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Planning in Brazil, India and Germany
Full text linkPlanning is a fundamental cognitive ability that helps in organizing and structuring events unfolding in a person\u27s daily life. Two studies are presented that analyze planning behavior in different cultures: Brazil, India, and Germany. The first is a cross-cultural psychological study in which students develop plans for uncertain problem scenarios. The second study follows a cultural psychological tradition. Workers from different domains are interviewed about their life problems and plans. The strengths and the weaknesses of both approaches become obvious in the description and discussion of these two studies. The cross-cultural study sheds light on cross-cultural similarities and differences in planning in Brazil, India, and Germany. The cultural psychological approach yields data regarding a theoretical model on the specific cultural influences on planning
Germany 1944
No full textRelief shown by contours and spot heights. German topographic map series Topographische Karte 1:25 000 (4 cm-Karte) initially issued by Preussische Landesaufnahme and the mapping agencies of various other German states. After 1921 issued by the Reichsamt für Landesaufnahme and during World War II also issued by the High Command of the German Army, General Staff/Head, Military Mapping and Surveying.Grayscale;1:25,00
"Die erfrischende pause": Marketing Coca-Cola in Hitler's Germany
No full textThe chapter, ""Die erfrischende pause": Marketing Coca-Cola in Hitler's Germany" was written by Jeff R. Schutts (Douglas College Faculty). The sheer intensity and violence of Germany’s twentieth century—through the end of an empire, two world wars, two democracies, and two dictatorships—provide a unique opportunity to assess the power and endurance of commercial imagery in the most extreme circumstances. Selling Modernity places advertising and advertisements in this tumultuous historical setting, exploring such themes as the relationship between advertising and propaganda in Nazi Germany, the influence of the United States on German advertising, the use of advertising to promote mass consumption in West Germany, and the ideological uses and eventual prohibition of advertising in East Germany.
While the essays are informed by the burgeoning literature on consumer society, Selling Modernity focuses on the actors who had the greatest stake in successful merchandising: company managers, advertising executives, copywriters, graphic artists, market researchers, and salespeople, all of whom helped shape the depiction of a company’s products, reputation, and visions of modern life. The contributors consider topics ranging from critiques of capitalism triggered by the growth of advertising in the 1890s to the racial politics of Coca-Cola’s marketing strategies during the Nazi era, and from the post-1945 career of an erotica entrepreneur to a federal anti-drug campaign in West Germany. Whether analyzing the growing fascination with racialized discourse reflected in early-twentieth-century professional advertising journals or the postwar efforts of Lufthansa to lure holiday and business travelers back to a country associated with mass murder, the contributors reveal advertising’s central role in debates about German culture, business, politics, and society.book chapterPublished
Mathematics education in Germany
No full textReport presented at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Berlin 1998 with the following articles: 1. Mathematics teaching in Germany - the school system, regulations, and the content dimension (Ingo Weidig), 2. The education of teachers of mathematics in Germany (Christine Keitel), 3. Changes in mathematics teaching through the reunification in Germany (Herbert Henning), 4. Mathematical competitions in Germany (Gudrun Kalmbach), 5. Fast and comfortable access to literature in mathematics education (Gerhard Koenig), 6. German periodicals on mathematics educationAvailable from TIB Hannover: RO 7625(21) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEDEGerman
The Role of Coordination and Cooperation for Bt-maize cultivation in Brandenburg, Germany
Full text linkSince 2006, several varieties of transgenic Bt-maize are approved for commercial cultivation in Germany. The German regulatory framework for growing these crops comprises ex-ante regulations as well as ex-post liability rules to protect conventional and organic farming from possible negative side effects of transgenic plants and to ensure co-existence. Public regulation is also suspected to impose additional costs to those farmers who intend to plant Bt-maize. We address the question how Bt-maize growing farmers perceive the additional costs of regulation and whether coordination or cooperation takes place in order to diminish these costs. In 2006, we carried out a case study in the Oderbruch region (Brandenburg, Germany) comprising eight Bt-maize growing farmers and six adjacent neighbours. The predominantly large farms chose intrafarm coordination to manage the construction of buffer zones within their own fields and to avoid the planting of Bt-maize close to their neighbours. Inter-farm coordination or cooperation with adjacent farmers was not regarded necessary to achieve co-existence.Coordination, Cooperation, Bt-maize, Crop Production/Industries,
Germany and the European and Global Crises
Full text linkMoving from the current global and European imbalances and crises, and from the consideration of the German reaction to them, the paper explores the political economy origins of the conservative German policy stance. It emerges that an export-oriented economy was a deliberate decision of the German elite after WW II and that the external constraint may be regarded as appropriately designed for internal discipline and efficiency (and vice-versa) in a self-reinforcing process. The conclusions illustrate some possible future scenarios for Europe.European Monetary Union, financial crisis, Germany, neo-mercantilism
Zwischenschichten zur Entwicklung haftfester CVD-Diamantbeschichtungen auf Stahl
No full textSIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: RR 9195(16) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekBundesministerium fuer Bildung und Forschung, Berlin (Germany); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Bonn (Germany)DEGerman
Germany as viewed by other Member States. EPIN Working Paper No. 33, 21 June 2012
Full text linkGermany’s problem is not so much that it is generally right about the need for fiscal discipline but that it has to learn how to be right: this is the most difficult issue to manage from a political standpoint.
This EPIN (European Policy Institutes Network) paper brings together contributions from a cross-section of EU member states and the Gallup World Poll survey on the question of how Germany is being viewed at this time of economic and political crisis.
The conclusions, subtitled: The Narcissism of Small Differences is a refreshingly candid and insightful analysis of current European relations, noting that Germany’s current weight reflects only the conjuncture of extraordinary domestic and international economic factors. How Germany and the other member states behave towards one another now will have implications for all long after this moment has passed
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