The simulation of complex engineering problems often involves an interaction or coupling of individual phenomena, which are traditionally related by themselves to separate fields of applied mechanics. Typical examples of these so- called multifield problems are the thermo-mechanical analysis of solids with coupling between mechanical stress analysis and thermal heat transfer processes, the simulation of coupled deformation and fluid transport mechanisms in porous media, the prediction of mass transport and phase transition phenomena of mixtures, the analysis of sedimentation proces- ses based on an interaction of particle dynamics and viscous flow, the simulation of multibody systems and fluid-structure interactions based on solid-to-solid and solid-to-fluid contact mechanisms.

Affectedness and Participation in International Institutions looks at the growing involvement of affected persons in global politics, such as young climate activists, indigenous movements, and persons affected by HIV/AIDS. Since the early 2000s, international organisations within various policy areas have increasingly recognised and involved affected persons' organisations. This has promised to address long-standing legitimacy and democracy deficits of international policy making and norm setting. Yet, the powerful do not easily cede the terrain: Some major states, classic NGOs, and intergovernmental organisations seek to curtail the influence of the newcomers. The authors within this collection study these contestations from an interdisciplinary political science and international law perspective. Based on evidence from a broad range of policy areas, we address some of the crucial questions: What does it mean to be affected? How can affected groups meaningfully participate in international negotiations? Whose voices do still remain excluded? Ultimately, the authors chart whether the rising involvement of the 'most affected' will re-shape global politics and social struggles on the ground. Taking a dual political science and international law perspective, Affectedness and Participation in International Institutions will be of great interest to scholars of civil society in global governance, international law, and international institutions. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Thematics.

Affectedness and Participation in International Institutions looks at the growing involvement of affected persons in global politics, such as young climate activists, indigenous movements, and persons affected by HIV/AIDS. Since the early 2000s, international organisations within various policy areas have increasingly recognised and involved affected persons' organisations. This has promised to address long-standing legitimacy and democracy deficits of international policy making and norm setting. Yet, the powerful do not easily cede the terrain: Some major states, classic NGOs, and intergovernmental organisations seek to curtail the influence of the newcomers. The authors within this collection study these contestations from an interdisciplinary political science and international law perspective. Based on evidence from a broad range of policy areas, we address some of the crucial questions: What does it mean to be affected? How can affected groups meaningfully participate in international negotiations? Whose voices do still remain excluded? Ultimately, the authors chart whether the rising involvement of the 'most affected' will re-shape global politics and social struggles on the ground. Taking a dual political science and international law perspective, Affectedness and Participation in International Institutions will be of great interest to scholars of civil society in global governance, international law, and international institutions. This book was originally published as a special issue of Third World Thematics.

In two editions spanning more than a decade, The Electrical Engineering Handbook stands as the definitive reference to the multidisciplinary field of electrical engineering. Our knowledge continues to grow, and so does the Handbook. For the third edition, it has expanded into a set of six books carefully focused on a specialized area or field of study. Each book represents a concise yet definitive collection of key concepts, models, and equations in its respective domain, thoughtfully gathered for convenient access. Computers, Software Engineering, and Digital Devices examines digital and logical devices, displays, testing, software, and computers, presenting the fundamental concepts needed to ensure a thorough understanding of each field. It treats the emerging fields of programmable logic, hardware description languages, and parallel computing in detail. Each article includes defining terms, references, and sources of further information. Encompassing the work of the world's foremost experts in their respective specialties, Computers, Software Engineering, and Digital Devices features the latest developments, the broadest scope of coverage, and new material on secure electronic commerce and parallel computing.

A novel of two young friends growing up on divergent paths in the last days of Communist East Germany. What is it like to be young and broken in a country that is on the brink of collapse? This is what acclaimed poet and sound artist Ulrike Almut Sandig shows us in her debut novel, through the story of old friends Ruth and Viktor in the last days of Communist East Germany. The two central characters are inseparable since kindergarten, but they are forced to go their different ways to escape their difficult childhood: Ruth into music and the life of a professional musician; Viktor into violence and a neo-Nazi gang. Monsters Like Us is a story of families, a story of abuse, a story about the search for redemption and the ways it takes shape over generations. More than anything, it is about the stories we tell ourselves about who we are, and who we want to be. Bold, brutal, and lyrical, this is a coming-of-age novel that charts the hidden violence of the world we live in today.

This book on the state of the art in "Multifield Problems" consists of selected articles based on a conference on this topic at the University of Stuttgart in 1999. The first two articles are contributions to the general modelling of multifield problems. S.S. Antman presents the important role of viscoelastic dissipation in the mathematical modelling of bifurcation analysis of nonlinear elasticity for large deformations. G.A. Maugin presents the basic theoretical foundations for the combination of three scales - the microscopic lattice of crystals, the mesoscopic thermomechanical model and the macroscopic con tinuum mechanics model for describing the propagation of phase transition fronts in terms of the Landau-Ginzburg theory and the modelling of nonlinear waves. The other contributions are associated with five main areas of multifield modelling such as two and multiphase flows, the mechanics of materials in terms of multiscaling, the interaction of solids and fluids, efficient solution methods of the discrete equations including adaptivity, and the modelling of contact and fracture."

The poems of Ulrike Almut Sandig are at once simple and fantastic. This new collection finds her on her way to imaginary territories. Thick of It charts a journey through two hemispheres to "the center of the world" and navigates a "thicket" that is at once the world, the psyche, and language itself. The poems explore an urgently urban reality, but that reality is interwoven with references to nightmares, the Bible, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes--all overlaid with a finely tuned longing for a disappearing world. The old names are forgotten, identities fall away; things disappear from the kitchen; everything is sliding away. Powerful themes emerge, but always mapped onto the local, the fractured individual in "the thick of it" all. This is language at its most crafted and transformative, blisteringly contemporary, but with a kind of austerity, too. By turns comic, ironic, skeptical, nostalgic, these poems are also profoundly musical, exploiting multiple meanings and stretching syntax, so that the audience is constantly kept guessing, surprised by the next turn in the line.

Diese Einfuhrung informiert umfassend uber alle Angebote der Stilistik des Deutschen. Das Buch beginnt mit typischen Funktionen und'Bedeutungen' von Stil und geht auf die gestalthaft wahrgenommene allgemeine Stilstruktur ein; ebenso werden die vielfaltigen textinternen und textexternen Relationen, in denen Stilstrukturen relevant sind, dargelegt. Den Kern des Buches bilden 1. die Darstellung stilbildender Verfahren und verschieden komplexer stilistischer Handlungsmuster, 2. die ausfuhrliche Beschreibung der Relevanz globaler Textmerkmale fur Stil und 3. die exemplarische Darlegung der Bedeutsamkeit von Textmustern (Textsorten) fur Stil. Stil wird anhand von verschiedenartigen Beispielen in seiner Vielfalt beschrieben: sowohl als typisiert als auch als individuell bzw. originell. Die Ergebnisse sind auch fur das Verfertigen von Texten nutzbar. Grundlage ist ein weiter Stilbegriff, der Bild, Typografie, Farbe u. a. mit einbezieht. Die Theorie-Basis bildet die Handlungs-Stilistik, angereichert um Aspekte kognitiver und konversationsanalytischer Stilistik.

Ulrike Almut Sandig's second volume of poems to be translated into English is a journey through a world that is imaginary yet entirely recognizable. Precise observation of the concrete is mixed with playful humor, inspired musicality, and an anxious reckoning with undercurrents of violence in these poems from Ulrike Almut Sandig. Borrowing from the Brothers Grimm, the collection explores the darker side of their fairy tales as a backdrop for very contemporary concerns: Migration, war, the rise of the new right, ecological threat, information overload, and political apathy. At the same time, Sandig plays with the German meaning of the word "Grimm" rage. That emotion permeates the collection as a reaction to the darkness in the collective German consciousness. Yet the book is also animated by passionate, expansive empathy--and reminds us what it is to be human. Always inventive, Sandig teases us here with multiple versions of the self, and multiple voices all in search of the origins of poetry in hidden places: in the silence before language, in the wings, in the field of rapeseed deep in the snow.

A collection of vital, melancholic, elemental, and vibrantly contemporary poems. In the beginning, was the light, or was it the Lumières? In Ulrike Almut Sandig’s latest volume of poetry, it is only a leap from the creation of the world to the symphony of the Berlin metropolis. And there is a question holding out off the coast of Lampedusa: Can shining sheep be used as night storage for the dark hours, when we are overwhelmed with fears of God, of a gym teacher with a whistle, of mothers with eyes as black as coal? In devastating sequences, Sandig charts the reality of an abused child, victims of contemporary war, or a fourteenth-century Madonna. Full of humor, musicality, lightness, and rage, Shining Sheep is not just visual poetry—it has loops in your ear and filmic explosions of imagery for all your senses.

Ulrike Almut Sandig’s second volume of poems to be translated into English is a journey through a world that is imaginary yet entirely recognizable. Precise observation of the concrete is mixed with playful humor, inspired musicality, and an anxious reckoning with undercurrents of violence in these poems from Ulrike Almut Sandig. Borrowing from the Brothers Grimm, the collection explores the darker side of their fairy tales as a backdrop for very contemporary concerns: Migration, war, the rise of the new right, ecological threat, information overload, and political apathy. At the same time, Sandig plays with the German meaning of the word “Grimm�: rage. That emotion permeates the collection as a reaction to the darkness in the collective German consciousness. Yet the book is also animated by passionate, expansive empathy—and reminds us what it is to be human. Always inventive, Sandig teases us here with multiple versions of the self, and multiple voices all in search of the origins of poetry in hidden places: in the silence before language, in the wings, in the field of rapeseed deep in the snow.  

Unraveling the syntax of text fragments found in literature, conversations, and public space, Daniel Rode fractures words into letters deliberately preventing easy readability by disregarding spaces and line breaks. Throwing our habits for a loop, they retain their indeterminacy a little longer before we can interpret by reading. Detached from their original contexts, they find their way into both large-scale installations and drawings, often created in series. By moving between these polar opposites-a sober, reserved aesthetic on the one hand, and a sensitive, almost tender devotion to artistic execution on the other-the artist pays homage to the singular by endlessly reproducing words, photos or splashes of paint by hand, which despite all efforts will naturally deviate from the original. Again and Again offers a comprehensive insight into Rode's oeuvre, enriched by perceptive texts by 13 contributors providing an often surprisingly personal perspective on the artist and his work.

Das Handbuch beleuchtet das Feld der Sozialen Dienstleistungen aus interdisziplinarer Perspektive und geht dabei folgenden Fragen nach: Welche Moeglichkeiten und Strategien gibt es in multi-professionellen Teams, um Machtungleichgewichte und Kompetenzstreitigkeiten zu beseitigen? Welche neuen Kommunikations- und Organisations-, Supervisions- oder Beratungskonzepte braucht es, um die Zusammenarbeit multi-professioneller Teams zu ermoeglichen? Ebenso: welche Fallstricke und Herausforderungen gilt es zu meistern? Weiterhin widmet sich das Buch der Frage, welche innovativen Methoden und Instrumente der Personalentwicklung geeignet sind, um multi-professionelle Teams fest in den Einrichtungen zu etablieren oder auch zum Abbau von Geschlechterstereotypen und Genderlabeling beizutragen. Nicht zuletzt versteht sich das Handbuch als Beitrag zur Reflektion der Professionalisierungsdebatten im Feld der Sozialen Dienstleistungsberufe.

The poems of Ulrike Almut Sandig are at once simple and fantastic. This new collection finds her on her way to imaginary territories. Thick of It charts a journey through two hemispheres to "the center of the world" and navigates a "thicket" that is at once the world, the psyche, and language itself. The poems explore an urgently urban reality, but that reality is interwoven with references to nightmares, the Bible, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes-all overlaid with a finely tuned longing for a disappearing world. The old names are forgotten, identities fall away; things disappear from the kitchen; everything is sliding away. Powerful themes emerge, but always mapped onto the local, the fractured individual in "the thick of it" all. This is language at its most crafted and transformative, blisteringly contemporary, but with a kind of austerity, too. By turns comic, ironic, skeptical, nostalgic, these poems are also profoundly musical, exploiting multiple meanings and stretching syntax, so that the audience is constantly kept guessing, surprised by the next turn in the line.

Im Herbst 2012 trafen sich Experten aus Sportmedizin und Triathlon, um gemeinsam uber neue Studien und Entwicklungen zu diskutieren. In diesem Kongressband werden die Studien und Diskussionsbeitrage einem breiten Publikum vorgestellt. Die Themen reichen dabei von sportpraktischen Fragestellungen bis hin zu sportmedizinischen und orthopadischen Beitragen.

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Medizin - Sonstiges, Note: 1,3, DIPLOMA Fachhochschule Nordhessen; Abt. Leipzig (Diplom Ergotherapeut/in), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Einleitung: Gesundheitsvorsorge und Pravention sind in unserer modernen Gesellschaft allgegenwartig. Der gesunde, motivierte, junge und junggebliebene, tatkraftige, spritzige Mensch ist erklartes Ziel. Krankenkassen locken mit Bonusangeboten bei entsprechend praventiven Massnahmen. Auch von staatlicher Seite werden Anstrengungen unternommen Gesundheitsvorsorge und Pravention voranzutreiben, obgleich der Entwurf des Praventionsgesetzes vorerst scheiterte. Die Kostenexplosion der vergangenen Jahre im Gesundheitswesen ist nicht mehr finanzierbar. Ein Grund dafur ist die stetige Zunahme an chronisch erkrankten Patienten. Daher ist es dringend angezeigt, das bisher fast ausschliesslich kurative ausgerichtete Gesundheitssystem, in ein praventives Gesundheitssystem umzuwandeln. Die Verantwortung fur die eigene Gesundheit soll, Schritt fur Schritt, ins Bewusstsein der Bevolkerung dringen. Aktiv soll jeder Mensch an seinem gesundheitlichen Wohlbefinden arbeiten. Auch im Bereich tertiarer Pravention, in der ich als Ergotherapeutin tatig bin, soll das Verantwortungsbewusstsein der Patienten fur die eigene Gesundheit und ihre aktive Mitarbeit am Gesundungsprozess, auch uber die Rehabilitationsmassnahme hinaus, gefordert werden. Die zentralen Fragen, die sich der Gesellschaft, dem Gesundheitswesen und letztlich auch mir stellen, lauten: Wie kann Gesundheit gefordert werden? Was erhalt den Menschen gesund? Der amerikanisch-israelische Medizinsoziologe Aaron Antonovsky beschaftigte sich explizit mit diesen Fragen. Er entwickelte das Modell der Salutogenese. (saluto griech. = Gesundheit; genese griech. = Entstehung) Salutogenese befasst sich in erster Linie mit Faktoren, die Gesundheit bedingen, fordern und schutzen konnen. Sein Konstrukt ruckte in den letzten Jahren immer mehr in

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Sport - Bewegungs- und Trainingslehre, Note: 1,5, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main (Institut fur Sportwissenschaften), 9 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Kraft kann als eine Bedingung fur nahezu alle korperlichen Tatigkeiten des Menschen betrachtet werden. Auch Ausdauer- und Schnelligkeitsleistungen sind kraftabhangig. Somit kann die motorische Fahigkeit Kraft als wichtiges Fundament des menschlichen Lebens angesehen werden (Steinmann 1988, 20). Deutlich wird dies insbesondere dann, wenn man sich vor Augen fuhrt, dass bereits im Kinder und Jugendalter die korperliche Unterforderung dominiert (Israel/Buhl 1983, 853). Entsprechend finden sich bereits in dieser Gruppe Anzeichen der Folgen des zivilisationsbedingten Bewegungsmangels. Ubergewicht, Haltungsschaden, Muskelatrophien und Herz - Kreislauf Erkrankungen sind allesamt auf Bewegungsmangel zuruckzufuhren. Verbunden mit der ublichen hoch kalorischen und nahrstoffarmen Ernahrung werden sie zu einer echten Gefahrenquelle. In der Praxis lasst sich beobachten, dass viele Kinder aufgrund mangelnder Kraftfahigkeiten starke Haltungsdefizite aufweisen und teilweise einfache Ubungen im Sportunterricht nicht mehr durchfuhren konnen

Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Sport - Bewegungs- und Trainingslehre, Note: 1,0, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main, 62 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Viele Spitzenverbande olympischer Sportarten formulieren in ihren Spitzensportkonzepten Rahmentrainingsplane, deren Inhalt als Handlungsorientierung fur Trainer zur erfolgsorientierten Steuerung des Trainingsprozesses der selektierten Talente dienen soll. Ausgehend von Annahmen uber die Wirkung der Intervention, wird diesen Planen ein erhebliches erfolgsdiskriminierendes Potential zugeschrieben. Der theoretische Hintergrund von Rahmentrainingsplanen generell sowie die Erstellung der relevanten Inhalte auf der Basis praktischer Erfahrungen lassen jedoch vermuten, dass es sich bei den Rahmentrainingsplanen um Konstrukte handelt, die auch auf systemimmanenten Ideologien beruhen, so dass bestehende Wirksamkeitsannahmen zu hinterfragen sind. In einer empirischen Untersuchung wurden die Rahmentrainingsplane des Bundes Deutscher Radfahrer (BDR) an protokollierten Belastungsumfangen gespiegelt. Die Differenzierung international und national erfolgreicher Sportler sowie deren protokollierte Trainingsinhalte erlauben Ruckschlusse auf Rahmentrainingsplane sowie deren Bedeutung fur die gezielte Leistungsentwicklung. Da Rahmentrainingsplanen oftmals keine empirischen Untersuchungen zugrunde liegen, weisen die vorliegenden Ergebnisse eine hohe Praxisrelevanz auf und konnen in diesem Zusammenhang in aktuelle Debatten eingebracht werden.

Boundary element methods relate to a wide range of engineering applications, including fluid flow, fracture analysis, geomechanics, elasticity, and heat transfer. Thus, new results in the field hold great importance not only to researchers in mathematics, but to applied mathematicians, physicists, and engineers.

A two-day minisymposium "Mathematical Aspects of Boundary Element Methods" at the IABEM conference in May 1998 brought together top rate researchers from around the world, including Vladimir Maz'ya, to whom the conference was dedicated. Focusing on the mathematical and numerical analysis of boundary integral operators, this volume presents 25 papers contributed to the symposium.

Mathematical Aspects of Boundary Element Methods provides up-to-date research results from the point of view of both mathematics and engineering. The authors detail new results, such as on nonsmooth boundaries, and new methods, including domain decomposition and parallelization, preconditioned iterative techniques, multipole expansions, higher order boundary elements, and approximate approximations. Together they illustrate the connections between the modeling of applied problems, the derivation and analysis of corresponding boundary integral equations, and their efficient numerical solutions.