Open Access Books

Legumes provide food, feed, grain, oil, and fiber for domestic consumption. Horticultural legumes are grown specifically for human diets and are useful in terms of enhancing the living environment. Legumes are an excellent source of protein and are low in fat and sodium and high in dietary fiber, iron, zinc, potassium, magnesium, vitamins, folate, etc. This Reprint of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences focuses on recent “Advances in Research for Legume Genomics, Genetics, and Breeding”. The highlighted research will accelerate legume improvement by using genetic, genomic, and molecular breeding approaches.

Heritopia explores the multiple meanings of the past in the present, using the famous temples of Abu Simbel and other World Heritage sites as points of departure. It employs three perspectives in its attempt to understand and explain both past and present the truth of knowledge, the beauties of narrative, and ethical demands. Crisis theories are rejected as nostalgic expressions of contemporary social criticism. Modernity is viewed as a collection of contradictory narratives and reinterpreted as a combination of technological progress and recently evolved ideas. The book argues that while heritage is expanding, it is not to be found everywhere, and its expansion does not constitute a problem. It investigates the World Heritage Convention as an innovation, demonstrating that the definition of a World Heritage site succeeds in creating a tenable category of outstanding and exclusive heritage. The book introduces the term “Heritopia” in order to conceptualise the utopian expectations associated with World Heritage. Finally, it points to the possibilities of using the past creatively when meeting present-day and future challenges.

Shortly after the demonstration of the first laser, the most intensely studied theoretical topics dealt with laser-matter interactions. Many experiments were undertaken to clarify the major ablation mechanisms. At the same time, numerous theoretical studies, both analytical and numerical, were proposed to describe these interactions. These studies paved the ways toward the development of numerous laser applications, ranging from laser micro- and nanomachining to material analysis, nanoparticle and nanostructure formation, thin-film deposition, etc. Recently, more and more promising novel fields of laser applications have appeared, including biomedicine, catalysis, photovoltaic cells, etc. This book intends to provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of the current state of the art in laser ablation, from its fundamental mechanisms to novel applications.

La forza performativa della finzione letteraria costituisce il punto di partenza di questo studio che, attraverso un nuovo approccio critico, prende in esame i modi con cui la letteratura riesce sia a rappresentare, sia a produrre nuove realtà. Nell’analizzare opere quali Il paese dove non si muore mai (Ornela Vorpsi, 2005) e Timira. Romanzo meticcio (Wu Ming 2 e Antar Mohamed, 2012), questo studio applica per la prima volta un approccio pienamente intersezionale ai testi della letteratura legata alle migrazioni. Esso mostra come l’efficacia delle figure letterarie della diversità, messe in scena in questi romanzi, sia esito di una sottile tessitura, che fa interagire tra loro fattori connessi al genere, all’estrazione socio-culturale e all’appartenenza/esclusione a un gruppo.

This book examines global warming and climate change over the past five decades in mainly subtropical and tropical countries. The amount and types of changes in these countries vary with the environment but are often less than those occurring in the Arctic and northern countries. Chapters address such topics as the controversy surrounding global warming, the effects of climate change on agriculture, changes in land use and hydrology, and more.

consuming atmospheres, marketing, marketing research, consumer experience, consumer culture

Aus der Hand des bedeutenden österreichischen Komponisten Anton Bruckner existiert kein systematisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke; viele werden in seinen eigenen Aufzählungen nicht erwähnt. Ein erster Versuch einer vollständigen Übersicht des OEuvre Bruckners gelang Renate Grasberger im Jahr 1974. Auf Basis dieses Verzeichnisses steht seit 2019 das „Digitale Werkverzeichnis Anton Bruckner“ zur Verfügung. Rechtzeitig zum Anton Bruckner-Jubiläumsjahr 2024 (200. Geburtstag) erscheint nun das Werkverzeichnis Anton Bruckner (WAB) als zweibändiger Druck. Die beiden Bände enthalten alle Werkinformationen (inkl. der Notenincipits) der digitalen Version. Um weder in der bezugnehmenden Forschungsliteratur noch in der Datenhaltung in Bibliothekssystemen oder in der Musikindustrie für Konfusion zu sorgen, wurden die von Grasberger eingeführten und bewährten Werknummern überwiegend beibehalten. Auf dieser Grundlage wurde eine neue Werksystematik erarbeitet, die eine Erweiterung um die Kategorien Studien, Bearbeitungen, Abschriften von Werken anderer Komponisten und Falsa darstellt. Die Kategorien Geistliche Vokalmusik und Weltliche Vokalmusik bleiben bestehen, wohingegen die Kategorien Orchesterwerke – aufgespalten in Symphonien und Andere Orchesterwerke – Kammermusik, Bläsermusik, Klavierstücke und Orgelwerke in der übergeordneten Gruppe Instrumentalmusik zusammengefasst wurden. Ausgehend von den 149 Werken, die im älteren Werkverzeichnis gelistet sind, wurde das neue Verzeichnis auf über 300 Werke erweitert, wobei auch autographe Skizzen, Studienmaterialien, Abschriften und Bearbeitungen einbezogen wurden. Ein Novum des neuen Werkverzeichnisses ist zudem die Berücksichtigung von mehrstimmigen Notenincipits, bei mehrteiligen Werken auch für den Beginn jedes Abschnittes.

La brève histoire du Parti républicain de la liberté (PRL) demeure une histoire largement méconnue. Couvrant la période allant de l’hiver 1945-1946 à l’échéance décisive des élections législatives de 1951, c’est-à-dire les années correspondant en gros à la reconstruction du système des forces politiques organisées au lendemain des ruptures de 1939-1945, elle n’en constitue pas moins un moment important et particulièrement révélateur de l’histoire des droites dites parlementaires. Les fondateurs du PRL étaient animés par une vaste ambition, celle de doter la France d’une organisation fortement structurée, destinée à regrouper l’ensemble des forces situées à droite et au centre droit de l’échiquier politique. Cette formation se fixe comme objectif de se hisser au niveau d’un « quatrième parti », capable de faire pièce aux trois grands du tripartisme (PCF, SFIO, MRP) dominant la scène électorale et parlementaire depuis 1945. En dépit des espoirs suscités et d’un certain nombre de succès ponctuels, la tentative a débouché sur un échec, l’absorption, en 1951, par le Centre national des indépendants et paysans (CNIP) apposant un point final à l’entreprise. Mais le retour en grâce de la droite modérée qui a caractérisé la seconde moitié de la IVe République ne peut pas être compris si l’on ne prend pas en compte cet effort d’organisation, les causes multiples de son échec et les leçons qui ont été tirées de ce dernier. C’est ce qui est proposé d’examiner dans cet ouvrage de synthèse, prenant appui sur une documentation largement inédite.

How could the potential of IT be realised to improve business performance in architecture, construction and engineering organisations? How could organisations unleash the potential of IT to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage? How can organisations migrate from technology to IT-enabled business thinking? Based on the author's twenty years research experience, this book provides a holistic picture of the factors that enable architecture, construction and engineering organisations to explore the potential of IT to improve their businesses and achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. It raises awareness of the importance of the organisational 'soft issues' and the role they play in influencing the outcome of IT investments as well as addressing other complementary enablers, such as knowledge management, learning organisations, maturity models and e-readiness measurements. Real case studies are used throughout the book to illustrate various concepts and to provide the reader with a realistic and practical picture. Rethinking IT in Construction & Engineering is ideal for lecturers and researchers in architecture, construction and engineering as well as professionals at managerial level in industry.

Originally published in 1969. The proverb vox populi, vox Dei first appeared in a work by Alcuin (ca. 798), who wrote that "the people [] are to be led, not followed. [] Nor are those to be listened to who are accustomed to say, 'The voice of the people is the voice of God.'" Tracing the changing meaning of the saying through European history, George Boas finds that "the people" are not an easily identifiable group. For many centuries the butt of jokes and the substance of comic relief in serious drama, the people became in time an object of pity and, later, of aesthetic appeal. Popular opinion, despised in ancient Rome, was something sought, after the French Revolution. The first essay documents the use of the titular proverb through the eighteenth century. In the next six essays, Boas attempts to determine who the people were and how writers and philosophers have regarded them throughout history. He also examines the people as the creators of literature, art, and music, and as the subject of others' artistic representations. In a final essay, he discusses egalitarianism, which has given a voice to the common person. Animating Boas's account is his own belief in the importance of the individual's voice—as opposed to the voice of the masses, which is by no means necessarily that of God or reason.

Broken Narrative provides an extensive reflection on history, politics, and contemporary art, revolving around the cornerstones of the artistic practice of Albanian artist Armando Lulaj. The core of the book is formed by and extended interview of Lulaj by Italian artist and writer Marco Mazzi. This inquiry starts in the year 1997, a year of social and political upheaval in Albania, of anarchy, controversies and emigration, of toxic seeds of neoliberalism sprouting in an already wounded country, and continues to the present day, where politics, hidden behind art forms, has practically destroyed (again) every different and possible future of the country. This book also sketches out a connection between the recent Albanian political context and contemporary art by considering the realities of Albania as essential for an understanding of the dynamics of international power in contemporary art and architecture, and the role of politics therein. Broken Narrative comes in a bilingual English–Japanese edition, in part as homage to the subtle esthetics of Japanese poetry, which has inspired many of the Lulaj’s works, while equally evoking the subversive films of the Red Army, active in Japan at the turn of the 1960s and ’70s. Broken Narrative contains a double preface in English by Albanian scholar Jonida Gashi and in Japanese by photographer Osamu Kanemura.

bioinformatics; biotechnology

In diesem Open-Access-Buch setzt sich Malte Kleinschmidt mit der Frage auseinander, wie politische Bildung zu einer Dekolonisierung beitragen kann. Nicht erst durch die Auseinandersetzungen um Black Lives Matter wird deutlich, dass Rassismus und Kolonialität nicht als Phänomene der Vergangenheit abgetan werden können. Anhand von der Analyse von 44 Interviews mit Schüler_innen von 9. Klassen an Hauptschulen und Gymnasien wird herausgearbeitet, wie diese Phänomene die Lebenswelt der Schüler_innen prägen. In den subjektiven Sinnbildungen der Lernenden werden zum einen koloniale Muster reproduziert, sie aber zum anderen auch massiv infrage gestellt. Diese Vorstellungen dienen als Ausgangspunkt, um dekoloniale Impulse für eine radikaldemokratisch verstandene politische Bildung zu entwickeln. Vor diesem Hintergrund diskutiert Malte Kleinschmidt dekoloniale didaktische Strategien in Bezug auf den erinnerungspolitischen Umgang mit dem historischen Kolonialismus, die koloniale Globalität der Gegenwart, die Verwerfungen des natio-ethno-kulturellen Zugehörigkeitsregimes sowie epistemische Ordnungen der Kolonialität.

Peut-on faire du « retard français » un objet des sciences sociales ? Oui, à la condition de s’attacher au discours sur le retard et de délaisser la posture évaluative qui conduit soit à la « tardophilie » soit à la « tardophobie » . Depuis le xviiie siècle, le discours sur le retard, lié à l’idéologie du progrès, a envahi l’espace public en devenant une rhétorique de l’insuffisance et du changement. L’analyse de cette rhétorique en action permet de rendre compte des multiples significations qui lui sont attachées, des croyances et des représentations associées et de ses évolutions dans le temps. L’analyse du corpus des rapports de la planification des années 1950-1960 en matière de science et de technologie montre comment ce discours a été un élément de la politique scientifique et technologique. Les retards sont définis à travers quatre grands « régimes de normativité » : celui fondé sur l’idée du progrès de la science pour lui-même ; celui fondé sur l’idée d’une interdépendance entre les disciplines scientifiques ou entre la science et la société; celui fondé sur la comparaison géographique et, enfin, celui fondé sur l’objectif administratif ou managérial. Constatant au cours du dernier demi-siècle la montée en puissance du régime de la « géocomparaison », ce phénomène est expliqué par les représentations des élites, l’institutionnalisation de la comparaison internationale et la mise en place d’un dispositif intellectuel qui la sert : les statistiques sur la science et la technologie.

The divine kingship and chiefship of the Asante people of central Ghana have been undergoing a shift towards secularization since the start of the colonial era. Timo Kallinen maintains that a close examination of this transformation provides us with a better understanding of secularization processes in Ghana more broadly, and in other post-colonial societies whose historical development likewise differs from that of the modern West, and which have largely confronted secular modernity through encounters with European colonialism. roughout the volume secularization is understood as a process in modern society whereby divinity is separated from the ways in which both human society is regulated and physical nature is understood to function.