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In this authoritative, interdisciplinary volume, leading experts from across the globe examine the link between intellectual property and economic inequality. Featuring economists, legal scholars, policy analysts, and other commentators, the book examines timely issues like race and gender disparities and the North-South divide in innovation.

Religion, ethnicity and race are facets of identity that have become increasingly contested. The modern discipline of biblical studies developed in the context of Western Europe, concurrent with the emergence of various racial and imperial ideologies. The essays in this volume deal both with historical facets of ethnicity and race in antiquity, in particular in relation to the identities of Jews and Christians, and also with the critique of scholarly ideologies and racial assumptions which have shaped biblical studies.

The TAESP Landscape, the second of two volumes, presents an area-by-area analysis of the fieldwork and research undertaken by the Troodos Archaeological and Environmental Survey Project (TAESP) in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus. Covering four regions of the survey area (The Plains, Karkotis Valley, Upper Lagoudhera Valley and The Mountains) the volume focuses on explicit research questions appropriate to each region. Organised geographically, chronologically and thematically, each region is investigated from the Neolithic to the present day and, through ‘Intensive Survey Zones’ – selected to give a representative range of the physical and cultural terrain – many notable new discoveries are made. These include the pattern of Bronze Age Settlement in the Plains, Archaic rural sanctuaries and cemeteries, the scope of Late Roman copper-mining and isolated Medieval mountain settlements. The TAESP Landscape provides a fully integrated and data-rich analysis of the material from a wide range of contrasting archaeological perspectives. Taken together, these wide-ranging and interdisciplinary perspectives give a nuanced and sensitive approach to a strikingly multi-faceted landscape.

Today, hazardous work kills 2.3 million people each year and injures millions more. Among the most compelling yet controversial forms of legal protection for workers is the right to refuse unsafe work. The rise of globalization, precarious work, neoliberal politics, attacks on unions, and the idea of individual employment rights have challenged the protection of occupational health and safety for workers worldwide. In Hazard or Hardship, Jeffrey Hilgert presents the protection of refusal rights as a moral and a human rights question.

The rapid and unprecedented spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the resulting coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused millions of deaths worldwide. Additioanlly, it has put pressure on healthcare systems everywhere. In order to control the spread of coronavirus disease, as many as 31 COVID-19 vaccines have been approved for emergency use to date, and over 10 billion doses have been administered globally. However, many new variants of SARS-CoV-2 have emerged since vaccine development, with high transmissibility and an ability to escape immune responses. An antibody immune response is important for the clearance of the virus and critical for the generation of memory response to prevent reinfection. SARS-CoV-2 generates a virus-specific IgM, and IgG and neutralizing IgG response in the days following infection. However, the IgG response wanes over time and, in some cases, leads to only partial protection. There is a need for further research in this field to understand the measure/degree of long-term protection conferred by the vaccine, vaccine-driven pathology and immune differences among patients. This necessitates the critical evaluation of vaccine efficiency to expedite vaccine research.

Bone defects caused by trauma, tumor, infection and a variety of congenital diseases are among the most common orthopedic disorders, and the clinical management of non-union bone defects is still a challenge for orthopedic surgeons. In recent years, bone implants based on metals, ceramics, and polymers have been widely utilized and helped millions of patients. However, the rapid growth of the elderly demographic has tremendously intensified the occurrence of bone trauma cases, requiring once again the further development of effective strategies for bone reconstruction and regeneration. Therefore, the development of scaffolds and implants with new compositions, three-dimensional configurations, proper mechanical properties, and particular interactions with cells is highly expected. These new biomaterials may effectively promote bone regeneration and thus have a significant impact on individual patients and health care systems. In this Special Issue, we would like to present an innovative perspective on the scaffolds and implants for bone regeneration. Topics will include but not be limited to, the following: scaffold design and fabrication; biocompatibility and biodegradability; host response to implants; cell–scaffold interactions; and scaffold-based drug delivery. Both original research articles and reviews are very welcome.

Since the late 19th century, Jews and Arabs have been locked in an intractable battle for national recognition in a land of tremendous historical and geopolitical significance. While historians and political scientists have long analyzed the dynamics of this bitter conflict, rarely has an archaeology of the mind of those who reside within the matrix of conflict been attempted. This book not only offers a psychological analysis of the consequences of conflict for the psyche, it develops an innovative, compelling, and cross-disciplinary argument about the mutual constitution of culture and mind through the process of life-story construction. But the book pushes boundaries further through an analysis of two peace education programs designed to fundamentally alter the nature of young Israeli and Palestinian life stories. This book argues that these popular interventions, rooted in the idea of prejudice reduction through contact and the cultivation of “cosmopolitan” identities, are fundamentally flawed due to their refusal to deal with the actual political reality of young Israeli and Palestinian lives and their attempt to construct an alternative narrative of great hope but little resonance for Israelis and Palestinians. Grounded in over a century of literature that spans the social sciences, this book's analysis of young Israeli and Palestinian lives captures the complex, dynamic relationship among politics, history, and identity and offers a provocative and audacious proposal for psychology and peace education.

Sinopsis Esta obra es un llamado a la acción para los responsables de políticas públicas y líderes, donde les instamos a tomar en serio las investigaciones y los hallazgos aquí presentados, pues su influencia puede llevar a cambios significativos en la atención, los servicios y el respeto hacia las personas mayores. El libro Perspectivas multidisciplinares en la evaluación de la salud y bienestar de personas mayores aporta a la formación disciplinar, mejorando enfoques en la intervención con población adulta mayor, donde cada estudio y recomendación ofrecen una oportunidad para brindar un cuidado más humano, sensible y centrado en la persona, desde la visión de la Enfermería, Fisioterapia, Terapia Ocupacional, Psicología y Derecho, aportando conocimientos para comprender las dinámicas que afectan el bienestar y el cuidado de la salud de las personas mayores. Este libro es un compilado de experiencias investigativas relacionadas con la evaluación y atención de personas mayores, de profesionales de Enfermería, Terapia Ocupacional, Psicología y Derecho de la Universidad Mariana y, profesionales de Fisioterapia de la Fundación Universitaria María Cano, sede Popayán, con una única apuesta: la de investigar y proponer alternativas que promuevan el bienestar y la calidad de vida de población adulta mayor.

The United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia asked the RAND Corporation to develop a set of lessons learned from previous submarine programs that could help inform future program managers. This volume presents an overview of five submarine programs in the three countries—the UK’s Astute program; the U.S. Navy's Ohio, Seawolf, and Virginia programs; and Australia’s Collins program—and identifies lessons that apply to all of them.

Enrico Fermi, Nobel Prize for Physics in 1938, taught at the Royal University of Florence. Fermi's stay in Florence was short and only lasted two academic years (1924-25 and 1925-26); during those years, he taught "Mathematical Physics" and "Rational Mechanics” courses. This volume contributes to the reconstruction of this quite unknown period of Fermi's life, marked however by the publication of the Fermi statistics, which is also the foundation of the physics of semiconductors, and therefore of modern electronics. The text also features Enrico Fermi’s "Lessons of Rational Mechanics” to Science students and to students from the two-year preparatory course for Engineering studies during the aforementioned time span. The topics Enrico Fermi addressed in his lectures include kinematics and point dynamics, kinematics and statics of rigid systems and system statics in general. Lastly, the lessons contain «Lagrangia»’s equations and some elements of hydromechanics. This book is the first of a series of publications associated with the magazine «Il Colle di Galileo» by Firenze University Press.

Gottsched spent several months in Dresden while representing Leipzig University at Saxony’s parliament. His correspondence lends insight to the events unfolding there and documents his interactions with his circle of acquaintances in Leipzig, whom he normally saw in person. Major topics in the correspondence include the theater, the War of Austrian Succession, and disagreements with Gottsched’s critics Bodmer and Breitinger in Zurich.

The Corporación Universitaria Americana, as an educational institution responsible for its quality processes, has within its substantive functions that of research; in it, the evaluation of the research projects presented for execution is a priority and where it is important to verify their ethical conditions, based on national standards and policies, which should undoubtedly aim for the conditions and welfare of living beings and the commitment to the information obtained from their research; in addition, the verification of the conditions and qualities of the researchers involved in all types of research.

Aunque aparecen abordados desde flancos distintos, los temas que configuran la obra ensayística de Fernández Retamar confluyen todos, directa o indirectamente, en uno solo, que yo caracterizaría como el de la lucha contra la razón colonial que hace medio milenio Europasembró en esta ribera del Atlántico para perpetuar su dominio ad infinitum . Dominio que acabó por tener que transferir a los Estados Unidos –o mejor sea decir, estos le arrebataron– a medida que imponían su liderazgo. Y en las raíces de esa lucha se asientan las esencias formativas de una razón opuesta, anticolonial, en la cual el destino cubano se destaca, como ninguno, en rebeldía sin fin, opuesto al que se le quiso y se le quiere definir desde el Norte. Los quince trabajos que la integran, cuidadosamente seleccionados por su autor, han sido publicados entre 1965 y 1997, e incluyen ensayos, artículos sobre temas puntuales y conferencias, que nos conducen de manera radial al núcleo de su consistente pensamiento anticolonial.

Os textos que compõem este livro propõem ao leitor uma aproximação ao universo da clínica psicanalítica, do sofrimento psíquico, da forma como ele se apresenta na contemporaneidade. Passados pouco mais de cem anos da inauguração da psicanálise insiste a pergunta sobre quais modificações se operaram, no decorrer deste século – se é que de fato ocorreram –, na forma como é tomado o sofrimento psíquico e qual é hoje o estatuto da direção da cura na psicanálise. A ocupação e a preocupação com afecções dessa ordem na contemporaneidade são o norte que orienta os textos constantes deste livro. O retorno a alguns elementos balizadores (da teoria e da técnica) estabelecidos por Freud e Lacan – entrevistas preliminares, a transferência na clínica com crianças, os avatares da adolescência, a discriminação entre fantasia e fantasma, ato e interpretação – compõe a primeira parte deste livro e revela preocupação com o rigor do trabalho do psicanalista. O psicanalista estuda, opera, reconstrói conceitos quando uma pergunta se funda para ele, a partir de sua prática clínica. É tarefa da psicanálise a escuta do emergente, como também do sofrimento que na cena cotidiana aparece com freqüência. Freud, em sua produção teórica, fala de seu trabalho, de sua pesquisa, de seus impasses na condução da clínica de seu tempo e comprova que esta desarruma, desarticula os conceitos, inclusive os fundamentais. Porém, se a clínica desarruma os conceitos, ela também os renova. Este é o trabalho de pesquisa do psicanalista: construir e reconstruir conceitos a partir daquilo que sua prática clínica cotidiana aporta de novo. Os artigos sobre a direção da cura nas estruturas e quadros clínicos, revisitados à luz dos novos tempos, compõem a segunda parte do livro. As psicopatologias contemporâneas têm gerado discussões nos mais variados âmbitos: desde a área da saúde mais ampla, incluindo o meio médico, como também na mídia e na população em geral. De um lado, estão os laboratórios e o marketing em torno de seus lançamentos; de outro, o sujeito em sofrimento e a constatação de que as doenças também são fruto da modernidade, malgrado os avanços científicos.

In 1865, there was the enactment of the laws of administrative unification for the Kingdom of Italy. On the occasion of the 150th anniversary, the Department of Legal Sciences of the University of Florence organized a study project on the transformations which over the last fifty years have affected the Italian Republic’s administrative apparatus and activities. They analysed in its articulated local government and its EU membership. Over nearly two years, the researches have involved more than one hundred and fifty scholars from Italian universities. The results were presented on 15th and 16th October 2015 in Florence, the Italian capital city a hundred and fifty years before, which in 1965 had hosted the conference celebrating the 100th anniversary of the same administrative unification laws. The conducted studies are now published in definitive form and organized into eight volumes. Table of contents I. The organization of public administrations between national state and European integration, edited by Roberto Cavallo Perin, Aristide Police, Fabio Saitta II. Political and territorial cohesion, edited by Gabriella De Giorgi Cezzi, Pier Luigi Portaluri III. Legalization, edited by Barbara Marchetti, Mauro Renna IV. Technification, edited by Stefano Civitarese Matteucci, Luisa Torchia V. Public intervention in the economy, edited by Maurizio Cafagno, Francesco Manganaro VI. Unification and cultural pluralism, edited by Edoardo Chiti, Gianluca Gardini, Aldo Sandulli VII. Administrative justice as a service (between effectiveness and efficiency), edited by Gian Domenico Comporti VIII. Administrative citizenships, edited by Antonio Bartolini, Alessandra Pioggia