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How do physical things differ from non-things-human subjects, animals, abstract ideas, or processes? Those questions, which are as old as philosophy itself, have inspired contemporary debates in ecocriticism, thing theory, and in the interdisciplinary field of new materialism. This book argues that contemporary narrative is well placed to map out and work through the spectrum of the material and the philosophical questions that underlie it. This is because narrative does not resolve the tensions at the heart of conceptions of materiality but rather reframes them, envisioning their implications and exploring their relevance to concrete contexts of human interaction. This monograph is structured around a number of novels, experimental fiction, films, and video games that imagine the inherent agency of things but also interrogate the affective and ethical significance of materiality in human terms. Its aim is to demonstrate the power of formal narrative analysis to foster conceptually and ethically sophisticated ways of thinking about thingness in times of ecological crisis-that is, times in which "stuff" can no longer be taken for granted.

This work presents the latest development in the field of computational intelligence to advance Big Data and Cloud Computing concerning applications in medical diagnosis. As forum for academia and professionals it covers state-of-the-art research challenges and issues in the digital information & knowledge management and the concerns along with the solutions adopted in these fields.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the mortality crisis which affected Eastern Europe and the republics of the former USSR at the time of the transition to a market economy was arguably the major peacetime health crisis of recent decades. Chernobyl and the Mortality Crisis in Eastern Europe and the Old USSR discusses the importance of that crisis, surprisingly underplayed in the scientific literature, and presents evidence suggesting a potential role of the Chernobyl disaster among the causes contributing to it.

The book provides accessible and comprehensive information on polymer matrix composites. It presents the basic concept of design of composite materials. It includes chapters on materials testing and characterization, such as mechanical testing and thermal analysis, and lifetime prediction. It discusses both structural and functional applications. Offers comprehensive information on processing, properties and applications polymer matrix composites Presents and reviews the recent development in the field e.g. damage tolerant composites, biocomposites, additive manufacturing Includes latest techniques of performance evaluation and life time assessment of composite materials

Come reagiscono Torquato Tasso e Giovan Battista Marino al contesto vigilante e normativo tra Cinque- e Seicento? A partire dal rapporto che i due autori nutrono nei confronti delle norme e delle regole si prendono in considerazione due tattiche evasive pensate per salvaguardare lascivie e incanti nei poemi: da un lato l'allegoria, dall'altro il travestimento. Il percorso di Tasso è evolutivo e la sua opinione cambia in base all'interiorizzazione di leggi e valori che portano a una rivalutazione delle opinioni iniziali, mentre Marino trasgredisce le regole e utilizza elementi tipicamente difensivi - quali l'allegoria - rovesciandoli e inventandone un uso celatamente offensivo. In questo contesto vengono così rivalutate le allegorie paratestuali dell'Adone di Marino, finora mal considerate dalla critica, e viene ripensato il percorso tassiano in un'ottica che vede i due autori non come vittime di un sistema censorio, ma come partecipanti attivi.

Bible Missals are manuscripts that integrate liturgical prayers for the Mass with the scriptural texts of the Latin Vulgate. Long overlooked by scholars, Bible Missals offer important evidence for the development of the medieval liturgy and the liturgical use of scripture by medieval Christians. This monograph is the first comprehensive analysis of the codicology and contents of Bible Missals. Mostly produced in the first half of the 13th century by professional book makers in centers like Paris and Oxford, these hybrid manuscripts were customized for secular, monastic, and mendicant patrons. This monograph focuses on Dominican Bible Missals, the largest group within the repertoire, providing detailed codicological descriptions of each manuscript and analyzing their texts for the Order of Mass and selected liturgical formularies, including prayers for the feast of St. Dominic. For medieval Christians, the words and events of scripture were continually called to mind and reenacted in the sacramental rites of the Mass. Bible Missals provide important material evidence for this interplay between word and sacrament.

This book summarizes the application of thermal analysis tools in different research areas. Areas covered include characterization of catalytic materials, plastics and polymers, analysis of salts, minerals and oxides. The reader is provided with an overview of experimental strategy, methodology, usage of complementary thermoanalytical methods and the type of information which could be drawn depending on the research field.

This volume analyzes the fortune of books I-V of Diodorus Siculus' "Bibliotheca historica" in the 15th and 16th centuries, based on the study of the first two translations into Italian. Published anonymously, they both derived from Poggio Bracciolini's 1449 Latin version. The study investigates the history of these two texts, reconstructing, as much as possible, the context of their production, and offers a critical parallel edition.

The Qur'an: A Guidebook is an updated English version of the work appeared in Italian (Rome 2021) Leggere e studiare il Corano which deals with the contents of the Qur'an, the style and formal features of the text, the history and fixation of it and an poutline of the reception in Islamic literature. The aim of the work is to give a reader a description of what he/she can find in the Islamic holy text and the state of the critical debates on all the topics dealt with, focusing mainly on the growing scholarly literature which appeared in the last 30 years. As such, the work is unique in combining the aim to give comprehensive information on the topic and, at the same, time, reconstruct the critical debate in a balanced outline also emphasizing confessional approaches and the dynamics in the study of the Qur'an. There is nothing similar in contemporary scholarship and the book is a handbook for students and scholars of Islam but also for readers in religious studies who need to know how the main questions related to the Islamic text have been discussed in recent scholarship.

The discovery of the fifteenth-century codex Vlatadon 14 in 2005 was an extraordinary moment for scholars of Graeco Roman antiquity, as it brought to light a new witness to a large collection of Galen's medical and philosophical works. Among them is the moral essay De indolentia (On Avoiding Distress), a text long deemed lost, and the De propriis placitis (On My Own Opinions), a doxographical piece with a complex textual tradition, up to that point known only through a corrupt medieval Latin translation and some passages preserved in Greek. This volume provides a new critical edition of the two Galenic treatises, which represents a significant improvement on earlier editorial attempts by offering more accurate readings of the codex, including supplementation of previously unrestored lacunae, and many emendations to thorny passages owed to physical damage in the manuscript as well as perhaps careless scribes and/or the poor quality of their model. The more authoritative version of the two texts is accompanied by fresh English translations and brief introductions, making both works widely accessible not just to Classicists but also to scholars and students of ancient medicine, ancient philosophy and Roman Imperial literary culture.

The gospel of Mark purposefully employs characters with specific and nuanced representations of dis/ability to portray the unique authority, the engaging message, and the mission of the Markan Jesus.Based on hermeneutical insights from Dis/ability Studies, this monograph is a contribution to the research of culturally and historically normalized corporeality in the biblical scriptures. At the core of the investigation are the healing narratives: passages that explicitly deal with a transformation from a described deviant bodily state to a positively valued corporeality. Lena Nogossek-Raithel not only analyzes the terminological and historical descriptions of these physical phenomena but also investigates their narrative function for the gospel text. The author argues that the images of dis/ability employed are far from accidental. Rather, they significantly influence the narrative's structure and impact, embody its theological claims, and characterize its protagonist Jesus.With this thorough exegetical analysis, Nogossek-Raithel offers a firm historical foundation for anyone interested in the critical interpretation and theological application of the Markan healing narratives.

The Early Modern Period in Germany 1620-1720 extends the "dictionary of authors" tradition into the 18th century. The dictionary aims to illuminate the literary forms, dynamics, and debates of the past. Each article offers a biographical portrait while also analyzing and contextualizing the author's works. The articles, which are based on primary sources, also provide details concerning manuscripts, print publications, and research literature. Since the Dictionary of Authors 'The Early Modern Era in Germany 1620-1720' is part of the Verfasserdatenbank (Database of Authors), single issues are not available as e-books.

In 1583 the Italian botanist and physician Andrea Cesalpino (1524-1603) published De Plantis Libri XVI, made of 16 books (libri), considered to be the first treatise where botany is treated independently from medicine. In so doing, he broke with a long tradition inherited in Western science from Antiquity and perpetuated during the Middle Age through the early Renaissance. De Plantis lays the foundations of scientific systematics through a new focus on plant morphology and natural similarities and became a milestone in the history of Western botany. It is a precious testimony to the evolution of botanical and physiological knowledge in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and illustrates the role of Aristotelian philosophy in 16th-century knowledge. The volume includes an introductory essay about Cesalpino's philosophy and botany, a critical edition of the Latin text, a translation, a commentary, and indexes. It should interest scholars in Renaissance studies, historians, and philosophers of science and medicine, as well as botanists and plant scientists curious about the history of plant sciences.

This edited volume investigates place, product, and personal branding in the Middle East and North Africa, including some studies from adjacent regions and the wider Islamicate world. Going beyond simply presenting logos and slogans, it critically analyses processes of strategic communication and image building under general conditions of globalisation, neoliberalisation, and postmodernisation and, in a regional perspective, of lasting authoritarian rule and increased endeavours for "worlding." In particular, it looks at the multiple actors involved in branding activities, their interests and motives, and investigates tools, channels, and forms of branding. A major interest exists in the entanglements of different spatial scales and in the (in)consistencies of communication measures. Attention is paid to reconfigurations of certain images over time and to the positioning of objects of branding in time and space. Historical case studies supplement the focus on contemporary branding efforts. While branding in the Western world and many emerging economies has been meticulously analysed, this edited volume fills an important gap in the research on MENA countries.

This book for chemical technicians contains a variety of skills that chemical technicians and technicians who work in chemical plants should develop as part of their successful experience. Many of these competencies were unintentionally addressed in other resources in a dispersed way across chapters in various textbooks and internet resources, but many others were not. The book also provides a brief overview of the tasks that various chemical laboratory technicians must perform as part of their employment. It also includes a thorough explanation of the sampling techniques, chemical analysis, and a description of the various tools and methods used in chemical labs. Additionally the book covers information management systems and good practices in laboratories, as well as how these have allowed and facilitated best practices in laboratories and the gathering of data that improves technicians' experience and knowledge. Finally, some advice on using lab glassware, laboratory emergency first aid, and a short description of the chemicals that chemical technicians frequently use are provided.

This book is an interdisciplinary comparative investigation of activist, artistic, literary, and academic discourse--expressive work promoting ecological justice, ending racism, and representing self and community through virtual realism--a cultural poetics of environmental justice. Research fixed on women's work intervenes in patriarchal assumptions. Focus on marginalized areas in India and a U.S. movement led by people of color, defies racisms, and promotes vigilance against structural violence that permeates across political spectrums. Striving for environmental justice is not just community work, merely academic, or trendy art, performance, or literature. Environmental justice work demands interdisciplinary, transnational, transcommunity sharing, many border crossings and solid alliance-building. Chicanas and women in India engaged in such activities generate a rich cultural poetics--a transformative vision of environmental equity, ecological and civic wellbeing, and calming climate.

Obwohl die Konstruktionsgrammatik die semantischen Eigenschaften von grammatischen Konstruktionen in den Fokus rückt, ist bislang kein umfassender Ansatz für die semantische Beschreibung von Konstruktionen entwickelt worden. Der Ansatz einer Konstruktionssemantik soll diesem Desiderat begegnen, indem er eine Verbindung aus gebrauchsbasierter Konstruktionsgrammatik und Frame-Semantik im Sinne des FrameNet-Projekts sucht, vermittelt durch das Analyseformat der Konstruktikographie. In theoretischer Hinsicht werden dafür die semantischen Eigenschaften von syntaktischen Konstruktionen sowie ihren Instanzen (Konstrukten) im Rückgriff auf Frames modelliert. In methodologischer Hinsicht wird die Nutzbarkeit des Ansatzes für die konstruktikographische Dokumentation von Konstruktionen aufgezeigt. In empirischer Hinsicht leitet die Untersuchung einer Konstruktionsfamilie aus drei deutschen Reflexivkonstruktionen die Entwicklung einer Konstruktionssemantik und demonstriert ihre Anwendbarkeit. Die Arbeit leistet einen innovativen Beitrag zur Weiterentwicklung von Konstruktionsgrammatik und Konstruktikographie sowie ihren Bezügen zur Frame-Semantik und richtet sich an alle Linguist/-innen, die auf diesen oder verwandten Gebieten arbeiten.

Sprache ist politisch, und politisches Handeln vollzieht sich nie ohne Sprache. Sprachgebrauch bzw. sprachliches Handeln stehen dabei in einer unauflösbaren Wechselbeziehung mit der gesellschaftlich-politischen Wirklichkeit. Diese Wechselbeziehung aus verschiedenen Perspektiven zu analysieren, ist das Ziel der in diesem Band versammelten Beiträge, mit denen die Jahrestagung 2021 des Leibniz-Instituts für Deutsche Sprache dokumentiert wird. Dabei geht es nicht zuletzt um die gesellschaftliche Verantwortung, die die Sprachwissenschaft ¿ wie alle Sozialwissenschaften ¿ hat. Diese Verantwortung besteht darin zu zeigen, welche Rolle und Funktion Sprache im gesellschaftlich-politischen Kontext zukommt. Mit diesem Anspruch bekommen Themen aus dem Bereich Sprache, Politik und Gesellschaft sowohl gegenwarts- als auch vergangenheitsbezogen eine neue Relevanz. Der Zugang ist dabei dezidiert transdisziplinär, neben der Linguistik sind insbesondere auch die Politologie und die Geschichtswissenschaft beteiligt.

Die Studie wirft die Frage auf, welche Folgen es für die Mittelaltergermanistik hätte, von den Paradigmen »Philologie« und »Literatur« auf das Paradigma »Text« umzustellen. Sieben Kapitel spüren dieser Frage nach, erproben ihre Potentiale und bieten disziplingeschichtlich informierte Antworten. Anhand des »Nibelungenlied« werden Möglichkeiten synoptischer Textlektüren diskutiert. An die Stelle des Gegensatzes von Minnesang und Sangspruchdichtung tritt die Suche nach dem Politischen der Lyrik. Mit »Inschriftlichkeit« und »Urkundlichkeit« werden lang übersehene Formen von Schriftlichkeit ins Rampenlicht gerückt. Historisch orientierte Erzählungen lassen eingespielte disziplinäre Grenzziehungen fragil erscheinen. Netzwerkanalysen visualisieren Personenbeziehungen und machen die Prominenz mittelalterlicher Autoren sichtbar. Ein Rückblick auf die Fiktionalitätsdebatte eröffnet Räume, um über mittelalterliche Erzählwelten nachzudenken ¿ und die Unterscheidung von Text und Literatur bietet schließlich den Anlass für die Frage, was eine mediävistische »Textwissenschaft« sein könnte. Auf breiter Grundlage wird also Grundlegendes verhandelt und werden Optionen gesucht für eine Mittelaltergermanistik des 21. Jahrhunderts. Dieser Band wird 36 Monate nach Erscheinen mit der Lizenz CC BY Open Access gestellt.

In 1946, Gillis Gerleman proposed a single translator for LXX Proverbs and LXX Job. After he launched this hypothesis, scholars have either confirmed or debunked this hypothesis. Although attempts have been made to come up with an adequate answer to the question of a single translator for both Proverbs and Job, scholars have, thus far, not reached consensus. Moreover, the attempts that have been made are not at all elaborate. Thus, the question remains unsolved.This book tries to formulate an answer to the question of a single translator for both Proverbs and Job by examining the translation technique and theology of both books. The translation technique of both books is analysed by examining the Greek rendering of Hebrew hapax legomena, animal, floral, plant and herb names. The theology is examined by looking at the pluses in the LXX version which contain θεός and κύριος. The results of these studies are compared with one another in order to formulate an answer to a single translator. By doing so, this book not only formulates an answer to a single translator for both LXX Proverbs and Job but also characterises their translation technique and theology in greater detail.

This book is the first study to focus on a metaliterary interpretation of Maximianus' Elegies, and aims to fill a major gap in international literature concerning the thoughts of the last love elegist on the evolution and renovation of the genre of love elegy during Late Antiquity. The book includes all known subjects of Maximianus' poetry (e.g., the division of his work into six elegies, its attribution to Cornelius Gallus by Pomponius Gauricus in 1502, its reception in recent years, the intellectual milieu of the Ostrogothic Italy, the historical contextualization of his poetry, the Appendix Maximiani, the impact of the Augustan love elegy (and especially Ovid's) upon it, etc.), in order to offer a more complete picture of it. However, the content of the book is predominantly prototype, as it examines subjects that have not previously been discussed in the past. These include: a) The generic interaction between the 'host' genre of love elegy, and several 'guest' genres (e.g., Roman comedy, epic, pastoral); b) The hidden metapoetic discourse regarding the genre of love elegy itself. The book is intended for scholars or students working on or interested in Roman love elegy and its generic evolution in Late Antiquity.

Aus Pompeji stammen mehrere tausend informeller Wandinschriften, die bei den Ausgrabungen zwar dokumentiert, aber nur sehr selektiv untersucht wurden. Für die damals neuartige Inschriftengattung prägte man im 19. Jahrhundert den Begriff "Graffiti", der heute für eine Vielzahl ganz unterschiedlicher Schrift- und Textformen verwendet wird. Assoziationen zu modernen Graffiti-Writings und Taggings werden dabei häufig leichtfertig auf antike Graffiti übertragen. Dabei stammt ein Großteil der pompejanischen Ritzinschriften aus den Innenräumen von Wohnhäusern und wirft damit die Frage nach ihrer Akzeptanz und Wahrnehmung auf. Polly Lohmann nähert sich den antiken Graffiti im Vergleich mit ihren modernen Namenspendants einerseits, mit anderen antiken Inschriften, Texten und Bildern andererseits. Fallstudien stellen einzelne Wohnhäuser mit ihren Graffiti vor, und in kontextübergreifenden Vergleichen werden Bezüge zu anderen Text- und Bildgattungen des urbanen Raums aufgezeigt. Sie machen deutlich, dass die pompejanischen Graffiti vielfach von dem geprägt waren, was man im Alltag sah und erlebte.

Julius Wilhelm Zincgref (1591-1635) ist einer der bemerkenswertesten Autoren im Umfeld der Literaturreformbemühungen des frühen 17. Jahrhunderts. Die bisher in der Werkausgabe vorgelegten Schriften belegen u.a. das Bemühen, antike und neuere romanische Dichtungsformen im deutschen Sprachraum zu etablieren. Dabei hat sich Zincgref immer wieder als kritischer Autor erwiesen, der sich gegen bestimmte kulturelle Erscheinungen der eigenen Gegenwart wandte und kulturpatriotische Positionen vertrat. Damit und in der Abwehr des politischen Katholizismus stellte er sich nicht zuletzt auch politisch in den Dienst der reformierten Kurpfalz. Die hier herausgegebenen deutschen Kleinschriften gehören überwiegend der Flugpublizistik an und wandten sich an ein breiteres Publikum. Sie zeigen den Heidelberger Juristen nicht zuletzt als Satiriker, Polemiker und Paränetiker, der unterschiedliche literarische Gattungen und Publikationsformen nutzte, um in den erbitterten Meinungsstreit des frühen Dreißigjährigen Krieges einzugreifen. Mit den meisten dieser Schriften hat er zeitgenössisch eine breite Wahrnehmung erreicht. Nach historisch-kritischen Grundsätzen ediert, ausführlich kommentiert und historisch kontextualisiert werden im Einzelnen folgende Schriften: Newe Zeitungen bzw. Die alte Warheit mit eim newen Titul (1619 u.ö.) Haidelberga (1620) Eine Vermahnung zur Dapferkeit bzw. Soldaten Lob (1622 u.ö.) Quotlibetisches Weltkefig bzw. Quotlibetisches Welt vnd Hummel Kefig (1622 u.ö.) Der Römische Vogelherdt (1623)

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This book contains 34 technical papers presented at the Advances in Architectural Geometry Conference held in Stuttgart 2023. Modern geometric computing increasingly plays a role in modeling environments and processing sensing information, providing a variety of tools for the efficient design, analysis, and manufacturing of complex shapes. The research area of architectural geometry (AG) has emerged at the common border of architecture, applied geometry, computational design, mathematics, and manufacturing. This book presents the state of the art of research in AG.

This study deals with the formative powers of modern liberal ideas of private property. The liberal subject emerged with the formations of European liberalism, Atlantic slavery, and settler colonial expansion in the New World. Toni Morrison's A Mercy is thus identified as a key literary text that generates a fundamental critique of the connections between self-making and private property at its 17th-century scene.

In the 18th century Italian theatre and its artists became vital to Russian rulers, who employed Italian musico-dramatic works to advance their political agendas and emphasize Russia's cultural uniqueness and its cosmopolitan character. Innumerable playwrights and composers, actors and singers were active at the Russian court. Usually considered at best peripheral to Europe, the faraway Russian Empire represents a particularly powerful example of the mobility of theatre agents and the circulation of artistic practices. This book sets a new regional accent on imperial Russia, thus mitigating the traditional historiographical emphasis on Western Europe, and adopts a transnational approach to theatre and music history. Its aim is twofold. First, to explore Italian music-theatrical repertoires that occupied a crucial position within the spectacle of absolutism in Russia. Second, to investigate careers and travel routes of the Italian theatre professionals. The examination of their activities at the Russian court aims not only to provide a fuller understanding of their vital role in the transmission of socio-political and artistic ideas, but also to more firmly situate Russia in the broader arena of European cultural production.