cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Do Underachievers Need Sociology?
Creators: name: El-Mafaalani, Aladin
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2009
Subjects: Promoting underachievers; staging an ordinary school day; reflection and deconstruction; teaching Sociology; sociological learning; theatrical performance; Erving Goffman

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?
Dynamics of coherences in the interacting double-dot Aharonov-Bohm interferometer: Exact numerical simulations
Creators: name: Bedkihal, Salil
name: Segal, Dvira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the real time dynamics of electron coherence in a double quantum dot two-terminal Aharonov-Bohm geometry, taking into account repulsion effects between the dots' electrons. The system is simulated by extending a numerically exact path integral method, suitable for treating transport and dissipation in biased impurity models [Phys. Rev. B 82, 205323 (2010)]. Numerical simulations at finite interaction strength are supported by master equation calculations in two other limits: assuming non-interacting electrons, and working in the Coulomb blockade regime. Focusing on the intrinsic coherence dynamics between the double-dot states, we find that its temporal characteristics are preserved under weak-to-intermediate inter-dot Coulomb interaction. In contrast, in the Coulomb blockade limit, a master equation calculation predicts coherence dynamics and a steady-state value which notably deviate from the finite interaction case.
title: Sichtbare Arbeitslosigkeit: Unter den 60- bis 64- Jährigen deutlich gestiegen
title: Reformen zielen auf eine Verlängerung der Erwerbsphasen ab, doch auch die Altersarbeitslosigkeit steigt
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Mümken, Sarah
name: Brussig, Martin
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications Online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2018

description: Auf einen Blick...

In den letzten 10 Jahren ist die Alterserwerbsbeteiligung deutlich gestiegen. Wie durch renten- und arbeitsmarktpolitische Reformen beabsichtigt, haben sich Erwerbsaustrittsalter und Renteneintrittsalter erhöht.
Unter den Älteren zwischen 55 und 64 Jahren ist bei der Entwicklung der Arbeitslosenquoten eine Ausdifferenzierung nach dem Alter zu beobachten: Während die Arbeitslosenquote der 55- bis 59-Jährigen – wie der allgemeine Trend – zwischen 2006 und 2011 gesunken ist, ist die Arbeitslosenquote der 60- bis 64-Jährigen entgegen dem allgemeinen Trend gestiegen.
Vor allem im Rechtskreis des SGB III hat die statistisch erfasste Arbeitslosigkeit unter den Älteren über 60 Jahre deutlich zugenommen. Der Anstieg der Zahl der älteren Arbeitslosen geht aber eher auf Reformen in der Arbeitsmarkt- und Rentenpolitik zurück, mit denen der Rückzug der Älteren vom Arbeitsmarkt verzögert wird, als auf eine schlechtere Arbeitsmarktsituation für Ältere.
Insbesondere die Schließung des erleichterten Leistungsbezugs („58er-Regelung“) für Neuzugänge hat im Rechtskreis des SGB III rascher als im SGB II zu einer drastischen Reduktion der Personenzahl mit diesem Sonderstatus geführt und die statistisch erfasste Arbeitslosigkeit erhöht. 2011 machten fast nur noch Beschäftigungslose aus dem SGB II von dieser Regelung Gebrauch. Gleichzeitig baut sich im SGB II der Kreis der untererfassten Arbeitslosen wieder durch die Einführung einer neuen Erfassungsvorschrift beständig auf.
Die Ausweitung der Erwerbsphase auf immer höhere Lebensjahre stellt nicht nur die betriebliche Personalpolitik, sondern auch die Arbeitsmarktpolitik vor neue Anforderungen, weil sie zunehmend ältere Arbeitsuchende zu vermitteln hat.
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: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2009
Subjects: Crisis in sociology; crisis in school education; American sociology; Bulgarian sociology; fights over civic education

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?
Existence and uniqueness results for a class of non linear models
Creators: name: De Angelis, M.
name: Maio, A.
name: Mazziotti, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 82D55-35G31-35G16-35E05

description: The qualitative analysis of the initial value problem P related to a non linear third order parabolic equation typical of diffusive models is discussed. Some basic properties of the the fundamental solution of a related linear operator are determined and are applied to an equivalent integro differential formulation of the problem. By the fixed point theorem, existence and uniqueness results are obtained
Sociology in French High Schools: The Challenge of Teaching Social Issues
Creators: name: Chatel, Elisabeth
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2009
Subjects: Teaching sociology; curriculum change; french lycées; sociology of the school curriculum

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?
Dimensional transitions in small Yukawa clusters
Creators: name: Radzvilavičius, Arūnas
name: Rancova, Olga
name: Anisimovas, Egidijus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide the detailed analysis of structural transitions leading to the rapid changes in dimensionality of small Yukawa clusters. These transformations are induced by the variations in the shape of confinement as well as the screening strength. We show, that even in the most primitive systems composed of only a few strongly interacting particles, the order parameter exhibits a power-law behavior in the vicinity of the critical point of the continuous transition. The critical exponent γ=1/2 is found to be universal in all studied cases, which is consistent with the general theory of continuous phase transitions.
description: 9 pages, 11 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. E
Hom Functorial Logics
Creators: name: Emmerson, Parker
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Arithmetic
Formula
Mapping
Functions
Representing
Rewriting
Ownership
Hom example
Algebra
Energy number
System
Gate relationship
Image
Homomorphic
Elements
Category
Imaginary gauge
Homomorphic image
Integers
Relationship
Encephalonic logic
Reversed engineered algebra
Gauge artefacts
Energy
Logic gates
Hom functor

description:  
We can rewrite the $\sharp$ logics for the given algebra in terms of a hom functor as follows:
 
$$\mathrm{hom} \ \mathrm{f_1} \left(\Phi \ \mxm \mathring{A} \cdot \frac{\star}{\ddagger}\right) \approxeq \mathrm{hom} \ \mathrm{f_1} \left(\mxm \mathring{A} + \frac{1}{\ddagger} \sum_{[n] \star [l] \rightarrow \infty} \Omega_{\Lambda}\times \prod_{n_1, n_2, \ldots, n_N \in \mathbb{Z} \cup \mathbb{Q} \cup \mathbb{C}} \frac{\tan \psi \diamond \theta + \Psi \star \frac{1}{n^{2} - l^{2}}}{(A+in_1)^{2} - (B+in_2)^{2} \cdots n_N^{2}} \right)$$
 
This equation states that the logic gate relationship $\mathrm{f_1}$ introduces energy into the system in the form of a $\sharp$ logic, which can be expressed as a summation over all integers. The hom functor allows us to rewrite the $\sharp$ logic in terms of the original algebra, thus providing a more concise representation of the energy within the system.
 
By applying the hom functor to the $\sharp$ logics, we can rewrite the above logic gate relationship in terms of a hom functor. Specifically, we have:
 
$$\mathrm{i} \operatorname{Hom}_{A} \left(\tilde{\Phi}, \tilde{\star} \right) \approxeq \mathrm{i} \mxm \mathring{A} + \frac{1}{\ddagger} \sum_{[n] \star [l] \rightarrow \infty} \Omega_{\Lambda}\times \prod_{n_1, n_2, \ldots, n_N \in \mathbb{Z} \cup \mathbb{Q} \cup \mathbb{C}} \frac{\tan \psi \diamond \theta + \Psi \star \frac{1}{n^{2} - l^{2}}}{(A+in_1)^{2} - (B+in_2)^{2} \cdots n_N^{2}}.$$
 
In this formula, $\tilde{\Phi}$ and $\tilde{\star}$ denote the appropriate mappings for the hom functor. Furthermore, the energy number $\Omega_{\Lambda}$ and the gauge artefacts associated with $\Phi$, $\star$ are defined as above.
 
We can use the hom functor to rewrite the $\sharp$ logics in terms of the energy number associated with each imaginary gauge artifact. The hom functor is defined as a mapping between two categories which takes an object in one category and maps it to an object in the other category.
„…ich konnte viel über mein Leben lernen“ Soziologieunterricht an der Gymnasialen Oberstufe in Bremen – Eine „Parallelwelt“?
Creators: name: Papke, Marianne
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2009
Subjects: -

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?
Uncertainty in Soft Temporal Constraint Problems:A General Framework and Controllability Algorithms for the Fuzzy Case
Creators: name: Rossi, F.
name: Venable, K. B.
name: Yorke-Smith, N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In real-life temporal scenarios, uncertainty and preferences are often essential and coexisting aspects. We present a formalism where quantitative temporal constraints with both preferences and uncertainty can be defined. We show how three classical notions of controllability (that is, strong, weak, and dynamic), which have been developed for uncertain temporal problems, can be generalized to handle preferences as well. After defining this general framework, we focus on problems where preferences follow the fuzzy approach, and with properties that assure tractability. For such problems, we propose algorithms to check the presence of the controllability properties. In particular, we show that in such a setting dealing simultaneously with preferences and uncertainty does not increase the complexity of controllability testing. We also develop a dynamic execution algorithm, of polynomial complexity, that produces temporal plans under uncertainty that are optimal with respect to fuzzy preferences.
Angular dependenceof the magnetisation AC loss: coated conductors, Roebel cables and double pancake coils
Creators: name: Pardo, Enric
name: Grilli, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The AC loss in ReBCO coated conductors is large in situations when the conductors are subjected to a considerable magnetic field, like in rotating machines, transformers and high-field magnets. Roebel cables can reduce the AC loss in these cases. However, computer simulations are needed to interpret the experiments, understand the loss mechanisms, reduce the AC loss by optimising the Roebel cable and design the cryogenic system. In this article, we simulate and discuss the AC loss due to an applied magnetic field making an arbitrary angle with the cable and taking into account a realistic anisotropic field dependence of the critical current density. We study the AC loss in the superconductor parts for the limits of very high coupling currents and completely uncoupled strands. The simulations for the uncoupled case also describe a double pancake coil with no transport current. For the simulations, we use two different numerical methods with complementary strengths. This serves as a mutual check of the correctness of the simulation results, which agree to each other. Opposite than expected, we found that the AC loss does not only depend on the perpendicular component of the applied magnetic field. We also found that the AC loss for applied fields with an orientation below 7 degrees with the strands surface is reduced more than one order of magnitude comparing to an untransposed cable. Therefore, we recommend to use Roebel cables for windings with important parallel components of the magnetic field, such as transformers and high-field magnets.
description: 28 pages, 11 figures
Democratic Citizenship – A Conditioned Apprenticeship. A Call for Destabilisation of Democracy in Education
Creators: name: Olson, Maria
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2009
Subjects: Citizenship education; democracy; society-centred; consumer-centred; voicing; newcomers

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?
Controlled oxygen vacancy induced p-type conductivity in HfO{2-x} thin films
Creators: name: Hildebrandt, Erwin
name: Kurian, Jose
name: Müller, Mathis M.
name: Schroeder, Thomas
name: Kleebe, Hans-Joachim
name: Alff, Lambert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have synthesized highly oxygen deficient HfO$_{2-x}$ thin films by controlled oxygen engineering using reactive molecular beam epitaxy. Above a threshold value of oxygen vacancies, p-type conductivity sets in with up to 6 times 10^{21} charge carriers per cm3. At the same time, the band-gap is reduced continuously by more than 1 eV. We suggest an oxygen vacancy induced p-type defect band as origin of the observed behavior.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures
Meromorphic traveling wave solutions of the complex cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation
Creators: name: Conte, Robert
name: Ng, Tuen-Wai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 30D30, 33E05, 34A05

description: We look for singlevalued solutions of the squared modulus M of the traveling wave reduction of the complex cubic-quintic Ginzburg-Landau equation. Using Clunie's lemma, we first prove that any meromorphic solution M is necessarily elliptic or degenerate elliptic. We then give the two canonical decompositions of the new elliptic solution recently obtained by the subequation method.
description: 14 pages, no figure, to appear, Acta Applicandae Mathematicae
Financial, Economic and Political Crises - Carrying Social Science Education on as Before?
Creators: name: Hedtke, Reinhold
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2010
Subjects: -

description: This issue of the Journal of Social Science Education deals with the financial and economic crises, its causes and the consequences which could be drawn for civic and economic education. As far as economic and civic educators are expected to behave like communicators of established scientific knowledge received from economics or political science, they also are hit by the crisis of these two disciplines which is induced by their severe shortcomings in the crisis. The conventional wisdom of economics or of political science failed to provide an early warning system of potentially dangerous institutions, policies or outcomes. On the contrary, among the main causes of the financial crisis and its political and economic failures are: policy recommendations delivered by the Chicago school of economics, beliefs and decisions of the economic and political elites encouraged by mainstream economics and economic liberalism, and, last but not least, an increasing self-restraint of the state towards the market, fed by political theories based on the idea that (financial) markets should best control themselves. The financial-economic-political crisis cannot be understood without its ideological, institutional and political framework, and this framework cannot be understood without taking into account its foundations in mainstream economics and the economic mode of thinking which is also flourishing in political science. The significant shift of power in favour of the international financial industries has to be considered, too. Disentangling the intricate causes of the intertwined crises and discussing its consequences – also for education at universities – is a challenging task taken up by the authors of this and the next issue of the JSSE.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2010: Civic and Economic Education and the Current Financial Crisis I
Heliospheric Observations of STEREO-Directed Coronal Mass Ejections in 2008--2010: Lessons for Future Observations of Earth-Directed CMEs
Creators: name: Lugaz, N.
name: Kintner, P.
name: Moestl, C.
name: Jian, L. K.
name: Davis, C. J.
name: Farrugia, C. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of coronal mass ejections (CMEs) which impacted one of the STEREO spacecraft between January 2008 and early 2010. We focus our study on 20 CMEs which were observed remotely by the Heliospheric Imagers (HIs) onboard the other STEREO spacecraft up to large heliocentric distances. We compare the predictions of the Fixed-Phi and Harmonic Mean (HM) fitting methods, which only differ by the assumed geometry of the CME. It is possible to use these techniques to determine from remote-sensing observations the CME direction of propagation, arrival time and final speed which are compared to in situ measurements. We find evidence that for large viewing angles, the HM fitting method predicts the CME direction better. However, this may be due to the fact that only wide CMEs can be successfully observed when the CME propagates more than 100 deg from the observing spacecraft. Overall eight CMEs, originating from behind the limb as seen by one of the STEREO spacecraft can be tracked and their arrival time at the other STEREO spacecraft can be successfully predicted. This includes CMEs, such as the events on 4 December 2009 and 9 April 2010, which were viewed 130 deg away from their direction of propagation. Therefore, we predict that some Earth-directed CMEs will be observed by the HIs until early 2013, when the separation between Earth and one of the STEREO spacecraft will be similar to the separation of the two STEREO spacecraft in 2009--2010.
description: 21 pages, accepted to Solar Physics
Radio-Continuum study of the Nearby Sculptor Group Galaxies. Part 1: NGC 300 at lambda = 20 cm
Creators: name: Galvin, Timothy J.
name: Filipović, Miroslav D.
name: Crawford, Evan J.
name: Wong, Graeme
name: Payne, Jeff L.
name: De Horta, Ain
name: White, Graeme L.
name: Tothill, Nick
name: Drasković, Danica
name: Pannuti, Thomas G.
name: Grimes, Caleb K.
name: Cahall, Benjamin J.
name: Millar, William C.
name: Laine, Seppo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A series of new radio-continuum (lambda=20 cm) mosaic images focused on the NGC 300 galactic system were produced using archived observational data from the VLA and/or ATCA. These new images are both very sensitive (rms=60 microJy) and feature high angular resolution (<10"). The most prominent new feature is the galaxy's extended radio-continuum emission, which does not match its optical appearance. Using these newly created images a number of previously unidentified discrete sources have been discovered. Furthermore, we demonstrate that a joint deconvolution approach to imaging this complete data-set is inferior when compared to an immerge approach.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures, accepted to APSS, new version to correct the missing references
Exploring the Abyss. The Financial Crisis of 2008 ff. as a Central Topic of Problem-Centered Social Science Education
Creators: name: Hippe, Thorsten
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2010
Subjects: -

description: The financial crisis of 2008 ff. and financial crises in general should be a central topic of social science education because these crises are a recurrent and therefore structural feature of modern capitalism which has severe consequences for citizens’ quality of life. Hence, the citizenry should know how to prevent such developments which endanger its well-being in a massive way. Therefore, learners should understand the relationship between the quality of people’s everyday lives and those economic institutions and political decisions which have led to the current mess. They should be enabled to critically evaluate the current misregulation of the financial sector and the economy in order to identify possible policy measures to prevent or at least to mitigate future crises. By educating (young) citizens in this way, the (future) general public can – as a necessary counterweight to the lobbyism of the finance industry – exert more prudent political pressure which gives politicians a greater incentive to regulate the financial sector and the economy in a manner which is beneficial for the vast majority of the people instead of for a small elite. Two core concepts of the social sciences can be used to make the roots of the seemingly complex topic more understandable for learners: liability and inequality.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2010: Civic and Economic Education and the Current Financial Crisis I
Paradoxes of Social Rise. The Expansion of Middle Classes and the Financial Crisis
Creators: name: Deutschmann, Christoph
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2010
Subjects: -

description: The article views the current financial crisis from the background of long term socio-economic changes in advanced industrial societies. Central points are the rise of middle classes, the accumulation of financial wealth in the upper strata of middle classes in combination with an increasing concentration of financial assets at the level of the top rich, and the advance of pension and investment funds as collective actors at financial markets. The paper analyses the interconnections between these developments in the framework of a multilevel model, culminating in the thesis of a collective “Buddenbrooks”-effect: a structural upward mobility of society will lead to an increasing imbalance at capital markets because a strongly rising volume of financial assets searching profitable investment opportunities will go parallel with a decline of the social reservoir of solvent entrepreneurial debtors. Therefore, advanced industrial economies are faced with chronic excess liquidity and export surpluses at capital markets, leading to the build-up of speculative bubbles and subsequent crashes. The author argues that the present crisis cannot be understood properly without taking account of these backgrounds.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2010: Civic and Economic Education and the Current Financial Crisis I
Less Government is Good Government? Deregulation as an Undermining Principle of Financial Markets
Creators: name: Engartner, Tim
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2010
Subjects: Deregulation; financial market; Hayek; interventions; liberalism; market constitution; neoclassicism

description: Since liberalization became the dominant global narrative the stock response to market shortcomings has been to “slim down” the state and deregulate. In most countries the slogan of “less government is good government” has become a constitutive feature of economic policy since the 1980s. Markets lie at the heart of every successful economy, and despite not necessarily working well on their own, the economic policy of deregulation has been one of the most persistent currents in the global economy. Based as it is on classical liberalism and – at least in its origins and leanings – neoclassical theory, deregulation aims to minimize the influence of the state. But in the context of the current financial and economic meltdown – the worst economic dislocation since the Great Crash of 1929-32 – “downsizing” the state causes growing turmoil. Global networking has made financial markets much more volatile and therefore much more susceptible to crisis.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2010: Civic and Economic Education and the Current Financial Crisis I
Wavefront sensing with a brightest pixel selection algorithm
Creators: name: Basden, Alastair
name: Myers, Richard
name: Gendron, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Astronomical adaptive optics systems with open-loop deformable mirror control have recently come on-line. In these systems, the deformable mirror surface is not included in the wavefront sensor paths, and so changes made to the deformable mirror are not fed back to the wavefront sensors. This gives rise to all sorts of linearity and control issues mainly centred on one question: Has the mirror taken the shape requested? Non-linearities in wavefront measurement and in the deformable mirror shape can lead to significant deviations in mirror shape from the requested shape. Here, wavefront sensor measurements made using a brightest pixel selection method are discussed along with the implications that this has for open-loop AO systems. Discussion includes elongated laser guide star spots and also computational efficiency.
description: 10 pages, 12 figures, accepted by MNRAS
The Rationale of Crisis Management – On the Handling of Coincidence in Economic Situation
Creators: name: Bendixen, Peter
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2010
Subjects: Business circle; rationale; culture; creativity; coincidence; intelligence of the unconscious

description: The subject of this essay is too complex a problem as to cover all details in depth and, thus, draws its attention only to core aspects of the handling of coincidence leaving out sophisticated studies and analytic findings as well as detailed reference to economic literature though there is not very much. On the other hand, for a lot of actual as well as general reasons, the subject is too important a matter as to ignore the serious methodological problems of crisis management, which are rooted in some politically still active bias hidden in orthodox neo-classical economics (Stiglitz 2010). If crisis management continues to follow traditional rationales, it will fail realizing the increasing dynamic of crises within the globalising economies of the world. No existing economy can be considered as an isolated system of its own embedded in a stable composition of societal surroundings. Obviously, many a critical situation has its origin in the sphere of civilization, of political discrepancies, and of administrative inflexibilities. On the other hand, any grave amplitude of markets would touch the entire social surrounding. The belief in the markets’ strength of self-regulation is a dangerous construction of orthodox economics (Bendixen 2009b, 2010). The view on crises suggested here is that of a holistic approach to understand a critical situation. Any interpretation of a situation includes empirical dates and figures based on analytic research, but solving a problem is not an act of logical derivation from findings, as if a solution can be excavated in the mud of reality by empirical studies only. Empirical figures report events of the past; the future does not reveal any empiricism. This would be a contradiction in itself. The end of a crisis as well as the search for solutions to fight the problems revealed is unavoidably a view into the future. Therefore, the rationale of crisis management cannot be made of pure empiricism but should include a far reaching vision of the future emerging from holistic understanding of the situation as a whole.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2010: Civic and Economic Education and the Current Financial Crisis I
X-ray and Multiwavelength Insights into the Nature of Weak Emission-Line Quasars at Low Redshift
Creators: name: Wu, Jianfeng
name: Brandt, W. N.
name: Anderson, Scott F.
name: Diamond-Stanic, Aleksandar M.
name: Hall, Patrick B.
name: Plotkin, Richard M.
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: Shemmer, Ohad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: (Abridged) We report on the X-ray and multiwavelength properties of 11 radio-quiet quasars with weak or no emission lines identified by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) with redshift z=0.4-2.5. The distribution of relative X-ray brightness for our low-redshift weak-line quasar (WLQ) candidates is significantly different from that of typical radio-quiet quasars, having an excess of X-ray weak sources, but it is consistent with that of high-redshift WLQs. The X-ray weak sources generally show similar UV emission-line properties to those of the X-ray weak quasar PHL 1811; they may belong to the notable class of PHL 1811 analogs. The average X-ray spectrum of these sources is somewhat harder than that of typical radio-quiet quasars. Several other low-redshift WLQ candidates have normal ratios of X-ray-to-optical/UV flux, and their average X-ray spectral properties are also similar to those of typical radio-quiet quasars. The X-ray weak and X-ray normal WLQ candidates may belong to the same subset of quasars having high-ionization "shielding gas" covering most of the wind-dominated broad emission-line region, but be viewed at different inclinations. The mid-infrared-to-X-ray spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of these sources are generally consistent with those of typical SDSS quasars, showing that they are not likely to be BL Lac objects with relativistically boosted continua and diluted emission lines. However, one source in our X-ray observed sample is remarkably strong in X-rays, indicating that a small fraction of low-redshift WLQ candidates may actually be BL Lacs residing in the radio-faint tail of the BL Lac population. We also investigate universal selection criteria for WLQs over a wide range of redshift, finding that it is not possible to select WLQ candidates in a fully consistent way using different prominent emission lines as a function of redshift.
description: ApJ in press; 26 pages, 11 figures and 7 tables. The full Table 3 is available upon request
Misselling as a New Topic of Financial Education? A Didactic Analysis of Investment Advise after the Financial Crisis
Creators: name: Loerwald, Dirk
name: Retzmann, Thomas
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2010
Subjects: Economic education; economic literacy; financial competence; financial literacy; moral education; „Lebenssituationen-Qualifikationen-Konzept“; investment advice; misselling; financial crisis; new institutional economics; principal-agent theory; signalling; screening; business ethics

description: Personal financial investments are, as a matter of course, a topic of economic education because they are a life situation which is inherently economical. In contrast, faulty advising in banks which has become focussed upon due to the extent it has played a part in the recent financial crisis is mentioned neither in curricula nor in educational text books. Numerous private funds have been exposed as unprofitable investments. One reason for this problem is to be found in the marketing staff of the banks who did not invest their customer’s funds securely enough – and the customers did not notice it. What conclusions can be drawn from this for general financial education after the financial crisis? The economic education has failed to address the topic of “faulty advising in banks” as well. On the basis of categorical economic didactics the following contribution will analyse whether one has an exemplary case here upon which students can win generalized, transferable insights. In this context, the topic of personal financial investments will be classified in an efficient manner and the risk of opportunism in advising situations will be analysed with the help of the positive principal-agent theory. The results of this analysis of informational asymmetries within financial markets give direction to the development and revision of curricula in the didactics of economic education. With the following article a sustainable theoretical fundament will be created to underscore the obligatory inclusion of this topic in curricula as well as its realisation for target groups in school text books.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2010: Civic and Economic Education and the Current Financial Crisis I
Implementation of the Continuous-Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Method
Creators: name: Cangiani, Andrea
name: Chapman, John
name: Georgoulis, Emmanuil
name: Jensen, Max
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: For the stationary advection-diffusion problem the standard continuous Galerkin method is unstable without some additional control on the mesh or method. The interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin method is stable but at the expense of an increased number of degrees of freedom. The hybrid method proposed in [5] combines the computational complexity of the continuous method with the stability of the discontinuous method without a significant increase in degrees of freedom. We discuss the implementation of this method using the finite element library deal.ii and present some numerical experiments.
description: Enumath 2011
4.5 & 4.6_ WP4 Sensitive Data 4.5 Demo report _ 4.6 Technical report 2 - May 2023
Creators: name: Samarage, Chaminda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The purpose of this document is to provide an update on the Sensitive Demonstrator (Work Package 4, Part 2) for the Integrated Research Infrastructure for Social Science (IRISS) project as funded by the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). Given the current state of the project and decision to extend the project to 30 June 2024, this report will only provide an update on current work and an overview of work intended to be done in the transition phase of the project.
“Greedy Buyers, Amoral Speculators and Lacking State Control” - Pupils Conceptions about the Crisis and their Relevance for Political and Economic Learning
Creators: name: Klee, Andreas
name: Lutter, Andreas
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2010
Subjects: Economic and Financial Crisis; group interviews; Pupils‘ concepts; educational reconstruction

description: This article exemplarily illustrates pupils‘ concepts of the Economic and Financial Crisis. It is especially interesting to examine in how far pupils assign relevance to current crisis phenomena for their daily lives and how these are perceived and explained. Diagnosing and analysing the available concepts is a prerequisite for planning Politics lessons. In the politic and economic classroom researching pupils‘ concepts and paying attention to them can help to show student orientated ways of learning.
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2010: Civic and Economic Education and the Current Financial Crisis I
Norwegian Civic Education – Beyond Formalism?
Creators: name: Børhaug, Kjetil
Publisher: name: sowi-online e.V., Bielefeld
Year: 2010
Subjects: Political education; civic education; Norway; citizenship; political participation

description: Norwegian civic education traces its origin almost 200 years back in time. Until World War II, its main focus was on constitutional matters and on the formal structure of governmental institutions. After 1945, and in particular after the 1970s, conceptions of civic education change. Among others, critical perspectives, political participation and democratic ideals became major issues. Have these ideas been able to influence teaching practices?

L’éducation civique norvégienne s’est développée depuis presque 200 ans. Jusqu’à la seconde guerre mondiale, le contenu principal portait sur la constitution et la structure formelle des institutions politiques de l’état. Après la guerre, et surtout après 1970, jaillirent de nouvelles idées plus radicales sur l’éducation civique changeant le cadre de l’enseignement. Ces idées amenèrent une reformulation des objectifs fondamentaux basés sur des perspectives critiques, une participation politique plus importante et les idéaux démocratiques. Mais ces idées, ont-elles influencé l’enseignement de cette matière dans les écoles norvégiennes?
description: JSSE - Journal of Social Science Education, 1-2010: Civic and Economic Education and the Current Financial Crisis I
Supporting Temporal Reasoning by Mapping Calendar Expressions to Minimal Periodic Sets
Creators: name: Bettini, C.
name: Mascetti, S.
name: Wang, X. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In the recent years several research efforts have focused on the concept of time granularity and its applications. A first stream of research investigated the mathematical models behind the notion of granularity and the algorithms to manage temporal data based on those models. A second stream of research investigated symbolic formalisms providing a set of algebraic operators to define granularities in a compact and compositional way. However, only very limited manipulation algorithms have been proposed to operate directly on the algebraic representation making it unsuitable to use the symbolic formalisms in applications that need manipulation of granularities. This paper aims at filling the gap between the results from these two streams of research, by providing an efficient conversion from the algebraic representation to the equivalent low-level representation based on the mathematical models. In addition, the conversion returns a minimal representation in terms of period length. Our results have a major practical impact: users can more easily define arbitrary granularities in terms of algebraic operators, and then access granularity reasoning and other services operating efficiently on the equivalent, minimal low-level representation. As an example, we illustrate the application to temporal constraint reasoning with multiple granularities. From a technical point of view, we propose an hybrid algorithm that interleaves the conversion of calendar subexpressions into periodical sets with the minimization of the period length. The algorithm returns set-based granularity representations having minimal period length, which is the most relevant parameter for the performance of the considered reasoning services. Extensive experimental work supports the techniques used in the algorithm, and shows the efficiency and effectiveness of the algorithm.