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Figure majeure de la vie théâtrale, lyrique, littéraire et culturelle du XIXe siècle, Eugène Scribe (1791-1861) est le créateur de nouvelles formes dramatiques. Il a profondément renouvelé tant le vaudeville que la grande comédie, le grand opéra (Meyerbeer, Halévy, Verdi) que l’opéra-comique (Auber). Son influence s’est fait sentir en France comme dans toute l’Europe, non seulement sur Labiche et Feydeau, mais aussi sur tous les auteurs dramatiques venus après lui, d’Ibsen à Oscar Wilde. Les contributions ici rassemblées émanent de trente spécialistes français et étrangers. Elles éclairent à la fois le répertoire scribien – qui constitue un maillon essentiel dans l’histoire du théâtre occidental – et la personnalité de celui qui fut l’auteur dramatique le plus célèbre de son siècle. Par son combat en faveur du droit d’auteur, Scribe a apporté de plus une contribution décisive à la réflexion sur la liberté de création et sur la propriété artistique.

Protect, Serve, and Deport exposes the on-the-ground workings of local immigration enforcement in Nashville, Tennessee. Between 2007 and 2012, Nashville’s local jail participated in an immigration enforcement program called 287(g), which turned jail employees into immigration officers who identified over ten thousand removable immigrants for deportation. The vast majority of those identified for removal were not serious criminals but Latino residents arrested by local police for minor violations. Protect, Serve, and Deport explains how local politics, state laws, institutional policies, and police practices work together to deliver immigrants into an expanding federal deportation system, conveying powerful messages about race, citizenship, and belonging.

In fünf Teilen bietet diese Arbeit eine Analyse der sog. Rechtsstaatlichkeitskrise der EU. Ausgehend von den begriffliche Grundlagen und einer Erörterung des Rechtsstaatsbegriffs widmet sich die Arbeit zunächst den mitgliedstaatlichen Entwicklungen, die die Rechtsstaatlichkeitskrise ausmachen, insbesondere in Polen und Ungarn. Der dritte Teil behandelt die Leitthese der Arbeit: Dass und warum es gelingen muss, die Maßnahmen in Reaktion auf die Rechtsstaatlichkeitskrise als "Verfassungsaufsicht in der Europäischen Union" zu begreifen. Hierauf aufbauend werden im vierten Teil die Instrumente der unionalen Verfassungsaufsicht dargestellt. Im fünften Teil schließt die Arbeit mit einem Blick auf Entwicklungsperspektiven.

Joints and shear walls of buildings made from dowel-laminated timber were experimentally investigated and assessed. Based on cyclic tests on shear walls, a nonlinear dynamic building model was developed. The developed model served to evaluate the seismic behaviour of buildings made from dowel-laminated timber and to derive a preliminary behaviour factor q required for seismic design of this building typology.

Ewing sarcomas are characterized by oncogenic ews/ets translocations. However, these oncofusions do not determine the outcome. Patient fate is determined by metastasis, and the complex spreading process is far from being completely understood. Ewing sarcomas are childhood cancers with a low mutational rate, making biomarkers elusive. Mutations increase with relapse and mutagenic therapy exposure. A silent tumor genome limits targeted therapy approaches. Nevertheless, precision oncology approaches aim to enhance the therapeutic index of conventional chemotherapy with novel small molecules targeting epigenetics, metabolism, and stress responses. Although their genome is generally silent, Ewing sarcomas reactivate endogenous retro-elements. Their activation is linked to an inflammatory response and a prometastatic modulation of the microenvironment. Moreover, in most cases, these tumors are characterized by a scarcity of T cell infiltrates and a predominance of immunosuppressive myeloid cells, leading to inflammation and immunosuppression. These suppressive myeloid cells shield the tumor against adaptive immune attack, hampering the efficacy of chimeric antigen receptor or T cell receptor transgenic T cells. Overcoming these immunosuppressive mechanisms may enhance immunotherapeutic efficacy. One approach is the utilization of oncolytic viruses, which are genetically engineered to depend on their lytic cycle from metastatic drivers. They can induce immunogenic cell death and, particularly when in combination with cell cycle inhibitors, also have the potential to overcome barriers to immunotherapy.

The first and most comprehensive analysis of the new Canadian Sport Policy adopted in 2012.

Natural gas is a vital component of the world's supply of energy and an important source of many bulk chemicals and speciality chemicals. It is one of the cleanest, safest, and most useful of all energy sources, and helps to meet the world's rising demand for cleaner energy into the future. However, exploring, producing and bringing gas to the user or converting gas into desired chemicals is a systematical engineering project, and every step requires thorough understanding of gas and the surrounding environment. Any advances in the process link could make a step change in gas industry. There have been increasing efforts in gas industry in recent years. With state-of-the-art contributions by leading experts in the field, this book addressed the technology advances in natural gas industry.

The here collected contributions relating to the 46th International Conference of the Representation Disciplines Teachers, organized jointly by Sapienza University of Rome, Roma Tre University, and San Raffaele Roma University, aim to offer the scientific community a reflection on the theoretical and methodological aspects related to the concept of èkphrasis, a term that, in the field of representation, concerns descriptive, analogical, and digital activities that generate new knowledge in several areas of application. The Conference aims to place at the center of the discussion an interpretation of the concept of research that, without neglecting an idea of study, protection, and enhancement of environmental and cultural heritage, focuses on the needs of contemporary society and its possible developments, making use of innovative theoretical, methodological, and operational activities, including those characterized by an interdisciplinary approach. According to this interpretation, research can also be seen as a foreshadowing of the definition and testing of experimental proposals aimed at exploring new areas of investigation: this opens up imaginative and utopian perspectives in the relationship between the sciences, the arts, and the disciplines that contribute to common goals, through the experimentation of methods, techniques, and languages for conceiving, prefiguring, designing, and representing.

This wide-ranging contribution to the study of nationalism and the social history of music examines the relationship between choral societies and national mobilization in the nineteenth century. From Norway to the Basque country and from Wales to Bulgaria, this pioneering study explores and compares the ways choral societies influenced and reflected the development of national awareness under differing political and social circumstances. By the second half of the nineteenth century, organized communal singing became a primary leisure activity that attracted all layers of society. Though strongly patriotic in tone, choral societies borrowed from each other and relied heavily on prominent German or French models. This volume is the first to address both the national and transnational significance of choral singing. Contributors are: Carmen De Las Cuevas Hevia, Jan Dewilde, Tomáš Kavka, Anne Jorunn Kydland, Krisztina Lajosi, Joep Leerssen, Sophie-Anne Leterrier, Jane Mallinson, Tatjana Marković, Fiona M. Palmer, Karel Šima, Andreas Stynen, Dominique Vidaud, Ivanka Vlaeva, Jozef Vos, Gareth Williams, Hana Zimmerhaklová.

The issue of (dis)continuity in the pre- and post-1989 situation has been a contentious one in the Czech public debate and intensely discussed particularly in the early 2010s. In the field of theatre, the question of (dis-)continuity has not been raised yet, though its answering might fundamentally shape future interpretations of the three post-1989 decades in Czech theatre. In general terms, Czech theatre historiography has devoted only minor attention to the issue of how the 1989 political events influenced theatre and its social relevance. In his text, Libor Vodicka conceptualises the situation of Czech theatre after 1989 as a crisis of theatre . His evaluation of the early 1990s strikes one as especially negative coming after a laudatory description of the preceding phase. Vodicka sees one factor contributing to the crisis of theatre in the chaos and inconsistency and decrease of subsidies coming from state institutions that, purportedly, significantly interfered with theatres operation.

During the 17th and 18th century musicians' mobilities and migrations are essential for the European music history and the cultural exchange of music. Adopting viewpoints that reflect different methodological approaches and diversified research cultures, the book presents studies on central scopes, strategies and artistic outcomes of mobile and migratory musicians as well as on the transfer of music. By looking at elite and non-elite musicians and their everyday mobilities to major and minor centers of music production and practice, new biographical patterns and new stylistic paradigms in the European East, West and South emerge.

This book examines organized interests in post-communist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), providing incisive analyses in three critically important policy areas - healthcare, higher education and energy. The four countries surveyed – Poland, Hungary, Slovenia and the Czech Republic – afford rich diversity offering broad empirical material available for cross-country and cross-policy comparative analyses. Featuring interdisciplinary research, the book draws together recent developments in the evolution of post-communist advocacy organizations, their population ecology dynamics, interest intermediation, the influence of organized interests and their (bottom-up and top-down) Europeanization. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of Central and Eastern European politics, interest groups and lobbying, post-communism, transition and consolidation studies, and more broadly to European studies/politics.

Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Retail has never existed in a vacuum. This interdisciplinary volume explores how English commercial, co-operative and charity retailing were shaped by and in turn influenced their social and political environments, from the local to the global, between the late nineteenth and early twenty-first centuries. Historians, sociologists, archivists and heritage professionals engage with current debates on the rise of modern business and the decline of the high street, class and credit, professionalisation in the voluntary sector, migration and the end of empire. This book will be a key resource to better understand retail and community in an era defined by social change, shedding new light on the enduring centrality of community relationships to modern retailers.