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Polypharmacy and inappropriate medication use have become major global healthcare challenges, particularly among older adults, patients with multimorbidity, pregnant women, and individuals receiving long-term treatment for chronic diseases. While the use of multiple medications is often necessary, it can increase the risk of adverse drug events, drug–drug interactions, herb–drug interactions, medication errors, poor adherence, and avoidable hospitalizations. This book provides a timely and comprehensive overview of the causes, consequences, and management of inappropriate medication practices across diverse patient populations. It explores important topics such as deprescribing, medication review, patient-centered care, chronic disease management, anticholinergic burden, medication safety during pregnancy and lactation, and the hidden risks associated with multi-mechanism drugs. The volume also highlights innovative approaches, including multi-target drug design, artificial intelligence in healthcare, and safer prescribing strategies to improve therapeutic outcomes. Bringing together clinical, pharmacological, and healthcare perspectives, this book serves as a valuable resource for pharmacists, physicians, nurses, researchers, healthcare administrators, and policymakers seeking practical solutions to optimize medication use and enhance patient safety.

Gifts, from objects to hospitality and from poems to support, are a means of establishing and maintaining social ties. This study focuses on the nature of seventeenth- century Dutch social relations through the exchange of gifts by a wide range of individuals, from schoolmaster and artisan to poet and regent. Their gift-exchange behaviour is compared to contemporary gift exchange to show that both strategy and affection are necessary elements of social relations at any given time, and that what changes most is not the system but the discourse of exchange.

Im Rahmen des Projekts Duncker & Humblot reprints heben wir Schätze aus dem Programm der ersten rund 150 Jahre unserer Verlagsgeschichte, von der Gründung 1798 bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs 1945. Lange vergriffene Klassiker und Fundstücke aus den Bereichen Rechts- und Staatswissenschaften, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Geschichte, Philosophie und Literaturwissenschaft werden nach langer Zeit wieder verfügbar gemacht – und zwar sowohl gedruckt als auch in elektronischer Form. Einige Titel sind bereits erschienen. Täglich kommen weitere hinzu. Bis Ende des Jahres wird das »Duncker & Humblot reprints«-Programm auf ca. 1.500 Bände anwachsen. Möchten Sie regelmäßig über Neuerscheinungen aus dem reprints-Programm informiert werden? Dann abonnieren Sie unseren E-Mail-Benachrichtigungsdienst.

The purpose of the chapter is to offer a quick manor on how Tarde in his monumental Psychologie economique, treats the theme of work. At the heart of his definition of the value of work is no longer time or physical effort but rather the amount of boredom or, conversely, creative invention and social consideration. In that sense Tarde's reflection offers interesting ideas for expanding the tools (and perspectives) for studying the transformations affecting work and contributes to building a critical space for new fields of investigation and to enrich the panorama of the theoretical proposals that animated the industrializing society in which Tarde wrote.

The subject of the analysis in this article is the Code of Canon Law (of 1987). Generally all features of the officialese (legal) style and their exponents known from secular communication have been implemented in this document. The Code is distinguished by a special composition, i.e. a division into segments, ways of naming the segments and their arrangements. Standardization as a feature of the style is enriched by exponents implemented in a microscale, and so, first of all, the navigation formulas, contributing to cohesion of the utterance and being a manifestation of a pursuit of precision. The author sees the exponents of this feature in formulas defining the scope of norms and also clarifying the content of provisions. Yet, legal definitions are the most important manner of specyfying the content of legal concepts (terms). The Code of Canon Law contains a few schemata of such definitions, which strengthens and emphasizes the triteness of the wording. The ways of formulating the directives are also in conformity with the law, they also become the exponents of impersonality as a feature of the officialese. Wheareas manifestations of interference with the religious style are included in the content of the norms. The abovementioned features, occuring in the complementary relations, contribute to create a set of exponents of the genre style of a legal utterance which is a code.

Esta coletânea corresponde ao quinto volume da Série Sabor Metrópole, organizada pela Rede Ibero-Americana de Pesquisa Qualitativa em Alimentação e Sociedade, a REDE NAUS. Aqui estão presentes expressões do pensamento quando ele se volta para as relações sociais construídas em torno de discursos e práticas alimentares e corporais, tendo a saúde por horizonte último. Corresponde a espaço de reflexões sobre a comunicação quando ela se dirige à comida e ao corpo, compreendidos na cultura, na sociedade e na história. Dirige-se a estudantes, docentes, pesquisadores e profissionais de variadas formações, em especial, aqueles que atuam nos campos da Alimentação e Nutrição, Saúde e Humanidades.

Num exercício metanarrativo e numa perspectiva de investigação de rara qualidade, a autora conduz o leitor ao encontro com uma gente especial, que, falando de si, é também de nós que fala. Procurou em professores de Portugal e do Brasil, e que aqui nos apresenta, de uma forma plena de detalhes e pormenores próprios de quem escutou, com atenção e muita sensibilidade, as “narrativas” de quem vive e respira a condição de professor.

A spectre is haunting humanity: the spectre of a reality that will outwit and, in the end, bury us. “The Anthropocene,” or The Human Era, is an attempt to name our geological fate – that we will one day disappear into the layer-cake of Earth’s geology – while highlighting humanity in the starring role of today’s Earthly drama. In Shadowing the Anthropocene, Adrian Ivakhiv proposes an ecological realism that takes as its starting point humanity’s eventual demise. The only question for a realist today, he suggests, is what to do now and what quality of compost to leave behind with our burial. The book engages with the challenges of the Anthropocene and with a series of philosophical efforts to address them, including those of Slavoj Žižek and Charles Taylor, Graham Harman and Timothy Morton, Isabelle Stengers and Bruno Latour, and William Connolly and Jane Bennett. Along the way, there are volcanic eruptions and revolutions, ant cities and dog parks, data clouds and space junk, pagan gods and sacrificial altars, dark flow, souls (of things), and jazz. Ivakhiv draws from centuries old process-relational thinking that hearkens back to Daoist and Buddhist sages, but gains incisive re-invigoration in the philosophies of Charles Sanders Peirce and Alfred North Whitehead. He translates those insights into practices of “engaged Anthropocenic bodymindfulness” – aesthetic, ethical, and ecological practices for living in the shadow of the Anthropocene.

IT. Venezia è nota, la sua identità è così conosciuta da essere considerata scontata, sintetizzabile come un logo e ripetibile: la città mostra il proprio volto lasciando nello sfondo la propria struttura. Oro e fango qui si mescolano dando corpo a un documento multiforme. Concreto e immaginario, autentico e replicabile, minuto e smisurato, potente e fragile si scambiano la scena, si mescolano guardando Venezia come oggetto cangiante.L’alter ego di quanto è noto e scontato è superlativo ovvero supera canoni predeterminati, è l’impensabile condensato nel prefisso di una lingua altra, poiché si palesa solo quando si esce da Venezia, quando sollevandosi la si guarda da fuori. Così emergono dalla sua immagine fissa azioni e progetti, modi e opere che trasportano la città in un’altra dimensione, che la trasfigurano. Questo vento (super) lento la traversa ma non la cambia: Venezia continua a offrire il suo volto noto allo specchio che la riflette quotidianamente. Piegare quel vento per andare dentro l’oggetto implica immergersi, almeno per il tempo di un racconto su carta, nelle deviazioni, nelle contraddizioni di Supervenice. Venezia è continuamente progettata, faticosamente “perseverata", nata fortunosamente in un luogo inabitabile contraddicendo le norme dell’attuale idea di sostenibilità, già allora metteva in campo desideri e paure. La città è fronteggiata da quel che resta della più grande zona industriale d’Europa, a questa concreta traccia di modernità novecentesca si frappone un’ipertrofia bibliografica: una gigantesca biblioteca ideale è stata costruita misurando la città più umorale, lunatica dell’Occidente. Anche se Marco Polo la trovava noiosa, tanto da non volerci tornare, la sua stabilità, come in un ambiente orientale, dipende dallo scirocco e dalla luna. Questa sua indeterminazione primordiale la rende il miglior laboratorio, impensabile in altri contesti, per mettere a fuoco questioni cruciali per il futuro. Il contesto muta e con esso vacillano certezze che riaprono la via della ricerca, del progetto: Supervenice è scavare nel territorio più noto per estrarne genealogie anacroniche. Il super alter ego di Venezia è una grande bolla che sospende il dato temporale mentre lo spazio vacilla: quel che resta è solo progetto.EN. Venice is well-known, its identity is so familiar to be considered obvious, summarized as if it were a replicable logo: the city shows its face leaving behind its backbone. Here gold and mud blend together, moulding a multifaceted document. In Venice an endless interchange between real and imaginary, original and fake, tiny and huge, powerful and fragile endures, while we look at the city as a shimmering object.The alter ego of what is well-known and obvious becomes superlative, since it exceeds predetermined standards; furthermore, it represents the inconceivable condensed in the prefix of another language as it is revealed only when one leaves the city and looks at it from above. Suddenly actions, projects, works and methods arise from its established image moving the city towards another dimension, transfiguring it. This (super) slow wind blows through Venice but does not change it: Venice continues to offer its well-known face to the mirror that every day reflects it. Challenging that wind to go deeply inside the object, means diving into the detours and contradictions of Supervenice, at least for the time of a story on paper. Venice is constantly designed and painstakingly ‘preserved’, fortuitously born in a hostile land that denies any rules of contemporary sustainability; since its foundation Venice has been built on desires and fears. The city faces the remains of the largest industrial area in Europe. A bibliographic hypertrophy lays against the material trace of 20th century modernity: a gigantic ideal library has been created by measuring the most erratic and moody city of the Western World. Even if Marco Polo found Venice boring – so boring he did not want to return from his long journey –, its stability depends on the Sirocco and the moon, like in an Oriental environment. This primordial indeterminacy makes Venice a valuable laboratory – that would not be possible elsewhere – to reflect upon critical issues for up-coming future. The context changes and, with it, certainty wavers. This is the time to reopen the paths of research and project: Supervenice digs into an all too well-known territory in order to extract its anachronical genealogies. The super alter ego of Venice is a giant bubble that suspends Time while Space wavers: what remains is the space of project.

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A wide variety of technologies and products have already become widespread in our society. However, policies have not been well-implemented to effectively reduce energy consumptions and CO2 emissions by promoting low-carbon technologies and products. This Special Issue focuses on studies targeting specific products (e.g., motor vehicle, household dishwashers, etc.) and/or technologies (e.g., information and communication technology, transport technology, CO2 capture technology, etc.) and quantifying resource and energy consumptions and CO2 emissions associated with products and technology systems using the reliable inventory database. Thus, this Special Issue provides important studies on how demand- and supply-side policies can contribute to reducing energy consumptions and CO2 emissions from consumption- and production-based perspectives.

Interreligiöse Bildung versteht sich als Beitrag zum friedlichen Zusammenleben der Religionen und Weltanschauungen. Doch auch in interreligiösen Lernvorgängen und Bildungsansätzen sind immer wieder ausgrenzende Mechanismen des Othering, des »Fremdmachens«, zu beobachten. Zugleich zeigt sich, dass verschiedene religionspädagogische Ansätze von unterschiedlichen Zugängen zum Thema Fremdheit ausgehen: Während die einen Fremdheitserfahrungen und individuelle religiöse Positionierungen ins Zentrum stellen, versuchen andere, »Fremdheit« zu dekonstruieren. Janosch Freuding zeigt Möglichkeiten auf, diese unterschiedlichen Auffassungen aufeinander zu beziehen und wirkungsvoll gegen Othering-Strukturen in interreligiöser Bildung vorzugehen.

This open access book is an original contribution to the knowledge on fishing and research associated with one of the most enigmatic fish of our seas: bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus (L.). Based on available evidence, it reconstructs the possible methods used to catch large spawners in the Strait of Gibraltar thousands of years ago and describes the much more recent overfishing that led to a great reduction in the catches of the trap fishery on the area and the disappearance of the northern European fisheries. It is the first book to relate the overfishing of juvenile fishes in certain areas to the decline of large spawners in other very distant areas, revealing one of the main underlying causes of this decline, which has remained a mystery to the fishing sector and scientists alike for over 50 years. This finding should serve to prevent similar cases from arising in the future.

The Special Issue book focuses on highlighting current research and developments in the automation and control field for autonomous systems as well as showcasing state-of-the-art control strategy approaches for autonomous platforms. The book is co-edited by distinguished international control system experts currently based in Sweden, the United States of America, and the United Kingdom, with contributions from reputable researchers from China, Austria, France, the United States of America, Poland, and Hungary, among many others. The editors believe the ten articles published within this Special Issue will be highly appealing to control-systems-related researchers in applications typified in the fields of ground, aerial, maritime vehicles, and robotics as well as industrial audiences.