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How can economic education enable us to shape a sustainable transformation of our economic system in the face of man-made social and ecological crises? The author prepares models from Ecological Economics and Environmental Economics for educational processes, analyzes pre-concepts of students of Economic Education, and brings together scientific models and learners' ideas to form seminar concepts.

This Special Issue is dedicated to the latest developments in the field of sustainable construction through the utilization of optimization tools and experimental methods. On the one hand, this Special Issue aims to publish influential and innovative articles that deal with the challenges of construction sustainability through the use of optimization tools that involve either exact mathematical programming or meta-/hyper-/bio-heuristics, alternative hybrid approaches, or multi-criteria decision-making techniques. On the other hand, field or laboratory research on materials, products, structures, objects, or operations often provides key data for developing optimization models. Therefore, research engaging with experimental methods to address current issues associated with sustainable construction is also covered by this volume. Moreover, scientific works combining optimization tools and experimental methods to reach synergistic effects in favor of sustainable construction are included within this Special Issue as well.

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

A computed tomography (CT) scan uses X-rays and a computer to create detailed images of the inside of the body. CT scanners measure, versus different angles, X-ray attenuations when passing through different tissues inside the body through rotation of both X-ray tube and a row of X-ray detectors placed in the gantry. These measurements are then processed using computer algorithms to reconstruct tomographic (cross-sectional) images. CT can produce detailed images of many structures inside the body, including the internal organs, blood vessels, and bones. This book presents a comprehensive overview of CT scanning. Chapters address such topics as instrumental basics, CT imaging in coronavirus, radiation and risk assessment in chest imaging, positron emission tomography (PET), and feature extraction.

Reconhecida a quase generalidade da origem oriental dos contos populares, pelas fontes donde provieram e pelas adaptações que receberam, melhor se poderão seguir as transformações desse elemento tradicional através dos meios sociais e épocas históricas por que passaram modificando-se, e deduzir das suas transformações como actuaram na revelação dos génios literários, elevando as línguas vulgares nacionais à expressão estética. Escreveu Gaston Paris sobre este complexo problema: «Penetrando sucessivamente em meios bem diferentes daqueles em que foram inventados, os contos orientais sofreram naturalmente certas transformações, que por vezes os melhoraram e na maior parte das vezes estragaram-os não sendo bastante importantes, porque a crítica aproximando-as com arte todas as variantes que haja coligido, chegue quase sempre a reduzir as formas ocidentais à sua origem asiática, e possa seguir os estádios destas narrativas emigrantes através dos séculos e das nações.» (La Poésie du Moyen-Age, pág. 752.) Até aqui chega o simples processo folclórico; há mais que avançar, para a morfologia literária apartando dos elementos lendários de criação anónima, elementos que variam indefinidamente, umas vezes abreviando-se em um laconismo claro e lógico, outras prolongando-se pelo interesse da narrativa por episódios sincreticamente agrupados. Por este conjunto cíclico, um mesmo conto reveste formas diversas pelos seus episódios, tomando-se fácil a sua transmigração e adaptação em diferentes meios e épocas sociais ou históricas.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of key challenges in competition within digital markets, drawing on both legal and economic perspectives. Alongside an overview by Advocate General Juliane Kokott et al. examining recent jurisprudence of the EU courts on the abuse of dominance, the authors address topics including economic approaches in case law, the classification of behaviors increasingly observed in digital markets under the prohibitions on anti-competitive agreements (algorithmic collusion, collective bargaining for platform workers) and the abuse of dominance (employee poaching, self-preferencing), market structure control (killer acquisitions, § 32f GWB), and the regulation of major digital platforms (§ 19a GWB, Digital Markets Act). With contributions by Jun.-Prof. Dr. Tabea Bauermeister | Dr. Björn Christian Becker | Prof. Dr. Oliver Budzinski | Dr. Sophia Gaenssle | Jun.-Prof. Dr. Jan-Frederick Göhsl | Ass.-Prof. Dr. Lena Hornkohl | Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Juliane Kokott | PD Dr. Daniel Könen | PD Dr. Carsten König | Prof. Dr. Sarah Legner | Jun.-Prof. Dr. Juliane Mendelsohn | Prof. Dr. Tristan Rohner | Ass.-Prof. Maria José Schmidt-Kessen | Mariya Serafimova | Dr. Annika Stöhr

This reprint deals with the central theme of philosophy of law and legal theory, namely the relationship between truth and justice. This presupposes that we always have true knowledge—that is, verifiable facts—and the intellectual ability to theoretically and historically correctly ascertain and analyse the question of justice. A modern philosopher of law who has formulated this issue excellently in his work is Ronald Dworkin (1931-2013). Therefore, he is the common point of reference for all our contributions to "Justice based on Truth". In addition, great philosophers of the past such as Thomas Aquinas, Baruch de Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz or Lon Fuller, to whom our authors devote themselves, have commented on these questions. Finally, time-tested folk wisdom such as the traditional Chinese doctrine of the use of stratagems in life or the modern theory of transitional justice in civil war-like conflicts can also perform these functions.

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Immunization plays a key role in maintaining human health and each year, saves millions of lives from lethal pathogens and other fatal diseases in the most economical way, thanks to the advanced development of model vaccines. Subunit vaccines are regarded as a safer product than the whole microbe based-conventional vaccines and can be entrapped in various nanocarriers to form a vaccine adjuvant-delivery system (VADS) able to further boost their immunostimulatory activity. In this book, six groups of authors introduce immunization advances in VADSs designed for infection prophylaxis and cancer immunotherapy, problems and their resolution in both human and poultry immunization, and also, the mathematical model for assay of the basic immunization problem (BIP) understood from a finance point of view.

With the democratization of publishing tools made possible by Web 2.0 at the turn of the 2000s—at a time when social media did not yet exist—blogging became widespread, encompassing every topic and style. In Quebec, as in other cultural spheres, a constellation of literary blogs emerged—a cultural phenomenon that remains, even today, under-studied given its significance for generations of young authors. The contributions gathered here therefore aim to revisit and update the main literary questions—simultaneously formal, sociological, and communicational—raised by blogs since the mid-2000s, focusing on the Quebec corpus. This portrait explores issues related to authorial figures, the poetics of writing, and the relationship with the techno-editorial constraints of the blog, as well as with the communities thus formed, on the margins of literary institutions.

What is love? Popular culture bombards us with notions of the intoxicating capacities of love or of beguiling women who can bewitch or heal—to the point that it is easy to believe that such images are timeless and universal. Not so, argues Laine Doggett in Love Cures. Aspects of love that are expressed in popular music—such as “love is a drug,” “sexual healing,” and “love potion number nine”—trace deep roots to Old French romance of the high Middle Ages. A young woman heals a poisoned knight. A mother prepares a love potion for a daughter who will marry a stranger in a faraway land. How can readers interpret such events? In contrast to scholars who have dismissed these women as fantasy figures or labeled them “witches,” Doggett looks at them in the light of medical and magical practices of the high Middle Ages. Love Cures argues that these practitioners, as represented in romance, have shaped modern notions of love. Love Cures seeks to engage scholars of love, marriage, and magic in disciplines as diverse as literature, history, anthropology, and philosophy.

Prenez les incendies successifs du greffe de la chambre des comptes en 1737 puis de la cour des aides de Paris en 1776. Ajoutez-y l’envoi au pilon des comptes de la monarchie en 1797, la destruction des papiers de la ferme générale en 1811 et l’incendie, pendant la Commune, des archives du contrôle général des finances alors déposées aux Tuileries. Saupoudrez le tout avec la mauvaise réputation d’une discipline jugée difficile, austère, sinon rebutante : l’histoire économique et financière vo...

De l'écrit à l'écran est le premier ouvrage qui aborde la question de la réécriture filmique du roman africain francophone. Il se sert de la sémiologie de l'image, de la poétique et des théories post-coloniales pour définir les enjeux théoriques, idéologiques et sémantiques régissant le passage des textes littéraires au cinéma. Il identifie des paramètres importants dans la poétique de l'écriture et montre le rôle de l'acte créateur dans l'altérité du texte dérivé, filmique, par rapport au texte de départ, littéraire. De ce fait, il formule des propositions novatrices par rapport aux interrogations purement spéculatives, thématiques ou idéologiques sur « l'adaptation », acte de recréation et de réécriture dont les mécanismes dépassent le seul cadre des cinémas africains.

How the construction of Muslim boys as proto-terrorists is integral to the story of American racial capitalism How do we understand an incident where a five-year-old Muslim boy arrives at Dulles airport and is preemptively detained as a “threat”? To answer that question, Shenila Khoja-Moolji examines American public culture, arguing that Muslim boyhood has been invented as a threat within an ideology that seeks to predict future terrorism. Muslim boyhood bridges actual past terrorism and possible future events, justifying preemptive enclosure, surveillance, and punishment. Even in the occasional reframing of individual Muslim boys as innocent, Khoja-Moolji identifies a pattern of commodity antiracism, through which elites buy public goodwill but leave intact the collective anti-Muslim notion that fuels an expanding carceral and security state. Framing Muslim boyhood as a heuristic device, she turns to a discussion of Hindutva ideology in India to show how Muslim boyhood may be resituated in global contexts.