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"Part 2 is a detailed catalogue of all 92 quarries recorded in the course of the project. All articles have extensive Arabic summaries. Video This two-part set is accompanied by five short educational and illustrative slideshows in English and Arabic about the authors’ work on the sandstone quarries around Meroe. The highlight is a 5-minute aerial and underground ‘fly-through’ video presenting quarry Q41, the largest and most impressive of the gallery quarries in the study area, available in 2D or 3D. All videos are available here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7-ic31cMSbvWosaClqx-qHJYtYWraVgB Acknowledgment This publication and the associated videos were made possible by NPRP grant 5-879-6-025 from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation). The statements made herein are solely the responsibility of the author(s)."

Boris de Schlœzer publia ce livre en russe à Berlin dès 1923. Il fut traduit en français en 1975 à l’initiative de Marina Scriabine. La nouvelle édition propose une traduction révisée et complétée par des articles sur Scriabine publiés par Schlœzer dans les presses russe et française. Réunis pour la première fois, ces textes révèlent les étapes de sa réflexion sur l’œuvre de Scriabine depuis les premières rencontres entre les deux hommes à Moscou en 1902 jusqu’aux écrits des années 1950-1960. Dès 1909 et la création du Poème de l’Extase, Schlœzer pressent la musique de Scriabine comme « le début d’une nouvelle époque de la culture ». Il précise cette intuition en analysant les tendances à la « dématérialisation » du son dans les sonates ou l’invention, dans les symphonies, de « l’accord de Prométhée » afin de mettre en évidence les nouvelles conceptions harmoniques de Scriabine.Cet ensemble de textes est révélateur de l’évolution de la philosophie de l’art de Schlœzer qui s’élabore en dialogue continu avec le compositeur.

Why are some figures hidden from history? Eliza Orme, despite becoming the first woman in Britain to earn a university degree in Law in 1888, leading both a political organization and a labour investigation in 1892, and participating actively in the women’s suffrage movement into the early twentieth century, is one such figure. Framed as a ‘research memoir’, Eliza Orme’s Ambitions fills out earlier scant accounts of this intriguing life, while speculating about why it has been overlooked. Established historian Leslie Howsam shapes the story around her own persistent curiosity in the context of a transformed research landscape, where important letters and explosive newspaper accounts have only recently come to light. These materials show how Orme’s career ambitions brought her into conflict with the male-dominated legal community of her time, while her political ambitions were cut short by disputes with other women activists whose notions of political strategy she repudiated. In public, Orme was a formidable debater for the causes she supported and against opponents whose strategies—even for women’s suffrage—she repudiated. In private, she was generous, warm, and witty, close to friends, family, and her female partner. Howsam’s account of uncovering Orme’s professional and personal trajectory will appeal to academic and non-academic readers interested in the progress and setbacks women experienced in the late-Victorian and Edwardian decades.

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Mental and material reconstruction was an ongoing process after World War II, and it still is. This volume combines a detailed treatment of post-war cultural reconstruction in Finnish Lapland – a region on the geographical and historical margins of its nation-state – with comparative case studies of silent post-war memory from other European countries The contributors shed light on key aspects of cultural reconstruction generally: disruptions of national narratives, difficulties of post-war cultural demobilisation, sites of memory, visual narratives of post-war reconstruction, and manifestations of trans-generational experiences of cultural reconstruction. Exploration of the less conspicuous aspects of mental reconstruction reveals various forms of post-war silence and silencing which have halted or hindered different groups of people in their mental return to peace. Rather than focusing on the “executive level” of material reconstruction, the volume turns its gaze towards those who experienced the return to peace in the mental, societal, and historical margins: members of ethnic, religious, and cultural minorities, women, and children. The chapters draw on archival and other original sources, personal memories, autobiographical interpretations, and academic debate. The volume is relevant for scholars and advanced students in the fields of cultural history, art history, and cultural studies.

The restless Riccardo Del Punta was culturally and scientifically resistant to ideological simplifications. This was due to his refined culture, not only in legal matters, which made him a scholar of labor law capable of engaging with the complexity of postmodern social transformations. A jurist of 360 degrees, he questioned law as a legal dimension, a product not only of legislative provisions but of overall cultural and social processes. His scholarly and teaching commitment represents a testamentary legacy in the tradition of titans such as Gino Giugni, Otto Kahn-Freund, Marco Biagi, and Massimo D’Antona.

Cette étude de la conversion et de l’éducation mormones tente de déceler la finalité proposée aux individus qui s’y soumettent, de découvrir leur téléologie. Dans une perspective durkheimienne d’examen méthodique des mécanismes fondamentaux du lien social, la question de la communauté a été introduite pour interroger la raison d’être sociale des choses. Il s’agissait de considérer l’impact des représentations sur le domaine des pratiques, du vécu, et de l’insertion dans le monde – avec un regard spécial sur la mormon way of life, héritière des projets de communauté idéale des débuts de l’histoire mormone. D’où la conclusion que devenir « mormon » aujourd’hui, c’est se convertir et être éduqué selon les principes d’une communauté dite de « membres », en empruntant le chemin d’une transformation : sociale et anthropopoiétique, pour devenir un humain tel que la culture mormone l’entend ; religieuse et théopoiétique, pour devenir un Dieu comme les représentations mormones le prévoient. Cette observation de la construction individuelle et communautaire SDJ a donné lieu à une analyse de la religion en modernité, révélant un paradoxe : à l’époque de l’individualisme et du « bricolage individuel des croyances », les Mormons, par la communauté, poussent l’individu à une situation paroxystique de l’individualisme en prétendant en faire un Dieu. Pourtant, l’outil communautaire ne perd rien de son aspect institutionnel-traditionnel et contraste au contraire avec l’attitude, fréquemment enregistrée aujourd’hui, du désintérêt pour une religiosité institutionnelle-traditionnelle exigeant engagement et activité régulière. Au delà d’une sociologie de la religion et d’une socio-anthropologie de l’éducation, cette recherche vise une socio-anthropologie des rapports de l’individu au groupe et du communautarisme dans la contemporanéité occidentale.

Genomics technologies revolutionised biomedicine research, but the genome alone is not sufficient to capture biological complexity. Postgenomic methods, typically based on mass spectrometry, comprise the analysis of metabolites, lipids, and proteins and are an essential complement to genomics and transcriptomics. Multidimensional omics is becoming established to provide accurate and comprehensive state descriptions. This book covers the latest methodological developments for, and applications of integrative multi-omics in biomedical research.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Guy Standing's immensely influential 2011 book introduced the Precariat as an emerging mass class, characterized by inequality and insecurity. Standing outlined the increasingly global nature of the Precariat as a social phenomenon, especially in the light of the social unrest characterized by the Occupy movements. He outlined the political risks they might pose, and at what might be done to diminish inequality and allow such workers to find a more stable labour identity. His concept and his conclusions have been widely taken up by thinkers from Noam Chomsky to Zygmunt Bauman, by political activists and by policy-makers. This new book takes the debate a stage further, looking in more detail at the kind of progressive politics that might form the vision of a Good Society in which such inequality, and the instability it produces, is reduced. A Precariat Charter discusses how rights - political, civil, social and economic - have been denied to the Precariat, and argues for the importance of redefining our social contract around notions of associational freedom, agency and the commons.

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Les interactions entre sociétés humaines et environnement constituent un défi majeur pour l’avenir de la planète. Les conférences internationales (Rio, Kyoto, Johannesburg, etc.) montrent toute l’ambiguïté et tous les enjeux économiques et politiques nationaux qui s’y expriment. Dans ce contexte hautement politique, comment créer des convergences qui répondent aux besoins des populations et à une gestion environnementale appropriée ? C’est bien là toute la difficulté du développement durable. L’une des réponses qu’apporte ce livre passe par la nécessité de renouveler en profondeur les problématiques scientifiques et par l’importance de développer des études au niveau local ; car c’est là où se trouvent confrontées les stratégies des sociétés et les réponses qu’elles apportent aux multiples contraintes auxquelles elles ont à faire face. Connaître et faire connaître, dans les processus de prise de décision, les capacités d’adaptation et d’innovation des sociétés locales, cerner de nouveaux modes de régulation pour l’usage des ressources naturelles, proposer des stratégies alternatives de développement durable : tels sont les enjeux fondamentaux des études développées dans ce livre, à partir d’exemples contrastés pris dans la zone bioclimatique méditerranéenne.

Concepts of the Body - Transformations in Slavic Literatures and Cultures refers to the corporeal turn and examines the representation of bodies and related cultural discourses from an interdisciplinary perspective. The volume focusses on transformations, i.e. conceptual changes in the artistic view of the body that were effected by historical events such as wars and migrations movements, scientific discoveries or social changes. The contributions highlight the interplay between artistic innovation and the political positioning of writers, artists and activists on relevant contemporary issues.

Im Hinblick auf die Nutzung unterirdischer Wasserressourcen auf der indonesischen Insel Java wurde der Einsatz von Druckrohrleitungen aus Holz als Zuleitung für Wasserkraftanlagen untersucht. Die Forschungsarbeit beschreibt den Einfluss der Holzfeuchte auf relevante Festigkeits- und Steifigkeitseigenschaften ausgewählter Holzarten. Die Ergebnisse dieser Versuche dienten als Eingangsdaten für ein Rechenmodell, mit dem das Biegetragverhalten von Druckrohrleitungen aus Holz bestimmt wurde. Durch umfangreiche experimentelle Untersuchungen von Druckrohrleitungen aus Holz, welche auf Sättel aufgelagert sind, wurde die Eignung des Rechenmodells nachgewiesen.Zusammenfassend wurden Bemessungsvorschläge ausgearbeitet. Mit Hilfe einer Parameterstudie wurden Bemessungstabellen erstellt, mit denen eine schnelle Bemessung von aufgelagerten Druckrohrleitungen aus Nadelholz der Festigkeitsklasse C24 durchgeführt werden kann.

The model of the male breadwinner seems to lose relevance in the course of current transformations in the world of work. Nevertheless, men's reductions in working hours are still to be understood as a non-normative transition in male life courses. Drawing on biographical interviews and discourse documents, this qualitative study is dedicated to the question how men in Germany construct masculinity in the context of reducing working hours.

This paper presents the potential utility of generative artificial intelligence-based light analysis simulation visualization image in the early phase of architectural planning and design. Facilitating the simulation of a building's performance during the early stages of planning and design presents numerous advantages, such as cost savings and enhanced ease of communication among stakeholders. However, the assessment of design performance is typically conducted during the design development phase or post-design completion. Processing a substantial volume of data based on design alternatives demands considerable time and resources, thus constraining the immediate provision of simulation results. This paper aims to utilize generative AI to produce visualization results of simulations with a predefined level of accuracy, with a specific focus on the architectural aspect rather than the physical and engineering functionalities of the simulation. Consequently, the study employs the following approach: 1) Analyze prominent characteristics and elements within light analysis simulation. 2) Based on this analysis, generate high-quality visualization image data additionally through Building Information Modeling (BIM). 3) Construct a dataset by pairing the generated lighting analysis visualization image with prompts. 4) Utilize the established dataset to create an additional learning model for light analysis visualization images. This study is expected to provide immediate and efficient assistance in design decision-making during the early phases by generating visualization images with high accuracy, reflecting prominent qualitative aspects related to light analysis and processing within the simulation