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It was not until the eighteenth century that France began sending mariners to the southern oceans on a regular basis, and by that time a new maritime power had begun to emerge: Great Britain. Together, these two nations would play a decisive role in determining the configuration of these little known parts of the globe, and particularly of the Pacific, which had for so long been the almost exclusive preserve of Spain.

Mit dem demographischen Wandel steigt aktuell der Anteil von Personen mit einem sogenannten Migrationshintergrund in den nachwachsenden Generationen. Folglich nehmen auch die Ansprache neuer Zielgruppen als reguläre Weiterbildungsteilnehmende und deren Zugangsmöglichkeiten zu Weiterbildungseinrichtungen weiter an Bedeutung zu. Alisha M.B. Heinemann untersucht Perspektiven und Weiterbildungsteilnahmegründe der heterogenen Gruppe von deutschen Frauen mit einem sogenannten Migrationshintergrund. Die differenzierte rassismuskritische Analyse öffnet neue Zugänge und Perspektiven in der Erwachsenenbildungsforschung und präsentiert Hintergrundwissen für die Weiterbildungspraxis.; Racism-critical analyses on the participation in further education by German women with so-called migrant backgrounds.

A obra investiga as relações mútuas entre alguns dos denominados “novos movimentos sociais” e a educação, seja ela formal ou informal. A partir de uma análise das dinâmicas sociais contemporâneas, o livro tece reflexões que enfocam coletivos populares e revolucionários, como o Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), o movimento negro e o LGBTQIA+, e os de vertente conservadora, como o Escola sem Partido e o neopentecostalismo. Dessa forma, os autores realizam um entrelaçamento entre movimentos sociais e processos educacionais, apresentando diferentes olhares e aprendizagens sobre essa interação.

The entire functional self-administration, in particular the skilled crafts organization, relies on the commitment of volunteers. In practice, however, there is sometimes a need for clarification regarding the rights and obligations of volunteers. The study examines this issue and includes the practical perspective. The work is based on municipal and administrative procedural law and includes references to civil law. It provides answers to fundamental questions about the relationship between volunteers and full-time officials.

If the play, our device, had no other function than to project, "at some elevation", certain lacks of which we would hardly be aware, there can only be in the Letters, according to Mallarmé, a single essential act: to question the relationships that this device maintains with some internal state of ourselves. We believe, with the author of La Musique et les Lettres, that it is through the play of their often rival relationships that the arts can be understood and make us understand. This game, which never stops urging us, constantly asks us for new instruments for its implementation - or its staging.

This book presents research-based answers to some of the uncertainties that managers, investors, employees and policymakers face. On its 75th anniversary, BI Norwegian Business School is undoubtedly a researchbased school at the forefront of global research. Its research groups contribute excellent, original research that is at the international forefront appearing in top international journals, while its graduates, more than those of any other school, populate CEO positions. Being at the forefront requires that we look ahead, not merely celebrate past successes. This book does exactly that. It covers three themes: 1. The digital organization, including algorithm-based decision making and management, digital labour, business models, corporate reputation and branding 2. The governance of corporations, with specific reference to state-owned and family-owned firms and their auditing 3. Decision-making, incentives and innovation, covering issues such as employee motivation and creativity, environmental R&D, political decision-making and customer experience

In a life full of chaos and travel, Elizabeth Bishop managed to preserve and even partially catalog, a large collection—more than 3,500 pages of drafts of poems and prose, notebooks, memorabilia, artwork, hundreds of letters to major poets and writers, and thousands of books—now housed at Vassar College. Informed by archival theory and practice, as well as a deep appreciation of Bishop’s poetics, the collection charts new territory for teaching and reading American poetry at the intersection of the institutional archive, literary study, the liberal arts college, and the digital humanities. The fifteen essays in this collection use this archive as a subject, and, for the first time, argue for the critical importance of working with and describing original documents in order to understand the relationship between this most archival of poets and her own archive. This collection features a unique set of interdisciplinary scholars, archivists, translators, and poets, who approach the archive collaboratively and from multiple perspectives. The contributions explore remarkable new acquisitions, such as Bishop’s letters to her psychoanalyst, one of the most detailed psychosexual memoirs of any twentieth century poet and the exuberant correspondence with her final partner, Alice Methfessel, an important series of queer love letters of the 20th century. Lever Press’s digital environment allows the contributors to present some of the visual experience of the archive, such as Bishop’s extraordinary “multi-medial” and “multimodal” notebooks, in order to reveal aspects of the poet’s complex composition process.

Pancreatitis may be acute or chronic. Although they can be caused by similar aetiologies, they tend to follow distinct natural histories. Around 80% of acute pancreatitis (AP) diagnoses occur as secondary to gallstone disease and alcohol misuse. This disease is commonly associated with the sudden onset of upper abdominal that is usually severe enough to warrant the patient seeking urgent medical attention. Overall, 10 to 25% of AP episodes are classified as severe, leading to an associated mortality rate of 7 to 30%. Treatment is conservative and consists of general medical support performed by experienced teams, sometimes in ICUs. Although most cases of acute pancreatitis are uncomplicated and resolve spontaneously, the presence of complications has significant prognostic importance. Necrosis, hemorrhage, and infection convey rates of up to 25%, 50%, and 80% mortality, respectively. Other complications such as pseudocyst formation, pseudoaneurysm formation, or venous thrombosis increase morbidity and mortality to a lesser degree. The presence of pancreatic infection must be avoided.

The aim of the study is to identify the role of business environment institutions (BEIs) in shaping digital entrepreneurial ecosystems by assessing the structure of support available to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), with particular emphasis on online services. An attempt was made to fill the theoretical, empirical and methodological gap resulting from the insufficient number of studies integrating the supply and demand perspectives, taking into account regional diversity and a comprehensive assessment of the digitization processes of BEI services. Original definitions of the terms "digitization of support and cooperation between BEIs and MSMEs" and "online services provided by BEIs" have been developed, which organize the research area and provide the basis for further analyses. The research was carried out in two stages: in the first stage, an analysis of secondary data was carried out on the level of digitization of MSMEs and the scope of BEI activities, in the second stage, primary research was carried out in the form of a survey among MSMEs and a survey using the method of observing the digital activity of BEIs on a nationwide scale. Triangulation of methods was used, which made it possible to compare the results from both sources. The result of the research is the development of a model of the digital entrepreneurial ecosystem in the areas of BEI activities covering four dimensions: activities, participants, motivations and organization of activities. This model allows to diagnose and design activities supporting the development of MSMEs in the digital economy and to formulate recommendations for public policy. The results of the research provide analytical tools and conceptual frameworks that can be used in future analyses, including those of an international nature.

The recovery of solid wastes for the preparation of innovative composite materials not only represents an economic advantage, but also offers an ecological opportunity for the utilization of by-products which would otherwise be landfilled. Specifically, the reuse and recycling of waste lead to important savings of raw materials and energy, since these by-products, generally deriv from agricultural or industrial activities, are abundant in nature. Moreover, a reduction of the environmental and related sanitary impacts can be also achieved. For this reason, a recycling operation is fundamental for the improvement of the environmental sustainability, because these secondary raw materials become a resource that can be easily reused without the modification of the peculiar characteristics, in order to obtain new and performing composites, with a low specific weight, high durability, and long life cycle.

It has been over 200 years since Fusarium pathogens were described for the first time, and they are still in the spotlight of researchers worldwide, mostly due to the mycotoxigenic abilities and the subsequent introduction of harmful metabolites into the food chain. The accelerating climatic changes are resulting in pathogen population and chemotype shifts all around the world, thus increasing the demand for continuous studies of factors that affect the virulence, disease severity and mycotoxin accumulation in plant tissues. This Special Issue summarizes recent advances in the field of Fusarium genetics, biology and toxicology.

¿Qué son el blockchain, los criptoactivos y el metaverso? ¿Cómo funcionan y cómo impactan en nuestra sociedad? Este libro explora estos temas y ofrece una aproximación teórica a estos fenómenos tecnológicos y culturales de la actualidad. A través de un análisis riguroso y accesible, Narcisa Medrana y Miguel Arcos nos introducen en el mundo del blockchain, la tecnología que está detrás de los criptoactivos como Bitcoin, Ethereum y otras criptomonedas. Profundizan en el concepto del metaverso, un espacio virtual que se está convirtiendo en una nueva dimensión de la experiencia humana; nos hacen descubrir cómo el blockchain está cambiando la forma de gestionar las transacciones convirtiéndose en una herramienta para la seguridad de la información en muchos de los sectores. Por último, exploran cómo los criptoactivos generan nuevas formas de inversión y de transacciones financieras. Por otro lado, el libro analiza el impacto del metaverso en nuestra sociedad, desde su relación con la cultura digital y el ocio hasta su influencia en la economía global. ¿Cómo están cambiando estos fenómenos nuestra forma de entender el mundo y nuestra relación con la tecnología?

This is an open access book. Time is an exceptional dimension with high relevance in medicine, engineering, business, science, biography, history, planning, or project management. Understanding time-oriented data via visual representations enables us to learn from the past in order to predict, plan, and build the future. This second edition builds upon the great success of the first edition. It maintains a brief introduction to visualization and a review of historical time-oriented visual representations. At its core, the book develops a systematic view of the visualization of time-oriented data. Separate chapters discuss interaction techniques and computational methods for supporting the visual data analysis. Many examples and figures illustrate the introduced concepts and techniques. So, what is new for the second edition? First of all, the second edition is now published as an open-access book so that anyone interested in the visualization of time and time-oriented data can read it. Second, the entire content has been revised and expanded to represent state-of-the-art knowledge. The chapter on interaction support now includes advanced methods for interacting with visual representations of time-oriented data. The second edition also covers the topics of data quality as well as segmentation and labeling. The comprehensive survey of classic and contemporary visualization techniques now provides more than 150 self-contained descriptions accompanied by illustrations and corresponding references. A completely new chapter describes how the structured survey can be used for the guided selection of suitable visualization techniques. For the second edition, our TimeViz Browser, the digital pendant to the survey of visualization techniques, received a major upgrade. It includes the same set of techniques as the book, but comes with additional filter and search facilities allowing scientists and practitioners to find exactly the solutions they are interested in. ; Time is an exceptional data dimension due to its importance and unique influence. This implies that special methods are needed for dealing with time in data sets in order to take advantage of these specifics. Visual methods are a key part of this tool set allowing for presentation, analysis, and exploration of temporal data sets. Visualisation of Time-Oriented Data provides an overview of the field of visualisation techniques for time-oriented data, but even more importantly analyses the specifics and similarities of the investigated techniques in order to identify clusters for structuring and making the field manageable. It also analyses the techniqes uniformly along different sets of attributes making it easy to grasp their main characteristics and support researchers as well as developers in selecting appropriate techniques for their demands. The theoretic foundations of visualization itself are also discussed, the data dimension time, tasks related to time-oriented data, possible mappings of time, various examples of early (pre-computer age) representation techniques, and a conceptual framework for visually analyzing time-oriented data.

Après deux années dédiées aux « Paroles de lecteurs » et dans le sillage des Rencontres de Reims qui firent dialoguer les problématiques du jeu et de la parole, le séminaire Approches Interdisciplinaires et internationales de la lecture ouvre ici un nouveau volet de son investigation portant sur le contenu notionnel de la « lecture comme jeu » dont la modélisation est partiellement liée à l’histoire des recherches rémoises en la matière. Il s’agit en quelque sorte de faire jouer la théorie de différentes manières ce qui conduit, à partir de l’idée de jeu littéraire, à interroger un réseau de notions associées dans leurs implications linguistiques et philosophiques, sans oublier de soumettre l’idée de la littérature ainsi conçue à la pratique des textes d’écrivains.

Power and Politics in the Media: The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research, Volume 9 features articles from multiple disciplines that use the C-SPAN Video Library to explore recent controversies in American politics. Topics covered include Supreme Court nominations, Supreme Court oral arguments, rhetoric on disasters and COVID-19, and the effect of clothing on the approval of women in power. What unites these topics is the unique use of the video record of C-SPAN to explore the intersections of politics, power, rhetoric, and the media in the contemporary United States. Written in accessible prose, this volume showcases some of the most pressing issues today in a variety of political and communication issues while demonstrating video research methodologies.