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Petrified worldviews. The Eurocentric legacy in architectural knowledge bases on Japan
Creators: name: Löffler, Beate
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2018

description: During the later half of the 19th century, the Japanese government initiated a rapid modernization effort that aimed to create a competitive Japanese nation state. In addition to such changes as new family law, compulsory education, redistribution of property, etc., the government contracted experts from Europe and North America as advisers and teachers. Many reported home and soon travelogues, regional studies, and accounts on particular topics were published in Europe and the US. Dealing with the most diverse topics, the writers usually mediated factual information embedded in reflections upon Japanese culture in general. This happened against the background of a global understanding of civilization in which the western claim for hegemony was apparent. When Japan adopted its position as one of the leading countries in the world over time and Japanese studies developed as an academic field, these early texts lost relevance. However, they did not lose their influence. My paper traces the various western discourses on Japanese architecture thru the late 19th century and the formation of a body of specialist’s knowledge permeated by cultural normative, by a demarcation between the Own and the Other. I argue that these embedded Eurocentric perceptions still impact today’s research topics and architectural discourses on Japan.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 8 No 2 (2017): Done with Eurocentrism? Directions, Diversions, and Debates in History and Sociology
Measuring Observable Quantum Contextuality
Creators: name: de Barros, J. Acacio
name: Dzhafarov, Ehtibar N.
name: Kujala, Janne V.
name: Oas, Gary
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81P13, 60A99

description: Contextuality is a central property in comparative analysis of classical, quantum, and supercorrelated systems. We examine and compare two well-motivated approaches to contextuality. One approach ("contextuality-by-default") is based on the idea that one and the same physical property measured under different conditions (contexts) is represented by different random variables. The other approach is based on the idea that while a physical property is represented by a single random variable irrespective of its context, the joint distributions of the random variables describing the system can involve negative (quasi-)probabilities. We show that in the Leggett-Garg and EPR-Bell systems, the two measures essentially coincide.
description: 12 pages
Selbstbestimmung für alte(rnde) Menschen mit geistiger Beeinträchtigung und Demenz
Creators: name: Dold, Janina
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW - Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit
Year: 2022
Subjects: Beeinträchtigung
Demenz
Selbstbestimmung

description: Die demografische Entwicklung betrifft auch Menschen mit geistiger Beeinträchtigung. Die Anzahl alternder Menschen mit Beeinträchtigung nimmt weiter zu und die gestiegene Lebenserwartung macht eine zusätzlich demenzielle Erkrankung wahrscheinlicher. Dies stellt Einrichtungen der Behindertenhilfe vor neue Herausforderungen. Gerade im Hinblick auf die Umsetzung von Selbstbestimmung ergeben sich bei Menschen mit geistigen Beeinträchtigungen und einer Demenz spezifische Schwierigkeiten, deren sich Professionelle der Sozialen Arbeit bewusst sein sollten und ihnen reflektiert begegnen sollten. Die Herausforderungen beziehen sich dabei nicht nur auf die direkte Beziehung und Interaktion zwischen Klientel und Professionellen, sondern sie zeigen sich auch in behindernden Kontextfaktoren wie politischen Rahmenbedingungen, gesetzlichen Bestimmungen, strukturellen, personellen und finanziellen Grenzen der Einrichtungen oder in stigmatisierenden Einstellungen der Gesellschaft gegenüber der betroffenen Personengruppe. Diese Arbeit gibt einen Überblick über die vielfältigen Herausforderungen und zeigt einige ausgewählte Umgangsformen damit auf.
Solyanik estimates and local Hölder continuity of halo functions of geometric maximal operators
Creators: name: Hagelstein, Paul A.
name: Parissis, Ioannis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42B25 (Primary), 42B35 (Secondary)

description: Let $\mathcal{B}$ be a homothecy invariant basis consisting of convex sets in $\mathbb{R}^n$, and define the associated geometric maximal operator $M_{\mathcal{B}}$ by $$ M_{\mathcal{B}} f(x) :=\sup_{x \in R \in \mathcal{B}}\frac{1}{|R|}\int_R |f| $$ and the halo function $ϕ_{\mathcal{B}}(α)$ on $(1,\infty)$ by $$ϕ_{\mathcal B}(α) :=\sup_{E \subset \mathbb{R}^n :\, 0 < |E| < \infty}\frac{1}{|E|}|\{x\in \mathbb{R}^n : M_{\mathcal{B}} χ_E (x) >1/α\}|. $$ It is shown that if $ϕ_{\mathcal{B}}(α)$ satisfies the Solyanik estimate $ϕ_{\mathcal B}(α) - 1 \leq C (1 - \frac{1}α)^p$ for $α\in(1,\infty)$ sufficiently close to 1 then $ϕ_{\mathcal{B}}$ lies in the Hölder class $ C^p(1,\infty)$. As a consequence we obtain that the halo functions associated with the Hardy-Littlewood maximal operator and the strong maximal operator on $\mathbb{R}^n$ lie in the Hölder class $C^{1/n}(1,\infty)$.
description: 19 pages, 1 figure, minor typos corrected, incorporates referee's report, to appear in Adv. Math
Feminism Otherwise. Intersectionality beyond Occidentalism
Creators: name: Roth, Julia
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2018

description: Based on the paradigm of Eurocentric hegemony and the respective cartographies of knowledge, feminist theorizing is conventionally perceived as being situated in the academy and in the so-called »Global North.« Feminism seems to be »owned« by Western European and US-American academic (and mostly white) feminists, whereas other regions and epistemes serve as object of knowledge production. For example, the concept of »intersectionality« has by now become an academic concept in the humanities and the social sciences, even so the idea behind it originates from African American feminist and activist contexts. Also black feminists from »peripheral« spaces such as the Caribbean or Brazil had for a long time been claiming the need for examining the interdependent inequalities they experience as addressed in the concept, however mostly not under the same terminology. Exemplifying the Occidentalism paradigm for addressing epistemic inequalities, this article elaborates on the persistent geopolitics of knowledge within and between different feminism(s) and between different feminisms in different regions of the world. Against the backdrop of the ways in which the feminist concept of »intersectionality« for addressing interdependent axes of stratification has travelled, the article seeks to discuss possible forms of solidarity and theorizing across and beyond borders. For analyzing epistemic asymmetries between feminisms, the article proposes the concept of Occidentalism, which, in a broader and more structural sense than Eurocentrism, implies a structural organization of highly unequal, asymmetrical and hierarchical knowledge production and circulation. Furthermore, a critical Occidentalist approach critical of hegemony and focusing on a relational understanding serves for imagining feminist practice and theorizing beyond Eurocentrism and Occidentalism.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 8 No 2 (2017): Done with Eurocentrism? Directions, Diversions, and Debates in History and Sociology
General instanton counting and 5d SCFT
Creators: name: Hwang, Chiung
name: Kim, Joonho
name: Kim, Seok
name: Park, Jaemo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Instanton partition functions of 5d N=1 gauge theories are Witten indices for the ADHM gauged quantum mechanics with (0,4) SUSY. We derive the integral contour prescriptions for these indices using the Jeffrey-Kirwan method, for gauge theories with hypermultiplets in various representations. The results can be used to study various 4d/5d/6d QFTs. In this paper, we study 5d SCFTs which are at the UV fixed points of 5d SYM theories. In particular, we focus on the Sp(N) theories with N_f \leq 7 fundamental and 1 antisymmetric hypermultiplets, living on the D4-D8-O8 systems. Their superconformal indices calculated from instantons all show E_{N_f+1} symmetry enhancements. We also discuss some aspects of the 6d SCFTs living on the M5-M9 system. It is crucial to understand the UV incompleteness of the 5d SYM, coming from small instantons in our problem. We explain in our examples how to fix them. As an aside, we derive the index for general gauged quantum mechanics with (0,2) SUSY.
description: 67 pages, 9 figures; v3: minor changes, published version
Geschlecht in der Suchtprävention
Creators: name: Brügger, Nathalie
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW - Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit
Year: 2022
Subjects: Geschlecht
Soziale Arbeit
Suchtprävention

description: Diese Arbeit geht der Frage nach, welche Anforderungen sich an die Soziale Arbeit für eine geschlechtersensible Suchtprävention stellen. Zunächst werden grundlegende Informationen zum Begriff Sucht und zur Suchtprävention dargestellt. Danach wird auf den Zusammenhang von Geschlecht und Sucht eingegangen und erläutert, was es für Diskussionen um die geschlechtersensible Suchtprävention gibt. Es wird aufgezeigt, dass eine geschlechtersensible Vorgehensweise notwendig ist, weil das Phänomen Sucht von Geschlechteraspekten geprägt ist. Mit dem Einbezug spezifischer Geschlechtertheorien wird ferner deutlich, dass der Substanzkonsum sowohl für Frauen als auch für Männer bestimmte Funktionen erfüllt. Die Arbeit kommt zum Ergebnis, dass es fünf Anforderungen für die Soziale Arbeit im Bereich der geschlechtersensiblen Suchtprävention gibt. Die Soziale Arbeit benötigt einerseits Fachwissen zu Geschlechteraspekten und andererseits die Fähigkeit, dieses Wissen kritisch zu hinterfragen. Des Weiteren sollen Sozialarbeitende bei der Ausgestaltung präventiver Angebote ressourcenorientiert und partizipativ vorgehen. Zu guter Letzt gilt es, die Zusammenhänge von Gesellschaft und Individuum zu thematisieren.
Persistence of Eurocentric orders and divisions. Reflections on »postcolonial scholarship« and the disentanglement of »race« and »religion«
Creators: name: Hernandez Aguilar, Luis Manuel
name: Zubair, Ahmad
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2018

description: The contribution tackles the division between race and religion in critical-postcolonial scholarship. We argue that critical and postcolonial conversations have not only sidelined interest in the category of religion, and of its historical evolvement as an analytical category, but moreover its relationship with race. In keeping the question of religion marginal at best and detached from race at worst, strands of critical-postcolonial scholarship, we argue, have reproduced the epistemic order of Eurocentrism along with its sedimented divisions between race and religion. In exploring the critical-postcolonial scholarship on race and religion respectively, we illustrate the operations defining and dividing both. This contribution’s aim, however, does not attempt to conflate race and religion as categories of analysis, rather, it seeks to unravel the historical operations and moments where these categories served to classify and rank humans. By exploring this merging and detachment we aim to contribute to the growing literature pertaining to anti-Muslim racism or Islamophobia, and approaches framing anti-Semitism as a form of racism, that is, those persistent political operations whereby race and religion persistently overlap.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 8 No 2 (2017): Done with Eurocentrism? Directions, Diversions, and Debates in History and Sociology
Beyond bipolarity? The rise and fall of the Argentine Third Position (1947–1950)
Creators: name: Petersen, Mirko
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2018

description: Latin America is usually regarded as a minor theatre of the Cold War because of the tight grip of the United States on its »backyard«. Although the field of Global Cold War Studies has emphasized the importance to extend the analytical view to the so-called Third World during this period, there are only few Latin American examples which receive attention. This paper advocates for a fresh look at the regime of Juan Perón in Argentina in the context of the Global Cold War. In the early phase of the superpower confrontation, Perón warned about a clash of capitalism and communism and in 1947 proclaimed a Third Position between the two superpowers. Although the Argentine government guaranteed the US to be on its side in case of a future war, Washington considered this Third Position an obstacle to its hemispheric policy. An analysis of the Third Position can help us get a broader perspective on the early phase of the Cold War in Latin America.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 8 No 2 (2017): Done with Eurocentrism? Directions, Diversions, and Debates in History and Sociology
Re-mapping Europe. Field notes from the French-Brazilian borderland
Creators: name: Santos, Fabio
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2018

description: By highlighting the case of French Guiana and – more extensively – its border with Brazil, this article is a contribution to the recent academic interest in the European Union’s ›Outermost Regions‹ and the colonial continuities implied by their status. The article begins by depicting sociology’s Eurocentric tradition, precluding postcolonial perspectives on Europe d’outre mer from gaining a foothold in mainstream research and curricula. In this context, recent re-conceptualizations of ›entangled‹ histories and modernities/modernity are brought into focus. In a second step, the paper offers a historical overview of French Guiana and its contested border with Brazil. The article proceeds by presenting ethnographic field notes from the border region. These empirical insights illustrate the on-going entanglements not only between ›mainland‹ France and its exclave on the Latin American continent, but also between France and Brazil as well as between Europe and Latin America more generally.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 8 No 2 (2017): Done with Eurocentrism? Directions, Diversions, and Debates in History and Sociology
Begleitung, Stärkung und Weitervermittlung von Mädchen mit sozialen Problemen durch die offene Jugendarbeit
Creators: name: Moscon, Sabrina
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW - Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit
Year: 2022
Subjects: Begleitung
Mädchen
Offene Jugendarbeit
Stärkung
Weitervermittlung

description: Professionelle der Offenen Jugendarbeit werden von den jugendlichen Besucherinnen und Besuchern der Offenen Jugendarbeit häufig als Vertrauenspersonen wahrgenommen. Gegenüber weiteren Angeboten der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe stellt die Offene Jugendarbeit für Jugendliche eine Anlaufstelle dar, welche sie freiwillig und bewusst aufsuchen. Als Teilbereich der professionellen Sozialen Arbeit und bedeutender Träger der ausserschulischen Bildung begleitet, unterstützt und fördert die Offene Jugendarbeit Jugendliche im Rahmen von Beziehungsarbeit auf dem Weg zur Selbständigkeit (vgl. Dachverband Offene Kinder- und Jugendarbeit Schweiz DOJ/AFAJ 2018: 3). Jugendliche besuchen die Räumlichkeiten der Offenen Jugendarbeit wie den Jugendtreff nicht nur, um ihre Freizeit dort zu verbringen. Gerade weil die Besuchenden freiwillig an den Angeboten der Offenen Jugendarbeit teilnehmen, entwickeln sich stabile professionelle Arbeitsbeziehungen zwischen Fachkräften und der Zielgruppe. Dementsprechend nutzen Jugendliche bei Schwierigkeiten diese Arbeitsbeziehungen, um über ihre Problemlagen zu sprechen und sich Unterstützung zu holen. In dieser Bachelor-Arbeit wird aufgezeigt, wie die Offene Jugendarbeit als relevante Anlaufstelle für Jugendliche agieren und einzelne junge Menschen durch ihre Arbeit begleiten, stärken und allenfalls an eine andere Hilfe- und Unterstützungsstelle weitervermitteln kann. Aufgrund meiner beruflichen Erfahrungen lege ich den Fokus in dieser Bachelor-Arbeit explizit auf die Zielgruppe der Mädchen im Alter von 14 bis 17 Jahren und deren Begleitung in ihren Problemlagen. Das zentrale Thema der vorliegenden Arbeit stellt die Begleitung, Stärkung und Weitervermittlung von Mädchen mit sozialen Problemen durch die Offene Jugendarbeit dar. Durch die Vorstellung von möglichen Methoden und Konzepten zur Begleitung und Förderung der Mädchen soll diese Bachelor-Arbeit einen Mehrwert für Fachkräfte der Offenen Jugendarbeit bieten. Ausserdem soll diese Thesis gegenüber Entscheidungsträgerinnen und -trägern zur Legitimation der Begleitung, Stärkung und Weitervermittlung von einzelnen Jugendlichen durch die Offene Jugendarbeit beitragen.
title: Teaching Contextually Appropriate Play Commenting Without the Use of Visual Cues
Creators: name: Nichols, Beverly
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2023

description: Deficits in communication and play can affect the quality of life of autistic children and individuals, which is why it is important that we help them acquire these skills as early as possible. Applied behavior analysis (ABA) and script training and fading procedures are evidence-based practices that can successfully teach communication during play. However, script fading can be difficult, and scripts may not be able to be completely faded out of the environment. The findings from a recent study suggested that specific phrases can become associated with small pictures rather than written scripts Perhaps, these specific phrases can be tied directly to the toys being played with using verbal prompts. If this is possible, the fading of supplemental visual aids (e.g., written scripts, small picture) would not be necessary. Thus, the purpose of this study was to investigate whether visual aids such as written scripts and small pictures are necessary to teach preschool aged autistic children to make play statements while playing with playsets. One participant demonstrated a small increase in their number of play statements but required the use of small pictures attached to the toys to meet mastery. Two participants demonstrated no change in their number of play statements until after the small pictures were introduced. Those two participants also required the addition of pre-session teaching to meet mastery. Additionally, all three participants continued making play statements with new playsets. We also discuss potential limitations and suggestions for future research.
Safer Spaces für Schwarze Frauen*
Creators: name: Disasi, Tara Ismael
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW - Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit
Year: 2022
Subjects: Empowerment
Rassismus
Safer Spaces
Schwarze Frauen
Veränderung

description: Die Lebensrealitäten von Schwarze Frauen* werden in einer weissen, patriarchalen Gesellschaft von den Dominanzverhältnissen Rassismus und Sexismus geprägt. Die vorliegende Arbeit leistet einen Beitrag bei der herrschaftskritischen Auseinandersetzung von Dominanzverhältnissen unter einer intersektionalen und postkolonialen Perspektive. Die Literaturarbeit geht der Fragestellung nach, inwiefern Empowerment-Räume für Schwarze Frauen* Möglichkeiten und Grenzen für einen subjektbezogenen Wandel, wie auch für eine Praxis der Veränderung von sozialen Ordnungen wie Rassismus und Sexismus, unter Einbezug einer intersektionalen und postkolonialen Perspektive schaffen. Zentrale Bestandteile der Arbeit sind die machtkritische Auseinandersetzung mit Rassismus, Empowerment und Safer Spaces. Das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, eine Möglichkeit aufzuzeigen, wie mithilfe von einem Safer Space für Schwarze Frauen* eine gerechtere Welt entstehen kann. Dazu benötigt es die An-Erkennung von Dominanzverhältnissen, wie auch ihre historische Betrachtung. Um internalisierte Unterdrückungsformen zu verändern, kann ein politischer und reflexiver Epowerment-Ansatz von und für Schwarze Frauen* angewendet werden. Zusätzlich benötigt es eine kritische Auseinandersetzung von Privilegien wie weisssein.
Musik als Instrument zur (kulturellen) Teilhabe von Jugendlichen an der Gesellschaft
Creators: name: De Paolis, Renzo
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW - Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit
Year: 2022
Subjects: Analyse
Gesellschaft
Musik
Instrument

description: Diese Arbeit soll veranschaulichen, welche Bedeutung und Funktionen Musik in der Gesellschaft besitzt. Musik hat verschiedene kulturelle, soziale oder ästhetische Wirkungsweisen auf den Menschen. Einen speziellen Fokus legt diese Arbeit auf das gemeinsame Musizieren und dessen Einfluss auf die gesellschaftliche Teilhabe von Jugendlichen. Musik kann als Ausdrucksform dienen sowie auch zur Inklusion von Individuen beitragen. Veranschaulicht werden diese Überlegungen im Teil der Arbeit, in welchem zwei unterschiedliche ausserschulische und musikalische Kontexte miteinander verglichen werden. Darauffolgend wird dargelegt, welche Wirkung eine ausserfamiliäre musikalische Sozialisation auf die Teilhabe von Jugendlichen hat und welchen Beitrag die Soziale Arbeit dazu leisten kann.
Self-Gravitating Relativistic Models of Fermions with Anisotropy and Cutoff Energy in their Distribution Function
Creators: name: Merafina, Marco
name: Alberti, Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we study the equilibrium configurations of anisotropic self-gravitating fermions, by extending to general relativity the solutions obtained in a previous paper. This treatment also generalizes to anisotropic systems the relativistic self-gravitating Fermi gas model, by considering different degrees of anisotropy. We discuss some important characteristics of the models and the obtained density profiles, and generalize the relation between the anisotropy and the mass of particles in the relativistic regime. These relativistic models may also be applied to the study of superdense neutron stars with anisotropic pressure or super-Chandrasekhar white dwarfs generated by the presence of a magnetic field.
description: 28 pages, 9 figures, 5 tables. Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. D
Über Tiefenpsychologie, Psychoanalyse und Psychodynamik in der Sozialen Arbeit
Creators: name: Weisskirchen, Michael
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW - Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit
Year: 2022
Subjects: Soziale Arbeit
Tiefenpsychologie
Psychoanalyse
Psychodynamik

description: Ein Gespenst geht um in Wien – das Gespenst der Psychoanalyse. Als Sigmund Freud zusammen mit seinem frühen Mentor Josef Breuer 1895 die „Studien über Hysterie“ publizierte, sollte damit der Grundstein für die Psychoanalyse gelegt werden, die dann 1896 erstmals namentlich in Freuds Schriften erwähnt worden ist. Und ebenjene tiefenhermeneutische Analyse der Psyche soll nun das Fundament der vorliegenden Arbeit konstituieren. Ihre Untersuchungsgegenstände sind die Themen Tiefenpsychologie, Psychoanalyse und Psychodynamik sowie die Verwendung psychodynamischer Konzepte innerhalb der Sozialen Arbeit. Die konkrete Leitfrage lautet: Inwiefern können psychoanalytische Konzepte der Sozialen Arbeit dienlich sein, besonders im Kontext psychosozialer Beratung? Die Essenz der Arbeit – die Psychoanalyse nach Prof. Dr. Sigmund Freud – wird im Hauptteil en détail diskutiert und alsdann auf die Beratung der Sozialen Arbeit bezogen. Dabei wird offenbar, dass sie im Rahmen der Beratungsarbeit ziemlich breit anwendbar ist und das Potenzial zu umfassender Bereicherung in sich birgt. Die Inanspruchnahme psychoanalytischen Deutungswissens vermag sozialarbeiterische und sozialpädagogische Beratungen tiefgehender und ganzheitlicher zu machen. Zudem können Probleme mittels psychodynamischer Herangehensweise ungemein nachhaltig bearbeitet werden. Des Weiteren profitierte wohl auch das Politische der Sozialen Arbeit von massenpsychologischem Wissen und Können psychodynamischer Couleur – würden ebendiese Werkzeuge denn sinnstiftend eingesetzt.
Nekotorye grammatičeskie universalii v podsistemax vyraženija sub"ektno-ob"ektnyx otnošenij
Creators: name: Kozinskij, Isaak Šaevič
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1979
Subjects: grammatical universals, language universals, subject-object relations, valency, syntactic functions

description: This work is the dissertation of I. Kozinsky (1947-1992), one of the most important Soviet typologists of the 1970s and 1980s.
Done with Eurocentrism? Directions, Diversions, and Debates in History and Sociology
Creators: name: Mayar, Mahshid
name: González, Yaatsil Guevara
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2018

description: By highlighting the case of French Guiana and – more extensively – its border with Brazil, this article is a contribution to the recent academic interest in the European Union’s ›Outermost Regions‹ and the colonial continuities implied by their status. The article begins by depicting sociology’s Eurocentric tradition, precluding postcolonial perspectives on Europe d’outre mer from gaining a foothold in mainstream research and curricula. In this context, recent re-conceptualizations of ›entangled‹ histories and modernities/modernity are brought into focus. In a second step, the paper offers a historical overview of French Guiana and its contested border with Brazil. The article proceeds by presenting ethnographic field notes from the border region. These empirical insights illustrate the on-going entanglements not only between ›mainland‹ France and its exclave on the Latin American continent, but also between France and Brazil as well as between Europe and Latin America more generally.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 8 No 2 (2017): Done with Eurocentrism? Directions, Diversions, and Debates in History and Sociology
Digitalización y Desarrollo Sostenible de la MIPYME en Panamá
Creators: name: Piper (coordinadora CNC), Rosemary
name: Tam, Ninotshka
name: Durán, Roger
name: Quintero de Sanfilippo, Edilsa
name: Martez, Nuvia Gisela
name: González, Enith
name: Bernal, Bolívar
name: Vergara Villarreal, Gabriel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Technology management
Small business organisation and management

description: Los cambios dinámicos en el entorno de los negocios requieren que los agentes productivos realicen ajustes rápidos y oportunos que respondan a las demandas de un mercado altamente competitivo. En este sentido la transformación digital surge como un factor clave que debe ser incorporado en la estrategia de la organización, dado que permite mejorar el rendimiento de la empresa. Cada vez más los directivos son conscientes de la necesidad de favorecer un entorno de digitalización que resulte en la mejora de la competitividad de la empresa. La transformación digital implica la aplicación de nuevas tecnologías para crear nuevos modelos de negocios, procesos y sistemas que impliquen una ventaja competitiva y una mayor eficiencia para las empresas. En la actualidad “existe una oportunidad para apalancar la inercia digital en la que nos encontramos inmersos y promover la adopción y puesta en valor de tecnologías digitales en las empresas de América Latina, ayudando a las empresas a su vez a enfrentar el nuevo contexto económico-social derivado de la pandemia” (Suaznábar & Henríquez, 2020, p.1).
«Segregation und Schule»
Creators: name: Lindt, Luca
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW - Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit
Year: 2022
Subjects: Schule
Schulsozialarbeit
Segregation
Bildungsverläufe

description: In dieser Arbeit geht es um die Einflüsse der segregierten Schule auf die Bildungsverläufe von Schülerinnen und Schülern und die Rolle, welche die Schulsozialarbeit in solchen Schulen übernehmen muss. Um diese Frage zu beantworten, wird sich die Arbeit zuerst mit dem Thema der Segregation, dann mit dem Thema der segregierten Schule und zum Schluss mit der Schulsozialarbeit auseinandersetzten. All diese Themen werden verknüpft und über diese Verknüpfungen wird die Fragestellung beantwortet. Die Arbeit zeigt auf, dass durch die Schulsozialarbeit in segregierten Schulen Bildungsverläufe beeinflusst werden können, indem sie sich unter anderem um die Identifizierung und den Abbau von Strukturen des Bildungssystems kümmert, welche benachteiligend wirken.
Die Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung im Kontext der Sozialen Arbeit
Creators: name: Zicola, Raffael
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW - Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit
Year: 2022
Subjects: Borderline
Persönlichkeitsstörung
Therapie
Auseinandersetzung
Skillstraining

description: Die Klinische Soziale Arbeit befasst sich im psychiatrischen Arbeitsfeld als Fachsozialarbeit mit den (psycho-)sozialen Problemstellungen von psychisch kranken Menschen und den Angehörigen. Obwohl der hohe Einfluss der sozialen Dimension auf eine psychische Erkrankung bekannt ist, kämpft die Soziale Arbeit weiterhin um einen Behandlungsanspruch für psychische Erkrankungen und die Anerkennung ihres Arbeitsfeldes. Durch das häufige Auftreten der Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung in psychiatrischen Einrichtungen (rund 20% aller Patient*innen), ist ihr eine hohe Wichtigkeit zuzuordnen. Die Dialektisch-Behaviorale Therapie mit ihrem Skillstraining gilt als etablierte Therapie zur Behandlung von Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörungen. Indem sich die Klinische Soziale Arbeit mit der Kooperationsgestaltung innerhalb der Psychiatrie beschäftigt und das Skillstraining als zusätzliche Methode in ihren Fundus aufnimmt, könnte die Klinische Soziale Arbeit die Arbeit in der Psychiatrie und die gesellschaftliche Teilhabe von Patient*innen mit einer diagnostizierten Borderline-Persönlichkeitsstörung unterstützen und eine Angebotslücke innerhalb der Therapie füllen. Sich stellende Herausforderungen sowie Lösungsvorschläge für die Klinische Soziale Arbeit werden in der hier vorliegenden Arbeit erläutert.
Disaster Risk Reduction in Papua New Guinea
Creators: name: Allen, Bryant
Publisher: name: Canberra, ACT : Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
Year: 2018

description: At 3:45 am on 26 February 2018, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake occurred in Papua New Guinea with an epicentre 30 kilometres south-west of Tari. Over 140 people are known to have died and roads, airfields, schools and health facilities in three provinces were badly damaged. Gas and oil processing plants were also damaged, large mines put out of action and the national economy threatened. Numerous landslides occurred, some of which dammed rivers and buried villages, roads and gardens. This In Brief considers whether anything could have been done beforehand to reduce the impact of this event, and whether anything can be done now to reduce the impact of future events.
Lebensweltorientierte Erwachsenenschutzabklärung
Creators: name: Gisler, Svenja Nikita
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW - Hochschule für Soziale Arbeit
Year: 2022
Subjects: Selbstbestimmung
Lebensweltorientiert
Erwachsenenschutzabklärung

description: Das Ziel der vorliegenden Literaturarbeit ist es darzulegen, wie Professionelle der Sozialen Arbeit bei Erwachsenenschutzabklärungen anhand des Konzepts der Lebensweltorientierung die Selbstbestimmung von betroffenen Personen so weit wie möglich erhalten und fördern können. Die Arbeit zeigt auf, dass eine gute, fundierte Erwachsenenschutzabklärung entscheidend ist für die Selbstbestimmung von betroffenen Personen im Zwangskontext. Bei einer lebensweltorientierten Erwachsenenschutzabklärung steht die betroffene Person und ihre Lebenswelt im Fokus. Das Konzept der lebensweltorientierten Sozialen Arbeit ist ein Instrument, um das Verständnis für die betroffene Person und deren Lebenswelt zu vertiefen, die Ressourcen, der Unterstützungs- und Schutzbedarf optimal zu erörtern und dadurch eine angemessene soziale Diagnose und damit verbundene Massnahmenempfehlung an die Behörde machen zu können. Die Ergebnisse dieser Arbeit unterstreichen zudem, wie wichtig es ist, dass Sozialarbeitende Erwachsenenschutzabklärungen durchführen, da diese aufgrund ihrer vielfältigen Kompetenzen eine lebensweltliche Perspektive in den Abklärungsprozess miteinbringen.
The ONSEN Data Reduction System for the Belle II Pixel Detector
Creators: name: Geßler, Thomas
name: Kühn, Wolfgang
name: Lange, Jens Sören
name: Liu, Zhen'An
name: Münchow, David
name: Spruck, Björn
name: Zhao, Jingzhou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an FPGA-based online data reduction system for the pixel detector of the future Belle II experiment. The occupancy of the pixel detector is estimated at 3 %. This corresponds to a data output rate of more than 20 GB/s after zero suppression, dominated by background. The Online Selection Nodes (ONSEN) system aims to reduce the background data by a factor of 30. It consists of 33 MicroTCA cards, each equipped with a Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA and 4 GiB DDR2 RAM. These cards are hosted by 9 AdvancedTCA carrier boards. The ONSEN system buffers the entire output data from the pixel detector for up to 5 seconds. During this time, the Belle II high-level trigger PC farm performs an online event reconstruction, using data from the other Belle II subdetectors. It extrapolates reconstructed tracks to the layers of the pixel detector and defines regions of interest around the intercepts. Based on this information, the ONSEN system discards all pixels not inside a region of interest before sending the remaining hits to the event builder system. During a beam test with one layer of the pixel detector and four layers of the surrounding silicon strip detector, including a scaled-down version of the high-level trigger and data acquisition system, the pixel data reduction using regions of interest was exercised. We investigated the data produced in more than 20 million events and verified that the ONSEN system behaved correctly, forwarding all pixels inside regions of interest and discarding the rest.
description: 7 pages, 10 figures
Essentializing motherhood: The Ukrainian woman in policy debates
Creators: name: Tarkhanova, Oleksandra
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2018

description: In the last two and a half decades, the expectations of motherhood and the understanding of women’s reproductive choices in Ukrainian state policy discourses have been changing. Nevertheless, the regime of »compulsory motherhood« has remained dominant, stating that reproduction is what makes a woman. In this paper I explore how the norm of traditional »natural« motherhood is constructed in labor and welfare policy so that it holds through the policy changes influenced by the ideologies of state paternalism, neoliberalism, and conservatism. In the policy discussions from 1990 to 2015, women’s bodies are constructed as vulnerable, particularly in terms of their fertility, as a result of poverty, excessive working responsibilities, or societal moral »decay.« The goal of this paper is to grasp the regime of »compulsory motherhood« and to understand how the subject of voluntarily childless woman becomes unthinkable in these conditions due to the construction of mothering as a biological function of the female body.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 9 No 1 (2018): The Body and its Multiple Dimensions
Belonging and popular culture The work of Chilean artist Ana Tijoux
Creators: name: Lindholm, Susan
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2018

description: This article studies popular culture, both as a platform that is used to negotiate questions of belonging, as well as a gendered space that activates questions of belonging. By discussing such issues of belonging in the work of Chilean artist Ana Tijoux, it sets out to make visible the continuing importance of both the nation, as well as transnational connections as frames of reference in popular culture. The article shows that Tijoux’s experience of exclusion and marginalization in France and Chile prompted her to become a hip-hop artist. In a national, that is, Chilean context, she claims belonging by creating a connection to a specific Chilean past, as well as to the nueva canción movement, and by referring to a collective experience of marginalization and exclusion in her lyrics. Tijoux’s artist identity also draws on several established images and definitions. The article concludes by arguing that studies discussing popular music in connection to identity and belonging should focus on the way in which artists create their work in respect to, and within different transnational and national frameworks, as well as the highly gendered and commercial nature of popular culture that makes certain identities and belongings possible while excluding others.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 9 No 1 (2018): The Body and its Multiple Dimensions
From a body to a story. Transformative narratives in Swedish football
Creators: name: Herd, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2018

description: This article presents an analysis of appropriations and cultural transformations of players’ bodies in the context of Swedish football. The physical abilities, performed in a specific cultural (material) and historical context, serve as canvas for building meaningful, emotional connections. Speed and dexterity are needed on the pitch. Yet, players performing there can become more than skillful athletes; they can get a spot in collective memory and acquire a special status. Although players change, are bought and sold, a connection can appear, based on a combination involving their abilities on the pitch. Different narratives are created every season, and they can freeze players’ various versions of immortality that is gained by negotiating personal story through a football club and filtered through supporters. The examples come from recent Swedish football history, acquired through ethnographic study of performing and producing history in football. The theoretical framework includes perspectives on collective memory and narrative theory. This article analyses how singular events are used for constructing cultural connections.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 9 No 1 (2018): The Body and its Multiple Dimensions
Warm heart and warm hands: The case of Filipino migrant nurses in Germany
Creators: name: Mosuela, Cleovi C.
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2018

description: The article focuses on how migrant nurses embody both the positive and negative aspects involved in their increasingly mobile profession. The paper illustrates the experiences of Philippine-trained nurses in hospital environments in Germany in terms of their understanding and delivery of care and interaction with their patients and colleagues. Recent literature on the emigration of Philippine-trained nurses centers mostly on the broader contexts of the politics of care work. By drawing on health and care work and migration research and utilizing the concept of ‘body work’, I argue that performing the corporeal dimension of nursing care becomes a critical point of defining care work. On the one hand, demonstrating a warm heart and warm hands, nurses use their bodies to be able to make positive contributions to the patient’s quality of life. On the other hand, the patient’s body is the immediate site of hard physical labor that involves close, intimate, and often messy work. Shifting the focus from the production of nurses and the larger constitutive structures to the Filipino migrant nurses themselves performing body work allows for a nuanced view of the labor migration process and highlights topics of importance to the people involved, particularly their agency, such as migration decisions, adjusting well to the new workplace in a different society, and ‘othering’. The data is drawn from a long-term ethnographic study of the recruitment and migration process of nurses from the Philippines to Germany.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 9 No 1 (2018): The Body and its Multiple Dimensions
Monte Carlo sampling from the quantum state space. I
Creators: name: Shang, Jiangwei
name: Seah, Yi-Lin
name: Ng, Hui Khoon
name: Nott, David John
name: Englert, Berthold-Georg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-quality random samples of quantum states are needed for a variety of tasks in quantum information and quantum computation. Searching the high-dimensional quantum state space for a global maximum of an objective function with many local maxima or evaluating an integral over a region in the quantum state space are but two exemplary applications of many. These tasks can only be performed reliably and efficiently with Monte Carlo methods, which involve good samplings of the parameter space in accordance with the relevant target distribution. We show how the standard strategies of rejection sampling, importance sampling, and Markov-chain sampling can be adapted to this context, where the samples must obey the constraints imposed by the positivity of the statistical operator. For a comparison of these sampling methods, we generate sample points in the probability space for two-qubit states probed with a tomographically incomplete measurement, and then use the sample for the calculation of the size and credibility of the recently-introduced optimal error regions [see New J. Phys. 15 (2013) 123026]. Another illustration is the computation of the fractional volume of separable two-qubit states.
description: 13 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, 26 references
Embodying good citizenship and success in migration: Aging Filipina migrants talk about health
Creators: name: Ong, Michelle G.
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2018

description: Studies of health in psychology have typically utilized an individualistic approach, focusing on individuals’ adjustment to changes (e.g., due to migration or aging). This paper examines the intersection of aging and migration, exploring how individual behaviors, decisions, and meanings around health are produced within larger social structures that shape Filipina migrants’ lives. Thematic analysis (Braun and Clarke, 2006) with attention to discourse was applied to in-depth, semi-structured interviews with Filipina migrants in Auckland, New Zealand. I argue that Filipina migrants construct good health in aging as being an outcome of a health-promoting culture and environment in New Zealand. Such a claim proposes that healthy aging is a norm in New Zealand, easily achievable by its (responsible) citizens. Achieving and displaying a healthy body can mean the fulfilling good citizenship and success as migrants in New Zealand, but also obscures socially produced challenges that make it difficult for migrants to achieve health.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 9 No 1 (2018): The Body and its Multiple Dimensions
On the bi-Hamiltonian Geometry of WDVV Equations
Creators: name: Pavlov, M. V.
name: Vitolo, R. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 37K05, 37K10, 37K20, 37K25

description: We consider the WDVV associativity equations in the four dimensional case. These nonlinear equations of third order can be written as a pair of six component commuting two-dimensional non-diagonalizable hydrodynamic type systems. We prove that these systems possess a compatible pair of local homogeneous Hamiltonian structures of Dubrovin--Novikov type (of first and third order, respectively).
description: 21 pages, revised published version; exposition substantially improved
The Body and its Multiple Dimensions
Creators: name: Mosuela, Cleovi C.
name: Dostert, Britta
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2018

description: Studies of health in psychology have typically utilized an individualistic approach, focusing on individuals’ adjustment to changes (e.g., due to migration or aging). This paper examines the intersection of aging and migration, exploring how individual behaviors, decisions, and meanings around health are produced within larger social structures that shape Filipina migrants’ lives. Thematic analysis (Braun and Clarke, 2006) with attention to discourse was applied to in-depth, semi-structured interviews with Filipina migrants in Auckland, New Zealand. I argue that Filipina migrants construct good health in aging as being an outcome of a health-promoting culture and environment in New Zealand. Such a claim proposes that healthy aging is a norm in New Zealand, easily achievable by its (responsible) citizens. Achieving and displaying a healthy body can mean the fulfilling good citizenship and success as migrants in New Zealand, but also obscures socially produced challenges that make it difficult for migrants to achieve health.
description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 9 No 1 (2018): The Body and its Multiple Dimensions
Identities in media and music. Case-studies from national, regional and (trans-)local communities
Creators: name: Molitor, Verena
name: Pierobon, Chiara
Publisher: name: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology
Year: 2014

description: InterDisciplines. Journal of History and Sociology, Vol 5 No 1 (2014): Identities in media and music. Case-studies from (trans)national, regional and local communities
Conditional entropy and Landauer principle
Creators: name: Chiuchiú, D.
name: Diamantini, M. C.
name: Gammaitoni, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Landauer principle describes the minimum heat produced by an information-processing device. Recently a new term has been included in the minimum heat production: it's called conditional entropy and takes into account the microstates content of a given logic state. Usually this term is assumed zero in bistable symmetric systems thanks to the strong hypothesis used to derive Landauer principle. In this paper we show that conditional entropy can be nonzero even for bistable symmetric systems and that it can be expressed as the sum of three different terms related to the probabilistic features of the device. The contribution of the three terms to conditional entropy (and thus to minimum heat production) is then discussed for the case of bit-reset.