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In the era of generative artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things (IoT) and while there is explosive growth in the volume of data and the associated need for processing, analysis, and storage, several new challenges have arisen in identifying spurious and fake information and protecting the privacy of sensitive data. This has led to an increasing demand for more robust and resilient schemes for authentication, integrity protection, encryption, non-repudiation, and privacy preservation of data. This book presents some of the state-of-the-art research in the field of cryptography and security in computing and communications. It is a useful resource for researchers, engineers, practitioners, and graduate and doctoral students in the field of cryptography, network security, data privacy issues, and machine learning applications in the security and privacy in the context of the IoT.

Within the framework of the basic research project The Župna cerkev Cemetery in Kranj, intended for the publication and research of materials from archaeological excavations of the eponymous burial ground, digital primary forms of archival sources are presented. The first issue presents documentation of the 1953 excavation. The second one brings the files of graves, excavated in 1953, kept in The National Museum of Slovenia. The documentation of the 1964 to 1966 excavation is presented in the third book. In the fourth book is on field documentation of 1969 to 1973 excavation. Milan Sagadin, the excavator of the 1984 campaign, presents the field diary in the fifth issue. The anthropological diaries of the 1964 to 1973 excavations by Tone Pogačnik and Tatjana Tomazzo Ravnik are presented in the sixth book.

Si l'espace et la médecine sont le berceau de ses significations, la dissidence nous semble toutefois plus familière lorsqu'elle prend la forme des révolutions politiques et des hétérodoxies religieuses. Mais lorsqu'elle touche aux goûts et aux mœurs, au refus du conformisme, à l'expression de l'originalité voire de la marginalité, elle nous rappelle qu'elle peut s'emparer par mille manières détournées de tous les champs épistémologiques établis ou s'attaquer à toutes les manifestations consensuelles de la vie intellectuelle, artistique et sociale. Il devient dès lors pertinent de découvrir comment elle se comporte face aux modes d'expression et d'interprétation si durablement et si largement répandus dans la culture européenne que furent, à l'instar du mythe, le symbole et l'allégorie. La dissidence a-t-elle vu en eux des voies (ou voix ?) privilégiées pour occulter des idéaux réprouvés, leur garantissant ainsi une diffusion plus sûre et une efficacité accrue, au prix d'une stratégie de séduction ? Les a-t-elle méprisés comme inaptes à traduire la force de la sédition, comme impropres à restituer les subtilités doctrinales, comme trop sclérosés pour prendre en charge les bouleversements de la nouveauté ? Ou les a-t-elle superbement ignorés, jugeant que, sans danger pour elle, ils ne lui étaient d'aucun profit non plus ? On se demandera même si la dissidence ne serait pas au cœur des constituants du symbole et de l'allégorie, affectant leur belle unité d'une fracture qui les déstabilise. Les études réunies dans le présent volume abordent de front ces interrogations et celles, plus nombreuses encore, que soulève l'association de ces trois notions, de l'Antiquité à la Renaissance, et qui n'avait pas, jusqu'à présent, fait l'objet d'une approche d'ensemble. Historiens, historiens d'art et historiens des religions, philologues et philosophes, spécialistes de littérature et musicologues croisent ici leurs approches.

This paper aims to inform and educate, from various contexts, about the exposure of society, caused by different factors, to the con-sumption of counterfeit drugs or medical devices. It is a topic of great relevance, since there is no collective awareness of its impact on both health and the economy, therefore on culture at a global level. First, the importance of the topic was recorded, later, through a report issued by the WHO, its effects on health, manufacturing method, and legislation were contextualized. The problem focused on Colombia was covered and some mechanisms to mitigate them were recorded.

The cognitive goal of the empirical research is to identify motives for undertaking physical activity, the preferences of Polish citizens regarding its forms and the frequency of selected exercises, as well as the effects and limitations on recreational activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. A diagnostic method using a survey technique according to a standardized questionnaire was applied in the study. The research was carried out in 2021 and covered 108 Polish citizens. Among the most important reasons for taking up physical activity, the respondents indicated: improved well-being and stress relief, health and good appearance, a nice figure and pleasure. During the COVID-19 pandemic, i.e. in 2020, respondents’ interest in many forms of physical activity decreased compared to before the pandemic, only the popularity of at-home exercises increased significantly which was probably due to restrictions in access to gyms and fitness clubs. During the pandemic, the number of people who exercised on average three hours or more per week decreased, and the number exercising only an hour or less increased. This is very unfavorable in terms of the physical and mental health of Polish society.

Subjectivity is a central concept in film theory, philosophy and cultural studies. It was also a key term in the reception of the Nouvelle Vague film movement in France and Italy from the start of 1945. This timely volume explores the ways in which the concept of subjectivity has made its way into film theory, history, practice and criticism, as well as the confrontations of the subject with this rapidly changing medium.Contributors to this timely study include Francesco Casetti, Gregory Currie, Marina Grzinic, Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki, Jacinto Lageira, José Moure, Pere Salabert, Céline Scemama, Karl Sierek, Vivian Sobchack, and Pierre Taminiaux. Their illuminating essays are a testimony to their profound involvement in the subjectivity debate, enriching our perception of film history and our understanding of the medium.

En associant dans notre titre le berger à la brousse, notre objectif est, par-delà le cas particulier de l’embroussaillement sur l’un des grands causses, le Causse Méjan, de traiter d’un problème général : le contrôle exercé par l’homme sur la nature ̶ ou son abandon ̶ , et la façon dont s’imprime ce dualisme dans les dynamiques écologiques. Comprendre les interactions entre embroussaillement, pratiques et représentations des éleveurs est l’illustration d’une question relevant des sciences de l’environnement : celle du rôle des pratiques sur la dynamique des milieux. La brousse désigne ici la végétation ligneuse, souvent épineuse, qui envahit peu à peu des pâtures, des champs laissés en friche, des bords de chemins ou de bois. Cette dynamique constitue une triple menace : diminution des ressources pastorales, banalisation des paysages, perte de biodiversité. La figure du berger évoque quant à elle un métier difficile. Disparu ou presque sous sa forme salariée, c’est une pratique en perdition. Mais elle continue à représenter chez les éleveurs actuels de troupeaux ovins l’idéal de cette maîtrise des ressources qu’ils s’efforcent de maintenir. Cet ouvrage est la synthèse des résultats de l’équipe interdisciplinaire qui s’est constituée autour de cette question d’environnement. La démarche initiée ici pourrait être transférable à d’autres expériences de recherche, de développement et d’aménagement, traitant de la gestion durable des ressources et des milieux par les sociétés humaines.

Este es un libro refrescante: no tiene nada trillado, rechaza con fundamento diversos convencionalismos y modas académicas, y no vacila en tomar clara posición en temas espinosos. Con este libro Bernardo Sorj muestra una vez más lo que ya sabíamos los que hemos seguido su trayectoria: no es sólo un excelente sociólogo profesional, es también y sobre todo un verdadero intelectual, un pensador crítico de las grandes cuestiones de nuestro mundo — especialmente el Latinoamericano.

Mit ihrem Werk Politik der Unpolitischen wirft Julie Adamik ein neues Licht auf die bislang traditionsgeschichtlich basierte Erforschung der Liturgischen Bewegung in der Weimarer Republik, indem sie die vernachlässigte politische Dimension dieser scheinbar unpolitischen Reformbewegung herausarbeitet. Der geschichtswissenschaftliche Ansatz und die damit verbundene umfassende Analyse der Quellen zeigen die komplexen Interaktionen zwischen den vier liturgisch bewegten Akteuren Romano Guardini, Abt Ildefons Herwegen, Abt Albert Schmitt sowie Theodor Abele und politischen Kontexten der Weimarer Republik. Dabei wird das Phänomen einer Politik der Unpolitischen untersucht, das sich im Kontext der Liturgischen Bewegung als destabilisierender Faktor der Weimarer Republik erweist.Das E-Book bietet damit nicht nur neue Einblicke in das Selbstverständnis der Liturgischen Bewegung, sondern eröffnet darüber hinaus innovative Zugänge zu den Verflechtungen zwischen Religion und Politik.

The second and updated edition of this new study of the genesis of the Indonesian national state is based on the notion that the birth of that nation grew out of not only the liberation movement but also from the Dutch rule that the nationalists agitated against. The book places a clear emphasis on the ways in which Dutch rule was established in the Indonesian archipelago in the course of three centuries and examines the developments of Dutch colonial policies. This feeds into chapters that focus on the Indonesian nationalist movement and the Japanese occupation of the colony in 1942-1945. The occupation helped to enable the proclamation of Indonesian indepence and the creation of the Republic in August 1945. The conflict that erupted between the Repub-lic and the Netherlands was brought to an incomplete ‘solution’ in 1949, but the dis-pute about West-Irian led to a sequel that lasted for another thirteen years. More than half of this book is dedicated to the conflict and its aftermath. Much attention is paid to the sentiments and ideas that informed Dutch policy. Various issues that have received scant attention in the historiography are now dis-cussed. The author based his study on Dutch and international literature, contemporary newspapers and policy documents, and his own memories. In the book’s title, the stork represents the Dutch and the garuda functions as a symbol of Indonesia. J. Herman Burgers (1926) worked at the Dutch Department of Foreign Affairs. He studied Law in Amsterdam and Political Science at Stanford University. He was deeply interested in the conflict between the Netherlands and the Republic of Indone-sia, as it broke out in 1945. This fascination has never left him, and he has continued to study the conflict and its aftermath, especially during the years 1948-1950 when he was in Indonesia for his Dutch military service.

This publication belongs to the series coordinated by Jesús Rivas and Ignacio José García Zapata, from the Department of Art History at the University of Murcia, founded in 2001 and published annually, coinciding with the feast of San Eloy, patron saint of silversmiths, an annual volume with works related to silverwork and jewelry by the most accredited Spanish and foreign researchers in this field. The topics range from religious silverwork to civil silverwork, its masters, marking as well as the typologies and techniques specific to silverwork and jewelry.

Parkinson’s disease is an increasingly common neurodegenerative condition, which causes not only dysfunction of movement but also a broad range of nonmotor features, including mood disturbance, sleep dysfunction, autonomic dysfunction, cognitive deficits, and dementia, and neuropsychiatric symptoms. A major conundrum in this condition is understanding its striking clinical variability, which encompasses a spectrum from a benign phenotype with levodopa responsive symptoms and minimal progression, to a malignant phenotype with rapid progression to severe gait dysfunction, falls and dementia. This book integrates the considerable expertise of a range of authors from different disciplines, from clinicians through to basic scientists, to present a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of Parkinson’s disease. In recent years, we have made significant progress in understanding the pathological and genetic basis of Parkinson’s disease and its heterogeneous forms, and the first section of the book is dedicated to reviewing this. The variable clinical features of Parkinson’s disease and its differential diagnosis are then considered. The final section provides a detailed overview of treatment approaches, including not only pharmacological therapies but also surgical therapies including deep brain stimulation and cell transplantation strategies. The combination of basic biology, clinical knowledge and therapeutics gives this book a very broad appeal. It will be of value to clinicians and health professionals caring for patients with Parkinson’s disease, as well as providing an excellent introduction for junior researchers entering the field.

Salt-affected soils are present in nearly every irrigated area of the world and also occur in non-irrigated croplands and rangelands. Thus, virtually no land is immune to salinization. Therefore, to sustain life on earth, it is vital and urgent to control these problems and find innovative and comprehensive ways to use these extensive salt-affected soils and marginal water resources, at least for agricultural purposes. Reclamation, or simply the minimization of the effect of salinity and/or sodicity, is important. In this respect, the proper use of water for both plant growth, soil salinity, and sodicity control is probably of the greatest importance. Most of the existing literature concentrates on water and salt regimes and processes at field scale, but few explore soil carbon and nutrient cycling, which has aroused considerable debate over how to translate water and salt regime regulation into sustainable utilization and development in saline–alkaline land.

The medieval approach to work was ambivalent, influenced by conflicting cultural legacies, as seen in the tripartite society and tensions between labour and ascetic ideals. The text explores medieval labour contracts, emphasising nuanced relations between servitude, subordination, and freedom, both in rural and urban context, highlighting evolving worker statuses in guilds. Medieval views on mechanical arts challenged Greco-Roman disdain, with intellectuals reconciling manual arts with divine wisdom, reshaping perceptions of practical skills. Societal changes, including city growth and merchant inclusion, challenged traditional orders: a new human perspective shaped by cities, merchants, rationality, and time, paved the way for ‘new man’ of the Renaissance.

Este libro es fundamentalmente una historia de los desafíos que enfrentaron y de los mecanismos a los que recurrieron los educadores de la Revolución de los años veinte para crear un sistema de educación popular", explica la autora Engracia Loyo. Éste es un registro histórico de la política educativa del gobierno federal, los motivos por los que los dirigentes revolucionarios se aferraron a la educación como medio para reconstruir el país. El reto principal de la educación en México ha sido, y sigue siendo, el formar una nación homogénea sin atentar contra la identidad, la cultura y la etnicidad de los pueblos.