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Beyond “Doom and Gloom” and “Saving the World”: On the Relevance of Sociology in Civic Education
Creators: name: Katunaric´, Vjeran
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2009

description: In this article some tenets of classical and contemporary sociology are examined with reference to social problems that are also topical in civic education. The social problems are: social inequality, inter-communal conflicts, and democratic participation. A major obstacle in adopting sociological interpretations of the social problems to contemporary civic education lies in sociological reservations toward liberal democracy as a remedy to the social problems. More properly, some utopian (from radical to conservative) ramifications of the sociological analysis cannot actually be adopted in civic education. As a consequence, sociology is often distanced toward normative order and dominant forms of social power and practice of the actually existing societies, including liberal democracies. Thus, one can argue that sociology educates “young skeptics”, rather than “young citizens” as postulated in some national curricula of civic education. Still, sociology may serve in civic education as an abundant source of knowledge for unraveling prejudices and false forms of democracy in the contemporary society, and also for questioning some national solutions to pressing social problems. Also, as long as civic education has a tendency to idealize the actually existing forms of (liberal) democracy and thus avoiding major criticism of the social order, teaching sociology in secondary education in concurrence with CE would be necessary for the sake of establishing a comprehensive education on the contemporary society and citizenship.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2009: Sociology? Who needs it?
Sociology, Basis for the Secondary-School Subject of Social Sciences
Creators: name: Meijs, Lieke
name: Need, Ariana
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2009

description: This paper reformulates the question of ‘sociology, who needs it’ in two ways, The first question we address is that of the reason why the educational system itself did not come to sociology for help in their long quest for a clear-cut content of the subject. The second question is why sociology did not adopt the orphaned subject of social studies back in 1960. The answer to the first question lies in the vulnerability of a subject that is dependent for its continued existence on the political leanings of the day. This led to a new goal for the subject almost every decade: from social education in the sixties and social and political education in the seventies, to a focus on citizenship education in the nineties. Although the objective was renamed on several occasions, the prescriptive viewpoint is recognizable in each. This perspective is difficult to reconcile with a social science content. The answer to the second questions points towards Dutch social scientists with a strong focus on academic sociology and not for critical, policy or public sociology. This choice was also made in order to win the competition with psychologists and for the discipline to get rid of the poor image it had acquired in the 1960s. The new subject social sciences, with a strong focus on science made it possible for sociology to become the pillar of this new subject.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2009: Sociology? Who needs it?
Oloni, Olarchie e Reti Oloniche [Holons, Holarchies and Holonic Networks]. Un cambiamento concettuale nelle organizzazioni
Creators: name: Mella, Piero
Publisher: name: ----
Year: 2022
Subjects: Oloni, Olarchie, Reti Oloniche, Selforganizing Open Hierarchical Order (SOHO), Kosmos, Twenty Tenets, Holonic Manufacturing Systems, Bionic Manufacturing Systems, Fractal Manufacturing Systems, Virtual Organizations

description: Nel mondo delle imprese, della produzione e del controllo, in generale, è in corso una silenziosa rivoluzione concettuale – che può essere definita rivoluzione olonica – che porta al sempre più diffuso impiego dei concetti di olone (holon), di olarchia (holarchy), quale ordinamento verticale di oloni, e di rete olonica (holonic network), quale disposizione orizzontale di oloni. Tali concetti sono stati introdotti oltre cinquant’anni fa da Arthur Koestler nel suo The Ghost in the Machine, del 1967, disvelando un’intuizione semplice e chiara: in ogni settore della conoscenza, sia a livello fisico, biologico o sociale, sia nella sfera reale o formale, vale sempre la relazione intero/parte tra “enti” osservati. Non possiamo, cioè, limitarci a considerare atomi, molecole, cellule, individui, sistemi, parole o concetti, organizzazioni, aziende, discorsi, libri, ecc. quali unità autonome ed indipendenti ma dobbiamo sempre tenere conto che ciascuna di tali unità è, contemporaneamente, un intero – composto da parti di minore ampiezza – e parte di un intero più ampio: è un holon, appunto. L’intera macchina della vita evolve verso stati sempre più complessi, come se vi fosse un fantasma a muovere la macchina dell’evoluzione. Da allora, i concetti di olone e di olarchia sono stati ripresi, anche in tempi recenti, da numerosi Autori nelle più diverse discipline (ingegneria, biologia, medicina, architettura, ecc.) e si stanno rapidamente diffondendo in ogni settore della ricerca. Questo breve saggio, scritto in un’ottica economico-aziendale, dopo avere presentato i concetti fondamentali di olone, di olarchia, di rete olonica, con riferimento alle fonti originarie, si propone di indicare in qual senso il punto di vista olonico si stia espandendo nel campo della business administration, dell’accounting, dell’organizzazione e dei sistemi di produzione.
description: ----, Vol 13, No 3 (2022): ISSUE 3/2022
Do Underachievers Need Sociology?
Creators: name: El-Mafaalani, Aladin
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2009

description: This paper presents a promising model for using sociological learning to support the education of young people who are socially disadvantaged or display behavioral problems. A great many of these students are trapped in patterns of negative behavior. The goal of the model is to enable these young people to think explicitly about the role they are playing and to encourage them to strike out in a new direction. To this end, Erving Goffman’s sociological insights are used to stage a theatrical performance about school. This approach is informed by the microsociological tradition of proceeding from the concrete to the abstract in order to facilitate inductive learning and self-reflection. Goffman’s theory of social action provides the social-theoretical background for the theatrical action, while also serving as a medium of contrast for the analysis of the individual, interaction, and institution in subsequent reflections about school. In this way, sociological theory not only serves as a theoretical foundation for the lesson, but is also explicitly its subject Der Aufsatz zeigt eine erfolgversprechende Möglichkeit auf, soziologisches Lernen als Beitrag zur Förderung sozial benachteiligter und verhaltensauffälliger Jugendlicher in der Schule zu implementieren. Die meisten dieser Schüler sind in ihren Handlungsmustern gefangen. Ziel ist es, diesen Jugendlichen die Möglichkeit zu eröffnen, bewusst über ihre Rolle nachzudenken und einen anderen Weg einzuschlagen. Hierfür werden Erkenntnisse aus Erving Goffman‘s Soziologie für ein schulisches Schauspiel genutzt, um ganz im Sinne der mikrosoziologischen Tradition vom Konkreten auf das Abstrakte zu schließen und damit induktives Lernen sowie Selbstreflexion zu ermöglichen. Goffman‘s Theorie sozialen Handelns bildet für das szenische Spiel zunächst das sozialtheoretische Hintergrundrauschen, um schließlich in der Reflexion der sozialen Situation in der Schule als Kontrastmittel für die Analyse von Person, Interaktion und Institution zu dienen. Die soziologische Theorie dient hierbei also nicht nur zur theoretischen Fundierung des Unterrichts, sondern wird auch explizit zum Unterrichtsgegenstand.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2009: Sociology? Who needs it?
La leva dei prezzi sul profitto aziendale: i drivers della crescita di valore dell’impresa
Creators: name: Pellicelli, Michela
Publisher: name: ----
Year: 2022
Subjects: Creazione di valore, Drivers, Leva dei prezzi, Prezzi, Profitto aziendale, Price leverage, Pricing, Profit, Value creation

description: Il prezzo è considerato una variabile critica in quanto le decisioni che riguardano i prezzi influenzano il livello della domanda e di conseguenza il risultato economico aziendale. In particolare, la politica dei prezzi ha un peso rilevante nell’economia dell’impresa per tre motivi principali. 1) Il primo è che i profitti sono molto sensibili anche ad una piccola variazione dei prezzi. Lo dimostrano varie ricerche empiriche. Una variazione in aumento dell’1% nei prezzi ha sui profitti un impatto molto superiore ad un calo dell’1% nei costi e ad un aumento dei volumi dell’1%. 2) Il secondo motivo è che nell’economia contemporanea la maggior parte dei mercati, sia B-to-C (vendite ai consumatori) e sia B-to-B (vendite alle organizzazioni produttive), tendono ad essere buyer markets, nei quali i compratori sono in grado di esercitare pressioni verso il basso sui prezzi. Se i produttori/venditori non riescono a resistere a queste pressioni, oppure, fatto sempre più difficile, non riescono a spingere i prezzi verso l’alto, le forze dell’ambiente esterno possono rapidamente erodere i profitti. 3) Il terzo motivo, ma non ultimo per importanza, è che in molte imprese lo sviluppo e quindi la crescita dei ricavi rappresenta un obiettivo primario. Non sempre lo sviluppo crea valore. Lo crea solo se il return sul capitale investito (ROIC=NOPAT/IC) è superiore al costo del capitale investito stesso, essendo il ROIC misura dell’efficacia con la quale l’impresa impiega il proprio capitale al fine di creare valore per gli azionisti ed è calcolato mediante il rapporto tra l’utile netto d’esercizio dopo le imposte (NOPAT), ed il capitale investito (IC), dove IC rappresenta il capitale che finanzia le operazioni dell’attività aziendale. Al fine di comprendere l’importanza dei prezzi nelle strategie d’impresa, si ritiene opportuno ripercorrere l’evoluzione delle teorie economiche relative ai prezzi e ricordare che l’impresa moderna, nell’ambito della teoria sistemica, può essere considerata come sistema di trasformazioni (Mella, 2008, 2022). La seconda parte dell’articolo è dedicata ad analizzare quali siano i driver principali della creazione di valore da considerare nelle decisioni che riguardano i prezzi ed individua quali driver fondamentali la crescita dei ricavi e il Return of Capital.
description: ----, Vol 13, No 3 (2022): ISSUE 3/2022
Large-$d$ behavior of the Feynman amplitudes for a just-renormalizable tensorial group field theory
Creators: name: Lahoche, Vincent
name: Samary, Dine Ousmane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper aims at giving a novel approach to investigate the behavior of the renormalization group flow for tensorial group field theories to all orders of the perturbation theory. From an appropriate choice of the kinetic kernel, we build an infinite family of just-renormalizable models, for tensor fields with arbitrary rank $d$. Investigating the large $ d$ limit, we show that the self-energy melonic amplitude is decomposed as a product of loop-vertex functions, depending only on dimensionless mass. The corresponding melonic amplitudes may be mapped as trees in the so-called Hubbard-Stratonivich representation, and we show that only trees with edges of different colors survive in the large $d$-limit. These two key features allow us to resum the perturbative expansion for self-energy, providing an explicit expression for arbitrary external momenta in terms of Lambert function. Finally, inserting this resumed solution into the Callan-Symanzik equations, and taking into account the strong relation between two and four-point functions arising from melonic Ward-Takahashi identities, we then deduce an explicit expression for relevant and marginal $β$-functions, valid to all orders of the perturbative expansion. By investigating the solutions of the resulting flow, we conclude about the non-existence of any fixed point in the investigated region of the full phase space.
description: 50 pages 5 figures
Open quantum systems with loss and gain
Creators: name: Eleuch, Hichem
name: Rotter, Ingrid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider different properties of small open quantum systems coupled to an environment and described by a non-Hermitian Hamilton operator. Of special interest is the non-analytical behavior of the eigenvalues in the vicinity of singular points, the so-called exceptional points (EPs), at which the eigenvalues of two states coalesce and the corresponding eigenfunctions are linearly dependent from one another. The phases of the eigenfunctions are not rigid in approaching an EP and providing therewith the possibility to put information from the environment into the system. All characteristic properties of non-Hermitian quantum systems hold true not only for natural open quantum systems that suffer loss due to their embedding into the continuum of scattering wavefunctions. They appear also in systems coupled to different layers some of which provide gain to the system. Thereby gain and loss, respectively, may be fixed inside every layer, i.e. characteristic of it.
description: Correction of a few misprints; addition of a few new references; paper will appear in a Special Issue of International Journal of Theoretical Physics related to several conferences on PHHQP in 2014; accepted 10 October 2014; available: DOI 10.1007/s10773-014-2375-3
Natural Inflation from Near Alignment in Heterotic String Theory
Creators: name: Ali, Tibra
name: Haque, S. Shajidul
name: Jejjala, Vishnu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a model for large field inflation in heterotic string theory. The construction applies the near alignment mechanism of Kim, Nilles, and Peloso. By including gaugino condensates and world-sheet instanton non-perturbative effects, we obtain a large effective axion decay constant.
description: 1+16 pages, 1 figure; Numerical example updated to published version
Chromatic patchy particles: effects of specific interactions on liquid structure
Creators: name: Vasilyev, Oleg A.
name: Klumov, Boris A.
name: Tkachenko, Alexei V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the structural and thermodynamic properties of patchy particle liquids, with a special focus on the role of "color", i.e. specific interactions between individual patches. A possible experimental realization of such "chromatic" interactions is by decorating the particle patches with single-stranded DNA linkers. The complementarity of the linkers can promote selective bond formation between predetermined pairs of patches. By using MD simulations, we compare the local connectivity, the bond orientation order, and other structural properties of the aggregates formed by the "colored" and "colorless" systems. The analysis is done for spherical particles with two different patch arrangements (tetrahedral and cubic). It is found that the aggregated (liquid) phase of the "colorless" patchy particles is better connected, denser and typically has stronger local order than the corresponding "colored" one. This, in turn, makes the colored liquid less stable thermodynamically. Specifically, we predict that in a typical case the chromatic interactions should increase the relative stability of the crystalline phase with respect to the disordered liquid, thus expanding its region in the phase diagram.
description: 22 pages, 11 figures
Mixtures of multivariate generalized linear models with overlapping clusters
Creators: name: Ranciati, Saverio
name: Vinciotti, Veronica
name: Wit, Ernst C.
name: Galimberti, Giuliano
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: With the advent of ubiquitous monitoring and measurement protocols, studies have started to focus more and more on complex, multivariate and heterogeneous datasets. In such studies, multivariate response variables are drawn from a heterogeneous population often in the presence of additional covariate information. In order to deal with this intrinsic heterogeneity, regression analyses have to be clustered for different groups of units. Up until now, mixture model approaches assigned units to distinct and non-overlapping groups. However, not rarely these units exhibit more complex organization and clustering. It is our aim to define a mixture of generalized linear models with overlapping clusters of units. This involves crucially an overlap function, that maps the coefficients of the parent clusters into the the coefficient of the multiple allocation units. We present a computationally efficient MCMC scheme that samples the posterior distribution of the parameters in the model. An example on a two-mode network study shows details of the implementation in the case of a multivariate probit regression setting. A simulation study shows the overall performance of the method, whereas an illustration of the voting behaviour on the US supreme court shows how the 9 justices split in two overlapping sets of justices.
description: 24 pages, 3 figures
Sustainability report as a non-financial disclosure tool for B-Corps: analysis of the Italian fashion industry
Creators: name: Ferioli, Matteo
Publisher: name: Economia Aziendale Online -
Year: 2022
Subjects: Corp, Benefit Corporations, certified B Corps, corporate social responsibility, sustainability report, non-financial statement, NFS, GRI Standards

description: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) implies the need for companies to communicate the socially responsible activities to stakeholders. The paper aims to investigate whether the Italian fashion certified B-Corps undertake non-financial disclosure activities comparable to large listed companies, which often have more resources and capital to invest. In particular, the analysis focuses on the sustainability reports and websites as they are among the leading non-financial disclosure tools. The paper aims to provide a deeper understanding of B-Corps, an innovative topic still little discussed in the literature. The results shows that certified B-Corps are more active via the web than listed companies. Although the law and B Lab impose different disclosure requirements, they are not observed by all companies analyzed as some do not make the sustainability report publicly available on their website. Furthermore, the size and the economic resources available influence the disclosure activities and the ability to adopt more complex and comprehensive reporting frameworks; in fact, listed companies publish a more comprehensive report drafted using the GRI Standards. The GRI framework is the most used to draft the sustainability report, and most companies prefer to publish it as a separate document from the financial one. The results also show a discrepancy to what was declared by the Consob as a higher percentage of listed companies make the report publicly available. The paper highlights some managerial implications. Certified B-Corps should publish more sustainability reports on their websites to fulfill the requirements imposed by B Lab and the law. Instead, listed companies should publish more sustainability information on their websites because it is among the leading source of information for stakeholders to know how they contribute to society's well-being.
description: Economia Aziendale Online -, Vol 13, No 3 (2022): ISSUE 3/2022
Warm Dust around Cool Stars: Field M Dwarfs with WISE 12 or 22 Micron Excess Emission
Creators: name: Theissen, Christopher A.
name: West, Andrew A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using the SDSS DR7 spectroscopic catalog, we searched the WISE AllWISE catalog to investigate the occurrence of warm dust, as inferred from IR excesses, around field M dwarfs (dMs). We developed SDSS/WISE color selection criteria to identify 175 dMs (from 70,841) that show IR flux greater than typical dM photosphere levels at 12 and/or 22 $μ$m, including seven new stars within the Orion OB1 footprint. We characterize the dust populations inferred from each IR excess, and investigate the possibility that these excesses could arise from ultracool binary companions by modeling combined SEDs. Our observed IR fluxes are greater than levels expected from ultracool companions ($>3σ$). We also estimate that the probability the observed IR excesses are due to chance alignments with extragalactic sources is $
description: 27 pages, 21 figures, 12 tables, Accepted for publication in ApJ
Real Log Curves in Toric Varieties, Tropical Curves, and Log Welschinger Invariants
Creators: name: Argüz, Hülya
name: Bousseau, Pierrick
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give a tropical description of the counting of real log curves in toric degenerations of toric varieties. We treat the case of genus zero curves and all non-superabundant higher-genus situations. The proof relies on log deformation theory and is a real version of the Nishinou-Siebert approach to the tropical correspondence theorem for complex curves. In dimension two, we use similar techniques to study the counting of real log curves with Welschinger signs and we obtain a new proof of Mikhalkin's tropical correspondence theorem for Welschinger invariants.
description: v2: 65 pages, 15 figures. Revised version, published in Annales de l'Institut Fourier. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:math/0409060 by other authors
Why Sociology Has a Marginal Position in Civic Education in Bulgaria Nationally Specific and/or Universal Trends
Creators: name: Dimitrov, Georgi
name: Stoykova, Elena
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2009

description: The authors claim that, to an extent, the marginalization is a by-product of relationship among sociology, citizenship education and school education in general. This relationship is pretty complex and problematic because each of the three constituents undergoes a phase of fundamental crisis of axiological and institutional character. The developments in American sociology that exemplifies the state of affairs in the field are taken as point of departure while the Bulgarian case is used just as a magnifying glass to see clearer the triple crises which bring us to the roots of the civilizational transformation experienced today.The moral of the story is that sociology has been marginalized in last decades because its public and academic status won by the previous generation can not be taken for granted. It does not correspond to the pressing demands of the changing world for a different type of sociology. Thus sociology falls easy prey to the academic competitors who follow aggressive strategy and policy of public expansion even in civil education. The particular situation in other countries may be different but these are common general rules of construing sociology. At the end the paper offers some guidelines for transformation of the pattern in which contemporary sociology should be practiced in order to raise its public and civic relevance through refocusing it on sophisticated mediation of public policy and actions of citizens and through new forms of cultural communication.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2009: Sociology? Who needs it?
Sociology in French High Schools: The Challenge of Teaching Social Issues
Creators: name: Chatel, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2009

description: The aim of the article is to answer the question of what kind of sociology teaching is provided in French lycées. It describes and characterises a state of affairs that has resulted from a process of evolution. The article engages with the wider question of curriculum change, using the tools of sociology to tackle the issue. It illustrates the power of ‘school subjects’ as institutional forms, just as it reveals their composite and socially constituted nature. It highlights the role of teachers in shaping the changes in the content of this subject, including at the level of the formal curriculum Cet article cherche à caractériser la sociologie qui est enseignée dans les lycées français. Il décrit un état de choses en évolution. Ce faisant il aborde, avec les outils de la sociologie du curriculum, la vaste question des changements des curricula. Il montre la prégnance de la forme sociale « discipline scolaire » et le caractère à la fois socialement construit et composite des savoirs qu’elle peut contenir. Il éclaire le rôle, souvent méconnu, des professeurs dans la détermination des contenus enseignés y compris ceux qui sont prescrits.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2009: Sociology? Who needs it?
title: Revue "Échos du vivant" : Comment l'adapter en classe?
title: Revue "Échos du vivant" : Comment l'adapter en classe?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Dieckmann, Régis
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Échos du vivant
subject: Biologie
subject: Vulgarisation
subject: Transposition didactique
subject: Fiches
subject: Activité en classe

description: La revue « Échos du vivant » vulgarise les travaux de chercheurs de la faculté de biologie-médecine l’université de Lausanne. Chaque numéro est centré sur un thème du programme de biologie du gymnase. La revue contient aussi divers liens utiles vers des ressources vidéo, audio et écrites accessibles sur le net. Le but de la revue est de rendre plus accessible aux enseignants et aux élèves du gymnase les connaissances générées à l’université et de tisser des liens directs entre enseignants au gymnase et chercheurs. Malgré le travail de vulgarisation déjà effectué, la revue « Échos du vivant » est peu utilisée en classe. Cette vulgarisation ne permet pas une transposition directe du savoir académique en savoir enseigné. En effet, une explicitation du lien avec le programme de biologie du gymnase et une transposition de la revue en un outil didactique, directement utilisable par les enseignants, sont nécessaires. Ce mémoire se concentre donc sur la création d’un outil didactique à partir d’une revue de vulgarisation scientifique. La réponse apportée dans le cas précis d’« Échos du vivant » a été de créer, dans un premier temps, des fiches didactiques basées sur les textes de la revue.
Convergence Analysis of Extended LOBPCG for Computing Extreme Eigenvalues
Creators: name: Benner, Peter
name: Liang, Xin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 65F15, 65H17

description: This paper is concerned with the convergence analysis of an extended variation of the locally optimal preconditioned conjugate gradient method (LOBPCG) for the extreme eigenvalue of a Hermitian matrix polynomial which admits some extended form of Rayleigh quotient. This work is a generalization of the analysis by Ovtchinnikov (SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 46(5):2567-2592, 2008). As instances, the algorithms for definite matrix pairs and hyperbolic quadratic matrix polynomials are shown to be globally convergent and to have an asymptotically local convergence rate. Also, numerical examples are given to illustrate the convergence.
description: 21 pages, 2 figures
„…ich konnte viel über mein Leben lernen“ Soziologieunterricht an der Gymnasialen Oberstufe in Bremen – Eine „Parallelwelt“?
Creators: name: Papke, Marianne
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2009

description: Largely unnoticed by both sociology and the German educational institutions and their discourse, Bremen has been offering both Advanced Placement and standard level sociology classes in its schools in grades 11 through 13 for the last 30 years. This paper deals mainly with the relevance of the school subject of sociology as seen by about 100 students recruited from five different classes. The students discuss the difference between the school subject sociology and other social sciences related subjects taught in school. Against this background, the emergence, development and formation of the new Bremen curriculum for sociology will be presented, concluding with a tentative inquiry into the “lack of interrelation” between school and university In der deutschen Bildungslandschaft und in der Soziologie nahezu nicht wahrgenommen gibt es in Bremen seit 30 Jahren Soziologieleistungs- und -grundkurse in der Gymnasialen Oberstufe. Dieser Aufsatz beschäftigt sich schwerpunktmäßig mit der Bedeutung des Unterrichtsfaches Soziologie aus der Sicht von ca. 100 Schülerinnen und Schülern aus fünf Oberstufenkursen. Die Jugendlichen setzen sich mit dem Unterschied zwischen dem Fach Soziologie und anderen sozialwissenschaftlichen Fächern in der Schule auseinander. Vor diesem Hintergrund werden kurz die Entstehung und die Erarbeitung des neuen Bremer Bildungsplanes Soziologie dargestellt, um am Ende fragend auf die „Beziehungslosigkeit“ zwischen Universität und Schule hinzuweisen.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2009: Sociology? Who needs it?
A Solution for Multi-Alignment by Transformation Synchronisation
Creators: name: Bernard, Florian
name: Thunberg, Johan
name: Gemmar, Peter
name: Hertel, Frank
name: Husch, Andreas
name: Goncalves, Jorge
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The alignment of a set of objects by means of transformations plays an important role in computer vision. Whilst the case for only two objects can be solved globally, when multiple objects are considered usually iterative methods are used. In practice the iterative methods perform well if the relative transformations between any pair of objects are free of noise. However, if only noisy relative transformations are available (e.g. due to missing data or wrong correspondences) the iterative methods may fail. Based on the observation that the underlying noise-free transformations can be retrieved from the null space of a matrix that can directly be obtained from pairwise alignments, this paper presents a novel method for the synchronisation of pairwise transformations such that they are transitively consistent. Simulations demonstrate that for noisy transformations, a large proportion of missing data and even for wrong correspondence assignments the method delivers encouraging results.
description: Accepted for CVPR 2015 (please cite CVPR version)
Democratic Citizenship – A Conditioned Apprenticeship. A Call for Destabilisation of Democracy in Education
Creators: name: Olson, Maria
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2009

description: We live in times when the search for a citizenship education that can transcend national, ethnical and cultural borders is an important part of educational policy. In times of increased pressure by the European Union on its nation states to provide for nation-transcending democracy, this question becomes crucial for national policymaking in Europe. In this text, Swedish education policy will be taken as a case in point in order to shed light on how this question is being handled in this particular national policy setting. It is argued that the policy’s citizen fostering agenda tends to be counterproductive in the sense that it is still situated in national notions of the relationship between democracy and education, which tend to exclude certain individuals and groups of people on an age-related and (ethno) cultural basis. It is further argued that these excluding features can be related to educational ideas about socialisation. The aim of this text is underlined by suggesting a different way of framing democracy and democratic citizenship education: to increase the potential of education as regards the renewal of democracy and democratic citizenship.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 4-2009: Sociology? Who needs it?
Nachhaltigkeit und fachdidaktische Herausforderungen
Creators: name: Fischer, Andreas
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2009

description: Obwohl sich der Diskurs über Nachhaltigkeit in den letzten Jahren intensiviert hat, ist das Thema wirtschaftsdidaktisch „unterbelichtet“. Im Beitrag werden – ohne einen Anspruch auf Vollständigkeit – Forschungszugänge für (Gestaltungs-) Kompetenzen, Curricula, fachdidaktische Konzepte, Lehr-Lern-Arrangements, die Leistungserfassung und die lehrenden Akteure skizziert. Eröffnet werden einige wirtschaftsdidaktische Forschungskorridore, die für eine Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung in der ökonomischen Bildung von Interesse sein könnten. Ausgangspunkt ist die Überlegung, dass die ökonomische Bildung erst durch die Auseinandersetzung mit Nachhaltigkeit ihren Bildungsauftrag erfüllt Although the discourse about sustainability has intensified over the last few years, this topic still does not get sufficient attention from the point of view of economical didactics. In this article, the writer outlines different research approaches for competences of organization, curricula, concepts of technical didactics, classroom arrangements that involve teaching and learning, the assessment of performances and the learning individuals. This contribution is not exhausting and therefore might be subject to amendments in the future. The writer presents a number of research approaches that seem to be promising for gains within the field of education for sustainable development and vocational education. As a starting point, the writer deems important that economical education can only fulfill its mission goals through an intense discourse about sustainability.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2009: Nachhaltigkeit und fachdidaktische Herausforderungen/Sustainability
La valutazione delle Aziende agrarie-zootecniche
Creators: name: Bertolotti, Chiara
Publisher: name: ----
Year: 2022
Subjects: aziende agricole-zootecniche, processo di valutazione, beneficio fondiario, metodologie tradizionali di valutazione

description: Il presente lavoro si pone l’obiettivo di sottolineare l’importanza di condurre un processo di valutazione delle aziende agricole-zootecniche completo, accurato e supportato da solide metodologie di valutazione. Diversamente dalle tradizionali imprese di produzione, il processo di valutazione per queste realtà aziendali viene in genere sottovalutato e condotto in modo del tutto informale. In una recente ricerca, sono state individuate le metodologie di valutazione che la prassi riconosce per le aziende agricole: da un lato, il metodo analitico o procedura indiretta per capitalizzazione del beneficio fondiario e, dall'altro, il metodo sintetico o comparativo. La nostra analisi si concentra inoltre sulla possibilità di applicare anche alle aziende agricole le metodologie di valutazione utilizzate per le tradizionali imprese, ovvero il metodo reddituale, patrimoniale e misto, focalizzandosi sulle modifiche e sugli adattamenti da apportare per tale scopo. Tali metodologie hanno trovato concreta applicazione e verifica nella valutazione di una specifica azienda agricola, operante nel settore zootecnico e alimentare, confermando la loro validità nelle stime del capitale aziendale. È emerso che tali metodologie sono scarsamente impiegate, specie nelle aziende di piccole-medie dimensioni, per la loro complessità applicativa e per la difficoltà a ricercare le informazioni di carattere contabile e amministrativo.
description: ----, Vol 13, No 3 (2022): ISSUE 3/2022
title: Comment rendre les apprenti-e-s du secondaire II autonomes dans la pratique d'une activité physique saine et régulière dans le cadre de leur vie privée et professionnelle ?
title: Comment rendre les apprenti-e-s du secondaire II autonomes dans la pratique d'une activité physique saine et régulière dans le cadre de leur vie privée et professionnelle ?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Fridelance, Valentin
name: Groenendijk, Milan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0

description: Au travers de ce travail, il est question de déterminer comment rendre les apprentis autonomes dans la pratique de l’activité physique après leur formation au secondaire II. Afin d’y répondre, nous nous sommes appuyés sur les ouvrages spécifiques à l’enseignement du sport au sein de différents établissements ainsi que d’entretiens menés auprès d’enseignants évoluant depuis de nombreuses années au Centre d’Enseignement Professionnel de Morges et au Centre Professionnel du Nord Vaudois. Ce mémoire met en avant la complexité, la diversité et la pluralité des formations des apprentis qui diffèrent de celle du gymnase. Les maîtres d’éducation physique et sportive dans les écoles professionnelles, bien que tendent dans la même direction, leur enseignement doit être constamment adapté, modifié en fonction du quotidien et des métiers divers des apprentis. La pratique d’activités physiques et sportive s’avèrent essentiels au bien-être et à la santé de ces derniers. D’une part, pour leur permettre de sortir de leur quotidien et d’autre part, pour les préserver de tous types d’accident de travail.
Zum Verhältnis von Nachhaltigkeit, Gerechtigkeit und Bildung
Creators: name: Deuschle, Jürgen
name: Sonnberger, Marco
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2009

description: Gerechtigkeit ist eine der Voraussetzungen für Nachhaltigkeit. Eine der wichtigsten Aufgaben der Bildung ist deshalb die Vermittlung von Gerechtigkeitsstandards. Was aber ist Gerechtigkeit? Unter Bezugnahme auf philosophische Betrachtungen sowie auf Forschungsergebnisse aus Soziologie, Sozialpsychologie und Neurobiologie kommt die vorliegende Untersuchung zu dem Ergebnis, das Gerechtigkeit eine Synthese aus Verstand, Vernunft und Gefühl ist, die sich auf die Freiheitsbeschränkung individuellen Handelns bezieht. Während uns Verstand und Vernunft abstrakt bleiben, geht der eigentliche Handlungsimpuls vom Gefühl aus. In den aktuellen Bildungszielen spielen Gefühle als motivationale Grundlage gerechten Handelns praktisch keine Rolle. Dem gegenüber dominiert die Ausbildung instrumentellen Verstandes. Welche fatalen Folgen eine Überbetonung der Verstandesbildung gegenüber Vernunft und Gefühl hat, zeigen die Arbeiten der Aufklärungskritik. Die Verfasser kommen zu dem Schluss, dass Bildung, die dem Leitbild der Nachhaltigkeit gerecht wird, verstärkt auf Vernunft und Gefühl setzen sollte “If we do not act, millions of people will suffer.” The relationship between sustainability, justice and education. Justice is a precondition for sustainability. Therefore one of the most important tasks of education is the communication of standards of justice. But what is meant by justice? With regard to philosophical reflections as well as results of the latest research in the fields of sociology, social psychology and neurobiology, this paper concludes that justice is a synthesis of understanding, reason and compassion. This synthesis refers to the restriction of freedom of individual action. Whereas our understanding and reason remains abstract, the real impulse of action comes from compassion. Compassion as a motivational basis plays no role in current educational goals. In contrast education is dominated by instrumental understanding. The fatal consequences of overemphasizing education of understanding versus reason and compassion can be seen in works on the criticism of enlightenment. The authors of this paper conclude that education, which meets the model of sustainability, must emphasize reason and compassion.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2009: Nachhaltigkeit und fachdidaktische Herausforderungen/Sustainability
Zur nachhaltig ausgerichteten Dekonstruktion des wirtschafts-didaktischen Diskurses über ökonomische Kategoriensysteme
Creators: name: Skrzipietz, Frank
Publisher: name: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education
Year: 2009

description: Der Beitrag reflektiert am Beispiel wirtschaftskategorialer Systeme den Status quo bezogen auf die Implementierung des normativen Nachhaltigkeitsgedankens in curriculare Strukturen und fachdidaktische Konzepte ökonomischer Bildung. Dazu wird die These entwickelt, dass eine einseitig auf neoklassische Kategorien ausgerichtete Wirtschaftsdidaktik eine nur unzureichend fundierte Plattform darstellt, um wirtschafts- und nachhaltigkeitsbezogene Probleme angemessen diskutieren, bearbeiteten und lösen zu können. Es wird gezeigt, dass die im Modus von wirtschaftkategorialen Struktureinsichten angebotene Objektseite ökonomischer Bildung zu eng angelehnt ist an die Modelle der neoklassisch geprägten Wissenschaftssystematik. Es bedarf hier nachdrücklich einer Erweiterung der an den Logiken neoklassischer Modellierungen orientierten stoffkategorialen Systeme um soziale und ökologische Faktoren bzw. um Kategorien aus dem Nachhaltigkeitsdiskurs, wie z.B. Vernetzung, Gerechtigkeit, Globalität, Zukunft, Kommunikation und Partizipation. Als Grundlage für die Entwicklung wirtschaftskategorialer Systeme und zur fachwissenschaftlichen Fundierung curricularer Konstruktionen ökonomischer Bildung im Sinne der Nachhaltigkeitsidee wird ein interdisziplinärer Zugang sowie ein Rekurs auf alternative ökonomische Referenztheorien bzw. -modelle empfohlen The article reflects on the status quo with regard to the implementation of the normative sustainability-idea in curricular structures and didactical concepts of economic education using the example of economic-categorical systems. Accordingly, it is not appropriate to discuss and treat economical and sustainable problems through an economic didactic which is based upon neoclassical categories in biased way but to demonstrate that the economical categories intensively refer upon the models of neoclassical economy. Therefore an extension of neoclassical models towards social and ecological factors and categories of the sustainability-discourse respectively is required, e.g. integration, justice, globality, future, communication and participation. As a basis of the development of economic-categorical systems and the science-based foundation of curricular constructions of economic education in a sustainable sense an interdisciplinary access and a regress of alternative economic theories are recommended.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 3-2009: Nachhaltigkeit und fachdidaktische Herausforderungen/Sustainability
Sampling arbitrary photon-added or photon-subtracted squeezed states is in the same complexity class as boson sampling
Creators: name: Olson, Jonathan P.
name: Seshadreesan, Kaushik P.
name: Motes, Keith R.
name: Rohde, Peter P.
name: Dowling, Jonathan P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Boson sampling is a simple model for non-universal linear optics quantum computing using far fewer physical resources than universal schemes. An input state comprising vacuum and single photon states is fed through a Haar-random linear optics network and sampled at the output using coincidence photodetection. This problem is strongly believed to be classically hard to simulate. We show that an analogous procedure implements the same problem, using photon-added or -subtracted squeezed vacuum states (with arbitrary squeezing), where sampling at the output is performed via parity measurements. The equivalence is exact and independent of the squeezing parameter, and hence provides an entire class of new quantum states of light in the same complexity class as boson sampling.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Experimental investigation on the properties of concrete containing post-consumer plastic waste as coarse aggregate replacement
Creators: name: Tafheem, Zasiah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90599 Civil Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Civil engineering

description: The consumption of various forms of plastic has been increased in recent days due to theboost in industrialization and other human activities. Most of the plastic wastes areabandoned and require large landfill area for storage. More importantly, the lowbiodegradability of plastic poses a serious threat to environment protection issue. Variousmethods have been followed for the disposal of plastic in an attempt to reduce the negativeimpact of the plastic on the environment. Recently, various types of plastic have beenincorporated in concrete to minimize the exposure of plastic to the environment. The aimof this study is to investigate the properties of concrete containing polyethyleneterephthalate (PET), and high density polyethylene (HDPE) plastic that were used aspartial replacement of coarse aggregate (CA). In this study, four compositions of stoneaggregate(S): plastic waste ratios have been used by volume basis: 100% S: 0% Plastic(control concrete), 90% S: 10% PET, 90% S: 10% HDPE, and 90% S: 5% PET+5%HDPE. The effects of waste plastic addition on the mechanical properties of concrete arepresented in this paper. Test results reveal that minimum reduction in compressivestrength has been found 35% in case of 10% PET plastic replaced concrete whereassplitting tensile strength for 10% PET replaced concrete has been increased by 21% whilecompared to control concrete. In addition, fresh unit weight of concrete containing plasticwaste has been decreased by 4% in comparison to control concrete.
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