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Consciousness is a state of being awake and aware of one's self and surroundings according to the American Academy of Neurology. A conscious person is aware of things through thoughts and the five senses: sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. In disorders of consciousness, the patient has trouble being awake, or being aware, or both. Thanks to advances in science and technology, we learn new information about diseases every day. This book includes current approaches to some important issues related to disorders of consciousness.

Today's wind energy industry is at a crossroads. Global economic instability has threatened or eliminated many financial incentives that have been important to the development of specific markets. Now more than ever, this essential element of the world energy mosaic will require innovative research and strategic collaborations to bolster the industry as it moves forward. This text details topics fundamental to the efficient operation of modern commercial farms and highlights advanced research that will enable next-generation wind energy technologies. The book is organized into three sections, Inflow and Wake Influences on Turbine Performance, Turbine Structural Response, and Power Conversion, Control and Integration. In addition to fundamental concepts, the reader will be exposed to comprehensive treatments of topics like wake dynamics, analysis of complex turbine blades, and power electronics in small-scale wind turbine systems.

The ongoing twin transition of the wood-based panel industry towards a green, digital, and more resilient bioeconomy is essential for a successful transformation to decarbonize the sector and implement a circular development model, transforming linear industrial value chains to minimize pollution and waste generation, and providing more sustainable growth and jobs. This green transition represents an opportunity to place the wood-based panel industry on a new path of more sustainable and inclusive growth, tackling climate change and reducing its dependence on fossil-derived raw materials, thus improving the industry’s resource efficiency and security. It provides examples of the most recent advances and technological developments in the design, production, characteristics, and current and future applications of sustainable, eco-friendly wood and wood-based composites with enhanced properties and a reduced carbon footprint. It is intended for material scientists, wood scientists, environmental scientists, graduate and postgraduate students in Wood Science and Technology, as well as wood-based panel industry professionals. In addition, the content is relevant to government authorities and stakeholders working in the domain of sustainable wood value chains, aimed at achieving Sustainable Development Goals and enhanced contribution of the forest-based sector to long-term climate change mitigation.

Louise Bodin. La Bolchevique aux bijoux, de Colette Cosnier, c’est la biographie d’une de ces femmes remarquables qui surent en leur temps, comme l’écrit Michelle Perrot, « surmonter ce qu’était à leur époque la destinée normale d’une femme ».Louise Bodin : née à Paris en 1877, morte à Rennes en 1929. Une vie brève hantée par le remords d’être une privilégiée, mais une vie de combat contre toutes les injustices, pour toutes les grandes causes de son temps. Suffragiste, féministe, pacifiste, socialiste, communiste, enfin sympathisante trotskiste : autant d’engagements successifs qui marquent son itinéraire.Louise Bodin : une grande journaliste, auteure de plus de 500 articles, publiés dans Les Nouvelles rennaises, La Pensée bretonne, puis Le Populaire, L’Humanité, L’Ouvrière, mais surtout La Voix des Femmes, dont elle fut un temps la rédactrice en chef. C’est la voix de cette femme, écrivaine et militante, que Colette Cosnier permettait d’entendre, en 1988, après plus d’un demi-siècle d’oubli, une voix caustique ou amusée pour dire la vie à Rennes avant 1914, une voix bouleversante pour crier la détresse des femmes et des mères pendant la Grande Guerre, une voix indignée pour protester contre la loi de 1920, une voix impitoyable pour décrire un congrès politique : la voix d’une femme témoin de son temps, qui a sa place dans l’Histoire des femmes. C’est cette voix que la réédition de cet ouvrage donne à redécouvrir aujourd’hui.

Les courants ésotériques modernes constituent un pan de l’histoire intellectuelle et culturelle souvent oublié. Leur participation à cette histoire n’est pas seulement artistique ou politique, elle est également médicale. Elle se retrouve entre les deux guerres mondiales au sein du holisme médical ; un mouvement composé de nombreux médecins (naturistes, homéopathes, réflexothérapeutes ou encore néo-hippocratistes) accordant une grande importance au terrain psychique et physiologique ainsi qu’à l’environnement du patient-individu. La manière de concevoir la maladie, d’envisager le diagnostic et le traitement, s’est souvent trouvée influencée par les courants ésotériques, qu’il s’agisse des milieux du magnétisme, de la théosophie ou de l’occultisme. Des discours concernant la force vitale ou l’énergie universelle qui nous entoure ont suscité l’intérêt de praticiens diplômés désireux de faire renouer la médecine avec la sagesse des Anciens, en réponse à la scientifisation croissante de leur art. Astrologie, chirologie et physiognomonie ont été employées à des fins de diagnostic. Face à la « crise du monde moderne », la figure d’Hippocrate initié émerge pour orienter la médecine et la société. Loin d’être anecdotique, l’importance des relations entre courants ésotériques et holisme médical est révélatrice d’une période peu connue sous cet angle.

Winner of The Iranian World Prize for the Book of the Year 2007 in the Philosophy and Mysticism category. This new and original text provides a timely re-examination of Islamic thought, presenting a stark contrast to the more usual conservative view. The explanation of the relationship between God and humans, as portrayed in Islam, is often influenced by the images of God and of human beings which theologians, philosophers and mystics have in mind. The early period of Islam reveals a diversity of interpretations of this relationship. Elkaisy-Friemuth discusses the view of three scholars from the tenth and eleventh century: Abd al-Jabbar, Ibn Sina and Al-Ghazali, which introduce three different approaches of looking at the relationship between God and Humans. God and Humans in Islamic Thought attempts to shed light on an important side of medieval rational thought in demonstrating its significance in forming the basis of an understanding of the nature of God, the nature of human beings and the construction of different bridges between them.

Pairing full-length scholarly essays with shorter pieces drawn from scholarly blogs and conference presentations, as well as commissioned interviews and position statements, Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 reveals a dynamic view of a field in negotiation with its identity, methods, and reach. Pieces in the book explore how DH can and must change in response to social justice movements and events like #Ferguson; how DH alters and is altered by community college classrooms; and how scholars applying DH approaches to feminist studies, queer studies, and black studies might reframe the commitments of DH analysts. Numerous contributors examine the movement of interdisciplinary DH work into areas such as history, art history, and archaeology, and a special forum on large-scale text mining brings together position statements on a fast-growing area of DH research. In the multivalent aspects of its arguments, progressing across a range of platforms and environments, Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 offers a vision of DH as an expanded field-new possibilities, differently structured. Published simultaneously in print, e-book, and interactive webtext formats, each DH annual will be a book-length publication highlighting the particular debates that have shaped the discipline in a given year. By identifying key issues as they unfold, and by providing a hybrid model of open-access publication, these volumes and the Debates in the Digital Humanities series will articulate the present contours of the field and help forge its future. Contributors: Moya Bailey, Northeastern U; Fiona Barnett; Matthew Battles, Harvard U; Jeffrey M. Binder; Zach Blas, U of London; Cameron Blevins, Rutgers U; Sheila A. Brennan, George Mason U; Timothy Burke, Swarthmore College; Rachel Sagner Buurma, Swarthmore College; Micha Cárdenas, U of Washington-Bothell; Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Brown U; Tanya E. Clement, U of Texas-Austin; Anne Cong-Huyen, Whittier College; Ryan Cordell, Northeastern U; Tressie McMillan Cottom, Virginia Commonwealth U; Amy E. Earhart, Texas A&M U; Domenico Fiormonte, U of Roma Tre; Paul Fyfe, North Carolina State U; Jacob Gaboury, Stony Brook U; Kim Gallon, Purdue U; Alex Gil, Columbia U; Brian Greenspan, Carleton U; Richard Grusin, U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Michael Hancher, U of Minnesota; Molly O'Hagan Hardy; David L. Hoover, New York U; Wendy F. Hsu; Patrick Jagoda, U of Chicago; Jessica Marie Johnson, Michigan State U; Steven E. Jones, Loyola U; Margaret Linley, Simon Fraser U; Alan Liu, U of California, Santa Barbara; Elizabeth Losh, U of California, San Diego; Alexis Lothian, U of Maryland; Michael Maizels, Wellesley College; Mark C. Marino, U of Southern California; Anne B. McGrail, Lane Community College; Bethany Nowviskie, U of Virginia; Julianne Nyhan, U College London; Amanda Phillips, U of California, Davis; Miriam Posner, U of California, Los Angeles; Rita Raley, U of California, Santa Barbara; Stephen Ramsay, U of Nebraska-Lincoln; Margaret Rhee, U of Oregon; Lisa Marie Rhody, Graduate Center, CUNY; Roopika Risam, Salem State U; Stephen Robertson, George Mason U; Mark Sample, Davidson College; Jentery Sayers, U of Victoria; Benjamin M. Schmidt, Northeastern U; Scott Selisker, U of Arizona; Jonathan Senchyne, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Andrew Stauffer, U of Virginia; Joanna Swafford, SUNY New Paltz; Toniesha L. Taylor, Prairie View A&M U; Dennis Tenen; Melissa Terras, U College London; Anna Tione; Ted Underwood, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Ethan Watrall, Michigan State U; Jacqueline Wernimont, Arizona State U; Laura Wexler, Yale U; Hong-An Wu, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

On 1 February 2021 Myanmar’s military conducted a coup putting an end to a decade of reforms. Although it was the third coup in Myanmar’s history, it was received as a moral shock by a large part of the population, and the response was an unprecedented resistance movement branded as the Spring Revolution by the young people who are leading it. Myanmar’s Spring Revolution is about the students and academics who played a key part in the post-coup protests and who are still fighting the Myanmar military, both by taking up arms and by creating their own higher education institutions. It aims to give Myanmar students a place to offer their views on their revolution and the future they are fighting for. In light of wars in Ukraine and Gaza the conflict in Myanmar has largely been forgotten and the youth-led resistance that is fighting the Myanmar military seems to have no witnesses. This book is a way of giving voice to those most affected by the coup, and those who are giving their lives for the future of their country. The protagonists here explain why the resistance is different this time, and how this revolution goes well beyond the protests against a military regime.

Les pyramides de Méroé ont fait rêver des générations de voyageurs, mais le Soudan dont elles sont l’emblème demeure largement méconnu. D’où cet ouvrage encyclopédique, première synthèse sur les brillantes civilisations qui s’y sont succédé, de la préhistoire à la période contemporaine, marquée, malgré les difficultés, par une réelle fécondité artistique. Des spécialistes reconnus y font état des découvertes scientifiques les plus récentes ; il n’en est pas moins facile d’accès grâce à la clarté des contributions et à l’abondance de l’iconographie. Il est préfacé par l’auteur de Méroé et de Port-Soudan, Olivier Rolin. « Le Soudan est la laisse de haute mer des cultures méditerranéennes : difficilement atteint par la marée, il garde sur ses sables lointains ce qu’ailleurs le flux a depuis longtemps remporté. Mais on ne saurait réduire les cultures soudanaises à des imitations tardives et obstinées de concepts forgés en Égypte. Dans bien des domaines, elles ont innové ou porté à leur perfection des éléments empruntés et recombinés » (Claude Rilly).

Inequity is deeply embedded in higher education: in who can access learning, whose knowledge is created and valued, who gets published, and who ultimately benefits from universities’ work. Distributing Knowledge argues that the sector is falling short of its public mission—and that incremental reform is no longer enough.Drawing on research, policy analysis, and real-world examples from across the globe, Richard Heller presents a compelling case for a distributed model of higher education designed to promote knowledge equity. The book shows how corporatisation, managerialism, and commercial control of educational technology and academic publishing have narrowed participation, reinforced global inequalities, and weakened universities’ ethical foundations. At the same time, it highlights the opportunities offered by digital technologies, Open Education, and collaborative knowledge creation to reverse these trends.This volume introduces a practical framework for distributing knowledge more equitably—across its creation, publication, and delivery—grounded in core values of justice, autonomy, sustainability, and public good. It explores how open publishing, Open Educational Resources and Practices, distributed education structures, inclusive research practices, and supportive decentralised digital infrastructure can widen access, reduce carbon footprints, and amplify under-represented voices. Each chapter concludes with concrete steps to guide institutions, policymakers, and educators towards meaningful change.Ultimately, this book is both a critique and a call to action. It challenges universities to re-imagine their role in society and offers a realistic pathway for transforming higher education into a more ethical, inclusive, and sustainable system—one capable of distributing knowledge in ways that genuinely reduce inequity and respond to the urgent challenges of our time.

The Syntax of Dutch aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It is primarily concerned with language description and not with linguistic theory, and provides support to all researchers interested in matters relating to the syntax of Dutch, including advanced students of language and linguistics. Syntax of Dutch: Verbs and Verb Phrases consists of three volumes. Volume 1 opens with a general introduction to verbs, including a review of various verb classifications and discussions on inflection, tense, mood, modality and aspect. This is followed by a comprehensive discussion of complementation (argument structure and verb frame alternations). Volume 2 continues the discussion of complementation, but is more specifically focused on clausal complements: the reader will find detailed discussions of finite and infinitival argument clauses, complex verb constructions and verb clustering. Volume 3 concludes with a description of adverbial modification and the overall structure of clauses in relation to, e.g., word order (verb placement, wh-movement. extraposition phenomena, scrambling, etc.).

This work presents methods and techniques to optimize and implement distributed magnetic transformers for their application in matching networks of Monolithic Millimeter-wave Integrated Circuits (MMICs). It describes strategies for the efficiency and bandwidth optimization of the transformers and demonstrates their potential based on an optimized transformer geometry as well as two MMIC power amplifiers.

This book is an invitation to enter the black box of algorithms, not from a technical point of view but from the perspective of political sociology. Does the proliferation of data available online, coupled with the progress of artificial intelligence, impact the way we govern? Can algorithms ‘predict’ citizens' behaviour? How are these so-called predictive algorithms made, and by whom? Are they neutral and objective? What are the social, ethical and political issues involved in using data? And what are the commercial and market strategies at work? Can we still protect our data? Behind the processing of data, there are many different visions of the world at work. The point is to consider the algorithm as a political and social object, produced by actors as the result of private and now public commissions as well. These lines of code and complex calculations cannot be dissociated from the conditions of their production: they are embedded in a specific organisational and professional set-up and carried by political intentions and goals. Based on a series of case studies and through the contribution of extensive and unpublished empirical investigations, this volume provides a context for how our data are used and how this may influence governance and decision-making. The strength of this book, at the crossroads with economic sociology, law, political science and computer science, is to lay down the foundations for a political sociology of data and the digital age with the aim of surpassing and deconstructing the myths and beliefs conveyed by big data.

En Inde, le terme de Dalit est revendiqué par ceux que l’on dénommait les Intouchables. Ils ont créé un mouvement d’émancipation qui connaît en ses marges d’;inquiétantes crispations. En témoigne l’engagement d’une revue qui s’est attribuée en 1981 le titre de Dalit Voice, la Voix des Dalit. Militant contre le système de castes et pour l’égalité statutaire, cette revue, influente au sein de la petite élite issue des basses castes, constitue un exemple remarquable de la dérive d’un discours de dominés glissant vers la haine de l’Autre, et vers un fantasme de domination.

Popular media, art and science are intricately interlinked in contemporary visual culture. This book analyses the ›scientific imaginary‹ that is the result of the profound effects of science upon the imagination, and conversely, of the imagination in and upon science. As scientific developments in genetics, information technology and cybernetics open up new possibilities of intervention in human lives, cultural theorists have explored the notion of the ›posthuman‹. The Scientific Imaginary in Visual Culture analyses figurations of the ›posthuman‹ in history and philosophy, as well as in its utopian and dystopian forms in art and popular culture. The authors thus address the blurring boundaries between art and science in diverse media like science fiction film, futurist art, video art and the new phenomenon of ›bio-art‹. In their evaluations of the scientific imaginary in visual culture, the authors engage critically with current scientific and technological concerns.