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A Compendium of Essays on Alternative Therapy is aimed at both conventional and alternate therapy practitioners, besides serving as an educational tool for students and lay persons on the progress made in the field. While this resource is not all-inclusive, it does reflect the current theories from different international experts in the field. This will hopefully stimulate more research initiatives, funding, and critical insight in the already increasing demand for alternate therapies that has been evidenced worldwide.

On taxe souvent les romancières contemporaines de langue française d’intimisme, de clôture narrative sur la sphère du privé et du corporel, ou encore de focalisation sur l’affect, le familial et le psychique. Pourtant, que ce soit d’un point de vue textuel, générique, social ou politique, cette réduction de la littérature contemporaine féminine à l’auto-enfermement ne rend pas compte d’un champ créatif beaucoup plus complexe. De fait, les reformulations du genre romanesque et le travail sur l...

Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in “field trials”, which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures and methods used in trials that have been conducted in the past have generally not been published. As a consequence, those planning such trials have few guidelines available and little access to previously accumulated knowledge. In this book the practical issues of trial design and conduct are discussed fully and in sufficient detail for the text to be used as a “toolbox” by field investigators. The toolbox has now been extensively tested through use of the first two editions and this third edition is a comprehensive revision, incorporating the many developments that have taken place with respect to trials since 1996 and involving more than 30 contributors. Most of the chapters have been extensively revised and 7 new chapters have been added.

The common idea for many people is that forests are just a collection of trees. However, they are much more than that. They are a complex, functional system of interacting and often interdependent biological, physical, and chemical components, the biological part of which has evolved to perpetuate itself. This complexity produces combinations of climate, soils, trees and plant species unique to each site, resulting in hundreds of different forest types around the world. Logically, trees are an important component for the research in forest ecosystems, but the wide variety of other life forms and abiotic components in most forests means that other elements, such as wildlife or soil nutrients, should also be the focal point in ecological studies and management plans to be carried out in forest ecosystems. In this book, the readers can find the latest research related to forest ecosystems but with a different twist. The research described here is not just on trees and is focused on the other components, structures and functions that are usually overshadowed by the focus on trees, but are equally important to maintain the diversity, function and services provided by forests. The first section of this book explores the structure and biodiversity of forest ecosystems, whereas the second section reviews the research done on ecosystem structure and functioning. The third and last section explores the issues related to forest management as an ecosystem-level activity, all of them from the perspective of the "other" parts of a forest.

Este livro apresenta os resultados de uma pesquisa que teve o objetivo de investigar as políticas de acesso e as ações afirmativas implementadas pela UFFS, com o propósito de compreender como tais políticas contribuem para o processo de democratização da educação superior pública brasileira. Ao tomar a UFFS como objeto de estudo, foi possível considerar que as suas políticas de acesso e ações afirmativas contribuem para a democratização da educação superior pública brasileira. No entanto, é necessário considerar que se trata de uma instituição ainda muito jovem. Ainda há muitos desafios e questionamentos para que, de fato, possa se consolidar como uma universidade inclusiva, com uma educação pública e de qualidade. Mesmo sendo jovem, os resultados demonstraram que a UFFS, desde sua criação, priorizou a escola pública em suas políticas de acesso.

This open access book focuses on of the impact of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) on human reproduction. It comprehensively discusses the three most important topics in the field: the basic biology of EDCs; the effects of EDCs on human reproduction and human reproductive systems; and potential interventions and practical advice for dealing with the problems caused by EDCs. Presenting a translational approach to endocrine disrupting chemicals research, spanning both basic biology and clinical applications, the book provides a critical link between laboratory investigations and clinical practice. Written by international experts in the field, it is a valuable reference resource for gynaecologists, obstetricians, endocrinologists and experts in reproductive medicine, and a useful tool for anyone interested in the impact of the environment on human reproduction.

Die Germanistik ist ein Kind der Romantik – und romantische Mittelalterbilder begleiten uns bis heute in Büchern, Filmen, Fernsehserien und sogar in der Wissenschaft. Doch darf man sich heutzutage als Wissenschaftler*in für Mittelaltermärkte und Mittelalterfilme begeistern? Warum werden mittelalterliche Romane nicht ordentlich übersetzt? Und warum fehlt es der Germanistik eigentlich an Diversität? Michael R. Ott und Helge Perplies spüren dem romantischen Erbe der Germanistik nach und suchen in sieben Kapiteln Antworten auf diese Fragen. Dabei thematisieren sie die Herausforderungen, die sich durch die Prägung des Fachs durch romantische Ideale ergeben, und plädieren für ein postromantisches Verständnis der Mittelalter-Germanistik. Mit einem Nachwort von Racha Kirakosian.

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This compendium is aimed at all students who, in the transition from secondary school to university, have to face a chemistry exam in their course of study and want to fill their knowledge gaps or, simply, to review the minimum topics of the subject, before deepening them during university courses. By studying and reviewing the various topics, grouped in parts and units, the reader will therefore have the possibility to access the fundamental notions that make up “General Chemistry”. The end-of-chapter exercises are an additional aid allowing students to carry out a self-assessment and, possibly, to identify particularly “difficult” topics to be further studied.

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1973, l’« Année de l’Europe ». 1983, l’« Année des euromissiles ». Les deux dates délimitent une décennie cruciale pour l’Alliance atlanti­que. En 1973, elle tente de s’adapter aux changements profonds inter­venus depuis sa création. Mais doit-elle le taire selon la vision de Henry Kissinger ou celle de Michel Jobert ? Le débat est à peine entamé que le premier « choc » pétrolier détourne les démocraties vers d’autres prio­rités. Renforcée par l’esquisse d’une coopération trilatérale, leur solida­rité n’en est pas moins ébranlée par le retour des problèmes militaires et par leurs divergences sur la détente. Aussi, loin de les rapprocher, l’invasion de l’Afghanistan tend-elle plutôt à les diviser. En 1983, les grandes querelles se sont un peu apaisées et les Pershing-II et les mis­siles de croisière américaine ont pu être déployés. Mais rien n’est vrai­ment réglé. Et l’histoire de l’Occident est encore dominée par toutes sor­tes d’incertitudes (sur le leadership d’une Amérique en déclin relatif, sur la place de l’Allemagne, sur la stratégie atomique) apparues ou renfor­cées au cours de ces dix années. Fondé sur le dépouillement des principales sources disponibles et sur plusieurs dizaines d’interviews (dont une grande partie réalisée lors d’un séjour, en juillet 1983, au Wilson Center de Washington), cet ouvrage recourt à une approche historique pour éclairer l’actualité.

Unternehmen der Prozessindustrie verlangen zunehmend Sensoren mit einer integrierten Diagnosefunktionaliät, die Informationen über den technischen Zustand der eingesetzten Betriebsmittel gibt.Ziel der Arbeit ist es, am Beispiel von pH-Glaselektroden ein neues Konzept zu entwickeln, das es möglich macht, den technischen Zustand von elektrochemischen Sensoren abzubilden.Anhand von Daten aus Laborversuchen sowie aus industriellen Anwendungen wird der Nachweis der Funktionsfähigkeit erbracht.

Aby M. Warburg (1866–1929) is recognized not only as one of the century’s preeminent art and Renaissance historians but also as a founder of twentieth-century methods in iconology and cultural studies in general. Warburg’s 1923 lecture, first published in German in 1988 and now available in the first complete English translation, offers at once a window on his career, a formative statement of his cultural history of modernity, and a document in the ethnography of the American Southwest. This edition includes thirty-nine photographs, many of them originally presented as slides with the speech, and a rich interpretive essay by the translator.

Pausanias is our only testimony to periegetic literature and the author of a precious account of Greece under Roman occupation (2nd century AD). His description is that of someone who has travelled and synthetizes what he, with a gaze that is not only that of a curious tourist, but of an intellectual who has a solid cultural background and extensive information, as a result of a careful collection of all kinds of sources, oral and written. We owe an enormous debt to Pausanias: that of having saved a ballast of monuments, historical events, figures and traditions which, without him, would have been definitively erased from the memory of mankind.

»Differenz« und »Raum« gehören zu den wichtigsten Schlagworten der gegenwärtigen Debatten in der Philosophie und den Kulturwissenschaften. Die Studie betrachtet »Differenz« als zentrale Bezugsgröße einer Sprachtheorie, die nicht länger versucht, die Bedeutung eines Begriffs durch die Referenz auf eine außersprachliche Wirklichkeit oder mentale Vorstellungen zu erklären. Den Gegenstand der Untersuchung bilden die sprachphilosophischen Ansätze von Hegel, Wittgenstein und Derrida, die bislang voneinander getrennten Denktraditionen zugeordnet wurden und hier zum ersten Mal in einen fruchtbaren und gleichberechtigten Austausch treten. Wie sich zeigen lässt, versuchen die drei betrachteten Autoren in je verschiedener Weise das für ihre Theorie der Sprache grundlegende Differenztheorem in Begriffen des Raumes - als Abstand, Zwischenraum oder Aufspreizung - zu verstehen. Die Dissertation wurde mit dem Bremer Studienpreis 2007 in der Sparte »Beste Dissertation in den Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften« ausgezeichnet.