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Among the many sources used by Boccaccio in his scholarly work Genealogia deorum gentilium, there are also the Homeric poems, made available to the author thanks to Leonzio Pilato’s Latin translation. What is interesting is that besides the Latin text of Iliad and Odyssey, he makes use also of Leonzio’s glosses written in the margins of his autograph manuscripts. In the wake of Agostino Pertusi’s pioneering study, this paper traces a link between Leonzio’s glosses on the Odyssey (Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, gr. IX 29) and many passages of the Genealogia where Leonzio is quoted as a source. The analysis is structured in three parts, i.e. the quotation of Boccaccio’s passage, the text of the source and a detailed commentary on its use.

With increasing penetration of renewable energy resources, there has been growing concern over their impacts on the stability, reliability, and resiliency of the grid, especially during extreme events. Consequently, there is a growing need to develop novel control and optimization techniques to address these issues. This could involve leveraging the flexibility and the controllability of several renewable energy resources, as well as developing hybrid power sources, such as solar PVs, energy storage, hydro power plants, nuclear power plants, and fuel cells, among others. This Special Issue aims to inform the community about recent advancements in these and other areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Power electronics controls for renewable energy systems; Integrated energy system optimal dispatch; Optimal power flow in smart grids; Hydrogen generation in integrated energy systems; Thermal energy systems; Grid integration of electric vehicles; Inverter-based resource controls and optimization; Hybrid energy storage systems; Machine learning applications in smart grids.

The works that arise in this volume, drinking and being part of the outstanding and positive future that accompanies in recent decades to the motor scope of the human being and more specifically to the plot of physical education are contextually inserted and are part of a new processrenovator that is taking place in the aforementioned field, which will mark a new stage in that future and therefore a qualitative leap in the interpretation, in the sense, in directionality, and in the own effects that the free and voluntary movement executedaccording to educational guidelines can cause people.

Die vergleichende Analyse historischer Pressetexte aus dem späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert bietet die Möglichkeit, die Entwicklung der Textkategorie des Berichts zu beobachten, und zeigt auch die Entwicklung der Struktur der Zeitung, in diesem Fall zwei deutschsprachiger Zeitungen, der Lodzer Zeitung und des Gießener Anzeigers, die unter verschiedenen historischen und sprachlichen Bedingungen erschienen sind. Die Lodzer Zeitung war die erste deutsche Zeitung in dem im russischen Teilungsgebiet liegenden Łódź und erschien zwischen 1863 und 1915. Ihr Wirken ist gleichzeitig mit dem linguistischen Phänomen der sogenannten Sprachinsel verbunden, im Falle der Metropole Łódź auch einer Kulturinsel von vier verschiedenen Kulturen, die das sprachliche und kulturelle Bild der Stadt geprägt haben. Ein innovativer Bestandteil der Monografie ist die Aufnahme einer Zeitung aus dem Deutschen Reich, aus dem Raum Hessen – des Gießener Anzeigers, der von 1750 bis heute veröffentlicht wird. Der Hauptzweck der Analyse, deren tertium comparationis sich aus den Texten der Zeitungsberichte über den deutsch-französischen Krieg (1870–1871), den russisch-japanischen Krieg (1904–1905) und den Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkriegs zusammensetzt, besteht darin, die gemeinsamen und distinktiven Merkmale der Texte zu veranschaulichen, die über einen historisch definierten Zeitraum berichten und aus zwei deutschen Zeitungen in verschiedenen geografischen Räumen stammen. Die Analyse historischer Ausgaben zeigte im Rahmen des untersuchten Textparadigmas auch Veränderungen in der Struktur beider Zeitungen. Dieses Projekt, inspiriert durch die langjährige wissenschaftliche Zusammenarbeit im Rahmen der Partnerschaft zwischen der Universität Łódź und der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, erweitert den Kreis der linguistischen Arbeiten auf dem Gebiet der Textlinguistik, hier der Textlinguistik historischer Zeitungsausgaben, unter Berücksichtigung der journalistischen Perspektive des untersuchten Textphänomens, was ihm einen interdisziplinären Charakter verleiht.

The first national conference with international participation, “Fundamental aspects of atherosclerosis: scientific research for improving the technologies of personalized medicine”, was held in Novosibirsk on 15 October, 2021. The purpose of this conference was to disseminate the latest basic and clinical findings in the fields of etiology, clinical characteristics, and modern diagnostics and treatments of atherosclerosis among various relevant specialists. The conference was intended for practicing cardiologists, primary care physicians, medical geneticists, and physician–scientists. The conference included plenary sessions, specialty sessions, satellite symposia, an open competition for young scientists.

In dieser Arbeit wurden Geschwindigkeitskonstanten für den thermischen Zerfall von NCN und Allylamin unter verbrennungsrelevanten Bedingungen untersucht. Zerfallsreaktionen stickstoffhaltiger Verbindungen spielen zum Beispiel bei der Stickoxidbildung in Verbrennungsprozessen eine Rolle. Die Experimente wurden an einem Stoßrohr durchgeführt, an das ein ARAS-Aufbau oder ein FM-Spektrometer gekoppelt wurde. Die erhaltenen Ergebnisse wurden mit Hilfe der statistischen Reaktionstheorie analysiert.

Avec la reconfiguration territoriale et la mise en place de l’Autorité palestinienne qui ont suivi les accords d’Oslo, puis les bouleversements liés à la seconde Intifada, les orientations et les priorités des ONG palestiniennes ont évidemment évolué, notamment pour celles qui ont un lien avec l’enjeu du « retour à la terre ». PARC, ONG de développement agricole créée il y a plus de vingt ans, reste officiellement rattachée au Parti du peuple palestinien (ex-Parti communiste palestinien), do...

Juan Marchena pointed out at the time, that "you have to stop following looking at our navels”. This phrase, intended for the context of independence American, reflects his deep concern for a story that would break the local schemes, national borders and interconnected with a larger than would allow us to analyze the future of America, linking events both Americans as Europeans. Within this framework, he would also place emphasis on the analysis of social dynamics, many of them conditioned by political, social, economic and geographical contexts, among others. One of his references would be the repercussions of the French Revolution in the Caribbean, and its direct influence on the movements in Martinique (1790-1793), Guadeloupe (1795-1802) and the most relevant, Haiti (1804); this The latter, I would point out, would in turn have an effect on those that broke out in Venezuela and, in addition to arousing fears throughout Spanish America due to its political scope, it would also do so because it was a rebellion led by black slaves against the white European elite established in the new World.

Bone tissue engineering aims to develop artificial bone substitutes that partially or totally restore the natural regeneration capability of bone tissue lost under circumstances of injury, significant defects, or diseases such as osteoporosis. In this context, biomaterials are the keystone of the methodology. Biomaterials for bone tissue engineering have evolved from biocompatible materials that mimic the physical and chemical environment of bone tissue to a new generation of materials that actively interacts with the physiological environment, accelerating bone tissue growth. Mathematical modelling and simulation are important tools in the overall methodology. This book presents an overview of the current investigations and recent contributions in the field of bone tissue engineering. It includes several successful examples of multidisciplinary collaboration in this transversal area of research. The book is intended for students, researchers, and professionals of a number of disciplines, such as engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biomedicine, biology, and veterinary. The book is composed of an editorial section and 16 original research papers authored by leading researchers of this discipline from different laboratories across the world

This Special Issue covers topics such as the thermal behaviour of solid food products; flavour analysis of foods and volatile profile; volatile compounds in food and their transformation during processing; volatile oils used for improving food stability; chromatographic methods in food analysis; spectroscopic methods in food analysis; physico-chemical characterization and metal content in drinking water; metal composition of foods; and food active packaging and superior valorisation of food raw materials.

Antimicrobial peptides are key defense molecules adopted by all life forms to prevent infection. They also have other beneficial effects such as boosting immune response, anticancer, and wound healing. The antiviral effects of antimicrobial peptides have laid the foundations for developing new agents to combat seasonal Flu, HIV-1, RSV, Zika, and Ebola. This eBook is constructed to systematically deal with antimicrobial peptides from a variety of natural sources, including fungi, plants, and animals (insects, fish, amphibians, birds, and reptiles). It covers peptide discovery, antimicrobial activity, 3D structure, mechanisms of action and potential applications. Naturally Occurring Antimicrobial Peptides, an eBook published by the journal Pharmaceuticals, provides a helpful introduction to newcomers and refreshes the minds of veterans.

Historical studies on the practice of Islamic law (sharīʿa) tend to focus on practice in a Sunni setting during the Mamluk or Ottoman periods. This book decenters Sunni and Mamluk and Ottoman normativity by investigating the practice of sharīʿa in a Twelver Shiʿi Persian-speaking milieu, in early modern Iran between the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. Drawing on documentary evidence and narrative sources, it reconstructs who the practitioners of Islamic law were, how they authenticated, annulled, and archived legal documents, and how they intervened in the resolution of disputes over religious endowments (waqf). The study demonstrates that following Iran's conversion to Twelver Shiʿism under the Safavids, the dominance of Uṣūlī Shiʿi legal theory, which conferred judicial authority on scholars recognized as Shiʿi jurists (mujathids), affected both the practitioners of Islamic law and the procedures of sharīʿa court practice in Iran. Shiʿi jurists in Iran, as a result, would come to exercise by the end of the nineteenth century a judicial monopoly over valid sharīʿa court practice thus laying the foundation for Ayatollah Khomeini's extension, during the Iranian revolution, of the authority of the Shiʿi jurist over political affairs. ; Historical studies on the practice of Islamic law (sharīʿa) tend to focus on practice in a Sunni setting during the Mamluk or Ottoman periods. This book decenters Sunni and Mamluk and Ottoman normativity by investigating the practice of sharīʿa in a Twelver Shiʿi Persian-speaking milieu, in early modern Iran between the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. Drawing on documentary evidence and narrative sources, it reconstructs who the practitioners of Islamic law were, how they authenticated, annulled, and archived legal documents, and how they intervened in the resolution of disputes over religious endowments (waqf). The study demonstrates that following Iran's conversion to Twelver Shiʿism under the Safavids, the dominance of Uṣūlī Shiʿi legal theory, which conferred judicial authority on scholars recognized as Shiʿi jurists (mujathids), affected both the practitioners of Islamic law and the procedures of sharīʿa court practice in Iran. Shiʿi jurists in Iran, as a result, would come to exercise by the end of the nineteenth century a judicial monopoly over valid sharīʿa court practice thus laying the foundation for Ayatollah Khomeini's extension, during the Iranian revolution, of the authority of the Shiʿi jurist over political affairs.

Die vorliegende Dissertation der deutschen Frauenrechtlerin und Sozialpolitikerin Rosa Kempf (1874-1948) erschien 1911 im Rahmen des Forschungsprojektes »Auslese und Anpassung der deutschen Arbeiter« des »Vereins für Sozialpolitik«. In ihrer Arbeit, die als frühes Beispiel der empirischen Sozialforschung gilt, untersucht Kempf u.a. die Rolle, die beruflichen Perspektiven und das wirtschaftliche Auskommen von Frauen im männlich dominierten Fabrikalltag. Von den ungleichen Bedingungen zwischen den Geschlechtern, die ihr Text beleuchtet, konnte sie sich persönlich überzeugen: Zu Forschungszwecken arbeitete sie selbst kurzzeitig in einer Holz- und in einer Textilfabrik.