Flying high with reduced weight
The aviation industry has a keen interest in reducing the amount of cables in aircraft. A team of researchers is now working on the advancement of wireless communication in avionics.
We are what we eat
Today’s Western dietary style is not only harmful to our climate and to biodiversity, but ultimately also to humans. Karlheinz Erb is studying land use and has reached some challenging but also some encouraging conclusions regarding our dietary habits.
German-Mandarin, Syrian-German or Slovenian-German? On the valences of multilingualism
The nation state idea aspires to perfect monolingualism. The field of linguistics, on the other hand, regards multilingualism as something normal. And not all forms of multilingualism are alike: While some educated middle-class parents may opt to send their children to Mandarin lessons while they are still in kindergarten, Syrian-German speakers receive very little societal respect. ad astra spoke to the linguist Alexander Onysko and the educational scientist Hans Karl Peterlini about the status of multilingualism.
Gebärdensprache: Erst-, Zweit und/ oder Fremdsprache?
Zwei- oder Mehrsprachigkeit ist für viele Menschen, die die Gebärdensprache (GS) als Erst- oder Primärsprache nutzen, etwas Selbstverständliches, müssen sie sich doch meistens auch in der jeweiligen Laut- und Schriftsprache ihres Landes verständigen können. Das Erlernen der Lautsprache stellt GebärdensprachbenutzerInnen vor ganz unterschiedliche Probleme.
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