Zeitschrift Fur Research Articles

Building resilience in youth with Therapeutic Spiral Model™ (TSM) psychodrama

This article in the journal Zeitschrift fur Psychodrama und Soziometrie explores the foundations of resilience theory and the application of the Therapeutic Spiral Model™’s (TSM) form of psychodrama in building resilience in youth through increasing the internal locus of control and supporting the ability to internalize the positive regard of peers and adult mentors. The author describes a program developed to serve these goals while working with post-high-school youth, ages 17 to 19, in the Campuhan College Program in Bali, Indonesia.

Communicative-pragmatic potential of utterances with verified knowledge markers in German linguistic discourse

«Вестник Санкт-Петербургского университета. Язык и литература» — научно-теоретический журнал, публикующий научно-исследовательские статьи и критические научные рецензии на русском и английском языках, призванные отразить актуальную проблематику современной лингвистики, литературоведения и междисциплинарных гуманитарных исследований, а также представить многообразие существующих здесь подходов и плюрализм мнений исследователей.

Göç Olgusu ve Bilimsel Üretime Katkısı: Fuat Sezgin Örneği

Göçler insanlığın varlığıyla birlikte başlamıştır. Birden fazla nedenden kaynaklı göçlerle karşılaşmaktayız. Göç çeşitlerinden biri de bilimsel nedenlerden kaynaklı göçlerdir. Bu göç türü, yetenekli ve iyi eğitimli bireylerin gittikleri ülkede daha iyi araştırma imkânı, daha fazla bilgiye ulaşma, daha yüksek ücret gibi nedenlerden kaynaklanmaktadır. Bu bağlamda bu göç türünün ulaşım imkânlarının gelişmesiyle yoğun bir şekilde gerçekleştiğine şahit olmaktayız. İslam Bilim Tarihi alanında öncü çalışmalar yapan Fuat Sezgin, göçü hayatının her safhasında deneyimlemiştir. Göç, Fuat Sezgin’in bilim dünyasına kazandırdıklarının temel motivasyon kaynaklarından biridir. Göç, onun hayatının ilk zamanlarında çeşitli zorluklar oluştursa da, o bu zorlukları daima fırsata dönüştürmesini bilmiştir. 1960 Darbesi sonrası üniversitelerden birçok bilim insanı atıldı. 147’likler olarak bilinen bu olayın mağdurlarından biri de Fuat Sezgin’dir. Bir yıl önce Almanya’da kendisine çalışma teklifleri verilmesine karşın Türkiye’de bilim çalışmalarını sürdürmeyi arzulamıştı. Darbe sonrası üniversitedeki işinden olan Fuat Sezgin, kendisine pek çok ülkeden çalışma teklifi gelmesine karşın İslam Bilim Tarihi alanında çalışmalar yürüten Almanya’ya gitmeye karar vermiştir. Göç, her ne kadar birçok belirsizliği ve riski barındırsa da potansiyel olarak aynı derecede birçok olumlu sonuçların ortaya çıkmasına da sahiptir. Nitekim Fuat Sezgin olayı bize göçün avantajlarının ne gibi önemli çalışmalara neden olduğunu açığa çıkarmıştır. Bu makalede, göçün bilimsel üretime olan katkılarına değinilecektir. Bilimsel nedenlerden gerçekleştirilen göçlerin olumlu sonuçları, Fuat Sezgin’in tarihsel yaşamı üzerinden betimlenmeye çalışılacaktır.

Rezension: Colebatch, Hal K. & Hoppe, Robert (Eds.) (2018). Handbook on Policy, Process and Governing. Edward Elgar. 528 Seiten. ISBN-10: 1784714860

Abstract Unlike its numerous predecessors, this new handbook does not aim at offering an authoritative overview about the foundations of public policy research, and its many branches and achievements, but strives to improve and integrate the theorizing about policies and the policy process, embracing both the practice of governing and the analysis of this practice. For this, it wants “to shift the focus from ‘the policy process’ to ‘policy-as-process’ ”. The book contains 27 contributions from 32 authors, both established colleagues as well as younger ones. It is organized in five sections (foundations, policies as authoritative choice, as structured interaction, as sense-making and finally the limits of policy). In order to better understand the intentions and achievements of the book it is best to start with the final, summarizing chapter. The editors concede, “since the 1990s policy process theorizing has reached a plateau with only incremental additions”, so there are not many new theoretical insights, but an interesting and stimulating overview about the theoretical implications of existing theories and research. ----- Bibliographie: Jann, W. (2019). Colebatch, Hal K. & Hoppe, Robert (Eds.) (2018). Handbook on Policy, Process and Governing. Edward Elgar. 528 Seiten. ISBN-10: 1784714860. dms – der moderne staat – Zeitschrift fur Public Policy, Recht und Management, 12(2-2019), 473-476. https://doi.org/10.3224/dms.v12i2.15

Rezension: Bogumil, Jörg, Burgi, Martin, Kuhlmann, Sabine, Hafner, Jonas, Heuberger, Moritz & Krönke, Christoph (2018). Bessere Verwaltung in der Migrations- und Integrationspolitik. Baden-Baden: Nomos. 321 Seiten. ISBN: 978 384 875 418 2

Abstract In the course of the so called ‘refugee crisis’ of 2015/16, the German administrative system for the implementation of migration and integration policy met its limits, but also showed a remarkable resilience in adapting to the crisis challenges. Starting from there, the authors of the book “Bessere Verwaltung in der Integrations- und Migrationspolitik“ analyse what worked well and which aspects of the system still require innovation. The analysis is explicitly interdisciplinary, combining both a legal and a political analytical perspective. The well-structured book helps to understand the German administrative system of migration and integration policy which is highly complex due to the interrelatedness of different federal levels and policy areas. Recommendations for changes and reforms are discussed thoroughly and it becomes clear what kind of reforms are not only reasonable, but also feasible. ----- Bibliographie: Friedrich, L. & Eckhard, S. (2019). Bogumil, Jorg, Burgi, Martin, Kuhlmann, Sabine, Hafner, Jonas, Heuberger, Moritz & Kronke, Christoph (2018). Bessere Verwaltung in der Migrations- und Integrationspolitik. Baden-Baden: Nomos. 321 Seiten. ISBN: 978 384 875 418 2. dms – der moderne staat – Zeitschrift fur Public Policy, Recht und Management, 12(2-2019), 481-485. https://doi.org/10.3224/dms.v12i2.17

SCIENTIFIC OPINION IN CHERNIVTSIANS OF THE END OF THE XIX – FIRST HALF OF XX CENTURIES: ANALYSIS OF PUBLICATION ACTIVITY ON SCOPUS BASIS.

Lack of quantitative data on the research published over a period of studies caused the prosecution of this research. The aim of this work is to study via the bibliometric analysis publication activity of scientists who in late 19th – early 20th century worked in the city of Chernivtsi. Materials per regional address published over a period between 1978 and 1944 were removed from the SCOPUS database (as of 06th May 2019). The aim determined is discussed according to the following defined tasks: distribution of publications according to the area of knowledge, language, author; improvement of the research resource base per institutional parameters; peculiarities (if found) of publications’ quotes. In accordance with the selection of organization AFFILCITY (cernauţi OR czernowitz) 119 publications have been found. Over a period from 1893 to 1901, 1909-1914 and 1933-1939 a number of published materials went up. Peak number fell on 1910 – 6 publications; 1989 and 1911 – 7; 1912 and 1914 – 8. Most of articles were in German (115). The greatest number of published articles refers to the following editions in chemistry: Zeitschrift Fur Analytische Chemie (19) and Monatshefte Fur Chemie (17) Analysis of publications has given an opportunity to distinguish three clusters of research topics: organic chemistry (food industry); the humanities (philology and philosophy); medicine. The articles were mostly prepared by scientists from the Chernivtsi University. It should be emphasized that specify afilyatsiyi University (Universitat Czernowitz; k. k. Universitat in Czernowitz) is a rare, often use the names of its units with some modifications. It is necessary to note the figure of the chemist Richard Přibram, who, according to the number of publications in this study, takes first place – 18. And also to recall Theodor von Grienberger, a well-known German linguist and researcher of antiquity who worked as a custodian in the library of Chernivtsi University. This study provides a systemic review of efficiency and evidence of scientific publications in the specified period. Findings can be used for setting and defining priorities for further regional historiographic studies.

Embodied gestalts: Unstable visual phenomena become stable when they are stimuli for competitive action selection.

An animal's environment is rich with affordances. Different possible actions are specified by visual information while competing for dominance over neural dynamics. Affordance competition models account for this in terms of winner-takes-all cross-inhibition dynamics. Multistable phenomena also reveal how the visual system deals with ambiguity. Their key property is spontaneous instability, in forms such as alternating dominance in binocular rivalry. Theoretical models of self-inhibition or self-organized instability posit that the instability is tied to some kind of neural adaptation and that its functional significance is to enable flexible perceptual transitions. We hypothesized that the two perspectives are interlinked. Spontaneous instability is an intrinsic property of perceptual systems, but it is revealed when they are stripped from the constraints of possibilities for action. To test this, we compared a multistable gestalt phenomenon against its embodied version and estimated the neural adaptation and competition parameters of an affordance transition dynamic model. Wertheimer's (Zeitschrift fur Psychologie 61, 161-265, 1912) optimal (β) and pure (φ) forms of apparent motion from a stroboscopic point-light display were endowed with action relevance by embedding the display in a visual object-tracking task. Thus, each mode was complemented by its action, because each perceptual mode uniquely enabled different ways of tracking the target. Perceptual judgment of the traditional apparent motion exhibited spontaneous instabilities, in the form of earlier switching when the frame rate was changed stepwise. In contrast, the embodied version exhibited hysteresis, consistent with affordance transition studies. Consistent with our predictions, the parameter for competition between modes in the affordance transition model increased, and the parameter for self-inhibition vanished.

Behind Modeling Electrochemical Impedance Response of a Continuous Glucose Monitor

The continuous glucose monitor is used to measure the glucose concentration in interstitial fluids by means of a glucose oxidase enzyme that converts glucose into hydrogen peroxide, which can be detected electrochemically. The development of a model for the electrochemical impedance response of the sensor may be envisioned as a sequential series of steps. The electrochemical oxidation of hydrogen peroxide, in the absence of the enzyme, can be treated as a charge-transfer resistance coupled with a diffusion impedance. In the present case, however, the enzyme provides a homogeneous production of the hydrogen peroxide. The coupling of a homogeneous reaction with a heterogeneous electrochemical reaction was addressed, in the 1950s, by Gerischer, who assumed that homogeneous kinetics can be described by a linear equation, that all diffusion coefficients were equal, and that diffusion took place within a film. The resulting diffusion impedance had two loops, the high-frequency loop corresponding to the homogeneous reaction and the low-frequency loop corresponding to diffusion. While the simplified model represented by the electrochemical oxidation of hydrogen peroxide coupled with a Gerischer impedance yields insight into the impedance response of a glucose sensor, the chemistry of the sensor is much more complex. Three electrochemical reactions may take place in the potential range of interest. The enzymatic production of hydrogen peroxide involves more than one homogeneous reaction, and these reactions may not be modeled by linear equations. In addition, the diffusion coefficients of species associated with the coupled heterogeneous and homogeneous reactions are not equal. The present work describes the development of a mathematical model for the impedance response of glucose-oxidase based electrochemical biosensors [3]. The homogeneous reactions included anomerization between -D-glucose and -D-glucose, four reversible enzymatic catalytic reactions transforming -D-glucose and oxygen into gluconic acid and hydrogen peroxide, weak acid dissociation equilibrium, two reactions accounting of the pH-dependence of enzymatic activity, and a series of reactions associated with the buffer system. The electroactive hydrogen peroxide was considered to be oxidized or reduced at the electrode. In addition, reduction of oxygen was considered as a potential cathodic reaction. The heterogeneous reactions were coupled by the concentration of hydrogen ions, which appear as reactants for the cathodic reactions and as a product of the anodic reaction. Thus, the faradaic impedances associated with the three heterogeneous reactions could not be considered independent. The mathematical model was solved numerically by using the finite-difference method and Newman’s BAND algorithm [4]. The model demonstrates how the coupled non-linear homogeneous reactions affect the diffusion impedance, which has broadened the scope of the Gerischer impedance. The model can be used to explore the influence of various system parameters on limiting current, reaction profiles, and diffusion impedance. The system parameters, including interstitial glucose concentration, oxygen concentration, active enzyme concentration, diffusion coefficients, reaction rate constants and layer thickness, are related to various sensor working conditions such as body sugar level, inflammation, sensor degradation and sensor design. References H. Gerischer, “Wechselstrompolarisation Von Elektroden Mit Einem Potentialbes- timmenden Schritt Beim Gleichgewichtspotential,” Zeitschrift fur Physikalische Chemie, 198 (1951) 286-313.M. E. Orazem and B. Tribollet, Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, 2017), 2nd edition, p. 279-293.M. Gao, M. S. Hazelbaker, R. Kong, and M. E. Orazem, “Mathematical Model for the Electrochemical Impedance Response of a Continuous Glucose Monitor,” Electrochimica Acta, 275 (2018), 119-132J. S. Newman and K. E. Thomas-Alyea, Electrochemical Systems (John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, 2004), 3rd edition. Acknowledgement The support of Medtronic Diabetes (Northridge, CA) and Andrea Varsavsky, program monitor, is gratefully acknowledged.

Variations of Mass-Transport and Heterogeneous Electron-Transfer Rate with the Temperature in Ionic Liquids

Ionic liquids are molten salts with a melting point under 100°C. They are of growing interest due to their outstanding properties and appear to be good candidates for many electrochemical applications. However, ionic liquids represent a huge category of compounds and an electrochemical reference is needed to be able to make comparison of their behavior. For this purpose, the ferrocene/ferrocenium redox couple is considered as the reference of choice because it has a kinetically facile and rapid process. Moreover, this redox couple usually described as a nearly "solvent independent" formal potential system.1 However, a quick look at the literature shows important discrepancies in the heterogeneous electron-transfer rate constant (k°).1, 2 In this work, we chose to study two ionic liquids (1-butyl-1-methylpyrrolidium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonylimide), C4mpyrTFSI and 1-butyl-3-methyl-midazolium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonylimide), C4mimTFSI) in the temperature range between 20°C to 60°C for which several physicochemical properties (conductivity, density, viscosity) were measured. Then, the electrochemical behavior of ferrocenemethanol was examined by different techniques (linear sweep voltammetry, cyclic voltammetry, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, chronoamperommetry) in the same temperature range with a gold and carbon microelectrodes of 25 µm and 11 µm of diameter, respectively. Modifying the temperature leads to a variation of the conductivity and viscosity implying a change in the mass transport of the redox species to the electrode but also in the rate constant k°. From the linear sweep voltammetry, the rate constant of the redox reaction of ferrocenemethanol was determined by the analysis of steady-state voltamogram3 and compared to results obtained from impedance spectroscopy. Additionally, the variations of the diffusion coefficient of the reduced species and the rate constant with the temperature were also analysed in term of viscosity of the solvent. Bentley, C. L.; Li, J.; Bond, A. M.; Zhang, J., Mass-Transport and Heterogeneous Electron-Transfer Kinetics Associated with the Ferrocene/Ferrocenium Process in Ionic Liquids. J. Phys. Chem. C 2016, 120 (30), 16516-16525. Siraj, N.; Grampp, G.; Landgraf, S.; Punyain, K., Cyclic Voltammetric Study of Heterogeneous Electron Transfer Rate Constants of Various Organic Compounds in Ionic Liquids: Measurements at Room Temperature. Zeitschrift Fur Physikalische Chemie-International Journal of Research in Physical Chemistry & Chemical Physics 2013, 227 (1), 105-119. Mirkin, M. V.; Bard, A. J., Simple analysis of quasi-reversible steady-state voltammograms. Anal. Chem. 1992, 64 (19), 2293-2302. Figure 1

The Geometry of Otto Selz’s Natural Space

Following ideas elaborated by Hering (Grundzuge der Lehre vom Lichtsinn, Springer, Berlin, 1920) in his celebrated analysis of color, the psychologist and gestalt theorist Otto Selz developed in the 1930s a theory of “natural space”, i.e., space as it is conceived by us. Selz’s thesis is that the geometric laws of natural space describe how the points of this space are related to each other by directions which are ordered in the same way as the points on a sphere. At the end of one of his articles, Selz (Zeitschrift fur Psychologie 114:351–362, 1930a, p. 358ff) tries to derive within his framework two of Hilbert’s axioms for Euclidean geometry. Such derivations (if successful) would, according to Selz, disclose the psychological origin and meaning of the geometric axioms and would thus contribute to a clarification of their epistemological status. In the present article Selz’s theory is explained and analyzed, his basic principles are amended, and implicit assumptions are made explicit. It is shown that the resulting system is one of ordered affine geometry in which all of Hilbert’s axioms except the axioms of congruence and those of continuity are derivable. The primary aim of the present paper is to make explicit the basic principles behind Selz’s geometry of natural space. The question of the logical independence of these principle is not investigated.

Psychodrama Revisited: Through the Lens of the Internal Role Map of the Therapeutic Spiral Model to Promote Post-traumatic Growth

Classical psychodrama embodies the theory and practice of spontaneity and creativity as the goal of all methods of change. In today’s world of post-traumatic growth (PTG), this is a perfect match for the view of humans as resilient and always seeking growth, even following traumatic and often violent experiences. This article of the Zeitschrift fur Psychodrama und Soziometrie details the Therapeutic Spiral Model (TSM), which is a trauma-informed, stage-process model to change the self-organization of people affected by trauma by using experiential methods. TSM presents the first internal role map for working with parts of self, developed through decades of clinical observation (Hudgins 2017, 2002). TSM connects with advances in clinical psychology on trauma and attachment, and the latest research on interpersonal neurobiology, and makes a crucial turn from interpersonal work in psychodrama to the focus on inner parts of self. The trauma survivor’s internal role atom (TSIRA) is presented as a three-stage model to guide all action methods when working with parts of self that include: Prescriptive (RX) roles, the TSM Trauma Triangle, and roles of transformation and post-traumatic growth (PTG). Composite examples are given from a lifetime practice in the global community to help bring the clinical structure of the internal role atom to life for inner parts work.

Anna: A single-case efficacy study on the use of psychodrama group therapy with a student who has Mathematics Anxiety

In this article of the Zeitschrift fur Psychodrama und Soziometrie the effectiveness of a short-term psychodrama group therapy on high-school students suffering from mathematics anxiety is investigated. On the basis of Elliott’s Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design (HSCED) the results of the therapy of one participant, a 19-year-old female student, are presented. The analysis of the quantitative research data collected with Personal Questionnaire and those of the qualitative research data based on the Client Change Interview show significant pre-post treatment differences. The Rich Case Record on therapy process and outcome supports the hypothesis that psychodrama group sessions bring about changes in the severity ratings of the subject’s problem areas.

Signalling games, sociolinguistic variation and the construction of style

This paper develops a formal model of the subtle meaning differences that exist between grammatical alternatives in socially conditioned variation (called variants) and how these variants can be used by speakers as resources for constructing personal linguistic styles. More specifically, this paper introduces a new formal system, called social meaning games (SMGs), which allows for the unification of variationist sociolinguistics and game-theoretic pragmatics, two fields that have had very little interaction in the past. Although remarks have been made concerning the possible usefulness of game-theoretic tools in the analysis of certain kinds of socially conditioned linguistic phenomena (Goffman in Encounters: Two studies in the sociology of interaction, Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1961; in Interaction ritual: Essays on face-to-face interaction, Aldine, Oxford, 1967; in Strategic interaction, vol 1, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1970; Bourdieu in Soc Sci Inf 16(6):645–668, 1977; Dror et al. in Lang Linguist Compass 7(11):561–579, 2013; in Lang Linguist Compass 8(6):230–242, 2014; Clark in Meaningful games: Exploring language with game theory, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2014, among others), a general framework uniting game-theoretic pragmatics and quantitative sociolinguistics has yet to be developed. This paper constructs such a framework through giving a formalization of the Third Wave approach to the meaning of variation (see Eckert in Ann Rev Anthropol 41:87–100, 2012, for an overview) using signalling games (Lewis in Convention, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1969) and a probabilistic approach to speaker/listener beliefs of the kind commonly used in the Bayesian game-theoretic pragmatics framework (see Goodman and Lassiter in Probabilistic semantics and pragmatics: Uncertainty in language and thought. Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory, Wiley, Hoboken, 2014; Franke and Jager in Zeitschrift fur Sprachwissenschaft, 35(1):3–44, 2016, for recent overviews).

Otto Selz’s phenomenology of natural space

In the 1930s Otto Selz developed a novel approach to the psychology of perception which he called “synthetic psychology of wholes”. This “synthetic psychology” is based on a phenomenological description of the structural relationships between elementary items (tones, colors, smells, etc.) building up integral wholes. The present article deals with Selz’s account of spatial cognition within this general framework. Selz Zeitschrift fur Psychologie, 114, 351–362 (1930a) argues that his approach to spatial cognition delivers answers to the long-discussed question of the epistemological status of the laws of geometry. More specifically he tries to derive (a subset of) the Euclidean axioms from the structural laws valid for phenomenal space. After a brief description of the discussion of the status of geometry in the 1920s/1930 (section 2), the present article explains Selz’s understanding of “phenomenology” (section 3). Section 4 then deals with Selz’s attempt to derive the Euclidean laws from the structural phenomenological laws of space. Selz’s attempted derivation suffers from some formal shortcomings, which however can be repaired. The question arises, though, whether the necessary improvements do not rely upon more intricate geometric intuitions and thus render Selz’s attempt to base geometry upon the phenomenology of spatial cognition circular.

Transactional Analysis and Psychodrama—Convergence and Divergence

In this article of the Zeitschrift fur Psychodrama und Soziometrie (ZPS), the author attempts to understand the basic areas of convergence and divergence of transactional analysis and psychodrama in psychotherapy and related fields of human interaction. An effort is made to elicit a clinical experience where both these approaches are applied and how they adjunct to each other. This method helps to emphasize on concepts that can converge and diverge and offer questions for further collaboration with both approaches. Reflections are based on the professional experiences and theoretical learnings of the author.

The morphological changes of oviductal mucose in oestral cycle of sows

The morphological changes of oviductal mucose in oestral cycle of sows

Structural and content development of the ZBW in the years 2000–2016

Like every scientific discipline, vocational and business education (BWP) also undergoes a process of development and establishment. For academic communication and discourse communities, journals are an essential communication medium. Therefore, this article examines the development of communicative practice in BWP between 2000 and 2016 using the example of the “Zeitschrift fur Berufs- und Wirtschaftspadagogik” (ZBW). The ZBW was already investigated by Klusmeyer (2001). He analyzed the development of the ZBW contributions in the period 1960–1998 using a quantitative content analysis. Following this investigation, the question is whether and how formal, thematic and social developments will continue over the years 2000–2016. In conclusion, it can be stated that the developments identified by Klusmeyer continue and that the contributions of the ZBW are an expression of an increasingly empirical research BWP.

Some further comments on special relativity and dark energy

In this note, we provide some new derivations and further elaboration on a recent proposal by the author Hill (Zeitschrift fur angewandte Mathematik und Physik 69: 133–145, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00033-018-1028-4) regarding the formal origins of dark energy. Using the framework of special relativity and validation through Lorentz invariance, Hill (2018) develops the usual relations of special relativity, but makes a distinction between particle energy \(e = mc^2\) and the actual work done by the particle \( \mathscr {E}\), and adopts the perspective that both the momentum vector \({\mathbf{p} = m\mathbf{u}}\) and the intrinsic particle energy e itself contribute to the work done \( \mathscr {E}\). The alternative formulation provides an extension of Newton’s second law that is properly invariant under the Lorentz group and yields new expressions for the work done involving the \(\log \) function. The \(\log \) terms can generate extremely large energies and may represent the first formal indication of the origin of dark energy. The new approach suggests that large energies might be generated for slowly moving systems and that dark energy might arise in consequence of conventional mechanical theory neglecting both the de Broglie wave energy and the work done in the direction of time. In these notes, a number of alternative derivations and connections relating to Hill (2018) are presented that were not made explicit in Hill (2018), including new derivations from the wave equation, a generalised approach and relating the solutions of Hill (2018) to a known result for uniform acceleration and to Hubble’s law for receding galaxies.

General and Optimal Decay Result for a Viscoelastic Problem with Nonlinear Boundary Feedback

In this paper, we consider a viscoleastic equation with a nonlinear feedback localized on a part of the boundary and a relaxation function satisfying g′(t) ≤−ξ(t)G(g(t)). We establish an explicit and general decay rate results, using the multiplier method and some properties of the convex functions. Our results are obtained without imposing any restrictive growth assumption on the damping term. This work generalizes and improves earlier results in the literature, in particular those of Messaoudi (Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis 51(2):413–427, 2018), Messaoudi and Mustafa (Nonlinear Analysis: Theory Methods & Applications 72(9–10):3602–3611, 2010), Mustafa (Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences 41(1): 192–204, 2018) and Wu (Zeitschrift fur angewandte Mathematik und Physik 63(1):65–106, 2012).

Commentary on John Deely

Commentary on the article by John Deely in this volume: John Deely (2015), Ethics and the Semiosis-Semiotics Distinction. Zeitschrift für Semiotik 37, 3-4, 13-30.