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The rapid fragmentation and habitat change in natural environments have created a need for management and conservation, which will ensure areas are protected from anthropogenic interference. These protected areas are necessary to provide adequate location for biodiversity conservation, environmental monitoring, and scientific research where a complete understanding of the natural process and full protection of ecosystems can be attained. This book highlights various approaches for managing and conserving protected areas in temperate and tropical regions to respond to some pressing global challenges today. It is divided into five main sections, viz., protected area management, fish and wildlife conservation, biodiversity conservation, ecotourism and recreation, and local community participation. The book enhances the understanding of the important roles national parks play in the environment and society.

Mastitis, an inflammation of the mammary glands, is the most costly disease in dairy farming, mainly caused by a broad range of bacteria categorized into contagious and environmental bacteria. This book is a concise summary of mastitis in dairy cattle, sheep, and goats, which mainly focuses on etiological agents, epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestation, pathological and histopathological changes, diagnosis, prevention, and control measures. This book serves as a textbook on mastitis in dairy cattle, sheep, and goats for dairy veterinarians, veterinary students, animal science students, dairy technicians, animal health professionals. Several researchers worldwide contributed to this book. This book contains the latest information on mastitis in dairy cattle, sheep, and goats and antimicrobial usage to prevent and control mastitis.

In diesem Open-Access-Buch untersucht Nele Abels geometrische Beweise und Beweisprozesse von Studierenden des Grundschullehramts in ihrem letzten Studienjahr. Mathematisches Argumentieren und Beweisen sind wesentliche fachliche Kompetenzen, die für ein mathematisches Verständnis von zentraler Bedeutung sind. Insbesondere Lehrkräfte im Primarbereich, welche die Grundlagen für ein fachspezifisches Argumentieren im Mathematikunterricht aufbauen, sollten über gute Kenntnisse in diesem Bereich verfügen. Der Fokus der Untersuchung liegt dabei sowohl auf den Argumentationen der Studierenden als auch ihren metakognitiven Aktivitäten. Grundlage ihrer Analysen sind die Rekonstruktionen von mündlichen und schriftlichen Beweisen. Die genaue Betrachtung des Übergangs vom Beweisprozess zum Beweisprodukt, also dem Prozess der Verschriftlichung eines Beweises, liefert neue Erkenntnisse. Metakognitive Aktivitäten erweisen sich gerade bei diesem Übergang als bedeutsam, wodurch sich Schwierigkeiten beim mathematischen Argumentieren und schriftlichen Beweisen vielfach nachvollziehen lassen.

Völkische Jugendbünde wie der Freibund oder die Deutsche Gildenschaft sind Kaderschmieden der extremen Rechten. Mit ihren »Lagern« und »Fahrten« schaffen sie Erlebnisräume, in denen politische Haltungen affektiv vermittelt werden. Die Beiträger*innen analysieren aus sozialpsychologischer und psychoanalytischer Sicht das spezifische Attraktionspotenzial der bislang kaum erforschten Bünde. Dabei zeigen sie verheißungsvolle Vorstellungen exklusiver Gemeinschaft, konfliktfreier Generationenverhältnisse und geschlechterübergreifender Kameradschaft als scheinbar stimmige Antworten auf adoleszente Konflikte – und geben neue Ansätze für die politische Bildungsarbeit und Rechtsextremismusprävention.

The collection covers the presentations held at the workshop on „Challenge: Securing Resources - Animal Diseases and Pest Control in the 18th and 19 Century“ held in Goettingen on 21 and 22 June 2006 by the graduate school „Interdisciplinary Environmental History, Natual Environment and Society in Central Europe“, which is funded by the German Research Foundation, and operative since July 1 2004 at the Georg-August University in Goettingen.

In the present social and cultural transformation of South Thailand's cultural politics, ideologies involving the family, gender and home provide the cultural codes in social dramas of the state, the media and social and religious movements. This study looks at micropolitics and the nesting of the political action of everyday life in larger, ultimately global structures of power. Exploring the making of class, culture and space, the production and consumption of culture is understood as work which involves the constant negotiation of boundaries.

The Modernist Anthropocene examines how modernist writers forged new and innovative ways of responding to rapidly changing planetary conditions and emergent ideas about nonhuman life, environmental change and the human species. Drawing on ecocritical analysis, posthumanist theory, archival research and environmental history, this book resituates key works of modernist fiction within the ecological moment of the early twentieth century, a period in which new configurations of the relationship between human life and the natural world were migrating between the sciences, philosophy and literary culture. The author makes the case that the early twentieth century is pivotal in our understanding of the Anthropocene both as a planetary epoch and a critical concept. In doing so, he positions James Joyce, Djuna Barnes and Virginia Woolf as theorists of the modernist Anthropocene, showing how their oeuvres are shaped by, and actively respond to, changing ideas about the nonhuman that continue to reverberate today.

Few articles in the humanities have had the impact of Lisa Jardine and Anthony Grafton’s seminal ‘Studied for Action’ (1990), a study of the reading practices of Elizabethan polymath and prolific annotator Gabriel Harvey. Their excavation of the setting, methods and ambitions of Harvey’s encounters with his books ignited the History of Reading, an interdisciplinary field which quickly became one of the most exciting corners of the scholarly cosmos. A generation inspired by the model of Harvey fanned out across the world’s libraries and archives, seeking to reveal the many creative, unexpected and curious ways that individuals throughout history responded to texts, and how these interpretations in turn illuminate past worlds. Three decades on, Harvey’s example and Jardine’s work remain central to cutting-edge scholarship in the History of Reading. By uniting ‘Studied for Action’ with published and unpublished studies on Harvey by Jardine, Grafton and the scholars they have influenced, this collection provides a unique lens on the place of marginalia in textual, intellectual and cultural history. The chapters capture subsequent work on Harvey and map the fields opened by Jardine and Grafton’s original article, collectively offering a posthumous tribute to Lisa Jardine and an authoritative overview of the History of Reading.

"Diante dos crescentes resultados negativos do desempenho escolar de alunos brasileiros, constatados pelo Ministério da Educação (MEC), Competência em leitura: interface entre contextos psicossocial, familiar e escolar propõe-se a refletir sobre o complexo processo de alfabetização infantil e os contextos em que a leitura está inserida. Nesse sentido, apresenta-se uma análise dos aspectos cognitivos e sicossocioambientais que interferem no desempenho dos alunos. A obra contribui para o aprofundamento do conhecimento acerca dos processos envolvidos na aquisição da leitura e abre portas para intervenções eficazes que impulsionem essa competência tão relevante à formação das crianças. A compreensão do processo de aquisição da leitura e dos instrumentos disponíveis para sua avaliação, como a Provinha Brasil – Leitura, pode beneficiar profissionais das áreas da Educação, Psicologia e Psicopedagogia."

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Through the tales of a group of former activists of “Lotta continua”, an extra-parliamentary left-wing group, this work traces the cycle of mobilization which Italy went through during the Seventies, in search of the intersections between collective events and subjective experiences. The text focuses on two themes which are considered the tips of a controversial shared memory: political violence on one hand, and neo-feminism on the other. These two steps result fundamental in the process of subjectivation of individual men and women, and their effects can also be traced by observing the individual and collective outcomes of "demobilization".

In der vorliegenden Abhandlung wird ein System zur autonomen 3D-Umweltmodellierung vorgestellt, welches auf den drei Hauptprozessen Datenaufnahme, Datenintegration und Aktionsplanung beruht. Basis der Modellierung sind dichte Tiefenbilder, generiert durch einen rotierenden Zeilenscanner, mit Punktmerkmalen. Durch die Registrierung aller Daten können die Fehler der odometrischen Lagebestimmung minimiert werden. Anhand der ermittelten 3D-Daten wird die nächste beste Aufnahmeposition ermittelt.

L'internationalité de la science n'entraîne pas l'internationalisme des scientifiques. La présente étude révise l'image idyllique d'une « science jamais en guerre ». Elle démontre que la communauté scientifique internationale, en plein essor au tournant du siècle, n'opposait pas, aux impératifs de ce qui était alors perçu comme l'intérêt national, les normes d'une solidarité supérieure de l'esprit ou de l'humanité. Bien au contraire, les voix de la modération se firent d'abord entendre dans les milieux politiques. La détente locarnienne était l'oeuvre de la politique étrangère des États. L'histoire ne confirme donc pas la légende voulant que les scientifiques constituent nécessairement le fer de lance du mouvement pour la paix. Les hommes de science ne sont-ils pas à ta remorque de l'Histoire plutôt qu'ils ne la façonnent ?

The volume offers insights into new theoretical approaches that should make it possible to analyse cultural change through migration. It focuses on concrete activities in local contexts and their significance for national narratives. Finally, it presents newer approaches in migration studies that use artistic methods and work with cultural institutions to drive cultural change.

Nationen basieren auf Ein- und Ausschlussmechanismen, die in öffentlichen Mediendiskursen ausgehandelt werden. Im heutigen Europa sind Referenzen zu Religion und spezifisch zum Islam bei der Verhandlung nationaler Zugehörigkeit zentral. Bisherige Analysen öffentlicher Debatten zum Islam in Europa haben gezeigt, dass Fragen der Geschlechtergleichstellung im Vordergrund stehen und muslimische Frauen häufig Bilder kollektiver Differenz markieren. Mirjam Aeschbach legt anhand einer detaillierten Analyse aktiver Medienbeiträge muslimischer Diskursakteurinnen von 2016 bis 2019 dar, wie diese in der Öffentlichkeit Bilder nationaler Zugehörigkeit aufgreifen und sich aneignen - und wie diese Bilder so potentiell in Frage gestellt werden.