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The x-ray computed tomography (CT) is well known as a useful imaging method and thus CT images have continuingly been used for many applications, especially in medical fields. This book discloses recent advances and new ideas in theories and applications for CT imaging and its analysis. The 16 chapters selected in this book cover not only the major topics of CT imaging and analysis in medical fields, but also some advanced applications for forensic and industrial purposes. These chapters propose state-of-the-art approaches and cutting-edge research results.

Koron’s monograph explores a vast field of theory – occassionally called post-classical narratology – from the historical-developmental and the systematic or theoretical-methodological perspectives. The first part of the book treats the theoretical preliminaries, basic concepts, terminological questions, delimitations of the research subject, and the definitions of narrative. The second part outlines the history of narrative theories, divided into several phases, and the formation of its concepts. The third part discusses Slovenian contributions to the field and compares them to the international state of research. The fourth part examines the applicability of contemporary narratological approaches to concrete texts. It treats the concept of omniscient narration, aspects of narratology of drama and the phenomenon of narrativity in the plays of Dušan Jovanović (1939–), the development of gendered narratology, the introduction of narratological concepts in autobiographies and concludes the discussion with entering the interdisciplinary field of historiographical narratology.

Les indianistes doivent cesser de se définir par la seule référence à l’Inde et se penser aussi en termes de disciplines : l’indianisme n’est que l’application des sciences humaines à une région déterminée du monde. Pour faire œuvre d’historien de l’Inde ancienne, la connaissance du sanskrit demeure toutefois fondamentale : sans elle, pas de contact intime avec la culture de cet immense pays, pas de lecture possible des documents dans leur langue originale. Mais le sanskrit n’est pas toute l’...

This book introduces Root Narrative Theory, a new approach for narrative analysis, decoding moral politics, and for building respect and understanding in conditions of radical disagreement. This theory of moral politics bridges emotion and reason, and, rather than relying on what people say, it helps both the analyst and the practitioner to focus on what people mean in a language that parties to the conflict understand. Based on a simple idea—the legacy effects of abuses of power—the book argues that conflicts only endure and escalate where there is a clash of interpretations about the history of institutional power. Providing theoretically complex but easy-to-use tools, this book offers a completely new way to think about storytelling, the effects of abusive power on interpretation, the relationship between power and conceptions of justice, and the origins and substance of ultimate values. By locating the source of radical disagreement in story structures and political history rather than in biological or cognitive systems, Root Narrative Theory bridges the divides between reason and emotion, realism and idealism, without losing sight of the inescapable human element at work in the world’s most devastating conflicts. This book will be of much interest to students of conflict resolution, peace studies and International Relations, as well as to practitioners of conflict resolution.

Bringing illustration studies, the history of reading and transnational book history together, the Element offers an original micro-history of illustrated editions and iconic interpretations of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Digitisation has provided intelligence agencies with the capabilities to conduct surveillance at an unprecedented scale. Using a range of digital surveillance technologies and practices, and unprecedented public-private collaborations, intelligence agencies have extended their ability to collect, store and analyse data for intelligence purposes. Effective oversight is required to limit the potential for abuse. However, across Southern Africa – where digital surveillance is expanding – official oversight institutions typically lack the power and resources to monitor and review surveillance capabilities in order to ensure that intelligence agencies behave effectively and lawfully. Consequently, oversight in these countries typically is conducted by the public, through, for instance, challenging unjustifiable secrecy, publicising abuses and organising campaigns to rein these agencies in. Through comparative case study research exploring lessons from key moments in the region, this volume explores public oversight of intelligence-driven digital surveillance in eight Southern African countries and examines cases where this oversight either succeeded, failed, or achieved mixed outcomes. Authored by researchers and journalists from the fields of law, communication and media studies, this book offers lessons for academics and activists, suggesting that a new model of public oversight of surveillance is possible, and, arguably, functions better than extant approaches to surveillance. It will be of global significance, as surveillance abuses are a worldwide problem, as is the problem of oversight failing to keep pace with expanding surveillance capabilities.

This Edited Volume Lactobacillus - A Multifunctional Genus is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters, offering a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the field of Lactobacillus. The book comprises single chapters authored by various researchers and edited by an expert active in the Lactobacillus research area. All chapters are complete in themselves but united under a common research study topic. This publication aims at providing a thorough overview of the latest research efforts by international authors on Lactobacillus and opening new possible research paths for further novel developments.

Asia as we know it today is the product of a wide range of polity expansions over time. Recognising the territorial expansions of Asian polities large and small through the last several millennia helps rectify the fallacy, long-held and deeply entrenched, that Asian polities have been interested only in the control of populations, not in expanding their command of territory. In countering this misapprehension, this book suggests that Asian polities have indeed been concerned with territorial control and expansion over time, whether for political or strategic advantage, trade purposes, defence needs, agricultural expansion or increased income through taxation. The book explores the historical experiences of a set of polity expansions within Asia, specifically in East and Southeast Asia, and, by examining the motivations, mechanisms, processes, validations and limitations of these Asian territorial expansions, reveals the diverse avenues by which Asian polities have grown. The chapters draw on these historical examples to highlight the connections between Asian polity expansion and centralised political structures, and this aids in a broader and more comprehensive understanding of Asian political practice, both past and present. Through these chapter studies and the integrative introduction, the book interrogates key concepts such as imperialism and colonialism, and the applicability and relevance of such terminology in Asian contexts, both historical and contemporary. Comparisons and contrasts with European historical expansions are also suggested. This book will be welcomed by students and scholars of Asian history, as well as by those with an interest in Asian interactions, international relations, polity expansion, Asia--Europe historical comparisons and globalisation.

Cet essai porte sur la Gaule conquise par César. Son objectif est de mettre l’accent sur l’évolution du pays, depuis La Tène finale (vers 150 av. J.-C.) jusqu’au moment où s’achève son intégration effective dans l’Empire romain (vers 70 apr. J.-C.). L’auteur insiste donc sur les permanences avant d’aborder les étapes de la transition. Une première partie thématique étudie la Gaule sous ses différents aspects : le pays et ses habitants, la ruralité, le phénomène urbain et, enfin, les croyances. Une seconde partie, davantage historique, se concentre sur les étapes de l’intégration dans l’Empire. Cet ensemble est précédé d’un important prologue dont le titre est à lui seul une réponse ferme aux vaines polémiques de ces dernières années : « Que la Gaule n’est pas la France. » Il n’existe pas, à l’heure actuelle, d’approche similaire, cherchant à rompre avec le découpage chronologique classique entre protohistoire et histoire. On a mobilisé pour ce faire les sources archéologiques les plus récentes, issues bien souvent des fouilles préventives, en essayant de les croiser avec l’analyse des documents historiques traditionnels (épigraphie, textes grecs et latins). L’auteur propose sans aucun doute une vision renouvelée de l’histoire de la Gaule.

The Special Issue collects papers showing the progress made in key areas of photogrammetry and remote sensing such as modern and/or forthcoming sensors, improvements in data processing strategies and assessment of their reliability, application of innovations as proof of the contribution offered in the observation of the natural and built environment with better understanding of phenomena at required spatial scale.

In diesem Open-Access-Buch untersucht L. Constantin Wurthmann die sehr enge Beziehung zwischen Wertorientierungen und Wahlverhalten. Obwohl Wertorientierungen und gesellschaftliche Wertorientierungen im Speziellen zu den zentralsten Konzepten empirischer Sozialforschung gehören, wurde ihre Wirkungsweise im Wahlverhalten bisweilen stiefmütterlich behandelt. Die vorliegende Studie entwickelt einen Vorschlag zur konzeptionellen Erfassung gesellschaftlicher Wertorientierungen und deren Einfluss auf das Wahlverhalten der bundesdeutschen Bevölkerung, welcher anschließend mit Daten der German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES) für die Bundestagswahlen 2009, 2013 und 2017 überprüft wird. Dabei lassen sich strukturelle Veränderungen gesellschaftlicher Wertorientierungen in den Wählerschaften deutscher Parteien nachweisen.

Die Sektion Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik der DGfE feiert ihr 50. Jubiläum. Von den Herausgebenden wird dies zum Anlass genommen, um auf Kontinuitäten sowie Veränderungen der Disziplin und der Sektion zu blicken. Die Beiträge beleuchten Diskurse bzw. Diskurslinien, Forschung, Selbstverständnis und Professionalisierungsfragen der Berufs- und Wirtschaftspädagogik.; The Section for Vocational and Business Education of the DGfE is celebrating its 50th anniversary. The volume takes this as an opportunity to look at continuities and changes within the discipline and the section. The contributions illuminate discourses or lines of discourse, research, self-image and professionalisation issues in vocational and business education.

Starting from the fundamental premise that references are essential for all cultural techniques, the contributors to this volume elaborate architecture’s ambivalent tension between reference and contemporaneity, its central role in both architectural production and discourse. The issues surrounding contemporaneity do not pertain to a condition, but to an agenda – one where references are selected according to interests and adapted to present needs. This perspective enriches existing conceptions of references as tools of design economy, imitation, and historicization by tying them more explicitly to contemporary agendas than has been done before.

« Quelles sont les conditions qui font que certains discours fonctionnent comme discours littéraires ? ». Telle était la question, destinée à remplacer le sempiternel « Qu’est-ce que la littérature ? », qui était annoncée dans l'édition originale de Pour une théorie de la production littéraire (Maspero, 1966). Pour poser adéquatement cette question fondamentale et y répondre, Pierre Macherey, alors élève de Louis Althusser, réfléchissait en philosophe à la littérature et proposait l’une des ...