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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Energy -- Chapter 1 -- Nuclear Supply Chain: NNSA Should Notify Congress of Its Recommendations to Improve the Enhanced Procurement Authority( -- Introduction -- Background -- DOE Has Not Used the Enhanced Procurement Authority Because of Several Concerns, and NNSA Is Drafting a Report That Recommends Ways to Improve Its Usability -- NNSA Has Identified Circumstances That Could Warrant Using the Enhanced Procurement Authority but Is Unlikely to Use It Because of Several Concerns -- NNSA Is Drafting a Report That Recommends Changes to the Authority to Improve Its Usability, but Has Not Formally Communicated the Results to Congress -- Conclusion -- Recommendation for Executive Action -- Agency Comments -- List of Committees -- Enclosure: Comments from the National Nuclear Security Administration -- Health Care -- Chapter 2 -- Medicaid Payment: CMS Has Not Overseen States' Implementation of -- Changes to Third-Party Liability* -- Abbreviations -- Why GAO Did This Study -- What GAO Recommends -- What GAO Found -- Background -- Overview of Medicaid Expenditures and Oversight -- Federal Third-Party Liability Requirements -- Some Selected States Have Implemented Third-Party Liability Changes for Prenatal Care Services; Most of the States Were in the Early Stages of Planning for Other Changes -- Four of Nine Selected States have Implemented Required Third-Party Liability Changes for Prenatal Care Services -- Most Selected States Were in Early Stages of Planning Implementation of Third-Party Liability Payment Changes for Pediatric Preventive Services and Services to CSE Beneficiaries -- CMS has Issued Implementing Guidance with Information Inconsistent with Federal Law and has not Overseen States' Implementation of Third-Party Liability Changes.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Government Operations -- Chapter 1 -- Federal Vehicle Fleets: Agencies Have Continued to Incorporate Alternative Fuel Vehicles into Fleets, but Challenges Remain( -- Abbreviations -- Why GAO Did This Study -- What GAO Found -- Background -- Fleet Energy Requirements and Directives -- Alternative Fuel Vehicles -- Federal Responsibilities -- Agencies Reported Meeting Most Fleet Energy Requirements by Adding More Alternative Fuel Vehicles to their Fleets and Improving Fleet Management -- Agency Officials Stated That Acquisitions and Better Fleet Management Helped Reduce Petroleum Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions -- Acquiring Low Greenhouse Gas and Alternative Fuel Vehicles -- Improving Fleet Management -- Overall Composition of Federal Fleets Includes More Flex-Fuel Vehicles and Hybrids, and Electric Vehicle Numbers Remain Low -- Several Challenges May Limit Further Progress toward Fleet Energy Goals -- Higher Costs Pose Challenges to Acquiring Electric and Hybrid Vehicles -- Availability Limits Agencies' Use of Alternative Fuel -- Agencies' Need for Larger Vehicles Limits the Number of Low Greenhouse-Gas-Emitting Vehicles They Can Acquire -- Agency Comments -- Appendix I: Survey of Federal Agencies on Acquiring Alternative Fuel Vehicles -- Appendix II: Objectives, Scope, and Methodology -- Appendix III: Agencies' Consideration of Costs in Selecting Electric Vehicles -- Health Care -- Chapter 2 -- Medicare Part D: Use of Pharmacy Benefit Managers and Efforts to Manage Drug Expenditures and Utilization( -- Abbreviations -- Why GAO Did This Study -- What GAO Found -- Background -- Prescription Drug Supply Chain -- Prescription Drug Plan Services -- PBM Revenue -- Part D Coverage and Payments -- Implications of Rebates and Other Price Concessions.

The first volume in the new "Plural" series, this publication seeks to critically dissect the term "activism", which today seems to have become a catchword for any woman's empowerment through the arts, and reveal the diversity of practices and realities that it comprises. Presenting a range of critical insights, perspectives, and practices from artists, activists, and academics, it reflects on the role of feminist interventions in the field of contemporary art, the public sphere, and politics. In the process, it touches upon broader questions of cultural difference, history, class, economic standing, ecological issues, and sexual orientation, as well as the ways in which these intersect

Aus der Verlagsbeschreibung: "Wissenschaftlich fundiert, mit eigener Erfahrung und Lifehacks gewürzt, bietet Ihnen Greitemann zwanzig Perspektivwechsel an: Für einen Alltag, in dem Eigenverantwortung und Selbstreflexion den Weg zu Lebenslust und Leichtigkeit ebnen. Für Zufriedenheit in Partnerschaft und Beruf. Für angewandte Kreativität. Für LeichtSinn."

Die geschichtswissenschaftliche Studie weist nach, dass sich deutsche AktivistInnen zwischen dem Ende des 18. und der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts zunehmend mit AbolitionistInnen im atlantischen Raum vernetzten und eigene sklavereikritische Stellungnahmen in den grenzüberschreitenden Diskurs einbrachten. Die Untersuchung deutscher SklavereigegnerInnen erweitert und verändert nicht nur den Blick auf die Abolitionsbewegung als grenzüberschreitendes historisches Phänomen, sondern auch auf den deutschen Raum als Teil des sogenannten atlantischen Hinterlands.

In An Overview of the Pre-suppression Society of Jesus in Spain, Patricia W. Manning offers a survey of the Society of Jesus in Spain from its origins in Ignatius of Loyola's early preaching to the aftereffects of its expulsion. Rather than nurture the nascent order, Loyola's homeland was often ambivalent. His pre-Jesuit freelance sermonizing prompted investigations. The young Society confronted indifference and interference from the Spanish monarchy and outright opposition from other religious orders. This essay outlines the order's ministerial and pedagogical activities, its relationship with women and with royal institutions, including the Spanish Inquisition, and Spanish members' roles in theological debates concerning casuistry, free will, and the immaculate conception. It also considers the impact of Jesuits' non-religious writings. Readership: Readers interested in the Society of Jesus, textual production by Jesuits, the Society's ties to women, early modern theological polemics, and early modern Spain, including undergraduate and graduate students.

Eszter Szép's Comics and the Body is the first book to examine the roles of the body in both drawing and reading comics within a single framework. With an explicit emphasis on the ethical dimensions of bodily vulnerability, Szép takes her place at the forefront of scholars examining comics as embodied experiences, pushing this line of inquiry into bold new territory. Focusing on graphic autobiography and reportage, she argues that the bodily performances of creators and readers produce a dialogue that requires both parties to experience and engage with vulnerability, thus presenting a crucial opportunity for ethical encounters between artist and reader. Szép considers visceral representations of bulimia, pregnancy, the effects of STIs, the catastrophic injuries of war, and more in the works of Lynda Barry, Ken Dahl, Katie Green, Miriam Katin, and Joe Sacco. She thus extends comics theory into ethical and psychological territory that finds powerful intersections and resonances with the studies of affect, trauma, gender, and reader response.

At the youth center z6 in Innsbruck emerges a streetdance scene at beginning of 1990. Most of the dancers are children of the first immigrant worker generation. This work focuses on streetdance and which impact it had on the dancers and as well on the local subculture. The memories of the ex-dancers build the center and are contextualized to the present in the sense of the cultural science analysis of the consciousness. The main interest is how dancing shapes the identity beyond cultural stereotypes and stigmatizing, because dancing is political.; Im Jugendzentrum z6 in Innsbruck entsteht Anfang der 1990er Jahre eine Streetdancegruppe. Sie besteht zum großen Teil aus den Kindern der ersten Gastarbeiter_innen-Generation. Diese Arbeit untersucht aus europäisch-ethnologischer Perspektive, welche Bedeutung Streetdance für die Tänzer_innen und die Subkultur in der Stadt hatte. Dabei werden die Erzählungen und die Erinnerungen der ehemaligen Tänzer_innen in den Mittelpunkt gerückt und im Sinne der kulturwissenschaftlichen Bewusstseinsanalyse aus gegenwärtiger Sicht kontexualisiert. Im Zentrum der Forschung steht, wie durch das Tanzen eigene Identitätskonstruktionen – jenseits von kulturalistischen und stigmatisierenden Zuschreibungen – ermöglicht werden, denn Tanzen ist politisch!

The book is an analysis of Greek Hellenistic literature with the help of conceptual tools of cultural studies and media theory. Its main aim is to describe the cultural process during which Greek authors in the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C. made the "textualization of experience", that is, transferred phenomenalistically understood qualities of human sensory experience to the categories characteristic for textual description – as far as possible for them. This process is shown by examples from the works of Xenophon, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Philitas of Kos and Archimedes. The author also tries to show some of the consequences that the phenomenon of the Hellenistic textualization of experience had for the later epochs of European culture.

Der vorliegende Beitrag nimmt sich zur Aufgabe, das Konzept des Anthropozäns, auch hinsichtlich seines Potenzials zu einer systemischen Nachhaltigkeitsanalyse sowie den daraus resultierenden Verantwortlichkeiten, Engagements und Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten etwas näher vorzustellen. Das vielleicht Spannendste am Anthropozän-Konzept ist tatsächlich die Herausforderung, solche Dualismen zugunsten eines vielfältigen Spektrums von Einteilungen, Denkansätzen und Problemlösungen aufzugeben. Dabei müssen allerdings die unterschiedlichen Ebenen des Anthropozän-Ansatzes auseinandergehalten werden, damit wir wissen, worüber wir jeweils reden und debattieren.

Streamingdienste, Vinylflohmärkte, die verstaubte CD-Sammlung - nie gab es so viele Möglichkeiten auf Musik zuzugreifen wie heute. In Form ethnografischer Tracks zeigt Christian Elster, was Musiksammeln zwischen Plattenladen und Onlinediensten für Menschen bedeuten kann. Hierfür beleuchtet er Praktiken, Artefakte, Orte, Diskurse und Figuren des Sammelns und zeigt auf, dass die technisch grundierte und sinnliche Praxis wesentlich auf das Selbstverständnis vieler Menschen Einfluss nimmt. Sammeln kann deshalb als Alltagskompetenz verstanden werden, die in physischen und digitalen Umgebungen individuelle Ordnungen und sinnstiftende Wegmarken schafft.

An Operations Guide to Safety and Environmental Management Systems (SEMS): Making Sense of BSEE SEMS Regulations gives engineers and managers a vital tool to understand, prepare and manage SEMS audits before, during and after they are done. At the core of the book are 17 elements stemming from regulations which are broken down in parts to help management learn the compliance measures. Elements are supported by practical case studies that analyze past failures and lessons learned. A helpful glossary, abbreviations list and additional section of references give offshore engineers and operators clear-and-concise direction on how to perform key actions in SEMS audits. --