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Over the course of more than 216 years of activity, the Archivio di Stato of Naples has constantly sought to manage its rich documentary heritage despite transfers, losses and destruction, often starting from the indexes created and transmitted by the same institutions that produced the archives deposited or delivered: simple lists of contents, ancint inventories, repertoires and “pandette”. In the collection called Museo, there is a series identified by the letter C, which contains the inventories no more used for archival reference. Between this historical series and the inventories in use, described in the SIAS (State Archives Information System) and in the database of the Archivio di Stato of Naples, there is a collection called Inventari antichi, located in a room next to the Sala inventari, which includes inventories and related materials that, although they concern items that no longer exist or have been rearranged, are still useful for archival reference. This census consists of a description of the ancient reference keys to the documentation held by the Archivio di Stato of Naples and covers the items stored in two rooms of it, where, over time, a large number of access keys have accumulated that are defined as “ancient” because they are no longer useful for research, either because they have been upgraded or because they relate to documentation that has been lost due to war.

Focuses on an ethnographic collection gathered from a complex of Chinese dwellings, the importance of which lies in its size, diversity, good condition, and observable continuity of materials known from earlier periods of Chinese occupation in Tucson.

This reprint brings together some recent advances in the sustainable re-design of natural waste and biomass in different material productions for both textile and non-textile applications. These include a wide array of topics, such as the following: the use of textile waste fibers, i.e., wool as a fertilizer to promote plant growth; the potential of cellulose textiles from hemp biomass; the use of green wood adhesives from sustainable proteins; optimization of the pyrolysis process of biomass; the use of natural wastes in composites preparation, including cellulosic waste as well as leather waste; dye adsorbents prepared from cellulosic wastes; some new methods of environmentally friendly dyeing; and imparting functionality to textiles by using natural ingredients.

Das Gegen\\Dokumentarische ist eine Antwort auf die Provokation des Dokumentarischen. Diese Provokation liegt im Anspruch oder Begehren, »Wirklichkeit« zu erfassen, darzustellen und zu kontrollieren. Der Begriff des Gegen\\Dokumentarischen markiert einen strategischen Einsatz, mit dem das Verständnis dokumentarischer Medien, Operationen, Institutionen, Poetiken, Ästhetiken, Schreib- und Darstellungsweisen geschärft und politisiert wird. Das Gegen\\Dokumentarische dient als Zugang, auch evidentielle Verfahren jenseits analoger Bildmedien zu beschreiben. Dabei rücken künstlerische, journalistische, juristische, politische und kulturelle Praktiken ins Blickfeld, die die Prozessualität des Gegen\\Dokumentarischen betonen.

The texts that gave rise to this book were developed during the course "Cooperative Learning: Teaching Methodology, Foundations, and Research," offered in 2025 by professors Patricia Unger Raphael Bataglia and Cristiane Paiva Alves within the Graduate Program in Education at UNESP Marília. We began the course with the aim of providing a genuine Cooperative Learning experience, but the group showed us that we would achieve even more than planned! Week by week, professors and students built the shared experience that resulted in this book.

The present eBook, consisting of a compilation of research and review articles, focuses on the features and mechanisms adopted and explored by pathogenic leptospires to successfully establish infection in the host. Additionally, this eBook provides information to support future work focused on the development of new prevention approaches against this important yet neglected zoonotic disease.

Turkic World studies seem to be a topic that attracts scientific attention day by day. The continuous increase in cooperation, rapprochement, and mobility between Turkish-speaking countries and communities since 1991 might be shown as the main dynamic behind this interest. The richness of the Turkic Republics in terms of natural resources, their location on the energy and transportation corridors, the change of the balances in the Caucasus with the Second Karabakh War in 2020, and the transition of the Turkic Council from a cooperation organization to an interstate organization in 2021 under the name of the "Organization of Turkic States" also accelerate the work of the Turkic World. In the meantime, the popularization of some geopolitical determinations and predictions in the context of scientific interest in the region can be shown as an important factor. Similar to the rise of Europe in the industrial age, we can talk about the rise of Asia in the information age. The sources of political and economic power are shifting to Asian geopolitics and this process continues to strengthen. Such analyses and predictions, which bring to the agenda that in the 2050s, Asia will regain its former central position also encourage academic interest in Central Asia. This book is the product of the goal of creating an original work for the Turkish World with gap-filling parameters and process analyses determined by a meticulous preliminary study in the light of the mentioned background. In this direction, three basic perspectives such as the effort to determine the capacities of the countries with comparative analyses, to look at the Turkish World from the perspective of problems, and to embody the Turkish World based on the community, autonomous region, and country sections dominate the work. With comparative analyses, it has been tried to embody the capacities of the countries within the parameters such as sustainable development potential, transportation systems, scientific performance, evolution in the political system, education system, and values of education. On the other hand, the crises affecting the Turkic World were discussed with the analysis of Karabakh, which is the main crisis, and the Russia-Ukraine War, which is the current crisis. On the other hand, the analysis of the thirty-year process in the Turkish World, starting from the scales of the community, autonomous region, and country, was carried out through the examples of Georgia, Tatarstan, and Uzbekistan.

In der Arbeit wird ein System zur Verteilung rechenintensiver Jobs beschrieben, das mit wenig Einarbeitungszeit genutzt werden kann und es ermöglicht, Standard-PCs mit geringem administrativem Aufwand in einen Rechenverbund zu integrieren. Ein wesentlicher Aspekt beschäftigte sich mit der Entwicklung neuartiger Verfahren, um den auf diese Weise entstehenden heterogenen Rechnerverbund mit seinen unterschiedlichsten Leistungs- und Zuverlässigkeitscharakteristika optimal mit Arbeit zu versorgen.

En beauce, dans le Perche et dans les pays de la Loire moyenne (Orléanais, Blésois, Touraine), les guerres de religion furent sanglantes. À cette violence extrême a succédé une coexistence entre une minorité calviniste (moins de 3 % de la population) et une majorité « papiste ». Au XVIIe siècle, cette coexistence fut parfois ponctuée de tensions qui donnèrent lieu à des violences anti-protestantes en 1621. La Réforme catholique (missions, catéchèse, séminaires) s'implanta lentement, aboutissant à l'amélioration de la formation et de la moralité du clergé paroissial et des chapitres (tel le prestigieux chapitre cathédral de Chartres). La vague de satanisme, dont l'un des épisodes les plus retentissants se joue à Loudun, toucha le Berry et la Touraine de manière particulièrement vive. Les formes jugées « superstitieuses » de la piété populaire suscitèrent l'hostilité du clergé dont le rigorisme – parfois lié à l'influence du jansénisme – s'en prit aux festivités profanes qui accompagnaient les fêtes religieuses. Cette sévérité contribua à préparer les détachements de l'époque contemporaine. Mais au XVIIe siècle, c'est le zèle catholique qui prévalut, en particulier dans les couches supérieures de la société, soutenant les entreprises missionnaires, notamment l'implantation des ursulines tourangelles au Canada.

There is considerable interest in pure and applied studies of extremophilic microorganisms, including those (acidophiles) that are active in low pH environments. As elsewhere in microbiology, this is a fast-developing field, and the proposed special issue of Frontiers highlights many of the more recent advances that have been made in this area. Authors from leading scientific groups located in North and South America, Australasia and Europe have contributed to this e-book, and the topics covered include advances in molecular, biochemical, biogeochemical and industrial aspects of acidophile microbiology.

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In United States Jewry, 1776-1985, the dean of American Jewish historians, Jacob Rader Marcus, unfolds the history of Jewish immigration, segregation, and integration; of Jewry's cultural exclusiveness and assimilation; of its internal division and indivisible unity; and of its role in the making of America. Characterized by Marcus's impeccable scholarship, meticulous documentation, and readable style, this landmark four-volume set completes the history Marcus began in The Colonial American Jew, 1492-1776. Volume I focuses on the American revolution and the early national period, from 1776 to 1840. Marcus examines the role played by Jews in the revolution and discusses important historical and social themes such as politics, commerce, religion, Jewish and American culture, anti-Jewish prejudices, and the phenomenon of assimilation.

This book explores the link between gender and urban space, attempting to incorporate a joyful activism into geographical research and embracing forms of ""self-awareness and self-ignorance"" (Harding 1992) to reconsider established theoretical and methodological approaches and enact research practices informed by liberatory politics (Federici 2023). The author worked together with transfeminist activists in Cagliari and Brussels, socialised as white and cisgender women as her, to observe the urban space by considering the intersection between gender oppression and the privilege of whiteness and cisgenderness. The result is a deeply reflexive book, because the theory it contains is conceived out of the personal experiences and individual histories of the people involved and is marked by a constant questioning of the author's presence and limits; joyful, because it chooses the path of attention by focusing on the relationships between the people involved and embracing feminist practices of parody; political, because it offers both individual and collective representations that express how power relations work in urban space. Parody is the feminist practice for a joyful geography that the author and participants chose to critically imitate discrimination and create three collaborative short films, entitled: ""By Bike She Lives"", on the right to slowness from a feminist perspective; ""Urban Piss-Ups"", on the act of urinating in public space as a metaphor for the right to the city; and finally ""Freedom for Jeanneke-Pis"", on the symbolism associated with sexist public representations. While the individual cartographies contribute to a theoretical discourse on the city, the films are suitable for public debate, to be discussed, disseminated and used to exercise the right to critique, the right to ask questions and to imagine, think and share urban scenarios other than the existing ones.

Rainfall of different intensities is the main factor triggering both shallow and deep-seated landslides. Research on this issue covers the physical mechanism of landslide occurrence, the relationship between rainfall intensity and landslide incidence, the construction and optimization of landslide models, and risk assessment models of landslide hazards. These studies provide a new perspective and method for understanding and coping with rainfall-induced landslides.