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Les marchés du travail en Afrique restent à ce jour largement inexplorés et leur fonctionnement méconnu. Leur connaissance est pourtant centrale dans les politiques de développement et de lutte contre la pauvreté. Quelles sont les personnes qui n'ont pas accès à l'emploi ou sont sous-employées ? Comment le secteur formel cohabite-t-il avec le secteur informel ? Existe-t-il des traits communs à l'ensemble des marchés urbains du travail en Afrique, ou bien chaque pays est-il un cas particulier ? Quels liens entretiennent-ils avec la migration, l'éducation et les discriminations ethniques ou de genre ? Telles sont quelques-unes des questions traitées ici, à travers l'analyse d'une série unique d'enquêtes parfaitement harmonisées, réalisées dans une dizaine de pays du continent. Cet ouvrage collectif fournit le premier bilan actualisé du marché du travail en Afrique subsaharienne. Un outil précieux en matière de lutte contre la pauvreté.

The purpose of the paper is to present actions of the social campaign ‘Circus Without Animals’. More than twenty pro-animal associations from Poland (among others, Basta!, Viva!, and Empatia) established a coalition primarily focused on implementation of a legal ban on the use of animals in circuses in our country. Such solutions have already been introduced in several countries around the world as a result of the impact of civic initiatives. In Poland we still have no comprehensive solutions, however there are a lot of local initiatives in particular cities (for example, the Board of Education in Łódź forbade distribution of tickets to circuses in schools). The coalition, using the slogan ‘We trumpet against circuses’, is involved in educational activities (addressed mainly to children and youth, making up the majority of the circus audience), informing people about feelings and intelligence, but also about suffering of animals used for human entertainment.

Les funérailles sont à la fin du Moyen Âge l’une des grandes cérémonies mettant en scène le pouvoir souverain. A l’image du Christ, qui triomphe de la mort par la résurrection, le prince défunt, plus humblement, triomphe de l’oubli par un faste funèbre impressionnant qui marque durablement les mémoires. La présente étude entreprend de le suivre depuis son décès jusqu’à sa dernière demeure, à travers des cérémonies religieuses, chevaleresques et politiques complexes, qui offrent de nombreuses similitudes avec le rituel royal. De multiples questions, objets de débats historiographiques, sont envisagées, comme la signification de l’effigie, simple ou double corps du prince, la place des funérailles dans les cérémonies d’inauguration ou l’intérêt porté au cœur du défunt. En restituant le prince dans sa majesté, les funérailles sont non seulement un rituel essentiel pour comprendre la spiritualité et les mentalités médiévales, mais également l’indice d’une histoire politique subtile, à l’ombre du trône royal.

Fertility behaviour is strongly influenced by social and cultural norms, as well as welfare policies such as parental leave. This chapter considers the fertility of immigrants from low-fertility countries in Sweden, and estimates the effect of parental leave uptake on their fertility. Sweden is an important case as its welfare regime provides support for women and men to combine childbearing and employment, which has been positively linked to continued childbearing. Additionally, Sweden's welfare regime is typically regarded as universalistic: everyone residing in this country is entitled to the same social rights. Thus, the focus on Sweden and immigrants from low-fertility settings identifies patterns for women who moved to a context where their fertility desires can be more easily realized than in their country of origin. Signs of adaptation were found among immigrants from low-fertility countries in Sweden and, for some groups, extensive parental leave uptake sped up this process.

Dit boek is een herziening van het boek Nederlands waterrecht voor niet-juristen uit 2019. Het behandelt niet alleen het huidige waterrecht, maar ook het waterrecht na inwerkingtreding van de Omgevingswet. Alle aspecten van het waterbeheer komen aan bod: de bestuurlijke organisatie van het waterbeheer, het waterkwaliteits- en -kwantiteitsbeheer, drinkwater en afvalwater, natuurbescherming, Europees waterrecht, ruimtelijke ordening, crisismanagement, financiering en rechtsbescherming. Het boek vereist geen juridische voorkennis en is geschikt voor iedereen op academisch of HBO niveau die geïnteresseerd is in het waterrecht en het waterbeheer.

SprachwissenschaftlerInnen und DaF-ForscherInnen konfrontieren sich hier, auch kontrastiv, über diachronisch und synchronisch aufgefasste Themen wie Mehrsprachigkeit und Mehrsprachenlernen, Variabilität des Deutschen etc. Der zehnte Band enthält Beiträge zu folgenden Themen: -Fachkommunikationsforschung; -Das historische Wort und seine lexikologischen und lexikografischen Beschreibungsdimensionen; - Variabilität des Deutschen: Phonetik und Phonologie; - Der Beitrag der kleinen Sprachen zum Fortschritt der Linguistik; - Mehrsprachigkeit und Mehrsprachenlernen; - Linguistik und DaF: Deutsch und romanische Sprachen kontrastiv: Brückenschlag zwischen kontrastiv-typologischer Grammatikforschung und Fremdsprachendidaktik

Through extensive textual analysis, this open access book reveals how various passages of the Qur’an define death and resurrection spiritually or metaphorically. While the Day of Resurrection is a major theme of the Qur’an, resurrection has largely been interpreted as physical, which is defined as bones leaving their graves. However, this book shows that the Qur’an sometimes alludes to death and resurrection in a metaphoric manner – for example, rebuilding a desolate town, typically identified as Jerusalem, and bringing the Israelite exiles back; thus, suggesting awareness and engagement with Jewish liturgy. Many times, the Qur’an even speaks of non-believers as spiritually dead, those who live in this world, but are otherwise zombies. The author presents an innovative theory of interpretation, contextualizing the Qur’an within Late Antiquity and traces the Qur’anic passages back to their Biblical, extra-biblical and rabbinic subtexts and traditions. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

Crop models and remote sensing techniques have been combined and applied in agriculture and crop estimation on local and regional scales, or worldwide, based on the simultaneous development of crop models and remote sensing. The literature shows that many new remote sensing sensors and valuable methods have been developed for the retrieval of canopy state variables and soil properties from remote sensing data for assimilating the retrieved variables into crop models. At the same time, remote sensing has been used in a staggering number of applications for agriculture. This book sets the context for remote sensing and modelling for agricultural systems as a mean to minimize the environmental impact, while increasing production and productivity. The eighteen papers published in this Special Issue, although not representative of all the work carried out in the field of Remote Sensing for agriculture and crop modeling,

Im Rahmen des Beteiligungsausstiegs bestimmt der gewählte Exitkanal den monetären Nutzen, gegeben durch den Veräußerungserlös, sowie auch den nicht-monetären Nutzen des Entrepreneurs. Dieser entsteht in Form einer implizit oder explizit resultierenden Unternehmenskontrolle und entspricht dem Wert, den der Entrepreneur seiner führenden Position im eigenen Unternehmen beimisst. Die Private Benefits bestimmen folglich die Wahl des Exitkanals und somit die vertragliche Allokation der Exitrechte.

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Visited by violence and wars, border changes and political instability, authoritarian and totalitarian regimes as well as ethnic conflict, cleansing, and genocide, East-Central Europe in the twentieth century seemed an unlikely place of protection for refugees. This volume challenges this widespread view and explores a variety of forms of refugee protection, humanitarianism, and refugee agency in settings beyond the perceived stability of “Western” liberal democracies. Analyzing Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, and Yugoslavia over the twentieth century, the contributors provide a multi-faceted picture of refugee reception and aid, or its absence, across very different political regimes.

Society is fundamentally political and contingent. And yet politics is a tough and energy-sapping struggle for hegemony, and the foundations of the social order appear unshakeable despite various attempts at change. Drawing on Ernesto Laclau's formulation of a theory of hegemony and discourse and its Heideggerian continuation by Oliver Marchart, Eimen Abdin shows the persistence underlying every order, which must be taken into account during political upheaval. In this study, starting from the ontology of the political implied by Laclau and revealed by Marchart, Abdin designs an ontology of power that follows on from Heidegger.

Few years ago, the topic of aerial robots was exclusively related to the robotics community, so a great number of books about the dynamics and control of aerial robots and UAVs have been written. As the control technology for UAVs advances, the great interaction that exists between other systems and elements that are as important as control such as aerodynamics, energy efficiency, acoustics, structural integrity, and applications, among others has become evident. Aerial Robots - Aerodynamics, Control, and Applications is an attempt to bring some of these topics related to UAVs together in just one book and to look at a selection of the most relevant problems of UAVs in a broader engineering perspective.

Natural secondary metabolite products, which are isolated from plants, animals, microorganisms, etc., are classified as polyketides, isoprenoids, aromatics (phenylpropanoids), alkaloids, etc. Their chemical diversity and variety of biological activities have attracted the attention of chemists, biochemists, biologists, etc. The Special Issue on "Biological Activity of Natural Secondary Metabolite Products" is intended to offer biological active natural products as candidates and/or leads for pharmaceuticals, dietary supplements, functional foods, cosmetics, food additives, etc. The research fields of this Special Issue include natural products chemistry, phytochemistry, pharmacognosy, food chemistry, bioorganic synthetic chemistry, chemical biology, molecular biology, molecular pharmacology, and other related research fields of bioactive natural secondary metabolite products. Original research and review articles on all topics in these research fields are invited. I am looking forward to receiving many submissions from outstanding experts in these research fields.

The human system employs the use of endogenous enzymatic as well as non-enzymatic antioxidant defence systems against the onslaught of free radicals and oxidative stress. Enzymatic antioxidants and non-enzymatic antioxidants work synergistically with each other, using different mechanisms against different free radicals and stages of oxidative stress. Dietary and lifestyle modifications are seen as the mainstay of treatment and management of chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus. The major aims of dietary and lifestyle changes are to reduce weight, improve glycaemic control and reduce the risk of coronary heart disease, which accounts for 70- 80% of deaths among those with diabetes. It is also important to note that medicinal plants have been used as medicines since ancient time, and continue to play significant role even in modern medicine in management and treatment of chronic diseases. Impressive numbers of modern therapeutic agents have been developed from plants. Phytochemicals have been isolated and characterised from fruits such as grapes and apples, vegetables such as broccoli and onion, spices such as turmeric, beverages such as green tea and red wine, as well as many other sources. The WHO estimates that approximately 80% of the worlds inhabitants rely on traditional medicine for their primary health care and many medicinal plants have ethno-medical claims of usefulness in the treatment of diabetes and other chronic diseases globally, and have been employed empirically in antidiabetic, antihyperlipidemic, antihypertensive, antinflammatory and antiparasitic remedies. This book examines the role of antioxidant-rich natural products in management and treatment of diabetes and other chronic diseases.