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Este libro aborda el estudio de políticas ambientales de distintos países latinoamericanos desde el enfoque del cambio ambiental global, es decir, a partir de las transformaciones de ecosistemas como resultado de la acción de los seres humanos, quienes modifican los entornos globales y configuran, individual y colectivamente, el rumbo del planeta y de la sociedad. La forma como se entiende y aborda la crisis ambiental global está vinculada con la atención que se presta a las políticas ambientales locales, nacionales e internacionales orientadas a combatir sus causas y efectos. Esto implica traer a las ciencias sociales al primer plano del campo científico con el doble objetivo de desentrañar las causas antrópicas más profundas de los problemas ambientales y de evaluar las posibilidades de su transformación a partir de la acción del Estado.

In the last years, institutional repositories of preprints and scholarly publications have become a peak experience in the digital library environment, enabling the involvement of authors and scientific communities in a free and shared access to the results of research, and to its circulation trough the web. This volume collects a series of essays, both published and unpublished, that Antonella De Robbio wrote with respect to the issue of scientific information, and to the reply given by the Open Access Movement (OAI). The collection aims to a double purpose: first, to fill the gap in the lacking Italian bibliography concerning Open Archives; second, to take stock of the difficult situation of the Open Access Movement, and of the hope of its advocates that this movement could promote a democratic and immediate circulation of scientific knowledge.

Liver cirrhosis and its complications affect millions of patients of all ages around the globe and present treating physicians with perplexing problems, given the variety of etiologies and the critical nature of hepatic physiology. This book will be a collection of chapters offering distilled knowledge from leading experts worldwide on the management of patients with cirrhosis, including the critical element of how the evolving technological revolution will change this in the future.

In recent years, with the rapid development of the world transportation industry, the proportion of asphalt pavement in road engineering is increasing. Therefore, while the demand for asphalt and asphalt mixture is increasing, the quality requirements for materials are also improving. In particular, new materials and new technologies are constantly emerging, and the application technology, theory, and technical specifications of asphalt materials have made great progress.

This book provides updated information on helminth infections, with proposals for new treatments and biological factors of risk, the development of vaccines for the control of helminthiasis and explains the latest research on the field. It also delves into multi-omics, diagnosis, immunology, and novel molecule targets. In addition, the book examines topics such as host-parasite interaction. Key Features: • Provides basic and clinical evidence based on molecular interactions to address the risks and benefits of helminthiasis • Presents the results of new vaccine development • Discusses new and old therapeutic approaches in helminth infections • Delves into advances in the molecular and immune response in helminth infection • Proposes a One Health approach to study helminth infections • Analyzes the controversies and confusions in the management, biology, and control strategies of helminth infections • Examines the basic biology of helminth parasites

Recueil Africain des Décisions des Droits Humains - 2004 2011 ISSN: 1817-194X Pages: 203 Print version: Available Electronic version: Free PDF available

Ninety percent of lives claimed by injuries occur in low- and middle-income countries. This special issue, A Million Person Household Survey: Understanding the Burden of Injuries in Bangladesh, aims to assess these injuries—including falls, drowning, burns, road traffic injuries — to inform efforts to reduce the burden they cast on millions of people and families in a low income country. This issue offers a unique collection of research on the epidemiology of fatal and non-fatal injuries in Bangladesh. Based on a survey of more than one million people, this research—conducted by the International Injury Research Unit, Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and two Bangladesh partners, the Center for Injury Prevention and Research and the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh with funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies, was part of a large-scale, population-based, child-drowning prevention project called “Saving of Lives from Drowning in Bangladesh.” The project tested the large-scale effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of evidence-based interventions to reduce drowning related deaths for children less than five years of age (reported elsewhere). We hope this data will be useful to researchers, students, practitioners and national decision makers.

In Band 35 (2013) der Simpliciana werden sechzehn Vorträge veröffentlicht, die während einer Tagung mit dem Rahmenthema «Der Teutsche Michel. Kulturpatriotismus und Sprachverhalten im Werk Grimmelshausens und in der oberrheinischen Literatur der Frühen Neuzeit» Mitte Juni 2013 in Oberkirch und Renchen gehalten wurden. Darüber hinaus erscheinen in diesem Jahrbuch drei weitere Beiträge zum Werk des simplicianischen Autors und ein Aufsatz zum Fortleben der Figur des deutschen Michels in Karikatur und Volkskunde in Böhmen. Der Rezensionsteil berichtet wie gewohnt über Neuerscheinungen zu Grimmelshausen und zur Literatur und Kultur der Frühen Neuzeit.

A lot of qualitative researchers have a healthy wariness about straightforward categorisation and modelling endeavours undertaken by quantitative researchers. Too often, variables and measurements are too rigid in quantitative analysis to take stock of all the complexity and context-dependency of human behaviour, attitudes and identities. In the worst-case scenario for migration studies, this leads to oversimplification, essentialisation and culturalism. In line with King et al. (1994), I would, however, in this chapter, like to plead for qualitative researchers to take into account that, in terms of challenges of validity and reliability, we have a lot to learn from each other. Acknowledging that qualitative research has its distinctive advantages (Brady and Collier 2004), I will argue that choices in categorisation, case selection and research design are of crucial importance, perhaps even more in qualitative studies than in quantitative studies, even if in both methodological traditions we are confronted with similar challenges. Being transparent and reflecting on the consequences of our choices of categorisation, analysis and interpretation is of crucial importance. It is too easy to think that qualitative research would, by definition, be better equipped in doing justice to the phenomena we wish to study in the field of migration, especially if our research focusses on migrants.

This work analyses the relation between social inequality and health by focusing on the social processes and individual mechanisms that construct it within the area of action of the economic sphere, the cultural sphere and the social and territorial sphere. Within this framework, the body is conceived as a link between the physical, biological and material dimensions and the social, relational and emotional dimensions. At the same time, the proposal is to go beyond the well-known relationship between economic resources/social position and levels of health/life expectation, concentrating on the specific social and psychological dynamics generated by the availability of socio-economic capital. The over-simplified perspective of the social gradient of health is overtaken by an analysis of the relational dimension of the individual and his/her reference groups, and finally by appraising both the individual and collective aspects that can be traced to the social and political context and to the different welfare systems.

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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Our global energy system needs radical and speedy transformation in order to meet climate change targets. This shift is currently conceived in two ways: a ‘high carbon transition’ away from fossil fuels and a ‘low carbon transition’, the development of a low carbon energy system. This accessible book guides us through the 'messy mix', the perilous ground that sits between the present and the future energy systems. Evidence-based and solutions-focused, this is a novel framework to help manage geopolitical challenges and enable a swift, just, orderly and equitable transition away from fossil fuels.

Die unter dem Titel Husserlsche Phänomenologie neu aufgelegte und von zehn auf siebzehn erweiterte Sammlung der zwischen 1995 und 2014 entstanden bzw. verstreut veröffentlichten Beiträge des Autors bieten Einblicke in systematische Probleme phänomenologischen Philosophierens, in Husserls Bezugnahme auf Vorläufer und Ideengeber seines "Neuanfangs" der Philosophie und in dessen Rezeption sowohl durch "Schüler" als auch durch Philosophen, die sich der phänomenologischen Richtung selbst nicht zurechnen. Der erste Schwerpunkt der Beiträge liegt auf den mit der Lebensphilosophie geteilten intuitiven Erkenntnisverfahren, dem Bestehen auf dem anschaulichen Charakter allgemeiner Gegenstände und einer entsprechend motivierten Wissenschaftskritik. Der zweite Schwerpunkt widmet sich Husserls Bezugnahme auf historische "Vordenker" (Platon, Leibniz) und auf die zeitgenössische Lebensphilosophie (Scheler, Dilthey, Spengler) und deren Kulturkritik. Die Beiträge des dritten Schwerpunktes gehen der originellen Interpretation phänomenologischer Ansätze bzw. Begrifflichkeiten bei Schülern (Spet) und bei Vertretern des Marburger Neukantianismus (Natorp, Cassirer, M. Adler, N. Hartmann) nach, die die Phänomenologie wertschätzen, sich mit ihr aber nicht identifizieren. Eine Besonderheit der zum Wiederabdruck gebrachten Beiträge ist darin zu sehen, daß in ihnen immer auch der Beziehung Cassirers und seiner "Philosophie der symbolischen Formen" zur Husserlschen Phänomenologie nachgegangen wird. Christian Möckel studierte Philosophie in Skt. Petersburg, promovierte und habilitierte an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, wo er als apl. Professor für Philosophie lehrt, hatte Gastprofessuren in Maputo und Hamburg inne, ist langjährig mit phänomenologischen Studien und mit Cassirer-Forschung bzw. der Edition seines Nachlasses befaßt, seit 2014 als Herausgeber der "Nachgelassenen Manuskripte und Texte".

In addition to tracing the main aspects and the most salient events in the life of the Neapolitan Jesuit Domenico Fuciti (1623-1696), attention will be paid to the religious and socio-cultural issues that emerge from a critical reading of the unpublished Relazione della Missione, preserved in the Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu (ARSI) of which the second chapter (central chapter) is published here. The historical coordinates regarding Fuciti’s missionary activity and his hostility towards the Society for Foreign Missions of Paris, whose members were sent to the Indochinese peninsula by the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide, are also taken into consideration.

Les intendants rouennais n'ont guère, jusqu'à présent, retenu l'attention. Il en est de même du contentieux fiscal dévolu aux commissaires départis dans les généralités situées en pays d'élections. À ce double titre, l'activité de l'intendant de Rouen, juge du contentieux fiscal au xviiie siècle offrait un terrain propice à un vaste champ d'étude. Entouré d'un personnel peu nombreux mais de qualité, l'intendant de Rouen vide avec application et modération le contentieux des impôts directs et indirects qui lui est soumis. Il se révèle être un véritable juriste, le plus souvent respectueux de la règle de droit. Contrôlés scrupuleusement par le Conseil du roi, juge d'appel de ses ordonnances, l'intendant de Rouen entre parfois en conflit avec le pouvoir royal en raison de son attitude conciliante envers les contribuables. On est loin en somme de l'arbitraire et des despotes fustigés par les cours souveraines au xviiie siècle et par les cahiers de doléances en 1789.