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This is an open access book. Time is an exceptional dimension with high relevance in medicine, engineering, business, science, biography, history, planning, or project management. Understanding time-oriented data via visual representations enables us to learn from the past in order to predict, plan, and build the future. This second edition builds upon the great success of the first edition. It maintains a brief introduction to visualization and a review of historical time-oriented visual representations. At its core, the book develops a systematic view of the visualization of time-oriented data. Separate chapters discuss interaction techniques and computational methods for supporting the visual data analysis. Many examples and figures illustrate the introduced concepts and techniques. So, what is new for the second edition? First of all, the second edition is now published as an open-access book so that anyone interested in the visualization of time and time-oriented data can read it. Second, the entire content has been revised and expanded to represent state-of-the-art knowledge. The chapter on interaction support now includes advanced methods for interacting with visual representations of time-oriented data. The second edition also covers the topics of data quality as well as segmentation and labeling. The comprehensive survey of classic and contemporary visualization techniques now provides more than 150 self-contained descriptions accompanied by illustrations and corresponding references. A completely new chapter describes how the structured survey can be used for the guided selection of suitable visualization techniques. For the second edition, our TimeViz Browser, the digital pendant to the survey of visualization techniques, received a major upgrade. It includes the same set of techniques as the book, but comes with additional filter and search facilities allowing scientists and practitioners to find exactly the solutions they are interested in. ; Time is an exceptional data dimension due to its importance and unique influence. This implies that special methods are needed for dealing with time in data sets in order to take advantage of these specifics. Visual methods are a key part of this tool set allowing for presentation, analysis, and exploration of temporal data sets. Visualisation of Time-Oriented Data provides an overview of the field of visualisation techniques for time-oriented data, but even more importantly analyses the specifics and similarities of the investigated techniques in order to identify clusters for structuring and making the field manageable. It also analyses the techniqes uniformly along different sets of attributes making it easy to grasp their main characteristics and support researchers as well as developers in selecting appropriate techniques for their demands. The theoretic foundations of visualization itself are also discussed, the data dimension time, tasks related to time-oriented data, possible mappings of time, various examples of early (pre-computer age) representation techniques, and a conceptual framework for visually analyzing time-oriented data.

Après deux années dédiées aux « Paroles de lecteurs » et dans le sillage des Rencontres de Reims qui firent dialoguer les problématiques du jeu et de la parole, le séminaire Approches Interdisciplinaires et internationales de la lecture ouvre ici un nouveau volet de son investigation portant sur le contenu notionnel de la « lecture comme jeu » dont la modélisation est partiellement liée à l’histoire des recherches rémoises en la matière. Il s’agit en quelque sorte de faire jouer la théorie de différentes manières ce qui conduit, à partir de l’idée de jeu littéraire, à interroger un réseau de notions associées dans leurs implications linguistiques et philosophiques, sans oublier de soumettre l’idée de la littérature ainsi conçue à la pratique des textes d’écrivains.

Power and Politics in the Media: The Year in C-SPAN Archives Research, Volume 9 features articles from multiple disciplines that use the C-SPAN Video Library to explore recent controversies in American politics. Topics covered include Supreme Court nominations, Supreme Court oral arguments, rhetoric on disasters and COVID-19, and the effect of clothing on the approval of women in power. What unites these topics is the unique use of the video record of C-SPAN to explore the intersections of politics, power, rhetoric, and the media in the contemporary United States. Written in accessible prose, this volume showcases some of the most pressing issues today in a variety of political and communication issues while demonstrating video research methodologies.

The rapid fragmentation and habitat change in natural environments have created a need for management and conservation, which will ensure areas are protected from anthropogenic interference. These protected areas are necessary to provide adequate location for biodiversity conservation, environmental monitoring, and scientific research where a complete understanding of the natural process and full protection of ecosystems can be attained. This book highlights various approaches for managing and conserving protected areas in temperate and tropical regions to respond to some pressing global challenges today. It is divided into five main sections, viz., protected area management, fish and wildlife conservation, biodiversity conservation, ecotourism and recreation, and local community participation. The book enhances the understanding of the important roles national parks play in the environment and society.

Mastitis, an inflammation of the mammary glands, is the most costly disease in dairy farming, mainly caused by a broad range of bacteria categorized into contagious and environmental bacteria. This book is a concise summary of mastitis in dairy cattle, sheep, and goats, which mainly focuses on etiological agents, epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestation, pathological and histopathological changes, diagnosis, prevention, and control measures. This book serves as a textbook on mastitis in dairy cattle, sheep, and goats for dairy veterinarians, veterinary students, animal science students, dairy technicians, animal health professionals. Several researchers worldwide contributed to this book. This book contains the latest information on mastitis in dairy cattle, sheep, and goats and antimicrobial usage to prevent and control mastitis.

In diesem Open-Access-Buch untersucht Nele Abels geometrische Beweise und Beweisprozesse von Studierenden des Grundschullehramts in ihrem letzten Studienjahr. Mathematisches Argumentieren und Beweisen sind wesentliche fachliche Kompetenzen, die für ein mathematisches Verständnis von zentraler Bedeutung sind. Insbesondere Lehrkräfte im Primarbereich, welche die Grundlagen für ein fachspezifisches Argumentieren im Mathematikunterricht aufbauen, sollten über gute Kenntnisse in diesem Bereich verfügen. Der Fokus der Untersuchung liegt dabei sowohl auf den Argumentationen der Studierenden als auch ihren metakognitiven Aktivitäten. Grundlage ihrer Analysen sind die Rekonstruktionen von mündlichen und schriftlichen Beweisen. Die genaue Betrachtung des Übergangs vom Beweisprozess zum Beweisprodukt, also dem Prozess der Verschriftlichung eines Beweises, liefert neue Erkenntnisse. Metakognitive Aktivitäten erweisen sich gerade bei diesem Übergang als bedeutsam, wodurch sich Schwierigkeiten beim mathematischen Argumentieren und schriftlichen Beweisen vielfach nachvollziehen lassen.

Völkische Jugendbünde wie der Freibund oder die Deutsche Gildenschaft sind Kaderschmieden der extremen Rechten. Mit ihren »Lagern« und »Fahrten« schaffen sie Erlebnisräume, in denen politische Haltungen affektiv vermittelt werden. Die Beiträger*innen analysieren aus sozialpsychologischer und psychoanalytischer Sicht das spezifische Attraktionspotenzial der bislang kaum erforschten Bünde. Dabei zeigen sie verheißungsvolle Vorstellungen exklusiver Gemeinschaft, konfliktfreier Generationenverhältnisse und geschlechterübergreifender Kameradschaft als scheinbar stimmige Antworten auf adoleszente Konflikte – und geben neue Ansätze für die politische Bildungsarbeit und Rechtsextremismusprävention.

The collection covers the presentations held at the workshop on „Challenge: Securing Resources - Animal Diseases and Pest Control in the 18th and 19 Century“ held in Goettingen on 21 and 22 June 2006 by the graduate school „Interdisciplinary Environmental History, Natual Environment and Society in Central Europe“, which is funded by the German Research Foundation, and operative since July 1 2004 at the Georg-August University in Goettingen.

In the present social and cultural transformation of South Thailand's cultural politics, ideologies involving the family, gender and home provide the cultural codes in social dramas of the state, the media and social and religious movements. This study looks at micropolitics and the nesting of the political action of everyday life in larger, ultimately global structures of power. Exploring the making of class, culture and space, the production and consumption of culture is understood as work which involves the constant negotiation of boundaries.

The Modernist Anthropocene examines how modernist writers forged new and innovative ways of responding to rapidly changing planetary conditions and emergent ideas about nonhuman life, environmental change and the human species. Drawing on ecocritical analysis, posthumanist theory, archival research and environmental history, this book resituates key works of modernist fiction within the ecological moment of the early twentieth century, a period in which new configurations of the relationship between human life and the natural world were migrating between the sciences, philosophy and literary culture. The author makes the case that the early twentieth century is pivotal in our understanding of the Anthropocene both as a planetary epoch and a critical concept. In doing so, he positions James Joyce, Djuna Barnes and Virginia Woolf as theorists of the modernist Anthropocene, showing how their oeuvres are shaped by, and actively respond to, changing ideas about the nonhuman that continue to reverberate today.

Few articles in the humanities have had the impact of Lisa Jardine and Anthony Grafton’s seminal ‘Studied for Action’ (1990), a study of the reading practices of Elizabethan polymath and prolific annotator Gabriel Harvey. Their excavation of the setting, methods and ambitions of Harvey’s encounters with his books ignited the History of Reading, an interdisciplinary field which quickly became one of the most exciting corners of the scholarly cosmos. A generation inspired by the model of Harvey fanned out across the world’s libraries and archives, seeking to reveal the many creative, unexpected and curious ways that individuals throughout history responded to texts, and how these interpretations in turn illuminate past worlds. Three decades on, Harvey’s example and Jardine’s work remain central to cutting-edge scholarship in the History of Reading. By uniting ‘Studied for Action’ with published and unpublished studies on Harvey by Jardine, Grafton and the scholars they have influenced, this collection provides a unique lens on the place of marginalia in textual, intellectual and cultural history. The chapters capture subsequent work on Harvey and map the fields opened by Jardine and Grafton’s original article, collectively offering a posthumous tribute to Lisa Jardine and an authoritative overview of the History of Reading.

"Diante dos crescentes resultados negativos do desempenho escolar de alunos brasileiros, constatados pelo Ministério da Educação (MEC), Competência em leitura: interface entre contextos psicossocial, familiar e escolar propõe-se a refletir sobre o complexo processo de alfabetização infantil e os contextos em que a leitura está inserida. Nesse sentido, apresenta-se uma análise dos aspectos cognitivos e sicossocioambientais que interferem no desempenho dos alunos. A obra contribui para o aprofundamento do conhecimento acerca dos processos envolvidos na aquisição da leitura e abre portas para intervenções eficazes que impulsionem essa competência tão relevante à formação das crianças. A compreensão do processo de aquisição da leitura e dos instrumentos disponíveis para sua avaliação, como a Provinha Brasil – Leitura, pode beneficiar profissionais das áreas da Educação, Psicologia e Psicopedagogia."

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Through the tales of a group of former activists of “Lotta continua”, an extra-parliamentary left-wing group, this work traces the cycle of mobilization which Italy went through during the Seventies, in search of the intersections between collective events and subjective experiences. The text focuses on two themes which are considered the tips of a controversial shared memory: political violence on one hand, and neo-feminism on the other. These two steps result fundamental in the process of subjectivation of individual men and women, and their effects can also be traced by observing the individual and collective outcomes of "demobilization".

In der vorliegenden Abhandlung wird ein System zur autonomen 3D-Umweltmodellierung vorgestellt, welches auf den drei Hauptprozessen Datenaufnahme, Datenintegration und Aktionsplanung beruht. Basis der Modellierung sind dichte Tiefenbilder, generiert durch einen rotierenden Zeilenscanner, mit Punktmerkmalen. Durch die Registrierung aller Daten können die Fehler der odometrischen Lagebestimmung minimiert werden. Anhand der ermittelten 3D-Daten wird die nächste beste Aufnahmeposition ermittelt.