The question of agency is a key issue in social theory and research. The discourse of human agency as an effect of social relations is deeply intertwined with the history of sociological thought. However, in most recent discussions the role of non-humans gains a substantial impact concerning agency. Agency without Actors? New Approaches to Collective Action asks: Are nonhumans active, do they have agency? And if so: how and in which different ways?

Consequently, Agency without Actors? New Approaches to Collective Action

• outlines a wide range of novel accounts that link human and non-human agency
• tries to understand social-technical, political and environmental networks as different forms of agency that produce discrete and identifiable entities
• asks how different types of (often conflicting) agency and agents are distinguished in practice, how they are maintained and how they interfere with each other.

By studying the substantial impact of the role of non-humans in connection with human relations, the book aims to advance the discourse on agency and investigates into the different possible modes of human and nonhuman interplay.

This book is essential reading for students and scholars of sociology, science and technology studies, social anthropology, animal studies, environmental studies and social theory.

Mit Blick auf eine Evidenz- bzw. Forschungsorientierung vereint der Sammelband Überblicksbeiträge, empirische Studien sowie Beispiele guter Praxis auf den Ebenen Lehrer*innenbildung, Schulpraxis sowie Bildungspolitik und Bildungsadministration. Dabei werden nicht nur die jeweiligen Programmatiken hinter den Ansprüchen einer universitären Forschungsorientierung, eines datengestützten schulischen Handelns sowie einer evidenzbasierten Steuerung des Bildungssystems kritisch beleuchtet, sondern auch mögliche Ursachen einer  geringen Evidenzorientierung auf den drei Ebenen identifiziert. Kapitel 10 ist unter einer Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License über link.springer.com frei verfügbar (Open Access).

The question of agency is a key issue in social theory and research. The discourse of human agency as an effect of social relations is deeply intertwined with the history of sociological thought. However, in most recent discussions the role of non-humans gains a substantial impact concerning agency. Agency without Actors? New Approaches to Collective Action asks: Are nonhumans active, do they have agency? And if so: how and in which different ways? Consequently, Agency without Actors? New Approaches to Collective Action outlines a wide range of novel accounts that link human and non-human agency tries to understand social-technical, political and environmental networks as different forms of agency that produce discrete and identifiable entities asks how different types of (often conflicting) agency and agents are distinguished in practice, how they are maintained and how they interfere with each other. By studying the substantial impact of the role of non-humans in connection with human relations, the book aims to advance the discourse on agency and investigates into the different possible modes of human and nonhuman interplay. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of sociology, science and technology studies, social anthropology, animal studies, environmental studies and social theory.

The first detailed discussion of the greatest timepieces from the exceptional collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art Among the world's great technological and imaginative achievements is the invention and development of the timepiece. Examining for the first time the Metropolitan Museum's unparalleled collection of European clocks and watches created from the early middle ages through the 19th century, this fascinating book enriches our understanding of the origins and evolution of these ingenious works. It showcases 54 extraordinary clocks, watches, and other timekeeping devices, each represented with an in-depth description and new photography showing the exterior as well as the inner mechanisms. Included are an ornate celestial timepiece that accurately predicts the trajectory of the sun, moon, and stars and a longcase clock by David Roentgen that shows the time in the ten most important cities of the day. These works, created by clockmakers, scientists, and artists in England, Germany, France, Italy, and the Netherlands, have been selected for their artistic beauty and design excellence, as well as for their sophisticated and awe-inspiring mechanics. Built upon decades of expert research, this publication is a long-overdue survey of these stunning visual and technological marvels. Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press Exhibition Schedule: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (10/26/15-05/22/16)

This book presents a collection of carefully refereed research articles and lecture notes stemming from the Conference "Automorphic Forms and L-Functions", held at the University of Heidelberg in 2016. The theory of automorphic forms and their associated L-functions is one of the central research areas in modern number theory, linking number theory, arithmetic geometry, representation theory, and complex analysis in many profound ways. The 19 papers cover a wide range of topics within the scope of the conference, including automorphic L-functions and their special values, p-adic modular forms, Eisenstein series, Borcherds products, automorphic periods, and many more.

This book presents a collection of carefully refereed research articles and lecture notes stemming from the Conference "Automorphic Forms and L-Functions", held at the University of Heidelberg in 2016. The theory of automorphic forms and their associated L-functions is one of the central research areas in modern number theory, linking number theory, arithmetic geometry, representation theory, and complex analysis in many profound ways. The 19 papers cover a wide range of topics within the scope of the conference, including automorphic L-functions and their special values, p-adic modular forms, Eisenstein series, Borcherds products, automorphic periods, and many more.

The main goal of this book is to show how to modify and optimize the properties of the damping matrix in order to find the most beneficial way of adding damping to a given mechanical system. To this end, a two-degree-of-freedom model of disc brake is analyzed to gain insight into the fundamental physical behavior of damping. In addition, more realistic, high-dimensional finite element brake models are studied and optimized for stability.

In June 1998 the Fourth International Workshop on Digital Mammography was held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, where it was hosted by the department of Radiology of the University Hospital Nijmegen. This series of meetings was initiated at the 1993 SPIE Biomedical Image Processing Conference in San Jose, USA, where a number of sessions were entirely devoted to mammographic image analysis. At very successful subsequent workshops held in York, UK (1994) and Chicago, USA (1996), the scope of the conference was broadened, establishing a platform for presentation and discussion of new developments in digital mammog raphy. Topics that are addressed at these meetings are computer-aided diagnosis, image processing, detector development, system design, observer performance and clinical evaluation. The goal is to bring researchers from universities, breast cancer experts, and engineers together, to exchange information and present new scientific developments in this rapidly evolving field. This book contains all the scientific papers and posters presented at the work shop in Nijmegen. Contributions came from as many as 20 different countries and 190 participants attended the meeting. At a technical exhibit companies demon strated new products and work in progress. Abstracts of all papers were reviewed by members of the scientific committee. Many of the accepted papers had excellent quality, but due to limited space not all of them could be included as full papers in these proceedings. Papers that were rated high by the reviewers are included as long or short papers, others appear as extended abstracts in the last chapter.

Jan-Hendrik Sewing makes a significant contribution to opening the black box of current divestiture decision-making. He uses detailed case studies, including numerous interviews with corporate executives and experts from management consulting, private equity, and investment banking. The author develops a conceptual framework to identify remedies to behavioral pathologies and their origins. The study highlights multiple techniques for pursuing divestitures proactively and formulates best-practice recommendations.

This book grew out of three series of lectures given at the summer school on "Modular Forms and their Applications" at the Sophus Lie Conference Center in Nordfjordeid in June 2004. The first series treats the classical one-variable theory of elliptic modular forms. The second series presents the theory of Hilbert modular forms in two variables and Hilbert modular surfaces. The third series gives an introduction to Siegel modular forms and discusses a conjecture by Harder. It also contains Harder's original manuscript with the conjecture.

Each part treats a number of beautiful applications.

Systems biology is a vigorous and expanding discipline, in many ways a successor to genomics and perhaps unprecedented in its combination of biology with a great many other sciences, from physics to ecology, from mathematics to medicine, and from philosophy to chemistry. Studying the philosophical foundations of systems biology may resolve a longer standing issue, i.e., the extent to which Biology is entitled to its own scientific foundations rather than being dominated by existing philosophies.
* Answers the question of what distinguishes the living from the non-living
* An in-depth look to a vigorous and expanding discipline, from molecule to system
* Explores the region between individual components and the system

As a field of research, the joint of innovation and internationalization is eminently fruitful because these two aspects of management have a reinforcing influence on one another. Innovation enables internationalization, internationalization triggers innovation. A balanced set of authors, from near to far and from upcoming to established reflect the latest research in this area in this special issue of mir.

The 13 chapters of this book centre around the proof of Theorem 1 of Faltings' paper "Diophantine approximation on abelian varieties," Ann. Math.133 (1991) and together give an approach to the proof that is accessible to Ph.D-level students in number theory and algebraic geometry. Each chapter is based on an instructional lecture given by its author ata special conference for graduate students, on the topic of Faltings' paper.

In June 1998 the Fourth International Workshop on Digital Mammography was held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, where it was hosted by the department of Radiology of the University Hospital Nijmegen. This series of meetings was initiated at the 1993 SPIE Biomedical Image Processing Conference in San Jose, USA, where a number of sessions were entirely devoted to mammographic image analysis. At very successful subsequent workshops held in York, UK (1994) and Chicago, USA (1996), the scope of the conference was broadened, establishing a platform for presentation and discussion of new developments in digital mammog raphy. Topics that are addressed at these meetings are computer-aided diagnosis, image processing, detector development, system design, observer performance and clinical evaluation. The goal is to bring researchers from universities, breast cancer experts, and engineers together, to exchange information and present new scientific developments in this rapidly evolving field. This book contains all the scientific papers and posters presented at the work shop in Nijmegen. Contributions came from as many as 20 different countries and 190 participants attended the meeting. At a technical exhibit companies demon strated new products and work in progress. Abstracts of all papers were reviewed by members of the scientific committee. Many of the accepted papers had excellent quality, but due to limited space not all of them could be included as full papers in these proceedings. Papers that were rated high by the reviewers are included as long or short papers, others appear as extended abstracts in the last chapter."

This volume provides readers with a broad collection of theoretical, computational, and experimental methods to quantitatively study the properties of phase-separate biomolecular condensates in diverse systems. The chapters in this book cover topics such as theoretical and computational methods; methods for in vitro characterization of biomolecular condensates; and techniques that enable in-cell characterization of biomolecular condensates. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introduction to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and expert tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Comprehensive and thorough, Phase-Separated Biomolecular Condensates: Methods and Protocols is a valuable resource that helps researchers learn and use established methods to study both biophysical properties and biological functions of biomolecular condensates.

This book provides the first thorough treatment of effective results and methods for Diophantine equations over finitely generated domains. Compiling diverse results and techniques from papers written in recent decades, the text includes an in-depth analysis of classical equations including unit equations, Thue equations, hyper- and superelliptic equations, the Catalan equation, discriminant equations and decomposable form equations. The majority of results are proved in a quantitative form, giving effective bounds on the sizes of the solutions. The necessary techniques from Diophantine approximation and commutative algebra are all explained in detail without requiring any specialized knowledge on the topic, enabling readers from beginning graduate students to experts to prove effective finiteness results for various further classes of Diophantine equations.

Dieser Herausgeberband stellt Grundlagen und unternehmensspezifische Anwendungsbeispiele digitaler Dienstleistungsinnovationen vor, die in 23 Verbundforschungsprojekten der BMBF-Foerderlinie "Dienstleistungsinnovation durch Digitalisierung" entwickelt worden sind. Zunachst werden neue Methoden fur die Entwicklung digitaler, datenbasierter Dienstleistungen vermittelt und anhand von Umsetzungsbeispielen veranschaulicht. Dabei wird beispielsweise der Vergleich von klassischen Methoden des Service Engineerings mit neuen agilen Vorgehensweisen gezogen. Darauf aufbauend werden Potenziale digitaler und virtualisierter Dienstleistungsprozesse aufgezeigt. Daruber hinaus wird die unternehmensinterne Transformation durch digitale Dienstleistungen untersucht, indem ubergeordnete Muster der Veranderungen betrachtet und Leitlinien fur die erfolgreiche Transformation ausgearbeitet werden. Schliesslich werden Veranderungen im Markt durch das zunehmende Angebot von digitalen Dienstleistungen beleuchtet und strategische Erfolgsfaktoren fur die Digitalisierung der Kundenschnittstelle in Dienstleistungssystemen herausgearbeitet. Der Herausgeberband vermittelt Fachexperten und Entscheidungstragern in Unternehmen somit neuestes Methodenwissen, erfolgreiche Anwendungsbeispiele sowie einen klaren Navigationsrahmen fur die Einfuhrung und das Management innovativer, digitaler Dienstleistungen.

Die konkreten gesellschaftlichen Folgen des Klimawandels sind sehr unsicher und nicht vorhersagbar. Die Szenarioanalyse erlaubt es, Vorstellungen moeglicher Zukunfte zu entwickeln. Das Buch stellt vier koharente Zukunftszenarien fur die Stadt Bochum im Jahr 2046 vor und zeigt, wie daraus konkrete Massnahmen fur politische Entscheidungstrager*innen hergeleitet werden koennen. Die Leser*innen dringen in utopische und dystopische Erzahlungen ein, die die wissenschaftlich fundierte Entwicklung der Szenarien anschaulich werden lassen. Daruber hinaus bietet das Buch eine Einfuhrung in die Methode der Szenarioanalyse, die fur den Aufbau von Aktivitaten der stadtischen Vorausschau (Urban Foresight) auch in anderen Kommunen hochgradig relevant ist.

Dieses Lehrbuch fuhrt Studienanfanger und -anfangerinnen Schritt fur Schritt in die Spielregeln des mathematischen Argumentierens und Beweisens ein. Anhand einfacher Beispiele werden zielfuhrende Gedanken sichtbar gemacht, die zum Verstehen und Verfassen von Beweisen unverzichtbar sind. Logische Regeln und Zwischenschritte werden systematisch erklart. Der UEberblick wird erleichtert durch eine Randspalte, die zentrale Hinweise und Zusammenfassungen enthalt. Ein grosses Spektrum an Aufgaben ladt zum direkten Nachvollziehen und Ausprobieren ein, Hilfestellungen und vollstandige Loesungen erleichtern dabei das Selbststudium. Der Umgang mit abstrakten Sachverhalten wird durch Bezuge zu Alltagserfahrungen vereinfacht. Das Buch bildet somit eine ideale Grundlage fur ein erfolgreiches Studium der Mathematik oder mathematiknaher Facher. Da nur vergleichsweise wenig mathematisches Vorwissen vorausgesetzt wird, ist das Buch auch fur interessierte Schulerinnen und Schuler ab der fortgeschrittenen Mittelstufe geeignet.

Jan-Hendrik Hinzke untersucht in seinem Buch, wie Lehrpersonen mit Krisenmomenten umgehen. Er stellt dar, welche Krisen im Berufsalltag erfahren werden, und fragt, wovon es abhangt, ob aus solchen Lehrerkrisen etwas Neues hervorgehen kann, das die Arbeitsbeziehung zwischen Lehrpersonen und Schulerinnen und Schulern zu verandern vermag. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf jenen konkreten Momenten des Berufsalltags, in denen Lehrpersonen in die Krise geraten, wobei auch die Rolle der Wahrnehmung moeglicher Schulerkrisen berucksichtigt wird. Im Ergebnis zeigt sich, dass sich die erlebten Krisen auf die Interaktion mit Schulerinnen und Schulern im Unterricht beziehen. Diese Krisen werden naher gefasst als vier typische Spannungsverhaltnisse zwischen wahrgenommenen Normen und handlungsleitenden Orientierungsrahmen. Der Autor stellt heraus, dass der Umgang mit den vier typischen Krisen durch zwei Beobachtungshaltungen strukturiert wird.