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Abstract. Floods are one of the most frequent and damaging natural threats worldwide. Whereas the assessment of direct impacts is well advanced, the evaluation of indirect impacts is less frequently achieved. Indirect impacts are not due to the physical contact with flood water but result, for example, from the reduced performance of infrastructures. Linear critical infrastructures (such as roads and pipes) have an interconnected nature that may lead to failure propagation, so that impacts extend far beyond the inundated areas and/or period. This work presents the risk analysis of two linear infrastructure systems, i.e. the water distribution system (WSS) and the road network system. The evaluation of indirect flood impacts on the two networks is carried out for four flooding scenarios, obtained by a coupled 1D–quasi-2D hydraulic model. Two methods are used for assessing the impacts on the WSS and on the road network: a pressure-driven demand network model and a transport network disruption model respectively. The analysis is focused on the identification of (i) common impact metrics, (ii) vulnerable elements exposed to the flood, (iii) similarities and differences of the methodological aspects for the two networks, and (iv) risks due to systemic interdependency. The study presents an application to the metropolitan area of Florence (Italy). When interdependencies are accounted for, results showed that the risk to the WSS in terms of population equivalent (PE/year) can be reduced by 71.5 % and 41.8 %, if timely repairs to the WSS stations are accomplished by 60 and 120 min respectively; the risk to WSS in terms of pipe length (km yr−1) reduces by 53.1 % and 15.6 %. The study highlights that resilience is enhanced by systemic risk-informed planning, which ensures timely interventions on critical infrastructures; however, for indirect impacts and cascade effects, temporal and spatial scales are difficult to define. Perspective research could further improve this work by applying a system-risk analysis to multiple urban infrastructures.

The author looks into the forms of political government in the Renaissance, and the typology thereof as provided by Niccolo Machiavelli in The Prince and in Discourses on Livy. The article aims to examine whether there is a differentia specifica distinguishing the Dubrovnik form of political order from similar forms of political government in Renaissance times. Republican forms of political government are analysed here, and the author stresses the existence of forms situated along the transition line from republic to principate, i.e. monarchy, and vice versa. An expose of presuppositions of Machiavelli's initial analysis of comparative political orders is followed by a comparative analysis of the Florentine republican model of government, the Venetian form of political government, and, finally, the Dubrovnik model of political order. Although each model had distinctive features, they were similar inasmuch as each preserved the common idea of civil republicanism (repubblicanesimo civile), and then shaped its political order in accordance with the interests of the main social and political forces in the country, i.e. in its territory. For instance, the Florentine republicanism developed into a so-called "democratic republicanism" (here the term democracy means exclusively that which Machiavelli refers to as governo dei molti -- the government of many). Although such forms of wider participation of citizens in decision-making satisfied most citizens of Florence, the system was unstable, because it was subject to internal conflicts between factions and parties, and to external pressures. The Venetian system of aristocratic republicanism was much more stable, but its social base was narrower and, ultimately, prior to its downfall, it transformed into a self-contained police system. The Dubrovnik model of political order was also a form of aristocratic republicanism, but its uniqueness lies in the fact that, unlike Venice or Genoa, it limited the authority and prerogatives of the head of state, in this case the rector, who guaranteed the stability and non-corruption of the system. The inclusion of commoners through confraternities in the city's public affairs made it possible to expand the social basis of such an order. These two characteristics also make the Dubrovnik political model unique. Adapted from the source document.

Book Reviewed in this issues. Van Diemen's Land. By James Boyce Mapping Colonial Conquest: Australia and Southern Africa. Edited by Norman Etherington Selling Sex: A Hidden History of Prostitution. By Raelene Frances Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy. By Peter Cochrane Lucy Osburn, a Lady Displaced: Florence Nightingale's Envoy to Australia. By Judith Godden Australia's Muslim Cameleers: Pioneers of the Inland 1860‐1930. By Philip Jones and Anna Kenny Bishop of Magnetic Power: James Moorhouse in Melbourne, 1876‐1886. By Moma Sturrock Summer in the Hills: The Nineteenth‐Century Mountain Resort in Australia. By Andrea Inglis Anzacs and Ireland. By Jeff Kildea Designing Australia's Cities: Culture, Commerce and the City Beautiful 1900‐1930. By Robert Freestone From the Hustings to Harbour Views: Electoral Institutions in New South Wales, 1856‐2006. By Marian Simms Jean Beadle: A Life of Labor Activism. By Bobbie Oliver The Coalminers of Queensland: A Narrative History of the Queensland Colliery Employees Union. Volume Two: The Pete Thomas Essays. By Pete Thomas and Greg Mallory The Little History of Australian Unionism. By Sean Scalmer The Voice of the Thunderer: Journalism of H.G. Kippax. Selected and introduced by Harry Heseltine Sir Ronald Wilson: A Matter of Conscience. By Antonio Buti Power without Responsibility: Ministerial Staffers in Australian Governments from Whitlam to Howard. By Ann Tiernan John Winston Howard: The Biography. By Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen History's Children: History Wars in the Classroom. By Anna Clark John Grote, Cambridge University and the Development of Victorian Thought. By John R. Gibbins A.J.P. Taylor: Radical Historian of Europe. By Chris Wrigley Deutsche, Juden, Völkermord. Der Holocaust als Geschichte und Gegenwart. Edited by Jürgen Matthäus and Klaus‐Michael Mallmann Prague in Black. Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism. By Chad Bryant Prague in Danger. By Peter Demetz Why is there No Labor Party in the United States? By Robin Archer Anti‐Americanism: History, Causes, Themes, 4 volumes. Edited by Brendon O'Connor Equality. By Stuart White The Political Communication Reader. Edited by Ralph Negrine and James Stanyer The Right Road to Radical Freedom. By Tibor Machan Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People. By John Harris

AbstractIntegrative passive samplers, such as DGT (Diffusive Gradients in Thin-films), are identified in European Technical Guidance Documents as promising tools to improve the quality of the assessment, in the context of the WFD (EU Water Framework Directive). However, DGT results cannot yet be used directly in a regulatory framework to assess the chemical status of water bodies, as DGT labile concentrations cannot be directly compared to the metal AA-EQSmarine water (Annual Average Environmental Quality Standard) established by the WFD, which are defined in the dissolved concentration. Therefore, prior to using DGT results in a regulatory context, for cadmium, nickel and lead, an adaptation of existing AA-EQSmarine water for DGTs should be pursued, ensuring at least the same level of protection. In this sense, in the framework of the MONITOOL project, a robust database of dissolved and labile metal concentrations in transitional and coastal waters, for adapting the existing AA-EQSmarine water for DGT technique, was obtained. Building on these results, this study proposes a methodology and provides values and equations for using DGT results for the chemical status assessment of marine waters, by adapting the EQSmarine water to adapted EQSDGT or predicting dissolved concentrations from DGT results. Based on available dataset, a first simulation of "chemical status" assessment per MONITOOL sampling site using DGT measured labile concentrations was carried out and the results were compared to an assessment based on dissolved concentration to check their compliance. These results demonstrate that the use of DGT passive samplers is appropriate for the metal concentrations level encountered in the marine environment. Further work is recommended to test the effectiveness of the methodology proposed in this study under WFD conditions on more sites and to establish common strategy guidelines for the use of DGT passive samplers in monitoring.

In periods of history with rapid social and economic change, it is useful to examine the long-term history of particular arrangements. Money is one of these institutions that seems eternal and unchanging, but that has changed dramatically over time. For example, money was typically conceived as coins made of precious metal and stamped with the image of the ruler. As long-distance trade expanded in the early modern period, money was represented by paper, most often letters of exchange among merchants who trusted one another because of common membership in a community. The emergence of the fiscal/military state enabled populations to have some role in the issue and uses of money, such as the Italian city-states of Republican form, like Florence and Venice. After the "Glorious Revolution" in 1688, the Bank of England (BOE) innovated with merchant monopoly corporations engaging in state-supported long-distance trade, the stock of which backed public debt. The political controversies surrounding the formation of the BOE reveal some of the alternative possibilities, a merchant-oriented bank, supported by the Whigs, or a land bank supported by the Tories. After the industrial revolution, the use of credit for real investment aided the accumulation of surplus, by the productivity treadmill. After the Great Depression, the extension of finance into the lives of the citizens proceeded, with debt financing for housing, education, and retirement, encompassing the entire life cycle. The dominance of the United States after World War II enabled that country to sustain a hegemonic currency, based on the expansion of trade and supply chains to Emerging Market Countries. Along with the tech bubble in the second decade of the twenty-first century, the crypto bubble expanded hopes for an alternative form of money. Such a long-term history can be informed by analysis of the role of money as a symbol, mobilized by meanings enacted in human institutions. Such a view can provide a method of interpreting the long term evolution of money, restoring the political dimension and human agency to the abstract impersonal mechanical notion of the market. Such a perspective can better inform consideration of alternative institutions to accommodate challenges like geopolitical competition, war, and climate change. JEL Classification: B51, B52, G20, N20, P48

ObjectiveTo analyze self‐reported adherence to antiretroviral regimens containing ritonavir‐boosted protease inhibitors, non‐nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NNRTI), raltegravir, and maraviroc.MethodsOverall, 372 consecutive subjects attending a reference center for HIV treatment in Florence, Italy, were enrolled in the study, from December 2010 to January 2012 (mean age 48 years). A self‐report questionnaire was filled in. Patients were defined as "non‐adherent" if reporting one of the following criteria:<90% of pills taken in the last month, ≥1 missed dose in the last week, spontaneous treatment interruptions reported, or refill problems in the last 3 months. Gender, age, CD4, HIV‐RNA, years of therapy, and type of antiretroviral regimen were analyzed with respect to adherence.ResultsAt the time of the questionnaire, 89.8% of patients had <50 copies/mL HIV‐RNA and 14.2% were on their first combined antiretroviral therapy. 57% of patients were prescribed a regimen containing ritonavir boosted protease inhibitors (boosted PI), 41.7% NNRTI, 17.2% raltegravir, and 4.8% maraviroc; 49.5% of the subjects were on bis‐in‐die regimens, while 50.5% were on once‐daily regimens, with 23.1% of these on the single tablet regimen (STR): tenofovir/emtricitabine/efavirenz. The non‐adherence proportion was lower in NNRTI than in boosted‐PI treatments (19.4% vs 30.2%), and even lower in STR patients (17.4%). In multivariable logistic regression, patients with the NNRTI regimen (OR: 0.56, 95% CI: 0.34–0.94) and the STR (OR: 0.45, 95% CI: 0.22–0.92) reported lower non‐adherence. Efavirenz regimens were also associated with lower non‐adherence (OR: 0.42, 95% CI: 0.21–0.83), while atazanavir/ritonavir regimens were associated with higher non‐adherence. No other relation to specific antiretroviral drugs was found. A higher CD4 count, lower HIV‐RNA, and older age were also found to be associated with lower non‐adherence, while a longer time on combined antiretroviral therapy was related to higher non‐adherence.ConclusionIn conclusion, older age, higher CD4 cell counts, lower HIV‐RNA viral loads, and the use of STR are all related to lower non‐adherence. In particular, the use of STR maintains an advantage in improving adherence with respect to other cARTs, even with the availability of new, well‐tolerated antiretroviral drugs and drug classes in recent years.

AbstractSustainable human resource management is gaining importance in organizations due to its role in developing a sustainable work environment and well‐being. This paper discusses the relationship between employee perceptions of sustainable human resource management and job satisfaction in 54 countries. We propose that sustainable HRM is positively associated with job satisfaction but that this relationship is moderated by employees' identification with the organization and country‐level individualism–collectivism. Thus, we suggest national culture functions as a second‐level moderator of the relationship of sustainable HRM with organizational identification on job satisfaction. Findings from the multi‐level analyses using data from 14,502 employees nested within 54 countries provided support for our hypotheses, namely that employee perceptions of sustainable HRM were positively associated with job satisfaction and that this relationship was more pronounced for employees with lower levels compared to higher levels of organizational identification in individualistic rather than collectivistic countries. These findings bear important implications for both theory and practice.

Book reviewed in this article:REVIEW OF PERIODICAL LITERATURE, 1981Henry Phelps Brown and Sheila V. Hopkins.A Perspective of Wages and Prices.T. H. Lloyd.Alien Merchants in England in the High Middle Ages.J. A. Raftis.A Small Town in Late Medieval England: Godmanchester, 1278‐1400.Mary Prior.Fisher Row: Fishermen, Bargemen, and Canal Boatmen in Oxford, 1500‐1900.Kenneth D. Brown.The English Labour Movement, 1700‐1951.Jennifer TannJames WalvinMalcolm I. Thomis and Jennifer Grimmett.Women in Protest, 1800‐1850.Dennis Smith.Conflict and Compromise: Class Formation in English Society, 1830‐1914.M. A. Crowther.The Workhouse System, 1834‐1929: The History of an English Social Institution.Olive Checkland and Margaret LambKen Young and Patricia L. Garside.Metropolitan London: Politics and Urban Change, 1837‐1981. Studies in Urban History Series, 6.David Hoseason Morgan.Harvesters and Harvesting, 1840‐1900: A Study of the Rural Proletariat.Theo Barker and Michael DrakeDermot Keogh.The Rise of the Irish Working Class: The Dublin Trade Union Movement and Labour Leadership, 1890‐1914.Diana Gittens.Fair Sex: Family Size and Structure, 1900‐39.Kathleen BurkJ. M. Lee and Martin Petter.The Colonial Office, War, and Development Policy: Organisation and the Planning of a Metropolitan Initiative, 1939‐1945.Angus MacKay. Money, Prices, and politics in Fifteenth‐Century Castile.La economía española al final del Antiguo Régimen.Judith C. Brown.In the Shadow of Florence: Provincial Society in Renaissance Pescia.John M. MerrimanRichard J. EvansFred Singleton and Bernard Carter.The Economy of Yugoslavia.Roger Munting.The Economic Development of the USSR.Michael Mitterauer and Reinhard Sieder.The European Family: Patriarchy to Partnership from the Middle Ages to the Present.Dan P. Silverman.Reconstructing Europe after the Great War.Felipe Fernaandez‐Armesto.The Canary Islands after the Conquest: The Making of a Colonial Society in the Early Sixteenth Century.P. L. Wickens.An Economic History of Africa from the Earliest Times to Partition.Ross Fitzgerald.From the Dreaming to 1915: A History of Queensland.David W. Galenson.White Servitude in Colonial America: An Economic Analysis.Edward K. Spann.The New Metropolis: New York City, 1840‐1857.John H. Coatsworth.Growth Against Development: The Economic Impact of Railroads in Porfirian Mexico.M. H. J. Finch.A Political Economy of Uruguay since 1870.N. Charlesworth.British Rule and the Indian Economy, 1800‐1914.Earl H. Kinmonth.The Self‐Made Man in Meiji Japanese Thought: From Samurai to Salary Man.Tony Smith.The Pattern of Imperialism: The United States, Great Britain, and the Late‐Industrializing World since 1815.Winfried Baumgart.Imperialism: The Idea and Reality of British and French Colonial Expansion, 1880‐1914.Jorma AhvenainenA. G. Kenwood and A. L. Lougheed.Technological Diffusion and Industrialisation before 1914.Michael Chisholm.Modern World Development: A Geographical Perspective.

Books reviewed in this article:Weber, Axel (comp.); Asian Development Bank. Social protection index for committed poverty reduction.Islam, Nurul. Reducing rural poverty in Asia: Challenges and opportunities for microenterprises and public employment schemes.Alesina, Alberto; Glaeser, Edward L.Combattre les inégalités et la pauvreté: les Etats‐Unis face à l'Europe.Leisering, Lutz; Buhr, Petra; Traiser‐Diop, Ute. Soziale Grundsicherung in der Welt ‐ gesellschaft:monetäre Mindestsicherungs ‐systeme in den Länden des Südens und des Nordens.Imbeau, Louis. Politiques publiques com‐parées dans les Etats fédérés: l'Allemagne, l'Australie, le Canada, les Etats‐Unis et la Suisse.Schierup, Carl‐Ulrik; Hansen, Peo; Castles,Stephen. Migration, citizenship, and the European welfare state: A European dilemma.Razavi, Shahra; Hassim, Shireen (comp.); Instituto de Investigación de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo So cial. Gender and social policy in a global context.Steinwachs, Luise. Die Herstellung sozialer Sicherheit in Tanzania: Prozesse sozialer Transformation und die Entstehung neuer Handlungsräume.Glendinning, Caroline; Kemp, Peter A.(comp.). Cash and care: Policy challenges in the welfare state.Piller, Otto. Die soziale Schweiz: die schweizerischen Sozialwerke im Überblick.Häcki, Kurt; Schaub, Beatrice. Sozialversi ‐cherungen kreuz und quer.Schoppa, Leonard. Race for the exits: The unraveling of Japan's system of social protection.Lafore, Robert; Cauquil, Guy (comp.). Evaluer les politiques sociales.Bureau, Marie‐Christine, et al. Défaillances et inventions de l'action sociale.Parienty, Arnaud. Protection sociale: le défi.Allen, Davina; Pilnick, Alison (comp.). The social organisation of healthcare work.Walshe, Kieran; Smith, Judith (comp.). Healthcare management.Jacobs, Rowena; Smith, Peter C.; Street, Andrew.Measuring efficiency in health care:Analytic techniques and health policy.Brink, Alexander, et al. Gerechtigkeit im Gesundheitswesen.Angel, Ronald J.; Lein, Laura; Henrici, Jane.Poor families in America's health care crisis.Buzzi, Stéphane; Devinck, Jean‐Claude; Rosental, Paul‐André. La santé au travail,1880‐2006.Libault, Dominique, et al. La réforme de l'assurance maladie.Dopson, Sue; Fitzgerald, Louise. Knowledge to action? Evidence‐based health care in context.Gimeno, Juan A.; Rubio, Santiago; Tamayo Lorenzo, Pedro A. (comps.). Economía de la salud: fundamentos.Gimeno, Juan A.; Rubio, Santiago; Tamayo Lorenzo, Pedro A. (comps.). Economía de la salud: Instrumentos.Hamman, Philippe. Les travailleurs fron‐taliers en Europe: mobilités et mobilisations transnationales.l'Horty, Yannick. Les nouvelles politiques de l'emploi.Thibault, Florence; Avenel, Cyprien.Précarités et insécurité sociale.Demazière, Didier. Sociologie des chô‐meurs.Sunley, Peter; Martin, Ron; Nativel, Corinne.Putting workfare in place: Local labour markets and the New Deal.Organización de Cooperación y Desarrollo Económicos. Perspectivas del empleo, 2005.Lynch, Julia. Age in the welfare state: The origins of social spending on pensioners,workers, and children.Ebbinghaus, Bernhard. Reforming early retirement in Europe, Japan and the USA.Clark, Gordon L., et al. The Oxford handbook of pensions and retirement income.Milevsky, Moshe A. The calculus of retirement income: Financial models for pension annuities and life insurance.Dorenlot, Pascale, et al. Accompagner la fin de vie des personnes atteintes de la maladie d'Alzheimer ou de mal a dies apparentées.

Books reviewed in this article:Weber, Axel (Hrsg.); Asian Development Bank. Social protection index for committed poverty reduction.Islam, Nurul. Reducing rural poverty in Asia: Challenges and opportunities for micro enterprises and public employment schemes.Alesina, Alberto; Glaeser, Edward L. Combattre les inégalités et la pauvreté: les Etats‐Unis face à l'Europe.Leisering, Lutz; Buhr, Petra; Traiser‐Diop, Ute. Soziale Grundsicherung in der Weltgesellschaft: monetäre Mindestsicherungs systeme in den Länden des Südens und des Nordens.Imbeau, Louis. Politiques publiques comparées dans les Etats fédérés: l'Allemagne, l'Australie, le Canada, les Etats‐Unis et la Suisse.Schierup, Carl‐Ulrik; Hansen, Peo; Castles, Stephen. Migration, citizenship, and the European welfare state: A European dilemma.Razavi, Shahra; Hassim, Shireen (Hrsg.); United Nations Research Institute for Social Development. Gender and social policy in a global context.Steinwachs, Luise. Die Herstellung sozialer Sicherheit in Tanzania: Prozesse sozialer Transformation und die Entstehung neuer Handlungsräume.Glendinning, Caroline; Kemp, Peter A. (Hrsg.) Cash and care: Policy challenges in the welfare state.Piller, Otto. Die soziale Schweiz: die schweizerischen Sozialwerke im Überblick.Häcki, Kurt; Schaub, Beatrice. Sozial versicherungen kreuz und quer.Schoppa, Leonard. Race for the exits: The unraveling of Japan's system of social protection.Lafore, Robert; Cauquil, Guy (Hrsg.). Evaluer les politiques sociales.Bureau, Marie‐Christine, et al. Défaillances et inventions de l'action sociale.Parienty, Arnaud. Protection sociale: le défi.Allen, Davina; Pilnick, Alison (Hrsg.). The social organisation of healthcare work.Walshe, Kieran; Smith, Judith (Hrsg.) Healthcare management.Jacobs, Rowena; Smith, Peter C.; Street, Andrew. Measuring efficiency in health care: Analytic techniques and health policy.Brink, Alexander, et al. Gerechtigkeit im Gesundheitswesen.Angel, Ronald J.; Lein, Laura; Henrici, Jane. Poor families in America's health care crisis.Buzzi, Stéphane; Devinck, Jean‐Claude; Rosental, Paul‐André. La santé au travail, 1880‐2006.Libault, Dominique, et al. La réforme de l'assurance maladie.Dopson, Sue; Fitzgerald, Louise. Knowledge to action? Evidence‐based health care in context.Gimeno, Juan A.; Rubio, Santiago; Tamayo Lorenzo, Pedro A. (Hrsg.). Economía de la salud: fundamentos.Gimeno, Juan A.; Rubio, Santiago; Tamayo Lorenzo, Pedro A. (Hrsg.). Economía de la salud: Instrumentos.Hamman, Philippe. Les travailleurs frontaliers en Europe: mobilités et mobilisations transnationales.L'Horty, Yannick. Les nouvelles politiques de l'emploi.Thibault, Florence; Avenel, Cyprien. Précarités et insécurité sociale.Demazière, Didier. Sociologie des chômeurs.Sunley, Peter; Martin, Ron; Nativel, Corinne. Putting workfare in place: Local labour markets and the New Deal.Organisation für wirtschaftliche Zusam menarbeit und Entwicklung.Lynch, Julia. Age in the welfare state: The origins of social spending on pensioners, workers, and childrenEbbinghaus, Bernhard. Reforming early retirement in Europe, Japan and the USA.Clark, Gordon L., et al. The Oxford handbook of pensions and retirement income.Milevsky, Moshe A. The calculus of retirement income: Financial models for pension annuities and life insurance.Dorenlot, Pascale, et al. Accompagner la fin de vie des personnes atteintes de la maladie d'Alzheimer ou de maladies apparentées.

Book reviewed in this article:The State of The Prisons. By John Howard.The Elizabethan Underworld. A collection of Tudor and Early Stuart Tracts and Ballads—Edited with introduction by A. V. Judges.Crime and Punishment in Germany. By Theodore Hampe. Translated by Malcolm Letts.The Adventures of Ralph Rashleigh: A Penal Exile in Australia, 1825–1844. Edited by the Earl of Birkenhead.Survey of Health and Medical Service in American Prisons and Reformatories. By Frank L. Rector, M.D. (The National Society of Penal Information, Inc., New York.The Handbook of American Prisons and Reformatories, 1929.Life and Death in Sing Sing. By Lewis E. Lawes, Warden of Sing Sing.Medical Science and Criminal Justice. By Herman M. Adler, M.D.Five Hundred Criminal Careers. By Sheldon Glueck and Eleanor T. Glueck.Sex in Civilisation.A Study of Masturbation. By J. F. W. Meagher, M.D., F.A.C.P.The Modern Attitude to the Sex Problem. By Kenneth Ingram.The Morality of Punishment. By A. C. Ewing.Penal Reform in Italy. A study of the Preliminary Draft of the New Penal Code. By Henry G. J. Maas Geesteranus.La Justice Pénale d'aujourd'hui. By H. Donnedieu de Vabres (Collection Armand Colin.The Trial of Alexander Campbell Mason. Edited by the Hon. H. Fletcher Moulton. Famous Trial Series.The Trial of Norman Thorne. By Helena Normanton.Trial of Jean Pierre Vaquier. By R. H. Blundell & R. E. Seaton.A Magistrate's Handbook. By S. R. C. Bosanquet, K.C., Recorder of Walsall and Deputy‐Chairman of Quarter Sessions for Monmouthshire, and D. H. J. Chalmers, Barrister‐at‐law, assisted by Graham Olver, Barrister‐at‐law.Scotland Yard. By J. F. Moylan, C.B., C.B.E., Receiver for the Metropolitan Police.The Adolescent Offender. A Study of the Age‐Limit of the Children's Court. By The Committee on Criminal Courts of the New York City Charity Organization Society.The Child, the Family, and the Court. By Bernard Flexner, Reulen Oppenheimer and Katherine F. Lenroot.Outdoor Recreation Legislation and Its Effectiveness. By Andrew Truxal, Ph.D.Just Normal Children. By Florence Mateer.A Study of Educational Achievement of Problem Children. By R. H. Paynter & P. Blanchard.Training Schools for Delinquent Girls. By M. Reeves.Children's Behaviour and Teachers' Attitudes.The Mind of the Murderer. By Harold Dearden.His Majesty's Guests. By Warden.The Lost Child. By Rahel Sanzara. Translated by Winifred Katzin.Imprisonment. By Lt.‐Col. F. A. Barker, Inspector‐General of Prisons, Punjab. With a Foreword by the Bishop of Madras.Grimharen. By Robert Joyce Tasker.The Agra Double Murder. By Sir Cecil Walsh, K.C.Scoundrels and Scallynags and Some Honest Men. By Tom Divall, Ex‐Chief Inspector, C.I.D.While There is Life. By William Markall.Guide to Material on Crime and Criminal Justice. By A. F. Kuhlman.Family Council Law in Europe.The Underworld of Paris. By Alfred Morain, G.B.E.Sur le chemin des douleurs. By Sandor Kemeri.

This work demonstrates results of study of museum and exhibition activity, which forming modern sociоcultural space at the examples of Renaissance and Mannerism art works from the Stroganovs and the Demidovs collections. The members of these families of Ural and Siberian industrialists, patrons of arts and philanthropists possessed the richest collections of world-class art works. Authors pay attention on such work as "Madonna del Popolo", also known as "The Holy Family". Now this masterpiece is stored in the Nizhny Tagil Municipal Museum of Fine Arts. Academician Igor Grabar, who saved it from destroy, considered that this artwork belongs to the authorship of Raphael Santi. The second masterpiece "The Holy Family with Infant Saint John the Baptist" by Agnolo Bronzino now is in the Pushkin State Art Museum (Moscow). Each painter in its own way have revealed the images of the Holy Family, especially Madonna and Infant Christ. Raphael did it in the traditions of the High Renaissance and Bronzino followed the best achievements of Mannerism. These paintings are especially important and valuable because Italian painter, architect and writer Giorgio Vasari, known as the founder of art history as branch of science, have paid his attention on them. The researchers give characteristics to members of the Stroganovs and the Demidovs families on the context of the stated problem. The President of the Academy of Arts and the Director of the Imperial Public Library, the Count A. S. Stroganov bought for his collection the "Holy Family with Infant Saint John the Baptist" by Agnolo Bronzino. The owner of Nizhny Tagil factories N. N. Demidov, who also was a Russian envoy to the Duchy Tuscany (Florence), is connected with inclusion of "Madonna" by Raphael in his art collection. In the study the materials of Grabar's monograph are analyzed, the results of author's own scientific research and the detailed section on the Demidovs' Madonna attribution are given. There are used cultural research and art criticism methods of analysis, for instance, with attraction of "Madonna Doni" by Michelangelo. The acquisition and transfer to Russia of this unique incarnations of the "Holy family" enriched the historical and cultural space not only of the owners and people close to the families, but also of the wider social circles, because these paintings were becoming an integral part of museum and exhibition activities. As a modern example authors analyze the exhibition "Madonna by Raphael from Nizhny Tagil", where the samples from the collection of the Demidovs, Ural and Sibirian magnates, in the Hall of Arts of the South Ural State University were presented. It is established that, using them, the university academic exhibition has fulfilled the important task of the complex formation of cultural identity of students in the interaction of its regional, national and supranational (universal) aspects

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