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This article draws on ethnographic and historical materials to interpret several related photographs and ritual images created by Fuyuge‐speakers of highland Papua. The images are analysed as techniques of vision. That is, the images are shown to bring forth present perceptions in a timely manner, as evaluated by Fuyuge men and women. It is shown how the representations are informed by distinctive Fuyuge retentions of the past in the present, and extensions of the present in the future. The article suggests that the tendency to 'read' photographic images for their semiotic connotations misses the local perceptions at work in their creation and use. Rather, photographic and ritual images are analogous to the relations of persons that produce them, with their mutually connected temporality.

The National Accounts of OECD Countries, Financial Accountsincludes financial transactions (both net acquisition of financial assets and net incurrence of liabilities), by institutional sector (non-financial corporations, financial corporations, general government, households and non-profit institutions serving households, total economy and rest of the world) and by financial operation. Country tables are expressed in national currency. Data are based on the System of National Accounts 1993 (1993 SNA) for all countries except Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Slovenia and Spain which are presented on the basis of the 2008 SNA.

AbstractGoffman's concepts of face and face work, and his assertion that talk in face-to-face interaction is cooperative, are undertheorized and often critiqued. In an attempt to expand on these concepts, excerpts are analyzed from a single-teller narrative which evolves into a 13-minute conversational story about the relationship troubles of an absent third party. Analyzed for the verbal and nonverbal disruptions and subsequent adjustments and remedial actions manifested by participants, Conversation Analysis (CA) is employed to capture how threats to face surface and how they are recognized, cooperatively managed, and made tellable. Through the analysis, this paper addresses the perceived incommensurability between CA and Goffman's notion of face, demonstrating the ways in which face is (1) a doing a doing, a situated presentation of self that serves narrative-advancing functions and renders talk tellable as threats to face arise and (2) an achievement comprised of moves that are tacitly cooperative, ambiguously cooperative, or uncooperatively cooperative.

The rhetorical strategy of much of the Hebrew Bible is to devise a God of justice who metes out reward & punishment in the world. Nonetheless, early Jewish rabbis sought to remove God from the juridical sphere by creatively reinterpreting biblical passages that present God as the guarantor of justice. Simultaneously, they appropriated the guardianship of divine law for themselves. This paper reexamines various rabbinic texts that have consistently been misconstrued as upholding traditional, "Old Testament" notions of the God of law. Through a critical reading of poetic passages from Hosea, I will argue that the early rabbis reread these verses to distance God from the sphere of justice & create space for human agency within divine law. 13 References. Adapted from the source document.

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Phytoremediation, as a cost-effective, highly efficient, environmentally friendly, and green approach, gained attention to the removal of metals, including heavy metals, from contaminated soils. The toxic nature of heavy metals can have an adverse effect on human health and the ecosystem, and their removal remains a worldwide problem. Therefore, in this study, a field experiment was carried out to evaluate the potential of Miscanthus × giganteus for the removal of ten microelements and heavy metals (Al, Zn, Fe, Pb, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Mn, Ni) from contaminated soil in the territory of a Municipal Waste Rendering Plant. Moreover, the effect of the incorporation of soil improver obtained upon composting biodegradable waste as well as the addition of highly contaminated post-industrial soil on the efficiency of phytoremediation and plant growth was described. The soil improver (SK-8) was applied to the soil at a rate of 200 Mg ha−1 and 400 Mg‧ha−1. Meanwhile, in the last object, 100 Mg‧ha−1 of highly contaminated post-industrial soil was added. Herein, the research was aimed at assessing the possibility of phytoextraction of heavy metals from soils with different physicochemical properties. The results showed that plants cultivated in soil with 400 Mg‧ha−1 of soil improver exhibited the highest yield (approximately 85% mass increase compared to the soil without additives). Furthermore, the application of a single dose of SK-8 (200 Mg ha−1) increased the uptake of Al, Fe, Co, Pb, Mn, Ni, and Cd by Miscanthus × giganteus compared to the soil without additives. Additionally, the performed biotests demonstrated no or low toxicity of the investigated soils affecting the test organisms. However, in all experiments, the phytorecovery of the elements did not exceed 1% of the amount introduced to the soil, which may result from a short cultivation period and large doses of SK-8 or highly contaminated post-industrial soil.

The aim of this paper is to illustrate one of the reasons of the inadequacy of the orthodox economic thought to tackle with the main problems of the time, especially with those caused by some exceptional events occurred in Western countries like, for example, the 2007-2008 financial crisis and the continuing changing process of globalization tacking place all over the world in recent decades. To pursue the above aim, there are obviously several key-readings available and different paths to follow. What will be done in the present paper, however, will be that of inquiring into the motivations which seem ultimately responsible in having put ethics definitely outside the orthodox economic thought (which, in the present context, will equivalently and alternatively be taken to coincide with the market-centered paradigm of neo-liberalism). To the effect of rendering the exposition as clear as possible, it will be necessary to single out some crucial stages through which the ethical problem has been dealt with in the development of the economic thought. The refined task of putting ethics outside the orthodox economic thought had initially the strong motivation of transforming the economic discipline into a neutral science, that is to say, free from any value-judgment. In this way, it could legitimately be considered scientific and, as a consequence, it could be viewed on the same footing as any other proper science, like Mathematics and Physics.