Fabmatics (Germany)

Article Białek, Edward; Pacholski, Jan (Hg.). Von himmelschauenden Alpen zu mittleren Höhen. Bergmotive im deutschen und polnischen Kulturraum. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2023. 288 pp, 14 Abb. was published on June 1, 2025 in the journal Kritikon Litterarum (volume 52, issue 1-2).

Article Dorren, Gaston: Die größten Sprachen und was sie so besonders macht. München: C. H. Beck, 2024. – ISBN 978-3-406-81508-9. 400 Seiten, € 18,00. was published on April 1, 2025 in the journal Informationen Deutsch als Fremdsprache (volume 52, issue 2-3).

Pre-service teacher (PST) training in Germany largely fails to prepare prospective teachers adequately for the subject-specific use of digital media. In order to promote their digital competences as well as their intention to use digital media, teacher training needs to adapt. Utilizing Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), this study aims to identify beliefs on the subject-specific use of different digital media in biology classroom. Within a weekly course on different scientific inquiry methods, pre-service biology teachers used various digital media and wrote reflections on advantages and disadvantages of the digital media they used. Through analysis of these written reflections (n = 85) it was possible, to differentiate the TPB constructs into 38 subcategories. Across all media, we were able to identify most beliefs in the area of behavioral and control beliefs, while normative beliefs and self-efficacy expectations were rarely expressed. At the level of the inductive categories, however, the beliefs were often expressed with different frequencies depending on the medium used. The results allow a more subject-specific differentiation of TPB’s constructs for digital media use in order to design a measuring instrument to evaluate biology teacher training courses. In addition, the results indicate that PSTs’ intention to use digital media in the biology classroom also differs depending on the medium used. These findings provide actionable insights for the design of teacher training programs that specifically target beliefs, i.e. by confronting PSTs with a variety of different digital tools, to enhance the effective use of digital media in biology classrooms.

A transparent and standardized performance measurement platform is needed for on-prescription digital health apps to enable ongoing performance monitoring. PLOS Digit Health 3(11): e0000656.

This paper investigated the interface quality of electroplated nickel (Ni) and gold (Au) layers processed at different Q-time. This study is important for semiconductor manufacturing processes because Q-time between Ni and Au plating is sometimes inevitable and maintaining good plating quality is essential. It was found that more than 24hours of waiting time between Ni and Au plating did not impact the Ni/Au interface's quality.

Article Jens Wehner, »Technik können Sie von der Taktik nicht trennen«. Die Jagdflieger der Wehrmacht, Frankfurt a. M., New York: Campus 2022,‎ 572 S. (= Krieg und Konflikt, 15), EUR 49,00 [ISBN 978-3-593-51513-7] was published on April 1, 2024 in the journal Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift (volume 83, issue 1).