'emploie ensuite à décrire les trois démarches observées, orientées respectivement par le souci d'établir une compréhension acceptable du texte, par la préoccupation du devenir scolaire des élèves et de leur compétence rhétorique ou, pour la troisième, par une formation humaniste qui prenne en charge les enjeux symboliques.

En août 2011 s’est tenue à Cerisy-la-Salle une décade « Narrations d’un nouveau siècle : romans et récits français, 2001-2010 » dont ce livre constitue les actes. À quoi ressemble une littérature qui accorde la part belle au roman mais sans exclusive générique, dans la concurrence de récits empruntant à tous les genres et de multiples arts ? Une littérature française parce qu’écrite en langue française, mais travaillée de l’intérieur et renvoyée à sa propre étrangeté par les évolutions de cet...

This book comprises six papers published in the Special Issue “Environmental and Economic Evaluations of Building Energy Retrofits”. The six papers each adopt different perspectives in investigating building energy retrofit practices in Hong Kong, Poland, the Netherlands, Finland, and Italy. The target of the studies includes campus buildings, renovation options for modernist housing estates, green building certification schemes, practitioners’ views and practices, and energy system performance.

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in most countries and its consequences result in huge economic, social and psychological burden. Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer type and the leading cause of cancer death among females. In this book, we discussed gene expression and DNA abnormalities including methylation in breast cancer. A recent important topic, roles of miRNAs and their potential use in cancer therapy have been discussed in this cancer type as well. Bioinformatics is very important part of recent human genome developments and data mining and thus this topic has also been added for the readers. It is hoped that this book will contribute to development of novel diagnostic as well as therapeutic approaches, which lead to cure of breast cancer.

Au xviiie siècle, le roi reçoit des suppliques désespérées de dizaines de milliers de familles qui redoutent que le comportement déviant de l'un des leurs ne conduise au scandale d’une condamnation judiciaire. C’est un quotidien familial intime et douloureux, pris sur le vif, qu’exposent sans fard les dossiers de lettres de cachet pour affaires de famille de l’intendance de Franche-Comté. Les conséquences dangereuses des excès d’un fils cadet, de la folie d’un neveu ou de l’adultère d’une épouse amènent le monarque, père et juge suprême des sujets, à intervenir pour préserver l’honneur de la famille, en expédiant une lettre de cachet qui ordonne la détention de l’accusé.Les archives comtoises révèlent une prise en compte attentive des conflits de plus de 270 familles, principalement nobles et bourgeoises, par la monarchie absolue. Faisant des affaires de famille une affaire d’État, le roi emploie la lettre de cachet pour le règlement de différends privés, dans un subtil parallèle entre ordre familial, social et politique. Une procédure complexe, basée sur une enquête de terrain, mobilise toute la hiérarchie administrative, dévoilant une famille déchirée par des luttes de pouvoir intestines et des frustrations anciennes.Le succès des lettres de cachet de famille éclaire d’un jour nouveau le rapport unissant l’État et la famille à la fin de l’Ancien Régime et la crise profonde née de la confrontation entre l’intérêt familial et les aspirations individuelles. La cruelle destinée des correctionnaires comtois enfermés à l’hôpital de Bellevaux à Besançon, au château de Joux, à Bicêtre, ou même exilés en Nouvelle-France et aux Antilles, montre quel est le prix payé par ceux qui, rejetés par leur famille avec l’aide de l’État, commencent à apparaître à l’approche de la Révolution comme les victimes de l’arbitraire monarchique.Ouvrage couronné par le prix Madeleine-Lenoir 2015, publié avec le soutien de la Société de l’École des chartes.

The book "Simulation and Gaming" discusses the following topics and research areas: game-based methods of problem solution and data processing, analysis, and information mining; educational games and game features, including game characteristics, story, mechanics, and methodology; development of integrated games tasked with helping students in interpreting, translating, and manipulating the field of kinematics through formal presentations; possibility of research integration through real and practical examples and games as well, in the field of physics; analysis of game engines from various aspects such as modularity, performance, and usability; virtual reality (VR) and interaction mechanisms used for three-dimensional (3D) game development; analysis, development, design, implementation, and evaluation of the simulation model in the field of engineering and metallurgy, according to ADDIE model; concept of computational thinking, with an accent on its inclusion in compulsory education; overview of the current prominence of AI simulation based in the gaming leisure industry, mainly for research purposes in the context of gambling and forecasting of online casino patron's churn behavior; innovative modeling and simulation approach using newly proposed advanced game-based mathematical framework, unified game-based acquisition framework, and a set of war-gaming engines to address the challenges for acquisition of future space systems; modification of simulation of a complex system and a physics model through programming, achieved with a block-based programming language.

"In Asia, where authoritarian-developmental states have proliferated, statehood and social control are heavily contested in borderland spaces. As a result, in the post-Cold War world, borders have not only redefined Asian incomes and mobilities, they have also rekindled neighbouring relations and raised questions about citizenship and security. The contributors to the Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands highlight some of these processes taking place at the fringe of the state. Offering an array of comparative perspectives of Asian borders and borderlands in the global context, this handbook is divided into thematic sections, including: •Livelihoods, commodities and mobilities •Physical land use and agrarian transformations •Borders and boundaries of the state and the notion of statelessness •Re-conceptualizing trade and the economy in the borderlands •The existence and influence of humanitarians, religions, and NGOs •The militarization of borderlands Causing us to rethink and fundamentally question some of the categories of state, nation, and the economy, this is an important resource for students and scholars of Asian Studies, Border Studies, Social and Cultural Studies, and Anthropology."

Im deutschsprachigen Raum lassen sich (wenn auch zunächst zögerliche) inklusionsorientierte Weiterentwicklungen an Hochschulen feststellen. Diese zielen vordergründig auf eine Diversifizierung von Studierenden ab und sind meist an Offenlegungen von beispielsweise Beeinträchtigungen gekoppelt. Eine Strömung, die sich verstärkt auf eine Pluralisierung von Lehrendenperspektiven konzentriert, lässt sich in zunehmenden Projekten im Kontext von sogenannter Partizipativer Lehre erkennen. Diese sind mit dem Ziel verbunden, insbesondere dem bisher weitgehend ›vergessenen‹ Personenkreis von Menschen mit Lernschwierigkeiten Zugangsmöglichkeiten zur Wissensvermittlung an Hochschulen zu ermöglichen. Eine Zunahme solcher Projekte ist jedoch bisher nicht mit einer umfassenden (macht-)kritischen Reflexion verbunden. So widmet sich diese Dissertation diesem Desiderat.

Lorsque William Jones arrive aux Indes, en 1783, le vaste continent est toujours au-delà de l’ultime frontière de la civilisation. C’est une terre étrange, regorgeant de richesses, abondant en fastes et prodiges, barbare, connue par les seuls récits des rares Européens qui s’y aventurent : commerçants, missionnaires, mercenaires. À sa mort, du fait de ses découvertes, l’Inde est reconnue comme une grande civilisation, à la hauteur de l’héritage antique de l’Europe. William Jones, philologue, traducteur, amateur de poésie, naturaliste, juriste, fondateur de l’école orientale a appris le sanskrit, langue mère de l’Inde, et ébloui par ce qu’il découvre, a révélé la culture indienne au monde étonné. Pourtant, la place de Jones dans l’histoire de l’orientalisme suscite encore une polémique ardente et polyphonique. D’un côté de l’éventail, on trouve la défense éloquente de Jones par Garland Cannon et de l’autre, le réquisitoire implacable dressé par Edward Said. Jones a-t-il sciemment instrumenté ses immenses connaissances pour légitimer le pouvoir colonial ? Ce livre s’emploie d’une part à suivre la construction de la pensée du père de l’orientalisme, et de l’autre, à évaluer le poids qu’elle a eu sur l’historicité de l’Inde, et de l’Europe.

The book aims to highlight the challenges faced by small states located in zones of geopolitical instability. Drawing on Saul P. Cohen's theoretical concept of the shatter belt, it discusses a geopolitical region characterized by significant instability, owing especially to the influence of neighbouring powers. The book defines the challenges related to the geopolitical position of Baltic Europe and describes them as manifestations of the shatter belt. It details the historical conditions of the small Baltic states: Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, with reference to their geopolitical position within the Russian sphere of influence and after the collapse of the USSR. This study also focuses on the exploitation of national minorities as one the main challenges to the national security of the Baltic states. As a pioneering study on the role of small states as peacekeepers, allies, and members of international organizations, this book will be a valuable resource for students and doctoral candidates in international relations, geopolitics, and political geography. It will also be useful to experts, journalists, and policymakers.

Research and teaching in history have undergone profound changes within the scope of digitalization. This volume asks questions such as: What changes is digitalization making possible in the way that historical research is carried out and communicated today? What new objects, methods, and tools are available to researchers today and what research findings do they produce?

At the forefront of current digital literacy studies in education, this Handbook uniquely systematizes emerging interdisciplinary themes, new knowledge, and insightful theoretical contributions to the field. The chapter topics identified through academic conference networks, rigorous analysis, and database searches of trending themes are organized in five thematic sections: Digital Futures; Digital Diversity; Digital Lives; Digital Spaces; Digital Ethics. This essential guide to digital writing and literacies research, with transformational ideas for educational and professional practice, will enable researchers to position their studies in the field and to generate new themes of inquiry.