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Katrin, the Stubborn Little Witch
Tells the story of a young witch, Katrin, living in the Swiss Alps who is searching for a magic potion to turn every human heart into a heart of gold.
HIV Infection in the Era of Highly Active Antiretroviral Treatment and Some of Its Associated Complications
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is a complex illness affecting the immune system. Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is an advanced form of HIV infection in which the patient has developed opportunistic infections or certain types of cancer and/or the CD4+ T cell count has dropped below 200/μL. More than 40 million persons around the world are infected with HIV, with approximately 14,000 new infections every day. The disease causes 3 million deaths worldwide each year, 95% of them in developing countries. Optimal management of human immunodeficiency virus requires strict adherence to highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) regimens, but the complexity of these regimens (e.g., pill burden, food requirements, drug interactions, and severe adverse effects) limits effective treatment. However, more patients with HIV are surviving longer today because of these drugs. This allows further study of commonly associated adverse effects. These may affect all body systems and range from serious toxicities to uncomfortable but manageable events. This book reviews some of HAART-related metabolic and neurological complications.
Teaching European Citizens. A Quasi-experimental Study in Six Countries
In the framework of the EU-funded project TEESAEC, an instructional research project was conducted in six European countries (Austria, Estonia, Germany, The Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom). In the quasi-experimental study, an innovative series of lessons on the European Union was introduced into politics lessons in the form of a WebQuest. The intervention study aimed to determine whether the problem-based learning environment WebQuest leads to greater cognitive outcomes as compared with traditional lessons in politics. Knowledge increase was assessed in 14 to 16 year-old students by means of a knowledge test applied before and after the intervention. The test items employed in TEESAEC cover basic (literacy) competences which are of use in situations in which concrete political knowledge is to be applied. The reports from the six countries involved present the gains associated with lessons in politics, revealing not only strengths but also weaknesses of politics lessons. The current volume presents the main results of the study.
The Triple Challenge for Europe
Europe is confronted by an intimidating triple challenge: economic stagnation, climate change, and a governance crisis. This book demonstrates how these challenges are inter-related, and discusses how they can be dealt with more effectively in order to arrive at a more economically secure, environmentally sustainable and well governed Europe.
The Paradox of Knowledge-Intensive Entrepreneurship in Low-Tech Industries
This book presents the first multidimensional investigation of KIE in the context of low-tech industries and gives insights in paradox conditions and specific mechanisms, using the example of the German textile industry. Therefore, the author solves conceptual inconsistencies and develops an alternative framework referring to systemic concepts of sectoral innovation systems and KIE as well as to the concept of institutional entrepreneurs. As a result, the deviation of willful actors from a restricting institutional environment and sources of entrepreneurial opportunities can be investigated more comprehensively.
Innovation in Low-tech Firms and Industries
This very valuable book collects together excellent empirical essays on what amounts to a silent majority in advanced industrial societies: low and medium tech manufacturing industries. Such industries employ more people and make a larger contribution to aggregate value creation than their more lauded high-tech counterparts and moreover, they constitute extremely important customer industries for such higher tech producers. They may be neglected, but they are not going away indeed, this volume shows that they are growing and adapting to the new competitive challenges of globalization. Attending to the dynamics of innovation and change in this large sector is crucial for understanding process...
Exploring Interconnectedness
This volume explores the socio-cultural and media background of a critical and ongoing political challenge: the complex entanglement between European integration and strong national agendas in the context of globalisation. It does so using educational media - both textbooks and digital media - as sites of cultural contestation to enquire into the intricate relationships around national and European identities and aspects of students’ knowledge and reception. Using a variety of methods and technologies, the chapters analyse identity constructions present in educational media discourses, embedded as they are in their national and European contexts and as both the catalysts and products of their time. The book is a study of the post-digital condition in an educational context, exploring the potential of digital humanities and linguistic approaches for educational media research and employing methods such as eye-tracking or concept maps.
Heterogene Akteure als Innovationspartner
Innovationsprojekte werden als unsichere und offene Prozesse beschrieben, da sich der Weg von einer ersten Idee bis zur dahin nicht eindeutig definierbaren, marktfähigen Neuheit nicht im Detail vorausplanen lässt. Die Komplexität des Innovationsvorhabens erhöht sich, wenn heterogene, eigenständige Akteure daran beteiligt sind. In diesem Fall müssen neben räumlichen Distanzen auch disziplinäre Spezifika und unterschiedliche Zeitvorstellungen überwunden werden, um ein notwendiges Maß an Abstimmung und Verbindlichkeit zu erzielen. Katrin Hahn diskutiert sowohl theoretisch als auch empirisch die Herausforderungen von Innovationskooperationen zwischen heterogenen Akteuren und zeigt die Grenzen bestehender Erklärungsansätze auf. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Innovationskooperationen zwischen forschungsintensiven und nicht-forschungsintensiven Partnern. Anhand der drei Dimensionen Raum, Zeit und Diskurs beschreibt sie die Komplexität solcher Projekte sowie die Heterogenität der Akteure und identifiziert Mechanismen, mit denen die Akteure diese überwinden und Abstimmung und Verbindlichkeit bei voraussetzungsvollen Innovationsvorhaben herstellen.
