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The study focuses on the issue of anti-mobbing proceedings. In this text, the Anti-Mobbing Committee was taken under the microscope in the light of jurisprudence. It is a special body because its members are selected by the employer, who may also turn out to be a mobber. This is controversial due to the possible lack of objectivity. The authors also noted that the anti-mobbing procedure itself is not widespread among employees, and it is the employer’s duty to define it. The paper also draws attention to e.g., for allowing the need to share protocols of specific proceedings of the Anti-mobbing Committee or its responsibility for tasks in situations where it was appointed by the employer. After analyzing the jurisprudence, the authors come to various conclusions and emphasize the importance of the existence of the Anti-Mobbing Committee and some aspects related to it, both with the committee itself and its role in the above-mentioned procedure.

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Contemporary semiotics has often gone too far in proposing language as the model to explain every phenomenon of communication. Giorgio Prodi’s seminal book, originally published in Italian in 1977, poses the question from the opposite perspective: his ‘natural history of meaning’ does not depict a biological universe that behaves as if it spoke, but a cultural universe structured even at its highest levels according to the same modes and processes of mutual adaptation and ‘reading’ that happen at the level of cells. The picture he paints shows us knowledge at its origin, as a process of environmental adaptation and interpretation, in which the discoveries of biology interact with those of semiotics. Within this natural history of language competence, the book emphasises the remote, primitive phase, which takes place below the threshold of the subjective and the social. Proceeding from there it outlines a holistic hypothesis of semiosis at the cultural level: the elementary phases of the recognition of meaning, which become progressively more complex as the phylogenesis progresses, lead all the way to the construction of linguistic systems in the human animal. This is an investigation of the elementary biological processes in order to identify the material logic that is the foundation of the higher processes of meaning-making – prehistory of the sign, biology of semiosis: from the side of nature and from the side of culture. | Giorgio Prodi (1928–1987) was an Italian oncologist and a pioneer of biosemiotics.

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Digital health, virtual assistance, and telemedicine are terms often used interchangeably to refer to remote medical assistance, monitoring and care. Several studies and insights have developed these issues, analyzing the advantages and disadvantages and successes and failures and offering reflections on the implications and issues of these technologies in the health domain. The results of these investigations are affecting the redesign of hospital and outpatient management based on digital innovation using eHealth and mHealth. During the COVID-19 pandemic, this approach made it possible to offer assistance and continue care at home, protecting patients, preserving health workers, limiting the spread of the virus, and reducing the need for hospitalization. This reprint contains contributions dealing with the development of DH during the COVID-19 pandemic. The contributions are from various experts in different fields regarding the application of digital health, which, in some cases is also integrated with artificial intelligence, including digital contact tracing, mHealth, virtual reality, mental health, physiology, and rehabilitation.

We have multiple contacts with animals. They are everywhere around us. We share the same environment, the same planet ... and we also share infectious or parasitic diseases. This book sheds a synthetic light on the diseases transmissible between humans and animals, called zoonoses. After having clearly defined what these diseases are, how they are transmitted and presented the major zoonoses, the authors explain the various means of protecting us from them and explain the reasons for their emergence and their evolution. This book invites us to better understand the animal and microbial world that surrounds us. It allows us to understand these diseases in order to better protect ourselves from them and, beyond that, to reconsider the links we have with animals and the entire living world in order to fully reintegrate it.

Friedliche Revolution und deutsche Einheit jährten sich 2019 und 2020 zum dreißigsten Mal. Was ist seit 1990 im Osten Deutschlands im Rahmen des Transformations- und Vereinigungsprozesses passiert? Wie wirken die Umbrüche bis in die Gegenwart? Wie einig ist die deutsche Gesellschaft heute und welche Zukunftsperspektiven zeichnen sich ab? Die in diesem Band versammelten Studien bündeln die Ergebnisse der Transformationsforschung der vergangenen Dekaden. Sie analysieren die Ursachen, Phasen und Wirkungen des postkommunistischen Systemwechsels, beleuchten dessen politische, ökonomische, soziale und psychologische Dimensionen und binden sie in eine langfristige Alltags- und Gesellschaftsgeschichte ein. • fundierter Überblick zum aktuellen Stand der Transformationsforschung • Vorschläge für die zukünftige Gestaltung des Vereinigungsprozesses in Deutschland • Vorwort von Matthias Platzeck und Marco Wanderwitz

Originally published in 1964. Jeffry Kaplow investigates the effects of the French Revolution on life in Elbeuf, a textile town in Normandy, through a social-historical lens. A careful study of local demographic, fiscal, and tax records allows him to reconstruct the social structure of Elbeuf's population on the eve of the French Revolution and to make claims about its economy, which was based on wool production. Somewhat unusually, there was no strong noble or clerical presence in Elbeuf, which was dominated by wool manufacturers. Despite the destabilizing effects of the Revolution, which included an economic downturn and an inflamed sense of grievance among less wealthy local constituencies, the bourgeoisie retained its grip on power in Elbeuf and its environs throughout this period. With the support of extensive archival evidence, Kaplow goes to great lengths to model the particular social and economic conditions that allowed this town to avoid succumbing to the tumult of the Revolution and to undergo, in fact, so little change compared with most municipalities of the country.

Everything To Play For asks if videogames can achieve egalitarian goals instead of fuelling hyper-materialist, reactionary agendas. Combining cultural theory and materialist critiques with accessible language and personal anecdotes, industry insider Marijam Did engages both novices and seasoned connoisseurs. From the innovations of Pong and Doom to the intricate multiplayer or narrative-driven games, the author highlights the multifaceted stories of the gaming communities and the political actors who organise among them. Crucially, the focus also includes the people who make the games, shedding light on the brutal processes necessary to bring titles to the public.The videogame industry, now larger than the film and music industries combined, has a proven ability to challenge the status quo. With a rich array of examples, Did argues for a nuanced understanding of gamings influence so that this extraordinary power can be harnessed for good.

Ce bouquet d'études dialoguant entre elles tout en approfondissant l'enquête sur la figure et l'œuvre de Sylvie Germain – romancière et essayiste capitale de notre temps – constitue un vaste panorama éclairant les principales facettes de son univers : sa pensée et sa vision du monde, son esthétique et son éthique, son interrogation sur le sens de l'existence, sa création. Chaque spécialiste s'est attaché à mettre en évidence une de ses caractéristiques, de sorte que c'est un premier bilan qui est ici rassemblé, où se succèdent des considérations sur l'histoire littéraire et la grande Histoire, la situation de la pensée de l'auteur, les spécificités et le travail de son imaginaire et de son écriture, ses conceptions esthétiques et éthiques, l'univers propre à ses romans et les modalités de sa création romanesque, la singularité de sa voix. Le tout est accompagné par la présence, l'écoute et les réactions de Sylvie Germain, et suivi d'une bibliographie de référence.

The Orlac boat (Charente-Maritime), dated to the first-half of the XIth century and excavated in 1987 and 1988, comprises the major part of this publication. 15,50 metres in length and 2,10 in width, this vessel, with its own particular caracteristics, is representative of assembled monoxyle boat architecture. The study of this wreck was at the same time combined with a study of river and riverbank improvements at Orlac, and with other medieval wrecks (essentially dug outs) excavated elsewhere in the Charente. This archaeological approach to medieval water transport of the Charente has been continued by an analysis of written sources, the progression of river improvements (Middle-Ages to XIXth century), of navigation and their consequences on the regional economy.