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The first in-depth analysis of archival methodologies in the writing of global history, focused on a Japanese migrant steamship in the 1880s-90s. Tracing the ship's journeys between Japan, Hawai'i, Southeast Asia and Australia, Martin Dusinberre analyses labour migration, settler colonialism and resource extraction in the Asia-Pacific world.

Alternatives to the restored 1812 Spanish Constitution preceded the second constitutional period. The Doctrinairism, professed by a relevant part of the deputies in the Cortes, and by most of the governments, was the most important influence. All of them defended a model similar to the French Charte constitutionnelle of June 4, 1814; consequently, they vehemently opposed the single-chambered system, the suspensive veto and the preeminence of the Legislative branch, among other characteristics of the 1812 Constitution. This book aims to confront the ideas of the Constitution and the constitutional types of the two main ramifications of Spanish liberalism through the analysis of General and deputy Rafael del Riego cases, an eloquent expression of that political struggle.

This book provides an overview on a large variety of pesticide-related topics, organized in three sections. The first part is dedicated to the "safer" pesticides derived from natural materials, the design and the optimization of pesticides formulations, and the techniques for pesticides application. The second part is intended to demonstrate the agricultural products, environmental and biota pesticides contamination and the impacts of the pesticides presence on the ecosystems. The third part presents current investigations of the naturally occurring pesticides degradation phenomena, the environmental effects of the break down products, and different approaches to pesticides residues treatment. Written by leading experts in their respective areas, the book is highly recommended to the professionals, interested in pesticides issues.

The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body is the first comprehensive volume to feature multireligious cross-cultural perspectives on the body and embodiment. Featuring multidisciplinary approaches and methodologies from the humanities and the social sciences, it addresses the body and embodied religiosity in theological, ethical, and cultural contexts. Comprised of 30 chapters by a team of international contributors, the handbook is divided into four parts: Theology and Embodied Religiosity Gender, Sexuality, and Body Regulations Ritual and Performance Religion, Healing, and the Future of the Body Each part examines central issues, debates, and problems in relation to global belief systems, including embodiments of love, transfiguration, the secular body, disability, body language, maternal bodies, embodied emotions, celibacy, ecology and the body, reshaping the corporal body, initiation rites, physiology, Tantra, Reiki practice, religious experience, technological body modifications, and ethics and the body. Providing a breadth of rich and innovative research, it is a must-read for students and scholars in religious studies, theology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and cultural and gender studies.

Welchen Einfluss hat die Alltagsmediennutzung von Kindern und Jugendlichen auf deren Schulleistungen? Wie wirkt sich insbesondere der Konsum gewalthaltiger Medieninhalte auf Kinder und Jugendliche aus? Besteht ein Zusammenhang zur Jugendgewalt? Gibt es die Gefahr von Computerspielen im Sinne einer Sucht, abhängig zu werden?Am Kriminologischen Forschungsinstitut Niedersachsen (KFN) gibt es zur Beantwortung dieser Fragen ein auf mehrere Jahre angelegtes Forschungsprogramm, das 2005 mit einer in elf westdeutschen Städten und Landkreisen durchgeführten Schülerbefragung begonnen hat. 14.301 Neuntklässler und 5.529 Viertklässler haben Fragen zu ihrer Mediennutzung und ihrer Familie, ihrem schulischen Umfeld und ihrem Freizeitverhalten beantwortet. Ein zentraler Aspekt war dabei, welche Rolle die Medien in diesem Beziehungsgeflecht spielen und mit welchen Entwicklungen besonders intensiver Medienkonsum von Kindern und Jugendlichen einhergeht.Das Buch vermittelt einen Überblick der einschlägigen Medienwirkungsforschung und ordnet die Befragungsergebnisse des KFN in den Kontext der internationalen Forschung ein.

Este libro responde a la necesidad de integrar la tecnología en la educación como un elemento transformador, superando su uso instrumental. Con ese fin, propone un curso de formación docente basado en la combinación del modelo TPACK y la metodología Lesson Study, que promueve el desarrollo colaborativo, situado y reflexivo de la práctica docente. Así, la obra guía a las entidades formadoras de educadores en el diseño, la implementación y la evaluación de experiencias de enseñanza mediadas por tecnología, fomentando la reflexión crítica, el trabajo cooperativo y la actualización profesional. Además, establece conexiones entre la teoría y la práctica, basándose en evidencias de investigación.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of areas with elevated levels of crime, which we consider ‘risky places.’ These can be facilities, nodes, or paths and can be found everywhere, from small towns to megacities. Crime and fear are examined from the perspective of those who use these places, based on examples from the US, the UK, Sweden, Nigeria, Brazil, China, Australia, and more. Advocating for a systems thinking approach, the book shows what can be learned from risky places and identifies ways to address their inherent problems. The book also assesses current barriers to applying systems thinking and identifies ways to foster interconnected long-term crime prevention strategies that meet the diverse needs of multiple stakeholders. Aimed at academics, students, and professionals in urban planning, criminology, geography, and related fields, this book is a vital resource for those dedicated to creating safer, more inclusive, and sustainable environments. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

The latter half of the 20th Century witnessed an ‘intensional revolution’: a great collective effort to analyse notions which are absolutely fundamental to our understanding of the world and of ourselves – from meaning and information to knowledge, belief, causation, essence, supervenience, conditionality, as well as nomological, metaphysical, and logical necessity – in terms of a single concept. This was the concept of a possible world: a way things could have been. Possible worlds found applications in logic, metaphysics, semantics, game theory, information theory, artificial intelligence, and the philosophy of mind and cognition. However, possible worlds analyses have been facing numerous problems. This book traces them all back to hyperintensionality: the need for distinctions more fine-grained than the possible worlds apparatus can easily represent. It then introduces impossible worlds – ways things could not have been – as a general tool for modelling hyperintensional phenomena. The book discusses the metaphysics of impossible worlds and applies them to a range of central topics and open issues in logic, semantics, and philosophy: from the problem of logical omniscience in epistemic logic, to the semantics of non-classical logics, the modeling of imagination and mental simulation, the analysis of information and informative inference, truth in fiction, and counterpossible reasoning. The latter half of the 20th Century witnessed an ‘intensional revolution’: a great collective effort to analyse notions which are absolutely fundamental to our understanding of the world and of ourselves – from meaning and information to knowledge, belief, causation, essence, supervenience, conditionality, as well as nomological, metaphysical, and logical necessity – in terms of a single concept. This was the concept of a possible world: a way things could have been. Possible worlds found applications in logic, metaphysics, semantics, game theory, information theory, artificial intelligence, and the philosophy of mind and cognition. However, possible worlds analyses have been facing numerous problems. This book traces them all back to hyperintensionality: the need for distinctions more fine-grained than the possible worlds apparatus can easily represent. It then introduces impossible worlds – ways things could not have been – as a general tool for modelling hyperintensional phenomena. The book discusses the metaphysics of impossible worlds and applies them to a range of central topics and open issues in logic, semantics, and philosophy: from the problem of logical omniscience in epistemic logic, to the semantics of non-classical logics, the modeling of imagination and mental simulation, the analysis of information and informative inference, truth in fiction, and counterpossible reasoning.

This book goes beyond a simple study of Newman’s thought and work and seeks to apply his deductions to modern value conflicts. Although it will be of particular relevance to academic readers with some prior knowledge of Newman’s works, it may also be of wider interest to students of history, philosophy, theology and spirituality. More generally, its unusual focus on Newman’s epistemology and philosophical deductions, and how these relate to present-day dilemmas, should also attract interest from his many non-academic followers and devotees.

Growing public interest in animal welfare issues in recent decades has prompted increased attention to the efforts to develop alternative, nonanimal methods for use in biomedical research and product testing. In A History of the Development of Alternatives to Animals in Research and Testing, the first book-length study of the subject, John Parascandola traces the history of the concept of alternatives to the use of animals in research and testing in Britain and the United States from its beginnings until it had become firmly established in the scientific and animal protection communities by the end of the 1980s. This account of the history of alternatives is set within the context of developments within science, animal welfare, and politics. The book covers the key role played by animal welfare advocates in promoting alternatives, the initial resistance to alternatives on the part of many in the scientific community, the opportunity provided by alternatives for compromise and cooperation between these two groups, and the dominance of the “Three Rs”—reduction, refinement, and replacement.

While animal models are essential for unraveling the biological mechanisms of human pathology, the growing depth of knowledge regarding these mechanisms—along with the intricate interplay of factors contributing to human diseases—demands ongoing characterization and refinement of existing models, as well as the development of improved disease models to better meet the needs of scientific inquiry. This reprint highlights a variety of animal disease models, exploring their features, mechanisms, usefulness, challenges, and limitations. It also includes research papers on refinements of existing models and the development of new disease models. The reprint offers insight into animal models of neurodegeneration, perinatal asphyxia, developmental hypertension, cisplatin toxicity, urinary bladder pain syndrome, autism spectrum disorders, cancer models, skin healing models, and models for testing cardioplegic solutions for cardiopulmonary bypass surgery.

Il y a fort à parier que le Petit Larousse ait été notre premier dictionnaire, comme pour nos parents et nos grands-parents. À la fois familiers et méconnus, anciens et contemporains, les dictionnaires Larousse sont nés du génie de Pierre Larousse, un instituteur doublé d'un visionnaire dont la devise était : instruire tout le monde sur toutes choses. Ce livre nous invite à la découverte de Pierre Larousse et de son œuvre, guidés par des experts qui en sont passionnés. Chacun prospecte la région laroussienne à la recherche des richesses qu'elle recèle. On y fait des découvertes étonnantes. Ainsi, on apprend que le lexicographe barbu qu'on nous présente toujours était en outre un entrepreneur dynamique capable de brasser non seulement des mots, mais des chiffres et des stratégies. Grand maître du dictionnaire d'apprentissage, Pierre Larousse a produit une œuvre à laquelle ses successeurs ont réussi à garder toute la force d'information, au point de gagner l'ensemble de la francophonie.

The article concerns the possibilities of Old-Polish apocrypha analysis from onomastic perspective. The research certifies that proper names observed in contexts of text, genre and most of all discourse can bring interesting answers to a question of apocrypha character. Two main functions of proper names are distinguished: speech genre forming and fear eliciting. One can affirm that the first function is connected with structural and semantic aspects of apocrypha speech genre, whereas the second one relates to pragmatic and partly style levels of the speech genre pattern. However both functions are important in the analysis of discourse level which is significant in the case of research on apocrypha understanding as an Old-Polish culture phenomenon.

Source Separation and Decentralization for Wastewater Management sets up a comprehensive view of the resources involved in urban water management. It explores the potential of source separation and decentralization to provide viable alternatives to sewer-based urban water management. The book presents a comprehensive view of the state of the art of source separation and ecentralization. It discusses the technical possibilities and practical experience with source separation in different countries around the world. The area is in rapid development, but many of the fundamental insights presented in this book will stay valid.

This book explores the co-development of political, social, economic, and artistic networks of Florentines working in the Kingdom of Hungary during the reign of Sigismund of Luxembourg. The social network of these politicians, merchants, artisans, royal officers, dignitaries of the Church, and noblemen is the primary focus of the book. Local Florentines constituted an extended network of "friends"; the existing personal connections among them were defined by common political interests, neighborhood proximity, marriage alliances, kinship ties, patronage, and company partnership. Through analysis of the links between these actors, the book addresses questions of the complexity of social ties in early Renaissance Florence, exploring how multiple types of networks shaped the dynamics of public and private spheres. It also seeks to reach more general conclusions about Florentine migration abroad and to envision ways in which early modern migratory groups were formed.