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OCM 2025 - 7th International Conference on Optical Characterization of Materials
No full textThe state of the art in the optical characterization of materials is advancing rapidly. New insights have been gained into the theoretical foundations of this research and exciting developments have been made in practice, driven by new applications and innovative sensor technologies that are constantly evolving. The great success of past conferences proves the necessity of a platform for presentation, discussion and evaluation of the latest research results in this interdisciplinary field
Borders in Red
No full textBorders in Red shows how Lenin and his Bolshevik leadership embraced the nationality question as a way of managing diversity and institutionalized it as a means of governance. Stephan Rindlisbacher uses the making of national borders as a lens through which to examine the Bolsheviks' fundamental shift from proletarian internationalism to ethnonational federalism sui generis. Comparing how party and state managed issues of national diversity in the core regions of Soviet federalism—Ukraine, the South Caucasus, and Central Asia—Rindlisbacher provides insights into their policymaking and into the roots of current territorial conflicts.
President Putin has condemned Lenin's nationality policy to be a historical mistake, and with its war against Ukraine, Russia has tried to revise borders that date back to the early days of the Soviet state. However, Borders in Red shows that the Soviet Republics were not arbitrarily divided by leaders like Stalin or Khrushchev. They were the result of long-lasting debates involving politicians, experts, and people from the border regions. The developing Soviet order was a product of trial and error
Contingent Agencies
No full textContingent Agencies is an interdisciplinary artistic research project by Alex Arteaga and Nikolaus Gansterer that explores the dynamic interplay between human and nonhuman forces in shaping atmospheres. At the intersection of art, philosophy, and science, this book delves into how material and immaterial agencies co-create the conditions for perception and presence.
Rooted in phenomenology, enactivism, and new materialism, the project uses diverse methods of notation, documentation, and reflection. The publication combines textual contributions, diagrams, drawings, photo series, sound recordings, and video stills—blurring the boundaries between artistic process and scientific inquiry.
More than a static publication, Contingent Agencies is supplemented by an extensive online archive and invites artists, theorists, researchers, and curious readers alike to engage with the investigation and contribute to its evolving discourse. It is an open-ended invitation to experience and participate in a new way of thinking about space, relation, and emergence
Venous Thromboembolism
No full textVenous thromboembolism (VTE), which includes deep venous thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), is a common but complicated condition that is often associated with significant morbidity and mortality. This book is an essential resource for healthcare professionals, combining expert knowledge with practical strategies for managing the challenges of VTE in various clinical contexts. Explore key topics such as the role of comorbidities, innovative prevention strategies, and tailored approaches to managing VTE in high-risk patient groups. Gain valuable insights into the pioneering use of visualization of comorbidities, advanced anticoagulant therapies in neurological injury, and the complex interplay of conditions such as disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) in cancer patients. The book also addresses state-of-the-art endovascular treatments and presents actionable knowledge to improve patient outcomes. This book is designed to improve clinical decision-making and deepen understanding. It empowers readers to confidently manage VTE's complexity and improve care through precision medicine and multidisciplinary collaboration. Whether you are a physician, researcher, or student, this book is an indispensable guide to improving vascular health
Chapter 3 The Polyglot Industry
No full textThis book offers a self-reflective, critical approach to the study of what is popularly known as polyglossia, charting the gradual but marked process of its commoditization over the last 20 years and offering a counterpoint to mainstream positivist treatment of serial language learning. First, from a diagnostic standpoint, the book examines the rise and consolidation of the Polyglot Community in the sociopolitical and economic context of its gradual transformation into and partial overlap with the Polyglot Industry and its ideological tenets (the Polyglot Matrix). Second, from a prognostic standpoint, the book posits Critical Polyglot Studies (CPS) as a much-needed counter to the many theoretical and practical shortcomings of the Polyglot Industry-cum-Matrix, presenting the main programmatic points and illustrative best practices and institutional case studies of this alternative paradigm. CPS is conceived as both a research orientation and as a strategic attempt to elicit debate and draw in a wider range of polyglossia scholars, offering readers with actionable tools to contribute to this emerging academic and activist endeavor. Constituting the first critical and systematic analysis of polyglossia as a globalized phenomenon, this book will be of interest to scholars of linguistics, cultural studies, critical theory, and sociology
Indigenous Heritage and Identity of the Last Elephant Catchers in Northeast Thailand
No full textIn 2019, when Mew Salangam passed away at 91, newspapers across Thailand described him as belonging to the “last generation of elephant doctors.” Mew was a member of the Kui Ajiang community in Thailand, an Indigenous group living in the Northeast known for catching elephants. Sometime beginning in the 1950s, this practice gradually came to an end. 'Indigenous Heritage and Identity of the Last Elephant Catchers in Northeast Thailand' examines how the end of elephant catching has affected the heritage and identity of the Kui Ajiang, offering an analysis that calls for close attention to the broader currents of Thai history and the development of Thai environmental and cultural heritage policies. Furthermore, the term Authorised Environmental Discourse (AED) is introduced in tandem with Laurajane Smith’s Authorised Heritage Discourse (AHD) to portray how heritage embedded in nature and culture reflects impacts of political authority and how a community responds to threats of loss and challenges to the authenticity of its traditions
Indigenous Statistics
No full textThis second edition of the groundbreaking Indigenous Statistics opens up a major new approach to research across the disciplines and applied fields. While qualitative methods have been rigorously critiqued and reformulated, the population statistics relied on by virtually all research on Indigenous Peoples continue to be taken for granted as straightforward, transparent numbers. Drawing on a diverse new author team, this book dismantles that persistent positivism with a forceful critique, then fills the void with a new paradigm for Indigenous quantitative methods using concrete examples of research projects from first world Indigenous Peoples in the United States, Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand and Canada. Concise and accessible, it is an ideal supplementary text as well as a core component of the methodological toolkit for anyone conducting Indigenous research or using Indigenous population statistics. This is an essential text for students studying quantitative methods, statistics and research methods. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Licence (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license
Chapter 7 Visual Perception in Dante's Commedia According to the Early Commentaries (1320–1400)
No full textDante’s Visions: Crossing Sights on Natural Philosophy, Theory of Vision, and Medicine in the Divine Comedy and Beyond offers a fascinating insight into Dante’s engagement with the science of his time, particularly with visual perception and neurological disorders. The relationship between the soul and the body and the bond between human beings and their natural environment were significant areas of interest in the medieval world. In Dante’s Divine Comedy, as well as in his Vita Nuova and Convivio, these connections are enhanced to the fullest, expressing feelings and sensations, pain and ecstasy, and physical and spiritual passions under exceptional psychological and environmental stimuli. Based on the research of a multidisciplinary group of scholars – including experts in Dante, the culture and history of medieval literature and philosophy, historians of science, neuroscientists, and specialists in vision and visual illusions – this book explores the poet’s psychophysical descriptions of sense perception, the theory of vision, optical illusions and deceptions of sight, neurological phenomena, and the anatomy and physiology of the human nervous system. It highlights the Aristotelian sources of his scientific culture and the influence of the Arabic sciences on their dissemination in the Western world. In addition to illustrating the cultural background of a poetic genius, with specific reference to the rich scientific reflections in Italy at Dante’s time, this book brings out the many opportunities for future research at the intersection of science and literature in the past
Muslimische Selbstverortung in Deutschland
No full textWie funktioniert die Aushandlung unterschiedlicher Islamverständnisse im Lokalen? Anhand von Fallstudien in islamischen Bildungsräumen – Moscheen, schulischem Islamunterricht und digitalen Angeboten – einer Stadt im Ruhrgebiet beleuchtet Marcel Klapp ethnographisch die Praktiken gegenseitiger Kritik und innovativer Kompromisse, die Lehrende wie Lernende hervorbringen. Dabei zeigt er die Dynamiken muslimischer Selbstverortungen im Spannungsfeld von Salafismus und zivilem Islam auf, die den deutschen Islam in Zukunft prägen werden
Revival Movements as Conflict Agendas of the Popular in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
No full textThis open access book focuses on the potential for conflict between high and low culture during the transformations of the popular in the field of religion in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Specifically, the contributors to this edited collection consider the so-called 'Revival Movements' that came up as a symptom of differentiation and pluralisation of Protestantism in reaction to the Enlightenment, rationalism, and criticism of religion, and explore the attempts at theological self-empowerment of Christian laymen and laywomen