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  • FACILITIES, RESEARCH, AND SUPPORT
  • H1-99
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Life and Medical Sciences
  • ddc:330
  • English  (186)
  • 2020-2024  (186)
  • 1960-1964
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    Reaching net-zero in the chemical industry : a study of roadmaps for industrial decarbonisation (2024)
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Striving to mitigate climate change, the European Union has adopted net-zero greenhouse gas emissions as a target for 2050. In this paper, European chemical industry roadmaps from the past six years are assessed and compared to uncover how the industry envisions its role in the transition to net-zero emissions. The roadmaps are assessed in terms of ambition level, technology and feedstock strategies, investment needs and costs, agency and dependency on other actors, as well as timeline and concretion. Although net-zero pathways are often drawn out in the roadmaps, some also choose to emphasize and argue for less ambitious pathways with emission reductions of only 40-60 %. The roadmaps vary widely in terms of the importance they assign to mechanical and chemical recycling, switching to biogenic carbon and carbon dioxide as feedstock, electrification and hydrogen, and carbon capture and storage. A commonality though, is that low-tech or near-term mitigation pathways such as demand reduction, reuse or material efficiency are seldom included. High investment needs are generally highlighted, as well as the need for policy to create enabling conditions, whereas the agency and responsibility of the chemical industry itself is downplayed. Our analysis highlights that the chemical industry does not yet have a strong and shared vision for pathways to net-zero emissions. We conclude that such a future vision would benefit from taking a whole value chain approach including demand-side options and consideration of scope 3 emissions.
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    Structural analysis of petrochemical clusters in Germany : what can be learned for the transformation towards climate-neutrality? (2024)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-13
    Description: The petrochemical industry is among the most relevant sectors from an economic, energetic and climate policy perspective. In Western Europe, production occurs in local chemical parks that form strongly connected and densely integrated regional clusters. This paper analyzes the structural characteristics of the petrochemical system in Germany and investigates three particularly distinct clusters regarding their challenges and chances for a transition towards climate-neutrality. For this, feedstock and energy supply, product portfolios and process integration as well as existing transformation activities are examined. We find that depending on their distinct network characteristics and location, unique and complex strategies are to be mastered for every cluster. Despite the many activities underway, none of them seems to have a strategic network to co-create a tailored defossilization strategy for the cluster - which is the core recommendation of this paper to develop.
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    Avoid, shift or improve passenger transport? : Impacts on the energy system (2024)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-07
    Description: Demand-side mitigation strategies have been gaining momentum in climate change mitigation research. Still, the impact of different approaches in passenger transport, one of the largest energy demand sectors, remains unclear. We couple a transport simulation model to an energy system optimisation model, both highly disintegrated in order to compare those impacts. Our scenarios are created for the case of Germany in an interdisciplinary, qualitative-quantitative research design, going beyond techno-economic assumptions, and cover Avoid, Shift, and Improve strategies, as well as their combination. The results show that sufficiency - Avoid and Shift strategies - have the same impact as the improvement of propulsion technologies (i.e. efficiency), which is reduction of generation capacities by one quarter. This lowers energy system transformation cost accordingly, but requires different kinds of investments: Sufficiency measures require public investment for high-quality public services, while efficiency measures require individuals to purchase more expensive vehicles at their own cost. These results raise socio-political questions of system design and well-being. However, all strategies are required to unleash the full potential of climate change mitigation.
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    Managing energy consumption by adapted energy performance contracting modes in rural China (2024)
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-13
    Description: Energy performance contracting (EPC) as a market instrument has been effective in promoting energy efficiency worldwide, but it has encountered many insurmountable obstacles in rural energy management. In this study, based on the characteristics of energy management in rural areas, three EPC modes are designed and tested in 24,000 rural households. The test results show that two adapted EPC modes of local government involvement and energy payment directly from the national grid can effectively overcome the barriers encountered in the traditional EPC modes and work well under the economic and social environmental conditions in rural areas. The key to the adaptation of the traditional EPC modes is the introduction of the local government as the third party. Participation of the third party can effectively reduce and remove the barriers and risks and increase the mutual trust between the clients (households) and the energy service companies (ESCOs). Based on the testing results, this study suggests that governmental departments should formulate relevant EPC policies and technical guidelines within the rural context. This research recommends that farmers should not manage their energy services by themselves and it is suggested to out-contracting ESCOs by applying the modes developed and tested by this paper.
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    Towards a climate-neutral basic materials industry in North Rhine-Westphalia (2024)
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    Publication Date: 2024-06-07
    Description: North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is the industrial center of Germany and one of the most important industrial locations in Europe. It is a key location for the energy-intensive basic materials industry like the production of steel and non-ferrous metals, (petro)chemicals, cement and lime, bricks, glass and ceramics, and paper. Around 20 % of NRW's total greenhouse emissions derive from industrial processes. By 2045, industry must achieve climate-neutrality, which requires a massive transformation effort. Technologically, this needs large-scale utilization of green hydrogen, carbon management, consequent circular economy, and climate-neutral production of process heat. Furthermore, various adjustments to the policy framework are essential.
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    Logic model for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) impact pathways and assessments (2024)
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    Publication Date: 2024-06-07
    Description: The goal of this dissertation is to facilitate the assessment of impacts from sustainable measures and projects with an emphasis on impact reporting for Green, Social or Sustainability Bonds in the Sustainable Finance market. It does so by providing analysts with the means to develop, depict, formulate, and assess a causal hypothesis between an intervention and its subsequent effects in an impact-chain, represented by desired environmental (E), social (S) or governance (G) changes. This is achieved by developing a methodology for so-called ESG Logic Models or ESG-LM, that combine heuristic Theories-of-Change with propositional logic and Bayesian Reasoning. Three research questions are investigated and responded to. Research Question 1 asks how such Theories-of-Change can be developed for any type of ESG-related issue and how the different process steps in a causal chain can be classified, hierarchised, and prioritised regarding their efficacy towards overarching sustainability goals and their plausibility. Research Question 2 studies (a) the means by which the analyst or any other interested third party might be warranted in believing the causal claims from an ESG-LM, and (b) how an ESG-LM can be improved if this credence is low. Research Question 3 then looks at the reporting of impacts themselves regarding indicator selection, indicator assessment and indicator quantification as well as the provision of information on the contributions and attributions by different actors. The dissertation draws on a variety of theories and adapts existing methods to achieve that. It operationalises concepts from empirical Sustainable Finance research and already existing impact assessment methodologies. It adapts scholarly and practitioner approaches for theory-based evaluation and applies a qualitative social science perspective towards theory-building and evaluation, while some of the assessment tools in the dissertation are grounded in Logic, Set Theory and Bayesian Epistemology. Examples for such tools include rules for the Attribution by actors, heuristics for the abduction of plausible outcome pathways, or a four-stage Argument and Decision-Tree to assess the credibility of ESG-LM claims (based on Bayes Theorem). My assessment of the entire methodology is positive overall, as it provides solutions to each of the three research areas. Limitations of the approach, and thus opportunities for further research, are the additional expertise and time required by analysts compared to the existing, and somewhat more pragmatic, solutions in the current market. However, this is outweighed in my opinion by the ability of the framework to strongly mitigate impact washing by actors in the financial markets as well as biases by analysts. Its overall methodology also provides opportunities for new research angles in the area of sustainability indicators and assessments.
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    Repository Name: Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie
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    The essential role of language in survey research (2023)
    RTI Press/RTI International | RTI Press
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-06
    Description: Language users, such as survey respondents and interviewers, must speak the same language literally and figuratively to interact with each other. As diversity grows in the United States and globally, interviewers and respondents may speak a different language or speak the same language differently that reflects their own cultural norms of communication. This book discusses the role of language in survey research when comparisons across groups, cultures, and countries are of interest. Language use in surveys is dynamic, including words, symbols (e.g., arrows), and even emojis. The entire survey life cycle is carried out through language. Researchers write or translate questions and instructions that will address research questions and then pretest them using various techniques, including qualitative inquiry that focuses on context beyond just “the numbers.” Human or virtual data collectors use persuasive messages to communicate with survey respondents and encourage their survey participation. Respondents must comprehend and interpret survey questions and instructions to provide a response. All of these survey processes and products contribute to data quality, and the role of language is essential.
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    Keywords: H1-99 ; Survey research ; SOC024000 ; LAN004000 ; JHBC ; GTC
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    Co-creation process on circular economy monitoring : overview of interactive activities and outcomes ; reflections on the links to the Bellagio Principles (2023)
    Mol : European Topic Centre on Waste and Materials
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-05
    Description: The transition to a greener and more circular economy has been a European policy priority for several years. The Circular Economy Action Plan of 2020 underlines the ambition. The following EEA initiatives are meant to support the transition process: - Bellagio Process on circular economy monitoring principles (EPA network); - Enhancement of EEA indicators on circular economy (ETC/WMGE); - Explorative work on novel data streams (FWC); - Co-creation work - knowledge sharing of monitoring experience (ETC/Eionet). The scope of the present task was to report on the co-creation process that was undertaken at the end of 2020. The co-creation process was organised to identify: (i) best practices on monitoring strategies, data sources and target setting; and (ii) areas of circularity measuring and monitoring that remain challenging and require additional investment. The co-creation process partially built on the work done during the Bellagio Process/Initiative which was run in parallel. This ETC report presents and documents the evidence gathered throughout the co- creation process as well as providing a retrospective analysis of the links to the Bellagio Principles.
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    Stop guessing in the dark : identified requirements for digital product passport systems (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2023-05-15
    Description: The Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a concept for collecting and sharing product-related information along the life cycle of a product. DPPs are currently the subject of intense discussion, and various development efforts are being undertaken. These are supported by regulatory activities, especially in the case of the battery passport. The aggregation of product life-cycle data and their respective use, as well as the sharing of these data between companies, entrepreneurs, and other actors in the value chain, is crucial for the creation of a resource-efficient circular economy. Despite the urgent need for such a solution, there is currently little attention given to the digital infrastructure for the creation and handling of the DPPs (i.e., the so-called DPP system). Moreover, there is so far no common understanding of what the requirements for a DPP system are. This is the background and underlying motivation of our paper: we identify the requirements for a DPP system in a structured way, i.e., based on stakeholder involvement and current literature from science and industry. In addition, we compose, categorize, and critically analyze the results, i.e., the list of requirements for DPP systems, in order to identify gaps. Summarized, our research provides insights into the criteria to be considered in the creation of an actual DPP system.
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    Perspectives on an effective design of industry tramsformation : an active systemic industrial policy for climate-neutral process industries in Europe ; commentary (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2023-08-02
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    Repository Name: Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie
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    The circular economy as a new narrative for the textile industry : an analysis of the textile value chain with a focus on Germany's transformation to a circular economy (2022)
    Wuppertal : Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie
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    Publication Date: 2023-03-24
    Description: At the end of March 2022, the European Commission published its new EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles. Its ambitious vision is to reduce textile waste, promote circular measures and minimise the negative environmental impacts of the textile industry. But what would a textile industry that keeps textiles in a closed loop look like, and what political conditions would be required in Germany? This Zukunftsimpuls paper by the Wuppertal Institute points to the role that Germany could play in the transformation towards a circular textile industry.
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    What will drive household adoption of smart energy? : Insights from a consumer acceptance study in Germany (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-08
    Description: Although smart energy technologies (SETs) can fulfill multiple tasks in increasingly decarbonized and digitalized energy systems, market diffusion is still limited. This study investigates which beliefs influence consumers' intention to adopt two smart-energy offerings, whether the rapid growth of the smart home market will now drive SET adoption, and if consumer-driven diffusion will lead to sustainability potentials being realized. Building on UTAUT2, a new theoretical model is proposed, and a consumer acceptance survey was conducted in Germany (n = 700). Results indicate that a growing smart home market will not increase SET adoption and that "adjustable green defaults" should be introduced.
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    Digitally driven energy management practices in SMEs : exploring potentials and barriers (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2023-04-24
    Description: Innovative digital technologies open up new opportun­ ities for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to improve energy efficiency and energy management behavior. The question is: How far will SMEs be capable of profiting from the benefits of these new technologies? Using technology screening, this study identifies smart metering and mobile energy monitoring as digital technologies best addressing SMEs' specific demands. In addition, potentials and limitations of the technologies are investigated in two qualitative in-depth field trials. Barriers to adopting digitally enabled energy management practices are examined. The results indicate that visualising energy data enables SMEs to pursue new energy management practices for reducing energy consumption and costs (such as peak load analysis). SMEs need extensive guidance to identify and pursue these strategies. In conclusion, an exploratory adoption model for digitally enabled energy management practices is developed. Hypotheses for future experimental studies and policy implications are derived.
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    Plastic credits - financing the transition to the global circular economy : final assessment report on the pilot regions Goa, Maharashtra, Kerala (2022)
    Wuppertal : Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie
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    Publication Date: 2024-01-18
    Description: The project "Plastic Credits - Financing the Transition to the Global Circular Economy" supports the implementation of a waste management structure in India's rural regions. By that it aims to improve the current waste collection and treatment structures in the pilot regions Goa, Maharashtra, and Kerala. Herein, the project focuses on low value plastics (LVP), and especially multi-layer plastics (MLP), that have no market value. In order to analyze the environmental impacts of the project, an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) was conducted. The considered environmental components comprise: greenhouse gas emissions, usage of primary resources, impacts on marine and terrestrial wildlife, standard of living, and economic costs.
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    Sustainability Transition Towards a Bio-Based Economy: New Technologies, New Products, New Policies (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2022-01-31
    Description: This book proposes an array of 11 key papers aimed at investigating the complex and multifaceted nature of the bio-based economy, focusing both on a conceptual understanding of the transition and on the measurement issues associated with it. More specifically, the papers included in this book can be broadly divided in two groups: (1) those aiming at adding to our understanding of the transition process towards a sustainable bio-based economy; and (2) those aiming at adding to the definition and measurement of the emerging sustainable bio-based economy. The book offers a comprehensive view of the phenomenon, providing a logical framework for understanding the ongoing transition towards a bio-based economy, as well as an overview of existing tools to assess and measure it. Policy-makers will largely benefit from the book, which contributes to taking a further step towards the much-needed transition to sustainability.
    Keywords: GE1-350 ; H1-99 ; QH540-549.5 ; standards ; Sustainability transition ; sustainability scheme ; sustainability assessment ; bio-based products ; (eco)labels and certifications ; green technologies ; policy measures
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    Droits et voix / Rights and Voices : La Criminologie (2021)
    Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: This volume commemorates the 40th anniversary of the University of Ottawa’s Department of Criminology, founded in 1968. It relates the history of the department from its origins to today, focusing on the theoretical debates that have influenced its critical and self reflexive approach to criminology. The contributions to this volume continue in that vein by questioning the traditional perspective of criminology on a variety of topics including police studies, mental health, political violence, suicide, and crime prevention. Rights and Voices reveals the significant role that the University of Ottawa has played in redefining criminology to advocate activism, social justice, and compassion.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; law ; criminology ; social justice ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Eating Disorders and Obesity: The Challenge for Our Times (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Eating Disorders have traditionally been considered apart from public health concerns about increasing obesity. It is evident that these problems are, however, related in important ways. Comorbid obesity and eating disorder is increasing at a faster rate than either obesity or eating disorders alone and one in five people with obesity also presents with an Eating Disorder, commonly but not limited to Binge Eating Disorder. New disorders have emerged such as normal weight or Atypical Anorexia Nervosa. However research and practice too often occurs in parallel with a failure to understand the weight disorder spectrum and consequences of co-morbidity that then contributes to poorer outcomes for people living with a larger size and an Eating Disorder. Urgently needed are trials that will inform more effective assessment, treatment and care where body size and eating disorder symptoms are both key to the research question.
    Keywords: HM401-1281 ; H1-99 ; dietary patterns ; family functioning ; binge-eating disorder ; eating disorders ; eating disorders-related symptoms ; mothers ; Bulimia Nervosa ; children ; menstrual dysfunction ; young children ; prevention ; usability study ; bulimia nervosa ; adolescents ; brain activity ; para athlete ; women ; treatment ; exercise ; students ; nutrient deficiency ; feeding practices ; food industry ; nurse ; loss of control eating ; body satisfaction ; frequency bands ; BMI ; biofeedback ; BED ; orthorexia nervosa ; binge eating disorder ; eating behavior ; psychometric ; EEG-Neurofeedback ; NMUR2 ; school setting ; addictive-like eating ; executive function ; health education ; engagement ; low energy availability ; binge eating ; dieting ; bone mineral density ; eating behaviour ; energy availability ; obesity ; visceral adipose tissue ; binge-type eating ; International Classification of Diseases ; athlete ; EEG ; weight loss ; obesity risk ; weight ; nucleus accumbens ; fMRI-Neurofeedback ; food addiction ; nutrition ; E-Mental Health ; ventral tegmental area ; impulsivity ; adolescent ; questionnaire ; Female Athlete Triad ; feeding behavior ; online health intervention ; event-related potential ; the Roma ; psychology ; physical fitness ; bulimia ; cultural features ; overweight ; spinal cord injury ; energy intake ; food environment ; socioecological ; Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ; bariatric surgery ; P3 ; cognition ; females ; physical activity ; Relative Energy Deficiency in Sports (RED-S) ; lifestyle factors ; food policy ; neuromedin U receptor 2 ; psychophysiology ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFP Social interaction
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    Growing Apart: Religious Reflection on the Rise of Economic Inequality (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-08
    Description: Many people are increasingly concerned about economic inequality within their own nations, or between wealthy nations and poor ones. But is today's vast economic inequality best addressed by appeals to ethics, by altering social structures such as taxes and laws, or some combination of the two approaches? This volume brings together leading scholars from across the disciplines who believe today's extreme economic inequality threatens human flourishing and who are determined to address it using their own disciplinary tools. The broadly interdisciplinary volume incorporates contributions from fields as varied as theology, philosophy, economics, education, social work, sociology and law. Our work together illustrates how incorporating a variety of perspectives in a conversation enriches religious and ethical reflection on a significant social ill, and how quantitative and secular fields can help offer practical solutions to contemporary ethical problems.
    Keywords: BL1-50 ; H1-99 ; HD72-88 ; inequality ; living wage ; economic inequality ; earned income tax credit ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs
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    When Populism Meets Nationalism (2021)
    Ledizioni
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: In Europe and beyond, today populism is alive and kicking. Over the past few years, anti-establishment parties have made substantial strides. Some of them have reached the levers of governments, while others are consolidating their gains. Being a “thin” ideology, populism is being contaminated by nationalism. This book offers a number of case studies on those countries whose governments have been labelled “national-populist”. Ranging from Italy to the United States, from the Visegrad countries to Turkey, Russia, and Latin America, this Report aims to single out what all these cases have in common, but also what sets them apart from each other.
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    Integration and Resettlement of Refugees and Forced Migrants (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2022-02-01
    Description: Since 2017, the United States and Europe—among many other refugee-hosting countries—have made significant changes in their refugee policies. New visa restrictions, travel bans, and other regulations were imposed by national governments. At the local level, towns and cities responded in different ways: some resisted national policy by declaring themselves “sanctuary cities”, while others supported exclusionary policies. These different responses influenced refugees’ ability to settle and become integrated. The Refugees in Towns (RIT) project at Tufts University explores local urban integration experiences, drawing on the knowledge and perspectives of refugees and citizens in towns around the world. Since 2017, more than 30 RIT case studies have deepened our local knowledge about the factors that enable or obstruct integration, and the ways in which migrants and hosts co-exist, adapt, and struggle with integration. In this Special Issue, seven articles explore urban integration in towns in Europe (Frankfurt-Rödelheim, Germany; Newcastle, UK; Ambertois, France; Italy’s cities; and Belgrade, Serbia) and in North America: Bhutanese refugee-hosting US cities, and Antigonish, Canada. The papers explore how refugees and citizens interact; the role of officials and politicians in enabling or obstructing integration; the social, economic, and cultural impact of migration; and the ways—inclusive or exclusive—locals have responded.
    Keywords: HM401-1281 ; H1-99 ; newcomer ; Italian ; education ; two-way integration ; refugees ; forced migration ; intercultural ; language ; youth ; Bhutanese ; autonomy ; inclusion ; diversity ; physical literacy ; asylum seekers ; local politics ; ecological systems ; participatory action research (PAR) ; austerity ; Frankfurt am Main ; temporary integration ; France ; fragile spaces ; resettlement policy ; recreation ; refugee accommodation ; employment ; social ecological ; neighborhood activism ; municipalities ; resettled refugees ; physical activity ; non-metropolitan areas ; difficulty ; refugee ; community relations ; North East of England ; dispersal policy ; integration ; asylum seeker ; Italy ; local refugee reception ; sport ; Germany
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    Selected Papers from CUBANNI 2017—“The Fourth International Workshop of Neuroimmunology” (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Starting from the most interesting papers presented at CUBANNI 2017, the First International Meeting of the Cuban Network of Neuroimmunology, this eBook covers the most up-to-date findings on neuroimmunology research. The topics of the selected papers range from clinical to pre-clinical models, as well as in vitro basic research. Scientific areas covered are autism spectrum disorders, epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, and seizures, with emphasis on epigenetics and experimental models. Neuroinflammation, neuroplasticity, and neurodegenerative processes, biomarker discovery, and the molecular pathways involved are proposed. Additionally as one of the most current and relevant topics published, Tamara da Silva Vaccaro et al proved relevant results on “Alterations in the MicroRNA and their effects on Epigenetic Regulation and Potential Biomarkers in ASD” and Lázaro Gómez et al also published interesting results on Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
    Keywords: RC346-429 ; NX1-820 ; H1-99 ; Erythropoyetine ; EEG ; Epilepsy ; Parkinson disease ; neurodevelopmenal disorders ; TMS ; autism ; oxidative stress ; neuroplasticity ; thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MK Medical specialties, branches of medicine::MKJ Neurology and clinical neurophysiology
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    Health and Wellbeing in Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This is a collection of published papers from a variety of authors from around the world on the topic of the health and wellbeing of minority sexual orientation and gender identity populations. Some of the included papers focused on health inequality and inequity and some focussed on healthcare delivery. Many showed how health inequities in LGBT+ groups of people were found across a wide variety of political environments and health and wellbeing topics and frequently inadequate healthcare delivery. The increasing interest in research in this area, which has been neglected in the past, shows its growing importance.
    Keywords: HM401-1281 ; H1-99 ; women’s health ; education ; medical education ; sexual orientation ; mental health ; gender role nonconformity ; community connectedness ; sexual minority women ; recognition ; LGBTI ; curriculum development ; health inequalities ; wellbeing ; decolonizing the curriculum ; Chinese gay men ; tobacco ; undergraduate medical education ; transgender ; sexual identity ; risk factors ; adolescents ; both-gender attraction ; social inclusion and sense of community ; LGBT ; substance use ; sexually transmitted diseases ; lesbian ; Ottawa Charter ; behavioral characteristics ; SMW ; bullying ; trans ; community participation ; homosexuality ; heterosexism ; sexual minority youth ; gender ; chronic health conditions ; loneliness ; alcohol consumption ; drunkenness ; sexual minority ; influencing factors ; diversity ; GSN apps ; interpersonal sensitivity ; assessment as learning ; gender competency ; social connectedness ; gay ; health care system ; same-sex marriage ; suicidality ; Theory of Recognition ; bisexual ; cannabis ; same-gender attraction ; HBSC ; systematic review ; medical student ; romantic attraction ; LGBT+ friendly healthcare ; family support ; gay men ; content analysis ; social participation ; game-based teaching ; sexual and gender minorities ; age ; Blued ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFP Social interaction
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    Sustainable Smart Cities and Smart Villages Research (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: ca. 200 words; this text will present the book in all promotional forms (e.g. flyers). Please describe the book in straightforward and consumer-friendly terms. [There is ever more research on smart cities and new interdisciplinary approaches proposed on the study of smart cities. At the same time, problems pertinent to communities inhabiting rural areas are being addressed, as part of discussions in contigious fields of research, be it environmental studies, sociology, or agriculture. Even if rural areas and countryside communities have previously been a subject of concern for robust policy frameworks, such as the European Union’s Cohesion Policy and Common Agricultural Policy Arguably, the concept of ‘the village’ has been largely absent in the debate. As a result, when advances in sophisticated information and communication technology (ICT) led to the emergence of a rich body of research on smart cities, the application and usability of ICT in the context of a village has remained underdiscussed in the literature. Against this backdrop, this volume delivers on four objectives. It delineates the conceptual boundaries of the concept of ‘smart village’. It highlights in which ways ‘smart village’ is distinct from ‘smart city’. It examines in which ways smart cities research can enrich smart villages research. It sheds light on the smart village research agenda as it unfolds in European and global contexts.]
    Keywords: NX1-820 ; H1-99 ; TX1-1110 ; HF5001-6182 ; South America ; policymaking ; smart village ; Europe ; sustainability ; smart villages research ; European Union ; Asia ; China ; smart cities research ; ICT ; smart city ; best practice sharing ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts
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    Perspectives on Women’s Higher Education Leadership from around the World (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: At this time in world history, numerous scholars have emphasized the importance of having greater diversity in leadership, and specifically having greater representation by women in leadership. In particular, providing women with greater access to higher education—and having role models for women in higher education leadership—has a beneficial ripple effect, given that postsecondary institutions shape the lives of future generations. Individuals, nations, and the world collectively pay a price when women are not given full opportunities to develop and contribute their talents by serving on senior-level leadership teams. This Special Issue, titled “Perspectives on Women’s Higher Education Leadership From Around the World,” offers an array of articles that present research findings from both qualitative and quantitative studies, along with narratives and best practices gleaned from the lived experiences of women in academic leadership from countries on four continents: the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, India, China, and Saudi Arabia. Taken together, these articles offer a helpful overview of the literature related to women in higher education leadership worldwide, thus addressing previous concerns that much of the research has too often taken a Western perspective that reflects inaccurate assumptions for other cultural contexts.
    Keywords: NX1-820 ; H1-99 ; University Leadership ; Gender and Leadership ; Women and Academic Leadership ; Higher Education Leadership ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts
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    Digital Humanities Pedagogy : Practices, Principles and Politics (2021)
    Open Book Publishers
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Academic institutions are starting to recognize the growing public interest in digital humanities research, and there is an increasing demand from students for formal training in its methods. Despite the pressure on practitioners to develop innovative courses, scholarship in this area has tended to focus on research methods, theories and results rather than critical pedagogy and the actual practice of teaching. The essays in this collection offer a timely intervention in digital humanities scholarship, bringing together established and emerging scholars from a variety of humanities disciplines across the world. The first section offers views on the practical realities of teaching digital humanities at undergraduate and graduate levels, presenting case studies and snapshots of the authors' experiences alongside models for future courses and reflections on pedagogical successes and failures. The next section proposes strategies for teaching foundational digital humanities methods across a variety of scholarly disciplines, and the book concludes with wider debates about the place of digital humanities in the academy, from the field's cultural assumptions and social obligations to its political visions. Digital Humanities pedagogy broadens the ways in which both scholars and practitioners can think about this emerging discipline, ensuring its ongoing development, vitality and long-term sustainability.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; digital humanities ; pedagogy ; media studies ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Arabic manuscripts in the Maronite Library of Aleppo (Syria) (2021)
    Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The Maronite Library of Aleppo houses one of the most important collections of manuscripts in the Syrian Arab Republic. Comprising more than 1600 copies, the collection contains many different works on Bible, theology, philosophy, history, grammar, literature and sciences, and a great variety of other subjects. The contents of the Library have long been known to Western researchers, but were never fully catalogued. This work seeks to remedy that situation, as the last in a series of three inventories. The first volume (2008) presented a detailed record and description of the Syriac manuscripts held in the Library, and the second one (2011) did the same for those in Karshuni. Following the model established by those two previous publications, this book presents the Arabic manuscripts of the collection. The author offers a short, concise description of each copy, including title or titles, names of the author and copyist, place and date of the copy, and any formal features useful in the proper identification of the manuscripts. This edition also includes 50 images, and full indices of titles, personal names and places.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; D51-90 ; Manorite Library of Aleppo ; Manuscrits àrabs ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Urban Inequality (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: After the impact of the 2007 crisis and post-crisis austerity policies, cities are being reconfigured under the auspices of inequality. The objective of this book is to study inequality in the city at different scales and in all territories, from informal settlements and the “urbanization of poverty” in the countries of the South, to the fragmentation of the city or urban segregation as global phenomena in 21st century cities. In line with this, we propose introducing new debates on the city and inequality linked to social movements, urban governance, and the access to and quality of drinking water, among other topics. The issue includes articles on social movements and resistance in Latin American cities, vulnerability in crisis-hit Spanish cities, and the segregation and quality of basic services in US cities.
    Keywords: HM401-1281 ; NX1-820 ; H1-99 ; Segregation ; Social movements ; Urban inequality ; Urban governance ; Vulnerability ; Crisis ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFP Social interaction
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    Cyberidentities : Canadian and European Presence in Cyberspace (2021)
    Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press
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    Publication Date: 2022-02-01
    Description: This innovative study explores diverse aspects of Canadian and European identity on the information highway and reaches beyond technical issues to confront and explore communication, culture and the culture of communication.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; Canada ; cyberspace ; Europe ; information ; communication ; cyber identity
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    Cooperation and Conflict the Nordic Way. Work, Welfare, and Institutional Change in Scandinavia (2021)
    De Gruyter
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    Publication Date: 2022-01-31
    Description: The Nordic model attracts attention in a mixture of applause and disbelief. Among its merits, but also a precondition to its future survival, is its capacity to modify and adapt to changing circumstances. This book scrutinizes Nordic – in particular Norwegian – working life and welfare states from the perspective of institutional change. The analyses range from property rights, boardroom politics and wage formation to old-age pensions, care work and childcare policies. What emerges is a picture of societies characterized by ongoing, often incremental, social and political reform processes. Tripartite relations of coordination and negotiation in the labor market and beyond, give shape to power relations and political processes in particular ways. The close connections between labour market, welfare state, family and gender policies work to create institutional bundles – in an even stronger way than assumed in the Varieties of Capitalism literature.The book is written for students and scholars with an interest in Nordic societies, in corporatism and political processes, as well as readers interested in theoretical debate on varieties of capitalism and institutional change.
    Keywords: HN1-995 ; HM401-1281 ; GN301-674 ; H1-99 ; Nordic countries ; Norway ; labour market ; welfare policies ; institutional change ; capitalism
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    Family, Bullying and Cyberbullying (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Description: Despite the significant decrease in bullying that has been reported in many countries during the last two decades, bullying continues to be a significant problem among young people. Given the increase of internet use among youth, researchers have started to pay attention to cyberspace, understanding that it may be a fertile ground for bullying behaviors, specifically, what is known as cyberbullying. “Family, Bullying and Cyberbullying” examines the association of several family variables with bullying in offline and online environments during childhood and adolescence. Contributors from the Americas, Canada, Asia, and Europe offer cutting-edge research on family dynamics, bystander behaviors, parents’ and educators’ perceptions, and bullying and cyberbullying prevention and intervention strategies of bullying for school and home. This book also provides an analysis of the current research on the influence of family in the electronic bullying. Research topics included in the book: 1) Parental education and bullying and cyberbullying; 2) Parental monitoring and cyberbullying; 3) Parental communication and feelings of affiliation; 4) Student and educator perspective on cyberbullying; 5) Parents’ responses to bullying; 6) Parental mediation and bystander behaviors; 7) Development of scales to measure cyberbullying and high internet risks. “Family, Bullying and Cyberbullying” is an essential resource for researchers, graduate students, families, and practitioners in social education, social work, teacher education, and psychology.
    Keywords: L7-991 ; H1-99 ; parent ; education ; teacher education ; peers ; family functioning ; parental communication ; psychometric properties ; teenagers ; scale development ; bystanding ; parental mediation ; mothers ; boarding students ; information and communication technology ; affiliation ; high-risk behaviours ; young children ; prevention ; parenting ; victims ; bullying awareness ; coping strategies ; parental monitoring ; cyberbullying ; restriction ; adolescence ; internet ; bullying ; wang-ta ; parents ; K-12 ; bystander ; victimization ; training ; private school ; cybervictimization ; supervision ; cyber-victimization ; bully ; socialization ; violence ; aggression ; self-concept ; systematic review ; perpetration ; school coexistence ; perceptions ; pre-service teachers ; management ; family ; parental control ; cyber-kindness ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education
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    Why Do We Do What We Do? Motivation in History and the Social Sciences (2021)
    De Gruyter
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: Why we do what we do is a matter of great interest to everyone, and everyone seems to have had their say about it – philosophers, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, economists, and historians perhaps the most, case by case. Occasionally the specialists have offered their ideas to a general readership, but mostly they prefer to speak to and with their fellows in their particular disciplines. To evaluate and compare their findings in a cross-disciplinary way is now for the first time attempted, by Ramsay MacMullen. Emeritus history professor from Yale University, he is the recipient of various academic awards, including a lifetime Award for Scholarly Distinction from the American Historical Association.
    Keywords: D1-2009 ; H1-99 ; emotions ; Motivation ; social sciences ; culture ; history ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
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    Sustainable Governance in Northeast Asia: Challenges for Innovation Frontier (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2022-01-31
    Description: This special edition is based on the annual conference of Sustainable Asia Conference (http://abf.inha.ac.kr/). The purpose of the conference is to work together for our future challenges. Every year more than 50 papers are presented in the conference and published in the special edition of Sustainability. Your participation on the next SAC conference shall greatly enhance our research human network. Once a friend, forever friend, it is our slogan for the conference.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; HF5001-6182 ; Asian model ; global e-governance ; Sustainability ; Energy and Environmental economics
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    Pursuing global socio-economic, colonial and environmental justice through economic redistribution: the potential significance of human rights treaty obligations (2021)
    Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This comprehensive Research Handbook offers a comparative overview of the history, nature and current status of social rights at the universal and regional level. Tracing their evolution from rather modest beginnings, to becoming the category of rights responding most accurately to the 21st century’s policy objectives of poverty eradication and equitable resource allocation, this Research Handbook assesses the mechanisms used to enhance the implementation and enforcement of social rights.
    Keywords: K1-7720 ; KZ2-6785 ; H1-99 ; bic Book Industry Communication::L Law
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    Cyberbullying: Where Are We Now? A Cross-National Understanding (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Cyberbullying has emerged as a major issue across societies and for schools, parents, children, and national governments (see Smith and Steffgen, 2013). Despite some similarities with traditional, or face-to-face (f2f) bullying (Mc Guckin, Cummins and Lewis, 2010), there is sufficient difference to warrant this contemporary and detailed examination of the issues related to cyberbullying—from a perspective that draws upon the most pertinent research and informed opinion from key researchers and thinkers from across the globe. The initial and pioneering knowledge about cyberbullying has now moved to a newer, more mature position that has been able to delineate the nuances associated with the issue, and importantly, yield robust insights for those involved in, or tasked to deal with, cyberbullying. This Special Issue brings together a collection of papers that represents the most up-to-date perspectives and evidence from across the globe. Collectively, these papers demonstrate how scholars and policy makers, from disparate disciplinary or stakeholder starting points, are progressing in their understanding of each other’s language and requirements—thus facilitating the important move towards a more coherent and understandable agenda that seeks to minimize the potential risks to children and young people, understand the relationships between involvement in cyberbullying and associated biopsychosocial factors, in order to implement integrated and evidence-informed intervention and prevention programmes.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; cultural ; law ; Cyberbullying ; victim ; definition ; intervention ; bully ; incidence ; coping ; prevention ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities
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    Manufacturing, Characterisation and Prop erties of Advanced Nanocomposites (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-05
    Description: ca. 200 words; this text will present the book in all promotional forms (e.g. flyers). Please describe the book in straightforward and consumer-friendly terms. [In recent years, advanced nanocomposites have attracted a great deal of attention from materials engineers and industrialists due to numerous advantages, including the use of a small amount of nanofillers to significantly enhance the material properties of resulting nanocomposites, widespread applications in a range of fields, such as automobiles, aerospace and aerocrafts, building structures, biomedical devices, etc., as well as easy processibility based on current manufacturing technologies, such as melt compounding, solution casting, in situ polymerisation and electrospinning. Advanced nanocomposites reinforced with carbon nanotubes (CNTs), graphene oxides (GOs), nanoclays, nanocellulose, and nanofibres demonstrate excellent multifunctional properties, consisting of better mechanical, thermal, electrical, and barrier properties. The key issue is still the encountered challenge of homogeneous filler dispersion in morphological structures for tailored advanced nanocomposites. Hence, processing-structure-property nanocomposite relationship is crucial for their future development as innovative hybrid material systems. This Special Issue will address above-mentioned points in relation to manufacturing, characterisation, and properties of advanced nanocomposites to offer an insight into this new composite family with the incorporation of nanofillers, nanoparticles, and nanomaterials in order to eventually achieve the nanotechnological "bottom-up" scheme.
    Keywords: QD1-999 ; H1-99 ; nanofillers ; morphological structures ; material properties ; filler dispersion ; experimental characterisation ; nanocomposites ; nanostructures ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PN Chemistry
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    How to Read a Folktale : The Ibonia Epic from Madagascar (2021)
    Open Book Publishers
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    Publication Date: 2022-02-01
    Description: How to Read a FoIktale offers the first English translation of Ibonia, a spellbinding tale of old Madagascar. Much of its plot sounds familiar: a powerful royal hero attempts to rescue his betrothed from an evil adversary and, after a séries of tests and duels, he and his lover are joyfully united with a marriage that affirms the royal lineage. These fairytale elements link Ibonia with European folktales, but the taie is still very much a product of Madagascar. It contains African-style praise poetry for the hero; it presents Indonesian-style riddles and poems; and it inflates the form of folktale into epic proportions. Recorded when the Malagasy people were experiencing European contact for the first time, Ibonia proclaims the power of the ancestors against the foreigner. Through Ibonia, Lee Haring expertly helps readers to understand the very nature of folktales. His définitive translation, originally published in 1994, has now been fully revised to emphasize its poetic qualities, while his new introduction and detailed notes give insight into the fascinating imagination and symbols of the Malagasy. Haring's research connects this exotic narrative with fundamental questions not only of anthropology but also of literary criticism.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; folklore ; oral literature ; oral tradition ; African folklore studies ; Ibonia ; Madagascar ; folktales ; tales
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    Frontiers in Chemistry: Rising Stars (2021)
    Frontiers Media SA
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: The Frontiers in Chemistry Editorial Office team are delighted to present the inaugural “Frontiers in Chemistry: Rising Stars” article collection, showcasing the high-quality work of internationally recognized researchers in the early stages of their independent careers. All Rising Star researchers featured within this collection were individually nominated by the Journal’s Chief Editors in recognition of their potential to influence the future directions in their respective fields. The work presented here highlights the diversity of research performed across the entire breadth of the chemical sciences, and presents advances in theory, experiment and methodology with applications to compelling problems. This Editorial features the corresponding author(s) of each paper published within this important collection, ordered by section alphabetically, highlighting them as the great researchers of the future. The Frontiers in Chemistry Editorial Office team would like to thank each researcher who contributed their work to this collection. We would also like to personally thank our Chief Editors for their exemplary leadership of this article collection; their strong support and passion for this important, community-driven collection has ensured its success and global impact.
    Keywords: Green and Sustainable Chemistry ; Analytical Chemistry ; Theoretical and Computational Chemistry ; Polymer Chemistry ; Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry ; Organic Chemistry ; Nanoscience ; Catalysis and Photocatalysis ; Supramolecular Chemistry ; Electrochemistry ; Inorganic Chemistry ; Chemical Biology ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues
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    The Future of Catholic Theological Ethics (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: 'The Future of Catholic Theological Ethics' undertakes a search for new ways of making Catholic theological ethics relevant. It engages with a ground-breaking publication 'Reframing Catholic Theological Ethics' (Oxford University Press, 2016) by Joseph Selling, Emeritus Professor of Moral Theology, Catholic University Leuven. Selling opens the volume with a summary of the approach he developed in the above work. The papers presented here cover several major themes that, traditionally, Catholic theological ethics have considered but, according to the authors of the papers, need revisiting. Amongst these themes are: conscience, virtue, natural law, authority, ecumenism, the human person and the theology of theological ethics. The writers represent a variety of approaches, geographical locations and while most of them are Roman Catholic, there is an imbedded ecumenism and interreligious and inter-cultural slant in several discussions. The authors agree that Catholic theological ethics, in order to be relevant, it needs to become more context-sensitive, ecumenical, practice-based, experience-oriented, continuously discerning, pedagogically wide-ranging and theologically articulate. It must be unceasingly willing to review and renew its method as well as revisit its key concepts. It must neither dismiss its long tradition nor stick to its single interpretation.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; HIV/AIDS ; global South ; global North ; conscience ; love ethics ; social ethics ; method of moral theology ; virtues ; Catholic ethics ; virtue ethics ; Thomas Aquinas ; normativity ; Duns Scotus ; Karl Barth ; Pope Francis ; ecumenism ; teleology ; sexual ethics ; contextualisation ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Imagined Economies – Real Fictions (2021)
    transcript Verlag
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: The way we conceptualise the economy and ourselves as homo economicus has profound consequences for our lives. The contributions to this anthology take debates about the financial crisis, about recent austerity measures or about the Brexit referendum a step further. A common denominator of these dynamics are underlying ideas of »the economy«. Each author identifies a facet of Britain's imagined economies. They connect seemingly separate fields such as finance and fiction in order to better understand current political changes. In addition, the book offers an urgently needed interdisciplinary view on the performative power of economic thought - and in this respect moves far beyond merely British perspectives.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; Financial Crisis ; Europe ; British Studies ; Neoliberalism ; Great Britain ; Reality ; Economy ; Cultural Studies ; Real Fiction ; Brexit ; Economic Theory ; Cultural Theory ; Homo Economicus ; Power ; Culture ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities
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    Religion and Crime: Theory, Research, and Practice (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-08
    Description: This volume contains contemporary and cutting-edge research on religion and crime, which includes data-driven (quantitative and qualitative), conceptual, review, and policy-oriented papers.
    Keywords: BL1-50 ; NX1-820 ; H1-99 ; HV1-9960 ; religion in prison ; religion and crime ; religion and drug abuse ; faith-based programs ; religiosity ; religion and crime control ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs
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    Computer Science and Engineering Education for Pre-collegiate Students and Teachers (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2022-01-31
    Description: Now more than ever, as a worldwide STEM community, we need to know what pre-collegiate teachers and students explore, learn, and implement in relation to computer science and engineering education. As computer science and engineering education are not always “stand-alone” courses in pre-collegiate schools, how are pre-collegiate teachers and students learning about these topics? How can these subjects be integrated? Explore six articles in this book that directly relate to the currently hot topics of computer science and engineering education as they tie into pre-collegiate science, technology, and mathematics realms. There is a systematic review article to set the stage of the problem. Following this overview are two teacher-focused articles on professional development in computer science and entrepreneurship venture training. The final three articles focus on varying levels of student work including pre-collegiate secondary students’ exploration of engineering design technology, future science teachers’ (collegiate students) perceptions of engineering, and pre-collegiate future engineers’ exploration of environmental radioactivity. All six articles speak to computer science and engineering education in pre-collegiate forums, but blend into the collegiate world for a look at what all audiences can bring to the conversation about these topics.
    Keywords: L7-991 ; H1-99 ; secondary science ; STEM outreach ; mathematics (STEM) education ; environmental radioactivity ; learner analysis ; coaching ; learner-centered pedagogy ; preservice teacher beliefs ; computer science education ; laboratory activity ; science education ; challenge-based learning ; engineering ; K–12 teacher ; literature review ; pre-collegiate teacher ; scintillator detector ; computing outreach ; science ; computer science application ; pre-college engineering activities ; K-12 teachers ; engineering design process ; ?-ray spectroscopy ; student engagement ; in-situ measurements ; conceptual assessment items ; engineering education ; Web-GIS platform ; K–12 ; computer science ; engineering outreach ; online professional development training ; pre-college STEM activities ; Android app ; students’ alternative conceptions ; technology ; inquiry-based science and technology ; computer science integration ; assessment tool ; perceptions ; pre-college computing activities ; nuclear engineering experiment ; conceptual change ; NGSS ; physics education ; engineering design technology
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    Current Trajectories in Global Pentecostalism: Culture, Social Engagement, and Change (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-08
    Description: This path-breaking collection brings together thirteen leading scholars from the humanities and social sciences to address some of the most pressing issues in contemporary global Pentecostalism. Representing institutions from eight different nations on four continents, these scholars perceptively illuminate vital matters ranging from politics, cultural performance, and sexual identity to history, theology, and socioeconomics. The articles are grounded in primary research conducted in Africa, Australia, Europe, and South America and informed by cutting-edge interdisciplinary perspectives, making "Current Trajectories in Global Pentecostalism: Culture, Social Engagement, and Change" a must-read for serious students of global Pentecostalism.
    Keywords: BL1-50 ; NX1-820 ; H1-99 ; religion and sexuality ; African studies ; Queer studies ; Australasian studies ; Pentecostal studies ; religion and politics ; Latin American studies ; economic development ; theology ; Pentecostalism ; anthropology of religion ; sociology of religion ; performance studies ; religion and gender ; Charismatic movement ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs
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    Sustainable Development and Higher Education Institutions: Acting with a purpose (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Description: Higher education institutions (HEIs) have a unique role and responsibility for the future and for driving the development of a sustainable society. HEIs are charged with the task of fostering sustainability in the leaders of tomorrow, developing solutions and methods for addressing a sustainable future and ensuring that knowledge is contributed to society. HEIs must also ensure that their everyday operations and practices are consistent with a sustainable future, and that they work toward holistically integrating sustainability into both the mission of a university and its daily tasks. This Special Issue builds on papers presented during the 2018 International Sustainable Campus Network Conference and also includes other contributions. The articles reflect the many aspects of sustainability in higher education institutions and illustrate innovation in approach, outcomes, and impact. The papers cover a range of perspectives on sustainability both on and around campuses. These include organization and management issues, networking and city partnership themes, and metrics and indicators related to sustainable development goals. The Special Issue also includes papers on education, student involvement, and gender issues. Select articles include results from surveys and desktop research; others depict approaches on experimentation, living labs, and action research.
    Keywords: L7-991 ; H1-99 ; management model ; cities´ decarbonization ; sustainable development goals ; keyword search ; universities ; sustainability in higher education ; wellbeing ; sustainable energy ; education for sustainability (EfS) ; sustainable modes of transportation ; sustainable environment ; living lab ; Campus ; Education for Sustainable Development ; willingness to use ; whole institution approach ; impacts ; sustainability reporting ; water bottle refill stations ; academic organizational change ; transdisciplinarity ; SDGs ; contingent valuation method ; gender ; sustainability solutions ; Research ; leaky pipeline ; networks ; organizational change ; university campus ; sustainable university ; behavioral change ; institutional design ; community partnership ; innovation ; sustainability assessment ; higher education institution ; change drivers ; curriculum innovation ; university cooperation ; social innovation ; academic career ; interdisciplinarity ; equal opportunities ; grand challenges ; transportation ; campus sustainability ; participatory action research ; CO2 emissions ; European Union ; collaboration ; prefigurative politics ; undergraduate ; public university ; governance ; circularity ; sustainability course inventory ; global south ; environmental footprint mitigation ; agent of change ; zero carbon cities ; responsible science ; macro-universities ; sustainability indicators ; campus development ; discrimination ; Sustainable Development Goals ; UNAM ; barriers to change ; cities ; sustainable development goals and universities ; Higher Education Institutions ; EMU ; sustainability ; sustainable development ; circular economy ; smart cities ; city–university partnerships ; smart city ; education for sustainable development (ESD) ; willingness to pay ; student engagement ; sustainable development in higher education institutions (SD in HEI) ; transformative learning ; university ; area development ; education for sustainable development ; learning ; faculty empowerment ; university living lab ; regenerative approach ; research database ; higher education ; air travel ; agenda 2030 ; carbon footprint ; higher education institutions ; capacity-building ; Mexico ; sustainability assessment tools ; critical case study ; age ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education
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    Feeding the City : Work and Food Culture of the Mumbai Dabbawalas (2021)
    Open Book Publishers
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Every day in Mumbai 6,000 dabbawalas (literally translated as "those who carry boxes") distribute a staggering 200,000 home-cooked lunchboxes to the city's workers and students. Giving employment and status to thousands of largely illiterate villagers from Mumbai's hinterland, this co-operative has been in operation since the late nineteenth century. It provides one of the most efficient delivery networks in the world: only one lunch in six million goes astray. Feeding the City is an ethnographie study of the fascinating inner workings of Mumbai's dabbawalas. Urban anthropologist Sara Roncaglia explains how they cater to the various dietary requirements of a diverse and increasingly global city, where the preparation and consumption of food is pervaded with religious and cultural significance. Developing the idea of "gastrosemantics" - a language with which to discuss the broader implications of cooking and eating - Roncaglia's study helps us to rethink our relationship to food at a local and global level.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; Dabbawalas ; Mumbai ; food culture ; India ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities
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    Studies in Sumerian Civilization. Selected writings of Miguel Civil (2021)
    Publicacions i Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Miguel (or Miquel) Civil’s oeuvre has been unanimously acclaimed by the entire Assyriological community, from his first contributions in the 1960s to the most recent publications today. This volume gathers together his principal articles, which have been published in the most prestigious series and periodicals in the field of cuneiform studies. Every expert in the civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia has been influenced by Civil’s profound researches: the perspicacity of his proposals, the novelty of his suggestions and the originality of his solutions. Cuneiform studies would be a completely different discipline were it not for the stimulus and impact of the work of a scholar who created his own school, and who will be leaving a mark on many generations to come.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; D51-90 ; Sumeris ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    The Power of Conferences: Stories of serendipity, innovation and driving social change (2021)
    UTS ePRESS
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Description: With a focus on ten notable Australians, including Nobel Laureates Professor Barry Marshall and Professor Brian Schmidt, former Chief Scientist, Professor Ian Chubb, and Parliamentarian, the Honourable Linda Burney, The Power of Conferences explores the deep and lasting impact of conferences on the development and success of Australian luminaries. Each chapter features a reflection from a leader in Australian academia, politics, or community service, on the significant effects conferences have had on their personal and professional achievements. From chance encounters that result in the cultivation of new networks and collaborations to innovation and research breakthroughs, these leaders describe the conferences that have enabled them and others to go on to create real and lasting social change.
    Keywords: L7-991 ; H1-99 ; HF5001-6182 ; innovation ; education ; Conferences ; knowledge exchange ; collaboration ; industry ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education
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    Teaching Political Science to Undergraduates. Active Pedagogy for the Microchip Mind (2021)
    De Gruyter
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    Publication Date: 2022-01-31
    Description: By 2020, half of the world’s population and most university students will have a supercomputer in their pockets. This revolution will affect the way students respond to higher education. The university classroom must henceforth engage students, and the classic lecture format alone might not be enough to do so. This book answers the question how university students can learn in the classroom what they cannot learn in any other way. The answer is inspired by options that are not available to political scientists – in the way that they are in the laboratories for the sciences, in the performances for the live arts, and in the studios for visual arts – as well as ideas that are already present, but not widespread in the discipline: problem-solving and case studies, as in the professional schools, and simulation exercises in many other disciplines. This book proposes therefore an active pedagogy for political science, at a time when active pedagogy is more important than ever.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; JA1-92 ; political science ; university ; higher education ; active pedagogy ; teaching and learning ; case study ; role-play
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    Interventions to Reduce Bullying and Cyberbullying (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This book, a Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, has been curated by three leading international experts on the topic. Following their editorial, there are 14 contributions on the topic of interventions against bullying, including cyberbullying, and similar abusive behaviors such as dating violence. Some contributions also assess positive or protective factors such as well-being, self-efficacy, and school climate. Eight of the contributions directly assess the effects of an intervention, with pre/post test designs and experimental and control groups. The other contributions examine a range of relevant topics, such as teacher attitudes and pupils’ confidence in intervening rather than being passive bystanders. Ten countries are represented among the authors. Most of the articles are about secondary schools (pupils, or teachers), but there are also contributions on early childhood, primary school, and university. This book will be of interest and relevance not only to researchers but also to teachers and educational practitioners concerned with pupil safety and well-being in school, and provides practical ways to reduce bullying and its harmful effects.
    Keywords: HM401-1281 ; H1-99 ; n/a ; successful educational action ; cyber-victim ; mental health ; South Korea ; Prev@cib ; teacher based-intervention ; school ; bystanders ; wellbeing ; self-efficacy ; subgroup analyses ; young children ; Dat-e Adolescence ; social environment ; prevention ; prevention program ; risk factors ; verbal bullying ; tabby intervention program ; coping strategies ; warmth ; adolescents ; minors ; cyber victimization ; moral disengagement ; dating violence ; cyberbullying ; cyberbullying interventions ; school climate ; intervention ; bullying ; Bullying ; hakkyo-pokryuk ; anti-bullying ; cyberbullying and the law ; classroom cohesion ; martial arts ; classroom climate ; willingness to intervene ; relational bullying ; teacher styles ; authoritative leadership ; cybervictimization ; teachers ; traditional victimization ; ecological system theory ; resilience ; moderators ; effectiveness ; intervention program ; Asegúrate program ; class teacher ; special education needs students ; cyber-aggressor ; control ; aggression ; families ; peer support ; pre-service teachers ; threat assessment ; temperament ; educational lifespan ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFP Social interaction
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    Myth, Symbol, and Colonial Encounter : British and Mi'kmaq in Acadia, 1700-1867 (2021)
    Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press
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    Publication Date: 2022-01-31
    Description: From the time of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, people of British origin have shared the area of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, traditionally called Acadia, with Eastern Canada's Algonkian-speaking peoples, the Mi'kmaq. This historical analysis of colonial Acadia from the perspective of symbolic and mythic existence will be useful to those interested in Canadian history, native Canadian history, religion in Canada, and history of religion.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; Canada ; Micmac ; Acadia ; America
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    Health Benefits of Mediterranean Diet (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Growing evidence shows that a dietary pattern inspired by Mediterranean dietprinciples is associated with numerous health benefits. A Mediterranean-typediet has been demonstrated to exert a preventive effect toward cardiovasculardiseases, in both Mediterranean and non-Mediterranean populations. Part ofthese properties may depend on a positive action toward healthier metabolism,decreasing the risk of diabetes and metabolic-syndrome-related conditions.Some studies also suggested a potential role in preventing certain cancers. Finally,newer research has showed that a higher adherence to the Mediterranean diet isassociated with a lower risk of cognitive decline, depression, and other mentaldisorders. Overall, a better understanding of the key elements of this dietarypattern, the underlying mechanisms, and targets, are needed to corroboratecurrent evidence and provide insights on new and potential outcomes.ThisSpecial Issue welcomes original research and reviews of literature concerningthe Mediterranean diet and various health outcomes:Observational studies onestablished nutritional cohorts (preferred), case-control studies, or populationsample on the association with non-communicable diseases;Level of evidenceon the association with human health, including systematic reviews and metaanalyses;Evaluation of application of Mediterranean diet principles in non-Mediterranean countries;Description of mechanisms of action, pathways, andtargets at the molecular level, including interaction with gut microbiota.
    Keywords: HM401-1281 ; H1-99 ; offspring ; dietary intervention study ; n/a ; mental health ; noncommunicable diseases ; plasma lipids ; depressive symptoms ; children ; metabolomics ; Mediterranean Diet ; immune system ; olive oil ; healthy lifestyle ; obesity ; prevention ; telomere length ; risk factors ; Mediterranean diet ; adolescents ; pregnancy ; athletes ; dietary change ; microbiome ; nutrition ; nuts ; whole-grain ; health communication ; childbearing age ; dementia ; Italy ; quality of life ; wine ; dietary intervention ; questionnaire ; non-alcoholic fatty liver disease ; public health policy ; relative Mediterranean diet score ; DNA damage ; fruit ; food groups ; cohort ; cognitive decline ; vegetable ; DNA repair ; university students ; epidemiology ; Mediterranean diet pyramid ; dietary intake ; motivational climate ; weight status ; glucose control ; diet ; cardiovascular risk ; resveratrol ; sleep quality ; BMI ; cardiovascular disease ; catechins ; sports ; socioeconomic factors ; self-concept ; child health ; hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal-HPA axis ; physical activity ; Spain ; barriers ; diet quality ; fish ; childhood obesity ; translation ; diabetes ; dairy ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFP Social interaction
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    The Shifting Boundaries of Prejudice (2021)
    Scandinavian University Press (Universitetsforlaget)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: In recent years, harassment and violent attacks against Jews and Muslims have become issues of concern in many Western countries. However, antisemitism and Islamophobia are often framed as essentially different phenomena, not least as a result of political polarization and deeply divided opinions on both immigration and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The present volume challenges this view and argues that antisemitism and Islamophobia are largely related phenomena and linked to xenophobic ideas in the general population. The study is based on varied and comprehensive survey data about attitudes towards Jews and Muslims in Norway, including the attitudes and experiences of the two minority groups themselves. Moreover, it supplements survey analysis with qualitative research, exploring the discursively constructed boundaries of “what can or cannot be said” about Jews and Muslims. Focused on the rich material of the Norwegian case, the volume thus offers new perspectives for the study of prejudice in general.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; Norway ; Islamophobia ; Antisemitism ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    A Quarter-Century of Normalization and Social Role Valorization : Evolution and Impact (2021)
    Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: During the late 1960s, Normalization and Social Role Valorization (SRV) enabled the widespread emergence of community residential options and then provided the philosophical climate within which educational integration, supported employment, and community participation were able to take firm root. This book is unique in tracing the evolution and impact of Normalization and SRV over the last quarter-century, with many of the chapter authors personally involved in a still-evolving international movement.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; standardisation ; valorisation ; social role ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities
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    Employment in the cultural sector in 2005 (2021)
    Département des études, de la prospective et des statistiques
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: The annual National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, or INSEE Employment Survey, which is carried out each year by the Département des études, de la prospective et des statistiques (DEPS), allows the overall economic weight of jobs in the cultural sector to be measured, of which over half are now based in the cultural industries.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; cultural wage-earner ; cultural employment ; INSEE (National Institute of statistics and economic studies) ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities
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    Science as Social Existence: Heidegger and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (2021)
    Open Book Publishers
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-05
    Description: In this bold and original study, Jeff Kochan constructively combines the sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) with Martin Heidegger’s early existential conception of science. Kochan shows convincingly that these apparently quite different approaches to science are, in fact, largely compatible, even mutually reinforcing. By combining Heidegger with SSK, Kochan argues, we can explicate, elaborate, and empirically ground Heidegger’s philosophy of science in a way that makes it more accessible and useful for social scientists and historians of science. Likewise, incorporating Heideggerian phenomenology into SSK renders SKK a more robust and attractive methodology for use by scholars in the interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS). Kochan’s ground-breaking reinterpretation of Heidegger also enables STS scholars to sustain a principled analytical focus on scientific subjectivity, without running afoul of the orthodox subject-object distinction they often reject. Science as Social Existence is the first book of its kind, unfurling its argument through a range of topics relevant to contemporary STS research. These include the epistemology and metaphysics of scientific practice, as well as the methods of explanation appropriate to social scientific and historical studies of science. Science as Social Existence puts concentrated emphasis on the compatibility of Heidegger’s existential conception of science with the historical sociology of scientific knowledge, pursuing this combination at both macro- and micro-historical levels. Beautifully written and accessible, Science as Social Existence puts new and powerful tools into the hands of sociologists and historians of science, cultural theorists of science, Heidegger scholars, and pluralist philosophers of science.
    Keywords: B1-5802 ; H1-99 ; Q1-390 ; Science and Technology Studies ; existential conception of science ; philosophy of science ; sociology of scientific knowledge ; Martin Heidegger ; social science ; history of science ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy
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    We Are Coming Home: Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence (2021)
    Athabasca University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: In 1990, Gerald Conaty was hired as senior curator of ethnology at the Glenbow Museum, with the particular mandate of improving the museum’s relationship with Aboriginal communities. That same year, the Glenbow had taken its first tentative steps toward repatriation by returning sacred objects to First Nations’ peoples. These efforts drew harsh criticism from members of the provincial government. Was it not the museum’s primary legal, ethical, and fiduciary responsibility to ensure the physical preservation of its collections? Would the return of a sacred bundle to ceremonial use not alter and diminish its historical worth and its value to the larger society? Undaunted by such criticism, Conaty oversaw the return of more than fifty medicine bundles to Blackfoot and Cree communities between the years of 1990 and 2000, at which time the First Nations Sacred Ceremonial Objects Repatriation Act (FNSCORA)—still the only repatriation legislation in Canada—was passed. “Repatriation,” he wrote, “is a vital component in the creation of an equitable, diverse, and respectful society.” We Are Coming Home is the story of the highly complex process of repatriation as described by those intimately involved in the work, notably the Piikani, Siksika, and Kainai elders who provided essential oversight and guidance. We also hear from the Glenbow Museum’s president and CEO at the time and from an archaeologist then employed at the Provincial Museum of Alberta who provides an insider’s view of the drafting of FNSCORA. These accounts are framed by Conaty’s reflections on the impact of museums on First Nations, on the history and culture of the Niitsitapi, or Blackfoot, and on the path forward. With Conaty’s passing in August of 2013, this book is also a tribute to his enduring relationships with the Blackfoot, to his rich and exemplary career, and to his commitment to innovation and mindful museum practice. 〈br〉 “…deeply informative and readable…. An absence of Canadian texts in the museum field and in cultural communication leaves open the mistaken idea that we are mere ciphers for practices from abroad. By making an important Alberta story available in this fascinating and important volume, AU Press has performed an essential cultural service for all Canadians.” —Literary Review of Canada
    Keywords: H1-99 ; siksika ; First Nations ; Elders ; aboriginal ceremonies ; ceremonial bundles ; kainai ; sacred bundles ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Resilience and Sustainability of the Mississippi River Delta as a Coupled Natural-Human System (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: The Mississippi River Delta is home to more than two million people and is a hub for energy, transportation, and petrochemical industry of national importance in the United States. It is also home to 40% of coastal wetlands in the contiguous United States, which provide natural habitats for hundreds of species of fish and wildlife, as well as for millions of migrating birds in North America each year. However, this delta has been losing land at a rapid speed and its existence is being seriously threatened. A number of factors have contributed to the current situation, including reduced riverine sediment supply, coastal land erosion, subsidence, and sea level rise. In an attempt to determine resilience of the Mississippi River Delta, this book collected 14 articles that present the latest assessments of the river delta in five aspects: 1) riverine processes and sediment availability, 2) sediment deposition and land creation, 3) wetland loss, saltwater intrusion and subsidence, 4) community resilience and planning, and 5) review and synthesis. This holistic approach to investigating a river delta as a coupled natural-human system can be applicable for assessing other populated and industrialized deltaic regions in the world.
    Keywords: GE1-350 ; H1-99 ; Sustainability ; Mississippi River Delta ; River deltas ; Coupled Natural-Human Systems ; Resilience ; bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCN Environmental economics
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    Refugee, Migrant and Ethnic Minority Health (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2022-01-31
    Description: International migration, particularly to Europe, has increased in the last few decades, making research on aspects of this phenomenon, including numbers, challenges, and successes, particularly vital. This Special Issue highlights this necessary and relevant area of research. It presents 37 articles including studies on diverse topics relating to the health of refugees and migrants. Most articles (28) present studies focusing on European host countries. The focus on Europe is justified if we take into consideration the increased number of refugees and migrants who have come to Europe in recent years. However, there are also articles which present studies from countries in other continents. The topics discussed in the Issue include healthcare utilization, infectious diseases, mother and child health, mental health, and chronic diseases. Finding from the included articles indicate that further development of guidelines and policies at both local and international levels is needed. Priorities must be set by encouraging and funding in-depth research that aims to evaluate the impact of existing policies and interventions. Such research will help us formulate recommendations for the development of strategies and approaches that improve and strengthen the integration of migrants and refugees into the host countries.
    Keywords: HM401-1281 ; H1-99 ; young women ; healthcare system strengthening ; asylum ; migrant ; Tensta ; knowledge ; disparities ; health systems ; sexual and reproductive health ; schistosomiasis/schistosoma ; tuberculosis ; Africa ; pregnancy ; lifestyle behavior ; understanding of illness ; chronic disease ; treatment ; refugees women ; access ; hepatitis C ; communicable diseases ; linkage ; early trauma ; intercultural competence ; refugee and migrant (R&M) health ; immigrants ; help-seeking behavior ; medical care ; European Union ; CHB ; screening ; refugees ; infectious diseases ; Portuguese ; religiosity ; reception center ; discrimination ; HBV ; AIDS ; complementary feeding ; Italy ; training ; applicants for international protection ; VPD ; vegetable ; multidimensional intercultural training acculturation model (MITA) ; health care provision ; overweight ; health care ; North Korean refugees ; path analysis ; pain ; traumatic events ; Middle Eastern refugee adolescents ; pain perception ; migrants ; migration ; asylum seeker ; economic recession ; n/a ; education ; mental health ; migrant populations ; infant ; Greece ; triage ; health care professionals ; North African ; ambulance ; refugee crisis ; immigrant mothers ; Southeast Europe ; negative automatic thoughts ; refugee health ; cost effectiveness ; Germany ; vaccination ; care ; infection ; inequalities ; healthcare ; prevalence ; asylum seekers ; immigrant ; involuntary treatment ; family-oriented societies ; European Union (EU) ; immigration ; sexual violence ; health ; aggression ; systematic review ; protective factor ; economic crisis ; emergency medical service ; preparedness ; HIV ; culture ; refugee ; Chinese ; immunisation strategies ; breastfeeding ; vaccine hesitancy ; Rinkeby ; health survey ; primary healthcare system ; MMR vaccination ; strongyloidiasis/strongyloides ; psychiatric hospitalisation ; workplace violence ; psychiatric emergency services ; obesity ; sexual health ; medical service ; Europe ; refugee and migrant women ; emergency department ; experiences ; National Health System ; adolescent ; GRADE ; emergency care ; migrant health ; stigma ; fruit ; viral hepatitis elimination ; alcohol consumption ; Electronic Health Insurance Card ; disease prevention ; acute stress ; smoking ; post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) ; public health ; Polish ; confidence ; access to care ; LTBI ; risk factor ; autism ; IGRA ; physical activity ; doctor ; psychiatric hospitalization ; infectious disease ; screening/diagnosis ; failed asylum seekers ; depression ; measles
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    Sexual Assault in Canada : Law, legal pratice and women’s activism (2021)
    Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Sexual Assault in Canada is the first English-language book in almost two decades to assess the state of sexual assault law and legal practice in Canada. Gathering together feminist scholars, lawyers, activists and policy-makers, it presents a picture of the difficult issues that Canadian women face when reporting and prosecuting sexual violence. The volume addresses many themes including the systematic undermining of women who have been sexually assaulted, the experiences of marginalized women, and the role of women’s activism. It explores sexual assault in various contexts, including professional sports, the doctor–patient relationship, and residential schools. And it highlights the influence of certain players in the reporting and litigation of sexual violence, including health care providers, social workers, police, lawyers and judges. Sexual Assault in Canada provides both a multi-faceted assessment of the progress of feminist reforms to Canadian sexual assault law and practice, and articulates a myriad of new ideas, proposed changes to law, and inspired activist strategies. This book was created to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Jane Doe’s remarkable legal victory against the Toronto police for sex discrimination in the policing of rape and for negligence in failing to warn her of a serial rapist. The case made legal history and motivated a new generation of feminist activists. This book honours her pioneering work by reflecting on how law, legal practice and activism have evolved over the past decade and where feminist research and reform should lead in the years to come.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; rape ; law ; sexual assault ; violence ; women ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Exploring Social Sustainability and Economic Practices (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Given the three pillars of sustainability, besides the environment, the interplay of social and economic dimensions provides valuable insight into how society is molded and the key components that should be considere. In terms of social sustainability, processes and framework objectives promote the wellbeing that is integral to the balance of people, planet, and profit. Economic practices consider the system of production, resource allocation, and distribution of goods and services with respect to demand and supply between economic agents. As a result, an economic system is a variant of the social system in which it exists. At present, the forefront of social sustainability research partially encompasses the impact of economic practices on people and society, with notable emphasis centered on the urban environment. Specific interdisciplinary analyses within the scope of sustainability, social development, competitiveness, and motivational management, as well as decision making within the urban landscape, are considered. This book contains nine thoroughly refereed contributions that interconnect detailed research into the two pillars reviewed.
    Keywords: HM401-1281 ; H1-99 ; society ; Social Sustainability ; Economic Practices ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFP Social interaction
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    The Well-Being of Children. Philosophical and Social Scientific Approaches (2021)
    De Gruyter
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: This volume explores the questions related to the theory, practice, and policy of the well-being and well-becoming of children. It does so in a truly interdisciplinary way with a focus on the social sciences and philosophy, giving therefore justice to the growing insight that studying and promoting the well-being of children has a strong ethical component. It is dependent on the questions of good life, its conditions and cannot be separated from the concept of social justice and moral entitlements of children and their families. In this book, philosophers and social scientists, in close dialogue, shed light on some of the most challenging matters involved.
    Keywords: D1-2009 ; QA1-939 ; H1-99 ; emotions ; culture ; motivation ; history ; social science ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
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    Hanging on to the Edges: Essays on Science, Society and the Academic Life (2021)
    Open Book Publishers
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: What does it mean to be a scientist working today; specifically, a scientist whose subject matter is human life? Scientists often overstate their claim to certainty, sorting the world into categorical distinctions that obstruct rather than clarify its complexities. In this book Daniel Nettle urges the reader to unpick such distinctions—biological versus social sciences, mind versus body, and nature versus nurture—and look instead for the for puzzles and anomalies, the points of connection and overlap. These essays, converted from often humorous, sometimes autobiographical blog posts, form an extended meditation on the possibilities and frustrations of the life scientific. Pragmatically arguing from the intersection between social and biological sciences, Nettle reappraises the virtues of policy initiatives such as Universal Basic Income and income redistribution, highlighting the traps researchers and politicians are liable to encounter. This provocative, intelligent and self-critical volume is a testament to the possibilities of interdisciplinary study—whose virtues Nettle stridently defends—drawing from and having implications for a wide cross-section of academic inquiry. This will appeal to anybody curious about the implications of social and biological sciences for increasingly topical political concerns. It comes particularly recommended to Sciences and Social Sciences students and to scholars seeking to extend the scope of their field in collaboration with other disciplines.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; interdisciplinary studies ; biology ; science ; behavioural studies ; social science ; scientific theories ; academic research ; human behaviour ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Geography Education Promoting Sustainability (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Description: Through out the current period of educational change, Geography education has also changed. The
    Keywords: L7-991 ; H1-99 ; teaching competencies ; environmental education ; digital tools ; issues of scale ; landscape drawings and texts ; mental models ; evaluation ; systems thinking ; ecology education ; preconceptions ; geographical education ; Sustainable Development Goals ; climate change ; mapping ; mixed methods ; geography education ; critical pedagogy ; TPACK ; K-12 education ; literature review ; professional development ; sustainability ; radical environmentalism ; case study ; alternative conceptions ; experiences connected to environment ; environmental relationship ; quality of life ; dialogic teaching ; education for sustainable development (ESD) ; data mining ; education for sustainable development ; place-based education ; students ; ecopedagogy ; general education ; magnitude ; environmental approach ; misconceptions ; collective evaluation ; environmental values ; epistemological beliefs ; school project ; gender equality ; higher education ; qualitative study ; outdoor education ; democracy ; international collaboration ; inductive content analysis ; environment ; collaboration ; sustainability education ; Spatial Data Infrastructures ; conceptual change ; landscape ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education
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    Inclusive Consumption (2021)
    Scandinavian University Press (Universitetsforlaget)
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Consumption plays a powerful role in the social and economic integration of immigrants. Most research on integration has addressed integration through work. Inclusive Consumption adopts a different approach, exploring the inclusive and exclusive potentials of markets and consumption. The book’s chapters cover consumption of food, shelter, clothes, mobile phones, leisure activities, employment agency services, physiotherapy education and health services. The key institutions of the welfare society – private and public markets, work, education, and health – are thereby addressed. The book is aimed at students, researchers and professionals with an interest in broader perspectives on social integration of immigrants. The book’s contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines: sociology, social anthropology, ethnology, political science, media studies, journalism, social and rural development, social work, nursing, physiotherapy and textile engineering. With this edited collection, the editors and authors hope to expand the horizons of the debate on social integration of immigrants beyond the prevailing focus on the role of work. An inclusive and open definition of the factors relevant for integration will broaden and enrich the production of knowledge, the development of policy instruments and the public understanding of one of our greatest contemporary challenges.
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    Mobile Learning (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Description: Mobile learning has become one of the more influential aspects of the field of educational technology, given the ubiquity of modern mobile devices and proliferation of educational applications or ‘apps’. Within this volume, there are a range of studies and reviews which cover a breadth of current topics in the field, namely user motivations for using mobile learning, issues in evaluation, as well as domain-specific considerations (e.g., use within language learning or audio-based applications). Together, these studies represent the synthesis of a range of methods, approaches, and applications that highlight benefits and areas of future growth of mobile technologies and how they can be useful and most effective in education.
    Keywords: L7-991 ; H1-99 ; subjective perception ; smartphone ; digital capabilities ; achievement ; 3-level evaluation framework ; instructional approaches ; technology integration ; FRAME model ; digital literacy ; mobile technologies ; m-learning ; language learning ; iPads ; meta-analysis ; higher education ; systematic review ; audio interaction ; mobile learning ; English language teaching ; mobile device ; diffusion of models ; educational technologies ; mobile devices ; attitude ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JN Education ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education
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    Environmentally Sustainable Livestock Production (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This book looks at key research covering a wide range of aspects of environmental sustainability and the mitigation of environmental impacts of livestock production, including emissions of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide), nitrogen and phosphorus excretion, ammonia emissions, land use and land management, and use of energy and other resources. All the globally most important livestock species (beef and dairy cattle, pigs, broiler chicken and laying hens) are covered in the book. The mitigation methods assessed in the papers include general system changes, changes in feeding, improvement of animal health, and new technologies of manure management. The scope of the papers included in this book ranges from farm level mitigation methods to national level system changes. This book also addresses methodological development in assessing the environmental sustainability of the livestock production chains, including holistic methods, such as environmental and social life cycle assessment (LCA) and other modeling approaches.
    Keywords: GE1-350 ; H1-99 ; animal feed ; livestock production systems ; nutrient dynamics ; environmental sustainability ; land use and land management ; greenhouse gas emissions ; environmental impact assessment ; manure management ; life cycle assessment ; bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCN Environmental economics
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    Anthropometry, Body Composition and Resting Energy Expenditure in Human (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Data on nutritional status of human populations are periodically needed, as well as their relationships with anthropometry, body composition, body image and energy expenditure, and also with health lifestyle outcomes. All these parameters contribute jointly to give a complete knowledge on dietary and lifestyle habits, and hence how to proceed to improve it in order to enjoy an optimal healthy status. So, you are kindly invited to submit proposals for manuscripts that fit the objectives and the topics of this Nutrients Special issue.The aim of this proposed Nutrients Special Issue on ""Anthropometry, Body Composition and Resting Energy Expenditure in Humans"" is to publish selected papers detailing specific aspects of anthropometric, body composition and energy expenditure data in human populations and their relationships with nutritional status, as well as nutritional surveys and trials that examine measured differences or changes in these parameters are also cordially invited.
    Keywords: HM401-1281 ; H1-99 ; weight and fat ; cardio-metabolic risk ; anthropometry ; physical condition ; body weight ; resting energy expenditure ; dietary influences ; body composition ; handgrip muscle strength ; children ; obesity ; validation ; energy ; visceral adipose tissue ; free fat mass ; nut consumption ; adolescents ; waist circumference ; Mediterranean diet ; body mass index ; metabolic rate ; ABSI ; metabolic syndrome ; nuts ; lifestyle outcomes ; indirect calorimetry ; adiposity ; elderly ; fat mass ; exercise ; energy balance ; Qatar Biobank ; cardiovascular risk disease ; walnuts ; diet ; 8-foot time up-and-go ; sarcopenia ; BMI ; nutritional status ; nutrient adequacy ; bioelectrical impedance ; waist-to-height ratio ; food allergy ; basal metabolism ; diet quality ; Diabetes ; sleeve gastrectomy ; dual X-ray absorptiometry ; food intake ; body fat ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFP Social interaction
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    Youth Studies and Generations: Values, Practices and Discourses on Generations (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: There is currently much discourse about generations in the public sphere. A sequence of letters conflates generations and age cohorts born in the last few decades (generation “X”, “Y” or “Z”) as well as multiple categories are used to describe today’s young people as a generation that is distinct from its predecessors. Despite the popularity of generational labels in media, politics, or even academia, the use of generation as a conceptual tool in youth studies has been controversial. This Special Issue allows readers to better understand the key issues regarding the use of generation as a theoretical concept and/or as a social category in the field of youth studies, shedding light on the controversies, trends, and cautions that go through it.
    Keywords: HM401-1281 ; GN301-674 ; H1-99 ; generations ; transition to adulthood ; transitions ; Portugal ; youth ; Young people ; Karl ; political socialization ; generation ; political discontent ; age-period-cohort analysis ; democracy satisfaction ; Africa ; social class ; political behavior ; postcolonial studies ; adulthood ; epistemology ; Italy ; political participation ; trust in institutions ; Mannheim ; politics ; individualism ; Guinea ; sociology ; digital divide ; young body ; cohort differences ; media ; young people ; Political Participation ; focus groups ; Postmaterialism ; Tunisia ; civic participation ; globalization ; youth studies ; social history ; youth volunteering ; political engagement ; neoliberalism ; Arab Spring ; Neoliberalism ; individualization ; democracy ; Political Consumerism ; transitions to adulthood ; somatic cultures ; Uganda ; work values ; generational differences ; life course ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFP Social interaction
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    Drinking Water Quality and Human Health (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: The quality of drinking water is paramount for public health. Despite important improvements in the last decades, access to safe drinking water is not universal. The World Health Organization estimates that almost 10% of the population in the world do not have access to improved drinking water sources. Among other diseases, waterborne infections cause diarrhea, which kills nearly one million people every year, mostly children under 5 years of age. On the other hand, chemical pollution is a concern in high-income countries and an increasing problem in low- and middle-income countries. Exposure to chemicals in drinking water may lead to a range of chronic non-communicable diseases (e.g., cancer, cardiovascular disease), adverse reproductive outcomes, and effects on children’s health (e.g., neurodevelopment), among other health effects. Although drinking water quality is regulated and monitored in many countries, increasing knowledge leads to the need for reviewing standards and guidelines on a nearly permanent basis, both for regulated and newly identified contaminants. Drinking water standards are mostly based on animal toxicity data, and more robust epidemiologic studies with accurate exposure assessment are needed. The current risk assessment paradigm dealing mostly with one-by-one chemicals dismisses the potential synergisms or interactions from exposures to mixtures of contaminants, particularly at the low-exposure range. Thus, evidence is needed on exposure and health effects of mixtures of contaminants in drinking water. Finally, water stress and water quality problems are expected to increase in the coming years due to climate change and increasing water demand by population growth, and new evidence is needed to design appropriate adaptation policies.This Special Issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) focuses on the current state of knowledge on the links between drinking water quality and human health.
    Keywords: HM401-1281 ; H1-99 ; risk assessment ; time series study ; risk context ; ammonia ; fluoride ; exposure assessment ; water safety plan ; HWTS implementation ; human health ; simulation study ; drinking water guidance ; chlorination by-product ; adverse reproductive outcomes ; spatial variations ; THMs ; zinc ; radioactivity ; thyroid disease ; risk management ; infants ; water contamination ; infant health ; small for gestational age ; drinking water quality ; methemoglobinemia ; magnesium ; monitoring ; effect measure modification ; nitrite ; health-based guideline ; environmental exposure ; organic matter ; Maryland ; tap water ; impact assessment ; turbidity ; chronic kidney disease ; fever ; diarrhoeal disease ; rural water resources ; drinking water ; acute gastroenteritis ; Nigeria ; E. coli ; pharmacokinetic modeling ; chemical risk assessment ; uncertainty factors ; community water system ; groundwater ; dental health ; inorganic manganese ; atrazine ; duration extrapolation ; health insurance data ; space–time detection ; seasonality ; fecal coliforms ; water safety plans ; preterm birth ; dissolved oxygen ; gravity-fed piped water scheme ; urban area ; cough ; water operation data ; screening method ; endogenous nitrosation ; infant exposure ; sanitary inspection ; waterborne disease outbreak ; N-nitroso compounds ; end-stage renal disease ; arsenic ; diarrhea ; sodium ; private wells ; animal feeding operation ; endocrine disruptor ; Vibrio pathogens ; LTD ; disinfection by-product ; chemical oxygen demand ; potassium ; biomonitoring ; nitrate ; annual effective dose ; sub-Saharan Africa ; France ; carcinogenic ; public health ; enterococci ; calcium ; water and sanitation ; pharmaceuticals ; environment ; drinking water distribution systems ; water contaminants ; Asia-Pacific region ; Denmark ; trihalomethanes ; risk ; cancer ; low birth weight ; drug labels ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFP Social interaction
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    Sustainable Tourism and Natural Resource Conservation in the Polar Regions (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This book holds key papers from the fifth conference and community workshop of the International Polar Tourism Research Network (IPTRN), held in the village of Raufarhöfn (population 160) in Northeast Iceland at the end of August 2016. In total, 40 papers were presented at the conference which explored how expectations towards tourism development in peripheral places can be managed to contribute to the cultural well-being of peripheral communities and enhance the protection of the environment. The seven papers contained herein, in addition to the editorial, can roughly be grouped into two categories. The first set of four papers deals with methods and key assets for developing sustainable tourism operations in the Polar Regions. The second set of three papers deals more with the implications of different means of access to the more remote parts of the Polar Regions.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; polar ; arctic ; tourism ; Antarctic ; sustainability ; research ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities
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    Postcolonial or Not? : West Africa in the Pre-Atlantic and Atlantic Worlds (2021)
    IFRA-Nigeria
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: What do the labels “Historic period,” “historical archaeology,” and “Colonial” imply about the source materials drawn on, the time periods covered, and the conceptual vantages taken in interpre­ting the West African past? The historiographies presented are equally relevant to the understanding of the past—that is, the impacts of European contact, the Atlantic slave trade, and colo- nization—as they are to the present; the social, economic, and cultural landscapes of modernity, and how our views of the past shape these landscapes. This essay considers the varied episte­mological threads represented and their interpretive implica­tions. Although the hegemonic and transformative nature of Afri­ca's intersection with the Atlantic World is underscored, the need to situate these developments within the wider scope and tem­poral depth of the African past is also emphasized. Archaeology's central role in providing a holistic understanding of the temporal depth and complexity of African history, as well as archaeology's unique contribution to the understanding of the Atlantic world, is underscored.
    Keywords: D1-2009 ; H1-99 ; slave trade ; colonization ; African archaeology ; postcolonialism ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
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    Australian Indigenous Knowledge and Libraries  (2021)
    UTS ePRESS
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: In response to significant changes in the Indigenous information landscape, the State Library of New South Wales and Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning at the University of Technology, Sydney, hosted a colloquium, Libraries and Indigenous Knowledge, in December 2004. The two-day colloquium brought together professionals, practitioners and academics to discuss future directions in relation to Indigenous knowledge and library services. An expert and inspiring group of speakers and more than 90 active participants ensured that lively discussions did, indeed, take place.
    Keywords: A ; H1-99 ; Z ; LB5-3640 ; Indigenous Knowledge ; Indigenous Knowledge Centre ; Libraries ; Australia ; Library and Information Service Sector ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts
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    Religious Experience in the Hindu Tradition (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This Special Issue of Religions brings together a talented group of international scholars who have studied and written on the Hindu tradition. The topic of religious experience is much debated in the field of Religious Studies, and here, we present studies of the Hindu religious experience explored from a variety of regions and perspectives. Our intention is to show that the religious experience has long been an important part of Hinduism, and should not be dismissed or considered as irrelevant. As a body of scholarship, these articles refine our understanding of the range and variety of religious experience in Hinduism. In addition to their substantive contributions, the authors also show important new directions in the study of the third-largest religion in the world, with over one billion followers.
    Keywords: HM401-1281 ; H1-99 ; ??kta tantra ; Bhakti ; prak?ti ; Nirguna Bhakti ; T?la ; pilgrimage ; Yoga S?tra ; ku??alin? ; ??nti ; modern Hinduism ; Yogas?tras ; Manasa ; shongshar ; being seen ; arts & religions ; tantra ; ammai ; sacred domesticity ; Hinduism ; Srividya ; India ; Vedanta ; Mahipati ; sam?dhi ; Bhagavad G?t? ; shankh ; Indian music ; Erlebnis ; Mariyamman ; Tukaram ; Santmat ; pluralism ; bhakti ; yoga ; I ; ?r? Vidy? ; Dhrupad ; seeing ; affliction ; Ramakrishna ; Tamil ; moral conduct ; tantric s?dhan? ; sa?yama ; medieval Sant tradition ; prayer ; Indian Religions ; meditation ; devotion ; saints ; yantra ; S??khya philosophy ; anta?kara?a ; Balaji ; ?akti ; not I ; Sants ; guru ; Khayal ; N?da-Brahman ; Gandhi ; possession ; mah?bh?va ; Sang?ta ; modern gurus ; Ganges ; poxes ; creativity ; Tantric Studies ; rain ; goddess ; trance ; brahman ; bh?va ; Erfahrung ; sacred sound ; G?yatr? mantra ; puru??rtha ; Sadhus ; Yoga ; conch ; William James ; dar?an ; S??khya ; agricultural field ; Bengali home ; puru?a ; Lakshmi ; Ethnography ; R?ga ; Ved?nta ; Patañjali ; religious experience ; K?rtan ; divine light and sound ; performance ; renunciation ; dhy?n ; Bhajan ; Rasa ; mok?a ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFP Social interaction
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    Towards Shared Research (2021)
    transcript Verlag
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Intercultural, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary research interfaces confront researchers with considerable challenges. Towards Shared Research portrays how scholars from different disciplinary and geographical origins and at various academic career stages strive for a more inclusive and better understanding of knowledge about African environments. The book is addressed to researchers, facilitators, and policy-makers to make a case for participatory and integrative approaches resulting in systemic and co-created analyses.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; Cultural Anthropology ; Epistemology ; Sociology of Science ; Participatory Methodologies ; Science ; Action Anthropology ; Ethnology ; African Environments ; Research Collaborations ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities
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    Prebiotics and Probiotics (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: The purpose of this Special Issue, “Prebiotics and Probiotics”, is to focus on the importance of intestinal microbiota for human health and disease and the possibilities of influencing its composition and function with probiotics and prebiotics. The goal is to clarify that the microbiome in the maternal fetal and during pediatric age, as well as the immediate changes that occur as new microbes are acquired postnatally play major roles in subsequent health and disease. Rapidly developing technologies for multi-omic analyses and systems biology are shifting paradigms in both scientific knowledge and clinical care. Finally, the idea will be to provide health professionals with comprehensive, understandable and highly readable updated information on the intestinal microbiota, probiotics and prebiotics.]
    Keywords: H1-99 ; microbiota ; prebiotics ; probiotics ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities
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    Barriers to Play and Recreation for Children and Young People with Disabilities. Exploring Environmental Factors (2021)
    De Gruyter
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    Publication Date: 2022-01-31
    Description: This report reviews international research into the barriers to play for children with disabilities. The authors come from different disciplinary backgrounds, in Sociology, Social Policy, Anthropology, Occupational Health and Education and bring different concerns to this review. They are united, however, in their adoption of a rights-based perspective. The UNCRC and UNCRPD emphasise the right to play for children with disabilities. Play is vital for child development. The problem of 'play deprivation' for many children with disabilities is very real. Yet the right to, and value of 'play for the sake of play', for fun and recreation, must not be forgotten in relation to the lives of children with disabilities. The focus in this report is upon barriers to play that exist beyond the minds and bodies of individual children, within a 'disabling' environment. Barriers include those associated with the design of the built environment, social attitudes and professional practices. The report maps an agenda for further research in this area, emphasising the need for participatory methodologies that capture the views and voices of children with disabilities, their friends and families, on this important issue of play.
    Keywords: LC8-6691 ; H1-99 ; Disability ; Play ; Rights ; Accessibility ; Barriers ; Exclusion ; Useability ; Social Attitudes ; Inequality
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    Elites : Choice, Leadership and Succession (2021)
    Etnográfica Press
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Wealth and power characterize elites, yet despite the strong cultural influences they exert, their study remains underdeveloped. Partly because of complications resulting from access, scholars have tended to focus on groups affected by elite governance rather than on elites themselves. It is often overlooked that, in order to continue through time, elites have to empower new members. Choice has to be exercised over who achieves leadership, both by reference to the elite group itself and to the wider group over which it holds power. This book fills a gap in the current literature by providing the first rigorous interrogation of the choice and succession strategies of elites in various cultural contexts - from the transmission and preservation of financial power in urban contexts to the complex relation between subjectivity and the transmission of leadership positions in places as varied as the United States, Northern Italy and Lisbon. Various elite succession types are discussed, from self-avowedly 'traditional' leaders to the aristocracy, where choice is practically non-existent, to situations where leaders are elected from amongst a group of peers. The relationship between familial property and choice of successor in landholding families, small business enterprises, and peasant communities is also examined, as are ethnic monopolies.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; anthropology of the family ; elite ; family history ; social reproduction ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities
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    Microwave and Radio-Frequency Technologies in Agriculture. An Introduction for Agriculturalists and Engineers (2021)
    De Gruyter
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Humanity’s ability to produce enough food is mostly due to adoption of new methods and technologies by the agricultural industries as they became available. New information, communication and high speed processing and precision agriculture technologies have the potential to transform the agricultural industry. These technologies incorporate radio-frequency and microwave radiation into their systems. This book presents an overview of how these technologies are being used in agricultural systems. The main purpose of the book is to provide a glimpse of what is possible and encourage practitioners in the engineering and agricultural industries to explore how radio-frequency and microwave systems might further enhance the agricultural industry. The authors have extensive experience in agricultural and microwave engineering, instrumentation and communication systems.
    Keywords: GE1-350 ; QC801-809 ; G1-922 ; H1-99 ; QE1-996.5 ; agriculture ; innovation ; sensing ; radiofrequency identification ; processing ; Radiofrequency ; heating ; microwave ; and communication ; bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KC Economics::KCN Environmental economics
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    Hittitology today: Studies on Hittite and Neo-Hittite Anatolia in Honor of Emmanuel Laroche’s 100th Birthday : 5e Rencontres d'archéologie de l'IFEA, Istanbul 21-22 novembre 2014 (2021)
    Institut français d’études anatoliennes
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: 100 years ago, Emmanuel Laroche was born. As a scholar who was fascinated both by Indo-European Linguistics and Ancient Near Eastern and Classical Studies, he had a durable impact on Hittitology through his numerous contributions. His publications dealt with History of Near Eastern Religions, Cuneiform Philology, and Hittite, Luwian, and Hurrian grammar, among many other topics. This conference was organized in honor of his 100th birthday. Its aim was to discuss the recent developments in Hittitology, the ones to whom Emmanuel Laroche contributed and the ones which occurred after his time. The following themes are dealt with in this volume: Anatolian Linguistics, Cuneiform and Hieroglyphic Philology and Epigraphy, Religions of Bronze and Early Iron Age Anatolia, History and Historical Geography of Asia Minor, but also Near Eastern Archaeology, as Emmanuel Laroche was also very close to this discipline. Let us add to those fields Historiography which illustrates, among other things, the impact of Emmanuel Laroche’s work on today’s Hittitology.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; epigraphy ; Ancient Hittite period ; archaeology ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities
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    Crossing Cultures : German, Italian and French cross-cultural references (2021)
    Département des études, de la prospective et des statistiques
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: The Crossing Cultures study takes an intercultural approach to the analysis of common and mutual cultural references shared by the German, Italian and French people in areas such as architectural, historical, literary, cinematographic, theatrical and musical heritage, as well as popular cultural references or figures. Polling 4,500 people across the three countries, this survey is original in scope and content: it seeks to survey the common foundation of cultures within Europe, the foundation of a European culture or of the European identity through culture. The results confirm a correlation between knowledge and educational level, and also highlight the per- sistence of national stereotypes and the lack of any genuine common culture. Nevertheless, the existence of several very widely shared transnational references demonstrates that interculturality, which presupposes a knowledge of other peoples, is not entirely out of reach. The study encourages us to reassess the aims, methods and tools of European interculturality.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; comparative analysis ; cultural knowledge ; cultural participation ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities
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    Georges Baudoux's Jean M'Barai The Trepang Fisherman (2021)
    UTS ePRESS
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Between 1860 and 1910, Australian governments sanctioned and then tried to stop the trafficking of South Sea Islanders ​to Queensland as forced labourers. Over 60,000 Islanders were lured from their villages: tricked, transported, forced to work in the harsh Queensland bush, and then repatriated. Most Islanders returned with little savings to find their communities deeply scarred by the blackbirding trade and the internecine tribal conflict it had provoked. Georges Baudoux (1865-1949) was brought up amongst the Islanders who experienced the raw and competing greed of French, British and Australian colonialism. Son of a French prison commander stationed in New Caledonia, Baudoux lead a colourful life amongst the Pacific islands and deep in the brousse (bush) before becoming an author and capturing the stories of his travels and, importantly, the experiences of friends and colleagues as life in the islands changed forever. In recognition of his work, he was awarded the esteemed Palmes Académiques, the French medal for literary and academic achievement. Jean M'Barai is one of his best works. Expertly translated by Dr Karin Speedy and published here in English for the first time, this book exposes the rich, complex and brutal world of a South Sea Islander caught up in the duplicitous trade that came to be known as Blackbirding. It is an exciting, provocative and often astonishing account, drawing on the lived experience of people known to the author. In her critical introduction, Dr Speedy uncovers not just the author and his intriguing life (a life that spanned the uprising of the Paris communards in 1870 to post-Second World War reconstruction in the Pacific), but also the challenges for scholars working in, and undertaking translations in, the Francophone/Anglophone colonial/postcolonial sphere. Here, where empires, languages and Pacific peoples collide, the nuances of culture and terminology really matter if we are to find meaning amongst the shifting tides of use. Accompanied by photographs, postcards, cartoons and maps, this is a book to read and re-read, to contemplate ingenuity and inhumanity and the price all cultures pay as they are tested by forces beyond their control. It is a story that still resonates today, as we reflect on the experiences and resilience of the Pacific South Sea Islanders who contributed to modern Australia: the many that left and the descendants of those who stayed.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; JV1-9480 ; DU1-950 ; South Sea Islanders ; George Baudoux ; Colonialism ; Jean M'Barai ; Australia ; Blackbirding ; Queensland ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities
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    Caring and Curing : Historical Perspectives on Women and Healing in Canada (2021)
    Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: This collection of essays takes the reader from the early 19th century struggle between female midwives and male physicians right up to the late 20th century emergence of professionally trained women physicians vying for a place in the medical hierarchy. The bitter conflict for control of birthing and other aspects of domestic health care between female lay healers, particularly midwives, and the emerging male-dominated medical profession is examined from new perspectives.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; gender ; midwife ; public policies ; birth ; health ; women ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Wine and Vine Components and Health (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: While there is a tremendous literature on the topic of wine and health ranging back to the days of Hippocrates, it is considered that there is an unlimited variety of wine, allowing for the association of senses, nutrition, and hedonism. The history of vine and wine has lasted for at least 7000 years. Vitis represent adaptable plants, and thanks to the large variety of strains, wine is an alchemical mix with unique properties, a rich and original composition in terms of polyphenols, and well known antioxidants. This explains why wine and health are closely linked to nutrition.
    Keywords: HM401-1281 ; H1-99 ; polyphenols ; n/a ; red wine ; apigenin ; tyrosol ; neurotrophic effects ; neuronal differentiation ; Okinawa diet ; colorectal ; antioxidant capacity ; olive oil ; vine ; alcohol ; antioxidant ; electrochemical technology ; Mediterranean diet ; allergy ; cardiovascular protection ; N2a murine neuronal cells ; cancers ; dementia ; wine ; resveratrol derivatives ; RW ; substituents phenyl rings ; efficacy towards diseases ; grape pomace ; metabolic disease ; Alzheimer ; biological targets ; wine flavonoids ; metabolites characterization ; diet ; hydroxytyrosol ; hormesis ; resveratrol ; cardiovascular disease ; nrf2 ; health ; synthesis strategies ; EVOO ; cancer ; hypertension ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFP Social interaction
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    The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts (2021)
    Open Book Publishers
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: This is the first book to combine contemporary debates in ballad studies with the insights of modern textual scholarship. Just like canonical literature and music, the ballad should not be seen as a uniquely authentic item inextricably tied to a documented source, but rather as an unstable structure subject to the vagaries of production, reception, and editing. Among the matters addressed are topics central to the subject, including ballad origins, oral and printed transmission, sound and writing, agency and editing, and textual and melodic indeterminacy and instability. While drawing on the time-honoured materials of ballad studies, the book offers a theoretical framework for the discipline to complement the largely ethnographic approach that has dominated in recent decades. Primarily directed at the community of ballad and folk song scholars, the book will be of interest to researchers in several adjacent fields, including folklore, oral literature, ethnomusicology, and textual scholarship.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; literature ; folklore ; music ; ballad ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities
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    Sciences with the Science (2021)
    Alliance Athena | Alliance Athena
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: In the current European environment where the main orientations of research are being redefined, it is fit to reconsider the general principles underlying the Social Sciences & Humanities and their place in Science and Society. The need for a fruitful dialogue between sciences in order to cope with the major challenges of today’s world invites us to bring again to the fore the figure of ‘the engineer’ as largely open to humanities. Beyond any specifically scientific consideration, the SSH are addressing anew the question of the purpose of our societies and of the way they will evolve. This study is the result of an exceptional gathering of searchers and scholars. It aims at restoring the SSH back into their deserved position and at promoting male and female scientists dedicated to avoiding the frauds of technicism, dogmatism and scienticism.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; sciences ; society ; humanities ; social sciences ; public policies ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities
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    Zoonotic Diseases and One Health (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Humans are part of an ecosystem, and understanding our relationship with the environment and with other organisms is a prerequisite to living together sustainably. Zoonotic diseases, which are spread between animals and humans, are an important issue as they reflect our relationship with other animals in a common environment. Zoonoses are still presented with high occurrence rates, especially in rural communities, with direct and indirect consequences for people. In several cases, zoonosis could cause severe clinical manifestations and is difficult to control and treat. Moreover, the persistent use of drugs for infection control enhances the potential of drug resistance and impacts on ecosystem balance and food production. This book demonstrates the importance of understanding zoonosis in terms of how it allows ecosystems to transform, adapt, and evolve. Ecohealth/One Health approaches recognize the interconnections among people, other organisms, and their shared developing environment. Moreover, these holistic approaches encourage stakeholders of various disciplines to collaborate in order to solve problems related to zoonosis. The reality of climate change necessitates considering new variables in studying diseases, particularly to predict how these changes in the ecosystems can affect human health and how to recognize the boundaries between medicine, veterinary care, and environmental and social changes towards healthy and sustainable development.
    Keywords: HM401-1281 ; H1-99 ; non-typhoidal Salmonella ; bacteria ; spotted fever group Rickettsia spp. ; environmental DNA ; filariasis ; enteropathogens ; Anaplasma phagocytophilum ; antimicrobial resistance ; livestock ; serology ; multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) ; animals ; bovine tuberculosis (bTB) ; Enterobacteriaceae ; risk factors ; Tocantins ; B. malayi ; Africa ; zoonoses ; Zoonosis ; wildlife–livestock–human interface ; tick-borne infections ; zoonosis ; snail surveillance ; IFAT ; edaphic factors ; D. immitis ; Oncomelania hupensis quadrasi ; antibiotics ; Taenia saginata ; dog ; PCR ; food chain ; Cysticercus bovis ; schistosomiasis japonica ; campylobacteriosis ; one health ; birds ; Thailand ; epidemiology ; antibiotic resistance ; One-health ; ESBL ; public health ; One Health ; child diarrhoea ; Eastern Mediterranean region ; Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) ; zoonotic TB ; Toxoplasma gondii ; developing countries ; food security ; B. pahangi ; horses ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFP Social interaction
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    Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis (2021)
    Open Book Publishers
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture. The authors examine the essential features of the zombie, including mindlessness, ugliness and homelessness, and argue that these reflect the outlook of the contemporary West and its attendant zeitgeists of anxiety, alienation, disconnection and disenfranchisement. They trace the relationship between zombies and the theme of secular apocalypse, demonstrating that the zombie draws its power from being a perversion of the Christian mythos of death and resurrection. Symbolic of a lost Christian worldview, the zombie represents a world that can no longer explain itself, nor provide us with instructions for how to live within it. The concept of 'domicide' or the destruction of home is developed to describe the modern crisis of meaning that the zombie both represents and reflects. This is illustrated using case studies including the relocation of the Anishinaabe of the Grassy Narrows First Nation, and the upheaval of population displacement in the Hellenistic period. Finally, the authors invoke and reformulate symbols of the four horseman of the apocalypse as rhetorical analogues to frame those aspects of contemporary collapse that elucidate the horror of the zombie. Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis is required reading for anyone interested in the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary culture. It will also be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience including students and scholars of culture studies, semiotics, philosophy, religious studies, eschatology, anthropology, Jungian studies, and sociology.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; Western culture ; Zombies ; popular culture ; crisis of meaning ; cultural studies ; apocalypse ; alienation ; media studies ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    The Tools of Policy Formulation: Actors, Capacities, Venues and Effects (2021)
    Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Publication Date: 2022-01-31
    Description: Policy analysts are accustomed to thinking in terms of tools and instruments. Yet an authoritative examination of the tools which have been developed to formulate new policies is missing. This book is the first of its kind to distinguish the defining characteristics of the main policy formulation tools, and offer a fresh way of understanding how, why and by whom they are selected, as well as the effects they produce in practice. CONTENTS Preface Acknowledgements PART I INTRODUCTION 1. The Tools of Policy Formulation: An Introduction John R. Turnpenny, Andy J. Jordan, David Benson and Tim Rayner PART II TOOLS OF POLICY FORMULATION 2. Participatory Assessment: Tools for Empowering, Learning and Legitimating? Matthijs Hisschemöller and Eefje Cuppen 3. Scenarios: Tools for Coping with Complexity and Future Uncertainty Marta Pérez-Soba and Rob Maas 4. Indicators: Tools for Informing, Monitoring or Controlling? Markku Lehtonen 5. Computerized Models: Tools for Assessing the Future of Complex Systems? Martin K. Van Ittersum and Barbara Sterk 6. Multi-Criteria Analysis: A Tool for Going Beyond Monetization? Catherine D. Gamper and Catrinel Turcanu 7. Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Tool That is Both Useful and Influential? Giles Atkinson PART III ACTORS, CAPACITIES, VENUES AND EFFECTS 8. Policy Formulation, Policy Advice and Policy Appraisal: The Distribution of Analytical Tools Michael Howlett, Seck L. Tan, Andrea Migone, Adam Wellstead and Bryan Evans 9. The Use of Policy Formulation Tools in the Venue of Policy Appraisal: Patterns and Underlying Motivations John R. Turnpenny, Andrew J. Jordan, Camilla Adelle, Stephan Bartke, Thomas Bournaris, Petrus Kautto, Hanna Kuittinen, Lars Ege Larsen, Christina Moulogianni, Sanna-Riikka Saarela and Sabine Weiland 10. Policy Formulation Tool Use in Emerging Policy Spheres: A Developing Country Perspective Sachin Warghade 11. The Effects of Targets and Indicators on Policy Formulation: Narrowing Down, Crowding Out and Locking In Christina Boswell, Steve Yearley, Colin Fleming, Eugénia Rodrigues and Graham Spinardi 12. The Use of Computerized Models in Different Policy Formulation Venues: The MARKAL Energy Model Paul Upham, Peter Taylor, David Christopherson and Will Mcdowall PART IV CONCLUSIONS AND NEW DIRECTIONS 13. The Tools of Policy Formulation: New Perspectives and New Challenges Andy J. Jordan, John R. Turnpenny and Tim Rayner Index
    Keywords: HJ9-9940 ; H1-99 ; JF20-2112 ; assessment ; public management ; Public Policy ; government ; public administration ; tools ; policy appraisal
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    Digital samhandling (2021)
    Scandinavian University Press (Universitetsforlaget)
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Boka er sett saman av 19 artiklar frå ei rekke ulike samfunnsområde. Alle handlar om korleis digitalisering påverkar måten vi samhandlar med andre menneske. Artiklane er innanfor tre hovudtema: Det første omtalar korleis digitalisering påverkar forholdet vårt til omgjevnadane. Her er digitaliseringa eit tviegga sverd. Sosiale medium kan gi auka forståing for kvarandre på tvers av samfunn og kulturar, men viskar ut skiljet mellom det offentlege og det private, og vert brukt til spreiing av usanne faktum. Digitalisering bidreg soleis til å viske ut skiljet mellom kva som er ekte og kva som er konstruert. Det andre hovudtemaet er korleis digitalisering påverkar samhandling og tenester i næringslivet. Her set boka søkelys på korleis ny teknologi vert fortolka og tatt i bruk, men også feiltolka og motarbeidd av dei etablerte aktørane innanfor bransjar og føretak. Teknologiske endringar kan utfordre etablerte maktstrukturar og praksisar, og kan soleis vere ei kjelde til ustabilitet. Bidraga syner på ulike vis at utfallet av møtet mellom det etablerte og dei nye aktørane og praksisane i stor grad vert avgjort av samhandlinga mellom det tradisjonelle og det nye. Det siste hovudtemaet er digital samhandling i skule og høgare utdanning. Artiklane viser at digitale læringsmiddel, undervisingsformer og evalueringsformer skaper moglegheiter, men òg nye utfordringar. Teknologien påverkar ikkje berre kvardagen til elevane, men også skular, høgskular og universitet som institusjonar. Samla sett syner boka at digitalisering fører til store og gjennomgripande endringar i samfunnet. Dei færraste av desse er enten negative eller positive. Utfallet er i stor grad avhengig av korleis vi samhandlar med den digitale teknologien og med kvarandre.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; T1-995 ; society ; digitization ; technology ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities
    Language: English , Norwegian
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    Understanding Muslim Mobilities and Gender (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Complex dynamics emerge around im/mobility that are related to social relations, identifications and power in many parts of the contemporary world. The manifold ways in which Muslims engage the possibilities of mobile lives show the tremendous creative potential of these practices. Coming from different disciplines and regional contexts, the contributors to this book investigate the myriad connections between Islamic concepts, Muslim practices, and gender and mobility theories. Their findings contribute to the mobility debate by revealing that im/mobile lives of people are deeply rooted in religious and/or gendered backgrounds and social structures and furthermore invite a critical rethinking of the concept of mobility itself.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; Space and Place ; Migration ; Mobility ; Gender ; Spirituality of travel ; Religious travel ; Tourism ; Immobility ; Islam ; Pilgrimage ; Transnationalism ; Intersectionality ; Identity ; Power ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities
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    Woodstock Scholarship : An Interdisciplinary Annotated Bibliography (2021)
    Open Book Publishers
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Since August 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair looms large when recounting the history and impact of the baby boom generation and the societal upheavals of the Sixties. Scholars study the sociological, political, musical, and artistic impact of the event and use it as a cultural touchstone when exploring alternative perspectives or seeking clarity. This interdisciplinary annotated bibliography records the details of over 400 English-language resources on the Festival, including books, chapters, articles, websites, transcriptions and videos. Divided into six main subsections-Culture & Society, History, Biography, Music, Film, Arts & Literature-for ease of consultation Woodstock Scholarship sheds light on all facets of a key happening in our collective history. Throughout the 1960s, popular music became increasingly reflective and suggestive of the rising political and social consciousness of the youth culture. Examples can be seen in the development of the protest song genre within the folk music boom of the early Sixties and the marriage of lifestyle to music with fashion, followed by psychedelic music with the emerging drug culture. Woodstock was also where numerous facets of America during the turbulent Sixties coalesced, such as the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights and hippie movements. Thus Woodstock scholarship does not stand alone as field of study, but it is at the cross-road of a number of disciplines-music history, cultural studies, sociology, arts and literature, media studies, politics and economics. Providing full bibliographical details and concise, informative annotation for each entry, this book is an essential tool for students, scholars, teachers, and librarians in all these areas, as well as for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of both the Woodstock Music and Art Fair phenomenon and of the confluence of music, commerce and politics.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; the Sixties ; youth culture ; Woodstock ; baby boom generation ; popular music ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities
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    Contemporary Developments in Child Protection (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2022-01-31
    Description: Volume 1 "Policy Changes and Challenges" takes as its central theme the ongoing and challenging issues which child protection agencies have to address and the policy and practice initiatives that are developed to try and address these. The volume includes papers on: the relationship between the decline in the rate of ‘unnatural’ deaths and the growth of concern about child abuse in the USA between 1940 and 2005; mandatory reporting; the balance between providing urgent intervention and meeting chronic need; risk and the Public Law Outline in England; the nature and implications of ‘child centred’ policies; the impact of intimate partner and family violence; the intended and unintended consequences of high profile child abuse scandals; developing multi-disciplinary team work in a health setting; and the possibilities of technology-based innovations in prevention programmes.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; child maltreatment ; family support ; child abuse ; child protection ; public protection ; the role of state ; family and community ; social surveillance ; risk to children
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    Innovation Networks and the New Asian Regionalism (2021)
    Edward Elgar Publishing
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: The rise of Asia, as well as the future of regional cooperation and integration (RCI) the world over, will be profoundly influenced by the challenges of slowing productivity growth, increasing economic inequalities and systemic vulnerabilities. Such structural reform issues will require RCI policies that complement domestic policy reform. This unique book explains what drives the regional economic integration of nations and their contribution to national knowledge capital. It also lays out how such beneficial integration can generate broad-based, equitable wealth in Europe and Asia.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; Economics ; Development Studies ; Regional Economics ; Asian Geography ; Asian Economics ; Development Economics ; Economic Geography ; Asian Innovation ; Asian Development ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Perspectives on Reincarnation: Hindu, Christian, and Scientific (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-08
    Description: The articles in this volume, all by leading scholars, examine the topic of rebirth, or reincarnation, from a wide range of perspectives. The main focus of most of the articles is the idea of rebirth as found in Hindu texts and traditions. There are also articles exploring Christian responses to the idea of rebirth as well as expressions of the idea of rebirth in the Western world (such as in the thought of poet William Butler Yeats and in an American context). There are also philosophical and theological articles arguing both for and against the idea of rebirth, as well as articles which take a more historical or literary approach to this topic. The shared thread unifying all of these articles is the idea that rebirth is an important idea that holds great fascination for many. While the primary focus is on Hindu and Christian expressions of or responses to this idea, there are also articles that engage with scientific thinking on this topic, and one which engages with Buddhism as well. In short, this volume is an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural, and cross-traditional exploration of the topic of reincarnation that should appeal to a wide array of readers.
    Keywords: BL1-50 ; NX1-820 ; H1-99 ; BV1-5099 ; afterlife ; death ; Roman Catholicism ; eschatology ; Hinduism ; Christianity ; Bhagavad Gita ; reincarnation ; Vedanta ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs
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    Sustainability Assessments of Buildings (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: International research has confirmed that the built environment is the most promising sector for a rapid transition to sustainability. In this scenario, many examples of sustainable urban environments are showing the advantages of sustainability. Meanwhile, an increasing request for tools to assess their sustainability is recorded. The assessment of sustainability of the built environment is an essential step toward its promotion. However, large difficulties exist creating useful and measurable assessment indicators since sustainability is time- and location-dependent. Meanwhile, the need to assess both products and processes for sustainable buildings has been considered particularly important for a sector as inertial as that of the built environment. This books contains ten recently published papers in the Special Issue about "Sustainability assessments of buildings". The demand for this Special Issue raised from the floor, as more and more papers dealing with this topic were submitted to Sustainability in the last few months. The need to collect the recent research in this field became evident, and the respond to the call showed the high attention of the scientific community towards this topic. A selection of ten papers among those published in the special issue will guide the reader thorough the variety of approaches in sustainability assessments of buildings and their main challenges.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; sustainable buildings ; energy efficiency ; environmental design ; sustainability assessments ; green buildings ; building resilience ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities
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    Molecular Research of Endometrial Pathophysiology (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: The endometrium has been the subject of intense research in a variety of clinical settings, because of its importance in the reproductive process and its role in women’s health. In the past 15 years, significant efforts have been invested in defining the molecular phenotype of the receptive phase endometrium as well as of various endometrial pathologies. Although this has generated a wealth of information on the molecular landscape of human endometrium, there is a need to complement this information in light of the novel methodologies and innovative technical approaches. The focus of this International Journal of Molecular Sciences Special Issue is on molecular and cellular mechanisms of endometrium and endometrium-related disorders. The progress made in the molecular actions of steroids, in the metabolism of steroids and intracrinology, in endometrial intracellular pathways, in stem cells biology, as well as in the molecular alterations underlying endometrium-related pathologies has been the focus of the reviews and papers included.
    Keywords: HM401-1281 ; H1-99 ; endometrial stromal cells ; endometrial cell ; uterine cancer ; regeneration ; stem cell markers ; RANK ; chronic endometritis ; small RNA sequencing ; HOXA10 ; Vitamin D ; PPP2R1A ; molecular marker ; translational research ; angiogenesis ; endometriosis ; oestradiol ; mtDNA mutations ; antioxidant response ; protein phosphatase ; SMAP ; circulating tumour cells (CTCs) ; circulating tumour DNA (ctDNA) ; estrogen dependent ; endometrial regeneration ; mesenchymal stem cells ; endometrial cancer ; niche ; gene expression ; phosphoinositide 3-kinase ; lncRNAs ; mitochondrial biogenesis ; inflammation ; preclinical studies ; miRNA ; orthoxenograft ; tight junction ; proliferation ; aromatase ; testosterone ; CRISPR/Cas9 ; endometrium ; developmental pathway ; PP2A ; avatar ; infertility ; prognosis ; gene editing ; kinase inhibitor ; implantation ; haploinsufficiency ; contrast-enhanced CT scan ; pathway ; dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) ; CTCF ; PIK3CB ; zinc finger ; ectopic stroma ; liquid biopsy ; type II endometrial carcinoma ; eutopic and ectopic endometrium ; preclinical models ; EDN1 ; uterine aspirate ; cell contacts ; tumour suppressor gene ; pathogenomics ; mitochondrial dynamics ; adult stem cells ; PIK3CA ; murine models ; menstrual cycle ; immunomodulation ; decidualisation ; breakdown ; bioluminescence imaging ; protein kinase ; macrophages ; adherens junction ; exosomes ; immunohistochemistry ; orthotopic xenograft model ; decidualization ; p110? ; deficit of complex I ; targeted therapy ; mesenchymal stem cell ; sulfatase ; TRP channels ; personalized medicine ; mitophagy ; miR-375 ; migration ; microRNA ; gap junction ; cancer ; LGR5 ; miR-139-5p ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFP Social interaction
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    The town... the house... their spirit (2021)
    Institut Français de Pondichéry
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: A town is not simply a collection of streets and houses with a certain number of inhabitants, but is, above all, the profound expression of the culture of the people who live in it. This book aims to provide students and teachers with analytical methods and ways of considering a town, so that they may make the place where they live their own. Pondicherry has been chosen as an example for this analysis. Various chapters deal with the site of Pondicherry, its morphology and plan, its urban landscape and landmarks, its architecture (with emphasis on the Tamil house) and its socio-cultural aspects. The book provides several drawings, maps, lists, elevations and photographs for a better reading of the town. It is available in three versions: French, English and Tamil.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; urban landscape ; Tamil house ; culture ; Pondicherry ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    Disability Human Rights Law (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: Disability Human Rights Law is an emerging field. It is an amalgamation of human rights law, disability studies, and disability rights law. It views rights in a novel way, opening a new line of scholarly inquiry. It sees rights as they apply to the individual, with regard to the individual’s particular abilities, needs, and circumstances. Disability Human Rights Law represents a shift in the field of human rights. The traditional, and often archaic, rights boundaries are broken down. Civil and political rights exist entwined with social, economic, and cultural rights. The rights of the community and the rights of the individual are not always distinguishable and are often dependent upon one another. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) is the epitome of this shift and the epicenter of a new wave of rights protection. This book focuses on this new field. The aim of the book is to begin to explore the potential of Disability Human Rights Law to transform modern human rights law.
    Keywords: H1-99 ; K5000-5582 ; Disability ; Legal Capacity ; Accessibility ; Human Rights ; Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities ; Access to Justice ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities
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    Vibrant Architecture. Matter as a CoDesigner of Living Structures (2021)
    De Gruyter
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: This book sets out the conditions under which the need for a new approach to the production of architecture in the twenty-first century is established, where our homes and cities are facing increasing pressures from environmental challenges that are compromising our lives and well being. Vibrant architecture embodies a new kind of architectural design practice that explores how lively materials, or 'vibrant matter', may be incorporated into our buildings to confer on them some of the properties of living things, such as movement, growth, sensitivity and self-repair. The theoretical and practical implications of how this may occur are explored through the application of a new group of materials. Characteristically, these substances possess some of the properties of living systems but may not have the full status of being truly alive. They include forms of chemical artificial life such as 'dynamic droplets' or synthetically produced soils. As complex systems, they are able to communicate directly with the natural world using a shared language of chemistry and so, negotiate their continued survival in a restless world. Vibrant architecture may create new opportunities for architectural design practice that venture beyond top-down form-finding programs, by enabling architects to co-design in partnership with human and nonhuman collectives, which result from the production of post natural landscapes. Ultimately, vibrant architecture may operate as an ecological platform for human development that augments the liveliness of our planet, rather than diminishes it.
    Keywords: NA1-9428 ; B1-5802 ; H1-99 ; ecological living technology ; dynamic droplets ; living materials ; Vibrant architecture ; sustainability ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture
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    Contemporary Art Collectors: The Unsung Influences ont the Art Scenes (2021)
    Département des études, de la prospective et des statistiques
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: What is a collector? Although the French term collectionneur was first officially recorded in the dictionary in 1789*, its definition covers a range of different practices: for some, the main emphasis is on an item's subjective value, whilst others focus more closely on the accumulation and selection process. Whether they collect shells, stamps, butterflies or works of art, collectors share a number of things in common. However, those who support “emerging” art have a more varied set of practices than those generally observed in their counterparts. In addition to simply being a buyer, the contemporary art collector has the ability to influence the artistic life, especially through the material support provided to artists and by contributing to the construction of artistic value. This particular characteristic is all the more notable as the collector's involvement in artistic life is not solely the prerogative of a narrow wealthy elite, as the collector profiles here demonstrate. Indeed it seems that collector practices may fall anywhere across a scale which ranges from the acquisitive collector, motivated by the desire to possess a work, to the actor collector, for whom the actual acquisition of a work is merely the expression of his willingness to contribute to the vitality of the artistic scene. * « Collector, -s (n). One who collects. Collection, -s (n). A number of objects gathered together under a common theme. A beautiful collection of paintings, books, antiques, medals, plants, shells, etc. » Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 1789 (7th edition).
    Keywords: NX1-820 ; H1-99 ; economics of culture and Communication ; contemporary art ; collector ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts
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    Women and Migration : Responses in Art and History (2021)
    Open Book Publishers
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    Publication Date: 2022-01-31
    Description: The essays in this book chart how women's profound and turbulent experiences of migration have been articulated in writing, photography, art and film. As a whole, the volume gives an impression of a wide range of migratory events from women's perspectives, covering the Caribbean Diaspora, refugees and slavery through the various lenses of politics and war, love and family. The contributors, which include academics and artists, offer both personal and critical points of view on the artistic and historical repositories of these experiences. Selfies, motherhood, violence and Hollywood all feature in this substantial treasure-trove of women's joy and suffering, disaster and delight place, memory and identity. This collection appeals to artists and scholars of the humanities, particularly within the social sciences; though there is much to recommend it to creatives seeking inspiration or counsel on the issue of migratory experiences. As with all Open Book publications, this entire book is available to read for free on the publisher's website. Printed and digital editions, together with supplementary digital material, can also be found here: www.openbookpublishers.com
    Keywords: H1-99 ; art ; writing ; migration ; collection of essays ; women's experiences of migration ; film ; women's perspective ; photography ; women
    Language: English
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