768 research outputs found
Dr. Gerd J. Horten Professor of History - Concordia University Portland
No full textGerd Horten, author of the book \u27Radio Goes to War: The Cultural Politics of Propaganda during World War II\u27, discusses World War II propaganda and censorship. Recorded by Phil Sedgwick.
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Endogenous Fixprices and Sticky Price Adjustment of Risk-averse Firms
No full textA risk-averse price-setting firm which knows the quantity demanded at the status quo price but has imperfect information otherwise may choose not to change it although an otherwise identical risk-neutral firm would do so, provided the variance of the firm's subjective probability distribution over quantities demanded as a function of price displays a kink at the status quo. This is equivalent to risk aversion of order one. When no such endogenous fixprice exists, the size of price adjustment still tends to zero as risk aversion tends to infinity, and to any arbitrarily small menu cost there exists a degree of risk aversion so that the firm will not adjust.fixed prices, price adjustment, risk aversion, menu cost
Treating gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GERD) with sense
No full textGastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a common disorder that affects an estimated 5 % to 7 % of the global population. Management of GERD often poses a number of challenges. In this article, the author presents a number of management modalities for this condition.peer-reviewe
A Centralidade da vida em Nietzsche e Agamben frente a metafísica ocidental e a biopolítica contemporânea
No full textTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Programa de Pós-Graduação Interdisciplinar em Ciências Humanas, Florianópolis, 2010Esta tese é resultante do esforço de pesquisa teórico-bibliográfica em torno da questão da centralidade da vida no pensamento de Nietzsche e Agamben, a partir de seus posicionamentos frente à metafísica ocidental e as demandas biopoliticas que implicam sobre as formas-de-vida-que-vem. Nietzsche e Agamben questionam a estrutura metafísica que constitui o arcabouço cultural ocidental demonstrando que desde os instantes iniciais do Ocidente o que está em jogo é a apreensão, o controle, a disciplinarização, a normalização e a e normatização moral, política e jurídica sobre as possibilidades potenciais em que a vida se move. O niilismo denunciado e anunciado por Nietzsche se apresenta como superação do homem civilizado, domesticado, violentado pelo império dos meios em seu apequenamento vital, reduzido à mera condição biológica, de um corpo que não se concebe mais como grande razão, portador de uma grande saúde vital, potencializador da vida humana a tornar-se o que ela é em meio à multiplicidade de outras tantas forças vitais em jogo. Para Agamben, o humano ao se estabelecer na ruptura entre physis e phone, ao incluir a vida animal na polis por meio do desenvolvimento da linguagem, posiciona a vida numa zona de indeterminação, possibilitando à ação soberana a legitimação de seu poder, que se estabelece em constante estado exceção ao dispor da vida, ao produzir vida nua. Vida nua que já não é mais a vida animal, mas também não é a vida humana qualificada, mas sim uma vida matável e sacrificável de acordo com os interesses políticos, econômicos em jogo em determinado contexto. Para Agamben, a biopolítica esta na origem da estrutura metafísica e cultural ocidental e seu ápice paradigmático na contemporaneidade se materializou nos campos de concentração. Nietzsche e Agamben, salvaguardadas as diferenças temporais e conceituais, questionam corajosamente as formas-de-vida que se apresentaram no decorrer a dinâmica civilizatória e, que nos conduziram às formas-de-vida presentes na contemporaneidade. Nietzsche ao conceber a vida como vontade de poder, pretende superar a repressão das forças moralizantes que menosprezam e mantém a vida humana em sua condição massificada e mediocrizante presente em seu tempo. Agamben propõem a compreensão de como a potência do pensamento pode paralisar a máquina antropológica ocidental de produção de vida nua, de aprisionamento, uso e consumo da vida pela racionalidade político-administrativa estatal. Para os dois pensadores o que esta em jogo na contemporaneidade é o fato de não abdicarmos da potência da vida em sua dimensão trágica e como obra de arte.This thesis is a result of the effort of theoretical research and literature around the question of the centrality of life in Nietzsche and Agamben's thought from their positions ahead of Western metaphysics and the demands on the biopolitical that involving about life-forms to come it. Nietzsche, Agamben question the structure metaphysical that constitutes the backbone of Western culture, showing that since its initial instants of the West in which this game is the seizure, control, disciplining, and normalization moral, political and legal on the potential possibilities in that Life moves itself. Nihilism was reported and announced by Nietzsche, presents itself as an overcome man's civilized, domesticated, raped in the middle of empire in belittling his life reduced to mere biological conditions of a body that is not conceived more as a big reason, carrying a large vital health, a potentiator of human being's life to become who it is in the midst of multiplicity of so many other vital forces in play. For Agamben the human to be established in a split between physis and phone, to include animal life in the polis through the development of language stands in an area of life indetermination allowing the legitimation of their sovereign power that acts in a constant state exception, have of life, producing bare life. Bare life that is no longer animal life but human life is not qualified, but a matavele life and expendable according to the political, economic stake in a given context. For Agamben, biopolitics is at the origin of Western cultural and metaphysical structure and its apex in the contemporary paradigm is materialized in concentration camps. Nietzsche, Agamben, subject to the temporary differences and conceptual question boldly life forms that were presented during the dynamics of civilization and that led us to the contemporary forms of life. Nietzsche to conceive the life as will to power that intends to overcome the repressive forces that despise moralizing and maintain human life in its present condition mass and mediocre in his time. Agamben to propose an understanding it gives as the power of thought propose the halting of the machine anthropological western production of bare life, of life imprisonment and rape by rationality political-administrative state. For both thinkers in who this game nowadays is that we must abandon not the power of life in its tragic dimension and as a work of art
La place de la guerre de 1914-1918 dans l'histoire culturelle de l'Allemagne
No full textThe place of the 1914-1918 war in the cultural history of Germany, Gerd Krumeich.
Through his study of war accounts and memories, the author analyses the impact of the war experience on German culture in its individual as well as its collective aspects. That impact brought about the continuation and the diffusion of militarism and nationalism in much of the German society of the 1920s and 1930s.Krumeich Gerd. La place de la guerre de 1914-1918 dans l'histoire culturelle de l'Allemagne. In: Vingtième Siècle, revue d'histoire, n°41, janvier-mars 1994. La guerre de 1914-1918. Essais d'histoire culturelle. pp. 9-17
Differences in cerebral response to esophageal acid stimuli and psychological anticipation in GERD subtypes-An fMRI study
No full textBackground: To evaluate whether there are differences in the cerebral response to intraesophageal acid and psychological anticipation stimuli among subtypes of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
Augmenting a pH Medical Study with Wearable Video for Treatment of GERD
No full textIn this paper we present an augmentation to the wearable computers typically used to determine if a patient is a candidate for surgery to correct problems associated with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD). A wearable camera was used by the first author while participating in a 24–hour stomach acid pH study. After the study’s conclusion, an examination of the captured video and pH record revealed some results that allowed the first author to avoid many of the activities that result in symptoms related to GERD. 1 GERD and Medical Testing Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease is a medical condition that affects 2 % of the adult population of the United States. GERD refers to the reflux of stomach acid into the esophagus and can lead to complications such as esophageal cancer and lung damage. The most common symptom of GERD is heartburn. Typical treatments for GERD include diet modification and medication; however, for some patients these treatments may prove ineffective, and the patient may be evaluated for more drastic measures such as surgery. If surgery to correct GERD is considered an option, the patient usually undergoes a 24 – or 48–hour pH study to measure the percentage of time that the patient is in reflux during normal daily activities. In the 24–hour study, a pH probe is inserted into the subject’s nose and lowered through the esophagus to a position above the stomach. Since the probe is attached to a line that is retained in the patient’s nose and throat, several pH sensors can be placed at varying locations along the patient’s esophagus. The probe is attached to a wearable computer which records the patient’s pH levels for 24 hours. The patient typically uses the wearable computer to record times of meals, periods spent in a supine position (e.g. sleeping), and occurrences of symptoms. The first author suffered from severe and relatively un
Linguistics and Life. Autobiographical snapshots
No full textAnhand einer Reihe von autobiographischen „Selfies“ wird ein Leben als eine Folge von aufgeschnappten Meinungen konfrontiert. Vor allem mit dem, was Gerd Antos in und mit der Linguistik im Laufe sejner Karriere dazugelernt hat. Linguistik sozusagen als ein lebenslanges learning by doing.Through a series of autobiographical snapshots the author confronts his life as a sequence of picked‑up views. The emphasis will be on the new things Gerd Antos learned with and within linguistics over the course of his career. Linguistics as a life‑long ‘learning by doing’ as it were
Loss, Perseverance, and Triumph: The Story of Gerd and the von Halle Family
No full textThe following narrative details the life of Gerd von Halle. Gerd was a German Jew who moved to Amsterdam to escape Nazi persecution in 1933. The von Halle family was a prominent German Jewish family with origins dating back to the 17th century. Shortly after the invasion of Holland, Gerd and his family were torn apart by the Nazis. With the help of the Dutch Underground, Gerd and his mother Henriette survived the war. The narrative recounts the deaths of both his father and brother through recovered letters and personal testimony. The paper also contains correspondence between Eleanor Roosevelt and Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles. Both Roosevelt and Welles tried to help the von Halle family escape Europe. Gerd’s story provides an opportunity to look into the paranoia, fear, and resolution of the Jewish people during the Holocaust. After living in hiding for nearly three years, Gerd and his mother were liberated in Amsterdam in May 1945. Gerd immigrated to the United States in 1946. The paper is joined with a visual guide containing letters, false identity papers, falsified affidavits, and a multitude of photographs. The narrative is a testament to perseverance, loss, and triumph.
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