Humanities & Social Sciences

Konservativer, Liberaler, Reaktionär? Neue Sichtweisen auf den Osnabrücker Bürgermeister und hannoverschen Innenminister Johann Carl Bertram Stüve Johann Carl Bertram Stüve gehört heute zu den vergessenen Politikern des 19. Jahrhunderts. Als langjähriger Bürgermeister der Stadt Osnabrück und Innenminister des Königreichs Hannover (1848-1850) galt er in den 1830er Jahren zunächst als Liberaler, der sich für die Bauernbefreiung und das hannoversche Staatsgrundgesetz einsetzte. Sein Eintreten gegen die einseitige Aufhebung des Grundgesetzes durch Ernst August 1837 machte ihn deutschlandweit bekannt. Als sich Stüve nach 1848 zum Gegner der Mehrheit der Frankfurter Nationalversammlung entwickelte, die einen kleindeutschen Nationalstaat unter Preußens Führung forderte, brachte ihm dies die Diskreditierung durch die borussische Geschichtsschreibung ein. Der Tagungsband nimmt zentrale Stationen von Stüves Leben und Wirken sowie seine politischen und persönlichen Überzeugungen neu in den Blick und zieht ein Resümee der bisherigen Stüve-Forschung. Aus dem Inhalt: Nicolas Rügge: Keine Prinzipien, sondern praktische Resultate zu erreichen suchen. Stüve als hannoverscher Innenminister (1848-1850). Dietmar von Reeken: Das Geschichtsbewusstsein eines Menschen rekonstruieren - Johann Carl Bertram Stüve und sein historisches Denken.

The statements here presented represent a tribute to David Sassoli and to the European values defended by Sassoli in his discours on the Future of Europe here included.

Die vorliegende Arbeit verknüpft empirische und theoretische Erkenntniselemente über die Entwicklung der öffentlichen Personalausgaben mit Hilfe einer Kausalitätsanalyse. Die Studie setzt bei der Entwicklung der Personalausgaben und ihrer Komponenten an und stellt anschließend einige theoretische Ansätze dar, die Aussagen zur relativen Entwicklung der Personalausgaben beinhalten. Die Integration von theoretischen und empirischen Aspekten geschieht im Zuge einer Überprüfung von Preisstruktureffekt und Folgelastenhypothese.

Reconciliation by Stealth advances a novel approach to evaluating the effects of transitional justice in postconflict societies. Through her examination of the Balkan conflicts, Denisa Kostovicova asks what happens when former adversaries discuss legacies of violence and atrocity, and whether it is possible to do so without further deepening animosities.Reconciliation by Stealth shifts our attention from what people say about war crimes, to how they deliberate past wrongs. Bringing together theories of democratic deliberation and peacebuilding, Kostovicova demonstrates how people from opposing ethnic groups reconcile through reasoned, respectful, and empathetic deliberation about a difficult legacy. She finds that expression of ethnic difference plays a role in good-quality deliberation across ethnic lines, while revealed intraethnic divisions help deliberators expand moral horizons previously narrowed by conflict. In the process, people forge bonds of solidarity and offset divisive identity politics that bears upon their deliberations. Reconciliation by Stealth shows us the importance of theoretical and methodological innovation in capturing how transitional justice can promote reconciliation, and points to the untapped potential of deliberative problem-solving to repair relationships fractured by conflict.

The 2002 Nobel Prize to Imre Kertész is a symptom: Hungary is now weltliterarisch. The historical process – which has seen Hungarian writers working since the 1970s to gain ontological autonomy for their field, to write in a language that is not mendacious, to go beyond the 'modern' of real socialism to a 'postmodern' in which reality is not "described", but "employed", and to anthropic ends – is at a standstill, it is greeted abroad as a common heritage. According to Ungheria 1945-2002. La dimensione letteraria – which concludes a prolonged period of analytical work (see Scrivere postmoderno in Ungheria, 1995, and Scrittori ungheresi allo specchio, 2003) – the Hungarian contribution to the contemporary era lies in its sense for this anthropic function of literature (even though the context now seems to want to thwart this effort).

In the framework of COMMON MED-project, a sampling campaign was carried out during December 2020 along two radials namely: T1 and T2. The findings showed that microplastic particles (MPs), ranging from 0.31 to 4.9 mm. For all samples, white color and fragments are the most common. As well, HDPE and PE are the predominant polymers. The concentrations of MPs varied between 62,095,032 and 260,979,12 items/km² with a density of 4 times greater in the T2 radial, which shows the influence of urban and marina origin on plastic contamination among seaside tourist one.

This book aims to show that recent developments in neuroscience permit a defense of free will. Through language, human beings can escape strict biological determinism. Readership: All interested in the philosophy of sciences, in the philosophy of mind, in the philosophy of language, in the cognitive sciences, in anthropology, and anyone interested by the question of the relation between brain and free will.

The vitality of a scientific field is usually attested by the fallout that research and publications have on the community of scholars who practice it and, therefore, on the development of the discipline itself and of its methodologies. The degree of “health” of a field of study, as well as its ability to get out of its niche of scholars and to see its validity recognised, is assessed by analysing whether and to what extent the works are read, commented on, cited by scholars from other geographical contexts and / or other scientific branches. The volume presents a research focused on the analysis of the level of internationalisation and vitality of Italian studies in the disciplines related to the study of books and documents, conducted through a series of parallel bibliometric investigations (query of citation databases, searches in Google scholar, application alternative metrics, library catalog analysis).

The chapter presents the case of the use of 360° video in the Digital Humanities and specifically in a lesson of the course in Historical Sciences. The 360° video provides students with both theoretical and experiential contextual information in situ. It begins with the view of Piazza Santa Maria Novella in Florence (the place of the oldest settlement of the Friars Preachers in Florence and their fight against the Cathars), then it moves to the cloister to reach the Dominican Library and then to read two pages of an illuminated choral. The 360 ​​° video was enriched with interactive points and enjoyed by the students in a laboratory equipped with HMD. The technological and didactic solutions adopted as well as the challenges faced and related solutions are illustrated, together with some recommendations.

Indonesia

Deep learning is widely applied to sparse 3D data to perform challenging tasks, e.g., 3D object detection and semantic segmentation. However, the high performance of deep learning comes with high costs, including computational costs and the effort to capture and label data. This work investigates and improves the efficiency of deep learning for sparse 3D data to overcome the obstacles to the further development of this technology.

The research volume contains contributions from phenomenological research that deal with questions of fact, facticity, reality and the real. What concept of the real or reality, for example, is phenomenology able to develop, and how can it take a stand on the criticism that has been levelled at it in recent times by the "new realism"? Such questions are discussed with special attention to the natural, social and political as well as the technical implications of a phenomenological concept of reality.

This volume focuses on hospitality as a theoretically and historically crucial phenomenon in Shakespeare's work with ramifications for contemporary thought and practice. Drawing a multifaceted picture of Shakespeare's scenes of hospitality—with their numerous scenes of greeting, feeding, entertaining, and sheltering—the collection demonstrates how hospitality provides a compelling frame for the core ethical, political, theological, and ecological questions of Shakespeare's time and our own. By reading Shakespeare's plays in conjunction with contemporary theory as well as early modern texts and objects—including almanacs, recipe books, husbandry manuals, and religious tracts — this book reimagines Shakespeare's playworld as one charged with the risks of hosting (rape and seduction, war and betrayal, enchantment and disenchantment) and the limits of generosity (how much can or should one give the guest, with what attitude or comportment, and under what circumstances?). This substantial volume maps the terrain of Shakespearean hospitality in its rich complexity, demonstrating the importance of historical, rhetorical, and phenomenological approaches to this diverse subject.

Populäre Bilder von Wissenschaft werden von Druck- und elektronischen Medien verbreitet. Sie gehören zum Alltagswissen. Wo kommen sie her und wie werden sie gemacht? Gibt es Beziehungen zwischen den Bildern, die in den Wissenschaften produziert werden, und dem Bild, das sich die Öffentlichkeit von Wissenschaft macht? Wenn ja, wie lassen sich diese Beziehungen beschreiben? Der Band untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen Bildern in der Wissenschaft und von der Wissenschaft vom 19. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart: Bilder vom Frosch im Laborexperiment bis zu den Phantasiewelten der Nanotechnologie, denen im Spielfilm und anderen populären Medien die Bilder des 'mad scientist' wie Frankenstein und Dr. Caligari, aber auch des Fortschritts im Hochtechnologielabor gegenüberstehen. Die Beiträge bieten vielfältige Perspektiven auf das Problem, wie Bilder als Medium die 'Innenwelt' der Wissenschaft mit der 'Außenwelt' eines Laienpublikums verbinden.

Social changes create challenges. How can adult education meet these challenges? How do learning processes in companies change in the face of constant social transformation? Which learning cultures are sustainable? Birgit Hilliger pursues these complex questions in a highly informed manner and makes a valuable contribution to a learning theory based on social theory.