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Innovation in Music: Current Research Perspectives is a groundbreaking collection, bringing together contributions from instructors, researchers, and professionals, focusing on the joy of discovery in the context of music production, music technology, and music performance. With chapters on music production and accessibility for visually impaired producers, the use of AI tools to produce music and using distortion as part of synthesis and sampling workflows, this book is recommended reading for students, researchers, and professionals looking for global insights into the fields of music production, business, and technology.

Genoese merchants, who certainly did not disappear after 1627, during the second half of the century were able to establish new global-scale commercial networks on a par with those of other merchant communities (those of the Jews for instance). In the 1660s and for a few decades, Genoese goods – paper and fabrics – sailed to the Indies with African slaves. On their way back, the same Genoese ships would carry tonnes of silver and a wealth of other colonial goods thereby increasing trade with the East. This commercial framework is the backdrop to the story of Nicolò and Pietro Francesco Fieschi, two brothers whose lives testify how between the second half of the seventeenth century and the early decades of the eighteenth century, merchants from Genoa certainly had not withdrawn from international commerce focusing only on financial profits. On the contrary they were able to find new commercial momentum in opportunities provided by the connections brought about by the ever-more globalised world.

During recent years, the use of advanced data analysis methods has increased in clinical and epidemiological research. This book emphasizes the practical aspects of new data analysis methods, and provides insight into new challenges in biostatistics, epidemiology, health sciences, dentistry, and clinical medicine. This book provides a readable text, giving advice on the reporting of new data analytical methods and data presentation. The book consists of 13 articles. Each article is self-contained and may be read independently according to the needs of the reader. The book is essential reading for postgraduate students as well as researchers from medicine and other sciences where statistical data analysis plays a central role.

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For several years, European cities increasingly focus on long-term planning perspectives due to their spatial development, separated and independent of classic urban land-use planning. As a logical consequence, the city of Karlsruhe define the challenge to develop a spatial mission statement called „Räumliches Leitbild"". For the city anniversary in 2015, most of the development process of the spatial mission statement is documented through an exhibition and the present publication.

Guided by the multifaceted relations between city and text, Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City attempts to chart the burgeoning field of literary urban studies by outlining how texts in varying degrees function as both representations of the city and as blueprints for its future development. The study addresses questions such as these: How do literary texts represent urban complexities – and how can they capture the uniqueness of a given city? How do literary texts simulate layers of urban memory – and how can they reinforce or help dissolve path dependencies in urban development? What role can literary studies play in interdisciplinary urban research? Are the blueprints or 'recipes' for urban development that most quickly travel around the globe – such as the 'creative city', the 'green city' or the 'smart city' – really always the ones that best solve a given problem? Or is the global spread of such travelling urban models not least a matter of their narrative packaging? In answering these key questions, this book also advances a literary studies contribution to the general theory of models, tracing a heuristic trajectory from the analysis of literary texts as representations of urban developments to an analysis of literary strategies in planning documents and other pragmatic, non-literary texts.

Das Bauhaus wurde 1919 von dem Architekten Walter Gropius gegründet. Die Hochschule für Gestaltung war ein Spiegel ihrer Zeit, aber auch eine »Brutstätte« neuer Ideen. Probleme und Lösungsansätze, welche die gesamte Kunstwelt bewegten, wurden am Bauhaus von Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy und anderen aufgenommen und weitergeführt. Zu den wichtigsten Anliegen der Bauhaus-Jahre gehörte die Suche nach einer Verbindung der Künste. Synästhetische Verknüpfungen von Farben und Klängen gehörten ebenso zu den gängigen Methoden wie der Versuch, der Malerei eine zeitliche Ebene zu geben, die als musikalisch verstanden wurde. Die Musik diente als Ordnung schaffendes Prinzip. Das Black Mountain College (1933-1957) entwickelte die Visionen des Bauhauses nach dessen Schließung weiter: Die Konzepte der europäischen Moderne erlebten - etwa durch Josef Albers und John Cage - eine neue Deutung unter amerikanischen Bedingungen. Diese Studie zeigt das Bauhaus und das Black Mountain College als Laboratorien zur Erarbeitung interdisziplinärer Fragestellungen, die die wechselhaften Verhältnisse zwischen den Künsten im 20. Jahrhundert prägten - und bis in die zeitgenössische Klanglandschaft nachwirken.

The issue "Mathematical Logic and Its Applications 2020" contains articles related to the following three directions: Descriptive Set Theory (3 articles). Solutions for long-standing problems, including those of A. Tarski and H. Friedman, are presented. Exact combinatorial optimization algorithms, in which the complexity relative to the source data is characterized by a low, or even first degree, polynomial (1 article). III. Applications of mathematical logic and the theory of algorithms (2 articles). The first article deals with the Jacobian and M. Kontsevich’s conjectures, and algorithmic undecidability; for these purposes, non-standard analysis is used. The second article provides a quantitative description of the balance and adaptive resource of a human. Submissions are invited for the next issue "Mathematical Logic and Its Applications 2021"

This book is an adaptation of a research presented to Altiplano National University that sought to determine the degree of relationship between variables: virtual platforms and the learning of the English language in university students, considering the importance of learning the English language with the use of virtual platforms in the current virtualized context due to covid-19. Methodologically, the research is of a quantitative approach, of a non-experimental type, descriptive correlational design and with transversal temporality, whose sample is not probabilistic for convenience, made up of 30 students who were given a questionnaire and an exam, the first about the use of the virtual platforms and the following exam to evaluate the four skills of the English language. The results achieved were: The use of virtual platforms has a significant weak positive connection in the development of listening comprehension in students. Likewise, a positive confirmation of significant media in the development of reading comprehension, written expression and oral expression in students. Finally, it has been determined that the use of virtual platforms has a significant average positive connection in the learning of the English language in university students of Tourism.

Les œuvres de Foucault et de Wittgenstein, qui relèvent de traditions philosophiques fort éloignées, peuvent toutefois entrer en résonance et se relancer mutuellement : cette mise en perspective permet alors de cerner les points aveugles comme l’insistance contemporaine du questionnement philosophique propres à chacune d’elles. Ces deux auteurs ont en effet proposé une critique radicale de la notion classique d’une subjectivité souveraine, contre une compréhension traditionnelle d’un sujet de l’action et du savoir transparent à soi-même. Quelles sont dès lors les conséquences éthiques et politiques d’une telle conception – non psychologique et non métaphysique – de la subjectivité ? En explorant, hors de tout clivage institué, des thèmes tels que le « rapport à soi », la conscience et ses illusions, l’identité subjective dans sa dimension institutionnelle et politique, les rapports entre le Je et le Nous, il s’agit de faire émerger de la confrontation Foucault/Wittgenstein un « style de pensée » qui nous pousse à repenser radicalement la forme de nos intérêts et de nos préoccupations éthiques et politiques.

This open access book discusses how, and to what extent, the legal and institutional regimes and the socio-cultural environments of a range of European countries (the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy, Switzerland and the UK), in the framework of EU laws and policies, have a beneficial or negative impact on the effective capacity of these countries to integrate migrants, refugees and asylum seekers into their labour markets. The analysis builds on the understanding of socio-cultural, institutional and legal factors as “barriers” or “enablers”; elements that may facilitate or obstruct the integration processes. The book examines the two dimensions of integration being access to the labour market (which, translated into a rights language means the right to work) with its corollaries (recognition of qualifications, vocational training, etc.), and non-discriminatory working conditions (which, translated into a rights language means right to both formal and substantial equality) and its corollaries of benefits and duties deriving from joining the labour market. It thereby offers a novel approach to labour market integration and migration/asylum issues given its focus on legal aspects, which includes most recent policy changes and legal decisions (including litigation cases). The robust, evidence-based and comparative research illustrated in the book provides academics and students, but also practitioners and policy makers, with up to date knowledge that will likely impact positively on policy changes needed to better address integration conundrums.

Fernando Rodrigues de Oliveira busca neste livro captar e analisar um momento marcante da história da literatura infantil no país, examinando a história tanto da produção literária nesse campo quanto do desenvolvimento de teoria e crítica específicas. O autor faz o foco no estudo o Compêndio de literatura infantil (1959), de Bárbara Vasconcelos de Carvalho (1915-2008), professora e escritora nascida na cidade baiana de Alagoinhas, que produziu uma expressiva obra literária e didática. Ele explica que voltou a atenção para o manual porque, entre outros motivos, ele reúne um conjunto de saberes relativos à literatura infantil considerados necessários para a formação do professor primário no momento histórico em que foi publicado e utilizado. E ainda porque a obra serviu à época não somente como livro didático, mas também como fonte de teorização sobre literatura infantil que se tornou referência para autores de manuais sobre o mesmo assunto. Reconstituindo a história de uma faceta da educação nos anos 1950, o autor aborda diversas questões relacionadas ao ensino da literatura infantil, como manuais e autores, discorre sobre a vida e a obra de Bárbara Vasconcelos de Carvalho, dimensionando sua importância no contexto da pedagogia, e analisa a formação dos professores primários na época da publicação do Compêndio.

This open access book responds to the urgent need to improve how we prevent and resolve conflict. It introduces Adaptive Peacebuilding through evidence-based research from eight case studies across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. It also considers how China and Japan view and practice peacebuilding. The book focuses on how peacebuilders design, implement and evaluate programs to sustain peace, how interactions between external and local actors have facilitated or hindered peacemaking, and how adaptation to complexity and uncertainty occurred in each case study.

That the Age of Enlightenment of the 17th and 18th centuries, the spirit of reason, science, humanism and progress, as opposed to obscurantism, has led to the emergence of scientific, disruptive knowledge, even regarding the foundations of Society, is indisputable to anyone using their reason. Thus, were brought about great transformations of Society, which took place. In our time, digital technologies, through enabling observations of otherwise invisible phenomena, induce also a multitude of disruptive practices. As this effect and its inevitable implications continue to accelerate into the future, their integration into the progression of Society and enterprise is now absolutely imperative. The intention of this book is to bring out the intelligence of the progression of Society or of enterprise by enabling the intelligence of living together (Human Sciences), the intelligence of solutions (Natural Sciences) and the intelligence of the artificial (Sciences of Engineering, including the Digital), to connect together through the informational intelligence of services. Such a connection is established thanks to Service Science. It forms the base for the Informational Lights. Michel Léonard is a professor at the University of Geneva since 1977 in Information Systems and Service Science. He has been the initiator of numerous courses and curricula including the Franco-Swiss European DEA MATIS, and of the IESS (International Conference on Exploring Service Science) series of international scientific conferences. His research has focused on the one hand on methods for the design and evolution of information systems, and on the other hand on the creation of database management systems in accordance with these methods. They now focus on Service Science by adding the informational dimension.