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The 2020 pandemic and likely even more the renewed East-West clash epitomized by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the West’s reaction to it. The handbook is divided into five parts. Each part deals with an issue of relevance for the discipline. The first and second parts look at the subject, content and approach of the discipline and its comparative method. The third part looks at the idiosyncratic nature of different economic systems and their constituent elements. The fourth part considers the outcomes that different economic systems generate and how these outcomes change following the evolution and transformation of economic systems. The last part takes stock and looks ahead at the challenges, from a theoretical and applied perspective, and the exogenous and endogenous factors promoting the advancement of the discipline, including the interaction between and competition among varied approaches and opposing paradigms.

Cereals are an important source of energy and compounds with nutritional and healthy properties. To develop superior, nutrient-rich, and healthy cereal-based foods, it is essential to select appropriate genetic materials with good nutritional profiles, optimize milling processes to retain beneficial compounds, and refine secondary processing techniques. Combining these efforts with good sensory properties is crucial for creating appealing and healthy final products that are rich in energy, fiber, vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals.

Die Handelsschiedsgerichtsbarkeit ist im internationalen Wirtschaftsverkehr - insbesondere bei der Beteiligung von größeren Unternehmen - das primäre Instrument zur Schlichtung von Rechtsstreitigkeiten. Im Kern beruht die Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit auf der Freiwilligkeit aller Parteien. Dieser Grundsatz steht im Konflikt mit der Frage nach der Bindung von Unternehmen, die selbst keine Schiedsvereinbarung abgeschlossen haben, aber mit den schiedsrechtlich zu lösenden Streitfällen verbunden sind. Kilian Sendlmeier unterteilt schiedsrechtliche Bindungsansätze nach deutschem Recht systematisch in solche, die nach einem Schiedswillen fragen, und solche, die bereits von ihrem dogmatischen Ansatz auf einen Schiedswillen verzichten. Für Letztere werden erstmals einheitliche Voraussetzungen formuliert. Vor dem Hintergrund des Freiwilligkeitsgrundsatzes und der staatlichen Justizgewähr ist Schiedsbindung stets verfassungsrechtlich zu rechtfertigen. Daher erfolgt auch eine detaillierte verfassungsrechtliche Überprüfung unfreiwilliger Schiedsbindung.

This open access book presents an integrative vision to achieve better brain health. Across the globe is a growing awareness of the impact of neurological conditions and mental health on wellbeing. Also as populations age, the number of people impacted by brain health conditions also grows, shining a light on the need for brain health “solutions” that are sustainable. Although the knowledge of what is working for a variety of brain health conditions continues to expand, we need to realize that not all solutions will come from medical research. What is needed to address brain health in a more sustainable way is a better understanding of the care that community provides and how a vision of better brain health will be found by deepening our understanding of the role of community and elevating the value of their contributions. Community organizations provide frontline care and have a tangible understanding of the needs that accompany the populations above. This means they are well equipped to provide local and accessible care. Community is a place in which brain health solutions can be delivered in a sustainable, effective, efficient, equitable and person-centered way. As such, the knowledge community organizations can contribute to the bigger picture of health care is important. This project responds to the need to better understand community care by highlighting how the role of evaluative thinking in the community sector can help us generate evidence to navigate towards better brain health futures. By first recognizing and then supporting community-led care, we can expand how we view and receive care. Along these lines, the book moves from a view of healthcare as being only delivered in hospitals and clinics to recognizing the continuum of care and integration of healthcare options. It provides a space for stories of health care solutions that indeed have connected health to the social and the community sectors. By exploring community interventions that have been integrated with biomedical/neuroscientific solutions, we will learn how integrated sustainable solutions can be created. The role of evaluation in helping facilitate the creation of such solutions also will be explored. This project is a partnership between the Ontario Brain Institute and the Evaluation Centre for Complex Health Interventions and reflects our collective learnings from our work in developmental evaluation and brain health.

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Changes in technology and adversary behavior will invariably produce new threats that must be assessed by defense and homeland security planners. An example of such a novel threat is the use of cruise missiles or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by terrorist groups. Individual threats cannot be assessed in isolation, however, since adversaries always have many options for staging attacks. To examine this threat, RAND utilized a ?red analysis of alternatives? approach, wherein the benefits, costs, and risks of different options are considered from the point of view of a potential adversary. For several types of attacks, the suitability of these systems was compared against other options. This approach can help defense planners understand how the capabilities that different attack modes provide address key adversary operational problems. Given the insights this analysis produced about when these systems would likely be preferred by an attacker, RAND explored defensive options to address the threat. UAVs and cruise missiles represent a ?niche threat? within a larger threat context; therefore, defenses were sought that provide common protection against both this and other asymmetric threats. The monograph concludes with a discussion of cross-cutting lessons about this threat and the assessment of novel threats in general.

Extended Mobility for the City as a Common offers a novel framework for understanding how urban inhabitants access and experience cities. It invites readers to critically examine the ways in which stigmatization and socioeconomic barriers combine to restrict access to urban opportunities for marginalized communities. Arguing that the right to the city is inseparable from the right to mobility, this book calls for a radical shift toward a welcoming and solidary city, both in transportation systems and in the inhabitants’ destinations. This book is structured into three parts. Part I introduces the concept of “Extended Mobility,” a multidimensional framework encompassing motility, accessibility, and porosity that provides a new lens to interrogate the multifaceted nature of mobility as a social phenomenon. Part II applies this framework through a grounded ethnographic comparison of Favela da Maré in Rio de Janeiro and the San Siro housing project in Milan. These rich and detailed studies develop robust methodological tools and theoretical insights that uncover the complex mobility experiences of peripheral urban inhabitants. In the final section, leading experts in transportation and urban planning engage Extended Mobility across different global settings to critique existing policies and explore pathways toward mobility justice and a city of rights for all. By integrating structural and experiential perspectives on urban mobility, this book is an essential resource for social science researchers and urban and transportation planning scholars as well as policymakers, practitioners, and activists seeking to foster more inclusive cities and empower communities to access the full possibilities of a common urban life. Chapters 1, 4, 7, and the Introduction of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 International license.

A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period in the formation of modern sexual values. Comparing Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic representations of love and sexuality with those in contemporary moral tracts and religious writings on women, love, and marriage, Mary Beth Rose argues that such literature not only interpreted sexual sensibilities but also contributed to creating and transforming them.A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period in the formation of modern sexual values. Comparing Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic representations of love and sexuality with those in contemporary moral tracts and religious writings on women, love, and marriage, Mary Beth Rose argues that such literature not only interpreted sexual sensibilities but also contributed to creating and transforming them.

There is a growing recognition that rapid action in response to climate change is urgently necessary, and that many of the responsibilities for this action (e.g., relating to transport, land-use planning and economic development) rest at the local level. This is attested to by the growing number of local authorities that have declared climate emergencies across the globe. Responding to this emergency will require significant changes in the assumptions, expectations, priorities and procedures of locally elected representatives and government officials. This Special Issue will explore the responses of local government, as a key locus of sustainability governance, to the need for rapid climate action, drawing on examples from diverse locations (UK, western Europe, Chile and South Africa) and at various scales (from the smallest local areas, to city regions, counties and provinces).

How can labor market policy best help young people enter the workforce? This in-depth analysis of employment support for disadvantaged youth in Austria discusses the introduction of measures such as the supra-company apprenticeship, the training guarantee and compulsory training against the background of their political discussion and their socio-political implementation. The research findings obtained are not only relevant for Austria, but also offer valuable insights for training systems worldwide.

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From the eighteenth-century abolitionist motto Am I Not a Man and a Brother? to the Civil Rights-era declaration I AM a Man, antiracism has engaged in a struggle for the recognition of the humanness of black humanity. It has done so, however, during an era in which the very definition of the human has been called into question by the rising prestige of the biological sciences whose materialist account of human being erodes the grounds of human exceptionalism...Antislavery materialism allowed these authors to respond to scientific racism in its own empirical terms. At the same time, however, it also attenuated their faith in the liberal humanist principles that they champion elsewhere in their work. This antebellum conflict between the liberal ideals of freedom and a materialist ontology of contingency not only presages current critical debates between new materialist and social justice theorists, but reveals an intrinsic tension between posthumanism’s embodied ontology and the...

In diesem Open Access-Buch untersucht Dr. Fabio-Yannick Laschet unter Berücksichtigung der konstitutiven Besonderheiten des Business-to-Business-Marketings spezifische Determinanten des Noncomplainer-Verhaltens sowie ausgewählte Ansatzpunkte zur Bindung von Noncomplainern. Der Wandel, in dem sich aktuell Business-to-Business-Märkte befinden, stellt Anbieter angesichts sich verändernder Kundenerwartungen, aber auch gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungen, vor neue Herausforderungen. Eine Möglichkeit, um diesen entgegnen zu können, stellt ein ausgeprägtes Wissen über aktuelle und potenzielle Kunden dar - und damit auch Kundeninformationen. Vor diesem Hintergrund können Noncomplainer, die ihre Unzufriedenheit nicht unmittelbar an den Anbieter artikulieren, als eine wertvolle Informationsquelle für notwendige Innovations- und Verbesserungspotenziale des Leistungsportfolios gesehen werden. Anhand der in dieser Arbeit entwickelten Neuausrichtung des Business-to-Business-Beschwerdemanagements - dem sogenannten "Ambidexterity-Complaint-Management" - zeigt Dr. Fabio-Yannick Laschet, wie die Erreichung psychografischer und ökonomischer Marketingzielgrößen in der betrieblichen Praxis obgleich der Noncomplainer-Herausforderung gesichert werden kann.

Mêlant fiction littéraire et réalité historique du xve siècle, Messire Gilles de Chin, considéré comme le premier roman historico-biographique, est édité pour la première fois d’après le manuscrit Godefroy 50 de la Bibliothèque municipale de Lille. Ce manucrit sur papier est aux armes du bibliophile Jean de Wavrin et illustré par un miniaturiste de grand talent, le « maître de Wavrin ». Sa présence dans ’inventaire de la Librairie de Bourgogne (1467) atteste de ’intérêt de Philippe le Bon et de son entourage pour les valeurs chevaleresques d’un Moyen Age finissant. L’étude qui accompagne l’édition met en relief le travail de réécriture en prose à partir du poème de Gautier de Tournai (manucrit Arsenal n° 3140) et montre l’évolution du goût littéraire au xve siècle. La comparaison avec le manucrit le Bruxelles, (bibliothèque royale Albert 1er, BR n° 10237), minute du Godefroy 50, qui constitue une étape vers le texte définitif, rend visible la postériorité de l’installation des rubriques et le choix du nom des protagonistes. Elle soulève ’intéressante question du destinataire et met en valeur la personnalité d’un copiste qui se rebelle face à son modèle, supprimant ou conservant à sa guise les phénomènes linguistiques régionaux. L’examen de l’hypotexte révèle aussi que la mise en prose, plus qu’une simple modernisation du an gage est au service d’une visée politique. Un glossaire facilite la compréhension et un index des noms propres permet de cerner les rapports du texte avec la géographie et l’histoire locales. Enfin, le CD-ROM qui contient le manucrit Godefroy 50 est particulièrement précieux au point de vue paléographique et iconographique pour les lecteurs, lettrés, étudiants ou chercheurs.