Humanities & Social Sciences

Unser alltägliches Leben in der modernen digitalen Kommunikationsgesellschaft stützt sich zunehmend auf Daten, die von mechatronischen Systemen mit Hilfe von Sensoren aus der Umwelt erfasst und verarbeitet werden. Aus den gewonnenen Informationen sollen Anwendungen zukünftig mehr und mehr Handlungen selbstständig ableiten und den Menschen einen Mehrwert generieren. Durch die stetige Steigerung der Funktionsintegrationsdichte innerhalb alltäglicher Anwendungen bei gleichzeitig reduziertem Bauraum vergrößern sich dabei die Anforderungen an die Leistungsfähigkeit der eingesetzten Materialen innerhalb der Baugruppe. Die vorliegende Forschungsarbeit setzt an der Miniaturisierung elektrischer Leiterbahngeometrien auf dreidimensionalen mechatronisch-integrierten Bauteilen (3D-MID) an. Erfahrungen zeigen, ein frühes Versagen in Verbindung mit geringen Leiterbahnquerschnitten, hervorgerufen durch thermomechanische Spannungen zwischen den Polymersubstratmaterialien und den metallisierten elektrischen Leiterbahnen. Dazu wird die Verwendung alternativer epoxidharzbasierte Duromere untersucht, die im Spritzpress- und Spritzgießprozess verarbeiten werden können. Sie bieten im Vergleich zu den bisher typisch verwendeten thermoplastischen Materialien wie Polycarbonate, Polyamide und flüssigkristalline Polyamide einen deutlich geringeren thermischen Ausdehnungskoeffizienten (CTE). Die Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen dabei auf der Entwicklung eines chemisch basierten Aktivierungsverfahrens zur lasergestützten, selektiv-additiven Metallisierung eines Fine-Pitch Leiterbahnlayouts auf nichtleitenden Substraten. Durch die ideale Anpassung der Werkstoffe innerhalb des Multimaterialverbundes lassen sich die Einsatzmöglichkeiten von 3D-MID Anwendungen in den Bereich der Package-Baugruppen erweitern und den Grad der Miniaturisierung steigern.

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Veränderungen des Polnischen, die innerhalb der Morphemstrukturen bei der Generierung der Flexions- und Derivationsformen vorkommen. Aus der Vielzahl der Veränderungen (z. Bsp. Geminierung oder Tilgung von Elementen, Konsonantenwechsel, etc.) behandelt die Arbeit ausschließlich die Vokalwechsel des Polnischen. Als Vokalwechsel wird hierbei der Wechsel von einem vokalischen Element mit einem anderen vokalischen Element an einer bestimmten Stelle der Morphemstruktur verstanden; hierzu zählt auch der Wechsel zwischen "flüchtigem Vokal" (samogłoska ruchoma) und dem zu tilgenden Element.

Maverick Movies tells the improbable story of New Line Cinema, a company that cut a remarkable path through the American film industry and movie culture. Founded in 1967 as an art film distributor, New Line made a small fortune running John Waters’s Pink Flamingos at midnight screenings in the 1970s and found reliable returns with the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise in the 1980s. By 2001, the company competed with the major Hollywood studios and reached global box office success with the Lord of the Rings franchise. Blurring boundaries between high and low culture, between independent film and Hollywood, and between the margins and the mainstream, New Line Cinema epitomizes Hollywood’s shift in focus from the mass audience fostered by the classic studios to the multitude of niche audiences sought today. “At long last, a top film scholar takes a deep dive into New Line Cinema’s remarkable and most unlikely history. Mining a wealth of primary sources and trade press accounts, and with access to New Line’s renegade founder Bob Shaye himself, Daniel Herbert deftly recounts the company’s rags-to-riches saga and firmly situates New Line as one of the most important Hollywood studios in the past half century.” — THOMAS SCHATZ, author of The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era “Exhibiting the same archival dexterity he brought to Videoland, Herbert reconsiders how New Line’s eclecticism both predicted and reflected broader changes in US film culture of the late twentieth century. This book will revitalize the field of distribution studies.” — CAETLIN BENSON-ALLOTT, author of The Stuff of Spectatorship: Material Cultures of Film and Television “Focusing on New Line Cinema, an indie outfit rooted in 1960s college-campus film culture that in the 1990s briefly became the tail that wagged the dog at the WB, Herbert crafts a compelling road map of the volatile movie industry of postclassical Hollywood.” — JON LEWIS, author of Road Trip to Nowhere: Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture

Die Dissertation untersucht die verschiedenen Entwicklungslinien, Konzepte und Einsatzmöglichkeiten kollegialer Beratung und erläutert sie exemplarisch. Eingebunden wird diese informelle als auch arbeitsplatznahe Lernform in die Debatte um Kompetenzentwicklung und die Perspektiven der betrieblichen Weiterbildung. Dabei diskutiert die Autorin kollegiale Beratung im Kontext wesentlicher Lerntheorien wie Behaviorismus, Kognitivismus und gemäßigtem Konstruktivismus. Zwei aufeinander aufbauende Untersuchungen zeigen die Relevanz kollegialer Beratung für berufliches Handeln im Spannungsfeld von Kompetenzentwicklung, Lernen und betrieblichen sowie gruppendynamischen Prozessen auf. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass kollegiale Beratungsformen in der betrieblichen Weiterbildung immer mehr an Bedeutung gewinnen werden.

This book investigates the intersections between education, social justice, gendered violence and human rights in South African schools and universities. The rich and multifarious tapestry of scholarship and literature emanating from South African classrooms provides a fascinating lens through which we can understand the complex consequences of the economies of education, social justice imperatives, gendered violence on the lives of women and children, and marginalised communities. The scholarship in the book challenges readers to imagine alternative futures predicated on the transformational capacity of a democratic South Africa. Contributors to this volume examine the many ways in which social justice and gendered violence mirrors, expresses, projects and articulates the larger phenomenon of human rights violations in Africa and how, in turn, the discourse of human rights informs the ways in which we articulate, interrogate, conceptualise, enact and interpret quality education. The book also wrestles with the linguistic contradictions and ambiguities in the articulation of quality education in public and private spaces. This book is essential reading for scholars seeking solid grounding in exploring quality education, the instances of epistemic disobedience, the political implications of place and power, and human rights in theory and practice.

This essay aims to reflect on the political and ecological future of Europe, starting with the figure and the democratic values of David Sassoli.

Migration ist kein Ausnahmezustand, sondern eine existenzielle Grunderfahrung der Menschheit. Sie prägt gegenwärtige Gesellschaften, indem sie etablierte Ordnungen herausfordert, transnationale Räume jenseits nationaler Hegemonien schafft, neue Ökonomien stiftet, urbane und kommunale Lebensweisen beeinflusst sowie Ungleichheit und Prekarität lokal und global sichtbar macht. Migrationsforschung als Gesellschaftsforschung verengt den Fokus nicht auf »die Migrant*innen«, sondern untersucht Bedingungen fürs Zusammenleben und die Lebensgestaltung zwischen Ethnisierung und Pluralisierung, Diskriminierung und Ermächtigung, Teilung und Teilhabe. Das Jahrbuch Migration und Gesellschaft wendet das Prisma der Erzählung immer wieder neu. Die Ausgabe 2021/2022 setzt den Schwerpunkt auf das Thema »Familie«.

Poland and Taiwan: two parts of the world distant from each other, differing culturally and socially, and yet facing kind of similar challenges in the late 1980s and early 1990s – characterised by the transition from an authoritarian political system to liberal democracy. This book seeks to present the process of democratisation of Poland and Taiwan from the point of view of shared perspectives. Invoking the classical literature of transitology, it is possible to explore similarities and differences between the democratisation of Poland and Taiwan among socioeconomic factors, fragmentation in society, political culture, meso- structures (e.g. political groups, social movements), political institutions, historical and national- identity aspects, and international influences.

Im Gegensatz zu Adorno hat Habermas kein Interesse mehr daran, sich mit der Metaphysik im Augenblick ihres Sturzes solidarisch zu erklären. Daher behauptet er explizit, ohne »metaphysische Rückendeckung« zu philosophieren und macht dies auch theoriestrategisch deutlich. Die Studie untersucht zunächst die Strategie der Metaphysikkritik bei Habermas, um anschließend die Folgen dieses Vorgehens zu analysieren. Dabei kommt sie zu dem Schluss, dass Habermas eine Naturalisierungsstrategie einschlägt, deren Folgen auf die Konzeption der Diskursethik bisher nicht berücksichtigt worden sind. Dies hat zur Konsequenz, dass Habermas wichtige Aspekte seiner eigenen Ethik unterminiert und damit gerade jener Form von Naturalismus Vorschub leistet, die er eigentlich kritisieren wollte.

White working-class conservatives have played a decisive role in American history, particularly in their opposition to social justice movements, radical critiques of capitalism, and government help for the poor and sick. While this pattern is largely seen as a post-1960s development, Poor Man's Fortune tells a different story, excavating the long history of white working-class conservatism in the century from the Civil War to World War II. With a close study of metal miners in the Tri-State district of Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma, Jarod Roll reveals why successive generations of white, native-born men willingly and repeatedly opposed labor unions and government-led health and safety reforms, even during the New Deal. With painstaking research, Roll shows how the miners' choices reflected a deep-seated, durable belief that hard-working American white men could prosper under capitalism, and exposes the grim costs of this view for these men and their communities, for organized labor, and for political movements seeking a more just and secure society. Roll's story shows how American inequalities are in part the result of a white working-class conservative tradition driven by grassroots assertions of racial, gendered, and national privilege.

"Consciousness is widely perceived as one of the most fundamental, interesting and difficult problems of our time. However, we still know next to nothing about the relationship between consciousness and the brain and we can only speculate about the consciousness of animals and machines. Human and Machine Consciousness presents a new foundation for the scientific study of consciousness. It sets out a bold interpretation of consciousness that neutralizes the philosophical problems and explains how we can make scientific predictions about the consciousness of animals, brain-damaged patients and machines. Gamez interprets the scientific study of consciousness as a search for mathematical theories that map between measurements of consciousness and measurements of the physical world. We can use artificial intelligence to discover these theories and they could make accurate predictions about the consciousness of humans, animals and artificial systems. Human and Machine Consciousness also provides original insights into unusual conscious experiences, such as hallucinations, religious experiences and out-of-body states, and demonstrates how ‘designer’ states of consciousness could be created in the future. Gamez explains difficult concepts in a clear way that closely engages with scientific research. His punchy, concise prose is packed with vivid examples, making it suitable for the educated general reader as well as philosophers and scientists. Problems are brought to life in colourful illustrations and a helpful summary is given at the end of each chapter. The endnotes provide detailed discussions of individual points and full references to the scientific and philosophical literature."

The series Lectures and Treatises on Slavic Studies, which has been published since 1980, offers opportunities for publication, especially for smaller monographs, which, in terms of their scope, are located between the journal article and the large book. It will cover topics from the whole area of ​​Slavic languages, literatures and cultures as well as their interrelations. In addition to investigations, bibliographies, research reports and editions are published. The authors of the previous volumes come from America, Canada, Germany, Finland, Poland, Russia, Switzerland, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Hungary.

The Archive of the Sacromonte Abbey in Granada preserves a historical treasure: Arabic texts on a sheet of parchment and on numerous small tablets of lead, which were discovered in Granada at the end of the sixteenth century in the tower of the old Friday Mosque and in caves of the "Valparaíso" hillock, from then on called "Sacromonte". They became the object of heated discussions in Europe and were condemned by the Pope in 1682. The texts are among the very last literary productions of the Moriscos, the Andalusi Muslims, many of whom continued to practice Islam in secret until their expulsion from Spain between 1609 and 1614. With the permission of the archbishop of Granada, we offer, for the first time in history, a study, edition, translation, and images of all the tablets and shed new light on the fascinating religious messages of these enigmatic texts and their authors.

In today’s global society, an increasing number of people speak a few widely spoken languages enjoying high standardisation and official recognition. Meanwhile, minority and local languages are gaining interest from specialists and society. This volume explores the rich topic of bi(dia)lectal repertoires, focusing on their grammatical as well as attitudinal, social and political dimension. With contributions from the international conference ‘Language Attitudes and Bi(dia)lectal Competence (LABiC)’, held at ­Ca’ ­Foscari University of Venice in September 2022, the volume is suited for linguists, educators, policymakers, and language enthusiasts who strive to support minority languages in a globalised world.

The study centers on the presentation of the North American borderlands in the works of Canadian Native writer Thomas King’s Truth & Bright Water (1999), American writer Howard Frank Mosher’s On Kingdom Mountain (2007), and American writer Jim Lynch’s Border Songs (2009). The three authors describe the peoples and places in the northeastern, middle and northwestern border regions of the USA and Canada. The novels address important border-oriented aspects such as indigeneity, the borderlands as historic territory and as utopian space, border crossing and transcendence, post-9/11 security issues, social interaction along the border, and gender specifics. The interpretation also examines the meaning of border imaginaries, border conceptualizations, and the theme of resistance and subversion.