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Neotypification and taxonomic status of Opephyllum martensii Schmitz in Schmitz et Hauptfleisch (Delesseriaceae, Rhodophyta) from Zamboanga, Southern Philippines
No full textThe monotypic delesseriaceous genus Opephyllum was created by Schmitz in Schmitz and Hauptfleisch for O. martensii, represented by a single collection from Zamboanga on the southwestern tip of Mindanao in the southern Philippines. As the type specimen or collection is no longer in existence, we are neotypifying the taxon based on recent topotype collections made in the spring of 1998. After comparison of this material with species of Martensia from the Indo-Pacific region and Caribbean Sea based on morphological evidence and sequence analysis of chloroplast-encoded rbcL and the nuclear-encoded large subunit ribosomal DNA gene (LSU rDNA), we conclude that Opephyllum is not generically distinct from Martensia despite its lack of the reticulate fenestrations that characterize fronds of every other species of the latter. We therefore propose the new combination Martensia martensii (Schmitz in Schmitz et Hauptfleisch) Lin, Fredericq et Liao for this rare member of the tribe Martensieae, subfamily Nitophylloideae.TR: CS0213352Source type: Electronic(1
Sonderwirtschaftszonen in Entwicklungsländern: Verringerung von Migrationsursachen?
No full textIn jüngster Zeit geäußerte Vorschläge, unter anderem von George Soros, sehen vor, die Flüchtlingskrise durch die Einrichtung von Sonderwirtschaftszonen in den Anrainerstaaten der Herkunftsländer der Migranten zu entschärfen. Würden dort Investitionen getätigt und Arbeitsplätze geschaffen, gäbe es weniger Anreize, nach Europa einzuwandern. Sind diese Vorschläge wirklich geeignet, die Migrationsursachen zu verringern? Nach Ansicht von Birgit Schmitz und Benjamin Schraven, Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, Bonn, muss diese Frage grundsätzlich mit einem »Nein« beantwortet werden. Sonderwirtschaftszonen könnten eine enorme landesinterne Migration auslösen, diese führe aber nicht unbedingt zu weniger internationaler Migration. Die Erwartungen, dass Sonderwirtschaftszonen in Europas Nachbarschaft kurz- oder mittelfristig zu einer massiven Abnahme der Zuwanderung in den alten Kontinent führen würde, sollten also nicht allzu hoch gehängt werden. Grundsätzlich werde Europa nicht daran vorbeikommen, sich über eine gut gemanagte Zuwanderungspolitik Gedanken zu machen. Marco Lietz, sieht einen Lösungsansatz im Einsatz ausländischer Experten in Sonderwirtschaftszonen, da Fachleute aus Europa, Nordamerika, Australien oder Ostasien häufig über Know-how zur Verwaltung von Gewerbezonen oder Städten nach modernen Kriterien verfügen. Auf diese Weise könne eine erfolgreiche Standortpolitik zur Armutsreduzierung und damit zur Verringerung von Migration beitragen. So sei es beispielsweise für ausländische Experten bedeutend einfacher, mit Investoren aus Industrieländern zu verhandeln und sie davon zu überzeugen, ihr Unternehmen an einem bestimmten Standort anzusiedeln und so die dringend benötigten Arbeitsplätze zu schaffen
Collaborative authoring workshop
No full textKlemke, R., & Schmitz, B. (2009). Collaborative authoring workshop. Workshop presentation at the Joint Technology Enhanced Learning Summerschool (JTELSS 2009). May, 30-June, 6, 2009, Terchova, Slovakia.Knowing the concept of collaborative
authoring. Understanding different ways of authoring. Being able to evaluate different concepts of authoring.ICOPE
Rethinking Game Based Learning: applying pedagogical standards to educational games
No full textSchmitz, B., & Kelle, S. (2010, 1-6 February). Rethinking Game Based Learning: applying pedagogical standards to educational games. Presentation at JTEL Winter School 2010 on Advanced Learning Technologies, Innsbruck, Austria.The event took place in the course of the JTEL Winter School 2010 in Innsbruck. In the workshop we gathered knowledge about the application of pedagogical standards (IMS LD) to educational settings in general/educational games. The workshop was meant to initiate discussion about the need for standards related to educational games within the relevant research community.Stella
Abaristophora arctophila Schmitz 1927
No full textAbaristophora arctophila Schmitz, 1927 Figs 1–13 Material examined: LECTOTYPE 3, herewith designated, RUSSIA: “Kamtschatka: / Jawino. / 7.VIII. 1917 / Y. Wuorentaus ” [FMNH]. Condition poor, without head, wings, and legs, but fully identifiable. “Anaristophora [sic] / arctophila / Schmitz 3 / n.g. n.sp. / Syntype ” “Mus. Zool. H:fors / Spec. typ. 4718 / Anaristophora / arctophila Schmitz ”. Paralectotype 3, RUSSIA, “Kamtschatka: / Jawino. / 7.VIII. 1917 / Y. Wuorentaus.” Further labels: “Anaristophora [sic] / arctophila / n.g. n.sp. / Schmitz / Syntype ” and “Rest im 1 mikr.Präp.” Head and fore legs glued to a piece of cardboard on a pin, remaining parts mounted on a slide labelled “ Abaristophora / s.str. arcto- / phila Schmitz / 3 ” [ZFMK]. Additional material: 2 Ƥ 50 3 SWEDEN: Västerbotten, Vindelns Kommun, Kulbäckslidens försökspark, bog edge at Degerö Stormyr (Trap ID 59, N 64 ° 10.899 ’, E 19 ° 33.548 ’), 01.viii– 18.viii. 2003 (coll. event ID 211), Swedish Malaise Trap Project, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm. [1 Ƥ 1 3 coated with goldplatinum and mounted on a SEM stub, deposited in ZMUC, other material deposited in SMNH.] Description. Male, see Schmitz (1927, 1929, 1951). Female. Frons brown, triangular, slightly longer than broad and protruding between antennae, equipped with numerous strong hairs. The pre-ocellar bristles are slightly further apart than the antials and situated lower on the frons than the mediolaterals. The anterolaterals are much higher on the frons than the antials and not particularly close to the eye margins. Antials are low on the frons, and a line between the antial socket and the base of the palp is in front of the antennal insertion. Postpedicel brown, without apparent subcutaneous pit sensilla. Palp light brown at base grading into straw yellowish at tip, about 4–5 times as long as greatest breadth (viewed from above), with 6 bristles and 4 times as many hairs. Proboscis light brown and very elongate, almost as long as combined length of thorax plus abdomen. Labella straw yellow with only a few small spinules in addition to the 8 hairs. Thorax brown with 3 bristles on notopleuron, the most anterior being the strongest. Scutellum with an anterior pair of hairs and a posterior pair of bristles. Mesopleuron with 9–10 hairs close behind the anterior spiracle. Abdomen with brown tergites and light brown venter. The hairs of the tergites short and sparse and found mainly in the posterior half and in particular on or near posterior margin, with hairs of T 6 stronger and more numerous. Legs mainly brown except for light brown or straw yellow fore tibiae and all tarsi. Fore tibia with 17–18 anterodorsal small spines of about equal length, proximal larger and set in a proportionally larger socket, and numerous similar anteroventral spines. Fore tarsus with a posterior hair palisade on segments 1–3 and an anterodorsal palisade on segment 1, segment 5 a little longer than 4. Mid tibia with a near dorsal hair palisade extending 0.8 time its length, with an anterior bristle just before end of first quarter and a posterodorsal bristle just above this, with 4 hair combs on the anterior face of last third and apically with an anterior and a posteroventral bristle, the latter twice as long as the former. Mid tarsus with anterodorsal, anteroventral, posterodorsal and posteroventral hair palisades on segments 1–2, and segment 5 as long as 4. Hind tibia with a dorsal hair palisade in full length, with a small anterodorsal bristle just beyond end of first quarter, 1 small anterodorsal pre-apical bristle, and a long and a short spur. Hind tarsus with a posterodorsal hair palisade on segments 1–3. Wing vein 3 with 2–3 small hairs at base, and with 4 axillary bristles. Costa expands in distal half so become about as wide as the slightly expanded tip of vein 3. Thick veins light brown. Sc very pale and fading away before encountering vein 3. Veins 4– 6 very pale and 7 not evident. Vein 4 has its pale base is sharply curved anteriorly so that it meets vein 3 at about 90 o. Vein 5 is almost straight. Vein 6 starts off divergent and straight before curving apically to be about parallel with vein 5 before curving away to meet the wing margin at about 90 o. Membrane almost colourless. Haltere with brown stem and dark brown knob. Distribution. Palaearctic (Estonia, Russia [Far East], Sweden). Remarks. Abaristophora arctophila is morphologically very similar to A. sachalinensis, as interpreted from the detailed and well-illustrated redescription of the latter by Nakayama & Shima (2006). These authors mentioned that A. sachalinensis is distinguished from other species of Abaristophora (s.str.) by the absence of a tibial bristle on the fore tibia. Male hypopygium of Abaristophora arctophila differs from that of A. sachalinensis by presenting a slightly narrower (or more saddle-shaped) epandrium in strict, right, lateral view and having the anterior basal plate of the phallus apically truncated and with a short, posteriorly directed process. Abaristophora sachalinensis has the anterior basal plate rounded apically and without any posterior process (compare Figs 8, 9, 11, 12 with relevant figures in Nakayama & Shima 2006). Both the male and the female from the series of Abaristophora arctophila from Sweden that were examined under the SEM had several pollen grains of Hieracium sp. sticking to the microtrichiae (e.g., on the palps, Fig. 6), thus indicating that the species is visiting the inflorescences of Asteraceae. The biology of members of Abaristophora is otherwise unknown (Nakayama & Shima 2006). Discussion and lectotype designation. Abaristophora arctophila was described from two males, none of which was designated as holotype (Schmitz 1927). The species was later redescribed twice (Schmitz 1929, 1951), and in both cases Schmitz explicitly referred to the “ Holotype in Mus. Helsingfors”. While it seems evident that Schmitz had a preference for the specimen in FMNH to be name-bearing, none of his works fulfil the requirement for an explicit selection given by ICZN Article 74.5, which states: “When the original work reveals that the taxon had been based on more than one specimen, a subsequent use of the term " holotype " does not constitute a valid lectotype designation unless the author, when wrongly using that term, explicitly indicated that he or she was selecting from the type series that particular specimen to serve as the name-bearing type ”. Schmitz’ (1929, 1951) use of the word “ Holotype ” is not in itself a formal lectotype designation, and there is nothing to indicate that he made a selection among the two syntypes. While the apparent conspecificity of the two specimens of the original type series may arguably make a lectotype designation redundant from a taxonomic point of view, we consider Schmitz’ (1929) reference to the FMNH specimen as the holotype justification for a formal selection of this specimen to be the name-bearing specimen and therefore to serve as a recognized standard of reference for any future nomenclatural issues relating to the identity of the nominal taxon. The head, wings and legs of the lectotype most probably were removed to be mounted separately, but no slides were recovered neither in Helsinki nor in the Schmitz collection at the Museum Koenig in Bonn, Germany. Still, the abdomen remains fully intact and with the hypopygium sufficiently exposed to allow a detailed study, here confirming the conspecificity of the lectotype and the additional specimens from Sweden. No attempt was made to retrieve and study the strongly damaged Estonian specimen as the absence of a hypopygium would prevent a conclusive identification. The wing venation of the Estonian specimen (Schmitz 1951, fig. 77), however, leaves no doubt that it belongs to Abaristophora (s.str.), and we consider an assignment to A. arctophila to be the best corroborated working hypothesis.Published as part of Pape, Thomas, Ulefors, Sven-Olof & Disney, R. Henry L., 2013, Palaearctic Abaristophora (Diptera: Phoridae): First female of A. arctophila Schmitz, 1927 and a new species from N. W. Russia, pp. 249-256 in Zootaxa 3681 (3) on pages 250-253, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3681.3.4, http://zenodo.org/record/21622
Mobile gaming patterns and their impact on learning outcomes: A literature review
No full textSchmitz, B., Klemke, R., & Specht, M. (2012). Mobile gaming patterns and their impact on learning outcomes: A literature review. In A. Ravenscroft, S. Lindstaedt, C. D. Kloos, & D. Hérnandez-Leo (Eds.), Proceedings of 7th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2012) (pp. 419-424). September, 18-21, 2012, Saarbrücken, Germany.Mobile learning games have increasingly been topic of educational research with the intention to utilize their manifold and ubiquitous capabilities for learning and teaching. This paper presents a review of current research ac-tivities in the field. It particularly focuses is on the educational values serious mobile games provide. The study results substantiate their generally assumed motivational potential. Also, they indicate that mobile learning games may have the potential to bring about cognitive learning outcomes
Interoperability Issues for Formal Authoring Processes, Community Efforts, and the Creation of Mashup PLE
No full textKlemke, R., & Schmitz, B. (2009). Interoperability Issues for Formal Authoring Processes, Community Efforts, and the Creation of Mashup PLE. In F. Wild, M. Kalz, M. Palmér & D. Müller (Eds.), Proceedings of 2nd Workshop Mash-Up Personal Learning Environments (MUPPLE'09). Workshop in conjunction with 4th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2009): Synergy of Disciplines (pp. 110-113). September, 29, 2009, Nice, France: CEUR workshop proceedings, http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-506/ .This paper compares three different scenarios towards the creation of learning offers and looks at corresponding interoperability issues involved. In outlining use cases that demonstrate three possible authoring/learning scenarios, restrictive and supporting aspects become obvious and eventually lead to the deduction of prerequisites and requirements that are vital for the setting up of an effective (personal) learning environment.This work is funded by the eContentPlus Programme of the European Commission through the ICOPER project
Das Land der Wirklichkeit und Das wirkliche Deutschland. Die kulturkritischen Transfers des Oskar A. H. Schmitz (1873‑1931) zwischen Krieg und Frieden
No full textDer Schriftsteller Oskar A. H. Schmitz (1873–1931) reiste um die Jahrhundertwende oft nach Frankreich und vermittelte dem deutschen Publikum im späten 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhundert kulturelles Wissen von Frankreich. Während er vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg Frankreich den Deutschen als Vorbild empfahl, um die Krise der Moderne zu überwinden, distanzierte er sich im Ersten Weltkrieg von Frankreich. An den Texten von Schmitz lässt sich zeigen, dass die Kulturkritik nicht nur ein national selbstbezügliches Phänomen darstellt, sondern dass sich deutsche Kulturkritik auch im internationalen Kontext und in der Auseinandersetzung mit Frankreich herausbildet. Während des Ersten Weltkriegs nationalisierte und politisierte sich die Kulturkritik von Schmitz. Die Politisierung der Kulturkritik blieb auch nach 1918 erhalten, aber Schmitz öffnete sich nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg wieder international.Au tournant du siècle, l’écrivain Oskar A. H. Schmitz (1873-1931) a souvent voyagé en France et transmis sa connaissance de la culture française au public allemand de la fin du XIXe et du début du XXe siècle. Avant le début de la Première Guerre mondiale, il a conseillé aux Allemands de prendre la France comme modèle pour vaincre la crise de la modernité, mais pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, il a pris ses distances par rapport à la France. Les essais de Schmitz permettent de démontrer que la « Kulturkritik » est non seulement un phénomène national autoréférentiel, mais que la « Kulturkritik » allemande s’est aussi constituée dans un contexte international et en conflit avec la France. Pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, la « Kulturkritik » de Schmitz s’est nationalisée et politisée. La politisation de la « Kulturkritik » s’est poursuivie après 1918, mais après la Première Guerre mondiale, Schmitz s’est de nouveau ouvert aux tendances internationales.At the turn of the century the German author Oskar A. H. Schmitz (1873–1931) frequently travelled to France and brought knowledge of French culture to the German public in the late 19th and early 20th century. Before World War I he recommended France as a role model to the Germans, so as to help overcome the crisis of modernism. However, during World War I he distanced himself from France. Schmitz’ essays can be read as evidence of the fact that German “Kulturkritik” is not just a national self-referential phenomenon, but is embedded in an international context and grows out of the conflict with France. During World War I Schmitz’s “Kulturkritik” nationalised and politicised itself more and more. After 1918 the politicised “Kulturkritik” persisted, but Schmitz once again became receptive to international currents of thought
Das finden der unverlorenen Welt. Bemerkungen zu einem Vergleich der Philosophien von Hermann Schmitz und John McDowell
No full textFilozofiju Johna McDowella i novofenomenološko mišljenje Hermanna Schmitza možemo shvatiti kao pokušaje terapije distance između duha [uma] i svijeta koja u modernom vremenu poprima dramatične razmjere. U ovom članku autor pokušava usporediti terapeutske koncepte Schmitza i McDowella, uzimajući u obzir moderno doba i posebno kontrast između fenomenološkog i analitičkog načina filozofiranja. Glavna razlika u njihovim pokušajima da predstave otvorenost duha [uma] prema svijetu jest ta što Schmitz između duha [uma] i svijeta umeće (živo) tijelo (Leib) kao centralnu veličinu. Naspram takvog bogatijeg pojma opažanja u većoj mjeri u oči upada redukcionizam McDowellova modela. Ipak, autor u ovom članku ukazuje na dvije mogućnosti da se i McDowellove ideje učine plodnim i u novofenomenološkom kontekstu.John McDowell’s philosophy and Hermann Schmitz’s new phenomenological thinking can be considered to be a therapeutic attempt on the distance between spirit [mind] and world that is taking dramatic proportions in modern time. In this paper, the author is trying to compare Schmitz’s and McDowell’s therapeutical concepts while taking into consideration the modern age and especially the contrast between the phenomenological and analytical way of philosophising. The main difference in their attempts to present the openness of the spirit [mind] towards the world is that Schmitz sets the living body (Leib) of central importance between spirit [mind] and world. In difference to Schmitz’s rich notion of perception, one can easily notice McDowell’s reductionism. Nonetheless, in this paper, the author points at the two possibilities by which McDowell’s ideas might seem fruitful in new phenomenological context.La philosophie de John McDowell et la pensée de la Nouvelle Phénoménologie de Hermann Schmitz se laissent comprendre comme des tentatives de thérapie de mise à distance entre l’esprit et le monde, qui, au sein du monde moderne, ont pris une ampleur dramatique. Dans cette article, l’auteur tente de comparer les concepts thérapeutiques de Schmitz et de McDowell en prenant en considération les temps modernes, et plus particulièrement le contraste existant entre l’approche analytique et phénoménologique de philosopher. La différence principale au sein de leurs tentatives visant à présenter l’ouverture de l’esprit envers le monde résulte du fait que Schmitz introduit le corps (Leib) vivant entre l’esprit et le monde en tant que grandeur centrale. Face à ce concept de la perception, le réductionnisme du modèle de McDowell n’en est que plus frappant. Néanmoins, l’auteur de cette article met en avant deux possibilités, rendre les idées de McDowell fécondes, et cela dans le contexte de la Nouvelle Phénoménologie.Die Philosophie von John McDowell und das neuphänomenologische Denken von Hermann Schmitz lassen sich als Therapien des Abstandes von Geist und Welt verstehen, der in der Moderne dramatische Bedeutung erlangte. In diesem Aufsatz wird versucht, die therapeutischen Ansätze von Schmitz und McDowell vor dem Hintergrund der Moderne und insbesondere als Konstrast zwischen einem phänomenologischen und analytischen Philosophieren zu vergleichen. Der Hauptunterschied in ihren Bemühungen, die Weltoffenheit des Geistes vorzustellen, ist dabei, dass Schmitz in die Beziehung zwischen Geist und Welt den Leib als zentrale Größe einbringt. Von diesem reichhaltigen Wahrnehmungsbegriff her fällt der Reduktionismus von McDowells Modell stärker auf. Dennoch wird in diesem Aufsatz auf zwei Möglichkeiten hingewiesen, Ideen von McDowell auch in einem neuphänomenologischen Kontext fruchtbar werden zu lassen
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