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Professor Stefan Kowal - Sozial- und Witrschaftshistoriker und akademischer Lehrer
No full textProfessor Stefan Kowal ist fast sein ganzes Leben lang mit Poznań und mit dem Institut für Geschichte der Adam-Mickiewicz- Universität (UAM) verbunden. Er wurde am 2. Februar 1938 in Kuźnica Grabowska in einer wohlhabenden Familie geboren. Sowohl die Lebensbedingungen als auch die politische Situation Polens in der ersten Hälfte der 50er Jahre trugen dazu bei, dass er nach der Grundschule ab 1952 seine Ausbildung drei Jahre lang nicht fortsetzen konnte. Nachdem er 1960 die Reifeprüfung am Mechanischen Technikum in Świebodzin abgelegt hatte, nahm er das Studium der Geschichte an der Adam-Mickiewicz-Universität auf
Protecting Animals 36: Author Witi Ihimaera
No full textIn this very special episode of Knowing Animals I am joined by beloved New Zealand author Witi Ihimaera. Witi has written many books featuring nonhuman animals. He offers us a non-colonial lens through which to think about the human/nonhuman relationship
Solid-supported biomimetic membranes based on amphiphilic block copolymers
No full textPlanar artificial membranes based on amphiphilic block copolymers are of high interest due to their potential applications in catalysis, drug screening, sensing, etc. Such polymeric membranes can successfully mimic biological membranes, providing high robustness and stability, which makes them good candidates to be developed in direction of applications. Even though solid-supported polymer membranes have been already investigated to a certain extent, it is still an emerging area. This thesis presents a new generation of biomimetic solid-supported membranes and hybrid polymer-lipid materials, based on amphiphilic block copolymers: poly(dimethylsiloxane)-block-poly(2-methyl-2-oxazoline) (PDMS-b-PMOXA) and poly(ethylene glycol)-block-poly(γ-methyl-ε-caprolactone)-block-poly[(2-dimethylamino) ethyl methacrylate] (PEG-b-PMCL-b-PDMAEMA). The scope was preparation of stable solid-supported membranes and development of different strategies for insertion/attachment of biomolecules into such membranes. Block copolymers were firstly investigated in respect of behavior at the air-water interface. Deposition of the films on different solid supports (silica wafers, glass and gold slides) was achieved by performing transfers of Langmuir monolayers, which provide formation of defect-free films with good reproducibility. Further, deposited films were functionalized by introduction of membrane proteins and enzymes. To get the insights into morphology and thickness, the obtained systems were analyzed by surface-sensitive techniques, such as atomic force microscopy, ellipsometry, and contact angle measurements. Activity of inserted biomolecules was evaluated by electrical conductance measurements and activity assays. This thesis provides valuable impact in the preparation of membranes in a controllable and reproducible way. Furthermore, it presents different strategies for introduction of biomolecules into such systems, in order to obtain tailored functionality and properties. This work impact fundamental understanding and development of functional membranes. Such artificial membranes and hybrid materials can be further adapted for potential applications
I Think I Am Philip K. Dick
No full textFor years, noted writer Laurence A. Rickels often found himself compared to novelist Philip K. Dickthough in fact Rickels had never read any of the science fiction writers work. When he finally read his first Philip K. Dick novel, while researching for his recent book The Devil Notebooks , it prompted a prolonged immersion in Dicks writing as well as a recognition of Rickelss own long-documented intellectual pursuits. The result of this engagement is I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick , a profound thought experiment that charts the wide relevance of the pulp sci-fi author and paranoid visionary. I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick explores the science fiction authors meditations on psychic reality and psychosis, Christian mysticism, Eastern religion, and modern spiritualism. Covering all of Dicks science fiction, Rickels corrects the lack of scholarly interest in the legendary Californian author and, ultimately, makes a compelling case for the philosophical and psychoanalytic significance of Philip K. Dicks popular and influential science fiction.Intro -- Contents -- Introjection -- Part I -- Endopsychic Allegories -- Schreber Guardian -- Belief System Surveillance -- Part II -- Deeper Problems -- Veil of Tears -- Go West -- Dick Manfred -- Timing -- Glimmung -- Part III -- Spiritualism Analogy -- Imitating the Dead -- Indexical Layer -- Ilse -- Hammers and Things -- Crucifictions -- Over There -- Martyrology -- Can't Live, Can't Live -- Lola -- Umwelt, Mitwelt, and Eigenwelt -- Outer Race -- The German Introject -- Part IV -- Materialism, Idealism, and Cybernetics -- Startling Stories -- A Couple of Years -- Android Empathy -- Homunculus and Robot -- ALL OF YOU ARE DEAD. I AM ALIVE. -- Go with the Flow -- Part V -- Room for Thought -- Caduceus -- Jump -- Still -- A Wake -- Spätwerk -- Let the Dead Be -- Play Bally -- Das Hund -- Notes -- BibliographyFor years, noted writer Laurence A. Rickels often found himself compared to novelist Philip K. Dickthough in fact Rickels had never read any of the science fiction writers work. When he finally read his first Philip K. Dick novel, while researching for his recent book The Devil Notebooks , it prompted a prolonged immersion in Dicks writing as well as a recognition of Rickelss own long-documented intellectual pursuits. The result of this engagement is I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick , a profound thought experiment that charts the wide relevance of the pulp sci-fi author and paranoid visionary. I Think I Am: Philip K. Dick explores the science fiction authors meditations on psychic reality and psychosis, Christian mysticism, Eastern religion, and modern spiritualism. Covering all of Dicks science fiction, Rickels corrects the lack of scholarly interest in the legendary Californian author and, ultimately, makes a compelling case for the philosophical and psychoanalytic significance of Philip K. Dicks popular and influential science fiction.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
Validation of a real-time retinal image registration method for a computer assisted laser photocoagulation system
No full textLiftings for noncomplete probability spaces
No full textThe current state of knowledge concerning liftings for noncomplete probability spaces is discussed. This is a somewhat expanded version of the author's talk given at the 1991 Summer Conference on General Topology and Applications in Honor of Mary Ellen Rudin and Her Work.PT: S; CR: BURKE MR, IN PRESS P AM MATH S BURKE MR, 1991, ISRAEL J MATH, V73, P33 BURKE MR, 1992, ISRAEL J MATH, V79, P289 CARLSON T, THEOREM LIFTING CHRISTENSEN JPR, 1974, TOPOLOGY BOREL STRUC FREMLIN DH, 1989, HDB BOOLEAN ALGEBRAS, P877 INOESCUTULCEA A, 1966, 5TH P BERK S MATH ST, V2 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1967, CONTRIBUTIONS PROB 1, P63 IONESCUTULCEA A, 1969, TOPICS THEORY LIFTIN JECH TJ, 1978, SET THEORY JOHNSON RA, 1980, P AM MATH SOC, V80, P234 JUST W, IN PRESS T AM MATH S KUPKA J, 1983, INDIANA U MATH J, V32, P717 LOSERT V, 1983, LNM, V1080, P95 MAHARAM D, 1958, P AM MATH SOC, V9, P987 SHELAH S, 1983, ISRAEL J MATH, V45, P90 TALAGRAND M, 1982, P AM MATH SOC, V84, P379 VONNEUMANN J, 1931, CRELLES J MATH, V165, P109; NR: 18; TC: 0; J9: ANN N Y ACAD SCI; PG: 4; GA: BZ86BSource type: Electronic(1
Examining China from the Perspective of the “other” -- Take the Videos of the Foreign Blogger "I am Jerry Kowal" on Bilibili as an Example
No full textIn the current environment of actively advocating the telling of Chinese stories in China, with the rise of short video platforms of "we media", many foreign bloggers take this opportunity to share Chinese stories, show their eyes of China from the perspective of the "other", and arouse the attention and discussion of the majority of netizens through the comparison of cultural differences, becoming ambassadors of cross-cultural communication. This study selected "I am Jerry Kowal", a well-known foreign blogger on bilibili, a very representative short video platform in China, as the research object, and took 60 of the most representative videos from 2019 to 2022 as research samples. Coverter and Python tools were used to extract, convert, make statistics and analyze video text. Case study, content analysis, word frequency statistics and comparative analysis were adopted to analyze these texts, and in-depth discussion was conducted mainly from the aspects of theme and narrative strategy. Through the analysis and discussion of these texts, it is found that the blogger's short video themes are rich and diverse, which is closely related to Yunnan Coffee, and his emotional tendency is objective. He is good at highlighting cultural differences through the comparison between China and the United States, likes to experience various professions, is good at using data and facts, is good at making effective video summary, and has created his own unique memory points and innovation points. These can provide some inspiration for us to tell Chinese stories to a certain extent
The AM Canum Venaticorum binary SDSS J173047.59+554518.5
No full textThe AM Canum Venaticorum (AM CVn) binaries are a rare group of hydrogen-deficient, ultrashort period, mass-transferring white dwarf binaries and are possible progenitors of Type Ia supernovae. We present time-resolved spectroscopy of the recently discovered AM CVn binary SDSS J173047.59+554518.5. The average spectrum shows strong double-peaked helium emission lines, as well as a variety of metal lines, including neon; this is the second detection of neon in an AM CVn binary, after the much brighter system GP Com. We detect no calcium in the accretion disc, a puzzling feature that has been noted in many of the longer period AM CVn binaries. We measure an orbital period, from the radial velocities of the emission lines, of 35.2 ± 0.2 min, confirming the ultracompact binary nature of the system. The emission lines seen in SDSS J1730 are very narrow, although double-peaked, implying a low-inclination, face-on accretion disc; using the measured velocities of the line peaks, we estimate i ≤ 11°. This low inclination makes SDSS J1730 an excellent system for the identification of emission lines
Giving psychology away : Psychologieunterricht an allgemeinbildenden und berufsbildenden Schulen und die Patenschaft der Sektion Aus-, Fort - und Weiterbildung für die Anna-Freud-Oberschule in Berlin
No full textRund 35 Jahre ist es her, dass der damalige Präsident der American Psychological Association (APA), George A. Miller (1969), in einer berühmt gewordenen Rede die Relevanz von Erkenntnissen der Psychologie für den Lebensalltag hervorgehoben hat.
Angemessen dargestellt, so Miller, seien die wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen der Psychologie auch von Sechstklässlern zu verstehen. Seine Schlussfolgerung: "Was mich betrifft, so kann ich mir nicht vorstellen, dass wir etwas Wichtigeres für das Wohlergehen der
Menschen tun könnten, etwas das für die Psychologen der kommenden Generation eine größere Herausforderung sein könnte als herauszufinden, wie die Psychologie
am besten weitergegeben werden kann" (Miller, 1969, S. 1074; dt. S.K.). Millers Aufruf verhallte nicht ungehört. Die amerikanische Psychologenschaft, die der Popularisierung psychologischen Wissens zunächst nicht unerhebliche Widerstände entgegengesetzt hatte, zeigte sich bereit, die Psychologie an Laien weiterzugeben (vgl. Kowal, 1987a). So forderte Belcher (1973, S. v) in seinem Textbuch >>Giving psychology away<<die akademische Psychologie dazu auf, ihren Elfenbeinturm zu verlassen und den Menschen ein Verhalten beizubringen, das ihnen dabei hilft ihre Probleme zu lösen; und Wrightsman und Sigelman (1979, S. 247) mahnten etwas bescheidener, die Psychologie zwar weiterzugeben ohne
sie jedoch zugleich wegzuwerfen. Etwa zeitgleich entstanden in der damaligen BRD Bestrebungen, Psychologie als Unterrichtsfach in die Sekundarstufe II aufzunehmen.
Im Jahr 2004 blickt das Fach Psychologie in Deutschland auf eine rund 30jährige Geschichte zurück, die ich zum Anlass nehmen möchte für einen kurzen Bericht über diese Geschichte sowie über ein Projekt der Sektion Aus-, Fort- und Weiterbildung (AFW) des BDP zur Förderung des Psychologieunterrichts, das gegenwärtig an der Anna-Freud-Oberschule in Berlin durchgeführt wird.unknownunknow
Freedom of choice or force of circumstance? : Eastern European sex-workers in the Republic of Cyprus ; paper for the conference 'Alltag der Globalisierung. Perspektiven einer transnationalen Anthropologie', January 16-18, 2003, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
No full textThis paper focuses on Eastern European migrants who, since the beginning of the 1990s, are entering the Republic Cyprus as “artistes”. This is a visa permit status as well as an euphemism for short-term work permits in the local sex industry. In addition to exploring the migrational experiences of these women and their living and working conditions in the Republic of Cyprus, the paper reconstructs, empirically and analyt ically, the connection between immigration and the local sex industry. Here, several categories of social actors and institutions in Cyprus are actively involved. The rhetoric of government representatives, entrepreneurs and clients in the sex business on the one hand is contrasted with the discourse of local NGO representatives concerned with immigrants’ rights on the other hand. The paper comes to the conclusion that all of these discursive positions ultimately do not do justice to the complex process of decisionmaking that women undergo who migrate into the sex industry. Either, freedom of choice is emphasized – such as by entrepreneurs and the government – or the domination of women – as in the public statements of the NGO. In order to analyze the ambivalent tension between freedom of choice and submission to force by which the women’s decision is characterized, the author employs Michel Foucault’s concept of governmentality, which describes forms of political regulation that use the individual’s freedom of action as an instrument to exercise power
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