Humanities & Social Sciences

Race and Human Diversity is an introduction to the study of human diversity in both its biological and cultural dimensions. Robert L. Anemone examines the biological basis of human difference and how humans have biologically and culturally adapted to life in different environments. The book discusses the history of the race concept, evolutionary theory, human genetics, and the connections between racial classifications and racism. It invites students to question the existence of race as biology, but to recognize race as a social construction with significant implications for the lived experience of individuals and populations. This second edition has been thoroughly revised, with new material on human genetic diversity, developmental plasticity and epigenetics. There is additional coverage of the history of eugenics; race in US history, citizenship and migration; affirmative action; and white privilege and the burden of race. Fully accessible for undergraduate students with no prior knowledge of genetics or statistics, this is a key text for any student taking an introductory class on race or human diversity.

Il contributo propone una sintesi sui lavori di lettura archeologica degli elevati nel castello di San Lucido (noto come castello Ruffo, sulla costa tirrenica calabrese, in provincia di Cosenza), un sito fino ad oggi inaccessibile, e sostanzialmente sconosciuto per quello che concerne gli aspetti archeologici e architettonici. Il castello (insieme al borgo e al relativo approdo) che insiste nell’areale dell’antica Clampetia (dapprima città brettia, poi conquistata dai Romani), compare nelle fonti medievali a partire dalla seconda metà dell’XI secolo, al tempo della conquista normanna, e per molti secoli costituisce un importante polo feudale dell’alto Tirreno Calabrese, strategico punto di controllo della viabilità terrestre e marittima. Il lavoro, condotto dallo scrivente in collaborazione con la SABAP CS, consiste nella lettura stratigrafica degli elevati coadiuvata dalle più recenti metodologie di rilevamento tridimensionale, ed ha permesso, tra gli altri risultati, di individuare la prima fase dell’incastellamento normanno caratterizzata dalla presenza della torre quadrangolare (donjon) sullo sperone meridionale della rupe.

This innovative collection makes the case for a push within the discipline to adopt user-centric perspectives on translated video games and their corresponding accessibility features. The volume demonstrates how audiovisual translation (AVT) and media accessibility (MA) involve decisions that can re-shape the gaming experience of players and other audiences. Contributions in the book outline this in two ways. First, they collectively provide an account of the prospects and challenges that come with user-centric scholarly inquiry in game translation and accessibility. Second, complementarily, they report on original studies and new, exciting findings while adopting the perspective of global users. Taken together, the collection serves as a call to action to systematically advance research eliciting variable types of input from users who take advantage of translation and accessibility services. Such research will facilitate a clearer understanding of how the particular decisions of translators and other relevant agents shape game reception. This book will be of interest to scholars in both translation studies and video game research, as well as those interested in media accessibility and media studies more broadly. Chapters 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND) license.

Die mechanische Schwingungsüberlagerung mit Frequenzen im Ultraschallbereich ist ein bekannter Ansatz zur Reduzierung der Umformkraft. Bisher stellt das mangelnde detaillierte Prozessverständnis jedoch ein Hemmnis für die breite industrielle Anwendung der Technologie dar. Die Untersuchungsschwerpunkte dieser Arbeit liegen in der Identifikation verantwortlicher Wirkmechanismen für das Phänomen der schwingungsbedingten Kraftreduzierung und der Analyse des Schwingungseinflusses auf das Formänderungsvermögen metallischer Werkstoffe. Untersucht werden vier Werkstoffe aus unterschiedlichen Klassen: der martensitische Edelstahl X17CrNi16-2, der Baustahl S235JR, die Aluminiumknetlegierung AW-6082 T6 und die Aluminiumgusslegierung AC-43400. Eine grundlegende Prozessanalyse belegt, dass bei Schwingungsüberlagerung neben der Kraftreduzierung eine signifikante Probenerwärmung auftritt. Zudem wurde ein stark verändertes Umformverhalten festgestellt. Als maßgebliche Mechanismen für die Kraftreduzierung konnten die thermische Entfestigung und werkstoffseitige Einflüsse identifiziert werden. Hinsichtlich des Formänderungsvermögens wurde bei Ultraschallüberlagerung werkstoffunabhängig eine deutliche Reduzierung nachgewiesen. Insbesondere bei versagensunkritischen Umformvorgängen bietet der Einsatz der Technologie demnach beträchtliche Potenziale in Bezug auf eine reduzierte Werkzeug- und Bauteilbelastung sowie eine flexiblere Anlagenauswahl.

In contemporary global capitalist culture, time-consciousness becomes more important than self-consciousness. In the realm of lived time, the identity of the self opens up to an encounter with otherness. Insights into the ways in which this dynamic unfolds enable one to affirm human temporalities in their potential difference to the temporalities of global capitalism. The book offers an empirical exploration of lived temporalities on markets, in buses and in traditional subsistence in Guatemala, and a theoretical exploration of these through the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and inter-relational approaches within psychoanalysis.

Uganda's broadcast media landscape has witnessed tremendous growth in recent years. While the public broadcaster remains the dominant national player - in terms of reach - in both radio and television, commercial broadcasters have introduced a substantial level of diversity in the industry. Public broadcasting faces serious competition from the numerous private and independent broadcasters, especially in and around the capital Kampala and major urban centres. In fact, the private/commercial sector clearly dominates the industry in most respects, notably productivity and profitability. The public broadcaster, which enjoys wider geographical coverage, faces the challenge of trying to fulfill a broad mandate with little funding. This makes it difficult for UBC to compete with the more nimble operators in the commercial/private sector. Overall, there appears to be a healthy degree of pluralism and diversity in terms of ownership.

How do digital experiences shape intimacy? What role do sensory stimuli play in creating connections across virtual spaces? ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response), a growing cultural and media phenomenon, invites us to reconsider the ways intimacy, care and relaxation are nurtured through immersive soundscapes and visuals. This book situates ASMR within the landscape of contemporary affective culture, exploring how sounds, visuals and tactile elements build intimate and soothing connections in digital environments. Through a detailed analysis of ASMR videos, it reveals how posthuman perspectives and post-cinematic aesthetics blur the boundaries between human and non-human, reshaping our experience of media and creating new spaces for connection, care and emotional resonance. Ultimately, it uncovers how ASMR opens the door to new forms of transgressive intimacy, challenging traditional notions of closeness in today's world.

In this compelling title, two distinguished scholars share their experiences as expert witnesses in cases ranging from eyewitness testimony, person identification and recovered memories, to false confessions, collaborative storytelling and causal attribution, in the context of various interrogation techniques and their ability to deliver reliable results. Each chapter describes in lucid, entertaining prose a representative case in the context of scholarly literature to date, showing how psychological expertise has been (and can be) used in a legal setting. The cases include petty and serious crime, from illegal gambling, infringed trademarks and risqué courtship behaviour, to honour killing and death on the climbing wall. The authors' findings and recommendations apply to legal systems worldwide. There is no other English-language textbook covering a similarly wide range of offences, and this volume will fill a gap in the existing literature and demonstrate how psychological expertise can be used in a much larger area than is often realised.

This open access book provides a comprehensive look at the pluses and minuses of leadership in times of an unparalleled crisis, such as the COVID-19 global pandemic. It examines the COVID-19 crisis in terms of psychodynamics, crisis management, and especially from the standpoint of complex, messy systems. It analyses how leaders need to think and act differently to cope better with—and potentially prevent—future crises.

Resistance features a selection of overtly non-conformist positions in the contemporary visual art scene of Albania vis-à-vis the most recent social, political, and economic turmoils in the Western Balkans – a region marked by the dark side of political governances that have remained “democratic” in their outward appearance (especially toward the European Union), while dramatically leaning toward autocratic regimes in the eyes of their own citizens. Regardless of their citizens’ primary interests, and despite some positive signals surfacing in the international media, almost every attempt to establish lasting conditions for democratic governance in the Western Balkans has been shrouded in the veil of profit-driven political scandals, personal greed for more and more power over the people’s rights, and the extinction of public property in pursuit of social elite’s corporate and private interests. Additionally, and more specifically related to Tirana, artists and citizens have, over the years, been involved in various types of revolt, expressing their disagreements with the ongoing destruction of public property in the name of “modernization and development”: a movement led by local political powers through financially and strategically motivated processes of architectural cannibalism – not only at the expense of erasing Albanian cultural heritage or long-term residents’ habitats, but also at the expense of taking human lives under the pretext of “urbanization.” The most obvious instance of this economy of destruction was the complex of buildings linked to the National Theater of Albania in downtown Tirana that has served as a symbolic and material place of citizens’ resistance: for more than two years, together with local artists, they have been opposing the government’s plans to demolish the old complex in order to build a new one – until this finally happened in Spring 2020, in the midst of the ongoing COVID19 pandemic. Rooted in the atmosphere of the National Theater Protests in Tirana, RESISTANCE was conceived in Summer 2019 by ZETA Center for Contemporary Art as the International Artists-in-Residence Program, in cooperation with three partner organizations from Kosovo, Serbia and North Macedonia (Stacion – Center for Contemporary Art in Prishtina; Ilija & Mangelos Foundation in Novi Sad; and Faculty of Things That Can’t Be Learned in Bitola) and supported by Swiss Cultural Fund in Albania, a project of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. Gradually, the project expanded into an exhibition (Heterotopias of Resistance, curated by Blerta Hoçia and featuring works by Lori Lako, Fatlum Doçi, Edona Kryeziu, Nina Galiç, Darko Vukiç, Nikola Slavevski, and Natasha Nedelkova) and a series of interviews and panel discussions (with contributions by Lindita Komani, Edmond Budina, Ervin Goci, Ergin Zaloshnja, Pleurad Xhafa, Gentian Shkurti, Stefano Romano, Luçjan Bedeni, HAVEIT, Leonard Qylafi, Jonida Gashi, and Fatmira Nikolli). The results of both have been collected and presented in the format of a publication that, besides serving as an indispensable reading material concerning visual arts and politics in contemporary Albania, especially to those abroad, functions by itself as a form of resistance against contagious cultural policies in weak post-socialist “democracies” in Southeastern Europe.

This chapter will look beyond Cambodia as we know it today in geographic terms, and beyond the early 13th century, to highlight legacies of Angkor beyond Angkor on the Southeast Asian mainland (see Figure 32.1). To begin this exploration, allow me to point out the discreetly deceptive premises of this chapter’s title: that we all, author and readers alike, share established understandings of what Angkor was as of what a legacy is. Alas, we cannot pretend to stand on such firm ground. Instead, with reference to the opening epigraphs, I propose a working definition of Angkor as legacy. The conceptual assimilation of ‘Angkor’ and ‘legacy’ is of course another temporising gloss on empire: where the present, commemorating what has been as a means of heralding what will be, is always already gaining time for itself.

Nach der Offenlegung struktureller Defizite in der Bestandsaufnahme »Lehrkräftefortbildung in Deutschland« (Daschner/Hanisch 2019) werden in diesem »Weißbuch« Good-Practice-Beispiele aus 20 Themenbereichen präsentiert: von wirksamen Formaten, der schulinternen Qualifizierung, der Bedarfserfassung und dem Monitoring bis zu Lesson Studies, der Netzwerkbildung und Fragen der Governance auf der strukturellen Ebene; von der Fortbildung in einer Kultur der Digitalität, der Bildung für Demokratie und Nachhaltigkeit bis zu Future Skills auf der inhaltlichen Ebene. Die dritte Phase der Lehrerbildung profitiert von der Diskussion produktiver Ideen und zukunftsorientierter Praxis. Zielgruppe dieser bisher umfassendsten Präsentation guter Praxis in der Lehrkräftefortbildung sind deshalb die, die etwas bewegen können und wollen: die Akteure auf den verschiedenen Ebenen des Fortbildungssystems, dazu Schulleitungen und Kooperationspartner in Hochschulen, bei Stiftungen und Gewerkschaften. Der Mehrwert allerdings liegt letztlich nicht beim Nachmachen guter Beispiele, sondern bei den Reflexionen und Impulsen für die eigene Praxis, die sie auslösen.

In diesem Band der Bad Orber Gespräche 2005 erörtern prominente Vertreter der Ärztekammer, der Kassenärztlichen Vereinigung, der Krankenhausträger, der pharmazeutischen Industrie und der Wissenschaft die Abgrenzung des Leistungskatalogs in der GKV, den Qualitätswettbewerb in der Medizin sowie die Nutzenbewertung von Arzneimitteln. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei die Verbesserung von Effizienz und Effektivität der Gesundheitsversorgung. Der Sammelband enthält die erweiterten Referate eines interdisziplinären Workshops zu Qualität und Nutzen medizinischer Leistungen. Diskutiert wurden die Themenkreise Abgrenzung des Leistungskatalogs in der GKV, Qualitätswettbewerb in der Medizin und die Problematik einer zentralen Qualitäts- und Nutzenbewertung von Arzneimitteln.

Erklärvideos stellen für Lernende eine wichtiger werdende Lerngelegenheit dar. Die Forschungslage zum Thema Erklärvideos lässt zum Teil noch offen, welchen Einfluss die didaktische Qualität eines Erklärvideos und die Form der Einbettung in Lehr-Lernprozesse auf den Lernzuwachs haben. Weiterhin ist unklar, ob es Personengruppen gibt, die von Erklärvideos besonders profitieren können. Ziel der Arbeit ist es daher, einen theoriebasierten Kategorienkatalog zur Gestaltung möglichst lernwirksamer Erklärvideos zu entwickeln, zwei Erklärvideos unterschiedlicher didaktischer Qualität zu einem Thema aus der Elektrizitätslehre zu gestalten und anhand dieser beiden Videos die Lernwirksamkeit empirisch zu prüfen.Die Erhebung mit N = 146 Lehramtsstudierenden des Sachunterrichts zeigt über alle Treatmentgruppen große Lernzuwächse. Aus den Ergebnissen folgt, dass die Qualität und auch das Einbettungsformat in dieser Erhebung keinen direkten Einfluss auf den Lernzuwachs haben. Aus der Betrachtung der Nutzungsdaten der Erklärvideos folgt als eine mögliche Erklärung, dass die Studierenden auch im schlechteren Erklärvideo relevante Inhalte identifizieren können. Es konnte beobachtet werden, dass besonders im Vorwissen schwache Studierende überproportional von Erklärvideos profitieren. Der mögliche Lernzuwachs bei der Nutzung von Erklärvideos hängt somit von den individuellen Lernvoraussetzungen der Lernenden ab.

The article analyzes the centrality of the question of work in the thought of Karl Marx, focusing in particular on the role that work has in the Marxian conception of man and in the materialistic understanding of history. Marx criticizes Adam Smith’s view according to which work is essentially a sacrifice. For Marx, work, which is constitutive and essential to human nature, can take very different forms: it can be alienated and exploited work as in capitalism, and therefore a work where the individual loses himself. But it could also be, in a different society, one of the most important ways of self-realization of the individual and extrication of his creativity.