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This book aims to engage the Young Science—Talented and Ambitious, for a lasting collaboration in holistic mathematical modeling of “how the body works”under permanent impact from variant life-sphere surroundings. It is then a road-map for challenging research in all aspects of human biology and health.  
Following up on its predecessor, BIOKYBERNETIKA (2024), this book “grounds” an axiomatic functional physiology in biology, and elaborates on the roles of thermo¬dynamic entropy in evolution, of allostatic load at the verge of health and disease, and of environmental and social factors in senescence and frailty. 

For cellular systems, enzyme structures, virus infection progression, and tumor growth in vitro are modeled, while dynamics in physiology address vascular transports with liver detoxification interaction, and cortisol rhythmicity. Epidemiological virus spread and self-organization in urban eco-systems touch on population dynamics.  

AI applications focus on medical data bases and on video supervision of sperm injection; direct therapeutical impact have systems endocrinology in precision medicine and optimization in adaptive cancer therapy. 

Interested are systems-oriented researchers in all sciences related to human health. 

The series "QUELLEN UND FORSCHUNGEN ZUR LITERATUR- UND KULTURGESCHICHTE" (Sources and Research in the History of Literature and Culture), with a rich tradition stretching back to 1874, is an established feature among the renowned publications for German Literary Studies. Edited by Mark-Georg Dehrmann and Christiane Witthöft, the series presents examples of high-quality scholarship examining literary texts in conjunction with historical cultural phenomena, particularly with the other arts. There is an explicit demand for literary studies with a transdisciplinary approach. German literature from the Middle Ages to the present day forms the main focus of the series.

As the historical cultural thrust of the series includes aspects of intercultural experience and national perceptions of the other, Quellen und Forschungen is also open to occasional comparative studies. The publications of the series include monographs, doctoral and professorial theses. Works presented for acceptance in the series are required to display scholarly relevance and excellence in method and presentation.

El poder económico global está en reestructuación y la actual inestabilidad geopolítica es consecuencia de ello. En los últimos años, China se ha posicionado como un socio primordial de muchas economías periféricas mientras que EEUU, el agente hegemónico tradicional, decide recuperar terreno. Desde 2013, cuando Xi Jinping visitó América Latina, la relación estratégica entre China y los países de la región se ha estrechado: en 2015 se creó el China-CELAC Forum y en 2024 se inauguró el megapuerto de Chancay como un puente logístico entre los Andes y el país de Mao. La posición de China como socio económico hoy está consolidada y en la lupa no solo de la política exterior de sus rivales, sino también de la investigación.

Sin norte es un libro pionero que busca intervenir en los debates actuales para destacar que las relaciones sino-latinoamericanas no son un fenómeno sui generis sino una consecuencia natural de siglos de intercambios culturales. Este libro reúne a un grupo de expertos para examinar la literatura, la traducción cultural y el tráfico de ideas como un tejido simbólico precedente y necesario sobre el cual se apoya el actual entendimiento comercial entre estas dos regiones del mundo aparentemente distantes.

Vor genau 150 Jahren begannen die deutschen Ausgrabungen in Olympia. Die in den Jahren 1875–1881 gefundenen Inschriften wurden innerhalb der Grabungspublikation Olympia. Die Ergebnisse der von dem Deutschen Reich veranstalteten Ausgrabung im Jahre 1896 durch Wilhelm Dittenberger und Karl Purgold mustergültig herausgegeben. Diese Inschriften wurden in den Jahren 2011–2025 für die Neuedition im Rahmen der Inscriptiones Graecae als Faszikel IG VI 1 durch Klaus Hallof und Sebastian Prignitz revidiert und die seitdem hinzugekommenen Neufunde (etwa 300) aufgenommen.

Der erste Teil des Corpus von Olympia (IG VI 1, 1) umfasst die mehr als 700 Inschriften auf Stein, die im berühmten Zeusheiligtum und seiner näheren Umgebung ausgegraben worden sind. Weih- und Ehreninschriften sowie Verzeichnisse des Kultpersonals bilden den Hauptteil. Sie reichen von der archaischen bis zur spätantiken Zeit und dokumentieren die Entwicklung des berühmtesten griechischen Heiligtums und seiner Spiele. Erstmals werden alle noch vorhandenen Inschriften photographisch abgebildet. Ein chronologisches Verzeichnis aller bis heute bekannten Olympiasieger der Antike ergänzt die epigraphische Dokumentation.

Der in Arbeit befindliche zweite Teil (IG VI 1, 2) wird die Inschriften auf Bronze und Ton sowie die Gesamtindices für beide Teile enthalten. Auch für die weiteren zwei Faszikel des Bandes IG VI mit den Inschriften der Landschaften Elis (IG VI 2) und Achaia (IG VI 3) liegen bereits Vorarbeiten vor.

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The volume traces the ways in which ideas of Europeanness shaped discourses of inclusion and exclusion over the last centuries. The starting point is a basic tension inherent in any concept of Europe, i.e. that it links some set of cultural values to a space on the western fringe of the Asian landmass, but at the same time allows for a large degree of internal diversity, the boundaries of which are constantly shifting. The variety of forms how such mental maps underpinned notions of difference and belonging in the light of Europeanness are at the core of the book.

It brings together historical, literary, cultural, and art studies in exploring how topographies of Europe-related values figured in struggles over political domination and cultural hierarchies. The chapters focus on the relationships between imagined European centres and regions that have been regarded as being on the periphery of Europe: be it in geographical terms or in other respects such as political system, religious creed, or economic performance.

In a long-term view, the volume considers the enduring nature of the cognitive and normative patterns involved in this kind of mental mapping and thus makes an important contribution to the field of European studies.

The convergence of biology, engineering, and digital intelligence has ushered in a transformative era for regenerative medicine. At the heart of this revolution lies 3D bio printing, a technology that has evolved from a futuristic concept into a robust scientific discipline capable of fabricating complex, functional living tissues. This edited volume, "Bio printing: Artificial Intelligence, Biomaterials, Cells, and Tissue," serves as a comprehensive roadmap for this interdisciplinary landscape. It is designed to bridge the gap between fundamental research and clinical application by exploring the four critical pillars (Artificial Intelligence, Biomaterials, Cells and Tissue Engineering) that define the modern bio printing workflow.

This book offers a unified framework for the analysis of function spaces associated with non-additive measures. Motivated by questions arising in nonlinear potential theory and super-critical PDEs, it develops the calculus of Choquet integration and studies the structural properties of Lorentz-type spaces defined via general capacities. Particular attention is given to Bessel capacities, including their role in describing fine properties of Sobolev functions and the normability of Choquet integral spaces. Building on this foundation, the second part introduces and characterizes Sobolev multiplier spaces defined through capacities, establishing their preduals and embedding properties. The boundedness of maximal operators is analyzed using tools from nonlinear potential theory, yielding vector-valued estimates in this setting. The monograph is intended for researchers in analysis and PDEs interested in the interplay between capacity theory, function spaces, and operator estimates.

Können Sie sich bei Ihrem nächsten Auto in den Fond setzen, sagen: ”Ich will zu meiner Mama!“, die Augen schließen, und 1/2h Stunde später halten Sie vor dem Haus der alten Dame, die aber gerade auf einer Ü70 Party ist?

Wie funktionieren Lithiumbatterien? Warum sind sie so schwer und so teuer? Wird es bald leichtere und energiereichere Batterien geben?

Was ist mit den Brennstoffzellen? Sind sie wirklich ungeeignet für den mobilen Einsatz?

Wo soll der ganze Strom herkommen, den wir in Zukunft brauchen? Sind AKWs wirklich zu gefährlich? Werden sie bald von der Kernfusion abgelöst?

Zu diesen und verwandten Themen finden Sie hier Fakten, Denkanstöße – und Karikaturen.

This book covers techniques in the chemical laboratory and safety procedures that are crucial to making the laboratory a safe workplace. The book is divided into two sections, the 1st comprehensively covering safety protocols in a chemical laboratory and the 2nd detailing important techniques to master. This book can be utilized by graduate students, laboratory technicians, and laboratory chemists. New to this edition: Chemical Hazard Classification and Labeling, Personal Protective Equipment, Spill Management and Decontamination Procedures, Waste Disposal and Environmental Compliance, Biological and Radiological Hazards in Chemistry Labs, Emergency Preparedness and Response Plans, Safe handling of Nanomaterials and Emerging Risks, Developing a Lab Safety Culture in Academic Institution, Automation, Sensors, and Digital Tools in the Lab, Microscale and Semi-Microscale Techniques.

Der »Staub« hat als der umfassendste und bedeutendste Großkommentar zum Handels recht einschließlich zahlreicher Nebengebiete ein herausragendes Renommee. Sein hohes Ansehen beruht vor allem auf einer wissenschaftlich fundierten und zugleich praxisorientierten Kommentierung, die durch namhafte Herausgeber und Autoren aus Wissenschaft und Praxis gewährleistet wird. Neben dem gesamten Handelsgesetzbuch (außer Seerecht) inklusive einer umfassenden Darstellung des Bilanzrechts werden unter anderem das Bankvertragsrecht, CMR, das Transportrecht mit den ADSp. und weiteren Allgemeinen Bedingungen aus dem Transportrecht detailliert und ausführlich erläutert. Die Neuauflage berücksichtigt die zahlreichen Reformgesetze, insbesondere das jüngst in Kraft getretene Gesetz über die Modernisierung des Personengesellschaftsrechts und das Gesetz zur Umsetzung der Digitalisierungsrichtlinie. Die 6. Auflage beginnt 2021 und erscheint in 17 Bänden. Die unverzichtbare Arbeitshilfe für alle, die sich mit Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht beschäftigen.

In the past decades, commemorative volumes with contributions from esteemed scholars have been published at each decade anniversary of the Hungarian Holocaust (the ghettoization and deportation of 1944). While these volumes have become milestones in Hungarian research, they rarely contained the research results of young academics who, in the past decades, have caught up with the trends in Western Holocaust research. Therefore, in this publication we not only aim to commemorate the Holocaust in Hungary but also to present new approaches and perspectives, such as the gendered aspect, microhistory, memory research, trauma studies, and so forth. This volume, for the first time, provides a synthesis of current Holocaust research in Hungary for international academics working in the fields of Holocaust studies, genocide studies, and Hungarian studies.

In der Reihe Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) erscheinen Arbeiten zu sämtlichen Gebieten der alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft. Im Zentrum steht die Hebräische Bibel, ihr Vor- und Nachleben im antiken Judentum sowie ihre vielfache Verzweigung in die benachbarten Kulturen der altorientalischen und hellenistisch-römischen Welt.

Die BZAW akzeptiert Manuskriptvorschläge, die einen innovativen und signifikanten Beitrag zu Erforschung des Alten Testaments und seiner Umwelt leisten, sich intensiv mit der bestehenden Forschungsliteratur auseinandersetzen, stringent aufgebaut und flüssig geschrieben sind.

Although much of the extant evidence on ancient scholarship comes from the scholiastic corpora which equip many medieval codices, a fundamental part in our knowledge of the subject is played by Graeco-Egyptian papyrus fragments. The variety and quantity of information they transmit is remarkable, much more so when the papyri represent the closest we can get to ancient literature itself.

This book offers the first comprehensive assessment of ancient scholarship on papyrus. The papyrological evidence is examined both in terms of content and material (i.e. paleographical and bibliological) features. This wide-ranging investigation sheds fresh light not only on the transmitted texts themselves, but also on their context of production, use, and storekeeping, and elucidates the influence that these papyri had on subsequent – medieval and modern – exegesis.

As a result, this book will appeal to a wide range of classicists interested in papyrology and scholarship broadly speaking, and to anyone interested in culture transmission and the formation of the modern approaches to ancient literature.

Why do states leave regional organisations – and what happens next? This book explores these timely questions through the analytical lens of comparative regionalism. While Brexit may be the most high-profile example of a state departure, this book shows that state withdrawals from regional organisations are neither unique nor isolated. From West Africa to the Andes, from the Pacific Islands to Eurasia, state exits have become a recurring albeit limited feature of the regional landscape challenging the future contours of the international order.

This book offers a comparative analysis of voluntary withdrawals from regional organisations. Anchored in the conceptual framework of differentiated disintegration, the authors examine such exits not as abrupt ends, but as forms of institutional change within the broader tapestry of regionalism. The result is a multidimensional portrait of how regional cooperation evolves – and occasionally unravels.

The volume begins with a robust conceptual and methodological foundation, situating withdrawals within broader debates on regionalism, integration, and institutional development. It draws on diverse integration theories and bridges the divide between European and Global South experiences. The authors take the reader across five continents with seven richly documented case studies – including the UK’s departure from the EU, Morocco’s exit from the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), Chile and the Andean Community, and Kiribati leaving the Pacific Islands Forum. Each chapter follows a common analytical structure, enabling comparative insight into drivers, consequences, and post-withdrawal re-engagements, that is differentiated disintegration.

Murray contends that a crucial but underappreciated difference between Homer and Apollonius is their relationship to scholarly controversy. Whereas both poets provoked scholarly controversies, Apollonius did so deliberately as part of an innovative Callimachean poetics. He fully embraced the stereotype of the quarrelsome Alexandrian grammatikos and participated in the contentious Alexandrian environment as a follower of Callimachus. Despite the restrictions epic placed on the scope of his personal voice, Apollonius successfully deployed the genre’s subtle strategies to engage in specific contemporary debates with the Argonautica. Thus, he imitated both Homer’s and Callimachus’ capacity for attracting controversy.

Bringing together linguistics and media and communication studies, this volume showcases interdisciplinary perspectives on the nature of patterns in language and communication. Defining ‘patterns’ as empirical surface phenomena, the contributions focus on a strictly empirical, data-driven perspective, demonstrating the wide range of different phenomena that can be described as ‘patterns’ and the methodological challenges involved. At the same time, they discuss the role of theoretical grounding in describing and explaining patterns. It is this grounding which provides the minimal units that make up patterns, and which explains their inherently variable nature.

Millennium überschreitet Grenzen, Grenzen zwischen den Epochen und regionalen Räumen wie auch Grenzen zwischen den Disziplinen. Die Schriftenreihe Millennium-Studien ist, genauso wie das Jahrbuch, international, interdisziplinär und epochenübergreifend ausgerichtet. Das Herausgebergremium und der Beirat repräsentieren ein breites Spektrum von Fächern: Kunst- und literaturwissenschaftliche Beiträge kommen ebenso zu ihrem Recht wie historische, theologische und philosophische, Arbeiten zu den lateinischen und griechischen Kulturen genauso wie zu den nordafrikanischen und vorderasiatischen.

In die Studien finden einschlägige Monographien und Sammelwerke aus dem gesamten Themenspektrum Aufnahme, zudem Kommentare und Editionen. Publikationssprachen sind vornehmlich Deutsch und Englisch; die Aufnahme französischer, italienischer und spanischer Arbeiten ist möglich.

Reihenherausgeber*innen

Wolfram Brandes, Frankfurt, Deutschland (Byzantinistik und Frühes Mittelalter): brandeswolfram@gmail.com

Laura Carrara, Pisa, Italien (Gräzistik): laura.carrara@unipi.it

Dennis Pausch, Marburg, Deutschland (Latinistik): dennis.pausch@uni-marburg.de

Rene Pfeilschifter, Würzburg, Deutschland (Alte Geschichte): Rene.Pfeilschifter@uni-wuerzburg.de

Karla Pollmann, Tübingen, Deutschland (Frühes Christentum und Patristik): karla.pollmann@uni-tuebingen.de

Falls Sie ein Manuskript für die Millennium-Studien einreichen möchten, bitten wir Sie, sich an den fachnächsten Reihenherausgeber zu wenden. Alle Manuskripte werden von dem jeweiligen Reihenherausgeber und von einem externen Gutachter beurteilt. Dabei gilt das Single-blind peer review-Verfahren.

Wissenschaftlicher Beirat:

Phil Booth, University of Oxford, UK

Patricia Ciner, National University of San Juan, Argentinien

Babett Edelmann-Singer, Freie Universität Berlin, Deutschland

Philip Forness, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgien

Claudia Rapp, Universität Wien, Österreich

Verena Schulz, Katholische Universität Eichstätt, Deutschland

Chiara Tommasi, Università di Pisa, Italien

Millennium transcends boundaries – between epochs and regions, and between disciplines. Like the journal Millennium-Jahrbuch, the Millennium-Studien pursues an international, interdisciplinary approach that cuts across historical eras. The editorial and the advisory board represent a broad spectrum of disciplines: contributions from the fields of art and literature are just as well represented as historical, theological and philosophical contributions, and studies on Latin and Greek cultures as well as North African and Near Eastern cultures.

In addition to offering a forum for monographs and edited collections on diverse topics, Millennium-Studien publishes commentaries and editions. Publication languages are primarily German and English; French, Italian and Spanish studies may be included.

Series editors

Wolfram Brandes, Frankfurt, Germany (Byzantine Studies and Early Middle Ages): brandeswolfram@gmail.com

Laura Carrara, Pisa, Italy (Greek language and literature): laura.carrara@unipi.it

Dennis Pausch, Marburg, Germany (Latin language and literature): dennis.pausch@uni-marburg.de

Rene Pfeilschifter, Würzburg, Germany (Ancient History): Rene.Pfeilschifter@uni-wuerzburg.de

Karla Pollmann, Tübingen, Germany (Early Christianity and Patristics): karla.pollmann@uni-tuebingen.de

If you want to submit a manuscript for the Millennium Studies please send it to the series editor from the most relevant discipline. All manuscript submissions will be reviewed by the series editor and one outside specialist (single-blind peer review).

Editorial Board:

Phil Booth, University of Oxford, UK

Patricia Ciner, National University of San Juan, Argentinia

Babett Edelmann-Singer, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Philip Forness, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Claudia Rapp, Universität Wien, Austria

Verena Schulz, Katholische Universität Eichstätt, Germany

Chiara Tommasi, Università di Pisa, Italy

The volume is a collection of most of the contributions presented at the Trends in Classics - Greek
and Latin Linguistics I Conference combined with the 2nd Postclassical Greek Conference held in
Thessaloniki (October 12–14, 2023) which is part of the activities of the Postclassical Greek Network.
It delves into different aspects of Postclassical Greek both from a synchronic and a diachronic
perspective, covering all major linguistic levels of analysis from phonology to morphology, syntax
and pragmatics. The scholarly investigations of the volume are a combination of general and finegrained
analyses that aim to contribute to a better understanding of both the Greek language itself
and various general linguistic issues. In particular, the volume comprises studies on phonological
developments, verbal and nominal morphosyntax, negation, word order, strategies for performing
greetings, religious discourse, semantic analyses across Byzantine lexicography, and language
contact. Finally, it includes five short contributions, presenting ideas about and aims of the project
of the “New Historical Grammar of Greek”.

Monstrum in Fabula offers a wide-ranging exploration of how ancient societies imagined, defined, and used monsters. Bringing together essays on ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Hebrew Bible, and the Greek and Roman worlds, the volume reveals both the cultural specificity and the cross-cultural resonance of monstrous beings.

Drawing on diverse analytical approaches—including recent developments in Monster Theory—the contributors examine how monsters embody fears, negotiate boundaries, and express social, moral, and cosmological concerns. Through close readings of texts, images, and myths, the volume highlights the narrative, symbolic, social, and psychological functions of monstrosity across different ancient traditions.

This collection invites readers to reconsider the role of the monstrous as a vital lens for understanding how ancient peoples made sense of the unknown, the dangerous, and the extraordinary, while constructing their own social reality.

The series De Gruyter Studies in Mathematics was founded in 1982 by the late Professor Heinz Bauer and Professor Peter Gabriel.

The series is devoted to the publication of monographs and high-level textbooks in mathematics, mathematical methods and their applications. Apart from covering important areas of current interest, a major aim is to make topics of an interdisciplinary nature accessible to the non-specialist.

The works in this series are addressed to advanced students and researchers in mathematics and theoretical physics. In addition, it can serve as a guide for lectures and seminars on a graduate level.

The series De Gruyter Studies in Mathematics is indexed in MathSciNet (Mathematical Reviews) and Scopus.

Editor-in-Chief

Guozhen Lu, University of Connecticut, USA

Editorial Board

Carstensen Carsten, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany

Gavril Farkas, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany

Nicola Fusco, Università di Napoli "Federico II", Italy

Fritz Gesztesy, Baylor University, USA

Zenghu Li, Beijing Normal University, China

Karl-Hermann Neeb, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

René L. Schilling, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Volkmar Welker, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

Please submit book proposals to Guozhen Lu

Die Automobilindustrie und ihre Mitbestimmung gelten als eine Erfolgsgeschichte der frühen Bundesrepublik. Dabei wird oft übersehen, dass es auch prominente Gegenbeispiele gab. Eines davon war BMW, denn das Unternehmen stand mitten in der Hochkonjunktur der 1950er Jahre kurz vor dem Konkurs.

Mario Riederer beleuchtet in seiner Studie die Geschichte von BMW im Zeitraum von 1945 bis 1987 mit besonderem Fokus auf Mitbestimmung und Arbeitnehmervertretung. Dabei wird das Handeln eines Betriebsrates in einer existentiellen Krise gezeigt sowie die langfristigen Folgen dieser Erfahrung. Es verschob sich das Kräftegefüge im Unternehmen, und es entwickelte sich ein neuer Handlungsimperativ für die Arbeitnehmerseite: Um die Arbeitsplätze auf Dauer zu sichern, galt der wirtschaftliche Erfolg als unabdingbar. Dadurch entstand eine Betriebsratspolitik, in der ein Ausgreifen in Managementbereiche selbstverständlich war, zu der bisweilen aber auch eine Zurückstellung der Arbeitnehmerinteressen hinter den wirtschaftlichen Erfolg des Unternehmens gehörte. Diese neue Sozialpartnerschaft zeigte bereits vor der Ölpreiskrise Züge der Mitbestimmung „nach dem Boom" und wies eine erstaunliche Konstanz bis zum Ende der 1980er Jahre auf.

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This book develops the concepts of vision and vision work in relation to the study of social movements and applies it to an empirical investigation of how the climate movement envisions what a fossil-free and just future could look like. Using a dynamic approach, it develops an understanding of the challenges and processes through which visions come about – or may struggle to do so. The book moreover assesses the resonance of movement visions among political elites and the broader public. The analysis focuses on Sweden, a long-term leader in climate action and the cradle of the Fridays For Future movement, but also a country that like many others struggles to meet the demands of climate science. How might the vision work of the climate movement enable societies to escape their carbon lock-in?

The series Religion and Its Others: Studies in Religion, Nonreligion, and Secularity (RIO) publishes peer-reviewed, scholarly work that examines the multifaceted relationships between religion, nonreligion, and secularity. Monographs and edited volumes in this series explore how religious and nonreligious traditions form and reform within their cultural and political contexts, investigating their boundaries and what lies beyond them.

The series delves into seemingly nonreligious or "irreligious" phenomena that hold significant connections to religion, including atheism, agnosticism, and indifference. It analyzes the various modes of differentiation between religion and its "others," often institutionalized within cultural, legal, and political systems.

The RIO series publishes research from a wide range of disciplines, including:

• Sociology, Anthropology, and Psychology of Religions
• History and Philosophy of Religions
• Political and Cultural Studies
• Media and Communication
• Performing Arts

The RIO series welcomes submissions that engage with these complex relationships in rigorous and thought-provoking ways, advancing the scholarly discourse on religion.

Most of the world’s population lives in countries with very limited resources, resulting in severe shortages of healthcare resources and poor health outcomes. They suffer from different diseases, seek care from different providers, and face barriers that are unfamiliar to people in high-income countries. Yet textbooks
on health economics or healthcare management grossly neglect the realities of healthcare for the world’s majority. This book provides a comprehensive overview of international healthcare management, with a strong focus on low- and lowermiddle-income countries.

Every resource that is wasted cannot be used to save lives. Therefore, efficiency as the proprium of economics is an ethical imperative, particularly in resource-poor countries, and calls for international healthcare management as the study of improving the health of populations by increasing the efficiency of the healthcare
system. This book therefore begins with a broad discussion of concepts and systems of international healthcare, economics, and management. This is followed by a detailed analysis of healthcare supply and demand, which requires a comprehensive approach that goes far beyond traditional health economics or healthcare management to include many aspects of epidemiology, public health, geography, ethnology,
and other sciences. Finally, the book analyses current reforms of healthcare systems, with a focus on healthcare financing reforms.

Based on this in-depth analysis, the book aims to equip the reader with a set of tools to understand, evaluate, design, and change current healthcare systems – a skill that is highly relevant to the lives of billions of people in all regions of the world. The underlying conviction and ultimate goal is always: Efficiency saves lives.

In der Reihe Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) erscheinen Arbeiten zu sämtlichen Gebieten der alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft. Im Zentrum steht die Hebräische Bibel, ihr Vor- und Nachleben im antiken Judentum sowie ihre vielfache Verzweigung in die benachbarten Kulturen der altorientalischen und hellenistisch-römischen Welt.

Die BZAW akzeptiert Manuskriptvorschläge, die einen innovativen und signifikanten Beitrag zu Erforschung des Alten Testaments und seiner Umwelt leisten, sich intensiv mit der bestehenden Forschungsliteratur auseinandersetzen, stringent aufgebaut und flüssig geschrieben sind.

Der vorliegende dritte Band der Gesamtbibliographie Dreihunderdreißig Jahre Wissenschaft zu Qur’an und Islam umfasst Einträge aus den Jahren 2005 bis 2024.

Die Gesamtbibliographie besteht aus vier Bänden und verzeichnet knapp zwanzigtausend Einträge aus den Jahren 1694 bis 2024 (plus Nachträge).

Die Einträge sind konsequent chronologisch angeordnet und wurden sämtlich im Autopsie-Verfahren überprüft. Sie enthalten neben vollständigen Autornamen und Titeleinträgen detaillierte Informationen zum Gegenstand und zum Publikationsort. Sämtliche Einträge sind ins Deutsche übersetzt und kommentiert. Komplimentiert werden sie durch ein Register, das im vierten Band geliefert wird.

Diese Bibliographie stellt für die Forschung ein unverzichtbares Standardwerk dar.

With over 50 Old High German and Old Saxon texts arranged according to subject area, this book presents the entire, remarkably versatile spectrum of Early Medieval German prose from the end of the 8th to the beginning of the 12th century. The work covers such topics as the school tradition of the development of Latin through glosses and glossaries, biblical and theological translation work, various types of clerical functional texts, as well as the fields of law, administration, and the natural sciences/magic/medicine.

The series Comparative Theology, Islam and Society (CTIS) presents innovative perspectives on Islamic theology. It offers genuinely Islamic theological approaches to comparative theology and to the cultural and legal disciplines.

CTIS does not just view itself as a forum for discussions of Islamic theology but also aims to build a bridge to other theological traditions, as well as to the cultural and legal disciplines. This allows the series to make an important contribution to the ongoing development of Islamic theology and comparative theology as a whole.

Advisory Board:

Kecia Ali (Boston)
Elisa Klapheck (Paderborn)
Britta Konz (Mainz)
Frederek Musall (Würzburg)
Martin Nguyen (Fairfield)
Joshua Ralston (Edinburgh)
Jerusha Tanner Rhodes (New York)
Klaus von Stosch (Bonn)
Pim Valkenberg (Washington)
David Vishanoff (Oklahoma)

Ausgehend von dem Befund einer zunehmenden Nähe und Intimität von Körper und Technik im Kontext aktueller Prothesenentwicklungen untersucht das Buch Prothesen als Beispiel einer invasiven und intimen Technikentwicklung. Damit nimmt die Studie ein Phänomen in den Blick, das bislang nur marginal behandelt wurde: die Integration von Körper und Technik im Kontext aktueller Technikentwicklungen und das damit verbundene Phänomen einer Interiorisierung des Technischen. Dies bedeutet zugleich eine neue Perspektivnahme auf den Phänomenbereich der Prothetik. Denn während Prothesenzumeist zwischen Kompensation und Optimierung verhandelt werden, betont die Studie ihre mediale und anthropogenerische Dimension. In den Blick rücken dabei prothesentheoretische Konzepte; die prothesentechnische Entwicklung von rudimentären Hilfsmitteln zu digitalen Neuro-Implantaten; Aushandlungsprozesse um abweichende und prothesenbewehrte Körper; sowie Praktiken und Ästhetiken der Prothesenverwendung und -inszenierung. Diese Untersuchungen bringen die Prothesenmetapher in Relation zu ihrer technischen Entwicklung und erschließen den Prothesenkörper als ein technikphilosophisches und medienanthropologisches Thema.

Das UmwelthaftungsR (2026) bietet aktuelle Erläuterungen u.a. zur zivilrechtlichen Haftung von CO₂-Emittenten für Klimaschäden und geht überdies auf Neuerungen wie wie die Onshore- und Offshore-Speicherung auf Basis des Entwurfs zum Kohlendioxid-Speicherungs- und TransportG (KSpTG) ein. Auf aktuellem Stand werden einschlägige Ansprüche aus BGB, UmwelthaftungsG, AtomG, BundesbergG, BImschG, GentechnikG, HaftpflichtG und WasserhaushaltsG behandelt.

As literacy expanded in Classical Athens, myths became increasingly fixed through textualization, fostering a more analytical and critical approach to storytelling. Euripides did not merely adapt myths for the stage but actively interrogated their origins, authority, and reliability. His tragedies engage with myth in ways that go beyond poetic retelling, incorporating elements of metanarrative reflection, myth rationalization and skeptical revision that align closely with contemporary mythographical practices. Unlike earlier poets, who treated myth in a more authoritative way, Euripides problematizes it, highlighting competing versions and inviting audiences to question what is real or fictional. This volume examines the extent to which Euripides’ engagement with myth mirrors the methods of the mythographers, positioning him as a pivotal figure in the development of myth criticism. His approach —marked by skepticism, intertextuality, and an awareness of myth as a constructed discourse— foreshadows later developments in both historiography and literary analysis. Thus, Euripides Mythographus can be of great value for those scholars interested in exploring the boundaries between genres in the tragic poet.

The ghazal is a central genre of poetry in Persian literature and intellectual history. It is a medium of expression in which erotic language is merged with politics and mysticism.  Jahān-Malik Khātūn (d. after 784/1382) is the only Persian female poet of medieval times who has a substantial Dīvān (‘poetry collection’), most of which is written in the poetic form of ghazal. Yet, she has been marginalised and her work has remained understudied. This book investigates different aspects of Jahān-Malik Khātūn’s ghazals to find the reasons for the obscurity of work despite its high quality and substance. It offers a critical analysis of Jahān-Malik Khātūn’s medieval reception history in which she was slandered by sexually suggestive remarks and excluded from the literary and Sufi tradition. It engages with her contemporary reception history in which she remains an outsider to Persian Sufi poetry. With a new conceptual model to explore the Persian ghazal as a medium for intellectual discourse, this book sheds light on Jahān-Malik Khātūn’s agency despite her marginalisation as a woman. The author investigates the codification of Persian ghazal as Sufi poetry to explain Jahān-Malik Khātūn’s exclusion from the Persian Sufi tradition. The new perspectives offered in this book contribute to the study of Persian ghazal as a multi-functional literary genre for both Persian literature and Sufi tradition. It also brings forth the important but ignored role of a medieval female poet in shaping the Persian literary and Sufi tradition.

Staudinger –A comprehensive commentary of the German Civil Code, offering an ideal combination of innovation and tradition!

• Tradition entails responsibility: since 1898 Staudinger has been associated with the German Civil Code and has shared in its development.
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• The German Civil Code and more: in addition to the commentary of the Civil Code, the complete Staudinger offers a comprehensive commentary of important supplementary legislation, as well as detailed explanations of private international law.
• The German Civil Code and Europe: Staudinger consistently takes into account the influences and developments of European private Community law.
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• Always up to date: the development of legislation and court rulings determines the publication dates of new volumes. Volumes are replaced as the need to update the content arises.
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Staudinger –A comprehensive commentary of the German Civil Code, offering an ideal combination of innovation and tradition!

• Tradition entails responsibility: since 1898 Staudinger has been associated with the German Civil Code and has shared in its development.
• Competent: Staudinger is a reliable source of practice-oriented, expert information on changes and developments in legislation, court rulings and literature.
• One step ahead: points of controversy or unsolved legal issues are systemically discussed in Staudinger and new, independent approaches to a solution are developed.
• The German Civil Code and more: in addition to the commentary of the Civil Code, the complete Staudinger offers a comprehensive commentary of important supplementary legislation, as well as detailed explanations of private international law.
• The German Civil Code and Europe: Staudinger consistently takes into account the influences and developments of European private Community law.
• Timesaving: thanks to systematic and alphabetical outlines and a detailed subject index, you can quickly find the information required.
• A team of experts at your side: 139 highly qualified commentators guarantee a high standard of competent information for use in theory and practice.
• Tried and tested: Staudinger is in daily use in renowned law offices, notary's offices and courts.
• Always up to date: the development of legislation and court rulings determines the publication dates of new volumes. Volumes are replaced as the need to update the content arises.
• Decide for yourself: use Staudinger just as it suits you, without any obligation to take all publications: either by purchasing single volumes, by taking out a partial subscription or a full subscription.
• No risk: test Staudinger for 2 weeks without any obligation and then decide if you want to buy.
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Sowohl für Studierende und Lehrende als auch für Praktiker aus den Bereichen der Betriebswirtschaftlichen Steuerlehre und des Steuerrechts gibt dieses Buch eine übersichtliche Darstellung der wichtigsten Steuerarten in Deutschland. Die einzelnen Kapitel liefern fundierte Kenntnisse über steuerliche Grundlagen, das Steuersystem, die Einkommensteuer, die Körperschaftsteuer, die Gewerbesteuer, die Grundsteuer, die Erbschaft‐ und Schenkungsteuer, die Umsatzsteuer, weitere wichtige Verkehr‐ und Verbrauchsteuern sowie den Einfluss der Rechtsformwahl auf die Besteuerung. Auf dem gesicherten Rechtsstand Januar 2026 wurde das Buch aus der renommierten 5. Auflage „Steuern“ weiterentwickelt. Neben dieser Aktualität zeichnet sich das Buch besonders dadurch aus, dass die Leser mit Hilfe der theoretisch fundierten und durch zahlreiche Abbildungen und Beispiele sehr gut nachvollziehbaren Darlegungen ihr gelerntes Wissen anhand von zahlreichen Fallbeispielen mit Musterlösungen überprüfen können. 

As artificial intelligence reshapes everyday lives, one question becomes unavoidable: What does good leadership look like when technology drives the decision-making process? The Moral AI Leader offers a clear, confident, and refreshingly practical answer. Drawing on their experience as entrepreneurs, scientists, and advisors, the authors show why the future belongs to those who use technology with judgment, courage, and moral clarity.

 Across a unique set of highly accessible tips, the authors explore how leaders can harness AI without surrendering responsibility, preserve human relationships in a digital world, build trust through transparency, and turn regulation into a driver of innovation. Rich with real anecdotes, The Moral AI Leader blends ethical insight with insightful hands-on guidance for managers, founders, and decision-makers navigating this era of profound technological change.

Dass Sprache einem permanenten Wandel unterliegt, gilt in der Forschung als unbestritten. Sichtbar werden größere Entwicklungslinien jedoch meist erst im längeren zeitlichen Abstand. Untersuchungen zu jüngeren Wandelphänomenen stehen daher vor der Herausforderung, Variation und situativen Gebrauch von tatsächlichen Veränderungen abzugrenzen. Auch unterscheidet sich die Erforschung neuerer Entwicklungen grundlegend von der früherer Sprachstufen: Produktions- und Kommunikationsbedingungen haben sich durch Technologien so verändert, dass Innovationen sich anders und schneller verbreiten. Neue Korpora nicht-professioneller schriftlicher und gesprochener Sprachverwendung bieten ein breiteres Bild der Sprachwirklichkeit und Befragungen eröffnen Zugänge zu Datentypen, die für ältere Sprachstufen nicht vorliegen. Mit wachsender Orientierung an Reproduzierbarkeit und nachhaltiger Archivierung werden auch bei synchronen Daten Grundlagen für künftige diachrone Analysen geschaffen. Der Band bietet Einblicke in aktuelle deskriptive, theoretische und methodische Arbeiten zur Sprachwandelforschung in den deutschen Varietäten der Gegenwart und jüngeren Vergangenheit. Schwerpunkte bilden u.a. Untersuchungen zu übergreifenden Linien des Sprachwandels, Datenquellen und methodische Zugänge, gegenwartssprachliche Reflexe historischen Wandels sowie theoretische Modellierungen von Wandelprozessen.

Hebammen stehen heute an der Schnittstelle von Gesundheit, sozialer Gerechtigkeit und ökologischer Verantwortung. Der Klimawandel und das Überschreiten planetarer Grenzen stellen auch die Hebammenprofession vor neue, komplexe Herausforderungen. Dieses Lehr- und Praxisbuch bietet fundiertes Fachwissen, ethische Reflexionen und konkrete Handlungsoptionen für eine zukunftsfähige Hebammenarbeit im Zeichen der Planetary Health.
Die Beiträge stammen aus Praxis, Forschung und Transfer und zeigen auf, wie Hebammen aktiv zur Prävention, Aufklärung und nachhaltigen Versorgung beitragen können – insbesondere für Schwangere, Neugeborene und junge Familien, deren Gesundheit durch Umweltveränderungen zunehmend gefährdet ist.

This book explores a type of bilingual acquisition – early sequential bimodal bilingual acquisition – in Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL) and oral Cantonese, by adopting data from a deaf child who acquired HKSL from birth and Cantonese from around age 2 after cochlear implantation. One main goal of this book is to verify if the developmental trajectories and acquisition processes such as crosslinguistic interaction resemble those documented in monolingual acquisition. The associated acquisition processes are accounted for with reference to the Language Synthesis Model (Lillo-Martin et al 2016) which is built upon the theory of Distributed Morphology.

Das 19. Jahrhundert und die erste Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts stehen für die Erfahrung, dass Wissenschaft und Politik oft ethnozentrisch oder sogar rassistisch begründet wurden. Die Auswirkungen dieser Entwicklung sind bis heute spürbar. Die Reihe geht vor diesem Hintergrund den Wechselbezügen zwischen Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft, Politik und Sprache nach, vertieft die Erforschung von Ideologien und völkischer Paradigmen und beschäftigt sich mit deren politischen Folgen.

In der Reihe Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) erscheinen Arbeiten zu sämtlichen Gebieten der alttestamentlichen Wissenschaft. Im Zentrum steht die Hebräische Bibel, ihr Vor- und Nachleben im antiken Judentum sowie ihre vielfache Verzweigung in die benachbarten Kulturen der altorientalischen und hellenistisch-römischen Welt.

Die BZAW akzeptiert Manuskriptvorschläge, die einen innovativen und signifikanten Beitrag zu Erforschung des Alten Testaments und seiner Umwelt leisten, sich intensiv mit der bestehenden Forschungsliteratur auseinandersetzen, stringent aufgebaut und flüssig geschrieben sind.

Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (essay collections) and Research in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (monographs) are sister series originally inspired by themes drawn from the annual International Congress on Medieval Studies at Kalamazoo. These series provide a home for high‐quality humanities research on topics from the late antique, medieval and early modern periods. Although both series have historically focused on medieval Europe, we have expanded geographically and chronologically to embrace a wider conception of the premodern. We welcome studies addressing a range of topics from the late antique, medieval and early modern periods, and we invite proposals from new and established scholars who employ innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to investigate literary, historical and material sources and explore what it has meant to be human through the ages.

Submissions

Proposals or completed manuscripts to be considered for publication should be sent to Tyler Cloherty (tylercloherty44@gmail.com) or (particularly for historical studies) Emily Winkler (emily.winkler@history.ox.ac.uk), the acquisitions editors for the series. For other inquiries, consult Theresa Whitaker (theresa.m.whitaker@wmich.edu). Since the scope of the series is so broad, the press identifies evaluators on a case by case basis before any formal commitment is made to the author. Further, all submitted manuscripts are subject to peer review from an independent expert chosen by the press.

The book presents a newly discovered Vision of Daniel manuscript at the National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg. Probably composed in northern Syria or southeastern Anatolia in the 9th century CE, the text reflects an intersection of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim thought in an era of theological exchange and political conflict between the Abbasid Caliphate and Byzantium.

The Vision of Daniel is a Hebrew apocalyptic work rooted in biblical, midrashic, and eschatological traditions, yet deeply engaged with surrounding Christian and Muslim apocalyptic imagery. It interprets persecution and crisis as elements of a divine plan leading to inevitable redemption—granted through loyalty to tradition rather than repentance. Its detailed list of caliphs reveals the author’s familiarity with Muslim history and Syriac sources. Composed amid messianic ferment, the work portrays two Anti-Messiahs—hybrid figures merging Jewish, Christian, and Islamic motifs—who pervert the image of the redeemer. The Vision thus serves as a unique witness to interreligious apocalyptic imagination in the medieval Middle East.

The edition includes facsimiles, a full Hebrew transcription, English translation, and a comparative study enabling reconstruction of missing parts based on another vision: the Judeo-Persian Qiṣṣa-ye Dāniyāl, which is copied, translated, annotated, and introduced by Dan Shapira and integrated into this volume.

Die heute bekannten fundamentalen Bausteine der Materie, die Quarks und Leptonen, und die starken, schwachen und elektromagnetischen Wechselwirkungen zwischen ihnen werden außerordentlich erfolgreich durch das Standardmodell der Teilchenphysik beschrieben. Das beliebte Lehrbuch führt in die Quantenfeldtheorie als theoretische Basis des Standardmodells und in die Grundlagen des Standardmodells ein. Die Stoffauswahl orientiert sich an den Inhalten einer zweisemestrigen Vorlesung im Master-Studium. Die Quantisierung von Feldern wird schwerpunktmäßig im Pfadintegral-Formalismus behandelt. 

Die 2., aktualisierte Auflage vertieft die Themen Dyson-Schwinger-Gleichungen, Majorana-Fermionen sowie Ward-Identitäten und bietet anhand zahlreicher neuer Übungen und Fragen eine optimale Lernzielkontrolle.

Toleranz ist die Duldung von Personen, Handlungen oder Meinungen, die aus moralischen oder anderen Gründen abgelehnt werden. Sie ist nicht nur durch Intoleranz gefährdet, sondern ebenso durch Tolerierung von allem und jedem sowie durch die aufklärerische und liberale Forderung, Toleranz durch Anerkennung zu überbieten.

Ziel dieses Buches ist es, ausgehend von der reformatorischen Entdeckung der Toleranz Gottes die Idee, den Begriff und die Praxis der Toleranz für das Zusammenleben in unserer Gesellschaft fruchtbar zu machen. Dafür werden zunächst mehrere Vorfragen beantwortet: Was ist Toleranz? Wie äußern sich Toleranz, Intoleranz und Nicht-Duldung konkret? Wo liegen Grenzen der Toleranz? Was sind die Voraussetzungen für Toleranz?

Unter Einbeziehung grundlegender Unterscheidungen werden daraus auf acht exemplarischen Praxisfeldern (z. B. Erziehung, Strafvollzug, Migration, sexuelle Vielfalt, Beziehungen zwischen Religionen und Kirchen, kriegerische Konflikte) konkrete Konsequenzen gezogen.

Ein kurzes Schlusskapitel, das in eine dazu passende, aktuelle Pfingstpredigt des Autors mündet, zieht ein Fazit unter der Leitfrage, welche psychischen und sozialen Impulse es zu einer Toleranz gibt, die uns nicht schadet, sondern für unsere Gesellschaft förderlich ist.

Confronted with an arguably incomplete critique of the notion and history of sovereignty, contemporary lines of thinking have forcefully returned to the inquiry into philosophical and political foundations. These theoretical approaches in philosophy and the humanities at large have attempted to find possibilities of dialogue concerning the critique of sovereign structures of power, the undoing of systemic violence, as well as the development of ideas of community and mutual aid. This volume aims to investigate the contemporary philosophical attempts at questioning traditional concepts of philosophical and political foundations in order to rethink the central notion of ground or arché. By considering from the outset the notion of “ground” or foundation as an inherently philosophical and political notion, the authors of the essays investigate the mutual dependence and constitutive influence of philosophy and politics. The essays thus highlight in particular the political stakes of what appear to be philosophically neutral concepts, as well as the philosophical origin of what appear to be politically contingent events.

Image & Context (ICON) is the first international series that focuses on the image and the imagery in the ancient world. The most distinctive quality of the image is its unique suggestive potential. An image can both catch the viewer's attention in a fraction of a second and stamp itself forever on his or her mind. At the core of the series are the questions of how and by whom images were shaped and perceived, and how images functioned within and contributed to a specific cultural context. The series aims to stimulate new discussion about the visual cultures of the ancient world and new approaches towards a history of the image.

In the Southern Cone and Brazil the democratization processes that began in the mid-1980s led to numerous investigations into the most complex and dire episodes in the region’s history. This process followed the dismantling of brutal dictatorial regimes and was aided by the declassification of new documents, opening new paths for historians to understand the recent past.

The role played by the Catholic Church in this period is crucial, given the fact that since the 15th century, when it stood as one of the pillars of the colonial order in Latin America, it remained a key player in Latin American culture and politics, through a successful adaptation to the spirit of the times. Hence, its study is key to assess the impact that the values of democratization and human rights had in this part of the world during the Cold War, and to understand the continuities in the patterns of inequality, violence and racism inherited from colonial times.

In this volume, we seek to shed light on the challenges and dilemmas faced by the Catholic Church in the Southern Cone and Brazil between ca. 1964 and 1990, using new archival work. The year 1964 is the year where the dictatorial wave in the region began in Brazil, and 1990 is the year that sealed the period, with the fall of the Pinochet government in Chile.

• The firm’s value system, transformation risk and the role of knowhow in the value creation process
• The firm’s lifecycle including co-evolution of firms and markets
• Managing hybrid configurations
• The impact of technology on value creation and value capture

The book advocates for a global digital identification system inspired by successful national models to counter cybercrime and manage multiple online identities. Through its cohesive approach, it redefines digital governance, promotes ethical online engagement, and strengthens authenticity, privacy, and accountability in a rapidly evolving virtual world.It presents a comprehensive framework that merges Deep Learning (DL), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and advanced technologies such as IoT, RFID, GPS, and facial-age detection to ensure age-appropriate online interactions. The book addresses harmful content, excessive screen time, and privacy threats through AI-driven content monitoring, health-risk detection, and user authentication mechanisms that identify underage users, fraudulent profiles, and unauthorized access—while minimizing energy consumption and moving beyond SIM-based systems. It further proposes a global digital identification model, inspired by successful national initiatives, to combat cybercrime and manage multiple online identities. This volume offers researchers, policymakers, and technology developers an integrated approach to building safer, more ethical, and accountable digital environments.

Epidemics have shaped human history, yet studies of their ancient attestations remain a developing field. This volume examines how epidemics were conceptualized, experienced, and responded to in Mesopotamia from the 3rd to the 1st millennium BCE. Drawing on cuneiform sources, contributors explore ancient terminology, beliefs about disease transmission, divine attributions, and societal impacts. The book investigates ritual, medical, epistolary, and administrative texts to assess how people sought to understand and control widespread diseases. By contextualizing Mesopotamian epidemics within broader historical frameworks, the volume highlights their role in shaping socio-political responses and the intellectual reasoning behind such devastating events. Essential for Assyriologists, historians of medicine, and researchers of ancient societies, this work offers new insights into humanity’s earliest written records of epidemics.

The Activation Effect provides an understanding of how immigration-related attitudes are formed, shaped, and influenced by various societal and political forces. By framing the research in the context of rising populism and the evolving role of social media, Anne Nielsen draws attention to how democratic processes can be impacted by shifts in public opinion and political narratives surrounding immigration. She explores the broader implications of immigration discourse on democratic stability, outlines how public attitudes can become polarized and discusses the role that social media plays in amplifying or mitigating these divisions. Through an in-depth analysis of the ways in which immigration has been politicized, The Activation Effect is a critical investigation into the tension between democratic ideals and the strategies used by political actors to influence public sentiment.

This volume examines the concept of faith in the three monotheistic traditions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—through close readings of sacred texts, theological reflection, and historical development. While the Hebrew term emunah, the Greek pistis, and the Arabic īmān differ in semantic nuance and theological usage, they all express a fundamental human disposition of trust, commitment, and orientation toward the divine. The Jewish tradition emphasizes emunah as steadfastness and covenantal reliability, deeply embedded in communal memory and liturgical practice. Christian theology understands pistis as both personal trust in Christ and assent to revealed truth, shaped by doctrinal traditions and ecclesial interpretation. In Islam, īmān is a rich and multilayered concept that integrates inner conviction, verbal affirmation, and righteous action. Together, the three contributions demonstrate how faith functions not merely as belief but as an embodied, lived, and ethically charged dimension of religious life. The volume offers critical insights into shared structures and enduring differences, providing a valuable contribution to interreligious understanding and theological discourses.

The series publishes studies and sources on the history of the German language and literature from the beginnings of the tradition in the 8th century to more recent linguistic history. It publishes philologically high-quality linguistic and literary studies and editions, as well as works that deal with aspects of linguistics and literary studies in equal measure. Thematically, the whole range of diachronic and synchronic issues is welcome: Variations and varieties, language change, norm and usage, language criticism, language contact, empiricism and theory, production and reception, manuscripts and prints.
Publication formats include monographs as well as edited volumes. The preferred language of publication is German.

The LHG is edited by three members of the Gesellschaft für germanistische Sprachgeschichte (GGSG):
- Stephan Müller, Professor of Older German Language and Literature at the University of Vienna
- Claudia Wich-Reif, Professor of the History of the German Language and Linguistic Variation at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
- Arne Ziegler, Professor of German Language with special emphasis on Historical Linguistics and Variety Linguistics at the Karl-Franzens University of Graz
Co-founder and co-editor from 2016-2019 was Jörg Riecke, Professor of German Linguistics with a special focus on language history at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (+2019)

Functional Foods and Gut Microbiome covers the concept of probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics along with their potential as functional foods for improved gut microbiome and health. A significant part of the population is consuming various probiotics in form of traditional fermented food or commercial supplements.

The use of probiotics along with prebiotics and synbiotics has increased in recent times due to increase in public awareness on functional foods. Recent advances in management of disorders and diseases with functional foods are discussed.

This book is useful tool for graduate students, PhD scholars as core subject and information source. Researchers, academicians and dieticians, biochemists, microbiologists, biotechnologists and other life science disciplines will find it useful for their concept, update and recent information.

In Superheld*innencomics sind Emotionen, wie Wut, Angst oder Liebe allgegenwärtig. Sie charakterisieren die Figuren, sind fundamentaler Bestandteil ihrer Genese, ihrer Secret Identities sowie ihrer Superkräfte. Dabei artikulieren sie sich in einer für das Superheld*innengenre charakteristischen expressiven Formsprache.

Der vorliegende Band geht diesem bisher in der Forschung noch wenig beachteten emotionalen Potenzial nach und untersucht das US-amerikanische Superheld*innengenre im Comic erstmals aus einer emotionstheoretischen Perspektive. Anhand differenzierter Comicanalysen werden die verschiedenen Facetten von Emotionen beleuchtet, angefangen mit der Systematisierung emotionsanzeigender und emotionalisierender Zeichen bis hin zur Ergründung der emotionalen Semantik des Genres. Dabei wird beispielsweise diskutiert, welche emotionale Architektur die Traumata der Superheld*innen besitzen, inwiefern Emotionen vergeschlechtlicht oder rassifiziert werden und welche Emotionsdiskurse sich in emotionalen Superkräften verbergen.

Ziel der Studie ist es, die Grammatik der Emotionen in Superheld*innencomics offenzulegen und einen bis dato noch unausgeschöpften Zugang zum Genre aufzuzeigen.

This book presents a pioneering examination of a piece of political oratory delivered in the Grassfields Bantu language of Isu. It engages constructively with the Western biases of the Appraisal framework, developed by Martin & White (2005) to analyse evaluative language and interpersonal positioning, by providing empirical evidence from an African context and adapting it to the cultural values on the ground. As such, it marks a major advance in the theoretical and practical applications of this model while at the same time making a substantial and innovative contribution to the description of an underdescribed African language. The insights gained from this research have the potential to inform future work within this paradigm on non-Indo-European languages and in non-Western settings.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is currently considered a disruptive key technology in the field of biomedical engineering. However, there is more to it than just the applications, advantages and challenges of AI in this field. The book takes a closer look at various additional aspects and provides a more comprehensive view of AI in healthcare.

The first part provides introductory considerations from a historical, technical, socio-scientific, legal and ethical perspectives. Complementing this, the second part illustrates these topics using various applications in the field of biomedical engineering. These cannot be covered exhaustively, but a broad overview is provided and the relevant challenges are addressed. Finally, the last part deals with questions relating to the framework conditions, the regulation of AI and the associated business models.

Last but not least, brief introductory statements from the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space and the DGBMT on the topic of AI in biotechnology and healthcare underscore the relevance of the contributions.

Statelessness often results from discriminatory policies or legal gaps, while citizenship revocation is typically used as a counterterrorism measure. Both processes strip individuals – particularly from minoritized groups – of legal status and access to essential social services, leaving them vulnerable to exclusion, exploitation, and human rights abuses.

With contributions from scholars in political science, international law, and sociology, this unique collection presents case studies of policies that reinforce statelessness; it connects legal doctrines with real-world impacts and critically balances the tensions between security imperatives and human dignity. Statelessness and Citizenship Revocation in Europe calls for policy changes that position citizenship as an essential human right. Offering both rigorous multidisciplinary academic analysis and practical recommendations to address statelessness in contemporary Europe, this book is an essential resource for scholars, policymakers, and advocates.

"Cultures of Vigilance" aims to research the historical and cultural foundations of vigilance. Within this context, "vigilance" refers to a linking of individual attentiveness to goals set by others. This linking occurs on an everyday basis, be it in the realm of public security, religion, law, or the healthcare sector; wherever and whenever we are asked to pay attention to something specific and, if necessary, also to react to, or report anything we have noticed in a specific way. The goal is to analyse the history, cultural variations and current forms of this phenomenon.

Wie lernen angehende Kampfpilot:innen das Fliegen und welche Herausforderungen begegnen ihnen? Diese ethnografische Studie widmet sich der militärischen Ausbildung von Kampfpilot:innen und begibt sich hierfür an einen Luftwaffenstützpunkt. Untersucht wird, wie im Kampffliegen verletzliche Körper der Pilot:innen mit Technologien (vom Cockpit bis zur Ausrüstung) sowie physikalischen Bedingungen des Luftraums in eine voraussetzungsvolle Beziehung treten und wie angehende Kampfpilot:innen hierauf vorbereitet werden. Der Weg führt durch strenge Auswahlverfahren, Flugplanung, Simulatortraining und schließlich in die reale Umgebung des Kampffluges – vom Erdboden bis in große Höhen.

Im Anschluss an phänomenologische Positionen wird Kampffliegen als relationales Phänomen zwischen Mensch, Technologie und (Um-)Welt erforscht. Analysiert wird das körperliche und leibliche, kognitive und emotionale Training angehender Kampfpilot:innen. Kulturtechnologien etwa Skizzen, Listen und Karten geraten ebenso in den Blick wie hochkomplexe Simulationen, physikalische Kräfte und natürliche Phänomene. Damit erschließt die Ethnografie militärische Sozialisation und zeigt, über die Annahme disziplinierter Körper hinausgehend, wie Leiblichkeit zugleich Gegenstand und (eigenwillige) Ressource der Produktion militärischen Personals ist.

The monograph represents peer-reviewed original studies that make significant contributions to various branches of Computational Mathematics and Engineering. Each chapter highlights current trends in its respective research field and offers valuable insights, innovative methodologies, and recent advances in theories and computational applications. Key topics include artificial neural networks, data sciences, fuzzy set theory, numerical optimization techniques, soft computing, computational fluid dynamics and mathematical modelling. Additionally, several AI and machine learning algorithms are included, showcasing noteworthy computational results. This monograph features mathematical content validated by simulation results, enhancing the significance of the book. It serves as a valuable resource for both early-career and experienced researchers tackling complex real-world problems, such as addressing COVID-19 dynamics and solving transportation issues in engineering designs that traditional methods fail to resolve.

Die Herrschaft des Herakleios (610–641) zeichnet sich durch eine Reihe von Krisen und unerwarteten Triumphen für den oströmisch-byzantinischen Staat aus. Die Untersuchung fragt (1) nach der Gewichtung von Krisen und Katastrophen durch die Zeitgenossen, (2) nach den Maßnahmen zur Generierung wirtschaftlicher, militärischer, ideologischer und personeller Resilienzressourcen zur Überwindung staatlicher Vulnerabilitäten sowie (3) nach den kurz-, mittel- und langfristigen Folgen dieser Handlungen für den oströmisch-byzantinischen Staat. Es zeigt sich, dass es dem Regenten unter Ausnutzung noch funktionierender Herrschafts- und Verwaltungsstrukturen gelang, den Angriffen der Perser zu trotzen. Die anschließende Siegeseuphorie ob des wundersam anmutenden Sieges, die in der kaiserlichen Selbstinszenierung zusätzlich überhöht wurde, trug dann aber wesentlich dazu bei, dass der plötzliche Aufstieg der Muslime nicht rechtzeitig registriert wurde. Kurzfristig erfolgreiche Resilienzmaßnahmen führten damit mittel- und langfristig zu neuen Vulnerabilitäten für das Reich.

While Menander has long stood as the emblematic figure of Greek New Comedy, recent scholarship has increasingly challenged this Menandrocentric view by re-examining the broader landscape of comic production in the late-Classic and Hellenistic period. This volume brings to the fore the fragmentary remains of Menander’s contemporaries—such as Philemon, Diphilus, Apollodorus and others—offering new insights into their character typologies, linguistic style, and political engagement. Through philological, literary, and reception-oriented approaches, the contributions in this book reevaluate long-standing assumptions about the genre. The volume not only recontextualizes New Comedy within its historical and literary frameworks but also sheds light on its impact on Roman comedy. By expanding the canon beyond Menander, this study provides classicists, philologists, and literary historians with a more nuanced and comprehensive understanding of the genre's complexity and cultural significance.

How does an utterance with a specific syntactic structure fit into the discourse context? Information Structure and Discourse in Generative Grammar presents a landmark collection of articles that reframe this central question, offering compelling insights into the theory of information structure as a bridge between sentence grammar and discourse. In investigating different focus structures, such as focus operators, wh-questions, ellipsis, anaphora and adjuncts, the contributions provide new empirical corpus-based and experimental evidence and identify novel information structural mechanisms and processes that are at work in connecting the grammatical components proper with discourse grammar and common ground.

Einsamkeit und soziale Isolation sind in jüngster Zeit verstärkt in den Fokus öffentlicher Debatten gerückt. Zugleich sind sie ein dauerhaft ebenso relevantes wie brisantes Thema diakonischer und seelsorglicher Praxis. In diesem Problemfeld treffen gesellschaftliche Diskurse und Kulturdiagnosen auf sozialstrukturelle Problemlagen wie Ungleichheit, Stigmatisierung und Ausgrenzung sowie auf individuelle Lebenssituationen und Muster des sozialen Verhaltens. Der interdisziplinäre Band versammelt aktuelle Perspektiven aus Praktischer Theologie sowie Human- und Sozialwissenschaften zur komplexen Herausforderung der Einsamkeit.

Einsamkeit wird als multiple Herausforderung für die Praktische Theologie begriffen: Für den Religionsbezug ebenso wie für den Gesellschafts- und Handlungsbezug des Faches. Praktisch-theologische Disziplinen wie Poimenik, Diakonik und Religionspädagogik aber auch Perspektiven aus Soziologie und Psychologie diskutieren insbesondere folgende Fragen: Wie kann Einsamkeit verstanden werden – als Emotion, als individuelle Lebenssituation, als psychologisches Phänomen und als gesellschaftliche Struktur? Welche religiöse Valenz kommt der Einsamkeit zu und welche Rolle kann Spiritualität im Umgang mit Einsamkeit spielen? Was können Diakonie, Kirche und Seelsorge zur Prävention und Bewältigung von Vereinsamung beitragen?

Der Band entwickelt im interdisziplinären Austausch ein praktisch-theologisches Verständnis von Einsamkeit und sozialer Isolation und entwirft handlungstheoretische Grundlagen einer einsamkeitsbezogenen Praxis von Seelsorge, Religionspädagogik und Diakonie auf aktueller wissenschaftlicher Grundlage.

At a time when the rule of law is being reshaped and even severely distorted, this volume examines how literature both legitimises the principles underlying the present rule of law and foreshadows assumptions that take shape before legal claims are publicly felt or articulated in legal discourse. Literary acts of agency thus reconfigure the legal sphere via arguments formulated through an aesthetic, yet related, social and cultural praxis. Rather than viewing literature as a vessel of a ruling ideology or a moral signpost for future legal practices, this volume examines how it tests the interval between the legality and legitimacy of law.

How did China transform from technological copycat to global innovator? The Imitation Paradox challenges Western narratives of "theft" and "imitation," and reframes imitation as a creative force in China's technological rise. Drawing on 40 years of fieldwork – spanning telecoms, shanzhai culture, and pandemic apps – Xiaobai Shen reveals how imitation shapes innovation, participation, and governance in the digital age. Shen argues that China and the West operate within "two moral universes:" In the Chinese framework, shaped by Confucian traditions, ethical concepts like privacy, freedom, and collective good are relational and context-dependent rather than universal. These values support a distinctive digital governance rooted in civic cultivation and mass participation.

This book develops procedural contextualism, an original framework designed to strengthen the contextualist response to skepticism. At its core is the concept of procedure: community-sanctioned methods for justifying propositions. On this view, epistemic standards are deter-mined by the set of procedures recognized in a given context, offering a more precise account of how knowledge claims are assessed.
The first part of the book surveys existing contextualist approaches, focusing on the influential accounts of Lewis and DeRose. While these theories advanced the debate on knowledge attribu-tion, they face serious challenges. Chief among them is a persistent indeterminacy about how epistemic standards are fixed, as well as the difficulty of resolving conflicts between competing presupposed standards. Lewis’s reliance on the rule of attention, for example, seems arbitrary in its priority over conservatism, while DeRose’s account struggles with Gettier-style puzzles and other problematic scenarios. These shortcomings illustrate the need for a more robust model.
The second part introduces and develops procedural contextualism as such a model. By rooting epistemic standards in identifiable community procedures, this theory removes the arbitrariness that undermines earlier contextualist frameworks. It also allows for clearer evaluation of contex-tualist examples, distinguishing those that genuinely illustrate contextual variation from those that do not. The framework proves especially effective in addressing well-known epistemological cases such as the fake barns and lottery scenarios, where traditional contextualism falters.
The book further engages with prominent objections to epistemic contextualism, both semantic and epistemic in nature. It shows how many criticisms either rely on misunderstandings or can be met convincingly within the procedural contextualist framework. This dual function—critical and constructive—positions the theory as both a refinement of and an advance beyond earlier contextualist accounts.
Situated within the analytic tradition, with particular emphasis on linguistic analysis and clarity of thought, the book combines rigorous critique with theoretical innovation. It demonstrates how procedural contextualism not only clarifies the mechanics of epistemic standards but also en-hances the broader contextualist response to skepticism.
In offering this framework, the book provides an original contribution to contemporary episte-mology: a theory that is at once more determinate, more explanatory, and better equipped to engage with enduring philosophical puzzles.

With the rapid evolution of precision medicine, there is a growing need for an integrated understanding of molecular pathology in both research and clinical settings. This textbook explores the principles, techniques, and clinical applications of molecular pathology. Covering disease mechanisms, diagnostics, and personalized medicine, it bridges basic science and clinical practice. It is designed as a core textbook for courses such as Molecular Pathology, Molecular Diagnostics, or Genomic Medicine and provides a comprehensive overview of key molecular concepts, diagnostic techniques, and the role of molecular pathology in the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of a wide range of diseases—including cancer, genetic disorders, infectious diseases, and neurodegenerative conditions. It covers essential technologies such as PCR, NGS, and bioinformatics, and explores their application in modern clinical practice. Ethical, legal, and social implications are also discussed, ensuring a well-rounded perspective. By bridging fundamental science with clinical relevance, this volume serves as a valuable resource for graduate and postgraduate students, pathologists, researchers, and healthcare professionals in modern medicineaiming to integrate molecular tools into patient care.

Die These der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Deutung der Punica des Silius Italicus als Fürsten- und Dichterspiegel mit besonderem Hinblick auf die flavische Zeit und die Herrschaft Domitians.

Da Silius Italicus anders als seine Zeitgenossen nicht mythische Stoffe zum Gegenstand seiner Dichtung macht, sondern mit dem zweiten Punischen Krieg ein historisches Thema wählt, liegt der Schluss nahe, dass er durch die Brille der Historie seinem princeps bestimmte Lehren vermitteln möchte und dabei auch seine eigene Rolle reflektiert. Mittels inter- und intratextuellen Bezügen, tabellarischen Übersichten und einem gewissenhaften close reading werden übergreifende Themen- und Motivkomplexe, wie die unterschiedlichen Familienkonstellationen, verschiedene Herrscherbilder, Dichterfiguren und das große Spektrum des Göttlichen in den Punica untersucht mit dem Ergebnis, dass es einen wahren dominus et deus Domitian nur dann geben kann, wenn er selbst als Dichter oder mithilfe des Epikers Silius Italicus zum göttlichen Herrscher herangebildet und anschließend in einem carmen vergöttlicht wurde.

Somit bietet diese Arbeit inhaltlich und methodisch neue Perspektiven und Forschungsansätze, die nicht nur auf die flavische Epik angewendet werden können.

Die im Jahre 1905 von Gustav Gröber ins Leben gerufene Reihe der Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie zählt zu den renommiertesten Fachpublikationen der Romanistik. Die Beihefte pflegen ein gesamtromanisches Profil, das neben den Nationalsprachen auch die weniger im Fokus stehenden romanischen Sprachen mit einschließt.

Zur Begutachtung können eingereicht werden: Monographien und Sammelbände zur Sprachwissenschaft in ihrer ganzen Breite, zur mediävistischen Literaturwissenschaft und zur Editionsphilologie.

Mögliche Publikationssprachen sind Französisch, Spanisch, Portugiesisch, Italienisch und Rumänisch sowie Deutsch und Englisch. Sammelbände sollten thematisch und sprachlich in sich möglichst einheitlich gehalten sein.

Lo studio monografico presenta un repertorio del lessico botanico storico del dialetto napoletano costituito da trecento articoli lessicografici, in grado di documentare una parte consistente dei termini fitonimici attestati nelle fonti letterarie, documentarie e lessicografiche del napoletano in un arco cronologico compreso tra la fine del XIII e il XXI secolo.

La prima parte delimita e mette a fuoco il campo di indagine della fitonimia popolare, tracciando una panoramica concisa dei modelli scientifici e degli strumenti bibliografici fondamentali per il suo studio sul piano linguistico e dialettologico.

La parte centrale ospita il repertorio lessicografico vero e proprio, con la presentazione, la descrizione e il commento delle sue caratteristiche principali: il lemmario, la struttura delle voci, i corpora testuali e lessicografici, gli strumenti impiegati, il trattamento della fraseologia, il commento storico ed etimologico.

Infine, l’ultima parte è specificamente dedicata al commento dei più importanti fenomeni linguistici messi in luce dalle voci fitonimiche redatte.

This landmark collection of primary sources provides unique first-hand insights into the persecution and murder of the Jews of Europe under Nazi rule. The documents, all translated from the language of the original source, range from the police orders and administrative decrees issued by the Nazi apparatus across Germany and occupied Europe to the diaries and letters of Jewish men, women, and children facing discrimination, impoverishment, violent assaults, incarceration, deportation, and death. The observations and reactions of bystanders not directly involved in the crimes – some shocked, some indifferent, some approving - also come across vividly. Substantial introductions, scholarly footnotes, and an extensive thematic index help guide the reader through the rich documentary material and add to the value of the series as a resource for teaching and learning about the Second World War and the Holocaust.

Series edited on behalf of the German Federal Archives, the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History, and the Modern History Research Group at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. In cooperation with Yad Vashem.

Explore the documents! Search in categories like "Nuremberg Laws 1935", "Eviction and Disposession" or "November Pogroms 1938" to read and download documents from the published PMJ volumes for free.

See also the corresponding German series Die Verfolgung und Ermordung der europäischen Juden durch das nationalsozialistische Deutschland 1933–1945.

For more information on the edition, please visit the project website. Follow us on Twitter @PMJ_documents.

This study applies Fillmore’s Frame Semantics and corpus linguistics to analyze love fraud. It demonstrates the stages of the event as well as the words and phrases used to activate each frame and cause the victim to love and trust the fraudster. The fraudster thus constructs a romantic relationship with the victim, solely through language. This relationship begins with friendship, progresses to ‘soulmateship’ and engagement, and finally ends in an online ‘marriage’. Since one word can activate an entire frame, it is the fraudster’s lexical choices that cause the victim to ignore the imperfectly written messages and blinds them to the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic errors in the texts.

This volume is intended as an assessment of the situation of the specialized world of parliamentary and public authority libraries. It brings together contributions from libraries of various sizes, sponsors (federal, state) and institutions (parliaments, ministries, courts, authorities) and describes their current challenges as well as their approaches to address them.

Its central theme is digital change. How does it affect parliamentary and public authority libraries, which business areas are affected?

What adjustments are there, e.g. in acquisitions with regard to print vs. online? Are there any new services being offered in terms of use/customer acquisition and others that have been abolished because there was no longer any demand for them?

How do parliamentary and government libraries function in the "post-COVID" period, what effects do the home office regulations of the institutions have on the internal organization and the relationship between online vs. face-to-face use?

The articles in this volume are based on these and similar key questions. Taken together, they provide an insight into the structural challenges facing parliamentary and public authority libraries and the possibilities for successfully addressing them.

This book explores advanced mathematical computational algorithms in artificial intelligence and robotics, with a focus on areas such as machine learning, optimization, and digital simulations. Key topics include the mathematical foundations of AI, robotics control systems, computational geometry for image processing, and their applications in real-world problem-solving, such as autonomous systems and smart manufacturing.

Der vorliegende zweite Band der Gesamtbibliographie Dreihundertdreißig Jahre Wissenschaft zu Qur'ân und Islam umfasst Einträge aus den Jahren 1975 bis 2004.

Die Gesamtbibliographie besteht aus vier Bänden und verzeichnet knapp 20.000 Einträge aus den Jahren 1694 bis 2024 (plus Nachträge). Es folgen im dritten Band Einträge aus den Jahren 2005 bis 2024. Die Einträge sind konsequent chronologisch angeordnet und wurden sämtlich im Autopsie-Verfahren überprüft. Sie enthalten neben vollständigen Autornamen und Titeleinträgen detaillierte Informationen zum Gegenstand und zum Publikationsort. Sämtliche Einträge sind ins Deutsche übersetzt und kommentiert. Komplimentiert werden Sie durch ein Register, das im vierten Band geliefert wird.

Diese Bibliographie stellt für die Forschung ein unverzichtbares Standardwerk dar.

According to Socrates, "The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new." The new includes healthier living and sounder engineering. Specifically, we strive to generate cleaner energy and spread to to all corners of the world; improve understanding and care for the land, sea, and air; transform waste into useful resources; implement more eco-friendly agriculture and farming; and invigorate humans’ minds, bodies, and souls. The emphasis is on bettering tomorrow in an integrated manner, through the knowledge of the interlinkages among technologies, social and behavioral perspectives, the environment and ecology, and policies and governances.

The volume provides the first go-to reference for everyone who wishes to brighten tomorrow by thriving through change. It shows how to capitalize change and hasten the transition into a sustainable tomorrow from various perspectives. To sustainably thrive, we adapt cradle-to-cradle engineering. This closed cycle engineering ensures the end of a product, or an operation, is the beginning of a new one.

The book is essential for researchers including students, professionals, policy makers, and tomorrow’s leaders.

This series takes account of the fact that empirical approaches based on qualitative or quantitative methods of corpus linguistics have become a central paradigm within linguistics. Usage-based approaches can be found on all linguistic levels, ranging from phonological and prosodic studies to those in the fields of morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics (the latter is especially prolific with, for example, discourse analysis, text linguistics or conversation analysis) as well as sociolinguistics and the analysis of media and computer-mediated communication. The series intends to offer a thematically open platform for different approaches within synchronous linguistics as well as for interdisciplinary works with a linguistic focus which devise new ways of working empirically and which intend to develop new data-based methods and theoretical models for empirical linguistic analyses.Both monographs and edited volumes with a synchronous empirical approach are published. The publication language is either German or English. All submissions are peer-reviewed.

External Reviewers:
Magnus P. Ängsal (Göteborg, Sweden),
Michael Beißwenger (Duisburg-Essen, Germany),
Pia Bergmann (Jena, Germany),
Noah Bubenhofer (Dresden, Germany),
Helen Christen (Fribourg, Switzerland),
Waldemar Czachur (Warsaw, Poland),
Ulla Fix (Leipzig, Germany),
Karina Frick (Zurich, Switzerland),
Stephan Habscheid (Siegen, Germany),
Jörg Hagemann (Freiburg, Germany),
Mathilde Hennig (Gießen, Germany),
Katharina König (Münster, Germany),
Alfred Lameli (Marburg, Germany),
Jens Lanwer (Münster, Germany),
Konstanze Marx (Mannheim, Germany),
Marcus Müller (Darmstadt, Germany),
Thomas Niehr (Aachen, Germany),
Martin Pfeiffer (Freiburg, Germany),
Hannes Scheutz (Innsbruck, Austria)
Anja Stukenbrock (Lausanne, Switzerland),
Georg Weidacher (Graz, Austria),
Evelyn Ziegler (Duisburg-Essen, Germany),
Alexander Ziem (Düsseldorf, Germany).

Open Access:
Thanks to a pilot project with the FID Linguistik, six upcoming volumes will be published in gold open acceess between 2019 and 2021. All volumes already published have been tranformed to open access publications.
https://www.linguistik.de/

Die Frage nach dem spezifisch Menschlichen des Geistes ist drängender denn je. Die Biologie betont die Kontinuität unseres Geistes mit dem Tierreich, während KI-Sprachmodelle sogar seine virtuelle Ersetzbarkeit versprechen. Die philosophische Anthropologie ist herausgefordert, ein nicht-reduktionistisches Verständnis des menschlichen Geistes zu entwickeln, das seiner spezifischen Differenz zum Tier sowie seiner funktionalen Verkörperung gerecht wird.
Zwei Antworten auf diese Herausforderung prägen die Diskussion: Die an Hegel orientierte ‚dialektische‘ Anthropologie und die ‚negative‘ Anthropologie im Anschluss an Plessner. Beide Ansätze teilen Herders Einsicht in die Einheit von Vernunft und menschlicher Lebensform. Ihr zufolge zeichnet den Menschen eine von Grund auf geistige Natur aus, die durch Selbstbezug, Leiblichkeit, Sozialität und Geschichtlichkeit geprägt ist. 
Der Band bringt Vertreter beider Ansätze erstmals in einen systematisch angelegten Dialog. Die Beiträge entwickeln die These von der geistigen Natur des Menschen im Rekurs auf Hegel, Plessner, Thompson und Blumenberg sowie in Auseinandersetzung mit aktuellen Debatten des Transformativismus, Enaktivismus, der Kritischen Theorie und philosophischen Anthropologie.

Der Band versammelt systematische Beiträge zur geistigen Natur des Menschen: die Transformation tierischer Fähigkeiten in der menschlichen Lebensform zu einer zweiten Natur, die durch Selbstbezug, Leiblichkeit, Sozialität und Geschichtlichkeit geprägt ist. Ziel ist es, zwei bisher getrennte Diskurse zusammenzuführen: die Ansätze zu einer ‚dialektischen‘ Anthropologie nach G.W.F. Hegel und einer ‚negativen‘ Anthropologie nach Helmuth Plessner. 
Die Beiträge entwickeln die These von der geistigen Natur des Menschen im Rekurs auf Hegel, Plessner, Thompson und Blumenberg sowie in Auseinandersetzung mit aktuellen Debatten des Transformativismus, Enaktivismus, der Kritischen Theorie und philosophischen Anthropologie.

The series Trends in Medieval Philology includes central topics of current research debates in medieval studies and provides a place for groundbreaking research in the field. It is intended to give international researchers/research teams the opportunity to effectively present innovative surveys and discussions to the scientific community. The series sees itself as a ‘young’ research forum with a high standard of quality and is therefore also open to excellent degree theses, should they enhance the series.

Bereits bevor die Forschung wissenschaftliche und philologische Ansätze etablierte, stieg  Nietzsches Philosophie zu einem der wichtigsten kulturellen Phänomene des Jahrhunderts auf. Wichtige internationale Forscher*innen zeigen die Wirkung von Nietzsches Philosophie und Kulturkritik auf die Hauptfiguren der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften und auf die künstlichen und kulturellen Avantgarden und Sozialbewegungen zwischen den 1890er und den 1930er Jahren auf.

Der Überblick über die damalige weltweite Verbreitung von Nietzsches illustriert, was an diesen vielfältigen und reichhaltigen Zugängen zu Nietzsches Denken originell, gültig und potenziell produktiv war, identifiziert aber auch die Quellen der bis heute andauernden Vorurteile gegenüber Nietzsches Philosophie. Er ist somit ein unverzichtbarer Bestandteil für die Nietzscheforschung in Philosophie, Kultur-, Sozial- und Literaturwissenschaften.

Materials Chemistry, a broad dscipline including hard and lightweight materials, bio-materials and superconductors, as well as the more traditional materials such as ceramics, polymers, and glasses focusing on the structure-property paradigm. Each class of materials highlights recycling techniques, and green methods of production. This book includes subjects on: defect structure, crystal structure, semi-crystalline materials, semi-conductors, superconductors, polymers, metals and alloys, bio-materials, ceramics, glass, lightweight materials and hard materials. 

An emphasis is placed on emerging subjects and discoveries throughout the field, as well as the possibilities of recycling of materials. The author examines all the relevant and newly emerging sub-disciplines within materials chemistry, without minimizing the already well-established subjects within the field. Materials Chemistry provides a broad survey of this field for those being first exposed to materials chemistry. It is useful to advanced students, as well as to professionals in the field.

Plastics, structural polymers made from monomers, are ubiquitous in modern life and have unique benefits. To prevent accumulation in the environment or incineration at their end of life, they must however be reused or recycled in ways not yet implemented today. In many cases, the polymerization process can be efficiently reversed in depolymerization recycling, and monomers regained and purified, providing the basis for materials at the same quality level as in the previous life cycle but at moderate energy intensity and better carbon footprint. As such, depolymerization is very likely the key enabler for some classes of polymers, especially in applications where they are intrinsically mixed with other materials or crosslinked. This book reviews the fundamental polymer science briefly, introduces the respective processing technologies and life cycle considerations. Specific examples from different plastics applications including automotive, construction and textiles help to analyze how depolymerization positions itself in the hierarchy of recycling approaches and its contributions to a circular value chain transformation, including design for recycling. This compact overview will help a reader understand and approach depolymerization recycling in the necessary context of scale, sustainability and value chain thinking.

In today’s fast-paced and ever-changing work environment, middle managers face unprecedented challenges and opportunities, yet their role is often overlooked. This book is designed to shine a light on the crucial yet complex position of middle management, providing a comprehensive guide to thriving in this pivotal role.

It delves into the realities of managing from the middle, tackling key subjects such as managing upward and downward, balancing competing priorities, and maintaining team morale in times of change. It equips readers with essential skills like strategic thinking, emotional intelligence, and effective communication, while also addressing the increasing pressures brought by hybrid work, digital transformation, and diversity initiatives. Through practical tips, case studies, and real-world advice, this book empowers middle managers to embrace their role as change agents, motivators, and problem solvers in their organizations.

Whether you’re an aspiring or experienced middle manager, this book provides invaluable insights into how to lead with confidence, manage complexity, and drive meaningful impact. Essential reading for those who want to unlock their full potential in today’s workplace.

This book explores cryptographic techniques by integrating Elliptic and Jacobian Elliptic Curve Cryptography with Ancient Indian Mathematics, optimizing security and computational efficiency. As digital security becomes vital, the rich mathematical heritage of ancient India offers profound insights into cryptography, bridging historical wisdom with cutting-edge security solutions.
Key frameworks- algebra, analysis, and optimization- enhance point operations like addition and doubling in cryptographic protocols. The book explores trilinear pairing and cryptographic schemes over specialized rings, leveraging projective geometry and algebraic structures to enhance encryption and decryption methods. Covering foundational concepts, algorithms, and applications, the book highlights how ancient Indian insights can improve Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Jacobian Elliptic Curve Cryptography, and trilinear pairing.
Applications span secure vehicular communication using fog computing, blockchain-based authentication, and cloud security. It is targeted at cryptographers, mathematicians, and computer scientists and provides algorithmic innovations, security proofs, structured exercises, and real-world case studies.

This book offers essential foundational knowledge in thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, and chemical reaction engineering, providing the tools necessary for a rational understanding of chemical processes and the unit operations that comprise them. Key topics include thermodynamic principles for pure fluids and mixtures, material and energy balances, reaction equilibrium (including systems with useful work), phase equilibrium in multicomponent systems, chemical kinetics, and the fundamentals of reaction engineering. Each chapter features detailed derivations, experimental observations, and worked examples, delivering practical insights into process solutions and real-world applications. Designed primarily for undergraduate students in Chemical Engineering, this book also serves as a valuable reference for professionals seeking a comprehensive review of principles applied to chemical process analysis and design.

This book explores the blend of metaheuristic optimization algorithms and fuzzy decision-making paradigms to reinforce supply chain sustainability and viability. The combination of mathematical and metaheuristic optimization methods based on natural processes and fuzzy decision-making allows models to be built that can effectively deal with the multifaceted issues of contemporary supply chains. This book provides various techniques of decision-making, such as entropy measures, distance measures, coefficient correlation, aggregating operators, TOPSIS, EDAS, etc. This books overcomes the drawbacks of existing   fuzzy decision-making methods This book also provides case studies in which metaheuristic decision-making algorithms have been applied to enhance the sustainability and viability of supply chains. One such notable example is green supplier selection in supply chain management. The changing supply chain management landscape offers many areas for future research, like investigating the intersection of mathematical and metaheuristic fuzzy decision-making algorithms with new technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence, which can create more responsive and adaptive supply chains.

Polymers, colloids, and surface chemistry are interconnected areas that play significant roles in the development and functionality of various products and technologies. The book helps to address issues related to material performance, stability and interactions. It begins with an introduction to polymers, covering their history, classification, nomenclature, molecular weight, and industrial significance. The chemistry of polymerization is then discussed in detail, including the mechanisms and kinetics of free radical, cationic, anionic, step-growth, and coordination polymerization, along with industrial techniques. The book also delves into polymer solutions, emphasizing thermodynamics, solubility, phase behavior, and applications in industries such as plastics, coatings, and biomedical fields. Moving to colloid chemistry, it explores colloidal systems, their comparison with true solutions and suspensions, types, preparation methods, and industrial relevance. The properties of colloids, including optical, kinetic, and electrical properties such as the Tyndall effect, Brownian motion, and electrophoresis, are discussed alongside suspensions, emulsions, and their practical applications. The surface chemistry of colloids is examined through interfacial phenomena, surface potential, Langmuir-Blodgett films, electrical aspects, and colloidal stability. Furthermore, the applications of colloids in petroleum, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, water purification, and environmental science are highlighted, demonstrating their interdisciplinary significance. The book concludes with an in-depth study of surface chemistry, focusing on adsorption phenomena, types of adsorption, adsorption isotherms, and industrial applications in catalysis, chromatography, pollution control, and biological systems. With a structured approach, real-world examples, and a focus on industrial and scientific relevance, this book serves as a valuable resource for students aiming to master the fundamental and applied aspects of polymers, colloids, and surface chemistry.  

Hydrogen and Fuel Cells explores the transformative role of green hydrogen and fuel cell technologies in the global energy transition, providing a comprehensive resource for researchers, academics, and industry professionals. It covers foundational topics such as electrolyser technologies for hydrogen production, hydrogen storage methods like cryogenic systems and liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs), and smart hydrogen infrastructure integrated with digital twin technologies. Advanced discussions include fuel cell innovations such as high-performance membranes, and portable and wearable fuel cells, alongside industrial applications in manufacturing and hydrogen-powered vehicles.

Furthermore, this book delves into key aspects of sustainability, including:

• Energy conservation: Strategies to reduce energy losses in hydrogen production, storage, delivery, and use. Investigations include effi cient electrolyzer topologies, fuel cell operational parameters, and accessory system parasitic energy expenditure reduction.
• Green tribology/tribochemistry: Analyzing wear mechanisms in fuel cell compo[1]nents, creating low-friction materials and coatings with minimal environmental impact, and applying eco-friendly lubricants to improve performance and longevity are all part of this research.
• The book also addresses critical issues like safety challenges in hydrogen storage, environmental impacts, economic feasibility, and scaling up technologies for wide[1]spread adoption. Novel approaches include insights into hydrogen blending with natural gas for transitional systems and the role of emerging catalysts in enhancing fuel cell effi ciency. It is written in an easy-to-understand style, and is designed for students, researchers, and professionals who want to learn about the potential of green hydrogen and fuel cells to transform the energy sector and help achieve a sustainable future.

New materials and new processes in textile production have led to a significant demand of appropriated analytical methods for characterization of certain functionality. Assessment of product quality for improved sustainability and circularity requires application of specific analytical methods. Widely used standard methods mainly address technical product quality and durability. Process development and quality determination in textile and fiber research and product development require specific analytical methods, which go beyond the available series of standard procedures. As an output of long-term textile and fiber research a high number of analytical methods for process and product characterization in textile chemical and textile physical research have been published in the scientific literature.

The authors present a comprehensive collection of proven methods for material and fiber characterization. The specialized analytical techniques focus on application in textile and fiber research and will be a valuable source and inspiration for applicable scientific methods in textile product characterization, quantification of achieved functionalization and modification both in research/teaching and industry. Emphasis of the presented methods is given to protocols which can be realized with use of standard equipment available in research and testing laboratories. In addition selected modern instrumental techniques are included.