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For Descartes, knowledge exists as ideas in the mind that represent the world. In a radical critique, Hubert Dreyfus and Charles Taylor argue that knowledge consists of much more than the representations we formulate in our minds. They affirm our direct contact with reality—both the physical and the social world—and our shared understanding of it.

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Dieses Lehrbuch bietet einen fundierten Überblick über manche klassische hin zu modernen bis zu brandaktuellen kryptografischen Verfahren. Die Voraussetzungen, die ein Leser mitbringen sollte, konzentrieren sich auf wenige Inhalte der linearen Algebra und Analysis, die im ersten Studienjahr vermittelt werden. Das Buch umfasst im Wesentlichen einen Themenkreis, der in einer vierstündigen Vorlesung angesprochen werden kann. Es zeichnet sich durch mathematische Präzision, zahlreiche Beispiele und viele Algorithmen aus. Bei den Algorithmen wird eine verständliche Darstellung bevorzugt, die die Prinzipien klar und leicht nachvollziehbar macht. Wegen der ausführlichen Erklärungen kann das Buch auch zum Selbststudium empfohlen werden. Die Kapitel sind in kleine Lerneinheiten unterteilt. Die Leser werden so Schritt für Schritt von den Anfängen der Kryptologie in der Antike hin zu modernen Verfahren im Internetzeitalter geführt.

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Urban pilot projects from the informal city! Urban-Think Tank (UTT), an interdisciplinary design practice emerging from the turbulent political environment of Chávez-era Caracas, has pursued projects in Latin America, Europe, and Africa for almost twenty years. Their diverse work positioned the firm at the forefront of a social turn in architecture in the late 1990's, with concrete urban interventions encouraging social cohesion in the megacities of the Global South and Europe’s evolving metropoles. U-TT has also produced numerous media projects that harness film, theatre, exhibitions, and print to create new discursive spaces and question how our cities are shaped, and for whom. Most notable is its work on the squatted skyscraper for which the firm shared the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2012. This book looks forward as well as back, imagining new spaces for a hyper-urbanized world and gaining insight from informal settlements, spatial play, and artistic interventions in public space.

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Daten sind die strategische Ressource des 21. Jahrhunderts. Es findet kein Geschäftsprozess, keine Kommunikation zwischen Geschäftspartnern, keine Wertschöpfung statt, ohne dass die involvierten Personen, Maschinen und IT-Systeme Daten nutzen, erzeugen oder verändern. Trends wie die Digitalisierung, Industrie 4.0 und Social Media tragen ebenfalls dazu bei, dass Datenmanagement zu einer Kernkompetenz für erfolgreiche Unternehmen dieser Zeit geworden ist. Damit Daten ihren ganzen Wert entfalten können, müssen sie stets in angemessener Qualität zur Verfügung stehen. Dies gilt besonders für Stammdaten, die zentralen Geschäftsobjekte eines Unternehmens. Dieses Buch zeigt einen ganzheitlichen Ansatz zum qualitätsbewussten Management von Stammdaten auf und richtet sich damit sowohl an Praktiker als auch an die Wissenschaft. Das „Framework für Stammdatenqualitätsmanagement“ wurde im Rahmen des „Competence Center Corporate Data Quality“ der Universität St. Gallen seit dem Jahr 2006 gemeinsam mit Unternehmen aus unterschiedlichen Industrien in zahlreichen praktischen Anwendungen entwickelt und verbessert. Neben den theoretischen Grundlagen räumt das Buch der praktischen Sicht mit 10 Fallstudien großen Raum ein, die erfolgreich durchgeführte Datenqualitätsprojekte praxisnah aufbereiten. Schließlich führt das Buch noch Methoden und Werkzeuge für das Datenqualitätsmanagement auf, die (Stamm-)datenmanager bei Projekten im eigenen betrieblichen Umfeld unterstützen können.

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Torre David is an incomplete skyscraper in the center of the Venezuelan capital Caracas that has been occupied and reconstructed by local residents. Work on the building, named after the financial investor David Brillembourg, who died in 1993, was suspended during the Venezuelan financial crisis of 1994. After the office tower - the third highest in Venezuela - had stood empty for many years, it was taken over by the local population in 2008. The occupants made the building their own with improvisation and skill - it is a "vertical favela," now containing not just housing but also other everyday facilities such as an improvised doctor's office, shops, and more. Photographer Iwan Baan has documented Torre David and its occupants, creating a portrait that captures the contradictions of the place while at the same time revealing urban structures that have emerged dynamically and without planning.

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LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2019 'I am astonished by Four Soldiers. I have never read anything like it, yet it is one of those books you feel must always have existed, a classic of writing about the human condition... A small miracle' Hilary Mantel 1919. The Russian Civil War. It is the harsh dead of winter, as four soldiers set up camp in a forest somewhere near the Romanian front line. There is a lull in the fighting, so their days are filled with precious hours of freedom, enjoying the tranquillity of a nearby pond and trying to forget their terrifying nightmares, all the while talking, smoking and waiting. Waiting for spring to come, waiting for their battalion to move on, waiting for the inevitable resumption of violence. Tightly focused and simply told, this is a story of friendship and the fragments of happiness that can illuminate the darkness of war.

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Methods of diagnosis and prognosis play a key role in the reliability and safety of industrial systems. Failure diagnosis requires the use of suitable sensors, which provide signals that are processed to monitor features (health indicators) for defects. These features are required to distinguish between operating states, in order to inform the operator of the severity level, or even the type, of a failure. Prognosis is defined as the estimation of a system�s lifespan, including how long remains and how long has passed. It also encompasses the prediction of impending failures. This is a challenge that many researchers are currently trying to address. Electrical Systems, a book in two volumes, informs readers of the theoretical solutions to this problem, and the results obtained in several laboratories in France, Spain and further afield. To this end, many researchers from the scientific community have contributed to this book to share their research results.

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Methods of diagnosis and prognosis play a key role in the reliability and safety of industrial systems. Failure diagnosis requires the use of suitable sensors, which provide signals that are processed to monitor features (health indicators) for defects. These features are required to distinguish between operating states, in order to inform the operator of the severity level, or even the type, of a failure. Prognosis is defined as the estimation of a system�s lifespan, including how long remains and how long has passed. It also encompasses the prediction of impending failures. This is a challenge that many researchers are currently trying to address. Electrical Systems, a book in two volumes, informs readers of the theoretical solutions to this problem, and the results obtained in several laboratories in France, Spain and further afield. To this end, many researchers from the scientific community have contributed to this book to share their research results.

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The Vatican’s dealings with the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich have long been swathed in myth and speculation. After almost seventy years, the crucial records for the years leading up to 1939 were finally opened to the public, revealing the bitter conflicts that raged behind the walls of the Holy See. Anti-Semites and philo-Semites, adroit diplomats and dogmatic fundamentalists, influential bishops and powerful cardinals argued passionately over the best way to contend with the intellectual and political currents of the modern age: liberalism, communism, fascism, and National Socialism. Hubert Wolf explains why a philo-Semitic association was dissolved even as anti-Semitism was condemned, how the Vatican concluded a concordat with the Third Reich in 1933, why Hitler’s Mein Kampf was never proscribed by the Church, and what factors surrounded the Pope’s silence on the persecution of the Jews. In rich detail, Wolf presents astonishing findings from the recently opened Vatican archives—discoveries that clarify the relations between National Socialism and the Vatican. He illuminates the thinking of the popes, cardinals, and bishops who saw themselves in a historic struggle against evil. Never have the inner workings of the Vatican—its most important decisions and actions—been portrayed so fully and vividly.

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A medical mystery/fantasy/love story that delves into the nature of consciousness while raising the ethical and existential issues facing scientists today A contemporary Frankenstein that defies expectations, this is a thrilling novel about a journalist, Cédric Allyn-Weberson, who suffers a horrific accident, paralyzing him from the neck down. An ideal candidate for a body transplant, Cédric survives the surgery but has both physical and existential trouble with his recovery and adaptation: encountering his lover with a new body, discovering the life history of his donor, and attempting to understand the mind-body relationship as he lives it. Haddad explores the confusion and insignificance of a single consciousness before experience and identity: What is a head without a body? What or who is a lover with another’s body? The gruesome transplant (detailed in a manner that highlights the author’s diligent research and comprehension) parallels other ways humanity mutates nature globally. The novel is a provocative and timely allegory—a work of dystopian fantasy.

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Dinslaken, Germany 1945. The war is over, leaving behind a broken nation. As the allied forces begin to uncover the horrors of the Holocaust, a war photographer makes the decision to capture the lives of the ordinary German people. Accompanied by his driver, the young and vulnerable O'Leary, the pair set off on a journey, one that changes both their lives forever. The Invisible Land is a story of the moral and emotional repercussions of violence, complicity and its aftermath.

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A collector's delight, this comprehensive volume is devoted to the wide variety of charming salt and pepper shakers produced by Goebel Porzellanfabrik*r of Germany, from the 1920s through the 1980s. Nearly 600 color photos display shakers and condiment sets in the forms of animals, birds, fish, people, flowers, fruits and vegetables, and more. Variations in color or size are included, as well as many scarce or rare sets. Captions contain identification numbers, artist's name where known, date of manufacture, and current market value. Also includes a helpful explanation of Goebel's numbering system, trademarks used from 1923 to the present, and tips for identifying and pricing Goebel sets. A wonderful resource for all collectors and admirers of novelty salt and pepper shakers.

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Der bewährte Wegweiser für erfolgreiche Umweltanalytik, jetzt in einer vollständig überarbeiteten und erweiterten Neuauflage! Die neue, dritte Auflage behandelt insbesondere auch Aspekte der Wirtschaftlichkeit sowie in einem eigenen Kapitel die Methoden der Vor-Ort-Analytik. Jeder Laborleiter kann sich mit diesem einzigartigen Handbuch kompakt, aktuell und gezielt über den Stand des Labormanagements sowie der anerkannten spektrometrischen und chromatographischen Methoden informieren. Die Aufgaben des Laborleiters werden von der Planung der Laborräume bis zur Dokumentation der Analysen beschrieben. Dazu zählen insbesondere die Themen - Umweltgesetzgebung - Probenahme und Probenvorbereitung - Bezugsquellen für anerkannte Analysenmethoden Besonderes Merkmal: Durch das Griffregister hat der Benutzer leichten Zugang zu übersichtlichen Tabellen. Sie sind nach Parameter, Umweltkompartiment und Aggregatzustand gegliedert und ermöglichen das rasche Auffinden einer anerkannten Analysenmethode. Aus Rezensionen der vorigen Auflagen: "Genau auf die Bedürfnisse der Laborleiter zugeschnitten" Fachinformationszentrum Karlsruhe "Hubert Hein und Wolfgang Kunze haben ein neuartiges Buch geschrieben. Was die Verfasser in besonderem Maße auszeichnet: Sie wissen aus eigener Tätigkeit und vielfacher Erfahrung, worüber sie schreiben. Es handelt sich um eine Monographie, die im Fachschrifttum nicht mehr wegzudenken sein wird." Deutsche Gewässerkundliche Mitteilungen

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This is the first in a series of books in which one of the most influential of contemporary art theorists revised from within the conceptions underlying the history of art. The author’s basic idea is that the rigor of linear perspective cannot encompass all of visual experience and that it could be said to generate an oppositional factor with which it interacts dialectically: the cloud. On a literal level, this could be represented by the absence of the sky, as in Brunelleschi’s legendary first experiments with panels using perspective. Or it could be the vaporous swathes that Correggio uses to mediate between the viewer on earth and the heavenly prospect in his frescoed domes at Parma. Insofar as the cloud is a semiotic operator, interacting with the linear order of perspective, it also becomes a dynamic agent facilitating the creation of new types of pictorial space. (Damisch puts the signifer cloud between slashes to indicate that he deals with clouds as signs instead of realistic elements.) This way of looking at the history of painting is especially fruitful for the Renaissance and Baroque periods, but it is also valuable for looking at such junctures as the nineteenth century. For example, Damisch invokes Ruskin and Turner, who carry out both in theory and in practice a revision of the conditions of appearances of the cloud as a landscape feature. Even for the twentieth century, he has illuminating things to say about how his reading of cloud applies to the painters Leger and Batthus. In short, Damisch achieves a brilliant and systematic demonstration of a concept of semiotic interaction that touches some of the most crucial features of the Western art tradition.

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This book provides the first unified examination of the relationship between Radon transforms on symmetric spaces of compact type and the infinitesimal versions of two fundamental rigidity problems in Riemannian geometry. Its primary focus is the spectral rigidity problem: Can the metric of a given Riemannian symmetric space of compact type be characterized by means of the spectrum of its Laplacian? It also addresses a question rooted in the Blaschke problem: Is a Riemannian metric on a projective space whose geodesics are all closed and of the same length isometric to the canonical metric? The authors comprehensively treat the results concerning Radon transforms and the infinitesimal versions of these two problems. Their main result implies that most Grassmannians are spectrally rigid to the first order. This is particularly important, for there are still few isospectrality results for positively curved spaces and these are the first such results for symmetric spaces of compact type of rank >1. The authors exploit the theory of overdetermined partial differential equations and harmonic analysis on symmetric spaces to provide criteria for infinitesimal rigidity that apply to a large class of spaces. A substantial amount of basic material about Riemannian geometry, symmetric spaces, and Radon transforms is included in a clear and elegant presentation that will be useful to researchers and advanced students in differential geometry.

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Poland is a tenacious survivor-state: it was wiped off the map in 1795, resurrected after the First World War, apparently annihilated again in the Second World War, and reduced to satellite status of the Soviet Union after 1945. Yet it emerged in the vanguard of resistance to the USSR in the 1980s, albeit as a much more homogeneous entity than it had been in its multi-ethnic past. This book outlines Poland's turbulent and complex history, from its medieval Christian origins to the reassertion of that Christian and European heritage after forty-five years of communism. It describes Poland's transformation since 1989, and explains how Poland navigated its way into a new Commonwealth of Nations in the European Union. Recent years have witnessed significant changes within Poland, Eastern Europe and the wider world. This new edition reflects on these changes, and examines the current issues facing a Poland which some would accuse of being out of touch with 'European values'.

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This book is soft bound of 76 pages in English. It comes with a hand-held pair of cardboard glasses that have one red lends and one blue one, to use to see pictures in the book in 3D. The book contains 42 black and white wartime photos. Including the front and back covers. There are 18 color photos of a Hetzer of the“Hemmann von Salza” regiment on the outskirts of Berlin, April 1945 and 72 color illustrations . These illustrations are done in 3D.

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Die 2. Auflage dieses Handbuchs ermöglicht Praktikern und Studierenden der Land- und Forstwirtschaft sowie des Garten-, Obst- und Weinanbaus das Erkennen von Schadsymptomen an Kulturpflanzen direkt im Feldbestand, die durch abiotische Ernährungsstörungen verursacht werden, und hilft dabei, die Ursachen durch gezielte Boden- und Pflanzenanalysen zu ermitteln. Dadurch wird das Handbuch zu einer nützlichen Informationsquelle für Anwender und auch Landwirtschaftsberater. Einfache Diagnoseschlüssel helfen beim Bestimmen von Nährstoffmangel oder -überschuss.

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Karl Popper behandelt und kritisiert in diesem Buch zwar vordergründig den Historizismus, das heißt die Lehre, daß es Gesetze der historischen Entwicklung gibt, in seinen antinaturalistischen und pronaturalistischen Ausprägungen. Im Grunde ist das Buch aber viel breiter angelegt. Es ist die erkenntnisfördernde Übertragung von Poppers Wissenschaftslehre auf Politik, Soziologie und Geschichte, für deren Problemstellungen es neue überraschende Lösungen aufzeigt.Karl Popper diskutiert hier die Vor- und Nachteile praxisorientierter Wissenschaft. Er behandelt nicht nur Fragen, ob die Methoden der Naturwissenschaften auf die Sozialwissenschaften übertragen werden können, sondern ebenso Fragen, auf welche Weise eine demokratische Gesellschaft organisiert sein soll, damit die Politik nicht zu großen Schaden anrichtet und ein Höchstmaß an Freiheit garantiert ist.Jeder, der an politischen, soziologischen und historischen Fragestellungen interessiert ist, wird deshalb aus diesem Buch Anregungen und Lösungsvorschläge entnehmen können, die heute noch so aktuell sind wie vor 50 Jahren. Das Buch ist ein Standardwerk der Anwendung wissenschaftlicher Theorien auf die konkrete Praxis."... Mit Nachdruck richtet Popper seine differenzierte und sorgfältig aufgebaute Kritik vor allem gegen die ‚ganzheitliche Betrachtungsweise' der sozialen Welt (‚Holismus'), gegen das ‚intuitive' Verstehen und Deuten geschichtlicher Veränderungen und gegen trügerische historische oder naturwissenschaftlich verbrämte Analogieschlüsse bei den theoretischen und spekulativen Bemühungen um geschichtliche ‚Großprognosen'. ..."Ernst Weymar in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Nr. 246 vom 22.10.1966

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The potato has a larger story to tell than its humble status suggests. In this account of the potato and its role in human history - and the human future - James Lang tells that story. Combining biology and social science, he describes the origins of cultivated potatoes; the many ways to propagate, store, and harvest potatoes; and the crop's potential for feeding a hungry planet. Along the way, Lang also muses on art and agriculture, reflects on famine and demography, describes villagebased farmer field schools, and looks at the role the potato plays in China and other key areas of the world. Native to the New World, the potato was first domesticated by Andean farmers, probably in the Lake Titicaca basin. Full of essential vitamins and energy-giving starch, the potato has proved a valuable world resource. Curious Spaniards took the potato back to Europe, from whence it spread worldwide. Today, the largest potato producer is China, with India not far behind. From the many potato projects he studied, Lang learned a simple, direct lesson: how to address basic problems with practical solutions. Whether the problem is seed production, pest management, genetic improvement, or storage, effective projects must take the diversity imposed by place and by farming traditions as a starting point. In agriculture, one size does not fit all. Notes of a Potato Watcher is a book that anyone interested in food crops and small farms will not want to miss, a book that explains why the potato was not the culprit in the Irish famine, and a book that shows why solutions must begin at home.

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In den hier gesammelten Versuchen und Vorarbeiten skizziert Hubert Cancik die Struktur der römischen Religion und erzählt ihre Geschichten. Er beobachtet die kultische Praxis und erklärt ihre Selbstreflexion, die eigene und die Kritik der anderen, der Griechen, Juden, Christianer. Das räumliche Zentrum dieser Religion und dieser Essays ist die Stadt Rom und die stadtrömische Religionsgeschichte: Denn diese Stadt ist das "Haupt", der "Tempel", der "Verschnitt" der Oekumene. Die Religionsgeschichte der Stadt Rom führt aber eben deshalb immer auf die Religionsgeschichte eines Imperium, das keine Grenze hat in Raum oder Zeit (Vergil). Der zeitliche Schwerpunkt der Aufsätze liegt in der klassischen Epoche, der Kaiserzeit und der Spätantike. Hier zeigt sich die Interaktion der römischen mit der griechischen, jüdischen und christlichen Religion in hervorragenden Texten (Markus, Tacitus, Flavius Josephus, Lukas, Lukian, Apuleius, Augustin). Alle Religionen dieser Epoche entwickeln oder verstärken universalistische Tendenzen. Auf der Grundlage früher und kontinuierlicher italisch-griechischer Kulturkontakte konvergieren unter dem nivellierenden Druck des Imperium die Religionen des Mittelmeerraumes. Es entsteht ein multireligiöses System, das als 'Reichsreligion' verstanden werden kann. Das interreligiöse Gespräch war auch in der Antike selten und schwierig. Fremde Bilder und Riten können Angst auslösen oder transportieren; Vermeidung der anderen Religion ist leichter als ihre Wahrnehmung. Repression, Entsakralisierung, Ästhetisierung sind Folgen dieser Konflikte. Die Geistesgeschichte der römischen Religion interpretiert die "mythische Theologie" der Dichter, die geschichtlichen und philosophischen Reflexionen auf Religion, die Anfänge von Religionsgeschichtsschreibung und Religionswissenschaft.

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The Politics of School Choice is the first comprehensive examination of diverse efforts to promote tax credits, public vouchers, private scholarships, and charter schools. Morken and Formicola provide the most current national report on the burgeoning American school choice movement. They analyze the strategies and tactics being used by a wide variety of individuals and organizations to leverage change, pass laws, win court cases, and mobilize community support to build successful, winning, school choice coalitions. Based largely on extensive interviews, documentary research, and surveys, this book covers the spectrum of school choice options and shows how they are being promoted in the United States today. It explains who the players are, what types of programs they endorse, and the various rationales behind them. The authors report the views of the entrepreneurs, religious leaders, heads of think tanks and foundations, public litigators, scholars, activists, minority leaders, and politicians who are in the forefront of providing parents with resources for educational alternatives. Finally, Morken and Formicola cover the strengths and weaknesses of the school choice issue, concluding that the movement has a wide ranging membership, that is uneven in its implementation, and that it is taking different forms in various regions of the country. As the pace of change accelerates and new school choice programs proliferate, this study is a critical resource for all those concerned about the present and future staus of American education.

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Essays on Heidegger from notable thinkers of the 20th centuryThe work of Martin Heidegger significantly influenced philosophers in the 1900s. Heidegger: A Critical Reader is a collection of writings by those who studied his work, including Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jurgen Habermas, Richard Rorty, and Pierre Bourdieu. It also features essays from modern philosophers who share their own examinations of and thoughts concerning Heidegger's approaches to the philosophy of language, mind, and action.

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Die überarbeitete und aktualisierte 7. Auflage dieses Buches gibt einen Überblick über bewährte und neue Methoden der Proteinbiochemie und Proteomics. Es zeigt Auswege aus experimentellen und strategischen Sackgassen. Zudem weckt es ein Gespür für das richtige Experiment zur richtigen Zeit. Behandelt werden klassische Verfahren wie Säulenchromatographie, HPLC, Elektrophoresen, Blots, ELISA, Ligandenbindungstests, die Herstellung von Antikörpern, das Solubilisieren von Membranproteinen, die Analyse von Glykoproteinen usw. Einen großen Raum nehmen die modernen Verfahren ein: Massenspektrometrie, Proteomics und thermische Analyse. In die 7. Auflage wurden neue Techniken zur Bestimmung der Wechselwirkung von Proteinen mit Proteinen oder von Proteinen mit kleinen Molekülen aufgenommen: DARTS, DRACALA, SPROX und andere. Des weiteren erfahren Sie, wie man mit dem Massenspektrometer eine Bindung misst. Auch Methoden zur Herstellung von Bindungsproteinen gegen bestimmte Zielmoleküle werden vorgestellt: Ribosomen Display und DNA- und Peptid-Aptamer-Techniken. Der Fluoreszenznachweis von Proteinen mit Hilfe von Trihalogenverbindungen durfte nicht fehlen und wer die Stabilität und Faltung von Proteinen messen will, kann hier nachlesen, ob er dazu ein CD-Spektrometer benutzen sollte. Auf die Fortschritte in der HPLC und der Massenspektrometrie von Membranproteinen wird ebenso eingegangen wie auf ihre Rekonstitution in Nanoscheibchen (Nanodiscs). Die Mikrodissektion mit UV-Laser, die isoelektrische Fokussierung in Kapillaren und iTRAQ-Tags werden erklärt. Dazu kommt eine Anzahl neuer Tricks zur Proteinbestimmung, Gelfärbung, Blottechnik, Immunfärbung, Elution aus Gelstückchen etc.

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Die kunsthistorische Forschung und Lehre ist aufs Engste mit der Mediengeschichte verzahnt. Durch die Digitalisierung ergeben sich hier neue Perspektiven. Der Band wirft vor diesem Hintergrund einen differenzierten Blick auf die Vielfalt kunsthistorischer Lehrmedien, indem er nach der Geschichte, den Prämissen, aber auch den Grenzen kunsthistorischer Medienpraxis fragt. Fallstudien widmen sich den unterschiedlichen Medien und ihrer Verwendung für die Wissensproduktion innerhalb der Kunstgeschichte. Beiträge u.a. von Alexandra Axtmann, Peter Bell, Matthias Bruhn, Bernd Carqué, Ortwin Dally, Ute Dercks, Philipp Goldbach, Erkki Huhtamo, Joseph Imorde, Rossella Monaco, Hubert Locher, Maria Männig, Susanne Müller-Bechtel, Robert S. Nelson, Franziska Scheuer, Barbara Schrödl, Andreas Zeising.

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The reading contains selected texts from Augustine's work "De civitate dei". In 410 Rome, the invincible city, was sacked by the Visigoths - but what was the cause of the decline of Rome? For many Romans it was clear: Christianity was to blame. Augustine turns against this accusation and gives us insights into society at the end of the Western Roman Empire and into the political thinking of early Christianity.

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