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Faced with the challenges of competitiveness, price formation and value sharing, contractualisation is the subject of recurrent debate. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the uses and impacts of contracts for trading goods in the agricultural, forestry or fishery sectors in France. It aims to shed light on a major issue: why do value chain operators use different ways for trading goods in a market economy? For even market, being auction or over-the-counter markets, trade is based on a variety of more or less formal contractual arrangements, which help to regulate production and manage the risks specific to these sectors. The first stage marketing of agricultural, forestry or fishery goods is based on a complex web of contractual relationships that bind operators with various degrees in value chains. These contracts evolve with practices, economic expectations and societal concerns, in a legal and cultural environment that is constantly changing. They reflect multiple rationales, interweaving economic aims, public regulations and social dynamics. This book combines insights from the fields of law, economics and social sciences to provide a comprehensive understanding of the contractualisation process. A range of analytical approaches and case studies are employed to provide a thorough overview of the realities of contractualisation in the French agricultural, forestry and fisheries sectors. This book is intended for a wide range of readers, including students, teachers, researchers, producers, professional organisations, industry, trade unions, legislators and public policy makers.

This open access textbook, like Rayleigh’s classic Theory of Sound, focuses on experiments and on approximation techniques rather than mathematical rigor. The second edition has benefited from comments and corrections provided by many acousticians, in particular those who have used the first edition in undergraduate and graduate courses. For example, phasor notation has been added to clearly distinguish complex variables, and there is a new section on radiation from an unbaffled piston. Drawing on over 40 years of teaching experience at UCLA, the Naval Postgraduate School, and Penn State, the author presents a uniform methodology, based on hydrodynamic fundamentals for analysis of lumped-element systems and wave propagation that can accommodate dissipative mechanisms and geometrically-complex media. Five chapters on vibration and elastic waves highlight modern applications, including viscoelasticity and resonance techniques for measurement of elastic moduli, while introducing analytical techniques and approximation strategies that are revisited in nine subsequent chapters describing all aspects of generation, transmission, scattering, and reception of waves in fluids. Problems integrate multiple concepts, and several include experimental data to provide experience in choosing optimal strategies for extraction of experimental results and their uncertainties. Fundamental physical principles that do not ordinarily appear in other acoustics textbooks, like adiabatic invariance, similitude, the Kramers-Kronig relations, and the equipartition theorem, are shown to provide independent tests of results obtained from numerical solutions, commercial software, and simulations. Thanks to the Veneklasen Research Foundation, this popular textbook is now open access, making the e-book available for free download worldwide. Provides graduate-level treatment of acoustics and vibration suitable for use in courses, for self-study, and as a reference Highlights fundamental physical principles that can provide independent tests of the validity of numerical solutions, commercial software, and computer simulations Demonstrates approximation techniques that greatly simplify the mathematics without a substantial decrease in accuracy Incorporates a hydrodynamic approach to the acoustics of sound in fluids that provides a uniform methodology for analysis of lumped-element systems and wave propagation Emphasizes actual applications as examples of topics explained in the text Includes realistic end-of-chapter problems, some including experimental data, as well as a Solutions Manual for instructors. Features “Talk Like an Acoustician“ boxes to highlight key terms introduced in the text.

In 1954 Dame Enid Lyons, the first woman elected to the Australian House of Representatives, argued that radio had 'created a bigger revolution in the life of a woman than anything that has happened any time' as it brought the public sphere into the home and women into the public sphere. Taking this claim as its starting point, Sound Citizens examines how a cohort of professional women broadcasters, activists and politicians used radio to contribute to the public sphere and improve women’s status in Australia from the introduction of radio in 1923 until the introduction of television in 1956. This book reveals a much broader and more complex history of women’s contributions to Australian broadcasting than has been previously acknowledged. Using a rich archive of radio magazines, station archives, scripts, personal papers and surviving recordings, Sound Citizenstraces how women broadcasters used radio as a tool for their advocacy; radio’s significance to the history of women’s advancement; and how broadcasting was used in the development of women’s citizenship in Australia. It argues that women broadcasters saw radio as a medium that had the potential to transform women’s lives and status in society, and that they worked to both claim their own voices in the public sphere and to encourage other women to become active citizens. Radio provided a platform for women to contribute to public discourse and normalised the presence of women’s voices in the public sphere, both literally and figuratively.

Pits and Boots derives from excavations carried out in 2007-8, in advance of an extension to the Bon Accord Centre in Aberdeen, that uncovered the backlands of an area that would have formed part of the industrial quarter of the medieval town. The site is well-dated by dendrochronology, augmented by artefactual evidence, and indicates activity from the late 12th century AD into the early modern period, with a particularly intensive period in the 13th century. Structural evidence consists primarily of the backland boundaries, hearth/ovens, several wood-lined wells and many large pits. It is the contents of these pits and wells which forms the core of this monograph. The waterlogged conditions within the pits and wells has meant that a remarkable assemblage of organic remains including leather, wooden artefacts, textiles, animal pelts, fibres, and cordage has survived. The leather assemblage is the largest ever to be found in Scotland and has revealed a range of activities associated with the use of animal hides, from hide processing to tanning and shoemaking. The wood assemblage is also extensive and includes bowls, platters, coopered vessels and tools. Metalwork, crucibles, clay mould fragments and ceramics all testify to the industrial nature of the area, while the large quantities of animal and fishbone demonstrate that butchery on an industrial scale took place in the area. The excavation charts the changing nature of this once-peripheral area of Aberdeen, from an industrial zone in the medieval period, to horticultural and domestic spaces in post-medieval times, and has thus greatly enhanced our knowledge of Scottish urban development.

This volume, LNAI 13385, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning, IJCAR 2022, held in Haifa, Israel, in August 2022. The 32 full research papers and 9 short papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. The papers focus on the following topics: Satisfiability, SMT Solving,Arithmetic; Calculi and Orderings; Knowledge Representation and Jutsification; Choices, Invariance, Substitutions and Formalization; Modal Logics; Proofs System and Proofs Search; Evolution, Termination and Decision Prolems. This is an open access book.

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art explores the links between literature and visual art from classical ekphrasis through to contemporary experimental forms. The collection’s engagement with diverse literary and cultural artifacts offers a comprehensive survey of the vibrant interrelationships that currently inform literary studies and the arts. Featuring four sections, the first part provides an overview of theoretical approaches to art and literature from philosophy and aesthetics through to cognitive neuroscience. Part two examines one of the most important intersections between text and image: the workings of ekphrasis across poetry, fiction, drama, comics, life and travel writing, and architectural treatises. Parts three and four consider intermedial crossings from antiquity to the present. The contributors examine the rich intermedial experiments that range from manuscript studies to infographics in graphic narratives, illuminating the vibrant ways in which texts have intersected with illustration, music, dance, architecture, painting, photography, media installations, and television. Throughout this dynamic collection of 37 chapters, the contributors evolve existing critical debates in innovative new directions. The volume will be a critical resource for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as specialist scholars working in literary studies, philosophy of art, text and image studies, and visual culture. The Introduction and Chapters 10, 14 and 37 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at "http://www.taylorfrancis.com" http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

In allen Herstellungsschritten eines Produktes entstehen unvermeidliche, allgegenwärtige Abweichungen, die die Qualität und Funktion in entscheidendem Maße beeinflussen. Diese gilt es über den gesamten Produktlebenszyklus hinweg zu berücksichtigen, angefangen von den ersten Ideen und der Auswahl des Produktkonzepts, über die Herstellung und Montage bis hin zur Nutzung. Das Toleranzmanagement beschäftigt sich mit genau dieser Aufgabe und ist daher ein wichtiger Bestandteil in der Produktentwicklung. Das Toleranzmanagement stellt mit seinen unterschiedlichen Facetten seit knapp 35 Jahren einen zentralen Pfeiler der Forschungs- und Lehrtätigkeiten des Lehrstuhls für Konstruktionstechnik (KTmfk) dar. Neben der aktiv betriebenen Forschung pflegt der KTmfk zudem die nationalen und internationalen Kooperationen mit Universitäten und Unternehmen. In zahlreichen unterschiedlichen Lehrveranstaltungen werden zudem die verschiedenen Aspekte des Toleranzmanagements unterrichtet. Die erste Summer School Toleranzmanagement wurde im Jahr 2013 ins Leben gerufen, motiviert durch den intensiven Austausch mit Vertretenden der Industrie, die eine stärkere Präsenz des Themas „Toleranzen“ in Lehre und Forschung an deutschen Hochschulen wünschten. Wie auch in den vergangenen Ausgaben der Summer School Toleranzmanagement liegt der Fokus der Veranstaltung darauf, den Nachwuchs für das Toleranzmanagement zu begeistern, die direkte und offene Kommunikation zu fördern und neue Kontakte zu knüpfen. Wie in den vergangenen Ausgaben erhalten die Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer erneut die Gelegenheit, die vielfältigen Problemstellungen des Toleranzmanagements kennenzulernen und Einblicke in unterschiedliche Vorgehensweisen aus Theorie und Praxis zu gewinnen. Der Sammelband beinhaltet die im Rahmen der Veranstaltung präsentierten, verschriftlichten Beiträge aus Industrie und Forschung mit dem diesjährigen Fokus auf „Digitalisierung und künstliche Intelligenz im Toleranzmanagement“.

Das "Kindeswohl" wird als allgemeines Orientierungsmuster aus verschiedenen Disziplinen heraus diskutiert und im Hinblick auf die Förderung einer "Kultur des Hinsehens" in Institutionen nutzbar gemacht. In Zusammenarbeit von Wissenschaft und pädagogischer Praxis wurde ein praxisnahes Handbuch erstellt. Fragen zum Kindeswohl und zum Kinderschutz sind aktuell Gegenstand intensiver Kontroversen. Einigkeit besteht darin, dass in Institutionen zur Wahrung des Kindeswohls Voraussetzungen bestehen müssen, die Missbrauch von Kindern in jedem Fall verhindern. Oftmals erschwert Schweigen über Missbrauch die Gewährleistung des Kindeswohls. Aus diesem Grund diskutieren die Autorinnen und Autoren interdisziplinär pädagogische, strukturelle und organisatorische Aspekte, die eine »Kultur des Hinsehens« fördern. Durch die Zusammenarbeit mit Fachkräften aus Wissenschaft und Praxis ist so ein Handbuch entstanden, das zur Schaffung einer solchen Kultur anleiten möchte.

Die „Historisch-Politischen Mitteilungen“ der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung sind ein Forum für Forschungen und Darstellungen zur Geschichte christlich-demokratischer Bewegungen und Parteien in Deutschland und Europa. In Band 31 beleuchtet Hanns Jürgen Küsters die Entstehung der Sonderedition „Deutsche Einheit“ aus den Akten des Bundeskanzleramts 1989/90. Oliver Salten untersucht den Landtagswahlkampf der CDU Hessen im Jahr 1970, während Jan Schönfelder den „Fall Schnur“ aus dem Jahr 1990 in den Blick nimmt. Andreas Grau beschäftigt sich mit der Union und der Kunst am Beispiel der Reichstagsverhüllung von Christo. Der Streit um die streitbare Demokratie und den Verfassungsschutz ist Thema des Beitrags von Eckhard Jesse. Zum Verhältnis der Union zum Amt des Bundespräsidenten enthält der Band Beiträge von Philip Rosin, Andreas Grau und Michael Borchard.

This book begins with a simple observation: none of South Africa’s presidents since Nelson Mandela have held any ministerial portfolios. This is in contrast to the nine men who ruled the country during its Union and Apartheid eras (1910-1994), from Louis Botha to F.W. de Klerk. They had all had previously served in cabinet, in as many as 6 portfolios each, sometimes with more than one ministry under their control. Crucially, many often took up ministerial positions during their own premierships and presidencies, thereby leading from the front. This is the key difference in state performance between the pre-democratic and democratic periods, the book argues. It explains the shortcomings of the post-1994 order, despite the evident potential, legitimacy and aspirations attached to it. In this book, Ndzendze systematically argues and empirically demonstrates that the only method to close this gap is by (re)initiating double roles for sitting presidents in all future administrations: those who head the cabinet should be both ministers and presidents at the same time. This would be constitutional, feasible and guarantee transparency towards presidential performance. Bhaso Ndzendze is Associate Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Johannesburg. He is also Vice-Dean in the Faculty of Humanities, and was previously Head of Department for Politics and International Relations at the same institution. His NRF-rated research focus area is sovereignty, and has seen scientific publications on executive power, territorial disputes, interstate wars, military technology and international trade. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of the Witwatersrand and a postgraduate diploma in Law from the University of Johannesburg. Ndzendze is also a member of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution and has a regular column in the Daily Maverick.

The compendium collects the basic themes of biology in a very simplified form, ideally following the programmatic criteria of secondary school. The didactic program is articulated starting from the molecules that make up living organisms to end at the theoretical basis of ecology and environmental protection. All the main topics of life sciences such as genetics, anatomy and the evolution of organisms are addressed, always trying to convey the heart of the theoretical concept through a simple but adequate terminology. The goal is to offer a first look at the basis of biology to those who intend to carry out an in-depth study of this subject, which is extremely fascinating but also decidedly complex, vast and multifaceted.

For long horizontal propagation distances, it is the atmosphere, not the sensor technology which is responsible for the quality of acquired image data. Atmospheric turbulence causes increased blur, reduced (color) contrast and (apparent) image motion, as well as image deformation. This work addresses the question of how best to mitigate these degrading effects and improve image data quality using suitable reconstruction techniques.

Catherine O’Brien draws on the structure of Dante’s Divine Comedy to explore Scorsese’s feature films from Who’s that knocking at my door (1967-69) to Silence (2016). In Dante’s poem in 100 cantos, the Pilgrim is guided by the poet Virgil down through the circles of Hell in Inferno; he then climbs the steep Mountain of the Seven Deadly Sins in Purgatory; and he finally encounters God in Paradise. Embracing this popular analogy, this study envisions Martin Scorsese as a contemporary Dante, with his filmic oeuvre offering the dimensions of a cinematic Divine Comedy. Martin Scorsese’s Divine Comedy is the first full-length study to focus on the trajectory of faith and doubt from 1967-2016, taking very seriously the oft-quoted words of the director himself: ‘My whole life has been movies and religion. That’s it. Nothing else.’ Films discussed include GoodFellas, Casino, Taxi Driver and Mean Streets, as well as the more recent Wolf of Wall Street and Silence.

Unfinished work or interrupted work… It is difficult to find a definition, to identify the theme, to distinguish chance from intentionality. Few 'genres' and / or variations express as the 'unfinished' the same need for what is external to the work and which somehow completes it, bringing the work in a privileged position to create a harmony with our restless modernity. No wonder that in literature, in addition to what has been brutally interrupted, the letters, the diaries, the chronicles of disease and suffering are naturally suspended works. No wonder either that incompleteness accompanies the writings referring to unsolved issues, hidden traumas, silent melancholy. Dictated by choice or by distinct degrees of incapacity, the temptation of the unfinished pursues, urges, deludes its author... The private writings, the sketches, the projects, the papers testify the path necessary for the work to develop and conquer its shape. This book is rich and suggestive and has been conceived and edited by Anna Dolfi. Like its very object, the work is drafted in the perspective of the unfinished and questions some of the many possible examples, along a diachronic arc that goes to literature at figurative arts, theatre, cinema: from Leonardo to Blake, from Ariosto to Stendhal, from Dossi to Gadda, from Kafka to Borges, from Sarraute to Morante, from unknown writers affected by 'cancroregina' to the last Pirandello staged by Tiezzi, up to Fellini of the impossible Mastorna ... At the centre of the volume the readers will find a section with the typescript pages and the unpublished notebooks of / for the work La scelta by Giuseppe Dessí. They lead to the limits of white space, where the chambre claire fixes what is hidden beyond the writing with few, rarefied signs.

Medical, sociological, and journalistic discourse currently views depression as the dominant psychological disease in modern societies. This volume examines narrative texts of the early twentieth century and contemporary literature from a literary studies perspective to investigate the motifs and literary devices of the depressive, depressive characters, and relevant stagings by authors.