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The contributors range from graduate students and recent PhDs to senior scholars working in the fields of medieval studies, art history, English literature, poetics, early modern studies, musicology, and geography. All are engaged in academic writing, but some of the contributors also publish in other genres, includes poetry and fiction. Several contributors maintain a very active online presence, including blogs and websites; all are committed to strengthening the bonds of community, both in person and online, which helps to explain the effervescent sense of collegiality that pervades the volume, creating linkages across essays and extending outward into the wide world of writers and readers.

Cet ouvrage propose une histoire environnementale comparée de la nation. L’auteur démontre qu’au-delà des contextes, l’invention de la nature vise bien souvent à renforcer les contours matériels et idéels de la nation au nom de laquelle agissent les pouvoirs publics. Tandis que dans la France parsemée de lieux de mémoire, le parc des Cévennes sert à la pérennisation d’une nation paysanne, nostalgique et traditionnelle, au Canada, pour pallier un passé manquant de profondeur mais débordant de conflits, le parc Forillon donne à voir et à croire une nation vierge, atemporelle et apolitique. Quant à l’Éthiopie et son parc du Semēn, l’État s’approprie les représentations néomalthusiennes et vaguement racistes des institutions internationales telles que l’Unesco et le WWF afin d’être reconnu sur la scène internationale et de s’imposer, alors, sur un territoire qu’il veut national. Mobilisant les lois, les rapports d’activité et la documentation archivistique et touristique produits par les gestionnaires de ces territoires, de la fin des années 1960 au temps présent, cet ouvrage relate trois histoires de natures et de nations. Mais il livre aussi une seule histoire : celle du parc comme enjeu de luttes. Car de l’Amérique du Nord à l’Afrique jusqu’à l’Europe, en tant qu’espace de vie quotidienne converti en espace de visites temporaires, le parc national légitime toujours l’exercice public d’une violence concrète et symbolique sur les populations locales et environnantes.

Les loisirs, ces temps et ces activités consacrées à la détente, aux divertissements et au développement personnel, sont devenus un objet d'études sociologiques, puis historiques depuis leur ""découverte"" en tant que fait social lors des Trente Glorieuses. Malgré un bel essor de ces études depuis quelques années, de nombreuses interrogations persistent, notamment en ce qui concerne les liens directs des loisirs avec les sociétés urbaines. Questions qui portent d'abord sur les rapports des lois...

Due to population aging, calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD) has become the most common heart valve disease in Western countries. No therapies exist to slow this disease progression, and surgical valve replacement is the only effective treatment. Calcific Aortic Valve Disease covers the contemporary understanding of basic valve biology and the mechanisms of CAVD, provides novel insights into the genetics, proteomics, and metabolomics of CAVD, depicts new strategies in heart valve tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, and explores current treatment approaches. As we are on the verge of understanding the mechanisms of CAVD, we hope that this book will enable readers to comprehend our current knowledge and focus on the possibility of preventing disease progression in the future.

Statistically, women appear to suffer more frequently from depressive and anxiety disorders, featuring more regularly in primary care figures for consultations, diagnoses and prescriptions for psychotropic medication. This has been consistently so throughout the post-war period with current figures suggesting that women are approximately twice more likely to suffer from affective disorders than men. However, this book suggests that the statistical landscape reveals only part of the story. Currently, 75 per cent of suicides are among men, and this trend can also be traced back historically to data that suggests this has been the case since the beginning of the twentieth-century. This book suggests that male psychological illness was in fact no less common, but that it emerged in complex ways and was understood differently in response to prevailing cultural and medical forces. The book explores a host of medical, cultural and social factors that raise important questions about historical and current perceptions of gender and mental illness.

Each year, malaria kills almost half a million people despite the fact that it is a preventable and curable disease. Malaria has a direct correlation with economic loss due to the need for people to take time off work and the cost of hospital treatments. Undertaking decisive measures to combat malaria is necessary. This book aims to present current approaches in the treatment of malaria. It will be a guide to those working in malaria-endemic regions and cover both diagnosis and treatment. It will also be useful for medical workers in western countries where malaria is not as common. Considering that malaria causes morbidity and mortality, more especially among children below five years of age and pregnant mothers, it is therefore imperative that people from all walks of life should join hands to address this public health problem.

Starting from an analysis of the factors that undermine the norm’s ability to guide citizens’ behaviour, and assessing the repercussions of this crisis on general deterrence, the research explores the transformations affecting the traditional command-and-control normative structure in favour of forms of soft normativity, where compliance is encouraged through mechanisms other than intimidation. Finally, the study highlights the consequences for criminal law: in certain specific areas, the strict link between rule, violation, and sanction gives way to models of criminal compliance, which rely on incentive-based approaches aimed at encouraging—albeit retrospective—adherence to the law.

The teaching aid, which is designed for the students, provides condensed knowledge about traditional Lithuanian peasant women and men‘s clothes from ancient times to the beginning of the 20th century as well as a short overview of resources, iconographic materials, research and terminology. The origin of national clothes, folk costumes and the development of its concept in Lithuania and Eastern Europe is being analyzed. Lithuanian traditional costume is discussed in order to reveal its regional originality, to show the diversity of clothes in the territory of the same ethnographic region and to trace the impact of confession, of other nations and social status on peasant‘s costume.

Nicht nur anderswo, sondern auch in deutschen Städten gestaltet sich die soziale Lage in privilegierten Vierteln einerseits und Quartieren mit struktureller Benachteiligung andererseits extrem unterschiedlich. Bei der Suche nach Gegenmitteln wird immer deutlicher: Ein Engagement für soziale Gerechtigkeit muss auch Perspektiven der Umwelt- und Energieverteilungsgerechtigkeit beinhalten. Dazu bedarf es einer multiperspektivischen Betrachtung und einer interdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit. Die Beiträger*innen verhandeln diese Prämissen und laden über wissenschaftliche Grenzen hinweg dazu ein, aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln neue Zukunftsideen für eine sozial gerechte Stadt zu diskutieren.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com. In Retooling Global Development and Governance a team of UN experts debate new ideas about how to overcome deficiencies in the ongoing process of globalization and in the existing mechanisms for global economic governance. They do not claim to offer a blueprint, rather a set of ideas that could become the basis for a coherent "toolbox" designed to guide development policies and international cooperation. Promising directions for reform discussed in the book include: - Strengthening government capacities for formulating and implementing national development strategies - New strategies for ensuring that official development assistance is aligned with national priorities - Enhancing international trade and financial systems so that countries with limited capabilities can successfully integrate into the global economy - Creating new mechanisms for dealing with deficiencies, such as specialized multilateral frameworks through which to govern international migration and labour mobility, international financial regulation, multinational corporations and global value chains regulation and sovereign debt workouts. Above all, the book highlights the need for a strong mechanism for global economic coordination to establish coherence across all areas of global economic governance.

East Timor’s violent transition to independence, which began early in 1999, presented the Australian Government with a significant foreign policy crisis. This crisis was not sudden, totally unexpected or ultimately threatening to Australia’s survival. But the crisis consumed the attention of Australian leaders, saw significant national and international resources employed, and led to the largest operational deployment for the Australian Defence Force since the Vietnam War. This crisis also created a significant rupture in the hitherto carefully-managed relationships between Australia and its important neighbor, Indonesia. The events of September 1999 ultimately led to the birth of a new nation and the deaths of many people who might have otherwise expected to enjoy that independence. In this major study, David Connery examines how the Australian Government—at the political and bureaucratic levels—developed and managed national security policy in the face of this crisis. The events, and the policymaking processes that both led and followed, are reconstructed using sixty interviews with key participants. This study identifies certain characteristics of crisis policymaking in Australia that include a dominant executive, secrecy, external actors and complexity.

Drawing from diverse critical traditions from Latin-America and Europe, this work posits the landscape as the pathway to the hidden, dark depths of Robert Walser’s and Bernardo Carvalho’s literary projects. Behind the deceivingly idyllic or exotic sceneries lies a fictional stage riddled with irony and failure, with anti-heroes and outcasts who, with their dying breaths, narrate a world that is slowly undoing itself.

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This reprint aims to immerse the reader in the latest surface defect detection methods of industrial automation. From distribution-preserving under-sampling to semi-supervised inspection, with the use of swin transformer techniques, we aim to elucidate the application potential of these advanced technologies. In this reprint, research experts in the field will publish their results and prospects for the future. These research results will not only improve detection accuracy but also greatly accelerate detection speed, enhancing the process of industrial automation. We will provide more advanced and accurate detection technology for product quality inspection so that artificial intelligence technology can be integrated into and further developed in the industrial field.