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Die englischsprachige Publikation erzählt die Geschichte der schweizerischen Uhrenmanufaktur 'International Watch Company' (IWC) der Jahre 1875 bis 1890. Den Autoren ist es in jahrelanger Forschungsarbeit gelungen, die Geschichte von unbekannten IWC-Uhrwerken aus dieser Zeit zu dokumentieren. Die passionierten Forscher beschreiben mit Liebe zum Detail den damaligen Stand der Technik und das Umfeld, in dem sich die IWC-Uhrenmanufaktur behaupten musste. Die Zeit ist besonders interessant, da IWC viele verschiedene Uhrwerke lancierte und zur Marktreife brachte. Nach turbulenten Anfangsjahren gelang es dem 1868 gegründeten Unternehmen, sich am Markt zu behaupten und zu einem führenden Hersteller von Luxusuhren aufzusteigen. Mit dem hochwertig verarbeiteten Bildband wird die Geschichte des Uhrmacherhandwerks im 19. Jahrhundert erfahrbar und Sammler:innen historischer Uhren können sich über das umfangreiche Quellenmaterial freuen. This English-language publication tells the story of the Swiss watch manufacturer 'International Watch Company' (IWC) from the years 1875 to 1890. The authors have succeeded in documenting the history of unknown IWC movements from this period through years of research work. The passionate researchers describe with attention to detail the state of the art of IWC at the time and the business environment in which the Schaffhausen based company had to perform. The period is particularly interesting because IWC launched many different movements and brought them to market. After challenging early years, the company, founded in 1868, managed to hold its own in the market and rise to become a leading manufacturer of luxury watches. With this high-quality illustrated book, the history of the watchmaking trade in the 19th century can be experienced and collectors of historical watches can enjoy the extensive source material.

Data from the literature containing information on the age at death of Neolithic burials from Germany. The data were taken from mortality tables (Dx), individual data or bar charts. The data set does not claim to be complete, but focuses on larger burial groups.

Viele Hochschulbibliotheken in Deutschland unterstützen mittlerweile die Forschung und Lehre in den Digital Humanities. Die jüngsten Fachdiskussionen über den DH-Dienst an wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken befassen sich entsprechend intensiv mit den konkreten Inhalten des DH-Dienstes und sprechen sich mehrheitlich dafür aus, den DH-Dienst an wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken inhaltlich nah an der Forschung anzusiedeln und nicht lediglich als eine infrastrukturelle Unterstützungsleistung zu begreifen. Die vorliegende Studie prüft anhand von zehn Interviews mit DH-Akteur*innen an 9 verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken in Deutschland, ob und inwiefern das für DH zuständige Personal tatsächlich nah an der DH-Forschung und -Lehre arbeitet. Die Ergebnisse der Studie zeigen, dass alle DH-Fachreferent*innen in dem Sinne forschungsnah beschäftigt sind, dass sie in ihrer Arbeit direkt mit den Belangen der DH-Forschenden zu tun haben und dass sie aufmerksam den aktuellen Entwicklungen in der DH-spezifischen Fachdiskussion folgen, um ihrer Rolle als DH-Fachreferent*innen gerecht zu werden. Der Umfang und die konkreten Inhalte ihrer DH-Dienste weisen allerdings große Unterschiede in Abhängigkeit von der DH-Forschungslandschaft an der jeweiligen Universität und von der organisatorischen Struktur der jeweiligen Bibliothekseinrichtung auf. Diese Veröffentlichung geht zurück auf eine Masterarbeit im weiterbildenden Masterstudiengang im Fernstudium Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft (Library and Information Science, M.A. (LIS)) an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin aus dem Jahr 2023.

В работе поднимается проблема создания цифровых копий исторических памятников Узбекистана. В качестве решения предлагается использование инновационных технологий для создания высокоточных 3D-моделей. Реализация проекта позволит решить ряд вопросов в деле сохранения, доступности и создания цифрового архива. 

AbstractMixed turbidite–contourite depositional systems result from interactions between down‐slope turbidity currents and along‐slope bottom currents, comprising excellent records of past oceanographic currents. Modern and ancient systems have been widely documented along the continental margins of the Atlantic Ocean. Yet, few examples have so far been identified on the North‐west African continental margin, limiting understanding of the sedimentary and palaeoceanographic evolution in this area. This work uses two‐dimensional seismic reflection profiles to report, for the first time, the presence of three giant sediment mounds beneath the headwall region of the Sahara Slide Complex. The sediment mounds are elongated and separated by two broad canyons, showing a north‐west/south‐east orientation that is roughly perpendicular to the continental margin. These mounds are 24 to 37 km long and 12 to 17 km wide, reaching a maximum height of ca 1000 m. Numerous slide scarps are observed within and along the flanks of the mounds, hinting at the occurrence of submarine landslides during their development. Based on their geometries, external shapes, internal seismic architecture and stratigraphic stacking patterns, it is proposed that these sediment mounds comprise down‐slope elongated mounded drifts formed in a mixed turbidite–contourite system during four evolutionary stages: onset, growth, maintenance and burial. The significance of this work is that it demonstrates the gradual transition from a turbidite system to a full mixed turbidite–contourite system to be associated, in the study area, with the establishment of strong ocean currents along north‐west Africa.

The seismogenesis of rocks is mainly affected by their mineral composition and in situ conditions (temperature and state of stress). Diverse laboratory experiments have explored the frictional behaviour of the rocks and rock-forming minerals most common in the crust and uppermost mantle. However, it is debated how to “upscale” these results to the lithosphere. In particular, most earthquakes in the crust nucleate down to the crustal seismogenic depth (CSD), which is a proxy for the maximum depth of crustal earthquake ruptures in seismic hazard assessments. In this study we propose a workflow to upscale and validate those laboratory experiments to natural geological conditions relevant for crustal and upper-mantle rocks. We used the southern Caribbean and northwestern South America as a case study to explore the three-dimensional spatial variation of the CSD (mapped as D90, the 90 % percentile of hypocentral depths) and the temperatures at which crustal earthquakes likely occur. A 3D steady-state thermal field was computed for the region with a finite-element scheme using the software GOLEM, considering the uppermost 75 km of a previously published 3D data-integrative lithospheric configuration, lithology-constrained thermal parameters, and appropriate upper and lower boundary conditions. The model was validated using additional, independent measurements of downhole temperatures and heat flow. We found that the majority of crustal earthquakes nucleate at temperatures less than 350 ∘C, in agreement with frictional experiments of typical crustal rocks. A few outliers with larger hypocentral temperatures evidence nucleation conditions consistent with the seismogenic window of olivine-rich rocks, and can be due to either uncertainties in the Moho depths and/or in the earthquake hypocentres or the presence of ultramafic rocks within different crustal blocks and allochthonous terranes accreted to this complex margin. Moreover, the spatial distribution of crustal seismicity in the region correlates with the geothermal gradient, with no crustal earthquakes occurring in domains with low thermal gradient. Finally, we find that the largest earthquake recorded in the region (Mw=7.1, Murindó sequence, in 1992) nucleated close to the CSD, highlighting the importance of considering this lower-stability transition for seismogenesis when characterizing the depth of seismogenic sources in hazard assessments. The approach presented in this study goes beyond a statistical approach in that the local heterogeneity of physical properties is considered in our simulations and additionally validated by the observed depth distribution of earthquakes. The coherence of the calculated hypocentral temperatures with those expected from laboratory measurements provides additional support to our modelling workflow. This approach can be applied to other tectonic settings worldwide, and it could be further refined as new, high-quality hypocentral locations and heat flow and temperature observations become available.

Der eingereichte Beitrag skizziert die Landschaft der bestehenden Toolverzeichnisse in den Digital Humanities. Vor dem Hintergrund dass der Anspruch eines umfassenden und repräsentativen Abbildes computationaller Werkzeuge gemeinhin als nicht realisierbar anerkannt werden muss und weiterhin keine nachhaltigen Governance-sturkturen in geschlossenen Infrastrukturen zu erkennen sind, stellen wir unseren Vorschlag eines auf der Daten- und Infrastrukturebene offenen, community-getriebenen Ansatzes für die kollaborative Verzeichnung von Tools auf Basis von Wikidata vor.

Research compendium for 'A pre-Campanian Ignimbrite techno-cultural shift in the Aurignacian sequence of Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy' Compendium DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10639553 The content available at the above provided URL will reproduce the results as documented in the first paper's submission. Instead, the files hosted at https://github.com/ArmandoFalcucci/Castelcivita-Aur-Techno represent the developmental versions and might have undergone modifications since the paper's publication. Maintainer of this repository: Armando Falcucci (armando.falcucci@uni-tuebingen.de; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3255-1005) Submitted paper: Armando Falcucci, Simona Arrighi, Vincenzo Spagnolo, Matteo Rossini, Owen Higgins, Brunella Muttillo, Ivan Martini, Jacopo Crezzini, Francesco Boschin, Annamaria Ronchitelli, Adriana Moroni. A pre-Campanian Ignimbrite techno-cultural shift in the Aurignacian sequence of Grotta di Castelcivita, southern Italy. In preparation (2024). Abstract: The Aurignacian is the first European technocomplex assigned to Homo sapiens identified across a wide geographic extent. Although archaeologists have identified marked chrono-cultural shifts within the Aurignacian mostly by examining the techno-typological variations of stone tools, unraveling the underlying processes driving these changes remains a significant scientific challenge. Scholars have, for instance, hypothesized that the Campanian Ignimbrite (CI) super-eruption and the climatic deterioration associated with the onset of Heinrich Event 4 had a substantial impact on European foraging groups. The technological shift from the Protoaurignacian to the Early Aurignacian is regarded as an archaeological manifestation of adaptation to changing environments. However, some of the most crucial regions and stratigraphic sequences for testing these scenarios have been overlooked. In this study, we delve into the high-resolution stratigraphic sequence of Grotta di Castelcivita in southern Italy. Here, the Uluzzian is followed by three Aurignacian layers, all sealed by the eruptive units of the CI. Employing a comprehensive range of quantitative methods—encompassing attribute analysis, 3D model analysis, and geometric morphometrics—we demonstrate that the technological features commonly associated with the Early Aurignacian developed well before the deposition of the CI tephra. Our study provides thus the first direct evidence that the volcanic eruption played no role in this cultural process. Furthermore, we show that local paleo-environmental proxies do not correlate with the identified patterns of cultural continuity and discontinuity. Consequently, we propose alternative research paths to explore the role of demography and regional trajectories in the development of the Upper Paleolithic. Keywords: Early Upper Paleolithic; Italy; Aurignacian; lithic technology; geometric morphometrics; 3D model analysis; cultural evolution; human-environment interaction; open science. Overview of contents and how to reproduce: Within this repository, various folders house data (data), code (script), and output files (output) pertinent to the paper. The data folder encompasses the complete dataset, the core dataset, and 2D outline coordinates utilized for the geometric morphometrics study. To replicate the results, download the entire repository and employ Castelcivita-Aur-Techno.Rproj and open the folder script, following the numbered folder structure. For ensuring reproducibility, the renv package (v. 1.0.3) was utilized, following the procedures detailed in its vignette. All analyses and visualizations in the paper were conducted using R 4.3.1 on Microsoft Windows 10.0.19045 (64-bit). As the necessary packages are available in the renv folder, they are not explicitly listed here. Licenses: Code: MIT (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT), copyright holder: Armando Falcucci (2024). Data and intellectual work: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), copyright holder: the authors (2024).