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This collection of essays documents the formative decades of African history across two countries by following the career of the British historian-cum-archivist Paul Jenkins (born 1938 in Sutherland) from West Africa to Central Europe. It retraces his academic path from Ghana to Switzerland while engaging his curiosities in, contributions to, and impact on the development of African history since the 1960s. The volume reflects on Paul's academic services throughout the 1960s and 1970s, mainly at the University of Ghana (1965-1972) and subsequently at the Basel Mission Archive and University of Basel (1972-2003) in Switzerland-as key sites where he established himself as a teacher and promoter of African history. These episodes led to lasting bonds of intellectual friendships between Paul and an array of inter-/national and -generational scholars of Africa, several of whom are contributing to this volume. Significantly too, the volume highlights the importance of resources Paul curated during the early 1970s, notably his "Abstracts of the Basel Mission's Gold Coast Correspondences," through which he increased access to the rich collections of the Basel Mission Archive for scholars of Africa. Altogether, the essays celebrate, engage, interrogate, and push beyond Paul's numerous past publications and ongoing academic work.This collection of essays documents the formative decades of African history across two countries by following the career of the British historian-cum-archivist Paul Jenkins (born 1938 in Sutherland) from West Africa to Central Europe. It retraces his academic path from Ghana to Switzerland while engaging his curiosities in, contributions to, and impact on the development of African history since the 1960s. The volume reflects on Paul's academic services throughout the 1960s and 1970s, mainly at the University of Ghana (1965-1972) and subsequently at the Basel Mission Archive and University of Basel (1972-2003) in Switzerland-as key sites where he established himself as a teacher and promoter of African history. These episodes led to lasting bonds of intellectual friendships between Paul and an array of inter-/national and -generational scholars of Africa, several of whom are contributing to this volume. Significantly too, the volume highlights the importance of resources Paul curated during the early 1970s, notably his "Abstracts of the Basel Mission's Gold Coast Correspondences," through which he increased access to the rich collections of the Basel Mission Archive for scholars of Africa. Altogether, the essays celebrate, engage, interrogate, and push beyond Paul's numerous past publications and ongoing academic work.

Aristophanes will allow us contemplate features of the colloquial attic of the 5th centuries and vi a.J. C. which will later meet in the Koiné. And Lebanium, professor of rhetoric and author of speeches and letters in the fourth century d.d.C., will make us see how the inevitable filter of the Koiné is interposed between the aticist attic and aticism.

Vier ehemalige Wehrmachtsangehörige berichten über ihre Erlebnisse in alliierten Lagern. Ihre Alltagserfahrungen unterschieden sich beträchtlich, je nachdem, ob sie in angelsächsische, französische oder sowjetische Gefangenschaft gerieten. Jedoch litten sie alle gemeinsam unter den extremen Bedingungen von Gefangennahme und Internierung.

Musculoskeletal disorders are defined as disorders that affect a part of the body's musculoskeletal system, which includes bones, nerves, tendons, ligaments, joints, cartilage, blood vessels, and spinal disks. These are the injuries that result from repeated motions, vibrations, and forces placed on human bodies while performing various job actions. They are extremely common and costly problems for people and companies. Thus, this book is designed to include a wide array of extensive and comprehensive discussions provided on occupational, educational, and medical aspects of ergonomics. Thus, it can be utilized as a guide to identify and analyze the risk factors, reveal the impact of prevention and intervention, and discuss treatment of musculoskeletal disorders.

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Drawing on empirical data from US and UK as well as the unique example of Nordic countries where there is a high level of confidence in state and media institutions, this book shows how platforms and algorithms are transforming media, journalism and audiences’ civic practices today.

Despite the tremendous growth in the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) evidenced in the initial phases of its development in the early twentieth century, scientific focus has shifted in recent years toward the study of physiology and pathophysiology that span the spatial scales of the molecule, cell, tissue, and organ. Intensified research activities over the past 15 years have justified efforts toward molecular and cellular imaging, dual-modality imaging systems, real-time acquisitions, dedicated image processing techniques and applications, and the critical evaluation of their potential translational value for use in the clinic. The integrative focus on molecular-cellular-tissue-organ function and dysfunction has taken a primary role in modern, personalized medicine, and it is envisaged to continue to do so, as accumulated knowledge from basic and clinical science work continues to elucidate molecular, cellular, and physiological/pathophysiological pathways and mechanisms. In this scientific effort, MRI continues to play a critical and synergistic role from the perspectives of basic science, diagnosis, and clinical interventional/therapeutic approaches. Within the realm of the current role of MRI in modern medicine, this book summarizes state-of-the-art direct and derived MRI methodologies and approaches as applied toward the assessment of cellular and organ function and dysfunction. The contributions in this effort are not excessive but few, comprehensive, and distinguished and of high quality. The topic areas can be generalized to find applications in other scientific areas and span both brain and cardiac applications, extending interest to wider audiences.

En la era de la globalización, la palabra competitividad es cada vez más utilizada para referirse no sólo al desempeño de las empresas, sino también al comportamiento económico de países, regiones y ciudades. La de una empresa se define en función de su actuación comercial y su habilidad para obtener utilidades que se traducen en reinversión. La competitividad de un país está en función del desempeño microeconómico de sus unidades productivas, de la instrumentación de políticas públicas para promover el crecimiento económico, y de la existencia y evolución de las ventajas territoriales y distributivas que ofrecen las ciudades para el desarrollo de las actividades económicas. Las ciudades, por su parte, compiten entre sí por atracción de inversiones para la creación de empleos y generación de ingresos. La competitividad que registran las unidades económicas de cualquier territorio resulta del aprovechamiento de una serie de factores locacionales dinámicos que se denominan ventajas competitivas. En este libro se ofrecen elementos para avanzar en el conocimiento sobre la economía urbana en México y en especial el desempeño de sus principales ciudades en un periodo caracterizado por la implementación de una política neoliberal y sustentada en la apertura comercial.

Louis Althusser's thinking laid the groundwork for critical educational theory, yet it is often misunderstood in critical pedagogy, sociology of education, and related fields. In this open access book, David I. Backer reexamines Althusser’s educational theory, specifically the claim that education is the most powerful ideological state apparatus in modern capitalist societies. He then presents this theory’s flawed reception in critical educational research and draws out a lost tradition of educational thinking it inspired with important applications to race, gender, ideology, and the concept of social structure in education. Correcting the record about Althusser’s thinking in the traditional narrative of critical educational research becomes an opportunity to revisit fundamental questions for thinking about school in its social context. For students and researchers of education, critical theory, sociology of education, and critical pedagogy, this book will be a resource for rethinking the social foundations of education, both as a field and as a set of theoretical frameworks for educational research. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.

The Escuela Red de Formación Ciudadana para la Participación is a collaborative learning initiative, where knowledge, experiences and learning are exchanged with the aim of contributing to increase the impact of participation through training. Since its birth in 2015, it was conceived with the intention of providing higher quality citizen training, in order to achieve sustainable impacts and better results in the processes of transformation of the territories. The Network School is a scenario that promotes the construction of a democratic culture based on inclusion, respect, horizontality and dialogue, linking various actors (public servants, academia, social leaders, observers, trainers, social and community organizations, compensation funds and members of other social networks in the City) in order to weave links for cooperation, trust and under the connecting thread that drives to find together better ways to make pedagogy for participation and influence in the territory.

Die bisherigen Theorieansätze zur Erklärung der öffentlichen Finanzkontrolle, ihrer Institutionen und ihrer Wirkungsweise weisen erhebliche Defizite auf. Die institutionenökonomische Analyse ermöglicht eine neue Herangehensweise an einen Forschungsgegenstand, der von konstitutiver Bedeutung für den Umgang mit öffentlichen Mitteln ist. Nach einer Darstellung der Theorie werden Defizite der öffentlichen Finanzkontrolle am Beispiel der Europäischen Union untersucht. Die Allokation der property-rights, multiple Principal/Agent-Beziehungen und die daraus resultierenden Anreizstrukturen sowie die Organisationsprobleme kollektiven Handelns stecken den Analyserahmen ab. Die exogenen und endogenen Beschränkungen der öffentlichen Finanzkontrolle werden analysiert und daraus ein ordnungstheoretischer Ansatz abgeleitet, der einen Weg zu einer modernen, ökonomisch fundierten Finanzkontrolle weist.

The book aims at presenting less known or completly unknown family archives. It proposes to question them and to analyze them under new perspectives (both from history and archival science), in order to found the "voices" if its producers - and thus to develop new research questions. It comprises three parts: "Recovering, reconstructing and (re)discovering family and personal archives"; "From a social, political and cultural history of the families to a social history of the archives"; "Public preservation and promotion of family and personal archives".

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With emphasis on East Asian and North American examples – notably Japan and Quebec – Date, Laniel and their contributors take a new approach to the understanding of small nations and their role in the international system. Small nations, by their very nature, raise significant questions about what a nation is. Some small nations are sovereign states with relatively small populations and limited territory, others are nations within larger sovereign states, with distinctive cultures, governance structures or other features that differentiate them from their “parent” state. By focussing on non-European nations in particular, the contributors to this volume challenge our conceptions of what a small nation is and how it operates within the international system. They focus in particular on the nation-within-a-nation-state of Quebec and on Japan, supplemented by further examples from East Asia. By interrogating what these examples have to show us about the typology and character of small nations, they offer a critique of superpower and draw out the potential of small nation studies. A valuable resource for students and scholars of international relations and theories of the nation and nation state. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

The Routledge International Handbook of Research Security examines research security – the act of protecting and securing university research and teaching in the name of national security – through a multidisciplinary and comparative lens. In this volume, contributors explore theoretical, domestic, international, and practical pursuits of research security across the globe. Over six sections, the handbook covers topics ranging from the composition of research security programs and frameworks to the futures of research security and academic freedom. Academic experiences of espionage, foreign interference, intelligence, and counter-intelligence operations are discussed to provide international and comparative perspectives on research security. In so doing, this book shows the tensions of finding a middle ground between the needs of national security and the global research enterprise. Offering a balanced and structured perspective of research security from both academics and practitioners, this handbook is a unique resource for graduate students in fields such as law, security studies, international relations, and strategic management. It will also interest higher education professionals such as research managers and security directors.

The history of terrorism has been largely a history of perpetrators, their motives and actions. The history of their victims has always seemed to be of secondary importance. But terrorism is communication by violence, and its efficiency depends significantly on the selection and the treatment of the victims by the perpetrators, on the one hand, and the perception and acknowledgement of victimhood by the public, on the other. How does it affect our picture of the history of terrorism then, if the victims are moved centre stage? If the focus is put on their suffering, their agency, their helplessness, or on how they are acknowledged or exploited by society, politics and media? If the central role is taken into account which they play in terrorist propaganda as well as in the emotional response of the public? The contributions to this edition of the European History Yearbook will examine such questions in a broad range of historical case studies and methods, including visual history. Not least, they aim at historicizing the roles of survivors and relatives in the social process of coming to terms with terrorist violence, a question highly relevant up to the present day.