TY - JOUR A1 - Mackert, Jürgen T1 - Reorganiszation and Stabilization BT - social mechanisms in ́Emile Durkheim’s professional ethics and civicMorals: a contribution to the explanation of social processes JF - Journal of classical sociology N2 - The consequences of economic globalization have created a new interest in ́EmileDurkheim’s conception of an institutional and moral reorganization of modernsociety that he developed in Professional Ethics and Civic Morals. Contrary toexisting attempts to explain these political processes towards democratization, thisarticle argues for a causal analysis of social change and concentrates on the socialmechanisms that trigger the reorganization process of modern society. Two thesesare entertained. The first thesis argues that the programme of an institutional andmoral reorganization of modern society can be reanalysed as a causal process ofdemocratization. This process takes two steps. While social mechanisms of reorgan-izationbring about the institutional and moral reorganization of modern society,social mechanisms of stabilizationguarantee the functioning of the emergingdemocratic system. Further, the second thesis argues that this kind of explanationcan be applied to Durkheim’s vision of a European confederation. The analysisreveals that his idea of a ‘post-national’ constellation refers to crucial problems ofthe recent debate regarding a democratic deficit in the European Union, and itshows that Durkheim’s contribution to both political sociology and historical-comparative research has been misconceived and prematurely repudiated. Y1 - 2004 UR - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epdf/10.1177/1468795X04046970 SN - 1468-795X SN - 1741-2897 VL - 4 IS - 3 SP - 311 EP - 336 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - David Dabydeen Y1 - 2004 SN - 3-520-83804-4 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schwarz, Anja T1 - Modes of 'un-Australianness' and 'un-Germanness': Contemporary Debates on Cultural Diversity in Germany and Australia Y1 - 2004 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wegener, Michael A1 - Wirges, Werner A1 - Gerhard, Reimund A1 - Dansachmüller, M. A1 - Schwödiauer, R. A1 - Bauer-Gogonea, Simona A1 - Bauer, Siegfried A1 - Paajanen, Mika A1 - Minkkinen, Hannu A1 - Raukola, J. T1 - Controlled inflation of voids in cellular polymer ferroelectrets : optimizing electromechanical transducer properties N2 - When exposed to sufficiently high electric fields, polymer-foam electret materials with closed cells exhibit ferroelectric-like behavior and may therefore be called ferroelectrets. In cellular ferroelectrets, the influence of the cell size and shape distributions on the application-relevant properties is not yet understood. Therefore, controlled inflation experiments were carried out on cellular polypropylene films, and the resulting elastical and electromechanical parameters were determined. The elastic modulus in the thickness direction shows a minimum with a corresponding maximum in the electromechanical transducer coefficient. The resonance frequency shifts as a function of the elastic modulus and the relative density of the inflated cellular films. Therefore, the transducer properties of cellular ferroelectrets can be optimized by means of controlled inflation. (C) 2004 American Institute of Physics Y1 - 2004 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sprinz, Detlef F. T1 - Environment meets statistics : Quantitative analysis of international environmental policy Y1 - 2004 SN - 0-472-06861-X ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sprinz, Detlef F. A1 - Wolinsky-Nahmias, Yael T1 - Introduction : Methodology in international relations research Y1 - 2004 SN - 0-472-06861-X ER - TY - JOUR ED - Sprinz, Detlef F. ED - Wolinsky-Nahmias, Yael T1 - Models, numbers and cases : methods for studying international relations Y1 - 2004 SN - 0-472-09861-6 PB - Univ. of Michigan Press CY - Ann Arbor, Mich. ET - 4. [print.] ER - TY - THES A1 - Lederer, Markus T1 - Paul, T. V., (Hrsg.), The Nation-State in Question; Princeton, Univ. Press, 2003 Y1 - 2004 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Asghari, N. A1 - Broeg, C. A1 - Carone, L. A1 - Casas-Miranda, R. A1 - Palacio, J. C. C. A1 - Csillik, I. A1 - Dvorak, R. A1 - Freistetter, F. A1 - Hadjivantsides, G. A1 - Hussmann, H. A1 - Khramova, A. A1 - Khristoforova, M. A1 - Khromova, I. A1 - Kitiashivilli, I. A1 - Kozlowski, S. A1 - Laakso, T. A1 - Laczkowski, T. A1 - Lytvinenko, D. A1 - Miloni, O. A1 - Morishima, R. A1 - Moro-Martin, A. A1 - Paksyutov, V. A1 - Pal, A. A1 - Patidar, V. A1 - Pecnik, B. A1 - Peles, O. A1 - Pyo, J. A1 - Quinn, T. A1 - Rodriguez, A. A1 - Romano, C. A1 - Saikia, E. A1 - Stadel, J. A1 - Thiel, M. A1 - Todorovic, N. A1 - Veras, D. A1 - Neto, E. V. A1 - Vilagi, J. A1 - von Bloh, Werner A1 - Zechner, R. A1 - Zhuchkova, E. T1 - Stability of terrestrial planets in the habitable zone of G1 777 A, HD 72659, G1 614, 47 Uma and HD 4208 N2 - We have undertaken a thorough dynamical investigation of five extrasolar planetary systems using extensive numerical experiments. The systems Gl 777 A, HD 72659, Gl 614, 47 Uma and HD 4208 were examined concerning the question of whether they could host terrestrial-like planets in their habitable zones (HZ). First we investigated the mean motion resonances between fictitious terrestrial planets and the existing gas giants in these five extrasolar systems. Then a fine grid of initial conditions for a potential terrestrial planet within the HZ was chosen for each system, from which the stability of orbits was then assessed by direct integrations over a time interval of 1 million years. For each of the five systems the 2-dimensional grid of initial conditions contained 80 eccentricity points for the Jovian planet and up to 160 semimajor axis points for the fictitious planet. The computations were carried out using a Lie-series integration method with an adaptive step size control. This integration method achieves machine precision accuracy in a highly efficient and robust way, requiring no special adjustments when the orbits have large eccentricities. The stability of orbits was examined with a determination of the Renyi entropy, estimated from recurrence plots, and with a more straightforward method based on the maximum eccentricity achieved by the planet over the 1 million year integration. Additionally, the eccentricity is an indication of the habitability of a terrestrial planet in the HZ; any value of e > 0.2 produces a significant temperature difference on a planet's surface between apoapse and periapse. The results for possible stable orbits for terrestrial planets in habitable zones for the five systems are: for Gl 777 A nearly the entire HZ is stable, for 47 Uma, HD 72659 and HD 4208 terrestrial planets can survive for a sufficiently long time, while for Gl 614 our results exclude terrestrial planets moving in stable orbits within the HZ. Studies such as this one are of primary interest to future space missions dedicated to finding habitable terrestrial planets in other stellar systems. Assessing the likelihood of other habitable planets, and more generally the possibility of other life, is the central question of astrobiology today. Our investigation indicates that, from the dynamical point of view, habitable terrestrial planets seem to be compatible with many of the currently discovered extrasolar systems Y1 - 2004 UR - http://www.aanda.org/ U6 - https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20040390 SN - 0004-6361 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sprinz, Detlef F. A1 - Wolinsky-Nahmias, Yael T1 - Conclusion : Multimedhod Research Y1 - 2004 SN - 0-472-06861-X ER -