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The growing complexity, fluidity and instability of the environment as well as changing needs are challenges that both enterprises and higher education institutions must face. Higher education institutions understand that their key product, i.e. knowledge, is a value that can and should be offered to enterprises in a desirable form as a key to innovation and development as well as the basis of the necessary internal transformation to respond to requirements of our times. Attempts to explain the process of collaboration between higher education institutions and businesses based on an institutional perspective fail to capture the complexity of this process. The purpose of this book is to develop a model approach to managerial competencies that affect the innovativeness of enterprises and to identify internal and external key factors strengthening or limiting the impact of managerial competencies on the innovativeness of an enterprise including organizational structure, strategy, organizational culture and more. It will be of value to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of entrepreneurship, innovation, management, strategy, and will be particularly useful to organizations that are aware of their operating conditions in the knowledge-based economy and of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemics on the acceleration of the digital transformation of the contemporary world. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

"This collection embraces the increasing interest in the material world of the Renaissance and the early modern period, which has both fascinated contemporaries and initiated in recent years a distinguished historiography. The scholarship within is distinctive for engaging with the agentive qualities of matter, showing how affective dimensions in history connect with material history, and exploring the religious and cultural identity dimensions of the use of materials and artefacts. It thus aims to refocus our understanding of the meaning of the material world in this period by centring on the vibrancy of matter itself. To achieve this goal, the authors approach ""the material"" through four themes - glass, feathers, gold paints, and veils - in relation to specific individuals, material milieus, and interpretative communities. In examining these four types of materialities and object groups, which were attached to different sensory regimes and valorizations, this book charts how each underwent significant changes during this period."

Este libro está dedicado a pensar, desde distintas miradas, en los desafíos que ha planteado la pandemia de coronavirus por Sar-CoV-2 en nuestros países en este segundo año de su presencia. Cargados de desigualdades estructurales, luchas y contradicciones de todo tipo, especialmente de clase, género, étnicas entre otras, la pandemia y pospandemia, que se insinúa después de casi dos años, muestran que se ha profundizado la pobreza sistémica como modo de vida para amplios sectores de nuestras poblaciones, generado rebeliones políticas y revueltas como expresiones del agotamiento del capitalismo y especialmente del modelo económico y político que lleva 40 años de aplicación de políticas neoliberales, y ha puesto en evidencia el estado de debilidad de los sistemas de salud y la dependencia científico- tecnológica para enfrentar la pandemia que los ha abrumado, con efectos graves para la población especialmente pobre.

Wie können Menschen zu Hause bleiben, die kein Zuhause haben? Obdach- und wohnungslose Menschen waren mit am stärksten von der COVID-19-Pandemie betroffen, wurden aber lange von der Politik übersehen. Apelle wie unter dem Hashtag StayAtHome wirkten ihnen gegenüber geradezu zynisch. Auch in der Forschungslandschaft fand die Situation dieser Menschen bisher wenig Berücksichtigung. Die Beiträger*innen nehmen sich dieser Lücke an und bündeln den derzeitigen Forschungsstand zum sozialen Phänomen der Obdach- und Wohnungslosigkeit sowie daran angrenzende Themengebiete in pandemischen Zeiten. Ein Blick zurück lohnt sich, um aus dieser Zeit zu lernen und für künftige Pandemien besser gewappnet zu sein.

Oxygen represents only 20% of the Earth's atmosphere, yet it is vital for the survival of aerobic organisms. There is a dark part of the use of oxygen that consists in generating reactive species that are potentially harmful to living organisms. Moreover, reactive oxygen species can combine with nitrogen derivatives and generate many other reactive species. Thus, living organisms are continuously assaulted by reactive species from external or internal sources. However, the real danger comes in the case of high concentrations and prolonged exposure to these species. This book presents an image of the mechanisms of action of reactive species and emphasizes their involvement in diseases. Inflammation and cancer are examined to determine when and how reactive species turn the evolution of a benign process to a malignant one. Some answers may come from recent studies indicating that reactive species are responsible for epigenetic changes.

The Echo of Die Blechtrommel in Europe presents an overview of the critical reception of Günter Grass’s classic novel throughout Europe since its publication in 1959. Readership: The book aims at a relatively broad readership with interest in contemporary European literature and international cultural relations, as well as more specialised readers from (comparative) literary studies interested in Günter Grass, literary institutions and the literary field, reviewing and reception.

Ljubljansko polje is a juncture of numerous human activities. The source of drinking water for about 300,000 residents, it holds one of the most important bodies of groundwater in the country. Unfortunately, the influences of urbanization, agriculture and industry that threaten and burden it are reflected in the quality and quantity of the groundwater.

Agroforestry is a sustainable soil management method. It associates in time or space trees with crops and/or livestock. Thanks to this association, positive interactions are created between the different components of the system. For example, the introduction of nitrogen-fixing trees benefits food crops by playing the role of green manure. Agroforestry of trees in a crop plot also brings other benefits: - they facilitate the penetration of water into the soil, - they help fight erosion, - they draw nutrients from deep within the soil and make them available on the surface for crops, - they play the role of windbreaks, - they can provide shade in the dry season, - they can provide edible fruits, honey, timber, fuelwood, medicinal products, etc. Agroforestry is the focus of the "Agroforests for Kipushi Development" project, AFODEK, which was implemented between December 2012 and November 2017 with financial support from the European Union (DCI-FOOD/2012/294-526). Based on the experience of the Hanns Seidel Foundation in Mampu (Plateaux Batékés), three organizations, GRET, the Belgian non-profit organization Nature+ and the Centre Promotionnel du Paysannat, joined their efforts to develop an agroforestry perimeter of 2,000 hectares (ha) in an area of degraded savannahs with poor soil fertility. This technical document has been prepared by the AFODEK project to share the experience of the Kipushi agroforestry perimeter. It is intended primarily for a public of farmers or agricultural technicians. / L'agroforesterie est un mode de gestion durable des sols. Elle associe dans le temps ou dans l'espace des arbres avec des cultures et/ou l'élevage. Grâce à cette association, des interactions positives se créent entre les différentes composantes du système. Par exemple, l'introduction d'arbres fixateurs d'azote bénéficie aux cultures vivrières en jouant le rôle d'engrais vert. L'agroforesterie d'arbres dans une parcelle de culture apporte également d'autres avantages : - ils facilitent la pénétration de l'eau dans le sol, - ils permettent de lutter contre l'érosion, - ils puisent les éléments nutritifs en profondeur et les rendent disponibles en surface pour les cultures, - ils jouent le rôle de brise-vent, - ils peuvent apporter de l'ombrage en saison sèche, - ils peuvent fournir des fruits comestibles, du miel, du bois d'oeuvre, du bois de chauffe, des produits médicinaux, etc. L'agroforesterie est au coeur du projet "Agroforêts pour le développement de Kipushi", AFODEK, qui a été mis en oeuvre entre décembre 2012 et novembre 2017 grâce au soutien financier de l'Union européenne (DCI-FOOD/2012/294-526). S'appuyant sur l'expérience de la Fondation Hanns Seidel à Mampu (Plateaux Batékés), trois organismes, le GRET, l'asbl belge Nature+ et le Centre Promotionnel du Paysannat ont joint leurs efforts pour aménager un périmètre agroforestier de 2000 hectares (ha) dans une zone de savanes dégradées aux sols peu fertiles. Le présent document technique a été élaboré par le projet AFODEK en vue de partager l'expérience du périmètre agroforestier de Kipushi. Il s'adresse avant tout à un public d'agriculteurs ou de techniciens agricoles.

Life under the starry sky is a collection of papers covering much of the most recent research in Latin American cultural astronomy. The contributors explore the astronomical knowledge and beliefs of Native American peoples, their importance for daily affairs, and reconstruct ancient calendrical and astronomical computations. This book is of particular interest to astronomers, historians, anthropologists and archaeologists, amateur astronomers, custodians of local traditions, tourist operators, and cultural heritage managers.

Wittgensteins Grammatikbegriff ist eigentümlich weit gefasst, das heißt er beinhaltet nicht nur die Regeln für die Anordnung von Wörtern, sondern letztlich alles, was zur Bedeutung eines Begriffes beiträgt. Wittgenstein sieht Grammatik als gleichermaßen mit Willkürlichem und mit Nicht-Willkürlichem verwandt an, wobei der Willkür durch die menschliche Natur und soziale Praktiken Grenzen gesetzt sind. Dieses Buch untersucht genau diese Grenzen mit den Mitteln und Ergebnissen der neuesten linguistischen und kognitionswissenschaftlichen Forschung näher, um die zunächst recht spekulativ anmutenden Argumente Wittgensteins für die Möglichkeit alternativer Grammatiken in Bereichen wie den Farben, der Arithmetik u.a. zu prüfen und über deren Ergebnisse Rückschlüsse zu ziehen auf Grammatiken allgemein und deren Willkürlichkeit.

The collected essays contain an analysis of numerous versions of cultural processing of the journey to India topos, showing multifaceted interrelations between different culture areas. The author compiled rich illustrative material: travel literature and reportage, feature films, infotainment films, forums and travel blogs as well as ethnographic interviews.

La complejidad que entraña el estudio de la Historia de la Familia hace que esta línea de investigación se postule como un espacio todavía abierto y cambiante, que se encuentra en continua revisión, lo cual demuestra que el análisis e interpretación de los núcleos familiares en la historiografía del sur de Europa no está cerrado. Por ello, el objetivo que marcamos con la presente obra colectiva es aportar datos para la reflexión, a través de los cuales pretendemos proyectar dicha problemática en el espacio geográfico comprendido entre el Atlántico y el Mediterráneo. Para alcanzar este propósito en la larga duración, el libro reúneuna decena de trabajos deinvestigadores pertenecientes a nueve universidades españolas,a través de los cuales se amplían teorías y se consolidan ideas entorno alciclo de vida, las estrategias matrimoniales y los modelos de reproducción social desarrollados en el seno de la sociedad del Antiguo Régimen en la Península Ibérica, englobando los siglos XV-XIX.

Was geschieht, wenn Schüler*innen im Unterricht Musik erfinden? Wie begleiten Lehrer*innen diesen Prozess? Wie nutzen Schüler*innen digitale Medien und Portfolios und welche Perspektiven entwickeln sie auf ihr Tun? Im Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojekt ModusM – Musikunterricht im Modus des Musik-Erfindens werden konstitutive Dimensionen von Prozessen des Musik-Erfindens mit qualitativen Methoden erforscht. Der Band präsentiert einige der Forschungsarbeiten der am Projekt ModusM beteiligten Forschungsgruppen. Ihnen gemeinsam ist eine fallanalytische Perspektive, die es ermöglicht, Interaktionsmuster und grundlegende Orientierungen der Akteur*innen durch die Auswertung von Video- und Interviewmaterial sowie von prozessbegleitend geführten Portfolios zu rekonstruieren.

Is it possible to talk about constitutionalism and the constitution beyond the State? If the globalization processes that occurred in the second half of the 20th century already seemed to highlight the emergence of a global constitutional phenomenon, the recent health and environmental crises affirm this as one of the main objects of study in the legal field for the 21st century. Already debated under the "labels" of global, post-national, international, and transconstitutional, among others, the book Transnational Constitutionalism emphasizes the possible convergences between the main existing theoretical propositions based on three different elementary questions that can be summarized as follows: 1) historical—how was it formed? 2) ontological—what is it? 3) epistemological—how is it constructed?

This collection critiques the rhetoric of ‘smart cities’. It seeks to engender a timely debate about what future cities might look like and what their concerns should be. Using a multi-disciplinary perspective, it features acclaimed scholars whose work investigates the proposed networked digital technologies that ostensibly affect planning policies, control infrastructures and deliver and manage city services and systems. The contributors offer insights into how future cities might be envisaged, planned and executed in order to be more ‘equal’.