Humanities & Social Sciences

Using illustrative teaching case studies, this book demonstrates how teaching informed by a learning theory, specifically Variation theory, can equip teachers to facilitate possibilities for students’ learning in effective and powerful ways. For a long period of time teaching has been “black-boxed”, in favour of other explanations of why students learn or not, such as motivation and social interaction. A large amount of research on teaching and learning, not the least made using Variation theory, has shown that students often need to experience the same aspects of the focused content or capability in order to learn, indicating that relationships between teaching and learning are not unique or even qualitatively different for every individual and every situation. This perspective on the relationship between teaching and learning emphasizes content-specific aspects and in that sense structural components of teaching, while other aspects of schooling such as social interaction and general well-being recede into the background. The authors argue for the importance of this in the direct development of teachers' independent collective professional knowledge about teaching, and the leverage this gives for developing student learning. They introduce theoretical tools to help teachers to increase the probability that teaching focusing a specific content or capability is predictive of students learning of that specific content or capability, while decreasing contextual dependency without assuming that teaching and learning have a one-to-one relationship. Intended for teachers, graduate students in education, teacher educators, student teachers, and researchers, this book shows that while there is no simple equation between teaching and learning, there are general, though content specific, aspects of teaching that can be systematically planned and analyzed and used to improve the quality of student learning. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

This book explains how researchers design, prepare, develop, test and fly their science experiments on microgravity platforms before sending them to space. All preparation phases are explained and presented, including aircraft parabolic flights as part of spaceflight preparation. Twenty international authors, all experts in their own microgravity research field, contribute to chapters describing their experience to prepare experiments before space flights. Fields covered are Physical Sciences and Life Sciences. Physical Sciences covers fluid physics (vibration effects on diffusion; red blood cell dynamics; cavitation in microgravity; capillary driven flows) and material sciences (electromagnetic levitator onboard International Space Station). Life Sciences includes human physiology (sampling earlobe blood; human cardiovascular experiments; tumours in space) and neurophysiology (dexterous manipulation of objects in weightlessness).

This work describes the novel use of broadband continuous diplexers that could be integrated into on-wafer probes to parallize millimeter wave on-wafer measurement equipment. A model-based method for the efficient design of diplexers with a large number of adjustable parameters allows the realization of a DC – 110 GHz – 170 GHz diplexer for the first time.

El volumen tiene el objetivo de profundizar el tema de la traducción del teatro clásico español en la época contemporánea para ofrecer al lector un panorama de las modalidades de irradiación de este patrimonio artístico en los distintos ámbitos lingüísticos y culturales. Se recogen ensayos de carácter sociológico, literario y traductológico, además de contribuciones relativas a la experiencia de la traducción, descrita a menudo directamente por su protagonistas. Se añaden aportaciones más específicamente bibliográficas con el objetivo de contribuir a la constitución de un repertorio de estos particulares productos editoriales.

International politics is often conducted in two languages or more, and since no two languages are exactly the same, what is possible to say in one language may be impossible to say in another. Translation is at the heart of global politics, and interlingual relations traverse time, space, culture, and state borders. Interlingual Relations builds on emergent literature on translation in International Relations (IR) to propose a unique research agenda for scholars of global politics, offering multiple directions and sets of principles for sustained study. The contributors use various methodologies to explore these interfaces and encounters in different sites, bringing together multiple subfields, approaches, and disciplinary paradigms across IR’s history. Together they offer a more truly global perspective on international affairs, going beyond the hegemony of English to demonstrate the interconnectedness between “high” politics and everyday life. They show the role of translation in global politics as one of world-making, whereby social roles, rules, and responsibilities establish the semblance of order despite not sounding or meaning the same to all actors. In establishing Interlingual Relations as a foundational part of IR, the book offers another key to studying global interactions and the high political stakes in the theories, methods, and ethics of translation.

Racist police checks are part of everyday life in Europe. They make it dramatically visible who is not considered a fellow citizen. While much of the dominance society finds this racist practice normal, more and more people are no longer prepared to accept it without resistance. The volume brings together scientific, artistic and activist contributions to the social backgrounds and modes of action of racial profiling and the possibilities of intersectional anti-racist resistance. The focus is on Switzerland, supplemented by perspectives from authors who are familiar with the German context.

Light detection and ranging (LIDAR) atmospheric sensing is a major tool for remote monitoring of aerosol pollution and its propagation in the atmosphere. Combining LIDAR sensing with ground-based aerosol monitoring can form the basis of integrated air-quality characterization. When present, biological atmospheric contamination is transported by aerosol particles of different size known as bioaerosol, whose monitoring is now among the basic areas of atmospheric research, especially in densely-populated large urban regions, where many bioaerosol-emitting sources exist. Thus, promptly identifying the bioaerosol sources, including their geographical coordinates, intensities, space-time distributions, etc., becomes a major task of a city monitoring system. This chapter argues in favor of integrating a LIDAR mapping schematic with in situ sampling and characterization of the bioaerosol in the urban area. The measurements, data processing, and decision-making aimed at preventing further atmospheric contamination should be performed in a near-real-time mode, which imposes certain demands on the typical LIDAR schematics, including long-range sensing as a critical parameter, especially over large areas (10 – 100 km2). In this chapter, we describe experiments using a LIDAR schematic allowing near-real-time long-distance measurements of urban bioaerosol combined with its ground-based sampling and physicochemical and biological studies.

This book looks at disability as an evolving social phenomenon. Disability is created through the interaction between persons with impairments and their environment. Exploring these experiences of persons with disabilities and discussing universality and particularity in our understanding of assumed development and normalcy, it takes Finland, which has been chosen repeatedly as the happiest country in the world as its case- study. Using disability as a critical lens helps to demystify Finland that has the positive reputation of a Welfare State. By identifying different kinds of discrimination against persons with disabilities as well as successful examples of disability inclusion, it shows that when looking Finland from the perspective of persons with disabilities, inequality and poverty have been collective experiences of too many of them. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies, sociology, social policy, social work, political science, health and well-being studies and Nordic studies more broadly. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.

authentication; computer science; computer software selection and evaluation; cryptography; data privacy; formal logic; formal methods; formal specification; internet; privacy; program compilers; programming languages; security systems; semantics; separation logic; software engineering; verification; world wide web

Cornerstones of Attachment Research re-examines the work of key laboratories that have contributed to the study of attachment. In doing so, the book traces the development in a single scientific paradigm through parallel but separate lines of inquiry. Chapters address the work of Bowlby, Ainsworth, Main and Hesse, Sroufe and Egeland, and Shaver and Mikulincer. Cornerstones of Attachment Research utilises attention to these five research groups as a lens on wider themes and challenges faced by attachment research over the decades. The chapters draw on a complete analysis of published scholarly and popular works by each research group, as well as much unpublished material.

Woran scheiterte die Emanzipation der Juden in Deutschland? Ulrich Wyrwa geht dieser für die deutsche Geschichte zentralen Frage mit der Methode des historischen Vergleichs nach und arbeitet die spezifischen Errungenschaften und die besonderen Behinderungen der Juden im Zeitalter der Emanzipation am Beispiel preußischer und toskanischer Städte heraus. Ausgehend von den Einladungen an verfolgte Juden, sich in der Toskana und in Preußen niederzulassen, untersucht er die öffentlichen Debatten über die Stellung der jüdischen Bevölkerung in der Gesellschaft von der Aufklärung, über die Zeit der Französischen Revolution und die nationalen und liberalen Bewegungen des 19. Jahrhunderts bis hin zur Konstituierung der Nationalstaaten Deutschland und Italien, in deren Verfassungen das Prinzip der rechtlichen und politischen Gleichheit der Juden festgehalten wurde. Der preußisch-toskanische Vergleich zeigt, dass die besonderen Schwierigkeiten des deutschen Emanzipationsprozesses nicht so sehr in dem gebrochenen Weg der Gesetzgebung lagen, sondern ihren Ursprung in der spezifischen politischen Kultur in Deutschland sowie in den intellektuellen Dispositionen inmitten der Zivilgesellschaft hatten. Während noch im Zeitalter der Aufklärung die politischen Ausgangsbedingungen für die soziale Integration der Juden in die bürgerliche Gesellschaft in Preußen günstiger waren als in der Toskana, kehrte sich diese Situation im Verlauf des 19. Jahrhunderts um. Nun bot die toskanische Gesellschaft das Modell einer politischen Kultur, an der Juden gleichberechtigten Anteil hatten und in der antijüdische Rhetorik auf keine Resonanz stieß.

This article summarizes (and properly arranges) the biographical information supplied by Plutarch about his wife in the Consolatio uxoris and his other works. It begins with the certain or very probable data, i.e. her name, her children, their names, their number and sequence; it also suggests some plausible considerations about her original family, i.e. about her father and brothers; and concludes with some (partly conjectural) clarifications about her marriage with Plutarch and about the difficulties that arose between their respective parents, finally raising a little suspicion about her age.

Marcus Otto unternimmt eine systemtheoretisch inspirierte genealogische Wiederbeschreibung eines Metanarrativs der Moderne, das sich als Imperativ politischer Inklusion historisch wirkmächtig an der Figur des Subjekts entfaltete. Dies impliziert die Dekonstruktion eines übergreifenden Willens zum Subjekt, der bis heute nicht nur in politischen und gesellschaftlichen Selbstbeschreibungen, sondern auch in der Historiographie vorherrscht. Mithin ist in einem umfassenden Sinne, der sich an der Figur des Subjekts kristallisiert, also der "Kopf des Königs noch immer nicht gerollt", wie Foucault einst bezogen auf das politische Denken formuliert hat.

As part of a digital lecture series organized at Justus Liebig University Giessen in the winter semester of 2021/22 to mark this anniversary, renowned scientists from various disciplines gave valuable lectures on the topics and challenges of Islamic theology in the digital age. Even though the event took place online, the lectures offered participants opportunities to address the challenges that may arise for Islamic theology and religious education in the age of digitalization, to reflect on them and to discuss solutions. The aim was to stimulate an interdisciplinary discourse. This gave rise to the idea of ​​publishing the lectures in this volume.

Knowledge of the cycle-frequency changes in the machine currents is of great advantage for many methods of controlling modern, highly utilized electrical machines. But how can these changes in machine currents be reliably measured during operation? Is the very short time of the individual switching states sufficient? And how can the changes in the currents be described mathematically and interpreted physically? This work provides an answer to these questions.