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The Syntax of Dutch will be published in at least seven volumes in the period 2012-2016 and aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It is primarily concerned with language description and not with linguistic theory, and provides support to all researchers interested in matters relating to the syntax of Dutch, including advanced students of language and linguistics.,The two volumes Nouns and Noun Phrases discuss the internal make-up as well as the distribution of noun phrases. Topics that will be covered include: complementation and modification of noun phrases; properties of determiners (article, demonstratives), numeral and quantifiers; the use of noun phrases as arguments, predicates and adverbial modifiers.

Over the last two decades, the literature on political participation has flourished, reflecting the increasing use of diverse modes of citizen involvement. These include established modes of participation, such as voting, protests, mass demonstrations, and petition signing, but also newer modes specific to the online environment (ICT-related), participation in referendums, public consultations, or engagement in political deliberation. The importance and intensity of these modes is reflected both in the number of people getting involved and in the increasing number of policies that are subject to various modes of participation on a regular basis. There is extensive literature about how these modes of participation function, why people get involved, and the consequences of their participation. However, limited attention is paid to the relationship between political participation and the pursuit of sustainability at a local, regional, or central level. Existing studies indicate that citizen engagement can be a cost-effective method to characterize changes of local environments; however, not much is known beyond this process. This Special Issue aims to address this void in the literature and brings together contributions that analyze how participation can be associated with sustainability and local development in various settings. It explores the relationship between political participation and the management of their local environment. This Special Issue enhances the existing knowledge and understanding about how modes of participation can be reflected in stronger sustainability. The Special Issue provides the space for an academic debate that addresses issues such as climate change, resource allocation, or the pursuit of sustainability programs and policies. The contributions include a mix of single-case studies and comparative analyses across European countries.

Translating Early Modern Science explores the roles of translation and the practices of translators in early modern Europe. In a period when multiple European vernaculars challenged the hegemony long held by Latin as the language of learning, translation assumed a heightened significance. This volume illustrates how the act of translating texts and images was an essential component in the circulation and exchange of scientific knowledge. It also makes apparent that translation was hardly ever an end in itself; rather it was also a livelihood, a way of promoting the translator’s own ideas, and a means of establishing the connections that in turn constituted far-reaching scientific networks.

L’ouvrage, qui rassemble dix contributions, interroge, autour des notions d’hybridité et d’hybridation, l’évolution du théâtre contemporain pour la jeunesse en articulant cette réflexion aux questions que pose sa promotion dans les classes et son ouverture à un public plus large. En effet, si, depuis une dizaine d’années, de nombreux travaux mettent en évidence l’intérêt et les qualités de ce répertoire, et si des incitations institutionnelles, telles les listes de référence, ont relayé ces travaux, sa place dans l’institution scolaire reste encore très marginale, ce corpus restant méconnu. Aussi les contributions des chercheurs, croisant des approches littéraires, esthétiques, dramaturgiques, didactiques, sémiologiques et une ouverture historique apportent-elles différents éclairages à cette problématique, et montrent-elles, dans le mouvement même d’hybridation qui travaille ce corpus, des ressources permettant d’en faciliter l’accès.

Artists in Revolution offers fresh and provocative essays on the life and art of eight leading figures of the Russian avant-garde during Russia's revolutionary age. Each of the artists made highly innovative contributions to the development of Russian (and some, indeed, to world) cultureduring this period, and the book utilizes both the traditional approaches of intellectual history and biography and some statistical and psychohistorical characterizations of larger groups of artists.

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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.

In 1953 the American Psychiatric Association established an Architectural Study Project in collaboration with the American Institute of Architects. The project brought together a wide range of experts from psychiatry and the behavioural sciences and the planning and design professions to provide solutions to the ailing mental hospital system in North America. They began to focus attention on various aspects of the hospital environment, such as light, colour and the creation of spaces for privacy and social contact, in ways that would go on to influence theories, methods and designs far beyond the walls of the institution. This paper will explore the contribution of the mental hospital, as both laboratory and field site, to the development of the new field of environmental psychology which attended to the function and design of a range of city spaces to prevent mental illness and promote mental health in a period of urban crisis.

The volume brings together 18 articles published by the author between 1985 and 2017. These focus on the reforms to Finland’s Criminal Code, which were concluded in 2003 following a process lasting over 30 years. Further articles offer an insight into developments in criminal law in Scandinavia more broadly.

El conjunto de investigaciones filosóficas que componen este libro tiene como hilo conductor relativo, directa o indirectamente, la relación entre la fenomenología y el lenguaje. La fenomenología, corriente filosófica fundada por Edmund Husserl, describe el modo en que los sujetos conscientes experiencian la realidad en tanto dotada de sentido. Se dirige al campo de los fenómenos, a las realidades que aparecen ante la conciencia en su respectivo modo de aparecer. De ahí que, junto a la descripción de los actos de atención y percepción, y sus correspondientes correlatos intencionales, las diversas formas de representación simbólica, mediante las cuales la experiencia vivida se constituye como un conjunto de fenómenos dotados de significación, sean también objeto de descripción y análisis fenomenológico. Se asiste, pues, a una distinción fundamental en los correlatos de la conciencia: por un lado, esta se dirige hacia los fenómenos sentidos en su inmediatez y, por otro, hacia los fenómenos que son representados de forma simbólica.

The aim of the article is an analysis of parliamentary speeches, both the verbal and non-verbal terms of the occurrence of an ironic attitude among the leading political actors. Visual analysis was extremely helpful in order to investigate actions, interactions, interpretative and communication processes, drawing the benefits from the achievements of interpretative and interactionist sociology. Visual analysis was used to describe and interpret emotional reactions of the political scene’s leading figures due to the applied irony. For this purpose, the following roles played by politicians in the parliamentary hall were highlighted: ironists, victims of irony and irony observers.

Issu d’un programme de recherche franco-italien initié en 2008 sous l’égide de l’École française de Rome, de l’Università degli Studi di Parma et de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, ce volume explore un des paradoxes majeurs du catholicisme moderne : alors qu’il revendique une parfaite unité, argument de choix des controversistes contre le protestantisme, il est en réalité traversé par de profondes divergences doctrinales. Ces divergences ne concernent pas seulement des individus, mais aussi des institutions et des États. Le royaume de France continue ainsi de refuser obstinément la conception romaine du pouvoir pontifical, et avec elle la juridiction doctrinale qui en découle. La papauté de son côté condamne régulièrement les thèses gallicanes. Si les affrontements sont nombreux aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles, ils ne débouchent presque jamais sur une rupture complète entre Rome et l’Église gallicane. Les moyens de régulation, diplomatiques, mais aussi théologiques se révèlent donc efficaces pour maintenir dans l’unité des Églises qui s’accusent volontiers l’une l’autre d’errances doctrinales. Cette situation d’hétérodoxies croisées ouvre à quelques individus une espace de liberté, certes restreint et toujours menacé, mais qui contribue au pluralisme du catholicisme d’Ancien Régine.

This book comprehensively evaluates the role of the International Working Group on Women and Sport (IWG) – the world’s largest network dedicated to advancing gender equity and equality in sport, physical education, and physical activity – in influencing global and domestic policy and practice. The issues addressed by the IWG in its first three decades of activism reflect global socio-political progress, as well as emergent new problems, for women, sport, and human rights. The IWG’s commitment to collaboration with, among others, the International Olympic Committee and the United Nations has provided the foundations for globally accepted frameworks to address gender-based issues in and through sport. The advocacy work of the IWG is told via first-hand interviews with key personnel from each of the IWG Secretariats, from its establishment in 1994 to 2024, providing insight into the most significant issues, achievements, and outcomes for the international social movement for women and sport. The book is a useful resource for students in the sociology of sport, sport policy, leadership, management, coaching, and gender studies. It is also relevant to sport administrators, practitioners, policymakers, and those working in gender governance.

This study analyses legal barriers to data sharing in the context of the Open Research Data Pilot, which the European Commission is running within its research framework programme Horizon2020. In the first part of the study, data protection issues are analysed. The main focus is on the Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) and its implementation in selected EU Member States. Additionally, the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679/EU) and relevant changes are described. Special focus is placed on leading data protection principles. Next, the study describes the use of research data in the Open Research Data Pilot and how data protection principles influence such use. The experiences of the European Commission in running the Open Research Data Pilot so far, as well as basic examples of repository use forms, are considered. The second part of the study analyses the extent to which legislation on public sector information (PSI) influences access to and re-use of research data. The PSI Directive (2003/98/EC) and the impact of its revision in 2013 (2013/37/EU) are described. There is a special focus on the application of PSI legislation to public libraries, including university and research libraries, and its practical implications. In the final part of the study the results are critically evaluated and core recommendations are made to improve the legal situation in relation to research data.

Aribinda : petite région burkinabé, dans le sud du Sahel. Chaque année, tous les groupes sociaux accomplissent un important rituel avant les pluies. Les hifuba, spécialistes des sacrifices et de la magie, entament une procession autour des massifs qui encadrent le bourg d’Aribinda, coeur historique et politique de la région ; leur circuit est ponctué de plusieurs haltes en des lieux déterminés où sont accomplis les sacrifices requis en bétail ou en biens. Par ce périple, les hifuba engagent un combat contre les puissances néfastes qui cherchent à s’emparer de « l’ombre » du mil et à menacer les récoltes. Dans ce rituel, les pratiques magiques rendent compte de l’enjeu crucial que représente l’agriculture. Or, depuis plus de deux décennies, la région, comme le reste du Sahel, connaît des difficultés dues à l’altération climatique et à la pression accrue de l’homme sur son environnement. Les paysans s’adaptent tant bien que mal à ces changements en opérant de nouveaux choix techniques et en adoptant de nouvelles stratégies de production. L’ouvrage, qui présente les résultats d’une recherche conduite sur le terrain entre 1982 et 1984, reconstitue la mise en place et le fonctionnement d’un système de production sahélien. La lente prise de possession d’un espace par des groupes humains de diverses origines, les mutations techniques, agricoles et pastorales sont évoquées dans une démarche qui montre l’interdépendance des phénomènes. Ce cheminement dans l’histoire et les différents domaines de la production permet de rassembler les éléments d’un diagnostic nuancé: sur le devenir de la région.