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William Wordsworth, narcissique ? Oui, mais d’un narcissisme concret, refoulé, angoissé, et inspiré. Le mythe de Narcisse, mais aussi d’Écho, résonne dans les vers à un niveau littéral : personnages de doubles, scènes d’auto-contemplation, échos des montagnes foisonnent, convoquant la présence sous-jacente d’un mythe aussitôt refoulé. À un niveau plus symbolique, Écho et Narcisse structurent aussi le rapport de Wordsworth à son œuvre : célèbre pour sa Glorieuse Décennie créatrice, il est le poète de la perte de l’inspiration et de la répétition à l’infini de poèmes sans cesse corrigés, comme on réajuste un miroir. Enfin, poète de l’angoisse de la réception, Wordsworth ancre dans ses vers de véritables modes d’emploi destinés à ses lecteurs, qui doivent s’en faire les échos et non les juges, et se muer en doubles parfaits.

This Special Issue delves into the crucial role of mathematical modeling in modern economics. It explores how advanced methodologies in econometrics and financial management serve as powerful tools for understanding and navigating the complexities of economic change. By applying precise quantitative methods, contributors to this Special Issue demonstrate how to derive optimal solutions, achieve competitive advantages for businesses and nations, and improve forecasting accuracy beyond vague assumptions. The collection highlights the importance of comprehensive financial perspectives in accelerating effective decision-making, reducing information asymmetry, and securing essential resources for innovation and growth. It specifically addresses contemporary challenges such as business model transformation and the optimization of corporate finance, offering insights into adapting to new industries, products, and global market dynamics while ensuring profitability. This Special Issue is an invaluable resource for researchers and practitioners interested in the cutting-edge intersection of mathematics, economics, and finance.

Microalgae were the basis of life into the planet, but only recently these microorganisms are exploited at a commercial scale. Thus, the production of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, feed, and foods from microalgae is today a commercial reality increasing year by year. Additionally, microalgae have been proposed to be used to enhance the sustainability of existing industrial activities, as wastewater treatment and biofuel production. In this way, the utilization of microalgae at a large scale is considered a green revolution in the sustainability of mankind. This chapter is focused on reviewing the real contribution of microalgae to human activities. The last improvements of technologies and its uses, in addition to still existing bottlenecks for the massive exploitation of these microorganisms, are reviewed.

Ⅲ-nitride materials possess superior optical and electrical properties due to direct bandgap and polarization effects. Light-emitting devices are already common in daily lighting, traffic signage, landscape lighting, etc. Additionally, they hold promise for next-generation displays, e.g., microLED displays, as well as field effect transistors (FETs), for example, high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) and p-channel FETs. The investigation of antipolar (N-polar) epitaxy and devices is also flourishing. The following Special Issue reprint gathers research achievements related to III-nitride materials and their associated devices, covering growth methods, device fabrication technology, structural design, and physical mechanisms of III-nitride semiconductors, devices, etc.

Medical Humanity and Inhumanity in the German-Speaking World is the first volume dedicated to exploring the interface of medicine, the human and the humane in the German-speaking lands. The volume tracks the designation and making through medicine of the human and inhuman, and the humane and inhumane, from the Middle Ages to the present day. Eight individual chapters undertake explorations into ways in which theories and practices of medicine in the German-speaking world have come to define the human, and highlight how such theories and practices have consolidated, or undermined, notions of humane behaviour. Cultural analysis is central to this investigation, foregrounding the reflection, refraction and indeed creation of these theories and practices in literature, life-writing and other discourses and media. Contributors bring to bear perspectives from literary studies, film studies, critical theory, cultural studies, history, and the history of medicine and psychiatry. Thus, this collection is historical in the most expansive sense, for it debates not only what historical accounts bring to our understanding of this topic. It encompasses too investigation of life-writing, documentary, and theory and literary works to bring to light elusive, paradoxical, underexplored – yet vital – issues in history and culture.

In June 2016, four large atlases comprising two hundred and fifty anatomical drawings which were made around 1654-1660 in Leiden (Netherlands) were identified at the Bibliothèque interuniversitaire de santé. Made by the painter Marten Sagemolen (ca. 1620-1669) under the direction of the anatomist Johannes van Horne (1621-1670), they systematically describe the muscles of man. This extensive collection had been lost since the mid-18th century. The albums entered the collections of the École de santé in 1796, along with the magnificent drawings by the painter Gerard de Lairesse (1641-1711) for the anatomy of Govard Bidloo (1649-1713), and they have remained in the medical library at 12, rue de l'École-de-médecine, today called BIU Santé médecine, which now belongs to Université Paris Cité. Purchased as an anonymous lot accompanying Lairesse's masterpiece, the albums had not been successfully examined until 2016. The great rarity of this collection and the surprise of its identification aroused curiosity. After initial documentation and digitisation work by the BIU Santé's Health History Department, a restoration and study project was carried out with the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France. It was followed by an international conference on 18 and 19 June 2021, of which this volume provides the proceedings, and an exhibition of the atlases at the Musée d'histoire de la médecine d'Université Paris Cité, from 15 November 2021 to Saturday 15 January 2022.

This book deals with medical image analysis methods. In particular, it contains two significant chapters on image segmentation as well as some selected examples of the application of image analysis and processing methods. Despite the significant development of information technology methods used in modern image analysis and processing algorithms, the segmentation process remains open. This is mainly due to intra-patient variability and/or scene diversity. Segmentation is equally difficult in the case of ultrasound imaging and depends on the location of the probe or the contact force. Regardless of the imaging method, segmentation must be tailored for a specific application in almost every case. These types of application areas for various imaging methods are included in this book.

Big Digital Humanities has its origins in a series of seminal articles Patrik Svensson published in the Digital Humanities Quarterly between 2009 and 2012. As these articles were coming out, enthusiasm around Digital Humanities was acquiring a great deal of momentum and significant disagreement about what did or didn’t “count” as Digital Humanities work. Svensson’s articles provided a widely sought after omnibus of Digital Humanities history, practice, and theory. They were informative and knowledgeable and tended to foreground reportage and explanation rather than utopianism or territorial contentiousness. In revising his original work for book publication, Svensson has responded to both subsequent feedback and new developments. Svensson’s own unique perspective and special stake in the Digital Humanities conversation comes from his role as director of the HUMlab at Umeå University. HUMlab is a unique collaborative space and Digital Humanities center, which officially opened its doors in 2000. According to its own official description, the HUMlab is an open, creative studio environment where “students, researchers, artists, entrepreneurs and international guests come together to engage in dialogue, experiment with technology, take on challenges and move scholarship forward.” It is this last element “moving scholarship forward” that Svensson argues is the real opportunity in what he terms the “big digital humanities,” or digital humanities as practiced in collaborative spaces like the HUMlab, and he is uniquely positioned to take an account of this evolving dimension of Digital Humanities practice.

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

At present citizens are more aware of their health and care rights and more literate about their disease. Furthermore the continuous development of technological and bio-medical solutions are alimenting the expectation for longer and better life expectancy, even despite the diagnosis. Patients require to be higher involved in the decision making about their care and are willing to deeply entangle all the possible treatment options, their advantages, and their risks. In other terms, citizens today want to be treated not only as “client” but mainly as partners of the medical action and as co-authors of the success of their healthcare pathway. Due to this socio-psychological change in patients’ attitude, healthcare systems today are claimed to a deep revision of their practices and organizational models in order to become better responsive to patients’ expectation and more sustainable and effective in the management of their services. Patient participation and engagement in healthcare management, indeed, is today acknowledged by policy makers and healthcare experts as a valuable option to orient changes and actions of the healthcare systems. Several empirical studies have demonstrated the positive outcomes of a participatory care approach at the clinical, psychosocial, and economic levels. Patient Engagement, thus, appears today not only an ethical but also a pragmatic imperative for the innovation and the improvement of healthcare system. Moving from these premises, this e-book collects first research experiences, conceptual contribution and review of good practices in the area of Patient Engagement promotion. The e-book also discusses the relevance and the theoretical linkages between the concept of Patient Engagement and that one of Patient Centered Medicine.

This booklet is a classroom tool for teaching and learning through ethical reflection. It emerged as a product of activities conducted in different groups of humanities courses within the study of proceduralism in the discursive development of students at the University of Santiago de Cali, conducted in 2019. The activity with each of the discussion groups was developed by introducing the concepts of ethics and morality. A dynamic for reasoned reflection was then fostered, taking into account each individual's background. This latter implied that this development be expressed through a moral dilemma for the discourse between personal and professional life. This project interpreted the levels of ethical and discursive development of the participants in the communication dynamic in relation to professional competencies, thereby understanding the progress of the students' moral conscience development.

This reprint presents the Special Issue on “Memristive Devices and Systems: Modeling, Properties, and Applications”. The Special Issue provides a comprehensive overview of key computational primitives enabled by these memory devices, as well as their applications, spanning edge computing, signal processing, optimization, machine learning, deep learning, stochastic computing, and so on. The memristor is considered to be a promising candidate for next-generation computing systems due to its nonvolatility, high density, low power, nanoscale geometry, nonlinearity, binary/multiple memory capacity, and negative differential resistance. Novel computing architectures/systems based on memristors have shown great potential to replace the traditional von Neumann computing architecture, which faces data movement challenges. With the development of material science, novel preparation and modeling methods for different memristive devices have been put forward recently, which opens up a new path for realizing different computing systems/architectures with practical memristor properties.

Akademickie spin offy to przedsiębiorstwa tworzone przez byłych lub obecnych pracowników instytucji naukowych i wykorzystujące elementy wiedzy naukowej do budowy swojej oferty rynkowej. Stanowią ważny składnik nowoczesnej gospodarki, tworząc jeden z kanałów transferu wiedzy naukowej do praktyki. W publikacji zaprezentowano akademickie spin offy przez pryzmat intensywności wykorzystywania wiedzy naukowej i biznesowej, analizując konfigurację ich zasobów oraz strukturę oferty rynkowej. Dzięki wywiadom przeprowadzonym przez autora z właścicielami akademickich spin offów możliwe było przedstawienie tej zbiorowości w sposób realistyczny i odzwierciedlający różnorodność jej zachowań. W monografii zaproponowano kategoryzację akademickich spin offów, dokonano szczegółowego opisu i analizy każdej z kategorii oraz przedstawiono typowe ścieżki rozwojowe. Uzyskany obraz akademickich spin offów jest daleki od wizerunku szybko rozwijających się na skalę globalną firm wywodzących się z wiodących uczelni światowych. Ukazuje on jednak złożoność postaw przedsiębiorców i ich działań. Wskazuje na zachodzące procesy uczenia się oraz pozyskiwania wiedzy z zewnątrz, a także na powiązanie wykorzystania wiedzy z procesem przedsiębiorczym.

Examines the role that disability, both as a concept and an experience, played in seventeenth-century debates about salvation and religious practice. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Quel sens accorder aux manifestations sonores et publiques qui émaillent l'histoire de la justice ? Oubliés aujourd'hui, des cris judicaires parfaitement licites avaient pu investir des collectivités humaines entières d'un statut complet d'auxiliaire de la justice et de protection des vulnérables. Le « Haro ! » normand, sans doute le plus connu de ces cris, mobilisait tout un voisinage contre une offense. Mais il n'est pas le seul : bien des procédures justifiaient qu'une « clameur publique » saisisse le prétoire, autorise une poursuite à « cor et cris », étreigne un suspect, avant d'exiger du juge un prompt jugement. L'origine et l'ampleur de ces manifestations collectives bruyantes méritent de nouvelles approches inspirées par la recherche en histoire sonore du fait politique. De l'Antiquité à nos jours, si l'on connaît quelques formes de ces appels au secours judiciaire qui fondaient une plainte reçue par une procédure, la justice qui se construisait – ou se déconstruisait – autour de ces bruits reste à explorer, ou doit être relue par la focale de cet objet sous-estimé qu'est la clameur publique. Elle se lie et se délie sans cesse autour de l'histoire de l'oralité, des flagrances et de la dénonciation. Jetées à la face des juges, les expressions de la mobilisation collective engageaient également les identités communautaires et patriotes : appel au pouvoir souverain, elles renvoyaient ce dernier à son rôle fondamental de débiteur de justice. Escortant de près ces interactions intenses entre le pouvoir judiciaire et la foule, la clameur publique évoque aussi la vindicte et le lynchage. Est-ce cela qui fit qu'elle fut nettement infléchie aux Temps modernes ? Doit-on y lire une dérégulation des mouvements collectifs au bénéfice de la police et de la justice ? Les communautés, lentement dépossédées de leurs cris judiciaires par l'État justicier, n'ont pourtant pas si facilement abandonné le monopole de la violence licite face à la flagrance des offenses. Les réactions collectives dressent et redressent continuellement les scènes du théâtre de nos agitations publiques. De la clameur publique, aux émotions judiciaires, il est donc un chemin historique que cet ouvrage arpente pour faire la démonstration suivante : ces interactions frénétiques unissant les foules à leurs justices, nouées autour de la clameur publique, hantent encore nos procédures.