Open Access Books

This volume brings together corpus-based, language-centered research on CMC and social media in linguistics, philologies, communication sciences, media, and social sciences with research questions from the fields of corpus and computational linguistics, language technology, text technology, and machine learning.

Anhängern des rechten Protestantismus ist ein Bibelfundamentalismus gemein, der sich auf ihr Selbstverständnis gegenüber anderen Konfessionen, Religionen und Weltanschauungen auswirkt und theologische Deutungsmuster mit Islamfeindlichkeit, Homosexuellen- und Genderfeindlichkeit sowie Antisemitismus verbindet. Jan Christian Pinsch nimmt diese Kategorien durch eine Netzwerk- und Dokumentenanalyse in Lippe genauer in den Blick und widmet sich der Haltung der Akteure zur Erinnerungskultur nach 1945 sowie zur Demokratie. Aus einer historisch-theologischen Perspektive plädiert er dafür, dass Kirche und Theologie zu diesen Entwicklungen nicht schweigen dürfen.

As the first study of manuscript collections, this book asks what changes when sayings, stories, songs, and spells are brought together on the same carrier. Covering a plethora of manuscripts from the Warring States and early empires, and spanning sources from philosophy, historiography, poetry, and technical literature, this study describes the whole life-cycle of multiple texts collected on a single manuscript. Drawing on comparative and interdisciplinary advances and based on careful study of manuscript materiality and textuality, this book shows the importance of collections in the development of and access to text and knowledge in early China.

The combinatorial number of possible methylomes in biological time and space is astronomical. Consequently, the computational analysis of methylomes needs to cater for a variety of data, throughput and resolution. Here, we review recent advances in 2nd generation sequencing (2GS) with a focus on the different methods used for the analysis of MeDIP-seq data. The challenges and opportunities presented by the integration of methylation data with other genomic data types are discussed as is the potential impact of emerging 3rd generation sequencing (3GS) based technologies on methylation analysis.

Toxins are biologically active substances produced by most kinds of living organisms, bacteria, fungi, plants, and animals. They present a vast diversity of molecular structures and target a wide variety of receptors involved in a range of physiological processes. As toxins are selected during evolution to acquire/improve their disabling/lethal effects, they display finely tuned functional properties often associated with high affinities and selectivity. Moreover, toxins are valuable tools to unravel cellular processes due to their extreme specificity for cell surface and/or intracellular targets. Therefore, toxins are very attractive compounds because of their Janus-like character; while they mostly act as deadly poisons like monstrous Mr. Hyde, they can also be tamed into good remedies like admirable Dr. Jekyll. As such, they have been primarily investigated not only for the light they can throw on fundamental physiological processes but also for their potential therapeutic applications. This reprint, emerging from the 27th Annual Meeting of the French Society of Toxinology (SFET, http://sfet.asso.fr/international), will be of great interest for those in the scientific community who want to know more about the fascinating world of toxins.

El libro edita las actas del VII Congreso internacional sobre la historia de las universidades hispánicas celebrado los días 16-18 de noviembre de 2000 en el campus de Colmenarejo de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Fue una reunión científica monográfica sobre los manuales y textos de enseñanza en la universidad liberal. Contó con un conjunto de ponencias que se adentraron en los ámbitos de la economía, el derecho público, el derecho privado, la filosofía y la medicina. Otras muchas cuestiones fueron analizadas en las comunicaciones.

These two volumes collect several studies about Greek and Latin theatre (I) and its reception (II). From An-tiquity, beside the analysis of specific texts, are considered aspects related with the evolution of the tragic and comic genres, their agents and their civic function. The reception studies (II) put together collaborators from a large geography and include a big number of case studies, mainly considering literature and theatre from the latin and iberoamerican world.

Ceramics have been essential in the domestic sphere and their production has undergone in the preindustrial era technological and cultural changes whose importance is obvious. This paper is to show in a very concise way how the production of European glazed ceramics underwent three phases of intense transformation of useful knowledge related to its production, with a successive accumulation leading to increasingly efficient results and a higher level of productivity. Moreover, it can be safely stated that, without this accumulation, the great progress of the 19th century in this area would have been impossible.

The book is an adaptation of an investigation presented to the Universidad Nacional del Altiplano, whose objective was to investigate the impact of effective communication as a didactic method in the development of linguistic skills in English as a third language in students of the School of Professional Technical Higher Education. of the National Police of Peru, Branch Puno (EESTP - PNP - Puno); in order to address the difficulty in learning the English language for Andean students who have Quechua or Aymara as their first language, Spanish as a second language and, due to the addition of current proficiency requirements, English as a third language, focusing on language as a communicative competence that actively assimilates, models and elaborates a base in relation to the current world. For this, we work with two groups of students from the second cycle of studies of the EESTP – PNP – Puno: a control group and an experimental group. The control group consisted of thirty (30) students and the experimental group with twenty-eight (28) students. Initially, both groups took an entrance test; and immediately, only to the experimental group, during the sessions of the English course, effective communication was applied as a didactic strategy to develop the linguistic competences of the English language. After one academic semester, an exit test is taken for both groups. And from a comparison it is concluded that effective communication impacts the linguistic skills of English as a third language in andean students by 91.67%, which is considered within the outstanding achievement.

Wojciech Materski’s book gives a synopsis of the politics of memory practized by Russia from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. He shows how, irrespectively of the period in its history, Russia’s politics of memory have always been used as a tool to integrate the country’s inhabitants, reinforce the cult of their leaders, and relativize their mistakes and crimes.

Between 1481 and 1485, King Ferrante of Aragon undertook a fiscal reform that challenged the prerogatives of both the feudal lords and the communes of the Kingdom of Naples. Historiography has paid little attention to this project, despite its direct connection to the uprisings that broke out shortly afterwards. This book takes that reform as a starting point to examine the transformations that occurred in the material constitution of the kingdom during the late Middle Ages, while also considering developments in other parts of Italy. During this period, lordship in Southern Italy consolidated key aspects of its institutional profile, while a new actor—the commune—began to assert its own claims over local government.Tax systems provide a privileged lens through which to explore these processes within the institutional framework of the kingdom, leading to a hypothesis that diverges from more state-centred interpretations: namely, that this very segmentation—with the broadly conceived constitutional limits it imposed on royal discretion, on the speculations of supra-local elites, and on the concentration of capital in the hands of local elites—helped to shape the geography of economic growth and the distribution of power in a kingdom that was both polycentric and increasingly polarised around Naples.

Communication Studies; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); R & D/Technology Policy

This book collected recent studies on the latest methodological and operational advances in hydrological forecasting. Specifically, the collection of papers covers a range of topics related to improving hydrological forecasting via new datasets and innovative approaches.

Modern medicine tends to favor treatment with pharmaceuticals. However, there is a growing trend towards personalized and holistic medicine that incorporates a person’s biopsychosocial and spiritual perspective. This book discusses some of these alternative medical approaches, including biofeedback vibrational medicine, acupuncture, and more. Health and wellness must be redefined, and lifestyle should be taken into consideration without ignoring traditional and alternative medical methods. This book presents a comprehensive overview of alternative medicine, presenting new approaches to health in combination with modern orthodox medicine.

En approuvant un texte commun, en novembre 1995 à Barcelone, vingt-sept pays d’Europe et du pourtour méditerranéen ont entamé un processus qui s’inscrit dans le cadre de la libéralisation globale des échanges économiques à l’échelle de la planète, mais aussi dans le prolongement de plusieurs initiatives euro-méditerranéennes visant à organiser un partenariat tenant compte des spécificités régionales. Concernées au premier chef, les économies maghrébines voient se profiler l’horizon 2010 (date théorique de l’instauration d’une zone de libre-échange) avec un mélange d’espoir et de crainte : s’agit-il pour elles d’une chance unique de faire partie d’une « zone de prospérité partagée », ou doivent-elles redouter au contraire d’être laminées par leur puissant voisin du nord ? Tentant d’apporter des éléments de réponse à cette question, cet ouvrage examine à la fois les contraintes nationales, régionales et internationales qui pèsent sur ces économies, les dynamiques et les résistances qu’affrontent les acteurs économiques, et pointe quelques-unes des conditions pour l’instauration d’une véritable coopération. Rassemblés sous la direction d’Abdelkader Sid Ahmed, économiste spécialiste des questions de développement, les auteurs, européens et maghrébins, apportent les données et les interprétations nécessaires à une meilleure appréhension des rapports économiques euro-maghrébins de la prochaine décennie.