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Technomoral Resilience as a Goal of Moral Education
In today’s highly dynamic societies, moral norms and values are subject to change. Moral change is partly driven by technological developments. For instance, the introduction of robots in elderly care practices requires caregivers to share moral responsibility with a robot (see van Wynsberghe 2013). Since we do not know what elements of morality will change and how they will change (see van der Burg 2003), moral education should aim at fostering what has been called “moral resilience” (Swierstra 2013). We seek to fill two gaps in the existing literature: (i) research on moral education has not paid enough attention to the development of moral resilience; (ii) the very limited literature on moral resilience does not conceptualise moral resilience in relation to new technological developments. We argue that philosophical accounts of moral education need to do justice to the importance of moral resilience, and that a specific form of moral resilience should be conceptualised as “technomoral resilience” to underline the added value of cultivating moral resilience in relation to technomoral change. We illustrate the role of technomoral resilience in practice by looking at the context of elderly care. To make the first step towards an account of how technomoral resilience can be fostered in moral education, we propose that moral education shall focus on a triangle of capacities: (1) moral imagination, (2) a capacity for critical reflection, and (3) a capacity for maintaining one’s moral agency in the face of disturbances
Zur Geschlechtsspezifik der Arbeitszeitformen, der Arbeitszeitwünsche und der Zeitverwendung bei den abhängig Beschäftigten (On the gender-specific features of types of working hours, wishes regarding working hours and on the utilisation of time among employees in dependent employment)
"Within the framework of the survey of working hours which has been supported financially by the Ministry for Labour, Health and Social Affairs in Nord-Rhein Westphalen since 1987, the ISO has so far carried out four representative employment surveys. The most recent of these surveys, carried out in 1995, included for the first time workers in the new federal states. 4,085 people in dependent employment aged between 18 and 65 were asked questions about the structure of their working hours, their desires regarding working hours and on the way they spent their time outside work. The study verifies a strong growth of different types of flexible working hours in western and eastern Germany. In western Germany only 17% of people in dependent employment still work under the conditions of normal standard working hours; in eastern Germany it is still 25%. In the area of so-called 'traditional' forms of flexibilisation of working hours, such as shift work, night work, weekend work and overtime, there are hardly any differences between western and eastern Germany. The differences only appear in the 'new' types of flexibilisation such as flexi-time and part-time work. Patterns of labour force participation and wishes regarding working hours show clear gender- specific differences, in particular among employed people living in two-person households. The results regarding utilisation of time show that the allocation of social work continues to follow the traditional division of roles, according to which women undertake the bulk of the informal work (housework, care of children etc.) and men work more intensively in the area of formal work (gainful employment). If there are children in the household, this usually leads to a reduction in the number of hours in gainful employment for women, but for men on the other hand sometimes to an extension of their full-time work (overtime). In this respect, however, differences can be determined between western and eastern Germany: whereas for western German women part-time employment seems to be accepted to a great extent as a means of combining work and family, this form of employment is seen by eastern German women to be at best a temporary solution, as they still orientate themselves towards continuous full-time employment. In spite of this stronger orientation towards employment and the higher ratio of full-time workers among eastern German women, there are also clear gender-specific features in eastern Germany with regard to the allocation of social work: men do more formal work, women more informal work. The doubtful nature of traditional gender-specific features lies in the fact that as a result of these features, women are permanently at a disadvantage with regard to their interests in gainful employment when they have a child. Women's attempts to compensate for these disadvantages individually by remaining in the employment system for the greatest possible amount of time lead to double burdens and a lack of time. The present situation can best be described as anomic: the traditional gender-specific features show numerous functional deficits and gender-specific disadvantages; however new forms of division of work which open up the same opportunities on the labour market for women and men with children are not yet in sight, let alone seriously established." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))Arbeitszeitentwicklung, Arbeitszeitgestaltung, Arbeitszeitflexibilität, Zeitverwendung, Erwerbsbeteiligung, Arbeitszeitwunsch, Beruf und Familie, geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren, Westdeutschland, Ostdeutschland, Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Gd3+ rattling triggered by a "weak" M-I transition at 140-160 K in the Ce1-xGdxFe4$P12 x ~ 0.001 skutterudite compounds: an ESR study
In this work we report electron spin resonance (ESR) measurements in the
semiconducting Ce1-xGdxFe4P12 (x ~ 0.001) filled skutterudite compounds.
Investigation of the temperature (T) dependence of the ESR spectra and
relaxation process suggests, that in the T-interval of 140-160 K, the onset of
a "weak" metal-insulator (M-I) transition takes place due to the increasing
density of thermally activated carriers across the semiconducting gap of ~ 1500
K. In addition, the observed low-T fine and hyperfine structures start to
collapse at ~ 140 K and is completely absent for > 160 K. We claim that the
increasing carrier density is able to trigger the rattling of the Gd3+ ions
which in turn is responsible, via a motional narrowing mechanism, for the
collapse of the ESR spectra.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figures, presented at QCNP2009, to appear in pss
Science-Policy Interactions in a Corporatist System: Knowledge Brokerage in Austrian Climate Policy
Climate change policy is a prime example for the growing importance of expert
ad-vice to inform decision‐making. Consequently, a plethora of advisory bodies
and pro-cesses have emerged around the world. However, there are marked
differences in the way the interactions between science and politics are
organized and practiced depending on a country’s political system and culture.
The degree of political compe-tition, the role of state vis-à-vis non-state
actors and the dominant modes of interest mediation provide specific
conditions for the ways expertise is consulted and used in decision-making.
Against this background, the paper presents the landscape of scientific advice
in Austrian climate policy and asks in how far the traditionally strong
culture of corporat-ism in Austrian politics manifests itself in practices of
climate policy advice. Concep-tually, the paper draws on analytical dimensions
derived from the concepts of “na-tional styles of policy-making” and “civic
epistemology”. Methodically it bases on an interview series and a workshop
with representatives from science, politics, and in-termediary organizations.
Our analysis provides a differentiated picture: the neo-corporatist culture
still leaves its imprint in Austrian climate policy advice. But at the same
time, the emergence of a new policy field, such as climate policy, undoubtedly
opens up possibilities for new actors and forms of policy advice
Recombinant hirudin for extended aortic surgery in patients with heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
AbstractJ Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1999;118:191-
Single‐Molecule Manipulation in Zero‐Mode Waveguides
The mechanobiology of receptor–ligand interactions and force‐induced enzymatic turnover can be revealed by simultaneous measurements of force response and fluorescence. Investigations at physiologically relevant high labeled substrate concentrations require total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy or zero mode waveguides (ZMWs), which are difficult to combine with atomic force microscopy (AFM). A fully automatized workflow is established to manipulate single molecules inside ZMWs autonomously with noninvasive cantilever tip localization. A protein model system comprising a receptor–ligand pair of streptavidin blocked with a biotin‐tagged ligand is introduced. The ligand is pulled out of streptavidin by an AFM cantilever leaving the receptor vacant for reoccupation by freely diffusing fluorescently labeled biotin, which can be detected in single‐molecule fluorescence concurrently to study rebinding rates. This work illustrates the potential of the seamless fusion of these two powerful single‐molecule techniques
A combined laser-based ARPES and 2PPES study of Td-WTe
Laser-based angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and two-photon
photoemission spectroscopy (2PPES) are employed to study the valence electronic
structure of the Weyl semimetal candidate Td-WTe along two high symmetry
directions and for binding energies between -1 eV and 5 eV. The
experimental data show a good agreement with band structure calculations.
Polarization dependent measurements provide furthermore information on initial
and intermediate state symmetry properties with respect to the mirror plane of
the Td structure of WTe
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