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The work collects the research that students from doctoral and postdoctoral schools and young researchers from the Department of Biomedical Sciences presented during the Research Day, held on December 21, 2023. This event allowed the young researchers to recount both the studies they carry out at the department's laboratories under the direct supervision of their scientific referees and in collaboration with important research facilities both nationally and internationally. The aim of this work is to publicize the research lines and activities of the Department of Biomedical Sciences, bringing out the multidisciplinary nature of skills, techniques, topics and themes.

Locative and existential predications are fundamental linguistic constructions that exhibit significant formal overlap while serving distinct communicative functions. Locative clauses typically anchor a definite referent to a spatial context, whereas existential clauses introduce new, often indefinite, referents into discourse. Despite their central role in syntactic and typological research, the cross-linguistic diversity of these predications remains largely underexplored. This collective volume originates from workshops held in 2023 at the Annual SLE Meeting in Athens and the International Conference on Historical Linguistics in Heidelberg. It brings together in-depth analyses of locative and existential predications across a wide range of languages, drawing on diverse methodological and theoretical approaches. Rather than imposing a single framework, the volume deliberately allows for variation in how these constructions are defined and analyzed, reflecting the complexity and diversity of linguistic structures. A key theme of the book is the relationship between locative, existential, and possessive predication. Many of the included studies highlight the formal and functional connections between these domains, illustrating how different languages encode possession through structures that overlap with locative and existential constructions. The volume also challenges conventional assumptions about structural distinctions between these predications, showing that in many languages, such boundaries are blurred or even nonexistent. The introductory chapter reviews key findings from prior research and offers a refined typology of locative and existential predications. It also highlights the major insights from the remaining chapters, each of which provides a detailed empirical analysis of these constructions in one or several underdescribed languages. The contributions address (i) the structural and functional properties of locative and existential clauses, (ii) criteria for distinguishing these constructions in languages where formal differentiation is minimal, (iii) their frequency and usage in natural discourse, and (iv) grammaticalization pathways that link locative, existential, and possessive predication. By integrating data from a broad range of languages and perspectives, this volume advances our understanding of locative and existential predication and offers a foundation for future research in typology, syntax, and historical linguistics.

Importante contribuição para a construção do entendimento da dança como área do conhecimento. Resultado de estudos e pesquisas de alguém que vem, de muito, instigada com a busca de uma compreensão da realidade a partir de formas contemporâneas de percepção e visão de mundo onde a arte, e portanto, a dança, emerge como um sistema de alta complexidade.

More staff in long-term care - but where from? The Nursing Report, published in book form and as an open access publication, examines relevant topics for the care of those in need of care annually. The focus of the year 2019 is the question "More staff - but where from?" Different measures are analyzed, which are to ensure a quantitatively as well as qualitatively sufficient supply of nursing staff.

Pendant des siècles, on a pensé que tous les systèmes planétaires, en vertu de l'universalité des lois physiques, ressemblaient au nôtre. Cependant, la découverte de nombreuses planètes extrasolaires nous a révélé leur grande diversité. Ce livre présente l’état actuel des connaissances sur la structure des systèmes planétaires connus, tout en situant notre propre Système solaire dans ce vaste contexte. Comment des lois universelles peuvent-elles donner lieu à une telle diversité ? Parmi les processus intervenant dans la formation des planètes, certains sont en apparence déterministes, les autres plus complexes et pouvant conduire à des comportements stochastiques. Cette sensibilité de la formation planétaire aux contingences nous invite à réfléchir à la probabilité de l’existence de planètes similaires à la nôtre ailleurs dans la galaxie, ainsi qu’à la possibilité du développement de la vie dans des mondes exotiques.

Adequate stroke care access not only requires the availability of comprehensive healthcare facilities but also needs affordability and knowledge of the availability of these services. Presentations of stroke syndromes depend on their location, size, and underlying comorbidities. These lesions can have clinical features of increased intracranial pressure, focal neurological deficits, or seizures (generalized or partial) with rapid progression. This book presents high-quality research work on recent advances in the management of stroke.

Nous expérimentons une ère post mass média. Alors que nous étions habitués à lire la presse papier ou à regarder la télévision, la digitalisation de l’information a changé nos habitudes. Nous consultons les sites de presse en ligne, regardons la télévision en choisissant l’heure de diffusion via les sites de catch up TV, nous transférons les informations que nous trouvons intéressantes. Comme le remarque Christina Spurgeon dans son ouvrage Advertising and the New Media, nous inaugurons une ép...

Why should classical antiquity matter to Irish migration? Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity argues that ancient Greece and Rome have shaped Irish migration narratives from the earliest texts to the 21st century. These classical models emerge in response to four key drivers of migration: war, economic need, religious motivation and the pursuit of education. Rather than passive inheritances, Graeco-Roman forms are used both to join and to challenge dominant frameworks, offering tools for cultural participation and strategies of resistance to exclusion. The book traces classical reception in contexts ranging from early Irish origin legends and medieval Latin learning to 21st-century cultural politics, including Irish-language translation, diaspora literature and gendered experiences. Participation appears in assertions of Irish civilisation, synchronistic histories, literary cosmopolitanism and transnational exchange. Resistance surfaces in critiques of marginalisation, defence of minority languages and challenges to aesthetic or political canons. This book rethinks how Irish identities travel across borders, languages and centuries by showing how the ancient world underwrites both movement and its meanings. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the European Research Council.

In twelve essays, this volume aims to unravel the complex interplay of Platonism and Kantianism in Friedrich Schiller's philosophy by investigating the conceptual elements and textual sources referencing the Platonic and Neoplatonic traditions. In doing so, all of the key junctures of Schiller's thought are addressed, ranging from ethics and aesthetics to politics and the theory of knowledge.

Horst Haider Munske ist emeritierte Professor für Germanische und deutsche Sprachwissenschaft und Mundartkunde sowie Senior Professor of Linguistics an der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Geboren in Görlitz, Besuch des Carl-Duisberg-Gymnasiums in Wuppertal, Studium der Germanistik, Anglistik, Nordistik und Keltologie an den Universitäten Bonn, Berlin (FU) und Marburg/Lahn, Promotion 1962 und Habilitation 1970 an der Philipps-Universität Marburg/Lahn, Lektor für Deutsche Sprache und Literatur an der Universität Uppsala/Schweden 1963-65. Veröffentlichungen zu Germanische Sprachen, Dialektologie, Lexikologie, Sprachkontakt und Orthographie. Buchpublikationen sind u.a. Englisch in europäischen Sprachen (2020), Unser Deutsch. 100 Glossen zum heutigen Wortschatz (2019), Unser Deutsch II (2020), Ausgewählte sprachwissenschaftliche Schriften (2 Bände, 2015), Unsere Universität im Abstieg? Bologna, Bafög, Bachelor (2014), Lob der Rechtschreibung. Warum wir schreiben, wie wir schreiben (2015), Sprachatlas von Mittelfranken (10 Bände, 2003-2014), Handbuch des Friesischen (2001), Seit 1997 publizistische Beiträge, zumeist in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung und Welt , zu Hochschulpolitik, Sprachkritik, Rechtschreibreform.

Although free radicals perform some useful immune functions, they can also damage healthy cells through a process called oxidation. Antioxidants reduce the effect of free radicals by binding together with these harmful molecules, decreasing their destructive power. This book highlights various issues of free radical biology from the perspective of antioxidant defense mechanisms. It also provides useful information on gene modulation, radiation-generated reactive oxygen species-induced apoptosis in cancer, and environmental aspects associated with free radicals’ exposure on living systems.

This book is a collection of chapters around the theme of parasitology and zoonosis in bot war and peace and the impact of these fields on public health. Individual experts have contributed reviews, novel research, and case series within the field to make a broad and interesting collection designed to stimulate thought and discussion in this area. The collection is dedicated to the life and career of Emeritus Professor John Marsden Goldsmid, an eminent parasitologist and advocate for further attention to these above listed fields of medicine. It would be suitable for medical and veterinary practitioners, students, scientists, and epidemiologists with an interest in parasitology and public health.

The amazing life of a historical woman who embodied Buddhist divinity Born to a powerful family and educated at the prominent Mindröling Monastery, the Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Mingyur Peldrön (1699–1769) leveraged her privileged status and overcame significant adversity, including exile during a civil war, to play a central role in the reconstruction of her religious community. Alison Melnick Dyer employs literary and historical analysis, centered on a biography written by the nun's disciple Gyurmé Ösel, to consider how privilege influences individual authority, how authoritative Buddhist women have negotiated their position in gendered contexts, and how the lives of historical Buddhist women are (and are not) memorialized by their communities. Mingyur Peldrön's story challenges the dominant paradigms of women in religious life and adds nuance to our ideas about the history of gendered engagement in religious institutions. Her example serves as a means for better understanding of how gender can be both masked and asserted in the search for authority—operations that have wider implications for religious and political developments in eighteenth-century Tibet. In its engagement with Tibetan history, this study also illuminates the relationships between the Geluk and Nyingma schools of Tibetan Buddhism from the eighteenth century, to the nonsectarian developments of the nineteenth century.

This open access book explores the complementarity of hydropower with new energy sources such as solar and wind in the global energy transition. It analyzes the technological advantages, environmental impacts, and economic potential of combining hydropower and new energy sources, while examining the related policies and market mechanisms. Through a multidimensional approach, the book demonstrates the importance of this energy integration in improving energy system efficiency, reducing carbon emissions, and promoting sustainable development. Starting with the challenges and strategies of technology integration, the book will explore the role of smart grid management and energy storage technologies in this context, providing quantitative and qualitative assessments of the ecosystem and socio-economic impacts of such energy synergies. Valuable knowledge and practical guidance for energy researchers, policy makers and professionals in the field of sustainable development.

This edited volume, Obstructive Sleep Apnea - New Insights in the 21st Century, is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters offering a comprehensive overview of recent developments in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). It provides a thorough overview of the latest research efforts by international authors on OSA and opens new possible research paths for further novel developments.