Wissenschaftliche Literatur Beliefs

Rainer Feldbacher / Josef Fischer (eds.)

Connected Worlds – Interregional Contacts in Antiquity

Studien zur Geschichtsforschung des Altertums

Ancient people did not live in isolation from one another. Rather, their worlds were connected to each other in many ways. Cities, states and peoples maintained diplomatic and political contacts – sometimes peaceful, sometimes warlike. Trade goods were transported over long distances. Religious beliefs, artistic trends and technical innovations spread across three continents.

This volume focuses on several examples of interregional contacts in antiquity. The…

Leena Brütt

Implementation digitaler Medien in den Sachunterricht

Eine qualitative Untersuchung zur Unterrichtspraxis

Medienpädagogik und Mediendidaktik

Die Digitalisierung an Grundschulen wurde in Deutschland lange Zeit nicht intensiv gefördert. Dennoch haben sich Lehrkräfte und ihre Schulklassen auf individuelle Lösungswege begeben, digitale Medien im Unterricht zu nutzen. Sie haben vielfältige Erfahrungen gesammelt, die in dieser Studie systematisch untersucht werden. Es wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie Lehrkräfte digitale Medien in den Sachunterricht implementieren. Im Fokus der qualitativen Studie stehen die…

Marek Krawiec / Joanna Kic-Drgas (eds.)

Foreign Language Learning and Teaching in Theory, Practice and Research

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

The volume Foreign Language Learning and Teaching in Theory, Practice and Research is a collection of articles written by scholars representing different academic centres in the world. It discusses various aspects from the field of foreign language education and provides theoretical and empirical evidence on selected notions of teaching and learning foreign languages, including language for specific purposes. The contributors to this volume and the aspects which…

Zohreh Baradaran Hosseini

The Role of Water in Iranian Folklore

Schriften zur Kulturwissenschaft

This study examines the role of water in a range of beliefs and observances among Iranian communities belonging to two religions, Zoroastrianism and Islam. The work seeks to show that many of the traditional observances connected with water that are found in Islamic communities in Iran have no obvious connection with an Islamic worldview based upon the official teachings of that religion, and probably continued to be observed from pre-Islamic times onwards. The work also…

Lena Kluge

How Beliefs Shape Thoughts: Implicit Theories Impact the Self-Regulation of Goal Setting

Studienreihe psychologische Forschungsergebnisse

In the present research, we explored whether people’s implicit theories also influence the way people set their goals. Specifically, we suspected that people’s implicit theories affect how they choose to think about their wishes, particularly in the context of fantasy realization theory, which in turn influences their goal setting. Moreover, we investigated whether implicit theories affect the benefits that people gain from using the various self-regulatory modes of…

Krzysztof Nerlicki

Lernerreflexionen im Blickpunkt

Polnische Germanistikstudenten über ihre fremdsprachlichen Lern- und Kommunikationserfahrungen

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

Fremdsprachenlernen ist ein langwieriger Prozess, der noch weitgehend unentdeckt ist. Mit Interesse werden deswegen auch individuelle Auffassungen von Lernenden verfolgt, wie sie sich fremdsprachliche Lernprozesse vorstellen und erklären (können).

Die Studie ist im polnischen Bildungskontext angesiedelt, wo sich die deutsche Sprache seit mehreren Jahren großer Popularität erfreut. Von vielen Lernenden werden ihre Deutschkenntnisse auch im Germanistikstudium…

Vicente López-Folgado, María del Mar Rivas-Carmona (eds.)

Essays on Translation

Multilingual Issues

TRANSLATOLOGIE – Studien zur Übersetzungswissenschaft

There are no easy answers to one of the most complex exercises man can face, as the English critic F. R. Leavis argued. Since the early 1980’s A. Lefevere, who has been a major theoretical influence for most translators, in the last few years, insisted on the role of the translator as an interpreter, to the extent that, far from being an objective act, translating should never attempt the goal of objectiveness if it also claims honesty. He thus relativizes the…

Graciela Küchle

Counterfactuals, Rationality and Equilibrium Concepts in Game Theory

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Strategic decision making involves deliberating about the consequences of every available course of action. This in turn, requires hypothesizing about the beliefs of the other players and their possible reactions to observed play. Unless individuals have previous experience with similar games or players, they will have to resort to their own assessment and reasoning in order to justify their strategies.

Decisions that arise out of introspection are full of…

Javier Perez-Freije

Design of Organizational Controls for Managing Innovation

Implications for Firms in High-Velocity Environments

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Managing innovation is crucial for firm success in high-velocity environments. Although the primary emphasis of R&D professional literature has been on formalizing development activities, this book defines a control concept for the fuzzy front-end of the innovation process, which is characterized by higher levels of ambiguity and uncertainty that in turn diminish administrative information, or firms‘ knowledge of cause-and-effect relationships and outputs. [...]

Margita Altus

Decision Support for Conceptual Database Design Based on the Evidence Theory

An Intelligent Dialogue Interface for Conceptual Database Design

Forschungsergebnisse zur Informatik

The aim of this work is to present a database design information system, which integrates two important cornerstones of communication. On the on side, it provides an intelligent dialogue interface for conceptual database design; the interactive behaviour of a design dialogue interface facilitates the communication of consistent design information. On the other side, the design information system serves as design information mediator in human-human communication.…