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Technik und Kultur als Gegensätzlichkeiten zu verstehen gilt als überholt. Erwartungen sind in Apparate ebenso eingeschrieben, wie Funktionsweisen in typische Handlungsstrukturen. Unser Vorschlag ist es, Techniken aus einer Perspektive erhandelter Zugehörigkeit zu verstehen. In diesem Band sind Arbeiten versammelt, die die sozialen Bedingungsverhältnisse von Technik und Kultur als Verknüpfungstechnik, Aneignungstechnik und Aushandlungstechnik diskutieren.

Die Arbeit befasst sich mit Sicherungselementen für den Schutz von überströmbaren Dämmen und Deichen. In physikalischen Modellversuchen wurden zwei Bauweisen untersucht:Für das Deckwerk aus Mastix-Schotter, einem bituminös gebundenen Einkornsplitt, wurde ein in sich geschlossenes Anwendungskonzept entwickelt, das von den theoretischen Kraftansätzen bis hin zur Bauausführung reicht. Bei den Verbundbauweisen, deren Stabilität auf dem Zusammenwirken von Geotextilien mit dem Dammbaustoff basiert, wurde die Druckverteilung an der Sohle gemessen und analysiert.

Natural gas is an important source of energy that is regarded as essential for achieving the politically set climate goals. In particular, gas-fired power plants are valued as flexible buffers to compensate for fluctuations in renewable electricity generation. Moreover, gas network operators face new challenges due to the liberalization of the European gas market. Under the newly introduced entry-exit market regime, gas network operators have to ensure that all possible market outcomes can be transported over the network. Hence, the operators of gas networks require new aids for decision-making under uncertain conditions such as load fluctuations or inaccuracies in physical parameters. To this end, this thesis investigates a general class of two-stage robust optimization problems using the example of gas network operations under uncertainty. Three general solution methods are developed for this problem class. The first two approaches use ideas from polynomial optimization to decide robust feasibility or infeasibility. Both procedures consider polynomial formulations that are approximated by semidefinite programs via the Lasserre relaxation hierarchy. The third approach is based on a transformation of the two-stage robust problem into a number of single-stage optimization problems. The resulting subproblems are approximated by mixed-integer linear programs. By combining this method with additional preprocessing and aggregation steps, it is demonstrated that real-world problems can be solved efficiently within a short time.

In recent years, spectacular images of ruined boats, makeshift border camps, and beaches littered with life vests have done much to consolidate the politics of movement in Europe. Indeed, the mediation of migration as a crisis has worked to shore up various forms of militarized surveillance, humanitarian response, legislative action, and affective investment. Bridging academic inquiry and artistic and activist practice, the essays, documents, and artworks gathered in Moving Images interrogate the mediation of migration and refugeeism in the contemporary European conjuncture, asking how images, discourses, and data are involved in shaping the visions and experience of migration in increasingly global contexts.

This book is a Liber Amicorum for Martha Roggenkamp, Professor of Energy Law at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. The chapters in this book celebrate her unique contribution to energy law. Martha Roggenkamp is a true force of energy, both personally and professionally. Her chair in energy law at the University of Groningen was the first in the Netherlands. She co-established the Dutch Energy Law Association and co-founded the Groningen Centre of Energy Law and Sustainability. With a formidable range of seminal publications, building on a large number of externally funded research projects, and of course her hearty laugh, she is one of the leading women in energy law in the Netherlands, in Europe and beyond. The chapters in this book showcase the diversity of the subject matter, the high academic standards as well as the connections that Martha Roggenkamp has nurtured across decades and continents.

« Le voyage de Barrès, après ceux de Chateaubriand, de Lamartine, de Gautier, de Gérard de Nerval, aura été le dernier des voyages romantiques d’Orient, des voyages vers l’Orient romantique. Là encore 1914 marque la grande coupure. Cet Orient n’existe plus », écrivait Albert Thibaudet, pour qui la Grande Guerre mettait fin à une lignée de voyageurs. Cet ouvrage interroge l’influence de la guerre sur la vision et l’écriture de l’Orient chez des savants et des écrivains, notamment André Gide et Pierre Loti. À partir d’Une enquête aux pays du Levant, livre de Barrès publié en 1923, mais issu d’un voyage de 1914, il identifie plus largement les mutations du genre du récit de voyage entre le long XIXe siècle, marqué par le romantisme, motivé par la quête spirituelle, et les années d’entre-deux-guerres où se développe le genre du grand reportage, marqué par un intérêt plus politique lié à la présence coloniale française en Syrie et au Liban.

This is not a simple text book. This is a complete teaching tool meant to provide lecturers in particular - but also students - with an interactive, bilingual, multimodality and cost free instrument to facilitate the teaching and learning of an understudied topic in international affairs such as EU-LAC relations. This teaching tool can be used as a full course or as complementary material for courses in a wide range of disciplines and subjects, from International Relations to EU and Latin American Studies, from Diplomacy and Foreign Policy Analysis to International History, Regionalism, Governance or more specific topics discussed in the teaching tool. Furthermore, this tool is designed for lecturers with students of all level from BA upwards. This means that the lecturer has the possibility to go more or less deep into the topics and make content more or less sophisticated. The material is equally suitable to teach university students at BA, MA and PhD level and professionals, to train diplomats, ministerial staff or journalists and local administrations officials. The contributors thought of this teaching tool as an all-round functional instrument for lecturers of different kind, level, and background addressing diverse audiences.

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2021, which took place during March 27–April 1, 2021, and was held as part of the Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2021. The conference was planned to take place in Luxembourg but changed to an online format due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 16 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The book also contains 4 Test-Comp contributions.

Seit seiner Gründung vor annähernd 25 Jahren hat sich das Göttinger Umwelthistorische Kolloquium zu einer Einrichtung entwickelt, welche die vielfältigen, thematisch einschlägigen Aktivitäten des Standortes wie auch des deutschsprachigen Raumes durch Austausch von Forschungsergebnissen und Sichtweisen bündelt. Von hier haben auch einige Unternehmungen ihren Ausgang genommen, welche zum heutigen Profil der Umweltgeschichte spürbar beitrugen. Der Band vereinigt Beiträge zum Kolloquium des Sommersemesters 2011 und des Wintersemesters 2011/12.

Robert Schine’s intellectual biography of Max Wiener profiles a liberal German-Jewish thinker who turned toward Zionism as the only natural future for Judaism. Schine puts Wiener’s thought into conversation with those of his German contemporaries (both Jewish and Christian) while also resuscitating Wiener’s thought as a resource for contemporary theologians.

Object-oriented ontology offers a startlingly fresh way to think about causality that takes into account developments in physics since 1900. Causality, argues, Object Oriented Ontology (OOO), is aesthetic. In this book, Timothy Morton explores what it means to say that a thing has come into being, that it is persisting, and that it has ended. Drawing from examples in physics, biology, ecology, art, literature and music, Morton demonstrates the counterintuitive yet elegant explanatory power of OOO for thinking causality.

In recent years, concerns have arisen regarding access to behavioral health care for service members and veterans of the U.S. military and their families, particularly for individuals covered by the U.S. Department of Defense Military Health System and the Veterans Health Administration. RAND Researchers examined utilization of behavioral health care among current or former wives of service members and veterans who are covered in those systems.

Microbium: The Neglected Lives of Micro-matter tells the story of small matter such as bacteria, coral, fungi, lichen, pollen, protozoa, and viruses. With short entries that are organized like a herbarium or similar specimen collection, the book is a “microbium”—both the term for a single microbe and a play on “microbiome.” As such, Microbium makes visible the often overseen but huge impact of miniscule matter on human culture and the environment. Each entry is a “microscopic reading” that describes the natural history and scientific discovery of a particular form of micro-matter, while also telling a story about the cultural and artistic roles it has played over the centuries. From the poetry of Emily Dickinson to the “coralness” of coral reefs to contemporary literature about the COVID-19 pandemic, this book places micro-matter under a cultural microscope and translates the significance of the invisible interspecies social realm to the human scale, magnifying the many ways in which micro-matter matters. Ultimately, Microbium shows the potential of micro-matter to teach us how to revitalize our political and cultural systems, habits of thought, and aesthetic or representational modes.

The European Union’s COVID-19 recovery plan could be the impetus businesses need to invest in climate measures and prepare for the transition to a net-zero carbon economy. Our newest climate report looks at how firms’ view these twin challenges and their preparedness to meet them. Firms are more aware of the physical risks posed by climate change, but less aware of the risks caused by the transition to clean energy. Almost half of EU firms surveyed are investing in climate change measures, compared with roughly one-third of US firms. Uncertainty over regulation and taxation continues to hamper climate investments. To green its economy, Europe needs a comprehensive strategy that will provide businesses with the guidance they need to invest in climate preparedness and the energy transition.

PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) er en internasjonal undersøkelse av 15-åringers kompetanser i noen sentrale fagområder – lesing, matematikk og naturfag. Naturfag er hovedområde i PISA 2015. Undersøkelsen gjennomføres hvert tredje år. I PISA 2015 er hele undersøkelsen for første gang gjennomført digitalt. Det har blant annet gitt mulighet for å ha med nye typer oppgaver, for eksempel interaktive simuleringsoppgaver i naturfag. Denne rapporten presenterer resultater fra den sjette gjennomføringen av PISA-undersøkelsen. Noen sentrale spørsmål som blir undersøkt, er: Hvordan har norske elevers kompetanser i lesing, matematikk og naturfag endret seg over tid? I hvilken grad er norske elever i stand til å bruke kunnskap i ulike kontekster? Hvordan er norske resultater sammenliknet med resultater i de andre nordiske landene Hvilke holdninger har norske elever til naturfag, og hvordan oppfatter de undervisningen i naturfag? Hvordan opplever norske elever læringsmiljøet i skolen? Marit Kjærnsli og Fredrik Jensen ved Institutt for lærerutdanning og skoleforskning (ILS) ved Universitetet i Oslo er redaktører for boka. Øvrige bidragsytere er Tove S. Frønes, Ove Edvard Hatlevik, Guri A. Nortvedt, Andreas Pettersen og Anubha Rohatgi, alle ved ILS.