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The Jordan Archaeological Museum in ʿAmman houses an Islamic copper alloy incense burner, which can be dated to the late 7th or early 8th century according to its discovery (in the late 1940s) in an Umayyad dwelling in the ʿAmman Citadel in Jordan. It is one of the earliest Islamic examples of a metal incense burner in an architectural form, namely a shape that spread widely later in the Seljuk Iranian area. The hypothesis is put forward here that it is a rare Islamic 'reproduction' of the Anastasis rotunda of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem before its destruction in 1009 by the Fatimid al-Ḥākim bi-Amr Allāh. An intended use is suggested as a “votive” object of Islamic (or even Christian?) manufacture intended for a Christian user in the eclectic milieu of the bilād al-shām of the Umayyad period.

The fourth industrial revolution, characterized by digitization, artificial intelligence and augmented reality, and megatrends such as globalization, urbanization, demographic changes and the knowledge-based economy, will trigger a series of profound technological, economic, social and environmental changes that will permanently and irreversibly change the role of the state in meeting social needs. Industry 4.0 will also change the type, nature, and scope of public goods and how they are produced, financed, delivered, and consumed. This book redefines the current paradigm of public goods. It proposes a model of production and distribution of public goods that acknowledges the participation of entities from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. The authors argue that these entities would participate in the production, financing, distribution, and consumption of such goods. From a theoretical point of view, such an inclusive approach involving the expansion of the classical state - market dichotomy with new entities, including citizens themselves, leads to a new conceptualization and approach towards public goods. The model assumes shared responsibility, subsidiarity, and paternalistic libertarianism, and it allows the state to create new entities of an educational or fiscal nature, while remaining the regulator of public services and distribution. Additionally, the book analyzes changes regarding the perception of public goods, in the era of the fourth industrial revolution, across selected sectors such as healthcare and pension systems, education, local public goods, and public utility services. The book is primarily addressed to researchers, scholars and students across social and technical sciences, and it will also be a useful guide for central and local administration bodies responsible for public policy.

Movements in Organizational Communication Research is an essential resource for anyone wishing to become familiar with the current state of organizational communication research and key trends in the field. Seasoned organizational communication scholars will find that the book provides unique insights by way of the intergenerational dialogue that is found in the book, as well as the contributors’ stories about their scholarly trajectories. Those who are new to the field will find that the book enables them to familiarize themselves with the field and become a part of the organizational communication scholarly community in an inviting and accessible way. Key features of the book include: A review of current issues and future directions in 13 topical areas of organizational communication research. Intergenerational dialogue and collaboration between both established and emerging scholars in their specialty areas. Reflections by the authors on their scholarly trajectories and how they became a part of the field. Discussion questions at the end of each chapter that prompt reflections and debate. The book also features online resources for instructors: Sample course syllabus Suggested case studies from the book Cases in Organization and Managerial Communication to align with this book’s chapters The book is recommended as the anchor text for introductory graduate-level courses and upper-level undergraduate courses in organizational communication. It is also an excellent supplementary text for advanced doctoral-level courses in organizational communication, and courses in related fields such as organization studies, organizational behavior, and management.

This volume is the 16th of the PSI series (started by Girolamo Vitelli in 1912) and contains the edition of 79 texts written in Greek on papyri or other materials (wood, parchment), coming from Egypt and kept at the Papyrological Institute «G. Vitelli». There are both fragments of famous Ancient Greek authors (Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Isocrates, Demosthenes, Plutarch; the Septuagint, Cyril of Alexandria, the Physiologist), as well as fragments of unknown works: among others, a grammar text on the Ionian dialect and a doxographic fragment on Aristotelian philosophy. Then, there are texts of documentary nature: petitions, tax receipts, registers, reports, private letters, testimony of the daily life in Egypt during Roman and Byzantine times.

On the basis of ample literature devoted to parenthesis in the modern Polish language, the author seeks the instruments for the recognition of instances of parenthesis in old texts, in the study of which we lack linguistic competence, and in the study of which we lack prosodical hints (these constitute a substantial property of parenthesis). After Maciej Grochowski, it assumes that parenthesis is an expression which occurs in interposition, it uses the hints which are provided by punctuation signs (even though the latter differ from the ones that are used today), it takes into account the constitutive elements of interjections (verba dicendi). A hint in the indication of parenthesis in an old text is the convergence with the constructions which are familiar to this day (e.g. że tak powiem [ut ita dicam]). One should emphasize that one hint is not sufficient in the recognition of parenthesis in a text which was written centuries ago — usually the hints cross over and supplement each other. The pursuit of parenthesis facilitated the discovery of such types which are not featured in the Polish language (with czyli, rzekę and mówię), the inference about the existence of parenthesis even when it was not registered, cf. zaiste, zawierne, after the pattern of interjections with za pewne ‘surely’. Instances of parenthesis were the sources of certain particles — epistemic (e.g. niewątpliwie, z pewnością, pewnie), generalizing (np. generalnie, ogólnie), conclusion-related (dokładnie, innymi słowy, mianowicie), as well as particles of supplementation (na dodatek, w dodatku, ponadto). Thus, the article continues the problems which are discussed in the monograph entitled U źródeł polskich partykuł. Derywacja funkcjonalna, przemiany, zaniki (Katowice 2015).

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Hélène Ahrweiler est l'une des grandes figures des études byzantines de ces quarante dernières années ; elle a suscité la vocation de nombreux élèves et s'est attiré l'amitié et la considération de nombreux collègues dans le monde entier. Les Mélanges qui lui sont offerts sont le reflet de cette double réussite, puisqu'ils réunissent plus d'une cinquantaine de contributions provenant des centres les plus prestigieux du byzantinisme français et international. Dans leur article, les participan...

Esta obra é a culminância do projeto “Para além das fazendas em pedra e cal: um estudo sobre o Patrimônio Rural (Ambiental e Cultural) do Semiárido Nordestino”, financiado pelo Edital Universal MCTI/CNPq Nº 01/ 2016. Com o objetivo de problematizar a abrangência do conceito de patrimônio rural, esta proposta investigativa se inscreve nas ações do Grupo de Estudos, Pesquisa e Ensino de Sociologia e Ciências Humanas (UFERSA). O livro conta com os textos derivados de pesquisas de Iniciação Científica (PIBIC/PICI-UFERSA) e TCCs do curso de Licenciatura Interdisciplinar em Educação do Campo (LEDOC/UFERSA), dissertações de mestrado vinculadas ao Programa Interdisciplinar em Cognição, Tecnologias e Instituições (PPGCTI/UFERSA) e ao Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia (PPGS/UECE), bem como reflexões de convidados/as nacionais e internacionais que contribuíram ao longo da realização do projeto. Três eixos norteiam a obra: o primeiro, está mais diretamente relacionado às discussões que pensam o patrimônio nas suas interfaces com os aspectos da memória e identidade; o segundo, reflete sobre a articulação do patrimônio com a cultura e identidade dos povos do campo; o terceiro se detém sobre assuntos que tangenciam o tema do patrimônio e/ou das ruralidades, enfocando diferentes dimensões tais como a economia, a cultura e a arte.

War Machine is a speculative sounding of the myriad entanglements of technology, ecology, discourse, politics, and conflict shaping the contemporary environment. Taking the tools of geopolitical competition and control as its formal and conceptual basis—wargame simulations, artificial intelligence, weaponised drones, territorial enclosure, and extractivist economics—War Machine presents a series of digitally simulated conflicts over the most ecologically vulnerable areas of the Earth, using the data gathered to generate hybrid visual poems that stand in for the multitude of political, conceptual, and economic battles that are presently raging across the face of a profoundly endangered planet.A hybrid work of generative criticism and poetry, War Machine depicts the intensive complexities of the present moment through conducting an experimental textual performance, attempting to enfold and perform, rather than simply describe, challenging conjunctions of competing discourses and activities. The resulting stream of outputs and interpretive potentials preclude the ascendency of any “definitive” critical narrative, refusing any straightforward integration with existing canons of worldly diagnosis, but also illustrating opportunities for resistant play and critical-creative possibility within the uncertainty.The consciously unconventional gesture at the heart of War Machine is in attempt at modelling an adventurous, forward-facing approach, in both thought and practice, that refuses inaction when dealing with otherwise devastating scenarios. It is an approach that acknowledges head-on myriad worldly harms, seemingly insurmountable, while still contributing to the aesthetic, affective, and conceptual foundations from which alternative modes of knowing, being, and meaning are developed and justified.

This book explores both the state-of-the-art and the latest developments in wireless sensor networks technology. It describes the fundamental concepts and practical aspects of wireless sensor networks and addresses challenges faced in their design, analysis and deployment. It is believed that the book will serve as a comprehensive reference for graduate and undergraduate senior students who seek to learn the latest developments in wireless sensor networks.

In 2010, five magnificent Blackfoot shirts, now owned by the University of Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, were brought to Alberta to be exhibited at the Glenbow Museum, in Calgary, and the Galt Museum, in Lethbridge. The shirts had not returned to Blackfoot territory since 1841, when officers of the Hudson’s Bay Company acquired them. The shirts were later transported to England, where they had remained ever since. Exhibiting the shirts at the museums was, however, only one part of the project undertaken by Laura Peers and Alison Brown. Prior to the installation of the exhibits, groups of Blackfoot people—hundreds altogether—participated in special “handling sessions,” in which they were able to touch the shirts and examine them up close. The shirts, some painted with mineral pigments and adorned with porcupine quillwork, others decorated with locks of human and horse hair, took the breath away of those who saw, smelled, and touched them. Long-dormant memories were awakened, and many of the participants described a powerful sense of connection and familiarity with the shirts, which still house the spirit of the ancestors who wore them. In the pages of this beautifully illustrated volume is the story of an effort to build a bridge between museums and source communities, in hopes of establishing stronger, more sustaining relationships between the two and spurring change in prevailing museum policies. Negotiating the tension between a museum’s institutional protocol and Blackfoot cultural protocol was challenging, but the experience described both by the authors and by Blackfoot contributors to the volume was transformative. Museums seek to preserve objects for posterity. This volume demonstrates that the emotional and spiritual power of objects does not vanish with the death of those who created them. For Blackfoot people today, these shirts are a living presence, one that evokes a sense of continuity and inspires pride in Blackfoot cultural heritage.

This Element analyses the relationship between gender and literary letterpress printing from the early 20th century to the beginning of the 21st. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Die Arbeit untersucht in ihrem ersten Teil die Auswirkungen der UWG-Novelle und der jüngeren Rechtsprechung auf die Problemkreise der unverlangten E-Mail-Werbung, des Einsatzes von Hyperlinks und der Beeinflussung von Suchmaschinen. In ihrem zweiten Teil wendet sie sich der Bedeutung technischer Schutzmaßnahmen für die lauterkeitsrechtliche Bewertung zu.

This interdisciplinary book contains 22 essays and interventions on rest and restlessness, silence and noise, relaxation and work. It draws together approaches from artists, literary scholars, psychologists, activists, historians, geographers and sociologists who challenge assumptions about how rest operates across mind, bodies, and practices. Rest’s presence or absence affects everyone. Nevertheless, defining rest is problematic: both its meaning and what it feels like are affected by many socio-political, economic and cultural factors. The authors open up unexplored corners and experimental pathways into this complex topic, with contributions ranging from investigations of daydreaming and mindwandering, through histories of therapeutic relaxation and laziness, and creative-critical pieces on lullabies and the Sabbath, to experimental methods to measure aircraft noise and track somatic vigilance in urban space. The essays are grouped by scale of enquiry, into mind, body and practice, allowing readers to draw new connections across apparently distinct phenomena. The book will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines in the social sciences, life sciences, arts and humanities.