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Drawing on primary and secondary sources on the aircraft industry, this report provides a brief survey of industry structure, innovation, and competition in the U.S. fixed-wing combat aircraft industry from its earliest days to the present. It supports a much larger research effort examining the future of the structure, innovation, and competition of the U.S. military aircraft industrial base that responds to congressional concerns about that future.

Este libro presenta los ensayos resultado de las contribuciones realizadas por reconocidas expertas y expertos sobre desarrollo sostenible y democracia ambiental de América Latina y el Caribe. Su contenido se ha organizado en cinco partes con catorce artículos que brindan distintas perspectivas del Acuerdo de Escazú en el marco de cinco esferas de importancia crítica para la humanidad y el planeta de la Agenda 2030 para el Desarrollo Sostenible conocidas como las cinco «P» por su letra inicial en inglés: personas, planeta, prosperidad, paz y alianzas. Para la Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL) de la Organización de Naciones Unidas y la Facultad de Jurisprudencia de la Universidad del Rosario, el Acuerdo de Escazú representa una oportunidad muy valiosa y sin precedentes para la región no sólo para el fortalecimiento de la democracia, los derechos humanos y la protección ambiental sino también para el cumplimiento de la agenda global más importante de nuestro tiempo: el desarrollo sostenible. Esperamos que estas reflexiones contribuyan en la elaboración de mejores políticas y marcos jurídicos e institucionales en materia de acceso a la información, a la participación pública, a la justicia en asuntos ambientales y a la protección de las personas defensoras del ambiente en los países latinoamericanos y caribeños.

This Festschrift celebrates the contributions of Joachim C. Brunstein to motivation studies, personality psychology, and the science of self- and co-regulated learning in the classroom. In six chapters, colleagues and former students explore some of the ways in which Brunstein’s work has fostered a better understanding of human goal striving, implicit motivational needs, how subjective well-being is shaped by the interplay between personal goals and implicit motives, and collaborative and self-regulated learning at school. The Festschrift also provides in-depth accounts of how Brunstein’s research interests came about and developed over the course of his career.

Viruses are microscopic agents that exist worldwide and are present in humans, animals, plants, and other living organisms in which they can cause devastating diseases. However, the advances of biotechnology and next-generation sequencing technologies have accelerated novel virus discovery, identification, sequencing, and manipulation, showing that they present unique characteristics that place them as valuable tools for a wide variety of biotechnological applications. Many applications of viruses have been used for agricultural purposes, namely concerning plant breeding and plant protection. Nevertheless, it is interesting to mention that plants have also many advantages to be used in vaccine production, such as the low cost and low risks they entail, showing once more the versatility of the use of viruses in biotechnology. Although it will obviously never be ignored that viruses are responsible for devastating diseases, it is clear that the more they are studied, the more possibilities they offer to us. They are now on the front line of the most revolutionizing techniques in several fields, providing advances that would not be possible without their existence. In this book there are presented studies that demonstrate the work developed using viruses in biotechnology. These studies were brought by experts that focus on the development and applications of many viruses in several fields, such as agriculture, the pharmaceutical industry, and medicine.

Although the civilrights story of the Truman administration is one relating mainly to blacks, this study deals with other minority groups, including Indians, MexicanAmericans, Puerto Ricans, Japanese and ChineseAmericans, and Jews. Based on extensive research in primary source materials, it is a balanced, indepth analysis of the power of minorities in eliciting change. It is a valuable addition to the study of social as well as political history.

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804101 The state of Tibetan culture within contemporary China is a highly politicized topic on which reliable information is rare. But what is Tibetan culture and how should it be developed or preserved? The Chinese authorities and the Tibetans in exile present conflicting views on almost every aspect of Tibetan cultural life. Ashild Kolas and Monika Thowsen have gathered an astounding array of data to quantify Tibetan cultural activities--involving Tibetan language, literature, visual arts, museums, performing arts, festivals, and religion. Their study is based on fieldwork and interviews conducted in the ethnic Tibetan areas surrounding the Tibetan Autonomous Region--parts of the Chinese provinces of Sichuan, Gansu, Yunnan, and Qinghai. Aware of the ambiguous nature of information collected in restricted circumstances, they make every effort to present a complete and unbiased picture of Tibetan communities living on China's western frontiers. Kolas and Thowsen investigate the present conditions of Tibetan cultural life and cultural expression, providing a wealth of detailed information on topics such as the number of restored monasteries and nunneries and the number of monks, nuns, and tulkus (reincarnated lamas) affiliated with them; sources of funding for monastic reconstruction and financial support of clerics; types of religious ceremonies being practiced; the content of monastic and secular education; school attendance; educational curriculum and funding; the role of language in Tibetan schools; and Tibetan news and cultural media. On the Margins of Tibet will be of interest to historians and social scientists studying modern China and Tibetan culture, and to the many others concerned about Tibet's place in the world.

Analiza konstrukcji immunitetu parlamentarnego członków Zgromadzenia Parlamentarnego Rady Europy prowadzi do wniosku, że mamy tu do czynienia zarówno z immunitetem materialnym, jak i z nietykalnością. Immunitet materialny ma charakter bezwzględny i dotyczy wypowiedzianych słów i głosowań członka ZPRE. W tym przypadku członek ZPRE zwolniony jest z odpowiedzialności zarówno w trakcie trwania mandatu, jak i po jego zakończeniu. Nie można przy tym z immunitetu zrezygnować. ZPRE wyraźnie jednak zaznaczyło w Wytycznych, że „nie obejmuje [on] dochodzenia w sprawie przestępstw związanych z łapówkarstwem (na przykład oferowania lub żądania nienależnych korzyści w zamian za określone zachowanie podczas głosowania), biorąc pod uwagę, że przestępstwa te nie dotyczą słów wypowiedzianych i/lub oddanych głosów”. Można uznać, że nie podważa to bezwzględnego charakteru tego immunitetu, ale jedynie wskazuje, jakie zachowania nie podpadają pod kategorię „wypowiedzianych słów i zachowań”. To zastrzeżenie jest wyraźną reakcją ZPRE na przypadki korupcji, do jakich doszło w ZPRE w drugiej dekadzie XXI w.43 Tym samym jednoznacznie wskazano, że podejmowanie takich działań przestępczych nie jest objęte ochroną immunitetu. W odniesieniu do nietykalności (zakaz zatrzymania i ścigania) mamy do czynienia z odstępstwem od normalnych reguł procedowania wobec sprawcy czynu zabronionego. Nie mają one charakteru bezwzględnego, gdyż nie obejmują sytuacji zatrzymania sprawcy in flagrante delicto. Choć celem tego wyjątku jest szybkie przywrócenie porządku publicznego i zmniejszenie ryzyka zaginięcia dowodów, to jednak – jak stanowią Wytyczne – „jego stosowanie przez organy krajowe nie powinno być inspirowane obawami niezwiązanymi z prawidłowym wymiarem sprawiedliwości”. Chodzi tu więc o podobną przesłankę, jaką zastosowano wobec posłów i senatorów w Konstytucji RP44, z tym jednak, że polska ustawa zasadnicza oparta jest na konstrukcji pozytywnej, a Wytyczne – na konstrukcji negatywnej. Istotne jest przy tym to, że zakaz zatrzymania obejmuje nie tylko okres sprawowania mandatu członka ZPRE, ale rozciąga się również na okres po zakończeniu kadencji, aż do obsadzenia danego miejsca przez nowego członka ZPRE (pomiędzy wyborami parlamentarnymi a zwołaniem najbliższej sesji ZPRE). Immunitet może być uchylony na wniosek odpowiedniego organu krajowego (Wytyczne przyjmują tu szeroki katalog organów ze względu na potrzebę uwzględnienia różnych struktur wymiaru sprawiedliwości w państwach członkowskich RE), ale formułują jednoznaczne dyspozycje wskazujące, przy spełnieniu jakich warunków może dojść do uchylenia immunitetu.

To design effectively a class is essential to obtain the expected result of the teaching-learning process. In the design, important factors such as the ma-nagement of the class, the learning environments, the interest, motivation of the students and the leadership that both teachers and students should have to assimilate the conditions of the school in the 21st century. Leadership consists in creating, feeding and developing the capacity of teachers and students to get involved in a high-level learning and to think about their own learning practice. Elmore, R. (2010).

This book presents innovations in advanced antenna technologies, including advanced wearable antennas, energy-harvesting antennas, and modules. Moreover, the book presents Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces, Inverted Microstrip Line Phase Shifter Technique for Antennas, and Enhancing wireless performance with Antenna distance-based modulation. Wearable technology provides a powerful new tool to medical services, surgical rehabilitation services, sports training, and IOT systems. Wireless Body Area Networks, WBANs, can record electrocardiograms, measure body temperature and blood pressure, measure heartbeat rate, arterial blood pressure, electro-dermal activity, and other healthcare parameters. Wearable devices will be an important part of individuals’ daily lives in the next decade. Wearable technology typically includes communication capabilities, enabling users to access information in real time. Several wireless technologies are used to handle data collection and processing by medical systems. The collected data may be stored or transmitted to a medical center for analysis. Wearable devices gather raw data, which is fed to a database or to a software application for analysis. This analysis may result in a response that alerts a physician to contact a patient experiencing abnormal symptoms. Wearable technology may offer scanning and sensing features that mobile phones and laptop computers do not. The book may be a valuable resource for antenna designers, academic researchers, communication engineers, and communication systems project managers involved in the development and manufacturing of antenna networks and communication systems. The information presented aims to inspire further innovation and application in this field.

V knjigi je zbranih petnajst prispevkov domačih in tujih avtorjev, ki se lotevajo različnih zgodovinskih ali z zgodovino povezanih tem. Prispevke zgodovinarjev popestrijo še teme s področij arheologije, jezikoslovja in muzikologije. Iz knjige boste izvedeli več o sledovih slovenskih krajevnih imen na vzhodnem Tirolskem, o tem, kako si je srednjeveška elita predstavljala kmete, kdo so bili prvi tuji popotniki po Sloveniji in kako so svoja popotovanja doživljali, itn. Avtorji besedil so Jury L. Bessmertnyj, Nikos Čausidis, Paul Freedman, Aleš Gabrič, Catherine Gallagher, Johannes Gönner, Metoda Kokole, Matevž Košir, Silke Leopold, Božo Otorepec, Heinz D. Pohl, Trevor R. Shaw, Michael Talbot, Ivan Turk in Marta Verginella.

This edited collection examines the ethical, legal, social and policy implications of genome editing technologies. Moreover, it offers a broad spectrum of timely legal analysis related to bringing genome editing to the market and making it available to patients, including addressing genome editing technology regulation through procedures for regulatory approval, patent law and competition law. In twelve chapters, this volume offers persuasive arguments for justifying transformative regulatory interventions regarding human genome editing, as well as the various legal venues for introducing necessary or desirable changes needed to create an environment for realizing the potential of genome editing technology for the benefit of patients and society.

For the first time worldwide, this collection brings together analyses of the last two centuries of historical change around the shores and drainage basin of Lake Ladoga, Europe’s largest lake. The main focus of the narrative is the Northern Ladoga region, which was a Finnish administrative area between 1812 and 1944. After the Second World War, the entire shoreline of Lake Ladoga was incorporated into the northeast part of Russia’s border region, the Autonomous Republic of Karelia and the Leningrad Province. The main theme uniting this collection is how the relationship between humans and nature is shaped by industrialization and modernization in society. Other key issues include protecting nature and perspectives on particular places and times, which are reflected in the methodological and thematic choices made in this volume. The research framework set by the editor, Professor Maria Lähteenmäki, is the new lakefront history (Finn. uusi rantahistoria), focusing on approaches to environmental, economic and sensory history of lakes. To draw broad conclusions, on the one hand, the multilevel changes on the lakefront cannot be understood without knowledge of the history of the wider drainage basin, and awareness of the geopolitics of the region and the climate changes. On the other hand, the human relationship to natural waters has changed significantly in 200 years. Thinking in terms of economic benefit has gradually given way to principles of sustainable development. Lake Ladoga is also being redefined from a spatial perspective, as nationalist ownership of the region is coupled with global concern about the state of Europe’s largest lake.

In der Reihe Slavistische Beiträge werden vor allem slavistische Dissertationen des deutschsprachigen Raums sowie vereinzelt auch amerikanische, englische und russische publiziert. Darüber hinaus stellt die Reihe ein Forum für Sammelbände und Monographien etablierter Wissenschafter/innen dar.

During the early republican period, architectural interventions in rural Turkey took the form of social engineering as part of the state's modernization and nationalization policies. Özge Sezer demonstrates how the state's particular programs had a powerful effect on rural life in the countryside. She examines the regime's goals and strategies for controlling the rural people through development projects and demographic shaping to create a strong Turkish identity and a loyal citizenry. The book outlines the implementation of new rural settlements, particularly following the 1934 Settlement Law, with a geographic focus on two cities - Izmir and Elazig - with varied socio-economic and ethnic standing in the state program.

Unlike in the past, the phenomenon of luxury in the modern era marks a paradigm shift that has an immediate impact on the development of work in the capitalist sense. The wealth produced by the arts, commerce and work raises questions, even disturbing ones, in relation to customs, morality, justice, and the stability of the state. Among the detractors and apologists of luxury, a median position is taken by economists. While recognizing the ambivalence of luxury, the latter support the possibility of regulating it, if not morally, at least economically, for the benefit of work and civil well-being.