Patrick Schmidt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584998 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Schmidt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmidt |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMIDT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stuttgart |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6556-2088 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 334 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Silcrete Heat Treatment Practices During the Early Howiesons Poort at Diepkloof Rock Shelter
Biomass tar, Podocarpus leaves and the diversity of southern African Stone Age adhesives – new data from Elands Bay Cave
Adhesives are among the most informative archaeological artefacts for understanding the behaviour of Stone Age forages. In the southern African Middle and Later Stone Age, the botanical origin of most adhesives was identified as conifers of the genus Podocarpus . One of these identifications of Podocarpus adhesives comes from Elands Bay Cave. However, it has recently been shown that similar adhesives can be, and were, produced from many plants av…
Small Drills, Big Questions—Investigating Late Neolithic Dickenbännli Drills Through Experimentation, Technology, Traceology and Residue Analysis
The manufacture of limestone beads using so-called Dickenbännli drills has been proposed to be part of a large-scale societal development: specialization of labor and the resulting emergence of social stratification. These small lithic drills are abundant at many Middle and Late Neolithic sites in Southern Germany and Northern Switzerland, frequently co-occurring with limestone beads. However, the use of the drills for bead manufacture is mostly …
Institutional Leadership Perspectives on the National Association of Schools of Music Accreditation
This case study examined institutional leadership perspectives on the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) accreditation process, drawing on interviews with 19 deans, directors, and senior leaders from diverse academic settings. The study revealed complex tensions between the perceived value of NASM membership and concerns about diminishing returns, highlighting issues of institutional isomorphism, outdated standards, and the challenge…
Making it Legible
This article contends that there is a plausible claim that peer-reviewing and editorship, two significantly impactful activities in our field—as in other disciplinary areas—function under black box approaches whereby the opacity of the process is overlaid by lacunae in learning, onboarding, and mentorship. In other words, current professional practice offers at best ad hoc and haphazard pathways to ‘coming to know the process’ of peer-reviewing a…
Stone tool knapping quality and raw material selection behaviour in the Inner Asian Mountain Corridor
A single test for raw material properties
The study of raw materials used for making stone tools allows archaeologists to gain insight into the behaviours of ancient people. Raw materials possess different properties, which influence the ability of knappers to flake, shape and use a stone tool. Measuring these properties experimentally requires specialised laboratories and measuring processes that are not straightforward. This makes such analyses a cost-intensive and often inaccessible w…
Composition, Policy, and the Formation of Agency
This chapter argues that while at first glance music education policy and music composition may seem an odd pairing, when framed through a lens of critical and progressive practice the strangeness disappears. The chapter illustrates a pushback at traditionalist, Eurocentric narratives, arguing that in some ways, apprehensions around “policy” mirror hesitancies around “composing”—a similar narrowness promoting misconceptions about who can do what …
Identifying Dynamic Shifts to Careless and Insufficient Effort Behavior in Questionnaire Responses; a Novel Approach and Experimental Validation
Careless and insufficient effort responding (C/IER) is a situation where participants respond to survey instruments without considering the item content. This phenomena adds noise to data leading to erroneous inference. There are multiple approaches to identifying and accounting for C/IER in survey settings, of these approaches the best performing are model based classification techniques. Classic approaches to accounting for C/IER treat it as a …
Earliest Evidence in the Philippines of Life Under the Canopy
Testing Forecast Rationality for Measures of Central Tendency
Rational respondents to economic surveys may report as a point forecast any measure of the central tendency of their predictive distribution, e.g. the mean, median, or mode. We propose tests of forecast rationality when the measure used by the respondent is unknown. We overcome an identification problem that arises when the centrality measures are in a local neighborhood of each other, as is the case for approximately symmetric distributions. We …
Disobedient Officers in the Royal Navy, about 1680–1720
Studies on indiscipline and unrest aboard ship during the Age of Sail so far have mostly focused on the norm-violating behaviours of common seamen. This article, by contrast, investigates acts of insubordination committed by warrant and commissioned officers in the Royal Navy, using courts martial records as sources. It traces the contours of that historical phenomenon, identifying common confrontations as well as less frequent ones that may prov…
Preliminary results of the first lithic raw material survey in the piedmont zones of Kazakhstan
The study of raw materials was comprehensively studied in European and African Palaeolithic. However, systematic research of raw material sourcing has not been undertaken for the Palaeolithic of Kazakhstan, such surveys being embedded in reconnaissance works aimed at discovering new Palaeolithic sites. Our work presents preliminary results of the first lithic raw material survey in Kazakhstan. This study distinguishes the geographic patterns of l…
The Routledge Handbook to Sociology of Music Education
The Routledge Handbook to Sociology of Music Education is a comprehensive, authoritative and state-of-the-art review of current research in the field. The opening introduction orients the reader to the field, highlights recent developments, and draws together concepts and research methods to be covered. The chapters that follow are written by respected, experienced experts on key issues in their area of specialisation. From separate beginnings in…
Data Management
Data management includes the development and use of architectures, guidelines, practices and procedures for accurate managing of data during the entire data lifecycle of an institutional unit or a research project. Data are defined as different information units such as numbers, alphabetic characters, and symbols that are particularly formatted and can be processed by computer. The data in the project is provided by various actors which can be Ge…
Numerical Platform
An essential scientific goal of the GeomInt project is the analysis of potentials and limitations of different numerical approaches for the modelling of discontinuities in the rocks under consideration in order to improve the understanding of methods and their synergies with regard to theoretical and numerical fundamentals. As numerical methods, the “Lattice Element Method” (LEM), the non-continuous discontinuum methods “Discrete Element Method” …
Code Descriptions
The FFS method (see Sect. 10.1007/978-3-030-61909-1_3 ) was developed to simulate direct shear tests. To provide a tool for the project work and get things easier done a graphical user interface (GUI) was also created. The GUI simply calls all necessary functions by letting the user either fill form fields or choose input files from the working folder. The rock parameters and the conditions of the direct shear test with the normal stress levels a…
Model-Experiment-Exercises (MEX)
The basic idea of Model-Experiment-Exercises (MEX) is to link modelling and experimental works from the very beginning i.e. in the conceptual phase. Due to the complexity of each part in the systems analysis, this combination is sometimes lost. Moreover, both models and experiments require highly sophisticated tools and equipment as well as highly specialized professionals, which also necessitate adequate measures and incentives for collaboration…
Investigating the 1930s Kohl-Larsen collection from the Lake Eyasi Basin, Tanzania
Since more than 80 years, the University of Tübingen hosts the archaeological collections excavated by Margit and Ludwig Kohl-Larsen between 1934 and 1939 in modern-day Tanzania. Despite the great scientific relevance of these collections, most of them were never published on an international scale and were thus unavailable for the broader Africanist archaeological community. In the light of new excavations around Lake Eyasi, conducted jointly by…
Interpretation of point forecasts with unknown directive
Point forecasts can be interpreted as functionals (i.e., point summaries) of predictive distributions. We extend methodology for the identification of the functional based on time series of point forecasts and associated realizations. Focusing on state‐dependent quantiles and expectiles, we provide a generalized method of moments estimator for the functional, along with tests of optimality under general joint hypotheses of functional relationship…
Routledge Handbook to Sociology of Music Education
Promoting a musical lifecourse towards sustainable ageing
Today, individually perceived quality of life for a growing ageing population could be said to be significantly dependent on meaningful life experiences, social connectedness and a sense of purpose. In this article, we argue for a wider theorization of policy and the politics of ageing. The central aim is to reflect on understandings of ageing within music education and musical participation, and, in particular, shift the focus from active ageing…
City on a Hill
A recurring theme in the history of the United States, beginning with the settlements of Europe's religious dissenters, has been a compulsion to start over. Whether this manifests itself in antipreservationist sentiments in older cities or in the postwar romanticization of suburban sprawl, Americans have long displayed a distinct optimism about newness and growth. In City on a Hill: Urban Idealism in America from the Puritans to the Present, Alex…
Early anthropogenic use of hematite on Aurignacian ivory personal ornaments from Hohle Fels and Vogelherd caves, Germany
The Aurignacian (ca. 43-35 ka) of southwestern Germany is well known for yielding some of the oldest artifacts related to symbolic behaviors, including examples of figurative art, musical instruments, and personal ornaments. Another aspect of these behaviors is the presence of numerous pieces of iron oxide (ocher); however, these are comparatively understudied, likely owing to the lack of painted artifacts from this region and time period. Severa…
The Law and Society Reader II
Law and society scholars challenge the common belief that law is simply a neutral tool by which society sets standards and resolves disputes. Decades of research shows how much the nature of communities, organizations, and the people inhabiting them affect how law works. Just as much, law shapes beliefs, behaviors, and wider social structures, but the connections are much more nuanced—and surprising—than many expect. Law and Society Reader II pro…
Heat treatment in the South African Middle Stone Age
The MSA sequence of Diepkloof and the history of southern African Late Pleistocene populations
A previously undescribed organic residue sheds light on heat treatment in the Middle Stone Age
The investment in time needed for heat treatment of flint and chert
Crystallographic and structural transformations of sedimentary chalcedony in flint upon heat treatment
Early anthropogenic use of hematite on Aurignacian ivory personal ornaments from Hohle Fels and Vogelherd caves, Germany
The Aurignacian (ca. 43-35 ka) of southwestern Germany is well known for yielding some of the oldest artifacts related to symbolic behaviors, including examples of figurative art, musical instruments, and personal ornaments. Another aspect of these behaviors is the presence of numerous pieces of iron oxide (ocher); however, these are comparatively understudied, likely owing to the lack of painted artifacts from this region and time period. Severa…
Simple’ surface-fire heat treatment significantly improves silcrete flake quality and flaking efficiency
Preliminary results of the first lithic raw material survey in the piedmont zones of Kazakhstan
The study of raw materials was comprehensively studied in European and African Palaeolithic. However, systematic research of raw material sourcing has not been undertaken for the Palaeolithic of Kazakhstan, such surveys being embedded in reconnaissance works aimed at discovering new Palaeolithic sites. Our work presents preliminary results of the first lithic raw material survey in Kazakhstan. This study distinguishes the geographic patterns of l…
Heat treatment of Kalahari and Cape silcretes
The unique Solutrean laurel-leaf points of Volgu
The ‘Sand-Bath’ and Lithic Heat Treatment in the South African Middle Stone Age
The 2014 presidential and early parliamentary elections in Macedonia
The “Swing Voter” Revisited
The prevailing definition of a “swing voter” on the Supreme Court, set out in a landmark 1990 article in The Journal of Politics and unchallenged ever since, establishes an unreasonably high standard for determining whether a Justice truly fits that critical role. This article critiques existing methods of identifying swing voting and advances a revised methodology, which is then applied to Justice Anthony Kennedy’s decisionmaking patterns on the…
The Dilemma to a Free People”
Even today, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Terminiello v. City of Chicago (1949) strikes students of constitutional law as a vexing factual situation. The problems the case posed for the High Court are all the more daunting considering its historical context, directly following the nation's confrontation with Nazism and standing on the cusp of the Cold War against Communism. In the broader view, most observers would locate the decision with…
Human Rights Brought Home
What practical impact does the incorporation of international human rights standards into domestic law have? This collection of essays explores human rights in domestic legal systems. The enactment of the Human Rights Act in 1998, ushering the European Convention on Human Rights fully into UK law, represented a landmark in the UK constitutional order. Other European states similarly have elevated the status of human rights in their domestic legal…
The "Swing Voter" Revisited
The “Swing Voter” Revisited
The prevailing definition of a “swing voter” on the Supreme Court, set out in a landmark 1990 article in The Journal of Politics and unchallenged ever since, establishes an unreasonably high standard for determining whether a Justice truly fits that critical role. This article critiques existing methods of identifying swing voting and advances a revised methodology, which is then applied to Justice Anthony Kennedy’s decisionmaking patterns on the…
Crystallographic and structural transformations of sedimentary chalcedony in flint upon heat treatment
Heat treatment in the South African Middle Stone Age
Critical Leadership and Music Educational Practice
The difference between systemic change and the micro level engagements or modest kinds of successes that teachers hope for is a largely unaddressed issue in music education policy and leadership. This article outlines a few propositions that place the notion of critical leadership as a central element in music and education focusing on the notion that any educative action must amplify our capacity to 'hear' others, and empower a sense of autonomy…
This Issue
Le traitement thermique des matières premières lithiques
This book looks at the transformations that intentional heat treatment causes in silica rocks when used as lithic raw material. Heat treatment, known from the Middle Stone Age on, is an important step in the evolution of techniques, and the way humans perceived the materials available to them. The study shows an experimental approach, not only to understanding what happens, but also to understanding the range of temperatures and heating speeds at…
The MSA sequence of Diepkloof and the history of southern African Late Pleistocene populations
Law and Society Reader II
Educating Musically in Difference
The aim of this article is to create a link between critical attributes to meaningful educational change and the kind of learning and thinking that is facilitated by artistic endeavors. The goal is not to simply advocate for the Arts, but rather to present a doorway to an educational practice that can be used in educational thought in general. The article starts from David McCarthy’s (2000) proposition that “we must think possibility within const…
The 2014 presidential and early parliamentary elections in Macedonia
The Oxford Handbook of Social Justice in Music Education
This handbook seeks to present a wide-ranging and comprehensive survey of social justice in music education. Contributors from around the world interrogate the complex, multidimensional, and often contested nature of social justice and music education from a variety of philosophical, political, social, and cultural perspectives. Although many chapters take as their starting point an analysis of how dominant political, educational, and musical ide…
A previously undescribed organic residue sheds light on heat treatment in the Middle Stone Age
The ‘Sand-Bath’ and Lithic Heat Treatment in the South African Middle Stone Age
The investment in time needed for heat treatment of flint and chert
Policy and the Political Life of Music Education
As policy participation remains largely underexplored in music education, the book helps to clarify to teachers how policy thinking shapes educational action and directly influences the nature, extent, and impact of our programs. The book brings together global perspectives from diverse standpoints that will aid readers in understanding the complexities of policy and becoming better skilled in how to think, speak, and act in policy terms. The boo…
Scale limits to sustainability
The unique Solutrean laurel-leaf points of Volgu
Making Radical Change Real
Utopianism faded in the postmodern era as a source of inspiration for architecture, just as it declined as a source of literary and political ideas. Theorists have attempted to create space for its return by reenvisioning its requirements. The discourse of sustainability provides the most promising window, and a combination of environmental, social, and economic concerns has given rise to a generation of Danish architects who claim to be the inhe…
Heat treatment of Kalahari and Cape silcretes
The Law and Society Reader II
Law and society scholars challenge the common belief that law is simply a neutral tool by which society sets standards and resolves disputes. Decades of research shows how much the nature of communities, organizations, and the people inhabiting them affect how law works. Just as much, law shapes beliefs, behaviors, and wider social structures, but the connections are much more nuanced—and surprising—than many expect. Law and Society Reader II pro…
Policy as Practice
Policy as Practice: A Guide for Music Educators explores how policy impacts the lives of teachers, arguing that policy participation can matter greatly to how educational experiences are constructed. Articulating a progressive view of policy and its intersection with music education, the book helps the reader to see how policy as a concept and practice has permeated the deepest recesses of civil society and has had particular impact on the lives …
Doing Away with Music
A response to Gaztambide-Fernández’s Keynote address
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Archaeology (12 works) · Geography (12 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (12 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Geology (10 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (9 works)