This study is part of the ECOS-ANID C22H03 project, which involves four universities in Chile and France: UV, UPLA, PUCV (Chile) and UPCité (France). The aim of this project is to characterise and analyse the personal mathematical work of future teachers of mathematics in linear algebra at the beginning of university. It also aims to develop open t...
Published in SIRIUS – Zeitschrift für Strategische Analysen
Als Staats- und Regierungsform ist die liberale Demokratie bereits seit einiger Zeit herausgefordert, von innen und von außen. Russlands Überfall auf die Ukraine wurde vom Niedergang der liberalen internationalen Ordnung und von der Schwäche ihrer Führungsmacht USA ermuntert. Vor diesem Hintergrund weckte die von Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz am 27. Fe...
Published in Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
As we enter the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) and address the urgent need to protect and restore ecosystems and their ecological functions at large scales, rewilding has been brought into the limelight. Interest in this discipline is thus increasing, with a large number of conceptual scientific papers published in recent years. Inc...
Published in Disability and rehabilitation. Assistive technology
Brain-computer interface (BCI)-controlled wheelchairs are a promising assistive technology. The majority of participants had positive views of these devices and showed a willingness to try out such a device.Concerns centered on safety, cost and aesthetics.Integrated obstacle avoidance was viewed positively by most of the participants, but some had ...
Published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
Published in Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte
During the Renaissance, the spider, as well as its mythological double Arachne, came to represent a form of technical exemplarity doubled by a form of practical intelligence. Some artists, such as Joris Hoefnagel and Tintoretto, made the spider a figure of artistic subtlety, allowing them to situate art in an intertwining of making and thinking. Bu...
Published in Linguistics Vanguard
This paper describes the Plains Cree phenomenon of Order as a form of alternation not yet described as such in the literature. First, we provide a brief description of relevant Plains Cree grammar and Order as a phenomenon. This is followed by an overview of how the concept of alternation has been used in linguistics as an analytic tool. Finally, w...
Published in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
A paradigm shift is taking place in the conception of solar cycles. In the previous conception, the changing numbers of sunspots over intervals of 9–14 years have been regarded as the fundamental solar cycle although two average 11-year cycles were necessary to account for the complete magnetic cycle. In the revised picture, sunspots are a phase in...
peer reviewed / As we enter the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030) and address the urgent need to protect and restore ecosystems and their ecological functions at large scales, rewilding has been brought into the limelight. Interest in this discipline is thus increasing, with a large number of conceptual scientific papers published in r...
Published in Apeiron
I argue that, in Plato’s Laws, demotic virtues (δημόσιαι ἀρεταί, 968a2) are the virtues that non-divine beings can attain. I consider two related questions: what demotic virtues are and how they relate to divine virtue. According to my interpretation, demotic virtues are an attainable – but unreliable – type of virtue that non-divine beings can imp...
