Münster University of Applied Sciences

About: Münster University of Applied Sciences is a education organization based out in Münster, Germany. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Luminescence & Laser. The organization has 694 authors who have published 1067 publications receiving 12597 citations.

Medienpädagogische Kompetenz in der Sozialen Arbeit

Abstract: Man konnte meinen, die heutige Medientechnik sei kompetent geworden. Aber dieser Sprachgebrauch ware irritierend, weil Technik zwar etwas kann, aber nichts weis; kompetent sind Menschen, nicht Sachen. Kompetenz von Menschen ist relativ, aber in unserer von wirtschaftlichem Kalkul dominierten Gesellschaft sehr gefragt. Doch dies gilt nicht fur jede Art von Kompetenz gleichermasen. Sie muss schon gewinnbringend sein. Die meisten Kompetenzen beispielsweise, die in der TV-Show „Wetten dass“ prasentiert werden, sind auserhalb des Sendeformats und Showeffekts wenig nutzlich. Und es ist legitim zu fragen, wozu die unbestreitbaren Kompetenzen eines versierten Computerspielers taugen. Kompetenz ist ein abstrakter und fur sich leerer Begriff. Wer gefragt wird, ob er kompetent ist, wird vermutlich mit einer Gegenfrage nach dem Gegenstand der Kompetenz fragen oder ausweichend antworten: „Kommt darauf an …“. Wann ist jemand in Bezug auf einen Sachverhalt oder in einem bestimmten Bereich kompetent? Gehort dazu eher Konnen oder Wissen oder beides, gehoren z.B. auch Entscheidungsbefugnis, Mut etwas zu tun und moralische Haltung bzw. Verantwortung und ein sinnvoller Anwendungsbezug oder gar Abweichen vom Gewohnlichen und Normalen dazu?

Kein Platz für Flüchtlinge? Eine empirische Untersuchung der Ausgrenzung Geflüchteter am Beispiel der Stadt Bautzen

Abstract: The paper discusses how it becomes common behaviour to exclude refugees in a middle-town. Therefore, an analytical model of hostile social spaces is formulated, which explains the exclusion of branded foreign groups. Precondition is a change in what is considered as a normal social behaviour. Through this, the newly developed collective norms of a local society justify the exclusion of specific groups such as refugees. Using Bautzen (Germany) as an example, the local discussion about refugees as well as their perception is debated. Therefore, the discourse about refugees and violence against them is analysed in newspaper articles as well as in minutes of political debates. In the center of the analysis are 106 semi-structured interviews with various social groups. So, the change of normality as well as the contextual effect, operationalized as the exclusion of refugees, are analysed. The results show a change of what is looked at as normal as well as that the exclusion of refugees is justified and not sanctioned in wide parts of the local society. Refugees report of exclusion and violence in different arenas like educational institutions, public spaces or the public transport network. The paper ends concluding additional need for research defining which sociostructural dynamics are preconditions for the developing of hostile places.

[The understanding of health, illness and care by Turkish immigrant women. An empirical study].

Abstract: The opportunities for and parameters of individual care are determined by an understanding of the patient's sociocultural and biographical context. As a presupposition for patient-centred nursing care nurses, therefore, need a soundly based knowledge of the manifold cultural ways of coping with everyday demands, especially in crises as brought on by illness. In a qualitative study on the understanding of illness, health and care 10 Turkish women, all of whom are experienced in lay care within their own families, were interviewed. The interviews were analysed with reference to the "Development Research Sequence" of James Spradley. This method filters out cultural themes from the subjective views of the informants that centre round the topics of health, illness and care within the family, views that determine both the everyday knowledge and the activities of the women. The study is based on the two assumptions that firstly patient-specific variables, sociocultural factors, the family and the social network have to be taken into consideration if professional nursing care is to succeed and secondly that the process of immigration has effects on the understanding of illness, health and care as well as on the lay care practices which are specific to each generation and become significant for the care of family members in immigrant families. Examples will be used in writing up the results of the enquiry.

UVC-Emitting LuPO4:Pr3+ Nanoparticles Decrease Radiation Resistance of Hypoxic Cancer Cells

Abstract: Radiation-resistant hypoxic tumor areas continue to present a major limitation for successful tumor treatment. To overcome this radiation resistance, an oxygen-independent treatment is proposed using UVC-emitting LuPO4:Pr3+ nanoparticles (NPs) and X rays. The uptake of the NPs as well as their effect on cell proliferation was investigated on A549 lung cancer cells by using inverted time-lapse microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. Furthermore, cytotoxicity of the combined treatment of X rays and LuPO4:Pr3+ NPs was assessed under normoxic and hypoxic conditions using the colony formation assay. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images showed no NP uptake after 3 h, whereas after 24 h incubation an uptake of NPs was documented. LuPO4:Pr3+ NPs alone caused a concentration-independent cell growth delay within the first 60 h of incubation. The combined treatment with UVC-emitting NPs and X rays reduced the radiation resistance of hypoxic cells by a factor of two to the level of cells under normoxic condition. LuPO4:Pr3+ NPs cause an early growth delay but no cytotoxicity for the tested concentration. The combination of these NPs with X rays increases cytotoxicity of normoxic and hypoxic cancer cells. Hypoxic cells become sensitized to normoxic cell levels.

Synthesis, Structure, and Luminescence of Rare Earth Cyanurates

Abstract: Rare earth cyanurates were prepared by exothermic solid-state metathesis reactions of appropriate proportions of A(OCN) (A = K, Rb, Cs) and RECl3 (RE = La, Ce, Pr) at 500 °C. A DTA study of this mixture revealed the reaction to occur around 450 °C. The crystal structure of RbLa2Cl(O3C3N3)2 was refined from a powder X-ray diffraction pattern. Homologous ARE2Cl(O3C3N3)2 compounds with A = K, Rb, Cs and RE = La, Ce, Pr were indexed isotypically. Photoluminescence and reflection properties of doped samples and an infrared study are reported.