A celebrated young British artist uses her gift to convey the dignity and resilience of women survivors of violence in forgotten corners of the world. This debut art book by British artist and human rights activist Hannah Rose Thomas presents her stunning portrait paintings of Yazidi women who escaped ISIS captivity, Rohingya women who fled violence in Myanmar, and Nigerian women who survived Boko Haram violence, alongside their own words, stories, and self-portraits. A final chapter features portraits and stories of Afghan, Ukrainian, Uyghur, and Palestinian women.  These portraits, depicting women from three continents and three religions, are a visual testimony not only of war and injustice but also of humanity and resilience. Many of the women have suffered sexual violence; all have been persecuted and forcibly displaced on account of their faith or ethnicity. Hannah Rose Thomas met these women in Iraqi Kurdistan, Bangladeshi refugee camps, and Northern Nigeria while organizing art projects to teach women how to paint their self-portraits as a way to reclaim their personhood and self-worth. She gives women their own voice both by creating a safe space for them to share their stories and by using her impressive connections to make sure their stories are heard in places of influence in the Global North.  Thomas uses techniques of traditional sacred art – early Renaissance tempera and oil painting and gold leaf – to convey the sacred value of each of these women in spite of all that they have suffered. This symbolic restoration of dignity is especially important considering the stigma surrounding sexual violence. Hannah’s work attests to the power of the arts as a vehicle for healing, remembering, inclusion, and dialogue. Long after the news cameras have moved on to the next conflict, this book shines a spotlight on the ongoing work of healing and restoration in some of the most vulnerable and marginalized communities around the world.  All publisher profits from this book will be donated to relevant charities.

This book examines the work of two major poets who wrote in the second half of the twentieth century, Yves Bonnefoy of France and the Syrian-born Adonis (born Ali Ahmed Said). In conducting close readings of key moments from their respective poetry, the author illustrates how both of these writers, in their own unique ways, construct poetry as a form of spiritual practice, that is, as a way of transforming both the poet's and the implied reader's ontological, perceptual and creative relationships with their internal and external worlds.

Organizational Semiotics: Evolving a Science of Information Systems covers such issues as: -Fundamental concepts such as 'information', 'data', 'message', 'communication', 'knowledge', 'organization', 'system' and so on; -Properties of signs vital to organizational functioning, such as their meanings, the intentions they express and the valuable social consequences they produce; -'Architecture' of organizations when they are viewed as information systems, based on their semiotics features; -Understanding language in organizational contexts, for example, the limitations on the language used to conduct business affairs; -The empirical study of communications for requirements elicitation; -Applying semiotic categories (e.g. physical, empiric, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, social) to various problems; -Organizational knowledge representation; -Business process re-engineering methods and the design of e-commerce systems.

Organizational Semiotics: Evolving a Science of Information Systems covers such issues as:
-Fundamental concepts such as 'information', 'data', 'message', 'communication', 'knowledge', 'organization', 'system' and so on;
-Properties of signs vital to organizational functioning, such as their meanings, the intentions they express and the valuable social consequences they produce;
-'Architecture' of organizations when they are viewed as information systems, based on their semiotics features;
-Understanding language in organizational contexts, for example, the limitations on the language used to conduct business affairs;
-The empirical study of communications for requirements elicitation;
-Applying semiotic categories (e.g. physical, empiric, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, social) to various problems;
-Organizational knowledge representation;
-Business process re-engineering methods and the design of e-commerce systems.

Effectively introduce and promote analytics within your enterprise

All companies use information to set strategies and accomplish business objectives. But how many CEOs and CIOs would say they are satisfied that their companies get maximum value from information? "Business Transformation" reveals how SAS's Information Evolution Model (IEM) can be used together with analytics for groundbreaking results. Author Aiman Zeid provides the necessary information you need to introduce and promote the use of analytics and insight across your organization. Along with examples and best practices of global companies that have successfully been through this process, you'll learn how to identify the starting point and develop a road map for execution.Reveals how to introduce and promote the use of analytics and insights across your organizationWritten by a lead developer at SAS global Business Intelligence Competency Center program and servicesFeatures global case studies and examples

Practical and insightful, this reference provides businesses with an essential blueprint for creating improvements that optimize business returns and put the potential of data analytics to work.

'The greatest living poet of the Arab world' Guardian Cloud, mirror, stone, thunder, eyelid, desert, sea. Through a dead or dying land, Mihyar walks: a figure of heroic individualism and dissent, part-Orpheus, part-Zarathustra. Where he goes, the austere building-blocks of his world become the expressions of passionate emotion, of visionary exaltation and despairing melancholy. The traditions of the Ancient Greeks, the Bible and the Quran flow about and through him. Written in the cosmopolitan Beirut of the early 1960s, Adonis's Songs of Mihyar the Damascene did for Arabic poetry what The Waste Land did for English. These are poems against authoritarianism and dogma, in which a new Noah would abandon his ark to dive with the condemned, and in which surrealism and Sufi mysticism meet and intertwine. The result is a masterpiece of world literature. Translated by Kareem James Abu Zeid and Ivan Eubanks 'The most eloquent spokesman and explorer of Arabic modernity' Edward Said

This book introduces readers to multicriteria decision aiding (MCDA) interventions used in complex situations. In each chapter, expert analysts propose a piece of the puzzle, while the final, complete puzzle offers an interesting reflection of the main challenges and difficulties associated with decision aiding interventions, as well as the different tools adopted in response. Particular attention is given to the approaches used to identify and overcome specific difficulties. Designed for analysts familiar with several multicriteria methods but seeking detailed information and experience, this book helps to elaborate and validate MC models in real-life decision aiding interventions. In addition, it helps novice analysts appreciate the difficulty of decision aiding and use the available methods to reduce or control them with the help of socio-technical approaches.

The vital signs are, by definition, the measurements of the body's most basic functions. So far, the essential number of signs that must be measured is not clear as some references consider that the body temperature, blood pressure, pulse rate and breathing rate are sufficient but other sources consider that the measurement of other variables, such as the respiratory effort and oxygen saturation, are also crucial to determine the health of the person. This book is not intended to define the critical vital signs but presents the correlation of these measurements with other variables as well as the proposition of new methods to determine these variables. It also proposes some innovative applications that relay on these signs in a way to monitor and help the human being. Thus, this book presents six chapters that deal first with the correlation between the physical training and the blood pressure level among adults as well as the stress effects for nurses on their vital signs. Added to that, the influence of the vital signs to predict and detect epileptical seizure and the analysis of neural mechanisms of major depressive disorders will be also presented. As for the other chapters, they go into some engineering applications related to vital signs as the development of a smart syringe pump that monitors the patient's crucial parameters and the introduction of a novel system that monitors the driver's health and notifies health care providers in case the driver has any health failure in order to prevent cars accidents.

1) Zum Studium der Moglichkeiten einer Erzeugung reaktiver Zentren in Cellulose zur Knupfung kovalenter Bindungen mit Veredlungschemikalien wurden funf bi- und tri funktionelle Verbindungen ausgewahlt: 2,4-Bis(1-aziridinyl)-6-Chlor-s-triazin, Allylbromid, Chlorsulfonylisocyanat, Hexahydro-1,3,5-triacryloyl-s-triazin und Cyanamid. 2) 2,4-Bis(1-aziridinyl)-6-Chlor-s-triazin erwies sich auf grund seiner abgestuften Reaktivitat fur die Zielsetzung geeignet. Seine Toxizitat stellt jedoch eine spatere praktische Anwendung auf Cellulose in Frage. Die mit Allylbromid erhaltene Allylcellulose war selbst bei radikalischen Pfropfreaktionen so reaktionstrage, dass Additionsreaktionen nicht moglich waren. Die Umsetzung von Cellulose mit Chlorsulfonylisocyanat fuhrte aufgrund der hohen Reaktivitat zu einem drastischen Abbau der Faser. 3) Mit Hilfe der Chromatographie und massanalytischer Methoden wurde die Reaktivitat von Hexahydro-1,3, S-triacryloyl-s triazin im Hinblick auf die spatere Umsetzung mit Cellu lose untersucht. In wasserfreiem Medium zeigt Hexahydro-1,3,5-triacryloyl s-triazin bei der Umsetzung mit Modellsubstanzen wie Athanol und Athylmercaptan eine gewisse abgestufte Reaktivitat. In sauren oder alkalischen wassrigen Medien ist der Hexahydrotriazinring nicht stabil. Folgeprodukte sind je nach Behandlungsbedingungen Acrylamid, Methylol acrylamid, Methylenbisacrylamid, Ammoniak und Formaldehyd. - 2 - 4) Die Umsetzung von Cellulose mit Hexahydro-l,3,5-tri acryloyl-s-triazin wurde in Gegenwart von Natronlauge durchgefuhrt. Hierbei wurde eine Umsetzung bzw. Quer vernetzung anhand des veranderte Knitterverhaltens und durch Chromatographie der zu monomeren Zuckern abgebauten Cellulose uberpruft. 5) Die mit Hexahydro-l,3,5-triacryloyl-s-triazin umgesetzte Cellulose besitzt neue Eigenschaften. Sie lasst sich mit Basazolfarbstoffen unter sauren Bedingungen farben. Die gleiche Modifizierung gelingt auch durch Behandlungen von Cellulose mit einfachen Acrylamidderivaten. 6) Chlorformamidinhydrochlorid setzt sich mit Cellulose nter Bildung von Celluloseisoharnstoffhydrochlorid um."

The Iraqi Nights is the third collection by the acclaimed Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail. Taking The One Thousand and One Nights as her central theme, Mikhail personifies the role of Scheherazade the storyteller, saving herself through her tales. The nights are endless, seemingly as dark as war in this haunting collection, seemingly as endless as war. Yet the poet cannot stop dreaming of a future beyond the violence of a place where "every moment / something ordinary / will happen under the sun." Unlike Scheherazade, however, Mikhail is writing, not to escape death, but to summon the strength to endure. Inhabiting the emotive spaces between Iraq and the U.S., Mikhail infuses those harsh realms with a deep poetic intimacy. The author's vivid illustrations - inspired by Sumerian tablets - are threaded throughout this powerful book.