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The publication constitutes a critical edition complemented with an introduction to the three comedies and two dramas by Wincenty Ignacy Marewicz (1755–1822) – a poet, prose writer, publicist, playwright and actor. It is the first modern edition of these dramatic works since their first publication in the late 18-th century. The introduction focuses on the publications and theatrical performances of the edited dramas, the author's inscriptions included in them. It also presents the main themes and subjects of these works, and highlights their theatrical and moral values. The editorial part of the study includes comedy and drama texts as well as commentaries. This is a subsequent book published as a result of research covered by an individual grant from the National Science Center in Krakow. Critical editions with an introduction to works in verse and prose by W.I. Marewicz.

Luftverkehr und Banken gehören in den USA zu jenen Bereichen, die vor der Weltwirtschaftskrise durch intensiven Wettbewerb gekennzeichnet waren. Sie wurden in den 30er Jahren in ein engmaschiges Regulierungsnetz eingebunden, das als Substitut für den wettbewerblichen Koordinierungsmechanismus dienen sollte. Seit den 60er Jahren wurden die Schwächen staatlicher Eingriffe in die Wirtschaft immer deutlicher, was in den USA Mitte der 70er Jahre zu einer von Ökonomen, Politikern, Juristen und Verbraucherschützern getragenen Gegenbewegung (Deregulation Policy) führte, die im Luftverkehrs- und Bankensektor durch Intensivierung des Wettbewerbs sehr erfolgreich war und daher ein Beispiel für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Europa sein sollte.

La intencionalidad de este estudio apuntó a invertir el foco de atención, históricamente centrado en el proceso de desaparición de los “productores de tipo familiar", iluminando los mecanismos que hacen posible su resistencia al proceso modernizador, reproduciendo sus características singulares. Se postuló que, en el marco estratégico de su reproducción social, la acción práctica de los productores familiares responde a una lógica distinta de la lógica económica del agronegocio, estructurada a partir de un “sentido práctico" compartido. Se formuló como problema de investigación discutir y ampliar, en aspectos teóricos y empíricos, la “resistencia" de la producción familiar, lo que implica una perspectiva cualitativa. El objetivo general se estableció en términos de contribuir a comprender las prácticas de resistencia de los productores familiares.

In this essay the author demonstrates that it is possible to “reconstruct” the figure of Caterina Colombini (1340?-1387) – Giovanni Colombini’s cousin – through a group of texts: the hagiography of Caterina, the letters sent to her by Giovanni Colombini and, finally, Giovanni’s biography written by Feo Belcari. The author divides his text into four parts: the first part analyzes the content of Caterina’s hagiography; the second examines the linguistic form of the hagiographic text; in the third, the author analyzes the latent meaning of the window, a symbolic place where Giovanni and Caterina converse on divine topics; in the last part, to conclude, the teachings that Giovanni gives to Catherine and her spiritual daughters – the Gesuate – are analyzed.

This book covers the most recent research trends and applications of Pharmaceutical Analytical Chemistry. The included topics range from the adulteration of dietary supplements, to the determination of drugs in biological samples with the aim to investigate their pharmacokinetic properties.

In experiments on metallic microwires, size effects occur as a result of the interaction of dislocations with, e.g., grain boundaries. In continuum theories this behavior can be approximated using gradient plasticity. A numerically efficient geometrically linear gradient plasticity theory is developed considering the grain boundaries and implemented with finite elements. Simulations are performed for several metals in comparison to experiments and discrete dislocation dynamics simulations.

Undoubtedly, pain conditions the quality of life of millions of people worldwide suffering a wide range of diseases. Major research efforts are being made by the international scientific community to determine the mechanisms underlying nociception. Growing evidence points out a complex network including oxidative and nitrosative stress, inflammatory response and cation signaling. In this sense, transient receptor potential (TRP) channels have attracted researchers’ attention. Expression levels are very different in tissues and cells mediating a myriad of processes in our organism. At the neurological level, it has been observed that the expression levels of four TRP channels (TRPA1, TRPM2, TRPV1, and TRPV4) are high in neurons related to nociception, including dorsal root ganglion and trigeminal ganglia neurons. For this reason, this research field promises to shed light on this intricated matrix linking oxidative stress, calcium signaling (via TRP channels), and inflammatory signals in different pain modalities, including neuropathic pain and chemotherapy-induced peripheral pain. In such a way, all this intense research activity will enable us to design individual and rational treatment strategies for pain relief, such as the use of molecular neurosurgery.

This collection examines the relationship between mass movements and the military. Some argue that it is impossible to achieve and protect a revolution without the support of the army, but how can the support of the army be won? Arms and the People explores the impact of social extremes on the solidarity within the state’s military, and on the changing loyalties of these soldiers. The authors examine a series of historical moments in which a crisis in the military has reflected deep instability in the wider world, including Russia in 1917, Egypt during the Arab Spring, the Paris Commune, as well as long-standing instability in Venezuela and Indonesia, amongst many others. Including a range of international authors who have either studied or been directly involved in such social upheavals, Arms and the People is a pioneering contribution to the study of revolutionary change.

Food security, jobs, ecological transition of production and consumption modes and more One of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals, agro-ecology could be one solution for meeting the forthcoming challenges for humanity. Cirad and AFD set out their thoughts on agro-ecology as a means for Southern agricultural systems to adapt to global change and on conditions for a successful agro-ecological transition.

Earth and wood constructions of the Roman era were, until several years ago, very little known. Recent excavations have provided us with considerable information. This work attempts to answer primary questions such as : are these protohistorical survivals ? what construction techniques were used ? what socio-economic conditions do they correspond to ? The textual and archaeological approach go along with informationobtained by contemporary experiments.

The book is intended as an operational tool for all teachers at all school levels who want to contribute to the introduction of reading aloud in schools in an intensive, progressive and daily fashion. The book makes use of the research work carried out within the “Reading: So Cool!” project in the Region of Tuscany. In the first year, training, supervision, support, monitoring and quantitative and qualitative surveys were focused on the 0/6 system which the first book, divided into 27 suggestions for reading aloud, addressed (Batini, Giusti, eds., 2021). The present volume represents the continuation of the second year of the research and illustrates 16 fundamental techniques and strategies for correct management of the practice of reading aloud in the school context. The methodological proposals are organised in three sections: Preparation, Action! and After Reading. This volume is the result of a participatory process involving fruitful dialogue among the scientific literature, expertise and didactic practice and in which the experience of a panel of experts – composed of scholars, operators, educators and teachers of all school levels – has been enhanced. “Reading: So Cool! Reading aloud increases intelligence” is an educational policy of the Region of Tuscany, implemented with the scientific and operational coordination of the University of Perugia (Department of Philosophy, Social Sciences and Education), in collaboration with Cepell (“Centre for Promotion of Books and Reading” of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities); the Regional School Office of Tuscany; Indire (Central Institute for Innovation, Documentation and Educational Research); and LaAV (National movement of reading aloud volunteers within the association Nausika).

The »global« is permanently made and remade by how it is envisioned in political projects, in language, and in literature. Through a range of case studies, this book shows how practices of referring to the world actually constitute the global in its many facets. It aims to provide a sense in readers of how the global is not something »out there«, but that it is embedded in a wide range of the seemingly »everyday«. The contributions appeal to a readership from a background in Sociology, History, Political Science, Literary Studies, and Social Work.

Mitochondria are crucial organelles for any cell type. Mitochondria take responsibility for not only energy production but also regulation of cell death, also called apoptosis; calcium storage; and heat production. Therefore, mitochondrial disease is implicated in the mode of action of many harmful factors for cells such as drugs and environmental contaminants, dysfunction of the oxygen transport system, malnutrition, intense exercise, and genetic variations. This book presents up-to-date knowledge about mitochondrial disease and its complex relation to some diseases such as cardiac failure, cancer, and Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. This book will, therefore, be essential for readers who are interested in life sciences, especially in medicine.

Like their peers across western Europe, Australia and the Americas, large segments of the British public and a significant proportion of Britain’s medical establishment have enthusiastically promoted medical screening (and de facto medical selection) of would-be migrants since World War II. Moreover, from 1962, British law explicitly empowered medical inspection and the exclusion of migrants on health grounds at all three of Britain’s idiosyncratic ‘medical borders’: during entry clearance procedures in their countries of origin; at Britain’s ports and airports; and via public health surveillance in the British towns and cities that were the migrants’ destinations. However, Britain’s geographical and internal borders were largely unmedicalised in the twentieth century and remain comparatively free from specifically medical controls even today. I explore the role of the National Health Service – both as a national symbol and as a physical institution – in shaping and responding to this paradox. Given the intensity of popular suspicions of migrants’ bodies and their hygienic and reproductive practices, and the frequency with which medical claims mediated and bolstered anti-migrant rhetoric, why has medical ‘control’ itself proven politically elusive and persistently suspect?

Les femmes représentent moins de 15 % de l'ensemble des individus jugés au xixe et au xxe siècle. Elles sont globalement moins sanctionnées. Dans les « canards sanglants » du début du XIXe siècle, puis dans la presse populaire, la criminalité féminine est liée au sexe : femmes avorteuses et avortées, femmes infanticides, femmes prostituées, femmes adultères, femmes auteurs ou victimes d'un crime passionnel. De leur côté, la criminologie naissante et les discours savants ne disent guère autre chose et proposent une lecture proche du « sens commun » : la déviance et la criminalité féminine relèvent de l'intime et de la « nature des femmes ». L'activité des juridictions répressives, du tribunal de simple police à la cour d'assises, peut donner l'impression d'aller dans le même sens. Cet ouvrage se propose toutefois de mettre en évidence une déviance féminine plus diversifiée et délaissée par la recherche, évoquant le vol, l'escroquerie, ou la sédition politique autant que les crimes de mœurs. La petite délinquance, souvent oubliée, côtoie les gestes les plus spectaculaires et plus connus. Surtout, l'accent est mis ici sur l'ambivalence des femmes, à la fois victimes et coupables, ou coupables et victimes, devant la justice comme devant le jugement plus large de leurs contemporains ou de la postérité – pour les plus célèbres des « héroïnes de cour d'assises ». À travers des études qui se concentrent soit sur le processus judiciaire lui-même, soit sur sa médiatisation, ressort l'embarras que suscitent les femmes victimes ou déviantes, dans une période où la domination masculine pèse lourdement. Entre « éternelles coupables » et « éternelles victimes », les femmes en justice n'ont pas fini d'interroger les normes sociales et les pratiques répressives.