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The present work introduces a new concept for magnetic resonance measurements in the GHz regime inside a scanning tunneling microscope. It is based on heterodyne detection in a spin-polarized tunneling barrier. The experimental requirements, including a new method to suppress transmission effects, are explained. Measurements on three model systems which were studied to validate the new technique are presented and compared to simulations.

This handbook is based on the project "Österreichische Kinder- und Jugendbuchautorinnen" (Austrian Women Writers of children's literature), which was defined as part of the project "biografiA. datenbank und lexikon österreichischer frauen" (database of austrian women, http://www.biografia.at), localised on the Institute for Science and Art in Vienna. In the years 1999 to 2002 more than 800 women writers could be described biographically. Among them are many women, who wrote only one single book for children, there are some illustrators who decided to write also the text for their books and there are also some wellknown writers for Children's books, like Christine Nöstlinger, Renate Welsh, Friederike Mayröcker and many others. There ist no time-limitation, so we have a good overlook of the whole production of children's literature in Austria. Austria means by that way to be born in this land or to live here for more than 10 years. Many of the living authors sendt their curriculum vitae and also many experts on this field helped to fill up the entries. But there are great differences between the portraits of the women, differences in the length of the articles, in the presenting details of the lifes and also differences in their way to live, in their political behaviour and so on. Many of the authors had to flee from austria during the time of nationalsocialism because of their jewish origin or their political background. Some of them are nearly forgotten. They were murdered or had to emigrate in a land with another language, the chance to be able to continue the writing career was very small. But we know some women who had the luck to continue the career. Alex Wedding is one of them, she founded with some other writers like Auguste Lazar the proletarian children's literature. Hertha Pauli is one of the women whose career began in her exile, she began to write books for children in the USA. The biographs can be read as a part of austrian culture, as a piece of our own history. It is the intention of this handbook to encourage scientists to study more about the austrian women-writers of children's books and to discuss their publications.

The volume is dedicated to the work of Cornelius Nepos, Lives of Illustrious Men. It contains a general introduction about the author; a summary of each untranslated life, and a translation of the biographies of Epaminondas, Cato and Atticus (with developed commentary and annotation). The translation and notes of the fragments are also presented. The text constitutes an important source for the study of the biographical genre and the history of classical antiquity, from classical Greece to the end of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Principate and its contacts with other civilizations.

This open access book provides state-of-the-art theory and application in geostatistics. Geostatistics Toronto 2021 includes 28 short abstracts, 18 extended abstracts, and 7 full articles in the fields of geostatistical theory, multi-point statistics, earth sciences, mining, optimal drilling, domains, seismic, classification uncertainty risk, and artificial intelligence and machine learning. All contributions were presented at the 11th International Geostatistics Congress held in virtually at Toronto, Canada, from July 12-16, 2021. This book is valuable to researchers, scientists, and practitioners in geology, mining, petroleum, geometallurgy, mathematics, and statistics.

Agreements between the mining industry and Indigenous people are not creating sustainable economic futures for Indigenous people, and this demands consideration of alternate forms of economic engagement in order to realise such ‘futures’. Within the context of three mining agreements in north Australia this study considers Indigenous livelihood aspirations and their intersection with sustainable development agendas. The three agreements are the Yandi Land Use Agreement in the Central Pilbara in Western Australia, the Ranger Uranium Mine Agreement in the Kakadu region of the Northern Territory, and the Gulf Communities Agreement in relation to the Century zinc mine in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria in Queensland. Recent shifts in Indigenous policy in Australia seek to de-emphasise the cultural behaviour or imperatives of Indigenous people in undertaking economic action, in favour of a mainstream conventional approach to economic development. Concepts of ‘value’, ‘identity’, and ‘community’ are key elements in the tension between culture and economics that exists in the Indigenous policy environment. Whilst significant diversity exists within the Indigenous polity, Indigenous aspirations for the future typically emphasise a desire for alternate forms of economic engagement that combine elements of the mainstream economy with the maintenance and enhancement of Indigenous institutions and ‘livelihood’ activities. Such aspirations reflect ongoing and dynamic responses to modernity, and typically concern the interrelated issues of access to and management of ‘country’, the maintenance of Indigenous institutions associated with family and kin, access to resources such as cash and vehicles, the establishment of robust representative organisations, and are integrally linked to the derivation of both symbolic and economic value of livelihood pursuits.

The presented collective monograph aims to introduce the readers to socio-political and cultural aspects of the formation of Belarusian national identity throughout the centuries. It shows the main problems faced by the Belarusians searching for their own path of civilizational development on the borderland between the cultures of the broadly understood East and West.

This book brings together seven essays about the Common Cycle of Studies at UNILA, written within the framework of ten years of this political-pedagogical experience. Addressing transversal themes such as the teaching of Portuguese and Spanish as additional languages, fieldwork on the border, the perspective of marginalized communities in photographic art, pedagogical dynamics of integration, and the approach to the fundamentals of Latin America in specific courses, this collection aims to stimulate necessary reflections in the current context. All of this is within the horizon of Latin American and Caribbean integration, following the vocation of this university that we have been building for over a decade.

Quel besoin de droit et de gouvernance face aux ingénieries développées pour lutter contre les changements climatiques ? Faut-il créer des normes ad hoc ou s’appuyer sur la réglementation existante ? Dans un paysage juridique fragmenté, du fait des diverses arènes où sont débattues les options technologiques et au regard de leurs spécificités respectives, comment orienter un déploiement de ces ingénieries qui permette une protection intégrée du climat et de la biodiversité ? Cet ouvrage explore ces questions sous un angle résolument interdisciplinaire, en décloisonnant le droit applicable au changement climatique et celui applicable à la biodiversité et en accordant une place essentielle aux enjeux de justice environnementale et de protection des droits humains. Cette perspective ouvre une réflexion inédite sur le développement de ces ingénieries susceptibles de transformer durablement le rapport humain/nature.

This new volume of Labor Studies from the South is forged in a hectic contingency. And it is that since April 2022 (date on which the previous volume was published) a series of events occurred that marked the process of its elaboration, among them, the vote of the plebiscite ofoutput of the constitutional proposal elaborated by the elected convention, the first year of Gab's management

Le Mṛgendrāgama est un traité Śivaïte sanskrit de l’école appelée Śaivasiddhānta. Ayant joui d’une grande renommée, il fut commenté au xe ou au début du xie siècle par Nārāyaṇakaṇṭha et fut souvent cité tant par les maîtres de l’école dualiste que par ceux de l’école non-dualiste. Il est l’un des rares āgama à posséder les quatre parties dont ces textes sont censés être composés: section de la doctrine (vidyā ou jñānapāda), des rites (kriyāpāda), du yoga (yogapāda) et de la discipline ou du comportement (caryāpāda). Il s’intéresse exclusivement au culte privé (et non au rituel « public » des temples). Ce volume est la traduction en français des kriyā et caryāpāda.

What is the role of the environment, and of the information it provides, in cognition? More specifically, may there be a role for certain artefacts to play in this context? These are questions that motivate "4E" theories of cognition (as being embodied, embedded, extended, enactive). In his take on that family of views, Hajo Greif first defends and refines a concept of information as primarily natural, environmentally embedded in character, which had been eclipsed by information-processing views of cognition. He continues with an inquiry into the cognitive bearing of some artefacts that are sometimes referred to as 'intelligent environments'. Without necessarily having much to do with Artificial Intelligence, such artefacts may ultimately modify our informational environments. With respect to human cognition, the most notable effect of digital computers is not that they might be able, or become able, to think but that they alter the way we perceive, think and act. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315401867, has been made available under a Creative Commons CC-BY licence

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC- ND It has been claimed that we are ‘all in it together’ and that the COVID-19 virus ‘does not discriminate’. This accessible, yet authoritative book dispels this myth of COVID-19 as an ‘equal opportunity’ disease, by showing how the pandemic is a syndemic of disease and inequality. Drawing on international data and accounts, it argues that the pandemic is unequal in three ways: it has killed unequally, been experienced unequally and will impoverish unequally. These inequalities are a political choice: with governments effectively choosing who lives and who dies, we need to learn from COVID-19 quickly to prevent growing inequality and to reduce health inequalities in the future. COVID-19 is an unequal pandemic.

This celebratory volume tells the story of the late Russel Hayman Botman who died suddenly early in his second term as Rector and Vice-Chancellor of Stellenbosch University. Botman’s story is told from his earliest childhood years until his last day as rector. The nature of tributes and celebratory volumes is that it can never be exhaustive. It tells a rich story from limited perspectives. It, however, serves as invitation, stimulus and inspiration to others connected to Botman to also tell their stories about his story.

Stadt und Eisenbahn als Symbole der Moderne führten keine konfliktfreie Koexistenz. In vielen Städten kollidierte der explosive Wachstumsprozess mit den Netzwerken kollektiver Mobilität. Die Eisenbahn wirkte auf die städtische Entwicklung als Grundbedingung des Wachstums, aber z.T. auch als Widerstand für eine weitere Expansion. In den Jahren von 1880 bis zum ersten Weltkrieg sind in deutschen Großstädten eine Vielzahl von "Bahnhofskonflikten" feststellbar. Die Standorte der städtischen Verkehrsmittelpunkte wurde zum Thema öffentlicher Kommunikation. Die Bedürfnisse innerstädtischer Mobilität traten in Konflikt mit den Bedürfnissen der großräumigen Vernetzung durch die Eisenbahn. Diese Konflikte entwickelten sich stellenweise zu jahrzehntelang andauernden Schwerpunkten kommunaler Politik. In den Jahren von 1866 bis 1913 beschäftigte die "Karlsruher Bahnhofsfrage" die städtische Öffentlichkeit der badischen Hauptstadt. Im Mittelpunkt der Bahnhofsfrage stand auf den ersten Blick die Angleichung der Bedürfnisse von innerstädtischer Mobilität und Eisenbahn. Dabei verband sich die Diskussion um diverse Lösungsalternativen mit einer Selbst- Verständigung der Beteiligten über die Auswirkungen und die Tendenzen der Moderne. Dieser Verständigungsprozess provozierte wechselnde komplexe Konfrontationen und Koalitionen zwischen staatlichen und lokalen Institutionen sowie Selbstvertretungsorganen der Bürgerschaft.

Why we must forget photography and reject the frame of reality it prescribes and delineates.