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Gerda Lerner Family Collection 1939-1978
No full textThe collection contains materials related to several members of the Kronstein/Neumann/Mueller families; both original documents as well as additional biographical information and excerpts from Gerda Lerner's book "A Death of One's Own". The bulk consists of correspondence, mainly written from Ilona Kronstein's exile in Nice to her daughter Gerda in the United States. In one letter, Ilona Kronstein describes a brief stay in the Gurs camp. Most of the correspondence has been summarized by John and Eva Englander, the summaries are included in the folders.Austrian Heritage CollectionGerda Lerner, October 2003; April 2004 (Addenda 1)The Gerda Lerner Papers are on deposit at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute. See also the Nora Kronstein-Rosen Family Collection at the LBI (AR 25257)Ilona Kronstein (nee Neumann) was born in Budapest in 1897 to Sigmund Neumann and Emma Deutsch. In 1918, she met Robert Kronstein. The couple married a year later and moved to Vienna. They had two daughters: Gerda, born in 1920, and Nora, born in 1925. Between 1928 and 1933 Ilona studied art with Johannes Itten. She opened her own studio in 1933. In 1938, after several weeks in a Gestapo prison, she fled with her two daughters, Gerda and Nora, to Liechtenstein, where her husband was already waiting. After a few months in Vaduz, she went to a small town near Nice and solely devoted herself to art. It was in Nice that she became friends with the painter Rudolf Ray. In 1940 she was detained in the concentration camp at Gurs for several weeks and from 1941 onwards she began to show signs of multiple sclerosis. Her family managed with great difficulty to get her back to Liechtenstein in 1942 and to obtain medical assistance for her in Switzerland. She died in Zurich in 1948.In 2000, the Jewish Museum Vienna exhibited drawings and pastels by Ilona Kronstein, which her daughters Gerda Lerner and Nora Kronstein-Rosen donated to the museum in 1997.Ilona's sister Margit Neuer (born 1899) was a physician and perished in Auschwitz. Her second sister Klara (born 1903) married Alexander Mueller, a psychiatrist and close co-worker of Alfred Adler. As a stateless person he was denied residence in several countries and forcibly sent across the border back to Germany, until he finally obtained residence in Holland. After the Nazi takeover of the Netherlands, he and his wife fled to Budapest, where they survived the Russian siege and he survived Eichmann's death march to Austria. After the end of the war they first returned to The Netherlands, then found refuge in Switzerland, where Alexander Mueller accepted a position at the University of Zuerich. He died in 1968.Elizabeth Breznitz, née Klein, was born in Léva (then Hungary, today Levice, Slovakia). Her first husband, Leo Kalmer, died in a concentration camp in Bavaria; she was liberated from Auschwitz in 1945, but her father and her stepmother perished. After the war she lived in Plzen, Czech Republic. Her letters are of great interest to understand the daily life of a Holocaust survivor in Czechoslovakia.Gerda Kronstein came to the US in 1939, where she married Carl Lerner in 1941. She received her Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1966. She is one of the founders of women's history and a former President of the Organization of American Historians. In 1972, she founded the first graduate (M.A.) program in women's history in the US at Sarah Lawrence College. In 1980 she founded the first PH.D. program in women's history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has won many honors, including 17 honorary degrees and is the author of 13 books.See also the catalog of an exhibition held at the Juedisches Museum Wien in 2000: Die Welt der Ili Kronstein = the world of Ili Kronstein : Werke 1938-1943 / herausgegeben von Werner Hanak im Auftrag des Juedischen Museums Wien. Wien : Juedisches Museum Wien, 2000. (LBI Library call number: q 156)Alexander Mueller’s only published book, “Du sollst ein Segen sein! : Grundzuege eines religioesen Humanismus“, GBS-Verlag, 1954 („You shall be a blessing! : main traits of a religious humanism”) has been transferred to the LBI libraryGerda Lernerdigitize
NATURE AND NURTURE: THE COMPLEX INTERPLAY OF GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND DEVELOPMENT
No full textForeword / Steven E. Hyman -- Preface -- Introduction: Nature and nurture in human behavior and development: a view of the issues / Cynthia García Call, Elaine L. Bearer and Richard M. Lerner -- Ch 1. Genes and the promotion of positive human development: hereditarian versus developmental systems perspectives / Richard M. Lerner -- Ch. 2. How gene-environment interactions influence emotional development in Rhesus Monkeys / Stephen J. Suomi -- Ch. 3. Nature, nurture, and the question of "how?": a phenomenological variant of ecological systems theory / Margaret Beale Spencer and Vinay Harpalani -- Ch. 4. Commentary / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- Ch. 5. Normally occurring environmental and behavioral influences on gene activity: from central dogma to probabilistic epigenesis / Gilbert Gottlieb -- Ch. 6. Beyond heritability: biological process in social context / Richard Rende -- Ch. 7. Uniqueness, diversity, similarity, repeatability, and heritability / Jerry Hirsch -- Ch. 8. Commentary / Lundy Braun -- Ch. 9. Instinct and choice: a framework for analysis / William I. Dickens and Jessica L. Cohen -- Ch. 10. Behavior as influence and result of the genetic program: non-kin rejection, ethnic conflict, and issues in global health care / Elaine L. Bearer -- Ch. 11. Embodied development: ending the nativism-empiricism debate / Willis F. Overton -- Ch. 12. Conclusions: beyond nature versus nurture to more complex, relational, and dynamic developmental systems / Cynthia García Call, Elaine L. Bearer and Richard M. Lerner -- Author index -- Subject inde
Interview with Alicia Erian
No full textAlicia Erian is the author of a novel, Towelhead, and a collection of stories, The Brutal Language of Love. Her writing has appeared in Playboy, Zoetrope, and The Iowa Review. She has worked as a film director and screenwriter and taught at Wellesley College. She is currently completing a memoir. In March 2011, Erian came to Butler University as a writer-in-residence and sat down with Susan Lerner to discuss her writing process, messy families, and sex
Next-Generation Philanthropy: Examining a Next-Generation Jewish Philanthropic Network
No full text· As a result of mobility, philanthropy among a Millennial group of Jewish donors is becoming divorced from the communities in which their parents live.
· This group’s members generally perceive themselves as thinking and acting more strategically than past generations. They expect philanthropic organizations to operate with increased transparency, and those entities will need to adapt to these expectations in order to thrive.
· The characteristics that define the Millennial generation – open-mindedness, a desire for meaningful employment and philanthropic activity, technological adeptness, innovation – are changing philanthropy.
· Despite those changes, philanthropic priorities among families remain substantially constant and transcend generations
Tingkat Persaingan Bank dan Risiko Sistemik Perbankan: Kasus Indonesia
No full textAbstrak. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguji pengaruh tingkat persaingan bank terhadap risiko sistemik perbankan di Indonesia untuk periode 2010-2014. Dengan menggunakan metode Lerner Index sebagai pengukuran tingkat persaingan bank dan metode Merton's distance-to-default sebagai basis pengukuran risiko sistemik, hasil riset menunjukan tingkat persaingan individual bank secara signifikan berpengaruh negatif terhadap risiko sistemik perbankan Indonesia. Semakin rendah tingkat konsentrasi pasar perbankan akan menurunkan tingkat risiko sistemik. Tingginya tingkat persaingan bank mendorong bank-bank untuk mendiversifikasikan risiko-risikonya sehingga menyebabkan sistem perbankan semakin kokoh.Kata kunci: Risiko sistemik, persaingan bank, distance-to-default, lerner index, profitabilitasAbstract. The objective of this research is to measure the effect of individual bank competitiveness on bank systemic risk in Indonesia during 2010-2014. Using Lerner Index to measure bank degree of competitiveness and Merton's distance-to-default to measure systemic risk, result a significant negative relationship between bank degree of competitiveness and systemic risk. The less concentrated of banking market cause systemic risk reduction. The greater bank degree of competitiveness encourages banks to take more diversified risks, causes a fragile banking system.Keywords: Systemic risk, bank competition, distance-to-default, lerner index, profitabilit
Inflation Targeting under Imperfect Credibility Based on the Aggregate Rational Inflation-Targeting Model for Bank Indonesia (ARIMBI): Lessons from the Indonesian Experience
No full textCredibility is one of the central issues in conducting monetary policy. It is necessary in order to anchor the economic agents’ expectation on the central bank’s inflation target. A central bank which is capable of managing the public’s expectation of inflation in a proper manner would able to implement monetary policy more effectively and efficiently. This paper attempts to assess the role of credibility in the implementation of the inflation targeting framework in Indonesia. It illustrates how credibility may play an important role in the evolution of the Indonesian monetary policy. Knowing the degree of credibility would be beneficial for Bank Indonesia (BI) in understanding how policy instruments can be adjusted to achieve a long-term inflation target.
Formación de complejos de inclusión entre retinoides y ciclodextrinas : características, propiedades y ventajas analíticas
No full textTesis de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Farmacia, Departamento de Nutrición y Bromatología II, leída el 08-07-1994Se ha demostrado la existencia de complejos de inclusión entre retinal, retinol, acetato de retinilo y ácido retinoico con distintas ciclodextrinas (cds), mediante espectrofotometría de absorción uv-vis, ir, espectrofluorimetría, espectroscopía de rmn y métodos térmicos. Se puede apreciar que dichos complejos son estables y que las cds constituyen un medio que evita la degradación de estas moléculas extremadamente lábiles. La utilización de tensoactivos y cds permite observar la luminiscencia a temperatura ambiente del retinal y del ácido retinoico, y mejora la del retinol y la del acetato de retinilo en soluciones acuosas. Los distintos retinoides estudiados forman complejos de inclusión con la b-cd y la hidroxipropil- b-cd de estequiometría 2:1 (cd/r) los cuales coexisten en solución junto con los de estequiometría 1:1. Estos complejos presentan constantes de asociación muy elevadas como corresponde a moléculas hidrofóbicas, dichas constantes son para los complejos con la b-cd, alrededor de dos órdenes de magnitud mayores que las obtenidas en el caso de la hpb-cd. Los fotoproductos obtenidos por irradiación de los complejos de inclusión, analizados por hplc, ponen de manifiesto que la protección que ofrece el entorno apolar y la rigidez de la cavidad de las cds dificulta el proceso de fotoisomerización. La formación de complejos de inclusión con cds permite la determinación cuantitativa de retinoides en soluciones acuosas, lo cual posee gran interés desde el punto de vista biológicoDepto. de Nutrición y Ciencia de los AlimentosFac. de FarmaciaTRUEpu
Spatiality and aestheticization in the novel 10:04, by Ben Lerner
No full textO objetivo deste texto é fazer um breve mapeamento da representação do espaço e do processo de estetização capitalista a partir da leitura cerrada do primeiro parágrafo e de trechos homólogos do romance 10:04, de Ben Lerner. A partir da análise, procuraremos demonstrar como os elementos estéticos são trabalhados pelo autor a partir da seleção e organização dos dados materiais concretos e como essa articulação expressa a técnica composicional de montagem.The aim of this text is to map the representation of space and the process of aestheticization through a close reading of the first paragraph and homologous excerpts from the novel 10:04, by Ben Lerner. Through analysis, we will demonstrate how the author employs aesthetic elements by selecting and organizing concrete material data, and how this articulation expresses the compositional technique of montage
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The History of US Writing Centers and the Emergence of Writing Centers in Latin America: An Interview with Neal Lerner
No full textEspecially in the last five years, writing centers have begun to emerge in Latin America. They resemble the sense and philosophy of writing centers in the United States but with an identity that is still developing. As part of the summer course “Writing Center History, Theory, Research, and Administration,” led by Dr. Rebecca Babcock at the University of Texas of Permian Basin, I interviewed Professor Neal Lerner, one of the leading scholars of writing center theory, history, and administration. My aim in conducting this interview was to consult Prof. Lerner’s expertise to try and understand the development of this field in the United States and compare it with recent trends in Latin America. Dr. Lerner is associate professor at Northeastern University, where he is the director of the Writing Program. He has won the International Writing Centers Association Outstanding Scholarship Award five times. Two of his books have also won awards. The Idea of a Writing Laboratory won the NCTE David Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English in 2011. Also, along with his coauthors Mya Poe and Jennifer Craig, he won the CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award in 2012 with the book Learning to Communicate as a Scientist and Engineer: Case Studies from MIT. He is co-author with Paula Gillespie of The Longman Guide to Peer Tutoring, a recognized book for training writing tutors. He was editor of Writing Center Journal from 2002 to 2008 with Beth Boquet. Currently he is working with Michele Eodice and Anne Ellen Geller in a cross-institutional study of undergraduates’ most meaningful writing projects (http://meaningfulwritingproject.net). This interview took place via Skype on June of 2016 and was recorded for transcription. It has been edited for clarity and readability.University Writing Cente
First simple and mild synthesis of 2-alkylbenzimidazoles involving a supported enzymatic catalyst.
No full textInternational audienceA new enzymatic synthesis is described for 2-alkyl-benzimidazoles a technologically important class of compounds. It is a one-step synthesis which involves a supported enzyme (Lipozyme®) and is carried out in very mild conditions in hydrocarbon solvents to give 2-alkyl-benzimidazoles in good yields, starting from the free acids. Preliminary results indicate that the reaction has a potential to produce new molecules using sensitive or conjugated acids
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