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Based on New Zealand Election Study (NZES) data from a sample of 2,830 eligible voters, A Bark But No Bite explores a puzzle. While there was a lot of talk about inequality before the 2014 general election in New Zealand, and during the campaign, concern about inequality appeared to have no tangible effect on the election outcome. This book shows that, by its attention to the concerns of middle ground voters, the National Government had reduced the potential of policy differences to drive voter choices. Perceptions of competence and effective leadership were National’s strongest suit, crowding out voter concerns over matters of policy. When voters did consider policy, inequality and related concerns were second to the economy. Traditional priorities about health and education, and perceptions of party differences on these matters, had faded into the background. Meanwhile, voters doubted the opposition Labour Party’s ability to govern effectively in an alternative coalition to that of the National-led government. Labour’s policies were too many. In various ways, they would have chipped away at inequality, but lacked a coherent narrative and presentation. This book confirms that Labour’s proposal to increase the age for receipt of New Zealand superannuation gained Labour no new votes. Hopes that the ‘missing million’ people who failed to turn out to vote in 2011 would vote in 2014 and give an advantage to the left were unfulfilled. A comprehensive study of the 2014 election, this book provides a detailed account of all these findings, and a host of others.

How can the individual find the road to emancipation if modernity, which promises it to him, turns out to be a cage? If he is ensnared and not liberated by social, political, economic and technical-scientific progress, lost in the labyrinth of the big cities? Works from the last decades of the 19th century by Ibsen, Bang, Strindberg, Obstfelder and Claussen show the acute perception of the dilemma, but also invite one to venture into the reading of the signs of the modern: a path with an uncertain outcome, but one that produces decisive results for literature. Heirs to Romanticism, Realism and Naturalism, open to the horizons of Symbolism, these Scandinavian authors inaugurate European Modernism.

This work approaches the fields of homogenization and of materials design for the linear and nonlinear mechanical properties with prescribed properties-profile. The set of achievable properties is bounded by the zeroth-order bounds (which are material specific), the first-order bounds (containing volume fractions of the phases) and the second-order Hashin-Shtrikman bounds with eigenfields in terms of tensorial texture coefficients for arbitrarily anisotropic textured materials.

In the late Middle Ages, when universities dominated the intellectual world, natural philosophy was very much about analyzing the works of Aristotle (with commentaries by Averroes), but it does not mean, that this part of philosophy was limited to paraphrasing the Philosopher’s words or that there was nothing new to say. To the contrary, the old problems began to be discussed in greater detail and some new methods were used to solve them. These were the tasks of the group called Oxford Calculators, thinkers from the fourteenth century, connected to Oxford, who presented logical and mathematical approach to philosophical problems. The first Calculators, Richard Kilvington and Thomas Bradwardine, recognized that mathematics can be the right language to describe natural phenomena. In their works - Kilvington in his Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics and Bradwardine in the On the Proportions of Speeds in Motions (De proportionibus velocitatum in motibus) – they gave convincing reasons, why the laws of motion presented in the Stagirite’s Physics erroneously describe speeds of some kind of motions. Based on their achievements, subsequent philosophers in similar manners, i. a. using mathematical proportionality, presented ways of measuring various types of motions: this was also done by the anonymous author of the treatise De sex inconvenientibus (also known as De sex inconvenientium). The book considers the issue of measuring the process of generation (a complex one) and qualitative changes discussed in this treatise. The author of the De sex inconvenientibus most probably belonged to the milieu of Oxford Calculators, as evidenced both by the fact that he knew and cited the works of his predecessors (Thomas Bradwardine and William Heytesbury), and the fact that his work was mentioned by the next generation of Calculators (by John Dumbleton). The treatise, written in the mid-fourteenth century, between 1335 and 1344, is devoted to the problems of change, or rather the possibility of determining their speeds. Its author deals with some changes that occur in nature: generation of forms, qualitative and quantitative changes, as well as local motion (change of place). As the problems of motions are analyzed here using the theory of proportion, it is thus the best testimony to the reception of the concepts of the creators of the Oxford Calculators school.

This book provides a comprehensive review of deep vein thrombosis. There are chapters on risk factors for DVT, post thrombotic syndrome and its management, vena cava malformation as a new etiological factor and thrombosis in the upper limbs. DVT is usually seen in patients undergoing major surgeries. The guidelines for thrombo-prophylaxis in orthopaedic patients, radical pelvic surgeries, laparoscopic operations and risks versus benefits in regions with a low prevalence of DVT are thoroughly addressed. Cancer and its treatment are recognized risk factors for VTE and extended prophylaxis in ambulatory cancer patients is reviewed. The role of imaging and endovascular therapies in acute DVT, hypercoagulabilty in liver diseases and the challenges in developing countries are discussed.

Treatment of Micropollutants in Water and Wastewater gives a comprehensive overview of modern analytical methods and will summarize novel single and hybrid methods to remove continuously emerging contaminants - micropollutants from the aqueous phase. New trends (e.g. sensor technology, nanotechnology and hybrid treatment technologies) are described in detail. The content of the book is divided into chapters that present current descriptive and analytical methods that are available to detect and measure micropollutants together with detailed information on various chemical, biological and physicochemical methods that have evolved over the last few decades. The provides an understanding of why and how micropollutants must be removed from water sources, and what are the most appropriate and available techniques for providing a cost and technologically effective and sustainable solutions for reaching the goal of micropollutant-free water and wastewater.

This volume encompasses a broad span of issues related to borders as areas of intense activity substantially contributing to the dynamics of culture. The chapters address questions relating to the construction and reconstruction of borders, as well as the experience and representation of physical, spiritual, imagined and symbolic borders. The authors provide perspectives on emerging and dissolving borders in the past and present. Special emphasis is placed on subjective perception by asking how borders are experienced and expressed at the level of the specific community or individual. Several articles tackle dramatic and controversial issues like war, conflict between different ideologies and cultures, and remembering. The authors also explore dialectical relations between culture, social relations and landscape, and the interplay of ideological constructions and material culture. The contributions are arranged into two sections focusing on two wider issues: how borders are drawn in landscape, religion and scientific discourse (Wandering borders), and how representations of cultural borders and border crossings have changed over time (Bordering ruptures: the dynamics of self-description). The authors of this volume come from various scholarly fields and offer innovative tools for expanding the concept of the border across disciplinary frames.

In her study, the author examines the emergence of loneliness among young students, analysing its significance for social work. The focus is on moving house as a critical life event. Based on a quantitative study of 98 students, the research demonstrates the effect of this transition on psychosocial well-being. The findings indicate an increased sense of loneliness, particularly during the initial period after moving, and suggest ways to provide needs-based support and integration measures.

This book consists of one editorial, 12 original research articles and two review papers from scientists across the world, with expertise in materials for dental application. The main subjects covered are: biomaterials and techniques for oral tissue engineering and regeneration; biomaterials for surgical reconstruction; CAD/CAM technologies and dedicated materials; novel restorative and endodontic materials and instruments.

One of literature's greatest gifts is its portrayal of realistically drawn characters--human beings in whom we can recognize motivations and emotions. In Imagined Human Beings, Bernard J. Paris explores the inner conflicts of some of literature's most famous characters, using Karen Horney's psychoanalytic theories to understand the behavior of these characters as we would the behavior of real people. When realistically drawn characters are understood in psychological terms, they tend to escape their roles in the plot and thus subvert the view of them advanced by the author. A Horneyan approach both alerts us to conflicts between plot and characterization, rhetoric and mimesis, and helps us understand the forces in the author's personalty that generate them. The Horneyan model can make sense of thematic inconsistencies by seeing them as the product of the author's inner divisions. Paris uses this approach to explore a wide range of texts, including Antigone, "The Clerk's Tale," The Merchant of Venice, A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler, Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Wuthering Heights, Madame Bovary, The Awakening, and The End of the Road.

Atherothrombosis has reached pandemic proportions worldwide. It is the underlying condition that results in events leading to myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke and vascular death. As such, it is the leading cause of death worldwide manifested mainly as cardiovascular/cerebrovascular death. The complex and intimate relationship between atherothrombosis and traditional and novel risk factors is discussed in the following chapters of Traditional and Novel Risk Factors in Atherothrombosis - from basic science to clinical and therapeutic concerns. Beginning with pathology and pathophysiology of atherothrombosis, plaque rupture/disruption, this book continues with molecular, biochemical, inflammatory, cellular aspects and finally analyzes several aspects of clinical pharmacology.

D'abord utilisée à l'aide de la lanterne magique pour le divertissement, la plaque photographique s’est imposée dans le dernier quart du xixe siècle comme un outil particulièrement adapté à la production et la diffusion des savoirs. Depuis quelques années, les plaques photographiques, souvent reléguées dans des réserves, voire totalement oubliées depuis un peu plus d’un demi-siècle, sont regardées comme les témoins patrimoniaux de pratiques pédagogiques et savantes révolues.Ce volume collectif s’inscrit dans les recherches actuelles sur le patrimoine pédagogique et scientifique. Il témoigne d’une volonté de mieux connaître ces objets pour mieux les valoriser et les conserver. Il propose également d’examiner les cultures visuelles qu’ils mettent au jour, en particulier en matière de construction et de diffusion des savoirs naturalistes, historiques, archéologiques, géographiques ou ethnographiques entre la fin du xixe et le milieu du xxe siècle.

In Byzantium the epigram as a genre was highly appreciated. Their analysis is the aim of the four planned volumes of the project “Byzantinische Epigramme in inschriftlicher Überlieferung” [“Byzantine epigrams on objects”]. More than 300 and such epigrams preserved on stone, which are treated in the present third volume, are known from the project period 600 AD to 1500 AD.

Le parcours de Robert de Sarrebrück, seigneur de Commercy, offre à lire des pages méconnues de la guerre de Cent Ans. Au début du XVe siècle, ce grand baron, longtemps dénoncé comme un vulgaire brigand, anima aux marches du royaume de France entre Champagne et Lorraine un mouvement de résistance face aux forces anglo-bourguignonnes. Cette action aux frontières éclaire aussi d'un jour nouveau l'épopée de Jeanne d'Arc. Proche de Robert de Baudricourt, le sire de Commercy s'est toujours montré fidèle au parti orléanais, puis armagnac. Compagnon d'armes des grands capitaines français qui ont porté Charles VII jusqu'au trône, il accompagne aussi ceux que l'historiographie a dépeints sous les traits sanglants des Écorcheurs. Mais le sire de Commercy, dans cette Lorraine marquée par de forts particularismes politiques, n'hésitait pas à prendre les armes pour défendre ses intérêts personnels. Au terme de la guerre de Cent Ans et avec la réforme de l'armée royale, il dut, à l'instar d'autres grands féodaux, abdiquer ses prérogatives pour se soumettre à l'autorité du roi.

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