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Exploring hidden narratives: Conscript graffiti at the former military base of Kummersdorf
No full textThis article explores the cultural significance and interpretative potential of graffiti left by Soviet conscripts at Kummersdorf, a former military base in the German federal state of Brandenburg. The graffiti is framed as war art and its typology, distribution and content is studied in detail. In this way opportunities for further research are highlighted, as well as the potential for the graffiti to contribute to interpretative and conservation strategies. We demonstrate how the graffiti embodies multi-level interpretative narratives which can help to reveal hidden aspects of Soviet conscript life and cultural practices whilst alluding to global events and Soviet and Russian military policy. More generally, the article aims to promote the potential of graffiti and other forms of what is traditionally considered vandalism to contribute to the cultural significance and interpretation of heritage sites
Elektrokonvulsionstherapie gegen den natürlichen Willen: ethisch zulässig oder menschenrechtlich bedenklich?
No full textElektrokonvulsionstherapie gegen den natürlichen Willen: ethisch zulässig oder menschenrechtlich bedenklich?
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The Malayan Emergency
No full textAbout the book:
Chin Peng is the longest-serving Secretary-General of a Communist Party, having served continuously from 1947 to present. He led his party into the Malayan Emergency, and latterly to a new peace agreement in 1989.
This book is unique in giving the reader a look at how the historical record about this figure has been constructed. It gives the original papers presented to Chin Peng to stimulate his reponses at oral history sessions, and an annotated version of the resulting sessions. These are completed by editors' chapters which give the context. This allows the reader to see how Chin Peng blended his own ideas with responses to historians, to produce his own quasi-biography, Chin Peng and Ian Ward, Alias Chin Peng: My Side of the Story.
Both editors were involved at all stages, presenting background papers, chairing oral hstory sessions, and compiling the book. They had to ensure not only translation between Chinese and English, but also that name changes between different Chinese dialects, and numerous aliases, were made clear. In 2007 it was translated into Chinese, ISBN 983 9673 97 1
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From Baling to Merdeka: 1955-60
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Chin Peng is the longest-serving Secretary-General of a Communist Party, having served continuously from 1947 to present. He led his party into the Malayan Emergency, and latterly to a new peace agreement in 1989.
This book is unique in giving the reader a look at how the historical record about this figure has been constructed. It gives the original papers presented to Chin Peng to stimulate his reponses at oral history sessions, and an annotated version of the resulting sessions. These are completed by editors' chapters which give the context. This allows the reader to see how Chin Peng blended his own ideas with responses to historians, to produce his own quasi-biography, Chin Peng and Ian Ward, Alias Chin Peng: My Side of the Story.
Both editors were involved at all stages, presenting background papers, chairing oral hstory sessions, and compiling the book. They had to ensure not only translation between Chinese and English, but also that name changes between different Chinese dialects, and numerous aliases, were made clear. In 2007 it was translated into Chinese, ISBN 983 9673 97 1
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Communist Policy and Support: 1948-57
No full textBackground paper put to the Secretary-General of the Malayan Communist Party to prime a dialogue session on insurgency in the period 1948-57
Tertium: o novo modo do ser, do saber e do aprender (construindo uma taxionomia para medição pedagógica em tecnologia de comunicação digital)
Get PDFTese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção, Florianópolis, 200
Mechanism of the 1-C4H9+O reaction and the kinetics of the intermediate 1-C4H9O radical
No full textThe 1-C4H9 + O reaction has been investigated in two quasi-static reactors with different detection systems. From a time-resolved measurement of OH formation by laser induced fluorescence (T = 295 K, p = 21 mbar, bath gas: He) an inverted vibrational state distribution for OH X (2)Pi (v = 0, 1, 2) was observed. By using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, relative product yields of 0.55 +/- 0.08 for 1-C4H8, 0.397 +/- 0.05 for HCHO and 0.053 +/- 0.02 for C3H7CHO were determined (T = 298 K, p = 2 mbar, bath gas: He). The results are explained in terms of the formation and subsequent decomposition of an intermediate chemically activated 1-C4H9O radical and a competing abstraction channel leading directly to OH + 1-C4H8. A modeling by statistical rate theory based on ab initio results for the stationary points of the potential energy surface of C4H9O allows the quantitative description of the product branching ratios. From this modeling, threshold energies of E-06 = 55 +/- 6 and E-07 = 88 +/- 6 kJ mol(-1) for the beta -C-C and the beta -C-H bond dissociation, respectively, in 1-C4H9O are obtained. For the 1,5 H atom shift, a most probable value of E-05 = 40 +/- 5 kJ mol(-1) follows from a comparison of our quantum chemical results with data from the literature
A C*-Algebra for Quantized Principal U(1)-Connections on Globally Hyperbolic Lorentzian Manifolds
Get PDFThe aim of this work is to complete our program on the quantization of connections on arbitrary principal U(1)-bundles over globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds. In particular, we show that one can assign via a covariant functor to any such bundle an algebra of observables which separates gauge equivalence classes of connections. The C*-algebra we construct generalizes the usual CCR-algebras, since, contrary to the standard field-theoretic models, it is based on a presymplectic Abelian group instead of a symplectic vector space. We prove a no-go theorem according to which neither this functor, nor any of its quotients, satisfies the strict axioms of general local covariance. As a byproduct, we prove that a morphism violates the locality axiom if and only if a certain induced morphism of cohomology groups is non-injective. We show then that, fixing any principal U(1)-bundle, there exists a suitable category of subbundles for which a quotient of our functor yields a quantum field theory in the sense of Haag and Kastler. We shall provide a physical interpretation of this feature and we obtain some new insights concerning electric charges in locally covariant quantum field theory
Approximate KMS States for Scalar and Spinor Fields in Friedmann–Robertson–Walker Spacetimes
No full textWe construct and discuss Hadamard states for both scalar and Dirac spinor fields in a large class of spatially flat Friedmann–Robertson– Walker spacetimes characterised by an initial phase either of exponential or of power-law expansion. The states we obtain can be interpreted as being in thermal equilibrium at the time when the scale factor a has a specific value a = a0. In the case a0 = 0, these states fulfil a strict KMS condition on the boundary of the spacetime, which is either a cosmologi- cal horizon or a Big Bang hypersurface. Furthermore, in the conformally invariant case, they are conformal KMS states on the full spacetime. How- ever, they provide a natural notion of an approximate KMS state also in the remaining cases, especially for massive fields. On the technical side, our results are based on a bulk-to-boundary reconstruction tech- nique already successfully applied in the scalar case and here proven to be suitable also for spinor fields. The potential applications of the states we find range over a broad spectrum, but they appear to be suited to discuss in particular thermal phenomena such as the cosmic neutrino background or the quantum state of dark matter
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