Christian Becker - Böcker

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In the Cold War era, sport was not just a symbol of the power and strength of a nation-state, but of certain ideological systems of politics. With the pressure for athletes to succeed at its zenith, many East German athletes were given anabolic steroids by their country’s own sport federation. While doping in East Germany has been intensely researched in the past decades, the state of West German athletics during this time has remained largely a mystery. In fact, doping was a common practice on both sides of the Iron Curtain. But how many athletes were involved? And who knew about these practices? In order to answer these questions, the Federal Institute for Sport Science in Germany supported a research project to shed light on the other, West German side of doping history. Based on analyses of authentic documents and archives, German Sports, Doping and Politics: A History of Performance Enhancement is a unique study spanning from 1950-2007. Translated from its original German, and supplemented with new material written especially for an international audience, this innovative book addresses many important questions about a topic with worldwide implications. Part I deals with the history of doping in the post-war period of the 1950s and ‘60s; Part II focuses on the apex of doping, as well as the beginnings of the anti-doping movement; and Part III considers the development of doping since the Reunification and the foundation of the World Anti-Doping Agency and the National Anti-Doping Agency in Germany. Written for a global audience, German Sports, Doping, and Politics explains and reveals the truly remarkable processes of doping and anti-doping that have evolved since the Cold War. While sports historians will find this book of great interest, it is also a significant study for anyone who wants to look beyond the surface of sports and doping as reported by the media.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing, GPC 2020, held in Xi'an, China, in November 2020. The 30 full papers presented in this book together with 8 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 96 submissions.

Ausgangspunkt der Untersuchung ist die jüngere Diskussion um den Gefährdungsschaden bei Betrug und Untreue. Die nur selten grundsätzlich bestrittene Anerkennung dieser Rechtsfigur speist sich im Wesentlichen aus der Erkenntnis, dass ein drohender Verlust im Wirtschaftsleben bereits zu einer gegenwärtigen Wertminderung führen kann. Die Feststellung einer solchen Wertminderung kann jedoch vor allem bei den sog. Risikogeschäften erhebliche Schwierigkeiten bereiten. Christian Becker unterzieht die insofern vom BVerfG geforderte Einbindung von ökonomischem Sachverstand bei der exakten Bezifferung des strafrechtlichen Vermögensschadens einer kritischen Würdigung. Sodann zeigt er Sollbruchstellen im Paradigma der wirtschaftlichen Schadenslehre insgesamt auf. Der daraufhin in den Grundzügen entwickelte eigene Schadensbegriff ermöglicht eine Lösung für die Fallgruppe der Risikogeschäfte, die auf den Gefährdungsschaden verzichtet.

Providing a systematic introduction to differential characters as introduced by Cheeger and Simons, this text describes important concepts such as fiber integration, higher dimensional holonomy, transgression, and the product structure in a geometric manner. Differential characters form a model of what is nowadays called differential cohomology, which is the mathematical structure behind the higher gauge theories in physics.

Am Beispiel der Generaldebatte der VN-Vollversammlung und des Millennium+5-Gipfels setzt er sich mit der Eigenlogik, Funktionalität sowie dem ambivalenten Potenzial der rituellen Inszenierungen auseinander und analysiert deren Relevanz für Kontinuität und Wandel.

Auf Basis der empirischen Ergebnisse zeigt der Autor, wie internationale Marken ihre Herkunft einsetzen können, um sich funktional und emotional vom Wettbewerb zu differenzieren und Kunden zu gewinnen.

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The book identifies the specific ethical aspects of sustainability and develops ethical tools to analyze them. It also provides a methodological framework to integrate ethical and scientific analyses of sustainability issues, and explores the notion of a new type of self-reflective inter- and transdisciplinary sustainability research. With this, the book aims to strengthen the overall ability of academics to contribute to the analysis and solution of sustainability issues in an inclusive and integrated way.