The purpose of this volume is to shape conceptual tools to understand the impact of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) on the organization of universities. Traditional ...research-based universities, the most typical representatives of the higher education system, find themselves challenged by the speed and the wide range of technical innovations, but also by a vast array of implicit assumptions and explicit promises associated with the distribution of digital media.The author observes that as universities increasingly use digital media (computers and the Internet) to accomplish their tasks, a transformation takes place in an evolutionary rather than in a revolutionary way. Using the University of Klagenfurt as an in-depth case study, he explores such dynamic issues as how digital media affect the practice of research, the preservation and dissemination of knowledge (for example, through publishing and archiving), and delivery of education at universities. More broadly, he considers issues of organizational culture and design, administration, and leadership as universities integrate digital technologies into all aspects of their operations.
Die hier erstmals vorgestellte Bildnissammlung der österreichischen Erzherzogin Maria Anna (1738-1789), Tochter Maria Theresias und Franz Stephans von Lothringen, zeigt eine faszinierende Adaption ...kaiserlicher Repräsentationspraktiken. Die Porträts des Klagenfurter Konvoluts dienen der Darstellung der weit gefächerten Habsburgerfamilie und bieten einen exemplarischen Einblick in die höfische Porträtkultur des 18. Jahrhunderts.
In recent decades, the field of urban studies has neglected the question of the hinterland: the city's complex, changing relations to the diverse noncity landscapes that support urban life. Neil ...Brenner and Nikos Katsikis of the Urban Theory Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Design argue that this ‘hinterland question’ remains essential, but must also be radically reimagined under contemporary conditions.
This study presents a detailed mineralogical and chemical characterization of a chromium contamination in alluvial deposits underlying a leather tannery in Austria. Drill cores revealed that the ...contamination is represented by a black layer that exhibits sharp boundaries with adjacent brown alluvial sediments. This black layer is located below the groundwater table and begins at the source of the contamination. The black layer thickens with increasing distance from the source and the depth of the upper boundary remains at the same level relative to the surface. Mineralogical and chemical investigations showed that the black layer contains reduced Cr phases, a Cr(III) hydroxide and a Cr(III)-Ca-containing hydrocalcite, which are present as discrete grains, in vein-like pore spaces and/or as a coating around mineral grains. Cr(VI) is nearly only present above the groundwater table. Our 2-D model predicts a longitudinal spread of the black layer of approximately 37 m downgradient from the source and a maximum transversal spread of approximately 10 m. This study shows that, if the source of the contamination is not eliminated, the plume will increase continuously farther downgradient.
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•A striking black layer contains Cr(III) hydroxide and Cr(III)-Ca-hydrocalcite.•Hexavalent chromium is found in alluvial sediments above the black layer.•The shape of the Cr(tot) plume reveals the source of the contamination: a soakaway.•A certain depth and associated reducing strength is needed to develop the black layer.•A 2-D model predicts lateral extents of ∼37 m (longitudinal) and ∼10 m (transversal) of the black layer.
Care - Vom Rande betrachtet Reimer Gronemeyer, Patrick Schuchter, Klaus Wegleitner / Reimer Gronemeyer, Patrick Schuchter, Klaus Wegleitner
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»Care« steht im Zentrum des Lebens - aber am Rande der Gesellschaft. An den Abbruchkanten der Existenz werden Widersprüche besonders deutlich. Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes spannen einen Bogen von ...der Verletzlichkeit der Existenz und den Bewegungen des Gemüts am Rande des Lebens und der Gesellschaft hin zu Fragen, wie Care die Wissenschaft, die Gesellschaft und deren Organisationen vom Rande aus zu transformieren vermag: Was hilft uns dabei, mit den unauflösbaren Widersprüchen des Lebens und Sterbens umzugehen? In welcher Gesellschaft wollen wir leben? Ein inter- und transdisziplinärer Dialog mit dem Wirken von Andreas Heller.
Constitutes the refereed proceedings of HCI in Work and Learning, Life and Leisure, held as the 6th Symposium of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian ...Computer Society, USAB 2010, in Klagenfurt, Austria, in November 2010.
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