Others of My Kind

From the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s, a group of transgender people on both sides of the Atlantic created communities that profoundly shaped the history and study of gender identity. By exchanging letters and pictures among themselves they established private networks of affirmation and trust, and by submitting their stories and photographs to medical journals and popular magazines they sought to educate both doctors and the public. Others of My Kind draws on archives in Europe and North America to tell the story of this remarkable transatlantic transgender community. This book uncovers threads of connection between Germany, the United States, and the Netherlands to discover the people who influenced the work of authorities like Magnus Hirschfeld, Harry Benjamin, and Alfred Kinsey not only with their clinical presentations, but also with their personal relationships. It explores the ethical and analytical challenges that come with the study of what was once private, secret, or unacceptable to say. With more than 180 colour and black and white illustrations, including many stunning, previously unpublished photographs, Others of My Kind celebrates the faces, lives, and personal networks of those who drove twentieth-century transgender history

Recommendations for the Open Access Transition: Strategic and practical anchorage of Open Access in informational provisioning of research institutions; Recommendations of the Ad-hoc-group Open-Access-Gold in the priority initiative “Digital Information” of the Alliance of Science Organizations in Germany

The following “Recommendations for Open Access transition” have been compiled by the Ad-hoc workgroup “Open-Access-Gold” in the priority initiative “Digital Information” of the Alliance of Science Organizations in Germany . They are based on “Positions on creating an Open Access publication market which is scholarly adequate” as mapped out by the workgroup. They mainly address academic libraries as well as publishing houses and other actors in the field of scientific publishing. The recommendations are designed to help find orientation for strategic and practical anchorage of Open Access in the information provisioning of scholarly institutions

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Rezension zu: 1) Bender Walter/Zech, Rainer (Hrsg.): ... denn sie wissen, was sie tun! Auf dem Weg zur selbstreflexiven Organisation. Fallstudien zur Qualitätsentwicklung. Schriftenreihe für kritische Sozialforschung und Bildungsarbeit, Bd. 12. Hannover: Espressum Verl. 2007. ISBN 978-3-89069-014-8. 2) Göhlich, Michael; Wulf, Christoph; Zirfas, Jörg (Hrsg.): Pädagogische Theorien des Lernens. Weinheim: Beltz 2007. ISBN 978-3-407-32072-8. 3) Göhlich, Michael; König, Eckard; Schwarzer, Christine (Hrsg.): Beratung, Macht und organisationales Lernen. Wiesbaden: VS Verl. f. Sozialwiss. 2007. ISBN 978-3-531-15360-5. 4) Heimbach-Steins, Marianne; Kruip, Gerhard; Kunze, Axel Bernd: Das Menschenrecht auf Bildung und seine Umsetzung in Deutschland. Diagnose – Reflexionen – Perspektiven. Bielefeld: W. Bertelsmann 2007. ISBN 978-3-7639-3542-0. 5) Pallasch, Waldemar; Hameyer, Uwe: Lerncoaching - theoretische Grundlage und Praxisbeispiele zu einer didaktischen Herausforderung. Weinheim: Juventa 2008. ISBN 978-3-7799-2136-3. 6) Tippelt, Rudolf; Reich, Jutta; Hippel, Aiga v.; Barz, Heiner; Baum, Dajana: Weiterbildung und soziale Milieus in Deutschland. Bd. 3, Milieumarketing implementieren. Bielefeld: W. Bertelsmann 2008. ISBN 978-3-7639-1943-7. 7) Tödt, Katia: Lernerorientierte Qualitätstestierung für Bildungsveranstaltungen (LQB). Bielefeld: W. Bertelsmann 2008. ISBN 978-3-7639-3625-0. 8) Walber, Markus: Selbststeuerung im Lernprozess und Erkenntniskonstruktion: eine empirische Studie in der Weiterbildung. Münster: Waxmann 2007. ISBN 978-3-8309-1888-2. 9) Weil, Markus: Weiterbildungskooperation in KMU: eine Perspektive für berufs- und wirtschaftspädagogische Konzepte. Bern: h.e.p. Verl. 2006. ISBN 3-03905-234-9

Response of Submerged Macrophyte Communities to External and Internal Restoration Measures in North Temperate Shallow Lakes

Submerged macrophytes play a key role in north temperate shallow lakes by stabilising clear-water conditions. Eutrophication has resulted in macrophyte loss and shifts to turbid conditions in many lakes. Considerable efforts have been devoted to shallow lake restoration in many countries, but long-term success depends on a stable recovery of submerged macrophytes. However, recovery patterns vary widely and remain to be fully understood. We hypothesize that reduced external nutrient loading leads to an intermediate recovery state with clear spring and turbid summer conditions similar to the pattern described for eutrophication. In contrast, lake internal restoration measures can result in transient clear-water conditions both in spring and summer and reversals to turbid conditions. Furthermore, we hypothesize that these contrasting restoration measures result in different macrophyte species composition, with added implications for seasonal dynamics due to differences in plant traits. To test these hypotheses, we analysed data on water quality and submerged macrophytes from 49 north temperate shallow lakes that were in a turbid state and subjected to restoration measures. To study the dynamics of macrophytes during nutrient load reduction, we adapted the ecosystem model PCLake. Our survey and model simulations revealed the existence of an intermediate recovery state upon reduced external nutrient loading, characterised by spring clear-water phases and turbid summers, whereas internal lake restoration measures often resulted in clear-water conditions in spring and summer with returns to turbid conditions after some years. External and internal lake restoration measures resulted in different macrophyte communities. The intermediate recovery state following reduced nutrient loading is characterised by a few macrophyte species (mainly pondweeds) that can resist wave action allowing survival in shallow areas, germinate early in spring, have energy-rich vegetative propagules facilitating rapid initial growth and that can complete their life cycle by early summer. Later in the growing season these plants are, according to our simulations, outcompeted by periphyton, leading to late-summer phytoplankton blooms. Internal lake restoration measures often coincide with a rapid but transient colonisation by hornworts, waterweeds or charophytes. Stable clear-water conditions and a diverse macrophyte flora only occurred decades after external nutrient load reduction or when measures were combined.Additional co-authors: Wolf M. Mooij, Ruurd Noordhuis, Geoff Phillips, Jacqueline Rücker, Hans-Heinrich Schuster, Martin Søndergaard, Sven Teurlincx, Klaus van de Weyer, Ellen van Donk, Arno Waterstraat and Carl D. Saye

Resting-state functional connectivity remains unaffected by preceding exposure to aversive visual stimuli

While much is known about immediate brain activity changes induced by the confrontation with emotional stimuli, the subsequent temporal unfolding of emotions has yet to be explored. To investigate whether exposure to emotionally aversive pictures affects subsequent resting-state networks differently from exposure to neutral pictures, a resting-state fMRI study implementing a two-group repeated-measures design in healthy young adults (N = 34) was conducted. We focused on investigating (i) patterns of amygdala whole-brain and hippocampus connectivity in both a seed-to-voxel and seed-to-seed approach, (ii) whole-brain resting-state networks with an independent component analysis coupled with dual regression, and (iii) the amygdala's fractional amplitude of low frequency fluctuations, all while EEG recording potential fluctuations in vigilance. In spite of the successful emotion induction, as demonstrated by stimuli rating and a memory-facilitating effect of negative emotionality, none of the resting-state measures was differentially affected by picture valence. In conclusion, resting-state networks connectivity as well as the amygdala's low frequency oscillations appear to be unaffected by preceding exposure to widely used emotionally aversive visual stimuli in healthy young adults

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