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Contributors to this book have reviewed research from the fields of metabolic syndromes in view of their own research. The chapters cover the neural mechanisms of food intake and proposed factors related to obesity. The influences of the intake of sugar and lipids are also discussed. The relationships between cancer and venous thromboembolism in connection with obesity are discussed. Omega (ω) fatty acids and trans-fatty acids are risks of cardiovascular diseases. Comparison of plasma levels of trans-fatty acids indicated that industrially produced trans-fatty acids are higher in American than Japanese men. Hopefully, the book provides information that readers want to obtain in the fields of food intake and metabolic syndromes.

Designing in Times of Crisis offers insights, visions, and strategies for architects and urban designers to question and respond to the crises and challenges of the contemporary anthropocentric world. The book highlights the urgency of addressing global crises and encourages architects and urban designers to consider new approaches related to gender equity, city ethics, and fundamental human rights. It promotes the adoption of sustainable practices that heed the social, economic, and environmental impacts of their work, particularly focusing on Portuguese and Brazilian contexts. The book fosters new thinking and practices to provide a comprehensive overview of the challenges and opportunities facing contemporary architecture and urban design. It investigates how these disciplines can adapt to the fluidity of the digital age, respond to climate change, and embrace social justice, all while maintaining a commitment to innovation and sustainability. The book is divided into two parts: “Envisioning” and “Applying”. The first explores various urban and architectural proposals triggered by climate change and contemporary social issues. The second focuses on different experimentations in architectural and urban design, building techniques, dwelling, and teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as citizenship formation. This timely research is relevant for students, researchers, and practitioners interested in architecture, urban planning, and sustainable design.

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How did Judaism, a religion so often defined by its minority status, attain equal footing in the trinity of Catholicism, Protestantism, and Judaism that now dominates modern American religious life? THE AMERICANIZATION OF THE JEWS seeks out the effects of this evolution on both Jews in America and an America with Jews. Although English, French, and Dutch Jewries are usually considered the principal forerunners of modern Jewry, Jews have lived as long in North America as they have in post- medieval Britain and France and only sixty years less than in Amsterdam. As one of the four especially creative Jewish communities that has helped re-shape and re-formulate modern Judaism, American Judaism is the most complex and least understood. German Jewry is recognized for its contribution to modern Jewish theology and philosophy, Russian and Polish Jewry is known for its secular influence in literature, and Israel clearly offers Judaism a new stance as a homeland. But how does one capture the interplay between America and Judaism? Immigration to America meant that much of Judaism was discarded, and much was retained. Acculturation did not always lead to assimilation: Jewishness was honed as an independent variable in the motivations of many of its American adherents- -and has remained so, even though Jewish institutions, ideologies, and even Jewish values have been reshaped by America to such an degree that many Jews of the past might not recognize as Jewish some of what constitutes American Jewishness. This collection of essays explores the paradoxes that abound in the America/Judaism relationship, focusing on such specific issues as Jews and American politics in the twentieth century, the adaptation of Jewish religious life to the American environment, the contributions and impact of the women's movement, and commentaries on the Jewish future in America.

— Table of contents — VOLUME I Early period edited by Piero Antonio Carnemolla VOLUME II The Romanistic foundation. Writings on History and Roman law edited by Patrizia Giunti VOLUME III Principles against totalitarianism and constitutional refoundation edited by Ugo De Siervo VOLUME IV The city and the human person. Social, political and administrative texts edited by Pier Luigi Ballini, Giulio Conticelli VOLUME V The construction of peace. International politics texts edited by Bruna Bagnato VOLUME VI The believer and the Church. Texts on religious and ecclesiastical life edited by Bruna Bocchini, Augusto D'Angelo VOLUME VII Indexes of the National Edition of Giorgio La Pira’s Works

Nas palavras da autora, o estudo seguiu “um impulso de explicar, por um lado, o modo de ser do brasileiro, seu gosto pela conversa fiada, suas silabadas políticas; e, por outro, de descobrir a genealogia dos sistemas acadêmicos luso-brasileiros, revelando o fraco dos intelectuais tupiniquins pelo louvor, pela exibição pública, pela esgrima das palavras”. A pesquisa, porém, levou a autora a investigar e analisar a instrução de caráter retórico ministrada desde o tempo do Marquês de Pombal e seus reflexos no Brasil sob Pedro I. O período é balizado por duas obras relevantes para a história das relações escolares no país: O verdadeiro método de estudar, de Luís Antônio Verney, de 1746, base teórica para a reforma na instrução lusófona, e as Lições elementares de eloquência nacional para uso da mocidade de ambos os hemisférios, de Francisco Freire de Carvalho, de 1834, que uniformizaram o ensino da retórica no Brasil. Por meio de um texto claro e com pitadas de bom humor, a autora revela a importância que o ensino da retórica teve no uso da língua portuguesa, na medida em que a matéria contribuiu no estabelecimento de regras comuns para o idioma e influenciou a formação de “um conjunto de palavras comuns e de um jeito de falar peculiar que, depois, chamou-se de brasileiro”. A partir desse quadro, a historiadora analisa como a cultura oral marcada pela retórica transferiu-se para a cultura escrita, representada pela imprensa da época, e de que forma fomentou o gosto pela leitura e pela escrita no Rio de Janeiro da época.

This book is an ethnographic account of education and migration from the perspective of three groups of South Koreans in contemporary China: migrant parents, children/students, and educational agents. The book reveals how these temporary migrants make choices, plan their trajectories and engage with the authorities, both in China and South Korea. Migrant subjectivities among these groups are driven by and respond to the education-migration regimes of both the sending and receiving countries. As ‘people in between’, they occupy flexible and multiple positionalities that are transnationally distributed. However, paradoxically, they experience a juxtaposition of privilege, integration and separation, which is indicative of the Chinese style of internationalisation. The book adds weight to the argument that China is a temporary destination for foreigners and not one for long-term settlement.

The situation of the DGB trade unions has been interpreted disparately since the end of the 2000s. For one side, they are experiencing a comeback. For the other, the decline that has been attested since the beginning of the 21st century is continuing. In order to resolve this contradictory interpretation, the Strategic Unity working group proposes a change of perspective: Scholarly work should primarily analyse which options for action and resources trade unions have and use to solve their crisis. Marcel Schwartz takes up this suggestion in his qualitative study and analyses revitalisation processes of IG-Metall and ver.di on the basis of the phenomenon of cloudworking. He then places his findings in the debate outlined above.

Daily devotionals exploring spiritual themes in Harry Potter, youth pastors giving sermons wearing Jedi robes, missionary groups using Bilbo's journey to share the Gospel of Christ: There is apparently a high level of interest within the Christian community to engage with popular culture. This applies in particular to fictional works dealing with the supernatural or fantastic otherworlds. The aim of this study is to show how fantasy literature can be used in modern society to articulate religious themes. The focus lies on Christian literature such as devotional books and didactic resources for ministry addressing Christian readers in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States of America. By analysing Christian literature reflecting Harry Potter, His Dark Materials and Left Behind (works of fantasy that strongly differ in their engagement with religious themes) this thesis shows how Christian teachers, apologists, writers and speakers create biblical analogies and use (religious) archetypes to build a bridge between the narratives of popular culture, Christian tradition and the reader’s personal story.

The eleven contributions in the volume examine the terminology used to refer to enslaved people and people in other forms of strong asymmetrical dependency as well as narratives by means of which dependency has been either justified or challenged. The articles address a wide range of historical contexts – from medieval Scandinavia and the Fatimid Empire to the history of abolition in Martinique and human rights violations in contemporary society.

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What is honour, and how does it affect our lives? In contemporary Western cultures, honour seems to have lost its dominant role as a key concept for denoting central dynamics of human life, both individually and socially. In the Scandinavian countries, a slow revolution has taken place throughout history from the strong Norse honour culture to the post-war egalitarian and equality-oriented welfare society which appears to be an after-honour culture. What are the reasons for this weakening, and what are its consequences? Are we living with new forms of honour, and what does it mean to live in an after-honour culture? The focal point and chief target of the discussions is literature, primarily Scandinavian, but also other textual expressions. The book is aimed at readers interested in literature, but the topic is interdisciplinary and should therefore appeal to a wider audience. This volume emanates from the project After Honour, initiated by the research group Literature and Affect at Institute of Scandinavian Studies, University of Oslo. The 15 articles are written by scholars from Norway, Denmark and Iceland: Per Thomas Andersen, Aasta Marie Bjorvand Bjørkøy, Mads B. Claudi, Johanne Walle Jomisko de Figueiredo, Jon Gunnar Jørgensen, Anne-Marie Mai, Thorstein Norheim, Nasim Karim, Jan Erik Rekdal, Peter Simonsen, Simen Syvertsen, Cecilie Takle, Torfi H. Tulinius and Mikkel Bruun Zangenberg.

La incorporación de la Patagonia al Estado nacional se concretó a través de la violencia genocida sobre los pueblos originarios, violencia que instaló criterios racistas aún hoy presentes en las políticas públicas y el sentido común mayoritario. Este libro revela y constata esa continuidad histórica a través de la investigación interdisciplinaria sobre el acceso diferenciado al uso y la propiedad de tierras fiscales en la provincia de Río Negro. En este sentido, si bien el punto de partida es el de los conflictos observados en la actualidad en diferentes localizaciones del territorio provincial, los trabajos reunidos en el volumen reponen los procesos históricos y los contextos etnográficos que permiten visualizar y comprender las múltiples dimensiones de una problemática cuya complejidad se remonta a –y se estructura por– las consecuencias de la Conquista del Desierto. Además de la descripción de casos enriquecida por la investigación en archivos y la consulta de fuentes orales, el libro incluye el estudio de las leyes provinciales relativas a las tierras fiscales y los derechos de los pueblos originarios y de la aplicación de esas normas por parte del Estado rionegrino en distintas etapas históricas, con el objetivo de contribuir a la necesaria reformulación de las políticas públicas de ordenamiento territorial.

This reprint comprises 17 papers published in the Special Issue entitled “The Impact of COVID-19 on Financial Markets and the Real Economy”, centered on socioeconomic models affected by the pandemic (Vasin, 2022); the COVID-19 impact on various sectors or the economy as a whole, for instance in Canada (Singh et al., 2022), China (Habibi et al., 2022), Slovakia (Svabova et al., 2022), the United States (Rodousakis & Soklis, 2022) or Vietnam (Huynh et al., 2021; Nguyen et al., 2022); the benefits of teleworking on the continuity of operations across various sectors (Santos et al., 2022); research of the tourism and recreational possibilities of Russia and Kazakhstan’s cross-border regions and the threats these areas faced during the pandemic (Tanina et al., 2022), the impact of the new coronavirus infection on the Russian labor market (Rodionov et al., 2022); the factors driving young Vietnamese people’s intention to use financial technology in the context of the COVID-19 outbreak (Khuong et al., 2022) or those influencing access to credit for informal labor sector (Vu and Ho, 2022); predicting and analyzing Jordanian insurance firms’ performance (Altarawneh et al., 2022) or developing an early warning system for solvency risk in the banking industry (Hidayat et al., 2022) during the COVID-19 pandemic; the impact of the pandemic on European stock markets (Keliuotyte-Staniuleniene and Kviklis, 2022); the drivers of cross-border mergers and acquisitions during the pandemic (Lee et al., 2021); examining the financial and fiscal variables of Ecuadorian economic groups (Tulcanaza-Prieto and Morocho-Cayamcela, 2021).

The series "QUELLEN UND FORSCHUNGEN ZUR LITERATUR- UND KULTURGESCHICHTE" (Sources and Research in the History of Literature and Culture), with a rich tradition stretching back to 1874, is an established feature among the renowned publications for German Literary Studies. Edited by Mark-Georg Dehrmann and Christiane Witthöft, the series presents examples of high-quality scholarship examining literary texts in conjunction with historical cultural phenomena, particularly with the other arts. There is an explicit demand for literary studies with a transdisciplinary approach. German literature from the Middle Ages to the present day forms the main focus of the series. As the historical cultural thrust of the series includes aspects of intercultural experience and national perceptions of the other, Quellen und Forschungen is also open to occasional comparative studies. The publications of the series include monographs, doctoral and professorial theses. Works presented for acceptance in the series are required to display scholarly relevance and excellence in method and presentation.