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This is a sciencepoetical essay combining neurodidactics as an interdisciplinary research field representing an interface between neuroscience, didactics, and educational sciences with the potentials in and with recent post-constructivist and/or post-humanism, compostist, and multiparadigmatic theories of embodiment and matter becomings. It is an attempt to think new about the nature–culture divide and learning. The idea and notion of the rhizome, and thus the idea of the rhizome-embrained body of a child, is followed through. I write along a neutral and panpsychist monist philosophy of mind un/conscious–attention–discovery sensation–thinking–learning continuum, hopefully contributing to research on conceptual change in children and ultimately the Neuron. I write. I thus Pessoa word and I try to Cixous forethink in and with words. They are (my) stimulating electric currents.

"This article compares the responses to the declining birthrate by three very different regimes in Wilhelmine, Weimar and Nazi Germany. In their intent these policies were markedly different: just before and during the First World War a declining birthrate symbolized national decline, sapping national progress and military power and the central aim was to boost fertility almost at any price; eugenics was not yet a major influence on official Wilhelmine policy. In the wake of the devastation reaped by the lost war and also influenced by the depression at the end of the 1920s the democratically elected governments of the Weimar Republic attempted to 'rationalize' reproduction to suit the prevailing socio-economic circumstances and the belief in modernity in industry and everyday life. They favored 'fewer but better children' but their policies remained fragmented and heavily contested; lawmakers tried to balance individual rights and collective interests, welfarism and eugenic concerns. In contrast, Nazi leaders developed a comprehensive and sophisticated system of selective reproduction based on racial prejudice; legal safeguards to protect the rights of individuals were ruthlessly dismantled. Material and ideological inducements to boost the birthrate benefited only 'Aryans' and healthy Germans. A series of extremely repressive measures were introduced: on the one hand they were meant to curb the breeding of the 'unfit', like Jews, gypsies, or those considered congenitally diseased and, on the other, they aimed to curb individual birth control by those deemed 'fit'. But of course the picture is more complicated. If we compare official population programs with their implementation at the local level and also with the reproductive strategies employed by ordinary women and men, a more subtle picture emerges about the regimes which is marked by both fundamental changes but also striking continuities." (author's abstract)

Long description: Effizienzsteigerungen, Kostenersparnisse und Wettbewerbsvorteile - dafür stehen M2M-Lösungen. Axel Glanz und Oliver Jung stellen in diesem ersten Buch zum Thema neben typischen Prozesserleichterungen auch Produkte vor, die M2M erst möglich machen, z.B. die innovative Car-to-Car-Kommunikation, die Unfälle zu vermeiden hilft.Darüber hinaus kann M2M auch Baustein oder Wegbereiter für Innovationen auf anderen Gebieten sein. Dazu zählen beispielsweise Diebstahlsicherungen im Haushalt, die im Falle eines Einbruchs nicht nur die Sicherheitszentrale benachrichtigen, sondern auch den Hausbesitzer per SMS informieren.Diese neue Form der Kommunikation, ist eine unabdingbare Voraussetzung dafür, dass Industrie und Wirtschaft noch effizienter arbeiten können. Dieses Buch zeigt, wie es geht!

This book explores the interaction between mechanistic beliefs about human bodies and the successive technologies that have established and illustrated these beliefs. Drawing upon newer perspectives on technology and embodied human thought it provides a position from which widely held assumptions about our relationship with technology can be understood and questioned, by both showing how these presuppositions have emerged and developed, and examining the extent to which they are dependent upon our grasp of specific technologies

Throughout the ages, the idea of a "perfect" body has always existed, although what that kind of body is has changed. Today, many people still absorb these expectations of perfection and seek validation through social media and other platforms. This in turn has led to increasing instances of body shaming. This volume examines the complex issue of body image in today's society. It uses critical thinking questions, annotated quotes, and full-color photographs to illustrate the difficulties people face in appreciating and enjoying their bodies. It provides tips for developing a more positive body image and dealing with body shaming.

In today's society of humans and machines, automation, animation, and ecosystems are terms of concern. Categories of life and technology have become mixed in governmental policies and drive economic exploitation and the pathologies of everyday life. This book both curiously and critically advances the term that underlies these new developments: machine. ; Thomas Pringle: Introduction: Un/Civil Engineering Gertrud Koch: Animation of the Technical and the Quest for Beauty Bernard Stiegler: For a Neganthropology of Automatic Society Thomas Pringle: The Ecosystem Is an Apparatus: From Machinic Ecology to the Politics of Resilience

The rising mobility demand of today&rsquo ; s society leads to an increasing strain of noise and pollutant emissions on people and the environment. An increasing environmental awareness and the scarcity of fossil fuels are increasingly placing alternative-powered vehicles in the focus of politics, research and development. Electric vehicles represent a promising solution to this problem. The electric machine represents a design control lever for the optimization of the electric powertrain with regard to efficiency, power, weight and size. Therefore, accurate and realistic machine design tools for the design of electric machines are becoming increasingly important. In this paper, the authors present an electric machine design tool for electric machines using MATLAB® ; in order to enable an automated machine design. The electric machine design tool is published under an LGPL open source license.

Aspirated foreign bodies continue to present challenges to the Otorhinolaryngologists. The major issues involve the accurate diagnosis at the earliest and speedy, safe removal of the foreign body. Endoscopic removal is the mainstay of management of foreign body in tracheobronchial tree. Spontaneous expulsion of foreign body bronchus is a rare entity with few cases reported in literature. We report a rare and interesting case of 18-year-old male patient presented with sharp and pointed metallic foreign body in Right Middle lobe Bronchus i.e., sewing machine needle. Patient was admitted and planned for bronchoscopy. But prior to it, foreign body was spontaneously expelled out. The patient was discharged next day without any complication. Spontaneous expulsion saves the patient from the dangers of endoscopic removal of foreign body, but impose a great danger of subglottic lodgement of foreign body.