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This book presents excellent comprehensive and interdisciplinary research on memristor devices and their corresponding applications. The authors discuss a wide range of topics, including material and physical modeling, materials physics and analytics, devices in miniature scale, advanced functional circuits, high-speed computing systems and integration for logic applications, other novel emerging device concepts and circuit schemes, and much more.

Volume 12 in the edition of the complete Jerusalem Talmud. Tractates Sanhedrin and Makkot belong together as one tractate, covering procedural law for panels of arbitration, communal rabbinic courts (in bare outline) and an elaborate construction of hypothetical criminal courts supposedly independent of the king’s administration. Tractate Horaiot, an elaboration of Lev. 4:1–26, defines the roles of High Priest, rabbinate, and prince in a Commonwealth strictly following biblical rules.

This handbook engages with and broadens current debates on men and masculinities in conflict and peacebuilding. Through an expansive range of chapters across a unique array of geographical settings, the volume shatters prevailing assumptions about men’s relationship to conflict and its wake. Situated across scholarship, policy, and practice, the contributions offer new possibilities for a more complex and complete picture of the gendered tapestries of conflict, peace, and the spaces in between. The handbook combines feminist, intersectional, relational, decolonial, and queer perspectives on the conceptualisation of masculinities in conflict and peacebuilding. This approach provides us with the tools to go beyond direct, physical, conflict-related violence to examine less visible forms of violence and power as well as other ways in which masculinities interact with conflict and peace. In doing so, the book permits a multi-faceted view of men’s roles, relationships, vulnerabilities, and non-violent agencies in conflict and peacebuilding across scholarship, policy, and practice. This book will be of much interest to students of gender, masculinities, peace and conflict studies, and international relations. Chapter 1, 3, 9, 13, and 30 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. Chapter 25 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 license.

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Was sich 2015 ereignete, war kein voraussetzungsloses, plötzliches Erscheinen und keine Krise der Migration, sondern eine Krise des europäischen Grenzregimes. Neben den eigensinnigen und widerständigen Bewegungen der Migration war diese Zeit gekennzeichnet von zivilem Engagement und von zahlreichen Kunst- und Kulturproduktionen mit, für und über Geflüchtete. Nanna Heidenreich fragt ausgehend vom ›langen Sommer der Migration‹ nach dem Verhältnis von Hype zu Möglichkeitsraum: Wann wird Kunst mit Migration zum Spektakel? Wie stehen ästhetische Schwellenerfahrungen zum Anspruch auf politische Transformation? Auf welche Weise sind Klimawandel und Migration miteinander verschaltet, von wessen Zukunft reden wir? Und welche Farbe hat das Meer?

The effects of climate change are appearing before us and show the fragility of settlements that are no longer able to manage natural phenomena and therefore their increasingly effect on them. The process of morphogenesis of cities has sedimented spatial configurations, which over time have lost the ability to manage a dynamic balance with the metabolism of the reference environment. The contribution presents a research study aimed at the planning of the Tuscan coast, in which, a novel methodology is proposed for the regeneration of patterns no longer able to manage the current metabolic flows.

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Supporting initiation, development and resolution of appropriate immune responses is key to survival. Many nutrients and dietary components have been purported to have a role in supporting optimal immune function. This is vital throughout the life course, from the development and programming of the immune system in early life, to supporting immunity and reducing chronic inflammation in older people. In this special issue of Nutrients, we examine the evidence for the role of diet and dietary components in promoting protective immunity.

In Life at Four Corners, Carol Coburn analyzes the powerful combination of those ethnic and religious institutions that effectively resisted assimilation for nearly 80 years only to succumb to the influences of the outside world during the 1930s and 1940s. Emphasizing the formal and informal education provided by the church, school, and family, she examines the total process of how values, identities, and all aspects of culture were transmitted from generation to generation.

Hierdie ontleding van die taalstryd op die kampus van die Universiteit Stellenbosch strek vanaf 2003 tot Maart 2018 en put uit ’n verskeidenheid hoofstroom media, maar veral vanuit Afrikaanse dagblaaie – Die Burger, Volksblad en Beeld – wat daagliks minstens 42,6% van die Afrikaanse leserspubliek bereik. Uit die aard van die onderwerp het veral Afrikaanse koerante groot belangstelling getoon en talle berigte oor die US-taalstryd gehad, terwyl dekking daarvan in veral Mail & Guardian, The Star, The Cape Times en die Cape Argus soms kritieser, indringender en objektiewer ondersoek en standpuntstelling bevat het. Dikwels is die taalkwessies so belangrik geag dat dit voorblaaie gehaal het en volgens die oordeel van die redaksie, kommentaar in talle hoofartikels geregverdig het. Ander aktivistiese wapens wat in hierdie taalstryd uitgewys kan word, is appèl op politici, driftige optogte en lokaalbesettings; dreigemente van ekondruk, boikot en selfs wanvoorstellings en uiteindelik geweldpleging, brandstigting en eiendomsvernietiging. Hoewel die verloop van gebeure in hierdie boek oor Afrikaans se stryd om oorlewing op ’n histories-Afrikaanse universiteit vol drama en intrige verloop het en inderwaarheid die aandag van ’n wye leserspubliek verdien (in die woorde van een van die keurders), is dit in die eerste plek ’n wetenskaplike, ontleding van feitelike gebeure rondom ’n verwikkelde taalstryd.

In dieser Arbeit wurden hybride Bauelementarchitekturen für effiziente Dünnschichtsolarzellen konzipiert, experimentell realisiert und charakterisiert. Neben hybriden Konzepten für flüssig prozessierbare Elektrodensysteme wurden vor allem Ansätze verfolgt, hocheffiziente Kupfer-Indium-Gallium-Diselenid-Absorber mit perspektivisch druckbaren organischen Halbleitern sowohl in Einzel- als auch in Tandem-Solarzellen zu kombinieren.

Extrusion is a very popular manufacturing process, especially because of its versatility in terms of materials and shapes. Representing the vast and multifaceted field of extrusion, this book contains write-ups on latest developments from experts in the field. Part (A) on Metal Extrusion contains chapters on spur gear manufacturing, stiff vacuum extrusion, and indirect extrusion for subsurface tubular expansion. Part (B) on Food and Polymer Extrusion includes chapters on extrusion cooking of functional foods, changes in nutritional properties in extrusion of cereals, physicochemical changes of starch in extrusion of corn flour, extruded aquaculture feed, optimal design of polymer extrusion dies, and extrusion cooking technology for food products.

There is an increasing tendency to use the development experience of Asian countries as a reference point for other countries in the Global South. Korea’s condensed urbanization and industrialization, accompanied by the expansion of new cities and industrial complexes across the country, have become one such model, even if the fruits of such development may not have been equitably shared across geographies and generations. The chapters in this book critically reassess the Korean urban development experience from regional policy to new town development, demonstrating how these policy experiences were deeply rooted in Korea’s socioeconomic environment and discussing what can be learned from them when applying them in other developmental contexts

Destiné à un large public, cet ouvrage présente les recherches les plus illustratives de l’Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) en faveur de la biodiversité et du développement durable. De tous les grands enjeux environnementaux contemporains, la protection de la biodiversité est sans doute l’un des plus complexes, car cette biodiversité que l’on veut préserver ne peut être appréhendée hors des interactions avec les sociétés humaines qui vivent avec, l’utilisent, la gèrent, la détruisent et la protègent parfois. Ainsi, les exemples qui ponctuent ces pages attestent que la biodiversité ne peut plus être envisagée scientifiquement dans une vision disciplinaire et sectorielle. Elle doit au contraire être croisée avec les principales dynamiques, humaines et non humaines, qui déterminent les changements à la fois globaux et localisés auxquels nous faisons face aujourd’hui. En cela, cet ouvrage témoigne de l’engagement de l’IRD et de ses partenaires pour une science capable de produire des savoirs utiles et mobilisables au Sud, une science de la durabilité au sens fort du terme, qui puisse rendre la Terre durablement vivable.

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