Erfolgsfaktoren - Ergebnisse der Metaevaluation von KMU-vital

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Fiction and Pragmatics

This Element outlines current issues in the study of the pragmatics of fiction. It starts from the premise that fictional texts are complex and multi-layered communicative acts which deserve attention in pragmatic research in their own right, and it highlights the need to understand them as cultural artefacts rich in possibilities to explore pragmatic effects and pragmatic theorising. The issues covered are (1) the participation structure of fictional texts, (2) the performance aspect of fictional texts, (3) the interaction between readers and viewers and the fictional texts, as well as (4) the pragmatic effects of drawing on indexical linguistic features for evoking ideologies in characterisation. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core

Fiction and Pragmatics

This Element outlines current issues in the study of the pragmatics of fiction. It starts from the premise that fictional texts are complex and multi-layered communicative acts which deserve attention in pragmatic research in their own right, and it highlights the need to understand them as cultural artefacts rich in possibilities to explore pragmatic effects and pragmatic theorising. The issues covered are (1) the participation structure of fictional texts, (2) the performance aspect of fictional texts, (3) the interaction between readers and viewers and the fictional texts, as well as (4) the pragmatic effects of drawing on indexical linguistic features for evoking ideologies in characterisation. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core

Corpus Pragmatics

This Element discusses the challenges and opportunities that different types of corpora offer for the study of pragmatic phenomena. The focus lies on a hands-on approach to methods and data that provides orientation for methodological decisions. In addition, the Element identifies areas in which new methodological developments are needed in order to make new types of data accessible for pragmatic research. Linguistic corpora are currently undergoing diversification. While one trend is to move towards increasingly large corpora, another trend is to enhance corpora with more specialised and layered annotation. Both these trends offer new challenges and opportunities for the study of pragmatics. This volume provides a practical overview of state-of-the-art corpus-pragmatic methods in relation to different types of corpus data, covering established methods as well as innovative approaches. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core

Validity and reliability in reporting sexual partners and condom use in a Swiss population survey.

To monitor the impact of its AIDS prevention efforts, Switzerland conducts an annual telephone survey about AIDS-related knowledge, attitudes, and preventive behavior in the general population aged 17-45 years. Based upon a test-retest study with additional focused interviews conducted upon a subsample of 138 respondents aged 17-22, the authors report their findings from an investigation of the validity and reliability of indicators of sexual behavior and condom use in those surveys. The initial survey sample was comprised of 2800 respondents aged 17-45 in October 1992. The subsample included more French-speaking respondents and more people in stable relationships than did the initial sample. Survey indicators are the number of lifetime sex partners, casual sex during lifetime and number of casual sex partners during the preceding 6 months, condom use with casual partners during the past 6 months, the acquisition of a new steady partner during the year, condom use with that partner, age at first intercourse, and condom use at last intercourse. These indicators were determined to be highly reliable, although more research is needed on the validity of the data. Among sexually active respondents, 12.5% of the men and 1.9% of women included nonpenetrative sex in their definitions of sexual intercourse. Furthermore, 40% of the 15 respondents who reported consistent condom use with casual sex partners at the initial interview later admitted at reinterview that they sometimes have unprotected sex

Anisotropic and negative thermal expansion behavior in a cellular microstructure

10.1007/s10853-005-2700-6Journal of Materials Science40123275-3277JMTS

What drives environmental impacts of fertilizers produced from fish wastes?

The worldwide fish consumption has more than doubled between 1961 (9 kg per capita) and 2019 (20.5 kg) (FAO, 2022) The production in the EU amounted to 5.7 million tonnes of products from catches and aquaculture in 2018 (European Commission, 2020). Of this amount, approximately 25% – 35% is discarded as waste with variable nutrient composition and water content without further valorisation (Villamil et al., 2017). To evaluate the feasibility of producing bio-based fertilizers from the macro nutrients contained in these wastes, the Horizon2020 project Sea2Land piloted different technologies. Their environmental performance was analysed with a cradle to factory gate life cycle assessment (LCA) at two stages of production: pilot stage and industrial stage. The sidestreams were assumed to be burden-free. First results identify the main environmental hotspots, at both stages, to be the implemented concentration and drying processes such as membrane filtration or spray drying, the transport of the raw materials and the packaging of the final product. On the other hand, machines do generally not contribute much to environmental impacts and factory buildings’ contribution is mainly at pilot level and with regard to mineral resources use. To lower the environmental impacts of bio-based fertilisers from fish waste, the concentration of sidestreams should be improved by using of more efficient technologies (e.g. with heat recovery) or alternative energy sources. Secondly, the production needs to be in close geographic distance of the source of the fish waste generation and the amount of packaging materials should be minimized