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This book is a novel and ambitious attempt to map the Muslim American nonprofit sector: its origins, growth and impact on American society. Using theories from the fields of philanthropy, public administration and data gathered from surveys and interviews, the authors make a compelling case for the Muslim American nonprofit sector’s key role in America. They argue that in a time when Islamic schools are grossly misunderstood, there is a need to examine them closely, for the landscape of these schools is far more complex than meets the eye. The authors, who are both scholars of philanthropy, examine how identity impacts philanthropy and also the various forces that have shaped the landscape of Muslim American giving in the US. Using a comparative method of analysis, they showcase how this sector has contributed not only to individual communities but also to the country as a whole. National surveys and historical analysis offer data that is rich in insights and offers a compelling narrative of the sector as a whole through its focus on Islamic schools. The authors also critically examine how nonprofit leaders in the community legitimize their own roles and that of their organizations, and offer a compelling and insightful examination of how Muslim American leaders perceive their own role in institution building. This is a must read for anyone seeking to understand this important and growing sector of American society, including nonprofit leaders in the Muslim community, leaders of Islamic schools, nonprofit leaders with interest in private schools, activists, and scholars who study philanthropy and Islamic education.

Die Sektion und erziehungswissenschaftliche Teildisziplin Erwachsenenbildung blicken auf 50 Jahre ihrer Geschichte zurück. Die Autor*innen ergänzen die bereits gezogene Zwischenbilanz zum 40. Gründungsjubiläum 2011/2012 durch neue Studien mit zusätzlichen Perspektiven. Ein thematischer Fokus liegt dabei auf Erinnerungsgeschichten kollektiver Selbstvergewisserung und Analysen zu disziplin- und sektionsgeschichtlichen Wegweisern. Der Band leistet einen Beitrag zur Förderung eines disziplinären Gedächtnisses und öffnet dieses für gegenwartsbezogene Fragestellungen.

Conceived as a companion volume to his Onomastics of the Song of Roland (2017), Beckmann’s eighteen Collected Essays on Old French Epic Poetry presents a multi-faceted panorama about the origins of the ancient chansons de geste. It includes the chansons of Ogier, Roland, William (Guillaume), Saxon epic poetry, the Pilgrimage of Charlemagne and Berthe with the Big Feet, and Renaut de Montauban.

Video games have entered the cultural mainstream and in terms of economic profits they now rival established entertainment industries such as film or television. As careers in video game development become more common, so do the stories about precarious working conditions and structural inequalities within the industry. Yet, scholars have largely overlooked video game production cultures in favor of studying games themselves and player audiences. In Game Production Studies, an international group of established and emerging researchers takes a closer look at the everyday realities of video game production, ranging from commercial industries to independent creators and cultural intermediaries. Across sixteen chapters, the authors deal with issues related to labour, game development, monetization and publishing, as well as local specificities. As the first edited collection dedicated solely to video game production, this volume provides a timely resource for anyone interested in how games are made and at what costs.

Who is held responsible when EU policies fail? Which blame games resonate in the European public? This book challenges the conventional wisdom that the complexity of EU decision-making eschews clarity of responsibility, thereby rendering European blame games untargeted and diffuse. It is argued that the politicization of EU policies triggers a plausibility assessment of blame attributions in the public domain with the effect that European blame games gravitate towards true responsibilities, targeting those political actors involved in enacting a policy that is subsequently considered a policy failure. The book distinguishes three kinds of European blame games: in scapegoat games, supranational EU institutions are held responsible for a policy failure; renegade games occur when individual member state governments are considered the culprits for a failed policy; when responsibility for a policy failure is shared between EU institutions and member states, diffusion games prevail. The book explores three conditions to explain when each of the three European blame games prevails: the type of policy failure, the type of policy making, and the type of policy implementation. To empirically probe these conditions, the book studies the blame games in ten instances of EU policy failures, including EU foreign policy, environmental policy, fiscal stabilization and migration policy.

This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book addresses how organizations can deal with human fallibility in order to create space for excellence at work. Some mistakes in work settings put lives at risk, while others create openings for innovative breakthroughs. In order to deal constructively with fallibility, an organization needs a communication climate where it is normal to voice opinions, admit mistakes, and ask for help in critical situations. The book builds on interviews with practitioners in healthcare, aviation, IT, public governance, and industry. It connects narratives from these fields with theories from organizational psychology and philosophy, as well as from positive organizational scholarship. In the final chapter, an overall ethics of fallibility at work is outlined. Fallibility at Work contributes to research in multiple academic disciplines, but also reaches out to practitioners who are interested in the connections between error and excellence in organizations. ; Provides a systematic account of what the phenomenon of fallibility amounts to, why it matters, why it turns out to be difficult to cope with, and finally how we may deal with it in constructive ways Highlights the relational aspects of organizational behaviour, with theoretical input from the three disciplines of philosophy, psychology and pedagogy Explores how the challenges posed by fallibility change when emphasis moves from heroic to distributed leadership, and from vertical to horizontal leadership Open Access

Que mangent les enfants à l'école ? Quelle place occupe la cantine ? Que se passe-t-il pendant la récréation ? Comment les enseignants transmettent-ils des savoirs nutritionnels ? Quel rôle jouent les industriels de l'agroalimentaire dans l'alimentation scolaire des enfants ? Qu'en disent les médias ? Autant de questions auxquelles ce Iivre apporte des réponses précises issues de plusieurs enquêtes en sociologie et sciences de l'information et de la communication dans différents établissements scolaires. Les auteurs montrent comment se fabrique au sein de l'école l'idée, portée par les pouvoirs publics, de « se nourrir bien ». Ils interrogent les professionnels de l'école (cuisiniers, enseignants, animateurs, directeurs), les enfants, les parents, ainsi que les promoteurs des politiques publiques nutritionnelles (état, collectivités locales, médias). Ce livre jette un regard neuf sur une question sociale centrale l'alimentation des enfants. Outre l'étude des discours médiatiques, communicationnels, éducatifs, il regarde ce qui se joue en cuisine, à la cantine, en classe, pendant les goûters ou la récréation. Il montre que si une politique publique nutritionnelle à destination des enfants à vocation à leur apprendre à « bien manger », cela ne va pas de soi. Elle dépend des contextes d'interactions à l'école, selon les différentes scènes sociales (cantine, salle de classe, cour de récréation), des appartenances sociales, ou des dynamiques entre école et parents.

Personalized medicine represents a notable advance in medical practice, as it allows treatments to be adapted to the genetic and phenotypic characteristics of patients. This approach is particularly consolidated in oncology, where it has revolutionized clinical practice. Personalizing treatment based on patient and tumor characteristics offers significant benefits, including greater clinical benefits, a different toxicity profile compared to conventional treatments, and a reduction in the risk of therapeutic failure. The adoption of personalized oncology drugs, based on the identification of genetic and molecular biomarkers, marks a crucial turning point. Innovative technologies such as Next Generation Sequencing allow extensive tumor profiling with a single test, improving the effectiveness of treatment, reducing side effects and prolonging survival. However, this approach involves high costs, not only for drugs but also for genomic profiling. It is necessary to evaluate the economic impact of personalized medicine, considering the relationship between costs and benefits for the patient and the overall sustainability for the healthcare system. Cost-effectiveness and budget impact analyzes play a key role in ensuring that additional costs are justified by the clinical benefits. A relevant example is immunotherapy with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors, used for various types of cancer. These drugs, which bind specific targets, are potentially useful in profiling cancer patients and tumors, but involve high costs.

In the second half of the twentieth century, life expectancy was prolonged, and the number of elderly people increased. The effect of population aging increases in the frequency of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, epilepsy, and stroke. Also, a higher incidence of infections, autoimmune diseases, and malignant cancers is observed in elderly people. The aging process is difficult to define. Are physiological changes in elderly people controlled by specific genes? Is aging process a pathophysiology affecting different organs with different severity? Finding answers to these questions may help prevent age-related diseases and improve the quality of life of old people. This book was made as a compendium on contemporary challenges in senescence.

Depois de um mítico encontro no Tejo com vários internacionalistas espanhóis, em 1872 José Fontana e Antero de Quental estiveram envolvidos na fundação de uma federação de associações de resistência que organizaram o primeiro surto grevista em Portugal - a então designada Associação Fraternidade Operária. Este livro nasceu da necessidade de fazer um balanço historiográfico pelos 150 anos da criação deste movimento e de retomar a nível historiográfico as sinergias ibéricas que estiveram presentes nos movimentos operários e populares do século XIX. Ele é o resultado de três encontros promovidos através de uma parceria entre o Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST), a Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, a Câmara Municipal de Vila Nova de Famalicão e a Câmara Municipal de Lagoa, no quadro do Programa de História na Esfera Pública do IHC.

The volume collects 27 papers written between 2003 and 2022, which have appeared in different publications (such as Proceedings of International Conferences, Collections in Honor of several scholars, and journals of classical philology). All have been revised and updated, and the bibliography has been unified. Eighteen are in Italian, while five are in English, three in Spanish, and one in French, since they were originally presented at conferences abroad. They deal especially with the dialogue Bruta animalia ratione uti, the Quaestiones convivales, Plutarch’s quotations from Menander and Euripides, his Lives of Romulus and Theseus, the Consolation to his Wife, and the Erotikós. Different interpretative problems, as well as several textual questions, are tackled. Finally, several significant clarifications about Plutarch’s family, mainly concerning his children, wife, and in-laws, are attained.

A profoundly original historical inquiry, this work offers a critical reflection on the silences of the past and the remembrance of the Holocaust. During World War II, even though Bulgaria was an ally of the Third Reich, it never deported its Jewish community. Until recently, this image of Bulgaria as a European exception has prevailed—but at a cost. For it ignored the roundup of almost all the Jews living in the Yugoslav and Greek territories under Bulgarian occupation between 1941 and 1944, who were in fact deported to Poland, where they were murdered. In this new English translation of her work originally published in French, Nadège Ragaru presents a riveting, wide-ranging archival investigation encompassing 80 years and six countries (Bulgaria, Germany, the United States, Israel, North Macedonia and Serbia), in doing so exploring the origins and perpetuation of this heroic narrative of Bulgaria's past. Moving between legal and political spheres, from artistic creations to museum exhibits, from the writing of history to transnational public controversies, she shows how the Holocaust north of the Danube became a "rescue" to the river's south. She traces how individual merits were turned into "national" achievements, while blame for the deportations was planted squarely on Nazi Germany. And she illuminates how discussions on the Holocaust in Bulgaria were held hostage to Cold War dynamics before 1989, only to yield to political and memorial struggles afterwards. Ultimately, she restores Jewish voices to the story of their own wartime suffering. On publication this book is available as an Open Access eBook under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND.

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a promising non-invasive non-contact 3D imaging technique that can be used to evaluate and inspect material surfaces, multilayer polymer films, fiber coils, and coatings. OCT can be used for the examination of cultural heritage objects and 3D imaging of microstructures. With subsurface 3D fingerprint imaging capability, OCT could be a valuable tool for enhancing security in biometric applications. OCT can also be used for the evaluation of fastener flushness for improving aerodynamic performance of high-speed aircraft. More and more OCT non-medical applications are emerging. In this book, we present some recent advancements in OCT technology and non-medical applications.

Estuaries are regarded among the most ecologically threatened ecosystems worldwide largely due to poor land use practices within their catchment areas, freshwater abstraction, coastal development, and resource exploitation. Moreover, these systems act as repositories for various anthropogenic contaminants. The establishment and successful implementation of conservation and management strategies are critically dependent on understanding the links among physicochemical, hydrological, and biological variables within these systems. The book provides a comprehensive overview of selected topics including modeling of water exchange between estuaries and the ocean, sediment geochemistry and mangrove health, climate variability and hydrology, and pesticides in estuaries and ecosystem functioning for various estuaries including permanently open, mangrove, and intermittently open/closed systems in both the northern and the southern hemispheres.