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Se si domanda a una persona di buon senso «a chi appartiene la scienza?», la risposta più probabile è: «a tutti!». Dietro il velo di una risposta istintiva e (apparentemente) superficiale si nasconde la storia dell’eterno conflitto tra apertura e chiusura della conoscenza, tra pubblicità e segretezza. Un conflitto che assume connotati peculiari nell’era digitale. All’alba dell’era di Internet una parte della comunità scientifica ha coltivato la speranza di potenziare il discorso scientifico e l’uso pubblico della ragione creando una Rete democratica delle menti. Questa speranza oggi appare minacciata dalla mercificazione della conoscenza e dalle forze che mirano ad accentrare il potere decisionale nelle mani di pochi. La scienza sembra sempre più in crisi. L’apertura può curare la crisi in cui versa la scienza? Cosa significa “scienza aperta”? Le risposte contenute nel libro sono parziali e attengono al dilemma evocato nel suo titolo: diritto d’autore o proprietà intellettuale?

Traz informações concisas e atualizadas sobre os mosquitos vetores de doenças no Brasil. Inclui morfologia e biologia das fases evolutivas de adulto, ovo, larva e pupa, abordando aspectos referentes à nutrição, reprodução, comportamento e ecologia. Com referência às medidas de controle, são abordados os métodos químicos, a questão da resistência aos inseticidas e a perspectiva dos métodos biológicos. Possui, ainda, técnicas de trabalho e uma vasta lista de referências bibliográficas para um conhecimento mais detalhado de cada item tratado.

We live in times of polycrisis in which emotions and affects—from anger and outrage to fear, passion, and empathy—play a central role. They shape not only private relationships but also politics, universities, and the economy. Emotions have long become embedded in the late-modern world of work and have condensed into emotional regimes that significantly shape work structures and organizational cultures. At the same time, emotions are deliberately mobilized, regulated, and economically exploited. This volume explores the power of emotions and affects in organizations and work contexts and analyzes their mobilization, instrumentalization, and economization from a sociology of work and organizations as well as a gender- and diversity-critical perspective. With contributions by Nele Borchers | Maria Funder | Nina Hossain | Birgit Sauer

This book is dedicated to all the people interested in the CoRoT mission and the beautiful data that were delivered during its six year duration. Either amateurs, professional, young or senior researchers, they will find treasures not only at the time of this publication but also in the future twenty or thirty years. It presents the data in their final version, explains how they have been obtained, how to handle them, describes the tools necessary to understand them, and where to find them. It also highlights the most striking first results obtained up to now. CoRoT has opened several unexpected directions of research and certainly new ones still to be discovered.

This book is an analytical examination of financing and public service delivery challenges in a decentralized framework. In addition, it provides critical insights into the effectiveness of public expenditure, through benefit incidence analysis of education and healthcare services in India.

Un dictionnaire pour réveiller le thème de l’humain, pour lui faire tenir ses promesses scientifiques, pour faire jaillir sa richesse philosophique. Ce dictionnaire aurait-il vu le jour sans le constat implicite d’une absence paradoxale de l’humain, dans un espace disciplinaire des sciences humaines et sociales, langues, littératures et humanités dont il est pourtant l’élément commun ? Un dictionnaire, c’est aussi une bonne occasion de faire dialoguer des idées. Art, divin, guerre, hominidé, langage, sédentarisation, singe, volonté... : des philosophes, des psychologues, des sociologues, des spécialistes de littérature ou des textes anciens, des anthropologues, des géographes, des historiens, des préhistoriens, des éthologues ont ainsi saisi plus de soixante-dix entrées, cherchant ce qu’il en est de la différence anthropologique, ce qui ou ce que fait l’humain, quelles significations s’attachent à la dimension de l’humain. Puisse la traversée des perspectives proposées faire bouger les lecteurs, inviter à la vigilance et à la curiosité, communiquer l’envie de l’enquête et du débat.

This edited volume [Methodologies and Research Methods in Sociology of Education] examines research methods in the sociology of education and their paradigmatic development. Its twelve chapters describe the range of methodological approaches used in contemporary research, from register-based data to ethnography, from network analysis to conceptual history. The structure of the volume proceeds thematically from studies examining societal structures to research focusing on social interaction and discourse, and finally to key methodological questions in multi-perspective sociology of education. Using their empirical data, the authors explore, for example, what demands do research questions place on methods, and what kinds of epistemological and ontological assumptions guide methodological choices and knowledge formation in the field. The book is intended for researchers and professionals in education and social sciences. In addition to supporting research, the volume also serves as a textbook for higher education.

In the Carolingian period, the prospect of individual death, the universal end times and the Last Judgement gave rise to a sense of taking a critical view of current conditions and governing in a reform-oriented manner. This volume examines the intertwining of eschatological thinking and political action, particularly during the reigns of Charlemagne (768–814) and Louis the Pious (814–840). Die Aussicht auf den individuellen Tod, die universale Endzeit und das Jüngste Gericht stiftete in der Karolingerzeit den Sinn dafür, die eigene Gegenwart kritisch zu betrachten, Zustände auf ihre Korrekturbedürftigkeit hin zu überprüfen und reformorientiert zu regieren. Die Absicherung des jenseitigen Heils war für das politische Handeln Antriebskraft und Bewertungsmaßstab zugleich. Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Herrschaftszeit Karls des Großen (768–814) und Ludwigs des Frommen (814–840) untersucht der vorliegende Band die Bedeutungen und Wirkungen eschatologischen Denkens in Zeitvorstellungen und Geschichtsdeutungen, in Herrschaftsidealen, Bischofsprofilen und Gesellschaftskonzepten sowie nicht zuletzt bei der Beurteilung des karolingischen Herrschers und der Qualität seiner Herrschaft.

Description and evaluation of relief, reconstruction, humanitarian, and humanitarian-type aid efforts in Afghanistan during the most intense phase of military operations, from September 2001 to June 2002. The efforts were generally successful, but there were serious coordination problems among the various civilian and military aid providers. Critical issues, both positive and negative, are identified, and a list of recommendations is provided for policymakers, implementers, and aid providers, based on lessons learned.

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

L’Histoire de l'éducation dans l’Antiquité, qu'Henri-Irénée Marrou (1904-1977) publie en 1948 aux éditions du Seuil alors naissantes, est une œuvre de science et d'engagement. Œuvre de science écrite par un historien spécialiste de saint Augustin qui livre là sa première grande synthèse, couvrant plus de treize siècles d’histoire, depuis Homère jusqu'aux "préludes à la renaissance carolingienne". Œuvre lue et méditée, dans ses éditions successives, par nombre d’étudiants, d'enseignants, de femmes et d'hommes "de culture. Œuvre d'engagement aussi, car le livre ne peut être dissocié de son contexte d'élaboration et de maturation, pendant les années 1940-1945, lorsque Marrou, professeur à la Faculté des Lettres de Lyon, participe avec ses étudiants au mouvement de la Résistance. Le livre ici proposé a pour visée principale d'analyser ces deux dimensions de l'Histoire de l'éducation dans l’Antiquité et leurs interférences. Les traditions éducatives de l’Antiquité classique, grecque et romaine, reconstituées avec érudition par l'historien Marrou, tiennent aussi lieu, pour l’homme engagé, de plus sûr rempart contre toutes les formes de barbarie, dont le présent, dans l'Italie et l'Allemagne des années 1920 et 1930 (Marrou vécut à Rome et à Naples à ce moment) lui offrent deux illustrations extrêmes. Chacune des relectures s'efforce donc de préciser comment Marrou aborde les thèmes propres à l'historien des sociétés anciennes en fonction de l'urgence du très contemporain. Puis leurs auteurs analysent ce que les renouvellements de la recherche, depuis plus de cinquante ans, ont apporté, infléchi, rectifié parfois, à partir des ressources croisées de la philologie et de l’histoire dans ses différentes approches : histoire culturelle, histoire de l'éducation, histoire littéraire, anthropologie historique...

In dieser Arbeit werden dual-orthogonal, linear polarisierte Antennen für die UWB-Technik konzipiert. Das Prinzip zur Realisierung der Strahler wird vorgestellt, theoretisch und simulativ untersucht, sowie messtechnisch verifiziert. Danach werden Konzepte zur Miniaturisierung der Strahler dargelegt, die anschließend zum Aufbau von Antennengruppen verwendet werden. Die Vorteile der entwickelten Antennen werden praktisch anhand des bildgebenden Radars und des Monopuls-Radars gezeigt.

This open access book takes space propulsion system, gel propulsion system, and pumped liquid rocket engine as research objects and establishes and describes the theory, dynamic model, and numerical calculation method of working process of liquid/gel rocket engine. The first part of this book establishes a mathematical model for the working process of the space propulsion system, including a mathematical model for gas cylinders, an electric explosion valve, a pressure reducing valve, a storage tank, a liquid pipeline, an orifice and filter, an electromagnetic valve, a filling pipeline, and a thrust chamber. The simulation analyzes the characteristics of the start-up, steady-state, and shutdown processes of the space propulsion system. In the second part, the mathematical model of the working process of gel propulsion system is established, and the flow distribution law, water hammer characteristics, and thrust regulation characteristics of gel propulsion system are simulated and analyzed. The third part establishes a mathematical model for the working process of a pumped liquid rocket engine and simulates and analyzes the starting process characteristics of the pumped liquid rocket engine. The above theory or dynamic model reflects the latest research results of the working process of liquid/gel rocket engine. This book is used as a teaching material or reference book for teachers, students, and scientific and technological personnel engaged in the simulation analysis of the working process of liquid/gel rocket engines in the fields of aerospace, aviation, power, etc.

This collection amplifies the experiences of some of the world’s young people who are working to address SDGs using geospatial technologies and multi-national collaboration. Authors from every region of the world who have emerged as leaders in the YouthMappers movement share their perspectives and knowledge in an accessible and peer-friendly format. YouthMappers are university students who create and use open mapping for development and humanitarian purposes. Their work leverages digital innovations - both geospatial platforms and communications technologies - to answer the call for leadership to address sustainability challenges. The book conveys a sense of robust knowledge emerging from formal studies or informal academic experiences - in the first-person voices of students and recent graduates who are at the forefront of creating a new map of the world. YouthMappers use OpenStreetMap as the foundational sharing mechanism for creating data together. Authors impart the way they are learning about themselves, about each other, about the world. They are developing technology skills, and simultaneously teaching the rest of the world about the potential contributions of a highly connected generation of emerging world leaders for the SDGs. The book is timely, in that it captures a pivotal moment in the trajectory of the YouthMappers movement’s ability to share emerging expertise, and one that coincides with a pivotal moment in the geopolitical history of planet earth whose inhabitants need to hear from them. Most volumes that cover the topic of sustainability in terms of youth development are written by non-youth authors. Moreover, most are written by non-majoritarian, entrenched academic scholars. This book instead puts forward the diverse voices of students and recent graduates in countries where YouthMappers works, all over the world. Authors cover topics that range from water, agriculture, food, to waste, education, gender, climate action and disasters from their own eyes in working with data, mapping, and humanitarian action, often working across national boundaries and across continents. To inspire readers with their insights, the chapters are mapped to the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in ways that connect a youth agenda to a global agenda. With a preface written by Carrie Stokes, Chief Geographer and GeoCenter Director, United States Agency for International Development (USAID). This is an open access book.