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Auch wenn die Zivilgesellschaft in sozial benachteiligten Stadtvierteln häufig kaum sichtbar ist, gibt es wichtige Ausnahmen: Viertelgestalter_innen sind mit unermüdlicher Tatkraft bürgerschaftlich aktiv. Im Buch werden acht dieser außergewöhnlichen Menschen in ausführlichen Portraits vorgestellt. Wie kamen sie zu ihrer Rolle, welche Motive treiben sie in ihrem Engagement an, welche Wertvorstellungen vertreten sie? Die Studie ermöglicht detaillierte Einblicke in die Funktionsweise von Zivilgesellschaft in sozial schwachen Stadtteilen. Sie benennt Hindernisse und Schwierigkeiten für die Aktiven - zeigt aber auch Perspektiven, wie das partizipative Versprechen der modernen Bürgergesellschaft für sozial Benachteiligte eingelöst werden könnte.

This book studies the emergence, in the late 1960s and 1970s, of a sophisticated body of gay fiction in Catalan, and examines the relation between the representation of homosexuality and the discourses on national identity that legitimate modern Catalan literature. Gay fiction, argues the author, reveals a tension between the nation and the body in Catalan literature: Catalonia is a nation different from Spain, a cultural and political minority within Europe; but the existence of sexual minorities within its boundaries reveals its inner complexity, which resists homogenization. Catalonia is another country in more ways than one. Drawing on a variety of critical discourses (gay theory, psychoanalysis, and authors such as Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, and Bourdieu), Another Country explores the intertwinings of identity, cultural politics, and desire in the work of Terenci Moix, Lluís Fernàndez, Biel Mesquida, and Lluís Maria Todó. The book analyses how gay writers renegotiate identity discourses in Catalan literature in order to introduce homosexuality into them, often with destabilising effects. The role of gay authors in the process of canon construction (a crucial aspect of contemporary cultural nationalism in Catalonia) is also considered, focusing on postmodernism and the divide between high and mass culture. Finally, Another Country addresses the interplay of homosexual desire within the frame of a distinction between perversion and transgression, and proposes an alliance between queer and nationalist discourses.

This account of historical politics in Ukraine, framed in a broader European context, shows how social, political, and cultural groups have used and misused the past from the final years of the Soviet Union to 2020. Georgiy Kasianov details practices relating to history and memory by a variety of actors, including state institutions, non-governmental organizations, political parties, historians, and local governments. He identifies the main political purposes of these practices in the construction of nation and identity, struggles for power, warfare, and international relations. Kasianov considers the Ukrainian case in the context of a global increase in the politics of history and memory, with particular emphasis on a distinctive East-European variety. He pays special attention to the use and abuse of history in relations between Ukraine, Russia, and Poland.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com. How much would poor nations need to invest to eliminate poverty, get all children in school and provide adequate basic health care for all? Can they afford it? Financing Human Development in Africa, Asia and the Middle East provides some clear answers to these questions. The contributors assess feasible financing strategies underpinning actions to enhance human development in pursuance of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The contributors analyse these strategies in the context of broader concerns of economic development in nine countries in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. The assessments stress the importance of redesigning macroeconomic policies so as to make these more supportive of long-term economic growth and employment creation, while ensuring sufficient investments in human development in order to end poverty and overcome deep-rooted inequalities.

Sign languages and spoken languages have many fascinating differences, caused primarily by the reaction of the human mind to different modalities, but also by some important social differences. This book examines the effects of these and other differences on sign language phonology and phonetics using observation, experimentation and theory. Languages examined include Asian, Middle Eastern, European and American sign languages, and language situations include home signers and small village signers, children, gesturers, adult signers and non-native signers.

The Caruth Police Institute (CPI), funded by the Communities Foundation of Texas, was designed for the benefit of the Dallas Police Department to create staff development courses and to bring the expertise of academic experts and business leaders to bear on complex policing problems. This report presents a three-year evaluation of the CPI, covering development of its research activities, its impact, and its sustainability.

Modern medical imaging systems provide information about the patient's health condition. Their precision, resolution and sensitivity are increasing, and new possibilities of differentiating the condition of tissue are constantly appearing. These advances are also taking place in musculoskeletal imaging. Increasingly accurate imaging in various modalities allows us to discover new relationships between the image and the diagnosis. It is therefore important to use all this information to best serve the patient. That is why research related to the analysis of medical images is so important, because it allows us to indicate what is invisible to the naked eye or to quantify what has so far been measured by humans or subject to discretionary assessment. This collection includes 25 works related to the analysis of images created during diagnostics of the musculoskeletal system using various modalities—from X-ray and fluoroscopy to conventional or spectral computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound, elastography, PET/CT and systems for analyzing patient mechanics. Research was carried out related to the detection of various conditions, parameterization of clinical and population phenomena, and detection of image–clinical condition relationships. Despite the current popularity of machine learning techniques, the collection is dominated by classic engineering methods related to image processing. Several works use textural analysis, which has not been appreciated so far, which is particularly related to the imaging of the structure, especially of bones.

New Insights into Protected Area Management and Conservation Biology provides an interesting overview of the frontiers of scientific research in this practically important and scientifically interesting applied area of ecological research. Chapters discuss national parks, wetlands, and forests from botanical, zoological, and practical viewpoints. It is a useful resource for researchers, teachers, students, and other interested readers who are looking to gain insight into the conservation of the Earth’s biodiversity and ecosystems.

Este libro es el resultado del trabajo en equipo de profesores e investigadores colombianos y brasileños, quienes, del 2020 al 2022, realizaron encuentros de discusión sobre la importancia de la planificación y gestión estratégica en las empresas. Considerando el escenario de la pandemia, los investigadores llevaron a cabo investigaciones concomitantes entre empresas brasileñas y colombianas.El libro consta de tres capítulos. En la primera sección se presentan los resultados comparativos de una encuesta hecha entre pequeñas y medianas empresas (pymes) de Brasil y Colombia. El estudio presenta las principales estrategias de innovación utilizadas por las pymes de estos países, ante la pandemia del covid-19. La muestra incluyó 51 pymes brasileñas y 31 colombianas. La investigación señaló las dificultades económico-financieras y de gestión de personas de estas empresas, así como las acciones e iniciativas en el contexto de la pandemia. Las estrategias de innovación más utilizadas fueron las relacionadas con el marketing y la comunicación y las estrategias de innovación de procesos. Además, se identificaron muchas similitudes en el manejo de las estrategias organizacionales entre las pymes en las muestras de Brasil y Colombia.El segundo capítulo incluye el análisis de una encuesta realizada solo con hoteles en Santa Catarina (Brasil), con el objetivo de identificar los impactos de la pandemia en el ambiente hotelero, dado que el sector fue uno de los principales afectados por las restricciones gubernamentales. Con una muestra específica de 37 empresas del sector hotelero. La investigación destaca la importancia de la información y la gestión estratégica ante escenarios de contingencia.El tercer capítulo presenta al sector de la hostelería en Brasil que tiene una gran importancia en la economía nacional, ya que afecta directamente a otros sectores como la alimentación, las ventas, el turismo entre otros.

This survey paper provides an overview of topological visualisation techniques for scalar data sets. Topological algorithms are used to reduce scalar fields to a skeleton by mapping critical changes in the topology to the vertices of graph structures. These can be visualised using graph drawing techniques or used as a method of seeding meshes of distinct objects existing in the data. Many techniques are discussed in detail, beginning with a review of algorithms working on scalar fields defined with a single variable, and then generalised to multivariate and temporal data. The survey is completed with a discussion of methods of presenting data in higher dimensions.

Für den Schutz der Amazonaswälder Brasiliens bieten die gemeindebasiert verwalteten Nutzreservate Resex großes Potential. Michaela Meurer befasst sich detailliert mit der Vielfalt von Nutzungsregeln in der Resex Tapajós-Arapiuns, die sich im Zuge der gemeinsamen Verwaltung durch Staat, Zivilgesellschaft und Lokalbevölkerung herausgebildet haben. Die facettenreiche Ethnographie vermittelt einen fundierten Einblick in soziale Realitäten des heutigen Amazoniens und erweitert die anthropologische Theoriebildung um eine praxistheoretische Ausgestaltung Politischer Ontologie.

The ePaper presents A Rise in Humanity, the opening lecture of the academic year 2021–2022 delivered by Felwine Sarr at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. In his lecture, Mr Sarr explains how societies need to take ownership of their present and future, and proposes paths to reengage at a collective level in order to fill them with meaning. The lecture is preceded by a think piece in which Marie-Laure Salles, Director of the Graduate Institute, urges us to collectively work towards the re-enchanting of our humanity – the categorical imperative of our times. It is followed by an interview in which Felwine Sarr shares his thoughts with two young researchers on how to rethink the economy.

The title of the book tries to accurately reflect its content: the academic acts and the collation of the degrees are studied during this first stage of the University of Baeza (1549-1580), in which outstanding protagonists appear (Diego Pérez de Valdivia, Bernardino de Carleval, Diego de Ávila, Hernando de Herrera ...) Rafael Ramis Barceló and Pedro Ramis Serra collect the data referring to the students and professors of this époque, detail the academic curriculum of each one of them, and give a perspective of the whole of the University life in this exciting and turbulent era, punctuated by the activity of the “alumbrados” and the inquisitorial persecution. --- El título del libro intenta reflejar exactamente su contenido: se estudian los actos académicos y la colación de los grados durante esta primera etapa de la Universidad de Baeza (1549-1580), en la que aparecen destacados protagonistas (Diego Pérez de Valdivia, Bernardino de Carleval, Diego de Ávila, Hernando de Herrera…) Rafael Ramis Barceló y Pedro Ramis Serra recopilan los datos referentes a los estudiantes y maestros de esta época, detallan el curriculum académico de cada uno de ellos, y dan una perspectiva de conjunto de la vida universitaria biacense en esta época apasionante y convulsa, jalonada por la actividad de los alumbrados y la persecución inquisitorial.

This book is a collection of chapters, concerning the developments within the Weed Biology and Control field of study. The book includes scholarly contributions by various authors pertinent to Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Each contribution comes as a separate chapter complete in itself but directly related to the book's topics and objectives. The target audience comprises scholars and specialists in the field.

Le sport, découverte majeure des temps modernes selon Aldous Huxley, met en jeu toutes les formes de relations politique, culturelle, économique ou sociale. Évoquer l’identité régionale, par le biais des pratiques corporelles et sportives, c’est toucher du doigt que le Nord est un terreau de sociabilités où s’articulent pratiques populaires et élitaires, spectacles sportifs et engagement militant, culte de la performance et représentations du handicap, nouvelles pratiques de glisse et modes d’appropriation par les jeunes, etc., loin des clichés et des stéréotypes attachés à cette région. Labélisé Jeune Équipe par le Ministère de l’Éducation Nationale (2002), le laboratoire Sport, Identité, Culture (SIC) de la faculté des sciences du sport et de l’éducation physique, université de Lille 2, est dirigé par le Professeur Claude Sobry. Ses trois principaux axes de recherche portent sur les Sports et la formation des identités locales, sur la Communication et les médias dans le monde sportif ainsi que sur le Sport de haut niveau.