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Con propósitos agenos a la ciencia, la obra de Vitoria a sido desorbitada. Unas veces, para desvanecer la leyenda negra de la dominación española en América; otras para desmentir la decadencia de la escolástica durante el siglo XVI; otras, en fin, para realzar las exelencias de la llamada época imperial hispana.

Adipose tissue is a specialized connective tissue which, depending on type, plays different and significant roles in the human body: protects against environmental factors, stores lipids and triacylglycerol, synthesizes fatty acids and is involved in the process of thermogenesis. It is also a major secretory organ and highly active metabolic tissue. It secretes, for example, cholesterol, retinol, steroid hormones, prostaglandins and proteins known as "adipokines". Some of these molecules may be associated with pathologies such as obesity and insulin resistance. In humans, there are two main sites of adipose tissue accumulation: visceral and subcutaneous. Obesity is a worldwide health problem. This book also discusses a series of up-to-date topics about this pathology.

В последней трети XIX в. развитие велоспорта привлекло внимание передовых армий, вскоре осознавших преимущества в скорости передвижения пехоты и возможности оставить велосипеды без присмотра, в отличии от, например, кавалерии, часть рядового состава которой выделялась для ухода за лошадьми. Уход за велосипедом оказался значительно проще и дешевле, чем за дорогими животными. Чехословацкая армия использовала велосипедные отряды с момента своего создания. Например, они действовали на территории Подкарпатской Руси. У каждого пограничного батальона была своя рота велосипедистов. В начале 1930-х гг. появилось несколько исследований велосипедных отрядов, а вскоре после этого к кавалерийским бригадам присоединились четыре велосипедных батальона. В 1937 г. добавился пятый. Эти подразделения считались одними из наиболее подготовленных и входили в состав быстрых дивизий. В 1938 г. велосипедные батальоны приняли участие в подавлении восстания генлейновских террористов, а на территории Подкарпатской Руси подавляли деятельность польских и венгерских диверсионных групп. В статье речь пойдет о развитии чехословацких велосипедных подразделений (прежде всего на примере 1-го велосипедного батальона), взглядах представителей чехословацкой армии касательно их использования. Авторы статьи также обратят свое внимание на информацию об иностранных велосипедных отрядах, опубликованной в межвоенных армейских специализированных журналах „Военное воспитание” („Vojenská výchova”) и, в первую очередь, „Военный кругозор” („Vojenské rozhledy”). В исследовании будут использованы архивные материалы, находящиеся в фондах Центрального военного архива – Военного исторического архива (Vojenský ústřední archiv – Vojenský historický archiv).

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Que connaissent de Lourdes celles et ceux qui ne s’y sont jamais rendus ? Quelques images tout au plus : d’énormes basiliques aux architectures variées qui se chevauchent autour de la grotte des apparitions, des magasins de bondieuseries qui envahissent toute la ville, d’interminables files d’attentes de malades en chaise roulante qui prient la Vierge Marie pour qu’elle soulage leur existence,… Au début des années 2000, l’auteur a choisi de participer à des pèlerinages à Lourdes pour mieux saisir, de l’intérieur, ce qui pouvait bien motiver ces hommes et ces femmes à effectuer un si long voyage pour réciter des chapelets devant une statue de pierre. Il a revêtu le costume des brancardiers et s’est impliqué dans une association diocésaine franc-comtoise. Durant plusieurs années, il a côtoyé les pèlerins, accompagné les personnes malades, partagé la vie d’équipe des brancardiers et hospitalières, assisté aux offices et aux réunions. Fidèle à la démarche ethnographique, il a consigné dans son journal de terrain tout ce qui lui était donné à voir et à entendre afin de mieux comprendre ce que vivent et partagent les pèlerins de Lourdes. Restituant dans cet ouvrage les sources de six années d’enquête, l’auteur nous livre ici un récit passionnant et passionné, où se croisent des rencontres inattendues et des expériences inédites. Chronologiquement désorganisé, ce récit entraine le lecteur dans la genèse des réflexions et des analyses d’un ethnologue sur le terrain. Confronté à un monde qui lui est étranger, l’auteur révèle ainsi comment il a su trouver sa place parmi celles et ceux qui s’efforcent chaque année de marcher sur les pas de Bernadette.

The nursing process is a systematic and scientific process that enables nurses to provide quality care to individuals, families, and communities; it consists of five stages: Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Intervention, and Evaluation. Marjory Gordon’s functional health patterns are an artificial and structured division of human functioning—a set of behavioral patterns that are more or less common to all people. During the assessment stage, these patterns serve as a fundamental tool for the comprehensive assessment of individuals and families, as they provide a more complete picture. Gordon’s functional health patterns are based on 11 functional areas, which are: Health Perception, Nutritional-Metabolic, Elimination, Activity-Exercise, Sleep-Rest, Cognitive-Perceptual, Self-Perception-Self-Concept, Role-Relationships, Sexuality-Reproduction, Stress Tolerance, Values-Beliefs. This manual addresses nursing assessment based on Marjory Gordon’s functional patterns.

Many music connoisseurs of music consider ‘counterpoint’ to be the epitome of intellectually stimulating and intelligently composed music. Others may think of it more as an antiquated compositional technique, which is taught using outdated methods. The 32 contributions to the report on the GMTH Congress in Bremen reveal, from different and complementary perspectives, the extent to which contrapuntal thinking remains valuable and fundamental to musical education and training today. Furthermore, they also highlight continuities and changes in the teaching of this subject, as well as contrapuntal ways of thinking and working in a diverse range of compositions.

Addressing the history of the production and reception of the great medieval poem, Piers Plowman, Lawrence Warner reveals the many ways in which scholars, editors and critics over the centuries created their own speculative narratives about the poem, which gradually came to be regarded as factually true. Warner begins by considering the possibility that Langland wrote a romance about a werewolf and bear-suited lovers, and he goes on to explore the methods of the poem's localization, and medieval readers' particular interest in its Latinity. Warner shows that the 'Protestant Piers' was a reaction against the poem's oral mode of transmission, reveals the extensive eighteenth-century textual scholarship on the poem by figures including the maligned Chaucer editor John Urry, and contextualizes its first modernization by a literary forger inspired by the 1790s Shakespeare controversies. This lively account of Piers Plowman challenges the way the poem has traditionally been read and understood. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched.

Industrial energy efficiency has been recognized as a major contributor, in the broader set of industrial resources, to improved sustainability and circular economy. Nevertheless, the uptake of energy efficiency measures and practices is still quite low, due to the existence of several barriers. Research has broadly discussed them, together with their drivers. More recently, many researchers have highlighted the existence of several benefits, beyond mere energy savings, stemming from the adoption of such measures, for several stakeholders involved in the value chain of energy efficiency solutions. Nevertheless, a deep understanding of the relationships between the use of the energy resource and other resources in industry, together with the most important factors for the uptake of such measures—also in light of the implications on the industrial operations—is still lacking. However, such understanding could further stimulate the adoption of solutions for improved industrial energy efficiency and sustainability.

Associativity is a key strategy for organizational strengthening and territorial sustainability, particularly in contexts marked by structural exclusion, weak institutions, and community fragmentation. In Latin America, local organizations play a crucial role in managing collective goods, fostering citizen participation, and building alternatives to conventional development. However, their analysis reveals theoretical and methodological gaps that hinder the design of context-sensitive diagnostic tools. This study analyzes the theoretical foundations of associativity from an interdisciplinary and multilevel perspective. Through a narrative literature review, ten key authors and four conceptual clusters were identified: collective action and cooperation; social capital in its functions, risks, and structures; organizational governance; and the symbolic, territorial, and political dimension. Based on these clusters, a theoretical operationalization matrix was constructed, linking core concepts to diagnostic dimensions applicable to local associations. The findings provide a foundation for designing mixed-method instruments (quantitative and qualitative) to evaluate organizational performance in contexts such as La Concordia (Ecuador). The study concludes that associativity must be understood as a relational, institutional, and political process, closely connected to social reproduction and place-based development.

Książka ma charakter sprawozdawczy i porządkujący. Wykorzystując już istniejącą i bardzo bogatą literaturę przedmiotu, autorki pokazują w obszernych zarysach ponad stuletni dorobek językoznawstwa polonistycznego w zakresie badań miejskich oraz przybliżają najistotniejszą wiedzę dotyczącą najczęściej podejmowanych tematów związanych ze zróżnicowaną przestrzenią miejską. Publikacja pełni funkcję przewodnika po problematyce lingwistycznych badań języka mieszkańców miast i tekstów miejskich oraz stanowi zachętę do samodzielnych studiów w tym zakresie. Adresowana jest do szerokiego kręgu odbiorców; może być przydatna dla przedstawicieli różnych dyscyplin naukowych, których łączy zainteresowanie miastem, przestrzenią miejską i jej mieszkańcami.

By typing into databases such as Medline or PubMed the word “lipoprotein” one gets more than 100.000 hits that highlight the common interest in this topic. It is actually impossible to cover all aspects of lipoprotein structure, function, metabolism and pathophysiology in one issue like the present volume, but attempts have been made to concentrate on topics that are in focus of current lipoprotein research. These topics have been divided into 10 sections. This volume will help new investigators in the field to get acquainted with the general topic of lipoprotein research and will guide scientists interested in this area to emerging new fields.

This is an updated and revised second edition of a handbook originally prepared for the XVIIIth International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies in Amman, Jordan in 2000 - a reflection of the growing importance of Roman studies in Jordan in recent years. In Part A, there are chapters on geography and environment, the Romans in Jordan and the Roman army there. In Part B there are 15 chapters surveying, region by region, the evidence for forts, towers, roads, literary texts, inscriptions and excavation around the entire country, ending with a chapter on the immediately adjacent parts of Roman Arabia that now lie in Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel. The book is profusely illustrated throughout and has many aerial views including 20 full-page photographs in colour.

There has been much speculation about a possible antibiotic Armageddon; this would be the result of having untreatable post-operative infections, and similarly untreatable complications after chemotherapy. The now famous “O’Neill Report” (https://amr-review.org/) suggests that more people could die from resistant bacterial infections by 2050 than from cancer. We are still learning about all the subtle drivers of antibiotic resistance, and realizing that we need a single “whole of health” co-ordinated policy. We ingest what we sometimes feed to animals. There do not seem to be any new classes of antibiotics on our horizon. Perhaps something that has been around “forever” will come to our rescue—bacteriophages! Nevertheless, we have to do things differently, use antibiotics appropriately, for the correct indication, for the correct duration and with the correct dose, and with that, practice good antibiotic stewardship. Whilst by no means comprehensive, this book does cover some of the many topics of antibiotic stewardship. It also addresses some of the older antibiotics, some new combinations, and even some new agents. Last, and by no means least, there are two excellent articles on bacteriophages.

In Media, Technology, and Society, some of the most prominent figures in media studies explore the issue of media evolution. Focusing on a variety of compelling examples in media history, ranging from the telephone to the television, the radio to the Internet, these essays collectively address a series of notoriously vexing questions about the nature of technological change. Is it possible to make general claims about the conditions that enable or inhibit innovation? Does government regulation tend to protect or thwart incumbent interests? What kinds of concepts are needed to address the relationship between technology and society in a nonreductive and nondeterministic manner? To what extent can media history help us to understand and to influence the future of media in constructive ways? The contributors' historically grounded responses to these questions will be relevant to numerous fields, including history, media and communication studies, management, sociology, and information studies.