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The surface properties of wood have to be fully understood and tailored to the particular purpose. Proper surface characterization and treatment methods must be selected to obtain the most relevant surface properties. Some surface treatment processes are well established, such as the surface finishing of wood with coatings, and others are less known, and their potentials are underestimated. In this Special Issue, novel materials to improve the properties of wood are considered, such as thermochromic microcapsules or biocide-containing capsules, novel superhydrophobic and inorganic silicate-based coatings, etc. Novel wood treatment technologies, such as plasma treatment, are also included in this issue.

The authors provide a framework for an integrated Department of Defense (DoD) supply chain, associated policy recommendations, and a companion framework for management practices that will drive people to take actions aligned with this integrated supply chain approach. Building on the framework and policy recommendations, they identify opportunities to improve DoD supply chain efficiency and highlight several already being pursued by DoD.

Ce volume est le fruit d’un travail au long cours consacré aux implications philosophiques de la pensée wölfflinienne, mené dans le cadre des activités de la chaire d’esthétique de l’UFR de philosophie de l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Ce travail a notamment donné lieu à un séminaire et un colloque international en hommage au centenaire de la parution des Principes fondamentaux de l’histoire de l’art en 2015, un projet de recherche sur le problème de l’accrochage au musée, en association avec le Labex CAP et le département des peintures du musée du Louvre, mais aussi une nouvelle traduction française des Principes, à paraître sous peu aux éditions L’Écarquillé. Les contributions ici rassemblées sont issues de cette réflexion collective, centrée autour de la question de l’usage des catégories dans une discipline – l’histoire de l’art – habituellement inquiète face à des entreprises externes de systématisation et de conceptualisation de ses méthodes et enquêtes. Qu’est-ce que, pour un historien de l’art, le style d’un artiste, d’une époque ou d’un peuple, et comment, pourquoi, à quelles fins, vouloir les caractériser ? Comment rendre compte du passage d’un style à l’autre ? Doit-on pour cela établir uniquement des classifications historiques et s’y tenir, ou est-il nécessaire de recourir au contraire à des catégorisations esthétiques ? Quels types de rapports, alors, celles-ci entretiennent-elles avec celles-là ?

The Norsif Guide to ESG Integration in Fundamental Equity Valuation provides hands-on guidance for analysts and others who do financial firm valuations that recognise environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. The first part contains specific analytical guidance into the key ESG-related issues. Drawing on established frameworks and practical analyst experience, this section outlines both general ESG issues and industry-specific considerations. The second part introduces core valuation methods from finance literature, demonstrating how to integrate specific ESG issues in actual valuations. These include the effects on cash flow forecasts, optionality, and scenarios, as well as accounting for when owners’ objectives are not exclusively financial. Finally, the appendices include a guide to financial modelling and three short industry cases highlighting the importance of ESG in financial and strategic analyses. The inspiration for this guide arose out of a failure to find a valuation textbook that adequately addressed the challenge of integrating ESG issues from a company level perspective. It is also a joint effort between analysts and portfolio managers who are increasingly aware of the need to expand the approach to valuation, and academics who aim to better understand how to adapt the fundamental valuation models to recognize ESG. The Norwegian Forum for Responsible and Sustainable Investments (Norsif) initiated the project to produce this guide in cooperation with the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). The project was also motivated by the launch of the executive study program “Sustainable Financial Analysis” in 2020, which is offered by NHH in partnership with the Norwegian Society of Financial Analysts (NFF).

O leitor encontrará neste livro o resultado de pesquisas científicas sobre temas que fundam a educação problematizam princípios e práticas atuais da educação escolarizada. Sem abandonar as antigas concepções de educação e também sem valorizar apenas as novidades teóricas, os autores apostam numa sólida união entre Psique e Eros, inspirada nas concepções de Freud. A obra abrange estudos sobre o lúdico na educação infantil, a ética, os afetos, o valor da fantasia na aprendizagem e no desenvolvimento emocional, a constituição profissional de docentes e pesquisadores, a orientação sexual e a educação escolar. Pertinências e impertinências da educação são consideradas na medida em que produzem e reproduzem valores humanos na construção de identidade pessoal e profissional.

This report tracks the green thread that runs through the European Investment Bank Group’s work in 2019, specifically action to fight climate change. Climate action has long been a significant factor in the Bank’s work. In 2019, we responded to an unprecedented emergency with new ambitions for climate investment over the coming decade and a new energy lending policy. This report tells stories of ingenuity and commitment, job creation and prosperity. Woven together with the green thread of sustainable EIB climate investment, it illustrates the opportunity climate action presents for all of us to safeguard our world for future generations and to build a prosperous, clean economy.

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How is solidarity achieved in highly diverse societies - particularly those that have been until recently characterized by rather homogeneous populations? What are the implications of growing levels of diversity on existing social arrangements? These two fundamental questions are explored in this edited collection, which examines the challenges of minority integration in four Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. These nations represent paradigmatic examples of social democratic welfare states that place a premium on a robust package of social rights, combined with policies aimed at reducing levels of class-based inequality and promoting gender equity. All four of these nations have witnessed growing levels of diversity due to immigration and three of them have been forced to rethink their policies concerning the indigenous Sámi, as well as old minority groups. Two introductory chapters, by Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Peter Kivisto, serve as a conceptual framework for the seven case studies that follow, and which, from a variety of perspectives and with differing emphases, analyze the evolving realities in these nations today. Taken together, they offer evidence of the critical issues surrounding attempts to achieve solidarity while valorizing diversity.

Conflicted Antiquities is a rich cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth. Consulting the relevant Arabic archives, Elliott Colla demonstrates that the emergence of Egyptology—the study of ancient Egypt and its material legacy—was as consequential for modern Egyptians as it was for Europeans. The values and practices introduced by the new science of archaeology played a key role in the formation of a new colonial regime in Egypt. This fact was not lost on Egyptian nationalists, who challenged colonial archaeologists with the claim that they were the direct heirs of the Pharaohs, and therefore the rightful owners and administrators of ancient Egypt’s historical sites and artifacts. As this dispute developed, nationalists invented the political and expressive culture of “Pharaonism”—Egypt’s response to Europe’s Egyptomania.

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La rencontre entre les recherches sur l’écriture et sur le pouvoir n’a rien de fortuit. On peut considérer que la naissance de l’État, en tout cas de l’État complexe, est liée à la naissance et à l’usage de l’écriture. Cependant, ce n’est pas l’écriture “interne”, “utilitaire”, “administrative” qui est ici en question, mais l’écriture comme moyen de pouvoir. Si l’on suit Max Weber, la légitimité est l’élément clé de toute domination. Pour l’établir et la maintenir, l'État peut utiliser des moyens variés, parmi lesquels la communication écrite, ce qui peut étonner quand on sait que dans la plupart des sociétés du passé la majorité de la population était illettrée. C’est sur ce paradoxe que s’interrogent les quinze communications de ce recueil. Elles couvrent un horizon chronologique large, qui va de l’Égypte et la Mésopotamie anciennes à nos jours, mais toujours dans le cadre de sociétés qui n’ont pas encore connu le “désenchantement du monde” et la rationalité de l’État moderne.

In den letzten Jahrzehnten sind in Europa vermehrt Moschee-Neubauten entstanden. Lucia Stöcklis religionswissenschaftliche Studie geht der Geschichte der Etablierung der Moschee-Neubauten in England und der Schweiz nach und beleuchtet ihre Bedeutung für die Muslime. Anhand bestehender und in Planung befindlicher Bauprojekte arbeitet sie gemeinsame Strukturen sowie nationale Kontexte heraus und untersucht Themen wie die Entwicklung eines multifunktionalen Zentrums, die Rolle der Frau in den Moschee-Neubauten sowie den Stellenwert der Sichtbarkeit dieser Bauten für die Muslime.

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.

In the author's own words, Dreaming Ecology 'explores a holistic understanding of the interconnections of people, country, kinship, creation and the living world within a context of mobility. Implicitly it asks how people lived so sustainably for so long’. It offers a telling critique of the loss of Indigenous life, human and non-human, in the wake of white settler colonialism and this becoming ‘cattle country’. It offers a fresh perspective on nomadics grounded in ‘footwalk epistemology’ and ‘an ethics of return sustained across different species, events, practices and scales’. ‘This is the final and most substantial of Debbie’s love letters to the Aboriginal people of the Victoria River Downs. I say this because there is such a sense of reverence, wonder and respect throughout the book. The introduction of concepts of double-death, footwalk epistemology, wild country … are not only organising ideas but characterisations arising from what Debbie hears, sees and feels of herself and Aboriginal others … I think of it in terms of love, if love is care, reciprocal respect, deep connectivity and a strong desire to never make less of the people she chose to commit herself to.’ —Richard Davis ‘This book was a pleasure to read, filled with careful description of people, places, and various plants and animals, and insightful analysis of the patterns and commitments that hold them together in the world.’ —Thom van Dooren