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The article has been conceived as an attempt to characterize a particular press publication in the shape of a genre collection. It is an extra to „Tygodnik Powszechny” (No. 29, 2018) under the title “Festiwal Stolica Języka Polskiego” (“Festival the Capital of the Polish Language)”. The publication reproduces a form of press magazine, since apart from the festival program, it includes: an editorial, interviews, reviews, commentaries and silhouettes of selected participants of the festival. Therefore, we deal with a co-occurrence of particular utterances at a specific place and time, typical for a collection. The function of notification about a cultural event (the festival) and the function of promoting the event can be ascribed to the whole issue. The author analyzes the abovementioned publication in the discursive perspective, and so she draws attention to specified communication practices, typical of contemporary press that create a complicated network of strategies, goals and forms of communication, contributing to the shape of contemporary journalism. The analytic purpose of the article is to present a communication polymorphism of a particular set of press utterances that interpret a specified reality and aim at convincing the readers to this interpretation. Particular utterances are treated as voices, i.e. communicatively (pragmatically) and formally shaped types of language activities.

Um das Potential von P2P-Netzen und -Systemen für die Entwicklung und den Betrieb zukünftiger verteilter Systeme zu analysieren, erfolgt in der Arbeit zunächst eine umfassende Darlegung des aktuellen Entwicklungsstandes. Daraus leiten sich wesentliche Fragestellungen hinsichtlich Architektur, Robustheit und Telekommunikationsrecht ab. In der Folge werden diese untersucht, indem vorhandene Mechanismen bewertet sowie durch neuartige Verfahren ergänzt werden, um bestehende Defizite auszugleichen.

The volume collects the contributions presented during the conference The Jesuits between suppression and restoration: education, religion and society between the old and the new Society of Jesus (1773-1832), held at the Department of Education and Human Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, between 20 and 21 December 2023. Since the order of St. Ignatius, from its origins, has been a privileged observatory for investigating more general dynamics, the essays analyse the multiple cultural, educational, political and religious strategies adopted by the Jesuits following the canonical suppression of 1773 and, subsequently, the rebirth of the Society in 1814. Although a deep-rooted historiographical vulgata has maintained that the order resurrected thanks to Pius VII was the same order abolished by Clement XIV, the survival first and then the recomposition of the Jesuit identity were complex processes in which continuities alternated with evident novelties. The volume therefore offers a series of surveys on various groups belonging to the old and the new Society of Jesus with the aim of contributing to the international historiographical debate on this fascinating phase of its history.

This is a small book containing various aspects of thyroid gland disorders. Congenital hypothyroidism chapter emphasizes early diagnosis in prevention of irreparable damage to growth and brain of infants. Role of nuclear medicine in diagnosis and treatment is outlined. Last few chapters deal with congenital hypothyroidism, thyroid carcinoma, its diagnosis, treatment and preservation of posterior parathyroid gland during thyroid surgery. The purpose of the book is to disseminate knowledge on thyroid diseases. It will be a good reference book both for students of medicine and general practitioners.

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Gebete und Andachtsübungen zählen zu den am zahlreichsten überlieferten Texten des Spätmittelalters, wobei große Teile dieses vielfältigen Korpus bislang weitgehend unerforscht bleiben. Björn Buschbeck versucht, hier eine Lücke zu schließen, indem er schlaglichtartig drei Untergattungen aus diesem Feld in den Fokus rückt: Nacheinander werden mittelalterliche Rosenkranztexte, Gebetskleider für Maria und frömmigkeitspraktisch herzustellende innere Häuser sowohl literaturhistorisch als auch in Bezug auf ihre Rezeptionsangebote für ein zeitgenössisches Publikum untersucht. Dabei arbeitet der Autor hervor, wie diese Texte ein Programm sprachlicher Heilsvermittlung entfalten, das Strategien der Bildrede, immersive Wirkungsästhetiken sowie vom Text angeleitete Dynamiken der Figuration kombiniert. Ersteditionen einer Auswahl zentraler Primärtexte sind der Studie als Anhang beigegeben.

This book seeks to illuminate the minor conjugations of social and labor relations in order to understand the plots of the repressive within the illegal and clandestine detention structure of the Argentine Navy in the period 1976-1983, based on the study of the Fuerza de Tareas 5 based in the Santiago River region, Buenos Aires.

The megachurch is an exceptional recent religious trend, certainly within Christian spheres. Spreading from the USA, megachurches now reached reach different global contexts. The edited volume Handbook of Megachurches offers a comprehensive account of the subject from various academic perspectives. Readership: All interested in Christianity and contemporary religion, religious organisations, revivalism, and religion and popular culture.

Questionner l’égalité entre les femmes et les hommes, c’est également s’interroger sur les rapports entre les sexes ainsi que sur la place des femmes dans la société, plus particulièrement du point de vue des réformes adoptées et des plans gouvernementaux. Le présent ouvrage réunit des contributions scientifiques relevant de différentes disciplines : sciences sociales, droit, science politique, sociologie et histoire. Cette diversité d’approches permet de multiplier et de croiser les regards sur les relations femme/homme aujourd’hui, à travers leur définition juridique et l’étude de leurs fondements (en droit public et en droit privé). L’exploration des champs d’étude et des termes a révélé une pluralité de notions et de situations : égalité de traitement, parité, mixité et non-mixité, discrimination (injustifiée ou positive), stéréotypes, préjugés et genre, dans le domaine professionnel, dans le couple, dans le monde politique ou encore dans la vie quotidienne. C’est le principe d’égalité des sexes dans toutes ses dimensions et déclinaisons qui est ici questionné, avec la volonté de vérifier – ou au contraire de nier – les écarts entre égalité formelle et égalité réelle. Il s’agit donc d’identifier les déséquilibres persistants et les nouvelles fractures, de décrire et d’analyser les politiques publiques mises en place et d’en évaluer les résultats – l’égalité entre les femmes et les hommes ne se concevant en effet qu’une fois effective, in situ.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Mapping a wide range of civil society research perspectives, this pioneering Research Agenda offers a rich and clear insight for academics and practitioners hoping to embark on future civil society research. Kees Biekart and Alan Fowler bring together over 20 expert contributions from researchers across the globe who are actively engaged in testing the old and generating new knowledge about civil society.

The introduction aims at underlining how the Resistance movement has been dealt throughout the political debate hold in republican Italy, summing up how scholastic law deals with the topic. Eventually, it sums up the following parts of the volume.

Over the past decade it has been increasingly recognized that medical errors constitute an important determinant of patient safety, quality of care, and clinical outcomes. Such errors are both directly and indirectly responsible for unnecessary and potentially preventable morbidity and/or mortality across our healthcare institutions. The spectrum of contributing variables or "root causes" - ranging from minor errors that escalate, poor teamwork and/or communication, and lapses in appropriate protocols and processes (just to name a few) - is both extensive and heterogeneous. Moreover, effective solutions are few, and many have only recently been described. As our healthcare systems mature and their focus on patient safety solidifies, a growing body of research and experiences emerges to help provide an organized framework for continuous process improvement. Such a paradigm - based on best practices and evidence-based medical principles- sets the stage for hardwiring "the right things to do" into our institutional patient care matrix. Based on the tremendous interest in the first two volumes of The Vignettes in Patient Safety series, this third volume follows a similar model of case-based learning. Our goal is to share clinically relevant, practical knowledge that approximates experiences that busy practicing clinicians can relate to. Then, by using evidence-based approaches to present contemporary literature and potential contributing factors and solutions to various commonly encountered clinical patient safety scenarios, we hope to give our readers the tools to help prevent similar occurrences in the future. In outlining some of the best practices and structured experiences, and highlighting the scope of the problem, the authors and editors can hopefully lend some insights into how we can make healthcare experiences for our patients safer.

La compréhension de l’épidémiologie d’une maladie infectieuse ou parasitaire passe par la connaissance du fonctionnement des populations vivantes concernées. L’utilisation de marqueurs génétiques et des outils de la génétique des populations permet d’avoir accès, à travers des méthodes indirectes, à des informations clés sur les agents pathogènes et leurs vecteurs : biologie, mode de reproduction, écologie, déplacements, taille des populations… De telles informations peuvent permettre d’évaluer les risques d’invasions ou d’épidémies, de préciser le potentiel de diffusion de gènes de résistance et d’anticiper les stratégies de lutte. Ce manuel didactique présente les principales méthodes de la génétique empirique des populations et les modèles de base utilisés, avec l’application à des cas concrets analysés pas à pas. Pour cette 2e édition, revue et augmentée, certaines approches ont été améliorées et un « guide de survie » a été ajouté en fin de volume. Ce manuel sera un auxiliaire précieux pour les étudiants, enseignants-chercheurs et personnels de santé qui souhaitent maîtriser les bases de la génétique des populations et l’utiliser comme outil d’analyse.

The main subject of the paper is the body of St. Act observed from different points of view that, despite their differences and specificities, interpenetrate and complement each other: the burial methods related to the various funeral monuments, the body over the centuries in the eyes of the observers, its various translations with the relative manipulations and canonical reconnaissance, the Saint’s body as a relic after the canonization of 1605, and the sacredness of everything that has come into contact with the bishop’s remains over time.

The tension between the Ndebele and Shona people dates back to the pre-colonial era and this has been one of the major threats to Zimbabwe’s peace. Ethnic tensions have resulted in the loss of thousands of lives since the country’s independence in 1980, especially during the Entumbane clashes and Gukurahundi massacres. The government has in several ways tried to bring social cohesion between the two ethnic groups but with limited success. Four examples are: the initiatives done through the 1980 reconciliation pronouncement by Prime Minster Robert Mugabe, 1987 Unity Accord between PF ZAPU and ZANU PF, the Government of National Unity, and the Commission on National Healing and Reconciliation of 2008. The failures are mainly attributed to amnesia and the unwillingness to repent from past evils by the perpetrators. Seemingly, the major problem may be attributed to the fact that interested parties often played the mediatory role; and one cannot objectively be both player and referee. In addition, over the years, the church through her ecumenical bodies has tried to build bridges between the two ethnic groups but all the efforts were also fruitless due to the unwillingness by the government to take recommendations from the church and civic organisations. The thesis proposes Pauline ethics regarding reconciliation in the Corinthian correspondence as inspiration for social cohesion between the Ndebele and Shona tribes. As hermeneutical tools, Paul’s key symbols such as Christ, the Cross of Christ, Ambassador, New Creation, and Baptism shall be deployed as epistemological lenses in promoting identity tags that go beyond ethnicity. I propose that, for these symbols to be effective, the following recommendations should be taken seriously; setting up of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), refraining from using ethnic offensive language, introduction of Ndebele and Shona languages in primary and secondary schools in the provinces dominated by these two ethnic groups, substituting ethnic provincial names with neutral ones, substituting ethnic registration system of people with a neutral one, and the devolution of power.