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The Ocean of Green : Hogweed Against Russian World
No full textHeracleum sosnowskyi (Sosnowsky’s hogweed, or just Hogweed) is considered a growing ecological problem in Russia at least since the 2010s. The plant’s feral invasion creates a predicament interpreted by some scientists and civil activists as an “emergency” or even “apocalypse.” However, since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this apocalyptic rhetoric has been supplemented by ideological stamps from Russian propaganda: Hogweed is a “biological weapon” and a “brotherly help from America” that “Mother Russia” must be protected from. Given all these facts, it is hard to see any Russian environmental security measures just as “measures”; rather, a new—ideological and military—front is opening up, this time in the name of a fight against the nonhuman. By focusing in this article on the ideo-logical rather than biological aspect of Hogweed trouble, I want to show how the anti-Hogweed civil war transforms into a special plant operation; and in which way nature and culture, material and ideal, Soviet Union and the Russian world are involved in both the ecological and ideological formation of contemporary Putinism
Psychotherapists’ readiness to treat PTSD : the influence of refugees’ country of origin
No full textBackground: Previous research suggests that psychotherapists’ readiness to treat traumatized patients varies according to patient and therapist characteristics, including the patient's refugee background.
Objective: This study aims to examine the relationship between psychotherapists’ readiness to treat patients with symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and various patient and therapist characteristics, including refugee background and country of origin.
Method: In our vignette study with a nationwide online survey in Germany (N = 871), we assessed the readiness of licensed psychotherapists (LPTs) and therapists in training (PiTs) to treat patients with PTSD. Vignettes described patients with PTSD who differed in gender, refugee background, and country of origin (Syria vs. Ukraine). Participants rated treatment readiness and expected treatment success based on the vignette they received.
Results: Treatment readiness and expected success were significantly lower for refugee patients. There was no difference in treatment readiness between refugees from Syria and Ukraine, but therapists expected less therapeutic success for Syrian patients compared to Ukrainian patients. Gender did not influence the results.
Conclusions: The study shows that refugee background and country of origin influence psychotherapists’ readiness to treat PTSD and their expectations of treatment success. These findings highlight potential reasons for the undertreatment of refugees and suggest opportunities for intervention and training, such as informing therapists about effective treatments for refugee patients
Theologie ist hier unentbehrlich : Erstaunlich vitale Basis ; Mehr als die Hälfte der Katholiken hat für Trump gestimmt ; Ihre Kirche steht besser da als in Deutschland
No full textUpper and lower bounds for the Lipschitz constant of random neural networks
No full textEmpirical studies have widely demonstrated that neural networks are highly sensitive to small, adversarial perturbations of the input. The worst-case robustness against these so-called adversarial examples can be quantified by the Lipschitz constant of the neural network. In this paper, we study upper and lower bounds for the Lipschitz constant of random ReLU neural networks. Specifically, we assume that the weights and biases follow a generalization of the He initialization, where general symmetric distributions for the biases are permitted. For deep networks of fixed depth and sufficiently large width, our established upper bound is larger than the lower bound by a factor that is logarithmic in the width. In contrast, for shallow neural networks we characterize the Lipschitz constant up to an absolute numerical constant that is independent of all parameters
From Vineyard to Glass : Towards a More-than-Human Understanding of Co-Production
No full textA horse pulls a plough in the vineyard. Germany 2024: Something unusual is taking place within the wine industry. A small but growing number of wineries in Germany and across the globe is exploring alternative practices in producing wine. The core of their winemaking practices can be described as co-producing wine with nature, aiming at bringing winemaking practices into a harmonious and respectful relationship with nature. Within the industry, the actors speak of natural wine or low-intervention wine, when talking about this phenomenon. However, the producers of these wines are not unified by a self-contained orthodox perspective. Instead, they seem to be in a kind of search movement in which they experimentally try out different practices in viticulture and winemaking. Since a standardized set of practices for producing natural or low-intervention wines has not (yet) been established it is hard to clearly denote what distinguishes their production from established bundles of winemaking practices, for example in conventional, organic, or biodynamic production. In my contribution I focus on practices of a careful treatment of the soil and the wine that Daniel, one of our research partners, and his nonhuman companions, e.g., his horse Funa, are applying when working their family’s vineyard and producing wine in Southwest Germany
Revolutioniert die Blockchain das Personalcontrolling?
No full textIn dem Beitrag analysieren die Autoren das Disruptionspotenzial der Blockchain-Technologie im Bereich des Personalcontrollings. Sie stellen fest, dass Blockchain weit über Kryptowährungen hinausreicht und durch ihre Eigenschaften – Transparenz, Nachvollziehbarkeit und Manipulationssicherheit – neue Möglichkeiten für das Personalwesen bietet. Das Personalcontrolling, unterteilt in strategisch und operativ, könnte durch Blockchain insbesondere bei der Datenverifizierung, Vertragsabwicklung, Weiterbildung und Lohnabrechnung effizienter gestaltet werden
Konturen eines Ruralen Konsolidierungsstaats : zur fiskalpolitischen Dauerkrise in finanzschwachen, kleinen Kommunen. Veranstaltung
No full textPsychotherapists' Readiness to Treat Refugee Patients and the Influence of Professional Quality of Life : A Cross‐Sectional Vignette Study
No full textBackground
Previous research has shown that psychotherapists' characteristics influence their readiness to treat refugee patients. The impact of therapists' professional quality of life (ProQOL) regarding their treatment readiness for refugee patients is unknown.
Objective
This study aims to evaluate the ProQOL among psychotherapists in Germany. It examines how these factors and previous experience working with refugees affect psychotherapists' treatment readiness for refugee patients with symptoms of post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Method
In our study, we assessed the treatment readiness of licensed psychotherapists (LPTs) and psychotherapists in training (PiTs) using randomized refugee verus nonrefugee vignettes. Participants ( N = 821) rated their treatment readiness for the presented case, reported their professional quality of life on the ProQOL questionnaire as well as prior experience with psychotherapy for refugees.
Results
The ProQOL differed significantly between therapists with and without experience treating refugees: Compassion satisfaction was higher, and burnout lowers for those who had already treated refugees. Overall, treatment readiness was lower for refugee than for nonrefugee patients. Therapists with prior experience of working with refugees reported a significantly higher treatment readiness for the refugee vignette. Treatment readiness was not affected by the reported ProQOL.
Conclusions
Treatment experience with refugees did not negatively impact therapists' ProQOL but fostered their further treatment readiness for this specific patient group. Psychotherapists should be encouraged to gain initial treatment experience with refugees to improve long‐term health care for refugees. Encouragement could be achieved by providing supervision or specialist training
Petrus : Fehlbar und inspirierend
No full textDer Beitrag stellt zunächst historische Eckdaten zu Petrus zusammen und skizziert dann die unterschiedlichen Akzentsetzungen der Evangelien in ihren literarischen Petrus-Darstellungen