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This practical book is a highly valuable resource specifically tailored to low-income countries, with the aim of enhancing maternal and fetal health outcomes by reducing morbidity and mortality rates. Drawing from simulation courses on obstetric emergencies, this book offers a concise and accessible overview of the most crucial obstetric emergencies and their appropriate management. The clear and organized structure enables readers to easily locate specific topics, while additional tables and illustrations complement the written content, enhancing comprehension. This book will benefit obstetricians, midwives, and medical personnel responsible for the care of pregnant women. Its practical approach and comprehensive coverage make it an essential companion for healthcare professionals in low-income countries, equipping them with the knowledge and skills necessary to address obstetric emergencies effectively. Overall, it provides a valuable resource that will undoubtedly contribute to improving the quality of maternal and fetal healthcare in resource-limited settings. This is an open access book.

Ce texte retrace une série de présents successifs traversés au cours d’un cheminement qui va de l’engagement politique à l’étude des usages politiques du passé ou encore à celle de l’écriture de l’histoire et de son enseignement, mais ce cheminement n’a rien d’une trajectoire nécessaire. Bien sûr en raison de la façon dont le récit de ces présents est construit, comme de son premier destinataire – un jury universitaire –, il ne peut que procéder d’une mise en cohérence a posteriori. J’ai toutefois tenté de laisser à la contingence, au hasard, aux rencontres, leur juste place. Mes lieux d’histoire ont été le plus souvent des lieux institutionnellement faibles comme les IUFM, ou des lieux choisis en marge de l’institution comme la revue Espaces Temps ou bien encore le « DDG » – l’attelage que nous formons depuis près de quinze ans avec Christian Delacroix et François Dosse –, mais j’avoue avoir toujours trouvé en m’investissant dans ces périphéries une liberté qui me convient. Au fil des pages j’ai donc tâché, de bon gré, persuadé que l’exercice m’était profitable, d’ouvrir ma boîte à outils, de montrer les articulations d’un parcours et les ressorts d’un faire de l’histoire.

The contribution intends to retrace the history of Pavia’s famous equestrian statue, known as the “Regisole”, destroyed in 1796. The statue, in gilded bronze, represented a Roman emperor and was transferred from Rome to Ravenna, most likely by Theoderic. At a certain point, probably between the eighth and tenth centuries, the Regisole arrived in Pavia, even if it is difficult to establish who was responsible for that. The most logical solution is to attribute the transfer of the monument to a Lombard king, specifically to Aistulf, who conquered Ravenna in 751. It is possible to argue that by transferring the Regisole – which was believed to represent Theoderic – to the capital of the Lombard kingdom, Aistulf intended to promote an imperial image of himself, at a time when the conquest of the Exarchate raised him to the rank of “new Theoderic”.

Japón se encuentra en transición. Al parecer, su economía ha superado los desafíos impuestos por las nuevas realidades internacionales, pero la estructura interna de los intereses de la relación entre burócratas, empresarios y políticos entró en una fase de reacomodo que no ha encontrado aún definiciones precisas. El argumento principal del presente trabajo vincula una política financiera contra otra de seguridad nacional en la medida en que el gobierno ejerce su poder sobre el precio de la producción interna, los bienes y servicios y las exportaciones e importaciones, ya que por la vía de los impuestos o por reglamentaciones que optimizan, promueven o protegen la función de los instrumentos financieros y los flujos monetarios útiles para la actividad y evolución de la economía nacional.

Both climate activists and climate sceptics draw on religious terms, concepts, and imagery to persuade one another, and the wider public, of the validity of their respective positions. This emerges from the findings of the interdisciplinary research project on religion and climate change in the Netherlands, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and conducted at Tilburg University between March 2023 and March 2026. The project aimed to gain insight into the ways in which religious language is employed within the climate debate. Over the course of three years, the research team focused on analysing groups active on social media in the Netherlands that engage with issues relating to climate change. A range of themes was examined in order to reveal the diversity and nuance of religious expressions surrounding climate-related issues. This volume brings together contributions from the four members of the research team, alongside a number of additional chapters that serve as case studies of themes connected to the topics addressed in the four core contributions. The chapters are organised around five themes that reflect the diverse relationships between religion and climate change in the Netherlands. These themes are: Dutch climate organisations and religious vocabularies; religious vocabularies and representations of climate change; Christian vocabularies in the framing of Dutch climate policy; ecological grief and meaning-making in rituals, performances, and material culture; and the Western cultural-religious repertoire in visual representations of the Earth.

In der Reihe Slavistische Beiträge werden vor allem slavistische Dissertationen des deutschsprachigen Raums sowie vereinzelt auch amerikanische, englische und russische publiziert. Darüber hinaus stellt die Reihe ein Forum für Sammelbände und Monographien etablierter Wissenschafter/innen dar.

The work of scientists and engineers, including testing, monitoring, and measuring, has been transformed by Virtual Instrumentation (VI). The graphical programming language LabVIEW, created by National Instruments (NI), is the primary programming environment used for VI implementation. Using the appropriate tool is crucial for both engineering advancement and education. PCs and embedded systems are widely used in the current development. As a result, non-programming experts may find their programming difficult. Even for those who are not experts in programming, NI LabVIEW provides a way to create and execute sophisticated programs. Teachers and engineers can cover domains that would not otherwise be tangible for them thanks to the LabVIEW libraries and add-ons provided by NI or the community. This book showcases unique research on the use of LabVIEW and VI for the development of applications related to autotronics, electrical engineering, rail transportation, and renewable energy. The book provides suggestions for creating sophisticated applications that are employed in industry as well as for use in teaching.

As the health effects of climate change are increasingly apparent, the shortfalls of narrow biomedical understandings of health are becoming even more apparent. In this chapter, we examine the health effects of climate change by looking at extreme weather events, with a particular focus on flooding across various global regions. We propose to understand health as a multidimensionally constituted state that is shaped by ‘natural’, biological, ecological, and social-political-economic factors that interact with each other across time and space. Research in this field, we argue, needs to bring together different, mixed-methods approaches including inductive and qualitative research. We discuss how insights from such transdisciplinary research can inform effective policy interventions and contribute to reassessing strategies for protecting health amid a changing climate.

Numerous ethical guidelines and regulatory frameworks have been developed to assess and shape digital systems. However, these efforts often rest on the dubious assumption that individuals and organisations possess the necessary capacities to assess such systems in terms of justice, reliability, and other normative standards – especially given the growing complexity and corresponding opacity of many digital models. This issue is therefore of central importance to both legal and ethical debates surrounding AI and digital systems in general. The contributors to this volume propose a new approach to digital governance to enhance the capacity to evaluate and shape digital systems.

This textbook by Barbara Bogołębska and Monika Worsowicz contains a basic introduction to rhetoric and its applications, particularly in terms of media studies and journalism. It is a product of the authors’ teaching and research experience in the Department of Journalism and Communication at the University of Łódź, where they work as researchers and teachers of rhetoric. It also fills a gap on the publishing market, where there is a lack of books designed for readers who are just being introduced to this field or who are setting in order or expanding their knowledge of it and need a general and systematic discussion of its key issues.

This monograph interprets Sermones book 1 as a collection of Horace's credentials for Maecenas and traces his efforts in getting accepted as an associate of the latter after his miscalculation in joining Brutus. Although Horace regularly reflects on his poetic orientation and standards of good poetry, his primary objective was his self-presentation. The volume also examines his commentary on contemporary socio-political themes.

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This volume is about an ongoing long-term research initiative led by researchers from the School of Dentistry at the University of Adelaide. The aim of this book is to provide an overview of the studies of the teeth and faces of Australian twins and their families that have extended over more than thirty years.

Cet ouvrage posthume de Bernard Juillerat élève le mythe au rang d’« “objet transitionnel” entre l’inconscient individuel et la société » et permet de repenser encore une fois des questions dont l’intérêt excède évidemment le domaine mélanésien, notamment la sexualité, la procréation, la parentalité, la filiation, l’émergence du social ou la mort. À partir de l’analyse comparative d’un corpus de mythes mélanésiens, essentiellement néo-guinéens, Bernard Juillerat en dégage la logique sémantique globale, en repérant les thèmes disséminés à travers les récits de multiples sociétés qui prennent sens comme autant d’éléments de configurations inconscientes universelles. La transmission orale des mythes, qui véhicule ce sens, contribue surtout à le produire à travers les transformations que leur répétition induit inévitablement au cours du temps. Ainsi, comme il l’écrit, le « sens n’est pas préétabli avant même que le mythe n’existe socialement : il se constitue dans une poussée de la pensée qui, par la médiation du récit, passe dans la parole et devient un bien culturel transmissible ». Au cœur des mythes réside la question des conflits permanents entre la jouissance individuelle et la construction du social qui travaille à sa domestication, le mythe parlant des « concessions que le sujet doit concéder au social pour maîtriser sa part “naturelle” ». Ainsi la pensée mythique fait-elle resurgir ce que la société a refoulé comme non socialisable. Dans la première partie, l’auteur traite des héros phalliques, personnalités solitaires, narcissiques et pulsionnelles qui défient l’ordre social et auxquelles appartiennent notamment les figures répandues des changeurs de peau. La deuxième partie porte sur les héros œdipiens, personnages disposant d’un accès privilégié à l’abondance – qu’elle se dise en termes de richesses matérielles ou de femmes. Ces types de héros vécurent sous le règne du principe de plaisir avant qu’une transgression individuelle n’y mette fin en provoquant l’apparition du principe de réalité qui régit désormais la vie de la société. La troisième et dernière partie concerne l’intrication mythique des thèmes de l’amour, de la mort et de l’abondance. L’analyse se termine sur l’observation qu’une structure ternaire apparaît commune à la presque totalité des récits. Écrit de façon claire et avec la sobriété qui était coutumière à l’auteur, ce livre offre un large panorama de mythes dans lesquels les ethnologues de la Nouvelle-Guinée en particulier retrouveront des échos familiers des récits qu’ils connaissent. L’interprétation qu’en livre Bernard Juillerat ici entend mettre en évidence les récurrences thématiques qui se font jour entre eux, sans chercher à les contextualiser de façon spécifique. Il n’est donc fait référence, par exemple, ni aux rites susceptibles d’être associés à ces mythes et de les éclairer, ni aux modalités sociales de leur énonciation.

The question of antagonism, struggle and dissensus, and their place, limits and value for democracy, has divided deliberative from agonistic theories in recent years and remains the main source of the impasse between them. This open access book seeks to break this impasse by going back to their sources in Kant (for deliberative theories) and Nietzsche (for agonisms) and reframing them asphilosophers of conflict. For both philosophers, conflict is part of the ‘deep structure’ of reality at all levels, and their reflections on its constitutive, constructive and destructive potentials raise fundamental questions that democratic theories can ill afford to ignore. Through a series of text-based comparative studies of Kant’s and Nietzsche’s philosophies of conflict, Herman Siemens addresses the central question of the book: What does it take to think of conflict, real opposition or contradiction as an intrinsic dimension of reality? Drawing on Kant’s pre-critical writings and his historical-philosophical texts and Nietzsche’s philosophical physiology and the will to power, chapters examine topics such as logical opposition (contradiction) versus real opposition (Realrepugnanz); idealism as philosophical warfare; the relation between war and peace; destructive versus constructive forms of conflict; resistance as a stimulant; Kant’s ‘unsociable sociability’ and Nietzsche’s ‘fine, well-planned, thoughtful egoism’; hatred, revenge and the ‘slave revolt in morality’. 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 Dutch Research Council.