Metatheoretical and, more generally, methodological analyses of psychological problems and theories have a long tradition; however, their impact on scientific practice, especially on the clarification and testing of existing psychological theories and the formulation of new ones, has so far been less than spectacular.
Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, welche Rolle Kollektivauseinandersetzungen zwischen Arbeitgebern und Gewerkschaften in einer Volkswirtschaft mit zentralisiertem Arbeitsmarkt spielen.
Am Fallbeispiel einer Verteiler-LKW-Tätigkeit wird eine Computersimulation als arbeitswissenschaftliches Instrumentarium zur Beurteilung von Belastungen und Beanspruchungen bei der Fahrzeugführung vorgestellt.
This book provides an account of the origins and development of iconic and symbolic representations in our evolutionary lineage, the hominis, and of the cognitive capacities and brain structures that support such a development.
In this book, a model of long-term interrelationshipsbetween income distribution, population growth and economicdevelopment is developed and estimated from data for 54countries.
Since the thalidomide (Contergan) tragedy about 30 years agothe induction of prenatally-induced morphological orfunctional defects has been an area of extensive research.
The initial purposes of this book were to update and extend the discussion and the results presented ill our previous book, The Labor Market and Business Cycle Theories.
Economic Policy in a Demographically Divided World containsthe economic analysis of the consequences of demographicchange and the diverging population developments in aninterdependent world economy in particular.
Ausgehend von der geologischen Struktur Oberägyptens und der mineralogischen Zusammensetzung der Gesteine gehen die Autoren mit reichhaltigem Bildmaterial auf Spurensuche in alten ägyptischen Steinbrüchen.
The examination of excavated human bone finds is mainly the domain of anthropologists and forensic pathologists, the former working with ancient and historical specimens, the latter with modern finds.
Presented here is an account of industrial and general air pollution problems in view of air quality management, community and industrial health aspects, emission inventorying, emission and air quality measurement techniques, dispersion phenomena and control technologies.
Since 1987, the investigation of the relationship between female labour market behaviour and fertility, which forms part of the research programme of the Economic Institute / Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Labour Market and Distribution Issues (CIAV) of Utrecht University, also became a part of the research programme of the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI).
Die von Sneed und Stegmüller begründete strukturalistische Wissenschaftstheorie erlaubt es, die Struktur und Dynamik empirischer Theorien hinreichend differenziert und zugleich realistisch zu beschreiben.
The new field of applied genetic research, genetic toxicology and mutation research investigates the muta- genicity and cancerogenicity of chemicals and other agents.
Die Beiträge dieses Tagungsbands befassen sich aus der Sicht der Linguistischen Datenverarbeitung und ihrer benachbarten Disziplinen mit den Interaktionsmöglichkeiten zwischen Mensch und Computer.
With the growing recognition during the last two centuries that the Earth has an immense age and processes over long periods of time have changed the morphology and composition of the Earth's crust, geologists have become increasingly interested in determination of absolute ages.
There is a growing need for cooperation between disciplines, not only to deal with the burning problems of the present, but to study the interaction of societies and their ecosystems in the past.
Many times when the author saw the bedouins of southern Sinai excavate their wells in the crystalline rocks, from which this part of the peninsula is built, the story of Moses striking the rock to get water came to mind.
The International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), a nonprofit, public foundation, was established in 1978 to advance the sciences of nutrition, toxicology, and food safety.
Communication is both a prerequisite and manifestation of social organization and in this sense several chapters of this volume are aimed to investigate the way vocal communication serves its ultimate function of maintaining social organization.
Die vielgestaltigen Prozesse bei Herzkrankheiten, wie die funktionellen Störungen und die koronare Herzkrankheit, erfordern multimodale, interaktionistische Forschungsstrategien, die die biologischen, psychologischen und sozialen Faktoren integrieren.
Das Buch enthält die Beiträge der Tagung "Neurowissenschaft und Ethik", die 1986 in Jakobsberg bei Bonn auf Einladung des Bundeskanzlers stattfand und sich mit den ethischen Fragen befaßte, die in den sich rasch entwickelnden Neurowissenschaften und der Neuromedizin eine Rolle spielen und schon jetzt in die öffentliche Diskussion eingetreten sind.
The purpose of this book is to investigate the suitability and applicability of available methods for analyzing the human and ecological risks involved in the release of genetically-modified microorganisms.