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    [[alternative]]Niklas Luhmann’s Theory of Social Systems and Its Implication to the Educational Analysis

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    [[abstract]]Niklas Luhmann’s Theory of Social Systems and Its Implication to the Educational Analysis Abstract This thesis aims to study Niklas Luhmann’s theory of social systems and its educational implications. The first chapter explores major problems and predicament in the study of education. It also points out contributions of Luhmann to educational studies. The second chapter traces sources of Luhmann’s theory of intellectual traditions. The third chapter then explicates the structure of Luhmann’s theory with an analysis of important ideas and concepts implicated in his works.These ideas and concepts include , for example , system , complexity , meaning , function , communication , self-reference and others. The fourth chapter discusses how Luhmann has reflected on current educational systems on the basis of his own theory. In particular,Chapter Five takes up Luhmann’s discussion in Reflexionsprobleme im Erziehungssystem. The last chapter , in conclusion , reviews major themes of this research , identifies the difficulties thus encountered, and suggests possible directions for future studies.

    Briefe aus der Verbannung / Tristia. Epistulae ex Ponto : Lateinisch - Deutsch /

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    Im Jahre 8 n. Chr. wird Ovid aus nicht bekanntem Grund von Kaiser Augustus nach Tomis am Schwarzen Meer verbannt, an den Rand der zivilisierten Welt, in eine trostlose Gegend, in der niemand Latein spricht und die er bis zu seinem Tod 17 n. Chr. nicht mehr verlassen wird. Er beginnt, verzweifelte Briefe zu schreiben - man würde sie heute "Offene Briefe" nennen - und diese nach Rom zur Veröffentlichung zu schicken. Sie sind sorgsam dichterisch komponiert, der Stil ist geschliffen und sie haben nur ein Ziel: die öffentliche Meinung in Rom für ihn einzunehmen; erfolglos, wie wir wissen. Gleichwohl sind die Briefe bewegende Dokumente frühester Exil-Literatur. Sie wurden das ganze Mittelalter über gelesen und haben das moderne Bewusstsein Europas mitgeprägt. Die neue Einführung des Münchner Altphilologen Niklas Holzberg und die neuen besonders ausführlichen Anmerkungen zu den unzähligen versteckten Anspielungen in den Briefen untersuchen sorgfältig, was an Ovids Klagen echt und was "Literatur" ist, wo er unter der Unerträglichkeit des Exils tatsächlich leidet und wo er nur gängigen Vorstellungen über die Wildnis am Pontos Ausdruck verleiht. Eingeleitet und erläutert von Niklas Holzberg.Im Jahre 8 n. Chr. wird Ovid aus nicht bekanntem Grund von Kaiser Augustus nach Tomis am Schwarzen Meer verbannt, an den Rand der zivilisierten Welt, in eine trostlose Gegend, in der niemand Latein spricht und die er bis zu seinem Tod 17 n. Chr. nicht mehr verlassen wird. Er beginnt, verzweifelte Briefe zu schreiben - man würde sie heute "Offene Briefe" nennen - und diese nach Rom zur Veröffentlichung zu schicken. Sie sind sorgsam dichterisch komponiert, der Stil ist geschliffen und sie haben nur ein Ziel: die öffentliche Meinung in Rom für ihn einzunehmen; erfolglos, wie wir wissen. Gleichwohl sind die Briefe bewegende Dokumente frühester Exil-Literatur. Sie wurden das ganze Mittelalter über gelesen und haben das moderne Bewusstsein Europas mitgeprägt. Die neue Einführung des Münchner Altphilologen Niklas Holzberg und die neuen besonders ausführlichen Anmerkungen zu den unzähligen versteckten Anspielungen in den Briefen untersuchen sorgfältig, was an Ovids Klagen echt und was "Literatur" ist, wo er unter der Unerträglichkeit des Exils tatsächlich leidet und wo er nur gängigen Vorstellungen über die Wildnis am Pontos Ausdruck verleiht. Eingeleitet und erläutert von Niklas Holzberg.Electronic reproduction.Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed May 26, 2011

    Scandal on campus. Dietrich Schwanitz reads Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory

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    Niklas Luhmann (1927–1998) is one of the most distinguished sociologists of the twentieth cen-tury and the author of systems theory, which to a great extent has been accommodated into lin-guistics. Dietrich Schwanitz (1940–2004), an anglicist, is one of the most interesting interpreters of Luhmann on the basis of literary studies. Schwanitz is also known as a writer and author of the novel Campus (Der Campus, 1995). The main character, a sociologist, Hanno Hackmann, is wrongly accused of the sexual harassment and rape of a student. His reckless romance is exploited by various people in the university milieu to achieve their own goals. In fact, these people are, however, only the representatives of various social systems, especially politics and the media. Striving for re-election, the university rector needs this matter for his campaign, and the media are only interested in a scandalous story to be exploited for some time. Social communication does not reflect reality, and, at the same time, can be described as based on the “reduction of complexi-ty” (“Komplexitätsreduktion”). This is one of the most important concepts in Niklas Luhmann’s work. It turns out that systems theory provides the specific key to interpret the novel

    The Abstract Robot Simulator Manual

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    Robot Simulator Manual Version 1.0 Sean P. Engelson Niklas Bertani YALEU/DCS/TR-XXX October 1992 This work was partially supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, contract number DAAA15-87-K-0001, administered by the Ballistic Research Laboratory. The first author is supported by a fellowship from the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Ars Magna The Abstract Robot Simulator Manual Version 1.0 Sean P. Engelson Niklas Bertani 0 This work was partially supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, contract number DAAA15-87-K-0001, administered by the Ballistic Research Laboratory. The first author is supported by a fellowship from the Fannie and John Hertz Foundation Abstract AI planning research has historically operated in formal abstractions of the real world. This approach was useful in discovering many fundamental issues underlying planning; also, problems in simple domains such as the blocks world can turn out to be surprisingly difficult. Late..

    Cross-Topic Author Identification -- a Case Study on Swedish Literature

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    Using material from the Swedish Literature Bank, we investigate whether common methods of author identification using word frequencies and part of speech frequencies are sensitive to differences in topic. The results show that this is the case, thereby casting doubt on much previous work in author identification. This sets the stage for a broader future study, comparing other methods and generalising the results

    Modeling of Cloud Droplet Formation: Software Development and Sampling Strategies

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    Updraft speeds are an important factor in the formation of cloud droplets which play an important role in an atmospheric simulation. The updraft speeds are varying very strongly in small areas of space. Current models do not account for this kind of variability. Support for a probability density function (PDF) based approach in representing the variability of the updraft speeds has been implemented in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM). Specifics of the implementation process have been discussed. Different sampling strategies were tested to analyze the convergence behavior of the new approach to the cloud droplet formation process. It has shown that using a simple Monte Carlo sampling strategy has given good convergence rates for the different variables that are important to the cloud droplet formation process

    Modeling of Cloud Droplet Formation: Software Development and Sampling Strategies

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    Updraft speeds are an important factor in the formation of cloud droplets which play an important role in an atmospheric simulation. The updraft speeds are varying very strongly in small areas of space. Current models do not account for this kind of variability. Support for a probability density function (PDF) based approach in representing the variability of the updraft speeds has been implemented in the Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM). Specifics of the implementation process have been discussed. Different sampling strategies were tested to analyze the convergence behavior of the new approach to the cloud droplet formation process. It has shown that using a simple Monte Carlo sampling strategy has given good convergence rates for the different variables that are important to the cloud droplet formation process

    Manipulating Embeddings of Stable Diffusion Prompts

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    Supplementary material of the paper Manipulating Embeddings of Stable Diffusion Prompts. The paper can be found on arXiv: arXiv:2308.12059 Please cite as: @Article{deckers:2023b, author = {Niklas Deckers and Julia Peters and Martin Potthast}, title = {Manipulating Embeddings of Stable Diffusion Prompts}, journal = {CoRR}, volume = {abs/2308.12059}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.12059}, month = aug, year = 2023

    Niklas Luhmann, Crisis y Renovación en la Teoría Social del Siglo XX

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    The purpose of this article is to give a brief introduction to Luhmann's thought, focusing on the changes of the 20th century positions and analyzing basic concepts of the author. Likewise, to review that Niklas Luhmann's social theory adopts a new way of understanding a society that has become more complex in the stage of modernity/postmodernity, in which for the author, the classical theory does not have the explanatory elements for such phenomena. Luhmann's theory is closely linked to the epistemological changes of the second half of the 20th century and the advances in science and technology.El presente artículo tiene como objetivo dar una breve introducción al pensamiento de Luhmann, enfocándose en los cambios de las posturas del siglo XX y analizando conceptos básicos del autor. Así misml, revisar que  la  teoría social de Niklas Luhmann adopta una nueva forma de comprender a una sociedad que se ha complejizado en la etapa de la modernidad/posmodernidad, en la cual para el autor, la teoría clásica no tiene los elementos explicativos para dichos fenómenos. La teoría de Luhmann está muy ligada a los cambios epistemológicos de la segunda mitad del siglo XX y los avances en las ciencias, tecnología

    TOAR-II Data User Workshop January 2023

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    The Tropospheric Ozone Assessment Report (TOAR) is an initiative of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) project. TOAR-II is the second phase of TOAR. It builds on the successful completion of the first comprehensive assessment on tropospheric ozone and will last from 2020 to 2024. The TOAR-II Data User Workshop 2023 is an extension of the workshop already held in 2022 (http://doi.org/10.34730/f52a5d792fbb42c3b1f1b92333d4d86e) and showed the innovations in development since the previous year. In particular, the newly developed dashboard was presented, and the tools for accessing and analysing data from the TOAR database were explained. This publication contains all lectures that were held during this event. Furthermore, users' workflows and data analysis problems have been tackled in hands-on sessions. The feedback from this workshop will also influence the further development of the TOAR infrastructure. All workshop material including the hands-on codes can be found at https://gitlab.jsc.fz-juelich.de/esde/toar-public/toar-data-user-workshop-2023
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