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In the series Slavonic Contributions Slavic dissertations of German-speaking countries as well as occasionally also American, English and Russian are published. In addition, the series provides a forum for anthologies and monographs of established scientists.

Im naturwissenschaftlichen Unterricht setzt hypothesengeleitetes Experimentieren bei den Lernenden eine Grundvorstellung über die untersuchten Zusammenhänge voraus. Die Arbeit mit einem dynamischen Modell soll im didaktischen Konzept der physikalischen Modellbildung die Lücke zwischen einer naturwissenschaftlichen Fragestellung und einer im Experiment überprüfbaren Hypothese schließen. Die Anwendung des aus erkenntnistheoretischen Überlegungen abgeleiteten Konzepts wird in einer explorativen Studie im Mixed-Methods-Design analysiert, in der sich N=41 Lehramtsstudierende mit GeoGebra-Modellen auf ein Experiment im Praktikum der Optik vorbereiten. Anhand von Videoaufnahmen werden Faktoren und Verhaltensmuster der Arbeit mit einem dynamischen Modell identifiziert. Diese Merkmale werden in Abhängigkeit individueller Lernvoraussetzungen auf Zusammenhänge mit der Qualität und Quantität der formulierten Hypothesen sowie den Handlungen im Experiment untersucht. Aus den Daten wird ersichtlich, dass die Formulierung komplexer Hypothesen und ihre Überprüfung in einem Experiment erst bei gründlicher Arbeit mit dem dynamischen Modell erfolgt. Als Ergebnis werden Gestaltungsempfehlungen für dynamische Modelle abgeleitet, die eine zielgerichtete Untersuchung des modellierten Systems ermöglichen. Sie werden in einem Unterrichtskonzept für die Optik umgesetzt, das sich durch die Modellierung optischer Phänomene und die Überprüfung der Modellaussagen in Experimenten auszeichnet.

Screen-based media, such as touch-screens, navigation systems or virtual reality applications merge images and operations and situate users in space both within and beyond the boundaries of the screen. This volume examines the linking of screen, space, and operation in fields such as remote navigation, architecture, medicine, interface design or film production.

A numerous internationally renowned authors in the pages of this book present the views of the fields of cell biology and their own research results or review of current knowledge. Chapters are divided into five sections that are dedicated to cell structures and functions, genetic material, regulatory mechanisms, cellular biomedicine and new methods in cell biology. Multidisciplinary and often quite versatile approach by many authors have imposed restrictions of this classification, so it is certain that many chapters could belong to the other sections of this book. The current frontiers, on the manner in which they described in the book, can be a good inspiration to many readers for further improving, and perspectives which are highlighted can be seen in many areas of fundamental biology, biomedicine, biotechnology and other applications of knowledge of cell biology. The book will be very useful for beginners to gain insight into new area, as well as experts to find new facts and expanding horizons.

Children and youth are front and center in the context of global mass migration and the social discord around questions of multicultural inclusion that it often ignites. It is young people at the forefront of navigating the complexities of cultural and ethnic diversity in their everyday lives. Imprecise portrayals of their inclination to either embrace diversity or to incite racism are used to exemplify both the success and failures of the multicultural project. In the context of young people’s heightened politicization, Belonging and Becoming in a Multicultural World, shifts the focus to a group of Sudanese and Karen refugee youth’s own insights, explanations and practices as they attempt to create a sense of identity and belonging. It sees these young people engaging race, racism and national identity in creative and unexpected ways as they are confronted with the social and moral implications of multiculturalism in Australia.

Au XVIIIe siècle, quelques jours, parfois une dizaine à la mauvaise saison, étaient nécessaires pour accomplir le trajet entre Bruxelles et Vienne, lequel passait le plus souvent par Cologne, Francfort, Nuremberg, Ratisbonne, Passau et Linz. On peut penser que, ne quittant à aucun moment les terres d'Empire à l'occasion de ce périple, et en un temps où le cosmopolitisme des élites était une réalité, renforcée encore par l'usage commun de la langue française, les voyageurs n'avaient que peu d'occasions de ressentir un véritable dépaysement. Ce serait sans compter, cependant, avec le caractère très particulier des Pays-Bas au sein de l'ensemble habsbourgeois. Farouchement attachés à leurs privilèges, tant locaux que principautaires, ces derniers avaient laissé, en effet, au très lucide prince de Kaunitz, qui y séjourna longuement au cours des années 1730 et 1740, une impression peu favorable quant à leur aptitude à accepter la politique de centralisation qu'il allait pourtant bientôt se charger de mettre en oeuvre, depuis Vienne, au côté des souverains. C'est donc dans le contexte d'une permanente tension entre les velléités centralisatrices viennoises et le particularisme « belgique » que de nombreux serviteurs de « la Monarchie » furent amenés à se déplacer d'une capitale à l'autre tout au long des huit décennies du régime autrichien. On peut s'étonner, d'ailleurs, de ce qu'avant le très autocrate et très inquisiteur Joseph II, aucun souverain viennois n'ait jugé utile de séjourner dans cette « plus belle province de la Monarchie », pourtant régulièrement vantée par Marie-Thérèse. À proximité de Paris tout comme des îles britanniques, autre centre important des Lumières, Bruxelles était à même d'offrir à Vienne – capitale est-européenne quelque peu excentrée et pas encore promue alors à ce rang de métropole culturelle qu'elle occupera brillamment lors des décennies suivantes – un contact avec toutes les nouveautés provenant notamment de la galaxie parisienne. On le devine, danseurs, comédiens et musiciens circulaient alors sans frein entre les deux capitales, tout comme les goûts et les modes. Mais les idées paraissent, quant à elles, avoir eu un peu plus de difficultés à franchir les frontières.

"Who were the First Americans? Where did they come from? When did they get here? Are they the ancestors of modern Native Americans? These questions might seem straightforward, but scientists in competing fields have failed to convince one another with their theories and evidence, much less Native American peoples. The practice of science in its search for the First Americans is a flawed endeavor, Robert V. Davis tells us. His book is an effort to explain why. Most American history textbooks today teach that the First Americans migrated to North America on foot from East Asia over a land bridge during the last ice age, 12,000 to 13,000 years ago. In fact, that theory hardly represents the scientific consensus, and it has never won many Native adherents. In many ways, attempts to identify the first Americans embody the conflicts in American society between accepting the practical usefulness of science and honoring cultural values. Davis explores how the contested definition of “First Americans” reflects the unsettled status of Native traditional knowledge, scientific theories, research methodologies, and public policy as they vie with one another for legitimacy in modern America. In this light he considers the traditional beliefs of Native Americans about their origins; the struggle for primacy—or even recognition as science—between the disciplines of anthropology and archaeology; and the mediating, interacting, and sometimes opposing influences of external authorities such as government agencies, universities, museums, and the press. Fossil remains from Mesa Verde, Clovis, and other sites testify to the presence of First Americans. What remains unsettled, as The Search for the First Americans makes clear, is not only who these people were, where they came from, and when, but also the very nature and practice of the science searching for answers. "

Au centre des questions de développement, l’économie informelle est longtemps restée une terra incognita. Pourtant elle joue un rôle décisif dans les pays du Sud puisqu'elle constitue la principale source de revenu de la grande majorité des ménages, tout particulièrement les plus pauvres. En effet, une grande majorité des emplois s'exerce dans l'économie informelle dans ces pays. Etant donné les enjeux, la méthode des enquêtes 1-2-3 a permis de répondre à un double défi, statistique et économique : mesurer ce qui échappe à la mesure – l’économie informelle, et comprendre son fonctionnement et sa dynamique. Cette méthodologie a été développée puis consolidée par l’IRD à travers différents projets nationaux et régionaux lancés à partir du début des années 1990 et conduits en partenariat étroit avec les instituts nationaux de statistiques, en collaboration avec les centres de recherche et universités, des organismes régionaux, des agences et bailleurs de fonds. Cette étude retrace les travaux réalisés dans trois pays – Pérou, Madagascar et Vietnam. Elle relate la manière dont les résultats des recherches ont eu un impact dans les domaines social, économique, institutionnel, politique, académique ainsi qu’en matière de renforcement de capacités.

Chinese Families Upside Down offers the first systematic account of how intergenerational dependence is redefining the Chinese family. The authors make a collective effort to go beyond the conventional model of filial piety to explore the rich, nuanced, and often unexpected new intergenerational dynamics. Supported by ethnographic findings from the latest field research, novel interpretations of neo-familism address critical issues from fresh perspectives, such as the ambivalence in grandparenting, the conflicts between individual and family interests, the remaking of the moral self in the face of family crises, and the decisive influence of the Chinese state on family change. The book is an essential read for scholars and students of China studies in particular and for those who are interested in the present-day family and kinship in general.

Dette festskriftet er en hyllest til professor Øyvind Helgesen for hans bidrag til utvikling av høyere utdanning på Nordvestlandet og forskning innen kundelojalitet, kundeverdier og kundelønnsomhet. Helgesen oppnådde graden dr.oecon. fra NHH i 1999 og ble i 2009 professor i markedsføring ved det som den gang var Høgskolen i Ålesund. I 2010 ble han også professor II i økonomisk styring ved NHH, en posisjon han hadde fram til 2018. Helgesen gikk over i en professor emeritus-stilling ved Institutt for internasjonal forretningsdrift, NTNU i Ålesund i 2018, en stilling han fremdeles har. Det som kjennetegner Helgesens akademiske bidrag, er særlig hans næringsrelevante forskning. Mange års erfaring fra næringslivet har imidlertid også hatt stor betydning for hans innsats som akademisk miljøbygger. I anledning Øyvind Helgesens 70 årsdag gir vi en oversikt over hans bidrag som «miljøbygger» og forsker, og mange av hans tidligere og nåværende kolleger har bidratt med vitenskapelige, fagfellevurderte artikler til hans ære. Tematisk gjenspeiler artiklene bredden i hans forskning som spenner fra økonomisk styring og kundeverdi til markedsføring.

This volume of Skriftkultur illustrates how the cross-disciplinary field of writing culture can provide new perspectives on fundamental questions. A definitive foundation of all research and scholarly activity is that it is based in writing. This is true not only within the humanities, but in all scientific disciplines. Scientific theories and modes of thought are linguistic constructions within cultural communities, and science happens in written form. Basic issues in exploring language and writing are thus also basic issues in other written language practices, whether they are scientific or more general. The relationship between a language, texts the language is the basis of, and awareness of the language users is precisely about such basic issues. What are our grounds for understanding, describing and explaining these situations, and to what extent do different subjects and disciplines provide different approaches and answers to such questions?

Temporomandibular joint disorders are among the most complex and multifaceted conditions encountered in contemporary clinical practice, affecting patients across all age groups and disciplines. Temporomandibular Joint Disorders – New Perspectives in Diagnosis and Treatment offers a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the diagnostic challenges, pathophysiological mechanisms, and therapeutic strategies associated with these disorders. The book integrates current knowledge from dentistry, oral and maxillofacial surgery, otolaryngology, physiotherapy, pain medicine, and biomedical research, emphasizing a multidisciplinary and patient-centered approach. Readers will benefit from clear explanations of differential diagnosis, conservative and minimally invasive treatments, surgical protocols, and emerging innovations such as regenerative therapies and artificial intelligence-based diagnostics. Designed for clinicians, researchers, and postgraduate students, this volume provides practical insights, evidence-based guidance, and forward-looking perspectives that support improved clinical decision-making and optimal patient outcomes in the management of temporomandibular joint disorders.

This book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmar’s genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to legal identities and statelessness. By centring the narratives of survivors of state crimes, collected in the aftermath of the 2017 genocidal violence, this book examines the multiple uses of state-issued ID cards and registration documents in producing statelessness and facilitating genocide. In doing so, it challenges some of the international solutions put forward to resolve statelessness. Rohingya narratives disrupt a simple linear understanding of documenting legal identity that marginalises experiences of these processes. The richly layered accounts of the effects of citizenship laws and registration processes on the lives of Rohingya problematise the ways in which international actors have endorsed state ID schemes and by-passed state-led persecution of the group. This book will be valuable for scholars studying global criminology, state crime, development studies, refugee and migration studies, statelessness and nationality, citizenship studies, and genocide studies. 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.

An exemplary study about the work and power of unions in the young Federal Republic of Germany.

Le congrès, étudié par les spécialistes du politique comme lieu de production d’un discours militant, est entré plus récemment dans d’autres champs historiographiques, en particulier celui du catholicisme où la pratique congressiste se révèle d’une grande plasticité : diversité des échelles, des congrès internationaux aux congrès paroissiaux ; diversité des thématiques, des congrès généralistes aux assemblées dédiées à un sujet particulier ; diversité des modalités, des rassemblements de masse aux réunions presque confidentielles. Sans prétendre à l’exhaustivité, les journées d’études réunies en septembre 2005 à Paris sous la responsabilité de Claude Langlois et Christian Sorrel ont eu pour but d’évaluer le phénomène à l’échelle européenne et de proposer des études de cas pour la France avant de prendre la mesure des congrès internationaux qui ne sont pas le simple résultat d’un processus cumulatif, mais qui sont présents dès les origines. Au fil des communications s’impose l’idée que le congrès, dans sa forme comme dans son contenu, est un observatoire pertinent des mutations du catholicisme contemporain.