Accessible housing is essential for disabled and elderly people with physical restraints to live independently. In reality, however, there a considerable lack of accessible in Germany. While investigating the reasons this insufficient supply, article discusses underlying policy mix scrutinizes German politics. Based on 50 semi-structured interviews two states Saxony-Anhalt Hesse, it identifies ...

The text illustrates first experiences und results of ethical considerations within “KOMPASS a project for socialcooperative virtual assistants as daily companions for persons with disabilities”. This contains an interdisciplinary workshop using “MEESTAR” – a model for the ethical evaluation of social-technical arrangements. The results of this workshop were concentrated into packages of questi...

Many excitatory synapses express Group 1, or Gq coupled, metabotropic glutamate receptors (Gp1 mGluRs) at the periphery of their postsynaptic density. Activation of Gp1 mGluRs typically occurs in response to strong activity and triggers long-term plasticity of synaptic transmission in many brain regions including the neocortex, hippocampus, midbrain, striatum and cerebellum. Here we focus on mG...