This collection of essays is above all intended to pay tribute to the fact that while QM today is a refined and incredibly successful instrument, many issues concerning the internal consistency and the interpretation of this theory are still not nearly as well understood as they ought to be.

In addition, whenever possible these essays take the opportunity to link foundational issues to the many exciting developments that are often linked to major experimental and technological breakthroughs in exploiting the electromagnetic field and in particular, its quantum properties and its...

Der 4. Juli 2012 stellt ein historisches Datum fur das Europaische Kernforschungszentrum CERN in Genf dar: die Verkundung der Entdeckung des letzten, vorhergesagten, noch fehlenden und lange gesuchten Elementarteilchens, des Higgs-Bosons. Ein Jahr spater kommen im Rahmen der Konferenz des Zentrums fur interdisziplinare Forschung (ZiF) in Bielefeld eine Vielzahl der mit dem Groprojekt am CERN verbundenen Wissenschaftler zusammen, um nicht nur uber die Entdeckung des Teilchens, sondern vor allem uber die Realisierung und Bedeutung eines derart ungeheuren Unterfangens fur solch ein...

This book gives a general view of sequence analysis, the statistical study of successions of states or events. It includes innovative contributions on life course studies, transitions into and out of employment, contemporaneous and historical careers, and political trajectories. The approach presented in this book is now central to the life-course perspective and the study of social processes more generally.

This volume promotes the dialogue between approaches to sequence analysis that developed separately, within traditions contrasted in space and disciplines. It includes the latest...