Den Essays dieses Bandes zu Bildern der wissenschaftlich-technischen Zivilisation im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert geht es um Annäherungen an die sozialen Konstruktionen einer Faszinationsgeschichte der Technik. Sie sind ein Beitrag zur Etablierung des Felds der Historischen Technikakzeptanzforschung am KIT. Die besondere Aufmerksamkeit gilt dabei der Mobilitätsgeschichte.
Rather than working at the usual scales of distant reading, this book shows what happens when we bring techniques from the digital humanities to bear on a single novel for close readings.
The fungus Clonostachys rosea was recognized as an aggressive parasite on other fungi already in the late 1950s. Research into its potential use in biological control of plant diseases soon followed. Today, there are several commercial products based on C. rosea available for biocontrol applications worldwide. Although its mycoparasitic ability has attracted a lot of interest, C. rosea is now v…
This collective monograph is the first data-oriented, empirical in-depth study of the system of clitics on Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian. It fills the gap between the theoretical and normative literature by including solid data on variation found in dialects and spoken language and obtained from massive Web Corpora and speakers’ acceptability judgements. The authors investigate three primary …
Musikvideos bilden ein beredtes Medium zur Repräsentation der Geschlechterdifferenz. In den hier inszenierten (Sub-)Kulturen werden Frauen typischerweise als »schmückendes Beiwerk« männlicher Stars, Statussymbole protzender Rapper oder als »Anmache« für das zahlende Publikum stilisiert. Andererseits nutzen Frauen wie Madonna oder Lil' Kim das Video zur Auseinandersetzung mit dem männli…
Including contributions from leading scholars in the field from both Australia and North America, this collection explores diverse approaches to writing the lives of historians and ways of assessing the importance of doing so. Beginning with the writing of autobiographies by historians, the volume then turns to biographical studies, both of historians whose writings were in some sense nation-de…
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. President Clinton's time in office coincided with historic global events following the end of the Cold War. The collapse of Communism called for a new US Grand Strategy to address the emerging geopolitical era that brought upheavals in Somalia and the Balkans, ec…
The causes, development and outcomes of disorders are determined by the relationship of psychological, social and cultural factors with biochemistry and physiology. Biochemistry and physiology are not disconnected and different from the rest of our experiences and life events. This system is based on current studies that report that the brain and its cognitive processes show a fantastic synchro…
Despite major medical advances in recent decades, colorectal cancer remains a major public health problem with significant unmet medical needs. This reprint presents new scientific and clinical data, and discusses the need to identify new theranostic biomarkers from tissue and fluid biopsies, to go further in terms of personalised medicine and thus overcome current limitations.
Polypharmacy is a necessary and important aspect of drug treatment; however, it becomes a challenge when the medication risks outweigh the benefits for an individual patient. Drug–drug interactions and the introduction of prescribing cascades are common features of polypharmacy, which can lead to ineffectiveness and increased risk of adverse drug reactions (ADR). Genes encoding CYP450 isozyme…