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Signaling of Pigment-Dispersing Factor (PDF) in the Madeira Cockroach Rhyparobia maderae
(2014)
The insect neuropeptide pigment-dispersing factor (PDF) is a functional ortholog of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide, the coupling factor of the mammalian circadian pacemaker. Despite of PDF's importance for synchronized circadian locomotor activity rhythms its signaling is not well understood. We studied PDF signaling in primary cell cultures of the accessory medulla, the circadian pacemaker of the Madeira cockroach. In Ca2+ imaging studies four types of PDF-responses were distinguished. In regularly bursting type ...
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Competing Wind Energy Discourses, Contested Landscapes
(2014-10-13)
The impairment of landscapes is a concern constantly raised against wind energy developments in Germany as in other countries. Often, landscapes or landscape types are treated in the literature as essentialist or at least as uncontested categories. We analyse two examples of local controversies about wind energy, in which “landscape” is employed by supporters and opponents alike, from a poststructuralist and discourse theoretical angle. The aim is to identify and compare landscape constructs produced in the micro ...
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Left preference for sport tasks does not necessarily indicate left-handedness
(2014)
In the elite domain of interactive sports, athletes who demonstrate a left preference (e.g., holding a weapon with the left hand in fencing or boxing in a ‘southpaw’ stance) seem overrepresented. Such excess indicates a performance advantage and was also interpreted as evidence in favour of frequency-dependent selection mechanisms to explain the maintenance of left-handedness in humans. To test for an overrepresentation, the incidence of athletes’ lateral preferences is typically compared with an expected ratio of ...
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Sprachwissenschaft als Kulturwissenschaft aus romanistischer Sicht: Das Beispiel der kontrastiven Pragmatik
(2014-03-01)
One of the central questions of pragmalinguistics is the distinction between linguistic structures and cultural norms that guide the usage of these structures in verbal interaction. is distinction is especially important for contrastive pragmatics, which analyses the interfaces of different languages and cultures. In order to draw a clear line between linguistic and cultural differences in patterns of interaction, contrastive pragmatics needs a methodological framework that is centred around a precise analytical ...
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"... dass sich Herrn Mozarts Gesicht immer wieder veränderte"
(2014)
Das Mozart-Bild in der Kinderliteratur hat sich signifikant gewandelt. Finden sich in den frühen Texten der 1940er und 50er Jahre weihevolle und pathetische Darstellungen im Gewand historischer Erzählungen, so dominieren ab den 1980er Jahren fantastische Zeitreisen ins 18. Jahrhundert, die dem Kind Mozart auf Augenhöhe begegnen. Nicht mehr die Verklärung des Wunderkindes steht in diesen neueren Arbeiten im Vordergrund, sondern der Versuch einer Erklärung. Vor allem in der Mozart-Kinderliteratur, die um das Jubiläumsjahr ...
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Climate-Adaptive Community Water Management for Food Security: Experiences from the UNDP Community Water Initiative
(Department of Organic Food Quality and Food Culture at the University of Kassel, Germany and Federation of German Scientists (VDW), 2014-06-10)
Facing the double menace of climate change threats and water crisis, poor communities have now encountered ever more severe challenges in ensuring agricultural productivity and food security. Communities hence have to manage these challenges by adopting a comprehensive approach that not only enhances water resource management, but also adapts agricultural activities to climate variability. Implemented by the Global Environment Facility’s Small Grants Programme, the Community Water Initiative (CWI) has adopted a ...