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This monograph illuminates Myra Warhaftig's (1930-2008) architectural contribution to the 1984/87 International Building Exhibition in Berlin. The focus is on the life and work of a Jewish female architect in Germany, in which scientific, social and ethical demands are uniquely combined.

Mit dem Einzug der digitalen Medien in das Museum entsteht eine neue Mischung von Realraum und virtuellem Raum. Zugleich tritt unter diesen Bedingungen das eigene mediale Erbe des Museums deutlich hervor. Diese voranschreitende »Automatisierung des Museums«, in der es zunehmend zum Medium der Präsentation gerät, führt dazu, dass das Museum selbst virtualisiert und somit vom Realraum abkoppelbar bzw. zu ihm »hinzufügbar« wird. Der Band stellt zahlreiche internationale Pilotprojekte des Einsatzes digitaler Medien in Museen vor. Dabei wird deutlich, wie sich Museen unter dem Einsatz partizipativer und interaktiver Strategien als Orte der Erinnerung und des sozialen Gedächtnisses in den virtuellen Raum hinein ausweiten.

In recent years, fractional differential equations have been used frequently in modelling of real systems in numerous fields of applied sciences. To study the existence, uniqueness, and stability of solutions in a system of fractional differential equations, inequalities involving derivatives and integrals of arbitrary powers, also known as fractional inequalities, have been used. Additionally, fractional inequalities were used to find upper and lower bounds of solutions to a system of fractional differential equations. In addition, fractional inequalities were also used in the fields of probability, numerical quadrature, and many more. Over the years, many authors have extended several generalizations of the various classical inequalities to fractional calculus in the literature.This reprint is a compilation of fifteen original research articles on mathematical inequalities involving fractional derivatives and fractional integral operators and their many applications in various mathematical and related fields. The topics include: fractional integral inequalities; Inequalities of generalized functions in fractional calculus; Q-calculus; Inequalities in fractional calculus on time scales; fractional order derivatives; applications of fractional inequalities; fractals; non-local mathematical models; and fractional complicated systems.

The volume, dedicated to the 44th International Conference of the Italian Union for Drawing, investigates the theme of ‘Transitions’, which particularly effectively represents our time and the current condition of the discipline of Drawing. The term, beyond its generic meaning of an intermediate stage in a process in which a condition changes from one state to another, has always been used in various fields, from music to geophysics. In fact, the disciplines of drawing have always been confronted with themes and issues relating to transitions from one condition to another. The history of representation tells us of transformations, even epochal ones, relating to ‘drawing’, with all that such transitions entail: suffice it to think of the evolution of forms of representation, of instrumental apparatuses, of the mutability of supports, of the analogical-digital transition underway, of the new modes of communication on platforms, of the hypertrophic offer of images also on the net that confirms Guy Debord’s intuitions relating to the new spectacularisation of society. Similarly, representation triggers transitions in the prefiguration and communication of design, the anticipation and foreshadowing of future events.The challenges posed by the digital pose open questions whose scope can only be glimpsed, such as the relationship between drawing and the act of modelling, and the construction of new paradigms of visual language and communication. ‘Transitions’, almost implicitly, points to possible futures, the evolution of technique and the search for new modes of expression; at the same time, however, it can suggest silences and reflections in a process of connection between history, theory, criticism and construction.

El libro, escrito por Antonio Planas Rosselló y Rafael Ramis Barceló, estudia la historia de la Facultad de Leyes y Cánones de la Universidad Luliana y Literaria de Mallorca. Empieza con un análisis de la enseñanza del derecho y la formación de los juristas durante los siglos XV y XVI, cuando el Estudio General no podía conceder grados. Sucesivamente se estudian los planes de estudios, el claustro y la práctica en la colación de los grados. Se muestran algunas particularidades de esta Facultad, sobre todo, la presencia casi exclusiva del derecho romano y la muy escasa y tardía penetración del derecho patrio. La obra concluye con una detallada prosopografía de los catedráticos de la Universidad. El libro resulta, en su conjunto, una aportación sugerente a la historiografía de las universidades en España y da a conocer la formación de los juristas mallorquines en la cultura del mos italicus hasta 1830. = The book, written by Antonio Planas Rosselló and Rafael Ramis Barceló, studies the history of the Faculty of Civil and Canon Law of the Lullian and Literary University of Mallorca. It begins with a discussion of legal education and training of lawyers during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, when the General Study could not grant degrees. Subsequently the curriculum, the staff of the faculty and practice in the collation of grades are studied. Some peculiarities of this faculty are shown, especially, the almost exclusive presence of Roman law and the insignificant and delayed penetration of “Derecho Patrio”. The book concludes with a detailed prosopography of the Professors. The book is, overall, a suggestive contribution to the historiography of universities in Spain and teaches the training of lawyers of Majorca in the culture of mos italicus until 1830.

Collateral Damage provides an overview of how political communication influences the process of incorporation with the broad society as well as its political parties. Sean Richey shows that how politicians talk about immigrants affects how their children perceive America and their feelings about the nation. These perceptions and feelings in turn greatly influence the children’s desire to incorporate into American political society. He also shows that regardless of a speaker’s intended outcome, what is said can still have a deleterious effect on incorporation desire, a communicative process that he terms “collateral damage.” Richey uses new experimental and survey evidence, as well as the rhetoric of Donald Trump as a test case, to examine how anti-immigration communication influences the incorporation of the children of immigrants.

This monograph studies the development of Venezuelan theater in the 70s, characterized by psychological, physical as well as verbal violence and cruelty. Throughout the decade, violence pervaded not only drama, but every sphere of social, political and cultural life in Venezuela. While these dramaturgies of violence disrupted the aesthetic field in many ways, they also interpreted the development of Venezuelan society.

The aim of this book is to publish the results of the research launched in 2004 in the ACI "Espaces et territoires" and continued in 2008 in the framework of the ANR (French National Research Agency). This research programme focused on the spatio-temporal dynamics of territories, approached over the long term, from the Neolithic period to the Middle Ages, according to different themes and in several micro-regions of France and Europe. This volume presents the results of two lines of research: the "dynamics of finishing in the long term" (Antiquity, Middle Ages) and the "dynamics of circulation and consumption of raw and manufactured products" (Neolithic, Bronze Age).

This volume explores the transformation of public space and administrative activities in republican and imperial Rome through an interdisciplinary examination of the topography of power. Throughout the Roman world building projects created spaces for different civic purposes, such as hosting assemblies, holding senate meetings, the administration of justice, housing the public treasury, and the management of the city through different magistracies, offices, and even archives. These administrative spaces – both open and closed – characterised Roman life throughout the Republic and High Empire until the administrative and judicial transformations of the fourth century CE. This volume explores urban development and the dynamics of administrative expansion, linking them with some of the most recent archaeological discoveries. In doing so, it examines several facets of the transformation of Roman administration over this period, considering new approaches to and theories on the uses of public space and incorporating new work in Roman studies that focuses on the spatial needs of human users, rather than architectural style and design. This fascinating collection of essays is of interest to students and scholars working on Roman space and urbanism, Roman governance, and the running of the Roman Empire more broadly.

Non-Western perspective on the international history of intellectual property rightsPolitics in Publishing focuses on Japan's involvement in shaping international copyright law over a seventy-year period following the country's 1899 accession to the Berne Convention, the first multilateral copyright treaty. During this time, Japanese state officials collaborated with various stakeholders such as publishers, translators, and legal experts to strategically influence the international revision process of the treaty. The involvement of these actors in international organizations such as the League of Nations and the United Nations affected global copyright norms even as Japan advanced its imperial – national after 1945 – and capitalist interests.Taking a previously lacking non-Western perspective on the history of international copyright law, Politics in Publishing highlights the complex interplay between state and private actors and between domestic and international power relations, as well as administrative transformations in the formation of the modern, global international order. Grounded in an impressive body of primary source material, this book will make a substantial contribution to interdisciplinary scholarship on intellectual property, and copyright history in particular.Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Essa obra oferece uma importante contribuição para a construção de políticas de educação que atendem à pluralidade étnicoracial deste país. A partir da discussão sobre as concepções de infância, a autora chega a uma etnografia crítica da prática escolar no ensino fundamental, na qual, de forma didática e com base no referencial cultural afro-brasileiro,apresenta os princípios fundadores da infância afrodescendente.

A social revolution has taken place in Europe. Women's employment patterns changed drastically the last decades. But they are still different across Europe. Welfare state scholars often presume that diversity and change in women's employment across Europe is based on financial (dis) incentive structures embedded in welfare states. This book shows, by in depth analyses of women's (and men's) employment and care patterns as well as child care services, taxation, leave schemes and social security in four different welfare states (the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark and Belgium) that this logic does not hold. A mother is not primarily the homo economicus welfare state scholars tend to presume. 'to work or to care 'is above all a moral predicament. What explains better the differences in Europe is to place care centrally and analyse welfare states as cultural agents. In the case of caring and paid employment, welfare states send culturally-defined moral images of good-enough caring in the form of ideals of care. An ideal of care implies a definition of what is good care and who gives it. These ideals of care are embedded in welfare states and their regulations, laws and implementation processes. Each welfare state promotes specific ideals of care. Cultural explanations downplay the role of the state too much. Culture, as is shown, is located within rather than outside the welfare state. The welfare state is not only a notary drawing contracts between the state and citizens or a merchant connecting supply and demand, but also a priest. This book shows, by studying care policy in welfare states, that social policy has an impact on women's and men's division of labour and care. But especially when welfare states are not seen as a financial structures only, but as cultural catalysts. This title is available in the OAPEN Library - http://www.oapen.org.

Although shaped primarily according to the economic and social structures of countries, basic health services aim to provide equal and accessible health services to everyone. While the public health discipline is involved in the planning and supervising of basic health services, the family medicine discipline is directly responsible for ensuring the implementation of these services. These disciplines must cooperate and coordinate to provide organized and effective basic health services. More importantly, health and social policies should be structured in accordance with the prioritized needs of countries. The basic health needs of countries are directly related to the economic and social structures of those countries. For this reason, it is not possible to talk about a globally structured basic health service that has definite boundaries and can be applied to every country. The main objective is to protect and improve health. Governments must create appropriate health policies. As in every field, basic health services are shaped according to the era and their scope changes. However, the basic principle in every age is to provide equal and free health care services to those in need. This book aims to inform the reader about the scope and applications of basic health services.

histoire romaine; histoire chrétienne; littérature latine chrétienne