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Prezentowana monografia to ważna pozycja nie tylko dla badaczy telewizji, lecz także innych współczesnych mediów. Składa się z dwóch wprowadzających, teoretycznych rozdziałów, w których zostały wyznaczone trzy perspektywy oglądu: mediolingwistyczna, dyskursologiczna i telewizyjna [...]. Oba zasługują na podziw. Autorka jest bowiem mistrzynią prowadzenia czytelnika przez niełatwe pojęcia mediolingwistyki. Dwa kolejne rozdziały mają charakter analityczny. Badaczka skonstruowała je według ustalonego porządku: dyskurs polityczny z perspektywy parametrów dyskursywnych, natomiast dyskurs rozrywkowy z perspektywy genologicznej [...]. Publikacja jest zwieńczeniem wieloletnich studiów Ewy Szkudlarek-Śmiechowicz nad telewizją. Autorka jest prawdziwą znawczynią tematu. Wyraźnie dowodzi „telewizyjności” dyskursów, wykazując, że telewizyjne dyskursy są dokładnie takie, jak medium, w którym się toczą. Z recenzji prof. UŚ, dr hab. Magdaleny Ślawskiej O wartości opracowania decydują nie tylko jego walory poznawcze, lecz także ściśle z nimi powiązane walory metodologiczne i formalne. Autorka uzyskała efekt błyskotliwej analizy i głębokiej, przenikliwej syntezy na bazie wieloletnich studiów nad telewizją, godząc perspektywy dyscyplin naukowych, dla których przedmiotem zainteresowania jest telewizja traktowana jako zjawisko komunikacyjne i technologiczne, przede wszystkim językoznawstwa i medioznawstwa. Deklaratywnie i w praktyce wpisawszy swoje badania w nurt badań mediolingwistycznych, wykazała, że jedyną drogą do pełnego zrozumienia mediów jest ogląd transdyscyplinarny. Co więcej, dzięki sposobowi prowadzenia wywodu uczyniła swoją książkę wielofunkcyjną – skierowaną zarówno do badaczy mediów i studentów kierunków przygotowujących do rozpoznawania dyskursów medialnych, m.in. takich jak dziennikarstwo, filologie, kulturoznawstwo, politologia, pedagogika, jak i do wszystkich uważnych odbiorców mediów. Z recenzji prof. UMCS, dr hab. Danuty Kępy-Figury

Les contributions proposées dans ce volume, par leur diversité, apportent un nouvel éclairage sur des questions centrales relatives à l’enseignement / apprentissage du verbe. Elles permettent de mettre en évidence le lien étroit entre recherche linguistique et application didactique dans ce domaine et de réfléchir sur les conditions d’une transposition didactique, en vérifiant la pertinence des propositions faites dans le cadre d’expérimentations menées en classe. En proposant une réflexion sur les critères identificatoires de cette unité ou sur l’organisation du système verbal, en portant une attention particulière sur les manuels scolaires ou encore sur les constructions syntaxiques dépendant du verbe, les études proposées ici ébauchent aussi des pistes qui pourraient être envisagées utilement dans le cadre de la formation des enseignants.

This open access edited volume addresses the multi-layered relations between migration, transnational flows, and the contested meanings of race in Asia. It tries to answer the following questions: how do migration and transnational flows from the Western world impact racial knowledge formation in Asian societies? To what extent do they challenge, perpetuate, and reshape unequal power relations based on the intersection of race, gender, class, nationality, citizenship, and migration status in Asia? How are dominant Western racial categories such as race, whiteness, and blackness redefined and reconstructed in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, when transnational mobility became both heavily restricted and stigmatized ? The book is divided into three parts: Race, Language and Migration status, Covid-19 and the Dynamics of Racialization, Gender and Interracial Encounters. This book positions itself in the nexus of race, migration and pandemic research and will make a significant contribution to critical race studies, whiteness studies, globalization, multiculturalism, and social transformation in Asia. This book is aimed at students and scholars in race and migration studies in Asia and beyond. This is an open access book.

Russia has long been a potential dream partner for the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Russia could greatly enhance the cartel’s market power and has several allies among the OPEC member states. During the 2010s, it seemed that the potential of the OPEC–Russia relationship was finally being realized as they grew closer. However, in this chapter we argue that the strengthened dialogue has little impact on physical oil output and the level of mutual commitment remains low. What they do share is an interest in the semblance of cooperation to push oil prices upward through impacting market psychology. This strategy is in line with the postmodern turn in Russian foreign policy, as proclaimed by Vladislav Surkov and others. It also has some important foreign policy side benefits for Russia, such as weakening its international isolation after the conflict in Ukraine and making it possible to simultaneously befriend various Middle Eastern countries that are at odds with each other. The OPEC–Russia dalliance is also convenient for a third party – the USA. Although the USA is still a net oil importer and its consumers dislike high oil prices, they benefit American oil companies and their employees and investors, especially in the shale oil sector. Arrangements between OPEC and Russia are thus not only a happy pro forma marriage, but also a successful ménage à trois.

“Os autores aqui reunidos compreendem que a história do pensamento pedagógico, sob a chave da interpretação das ideias e das teorias educacionais, ainda tem algo a dizer à Pedagogia. Sabe-se que os modos de ser e de atuar na escola e na família são ancorados por um conjunto de teorias e de interpretações pedagógicas passíveis de serem delineados à luz da trajetória que compõe a obra de inúmeros autores do território pedagógico.”

Physical chemistry

Through the Norwegian welfare state, public authorities have taken responsibility for citizens’ lives and well-being. Schooling and education are guaranteed for each individual, and if one becomes ill, needs help, or otherwise cannot manage on one’s own, the risk to the individual is reduced. All citizens are guaranteed benefits, services, and a certain security through the safety net that the welfare state constitutes. Reducing social inequality is also a welfare-policy goal. But the Norwegian welfare state as we know it is undergoing dramatic change. This book is about which changes stand out as among the most central, why they emerge, and what consequences they may have. The book alternates between analyses of overarching patterns, the drivers behind these patterns as they are created across fields at the welfare state’s ground level, and rich descriptions of how services, professional roles, and users are given new conditions and thus transformed. The book’s themes are wide-ranging, and its contributors seek to shed light on the common features within the great variation that characterizes what we call the transformations of the welfare state.

The biography of Gustavus G. Zertfi (1820-1892) is the first analytical introduction to the Habsburg secret service in the 1850s and 1860s through the case study of a secret agent. By strange coincidence, it is also a major contribution to the. beginnings. of modem Japanese historiography as Zerffi's The Science of History provided the first basic text for Japanese scholars on modem European history and historians after the Meiji revolution of 1868. Though. probably the most formidable. secret agent in the ."neo-absolutistic" Habsburg Empire of the mid-19th century, G. G. Zerffi was an obscure and relatively little known figure in his own time. Over a period. of close to 16. years, Zerffi sent some 2,000 numbered intelligent reports to the Habsburg government in Vienna from Serbia, the Ottoman Empire, Paris, and, mainly, from London (1849-1865). The. biography serves as an introduction to all the available secret reports by Zerffi collected from Austrian and, to a smaller extent, Russian archives, publishing them in the Get-man original as an appendix of his work. Through the life and activities. of one particular figure the book opens up. several chapters of 19th century Europe, Britain, and Japan and contributes significantly to the understanding of the revolutions of 1848-1849 and. their dreadful suppression in the whole continent of Europe. It provides particularly new insight in the working and methods of authoritarian, "pre-dictatorial" Central and East. European secret police systems, censorship, and thought control. All over Europe the police preferred to use highly qualified agents. with, the knowledge of several languages, as well as the history and culture of many regions in order to collect reliable and. varied information. This. in turn was used by the governments to maintain their control over practically the whole of the European continent in much of the 1850s and 1860s.. Several of these well paid police. agents were. prominent professionals such as G. G. Zerffi who came to be one of the founders and first chairmen of the Royal Historical Society in London. It was in this capacity that he contributed to the humanities in Britain as well as to the rise of modem Japanese historiography. This is the first book to provide a thorough introduction to G. G. Zerffi's basically unknown British scholarship from the late 1860s through the early 1890s. A relevant and topical contribution to the understanding of the nature and making of Central and East European autocracies in the mid-19th century, the book will also help the reader to assess the prehistory and early development of modem dictatorial systems in the region. Most of the book is based on primary sources scattered all over Europe in dozens of archives in Vienna, Budapest, London, Moscow, Amsterdam, and Bonn.

This Open Access book summarizes the key findings from the second cycle of IEA’s International Computer and Information Literacy Study (ICILS), conducted in 2018. ICILS seeks to establish how well schools around the globe are responding to the need to provide young people with the necessary digital participatory competencies. Effective use of information and communication technologies (ICT) is an imperative for successful participation in an increasingly digital world. ICILS 2018 explores international differences in students’ computer and information literacy (CIL), namely their ability to use computers to investigate, create, and communicate at home, at school, in the workplace, and in the community. Participating countries also had an option to administer an assessment of students’ computational thinking (CT), focused on their ability to recognize aspects of real-world problems appropriate for computational formulation, and to evaluate and develop algorithmic solutions to those problems, so that the solutions could be operationalized with a computer. The data collected by ICILS 2018 show how digital competencies can be assessed using instruments representing authentic contexts for ICT use, and how students’ CIL and CT skills relate to school learning experiences, out-of-school contexts, and student characteristics. Those data also show how learning technologies are used in classrooms around the world. Background questionnaires asked students about their use of ICT, and collected information from teachers, schools, and national education systems about the resourcing and teaching of CIL (and CT) within their countries. The results of ICILS 2018 will enable policymakers and education systems to develop a better understanding of the contexts and outcomes of CIL (and CT) education programs.

This book is about the chemical properties of starch. The book is a rich compendium driven by the desire to address the unmet needs of biomedical scientists to respond adequately to the controversy on the chemical properties and attendant reactivity of starch. It is a collective endeavor by a group of editors and authors with a wealth of experience and expertise on starch to aggregate the influence of qualitative and quantitative morphological, chemical, and genetic properties of starch on its functionalities, use, applications, and health benefits. The chemical properties of starch are conferred by the presence, amount and/or quality of amylose and amylopectin molecules, granule structure, and the nature and amounts of the lipid and protein molecules. The implication of this is comprehensively dealt with in this book.

A radical exploration of how higher education can advance transformative climate justice.Amid the worsening climate crisis and intensifying inequities, higher education can play a powerful role in addressing the intersecting crises facing humanity. Institutions of higher education hold untapped potential to advance social justice and reduce climate injustices. However, universities are not yet structured to accelerate social change for the public good. In Climate Justice and the University, Jennie Stephens reimagines the potential of higher education to advance human well-being and promote ecological health. Drawing on over thirty years of experience working on the climate crisis within higher education, Stephens offers a provocative and pathbreaking vision of how higher education can accelerate the shift toward more equitable, healthy, and stable futures for all. Building on a US and European context, she integrates examples from the innovative landscape of transformative education initiatives around the world. With climate chaos exacerbating instability of all kinds, reimagining the transformative power of higher education is hopeful and empowering. By inviting readers to collectively reimagine different priorities and structures within higher education, Stephens disrupts long-held assumptions about how universities advance learning and research, suggesting possibilities to shape a more equitable future for all.

Micro electrical discharge machining (micro-EDM) is a thermo-electric and contactless process most suited for micro-manufacturing and high-precision machining, especially when difficult-to-cut materials, such as super alloys, composites, and electro conductive ceramics, are processed. Many industrial domains exploit this technology to fabricate highly demanding components, such as high-aspect-ratio micro holes for fuel injectors, high-precision molds, and biomedical parts.Moreover, the continuous trend towards miniaturization and high precision functional components boosted the development of control strategies and optimization methodologies specifically suited to address the challenges in micro- and nano-scale fabrication.This Special Issue showcases 12 research papers and a review article focusing on novel methodological developments on several aspects of micro electrical discharge machining: machinability studies of hard materials (TiNi shape memory alloys, Si3N4–TiN ceramic composite, ZrB2-based ceramics reinforced with SiC fibers and whiskers, tungsten-cemented carbide, Ti-6Al-4V alloy, duplex stainless steel, and cubic boron nitride), process optimization adopting different dielectrics or electrodes, characterization of mechanical performance of processed surface, process analysis, and optimization via discharge pulse-type discrimination, hybrid processes, fabrication of molds for inflatable soft microactuators, and implementation of low-cost desktop micro-EDM system.

Symbols and legacies of a prestigious past, railway stations and their neighbourhoods are now the focus of strategies for adapting to global change. The book explores the various technical processes involved in this approach (reuse of building materials for renovation, environmental and landscape integration, energy transformations, etc.) and shows how these processes link railway regeneration to territorial development. The twenty-one experts assembled in this book deploy critical approaches and international perspectives to think of railway stations as transdisciplinary border objects where naturalistic, architectural and political perspectives can be articulated. As such, the book will enlighten users, as well as residents and citizens, on the processes of socio-technical transitions underway, as much as it will help them question the costs, effects and ends of the eco-modernization of our public goods and services. French publication: La nouvelle nature des gares, N. Baron,N. Le Bot, P. Detavernier, ISBN 978-2-37924-458-2, GéoTraverses, 2024

Depuis les travaux qui ont renouvelé les perspectives en histoire diplomatique, de nombreux chercheurs se sont intéressés à la culture de la paix, notamment à travers ses rituels. Des historiens se sont penchés sur les modes et les techniques de négociation, ainsi que sur les pratiques de conciliation ou l’idéal de réconciliation, voire de fraternité universelle. Plus récemment le domaine de l’histoire religieuse s’est ouvert à ces problématiques. Sous l’impulsion des recherches menées sur la...

Mit dieser Publikation wird zum ersten Mal ein Bildungsbericht zu gottesdienstlichen Angeboten mit Kindern vorgelegt, zu denen beispielsweise Kinder- und Krabbelgottesdienste oder Kinderbibeltage gehören. Der Bericht beruht auf EKD-weit erhobenen repräsentativen Daten und stellt umfassende Informationen zu Strukturen und Beteiligten sowie zur Gestaltung der Angebote bereit. Insbesondere wird die Situation von gottesdienstlichen Angeboten mit Kindern in Ost-und Westdeutschland, die Mitwirkung von ehrenamtlich und beruflich tätigen Mitarbeitenden sowie die Einbindung von Familien thematisiert. Der Bildungsbericht verdeutlicht die Chancen und Herausforderungen, vor denen gottesdienstliche Angebote mit Kindern aktuell stehen. Er bietet eine empirisch fundierte Wissensgrundlage, die sowohl für die Weiterentwicklung der Angebote als auch für deren Darstellung im inner- und außerkirchlichen Kontext genutzt werden kann.