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The contribution of informal learning in the integration process of immigrants into the labour market: Individual and organisational perspectives in selected sectors

International Journal of Training and Development, Volume 27, Issue 3-4, Page 381-404, December 2023., 2023
Abstract In Germany and Canada, the integration of immigrants into the labour market is closely related to the various approaches towards the recognition and validation of informal learning. This paper aims to analyse the informal learning measures undertaken by immigrants as well as those offered by employers in the health and information and ...
Silvia Annen
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Competition Law and Sustainability in the EU: Modelling the Perspectives of National Competition Authorities

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, Volume 61, Issue 5, Page 1211-1234, September 2023., 2023
Abstract Debates have surged in the European Union (EU) on how EU competition policy can best support the European Green Deal. In the theoretical and practical aspects, non‐economic factors in competition law analysis are problematic due to the difficulty in measuring the concrete benefits of trade‐offs.
Jurgita Malinauskaite, Fatih Buğra Erdem   +1 more
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A Partial Decipherment of the Unknown Kushan Script*

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 2, Page 293-329, July 2023., 2023
Abstract Several dozen inscriptions in an unknown writing system have been discovered in an area stretching geographically from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to southern Afghanistan. Most inscriptions can be dated to the period from the 2nd century BCE to the 3rd century CE, yet all attempts at decipherment have so far been unsuccessful.
Svenja Bonmann, Jakob Halfmann, Natalie Korobzow, Bobomullo Bobomulloev   +3 more
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POTENTIAL HISTORY: READING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FROM INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGES*

History and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 1, Page 3-29, March 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT Until the beginning of the twentieth century, history, as a core concept of the political project of modernity, was highly concerned with the future. The many crimes, genocides, and wars perpetuated in the name of historical progress eventually caused unavoidable fractures in the way Western philosophies of history have understood change over ...
Rodrigo Bonaldo, Ana Carolina Barbosa Pereira   +1 more
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Historical Data, Comparison, and Systematisation. Some Thoughts on the Challenges and Possibilities of Synthesising Historical and Social Scientific Approaches in the Study of Religion

Journal of Religious History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 691-706, December 2022., 2022
This article discusses the introductory remarks to this special issue by Mattias Brand, as well as the two articles written by the Mattias Brand and Gerard Wiegers, respectively. It includes my own reflections in the commentary on the three contributions.
Volkhard Krech
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The Study of the Past and its Present Challenges in the Study of Religions

Journal of Religious History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 642-652, December 2022., 2022
The article comments on the three challenges, which Mattias Brand presents in the Introduction: the questioning of central concepts, multiplication and fragmentation, and communication with a large audience. It also comments on Nickolas P. Roubekas article, “Asking Old Questions Anew: On the History of Religions.” The author stresses the lack of ...
Ingvild Sælid Gilhus
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History and the Study of Religion. Prophecy, Imagination and Religion in the Granadan Lead Books, the Works of Jacobus Palaeologus and of Nicholas of Cusa*

Journal of Religious History, Volume 46, Issue 4, Page 675-690, December 2022., 2022
This article challenges the observation that historians and the discipline of History have not been helpful in addressing some of the important challenges in the Study of Religion by concentrating on “the local” and on deconstruction rather than on construction and “the global.” By undertaking a cross‐cultural case study — Medieval and Early Modern ...
Gerard Wiegers
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Making power visible: Codifications, infrastructures, and representations of energy

Centaurus, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 621-630, November 2021., 2021
Abstract The concept and material manifestations of energy are often considered elusive and invisible per se. In most historical, sociological, and anthropological studies, the idea prevails that processes of energy conversion and transmission have become more and more invisible to humans since the industrial revolution, although worldwide energy ...
Felix Frey, Jonas Schädler
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Lykaon, der Wolfsmann, und Mary Shelleys Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus

Orbis Litterarum, Volume 76, Issue 2, Page 67-85, April 2021., 2021
Viele der rezenten Studien zur Ästhetik des Monströsen nehmen auf Michel Foucaults Vorlesungsreihe Les anormaux Bezug, in der er u. a. der diskursiven Transformation des Monsters von einem somatischen hin zu einem moralischen Abweichungsphänomen nachgeht.
Thomas Emmrich
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Relevance of qualifications and work experience in the recruiting of foreign‐trained immigrants – comparative insights from the Health and ICT Sectors in Germany and Canada

International Journal of Training and Development, Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 3-22, March 2021., 2021
Germany and Canada differ significantly regarding their migration policy as well as the structures of the national labour markets and their educational systems. This paper aims to analyse how these differences affect the labour market outcomes of immigrants and the usability of foreign qualifications and work experiences by using the health and ICT ...
Silvia Annen
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