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La región es uno de los conceptos más relevantes en Geografía, con una larga historia de idas y vueltas, muertes y resurrecciones. En este libro, que se traduce por primera vez al español, el concepto de región es visto a partir de distintos abordajes: la región como artificio; como simple instrumento de análisis del investigador; la región como hecho, una evidencia empírica reconocida en la práctica de las relaciones sociales; la región normativa, instrumento de intervención –especialmente por parte del Estado–, y la región como artefacto, un híbrido entre artificio y hecho, en el juego (político) entre representación o conciencia regional y manifestación concreta en las prácticas de los grupos sociales.

This landmark anthology is an essential guide to the histories of Native women's lives in earlier centuries. Sixteen classic essays, plus new commentary—many by the original authors, describe a broad range of research methods and sources offering insight into the lives of Native American women. The authors explain the use of letters and diaries, memoirs and autobiographies, newspaper accounts and ethnographies, census data and legal documents. This collection offers guidelines for extracting valuable information from such diverse sources and assessing the significance of a such variables as religious affiliation, changes in women's power after colonization, connections between economics and gender, and representations of Native women.

This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, perspectives, and main emphases of studying processes of communicative remembering and media memory. Its chapters analyze the field of communication memory studies and link it to complementary approaches from the social sciences, the humanities, and cultural studies.

In 20 essays inspired by Hannah Arendt's analysis of crisis-ridden modernity, Wolfgang R. Heuer addresses aspects of depoliticization and the loss of politics, and thus of freedom. The wide-ranging essays are grouped in five sections: When Politics Vanishes, The Call of Responsibility, Images and Emotions, Federations, and From Plurality to Cosmos. They lead to the insight that the crises of our time require a common change of perspective towards ecological and political sustainability, the unity of »Cosmos and Republic«.

Thunderstorm activity is characterized by a pronounced spatiotemporal variability. For several countries in Europe, this variability is analyzed and attributed to large-scale drivers using multivariate statistical methods. The analysis of atmospheric teleconnections reveals a link between the long-term behavior of thunderstorm activity and natural climate variability.

The research program �Information Management and Market Engineering� focuses on the analysis and the design of electronic markets. Taking a holistic view of the conceptualization and realization of solutions, the research integrates the disciplines business administration, economics, computer science, and law. Topics of interest range from the implementation, quality assurance, and further development of electronic markets to their integration into business processes, innovative business models, and legal frameworks.

Visual art has been tied to hip-hop culture since its emergence in the 1970s. Commentary on these initial connections often emphasizes the importance of graffiti and fashion during hip-hop’s earliest days. Forty years later, hip-hop music has grown into a billion-dollar global industry, and its influence on visual art and society has also expanded. This book-length printed edition of Arts collects essays by scholars who explore this evolving influence through their work in art education, cultural theory, and visual culture studies. The topics covered by these authors include discussions on identity and cultural appropriation, equity and access as represented in select works of art, creativity and copyright in digital media, and the use of fine art tropes within the sociocultural history of hip-hop. As a collected volume, these essays make potentially important contributions to broadening the narrative on art education and hip-hop beyond the topics of graffiti, fashion, and the use of cyphers in educational contexts.

Mathematical modelling in biomedicine is a rapidly developing scientific discipline at the intersection of medicine, biology, mathematics, physics, and computer science. Its progress is stimulated by fundamental scientific questions and by the applications to public health. This book represents a collection of papers devoted to mathematical modelling of various physiological problems in normal and pathological conditions. It covers a broad range of topics including cardiovascular system and diseases, heart and brain modelling, tumor growth, viral infections, and immune response. Computational models of blood circulation are used to study the influence of heart arrhythmias on coronary blood flow and on operating modes for left-ventricle-assisted devices. Wave propagation in the cardiac tissue is investigated in order to show the influence of tissue heterogeneity and fibrosis. The models of tumor growth are used to determine optimal protocols of antiangiogenic and radiotherapy. The models of viral hepatitis kinetics are considered for the parameter identification, and the evolution of viral quasi-species is investigated. The book presents the state-of-the-art in mathematical modelling in biomedicine and opens new perspectives in this passionate field of research.

Dive into the fascinating world of photosynthesis through the latest publications. This comprehensive work delves deep into the intricate regulatory mechanisms that underpin the vital process of photosynthesis. From the molecular reactions at the core to the overarching responses of entire plants, explore the diverse facets of this fundamental phenomenon. Discover how plants adeptly adapt to an ever-changing and often challenging environment. Gain valuable insights with real-world applications, spanning agriculture, forestry, and biotechnology. Whether you're a scientist, educator, or enthusiast, this reprint promises to unravel the mysteries of life's essential processes. Join us in this exploration of photosynthesis as we bridge the gap between scientific inquiry and practical knowledge, ensuring a sustainable future for both natural ecosystems and cultivated environments.

Migration wird von der Salzburger Forschungsinitiative Musik und Migration als Sammelbegriff für verschiedene Wanderungshandlungen (u.a. Arbeits-, Bildungs- und Fluchtmigration) verstanden. Diese sind – in unterschiedlicher Ausprägung – für alle Zeiträume menschlicher Existenz dokumentierbar. Migrationsforschung erweist sich als interdisziplinär relevantes Wissenschaftsfeld, zu deren Erschließung die Musikwissenschaften substanziell beitragen können. Die hierfür maßgeblichen methodischen Entscheidungen bieten Herausforderungen, die es anzunehmen gilt. Der vorliegende Band enthält Diskussionsbeiträge in Form theoretischer und methodischer Überlegungen sowie Hinweise auf Fallbeispiele musikwissenschaftlicher Migrationsforschung.

The work Intorno a Boccaccio/Boccaccio e dintorni 2015 stems from the international seminar that was held in Certaldo on the 9th September 2015, and is the second edition of an initiative which the ENGB National Association has now made an annual appointment. The purpose of these seminars, aimed primarily at young scholars, is to collect and develop the research prospects emerged in occasion of the centenary celebrations in 2013 and to offer a place for a new and contemporary discussion. The topics covered during the seminar, mainly focused on the Latin and vernacular work of Boccaccio, address (with specific attention to the Decameron) aspects of tradition and textual criticism, history of the language, literary criticism and history of the miniature.

The Bachelor of Arts (BA) was the first recognised degree at the University of Adelaide. Although informal classes for some subjects were held at the University between 1873 and 1875, the first official University lecture was a Latin lecture at 10 am on Monday 28 March 1876. This was followed by lectures in Greek, English and Mental Philosophy. By 1878, the first BA student, Thomas Ainslie Caterer, completed his studies for the BA degree and in 1879 became the first graduate of the University of Adelaide. [...] In the first 50 years of the University’s existence, less than ten BA students graduated each year. At the start of the 21st century this figure had climbed to over 300 BA graduates per year but what is interesting is that by 2010 the number of BA graduates was equalled by the number of graduates from separate named degrees within the Faculty plus 70 Music graduates.

The experiences of Korean comfort girls-women are a paradigmatic example of how military sexual violence can obliterate the dignity of women and shame them into nonexistence. This book examines how the turning of their innocence into inadequacy, compounded their long, miserable suffering for half a century.

La décentralisation est au cœur de la genèse de l'internet, dont l'objectif premier était de faire communiquer des machines hétérogènes et distantes, sans passer par un point unique. Aujourd'hui, la concentration domine, autour de macro-acteurs, ces « géants » dont les immenses fermes de serveurs voient passer l'essentiel du trafic du web. Pourtant, le principe originel n'a pas été entièrement abandonné et, dans tous les domaines d'application, des développeurs explorent des alternatives décentralisées. Ces « nains » proposent des moteurs de recherche, des réseaux sociaux, des espaces de stockage qui répartissent ressources et compétences entre les membres du réseau. Cet ouvrage explore les formes d'organisation décentralisées de l'internet : il montre comment un réseau qui répartit la responsabilité de son fonctionnement à ses marges, en s'organisant selon un modèle non - ou faiblement - hiérarchisé, peut se développer dans l'internet contemporain si fortement structuré. Un tel dispositif pose des questions d'organisation des marchés, d'efficacité des techniques, de durabilité des modèles, ainsi que de protection de la vie privée et de droit des données personnelles. Comme le fait remarquer Geoffrey Bowker dans sa préface, cet ouvrage nous conduit à interroger la gouvernance d'internet, et, pour comprendre cette question sociotechnique clef de notre temps, il nous faut analyser les alternatives au fonctionnement actuel. C'est précisément ce que fait, d'une manière fine et informée, Nains sans géants.