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Ruth McEnery Stuart

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Exploring indigenous life projects in encounters with extractivism, the present open access volume discusses how current turbulences actualise questions of indigeneity, difference and ontological dynamics in the Andes and Amazonia. While studies of extractivism in South America often focus on wider national and international politics, this contribution instead provides ethnographic explorations of indigenous politics, perspectives and worlds, revealing loss and suffering as well as creative strategies to mediate the extralocal. Seeking to avoid conceptual imperialism or the imposition of exogenous categories, the chapters are grounded in the respective authors’ long-standing field research. The authors examine the reactions (from resistance to accommodation), consequences (from anticipation to rubble) and materials (from fossil fuel to water) diversely related to extractivism in rural and urban settings. How can Amerindian strategies to preserve localised communities in extractivist contexts contribute to ways of thinking otherwise?

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The essential trace element zinc plays indispensable roles in multiple cellular processes. It regulates a great number of protein functions, including transcription factors, enzymes, adapters, and growth factors as a structural and/or catalytic factor. Recent studies have highlighted another function of zinc as an intra- and intercellular signaling mediator, which became recognized as the “zinc signal”. Indeed, zinc regulates cellular signaling pathways, which enable conversion of extracellular stimuli to intracellular signals, and controls various intracellular and extracellular events, and thus zinc mediates communication between cells. The zinc signal is essential for physiology, and its dysregulation causes a variety of diseases, such as diabetes, cancer, osteoarthritis, dermatitis, and dementia.This Special Issue focuses on crucial roles of zinc signaling in biological processes in molecular and physiological basis, addressing the future directions and questions underlying this unique phenomenon. Because there is growing interest and attention in physiopathological contribution of zinc signal, we believe this Special Issue will provide very timely information on it and thus should appeal to a wide range of readers.

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Paranormale Erfahrungen wie Hellsehen, Telepathie, Geisterkontakte, Nahtodeserlebnisse und Präkognition sind seit alters bekannt und dokumentiert. In prämodernen, »traditionellen« Kulturen bildeten sie eine Selbstverständlichkeit. Das Buch geht den gängigsten Phänomenen nach und versucht auf ethnologischer Grundlage, kombiniert mit parapsychologischen und neueren naturwissenschaftlichen (physikalischen) Erkenntnissen, eine Erklärung dafür zu geben. Der Essay eröffnet durch seine interdisziplinäre Fundierung und seinen Materialreichtum faszinierende Einsichten in ein zugleich altes wie auch aktuelles Thema und regt zum Nach- und Weiterdenken über den »sechsten Sinn« an.

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The issue of the middle class has seen a recovery of interest in public opinion in the last decade, especially in light of the problems connected with the transition to flexible capitalism and the advent of the economic crisis. In the scientific debate, it has been present since the dawn of modern sociology as a phenomenon difficult to frame from the theoretical point of view and even more difficult to empirically investigate. Starting from these premises, the volume offers a critical reinterpretation of classic and contemporary authors and contributions, focusing its analysis on the role played by the middle classes themselves in the process of change, trying to identify and highlight the inter-connections between the size of structure, identity and action.

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This open access book introduces a general framework that allows natural language researchers to enhance existing competence theories with fully specified performance and processing components. Gradually developing increasingly complex and cognitively realistic competence-performance models, it provides running code for these models and shows how to fit them to real-time experimental data. This computational cognitive modeling approach opens up exciting new directions for research in formal semantics, and linguistics more generally, and offers new ways of (re)connecting semantics and the broader field of cognitive science.The approach of this book is novel in more ways than one. Assuming the mental architecture and procedural modalities of Anderson’s ACT-R framework, it presents fine-grained computational models of human language processing tasks which make detailed quantitative predictions that can be checked against the results of self-paced reading and other psycho-linguistic experiments. All models are presented as computer programs that readers can run on their own computer and on inputs of their choice, thereby learning to design, program and run their own models. But even for readers who won't do all that, the book will show how such detailed, quantitatively predicting modeling of linguistic processes is possible. A methodological breakthrough and a must for anyone concerned about the future of linguistics! (Hans Kamp) This book constitutes a major step forward in linguistics and psycholinguistics. It constitutes a unique synthesis of several different research traditions: computational models of psycholinguistic processes, and formal models of semantics and discourse processing. The work also introduces a sophisticated python-based software environment for modeling linguistic processes. This book has the potential to revolutionize not only formal models of linguistics, but also models of language processing more generally. (Shravan Vasishth)

Dagmar Kleineke

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Die Pfarrchronik – das sind Eintragungen von vier Pastoren der Pfarre Obernjesa/Dramfeld aus den Jahren 1737 bis 1807 in ein altes Rechnungsbuch. Die Pastoren notierten, was ihnen wichtig schien, und von dem sie meinten, es ihren Nachfolgern mitteilen zu sollen: Alltagserfahrungen wie Grenzstreitigkeiten mit den Nachbarn, Meliorationsauseinandersetzungen mit der Frau des Vorgängers, die Schwerfälligkeit der kirchlichen Verwaltung. Dazu kamen die Neuigkeiten aus der Universitätsstadt Göttingen wie die Nachrichten vom Tode berühmter Professoren oder die Zurschaustellung des Nashorns Clara. Erdbeben, Nordlichter, heftige Unwetter – nicht zuletzt die eigenen Erfahrungen des Siebenjährigen Krieges wurden verzeichnet. Reskripte, Dekrete oder Ausschreibungen von Kollekten lassen erkennen, wie weltliche und kirchliche Verwaltungen mit der Armut und dem geringen Alphabetisierungsgrad der Landbevölkerung umgingen. Die Vielzahl der Themen, die die Pastoren berührten, sowie statistische Angaben (Bevölkerungszahlen und Preise) machen die Chronik zu einem zeitgeschichtlichen Dokument. Eine Einführung sowie die umfangreiche Kommentierung erleichtern den Zugang zur Transkription, die buchstaben- und zeichengetreu ausgeführt wurde.Die Pfarrchronik – das sind Eintragungen von vier Pastoren der Pfarre Obernjesa/Dramfeld aus den Jahren 1737 bis 1807 in ein altes Rechnungsbuch. Die Pastoren notierten, was ihnen wichtig schien, und von dem sie meinten, es ihren Nachfolgern mitteilen zu sollen: Alltagserfahrungen wie Grenzstreitigkeiten mit den Nachbarn, Meliorationsauseinandersetzungen mit der Frau des Vorgängers, die Schwerfälligkeit der kirchlichen Verwaltung. Dazu kamen die Neuigkeiten aus der Universitätsstadt Göttingen wie die Nachrichten vom Tode berühmter Professoren oder die Zurschaustellung des Nashorns Clara. Erdbeben, Nordlichter, heftige Unwetter – nicht zuletzt die eigenen Erfahrungen des Siebenjährigen Krieges wurden verzeichnet. Reskripte, Dekrete oder Ausschreibungen von Kollekten lassen erkennen, wie weltliche und kirchliche Verwaltungen mit der Armut und dem geringen Alphabetisierungsgrad der Landbevölkerung umgingen. Die Vielzahl der Themen, die die Pastoren berührten, sowie statistische Angaben (Bevölkerungszahlen und Preise) machen die Chronik zu einem zeitgeschichtlichen Dokument. Eine Einführung sowie die umfangreiche Kommentierung erleichtern den Zugang zur Transkription, die buchstaben- und zeichengetreu ausgeführt wurde.

Edward Yates

In the marine industry, seamless integration of different engine and transmission configurations ensures optimal performance, efficiency, and reliability. Adapter plates are the best equipment for connecting other engine and transmission configurations. Find the importance of adapter plates in the marine industry below, shedding light on their role in achieving compatibility between diverse propulsion system elements.

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The Neurosurgery Market Research Report Forecast is a valuable source of insightful data for business strategists. It provides the industry overview with recent trends, size, share, growth analysis, historical, futuristic data, revenue, demand and strategic development.

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Das Hausbankprinzip nimmt bei der Finanzierung mittelständischer Unternehmen in Deutschland traditionell eine zentrale Stellung ein. Diese Beziehung unterliegt aktuell einem starken Wandel. Als Konsequenz wird häufig eine Abkehr vom Hausbankprinzip gefordert. Diese Untersuchung widmet sich der Hausbankbeziehung aus einer interdisziplinären Sichtweise heraus. Es wird ein ganzheitliches Modell entwickelt, das sowohl ökonomische als auch verhaltenswissenschaftliche Aspekte umfasst. Danach erfordert eine Hausbankbeziehung von beiden Partnern kontinuierlich die Bereitschaft, den Geschäftspartner durch eine Übererfüllung von dessen Erwartungen emotional zu binden. Die Arbeit zeigt Mängel in der aktuellen Bankpraxis auf und leitet daraus praktisch-normative Gestaltungsempfehlungen ab.

Adrian Cox

Exsolvent Mathematics

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The European Union underlines the growing importance of integrated rural development (ILE). Maximilian Ortner shows how forestry can successfully participate in this development. Forest model projects for drinking water, wood mobilization, increase in sales of wood, energy out of wood, forest preservation or airport environmental education are analyzed as examples of acts of the forestry practice in the context of integrated rural development. The examples are based on the state forests, local forest, private forest owners and the Chamber of Agriculture. About the identified success factors inform a "checklist" with the chance of success of specific projects can be assessed quickly.

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Microwave imaging techniques allow for the development of systems that are able to inspect, identify, and characterize in a noninvasive fashion under different scenarios, ranging from biomedical to subsurface diagnostics as well as from surveillance and security applications to nondestructive evaluation. Such great opportunities, though, are actually severely limited by difficulties arising from the solution of the underlying inverse scattering problem. As a result, ongoing research efforts in this area are devoted to developing inversion strategies and experimental apparatus so that they are as reliable and accurate as possible with respect to reconstruction capabilities and resolution performance, respectively. The intent of this Special Issue is to present the experiences of leading scientists in the electromagnetic inverse scattering community, as well as to serve as an assessment tool for people who are new to the area of microwave imaging and electromagnetic inverse scattering problems.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Also titled: The Yellowplush papers.

Adrian Cox

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As a leading motorcycle transport company, Cheap Motorcycle Shipping understands the importance of shipping your dirt bike safely and securely. Our team of experienced and professional motorcycle shippers ensures that your dirt bike is transported as safely and efficiently as possible.

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Judge Your Practices Against This Benchmark Manual COST Action B-24 established four working groups to research and discuss issues relevant to laboratory animal science. These included the housing of animals, environmental needs, refinement of procedures, genetically modified animals, and cost-benefit analysis. Based on the groups’ findings, The COST Manual of Laboratory Animal Care and Use: Refinement, Reduction, and Research provides a consensual European view of best practices for individuals and institutions caring for and working with laboratory animals. What is COST? COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is an intergovernmental initiative that promotes coordination of nationally funded science and research at a European level. This book focuses on reduction and refinement strategies and includes insightful contributions from 44 experts drawn from various EU countries. Addressing only the most commonly used mammalian species—rats, mice, and rabbits—each chapter of the book follows a similar structure: Objectives outline the breadth of the chapter’s coverage Key Factors summarize the central issues that underpin good practice Questions Unresolved close each chapter, identifying areas of uncertainty and prompting investigations directed at advancing knowledge and application within relevant fields The COST Manual of Laboratory Animal Care and Use: Refinement, Reduction, and Research is the reference sure to be found in the lab coats of those responsible for the care and welfare of animals and those overseeing and conducting activities related to the use of animals for scientific purposes.

William Shakespeare

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Mit Methoden zur Umweltbewertung, die – wie die interviewgestützte Contingent Valuation Methode – auf der Messung individueller Präferenzen basieren, lässt sich der Wert einer Umweltveränderung umfassend bestimmen, aber sie erweisen sich in der Praxis oft als zu teuer. Durch die Verwendung von Bayes’schen Ansätzen können die Kosten der Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse für explizite Bewertungsstudien sowie für die implizite Bewertung durch den Nutzentransfer deutlich gesenkt werden. Darüber hinaus wird durch diesen Ansatz der Nutzentransfer erheblich zuverlässiger, so dass dieses <I>Sparmodell der Umweltbewertung</I> mit weitaus geringeren Einschränkungen als bislang empfohlen werden kann. Die Arbeit illustriert diese Aussagen mit einer Vielzahl simulierter und empirischer Beispiele.