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This Special Issue is intended as a platform for interactive material science articles with an emphasis on the preparation, functionalization chemistry, and characterization of nanocarbon compounds, as well as all aspects of physical properties of functionalized, conjugated, or hybrid nanocarbon materials, and their associated applications. Some recent advances in the field are here collected, providing new ideas for discussion of researchers working in this multidisciplinary scenario.

The major principles and systems of C. S. Peirce's ground-breaking theory of signs and signification are now generally well known. Less well known, however, is the fact that Peirce initially conceived these systems within a 'Philosophy of Representation', his latter-day version of the traditional grammar, logic and rhetoric trivium. In this book, Tony Jappy traces the evolution of Peirce's Philosophy of Representation project and examines the sign systems which came to supersede it. Exploring the potential of the later sign-systems that Peirce scholars have hitherto been reluctant to engage with and extending Peirce’s semiotic theory beyond the much canvassed systems of his Philosophy of Representation, this book will be essential reading for everyone working in the field of semiotics.

What competences do teachers and training staff in vocational education and training need in order to be able to professionally master pedagogical challenges in complex and dynamic teaching-learning situations? The Leibniz works 4.0 project, funded by the BMBF, is particularly dedicated to such questions, which result from changed learning and working environments in vocational teacher training. Based on UNESCO's concept of Futures Literacy, the volume looks at cross-sectional educational tasks such as digitalisation and inclusion from interdisciplinary perspectives in order to open up theoretical approaches for vocational education and training and to provide suggestions for pedagogical practice in vocational education and training contexts. With contributions by Johanna Backhaus | Natalie Banek | Julia Gillen | Sandra Heiligmann | Tobias Key | Manuel King | Janine Michele | Stefan Nagel | Shana Rühling | Johannes Schäfers | Sylvia Schweigler | Ariane Steuber | Sabine Struckmeier | Jana Wende | Fritz Wilhelms

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Here in this book are formulated the central questions of our homecoming: How to found an active solidarity, and how to conjure Circe's charm that held Ulysses for so long, not without his consent? In short, how to get out of the labyrinth that imprisons Theseus, how to melt the thanatic aporia. Today a new jus-gentium based on the inalienable rights of the dignity of the person is being vigorously born under all the banners of the world. This global right of protection of the fundamental rights protected, the conventions and norms of the United Nations and of all the national and international courts, together with a new International Humanitarian Law, point the way back home, and from there all the prisoners of Circe are freed, from there they return home, which are none other than the bloody despotisms for which the last century and the beginning of this one will be known and repudiated, together with the genocide of entire populations, as attested by the cases of our International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and other international and regional human rights forums. This new language exists. This task is also incumbent upon legal language, since the norm in its logical context of normative imputation refers to intersubjective conduct, as Giorgio Del Vecchio, the great Italian philosopher, had expressed decades ago. The inscription of the norm, the discrimination between what is permitted and what is forbidden, and its consequent legal metaphor, -in the author's expression following Legendre-, constructs human subjectivity, which can only be thought of as intersubjectivity Amelia has already started vigorously in that direction!

Biochemical testing necessitates the determination of different parameters, and the identification of the main biological chemical compounds, by using molecular and biochemical tools. The purpose of this book is to introduce a variety of methods and tools to isolate and identify unknown bacteria through biochemical and molecular differences, based on characteristic gene sequences. Furthermore, molecular tools involving DNA sequencing, and biochemical tools based in enzymatic reactions and proteins reactivity, will serve to identify genetically modified organisms in agriculture, as well as for food preservation and healthcare, and improvement through natural products utilization, vaccination and prophylactic treatments, and drugs testing in medical trials.

Cet ouvrage comble les lacunes dans la connaissance d'ensemble que l’on a en France de la satire illustrée entre 1830 et 1871 : comme si le génie d’artistes fameux (Daumier notamment, ici éclairé d’un jour nouveau) avait jusqu’à présent occulté la masse des dessinateurs et des journaux qui ont formé l’imaginaire collectif de nos ancêtres, les Européens. Les explications d’images ici proposées examinent dans quelle mesure la caricature a développé une culture de résistance à l’Europe des rois et des bourgeois. L’attention est concentrée sur les expressions de l’aspiration démocratique, sur les effets des mouvements ouvrier et socialiste naissants, sur la représentation des efforts d’émancipation des femmes. Grâce à plus de 500 reproductions, les auteurs montrent comment interpréter une iconographie souvent réduite à sa dimension esthétique par l’histoire de l’art. L’enjeu est de réapprendre à lire des dessins en quelque sorte coupés de leur sens socio-politique - leur valeur marchande ayant très tôt conduit à les détacher des journaux satiriques constituant dans la plupart des cas leur support originel. Car le discours iconique n’est pas une simple illustration. Il crée son code et ses stéréotypes. Polysémique, il propose sa propre vision du monde. De même qu’une intertextualité des textes, il y a en somme une intericonicité des images, elle-même prise dans l’intermédialité générale du siècle (presse, chanson, littérature, théâtre, peinture et arts plastiques). L’ambition affichée est de contribuer à la formation d’une discipline en émergence entre l’histoire, l’histoire de l’art et l’histoire littéraire : les études culturelles médiatiques.

Yeasts are truly fascinating microorganisms. Due to their diverse and dynamic activities, they have been used for the production of many interesting products, such as beer, wine, bread, biofuels, and biopharmaceuticals. Saccharomyces cerevisiae (brewers’ or bakers’ yeast) is the yeast species that is surely the most exploited by man. Saccharomyces is a top choice organism for industrial applications, although its use for producing beer dates back to at least the 6th millennium BC. Bakers’ yeast has been a cornerstone of modern biotechnology, enabling the development of efficient production processes. Today, diverse yeast species are explored for industrial applications. This Special Issue is focused on some recent developments of yeast biotechnology, i.e., bioethanol, wine and beer, and enzyme production. Additionally, the new field of yeast nanobiotechnology is introduced and reviewed.

The essay initiates a comparison between labor law and civil law under the aspect of differences regarding the role of contractual autonomy, the heteronomous intervention of the law and atypical negotiations, as well as the interaction with reference to the safety obligation, to the protection of confidentiality, to the protection of the individual, in his position as a "weak contractor". This last profile, therefore, creates a cross between labor law protection and private reflection on the "asymmetry" of contractual power (also, for example, within the discipline of intellectual professions).

The concept of endocarditis has evolved significantly over the years. While initially associated with patients with advanced co-morbidities, such as renal failure and chronic immunosuppression, endocarditis now spans many diverse disciplines. As such, the importance of advanced diagnostic imagining tools, a better understanding of the pathophysiology of not only the infectious (and non-infectious) disease process but also of cardiac structural abnormalities, and the growing literature on management cannot be underemphasized. This book broadens our collective understanding of the spectrum of diagnostic and therapeutic challenges that all areas of medicine must appreciate when faced with the challenging clinical problem of endocarditis.

What role might art exert in light of the challenges posed by climate change, resource depletion, and the diverse political and cultural crises our societies face in the twenty-first century? The hypothesis guiding this book is born of Félix Guattari’s claim that in confronting the multi-faceted problems of our global political economy we need to develop a more complex analysis of nature, culture and technology, shifting from catastrophic, end-of-the world narratives to productive, generative, trans-species alliances for the sake of the sustainability of life on the planet. Because capitalism is no longer understood merely as a mode of production but as a system of semiotization, homogenization, and of transmission of forms of power over goods, labour and individuals, only the emergence of other relational subjective formations would be able to counteract the fixation of desire towards capital and its diverse crystallizations of power. New social practices, new aesthetic practices and new practices of the self in relation to the other are summoned to undertake an ethical-political reinvention of life. As Guattari argues, it is about reappropiating universes of value and paving the way for the emergence of processes of singularization involving a mutating subjectivity, a mutating socius, and a mutating environment. This book is engaged in thinking about the conjunction of the ecological turn in contemporary art and the attention given to matter in recent humanist scholarship as a way of exploring how new configurations of the world suggest new ways of being and acting in that world. Contributors investigate the means by which art can act as an existential catalysist, providing ways of changing our modes of relation beyond traditional modes of representation and, in doing so, instituting transformation.

Focusing on the embedded press system deployed during Operation Iraqi Freedom, this book attempts to answer the following questions: How effective was the embedded press system in meeting the needs of the three main constituencies-the press, the military, and the citizens of the United States? What policy history led to the innovation of an embedded press system? Where are press-military relations likely to go in the future?

Educational Technology

Ce volume est le troisième d'une série d’ouvrages portant sur « Statuts, écritures et pratiques sociales dans les sociétés de la Méditerranée occidentale à la fin du Moyen Âge (xiie-xve siècle) », visant à étudier les statuts communaux dans une optique d’histoire sociale, non pas comme une source « normative » mais comme une source de la pratique, de leur matérialité et de leur forme d’écriture aux pratiques sociales en passant par les conditions de leur production et de conservation, leur inscription dans un paysage documentaire communal, leur structure et leur contenu. Cet ouvrage s’intéresse plus spécifiquement aux statuts « vus de l’intérieur », c’est-à-dire à l’analyse de leur organisation interne : la structure adoptée, le plan choisi et les thèmes abordés. L’éclairage porte sur les grandes villes de Toscane, de Romagne, d’Ombrie, de Vénétie ou du sud de la France (Marseille, Avignon), sur des communautés urbaines de dimension moyenne (Arezzo ou Bergame) et des petites villes : L’Aquila dans les Abruzzes, Ascoli, Cingoli, Matelica et Esanatoglia dans les Marches ou Libourne, Tarascon, Arles, Alès, Lunel ou Uzès dans la France méridionale. Les statuts et les coutumes présentent le plus souvent un découpage thématique et un classement en livres, rubriques et chapitres destinés à organiser la vie en commun de la population (institutions, justice, vie économique de la commune) et qui offrent un outil de gouvernement efficace à l’oligarchie urbaine. Ils prennent en charge le poids des évolutions de la fin du Moyen Âge en matière de droit, de langue, de régime politique, de mode de gouvernement et de pratiques sociales marquées par la passé, ancrées dans le présent et tournées vers l’avenir.

Two decades before the war against Ukraine, a “special operation” was launched against Russian historical memory, aggressively reshaping the nation’s understanding of its history and identity. The Kremlin’s militarization of Russia through World War II propaganda is well documented, but the glorification of Russian medieval society and its warlords as a source of support for Putinism has yet to be explored. This book offers the first comparison of Putin’s political neomedievalism and re-Stalinization and introduces the concept of mobmemory to the study of right-wing populism. It argues that the celebration of the oprichnina, Ivan the Terrible’s regime of state terror (1565–1572), has been fused with the rehabilitation of Stalinism to reconstruct the Russian Empire. The post-Soviet case suggests that the global obsession with the Middle Ages is not purely an aesthetic movement but a potential weapon against democracy. The book is intended for students, scholars, and non-specialists interested in understanding Russia’s anti-modern politics and the Russians’ support for the terror unleashed against Ukraine.