Article history: Received 23 June 2015 Accepted 25 August 2015 Available online 2 September 2015

Die Themen Inklusion und Diversität erhalten in den gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhängen der Gegenwart zunehmende Bedeutung. Das gilt ebenso besonderer Weise für pädagogischen Kontext. Dieser Artikel befasst sich mit dem Medium Bilderbuch, das immer häufiger entsprechende Inhalte aufgreift seiner persönlichkeitsbildenden Wirkung Erwerb inklusiver Zugänge unterstützt. Um dieses Potenzial von Bilder...

BEIRUT, Lebanon President Amin Gemayel’s government scrap­ ped Lebanon’s troop withdrawal pact with Israel yesterday as part of a deal with Syria designed to end the Lebanese civil war. Gemayel held an emergency ses­ sion of his Council o f Ministers to announce abrogation of the U.S.mediated pact signed May 17. “The council has decided to cancel this. . . accord, consider it null and void and ...

The crisis in Syria has forced more than 4 million people to find refuge outside Syria. In Lebanon, in 2015, the refugee population represented 30 % of the total population. International health assistance has been provided to refugee populations in Lebanon. However, the current humanitarian system has also contributed to increase fragmentation of the Lebanese health system. Ensuring universal ...

Syria’s ongoing three-year civil war has displaced 6.5 million Syrians, left hundreds of thousands wounded or killed by violence, and created a vacuum in basic infrastructures that will reverberate throughout the region for years to come. Beyond such devastation, the civil war has introduced epidemics of infections that have spread through vulnerable populations in Syria and neighboring countri...

We consider a sequential version of the classical bin packing problem in which items are received one by one. Before the size of the next item is revealed, the decision maker needs to decide whether the next item is packed in the currently open bin or the bin is closed and a new bin is opened. If the new item doesn’t fit, it is lost. If a bin is closed, the remaining free space in the bin accou...