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“The book examines crucial issues for understanding schooling in rural areas and invites the reader to delve into the meanders of the inexorable historical flow of the movement of ideas. Who were the education ruralists? What actions did they take to make the movement stronger? What are the interests underlying the pedagogical proposals of a ruralized primary school and specific teacher training in rural normal schools? What is the presupposed intentionality in defending the fixation of workers in the countryside?” “It is, as the title suggests, “ideas in motion and [the] movement of ideas”. But it's worth the warning. At no time does the author deal with these propositions as mere abstractions. They are ideas embodied in subjects and social and educational practices. Ideas of a national nature, such as the numerous books written by Sud Mennucci in dialogue with other authors such as Alberto Torres and ruralists of various stripes. Multiple dialogues that extend to the most varied corners of the country and crossed borders. Following the trails of missives received by Sud Mennucci from abroad, the present work gains special emphasis on the international circulation of the ideas of the Movement for the Ruralization of Teaching confronted with other political and institutional actions related to rural education.” Excerpts from the Preface written by Prof. Dr. Rosa Fátima de Souza Chaloba “Campinas, June 2021. A sad end of autumn, devastated by the humanitarian tragedy of more than 473,000 deaths from Covid-19 in Brazil.”

Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal of Neo-Latin Studies, published annually, is the leading journal in the field of medieval, Renaissance, and modern Latin. As well as presenting articles on Neo-Latin topics, the journal is a major source for critical editions of Neo-Latin texts with translations and commentaries. Its systematic bibliography of Neo-Latin studies (Instrumentum bibliographicum Neolatinum), accompanied by critical notes, is the standard annual bibliography of publications in the field. The journal is fully indexed (names, mss., Neo-Latin neologisms).

Marine deoxygenation is increasingly recognized as a major environmental threat. Global warming leads a substantial part of this deoxygenation trend and, it is foreseen to exacerbate during the next decades both in the open ocean and in the coastal waters, which are additionally exposed to increasing anthropogenic pressure. The number of affected coastal systems is already growing exponentially and the most recent assessments of oceanic deoxygenation show the highest rates. Two main challenges are thus addressed to the scientific community: 1) To understand and predict the response of global biogeochemical cycles to deoxygenation. In particular, to clarify how the disturbance induced by lower oxygen conditions on nitrogen and phosphorus cycles across the estuarine-shelves-ocean continuum may feedback on climate systems and on oxygen balance. 2) To evaluate and mitigate the threat posed by deoxygenation on essential and valuable marine goods and services and on marine biodiversity. Open ocean and coastal deoxygenation differ in terms of temporal scale, morphology, driving processes and implications. However, we consider it opportune to gather contributions related to both typologies in order to highlight interactions and common processes, and to promote the synoptic perception of marine deoxygenation required for public awareness and preluding the development of specific mitigation strategies.

Mathematical optimization is the selection of the best element in a set with respect to a given criterion. Optimization has become one of the most-used tools in modern control theory for computing the control law, adjusting the controller parameters (tuning), model fitting, and finding suitable conditions in order to fulfill a given closed-loop property, among others. In the simplest case, optimization consists of maximizing or minimizing a function by systematically choosing input values from a valid input set and computing the function value. Nevertheless, real-world control systems need to comply with several conditions and constraints that have to be taken into account in the problem formulation—these represent challenges in the application of the optimization algorithms. The aim of this Special Issue is to offer the state-of-the-art of the most advanced optimization techniques (online and offline) and their applications in control engineering.]

Sediment Transport Processes and their Modelling Applications is a book which covers a wide range of topics. The effective management of many aquatic environments, requires a detailed understanding of sediment dynamics. This has both environmental and economic implications, especially where there is any anthropogenic involvement. Numerical models are often the tool used for predicting the transport and fate of sediment movement in these situations, as they can estimate the various spatial and temporal fluxes. However, the physical sedimentary processes can vary quite considerably depending upon whether the local sediments are fully cohesive, non-cohesive, or a mixture of both types. For this reason for more than half a century, scientists, engineers, hydrologists and mathematicians have all been continuing to conduct research into the many aspects which influence sediment transport. These issues range from processes such as scour, erosion and deposition, to how sediment process observations can be applied in sediment transport modelling frameworks. This book reports the findings from recent research in applied sediment transport which has been conducted in a wide range of aquatic environments. The research was carried out by researchers who specialise in the transport of sediments and related issues.

KALEIDOSCOPE is the fruit of the work of a team committed to promoting Latin American research: a permanent task for academics in the region. The publication includes a set of research that revolves around topics whose center is organizations: private, public, small or large, with levels of complexity and different types of goals. Looking inside offers a vision of topics that, although diverse, are complementary. (...)

Starting from an analysis around the relationship between individual, training and self-realization, the book is focused on the pedagogical dimension of work within organizations and on the methodological tools that training should offer to face the future. In particular, the first part reflects on the importance of training within working contexts, with particular attention to the strategic role of the development of human resources and the importance to recognize individuals’ peculiarities and abilities. The second part is focused on the methodological tools of training that can be used to orient towards new future perspectives and to develop professional and personal skills. This book is aimed at HR trainers, HR consults and managers.

The eminent Harvard educationalist Howard Garner writes a preface to the Place Model within his Good Project Blog which provides a preface to this timely book. Professional is a slippery term, open to willful abuse, misuse and misunderstanding – as evidenced by the ways in which this chameleon term can be used as both a compliment and an insult. In this book academics from a range of professional fields deconstruct ‘professional’ and reimagine professionals in an age of rapid change where professionals are both increasingly in demand and frequently under threat. Several deploy the lens of Clarke’s Place Model to examine professions including teaching, midwifery, social work, journalism, and optometry. Some papers are empirical and some are based around using the Place Model as a thought experiment. All turn a critical eye on professionals and all find them to be, like all humans, neither devils nor divines (Maya Angelou), but at their best a combination of two indispensable characteristics, trustworthiness and expertise.

Given the widespread belief in witchcraft and the existence of laws against such practices, why did witch-trials fail to gain momentum and escalate into 'witch-crazes' in certain parts of early modern Europe? This book answers this question by examining the rich legal records of the German city of Rothenburg ob der Tauber, a city which experienced a very restrained pattern of witch-trials and just one execution for witchcraft between 1561 and 1652. The author explores the factors that explain the absence of a 'witch-craze' in Rothenburg, placing particular emphasis on the interaction of elite and popular priorities in the pursuit (and non-pursuit) of alleged witches at law. By making the witchcraft narratives told by the peasants and townspeople of Rothenburg central to its analysis, the book also explores the social and psychological conflicts that lay behind the making of accusations and confessions of witchcraft. Furthermore, it challenges existing explanations for the gender-bias of witch-trials, and also offers insights into other areas of early modern life, such as experiences of and beliefs about communal conflict, magic, motherhood, childhood and illness. Written in a lively narrative style, this innovative study invites a wide readership to share in the compelling drama of early modern witch trials. It will be essential reading for researchers working in witchcraft studies, as well as those in the wider field of early modern European history.

Why is it that human rights are considered inviolable norms of justice at local and global scales although the number of their violations has steadily increased in modern history? On the surface, this paradox seems to be reducible to a straightforward discrepancy between idealism and reality in humanitarian affairs, but Imagining Human Rights complicates the picture by offering interdisciplinary perspectives on the imaginary status of human rights. By that the contributors mean not merely subject to imagination, open to interpretation or far too abstract, but also formative of a social imaginary with emphatic identifications and shared values. From a variety of disciplinary perspectives, they explore critical ways of engaging in rigorous interdisciplinary conversations about the origin and language of human rights, personal dignity, redistributive justice, and international solidarity. Together, they show how and why a careful examination of the intersection between disciplinary investigations is essential for imagining human rights at large. Examples range from the legitimacy of land ownership rights and the inadequacy of human faculty to make sense of mass violence in visual representation to the stewardship of human rights promoters and the genealogy of human rights.

The book examines the late ancient history of one pivotal concept of contemporary culture, that of human dignity, with the view to identifying the moment in history when European culture worked out a systematic category for human axiological status. Whereas some studies concentrate on the notion of dignity in the Renaissance, suggesting that the earlier Christian thought emphasized human insignificance, this analysis reveals that it was the patristic writers who undertook the decisive rethinking of human dignity, primarily in light of the incarnation and the introduction of the feast of Christmas. The volume traces the transformation of the culturally prevalent ancient maxim of self-knowledge (“know thyself”) into an axiological appeal (“know thy dignity”) claiming that it was within that tradition that “dignitas hominis” was popularized and entered the European mindset. In order to demonstrate the lasting changes, the volume outlines patristic axiology’s reception in the Middle Ages.

Centered on the trajectory of the emancipation of Roma people in Scandinavia, Romani Liberation is a powerful challenge to the stereotype describing Romani as passive and incapable of responsibility and agency. The author also criticizes benevolent but paternalistic attitudes that center on Romani victimhood. The first part of the book offers a comprehensive overview of the chronological phases of Romani emancipation in Sweden and other countries. Underscoring the significance of Roma activism in this process, Jan Selling profiles sixty Romani activists and protagonists, including numerous original photos. The narrative is followed by an analysis of the concepts of historical justice and of the process of decolonizing Romani Studies. Selling highlights the impact of the historical contexts that have enabled or impeded the success of the struggles against discrimination and for equal rights, emphasizing Romani activism as a precondition for liberation. The particular Swedish framework is accentuated by a stimulating preface by the international activist Nicoleta Bitu, and afterwords by two prominent Romani advocates, the politician Soraya Post and the singer, author, and elder Hans Caldaras.

When investigating the historical context (settlement and ethnic conditions) in the medieval Carpathian Basin (Kingdom of Hungary), the academic field of history also relies on information provided by proper names. This is due to the fact that in the first few centuries of Hungarian written culture, written documents are made up almost entirely of Latin charters; besides these, only four Hungarian texts have survived. Thus, during the early Old Hungarian Era, the tens of thousands of Latin charters provide the key sources for research in historical linguistics, and these are the sources that other fields in history may also rely on when trying to answer various scholarly questions. The Hungarian corpus of Latin charters is mostly made up of proper names as there was vested legal interest in recording these in the vernacular language (to ensure their role as identifiers); European charter writing in general also followed this approach and it obviously served as a model for Hungarian practice as well. The historical source value of the two proper name categories is not identical: there are major differences between toponyms and personal names in terms of the extent to which their use and systems are determined by linguistic factors and the degree to which name giving and name usage are influenced by extra-linguistic forces. For these circumstances, we may consider toponyms to be the more reliable of the two proper name categories when discussing questions related to history. In this paper I outline those scholarly problems in which we can rely on historical toponyms and those in which we cannot expect to move forward with the help of this group of sources.

Idealer Ratgeber für Haus-, Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten Bei Haus-, Bachelor- und Masterarbeiten ist die Umfrage eine beliebte Forschungsmethode. Wolfgang Ortmanns und Ralph Sonntag vermitteln dazu alles Wissenswerte - angefangen von den Rahmenbedingungen, den Fragetypen bis hin zum Umfrageaufbau und der Stichprobenauswahl. Wichtiges statistisches Know-how vermitteln sie zudem, u.a. wichtige Testverfahren und die Korrelationsanalyse. Das Buch richtet sich an Studierende und junge Forschende aus den Bereichen der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften. Gefördert vom Konsortium der sächsischen Hochschulbibliotheken.

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