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An Approach to Successful Stapedectomy is a comprehensive book covering most of the real-world topics related to stapedectomy. The innovation from pick and perforator to microdrill and then to CO2 laser is a big landmark in the development of instruments for stapedectomy. The book covers various aspects of innovation in surgical techniques and the instruments used. Various topics like stapedectomy versus stapedotomy, reconstruction of stapedius muscle, methods to handle loose piston over incus, surgery in short incus, problems during stapedectomy, revision surgery, laser stapedotomy, and stapedotomy in patients with abnormal facial nerve are discussed in depth in this book. This book will aid in laying a strong foundation for budding otologists and will help them evolve into better stapes surgeons. Key Features: Various difficult situations encountered during surgery have been documented in the book. A series of photographs from author’s own collection are included to demonstrate each step of surgery for easy understanding of the subject. The use of laser in stapedectomy has been discussed in detail. Use of laser is a great landmark in the history of stapedectomy. It imparts excellent hearing results. Patients experience less vertigo, hence shorter hospital stay.

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Whether you're a professional builder or a homeowner about to embark on building work, this handy-sized book contains everything you need to know to ensure the work runs smoothly. Thorough, clearly explained advice and information will guide you through the whole process and answer any questions you may have. This second edition includes up-to-date guidance and legislation.

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Developing Person-Centred Cultures in Healthcare Education and Practice This book embarks on an ambitious journey to challenge existing paradigms and spark a radical shift in the way healthcare is perceived and delivered. Dive into a groundbreaking exploration of person-centred healthcare education, offering a multi-dimensional framework that redefines learning and practice in the healthcare landscape. This comprehensive guide, with contributions from top experts in the field, dissects the critical components of a person-centred curriculum, spanning philosophy, strategy, values, leadership, and practical skills. The book empowers readers with real-world case studies, tools, and reflective exercises, propelling the implementation of transformative person-centred healthcare practices. Derived from the concepts introduced by the first European-funded project to frame and develop a person-centred healthcare curriculum, Developing Person-Centred Cultures in Health

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The design of hydraulic machinery in general, and of centrifugal pumps in particular, has been, and still is, essentially empirical. One reason for this is the great variety of types, sizes, and uses of centrifugal pumps, resulting in a great multiplicity of design considerations.

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This volume discusses the Coelomycetes in all their varied forms.

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A brief explanation of the geology shown on the relevant 1: 50 000 scale geological map(s).

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From the fan-favorite author of Underneath the Sycamore Tree comes the first in a raw, real romance series following the lives of the Lindon U football players and the complicated girls who change their lives forever.When Ivy asked her best friend to run away with her at sixteen, she knew he'd say no. He had football, an amazing family, and a happy home to go back to every day. So the night Ivy snuck out of his bedroom window after hugging him goodbye, she accepted she'd probably never see him again.Then they both wound up at Lindon University four years later.Ivy is barely picking up the pieces of her life when the boy whose initials she used to doodle hearts around approaches her at work. Aiden Griffith. Lindon U's star tight end. Still as attractive. Still as dedicated. With rumors of him being drafted to the NFL coming to fruition, Ivy knows it's only a matter of time before they have to say goodbye again.But he can't seem to let her go, no matter what she says, and she doesn't think she wants him to.

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This newly revised edition of Bryan Peterson's most popular book demystifies the complex concepts of exposure in photography, allowing readers to capture the images they want. With his trademark accessible style, Peterson instructs readers on how to achieve successful images in almost any situation, explaining the fundamentals of exposure and its component parts of light, aperture and shutter speed. With an emphasis on getting the best exposure even in tricky situations, 'Understanding Exposure' shows how to get (or lose) sharpness and contrast in images, how to freeze action and how to take the best meter readings, while also exploring filters, flash and light. With all new images, and updated captions throughout, this revised edition is sure to be as popular as ever.

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This book discusses the roles of civil society in the initiation stage of democratization in China. It argues that there is a semi-civil society in China and that this quasi-civil society that plays dual roles in the initial stage of democratisation in China. It makes a contribution to existing theories on democratic functions of civil society by applying, testing, revising and developing these theories in the context of Chinese democratization.

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In studies of the Assyrian merchant community established at Kültepe (KARUM Kanesh, level 2) in Anatolia in the early second millennium B.C., the texts with their associated cylinder and stamp sealings found there have traditionally been investigated separately. This book specifically seeks to integrate glyptic and textual studies in a way helpful both to scholars of Old Assyrian and to those with an interest in seals and sealing in the ancient Near East. The combined study of texts and sealings illuminates commercial and socio-legal activity in fresh ways, whilst the stylistic analyses sharpens chronological arguments and throws light on the community's foreign contacts. The book consists of two parts. The first analyses the sealing practices (in general and per type of record, with a special chapter on witnesses) and the seals, their ownership, manufacture, styles, iconography and inscriptions. Special chapters deal with the archives of the KARUM (with a list of their locations) and with the dating of texts and seals (with a list of the eponyms). Part two is a catalogue of 677 seals. It consists of tables offering, in a condensed form, essential data from the text envelopes on which the seals have been impressed, and of drawings of each of them. Extensive indices, of names, eponyms, seal owners/users, seal inscriptions, texts and seals complete this well-documented volume.

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Of all the ancient myths where rain plays an important role, the impregnation of Danaë by Zeus through a golden rain is perhaps the one most often depicted in art. This essay is dedicated to the artistic afterlife of the myth, with special focus on the painting of Danaë (1527) by Jan Gossaert van Mabuse (1478-1532). Gossaert’s Danaë is a sophisticated articulation of outer and inner discourse: the hard, dry, background, with its eclectic architecture, in contrast with the sweltering, moist, foreground with the figure’s naked body. This essay develops Gossaert’s complex phantasmata surrounding architecture, decoration, and the female body in three spaces: the intimate space of impregnation, the psychosomatic space, and, third, the petrifying space of Medusa. Barbara Baert writes: “Danaë is the living emanation of painting as the uttermost exhibitionistic medium. Her unveiled skin fragile exposed in the midst of an overwhelming symphonic outburst of details, facades, windows. Danaë: martyr of glossy materials - marble and flesh - unable to disappear in her own skin; held hostage within a medium of walls. Her only desire is to disappear in the ultimate thin membrane, to vaporize beyond the harsh brocks and, then, at the very end, leave the medium of textile too. There were threads become drippings, lines become tears.”

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Based on scripture, exegesis, and an ongoing dialogue with the Jewish and Islamic presence, Jerusalem maintains a central position in Christian spirituality. After several studies that mapped visual references to the holy city in various other representational media, Bianca Kühnel dedicates the present volume to the monumental presence of Jerusalem in European Latin Christianity. The works discussed in this book have a spatial dimension, defined by mimetic architecture and mimetic topography brought to life by ritual movement. They consist of the reproductions of key buildings representing Jerusalem’s most sacred sites, standing alone or arranged in clusters. Jerusalem sites throughout the world challenge the usual notions of transfer and representation in the history of art by their number, their variety of means, and their level of historical consistency. This book traces key turning points in the long history of Jerusalem abroad, while defining a common methodological and theoretical framework.

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L’œuvre abondante de Flavius Josèphe laisse apparaître quelques brèves dispositions traitant des relations sexuelles entre un homme et une femme dans le cadre du mariage. Pour autant, aucune étude systématique sur le sujet n’a été publiée jusque-là. L’approche critique du droit matrimonial présentée dans cet ouvrage vient combler cette lacune en s’interrogeant sur l’originalité d’un système juridique élaboré au carrefour de deux cultures : juive et hellénistique. Comment, dans la 2de moitié du 1er siècle de notre ère, notre historien juif s’y prend-il pour s’adresser à ses contemporains ? Quels emprunts fait-il au vocabulaire, aux métaphores et autres concepts disponibles de la pensée de son époque ? C’est donc essentiellement à partir de leurs sources d’inspiration que seront étudiées les principales règles régissant le droit juif du mariage à l’orée de l’ère chrétienne.

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In 1935 Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968) was appointed the first ‘permanent member’ of the School of Humanistic Studies (now the School of Historical Studies) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. The famous institute was founded by the American educator Abraham Flexner (1866-1959). This essay contributes to the content and context of Panofsky’s important lecture “The History of Art as a Humanistic Discipline” from1938. The publication of that lecture functioned as a manifesto written by an intellectual émigré in a new American context. It is thanks to Panofsky that the locus classicus of iconography, as Irving Lavin (1927-2019) described the Institute for Advanced Study, received the compelling arguments for an “art history that deserves to be counted among the humanities.” A close reading of the text and an analysis of its impact can still teach us something about the origins and development of the Art Historical field and Iconological Studies today.

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In a post-secular society contemporaries are challenged to raise and face existential questions in the midst of a plurality of (religious and non-religious) worldviews. Children, adolescents and young adults are especially eager for orientation in negotiating this plurality. Religious Education in European schools can provide them with solid insights and a safe space to accept this challenge. In this book the narrative, communicative and spiritual dimensions of religious education are discussed. In the act of theologizing with children, adolescents and young adults, “in each other’s presence” and with a view to wisdom traditions, they are empowered to patiently engage in new ways. Alternative patterns of framing identity and community, experience and interpretation, transcendence and immanence, can then emerge. The book is rooted in the teaching praxis of the author and reaches out to the centers of initial teacher education, where future leaders learn to discover the theological dignity of religious education.

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Inscribed Minoan stone vessels are ritual gifts that index their dedicants’ intention that both their gift and their name should survive permanently at the place of dedication. These vessels contained offerings, yet the vessels themselves were also offerings, serving as permanent records of a ritual act. These rituals were most likely communal, incorporating group feasting and drinking. The seasonality of these rituals suggests that they were focused on the cycle of life: fertility, birth, death and renewal. Offerings left with the vessels suggest that these rituals also addressed other, more personal concerns. As for Linear A itself: the language behind the script appears to contain a fairly standard phonemic inventory, though there are hints of additional, more exotic phonemes. The morphology of the language appears to involve affixation, a typical mode of inflection in human languages. The presence of significant prefixing tends to rule out PIE as a parent language, while the word-internal vowel alternations typical of Afroasiatic verbal inflection are nowhere to be found in this script. In the end, Linear A appears most likely to represent a non-IE, non-Afroasiatic language, perhaps with agglutinative tendencies, and perhaps with VSO word order.

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L'affirmation que les peuples autochtones d'Amerique, du Groenland ou d'Australie, seraient, comme les Grecs de l'Antiquite, "nes de la terre", habite bien des nationalismes indigenes. Le present ouvrage s'interroge sur le caractere traditionnel de ces representations de la "terre-mere". Pour ce faire, il entreprend une plongee dans les mythes des Polynesiens, descendants de migrants asiatiques devenus autochtones des iles du Pacifique. Si leurs mythes evoquent bien la naissance d'une humanite primordiale a partir de la terre, cette terre n'est pourtant pas celle de leur sejour actuel. Dans ces mythes, la qualite des premiers humains, nes du sol, signifie-t-elle l'archaisme, l'appartenance, l'exclusion? Quelles sont fondamentalement les lecons de l'autochtonie, de la Grece antique aux rivages de l'Oceanie?

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De nombreuses langues africaines ont la particularite d'avoir des subordonnees non marquees segmentalement. Le lien de dependance entre les propositions n'est pas marque par un morpheme specifique, pourtant, l'enchainement des propositions construit un lien de subordination qui presente des proprietes semantiques specifiques. Il s'agit de ce qu'on appelle generalement A" parataxe A" par opposition a A" hypotaxe A". Ces phenomenes de hierarchisation sans marque segmentale posent, entre autres, la question des limites de l'enonce et celle de la nature des mecanismes par lesquels se construisent hierarchisation et dependance. Le present volume rassemble dix contributions originales sur ce theme, fruit d'une Operation de Recherche menee dans le cadre du LLACAN (Langage, Langues et Cultures d'Afrique Noire, UMR 8135 CNRS-INALCO). Ce programme s'inscrit dans une perspective de typologie des langues africaines visant, a partir d'analyses comparatistes, a degager des regularites, des types structurels ainsi que d'eventuels invariants. G. DUMESTRE. Typologie des enonces complexes en bambara : traits generaux N. QUINT. Coordination et parataxe en capverdien moderne P. BOYELDIEU. Logophorique et imminence/immediatete en yakoma P. ROULON-DOKO. Les marqueurs de discours en gbaya M. VANHOVE. Enonces hierarchises, converbes et prosodie en bedja S. RUELLAND. Parataxe et dependance en tupuri D. MORIN. Connexite lineaire et connexite configuree : l'exemple du joncteur oo en somali B. CARON. La structure enonciative des subordonnees conditionnelles E. OREAL. Les formes de la dependance entre syntaxe et enonciation : la solution egyptienne S. OSU. La nature de la relation entre propositions dans une construction de type parataxe en ikwere

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On sait que la Chronique d'Apollodore d'Athenes, dont il ne reste que des fragments, a joue un role fondamental dans la tradition chronographique concernant les philosophes, les poetes, les prosateurs. A-t-elle ete importante egalement pour la transmission des dates de fondation des cites? Est-ce sur elle que s'est appuye l'auteur inconnu de l'ouvrage qu'on appelle la Periegese du Pseudo-Skymnos, lorsqu'il a voulu dater les ktiseis des cites du Pont-Euxin? Voila les questions qui ont ete a l'origine de cette recherche. Pour y repondre, il a fallu poser d'autres questions encore, et notamment: Quelle etait l'attitude du Ps.-Skymnos a l'egard de son contemporain Apollodore? Quelle etait sa maniere de travailler? Comment expliquer les ressemblances entre son expose et Ora maritima d'Avienus? Pourquoi, tout en pretendant decrire le monde du present, decrit-il en fait le monde de jadis? Quels etaient les aspects du passe envisages dans la Chronique d'Apollodore? Comment les informations y etaient-elles organisees? Quelle etait la place qu'y occupaient les fragments conserves par l'Academicorum philosophorum index Herculanensis? Cette recherche vise a eclairer le travail de deux intellectuels atheniens - d'un grand erudit et d'un litterateur mineur - du temps de l'effondrement politique du monde hellenistique. Elle entend aussi contribuer a l'etude de la chronographie grecque, a la geographie historique et a la critique du texte de plusieurs auteurs.

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L'astrologie a Rome se veut une synthese qui va bien au-dela des manifestations ou des pratiques immediatement percues comme predictives. Cette pseudo-science est presente a Rome, des l'epoque republicaine, a travers des practiciens systematiquement designes sous le terme de Chaldeens. Quand ces croyances arrivent a Rome, elles permettent a la Ville de servir de creuset a une osmose entre Orient et Occident. Quoique vilipendee, l'astrologie occupe, sous diverses formes, une place de plus en plus importante dans tous les domaines de la vie de la cite - intellectuel, culturel et politique. Rome n'a donc pas ete l'epigone passif d'un mode de pensee qui lui etait etranger, mais l'a, au contraire, parfaitement integre a sa propre culture pour le faire totalement sien.

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Le philosophe japonais Nishida (1870-1945) et ses disciples de l'ecole de Kyoto, en elaborant une pensee situee a la croisee des cultures, ont ete persuades de repondre a une attente propre de leur epoque - une epoque marquee par l'europeanisation du globe et, singulierement, celle du Japon, depuis la politique d'occidentalisation systematique entamee par la restauration Meiji (1868). Afin de pouvoir faire face, en lui empruntant ses propres armes, a l'europeanisation heterogene et forcee que l'Occident faisait subir aux pays asiatiques, du fait de son expansion capitaliste et imperialiste, le Japon n'a pas seulement voulu apprendre les moyens de la puissance europeenne et americaine, afin de pouvoir resister a celles-ci, eviter l'assujettissement subi par la quasitotalite du continent asiatique et ainsi rester maitre de sa destinee, il a en outre voulu sortir de son isolement culturel, monter sur la scene de l'histoire mondiale, entrer dans la societe des nations que constituaient ensemble les puissances occidentales et, a partir de la, il a ambitionne de pouvoir participer a la logique universaliste dont ces nations se consideraient detentrices - a l'exclusion des civilisations non-occidentales formant chacune un monde ferme sur soi, et ignore du reste du monde. Nishida comprenait ainsi son oeuvre comme etant le produit ou l'expression, sur le plan intellectuel, de ce phenomene proprement nippon de l'occidentalisation consentie d'une portion du monde oriental afin d'entrer dans l'universalite en devenir de l'esprit occidental. Son effort devient ainsi emblematique de toutes les expressions culturelles non-occidentales qui, aujourd'hui, de maniere souvent hasardeuse, cherchent a leur tour a faire entendre leur voix au sein de ce meme concert.

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