In the Middle Ages half of those who chose the religious life were women, yet historians have overlooked entire generations of educated, feisty, capable and enterprising nuns, condemning them to the dusty silence of the archives. What, though, were their motives for entering a convent and what was their daily routine behind its walls like? How did they think, live and worship, both as individua…
The twinship phenomenon might be a mere curiosity, a quirk of fate and fortune, were the two writers’ legacies less politically fraught and consequential. Both get blamed for a lot of dam-age in the world. Nabokov is sometimes charged, from the right flank, with condoning or committing or making light of pedo-philia (a recent scholarly book promises guidance on Teaching Na…
In the most general term, a digital twin (DT) represents a digital counterpart of a physical entity, encom-passing its entire lifecycle, continually updated with real-time data, and serving as a decision support tool (IBM-A, nd). The digital twin concept has been around since the 1960s; however, it has started to gain traction only relatively recently, due to technological advances that we disc…
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set an ambitious agenda for global problem-solving and create a framework to achieve it through the power of partnerships. Goal 17 points to the central importance of partnerships, networks, and multi-stakeholder collaborations for bringing together a broad range o…
The concept of Local Digital Twins (LDTs) has gained significant attention in recent years as a means to enhance urban management and governance. Initially mentioned by the European Commission (EC) in 2021 during a workshop called “Local Digital Twins, Forging the Cities of Tomorrow” held at the annual European Week of Regions and Cities conference, …
Between 1919 and 1961, pioneering Chinese American actress Anna May Wong established an enduring legacy that encompassed cinema, theater, radio, and American television. Born in Los Angeles and growing up amid the suspicion and scrutiny epitomized by the Chinese Exclusion Act, Wong—a defiant misfit—innovated nuanced performances to subvert the racism and sexism that beset her life and caree…
Biodiversity and environmental biobanks, which can stand by themselves or can be housed at e.g., natural history collections, botanical gar-dens, zoos/aquaria, or culture collections, are essential infrastructures not only to preserve and provide samples from different groups of organ-isms but also to sustain innovation, food security, natural resource management, biotech…
This book examines how our understanding of human sexuality and human body changes through the processes of mediation unfolding at the intersection of nonhuman life and the Internet. It analyses performances and simulations of human subjectivity, as well as digital image manipulation strategies that generate novel visions of bodily and sexual mutations, in the context of new materialist philoso…
The story of sporting communities and individuals at the University of Westminster over 150 years is the second book to explore the institution's diverse history including its role as a pioneer of women's sports. Drawing upon the University's extensive archives this richly illustrated book celebrates its unique, ground-breaking sports heritage.
“It’s just different here,” is a common way in the Nordic countries for relativizing—that is, eschewing responsibility—for racism. “It’s not our fault we are so white, it’s just the way it is.” These commonly held justifications were presented by the anthropologist Kristín Loftsdóttir during her keynote speech at “The ‘Great White North’? Critical…
his book is a thorough examination of Genome Finland, outlined in the extract above. By ‘Genome Finland’ we refer to the predominant presentation of Finnish genetics as a success story, and Finland as a milieu of unique excellence for biomedical research. In this book, we study the content of the success story and the image, how they came about, and what lies benea…
Young people around the world are calling ever more urgently on policymakers to address today’s global challenges of sustainability, structural inequality and social justice. So it is little surprise that learning in a global society, understanding sustainable development and being active global citizens are increasingly popular themes for education at all levels. Educational research makes a…
This textbook describes theory and practice in analog role-playing game (RPG) design that encourage specific transformative impacts in participants, including tabletop, live action role-playing (larp), and Nordic and American freeform. We describe three types of transformative RPGs: transformative leisure, therapeutic, and educational. We present our model of nano-game design, offering recommen…
We started our respective field research in 2018 and we were somehow surprised not to find an international anthropological community in which researchers exchange and debate ideas in specific journals, meet at conferenc-es and hold working groups on Alpine matters. At the same time, the term “Alpine anthropology” is widely used (Kezich, 2022; Zanini and Viazzo, 2022) and there ex…
Reuse of ancient monuments and other sites is a well-known phenomenon in all periods all over the world. People in the past were always confronted with surviving remains from previous periods, and reacted to and en-gaged with them in most varying ways. This is particu-larly true for liminal places like tombs. Reused structures are by definition used.1 This…
How did people organize their settlements in prehistory? This question is at the core of a large number of archaeological excavations throughout Scandinavia and beyond, and has remained so during the past three to four centuries. A few decades after the introduction and implementation of settlement archaeological excavations based on top-soil m…
A 32-year-old female patient presented with persistent general fatigue, chest tight-ness, palpitations, and dizziness for 2 weeks. Prior to admission, she did not report any recognized causes for these symptoms. She denied experiencing any skin, oral, or nasal bleeding, fever, gastrointestinal distress, abdominal pain, diarrhea, ery-thema, joint pain, or any other discomfort. Routine b…
This study investigates the specific Contextual Bible Study among particular groupsof poor Christians in the Southwestern part of Tanzania. The main objective isto research and discuss the relationships between text and context when poorChristians undertake Contextual Bible Study. To this end, I use the InterreligiousCommunity Bank Bible Study groups (IR-VICOBA)1. IR-VICOBA groups aregroups of …
Bring on the Books for Everybody is an engaging assessment of the robust popular literary culture that has developed in the United States during the past two decades. Jim Collins describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on the screen as on the page. Fueled by Oprah’s Book Club, Miramax film adaptations, superstore book…
The aim of this work is to provide a detailed grammatical description of the Pau-naka language (ISO 639-3: pnk, Glottocode: paun1241), a critically endangered(cf. Krauss 2007: 6) Southern Arawakan language spoken in the Chiquitania, aregion in the lowlands of Eastern Bolivia, see Figure 1.1.The data which forms the basis for this analysis was collected by me duringfour fieldwork trips (2011, 20…
This open access book offers an overview of the relations between comics and religion from the perspective of cultural sociology. How do comics function in religions and how does religion appear in comics? And how do graphic narratives inform us about contemporary society and the changing role of religion? Contributing scholars use international examples to explore the diversity of religions, s…
A literary mirror; Balinese reflections on modernity and identity in the twentieth century I Nyoman Darma Putra A literary mirror is the first English-language work to comprehensively analyse Indonesian-language literature from Bali from a literary and cultural viewpoint. It covers the period from 1920 to 2000. This is an extremely rich field for research into the ways Balinese view their cultu…
Making Sense explores the experiential, ethical, and intellectual stakes of living in, and thinking about, a world in which language cannot be taken for granted. In Nepal, many deaf signers use Nepali Sign Language (NSL), a young, conventional signed language. The majority of deaf Nepalis, however, use what NSL signers call natural sign. Natural sign involves both conventional and improvisatory…
The historical experience of almost all economies shows that the share of the agricul-ture and allied sectors in total employment as well as in their national income fallswith progress in economic development. This decline does not, however, diminish theneed to address various challenges confronting the agriculture sector, which is a coreconcern in both developed and developing countries. Agric…
Twenty-first-century literature by women from across the Caribbean and its diaspora evidences an urge to start afresh. It frequently points to the lingering legacy of enslavement, coloniality, and patriarchy as it denounces the pernicious effects of an inequitable global economic order premised on exploitative relationships and unsustainable practices that have ushered in ecological …
Many important theoretical and practical advances have taken place in the areaof Formal Methods (FMs), and impressive applications have been developed.Furthermore, FMs and their associated tools are now routinely used in manyindustries. However, their full potential remains partly unexploited. In pg. 57 ofa recent FMs survey [47], I gave my own view about their future in a positionstatement whe…
?e probate that accompanied the suit included a detailed descrip-tion of the property, documenting enslaved laborers, buildings, furniture, ani-mals, equipment, and the disposition of the land. ?e estate in question was in the southwestern quarter of the island of Dominica (maps I. and I.?). For those acquainted with Caribbean estates, this is a familiar story. In their descrip-tion, the docum…
The opening paragraph of this dissertation originates from Mozambican writer Mia C outo’s1 famous novel The Last Flight of the Flamingo (O Último Voo do Flamingo in Portuguese original). It plays at the end of Mozambique’s civil war, when the Italian United Nations officer Massimo R isi is sent to the village of Tizangara to investigate the mysterious deaths of local United Nations …
When Townes van Zandt was once asked why most of his songs are so sad, he replied with the telling phrase: ‘Blues is happy music!’ His blues is ‘happy,’ of course, not because it is jolly and there is no sadness in it, but much rather precisely because it affirms and gives form to sadness, thereby enabling us to transform and transcend it. Townes’ point w…
In the aftermath of the 2018 June 12 summit between the US and North Korea, held in Singapore, there was vehement disagreement among experts and commentators over the question as to whether anything sub-stantive had been established by President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-un, or whether it was China, North Korea or the US that had emerged as a winner. The only c…
Fifteen years to the day after making this statement, on 2 April 2011, MelesZenawi laid the foundation stone for what would become the Grand EthiopianRenaissance Dam (GERD), domestically funded and, at 5,150 megawatts (MW)of installed capacity and 74 billion cubic metres of water storage, one of the largestdams in the world. As Turkey had unilaterally built a series of dams upstream onthe trans…
In early May 2021, demonstrations by Palestinians protesting planned evic-tions from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem spread quickly to al-Aqsa Mosque and other parts of East Jerusalem where Israeli authorities had engaged in several provocative actions throughout the month of Rama-dan, including disabling the loudspeakers that broadcast the call to prayer, preventing worshippers fro…
On 1 April 1931, the Lebanese engineer Albert Naccache guided a group of touriststo the Qadisha Valley in Northern Lebanon. Nowadays, the Qadisha Valley figures in the World Heritage List of UNESCO, owing to its age-old cedars and monasteries dating back to the early days of Christianity.1 Naccache, however, drew the atten-tion of his visitors to a mo…
“They called me a tourist, which I found insulting.” So began a reflection by a delegate I interviewed who had gone on solidarity tours to Palestine during the first intifada. She grappled with her discomfort in occupying this term: tourist. She outlined her rationale, explaining that the designation tourism, attached to what she did in Palestine, felt derisive of her work, as though it was…
Growing up, my sister and I listened to the soundtrack of the musical Pip-pin (1972) so frequently, with such verve, that a permanent skip formed in the middle of “War Is a Science.” (We eventually bought a replacement record.) I don’t recall her ever expressing interest in any other musical, but she LOVEDPippin. She was a particular fan of Ben Vereen, who received a Tony Award for Best A…
In recent decades, many members of the public have come to see processed food as a problem that needs to be solved by eating “real” food and reforming the food system. But for many food industry professionals, the problem is not processed food or the food system itself, but misperceptions and irrational fears caused by the public’s lack of scientific understanding. In her highly original …
This open access book collects the historical and medial perspectives of a systematic and epistemological analysis of the complicated, multifaceted relationship between model and mathematics, ranging from, for example, the physical mathematical models of the 19th century to the simulation and digital modelling of the 21st century. The aim of this anthology is to showcase the status of the mathe…
Chaired by K Wüthrich (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2002) and co-chaired by B Feringa (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2016), this by-invitation-only conference gathered around 40 participants, who are well-recognized leaders in the diverse field of Chemistry. The highlights of the Conference Proceedings include short prepared statements by all the participants, and the recordings of lively discu…
In this chapter, we study the physics of wave motion. We concentrate on mechanical waves, which are disturbances that move through a medium such as air or water. Like simple harmonic motion studied in the preceding chapter, the energy transferred through the medium is proportional to the amplitude squared. Surface water waves in the ocean are transverse waves in which the energy of the wave tra…
As expected, the velocity increases when the tension increases, and decreases when the mass increases. An 80.0-m-long, 2.10-mm-diameter copper wire is stretched between two poles. A bird lands at the center point of the wire, sending a small wave pulse out in both directions. The pulses reflect at the ends and arrive back at the bird’s location 0.750 seconds after it landed. Determine the ten…
Global cumulative glacier mass change for (whole period) 1801 –2010 and (inset) 1961–2010. The cumulative estimates are all set to zero mean over 1986–2005. Glacial lake volume change (absolute magnitude change), 1990-1999 to 2015 -2018 (Shugar et al, Nature Climate Change, 2020). The research question posed by this study is to what extent BC reduction policies undertaken by South Asian c…
In this chapter, I employ a model of the consolidated government budget constraint to study the monetary and fiscal history of Mexico. I study the period 1960–2017, dividing it into three subperiods: rapid growth and monetary expansion, 1960–1982; crisis and reform, 1982–1995; and slow growth and macroeconomic stability, 1995–2017. The crisis and reform period includes the major economi…
This e-book contains Latin-English vocabulary.
Many, many years ago, in the pleasant land of Italy, there was a little city called Alba. It stood on the sunny side of a mountain, near the River Tiber and not far from the Mediterranean Sea. In this city and around the mountain lived a brave, intelligent people known as Latins. Several other tribes inhabited the adjacent mountains and plains. The Latins were ruled by kings, and one of their …
This e-book contains guides about travelling in Rome city.
Rome is a paradox embodied in a city. It is both alive and buried, both pagan andChristian, both a small Mediterranean village and the historical centre of the westernworld. Rome is, and has for a very long time been, a place extraordinarily chargedwith preconceptions and prescriptions concerning cultural and historical heritage.Guidebooks to the city have, from the Middle Ages and onward, play…
Cells are the basic building blocks of all living things. The human body is composed of trillions of cells. They provide structure for the body, take in nutrients from food, convert those nutrients into energy, and carry out specialized functions. Cells also contain the body’s hereditary material and can make copies of themselves. Cells have many parts, each with a different function. Som…
Turtles are in the class Reptilia, which includes snakes, crocodiles, and lizards. Marine turtles belong to the order Testudines, the first specimens date back 220 million years. Marine turtles are thought to have come from land turtles and freshwater turtles that lived about 230 million years ago in the Cretaceous period. The earliest sea turtle ancestor found so far is Desmatochelys padil…
The previous edition of this publication added 6% wastage to the feed requirements. This allowed for feed that was offered to cows under good grazing conditions but was not eaten by the cows. In research trials 6% of the feed offered to cows disappeared, but was not accounted for by milk production or liveweight change, so is assumed to be lost in the grazing process. Farmers should be aware th…
Information about cattle instincts and associated behavior is a valuable tool that helps producers understand why cattle behave or respond as they do. Although cattle have been domesticated for a very long time, they are dictated by the herding instinct, especially if they perceive a dangerous situation. Cattle depend heavily upon sight, and they have a nearly 360-degree panoramic view. This vi…