Anne Zimmermann, Susanne Wymann von Dach, Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel, David Molden, Thomas Breu,
Dedicated academic mountain journals emerged as of the beginning of the 20th century from a need to collect very diverse work focusing on mountains as a fascinating and challenging environment as well as a place of unique livelihood systems. We present a brief overview of the four peer-reviewed, indexed journals that exist today for mountain scholarship and show how strongly connected they are with an understanding of science linked to sustainable development. This specificity is confirmed by the ...
Tópico(s): Environmental and
2018 - Austrian Academy of Sciences | eco mont (Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research)
Toshimune Kambara, Tomotaka Umemura, Michael Ackert, Yutao Yang,
Previous studies have reported that religious words and religiosity affect mental processes and behaviors. However, it is unclear what psycholinguistic features of religious words (e.g., familiarity, imageability, and emotional aspects) are associated with each dimension of personal religiosity (intellect, ideology, public practice, private practice, and experience). The purpose of this study was to examine whether and how the above-mentioned psycholinguistic features of religious words correlate ...
Tópico(s): Social and Intergroup Psychology
2020 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Religions
Birgit Neumann, Gabriele Rippl,
Tópico(s): Postcolonial and
2017 - De Gruyter | Anglia - Zeitschrift für englische Philologie
The area of trade and culture reveals extreme fragmentation. Instead of mitigating this state, the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, which entered into force in March 2007, makes the disconnect between regulatory issues of trade and culture even more profound. The present article critiques this politically driven structural disconnection and exposes the Convention's failing potential to provide feasible solutions accommodating cultural policy ...
Tópico(s): Global trade and economics
2008 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
Claire Gervais, Marie‐Angélique Languille, Solenn Réguer, Martine Gillet, Edward P. Vicenzi, Sébastien Chagnot, F. Baudelet, Loïc Bertrand,
Prussian blue (PB) is an artists' pigment that has been frequently used in many artworks but poses several problems of conservation because of its fading under light and anoxia treatment. PB fading is due to the reduction of iron(III) into iron(II) and depends a lot on the object investigated. Due to the complexity of the structure, the precise physico-chemical mechanisms behind the redox process remain obscure. In this paper, we present a procedure to investigate light- and anoxia-induced fading ...
Tópico(s): Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications
2013 - Springer Science+Business Media | Applied Physics A
Scott Atran, Douglas Medin, Norbert Ross, Elizabeth Lynch, Valentina Vapnarsky, Edilberto Ucan Ek’, John Coley, Christopher Timura, Michael Baran,
Using a variation on an experimental approach from biology, we distinguish the influence of sociocultural factors from that of economic, demographic, and ecological factors in environmental management and maintenance. This is important to issues of global environmental change, where there is little empirical research into cultural effects on deforestation and land use. Findings with three groups who live in the same rainforest habitat and manifest strikingly distinct behaviors, cognitions, and social ...
Tópico(s): Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
2002 - University of Chicago Press | Current Anthropology
Chima Iheaturu, Emmanuel Ayodele, Chukwuma Okolie,
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with photogrammetric or remote sensing instrumentations offer numerous opportunities in mapping and data collection for topographic modelling.An example is an emerging technique known as Structure-from-Motion (SfM) photogrammetry used for the collection of low-cost, high spatial resolution, three-dimensional data.This study utilised the real time kinematic-based point-to-point validation technique and two sets of randomly selected ground control points to assess ...
Tópico(s): 3D Surveying and
2020 - Agricultural University of Cracow | Geomatics Landmanagement and Landscape
V. P. J. Arponen, Walter Dörfler, Ingo Feeser, Sonja B. Grimm, Daniel Groß, Martin Hinz, Daniel Knitter, Nils Müller‐Scheeßel, Konrad Ott, Artur Ribeiro,
Abstract With the emergence of modern techniques of environmental analysis and widespread availability of accessible tools and quantitative data, the question of environmental determinism is once again on the agenda. This paper is theoretical in character, attempting, for the benefit of drawing up research designs, to understand and evaluate the character of environmental determinism. We reach three main conclusions: (1) in a typical pattern of research design, studies seek to detect simultaneous ...
Tópico(s): Geographies of human-animal interactions
2019 - Cambridge University Press | Archaeological Dialogues
Alexander Raphael Groos, Reto Aeschbacher, Mauro Fischer, Nadine Kohler, Christoph Mayer, Armin Senn-Rist,
Unoccupied Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) equipped with optical instruments are increasingly deployed in high mountain environments to investigate and monitor glacial and periglacial processes. The comparison and fusion of UAV data with airborne and terrestrial data offers the opportunity to analyse spatio-temporal changes in the mountains and to upscale findings from local UAV surveys to larger areas. However, due to the lack of gridded high-resolution data in alpine terrain, the specific challenges and ...
Tópico(s): Cryospheric studies and observations
2022 - Frontiers Media | Frontiers in Remote Sensing
Sylvie Graf, Pavla Linhartová, Sabine Sczesny,
Combating prejudice against social minorities is a challenging task in current multicultural societies. Mass media can decisively shape prejudice, because it often represents the main source of information about social minorities. In 3 studies in the Czech Republic (N = 445) and Switzerland (N = 362; N = 220), we investigated how prejudice against negatively and positively perceived minorities (the Roma in Study 1, Kosovo Albanians in Study 2, Italians in Study 3) is influenced by a single exposure to a ...
Tópico(s): Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
2019 - Taylor & Francis | Media Psychology
Fur Gesellschaften, in denen sich die Allokation sozialer Positionen nach meritokratischen Kriterien gestaltet, hat das Prinzip der Chancengleichheit konstituierenden Charakter. Die grundlegende Vorstellung ist, dass die gesellschaftliche Position, die ein Individuum erreichen kann, nur von der eigenen Leistung abhangt, nicht jedoch von so genannt askriptiven Merkmalen wie zum Beispiel der sozialen Herkunft oder dem Geschlecht. Gesellschaften, in denen Chancengleichheit herrscht, werden als «offene» ...
Tópico(s): Social and
2012 - De Gruyter Open | Swiss Journal of Sociology
Reto Bürgin, Heike Mayer, Alexander Kashev, S. Haug,
The use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) allows to work in multiple locations. The purpose of this article is to investigate how multilocal knowledge workers engage in work in the interplay of workplaces between cities and mountain regions. We follow a mixed methods approach with intertwined quantitative and qualitative data sources. The results show that working in the periphery using marginality can be beneficial and disadvantageous at the same time. Furthermore, marginality ...
Tópico(s): Digital Economy and Work Transformation
2021 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Rural Studies
Sönke Szidat, Gary Salazar, Edith Vogel, Michael A. Battaglia, Lukas Wacker, Hans‐Arno Synal, Α. Türler,
The University of Bern has set up the new Laboratory for the Analysis of Radiocarbon with AMS (LARA) equipped with an accelerator mass spectrometer (AMS) MICADAS (MIni CArbon Dating System) to continue its long history of 14 C analysis based on conventional counting. The new laboratory is designated to provide routine 14 C dating for archaeology, climate research, and other disciplines at the University of Bern and to develop new analytical systems coupled to the gas ion source for 14 C analysis of ...
Tópico(s): Archaeological Research and Protection
2014 - Cambridge University Press | Radiocarbon
Sönke Szidat, Gary Salazar, Edith Vogel, Michael A. Battaglia, Lukas Wacker, Hans‐Arno Synal, Α. Türler,
The University of Bern has set up the new Laboratory for the Analysis of Radiocarbon with AMS (LARA) equipped with an accelerator mass spectrometer (AMS) MICADAS (MIni CArbon Dating System) to continue its long history of 14 C analysis based on conventional counting. The new laboratory is designated to provide routine 14 C dating for archaeology, climate research, and other disciplines at the University of Bern and to develop new analytical systems coupled to the gas ion source for 14 C analysis of ...
Tópico(s): Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
2014 - Cambridge University Press | Radiocarbon
Carolin Rapp, Kathrin Ackermann,
This paper scrutinizes the impact of intolerance toward diverse ethnic, religious, and cultural groups on an individual’s willingness to actively engage in non-violent protest. Following new insights, we examine the individual as well as the ecological effect of social intolerance on protest behavior. Drawing from insights of social psychology and communication science, we expect that the prevalence of intolerance reinforces the positive effect of individual-level intolerance on protest participation. ...
Tópico(s): Social and
2015 - Cambridge University Press | European Political Science Review
Michael Ackert, Erekle Maglakelidze, Irina Badurashvili, Stefan Huber,
This study presents the validation of the short forms of Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS) in Georgia. This country offers a unique Christian orthodox context with a long-lasting religious tradition and strong affiliation to churches. Translated short forms were administered in the years 2012 (CRS-5) and 2018 (CRSi-7). Participants reported on ideological, intellectual, and experiential aspects of their faith and their private and public religious practice in face-to-face interviews. The collected ...
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2020 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Religions
New technologies, in particular those stemming from digitisation, allow amongst other things the production of perfect copies, instantaneous and ubiquitous distribution of and easy access to information with no real location restrictions. The effects of these technological advances have largely been perceived as negative for the protection of traditional cultural expressions (TCE), both because of the peculiarities of the digital networked environment and because of the lack of appropriate intellectual ...
Tópico(s): Museums and
2008 - RELX Group (Netherlands) | SSRN Electronic Journal
Fides del Castillo, Clarence Darro del Castillo, Gregory Ching, Michael Ackert, Marie Antoinette Aliño, Rene M. Nob,
The Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS) is an instrument that measures the centrality, importance, or salience of religious meanings in personality. Addressing the dearth of research on the salience of religion among Filipino Christian youths, the researchers explore in this paper the degree of religiosity of selected university students and the relevance of religious beliefs in their daily life by validating the Abrahamic forms of the Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS-5, CRS-10, and CRS-15). ...
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2021 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Religions
Fides A. del Castillo, Clarence Darro del Castillo, Marie Antoinette Aliño, Rene M. Nob, Michael Ackert, Gregory Ching,
The presence of different religions and the freedom of people to navigate the religious space shows that religion in the Philippines is not a monolithic entity. This study validated three versions of the Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRSi-7, -14, and -20) which propose an adequate assessment tool for the diversity of religious belief systems co-existing in Philippine society. The sample (N = 514) was drawn from the young population of the country in an online survey. Descriptive statistics and Cronbach’ ...
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2020 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Religions
The Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS) is a measure of the centrality, importance or salience of religious meanings in personality that has been applied yet in more than 100 studies in sociology of religion, psychology of religion and religious studies in 25 countries with in total more than 100,000 participants. It measures the general intensities of five theoretical defined core dimensions of religiosity. The dimensions of public practice, private practice, religious experience, ideology and ...
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2012 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Religions
Inga Siebke, Lorenzo Campana, Marianne Ramstein, Anja Furtwängler, Albert Hafner, Sandra Lösch,
The discovery of a Neolithic dolmen in Switzerland with inhumations, dating between 3500 and 3000 BCE, was an exceptional finding. To provide best conditions for subsequent studies on the archaeological remains our interdisciplinary team decided to apply 3D documentation. Depending on different factors, two scanning systems with four scanners and photogrammetry were applied and the obtained data was combined. Detailed excavation plans and simultaneously a reduction of excavation time without loss ...
Tópico(s): Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
2018 - Elsevier BV | Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
Johannes Reich, Philipp Steiner, Ariane Ballmer, Lea Emmenegger, Marco Hostettler, Corinne Stäheli, Goce Naumov, Bojan Taneski, Valentina Todoroska, Konrad Schindler, Albert Hafner,
This article presents a novel methodology to the underwater documentation of pile fields in archaeological lakeside settlement sites using Structure from Motion (SfM). Mapping the piles of such sites is an indispensable basis to the exploitation of the high resolution absolute chronological data gained through dendrochronology. In a case study at the underwater site of Ploča, Mičov Grad at Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia, nine consecutive 10 m2 strips and a 6 m2 excavation section were uncovered, the ...
Tópico(s): Archaeological Research and Protection
2021 - Elsevier BV | Journal of Archaeological Science Reports
Jean‐David Gerber, Gérald Heß,
Landscape is increasingly conceptualized as a resource. We argue that although a resource-based approach may be positive in terms of conservation outcomes, focusing on use value does not do sufficient justice to the many complex facets of landscape. Reiterating the Florence Declaration on Landscape, which considers that "landscape is a common good", we suggest that the conceptualization of landscape as a commons will resolve the discrepancy. However, a conceptual shift towards a more holistic commons- ...
Tópico(s): Land Use and Ecosystem Services
2017 - Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals (Publishing Services) | International Journal of the Commons
“Cultural diversity” has become one of the latest buzzwords on the international policymaking scene. It is employed in various contexts—sometimes as a term close to “biological diversity”, at other times as correlated to the “exception culturelle” and most often, as a generic concept that is mobilised to counter the perceived negative effects of economic globalisation. While no one has yet provided a precise definition of what cultural diversity is, what we can observe is the emergence of the notion ...
Tópico(s): Global Trade and Competitiveness
2010 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Diversity
Samuel Wirth, Pascal Tschumi, Heike Mayer, Monika Bandi Tanner,
We examine the role of change agency in social innovations. Agency in social innovations can create new resources and capacities for transformative change in a region. To date, there is a lack of empirical studies investigating how agency manifests itself in social innovations. In particular, research has not yet investigated the detailed activities of social innovation actors throughout the phases of social innovation processes. In this paper we apply the concept of trinity of change agency to ...
Tópico(s): Rural development and sustainability
2023 - Taylor & Francis | Regional Studies Regional Science
Pieter Muysken’s work since the late 1970s on Northern Quechua has suggested the possibility that grammatical structure may be restructured due to contact in a gradual, rather than an abrupt, fashion (cf. Muysken 1977, 1980, 2000, but especially Muysken 2009, which develops ideas found in Arends 1993, 1996, and also Cardoso 2009). Additionally, he has proposed that such a “gradual transformation of an expansion language, Incaic imperial Quechua, into a morphologically more simple variety as it spread ...
Tópico(s): Multilingual Education and Policy
2015 - Dartmouth College Library | Linguistic Discovery
Cathy Whitlock, Danièle Colombaroli, Marco Conedera, Willy Tinner,
Conservation efforts to protect forested landscapes are challenged by climate projections that suggest substantial restructuring of vegetation and disturbance regimes in the future. In this regard, paleoecological records that describe ecosystem responses to past variations in climate, fire, and human activity offer critical information for assessing present landscape conditions and future landscape vulnerability. We illustrate this point drawing on 8 sites in the northwestern United States, New ...
Tópico(s): American Environmental and Regional History
2017 - Wiley | Conservation Biology
This article explores corporate regional engagement and related social capital in non-core regions. Corporate regional engagement comprises various activities of firms to influence regional contexts, which are challenging in non-core regions (e.g. on account of their organizational or institutional thinness). Corporate regional engagement engenders positive effects for regional development when firms collaborate among themselves (bonding social capital) and with other actors (bridging social capital) ...
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2017 - Taylor & Francis | European Planning Studies
Heike Mayer, Antoine Habersetzer, Rahel Meili,
Urban and rural areas differ in economic, social and environmental terms. Due to the diverging dynamics in urban and rural areas, the social and economic distance between them might increase in the future even more. Rural entrepreneurs with linkages to urban areas are able to bridge the rural–urban divide by accessing some of the urban features, such as knowledge and markets, while at the same time profiting from the advantages of their peripheral location. This paper highlights exploratory results ...
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2016 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Sustainability
Journal Article Transnational Affinities and Invented Traditions: The Napoleonic Wars in British and Hanoverian Memory, 1815–1915 Get access Jasper Heinzen Jasper Heinzen Historical Institute, University of Bern Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 127, Issue 529, December 2012, Pages 1404–1434, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ces248 Published: 26 November 2012
Tópico(s): Historical Art and Culture Studies
2012 - Oxford University Press | The English Historical Review