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The Juvenile Justice Crime Prevention Act funds programs that have been proven effective in curbing crime among juvenile probationers and young at-risk offenders. This report summarizes, for fiscal year 2010–2011, Corrections Standards Authority–mandated outcome measures from each of the programs, as well as county-determined supplemental outcomes.

Environmental disasters, unequal distribution of resources, viral pandemics, and other types of trans-national disasters, are global crises that cannot be solved within the narrow framework of individual nation-states. They must be addressed through global cooperation and solidarity. Such strategies require intercultural dialog that goes beyond fashionable slogans and can lead to a truly equal exchange of knowledge and ideas. Towards this endeavour, this book by Jana S. Rošker focuses on the traditional Confucian ethic of relationism, which historically spread throughout many regions of East Asia. She examines the specific features of relational ethics and explores its possible contribution to the new global ethics.

An analysis of the political use of the Internet by Chinese dissidents, both in the PRC and abroad, and the counterstrategies that Beijing has employed to prevent or minimize its impact. Although PRC officials have responded to the increased use of the Internet with predominantly traditional measures, they have been relatively successful. No credible challenges to the regime exist at present, despite the introduction of a massive modern telecommunications infrastructure. However, time may be on the side of the regime's opponents.

Image processing combines the disciplines of cameras – image-based sensors – with the processing of the sensor data – the images. From this follows the particular attraction of this field. The conference proceedings at hand of the “Image Processing Forum”, which took place on 21.-22.11.2024 in Karlsruhe as a common event of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation, contain the articles of the contributions.

As Guest Editor, I have the pleasure of sharing a Special Issue of Cancers entitled “Novel Biomarkers in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)”. This collection includes 10 original articles written by internationally recognized experts in this field. Recent progress in molecular characterization, in addition to a better understanding of the tumor immune context, has been dramatically changing the course of NSCLC patient care. At the same time, the advent of targeted therapies and immunotherapies has been driven by the expanding number of biomarkers that help predict sensitivity to these novel agents. In fact, identifying patients that are most likely to benefit from targeted therapy or immunotherapy is essential in order to optimize treatment outcomes while minimizing the risks of overtreatment or undertreatment. For these reasons, currently, all patients with advanced NSCLC require not only accurate staging but also comprehensive molecular profiling, including an assessment of several biomarkers. This Special Issue offers an overview concerning the latest advancements in NSCLC biomarker research, with a focus on technologies that are needed for their detection and use in clinical practice.

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This book includes an editorial and 12 research papers on micromixers collected from the Special Issue published in Micromachines. The topics of the papers are focused on the design of micromixers, their fabrication, and their analysis. Some of them proposed novel micromixer designs. Most of them deal with passive micromixers, but two papers report studies on electrokinetic micromixers. Fully three-dimensional (3D) micromixers were investigated in some cases. One of the papers applied optimization techniques to the design of a 3D micromixer. A review paper is also included and reports a review of recently developed passive micromixers and a comparative analysis of 10 typical micromixers.

Este proceso editorial es el resultado del proyecto Consumo de medios de comunicación y TIC, valoración social de lo indígena y derecho a la comunicación de los pueblos embera chamí del Valle del Cauca, financiado por la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, y Contested Territiories, una red internacional e intersectorial de organizaciones de Europa y América Latina unidas en un programa conjunto de investigación que se orienta a la generación de conocimiento conceptual y empírico sobre las desigualdades territoriales.Este e-book de acceso abierto, tiene como propósito analizar los procesos de consumo de medios y tecnologías de comunicación en el ámbito de la valoración social de lo indígena en comunidades embera chamí que habitan los resguardos wasiruma (Vijes), niaza nacequia (Restrepo) y navera drua (Darién), ubicados en la subregión centro del departamento del Valle del Cauca.This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 873082.Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

Our Special Issue reprint highlights the latest advancements in water safety and public health. This curated collection of articles delves into the critical challenges and innovative solutions associated with detecting and managing pathogens in wastewater systems worldwide. Featuring contributions from leading experts in the field, this reprint provides comprehensive insights into the mechanisms of pathogen survival, novel detection methodologies and applications in wastewater-based epidemiology. Perfect for researchers, environmentalists, policymakers and practitioners, this Special Issue offers valuable knowledge to enhance the fight against waterborne diseases and promote sustainable water management practices.

This chapter takes an interdisciplinary approach to the subject of memorialization and commemoration, protest and populism in relation to the performative enacting and official presentation of difficult history. It analyzes the various actors instrumentalizing the same dark heritage in different ways, by different means, and for different purposes, to draw conclusions about processes of coming to terms with the past ( Vergangenheitsbewältigung ) in relation to the contemporary context of populism and migration.

Written in the thirteenth century, the Icelandic prose sagas, chronicling the lives of kings and commoners, give a dramatic account of the first century after the settlement of Iceland—the period from about 930 to 1050. To some extent these elaborate tales are written versions of traditional sagas passed down by word of mouth. How did they become the long and polished literary works that are still read today?The evolution of the written sagas is commonly regarded as an anomalous phenomenon, distinct from contemporary developments in European literature. In this groundbreaking study, Carol J. Clover challenges this view and relates the rise of imaginative prose in Iceland directly to the rise of imaginative prose on the Continent. Analyzing the narrative structure and composition of the sagas and comparing them with other medieval works, Clover shows that the Icelandic authors, using Continental models, owe the prose form of their writings, as well as some basic narrative strategies, to Latin historiography and to French romance.Written in the thirteenth century, the Icelandic prose sagas, chronicling the lives of kings and commoners, give a dramatic account of the first century after the settlement of Iceland—the period from about 930 to 1050. To some extent these elaborate tales are written versions of traditional sagas passed down by word of mouth. How did they become the long and polished literary works that are still read today?The evolution of the written sagas is commonly regarded as an anomalous phenomenon, distinct from contemporary developments in European literature. In this groundbreaking study, Carol J. Clover challenges this view and relates the rise of imaginative prose in Iceland directly to the rise of imaginative prose on the Continent. Analyzing the narrative structure and composition of the sagas and comparing them with other medieval works, Clover shows that the Icelandic authors, using Continental models, owe the prose form of their writings, as well as some basic narrative strategies, to Latin historiography and to French romance.

Standardisation is not a natural form of language change. The aim of such efforts is usually to create a largely uniform standard, often backed by a strong standard language ideology. However, standard languages are sometimes Janus-faced. Additional standard varieties emerge, leading to situations with «double standards» or even «multiple standards». This volume brings together fifteen contributions on «double standards» in twelve languages – and various standard varieties thereof – from three language families, thus providing a novel comparative view on standardisation. Three main aspects of the «double standards» concept are identified: the descriptive vs prescriptive notion of standards, the coexistence of standard varieties in pluricentric or pluriareal settings, and the impact of the cohabitation of several standards in native or foreign language teaching.

A must-have resource, Critical Participatory Action Research in Higher Education brings together real examples, case studies, and learning materials to guide the use of critical action research methodologies. This timely book catalogues efforts to affect change in our own communities, and invites readers to consider how action research has been conducted in U.S. colleges and universities by minoritized and marginalized scholars. In particular, it highlights those projects that have been led by Scholars of Color, queer scholars, disabled scholars, and other racially minoritized scholars, with an explicit aim to raise up and attend to the needs of our communities. An important text for education graduate programs, this book provides a roadmap for community-engaged work, includes framing theory to help new researchers apply this work to college and university settings, and provides rich features such as cases and sample datasets and other tools for use in Research courses. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

What may be done when a person is dying? Accompany and thus give comfort - but how? The contributions of this interdisciplinary volume give professional or individual advice to people confronted with death on how to support dying people in their last days and hours. In this way they lead to a holistic palliative and terminal care.

Die berufliche Positionierung der angehenden Germanist(inn)en auf dem gegenwärtigen Arbeitsmarkt ist mittlerweile Gegenstand zahlreicher Diskussionspanels, Tagungen und Beiträge. Im Mittelpunkt der Debatte steht zum einen die Frage nach aktueller gesellschaftlicher Relevanz der Germanistik und nach deren möglicher inhaltlicher Ausrichtung auf andere als traditionell bewährte Fächer (Literatur oder Sprachwissenschaft), z. B. Fachkommunikation, Fachsprachenunterricht, Fachdolmetschen bzw. -übersetzen. Zum anderen kommt es dabei auf die Frage nach Kompetenzorientierung der Germanistikabsolvent(inn)en an. Gemeint sind hier Sprach- und Fachkompetenzen sowie die gegenwärtig gefragten Schlüsselkompetenzen, wie etwa die interkulturelle oder die rhetorische.