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This book presents exclusive and comprehensive insight into the detailed molecular mechanisms of osteoarthritis (OA) initiation, progression and current advancements in the field. Inputs from clinician scientists, research and expertise offer a complete explanation of the current understanding of the pathogenesis of OA and practice in imaging and treatments strategies. Contributions from leading scientists provide a detailed introduction in the use of biomarkers in clinical research as well as in clinical practice and OA diagnosis. This book further discusses the potential of regenerative therapies and recent advances in cardiovascular and functional capacity on patients with OA.

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Möglichkeit der Rekonstruktion prähistorischer Hochwasserereignisse am Oberrhein und an der Oberen Donau anhand von Änderungen in der geochemisch-mineralogischen sowie der granulometrischen Zusammensetzung von Auensedimenten. Das konkrete Ziel der Arbeit ist es, einen Zusammenhang zwischen der geochemisch-mineralogischen sowie der granulometrischen Zusammensetzung der im Auenbereich abgelagerten Sedimente und der Höhe des herrschenden Abflusses nachzuweisen.

This volume aims at exploring the reinvention of philosophy, literature and science in the early modern era to show how writers and readers collectively engaged in redefining the transmission of knowledge, whether ancient or newly discovered. In its first section, the contributors deal with religious, ideological and philosophical issues; in the second, they tackle art and science, while, in the third, they provide new insights about travelling and the circulation of ideas. These ten chapters thus relate transmission to the fundamental role of transgression by considering English writers and their challenging ideas in the context of their engagement with a flowering print market. The importance of public discourse as well as of memory and tradition, along with the need for renewal and reform which redefined England’s identity, are therefore being explored here. As the book refines on previous generalisations on the interacting concepts of transmission and transgression in early modern England, it also addresses the following questions: is there such a thing as a specifically English transgressive aesthetics? Can it be seen as a philosophy? Eventually, does transgression necessarily deny its own sources?

Nel 2009 è uscito per i tipi di FrancoAngeli Il secolo di carta. Antonio Bosio artigiano di testi e immagini nella Venezia del Seicento. Allargando lo sguardo oltre i limiti biografici del protagonista – libraio, tipografo e incisore – e quelli geografici di Venezia, lo studio aveva cercato di fare di un oscuro ma poliedrico artigiano della carta stampata la chiave di lettura del commercio di testi e immagini dell’epoca in cui operava. Qui la seconda e ultima puntata del Secolo di carta, l’edizione integrale dell’inventario di bottega di Antonio Bosio, dal quale la prima ricerca era sbocciata. Era importante dare la possibilità di scorrerne le pagine per la quantità e l’estrema varietà dei materiali ivi descritti, che va dal libro al foglio volante di preghiere, dall’incisione da collezione a quella d’arredo o per laurea, dalle cartegloria ai ventagli e a molto altro ancora. Varietà che rende l’inventario veneziano quasi unico. L’edizione dell’Inventario, con nuovi documenti sulla famiglia Bosio illustrati nell’introduzione, nasce sotto l’auspicio della collaborazione tra persone e discipline. Fra bibliografia e storia – a torto spesso ritenute in competizione tra loro –, perché l’edizione di una fonte come questa invita a formulare riflessioni storiche a partire dall’osservazione di fenomeni bibliografici, anche i più minuti e apparentemente insignificanti. Collaborazione fra persone perché invita tutti i lettori ad appassionarsi al gioco di individuazione degli esemplari superstiti delle voci d’inventario che ancora mancano di identificazione, o, al contrario, a prendere coscienza della loro definitiva scomparsa, spia sfuggente dei silenzi della storia.

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W publikacji podjęto problematykę wykorzystywania informacji związanych ze zdrowiem w marketingu produktów żywnościowych, skupiając się przede wszystkim na oświadczeniach zdrowotnych i żywieniowych umieszczanych na etykietach. Wybór tematu wynikał z jednej strony z rosnącego znaczenia pozacenowych atrybutów produktów żywnościowych, do których zaliczają się dane o właściwościach odżywczych i zdrowotnych, a z drugiej – z luki badawczej w tym obszarze w polskiej literaturze przedmiotu. Monografia może być użyteczna zarówno dla uczonych zajmujących się marketingiem produktów żywnościowych lub naukami o żywności i żywieniu oraz studentów pokrewnych kierunków, jak i dla praktyków zarządzania marketingowego w przedsiębiorstwach przetwórstwa i dystrybucji produktów z segmentu tzw. „zdrowej żywności”. ZE WSTĘPU

The links between Marxism and phenomenology were a fundamental axis of the European cultural debate in the 1960s and 1970s. In post-war France, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty already referred, in terms of theoretical foundation, to the phenomenological tradition of Husserl and Heidegger, and in terms of civil engagement, to Marxism. As early as 1951, Trần Đức Thảo, a student of Merleau-Ponty’s, established a first synthesis of these two paradigms in his Phenomenology and Dialectical Materialism. Eleven years later, Jean-Toussaint Desanti returned to the demand for a convergence between phenomenology and Marxism. Other attempts emerged first in Italy and then in Germany. The aim of this volume is to propose a synthesis on the subject. It also aims to promote an initial historical reflection on the philosophical current which, for at least two decades, has occupied the intellectual scene, and to evaluate its legacy in contemporary debate.

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The aim of this chapter is to propose a philosophical reading of certain sections of the Final Report of the Truth Commission (2022), especially the initial sections, based on a conception of truth called by the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas as the Truth of Testimony. To achieve this purpose, I start by presenting the distinction between the truth of the revelation and the truth of the testimony; subsequently, I show how some sections of the Final Report are related to the truth of the testimony; finally, I con-clude by ratifying that a truth, whose basis is justice, understood as re-sponsibility for the other, undoes any possibility of avoiding issues aimed at the freedom of the Same.

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This open access book challenges international policy ‘groupthink’ about lifelong learning. Adult learning – too long a servant of business competitiveness – should be reimagined as central to democratic society. Young adults, especially from disadvantaged backgrounds, engage more in education and training, and learn more day-to-day at work, if provision is democratically organised and based on enduring and inclusive institutional networks, and when jobs encourage and reward the acquisition of skills. Using innovative qualitative and quantitative methods, the contributors develop a critical perspective on dominant policies, investigating – across the European Union and Australia – how ‘vulnerable’ young adults experience programmes designed to improve their ‘employability’, and how ‘skills for jobs’ policies squeeze out wider – and wiser – ideas of what education and training should do. Chapters show why some provision works for those with poor educational backgrounds, why labour market and educational institutions matter so much, how adult education can empower and expand people’s agency, and the challenges of using artificial intelligence in lifelong learning policy-making. Several investigate the pivotal role of workplace learning in organisational life, and in learning during ‘emerging adulthood’. Important comparative studies of workplace learning in the metals, retail and adult education sectors show the role of management, trade unions and social movements in young adults’ learning.

Auch mehr als 150 Jahre nach Erscheinen des Werks „Hörigkeit der Frauen“ von John Stuart Mill und Harriet Taylor Mill sind feministische Forderungen noch immer nicht verstummt. In zahlreichen Debatten bringen verschiedenste Gruppierungen feministische Anliegen als gesellschaftspolitische Forderungen ein und richten sie mit Nachdruck an Staat und Gesellschaft. Das Anliegen der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, den Beitrag aufzuzeigen, den John Stuart Mill als britischer Freiheitsphilosoph zu diesen Diskursen leisten kann. Trotz der Zweifel vieler Zeitgenossen an der Vereinbarkeit seines Einsatzes für die Gleichstellung der Geschlechter mit seinen übrigen philosophischen Positionen soll gezeigt werden, dass sich seine feministischen Thesen folgerichtig aus seinem Gesamtwerk ableiten lassen. Mill, der gelegentlich als der "erste Feminist" bezeichnet wird, ist der Überzeugung, dass der Grad der Zivilisation eines Volkes an der sozialen Stellung der Frau erkennbar sei. Ohne die Beseitigung von Ungerechtigkeit innerhalb des Verhältnisses von Frau und Mann ist seiner Meinung nach sozialer Fortschritt nicht möglich. Mit Hilfe eines von der amerikanischen Philosophin Iris Marion Young entwickelten Analyserasters und der dort ausformulierten Unterdrückungsformen (Ausbeutung, Machtlosigkeit, kultureller Imperialismus, Marginalisierung und Gewalt) sollen Formen antifeministischer Ungerechtigkeit identifiziert und Mills Thesen aktualisiert und gestärkt werden.

Obwohl Klöster als Räume des spirituellen Rückzugs verstanden werden, sind für die Verwaltung von Besitztümern, das Rechnungswesen, den Handel und das Betreiben von Schulen fortgeschrittene mathematische Kenntnisse notwendig. Die zehn Beiträge dieses Bandes untersuchen, wie dieses mathematische Wissen in klösterlichen Umgebungen gesammelt und angewandt wurde. Anders als in akademischen, universitär organisierten Institutionen liegt der Sammlungsschwerpunkt im monastischen Umfeld auf pragmatischen Texten: Rechnungsbücher, Vermessungsanleitungen, Rechenbücher und Perspektivtraktate finden sich vermehrt in Klöstern wieder und offenbaren jene als aktive Orte, an denen theoretische Neugier und praktische Notwendigkeit kontinuierlich ineinandergreifen.

With a focus on nine different national contexts, this book explores contemporary family diversity. With attention to the different welfare states and cultures of care in each setting, it problematizes the pre-eminence of research and policy centered on heteronormative families, showing the extent to which family diversity exists cross-nationally in relation to different gendered and "family-friendly" policies. Considering variations in family forms, including differences in the number and marital status of parents, their gender, sexual orientation and biological relationship to the children (adoption), multicultural families, and families created by technological assistance or surrogacy, it presents demographic information, alongside quantitative and qualitative research, across a number of advanced countries. A contribution to our understanding of the diversity of family forms, how diversity is lived in families, and what family diversity means in various international policy contexts. The Changing Faces of Families will appeal to scholars with interests in the sociology of the family. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.