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Nuffer, John R. Reaching the limit: An interim report on landfill capacity in California : a compilation of county local task force findings as of January 1, 1990. [Sacramento] (8800 Cal Center Drive, Sacramento 95826): California Integrated Waste Management Board, 1992.

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Grigson, Stephen. The limits of environmental capacity. London: House-Builders Federation, 1995.

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Rees, William E. Pressing global limits: Trade as the appropriation of carrying capacity. Vancouver: Centre for Human Settlements, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, 1994.

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Verheijen, Tony. Administrative capacity in the new EU member states: The limits of innovation? Washington, D.C: World Bank, 2007.

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Healthcare decision-making and the law: Autonomy, capacity and the limits of liberalism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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author, Kutlay Mustafa, and Uluslararası Stratejik Araştırmalar Kurumu, eds. Turkey's power capacity in the Middle East: Limits of the possible : an empirical analysis. Ankara: International Strategic Research Organization, 2012.

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Kochanowski, Jan. Elegiarum Libri Quattuor. Edited by Francesco Cabras. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-922-5.

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Il presente volume contiene l’edizione critica con commento filologico delle elegie latine del più importante poeta del Rinascimento polacco. Il commento in particolare non si limita alla raccolta di similia, ma s’interroga anche sui modi dell’imitatio di Jan Kochanowski, sottolineandone le straordinarie capacità poetiche nonché il suo rapporto vivo e vivace con i testi classici, che egli riutilizza abilmente per soddisfare le proprie esigenze di significazione.

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Jones, T. N. The applicability of carrying capacity and limits of acceptable change in resolving conflicts, at the local level, between recreation in and conservation of the natural environment. Oxford: Oxford Brookes University, 1993.

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MARK, Jackson. Breathing Exercises to Expand Your Lung Limit: Breathing Exercises to Increase Lung Capacity, the Breathing Cure, Develop New Habits for a Happier, Healthier and Longer Life, Copd. Independently Published, 2021.

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Leeb, Claudia. The When of Sociopolitical Transformation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190639891.003.0002.

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“The When of Sociopolitical Transformation: The Moment of the Limit” introduces the idea of the moment of the limit to engage with the first tension inherent in the idea of the political subject—the tension between the idea of a free and autonomous subject that is not impacted by power, and the idea of a subject as completely subjected to power. It acknowledges the ways in which subjects are subjected to power in capitalism, but avoids postulating the idea of a subjected subject through theorizing the moment of the limit, which it accomplishes through a reading of the real (Lacan) and the non-identical (Adorno). The moment of the limit is the moment when power fails to completely subject or subordinate individuals, and at this moment the political subject with the capacity to not only resist but to transform the status quo can emerge.

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Nagel, Jennifer. 8. Knowing about knowing. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199661268.003.0008.

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Mindreading is the natural capacity that generates instinctive feelings about another person's knowledge and other mental states. ‘Knowing about knowing’ explains that humans have specialized brain areas devoted to tracking mental states, but there are natural limitations to mindreading. One is a simple capacity limit on how many nested mental state levels we can represent. Another deeper limitation is that we suffer from ‘egocentrism’, which makes it difficult for us to override our own perspective when evaluating others who know less about their situation than we do. It concludes that even if we still don’t know the full nature of what knowledge is, we are in a better position to make progress on this ancient question.

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Maxwell, John C. No Limits: Blow the CAP Off Your Capacity. Center Street, 2017.

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Maxwell, John C. No Limits: Blow the CAP Off Your Capacity. Center Street, 2017.

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Maxwell, John C. No Limits: Blow the CAP Off Your Capacity. Center Street, 2017.

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Maxwell, John C. No Limits: Blow the CAP off Your Capacity. Center Street, 2017.

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Lippmann, Morton, and Richard B. Schlesinger. Our Environmental Future. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190688622.003.0012.

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This chapter describes the rapid growth in human populations, standard of living, chemical pollutant emissions, and ability to protect human health and welfare, while dealing with the growing stresses on aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems during the past century. It also discusses the need to, and means of anticipating the drivers of resource cosumption and usage, the and practical means that can be applied to harness our emerging technological capabilities in order to limit future chemical emissions and their capacity to cause adverse effects on human health and welfare.

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Hugo, Wayne. Boundaries of the Educational Imagination. African Minds, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.47622/978-1-928331-01-8.

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The educational imagination is the capacity to think critically beyond our located, daily experiences of education. It breaks away from the immediacy of personal understanding by placing education within wider, deeper and longer contexts. Boundaries of the Educational Imagination develops the educational imagination by answering six questions: Each question goes on a journey towards limit points in education so that educational processes can be placed within a bigger framework that allows new possibilities, fresh options and more critical engagement. These questions are then pulled together into a structuring framework enabling the reader to grasp how this complex subject works.

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Papadimitriou, K. Featherstone, Kevin Professor Featherstone, and Dimitris Papadimitriou. Limits of Europeanization - Reform Capacity and Policy Conflict in Greece. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

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G, Dowling Richard, United States. Federal Highway Administration., American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials., National Research Council (U.S.). Transportation Research Board., and National Cooperative Highway Research Program., eds. Planning techniques to estimate speeds and service volumes for planning applications. Washington, D.C: Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, 1997.

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Jaffro, Laurent. The Passions and Actions of Laughter in Shaftesbury and Hutcheson. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198766858.003.0007.

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The third Earl of Shaftesbury and Francis Hutcheson considered laughter as a passion in its own right. The hilarious response is not reducible, as Hobbes believed, to the facial expression of the sudden awareness of our own superiority. Ridicule is however an important kind of laughter; it is also an action, part of a strategy against the seriousness of fanaticism. Shaftesbury gives much importance to the politics of laughter and to the caustic power of ridicule, but also to the capacity to laugh at one’s laughter, which is crucial to what he calls good humour. Hutcheson and Shaftesbury interestingly disagree on the question of how to regulate laughter and limit its abuse.

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Hardin, Garrett. Living within Limits. Oxford University Press, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195078114.001.0001.

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We fail to mandate economic sanity, writes Garrett Hardin, "because our brains are addled by...compassion." With such startling assertions, Hardin has cut a swathe through the field of ecology for decades, winning a reputation as a fearless and original thinker. A prominent biologist, ecological philosopher, and keen student of human population control, Hardin now offers the finest summation of his work to date, with an eloquent argument for accepting the limits of the earth's resources--and the hard choices we must make to live within them. In Living Within Limits, Hardin focuses on the neglected problem of overpopulation, making a forceful case for dramatically changing the way we live in and manage our world. Our world itself, he writes, is in the dilemma of the lifeboat: it can only hold a certain number of people before it sinks--not everyone can be saved. The old idea of progress and limitless growth misses the point that the earth (and each part of it) has a limited carrying capacity; sentimentality should not cloud our ability to take necessary steps to limit population. But Hardin refutes the notion that goodwill and voluntary restraints will be enough. Instead, nations where population is growing must suffer the consequences alone. Too often, he writes, we operate on the faulty principle of shared costs matched with private profits. In Hardin's famous essay, "The Tragedy of the Commons," he showed how a village common pasture suffers from overgrazing because each villager puts as many cattle on it as possible--since the costs of grazing are shared by everyone, but the profits go to the individual. The metaphor applies to global ecology, he argues, making a powerful case for closed borders and an end to immigration from poor nations to rich ones. "The production of human beings is the result of very localized human actions; corrective action must be local....Globalizing the 'population problem' would only ensure that it would never be solved." Hardin does not shrink from the startling implications of his argument, as he criticizes the shipment of food to overpopulated regions and asserts that coercion in population control is inevitable. But he also proposes a free flow of information across boundaries, to allow each state to help itself. "The time-honored practice of pollute and move on is no longer acceptable," Hardin tells us. We now fill the globe, and we have no where else to go. In this powerful book, one of our leading ecological philosophers points out the hard choices we must make--and the solutions we have been afraid to consider.

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Featherstone, K., and D. Papadimitriou. The Limits of Europeanization: Reform Capacity and Policy Conflict in Greece. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

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Dryzek, John S. 2. Looming Tragedy: Limits, Boundaries, Survival. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780199696000.003.0002.

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This chapter focuses on the environmental discourse of limits and survival and how it set the apocalyptic horizon of environmentalism. Population biologists and ecologists use the concept of ‘carrying capacity’ — the maximum population of a species that an ecosystem can support in perpetuity. When the population of a species grows to the point where carrying capacity is exceeded, the ecosystem is degraded and the population crashes, recovering only if and when natural processes restore the ecosystem to its previous capacity. One complicating factor when it comes to applying population biology to human societies is the possibility of economic growth. The chapter first considers the origins of survivalism before discussing the political philosophy of survival, discourse analysis of limits and survival, and limits and survival in practice. It also examines the challenges confronting the limits discourse, including the lack of international action on climate change.

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Todor, Arpad, ed. Willing to Pay? The Politics of Engendering Faith in the Post-Communist Romanian Tax System. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796817.003.0011.

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Although the Romanian institutional landscape and its policies have dramatically improved since the 1990s, the low institutional capacity of its tax system remains mysteriously constant, despite continued efforts at improvement in this area and the fact that experimental data show that Romanians have apparently high tax morale. This puzzling situation is tackled in this chapter by detailing the institutional legacies upon which the post-Communist tax system has been built and tracing the evolution of tax policies over a quarter of a century within the context of post-Communist transformations. The chapter offers a nuanced explanation based on a combination of policy inadequacy and instability, tax evasion and corruption, and low spending on infrastructure, all of which limit the chances of creating an adequate legitimacy for the tax system.

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Dodds, Chris, Chandra M. Kumar, and Frédérique Servin. Intensive care and the elderly. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198735571.003.0012.

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Age is not an independent predictor for poor outcome from intensive care. This chapter reviews admission criteria for the elderly and the assessment of likely outcome including the differences between traumatic or surgical admissions against medical ones. Pre-existing comorbidities all limit functional recovery, and only about 60% of elderly patients get back to their preadmission level of activity, although this may not detract from their perceived quality of life. Potential bias in the use of quality-of-life measures by clinical staff is discussed. Information on the identification of futility and the move to either palliation or withdrawal of support is discussed. Complications are common in the intensive-care patient population, and the reasons that they may be irreversible in the elderly are reviewed. The limitation of care, the use of advanced directives, and the assessment of legal capacity are reviewed.

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Lim, Renee, and Stewart Dunn. Journeys to the centre of empathy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198736134.003.0002.

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As a species, we appear to be programmed to respond to the situations and emotions of others. However, there is wide variation in the ways doctors and other health professionals experience and express this capacity, and there is a need for effective training to enhance these skills. Unfortunately, systematic reviews suggest that many of our current training programmes do not improve the quality of communication in cancer and palliative care so as to limit the burden of professional burnout, and to improve patients’ mental or physical health and satisfaction. Our attempts to produce a generation of empathic clinical communicators are inconsistent and reviews of patient complaints reveal an increasing discontent with professional communication. So what is missing? How do we develop, sustain, and teach empathic communication? The answer, according to Lim and Dunn, is to shift the focus from empathy to authenticity.

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Bouchaud, Jean-Phillipe, and Marc Potters. Asymptotic singular value distributions in information theory. Edited by Gernot Akemann, Jinho Baik, and Philippe Di Francesco. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198744191.013.41.

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This article examines asymptotic singular value distributions in information theory, with particular emphasis on some of the main applications of random matrices to the capacity of communication channels. Results on the spectrum of random matrices have been adopted in information theory. Furthermore, information theorists, motivated by certain channel models, have obtained a number of new results in random matrix theory (RMT). Most of those results are related to the asymptotic distribution of the (square of) the singular values of certain random matrices that model data communication channels. The article first provides an overview of three transforms that are useful in expressing the asymptotic spectrum results — Stieltjes transform, η-transform, and Shannon transform — before discussing the main results on the limit of the empirical distributions of the eigenvalues of various random matrices of interest in information theory.

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Stuart, Casey-Maslen, Clapham Andrew, Giacca Gilles, and Parker Sarah. Art.9 Transit or Trans-Shipment. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198723523.003.0013.

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This chapter discusses Article 9 of the ATT, which covers the regulation of each state party of the transit and trans-shipment of conventional arms through its territory. The obligation does not extend to ammunition/munitions or parts and components. The inclusion of specific obligations with respect to transit and trans-shipment reflects the need to ensure that all activities that form part of international arms transfers are regulated in order for the object and purpose of the ATT to be achieved in practice. The obligation in Article 9 is heavily qualified in recognition of the practical and legal issues that limit the ability—and capacity—of states to regulate and control goods in transit. State parties also have an obligation to prevent diversion of such arms, to co-operate and exchange information to mitigate any detected risk of diversion, and to take action to address any diversion detected.

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Pollack, Detlef, and Gergely Rosta. South Korea. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198801665.003.0017.

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In South Korea, the processes of rapid modernization after the Second World War were accompanied by an upturn in the religion that has suffered the heaviest losses in Europe: Protestant Christianity. The analysis shows that the rise of Protestantism in South Korea can be attributed to a number of factors. The provision of support networks of solidarity for individuals exposed to the rapid processes of modernization, industrialization, and urbanization played just as much a role as the productive acceptance of widespread expectations of advancement and prosperity, the link to the traditions of Korean folk religion, the capacity to mobilize resources, and the role-model effect of successful Protestant elites. What may have been most significant, though, is that Protestantism was able to fulfil non-religious functions, too. However, religious growth has clearly reached a limit, since connecting with religious communities to achieve non-religious goals seems to be becoming less necessary.

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Sanders, Rebecca. Permissive Constraint. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190870553.003.0002.

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Can legal norms limit state violence? International relations and international law scholarship provide a variety of answers to this problem. Realist, decisionist, and critical theorists conceptualize law as permit, as a weak constraint on and tool of powerful states. In contrast, liberals and constructivists emphasize law’s capacity to constrain states for rationalist and normative reasons. This chapter examines whether these contending perspectives adequately account for how authorities navigate legal rules across legal cultures. It argues that legal cultures of exception and secrecy tend to operate in accordance with the assumptions of law as permit, while largely aspirational cultures of human rights fulfill a vision of law as constraint. In the United States’ contemporary culture of legal rationalization, law serves as a permissive constraint. Permissive legal interpretation has enabled American officials to establish legal cover for human rights abuses, while legal norms simultaneously delimit the plausibility of legal justification.

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Healthcare Decision-Making and the Law: Autonomy, Capacity and the Limits of Liberalism. Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Donnelly, Mary. Healthcare Decision-Making and the Law: Autonomy, Capacity and the Limits of Liberalism. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Donnelly, Mary. Healthcare Decision-Making and the Law: Autonomy, Capacity and the Limits of Liberalism. Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Donnelly, Mary. Healthcare Decision-Making and the Law: Autonomy, Capacity and the Limits of Liberalism. Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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Donnelly, Mary. Healthcare Decision-Making and the Law: Autonomy, Capacity and the Limits of Liberalism. Cambridge University Press, 2011.

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Stanghellini, Giovanni. Personal life-history. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198792062.003.0041.

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This chapter describes the process of progressive decentring of two partners taking part in a dialogue. Phenomenological unfolding is the taking of a third-person perspective on one’s own experiences. The hermeneutic moment consists in position-taking and perspective-taking with respect to one’s own experiences and their meanings. It requires the capacity to distance oneself from one’s own habits in interpreting and understanding the ‘facts’ of one’s own life, and to make of these very habits the object for reflection and for understanding. The psychodynamic moment consists in positing both phenomenological unfolding and hermeneutic analysis in a larger historical context, according great importance to the role of life events, of tradition and prejudice in the development of any form of habitus in interpreting one’s experiences, and of limit-situations in jeopardizing one’s defensive ‘housings’ and showing their vulnerability. This means acknowledging and accepting contingency as the necessity of one’s own story.

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Rodenhäuser, Tilman. The Historical Development of Crimes against Humanity and Jurisprudence of the Rwanda, Former Yugoslavia, and Sierra Leone Tribunals. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198821946.003.0011.

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Chapter 8 analyses post-World War II jurisprudence, national jurisprudence, the International Law Commission’s work, and International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), International Criminal Court for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) jurisprudence regarding what types of non-state entities might be involved in crimes against humanity. It argues that while the Nuremberg Charter and post-World War II jurisprudence, including national jurisprudence, were focused on state crimes, state involvement has rarely been considered a legal element of crimes against humanity. This is also evident in the International Law Commission’s work. This chapter analyses how the three abovementioned international(ized) tribunals addressed the question of non-state entity involvement in crimes against humanity and argues that the ICTY and the SCSL did not limit entities behind crimes against humanity to abstract ‘state-like entities’, but primarily considered whether the group in question had the capacity to commit the crimes.

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Russell, Paul. The Limits of Free Will. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190627607.001.0001.

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This volume contains a selection of chapters concerning free will and moral responsibility. The problems arising in this field of philosophy, which are deeply rooted in the history of the subject, are also intimately related to a wide range of other fields, such as law and criminology, moral psychology, theology, and, more recently, neuroscience. The chapters included in this collection were written and first published over a period of three decades, although most have appeared in the past decade or so. During this period this area of philosophy has been particularly active and it continues to attract a great deal of interest and attention. Among the topics covered, as they relate to these problems, are the challenge of skepticism; moral sentiment and moral capacity; necessity and the metaphysics of causation; practical reason; free will and art; fatalism and the limits of agency; and our metaphysical attitudes of optimism and pessimism.

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Dallmeijer, Annet, and Jost Schnyder. Exercise capacity and training in cerebral palsy and other neuromuscular diseases. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199232482.003.0035.

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Chapter 35 gives an understanding of the role of exercise in the functional assessment and clinical management of children with neuromuscular diseases, especially for children with CP and PMD. Current knowledge about exercise capacity and training possibilities with respect to the different fitness components (aerobic power, anaerobic power, muscular strength) will be described as well as the level of physical activity and training recommendations. Practical advice and suggestions are given on how to build up and execute an adapted programme for physical activity, sports, and exercise. Data will be summarized to recognize the possibilities as well as the limits of exercise, and also to permit a regular evaluation and a constant adaptation of a physical activity programme.

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Best, Rachel Kahn. Common Enemies. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190918408.001.0001.

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Americans come together to fight diseases. For over 100 years, they have asked their neighbors to contribute to disease campaigns and supported health policies that target one disease at a time. Common Enemies asks why disease campaigns are the battles Americans can agree to fight, why some diseases attract more attention than others, and how fighting one disease at a time changes how Americans distribute charitable dollars, prioritize policies, and promote health. Drawing on the first comprehensive data on thousands of organizations targeting hundreds of diseases over decades, the author shows that disease campaigns proliferate due to the perception of health as a universal goal, the appeal of narrowly targeted campaigns, and the strategic avoidance of controversy. They funnel vast sums of money and attention to a few favored diseases, and they prioritize awareness campaigns and medical research over preventing disease and ensuring access to healthcare. It’s easy to imagine more efficient ways to promote collective well-being. Yet the same forces that limit the potential of individual disease campaigns to improve health also stimulate the vast outpouring of money and attention. Rather than displacing attention to other problems, disease campaigns build up the capacity to address them.

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Murphy, Patrick D. Neo-Malthusian Entertainment: The Limits of Green TV. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252041037.003.0004.

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This chapter considers the resurgence of the Survivalism on cable and public TV, and how it is introducing a new generation of media audiences to the Limits discourse. Focus is placed on identifying the discourse’s defining characteristics through institutional practices, specific genres and reoccurring themes. The chapter traces two trajectories: “After Earth”/“Nature’s revenge” themed programming and more pedagogically-designed “Green lifestyle TV” in internationally networked cable channels like Animal Planet, NatGeo, and The Discovery Channel. The chapter argues that the revised rendering of the Limits discourse shifts emphasis away from over population and carrying capacity, primary concerns in the Limits discourse of the 1960s-70s, placing it instead on a more contemporary set of concerns. However, cable TV’s ability to translate the underlying concerns of a “new” Limits discourse has been limited, as entertainment programming that provides little actionable information has thrived, while a more instructive eco-conscious television has largely failed.

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Patz, Ronny, and Klaus H. Goetz. Managing Money and Discord in the UN. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198838333.001.0001.

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How do international organizations in the United Nations system put together their budgets? What is the role of complex principals—most notably member states—and the complex agents in the bureaucracies of international organizations in budgeting processes? And what does a focus on budgeting tell us about the changing nature of the system of international organizations? This book provides answers to these questions through a detailed examination of budgeting in the UN system. The analysis draws on both quantitative and qualitative observations for a total of twenty-two UN system organizations and detailed case studies for the United Nations, ILO, UNESCO, and WHO. The findings demonstrate the importance of three key organizational outcomes—proceduralization, routinization, and budgetary segmentation—as international organizations grapple with managing discord over priorities as a result of complex principal–agent constellations. Contrary to a common view of international bureaucracies as pathological organizations, core budget routines are mostly successfully maintained. However, principal constellations are becoming more complex, notably through the rise of voluntary contributions and non-state donors; budgetary segmentation advances (in some cases even leading to the setting up of new international organizations); and budgeting and resource mobilization have become ever more intertwined. As a consequence, the capacity of international bureaucracies to fulfill their budgeting responsibilities is stretched to the limit and beyond.

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Donnelly, Mary. Depression and Consent to Treatment. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198801900.003.0018.

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This chapter examines the law’s approach to decision-making capacity in the context of severe depression, with particular emphasis on decisions in respect of treatment (both treatment for the depressive condition itself and for other conditions that are not directly linked). It draws on the work of Matthew Ratcliffe on experiences of depression to highlight difficulties in applying the legal standard for decision-making capacity in the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA) to people with severe depression. The chapter explains how the law can address the limits of a capacity-based approach to consent to treatment and argues that an appropriate legal framework requires better engagement with the experiences of people living with depression. This framework should be grounded in recovery norms rather than autonomy/capacity norms—even if it recognizes that the two will overlap in many situations.

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Stirling, Graham, Helen Hayden, Tony Pattison, and Marcelle Stirling. Soil Health, Soil Biology, Soilborne Diseases and Sustainable Agriculture. CSIRO Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486303052.

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Our capacity to maintain world food production depends heavily on the thin layer of soil covering the Earth's surface. The health of this soil determines whether crops can grow successfully, whether a farm business is profitable and whether an enterprise is sustainable in the long term. Farmers are generally aware of the physical and chemical factors that limit the productivity of their soils but often do not recognise that soil microbes and the soil fauna play a major role in achieving healthy soils and healthy crops. Soil Health, Soil Biology, Soilborne Diseases and Sustainable Agriculture provides readily understandable information about the bacteria, fungi, nematodes and other soil organisms that not only harm food crops but also help them take up water and nutrients and protect them from root diseases. Complete with illustrations and practical case studies, it provides growers and their consultants with holistic solutions for building an active and diverse soil biological community capable of improving soil structure, enhancing plant nutrient uptake and suppressing root pests and pathogens. The book is written by scientists with many years' experience developing sustainable crop production practices in the grains, vegetable, sugarcane, grazing and horticultural industries. This book will be useful for: growers, consultants, agronomists and soil chemists, extension personnel working in the grains, livestock, sugarcane and horticultural industries, professionals running courses in soil health/biological farming, and students taking university courses in soil science, ecology, microbiology, plant pathology and other biological sciences.

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Steyaert, Michiel, and Nicolas Butzen. Advanced Multiphasing Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converters: Pushing the limits of Fully Integrated Power Management. Springer, 2020.

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Steyaert, Michiel, and Nicolas Butzen. Advanced Multiphasing Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converters: Pushing the Limits of Fully Integrated Power Management. Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.

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Administrative Capacity in the New Eu Member States: The Limits of Innovation? (World Bank Working Papers) (World Bank Working Papers). World Bank Publications, 2007.

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Gordon, Hava Rachel. This Is Our School! NYU Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479848317.001.0001.

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This Is Our School! provides a compelling ethnographic account of the ways various local educational justice movements wrestle with neoliberal education reform in one national hot spot for educational experimentation: Denver, Colorado. From the walkouts protesting the closure of neighborhood schools in low-income Black communities, to the resistance of White middle-class gentrifiers to school choice, to the carefully constructed campaigns of Latinx and immigrant-based community nonprofits, this book investigates the successes and setbacks of these various movements as they attempt to change the direction of one local city school system. Community movements matter to the outcomes of neoliberal school reform: they help to shape the mechanics of school choice in a city, they help to determine which charter schools will be opened and which will be replicated, and they push districts to reinvest in particular neighborhood schools. At the same time, this book demonstrates how these singular movement victories are ultimately constrained by their inability to join forces into more formidable and diverse movement coalitions for urban livability. The profound racial and class divides between educational justice movement groups vying for power in the same city ultimately limit the capacity for communities to take control of urban school reform, even when reforms like school choice and school closures remain so unpopular with so many communities. Ultimately, This Is Our School! reveals how grassroots organizing can steer elite education reforms toward local visions for more just schools and livable cities, and how and why it falls short.

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Hatzis, Nicholas. Offensive Speech, Religion, and the Limits of the Law. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198758440.001.0001.

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Is the government ever justified in restricting offensive speech? This question has become particularly important in relation to communications which offend the religious sensibilities of listeners. It is often argued that insulting a person’s beliefs is tantamount to disrespecting the believer; that insults are a form of hatred or intolerance; that the right to religious freedom includes a more specific right not to be insulted in one’s beliefs; that religious minorities have a particularly strong claim to be protected from offence; and that censorship of offensive speech is necessary for the prevention of social disorder and violence. None of those arguments is convincing. Offence is an unpleasant mental state caused when our expectations of being treated in a particular way are frustrated. Drawing on law and philosophy, the book argues that there is no moral right to be protected from offence and that, while freedom of religion is an important right which grounds negative and positive obligations for the state, it is unpersuasive to interpret constitutional and human rights provisions as including a right not to be caused offence. Rather, we have good reasons to think of public discourse as a space for the expression of all viewpoints about the ethical life, including those which some listeners will find offensive, as this is necessary to sustain a society’s capacity for self-reflection and change.

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Press, South. You Can Always Find Me Beyond the Limits of Mortal Capacity: 110-Page Blank Lined Journal Office Coworker Boss Gag Gift Idea. Independently Published, 2019.

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