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Trauma Beyond Time: Temporal Constructs in Holocaust Testimonies challenges our understanding of what it means to be a Holocaust survivor, arguing that the term “post-Holocaust” fundamentally misrepresents survivors’ experiences. Through careful analysis of Holocaust literature and testimony, this book reveals how trauma persists across generations, defying conventional historical timelines. For those who perished, there can be no “after” to the Holocaust—their stories were violently ended. Yet for survivors, the Holocaust didn’t simply conclude in 1945. Their experiences demonstrate how trauma continues to shape lives decades later, making “post-Holocaust” a misleading concept that fails to capture their ongoing reality. Using the multigenerational testimony of the Tabak family as a case study, this research shows how trauma disrupts linear time, creating a continuous present where past horrors remain alive. The author examines Holocaust diaries that end abruptly with their authors’ deaths, alongside memoirs that document how survivors navigate a world forever altered by their experiences. Perhaps most profound is the examination of intergenerational trauma, where descendants inherit the psychological imprint of events they never personally witnessed. For these individuals, there is no “before” the Holocaust—only its ongoing echoes through family memory and inherited trauma. By reconsidering how we frame survivorship, this book calls for a more nuanced, trauma-informed approach to Holocaust studies that honors the continuing reality of survivors’ experiences.

The aim of this study is to demonstrate that there is nothing new or peculiarly Hesychastic in the hagiographie style employed by Patriarch Euthymius, and that this style of "pletenie sloves" was borrowed by him and other medieval Slavic writers from an earlier and long existing Byzantine tradition that predated the Hesychast Revival. In effect, this study attempts to disprove one of the basic assumptions of present scholarship of the period of the Second South Slavic Influence.

Digital methods such as Building Information Modeling (BIM) can be leveraged, to improve the efficiency of maintenance planning of bridges. However, this requires digital building models, which are rarely available. Consequently, these models must be created retrospectively, which is time-consuming when done manually. Naturally, there is a great interest in the industry to automate the process of retro-digitization. This paper contributes to these efforts by proposing a multistage pipeline to automatically extract the gradient of a bridge from pixel-based construction drawings using deep learning. The bridge gradient, a key element of the structure’s axis, is critical for describing the elevation profile and axis slope. This information is implicitly contained in the longitudinal view of bridge drawings as gradient symbols. To extract this information, the well-established object detection model YOLOv5 is employed to locate the gradient symbols inside the drawings. Subsequently, EasyOCR and heuristic rules are applied to extract the relevant gradient parameters associated with each detected symbol. The extracted parameters are then exported in a machine-interpretable format to facilitate seamless integration into other applications. The results show a promising 98% accuracy in symbol detection and an overall accuracy of 70%. Consequently, the pipeline represents a significant advance in automating the retro-digitization process for existing bridges by reducing the time and effort required

Dieser Jahrgangsband der Simpliciana enthält elf Vorträge, die während der Tagung zum Thema Grimmelshausens Der seltzame Springinsfeld Mitte Juni 2015 in Oberkirch und Renchen gehalten wurden. Sieben weitere Beiträge ergänzen das neue Jahrbuch. Die Rubrik «Rezensionen und Hinweise auf Bücher» bietet Besprechungen von Neuerscheinungen zum simplicianischen Erzähler, zu anderen Autoren und zur Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit.

Formeln sind eine wichtige mathematische Darstellungsform im Physikunterricht. Jedoch haben Lernende häufig Schwierigkeiten bei der Verbalisierung der inhaltlichen Bedeutung von Formeln. Dies wirft die Frage auf, wie Lehrende diese inhaltliche Seite von Formeln vermitteln. Der Theorieteil stellt den Empiriestand zu den Themenkomplexen Formeln und Kommunikation, Alltagssprache, Unterrichts -sprache und Fachsprache im Physikunterricht ausführlich dar. Auf Grundlage sprachwissenschaftlicher Überlegungen wurde ein Ebenenmodell der Versprachlichung von Formeln entwickelt und durch Lehrbuchanalysen validiert, mit dessen Hilfe das Sprechen von und über Formeln analysiert werden kann. In einer qualitativen, explorativ ausgerichteten Feldstudie wurde Physikunterricht von 10 Lehrenden zum elektrischen Widerstand beobachtet und ihre Sprache mit Hilfe der qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse und des entwickelten Ebenenmodells ausgewertet. Das entstandene Kategoriensystem zeigt ein vielfältiges Sprechen über Formeln, das viele Aspekte von Formelverständnis abdeckt. Eine explizite qualitative Interpretation von Formeln bleibt jedoch meist aus. Es zeigt sich in vielen Aspekten ein eher technischer Umgang mit Formeln, der die strukturelle Rolle der Mathematik vernachlässigt. Das Sprechen der Lehrenden im Umgang mit Formeln kann als entweder fachsprachlich, schülernah oder ausgewogen, in einigen Fällen zusätzlich als reflektierend charakterisiert werden.

This book showcases how to co-produce research when we are unable to meet in the same geographical space. It details a remote and hybrid audio-visual participatory methodology through which women share their experiences of displacement, gender, and the city. Writing as researchers and filmmakers in the UK and Colombia, alongside 24 displaced women in Bogotá and Medellín, this participatory audio-visual project explores displacement from the women’s perspectives. The book is innovative in its collaborative writing and its combination of audio-visual and textual material. It presents a methodology for remote and hybrid research, advocating for more inclusive, equitable, and decolonising research interactions. Through three co-written chapters, it contributes to themes of displacement, gender, and the city, as displaced women share testimonies and audio-visual outputs, revealing experiences of violence, conflict, and aspirations for change as they rebuild their lives. This book stands out for its collaborative authorship and integration of text with audio-visual material, offering rich insights. It will interest researchers and practitioners working inside and outside universities who are interested in developing remote, hybrid, and audio-visual participatory methodologies, as well as those who want to understand more about displacement and the challenges of urban resettlement from women’s perspectives. After reading this book we'd appreciate if you could let us know what you think by answering some quick questions: https://app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/newcastle/co-producing-knowledge-with-displaced-women-in-colombia The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 license.

Plant breeding aims to bring together in a single population, called a variety, the maximum number of favorable genetic traits to better meet the demands of agriculture, users of agricultural production and society. This book presents today's plant breeding methods and tools in simple, concise terms, and answers three questions: What is a variety in plant breeding? What methods and tools are available to the breeder? How is a variety created? The book concludes with a description of the supply chain set up to ensure that the seeds of selected varieties are the vehicle of genetic progress. This book is aimed at non-specialists with an interest in genetics and plant breeding, and a basic understanding of biology: high school students and their biology teachers; graduate students who are studying plant breeding, and their teachers; technicians, engineers and managers of plant breeding programs; and all professionals wishing to have an overview of the plant breeding tools available today.

This book explores the societal resistance to accessibility for persons with disabilities, and tries to set an example of how to study exclusion in a time when numerous policies promise inclusion. With 12 chapters organised in three parts, the book takes a comprehensive approach to accessibility, covering transport and communication, knowledge and education, law and organisation. Topics within a wide cross-disciplinary field are covered, including disability studies, social work, sociology, ethnology, social anthropology, and history. The main example is Sweden, with its implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities within the context of the Nordic welfare state. By identifying and discussing persistent social and cultural conditions as well as recurring situations and interactions that nurture resistance to advancing accessibility, despite various strong laws promoting it, the book’s conclusions are widely transferable. It argues for the value of alternating between methods, theoretical perspectives, and datasets to explore how new arenas, resources and technologies cause new accessibility concerns — and possibilities — for persons living with impairments. We need to be able to follow actors closely to uncover how they feel, act, and argue, but also to connect to wider discursive and institutional patterns and systems. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of disability studies, social work, sociology, ethnology, social anthropology, political science, and organisation studies.

The task of ending famine in India was taken up by many at the beginning of the twentieth century. Only decades earlier, famine in India had been believed to be a necessary evil. Now it was the reason for the increasing activities of doctors, nutritionists, social reformers, agricultural experts, missionaries, anti-colonial activists and colonial administrators, all involved in temporary relief and finding permanent solutions to famine.

In der Reihe Slavistische Beiträge werden vor allem slavistische Dissertationen des deutschsprachigen Raums sowie vereinzelt auch amerikanische, englische und russische publiziert. Darüber hinaus stellt die Reihe ein Forum für Sammelbände und Monographien etablierter Wissenschafter/innen dar.

Most of the world's languages have indefinite pronouns, that is, expressions such as someone, anything, and nowhere. This book presents an encyclopaedic investigation of indefinite pronouns in the languages of the world, mapping out the range of variation in their functional and formative properties. It shows that cross-linguistic diversity is severely constrained by a set of implicational universals and by a number of unrestricted universals. Topics include formal and functional types of indefinite pronoun, theoretical approaches to the functions of indefinite pronouns, the grammaticalization of indefinite pronouns, and negative indefinite pronouns.

Analysis of the transformations in the sphere of work in Chile and Latin America. Precarization processes. Immigration and social exclusion

Medical genetics

Die Internationale Schulleistungsstudie der OECD untersucht, was Schülerinnen und Schüler in den Bereichen Lesekompetenz, Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften wissen und wie gut sie dieses Wissen anwenden können. Die PISA-Studie ist die bisher umfassendste und genaueste internationale Erhebung der Lernstände von Schülerinnen und Schülern. Ihre Ergebnisse geben Aufschluss über Bildungsqualität und Bildungsgerechtigkeit. Die Studie richtet außerdem einen Fokus auf geschlechtsspezifische Leistungsunterschiede und untersucht, welche Zusammenhänge zwischen Leistungen und sozioökonomischem Status sowie Migrationshintergrund bestehen können. Außerdem wird beschrieben, wie sich Bildungsqualität und Bildungsgerechtigkeit im Vergleich zu früheren PISA-Erhebungen entwickelt haben.

Since the end of the 20th century, associations and cooperatives have been perceived by a growing part of the population as actors capable of dealing with societal problems and responding to the aspirations of inhabitants. Civil society, public authorities, universities and the media saw them as an essential foundation for the necessary renewal of economic life. This trend has placed the social economy in a unique position to face three essential challenges: the political challenge, which has invited it to move from solving social problems to drawing up a development policy; the technological challenge, which has led it to manage the new working conditions and the new forms of social interaction induced by the development of new technologies; and finally, the environmental challenge, which encourages it to become an economy that is not only social but also ecological, able to develop without increasing its impact on the environment. Depuis la fin du 20e siècle, les associations et les coopératives sont perçues par une frange croissante de la population comme des acteurs susceptibles de faire face aux problèmes sociétaux et de répondre aux aspirations des habitants. La société civile, les collectivités publiques, les universités, les médias voient en elles un fondement incontournable de la nécessaire rénovation de la vie économique. Cette promotion a placé l'économie sociale et solidaire (ESS) de façon singulière face à trois défis essentiels: le défi politique, qui l’a invitée à passer de la résolution des problèmes sociaux à la conception d’une politique de développement; le défi technologique, qui l’a amenée à gérer le nouveau rapport au travail et les nouvelles sociabilités induits par l’essor des nouvelles technologies; le défi environnemental enfin, qui l’incite à devenir une économie non seulement sociale mais aussi écologique, capable de se développer sans accroître son impact sur l’environnement.