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Au-delà de son ontologie, la maternité se vit différemment selon le temps, l’espace et les cultures ; en témoignent les représentations variées qui traversent la littérature, l’histoire ou les documents audiovisuels. Si elle relève d’un fait biologique qui engage le corps des femmes, la maternité renvoie également à des discours et à des données culturelles, car elle est aussi socialement construite. L’interroger amène à questionner des notions qui lui sont liées : les relations mère-enfant, « l’instinct maternel », et, la parentalité. Cet ouvrage, à travers les travaux interdisciplinaires de chercheuses et de chercheurs, critiques, philosophes et médecins, explore la maternité sous des perspectives complémentaires, avec pour ambition de dégager les discours qui l’entourent.

Given their potentially positive impact on climate protection and the preservation of fossil resources, alternative energy sources have become increasingly important for the energy supply over the past years. However, the questions arises what economic and ecological impacts and potential conflicts over land use resources are associated with the promotion of renewable energy production. Using the examples of three selected European Regions in Poland, France and German, the dissertation discusses these questions and examines the potential and consequences of an intensified usage of renewable energy sources.

Los estudios que se incluyen en este libro están dirigidos a investigadores de la comunicación, a los interesados en el uso de la lengua de los medios, y a quienes trabajan en esos espacios y difunden el español en los niveles local, nacional e internacional. Los artículos también pueden resultar interesantes para los comentaristas o los actores, e incluso para quienes toman decisiones en relación con el uso del idioma en esos ámbitos de comunicación tan importantes. Los artículos seguramente permitirán a los lectores reflexionar sobre el español que transmiten los medios, y sobre su unidad y diversidad. Ese es, precisamente, el propósito de la obra.

Infrastructure and its effects on economic growth, social welfare, and sustainability receive a great deal of attention today. There is widespread agreement that infrastructure is a key dimension of global development and that its impact reaches deep into the broader economy with important and multifaceted implications for social progress. At the same time, infrastructure finance is among the most complex and challenging areas in the global financial architecture. Ingo Walter, Professor Emeritus of Finance, Corporate Governance and Ethics at the Stern School of Business, New York University, and his team of experts tackle the issue by focussing on key findings backed by serious theoretical and empirical research. The result is a set of viable guideposts for researchers, policy-makers, students and anybody interested in the varied challenges of the contemporary economy.

Estudio abordado por los autores, cuyos ejes se centran por un lado sobre, las transformaciones que han afectado a la cuenca de Zacapu desde la llegada de los primeros españoles hasta la Reforma Agraria, enfatizando en la formación y el breve florecimiento de la hacienda de Cantabria, las luchas agrarias y la transformación del medio; y por otro lado, también se integra el estudio sobre los paisajes rurales contemporáneos y el espacio agropecuario de tres comunidades con tendencia al ""abandon...

Currently strain engineering is the main technique used to enhance the performance of advanced silicon-based metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs). Written from an engineering application standpoint, Strain-Engineered MOSFETs introduces promising strain techniques to fabricate strain-engineered MOSFETs and to methods to assess the applications of these techniques. The book provides the background and physical insight needed to understand new and future developments in the modeling and design of n- and p-MOSFETs at nanoscale. This book focuses on recent developments in strain-engineered MOSFETS implemented in high-mobility substrates such as, Ge, SiGe, strained-Si, ultrathin germanium-on-insulator platforms, combined with high-k insulators and metal-gate. It covers the materials aspects, principles, and design of advanced devices, fabrication, and applications. It also presents a full technology computer aided design (TCAD) methodology for strain-engineering in Si-CMOS technology involving data flow from process simulation to process variability simulation via device simulation and generation of SPICE process compact models for manufacturing for yield optimization. Microelectronics fabrication is facing serious challenges due to the introduction of new materials in manufacturing and fundamental limitations of nanoscale devices that result in increasing unpredictability in the characteristics of the devices. The down scaling of CMOS technologies has brought about the increased variability of key parameters affecting the performance of integrated circuits. This book provides a single text that combines coverage of the strain-engineered MOSFETS and their modeling using TCAD, making it a tool for process technology development and the design of strain-engineered MOSFETs.

The paper analyses the issue of the development of lexical competence in Italian as L2 learners. The notion of lexicon is considered from three different points of view: the point of view of the speaker/learner, the point of view of the researcher interested in language issues and the point of view of the foreign language teacher. The question of what to intend and how to manage the lexicon within a second language courses is an apparently trivial one that might be solved with a simple: "teaching Italian words"; while, it is one of the most rich of theoretical implications and methodological choices. This contribution aims at investigating the complex relationship between teaching language and lexicon, providing also a small list of instructions on how to teach the words of a new language for teachers of Italian language as L2.

Este livro analisa os dados do levantamento que realizamos durante os anos 2003-2004 sobre as mudanças na composição socioprofissional na Câmara dos Deputados decorrentes das eleições de 1998 e de 2002. Como resultado dessas disputas, houve importante alteração no quadro político brasileiro. [...]

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

Cities, Monuments and Objects in the Roman and Byzantine Levant celebrates Gabriel Mazor and his lifetime of work at the monumental city of Nysa-Scythopolis, Bet Sheʼan Baysān. This metropolis, part of the storied Decapolis, or league of ten cities, that flourished during the Hellenistic, Roman-Byzantine and very early Islamic periods until the devastating earthquake of AD 748, has been the singular focus of Gabi Mazor for a generation. The excavations, conservation and reconstruction at the site, and the detailed publications all are deserving of praise and appreciation.Chapters by leading archaeologists in Israel and the Levant explore themes and sites, in most cases by the chief archaeologists themselves, providing the latest information and insights about cities and villages from the Hellenistic to early Islamic periods across the region. This rare assemblage of scholars offers new material and interpretations of many of the key archaeological sites active today. The result is a rich trove of up-to-date data and insights that will be a must read for scholars and students active in this part of the ancient Mediterranean world.

The object-based stochastic approach in facies modelling is important in the construction of geologically consistent 3-D reservoir models and in constraining the distribution of petrophysical properties. Tortuosity factor, facies, porosity and cementation factor constitute major uncertainties in the generated 3-D static model of the Niger Delta Basin. Reservoir quality in the Dahomey Basin is mainly controlled by detrital matrix, carbonate cement, and iron oxide and iron oxyhydroxide cements.

Les pouvoirs, qu’ils soient politiques ou religieux, sont traditionnellement méfiants à l’égard du théâtre. Comment, pendant le presque demi-siècle (1926-1974) qu’a duré la dictature portugaise, cet art, qui puise son énergie dans le corps de l’acteur et le regard du spectateur, a-t-il alors survécu ? À la lumière de mémoires d’artistes, d’archives de metteurs en scène, d’articles de presse, Graça Dos Santos étudie la vie théâtrale et plus largement artistique sous le régime de Salazar. Sur fond des autres variantes européennes de dictature, elle analyse les particularités et l’évolution de la politique théâtrale du régime, qui préfère l’esquive à l’affrontement, la discrétion au bruit, la prévention à la répression. Partisan d’un art « façade de la Nation » qui maquille la réalité – concrétisé dans le Teatro do Povo, pâle copie du Théâtre du Peuple (Bussang) –, Salazar met en scène l’État nouveau, avec la complicité d’António Ferro, chargé de la Propagande. Malgré une oppressante surveillance, le théâtre évoluera de la soumis­sion à la résistance, grâce au théâtre d’amateur et au théâtre universitaire, qui seront à l’origine du Théâtre indépendant annonciateur de la révolution des Œillets. Au fil des chapitres, l’auteur reconstruit le difficile parcours des divers protagonistes qui permirent que la rencontre entre la scène et la salle puisse se perpétuer. L’accent porté sur la législation théâtrale et la censure, les services de propagande, les conditions de vie des « gens du spectacle » souligne les mérites de ceux qui surent braver les interdictions. L’évolution multiforme de la pratique théâtrale sera un signe avant-coureur de la nécessaire démocratisation d’un pays qu’on avait voulu figer. Porteur de la double culture et de la double expérience de son auteur, ce livre ajoute un nouvel épisode à l’histoire du théâtre européen du XXe siècle.

This reprint contains 15 papers published in the Special Issue entitled "Mechanical Behavior of Concrete Materials and Structures: Experimental Evidence and Analytical Models”. Dealing with the broad spectrum of the mechanical behavior of concrete materials and structures, the reprint includes experimental findings and numerical analyses using both conventional and advanced methodologies. This book presents contributions in the field of not only ordinary and prestressed concretes, but also special concretes, including high-strength, recycled, and fiber-reinforced concretes, for both structural and non-structural applications, and for the development of related numerical/analytical predictive models.

This open access book examines the formation and sustainability of private credit networks in past societies, gathering a global range of case studies from Europe and the Americas. The book represents a fi rst attempt to coordinate the work of different scholars working on credit networks and aims to explore the possibilities offered by social network analysis for the study of past fi nancial markets and networks. Each contribution offers new perspectives for the comprehension of past fi nancial networks, with a broad chronological and geographical scope. The chapters are arranged thematically and study both rural and urban networks, each employing a network perspective to facilitate an increased understanding of the relational dynamics of preindustrial credit transactions. This book models the various ways that SNA can be utilized by economic and fi nancial historians, as well as discusses its limitations and ways in which it can be combined with qualitative archival research. The book is of interest to a broad audience of scholars in the fi elds of economic, fi nancial and social history.

Twenty-one writers answer the call for literature that addresses who we are by understanding where we are--where, for each of them, being in some way part of academia. In personal essays, they imaginatively delineate and engage the diverse, occasionally unexpected play of place in shaping them, writers and teachers in varied environments, with unique experiences and distinctive world views, and reconfiguring for them conjunctions of identity and setting, here, there, everywhere, and in between.