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Human Teeth - The Intersection of Science, Disease, and Clinical Practice is a dynamic exploration of oral health across clinical, technological, and public health domains. This expertly edited volume provides a comprehensive look at the evolution of dental care, from early prevention to global disease patterns, complex treatment challenges, and emerging technologies in restorative dentistry. With clear insights and a multidisciplinary lens, the book highlights how oral health connects to broader issues such as systemic disease, healthcare equity, digital innovation, and lifelong well-being. Designed for both dental professionals and engaged readers, it offers in-depth knowledge without assuming prior expertise. Combining evidence-based discussion with real-world relevance, this volume reveals the essential role of teeth as more than biological structures—they are touchpoints of our personal health, clinical precision, and social systems. The book bridges the gap between academic theory and applied clinical practice through engaging content and up-to-date research perspectives. Ideal for dental students, clinicians, researchers, and public health advocates, this volume empowers readers to understand the full spectrum of modern dentistry. Whether you're focused on community-based prevention or cutting-edge treatment, this book delivers valuable knowledge at the intersection of science, disease, and innovation.

The dairy industry faces challenges that impact the quality, safety, nutrition, and consumer acceptability of dairy products. The most important dairy product is milk, which is one of the most nutritious of all foods and is widely consumed worldwide. As such, it is important to optimize processes and innovation to convert milk into value-added products to ensure consumer well-being and food security for the growing global population. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the science and technology of dairy processing. It includes eight chapters that discuss recent issues, technology updates, and unique topics in the field. Topics include starter cultures in fermentation, camel milk, milk-borne infectious disease, lactic acid bacteria, and much more.

This book concerns the different aspects of forest fires, the impact of fire on both forest resources (e.g. forest cover) and communities that use different forest functions. Therefore, forest fires have their environmental, economic and social consequences, and none of them is less important. Forest fires can be caused by both natural forces and anthropogenic factors, and in the latter case, it is extremely interesting to profile the potential arsonist. Forest fires may also cause conflicts, stronger or weaker, in local communities that have been using forests for years. These conflicts can be solved both by gradually changing the law itself and through education at the local level. Not less important is the ability to detect fires early, which can be helped by the development of modern technologies. In limiting the effects of forest fires, it may also be helpful to develop mathematical models that indicate various factors affecting the possibility of a fire or affecting the rate of its spread. Not less important is the attempt to assess the direction of forest regeneration after the fire has ceased, in understanding what the help of modern technology is. These aspects of forest fire are the subject of this book. I realize, however, that the contents in it can only be an incentive for the reader to learn more, in an interesting aspect. I assume that this book will be valuable to researchers as well as students who are interested in different aspects connected to forest fires, not only from the ecological point of view but also from the social one. Both are extremely important in future forest protection and sustainable use of forest by local communities.

This open access book studies the history of the island of Crete as a site of ethnic and religious mixing and reveals how this relates to modern day interest in pluralistic community formation. Louis A Ruprecht Jr. explores the mixture of culture, traditions, languages, and religion in the Greek island of Crete to explore the idea that mixing creates both marvels and monsters. The book considers how all of the bodies living and mixing on Crete were caught up in ritual, ceremony, and contexts which can be identified as religious. Ruprecht explores archeology, literature, myths, and biblical stories, revealing how the history of mixing cultures and ideas in Crete, focusing mostly on Greek mythology and the early spread of Christianity. In essence, Ruprecht uses Crete’s history as an example to show how we can live in mixed societies rather than amidst constant culture wars. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Emory University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Im Rahmen des Projekts Duncker & Humblot reprints heben wir Schätze aus dem Programm der ersten rund 150 Jahre unserer Verlagsgeschichte, von der Gründung 1798 bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs 1945. Lange vergriffene Klassiker und Fundstücke aus den Bereichen Rechts- und Staatswissenschaften, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Geschichte, Philosophie und Literaturwissenschaft werden nach langer Zeit wieder verfügbar gemacht – und zwar sowohl gedruckt als auch in elektronischer Form. Einige Titel sind bereits erschienen. Täglich kommen weitere hinzu. Bis Ende des Jahres wird das »Duncker & Humblot reprints«-Programm auf ca. 1.500 Bände anwachsen. Möchten Sie regelmäßig über Neuerscheinungen aus dem reprints-Programm informiert werden? Dann abonnieren Sie unseren E-Mail-Benachrichtigungsdienst.

Se nourrir est, pour l’espèce humaine, une nécessité biologique, mais c’est aussi un acte social, qui reflète et traduit, jusque dans ses modalités les plus concrètes, un certain état des rapports qu’entretiennent les membres d’un groupe social. Comment manger et cuisiner interagissent-ils avec la construction ou l’évolution d’une société ? Comment l’alimentation participe-t-elle à la construction des normes et des pratiques sociales et politiques d’une communauté humaine ? Cet ouvrage aborde ces questions au travers d’une étude de cas. Faisant dialoguer des aires géographiques et culturelles très diverses (France, Chine, Iran, Israël, Turquie, Japon) sous l’angle des différentes approches propres aux sciences humaines (histoire, sociologie, littérature…), son but est d’apporter un éclairage original et sans parti pris sur le rapport entre alimentation et changement social. Une approche résolument pluridisciplinaire et multiaréale au service d’une question qui, par sa formulation et le traitement qui en est ici donné, entend faire ressortir l’« humain » et le « social » au fondement des sciences qui leur sont théoriquement dédiées, mais qui, par le formalisme inhérent à toute approche théorique, ont souvent du mal à les envisager dans leur singularité et leur originalité vivante.

From the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, jazz was harnessed as America’s "sonic weapon" to promote an image to the world of a free and democratic America. Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, Duke Ellington and other well-known jazz musicians were sent around the world – including to an array of Communist countries – as "jazz ambassadors" in order to mitigate the negative image associated with domestic racial problems. While many non-Americans embraced the Americanism behind this jazz diplomacy without question, others criticized American domestic and foreign policies while still appreciating jazz – thus jazz, despite its popularity, also became a medium for expressing anti-Americanism. This book examines the development of jazz outside America, including across diverse historical periods and geographies – shedding light on the effectiveness of jazz as an instrument of state power within a global political context.

Alongside the Ionian Coast, 12 Km SE from Taranto there is the ancient settlement of Satyrion, one of the most significant places in the Mediterranean. The site has been inhabited since Neolitic to high Middle Age. The only intervention with a value had place at the end of the XX century, when the archeological area between Porto Perone and Porto Saturo was submitted to restoration, valorization and fruition works. The area of the Parco Archeologico di Saturo has been usable just for few years, collapsing in a terrible abandonment situation. Just in 2006 the area began to develop new interest.

Football hooliganism periodically generates widespread political and public anxiety. In spite of the efforts made and resources invested over the past decades, football hooliganism is still perceived by politicians, policymakers and media as a disturbing social problem. This highly readable book provides the first systematic and empirically grounded comparison of football hooliganism in different national and local contexts. Focused around the six Western European football clubs on which the author did his research, the book shows how different clubs experience and understand football hooliganism in different ways.

Besides products and services multinational corporations also sell myths, values and immaterial goods. Such 'meta-goods' (e.g. prestige, beauty, strength) are major selling points in the context of successful marketing and advertising. Fashion adverts draw on deeply rooted human values, ideals and desires such as values and symbols of social recognition, beautification and rejuvenation. Although the reference to such meta-goods is obvious to some consumers, their rootedness in philosophical theories of human nature is less apparent, even for the marketers and advertisers themselves. This book is of special interest for researchers and students in the fields of Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Marketing, Advertising, Fashion, Cultural Critique, Philosophy, Sociology, Anthropology and Psychology, and for anyone interested in the ways in which fashion operates.

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This open access book interrogates psychology’s contributions to our understanding of economic inequality. In the UK, the US and in many other countries, a high level of economic inequality is now one of the major problems facing society, but it seems the political will to restore greater equality is slight. The purpose of this proposed book is, therefore, to develop a psychological understanding of how economic inequality is tolerated and justified. Do we, as citizens, understand how unequal our society has become? Are our beliefs in merit, desert, and individual autonomy standing in the way of dealing with the problem of high inequality? Is a conspiracy of the rich and powerful to blame, or have we simply accepted a distorted form of economic theory? Finally, what – if anything - can be done? Including relevant insights from epidemiologists, economists, journalists, and others, this book provides an example to students and others of how psychology has relevance to some of the most pressing issues of our time. The UK is the central focus throughout, followed closely by the US and other high-income nations. All of the book’s conclusions however should be of relevance for all countries and their citizens as divides between the economically better- and worse-off remain or worsen, with damaging effects for individuals and their communities.

Le Roman de Moriaen conte l’histoire du fils d’Agloval, chevalier de la Table Ronde et d’une Maure. Il part à la recherche de son père qui a abandonné sa mère avant sa naissance. Grâce à sa rencontre avec Gauvain et Lancelot, il réussit à le retrouver et à restaurer les droits de sa mère par le mariage de ses parents. Le récit, inséré dans la version la plus étendue en moyen néerlandais de la trilogie Lancelot - Queste del Saint Graal - Mort le roi Artu, la Lancelotcompilatie, présente un grand intérêt pour les médiévistes européens car c’est un des quatre romans arthuriens en moyen néerlandais, considérés comme « originaux », leur modèle français n’étant pas attesté à ce jour. Gauvain, Lancelot et Perceval, sont présents du début à la fin du récit. Les quêtes et aventures racontées, les motifs évoqués sont caractéristiques de la « matière de Bretagne ». La technique narrative de l’auteur/ narrateur rappelle celle du roman arthurien en vers, mais aussi celle du roman en prose avec ses annonces et clôtures d’épisodes. Fin connaisseur de la matière arthurienne, et aussi du relationnel familial intime, l’auteur du « scone bediet van Moriaen » (le beau récit de Moriaen) a parachevé le tableau familial initial du fils et grand frère, Agloval, protecteur de sa mère et de son petit frère, Perceval, à travers la peinture émouvante du cheminement du jeune fils, Moriaen, qui a repris le flambeau protecteur à l’égard de sa propre mère.

The book covers new sintering techniques on ceramic materials, metals and composites as well as reprocessed PTFE. The book covers theoretical as well as experimental aspects on Spark Plasma Sintered (SPS) Porous copper, development of cutting blades with high hardness and resistance to cracking and wear, increased microhardness of austenitic steel ? TiB2 composites obtained with high pressure - high temperature sintering, Al2O3 porous body with cotton as the template and excellent thermal insulation with direct application for refractories as well as Metal matrix composites added nanostructured tantalum carbide and an overview of different sintering techniques used in powder metallurgy. Finally recycling of PTFE scrap materials using ram extrusion and compression molding is described.

This book aims to contribute to the discourse of learning through assessment within a self-directed learning environment. It adds to the scholarship of assessment and self-directed learning within a face-to-face and online learning environment. As part of the NWU Self-Directed Learning Book Series, this book is devoted to scholarship in the field of self-directed learning, focusing on ongoing and envisaged assessment practices for self-directed learning through which learning within the 21st century can take place. This book acknowledges and emphasises the role of assessment as a pedagogical tool to foster self-directed learning during face-to-face and online learning situations. The way in which higher education conceptualises teaching, learning and assessment has been inevitably changed due to the COVID- 19 pandemic, and now more than ever we need learners to be self-directed in their learning. Assessment plays a key role in learning and, therefore, we have to identify innovative ways in which learning can be assessed, and which are likely to become the new norm even after the pandemic has been brought under control. The goal of this book, consisting of original research, is to assist with the paradigm shift regarding the purpose of assessment, as well as providing new ideas on assessment strategies, methods and tools appropriate to foster self-directed learning in all modes of delivery.