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Art-Created Communities invites a conversation about what communities in and around art are and can be. What forms of togetherness and belonging characterize different art and cultural publics, and what kinds of publics help form new art-created communities? What happens when art creates friction by challenging established perceptions of reality? What concepts and theories are used to understand what community can mean in an artistic context? Through 12 articles, the book explores such questions in a Nordic context. However, it is not limited to professional artistic practice and the art field’s own arenas; it also turns its gaze toward aesthetic practices that unfold within culture in a broader sense. The book is divided into three thematic parts: community as ambition, community as practice, and community under negotiation. Art-Created Communities stems from the research program “Art and Social Communities,” a collaboration between the Danish Arts Foundation and the Norwegian Arts Council. The book presents contributions from projects that received funding in the program’s first phase, in addition to commissioned articles.

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The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles and teas. But the Company’s takeover of much of India was achieved by force and fraud; in China, the battering ram was opium. The East India Company’s corruption and violence shocked its contemporaries and still reverberates today. The Corporation That Changed the World is the first book to examine the Company’s enduring legacy as a corporation. It uncovers the factors that drove it to excess and eventual collapse. This expanded edition looks at recent activist and cultural responses to the Company in China and India, and the corporate reform agenda in light of the economic crisis. In his account of the Company's story Robins highlights enduring lessons on how to make global business accountable. This will be vital reading for students and academics in economics and history.

This open access book contains observations, outlines, and analyses of educational robotics methodologies and activities, and developments in the field of educational robotics emerging from the findings presented at FabLearn Italy 2019, the international conference that brought together researchers, teachers, educators and practitioners to discuss the principles of Making and educational robotics in formal, non-formal and informal education. The editors’ analysis of these extended versions of papers presented at FabLearn Italy 2019 highlight the latest findings on learning models based on Making and educational robotics. The authors investigate how innovative educational tools and methodologies can support a novel, more effective and more inclusive learner-centered approach to education. The following key topics are the focus of discussion: Makerspaces and Fab Labs in schools, a maker approach to teaching and learning; laboratory teaching and the maker approach, models, methods and instruments; curricular and non-curricular robotics in formal, non-formal and informal education; social and assistive robotics in education; the effect of innovative spaces and learning environments on the innovation of teaching, good practices and pilot projects.

Der vorliegende Sammelband widmet sich Mayröckers späten und spätesten Texten. Er untersucht aus verschiedenen Perspektiven die Manifestationen ‚ekstatischen‘ Sprechens. Die einzelnen Beiträge fragen danach, worin das Besondere dieser ‚ekstatischen‘ Sprache liegt, welche Normen sie sprengt, wie sie sich im Laufe der Jahre verändert hat und in welcher geistesgeschichtlichen Tradition sie verankert ist.

A central component of public health preparedness is the ability todispense medications to large populations under short timelines. This reportpresents recommended standards for points of dispensing (or PODs), where thepublic would receive the medications. The standards, which are designed toapply to widely divergent jurisdictions, rely on expert panel evaluations,current POD planning practices, and computer-modeled scenarios.

Social entrepreneurship refers to the organizational environment in which it operates, the social enterprise, as "An organization driven by a social or environmental purpose. As in any business, the company competes to deliver goods and services. The difference is that the social purpose is at the heart of what they do, and the profits they make are reinvested towards achieving this social purpose or mission."

Interactions and feedback effects are important influencing factors for specialized communicative actions. This particularly affects product research in the context of producing user manuals. What role do communicative processes in the user situation play during interaction with products? How can these processes be scientifically captured? And how can they be incorporated into theoretical model building? Harald Schenda is developing a model that captures the communicative processes between product, user, and document. Innovative for the field of technical communication science and knowledge communication research is his focus on capturing model elements in situational processes. Particularly interesting are his insights into the commonalities and connections between human communication and communication between humans and machines or products.

V Besedotvornem atlasu slovenskih narečij (BASN) je obravnavano besedje iz pomenskega polja kulturne rastline, zbrano v 93 krajevnih govorih iz vseh sedmih narečnih skupin slovenskega jezika. Besedje je diferencirano tako na besedotvorni kot na leksično-besedotvorni ravnini in razvrščeno v pet pomenskih sklopov: Divja sadna drevesa, Nadzemni deli kulturnih rastlin, Slama, Sadni mošt in Sadno žganje. Zgradba atlasa je deloma tradicionalna (jezikovne karte s komentarji in gradivom), deloma inovativna, saj je v njem predstavljen model za geolingvistično analizo besedotvorno diferenciranega narečnega gradiva, na podlagi katerega je mogoče ugotavljati, ali imajo strukturni tipi leksemov in posamezna besedotvorna obrazila v narečjih svoje tipične areale, značilne in potrjene tudi za druge jezikovne ravnine. Jedrni del atlasa predstavlja dvaindvajset leksično-besedotvornih kart za posamezne slovarske pomene (npr. poimenovanja za ‘divjo hruško’, ‘nadzemni del krompirja’, ‘ajdovo slamo’, ‘jabolčni mošt’, ‘hruškovo žganje’ ...) ter sedemintrideset zbirnih besedotvornih kart, na katerih je prikazana struktura obravnavanih poimenovanj ter njihova prostorska razporeditev.

Den Kern einer dialektischen und materialistischen Philosophie, die einen Weltbegriff begründen will, bildet die Kategorie »Widerspiegelung«. Sie hat primär eine ontologische und daraus abgeleitet eine erkenntnistheoretische Bedeutung. Ausgehend von Leibniz und Hegel, von Marx und Lenin hat Hans Heinz Holz in zahlreichen Publikationen eine Theorie der Widerspiegelung ausgearbeitet, die von einem exakten Gebrauch der Spiegelmetapher ausgeht. Im vorliegenden Band wird der systematische Gehalt des Widerspiegelungsbegriffs zusammengefasst und durch einen philosophiegeschichtlichen Rückblick vertieft.

La bioética es un campo de conocimiento que requiere planteamientos plurales y soportes científicos sólidos para analizar con el suficiente rigor las consecuencias éticas, legales y sociales de la biotecnología y la biomedicina. Por ese motivo, el presente Manual de bioética laica (I), fruto de largos años de docencia e investigación, pretende proporcionar la información necesaria a quienes se aproximen a la materia. El objetivo último es suministrar argumentos y propuestas que fomenten la autonomía y la responsabilidad, de forma que las decisiones bioéticas redunden en la construcción de una sociedad más transparente y democrática. Esta perspectiva explica que los autores aboguen por el paradigma laicista, basado en la idea de que los derechos humanos reconocidos en los textos internacionales deben constituir el suelo ético mínimo de carácter universal, como modelo jurídico-político idóneo para que estos debates sean fructíferos, plurales y no se fundamenten solo en creencias, tanto religiosas como de cualquier otro tipo.

As other Pacific Islands Countries, Fiji is shaped by processes of social transformations and global environmental change. This study utilises ethnographic ideals for enhancing cultural and social geographic research in the global south. A participatory in-depth analysis of rural life in three Fijian coastal villages is at the core of this study. This is framed by a historic-political overview of the burden of Fiji's colonial past. Fijian coastal villagers are not passive victims of global social transformation and climate change. Through neo-traditional movements they actively form processes of social and cultural change. Rural Fijian norms, values and cultural identity crystallize in robust communities. Via modern forms of communication and transportation Fijians established globalised networks securing individuals' quality of life. Family members living far from their home villages remain in contact with their relatives. This way they keep their Fijian Identities as source of wellbeing and as well support the villagers' material wealth and knowledge to enhance capabilities. Merely regarding hazardous climate change impacts the passed on knowledge is spread abridged and poorly fitting into local value systems. Therefore, misperceptions and maladaptations are prevalent. In consequence this study pleads for development agencies to act culturally sensitive and to critically reflect ethnocentric worldviews in order not to harm Fijian values and wellbeing.

This open access book offers a unique and practically oriented study of organisational and national conditions for implementing Responsible Research Innovation (RRI) policies and practices. It gives the reader a thorough understanding of the different aspects of RRI, and of barriers and drivers of implementation of RRI related policies. It shows how different organisational and national contexts provide unique challenges and opportunities for bringing RRI into practice. The book provides concrete examples and offers the reader both a theory-based understanding of the topic, as well as guidance for action. The target audience encompasses, in addition to RRI students and scholars in particular, all students and scholars in the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). The book is also of interest to students and scholars in the fields of research ethics, philosophy of science, organisational governance in the research system and organisational theory more generally. Finally, the book is of use to practitioners in research conducting and funding organisations working to implement RRI.

Fermentation technology is of great importance due to its ability to generate scientific advances in many disciplines. Specifically, it is used in the production of food, medicine, and chemicals in a sustainable and efficient manner. This science allows for innovation in the medical sector, as it is used in the production of vaccines, antibiotics, and other essential medicines. In the field of food, it allows for the development of new food products, improves the bioavailability of nutrients, and increases the shelf life of food. In the renewable energy sector, it facilitates the production of biofuels, contributing to the reduction of dependence on fossil fuels. Therefore, the science of fermentation not only improves the quality of life but also contributes to a more sustainable and healthy future.