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It truly would be a mistake to associate Domenico Rea with the critical cliché of the "rediscovered writer." Important bibliographic "clues" (works by and about Rea, have been consistently published in recent decades), which would inevitably direct us towards the mammoth 'proof' of the Meridiano, edited by the late Francesco Durante in 2005. Specific names need not be mentioned here, as they are mostly indicated and discussed in the essays in this volume. Instead, it is important to highlight the corollary derived from this preliminary evidence. If this is the case, if Rea's writing has continued to be read and discussed in different forms and ways over the years, then the question is not so much one of, so as to say - give Rea what is Rea's. Rather, the problem becomes one of verifying the methods, timing, and critical formulas of this continuity. In other words, a reflection on the production of the Neapolitan writer - and setting the ambitious goal of being 'wide-ranging' - must bring to light unfounded spaces, unpublished and rare materials so as to reconstruct friendships and intellectual relationships, to reason as to the longevity of his work and its internal relationships. In recent years, the activities of the 'National Committee for the celebrations of the centenary of his birth', established by Ministerial Decree 220, 17 June 2021, and chaired by Pasquale Sabbatino, have focused on these objectives. Starting from the opening conference "Domenico Rea and Italian Twentieth Century" (Naples, November 9-11, 2021), the proceedings of which are published here, an attempt has been made to transform this centenary into a broader "critical occasion".

Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors - New Insights and Recent Progress explores a vast array of subjects related to immune checkpoint inhibitors and presents novel insights in this emerging field. Chapters address such topics as mechanistic approaches of emerging immune checkpoint inhibitors, their role in clinical and pre-clinical trials, the manipulation of the system by immune-related adverse events that hinder the utility of these immune molecules, and the predictive and prognostic aspects of these molecules as biomarkers of response in immunotherapy. The book is useful for students, clinicians, and scientists to gain updated information on managing patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors.

Die staatlichen Aktivitäten haben vielfältige Konsequenzen auf die privaten Haushalte. Häufig bleiben die finanziellen Effekte staatlichen Handelns jedoch im Dunkeln. Für den Gebietsstand der Bundesrepublik Deutschland nach 1990 existiert kein empirisches Mikrosimulationsmodell, das die finanziellen Beziehungen zwischen Staat und privaten Haushalten mit einem hohen Detaillierungsgrad berücksichtigt. Die Arbeit konzentriert sich auf die Entwicklung eines Modells, das das gesamte Steuer- und Transfersystem im Hinblick auf seine Aufkommens- und Verteilungswirkungen erfassen kann. Es werden alle direkten und indirekten Steuern und Transfers so exakt und detailliert wie möglich abgebildet. Den Schwerpunkt der Arbeit bildet dabei die empirische Betrachtungsweise.

This edited volume reveals how the journey of transformation at the University of the Free State (UFS) became interwoven with student leadership development and global learning. The UFS initiated two intersecting co-curricular programmes, namely, the First-Year Leadership for Change (F1L4C) programme in 2010; and the triennial Global Leadership Summit (GLS) in 2012. Although these programmes changed over time, their core focus remained to be the development of transformational student leaders through the creation of global learning spaces. From its inception in 2010 to the last GLS in 2018, the UFS global learning project involved 780 students and 259 staff members from 109 institutions, across four continents. The goal of this edited volume is to create a deeper understanding of how the UFS F1L4C and GLS programmes enhanced student leadership development through global learning, especially in the context of higher education transformation.

This collective work is a tribute to Franck Neveu, a leading expert and professor of language sciences, whose original thinking and extensive academic contribution will have a lasting impact on research in linguistics. In linguistics and/or in language sciences, because this is an old and constantly recurring debate. Franck Neveu resolutely pronounced himself in favour of the latter, although he positioned himself, equally resolutely, as a linguist. This collective volume pays tribute to this open-mindedness by bringing together contributions from renowned authors close to the dedicatee, who explore not only his areas of specialisation such as syntax, semantics and the epistemology of language sciences, but also neighbouring disciplines such as dialectology or text genetics. It has the work of Franck Neveu as its unifying theme and is intended to promote French linguistics, which he champions and illustrates. Thanks to its contributions which represent current research, this book will be of interest to both a specialist audience and one that is keen to learn about language sciences.

The European Convention on Human Rights is now crucial to decisions to be taken by the military and their political leaders in ‘hard power’ situations – that is, classical international and non-international armed conflict, belligerent occupation, peacekeeping and peace-enforcing and anti-terrorism and anti-piracy operations, but also hybrid warfare, cyber-attack and targeted assassination. Guidance is needed, therefore, on how Convention law relates to these decisions. That guidance is precisely what this book aims to offer. It focuses primarily on States’ accountability under the Convention, but also shows that human rights law, used creatively, can actually help States achieve their objectives.

Quelles sont les possibilités offertes par la justice criminelle aux femmes à Marseille dans la seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle ? Quel est le discours de la justice face aux actes violents commis (ou subis) par les femmes ? Quel est le discours des plaignant(e)s, des accusé(e)s, des témoins et des voisin(e)s, une fois appelés à s’exprimer devant les autorités judiciaires ? Telles sont, entre autres, les questions traitées par l’auteur dans cette étude originale fondée sur le tribunal de la sénéchaussée, espace privilégié de la parole - censée être libre de toute contrainte -, dans lequel les justiciables parviennent à se mettre en scène, à jouer sur les émotions, à "dire" le récit de leur vie, ainsi que de leurs difficultés, réelles ou simulées ; à raconter celui de leurs adversaires et à les attaquer, grâce à l’instrument judiciaire que tous et toutes savent utiliser au nom de la réparation de l’honneur. Cette immersion dans l’ordinaire des mœurs marseillaises permet à l’auteur de combler une lacune historiographique, ainsi que de restituer au lecteur une vision et une version de ce que pouvait être une société urbaine sous l’Ancien Régime, société considérée par le biais du prisme de la violence et du genre.

Qu’elle soit verbale. gestuelle ou intellectuelle, la violence interpelle. Hier comme aujourd'hui, elle reste un enjeu majeur et une préoccupation quotidienne de l'ensemble des acteurs sociaux et politiques tout comme des professionnels du droit. Pourtant, ce paradigme de violence, polysémique. d'une définition souvent floue, s'avère d'une analyse difficile et nécessite une approche plurielle, capable d'interroger à la fois la société, la religion, le droit et la politique, en Europe et dans le reste du monde, du Moyen Âge au xxe siècle. En adoptant cette méthode, qui autorise une lecture à variable multiple des formes de la violence, les vingt-neuf chercheurs ici réunis proposent des interprétations, des hypothèses et des résultats stimulants et fructueux, dans des champs aussi divers que ceux de l'histoire, de l'histoire de l'art, de la gender history, de la littérature, de l'histoire des idées et de l'anthropologie. Les études rassemblées dans ce volume prêtent une attention toute particulière aux cas singuliers et collectifs, ainsi qu'à l'acteur face au « système » existant (social, politique, religieux, économique), en mesure de saisir réellement ce phénomène pluriel sur un plan à la fois diachronique et synchronique. Aussi la violence, dans ses configurations multiples, dévoile-t-elle les réponses données par les autorités - religieuses et laïques -. la famille, la parenté, le voisinage, la communauté, les intellectuels, les artistes, les compositeurs entre le Moyen Age et l’époque contemporaine.

In 1587, Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak – a favourite at the Mughal court and author of the Akbarnāmah – completed his Preface to the Persian translation of the Mahābhārata. This book is the first detailed study of Abū al-Faz̤l's Preface. It offers insights into manuscript practices at the Mughal court, the role a Persian version of the Mahābhārata was meant to play, and the religious interactions that characterised 16th-century India.

Drought and climate change have decreased water availability for agriculture in arid and semiarid regions, and therefore efficiency enhancements in irrigation water management aimed at conserving water are key to adjust to limits in water supply, as well as improve the profitability and sustainability of agricultural production. Agricultural water management tools and practices that reduce water uses with acceptable impacts on crop production are viable strategies required to cope with diminished water supplies and generate new sources of irrigation water. This Special Issue focuses on “Agricultural Water Conservation: Tools, Strategies, and Practices”, which aims to bring together a collection of recent cutting-edge research and advancements in applied agricultural water conservation. It provides a broad overview focusing on irrigation decision support systems, drought management plans, deficit irrigation strategies, soil mulching, surface and subsurface drip irrigation, conservation tillage, and optimal water and fertilizer management practices.

There have been numerous excellent books on LIBs based on various different viewpoints. But, there is little book available on the state of the art and future of next generation LIBs, particularly eventually for EVs and HEVs. This book is therefore planned to show the readers where we are standing on and where our R&Ds are directing at as much as possible. This does not mean that this book is only for the experts in this field. On the contrary this book is expected to be a good textbook for undergraduates and postgraduates who get interested in this field and hence need general overviews on the LIBs, especially for heavy duty applications including EVs or HEVs.

In many domestic and industrial processes, vast percentages of primary energy are produced by the combustion of fossil fuels. Apart from diminishing the source of fossil fuels and the increasing risk of higher costs and energy security, the impact on the environment is worsening continually. Renewables are becoming very popular, but are, at present, more expensive than fossil fuels, especially photovoltaics and hydropower. Biomass is one of the most established and common sources of fuel known to mankind, and has been in continuous use for domestic heating and cooking over the years, especially in poorer communities. The use of biomass to produce electricity is interesting and is gaining ground. There are several ways to produce electricity from biomass. Steam and gas turbine technology is well established but requires temperatures in excess of 250 °C to work effectively. The organic Rankine cycle (ORC), where low-boiling-point organic solutions can be used to tailor the appropriate solution, is particularly successful for relatively low temperature heat sources, such as waste heat from coal, gas and biomass burners. Other relatively recent technologies have become more visible, such as the Stirling engine and thermo-electric generators are particularly useful for small power production. However, the uptake of renewables in general, and biomass in particular, is still considered somewhat risky due to the lack of best practice examples to demonstrate how efficient the technology is today. Hence, the call for this Special Issue, focusing on country files, so that different nations’ experiences can be shared and best practices can be published, is warranted. This is realistic, as it seems that some nations have different attitudes to biomass, perhaps due to resource availability, or the technology needed to utilize biomass. Therefore, I suggest that we go forward with this theme, and encourage scientists and engineers who are researching in this field to present case studies related to different countries. I certainly have one case study for the UK to present.

Information flow control (IFC) is a technique to assert the security of a given program with respect to a given security policy. The classical policy noninterference requires that public output of a program may not be influenced from secret input. This work leverages a technique called program slicing, which is closely connected to IFC and offers many dimensions for improving analysis precision, the most powerful are Path Conditions. Our evaluation shows scalability with a low annotation burden.

La catégorie du symbolique joue un rôle central dans la pensée de Pierre Bourdieu. Elle a pourtant a été assez peu théorisée en tant que telle, alors que d’autres notions clés, comme celles d’habitus ou de champ, ont fait l’objet de reprises méthodiques et de commentaires minutieux. C’est à combler cette lacune que l’on s’emploie dans le présent ouvrage, en faisant valoir que le symbolique concentre la démarche du sociologue dans ce qu’elle a de plus singulier. Sociologues, philosophes, théoriciens du langage, spécialistes de la littérature ou des médias, les auteurs réunis ici procèdent à cette réévaluation sous trois aspects, qui correspondent à autant de champs de réflexion : anthropologie, culture et politique. Au-delà, c’est du rayonnement international de l’œuvre de Pierre Bourdieu qu’il s’agit de témoigner, et aussi de la diversité des objets qu’une même discipline de pensée continue de prendre en compte : de la gastronomie à la photographie, des littératures périphériques à l’art d’avant-garde, des politiques de contrôle social aux pratiques journalistiques. Le présent volume constitue une nouvelle édition des Actes du colloque qui s’est tenu au Centre Culturel International de Cerisy du 12 au 19 juillet 2001 avec la participation du sociologue, dont l’intervention est recueillie au sommaire. L’introduction générale en a été mise à jour afin de faire place aux développements apportés par celui-ci au concept de symbolique dans ses cours au Collège de France sur la genèse de l’État, publiés entre-temps. L’épilogue de l’ouvrage est assuré par l’écrivain Annie Ernaux.

andererseits provides a forum for research, commentary, and creative work on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German Studies. Works presented in the publication come from a wide variety of genres including book reviews, poetry, essays, editorials, forum discussions, academic notes, lectures, and traditional peer-reviewed academic articles. In addition, we welcome contributions by journalists, librarians, archivists, and other commentators interested in German Studies broadly conceived. As a specifically transatlantic endeavor, we also highlight select topics in American Studies that impact German Studies. By publishing such a diverse array of material, we hope to demonstrate the extraordinary value of the humanities in general, and German Studies in particular, on a variety of intellectual and cultural levels. This issue features sections about German Studies approaches to media literacy, Stephen Dowden's book »Modernism and Mimesis« and the poetics of ambiguous memory.