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On 13 April 1635, Druze emir Fakhr al-Dīn Maʿn was executed in Constantinople, after years of ambiguous relations with the Ottoman sultan. Exactly three centuries later, a biography of the emir was published in Rome, edited by Maronite father Paolo Carali and financed by the Fascist government. The reason why Fascism was interested in his figure can be traced back to the policy implemented by Italy in the 1930s, which sought to penetrate the territories of Lebanon and Syria. However, these were regions in which Fascist Italy had no real interest or claim, and so it sought to build a tie between the Levant and Italy by rereading the historiography of the relationship between “Faccardino” and Medici Tuscany at the beginning of the seventeenth century. By comparing the policies of the Medici and Fascism, it will be possible to highlight how, through Carali’s work, the latter sought to construct a history that would support its ambitions towards the eastern Mediterranean.

The level of internationalization and innovation of Ukrainian enterprises is relatively low - as is the level of innovation in the Ukrainian economy. There is no relevant internationalization and innovation policy in this country. There are also no systemic changes in the field of support for entrepreneurs and protection of intellectual property, therefore in the near future it is rather impossible to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage based on innovations. There is a need for a coherent and transparent state policy to support both processes: internationalization of enterprises and their innovations.

This book summarizes both conventional and emerging waste management approaches for fly ash, particularly with a focus on sustainability dimension – including its applicability, scope, methods, and challenges of bio-coal production. It covers the sustainability aspects of fly ash management and recent developments in methods, processes, and scope of bio-coal production as an alternative to conventional coal along with its implications for industrial ecosystems. It focuses on climate change, sustainability, and circular economy aspects of fly ash management approaches. Comprehensively covers all the dimensions related to coal and bio-coal fly ash and circular economy associated with it Discusses cradle-to-grave technology for bio-coal Emphasizes the efficient, economically viable, and environmentally sustainable use of coal and bio-coal fly ash Explores renewable fuel solutions and circular economy associated with it Encourages the use of bio-coal for boosting sustainability and circular economy This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in environmental and civil engineering, as well as those working in clean technologies.

The abundance of megaliths on the cost of Brittany has hidden for a long time the existence of megaliths inside the peninsula This work summarizes four years on the field (1982-1985) and brings new informations about this type of architecture, ignored until now, through three monuments from the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. Laboratory studies add to classical field data informations allowing to replace the megaliths in their environment and to demonstrate the existence of an economic system based upon exchange, ending the myth of autarky inside “the large forest”. This work also analyses modem acculturations of these monuments settled in an area where celtic and arthurian legend is still very much alive.

Spannend schildert der Autor den Wandel des niederlausitzischen Landvogtamtes in den Jahren von 1490 bis 1620. Er zeichnet nicht nur ein Bild von den Persönlichkeiten der Landvögte, von ihren familiären Hintergründen, ihren politischen Karrieren und den Gründen ihrer Amtseinführung, sondern geht auch auf das Verhältnis zwischen dem König und den niederlausitzischen und böhmischen Ständen ein. Denn im 15. Jahrhundert kam ein neuer Machtfaktor ins Spiel – die Stände, die über das Schicksal ihres Landes mitentscheiden wollten und dafür einen schwachen Landvogt aus eigenen Reihen einem treuen Diener des Königs vorzogen. Der Autor verweist im notwendigen Maß auch auf das Geschehen in den übrigen Ländern der Böhmischen Krone und erfasst die Veränderung in den Kompetenzen der Landvögte sowie die Funktion und personelle Besetzung ihres Amtsapparates. Mit dieser breiten Fragestellung und dem großen Umfang der ausgewerteten Quellen unterscheidet sich diese historische Darstellung grundlegend von anderen Abhandlungen, die bisher zum Thema verfasst worden sind.

The 43rd UID conference, held in Genova, takes up the theme of ‘Dialogues’ as practice and debate on many fundamental topics in our social life, especially in these complex and not yet resolved times. The city of Genova offers the opportunity to ponder on the value of comparison and on the possibilities for the community, naturally focused on the aspects that concern us, as professors, researchers, disseminators of knowledge, or on all the possibile meanings of the discipline of representation and its dialogue with ‘others’, which we have broadly catalogued in three macro areas: History, Semiotics, Science / Technology. Therefore, “dialogue” as a profitable exchange based on a common language, without which it is impossible to comprehend and understand one another; and the graphic sign that connotes the conference is the precise transcription of this concept: the title ‘translated’ into signs, derived from the visual alphabet designed for the visual identity of the UID since 2017. There are many topics which refer to three macro sessions: - Witnessing (signs and history) - Communicating (signs and semiotics) - Experimenting (signs and sciences) Thanks to the different points of view, an exceptional resource of our disciplinary area, we want to try to outline the prevailing theoretical-operational synergies, the collaborative lines of an instrumental nature, the recent updates of the repertoires of images that attest and nourish the relations among representation, history, semiotics, sciences.

Els estudis sobre les facetes d’artista plàstic, poeta i escriptor d’Alexandre de Riquer, de personalitat polifacètica i central del Modernisme, són molt nombrosos, però ningú no s’havia interessat fins ara en el teòric i el tractadista artístic. Aquest llibre aplega els escrits sobre art que va publicar en revistes com La Renaixensa i Joventut, i en diaris com El Poble Català i El Día Gráfico, i els ordena en dos grans apartats. El primer, «Alexandre de Riquer, capdavanter de correnties», és fonamental per entendre la repercussió de l’estètica del Prerafaelitisme a Catalunya, la lliçó d’art total que suposà el moviment Art and Crafts, i la introducció de les noves modalitats de l’exlibrisme i del cartellisme. El segon, «Alexandre de Riquer, crític d’art i polemista», permet comprendre millor la posició original i central de Riquer dins el Modernisme català i les tensions existents entre el Cercle de Sant Lluc, al qual pertanyia, i la colla d’Els Quatre Gats, amb la qual va establir un diàleg molt enriquidor.

This Special Issue "Differential Geometrical Theory of Statistics" collates selected invited and contributed talks presented during the conference GSI'15 on "Geometric Science of Information" which was held at the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris-Saclay Campus, France, in October 2015 (Conference web site: http://www.see.asso.fr/gsi2015).

This Special Issue comprises 15 papers broadly outlining current trends in nucleic acid biophysics. It contains original research papers and reviews on structure, stability, and interactions of canonical and non-canonical nucleic acids. The authors describe the use of established, time-honored experimental and computational techniques as well as their more recently developed counterparts. Molecular insights that can be gained from the papers collected in this issue range from the fundamental to the applied with emphasis on biological functions and biomedical prospects of nucleic acids. The collection is not meant to be exhaustive, but to highlight recent advances from select laboratories worldwide. Nevertheless, it represents a useful guide for scientists who wish to familiarize themselves with biophysical topics in nucleic acid research. This Special Issue will be useful both for researchers who study fundamental aspects of nucleic acid structure, stability, and dynamics, as well as for those that are mainly interested in practical biological and biomedical applications of nucleic acids.

In der Reihe Slavistische Beiträge werden vor allem slavistische Dissertationen des deutschsprachigen Raums sowie vereinzelt auch amerikanische, englische und russische publiziert. Darüber hinaus stellt die Reihe ein Forum für Sammelbände und Monographien etablierter Wissenschafter/innen dar.

Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs) have been extensively used in a wealth of telecom and datacom applications as a powerful building block that features large optical gain, all-optical gating function, fast response, and ease of integration with other functional semiconductor devices. As fabrication technologies are steadily maturing toward enhanced yield, SOAs are foreseen to play a pivotal role in complex photonics integrated circuits (PICs) of the near future. From a design standpoint, accurate numerical modeling of SOA devices is required toward optimizing PICs response from a system perspective, while enhanced circuit complexity calls for efficient solvers. In this book chapter, we present established experimentally validated SOA numerical modeling techniques and a gain parameterization procedure applicable to a wide range of SOA devices. Moreover, we describe multigrid concepts and implicit schemes that have been only recently presented to SOA modeling, enabling adaptive time stepping at the SOA output, with dense sampling at transient phenomena during the gain recovery and scarce sampling during the steady-state response. Overall, a holistic simulation methodology approach along with recent research trends are described, aiming to form the basis of further developments in SOA modeling.

The past decade has seen a profound shift in our collective understanding of the digital network. What was once understood to be a transcendent virtual reality is now experienced as a ubiquitous grid of data that we move through and interact with every day, raising new questions about the social, locative, embodied, and object-oriented nature of our experience in the networked world. In The Emergence of the Digital Humanities, Steven E. Jones examines this shift in our relationship to digital technology and the ways that it has affected humanities scholarship and the academy more broadly. Based on the premise that the network is now everywhere rather than merely "out there," Jones links together seemingly disparate cultural events—the essential features of popular social media, the rise of motion-control gaming and mobile platforms, the controversy over the "gamification" of everyday life, the spatial turn, fabrication and 3D printing, and electronic publishing—and argues that cultural responses to changes in technology provide an essential context for understanding the emergence of the digital humanities as a new field of study in this millennium. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203093085, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

The Dubs-Huwyler collection comprising around 100 pieces is one of the most extensive as well as important private collections of stained glass in Switzerland. The focus is on early modern glass from central Switzerland, Zurich, and eastern and north-eastern Switzerland. Other highlights of the collection include Swiss copies and new designs dating from the 19th and 20th centuries, and a group of early modern Dutch paintings on glass.

This book examines the criminal liability for market manipulation pursuant to section 119 of the German Securities Trading Act (WpHG) under the European market abuse regime in force as of 2016. The changes in criminal liability brought about by European norms are analysed coherently. A legal comparison with EU countries reveals that the requirement of price impact is a special feature of the German offence. The book closely examines a new qualification of a crime, which raises unresolved questions as to its preconditions and has important consequences for criminal proceedings. Practising as a criminal defence lawyer, the author has a wealth of experience in capital markets criminal law and places particular emphasis on practical insights.

La Princesse de Clèves, written in 1678 by Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, countess of Lafayette, is widely known as the first modern French novel. This open-access pedagogical translation and edition draws on the digital format to offer a rich variety of materials for readers of French and English. Translator’s notes enhance the fresh and lively translation, actively comparing the current version with earlier editions to heighten awareness of linguistic nuance and complexity. Interactive paragraphs and lexical definitions encourage readers to move with ease between the French and English texts. Accompanying didactic essays empower readers to reflect on Lafayette’s vocabulary and on practices of translation more broadly. This ebook edition offers pedagogical dossiers and a variety of innovative resources influenced by the Digital Humanities, such as a mapping interface with georeferenced historical maps, word mining exercises, a digital timeline, and social network analyses. In addition to overviews of Lafayette’s milieu and adaptations of La Princesse de Clèves, the editors also include excerpts from rarely-translated letters published in an early modern gazette in response to the novel. These features enable a new generation of readers to grasp the seventeenth-century public’s reaction to Lafayette’s work. Drawing on the affordances of the digital format to promote multilingualism and humanistic inquiry, the edition simultaneously encourages active engagement with the specificities of a particular language and culture. This project results from a collaboration between four professors who teach at liberal arts colleges and argues for critical approaches to digital technologies to celebrate a classic text. 2024 Scholarly Edition in Translation Award (Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender) and 2023 PROSE Award Finalist in the category of Best eProduct (Association of American Publishers)