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Orientierungen von Jugendlichen beim Urteilen und Entscheiden in Kontexten nachhaltiger Entwicklung
Bewertungskompetenz, also Urteils- und Entscheidungsfähigkeit, stellt ein zentrales Ziel des naturwissenschaftlichen Unterrichts dar. In der derzeitigen fachdidaktischen Diskussion dominieren Nutzen-Wert-Modelle des Urteilens und Entscheidens, soziologische und weitere entscheidungspsychologische Arbeiten wurden nur selten rezipiert. Die vorliegende Studie zieht diese Arbeiten heran und nimmt mit Hilfe qualitativer, fokussierter Einzelinterviews und der dokumentarischen Methode die Perspektive von Jugendlichen auf Fragestellungen nachhaltiger Entwicklung in den Blick.
Die Rekonstruktion zeigt, dass Orientierungsrahmen, also prä-reflexive, habitualisierte Wissensbestände in Bezug auf Werte, Zeitlichkeit und die eigene Person im Verhältnis zu anderen Menschen, das Urteilen und Entscheiden der Jugendlichen strukturieren. Darauf aufbauend werden drei Typen im Umgang mit Problemen nachhaltiger Entwicklung identifiziert und im Hinblick auf didaktische Konsequenzen analysiert. Vor dem Hintergrund der Ergebnisse plädiert die Studie für einen bildungstheoretisch fundierten Begriff von Bewertungskompetenz: Diese sollte nicht nur als das Erlernen bestimmter Urteilsstrategien, sondern auch als Reflexionsfähigkeit auf eigene, habitualisierte Wissensbestände verstanden werden. Zudem macht die Studie Vorschläge zur begründeten Auswahl von Kontexten für Bewertungskompetenz.
Recent Advances and Perspectives in Deoxynivalenol Research
Recent Advances and Perspectives in Deoxynivalenol Research
Neuroglia
This book is a compiled version of the journal Neuroglia. It was a peer-review Open Access journal by MDPI that investigated a wide range of glia related topics. Now the journal is published as a section of the journal Brain Sciences, with a new section Editor-in-Chief Prof. Sergey Kasparov.
Latest Developments in Reality-Based 3D Surveying and Modelling
Latest Developments in Reality-Based 3D Surveying and Modelling
Forty Years of Heel Prick Screening in the Netherlands
This book aims to provide an overview of developments in the heel prick screening programme in the Netherlands in which similarities with the situation elsewhere in the world, where relevant, will be mentioned. In the Netherlands, the preparations for the national screening programme started in 1964. The formal launch of the programme was on September 1, 1974. In 2014, therefore this programme had existed 40 years.
The book is structured as follows. Chapter 1 describes how the programme began with one disease and over the years has continued to expand to currently covering 19 disorders. Chapter 2 focuses on the organisation of the screening programme and the agencies that have been involved over the years. Chapter 3 is intended to provide a global view of the programme in its current form. Chapter 4 describes how neonatal screening programmes elsewhere in the world developed and outline their main differences with the Dutch programme. Finally, Chapter 5 contains the summary and conclusions. This chosen structure leads to some aspects being mentioned more than once.
The book is intended for a broad audience that is interested in policy making on heel prick screening; hence, scientific depth is limited. Where possible and useful, references to the scientific literature have been included but completeness has not been pursued. The main sources were the archives of the National Steering Committees for Phenylketonuria and Congenital Hypothyroidism (LBCs), supplemented with interviews with the persons listed in Annex 1 and, if available, their personal archives.
This is a translation of the book “Veertig Jaar Hielprikscreening in Nederland”, that was published by Prelum Publishers, Houten, the Netherlands with ISBN 978-90-8562-133-1
© 2014 Prelum, Houten; RIVM, Bilthoven; Vumc, Amsterdam.
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Emerging Technologies for Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
In a world where energy conservation, environmental protection and sustainable development are growing concerns, the development of electric vehicle (EV) and hybrid EV (HEV) technologies has taken on an accelerated pace. This collection entitled “Electric and Hybrid Vehicles” invites articles that address the state-of-the-art technologies and new developments for EVs and HEVs, including but not limited to energy sources, electric powertrains, hybrid powertrains, energy management systems, energy refueling systems, regenerative braking systems, system integration, system optimization and infrastructure. Articles which deal with the latest hot topics for EVs and HEVs are particularly encouraged such as advanced lithium-ion batteries, ultracapacitors, energy-efficient motor drives, bidirectional power converters, integrated-starter-generator systems, electric variable transmission systems, on-board renewable energy, inductive or wireless charging technology, and vehicle-to-grid technology. As the impact of the use of EVs and HEVs on our daily lives is utmost important, articles which deal with the relationships between the use of EVs or HEVs and the energy, environment and economy would be of particular interest.
Competences for Pharmacy Education and Practice in Europe
Competences for Pharmacy Education and Practice in Europe
Advances in Airborne Lidar Systems and Data Processing
This edition is a reprint of the Special Issue published online in the open access journal Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292) from 2016–2017 (available at: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/ special issues/rs ALS), complemented by selected articles published in Remote Sensing
Fundamentals of Business: Third Edition
Fundamentals of Business provides a foundation of business terms, concepts, and an understanding of the global business environment so as to inspire you in your business journey. It covers the following topics in business: teamwork; economics; ethics; entrepreneurship; business ownership, management, and leadership; organizational structures and operations management; human resources and motivating employees; managing in labor union contexts; marketing and pricing strategy; hospitality and tourism, accounting and finance, and personal finances.
Nur eine »Geld-Emancipation«?: Loyalitäten und Lebenswelten des Prager jüdischen Großbürgertums 1800–1867
“Im Mittelpunkt des Buches steht die Frage nach den Loyalitäten und Lebenswelten des Prager jüdischen Großbürgertums zwischen 1800 und 1867. Aufgrund seines enormen wirtschaftlichen Erfolges nahm es innerhalb der jüdischen Bevölkerung Böhmens eine Sonderstellung ein. Anhand von fünf Prager Familien zeigt Martina Niedhammer jedoch, dass sich die gesellschaftlichen Bestrebungen des jüdischen Großbürgertums nicht in sozialem Aufstieg um jeden Preis erschöpften. Dies belegen die vielfältigen Anbindungen der jüdischen Oberschicht an nationalpolitisch, ethnisch und religiös unterschiedlich konnotierte Orte im Prager Stadtraum. Entlang dieser Orte werden ihr ökonomischer Aufstieg, religiöses Leben, soziales und politisches Engagement sowie familiäres Selbstverständnis in den Blick genommen.”
Water in Times of Climate Change: A Values-driven Dialogue
This book on water and climate change goes beyond the usual and predictable analyses, by bringing religion and values into a discussion that is often dominated by technocratic solutions. The three case studies of Jakarta, Cape Town, and Amsterdam demonstrate the challenges of water management in urban areas and the role religion can play in addressing them. With representatives from science, politics, economics, and religion, as well as young voices, the book stimulates a values-driven dialogue on issues of water in times of climate change.
Urban Life and Intellectual Crisis in Middle-Period China, 800–1100 CE
In the eleventh century, the cities of the Song Empire (960-1279) emerged into writing. Literati in prior centuries had looked away from crowded streets, but literati in the eleventh century found beauty in towering buildings and busy harbors. Their purpose in writing the city was ideological. On the written page, they tried to establish a distinction that eluded them in the avenues and to discern an immanent pattern in the movement of people, goods, and money. By the end of the eleventh century, however, they recognized that they had failed in their efforts. They had lost the Way in the city. Urban Life and Intellectual Crisis in Middle-Period China, 800-1100 reveals the central place of urban life in the history of the eleventh century. Important developments in literary innovation and monetary policy, in canonical exegesis and civil engineering, in financial reform and public health, converge in this book as they converged in the city.
Television before TV: New Media and Exhibition Culture in Europe and the USA, 1928-1939
Television before TV rethinks the history of interwar television by exploring the medium’s numerous demonstrations organized at national fairs and international exhibitions in the late 1920s and 1930s. Building upon extensive archival research in Britain, Germany, and the United States, Anne-Katrin Weber analyses the sites where the new medium met its first audiences. She argues that public displays were central to television’s social construction; for the historian, the exhibitions therefore constitute crucial events to understand not only the medium’s pre-war emergence, but also its subsequent domestication in the post-war years. Designed as a transnational study, her book highlights the multiple circulations of artefacts and ideas across borders of democratic and totalitarian regimes alike. Richly illustrated with 100 photographs, Weber finally emphasizes that even without regular programmes, interwar television was widely seen.
Syntax of Hungarian: Postpositions and Postpositional Phrases
The Syntax of Hungarian aims to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language, rooted in theory but providing highly detailed descriptions, and intended to be of use to researchers, as well as advanced students of language and linguistics. As research in language leads to extensive changes in our understanding and representations of grammar, the Comprehensive Grammar Resources series intends to present the most current understanding of grammar and syntax as completely as possible in a way that will both speak to modern linguists and serve as a resource for the non-specialist.
Syntax of Hungarian: Coordination and Ellipsis
Syntax of Hungarian aims to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language, rooted in theory but providing highly detailed descriptions, and intended to be of use to researchers, as well as advanced students of language and linguistics. As research in language leads to extensive changes in our understanding and representations of grammar, the Comprehensive Grammar Resources series intends to present the most current understanding of grammar and syntax as completely as possible in a way that will both speak to modern linguists and serve as a resource for the non-specialist. This volume provides a comprehensive overview and description of coordinate structures, the syntactic and semantic types of conjunctions, as well as the types of ellipses in sentences and short dialogues. It discusses multiple conjunctions, coordinated wh-constructions, sluicing, and sentence fragments.
Syntax of Dutch: Verbs and Verb Phrases, Volume 3
The Syntax of Dutch aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It is primarily concerned with language description and not with linguistic theory, and provides support to all researchers interested in matters relating to the syntax of Dutch, including advanced students of language and linguistics. Syntax of Dutch: Verbs and Verb Phrases consists of three volumes. Volume 1 opens with a general introduction to verbs, including a review of various verb classifications and discussions on inflection, tense, mood, modality and aspect. This is followed by a comprehensive discussion of complementation (argument structure and verb frame alternations). Volume 2 continues the discussion of complementation, but is more specifically focused on clausal complements: the reader will find detailed discussions of finite and infinitival argument clauses, complex verb constructions and verb clustering. Volume 3 concludes with a description of adverbial modification and the overall structure of clauses in relation to, e.g., word order (verb placement, wh-movement. extraposition phenomena, scrambling, etc.).
Syntax of Dutch: Verbs and Verb Phrases, Volume 2
Syntax of Dutch: Verbs and Verb Phrases consists of three volumes. Volume 1 opens with a general introduction to verbs, including a review of various verb classifications and discussions on inflection, tense, mood, modality and aspect. This is followed by a comprehensive discussion of complementation (argument structure and verb frame alternations). Volume 2 continues the discussion of complementation, but is more specifically focused on clausal complements: the reader will find detailed discussions of finite and infinitival argument clauses, complex verb constructions and verb clustering. Volume 3 concludes with a description of adverbial modification and the overall structure of clauses in relation to, e.g., word order (verb placement, wh-movement. extraposition phenomena, scrambling, etc.).
Spaces of Communication: Elements of Semio-Pragmatics
Semio-pragmatics, an approach to the study of film and audiovisual media first proposed by Roger Odin in the early 1980s, shifted the focus from textual analysis to the interaction of text and context and to the institutional modes of framing and reading which shape the viewer’s engagement with the film. A response to an impasse in post-1968 film semiotics and psychoanalytical approaches to film spectatorship, semio-pragmatics contributed significantly to the further development of film studies alongside Cultural Studies, neo-formalism, historical reception studies and the phenomenology of film.
Spaces of Communication offers a concise introduction to semio-pragmatics and condenses the intellectual trajectory of one of the foundational figures of film studies into a relatively short and accessible volume. It is a book which testifies to the author’s deep and rich intellectual engagement with a vast array of objects ranging from the classics of the cinephile canon to television news programs, home movies and mobile phone films.
Social Movements and the Politics of Debt: Transnational Resistance against Debt on Three Continents
It would have been hard to miss the pivotal role debt has played for contentious politics in the last decades. The North Atlantic Financial Crisis, Global Recession and European Debt Crisis – as well as the recent waves of protest that followed them – have catapulted debt politics into the limelight of public debates. Profiting from years of fieldwork and an extensive amount of empirical data, Christoph Sorg traces recent contestations of debt from North Africa to Europe and the US. In doing so, he identifies the emergence of new transnational movement networks against the injustice of current debt politics, which struggle for more social and democratic ways of organizing debt within and between societies.
Social Movements and Solidarity Structures in Crisis-Ridden Greece
Social Movements and Solidarity Structures in Crisis-Ridden Greece explores the rich grassroots experience of social movements in Greece between 2008 and 2016. The harsh conditions of austerity triggered the rise of vibrant mobilizations that went hand-in-hand with the emergence of numerous solidarity structures, providing unofficial welfare services to the suffering population. Based on qualitative field research conducted in more than 50 social movement organizations in Greece’s two major cities, the book offers an in-depth analysis of the contentious mechanisms that led to the development of such solidarity initiatives. By analyzing the organizational structure, resources and identity of markets without middlemen, social and collective kitchens, organizations distributing food parcels, social clinics and self-managed cooperatives, this study explains the enlargement of boundaries of collective action in times of crisis.
Nichtlineare Pädagogik im Sport- und Mathematikunterricht
Die Nichtlineare Pädagogik (NLP) nähert sich als reflexive Pädagogik dem Lernen von Schülerinnen und Schüler über die explizite Benennung eigener Grundannahmen an. Hierbei wird ein Lernender als dynamisches System modelliert, aus dessen Eigenschaften, wie dem Herausbilden von Attraktoren, Phasenübergängen, Offenheit gegenüber der Umwelt oder Fähigkeit zur Selbstorganisation, Ableitungen zum Lernen getroffen werden, die die Grundprinzipien der NLP darstellen.
Während die Forschungsaktivitäten zur NLP bislang vornehmlich auf koordinative, taktische oder motivationale Verbesserung im Sport abzielten, leistet Band 14 der Reihe Schulsportforschung den Übertrag der NLP in den Sport- und Mathematikunterricht und beobachtet hierbei die grundsätzliche Passung der Prinzipien sowie die Auswirkungen einer Anwendung auf Lernprozess und -ergebnis von Schülerinnen und Schülern. Hierfür wurden mittels Coachings dreier Lehrkräfte Unterrichtsinterventionen in jeweils drei Mathematik- und Sportklassen eingeleitet und die Durchführung mit Interviews, Beobachtungen, Fragebögen und Notenerhebungen begleitet. Im Ergebnis zeigte sich, dass die Prinzipien der NLP größtenteils auch im Sport- und Mathematikunterricht implementierbar sind, wobei die praktische Umsetzung aufgrund diverser Rahmenbedingungen von Schule auch Schwierigkeiten offenbart und notwendige Weiterentwicklungen des Konzepts anzeigt. Während die Auswirkungen auf den Lernerfolg der Schülerinnen und Schüler nicht abschließend bewertet werden können, zeigen motivationale Veränderung vor allem ein größeres Spektrum der unterrichtlichen Wahrnehmung und einen Anstieg in den Kategorien inhaltliche Relevanz und Amotivation bzw. extrinsische Motivation an.
The Chatter of the Visible: Montage and Narrative in Weimar Germany
Patrizia McBride’s study, The Chatter of the Visible, examines the paradoxical narrative features of the photo montage aesthetics of artists associated with Dada, Constructivism, and the New Objectivity. While montage strategies have commonly been associated with the purposeful interruption of and challenge to narrative consistency and continuity, McBride offers an historicized re-appraisal of 1920s and 1930s German photo montage work to show that its peculiar mimicry was less a rejection of narrative and more an extension or permutation of it; a means for thinking in narrative textures exceeding constraints imposed by “flat” print media (especially the novel and other literary genres). According to McBride, a close engagement with montage procedures going back to Cubism reveals explicit inquiry into the status of objects as complex signifying entities whose material qualities are inextricably bound up with linguistic dynamics.She focuses on allegory as the appropriate tool for reading Weimar-era photo montage, focusing on the ways allegorical work in montage compositions foregrounds the moment of incorporation by purposefully exposing the pasted-in nature of the inserted materials. This moment of construction, argues McBride, produces a chattering of forms that propels the distinctive experimentation of Weimar-era montage [and its experimental focus] on the ways in which perception interacts with physical forms in shaping the contours of the material world.McBride’s contribution to the conversation around Weimar-era montage is in her situation of the form of the work as a discursive practice in its own right, which affords humans a new way to negotiate temporality; as a particular mode of thinking that productively relates the particular to the universal; or as a culturally specific form of cognition.
Seeing the City Digitally: Processing Urban Space and Time
This book explores what’s happening to ways of seeing urban spaces in the contemporary moment, when so many of the technologies through which cities are visualised are digital. Cities have always been pictured, in many media and for many different purposes. This edited collection explores how that picturing is changing in an era of digital visual culture. Analogue visual technologies like film cameras were understood as creating some sort of a trace of the real city. Digital visual technologies, in contrast, harvest and process digital data to create images that are constantly refreshed, modified and circulated. Each of the chapters in this volume examines a different example of this processual visuality is reconfiguring the spatial and temporal organisation of urban life.
Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China
How do rural Chinese households deal with the conflicting pressures of migrating into cities to work as well as staying at home to preserve their fields? This is particularly challenging for rice farmers, because paddy fields have to be cultivated continuously to retain their soil quality and value. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and written sources, Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China describes farming households’ strategic solutions to this predicament. It shows how, in light of rural-urban migration and agro-technological change, they manage to sustain both migration and farming. It innovatively conceives rural households as part of a larger farming community of practice that spans both staying and migrating household members and their material world. Focusing on one exemplary resource – paddy fields – it argues that socio-technical resources are key factors in understanding migration flows and migrant-home relations. Overall, this book provides rare insights into the rural side of migration and farmers’ knowledge and agency.
The Red Years of Cahiers du Cinéma (1968-1973), Volume II: Aesthetics and Ontology
The uprising which shook France in May 1968 also had a revolutionary effect on the country’s most prominent film journal. Under editors Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni, Cahiers du cinéma embarked on a militant turn that would govern the journal’s work over the next five years. With a Marxist orientation inspired by the thinking of Louis Althusser, Jacques Lacan and Roland Barthes, the “”red years”” of Cahiers du cinéma produced a theoretical outpouring that was formative for the establishment of film studies as an academic discipline in the 1970s, and is still of vital relevance for the contemporary audiovisual landscape. It was also the seminal experience for a generation of critics who have dedicated the following half-century to the task of critically responding to the cinema. The Red Years of Cahiers du Cinéma (1968-1973) gives a historical overview of this period in the journal’s history, combining biographical accounts of the critics who were involved with Cahiers in the post-1968 and theoretical explorations of the text they wrote.