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Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to announce the panel "Iconography of War," which will be held as part of the War in the Ancient World International Conference (May 20-25, 2025), taking place simultaneously in Münster (Germany) and Duluth (Minnesota, USA). We particularly encourage participation from researchers at all stages of their careers, esp...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has profoundly transformed numerous facets of both private and professional life. Understanding how people evaluate AI is crucial for predicting its future adoption and addressing potential barriers. However, existing instruments measuring attitudes towards AI often focus on specific technologies or cross-domain evaluat...

In the framework of this Conference, we are pleased to invite submissions for a transcontinental panel on the Iconography of War. This panel seeks to explore artistic representations of war and conflict in ancient civilizations, with a particular emphasis on the Greco-Roman world but also including the ancient Near East, ancient Egypt, and all surr...

This article explores the link between anti-gender mobilization and the mainstreaming of the far right. It addresses the question of to what extent and how the far right allies with 'mainstream' actors in the context of anti-gender protest. Drawing from a social movement approach, the article contributes a novel operationalization of the mainstream...

Understanding bicycle parking behavior is essential when planning bicycle parking facilities. This is necessary in order to meet the needs of cyclists, to effectively promote cycling, and to prevent fly parking of bicycles. Therefore, this paper analyzes cyclists' parking preferences regarding the type and placement of bicycle parking facilities. T...

Working conditions in the field of early childhood education and care (ECEC) changed significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic. To understand how these changes affected preschool teachers, a longitudinal study was conducted in Germany from September 2020 to February 2022, a period that covers different phases of the global health crisis. Multileve...

This book has been compiled with the aim of providing comprehensive guidance for the design of sports club websites. In this book, the alphabet of the website and the needs of sports clubs for the website and topics such as how to design an attractive user interface, choosing useful content, optimization solutions for search engines and methods of...

We study a policy introducing diagnosis related payment for inpatient mental health care in Germany with rates decreasing over length of stay. Using data on all hospital cases, we first examine which hospitals voluntarily opt into the new scheme. We show that specialized hospitals that treat more complicated cases and are reimbursed more highly und...

A large temnospondyl specimen from a lacustrine deposit of the early Permian Sperbersbach Lake horizon is recognized as a distinct new species , Memonomenos amelangi nov. sp. In addition to the type specimen (skull length 24.5 cm), two larval specimens were found that document the early stages of ontogeny. M. amelangi is referred to the genus Memo...

This paper is a proposal from the "Council for the Revival of the Spirit of Balakot" to the Constitutional Reform Commission, Bangladesh. Marjan Ahmad Chowdhury, a PhD researcher at the University of Erfurt, Germany, drafted the paper. The paper presents the proposals from an Islamic perspective.

In the Early Permian, amniotes – as those tetrapods with a completed transition to land – include stem reptiles and early mammalian precursors of the “pelycosaur” grade, presumably also diadectids. All three groups are known from the Thuringian Forest. In addition to the Bromacker site (Tambach Formation), amniote body fossils are also known from t...

Abstract Purpose/Objective: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of treatment couch and immobilization devices on surface dose for megavoltage photon beams. Material/Methods: Percentage surface dose (PSD) measurement was carried out in Elekta Synergy™ Linear accelerator using PTW Markus® Parallel plate ionization chamber of vol...

Background Specialized outpatient palliative care (SAPV) is a component of palliative care in Germany, which assists approximately 10% of palliative patients. The majority of these patients have a malignant disease and are at increased risk of complications or severe infection. Antibiotic stewardship (ABS) measures are implemented to optimize antib...

Industrial policy has regained political attention due to the challenges associated with global market integration, technological changes, and the need for sustainable transformation. However, the lack of a consistent understanding of industrial policy hampers systematic comparisons. This paper develops a novel concept of industrial policy portfoli...

Health care disruptions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic have caused persistent decreases in human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination uptake in Germany. The objective of this study was to estimate the cumulative deficit in first doses of the HPV vaccine administered to girls in Germany since the beginning of the pandemic and the projected time t...

The CONUS experiment aims to detect coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE $$\nu $$ ν NS) of reactor antineutrinos on germanium nuclei in the fully coherent regime, continuing on this way the CONUS physics program started at the Brokdorf nuclear power plant, Germany. The CONUS setup is installed in the nuclear power plant in Leibstadt, Sw...

This paper derives from new work on Mesolithic human skeletal material from Strøby Egede, a near coastal site in eastern Sjælland, with two foci. The first confirms sex identifications from original work carried out in 1986. The second, and central focus, re-examines comments by one of us (CM) based on work in 1992, and a new statistical analysis i...

Abstract: Rediscovery of Potamanthus luteus luteus (Linnaeus, 1767) in the Saarland (Insecta: Ephemeroptera: Potamanthidae). The mayfly Potamanthus luteus luteus (Linnaeus, 1767) was rediscovered in the river Saar at the Hanweiler Weir in 2023 after more than 30 years in the Saarland, Germany. The circumstances of the finding are outlined. Furtherm...

Since 2005, there has been an increase in the sharing of functions between the central places of the federal states in Germany. Especially in light of the demographic and structural changes in rural regions, function-sharing city alliances are essential to secure the provision of services of general interest. As part of a central place system, func...

SITES OF TENSION OF MEMORY OF THE HOLOCAUST IN POLAND IN THE CONTEXT OF TENDENCIES IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE Many researchers, among them Jacques Le Goff, have stressed the significance of memory of the past as a determinant in the struggle for power and in creating collective identities. This text evolved on the basis of qualitative studies undertake...

Introduction: Antimicrobial resistance poses a significant global health threat, partly due to the overprescription of antibiotics. Understanding prescribers’ behaviors and identifying knowledge gaps and misconceptions are essential for addressing antibiotic misuse and inappropriate use. Methods: Through online questionnaires, this study surveyed k...

The aim of the KiBis study is to identify relevant factors influencing the linguistic development of primary school children in Germany who are growing up multilingual. Of particular interest is the transition from oral to written language. The success of this transition is considered to be one of the basic prerequisites for educational success in...

Many studies point to the relevance of school leaders' self-efficacy for the successful organisation and management of schools. However, to date, there are only a few findings on which factors have a positive influence on this characteristic. This study therefore examines the extent to which the use of formal and informal learning opportunities, in...

In the present longitudinal study, we investigated whether reasons for smartphone use, such as “search for positive emotions” and “escape from negative emotions,” can mediate the relationship between depression symptoms, fear of missing out (FOMO), and problematic smartphone use (PSU). In total, 309 smartphone users from Germany (Mage = 28.88, SDag...

Abstrak Artikel ini membahas perbedaan sistem pendidikan di Jerman dan Turki. Selain itu, artikel ini akan membahas manajemen pendidikan, kurikulum, materi, dan sistem penilaian pada lembaga pendidikan. Adapun tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui apa saja perbedaan-perbedaan sistem pendidikan di Jerman dan Turki. Selain itu, artikel i...

The influence of ball burnishing on friction and wear at elevated temperatures under fretting conditions has not yet been reported. Fretting experiments were conducted using the Optimol SRV5 tester (Optimol Instruments, Munich, Germany) under dry gross fretting conditions. A ball of WC ceramic was pressed against a disc from the titanium alloy Ti6A...

A modernisation-and individualisation-induced loss of trust, membership, and voters has been addressed in party research for a while. However, social theory authors such as Beck, Bauman, Sennett, and Taylor have pointed to further or-ganisational dilemmas that have not been addressed in depth: a. That demands for flexibility, individualisation and...

The spherical Couette system consists of two differentially rotating concentric spheres with the space in between filled with fluid. We study a regime where the outer sphere is rotating rapidly enough so that the Coriolis force is important and the inner sphere is rotating either slower or in the opposite direction with respect to the outer sphere....

Despite the importance of subject choice for later education and the occupational career, we know little about the development of girls’ and boys’ mathematics and language performance during their secondary education. This paper aims to fill this gap and describes the gender-specific development of mathematics and language performance—in terms of g...

In European contexts, such as Germany, Muslim women's interest in Islamic feminism has steadily increased over the past two decades. However, secular feminist thought is biased toward religious feminisms. I argue that this results from the secular/religious divide and its epistemic foundations in European thought. As a consequence, religion operate...

In Lester Salamon’s seminal Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project (CNP), religious communities (as opposed to faith-based charities) were excluded on the grounds that the issue of whether they actually formed part of the Third Sector—or, as one began to say in the 1990s—civil society, had not yet been sufficiently explored. It was clea...

The collapse of communism and with it the end of the Cold War and the reunification of Germany everywhere in the West, had created the illusion of the "End of History". This illusion had no way of feeding the following illusion - about the so-called natural process of social transfer from communism ala Soviet-Russian to liberal democracy. This enti...

Dieses Positionspapier des Fachbereichs Digital Public Health der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Public Health e. V. definiert Digital Public Health (DiPH) und beschreibt deren Ziele sowie Potenziale. Ferner geht es auf die derzeitige Situation und Herausforderungen sowie Handlungsbedarfe in Deutschland ein. Der Schwerpunkt liegt hierbei auf der Darste...

In Germany, debates about antisemitism among Muslims are increasingly being framed on distorted premises. The Alternative for Germany, in particular, portrays antisemitism as an ‘imported’ enmity from the Middle East that is deeply rooted in the Islamic religion. This perspective suggests a simple explanation for the origins of antisemitism among M...

In the context of the STRENGTH project, an analysis of the use of the European Reference Framework for Digital Competences for the group of low-skilled women with a migration background was arranged. To this end, interviews were conducted in the partner countries Austria, France, Germany and Slovenia with teachers of the target group and women with...

This study examines the infuence of social contexts on the decision to either complete or leave the frst vocational education and training (VET) position among young German apprentices—an aspect that has received little attention in dropout research. In particular, the role of three reference groups—parents, friends and classmates at vocational sch...

Zusammenfassung Hintergrund Der Stellenwert der Opioide bei nichttumorbedingten Schmerzen wird kontrovers diskutiert. Aus Deutschland fehlen aktuelle Daten zur Opioidverordnung bei nichttumorbedingtem Schmerz. Ziel der Arbeit Daten zur Prävalenz von kurz- und langfristigen Opioidverordnungen, verschriebenen Wirkstoffen, Komedikation, verschreiben...

Remote sensing has enabled large-scale crop classification for understanding agricultural ecosystems and estimating production yields. In recent years, machine learning has become increasingly relevant for automated crop classification. However, the existing algorithms require a huge amount of annotated data. Self-supervised learning, which enables...

The adoption of videoconferencing has brought significant convenience to people’s lives. However, as videoconferencing usage has skyrocketed, it has unveiled a range of side effects, most notably videoconference fatigue (VF). In response, this paper employed the Limited Capacity Model of Motivated Mediated Message Processing (LC4MP) as a theoretica...

Background After 2 years of pandemic sales ban, on New Year`s Eve 2022/23 consumer firework articles were officially available again in Germany and the Netherlands. Methods In the Netherlands we prospectively and anonymously collected data on patients treated for firework induced eye injuries from 2009 on, in Germany since 2016. Results Around Ne...

The aim of this paper is twofold: to highlight the potential and limitations of the new right to request flexible working arrangements for caring purposes, as established in Directive no. 2019/1158, and to consider, through an overview of the EU law, whether and to what extent this right can be interpreted in a manner that truly favours the interes...

Even before the effects of the wide range of measures introduced at the beginning of the decade to reduce emissions from the building sector was clearly recognizable, in 2023, a de-facto ban on the installation of oil-only and gas-only heating systems as of 2024 was enacted. This ban is rejected by around four-fifths of the population and has led t...

Background The incidence of human infections caused by arthropod-borne viruses, such as the chikungunya virus (CHIKV), has increased globally due to a number of factors, such as climate change and globalization. The exotic mosquito species Aedes albopictus is a significant vector for CHIKV, raising concerns about its transmission potential in tempe...

Predicting pedestrian crossing behavior is important for intelligent traffic systems to avoid pedestrian-vehicle collisions. Most existing pedestrian crossing behavior models are trained and evaluated on datasets collected from a single country, overlooking differences between countries. To address this gap, we compared pedestrian road-crossing beh...

Savin et al. report a retrospective analysis of ABO‐incompatible red cell transfusions in the United Kingdom, France and Germany. In spite of varied strategies for bedside preventative measures, all three countries continue to identify preventable errors leading to ABO‐incompatible red cell transfusions. This report highlights the ongoing challenge...

To better understand the effects of life events, research interest recently turned to the question of how life events are perceived (e.g., as positive, predictable, or controllable). However, research on this topic primarily focused on young adulthood, leaving it unclear whether and how the perception of life events varies across the life course. I...

This paper analyses the degree of persistence in the level of consumption of alcohol in the Group of Seven (G7) countries by using fractional integration. The series under examination are annual sales of pure alcohol in litres per person aged 15 years and older, annually from 1960 to 2021, and we look at the influence that external shocks might hav...

The introduction of ChatGPT has provided students with a tool similar to a fairy-tale djinn, giving the ability to simplify homework and projects with just a few keystrokes. This study examines teenagers' perspectives on using ChatGPT for homework, exploring both the perceived benefits and concerns. Based on content analysis of responses from 141 t...

This paper discusses the role and motivations of migrants who create content about educational opportunities abroad and distribute it on social media platforms. Following a digital ethnography, this exploratory case study focuses on three young Brazilian women from lower socioeconomic classes who migrated to Germany to pursue formal education. Havi...

Supported living plays an important role in the community-based care for people with mental illness. However, support services like floating outreach have hardly been the subject of longer-term research to date, especially with regard to Germany. Thus, the main aim of this prospective observational study was to evaluate the psychosocial outcomes of...

Zusammenfassung Hintergrund Digitale Informationsquellen bieten Jugendlichen schnellen Zugang zu gesundheitsbezogenen Informationen. Schulen sind ideal, um die digitale Gesundheitskompetenz (dGK) zu fördern und Schülerinnen und Schülern (SuS) einen sicheren Umgang mit solchen Informationen zu ermöglichen. Ziel dieses Beitrags ist es, erste Ergebni...

This Franco-German exploratory and comparative study is rooted in the tradition of interdisciplinary qualitative empirical research, at the crossroads of sociology, language sciences, and education sciences. It aims at analysing and questioning the representations of the different stakeholders concerning the reception of newly arrived emergent bili...

Allergen immunotherapy (AIT) is a proven treatment for allergic diseases such as allergic rhinoconjunctivitis (ARC), allergic asthma (AA) and insect sting allergy. Particularly in children and adolescents, who have a high prevalence of these diseases, AIT plays a crucial role in not only alleviating symptoms but also influencing the natural course...

Widespread insect losses are a critical global problem. Mitigating this problem requires identifying the principal drivers across different taxa and determining which insects are covered by protected areas. However, doing so is hindered by missing information on most species owing to extremely high insect diversity and difficulties in morphological...

English below. Wiedereingliederung von Arbeitslosen-das ist das Interesse der Beteiligten am Arbeitsmarkt. Ein Indikator wie gut das gelingt, stellt die Abgangsrate aus Arbeitslosigkeit in Erwerbstätigkeit dar. Die Abgangsrate drückt sogleich Chancen für Arbeitslose aus, Arbeitslosigkeit durch Erwerbstätigkeit zu überwinden. Der Beitrag untersucht...

The increasing flood risk in urban areas, driven by rising urbanization and climate change, underscores the need for accurate representation of buildings and urban features in flood hydrodynamic models. This study investigates the impact of different building representation techniques on flood hydrodynamic and impact modeling, using the 2021 flood...

This paper explores the civil liability issues arising from the commercial use of satellite remote sensing data, a rapidly growing sector in the space industry. With the increasing reliance on satellite data for various applications, such as agriculture, disaster response, and climate monitoring, legal challenges have emerged, particularly concerni...

This article depicts the chemistry and trajectory of a street paper project involving people experiencing homelessness in Germany. More generally, it seeks to examine implications of hybrid approaches to prosocial organising which various initiatives throughout the Western world have adopted during the last decades to achieve social innovation in a...

Alcohol consumption is widespread in most western countries such as Germany and a relevant risk factor for morbidity and mortality. Sensitive detection of alcohol consumption using suitable markers is therefore of central importance for clinical and forensic diagnostics. Direct alcohol markers are non-oxidative products of ethanol, which are produc...

This paper introduces a comprehensive cooperative game theory framework to measure the significance of location and neighborhood relations in conjunction with the magnitude of players/parties. The significances of these relations are measured over the EU geography. In this case, there are (i) the test of availability of a core solution that satisfi...

Zusammenfassung Hintergrund Im März 2023 existierte für Deutschland keine zusammenfassende Übersichtarbeit zu Arbeitsbelastung, Ressourcen, Beanspruchungsfolgen in der COVID-19-Pandemie für Pflegefachkräfte. Vor dem Hintergrund länderspezifischer Unterschiede hinsichtlich Pandemieverlauf/-management und Organisation des Gesundheitswesens soll eine...

This paper starts with an assumption that Geopolitics, understood as one of the great schools of International Relations, is not only still relevant but, indeed, should be one of the essential items in the toolkit of any student or policymaker who peruses the challenging and ever eluding realm of international security. It draws chiefly on the Hea...

This article is an autoethnographic reflection on the complexities of transnational power relations involved in knowledge production on migration. It is based on the author’s experiences in German academia between 2015 and 2022 as a first-generation migrant from the Middle East. The article engages with the complexity of transnational spaces and th...

We are delighted to share a Call for Participation for the Young Scholars’ Conference: "Time & Justice. Temporal Interrogations into Social-Ecological Justice", taking place from 8–10 October 2025 at the Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies "Futures of Sustainability," University of Hamburg, Germany. This interdisciplinary conference aims to cre...

In the 1930s, Fascism and especially Nazism threatened to change the borders established after the Great War. Countries therefore prepared for conflict by building defence lines along their borders with hostile neighbours. The Kingdom of Yugoslavia also began building a defence line, first on its western border with Italy, and after the annexation...

Smoking‐associated epigenetic changes have been linked to lung cancer (LC) risk; however, the role of epigenetic alterations independent of smoking is yet to be fully understood. This study aimed to validate 16 previously reported CpG sites that are independent of smoking yet associated with LC risk within a population‐based prospective cohort. Usi...

Background The number of orphan drug (OD) approvals has increased sharply in Europe. In Germany, all ODs are initially subject to a limited assessment after market access. Their added benefit over the standard of care is accepted as established upon EU approval; a regular health technology assessment (HTA) is performed only in certain cases. Objec...

In recent decades, fluctuating unemployment rates and welfare state retrenchment have led to increased levels of economic insecurity in some countries. At the same time, cultural norms and family policies have become more gender-egalitarian. While earlier research related these trends to the decline in the male breadwinner model, little is known ab...

Technological advances for immersive projection inside a planetarium have been notorious in the last 100 years. Their range goes beyond 360º visuality; they have extended to sound design and the development of innovative approaches to education and learning. In this context, mobile planetariums promote immersive experiences that motivate learning...

This article explores the micro dimension within the field of intercultural family studies. The ethnographic study focuses on Chinese elements in transcultural upbringing practices within families with Chinese mothers and German fathers raising their children in Germany. It builds on the notion of family figuration practice in transnational grandpa...

This article introduces and examines novel measures for generally applicable and insightful forms of collective identification, namely embedded identification and dis-embedded identification, which describe specific constellations of identification with a subordinate ingroup and the respective superordinate (in)group. The measure development proces...

This article argues that mid-century Surrealist German author Unica Zürn’s writing on the fetus and pregnancy anticipates New Materialist analyses of the liveliness of matter and the interactions of biology and history. Using philosopher-physicist Karen Barad’s theories of Agential Realism as a lens, I unite a close reading of key moments in Zürn’s...

Despite experiencing a dip during the COVID-19 pandemic, football remains a robust multi-billion-euro industry. The accurate prediction of team values holds immense significance for teams, investors, and other stakeholders. In this research, we delve into the determinants of German Bundesliga team values, encompassing performance-based metrics, mac...

This study introduces a novel method for optimising the size and control strategy of grid-connected, utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) systems with battery storage aimed at energy arbitrage and frequency containment reserve (FCR) services. By applying genetic algorithms (GA), the optimal configurations of PV generators, inverters/chargers, and batter...

The Austrian automotive industry is heavily reliant on German carmakers, with 65% of the companies exporting directly to Germany. Recent challenges faced by VW, including plant closures and downsizing, threaten Austrian suppliers, particularly in automotive clusters in Upper Austria and Styria. This study identifies 135 Austrian companies connected...

In taking up the international modernist journal transition (1927–1938), edited by Eugene Jolas, I begin with the editorial project of constructing a space between and among the literatures of three world languages: English, French, and German (coinciding, in fact, with the editor’s trilingual background as an emigrant from Alsace-Lorraine to the U...

Softness, a key attribute in hygiene tissue, has traditionally been determined via consumer panel tests. These collective tests involve trained judges (panelists) who express their subjective judgments of softness to rank and compare hygiene tissue products, which become time and resource-intensive measurements. The tissue softness analyzer (TSA, E...

This study explores the effectiveness of Germany’s rent control regulation in the context of Munich's housing crisis. The rent brake, aimed at preventing excessive rents in tense housing markets, was implemented in 2015 in Germany but has faced challenges in practical application. This research evaluates the number of tenants eligible to use the re...