Refine
Has Fulltext
- yes (21)
Year of publication
- 2009 (21) (remove)
Document Type
- Journal article (21) (remove)
Keywords
- Handlungsorientierung (6)
- Projektarbeit (4)
- Deutsch als Fremdsprache (3)
- German as a foreign language (3)
- Botanik (2)
- Flora (2)
- Medialität (2)
- Metapopulation (2)
- Pflanzenfressende Insekten (2)
- Unterfranken (2)
- metapopulation (2)
- Abwehr (1)
- Ameisen (1)
- Aufführung (1)
- Aufgabenorientierung (1)
- Blattkäfer (1)
- Chrysomelidae (1)
- Coleoptera (1)
- Dienstleistung (1)
- Drama in language teaching (1)
- Eiparasitismus (1)
- Endosymbiont (1)
- Erzähltheorie (1)
- Eulophidae (1)
- Europe (1)
- Flussufer (1)
- Fragmentierung (1)
- Französisch als Fremdsprache (1)
- Fremdsprachenunterricht an der Universität (1)
- French as a foreign language (1)
- Frühneuhochdeutsch (1)
- Galeruca tanaceti (1)
- Games in language teaching (1)
- Grabfeld (1)
- Grenzflächenaktiver Stoff (1)
- Habitat fragmentation (1)
- Hautflügler (1)
- Haßberge (1)
- Homerus (1)
- Host-parasite interactions (1)
- Hymenoptera (1)
- Interkultureller Austausch (1)
- Kooperation (1)
- Landeskunde (1)
- Laufkäfer (1)
- Lehrerfortbildung (1)
- Narratologie (1)
- Neue Technologie (1)
- Oomyzus galerucivorus (1)
- Oralsekret (1)
- Parasit (1)
- Passionsspiel (1)
- Performativität (1)
- Poetologie (1)
- Professionalisierung (1)
- Rezeption (1)
- Rhön (1)
- Ritualität (1)
- Schüler (1)
- Spiele im Fremdsprachenunterricht (1)
- Südthüringen (1)
- Textualität (1)
- Theater im Fremdsprachenunterricht (1)
- Theatralität (1)
- Theoretische Ökologie (1)
- University language teaching (1)
- Universitätsbibliothek (1)
- Web log (1)
- Wirt (1)
- Wortschatz (1)
- Wuerzburg (1)
- Wurzburg (1)
- Würzburg (1)
- Zuckerrübeneule (1)
- anti-predator defence (1)
- biosurfactants (1)
- carabid beetles (1)
- caterpillars (1)
- demographic stochasticity (1)
- flooding disturbance (1)
- herbivore (1)
- host plant density (1)
- individual-based model (1)
- individual-based simulation (1)
- intercultural exchange (1)
- lowland river banks (1)
- multi-species approach (1)
- multitrophic (1)
- preventive strategies (1)
- regurgitation (1)
- river restoration (1)
- secondary metabolites (1)
- service (1)
- sex-biased dispersal (1)
- sex-specific competition (1)
- spiders (1)
- suicide prevention (1)
- tansy leaf beetle (1)
- task-based language teaching (1)
- university library (1)
- vegetation structure (1)
- Übersetzung (1)
Institute
EU-Project number / Contract (GA) number
- 223138 (1)
Die erste deutsche Homer-Übersetzung zeugt nicht nur von der typisch humanistischen Wertschätzung antiker Autoren, sondern stellt einen genuinen Beitrag zur Entwicklung frühneuzeitlicher Poetologie dar. Durch die Verwendung rhetorischer und metrischer Mittel sowie durch die logische Begründung kausaler und temporaler Zusammenhänge setzt Simon Schaidenreisser eigene Akzente, die die deutsche Odyssee von der lateinischen Vorlage und dem griechischen Prätext unterscheiden. Das in der Vorrede angegebene Ziel seiner Übersetzung, die deutsche Sprache und Literatur zu bereichern, hat Schaidenreisser zweifellos erreicht.
This article focuses on the mediality of the Donaueschinger passion play, oscillating between textuality and performativity, rituality and theatrality. It argues that the play is composed as a reading text, regarding the speech, style and the narrative, poetological and exegetical character of its stage directions. In spite of its being intended to be read the passion play exhibits theatralic and liturgical elements, that allow to identify its literary genre. The detailed description of décor and actions on stage and even of the audience helps to imagine a performance, that exceeds the textual status of the manuscript. The text's performative dimension invites the reader to participate in contemplating Christ's passion and in worshiping him.
Background
Suicide and non-fatal suicidal behaviour are significant public health issues in Europe requiring effective preventive interventions. However, the evidence for effective preventive strategies is scarce. The protocol of a European research project to develop an optimized evidence based program for suicide prevention is presented.
Method
The groundwork for this research has been established by a regional community based intervention for suicide prevention that focuses on improving awareness and care for depression performed within the European Alliance Against Depression (EAAD). The EAAD intervention consists of (1) training sessions and practice support for primary care physicians,(2) public relations activities and mass media campaigns, (3) training sessions for community facilitators who serve as gatekeepers for depressed and suicidal persons in the community and treatment and (4) outreach and support for high risk and self-help groups (e.g. helplines). The intervention has been shown to be effective in reducing suicidal behaviour in an earlier study, the Nuremberg Alliance Against Depression. In the context of the current research project described in this paper (OSPI-Europe) the EAAD model is enhanced by other evidence based interventions and implemented simultaneously and in standardised way in four regions in Ireland, Portugal, Hungary and Germany.
The enhanced intervention will be evaluated using a prospective controlled design with the primary outcomes being composite suicidal acts (fatal and non-fatal), and with intermediate outcomes being the effect of training programs, changes in public attitudes, guideline-consistent media reporting. In addition an analysis of the economic costs and consequences will be undertaken, while a process evaluation will monitor implementation of the interventions within the different regions with varying organisational and healthcare contexts.
Discussion
This multi-centre research seeks to overcome major challenges of field research in suicide prevention. It pools data from four European regions, considerably increasing the study sample, which will be close to one million. In addition, the study will gather important information concerning the potential to transfer this multilevel program to other health care systems. The results of this research will provide a basis for developing an evidence-based, efficient concept for suicide prevention for EU-member states.
Mit Einführungsveranstaltungen für Schüler, individueller Beratung bei der Recherche und einem eigenen Bereich auf der Homepage unterstützt die Universitätsbibliothek Würzburg Schüler bei ihren ersten wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten. Damit soll auch eine Brücke geschlagen werden zwischen den Bildungsinstitutionen Schule und Hochschule.
Vegetation structure can profoundly influence patterns of abundance, distribution, and reproduction of herbivorous insects and their susceptibility to natural enemies. The three main structural traits of herbaceous vegetation are density, height, and connectivity. This study determined the herbivore response to each of these three parameters by analysing oviposition patterns in the field and studying the underlying mechanisms in laboratory bioassays. The generalist leaf beetle, Galeruca tanaceti L. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), preferentially deposits its egg clutches on non-host plants such as grasses. Earlier studies revealed that oviposition within structurally complex vegetation reduces the risk of egg parasitism. Consequently, leaf beetle females should prefer patches with dense, tall, or connected vegetation for oviposition in order to increase their reproductive success. In the present study, we tested the following three hypotheses on the effect of stem density, height, and connectivity on oviposition: (1) Within habitats, the number of egg clutches in areas with high stem densities is disproportionately higher than in low-density areas. The number of egg clutches on (2) tall stems or (3) in vegetation with high connectivity is higher than expected for a random distribution. In the field, stem density and height were positively correlated with egg clutch presence. Moreover, a disproportionately high presence of egg clutches was determined in patches with high stem densities. Stem height had a positive influence on oviposition, also in a laboratory two-choice bioassay, whereas stem density and connectivity did not affect oviposition preferences in the laboratory. Therefore, stem height and, potentially, density, but not connectivity, seem to trigger oviposition site selection of the herbivore. This study made evident that certain, but not all traits of the vegetation structure can impose a strong influence on oviposition patterns of herbivorous insects. The results were finally compared with data on the movement patterns of the specialised egg parasitoid of the herbivore in comparable types of vegetation structure.
River banks are naturally disturbed habitats, in which local flood events and the landscape structure are expected to govern riparian species assemblages. Not solely effects of flooding per se, but also related changes in vegetation structure will affect species’ distribution. By elucidating the relationships between species’ occurrence and multivariate habitat conditions on a restricted spatial scale, insight into conservation strategies to preserve riparian species is gained. Ordination and grouping methods revealed important environmental and functional trait constraints on species composition of predatory riparian arthropod assemblages. Mainly flooding disturbance appeared to affect spider and carabid beetle species composition. Habitat affinity and dispersal ability were retained as important traits explaining similarity between arthropod assemblages. River banks similar in species composition differed in absolute and functional group species richness. Furthermore, Poisson regressions demonstrated the importance of variation in discharge regime, sediment composition and vegetation structure for the preservation of rare riparian arthropods. Whereas hygrophilic species benefited from increased vegetation cover, xerothermophilic specialists were favoured by increased flooding disturbance. In contrast to flight-active riparian carabids occurring throughout the river system, especially cursorial spiders are expected to go extinct under increased anthropogenic alterations of discharge regimes. We show the importance of a dynamic and evidence-based approach of river management on a local scale to preserve vulnerable riparian arthropods. In general, river restoration should generate the required heterogeneity in environmental conditions (e.g. dynamic processes) at the river bank level, thereby increasing the sustainability of riverine landscapes. More-over, we argue that the understanding of functional responses towards environmental factors results in general and widely applicable guiding concepts for species conservation.
Abstract: Inbreeding depression, asymmetries in costs or benefits of dispersal, and the mating system have been identified as potential factors underlying the evolution of sex-biased dispersal. We use individual-based simulations to explore how the mating system and demographic stochasticity influence the evolution of sex-specific dispersal in a metapopulation with females competing over breeding sites, and males over mating opportunities. Comparison of simulation results for random mating with those for a harem system (locally, a single male sires all offspring) reveal that even extreme variance in local male reproductive success (extreme male competition) does not induce male-biased dispersal. The latter evolves if the between-parch variance in reproductive success is larger for males than females. This can emerge due to demographic stochasticity if the habitat patches are small. More generally, members of a group of individuals experiencing higher spatio-temporal variance in fitness expectations may evolve to disperse with greater probability than others.
Abstract: 1. The response of dispersal towards evolution largely depends on its heritability for which upper limits are determined by the trait's repeatability. 2. In the Linyphiid spider E. atra, we were able to separate long- and short-distance dispersal behaviours (respectively ballooning and rappelling) under laboratory conditions. By performing repeated behavioural trials for females, we show that average dispersal trait values decrease with increasing testing days. By comparing mated and unmated individuals during two periods (before and after mating for the mated group, and the same two periods for the unmated group), we show that mating has no effect on the mean displayed dispersal behaviour or its within-individual variation. Repeatabilities were high and consistent for ballooning motivation, but not for rappelling. 3. Ballooning motivation can be regarded as highly individual-specific behaviour, while general pre-dispersal and rappelling behaviours showed more individual variation. Such difference in repeatability between long-and short-distance dispersal suggests that short-and long-distance dispersal events are triggered by different ecological and evolutionary mechanisms.
Background: Male killing endosymbionts manipulate their arthropod host reproduction by only allowing female embryos to develop into infected females and killing all male offspring. Because the resulting change in sex ratio is expected to affect the evolution of sex-specific dispersal, we investigated under which environmental conditions strong sex-biased dispersal would emerge, and how this would affect host and endosymbiont metapopulation persistence. Results: We simulated host-endosymbiont metapopulation dynamics in an individual-based model, in which dispersal rates are allowed to evolve independently for the two sexes. Prominent male-biased dispersal emerges under conditions of low environmental stochasticity and high dispersal mortality. By applying a reshuffling algorithm, we show that kin-competition is a major driver of this evolutionary pattern because of the high within-population relatedness of males compared to those of females. Moreover, the evolution of sex-specific dispersal rescues metapopulations from extinction by (i) reducing endosymbiont fixation rates and (ii) by enhancing the extinction of endosymbionts within metapopulations that are characterized by low environmental stochasticity. Conclusion: Male killing endosymbionts induce the evolution of sex-specific dispersal, with prominent male-biased dispersal under conditions of low environmental stochasticity and high dispersal mortality. This male-biased dispersal emerges from stronger kin-competition in males compared to females and induces an evolutionary rescue mechanism.
Many organisms show polymorphism in dispersal distance strategies. This variation is particularly ecological relevant if it encompasses a functional separation of short- (SDD) and long-distance dispersal (LDD). It remains, however, an open question whether both parts of the dispersal kernel are similarly affected by landscape related selection pressures. We implemented an individual-based model to analyze the evolution of dispersal traits in fractal landscapes that vary in the proportion of habitat and its spatial configuration. Individuals are parthenogenetic with dispersal distance determined by two alleles on each individual‘s genome: one allele coding for the probability of global dispersal and one allele coding for the variance of a Gaussian local dispersal with mean value zero. Simulations show that mean distances of local dispersal and the probability of global dispersal, increase with increasing habitat availability, but that changes in the habitat's spatial autocorrelation impose opposing selective pressure: local dispersal distances decrease and global dispersal probabilities increase with decreasing spatial autocorrelation of the available habitat. Local adaptation of local dispersal distance emerges in landscapes with less than 70% of clumped habitat. These results demonstrate that long and short distance dispersal evolve separately according to different properties of the landscape. The landscape structure may consequently largely affect the evolution of dispersal distance strategies and the level of dispersal polymorphism.
Fragmentation, deterioration, and loss of habitat patches threaten the survival of many insect species. Depending on their trophic level, species may be differently affected by these factors. However, studies investigating more than one trophic level on a landscape scale are still rare. In the present study we analyzed the effects of habitat size, isolation, and quality for the occurrence and population density of the endangered leaf beetle Cassida canaliculata Laich. (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) and its egg parasitoid, the hymenopteran wasp Foersterella reptans Nees (Hymenoptera: Tetracampidae). C. canaliculata is strictly monophagous on meadow sage (Salvia pratensis), while F. reptans can also parasitize other hosts. Both size and isolation of habitat patches strongly determined the occurrence of the beetle. However, population density increased to a much greater extent with increasing host plant density ( = habitat quality) than with habitat size. The occurrence probability of the egg parasitoid increased with increasing population density of C. canaliculata. In conclusion, although maintaining large, well-connected patches with high host plant density is surely the major conservation goal for the specialized herbivore C. canaliculata, also small patches with high host plant densities can support viable populations and should thus be conserved. The less specialized parasitoid F. reptans is more likely to be found on patches with high beetle density, while patch size and isolation seem to be less important.
Insects have evolved an astonishing array of defences to ward off enemies. Well-known and widespread is the regurgitation of oral secretions (OS), fluids that repel attacking predators. In herbivores, the effectiveness of OS has been ascribed so far to the presence of deterrent secondary metabolites sequestered from the host plant. This notion implies, however, that generalists experience less protection on plants with low amounts of secondary metabolites or with compounds ineffective against potential enemies. Resolving the dilemma, we describe a novel defence mechanism that is independent of deterrents as it relies on the OS’ intrinsic detergent properties. The OS of Spodoptera exigua (and other species) was found to be highly amphiphilic and well capable of wetting the hydrophobic cuticle of predatory ants. As a result, affected ants stopped attacking and engaged in extensive cleansing. The presence of surfactants was sufficient to explain the defensive character of herbivore OS. We hypothesize that detergency is a common but unrecognised mode of defence which provides a base level of protection that may or may not be further enhanced by plant-derived deterrents. Our study also proves that insects ‘invented’ the use of defensive surfactants long before modern agriculture had started applying them as insecticides.
Ernst Koch (1843-1926), Gymnasiallehrer in Meiningen (Südthüringen), hat sich neben seinen Forschungen zu Geschichte und Landeskunde des Herzogtums Meiningen in den Jahren zwischen 1895 und 1906 auch intensiv mit der Flora von Südthüringen und angrenzender Gebiete Unterfrankens beschäftigt. Seine floristischen Aktivitäten werden dargestellt und seine Beziehungen zum Thüringischen Botanischen Verein anhand des noch erhaltenen Briefwechsels beschrieben.
Nicht Tabu
(2009)
Dieser Artikel beschreibt eine Unterrichtssequenz für den Deutschunterricht im Bereich Deutsch als Fremdsprache und richtet sich an Lernende der Niveaustufe A2. Er zeigt, wie Lernende spielerisch sowohl rezeptive Sprachkenntnisse als auch aktive Sprachbeherrschung verbessern und ihren Wortschatz erweitern können. Ein besonders wichtiges Kriterium sind dabei der Spielcharakter und die Auflockerung des Unterrichts, sowie die Möglichkeit, individuell auf die Bedürfnisse der Studenten eingehen zu können.
Ein internationales Kochbuch
(2009)
In diesem Artikel wird eine Unterrichtssequenz beschrieben, die sich über einen Zeitraum von zirka 2 Wochen hinzieht und sich an Deutschlernende auf A1-Niveau richtet. Unterrichtsprojekt und Inhalt des Artikels ist ein internationales Kochbuch, das die Studenten selbst entwerfen. Das Projekt eignet sich besonders zur Binnendifferenzierung von großen Gruppen. Jedes Kapitel wird von einer Gruppe bearbeitet, so dass die Studenten je nach Fähigkeiten und Lerntempo individuell ihr Wissen anwenden und erweitern können. Der Artikel gibt einen Überblick über die einzelnen Kapitel des Kochbuches, die jeweiligen Lernziele und allgemeine didaktische Hinweise in Bezug auf das Projekt.
DaF-Unterricht an Hochschulen hat zum Ziel, nicht-deutschen Studierenden möglichst zügig die deutsche Sprache zu vermitteln. Da sie sich bereits im Zielsprachenland aufhalten und hier (für begrenzte Zeit) leben, ist es wichtig, auch landeskundliche Kenntnisse zu erwerben. Beides geschieht im universitären Sprachunterricht aufgrund von äußeren Rahmenbedingungen oft sehr "kopflastig". Projektorientierte Methoden können hier Abhilfe schaffen, da jeder einzelne Lernerde sehr viel intensiver selbst aktiv werden muss als im herkömmlichen Sprachunterricht. Besonders gewinnbringend werden Projekte, wenn sie in Kooperation mit deutschen Muttersprachlern, am besten künftigen DeutschlehrerInnen stattfinden. Diese sind nicht nur authentische Gesprächspartner, sondern haben zudem auch (in unterschiedlich ausgeprägtem Maße) didaktische Kenntnisse, die in die Projektarbeit einfließen. Sie selbst können in solchen Kooperationen wichtige Erfahrungen für ihren Lehrberuf sammeln. Wie dies in der Praxis aussehen kann, soll in diesem Beitrag exemplarisch vorgestellt werden.
Im Artikel wird ein binationales Internet-Projekt beschrieben. Daran nahmen ein Deutschkurs der Universität Alcalá de Henares in Spanien und zwei Spanischkurse der Universität Würzburg teil. Diese tauschten sich über einen Web-Blog aus. Das Ziel war, die jeweilige Stadt vorzustellen und so der anderen Seite einen virtuellen Besuch im Land der Zielsprache zu ermöglichen. Der Artikel beschreibt den didaktischen Umgang mit dem Blog und gibt Hinweise für Lehrende, die einen Blog im Unterricht einsetzen möchten.