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The quality of drinking water is paramount for public health. Despite important improvements in the last decades, access to safe drinking water is not universal. The World Health Organization estimates that almost 10% of the population in the world do not have access to improved drinking water sources. Among other diseases, waterborne infections cause diarrhea, which kills nearly one million people every year, mostly children under 5 years of age. On the other hand, chemical pollution is a concern in high-income countries and an increasing problem in low- and middle-income countries. Exposure to chemicals in drinking water may lead to a range of chronic non-communicable diseases (e.g., cancer, cardiovascular disease), adverse reproductive outcomes, and effects on children’s health (e.g., neurodevelopment), among other health effects. Although drinking water quality is regulated and monitored in many countries, increasing knowledge leads to the need for reviewing standards and guidelines on a nearly permanent basis, both for regulated and newly identified contaminants. Drinking water standards are mostly based on animal toxicity data, and more robust epidemiologic studies with accurate exposure assessment are needed. The current risk assessment paradigm dealing mostly with one-by-one chemicals dismisses the potential synergisms or interactions from exposures to mixtures of contaminants, particularly at the low-exposure range. Thus, evidence is needed on exposure and health effects of mixtures of contaminants in drinking water. Finally, water stress and water quality problems are expected to increase in the coming years due to climate change and increasing water demand by population growth, and new evidence is needed to design appropriate adaptation policies.This Special Issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on the current state of knowledge on the links between drinking water quality and human health.

El Instituto Internacional de Historia del Derecho Indiano, creado en el año 1966, celebra periódicamente sus congresos en que participan los miembros y por invitación los estudiosos no miembros especializados en el Derecho Indiano, donde presentan sus investigaciones histórico-jurídicas. Desde su fundación, se han celebrado dieciocho congresos en diferentes países de Iberoamérica. El XIX Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Historia del Derecho Indiano se celebró en la ciudad de Berlín (Alemania) del lunes 29 de agosto al viernes 2 de septiembre de 2016. En las Actas del Congreso, se publican las versiones escritas de más de setenta ponencias presentadas en el Congreso. Las ocho mesas temáticas del evento fueron: Historia de la historiografía del Derecho Indiano; El Derecho Indiano en la historia europea y global; Circulación de ideas y prácticas jurídicas: casos y métodos de análisis (obras jurisprudenciales); Derecho y otros saberes normativos (derecho real y canónico, teología moral); Orden jurídico y diversidad cultural (derechos indígenas, pluralismo jurídico y judicial); Derecho Indiano Provincial y Local (reinos, provincias, repúblicas); Sociedad, justicia y gobierno (instituciones y prácticas); El Derecho Indiano en el siglo XIX: Derecho Civil y Público y Constitucionalismo moderno.

Historiographies of Game Studies offers a first-of-its-kind reflection on how game studies as an academic field has been shaped and sustained. Today, game studies is a thriving field with many dedicated national and international conferences, journals, professional societies, and a strong presence at conferences in disciplines like computer science, communication, media studies, theater, visual arts, popular culture, and others. But, when did game studies start? And what (and who) is at the core or center of game studies? Fields are defined as much by what they are not as by what they are, and their borderlands can be hotly contested spaces. In this anthology, scholars from across the field consider how the boundaries of game studies have been established, codified, contested, and protected, raising critical questions about who and what gets left out of the field. Over more than two dozen chapters and interviews with leading figures, including Espen Aarseth, Kishonna Gray, Henry Jenkins, Lisa Nakamura, Kentaro Matsumoto, Ken McAllister, and Janet Murray, the contributors offer a dazzling array of insightful provocations that address the formation, propagation, and cultivation of game studies, interrogating not only the field’s pasts but its potential futures and asking us to think deliberately about how academic fields are collectively built.

Voltada para a compreensão dos textos maiores do pensamento ocidental, a Coleção do Estudo Acadêmico – CEA pretende apresentá-los num formato que facilite, a um só tempo, o estudo acadêmico e a leitura pelo público cultivado. O texto apresentado no livro resulta de um trabalho iniciado em 1992 por ocasião de um curso ministrado na PUC/SP e continuado na UNICAMP.

This book examines the processes through which children effectively 'inherit' their position in the social world. It asks: How does class inequality affect one of the most formative periods in human development, that is, early childhood? When do differences in class background manifest themselves in children's actions and attitudes? How do class divisions intersect with racial and gender inequality to shape the way that children navigate the social world? When do children become aware of the fact that 'inequality' is a key feature of their lifeworld? Bringing together original research from France, Norway, Sweden, Belgium and the USA, this book unravels the ways in which class inequality shapes our earliest experiences of the social world. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in class and social stratification, the sociology of childhood and family, cultural sociology, sociolinguistics, child and developmental psychology and educational science.

This book is based on the contributions of several authors and attempts to describe the roles human activities play in causing geohazards either directly or indirectly through man-made climate change. The risk of these man-made geohazards and the risk assessment are also discussed in this book. Each chapter keeps the authors’ notations that vary from chapter to chapter. These authors’ notations have been maintained to reduce unintended confusion and errors. Readers should be aware of this variation.

Ghana was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to gain independence and played a critical role in the political transformation and regional integration in Africa. Over the years, Ghana has transformed from one-party state through military rule to multiparty democracy. Since independence, despite internal challenges, Ghana continues to play a critical transformational role on the African continent. This influence has been reinvigorated since the emergence of the concept of African Renaissance and adoption of the ‘African solutions for African problems’ mantra in the early 2000s. On 6 March 2017, Ghana celebrated its 60th anniversary of independence from colonial rule. Current circumstances in Ghana and Africa reinforce the argument that democracy and the rule of law are maintained by vigilance and involvement of the people. In this regard, this edited volume audited some of the issues relating to the state of human rights standards and compliance, democratic consolidation and development in Ghana as well as to bring forward how Ghana has contributed to the political, economic, cultural and ideological development in Africa. Through a human rights-based approach to governance and socio-economic development, the book examines the experiences of Ghana, selected experiences of other African countries and the African Union in advancing good governance and human rights over the years, on the journey to attain shared prosperity for all. The book takes stock of major developments in the areas of political and civil rights as well as economic, social and cultural rights in Africa, the changing nature of democratisation, regional integration and pan-Africanism, and the ways in which the African Union policies may impact differently on governance and human rights on the continent.

El título del libro nos señala con precisión el recorrido que Pablo Imen realiza. Que las y los futuros lectores lo sepan desde el inicio es una invitación a sumergirse en una lectura meticulosa, consciente, y al mismo tiempo amplia en su desarrollo. El autor se propone “no dejar puntos sueltos", y así transita la historia desde el siglo XIX hasta nuestros días. Esa insistencia en la lectura de la historia social de las experiencias educativas de maestros y maestras que rompieron ciertas tradiciones escolares es una de las más fructíferas formas de entender, profundizar y hacer suya la labor de las y los indispensables constructores de la nueva escuela liberadora. La lectura de Memorias pedagógicas del futuro reafirma la condición docente del autor frente a públicos diversos: militantes políticos, dirigentes sindicales, docentes y estudiantes.

Dall’11 settembre 2001 – e, più indietro, dalla caduta del Muro di Berlino nel 1989 – l’Occidente sembra avere smarrito il suo posto e il suo significato nel mondo. Sotto il trauma del cosiddetto terrorismo internazionale si è cacciato in guerre infinite, senza potersi neppure più presentare come il baluardo della libertà e della democrazia. La crescita strabiliante della Cina e degli altri paesi emergenti lo priva in prospettiva della stessa supremazia economica, e i mutamenti politici in at...

Daisuke Miyao reveals the undetected influence that Japanese art and aesthetics had on early cinema and the pioneering films of the Lumiére brothers.

Rural Disease Knowledge examines the ways in which knowledge of rural spaces and environments, on the one hand, and infectious diseases, on the other, have become inter-constituted since the late nineteenth century. With contributions by leading anthropologists and historians of medicine, it examines the epistemic co-constitution of the rural and of infectious diseases. Ranging from Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia to Java, Tanzania, West and South Africa, and Britain, the chapters cover diverse geographies, timelines, and diseases, including plague, brucellosis, leishmaniasis, yaws, yellow fever, nagana, sleeping sickness, and Chagas disease. The book considers how human interactions with infectious diseases have impacted ways of knowing and acting on rural spaces and environments, and in turn how human interactions with rural spaces and environments have impacted ways of knowing and acting against infectious diseases. It reflects on how the rural has been configured as a space of either health or sickness over the centuries and around the globe, the role of rural landscapes in the epistemic emergence of microbiology and tropical medicine, and the interaction with global processes such as European imperialism, the emergence of capitalism, and postcolonial nation-building projects. The studies engage with current debates on decolonizing knowledge and highlight how local disease knowledge has troubled and unsettled hegemonic medical perspectives and created new ways of understanding the relationship between diseases and rural spaces and environments. The volume will be of particular interest to scholars of medical anthropology, global health, and the history of medicine.

The development of micro- and nanodevices for blood analysis continues to be a growing interdisciplinary subject that demands the careful integration of different research fields. Following the success of the book “Micro/Nano Devices for Blood Analysis”, we invited more authors from the scientific community to participate in and submit their research for a second volume. Researchers from different areas and backgrounds cooperated actively and submitted high-quality research, focusing on the latest advances and challenges in micro- and nanodevices for diagnostics and blood analysis; micro- and nanofluidics; technologies for flow visualization and diagnosis; biochips, organ-on-a-chip and lab-on-a-chip devices; and their applications to research and industry.

This work introduces a new approach for benefit investigation and improvement of safety relevant driver assistance systems. The new methodology combines user-based test with the accident analysis of real road accident data. Detailed real road accident are used for the simulation of the collision evolution. By means of user-based data the driver interaction can be evaluated and a driver model can be extracted. The combination of accident data and user-based tests leads to a high validity.

This paper aims to quickly and precisely visualize remodeled design images based on image generation AI so that they can be used as alternative images in the early stages of design. In order to create a space image suitable for the user, the contents of the text are proceeded as follows. Bathrooms with many accidents in the space were selected as the target space, and users were designated as elderly people with many physical changes. Learning image data for additional training was self-generated according to the user's body characteristics, and the learning data focused on musculoskeletal aging among the body characteristics of elderly users. When the image was generated using additional training models, it was confirmed that a meaningful spatial image was created for musculoskeletal aging users, and it can be expected that the spatial image for spatial remodeling can be obtained quickly and accurately without the help of experts through subsequent studies to make it easier for general users