295 research outputs found
University Control Officers, British Writers and an Enemy People: Education Policy in the British Zone
No full textIslamophobia, ‘gross offensiveness’ and the internet
No full textThis article argues that restrictions on expression based on ‘gross offensiveness’ or similar public morality notions embedded in speech offences are not and cannot be politically neutral and be evenly applied to political speech, no matter who is the author. Such concepts draw on a majoritarian perspective purporting to be reflective of unified base values of the ‘national community’. The article explores why such concepts of unacceptable speech are a poor fit for a deeply heterogeneous community, and all the more so on the internet, where those who engage in public discourse are even more numerous and more diverse in ethnic, cultural, political and social terms. Set against such a diverse speech landscape the prohibition of ‘gross offensiveness’, or what are considered the outer boundaries of acceptability, is repressive of minorities and of challenges to conventional opinions and existing power dynamics, and is liable to reinforce the very bigotry it seeks to relieve
Legal reasoning and legal change in the age of the Internet - why the ground rules are still valid
No full textThis article is a defence of conservative legal argumentation and hopes to add a dimension of realism to the debate on Internet regulation. A recognition of the law's inherent resistance to anything but incremental change, born out of its function to provide certainty and stability, must inform legal argumentation in particular in relation to legal issues arising out of a phenomenon as revolutionary as the Internet. By taking a bird's eye perspective on the arguments on the issue of whether a website is enough to assert jurisdiction over the entity behind the website, the author argues that the most efficient regulatory options are not in fact the best or realistic regulatory options if their implementation entails substantial legal disruption. Legal adjustments to accommodate new technological phenomena such as the Internet often need not be as drastic, as may appear at first sight, if the relationship between law and the marketplace or law and technological developments is properly evaluated as two way
De desponsatione Clandestina ad tit. III. lib. IV. decretalium
No full textQuam Una Cum Positionibus Ex Vario Jure Pro Consequendo Utriusque Juris Doctoratu Placidae Eruditorum Crisi Subjecit Author & Respondens Christianus Kohl Ex Rheinbrohl AA. LL. & Philosophiae Magister, Archiepiscopalis Trevirensis Curiae Metropoliticae, ... In Auditorio Majore Juridico Die [ ] Junii horâ 8vâ 1772Autopsie nach Ex. der ULB DüsseldorfVorlageform der Veröffentlichungsangabe: Augustae Trevirorum, Typis EschermannianisTagesangabe fehlt im DruckUniversität Trier, Dissertation, 17. Juni 177
University Control Officers, British Writers and an Enemy People: Education Policy in the British Zone
No full textThe Old Kingdom “kohl-pot” and its reinterpretation
No full textThe article aims to interpret the so-called “kohl pot” in the
Old Kingdom. There are only several vessels of this type
that have been discovered and published so far. All of them
come from burial contexts, and although some of them
have been described as cosmetic jars, there is no reason as
to why. The author of the present study has arrived at
another interpretation based on the archaeological contexts
of the vessels and on iconography. The position of the
vessels in burial chambers, as well as their depictions in
the Old Kingdom reliefs, rather point to their usage by
ancient scribes as water pots
Review of the Monograph by B. V. Petelin «Helmut Kohl: to be a German. Biography Pages»
No full textСтрелец Михаил Васильевич – профессор кафедры гуманитарных наук, Брестский государственный технический университет (Брест), e-mail: [email protected]. ORCID 0000-0003-1593-7202. Mikhail V. Strelets – professor of Department of Humanitarian Disciplines, Brest State Technical University (Brest), e-mail: [email protected]Целью рецензии является выявление научной новизны в монографии профессора Череповецкого государственного университета Бориса Валентиновича Петелина «Гельмут Коль: быть немцем. Страницы биографии». Рецензент видит все основания считать, что его российский коллега впервые в постсоветской германистике осуществил системную реконструкцию истории германской политики шестого канцлера ФРГ Гельмута Коля. В монографии показано, чему надо поучиться у Коля современной генерации руководителей государств. Речь идёт о решении стратегических задач не путём импровизации, а с чётким осознанием поставленной цели, с профессиональным аппаратом сотрудников. The author of this review set out to reveal the scientific novelty in the monograph by the professor of Cherepovets State University Boris Valentinovich Petelin «Helmut Kohl: to be a German. Biography pages». The reviewer sees every reason to believe that his Russian colleague, for the first time in post-Soviet German studies, carried out a systemic reconstruction of the history of German politics by the sixth chancellor of the FRG, Helmut Kohl. The monograph shows what needs to be learned from Kohl by the modern heads of state. It is about solving strategic tasks not by improvisation, but with a clear awareness of the goal, with a professional staff of employees
Connective-tissue fibroblasts established on micropillar interfaces are pivotal for epithelial tissue morphogenesis
No full textPolydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) pillar arrays are applied as a biomechanical microenvironment to establish gingival connective-tissue fibroblasts (GCTFs) and to further analyze the pivotal role of GCTFs in epithelial-tissue morphogenesis. GCTFs are known to exert successful adhesion and growth on fibronectin immobilized on pillar heads, over time, concomitant with the increased gene expression of vimentin and collagen type-I. GCTF-populated pillar arrays clearly reveal that epithelial-tissue morphogenesis of immortalized human gingival keratinocytes (IHGKs), co-cultured for 7 and 14 days, parallels the in vivo phenotype more closely, when compared with GCTF-free control arrays. This in vivo-like phenotype is substantiated by higher mRNA levels for keratin 1, involucrin and filaggrin differentiation markers. Furthermore, it is reflected by a tissue-specific protein orientation of the aforementioned molecules, and also of the cell-to-cell contact forming desmoplakin and the basement membrane constituents, laminin-5, laminin-1/10, and collagen type-IV. These experiments suggest that the in vivo-like phenotype of the IHGK is governed by the GCTFs growing on the micropillar interfaces. Moreover, they form the basis for the optimization or neogeneration of biomaterials by varying predefined microenvironmetal parameters to achieve an in vivo-like cell growth and differentiation, indispensable for tissue morphogenesis during regeneration
Early keratinocyte differentiation on micropillar interfaces
No full textWe employed topographical patterning to analyze early keratinocyte differentiation on top of microfabricated pillar arrays. Fibronectin immobilized on pillar "heads" yielded a nucleus-associated granular keratin 1 (K1) pattern in immortalized human gingival keratinocytes (IHGK) at pillar interspaces of 14 mum. Decreasing distances of 11and 8 mum revealed cytoplasmic extension of the early differentiation marker K1 on poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) pillars. The most extensive cytoplasmic K1 protein distribution noted at the smallest pillar scale coincided with higher ratios of K1 mRNA gene transcription. These experiments suggest that early keratinocyte differentiation was governed by the topographical characteristics of the pillar pattern. Moreover, they form the basis to study cell functions such as differentiation in a defined topologically structured environment
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