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Las historias no solo se cuentan con palabras, también con imágenes (fotos, planos, mapas, litografías y dibujos). Obra surgida al orientar el trabajo sobre el uso de la imagen como fuente y producto de una interpretación histórica. Con esta obra se ofrece a la población guanajuatense una síntesis gráfica de lo que fue y es la antigua ciudad de Guanajuato hasta la década de 1970, que fue la década de la transición al Guanajuato que conocemos ahora. El lector tiene en sus manos una de las muchas miradas que hay del antiguo Guanajuato y de su patrimonio cultural edificado. Sirva, además, a expertos y estudiantes de arquitectura e historia, pero también a lectores en general, para comparar el desarrollo de un Guanajuato y un México integral, así como el paso del tiempo en sus calles y estructura urbana.

For over 130 years, normal schools were the primary state institution for training primary school teachers. Deployed throughout the country, they educated generations of educators who transformed the nation's educational and social landscape. In March 1974, the civil-military dictatorship ordered their permanent closure. Commitment and Adversity comprises thirteen chapters that trace this historical arc, from the Lancasterian origins of the 1820s to the years following their forced closure. Its pages challenge both nostalgic interpretations that idealize these institutions and purely institutionalist readings that reduce their history to a mere recounting of educational policies. Normal schools were spaces where discipline and creativity, the civilizing project and the social mission, the reproduction of order and the aspiration for change coexisted. Their protagonists were not passive recipients of state policies, but rather actors who implemented, interpreted, resisted, and reinterpreted them based on their own experiences and projects.

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

Esta investigación abarca un período histórico de intensas expectativas en la posibilidad de un cambio radical del orden establecido en América Latina. Sucesos como la Revolución Cubana, las luchas de liberación colonial de Asia y África, la derrota de los Estados Unidos en la guerra de Vietnam (1964-1973) o el estallido del Cordobazo (1969), llevaron a diversos núcleos intelectuales del progresismo y la izquierda a elaborar un proyecto político-cultural con asiento en una construcción revolucionaria de futuro inminente. Sin embargo, la radicalización de las posiciones ideológicas desató una serie de profundas disputas al interior de estos colectivos, en la medida en que la figura del guerrillero fue consagrándose como el máximo ejemplo de compromiso moral con la transformación del sistema capitalista. El interés de nuestra investigación se centra de manera especial en la compleja ambigüedad de tensiones que esta situación desató.

Quantum computers provide a powerful resource to push the boundaries of current knowledge. At the core of their logical architecture are quantum bits and quantum logic gates. Electron spin can be used as a resource to encode logical operators, and, as such, magnetic molecules have proven to be a versatile platform for the realization of fundamental logical units. They offer the possibility of finely tuning desired quantum properties by exploiting targeted chemical approaches. This thesis book provides fundamental knowledge about quantum logical units, with a focus on magnetic molecules and electron spin dynamics. It reports on the various chemical approaches employed to advance beyond the current state-of-the-art in electron spin-based molecular quantum technologies.

Part of a series that aims to raise awareness of Gender Equality issues among the entire academic community, the book analyses in particular the various forms of discrimination linked to sexual orientation and gender identity, in order to understand the dynamics that give rise to them and identify possible concrete actions and good practices for countering them. The book’s added value is its interdisciplinary approach (pedagogical, psychological, linguistic, sociological, and legal), which makes it possible to approach the topic from multiple perspectives and helps readers hone their ability to critically and consciously interpret the complex situation of homophobic discrimination.

In African literature, Christianity has long been represented as a foreign religion, associated with the history and ongoing legacies of European colonialism and mission. But in recent decades, writers have begun to engage with it in more complex, ambivalent, and at times liberatory ways that are reflective of the religion’s tremendous growth and diverse transformations across the continent. Adriaan van Klinken addresses this literary shift in the context of Nigeria, a major center of literary production and Christian growth on the continent. Through close dialogue with works by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Okey Ndibe, Chinelo Okparanta, and others, van Klinken probes the lived and imagined experiences of Catholicism, Evangelicalism, and Pentecostalism across Nigeria in the wake of decolonization. Taking Nigerian literary writers seriously as social and religious thinkers, van Klinken puts their novels into conversation with the works of major African theologians, philosophers, and social theorists. By foregrounding the creative theologizing that fiction writing participates in, this book demonstrates how these literary texts—beyond merely representing and critiquing sociopolitical realities—also take part in envisioning the alternative worldmaking potential of Christian traditions in the Nigerian context.

The world as seen by a Qur’an specialist in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Our book tells a dramatic story of ’Abd al-Majid al-Qadiri, a Muslim individual born in the Kazakh lands and brought up in the Sufi environment of the South Urals, who memorized the entire Qur’an at the Mosque of the Prophet. In Russia he travelled widely, performing the Qur'an recitations. The Stalinist terror was merciless to him: in total, he spent fifteen years of his life in labour camps in Solovki, in the North, and Tashkent, in the south. At the end of his life, al-Qadiri wrote the fascinating memoirs that we analysed and translated in this book for the first time. Al-Qadiri’s life account allows us to look at the history of Islam in Russia from a new angle. His lively language provides access to everyday concerns of Russia’s Muslims, their personal interactions, their emotions, and the material world that surrounded them. Al-Qadiri’s book is a book of memory, full of personal drama and hope.

paq’batlh: The Klingon Epic is the definitive edition of the grand Klingon epic of the Kahless the Unforgettable (qeylIS lIjlaHbogh pagh). The story of Kahless is a tale of legendary proportions comparable to those of our own ancient heroes Hercules, Ulysses and Gilgamesh. Betrayed by his brother and witness to his father’s brutal slaying, Kahless is pitted against his bitter enemy, the mighty tyrant Molor. To regain his honor he must travel into the Underworld, create the first bat’leth, and unite with his true love, Lady Lukara, to fight many epic battles. Through this awe-inspiring adventure Kahless redefines what its is to be truly Klingon. Reconstructed from several sources, this bilingual Klingon/English edition provides a keen insight into the nature of Klingon culture and mythology, and features the first publication of Ancient Klingon (no’ Hol) fragments. Meticulously translated by the world’s leading Klingon language expert, Marc Okrand, this classic epic is a must have for anyone interested in Klingon culture and language.

The work is a critical edition of the preserved fragments of five notary codices from Piran (1289–1305) with notes made by the notary Dominicus Petenarius. Notaries entered into notary codices the essential features of business transactions in stenographic form, specific writing and simple Latin. This is a valuable type of sources for the study of medieval and later history. The entries portray the economic and social life of cities and their surroundings, their administration, judicial system, everyday life, population development, urban image, as well as culture and arts, all of which serve the purposes of research conducted by experts in various fields. The edition is equipped with a standard critical apparatus and an accompanying study which is also translated into English. The main part of the text encompasses the transliteration of the manuscript comprising 518 agreements with different contents. Each is marked with a successive number, defined with regard to its content and dated. The specific features of the original and inconsistencies in writing are described in notes. The work comes with an index of names, a subject index and a list of entries in which each entry is marked with the original annotation of the page in the original, date, type of contents, short summary of the contents and the page in the publication.

Pavement materials such as asphalt mixtures, granular aggregates, and soils exhibit complex material properties and engineering performance under external loading and environmental conditions. For instance, the asphalt mixture shows highly nonlinear viscoelastic and viscoplastic properties at high temperatures, and it presents fatigue cracking damage and fracture properties at intermediate or low temperatures. Constitutive models based on mechanics theories have been the kernel of performance prediction of pavement infrastructures and materials. They lay down a solid foundation for material selection, design, pavement structural evaluation and maintenance decisions. Advances in mechanics modeling and associated experimental testing for pavement infrastructures and construction materials are emerging constantly, such as nonlinear viscoelasticity, viscoplasticity, fracture, and damage mechanics models. Meanwhile, various numerical modeling technologies are being developed and implemented to solve the multiscale and multiphysical equations. Examples include finite element, discrete element, and micromechanics or molecular dynamics simulations at different dimensions and scales. This reprint provides a unique platform, presenting novel studies and new discoveries in the areas of mechanics, numerical modeling and experimental testing of pavement infrastructures and materials.

Was geschieht, wenn das binäre Geschlechtermodell irritiert wird, also die gesellschaftlich etablierte Unterscheidung zwischen Mann und Frau nicht greift? Wird geschlechtliche Ambiguität toleriert oder werden die Unterscheidung und die Unterscheidbarkeit erzwungen? Die Beiträger*innen besprechen dazu Fallanalysen aus dem Zeitraum vom 17. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Aus unterschiedlichen Fachperspektiven zeigen sie auf, wie Ambiguität eine epistemische Offenheit generiert, deren Auflösung sich kulturabhängig und epochenübergreifend verschieden gestaltet - von einer Bereicherung und Etablierung neuer Werte bis zu Zurückweisung und Widerstand.

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

The monograph presents the entire course of archaeological and dendrochronological investigations of two pile dwelling cycles at the Hočevarica site in the Ljubjansko barje, which occurred approximately in the 37th and the first half of the 36th century BC.In addition to artefacts from Hočevarica (A. Velušček), the results from paleobotanical investigations (M. Jeraj), a classification of the material from a necklace ring (D. Skaberne and A. Mladenovič), analyses of metallurgic instruments (Ž. Šmit) as well as organic remains of mammals (B. Toškan and J. Dirjec), fish (M. Govedič, J. Pavšič and J. Dirjec) and birds (F. Janžekovič and V. Malez) are also presented.

Oncolytic viruses (OVs) have emerged as a promising anticancer treatment. OVs selectively infect, replicate in, and kill tumor cells. Oncolytic viral therapy occurs in two phases: an initial phase where the virus mediates direct oncolysis of tumor cells, and a second phase where an induced post-oncolytic immune response continues to mediate tumor destruction and retards progression of the disease. For a long time, the therapeutic efficacy was thought to depend mainly on the direct viral oncolysis based on their tumor selective replication and killing activities. But the post-oncolytic anti-tumor activity induced by the OV therapy is also a key factor for an efficient therapeutic activity. The topic adresses various strategies how to optimize OVs anti-tumor activity.