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Die Publikation stellt den Hongkonger Philosophen Lao Sze-kwang (1927-2012) anhand seiner kulturtheoretischen Schriften und mit Blick auf seine Positionierung liberaler Werte vor. Lao gehörte zu jenen akademischen Philosophen, die ab den 1950er Jahren auch am öffentlichen Diskurs teilnahmen, sowohl das koloniale Umfeld als auch den Kalten Krieg kritisch beleuchteten und vor einer Ideologisierung durch die Kommunistische Partei in der Volksrepublik China und durch die Nationale Volkspartei in Taiwan warnten. Laos Rezeption zeitgenössischer Philosophen wie F. A. Hayek und E. Cassirer, aber auch seine Analysen von G. W. F. Hegel und I. Kant zielen dabei nicht zuletzt auf eine philosophische Neuinterpretation klassischer konfuzianischer Werte. Honkong kommt dabei entgegen einer häufig vorschnell zugeschriebenen, marginalen Rolle im historischen Weltgeschehen die Funktion zu, negative Folgen und positive Möglichkeiten einer globalen Moderne zu bündeln. Die Publikation richtet sich an ein Publikum, das Einblicke in die Neuinterpretation vormoderner konfuzianischer Texte, die Rezeption philosophischer Thesen im chinesischen Sprachraum, sowie die Entstehung liberaler Standpunkte in Hongkong aufgrund der Schriften Lao Sze-kwangs gewinnen möchte. ; Die Publikation stellt den Hongkonger Philosophen Lao Sze-kwang (1927-2012) anhand seiner kulturtheoretischen Schriften und mit Blick auf seine Positionierung liberaler Werte vor. Lao gehörte zu jenen akademischen Philosophen, die ab den 1950er Jahren auch am öffentlichen Diskurs teilnahmen, sowohl das koloniale Umfeld als auch den Kalten Krieg kritisch beleuchteten und vor einer Ideologisierung durch die Kommunistische Partei in der Volksrepublik China und durch die Nationale Volkspartei in Taiwan warnten. Laos Rezeption zeitgenössischer Philosophen wie F. A. Hayek und E. Cassirer, aber auch seine Analysen von G. W. F. Hegel und I. Kant zielen dabei nicht zuletzt auf eine philosophische Neuinterpretation klassischer konfuzianischer Werte. Honkong kommt dabei entgegen einer häufig vorschnell zugeschriebenen, marginalen Rolle im historischen Weltgeschehen die Funktion zu, negative Folgen und positive Möglichkeiten einer globalen Moderne zu bündeln. Die Publikation richtet sich an ein Publikum, das Einblicke in die Neuinterpretation vormoderner konfuzianischer Texte, die Rezeption philosophischer Thesen im chinesischen Sprachraum, sowie die Entstehung liberaler Standpunkte in Hongkong aufgrund der Schriften Lao Sze-kwangs gewinnen möchte.

How is digitalisation being implemented in schools? The crucial factor in this respect is the work of system administrators, who play a decisive role in its shaping and realisation as the driving forces behind it. While their interface function provides system administrators unique know-how and expert knowledge, they are, at the same time, structurally limited in their scope of action. This constellation ultimately affects the quality of the implementation of digitalisation in schools. In this study, digitalisation researcher and sociologist Stephan Graßmann analyses the everyday work of system administrators and provides important insights into and ideas on improving digitalisation processes in schools. Honoured with the BDS Award of the Berufsverband Deutscher Soziologinnen und Soziologen e.V. 2023.

This project is dedicated to fractional calculus, one of the most dynamic areas of mathematical science today. For 50 years, the number of researchers and scientific publications dealing with this topic has been increasing day by day, which clearly demonstrates the growing interest in fractional calculus, both from a practical and a theoretical point of view. The purpose of this reprint is to extend existing results in fractional calculus by considering various types of fractional operators, such as Caputo-type, Hilfer-type, and Riemann–Liouville-type, by introducing various types of inequalities, such as Bullen-type, Jensen–Mercer-type, and Hermite–Hadamard-type, as well as by analyzing fractional-order differential equations and boundary value problems.

This book describes a systematical method to efficiently and homogeneously mix rays of different coloured Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) in both the angular and spatial domain. The focus of this work is the application of chaotic billiard geometries on the cross section of a light guide. Such a chaotic light guide offers the possibility to achieve complete colour mixing according to deterministic chaos theory.

The Wireless Power Transfer concept is continuously and rapidly evolving and new challenges arise every day. As a result of these rapid changes, the need for up-to-date texts that address this growing field from an interdisciplinary perspective persists. This book, organized into ten chapters, presents interesting novel solutions in the exploitation of the near- and far-field techniques of wireless power transfer that will be used in the near future, as well as a bird's eye view of some aspects related to an emerging technological area that will change our lives and will change the paradigm of how we use electrical equipment. The book covers the theory and also the practical aspects of technology implementation in a way that is suitable for undergraduate and graduate-level students, as well as researchers and professional engineers.

This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Psychology, Learning, Technology, PLT 2022, Foggia, Italy, during January 2022. The 8 full papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. In addition, one invited paper is also included. Psychology, Learning, ad Technology Conference (PLT2022) aims to explore learning paths that incorporate digital technologies in innovative and transformative ways and the improvement of the psychological and relational life. The conference includes topics about the methodology of application of the ICT tools in psychology and education: from blended learning to the application of artificial intelligence in education; from the teaching, learning, and assessment strategies and practices to the new frontiers on Human-Computer Interaction.

This study on Berthold Otto as a Latin didactician explores the hitherto little-known writings on Latin teaching by the German pedagogue of the Reformpädagogik-movement (New Education Movement) Berthold Otto in the historical-didactic context of their emergence and from the methodological-didactic perspective of modern Latin teaching. In this way, it makes a novel contribution to understanding Otto as an important player in the pedagogy of his own time on the one hand and as an innovative didactician on the other. The core concern of the work is to trace Otto’s methodology for teaching Latin on the basis of his two Latin textbooks as well as the numerous explanatory preparations for original Latin writers written in Latin, the so called Tirocinia. The dissertation also highlights Otto’s unique features in the context of Latin didactics around 1900 and explores the potential inherent in these writings with regard to modern foreign language didactics in the field of Latin. In doing so, it was possible to highlight the significant potential of Otto’s work with regard to modern concepts such as internal differentiation, language education, inclusion and learner autonomy. The project encompasses the core areas of the history of ideas / intellectual history, historical educational research, philological text analysis as well as didactic methodological criticism of Otto’s approach and its updating for the requirements of modern teaching.

El presente libro nace de la apuesta que tiene la Escuela de Ciencias Sociales, Artes y Humanidades frente a co-construcción de conocimiento acerca de las prácticas y experiencias de trabajo que se vienen desarrollando en el marco de los Centros de Acompañamiento en Salud Mental Comunitaria de la UNAD “CASMCUNAD”. Solo desde el año 2020 en plena pandemia, donde el trabajo articulado de la Maestría en Psicología Comunitaria y el programa de psicología se comienza a promover una estrategia de prácticas desde un modelo de la salud mental comunitaria que permea a los territorios y lograra un impacto real en los procesos de bienestar humano, de ahí que el capítulo 1, Diálogos entorno a las experiencias de intervención psicosocial desde los centros de escucha CASMCUNAD, se logren consolidar 4 trabajos de grado de maestría que hacen referencia a dicho trabajo y como en ellos se realiza grandes aportes no solo desde la práctica sino también a elementos conceptuales como el afrontamiento comunitario, los bienestares (bienestar humano-psicológico y subjetivo), el diagnóstico participativo y en general se apueste a los retos que implican hoy la acción psicosocial en territorio. Por otro lado, el capitulo 2, Experiencias de intervención psicosocial en un diálogo con lo institucional, se da cuenta de 3 experiencias de trabajo comunitario que lograron tener un impacto real en las comunidades y dan cuenta de modelos y acciones innovadoras para el campo psicosocial con diversos actores sociales, una mirada desde la institucionalidad al campo de la investigación/acción comprometida con la transformación social. Finalmente, el capítulo 3, Diálogos y reflexiones en torno a la intervención y el acompañamiento psicosocial, aparecen tres grandes discusiones que se convierten en necesarias a propósito de lo que se viene desarrollando con comunidades con apoyos de la virtualidad, pero además, con las lógicas de lo que significa el acompañamiento vs la intervención y en ese sentido se configura como un escenario propicio para la consolidación de un pensamiento que trascienda la acción psicosocial. En suma, es importante señalar al/la lector/a que, la producción de este libro y los capítulos que lo conforman, nace en medio de una crisis global donde la Psicología Comunitaria requiere de la generación de conocimiento, acompañamiento y acción pertinente y que el trabajo que se viene adelantando en temas de salud mental comunitaria dan avances y rutas claras para trabajarlo, todo ello ha generado retos científicos que demandan fortalecer la formación y divulgación en el campo institucional.

This volume addresses current debates around migration in, from and through Wales. It includes a range of migratory perspectives to better understand the diverse lived experiences of migrants, and the policies, measures and approaches at work across various scales and sectors in Wales that shape their everyday lives. A Welcoming Nation? adopts an intersectional approach to explore these experiences, which is central to understanding the multiple and complex ways in which exclusion and marginalisation take place. The volume is not only a book about migration, therefore, but also about the ways in which migratory experiences and status can intersect with other factors – such as age, gender, race and sexuality – providing original analyses of migration in Wales.

Earthquake Ground Motion is a compilation of ten chapters covering tectonics, seismicity, site effects, tsunamis, infrastructure, and instrumentation. It presents state-of-the-art techniques for retrieving rupture models, seismogenic structures, and validation of focal mechanisms. It also presents macroseismic archiving tools for historical and instrumental earthquakes and the fundamentals of seismic tomography. The book describes the site response analysis in 2D and 3D, considering topographic and soil structure interactions, its incorporation in a seismic hazard analysis, and the impact of earthquakes on the cost of reconstruction. The final sections are devoted to the genesis of earthquakes tsunamis, non-seismic tsunamis, and the new role of gyroscopes in rotational seismology.

Der Sammelband erzählt in Text und Bild Kunstgeschichte als Kunstgeschichten, unter anderem als "Ende der Kunstgeschichte", Engagierte Kunstgeschichte, Postkoloniale Kunstgeschichte, Feministische Kunstgeschichte, Kunstgeschichte im Migratory Turn, Kunstgeschichte der De/Karbonisierung, Postfundamentalistische Kunstgeschichte, Social Media Art History, Disability in Art History, Hybrid Art Histories, Kritische Kunstgeschichte, Kunstgeschichte zweiter Ordnung und Tiersensible Kunstgeschichte(n). Damit stellt die Publikation ein vorläufiges und unabgeschlossenes Spektrum möglicher Gegenstandsbereiche und Methodenzugriffe der Kunstgeschichte vor. 21 Autor*innen falten in kunstwissenschaftlicher Perspektivierung distinkte und differenzierende Positionen auf, was und wie die Kunstgeschichte be- und verhandelt sowie be- und verhandeln könnte. Der Sammelband, dessen Titel Magrittes "Ceci n’est pas une pipe." übersetzt und aktualisiert, erweitert die wissenschaftlichen Texte durch künstlerische Formate: Ausgewählte Zeichnungen, Collagen, Montagen und Fotografien von 26 Urheber*innen ergänzen mit ihren epistemischen und performativen Potentialen. Damit setzt die Herausgeberin ihre "Dispositiv-Erkundungen | Exploring Dispositifs" (2020) am Fallbeispiel der Kunstgeschichte fort.

Indoor vertical farms (IVF) have expanded rapidly in recent years as an approach to secure resilient food provisioning in urban areas. Sustainability is often promoted by IVFs, focusing primarily on farm-level metrics and information about work with packaging. However, there are few assessments of the implications IVFs have throughout their life cycle due in part to the novelty of the industry. This chapter aims to provide information and guidance on conducting an environmental sustainability assessment of an IVF employing life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology. Throughout the chapter, the different phases of an LCA are outlined, and guidance is provided for practitioners in order to aid their work, assumptions, and methodological choices. Furthermore, important processes and insights from previous research are provided to promote a more sustainable IVF industry.

The use of the computer is nowadays an indispensable part of an engineer’s work. Thanks to computer technology, many calculations and analyses can be performed faster and more efficiently. However, solving engineering problems often requires the development of computer tools dedicated to specific issues. As a consequence independent development of computer applications is a key skill for modern engineer. This is because knowing the basics of computer programming allows to develop unique and original software. Currently, there are many programming languages that allow you to take full advantage of the computer’s capabilities. An example of an accessible and intuitive programming language is Visual Basic, which is widely used in the process of developing new utility applications and extension modules for well-known programs. This coursebook was written in response to the observed lack of a coherent study of the use of Visual Basic to analyze mechanical engineering problems. The work is divided into 25 exercises supplemented by key issues in computer programming to provide an introduction to the practical use of Visual Basic. A key element of the work is the presentation of the application of Visual Basic language to solve specific engineering problems, along with the analysis of sample utility applications.

In Divisible Cities takes Italo Calvino’s classic re-imagining of Venice, viewed in the mind’s eye from many different metaphysical angles, and projects it on to the world at large. Where the Italian saw his favorite city as an impossible metropolis of many moods, shades, and ways of being, this unauthorized sequel unpacks the Escheresque streets in unexpected directions. In Divisible Cities is thus an exercise in cartographic origami: the reflective and poetic result of the narrator’s desire to map hidden cities, secret cities, imaginary cities, impossible cities, and overlapping cities, existing beneath the familiar Atlas of everyday perception. Stitching these different places and spaces together is a “double helix” or “Siamese seduction” between the traveler and his romantic shadow, revealing — step by step — a clandestine itinerary of hidden affinities, nestled within the habitual rhythm of things. Matter matters. That’s what the drone of the city tells us. And yet we dream of something beyond these invisible walls. Were I an architect-deity, I would create an Escheresque subway system, linking all the cities in the world. The tunnels themselves, and the people decanted from one place to the other, would eventually create an Ecumenopolis: a single and continuous city, enlaced and endless. Were this the case I could get on the F train at Delancey Street, Manhattan, and — after a couple of changes mid-town — emerge in the night-markets of Taipei, or near the Roman baths of Budapest. Or perhaps even downtown Urville.

Building the American Republic combines centuries of perspectives and voices into a fluid narrative of the United States. Throughout their respective volumes, Harry L. Watson and Jane Dailey take care to integrate varied scholarly perspectives and work to engage a diverse readership by addressing what we all share: membership in a democratic republic, with joint claims on its self-governing tradition. It will be one of the first peer-reviewed American history textbooks to be offered completely free in digital form. Visit buildingtheamericanrepublic.org for more information. The American nation came apart in a violent civil war less than a century after ratification of the Constitution. When it was reborn five years later, both the republic and its Constitution were transformed. Volume 2 opens as America struggles to regain its footing, reeling from a presidential assassination and facing massive economic growth, rapid demographic change, and combustive politics. The next century and a half saw the United States enter and then dominate the world stage, even as the country struggled to live up to its own principles of liberty, justice, and equality. Volume 2 of Building the American Republic takes the reader from the Gilded Age to the present, as the nation becomes an imperial power, rethinks the Constitution, witnesses the rise of powerful new technologies, and navigates an always-shifting cultural landscape shaped by an increasingly diverse population. Ending with the 2016 election, this volume provides a needed reminder that the future of the American republic depends on a citizenry that understands—and can learn from—its history.