TY - JOUR A1 - Leung, Ray C. H. T1 - A corpus-based analysis of textbooks used in the orientation course for immigrants in Germany: Ideological and pedagogic implications JF - Journal of Language and Cultural Education KW - orientation course KW - immigrants KW - Germany KW - corpus linguistics KW - textbooks KW - ideologies Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/jolace-2016-0030 SN - 1339-4045 SN - 1339-4584 VL - 4 SP - 154 EP - 177 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Köppen, Paul T1 - A Possible Peace? The Interwar Franco-German Relationship in Historiographical Perspective JF - Ricerche di Storia Politica N2 - This essay aims at discussing the new literature on Franco-German relations during the period 1918-1930. It highlights how many works now question the idea that the Treaty of Versailles and the European order that ensued inevitably wore within themselves the seeds of a new war. On the contrary, by examining in particular the detente efforts of the Twenties, the most recent historiography often emphasizes how the inevitability of the authoritarian turn of Twenties and Thirties, which led to the Second World War, has often been exaggerated by historians and that different paths could have been undertaken. KW - France KW - Germany KW - Treaty of Versailles KW - First World War Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1412/82730 SN - 1120-9526 VL - 19 SP - 47 EP - 58 PB - Società editrice il Mulino CY - Bologna ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Grossi, Giuseppe A1 - Reichard, Christoph A1 - Ruggiero, Pasquale T1 - Appropriateness and Use of Performance Information in the Budgeting Process: Some Experiences from German and Italian Municipalities JF - Sports medicine N2 - This article contributes to the debate on the use of performance information in the context of public sector performance management. Based on case studies, the authors analyze the appropriateness of the performance information provided in the newly established performance budgets of municipalities in Germany and Italy. They also examine the interest of politicians and senior managers in using such information for decision-making and monitoring within the municipal budget cycle. They find that the use of performance information is generally quite modest, and that the interest of different local actors varies to a great extent. Politicians are generally less interested in such information than top managers, particularly chief financial officers. The results are discussed by applying a theoretical framework based on institutional and legitimacy theories, and are compared with the literature on performance information use. KW - Italy KW - Germany KW - local government KW - performance budget KW - performance information use KW - performance management Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/15309576.2015.1137770 SN - 1530-9576 SN - 1557-9271 VL - 39 SP - 581 EP - 606 PB - Springer CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jung, Janis Moritz A1 - Krahé, Barbara A1 - Busching, Robert T1 - Beyond the positive reinforcement of aggression BT - Peers’ acceptance of aggression promotes aggression via external control beliefs JF - International Journal of Behavioral Development N2 - Being surrounded by peers who are accepting of aggression is a significant predictor of the development and persistence of aggression in childhood and adolescence. Whereas past research has focused on social reinforcement mechanisms as the underlying processes, the present longitudinal study analysed the role of external control beliefs as an additional mediator explaining the link between peers’ acceptance of aggression and the development of aggressive behaviour. Drawing on a large community sample of N = 1,466 male and female children and adolescents from Germany aged between 10 and 18 years, results of latent structural equation modeling were consistent with the hypotheses that peer acceptance of aggression would predict external control beliefs in the social domain, which in turn, should predict aggressive behaviour over time. Additional multigroup analyses showed that the predicted pathways were consistent across gender and age groups. KW - adolescence KW - aggression KW - aggressive peers KW - childhood KW - control beliefs KW - Germany KW - longitudinal Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025416671613 SN - 0165-0254 SN - 1464-0651 VL - 42 IS - 1 SP - 73 EP - 82 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Reil, Daniela A1 - Imholt, Christian A1 - Drewes, Stephan A1 - Ulrich, Rainer Günter A1 - Eccard, Jana A1 - Jacob, Jens T1 - Environmental conditions in favour of a hantavirus outbreak in 2015 in Germany? JF - Zoonoses and Public Health N2 - Bank voles can harbour Puumala virus (PUUV) and vole populations usually peak in years after beech mast. A beech mast occurred in 2014 and a predictive model indicates high vole abundance in 2015. This pattern is similar to the years 2009/2011 when beech mast occurred, bank voles multiplied and human PUUV infections increased a year later. Given similar environmental conditions in 2014/2015, increased risk of human PUUV infections in 2015 is likely. Risk management measures are recommended. KW - Beech fructification KW - Puumala virus KW - bank vole KW - outbreak KW - nephropathia epidemica KW - Germany Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/zph.12217 SN - 1863-1959 SN - 1863-2378 VL - 63 SP - 83 EP - 88 PB - Wiley-Blackwell CY - Hoboken ER - TY - THES A1 - Wang, Victor-C. T1 - Injury and illness risk factors for elite athletes in training environment T1 - Verletzung und Krankheit Risikofaktoren für Elite-Athleten im Trainingsumfeld BT - a comparison between Germany and Taiwan BT - ein Vergleich zwischen Deutschland und Taiwan N2 - Since 1998, elite athletes’ sport injuries have been monitored in single sport event, which leads to the development of first comprehensive injury surveillance system in multi-sport Olympic Games in 2008. However, injury and illness occurred in training phases have not been systematically studied due to its multi-facets, potentially interactive risk related factors. The present thesis aim to address issues of feasibility of establishing a validated measure for injury/illness, training environment and psychosocial risk factors by creating the evaluation tool namely risk of injury questionnaire (Risk-IQ) for elite athletes, which based on IOC consensus statement 2009 recommended content of preparticipation evaluation(PPE) and periodic health exam (PHE). A total of 335 top level athletes and a total of 88 medical care providers from Germany and Taiwan participated in tow “cross-sectional plus longitudinal” Risk-IQ and MCPQ surveys respectively. Four categories of injury/illness related risk factors questions were asked in Risk-IQ for athletes while injury risk and psychological related questions were asked in MCPQ for MCP cohorts. Answers were quantified scales wise/subscales wise before analyzed with other factors/scales. In addition, adapted variables such as sport format were introduced for difference task of analysis. Validated with 2-wyas translation and test-retest reliabilities, the Risk-IQ was proved to be in good standard which were further confirmed by analyzed results from official surveys in both Germany and Taiwan. The result of Risk-IQ revealed that elite athletes’ accumulated total injuries, in general, were multi-factor dependent; influencing factors including but not limited to background experiences, medical history, PHE and PPE medical resources as well as stress from life events. Injuries of different body parts were sport format and location specific. Additionally, medical support of PPE and PHE indicated significant difference between German and Taiwan. The result of the present thesis confirmed that it is feasible to construct a comprehensive evalua-tion instrument for heterogeneous elite athletes cohorts’ risk factor analysis for injury/illness oc-curred during their non-competition periods. In average and with many moderators involved, Ger-man elite athletes have superior medical care support yet suffered more severe injuries than Tai-wanese counterparts. Opinions of injury related psychological issues reflected differently on vari-ous MCP groups irrespective of different nationalities. In general, influencing factors and interac-tions existed among relevant factors in both studies which implied further investigation with multiple regression analysis is needed for better understanding. N2 - Seit 1998 werden Sportverletzungen von Elitesportlern in Einzeldisziplinen untersucht und überwacht. Daraus entwickelte sich das erste Überwachungssystem von Sportverletzungen für verschiedene Sportdisziplinen, das zum ersten Mal 2008 bei den Olympischen Spielen zum Einsatz kam. Verletzungen und Krankheiten, die aus dem Training resultieren können, wurden bisher noch nicht systematisch beschrieben, da die potentiellen Verletzungsfaktoren vielfältig sein können. Die vorliegende Dissertation hat zum Ziel, Fragen der Zweckmäßigkeit einer validierten Maßnahme zum Verletzungsrisiko und den damit verbundenen psychosozialen Faktoren zu untersuchen. Ausgangspunkt für die Untersuchung ist das IOC consensus statement aus dem Jahr 2009 mit den beiden Bereichen PPE und PHE. 335 Elitesportler und 88 sportmedizinische Versorger aus Deutschland und Taiwan nahmen (zwischen Oktober 2013 und Februar 2014) an einer Querschnitts- und Längsstudie (Risk-IQ und MCPQ) teil. In der Risk-IQ-Umfrage unter den Elitesportlern wurden Fragen zu vier Kategorien von Verletzungsfaktoren gestellt. Die sportmedizinischen Versorger beantworteten Fragen zu Verletzungsrisiken und psychologische Fragen. Die Antworten wurden in Skalen und Unterskalen quantifiziert, bevor sie mit anderen Faktoren analysiert wurden. Darüber hinaus wurden angepasste Variablen wie zum Beispiel das Sportformat eingeführt. Im Vorfeld der Studie wurden die Übersetzungen der Umfragefragen validiert und Reliabilitäts-Test und Retests durchgeführt, bevor die Umfragen in Deutschland und Taiwan durchgeführt wurden. Das Ergebnis der Umfrage unter den Elitesportlern zeigt, dass die Sportverletzungen im Allgemeinen von verschiedenen Faktoren abhängig sind: Trainingserfahrungen, Leistungsniveau, medizinische Vorgeschichte, PHE und PPE Ressourcen sowie von psychosozialem Stress, der durch bestimmte Erlebnisse oder Schicksalsschläge ausgelöst werden kann. Die Art der Verletzungen werden durch die Sportart und den Trainingsort beeinflusst. Auch die medizinische Versorgung im Rahmen der PPE und PHE ist signifikant verschieden zwischen Deutschland und Taiwan. Im Ergebnis zeigt sich, dass es anhand eines umfassenden Erhebungsinstruments möglich ist, Verletzungsfaktoren für Elite-Athleten zu identifizieren. Zusammenfassend lässt sich sagen, dass deutsche Elitesportler eine bessere medizinische Versorgung genießen als taiwanische Elitesportler. Allerdings sind sie auch von schwereren Verletzungen betroffen. Die Antworten zu den psychosozialen Einflussfaktoren gehen auseinander und lassen sich nicht auf Sportler einer Nationalität beschränken. KW - injury and illness KW - risk factors KW - elite athlete KW - sport training KW - Germany KW - Taiwan KW - Risikofaktoren KW - Verletzung KW - Elite-Athleten KW - Deutschland KW - Taiwan KW - injury surveillance KW - multi-sports KW - IOC KW - Olympic Games KW - national Olympic committees (NOCs) KW - international sport federations (IFs) KW - international competition participation KW - training phases KW - interaction KW - feasibility KW - validated measure KW - training environment KW - psychosocial KW - evaluation tool KW - sport injury KW - questionnaire KW - Risk-IQ KW - IOC consensus statement 2009 KW - pre-participation evaluation (PPE) KW - periodic health exam (PHE) KW - medical care providers (MCP) KW - medical care providers questionnaire (MCPQ) KW - cross-sectional KW - longitudinal KW - intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) KW - factor analysis KW - scales KW - sport format KW - sport location KW - 2-wyas translation KW - forward and backward translation KW - test-retest reliabilities KW - multi-factor KW - medical history KW - medical resources KW - stress KW - inventory of life events (ILE) KW - perceived stress scale (PSS) KW - overtraining syndrome KW - body parts KW - medical education KW - medical support KW - comprehensive evaluation instrument KW - heterogeneous cohorts KW - non-competition periods KW - moderators KW - severe injury KW - opinions KW - nationalities KW - interactions KW - multiple logistic regression KW - Colorado injury report system (CIRS) KW - sport injury risk factors model KW - TRIPP model KW - stress and injury model KW - Bland and Altman plot Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-100925 ER - TY - THES A1 - Zimmer, Sophie T1 - Le renouveau juif à Berlin depuis 1989 : aspects culturels et religieux T1 - Die Erneuerung des jüdischen Lebens in Berlin seit 1989: kulturelle und religiöse Aspekte N2 - Die vorliegende Untersuchung verfolgt das Ziel, kulturelle und religiöse Aspekte der Erneuerung jüdischen Lebens in Berlin seit 1989 zu erforschen. Die Entwicklungen der jüdischen Gemeinschaft in der Hauptstadt seit dem Fall der Mauer und dem Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion führen zur Wiederannäherung eines Teils der jüdischen Bevölkerung in Deutschland an die eigene Kultur, Religion und Geschichte. Dabei kommt die Pluralität der kulturellen, literarischen und religiösen Ausdrucksformen der jüdischen Identitäten zum Vorschein. Die Arbeit verdeutlicht diese in Berlin nach 1989 einsetzende kulturelle und religiöse „Renaissance“. Vier wichtige Punkte kennzeichnen das jüdische Leben in Berlin nach 1989. Erstens gewinnt Deutschland seit der Wiedervereinigung eine neue Rolle als mögliches Einwanderungsland für Juden. Vor allem mit der massiven jüdischen Einwanderung aus den Staaten der ehemaligen Sowjetunion seit den 1990er Jahren wird Deutschland allmählich als wichtiges Zentrum in der europäischen Diaspora anerkannt. Zweitens bleibt zwar die Shoah tief verankert im Gedächtnis der jüdischen Gemeinschaft; die meisten Kinder oder Enkelkinder von Überlebenden der Shoah weigern sich jedoch, ihre jüdische Identität exklusiv durch die Shoah zu definieren. Sie gründen zur Wiederentdeckung und Forderung ihres kulturellen, religiösen und historischen Erbes jüdische Gruppen und Einrichtungen in Berlin, die in den meisten Fällen alternativ zur Jüdischen Gemeinde entstehen: Künstlergruppen, jüdische Kulturvereine, Konferenzen und Podiumsdiskussionen, religiöse Kongregationen und Lernhäuser. Damit – und dies ist der dritte Punkt – verliert zwar die offizielle Jüdische Gemeinde an Bedeutung als einzige Vertreterin der jüdischen Gemeinschaft Berlins; diese kulturelle und religiöse „Renaissance“ außerhalb der offiziellen Strukturen der Gemeinde bedeutet aber auch eine wachsende Pluralität und Diversifizierung der jüdischen Gemeinschaft in Berlin. Viertens spielt Berlin die Hauptrolle in diesem Prozess. Heute werden viele ehemalige jüdische Orte neu belebt: Synagogen werden wiederentdeckt und renoviert, Denk- und Mahnmale gebaut, Stadtführungen auf der Spur des „jüdischen Berlins“ organisiert, Rabbinerseminare neu gegründet. Die Topographie Berlins bildet auch eine Inspirationsquelle für jüdische (und nichtjüdische) Schriftsteller und Künstler. Die Analyse dieser nach 1989 entstandenen religiösen Initiativen, literarischen Werke und kulturellen Produktionen dient dazu, Aspekte der kulturellen und religiösen „Renaissance“ in Berlin näher zu verdeutlichen. N2 - The aim of this study is to analyze cultural and religious aspects of the Jewish revival in Berlin since 1989. The developments in the Jewish community of the German capital since the fall of the Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union led a part of the Jewish population in Germany to rediscover and get closer to its own culture, religion and history, thus revealing the plurality of cultural, literary and religious expressions of Jewish identities. The dissertation analyzes this cultural and religious “renaissance” taking place in Berlin after 1989. Four key aspects characterize Jewish life in Berlin after 1989. Firstly, since the reunification, Germany gains a new role as a potential immigration country for Jews. Germany is being gradually recognized as an important center in the European Diaspora, specifically with the massive immigration of Jews from the former Soviet Union since the 1990s. Secondly, even though the Holocaust is deeply rooted in the memory of the Jewish community, most of the children or grandchildren of Holocaust survivors refuse to define their Jewish identity exclusively through the Holocaust. In order to rediscover and to claim their cultural, religious and historical heritage, they create Jewish groups and institutions in Berlin, most of them being an alternative to the official Jewish community: artistic groups, Jewish cultural associations, conferences and roundtables, religious congregations and places of study. Therefore – and this is the third point – the role of the official Jewish community as the only representative of the Berlin Jewish community becomes less important, but this cultural and religious “renaissance” outside the official structures of the community also means a growing plurality and diversification of the Jewish community in Berlin. Fourthly, Berlin plays the key role in this process. Today, many former Jewish places are being revived: synagogues are being rediscovered and renovated, memorials are being constructed, “Jewish Berlin” city tours are being organized, and rabbinical seminaries are created anew. The topography of Berlin is also a source of inspiration for Jewish (and non-Jewish) writers and artists. The analysis of these post-1989 religious initiatives, literary works and cultural productions aims to further clarify aspects of the cultural and religious “renaissance” in Berlin. KW - Juden KW - Deutschland KW - Berlin KW - 1989 KW - Wiedervereinigung KW - Judentum KW - Jews KW - Germany KW - Berlin KW - 1989 KW - reunification KW - Judaism KW - Juifs KW - Allemagne KW - Berlin KW - 1989 KW - réunification KW - judaïsme Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-96920 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kuhlmann, Sabine ED - Wang, Yukai ED - Färber, Gisela T1 - Local Government in Germany BT - Key Features and Current Reforms T2 - Comparative Studies on Vertical Administration Reforms in China and Germany (Speyerer Forschungsberichte ; 285) KW - China KW - Deutschland KW - Verwaltungsreform KW - China KW - Germany KW - administrative reform Y1 - 2016 SN - 978-3-941738-23-2 SP - 51 EP - 67 PB - Deutsches Forschungsinstitut für öffentliche Verwaltung CY - Speyer ER -