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Resultado de extensa pesquisa que valoriza a historiografia da ciência no país, discute o papel das instituições que abrigaram práticas científicas desde o período colonial. Analisam-se, na obra, o percurso e a atuação de instituições como o Jardim Botânico, a Faculdade de Medicina e a Academia Brasileira de Ciências, no Rio de Janeiro, e os Institutos Butantan e Adolfo Lutz, em São Paulo. Este livro propõe novas questões, que partem de espaços institucionais fundadores de uma tradição científica para ampliar os estudos em história da ciência, constituindo importante fonte de pesquisa.

The Royal Mineralogical Museum of the University of Naples Federico II can be a MAB in essence, a place where archive, library and museum coexist; for decades it was led by an illustrious mineralogist, Professor Arcangelo Scacchi, geologist and volcanologist, who also assumed the position of Rector of the University for several terms.Through the documents drawn up by the director and the correspondence held with exponents of the academic and institutional world and carefully preserved, it is possible to reconstruct not only the more than two hundred year history of the museum, but also its rich bibliographic heritage. Above all, of this, of the interweaving of purchases of minerals and books, of the studies for conservation and the idea of​​forming a "specialized" library for the use of mineralogists and of the conspicuous documentation purchased by the mineralogist for the university library, the current University Library of Naples, deals with the sources used.The transcription of the unpublished archival documents preserved both in the archives of the Royal Mineralogical Museum of the University of Naples Federico II and in the State Archives of Naples constitutes the heart of the work; especially the numerous book catalogues can shed light on the relationships of the nineteenth-century academic world.Over the years, especially in recent decades, several studies have had the mineralogy museum as their object, but perhaps for the first time the emphasis is on the library.

Archivio E-Prints è l'archivio istituzionale dei documenti elettronici (e-prints) dell'Università di Firenze: una risorsa fondamentale per la comunicazione scientifica. Contiene documenti per la didattica e la ricerca prodotti da docenti e ricercatori dell'Ateneo (materiale didattico, rapporti tecnici, tesi, working papers, preprints, postprints). Il Convegno di cui il libro raccoglie gli Atti, ha presentato Archivio E-Prints, i suoi obiettivi, le sue potenzialità per l'aumento della visibilità dell'autore, della sua produzione scientifica e dell'istituzione cui appartiene, contestualizzandolo nelle prospettive italiane e internazionali degli Archivi aperti e della Biblioteca digitale.

This open-access volume is the first to explore systematically and comprehensively the concept and category of ‘horror’ in antiquity. The contributors retrieve the ancient grammar of horror by paying equal attention to its affective and cognitive dimensions, and by looking at it as an embodied, enactive and full-rounded existential experience. They explore how horrifying experiences in antiquity are construed as embodied events while being conceptually rooted in cultural frameworks. They also showcase the ways in which the body itself can turn into a source of deep horror, be it in literary or medical texts and traditions in the Greek and Roman world, from the classical period to late antiquity. While maintaining a firm awareness of the fact that ‘horror’, a largely post-Romantic concept, is not unproblematic when applied to Graeco-Roman antiquity, this collection of studies shows that our Graeco-Roman past can shed substantial light on the ways in which the horrific is understood today, as a category of art but also of life itself. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Exzellenzcluster ROOTS, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (Germany).

@ is For Activism examines the transformation of politics through digital media, including digital television, online social networking and mobile computing. Joss Hands maps out how political relationships have been reconfigured and new modes of cooperation, deliberation and representation have emerged. This analysis is applied to the organisation and practice of alternative politics, showing how they have developed and embraced the new political and technological environment. Hands offers a comprehensive critical survey of existing literature, as well as an original perspective on networks and political change. He includes many case studies including the anti-war and global justice movements, peer production, user created TV and 'Twitter' activism. @ is For Activism is essential for activists and students of politics and media.

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird ein internetbasiertes Fachinformationssystem zur Detektion krustaler Deformationen in den Ostkarpaten vorgestellt, welches im Rahmen des Sonderforschungsbereichs 461 Starkbeben: von wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen zu Ingenieurmaßnahmen entwickelt wurde.Im Vordergrund stehen die Konzeption und Implementierung eines Fachinformationssystems für regionale beziehungsweise globale GPS-Projekte, die zur Aufdeckung von Plattengrenzen und Analyse von Plattenbewegungen eingerichtet wird.

Aus dem Inhalt: Gudrun Goes, Vorwort; Christiane Schulz, "Ich habe Schiller auswendig gelernt". Das "geistige Ferment" Schiller im Erzählwerk Dostoevskijs; Hans Rothe, Ivan Karamazovs Gespräch mit dem Teufel (Buch IX cap. 9) in Zusammenhang mit Dostojevsijs Gesamtwerk; Dagmar Herrmann, Die neue europäische Ordnung - eine Vision Dostoevskijs; Andreas Guski, Die Konstruktion Westeuropas in Dostoevskijs "Winteraufzeichnungen über Sommereindrücke"; Karla Hielscher, Die "russische Idee" - made in Florenz. Dostojewskijs antiwestlich-russophile Ideologie in seinen Briefen aus Italien; Hans Günther, Der Kristallpalast der modernen Zivilisation - Utopiekritik nach Dostoevskij; Clemens Heithus, Deutsche Dostojewskij-Bibliographie 2009; Dirk Uffelmann, Rezensionen.

The concept of acoustic wave is a pervasive one, which emerges in any type of medium, from solids to plasmas, at length and time scales ranging from sub-micrometric layers in microdevices to seismic waves in the Sun's interior. This book presents several aspects of the active research ongoing in this field. Theoretical efforts are leading to a deeper understanding of phenomena, also in complicated environments like the solar surface boundary. Acoustic waves are a flexible probe to investigate the properties of very different systems, from thin inorganic layers to ripening cheese to biological systems. Acoustic waves are also a tool to manipulate matter, from the delicate evaporation of biomolecules to be analysed, to the phase transitions induced by intense shock waves. And a whole class of widespread microdevices, including filters and sensors, is based on the behaviour of acoustic waves propagating in thin layers. The search for better performances is driving to new materials for these devices, and to more refined tools for their analysis.

Thanks to the progress made in materials research and to the introduction of innovative manufacturing technologies, a wide range of sound-absorbing elements are currently available to adjust the acoustic features of an environment. Nowadays, performance is only one of the required specifications, together with environmental compatibility, longevity, and affordable cost. This book collects the most recent advances in the broad-spectrum characterization of sound-absorbing materials used in civil, industrial, and tertiary applications, by means of experimental, numerical, or theoretical studies.

Jugendliche mit besonderem Förderbedarf beim Übergang von der Schule in die Berufs- und Arbeitswelt gibt es seit vielen Jahren. In Deutschland sind inzwischen 15-20% eines Altersjahrgangs durch Ausgrenzung bedroht. Empirische Untersuchungen können vielfach zeigen, dass die Übergänge dieser Heranwachsenden in die berufsbildende Schule, in die Berufsausbildung oder gar in Erwerbsarbeit extrem prekär verlaufen. Welche Möglichkeiten einer beruflichen Förderung haben solche Jugendlichen? Das Buch zur beruflichen Benachteiligtenförderung beantwortet diese Frage und wendet sich an die Fachöffentlichkeit, an Studierende und an Lehrende in diesem Feld.

COVID wrought havoc on the world’s economic systems. Higher education did not escape the ravages brought on by the pandemic as institutions of higher education around the world faced major upheavals in their educational delivery systems. Some institutions were prepared for the required transition to online learning. Most were not. Whether prepared or not, educators rose to the challenge. The innovativeness of educators met the challenges as digital learning replaced the face-to-face environment. In fact, some of the distance models proved so engaging that many students no longer desire a return to the face-to-face model. As with all transitions, some things were lost while others were gained. This book examines practice in the field as institutions struggled to face the worst global pandemic in the last century. The book is organized into four sections on “Perils and Promises”, “The State of Online Education”, “Goals and Challenges of Online Learning” and “Innovations in the Age of COVID”. It presents various perspectives from educators around the world to illustrate the struggles and triumphs of those facing new challenges and implementing new ideas to empower the educational process. These discussions shed light on the impact of the pandemic and the future of higher education post-COVID. Higher education has been forever changed, and higher education as it once was may never return. While many questions arise, the achievements in meeting and overcoming the pandemic illustrate the creativity and innovativeness of educators around the world who inspired future generations of learners to reach new heights of accomplishment even in the face of the pandemic.

Dialects, constituting one of the most representative varieties of spoken Polish language, result to be an especially fruitful area for the research in expressive vocabulary. This is because, on one hand, they contain a higher diversity of linguistic means used in creation of expressive names than literary language, and, on the other hand, they have an advantage over general Polish with respect to expressive formations. Names referring to humans provide an exceptionally rich material as they are emotionally charged, negatively in the majority of cases. This is due to the fact that expression of feelings and judgments belongs to the area of language behaviors that can be observed in spontaneous direct human contact. Human behavior is subject to a determined set of values developed in a specific environment, and in the countryside, where everyone knows each other, this value assessment is more apparent. This article shall present the richness of the names referring to a person who constantly lies. Derivatives written down during the field exploration of the Lesser Poland and Mazovia border area display a diversification both lexical (e.g. brechacz, chełchun, cmanik, łgacz, kłamiec, picant, wywijas, zbereśnik) and derivational (e.g. kłamca, kłamiec, kłamacz, kłamuśnik, kłamczuk, kłamus; łgun, łgarz, łgus). The purpose of this article is to show the formal exponential values behind the pejorative expressions and semantic elements forming their expressive (pejorative) value found in their formative bases.

Born into a prominent German Jewish banking family, Baron Max von Oppenheim (1860-1946) was a keen amateur archaeologist and ethnologist. His discovery and excavation of Tell Halaf in Syria marked an important contribution to knowledge of the ancient Middle East, while his massive study of the Bedouins is still consulted by scholars today. He was also an ardent German patriot, eager to support his country's pursuit of its "place in the sun". Excluded by his part-Jewish ancestry from the regular diplomatic service, Oppenheim earned a reputation as "the Kaiser's spy" because of his intriguing against the British in Cairo, as well as his plan, at the start of the First World War, to incite Muslims under British, French and Russian rule to a jihad against the colonial powers. After 1933, despite being half-Jewish according to the Nuremberg Laws, Oppenheim was not persecuted by the Nazis. In fact, he placed his knowledge of the Middle East and his connections with Muslim leaders at the service of the regime. Ranging widely over many fields - from war studies to archaeology and banking history - The Passion of Max von Oppenheim tells the gripping and at times unsettling story of one part-Jewish man's passion for his country in the face of persistent and, in his later years, genocidal anti-Semitism.

In this Special Issue, authors from nine countries on five continents provide overviews on and insights into current research topics related to the ‘Genetic Complexity of Hormone-Sensitive Cancers’. The chapters cover topics on completely novel technologies and instruments revolutionizing our view of biological entities, and also, novel extensions and revisions of existing and well-established technologies such as genetic probes and bar-coding techniques, which add a new dimension to microscopy, as they allow us to visualize DNA sequences and mRNA in situ. With this Special Issue, the editors wanted to create a forum for the international biomedical research community to compile their data on the genetic complexity of cancer in a unique resource. While this collection of articles cannot certainly claim completeness in any way, it represents an attractive collection of the different aspects of hormone-dependent cancers and will hopefully encourage further targeted research.