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Video Games and Mental Health
No full textHow do video games and mental health intersect from the perspectives of psychology and game design? In recent years, the topic of mental health has gained tremendous importance for the games industry, affecting both the applied and entertainment games sectors. The former draws from established practices in diagnostics, digital medicine, therapy, and self-help to develop innovative and accessible tools; the latter follows in the tradition of games d'auteur, addressing the topic of mental health from a personal perspective. The contributors to this volume inspect current trends and future perspectives related to these phenomena to inform the work of psychologists and game designers
Nuclear Power
No full textThis open access book offers a comprehensive overview of nuclear technologies and the nuclear supply chain. It explores nuclear energy as a critical resource through economic, geopolitical, and social lenses, assessing its potential role in combating climate change. The book also addresses key challenges, including nuclear waste management, decommissioning, and back-end operations. By examining both historical hurdles and future policy and industry obstacles, it provides valuable insights for policymakers, researchers, and industry professionals navigating the evolving landscape of nuclear energy
Inter- und intraindividuelle Variation bei Relativa und Interrogativa im Schweizerdeutschen
No full textMelanie Bösiger untersucht in ihrer Dissertation empirisch die Verwendung von Relativa und Interrogativa im Schweizerdeutschen. Grundlage der Analyse bilden einerseits Grammatiken und Wörterbücher zum Schweizerdeutschen und andererseits Antworten aus Fragebogen von über 1 000 Personen aus allen Regionen der Deutschschweiz, die den heutigen Sprachgebrauch dokumentieren. Neben einer ausführlichen Methodenkritik zum Online-Fragebogen steht die Frage im Zentrum, welche Relativa und Interrogativa in welchen morphologischen Formen im Schweizerdeutschen in unterschiedlichen syntaktischen Kontexten verwendet werden. Dabei wird analysiert, ob die Wahl eines Lexems und seiner Form mit bestimmten Funktionen im Satz, mit geografischen Faktoren oder mit dem Alter der Sprecher:innen zusammenhängt. Die Daten erlauben eine detaillierte quantitative interindividuelle Auswertung sowie eine Analyse der intraindividuellen Variation, bei der untersucht wird, ob sich bei einzelnen Sprecher:innen Verwendungsmuster beobachten lassen. Die Kombination der beiden Analyseebenen ermöglicht eine differenzierte Beschreibung des gegenwärtigen Gebrauchs der Relativa und Interrogativa im Schweizerdeutschen
Collecting Seeds, Assembling Worlds
No full textHow has the world lost three quarters of its crop diversity in less than a century? How does a collection of seeds frozen in the Arctic help face this loss and ensure future food security? And how can Indigenous knowledges and artistic interventions inspire modes of dealing with agrobiodiversity loss that respond to contemporary socio-ecological transformations with care rather than techno-salvationism? Franziska von Verschuer traces these questions from the world's stronghold against agrobiodiversity loss, the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, to divergent worlds and modes of world-making it assembles along with seeds. This study shows that the future is more open than the popular story of the ›doomsday vault‹ suggests
akademisieren, professionalisieren, transformieren
No full textWie können SAGE-Hochschulen (Soziale Arbeit, Gesundheit, Erziehung und Bildung) trotz struktureller Hürden dem Fachkräftemangel erfolgreich entgegensteuern? Diese und weitere Fragen behandelt der Sammelband. Notwenige strategische Entwicklungen von SAGE-Hochschulen im 21. Jahrhundert einbeziehend präsentieren die Beiträge praxisnahe Ansätze zur interdisziplinären, menschenrechtsorientierten und diskriminierungssensiblen Zusammenarbeit am Beispiel der Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin.; How can SAGE universities (social work, health, education and training) successfully overcome the skills shortage despite structural hurdles? This anthology addresses these and other key questions. Taking into account the strategic developments of SAGE universities in the 21st century, the articles present practical approaches to interdisciplinary cooperation. The focus is on the Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany's largest state SAGE university, which is committed to social justice and sustainable development as a human rights-oriented and non-discriminatory institution
Chapter 28 Information and Mobility
No full textThe Routledge Handbook of Information History offers a definitive, inclusive, and far-reaching study of how information practices have influenced—and have been influenced by—society, politics, culture, and technology over millennia. Information is often considered a defining characteristic of modern society, but it is far from a modern phenomenon. In the last decades, historians have started to ask new questions about how information was understood in the past, suggesting that it has a history which is long, complex, and multifaceted. This influential volume is the first large-scale collection to use the term Information History as its titular focus, situating ""information"" within the historiography of the field.The boo showcases a diverse assembly of over forty international contributors who explore information practices from antiquity to the contemporary world, with geographical coverage ranging accoss Europe, Africa, Asia, as well as North and South America. Including overview chapters alongside a wide range of in-depth empirical studies, this ground-breaking collection will appeal to scholars and students across the arts, humanities, and social sciences, offering readers unique insights into how historical practices have influenced the understanding and role of information in our modern world
Functional Diseases of the Esophagus
No full textThis is an open access book on the pathophysiology, diagnosis and surgical techniques of functional diseases of the esophagus. In the past, these diseases were only studied and treated in a few centres. However, in the last thirty years, thanks to the advent of laparoscopic surgery, interest in these pathologies has broadened considerably, and not only from a surgical point of view: new diagnostic technologies have in fact been developed that have led to more appropriate classifications and endoscopic treatments have been proposed with excellent results; in addition, robotic surgery is emerging in specialised centres and is likely to replace the laparoscopic approach
Geospatial Technologies for Heritage Education
No full textThis open access book shows that students, through geospatial technologies, learn the sustainable approach of heritage and also the heritage as a diversity of elements due to the complexity of physical, human, cultural, and artistic factors involved. The value of natural and cultural heritage, as part of collective heritage, can be acquired by geographic information systems (GIS) due to the multilayer approach of the spatial configuration. Proficiency in geospatial technologies to collect, process, analyze, interpret, visualize, and communicate geographic information is being increased by undergraduate and graduate students but, in particular, by those who are training to become geography, history, and art history teachers at the primary and secondary education levels. Some teaching experiences, using personalized learning, distance learning methodology, and GIS, focused on education aims to integrate students and enhance their understanding of the heritage are welcome. Opportunities offered by WebGIS in heritage education to learning research and teacher education research also fit with the scope of this book
Nature-Positive Cities: Adaptive Spatial Planning in Italy for an Ecological Urban Transition
No full textThis open access book underscores the importance of a multidisciplinary approach, framed within a broader trans-disciplinary perspective, to move from conventional urban development to nature-positive cities and planning. It is therefore fundamental to assess urban biodiversity, actually not largely investigated yet crucial for ecosystem services provision in urban areas, and urban soils, often overlooked, that plays a crucial role in biodiversity support and nature conservation, along with green and blue infrastructures, that are able to generate ecosystem benefits and contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation, as well as improve human health. The other critical step is to translate this commitment into urban planning goals, followed by the implementation and monitoring of actions to achieve the set goals. To support this transition, the book presents strategies for integrating nature and its elements into urban planning and policy design. The interdisciplinary nature of the book – ensured by multiple background and expertise in urban planning, architecture, forestry, ecology – ensures cross-sectoral insights that likely help advancing the awareness and knowledge of experts, decision-makers and citizens to ultimately drive the transition into nature-positive cities
Experimental Design for Data Science and Engineering
No full textTheory, experiments, computation, and data are considered as the four pillars of science and engineering. Experimental Design for Data Science and Engineering describes efficient statistical methods for making the experiments cheaper and computations faster for extracting valuable information from data and help identify discrepancies in the theory. The book also includes recent advances in experimental designs for dealing with large amounts of observational data. Traditionally the design and analysis of physical and computer experiments are treated differently, but this book attempts to create a unified framework using Gaussian process models. Although optimal designs are formulated using Gaussian process models, the focus is on obtaining practical experimental designs that are robust to model assumptions. A wide variety of topics are covered in the book -- from designs for interpolating or integrating simple functions to designs that are useful for optimizing and calibrating complex computer models. It draws techniques that are spread across the fields of statistics, applied mathematics, operations research, uncertainty quantification, and information theory, and build experimental design as a fundamental data analytic tool for engineering and scientific discoveries. Designs for both computer and physical experiments are discussed in a unified framework. Integrates several concepts from numerical analysis, Monte Carlo methods, sensitivity analysis, optimization, and machine learning with experimental design techniques in statistics. Methods are explained using many real experiments from physical sciences and engineering. Experimental design techniques for analysis and compression of big data are discussed. All the numerical illustrations in the book are reproducible using R and Python codes provided in the author’s GitHub site