Publications

By introducing technologies and institutional reforms, irrigation modernization has been at the center of many agricultural-hydraulic policies worldwide, especially in regions where water is scarce or prone to water shortages. While water-supply policies, aiming to increase water availability, were predominant during the last century, the high cost and feasibility of continuing the search for augmentation opportunities produced a shift in the ...

This paper aims to assess whether the emerging research paradigm of the new speaker may be useful in the study of language history. This question is tackled by exploring the dynamics which arose between Florentines and non-Florentine learners in sixteenth-century Italy. At the time, notwithstanding the peninsula's linguistic fragmentation, the written language came to be progressively standardised around an archaic variety of Florentine (the ...

In modern theology, history and context have become more important than ever for theological method. The historical and contextual no longer constitute only the place or occasion where eternal truth is revealed, but are considered to intrinsically contribute to the way revelation happens. One of the last prominent attempts to theologically describe and engage the diversity of approaches in modern theology, in this regards, already dates back ...

Purpose of Review The International Classification of Headache Disorders provides an extensive framework to classify headaches. Physiotherapy is indicated if neuromusculoskeletal dysfunctions are involved in the pathophysiology. Maladaptive postures seem a dominant trigger in tension-type and cervicogenic headache. Yet, outcomes following physiotherapy vary. The absence of protocol studies to identify determinants concerning the role of spinal ...

© Canadian Linguistic Association/Association canadienne de linguistique 2018. This article is devoted to the emergence of a new paradigm in French and Romance: that of nominal determiners. Latin had no articles, and although possessives, demonstratives and indefinites could determine the noun, they could also be used as pronouns or adjectives, so that the morpho-syntactic category of nominal determiners did not exist as such. We first examine ...

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Early modern Europe was marked by fundamental changes in its intellectual landscape. In the field of historiography, this led to the development of a new antiquarian current in historiography which marked a fundamental shift in the view on historical writings. While traditionally historiography had been considered a literary genre, the new scholars approached it as a ...

Advanced dose distributions and high dose gradients defined the superiority of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) in organ-function sparing over conventional and 3-dimentional (3D)-conformal radiotherapy and encouraged treatment intensification for head and neck cancer. Various combinations of higher radiation doses, altered fractionation and chemotherapy have been associated with an increase in frequency, severity and duration of ...

The idea of the Jew as paradigmatic migrant constitutes one of the foundations of the relationship between the German blood-and-soil ideology and the National Socialist murder of the Jews. The condition of exile was also, since biblical times, an element of Jewish self-understanding. After the Second World War and the destruction of the Jewish-European world, but also in face of the foundation of a Jewish nation-state, the role of the Jew as ...