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Finanzieren und Koordinieren waren Aufgaben im Sozialwesen und eine erste Antwort auf die öffentliche Kritik an fehlender Aufsicht, Regulierung und Fachlichkeit. Mit diesen Aufgaben wurde der Dachverband «Landeskonferenz für soziale Arbeit» in den 1930er Jahren gegründet. Mit ihrer gesamtschweizerischen und transnationalen Tätigkeit eröffnet die zentrale Koordinationsstelle den Blick auf die sich wandelnden Strategien und Akteurskonstellationen in der Praxis der Sozialstaatlichkeit bis hinein in die Umstrukturierungen der 1990er Jahre. Der vorliegende Band erschliesst neues Wissen zu Arrangements, Finanzierungsmodellen und komplexen Mischformen zwischen privaten und staatlichen Akteuren. Er ergänzt regionale Forschungszugänge zum privat organisierten Fürsorgewesen und macht diese erstmals unter einer gesamtschweizerischen sowie transnationalen Perspektive diskutierbar.

Genocide isn't past tense and the Nazi and Bosnian eras are not yet closed. The demonising of people as 'unworthy' and expendable is ever-present and the consequences are all too evident in the daily news. These fourteen essays by Australian scholars confront the issues: the need for a measuring scale that encompasses differences and similarities between seemingly divergent cases of the crime; the complicity of bureaucracies, the healing professions and the churches in this 'crime of crimes'; the quest for historical justice for genocide victims generally following the Nuremberg Trials; the fate of children in the Nazi and postwar eras; the 'worthiness' of Armenians, Jews and Romani people in twentieth century Europe; and the imperative to tackle early warning signs of an incipient genocide. Colin Tatz is a founding director of the Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, visiting fellow in Politics and International Relations at the Australian National University, and honorary visiting fellow at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. He teaches and publishes in comparative race politics, youth suicide, migration studies, and sports history.

Time Series Analysis - Frontiers in Research and Practice offers a concise overview of cutting-edge methods for understanding, forecasting, and applying models to temporal data. The volume combines Markov Chain Monte Carlo, Bayesian ARIMA, and Posterior Predictive Distribution to enable uncertainty-aware time series forecasting. It reinterprets temporal data through co-evolving time series, causal dependencies, shift/visibility graph representations, graph representation learning, multiplex networks, and temporal metagraphs, tools suited for dependency regime forecasting and critical fields such as cybersecurity. Bridging theory and application, it advances data-driven prediction using Takens’ embedding theorem, dynamic models, neural network algorithms, and demonstrates deployment-ready, efficient pipelines via neuro-symbolic techniques for edge computing, integrating spectral signal processing, pattern recognition, signal symbolization, and convolutional neural networks. Additionally, it features compression-based prediction with universal coding and decision trees, providing transparent and robust baselines. The book’s strengths include a unified cross-disciplinary view, focus on interpretability and uncertainty, guidance for real-time, resource-limited environments, and practical examples (such as numerical and dislocation modeling in geoscience) that turn techniques into actionable insights. Geared toward researchers, practitioners, and postgraduate students, this edited volume provides a modern, interoperable toolkit linking rigorous modeling with real-world applications and decision-making.

This work aims to honor Prof. Doctor Nair de Nazaré Castro Soares, Emerita Professor of the University of Coimbra, in recognition for her brilliant academic career and outstanding achievements in the research and teaching throughout the years. Many generations of students and researchers have benefited, in the country and abroad, from her long and profitable activity at the service of university and science. This work results from the contributions of those disciples, colleagues and friends, gathering studies that cover the main areas of knowledge in which she excelled: Greco-Roman Literature and Culture, Classical Tradition in the Middle Ages, studies on Renaissance Humanism, and Classical Heritage in Modern and Contemporary World.

Helen James considers security in Myanmar/Burma. She uses the ideas put forward in the United Nations Development Programme's 1994 report, of human, as opposed to state and security, going on to argue that freedom from want, and freedom from fear (of the regime) are in fact mutually supportive ideas, and that the security of the people and the security of the state are in fact in a symbiotic relationship with each other. Presenting new and significant information of the security concept of Myanmar/Burma, James’ original work considers economic development, health, education, environmental issues, the drugs trade, human rights, minority peoples and political, social and economic reforms, arguing that improved governance, the development of civil society and economic development would both strengthen the state and ensure the security and well-being of its citizens.

The Global Latin II Conference has highlighted the role of the Latin language as cultural medium between West and East. Adopting a diachronic perspective which spans from the Middle Ages to the Modern Age, the conference and its proceedings have paid special attention to texts related to Africa and Asia. The richness of literary genres as well as the dialogue between the Humanities and hard sciences characterize this volume.

Das Hofmannsthal-Jahrbuch ist weltweit das wichtigste Organ der Hofmannsthal-Forschung. Es bietet neben der Veröffentlichung bisher unpublizierter Briefwechsel Beiträge namhafter Wissenschaftler zur europäischen Kultur der Moderne. Inhalt: - Christine Lubkoll / Michael Ott: in memoriam Gerhard Neumann - Noch mehr Hungerkünstler und eine kleine Prosa. Mitgeteilt von Ursula Renner - Elsbeth Dangel-Pelloquin: »Wunderbare Fügung«. Heinrich Zimmer als Nachlassverwalter Hofmannsthals - Katharina Geiser: Geschichten wie aus dem Roman. Heinrich und Christiane Zimmer, Eugen und Mila Esslinger - Mathias Mayer: Die Komik des Scheiterns. Dimensionen eines Existenzialismus bei Hofmannsthal - Cristina Fossaluzza: »Ein Hauch von Mystizismus«: Hofmannsthals Scheitern an Goldoni in der Komödie »Cristinas Heimreise« - Steffen Burk: Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung: Zur Schopenhauer-Rezeption Richard Beer-Hofmanns in »Der Tod Georgs« - Franz-Josef Deiters: »gebrochenen Zuständen ein ungebrochenes Weltverhältnis gegenüberzustellen« – Max Reinhardts und Hugo von Hofmannsthals Theater der Stimmung - Jürgen Daiber: Therapeutisches Scheitern: Freud, das Kokain und die Literatur - Inka Mülder-Bach: »Das geht gut«, »das wird gut«: Dynamiken des Scheiterns im »Andreas«-Fragment - Gregor Streim: »Ausgleich von Revolution und Tradition«. Hofmannsthals ambivalentes Verhältnis zum ›Berliner‹ Theater in den zwanziger Jahre - Stephan Kraft: Hugo von Hofmannsthals »Unbestechlicher« als Geist der Komödie - Juliane Vogel: Komische Schwärme. Zur Poiesis des Sozialen bei Hugo von Hofmannsthal - Elsbeth Dangel-Pelloquin: Hofmannsthal 1968. Zur Gründung der Hofmannsthal-Gesellschaft vor 50 Jahren

The goat is one of the earliest domesticated species and has great significance for the world economy. This book provides a comprehensive overview of goat husbandry. It includes thirteen chapters that address such topics as breeding, genetics, reproduction, health, nutrition, and more.

Krisenszenarien prägen das 21. Jahrhundert und stellen die betroffenen Gesellschaften vor drängende Herausforderungen. Ihre Omnipräsenz zeigt sich auch in zahlreichen Erzähltexten, die diesen Topos zum Thema haben. Rebecca Kaewert widmet sich den Spezifika des literarischen Krisendiskurses ab der Jahrtausendwende anhand von vier zeitgenössischen spanischen und hispanoamerikanischen Erzähltexten. Sie entwickelt einen multiperspektivischen Ansatz zur Analyse und Interpretation literarischer Krisenaneignungen: Auf Grundlage politikwissenschaftlicher, soziologischer und psychologisch motivierter Krisenkonzeptionen werden narrative Strategien, Funktionen und ihre Wirkungen berücksichtigt.

The here collected contributions relating to the 46th International Conference of the Representation Disciplines Teachers, organized jointly by Sapienza University of Rome, Roma Tre University, and San Raffaele Roma University, aim to offer the scientific community a reflection on the theoretical and methodological aspects related to the concept of èkphrasis, a term that, in the field of representation, concerns descriptive, analogical, and digital activities that generate new knowledge in several areas of application. The Conference aims to place at the center of the discussion an interpretation of the concept of research that, without neglecting an idea of study, protection, and enhancement of environmental and cultural heritage, focuses on the needs of contemporary society and its possible developments, making use of innovative theoretical, methodological, and operational activities, including those characterized by an interdisciplinary approach. According to this interpretation, research can also be seen as a foreshadowing of the definition and testing of experimental proposals aimed at exploring new areas of investigation: this opens up imaginative and utopian perspectives in the relationship between the sciences, the arts, and the disciplines that contribute to common goals, through the experimentation of methods, techniques, and languages for conceiving, prefiguring, designing, and representing.

La igualdad consagrada en las constituciones políticas que han regido en México, desde la española de 1812 hasta la mexicana de 1917, idealizó e impuso un estilo de vida sobre realidades sociales que nuestra historiografía suele ignorar. Los barrios indígenas de la ciudad de México y sus pueblos aledaños sufrieron el embate de esas exigencias, pero de ese hecho y de la resistencia que ofrecieron poco o nada se dice públicamente. De ello se ocupa el presente estudio al recorrer la vida de comunidades -algunas desaparecidas ya, otras al límite de su existencia- que guardan memoria de una historia propia. La historia de la ciudad de México no puede limitarse al registro de la expansión de la mancha urbana. Tal es lo que este libro -elaborado sobre testimonios de primera mano- nos recuerda al hablar de los barrios y pueblos de indígenas que formaron las parcialidades de San Juan Tenochtitlan y Santiago Tlatelolco.

Why do people participate in genocide? The Complexity of Evil responds to this fundamental question by drawing on political science, sociology, criminology, anthropology, social psychology, and history to develop a model which can explain perpetration across various different cases. Focusing in particular on the Holocaust, the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, and the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia, The Complexity of Evil model draws on, systematically sorts, and causally orders a wealth of scholarly literature and supplements it with original field research data from interviews with former members of the Khmer Rouge. The model is systematic and abstract, as well as empirically grounded, providing a tool for understanding the micro-foundations of various cases of genocide. Ultimately this model highlights that the motivations for perpetrating genocide are both complex in their diversity and banal in their ordinariness and mundanity.

More than a century ago an Aboriginal community in Victoria campaigned for recognition of their right to occupy and control the small acreage they had farmed for 25 years. Others wanted to develop this tract. Government spokesmen denied that the occupants had inherited any rights to this land and declared that, anyway, they were not really Aborigines. This book is about the rebellion at Coranderrk Aboriginal Station between 1874 and 1886. It describes how Coranderrk families fought to keep their land. To explain why they fought I must begin with the years before, to show what this 'miserable spadeful of ground' meant to them, and how they came to be there. Finally, I sketch what ultimately happened. First published in 1998, 12 years after the death of its author Diane Barwick, Rebellion at Coranderrk was an attempt to rectify some of the injustices of the past two-hundred-plus years in Australia, and to prevent similar occurrences in the future. It remains acutely relevant.

Microfluidics and nanofluids are rapidly growing technologies of tremendous potential and benefits. This book features a spectrum of topics on these emerging technologies that include microfluidic applications, mass production of chips, flow sensing approaches, fabrication of microfluidic channels using the micromilling process, application of micromixers for wastewater treatment and life cycle assessment, solar thermal conversion of plasmonic nanofluids, and liquid cooling, as well as carbon capture utilization and storage using nanocomposite and nanofluids. The book is intended to provide useful information and guidance to a wide variety of people including students, researchers, engineers, and manufacturers who are involved or interested in these technologies.