In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird gezeigt, dass die christliche Predigt eine multimodal realisierte rekonstruktiv-prospektive kommunikative Gattung ist, die die Aufgabe hat, eine Wissens-, Glaubens- und Praktikengemeinschaft herzustellen. Diese Gattung wurde bisher nicht konzise auf allen Gattungsebenen beschrieben. Die vorliegende Arbeit schließt diese Forschungslücke mithilfe natürlicher Aud…
Dieses Open-Access-Buch ist die erste soziologische Ethnographie, die sich der Forschungspraxis wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Laborexperimente widmet. Wissenschaftliche Labore sind Orte der Außeralltäglichkeit, die zum Zweck wissenschaftlicher Untersuchungen geschaffen werden. Der Untersuchungsgegenstand ökonomischer Laborexperimente ist das menschliche Entscheidungsverhalten. Dieses ist imm…
Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), a chronic inflammatory condition that encompasses radiographic (also known as ankylosing spondylitis [AS]) and non-radiographic (nr-axSpA) forms of the disease (Rudwaleit et al. 2009), can lead to chronic pain, structural damage, and disability. While understanding of the pathophysiology of axSpA and its management (classification, diagnosis, monitoring, an…
The idea for this textbook on Animal Bioacoustics was Jeanette’s. She reached out to bioacousticians working on the different animal taxa and received great interest in this book. Experts from around the globe joined her effort, developing chapters on bioacoustic studies on the diverse animal taxa, from invertebrates and insects, to amphibians, reptiles, fishes, birds, and mammals. It so…
Phosphorus (P) fertilizers are known to increase crop productivity; however, when applied in excess, it can cause serious environment pollution. Monitoring P pollution in natural environments using stable isotopes has been difficult because P has only one stable isotope (31P) making the use of P stable isotope tracing not an option. Radioactive P isotopes (32P and 33P) have been used but it…
When conducting the research that lies behind the writing of this book, and during its substantive writing, Paul Weller was part-time Research Fellow in Religion and Society and Associate Director (UK) of the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture, Regent’s Park College, a Baptist Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford, where he is an Associate Member of the Faculty of T…
We would like to dedicate this book to Professor Chris Pickvance, who passed away in autumn of 2021. As an urban sociologist and one of the first scholars to lead a comparative research project on housing movements in Central and Eastern Europe just after 1989, Chris has been a great inspiration for our work. He also generously commented on our draft manuscript as part of our advisory …
We would like to thank our project executing agency VDI/VDE-IT and especially Constantin von Dewitz for their constructive collaboration, as well as the Federal Ministry of Education and Research for its support, especially Katrin Nostadt and Annette Eickmeyer-Hehn. Cornelius Höller participated in the project as a substitute for parental leave, after previously also contributing as an …
Im Zuge der schrittweisen Verlagerung von Gestaltungsspielräumen von der Systemebene auf die operative Ebene (Altrichter und Maag Merki 2010; Füssel und Leschinsky 2008) sind auch Aufgaben der schulischen Personalentwicklung in den Verantwortungsbereich der Schulen übergegangen (Buhren und Rolff 2002; Meetz 2007; Brauckmann und Eder 2019). Dienstvorgesetztenfunktion und Weisungsbefugni…
This volume, The Forum of Federations Handbook on Fiscal Federalism, we consider to be an important contribution to the study of federalism. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from across the globe, it seeks to broaden and update current understandings of the state of fiscal federalism within 11 country case studies, and by so doing attempts to tease out some extrapolatory l…