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The work examines the constitutional foundations and obligations of the state to regulate digital intermediaries like social networks. Building on the German legal concept of »serving« broadcasting freedom, it develops a general duty to address the risks posed by the media transformation. The study discusses recent regulatory measures such as the Network Enforcement Act, the State Media Treaty, and the Digital Services Act, offering a constitutional perspective on media challenges.

The ZHF provides a forum for research on the history of premodern Europe. Its concept is based on the idea of viewing the periods of the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern era as a structural unit that transcends the caesura around 1500. In addition to scholarly articles, the ZHF regularly features current research reports and an extensive review section. A thematic supplement is published twice a year.

Le présent volume inaugure la série des « Cahiers Castoriadis » qui se donne pour objectif de favoriser un débat interdisciplinaire vivant autour de la pensée de Cornélius Castoriadis. L'œuvre de Castoriadis est aujourd'hui trop peu connue au regard de la richesse conceptuelle qu'elle recèle et de l'intérêt qu'elle peut dès lors représenter pour d'autres courants philosophiques et pour la plupart des sciences humaines : elle peut enrichir de nombreux débats actuels dans le champ de la philosophie, des études littéraires, de la linguistique, de la psychologie, de l'anthropologie, de l'histoire, des sciences sociales et politiques, des sciences juridiques. Elle est susceptible de provoquer la rencontre interdisciplinaire entre des thématiques de recherches naturellement trop enserrées dans des champs scientifiques institués. Il s'agit donc de profiter des nombreux enjeux de cette œuvre pour en faire un objet de débat et l'un des « outils » de la pensée contemporaine.

As multimedia has become a very important technology, significantly improving people's lives, this book provides an up-to-date scenario of various fields of research being carried out in the area. The book covers topics including web-based co-operative learning, effective distance learning through multimedia, quality control of multimedia on the internet, recovery of damaged images, Network-on-Chip (NoC) as a global communication vehicle, and Network GPS for road conditions (such as traffic and checkpoints). We believe that the book will help researchers in the field to proceed further in their research on multimedia.

Puppetry art it is not only a puppet theatre, but also a puppet cabaret, a variété and a puppet circus. The text presents puppet circus performances and circus-inspired puppet theatre shows. It searches for the puppet-inspired elements in nouveau cirque. Moreover, the article also discusses performances made by sculptor Alexander Calder which combine circus inspirations and animated objects. The author tries to explain reasons for preparing puppet circus performances and the use of circus inspirations and aesthetics in theatre performances.

This volume presents a collection of the most recent knowledge on the relationship between gender and fashion in historical and contemporary contexts. Through fourteen essays divided into three segments – how dress creates, disrupts and transcends gender – the chapters investigate gender issues through the lens of fashion. Crossing Gender Boundaries first examines how clothing has been, and continues to be, used to create and maintain the binary gender division that has come to permeate Western and westernized cultures. Next, it explores how dress can be used to contest and subvert binary gender expectations, before a final section that considers the meaning of gender and how dress can transcend it, focusing on unisex and genderless clothing. The essays consider how fashion can both constrict and free gender expression, explore the ways dress and gender are products of one other and illuminate the construction of gender through social norms. Readers will find that through analysis of the relationship between gender and fashion, they gain a better understanding of the world around them.

The volume, dedicated to the 44th International Conference of the Italian Union for Drawing, investigates the theme of ‘Transitions’, which particularly effectively represents our time and the current condition of the discipline of Drawing. The term, beyond its generic meaning of an intermediate stage in a process in which a condition changes from one state to another, has always been used in various fields, from music to geophysics. In fact, the disciplines of drawing have always been confronted with themes and issues relating to transitions from one condition to another. The history of representation tells us of transformations, even epochal ones, relating to ‘drawing’, with all that such transitions entail: suffice it to think of the evolution of forms of representation, of instrumental apparatuses, of the mutability of supports, of the analogical-digital transition underway, of the new modes of communication on platforms, of the hypertrophic offer of images also on the net that confirms Guy Debord’s intuitions relating to the new spectacularisation of society. Similarly, representation triggers transitions in the prefiguration and communication of design, the anticipation and foreshadowing of future events.The challenges posed by the digital pose open questions whose scope can only be glimpsed, such as the relationship between drawing and the act of modelling, and the construction of new paradigms of visual language and communication. ‘Transitions’, almost implicitly, points to possible futures, the evolution of technique and the search for new modes of expression; at the same time, however, it can suggest silences and reflections in a process of connection between history, theory, criticism and construction.

Aus moderner wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Sicht leistet die ökonomische Clubtheorie einen wichtigen Beitrag zu einer effizienten Gestaltung von Integrationsprozessen, insbesondere der Europäischen Union. Um aber das Pareto-Optimum einer Welt voller Clubs bestimmen zu können, spielt die Unterscheidung zwischen einer clubinternen und einer gesamtwirtschaftlichen Sichtweise eine entscheidende Rolle. Weitere clubtheoretische Einflussfaktoren wie das vorhandene Clubgüterangebot und dessen Eigenschaften, die Anzahl der Unversorgten, die Kosten der Heterogenität der Clubmitgliedschaft und insbesondere Principal-Agent-Probleme bei der Clubführung erschweren die Realisierung von optimalen Clubbedingungen. Im politischen System der Europäischen Union lassen sich zahlreiche Clubsituationen finden, die durch supranationale Institutionen, politische Regime oder sonstige freie Formen grenzüberschreitender Zusammenarbeit privater Akteure entstehen. Auf Grundlage der im Einzelfall angewandten Elemente der Clubtheorie werden in dieser Arbeit in insgesamt sechs Fallstudien (EU, Eurozone, Schengen, Großregion SaarLorLux, Arge Alp, Euregionale Academie) aussagekräftige Rückschlüsse auf Effizienzpotentiale und zukünftige Weiterentwicklungen im europäischen Integrationsprozess gezogen. Dabei zeigt sich, dass es durch das Einsetzen eines Clubmanagements eine Tendenz zum Clubwachstum gibt. Gleichzeitig entwickeln sich neue Clubführungsstrukturen, um die damit verbundenen Ineffizienzen auszugleichen.

"Carlos Assuncao/José Paulo Tavares/Goncalo Fernandes Ambiguidade e desambiguacao automática das preposicoes latinas no livro terceiro da Clavis Prophetarum Marcello Aprile I primi secoli della lessicografia dialettale italiana Patrizia Cordin/Leonardo Degasperi Cambiamenti morfo-sintattici nel dialetto trentino di Piracicaba Renata Coray/Alexandre Duchêne Das Seilziehen um Zahlen. Schweizer Volkszählungen und das Bündnerromanische Véronique Winand Le Ms. Modena, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria .W.3.13 (Mod2): Une structure cyclique alternative de Guiron Le Courtois Maria Colombo Timelli Moyen francais entre manuscrit et imprimé. Le cas du Dialogue des creatures (traduction anonyme, 1482) Riccardo Regis I continuatori di -tor/-tore nelle Valli Valdesi: oggi e ieri Paolo Gresti Sulla canzone ""Nulhs hom non es tan fizels vas senhor"" di Aimeric de Pegulhan (BEdT 10.38) Aitor Carrera Variació geolingüistica en la fitonimia de l'occità de la Vall d'Aran. Les designacions de la gavarrera i el gavarró, el jonc, l'ortiga i la ginesta a l'alta conca de la Garona Rémy Viredaz Catalan eixorc 'stérile' Santiago Vicente Llavata Notas en torno al grado de castellanización de la Crónica troyana promovida por Juan Fernández de Heredia en el estudio contrastivo de su fraseologia Maria José Martinez Alcalde <<The Proeme>> de la Spanish Grammar (1599) de John Minsheu frente a la Gramática de la lengua vulgar de Espana (1559): algo más que un plagio Livia C. Garcia Aguiar La elisión de que en las completivas de un corpus municipal de los siglos XVIII y XIX José Barbosa Machado A perifrase verbal com haver + de + infinitivo na traducao portuguesa da Vita Christi de Ludolfo de Saxónia Rolf Eberenz Germán Colón Doménech. 30 novembre 1928 - 20 mars 2020 Eric Flückiger, Paul-Henri Liard. 7 février 1945 - 8 juin 2019 Besprechungen - Comptes rendus Nachrichten - Chronique Prix Collegium Romanicum pour l'avancement de la relève Adresses des auteures et auteurs (contributions originales) "

While Russian computer scientists are notorious for their interference in the 2016 US presidential election, they are ubiquitous on Wall Street and coveted by international IT firms and often perceive themselves as the present manifestation of the past glory of Soviet scientific prowess. Drawing on over three hundred in-depth interviews, the contributors to From Russia with Code trace the practices, education, careers, networks, migrations, and lives of Russian IT professionals at home and abroad, showing how they function as key figures in the tense political and ideological environment of technological innovation in post-Soviet Russia. Among other topics, they analyze coders' creation of both transnational communities and local networks of political activists; Moscow's use of IT funding to control peripheral regions; brain drain and the experiences of coders living abroad in the United Kingdom, United States, Israel, and Finland; and the possible meanings of Russian computing systems in a heterogeneous nation and industry. Highlighting the centrality of computer scientists to post-Soviet economic mobilization in Russia, the contributors offer new insights into the difficulties through which a new entrepreneurial culture emerges in a rapidly changing world.Contributors. Irina Antoschyuk, Mario Biagioli, Ksenia Ermoshina, Marina Fedorova, Andrey Indukaev, Alina Kontareva, Diana Kurkovsky, Vincent Lépinay, Alexandra Masalskaya, Daria Savchenko, Liubava Shatokhina, Alexandra Simonova, Ksenia Tatarchenko, Zinaida Vasilyeva, Dimitrii Zhikharevich

From an educational-historical view this book analyses the cultural models that underlie the conception and organisation of secondary teacher education and the professionalisation of future secondary school teachers in Europe. Based on different conceptions of school, citizenship and the teaching profession these models have an enormous influence on school policy. Taking the examples of Italy and Germany, the complex history of teacher education is reconstructed and analysed. The various articles deal in a long-term view with the emergence of national models of teacher education at the end of the 18th century, their consolidation in the 19th and 20th centuries and their transnational transformation between past and present.

Although the Central Board of the Dutch Red Cross did not purchase ambulances after World War I, various local departments became interested in acquiring and operating an ambulance. They hoped to increase the visibility of the Red Cross, draw attention to their mission, and provide their personnel with the opportunity to prepare for the still-important wartime tasks. During the interwar period, only nine out of dozens of local departments of the Red Cross took the step to establish an ambulance service, usually supported by enthusiastic volunteers, local businesses, benefactors, and local authorities. This movement started at the grassroots level, but it soon received moral and financial support from the Head Committee. Furthermore, the Board allowed companies to display the Red Cross emblem on their ambulances, provided that the vehicles would be made available to the Red Cross in wartime situations. In this way, the organization became modestly involved in the transportation of civilians.

New developments - scientific, technical, societal and political - influence not only the agenda for research but also research structures, resource requirements (human and otherwise), education and training programs and interfaces with partners and the users of research. They also have an impact on research funding and management and the way research is evaluated and monitored. This book deals with the business of doing research in Europe's public research and development organisations, with a particular focus on their strategic management challenges. It is the third e-book produced by EURAGRI and draws on contributions made at the 31st EURAGRI annual conference held in Dublin (Ireland) in September 2017.

The debates surrounding the decentralization of academia in Germany can be illustrated using the example of African Studies. The contributors examine the history of the field while presenting concepts for its reconfiguration. Organized in the form of a glossary with a focus on African Studies and Bayreuth, it addresses themes such as intersectionality and decoloniality, memory and future-making, relationality and reflexivity, and diaspora and African nation states. This volume dedicated to Rüdiger Seesemann reflects his influential role in introducing »reconfiguration« to German academia and shaping institutional strategies for future scholarship.