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Introduction -- An Overview of Pulses Economy -- Pulses Production and Food security -- Consumption of Pulses and Food Security -- National Food Security Mission and Pulses Production -- Socio-Economic Profile of the Sample Households -- Pulses Production, Trade and Government Policies -- Pricing and Exchange Rate Pass-through in Pulses Imports -- Minimum Support and Price Policies -- Information and Utilisation of MSP: Major Determinants -- Supply Response of Major Pulses -- Conclusion and Policy Implications.

The life course as a social construction -- What is "life course research"?- The life course as an institution -- Collective life courses: generations, cohorts and social change -- Structures of the life course -- Life course research - a conceptual perspective -- Life course research, qou vadis?

I. Innovation durch unbemannte Flugsysteme im Gesundheitswesen -- Innovation in der Gesundheitsversorgung -- Allgemeine rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen für die Nutzung von UAS -- II. Anwendungsszenarien für UAS in zukunftsfähigen medizinischen Versorgungskonzepten -- III. Innovationsbarrieren für unbemannte Flugsysteme in der Gesundheitsversorgung -- Entwicklungshindernisse aus dem aktuellen Versorgungssystem -- Gesetzliche Betriebshindernisse -- Technische Entwicklungslücken -- Klärungsbedarf für Betriebskonzepte -- IV. Wege zur Überwindung von Innovationsbarrieren -- Zukünftiges Design von Versorgungssystemen -- Vorschläge zur Gestaltung von Richtlinien -- Anforderungen an Hersteller der UAS-Technik -- Voraussetzungen für Betriebskonzepte.

Angelo Zottoli and His Mission -- The Labyrinth of Zi-ka-wei -- A Cosmogonic Journey: Zottoli's Works and Ideas about the Cosmos -- Zottoli's Works in Dialogue with Chinese Culture and Jesuit Spirituality -- The Qu pi xun meng《取譬訓蒙》, (Cathchism Illustrated with Examples or Using Parables to Instruct The Ignorant, 1869-1870), An Introduction to Zottoli's Chinese Roman Catholic Cosmogony -- The Fifth Chapter of The Qu pi xun meng and The Main Cosmogonic Ideas -- The Sixth Chapter of The Qu pi xun meng: The Role of Humans in the Cosmos and The Nature of Evil -- A Cross-Road of Dreams and Hopes.

1. Introduction -- Part I: Theorising language policy and regulation -- 2. Language policy as a form of public policy -- 3. Language rights, human rights and the right to chat -- 4. Language and space: a new research agenda for urban geolinguistics -- 5. Reflections on language as a vehicle of economic value -- Part II: Language policy challenges in Wales -- 6. Language planning in Wales: Joining the dots -- 7. Recent legal developments in Wales: moving beyond individual to group rights? -- 8. Networked territories of language and nation -- 9. Placemaking: towards rethinking land-use planning and language planning for a thriving -- 10. Signs of the times: Onomastics and language policy in Wales -- 11. Canolfannau Cymraeg – a top-down or bottom-up approach to language planning? -- Part III: Language policy challenges in Canada -- 12. Best practices and language policy designs: lessons from Canada and Wales -- 13. F.R. Scott and the origins of language policy in Canada -- 14. The uncertain future of French in Canada -- 15. The planned decline of the English school system in Quebec -- Part IV: Language policy challenges in Ireland, Scotland and Catalonia -- 16. Changing spaces: the new geographies of the Gaeltacht and Irish language networks -- 17. Lessons learned, lessons ignored: The continuing road to an Irish Language Act in Northern Ireland -- 18. The influence of Wales on policies for Gaelic in Scotland -- 19. 'Volunteering for the language in Catalonia' (VxLl): more than a space for linguistic mudes -- 20. Afterword.

Chapter 1. Introduction: Securing Ecological Destruction (by Alexander Dunlap and Andrea Brock ) -- Part 1: Hydrocarbon Militarization -- Chapter 2. A Postcolonial History of Accumulation by Contamination in the Gulf (by Michael Hennessy Picard & Tina Beigi) -- Chapter 3. Beyond Rentier State and Climate Conflict: Clashing Environmental Imaginaries and Ecological Oppression in Iran (by Maziar Samiee) -- Chapter 4. Policing Indigenous Land Defense and Climate Activism: Learnings from the Frontlines of Pipeline Resistance in Canada (by Jen Gobby and Lucy Everett) -- Part 2: Enforcing Extraction -- Chapter 5. Global Britain and London's Mega-mining Corporations: Colonial Ecocide, Extractive Zones, and Frontiers of Martial Mining (by Daniel Selwyn) -- Chapter 6. The Self-Reinforcing Cycle of Ecological Degradation & Repression: Uprooting the Ecological Coast of Policing & Militarization (by Alexander Dunlap) -- Chapter 7. Oil, Arms and Emissions – The Role of the Military in a Changing Climate (by Wendela de Vries) -- Part 3: Policing Ecosystems -- Chapter 8. If the Army Cuts Trees, Why Can't We? Resource Extraction, Hunting and the Impacts of Militaries on Biodiversity Conservation (by Anwesha Dutta and Trishant Simlai) -- Chapter 9. Policing the High Speed 2 (HS2) train line – repression and collusion along Europe's biggest infrastructure project (by Andrea Brock and Jan Goodey) -- Chapter 10. Ecological Terror and Pacification: Counterinsurgency for the Climate Crisis (by Peter Gelderloos) -- Part 4: Looking forward -- Chapter 11. Demilitarize for a Just Transition (by Matthew Burke and Nina L. Smolyar).

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. China and Latin American Countries Trade Policy -- Chapter 2. Evolution of China's Trade Policy: From the WTO Accession to Preferential Trade Agreements -- Chapter 3. Latin American Countries Trade Policy: Peru, Chile and Costa Rica -- Part II. China's Trade Policy Towards Latin America -- Chapter 4. Development and Assessment of Sino-Latin America and the Caribbean Economic and Trade Cooperation -- Chapter 5. Chinese Export Promotion Policies Towards Latin America: Belt and Road Initiative -- Part III. Assessing China's Trade Impacts in Pacific Alliance Countries -- Chapter 6. Peru-China FTA -- Chapter 7. Costa Rica - China Free Trade Agreement: Analysis of Results for the First 10 Years of the Agreement -- Chapter 8. The Complex Trade Relations Among China, Mexico, and the United States: A Geopolitical Approach -- Part IV. Emerging Agenda -- Chapter 9. Trade Facilitation under the Pacific Alliance Framework: Seaports Case -- Chapter 10. Agricultural Trade and Investments Between Latin America and China: Development, Implications, and Challenges -- Chapter 11. Services and Digital Trade Future Developments -- PART V. Challenges -- Chapter 12. China- LAC Countries' "Belt and Road" Cooperation in the Post- Pandemic Era: BRI in Transformation -- Chapter 13. Challenges in Future China-Latin America and the Caribbean States Relationships.

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Towards the Development of Compact and High Efficiency Adsorption Heat Pumps -- Chapter 3 Synthesis and Characterization of Various MOFs and MOFs-Zeolite Com-posites: Water Adsorption and Rapid Cooling Production -- Chapter 4 Specific Heat Capacity of Carbon-based Composites for Adsorption Heat Pump and Desalination Applications -- Chapter 5 Characterizing Adsorbent Materials Employing Atomic Force Microscopy -- Chapter 6 Advanced Adsorbents for Ecological Applications: Water Harvesting from the Atmosphere and Recuperation Heat and Moisture in Ventilation Systems -- Chapter 7 Thermochemical Conversion of Lignocellulosic Waste to Activated Carbon: A Potential Resource for Industrial Wastewater Treatment -- Chapter 8 Carbon Nanomaterial-based Adsorbents for Water Protection -- Chapter 9 Nanoparticles-based Adsorbents for Water Pollutants Removal.

Role of Big and Emerging Powers in the Post-COVID World Order -- COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Impact on our Physical Environment: A Critical Analysis -- The Austrian State and the COVID-19 Crisis: Achievements and Failures of a Small European Country During the Pandemic since 2020 -- The Changing Dimensions of India's Foreign Relations During COVID-19 -- Pandemic and the Administrative Rationality: Understanding the Administrative Response to the Pandemic -- Negotiating Access to Maternal Health Services during COVID-19 Pandemic in Kilifi County, Kenya: Rapid Qualitative Study -- IStayHome (If I Can): COVID-19 and Social Inequality in Peru: A View from Auto-ethnography -- Koro ti Lo: Popular Deconstruction of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Southwestern Nigeria -- COVID-19 and Decline of Multilateralism -- COVID-19 and its Impact on Culture: The Experience of Nepal -- Pandemic within a Pandemic: Gendered Impact of COVID-19 in Bangladesh with a focus on Child Marriage and Domestic Violence.

Protection, war and reconstruction: the case of the ecclesiastic buildings in Abruzzo -- Revival of Traditional Water-Based Architecture: Cases of Stepwells in India -- Silk Road architectural heritage and polycentric tourism development -- Cultural Heritage and Urban Identity in Bangladesh: A Look at 'Jobbar's Boli Khela', an Indigenous Festival -- The Effects of Architectural Heritage Conservation on Social Problems. The Case of the Palace of the Marqués de Rozalejo -- Methodologic process for the reconstruction of the colonial city of St. Augustine in Florida between the 16th and 18th centuries -- Overview on Historic Municipal Markets of Karachi-Pakistan -- The development of the remedial conservation via surface consolidation: the historical synthesis -- Approach towards reversing the trends of dying town of Sidhpur with Heritage regeneratio -- Medinet Habu and Western Thebes's sacred landscape: Traditional Identity Multifaceted Through Time -- Researchers of Architectural Heritage between History and Everyday life: Methods, Problems and Individual Practices -- The morphological study on heritage architecture:A planning proposal for the Left Street in Nanjing, China.