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Correspondence from an interested reader
No full textA letter from a self-described, �interested reader,� to Edmund F. Steiner. The author asks Mr. Steiner if he thinks he is fit to be the President of the school board. Based on newspaper coverage of the Milford Eleven, the author deems that Mr. Steiner and the other board members are acting like �hoodlums.
Correspondence from an interested reader
No full textA letter from a self-described, �interested reader,� to Edmund F. Steiner. The author asks Mr. Steiner if he thinks he is fit to be the President of the school board. Based on newspaper coverage of the Milford Eleven, the author deems that Mr. Steiner and the other board members are acting like �hoodlums.
Dorylaimus antarcticus Steiner 1916
No full text<i>Dorylaimus antarcticus</i> Steiner, 1916 <p> becomes: <i>Antholaimus antarcticus</i> (Steiner, 1916) n. comb.</p>Published as part of <i>Thorne, Gerald & Swanger, Helen Heinly, 1936, A Monograph Of The Nematode Genera Dorylaimus Dujardin, Aporcelaimus N. G., Dorylaimoides N. G. And Pungentus N. G., pp. 139-150 in Capita Zoologica VI (4)</i> on page 142, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10845898">10.5281/zenodo.10845898</a>
Dorylaimus tenuicollis Steiner 1914
No full text<p> <i>Dorylaimus tenuicollis</i> Steiner, 1914</p> <p> became: <i>Dorylaimus</i> (<i>Axonchium</i>) <i>tenuicollis</i> (Steiner, 1914) Micoletzky, 1922</p> <p> becomes: <i>Axonchium tenuicollis</i> (Steiner, 1914) n. comb.</p>Published as part of <i>Thorne, Gerald & Swanger, Helen Heinly, 1936, A Monograph Of The Nematode Genera Dorylaimus Dujardin, Aporcelaimus N. G., Dorylaimoides N. G. And Pungentus N. G., pp. 139-150 in Capita Zoologica VI (4)</i> on page 142, DOI: <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10845898">10.5281/zenodo.10845898</a>
The Rich Demystified - A Reply to Bach, Corneo, and Steiner (2008)
No full textThe contribution Bach, Corneo, and Steiner (2008) has argued that “the rich” do not pay taxes adequately in relation to their income, finding, for instance, an effective tax rate of only 38.1% for the 0.001% fractile of German income taxpayers in 2001. This result contrasts sharply with the legislated top marginal income tax rate of 48.5%. We subject the results contained in Bach, Corneo, and Steiner (2008) to a rigorous analysis: We find major flaws and inconsistencies with regard to methodology, i.e. the omission of corporate taxes and inter-temporal aspects of taxation. Restating basic rules for the measurement of effective tax rates, we provide values for what we term the “comprehensive nominal tax rate” (CNTR) and show that the headline result in Bach, Corneo, and Steiner (2008) of 38.1% is underestimated by over 12 percentage points. As an important distributional result, the CNTR increases with increasing taxable income.top incomes, income taxation, taxing the rich, comprehensive nominal tax rate
Open doors presents Judith Van Gieson and Vera John-Steiner
No full textThe Open Doors series presents Judith Van Gieson author of ""Confidence Woman"" reads from her new novel and discusses doing research for her books at the Center for Southwest Research and Vera John-Steiner, author of ""Creative Collaboration,"" discusses the her study of the collabortive process
Franz Baermann Steiner – Precursor of Post-Colonialism
No full textFranz Baermann Steiner [1909-1952], à la fois poeta doctus de langue allemande et anthropologue de langue anglaise, développe dans son oeuvre une pensée qui préfigure la théorie postcoloniale, d’une part par sa critique de l’eurocentrisme, de l’impérialisme colonial et de la violence épistémique occidentale, et d’autre part, à travers son ethnopoésie et la réécriture poétique du mythe robinsonien. La présente étude s'attache à analyser le discours postcolonial dans l’ensemble de son oeuvre qui comprend plus de 9500 aphorismes, quelques 300 poèmes et des écrits scientifiques. Présentant l’arrière-plan culturel et l’identité de Steiner, qui sont comparés à ceux des intellectuels postcolonialistes, l’étude examine d’abord les éventuelles structures coloniales dans l’Empire austro-hongrois, de la situation sociopolitique en Bohême et à Prague pendant la première République Tchèque. Ainsi elle révèle les éléments structurels qui ont favorisé l’éclosion du discours postcolonial chez Steiner : la position liminale et le caractère hybride de la communauté d’origine de Steiner – les juifs pragois germanophones –, l’impact discursif du sionisme culturel, son exil en Angleterre et, enfin, son appartenance à la Social Anthropology. Ensuite, elle retrace le discours aux accents postcoloniaux, depuis son origine dans ses aphorismes, dans son oeuvre anthropologique et poétique. La liminalité, notion centrale du postcolonialisme, est omniprésente dans l’oeuvre de l’auteur tant sur le plan méthodologique [positionnement discursif contestataire ou observateur] que thématique [esclavage, tabou, poète chaman, exil]. Malgré l’attachement de l’auteur à la pensée essentialiste, l'hybridité constitue un élément essentiel de son identité, irriguant toute son oeuvre. [Traduisibilité de faits culturels, ethnopoésie hybride, figure robinsonienne hybride].Franz Baermann Steiner [1909-1952], an exile from Prague, was a German poeta doctus who taught anthropology at the Oxford Institute after the Second World War. In his oeuvre, comprising more than 9500 aphorisms, over 300 poems and also anthropological writings, he sketches a critique of eurocentrism, colonial imperialism and epistemic violence, thus anticipating postcolonial theory. The first part of our thesis analyses how an assimilated Jew from Prague developed a discourse that takes up notions developed in the writings of Aimé Césaire and Edward Said. It therefore offers a complete analysis of his background in the Habsburg Empire from a post-colonial point of view, and an evaluation of the linguistic and social politics in Bohemia and Prague during the first Czech Republic. The study focuses, on the one hand, on the hybrid and liminal character of his milieu [i.e. German Jews in Prague] as well as the decisive discursive impact of cultural Zionism and, on the other hand, on his exile in England and the influence of British Social Anthropology. These are, from our point of view, the key elements of the post-colonial discourse emerging in Steiner’s writings. Taking his aphorisms as a starting point, our study then follows up the post-colonial thought in the entire oeuvre of the poet and anthropologist, underlining the various links between poetry, religion and science which are so characteristic of his original writings. The concept of liminality is present in all his writings on a methodological level [a liminal discursive positioning within the Western academic structures and an observant position in his poetry] and it also dominates the choice of themes [slavery, taboo, Shaman poet and exile]. Although Steiner never completely abandoned the essentialist vision of culture, the notion of hybridity is an essential factor of his identity, enriching his writings immensely [e.g. problem of cultural translatability, hybrid ethnopoetics and a new hybrid Robinson figure]
Interdisciplinary Research for the Sustainable Development of the Danube River Basin
No full textSustainable development under conditions of aggravating global climate change is more than a technical or natural science question. It is an all-encompassing, perhaps even wicked, challenge to societies. This calls for adequate research strategies.
A problem-driven approach, in particular when dealing with wicked problems, will necessarily have to be interdisciplinary. But interdisciplinarity is more often invoked than carried out successfully because it is challenging to both academic structures and to the knowledge and abilities of researchers.
The Danube: Future White Paper, a community-based effort to formulate research needs for the sustainable development of the Danube River Basin, suggested several principles for research. These might serve as starting points for interdisciplinary
team formation, one of the challenges researchers of the DRB face. A concerted effort by funding agencies is needed to address the many issues arising from the need to develop the DRB according to the principles of sustainability
Natural History of the Danube Region
No full textNature and humans have met and interacted in the Danube Region for millennia, changing its plant and animal communities. Fishing is among the oldest demonstrable human intervention in the river. For centuries, local habitat alteration in the wake of riverbank fixation or large-scale changes due to deforestation in the catchment have taken place. In the last 200 years the socio-natural system underwent fundamental anthropogenic changes by systematic river channelization for navigation or for flood protection, and by hydropower production and pollution.
In-depth-knowledge of the long-term development of the Danube and Danube Region is indispensable as past events created a variety of long-term legacies. To devise sustainable policies for the future, policy makers and administratives need sound information on species, habitats and ecosystems and about their distribution in space and time. The Danube: Future Knowledge Base was developed to support integrating transnational, basin-wide research to address this need
Strongly Connected Steiner Subgraphs with small number of Steiner vertices
No full textTitle: Strongly Connected Steiner Subgraphs with Small Number of Steiner Vertices Author: Tamás Dávid Kemény Department: Department of Applied Mathematics Supervisor: Dr. Andreas Emil Feldmann, Department of Applied Mathematics Abstract: Two well-established methods of dealing with hard optimization problems have been to develop approximation and parameterized algorithms. Recent results have shown that for some problems, it is only by combining these two approaches, into so-called pa- rameterized approximation algorithms, that we are able to efficiently find solutions that are of reasonable quality. This is the viewpoint from which we study the problem known as the Strongly Connected Steiner Subgraph problem, where a set of terminal vertices of an edge-weighted directed graph needs to be strongly-connected in the cheapest way possible. Keywords: Strongly Connected Steiner Subgraphs, Parameterized Algorithms, Approxi- mation Algorithms, Bidirected Graphs ii
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