783 research outputs found
„Wir warten auf Prof. Brandt“: Ein Kriegsgefangenenschicksal aus Kiel
No full textDer Aufsatz von Lisa Bittner begibt sich in das Kiel der unmittelbaren Nachkriegszeit. Bittner beleuchtet in ihrem Beitrag die letztlich erfolglosen Versuche verschiedener Akteurinnen und Akteure, den Kieler Juraprofessor Hans Kurt Paul Brandt aus der jugoslawischen Kriegsgefangenschaft zu befreien. Die Autorin fragt nach den Motivationen einzelner Gruppen, sich für dessen Heimkehr einzusetzen, und reflektiert das starke Engagement der Studierenden, die dieser Thematik einen eigenen Artikel im Kieler Studenten, der ersten Studierendenzeitung der CAU nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg, widmeten. Gleichfalls legt der Beitrag professorale Netzwerke offen, die während der NS-Zeit geknüpft wurden und noch lange darüber hinaus wirkten. Diesen gelang es nicht nur, die junge Studierendenschaft für ihre Zwecke einzuspannen, sondern auch, sich gegenseitig in der jungen Bundesrepublik zahlreiche Karrierechancen zu ermöglichen.Lisa Bittner's essay takes us back to Kiel in the immediate post-war period. In her contribution, Bittner examines the in the end unsuccessful attempts by various players to free Kiel law professor Hans Kurt Paul Brandt from Yugoslavian war captivity. The author asks about the motivations of individual groups to intercede on behalf of his return home and reflects the strong commitment of the students, who dedicated an article to this topic in the Kieler Studenten, the first student newspaper of the CAU after the Second World War. The essay likewise reveals professorial networks which were tied during the Nazi era and continued to have an impact long afterwards. Those networks succeeded not only in harnessing the young student body for their own purposes, but also in providing each other with numerous career opportunities in the young Federal Republic
Costatoria (Costatoria?) subrotunda (BITTNER, 1901) a Smithian (Lower Triassic) marker from Tethys
No full textThe authors erect Costatoria costata var. subrotunda (Bittner) from Hungarian Lower Triassic to species level. Its subgeneric position is also discussed here. Thus, Costatoria is represented in the Werfen Formation of Dolomites area by two species: C. (Costatoria?) subrotunda (Bittner) from the upper part of Campil Member (Smithian) and C. (Costatoria) costata (Zenker) from Cencenighe and S. Lucano Members (Spathian). C. subrotunda shows a wide geographic distribution and could be considered as a helpful marker of Smithian age.-Author
Egon Bittner and the Language Practices of the Police
No full textBittner’s posthumously published 1965 fieldwork, Larimer Tours (Bittner 2013 [1965]), is discussed exploring how criminology has neglected Bittner’s ethnomethodological stance and overlooked his interest in language and conversational practices. Technological records (e.g.,dash-cams, body-worn cameras) afford opportunities to extend Bittner’s seminal work with an ethnomethodological focus on police “competencies-in-action” through the study of recorded police-citizen interaction. Using data from dash-cam traffic stops and field research, this paper elaborates two competencies of the police discussed in Larimer-the use of area knowledge and procedures of interrogation. A focus on how area knowledge is utilized in an investigatory sequence of traffic stops demonstrates its interactional complexity and how “area knowledge” employed by police and citizens is made interactionally relevant and consequential to the traffic stop. Implications for criminology and the study of police-citizen interaction are discussed.+ Sprache: en
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No full textPrepared by Sciences International, Inc. under subcontract to Research Triangle Institute under contract no. 205-93-0606. Prepared for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry."Chemical manager(s)/author(s): John Risher, Patricia M. Bittner, Steve Rhodes.Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-163).205-93-060
Introduction: Personality, party leaders, and election campaigns
No full textFrom the moment Donald Trump declared his candidacy in the run up to the 2016 American election, his personality was front and centre. Voters were prompted from the get-go to consider “trusting” his “strong leadership,” his “honesty,” and his business acumen. Unlike many presidential candidates who are career politicians, including governors, senators, or members of congress, Trump has none of this experience but does have a level of personal infamy that rivals some of the most notorious personalities—political or otherwise—in global history. Indeed, much of the content of his campaign was, strictly speaking, devoid of “real” policy discussion, and he chose instead to prey upon the emotions of voters while insulting the personalities of his opponents. His opponent, Hillary Clinton, magnified this by, in her advertising, focusing on Trump's character to the exclusion of issue appeals.This is a manuscript of an article published as Bittner, Amanda, and David A.M. Peterson. "Introduction: Personality, party leaders, and election campaigns." Electoral Studies 54 (2018): 237-239. DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2018.04.005. Posted with permission.</p
Diisopropyl methylphosphonate
No full textPrepared by: Sciences International, Inc. under subcontract to Research Triangle Institute ; prepared for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry under contract no. 205-93-0606.Chemical manager(s)/author(s): Malcolm Williams, Diana Wong, Patricia M. Bittner, Steve Rhodes.Includes bibliographical references: p. 121-130.205-93-060
Understanding and predicting transient material behaviors associated with mechanical resonance in cementitious composites
No full textCementitious composite materials provide a foundation for civilized life, from underlying structural bedrock to the tallest concrete structures in the world. These infrastructure materials (e.g., concrete and rock) are challenging to inspect and characterize, in part because of their heterogeneous and multi-scale compositions. Recently, nonlinear transient dynamic mechanical resonance behaviors, also known as “slow dynamic” behaviors, have been observed in damaged cementitious composite materials, yet the physical mechanisms underlying these behaviors are not understood. These phenomena hold potential to offer new insight and improved performance for monitoring the degradation of infrastructure materials.
In this dissertation, I study the potential of slow dynamic behaviors for practical application as a nondestructive inspection method for infrastructure materials. The study includes experimental tests and analytical modeling. Most experiments were carried out on neat cement paste samples, which represent porous composite infrastructure materials in general. The study was divided into three components: observing the behavior at the global (macro) and micro-scales, modeling the behavior in terms of a physical or mechanistic basis, and applying the behavior to monitor degradation through a practical application.
A repeatable nondestructive testing approach that uses a sequential impact device was designed to extract consistent global slow dynamic conditioning observations and characteristics from prismatic cement samples. The occurrence and existence of slow dynamic behaviors depended on the extent of damage and moisture states of a specimen. A small-scale disc vibration experiment was designed to enable imaging, using an environmental scanning electron microscope during vibration excitation in a controlled environment. Moisture migration within the paste microstructure was observed at the micron scale before and after resonance vibration of the disc. A new Mechanistic Diffusion Model (MDM) was developed to explain observed global- and micro-scale experimental results. The MDM unifies the moisture state, damage extent, and time dependence of slow dynamic behaviors. The MDM was verified through further experimentation. Finally, the slow dynamic characteristics of drying cement paste prisms with varying amounts of shrinkage reducing admixture were studied and compared to linear measurements performed on the same samples. The slow dynamic behaviors provided a measure of the bulk relative material damage at a single point in time, whereas the linear methods required measurements at two different points in time, before and after damage, in order to characterize the material.
This dissertation provides a deeper understanding of slow dynamic behavior, offers a new mechanistic explanation based on moisture migration for slow dynamic behaviors in porous composite materials, and presents the basis for a single-test nondestructive approach to evaluate degradation levels in cementitious materials in a sensitive and reliable manner. The improved understanding of these dynamic behaviors will improve the design, application, and evaluation of infrastructure materials, from understanding underlying bedrock seismicity to improving structural assessments of concrete.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2020-12-01The student, James Bittner, accepted the attached license on 2018-11-28 at 18:33.The student, James Bittner, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2018-11-28 at 18:38.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2018-11-29 at 14:01.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #13137 on 2019-02-08 at 11:40:21Made available in DSpace on 2019-02-08T18:39:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 5
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VMJ758914_Supplementary_tables – Supplemental material for Statin prescription rates and their facility-level variation in patients with peripheral artery disease and ischemic cerebrovascular disease: Insights from the Department of Veterans Affairs
No full textSupplemental material, VMJ758914_Supplementary_tables for Statin prescription rates and their facility-level variation in patients with peripheral artery disease and ischemic cerebrovascular disease: Insights from the Department of Veterans Affairs by Cameron L McBride, Julia M Akeroyd, David J Ramsey, Vijay Nambi, Khurram Nasir, Erin D Michos, Ruth L Bush, Hani Jneid,Pamela B Morris, Vera A Bittner, Christie M Ballantyne, Laura A Petersen and Salim S Virani in Vascular Medicine</p
Apposition and the structure of discourse
No full textThe current dissertation focuses on two interpretational properties of APPOSITIVE CONSTRUCTIONS: (i) their (often) NOT-AT-ISSUE status, i.e. the fact that they can be perceived as secondary to the main point of the utterance, and (ii) their PROJECTION behavior, i.e. the fact that they typically escape the scope of external operators (e.g. Chierchia & McConnell-Ginet 2000, Potts 2005). I analyze appositive constructions as adjuncts (e.g. Jackendoff 1977, Potts 2005) which are interpreted as in-situ conjuncts. Root clauses, appositive relative clauses, and possibly all appositive constructions are assumed to form FORCE PHRASES (see Rizzi 1997, Krifka 2001). Force heads are operators which introduce a fresh variable for the proposition of their scope. Since lexical expressions (operators or predicates) are relativized to propositional variables, Force heads can bind into the lexical expressions in their syntactic scope (cf. Stone 1999, Stone & Hardt 1999). This mechanism keeps apart appositive content from main clause content and is key to explaining the exceptional properties of appositives mentioned above. First, propositional variables introduced by Force heads express proposals to update the context set. The fact that appositive proposals are usually introduced before main clause proposals explains why appositives are often not at-issue: all proposals associated with a sentence are silently accepted except the one introduced last, which is at-issue. Second, similarly to Force heads, lexical operators introduce propositional variables for the content of their scope, but, unlike Force heads, can be bound and thus interact with higher operators. Since appositives form separate ForcePs, their interpretation does not depend on whether or not they appear in the syntactic scope of higher operators such as negation or modals. In other words, appositive content necessarily projects. The proposed analysis is embedded into a discourse model in which SPEECH CONTEXTS keep track of individual speech participants, their discourse commitments, and the context set (see Stalnaker 1978, Kaplan 1989, Farkas & Bruce 2010). The analysis is fleshed out in UPDATE WITH SPEECH CONTEXTS, an update logic in which the formal mechanisms of interpreting formulas and restricting the context set are kept separate (see also AnderBois et al. 2010, Murray 2010, Bittner 2011).Ph. D.Includes bibliographical referencesby Todor K. Koe
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