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Towards Coherence In Criminal Justice
No full textThis book explores the pursuit of coherence in criminal justice, addressing how criminal laws and practices can become more rational and aligned with human rights principles. It examines key criminal justice principles like legality, proportionality, and presumption of innocence, aiming to adapt them to modern societal and technological challenges. The work highlights the growing influence of international conventions and European courts on national legal systems, emphasizing the need for thoughtful implementation of transnational precedents. While focused on Lithuanian criminal justice, topics like human trafficking, drug possession, and electronic evidence are relevant across Europe, offering insights for legal researchers globally
»Der Prophet des Staatsgedankens«
No full textKaum eine Studie zum Deutschen Kaiserreich kommt ohne einen Verweis auf die »Preußischen Jahrbücher« als einflussreicher Stimme der Zeit aus, deren Herausgeber Hans Delbrück keine Kontroverse scheute. Jonas Kleins systematische Beziehungsgeschichte untersucht, woher das Vertrauen resultierte, das Hans Delbrück als politischer Intellektueller parteiübergreifend genoss. Indem die wichtigsten innen- und außenpolitischen Krisenherde des Kaiserreichs in den Blick genommen werden, kristallisieren sich die politischen Grundlinien heraus, auf die Delbrück die »Preußischen Jahrbücher« verpflichtete: für einen starken Staat, kulturellen Liberalismus, progressive Sozialpolitik und nationale Integration. Sein unermüdlicher, keineswegs solitärer Kampf für einen »aufgeklärten Konservatismus« zeugt von alternativen Entwicklungsoptionen des Hohenzollernstaates
Porous Metals: Preparation, Microstructure, Properties and Performance
No full textThis reprint is a collection of 10 papers from a Special Issue on porous metals in the journal Materials. These papers involve several manufacturing technologies, including 3D printing, melt infiltration, and powder sintering. They cover a range of different materials, including titanium, aluminum, copper, magnesium alloys, composites, and sandwich structures. They investigate a range of properties that are either uniquely derived from porous structures or heavily influenced by porous structures, including mechanical properties, energy absorption in explosions, friction, the capillary effect, the heat transfer coefficient, and catalytic efficiency. This collection introduces the most recent advances in the field of porous metals and captures the diverse and comprehensive nature of different facets of porous metals, with special emphasis on new fabrication methods, novel structures, new properties, and new applications. It is a useful reference for researchers and practitioners alike in the field
Anatomia di un inquisitore. Frate Pietro da Verona – san Pietro martire
No full textThis volume investigates the medieval cold case of the murder of inquisitor Peter of Verona (1252), who quickly became Saint Peter Martyr (1253) and the first inquisitor-saint of the Roman Catholic Church. Beyond historiographical myths, the contributions show the developments—sometimes paradoxical—of a death that was instrumental in consolidating the medieval officium fidei.
The multidisciplinary approach demonstrates the richness of possible analyses for examining the past through what has survived: papal letters, fragments of inquisitorial trials, painted and sculpted images, account books, notarial documentation, liturgical texts, sermons, objects—weapons of the crime and coins—and bone remains, namely the skull, connected to one who was immediately considered a "martyr of the faith" whose cult, however, struggled to become established.PublishedIl volume indaga il cold case medievale dell’uccisione dell’inquisitore Pietro da Verona (1252) velocemente divenuto san Pietro martire (1253) e primo inquisitore-santo della Chiesa cattolico-romana. Oltre i miti storiografici, i contributi mostrano gli sviluppi – talvolta paradossali – di una morte funzionale al consolidamento dell’officium fidei medievale. La multidisciplinarietà dell’approccio mostra la ricchezza delle analisi possibili per affrontare il passato attraverso ciò che è sopravvissuto: lettere papali, frammenti di processi inquisitoriali, immagini dipinte e scolpite, libri contabili, documentazione notarile, testi liturgici, sermoni, oggetti – armi del delitto e monete – e resti ossei, ovvero il cranio, collegati a colui che subito è considerato un “martire della fede” il cui culto però fatica a consolidarsi
The Islamic Council of Norway and the Challenge of Representing Islam in Europe
No full textGovernments all across Europe have attempted to govern the Muslim population by working with representative Muslim councils. These councils, however, have often been plagued by conflicts and splits. Why? This book is the first attempt to answer this question in full. It does so by zooming in on the history of The Islamic Council of Norway. For many years, this organization functioned well. But after a prolonged conflict, the organization split in two in 2017. Based on a thorough study of the organization, the author claims that pressure from society at large has made it more difficult for such organizations to fulfil their role as Muslim representatives
“No llore mi mama”:
No full textThis academic research is based on musical thinking and feeling, seeking to understand the musical know-how of performer and composer Elvar Mosquera, in the tension between local creative matrices and cultural industries.PublishedEsta investigación como trabajo académico parte del sentipensar musical, en la búsqueda de comprender el saber hacer musical del intérprete y compositor Elvar Mosquera, en la tensión entre las matrices locales de creación y las industrias culturales
The XXXII Conference on Electrical and Electronic Engineering
No full textThe XXXII JIEE-2024 conference provided a space for collaboration between the academic community and the energy, telecommunications, and automation sectors, in which the EPN showcased the technological advances and challenges that the scientific community has addressed in a number of research and final degree projects related to telecommunications, electronics, information technologies, and electrical engineering. Among the main topics addressed during the conference were the following: i) control and systems; ii) smart grids; iii) the deployment of novel technologies for planning and operating power systems; iv) renewable energy; v) automation; vi) robotics; vii) power electronics; viii) control; ix) wireless technologies; x) mobile communications; xi) cybersecurity; and xii) machine learning. In addition, this was a space to share with the academic and industry community the novel studies that have been carried out worldwide on topics related to power systems, renewable energy, telecommunications, electronics, control, and information technology. With this aim, keynotes from international experts were organized as part of special tutorials held during the conference. This Reprint contains the scientific papers that were presented at XXXII JIEE-2024, which summarize the results of important research projects carried out at Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador, as well as at other universities and within industry related to power systems, renewable energy, telecommunications, electronics, control, and information technology
New Fuels and Advanced Combustion Modes for Innovative Internal Combustion Engines
No full textToday, the need to reduce both greenhouse gas and pollutant emissions is a challenge for the entire energy sector. Efforts to address this challenge have led to both the introduction of new technologies and improvements to the most widely used traditional ones. Among the latter, internal combustion engines (ICEs) provide about 25% of the world power today. In particular, the entire transport sector is largely based on this technology. Transitioning from ICEs to combustion-less technologies poses significant technical and economic challenges, making it unlikely that ICEs will be phased out soon. Therefore, enhancing their sustainability is crucial. In this scenario, this Special Issue collects studies focused on the following topics: the use of new fuels for ICEs for both automotive and railway applications, testing of additives for ICEs fed with conventional fuels, and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation applied to the analysis and design of ICE components
Materiality of Air
No full textExploring air, airborne phenomena, and elemental representation, this book dissects the materiality of air, which comes to the fore ever more vigorously given the ongoing environmental and health crises. Understanding air’s materiality is essential to outlining clear solutions to the current challenges and to generating new meanings of what constitutes an environmentally safe and healthy future. The dual nature of air makes it a rich field for metaphor and a potent subject to think with: as space that contains and engages with other elements, particles, and beings; and as matter that moves, envelopes, and penetrates objects, spaces, and time.
Each chapter offers new perspectives on air’s material qualities, treating air as a literal and figurative element that provides an important lens on climate change, toxicity, pollution, capitalism, violence, and transmission, among other issues. The volume also highlights future directions for engaging with the all-important medium of air.
This edited collection responds to the growing scientific and scholarly explorations of elements and the elemental, as well as the complex environmental, sociopolitical, economic, and cultural issues that emerge through these elements. Bringing together experts from the environmental humanities, health humanities, cultural studies, literary studies, art, and history, the chapters consider the intricate relationships between humans, more-than-humans, and the environment more broadly
EcoFolk
No full textDer Begriff »EcoFolk« nimmt Phänomene und Praktiken im Grenzbereich von Literatur, Naturerfahrung und Naturgestaltung in den Blick, die sich eines (über-)natürlichen Figurenpersonals bedienen. Die bevorzugte Gattung, in der historisch ökologische Verhältnisse und gemeinsame Existenz-Bedingungen von Menschen und nicht-menschlichen Wesen geschildert wurden, ist die Sage. Sie erzählt von menschlichen Begegnungen mit einer teils gebenden, teils sich widersetzenden oder entziehenden Natur. Niels Penke und Joana van de Löcht verfolgen in drei Fallstudien diese Konstellationen vom 17. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart – zum Mummelsee im Schwarzwald, dem böhmischen Regenten der Elementargeister Hans Heiling sowie den Zwergen des Harzes