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Diese Open-Access-Studie zeigt, wie europäische Banken derzeit Klimarisiken in ihr Risikomanagement integrieren. Als Rahmen für unsere Analyse wählen wir dabei den Baseler-Regulierungsansatz. Unsere Ergebnisse stellen sowohl den Status Quo hinsichtlich des Umgangs mit Klimarisiken im Bank-Risikomanagement dar, sie beschreiben aber vor allem auch die Herausforderungen in der Umsetzung der aktuellen (und geplanten) Regulierungsanforderungen und geben Hinweise auf einen Best Practice Ansatz. Unsere Studie ist somit nicht nur für Experten im Risikomanagement von Finanzinstituten sowie für Vorstand und Aufsichtsrat dieser Unternehmen höchst aktuell und relevant, sondern auch für Aufsichtsbehörden und regulatorische Stellen sowie alle Beratungsdienstleister in diesem Bereich.

Das Jahrbuch des Stiftes Klosterneuburg ist ein geschichts- und kulturwissenschaftliches Periodikum. Seit 1908 erscheinen Beiträge zu den historischen Quellen des Augustiner-Chorherrenstifts und Erkenntnisse aus Forschungsprojekten unterschiedlicher, vor allem geisteswissenschaftlicher Disziplinen. Der Themenband „Studien zur Alten Musik in klösterlichen Archiven“ sammelt Beiträge, die durch die Neueinrichtung des Musikarchivs im Stift Klosterneuburg und dadurch entstandene Forschungsarbeiten und -kooperationen entstanden sind. Die Beiträge reichen von der Aufarbeitung mittelalterlicher Fragmente mit Musiknotation über die Auseinandersetzung mit Barockmusik bis hin zu monastischer Musikpraxis im 19. Jahrhundert. Die zweite Sektion des Bandes widmet sich in Miszellen neuen Quellenfunden und kleineren Berichten aus den historischen Sammlungen des Stiftes Klosterneuburg. Sektion 3 gibt Einblicke in aktuell in Klosterneuburg laufende Forschungsprojekte, die mit unterschiedlichsten Methoden an den Beständen arbeiten und so an das kulturelle Erbe des Stiftes anknüpfen.

In Modes of Philology in Medieval South India, Whitney Cox rethinks the textual practices of a diverse collection of scholars and poets writing in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Prakrit in far southern India between the 11th and the 14th centuries CE. Readership: Scholars and post-graduate students in any of the following fields: medieval Indian history; Sanskrit and Tamil studies; the history Indian religions, especially the Tantric traditions; historians of philology.

This book develops a legal history of colonial women as a methodological approach to studying the women of Paraíba, a captaincy on the northeast coast of Brazil, from the end of the Dutch occupation (1661) to Brazilian independence in 1822. It uses the concept of multiple normativities to analyse dozens of daily life cases from Portuguese and Brazilian archives. To study women’s everyday normative contexts in a colonial space, the author analyses traditional Ius Commune and Portuguese legal sources from different jurisdictions, but also legal doctrines, medical treatises, moralist works and literature to enrich interpretations in women’s history, gender studies, feminist legal theory and legal history. Furthermore, she examines the impact of these normative traditions in the colonial Captaincy of Paraíba and focuses on normativities of a more pragmatic character, analysing archival documents portraying women’s daily life situations relating to both secular and religious jurisdictions. The analysis demonstrates that the law from the metropole neither offered pre-established solutions for women’s daily lives, nor was it applied unchanged in the colony. On the ground, law was dynamic, and the interplay of multiple normativities provided different possibilities that depended on the intersection of women’s condition and status, religion and sexual options, proving that sex and gender categories are not immutable, but, on the contrary, flexible according to the practices of law in colonial Paraíba.

This is the final publication of excavations conducted by the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem on the Crusader castle of Belmont (Suba) between 1986 and 1989. The account of the excavation is accompanied by specialist reports and concludes with a discussion of the castle's architecture, its military functions, and its economic role. Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Belmont Castle Site (West Bank) Excavations (Archaeology) -- West Bank. West Bank -- Antiquities. Jerusalem -- History -- Latin Kingdom, 1099-1244.

This Special Issue critically reviews the history of global conservation and use efforts that have been undertaken over the past 70 years to curb genetic erosion of our crop plant gene pools for the benefit of humankind. With the worldwide establishment of genebanks to conserve the threatened genetic resources for the long term, the establishment of a legal framework since the early 1990s, and the increasing reluctance of individual countries to readily share genetic resources, the need for global coordination, standard-setting, and sharing of responsibilities became obvious. As a result, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) evolved, coordinated, and facilitated a somewhat spontaneous development of a global conservation and use system. The present system has its strengths but also its significant shortcomings and problems. Against this backdrop, the Guest Editors conceived this SI and invited well-known conservation and use arena stakeholders to contribute. As a result, a very interesting and relevant assemblage of views, opinions, experiences, conclusions, and recommendations concerning the global conservation and use system is presented in this reprint of the individual contributions to the SI. The Guest Editors are convinced that these results provide essential elements for consideration in the ongoing discussions regarding revising the current global system. The revisions concern the Convention for Biological Diversity, including its Nagoya Protocol and the International Treaty for Plant Genetic Resources.

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A short introduction to the theory of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) is given. The application of the SPPs in on-chip signal processing is discussed. In particular, two concepts of plasmonic modulators are reported, wherein the SPPs are modulated by 40 Gbit/s electrical signals. Phase and Mach-Zehnder modulators employing the Pockels effect in electro-optic organic materials are discussed. A few micro-meter long SPP absorption modulator based on a thin layer of indium-tin-oxide is reported.

The results of preclinical animal research have been successfully implemented in various medical and biological practices. The use of animals in medicine is based on significant anatomical, physiological, and molecular similarities between humans and animals. Particularly, mammals that have vast biological commonalities with humans represent not only a valuable model to explore the mechanisms of varied human diseases, but also to define new diagnostic and treatment strategies. This book covers broad but important aspects of animal modeling for scientific medicine as well as for translational systems and biological sciences. Alternative methods such as cell culture and in vitro experiments that do not require the sacrifice of an animal are encouraged for scientific and medical studies.

Starmania, l’opéra-rock composé par Michel Berger et écrit par Luc Plamondon défie le temps. Interrogeant incessamment l’actualité politico-sociale et les grandes problématiques humaines ; inaugurant un modèle de production des hyperspectacles musicaux francophones ; fédérant autour d’elle un public intergénérationnel, l’œuvre se présente comme une dystopie avant-gardiste qui trouve pour la première fois dans cet ouvrage un espace d’étude intégrale. De l’album concept produit par Warner en 1978 à la mise en scène post-apocalyptique de Thomas Jolly en 2022 à la Seine musicale de Boulogne, Starmania n’a eu de cesse de se réinventer en devenant un objet patrimonial de la culture populaire. L’ouvrage croise les analyses de chercheurs internationaux (littérature française, musicologie, sociologie, sciences de l’information et de la communication) et les voix rapportées d’artistes ayant participé aux différentes versions du spectacle devenu, au fil du temps, la passionaria des comédies musicales à la française.

A partnership between the Iberostar Foundation and the University of the Balearic Islands through the Chair of the Sea, Coastal Health Monitoring Scheme has a dual purpose: training students in marine biodiversity monitoring and collecting critical coastal ecosystem data. Launched in 2021 on Ibiza with 12 stations, it now boasts 50 stations: 20 in Mallorca, 15 in Menorca, 10 in Ibiza, and 5 in Formentera. Undergraduate Biology students from the University of the Balearic Islands conduct this project. Each station undergoes comprehensive surveys in spring and summer, including three 60 m2 transects to quantify species density, focusing on sea urchins, sponges, sea cucumbers, and anemones. Population structure analysis is performed by measuring diameters of sea urchins and anemones. Variable-length transects assess benthic species like sea snails and limpets, while others study crab species diversity and Blennoidea fish abundance. Data collected forms a comprehensive biodiversity inventory, enhanced by submerged sand samples to measure organic content and granulometric composition. The CHMS's success is supported by the Iberostar Fdn., Baleària Fdn., local councils, and Island Councils, aiding in transportation, accommodation, and mobility. This collaborative approach enriches marine biology education and contributes valuable insights into coastal ecosystems.

Écrire les migrations, les errances et les exils, c’est se tourner vers les problématiques des déplacements et des passages. Se pose alors la question de la définition de l’écriture migrante, définition nécessairement mouvante selon que l’on s’intéresse aux artistes qui choisissent la problématique de l’exil pour mettre en scène un questionnement identitaire ontologique ou à ceux qui, ayant eux-mêmes subi ou choisi l’exil, transforment leur propre exil en un exercice d’espoir dans un double m...

Athens Demapped: Archaeology, Heritage, and Urban Transformation explores the entangled relationships between classical heritage, memory, and modernity in the evolving city of Athens. Dimitris Plantzos interrogates how archaeology, tourism, and urban planning have shaped the city`s identity, revealing Athens not as a timeless monument to antiquity but as a contested landscape where past and present collide. Rather than a neutral cultural asset, Athens’ classical legacy has been mapped, commodified, and weaponised – used both to forge collective memory and to marginalise dissenting voices. Plantzos critically engages with nostalgia, gentrification, and the politics of heritage, exposing how the myth of Athens as the “cradle of Western civilisation” continues to serve shifting ideological and economic agendas. At the heart of the book is the concept of “demapping”: the erasure or overwriting of certain spaces, histories, and communities to reinforce dominant narratives and commercial interests. Drawing on archaeological insight, urban theory, and cultural critique, Athens Demapped reimagines the city as a site of overlapping histories and contested futures. At a moment of rapid urban transformation, this book offers a vital perspective on the uses of the past and the right to the city. Essential reading for scholars of heritage, politics, and space.

The chapter aims to develop a regionally disaggregated agricultural supply model for Tunisia in order to investigate the potential effects of increasing water scarcity on the performances of the agricultural sector in the country, and the structural adaptation strategies needed to face such a challenge. A set of scenarios combining future water availability, water use efficiency, and increasing producer prices were simulated using the developed model. Results show that the agricultural sector in Tunisia, particularly the agricultural employment, would be negatively affected in case of decreasing irrigation water availability, and mostly affected regions would be the north east, central west, and southern areas. However, it is always possible to mitigate such effects through a combination of structural adjustments (changing land use in different regions), enhanced water use efficiency, and support of producer prices. The model also provides recommendations regarding specific crops that should be promoted in specific regions in order to maintain an agricultural sector with high added value in Tunisia.

The article examines the socioonomastic aspects of the language identity of personal names. The object of the research is the recording of personal names in official documents. Based on the categorical characteristic of the anthroponym as an ethno-language marker, the influence of linguo-political, spelling and legal factors on the functioning of the system of personal names in Ukraine has been analyzed. In particular, the author searches for answers to the following questions: a) How do the records of names in official personal documents reflect the language situation and states of linguistic consciousness? b) What facts of changes in the structure of the national system of personal names are a consequence of language policies? What facts reflect the results of language contacts? c) How does this affect the eco-linguistic balance and stability of the national fund of personal names? It is important to describe the influence of the language self-identification of individuals on the choice of a personal name when registering newborns occurs. Special attention is paid to the problems of documentary fixation of the names of representatives of national minorities and groups, as well as to the peculiarities of adaptation of new borrowings in the Ukrainian system of personal names. It is noted that the right to a name and the language identity of a name in the context of globalization acquire new features, which are related to communicative convenience and proper functioning in different language codes. The study of the identity of personal names makes it possible to formulate the basic sociolinguistic criteria of legal and language norms for measuring the quality of the modern national corpus of personal names. The preservation of the language identity of the name is also associated with the prospect of developing expanded instructions for spelling of personal names.