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The Bioeconomy and Food Systems Transformation: Food Systems Summit Brief prepared by Research Partners of the Scientific Group for the Food Systems Summit February 17, 2021
Trigo, Eduardo; Chavarria, Hugo; Pray, Carl; Smyth, Stuart J.; Torroba, Agustin; Wesseler, Justus; Zilberman, David; Martinez, Juan F. (2021-04-17)The most widely recognized definition of bioeconomy was proposed in the Global Bioeconomy Summit 2018 framework: “bioeconomy is the production, utilization and conservation of biological resources, including related ... -
The Creation of a TEI Metadata Schema for Cataloging Classic Mayan Texts
Maier, Petra (2015-07-27)This paper summarizes preliminary ideas and suggestions for developing a XML/TEI metadata schema for cataloging all known Classic Mayan texts. The TEI metadata schema thus constitutes a component of the metadata concept ... -
The Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey
Winkel, Benjamin (2009-02-25)Since Summer 2008 a new L-band 7-Feed-Array is operated for astronomical science at the 100-m radio telescope at Effelsberg. This receiver will be used to perform an unbiased, fully sampled HI survey of the whole northern ... -
The Forms of Glyph X of the Lunar Series
Grube, Nikolai (2018-03-12)The Lunar Series of Classic Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions still presents intriguing mysteries to the scholar. Although the significance of many of its elements has been discovered thanks to hundred years of research, there ... -
The impact of pathology, type of resection, and age at surgery on the postoperative seizure and cognitive outcome in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy
Taube, Julia (2023-05-12)In this thesis, epilepsy- and surgery-related factors were investigated for their effects on postoperative seizure and cognitive outcome in patients with medically intractable temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE).
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The influence of Chinese calligraphy on Western Informel painting: 中國書法藝術對西洋繪畫的影響
Müller-Yao, Marguerite Hui (2015)This work is an attempt to delineate and analyze the influence of the art of Chinese Calligraphy on the Informel Painting of the West. The notes and comments on the influence of East Asia and the Chinese Calligraphy in the ... -
The localisation of the transnational Tablighi Jama’at in Kyrgyzstan: structures, concepts, practices and metaphors
Toktogulova, Mukaram (2014-03)The transnational Tablighi Jama’at (TJ), which emerged and expanded outward from India and Pakistan in the early and mid-twentieth century, started to extend its missionary activities into Central Asia in the course of the ... -
The Logogram JALAM
Grube, Nikolai (2016-03-24)Several logographic signs in Maya hieroglyphic writing resist decipherment because they occur only in a few and semantically very limited contexts. One of these idiosyncratic logograms is the sign which is listed as T284 ... -
The Month Name Wayeb': A Substitution Pattern
Prager, Christian M. (2003)This note is concerned with the hieroglyph for the Maya month Wayeb. The standard variant of this glyph consists of the signs T157:548. The sign T157 and its allographs T728 / T769 depict the gaping lower jaw of the earth ... -
The New Silk Road: The European Union, China and lessons learned
Kühnhardt, Ludger (2018)China’s „Belt and Road Initiative“ fordert die Europäische Union heraus. Die EU muss proaktiver auf die chinesische Initiative antworten und China zu einer für beide Seiten fruchtbaren Zusammenarbeit gewinnen. Um die EU ... -
The Ontological Sources of Political Stability and Economy: Mahalla Mediation in the Rural Communities of Southern Tajikistan
Boboyorov, Hafiz (2013-09)For the sake of a modest contribution to Crossroads Studies, this article argues that state and society in Tajikistan is embedded into personal (kinship, patron-client, etc.) networks of people. These networks structure ... -
The Pleasures and Horrors of Eating: The Cultural History of Eating in Anglophone Literature
Gymnich, Marion; Lennartz, Norbert (2010)Browsing through books and TV channels we find people pre-occupied with eating, cooking and competing with chefs. Eating and food in today’s media have become a form of entertainment and art. A survey of literary history ... -
The Role of Cognitive and Motivational Processes in Food-Cue Reactivity: Evidence from Behavioural and Electrophysiological Investigations
Kirsten, Hannah (2022-10-14)Overeating triggered by food cues is assumed to contribute to the rising numbers of overweight and obesity in obesogenic environments. Thus, food-cue reactivity has become a growing research topic. This thesis aims to ... -
The role of the NLRP3 inflammasome in microglial senescence in tauopathies
Karabag, Deniz (2024-03-12)Background: Tauopathies including Alzheimer’s Disease and Frontotemporal Dementia are neurodegenerative disorders characterized by abnormal tau accumulation. Senescent cells, which present with a potentially ... -
The Significance of Geopolitical Issues for Internal Development and Intervention in Mountainous Areas of Crossroads Asia
Kreutzmann, Hermann (2013-01)This working paper illustrates the process of territorial transformation in time and space. From the period of Silk Road networks to imperial designs for spatial control in Crossroads Asia, external interests for local and ... -
The Signing of the Rome Treaties 65 Years Ago: Origins, Provisions and Effects
Gehler, Michael (2022)Die Römischen Verträge bildeten die Grundlage für eine jahrzehntelange westeuropäische Einigungsgeschichte. Ihre Entstehung basierte auf einem Kompromiss zwischen Frankreich und der Bundesrepublik in der Begründung einer ... -
The social priorities in unsustainable development: An empirical approach
Yttredal, Else Ragni (2023-01-31)From the late 1980s onwards, a generally accepted conception of sustainable development as a balance between the social system, economic system and biophysical environment has emerged and serves as an underpinning for ... -
The Spanish presidency: Buying more than it can choose?
Martínez Sierra, José Manuel (2002)The Spanish 2002 Presidency of the European Union set off on January, the 1st. During the six months of this Presidency, the Spanish Government attempted to harmonize its interest with the EU agenda. The EU ... -
The Struggle for Women Empowerment Through Education: in the novels Second Class Citizen (1974) by Buchi Emecheta and Das verborgene Wort (2001) by Ulla Hahn
Ogbuehi, Mary Rose-Claret (2020-07-01)In many cultures, women have always been looked down on. Women are subjected to all kinds of violence, such as rape, forced marriage, forced identity, dependence , and a lack of freedom of expression, giving rise to the ... -
The Term “Lima Bean Vessel” in the Classic Mayan Lexicon
Prager, Christian M. (2018-12-10)This research note, in sum, has proven that the Classic Maya used bowls in which beans were prepared and probably served as food, and designated some ceramics for this purpose with glyphic tags. With the identification of ...