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Infectious diseases alone have historically claimed more lives than wars - be it the "Spanish flu" after World War I or AIDS, malaria, polio and tuberculosis. Together they cost millions of lives every year. A multitude of actors are active in the global health world in the fight against these pathogens, but among this myriad one actor has received little research attention to date: philanthropic foundations. As a result, the question of the efficiency of philanthropic foundations remained largely unaddressed...

With this book, Klaus Behnam Shad presents a provocative reflection on the possibilities and limits of universal ethics, which, particularly in the form of human rights, currently serve to legitimize a wide range of humanitarian interventions. On the one hand, Behnam Shad goes beyond the usual ethnological concern with research-practical moral questions and, on the other hand, beyond the empirical investigation of moral problems of actors in the context of recent anthropology of morality. Rather, he exposes himself and the...

COVER STORY Botch, tricks and rip-offs by tennis service companies. Anyone who entrusts the spring repairs to a specialist company rightly expects professional performance. However, if you end up with the wrong company, you will instead receive bad service, unskilled work and botched places. NEWS 1. Top through breadth - Karl-Georg Altenburg is the new President of the Deutscher Tennis Bundes 2. Farewell TeXX, welcome performance classes - The new binding point and rating system in the DTB 3. 24...

COVER TOPIC Tennis & School. The cooperation with a school can be seen as one of THE possibilities to discover talents and bring new youngsters into the club. Many opportunities for implementation and support pave the way for tennis clubs to go to school - and for students to join the club. NEWS 1. After a successful premiere, the future lies in Berlin - Review of the 25th DTB/VDT Federal Congress 2. When moaning is very (dis)nervating - grunting in...

COVER STORY The tennis surface from Sportas promises outdoor courts that can be played all year round and indoor conditions like a classic clay court. In the meantime, the tennis surface has been installed in 14 European countries as well as in China and Australia. Sportas has developed Tennis Force. RETURNAL asked what makes this new rubber so special and spoke to clubs that have decided on the product. NEWS 1. Women's power in Styria - At the general meeting...

COVER STORY The flood disaster in June 2013 caused devastating damage, especially in northern, southern and eastern Germany. Water levels in the Saale of up to 8.10 meters or even almost 13 meters in the Danube caused masses of water to overflow their banks and caused extensive damage to property and extensive evacuations from parts of the city. In addition to private households and business owners, a large number of tennis clubs in Germany were also existentially affected by the...

Coal has been mined and extracted worldwide for some time. This raw material, which has been described as the engine of industrialization, is mainly used for power generation and steel production and gives countries with sufficient reserves an important position in the world economy by being able to produce their own energy. Germany is one of the countries with the highest coal reserves in the world. RAG Deutsche Steinkohle is part of the RAG Aktiengesellschaft group of companies and is...

One is generally more persuaded by the reasons one has found oneself than by those which have arisen in the minds of others."  - Blaise Pascal The active examination of the laws of nature, combined with physical knowledge, offers a wealth of learning opportunities for both physics and physical education classes. This can be implemented in a lesson that deals with the topic of sailing across subject boundaries. In this book, possibilities for interdisciplinary teaching are shown and a sample...

Young people not only develop diverse concepts of femininity and masculinity at school, they also arrange them in a hierarchical order. This leads to privileges, discrimination and exclusion. This book shows the means by which a gender order is negotiated among young people at school, which on the one hand testifies to a large variety of gender concepts, but on the other hand is the result of a standardization based on social stereotypes. The author bases his theses on observations...

Founding a company presents the founder of a business with various related questions. There are u. Making decisions about the business concept, the chances of successful marketing, the legal form, the location, the organization, management, human resources management, investments and their financing or the use of possible subsidies. A successful start-up must not leave any of these questions unanswered. The details of the start-up project can be recorded in a business plan. This forms u. an important basis for decision-making...

Founding a company presents the founder of a business with various related questions. There are u. Making decisions about the business concept, the chances of successful marketing, the legal form, the location, the organization, management, human resources management, investments and their financing or the use of possible subsidies. A successful start-up must not leave any of these questions unanswered. The details of the start-up project can be recorded in a business plan. This forms u. an important basis for decision-making...

Founding or taking over a medical practice or a therapeutic practice is associated with opportunities and risks for the founder of a business or doctor or therapist. There are numerous decisions to be made with regard to relevant medical, therapeutic, economic, financial, legal, organizational, personnel, spatial, temporal and other aspects. Here, the current and future development in the healthcare system plays a central role. Every start-up is well prepared, planned and represents a sustainable, often irreversible decision with existential importance....