240 research outputs found
Learning Together: Social Work Students and Service Users Reflect Critically on Their Diverse Life Experiences
No full textIn this chapter, the author introduces the concept of a project week where social work students study together with a diverse group of unemployed social work clients. This involves a learning approach as a formative research process, focusing on establishing and maintaining relationships and highlights communalities. The subject matter references a public forum organized by, “aqua muehle Vorarlberg”, during which students and service users present the results of their collective project week. The issues researched focus on unemployment, education, qualification, illnesses, discrimination and inclusion. A document analysis of learning journals together with records of feedback sessions and presentations of outcomes form the basis of this contribution. A series of new possibilities arise when groups form equally, leaving their “normalities” of familiar learning environments behind. The experiences are evaluated positively by the participants despite being described as exhausting, emotional and difficult. Role ambiguity contributes to a valuable experience of exchange
High Temperature Phase Transitions of Actinide Dioxides
No full textThe safety of nuclear power plants is one of the major issues in nuclear materials research. In this context, this PhD thesis presents an original experimental investigation of melting behaviour of several refractory nuclear materials, whose phase diagrams are often still uncertain at temperatures exceeding 2500 K. The physicochemical properties presented for several pure and mixed actinide oxides constitute an important step forward in the understanding the behaviour of different types of nuclear fuel under extreme conditions.Radiation Science & TechnologyApplied Science
A fully on-line adaptive BCI
No full textA viable fully on-line adaptive brain computer interface (BCI) is introduced. On-line experiments with nine naive and able-bodied subjects were carried out using a continuously adaptive BCI system. The data were analyzed and the viability of the system was studied. The BCI was based on motor imagery, the feature extraction was performed with an adaptive autoregressive model and the classifier used was an adaptive quadratic discriminant analysis. The classifier was on-line updated by an adaptive estimation of the information matrix (ADIM). The system was also able to provide continuous feedback to the subject. The success of the feedback was studied analyzing the error rate and mutual information of each session and this analysis showed a clear improvement of the subject's control of the BCI from session to session.Manuscript received June 17, 2004; revised November 27, 2005. This work was supported in part by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Education under Grant AP-2000-4673), in part by the Lorenz Böhler Gesellschaft in Austria, and in part by “Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung,” Austria, under Project 16326-BO2. Asterisk indicates corresponding author. *C. Vidaurre is with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electronics, State University of Navarra, Campus Arrosadia s/n, 31006, Pamplona, Spain (e-mail: [email protected]).Peer reviewe
Imaginary empire
No full textDiese Arbeit beleuchtet aussenpolitische Legitimationsdiskurse in China aufbauend auf dem marxistischen Ideologie-Verständnis.This thesis elaborates on legitimising discourse in Chinese foreign policy building on the Marxist understanding of ideology
A mesoscopic approach for draping simulation of preforms manufactured by direct fibre placement
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A proof of concept for high-energy physics data archival of PhD and master theses at the University of Freiburg
No full textThis contribution describes a proof of concept for the archival of the entire life cycle of the data, the analysis code, and the necessary software stack of an analysis realized during a typical PhD or master thesis in High-Energy Physics. All together, the derived datasets, the container with the appropriate software, and the dedicated analysis code are wrapped together into a dataset and stored on an appropriate long term storage, e.g. on the S3 storage of the bwSFS (Baden-Württemberg – Storage for Science) hosted in the compute centers of the University of Freiburg and Tübingen.A database keeps track of the individual datasets, such that based on the author name, the thesis title, or the doi of the given thesis, the corresponding dataset can be pulled up. Furthermore it is described how the setup can be generalized to be utilized for the entire Physics Department at the University of Freiburg
Karute or Chāto? A study on the use of German loanwords in the Japanese medicine language among hospital physicians in Tōkyō and Nagoya
No full textJapan’s medical history was greatly influenced by German medicine. As a result, several German loanwords are still in use today as clinical terms in Japanese medical terminology. However, the progressive shift to English for scientific communication may have made some terms obsolete. This study aims to uncover to what extent German loanwords in Japanese medical terminology have been replaced by their English counterparts. The author (herself a medical student at the time of the study) conducted a survey via questionnaire among practicing physicians working in several departments of two major Japanese hospitals. Out of 39 pairs of loanwords of German origin and their English counterparts, participants were instructed to select the term they would rather use, and finally to state whether they thought German was still relevant to Japanese medical terminology. The study showed that, among the medical terms selected for the questionnaire, German loanwords prevailed, despite the near-complete shift to English as a scientific language. This may be due to the sociolinguistic significance of medical jargon, namely the usage of loanwords for efficient and enciphered communication between physicians, as well as for building their own professional identity.Japan’s medical history was greatly influenced by German medicine. As a result, several German loanwords are still in use today as clinical terms in Japanese medical terminology. However, the progressive shift to English for scientific communication may have made some terms obsolete. This study aims to uncover to what extent German loanwords in Japanese medical terminology have been replaced by their English counterparts. The author (herself a medical student at the time of the study) conducted a survey via questionnaire among practicing physicians working in several departments of two major Japanese hospitals. Out of 39 pairs of loanwords of German origin and their English counterparts, participants were instructed to select the term they would rather use, and finally to state whether they thought German was still relevant to Japanese medical terminology. The study showed that, among the medical terms selected for the questionnaire, German loanwords prevailed, despite the near-complete shift to English as a scientific language. This may be due to the sociolinguistic significance of medical jargon, namely the usage of loanwords for efficient and enciphered communication between physicians, as well as for building their own professional identity
Estudo da expressividade musical dialógica no rudepoema de Heitor Villa-Lobos
No full textEste estudo da expressividade pesquisa a interpretação musical como uma construção dialógica, diálogo entre “duas consciências” próprias do dialogismo bakhtiniano. O expressivo em música como vivência dialógica considera o tempo, o espaço e o sentido de cada intérprete em uma posição cambiável de valor, expressão e vontade do autor pessoa ao autor criador como também autor contemplador da obra de arte. Este tempo/espaço, cronotopo, termo primeiramente usado por Bakhtin no estudo da obra de arte literária é aqui considerado como um cronotopo musical: tempo, espaço e sentido do intérprete em um diálogo com o Grande Tempo, a composição e seu contexto universal; demonstrando como o eu dialógico interage com o eu/eu e o eu/outro em uma atitude responsiva. Na composição Rudepoema está presente uma dialogia musical entre o compositor Villa-Lobos, “O Rabelais Brasileiro” e o pianista Arthur Rubinstein, a quem a obra foi dedicada. Os elementos musicais do Rudepoema foram analisados com títulos simbólicos como cronotopos Brasil, Carnaval, Arthur e da Teresa, com adjetivos sugestivos nos cronotopos da alegria, espontaneidade, virilidade e sensualidade; assim como as questões da colocação do pedal, inserção das fermatas, considerando-se ainda aspectos da recursão no processo da composição e suas implicações semânticas na expressividade da obra.This study on expressiveness researches musical interpretation as a dialogic construction, as a dialogue between the two types of consciousness presented in Bakhtin’s dialogism. In music, the ‘expressive’ as a dialogical experience considers time, space and the meaning of each performer in a interchangeable position of value, expression and will from the author as a person to the author as a creator as well as the author as on observer of the work of art. This time / space, chronotope, a term first used by Bakhtin in the study of literary art pieces is considered here as a musical chronotope: time, space and meaning of the interpreter in a dialogue with the Great Time, the composition and its universal context; demonstrating how the dialogic “I” interacts with the I / I and I / others in a responsive attitude. In the ‘Rudepoema’ musical composition there is the presence of musical dialogism between the composer Villa-Lobos, "The Brazilian Rabelais" and pianist Arthur Rubinstein, to whom the work was dedicated. The musical elements of the ‘Rudepoema’ were analyzed with symbolic titles as chronotopes Brazil, Carnival, Arthur and Teresa, with suggestive adjectives in the chronotopes of joy, spontaneity, virility and sensuality; as well as issues concerning pedal placement and fermatas insertion, considering also aspects of the recursion in the processes of composition and their semantic implications in the expressiveness of the work of art
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