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There is no question: We are all persons. But what exactly are persons? Are we immaterial souls or Cartesian Egos which only contingently have bodies? Or are persons nothing over and above their bodies? Are they essentially or most fundamentally animals, evolved beings of a certain sort? Or are we something other or more than animals, namely constituted beings with a certain capacity that distinguishes persons from everything else? What is necessary, and what is sufficient, for an entity to be classified or (re-)identified as a person? What's the value of an analysis of such (biological or psychological) conditions? What does it contribute to our understanding of ourselves as free agents or as beings wanting to live their individual live? The essays collected in this anthology try to answer these questions. They are primarily concerned with the metaphysics of persons and the criteria of personal identity, but also touch on problems of the theory of action and of practical philosophy.
Metaphysics. --- Philosophy --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind --- Metaphysics --- Philosophical anthropology
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Reimagining new approaches in teacher professional development is the focus of this book. It looks at different perspectives of teacher professional development. Most chapters directly or indirectly present and discuss new approaches in teacher professional development in general. The purpose of the book is to inform readers that there are new ways of developing teachers professionally, and to equip readers with the skills needed to teach or behave in a professional manner. The book aims at providing new knowledge about professional development to academics, universities, education authorities, teachers, parents, and governing body members. The authors have diverse perspectives about the issues or aspects pertaining to teacher professional development.
Teachers In-service training. --- Teachers --- In-service training. --- Higher Education --- Social Sciences --- Education --- Social Sciences and Humanities
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Automatic Autocorrelation and Spectral Analysis gives random data a language to communicate the information they contain objectively. In the current practice of spectral analysis, subjective decisions have to be made all of which influence the final spectral estimate and mean that different analysts obtain different results from the same stationary stochastic observations. Statistical signal processing can overcome this difficulty, producing a unique solution for any set of observations but that solution is only acceptable if it is close to the best attainable accuracy for most types of stationary data. Automatic Autocorrelation and Spectral Analysis describes a method which fulfils the above near-optimal-solution criterion. It takes advantage of greater computing power and robust algorithms to produce enough candidate models to be sure of providing a suitable candidate for given data. Improved order selection quality guarantees that one of the best (and often the best) will be selected automatically. The data themselves suggest their best representation. Should the analyst wish to intervene, alternatives can be provided. Written for graduate signal processing students and for researchers and engineers using time series analysis for practical applications ranging from breakdown prevention in heavy machinery to measuring lung noise for medical diagnosis, this text offers: • tuition in how power spectral density and the autocorrelation function of stochastic data can be estimated and interpreted in time series models; • extensive support for the MATLAB® ARMAsel toolbox; • applications showing the methods in action; • appropriate mathematics for students to apply the methods with references for those who wish to develop them further.
Engineering. --- Computers. --- Image processing. --- Statistics. --- Computational intelligence. --- Engineering, general. --- Theory of Computation. --- Signal, Image and Speech Processing. --- Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences. --- Computational Intelligence. --- Image Processing and Computer Vision. --- Intelligence, Computational --- Artificial intelligence --- Soft computing --- Statistical analysis --- Statistical data --- Statistical methods --- Statistical science --- Mathematics --- Econometrics --- Pictorial data processing --- Picture processing --- Processing, Image --- Imaging systems --- Optical data processing --- Automatic computers --- Automatic data processors --- Computer hardware --- Computing machines (Computers) --- Electronic brains --- Electronic calculating-machines --- Electronic computers --- Hardware, Computer --- Computer systems --- Cybernetics --- Machine theory --- Calculators --- Cyberspace --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Spectrum analysis --- Signal processing --- Autocorrelation (Statistics) --- Time-series analysis. --- Statistical methods. --- Analysis of time series --- Harmonic analysis --- Mathematical statistics --- Probabilities --- Correlation (Statistics) --- Stochastic processes --- Time-series analysis --- Analysis, Spectrum --- Spectra --- Spectrochemical analysis --- Spectrochemistry --- Spectroscopy --- Chemistry, Analytic --- Interferometry --- Optics --- Radiation --- Wave-motion, Theory of --- Absorption spectra --- Light --- Spectroscope --- Qualitative --- Information theory. --- Computer vision. --- Machine vision --- Vision, Computer --- Image processing --- Pattern recognition systems --- Communication theory --- Communication --- Signal processing. --- Speech processing systems. --- Statistics . --- Optical data processing. --- Optical computing --- Visual data processing --- Bionics --- Electronic data processing --- Integrated optics --- Photonics --- Computers --- Computational linguistics --- Electronic systems --- Information theory --- Modulation theory --- Oral communication --- Speech --- Telecommunication --- Singing voice synthesizers --- Processing, Signal --- Information measurement --- Signal theory (Telecommunication) --- Optical equipment
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rapportage in de hulpverlening --- rapportage --- maatschappelijk werkers, beroepsethiek --- 361.2 --- 007.2 --- 361.3 --- Rapporteren --- Rapporteren. --- 361.3. --- 361.2. --- 007.2.
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Meteor Showers and their Parent Comets is a unique handbook for astronomers interested in observing meteor storms and outbursts. Spectacular displays of 'shooting stars' are created when the Earth's orbit crosses a meteoroid stream, as each meteoroid causes a bright light when it enters our atmosphere at high speed. Jenniskens, an active meteor storm chaser, explains how meteoroid streams originate from the decay of meteoroids, comets and asteroids, and how they cause meteor showers on Earth. He includes the findings of recent space missions to comets and asteroids, the risk of meteor impacts on Earth, and how meteor showers may have seeded the Earth with ingredients that made life possible. All known meteor showers are identified, accompanied by fascinating details on the most important showers and their parent comets. The book predicts when exceptional meteor showers will occur over the next fifty years, making it a valuable resource for both amateur and professional astronomers.
Meteors. --- Comets. --- Meteor showers. --- Meteor outbursts --- Meteor storms --- Outbursts, Meteor --- Showers, Meteor --- Storms, Meteor --- Meteors --- Near-Earth objects --- Astronomical meteors --- Falling stars --- Fireballs (Meteors) --- Shooting stars (Meteors) --- Stars, Falling --- Stars, Shooting
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Korwars and Korwar Style : Art and Ancestor Worship in North-West New Guinea
Korwars (Sculpture) --- Sculpture --- Stonework, Decorative --- Art --- Bas-relief --- Statues --- Sculpture, Primitive
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Unsere Beziehung zu den »anderen« Tieren gewinnt nicht bloß mehr und mehr an gesellschaftlicher Bedeutung, sie ist auch für die Wissenschaften wieder zum Thema geworden. Mit diesem Band widmet sich zum ersten Mal ein Lexikon umfassend den Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen. Im Gegensatz zu traditionellen Einführungen in die Tierethik beschränkt sich das groß angelegte Werk aber nicht auf moralphilosophische Themen, sondern beleuchtet die Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen u.a. auch aus historischer, soziologischer, ethologischer und kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive. »Das ›Lexikon der Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen‹ stellt [...] ein nützliches Instrument für alle an den Animal Studies Interessierten zur Verfügung und verdient es, eine breite Leserschaft auch außerhalb der Human- und Lebenswissenschaften zu finden.« Madalina Diaconu, polylog, 4 (2017) »Der Sammelband-Charakter führt zu einer ideologischen Vielfalt.« Tobias Sennhauser, www.tier-im-fokus.ch, 24.09.2016 »Das umfangreiche Buch richtet sich mit seinen fast durchgängig luziden Argumentationen [...] sowohl an Spezialisten und Forscher als auch an Aktivisten, Politiker oder allgemein Interessierte. So kann man dieses Lexikon als ein Füllhorn der Informationen und Anregungen tatsächlich so ziemlich an jeden weiterempfehlen. Man wünscht dem verdienstvollen Werk viele Leser und dem Thema weiter wachsende Aufmerksamkeit.« Bernd Blaschke, www.literaturkritik.de, 16.09.2016 »Das Lexikon [vermittelt] einen tiefgreifenden Einblick in den aktuellen Stand der Debatten im Feld der Human-Animal-Studies.« GID - Gen-ethischer Informationsdienst, 237 (2016) »Für all jene, die sich [...] aus akademischem oder privatem Interesse mit dem wissenschaftlichen Diskurs rund um Human-Animal Studies und Veganismus auseinandersetzen möchten, bietet dieses Buch einen idealen Überblick.« Patrick Zeitlhuber, https://vegan.at, 25.07.2016 »Das Lexikon macht [...] gleich mehrere Angebote, die es für Forschung und Lehre in allen mit Mensch-Tiere-Beziehung beschäftigten Feldern empfehlen: Es bietet Orientierung und informiert kurz, knapp und verständlich über zentrale Problemfelder, Themen und Wissensbestände im Kontext der HAS. Zugleich fordert es seine Rezipient/innen zur kritischen Lektüre heraus und erzeugt dabei bisweilen auch Widerspruch und Reibung.« Michaela Fenske, H-Soz-u-Kult, 24.06.2016 »Vom Problem des ›Animal Hoarding‹ über das scheinbar simple ›Ei‹ bis zum ›Tierkult im pharaonischen Ägypten‹ wird dem Leser ein durchweg ambitioniertes Lexikon präsentiert, das in keiner gut sortierten Bibliothek fehlen sollte.« Kirstin Zeyer, Coincidentia, 6/2 (2015) »Das Lexikon erfüllt [...] einerseits den anvisierten Zweck der übersichtlichen Einführung in die diversen Themenbereiche innerhalb der Human-Animal Studies und dient andererseits auch als Inspiration zu weiterführender und vertiefender Lektüre anhand nützlicher Literaturverweise. Nicht bloß für jene Menschen zu empfehlen, die sich noch relativ wenig mit den vielseitigen Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen befasst haben. Auch für viele Expert*innen in einem der vielen Felder der Human-Animal Studies lohnt sich das Lexikon als Möglichkeit, über den methodologischen und inhaltlichen Tellerrand hinaus zu blicken.« Florian Leonhard Wüstholz, TIERethik, 12/1 (2016) »Auf der Grundlage eines avancierten Theoriedesigns im Bereich der animal studies [...] erhält der Nutzer [...] einen sehr guten Einblick in alle wesentlichen Bereiche des Themas. Es [ist] eine Stärke des Lexikons, dass die jeweiligen Begriffe übersichtlich entfaltet und kontextualisiert, kontroverse Diskussionen nachvollziehbar dargestellt und bewertet werden.« Till Kinzel, Informationsmittel (IFB), 3 (2016) »Dieses Lexikon sollte in keiner Bibliothek und in keiner Schule fehlen.« Kochen ohne Knochen, 1 (2016) »Ein wertvolles Buch, hilfreich für alle, die sich mit Tierrechtsthemen tiefer befassen.« anima, 31/4 (2016) Besprochen in: http://www.fellbeisser.net, 06.10.2015, Volker Wöhl greenpeace magazin, 3-4 (2016) Offene Spielräume, 1 (2016) Kunstbulletin, 4 (2016) Mensch&Tier, 1 (2016) Stiftung Bündnis Mensch & Tier, 4 (2016) www.lehrerbibliothek.de, 25.01.2016, Dieter Bach Tierstudien, 10 (2016), Julia Eva Wannenmacher www.sehepunkte.de, 17/3 (2017), Markus Krzoska Interdisziplinäre Anthropologie, 4 (2016), Andreas Vieth Soziologische Revue, 43/2 (2019), Rainer E. Wiedenmann
Human-animal relationships --- Animal-human relationships --- Animal-man relationships --- Animals and humans --- Human beings and animals --- Man-animal relationships --- Relationships, Human-animal --- Animals --- Mensch-Tier-Beziehung; Human-Animal Studies; Tierethik; Tierphilosophie; Tierschutz; Tierrechte; Kulturphilosophie; Tier; Mensch; Tiergeschichte; Kulturwissenschaft; Animal Philosophy; Philosophy of Culture; Animal; Human; Human Animal Studies; Animal History; Cultural Studies --- Human-animal relationships - Encyclopedias --- Animal History. --- Animal. --- Cultural Studies. --- Human Animal Studies. --- Human. --- Philosophy of Culture.
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Animal minds and animal ethics - different origins, connecting similarities. Philosophers working on questions of animal ethics usually draw on research into animal cognition and subscribe to strong positions regarding animal minds. Whereas philosophers interested in the question of animal minds sometimes draw ethical conclusions from the positions they argue for. In spite of such overlaps, these two areas of research have grown up separately. One reason for this separation stems from the institutional distinction between theoretical and practical philosophy. The principal aim of this anthology is to build bridges between the fields and different philosophical approaches of animal ethics and of animal minds and cognition. »Der Band zeigt, wie sich das dilettantische Zurechtschneidern des Geistes der Tiere verhindern lässt. Die Auswahl der Arbeiten [...] bezeugt das konstruktive Potential der postmodernen Philosophie.« Philipp von Gall, TIERethik, 6/8 (2014) »Ein lesenswertes Buch.« Kochen ohne Knochen, 15/2 (2014) Reviewed in: Fellbeißer, 10 (2013) www.lehrerbibliothek.de, 21.01.2014, Dieter Bach fair-fish, 13.02.2014, Heinzpeter Studer
Ethics; Animal Ethics; Animal Minds; Animal Cognition; Philosophy of Mind; Human-Animal Studies; Animal; Animal Philosophy; Philosophy; Cultural Studies; Human Animal Studies --- Animal Cognition. --- Animal Ethics. --- Animal Minds. --- Animal Philosophy. --- Animal. --- Cultural Studies. --- Human Animal Studies. --- Human-Animal Studies. --- Philosophy of Mind. --- Philosophy.
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