Schreiben Englisch

Das DESI-Modul semikreatives Schreiben dient der Erfassung der Fähigkeit des task-orientierten Schreibens in der Fremdsprache (vgl. Harsch/Lehmann/Neuma/Schröder 2007). Dabei sollen den Schülerinnen und Schülern bei gleichzeitiger Lenkung möglichst große kommunikative Freiräume geboten werden. Das Testkonstrukt Schreiben Englisch ist in Analogie zum Konstrukt der Textproduktion Deutsch dreifach verortet in der linguistischen Text- und Schreibprozessforschung sowie in der didaktischen Forschung zur Schreibentwicklung, in der Analyse der relevanten Curricula aller Schularten und Bundesländer und in der empirischen Forschung zur Aufsatzbewertung. (DIPF/Orig.

Réquiem para Gerstäcker, o inquieto solitário

Friedrich Gerstäcker foi um viajante e escritor alemão. Nasceu em Hamburgo em 1816 e dedicou sua vida a explorar as colônias do novo mundo, escrevendo diversas obras com foco principal na imigração alemã durante o século XIX e nas consequências desse movimento para o povo alemão. Antes de iniciar sua carreira como escritor, Gerstäcker viajou pelas Américas e por diversos outros países, conheceu de perto a vida dos imigrantes e viu na sua escrita uma forma de colaborar para a divulgação de informações acerca das questões envolvidas no processo de imigração. A coletânea de suas obras compreende mais de quarenta volumes; somente sobre a imigração alemã no Brasil, escreveu três obras − todas publicadas na Alemanha na década de sessenta do século XIX. Contudo, só muito recentemente uma dessas obras foi traduzida para o português e publicada no Brasil. Neste trabalho, pretendemos destacar a importância desse autor dentro do polissistema literário brasileiro e discutir os motivos e as possíveis consequências do seu esquecimento

Skin temperature and reproductive condition in wild female chimpanzees

The research was supported by a Fyssen fellowship awarded to Guillaume Dezecache, and has received funding from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under grant agreement (No 283871)Infrared thermal imaging has emerged as a valuable tool in veterinary medicine, in particular for evaluating reproductive processes. Here, we explored differences in skin temperature of twenty female chimpanzees in Budongo Forest, Uganda, four of which were pregnant during data collection. Based on previous literature in other mammals, we predicted increased skin temperature of maximally swollen reproductive organs of nonpregnant females when approaching peak fertility. For pregnant females, we made the same prediction because it has been argued that female chimpanzees have evolved mechanisms to conceal pregnancy, including swellings of the reproductive organs, conspicuous copulation calling, and solicitation of male mating behaviour, to decrease the infanticidal tendencies of resident males by confusing paternity. For non-pregnant females, we found slight temperature increases towards the end of the swelling cycles but no significant change between the fertile and non-fertile phases. Despite their different reproductive state, pregnant females had very similar skin temperature patterns compared to non-pregnant females, suggesting little potential for males to use skin temperature to recognise pregnancies, especially during maximal swelling, when ovulation is most likely to occur in non-pregnant females. We discuss this pattern in light of the concealment hypothesis, i.e., that female chimpanzees have evolved physiological means to conceal their reproductive state during pregnancyPublisher PDFPeer reviewe

A new late Cenozoic species of Abertella (Echinoidea: Clypeasteroida) from Patagonia

A new species of abertellid sand dollar, Abertella miskellyi n. sp., is described from the Miocene Camarones Formation of Patagonia, southern Argentina. The new taxon corroborates the existence of the genus in South America, given that Abertella is most common in the southeastern USA and the eastern coast of Central America. It is characterized by a unique basicoronal circle, in which the interambulacral basicoronal plates are very heterogeneous in size (small in interambulacrum 5, largest in interambulacra 2 and 3). Additionally, it features disjunct oral interambulacra involving two ambulacral plates in some of the interambulacra rather than one, thus being the most disjunct of all known species of Abertella. A key to the species of the genus is provided.Fil: Kroh, Andreas. Naturhistorisches Museum Wien; AustriaFil: Mooi, Rich. California Academy of Sciences. Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Geology; Estados UnidosFil: del Rio, Claudia Julia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Parque Centenario. Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales; ArgentinaFil: Neumann, Christian. Museum für Naturkunde. Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity; Alemani