Wir reden mit dem Nobelpreisträger Prof. Hartmut Michel über seine Arbeiten zur Erforschung der Photosynthese und über die Frage, warum die Natur dem menschlichen Erfindergeist so deutlich überlegen ...ist.
We talk to Nobel Prize winner Prof Hartmut Michel about his work on the study of photosynthesis and about the question of why nature is so clearly superior to human inventiveness.
A major contribution to the literature of Burmese history and politics, this book traces the rich and tragic history of the Mon people of Burma and Thailand, from the pre-colonial era to the present ...day. This vivid account of ethnic politics and civil war situates the story of Mon nationalism within the 'big picture' of developments in Burma, Thailand and the region. Primarily an empirical study, it also addresses issues of identity and anticipates Burmese politics in the new millennium. A particular feature of the book is its first-hand descriptions of insurgency and displacement, drawn from the author's experiences as an aid worker in the war zone.
'Fascinating account of a people who are almost unknown outside the region, and who are stuggling to preserve their identity in a rapidly changing world.' - Journal of the Siam Society
Part I: The Mon in Burma and Thailand Part II. Classical Mon Civilisation and the Colonial Period Part III. Independence, Civil War and Ethnic Insurgency Part IV. Revolutionaries, Warlords and Refugees Part V. The Mon Ceasefire and Since Part VI. The Sheldrake and the Peacock
Desde a Constituição de 1988 - a assim chamada "constituição cidadã" - os direitos humanos foram assumidos como política de Estado no Brasil. As reações à versão mais recente do Programa Nacional de ...Direitos Humanos - ampliação e aprofundamento das anteriores - no entanto, procuraram associá-lo a um instrumento de revanche ou de violação do Estado de direito: censura, intervenção estatal. O artigo refaz o histórico da questão no Brasil e analisa o programa e sua repercussão.
Dans cet article, on cherche à montrer que les responsables de la Constitution brésilienne de 1988 ont créé un modèle d'État federal qui associe une large autorité juridictionnelle à l'État central ...avec des possibilités institutionnelles assez limitées de veto aux gouvernements subnationaux. L'etude tien pour base l'examen des 59 initiatives en matière d'intérêt federal soumises au Congrès national de 1989 à 2006. On y examine les déterminants fédératifs du processus décisionnel, tout en faisant la distinction entre les préférences explicites des principaux acteurs et l'effet des institutions fédératives, contrôlées par mandat présidentiaux.
O artigo analisa as relações entre os movimentos sociais dos educadores nas décadas de1970 e 1980 e o processo de democratização da educação, que culminou com apromulgação da Constituição de 1988, ...referendada pela LDB nº 9394/96. Através de umaabordagem qualitativa, buscou-se compreender o papel que os educadores brasileirosdesempenharam no ideário que permeou o período de discussões e consolidação daConstituição através de suas reivindicações. As análises textuais se construíram a partir dascategorias democracia, políticas públicas, educação e movimentos sociais tendo comoaportes teóricos o pensamento de autores como Marx, Gramsci, Ellen Wood, Maria daGlória Gohn e outros, cujos argumentos se fundamentam a partir de uma visão dialética,apoiada na teoria crítica. O trabalho realizado revelou que a democratização da educaçãose constituía em uma das principais reivindicações dos educadores nas décadas de 1970 e1980 e as ações presentes em seus movimentos contribuíram, mas não foram definidorasda inserção das noções de democracia que estão postas na Constituição Federal, como porexemplo, a gestão democrática do ensino público.
This sharp study makes for evocative reading as it introduces the new concept of regeneration as key to any restoratively arranged peace operation. Military, police, NGO and civilian peacekeeper ...practitioners, as well as academic theorists, can use this unique work to produce better and more lasting results for conflict ridden communities.
Redress for survivors of harm, including the large number of individuals who were abused as children while in institutional care, invokes complex and contested areas of law, particularly where it ...involves litigation and disputes over evidence about long past events. This has already been documented in numerous inquiries and is currently being further examined in the context of the ongoing Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Ensuring appropriate legal redress for survivors of institutional abuse (and other forms of abuse) is an important imperative. However those claimants and their legal advisers currently face major challenges and obstacles in obtaining the documentary evidence necessary for the litigation process, due to shortcomings in recordkeeping laws and the absence of standards in the past:
Owing to their evidentiary nature, records have been at the centre of a number of landmark investigations into abuse of children while in state care: records provide evidence of identity, and corroborate testimony of unrecorded events which occurred many years ago. Ironically, it has been the absence of records which has proved most problematic, both for inquirers and the would-be subjects of those records.
This study uses National Educational Longitudinal Study data to show that information about higher education, guidance, and essential preparatory actions taken by secondary students influence whether ...they will attend postsecondary educational institutions (PEIs) within 2 years of high school graduation, and, if so, what types of institutions. The conceptual framework is embedded in research on college choice and talent loss. Talent loss is described as the occurrence of promising students not reaching their full educational potential. Choice theory attempts to explain the myriad factors contributing to individuals' postsecondary destinations. We find that increased levels of information, guidance, and critical actions taken are positively and significantly associated with initial enrollment in a 4-year PEI, as opposed to enrollment in a 2-year PEI (full or part time) or no enrollment. These factors explain a large part of the effect of socioeconomic status on postsecondary destination, controlling for high school achievement.
The major research objective of this study was to assess the effect of parental involvement on students' academic growth during the high school years. The National Education Longitudinal Study of ...1988 (NELS:88) data were used, and latent growth curve analysis within the framework of structural equation modeling was the major analytic tool. The following are the major findings of the study: (a) Parental involvement appears to be multidimensional; (b) ethnic group samples reported comparable degrees of parental involvement; (c) parents' aspiration for their children's education attainment had a consistent and positive effect on students' academic growth; and (d) the effect, or lack thereof, of parental involvement was consistent across ethnic group samples and across data sources (student vs. parent data). Plausible reasons for the consistent effect of parents' aspirations on students' academic achievement are discussed. The author offers explanations for why some parental involvement dimensions showed negative, though generally small, effects on students' academic growth.
Longitudinal causal models of growth in math and English constructs (school grades, standardized tests, academic self-concept, affect and coursework selection) were based on three waves of data from ...the large (N = 24,599), nationally representative National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988. Math and English self-concepts had significant path coefficients leading to subsequent school grades, coursework selection, and standardized test scores. Unlike previous studies that did not consider math and English constructs in the same model, we found these relations to be very domain specific (e. g., there were significant positive paths from math self-concept to subsequent math outcomes but not to subsequent English outcomes). Girls had higher scores for all English constructs and math school grades, but they had lower math self-concepts. Whereas similar studies conducted over the past 20 years found diminishing gender differences, these data show relative gains for girls in achievement and coursework selection for both mathematics and English. Path coefficients relating prior math and English constructs to subsequent outcomes, however, were similar for boys and girls. Hence, the extreme domain specificity of relations between prior self-concept and subsequent outcomes was similar for boys and girls.
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