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To contend with others is to contend with ourselves. The way we “other” others, by identifying and reinforcing social distance, is more a product of who we are and who we want to be than it is about “others.” Strangers, Aliens, Foreigners questions such consolidation and polarization of identities in representations ranging from migrants and refugees, to terrorist labels, to constructions of the local. Inclusive and exclusive identities are observed through often arbitrary yet strategically ambiguous lines of class, religion, race, ethnicity, nationality, social status, and geography. However, despite any arbitrariness in definition, there are very real consequences for the emotional, physical, and psychological well-being of those constructed as “the other”, as well as legal governance implications involving human rights and wider sociopolitical ethics. From practical, professional, and political-philosophical points of view, this collection examines what it means to be, or to construct, the Strangers, Aliens, Foreigners . Contributors are David Elijah Bell, Adina Camenisch, Hanna Jagtenberg, Seraina Müller, Lana Pavić, Michelle Ryan, Marissa Sonnis-Bell and Tomasso Trilló.

Social perception. --- Other (Philosophy) --- Fear --- Stereotypes (Social psychology) --- Strangers --- Persons --- Mental stereotypes --- Stereotype (Psychology) --- Stereotyping (Social psychology) --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Rigidity (Psychology) --- Alterity (Philosophy) --- Otherness (Philosophy) --- Philosophy --- Cognition, Social --- Interpersonal perception --- Social cognition --- Interpersonal relations --- Perception --- Social cognitive theory --- Social aspects. --- Psychological aspects.

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This Reprint Book highlights and overviews the most important and novel aspects of chiral auxiliary and chirogenesis in different natural/physical sciences and in modern technologies. In particular, some newly emerging classes of molecules used for these purposes are described. This book consists of four review articles and one research paper and is of interest for general chemistry readership, including graduate and postgraduate students, and for researchers specializing in the fields of chirality and stereochemistry

buckybowl --- corannulene --- sumanene --- bowl chirality --- bowl inversion --- asymmetric synthesis --- chiral resolution --- helicene --- chiral auxiliaries --- supramolecular chirogenesis --- chirality --- mechanical chirality --- mecanostereochemistery --- supramolecular chirality --- rotaxane --- aminolysis --- heterocycle --- receptors --- enantioselective recognition --- hydrogen bonding --- conformational rigidity --- configuration --- diastereomeric interactions --- macrocycle size --- pyridine --- dipolar interactions --- cucurbiturils --- hemicucurbiturils --- symmetry breaking --- helixes

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"In the long nineteenth century, dominant stereotypes presented people of the Mediterranean South as particularly passionate and unruly, therefore incapable of adapting to the moral and political duties imposed by European civilization and modernity. This book studies, for the first time in comparative perspective, the gender dimension of a process that legitimised internal hierarchies between North and South in the continent. It also analyses how this phenomenon was responded to from Spain and Italy, pointing to the similarities and differences between both countries. Drawing on travel narratives, satires, philosophical works, novels, plays, operas, and paintings, it shows how this transnational process affected, in changing historical contexts, the ways in which nation, gender, and modernity were imagined and mutually articulated"--

Stereotypes (Social psychology) --- National characteristics, Spanish. --- National characteristics, Italian. --- Sex role --- Europeans --- National characteristics in literature --- Stereotypes (Social psychology) in literature --- History --- Attitudes --- History. --- Europe, Southern --- Civilization --- Stereotype (Psychology) in literature --- Ethnology --- Gender role --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles --- Sex (Psychology) --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Gender expression --- Sexism --- Italian national characteristics --- Spanish national characteristics --- Mental stereotypes --- Stereotype (Psychology) --- Stereotyping (Social psychology) --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Rigidity (Psychology) --- Southern Europe

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The work included in this book pertains to advanced abrasive and nonconventional machining processes. These processes are at the forefront of modern technology, with significant practical significance. Their importance is also made clear by the case studies that are included in the research that is presented in the book, pertaining to important materials and high-end applications. However, the particularities of these manufacturing processes need to be further investigated and the processes themselves need to be optimized. This is conducted in the presented works with significant experimental and modeling work, incorporating modern tools of analysis and measurements.

electrical discharge machining --- surface roughness --- white layer formation --- heat affected zone --- ANOVA --- aluminum alloy Al5052 --- wire EDM --- process parameters --- Inconel 617 super alloy --- DoE --- RSM method --- Box–Behnken design --- performance measures --- material removal rate --- abrasive machining --- single-sided lapping --- tool wear --- machine learning --- burnishing process --- fatigue strength --- ship propeller --- surface layer --- surface processing --- wavelet analysis --- decomposition of signals --- honing --- honing of holes --- kinematics of honing --- automation of honing --- abrasive grain trajectories --- FlexSim --- thermography --- abrasive brushing --- finishing --- fine machining --- grinding --- ceramics --- MgO-PSZ --- ZrO2 --- CNC turning --- rigidity --- surface texture --- profile parameters --- AISI 304 --- S355JR --- n/a --- Box-Behnken design

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Wood-based materials are CO2-neutral, renewable, and considered to be environmentally friendly. The huge variety of wood species and wood-based composites allows a wide scope of creative and esthetic alternatives to materials with higher environmental impacts during production, use and disposal. Quality of wood is influenced by the genetic and environmental factors. One of the emerging uses of wood are building and construction applications. Modern building and construction practices would not be possible without use of wood or wood-based composites. The use of composites enables using wood of lower quality for the production of materials with engineered properties for specific target applications. Even more, the utilization of such reinforcing particles as carbon nanotubes and nanocellulose enables development of a new generation of composites with even better properties. The positive aspect of decomposability of waste wood can turn into the opposite when wood or wood-based materials are exposed to weathering, moisture oscillations, different discolorations, and degrading organisms. Protective measures are therefore unavoidable for many outdoor applications. Resistance of wood against different aging factors is always a combined effect of toxic or inhibiting ingredients on the one hand, and of structural, anatomical, or chemical ways of excluding moisture on the other.

neural network --- Pinus massoniana Lamb. --- intra-ring variation --- relative humidity --- ultimate state --- nondestructive assessment --- machinability --- stiffness --- wood based composites --- bamboo --- poplar seedlings --- thinning --- blue staining fungi --- tropical woods --- compression --- bending stiffness --- wooden windows --- ultrasonic wave velocity measurement --- glued lamella --- three-point bending --- wood properties --- technological and product innovations --- structural changes --- non-destructive testing --- hardwoods --- brittleness --- green larch --- root-collar diameter --- FTIR --- material preference --- cooling tower --- tensile modulus --- strength grading --- immigrants --- weight of a user --- density --- flexible chair --- predictive performance --- heat treatment --- modulus of elasticity --- orthotropic --- acoustic resonance --- building material --- CIEL*a*b* system --- deflection at the modulus of rupture --- marketing --- bamboo grid packing --- fungi --- minimal curve radius --- European hardwoods --- cyclic loading --- chemical composition --- laminated wood --- volume yield --- tensile strength --- artificial weathering --- glulam --- dynamic modulus of elasticity --- colour changes --- modulus of elasticity (MOE) --- coefficient of wood bendability --- urban housing --- Resistance to Impact Milling (RIM) --- nondestructive testing --- Coniophora puteana --- roughness --- brown rot --- wood --- phenol formaldehyde resin --- wood-processing industry performance --- elemental composition --- natural weathering --- longitudinal stress wave velocity --- mechanical properties --- aluminium reinforcements --- chemical changes --- colour change --- High-Energy Multiple Impact (HEMI)–test --- plantation timber --- fiber-managed hardwoods --- cooling packing --- wood mechanical properties --- flexural rigidity --- moisture content --- ultrasonic speed --- color --- elastic constants --- Douglas-fir --- mixed-effects hierarchical linear models --- wood impregnation --- dynamic strength --- microfibril angle --- silviculture --- low quality round wood --- Eucalyptus --- hybrid beams --- end-product-based fiber attribute determinates --- high frequency drying --- infrared spectroscopy --- building culture background --- lumber --- Euler-Bernoulli --- ultrasound --- cell-wall mechanics --- colour --- deflection at the limit of proportionality