“…A partire dalla Riforma luterana la Chiesa di Roma si rese conto del­la necessità sia di difendersi dai suoi nemici, vecchi e nuovi, esterni e interni, sia di dover “cristianizzare” i suoi stessi fedeli, di mettere ordine alle numerose contraddizioni esistenti tra prescritto dottri­nale e vissuto religioso concreto dei fedeli. …”

“…Praktikere på humorfeltet er representert gjennom intervjuer med standupkomikere. Boken retter seg mot alle som er opptatt av religionens rolle i humorsammenhenger, mot praktikere på mediefeltet og religionsfeltet, politikere og andre beslutningstakere, og mot studenter i samfunnsfag, religionsfag og medievitenskap."…”

“…With the ongoing pressures for psychologists to practice evidence-based care, and the requirement insurance carriers have both for treatment goals, measurement of outcomes, and a focus on brief therapy, functional analysis provides a framework for achieving all of the above. Having proven itself in treating behavioral problems in education, functional analysis is now being applied more broadly to behavioral and psychological disorders. …”

“…The rapidly growing recognition of the importance of emotion in understanding all aspects of organizational life is facilitating the development of focused areas of scholarship. …”

“…People leave their homes and native countries for business and study, for vacation or to flee from unsafe conditions like wars and natural disasters. In all cases the sojourner faces a dual challenge of breaking with the familiar home environment and adjusting to new surroundings. …”

“…But when identity comes with a history of second-class citizenship, its psychological and social impact can be felt in all aspects of life, especially if more than one identity carries these experiences. …”

“…This seismic shift in perception moves the healing professions away from traditional one-size-fits-all thinking and toward responsive, patient-centered care. …”

“…On the occasion of the celebrations of the four hundredth anniversary of the founding of the University of Cagliari, it is worth emphasizing the importance of the sources presented, which show how articulate and complex the history of the University is and how much the eighteenth-century experience still offers I contributi contenuti in questo volume corrispondono alla volontà di illuminare la storia della rifondazione dell'Università degli Studi di Cagliari nel Settecento con la pubblicazione di una serie di documenti relativi alla riforma degli insegnamenti universitari, indagata sia attraverso la voce di uno dei primi e più illustri docenti dell'Ateneo, Liberato Fassoni, che in relazione al tema della circolazione libraria e in particolare alle presenze bibliografiche che caratterizzano il fondo settecentesco della Biblioteca degli Scolopi. …”

“…Temporal spacing, order, variability, predictability, and patterning all have profound influence on the type of causal representation that is constructed. …”

“…Bezüglich der thematischen Schwerpunktsetzungen sind sie gleichzeitig ein Abbild der Sprachwissenschaft in Italien: In je drei Beiträgen stehen phonetisch-phonologische und lexikalische Fragestellungen im Mittelpunkt, ein Beitrag behandelt die Morphologie, fünf Beiträge sind syntaktische Studien. Alle Beiträge sind in deutscher Sprache verfasst und so angelegt und ausgeführt, dass die Inhalte jedem Leser unabhängig von der eigenen theoretischen Orientierung und Spezialisierung zugänglich sind…”

“…It explores education in all its forms and raises critical questions about its purpose and value in different low- and middle-income contexts and settings, in the context of migration. …”

“…Intended changes can take place at all levels of the higher education organization: addressing the overarching structure of the organization; focusing on the culture of a specific faculty; adapting a particular curriculum to the prerequisites of a professional field or the developments in the discipline; affecting the actions of the individual lecturer, for instance through professionalization. …”

“…Du Bois' challenge to 19th-century historians that dismissed the role of the enslaved in ending slavery and bringing forth all progressive reforms in the South, Curry Malott is thus able to demonstrate how the mighty agency of the worlds' poor and oppressed have forced the hand of US imperialists in not only foreign policy, but in domestic education policy. …”

“…With the rapid advent of ultraprecision technology, multi-axis machining, and micro/nanotechnology over the past twenty years, new types of ultraprecision and micro/nao-CMMs are urgently needed in all aspects of society. This Special Issue accepted papers revealing novel designs and applications of CMMs, including structures, probes, miniaturization, measuring paths, accuracy enhancement, error compensation, etc. …”

“…In optics, experimental and theoretical work with GWs is a vast research area, with great significance both for fundamental studies and numerous applications, which are realized in linear and nonlinear forms alike, including long-haul telecommunications, all-optical data-processing schemes, and generation of powerful laser beams, especially in fiber lasers. …”

“…Pneumonic and cardiac vascular responses of individuals in all age groups can be both acute, episodic and short-term, as well as chronic, accumulative and long-term. …”

“…It offers a unique overview of how social movements and civil society groups in very different settings are responding to state-imposed restrictions of basic civic freedoms. The authors are all experts in the field, and their analyses are based on original and onsite research. …”

“…They are often the first and most frequent line of contact with people of all backgrounds and experiences seeking care and they represent the largest of the health care professions. …”