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Anknüpfend an die Debatte um den Einfluss der UN-Behindertenrechtskonvention in Deutschland, untersuchen die im Band enthaltenen Beiträge aktuelle Herausforderungen für die Gestaltung der konkreten Lebenssituation von Menschen mit Behinderungen. Sie konzentrieren sich dabei auf den Sozialraum als Ort im räumlichen wie sozialen Sinn, an dem sich alle Akteure – die Betroffenen, ihre Angehörigen, die Leistungsträger wie Leistungserbringer – begegnen und an dem sie unter Berücksichtigung sowohl des sozialen Umfeldes als auch der lokalen wie der entsprechenden (infra-)strukturellen Besonderheiten zusammenwirken. Dies geschieht aus der Perspektive unterschiedlicher fachlicher Disziplinen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Lebenslagen Jugend und Alter. Mit Beiträgen von: Dr. Minou Banafsche, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am Max-Planck-Institut für Sozialrecht und Sozialpolitik, München Prof. Dr. Ulrich Becker, LL.M. (EHI), Direktor am Max-Planck Institut für Sozialrecht und Sozialpolitik, München Prof. Dr. Clemens Dannenbeck, Prodekan der Hochschule Landshut Prof. Dr. Markus Dederich, Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine Heilpädagogik, Theorie der Heilpädagogik und Rehabilitation am Department Heilpädagogik der Universität zu Köln Prof. Dr. Gerhard Igl, Leiter des Instituts für Sozialrecht und Gesundheitsrecht und Lehrstuhl für Öffentliches Recht und Sozialrecht an der Juristischen Fakultät der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Helmut Kneppe, Dezernent für Jugend, Familie und Soziales, Kreis Siegen-Wittgenstein Dr. Andreas Kuhn, Wissenschaftlicher Referent im Deutschen Verein für öffentliche und private Fürsorge e. V., Berlin Dr. Maria Kurz-Adam, Leiterin des Stadtjugendamtes München Stephan Rittweger, Vorsitzender Richter am Bayerischen Landessozialgericht, München Dr. Markus Schäfers, Referent für Teilhabeorientierte Dienstleistungen und Steuerungsinstrumente in der Eingliederungshilfe bei der Bundesvereinigung Lebenshilfe e. V., Berlin Brigitta Seidenschwang, Fachlehrerin und Physiotherapeutin an der Real- und Fachoberschule der Ernst-Barlach-Schulen der Stiftung Pfennigparade, München Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Wacker, Lehrstuhl für Diversitätssoziologie an der Fakultät für Sport- und Gesundheitswissenschaft der Technischen Universität München und Max Planck Fellow am Max-Planck-Institut für Sozialrecht und Sozialpolitik, München Prof. Dr. Gudrun Wansing, Leitung des Fachgebiets Behinderung und Inklusion am Institut für Sozialwesen der Universität Kassel Martina Weide-Gertke, Schulleiterin der Real- und Fachoberschule der Ernst-Barlach-Schulen der Stiftung Pfennigparade, München Prof. Dr. Felix Welti, Leitung des Fachgebiets Sozialrecht der Rehabilitation und Recht der behinderten Menschen am Institut für Sozialwesen der Universität Kassel Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Reinhard Wiesner, Ministerialrat a. D., Honorarprofessor an der Freien Universität Berlin

The present ePaper tries to apprehend how refugee women in Geneva experience their integration journeys, understood as feelings of un/belonging. This study is based on two main beliefs. First, processes of immigrant integration must be understood not solely in terms of economic or social integration but also in terms of the individual’s feeling of well-being and belonging. This means that individual perception is the main gateway into understanding how an individual can feel integrated into a new society. Second, individual identities and characteristics, such as gender, class, religion, etc., are crucial when considering social processes (following the intersectional concept in gender studies). Considering the results of this study, this thesis develops our understanding of the main institutional and social constraints experienced by refugee women in Geneva. It then addresses the experiences of inclusion/exclusion of three clusters of women, considering their various identities and characteristics. Finally, it examines two main identity strategies used by the women to make sense of their new lives. We extend our heartfelt thanks to the Vahabzadeh Foundation for financially supporting the publication of best works by young researchers of the Graduate Institute, giving a priority to those who have been awarded academic prizes for their master’s dissertations.

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Most na Soči ranks among the most prominent prehistoric sites in Europe. It is mainly known for the extensive cemetery from the Early Iron Age, which was first investigated in the late 19th century and revealed over 6000 burials. The rapid growth of the modern village of Most na Soči again led to large-scale archaeological excavations in the 1970s. These were conducted in the span of eleven years and unearthed one of the most significant Iron Age settlements in Slovenia and the wider south-eastern Alpine region.

Since 2017, the United States has blocked all appointments to the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization (WTO), thereby threatening to destroy the WTO's dispute settlement system, one of the most active dispute settlement systems in international law and a central pillar of the multilateral trading system. The United States justifies its blockage with allegations of judicial overreach, claiming that the Appellate Body in its jurisprudence has not complied with the WTO treaties.

Healthcare aims to be patient-centred but a large gap remains between the fine words and the reality. Care often feels designed for the convenience of the organisations that deliver it, and not enough around patients and their families, or even around the frontline staff who provide it. Why does this happen? What does it feel like? What can be done about it? This book stimulates reflection on these questions by listening closely to those at the frontline. It provides accounts from patients, carers and healthcare professionals who are patients about what it’s like when services get it right, and wrong, from birth up to the end of life. Quite simply, we want to draw upon the power of storytelling – which is increasingly valued as a tool for learning – to help policymakers and practitioners to understand how to deliver better care. We also hope to enlighten the general reader about how they might go about navigating “the system” while it remains imperfect. There is a growing literature of first-person accounts from patients and from healthcare professionals. This book differs by providing a collection of narratives of experiences of the NHS in England to paint a rich and varied picture. Alongside these narratives we provide some international context, and an overview of the history of moves towards a more patient-centred approach to care. We present the theory and practice of storytelling in the context of healthcare. We also seek to help the reader to draw out the practical learning from the individual accounts.

As a basic concept, gel electrophoresis is a biotechnology technique in which macromolecules such as DNA, RNA or protein are fractionated according to their physical properties such as molecular weight or charge. These molecules are forced through a porous gel matrix under electric field enabling uncounted applications and uses. Delivered between your hands, a second book of this Gel electrophoresis series (Gel Electrophoresis- Advanced Techniques) covers a part, but not all, applications of this versatile technique in both medical and life science fields. We try to keep the contents of the book crisp and comprehensive, and hope that it will receive overwhelming interest and deliver benefits and valuable information to the readers.

Tauber, a leading figure in history and philosophy of science, offers a unique autobiographical overview of how science as a discipline of thought has been characterized by philosophers and historians over the past century. He frames his account through science’s – and his own personal – quest for explanatory certainty. During the 20th century, that goal was displaced by the probabilistic epistemologies required to characterize complex systems, whether in physics, biology, economics, or the social sciences. This “triumph of uncertainty” is the inevitable outcome of irreducible chance and indeterminate causality. And beyond these epistemological limits, the interpretative faculties of the individual scientist (what Michael Polanyi called the “personal” and the “tacit”) invariably affects how data are understood. Whereas positivism had claimed radical objectivity, post-positivists have identified how a web of non-epistemic values and social forces profoundly influence the production of knowledge. Tauber presents a case study of these claims by showing how immunology has incorporated extra-curricular social elements in its theoretical development and how these in turn have influenced interpretive problems swirling around biological identity, individuality, and cognition. The correspondence between contemporary immunology and cultural notions of selfhood are strong and striking. Just as uncertainty haunts science, so too does it hover over current constructions of personal identity, self knowledge, and moral agency. Across the chasm of uncertainty, science and selfhood speak.

“Everything in the feeling of speakers is a real phenomenon,” wrote Saussure in the 1880s for the purpose of a prospective morphology course. But the term feeling is not one of those which, like sign, system, synchrony and diachrony, is associated with the canon of Saussure's concepts. The purpose of this work is to illustrate, on the contrary, that linguistic feeling is essential to the Geneva linguist’s reasoning, and that it is perhaps the central focus which enables him to define what he calls “language”. The contributions in this work investigate what can be called Saussure's linguistic feeling, by exploring the inspirations which Saussure may have picked up from his predecessors, by studying the various inflections which the motif embraces in his texts, particularly from manuscript sources, and by exploring the issues of the notion today. As it is rooted in the sphere of the history of linguistic ideas, it also has the potential to open up new avenues for research on the apprehension of linguistic facts by the speaker.

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

Der vorliegende Band »Gesellschaft und Politik verstehen – Frank Nullmeier zum 65. Geburtstag« ehrt nicht nur einen der bedeutendsten deutschen Politikwissenschaftler der Gegenwart und erlaubt Einblicke in dessen breites wissenschaftliches Werk, sondern gibt auch einen guten Überblick über einige der wichtigsten Themen, die heute in der Politikwissenschaft diskutiert werden: Von zentralen Debatten in der Politischen Theorie, etwa zur Legitimitäts- oder zur Demokratietheorie, über Schlüsselfragen moderner Sozialstaatlichkeit bis hin zur Erforschung einzelner Politikfelder und zur Verwaltungsforschung bildet der Band zentrale Felder der Politikwissenschaft ab; darüber hinaus zeichnet er auch interessante Schnittstellen zu Nachbardisziplinen nach, etwa zu Philosophie oder Soziologie. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/

This book examines the changing roles and functions of the soybean throughout world history and discusses how this reflects the complex processes of agrofood globalization. The book uses a historical lens to analyze the processes and features that brought us to the current global configuration of the soybean commodity chain. From its origins as a peasant food in ancient China, today the protein-rich soybean is by far the most cultivated biotech crop on Earth; used to make a huge variety of food and industrial products, including animal feed, tofu, cooking oil, soy sauce, biodiesel and soap. While there is a burgeoning amount of literature on how the contemporary global soy web affects large tracts of our planet’s social-ecological systems, little attention has been given to the questions of how we got here and what alternative roles the soybean has played in the past. This book fills this gap and demonstrates that it is impossible to properly comprehend the contemporary global soybean chain, or the wider agrofood system of which it is a part, without looking at both their long and short historical development. However, a history of the soybean and its changing roles within equally changing agrofood systems is inexorably a history about globalization. Not only does this book map out where soybeans are produced, but also who governs, wields power and accumulates capital in the entire commodity chain from inputs in production to consumption, as well as identifying the institutional context the global commodity chain operates within. The book concludes with a discussion of the main challenges and contradictions of the current soy regime that could trigger its rupture and end. This book is essential reading for students, practitioners and scholars interested in agriculture and food systems, global commodity chains, globalization, environmental history, economic history and social-ecological systems.

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The 15th Estuarine and Coastal Modeling Conference provides a venue for commercial, academic, and government scientists and engineers from around the world to present and discuss the latest results and techniques in applied estuarine and coastal modeling. Prospective authors are invited to submit papers on a wide range of topic areas, including:• Pollutant Transport and Water Quality Prediction• Coastal Response to Climate Change• Modeling Techniques and Sensitivity Studies• Model Assessment• Modeling Specific Estuarine and Coastal Systems• Visualization and Analysis• Wave and Sediment Transport Modeling• Modeling of Chemicals and Floatables• Oil Spill Transport and Fate Modeling• Inverse Methods• Circulation Modeling• Facility Siting and CSO Studies• Data Assimilation• Nowcast/Forecast Modeling Systems• Modeling Systems with Strong Buoyancy Forcing• Modeling of Coupled Systems• Risk Analysis (Nuclear Reactors, Flood Forecasting)

The Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age... Every global epoch in the history of the mankind is characterized by materials used in it. In 2004 a new era in material science was opened: the era of graphene or, more generally, of two-dimensional materials. Graphene is the strongest and the most stretchable known material, it has the record thermal conductivity and the very high mobility of charge carriers. It demonstrates many interesting fundamental physical effects and promises a lot of applications, among which are conductive ink, terahertz transistors, ultrafast photodetectors and bendable touch screens. In 2010 Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two-dimensional material graphene’’. The two volumes Physics and Applications of Graphene - Experiments and Physics and Applications of Graphene - Theory contain a collection of research articles reporting on different aspects of experimental and theoretical studies of this new material.