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All Along Bob Dylan: America and the World offers an important contribution to thinking about the artist and his work. Adding European and non-English speaking contexts to the vibrant field of Dylan studies, the volume covers a wide range of topics and methodologies while dealing with the inherently complex and varied material produced or associated with the iconic artist. The chapters, organized around three broad thematic sections Geographies, Receptions and Perspectives, address the notions of audience, performance and identity, allowing to map out the structure of feeling and authenticity, both, in the case of the artist and his audience. Taking its cue from the collapse of the so-called high-/ low culture split following from the Nobel Prize, the book explores the argument that Dylan (and all popular music) can be interpreted as literature and offers discussions in the context of literary traditions, or visual culture and music. This contributes to a nuanced and complex portrayal of the seminal cultural phenomenon called Bob Dylan.

The text examines the issue of interpreting PRC history from a variety of perspectives, ranging from the Communist Party’s reinterpretation of its own past to the instrumental use of the so-called ‘historical nihilism’, from the practice of historical analogy with reference to current political events to the historiographical approach of Global History. The volume also explores the complex relationship between history and memory – public and individual – as it unfolds in modern and contemporary Chinese literature. Finally, to complete the overall picture, historical narratives of television production and specific examples of the gendered history of the Hakka minority are included.

Wie kam die deutsche Gesellschaft nach der Befreiung von der NS-Diktatur in der Demokratie an? Dieser Frage widmet sich Elisabeth Kölmel am Beispiel des Materialprüfungsamtes in Berlin-Dahlem und seiner Belegschaft. Der analytische Fokus liegt auf der Bedeutung sozialer Normen, denen eine zentrale Rolle dabei zukam, eine Krieg und Vernichtung dienende Behörde in eine Anstalt zu transformieren, die sich in das institutionelle Gefüge der bundesdeutschen Demokratie einfügte.

In the child and adolescent psychiatric clinics, more and more children and adolescents are being introduced by schools, school psychology services, youth welfare offices and the police in order to have their potential risks assessed professionally. Against this background, but also in view of the dramatic rampage events in Erfurt, Emsdetten and Winnenden, the book provides an overview of the latest interdisciplinary research findings as well as attempts to explain the specific dynamics and conveys treatment concepts and approaches to prevention. The author pursues the principle that only an interdisciplinary approach and the synopsis of the various aspects from a developmental psychological, depth psychological, systemic, neurobiological and sociological perspective can do justice to the complex topic of understanding the dynamics.

The Russian-German dictionary by Pawlowsky, which first appeared in Riga in 1859, is a little-noticed in Slavic jewel so far. This is astonishing precisely because it is an indispensable tool in reading the Russian classics, its bilingualism is authentic and quite reliable down to scientific nomenclature and also not only records but also explains a great deal of idiomatic and probiotic. The aim of this work is to contribute to the history of Russian-German lexicography through a metalexographic single analysis of this work. The centuries-old disinterest in the results of lexicographical work also explains that Ivan Pawlowsky's Russian-German dictionary, to this day, must be considered terra incognita. Secondary: Pavlovsky's Russian-German dictionary.

Namen knjige je odgovoriti na vprašanje, kako etnično-migracijska dinamika v Sloveniji kroji razmere, v katere se vpenja vojska kot specifična delovna organizacija, s poudarkom na vprašanju zaposlovanja v Slovenski vojski. Tako kot izhajamo iz potrebe po kompleksnejši integraciji priseljencev, ki je pogoj za notranjo varnost Slovenije, hkrati pa predstavlja možnost za razširitev nabornega potenciala Slovenske vojske, smo tudi rešitve iskali zlasti na polju učinkovitejših ukrepov za uspešno integracijo priseljencev in doslednejšega uresničevanja že sprejetih usmeritev na tem področju. Knjiga je zasnovana izrazito interdisciplinarno. Raziskava, katere rezultat prinaša knjiga, je bila z metodološkega vidika v prevladujočem delu izrazito kvalitativne narave, v vsebinskem smislu pa prav tako izrazito usmerjena k humanističnim vidikom obravnavane problematike.

Changes in sea surface roughness are usually associated with a change in the sea surface wind field. This interaction has been exploited to measure sea surface wind speed by scatterometry. A number of features on the sea surface associated with changes in roughness can be observed by synthetic aperture radar (SAR) because of the change in Bragg backscatter of the radar signal by damping of the resonant ocean capillary waves. With various radar frequencies, resolutions, and modes of polarization, sea surface features have been analyzed in numerous campaigns, bringing various datasets together, thus allowing for new insights into small-scale processes at a larger areal coverage. This Special Issue aims at investigating sea surface features detected by high spatial resolution radar systems, such as SAR.

With breakthroughs of artificial intelligence (AI) under the fourth industrial revolution, intelligent applications are providing innovative solutions for the food industry. AI is able to support the positive transformation and upgrading of food technologies alongside the digitization, automatization, and intelligence of the food industry in light of its powerful perceiving, reasoning, and decision-making capabilities. Novel applications based on AI are changing all activities in the food industry, ranging from production to processing and packaging, transporting and storing, and consuming and disposing, benefiting all actors in food industry. Combined with technologies such as the internet of things (IoT) and big data, AI is facilitating the development of new recipes and food, food process simulation and optimization, food quality and safety monitoring, etc. This Special Issue, “Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Food Industry”, focuses on advancing novel methods and applications in the food industry at the intersection of food and AI.

Die Geschichte vom Aufstieg und der Zerstörung des größten Hamburger Modehauses.1889 siedelte Leo Robinsohn von der Provinz Posen nach Frankfurt a. M. über und gründete dort die Firma »Gebr. Robinsohn«. Drei Jahre später machte er sich auf den Weg nach Hamburg, wo er auf der Bleichenbrücke ein Geschäft eröffnete, das kontinuierlich expandierte und schon bald zum führenden Modehaus für Damen in der Hansestadt wurde. Seit 1901 befand es sich am Neuen Wall.Leo und – seit 1894 – sein Bruder Max Robinsohn waren zunächst alleinige Eigentümer, in späteren Jahren traten dann ihre Söhne in die Firma ein, die auch Modelle und Hüte anfertigte und in ihrer Hochphase über 700 Mitarbeiter beschäftigte.Mit der Machtübernahme der Nationalsozialisten änderte sich alles. Spätestens seit der brutalen Zerstörung des Modehauses am 9. November 1938 war den Eigentümern klar, dass nichts mehr zu retten war. Die beiden Seniorchefs wurden inhaftiert, später wieder freigelassen. Hans Robinsohn, der Sohn von Max, floh mit seiner Familie nach Dänemark und später nach Malmö, wo bereits seine Eltern lebten. Leo Robinsohn und seine Frau konnten nach Paris entkommen. Die Firma wurde im März 1939 »arisiert« und weit unter Wert verkauft. Nach Kriegsende kam es zur Restitution, sodass das Grundstück am Neuen Wall noch lange im Familienbesitz blieb.

This Element provides a review of the clinical features, genetic basis, pathophysiology, pharmacology and treatment of these genetic conditions authored by leading experts in the field and accompanied by perspectives shared by affected families. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

The importance of seismic wave research lies not only in our ability to understand and predict earthquakes and tsunamis, but it also reveals information on the Earth's composition and features in much the same way as it led to the discovery of Mohorovicic's discontinuity. As our theoretical understanding of the physics behind seismic waves has grown, physical and numerical modeling have greatly advanced and now augment applied seismology for better prediction and engineering practices. This book demonstrates the latest techniques and advances in seismic wave analysis from a theoretical approach, data acquisition and interpretation, to analyses and numerical simulations, as well as research applications. The major topics in this book cover aspects on seismic wave propagation, characteristics of their velocities and attenuation, deformation process of the Earth's medium, seismic source process and tectonic dynamics with relating observations, as well as propagation modeling of seismic waves.

The beginning of the 21st century was marked by an increase in the number of emerging/reemerging infectious diseases detected worldwide and by the challenging COVID-19 pandemic. Most of these emerging diseases are caused by viruses that are primarily RNA viruses of animal origin, with a long history of adaptation to their natural hosts, becoming pathogenic when crossing species barriers.The conditions for viral persistence in animal reservoirs, particularly among the very diverse species of rodents and bats, and pathogenicity in humans are not always elucidated. Meanwhile, outbreaks are influenced by human activities that disrupt ecosystems and increase contact between infected animals and humans. Therefore, population dynamics are of great importance, with domestic animals playing key roles as intermediaries in the transmission of viruses.Considering the increase in emerging infectious disease and their occurrence on a global scale, damage to ecosystems, mainly caused by human activities that, thereby increase contact between wild animals, domestic animals, and humans, the global “One Health” approach is essential. The articles published in the Special Issue, “Viral Zoonoses: Interactions and Factors Driving Virus Transmission “, contribute to this reflection.

This open access book on straw management aims to provide a wide array of options for rice straw management that are potentially more sustainable, environmental, and profitable compared to current practice. The book is authored by expert researchers, engineers and innovators working on a range of straw management options with case studies from Vietnam, the Philippines and Cambodia. The book is written for engineers and researchers in order to provide them information on current good practice and the gaps and constraints that require further research and innovation. The book is also aimed at extension workers and farmers to help them decide on the best alternative straw management options in their area by presenting both the technological options as well as the value chains and business models required to make them work. The book will also be useful for policy makers, required by public opinion to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution, looking for research-based evidence to guide the policies they develop and implement.

Electrocardiograms are one of the most widely used methods for evaluating the structure-function relationships of the heart in health and disease. This book is the first of two volumes which reviews recent advancements in electrocardiography. This volume lays the groundwork for understanding the technical aspects of these advancements. The five sections of this volume, Cardiac Anatomy, ECG Technique, ECG Features, Heart Rate Variability and ECG Data Management, provide comprehensive reviews of advancements in the technical and analytical methods for interpreting and evaluating electrocardiograms. This volume is complemented with anatomical diagrams, electrocardiogram recordings, flow diagrams and algorithms which demonstrate the most modern principles of electrocardiography. The chapters which form this volume describe how the technical impediments inherent to instrument-patient interfacing, recording and interpreting variations in electrocardiogram time intervals and morphologies, as well as electrocardiogram data sharing have been effectively overcome. The advent of novel detection, filtering and testing devices are described. Foremost, among these devices are innovative algorithms for automating the evaluation of electrocardiograms.

The volume, dedicated to the 44th International Conference of the Italian Union for Drawing, investigates the theme of ‘Transitions’, which particularly effectively represents our time and the current condition of the discipline of Drawing. The term, beyond its generic meaning of an intermediate stage in a process in which a condition changes from one state to another, has always been used in various fields, from music to geophysics. In fact, the disciplines of drawing have always been confronted with themes and issues relating to transitions from one condition to another. The history of representation tells us of transformations, even epochal ones, relating to ‘drawing’, with all that such transitions entail: suffice it to think of the evolution of forms of representation, of instrumental apparatuses, of the mutability of supports, of the analogical-digital transition underway, of the new modes of communication on platforms, of the hypertrophic offer of images also on the net that confirms Guy Debord’s intuitions relating to the new spectacularisation of society. Similarly, representation triggers transitions in the prefiguration and communication of design, the anticipation and foreshadowing of future events.The challenges posed by the digital pose open questions whose scope can only be glimpsed, such as the relationship between drawing and the act of modelling, and the construction of new paradigms of visual language and communication. ‘Transitions’, almost implicitly, points to possible futures, the evolution of technique and the search for new modes of expression; at the same time, however, it can suggest silences and reflections in a process of connection between history, theory, criticism and construction.