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AUTHOR
Yvonne Bohr
The temporal dimension in the understanding of maternal sensitivity in caregiver-infant interactions: The 'Early Mother-Child Interaction Coding System'.
Abstract Caregiver-child interaction is known to play a central role in children’s socioemotional development, yet the diversity of measures commonly used to evaluate it call into question the nature of the construct being assessed. Contingency within caregiver-child interactions has been identified as a key dyadic process that requires taking a temporal perspective to evaluating interactions. The Early Mother-Child Interaction Coding System is a psychometrically sound measure that sequentially code the flow of interactive and non-interactive behaviours within a caregiver-infant system. Its use of the framework of nonlinear dynamical systems (NDS) expands our understanding of contingent car…
Ecosystem based analysis of the condition of the German forest
Germany ranks among the densely wooded countries in Europe. One third is forested and the timber stocks in Germany account for 336 m3 per hectare. Forestry claims to occupy a leading place compared with other European countries. For more than 30 years the aim of forestry is to implement close-to-nature forest management throughout Germany. This objective has in Germany already generated an increasing proportion of structurally diverse mixed stands, long regeneration periods and natural rejuvenation methods. The good condition of German forests is the consequence of the silvicultural actions of many forest owners and foresters and the result of a forestry policy based on balance and sustaina…