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The 43rd UID conference, held in Genova, takes up the theme of ‘Dialogues’ as practice and debate on many fundamental topics in our social life, especially in these complex and not yet resolved times. The city of Genova offers the opportunity to ponder on the value of comparison and on the possibilities for the community, naturally focused on the aspects that concern us, as professors, researchers, disseminators of knowledge, or on all the possibile meanings of the discipline of representation and its dialogue with ‘others’, which we have broadly catalogued in three macro areas: History, Semiotics, Science / Technology. Therefore, “dialogue” as a profitable exchange based on a common language, without which it is impossible to comprehend and understand one another; and the graphic sign that connotes the conference is the precise transcription of this concept: the title ‘translated’ into signs, derived from the visual alphabet designed for the visual identity of the UID since 2017. There are many topics which refer to three macro sessions: - Witnessing (signs and history) - Communicating (signs and semiotics) - Experimenting (signs and sciences) Thanks to the different points of view, an exceptional resource of our disciplinary area, we want to try to outline the prevailing theoretical-operational synergies, the collaborative lines of an instrumental nature, the recent updates of the repertoires of images that attest and nourish the relations among representation, history, semiotics, sciences.

A plethora of problems from diverse disciplines such as Mathematics, Mathematical: Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Physics, Scientific Computing and also Engineering can be formulated as an equation defined in abstract spaces using Mathematical Modelling. The solutions of these equations can be found in closed form only in special case. That is why researchers and practitioners utilize iterative procedures from which a sequence is being generated approximating the solution under some conditions on the initial data. This type of research is considered most interesting and challenging. This is our motivation for the introduction of this special issue on Iterative Procedures.

Der gegenwärtigen Medienlandschaft wird häufig eine Tendenz zur Offenlegung und Offenheit zugeschrieben. Social Network Sites lassen die Grenzen zwischen Privatem und Öffentlichem verschwimmen, Plattformen wie WikiLeaks und OpenLeaks veröffentlichen geheimes Material, über Filesharing-Netzwerke und open-content-Lizenzen werden vormals proprietäre Inhalte offen zugänglich gemacht. Verflochten sind diese Entwicklungen mit auf den ersten Blick gegenläufigen Tendenzen der Eingrenzung, der Kontro...

Un grand corbeau, un chat noir, un masque rouge sinistre, l’éclat d’une blancheur sublime, un battement cardiaque assourdissant, une dulcinée tirée d’outre-tombe déambulant sous une lune blafarde… L’univers littéraire d’Edgar Allan Poe est constitué d’images chocs, efficaces et concises, douées d’un fort pouvoir entêtant. L’écrivain se plaisait à structurer son écriture autour de ces refrains visuels et sonores, qu’il pouvait faire transiter au sein d’un même texte mais aussi d’une nouvelle ou d’un poème à l’autre. Cet ouvrage examine les résonnances formelles de l’imaginaire poesque à partir de la circulation de ces motifs au cinéma et à la télévision. Conçu comme un élément narratif et plastique, visuel et sonore, le motif permet de tisser des structures en arabesques telles que les affectionnait Poe via sa recherche de « l’effet » esthétique. Phénomènes éminemment intertextuels, les motifs poesques permettent de repenser l’histoire et l’auctorialité de ces formes fantastiques et gothiques comme autant de relations productives entre circulation et transformation, références et interprétations, dissémination et unité. Pour cela, les neuf chapitres proposent des études d’adaptations écrites et filmées par Jean Epstein, Roger Corman, Alexandre Astruc et Éric Rohmer, mais aussi de films et de séries secrètement hantés par la présence de Poe comme The Thing, Twixt, Antichrist, Following ou encore Altered Carbon.

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Serotonin - A Chemical Messenger Between All Types of Living Cells is a very interesting book on the most ancient neurotransmitter, hormone and trophic factor serotonin or 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT). This unique chemical is present in all living cells including plants and animals. This book will take us through a serene journey of the evolutionary history of serotonin and its role from man to mollusk. There are many interesting chapters incorporated in this book, including novel approaches for detecting minor metabolites of serotonin in human plasma, production and function of serotonin in cardiac cells, immuno-thrombotic effects of serotonin in platelets to the identification and localization of serotonin in the nervous system and gonad of bivalve mollusks.

This open access book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions”, held in December 2019 in Bolzano, Italy, and explores the concept of smart and sustainable planning, including top contributions from academics, policy makers, consultants and other professionals. Innovation processes such as co-design and co-creation help establish collaborations that engage with stakeholders in a trustworthy and transparent environment while answering the need for new value propositions. The importance of an integrated, holistic approach is widely recognized to break down silos in local government, in particular, when aimed at achieving a better integration of climate-energy planning. Despite the ongoing urbanization and polarization processes, new synergies between urban and rural areas emerge, linking development opportunities to intrinsic cultural, natural and man-made landscape values. The increasing availability of big, real-time urban data and advanced ICT facilitates frequent assessment and continuous monitoring of performances, while allowing fine-tuning as needed. This is valid not only for individual projects but also on a wider scale. In addition, and circling back to the first point, (big) urban data and ICT can be of enormous help in facilitating engagement and co-creation by raising awareness and by providing insight into the local consequences of specific plans. However, this potential is not yet fully exploited in standard processes and procedures, which can therefore lack the agility and flexibility to keep up with the pulse of the city and dynamics of society. The book provides a multi-disciplinary outlook based on experience to orient the reader in the giant galaxy of smart and sustainable planning, support the transposition of research into practice, scale up visionary approaches and design groundbreaking planning policies and tools.

In many European regions, rural areas are facing major challenges in economic and social terms, consequence of transformations in the role and meaning of agriculture. The loss of the productive character strongly contributed to the emergence of new roles and functions, particularly related to leisure and tourism. The book aims to discuss questions directly related to the connections between rural tourism and local socioeconomic contexts, presenting diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives and diff erent case studies from various European regions. The book addresses the relationships among rural tourism and the complex interactions, confl icts and innovative processes developing in rural territories as consequence of the implementation of tourism activities. The book responds to some relevant and not yet comprehensively researched aspects within this topic, especially in what extent tourism, in its various forms and processes, might give an important contribution to rural development.

El estudio etnográfico sobre los chichimecas jonáz, reconoce en la historia a uno de los pueblos originarios cazadores-recolectores del centro-norte de México, más denostado desde la época prehispánica por los Mexica o Aztecas, considerados como “perros sucios, inciviles", significado del término chichimeca; bárbaros-salvajes, por los conquista- dores ibéricos; holgazanes, que no trabajan y no producen nada, por algunos habitantes de San Luis de la Paz, Guanajuato. El lector encontrará cómo los chichimecas-jonáz continúan siendo una sociedad marginal al resto de la sociedad dominante, pero resistiendo ante el embate del sistema capitalista que se apropia de sus territorios y fuerza laboral mediante megaproyectos extractivistas, energéticos, parques industriales y otros, que generan enormes ganancias a los capitales transnacionales, además de la expansión de las ciudades cercanas.

Die hier vorliegende Publikation ist das erste Ergebnis in Monographieform des APART-Projekts "Migrationsphänomene in der Frühlatènezeit“ und des FWF-Projekts P-15977-G02 "The celtic cemetery of Mannersdorf (Lower Austria) in the context of east and west cultural contact“. In Mannersdorf am Leithagebirge, Flur Reinthal Süd wurden von 1976 bis 1984 vom Museum Mannersdorf durch H. Schutzbier und F. Opferkuh und dem Bundesdenkmalamt (G. Melzer) insgesamt 96 Körper und Brandgräber der Früh- und Mittellatènezeit ausgegraben. Das Gräberfeld selbst erstreckt sich in nw-so Richtung mit einer Länge von 200 und einer Breite von ca. 45 Metern. Es hat eine Belegungsdauer von Latène A2/B1 bis C1, was einer absoluten Datierung von ca. 400 bis 200 vuZ. entspricht. Die Qualität der Beigaben zeigt sich neben den Materialien Silber, Gold, Glas und Korallen vor allem in der technischen Ausführung der Artefakte. Ein markantes Stück des Gräberfeldes ist eine Bronzesitula, die ein Importstück aus Norditalien darstellt. Bestimmte Gebiete wie das Mittelrheingebiet, die Champagne und das Balkangebiet müssen damals intensive Verbindungen in den niederösterreichischen Raum gehabt haben. Zur Geschlechterverteilung im Gräberfeld ist zu bemerken, dass mit 48 Personen doppelt so viele Frauen wie Männer (24) vorkommen. Es lässt sich eine Gruppe der sogenannten "Lt B1-Elite- bzw. Spitzengräber“ herausarbeiten, die sich als die höchste Ausstattungsgruppe mit Doppelfuß- und Handreifen sowie dem Vorkommen von Edelmetall definieren. Die Nekropole gehört mit ihren 96 Gräbern zu den mittelgroßen des mittleren Donaugebiets. Es zeigt sich, dass es sich bei einem Teil der in Mannersdorf Bestatteten eventuell um eine Gruppe von Menschen handelt, die aus dem Gebiet der heutigen Schweiz stammten. Eine ebenso wahrscheinliche These wäre, dass es sich um Angehörige einer "Oberschicht“ handelt, die weitreichende wirtschaftliche und verwandtschaftliche Kontakte (und dadurch auch Mobilität) durch den "mitteleuropäischen Korridor“ und die anschließenden Gebiete wie Norditalien hatten und dies durch ihre Tracht und den zusätzlichen Besitz zum Ausdruck brachten. Ergänzende Analysen von Bronzematerial, Keramik, Tierknochen, Eisenschmiedetechnik, Goldschmiedetechnik, Textil- und Herstellungstechnik und Steinartefakten stellen einen unverzichtbaren Teil der Darstellung dieses latènezeitlichen Gräberfeldes dar.Gedruckt mit Unterstützung des Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF).

Communicative grammar introduces functional criteria for distinguishing parts of speech. Similar criteria can be found in the nineteenth-century grammar of Antoni Krasnowolski. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate to what extent Krasnowolski's grammar was a new, coherent and, from a contemporary point of view, functional approach. I compare Krasnowolski’s perspective and the communicative approach of A. Awdiejew and G. Habrajska to selected issues, such as: predicates, metapredicates and predicatives, non-inflectional verbs, adjectives, case functions (on the example of the genitive), temporal updaters, interactive operators called by the author "formal adverbs". I also show how intuition allowed the author of Systematic Syntax to see the problem regarding the divergence of form and function, a phenomenon that is currently described as isomorphic and non-isomorphic forms.

This contribution looks at the training of primary school teachers in IT in the context of digital technologies for education. The aim is to understand how trainers for in-service primary school teachers see informatics in order to design their actions in support of academic policy on training and support for teachers in initial and in-service training. The research approach is qualitative and based on the thematic analysis of a questionnaire sent to trainers in the Nantes and Versailles academies in 2019-2020. Our results show in particular that, overall, the professional representations of informatics in schools by ERUNs (referent teachers for digital uses) and CPNs (district digital pedagogical advisors) overlap and interact mainly with institutional expectations and still not sufficiently with the way in which informatics didacticians defines informatics at school.

This Special Issue of the journal Foods is focused on “Storage and Shelf-Life Assessment of Food Products”. The assessment of food product storage and shelf life is a critical aspect of ensuring food safety, quality, and sustainability in the food industry. This entails a methodical assessment of numerous parameters that affect the food storage conditions and the time frame during which the desired characteristics of a food product can be preserved. In today's food industry, there is a growing emphasis on extending shelf life while minimizing the use of artificial additives and preservatives. Innovations in packaging technology, processing techniques, and natural preservatives have resulted from this focus.

Esta obra reúne resenhas críticas de moderadores do ABEC Meeting Live 2020, destacando discussões sobre a transição do presencial para o virtual na editoração científica, estratégias para atrair e reter revisores qualificados, o papel da ABEC Brasil na evolução do fator de impacto dos periódicos brasileiros na Web of Science, e a adaptação dos periódicos à Ciência Aberta. Além disso, aborda questões éticas como plágio, autoplágio e retratações, e discute alternativas financeiras e organizacionais para a sustentabilidade das revistas científicas. O livro também reflete sobre a importância da transparência e da integridade na publicação científica.

The book is intended to be a collection of contributions providing a bird’s eye view of some relevant multidisciplinary applications of data acquisition. While assuming that the reader is familiar with the basics of sampling theory and analog-to-digital conversion, the attention is focused on applied research and industrial applications of data acquisition. Even in the few cases when theoretical issues are investigated, the goal is making the theory comprehensible to a wide, application- oriented, audience.