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    [Enrico Caruso self-portrait].

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    Hand drawn and signed self-portrait in ink by Enrico Caruso. The self-portrait is drawn on the reverse of a picture postcard from an Italian restaurant in Berlin. Caruso gave the self-portrait to Margarete Dratler, who was sitting across from him at the restaurant.Tenor, 1873-1921.The original German-language inventory is available in the folderProcessed for digitizatio

    Constructing "Heimat" in the Ruhr Valley: Krupp housing and the search for the ideal German home 1914-1931

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    Few German history topics have garnered as much attention as the nuanced meaning of Heimat and the controversial past of the Krupp steel firm. This article examines their historical intersection in the housing realm. Between 1914 and 1931, when the impact of World War I entirely reframed the housing question, Heimat advocates like Hermann Muthesius and Paul Schultze-Naumburg used examples of Krupp estates to depict their vision of the ideal German home. These historically neglected Krupp settlements were hybrids of vernacular and modern influences and served as significant precursors to the dominant Kleinsiedlung housing still dotting the German landscape. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]Peer reviewedfinal article publishe

    Alcune osservazioni sul celebre tenore Enrico Caruso e suo nipote Enrico Caruso

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    The present work is in Italian, English, French, German and Spanish and deals with the origins of Enrico Caruso, who was a famous Italian Tenor. His local origins, some new pictures and documents are interesing for the local history and are described with detail

    From German communist antifascism to a contemporary united front

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    Dr. Devin Z. Shaw (Douglas College) writes the book chapter From German communist antifascism to a contemporary united front (2021).Final book published.DC Author's celebration 202

    The Hermit in German Literature

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    In this thorough study of the figure of the hermit in the works of German writers Fitzell analyzes characters in works by Lessing, Goethe, Klinger, Hoffmann, Wieland, Eichendorff and others. The author argues that the figure of the hermit characterizes the quality of inwardness and withdrawal from society characteristic of German literature, and shows how this quality was represented in the age of Goethe

    Ulrich Becher: An Introduction to the Life and Writings of this Contemporary German Author

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    v, 29 p.Originally I had intended to treat all of his epic, lyric, and dramatic works which were available to me. As my research progressed, I realized, however, that a detailed investigation of Becher's philosophy, literary form and imagery would be impossible within the limitations of a thesis. Instead, I chose to introduce this contemporary German author to an English-speaking audience through a survey of his life and works, followed by an analysis of three narratives representing the three periods of Ulrich Becher's writing

    Transport of Brownian particles in a narrow, slowly varying serpentine channel

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    We study the transport of Brownian particles under a constant driving force and moving in channels that present a varying centerline but have constant aperture width (serpentine channels). We investigate two types of channels, solid channels, in which the particles are geometrically confined between solid walls and soft channels, in which the particles are confined by the potential energy landscape. We consider the limit of narrow, slowly varying channels, i.e., when the aperture and the variation in the position of the centerline are small compared to the length of a unit cell in the channel (wavelength). We use the method of asymptotic expansions to determine both the average velocity (or mobility) and the effective dispersion coefficient of the particles. We show that both solid and soft-channels have the same effects on the transport properties up to leading order correction. Including the next order correction, we obtain that the mobility in a solid-channel is smaller than that in a soft-channel. However, we discuss an alternative definition of the effective width of a soft channel that leads to equal mobilities up to second order terms. Interestingly, in both cases, the corrections to the mobility of the particles are independent of the Péclet number, and the Einstein-Smoluchowski relation is satisfied.Copyright 2015 AIP Publishing. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and AIP Publishing

    Deprivation and the Dimensionality of Welfare: A Variable-Selection Cluster-Analysis Approach

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    We approach the problems of measuring the dimensionality of welfare and that of identifying the multidimensionally poor, by first finding the poor using the original space of attributes, and then reducing the welfare space. The starting point is the notion that the `poor´ constitutes a group of individuals that are essentially different from the `non-poor´ in a truly multidimensional framework. Once this group has been identified through a clustering procedure, we propose reducing the dimension of the original welfare space using recent blinding methods for variable selection. We implement our approach to the case of Latin America based on the Gallup World Poll, which contains ample information on many dimensions of welfare.Fil: Caruso, German. University of Illinois at Urbana; Estados UnidosFil: Sosa Escudero, Walter. Universidad de San Andrés; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Svarc, Marcela. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de San Andrés; Argentin

    Code choice and code-switching in Swiss-German internet relay chat rooms

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    In the German-speaking regions of Switzerland, dialect is spoken by all social groups in most communicative situations, Standard German being used only when prescribed. Swiss dialects rarely appeared in written form before the 1980s, apart from the genre of dialect literature. Due to the growing acceptance of informal writing styles in many European languages, dialect is increasingly employed for written personal communication, in particular in computer-mediated communication (CMC). In Swiss Internet Relay Chat (IRC) rooms, varieties of German are used side by side as all chatters have a command of both standard and dialectal varieties. Depending on the channel, the proportion of dialectal contributions can be as high as 90 percent. The choice of a particular variety depends on both individual preference and on the predominant variety used within a specific thread. In this paper I take a quantitative approach to language variation in IRC and demonstrate how such an approach can help embed qualitative research on code-switching in CMC

    Pennsylvania German Rhymes, Chants, and Lullabies

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    A handwritten document by an unknown author, dating from circa 1950. Within, the author details various Pennsylvania German sayings, chants, and rhymes.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/shoemaker_documents/1283/thumbnail.jp
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