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The book scrutinizes the legal-historical development of the crime "unnatural fornication". The analysis focuses on contemporary law and sexual science sources as well as files from criminal proceedings for same-sex fornication. lt shows how different negotiation processes influenced the ideas of the "immoral", the sexual and the gender.

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In the present work, we intend to address the transition of Ezequiel Urviola, as a unique character who ontologically wanted to be Indian, in a process of transculturation and decolonization and that both his commitment to the Andean world, as well as the causes of his discrimination and his struggles for his vindication have served him to constitute a beacon in the painful process of visibility and redemption of the indigenous compatriot in our country who still has many historical debts to cancel, many wounds to heal, so that we can prefigure a diverse country, intercultural and definitely that it is a legitimate and identitary nation with equal fundamental rights.

This book investigates the life experiences of youth in South Africa, considering whether contemporary youth have benefitted from the socioeconomic reconstruction of post-apartheid society. Student protests against apartheid drove transformative change in South Africa, and the subsequent new constitution promised positive change for the nation’s youth across a range of sectors. Adopting a sociological perspective, this book uses primary and secondary data sources to illustrate the myriad ways post-apartheid socioeconomic developments have impacted the life experiences of the country’s youth across areas including health, education, family life, economic activity, technology, substance use, and politics. The book considers the historical legacy of colonialism, racism and immigration in shaping the context in which youth experiences in the country have evolved. The book argues that in 1976 South Africa’s youth became the conscience of the nation when they brought the apartheid regime to its knees during the Soweto uprising. What happens to them now will continue to define the nation’s future. This book will be of interest to researchers across the social sciences, most especially in the fields of Sociology, Demography, Development Studies, and Psychology.

Dieser Open-Access-Band fokussiert das „magische Dreieck“ aus Arbeit, Zivilgesellschaft und Politik. Wie diese Drei den gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen eine transformativ-demokratische Grundrichtung geben können, darauf suchen die Autorinnen und Autoren Antworten. Die Essays reflektieren das drohende Scheitern des Projekts der Moderne, das im Zeichen von Aufklärung und Fortschritt, mit Visionen von Freiheit, Gleichheit und Brüderlichkeit aufbrach. Heute stehen die Nationen, alles andere als vereint, erneut unter dem Eindruck von Krise, Krieg und Katastrophe. Die Bevölkerung sieht sich konfrontiert mit zerstörten Umwelten, Hunger und Flucht, sozialen Existenzängsten in vielen Familien und unermesslichen Reichtümern in wenigen Händen. Die wissenschaftlichen Analysen, schriftstellerischen Exkursionen und politisch-utopischen Skizzen des Bandes wenden sich an alle in Wissenschaft, Politik und Kultur, deren Interesse an engagierten, undogmatischen Diskursen und emanzipatorischen Praktiken ungebrochen ist.

The annual conference CLIC–it (''Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics'') is an initiative of the ''Italian Association of Computational Linguistics'' (AILC – www.ai-lc.it) which is intended to meet the need for a national and international forum for the promotion and dissemination of high-level original research in the field of Computational Linguistics (CL), with particular emphasis on Italian. The volume gathers the Proceedings of the ''Third Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics'' (CLiC–it 2016), held in Naples on 5-6 December 2016. The CLiC–it 2016 papers cover a wide range of topics in the area of computational linguistics and natural language (both written and spoken) processing, by targeting state–of–art theoretical results, experimental methodologies, technologies and application perspectives, and by addressing challenges, open issues and new perspectives related to current and novel trends of the discipline.

Hindouisme, bouddhisme, cha­manisme coexistent en Hima­laya. Loin de se juxtaposer simplement, ces mondes reli­gieux s’influencent. De cette complexité, les prêtres sont le témoignage. Comment se situent-ils par rapport à la tradition dont ils se réclament ? De quelle nature sont leurs pouvoirs ? Sur quel héritage s’ancre leur autorité ? Comment se partagent-ils le champ du sacré ? Ces questions sont soulevées ici à propos de plusieurs populations représentatives de la variété ethnique et culturelle de l’arc himalayen. Derrière la diversité des solutions qu’elles reçoivent, un fonds commun, une dimension autochtone, dominés par les divinités maîtresses du sol et les forces maléfiques, se laissent percevoir.

Con esta publicación, se pretende formular planteamientos que fortalezca la comunidad académica y desarrollar en los profesionales en formación; las competencias requeridas en el siglo XXI y no competencias con paradigmas del pasado, para que los futuros profesionales puedan asumir con éxito los grandes retos de nuestra sociedad de forma creativa, analítica, innovadora y con un pensamiento crítico.

Acervo de ex votos recopilados en San Juan de Los Lagos, que nos muestran el valor histórico, el aprecio y el agradecimiento a la divinidad, en cumplimiento de una promesa hecha con el fin de obtener un beneficio más allá de los medios naturales.

De l’informaticien de Bangalore sous contrat en Californie jusqu’aux villageois saisonniers employés sur les chantiers des métropoles, sans omettre les pèlerins en route vers des lieux sacrés, l’Inde n’échappe pas à une forte circulation des personnes. De telles formes de mobilité sont-elles nouvelles ? Seules des visions fixistes de l’Inde du passé conduiraient à une telle interprétation erronée – même si le développement économique a intensifié les mouvements et si l’insertion dans la mondialisation a mis en route d’autres circuits. Les circulations remettent-elles en cause l’ancrage au territoire, particulièrement fort en Inde, depuis l’attachement au village jusqu’à la glorification des frontières nationales ? La réponse se révèle être à nouveau négative, dans la mesure où ces circulations s’appuient sur une territorialité que souvent elles renforcent, plutôt qu’elles ne l’affaiblissent. Ce recueil tend à le confirmer à travers trois thématiques qui illustrent divers déterminants de la circulation : les logiques symboliques et religieuses, les logiques économiques des ménages, et l’ouverture à de nouveaux espaces par les circulations transnationales. Des travaux de recherche originaux en géographie, ethnologie et sociologie le démontrent dans les contributions ici réunies : l’Inde des réseaux n’a rien d’incompatible avec l’Inde des territoires, bien au contraire.

The present study, the first of ist kind, goes beyond the investigation of separate pieces of verse to their intermeshing with one another in the creative output of Akhmatova to express the gist of her poetics, on the one hand, and with world literature and culture as important instruments, on the other. Includes texts in Russian, with translations into English.

Publikacija je nastala kot rezultat mednarodnega raziskovalnega projekta GARCIA – Enakost spolov v akademski in raziskovalni sferi: boj proti karierni nestabilnosti in asimetriji (http://garciaproject.eu/). Cilj projekta je raziskovanje, oblikovanje in izvajanje posebnih ukrepov za ustvarjanje enakih možnosti med spoli v akademskem okolju (visokem šolstvu in raziskovanju). Na podlagi analize na makro-, mezo- in mikroravni publikacija obravnava spolno zaznamovane asimetrije na visokošolskih in raziskovalnih institucijah, s poudarkom na raziskovalkah/raziskovalcih na začetku znanstvenih karier, ki so zaposlene/zaposleni za določen čas. Z osredotočanjem na osebne izkušnje znanstvenic/znantvenikov, ki vstopajo v akademsko okolje, se prispevki poglabljajo v dinamike spolno zaznamovanih vsakdanjih praks v akademskem okolju in razkrivajo slepe pege v obstoječih poskusih uveljavljanja načela enakih možnosti v visokošolskih in raziskovalnih institucijah.

Over the last decade, supply chain management has advanced from the warehouse and logistics to strategic management. Integrating theory and practices of supply chain management, this book incorporates hands-on literature on selected topics of Value Creation, Supply Chain Management Optimization and Mass-Customization. These topics represent key building blocks in management decisions and highlight the increasing importance of the supply chains supporting the global economy. The coverage focuses on how to build a competitive supply chain using viable management strategies, operational models, and information technology. It includes a core presentation on supply chain management, collaborative planning, advanced planning and budgeting system, risk management and new initiatives such as incorporating anthropometry into design of products.

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Auralisation describes the process of generating and presenting audible sound using computer programs and audio hardware. Since the result is perceived naturally by the human's auditory system, a demonstration by means of auralisation is easily comprehensible and neither requires background knowledge nor expertise. Producing auralisation under real-time constraints increases the implementation demands significantly. Real-time auralisation is required in applications that respond to user interaction, for example, in interactive Virtual Reality (VR) environments. The realisation of a real-time auralisation application for outdoor environments represents a promising addition to current noise assessment procedures. It also delivers the foundation for the auditory modality in outdoor VR scenarios, which can serve as as an audio-video tool for perception-related scientific investigations. Traditional approaches often neglect the time-variant characteristic of dynamically moving sound sources and receivers, treating an acoustic environment as temporarily static on a frame-by-frame basis. Adaption to dynamic events is implemented by transition of sequences of time-invariant simulations, which is contradictory to the highly dynamic nature of outdoor scenarios. This book describes a system that attaches increased importance to fast geometric diffraction simulations and employs an audio rendering network that reflects the time-variant nature of dynamic outdoor sound propagation.