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Wir leben im Anthropozän – einer neuen geochronologischen Epoche, die den technischen Eingriffen des Menschen in die Natur geschuldet ist. Unsere kulturelle Evolution hat mit ihrem großflächigen und intensiven Technikeinsatz dazu geführt, dass der Mensch heute zu einem maßgeblichen Faktor für biologische, geologische und atmosphärische Prozesse geworden ist. Der vorliegende Sammelband nimmt – unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Anthropozäns – aus philosophischer Warte und unter interdisziplinären Gesichtspunkten das Verhältnis zwischen Mensch, Natur und Technik in den Blick. Dabei kommen unter anderem die generelle Rolle der Philosophie in der heutigen Zeit, die geowissenschaftlichen Aspekte des Anthropozäns und die Künstliche Intelligenz zur Sprache. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf der Frage, welches Bild wir von der Natur haben (sollten) und welches Verhalten die Vernunft von uns im Anthropozän verlangt.

This volume contains thematic papers on semantic change which emerged from the second edition of Formal Diachronic Semantics held at Saarland University. Its authorship ranges from established scholars in the field of language change to advanced PhD students whose contributions have equally qualified and have been selected after a two-step peer-review process. The key foci are variablity and diachronic trajectories in scale structures and quantification, but readers will also find a variety of further (and clearly non-disjoint) issues covered including reference, modality, givenness, presuppositions, alternatives in language change, temporality, epistemic indefiniteness, as well as - in more general terms - the interfaces of semantics with syntax, pragmatics and morphology. Given the nature of the field, the contributions are primarily based on original corpus studies (in one case also on synchronic experimental data) and present a series of new findings and theoretical analyses of several languages, first and foremost from the Germanic and Romance subbranches of Indo-European (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish) and from Semitic (with an analysis of universal quantification in Biblical Hebrew).

Der vorliegende Band präsentiert die Beiträge der Tagung zum Thema "Elektronische Wertpapiere", die das Institut für das Recht der Digitalisierung (IRDi) 2021 in Berlin veranstaltete. Das "Gesetz über elektronische Wertpapiere" (eWpG) folgt dem Weg anderer Staaten hin zur Dematerialisierung des Wertpapierrechts, indem es das Erfordernis einer traditionellen Wertpapierurkunde aufgibt und damit einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Modernisierung und Digitalisierung des deutschen Wertpapierrechts leistet. Ein besonderer Fokus liegt auf den mittels Distributed Ledger-Technologien emittierten sog. Kryptowertpapieren, für die das eWpG einen kodifizierten rechtlichen Rahmen geschaffen hat. Die Verfasser des Tagungsbandes sind Spezialisten aus Wissenschaft und Praxis. Sie unterziehen das eWpG einer kritischen Analyse für praxisgerechte Regulierungen. Der Tagungsband berücksichtigt neben zivil- und aufsichtsrechtlichen Aspekten auch die ökonomischen und internationalen Bezüge.

At bottom, youth also – and perhaps primarily – serves this purpose: to make room for the other, that is deconstructing oneself with a view to a reconstruction that is always implied in such a perspective. Moreover, those who do not manage to do so when they are young will have greater difficulty making room for the gift of the other when they are old, unless they wish to identify with that gift, albeit threatening the survival of critical capacity with a belated and excessive display of the self to the other. (From the author's Foreword)

This open access book presents a good overview of the current research landscape of assembly, handling and industrial robotics. The objective of MHI Colloquium is the successful networking at both academic and management levels. Thereby, the colloquium focuses an academic exchange at a high level in order to distribute the obtained research results, to determine synergy effects and trends, to connect the actors in person and in conclusion, to strengthen the research field as well as the MHI community. In addition, there is the possibility to become acquainted with the organizing institute. Primary audience is formed by members of the scientific society for assembly, handling and industrial robotics (WGMHI).

What is a problem? What’s asked in that question, and how does one even begin to take its measure? How else could one begin, except as one does with any other problem—by way of its impulsion. Of Learned Ignorance: Idea of a Treatise in Philosophy is about philosophy because philosophy is about problems: philosophy, in a word, is where problems become a problem. After Anti-Oedipus, in the Kafka book and in A Thousand Plateaus, what Deleuze and Guattari counsel, strikingly, is sobriety. Sobriety is what they praise in Kafka. And it is sobriety that seems above all else to be necessary here. (Steven Shaviro has pointed out the prominence of structure in Deleuze’s writing: “even when Deleuze’s prose, by himself or with Guattari, seems to be ranging anarchically all over the place, in fact it has a rigid and unvarying architecture, which is what keeps it from falling apart.”) Of Learned Ignorance is a dead letter because it names a problem. It’s a dead letter because it is, cautiously, a love letter. It’s a dead letter because it lovingly stages an experiment in whimsy, and perhaps above all, because it is problematic (in the Kantian sense): It is a (sober) attempt at exemplifying what it talks about — and what eludes it: A series of footnotes, with blank (transcriptive) pages above, effects something like the integration of a differential, the reciprocal determination where the sources enter into in relation to one another in order to produce a paper, essay, or (inexistent) (chap)book. Of Learned Ignorance, in facing down a problem, makes a wager; it courts failure; it puts it all on the line. All, yes, for love — a kind of love … (of wisdom?)

This study investigates museum exhibitions as multimodal communication offerings, of which texts and exhibits are just as much a part as exhibition architecture and design. It reconstructs the communicative potential of exhibitions from a text-linguistic and semiotic perspective before using conversation analysis to examine how visitors use exhibitions to construct knowledge about the exhibition topic.

Photovoltaics is essential for the conversion of energy production towards renewable energies. One solution for simple processing in thin-film technology is provided by solar cells made from organic metal halide perovskite methylammonium lead iodide. Since stability and environmental issues with this material system have not yet been solved this work deals with stable, lead-free metal oxides for thin film solar cells.

The volume is a commentary on Don DeLillo’s hypertrophic novel Underworld (1997). Starting from the analysis of the text – which intertwines several plots, locations and point of view –, Nicola Turi retraces the entire production of the author to follow the evolution of themes (paranoia, nuclear threat, alienation, violence…) and textual strategies. At the same times he considers some widespread trends in the contemporary novel which Underworld, narrative tableau of the United States of the second twentieth century, embodies or anticipates: the resumption of the collective novel; the construction of characters drawn from reality; the continuous interaction between verbal representation and image (both static and moving).

This book is unique in focusing on just one band from one city – but the story of Tat Ming Pair, in so many ways, is the story of Hong Kong's recent decades, from the Handover to the Umbrella Movement to 2019's standoff. A comprehensive, theoretically informed study of the sonic history and present of Hong Kong through the prism of Tat Ming Pair, this book will be of interest to cultural studies scholars, scholars of Hong Kong, and those who study the arts in East Asia. This is an open access book.

Der Tagungsband ist das Ergebnis der 7. Berufsbildungsforschungskonferenz "Wie wollen wir arbeiten?". Im Zentrum steht die Frage, ob das gegenwärtige berufliche Lernenden Anforderungen des digitalisierten Arbeitsalltags gerecht wird. Bislang war die Weitergabe beruflichen Wissens und Könnens vor allem geprägt durch kulturelle Muster: Traditionen und soziale Aushandlungsprozesse besitzen eine besondere integrative Wirkung und begünstigen den sozialen Aufstieg. Berufliche Bildung soll sozialen Halt bieten und gleichzeitig erforderliche Kenntnisse und Fertigkeiten vermitteln. Diese Doppelrolle wird multiperspektivisch in vier Teilen betrachtet unter den Aspekten digitale Transformation, Akteur:innen der beruflichen Bildung, moderne Didaktik und faire soziale Transformation.

The ERiK-Methodological Report V is the fifth in a series of methodological reports related to the 'Entwicklung von Rahmenbedingungen in der Kindertagesbetreuung - indikatorengestützte Qualitätsbeobachtung (ERiK)' study. The report contains all background information on the methodology of the ERiK-Surveys 2024.

What does education mean? Education establishes a relationship between the subject and the world, according to the premise of this volume - education is understood as inevitably social. The authors provide an overview of the socio-educational discourse on education based on the three subject areas of social education with theoretical considerations, education and social work as well as education in child and youth welfare.

This open-access edited book is a collection of 17 chapters, synthesized primarily from the lectures delivered by eminent Indian and international experts during a series of capacity-building programmes organised in India during 2020 and 2021 under the aegis of 'Indo-German Cooperation on Seed Sector Development', a component of the Bilateral Cooperation between the Governments of India and Germany. Seed Science and Technology, a multi-disciplinary subject, is advancing rapidly keeping pace with the development of improved plant varieties and other climate-resilient technologies. Knowledge of the underlying biological processes and application of appropriate technologies for variety maintenance and seed production; quality assurance, testing and enhancement; processing, packaging and storage etc., are important in a seed programme. Chapters presented in the book is a blend of basic seed biology covering seed development, maturation, dormancy, germination, vigour and invigoration, and seed deterioration; variety maintenance and production of genetically pure seed of open-pollinated and hybrid varieties in a few key field crops and vegetables, and fundamentals of seed processing, packaging and storage; and seed quality assurance systems followed in different countries; testing the essential components of seed quality including seed health, application of molecular technologies for precision in testing, and enhancement of seed quality. It concludes by identifying the key areas of future seed research and technology development. The book covers the fundamentals and recent advances of seed science and technology with the latest research information and an exhaustive and updated list of references on different topics. It is expected to benefit the students as well as the scientists, faculty members and seed sector professionals, working in the public and private seed sectors, certification authorities and seed producing agencies in India, and elsewhere.

This book brings together a collection of empirical case studies featuring a wide spectrum of medical innovation. While there is no unique pathway to successful medical innovation, recurring and distinctive features can be observed across different areas of clinical practice. This book examines why medical practice develops so unevenly across and within areas of disease, and how this relates to the underlying conditions of innovation across areas of practice. The contributions contained in this volume adopt a dynamic perspective on medical innovation based on the notion that scientific understanding, technology and clinical practice co-evolve along the co-ordinated search for solutions to medical problems. The chapters follow an historical approach to emphasise that the advancement of medical know-how is a contested, nuanced process, and that it involves a variety of knowledge bases whose evolutionary paths are rooted in the contexts in which they emerge. This book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners concerned with medical innovation, management studies and the economics of innovation. Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at www.tandfebooks.com/openaccess. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.