Reasoning with Complex Cases emphasizes case retrieval methods based on structured cases as they are relevant for planning, configuration, and design, and provides a systematic view of the case reuse phase, centering on complex situations. So far, books on case-based reasoning considered comparatively simple situations only. This book is a coherent work, not a selection of separate contributions, and consists largely of original research results using examples taken from industrial design, biology, medicine, jurisprudence and other areas. Reasoning with Complex Cases is suitable as a secondary text for graduate-level courses on case-based reasoning and as a reference for practitioners applying conventional CBR systems or techniques.

This collection of essays covers the representation and practice of drinking a variety of beverages across eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain and North America. The case studies in this volume cover drinking culture from a variety of perspectives, including literature, history, anthropology and the history of medicine.

Reasoning with Complex Cases emphasizes case retrieval methods based on structured cases as they are relevant for planning, configuration, and design, and provides a systematic view of the case reuse phase, centering on complex situations. So far, books on case-based reasoning considered comparatively simple situations only. This book is a coherent work, not a selection of separate contributions, and consists largely of original research results using examples taken from industrial design, biology, medicine, jurisprudence and other areas. Reasoning with Complex Cases is suitable as a secondary text for graduate-level courses on case-based reasoning and as a reference for practitioners applying conventional CBR systems or techniques.

This collection of essays covers the representation and practice of drinking a variety of beverages across eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain and North America. The case studies in this volume cover drinking culture from a variety of perspectives, including literature, history, anthropology and the history of medicine.

Browsing through books and TV channels, we find people pre-occupied with eating, cooking and competing with chefs. Eating and food in today's media have become a form of entertainment and art. A survey of literary history and culture shows to what extent eating used to be closely related to all areas of human life, to religion, eroticism and even to death. In this volume, early modern ideas of feasting, banqueting and culinary pleasures are juxtaposed with post-18th- and 19th-century concepts in which the intake of food is increasingly subjected to moral, theological and economic reservations. In a wide range of essays, various images, rhetorics and poetics of plenty are not only contrasted with the horrors of gluttony, they are also seen in the context of modern phenomena such as the anorexic body or the gourmandizing bete humaine. It is this vexing binary approach to eating and food that this volume traces within a wide chronological framework and which is at the core not only of literature, art and film, but also of a flourishing popular culture.

New Bracelets showcases more than 400 bracelets by 200 jewellers, selected from a pool of artists from across the world. This new title by Nicolas Estrada confirms that contemporary jewellery is flourishing: readers will be surprised and delighted with the freshness, diversity, and colourfulness of the many different styles in this collection. It incorporates jewellery designs in a wide variety of materials and approaches, including classic gold, silver, and precious stones, as well as paper, wood, plastic, and resins. This comprehensive selection puts its finger on the pulse of what is happening in the world of jewellery artists right now. It is part of our ongoing series on contemporary jewellery. New Bracelets includes prefaces by Barbara Schmidt and Helen Britton.

Mantic elements are manifold in the English drama of the Renaissance period: they are supernatural manifestations and have a prophetic, future-determining function within the dramatic plot, which can be difficult to discern. Addressing contemporaries of Shakespeare, this study interprets a representative number of revenge tragedies, among them The Spanish Tragedy, The White Devil, and The Revenger's Tragedy, to draw general conclusions about the use of mantic elements in this genre. The analysis of the cultural context and the functionalisation of mantic elements in revenge tragedy of the Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline era show their essential function in the construction of the plot. Mantic elements create and stimulate audience expectations. They are not only rhetoric decorum, but structural elements, and convey knowledge about the genre, the fate of which is determined by retaliation. An interpretation of revenge tragedy is only possible if mantic providentialism is taken into account.

Dies ist der Tagungsband zur 5. Fachtagung der Gemeinsamen Kommission Lehrerbildung;Der Band enthalt Beitrage zu Enkulturation, Brucken von der Hochschulmathematik zuruck zur Schulmathematik, Fachwissenbedarf von Lehrern, Studienverlauf und -erfolg von Lehramtsstudierenden, ausgewahlten Lehramtskomponenten in der universitaren Lehrerausbildung, Identifikation der Lehramtsstudierenden mit ihrem Fach. Kapitel-Nr. 15 ist unter den Bedingungen der Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License uber SpringerLink (link.springer.com) frei zuganglich.

Dieses Buch fuhrt Studierende, Referendare und Lehrkrafte aller Schularten in die didaktischen und methodischen Grundlagen des Geometrieunterrichts der Sekundarstufe I ein und zeigt anhand zahlreicher unterrichtspraktischer Beispiele Moeglichkeiten einer problemorientierten Unterrichtsgestaltung auf. Aufbauend auf den Bildungsstandards werden zum einen die wichtigen Aspekte Beweisen und Argumentieren, Konstruieren, Problemloesen sowie Begriffslernen und Begriffslehren behandelt. Zum anderen wird auf die zentralen Themenbereiche des Geometrieunterrichts eingegangen: Figuren und Koerper, Flacheninhalt und Volumen, Symmetrie und Kongruenz, AEhnlichkeit und Trigonometrie. Der Einsatz des Computers ist in alle Kapitel integriert, ein UEberblick uber die Entwicklung zentraler Ideen in der Geometrie und im Geometrieunterricht rundet das Buch ab. In diese Neuauflage sind aktuelle Erweiterungen und Neuansatze integriert, insbesondere auch im Hinblick auf Fortentwicklung digitaler Medien.

Gegenwartig wird der Beitrag der Fallarbeit zur Professionalisierung insbesondere im Bereich einer starker forschungsorientierten Lehrerbildung hoch gehandelt. Indem Fallarbeit als reflexive Praxis an der Schnittstelle zwischen theoretischer Betrachtung und praktischem Handeln angesiedelt wird, erschliessen sich neue Optionen einer Verknupfung von Theorie und Praxis. Das Buch beschreibt unterschiedliche Zugange zur Fallarbeit in Bezug auf verschiedene Handlungsfelder. Es bietet Orientierungen zu grundlegenden Fragen und entwickelt theoretische und methodische Perspektiven. Ein Schwerpunkt der Darstellung gilt der fachdidaktischen Arbeit innerhalb der Lehrerbildung. "

Listening to the Stones: Essays on Architecture and Function in Ancient Greek Sanctuaries in Honour of Richard Alan Tomlinson deals with a range of topics that relate to the broad scope of Richard Tomlinson's archaeological quests and echoes his own methodology in research. Innovative masonry modes, matters of style and orders, proportions and design principles, as well as the inter-regional connections which fostered the transmission of architectural traditions and technical know-how have been cardinal points in Tomlinson's writings and lectures, as much as the Greek foundations on foreign soil, the forethought in planning, achievements in the field of engineering and the interaction between the secular, the sepulchral and the sacred premises in an ancient city. The conservative or progressive attitudes of a society usually leave an imprint on architectural creations. So, architecture is subject to evolution along with the developing societies. Its gradual changing signifies the building programs taken up by ancient communities. Within this frame, we better comprehend the function of public edifices, the remodeling of cult sites in accordance with historic circumstances, the role of politics in architecture. This book is a token of appreciation for a British professor of archaeology, who spread knowledge of the Greek civilization, manifesting the brilliant spirit of the versatile ancient Greek builders.

In academic as well as in public debates, audiovisual media have often been accused of perpetuating gender stereotypes and of confronting viewers time and again with traditional role models and binary concepts of masculinity and femininity. In recent years, films, television series and music videos increasingly have shown women and men who transgress the traditional gender dichotomy. One of the central ideas behind this volume is the attempt to bring together explorations of 'gendering' in different audiovisual media. The contributions seek to explore in particular shifting constructions of femininity and masculinity and aim to provide further insight into the media- and genre-specific ways of constructing, perpetuating and challenging gender concepts in audiovisual media, taking into consideration the interplay of the different levels on which gendering occurs in them. Thus, two articles in the present volume address the processes of constructing, perpetuating and challenging notions of femininity and masculinity in music videos, while other contributions are dedicated to the analysis of gendering in films and/or TV series.

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Romanistik - Franzosisch - Literatur, Note: 1,5, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg (Philosophische Fakultat), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Zusammenfassung: Italien und Afrika liegen geographisch betrachtet dicht beieinander: Die sizilianische Kuste und das tunesische Kap Bone sind lediglich durch die knapp 150 Kilometer breite Strasse von Sizilien getrennt. Diese geographische Nahe wussten bereits die Karthager fur sich zu nutzen, als sie im 6. Jahrhundert v. Chr. den Westteil Siziliens eroberten. Knapp 400 Jahre spater errichteten die Romer auf ehemals karthagischem Gebiet im nordlichen Afrika ihre Provinz Africa. All diese Ereignisse wurden von antiken Autoren, wie Cicero oder Livius, fur die Nachwelt festgehalten. Auf solche Quellen stutzte sich Francesco Petrarca, als er im 14. Jahrhundert seine Africa schuf. Das Epos brachte ihm 1341 die Dichterkronung ein; wohl mit ein Grund, weshalb die Geschichte des romisch-karthagischen Konflikts im europaischen Bewusstsein verankert blieb. Vollkommen anders prasentiert sich die Lage im Hinblick auf ein anderes, neuzeitliches Kapitel der Beziehungen zwischen Apenninen-Halbinsel und Afrika. Die Rede ist von der teilweise mehr als 50 Jahre wahrenden kolonialen Herrschaft des Konigreichs Italien uber Gebiete im ostlichen und nordostlichen Afrika. Sie begann Anfang der 1880-er Jahre in Assab und endete in den Jahren des Zweiten Weltkriegs mit der italienischen Kapitulation in Libyen. In dieser Zeit erhob Italien zumindest nominell Anspruch auf Eritrea, Athiopien, weite Teile Somalias sowie die nordlichen Regionen Libyens. Sein Einfluss war dabei je nach Gebiet von unterschiedlicher Dauer und Intensitat, insbesondere die faschistische Kolonialpolitik fuhrte jedoch allerorten zu monstrosen Verbrechen (Mattioli 2003) an der afrikanischen Bevolkerung. Auf italienischer Seite waren vorubergehend uber eine halbe Million Soldaten und Arbeiter an der Verwirklichun