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Texts and images in this anthology invite the reader into multisensory learning, with a particular emphasis on intensities and affect between the body and materiality. The content continuously reveals unexpected, ongoing moments that make the body vibrate. This is a path toward a performative art pedagogy. You are invited to smell, listen, come close, and touch—among other things—sticks, wool, paper, and water. To be attentive to moods and atmospheres, like a child when it hears the sound of bark on a tree in autumn and frozen ice on the sea on a cold winter day. The anthology is aimed at those who seek an art pedagogy in which the body is regarded as materiality among other forms of materiality—encountered in work with children, pupils, students, and colleagues in an evolving learning process.

Drought, a serious global issue, is being aggravated by climate change. Both pedological and agronomic droughts are a major risk factor with adverse effects on agronomic productivity, food and nutritional security, and human wellbeing.

The book Reflections on Bioethics is an effort that brings together works grouped into five sections: "Bioethics and Health", "Bioethics and Education", "Bioethics and Technology", "Bioethics in the Use of Experimental Animals",and "Selected Topics of Bioethics". In each of these sections, the fundamental concepts of bioethics and their relationship with each of these branches of knowledge are covered. The purpose is to give the reader a specific document of topics, it is not intended to be a treaty because the study of any of the five sections is very broad. However, this is an effort that manages to combine in interdisciplinary subjects that are fundamental for professionals of all fields of knowledge.

Für die Zielsetzung der vorliegenden Studie sind die Arbeiten Apresjans, die nach seinem Anschluß an den sog. Moskauer Semantisehen Zirkel um die beiden Linguisten I. A. Mel'čuk und A. K. Zolkovskij entstanden sind, von besonderem Interesse (zur Geschichte der linguistischen Schule s. Mel'čuk 1980; Weiss 1984). Der Moskauer Semantische Zirkel hat in den 60-er und 70-er Jahren eine eigenständige Sprachtheorie, die sog. 'Smysl-Tekst'-Theorie hervorgebracht. In ihren allgemeinen Zügen präsentiert sich diese Theorie als ein mehrstufiges Grammatikmodell, das auf seinen verschiedenen Beschreibungsebenen durchgängig die Valenztheorie verwendet (s. Mel'čuk 1974).

De nos jours, artistes et créateurs de toutes orientations, et dans différents champs de production culturelle, ont de plus en plus recours à des procédés impliquant le traitement de matériaux qui sont déjà disponibles dans l'espace culturel : ils créent en recyclant. Grâce aux nouvelles technologies de reproduction des œuvres et de traitement de données, cette modalité de production s'affirme comme une dominante de la culture contemporaine. Comment en rendre compte esthétiquement ? Quel est son impact sur notre expérience esthétique ? En quoi nous oblige-t-elle à repenser concepts et compréhension dans le domaine de l'esthétique. Dans ce livre, un groupe international de dix-huit chercheurs se penche sur cette interface entre esthétique et recyclage culturel et propose des éléments de réponse à ces questions. Ce livre est issu d'un colloque international qui eut lieu en 2001 à Montréal.

Bilderbücher werden im Unterricht der Grundschule oft als motivierendes Impulsmedium verwendet, um mit Schüler*innen über bestimmte Themen - wie z. B. Angst, Glück, Mobbing oder Klimaschutz - ins Gespräch zu kommen. Insbesondere für den Deutschunterricht eröffnen Bilderbücher darüber hinaus vielfältige Potenziale für mehrdimensional-narrative Lehr- und Lernprozesse. Der Sammelband versteht sich als Plädoyer, Bilderbücher als literarästhetischen Gegenstand wahrzunehmen und ihnen Wege in den Literatur- und Sprachunterricht der Grundschule zu ebnen. Er richtet sich an Lehrer*innen, (Lehramts-)Studierende sowie Lehrende und Forschende an Universitäten und in der Lehrer*innenbildung. Es werden Perspektiven auf Gegenstand, Akteur*innen und Unterricht eröffnet, die in unterschiedlicher Weise vom Bilderbuch ausgehen und auf das Bilderbuch hinarbeiten. Die Beiträge setzen sich mit folgenden Schwerpunkten auseinander: Neuerscheinungen auf dem Bilderbuchmarkt, Briefe in Bilderbüchern, Verwandlungen von Märchenbilderbüchern, Fiktionalität und Fiktionsverstehen, Paratextualität, Imaginationsbildung, Figurenperspektiven, Vorlesen von Bilderbüchern und Bilderbuchgespräche, Diversität, Textschreiben, Sprachproduktion und Mehrsprachigkeit. Des Weiteren werden sowohl ein Bilderbuch als auch eine Unterrichtsszene kontrovers diskutiert. Der Sammelband ist eine Einladung, eigene Perspektiven vom Bilderbuch aus und zum Bilderbuch hin zu entwickeln und dabei eine Vielzahl an Bilderbüchern und didaktischen Möglichkeiten kennenzulernen, die Lust machen, mit ihnen im Unterricht, Studium und in der Forschung zu arbeiten.

Nach einer starken Phase der Reurbanisierung verändern sich sowohl die fachlichen Debatten als auch die Stadtentwicklungspraxis wieder hin zu einer verstärkten Bautätigkeit am Stadtrand. In mehreren deutschen Großstädten entstehen neue Stadtteile für bis zu 10.000 Menschen. Veränderte Lebensstile, Haushaltsstrukturen und Arbeitsmärkte, die Ausdifferenzierung von Wohntypen und Trägerformen sowie die Infragestellung klassischer »Schlafstädte« bringen dabei neue Formen von Suburbanität hervor. Die Beiträge untersuchen diese neuen Stadtteile und fokussieren dabei auf Milieus, stadt- und freiraumplanerische Leitbilder, Quartierstypen, Governancearrangements und Umsetzungsstrategien.

Tratando de temas, como a cultura e a subjetividade, as questões éticas da atualidade, a qualidade de vida no mundo contemporâneo etc., O Clássico e o Novo é o fruto de trabalhos apresentados no 2o Congresso Brasileiro de Ciências Sociais em Saúde, e reúne uma gama dos mais qualificados profissionais que tratam de diferentes temas, intencionando uma perspectiva multidisciplinar. Partindo do pressuposto de que dentro da própria área das Ciências Sociais há um processo de fragmentação que vem exigindo cada vez mais novas interlocuções interdisciplinares, procura-se aqui estabelecer um diálogo profícuo entre este campo do saber e a área da saúde. Dessa forma, ao abordar questões relacionadas à área da saúde, este livro se constitui como leitura obrigatória para os profissionais de saúde coletiva, introduzindo diferentes e instigantes propostas de reflexão para a saúde na atualidade.

Finance and Banking, General Finance, International Finance

Originating in the late 19th century and becoming the subject of ongoing methodological debates in the social sciences, methodological individualism is a paradigm that focuses on understanding social phenomena through the actions and choices of individuals rather than through collective explanations. This book highlights its theoretical bases as defined and developed in the writings of its founders and early proponents in the context of the liveliest methodological battles in the social sciences. It addresses fundamental epistemological issues, including the distinction between explanation in the social sciences and natural sciences, the rational bases for understanding social actions, the relation of social wholes to their parts, and the connections between social concepts and the phenomenal world. Bringing together new English translations of foundational texts by Carl Menger, Joseph Schumpeter, Georg Simmel, and Max Weber, this book provides key insights into one of the essential methodological paradigms in the social sciences, corrects misconceptions, and advances a deeper understanding of methodological individualism as a robust and valuable approach to explaining social phenomena. It will therefore appeal to scholars and students of sociology and sociological theory with an interest in questions of social science methodology.

This Element explores a new print genre which became popular in England at the end of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the periodical. It says that the relationship between the authors, publishers, and audiences in the early periodicals is a dynamic participatory culture. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

The high dynamism of the development of social processes and phenomena determines the formation of new systems of humanity's worldview, modification (change) of the hierarchy of needs and values, challenges to the pace and quality of development. Addressing the over-complicated problems associated with meeting the demands of modern times requires the application of innovative scientific approaches. Today, the use of modern intelligent technologies such as artificial neural networks, deep learning and artificial intelligence is a prerequisite for the active development of all spheres of human activity: medicine, technology, business, environmental protection, education, transport and communication, etc. Thus, it is the intellectualization of technical and management systems that can be considered one of the key bases of the new paradigm of science and technology. The phrase “of the artificial intelligence system is clear and known to everyone today. The context of this term is associated with concepts such as robotics, forecasting, processing of large information flows, expert systems, diagnostics, projects “smart house” or “smart tools”, cyber-physical space and cyber-physical systems, computer translation, etc. There is a positive dynamics of the development and implementation of elements of artificial intelligence in most types of software: mobile applications, information systems, electronic devices, etc. This process of “intellectualization” allows to talk about the gradual increase in the intelligence of modern computer systems capable of performing functions that are traditionally considered intellectual: understanding language, logical inference, using accumulated knowledge, learning, pattern recognition, as well as learning and explaining your decisions. The monograph contains methods of processing heterogeneous data, a scientific-methodical apparatus for assessing the state of complex technical systems, as well as a scientific-methodical apparatus for ensuring the functional reliability of special purpose information systems. Separate chapters present mathematical models of the functioning of information systems under the influence of a set of destabilizing factors, as well as a polymodel complex of resource management of intelligent decision support systems. The specified polymodel complexes allow modeling of the functioning process of intelligent decision support systems and information systems. This is important when modeling the processes of solving complex calculation tasks in the specified systems due to the conceptual description of the specified processes. The authors' research is supported by appropriate analytical expressions, graphic dependencies, as well as tabular values. The monograph will be useful for researchers dealing with issues of solving optimization problems, using the theory of artificial intelligence, developing new (improving existing) approaches to solving complex technical problems in various fields of human activity. The monograph is also useful for practitioners – designers, developers implementing modern solutions in the field of information technologies, engaged in the development of information, information-analytical, as well as automated systems for the purpose of creating new schemes and algorithms, their adaptation to non-stereotypical conditions of use, including for the implementation of artificial intelligence methods in conditions of autonomous operation, limitation of computing resources, remote control, etc.

Muslim men are often portrayed in academic and popular discourses as violent patriarchs and/or as terrorists. Against the backdrop of an increasingly hostile environment within the United Kingdom, this book explores the experiences of Muslim migrant husbands in the Pakistani and Kashmiri diaspora. The uncertainties of migrant journeys tethered to cultural and religious marital norms intersect with gendered experiences of masculinity across space and time. In-depth interviews with 62 migrant husbands shed light on the precarity and vulnerability they experience. Their aspirational masculinities often start in the home country with collective familial dreams of migration, but can turn sour through the exposure of domestic and employment power dynamics upon arriving in the United Kingdom. The ethnography highlights experiences of domestic violence experienced by migrant husbands, which supports the notion of an in-between or liminal masculinity becoming a lived reality for these men on the move, ultimately resulting in novel ways in which a reassertion of masculinity is sought through religious Sufi traditions and musical lamentations. The book weaves together transnational dynamics between people and place along the contours of colonial legacies, showing the self and other power dynamics present within a single group identity. Violence is inflicted on incoming migrants by British-born or British citizen counterparts, through the immigration system. The book shows how citizenship can be weaponised as a performance of whiteness, namely White power, resulting in the notion that gender is performed on.

The summary discusses some of the greatest disparities for boys and men of color relative to their white counterparts across specific socioeconomic, health, safety, and school readiness indicators in California and provides information about different strategies for reducing the disparities--including effective programs, practices, and policies--that can begin making an important difference in changing the life course of boys and men of color.

The latest advances in drug delivery systems are aimed at delivering drugs in a controlled fashion both temporally and spatially. Polymers have recently been employed in these approaches for drug delivery, tissue engineering, cell encapsulation, the fabrication of medical devices, and a diversity of other biomedical applications. These recent successful applications have demonstrated the superior potential of such polymeric drug-delivery systems in biomedicine.This Special Issue aims to provide an updated account of recent advances in the synthesis, characterization, engineering, and use of polymers, being synthetic or natural, for drug delivery and sustained drug release. We thank all authors for reporting developed novel polymer-based carriers in therapeutics and diagnoses that overcome the limitations associated with drug administration and enhance patients' quality of life.