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Medievalism a manifesto
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ISBN: 164189900X 1942401035 1942401027 9781942401025 Year: 2017 Publisher: Leeds: Arc Humanities Press,

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This book is called a manifesto because it has an unapologetically political objective. Richard Utz wants to help reform the way we think about and practise our academic engagement with medieval culture, and he uses his own observations as a medievalist and medievalism-ist over the last twenty-five years to offer ways in which we might reconnect with the general public that has allowed us to become, since the late nineteenth century, a rather exclusive clan of specialists who communicate mostly with each other. The traditional academic study of the Middle Ages, after more than a century of growing and plateauing, is now on the decline. While, at least over the next five to ten years, we will still be basking in the reassuring proximity (at conferences) of thousands of others who are involved in what we do ourselves, there is a manifest discrepancy between the large number of students who request that we address their love of Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, and medieval-themed video and computer games, and the decreasing number of actual medievalists hired to replace retiring colleagues. We should pursue more lasting partnerships with so-called amateurs and enthusiasts for the sake of a sustainable future engagement with medieval culture. Richard Utz suggests some ways we might do this, and looks forward to 'a more truly co-disciplinary, inclusive, democratic, and humanistic engagement with what we call, for better or worse, the Middle Ages'.


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Ethical Evidence and Policymaking : Interdisciplinary and International Research

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EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This important book offers practical advice for using evidence and research in policymaking. The book has two aims. First, it builds a case for ethics and global values in research and knowledge exchange, and second, it examines specific policy areas and how evidence can guide practice. The book covers important policy areas including the GM debate, the environment, Black Lives Matter and COVID-19. Each chapter assesses the ethical challenges, the status of evidence in explaining or describing the issue and possible solutions to the problem. The book will enable policymakers and their advisors to seek evidence for their decisions from research that has been conducted ethically and with integrity.


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Cap Journal : Communicating Astronomy with the public
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ISSN: 19965621 1996563X Publisher: Garching bei München ESO ; ESA ; ST-ECF


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Digital medieval studies : practice and preservation
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ISBN: 1641894466 1802700153 Year: 2022 Publisher: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press,

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In the last decade, the terms 'digital scholarship' and 'digital humanities' have become commonplace in academia, spurring the creation of fellowships, research centres, and scholarly journals. What, however, does this 'digital turn' mean for how you do scholarship as a medievalist? While many of us would never describe ourselves as 'DH people,' computer-based tools and resources are central to the work we do every day in offices, libraries, and classrooms. This volume highlights the exciting ways digital methods are expanding and re-defining how we understand, represent, and teach the Middle Ages, and provides a new model for how this work is catalogued and reused within the scholarly community. The work of its contributors offers valuable insights into how 'the digital' continues to shape the questions medievalists ask and the ways they answer them, but also into how those questions and answers can lead to new tools, approaches, and points of reference within the field of digital humanities itself.


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COVID-19 and Social Sciences
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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The COVID-19 pandemic is having profound effects on all dimensions of life: individual, social, cultural, and public and economic health, among others. The contribution of social sciences is very relevant in understanding this disease and pandemic as well as its effects. It is also relevant for taking measures, such as, for example, compliance with physical distance, mask-wearing, no gatherings, and information to the population in a more efficient way. This book discusses topics such as COVID-19 in a risk society and its implications; the situation of patients with diabetes in a lockdown context; the technological, pedagogical, and social challenges posed by remote teaching; and, finally, the explanation of potential contributions of several specific social sciences that can shape both the taking of measures and their fulfilment in the desired direction. The book concludes with an analysis of the underlying social, psychological, and philosophical issues that are pandemic-related and that may have a considerable impact on societies and individuals, also highlighting the situation of the most disadvantaged groups, given that pandemics tend to accentuate social inequalities.


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Digital medieval studies
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ISBN: 9781802700152 9781641894463 Year: 2022 Publisher: Leeds Arc Humanities Press

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In the last decade, the terms "digital scholarship" and "digital humanities" have become commonplace in academia, spurring the creation of fellowships, research centres, and scholarly journals. What, however, does this "digital turn" mean for how you do scholarship as a medievalist? While many of us would never describe ourselves as "DH people," computer-based tools and resources are central to the work we do every day in offices, libraries, and classrooms. This volume highlights the exciting ways digital methods are expanding and re-defining how we understand, represent, and teach the Middle Ages, and provides a new model for how this work is catalogued and reused within the scholarly community. The work of its contributors offers valuable insights into how "the digital" continues to shape the questions medievalists ask and the ways they answer them, but also into how those questions and answers can lead to new tools, approaches, and points of reference within the field of digital humanities itself.


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New Insights on Biofilm Antimicrobial Strategies
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Year: 2021 Publisher: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Over the last few decades, the study of microbial biofilms has been gaining interest among the scientific community. These microbial communities comprise cells adhered to surfaces that are surrounded by a self-produced exopolymeric matrix that protects biofilm cells against different external stresses. Biofilms can have a negative impact on different sectors within society, namely in agriculture, food industries, and veterinary and human health. As a consequence of their metabolic state and matrix protection, biofilm cells are very difficult to tackle with antibiotics or chemical disinfectants. Due to this problem, recent advances in the development of antibiotic alternatives or complementary strategies to prevent or control biofilms have been reported. This book includes different strategies to prevent biofilm formation or to control biofilm development and includes full research articles, reviews, a communication, and a perspective.

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Technology: general issues --- antibiofilm --- antimicrobial agent --- bacteria --- fungi --- polymicrobial biofilm --- microalga --- free fatty acids --- encapsulation --- biofilm --- chronic wounds --- host response --- S100A8/A9 --- dental plaque --- quorum sensing --- microbial resistance --- bacterial adhesion --- blocking effect --- hydrodynamics --- parallel plate flow cell --- carbon nanotubes --- poly(dimethylsiloxane) --- adhesion --- Escherichia coli --- Biofilm --- Public Engagement --- Outreach --- Control Strategies --- Oral Biofilm --- TiO2 nanofibers --- electrospinning --- biofilm prevention and control --- multidrug-resistant bacteria --- biomedical application --- biofilms --- biofilm inhibition --- dental implants --- peri-implantitis --- polyether-ether-ketone --- Pseudomonas aeruginosa --- Candida albicans --- mixed-species biofilm analysis --- flow cytometry --- bacteriophage therapy --- prosthesis related infections --- hardware infections --- left ventricular assist devices --- Acinetobacter baumannii --- antibiotic resistance --- antibiotic tolerance --- persister --- intraspecies community --- EPS matrix --- peptide nucleic acid-fluorescence in situ hybridization --- urinary tract infections --- catheter-associated urinary tract infections --- confocal laser scanning microscopy --- recalcitrance --- biofilm control --- Klebsiella pneumoniae --- KPC and OXA-48-like carbapenemases --- Galleria mellonella infection model --- linear oligoethyleneimine hydrochloride --- bacteriophage --- endotracheal tube


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Selected Papers from the 1st International Electronic Conference on Entomology
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ISBN: 3036559930 3036559949 Year: 2022 Publisher: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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This book is a Special Issue on "Selected Papers from the 1st International Electronic Conference on Entomology". It contains 1 editorial, 19 research papers and 2 review papers. The contributors come from 23 different countries around the world.

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Insects (entomology) --- Aspergillus flavus --- aflatoxin B1 --- maize flour --- Tribolium castaneum --- food safety --- Cysteochila lineata --- DNA barcoding --- Neoplerochila paliatseasi --- Olea europaea --- Plerochila australis --- Acyrthosiphon pisum --- Therioaphis trifolii --- Aphis craccivora --- Coccinella septempunctata --- Hippodamia variegata --- population dynamics --- numerical responses --- molecular markers --- Pseudococcus --- Maconellicoccus hirsutus --- mealybug --- cacao --- Badnavirus --- virus vector --- Florida --- anthranilic diamide --- concrete surface --- insect --- mite --- pests --- Alientoma --- alien species --- invasive species --- citizen science --- public engagement --- Greece --- Drosophila melanogaster --- Drosophila subobscura --- egg-to-adult viability --- developmental time --- microbiota diversity --- lead exposure --- adaptation --- Anoplura --- Echinophthiriidae --- extreme environments --- distribution --- range --- dispersal --- South Siberia --- dynamics --- population --- plant protection --- outbreak --- Italian locust --- Corythucha ciliata --- mtDNA --- COI fragment length --- population genetics --- phylogeny --- invasive insect --- D. subobscura --- desiccation resistance --- starvation resistance --- chill coma recovery time --- heat knock-down resistance --- global warming --- life history --- laboratory evolution --- D. obscura --- Cyt b gene --- viability --- sex-ratio --- intra-population variation --- Chamaemyiidae --- Margarodidae --- voltinism --- egg development --- micromulsion --- postharvest pest --- grain coating --- essential oil --- stored-product pest --- taxonomy --- taxonomic impediment --- Aphidiinae --- parasitoids --- omnivorous predator --- Nesidiocoris tenuis --- Dicyphus cerastii --- plant damage --- zoophytophagy --- fruit injury --- protected crops --- biological control --- tomato --- honey bee --- microsatellite --- genetic diversity --- Bursaphelenchus spp. --- national survey program --- nematodes --- conifers --- wheat aphids --- thermal traits --- critical thermal maxima --- chronic temperature tolerance --- aphid endosymbionts --- bacterial gene abundance --- Ceratitis capitata --- Asaia --- Symbiotic Control --- termite systematic --- morphological traits --- morphometric measurements --- n/a

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