TY - JOUR A1 - Goetz, Ilka A1 - Kortenkamp, Ulrich T1 - Medienbildung in der Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung JF - Kentron : Journal zur Lehrerbildung = Durchstarten Y1 - 2018 SN - 1867-4720 SN - 1867-4747 IS - 32 SP - 22 EP - 25 PB - Universität Potsdam, Zentrum für Lehrerbildung CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schroeder, Christoph A1 - Jostes, Brigitte T1 - Querschnittsaufgaben Sprachbildung JF - Kentron : Journal zur Lehrerbildung = Durchstarten Y1 - 2018 SN - 1867-4720 SN - 1867-4747 IS - 32 SP - 15 EP - 21 PB - Universität Potsdam, Zentrum für Lehrerbildung CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lohwaßer, Roswitha A1 - Kludt, Steffen T1 - Ein wichtiger Schritt für das gemeinsame Lernen in Brandenburg JF - Kentron : Journal zur Lehrerbildung = Durchstarten Y1 - 2018 SN - 1867-4720 SN - 1867-4747 IS - 32 SP - 11 EP - 14 PB - Universität Potsdam, Zentrum für Lehrerbildung CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Musil, Andreas T1 - Auf Hochtouren BT - die Entscheidung des landes für einen Ausbau der Lehrerbildung - eine große Change für dei Universität Potsdam JF - Kentron : Journal zur Lehrerbildung = Durchstarten Y1 - 2018 SN - 1867-4720 SN - 1867-4747 IS - 32 SP - 8 EP - 10 PB - Universität Potsdam, Zentrum für Lehrerbildung CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lohwaßer, Roswitha T1 - Vorwort JF - Kentron : Journal zur Lehrerbildung = Durchstarten Y1 - 2018 SN - 1867-4720 SN - 1867-4747 IS - 32 SP - 4 EP - 5 PB - Universität Potsdam, Zentrum für Lehrerbildung CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wendland, Mirko A1 - Zurek, Peter Paul A1 - Nyagolova, Maya T1 - Zukunft gestalten BT - Informationen und tests zur Entscheidungsfindung - Orientierung zum passenden Lahramtsstudium durch ein OSA Lehramt JF - Kentron : Journal zur Lehrerbildung = Durchstarten Y1 - 2018 SN - 1867-4720 SN - 1867-4747 IS - 32 SP - 40 EP - 43 PB - Universität Potsdam, Zentrum für Lehrerbildung CY - Potsdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schmidt-Wellenburg, Christian A1 - Mackert, Jürgen T1 - EU-Citizenship JF - Europasoziologie : Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Studium Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-8487-2456-7 SN - 978-3-8452-6615-2 SP - 120 EP - 129 PB - Nomos CY - Baden-Baden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Genzel, Susanne A1 - Kügler, Frank T1 - Production and perception of question prosody in Akan JF - Journal of the International Phonetic Association N2 - The paper presents a production experiment investigating the phonetic parameters speakers employ to differentiate Yes-No questions from string-identical statements in Akan, a West-African two-tone Kwa language. Results show that, in comparison to the statement, speakers use a higher pitch register throughout the utterance as a global parameter, and falling f0, longer duration and higher intensity as local parameters on the final syllable of the Yes-No question. Further, two perception experiments (forced-choice identification and gating) investigate the perceptual relevance of the global parameter and the local final parameters. Results show that listeners cannot assess the higher pitch register information to identify the mode of a sentence early on. Rather, identification takes place when the local phonetic parameters on the final vowel are available. The findings point to the superiority of language-specific cues in sentence mode perception. It is suggested that Akan uses a low boundary tone that associates with the right edge of the intonation phrase (L%) in Yes-No questions. The results are discussed from the point of view of question intonation typology in African languages. It is argued that a classification along the lines of functionally relevant cues is preferable to an impressionistic analysis. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025100318000191 SN - 0025-1003 SN - 1475-3502 VL - 50 IS - 1 SP - 61 EP - 92 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Reiners, Nina T1 - Kontroversen um die Reform der UN-Menschenrechtsvertragsorgane T1 - Controversies Over Reform of UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies JF - Vereinte Nationen N2 - Das UN-Menschenrechtssystem steht unter gewaltigem Druck. In den aktuellen Diskussionen um die Reform der Menschenrechtsvertragsorgane offenbart sich eine Kluft zwischen Staaten in der Generalversammlung und Ausschussmitgliedern mit zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteuren. N2 - The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) initiated a development towards a legally binding human rights treaty system. Ratification of the nine human rights treaties is universal and continuing. Recently, the treaty-based system has come under a lot of pressure. States not only lack commitment to their reporting obligations under human rights law and their financial contributions to the system, but openly question the working methods of the treaty bodies and their cooperation with civil society actors. As a result, the current reform process, to be concluded in 2020, also presents an opportunity to reevaluate the role of civil society actors for the development of human rights law. KW - Hochkommissariat für Menschenrechte (OHCHR) KW - Menschen- rechtserklärungen/-übereinkommen KW - human rights KW - Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Y1 - 2018 SN - 0042-384X SN - 2366-6773 VL - 66 IS - 6 SP - 266 EP - 271 PB - BWV, Berliner Wiss.-Verl. CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sixtus, Elena A1 - Lindemann, Oliver A1 - Fischer, Martin H. T1 - Stimulating numbers BT - signatures of finger counting in numerosity processing JF - Psychological research : an international journal of perception, attention, memory, and action N2 - Finger counting is one of the first steps in the development of mature number concepts. With a one-to-one correspondence of fingers to numbers in Western finger counting, fingers hold two numerical meanings: one is based on the number of fingers raised and the second is based on their ordinal position within the habitual finger counting sequence. This study investigated how these two numerical meanings of fingers are intertwined with numerical cognition in adults. Participants received tactile stimulation on their fingertips of one hand and named either the number of fingers stimulated (2, 3, or 4 fingers; Experiment 1) or the number of stimulations on one fingertip (2, 3, or 4 stimulations; Experiment 2). Responses were faster and more accurate when the set of stimulated fingers corresponded to finger counting habits (Experiment 1) and when the number of stimulations matched the ordinal position of the stimulated finger (Experiment 2). These results show that tactile numerosity perception is affected by individual finger counting habits and that those habits give numerical meaning to single fingers. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-0982-y SN - 0340-0727 SN - 1430-2772 VL - 84 IS - 1 SP - 152 EP - 167 PB - Springer CY - Heidelberg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Malesza, Marta A1 - Kaczmarek, Magdalena Claudia T1 - The convergent validity between self- and peer-ratings of the dark triad personality JF - Current psychology N2 - Researchers examining the accuracy of observers ratings of others are devoting increased attention to peer-reported personality traits. Thus, the main purpose of this study was to investigate convergent validity of the three-factor Dark Triad model of personality framework, using two different rating methods: self-ratings and peer-ratings. Each participant (N = 266) was asked to collect three peer ratings (total peers N = 798). First, respondents completed three Dark Triad measures-Mach IV, SRP-III, and NPI-17 instruments. The peer-report forms of these instruments consisted of the same items as in the self-report version, but the rephrasing was appropriate to a third-person perspective. With the exception of one subscale of narcissism, Dark Triad measures demonstrated substantial convergent validity. These findings challenge views that at least two dark personality characteristics, i.e. psychopathy and Machiavellianism, are accurately observable phenomenon. The influences of agreement between self and other raters are discussed in relation to the degree of ratability and social desirability. KW - dark triad KW - sonstruct validity KW - self-rating KW - other-rating Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-018-9906-7 SN - 1046-1310 SN - 1936-4733 VL - 39 IS - 6 SP - 2166 EP - 2173 PB - Springer CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dörfler, Thomas T1 - Die Sanktionsausschüsse zwischen Macht und Regeln T1 - Sanctions Committees Caught between Power and Rules JF - Vereinte Nationen : Zeitschrift für die Vereinten Nationen und ihre Sonderorganisationen N2 - Sanktionen sind ein wichtiges Instrument des UN-Sicherheitsrats zur Erhaltung des Weltfriedens. Viele zentrale Entscheidungen, wie etwa die Listung und Entlistung terrorverdächtiger Personen, werden fernab der Öffentlichkeit in Sanktionsausschüssen getroffen. Die Einsetzung dieser Ausschüsse hat die Entscheidungsdynamiken im Rat erheblich verändert. N2 - Sanctions are an important instrument of the United Nations Security Council to maintain international peace and security. The Council, however, transfers many decisions, such as the listing and delisting of individuals suspected of supporting terrorism, to its subsidiary sanctions committees, mostly beyond public scrutiny. The article explores, how the creation of sanctions committees has changed decision-making dynamics, how committee members can be committed to rules and what this might imply for Germany’s future role on the Council. KW - Al-Qaida KW - Iran KW - Sanktionen KW - Sicherheitsrat KW - Sudan KW - UN Security Council KW - Terrorismus KW - sanctions committee Y1 - 2018 SN - 0042-384X SN - 2366-6773 VL - 66 IS - 2 SP - 62 EP - 66 PB - BWV CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wilhelm, Jan Lorenz T1 - Atmosphere in the home stadium of Hertha BSC (German Bundesliga) T1 - Atmosphère au stade de Hertha BSC (Bundesliga allemande) T1 - Atmosphère au stade de Hertha BSC (Bundesliga allemande) BT - melodies of moods, collective bodies, and the relevance of space BT - mélodies d’atmosphères, corps collectifs et pertinence de l’espace BT - melodías de estados de ánimo, cuerpos colectivos y la relevancia del espacio JF - Social & cultural geography N2 - German football stadiums are well known for their atmosphere. It is often described as 'electrifying,' or 'cracking.' This article focuses on this atmosphere. Using a phenomenological approach, it explores how this emotionality can be understood and how geography matters while attending a match. Atmosphere in this context is conceptualized based on work by as a mood-charged space, neither object- nor subject-centered, but rather a medium of perception which cannot not exist. Based on qualitative research done in the home stadium of Hertha BSC in the German Bundesliga, this article shows that the bodily sensations experienced by spectators during a visit to the stadium are synchronized with events on the pitch and with the more or less imposing scenery. The analysis ofin situdiaries reveals that spectators experience a comprehensive sense of collectivity. The study presents evidence that the occurrence of these bodily sensations is strongly connected with different aspects of spatiality. This includes sensations of constriction and expansion within the body, an awareness of one's location within the stadium, the influence of the immediate surroundings and cognitive here/there and inside/outside distinctions. N2 - Les stades de foot allemands sont bien connus pour leur atmosphère. Elle est souvent décrite comme « électrique » ou « géniale ». Cet article se concentre sur cette atmosphère. Utilisant une approche phénoménologique, il explore comment cette affectivité peut être comprise et comment la géographie a son importance quand on est à un match. L’atmosphère dans ce contexte est conceptualisée à partir des travaux de Gemot Böhme, comme un espace chargé d’atmosphère, ni centré sur le sujet, ni centré sur l’objet, mais plutôt comme un moyen de perception qui ne peut pas exister. A partir de recherche qualitative faite sur le stade de Hertha BSC de la Bundesliga allemande, cet article montre que les sensations corporelles ressenties par les spectateurs pendant une visite au stade sont synchronisées avec les événements sur le terrain et avec le paysage plus ou moins imposant. L’analyse de journaux intimes sur place révèle que les spectateurs font l’expérience d’une notion totale de collectivité. L’étude présente la preuve que la présence de ces sensations corporelles est fortement liée aux différents aspects de la spatialité. Cela inclut les sensations de compression et d’expansion dans le corps, une conscience de sa position dans le stade, l’influence de l’entourage immédiat et les distinctions cognitives de l’ici/là-bas et de l’intérieur/extérieur. N2 - Los estadios de fútbol alemanes son bien conocidos por su ambiente. A menudo se lo describe como ‘electrizante’ o ‘estupendo’. Este artículo se centra en este ambiente. Usando un enfoque fenomenológico, explora cómo se puede entender esta emotividad y la importancia de la geografía mientras se asiste a un partido. El ambiente en este contexto se conceptualiza a partir del trabajo de Gernot Böhme como un espacio cargado de emociones, no centrado en objetos ni en sujetos, sino en un medio de percepción que no puede no existir. Basado en investigaciones cualitativas realizadas en el estadio de Hertha BSC durante la Bundesliga alemana, este artículo muestra que las sensaciones corporales experimentadas por los espectadores durante una visita al estadio se sincronizan con los eventos en la cancha y con el escenario más o menos imponente. El análisis de experiencias in situ revela que los espectadores experimentan un sentido integral de colectividad. El estudio presenta evidencia de que la ocurrencia de estas sensaciones corporales está fuertemente relacionada con diferentes aspectos de la espacialidad. Esto incluye sensaciones de constricción y expansión dentro del cuerpo, una conciencia de su ubicación dentro del estadio, la influencia del entorno inmediato y las distinciones cognitivas aquí/allá y dentro/fuera. KW - affect KW - atmosphere KW - corporeality KW - emotion KW - football KW - phenomenology KW - stadium KW - atmosphère KW - corporalité KW - émotion KW - stade KW - phénoménologie KW - ambiente KW - corporeidad KW - emoción KW - afecto KW - estadio KW - fútbol KW - fenomenología Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2018.1514646 SN - 1464-9365 SN - 1470-1197 VL - 21 IS - 5 SP - 718 EP - 737 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kirchner, Vera A1 - Loerwald, Dirk ED - Kirchner, Vera ED - Loerwald, Dirk T1 - Bildung zur Selbständigkeit BT - Existenzgründung im Unterricht aus fachdidaktischer Perspektive JF - Unterricht Wirtschaft + Politik Y1 - 2018 SN - 2191-6624 SN - 2751-1243 IS - 04 SP - 8 EP - 11 PB - Friedrich Verlag GmbH CY - Hannover ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kirchner, Vera ED - Arndt, Holger T1 - Die Sorge um die Vorsorge BT - Vermögensbildung und Altersvorsorge als internationales oder inzidentelles Feld schulischer finanzieller Allgemeinbildung? JF - Intentionen und Kontexte ökonomischer Bildung Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-7344-0594-5 SN - 978-3-7344-0595-2 SP - 109 EP - 124 PB - Wochenschau Verlag Dr. Kurt Debus GmbH CY - Frankfurt a.M. ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kirchner, Vera A1 - Loerwald, Dirk ED - Kirchner, Vera ED - Loerwald, Dirk T1 - Wir gründen eine Schülerfirma - Tipps und Tricks aus Theorie und Praxis BT - ein Interview zur Schülerfirmenarbeit mit Dr. Isabelle Penning und Constantin Klitsch JF - Unterricht Wirtschaft + Politik Y1 - 2018 SN - 2191-6624 SN - 2751-1243 IS - 4 SP - 50 EP - 52 PB - Friedrich Verlag GmbH CY - Hannover ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kirchner, Vera ED - Meier, Bernd T1 - Ökonomische Bildung für morgen BT - ökonomisches Lehren und Lernen in Zeiten der Digitalisierung JF - Unser Bildungsverständnis im Wandel Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-86464-171-8 SP - 193 EP - 210 PB - trafo CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hinz, Carsten A1 - Bieniok, Majken T1 - Zum Bildungsverständnis im Konzept der Nachhaltigkeit BT - eine transdisziplinäre Betrachtung JF - Unser Bildungsverständnis im Wandel. Abhandlungen der Leibnitz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-86464-171-8 VL - 53 SP - 249 EP - 263 PB - Trafo CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mischke, Dennis T1 - A universal, uniform humanity BT - the German newspaper Der Kosmopolit and entangled nation-building in nineteenth-century Australiaentangled nation-building in nineteenth-century Australia JF - Postcolonial Studies N2 - The focus in this article, through a reading of the German-Australian newspaper Der Kosmopolit, is on the legacies of entangled imperial identities in the period of the nineteenth-century German Enlightenment. Attention is drawn to members of the liberal nationalist generation of 1848 who emigrated to the Australian colonies and became involved in intellectual activities there. The idea of entanglement is applied to the philosophical orientation of the German-language newspaper that this group formed, Der Kosmopolit, which was published between 1856 and 1957. Against simplistic notions that would view cosmopolitanism as the opposite of nationalism, it is argued that individuals like Gustav Droege and Carl Muecke deployed an entangled ‘cosmo-nationalism’ in ways that both advanced German nationalism and facilitated their own engagement with and investment in Australian colonial society. KW - German-Australian entanglements KW - German colonialism KW - cosmopolitanism and nationalism KW - nineteenth-century newspapers KW - Carl Muecke Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2018.1435149 SN - 1368-8790 SN - 1466-1888 VL - 21 IS - 1 SP - 83 EP - 95 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR ED - Homolka, Walter ED - Fegert, Jonas ED - Frank, Jo T1 - Weil ich hier leben will ... BT - jüdische Stimmen zur Zukunft Deutschlands und Europas N2 - Gibt es im 21. Jahrhundert so etwas wie ein „deutsches Judentum“? Wie sinnvoll ist das Reden von einer jüdischen Renaissance, wenn sich Jüdinnen und Juden heute ganz neu und in Abgrenzung zu alten Bildern und Vorstellungen definieren? Was bedeutet es für Deutschland, wenn sich Jüdinnen und Juden mit anderen religiösen, ethnischen und kulturellen Minderheiten solidarisieren und sich nicht gegen sie ausspielen lassen möchten? Und wie ist dem neu erwachenden Antisemitismus zu begegnen? Junge Jüdinnen und Juden in Deutschland schreiben an gegen altbewährte Klischees und Voreingenommenheiten. Und sie zeigen wie anders und lebendig jüdisches Leben heute ist. Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-451-38287-1 SN - 978-3-451-81448-8 PB - Herder CY - Freiburg ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kosman, Admiʾel T1 - An Overview of Masculinity in Judaism BT - a Bibliographical Essay JF - God's own gender? Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-95650-453-2 SP - 149 EP - 183 PB - Ergon CY - Baden-Baden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mah, Dana-Kristin A1 - Ifenthaler, Dirk T1 - Students perceptions toward academic competencies BT - the case of German first-year studentsfirst-year students JF - Issues in Educational Research N2 - Students often enter higher education academically unprepared and with unrealistic perceptions and expectations regarding academic competencies for their studies. However, preparedness and realistic perceptions are important factors for student retention. With regard to a proposed model of five academic competencies(time management, learning skills, technology proficiency, self-monitoring, and research skills), incoming students’ perceptions concerning academic staff support and students’ selfreported confidence at a German university were examined. Using quantitative data, an initial exploratory study was conducted (N = 155), which revealed first-year students’ perceptions of the role of academic staff in supporting their development, especially in research skills, as well as low self-reported confidence in this competence. Thus, a follow up study (N = 717) was conducted to confirm these findings as well as to provide an indepth understanding of research skills. Understanding students’ perceptions is crucial if higher education institutions are to meet students’ needs and provide adequate support services in the challenging first year. Thus, in order to increase student retention, it is suggested that universities assist first-year students in developing academic competencies through personalised competence-based programs and with the help of emerging research fields and educational technologies such as learning analytics and digital badges. Y1 - 2018 UR - http://www.iier.org.au/iier28/mah-abs.html SN - 1837-6290 VL - 28 IS - 1 SP - 120 EP - 137 PB - Institutes for Educational Research CY - Rockingham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ananka, Yaraslava A1 - Kirschbaum, Heinrich T1 - Bilingual Disorder BT - Implicit (not) reader and (white) Russian subject in "Patchwork Ode" by D. Strotsev BT - Имплицитный (не)читатель и (бело)русский субъект в «Лоскутной оде» Д. Строцева JF - Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie T2 - Билингвальное расстройство KW - Russian language poetry KW - Belarus KW - implied reader KW - lyrical subject KW - diglossia KW - post-soviet writing Y1 - 2018 SN - 0869-6365 IS - 150 SP - 251 EP - 270 PB - Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie CY - Moscow ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gärtner, Ursula T1 - nempe exemplis discimus BT - tradition and example in Phaedrus (3.9) JF - Antike Erzähl- und Deutungsmuster : Zwischen Exemplarität und Transformation N2 - ‘Tradition’ and ‘example’ are key concepts of the ancient fable. The fable has not only developed a literary tradition of its own, but from the beginning, it was also used as a rhetorical device, the exemplum. A diachronic overview of the genre and especially the use of the fable as exemplum reveals that Phaedrus adapts these terms in a new and ingenious way. In a case study of fable 3.9 this paper demonstrates how the fable finds its place in the literary tradition of the motif, how Socrates is presented as a model for the poet’s persona and how an intricate network of inter- and intratextual references is established between Socrates, Aesop, Phaedrus, and his potential successors. The subtle irony of the poet is particularly evident in the gradual development of the poet’s persona into a caricature, but the message of the fable itself remains unaffected: the value of true friendship. KW - Poetic criticism KW - literary tradition KW - poet-persona KW - fiction and reality KW - reader expectations KW - friendship KW - human behaviour KW - rhetorical exemplum KW - promythion KW - epimythion KW - memoria KW - mos KW - Aesop KW - Socrates KW - Plato Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-11-061251-6 SN - 978-3-11-061011-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110612516-022 SN - 1616-0452 VL - 374 SP - 455 EP - 472 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Li, Nan A1 - Wang, Suiping A1 - Mo, Luxi A1 - Kliegl, Reinhold T1 - Contextual constraint and preview time modulate the semantic preview effect BT - evidence from Chinese sentence reading JF - The quarterly journal of experimental psychology N2 - Word recognition in sentence reading is influenced by information from both preview and context. Recently, semantic preview effect (SPE) was observed being modulated by the constraint of context, indicating that context might accelerate the processing of semantically related preview words. Besides, SPE was found to depend on preview time, which suggests that SPE may change with different processing stages of preview words. Therefore, it raises the question of whether preview time-dependent SPE would be modulated by contextual constraint. In this study, we not only investigated the impact of contextual constraint on SPE in Chinese reading but also examined its dependency on preview time. The preview word and the target word were identical, semantically related or unrelated to the target word. The results showed a significant three-way interaction: The SPE depended on contextual constraint and preview time. In separate analyses for low and high contextual constraint of target words, the SPE significantly decreased with an increase in preview duration when the target word was of low constraint in the sentence. The effect was numerically in the same direction but weaker and statistically nonsignificant when the target word was highly constrained in the sentence. The results indicate that word processing in sentences is a dynamic process of integrating information from both preview (bottom-up) and context (top-down). KW - Semantic preview benefit KW - contextual constraint KW - word process KW - reading Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2017.1310914 SN - 1747-0218 SN - 1747-0226 VL - 71 IS - 1 SP - 241 EP - 249 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hyona, Jukka A1 - Yan, Ming A1 - Vainio, Seppo T1 - Morphological structure influences the initial landing position in words during reading Finnish JF - The quarterly journal of experimental psychology N2 - The preferred viewing location in words [Rayner, K. (1979). Eye guidance in reading: Fixation locations within words. Perception, 8, 21–30] during reading is near the word centre. Parafoveal word length information is utilized to guide the eyes toward it. A recent study by Yan and colleagues [Yan, M., Zhou, W., Shu, H., Yusupu, R., Miao, D., Krügel, A., & Kliegl, R. (2014). Eye movements guided by morphological structure: Evidence from the Uighur language. Cognition, 132, 181–215] demonstrated that the word’s morphological structure may also be used in saccadic targeting. The study was conducted in a morphologically rich language, Uighur. The present study aimed at replicating their main findings in another morphologically rich language, Finnish. Similarly to Yan et al., it was found that the initial fixation landed closer to the word beginning for morphologically complex than for monomorphemic words. Word frequency, saccade launch site, and word length were also found to influence the initial landing position. It is concluded that in addition to low-level factors (word length and saccade launch site), also higher level factors related to the word’s morphological structure and frequency may be utilized in saccade programming during reading. KW - Eye movements KW - Morphological structure KW - Reading KW - Saccades KW - Word frequency Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1267233 SN - 1747-0218 SN - 1747-0226 VL - 71 IS - 1 SP - 122 EP - 130 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hartmann, Matthias A1 - Laubrock, Jochen A1 - Fischer, Martin H. T1 - The visual number world BT - a dynamic approach to study the mathematical mind JF - The quarterly journal of experimental psychology N2 - In the domain of language research, the simultaneous presentation of a visual scene and its auditory description (i.e., the visual world paradigm) has been used to reveal the timing of mental mechanisms. Here we apply this rationale to the domain of numerical cognition in order to explore the differences between fast and slow arithmetic performance, and to further study the role of spatial-numerical associations during mental arithmetic. We presented 30 healthy adults simultaneously with visual displays containing four numbers and with auditory addition and subtraction problems. Analysis of eye movements revealed that participants look spontaneously at the numbers they currently process (operands, solution). Faster performance was characterized by shorter latencies prior to fixating the relevant numbers and fewer revisits to the first operand while computing the solution. These signatures of superior task performance were more pronounced for addition and visual numbers arranged in ascending order, and for subtraction and numbers arranged in descending order (compared to the opposite pairings). Our results show that the visual number world-paradigm provides on-line access to the mind during mental arithmetic, is able to capture variability in arithmetic performance, and is sensitive to visual layout manipulations that are otherwise not reflected in response time measurements. KW - Eye movements KW - Mental arithmetic KW - Mental number line KW - Visual world paradigm Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1240812 SN - 1747-0218 SN - 1747-0226 VL - 71 IS - 1 SP - 28 EP - 36 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Huckabee, Maggie-Lee A1 - McIntosh, Theresa A1 - Fuller, Laura A1 - Curry, Morgan A1 - Thomas, Paige A1 - Walshe, Margaret A1 - McCague, Ellen A1 - Battel, Irene A1 - Nogueira, Dalia A1 - Frank, Ulrike A1 - van den Engel-Hoek, Lenie A1 - Sella-Weiss, Oshrat T1 - The test of masticating and swallowing solids (TOMASS) BT - reliability, validity and international normative data JF - International Journal of language & communicaton disorders N2 - BackgroundClinical swallowing assessment is largely limited to qualitative assessment of behavioural observations. There are limited quantitative data that can be compared with a healthy population for identification of impairment. The Test of Masticating and Swallowing Solids (TOMASS) was developed as a quantitative assessment of solid bolus ingestion. AimsThis research programme investigated test development indices and established normative data for the TOMASS to support translation to clinical dysphagia assessment. Conclusions & ImplicationsThe TOMASS is presented as a valid, reliable and broadly normed clinical assessment of solid bolus ingestion. Clinical application may help identify dysphagic patients at bedside and provide a non-invasive, but sensitive, measure of functional change in swallowing. KW - deglutition KW - assessment KW - mastication KW - swallowing KW - timed KW - solid Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12332 SN - 1368-2822 SN - 1460-6984 VL - 53 IS - 1 SP - 144 EP - 156 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Moraske, Svenja A1 - Penrose, Anna A1 - Wyschkon, Anne A1 - Kohn, Juliane A1 - Rauscher, Larissa A1 - von Aster, Michael G. A1 - Esser, Günter T1 - Prävention von Rechenstörungen T1 - Prevention of Dyscalculia BT - Kurz- und mittelfristige Effekte einer Förderung der mathematischen Kompetenzen bei Risikokindern im Vorschulalter BT - Short-Term and Intermediate Effects of Stimulating Numerical Competencies for Children at Risk in Preschool JF - Kindheit und Entwicklung N2 - Ziel ist die Überprüfung der kurz- und mittelfristigen Wirksamkeit einer vorschulischen Förderung des Mengen- und Zahlenverständnisses bei Kindern mit einem Risiko für die Entwicklung einer Rechenstörung. Es wurden 32 Risikokinder mit einer Kombination aus den Förderprogrammen Mathematik im Vorschulalter und Mengen, zählen, Zahlen im letzten Kindergartenjahr von den Erzieherinnen trainiert und mit 38 untrainierten Risikokindern verglichen. Hinsichtlich der kurzfristigen Wirksamkeit zeigten sich positive Trainingseffekte auf die numerischen Leistungen im letzten Kindergartenjahr. Es ließen sich keine signifikanten mittelfristigen Trainingseffekte auf die Rechenleistungen im zweiten Halbjahr der 1. Klasse finden. Das eingesetzte vorschulische Präventionsprogramm leistete danach einen wichtigen Beitrag zur kurzfristigen Verbesserung der mathematischen Basiskompetenzen. N2 - A slew of studies has shown that training programs teaching numerical competencies have positive short-term effects on mathematical performance. The results for the intermediate effects are not consistent and there are only a few studies on this issue. The aim of this investigation was to evaluate the short-term and intermediate effects of a preschool training program stimulating numerical competencies for children at risk of developing dyscalculia (<= 10th percentile). During the last kindergarten year, 32 children at risk were trained with a combination of the intervention Mathematik im Vorschulalter and Mengen, zahlen, Zahlen by their kindergarten teachers, who were trained and supervised. Contents of the preschool training were: counting, number knowledge up to 10, comprehension of quantity concept, visual differentiation, spatial ability, simple arithmetic operation, handling of symbols, realizing abstract-logical correlations, and identifying cause-effect relations. The training lasted 11 weeks and took place twice a week (session duration = 30-40 min). Children who participated in at least 50% of the sessions were included. The control group consisted of 38 untrained children at risk. For measuring numerical competencies in kindergarten, a subtest of the instrument Basisdiagnostik Umschriebener Entwicklungsstorungen im Vorschulalter - Version III (BUEVA-III) was used, and for measuring mathematical performance the test Deutsche Mathematiktest fur erste Klassen (DEMAT 1+) was used. Before the training there were no group differences between the training and control group regarding mathematical performance and overall intelligence. The training showed positive short-term effects for numerical competencies in the last kindergarten year (medium effect size). While trained children could significantly improve their mathematical competencies to an average level (from 34 to 41 t-value points), the performances of the untrained children stayed below average. Unfortunately, there were no significant intermediate effects for mathematical performance in the second half of the first grade. Regarding the diagnosis of dyscalculia as defined by the ICD-10, it was not possible to gather a sufficiently large sample in the first grade fulfilling the criteria to test differences between training and control groups. Methodological limitations of this study were the missing random allocation to treatment conditions, a large drop-out rate, and long testing periods. The preschool training that was used to stimulate numerical competencies contributed significantly toward improving numerical competencies in the short term. Further investigations will determine the long-term effects of the training in the second and third grade. This is particularly important because dyscalculia occurring from the second grade on is a stable phenomenon. KW - developmental dyscalculia KW - numerical competence KW - prevention KW - risk KW - specific developmental disorder KW - Rechenstörung KW - Zahlen- und Mengenverständnis KW - Prävention KW - Risiko KW - Umschriebene Entwicklungsstörung Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1026/0942-5403/a000242 SN - 0942-5403 SN - 2190-6246 VL - 27 IS - 1 SP - 31 EP - 42 PB - Hogrefe CY - Göttingen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Scianna, Bastian Matteo T1 - Rommel Almighty? BT - Italian Assessments of the "Desert Fox" during and after the Second World War JF - The Journal of Military History N2 - Erwin Rommel is by any standard a mythical figure. He has been the subject of countless studies in English and German. However, the "Italian side of the hill" has been largely neglected, despite the fact that the foundation of the myth around him lies in the North African campaign, where, after all, thousands of soldiers of the Italian army fought alongside the african campaign, where, after all, thousands of soldiers of the Italian army fought along-side the Afrika Korps. This article will provide an Italian view of the "Desert Fox," using new primary material that provides insights into Italian assessments during the war. A major source is material gathered by way of eavesdropping by British intelligence on Italian officers held as POWs in Cairo and in England. Y1 - 2018 SN - 0899-3718 SN - 1543-7795 VL - 82 IS - 1 SP - 125 EP - 145 PB - Society for Military History CY - Lexington ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eisold, Ursula A1 - Sellrie, Frank A1 - Memczak, Henry A1 - Andersson, Anika A1 - Schenk, Jörg A. A1 - Kumke, Michael Uwe T1 - Dye tool box for a fluorescence enhancement immunoassay JF - Bioconjugate chemistry N2 - Immunochemical analytical methods are very successful in clinical diagnostics and are nowadays also emerging in the control of food as well as monitoring of environmental issues. Among the different immunoassays, luminescence based formats are characterized by their outstanding sensitivity making this format especially attractive for future applications. The need for multiparameter detection capabilities calls for a tool box of dye labels in order to transduce the biochemical reaction into an optically detectable signal. Here, in a multiparameter approach each analyte may be detected by a different dye with a unique emission color (covering the blue to red spectral range) or a unique luminescence decay kinetics. In the case of a competitive immunoassay format for each of the different dye labels an individual antibody would be needed. In the present paper a slightly modified approach is presented using a 7-aminocoumarin unit as the basic antigen against which highly specific antibodies were generated. Leaving the epitope region in the dyes unchanged but introducing a side group in positon 3 of the coumarin system allowed us to tune the optical properties of the coumarin dyes without the necessity of new antibody generation. Upon modification of the parent coumarin unit the full spectral range from blue to deep red was accessed. In the manuscript the photophysical characterization of the coumarin derivatives and their corresponding immunocomplexes with two highly specific antibodies is presented. The coumarin dyes and their immunocomplexes were characterized by steady-state and time-resolved absorption as well as emission spectroscopy. Moreover, fluorescence depolarization measurements were carried out to complement the data stressing the different binding modes of the two antibodies. The binding modes were evaluated using the photophysics of 7-aminocoumarins and how it was affected in the respective immunocomplexes, namely, the formation of the intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) as well as the twisted intramolecular charge transfer (TICT). In contrast to other antibody-dye pairs reported a distinct fluorescence enhancement upon formation of the antibody-dye complex up to a factor of SO was found. Because of the easy emission color tuning by tailoring the coumarin substitution for the antigen binding in nonrelevant position 3 of the parent molecule, a dye tool box is on hand which can be used in the construction of competitive multiparameter fluorescence enhancement immunoassays (FenIA). Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.7b00731 SN - 1043-1802 VL - 29 IS - 1 SP - 203 EP - 214 PB - American Chemical Society CY - Washington ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vietze, Jana A1 - Juang, Linda P. A1 - Schachner, Maja Katharina A1 - Werneck, Harald T1 - Feeling Half-Half? BT - exploring relational variation of Turkish-Heritage JF - Identity : an International Journal of Theory and Research N2 - Growing up in multicultural environments, Turkish-heritage individuals in Europe face specific challenges in combining their multiple cultural identities to form a coherent sense of self. Drawing from social identity complexity, this study explores four modes of combining cultural identities and their variation in relational contexts. Problem-centered interviews with Turkish-heritage young adults in Austria revealed the preference for complex, supranational labels, such as multicultural. Furthermore, most participants described varying modes of combining cultural identities over time and across relational contexts. Social exclusion experiences throughout adolescence related to perceived conflict of cultural identities, whereas multicultural peer groups supported perceived compatibility of cultural identities. Findings emphasize the need for complex, multidimensional approaches to study ethnic minorities’ combination of cultural identities. KW - Cultural identity compatibility KW - multicultural KW - relational identity KW - social identity complexity KW - Turkish minority Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2017.1410159 SN - 1528-3488 SN - 1532-706X VL - 18 IS - 1 SP - 60 EP - 76 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mätzig, Paul A1 - Vasishth, Shravan A1 - Engelmann, Felix A1 - Caplan, David A1 - Burchert, Frank T1 - A computational investigation of sources of variability in sentence comprehension difficulty in aphasia JF - Topics in cognitive science N2 - We present a computational evaluation of three hypotheses about sources of deficit in sentence comprehension in aphasia: slowed processing, intermittent deficiency, and resource reduction. The ACT-R based Lewis and Vasishth (2005) model is used to implement these three proposals. Slowed processing is implemented as slowed execution time of parse steps; intermittent deficiency as increased random noise in activation of elements in memory; and resource reduction as reduced spreading activation. As data, we considered subject vs. object relative sentences, presented in a self-paced listening modality to 56 individuals with aphasia (IWA) and 46 matched controls. The participants heard the sentences and carried out a picture verification task to decide on an interpretation of the sentence. These response accuracies are used to identify the best parameters (for each participant) that correspond to the three hypotheses mentioned above. We show that controls have more tightly clustered (less variable) parameter values than IWA; specifically, compared to controls, among IWA there are more individuals with slow parsing times, high noise, and low spreading activation. We find that (a) individual IWA show differential amounts of deficit along the three dimensions of slowed processing, intermittent deficiency, and resource reduction, (b) overall, there is evidence for all three sources of deficit playing a role, and (c) IWA have a more variable range of parameter values than controls. An important implication is that it may be meaningless to talk about sources of deficit with respect to an abstract verage IWA; the focus should be on the individual's differential degrees of deficit along different dimensions, and on understanding the causes of variability in deficit between participants. KW - Sentence comprehension KW - Aphasia KW - Computational modeling KW - Cue-based retrieval Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12323 SN - 1756-8757 SN - 1756-8765 VL - 10 IS - 1 SP - 161 EP - 174 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Prat, Tomas A1 - Hajny, Jakub A1 - Grunewald, Wim A1 - Vasileva, Mina A1 - Molnar, Gergely A1 - Tejos, Ricardo A1 - Schmid, Markus A1 - Sauer, Michael A1 - Friml, Jiří T1 - WRKY23 is a component of the transcriptional network mediating auxin feedback on PIN polarity JF - PLoS Genetics : a peer-reviewed, open-access journal N2 - Auxin is unique among plant hormones due to its directional transport that is mediated by the polarly distributed PIN auxin transporters at the plasma membrane. The canalization hypothesis proposes that the auxin feedback on its polar flow is a crucial, plant-specific mechanism mediating multiple self-organizing developmental processes. Here, we used the auxin effect on the PIN polar localization in Arabidopsis thaliana roots as a proxy for the auxin feedback on the PIN polarity during canalization. We performed microarray experiments to find regulators of this process that act downstream of auxin. We identified genes that were transcriptionally regulated by auxin in an AXR3/IAA17-and ARF7/ARF19-dependent manner. Besides the known components of the PIN polarity, such as PID and PIP5K kinases, a number of potential new regulators were detected, among which the WRKY23 transcription factor, which was characterized in more detail. Gain-and loss-of-function mutants confirmed a role for WRKY23 in mediating the auxin effect on the PIN polarity. Accordingly, processes requiring auxin-mediated PIN polarity rearrangements, such as vascular tissue development during leaf venation, showed a higher WRKY23 expression and required the WRKY23 activity. Our results provide initial insights into the auxin transcriptional network acting upstream of PIN polarization and, potentially, canalization-mediated plant development. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1007177 SN - 1553-7404 VL - 14 IS - 1 PB - PLoS CY - San Fransisco ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bayerl, Helmut A1 - Kraus, Robert H. S. A1 - Nowak, Carsten A1 - Foerster, Daniel W. A1 - Fickel, Jörns A1 - Kühn, Ralph T1 - Fast and cost-effective single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) detection in the absence of a reference genome using semideep next-generation Random Amplicon Sequencing (RAMseq) JF - Molecular ecology resources N2 - Biodiversity has suffered a dramatic global decline during the past decades, and monitoring tools are urgently needed providing data for the development and evaluation of conservation efforts both on a species and on a genetic level. However, in wild species, the assessment of genetic diversity is often hampered by the lack of suitable genetic markers. In this article, we present Random Amplicon Sequencing (RAMseq), a novel approach for fast and cost-effective detection of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in nonmodel species by semideep sequencing of random amplicons. By applying RAMseq to the Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra), we identified 238 putative SNPs after quality filtering of all candidate loci and were able to validate 32 of 77 loci tested. In a second step, we evaluated the genotyping performance of these SNP loci in noninvasive samples, one of the most challenging genotyping applications, by comparing it with genotyping results of the same faecal samples at microsatellite markers. We compared (i) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) success rate, (ii) genotyping errors and (iii) Mendelian inheritance (population parameters). SNPs produced a significantly higher PCR success rate (75.5% vs. 65.1%) and lower mean allelic error rate (8.8% vs. 13.3%) than microsatellites, but showed a higher allelic dropout rate (29.7% vs. 19.8%). Genotyping results showed no deviations from Mendelian inheritance in any of the SNP loci. Hence, RAMseq appears to be a valuable tool for the detection of genetic markers in nonmodel species, which is a common challenge in conservation genetic studies. KW - high-throughput sequencing KW - Lutra lutra KW - nonmodel species KW - RAMseq KW - RAPD KW - variant detection Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.12717 SN - 1755-098X SN - 1755-0998 VL - 18 IS - 1 SP - 107 EP - 117 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mühlbauer, Felix A1 - Schröder, Lukas A1 - Schölzel, Mario T1 - Handling of transient and permanent faults in dynamically scheduled super-scalar processors JF - Microelectronics reliability N2 - This article describes architectural extensions for a dynamically scheduled processor to enable three different operation modes, ranging from high-performance, to high-reliability. With minor extensions of the control path, the resources of the super-scalar data-path can be used either for high-performance execution, fail-safe-operation, or fault-tolerant-operation. Furthermore, the online error-correction capabilities are combined with reconfiguration techniques for permanent fault handling. This reconfiguration can take defective components out of operation permanently, and can be triggered on-demand during runtime, depending on the frequency of online corrected faults. A comprehensive fault simulation was carried out in order to evaluate hardware overhead, fault coverage and performance penalties of the proposed approach. Moreover, the impact of the permanent reconfiguration regarding the reliability and performance is investigated. KW - Fault tolerance KW - Fail-safe KW - Dynamically scheduled processor Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.microrel.2017.11.021 SN - 0026-2714 VL - 80 SP - 176 EP - 183 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krull, Johanna A1 - Wilbert, Jürgen A1 - Hennemann, Thomas T1 - Does social exclusion by classmates lead to behaviour problems and learning difficulties or vice versa? BT - a cross-lagged panel analysis JF - European journal of special needs education N2 - Social participation of pupils with special educational needs (SEN) is a central topic in the current inclusion debate. Numerous studies have shown that the risk of social exclusion is considerably higher for children with SEN compared to their peers without SEN, especially for pupils with behaviour problems (BP) or learning difficulties (LD). Since most of these studies are based on cross-sectional designs, there is a lack of knowledge regarding the direction of the effects. This leads to the question to what extent BP and LD have an impact on pupils’ social position in the class and, vice versa, to what extent the social position has an effect on the development of BP and LD. To address these questions, we analysed sociometric data of 1244 primary school children. È A cross-lagged panel analysis was conducted. The results indicate that BP and LD in 1st grade lead to significantly less social acceptance by peers in 2nd grade but do not predict significantly higher social rejection. A directed influence of LD or BP on a higher social rejection cannot be found. Conversely, neither social acceptance nor social rejection at 1st grade has an influence on the development of BP or LD at grade two. KW - Inclusive education KW - social exclusion KW - emotional behaviour disorders KW - learning disabilities KW - cross-lagged panel design KW - primary school Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/08856257.2018.1424780 SN - 0885-6257 SN - 1469-591X VL - 33 IS - 2 SP - 235 EP - 253 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tejos, Ricardo A1 - Rodriguez-Furlan, Cecilia A1 - Adamowski, Maciej A1 - Sauer, Michael A1 - Norambuena, Lorena A1 - Friml, Jiri T1 - PATELLINS are regulators of auxin-mediated PIN1 relocation and plant development in Arabidopsis thaliana JF - Journal of cell science N2 - Coordinated cell polarization in developing tissues is a recurrent theme in multicellular organisms. In plants, a directional distribution of the plant hormone auxin is at the core of many developmental programs. A feedback regulation of auxin on the polarized localization of PIN auxin transporters in individual cells has been proposed as a self-organizing mechanism for coordinated tissue polarization, but the molecular mechanisms linking auxin signalling to PIN-dependent auxin transport remain unknown. We used a microarray-based approach to find regulators of the auxin-induced PIN relocation in Arabidopsis thaliana root, and identified a subset of a family of phosphatidylinositol transfer proteins (PITPs), the PATELLINs (PATLs). Here, we show that PATLs are expressed in partially overlapping cell types in different tissues going through mitosis or initiating differentiation programs. PATLs are plasma membrane-associated proteins accumulated in Arabidopsis embryos, primary roots, lateral root primordia and developing stomata. Higher order patl mutants display reduced PIN1 repolarization in response to auxin, shorter root apical meristem, and drastic defects in embryo and seedling development. This suggests that PATLs play a redundant and crucial role in polarity and patterning in Arabidopsis. KW - PATELLIN KW - Auxin KW - Arabidopsis thaliana KW - Auxin transport KW - Canalization Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1242/jcs.204198 SN - 0021-9533 SN - 1477-9137 VL - 131 IS - 2 PB - Company of Biologists Limited CY - Cambridge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bollier, Norbert A1 - Sicard, Adrien A1 - Leblond, Julie A1 - Latrasse, David A1 - Gonzalez, Nathalie A1 - Gevaudant, Frederic A1 - Benhamed, Moussa A1 - Raynaud, Cecile A1 - Lenhard, Michael A1 - Chevalier, Christian A1 - Hernould, Michel A1 - Delmas, Frederic T1 - At-MINI ZINC FINGER2 and Sl-INHIBITOR OF MERISTEM ACTIVITY, a Conserved Missing Link in the Regulation of Floral Meristem Termination in Arabidopsis and Tomato JF - The plant cell N2 - In angiosperms, the gynoecium is the last structure to develop within the flower due to the determinate fate of floral meristem (FM) stem cells. The maintenance of stem cell activity before its arrest at the stage called FM termination affects the number of carpels that develop. The necessary inhibition at this stage of WUSCHEL (WUS), which is responsible for stem cell maintenance, involves a two-step mechanism. Direct repression mediated by the MADS domain transcription factor AGAMOUS (AG), followed by indirect repression requiring the C2H2 zinc-finger protein KNUCKLES (KNU), allow for the complete termination of floral stem cell activity. Here, we show that Arabidopsis thaliana MINI ZINC FINGER2 (AtMIF2) and its homolog in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), INHIBITOR OF MERISTEM ACTIVITY (SlIMA), participate in the FM termination process by functioning as adaptor proteins. AtMIF2 and SlIMA recruit AtKNU and SlKNU, respectively, to form a transcriptional repressor complex together with TOPLESS and HISTONE DEACETYLASE19. AtMIF2 and SlIMA bind to the WUS and SIWUS loci in the respective plants, leading to their repression. These results provide important insights into the molecular mechanisms governing (FM) termination and highlight the essential role of AtMIF2/SlIMA during this developmental step, which determines carpel number and therefore fruit size. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.17.00653 SN - 1040-4651 SN - 1532-298X VL - 30 IS - 1 SP - 83 EP - 100 PB - American Society of Plant Physiologists CY - Rockville ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Geiger, Daniel L. A1 - Kocyan, Alexander T1 - Studies on Oberonia 3. Aberrant flowers and other floral modifications in the orchid genus Oberonia JF - Nordic Journal of botany N2 - Orchid flowers are amongst the most conspicuous attractions that plants have generated over evolutionary epochs. However, organ homology in particular of androecium and gynoecium of orchid flowers have been, and are still, the subject of long-term discussion. Studies of aberrant - teratologic - flowers have traditionally helped to clarify organ identity in orchids. We here present for the first time teratological flowers within the florally smallest and inconspicuous orchid genus Oberonia and illustrate them by light and scanning electron microscopy. Pseudopeloria with half of a lateral petal transformed into a lip was found in O. costeriana J.J.Sm. and O. mucronata (D.Don) Ormerod & Seidenf. A supernumerary lip is known from O. mucronata. Oberonia rufilabris Lindl. is documented with multiple aberrations: triple gynostemium and a total of 10 tepals, twin flowers, and duplicate lips. We interpret these aberrations in light of known floral developmental and organ identity information. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/njb.01699 SN - 0107-055X SN - 1756-1051 VL - 36 IS - 1-2 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kim, Kyung-Chan A1 - Shprits, Yuri T1 - Survey of the Favorable Conditions for Magnetosonic Wave Excitation JF - Journal of geophysical research : Space physics N2 - The ratio of the proton ring velocity (VR) to the local Alfven speed (VA), in addition to proton ring distributions, plays a key factor in the excitation of magnetosonic waves at frequencies between the proton cyclotron frequency fcp and the lower hybrid resonance frequency fLHR in the Earth's magnetosphere. Here we investigate whether there is a statistically significant relationship between occurrences of proton rings and magnetosonic waves both outside and inside the plasmapause using particle and wave data from Van Allen Probe-A during the time period of October 2012 to December 2015. We also perform a statistical survey of the ratio of the ring energy (ER, corresponding to VR) to the Alfven energy (EA, corresponding to VA) to determine the favorable conditions under which magnetosonic waves in each of two frequency bands (fcp < f ≤ 0.5 fLHR and 0.5 fLHR < f < fLHR) can be excited. The results show that the magnetosonic waves in both frequency bands occur around the postnoon (12–18 magnetic local time, MLT) sector outside the plasmapause when ER is comparable to or lower than EA, and those in lower-frequency bands (fcp < f ≤ 0.5 fLHR) occur around the postnoon sector inside the plasmapause when ER/EA > ~9. However, there is one discrepancy between occurrences of proton rings and magnetosonic waves in low-frequency bands around the prenoon sector (6–12 MLT) outside the plasmapause, which suggests either that the waves may have propagated during active time from the postnoon sector after being excited during quiet time, or they may have locally excited in the prenoon sector during active time. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JA024865 SN - 2169-9380 SN - 2169-9402 VL - 123 IS - 1 SP - 400 EP - 413 PB - American Geophysical Union CY - Washington ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lu, Yong-Ping A1 - Reichetzeder, Christoph A1 - Prehn, Cornelia A1 - von Websky, Karoline A1 - Slowinski, Torsten A1 - Chen, You-Peng A1 - Yin, Liang-Hong A1 - Kleuser, Burkhard A1 - Yang, Xue-Song A1 - Adamski, Jerzy A1 - Hocher, Berthold T1 - Fetal serum metabolites are independently associated with Gestational diabetes mellitus JF - Cellular physiology and biochemistry : international journal of experimental cellular physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology N2 - Background/Aims: Gestational diabetes (GDM) might be associated with alterations in the metabolomic profile of affected mothers and their offspring. Until now, there is a paucity of studies that investigated both, the maternal and the fetal serum metabolome in the setting of GDM. Mounting evidence suggests that the fetus is not just passively affected by gestational disease but might play an active role in it. Metabolomic studies performed in maternal blood and fetal cord blood could help to better discern distinct fetal from maternal disease interactions. Methods: At the time of birth, serum samples from mothers and newborns (cord blood samples) were collected and screened for 163 metabolites utilizing tandem mass spectrometry. The cohort consisted of 412 mother/child pairs, including 31 cases of maternal GDM. Results: An initial non-adjusted analysis showed that eight metabolites in the maternal blood and 54 metabolites in the cord blood were associated with GDM. After Benjamini-Hochberg (BH) procedure and adjustment for confounding factors for GDM, fetal phosphatidylcholine acyl-alkyl C 32:1 and proline still showed an independent association with GDM. Conclusions: This study found metabolites in cord blood which were associated with GDM, even after adjustment for established risk factors of GDM. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study demonstrating an independent association between fetal serum metabolites and maternal GDM. Our findings might suggest a potential effect of the fetal metabolome on maternal GDM. (c) 2018 The Author(s) Published by S. Karger AG, Basel KW - Gestational diabetes KW - Metabolomics KW - Phosphatidylcholine acyl-alkyl C 32:1 KW - Proline Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1159/000487119 SN - 1015-8987 SN - 1421-9778 VL - 45 IS - 2 SP - 625 EP - 638 PB - Karger CY - Basel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lu, Yong-Ping A1 - Reichetzeder, Christoph A1 - Prehn, Cornelia A1 - Yin, Liang-Hong A1 - Yun, Chen A1 - Zeng, Shufei A1 - Chu, Chang A1 - Adamski, Jerzy A1 - Hocher, Berthold T1 - Cord blood Lysophosphatidylcholine 16:1 is positively associated with birth weight JF - Cellular physiology and biochemistry : international journal of experimental cellular physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology N2 - Background/Aims: Impaired birth outcomes, like low birth weight, have consistently been associated with increased disease susceptibility to hypertension in later life. Alterations in the maternal or fetal metabolism might impact on fetal growth and influence birth outcomes. Discerning associations between the maternal and fetal metabolome and surrogate parameters of fetal growth could give new insight into the complex relationship between intrauterine conditions, birth outcomes, and later life disease susceptibility. Methods: Using flow injection tandem mass spectrometry, targeted metabolomics was performed in serum samples obtained from 226 mother/child pairs at delivery. Associations between neonatal birth weight and concentrations of 163 maternal and fetal metabolites were analyzed. Results: After FDR adjustment using the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure lysophosphatidylcholines (LPC) 14:0, 16:1, and 18:1 were strongly positively correlated with birth weight. In a stepwise linear regression model corrected for established confounding factors of birth weight, LPC 16: 1 showed the strongest independent association with birth weight (CI: 93.63 - 168.94; P = 6.94x10(-11)). The association with birth weight was stronger than classical confounding factors such as offspring sex (CI: - 258.81- -61.32; P = 0.002) and maternal smoking during pregnancy (CI: -298.74 - -29.51; P = 0.017). Conclusions: After correction for multiple testing and adjustment for potential confounders, LPC 16:1 showed a very strong and independent association with birth weight. The underlying molecular mechanisms linking fetal LPCs with birth weight need to be addressed in future studies. (c) 2018 The Author(s) Published by S. Karger AG, Basel KW - Metabolomics KW - Lysophosphatidylcholine KW - Birth Weight KW - DOHaD KW - Hypertension KW - Type 2 Diabetes Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1159/000487118 SN - 1015-8987 SN - 1421-9778 VL - 45 IS - 2 SP - 614 EP - 624 PB - Karger CY - Basel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Smith, Taylor A1 - Bookhagen, Bodo T1 - Changes in seasonal snow water equivalent distribution in High Mountain Asia (1987 to 2009) JF - Science Advances N2 - Snow meltwaters account for most of the yearly water budgets of many catchments in High Mountain Asia (HMA). We examine trends in snow water equivalent (SWE) using passive microwave data (1987 to 2009). We find an overall decrease in SWE in HMA, despite regions of increased SWE in the Pamir, Kunlun Shan, Eastern Himalaya, and Eastern Tien Shan. Although the average decline in annual SWE across HMA (contributing area, 2641 x 10(3) km(2)) is low (average, -0.3%), annual SWE losses conceal distinct seasonal and spatial heterogeneities across the study region. For example, the Tien Shan has seen both strong increases in winter SWE and sharp declines in spring and summer SWE. In the majority of catchments, the most negative SWE trends are found in mid-elevation zones, which often correspond to the regions of highest snow-water storage and are somewhat distinct from glaciated areas. Negative changes in SWE storage in these mid-elevation zones have strong implications for downstream water availability. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1701550 SN - 2375-2548 VL - 4 IS - 1 PB - American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science CY - Washington ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Huschek, Gerd A1 - Bönick, Josephine A1 - Merkel, Dietrich A1 - Huschek, Doreen A1 - Rawel, Harshadrai Manilal T1 - Authentication of leguminous-based products by targeted biomarkers using high resolution time of flight mass spectrometry JF - LWT - food science and technology : an official journal of the Swiss Society of Food Science and Technology (SGLWT/SOSSTA) and the International Union of Food Science and Technology (IUFoST) N2 - A growing number of health-conscious individuals supplements their diet with protein-rich plant-based products to reduce their meat consumption. Analytical methods are needed to authenticate these new vegetarian products not only for the correct labelling of ingredients according to European legislation but also to discourage food fraud. This paper presents new biomarkers for a targeted proteomics LC-MS/MS work-flow that can simultaneously prove the presence/absence of garden pea, a protein-rich legume, meat and honey and quantify their content in processed vegan food. We show a novel rapid strategy to identify biomarkers for species authentication and the steps for the multi-parameter LC-MS/MS method validation and quantification. A high resolution triple time of flight mass spectrometer (HRMS) with SWATH Acquisition was used for the rapid discovery of all measurable trypsin-digested proteins in the individual ingredients. From these proteins, species-selective biomarkers were identified with BLAST and Skyline. Vicilin and convicilin (UniProt: D3VND9, Q9M3X6) allow pea authentication with regard to other legume species. Myostatin (UniProt: 018831) is a single biomarker for all meat types. For honey, we identified three selective proteins (UniProt: C6K481, C6K482, Q3L6329). The final LC-MS/MS method can identity and quantify these markers simultaneously. Quantification occurs via external matrix calibration. KW - Vegan KW - Food authentication KW - Legume KW - Honey KW - Meat peptide biomarker KW - MS quantification of leguminous additives KW - Food labelling Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lwt.2017.12.034 SN - 0023-6438 SN - 1096-1127 VL - 90 SP - 164 EP - 171 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hanneforth, Thomas A1 - Maletti, Andreas A1 - Quernheim, Daniel T1 - Pushing for weighted tree automata BT - Dedicated to the memory of Zoltan Esik (1951-2016) JF - Logical Methods in Computer Science N2 - A weight normalization procedure, commonly called pushing, is introduced for weighted tree automata (wta) over commutative semifields. The normalization preserves the recognized weighted tree language even for nondeterministic wta, but it is most useful for bottom-up deterministic wta, where it can be used for minimization and equivalence testing. In both applications a careful selection of the weights to be redistributed followed by normalization allows a reduction of the general problem to the corresponding problem for bottom-up deterministic unweighted tree automata. This approach was already successfully used by Mohri and Eisner for the minimization of deterministic weighted string automata. Moreover, the new equivalence test for two wta M and M′ runs in time O((|M|+|M′|)⋅log(|Q|+|Q′|)), where Q and Q′ are the states of M and M′, respectively, which improves the previously best run-time O(|M|⋅|M′|). KW - pushing weighted tree automaton KW - minimization KW - equivalence testing Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.23638/LMCS-14(1:5)2018 SN - 1860-5974 VL - 14 IS - 1 PB - Logical Methods in Computer Science E V CY - Braunschweig ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kuhlmann, Sabine A1 - Bogumil, Jörg T1 - Performance measurement and benchmarking as “reflexive institutions” for local governments BT - Germany, Sweden and England compared JF - International journal of public sector management N2 - Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss different approaches of performance measurement and benchmarking as reflexive institutions for local governments in England, Germany and Sweden from a comparative perspective. Design/methodology/approach These three countries have been selected because they represent typical (most different) cases of European local government systems and reforms. The existing theories on institutional reflexivity point to the potential contribution of benchmarking to public sector innovation and organizational learning. Based on survey findings, in-depth case studies, interviews and document analyses in these three countries, the paper addresses the major research question as to what extent and why benchmarking regimes vary across countries. It derives hypotheses about the impacts of benchmarking on institutional learning and innovation. Findings The outcomes suggest that the combination of three key features of benchmarking, namely - obligation, sanctions and benchmarking authority - in conjunction with country-specific administrative context conditions and local actor constellations - influences the impact of benchmarking as a reflexive institution. Originality/value It is shown in the paper that compulsory benchmarking on its own does not lead to reflexivity and learning, but that there is a need for autonomy and leeway for local actors to cope with benchmarking results. These findings are relevant because policy makers must decide upon the specific governance mix of benchmarking exercises taking their national and local contexts into account if they want them to promote institutional learning and innovation. KW - Benchmarking KW - Administration KW - Local government reform Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPSM-01-2017-0004 SN - 0951-3558 SN - 1758-6666 VL - 31 IS - 4 SP - 543 EP - 562 PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited CY - Bingley ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lenkeit, Jenny A1 - Schwippert, Knut A1 - Knigge, Michel T1 - Configurations of multiple disparities in reading performance BT - longitudinal observations across France, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom JF - Assessment in education : principles, policy & practice N2 - Research provides evidence that gender, immigrant background and socio-economic characteristics present multiple disadvantaging characteristics that change their relative importance and configurations over time. When evaluating inequalities researchers tend to focus on one particular aspect and often use composite measures when evaluating socio-economic characteristics. Neither can fully represent the complexity of students’ various disadvantaging characteristics, which have autonomous associations with attainment and with each other. This paper investigates how the relative importance and configurations of different disadvantaging factors have changed over time to form educational inequalities and how these changes differ across countries. Data from five PISA cycles (2000–2012) for France, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom are used and configurations of gender, immigration background, parents’ occupational and educational levels, and the number of books at home evaluated. Results enable us to relate changes (or lack thereof) in configurations of disadvantaging factors to recent reforms targeted at reducing educational inequality after the first PISA results. KW - Educational inequalities KW - PISA KW - multilevel linear regression Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/0969594X.2017.1309352 SN - 0969-594X SN - 1465-329X VL - 25 IS - 1 SP - 52 EP - 86 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fyndanis, Valantis A1 - Arfani, Dimitra A1 - Varlokosta, Spyridoula A1 - Burgio, Francesca A1 - Maculan, Anna A1 - Miceli, Gabriele A1 - Arcara, Giorgio A1 - Palla, Fabio A1 - Cagnin, Annachiara A1 - Papageorgiou, Sokratis G. A1 - Semenza, Carlo T1 - Morphosyntactic production in Greek- and Italian-speaking individuals with probable Alzheimer’s disease BT - evidence from subject–verb agreement, tense/time reference, and mood JF - Aphasiology : an international, interdisciplinary journal N2 - Background: In probable Alzheimer’s disease (AD), different memory systems, executive functioning, visuospatial recognition, and language are impaired. Regarding the latter, only a few studies have investigated morphosyntactic production thus far. Aims: This study, which is a follow-up on Fyndanis, V., Manouilidou, C., Koufou, E., Karampekios, S., and Tsapakis, E. M. (2013). Agrammatic patterns in Alzheimer's disease: Evidence from tense, agreement, and aspect. Aphasiology, 27, 178–200. doi:10.1080/02687038.2012.705814, investigates whether verb-related morphosyntactic production is (selectively) impaired in AD focusing on two highly inflected languages, Greek and Italian. The morphosyntactic phenomena explored are subject–verb Agreement, Tense/Time Reference, and Mood. Focusing on these phenomena allows us to investigate if recent hypotheses, originally developed in aphasia research, can also capture results related to AD. We tested the hypotheses discussed in Fyndanis, V., Manouilidou, C., Koufou, E., Karampekios, S., and Tsapakis, E. M. (2013). Agrammatic patterns in Alzheimer's disease: Evidence from tense, agreement, and aspect. Aphasiology, 27, 178–200. doi:10.1080/02687038.2012.705814, that is, the Interpretable Features’ Impairment Hypothesis (IFIH) (e.g., Fyndanis, V., Varlokosta, S., & Tsapkini, K. 2012. Agrammatic production: Interpretable features and selective impairment in verb inflection. Lingua, 122, 1134–1147. doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2012.05.004) and the PAst DIscourse LInking Hypothesis (PADILIH; Bastiaanse, R., Bamyaci, E., Hsu, C., Lee, J., Yarbay Duman, T., & Thompson, C. K. 2011. Time reference in agrammatic aphasia: A cross-linguistic study. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 24, 652–673. doi:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2011.07.001). Methods & Procedures: Two sentence completion tasks testing the production of subject-verb Agreement, Tense/Time Reference, and Mood were administered to 16 Greek-speaking and 10 Italian-speaking individuals with mild-to-moderate AD, as well as to 16 Greek-speaking and 11 Italian-speaking neurologically intact individuals who were matched with the participants with AD on age and education. Mixed-effects models were fitted to the data. Outcomes & Results: At the group level, both the Greek and Italian participants with AD performed worse than the controls. Both AD groups revealed selective patterns of morphosyntactic production (Greek: Agreement/Mood > Time Reference; Italian: Agreement > Time Reference > Mood). Past Reference and Future Reference did not dissociate in either of the two AD groups. Nevertheless, in all four participants with AD who showed dissociations, Past Reference was more impaired than Future Reference. Conclusions: The results indicate that the production of verb-related morphosyntactic categories can be impaired in mild-to-moderate AD. The different patterns observed in the two languages are partly attributable to the different way these languages encode Mood. The group results (of both the Greek-and Italian-speaking participants with AD) do not lend support to the PADILIH, whereas only the results of the Italian AD group are fully consistent with the IFIH. However, the individual data are consistent with the PADILIH, and the IFIH is informed by the present data and modified accordingly so that it can capture cross-linguistic patterns of morphosyntactic impairment. KW - tense/time reference KW - mood Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/02687038.2017.1358352 SN - 0268-7038 SN - 1464-5041 VL - 32 IS - 1 SP - 61 EP - 87 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bürki-Foschini, Audrey Damaris A1 - Viebahn, Malte Clemens A1 - Racine, Isabelle A1 - Mabut, Cassandre A1 - Spinelli, Elsa T1 - Intrinsic advantage for canonical forms in spoken word recognition BT - myth or reality? JF - Language, cognition and neuroscience N2 - In connected speech, many words are produced with a pronunciation that differs from the canonical form. How the speech recognition system deals with this variation is a fundamental issue in the language processing literature. The present study examines the roles of variant type, variant frequency, and context in the processing of French words with a canonical (schwa variant, e.g. semaine “week”) and a non-canonical pronunciation (no-schwa variant, s’maine). It asks whether the processing of canonical pronunciations is faster than the processing of non-canonical ones. Results of three lexical decision experiments reveal that more frequent variants are recognised more quickly, and that there is no advantage for canonical forms once variant frequency is accounted for. Two of these experiments further failed to find evidence that the context in which the words are presented modulate the effect of variant type. These findings are discussed in the light of spoken word recognition models. KW - Spoken word recognition KW - phonological variation KW - exposure frequency KW - French schwa KW - context Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2017.1388412 SN - 2327-3798 SN - 2327-3801 VL - 33 IS - 4 SP - 494 EP - 511 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Chang, Der-Chen A1 - Schulze, Bert-Wolfgang T1 - Corner spaces and Mellin quantization JF - Journal of nonlinear and convex analysis : an international journal N2 - Manifolds with corners in the present investigation are non-smooth configurations - specific stratified spaces - with an incomplete metric such as cones, manifolds with edges, or corners of piecewise smooth domains in Euclidean space. We focus here on operators on such "corner manifolds" of singularity order <= 2, acting in weighted corner Sobolev spaces. The corresponding corner degenerate pseudo-differential operators are formulated via Mellin quantizations, and they also make sense on infinite singular cones. KW - Mellin quantizations KW - operator-valued symbols KW - weighted edge and corner spaces Y1 - 2018 SN - 1345-4773 SN - 1880-5221 VL - 19 IS - 2 SP - 179 EP - 195 PB - Yokohama Publishers CY - Yokohama ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Urbach, Tina A1 - Fay, Doris T1 - When proactivity produces a power struggle BT - how supervisors’ power motivation affects their support for employees’ promotive voice JF - European journal of work and organizational psychology : the official journal of The European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology N2 - Previous research informs us about facilitators of employees’ promotive voice. Yet little is known about what determines whether a specific idea for constructive change brought up by an employee will be approved or rejected by a supervisor. Drawing on interactionist theories of motivation and personality, we propose that a supervisor will be least likely to support an idea when it threatens the supervisor’s power motive, and when it is perceived to serve the employee’s own striving for power. The prosocial versus egoistic intentions attributed to the idea presenter are proposed to mediate the latter effect. We conducted three scenario-based studies in which supervisors evaluated fictitious ideas voiced by employees that – if implemented – would have power-related consequences for them as a supervisor. Results show that the higher a supervisors’ explicit power motive was, the less likely they were to support a power-threatening idea (Study 1, N = 60). Moreover, idea support was less likely when this idea was proposed by an employee that was described as high (rather than low) on power motivation (Study 2, N = 79); attributed prosocial intentions mediated this effect. Study 3 (N = 260) replicates these results. KW - Promotive voice KW - idea support KW - power motive KW - supervisor support KW - proactivity Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2018.1435528 SN - 1359-432X SN - 1464-0643 VL - 27 IS - 2 SP - 280 EP - 295 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schwarz, Anja T1 - Schomburgk’s Chook BT - the entangled South Australian collections of a German naturalist JF - Postcolonial Studies N2 - Focusing on the politics of museums, collections and the untold stories of the scientific ‘specimens’ that travelled between Germany and Australia, this article reconstructs the historical, interpersonal and geopolitical contexts that made it possible for the stuffed skin of an Australian malleefowl to become part of the collections of Berlin’s Museum für Naturkunde. The author enquires into the kinds of contexts that are habitually considered irrelevant when a specimen of natural history is treated as an object of taxonomic information only. In case of this particular specimen human and non-human history become entangled in ways that link the fate of this one small Australian bird to the German revolutionary generation of 1848, to Germany’s nineteenth-century colonial aspirations, to settler–Indigenous relations, to the cruel realities that underpinned the production of scientific knowledge in colonial Australia, and to a present-day interest in reconstructing Indigenous knowledges. KW - German colonialism KW - colonial Australia KW - natural history collections KW - Richard Schomburgk KW - malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata) Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2018.1434749 SN - 1368-8790 SN - 1466-1888 VL - 21 IS - 1 SP - 20 EP - 34 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Recollecting bones BT - the remains of German-Australian colonial entanglements JF - Postcolonial Studies N2 - This article critically engages with the different politics of memory involved in debates over the restitution of Indigenous Australian ancestral remains stolen by colonial actors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and brought to Berlin in the name of science. The debates crystallise how deeply divided German scientific discourses still are over the question of whether the historical and moral obligations of colonial injustice should be accepted or whether researchers should continue to profess scientific ‘disinterest’. The debates also reveal an almost unanimous disavowal of Indigenous Australian knowledges and mnemonic conceptions across all camps. The bitter ironies of this disavowal become evident when Indigenous Australian quests for the remains of their ancestral dead lost in the limbo of German scientific collections are juxtaposed with white Australian (fictional) quests for the remains of Ludwig Leichhardt, lost in the Australian interior. KW - Memory KW - ancestral remains KW - museums and anthropological collections KW - restorative justice KW - indigenous knowledge KW - Ludwig Leichhardt Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2018.1435146 SN - 1368-8790 SN - 1466-1888 VL - 21 IS - 1 SP - 6 EP - 19 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Selting, Margret T1 - For Charles Goodwin, Chuck JF - Co-operative engagements in intertwined semiosis: essays in honour of Charles Goodwin N2 - This appreciation will not be a testimonial to Chuck’s numerous publications and research achievements – I am sure that others will have a lot to say about those. Instead, I will say something about how I personally experienced and think of him, as a researcher personality, based on the limited time and the few occasions that we have had together. Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-9949-77-688-7 SN - 978-9949-77-689-4 SN - 1406-4278 VL - 19 SP - 361 EP - 362 PB - University of Tartu Press CY - Tartu ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Muschalla, Beate T1 - A concept of psychological work capacity demands BT - first evaluation in rehabilitation patients with and without mental disorders JF - Work : a journal of prevention, assessment & rehabilitation N2 - BACKGROUND: Work capacity demands are a concept to describe which psychological capacities are required in a job. Assessing psychological work capacity demands is of specific importance when mental health problems at work endanger work ability. Exploring psychological work capacity demands is the basis for mental hazard analysis or rehabilitative action, e.g. in terms of work adjustment. OBJECTIVE: This is the first study investigating psychological work capacity demands in rehabilitation patients with and without mental disorders. METHODS: A structured interview on psychological work capacity demands (Mini-ICF-Work; Muschalla, 2015; Linden et al., 2015) was done with 166 rehabilitation patients of working age. All interviews were done by a state-licensed socio-medically trained psychotherapist. Inter-rater-reliability was assessed by determining agreement in independent co-rating in 65 interviews. For discriminant validity purposes, participants filled in the Short Questionnaire for Work Analysis (KFZA, Prumper et al., 1994). RESULTS: In different professional fields, different psychological work capacity demands were of importance. The Mini-ICF-Work capacity dimensions reflect different aspects than the KFZA. Patients with mental disorders were longer on sick leave and had worse work ability prognosis than patients without mental disorders, although both groups reported similar work capacity demands. CONCLUSIONS: Psychological work demands - which are highly relevant for work ability prognosis and work adjustment processes - can be explored and differentiated in terms of psychological capacity demands. KW - Mental disorders KW - mental health KW - sick leave KW - work ability KW - work demands Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3233/WOR-182691 SN - 1051-9815 SN - 1875-9270 VL - 59 IS - 3 SP - 375 EP - 386 PB - IOS Press CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ganghof, Steffen A1 - Eppner, Sebastian A1 - Pörschke, Alexander T1 - Semi-parliamentary government in perspective BT - concepts, values, and designs JF - Australian Journal of Political Science N2 - The article responds to four commentaries on the concept of semi-parliamentary government and its application to Australian bicameralism. It highlights four main points: (1) Our preferred typology is not more ‘normative’ than existing approaches, but applies the criterion of ‘direct election’ equally to executive and legislature; (2) While the evolution of semi-parliamentary government had contingent elements, it plausibly also reflects the ‘equilibrium’ nature of certain institutional configurations; (3) The idea that a pure parliamentary system with pure proportional representation has absolute normative priority over ‘instrumentalist’ concerns about cabinet stability, identifiability and responsibility is questionable; and (4) The reforms we discuss may be unlikely to occur in Australia, but deserve consideration by scholars and institutional reformers in other democratic systems. KW - Executive-legislative relations KW - bicameralism KW - visions of democracy KW - parliamentary government KW - presidential government Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2018.1451488 SN - 1036-1146 SN - 1363-030X VL - 53 IS - 2 SP - 264 EP - 269 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ganghof, Steffen A1 - Eppner, Sebastian A1 - Pörschke, Alexander T1 - Australian bicameralism as semi-parliamentarism BT - patterns of majority formation in 29 democracies JF - Australian Journal of Political Science N2 - The article analyses the type of bicameralism we find in Australia as a distinct executive-legislative system – a hybrid between parliamentary and presidential government – which we call ‘semi-parliamentary government’. We argue that this hybrid presents an important and underappreciated alternative to pure parliamentary government as well as presidential forms of the power-separation, and that it can achieve a certain balance between competing models or visions of democracy. We specify theoretically how the semi-parliamentary separation of powers contributes to the balancing of democratic visions and propose a conceptual framework for comparing democratic visions. We use this framework to locate the Australian Commonwealth, all Australian states and 22 advanced democratic nation-states on a two-dimensional empirical map of democratic patterns for the period from 1995 to 2015. KW - Executive-legislative relations KW - bicameralism KW - parliamentary government KW - presidential government KW - visions of democracy Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2018.1451487 SN - 1036-1146 SN - 1363-030X VL - 53 IS - 2 SP - 211 EP - 233 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Muiva-Mutisya, Lois M. A1 - Atilaw, Yoseph A1 - Heydenreich, Matthias A1 - Koch, Andreas A1 - Akala, Hoseah M. A1 - Cheruiyot, Agnes C. A1 - Brown, Matthew L. A1 - Irungu, Beatrice A1 - Okalebo, Faith A. A1 - Derese, Solomon A1 - Mutai, Charles A1 - Yenesew, Abiy T1 - Antiplasmodial prenylated flavanonols from Tephrosia subtriflora JF - Natural Product Research N2 - The CH2Cl2/MeOH (1:1) extract of the aerial parts of Tephrosia subtriflora afforded a new flavanonol, named subtriflavanonol (1), along with the known flavanone spinoflavanone B, and the known flavanonols MS-II (2) and mundulinol. The structures were elucidated by the use of NMR spectroscopy and mass spectrometry. The absolute configuration of the flavanonols was determined based on quantum chemical ECD calculations. In the antiplasmodial assay, compound 2 showed the highest activity against chloroquine-sensitive Plasmodiumfalciparum reference clones (D6 and 3D7), artemisinin-sensitive isolate (F32-TEM) as well as field isolate (KSM 009) with IC50 values 1.4-4.6M without significant cytotoxicity against Vero and HEp2 cell lines (IC50>100M). The new compound (1) showed weak antiplasmodial activity, IC50 12.5-24.2M, but also showed selective anticancer activity against HEp2 cell line (CC50 16.9M). [GRAPHICS] . KW - Tephrosia subtriflora KW - Leguminosae KW - prenylated flavanonol KW - subtriflavanonol KW - antiplasmodial KW - cytotoxicity Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/14786419.2017.1353510 SN - 1478-6419 SN - 1478-6427 VL - 32 IS - 12 SP - 1407 EP - 1414 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Burmester, Juliane A1 - Sauermann, Antje A1 - Spalek, Katharina A1 - Wartenburger, Isabell T1 - Sensitivity to salience BT - linguistic vs. visual cues affect sentence processing and pronoun resolution JF - Language, cognition and neuroscience N2 - Sentence comprehension is optimised by indicating entities as salient through linguistic (i.e., information-structural) or visual means. We compare how salience of a depicted referent due to a linguistic (i.e., topic status) or visual cue (i.e., a virtual person's gaze shift) modulates sentence comprehension in German. We investigated processing of sentences with varying word order and pronoun resolution by means of self-paced reading and an antecedent choice task, respectively. Our results show that linguistic as well as visual salience cues immediately speeded up reading times of sentences mentioning the salient referent first. In contrast, for pronoun resolution, linguistic and visual cues modulated antecedent choice preferences less congruently. In sum, our findings speak in favour of a significant impact of linguistic and visual salience cues on sentence comprehension, substantiating that salient information delivered via language as well as the visual environment is integrated in the current mental representation of the discourse. KW - Topic status KW - eye gaze KW - visual context KW - reading times KW - antecedent choice Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2018.1428758 SN - 2327-3798 SN - 2327-3801 VL - 33 IS - 6 SP - 784 EP - 801 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gomez, Christophe A1 - Hartung, Niklas T1 - Stochastic and deterministic models for the metastatic emission process BT - Formalisms and Crosslinks JF - Cancer Systems Biology N2 - Although the detection of metastases radically changes prognosis of and treatment decisions for a cancer patient, clinically undetectable micrometastases hamper a consistent classification into localized or metastatic disease. This chapter discusses mathematical modeling efforts that could help to estimate the metastatic risk in such a situation. We focus on two approaches: (1) a stochastic framework describing metastatic emission events at random times, formalized via Poisson processes, and (2) a deterministic framework describing the micrometastatic state through a size-structured density function in a partial differential equation model. Three aspects are addressed in this chapter. First, a motivation for the Poisson process framework is presented and modeling hypotheses and mechanisms are introduced. Second, we extend the Poisson model to account for secondary metastatic emission. Third, we highlight an inherent crosslink between the stochastic and deterministic frameworks and discuss its implications. For increased accessibility the chapter is split into an informal presentation of the results using a minimum of mathematical formalism and a rigorous mathematical treatment for more theoretically interested readers. KW - Poisson process KW - Structured population equation KW - Metastasis KW - Mathematical modeling Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-1-4939-7493-1 SN - 978-1-4939-7492-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7493-1_10 SN - 1064-3745 SN - 1940-6029 VL - 1711 SP - 193 EP - 224 PB - Humana Press Inc. CY - Totowa ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Asari, Seiki A1 - Wardinski, Ingo T1 - Interannual fluctuations of the core angular momentum inferred from geomagnetic field models JF - Magnetic Fields in the Solar System : Planets, Moons and Solar Wind Interactions Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-319-64292-5 SN - 978-3-319-64291-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64292-5_4 SN - 0067-0057 VL - 448 SP - 111 EP - 123 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kersting, Norbert A1 - Kuhlmann, Sabine T1 - Sub-municipal Units in Germany BT - Municipal and Metropolitan Districts JF - Sub-municipal Units in Germany: Municipal and Metropolitan Districts N2 - Sub-municipal units (SMUs) in Germany differ in German Länder. In Berlin, Hamburg and München Metropole Districts fulfill a number of quasi-municipal self-government rights and functions. They have their own budget and strong councils, as well as mayors. In all other Länder, most sub-municipal councils were subordinated under the municipal council and directly elected mayor heading the administration. SMUs were introduced as a kind of compensation with different territorial reforms in the 1970s. Although directly elected, sub-municipal councilors are weak, and their advisory role competes with other newly established advisory boards. Here the focus remains on traffic and town planning. Some sub-municipal councils fulfill smaller administrative functions and become more relevant and important in recent decentralization strategies of neighborhood development. Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-319-64725-8 SN - 978-3-319-64724-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64725-8_5 SP - 93 EP - 118 PB - Palgrave CY - Basingstoke ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Reinhardt, Julia A1 - Liersch, Stefan A1 - Abdeladhim, Mohamed Arbi A1 - Diallo, Mori A1 - Dickens, Chris A1 - Fournet, Samuel A1 - Hattermann, Fred A1 - Kabaseke, Clovis A1 - Muhumuza, Moses A1 - Mul, Marloes L. A1 - Pilz, Tobias A1 - Otto, Ilona M. A1 - Walz, Ariane T1 - Systematic evaluation of scenario assessments supporting sustainable integrated natural resources management BT - evidence from four case studies in Africa JF - Ecology and society : a journal of integrative science for resilience and sustainability N2 - Scenarios have become a key tool for supporting sustainability research on regional and global change. In this study we evaluate four regional scenario assessments: first, to explore a number of research challenges related to sustainability science and, second, to contribute to sustainability research in the specific case studies. The four case studies used commonly applied scenario approaches that are (i) a story and simulation approach with stakeholder participation in the Oum Zessar watershed, Tunisia, (ii) a participatory scenario exploration in the Rwenzori region, Uganda, (iii) a model-based prepolicy study in the Inner Niger Delta, Mali, and (iv) a model coupling-based scenario analysis in upper Thukela basin, South Africa. The scenario assessments are evaluated against a set of known challenges in sustainability science, with each challenge represented by two indicators, complemented by a survey carried out on the perception of the scenario assessments within the case study regions. The results show that all types of scenario assessments address many sustainability challenges, but that the more complex ones based on story and simulation and model coupling are the most comprehensive. The study highlights the need to investigate abrupt system changes as well as governmental and political factors as important sources of uncertainty. For an in-depth analysis of these issues, the use of qualitative approaches and an active engagement of local stakeholders are suggested. Studying ecological thresholds for the regional scale is recommended to support research on regional sustainability. The evaluation of the scenario processes and outcomes by local researchers indicates the most transparent scenario assessments as the most useful. Focused, straightforward, yet iterative scenario assessments can be very relevant by contributing information to selected sustainability problems. KW - Africa KW - global and regional change KW - integrated assessments KW - participatory research KW - sustainability science Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09728-230105 SN - 1708-3087 VL - 23 IS - 1 PB - Resilience Alliance CY - Wolfville ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vormoor, Klaus Josef A1 - Heistermann, Maik A1 - Bronstert, Axel A1 - Lawrence, Deborah T1 - Hydrological model parameter (in)stability BT - "crash testing" the HBV model under contrasting flood seasonality conditions JF - Hydrological sciences journal = Journal des sciences hydrologiques N2 - This paper investigates the transferability of calibrated HBV model parameters under stable and contrasting conditions in terms of flood seasonality and flood generating processes (FGP) in five Norwegian catchments with mixed snowmelt/rainfall regimes. We apply a series of generalized (differential) split-sample tests using a 6-year moving window over (i) the entire runoff observation periods, and (ii) two subsets of runoff observations distinguished by the seasonal occurrence of annual maximum floods during either spring or autumn. The results indicate a general model performance loss due to the transfer of calibrated parameters to independent validation periods of -5 to -17%, on average. However, there is no indication that contrasting flood seasonality exacerbates performance losses, which contradicts the assumption that optimized parameter sets for snowmelt-dominated floods (during spring) perform particularly poorly on validation periods with rainfall-dominated floods (during autumn) and vice versa. KW - hydrological modelling KW - flood seasonality KW - differential split-sample test KW - flood generating processes KW - Nordic catchments Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2018.1466056 SN - 0262-6667 SN - 2150-3435 VL - 63 IS - 7 SP - 991 EP - 1007 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Class, Fabian A1 - Köhler, Ulrich A1 - Krawietz, Marian T1 - The Potsdam Grievance Statistics File BT - New data on quality of life and political participation for the German Democratic Republic 1970-1989 JF - Historical Methods N2 - The newly collected Potsdam Grievance Statistics File (PGSF) holds data on the number and topics of grievances (Eingaben) that were addressed to local authorities of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the years 1970 to 1989. The PGSF allows quantitative analyses on topics such as participation, quality of life, and value change in the German Democratic Republic. This paper introduces the concepts of the data set and discusses the validity of its contents. KW - Potsdam Grievance Statistics File (PGSF) KW - German Democratic Republic (GDR) KW - Eingaben KW - Participation KW - Quality of Life Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/01615440.2018.1429970 SN - 0161-5440 SN - 1940-1906 VL - 51 IS - 2 SP - 92 EP - 114 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Utecht, Manuel Martin A1 - Klamroth, Tillmann T1 - Local resonances in STM manipulation of chlorobenzene on Si(111)-7x7 BT - performance of different cluster models and density functionals JF - Molecular physics N2 - Hot localised charge carriers on the Si(111)-7x7 surface are modelled by small charged clusters. Such resonances induce non-local desorption, i.e. more than 10 nm away from the injection site, of chlorobenzene in scanning tunnelling microscope experiments. We used such a cluster model to characterise resonance localisation and vibrational activation for positive and negative resonances recently. In this work, we investigate to which extent the model depends on details of the used cluster or quantum chemistry methods and try to identify the smallest possible cluster suitable for a description of the neutral surface and the ion resonances. Furthermore, a detailed analysis for different chemisorption orientations is performed. While some properties, as estimates of the resonance energy or absolute values for atomic changes, show such a dependency, the main findings are very robust with respect to changes in the model and/or the chemisorption geometry. [GRAPHICS] . KW - DFT KW - cluster model KW - charge localisation KW - STM Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/00268976.2018.1442939 SN - 0026-8976 SN - 1362-3028 VL - 116 IS - 13 SP - 1687 EP - 1696 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Watanabe, Mutsumi A1 - Tohge, Takayuki A1 - Balazadeh, Salma A1 - Erban, Alexander A1 - Giavalisco, Patrick A1 - Kopka, Joachim A1 - Mueller-Roeber, Bernd A1 - Fernie, Alisdair R. A1 - Hoefgen, Rainer T1 - Comprehensive Metabolomics Studies of Plant Developmental Senescence JF - Plant Senescence: Methods and Protocols N2 - Leaf senescence is an essential developmental process that involves diverse metabolic changes associated with degradation of macromolecules allowing nutrient recycling and remobilization. In contrast to the significant progress in transcriptomic analysis of leaf senescence, metabolomics analyses have been relatively limited. A broad overview of metabolic changes during leaf senescence including the interactions between various metabolic pathways is required to gain a better understanding of the leaf senescence allowing to link transcriptomics with metabolomics and physiology. In this chapter, we describe how to obtain comprehensive metabolite profiles and how to dissect metabolic shifts during leaf senescence in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Unlike nucleic acid analysis for transcriptomics, a comprehensive metabolite profile can only be achieved by combining a suite of analytic tools. Here, information is provided for measurements of the contents of chlorophyll, soluble proteins, and starch by spectrophotometric methods, ions by ion chromatography, thiols and amino acids by HPLC, primary metabolites by GC/TOF-MS, and secondary metabolites and lipophilic metabolites by LC/ESI-MS. These metabolite profiles provide a rich catalogue of metabolic changes during leaf senescence, which is a helpful database and blueprint to be correlated to future studies such as transcriptome and proteome analyses, forward and reverse genetic studies, or stress-induced senescence studies. KW - Senescence KW - Metabolomics KW - Arabidopsis KW - GC/MS KW - LC/MS KW - HPLC KW - IC Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-1-4939-7672-0 SN - 978-1-4939-7670-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7672-0_28 SN - 1064-3745 SN - 1940-6029 VL - 1744 SP - 339 EP - 358 PB - Humana Press CY - Totowa ER - TY - JOUR A1 - de Wiljes, Jana A1 - Reich, Sebastian A1 - Stannat, Wilhelm T1 - Long-Time stability and accuracy of the ensemble Kalman-Bucy Filter for fully observed processes and small measurement noise JF - SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems N2 - The ensemble Kalman filter has become a popular data assimilation technique in the geosciences. However, little is known theoretically about its long term stability and accuracy. In this paper, we investigate the behavior of an ensemble Kalman-Bucy filter applied to continuous-time filtering problems. We derive mean field limiting equations as the ensemble size goes to infinity as well as uniform-in-time accuracy and stability results for finite ensemble sizes. The later results require that the process is fully observed and that the measurement noise is small. We also demonstrate that our ensemble Kalman-Bucy filter is consistent with the classic Kalman-Bucy filter for linear systems and Gaussian processes. We finally verify our theoretical findings for the Lorenz-63 system. KW - data assimilation KW - Kalman Bucy filter KW - ensemble Kalman filter KW - stability KW - accuracy KW - asymptotic behavior Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1137/17M1119056 SN - 1536-0040 VL - 17 IS - 2 SP - 1152 EP - 1181 PB - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics CY - Philadelphia ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Thienen, Julia von A1 - Clancey, William J. A1 - Corazza, Giovanni Emanuele A1 - Meinel, Christoph T1 - Theoretical foundations of design thinking creative thinking theories JF - Design Thinking Research: Making Distinctions: Collaboration versus Cooperation N2 - Design thinking is acknowledged as a thriving innovation practice plus something more, something in the line of a deep understanding of innovation processes. At the same time, quite how and why design thinking works-in scientific terms-appeared an open question at first. Over recent years, empirical research has achieved great progress in illuminating the principles that make design thinking successful. Lately, the community began to explore an additional approach. Rather than setting up novel studies, investigations into the history of design thinking hold the promise of adding systematically to our comprehension of basic principles. This chapter makes a start in revisiting design thinking history with the aim of explicating scientific understandings that inform design thinking practices today. It offers a summary of creative thinking theories that were brought to Stanford Engineering in the 1950s by John E. Arnold. Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-319-60967-6 SN - 978-3-319-60966-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60967-6_2 SP - 13 EP - 40 PB - Springer CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schmidt, Silke Regina A1 - Gerten, Dieter A1 - Hintze, Thomas A1 - Lischeid, Gunnar A1 - Livingstone, David M. A1 - Adrian, Rita T1 - Temporal and spatial scales of water temperature variability as an indicator for mixing in a polymictic lake JF - Inland waters : journal of the International Society of Limnology N2 - We applied coarse spectral analysis to more than 2 decades of daily near-surface water temperature (WT) measurements from Muggelsee, a shallow polymictic lake in Germany, to systematically characterize patterns in WT variability from daily to yearly temporal scales. Comparison of WT with local air temperature indicates that the WT variability patterns are likely attributable to both meteorological forcing and internal lake dynamics. We identified seasonal patterns of WT variability and showed that WT variability increases with increasing Schmidt stability, decreasing Lake number and decreasing ice cover duration, and is higher near the shore than in open water. We introduced the slope of WT spectra as an indicator for the degree of lake mixing to help explain the identified temporal and spatial scales of WT variability. The explanatory power of this indicator in other lakes with different mixing regimes remains to be established. KW - Lake number KW - polymictic lakes KW - Schmidt stability KW - seasonality KW - spectral analysis KW - variability Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/20442041.2018.1429067 SN - 2044-2041 SN - 2044-205X VL - 8 IS - 1 SP - 82 EP - 95 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krüger-Genge, Anne A1 - Schulz, Christian A1 - Kratz, Karl A1 - Lendlein, Andreas A1 - Jung, Friedrich T1 - Comparison of two substrate materials used as negative control in endothelialization studies BT - Glass versus polymeric tissue culture plate JF - Clinical hemorheology and microcirculation : blood flow and vessels N2 - The endothelialization of synthetic surfaces applied as cardiovascular implant materials is an important issue to ensure the anti-thrombotic quality of a biomaterial. However, the rapid and constant development of a functionallycon-fluent endothelial cell monolayer is challenging. In order to investigate the compatibility of potential implant materials with endothelial cells several in vitro studies are performed. Here, glass and tissue culture plates (TCP) are often used as reference materials for in vitro pre-testing. However, a direct comparison of both substrates is lacking. Therefore, a comparison of study results is difficult, since results are often related to various reference materials. In this study, the endothelialization of glass and TCP was investigated in terms of adherence, morphology, integrity, viability and function using human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC). On both substrates an almost functionally confluent HUVEC monolayer was developed after nine days of cell seeding with clearly visible cell rims, decreased stress fiber formation and a pronounced marginal filament band. The viability of HUVEC was comparable for both substrates nine days after cell seeding with only a few dead cells. According to that, the cell membrane integrity as well as the metabolic activity showed no differences between TCP and glass. However, a significant difference was observed for the secretion of IL-6 and IL-8. The concentration of both cytokines, which are associated with migratory activity, was increased in the supernatant of HUVEC seeded on TCP. This result matches well with the slightly increased number of adherent HUVEC on TCP. In conclusion, these findings indicate that both reference materials are almost comparable and can be used equivalently as control materials in in vitro endothelialization studies. KW - Negative control KW - endothelial cells KW - glass KW - TCP KW - reference Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3233/CH-189904 SN - 1386-0291 SN - 1875-8622 VL - 69 IS - 3 SP - 437 EP - 445 PB - IOS Press CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krüger-Genge, A. A1 - Braune, S. A1 - Walter, M. A1 - Krengel, M. A1 - Kratz, K. A1 - Küpper, J. H. A1 - Lendlein, Andreas A1 - Jung, Friedrich T1 - Influence of different surface treatments of poly(n-butyl acrylate) networks on fibroblasts adhesion, morphology and viability JF - Clinical hemorheology and microcirculation : blood flow and vessels N2 - BACKGROUND: Physical and chemical characteristics of implant materials determine the fate of long-term cardiovascular devices. However, there is still a lack of fundamental understanding of the molecular mechanisms occurring in the material-tissue interphase. In a previous study, soft covalently crosslinked poly(n-butyl acrylate) networks (cPnBA) were introduced as sterilizable, non-toxic and immuno-compatible biomaterials with mechanical properties adjustable to blood vessels. Here we study the influence of different surface treatments in particular oxygen plasma modification and fibrinogen deposition as well as a combinatorial approach on the adhesion and viability of fibroblasts. RESULTS: Compared to non-treated cPnBAs the advancing water-contact angles were found to be reduced after all surface modifications (p<0.05, each), while lowest values were observed after the combined surface treatment (OPT+FIB). The latter differed significantly from the single OPT and FIB. The number of adherent fibroblasts and their adherence behavior differed on both pristine cPnBA networks. The fibroblast density on cPnBA04 was 743 +/- 434 cells. mm(-2), was about 6.5 times higher than on cPnBA73 with 115 +/- 73 cells. mm(-2). On cPnBA04 about 20% of the cells were visible as very small, round and buckled cells while all other cells were in a migrating status. On cPnBA73, nearly 50% of fibroblasts were visible as very small, round and buckled cells. The surface functionalization either using oxygen plasma treatment or fibrinogen coating led to a significant increase of adherent fibroblasts, particularly the combination of both techniques, for both cPnBA networks. It is noteworthy to mention that the fibrinogen coating overruled the characteristics of the pristine surfaces; here, the fibroblast densities after seeding were identical for both cPnBAnetworks. Thus, the binding rather depended on the fibrinogen coating than on the substrate characteristics anymore. While the integrity of the fibroblasts membrane was comparable for both polymers, the MTS tests showed a decreased metabolic activity of the fibroblasts on cPnBA. CONCLUSION: The applied surface treatments of cPnBA successfully improved the adhesion of viable fibroblasts. Under resting conditions as well as after shearing the highest fibroblast densities were found on surfaces with combined post-treatment. KW - Biomaterial KW - poly(n-butyl acrylate) KW - fibroblast KW - oxygen plasma KW - fibrinogen KW - cell adhesion KW - focal adhesion KW - actin cytoskeleton KW - viability Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3233/CH-189130 SN - 1386-0291 SN - 1875-8622 VL - 69 IS - 1-2 SP - 305 EP - 316 PB - IOS Press CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kumar, Reddi K. A1 - Heuchel, Matthias A1 - Kratz, Karl A1 - Lendlein, Andreas A1 - Jankowski, Joachim A1 - Tetali, Sarada D. T1 - Effects of extracts prepared from modified porous poly(ether imide) microparticulate absorbers on cytotoxicity, macrophage differentiation and proinflammatory behavior of human monocytic (THP-1) cells JF - Clinical hemorheology and microcirculation : blood flow and vessels N2 - Remaining uremic toxins in the blood of chronic renal failure patients represent one central challenge in hemodialysis therapies. Highly porous poly(ether imide) (PEI) microparticles have been recently introduced as candidate absorber materials, which show a high absorption capacity for uremic toxins and allow hydrophilic surface modification suitable for minimization of serum protein absorption. In this work, the effects of extracts prepared from PEI microparticles modified by nucleophilic reaction with low molecular weight polyethylene imine (Pei) or potassium hydroxide (KOH), on human monocytic (THP-1) cells are studied. The obtained results suggested that the extracts of Pei and KOH modified PEI absorbers have no negative effect on THP-1 cell viability and do not initiate the critical differentiation towards macrophages. The extracts did not enhance transcript or protein levels of investigated proinflammatory markers in THP-1 cells, namely, TNF alpha, MCP1, IL6 and IL8. Based on these findings such modified PEI microparticles should be qualified for further pre-clinical evaluation i.e. in an in vivo animal experiment. KW - Chronic kidney disease KW - hemodialysis KW - Inflammation KW - Porous poly(ether imide) microparticulate absorbers KW - THP-1 cells KW - Uremic toxins Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3233/CH-189112 SN - 1386-0291 SN - 1875-8622 VL - 69 IS - 1-2 SP - 175 EP - 185 PB - IOS Press CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bourne, D. P. A1 - Cushing, D. A1 - Liu, S. A1 - Münch, Florentin A1 - Peyerimhoff, Norbert T1 - Ollivier-Ricci idleness functions of graphs JF - SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics N2 - We study the Ollivier-Ricci curvature of graphs as a function of the chosen idleness. We show that this idleness function is concave and piecewise linear with at most three linear parts, and at most two linear parts in the case of a regular graph. We then apply our result to show that the idleness function of the Cartesian product of two regular graphs is completely determined by the idleness functions of the factors. KW - Ollivier-Ricci KW - idleness KW - optimal transport Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1137/17M1134469 SN - 0895-4801 SN - 1095-7146 VL - 32 IS - 2 SP - 1408 EP - 1424 PB - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics CY - Philadelphia ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Soto, Paulina T1 - Una reeducación crítica: emergencia de revistas literarias digitales chilenas en el transcurso de la primera década del siglo XXI T1 - A criticism re-education: the emergence of ChileanWeb-supported literary journals in the course of the first decade of the twenty-first century JF - Estudios Avanzados N2 - Para inicios del siglo XXI se instalan nuevos medios de crítica literaria a través de soportes digitales. Estas publicaciones tensionan un campo letrado chileno que enfrenta cuestionamientos. Gestionadas mayoritariamente por creadores precedentes de la generación del 90, producen reaproximaciones a la cultura letrada. El objetivo es desafiar dinámicas de interacción lectora heredadas vinculadas a las luces patria, desarrollistas, de tipo linear y ciegas a la heterogeneidad cultural vivida en la época. El proceso comprende, de tal modo, una reeducación crítica centrada en ensayar poéticas de productividad analítico-literarias heteróclitas. Se trata de una interacción lectora diversa, sujeta a retóricas íntimas de apreciación estética, que ponen en cuestión las nociones tradicionales mayoritariamente instructiva de la cultura chilena. N2 - In the course of the first decade of the twenty-first century, Web-supported Literary Journals emerged as a mean to socialize and democratize Chilean Literary Culture. The tendency, conducted by creators associated to the 90’ generation poetry challenged traditional ways of cultural interaction as well as encouraged aesthetic communication, and otherness understanding. In this way, the tendency encouraged a cultural scenario in dispute. Traditional cultural institutions appeared to be corrupted by the post dictatorial progressivist national ethos. Linked to an affective and dialogic reader-encounter, the new critical approach shifted the traditional notion of lectureship as national instruction. KW - web-supported literary journals KW - literary canon KW - chilean literary critic KW - literature and education KW - Isabel Allende Y1 - 2018 SN - 0718-5022 SN - 0718-5014 IS - 28 SP - 121 EP - 137 PB - Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH) CY - Santiago ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Martinez-Chicharro, M. A1 - Torrejon, J. M. A1 - Oskinova, Lida A1 - Furst, F. A1 - Postnov, K. A1 - Rodes-Roca, J. J. A1 - Hainich, Rainer A1 - Bodaghee, A. T1 - Evidence of Compton cooling during an X-ray flare supports a neutron star nature of the compact object in 4U1700-37 JF - Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society N2 - Based on new Chandra X-ray telescope data, we present empirical evidence of plasma Compton cooling during a flare in the non-pulsating massive X-ray binary 4U1700-37. This behaviour might be explained by quasi-spherical accretion on to a slowly rotating magnetized neutron star (NS). In quiescence, the NS in 4U1700-37 is surrounded by a hot radiatively cooling shell. Its presence is supported by the detection of mHz quasi-periodic oscillations likely produced by its convection cells. The high plasma temperature and the relatively low X-ray luminosity observed during the quiescence, point to a small emitting area similar to 1 km, compatible with a hotspot on an NS surface. The sudden transition from a radiative to a significantly more efficient Compton cooling regime triggers an episode of enhanced accretion resulting in a flare. During the flare, the plasma temperature drops quickly. The predicted luminosity for such transitions, similar to 3 x 10(35) erg s(-1), is very close to the luminosity of 4U1700-37 during quiescence. The transition may be caused by the accretion of a clump in the stellar wind of the donor star. Thus, a magnetized NS nature of the compact object is strongly favoured. KW - stars: individual: 4U1700-37 KW - V*V884 Sco KW - X-rays: binaries Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slx165 SN - 0035-8711 SN - 1365-2966 VL - 473 IS - 1 SP - L74 EP - L78 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Verissimo, Joao Marques A1 - Heyer, Vera A1 - Jacob, Gunnar A1 - Clahsen, Harald T1 - Selective effects of age of acquisition on morphological priming BT - evidence for a sensitive period JF - Language acquisition : a journal of developmental linguistics N2 - Is there an ideal time window for language acquisition after which nativelike representation and processing are unattainable? Although this question has been heavily debated, no consensus has been reached. Here, we present evidence for a sensitive period in language development and show that it is specific to grammar. We conducted a masked priming task with a group of Turkish-German bilinguals and examined age of acquisition (AoA) effects on the processing of complex words. We compared a subtle but meaningful linguistic contrast, that between grammatical inflection and lexical-based derivation. The results showed a highly selective AoA effect on inflectional (but not derivational) priming. In addition, the effect displayed a discontinuity indicative of a sensitive period: Priming from inflected forms was nativelike when acquisition started before the age of 5 but declined with increasing AoA. We conclude that the acquisition of morphological rules expressing morphosyntactic properties is constrained by maturational factors. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2017.1346104 SN - 1048-9223 SN - 1532-7817 VL - 25 IS - 3 SP - 315 EP - 326 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Waller, Nicole T1 - Connecting Atlantic and Pacific: Theorizing the Arctic JF - Atlantic studies : literary, cultural and historical perspectives N2 - This essay sets out to theorize the "new" Arctic Ocean as a pivot from which our standard map of the world is currently being reconceptualized. Drawing on theories from the fields of Atlantic and Pacific studies, I argue that the changing Arctic, characterized by melting ice and increased accessibility, must be understood both as a space of transit that connects Atlantic and Pacific worlds in unprecedented ways, and as an oceanic world and contact zone in its own right. I examine both functions of the Arctic via a reading of the dispute over the Northwest Passage (which emphasizes the Arctic as a space of transit) and the contemporary assessment of new models of sovereignty in the Arctic region (which concentrates on the circumpolar Arctic as an oceanic world). However, both of these debates frequently exclude indigenous positions on the Arctic. By reading Canadian Inuit theories on the Arctic alongside the more prominent debates, I argue for a decolonizing reading of the Arctic inspired by Inuit articulations of the "Inuit Sea." In such a reading, Inuit conceptions provide crucial interventions into theorizing the Arctic. They also, in turn, contribute to discussions on indigeneity, sovereignty, and archipelagic theory in Atlantic and Pacific studies. KW - Atlantic studies KW - Pacific studies KW - Arctic studies KW - Northwest Passage KW - indigeneity KW - sovereignty KW - archipelagic theory Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2017.1387467 SN - 1478-8810 SN - 1740-4649 VL - 15 IS - 2 SP - 256 EP - 278 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wang, Guang A1 - Li, Pei-zhi A1 - Zhang, Shi-yao A1 - Zhong, Shan A1 - Chu, Chang A1 - Zeng, Shufei A1 - Yan, Yu A1 - Cheng, Xin A1 - Chuai, Manli A1 - Hocher, Berthold A1 - Yang, Xuesong T1 - Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) Induced Angiogenesis During Chicken Embryogenesis is Abolished by Combined ETA/ETB Receptor Blockade JF - Cellular physiology and biochemistry : international journal of experimental cellular physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology N2 - Background/Aims: Angiogenesis plays a key role during embryonic development. The vascular endothelin (ET) system is involved in the regulation of angiogenesis. Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) could induce angiogenesis. The effects of ET blockers on baseline and LPS-stimulated angiogenesis during embryonic development remain unknown so far. Methods: The blood vessel density (BVD) of chorioallantoic membranes (CAMs), which were treated with saline (control), LPS, and/or BQ123 and the ETB blocker BQ788, were quantified and analyzed using an IPP 6.0 image analysis program. Moreover, the expressions of ET-1, ET-2, ET3, ET receptor A (ETRA), ET receptor B (ETRB) and VEGFR2 mRNA during embryogenesis were analyzed by semi-quantitative RT-PCR. Results: All components of the ET system are detectable during chicken embryogenesis. LPS increased angiogenesis substantially. This process was completely blocked by the treatment of a combination of the ETA receptor blockers-BQ123 and the ETB receptor blocker BQ788. This effect was accompanied by a decrease in ETRA, ETRB, and VEGFR2 gene expression. However, the baseline angiogenesis was not affected by combined ETA/ETB receptor blockade. Conclusion: During chicken embryogenesis, the LPS-stimulated angiogenesis, but not baseline angiogenesis, is sensitive to combined ETA/ETB receptor blockade. KW - Lipopolysaccharides (LPS) KW - Angiogenesis KW - Chicken chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) KW - Endothelin (ET) Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1159/000492547 SN - 1015-8987 SN - 1421-9778 VL - 48 IS - 5 SP - 2084 EP - 2090 PB - Karger CY - Basel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krauskopf, Karsten A1 - Foulger, Teresa S. A1 - Williams, Mia Kim T1 - Prompting teachers’ reflection of their professional knowledge BT - proof-of-concept study of the Graphic Assessment of TPACK Instrument JF - Teacher Development N2 - Many educational technology proponents support the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) model as a way to conceptualize teaching with technology, but recent TPACK research shows a need for empirical studies regarding the development of this knowledge. This proof-of-concept study applies mixed-methods to investigate the meta-cognitive awareness produced by teachers who participate in the Graphic Assessment of TPACK Instrument (GATI). This process involves creating graphical representations (circles of differing sizes and the degree of their overlap) that represent what teachers understand to be their current and aspired TPACK. This study documented teachers’ explanations during a think-aloud procedure as they created their GATI figures. The in-depth data from two German teachers who participated in the process captured the details of their experience and demonstrated the potential of the GATI to support teachers in reflecting about their professional knowledge and in determining their own professional development activities. These findings will be informative to future pilot studies involving the larger design of the GATI process, to better understand the role of teachers’ meta-conceptual awareness, and to better ascertain how the GATI might be used to support professional development on a larger scale. KW - TPACK KW - professional development KW - Graphic Assessment of TPACK Instrument KW - GATI KW - reflective practice KW - meta-cognitive prompts Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13664530.2017.1367717 SN - 1366-4530 SN - 1747-5120 VL - 22 IS - 2 SP - 153 EP - 174 PB - Routledge CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bunk, Bettina T1 - The dynamics of donor and domestic elite interaction in Mozambique BT - formal decentralisation and informal power structures JF - Conflict, Security & Development N2 - This paper analyses the interaction of domestic political elites and external donors against the backdrop of Mozambique’s decentralisation process. The empirical research at national and local levels supports the hypothesis that informal power structures influence the dynamics of this interaction. Consequently, this contributes to an outcome of externally induced democratisation different to what was intended by external actors. The decentralisation process has been utilised by ruling domestic elites for political purposes. Donors have rather focused on the technical side and ignored this informal dimension. By analysing the diverging objectives and perceptions of external and internal actors, as well as the instrumentalisation of formal democratic structures, it becomes clear, that the ‘informal has to be seen as normal’. At a theoretical level, the analysis contributes to elite-oriented approaches of post-conflict democratisation by adding ‘the informal’ as an additional factor for the dynamics of external-internal interaction. At a policy level, external actors need to take more into account informal power structures and their ambivalence for state-building and democratisation. KW - Decentralisation KW - democratisation KW - donors KW - elites KW - informal KW - interaction KW - legitimation KW - Mozambique KW - power Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2018.1483555 SN - 1467-8802 SN - 1478-1174 VL - 18 IS - 4 SP - 321 EP - 346 PB - Routledge CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jasniak, Michael A1 - Ermakova, Tatiana A1 - Baierl, Ronny A1 - Halberstadt, Jantje T1 - What drives social entrepreneurial appraisal among hearing-impaired individuals? JF - International Journal of Entrepreneurial Venturing N2 - Involvement of disadvantaged individuals into entrepreneurship facilitates their social integration into mainstream societies. The present study addresses the drivers of social entrepreneurial appraisal among hearing-impaired individuals within a unique social minority environment. In prior research, social appraisal was empirically shown to determine social entrepreneurial intention. Adopting the theory of planned behaviour, this study investigates the impact of entrepreneurial self-efficacy, general social support and perceived barriers on social entrepreneurial appraisal. Based on a survey with 221 respondents, our results demonstrate that social entrepreneurial appraisal of hearing-impaired individuals result from their entrepreneurial self-efficacy and general social support. In terms of taking advantage of social opportunities, importance should be given to the role of entrepreneurial education and heterogeneous networks across minorities. KW - social entrepreneurial appraisal KW - social entrepreneurship KW - social minority entrepreneurship KW - hearing-impaired individuals KW - disabled minority sample Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1504/IJEV.2018.092734 SN - 1742-5360 SN - 1742-5379 VL - 10 IS - 2 SP - 236 EP - 255 PB - Inderscience Enterprises Ltd CY - Geneva ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Liu, Yuk-Chien A1 - Groth, Detlef T1 - Body height, social dominance and the political climate BT - a comment JF - Journal of biological and clinical anthropology JF - Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie N2 - Background: The association between stature and social dominance is known. Dominance within social groups and current politics are related issues. We therefore aimed to compare estimates of the opinion of a population about their current political issues, with physical growth. Material and methods: We used data on the 2012 and the 2014 elections for the Japanese House of Representatives and the percent proportion of votes of the 47 prefectures of Japan, and regional data on body height of 17.5 year old men and women. Information on capita income, possession of mobile phones, urban/rural population ratio, and age distribution were added to capture socioeconomic factors. Four political parties were present in most of the 47 prefectures: the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the New Komeito Party (Kom) that is known for their social network community, and the Japanese Communist Party (JCP). Results: A dense network of associations exists between height, age distribution, per capita income, number of smartphones, and voting results. Male and female body height was inversely related with the proportion of votes for New Komeito Party. Average stature decreases by one mm per percent votes for this political party. Medium strong positive associations were found for male body height and voting results of the DPJ and for female body height with the JCP election results. Conclusion: In modern Japan, popular preferences for conservative political structures coincide with shorter stature. KW - stature KW - social dominance KW - strategic growth adjustments Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2018/0855 SN - 0003-5548 VL - 74 IS - 5 SP - 445 EP - 450 PB - Schweizerbart CY - Stuttgart ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bents, Dominik A1 - Groth, Detlef A1 - Satake, Takashi T1 - The secular trend and network effects on height of male Japanese students from 1955 to 2015 JF - Journal of biological and clinical anthropology JF - Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie N2 - Introduction: Body height is influenced by biological factors such as genetics, nutrition and health, but also by the social network, and environmental and economical factors. During centuries, the Japanese society has developed on islands. This setting provides ideal natural conditions for studying the influence of social networks on human height. Material and methods: We investigated body height of male Japanese students aged 17.5 years obtained in 47 prefectures, from the Japanese school health survey of the years 1955, 1975, 1995, and 2015. Results: Japanese students increased in height from 163.23 cm in 1955 to 170.84 cm in 1995, with no further increase thereafter (170.63 cm in 2015). Students living in neighboring prefectures were similar in height. The correlation of height between neighboring prefectures ranged between r = 0.79 and r = 0.49 among first degree neighbors, between r = 0.49 and r = 0.21 among second degree neighbors and dropped to insignificance among third degree neighbors indicating psychosocial effects of the community on body height. Tall stature and short stature prefectures did not remain tall or short throughout history. Autocorrelations of height within the same prefectures decreased from the 20 years periods of 1955-1975, 1975-1995 and 1995-2015 (r = 0.52, r = 0.61, r = 0.63, respectively) to the 40 years periods of 1955-1995 and 1975-2015 (r = 0.49, r = 0.52), down to the 60 years period of 1955-2015 (r = 0.27), indicating significant volatility of height. Conclusion: Body height of 17.5 years old Japanese students increased since 1955. Body height depended on height of the neighboring prefecture, but was volatile with decreasing autocorrelation during a period of 60 years. KW - body height KW - community effect KW - neighbor correlation KW - Japan Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2018/0838 SN - 0003-5548 VL - 74 IS - 5 SP - 423 EP - 429 PB - Schweizerbart CY - Stuttgart ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Scheffler, Christiane A1 - Kruetzfeldt, Louisa-Marie A1 - Dasgupta, Parasmani A1 - Hermanussen, Michael T1 - No association between fat tissue and height in 5019 children and adolescents, measured between 1982 and 2011 in Kolkata/India JF - Journal of biological and clinical anthropology JF - Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie N2 - Body height has traditionally been looked upon as a mirror of the condition of society, short height being an indicator of poor nutritional status, poor education, and low social status and income. This view has recently been questioned. We aimed to quantify the effects of nutrition, education, sibship size, and household income, factors that are conventionally considered to be related to child growth, on body height of children and adolescents raised under urban Indian conditions. Sample and methods: We re-analyzed several anthropometric measurements and questionnaires with questions on sibship size, fathers’ and mother’s education, and monthly family expenditure, from two cross-sectional growth studies performed in Kolkata, India. The first Kolkata Growth Study (KG1) took place in 1982-1983, with data on 825 Bengali boys aged 7 to 16 years; and the second Kolkata Growth Study (KG2) between 1999 and 2011 with data of 1999 boys aged 7 to 21 years from Bengali Hindu families, and data of 2195 girls obtained between 2005 and 2011. Results: Indian children showed positive insignificant secular trends in height and a significant secular trend in weight and BMI between between 1982 and 2011. Yet, multiple regression analysis failed to detect an association between nutritional status (expressed in terms of skinfold thickness), monthly family expenditure and sibship size with body height of these children. The analysis only revealed an influence of parental education on female, but not on male height. Conclusion: We failed to detect influences of nutrition, sibship size, and monthly family expenditure on body height in a large sample of children and adolescents raised in Kolkata, India, between 1982 and 2011. We found a mild positive association between parental education and girls’ height. The data question current concepts regarding the impact of nutrition, and household and economic factors on growth, but instead underscore the effect of parental education. KW - body height KW - nutrition KW - social growth adjustment Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2018/0827 SN - 0003-5548 VL - 74 IS - 5 SP - 403 EP - 411 PB - Schweizerbart CY - Stuttgart ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mumm, Rebekka A1 - Godina, Elena A1 - Koziel, Slawomir A1 - Musalek, Martin A1 - Sedlak, Petr A1 - Wittwer-Backofen, Ursula A1 - Hess, Volker A1 - Dasgupta, Parasmani A1 - Henneberg, Maciej A1 - Scheffler, Christiane T1 - External skeletal robusticity of children and adolescents BT - European references from birth to adulthood and international comparisons JF - Journal of biological and clinical anthropology JF - Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie N2 - Background: In our modern world, the way of life in nutritional and activity behaviour has changed. As a consequence, parallel trends of an epidemic of overweight and a decline in external skeletal robusticity are observed in children and adolescents. Aim: We aim to develop reference centiles for external skeletal robusticity of European girls and boys aged 0 to 18 years using the Frame Index as an indicator and identify population specific age-related patterns. Methods: We analysed cross-sectional & longitudinal data on body height and elbow breadth of boys and girls from Europe (0-18 years, n = 41.679), India (7-18 years, n = 3.297) and South Africa (3-18 years, n = 4.346). As an indicator of external skeletal robusticity Frame Index after Frisancho (1990) was used. We developed centiles for boys and girls using the LMS-method and its extension. Results: Boys have greater external skeletal robusticity than girls. Whereas in girls Frame Index decreases continuously during growth, an increase of Frame Index from 12 to 16 years in European boys can be observed. Indian and South African boys are almost similar in Frame Index to European boys. In girls, the pattern is slightly different. Whereas South African girls are similar to European girls, Indian girls show a lesser external skeletal robusticity. Conclusion: Accurate references for external skeletal robusticity are needed to evaluate if skeletal development is adequate per age. They should be used to monitor effects of changes in way of life and physical activity levels in children and adolescents to avoid negative health outcomes like osteoporosis and arthrosis. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2018/0826 SN - 0003-5548 VL - 74 IS - 5 SP - 383 EP - 391 PB - Schweizerbart CY - Stuttgart ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bogin, Barry A1 - Hermanussen, Michael A1 - Scheffler, Christiane T1 - As tall as my peers BT - similarity in body height between migrants and hosts JF - Journal of biological and clinical anthropology JF - Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie N2 - Background: We define migrants as people who move from their place of birth to a new place of residence. Migration usually is directed by "Push-Pull" factors, for example to escape from poor living conditions or to find more prosperous socio-economic conditions. Migrant children tend to assimilate quickly, and soon perceive themselves as peers within their new social networks. Differences exist between growth of first generation and second generation migrants. Methods: We review body heights and height distributions of historic and modern migrant populations to test two hypotheses: 1) that migrant and adopted children coming from lower social status localities to higher status localities adjust their height growth toward the mean of the dominant recipient social network, and 2) social dominant colonial and military migrants display growth that significantly surpasses the median height of both the conquered population and the population of origin. Our analytical framework also considered social networks. Recent publications indicate that spatial connectedness (community effects) and social competitiveness can affect human growth. Results: Migrant children and adolescents of lower social status rapidly adjust in height towards average height of their hosts, but tend to mature earlier, and are prone to overweight. The mean height of colonial/military migrants does surpass that of the conquered and origin population. Conclusion: Observations on human social networks, non-human animal strategic growth adjustments, and competitive growth processes strengthen the concept of social connectedness being involved in the regulation of human migrant growth. KW - growth of migrants KW - community effect on height KW - dominance KW - strategic growth adjustments KW - competitive growth Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2018/0828 SN - 0003-5548 VL - 74 IS - 5 SP - 365 EP - 376 PB - Schweizerbart CY - Stuttgart ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Özer, Aydan A1 - Scheffler, Christiane T1 - Affinity to host population stimulates physical growth in adult offspring of Turkish migrants in Germany JF - Journal of biological and clinical anthropology JF - Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie N2 - Because of political conflicts and climate change, migration will be increased worldwide and integration in host societies is a challenge also for migrants. We hypothesize that migrants, who take up the challenge in a new social environment are taller than migrants who do not pose this challenge. We analyze by a questionnaire possible social, nutritional and ethnic influencing factors to body height (BH) of adult offspring of Turkish migrants (n = 82, 39 males) aged from 18 to 34 years (mean age 24.6 years). The results of multiple regression (downward selection) show that the more a male adult offspring of Turkish migrants feels like belonging to the Turkish culture, the smaller he is (95% CI, -3.79, -0.323). Further, the more a male adult offspring of Turkish migrants feels like belonging to the German culture, the taller he is (95% CI, -0.152, 1.738). We discussed it comparable to primates taking up their challenge in dominance, where as a result their body size increase is associated with higher IGF-1 level. IGF-1 is associated with emotional belonging and has a fundamental role in the regulation of metabolism and growth of the human body. With all pilot characteristics of our study results show that the successful challenge of integration in a new society is strongly associated with the emotional integration and identification in the sense of a personal sense of belonging to society. We discuss taller BH as a signal of social growth adjustment. In this sense, a secular trend of BH adaptation of migrants to hosts is a sign of integration. KW - height of Turkish migrants KW - social identification KW - strategic growth adjustments Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2018/0825 SN - 0003-5548 VL - 74 IS - 5 SP - 359 EP - 364 PB - Schweizerbart CY - Stuttgart ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Müller, Sandra Marie A1 - Ebert, Franziska A1 - Bornhorst, Julia A1 - Galla, Hans-Joachim A1 - Francesconi, Kevin A. A1 - Schwerdtle, Tanja T1 - Arsenic-containing hydrocarbons disrupt a model in vitro blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier JF - Journal of trace elements in medicine and biology N2 - Lipid-soluble arsenicals, so-called arsenolipids, have gained a lot of attention in the last few years because of their presence in many seafoods and reports showing substantial cytotoxicity emanating from arsenic-containing hydrocarbons (AsHCs), a prominent subgroup of the arsenolipids. More recent in vivo and in vitro studies indicate that some arsenolipids might have adverse effects on brain health. In the present study, we focused on the effects of selected arsenolipids and three representative metabolites on the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier (B-CSF-B), a brain-regulating interface. For this purpose, we incubated an in vitro model of the B-CSF-B composed of porcine choroid plexus epithelial cells (PCPECs) with three AsHCs, two arsenic-containing fatty acids (AsFAs) and three representative arsenolipid metabolites (dimethylarsinic acid, thio/oxo-dimethylpropanoic acid) to examine their cytotoxic potential and impact on barrier integrity. The toxic arsenic species arsenite was also tested in this way and served as a reference substance. While AsFAs and the metabolites showed no cytotoxic effects in the conducted assays, AsHCs showed a strong cytotoxicity, being up to 1.5-fold more cytotoxic than arsenite. Analysis of the in vitro B-CSF-B integrity showed a concentration dependent disruption of the barrier within 72 h. The correlation with the decreased plasma membrane surface area (measured as capacitance) indicates cytotoxic effects. These findings suggest exposure to elevated levels of certain arsenolipids may have detrimental consequences for the central nervous system. KW - Arsenolipids KW - Blood-liquor barrier KW - Blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier KW - Arsenic-containing hydrocarbons KW - Arsenic-containing fatty acids Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtemb.2018.01.020 SN - 0946-672X VL - 49 SP - 171 EP - 177 PB - Elsevier GMBH CY - München ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Meyer, Sören A1 - Markova, Mariya A1 - Pohl, Gabriele A1 - Marschall, Talke Anu A1 - Pivovarova, Olga A1 - Pfeiffer, Andreas F. H. A1 - Schwerdtle, Tanja T1 - Development, validation and application of an ICP-MS/MS method to quantify minerals and (ultra-)trace elements in human serum JF - Journal of trace elements in medicine and biology N2 - Multi-element determination in human samples is very challenging. Especially in human intervention studies sample volumes are often limited to a few microliters and due to the high number of samples a high-throughput is indispensable. Here, we present a state-of-the-art ICP-MS/MS-based method for the analysis of essential (trace) elements, namely Mg, Ca, Fe, Cu, Zn, Mo, Se and I, as well as food-relevant toxic elements such as As and Cd. The developed method was validated regarding linearity of the calibration curves, method LODs and LOQs, selectivity and trueness as well as precision. The established reliable method was applied to quantify the element serum concentrations of participants of a human intervention study (LeguAN). The participants received isocaloric diets, either rich in plant protein or in animal protein. While the serum concentrations of Mg and Mo increased in participants receiving the plant protein-based diet (above all legumes), the Se concentration in serum decreased. In contrast, the animal protein-based diet, rich in meat and dairy products, resulted in an increased Se concentration in serum. KW - ICP-MS KW - Elemental blood serum concentration KW - Human nutritional intervention Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtemb.2018.05.012 SN - 0946-672X VL - 49 SP - 157 EP - 163 PB - Elsevier GMBH CY - München ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Müller, Hans-Georg T1 - Zur empirischen Erhebung argumentativer Kompetenzen und Stile von Schülerinnen und Schülern der Sekundarstufe T1 - The empirical Studies of argumentative Competences and Styles of secondary School Students JF - Deutsche Sprache : ds ; Zeitschrift für Theorie, Praxis, Dokumentation N2 - Obwohl argumentative Kompetenzen in den Bildungsstandards einen hohen Stellenwert einnehmen, existiert nach wie vor eine eher geringe Anzahl empirischer Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung argumentativer Fähigkeiten von Schülerinnen und Schülern. Dieser Umstand wird weniger durch einen Mangel an argumentationstheoretischen Modellen verursacht als vielmehr von einer Reihe theoretischer Probleme, die insbesondere darin liegen, dass alltagsweltliche Argumentationen sprachliche Vagheiten und strukturelle Unvollständigkeiten aufweisen, die eine disjunkte empirische Kategorisierung erschweren. Im Beitrag wird ein Analysemodell vorgestellt, das diese Probleme teils löst, teils theoretisch umgeht und so die Grundlagen für eine reliable Datenerhebung bildet. Die Funktionsfähigkeit und didaktische Aussagekraft des Modells wird im Anschluss anhand eines Korpus mit argumentativen Gesprächsbeiträgen von Schülerinnen und Schülern der 8. und 10. Jahrgangsstufe demonstriert, bei der verschiedene Altersunterschiede sowie unterschiedliche argumentative Stile belegt werden können. N2 - Although argumentative competencies are a high priority in educational standards, there is still a relatively small number of empirical studies on the development of the students’ argumentative abilities. This circumstance is caused less by a lack of theoretical models of argumentation than by a series of theoretical problems due to the fact that everyday argumentation is often linguistically vague and structurally incomplete, which makes a disjunctive empirical categorisation difficult. The article presents an model of analysis which partly solves these problems, partly avoids them theoretically and thus forms the basis for a reliable data collection. The functional capacity and didactic validity of the model is then demonstrated using a corpus of argumentative conversational turns from pupils in the 8th and 10th grades which contain a range of age differences as well as different argumentative styles. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.37307/j.1868-775X.2018.02.05 SN - 0340-9341 SN - 1868-775X VL - 46 IS - 2 SP - 169 EP - 191 PB - Schmidt CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fischbacher, Thomas T1 - Ein Werk zweier Künstler? T1 - A Work of two Artists? BT - Paul Egell, Johann Peter Benckert und der Kruzifixus mit Maria Magdalena in der Propsteikirche St. Peter und Paul zu Potsdam BT - Paul Egell, Johann Peter Benckert and the Crucifix with Mary Magdalene in the Provost Church St. Peter and Paul in Potsdam JF - Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte N2 - The author suggests an attribution for two largely unknown Baroque sculptures inside the Church of St. Peter and Paul at Potsdam. The crucifixus, which has so far not been attributed to an artist, is shown to exhibit parallels to a 1716 work by Paul Egell. It remains unclear, however, whether the Potsdam crucifixus was also created by Egell himself or by Johann Peter Benckert, who congenially completed it in 1763 with a statue of the kneeling Maria Magdalena. The appealing depiction of the saint as an elegant sinner and penitent offers believers various possibilities for identification. Y1 - 2018 SN - 0044-2992 SN - 2569-1619 VL - 81 IS - 2 SP - 268 EP - 281 PB - Deutscher Kunstverlag GMBH CY - München ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ifenthaler, Dirk T1 - Learning analytics design JF - The Sciences of Learning and Instructional Design : Constructive Articulation Between Communities N2 - Instructional designers use learning analytics information to evaluate designs of learning environments, learning materials, and tasks, and adjust difficulty levels, as well as measure the impact of interventions and feedback. Integrating real-time educational data and analysis into the design of learning environments, referred to as learning analytics design (LAD), seems to be a promising approach. Valid pedagogical recommendations may be suggested on the fly as learning analytics methodologies and visualizations evolve and as reliable tools become available and ready for classroom practice. This chapter aims to offer an overview on design and analytics of learning environments before reviewing opportunities of learning analytics design for optimizing learning environments in near real time. Learning analytics (LA) use static and dynamic information about learners and learning environments—assessing, eliciting, and analyzing them—for real-time modeling, prediction, and optimization of learning processes, learning environments, and educational decision-making. Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-1-138-92432-1 SN - 978-1-315-68444-4 SN - 978-1-138-92431-4 SP - 202 EP - 211 PB - Routledge CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Nuesiri, Emmanuel O. T1 - Strengths and Limitations of Conservation NGOs in Meeting Local Needs JF - the Anthropology of Conservation NGOS N2 - Conservation nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) are often involved in the design and implementation of global forest management initiatives such as the REDD+, which currently is being rolled out by the UNFCCC, the UN-REDD Programme and the World Bank as part of efforts to mitigate climate change. Nigeria joined the UN-REDD in 2010 and submitted its REDD+ readiness proposal in 2011. The proposal has a national component and subnational forestry activities in the Cross River State (CRS) as the pilot site. This chapter examines the involvement of local NGOs in the CRS consultative participatory meetings to validate the Nigeria-REDD proposal. It shows that political representation of local communities in the validation exercise was through customary authorities and NGOs who claim to speak for and are recognised as advocates for the communities. Local government authorities, the substantive political representatives of local communities were left out of the process. The chapter also shows how the CRS Forestry Commission, which organised the validation exercise, used NGOs as pawns to legitimise it, and how these NGOs were powerless to challenge the Forestry Commission. In contrast, local governments, the third tier of government and political authority routinely disrespected by state-level administrators, regularly challenge such higher level government actors in the courts and the national legislature. Thus, local NGOs may speak and work for local social development but compared to the substantive political representatives at the local level (e.g., local government authorities), local NGOs have limited resources to challenge the political shenanigans of the state. Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-319-60579-1 SN - 978-3-319-60578-4 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60579-1_8 SP - 203 EP - 225 PB - Palgrave CY - Basingstoke ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cardenas, Aura A1 - Moliner, Ana A1 - Hontoria, Chiquinquira A1 - Schernthanner, Harald T1 - Analysis of land-use/land-cover changes in a livestock landscape dominated by traditional silvopastoral systems BT - a methodological approach JF - International Journal of Remote Sensing N2 - Remote sensing, which is a common method to examine land-use/land-cover (LULC) changes, could be useful in the analysis of livestock ecosystem transformations. In the last two decades, before Landsat images were free, developing countries could not afford monitoring through remote sensing because of the high cost of acquiring satellite imagery and commercial software. However, Landsat time series nowadays allows the characterization of changes in vegetation across large areas over time. The aim of this study is to analyse the LULC changes affecting forest frontiers and traditional silvopastoral systems (TSPS) in a representative livestock area of Nicaragua. Nearly cloud-free Landsat scenes - a Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper (TM) scene from 1986 and a Landsat 8 Operational Land Imager (OLI) scene from 2015 - have been the data sets used in the study. A process chain following a four-step definition of the remote-sensing process was conceptually developed and implemented based onfree open source software components and by applying the random forest (RF) algorithm. A conceptual LULC classification scheme representing TSPS was developed. Although the imagery shows a heterogeneous surface cover and mixed pixels, it is possible to achieve promising classification results with the RF algorithm with out-of-the-bag (OOB) errors below 13% for both images along with an overall accuracy level of 85.9% for the 2015 subset and 85.2% for the 1986 subset. The classification shows that from 1986 to 2015 (29years) the intervened secondary forest (ISF) increased 2.6 times, whereas the degraded pastures decreased by 34.5%. The livestock landscape in Matiguas is in a state of constant transformation, but the main changes head towards the positive direction of tree-cover recovery and an increased number of areas of natural regeneration. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/01431161.2018.1463116 SN - 0143-1161 SN - 1366-5901 VL - 39 IS - 14 SP - 4684 EP - 4698 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mera, Azal A1 - Stepanenko, Vitaly A. A1 - Tarkhanov, Nikolai Nikolaevich T1 - Successive approximation for the inhomogeneous burgers equation JF - Journal of Siberian Federal University : Mathematics & Physics N2 - The inhomogeneous Burgers equation is a simple form of the Navier-Stokes equations. From the analytical point of view, the inhomogeneous form is poorly studied, the complete analytical solution depending closely on the form of the nonhomogeneous term. KW - Navier-Stokes equations KW - classical solution Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.17516/1997-1397-2018-11-4-519-531 SN - 1997-1397 SN - 2313-6022 VL - 11 IS - 4 SP - 519 EP - 531 PB - Siberian Federal University CY - Krasnoyarsk ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ette, Ottmar T1 - Александр фон Гумбольдт T1 - Alexander von Humboldt BT - кочующая мысль и жизненная наука BT - nomadic thinking and living science JF - Epistemology & Philosophy of Science N2 - Научные интересы А. фон Гумбольдта протираются от ан­тропологии и доколумбовой истории Америки до геологии и географии, климатологии и теории культуры; от физики и географии растений до истории языка, вулканологии и зооло­гии. Будучи ученым, он пересекал дисциплинарные границы и искал новые пути познания. Гумбольдт развивал трансдис­циплинарное и, в широком смысле, номадическое знание. Как настоящий кочевник, он не стремился завоевать или разрушить территорию знания. И потому неудивительно, что он стал одним из основоположников экологического и гео-экологического мышления. Гумбольдт публиковал работы на немецком и французском языках. В своих «Американских дневниках», которые были возвращены в Берлин в ноябре 2013 г., но до сих пор не изучены, Гумбольдт постоянно пере­ходит с немецкого на французский, с латинского на испанский. Автор «Космоса» чужд всякого национализма. Гумбольдт – это номад от науки, и в этом смысле – гражданин мира. Первый теоретик глобализации кочевал от слова к слову, от науки к науке, от мира к миру. Для него постоянное перемещение бы­ло не просто основой научной программы, а образом жизни. Гумбольдт не стремился к специализации в знании, поскольку она ограничивает диалог с другими областями. Его мышление не укладывается в привычные понятия дисциплинарности или междисциплинарности. Оно взыскует нового мира, в котором человечество будет существовать в согласии и свободе. N2 - The long-term scientific interests of Alexander von Humboldt ranged from anthropology and ancient American studies to geology and geography, climatology and cultural theory, physics and plant geography to language history, volcanology and zoology. As a scientist, he crossed different disciplines and explored new paths of knowledge. Humboldt developed a transdisciplinary and, in the widest sense, nomadic knowledge as a traveller through the sciences. Like a nomad, he did not seek to possess or destroy a territory (of knowledge): no wonder that he became the co-founder of an ecological and geo-ecological thinking. Humboldt wrote and published his works in German as well as in French. In his American Travel Diaries, which returned to Berlin in November 2013, and which are still awaiting their scientific analysis, Humboldt constantly changes between German and French, but also between Latin and Spanish. The author of the Kosmos couldn’t be used for nationalist purposes. Thus, Alexander von Humboldt can be understood as a nomad of science in constant movement, and in this sense as a world citizen. This first theorist of globalization shifted between the words, between the sciences, between the worlds. For him, the greatest possible mobility was not only a scientific program, but also the program of a life – his life. Humboldt wasn’t concerned with any specialization that would lead to a fragmented dialogue with other specialists. He was concerned with a nomadic knowledge, which, thanks to his extensive network of correspondents, always delivered the opportunity to argue from different disciplinary standpoints at the same time. His thinking doesn’t know the limits of interdisciplinary or “disciplined” research oppressing us today, but it rather took aim at the creation of a new world, in which mankind would be able to live together on a planetary scale in freedom and peace. KW - Alexander von Humboldt KW - American Travel Diaries KW - Kosmos KW - nomadic Science KW - accelerated globalization KW - Humboldtian writing Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.5840/eps201855113 SN - 1811-833X SN - 2311-7133 VL - 55 IS - 1 SP - 136 EP - 154 PB - Russian ACAD Sciences CY - Moscow ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ulfstein, Geir A1 - Zimmermann, Andreas T1 - Certiorari through the Back Door? BT - the Judgment by the European Court of Human Rights in Burmych and Others v. Ukraine in Perspective JF - The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals N2 - In its Burmych and Others v. Ukraine judgment of October 2017 the European Court of Human Rights dismissed more than 12,000 applications due to the fact that they were not only repetitive in nature, but also mutatis mutandis identical to applications covered by a previous pilot judgment rendered against Ukraine. This raises fundamental issues as to the role of the Court within the human rights protection system established by the European Convention on Human Rights, as well as those concerning the interrelationship between the Court and the Committee of Ministers. KW - European Court of Human Rights KW - Council of Europe KW - Committee of Ministers Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1163/15718034-12341381 SN - 1569-1853 SN - 1571-8034 VL - 17 IS - 2 SP - 289 EP - 308 PB - Brill CY - Leiden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vock, Miriam A1 - Gronostaj, Anna A1 - Kretschmann, Julia A1 - Westphal, Andrea T1 - „Meine Lehrer mögen mich“ – Soziale Integration von Kindern mit sonderpädagogischem Förderbedarf im gemeinsamen Unterricht in der Grundschule T1 - "My Teachers Like Me" - Social Integration of Children with Special Educational Needs in Inclusive Classes BT - Befunde aus dem Pilotprojekt „Inklusive Grundschule“ im Land Brandenburg BT - Findings from the Pilot Project "Inclusive Primary Schools" in the German State of Brandenburg JF - DDS – Die Deutsche Schule N2 - Brandenburg startete im Schuljahr 2012/2013 das Pilotprojekt „Inklusive Grundschule“ (PING). 35 dieser Pilot-Grundschulen wurden wissenschaftlich begleitet (vgl. Spörer, Schründer-Lenzen, Vock & Maaz, 2015). In diesem Beitrag berichten wir Befunde zum sozialen Selbstkonzept, wie die Kinder das Klassenklima erleben und wie sie sich von ihrer Lehrkraft angenommen fühlen. Untersucht wurden 1.435 Kinder in 61 inklusiven Klassen der Jahrgangsstufen 2 und 3. Es finden sich keine durchgängigen Nachteile bei Selbstkonzept und erlebtem Klassenklima für Kinder mit sonderpädagogischem Förderbedarf (SPF), jedoch fühlen sich diese weniger von ihren Lehrkräften angenommen. N2 - Brandenburg started the pilot project "Inclusive Primary Schools" (PING) in the school year 2012/2013. 35 of these pilot primary schools were scientifically supported (cp. Sporer, Schrunder-Lenzen, Vock & Maaz, 2015). In this article we report findings on the social self-concept, how children experience the class climate, and how they feel accepted by their teachers. The study examined 1,435 children in 61 inclusive 2nd and 3rd grade classes. There are no consistent disadvantages regarding self-concept and experienced class climate for children with special educational needs, but they feel less accepted by their teachers. KW - inclusion KW - primary school KW - social integration KW - special educational needs KW - inclusive education KW - Inklusion KW - Grundschule KW - soziale Integration KW - Förderbedarf KW - gemeinsamer Unterricht Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.31244/dds.2018.02.03 SN - 0012-0731 VL - 110 IS - 2 SP - 124 EP - 137 PB - Waxmann CY - Münster ER -