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While the advantages of leveraging advanced technologies and Industry 4.0 for effective safety management have been extensively recognized, the journey towards a more mature integration of Industry 4.0 technologies into safety management practices often lacks a well-defined and systematic guidance map. This research is a step towards providing organizations with a structured approach to navigate and achieve successful safety management transformation, enabling them to fully harness the potential of industry 4.0 technologies in the workplace. Two rounds of systematic literature reviews (SLRs) are conducted to narrow down the number of articles based on the PRISMA method, which are then subjected to further content analysis. The study highlights the integration of Industry 4.0 technologies within the domains of People, Process, and Policy and their significance in advancing safety maturity. This research uncovered key themes, providing valuable insights that will shape the conceptual maturity model structure of safety management based on the innovative nature of Industry 4.0 to enhance their safety culture to align with. The results provide a fertile ground for a Smart Safety Maturity Model, to integrate technologies to elevate safety drivers in construction safety management

This book investigates the "pliegos de cordel" (printed booklets) that came out of the printing house of José María Moreno in the 19th century. It addresses the history of the printer, traces invaluable material lost among archives and libraries, and offers an inventory of 750 prints preserved both at the University of Geneva and in other parts of Europe. An important contribution to the history of publishing and printing in Spain.

The genus Quercus (Quercus, Fagaceae) comprises more than 400 species distributed throughout the northern hemisphere. While the highest oak diversity occurs in American and Asia, European species are also widespread. Oaks are ecological dominants of many temperate forests, and evergreen species are major components of Mediterranean and subtropical woodlands. They provide important ecosystem services and valuable timber. Oak species exhibit high genetic diversity, and this diversity has provided a wealth of information regarding oak ecology and evolution. Recent genetic and genomic studies of oaks have unraveled their evolutionary origins, history, and past radiations. Genetic approaches have also been applied to learn about more recent events, such as range expansions and contractions occurring at northern latitudes.

This work focuses on the concept of “entailment societies”. Using the Atlantic as a laboratory for analysis, it reflects on how the Atlantic islands in the Portuguese sphere of influence - unpopulated territories that were progressively colonized and socially constructed by the Portuguese Crown - were organized, in social and economic terms, through entails. It therefore emphasizes the extraordinary importance of entails in the colonial appropriation of territory and in the subsequent configuration of social and power relations. As a collective work, it includes contributions from different authors on entailment in Brazil, Cape Verde and São Tomé, Madeira and the Azores between the 14th and 17th centuries.

Mit der Verabschiedung der IAS-Verordnung im Jahr 2002 wurden kapitalmarktorientierte Mutterunternehmen mit Sitz innerhalb der EU dazu verpflichtet, ihren Konzernabschluss spätestens zum Ende des Geschäftsjahres 2005 bzw. 2007 nach den internationalen Rechnungslegungsvorschriften der IFRS aufzustellen. Parallel hierzu veröffentlichte das IASB im Jahr 2003 spezielle Umstellungsregeln für erstmalige Anwender der IFRS. Die im Rechnungslegungsstandard IFRS 1 aufgeführten Vorschriften enthalten eine Vielzahl von bilanzpolitischen Spielräumen, die Unternehmen die einmalige Chance bieten, ihre Vermögens-, Finanz- und Ertragslage zielgerecht zu gestalten. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden in dieser Arbeit mögliche Erklärungsgründe bilanzpolitischen Verhaltens bei der Umstellung der Rechnungslegung deutscher Unternehmen von HGB auf IFRS hergeleitet und mittels ökonometrischer Verfahren aus empirischer Sicht untersucht.

Can political theorists justify their ideas? Do sound political theories need foundations? What constitutes a well-justified argument in political discourse? Don Herzog attempts to answer these questions by investigating the ways in which major theorists in the Anglo-American political tradition have justified their views. Making use of a wide range of primary texts, Herzog examines the work of such important theorists as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, the utilitarians (Jeremy Bentham, J. S. Mill. Henry Sidgwick, J. C. Harsanyi, R. M. Hare, and R. B. Brandt), David Hume, and Adam Smith. Herzog argues that Hobbes, Locke, and the utilitarians fail to justify their theories because they try to ground the volatile world of politics in immutable aspects of human nature, language, theology, or rationality. Herzog concludes that the works of Adam Smith and David Hume offer illuminating examples of successful justifications. Basing their political conclusions on social contexts, not on abstract principles, Hume and Smith develop creative solutions to given problems.

Winner of the W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize Dynasty Divided uses the story of a prominent Kievan family of journalists, scholars, and politicians to analyze the emergence of rivaling nationalisms in nineteenth-century Ukraine, the most pivotal borderland of the Russian Empire. The Shul'gins identified as Russians and defended the tsarist autocracy; the Shul'hyns identified as Ukrainians and supported peasant-oriented socialism. Fabian Baumann shows how these men and women consciously chose a political position and only then began their self-fashioning as members of a national community, defying the notion of nationalism as a direct consequence of ethnicity. Baumann asks what made individuals into determined nationalists in the first place, revealing the close link to private lives, including intimate family dramas and scandals. He looks at how nationalism emerged from domestic spaces, and how women played an important (if often invisible) role in fin-de-siècle politics.Dynasty Divided explains how nineteenth-century Kievans cultivated their national self-images and how, by the twentieth century, Ukraine steered away from Russia. The two branches of this family of Russian nationalists and Ukrainian nationalists epitomize the struggles for modern Ukraine.

Humanities Forward brings together scholars and practitioners who have developed innovative responses to the challenges facing the Humanities. International, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational, their contributions illuminate, in diverse ways, the impact, value, and societal relevance of the Humanities in the 21st century. There is a need for researchers to communicate the value of what they do, and there is a need for policymakers to recognize the immense contributions, individual and societal, made by the Humanities. As one of the book’s contributors puts it, “it is not trivial to consider the sum of human happiness that is owed solely to the continued existence of humanities subjects.” This book offers a roadmap for both researchers and public stakeholders, showcasing best practices across a wide range of disciplines. Challenging provocations sit side by side with insightful analysis, asking the reader to be part of a collective conversation. Whether in Europe, South America, or Oceania (and beyond), this volume offers fresh perspectives from academics, publishers, research funders, and schoolteachers. Together, they articulate what the Humanities stand for, on their own terms.

The electric vehicle revival reflects negotiations between public policy, which promotes clean, fuel-efficient vehicles, and the auto industry, which promotes high-performance vehicles. Electric cars were once as numerous as internal combustion engine cars before all but vanishing from American roads around World War I. Now, we are in the midst of an electric vehicle revival, and the goal for a sustainable car seems to be within reach. In Age of Auto Electric, Matthew N. Eisler shows that the halting development of the electric car in the intervening decades was a consequence of tensions between environmental, energy, and economic policy imperatives that informed a protracted reappraisal of the automobile system. These factors drove the electric vehicle revival, argues Eisler, hastening automaking's transformation into a science-based industry in the process. Challenging the common assumption that the electric vehicle revival is due to the development of better batteries, Age of Auto Electric instead focuses on changing environmental and socioeconomic conditions, energy and environmental policies, systems of energy conversion and industrial production, and innovation practices that affected the prevalence and popularity of electric vehicles in recent decades. Eisler describes a world in transition from legacy to alternative energy-conversion systems and the promises, compromises, new problems, and unintended consequences that enterprise has entailed.

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Conservé aux Archives Départementales du Pas-de-Calais, le Trésor des chartes des comtes d’Artois (xiiie-xive siècles) rassemble plusieurs dizaines de milliers de documents dont la très grande richesse est parfois méconnue. Les études ici réunies s’attachent à la constitution et à la conservation de ce fonds, à l’histoire de la production documentaire (cartulaires, enquêtes, comptabilités), et plus généralement à l’histoire des comtes et du comté d’Artois (société politique, gouvernement et administration du comté, pratiques judiciaires, pratiques de dévotion, mémoire généalogique). L’ouvrage s’inscrit dans le renouvellement actuel de l’histoire des pratiques de l’écrit. Par la diversité des thèmes et des approches, il dresse un état des connaissances relatives aux archives des comtes d’Artois, et, au-delà, dessine des perspectives de recherche. Il attirera l’attention de la communauté scientifique sur un fonds documentaire exceptionnel et apportera au public cultivé une contribution importante à la connaissance de l’Artois au Moyen Âge et, plus largement, du royaume de France sous les règnes des derniers Capétiens.

The Authoress uses snapshots of memories to create an emotional story about her meetings with Toruń; places, people and events important for her; and life going on between Toruń and Warsaw. She also shares her experiences related to working as a member of the academic staff at the Department of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Toruń (between 2000 and 2011). The text contains such thematic threads as: “familiarity” and “strangeness”, stability and variability (passing away), sense of community and solitude.

The volume “Drug Utilization Profiles of Drugs for Peptic Ulcer and Gastro-oesophageal Reflux Disease” aims to provide a detailed and comprehensive overview of the use and expenditure of medications for the treatment of peptic ulcer (PU) and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) in Italy and the Campania region from 2015 to 2023. The volume was produced by CIRFF (Research Center of Pharmacoeconomics and Drug Utilization Research) at the University of Naples Federico II, in collaboration with the Laboratory of Pharmacoepidemiology and Human Nutrition at the Mario Negri IRCCS Institute for Pharmacological Research in Milan and IRCCS MultiMedica in Milan, to provide a detailed picture of drug consumption and prescriptions in Italy and Campania Region. The study, conducted both at the national level (Italy) and regional level (Campania), offers a broad overview of the use of drugs for PU and GERD. It assesses their impact in terms of healthcare spending and consumption, analyzing market data and pharmaceutical prescriptions. The results offer insights into the use of these medications in clinical practice and highlight potential areas for intervention to optimize their appropriate use. For this reason, the volume also delves into the regulatory dimension, particularly concerning their prescribability within the Italian National Health System in accordance with AIFA guidelines. Understanding prescribing dynamics, both qualitatively (appropriate use) and quantitatively (usage volumes), is the conditio sine qua non for framing rational drug policy, including the assessment of the effects of market interventions, regulations, or drug culture over time. For these reasons, this volume serves as a valuable resource for decision-makers in identifying strategies to promote the safe, efficient, and effective use of medications.

Diversity and multiculturalism have become pervasive in today’s organizations. Facets of Managing in Cross-Cultural Diversity is a timely publication critically exploring the phenomenon of managing in cross-cultural diversity. This book offers important insights on real issues and studies into management in a cross-cultural, global environment, and uncovers the issues from macro and group-individual perspectives. Unlike most publications on diversity which are limited to a single country’s experience, this book brings together authors who write about and study workplace diversity in the context of different countries and cultures.