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In light of the principles of the old Romantic Library, which (according to the note placed on the back cover of the volumes), ‘endeavours to reach the many-voiced world of the era, wherein lies one of the spiritual homelands of modern man’, it should be noted that in the book by Wojciech Tomasik, The Romantics and Technology, this is achieved cunningly and bluntly. The modern day is reflected in Romanticism here, in the sphere which our era audaciously (or perhaps simply mindlessly) tries to claim, forgetting about the Romantic roots of the phenomenon of not just technological progress, but most importantly its influence on all other areas of life: from mechanical work and everyday conveniences, to morality and religion. (Dr hab. Marek Dybizbański)

Un même matériel informatique peut remplir de nombreuses fonctions différentes par simple changement du logiciel qu’il exécute. Cette extraordinaire plasticité a permis à l’ordinateur de sortir des centres de calcul et de se répandre partout, des objets du quotidien aux infrastructures de la cité. Quels concepts fondamentaux sous-tendent cette prouesse technique ? Comment maîtriser l’incroyable et souvent effrayante complexité du logiciel ? Comment éviter les « bugs » de programmation et résister aux attaques ? Comment établir qu’un logiciel est digne de confiance ? À ces questions, la logique mathématique offre des éléments de réponse qui permettent de construire une approche scientifiquement rigoureuse du logiciel.

The book presents the territorial-administrative past, the settlement landscape, and the ownership structure in the area of former Orłów County until the 16th century. On the basis of the so far unexplored manuscript sources from the Central Archives of Historical Records in Warsaw, and the records of the metropolitan chapter in Gniezno, the landscape of medieval settlement in Orłów County has been reconstructed and the estates of the most important local noble families have been discussed. In the course of the research, it was possible to identify new settlement sites and shift the metrics of some of them. The annexes include a list of all identifiable settlement points and genealogical tables. The iconographic section and the geographical index also constitute an important element of the publication.

When the protests are over, a guide to creating long-lasting social change beyond the barricades From the Women’s March in D.C. to #BlackLivesMatter rallies across the country, there has been a rising wave of protests and social activism. These events have been an important part of the battle to combat racism, authoritarianism, and xenophobia in Trump’s America. However, the struggle for social justice continues long after the posters and megaphones have been packed away. After the protests are heard, how can we continue to work toward lasting change? This book is an invaluable resource for anyone invested in the fight for social justice. Welch highlights examples of social justice work accomplished at the institutional level. From the worlds of social enterprise, impact investing, and sustainable business, After the Protests Are Heard describes the work being done to promote responsible business practices and healthy, cooperative communities. The book also illuminates how colleges and universities educate students to strive toward social justice on campuses across the country, such as the Engaged Scholarship movement, which fosters interactions between faculty and students and local and global communities. In each of these instances, activists work from within institutions to transform practices and structures to foster justice and equality. After the Protests Are Heard confronts the difficult reality that social change is often followed by spikes in violence and authoritarianism. It offers vital insights into how our nation might fully acknowledge the brutal costs of racism and the historical drivers of racial injustice, and how people of all races can contain such violence in the present and prevent its resurgence in the future. For many members of the social justice community, the real work begins when the protests end. After the Protests Are Heard is a must-read for everyone interested in social justice and activism—from the barricades and campuses to the breakrooms, offices, and cubicles.

For the first time, Muslims are faced with a worldwide positivism which is working to use knowledge, the sciences and their discoveries and achievements in a manner which severs the relationship between the Creator, the created universe and man, thereby disregarding the world of the unseen and driving a wedge between science and values. Lacking even the most modest store of vital Islamic doctrine on the intellectual level, university students and researchers in the Islamic world are confronted with doctrines and philosophies which are presented to them together with a flimsy, miserable defense of Islam. There is not a single academic institution in the Islamic world in which Islamic thought is taught and in which the Islamic vision is given a deeprooted foundation with the same force and persuasiveness with which Western ideas and the Western vision are taught to students in the West, in a coherent, comprehensive manner accompanied by seriousness and commitment on the part of all. The books argues that this approach is diametrically opposed to the Islamic perspective and that we must disengage human scientific achievement from positivistic philosophical premises and reemploy these sciences within a systematic epistemological framework based on divine revelation, conferring honor upon all forms of knowledge, as having been bestowed upon man by their Creator.

Ce livre est issu d’une série de trois colloques à l’École française de Rome qui entendait non pas revenir sur les représentations de la justice, mais s’interroger sur l’usage anthropologique des images juridiques, en partant du fondement antique jusqu’à la période récente où celui-ci est largement relu, commenté et exploité : que signifie avoir droit à l’image ? Comment les enjeux religieux fondent-ils une partie du droit des images depuis l’Antiquité jusqu’à la période moderne ? Quelle place ont les images non seulement dans la production juridique de l’époque moderne et contemporaine, mais également dans l’économie du texte juridique ? Les débats théologiques sur la licéité des images, qui occupent une place historique majeure dans cette réflexion, donnent-ils naissance à une jurisprudence particulière sur les usages ? Cet ouvrage a ainsi pour double vocation de faire dialoguer des spécialistes européens, principalement français, allemands et anglo-saxons issus de plusieurs disciplines, en associant les sciences humaines et les sciences juridiques, et de permettre une réflexion diachronique sur ledroit des images, des images qui créent du droit, des images objets du droit ou encore des fictions juridiques qu’elles soient anciennes ou actuelles. Il permet d’esquisser les contours d’un droit des images et d’un droit aux images qui demeurent encore aujourd’hui l’objet de luttes et de conflits.

Les clefs des songes du xiiie au xve siècles ne sont pas là pour ouvrir la voie à la parole du rêveur. Bien au contraire, des interprétations stéréotypées et orientées l'enferment à double tour dans un discours dûment orchestré. Les songes foisonnants de ciel ou de terre, d'anges, de saints, d'astres, de nuées, de feu, d'eau, de végétaux, d'animaux, de l'une ou l'autre partie du corps, sont pris dans les réseaux d'une idéologie qui commande la représentation de soi et des autres dans l'intérêt de la classe dominante aristocratique.

Since the discovery of mirror neurons, the study of human infant goal-directed actions and object manipulation has burgeoned into new and exciting research directions. A number of infant studies have begun emphasizing the social context of action to understand what infants can infer when looking at others performing goal-directed actions or manipulating objects. Others have begun addressing how looking at actions in a social context, or even simply looking at objects in the immediate environment influence the way infants learn to direct their own actions on objects. Researchers have even begun investigating what aspects of goal-directed actions and object manipulation infants imitate when such actions are being modeled by a social partner, or they have been asking which cues infants use to predict others' actions. A growing understanding of how infants learn to reach, perceive information for reaching, and attend social cues for action has become central to many recent studies. These new lines of investigation and others have benefited from the use of a broad range of new investigative techniques. Eye-tracking, brains imaging techniques and new methodologies have been used to scrutinize how infants look, process, and use information to act themselves on objects and/or the social world, and to infer, predict, and recognize goal-directed actions outcomes from others. This Frontiers Research topic brings together empirical reports, literature reviews, and theory and hypothesis papers that tap into some of these exciting developmental questions about how infants perceive, understand, and perform goal-directed actions broadly defined. The papers included either stress the neural, motor, or perceptual aspects of infants’ behavior, or any combination of those dimensions as related to the development of early cognitive understanding and performance of goal-directed actions.

Par Lampeter over Cwmann, Wales (UK). Cela vous dit ? Bien sûr ! C’est dans cette université bucolique que se sont rassemblés durant une petite semaine un panel de spécialistes du sacrifice antique. Mais qu’allaient-ils faire à Lampeter over Cwmann, et sur un tel sujet ? La raison de leur présence en cette thébaïde entourée de collines peuplées d’une abondante gent ovine est simple : ils s’y sont rendus à l’invitation de la IVe Celtic Conference in Classics qui rassemble tous les deux ans des chercheurs des western provinces (mais pas seulement). Pour ce qui est de la raison, il est nécessaire de faire un petit peu d’historiographie. Y a-t-il donc encore quelque chose à dire sur le sacrifice antique, surtout quand on appartient au monde francophone, depuis la publication en 1979 de La cuisine du sacrifice en pays grec, éditée par M. Detienne et J.-P. Vernant ? Le quidam s’interroge : tout n’a-t-il pas été dit dans cet excellent ouvrage ? Au vrai, que ce soit à l’étranger ou en France, dans des perspectives souvent différentes, on a bien avancé depuis sur d’anciennes pistes et sur de nouvelles. Du côté des archéologues, des iconographistes, des historiens de la religion, on a produit de nouveaux objets (ainsi les recherches ostéologiques), on a posé d’autres questions et on est sorti de certaines impasses. Sans prétendre épuiser les très copieux dossiers sur le sacrifice antique, les promoteurs du voyage à Lampeter se fixaient pour objectifs d’examiner de nouveaux documents, de reposer des questions anciennes et d’en proposer de nouvelles afin de contribuer à l’interprétation de ce processus essentiel de la communication entre les hommes et les dieux qu’est le sacrifice.

Applied computing and artificial intelligence methods have attracted a growing interest in recent years due to their effectiveness at solving technical problems. Recent developments in applied mathematics have largely led to benefits for industrial tasks in different fields, including the aerospace industry, manufacturing, transportation, energy, robotics, materials, informatics, etc. The objective of this Special Issue is to present advanced methods in applied computing and artificial intelligence to address the practical challenges in the related areas. The response of the scientific community has been remarkable, and a large number of papers have been submitted. After a careful peer-review process, 22 high-quality papers have been accepted and published. It is hoped that the papers will have an impact on international scholars in this field and promote further remarkable research in this area.

Education; Teaching; Learning and Instruction; Assessment, Testing and Evaluation

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Remotely sensed data from either air- or spaceborne platforms are often leveraged for archaeological or more general cultural heritage goals. However, despite the steady developments in remote sensing technology over the past three decades, the thoughtful integration of data sources and methods into theoretically aware archaeological practice remains relatively underdeveloped. This volume contains nine contributions which, each in their way, address different theoretical dislocations and practical shortcomings in the use of remote sensing products within archaeological practice. These contributions provide the reader with food for thought on these challenges, and so contribute to archaeological remote sensing as a more mature interdisciplinary field characterised by explicit, thoughtful, and theoretically engaged approaches to understanding the past.

Com apenas dezanove anos, publica o <em>Manifesto Nacionalista</em> (1919), integra depois o Centro Sidónio Pais, fundando o <em>Nacionalismo Lusitano</em> em 1923 e chega a dirigir o jornal <em>A Ditadura. Periódico do Fascismo Português</em>. Em 1924, prefacia os discursos de Sidónio e chega a colaborar no golpe de 1926. Abandona nesta altura a actividade política, pendura a espada, mas continua a manejá-la, desta vez, através da pena, firmando, com a política, um compromisso estético. Este <em>fascio</em> reaparece, mais tarde, como escritor solicitado pelo SNI que lhe encomendava estudos sobre o pensamento político, história e literatura portuguesas. Em 1936, ano em que integra a Legião Portuguesa, redige a peça <em>Trilogia de Édipo</em>. Conhecidos os percursos biográficos, ideológico e estético do autor, ficaram abertos os caminhos para o entendimento desta obra. Há muito que Tirésias anunciava o advento deste Édipo, que o elevou até ao alto da escadaria, transformando-o no herói humano - em vez da “vítima” dos antigos -, iniciador do Novo Humanismo.

Studies to date on illegal waste dumps in the Ljubljana Plain (Ljubljansko polje), the Iška Alluvial Fan (Iški vršaj), and areas with local water sources in the City of Ljubljana have demonstrated that there are great amounts of waste in areas of importance to the Slovenian capital’s water supply. In particular, illegal dumps located in areas where groundwater flows towards pumping stations and where the Sava and Iška rivers flow into the groundwater present a considerable threat to drinking water quality. In addition, shallow groundwater levels and gravel pits increase the vulnerability of the environment even more.