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En offrant aux Zápara le rêve pour communiquer avec lui, le démiurge Piatsaw leur a permis de penser le monde, de retrouver la connaissance et la mémoire, et d’envisager l’avenir — la nuit permettant d’atteindre l’essence des choses et de dépasser les frontières du temps et de l’espace.En Équateur, les Zápara recherchent désormais dans les visions oniriques les réponses aux questions que leur pose l’existence, qu’il s’agisse d’un accord politique à trouver ou d’un événement historique à comprendre.Profondément ancrée dans le quotidien, l’expérience du rêve est ainsi constamment interrogée par les Indiens Zápara pour faire face aux nouveaux défis de la mondialisation.

This book brings together essays by an international group of scholars and artists, focusing on live performance inspired by living in exile, or created by exiled artists. Bringing together a range of perspectives to examine the full impact of political, socio-economic or psychological experiences of exile, Performing Exile: Foreign Bodies presents an inclusive mix of established and emerging voices from varied cultural and geographic affiliations. Chapters blend close critical analysis and autoethnography to document and interrogate performances and the political, religious, economic and cultural contexts that inform them. With a foreword by Yana Meerzon, and featuring essays on artists of Mexican, Korean-American, Lebanese-Quebecois, Spanish, Azerbaijani and Canadian Aboriginal origin, to name a few, Performing Exile is truly diverse.

The European Union actively promotes the engagement of civil society in shaping policies on a global scale. Civil society, founded on democratic principles, freedom of belief, and association, constitutes a crucial element of international cooperation. This chapter examines EU actions in support of civil society, with a particular focus on Asia. Analyzing EU strategies and activities towards civil society in the Asian region allows to address questions regarding the nature of EU support, its core values, and priority areas. This chapter facilitates understanding of the EU's role in promoting and strengthening civil society internationally, especially in Asian countries. This chapter also serves as an introduction to the third part of the book, which presents examples of EU action on civil society in three different Asian countries.

Providing theoretical grounding, case studies and practical solutions, Implementing Ethics in Educational Ethnography examines how researchers can overcome ethical dilemmas associated with and encountered during ethnographic research. From the initial stages of research design such as consideration from regulatory bodies, through research occurring in the field to project completion and reporting, it explores many of the factors associated with ensuring culturally sensitive and ethical studies. The book covers key questions including: What can researchers expect of ethical review boards? Where and with whom should dialogue take place about ethicality within research? What effect does a research focus have on regulation and research practice? What is the effect of context on ethical practices? Does the positionality of a researcher have an effect on ethical practices? How do we ensure that ethicality supports the trustworthiness of research projects? Using a range of international case studies, Implementing Ethics in Educational Ethnography provides researchers and students with invaluable details about how to navigate the field, ensuring that they can sustain good ethical practice throughout the life of a research project.

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This text provides an accessible introduction to string diagrams from the perspective of computer science. Rather than starting from categorical concepts, the authors draw on intuitions from formal language theory, treating string diagrams as a syntax with its own semantics. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

É um livro único. Emerge do diálogo entre duas lingua­gens artísticas, o teatro e a ópera. Cristine Bello Guse apresenta poeticamente os desafios que o cantor-ator enfrenta na composição de seu papel dramático ao encenar uma ópera. Atualmente os espetáculos de ópera incorpo­ram novas tecnologias fazendo com que este dinamismo abra possibilidades para uma atuação na qual os cantores, além de brindar o público com suas excelentes vozes e sensibilidade musical, também se movimentem livremente pelo espaço cênico interpretando personagens na repre­sentação da situação dramática. Fruto de sua pesquisa de mestrado, este livro se traduz pelo encantamento de uma obra de arte.

Las relaciones culturales entre Italia y América Latina tienen una larga tradición a lo largo de todo el siglo XX: periodistas, viajeros y políticos escribieron y reflexionaron sobre aquel lejano continente, que se había vuelto de repente familiar gracias a la experiencia de la migración masiva. A partir de esta larga tradición migratoria y de una sólida tradición de estudios hispánicos, en la segunda mitad del siglo XX se formó una notable escuela de americanistas en los campos de la historia, del pensamiento social, de la antropología, de los estudios literarios y culturales, que produjo una gran cantidad de estudios cuyo valor ha sido reconocido internacionalmente, y que a partir de los años sesenta no ha dejado de ser un punto de referencia.

Animals living in the Southern Ocean have evolved in a singular environment. It shares many of its attributes with the high Arctic, namely low, stable temperatures, the pervading effect of ice in its many forms and extreme seasonality of light and phytobiont productivity. Antarctica is, however, the most isolated continent on Earth and is the only one that lacks a continental shelf connection with another continent. This isolation, along with the many millions of years that these conditions have existed, has produced a fauna that is both diverse, with around 17,000 marine invertebrate species living there, and has the highest proportions of endemic species of any continent. The reasons for this are discussed. The isolation, history and unusual environmental conditions have resulted in the fauna producing a range and scale of adaptations to low temperature and seasonality that are unique. The best known such adaptations include channichthyid icefish that lack haemoglobin and transport oxygen around their bodies only in solution, or the absence, in some species, of what was only 20 years ago termed the universal heat shock response.

The chapters covered in this book include emerging new techniques on sintering. Major experts in this field contributed to this book and presented their research. Topics covered in this publication include Spark plasma sintering, Magnetic Pulsed compaction, Low Temperature Co-fired Ceramic technology for the preparation of 3-dimesinal circuits, Microwave sintering of thermistor ceramics, Synthesis of Bio-compatible ceramics, Sintering of Rare Earth Doped Bismuth Titanate Ceramics prepared by Soft Combustion, nanostructured ceramics, alternative solid-state reaction routes yielding densified bulk ceramics and nanopowders, Sintering of intermetallic superconductors such as MgB2, impurity doping in luminescence phosphors synthesized using soft techniques, etc. Other advanced sintering techniques such as radiation thermal sintering for the manufacture of thin film solid oxide fuel cells are also described.

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

Coûteuse, inégalement partagée, l’information est une arme décisive face à l’incertitude. Les travaux économiques récents, s’éloignant de l’orthodoxie néo-classique, ont mis en valeur le rôle central de l’information dans le fonctionnement des marchés. De fait, du XVIe au XIXe siècle, quand s’intensifient les circulations et les relations commerciales, les différents acteurs marquent leur appétit d’information, et agissent ensuite en fonction de ce qu’ils croient savoir. Ainsi, l’information recueillie sur l’économie joue elle-même un rôle dans l’économie. Elle est donc un élément intrinsèque du fonctionnement même des marchés, une donnée des jeux de l’échange. Les études réunies ici, à la suite de deux journées d’études réalisées en 2004 et 2006 et rassemblant les meilleurs spécialistes, nous emmènent des correspondances marchandes et circulaires commerciales aux Affiches, Annonces et autres feuilles d’information. Mais elles soulignent aussi l’action d’un autre acteur : depuis les initiatives de Colbert jusqu’à l’essor de la Statistique générale de la France, l’État s’est affirmé comme un grand collecteur mais aussi producteur d’information économique. De sorte que, aussi libérale que fût devenue sa politique, au XIXe siècle, il a continué de jouer un rôle crucial, quand lui seul pouvait rassembler des données dispersées. En avoir ou pas : depuis l’époque moderne, chacun était conscient de l’enjeu que représentait l’information économique. Là encore, le passé éclaire notre présent.

The aim of this reprint is to highlight the progress and fundamental aspects for the synthesis, characterization, properties, and application of novel polymeric materials, as well as their copolymers, composites, and nanocomposites.

Milk proteins and their interactions with other components, such as lactose, are very important, offering vast potential across various industries. They are now integral in the development of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and baked goods, showcasing their versatility and importance in modern industry. This book explores the latest advancements in milk protein research, focusing on innovative extraction techniques and methods for preserving and modifying protein functionality. Key processes such as heat treatment, enzyme treatments, and hydrolysis are thoroughly explored to optimize the functional attributes of milk proteins for diverse applications. Driven by environmental and sustainability concerns, research has increasingly prioritized the development of greener dairy processing practices. These sustainable approaches aim to reduce waste and improve efficiency, contributing to the broader goal of environmentally friendly milk protein ingredients and lactose. This book provides valuable insights into the complex interactions between milk proteins and other milk components, such as lactose, offering a comprehensive guide to harnessing these interactions for innovative applications and sustainable practices.

Die Freundschaft gilt der internationalen Mediävistik wie der Neuzeitforschung als zentrales Medium der gesellschaftlichen Organisation in innen- wie in außenpolitischer Perspektive. Trotz des gemeinsamen Interesses an diesem Gegenstand unterscheiden sich aber die Zugänge der historischen Disziplinen wie der verschiedenen nationalen Wissenschaftskulturen. Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes wollen zu einer Diskussion über die Epochengrenze, aber auch über die Sprachgrenze zwischen der deutschen und französischen Forschung hinweg anregen. Im Zentrum steht dabei die politische Dimension der Freundschaft, in der personale und herrschaftliche Mechanismen verschmelzen. Je nach Fokussierung kann die Freundschaft damit als Bezeichnung für klientelartige Beziehungen erscheinen, aber auch als Ausdruck eines Ideals politisch-sozialer Bindung, das stark mit Wertvorstellungen aufgeladen ist. Die Kontrastierung französischer und deutscher Beispiele verdeutlicht, wie die Freundschaftsterminologie über die Sprachgrenzen hinweg für politische Einungen und rechtliche Ausgleichsprozesse genutzt werden konnte. Zugleich zeigt der Blick auf die Eidgenossenschaft, wie die Bezugnahme auf dieses Ideal politischen und sozialen Ausgleichs im zeitlichen Verlauf variierte. Im weiteren räumlichen Rahmen lässt sich dabei keine eindeutige Zäsur an der etablierten Epochengrenze feststellen: Gerade in den französischen Religionskriegen des 16. Jahrhunderts erlebt die Freundschaft als Medium der Friedensstiftung zwischen den Konfessionen eine Phase der Konjunktur. Ab dem späten Mittelalter tritt ihr jedoch die Neutralität als neue Kategorie befriedeter Beziehungen an die Seite.