‘Between Politics and Scholarship’: The First Decade of the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, 1949–1958

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-271
Author(s):  
Mathew Turner ◽  
Tony Joel ◽  
David Lowe
Keyword(s):  
State Level ◽  
German Society ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
To Come ◽  
Nazi Past

Through the consultation and examination of meeting minutes, correspondence, and memoranda, this article contends that a political-scholarly nexus characterized the formation of the Munich-based Institut für Zeitgeschichte and directly shaped its research activities within the first decade of its existence, from 1949 to 1958. As a government-funded body it was obliged to service the needs of those governments at a federal and state level, in response to bureaucratic, administrative, and judicial demands – most notably the construction of expert reports (or Gutachten) in response to government requests for advice. The research directions of the Institute were driven by the demands of West German society beginning to come to terms with its Nazi past, and expressed through its political representatives.

MATERIAL HANDLING MACHINES AND SYSTEMS – UMI-TWINN PROJECT CONTRIBUTION

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-20
Author(s):  
Péter Telek ◽  
Béla Illés ◽  
Christian Landschützer ◽  
Fabian Schenk ◽  
Flavien Massi
Keyword(s):  
Material Handling ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Flow Process ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Scientific Excellence ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
New Research ◽  
Eu Project ◽  
The University

Nowadays, the Industry 4.0 concept affects every area of the industrial, economic, social and personal sectors. The most significant changings are the automation and the digitalization. This is also true for the material handling processes, where the handling systems use more and more automated machines; planning, operation and optimization of different logistic processes are based on many digital data collected from the material flow process. However, new methods and devices require new solutions which define new research directions. In this paper we describe the state of the art of the material handling researches and draw the role of the UMi-TWINN partner institutes in these fields. As a result of this H2020 EU project, scientific excellence of the University of Miskolc can be increased and new research activities will be started.

scholarly journals Leveraging Machine-Learning for D2D Communications in 5G/Beyond 5G Networks

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
Sherief Hashima ◽  
Basem M. ElHalawany ◽  
Kohei Hatano ◽  
Kaishun Wu ◽  
Ehab Mahmoud Mohamed
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Network Architecture ◽  
D2d Communication ◽  
Neighbor Discovery ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Fifth Generation ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Comprehensive Survey ◽  
Network Overhead

Device-to-device (D2D) communication is a promising paradigm for the fifth generation (5G) and beyond 5G (B5G) networks. Although D2D communication provides several benefits, including limited interference, energy efficiency, reduced delay, and network overhead, it faces a lot of technical challenges such as network architecture, and neighbor discovery, etc. The complexity of configuring D2D links and managing their interference, especially when using millimeter-wave (mmWave), inspire researchers to leverage different machine-learning (ML) techniques to address these problems towards boosting the performance of D2D networks. In this paper, a comprehensive survey about recent research activities on D2D networks will be explored with putting more emphasis on utilizing mmWave and ML methods. After exploring existing D2D research directions accompanied with their existing conventional solutions, we will show how different ML techniques can be applied to enhance the D2D networks performance over using conventional ways. Then, still open research directions in ML applications on D2D networks will be investigated including their essential needs. A case study of applying multi-armed bandit (MAB) as an efficient online ML tool to enhance the performance of neighbor discovery and selection (NDS) in mmWave D2D networks will be presented. This case study will put emphasis on the high potency of using ML solutions over using the conventional non-ML based methods for highly improving the average throughput performance of mmWave NDS.

Architecture and the Memory of Nazism in Postwar Munich

1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 140-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavriel D. Roseneld
Keyword(s):  
Federal Republic ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
German Politics ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
To Come ◽  
Nazi Past ◽  
The Impact

Few issues have possessed the centrality or sparked as much controversyin the postwar history of the Federal Republic of Germany(FRG) as the struggle to come to terms with the nation’s Nazi past.This struggle, commonly known by the disputed term Vergangenheitsbewältigung,has cast a long shadow upon nearly all dimensions ofGerman political, social, economic, and cultural life and has preventedthe nation from attaining a normalized state of existence inthe postwar period. Recent scholarly analyses of German memoryhave helped to broaden our understanding of how “successful” theGermans have been in mastering their Nazi past and have shed lighton the impact of the Nazi legacy on postwar German politics andculture. Even so, important gaps remain in our understanding ofhow the memory of the Third Reich has shaped the postwar life ofthe Federal Republic.

“Enlightened System” or “Regulatory Nightmare”?: New York’s Adirondack Mountains and the Conflicted Politics of Environmental Land-Use Reform During the 1970s

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 406-430
Author(s):  
Peter Siskind
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Regulatory Authority ◽  
Environmental Planning ◽  
State Level ◽  
Adirondack Mountains ◽  
Private Lands ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Environmental Liberalism ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Right

Abstract:This exploration of the politics of land-use reform in New York’s vast Adirondack Mountains provides a revealing window onto the ambiguities, evolution, and importance of environmental liberalism during the 1970s. A distinctive set of circumstances, featuring forceful advocacy by Governor Nelson Rockefeller and propitious political timing, led to the creation in the early 1970s of one of the most ambitious state-level environmental reforms in modern American history. But implementation during the mid- and late 1970s proved challenging. Environmental management by a new regional agency that possessed powerful regulatory authority over all public and private lands in the region produced discontents, distrust, and organized opposition among both developers and property-rights advocates on the right and environmental advocates on the left. The result was an uneasy, enduring legacy: the new regulatory institution and key environmental planning ideas of the early 1970s and the later, wide-ranging discontents would coexist in similar forms for decades to come.

Recent advances in methods of lexical semantic relatedness – a survey

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZIQI ZHANG ◽  
ANNA LISA GENTILE ◽  
FABIO CIRAVEGNA
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Semantic Relatedness ◽  
Background Information ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Lexical Semantic ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Domain Boundaries ◽  
Future Research Directions

AbstractMeasuring lexical semantic relatedness is an important task in Natural Language Processing (NLP). It is often a prerequisite to many complex NLP tasks. Despite an extensive amount of work dedicated to this area of research, there is a lack of an up-to-date survey in the field. This paper aims to address this issue with a study that is focused on four perspectives: (i) a comparative analysis of background information resources that are essential for measuring lexical semantic relatedness; (ii) a review of the literature with a focus on recent methods that are not covered in previous surveys; (iii) discussion of the studies in the biomedical domain where novel methods have been introduced but inadequately communicated across the domain boundaries; and (iv) an evaluation of lexical semantic relatedness methods and a discussion of useful lessons for the development and application of such methods. In addition, we discuss a number of issues in this field and suggest future research directions. It is believed that this work will be a valuable reference to researchers of lexical semantic relatedness and substantially support the research activities in this field.

Benzo[1,2-c;4,5-c′]Bis[1,2,5]Thiadiazole in Organic Optoelectronics: A Mini-Review

2015 ◽  
Vol 03 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 1540003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teck Lip Dexter Tam ◽  
Jishan Wu
Keyword(s):  
Open Shell ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Computational Studies ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Organic Optoelectronics ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
Organic Optoelectronic

In this paper, organic optoelectronic research activities in the field of benzo[1,2-c;4,5-c′]bis[1,2,5]thiadiazole (BBT)-based materials are reviewed. Synthetic pathways to the BBT core and its computational studies are described. Collective observations from separate reports suggest open-shell biradical nature of BBT-based materials. Future research directions for these materials are also described.

Mind the Gap: Regionale Clusterpolitik im Spannungsfeld von Wissenschaft, Politik und Praxis aus der Perspektive der Neuen Politischen Ökonomie

2008 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthias Kiese
Keyword(s):  
Core Competencies ◽  
State Level ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Cluster Identification ◽  
Regional Cluster ◽  
Interview Survey ◽  
Public Choice Perspective ◽  
Western Germany ◽  
To Come

Mind the Gap: Regional cluster policies between science, politics and practice from a public choice perspective. Since the 1990s, the cluster concept’s ongoing popularity with politicians and economic development practitioners has largely bypassed scientific research which is still struggling to come to grips with theory and empirics of clusters. Based on an interview survey of ten case studies of regional cluster policies at the state and sub-state level in Western Germany, this paper investigates the contribution of scientific cluster research to the current practice of cluster promotion. It is found that following political and bureaucratic rationalities, conceptualisation and implementation of cluster policies largely ignore theoretical insights and make only incomplete use of scientific methods available for proper cluster identification. This has important implications for both practice and research, and highlights that economic geographers should overcome their reluctance to engage with policy and employ their core competencies to make their voices heard in the arena of policy and practice.

scholarly journals Byzantino-Slavic and Bulgarian Middle Ages in the Recent Works by Scholars from the University of Lodz

2021 ◽  
pp. 305-316
Author(s):  
Dmitry Polyvyannyy
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
International Colloquium ◽  
Book Series ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
History Of ◽  
South Eastern Europe ◽  
Academic School ◽  
The University

The review considers the recent works by Polish academicians from two departments of the University of Lodz – History of Byzantium and Slavic Philology dedicated or related to the history and culture of medieval Bulgaria and the entire Byzantino-Slavic community of the 10th – 15th c. aiming to represent them to Russian audience, to reveal their contributions to the mentioned fields and to appreciate the current achievements of the forming academic school of the University of Lodz. Its beginning cannot be divided from the name of the disciple of prominent Polish Byzantinist Professor Halina Ewert-Kappesowa (1904–1985), Professor Waldemar Ceran (1936–2009), whose research and organizational activities led to the establishment of “Byzantina Lodziensia” book series (39 volumes published in 1997–2020), and in 2003 – to the Department of the History of Byzantium opening. These foundations met resonance and support from a new trend of the research activities in the University of Lodz – Old Slavonic literature studies – initiated by highly skilled paleoslavist Professor Georgi Minczew who began his work at the Department of Slavic Philology in the middle of the 1990s. The growing synergy of the Byzantine and Slavic trends resulted in the creation in 2011 of Ceraneum – the Centre of Research in History and Culture of Mediterranean and South-Eastern Europe named after W. Ceran (Centrum Badań nad Historią i Kulturą Basenu Morza Śródziemnego i Europy Południowo-Wschodniej im. prof. Waldemara Cerana, Ceraneum). Under its aegis the University of Lodz is editing annual scholarly journal “Studia Ceranea” (10 issues in 2011–2020) and since 2019 convenes in the historical venue of Bidermann Palace, the residence of the centre, annual international colloquium “Colloquia Ceranea” which attracts leading Polish and international scholars in Byzantine, Slavic and Bulgarian medieval history and culture. The author critically reviews monographs and miscellanies published by academicians of the University of Lodz in the recent five years and concludes upon the main research directions, results and perspectives of the University of Lodz school of Byzantine, Medieval Slavic and Bulgarian research.

scholarly journals On the 100th Anniversary of the Southern Federal University. Social Psychology at the Southern Federal University (RSU): Stages of Development and Research Directions

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-166
Author(s):  
V.A. Labunskaya
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
General Context ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Academic Courses ◽  
Centennial Anniversary ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
The University

In 2015 the Southern Federal University celebrates its centennial anniversary. The University is the largest research and education center of the Russian south, and its history dates back to 1915 when the Imperial University of Warsaw was moved to Rostov-on-Don. The paper focuses on various factors that have contributed to the development of social psychology at the SFU (former RSU) over the period of 45 years, from the establishment of the Department of General and Social Psychology in 1971 to the emergence of the Department of Social Psychology in 1999 that is still active nowadays. Special attention is drawn to the analysis of the general context in which social psychology has been developing. The paper traces the origins of scholarly activities carried out at the Department of Social Psychology and provides a description of research areas covered by the staff of the Faculty of Psychology. The paper concludes that a distinctive feature of the Department is that each researcher provides academic courses and training in the field of his/her research activities and practice.

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