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En este tributo por el aniversario 120 de las ideas basales que dieron origen a la teoría de los cuanta, reunimos a cuatro autores, académicos, profesionales de la física y sus fundamentos para que expongan, por separado, sus exploraciones de la teoría del quantum. Hacemos un recuento de las ideas que llevaron a la formulación de la teoría cuántica por Max Planck, y su posterior aplicación. Queremos conmemorar la publicación de la teoría cuántica, pues es una marca indeleble en la historia del pensamiento científico y tecnológico universales; establece un antes y un después en la concepción del devenir de la naturaleza y es la base e inicio de la revolución científica y de pensamiento más importante de nuestros tiempos. Recalcar y ejemplificar la importancia de aprender a hacer ciencia, de seguir metodologías en el estudio de la naturaleza, y conseguir resultados nuevos, sean también objetivos de este producto bibliográfico.

The book Radioisotopes - Applications in Bio-Medical Science contains two sections: Radioisotopes and Radiations in Bioscience and Radioisotopes and Radiology in Medical Science. Section I includes chapters on medical radioisotope production, radio-labeled nano-particles, radioisotopes and nano-medicine, use of radiations in insects, drug research, medical radioisotopes and use of radioisotopes in interdisciplinary fields etc. In Section II, chapters related to production of metal PET (positron emission tomography) radioisotopes, 3-dimensional and CT (computed tomography) scan, SS nuclear medicine in imaging, cancer diagnose and treatments have been included. The subject matter will by highly useful to the medical and paramedical staff in hospitals, as well as researchers and scholars in the field of nuclear medicine medical physics and nuclear bio-chemistry etc.

Interprete acclamata di oltre cento pièce, prima regista donna in Polonia negli anni tra i due conflitti mondiali, traduttrice di Ibsen e Bataille in yiddish, direttrice e amministratrice dell’unico teatro yiddish al mondo retto su finanziamenti statali, Ida Kaminska è stata tra i pochi artisti a fare da ponte tra la prima e la seconda metà del xx secolo, lottando per ricostruire la vita culturale e spirituale del popolo ebraico dopo il suo feroce sradicamento. Muovendo dall’avventura pionieristica di Avrom Kaminski e Ester Rokhl Halpern alla fine dell’Ottocento il volume traccia un itinerario che incrocia altre leggendarie dinastie artistiche, quali i Turkow e i Rotbaum, ma ha per fulcro il teatro poetico e intimamente narrativo di Ida, culmine di un progetto che ha abbracciato un secolo e tre continenti. Attraverso queste pagine il lettore potrà accostarsi alla sua biografia d’attrice e in particolare alla genesi di due spettacoli da lei diretti e interpretati: la popolare commedia yiddish Mirele Efros e un’inedita e anti-brechtiana Madre Coraggio. Creazioni in cui Ida incarna la figura fragile e agguerrita della idishe mame: presenza luminosa nel paesaggio dello Yiddishland e archetipo di una natura melodrammatica nutrita di pietà.

How do economic conditions such as poverty, unemployment, inflation, and economic growth impact youth violence? Economics and Youth Violence provides a much-needed new perspective on this crucial issue. Pinpointing the economic factors that are most important, the editors and contributors in this volume explore how different kinds of economic issues impact children, adolescents, and their families, schools, and communities.Offering new and important insights regarding the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and youth violence across a variety of times and places, chapters cover such issues as the effect of inflation on youth violence; new quantitative analysis of the connection between race, economic opportunity, and violence; and the cyclical nature of criminal backgrounds and economic disadvantage among families. Highlighting the complexities in the relationship between economic conditions, juvenile offenses, and the community and situational contexts in which their connections are forged, Economics and Youth Violence prompts important questions that will guide future research on the causes and prevention of youth violence. Contributors: Sarah Beth Barnett, Eric P. Baumer, Philippe Bourgois, Shawn Bushway, Philip J. Cook, Robert D. Crutchfield, Linda L. Dahlberg, Mark Edberg, Jeffrey Fagan, Xiangming Fang, Curtis S. Florence, Ekaterina Gorislavsky, Nancy G. Guerra, Karen Heimer, Janet L. Lauritsen, Jennifer L. Matjasko, James A. Mercy, Matthew Phillips, Richard Rosenfeld, Tim Wadsworth, Valerie West, Kevin T. Wolff

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen’s book Navigations was inspired by the experience of the author’s first contact with the East, during a plane trip to Macao to pay homage to Camões. The view of the coasts of Vietnam will have led Sophia to imagine the wonder and astonishment experienced by the Portuguese navigators who first arrived there by sea. Therefore, this book commemorates the Portuguese Discoveries, in the line of Camões and Pessoa, but that takes a new and original look on the theme. Therefore, these Navigations are an initiatory journey, from which results the discovery of Being, that is, in some way, a kind of circumnavigation voyage, the return to the beginning.

« Dans l’évolution la plus récente, les frontières entre les genres artistiques fluent les unes dans les autres, ou plus précisément : leurs lignes de démarcation s’effrangent. » Dans la lignée de cette réflexion d’Adorno, la notion de correspondance des arts et la notion de correspondance entre la littérature et les arts, héritières du romantisme allemand, gagnent à être explorées par la littérature comparée de façon neuve. Il revient à la littérature comparée, placée sous le signe de l’interdisciplinarité et du décloisonnement, d’être un précipité de questions pour une nouvelle poétique des arts. Les interrogations soumises au travail collectif sont nombreuses : Quelle est l’origine de l’intensification croissante de la correspondance entre la littérature et les arts ? En quoi la correspondance des arts pose-t-elle la question des limites du langage et engage-t-elle une redéfinition de la légitimité et de la fonction de la littérature et des arts ? Comment un art, un artiste ou une œuvre artistique sont-ils pris en charge par la littérature de plusieurs pays qui se ressourcent à leur contact ? Le but de la correspondance des arts est-il seulement esthétique ou aussi éthique ? Ce volume se compose de quatre sections qui mettent en correspondance la littérature comparée avec les différents domaines artistiques : la musique, pour la première partie ; les arts visuels pour la deuxième et la troisième partie (peinture, sculpture, puis danse, photographie et cinéma) ; et enfin, pour la quatrième partie, ce que l’on peut appeler, à la suite des romantiques allemands, « la ronde des arts ».

Une vague iconoclaste déferle en août 1566 sur la Flandre, le Hainaut, les environs de Lille et de Douai. Les protestants, qui y avaient de nombreux adeptes, veulent transformer les églises en temples ; la « nouvelle religion » semble supplanter l’ancienne. Mais Philippe II d’Espagne, qui commande en ces territoires, n’accepte aucun compromis et envoie le duc d’Albe et ses troupes rétablir l’ordre et châtier les Flamands. Le comte d’Egmont est décapité. Une lourde répression s’abat sur les habitants : c’est le temps des martyrs. Bannis et émigrés gagnent les refuges hollandais ou anglais. Après avoir retracé l’essentiel de cette histoire, les auteurs s’efforcent de répondre à quelques grandes interrogations. Pourquoi cette résurgence de l’iconodasme ? Y-a-t-il une pédagogie de la destruction ? Quel est le lien entre ce mouvement et la conjoncture ? Qui sont les casseurs ? Le mouvement est-il spontané ou prémédité ? Quel est le rôle des seigneurs dans cette révolte ? Ce travail, qui repose essentiellement sur des sources d’archives ou imprimées, reste un « classique » sur le sujet.

This preliminary study presents an updated checklist of amphipod crustaceans inhabiting Italian seas and provides valuable insights into their diversity, distribution, and ecological traits. By combining existing literature with unpublished data, we were able to record 500 species in Italian waters. The analyses revealed a significant increase in the number of amphipod species documented in the Country, primarily due to intensified research efforts and the introduction of non-native species. This study highlights the importance of ongoing monitoring and research to assess marine biodiversity. Future efforts should prioritize understudied groups, such as planktonic species, and those living in deep-sea marine environments.

«Higher Education in three Dimensions. A New Theoretical Frame of Understanding» consists of three parts. Part one is an institutional analysis of the change dynamics in the Norwegian higher education field between 1965 and 2011, which led to the foundation of the University of Nordland, now Nord University. The analysis is based on the foundation of Nordland Regional College and follows the development of the national university and college sectors along with the regional colleges in Bodø up until the foundation of the university. Part II presents a new theoretical frame of understanding for analysing the development driven by these tensions and other factors. It questions the two-dimensional understanding of terms as autonomy and academic drift, and suggests society at large as a stronger third dimension in the analysis of higher education. Part III concludes on that a three-dimensional framework of understanding highlights new key themes, issues and dilemmas in the field of higher education. It is therefore both fruitful and needed as a greater depth of understanding is achieved, comparative analysis is made possible and dilemmas at stake are revealed.

Wyzwania ostatnich lat – digitalizacja, wirtualizacja, wzrost znaczenia portali społecznościowych, komunikacja w czasie rzeczywistym – powodują, że sposoby kreowania wartości dla klienta przez przedsiębiorców ulegają wyraźnym zmianom, które wyrażają się w nowych działaniach logistyczno­marketingowych i wykorzystaniu nowatorskich narzędzi zarządzania. Autorka monografii koncentruje się na problematyce kreowania wartości dla klienta w handlu elektronicznym. Jej rozważania oscylują wokół tezy, iż aspekty logistyczne funkcjonowania handlu elektronicznego tworzą wartości dla klienta, które wpływają na regularne decyzje zakupowe. Celem książki jest identyfikacja czynników logistycznych tworzących wartość dla klienta detalicznego w handlu elektronicznym. Postawienie diagnozy dotyczącej obecnego stanu rynku e-commerce wymagało przeprowadzenia przez autorkę badań obejmujących zarówno stronę popytową, jak i podażową rynku, dzięki czemu możliwe było określenie luki wartości – oczekiwanej i dostarczanej. Publikacja jest adresowana przede wszystkim do studentów logistyki, marketingu oraz zarządzania, a także do praktyków i teoretyków zajmujących się obsługą logistyczną handlu elektronicznego.

This study of the design, manufacture and use of medieval floor tiles shows the long-lasting influence achieved in the north of England, especially by the Cistercian monasteries. It serves to demonstrate how these monastic houses made use of the resources and contacts available to them. The study focuses on one of the richest medieval floor tile assemblages in the world, with material from 118 sites. Over 500 different designs and 60 mosaic arrangements have been identified. Jennie Stopford examines the monastic influence on northern England's manufacture and use of floor tiles. Split into three sections - Chronological Survey, The Tile Groups, and The Sites and Collections - this in-depth study covers an immense body of work.

Pitch and Revelation is the first book-length study of the poetry, prose, and dramatic literature of the African American poet Jay Wright (1934–). The authors premise their reading on joy as foundational philosophical concept. In this, they follow Spinoza, who understood joy as that affect necessary for the construction of intellectual love of God, leading into the infinite univocity of everything. Similarly, with Wright, joy leads to a visceral sense of what the authors call the great weave of the world. This weave is akin to the notion of entanglement made popular by physicists and contemporary scholars of Science Studies, such as Karen Barad, which speaks of the always ongoing, mutually constitutive connections of all matter and intellectual processes. By exhibiting and detailing the joy of reading Wright, Pitch and Revelation intends to help others chart their own paths into the intellectual, musical, and rhythmical territories of Wright’s world so as to more fully experience joy in the world generally. Although the exhibitions of meaning making presented are instructive, but they do not follow the “do as I do” or “do as I say” model of instructional texts. Instead,they invite the reader to “do along with us” as the authors make meaning from selections across Wright’s erudite, dense, rhythmically fascinating, endlessly lyrical, highly structured, and seemingly hermetic body of work.

Über das Ausmaß, die Messung und die Verteilung von Armut wird vielfach diskutiert. Dabei bleibt die Frage nach ihrer diskursiven Entstehung häufig außen vor: Armut ist immer auch als geschichtlich und kulturell situiertes Phänomen zu verstehen. So wird die Bedürftigkeit von Menschen historisch ebenso unterschiedlich interpretiert wie die menschliche Fähigkeit, die eigene Existenz selbstständig zu sichern. Vor diesem Hintergrund gehen die Beiträger*innen den gegenwärtigen Armutsdiskursen im deutschsprachigen Raum in Medien, Politik und Sozialer Arbeit bzw. Sozialpädagogik nach und geben einen Überblick über deren Auswirkungen auf armutserfahrende Menschen.

Innovations in Spinal Deformities and Postural Disorders presents a compendium of innovative work in the management of spinal deformities and postural disorders. The chapters were carefully selected with clinicians, researchers, patients and parents in mind. All of these stakeholders are important links in the management of spinal deformities and disorders. It is our hope that all will remain open to new ideas in the field and will be able to evaluate the material carefully and in ways that are objective and evidence based. We hope that the different chapters in the book will stimulate readers to be original and innovative in their own centers in order to help our patients in the best way possible. This book contains new information on the 3D measurement of, as well as new approaches to, the 3D conservative, including exercises and braces, and surgical treatments for patients with spinal deformities and postural disorders.

Scholars have long studied the impact of Charles Darwin’s writings on nineteenth-century culture. However, few have ventured to examine the precursors to the ideas of Darwin and others in the Romantic period. Marking Time, edited by Joel Faflak, analyses prevailing notions of evolution by tracing its origins to the literary, scientific, and philosophical discourses of the long nineteenth century. The volume’s contributors revisit key developments in the history of evolution prior to The Origin of Species and explore British and European Romanticism’s negotiation between the classic idea of a great immutable chain of being and modern notions of historical change. Marking Time reveals how Romantic and post-Romantic configurations of historical, socio-cultural, scientific, and philosophical transformation continue to exert a profound influence on critical and cultural thought