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Religious icons have been a contested terrain across the world. Their implications and understanding travel further than the artistic or the aesthetic and inform contemporary preoccupations.This book traces the lives of religious sculptures beyond the moment of their creation. It lays bare their purpose and evolution by contextualising them in their original architectural or ritual setting while also following their displacement. The work examines how these images may have moved during different spates of temple renovation and acquired new identities by being relocated either within sacred precincts or in private collections and museums, art markets or even desecrated and lost. The book highlights contentious issues in Indian archaeology such as renegotiating identities of religious images, reuse and sharing of sacred space by adherents of different faiths, rebuilding of temples and consequent reinvention of these sites. The author also engages with postcolonial debates surrounding history writing and knowledge creation in British India and how colonial archaeology, archival practices, official surveys and institutionalisation of museums has influenced the current understanding of religion, sacred space and religious icons. In doing so it bridges the historiographical divide between the ancient and the modern as well as socio-religious practices and their institutional memory and preservation. Drawn from a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary study of religious sculptures, classical texts, colonial archival records, British travelogues, official correspondences and fieldwork, the book will interest scholars and researchers of history, archaeology, religion, art history, museums studies, South Asian studies and Buddhist studies.

Alexandre Glasberg (1902-1981) est une figure étonnante. Né dans l’Empire des tsars, converti du judaïsme, ordonné prêtre catholique après son arrivée en France en 1932, il est l’une des figures du sauvetage des Juifs et de la Résistance entre 1940 et 1944 à Lyon, puis dans le Tarn-et-Garonne. Après la guerre, il poursuit son action dans le cadre du Centre d’orientation sociale des étrangers et soutient le jeune État d’Israël avant de critiquer l’évolution qui l’éloigne de l’utopie fondatrice. Novateur social, de sensibilité progressiste, il renouvelle son engagement dans les années 1960 au profit des réfugiés politiques et est l’un des fondateurs de France Terre d’Asile au début de la décennie suivante. Prêtre sans ministère, homme de l’ombre, acteur des politiques publiques, il s’est peu exprimé sur ses convictions et n’a guère laissé d’archives. La journée d’études organisée à l’Université de Lyon le 24 mai 2012 a néanmoins permis, grâce à des documents inédits, de relire son itinéraire et de dessiner son portrait avec plus de précision, même si demeure une part irréductible de mystère.

Human use of marine resources is changing, as is the marine environment itself, and our understanding of marine ecosystems and biodiversity is developing. This open access book explores the challenges this raises for legal regimes pertaining to the oceans and their domestic implementation. It engages with developments in areas such as bioprospecting, fisheries, deep-sea mining and shipping. Several case studies discuss genetic resources and the implications of the new UN Agreement on marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction. A team of experts suggest new approaches to questions of interpretation, established management principles, and institutional relationships. Not limiting their scope to the international law of the sea, they also examine international environmental law, intellectual property rights, and domestic law. The book broadens the scholarly debate and provides a timely reflection on the dramatic policy developments currently happening in the field of marine resource governance. It will be welcomed by lawyers, NGOs and policymakers. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Gothenburg, Department of Law.

Ce guide pratique, consacré aux procédés de potabilisation des eaux de surface des petites villes d’Afrique de l’Ouest, a été conçu sur la base de techniques testées et éprouvées par le Gret et ses partenaires dans la vallée du fleuve Sénégal. Il privilégie des descriptifs simplifiés et vulgarisés des savoir-faire et des techniques, et s’adresse à un public impliqué dans le choix de dispositifs de potabilisation : responsables publics, personnels techniques et praticiens d’organisations qui les appuient. Alliant théorie et pratique, cet ouvrage décrit et analyse les principales technologies de potabilisation implantées dans la vallée du fleuve Sénégal afin d’apporter quelques clés pour faciliter le processus de sélection de dispositifs adaptés – processus qui peut également être appliqué à d’autres contextes d’Afrique de l’Ouest. Ce guide dispense également des recommandations pour optimiser leur conception et leur exploitation. Enfin, deux séries de fiches, l’une apportant des notions techniques complémentaires sur les grandes étapes du traitement des eaux de surface, et l’autre présentant les grandes familles de stations de potabilisation évoquées dans ce guide, viennent enrichir le propos.

Il volume presenta i risultati della ricerca condotta dall'autrice durante i tre anni del Dottorato in "Progettazione Paesistica" di Firenze. La prima parte del lavoro è incentrata sugli aspetti teorici e metodologici dello studio del paesaggio agrario e sulla descrizione dei suoi elementi componenti, dei suoi processi formativi, dell'evoluzione della sua struttura. La seconda parte è un'applicazione pratica di quanto rilevato, con un'elaborazione originale delle relazioni che danno origine alle diverse tipologie di paesaggi agrari secondo le quali è oggi possibile articolare la campagna romana. In sintesi la ricerca ha voluto mettere in relazione un modello conoscitivo riferito al paesaggio agrario con un quadro territoriale specifi co ricco di situazioni paesistiche emblematiche, ponendosi l'obiettivo di saggiare la fattibilità dell'applicazione delle chiavi di lettura individuate e proposte, e di rivalutare il ruolo del paesaggio agrario all'interno dell'attuale processo di riqualifi cazione ambientale e paesistica.

This book deals with the entrepreneurial behavior of the adult population between 18 and 64 years of the region in 2016, in the case of the eleventh edition of the Murcia region region, within the international GEM project (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor) that coordinatesIn Spain, the Santander Entrepreneurship International Center (CISE), and the Red Gem Spain Association. The work has been coordinated by the professors of the University of Murcia D. Antonio Aragón and Ms. Alicia Rubio. GEM is an international project developed by institutions and universities of 65 economies in its 2016 edition. In the book that the reader has in his hands the scope of study is the Region of Murcia. It deal with aspects related to entrepreneurial activity and business dynamics in the Region of Murcia, the types of entrepreneurial initiatives, to the socioeconomic profile of entrepreneurs, to the characteristics of the activities resulting from the entrepreneurial process, to the financing of saidprocess and motivation and ability to undertake in Murcia in 2016, as well as its evolution in recent years. The work provides interesting and timely results in the current economic context of the long economic crisis that began in 2008, as well as a longitudinal vision of the evolution of the main magnitudes in the Murcia region since 2006. In short, it has inHis hands The eleventh edition of the GEM Region of Murcia, corresponding to 2016 that, as a whole, comes to confirm that the regional entrepreneurship follows an evolution in saw teeth, with ups and downs from one year to another that, usually, in general, they are explained as a consequence of the evolution of the Spanish and regional economy.

Few neurotransmitter systems have fascinated as much as the opioid system (i.e., opioid ligands and their receptors). Over the years, scientific studies of the endogenous opioid system have uncovered a complex and subtle system that exhibits impressive diversity, based on its critical role in modulating a large number of sensory, motivational, emotional and cognitive functions. Additionally, its important therapeutic value for the treatment of many human disorders, including pain, affective and addictive disorders, and gastrointestinal motility disorders, has been of persistent interest. This book specifically covers a broad area of the opioid research, offering up-to-date and new perspectives about opioid drug discovery. The diversity among the discussed topics ranging from medicinal chemistry to opioid pharmacology, from basic science to translational research, is a testimony to the complexity of the opioid system that results from the expression, regulation and functional role of opioid ligands and their receptors. This book will serve as a useful reference to scientists while also stimulating continuous research in the chemistry and pharmacology of the opioid system, with the prospective for finding improved therapies of human diseases where the opioid system plays a central role.

Translation und Subversion: Wie hängt beides zusammen? Das ist die Leitfrage dieses Sammelbands, der methodische Orientierungen und historische Studien zur Frühen Neuzeit in unterschiedlichen geographischen Settings und interlingualen Konstellationen vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert bietet. Translationswissenschaft, Romanistik, Japanologie, Germanistik und Musikwissenschaft sind die Disziplinen, die der Band zusammenbringt, um die besonders für frühneuzeitliche Übersetzungskulturen wenig gesehenen Gegenläufigkeiten in den Blick zu nehmen und auf subversive Übersetzung als Katalysator interkultureller Widerständigkeit, aber auch Unterwanderung scharfzustellen. Translation and subversion: how are the two related? That is the question pursued by this compilation of methodological orientations and historical studies on the Early Modern period in various geographical settings and interlingual constellations from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Bringing together a broad range of disciplines – translation studies, Romance studies, Japanology, German studies, and musicology – the volume takes a closer look at contrarieties hitherto little noticed, especially with regard to Early Modern translation cultures. In the process it focuses on subversive translation as a catalyst for intercultural resistivity as well as subversive action. Dies ist ein Open Access-Buch / This is an open access book.

If children were left empty-handed in the will, they could sue for breach of the pietas duty. However, it was sufficient to leave a quarter of the intestacy portion to protect the will against annulment to the extent of the entire intestacy portion. Imperial rescripts also gave a quarter against gifts made in order to leave an empty inheritance. Justinian's reform constitution in C. 3.28.30 can be explained by this "quarrel-excluding fourth".

In order to further promote the development of functional pavement technology, a Special Issue entitled “Achievements and Prospects of Functional Pavement” has been proposed by a group of guest editors. To achieve this objective, the articles included in this Special Issue are related to different aspects of functional pavements, including green roads to decrease carbon emissions, noise, and pollution, safety pavements to increase skid resistance through water drainage and snow removal, intelligent roads for monitoring, power generation, temperature control and management, and durable roads to increase service life with new theories, new design methods, and prediction models, as highlighted in this editorial.

This study focuses on the emergence and persistence of immigrant organisations in host societies. The relevance of immigrant organisations for both the host society and the immigrants themselves has been effectively demonstrated in many different studies. However, the question why immigrant organisations emerge and why they often persist over a long period is not adequately answered. In this study a comparative approach is used to reveal the structural determinants of the immigrant organising process. Different theoretical perspectives are combined (immigration model, social movement theory and the organisational ecology model). It is this combination of models, which has not yet been done by other scholars, which determines the value of this study and the contribution to a better understanding of the immigrant organising process. A comparative method is used, analysing Turkish organisations in Amsterdam and Berlin and Surinamese organisations in Amsterdam (1960-2000), to explain the way in which the three explanatory models can be combined in one coherent explanation.

Optimization

Ce volume étudie les différents liens entre langues et émotions que ce soit dans les commentaires sportifs, les textes classiques ou les films. Les contributions ici réunies proposent une définition et une catégorisation des affects afin de mieux comprendre les enjeux linguistiques et sociolinguistiques de l’expression des émotions. This volume studies the different links between languages and emotions, whether in sports commentary, classical texts or films. The contributions gathered here p...

Monografia stanowi zaproszenie do refleksji nad rolą zasobów naturalnych we współczesnym świecie. Rozważania w niej zawarte zostały osadzone w teorii ekonomii środowiska i zasobów naturalnych, a także ekonomii instytucjonalnej. Mają na celu opisanie, analizę i ocenę roli dwóch elementów, które zdeterminowały proces rozwoju Mongolii – ogromnych, nie do końca zbadanych, bogactw naturalnych tego państwa oraz instytucji określających zasady ich eksploatacji. To, kto i na jakich zasadach ma dostęp do zasobów naturalnych kraju, silnie determinuje udział w korzyściach płynących z ich pozyskiwania. Mongolia stanowi pod tym względem niezwykle interesujący przedmiot badań z uwagi na doświadczenia historyczne związane z rozwojem wyjątkowej kultury i stylu życia mongolskich koczowników, a także ze względu na obfitość zasobów kopalin o strategicznym i kluczowym znaczeniu dla nowoczesnych technologii. Czy powstałe w okresie transformacji systemowej instytucje rzeczywiście sprzyjają trwałemu rozwojowi społeczeństwa i gospodarki Mongolii, a może wprowadziły kraj w pułapkę obfitości zasobów naturalnych? Czytelnik znajdzie odpowiedź na to pytanie w prezentowanej książce. Publikacja jest w szczególności adresowana do odbiorców zainteresowanych problemami gospodarowania zasobami naturalnymi, wykładowców akademickich, studentów ekonomii, ochrony środowiska i stosunków międzynarodowych oraz osób, dla których gospodarka Mongolii stanowi obiekt penetracji biznesowej.