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This book addresses the gap in the existing literature on the governance of transdisciplinary research partnerships in transformational sustainability research by exploring the governance of knowledge co-production in coupled socio-ecological system dynamics. Multiple social and ecological crises raise new cross-sectoral research questions that call for an evolution in contemporary science in the direction of society-wide knowledge co-production on sustainability transformations of interdependent social and ecological systems. This book proposes a new approach to this based on enabling capacities for collaboration among scientific researchers and societal actors with diverse values, perspectives, and research interests. By drawing upon the thriving literature on the conditions for community and multistakeholder-driven collective action, the analysis sheds new light on the governance arrangements for organizing so-called transdisciplinary research partnerships for sustainability. This book identifies robust conditions that lead to effective collaborative research with societal actors and digs deeper into capacity building for partnership research through fostering social learning on sustainability values among research partners and organizing training and knowledge exchange at institutions of higher education. The book proposes solutions for addressing collective action challenges in transdisciplinary partnerships in an accessible and broadly interdisciplinary manner to a large audience of sustainability scholars and practitioners. It will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of sustainable development, social ecological transitions, and science policy, while also being a useful resource for engineers, QSE managers, and policymakers. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

An accessible, scientific account of grief, melancholy, and nostalgia in human life and their broader lessons for understanding emotions in general.The Science of Sadness proposes an original scientific account of grief, melancholy, and nostalgia, advocating a unique ethological approach to these familiar, woeful emotions. One of the leading scholars in the psychology of music and music cognition, David Huron draws on hundreds of studies from physiology, medicine, neuroscience, psychology, anthropology, and the arts to resolve long-standing problems that have stymied modern emotion research. A careful examination of sadness-related behaviors reveals their biological and social functions, which Huron uses to formulate a new theory about how emotions in general are displayed and interpreted.We've all shed tears of joy, tears of grief, tears of pain. While different emotions often share the same weepy display, Huron identifies the single function that unites them. He suggests how weeping emerged over the course of human evolution, explores the contrasting cultural manifestations of sadness, and chronicles humanity's changing interpretations of sadness over time. Huron also explains the various ways cultures recruit and reshape involuntary emotional displays for different social purposes, and he offers a compelling narrative of what makes tragic arts so appealing. Though sadness is typically regarded as the very antithesis of happiness, The Science of Sadness draws attention to the important roles that grief, melancholy, and nostalgia play in human well-being.

Terpenes belong to the diverse class of chemical constituents isolated from materials found in nature (plants, fungi, insects, marine organisms, plant pathogens, animals and endophytes). These metabolites have simple to complex structures derived from Isopentyl diphosphate (IPP), dimethyl allyl diphosphate (DMAPP), mevalonate and deoxyxylulose biosynthetic pathways. Terpenes play a very important role in human health and have significant biological activities (anticancer, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, antiallergic, skin permeation enhancer, anti-diabetic, immunomodulatory, anti-insecticidal). This book gives an overview and highlights recent research in the phytochemical and biological understanding of terpenes and terpenoid and explains the most essential functions of these kinds of secondary metabolites isolated from natural sources.

Title in English: Why education and its actors fail : Cognitive landscapes and nationalism. Why education reforms are often unsuccessful? Why is the school environment essentially toxic and systemically hindering the education process? Why, despite the sincere efforts of enlightened headmasters and teachers to change the face of the school, is it not actually transforming it? The book shows that reforms only affect the surface of schools. The core of the school institution is governed by rationality, which is associated with the industrial nationalist era. This rationality, at many levels – from state, to regional, to the level of everyday action of all actors – contradicts the structure of the globalizing world, its networking and non-hierarchical nature. In this new world, the institution of the school is still an institution that systematically norms and homogenizes the population and excludes all “inadaptable”. We are on the threshold of a whole new era, but schools sound with the rhythm of the 19th century.

This volume brings together nine studies on statues of divinities in the Roman Mediterranean, considering them as historical products characterised by the plasticity and dynamism of their forms and meanings. Visual languages, iconographic elements, spatial conceptions, modes of behaviour, actions and performance that created the divine, as well as intellectual constructs, narratives and knowledge that made divine beings present are issues that make up this collection of contributions by an interdisciplinary and international team.

In welcher Weise und warum bei der Übersetzung des Textes einer Sprache in eine andere Irritationen auftreten können, soll, am Beispiel des Sprachenpaares Polnisch-Deutsch vorgeführt, Gegenstand der Untersuchung sein.

We didn't know. For half a century, Western politicians and intellectuals have so explained away their inaction in the face of genocide in World War II. In stark contrast, Western observers today face a daily barrage of information and images, from CNN, the Internet, and newspapers about the parties and individuals responsible for the current Balkan War and crimes against humanity. The stories, often accompanied by video or pictures of rape, torture, mass graves, and ethnic cleansing, available almost instantaneously, do not allow even the most uninterested viewer to ignore the grim reality of genocide. And yet, while information abounds, so do rationalizations for non-intervention in Balkan affairs - the threshold of real genocide has yet to be reached in Bosnia; all sides are equally guilty; Islamic fundamentalism in Bosnia is a threat to the West; it will only end when they all tire of killing each other - to name but a few. In This Time We Knew, Thomas Cushman and Stjepan G. Mestrovic have put together a collection of critical, reflective, essays that offer detailed sociological, political, and historical analyses of western responses to the war. This volume punctures once and for all common excuses for Western inaction. This Time We Knew further reveals the reasons why these rationalizations have persisted and led to the West's failure to intercede, in the face of incontrovertible evidence, in the most egregious crimes against humanity to occur in Europe since World War II. Contributors to the volume include Kai Erickson, Jean Baudrillard, Mark Almond, David Riesman, Daniel Kofman, Brendan Simms, Daniele Conversi, Brad Kagan Blitz, James J. Sadkovich, and Sheri Fink.

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L’originalità dell’opera sta nell’aver riletto Kant dopo le critiche di Heidegger e Levinas all’ontoteologia. Tra i risultati principali, l’aver messo in discussione l’interpretazione dominante che ha visto in Kant colui che ha dichiarato la fine della metafisica e di ogni forma di “ontoteologia”. Vi si mostra, infatti, che Kant, inventore del termine, considera l’“ontoteologia” come il frutto supremo della ragione umana e le attribuisce un importante compito anche nei confronti della teologia. Quanto alla metafisica, si mette in luce come egli critichi bensì la metafisica “dommatica” del razionalismo moderno, ma proponga a sua volta un singolare modello di metafisica, capace di portare la ragione fino ai suoi “confini/limiti” (Grenze), aprendola così a ciò che l’oltrepassa: il mondo della libertà proprio dell’etica e della religione. Questo modello di “ragione ai confini” costituisce la chiave di volta di tutta la riflessione kantiana. Rileggere Kant alla luce dei rapporti tra ontologia e teologia risulta così indispensabile per la comprensione del suo intero pensiero, compresa la sua posizione su natura e limiti del sapere scientifico.

A piece of writing in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by particular attention to diction (sometimes involving rhyme), rhythm, and imagery. William Wordsworth defined poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings," and Emily Dickinson said, "If I read a book and it makes my body so cold no fire ever can warm me, I know that is poetry." Dylan Thomas defined poetry this way: "Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing.

Le Château des fées est édifié sur une motte rocheuse naturelle, sur la rive gauche de la Meuse au nord de Charleville-Mézières, sur les premiers contreforts du massif ardennois. Il fut sans doute la résidence principale d’un seigneur local, à la frontière des diocèses de Reims et de Liège, aux limbes des comtés de Costrice et du Porcien.Les fouilles dirigées par Jean-Pierre Lémant dans les années 1980-1990 ont permis de redonner à ce site anhistorique toute sa valeur historique et archéologique. Un établissement primitif en bois a d’abord occupé le substrat rocheux. Suite à sa probable destruction en 933 par Richer, évêque de Tongres-Masstricht-Liège, une aula en pierre se substitue au premier ouvrage et une enceinte enserre l’ensemble. La destruction du site intervient vers 1100, suite à un incendie.Un mobilier bien caractéristique de l’époque a été mis au jour. Les plus belles pièces correspondent à des pièces d’échecs, un fermoir de livre, ou encore de la céramique fine glaçurée importée de la Meuse moyenne. La découverte de fragments de meules en basalte de l’Eifel achève de montrer la prééminence d’une culture matérielle des occupants préférentiellement tournée vers l’est et le nord. L’influence des évêques de Tongres-Maastricht-Liège se reflète très certainement dons l’ensemble de ces orientations.Les données exhumées des stratigraphies du Château des fées, traitées par différents spécialistes, permettent d’ouvrir une fenêtre d’observation privilégiée sur les pratiques alimentaires et le quotidien de la petite aristocratie autour de l’an Mil.

This volume represents the proceedings of the 5th IEEE Eurasia Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare and Sustainability 2023 (IEEE ECBIOS 2023). This conference was held at Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, Tainan, Taiwan on June 2–4, 2023, co-organized by Chia Nan University of Pharmacy and Science, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the International Institute of Knowledge Innovation and Invention (IIKII). Recently, healthcare is experiencing a cross-sector transformation thanks to advances in computing, networking technologies, big data and artificial intelligence. Healthcare is not only changing from reactive and hospital-centered to preventive and personalized medicine but from disease-focused to well-being-centered treatment. Healthcare systems, as well as fundamental medicine research, are becoming smarter, owing to the development of biomedical engineering. Furthermore, with cutting-edge sensors and computer technologies, healthcare services and technologies are used with better efficiency, higher quality, and lower costs. This conference has offered the opportunity for interdisciplinary collaborations between science and engineering technologists in the academic and industrial fields, as well as international networking. From relevant engineering fields, 97 excellent papers were selected through peer review for the publication of the proceedings of IEEE ECBIOS 2023.

Im Zentrum des Tagungsbandes steht die Entwicklung des Parlamentarismusin Europa im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Ausgehend vomklassischen liberal-repräsentativen Modell werden dessenVeränderungen und Umformungen bis hin zur modernen Massendemokratie desausgehenden 20. Jahrhunderts analysiert. Gefragt wird nach Bauformenund nationalen Spielarten des parlamentarischen Systems, nachKrisensymptomen und Strukturdefiziten in der Zwischenkriegszeit sowienach Ursachen und Begleiterscheinungen des Erfolgswegs nach dem ZweitenWeltkrieg. Die Beiträge ziehen eine wissenschaftliche Bilanz derbisherigen Forschung, möchten durch neue methodische Ansätze undFragestellungen der künftigen Parlamentarismusforschung aber auchweitergehende Impulse vermitteln.

This volume focuses on ‘fittingness’ as an ethical-aesthetical idea, and in particular examines how the concept is beneficial for environmental ethics. It brings together an innovative set of contributions to argue that fittingness is a significant but under-investigated facet of human ethical deliberation with both ethical and aesthetic dimensions. In widely diverse matters – from architecture to table manners – individuals and communities make decisions based on ‘fittingness’, also expressed in related terms, such as appropriateness, prudence, temperance, and mutuality. In the realm of environmental ethics, fittingness denotes a relation between conscious embodied persons and their habitats and is of relevance to judgements about how humans shape, and take up with, the non-human environment, and hence to ethical decisions about the development and use of the environment and non-human creatures. As such, fittingness can be of great benefit in reframing human relationships to the non-human, stimulating a way of living in the world that is fitting to the preservation of its fruitfulness, goodness, beauty, and truth.

Enclaves of poverty are neighbourhoods, spaces of reference and identification, where the everyday life of their inhabitants, who have a specific attitude to these places, takes place. In order to show the enclaves of poverty from the perspective and in the opinions of their inhabitants as (not) their own neighbourhoods, the study refers to the results of research conducted over the years in the enclaves of poverty in Łódź. The aim of the study is, among other things, to discuss the multitude of variables that constitute the specificity of the enclaves, which shape and are at the same time shaped by the excluded neighbourhood. Attention was paid, among others, to the variables determining the emergence, constitution and duration of the enclaves of poverty, the changeable understanding of their borders, varying attitudes towards the immediate neighbourhood, perceived as friendly, hostile, indifferent; also discussed are the diverse attitudes of their inhabitants towards the inhabited space. The collected material reveals the image of enclaves of poverty as ambiguous, socially stigmatised spaces, and at the same time as living environments of particular people by whom they are shared and co-created. The same space in the beliefs and feelings of some people may therefore be familiar and safe, willingly inhabited or visited, while for others it will be alien, hostile, and hence usually avoided, unwillingly visited and explored.