Zusammenfassung Das Wichtigste in Kürze: Der Beitrag stellt Ergebnisse einer Studie zu Eltern vor, die sich der so genannten „Freilernerbewegung“ Deutschland zuordnen und dem gesellschaftlich tief verankerten Beschulungsnormativ entgegenstellen.

Diverse forms of opposition are already existent virtually everywhere around us but the nature and significance of oppositeness is well understood only in specific contexts within the fields of philosophy, linguistics, psychology, logic and physics. The interplay between entities and opposite entities is apparently fundamental for maintaining universal balance. However, it seems that there is a...

This is quite a paradoxical era. Scientific research is in its most productive phase and it continues to produce many beneficial technologies for mankind. For example, we rapidly progress towards a better understanding of many diseases and come up with multiple new approaches to cure them. At the same time, however, the voices against science and technology have never been more shrill. But unsu...

INTRODUCTION One of the most important hand functions is thumb opposition, which results from flexion, abduction and axial rotation at the carpometacarpal, metacarpophalangeal and interphalangeal joints [1]. The thenar muscles, innervated by the median nerve, are critical for coordinated thumb movements. It is commonly observed that thumb opposition is impaired with median neuropathy [2]. The c...

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We study a DeGroot-like opinion dynamics model in which agents may oppose other agents. As an underlying motivation, in our setup, agents want to adjust their opinions to match those of the agents they follow (their ‘ingroup’ or those they trust) and, in addition, they want to adjust their opinions to match the ‘inverse’ of those of the agents they oppose (their ‘outgroup’ or those they distrus...