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With the complete prohibition of feed antibiotic additives in many countries and regions, including China, the United States, and Europe, studying and developing efficient new green feed additives with plant extracts and their ability to mitigate various problems in livestock and poultry breeding have gradually become a key focus of animal science research. In this Special Issue, we compiled research articles and reviews on the effects of plant extracts on meat quality, intestinal flora, resistance to disease, and stress in edible animals, highlighting current knowledge and future directions in this field.

The volume represents the second ‘chapter’ of the METra research project (Mapping Epic in Tragedy – Epica e tragedia greca: una mappatura), and contains the papers presented during the international workshop METra 2, held in Verona in June 2022. Carrying on with the lines of research whose first results were published in METra 1 (Lexis Supplements 11, 2022), this second collection of essays focuses on further aspects of the Homeric legacy in Attic tragedy. As in the first volume, the papers apply different disciplinary approaches, covering a wide range of topics: from metrical, linguistic, and stylistic features to matters of intertextuality and literary allusiveness, from the cultural, religious, and ethical values of archaic Greece – and their persistence in the classical age – to the ‘dialogue’ between ancient epics and modernity.

Air pollutants are continuously released from numerous sources into the atmosphere. Several studies have been carried out on the quantification of pollutants and their consequences on public health. Identification of the source characteristics of air pollution is an important step in the development of regional air quality control strategies. Air quality is a measure of the degree of ambient atmospheric pollution. Deterioration and damage to both public health and environment due to poor air quality have been recognized at a legislative and international level. In consequence, indoor and outdoor air quality must also be considered. This book tries to reveal different points of view of the wide concept of air quality in two different sections. In this context, there will be an initial introductory chapter on the main concepts of air quality, following which there will be real case studies on outdoor and indoor air quality with an aim to provide a guideline for future standards and research works.

The Routledge History of Emotions in Europe: 1100–1700 presents the state of the field of pre-modern emotions during this period, placing particular emphasis on theoretical and methodological aspects of current research. Exploring topics such as love, war, sex and sexuality, death, time, the body and the family in the context of emotional culture, The Routledge History of Emotions in Europe: 1100–1700 reflects the sharp rise in scholarship relating to the history of emotions in recent years and is an essential resource for students and researchers of the history of pre-modern emotions.

"This volume is dedicated to the cultural and religious diversity in Jewish communities from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Age and the growing influence of the rabbis within these communities during the same period. Drawing on available textual and material evidence, the fourteen essays presented here, written by leading experts in their fields, span a significant chronological and geographical range and cover material that has not yet received sufficient attention in scholarship. The volume is divided into four parts. The first focuses on the vantage point of the synagogue; the second and third on non-rabbinic Judaism in, respectively, the Near East and Europe; the final part turns from diversity within Judaism to the process of ""rabbinization"" as represented in some unusual rabbinic texts. Diversity and Rabbinization is a welcome contribution to the historical study of Judaism in all its complexity. It presents fresh perspectives on critical questions and allows us to rethink the tension between multiplicity and unity in Judaism during the first millennium CE. L’École Pratique des Hautes Études has kindly contributed to the publication of this volume."

In recent years, the French Republic has endeavored to link the fate of its overseas territories to that of ecological concerns. Whether in biodiversity protection, risk management, the circular economy, or energy autonomy, this call for exemplary conduct often relies on the metaphor of the “laboratory,” a fitting image in the search for remedies to the many challenges facing these territories—unemployment, violence, high cost of living, and more. This book offers a perspective on the situation in the Atlantic Overseas Territories, through an exploration of the main areas of public action addressing environmental issues in the French Antilles and French Guiana. At a time of major societal transitions, the framing of these former departmentalized colonies as “sustainable development laboratories” reveals an experimental vision historically tied to these regions. Calling on them to set an example in environmental matters—after having been successively subjected to the brutality of colonial extractivism and shaped by the ideology of modernizing progress—is however far from straightforward. Beneath these various marks of “coloniality,” the claims of local actors and authorities emerge, in search of meaning and emancipation, which prove inseparable from the expression of a distinctive, albeit still uncertain and fragile, environmental subjectivity. By probing the current ecological crisis through the lens of “Creole laboratories,” this groundbreaking study resonates with numerous other issues (institutional, scientific, indigenous, etc.) at the heart of France’s Global South, offering new insight.This book is primarily intended for students, researchers, and academics, as well as public policy practitioners interested in global environmental change and North-South relations.

Different perspectives aiming to understand the complex relationship of humans and resources were the main focus of the international workshop ‘Beyond Subsistence: Human-Nature Interactions’, which took place within the initiatives of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1070 ResourceCultures at the University of Tübingen. Cultural anthropologists and archaeologists came together to reflect on the meanings and values of different socio-cultural practices surrounding the interactions between humans and nature, which go beyond the pure subsistence needs. From the exploration of modern rice cultivation in India to the personal ornaments of Ice Age Germany, the case studies examined here provide insights on multiple aspects of the existence of humans, animals, plants and substances. By reflecting on behaviours and practices from modern and archaeological contexts, this edited volume offers a detailed report of the interdisciplinary discussions that occurred during the workshop and ultimately allow us to reflect on how we understand the multi-layered interactions among all types of social actors.

The characteristics of taste, flavor, and nutrition; safety during postharvest; and the minimal use of processing, fresh-cutting, and fermentation. Increasing demand has sparked interest in preserving quality, enhancing safety, and extending shelf life. However, fruits and vegetables are prone to tissue damage, wound respiration, water loss, transpiration, ethylene production, enzymatic browning, tissue softening, and secondary metabolite production during storage, transportation, and sale along the supply chain. Therefore, there is an urgent demand for new preservation technologies that can maintain the quality of fruits and vegetables. This reprint reviews some preservation technologies, such as physical preservation, chemical preservation, and preharvest treatment, that have the potential to improve the quality and safety of fruits and vegetables. It promotes more in-depth communication among professional and technical personnel in the field of horticultural postharvest preservation technology, thereby improving postharvest quality, ensuring product safety, and serving the healthy development of the horticultural industry.

Modeling, simulation and identification has been actively researched in solving practical engineering problems. This book presents the wide applications of modeling, simulation and identification in the fields of electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, civil engineering, computer science and information technology. The book consists of 17 chapters arranged in an order reflecting multidimensionality of applications related to power system, wireless communication, image and video processing, control systems, robotics, soil mechanics, road engineering, mechanical structures and workforce capacity planning. New techniques in signal processing, adaptive control, non-linear system identification, multi-agent simulation, eigenvalue analysis, risk assessment, modeling of dynamic systems, finite difference time domain modeling and visual feedback are also presented. We hope that readers will find the book useful and inspiring by examining the recent developments in the applications of modeling, simulation and identification.

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline. Illustrating how current social contracts may be considered inadequate, irrelevant or unjust, Social Contracts and Informal Workers in the Global South draws on the accounts of informal workers to advocate for radically new conceptualizations of state-society, capital-labour and state-capital-labour relations characterised by recognition, responsiveness and reciprocity.

Art, Research, Philosophy explores the emergent field of artistic research: art produced as a contribution to knowledge. As a new subject, it raises several questions: What is art-as-research? Don’t the requirements of research amount to an imposition on the artistic process that dilutes the power of art? How can something subjective become objective? What is the relationship between art and writing? Doesn’t description always miss the particularity of the artwork? This is the first book-length study to show how ideas in philosophy can be applied to artistic research to answer its questions and to make proposals for its future. Clive Cazeaux argues that artistic research is an exciting development in the historical debate between aesthetics and the theory of knowledge. The book draws upon Kant, phenomenology and critical theory to show how the immediacies of art and experience are enmeshed in the structures that create knowledge. The power of art to act on these structures is illustrated through a series of studies that look closely at a number of contemporary artworks. This book will be ideal for postgraduate students and scholars of the visual and creative arts, aesthetics and art theory. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorandfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781315764610

Das Interesse an Bildungsberichten hat in den vergangenen Jahren stark zugenommen. Auch in der bildungspolitischen Debatte gewinnen Forschungsergebnisse immer mehr an Bedeutung. Der Bereich der Weiterbildung kommt in dieser Entwicklung jedoch nach wie vor deutlich zu kurz. Die vom Deutschen Institut für Erwachsenenbildung Leibniz-Zentrum für Lebenslanges Lernen (DIE) herausgegebene Trendanalyse 2010 versucht diese Lücke zu schließen. Der Report wertet Daten zu unterschiedlichen Bereichen der Weiterbildung aus - vom Lehrpersonal über die Nutzung von Angeboten bis zur Frage der Finanzierung. Auf dieser Grundlage gelangt der Bericht zu einer umfassenden Beschreibung der aktuellen Weiterbildungslandschaft. Das Buch richtet sich an Akteure aus Praxis, Politik und Forschung. Es liefert eine empirische Grundlage dafür, wie künftige Entwicklungen in der Weiterbildung einzuschätzen sind und wie Verantwortliche sie beeinflussen können.

In this highly original study of the nature of performance, Spencer Golub uses the insights of Ludwig Wittgenstein into the way language works to analyze the relationship between the linguistic and the visual in the work of a broad range of dramatists, novelists, and filmmakers, among them Richard Foreman, Mac Wellman, Peter Handke, David Mamet, and Alfred Hitchcock. Like Wittgenstein, these artists are concerned with the limits of language’s representational capacity. For Golub, it is these limits that give Wittgenstein’s thought a further, very personal significance—its therapeutic quality with respect to the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder from which he suffers. Underlying what Golub calls “performance behavior” is Wittgenstein’s notion of “pain behavior”—that which gives public expression to private experience. Golub charts new directions for exploring the relationship between theater and philosophy, and even for scholarly criticism itself.

The aim of this Special Issue is to review, understand, and evaluate new and exciting opportunities from the field on regenerative medicine, biomaterials, and stem cell research for the bioengineering of human liver grafts that can be applied for transplantation and personalized treatment of end-stage liver disease.The development of culture conditions for long-term expansion of LGR5+ intestinal stem cells as crypt-villus structures demonstrated the feasibility of deriving complex, organ-like structures in vitro from primary adult tissues, including the liver. Moreover, human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) can be applied to generate functionally maturated liver and bile duct epithelial cells.In this Special Issue, we welcome reviews and original papers focussing on hepatic cell sources, including adult hepatic stem cells, organoids, fetal and induced pluripotent stem cells, and primary cells (i.e., hepatocytes, cholangiocytes, and endothelial cells) and how these cells can be applied in tissue engineering strategies to generate implantable and personalized liver grafts. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following: liver tissue engineering, liver regeneration, graft repair, liver stem cells and organoids, bio-scaffolds, and 3D printing.We invite you to contribute original research papers, as well as comprehensive reviews, aligned with these themes, to advance and improve the actual state-of-the-art in liver bioengineering and providing new opportunities for the imminent medical problem of organ and tissue shortage for transplantation.

The chapters in this volume focus on the future of law and related disciplines: human rights and access to medical care, corruption and money laundering in state procurement, counterfeit medical products, IPR waiver on COVID-19 vaccines, emergency powers, freedom of expression, prison healthcare, the impact on labour law, access to courts and digital court processes, access to education and the impact on insurance law are but a few possible topics which are addressed.