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Europa, Atlântico e o mundo: Mobilidades, crises, dinâmicas culturais O tema Europa adquire um papel preponderante no livro. Clara evidência do pioneirismo de Maria Manuela Tavares Ribeiro no estudo e na investigação nesta área do saber – Estudos Europeus, no campo da História e das Humanidades, numa época em que estas matérias estavam circunscritas aos estudos económicos e jurídicos. Como bem salienta Guilherme d’Oliveira Martins no seu texto Pensar a Europa como Democracia…: “Maria Manuela Tavares Ribeiro tem sido, no panorama do debate europeu, uma referência fundamental (…) pela abertura de horizontes novos que tem permitido, no sentido de assegurar que a Europa seja vista não como um projeto fechado e burocrático, mas como um desafio cívico, que deverá envolver Estados e cidadãos, instituições e pessoas.”

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This open access book presents established methods of structural health monitoring (SHM) and discusses their technological merit in the current aerospace environment. While the aerospace industry aims for weight reduction to improve fuel efficiency, reduce environmental impact, and to decrease maintenance time and operating costs, aircraft structures are often designed and built heavier than required in order to accommodate unpredictable failure. A way to overcome this approach is the use of SHM systems to detect the presence of defects. This book covers all major contemporary aerospace-relevant SHM methods, from the basics of each method to the various defect types that SHM is required to detect to discussion of signal processing developments alongside considerations of aerospace safety requirements. It will be of interest to professionals in industry and academic researchers alike, as well as engineering students. This article/publication is based upon work from COST Action CA18203 (ODIN - http://odin-cost.com/), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology). COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a funding agency for research and innovation networks. Our Actions help connect research initiatives across Europe and enable scientists to grow their ideas by sharing them with their peers. This boosts their research, career and innovation.

Thinking Otherwise addresses the question of what makes a great historian by exploring the teaching and scholarship of Walter LaFeber, widely acclaimed as the most distinguished historian of US foreign relations. This volume of essays, edited by Susan A. Brewer, Richard H. Immerman, and Douglas Little, is a testament to a scholar who published more than a dozen books during his time at Cornell University, where he delivered legendary lectures for half a century. The chapters trace LaFeber's journey as a scholar and demonstrate his enduring influence on the history of US foreign relations by linking six of his monographs to his abiding concern about the fate of the American experiment from the 18th century to the present. Thinking Otherwise explains and assesses the scholarship of a historian whose work became canonical in his lifetime and continues to resonate throughout public policy debates.

This volume follows the results of the dictionary "Wissenschafterinnen in und aus Österreich. Leben – Werk – Wirken" from 2002, in which the field of activities of the first generation of female scientists at austrian universities and in non-university workplaces were researched among other things. The present collection is now mostly focused on woman-specific acting of female scientists after 1945 (years of birth between 1930 and 1950, including an addition of earlier years). The emphasis in terms of time furthermore includes theoretical and personnel effects of the second feminist movement, developed in universities in the 1970s out of woman-specific problems in the fields of science.

This chapter provides a concise history of visual activism in South Africa and focuses on how contemporary artists and activists make use of visual forms to intervene in public space, to document injustice, and to express dissent. The chapter argues that visual activism is best understood as a call to those who look to move from seeing and knowing to acting. Through analyses of works by visual activists Zanele Muholi, Haroon Gunn-Salie, and the Tokolos Stencils Collective, and through engaging with a campaign created by the social justice movement Section27, the essay shows how such work draws attention to homophobia and sexual violence; impunity for crimes against humanity; and ongoing inequality in the aftermath of apartheid. The essay also considers what occurs when visual activist works are detached from collective mobilizing and circulate within the neo-liberal art economy, producing forms of atomized solidarity.

Update on Malacology is a compilation of high-impact research articles on the frontier areas of molluscan biology, physiology, aquaculture, and paleoecology. Topics covered include effects of dietary intake of shellfish in humans, beneficial effects of herbal compounds on the cognitive ability of molluscs, seasonal variation of molluscs acting as intermediate hosts of human parasites, current understanding of freshwater pearl culture, and the role of environmental parameters on the infectivity of freshwater snails and their paleoecological aspects. This book is an enriched edition of current trends of malacological research and is a useful resource for students, teachers, and researchers working in basic and applied malacology.

This open access book examines the effects of Brexit on UK higher education, based on the largest academic research project conducted in the UK across 12 universities in all four nations. The Brexit decision in 2016 has brought about a profound transformation in UK higher education, with the decline in EU engagement reshaping the sector in many areas, including recruitment of academic staff, research collaboration, university facilities and the declining diversity of students in British institutions. This study, grounded in 127 interviews with university leaders and academic staff, focuses especially on the sharp reduction in EU student entry into UK universities and how this is being experienced in the UK. With an analysis of the impact of Brexit in three areas, revenue, diversity and competition, the book also offers a broader understanding of the internationalisation of higher education in the UK. The authors review developments in policy and practice in the internationalisation of UK higher education and research, including scholarly studies and perspectives. The argument is supported by rich data including up to date statistics on enrolment and well-crafted qualitative case studies. Significantly, Brexit, EU Students and UK Higher Education offers implicit and explicit wider lessons which can be expanded to other HE systems and global HE. 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 UKRI.

Ziel des hier vorgestellten Projekts war es, ein Testinstrument zur objektiven, reliablen und validen Messung des fachdidaktischen Wissens (FDW) und des Fachwissens (FW) von Physiklehrkräften der Sekundarstufe zu entwickeln. FALKO-Physik folgte bei der Testkonstruktion einem projektübergreifenden Rahmenmodell, das sich an die COACTIV-Studie anlehnt sowie die Wissenstaxonomie Shulmans berücksichtigt. Dabei wurde im Unterschied zu anderen Testkonstruktionen im Fach Physik besonders darauf Wert gelegt, mehrere zentrale physikalische Themengebiete sowohl im FW-Testteil als auch im FDW-Testteil zu implementieren. Während der Validierungsphase erfolgte eine Untersuchung von Physiklehrkräften sowie angehenden Physiklehrkräften (Studierenden) der Sekundarstufe I. Die Reliabilität des FW-Testteils war zufriedenstellend (,82), das FDW konnte dagegen nur eingeschränkt reliabel gemessen werden (,65). Weiterhin wurden Konstruktvalidierungsstudien mit Konstrastgruppen durchgeführt. Während beispielsweise Gymnasiallehrkräfte und Fachphysiker im FW aufgrund der ähnlichen fachlichen universitären Ausbildung erwartungsgemäß vergleichbar abschnitten, war der Vorteil der Lehrkräfte im FDW dagegen erheblich größer.

Twenty-five years of reform have transformed China from a centrally planned and closed system to a predominantly market-driven and open economy. As a consequence, China is emerging as the new powerhouse for the world economy. China: new engine for world growth discusses the impact and significance of this transformation. It points out risks to the growth process and unfinished tasks of reform. It presents conclusions from recent research on growth, trade and investment, the financial sector, income and regional disparities, industrial location and private sector development. Ross Garnaut is a Professor of Economics in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, and Chairman of the China Economy and Business Program at The Australian National University. He was Australia’s Ambassador to China in the 1980s. Ligang Song is a Fellow in the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government, and Director of the China Economy and Business Program at The Australian National University.

Tout tableau est un fragment. Mais qui, du cadre ou du mur, construit le lieu de la peinture ? Que s’est-il passé lorsque cette énigme occidentale fut confrontée à l’époque moderne à une autre représentation du monde ? Si l’Europe des Lumières est souvent caractérisée par les chinoiseries et l’ornement rocaille, c’est un nouveau regard sur l’Extrême-Orient qui est analysé ici, celui qui lie l’histoire du tableau à une idée de l’espace transmise par les décors des objets venus d’Asie. Dans quelle mesure la présence réelle ou fantasmée de l’Orient a-t-elle modifié le rapport de la peinture au support qui la donne à voir ? Tel est l’objet de ce livre qui présente le changement de paradigme dans la construction du goût suscité par les notions orientales de paysage, de lointain et de vide, pour que le sort de la peinture se transforme. D’où vient la place particulière qu’elle acquiert au xviiie siècle ? De quelle façon fut bouleversée son exposition pour qu’elle devienne le tableau que nous connaissons aujourd’hui ?

The volume presents the results of a research promoted by an agreement between the Department of Business Sciences of the University of Florence and the Tuscany Region with the aim of defining the framework of museum systems. Since there is still no theoretical concept of a museum system, the research has framed the current situation of the region by studying "the Tuscan museum systems in place".

Was haben Geld und Tod miteinander zu tun? In frühneuzeitlichen Diskursen werden beide auf bisher unbeachtete und oft überraschende Weise zusammengebracht. Anhand wenig beachteter Schriften berühmter Figuren der europäischen Geistesgeschichte – John Lydgate, Nicolaus Copernicus und Paracelsus von Hohenheim – geht Peter Löffelbein der kulturgeschichtlichen Bedeutung des Phänomens nach. Dabei deckt er historische Verflechtungen u.a. von Geldtheorie, Theologie und Naturphilosophie auf und macht deutlich, wie sehr die Epistemologien der Neuzeit dem angeblich so anderen Denken der Vormoderne verpflichtet sind.

The paper deals with the development of employment law over a fifteen-year period starting from the early 1990s, in dialogue with a number of key figures (among whom those of Pietro Ichino, Massimo D'Antona and Marco Biagi stand out) capable of bringing out with their contribution of thought the progressive changes historically contextualized and, otherwise, anticipating their future outcomes.These are issues that, although in different forms, are still current and in constant dialectic between an increasingly pronounced crisis in employment law and the opportunities that on the other hand are opening up. R. has skillfully grasped these opportunities also in this articulated piece of writing, identifying the critical aspects but also knowing how to meet the challenges arising from them.

The importance of the Belgian contribution to the history of the photonovel. The Belgian photonovel is the missing link in the amazing history of the photonovel, a comics-inspired form of visual narrative that combines elements from very different genres and media, ranging from literary melodrama, cinema, and of course comics. This monograph discloses the specific Belgian contribution to the genre, in close connection with the singularities of the Belgian women’s and general magazines where these photonovels appeared. If the photonovel is generally considered a typically French or Italian genre, this study demonstrates the importance of a different tradition, which appropriated the foreign models in a very original way. Belgian photonovels are distinct, not only because they tell other kinds of stories, but also because they interact with other types of magazines in ways that are very different from the mainstream forms of the genre in Italy and France. Finally, this lavishly illustrated study is also the first in scrutinizing the technical aspects of magazine printing techniques in the development of the photonovel. Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).