Humanities & Social Sciences

Gods dwell in human environments in multiple ways. They move into imaginary spaces and explore the cosmos. This book analyzes the mapping of gods through a specific lens: their naming. By proposing this new perspective, it sheds light on ritual practices and representations of gods in the whole Mediterranean, from Italy to Mesopotamia, from Greece to North Africa and Egypt. Names and spaces enable to better define, differentiate, and connect gods.

After the opening of the country in the middle of the 19th century, Japan quickly moved towards becoming an industrialized world power. But the romanticist syndrome, imported from Europe by Mori Ogai since the 1890s, especially enchanted young intellectuals and drove their search of a Japanese cultural identity. The goal was, internally, to integrate the entire population, and externally, to make the country distinguishable from the »West« ─ paradoxically, in a spirit of European Romanticism. Takemitsu Morikawa investigates these remarkable developments and retraces the rise and canonization of the alleged self-image of modern Japan.

In this book, the reader will find a critical re-examination of the workplace as the location where tasks must (or may) be performed by employees. The discussion addresses both its initial identification and any possible changes occurring during the course of the employment relationship. The topic has become particularly relevant in light of the phenomena of delocalization and the dematerialization of production units. The analysis of the geo-legal dimension of work performance highlights certain regulatory gaps on the subject and revisits, in new ways, the issues of remote work and worker mobility—both within and beyond the company’s boundaries. Overall, the volume offers a reconstruction of the legal framework that emphasizes the role of mutual agreement between the parties. In conclusion, a comparative law analysis shows that this approach converges with the solutions adopted by other european countries.

In the process of professionalising teachers, not only knowledge and skills on a more fundamental level but also understanding and one's own positions on teaching and learning develop. Learning and professionalisation processes were examined in the empirical studies in this volume during the beginning of the studies to become a primary teacher within the framework of a self-learning architecture in which web-based learning activities are interwoven with individual subject-related learning counselling interviews. In the learning counselling interviews, individual discussions between lecturers and students about teaching and learning in the subject didactics of mathematics and music, art pedagogy and educational science can be observed. The studies on the development of professional convictions also look at the interactions in the pedagogical form of action of the learning counselling interview and proceed with the methodological approach of an analysis of discursive practices. Further studies examine transformations of the professional habitus, intervention practices in the conversations, the emotional dimension of learning and the temporal challenges in self-learning architectures.

Social work within the Swiss prison system—encompassing probation services and the penal system—has previously been described only in specific contexts and institutions. Until now, a comprehensive overview of this heterogeneous landscape, along with insights into its historical developments, has been lacking. This book aims to fill that gap by highlighting key milestones in both the content, organization and tasks of the profession. It uses individual cantons (federal states in Switzerland) as case studies to illustrate the various organizational forms and responsibilities involved. Contributions from practice and research offer a deeper understanding of this multifaceted subject.

Anthropology; Archeology; Social life; Customs; History; Asia; Madagascar; Islands of the pacific

Cybersecurity is a central challenge for many companies. On the one hand, companies have to protect themselves against cyberattacks; on the other hand, they have special obligations towards third parties and the state in critical infrastructures or when dealing with personal data. These responsibilities converge with company management. This volume examines the duties and liability risks of management in connection with cyber security from the perspective of corporate, constitutional and labour law. The volume is based on a conference of the same name, which took place in cooperation with the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung für die Freiheit on 23 and 24 October 2020 at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg. With contributions by Andreas Beyer, Marc Bittner, Alexander Brüggemeier, Anabel Guntermann, Katrin Haußmann, Dennis-Kenji Kipker, Christoph Benedikt Müller, Isabella Risini, Darius Rostam, Sarah Schmidt-Versteyl and Gerald Spindler.

This book explores a wide range of methodological approaches to examining various forms of workplace physical environments. It focuses on pressing questions regarding the relationship between the spatial component of the workplace, including its progressive hybridisation with other physical and virtual places, and its users, be they public organisations, private companies, or start-up businesses and solopreneurs. International contributors address a range of methods that are applicable both in research and practice to confront the most cutting-edge workplace-related issues. The assumption is that work has been changing, thanks to the virtualisation of many activities, and that homeworking and hybrid working modes are expected to increase significantly after Covid-19. Thus, spaces hosting work need to adapt accordingly. Researchers and practitioners have been struggling to determine how much space will be needed by companies, what kind of space will better host different work activities, which workers are more suited for working from home, and which instead are more productive if they have an office-based working arrangement. The necessary evolution of the office should follow evidence-based decisions on the abovementioned matters, which are only possible through rigorous investigations. This volume aims to support these investigations, which call for inventive applications of qualitative and quantitative methodologies. By doing so the book will encourage solid practices and thorough research agendas in workplace design, management, and use. Contributions come from different disciplines, including facilities management, real estate management, psychology, design, architecture, sociology, and organisation studies. Chapters highlight the importance of appropriate methodologies, borrowed from different fields, in addressing contemporary questions and developments in workplaces. By analysing the challenges and opportunities for conducting rigorous research in different workplace settings, this book will be critical reading for both academics and students, as well as for decision-makers and professionals who deal with workplace design and management.

Electronics engineering

Contributions to Mineralization provide some new aspects on economically important mineral deposits from various locations in Asia, Africa, and Europe in terms of their genesis, geochemical, and age considerations. Mining industry and mineral engineering issues are also discussed in the book through some new statistical approaches and economic aspects. The book represents a useful guide for specialists in the fields of mineralogy, economic geology, mining engineering, environmental impacts, and mining industry.

The emergence of the Safavid Empire in the early sixteenth century marked a significant change in the geopolitics of the Middle East. This momentous change coincided with the widening of Ottoman expansion eastward and the exploration by European powers, especially by Venice, of the possibilities of forming alliances against the Ottomans with the involvement of the Safavids. Thus, Ottoman threat and commercial interests contributed to the emergence and development of diplomatic, cultural, and trade relations between the Republic of Venice and the Safavid Empire, which lasted until the end of the seventeenth century. Drawing on the documents from the Venetian State Archives and other contemporary sources, this book focuses mainly on some aspects of Safavid diplomacy, including the language of the Safavid polity, the role of European subjects as interpreters for the shahs, material and visual characteristics of Safavid diplomatic letters to Venice, the attitude of the Safavids towards resident diplomacy, the reception of the European envoys in the Safavid court and Europeans’ perception of Safavid diplomatic practices, as well as the characteristics of the Safavid embassies to Venice. We have tried to explain the role of Turkish as a language of diplomacy and communication in Safavid-Venetian encounters. We have also attempted to explore briefly how the Venetians distinguished Safavid subjects according to their ethno-linguistic affiliations. Finally, we examine the Ottoman factor in Safavid-Venetian relations in order to establish to what extent, if any, the Ottomans had an impact on the overall character of Safavid-Venetian relations.

This book aims to increase knowledge about (i) the key drivers of domestic saving rates in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA); (ii) whether alternative approaches, such as pension funds or fintech, could provide new solutions to increase domestic savings; (iii) lessons learnt from the experiences so far in different countries in SSA; and (iv) what can SSA learn from the experience of other regions which have been more successful in raising savings rates. The book consists of two parts: (I) thematic studies and (II) country studies. The thematic studies examine the implications of new developments in African financial markets on savings behaviour, the role of sovereign wealth funds, pensions, and capital markets in augmenting savings and in economic development, the challenges of the debt crisis in Africa, the implications of financial liberalization for private saving in SSA, and lessons on how to increase savings rates from East and South Asia. The four country studies—Tanzania, Ghana, Cameroon, and Ghana—examine the determinants of domestic savings. The countries were selected based on criteria that capture the diversity of savings performance in SSA. Each case study uses a common conceptual framework drawn from the life-cycle theory of savings and the same empirical methods to test for the determinants of savings using time-series data for the country in question. The findings of the book provide clear recommendations on how to increase savings in sub-Saharan Africa.

Der Band bereitet das neue Themenfeld Hochschulweiterbildung anhand aktueller Forschungsergebnisse systematisch auf. Die Autorinnen und Autoren strukturieren aktuelle Beobachtungen zur Hochschulweiterbildung und analysieren Befunde zu Institutionalisierung und Implementierung wissenschaftlicher Weiterbildung. Mit dem Mittel der Kartografie werden Forschungsansätze und -gegenstände übersichtlich geordnet und Entwicklungsbedarfe sichtbar gemacht. Abschließend ziehen die Herausgebenden Bilanz und entwickeln Ideen für die Orientierung der weiteren Forschung.

When James Boswell famously lamented the irrationality of war in 1777, he noted the universality of conflict across history and across space – even reaching what he described as the gentle and benign southern ocean nations. This volume discusses archaeological evidence of conflict from those southern oceans, from Palau and Guam, to Australia, Vanuatu and Tonga, the Marquesas, Easter Island and New Zealand. The evidence for conflict and warfare encompasses defensive earthworks on Palau, fortifications on Tonga, and intricate pa sites in New Zealand. It reports evidence of reciprocal sacrifice to appease deities in several island nations, and skirmishes and smaller scale conflicts, including in Easter Island. This volume traces aspects of colonial-era conflict in Australia and frontier battles in Vanuatu, and discusses depictions of World War II materiel in the rock art of Arnhem Land. Among the causes and motives discussed in these papers are pressure on resources, the ebb and flow of significant climate events, and the significant association of conflict with culture contact. The volume, necessarily selective, eclectic and wide-ranging, includes an incisive introduction that situates the evidence persuasively in the broader scholarship addressing the history of human warfare.