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Begegnungen am CERN Menschen, die die Geheimnisse des Universums
entschlusseln/Michael Krause stellt sie uns vor Eine
"wissenschaftliche Sensation", ein "historischer Meilenstein",
historisch so bedeutend wie die Mondlandung: Als Wissenschaftler
des CERN im Juli 2012 die Existenz eines "Gottesteilchens", das
allen anderen Teilchen Masse verleiht, mit einer Wahrscheinlichkeit
von mehr als 99,999 Prozent bestatigten, waren die Reaktionen
uberwaltigend. Schliesslich arbeiten die Forscher hier an nichts
Geringerem als an der Entschlusselung der Geheimnisse des
Universums. Die Suche nach dem Grund des Daseins und dem Ursprung
aller Materie ist auch das Thema dieses Buches. Traume, Visionen,
Forschungen: die Menschen stehen im Mittelpunkt Das
"Gottesteilchen", die Erforschung der "Dunklen Materie" und der
"Dunklen Energie" und der starkste je gebaute Teilchenbeschleuniger
der Welt all das sind die spannenden Bestandteile des Buches. In
den Mittelpunkt seiner Arbeit stellt Krause jedoch die Menschen am
CERN, ihren Hintergrund, ihre Geschichte, ihre Arbeit, ihre
Forschungen, Traume und Visionen sie sind das Hauptthema des
Buches. Krause verleiht den wissenschaftlichen Forschungen am CERN
somit ein personliches Gesicht und schreibt das Portrait einer
ganzen Generation von Wissenschaftlern, die in den vergangenen
Jahrzehnten an der sogenannten "Neuen Physik" gearbeitet haben.
Fruits of the most recent research on the worlds of the eleventh
and twelfth centuries. The essays collected here embody the Haskins
Society's commitment to historical and interdisciplinary research
on the early and central Middle Ages, especially in the
Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, and Angevin worlds, but also on
thecontinent. Their topics range from the discovery of Bede's use
of catechesis to educate readers on conversion, the discovery of an
early eleventh-century Viking mass burial, and historical
interpretations of Eadric Streona, to the development of monastic
liturgy at Durham Cathedral, the Franco-centricity of Latin
accounts of the First Crusade, and an investigation of Gerald of
Wales' rarely considered Speculum duorum virorum. Contributions on
the charters of the countesses of Ponthieu and Blanche of Navarre's
role in military dimensions of governance explore the nature and
mechanisms of female lordship on the continent, while others
investigate the nature of kingship through close readings,
respectively, of John of Worcester and William of Malmesbury and
the Vie de Saint Gilles; a further chapter considers the changing
image of William the Conqueror in nineteenth- and early
twentieth-century French historiography. Finally, a study of Serlo
of Bayeux's defense of clerical marriage, along with a critical
edition and facing translation of his poem The Capture of Bayeux
offers readers new insights and access tothis often overlooked
witness to Norman history in the early twelfth century.
Contributors: Angela Boyle, Marcus Bull, Philippa Byrne, Jay Paul
Gates, Veronique Gazeau, Wendy Marie Hoofnagle, Elizabeth van
Houts, Kathy M. Krause, Charlie Rozier, Katrin E. Sjursen, Carolyn
Twomey, Emily A. Winkler
In her empirical study, Christina Krause investigates how gestures
can contribute to epistemic processes in social interactions. She
expands the traditional speech-based approach to analyzing social
processes of constructing mathematical knowledge by employing a
multimodal perspective. Adopting a semiotic approach, she takes
into account two functions of gestures as signs used by the
participants of the social interaction: the representational
function concerns the ways in which gestures take part in referring
to a mathematical object in processes of knowledge construction and
the epistemic function relates to the ways in which they can
contribute to the performance of collective epistemic actions. The
results of this study reveal that gestures influence the epistemic
process significantly more than previously thought and indicate
factors underlying this influence.
Implementing City Sustainability examines the structures and
processes that city governments employ to pursue environmental,
social, and economic well-being within their communities. As
American cities adopt sustainability objectives, they
are faced with the need to overcome fuzzy-boundary, coordination,
and collective action challenges to achieve successful
implementation. Sustainability goals often do not fit neatly into
traditional city government structures, which tend to be organized
around specific functional responsibilities, such as planning,
public works, parks and recreation, and community development. The
authors advance a theory of Functional Collective Action and apply
it to local sustainability to explain how cities can—and in some
cases do—organize to successfully administer changes to achieve
complex objectives that transcend these organizational separations.
Implementing City Sustainability uses a mixed-method research
design and original data to provide a national overview of
cities’ sustainability arrangements, as well as eight city case
studies highlighting different means of organizing to achieve
functional collective action. By focusing not just on what cities
are doing to further sustainability, but also on how they are doing
it, the authors show how administrative structure enables—or
inhibits—cities to overcome functional divides and achieve
successful outcomes.
Implementing City Sustainability examines the structures and
processes that city governments employ to pursue environmental,
social, and economic well-being within their communities. As
American cities adopt sustainability objectives, they
are faced with the need to overcome fuzzy-boundary, coordination,
and collective action challenges to achieve successful
implementation. Sustainability goals often do not fit neatly into
traditional city government structures, which tend to be organized
around specific functional responsibilities, such as planning,
public works, parks and recreation, and community development. The
authors advance a theory of Functional Collective Action and apply
it to local sustainability to explain how cities can—and in some
cases do—organize to successfully administer changes to achieve
complex objectives that transcend these organizational separations.
Implementing City Sustainability uses a mixed-method research
design and original data to provide a national overview of
cities’ sustainability arrangements, as well as eight city case
studies highlighting different means of organizing to achieve
functional collective action. By focusing not just on what cities
are doing to further sustainability, but also on how they are doing
it, the authors show how administrative structure enables—or
inhibits—cities to overcome functional divides and achieve
successful outcomes.
The landscape of the religion and health literature is littered
with a plethora of models so large and so unwieldy that they are
impossible to estimate empirically. Neal Krause strikes out in a
different direction, developing a core conceptual scheme that is
evidence-based and can be verified empirically. The relationships
in it are based on empirical findings from prior studies or, when
no empirical support exists, these relationships can be bolstered
by a convincing theoretical rationale. As a result, the
relationships he posits can be supported, refuted, or modified.
This is a necessary first step toward cumulative knowledge
building. In Religion, Virtues, and Health: New Directions in
Theory Construction and Model Development, Krause suggests that
religion may operate, in part, by bolstering physical health as
well as psychological well-being. The book is designed to explain
how these health-related benefits arise. The main conceptual thrust
of his model is that people learn to adopt key virtues from fellow
church members, including forgiveness, compassion, and beneficence.
These virtues, in turn, promote a deeper sense of meaning in life.
Then, meaning in life exerts a beneficial effect on health and
well-being. This ambitious work, the capstone of Krause's long and
distinguished career, makes a number of signal contributions:
First, his theory construction and model development strategy are
unique-there simply is nothing like it in the literature. Second,
his work constitutes a groundbreaking effort to bridge the gap
between theoretical discussions of communities of faith and the
actual assessment of this core religious entity in practice. Third,
the approach he advocates to study religion and health is generic
because it can be readily adopted by researchers in unrelated
social and behavioral science fields. And fourth, by showing how he
practices his craft, he provides a pragmatic approach to conducting
research that will be of great interest to established researchers,
emerging investigators, and students alike.
A wide variety of technology is available to physical educators,
health teachers, and coaches-but technology is only helpful if
people know how to use it effectively. This text will help health
and physical education teachers and coaches improve their abilities
by learning to effectively use technology in the areas of
instruction, assessment, management, communication, professional
development, and advocacy. The effective use of technology as
outlined in this book can improve student and athlete performance
and assessment and motivate active and healthy lifestyles among
students. An important distinction with this book is that it goes
beyond simply discussing the technology tools-it helps readers
understand how to use technology to improve instruction. Practical
examples of how to use various technological tools are included for
different settings and a variety of age groups (child to adult).
Readers will learn about the effective use of technology in
physical education, health education, and coaching. Technology for
Physical Educators, Health Educators, and Coaches is a practical,
hands-on text that offers a number of useful tools: What Does the
Research Say? sidebars that provide evidence for which technologies
do and do not work in physical education, health education, and
sport coaching, with accompanying explanations Tips, examples, and
interviews from seasoned professionals on various types of
technology Chapter objectives, key terms, review questions, and
open-ended discussion questions, which could prove useful for
online discussion boards Instructor ancillaries, including
PowerPoint presentations and learning management system (LMS)-ready
quizzes for each chapter, that help instructors organize, plan,
teach, and assess content effectively Online web resource that
offers a variety of tools, including additional practitioner
interviews; links to websites, videos, and podcasts; sample
handouts, and other activities and resources from practicing
professionals. The online web resource will be updated annually to
keep current with the changing technology. Social media accounts
(@Tech4HPECoach) on Twitter and Facebook allow readers to further
connect and share ideas. Use the hashtag #Tech4HPECoach across
various social media platforms too! (The web resource is included
with all new print books and some ebooks. For ebook formats that
don't provide access, the web resource is available separately.)
The text is organized into six parts. Part I focuses on how
technology can assist in meeting specific goals, objectives, and
national standards within physical education, health education, and
sport coaching. Part II covers technology for class and team
management as well as communication technology, while part III
explores how to leverage technology to facilitate teaching and
learning, including within a traditional classroom, online, and
with special populations. The authors address how to use technology
for assessment in part IV, and part V delves into how technology
can benefit professional development and advocacy. In part VI, the
authors detail the all-important legal and financial aspects of
technology.
Tesla hat viel geschaffen, noch mehr wurde ihm zugeschrieben und
angedichtet. Wie wohl kein anderer Erfinder beflugelt er die
Phantasie der Menschen: Er soll ein Energiewesen von der Venus
gewesen sein und sein Weltsystem hatte samtliche Energieprobleme
der Erde umweltfreundlich loesen koennen. Michael Krause halt sich
an die Tatsachen, und die sind schon spannend genug. Er beschriebt
wie Tesla vom Balkan kommend uber Paris in die USA auswanderte,
dort seine wichtigsten Erfindungen machte und schliesslich
Spielball der Grossindustrie wurde. Tesla war aber mehr als nur ein
willfahriges Subjekt: Er folgte immer seinen Visionen, nur konnte
er sich meist nicht durchsetzen. So ist dieses Buch ein Krimi um
Wissenschaft, Geld, Macht und das Scheitern eines Genies.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer
Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags
von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv
Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche
Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext
betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor
1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen
Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer
Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags
von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv
Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche
Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext
betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor
1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen
Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.
These essays explore the various manifestations of the heroine in
medieval French literature and her multiple relationships with
discourse, both medieval and modern. From a discussion of
12th-century saints' lives to an examination of 15th-century farce,
they span the Middle Ages, both chronologically and generically.
Focused yet considering a wide range of texts, they shine new light
on the heroine and how she behaves, including how she herself uses
discourse.
Nanophase materials and technology is a new application technology.
Nanocomposites have attracted tremendous attention due to their
potential applications in biomedical, catalytic, separation,
chemical sensing, fuel cell, capacitors, microfabrication,
tribological, resonant coupling, high flux gas transport etc.
Nanocomposite materials are complex nanophase materials which
optimise the performance of traditional materials. Various
nanocomposites have been synthesised in a wide range of
polymerisation, sol-gel, deposition, magnetron sputtering,
supercritical fluid, sonochemistry, laser, etc.Among these works,
many strategies were addressed to improve nanocomposites mechanical
properties by inclusions (fibers, whiskers, platelets, or
particles). The embedding of inclusions in a host matrix to make
composites, which gives material properties not achieved by either
phase alone, has been a common practice for many years.
Traditionally, composites were reinforced with micron-sized
inclusions. Recently, processing techniques have been developed to
allow the size of inclusions to go down to nanoscale.With the
recent developments in the nanoscience and nanotechnology fields,
the correlation of composite properties with nanostructure has
become a point of great interest. As a result, much of the work is
still ongoing and there is yet to be a definite conclusion on the
effect of nano-sized structure on nanocomposite systems. This book
provides leading edge research from around the globe on this field.
Emerging Infections is a reprint of the inaugural volume of the
thematic serial, "Biomedical Research Reports Series" that provides
annual updates on hot topics of interest to a broad spectrum of the
biomedical research community. This volume provides
state-of-the-art reviews of the most important "new" and reemerging
bacterial, viral, and parasitic infections, their life cycles, host
defense evasion strategies, and clinical features. Emerging
Infections includes in-depth coverage of the history of infectious
disease outbreaks, population and evolutionary biology of human
pathogens, and current epidemiological models that describe how
ecological and demographic changes produce new epidemics. The book
covers the major established pathogens as well as the new and
sensational--mad cow disease, hantavirus pulmonary syndrome,
pathogenic "E-coli, " and flesh-eating bacteria.
Key Features
* Discusses persisting problems in tuberculosis
* Covers pathogenic escherichia colo 0157: H7
* Explains the revival of Group A Streptococcal diseases
* Provides information on antibiotic resistance in bacteria
* Includes coverage of Korean hemorrhagic fever and hantavirus
pulmonary syndrome
* Questions where the Ebola virus comes from and where is it going
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