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The 5th Congress of the Spanish Society for the History of Law was held in Salamanca on 5 and 6 June 2025. It addressed the theme ‘The transmission of legal knowledge: schools, disciplines, teaching and power’. This volume brings together 27 papers presented at the event, preceded by an introduction written by the organisers.

Sous la direction de John Scheid, Olivier de Cazanove, Filippo Coarelli et Adriano La Regina, l’étude des lieux de culte de l’Italie antique est un projet d’envergure qui se concrétise avec la publication de cette série de fascicules Fana, templa, delubra (FTD). Toutes sources, archéologiques et littéraires, entre le VIIe s. av. et le VIIe s. apr. J.-C. sont inventoriées par rapport à des lieux de culte précis. Le cadre général de ce corpus est celui des régions augustéennes, à l’intérieur de celles-ci, les unités de saisie sont les cités de l’époque romaine. Les religions de l’Italie antique ne peuvent pas être comprises comme des subdivisions locales d’une religion universelle, italique ou romaine ; elles formaient des microsystèmes homologues mais autonomes. Il convient donc d’étudier les témoignages sur la vie religieuse dans leurs contextes géographique, institutionnel et social. Ce sixième volume de la série porte sur les cités antiques d'Ostia et de Portus, de la région augustéenne Campanie-Latium qui correspondent aux communes modernes d'Ostie et de Porto. Les vestiges des lieux de culte témoignent des limites du territoire et nous aident à tisser sur la carte l’étendue de ces régions ainsi que celle de leurs voisines limitrophes. Ce corpus est publié sous deux formes distinctes et complémentaires : une publication papier chez l'éditeur italien Quasar (sous presse) et sa publication électronique sur ce portail.

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Though the number of infants born with heart disease each year is relatively small (approximately 1% of the population), it is still a substantial issue worthy of investigation, which is why this Special Issue focuses on congenital heart disease in both children and adults. Advances in the treatment of such malformations have led to increased life spans for this population. Consequently, today, most patients treated for congenital heart disease are adults. The purpose of this Special Issue is to deal with the latest developments in the care of the fetus, infants and children, and how these patients should be treated, as well as to describe the results of follow-ups and the potential special needs of adults with congenital heart disease.

Sous une forme ou sous une autre, les sexualités se trouvent en grande partie au centre de l’activité humaine : dans l’ensemble des pratiques bien sûr, mais également dans l’imaginaire, les rêves, les fantasmes, et dans les discours pour exalter, contrôler, questionner, et représenter ces comportements. De fait, la sexualité est non seulement un objet d’histoire, mais aussi une grille d’analyse des cultures et des sociétés. Les perspectives actuelles de l’histoire sociale et culturelle, associées à celles de l’histoire des femmes et du genre, irriguent ce livre pour montrer que les identités et les pratiques sexuelles sont des constructions et des représentations. Les thématiques de la masculinité et de la féminité, des territoires de l’homosexualité, de l’iconographie sexologique, érotique et pornographique, mais aussi de l’identité raciale, structurent cet ouvrage, au travers d’analyses et de réflexions qui interrogent la sexualité dans les sociétés occidentales actuelles et sub-actuelles.

Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia are the most common neurodegenerative disorder. Since the number of individuals with AD and dementia is expected to increase considerably in the near future, reliable treatment and diagnosis are critical. EEG and neurophysiological technique could be used as a cost-effective screening tool for early detection and diagnosis in the Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) stage. The aim in neurophysiology research is to develop signal processing methods that improve the specificity for diagnosing dementia; we wish to discover signal features that not only significantly differ in AD patients, but also allow us to reliably separate AD patients and control subjects. This approach is valuable for clinical purposes (as diagnostic tool for dementia), and it also more fundamentally contributes to a better understanding of brain dynamics of MCI patients. Finally, the development of neurophysiological biomarker could be useful in monitoring pharmacological treatments. The main focus of this special issue will be on the most recent developments and ideas in the field of EEG and neurophysiology which will enable us to extract features that improve the specificity for diagnosing AD and dementia.

Digitale Medien verändern die Gegenstände und die Didaktik der sprachlichen Fächer. Sie ermöglichen in Zeiten wachsender Diversität differenzierte Zugänge zum Lernen und zu gesellschaftlicher Teilhabe. Vermittlungsprozesse, Lernbegleitung und Bewertungskontexte müssen dabei neu gedacht werden. Die Beitragenden in diesem Band stellen dazu innovative Peer-to-Peer-Konzepte zur Aus- und Fortbildung von (zukünftigen) Lehrenden sprachlicher Fächer vor. Dabei setzen sie den Fokus vor allem auf transsprachliche, kommunikative sowie kollaborative Lernformen und geben sowohl für Hochschullehrende als auch für Lehrkräftebildner*innen und Lehrkräfte gleichermaßen wertvolle didaktische Anregungen.

The growing world population exerts tremendous pressure on our finite food resources. Since the lion‘s share of the global calorie intake is reliant upon a handful of plant species like rice, wheat, maize, soybean, and potato, it is the need of the hour to expand our dietary reliance to nutritionally rich but neglected, underutilized, and yet-to-be-used wild plants. Such wild plants also have ethnomedicinal and biocultural significance. Owing to their ecosystem plasticity, they can be easily cultivated in diverse soil systems, including marginal, degraded, and other disturbed areas. Due to these resilient attributes, they can be considered for large-scale cultivation. However, proper biotechnological interventions are important for removing the negative traits as well as for standardizing the mass multiplication and cultivation strategies of such species for various agro-climatic regions. This Special Issue, “Wild Crop Relatives and Associated Biocultural and Traditional Agronomic Practices for Food and Nutritional Security”, was dedicated to showcasing the potential wild crop varieties of nutritional significance and associated biocultural knowledge from the diverse agroecological regions of the world and also to formulating suitable policy frameworks for food and nutritional security. The novel recommendations provided by this Special Issue can serve as a stepping-stone for utilizing wild and neglected crops as supplemental foods.

This Special Issue contains review articles focusing on several lymphoma entities included in the current WHO classification. The aim of the book is to guide the readers in understanding the evolution of lymphoma classification. The clinicopathological entities described in this issue have been analyzed through the molecular mechanisms involved in their pathogenesis.

Global Labour History has rapidly gained ground as a field of study in the 21st century, attracting interest in the Global South and North alike. Scholars derive inspiration from the broad perspective and the effort to perceive connections between global trends over time in work and labour relations, incorporating slaves, indentured labourers and sharecroppers, housewives and domestic servants. Casting this sweeping analytical gaze, The World Wide Web of Work discusses the core concepts ‘capitalism’ and ‘workers’, and refines notions such as ‘coerced labour’, ‘household strategies’ and ‘labour markets’. It explores in new ways the connections between labourers in different parts of the world, arguing that both ‘globalisation’ and modern labour management originated in agriculture in the Global South and were only later introduced in Northern industrial settings. It reveals that 19th-century chattel slavery was frequently replaced by other forms of coerced labour, and it reconstructs the laborious 20th-century attempts of the International Labour Organisation to regulate labour standards supra-nationally. The book also pays attention to the relational inequality through which workers in wealthy countries benefit from the exploitation of those in poor countries. The final part addresses workers’ resistance and acquiescence: why collective actions often have unanticipated consequences; why and how workers sometimes organise massive flights from exploitation and oppression; and why ‘proletarian revolutions’ took place in pre-industrial or industrialising countries and never in fully developed capitalist societies.

"Wound Building is a volume of essays, with digressions, on one group of contemporary poets active in a self-organizing political poetry scene in the UK, most of whom have little to no audience outside of the little magazines that they publish and the reading series they put on. The book is a front-line report on the rapid development of this poetry in the period between 2015 and 2020, with a particular focus on the relationship of poetry to violence and its representation. The poets discussed here write violent love poems and violent elegies as well as violent fantasies composed in stabs of violent verse and violet prose. The poems themselves comprise fantasies of killing David Cameron, dreams of being split open along a seam, basement songs, hundreds of pages of notes on working life in a privatized care home in Hove, East Sussex, a four-line slogan about the Cologne groping scandal of New Year 2016, variations on the Refugees Medical Phrasebook, a life wasted in a factory in Guangzhou, an autobiographical sci-fi internet fever dream, an anarchist elegy, and a refusal to argue. Ultimately, Hayward argues that the lessons this poetry teaches is never to write a “worthy” narrative when a fucked up collage will do. Rather than a cohesive “account” of a “school” of poets, or a “contribution” to the boring tittle-tattle of aesthetic debates over British poetry as an institution, Wound Building is a front-line report on the local disasters of a contemporary UK poetry caught in the grip of the historical cataclysm of capitalist culture. Wound Building is further concerned with aesthetic problems related to Marxism, anarchism, contemporary trans politics, and class, though its “theoretical” preoccupations are subordinated to its desire to provide a ground-level view on the writing itself, its production, its intellectual aporia, and the ways it finds itself outstripped by the ongoing “march of events.” The book will be of interest not only for those concerned with contemporary British political and experimental poetry, but also more generally for anyone who wishes to think carefully about what it means to make art about present-day history and its many horrible enormities. The book’s title is derived from the idea of sublime woundedness that subtends the context of the poets discussed here: the impressions of wounds opening up like LED-lit shopfronts in the night, in a parallel universe in which injury is intoxicatingly impersonal and structural, and which forms the environment in which the poems fight to absolutize the value of every last breath, or face into the reality of extravagantly violent wish fulfillment, or dissolve themselves in a search for new ways of professing love, or transform into a kind of expressionism of vomiting up medical-diagnostic categories found in abstract social labor, or pump their verses full of the convulsive rhythms of surprise and sudden relief, without any guarantee that this is the right thing to do or that anyone will even fucking hear. Wound Building does not historicize this state of affairs as much as it attempts to live alongside the immediacy of this work, in order to see what is still possible for poetry, and criticism, to make and do."

Upper Carboniferous sandstones are important tight gas reservoirs in Central Europe. This field-based study, conducted in a km-scale reservoir outcrop analog (Piesberg quarry, Lower Saxony Basin, NW Germany), focused on the diagenetic control on spatial reservoir quality distribution. Geothermometers were used to characterize a fault-related thermal anomaly. A prototype workflow based on terrestrial laser scanning is presented, which allowed for the automated detection and analysis of fractures.

Le nouvel ordre économique néolibéral modifie la division internationale du travail, ce qui entraîne un accroissement des populations migrantes de travailleurs et de travailleuses. Actuellement, une personne sur dix dans les régions développées est migrante, et les femmes représentent la moitié de ce nombre. Longtemps, pourtant, la figure du migrant a été représentée comme masculine, en raison des représentations stéréotypées ou erronées du rôle et de la place des femmes et des hommes dans le...

Experts in deep-sea taxonomy and ecology have worked together for four Russian-German and German-Russian expeditions in the NW Pacific deep sea (Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, Kuril-Kamchatka abyssal plain and the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench). This book provides a summary of the findings of these experts following the many hours of subsequent sample-processing and analyses, revealing a treasure trove of critical fundamental knowledge of life in our deep oceans.

Arthropod-borne viruses affect billions of people around the world and comprise a significant proportion of emerging human pathogens. This Special Issue provides a global perspective on emerging arboviruses in endemic regions, as well as areas of introduction. Articles span entomological, clinical, and epidemiological aspects of West Nile virus, Rift Valley fever virus, Japanese encephalitis virus, Zika virus, chikungunya virus, Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, tick-borne encephalitis virus, and Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus.