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The sol-gel method is a powerful route of synthesis used worldwide. It produces bulk, nano- and mesostructured sol-gel materials, which can encapsulate metallic and magnetic nanoparticles, non-linear azochromophores, perovskites, organic dyes, biological molecules, etc.. This can have interesting applications for catalysis, photocatalysis; drug delivery for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases such as cancer, Parkinson's and Azheimer's. In this book, valuable contributions related to novel materials synthesized by the sol-gel route are provided. The effect of the sol-gel method to synthesize these materials with potential properties is described, and how the variation of the parameters during the synthesis influences their design and allows to adjust their properties according to the desired application is discussed.

Extrem rechte und rassistische Gewalt ist Teil des Lebens von rassistisch vulnerablen Menschen. Die Auswirkungen auf die Betroffenen und deren Bewältigungsmuster sind noch unzureichend erforscht. Das Buch fokussiert aus den Perspektiven von Betroffenen und von Fachkräften die Formen und Kontexte extrem rechter und rassistischer Gewalt und deren Auswirkungen auf das Alltagsleben. Darauf aufbauend werden die von Betroffenen entwickelten Handlungs- und Bewältigungsmuster im Umgang mit Gewalt erörtert und (fehlende) institutionelle Antworten auf extrem rechte und rassistische Gewalt diskutiert.

By reconstructing and contextualizing Schopenhauer's key political ideas, this book challenges the common view that Schopenhauer is an apolitical philosopher. Schopenhauer believed that politics could help mitigate conflict and make existence more bearable, but never heal a fundamentally imperfect world.

Power and Possibility: Adult Education in a Diverse and Complex World explores the topic of power and possibility theoretically, historically and practically through a range of perspectives and in relation to varied areas of interest within contemporary adult education. Readership: Adult education researchers and academics, adult education practitioners and policy-makers, postgraduate students and researchers in adult education, education, social movements studies, sociology and politics, organisational studies.

The series Material Text Culturess the publication organ of the Collaborative Research Center 933 of the same name at Heidelberg University, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The series publishes collections and monographs dedicated to the Collaborative Research Center’s main focus of research – that is, the materiality and presence of writing in non-typographic societies.

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State-funded social protection can assist poor families in providing for disabled children, especially in the global south where most of the world’s disabled population lives. This chapter is a case study of the South African care dependency grant, a social assistance cash transfer available to caregivers of disabled children. The programme is strong in principle but insufficient access and poor implementation have limited progress toward CRC and CRPD obligations. There is an urgent need for attitudinal change, effective intersectoral collaboration and practical (rather than symbolic) commitments to disabled children as full rights-holders. Insights are relevant to those interested in social protection for disabled children in the global south and in the north, where austerity measures threaten earlier progress.

Face à la violence historique et à la dictature, trois auteurs de la Caraïbe, Frankétienne (Haïti), Reinaldo Arenas (Cuba, Miami), Joël Des Rosiers (Haïti, Québec), tentent d'inventer un symbole neuf. C'est du côté de l'imaginaire que l'œuvre déploie ses miroirs et ses leurres. Mais quand la langue est usée jusqu'à la trame des signifiances, jusqu'au trou du texte, c'est dans le réel de l'écriture, chaos ou vide, que l'œuvre essaie de faire renaître un son ou de sacrifier un reste : alors surgissent les plus belles surprises de ces écritures affolées et énigmatiques qu'une lecture au plus près des signifiants travaille à décrypter.

Dieses Open Access essential wendet sich an Personen, die Projekt-, Bachelor- oder Masterarbeiten im Kontext einer praktischen Fragestellung beauftragen, betreuen oder begutachten. Es basiert auf zahlreichen Workshops in den Unternehmen und erläutert, wie themenspezifische Anforderungen an eine wissenschaftliche Arbeit in der Praxis erklärt werden können, wie konstruktives Feedback zu Entwürfen eines Exposés oder einer Gliederung erfolgen kann und wie Textentwürfe lektoriert werden. Konkret beschreibt es: die Aufgaben eines fachlichen Betreuers, welche Unterstützung Studierende brauchen, wie Sie Studierende fördern, ohne sie zu überfordern, wie Sie eine geeignete, bearbeitbare Themenstellung finden, welche Rolle Theorie in einer Praxisarbeit spielt u.v.m.

This book situates witchcraft drama within its cultural and intellectual context, highlighting the centrality of scepticism and belief in witchcraft to the genre. It is argued that these categories are most fruitfully understood not as static and mutually exclusive positions within the debate around witchcraft, but as rhetorical tools used within it. In drama, too, scepticism and belief are vital issues. The psychology of the witch character is characterised by a combination of impious scepticism towards God and credulous belief in the tricks of the witch’s master, the devil. Plays which present plausible depictions of witches typically use scepticism as a support: the witch’s power is subject to important limitations which make it easier to believe. Plays that take witchcraft less seriously present witches with unrestrained power, an excess of belief which ultimately induces scepticism. But scepticism towards witchcraft can become a veneer of rationality concealing other beliefs that pass without sceptical examination. The theatrical representation of witchcraft powerfully demonstrates its uncertain status as a historical and intellectual phenomenon; belief and scepticism in witchcraft drama are always found together, in creative tension with one another.

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En l’espace d’une génération, nous avons plus détruit que ne l’avaient fait, depuis les invasions de la fin de l’Antiquité, toutes les générations qui nous ont précédés. Je me sens solidaire de cette longue chaîne d’hommes et de femmes venus de la nuit des temps qui nous ont transmis un héritage – des constructions, des objets, des écrits et tous les témoignages que l’on extrait de la terre. Ce sont ces documents que j’appelle nos « Antiquités nationales ». Il faut laisser à nos contemporains...

Opposing Power argues that perceptions of regime vulnerability and mutual dependency by opposition elites shape the building of opposition alliances. When electoral autocracies are consistently dominant, opposition parties eschew fully fledged alliances. At best, they allocate only one candidate to contest against the incumbent in each subnational electoral district to avoid splitting the opposition vote. However, when multiple regime-debilitating events strike within a short period of time, thus pushing an incumbent to the precipice of power, opposition elites expect victory, accepting costly compromises to build alliances and seize power. Opposing Power shows how oppositions build these alliances through case study comparisons in East and Southeast Asia—between the Philippines and South Korea in the late 1980s, and between Malaysia and Singapore from 1965 to 2020.