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Reports results of a survey to assess the impact of CalMHSA’s investments in mental health programs at California public colleges and estimates the return on investment in terms of student use of treatment, graduation rates, and lifetime earnings.

Reissued with a new introduction by the author, The Paraguayan War is an engrossing and comprehensive account of the origins and early campaigns of the deadliest and most extensive interstate war ever fought in Latin America. One of the first significant investigations of the Paraguayan War available in English, it investigates the complexities of South American nationalism, military development, and political intrigue. A 2003 CHOICE Academic Title of the Year, The Paraguayan War sets the stage for The Road to Armageddon, Thomas L. Whigham’s exploration of the effects of this devastating conflict on individuals, Paraguayan society, and the continent as a whole. Together, these books fill an important gap in our understanding of Latin American history

How do »mental handicaps« become a social reality? An analysis on the basis of documented biographies.

The present volume focuses on the political perceptions of the Hajj, its global religious appeal to Muslims, and the European struggle for influence and supremacy in the Muslim world in the age of pre-colonial and colonial empires. Readership: All interested in the connections of Europe with the Muslim world in the colonial age, and anyone interested in the transnational and global history of Europe and the Muslim world.

Nier l’existence d’un droit de résistance, n’était-ce pas aussi pour Kant une façon de défendre l’État issu de la Révolution française ? Tel est le point de départ choisi par D. Losurdo pour procéder à une relecture de l’ensemble de la pensée politique kantienne : face à toutes les « incohérences » que celle-ci semble comporter, face à tant de « duplicités », mi-calculées, mi-imposées par le contexte allemand et européen de l’époque, peut-on encore s’en tenir à l’image traditionnelle d’un homme exclusivement préoccupé de rigueur morale et de défense de l’ordre établi ? Le lien entre persécution et art d’écrire que laisse deviner le texte kantien ne suggère-t-il pas, au contraire, une toute autre figure, plus dramatique et moins rassurante ? Celle d’un philosophe contraint de se livrer à un exercice permanent d’autocensure et de dissimulation pour échapper à la vigilance des autorités prussiennes ? Et celle d’une théorie politique dont l’ambiguïté ne fait que réfléchir ce qui, dans les conditions de l’Allemagne contre-révolutionnaire, constitue le prix à payer pour tout intellectuel progressiste désireux de jouir d’une relative liberté d’expression : la laborieuse recherche d’un compromis avec le pouvoir en place.

Cities are the places where the greatest technological advances will take place in the near future, and important efforts are being directed towards autonomy and independence for each and every citizen. However, these efforts are rarely coordinated or integrated among governments, citizens, and private firms. In this book, assistive technology solutions are approached considering the smart cities scenario. The book discusses how assistive technologies can be adapted to this new reality. In fact, several challenges arise, stimulating the evolution of current technologies, relying on ubiquitous sensing, big data, and anytime/anywhere access and control. The book presents research under development, not necessarily with consolidated results. Even though the idea of smart cities is still not a recognized concept in most countries, its relevance and application are spreading rapidly.

This selection of ten papers, published in 2019 by researchers and institutions based in various countries around the world, allows an appreciation of the variety and significance of ongoing research in the wide field of protective and functional coatings. The most noteworthy investigations conducted in the area of surface protection are currently proceeding at a similar rapid pace in a twofold direction toward deeper and increasingly reliable knowledge of degradation and protection mechanisms as well as technological optimization of the selection and design of new materials, coating deposition processes, and characterization methods. This summarized collection serves as a representative essay of the collective worldwide efforts toward the development of more durable surfaces. Both organic and inorganic coatings are included among the protection strategies from a large variety of deposition processes, with interesting examples of organic–inorganic composites being proposed. Major attention is devoted to protection from both electrochemical and chemical corrosion of different metallic alloys and to advanced SiC-SiC composites exposed to the aggressive environments of gas turbines. Examples of modelling of wear corrosion examples are also reported. A dedicated space was intentionally devoted to the selection of papers detailing examples of the applicability of advanced characterization techniques. As an example of the wide field of research on innovative functional coatings, one study presents Mo alloys as an electrocatalytic material for the hydrogen evolution reaction. A comprehensive review of directed energy deposition additive manufacturing of metallic components completes this collection.

Humanistica Lovaniensia: Journal of Neo-Latin Studies, published annually, is the leading journal in the field of medieval, Renaissance, and modern Latin. As well as presenting articles on Neo-Latin topics, the journal is a major source for critical editions of Neo-Latin texts with translations and commentaries. Its systematic bibliography of Neo-Latin studies (Instrumentum bibliographicum Neolatinum), accompanied by critical notes, is the standard annual bibliography of publications in the field. The journal is fully indexed (names, mss., Neo-Latin neologisms).

Canaletto's Camera explores the ways in which the great Venetian artist Antonio Canaletto (1697-1768) made use of the camera obscura - the forerunner of the photographic camera - as an aid to drawing and painting. It surveys Canaletto's contacts with contemporary Venetian and Paduan scientists, in particular Francesco Algarotti who wrote on Newton's philosophy and the camera obscura. Canaletto also relied on many measured drawings of Venetian buildings by his colleague Antonio Visentini, a debt that has not previously been recognised. Steadman proposes that Canaletto used the camera for two purposes: tracing from real scenes, and copying and collaging drawings and engravings by other artists. By analysing camera sketches made by Canaletto in a notebook, he shows how the artist traced views in Venice and then altered the real scenes in his finished drawings and paintings. By using a reconstructed eighteenth-century design of camera obscura, the author and his colleagues have made drawings of views that Canaletto painted in London. Steadman has recreated both a veduta (a real view) and a capriccio (a fantasy) using Canaletto's processes of 'photomontage'. The experiments are detailed in the book, shedding new light on the artist's procedures, and emphasising how weak and permeable the boundary is between the two types of picture. Praise for Canaletto's Camera 'In this enthralling book, Philip Steadman effortlessly bridges art and science. He depicts Canaletto’s Venice not as the city of Casanova and carnival but as a hub of Enlightenment knowledge, exploring the artist’s use of the latest optical instruments through practical experiment and penetrating visual analysis. The results are fascinating and totally convincing.' Deborah Howard, Cambridge University and author of The Architectural History of Venice 'It has always been known that Canaletto used camera obscuras. More than one of his contemporaries wrote as much. What has never been clear is exactly how he did so – until now. This is a fascinating, groundbreaking book which reveals absolutely fresh vistas on the art of the past' Martin Gayford, art critic at The Spectator and author of Venice: City of Pictures

This book is for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners who want to understand the dynamics and governance of low-carbon transitions. It shows how UK electricity, heat, and mobility systems are being reconfigured and explains the varying speed, depth, and scope of change. Available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Au moment où s’estompent au Canada la notion des « peuples fondateurs » et aux États-Unis celle de « melting pot » travaillées parfois jusqu’à l’érosion par les progrès civiques, il nous est paru urgent de penser les configurations identitaires à venir. Le multiculturalisme, l’interculture, le métissage, le « salad bowl », la transculture apparaissent alors comme autant de métamorphoses de l’utopie originelle : celle que les colons européens ont cherché à fonder en la déniant parfois aux peup...

In the eighteenth century, fashion constituted a fundamental criterion for consumption for broader parts of the European (and Viennese) population. This article investigates, through various sources, like probate inventories, fashion magazines and pattern books, the consumption of clothes and accessories of female servants in the period 1760-1823 and associates it with debates on their appearance at the time. It compares their wardrobes to those of a broad part of the Viennese female middle-class population, and examines the relation of their wardrobes to fashion, notably in the period of the emergence of Viennese fashion. Finally, it investigates whether female servants could function as intermediaries of the prevalent fashion between the elites and this middle stratum, and, consequently, as trendsetters for this group.

Title in English: Research in foreign language didactics VI This is a collection of selected papers from an international doctoral conference, which was organized as part of the research project "Research in the didactics of foreign languages" under the registration number (MUNI/A/1335/2022). The individual papers not only represent the research carried out by PhD students from Foreign Language Didactics at the Faculty of Education of Masaryk University, but also by students from the same field of study from other universities in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The studies have been written in Czech and English.

Islamic art is often misrepresented as an iconophobic tradition. As a result of this assumption, the polyvalence of figural artworks made for South Asian Muslim audiences has remained hidden in plain view. This book situates manuscript illustrations and album paintings within cultures of devotion and ritual shaped by Islamic intellectual and religious histories. Central to this story are the Mughal siblings, Jahanara Begum and Dara Shikoh, and their Sufi guide Mulla Shah. Through detailed art historical analysis supported by new translations, this study contextualizes artworks made for Indo-Muslim patrons by putting them into direct dialogue with written testimonies.

O livro promove uma reflexão sobre a perspectiva psicológica diante da pandemia da covid-19. Os autores fizeram uma análise sobre as mortes e lutos possíveis e impossíveis, com uma abordagem focada na saúde psíquica frente ao trauma da nova doença. Além disso, buscaram desenvolver uma pesquisa que envolvesse luto, angústia e morte com os sujeitos afetados pela situação: sejam profissionais de saúde, sejam usuários de redes sociais. Outra temática presente na obra é o cenário político do país e sua relação com a necropolítica.