Politische Bildung gehört zum Grundkatalog der allgemeinen Erwachsenenbildung und wird mit öffentlichen Mitteln gefördert, u. a. mit dem Ziel, demokratische Werte und Verhaltensweisen in der Bevölkerung zu stärken. Die Volkshochschulen sind ein wichtiger Anbieter, der in seinem...

Let X be a semi-fractional Brownian sheet, that is a centred and continuous Gaussian random field with . We provide, for [alpha][set membership, variant](0,2), an analysis of the propagation of singularities into the fractional direction of X. Here, singularities are times where the law of the...

The whisky industry of Scotland originates from the 15th Century when in 1494 the earliest record of distilling in Scotland was documented ( www.scotch‐whisky.org.co ). Since then the whisky industry has developed to become an intrinsic part of Scottish life and today generates vital...

Dialectics as a scientific method has its limitations. Dialectics as an intrinsic aspect of reality is an eminent and essential force in social life. Dialectics is about structures and dialectics is about change. This article shows how dialectic mechanisms work. The general considerations are...

To understand organizational, strategic and technological change it would be helpful to resort to mechanisms that are responsible for triggering and directing deep-seated social change processes. Propositions about mechanisms have an interesting epistemological status, they take an intermediate...