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Since Hans Blumenberg developed his metaphorology, there has been a constantly growing interest among philosophers in the function of metaphorical language in philosophy. In this tradition of a positive approach to philosophical metaphors, the publication of Ralf Konersmann's Wörterbuch der philosophischen Metaphern (2007, third edition 2011) is a landmark, that testifies to the actuality and importance of the problem of the relationship betwe...

Discusses urban renewal projects in Flemish towns and cities, putting Flemish urban renewal on the European map. Urban renewal has gotten under way everywhere in Europe and, after some hesitation, in Flanders. An individual approach to urban renewal projects means practices in Flanders differ fundamentally from large-scale European urban projects. The book addresses urban planners and academics, policymakers, architects, urban engineers, socio...

Because of its unprecedented systematic approach to text editing, Text Editing is suitable for students and young practitioners and systematically guides them through all the aspects of the editor's craft. It introduces the various roles an editor can play in the workplace and takes into account editing for an international English market, including the problems inherent in editing World Englishes.

Medical knowledge mediation through translation encompasses both interlingual translation and intralingual translation or reformulation and this collection of essays explores the communicative continuum across which medical knowledge is transferred and distributed. At every stage of that transfer process, there are multiple phenomena of recontextualization and reformulation at work between different knowledge communities with different knowled...

The interweaving of research and design-based architectural education also affects the relationship between teaching and design. This book focuses explicitly on connections: the connections between the construction of knowledge and theory, teaching and learning, design and research. In doing so, it broadens the research spectrum and offers new approaches to research and teaching.

Brussels is a small world city. It is the third richest region in Europe but has a poor population in its central neighbourhoods, it is the capital of Belgium, a nation fading away, it has high cosmopolitan potential but lacks an integrated urban governance and is in need of an inspiring urban project ... Moreover, the European institutions settled in Brussels over fifty years ago and their presence has not been an absolute success story. Toda...

Reporting on the current state of computer data mining methods, this reference describes the limits of the classifiers and algorithms that are typical in today's software. Ideal for students of any data mining course, the book describes new iterative techniques that reveal more hidden patterns and ultimately a more powerful system.

Analyzing the way managers plan for the construction of large infrastructure hubs, this study finds that failure to include all stakeholders at the start of a project hampers the timely completion of major projects--and in worst-case scenarios, implementation fails and major projects are shelved. Using new models of stakeholder theory, the discussion compares four case studies: the extension of DHL at Brussels National Airport, the industrial ...

Examining the impact of free trade rules, this survey aims to help clarify the legal boundaries that exist on product regulation between national law, European Union (EU) law, World Trade Organization (WTO) law, and international environmental law. Public authorities make a consistent effort to regulate trade, acting within the policy space that remains open--both at the national and supranational level--while maintaining environmental protect...

An examination of the Georgia versus Abkhazia case, this account explores how and to what extent the difference in status between a sovereign state and an unrecognised entity hinders conflict-resolution activities. Based on intensive fieldwork and unedited negotiation material, it provides an in-depth analysis of the negotiations, informal dialogues, and grassroots activities that took place in Georgia and Abkhazia between 1989 and 2008.

Written from the perspective of a financial investor, this account supports Behavioral Portfolio Theory, draws attention to the importance of asset-liability matching, and offers a natural framework for investor-adviser dialogue and mathematical portfolio optimisation. In this system, investment goals - and not investor psychology - drive investment advice, 'risk' depends on the investment objective and may be different in each sub-portfolio.

Transformations to the criminal justice system in Western societies are often linked with broader social and cultural changes, and this work presents the recent changes in juvenile justice in Canada and nine European countries and the socio-political context in which they take place. The study provides a comparison of the sentencing practices of each country, focusing on three dimensions related to the sanction practices: the custodial sanctio...

Students wanting to learn more about maritime and port economics have not always been prepared to a detailed knowledge of the specific terminology of the shipping world. A manual of terms that are mostly foreign to them helps to gain a quicker and better understanding of the new courses they are confronted with. Also in the financial and insurance world, money markets, securities and banking, new words, methods and systems are being developed...

Painting a panoramic view of conspicuous consumption in the Netherlands and Flanders from 1500 to the present, this collection of essays explores the economic forces that produce a boom in luxury goods. Working from disciplines such as archaeology, art history, historical ethnology, linguistics, and media studies, these scholarly contributors explore both the wealth and the social display that fuels the search for rare commodities.

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Irony is a salient feature of common discourse, yet in the translating world, it is considered a significant literary and cultural obstacle. This record seeks to tackle complicated ironical practices and contexts as well as to observe and comprehend the techniques and challenges involved in translating them. Filled with case studies and in-depth analyses, this examination challenges the putative untranslatability of irony and demonstrates how ...

This collection of scholarly articles asks the question "How useful is translation technology?" Pointing to the need for a widely used and reliable way to test the efficiency of language translation programs, the presenters show that commercial tools such as translation memories and translation workbenches are popular, and their developers find them useful in terms of productivity, consistency, or quality. However, these claims are rarely prov...

Containing the proceedings of an annual symposium, this collection of research articles explores the role of optics in lasers, communication systems, sensors, and quantum electronics.