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This book contemplates methodologies that can be used in the teaching of future experts in agriculture and plant cultivation. It expresses the need for knowledge transfer for good territorial management in the current era of climate change. In most cases, land management at the planetary level is sustainable, but today's society demands sustainable development. To improve the training of technicians in sustainable development methodologies, this book presents some methods and techniques compatible with ecodevelopment.

The Dream Factory in Kulosaari traces the history of Fennada-Filmi, one of the three major film production companies of Finland’s studio era. Drawing on extensive archival sources and interviews, the book provides a vivid account of post-war Finnish cinema and film culture, the filmmakers themselves, and their work at the Kulosaari studios as well as on location. Former employees recall Fennada as a more flexible, democratic, and humane workplace than the other major studios. The book argues that from the early 1950s onwards, Fennada-Filmi transformed the appearance of Finnish cinema, challenging the status quo dominated by the two traditional major studios, Suomi-Filmi and Suomen Filmiteollisuus. Fennada’s output was youthful, fast-paced and urban in spirit: its crime films were briskier in pace and more American in style than what Finnish audiences were accustomed to, while its literary adaptations, such as The Harvest Month and The Golden Calf, embraced modernist cinema with striking boldness. The epic film Here, Beneath the North Star marked the end of the studio era and the beginning of collaborative production between film companies and television.

This open access book addresses the current technical problems of low efficiency of emergency site information collection, lack of flexibility of emergency information interaction, lack of fusion analysis technology and disaster loss prediction model, and low intelligence of emergency auxiliary decision making. The content contains research on multiple information collection technology of power grid disaster loss, fusion analysis and prediction technology of power grid disaster loss information, and real-time information interaction technology between emergency site and command center in this work. This book illustrates the process of developing a prototype system for grid disaster perception and emergency command, which realizes the functions of grid disaster perception and emergency auxiliary decision-making and visualization command. The prototype intelligent perception and emergency command system for power grid disasters has been piloted in several units. It provided support for disaster loss prediction, disaster damage perception, and emergency command auxiliary decision-making in the earthquake in Sichuan, China, as well as the heavy rainfall in Zhejiang, China and Typhoon No. 9 "Lupi" that registered in Fujian, China, which significantly improved the emergency disposal Work efficiency.

In the process of digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI), data protection and digital ethics are trending topics. However, they are rarely considered in conjunction even though these areas are inextricably linked. This volume, the first in a series, seeks to close this gap. Informational self-determination is an expression of a European understanding of values, particularly with regard to smart technologies and AI applications. In addition to socially relevant dimensions of data protection and digital ethics, the authors demonstrate the influence of networked technologies on the experience and manipulation of modern reality, digitalized childhoods being one of them. Further thematic highlights from the perspective of data protection illustrate the multifaceted nature of the interdisciplinary approach of this book which will be continued throughout the series. With contributions by Dr. Stefan Brink | Prof. Dr. Petra Grimm | Dr. Clarissa Henning | Prof. Dr. Tobias Keber | Dr. Nina Köberer | Mike Kuketz | Dr. Walter Krämer | Daniel Maslewski | Prof. Dr. Ricarda Moll | Dr. Julia-Maria Mönig

While devoting fine attention to the stuff of everyday life, Deborah Cass was also a brilliant scholar. Although the deep sense of loss and sadness at Deborah's death remains, it is wonderful to have her writings as a continuing source of inspiration and consolation. In them, we continue to hear Deborah’s firm, clear voice, her appreciation of language, her seriousness, her curiosity, her sensitivity and her wry humour.’ —Professor Hilary Charlesworth This collection honours the work of Deborah Cass, 15 February 1960 – 4 June 2013, a brilliant Australian constitutional and international lawyer. Deborah studied at the University of Melbourne and Harvard Law School and taught at Melbourne Law School, The Australian National University and the London School of Economics. A member of The Australian National University’s Centre for International and Public Law from 1993 to 2000, Deborah’s work offered illuminating new perspectives in a range of fields, from the right to self-determination, critical international legal theory, and feminist legal theory to the international trade law system. The title of this edited collection draws on one of her articles, ‘Traversing the Divide: International Law and Australian Constitutional Law’ (1998) 20 Adelaide Law Review 73. This book evolves from a symposium held to draw together academics from around the globe to reflect on Deborah’s extensive scholarship and contributions to public law and international law, and to examine how her work is of value to current domestic and international law issues. The pieces selected for this volume both remind us of Deborah’s outstanding academic career and provide important insights on current public law and international law pressing issues.

Jusqu’au milieu des années cinquante du vingtième siècle, la ville de Homs célébrait chaque année un grand mawsem dont la cérémonie la plus spectaculaire était une impressionnante procession des confréries soufies. L’enquête de l’auteur a d’abord consisté à recueillir auprès de participants, pour la plupart très âgés, toutes les informations encore accessibles sur cette fête. Au fil des entretiens, il est apparu qu’elle n’était que la dernière et la mieux conservée d’une série de sept fêtes ...

The fast development of biosensors with high sensitivity through new functional materials introduced, or simplified the procedure in measurements, which is definitely important. However, more attentions should be paid for real applications, increasing tolerances against various matrix that potentially influence the performance of biosensors. This reprint focuses on the biosensors which were widely used in various fields after some problems were circumstanced, analytical methods development for containments in environments and foods, and biomarkers/hazardous substances in cells based on nanozyme or other nanoparticles, combined with antibodies, nucleic acids, aptamers or nanobodies, including enough sensitivity and satisfactory accuracy, maintaining enzyme activity at varied harsh environments.

Vibrios are Gram-negative bacilli that occur naturally in marine, estuarine, and freshwater systems. Some species include human and animal pathogens capable of causing gastroenteritis, wound infections, cholera, and fatal septicemia. Over the past decades, cutting edge research on Vibrio genomics has promoted a tremendous advance in our knowledge of these pathogens. Significant developments include the discovery of emerging epidemic clones, tracking the spread of new strain variants, and an intensified appreciation of the role of mobile genetic elements in antibiotic resistance spread as well as pathogenesis. Furthermore, improved understanding of the interaction of Vibrios with a variety of living organisms in the aquatic environment has documented the significant role of environmental reservoirs in their seasonal cycle favoring persistence of the pathogen during inter-epidemic periods and enhancing disease transmission. This Research Topic is dedicated to our current understanding in these areas and will bring together leading experts in the field to provide a deep overview of Vibrios ecology and evolution, and will suggest the pathway of future research in this field.

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Historical writing has shaped identities in various ways and to different extents. This volume explores this multiplicity by looking at case studies from Europe, Byzantium, the Islamic World, and China around the turn of the first millennium. The chapters in this volume address official histories and polemical critique, traditional genres and experimental forms, ancient traditions and emerging territories, empires and barbarians. The authors do not take the identities highlighted in the texts for granted, but examine the complex strategies of identification that they employ. This volume thus explores how historiographical works in diverse contexts construct and shape identities, as well as legitimate political claims and communicate ‘visions of community’.

"Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance challenges the narrative of a simple progression of tolerance and the establishment of confessional identity during the early modern period. These essays explore the lived experiences of religious plurality, providing insights into the developments and drawbacks of religious coexistence in this turbulent period. The essays examine three main groups of actors—the laity, parish clergy, and unacknowledged religious minorities—in pre- and post-Westphalian Europe. Throughout this period, the laity navigated their own often-fluid religious beliefs, the expectations of conformity held by their religious and political leaders, and the complex realities of life that involved interactions with co-religious and non-co-religious family, neighbors, and business associates on a daily basis. Contributors are: James Blakeley, Amy Nelson Burnett, Victoria Christman, Geoffrey Dipple, Timothy G. Fehler, Emily Fisher Gray, Benjamin J. Kaplan, David M. Luebke, David Mayes, Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, William Bradford Smith, and Shira Weidenbaum."

Bajo este título se presenta un estudio de la historia de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Salamanca en un periodo que abarca desde 1820 hasta 1900. En el mismo se atiende tanto a la institución docente como a los individuos que la integraron, por lo que puede calificarse de una obra ambiciosa, tanto por estos aspectos que se tratan, como por la señalada cronología, teniendo así una visión de conjunto de la Facultad de Derecho salmantina en el siglo XIX, periodo en que vio cómo la implantación del régimen liberal trajo la uniformización y centralización administrativas poniendo en peligro su pervivencia, además de situarla entre las Universidades periféricas que sobrevivieron como satélites alrededor de la Universidad Central de Madrid. El hecho de que durante muchos años fuese la única Facultad mayor de la Universidad salmantina hace que este trabajo sirva también para conocer más a fondo la historia decimonónica de la institución centenaria.

Après la Terreur, Incroyables et Merveilleuses tenaient le haut du pavé à Paris, formant une société frivole, dominée par une minorité de parvenus enrichis trop vite. Mais qu’en était-il en province et particulièrement en Normandie entre 1794 et 1800 ? Proche de Paris, le département de l’Eure allait-il se reconnaître dans le régime institué par la Constitution de l'an III ? Héritier des sociétés populaires, le jacobinisme, appuyé par les deux frères Lindet, conventionnels montagnards originaires de Bernay, était-il en mesure de peser sur la vie politique locale ? L’Eure, se trouvant aussi, par les cantons bocagers du pays d’Ouche, en limite de l’Ouest rebelle et chouan de la Normandie orientale, fut affecté par la chouannerie normande, relayée par le brigandage des « chauffeurs » de la bande à Robillard. L’administration du département et le commissaire Crochon durent faire face à cette « malveillance ». Tâche rendue d’autant plus difficile qu’entre l’an IV et l'an VIII, leur « républicanisme » était contesté par les néo-jacobins qui se réunissaient au sein des cercles constitutionnels et s’exprimaient dans le Bulletin de l’Eure du journaliste Touquet. Parallèlement à leurs constants efforts pour assurer le maintien de l’ordre, les administrateurs départementaux, s’appuyant sur les municipalités de canton, cherchèrent à développer une culture républicaine, soutenant notamment les efforts de Rever pour faire de l’école centrale d’Évreux un établissement scolaire innovant sur le plan pédagogique. Il fallait également organiser de fréquentes fêtes civiques et encourager les cultes révolutionnaires pour concurrencer un catholicisme en crise, dans un diocèse où le clergé constitutionnel, désemparé par l’abdication de l’évêque Lindet, tentait néanmoins de se réorganiser. Cet ouvrage présente les mutations intervenues dans le département entre Thermidor et Brumaire. À travers l’exemple de l’Eure, il s’agit de montrer que le Directoire, ce régime mal-aimé, a toutefois présenté certaines innovations, contribuant à préparer les futures expériences républicaines de la France du xixe siècle.

Hans Sachs gilt als der produktivste deutschsprachige Dichter des 16. Jahrhunderts. In seinen 85 Fastnachtspielen integriert er das Selbstgespräch einer Bühnenfigur, den Theatermonolog, ca. 350 Mal. Diese literarische Technik fehlt im älteren Bestand der Nürnberger Fastnachtspielüberlieferung indes gänzlich. Der Band geht der Frage nach den literarhistorischen Voraussetzungen und der kulturhistorischen Bedeutung des Theatermonologs nach. Die Analyse ausgewählter Fastnachtspiele wird u.a. von Untersuchungen der Aufführungsbedingungen in Nürnberg und des Autorschaftskonzepts von Hans Sachs umrahmt.