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Governing Low Profile Issues: A Frame Analysis of Drug Addiction in a Local Setting
Frame analysis was developed by Erving Goffman as a sociological concept, used for understanding how individual actors relate themselves to the world, creating coherent frames out of individual social experiences. We apply frame analysis in the emergent field of sociology of governance, using the example of low profile public issue of drug addiction in a specific local social and political context of a municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in order to understand the roles of governance actors and their social interactions in the attribution of meaning. We focus on mental organization of governance experiences related to drug addiction and the strategic involvement of different governance actors which use given frames. We discuss the importance of frame coherence and ways in which it can be achieved for the low profile issues.Frame Analysis, Sociology of Governance, Low Profile Issues, Frame Coherence
GENOTYPIC VARIATION IN THE ACCUMULATION OF RARE EARTH ELEMENTS (REE) IN PHALARIS ARUNDINACEA L
Rare earth elements (REEs) represent a number of economically valuable elements whose
increasing demand is closely associated with rapidly growing high-tech sectors such as high-tech
electronics and "green energy technologies". In soils REEs are actually not rare but occur
widespread with concentrations comparable to some essential plant nutrients (e.g. Zn). Thus, a
promising chance to improve supply of these resources could be phytomining
Raub- und Beutegut in den Beständen des Bibliothekssystems der Freien Universität Berlin
Der Aufsatz skizziert die derzeitigen Vorstellungen und Bemühungen der
Bibliotheken der Freien Universität Berlin, die Suche nach Raub- und Beutegut
in den eigenen Beständen aktiv auf wissenschaftlichem Niveau zu betreiben.
Zugleich ist es der Versuch, die Komplexität dieses Unterfangens zu umreißen.The following article outlines the present conceptions and endeavours of all
the libraries of “Freie Universität” in Berlin to locate looted property in
their holdings at a professional level. At the same time it is an attempt to
give an idea of the complexity of the task at hand
Charismatic Christianity and Pentecostal churches in Estonia from a historical perspective
Ringo Ringvee, University of Tartu.
Ringo Ringvee is a historian of religion with the special interest in contemporary society. He holds the post of Professor extraordinarius in Comparative Religion at the Theological Institute of the Estonian Evangelical Church, and is also affiliated with the University of Tartu as a member of a research group for religious studies at the Centre of Excellence in Cultural Theory. He has published several articles on the relations between the state and religious associations in contemporary Estonia.This article focuses on the history of Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity in Estonia from the early twentieth century to the early twenty-first century. From the 1870s onwards a series of religious revivals in Estonia created the context for the emergence of the Pentecostal movement in the early twentieth century. Proto-Pentecostalism at the beginning of the century transformed into a fully-fledged Pentecostalism in the 1920s with the involvement of foreign missionaries from Sweden as well as from Finland. The Finnish connection became important in the late 1960s with the emergence of a charismatic Pentecostal revival in the evangelical Christian churches, as well as amongst the Baptists in Tallinn. By the late 1970s the prayer revival had transformed into a healing ministry and this had an impact on the charismatic movement in the Soviet Union. The foreign impact on Pentecostal and charismatic movements in Estonia has also been important from the late 1980s onwards. There has been considerable diversification of the charismatic and Pentecostal traditions in Estonia since the 1990s, and the trends have reflected general changes in charismatic Christianity. Although internally diverse the charismatic Christianity (including the Pentecostals) may well be by now the second largest Protestant tradition in Estonia
Käferbeobachtungen an einem Ulmenhochstubben in Zentralsachsen (Col. div.)
Die Fauna xylobionter Käfer eines in Zentralsachsen stehenden Ulmenstubbens wird vorgestellt. Bemerkungen zur Lebensweise einzelner Arten werden angeführt.The saproxylic beetles observed on an solitary Ulmus in Central Saxony are presented. Furthermore some notices concerning the biology and ecology are given
On the Existence of Characterization Logics and Fundamental Properties of Argumentation Semantics
Given the large variety of existing logical formalisms it is of utmost importance
to select the most adequate one for a specific purpose, e.g. for representing
the knowledge relevant for a particular application or for using the formalism
as a modeling tool for problem solving. Awareness of the nature of a logical
formalism, in other words, of its fundamental intrinsic properties, is indispensable
and provides the basis of an informed choice.
One such intrinsic property of logic-based knowledge representation languages
is the context-dependency of pieces of knowledge. In classical propositional
logic, for example, there is no such context-dependence: whenever two
sets of formulas are equivalent in the sense of having the same models (ordinary
equivalence), then they are mutually replaceable in arbitrary contexts (strong
equivalence). However, a large number of commonly used formalisms are not
like classical logic which leads to a series of interesting developments. It turned
out that sometimes, to characterize strong equivalence in formalism L, we can
use ordinary equivalence in formalism L0: for example, strong equivalence in
normal logic programs under stable models can be characterized by the standard
semantics of the logic of here-and-there. Such results about the existence of
characterizing logics has rightly been recognized as important for the study of
concrete knowledge representation formalisms and raise a fundamental question:
Does every formalism have one? In this thesis, we answer this question
with a qualified “yes”. More precisely, we show that the important case of
considering only finite knowledge bases guarantees the existence of a canonical
characterizing formalism. Furthermore, we argue that those characterizing
formalisms can be seen as classical, monotonic logics which are uniquely determined (up to isomorphism) regarding their model theory.
The other main part of this thesis is devoted to argumentation semantics
which play the flagship role in Dung’s abstract argumentation theory. Almost
all of them are motivated by an easily understandable intuition of what should
be acceptable in the light of conflicts. However, although these intuitions equip
us with short and comprehensible formal definitions it turned out that their
intrinsic properties such as existence and uniqueness, expressibility, replaceability
and verifiability are not that easily accessible. We review the mentioned
properties for almost all semantics available in the literature. In doing so we
include two main axes: namely first, the distinction between extension-based
and labelling-based versions and secondly, the distinction of different kind of
argumentation frameworks such as finite or unrestricted ones
Living Off Dead Premises: The Persistence of Enlightenment Mentalities in the Making of Social Science
Enlightenment beliefs in progress, development, growth, civilizing process and evolution have played a central role in the history of social science. After two world wars, influential scholars like Horkheimer, Adorno and Gehlen came to question Enlightenment premises. Science could no longer be taken as the paradigmatic human activity, as an activity that discovers truth. Yet, in spite of what such critical scientists had declared, enlightenment beliefs persisted in much scientific work. In this article, I endeavour to show to what extent Enlightenment premises underlie and permeate in the works of social scientists, and how the different political attitudes and mentalities of scientists are intricately related to different manifestations of such beliefs. This article provides a narrative of illustrative scholarly works, to show how such different attitudes and mentalities have shaped the making of social science throughout the history of modern politics. The purpose of such an overview of scientists is to rethink the vocation of social science in general, and political science in particular, by problematizing the relationship between science and Enlightenment premises – a relationship that, it is argued, has become more ambiguous in the current epoch
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