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The book of proceedings brings together contributions, submitted to the international conference Mapping the spaces of modernist cities within the context of CIAM's Athens charter, which is result of the applied national project Mapping the Urban Spaces of Slovenian Cities from the Historical Perspective: Modernism in Nova Gorica and its Contexts (L6-8262), financed by the Slovenian Research Agency, Municipality of Nova Gorica and the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The papers critically reflect on the Athens Charter, which established the principles of a functionalist city at the 4th CIAM Congress (Congrès internationaux d'architecture moderne) in 1933. The case studies discuss cities, which were newly built in the 20th century in the Soviet Union, Germany, Italy, the Baltic States, Iran and Slovenia, with Nova Gorica at the forefront. They are organized into seven thematic sections, covering a number of previously poorly researched topics: the foundation and establishment of a functional city, the centres of new functionalist towns and the identity of a town, monotony or diversity of modernist residential architecture, the forgotten and decaying industrial heritage, religious architecture in new functionalist towns, monuments in the public space of functionalist city and mapping and visualization of a town.

What will be the future role of hermeneutics in literary theory? Can we shape the future of hermeneutics by going back to its tradition and by looking at the way hermeneutics is relevant in other disciplines? The new issue of Cahier voor Literatuurwetenschap has two objectives. First, we wish to study the role of hermeneutics in other disciplines, such as the philosophy of history, theology, and the cognitive sciences. It will be clear that literary theory benefits from this interdisciplinary exercise. Second, we will have a closer look at the hermeneutical tradition in literary theory. Important chapters from the history of hermeneutics (e.g., Schleiermacher, Heidegger, Iser) are revisited and its influence in recent theoretical developments is considered.

In den letzten Jahrzehnten hat die Frage, wie Gesellschaften mit der Vergangenheit umgehen, bei politischen Akteuren, in der Zivilgesellschaft und in der Wissenschaft zunehmende Beachtung gefunden. Diese Publikation trägt zu einem Dialog über Erfahrungen aus transnationaler und transregionaler Perspektive in Deutschland, Kolumbien und Südafrika bei.

The NEUROGES® analysis system is an objective and reliable interdisciplinary research tool for analysis of body movement and gesture. The system has been field-tested on more than 500 individuals from cultures of five continents, including healthy adults and children as well as individuals with mental illness or brain damage, and further, on non-human primates. Following up on the first book on theoretical background of the NEUROGES® system, which was published in 2013, this book contains the complete coding manual for the application of the system in research including an interactive video learning tool with video examples of all NEUROGES® hand movement and gesture types, training videos, and a template file for the Multimedia Annotator ELAN.

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In the vast literature on how the Second World War has been remembered in Europe, research into what happened in communist Poland, a country most affected by the war, is surprisingly scarce. The long gestation of Polish narratives of heroism and sacrifice, explored in this book, might help to understand why the country still finds itself in a «mnemonic standoff» with Western Europe, which tends to favour imagining the war in a civil, post-Holocaust, human rights-oriented way. The specific focus of this book is the organized movement of war veterans and former prisoners of Nazi camps from the 1940s until the end of the 1960s, when the core narratives of war became well established.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. When the links in the chain represent development projects, if individual projects fail to achieve their purpose, the development program's effectiveness is compromised. When the chain's links are strong and well-connected, the results are improved for the sector, country, and region. The role of multilateral banks is crucial; they inform the impact of development operations and support policymakers in decision making. This volume emphasizes that some crucial links in development tend to be systematically overlooked. In these matters, preoccupation with the immediate exigencies seems to come at the expense of attention to enduring problems-at a great cost to society. Development practitioners should apply policies that have produced results over time, ensuring that the links in the chain are strong, but too often they overlook those links-because of myopia, complexity, tradition, or special interests. This book will help policy makers and practitioners focus on the links that measure progress, apply lessons, and matter for lasting results.

From Samurai to Engineer-Manager reconstructs the life and work of the Japanese mining engineer Ōhara Junnosuke in the early decades of Japan’s industrialization. While Japan's political and socio-economic development during the Meiji period has been extensively researched, the technological/technical foundations that were crucial to its success have remained largely obscure. Drawing on unique, mostly handwritten sources including lecture notes, internship and work experience reports, travelogues and diaries, the example of Ōhara Junnosuke illustrates the beginnings of engineering education in Japan and its intertwining with the subsequent professional career of the protagonist. Born in 1859 into a samurai family, Ōhara Junnosuke studied at the Imperial College of Engineering in Tōkyō, the first higher technical school in Japan. He worked for the Ministry of Public Works, then joined a private mining company as head manager of the Ōmori Mine in Iwami, where he oversaw the construction of a modern silver production plant. His premature death in 1896 ended a promising career. Ōhara’s education and professional career are in many ways typical of Japan’s emerging technical elite and their contribution to the industrialization. The book will be of interest to scholars in the fields of history of technology, economic history and history of education not only concerning Japan, but in general. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Dans le prolongement de l’ouvrage consacré à la sûreté des installations nucléaires édité en 1996 dont le contenu devait être actualisé et le champ étendu, l’IRSN a créé une nouvelle série d’ouvrages didactiques intitulée « Éléments de sûreté nucléaire, de radioprotection et de sécurité ». Cette série s’inscrit dans l’objectif général d’aborder la globalité des aspects visant in fi ne à la maîtrise du risque nucléaire en termes de protection de la santé humaine, de la société et de l’environnement. Le premier ouvrage de cette série, dédié à la sécurité nucléaire et à la nonprolifération, expose les dispositions prises en France et à l’international afin de prévenir des actions d’origine terroriste ou malveillante et, si nécessaire, en réduire les conséquences. Il aborde la sécurité des matières nucléaires, de leurs installations et de leurs transports, la sécurité des sources radioactives et traite de l’engagement des États en termes de « garanties » quant au suivi des matières nucléaires ou chimiques afin d’en prévenir toute utilisation frauduleuse. Le contenu de ces ouvrages s’adresse à toute personne sensibilisée à ces sujets, notamment de par leur activité dans l’industrie nucléaire, mais aussi à toute personne du public qui y trouvera des réponses à ses questionnements en la matière. Y sont présentés, les éléments de contextes et l’historique, les dispositions réglementaires françaises et les accords internationaux ainsi que le rôle des différents acteurs, parmi lesquels celui de l’IRSN.

Since the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN-CRPD), inclusive education is a recurring topic in international and national discourse. Nevertheless, implementation is interpreted and realized differently at national and regional level. Legally, Spain already shifted its focus from segregated to integrative and finally to inclusive education long before the UN-CRPD and has one of the lowest segregation ratios of students with „special educational needs“ in Europe. Therefore, Spain is the primary focus of this study, which makes a contribution to international research on inclusion.Due to the qualitative multi-level approach of this study, the subject of research, the consideration of „special educational needs“ within the Spanish school system, can be analyzed at different levels and examined in some secondary schools in Andalusia on a regional basis. Therefore, the aim is to answer the question, which role disability plays in the context of the concept of diver-sity to guarantee inclusive education and equal opportunities. The analysis of the institutional change of „special educational needs“ since the democratization of the country on the national level is the basis of the study in order to derive this term historically, whose path-dependent development points to a high institutional stability both with regard to segregated forms of schooling and to the categorization of students. At the same time, the investigation at school level shows that asymmetrical control in combination with a high degree institutionalization of segregated structures leads to the reproduction of the legally established considerations of diversity of students in schools – although on the basis of diverging difference categories.

Decoupling economic growth from the depletion of natural resources is paramount to achieving more sustainable development models. As one of the major contributors to anthropogenic environmental impacts, the construction sector must transition toward more efficient and circular practices. In this context, alkali-activated materials offer a unique opportunity to upcycle low-grade resources and industrial by-products into eco-friendly construction materials with excellent technical performance. The scientific community has made notable progress in both fundamental and applied research on these materials; however, further exploration remains essential to unlock their full potential. This Reprint of Applied Sciences, entitled “Alkali-Activated Materials: Advances and Novel Applications”, brings together significant contributions that reflect both the recent advances and the ongoing challenges in the field. The contributions collected in this Reprint address a wide range of scientific topics, including the use novel precursors, unconventional additives and reinforcing fibers, mixed design optimization, and innovative processing and curing methods. The contributions made also provide valuable insights into key technical aspects such as mechanical performance, volumetric stability, durability, and self-healing ability, while highlighting emerging applications for alkali-activated materials such as high-temperature resistance and well cementing.

With the continuous development of social civilization and the gradual improvement in the level of road engineering construction, there are more urgent requirements for road service functions, including green construction and safety guarantees. Asphalt is the world's most commonly used material in the construction of pavement engineering and coatings. Since entering the 21st century, the emergence of new functional materials and the development of the interdisciplinary concept have provided strong support for the design and construction of all kinds of green asphalt materials. In recent decades, the composition and property of asphalt paving materials have dramatically changed and, consequently, the development of green, sustainable, and functional materials is a new challenge that researchers are facing globally in order to tackle the aforementioned needs. At the same time, it is also the foremost direction for advancement in the development of road engineering discipline. As a result, scholars around the world have carried out a lot of in-depth research on novel green asphalt materials and applied technologies, and a number of important innovative results have been achieved. This Special Issue shall highlight the latest trends in novel green asphalt materials of special function. The studies included in this Special Issue will help guide the development direction of functional asphalt materials.

Le présent ouvrage est donc le résultat du colloque d’Amiens des 21 et 22 juin 2018, intitulé : Administrer la ville dans et hors les murs, continuité(s) ou rupture(s) ? Ladite rencontre a donné lieu à quatorze communications s’organisant en cinq thématiques majeurs qui permettent d’appréhender la société urbaine médiévale dans une grande partie de sa globalité, à savoir : le commerce et l’économie, la défense militaire et sécuritaire, la défense et son impact urbain, la perception et occupation des espaces, et la justice. Douze de ces interventions ont été retenues pour ces actes qui sont ici réorganisés en quatre parties : la défense militaire et la sécurité, la défense et son impact urbain, la perception et occupation des espaces, et la justice.

Over the last 30 years there has been a substantial increase in the study of the history of translation. Both well-known and lesser-known specialists in translation studies have worked tirelessly to give the history of translation its rightful place. Clearly, progress has been made, and the history of translation has become a viable independent research area.This book aims at claiming such autonomy for the field with a renewed vigour. It seeks to explore issues related to methodology as well as a variety of discourses on history with a view to laying the groundwork for new avenues, new models, new methods. It aspires to challenge existing theoretical and ideological frameworks. It looks toward the future of history. It is an attempt to address shortcomings that have prevented translation history from reaching its full disciplinary potential. From microhistory, archaeology, periodization, to issues of subjectivity and postmodernism, methodological lacunae are being filled.Contributors to this volume go far beyond the text to uncover the role translation has played in many different times and settings such as Europe, Africa, Latin America, the Middle-east and Asia from the 6th century to the 20th. These contributions, which deal variously with the discourses on methodology and history, recast the discipline of translation history in a new light and pave the way to the future of research and teaching in the field.