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"Will delight the visual learner. ... For the college student, the
general reader, and the merely curious". -- American Reference Book
Annual
"Schmidt has filled a large gap. ... Superior quality, wide
coverage, and considerable excellence". -- Journal of World
History
Dieser Sammelband präsentiert zentrale Forschungsbeiträge der
Konferenz DERMARKENTAG 2021. Die alle zwei Jahre stattfindende
Tagung führt Markenforscher und Markenpraktiker zusammen und
greift jeweils aktuelle Impulse, Diskussionen und
Forschungserkenntnisse zur Zukunft der Markenforschung auf. Im
Fokus der Konferenz 2021 stand die Schnittstelle Marken/Design.
Alle Konferenzbeiträge haben einen doppelt-blinden
Begutachtungsprozess durchlaufen. Themenkreise dieses Tagungsbandes
sind: Design und Management von Markenbeziehungen, Effekte und
Design digitaler Markenkommunikation, Erfassung und Interpretation
von Markenimages, Diskurse zur Relevanz der Markenforschung.Â
This text is definitive, scientific, readable, and offers a
reference and text for specialist gynecologists, psychiatrists, and
psychologists working at a high level in their respective
professions. It is an academic text of the highest level being
authoritative and comprehensive.
It has the correct balance between the specialties of psychiatry
and gynecology and an international team of contributors from
Europe, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
An intellectual history of America's water management philosophy
Humans take more than their geological share of water, but they do
not benefit from it equally. This imbalance has created an era of
intense water scarcity that affects the security of individuals,
states, and the global economy. For many, this brazen water grab
and the social inequalities it produces reflect the lack of a
coherent philosophy connecting people to the planet. Challenging
this view, Jeremy Schmidt shows how water was made a "resource"
that linked geology, politics, and culture to American
institutions. Understanding the global spread and evolution of this
philosophy is now key to addressing inequalities that exist on a
geological scale. Water: Abundance, Scarcity, and Security in the
Age of Humanity details the remarkable intellectual history of
America's water management philosophy. It shows how this philosophy
shaped early twentieth-century conservation in the United States,
influenced American international development programs, and
ultimately shaped programs of global governance that today connect
water resources to the Earth system. Schmidt demonstrates how the
ways we think about water reflect specific public and societal
values, and illuminates the process by which the American approach
to water management came to dominate the global conversation about
water. Debates over how human impacts on the planet are connected
to a new geological epoch-the Anthropocene-tend to focus on either
the social causes of environmental crises or scientific assessments
of the Earth system. Schmidt shows how, when it comes to water, the
two are one and the same. The very way we think about managing
water resources validates putting ever more water to use for some
human purposes at the expense of others.
This book presents a historically situated explanation of the rise
of global water governance and the contemporary challenges that
global water governance seeks to address. It is particularly
concerned with connecting what are often technical issues in water
management with the social and political structures that affect how
technical and scientific advice affects decisions. Schmidt and
Matthews are careful to avoid the pitfalls of setting up opposing
binaries, such as 'nature versus culture' or 'private versus
public', thereby allowing readers to understand how contests over
water governance have been shaped over time and why they will
continue to be so. Co-written by an academic and a practitioner,
Global Challenges in Water Governance combines the dual concerns
for both analytical clarity and practical applicability in a way
that is particularly valuable both for educators, researchers,
decision-makers, and newcomers to the complexities of water use
decisions.
In this volume expert researchers in the field detail many of the
methods which are now commonly used to study RNA. These methods are
presented as a guidebook to scientists who are experienced with RNA
research and want to brush up on a new technique. Written in the
highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format,
chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of
the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily
reproducible laboratory protocols, and key tips on troubleshooting
and avoiding known pitfalls. Thorough and intuitive, RNA-RNA
Interactions: Methods and Protocols guides scientists investigating
biological systems and studying RNA.
In this volume expert researchers in the field detail many of the
methods which are now commonly used to study RNA. These methods are
presented as a guidebook to scientists who are experienced with RNA
research and want to brush up on a new technique. Written in the
highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format,
chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of
the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily
reproducible laboratory protocols, and key tips on troubleshooting
and avoiding known pitfalls. Thorough and intuitive, RNA-RNA
Interactions: Methods and Protocols guides scientists investigating
biological systems and studying RNA.
It was in 1979 when GROVE et al. isolated from pollen of rape
(Brassica nap us) a highly active plant growth promoter, named it
brassinolide and elucidated its structure as (22R,23R,24S)-2
Elucidating the structures of biopolymers as they exist in nature
has long been a goal of biochemists and biologists. Understanding
how these substances interact with themselves, other solutes, and
solvents can provide useful insights into many areas of
biochemistry, agriculture, food science and medicine. Knowledge of
the structure of a protein or complex carbohydrate in its native
form provides guidelines for the chemical or genetic modifications
often desired to optimize these compounds to specific needs and
applications. For example, in the pharmaceutical industry,
structure-function relationships involving biopolymers are studied
rou tinely as a means to design new drugs and improve their
efficacies. The tools to conduct structure investigations of
biopolymers at the molecular level are limited in number.
Historically X-ray crystallography has been the most attractive
method to conduct studies of this type. How ever, X-ray methods can
only be applied to highly ordered, crystalline materials, thus
obviating studies of solution dynamics that are often critical to
attaining a global understanding of biopolymer behavior. In recent
years, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy has evolved to
become a powerful tool to probe the structures of biopolymers in
solution and in the solid state. NMR provides a means to study the
dynamics of polymers in solution, and to examine the effects of
solute, solvent and' other factors~n polymer behavior. With the
development of 2D and 3D forms of NMR spectroscopy, it is now
possible to assess the solution conforma tions of small proteins,
oligonucleotides and oligosaccharides.
This book covers a significant number of R&D projects,
performed mostly after 2000, devoted to the understanding and
prevention of performance degradation processes in polymer
electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs). The extent and severity of
performance degradation processes in PEFCs were recognized rather
gradually. Indeed, the recognition overlapped with a significant
number of industrial dem- strations of fuel cell powered vehicles,
which would suggest a degree of technology maturity beyond the
resaolution of fundamental failure mechanisms. An intriguing
question, therefore, is why has there been this apparent delay in
addressing fun- mental performance stability requirements. The
apparent answer is that testing of the power system under fully
realistic operation conditions was one prerequisite for revealing
the nature and extent of some key modes of PEFC stack failure. Such
modes of failure were not exposed to a similar degree, or not at
all, in earlier tests of PEFC stacks which were not performed under
fully relevant conditions, parti- larly such tests which did not
include multiple on-off and/or high power-low power cycles typical
for transportation and mobile power applications of PEFCs.
Long-term testing of PEFCs reported in the early 1990s by both Los
Alamos National Laboratory and Ballard Power was performed under
conditions of c- stant cell voltage, typically near the maximum
power point of the PEFC.
The volumes of this classic series, now referred to simply as
"Zechmeister after its founder, L. Zechmeister, have appeared under
the Springer Imprint ever since the series inauguration in 1938.
The volumes contain contributions on various topics related to the
origin, distribution, chemistry, synthesis, biochemistry, function
or use of various classes of naturally occurring substances ranging
from small molecules to biopolymers. Each contribution is written
by a recognized authority in his field and provides a comprehensive
and up-to-date review of the topic in question. Addressed to
biologists, technologists, and chemists alike, the series can be
used by the expert as a source of information and literature
citations and by the non-expert as a means of orientation in a
rapidly developing discipline.
Western civilization is becoming increasingly pluralistic,
secularized, and biblically illiterate. Many people today have
little sense of how their lives have benefited from Christianity s
influence, often viewing the church with hostility or resentment.
How Christianity Changed the World is a topically arranged
Christian history for Christians and non- Christians. Grounded in
solid research and written in a popular style, this book is both a
helpful apologetic tool in talking with unbelievers and a source of
evidence for why Christianity deserves credit for many of the
humane, social, scientific, and cultural advances in the Western
world in the last two thousand years. Photographs, timelines, and
charts enhance each chapter. This edition features questions for
reflection and discussion for each chapter."
The essays in this collection are the outgrowth of a workshop, held
in June 1976, on formal approaches to the semantics and pragmatics
of natural languages. They document in an astoundingly uniform way
the develop ments in the formal analysis of natural languages since
the late sixties. The avowed aim of the' workshop was in fact to
assess the progress made in the application of formal methods to
semantics, to confront different approaches to essentially the same
problems on the one hand, and, on the other, to show the way in
relating semantic and pragmatic explanations of linguistic
phenomena. Several of these papers can in fact be regarded as
attempts to close the 'semiotic circle' by bringing together the
syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of certain
constructions in an explanatory framework thereby making it more
than obvious that these three components of an integrated
linguistic theory cannot be as neatly separated as one would have
liked to believe. In other words, not only can we not elaborate a
syntactic description of (a fragment of) a language and then
proceed to the semantics (as Montague pointed out already
forcefully in 1968), we cannot hope to achieve an adequate
integrated syntax and semantics without paying heed to the
pragmatic aspects of the constructions involved. The behavior of
polarity items, 'quantifiers' like any, conditionals or even
logical particles like and and or in non-indicative sentences is
clear-cut evidence for the need to let each component of the
grammar inform the other."
The essays in this collection are the outgrowth of a workshop, held
in June 1976, on formal approaches to the semantics and pragmatics
of natural languages. They document in an astoundingly uniform way
the develop ments in the formal analysis of natural languages since
the late sixties. The avowed aim of the' workshop was in fact to
assess the progress made in the application of formal methods to
semantics, to confront different approaches to essentially the same
problems on the one hand, and, on the other, to show the way in
relating semantic and pragmatic explanations of linguistic
phenomena. Several of these papers can in fact be regarded as
attempts to close the 'semiotic circle' by bringing together the
syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of certain
constructions in an explanatory framework thereby making it more
than obvious that these three components of an integrated
linguistic theory cannot be as neatly separated as one would have
liked to believe. In other words, not only can we not elaborate a
syntactic description of (a fragment of) a language and then
proceed to the semantics (as Montague pointed out already
forcefully in 1968), we cannot hope to achieve an adequate
integrated syntax and semantics without paying heed to the
pragmatic aspects of the constructions involved. The behavior of
polarity items, 'quantifiers' like any, conditionals or even
logical particles like and and or in non-indicative sentences is
clear-cut evidence for the need to let each component of the
grammar inform the other."
Given the atmosphere of the time, given the passions aroused in all
democracies by years of war, it would have been impossible even for
supermen to devise a peace of moderation and righteousness .*..*
human error is a permanent and not a periodic factor in history.
Harold Nicolson, writing in I933 of the Treaty of Versailles 1
Although the period of history from 1918 to 1925 has been the
subject of considerable analysis and interpretation by historians,
journalists, and students of international politics, there are
certain aspects of this postwar era which are greatly in need of
further study and evaluation. The occupation of the Ruhr area of
Germany by French and Belgian troops in 1923 is one of these. While
it is not the intention of the present writer to deal definitively
or exhaustively with all possible sources, either for the era in
general or for the Ruhr episode itself, he does seek to note and
compare some influential French, British, German, and American
attitudes.
This unique program helps counselors teach students how to make and keep friends as they learn about themselves, others, and the nature of friendships. Organized into nine sections, from (1) Understanding Friendships and (2) Becoming Friends to (9) Sending Yourself Invitations, and printed in a wire-bound format for easy-copying of 70 activity sheets and role-play scripts with the lessons.
"Will delight the visual learner. ... For the college student, the
general reader, and the merely curious". -- American Reference Book
Annual
"Schmidt has filled a large gap. ... Superior quality, wide
coverage, and considerable excellence". -- Journal of World
History
Up-to-date, well-documented, comprehensive coverage of cults,
sects, and world religions, from the historical to the contemporary
INCLUDES * Well-known groups and world religions, such as Jehovah s
Witnesses, Mormons, Islam, and Baha i * Groups with a significant
North American influence, including Santeria, Rastafarians, Haitian
Voodo, white supremacy groups, Wicca, and Satanism REVISED,
UPDATED, AND EXPANDED TO INCLUDE NEW ENTRIES AND NEW INFORMATION *
Updated information on Islam and its global impact * New entries:
the Branch Davidians, Native American religions, Heaven s Gate, Aum
Supreme Truth, the Boston Movement, the Masonic Lodge, and many
others * Developments in the world of cults and the occult
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Cults, Sects, and World Religions is
arguably the most significant reference book on the subject to be
published. Formerly titled Dictionary of Cults, Sects, Religions,
and the Occult, it provides reliable information on the history and
beliefs of nearly every form of religion active today. This
extensively revised edition includes new topics, updated
information, and a brand-new format for a clearer, more organized
approach. The authors evaluate the beliefs and practices of each
group from the perspective of the Bible and the historic creeds of
the Christian church. You ll also find group histories, numerous
illustrations, charts, current statistics, websites,
bibliographies, and other useful information."
This Element explores multi-faceted linkages between feeding and
relationship formation based on ethnographic case studies in
Morocco, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, and Costa Rica. Research
demonstrates that there are many culturally valued ways of feeding
children, contradicting the idea of a single universally optimal
feeding standard. It demonstrates further that in many parts of the
world, feeding plays a central role in bonding and relationship
formation, something largely overlooked in current developmental
theories. Analysis shows that feeding contributes to relationship
formation through what we call proximal, transactional, and distal
dimensions. This Element argues that feeding practices can lead to
qualitatively distinct forms of relationships. It has important
theoretical and practical implications, calling for the expansion
of attachment theory to include feeding and body-centered
caregiving and significant changes to global interventions
currently based on 'responsive feeding.' This title is also
available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
This publication contains the proceedings of a seminar held in
Germany (Fed. Rep.) on May 4 -6, 1977, under the auspices of the
Commission of the European Communities, as part of the EEC
programme of co ordination of research on beef production. The
programme was drawn up by a combined scientific working group on
Genetics and Selection and on Nutrition and Management on behalf of
the Beef Production Committee. The working group consisted of
Professor Dr. Neimann S rensen (Denmark, Chairman), Dr. Brolund
Larsen (Denmark), Mr. Boccard (France), Dr. H. de Boer
(Netherlands), Priv.-Doz. Dr. B. Hoffmann (Germany, Fed. Rep.),
Professor Dr. H.J. Langholz (Germany, Fed. Rep.), Dr. J.W.B. King
(UK), Mr. R. Jarrige (France), Mr. B. Vissac (France), Professor
Dr. A. Romita (Italy), Professor Dr. E.P. Cunningham (Ireland), Mr.
P. L'Hermite (CEC) and Dr. J.C. Tayler (Scientific Adviser to CEC).
The subject chosen for this seminar was drawn from the list of
priorities in research objectives drawn up in 1973 by members of a
committee (now the Standing Committee on Agricultural Research, (
PRA). One of the functions of this series of seminars was to
summarise and update the information available on the selected
subjects and to discuss future needs for research, so as to assist
the Commission in evaluating the probable impact of research on
agri cultural production within the Community."
The goal of this collection is to bring the powerful insights of
Continental philosophy to bear on some of the most challenging
difficulties of ethical life. The present historical juncture is a
moment when philosophy is being radically transformed by questions
of how to live well. What does such a way of life mean? How are we
to understand the meaning of ethicality? What are the obstacles to
ethical livings? And should we assume that an ethical life is a
"better" life? The movement of history and the developments of
culture and knowledge seem to have outstripped the capacity of
traditional forms of reflection upon ethical life to understand how
we might answer these questions. Ranging from existentialism to
deconstruction, phenomenology to psychoanalytic theory, and
hermeneutics to post-structuralism, the twelve essays in this
volume take up a wide, but clearly connected set of issues relevant
to living ethically: race, responsibility, religion, terror,
torture, technology, deception, and even the very possibility of an
ethical life. Some of the questions addressed are specific to our
times; some are ancient questions but with quite contemporary
twists. The concern in each case is to ask about the philosophical
significance of ongoing historical, cultural, and political
transformations to ethical living and thinking.
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Heidegger and Language (Paperback)
Jeffrey Powell; Contributions by Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Krzysztof Ziarek, Daniela Vallega-Neu, Richard Polt, …
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The essays collected in this volume take a new look at the role of
language in the thought of Martin Heidegger to reassess its
significance for contemporary philosophy. They consider such topics
as Heidegger's engagement with the Greeks, expression in language,
poetry, the language of art and politics, and the question of
truth. Heidegger left his unique stamp on language, giving it its
own force and shape, especially with reference to concepts such as
Dasein, understanding, and attunement, which have a distinctive
place in his philosophy. -- Indiana University Press
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