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Esta coletânea nasce do intento de divulgar resultados de pesquisas desenvolvidas no âmbito do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação (PPGE) da Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências (FFC), Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (UNESP), Campus de Marília, que abordam a intersecção dos direitos humanos e temas relativos à diversidade humana – com ênfase nos temas de gênero e sexualidade – com a Educação. O livro se encontra estruturado em duas partes: a primeira contém 07 textos que versam sobre Direitos Humanos, Dignidade, Diversidade e Educação, mostrando a relação dos direitos humanos com a Educação e sua intersecção com a questão da diversidade. Na segunda parte, que reúne 08 textos, o tema gerador das análises foi Direitos Humanos, Gênero, Sexualidade e Educação, tomando-se como foco os temas de gênero e sexualidade e, respectivamente, os direitos de mulheres, da população LGBTQIA+s (lésbicas, gays, bissexuais, transexuais, travestis, transgêneros, queers, intersexuais, assexuais, etc.) e outros grupos vulneráveis. Ao todo, reúnem-se, neste livro, 15 textos resultantes de pesquisas de Mestrado, Doutorado e Pós-Doutorado, em andamento ou concluídas, sendo 13 deles de autoria de discentes do PPGE e outros 02 textos confeccionados por professores convidados, também envolvidos com o PPGE. Suas discussões variam desde reflexões teóricas a diagnósticos ou intervenções em diferentes perspectivas e realidades educacionais.

This extensive work covers the latest developments in drug delivery, biomaterials, and encapsulating systems and their revolutionary potential in several fields. Highlighting encapsulation techniques that improve therapy accuracy and reduce adverse effects, this book explores the most recent developments in photodynamic and photothermal treatments. It delves further into the many medicinal applications of hydrogels, including their use in controlled medication release and regenerative medicine. An eco-friendly method of administering medicinal substances is discussed in detail in several chapters, as is the use of encapsulating systems based on pectin to stabilize bioactive chemicals. Discover the incredible world of microencapsulation and how it has revolutionized modern medicine. These techniques allow for the exact distribution and increased preservation of delicate medications. Finally, learn how hydrogel coatings are developing to tackle maritime antifouling, which is a tough problem, and how to make sure they last and work in extreme conditions. Anyone interested in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, materials science, or marine engineering will find this volume to be an indispensable resource. From healthcare to sustainability, it shows how encapsulation and biomaterials may address problems in the actual world. Inspiring future developments in medication delivery systems, biomaterials, and beyond, this book ignites fresh ideas with contributions from prominent specialists in the area.

Die Ästhetik der Ruinen kennzeichnet eine Lust am Paradoxen. Zwischen Natur und Kultur, Erbauung und Zerstörung, Melancholie und Hoffnung, Vergangenheit und Zukunft erscheinen die Ruinen als Spuren der Zeit im Raum der Gegenwart ihrer ästhetischen Begegnung. Kevin Bücking zeigt, inwiefern die Ästhetik der Ruinen und des Ruinösen in einem besonderen Zusammenspiel aus leiblich-sinnlichen Erfahrungen und begrifflichen Reflexionen besteht. In Auseinandersetzung mit unterschiedlichen ästhetischen Medien wie Malerei, Fotografie, Film, Computerspiel und Virtual Reality wird ersichtlich: Die Faszination an Ruinen und Ruinösem ist als ein atmosphärisches Reflexionsgeschehen zu verstehen.

Cancer is a major public health problem and much research is being conducted to develop effective treatments for various types of malignancies. In doing so, researchers must have comprehensive knowledge about what causes cancer. This book explains the mechanisms of different types of cancers in twelve chapters organized into three sections on oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes, and viral oncogenes.

Increasing and changing migration trends between Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Western European locations, as well as those from outside of Europe to CEE, pose new challenges for the regional study of race and racialisation, including growing diversity and the tightening of border security. This book brings together a range of established and emerging scholars of CEE migration, race, whiteness and post- and decoloniality to explore these themes from/to and within Central and Eastern Europe. The book includes chapters on Bulgarians, Lithuanians, Romanians, Hungarians, Czechs, Ukrainians and Poles, including Polish Roma, in Western Europe and CEE as well as non-CEE migrants at the Polish-Belarus border. The book showcases different aspects of racialisation processes and how they intersect with class and gender, among others, in the context of CEE migrations. The approach of this book is anti-racist and decolonial, in the sense that it builds on decolonial scholarship from and on the region and pushes against discourses of CEE as ‘lagging behind’ and ‘catching up’ that have dominated the scholarship so far. The decolonial perspective on these issues will contribute to urgent critical debates by providing in-depth cross-country insights beyond theoretical argumentation to a renewed global public debate on issues of race and migration. The book is aimed at an international audience of researchers, scholars and students, policy analysts, third sector specialists and those concerned with decolonial perspectives, migration, and race and racialisation in the context of Central and Eastern Europe countries.

John Calvin Allen, professionally known as J. C., worked as a photographer for Purdue University from 1909-1952, and operated his own photography business until his death in 1976. The J. C. Allen photographs represent a historical account of the transition from pioneer practices to scientific methodologies in agriculture and rural communities. During this major transitional period for agriculture, tractors replaced horses, hybrid corn supplanted open-pollinated corn, and soybeans changed from a novelty crop to regular rotation on most farms. During this time, purebred animals with better genetic pedigrees replaced run-of-the-mill livestock, and systematic disease prevention in cattle, swine, and poultry took place. Allen's photographs also document clothing styles, home furnishings, and the items people thought important as they went about their daily lives. Looking closely at tractors, livestock, wagons, planters, sprayers, harvesting equipment, and crops gives one a sense of the changing and fast-paced world of agriculture at that time. This volume contains over 900 picturesque images, most never-before-seen, of men, women, and children working on the farm, which remain powerful reminders of life in rural America at the turn of the twentieth century. As old farmhouses and barns fall victim to age, Allen photographs are all that remain. While those people and times no longer exist today, they do remain "alive" because of the preservation of that history on film. A camera in his hands and an eye for photography allowed Allen to create indelible visual histories that continue to tell the story of agriculture and rural life from long ago.

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At the upcoming 20th Party Congress, which opens Sunday in China, Xi Jinping is expected to be confirmed as the country’s Secretary General for an unprecedented third term. At a time of international instability caused by the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine, as well as rising competition between international superpowers, the Chinese leadership is called to increase the country’s international standing, while ensuring economic growth at the domestic level. However, achieving these goals will not be without challenges. This Report analyses China’s hard road to international prestige and development. Which prospects for China’s economic growth? Which obstacles to its rise at the global level? To which extent can the Party steer the country’s direction?

Bayesian Belief Networks are a powerful tool for combining different knowledge sources with various degrees of uncertainty in a mathematically sound and computationally efficient way. A Bayesian network is a graphical model that encodes probabilistic relationships among variables of interest. When used in conjunction with statistical techniques, the graphical model has several advantages for data modeling. First, because the model encodes dependencies among all variables, it readily handles situations where some data entries are missing. Second, a Bayesian network can be used to learn causal relationships, and hence can be used to gain an understanding about a problem domain and to predict the consequences of intervention. Third, because the model has both causal and probabilistic semantics, it is an ideal representation for combining prior knowledge (which often comes in a causal form) and data. Fourth, Bayesian statistical methods in conjunction with Bayesian networks offer an efficient and principled approach to avoid the over fitting of data.

”All I have strived for during this school day – that an earthly life amounts to – has been to do my utmost to promote the realization of human brotherhood on our little Earth.” This is how Nelly Thüring (1875–1972), at the age of 94, summarized her philosophy of life in an interview with Morgonbris, a journal published by the Swedish Social Democratic Women’s Federation. During the 1920s, she had helped organizing local chapters of the recently founded Women’s Federation as a touring speaker. In 1922, she became one of the first female members of the Swedish Parliament (Riksdagen). By tracing Thüring’s path to Parliament, this biography contributes new knowledge about how Social Democratic women campaigned for female suffrage and better living conditions. Nelly Thüring was also active in the Theosophical movement, an esoteric movement whose members were guided by a utopian vision: to realize the Universal Brotherhood. When she ran for municipal council in Gothenburg in the 1910s, she described the movements for socialism, peace, feminism, temperance and vegetarianism as branches of the same tree. The early 20th century esoteric movements are probably best known for having inspired cultural figures such as Hilma af Klint. However, this book shows that Thüring – among many others – applied her theosophical worldview to social and political issues.

This book examines the principles and practice of authentic assessment. It seeks to answer the following questions. What is authentic assessment? How is authentic assessment different from 'performance assessment' or 'alternative assessment'? How can authentic assessment support learner-centred education, especially when a performance-oriented culture favours pen-and-paper examinations? The book is structured into two major parts. The first, 'Principles of authentic assessment design', provides readers with a conceptual explanation of authenticity; the principles for designing quality authentic assessments for valid evidence of student learning; and guidance about how to develop quality rubrics to structure assessment tasks. The second part of the book, 'Theory into practice' provides examples developed by teachers to demonstrate an understanding of authentic assessment. The subject areas covered include humanities, languages, mathematics, sciences, character and citizenship. Two case studies are discussed to demonstrate how authentic assessment can be used to comprehensively address key learning objectives in a variety of curriculum contexts. This book provides practitioners with concrete examples on how to develop authentic assessment to suit their context and also enhance their students’ learning. The book will also enable teachers to face assessment challenges present in our changing world.

Geringe Wachstumsraten und hohe Arbeitslosigkeit haben die Innovationspolitik in das Zentrum der politischen Diskussion gerückt. In dieser Arbeit werden die gesamt- und einzelwirtschaftlichen Grundlagen der Innovationstätigkeit analysiert. Eingehend werden der Einfluss der Wettbewerbsbedingungen auf das Innovationsverhalten sowie die Bedeutung der steuerlichen Institutionen und der Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten für die Risiko- und Innovationsbereitschaft untersucht. Darauf aufbauend wird das Konzept einer akkommodierenden Innovationspolitik entwickelt, das der gegenwärtig praktizierten, induzierend angelegten Politik gegenübergestellt wird.

Intel® Galileo and Intel® Galileo Gen 2: API Features and Arduino Projects for Linux Programmers provides detailed information about Intel® Galileo and Intel® Galileo Gen 2 boards for all software developers interested in Arduino and the Linux platform. The book covers the new Arduino APIs and is an introduction for developers on natively using Linux. Author Manoel Carlos Ramon is a member of the Intel Galileo development team; in this book he draws on his practical experience in working on the Galileo project as he shares the team’s findings, problems, fixes, workarounds, and techniques with the open source community. His areas of expertise are wide-ranging, including Linux-embedded kernel and device drivers, C/C++, Java, OpenGL, Assembler, Android NDK/SDK/ADK, and 2G/3G/4G modem integration. He has more than 17 years of experience in research and development of mobile devices and embedded circuits. His personal blog about programming is BytesThink (www.bytesthink.com).

Maurício Funcia de Bonis faz aqui uma reflexão sobre a música erudita na atualidade, em que o gênero parece ter silenciado, restando de sonoro somente a “relação com os criadores do passado”. Ele toma como contrapartida a esse cenário a atuação ao mesmo tempo crítica e criativa de dois compositores contemporâneos: o belga Henri Pousseur (1929-2009) e o brasileiro Willy Corrêa de Oliveira (1938). A expressão latina aplicada ao título do livro tabulae scriptae (tábuas escritas), explica o autor, remete à ênfase sobre a metalinguagem como profissão de fé na obra e no pensamento de ambos os artistas, que recusam a tendência à tabula rasa (tábuas vazias), “à eliminação de uma relação consciente com a história, na música de seu tempo”. A obra divide-se em três partes. O primeiro capítulo situa o terrenodo qual partiram as reflexões e os trabalhos daqueles compositores, fundamentando suas bases teóricas. Os capítulos seguintes retratam suas trajetórias artísticas. Compõem o livro ainda uma entrevista feita pelo autor em 2012 com Willy Corrêa, além de relações de obras de Pousseur e Willy, organizadas pelos próprios compositores. Contribuição para pesquisas futuras, esses anexos complementam a exposição do autor ao situarem as transformações ocorridas nos percursos criativos dos artistas ao longo do tempo.