Learning in Collaborative Moments

In this article, we describe experiences with dialogue evenings within a research collaboration on long-term care and dementia in the Netherlands. What started as a conventional process of ‘reporting back’ to interlocutors transformed over the course of two years into learning and knowing together. We argue that learning took place in three different articulations. First, participants learnt to expand their notion of knowledge. Second, they learnt to relate differently to each other and, therewith, to dementia. And third, participants learnt how to generate knowledge with each other. We further argue that these processes did not happen continuously, but in moments. We suggest that a framework of collaborative moments can be helpful for research projects that are not set up collaboratively from the start. Furthermore, we point to the work required to facilitate these moments.</jats:p

Entwicklung und Validierung eines Modells zur energetischen Moderinisierung des Deutschen Museums

Im Rahmen des Forschungsprojektes „Nachhaltige Sanierung von Museumsbauten“ werden in ganz Deutschland bedeutende Museumsbauten auf ihren Sanierungbedarf und Sanierungsmöglichkeiten hin untersucht. Innerhalb dieses Projektes wurde am Deutschen Museum in München die Abteilung Informatik und Mikroelektronik sowohl messtechnisch, als auch simulatorisch untersucht, n dessen Rahmen ein Modell, als Grundlage für die Empfehlungen zur energetischen Sanierung entwickelt wurde. Im Beitrag sind sowohl die verwendeten Methoden als auch die aus der Validierung gewonnen Erkenntnisse und vorgeschlagenen Modernisierungsvarianten dargestellt.41441

Shifting uncertainties in the pre-diagnostic trajectory of early-onset dementia

This article argues that people with early-onset dementia and their family members experience shifts when it comes to dealing with uncertainty in the pre-diagnostic illness trajectory. The empirical data show that these shifts follow three patterns. Upon the appearance of first symptoms, people with early-onset dementia and their family members, in a collaborative effort, maintain uncertainty in order to continue living the lives they know. Following this, various explanations, all with a temporal character, are sought to explain changed behaviour. Finally, when relationships are threatened or health is perceived to be at stake, people seriously start to seek medical advice. This article is based on 41 qualitative interviews with seven people with early-onset dementia and 39 family members in the Netherlands, conducted between 2014 and 2015. Interviews were transcribed, coded and analysed identifying key topics

Rib fractures at postmortem computed tomography (PMCT) validated against the autopsy

To evaluate the sensitivity of postmortem computed tomography (PMCT) in rib fracture detection validated against autopsy. Fifty-one forensic cases underwent a postmortem CT prior to forensic autopsy. Two image readers (radiologist and forensic pathologist) assessed high resolution CT data sets for rib fractures. Correct recognition rates (CRR), sensitivity and specificity values were calculated over all observations as well as individually for every rib and region. Additionally, for partial rib fractures the sensitivity of autopsy was calculated vice versa. 3876 entries in each study protocol (autopsy, PMCT radiologist and PMCT forensic pathologist) were investigated. A total of 690 fractures (autopsy), 491 (PMCT and radiologist) and 559 (PMCT and forensic pathologist) were detected. The CRR was 0.85. Sensitivity and specificity of PMCT for rib fracture detection were 0.63 (0.58 radiologist, 0.68 forensic pathologist) and 0.97 (both readers 0.97), respectively. Low CRR and sensitivity values were obtained for antero-lateral fractures. Partial rib fractures were better detected by PMCT. PMCT has a rather low sensitivity for rib fracture detection when validated against autopsy and indicates that clinical CT may also demonstrate a reasonable number of false negatives. Partial rib fractures often remain undetected at autopsy

Beruf(ung) DaF/DaZ Band 2

Prof. Dr. Uwe Koreik has played a decisive role in shaping the subject of German as a Foreign and Second Language in academic and institutional terms over the past decades. Under the title Beruf(ung) DaF/DaZ, which reflects Uwe Koreik's decades of commitment to the subject and the people associated with it, the commemorative publication for him on the occasion of his 65th birthday is now available. It combines 24 academic contributions and 16 vignettes in two volumes. The academic contributions, written by renowned representatives of the field, trace Uwe Koreik's academic career and address topics from his fields of work and research: Cultural Studies, Film and Literature, Places of Remembrance as well as the field of testing and examination. The vignettes from colleagues, companions and friends also take a look at the human side of Uwe Koreik in humorous and anecdotal form