Critical discourse analysis as a type of social practice reveals how linguistic choices enable speakers to manipulate the realizations of agency and power in the representation of action.The present study examines the relationship between language and ideology and explores how such a relationship is represented in the analysis of spoken text and to show how declarative knowledge, beliefs, attit...

1 Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences. Inselstrasse 22-26, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany [email protected], http://www.tbi.univie.ac.at/∼baer/ 2 Lehrstuhl für Bioinformatik, Institut für Informatik, Universität Leipzig, Kreuzstrasse 7b, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany. [email protected], http://www.bioinf.uni-leipzig.de/∼studla/ 3 Insitut für Theoretische Chemie und Mole...

The ion beam laboratory ISL at the Hahn-MeitnerInstitut Berlin (HMI) supplied light and heavy ion beams for research and applications in solid state physics, industry, and medicine. Since 1998, eye tumours are treated with 68 MeV protons in collaboration with the University Hospital Benjamin Franklin, now Charité Campus Benjamin Franklin. In autumn 2004 the board of directors of the HMI decided...

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) pose a significant threat to individual and public health. They disproportionately affect adolescents and young adults. In a cross-sectional study, we assessed self-rated and factual STI knowledge in a sample of 9th graders in 13 secondary schools in Berlin, Germany. Differences by age, gender, migrant background, and school type were quantified using biva...

1Department of Medicine, Division of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Campus Charité Mitte, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 2Neuroradiology Section, Department of Radiology, Campus Charité Mitte, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 3Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Campus Virchow Klinikum, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany 4Depart...