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The progress of science and technology and intensive land usage have promoted the rapid development of modern agriculture. Meanwhile, however, modern agriculture has caused global ecological and environmental problems due to its consumption of large amounts of resources and energy. To meet these challenges, we must rethink the theories, policies, models, and technologies involved in modern agricultural development, which includes new concepts and methods of agriculture: for example, organic agriculture, compound agriculture, circular agriculture, and ecological agriculture. There is a growing awareness that the development of sustainable agriculture should not only increase yields to meet people's demands, but also should improve product quality and promote multi-functioning of the agricultural ecosystem. Although the study and practices of sustainable agriculture have achieved remarkable results in the past 40 years, the development of the social economy and current challenges of world agriculture require significant consideration for the future of agriculture. Summarizing available knowledge and lessons, analyzing associated problems, and mapping out future developments will help in promoting the practice and policy of sustainable agriculture, as well as in innovating sustainable agricultural theory and methods. This reprint includes 16 articles that focus on theoretical methods, policies, and practical experience related to sustainable agricultural development, aiming to contribute to the sustainable development of agriculture and food security.

This edited volume documents the state of the art in research on translation policies in legal and institutional settings. Offering case studies of past and present translation policies from several parts of the world, it allows for a compelling comparison of attitudes towards translation in varying contexts. The book highlights the virtues of integrating different types of expertise in the study of translation policy: theoretical and applied; historical and modern; legal, institutional and political. It effectively illustrates how a multidisciplinary perspective furthers our understanding of translation policies and unveils their intrinsic link with topics such as multilingualism, linguistic justice, minority rights, and citizenship. In this way, each contribution sheds new light on the role of translation in the everyday interaction between governments and multilingual populations.

La fracture confessionnelle qui touche l’Occident chrétien au xvie siècle révolutionne durablement la place des clergés dans les sociétés et leur emprise sur les fidèles. Le principe originel du luthéranisme, puis des réformes de type suisse, du sacerdoce universel a été largement relativisé par la mise en place progressive d’un clergé protestant, mais il a ouvert une brèche que l’on peut suivre à l’époque des controverses et qui continue de fixer une différence fondamentale entre les deux camps. Pourtant, des influences réciproques et des contacts sont observables dans des zones de coexistence confessionnelle : les espaces de frontières peuvent faire figure d’observatoires privilégiés pour comprendre les influences réciproques entre clergés, jusque dans leur façon d’interpréter et de considérer le ministère pastoral et de forger leurs identités professionnelles et sociales. La formation des clergés, leur organisation, leur action, les oppositions auxquelles ils doivent faire face, leurs interactions, les points communs, voire les sociabilités de leurs membres sont ici étudiés à travers des pratiques très diverses (prédication, conférences et controverses, sociabilités érudites, missions, encadrement institutionnel, pratiques liturgiques, répression des déviances, ou encore définition de mémoires concurrentes). Ces études de cas nous plongent dans le processus de définition d’identités cléricales qui se constituent certes souvent contre l’autre, mais aussi, plus subtilement, en fonction de l’autre et sur des fondements communs.

Current unrest in the Malay-Muslim provinces of southern Thailand hascaptured growing national, regional, and international attention due to theheightened tempo and scale of rebel attacks, the increasingly jihadistundertone that has come to characterize insurgent actions, and the centralgovernment's often brutal handling of the situation on the ground. Thispaper assesses the current situation and its probable direction.

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In Mothering, Public Leadership, and Women’s Life Writing, Claire E. Wolfteich presents a series of case studies in Christian spirituality, bringing mothers’ autobiographical writing into focus for theological reflection. From the medieval mystic Margery Kempe to the twentieth-century activist Dorothy Day, from African American preacher Jarena Lee to labor organizer Dolores Huerta, the book mines women’s first-person writing, surfacing critical issues for theological analysis. Listening deeply to these diverse maternal voices, the book advances creative theological reflection on work, vocation, time poverty, Sabbath, and spiritual guidance. Mothering, Public Leadership, and Women’s Life Writing demonstrates the significance of the study of mothering for theology and spirituality studies and the import of life writing as an underutilized source for practical theology.

This book presents a broad overview of the theory and applications of structure topology and symplectic geometry. Over six chapters, the authors cover topics such as linear operators, Omega and Clifford algebra, and quasiconformal reflection across polygonal lines. The book also includes four interesting case studies on time series analysis in practice. Finally, it provides a snapshot of some current trends and future challenges in the research of symplectic geometry theory. Structure Topology and Symplectic Geometry is a resource for scholars, researchers, and teachers in the field of mathematics, as well as researchers and students in engineering.

An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a contemporary community of professional poet-singers, Dwight F. Reynolds reveals how the epic tradition continues to provide a context for social interaction and commentary. Reynolds’s account is based on performances in the northern Egyptian village in which he studied as an apprentice to a master epic-singer. Reynolds explains in detail the narrative structure of the Sirat Bani Hilal as well as the tradition of epic singing. He sees both living epic poets and fictional epic heroes as figures engaged in an ongoing dialogue with audiences concerning such vital issues as ethnicity, religious orientation, codes of behavior, gender roles, and social hierarchies.

Dans les années sombres de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, l'École normale supérieure de la rue d'Ulm a vécu au rythme des événements qui ont boule-versé la France. S'y sont croisées des figures aussi différentes que Jérôme Carcopino — directeur de l'École et un temps ministre à Vichy —, Jean Cavaillès — « philosophe bourré d'explosifs » — et Henri Cartan — le père des mathématiques modernes. Des jeunes gens appelés à un brillant avenir y ont fait leurs premières classes universitaires. Pêle-mêle, Maurice Clavel, Jean Delumeau, Pierre Moussa, René Rémond ou Jean-François Revel pour les lettres, Marcel Boiteux, Gérard Debreu ou René Thom pour les sciences. Tandis que les candidats juifs, interdits de scolarité, se voyaient attribuer des numéros « bis » en cas de réussite au concours. Alors les normaliens ont à la fois beaucoup travaillé et, pour certains, beaucoup résisté, surtout après la mise en place du STO en février 1943. Robert Salmon a fondé Défense de la France. Henri Plard a passé trois mois à Drancy pour avoir porté l'étoile jaune alors qu'il était protestant. La Gestapo a fait irruption rue d'Ulm la nuit du 4 août 1944. Elle a arrêté le directeur adjoint Jean Bruhat et le secrétaire général Jean Baillou. Le premier n'est jamais revenu de Buchenwald. Soixante ans après, c'est cette histoire que retrace Stéphane Israël au terme d'une enquête sur les normaliens des promotions 1937 à 1943 et sur l'administration et les enseignants de l'École pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. L'histoire totale d'un passé qui ne passe pas.

This collection of 51 works by 37 composers is the first compendium of its kind. The compositions, spanning eleven centuries of Western art music, are vital and important and illustrate advanced compositional trends of their age. The earliest works reproduced are two Byzantine chants by Kassia (fl. 840); the most recent is the first movement of Ellen Zwilich's Symphony No. 1, which received the Pulitzer Prize for music in 1983. Some of the outstanding early composers included are Hildegard von Bingen (fl. 1150), Maddalena Casulana (fl. 1560), Francesca Caccini (fl. 1620), and Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre (fl. 1700). From the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries come compositions by Marianne von Martinez, Maria Szymanowska, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Pauline Viardot, Clara Schumann, and Amy Beach. Among the twentieth-century composers are Ruth Crawford Seeger, Grazyna Bacewicz, Louise Talma, Pauline Oliveros, and Thea Musgrave. Each composer is introduced in a short essay written by an authority on the period or, in the case of some of the living composers, the artist herself. The essays discuss the main aspects of the individual composer's life, her style, and her output, and they suggest additional readings. Since this anthology is designed for use in courses in women's studies, music appreciation, and music history, all style periods and important genres are represented, and all the works in the collection are available on recordings or are easily performed. Historical Anthology of Music by Women reflects the growing interest in and recognition of women's contributions to the arts in general and to music in particular.

This book comprises the contributions presented at the Study Day addressing technical and scientific innovation in Italy in the sectors of electricity and telecommunications, organised in the Faculty of Engineering of Florence University by AICT (Associazione per la Tecnologia dell'Informazione e delle Comunicazioni) and AEE (Associazione Energia Elettrica, of the AEIT Federation) in the framework of the celebrations marking the bicentenary of the birth of Antonio Meucci. The first section presents three addresses by guest speakers dealing with the past, present and future of telecommunications, while the second section consists of nine articles selected on open-call basis representing original contributions from young researchers in the sectors of electricity and telecommunications.

Novel Anticancer Strategies (Volume II) reviews important findings and updates within the cancer therapy field of great interest to those in academic research studying the development and validation of novel anticancer approaches. The Editor invited preeminent specialists to contribute to original and review articles devoted to key areas of major progress and expectations. Key Features:Nanoparticle-based drug delivery in cancer therapy;Nanoerythrosomes;Cancer immunotherapy;Therapeutic vaccines;Oncogenic and tumor suppressive components of the cell cycle;Antimitotics in cancer clinical trials;Multifunctional enzymes as anti-cancer drug targets;Targeting undruggable proteins and non-coding RNAs;Cell-penetrating peptides;Repurposed cancer drugs in clinical trials;Circulating tumour cells.

This reprint focuses on the current progress in sports medicine, with a specific interest in surgery, exercise therapy, and multi-disciplinary research. With the advancement of society, more attention is paid to the quality of life, which emphasizes the importance of sports and exercise. Correspondingly, there is a great need for sports medicine. This issue collected novel findings on sports medicine in surgery, conservative therapy, and the application of exercise training in other disorders

Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two decades. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Borderland Infrastructures addresses a major contradiction at the heart of this fast-paced development: small-scale traders have lost their historic strategic advantages under the growth of massive Chinese state investment and are now struggling to keep their businesses afloat. Concurrently, local ethnic minorities have become the target of radical resettlement projects, securitization, and tourism initiatives, and have in many cases grown increasingly dependent on state subsidies. At the juncture of anthropological explorations of the state, border studies, and research on transnational trade and infrastructure development, Borderland Infrastructures provides new analytical tools to understand how state power is experienced, mediated, and enacted in Xinjiang and Yunnan. In the process, Rippa offers a rich and nuanced ethnography of life across China's peripheries.

En el siglo XX se alcanzó una meta que había guiado los esfuerzos de los gobernantes mexicanos del siglo XIX y del Porfiriato: construir un gobierno federal fuerte que abriera paso a la consolidación del mercado interno y del Estado Nacional. Este trabajo aborda uno de los eslabones de ese proceso, que se refiere a la concentración de los ingresos tributarios en manos federales entre 1922 y 1972. Esta historia tributaria incluye la creación de nuevos impuestos (renta, ingresos mercantiles), supresión de otros (timbre, contribución federal), construcción del sistema de participaciones y el impacto de la reforma agraria en las haciendas estatales y municipales. Además se estudian las tensiones que generó esa tendencia tributaria en la organización federal de la República y entre distintos grupos de contribuyentes. El Ejecutivo federal enfrentó más oposiciones y desacatos de lo que comúnmente se reconoce, lo que obliga a ver con otros ojos a la institución presidencial.