34 research outputs found
Alte Muster, neue Bilder? : die Darstellung von Menschen mit Behinderungen in der Tagespresse
No full texteingereicht von Gerlinde HauderKurzfassungen in deutscher und englischer SpracheDiplomarbeit Universität Linz 201
perennare canendo. Die Vorstellung von der «Dichtung als Verewigung» in den carmina des Baudri von Bourgueil
No full textScholars agree that the poems of Baudri of Bourgueil are greatly indebted to the poetry of Ovid, the «tenerorum lusor amorum», and generally have the character of a literary game – in the neoteric sense of ludere – so that the author is by no means identical with the «I» of his poems, but slips into different roles. The fictional character of Baudri’s poetry has accordingly long been recognized. It is by recourse to ancient forms of thought and expression that Baudri’s work is able to address topics and adopt positions which conflict with the morals and expectations of his day. Thus, in his work we often encounter an idea which Ernst Robert Curtius, in his opus magnum «European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages», entitled «poetry as immortalization» – an idea that conflicts to a great extent with the Christian notion of eternal life. This article examines how Baudri in his carmina deals with the topos of immortalization through poetry and how much freedom he had to do so.
Keywords: Baudri von Bourgueil, Dichtung als Verewigung, Fiktionalität, Antikerezeption, christliches Mittelalter
Lies den Josephus! – aber welchen? Zur handschriftlichen Überlieferung des Flavius Josephus im lateinischen Mittelalter
No full textLege Iosephi historias! This exhortation, issued multiple times and in various forms by the Church Father Jerome, has been followed by countless scholars and literary figures. But which Josephus did they actually read? In the Latin West from the 5th century onwards it was the late antique Latin translations of the two main historiographical works, the Bellum Iudaicum and the Antiquitates Iudaicae, and to a lesser extent the translation of the apologetic tract Contra Apionem. The Vita was not translated into Latin until the 16th century. The Christianizing adaptation of the Bellum, the so-called Ps. Hegesippus (De excidio urbis Hierosolymitanae), also circulated until about 1000 under the name of Josephus.
These texts, which between them constitute the ancient Josephus Latinus, has an extremely rich tradition with some 230 preserved manuscripts. It is also multiform: Not all manuscripts contain the same collection of texts. Readers who only had the Bellum got to know a different Josephus to those who had access to a manuscript in which the "Old Testament" books of the Antiquitates (I-XII) were combined with the early Christian testimonies of Books XVIII-XX, possibly supplemented by the Ps.-Hegesippus.
It was not only the composition of the available manuscripts that influenced the understanding of author and work. Individual presentation - for instance by book decoration - likewise drew attention to certain passages, and the provision of annotations could suggest a certain understanding of the text.
This article offers an insight into various material manifestations of Josephus Latinus and explores their effects on his reception
Virtual vs. Standard Strike: An Experiment
No full textIn this paper we compare - in the laboratory - stoppage and virtual strike. Our experiment confirms that higher wages offered by an employer lead to considerably more costly effort provision. The number of strikes, the level of efforts and average total payoffs are higher under virtual strike than under standard strike. However, when standard strike is associated with reciprocal externalities, it induces higher effort levels, higher payoffs and an extremely reduced number of strikes than virtual strike. It is unclear whether this behavior re?ects reciprocity or other forms of social preferences. However our results might explain why standard strikes rather than virtual ones are generally adopted by workers.virtual strike, cooperation, reciprocity, fairness, experiments
Self-Portrait in Bed. A Case Study of Carlo Mollino’s ‘Bedroom for a Farmhouse in the Rice Fields’
No full textIn January 1943, Domus presented in its typical solutions series Carlo Mollino’s bedroom for a farmhouse in the rice fields (camera da letto per una cascina in risaia). This bedroom designed for publication in a magazine, was entirely imagined, and in part materialized, by and for its author. Published during World War II, this highly personal project, centered around the person in the bed, can be seen as an act of escapism. This paper identifies the project as a work of autobiography, and explores this notion through a close reading of its architectural representational media: text, photography and drawing
Pronouns separating the UK from the EU: We and us in British newspapers and parliamentary debates in 1973–2015
No full textThe author defended her doctoral dissertation Pronouns separating the UK from the EU: We and us in British newspapers and parliamentary debates in 1973–2015 (Tampere University Dissertations 989) at the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences of Tampere University on 19 April 2024. The opponent at the public defence was Professor Gerlinde Mautner (Vienna University of Economics and Business), and the defence was chaired by Professor Päivi Pahta (Tampere University). The article-based dissertation is available at https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-03-3365-2
The UDK Web Editor – A Collaborative Tool to Support the Implementation of the EC Directive on Public Access to Environmental Information (2003/4/EC)
No full textThe European Directive on Public Access to Environmental Information (2003/4/EC) requires EU Member States to actively disseminate environmental information to the public. On the European Level there is no guidance or implementation regulation for a harmonized implementation available for this. The result is a strong variation of the state of implementation within EU Member States and across Europe. As a consequence, there is a high risk for Member States and Regional Authorities for becoming the subject of lawsuits based on non-compliance with the directive. In response, the Ministry of Environment of the State of Lower Saxony (MELS) has produced an organizational and technical model to supply relevant environmental information on time and in an up-to-date status. The main strategy is to keep tab on every peace of environmental information in the MELS business division, complying with the mandatory core of information as specified in the directive’s article 7. This information is catalogued in the State’s environmental information catalogue system and assigned an expiration date. An Editing System has been developed on the basis of the collaboration platform MERMIG, enabling the maintenance of the catalogue through the use of as standard web browser. Furthermore, the system keeps tab on the information objects and notifies the object’s author to review the information object after the expiration date has passed. In this way the State of Lower Saxony complies with the proactive tenor of the directive and ensures to have at any time control on the environmental information available. On a second level, MELS works on making all environmental information available through the ministries internet portal.
Strong consideration has been given to interoperability aspects. The technical solution presented here is fully Open Source based and completely Web based. It uses State of the Art tools and technologies in a distributed architecture.http://www.ak-uis.de/download/Abschlussberichte/2006-Hoexter-3184.pdf#page=2
Development options for historical ('Gründerzeit") rental buildings in Vienna in the context of urban development policy
No full textDie Ursprünge dieser Arbeit liegen zum einen in den häufig unter Kritik stehenden Bemühungen der Stadt Wien zum Erhalt der gründerzeitlichen Wohnquartiere und zum anderen in der Annahme des Autors, dass sich InvestorInnen für den Neubau entscheiden, wenn sie vor der Wahl zwischen Sanierung eines Altbaus und Abbruch und anschließendem Neubau stehen. Aus diesem Grund konzentriert sich diese Arbeit auf den Altbaubestand Wiens. Das Ziel dieser Arbeit liegt darin, die Beweggründe von privaten und öffentlichen AkteurInnen zu erfassen und diese gegenüberzustellen. Aufgrund dessen wird ein betriebswirtschaftlicher Vergleich zwischen Altbau und Neubau durchgeführt. Dieser Vergleich wird mit Hilfe eines dreistufigen Verfahrens durchgeführt. Dieses Verfahren stützt sich zum einen auf einen theoretischen und zum anderen auf einen praktischen Teil. Der Input des theoretischen Teils erfolgt durch eine Literaturrecherche sowie mehrere Interviews und der praktische Teil durch verschiedenste Erhebungen und Kalkulationen. Die erste Stufe stellt einen theoretischen Überblick über den Althausmarkt und den Umgang der Stadtplanung mit dem Althausbestand dar. Für den ersten Vergleich werden die bestehende Literatur sowie diverse Interviews mit AkteurInnen des Immobilienmarkts herangezogen. Es werden neben den rechtlichen Grundlagen und den Stadtentwicklungsplänen Wiens auch diverse Arbeiten zu ähnlichen Themen sowie Marktanalysen herangezogen. In der zweiten und dritten Stufe des Verfahrens wird mit Hilfe einer Grobanalyse von 20 Objekten und einer anschließende Feinanalyse von zwei Fallbeispielen der betriebswirtschaftliche Vergleich zwischen Neu- und Altbau durchgeführt. In Summe schaffen diese drei Verfahrensstufen einen Überblick über die Situation des Altbaubestands in Wien. Die Ergebnisse fielen nicht so aus wie der Autor erwartete. So wurde ersichtlich, dass eine Sanierung für eine/n InvestorIn interessant ist, was der zuvor erstellten Annahme des Autors widerspricht. So fiel bei einer Vermietung die Sanierung mit 3,68% durchschnittlichem Einstandsfaktor besser aus als der Neubau mit durchschnittlich 3,24%; beim Eigentum ist das Verhältnis ähnlich. Bei der langfristigen Betrachtung fielen alle berechneten Werte negativ aus. Ausnahme ist die Sanierung in den Innenbezirken und die Verwertung als Eigentumswohnung mit einer durchschnittlichen Barwertrate von 0,12. Auch aus der Theorie lässt sich schließen, dass sanierte Altbauten als sichere Anlage für InvestorInnen gelten. Die Wiener Innenbezirke sind für InvestorInnen von besonderem Interesse, was sich auf die hohe Dichte von Altbauten rückschließen lässt sowie die gute Erschließung dergleichen. Die in der Gründerzeit entstandenen Stadtquartiere wurden seit ihrem Entstehen von der Stadtplanung sowohl als abbruchreif wie auch erhaltenswert bezeichnet. Heute gelten diese als erhaltenswert und als Kulturerbe. Die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen, die für den Altbau gelten, wie zum Beispiel die geregelten Mietzinse oder die Schutzzonen, werden vor allem von InvestorInnen kritisiert. Es konnte allerdings festgestellt werden, dass diese Einschränkungen den Altbaumarkt schützen und dieser somit auch investitionssicher ist.The focus of this work is first, the often criticized efforts of the City of Vienna to retain the "Gründerzeit" living quarters, and second the assumption, by the author, that investors opt for financing a new building, when faced with the choice between the renovation of an old building, and demolition, followed by construction of a new one. For this reason, this work focuses on the old buildings of Vienna. The aim of this work is to understand and confront, the motivations of private and public investors. A managerial comparison between old and new buildings is therefore carried out. This comparison is carried out using a three-stage process. This method is based both on a theoretical and a practical part. The input of the theoretical part is done through a literature search as well as several interviews, while the practical part is done by various surveys and calculations. The first stage represents a theoretical overview of the market and Althaus handling of urban planning, with the Althaus inventory. For the first comparison, the existing literature as well as various interviews with real estate investors of the market is used. In addition to the legal basis and the urban development plans of Vienna, several papers on related topics, as well as a market analysis will be used. In the second and third steps of the process, using a coarse analysis of 20 objects and a subsequent fine analysis of two case studies of the economic comparison between new and old buildings is performed. In summary, these three process steps provide an overview of the situation of the old building stock in Vienna. The results were not the same as the author expectations. It became apparent that, a renovation is interesting for an investor, which contradicts the assumption previously created by the author. So when renting, the renovation with 3.68% average costs factored better than new construction with an average of 3.24%; by property, the ratio is similar. In the long-term view, all calculated values were negative. The exception is the redevelopment in the inner districts and the utilization of a condominium with an average present value rate of 0.12. The theory suggests that renovated old buildings are considered a safe investment for investors. The Viennese districts are of particular interest for investors, most likely because of the high density of older buildings as well as good development. The city quarters built in the period of promoterism are considered both for demolition as well as conservation. Today these are considered worthy of preservation and a cultural heritage. The legal framework attached to the old building, such as the regulated rents or the protection zones are criticized by investors. It could, however, be noted that these restrictions protect the old building market and therefore leads to a safe investment
Forgive or Buy Back: An Experimental Study of Debt Relief
No full textA large share of the debt claims owed by the world’s poorest countries has been cancelled through the HIPC (highly indebted poor countries) debt relief initiative. It is believed that, with less debt burden, the HIPC will be able to devote more resources to investment and thus promote their own growth and benefit their creditors in the long run. But does debt forgiveness really provide the best incentive for those countries who suffers from debt overhang? In this paper, we adopt experimental methods to study the impact of two different schemes for relieving debt. The two schemes we consider here are debt forgiveness and debt buyback, with the latter being more market-based since it allows indebted countries to repurchase their own debt on the secondary market at a discount. We find that creditors tend to reduce more debt when the relief takes the form of debt forgiveness than that of buyback. Debtors under the scheme of forgiveness are not significantly more reciprocal than those of buyback. After controlling for the amount of debt relief, creditors are significantly worse off under forgiveness whereas debtors are indifferent between the two schemes. Overall, debt forgiveness yields less desirable outcomes than debt buybacks.Laboratory Experiments
Embracing linguistic diversity - dialect literature in the teaching of German as a foreign language
No full textThe paper seeks to show that the use of dialect literature in the teaching of German as a Foreign Language (DaF) can be very enriching for students. It argues that this practice creates awareness that the German language is not homogeneous across German-speaking countries, but is characterised by variety (the pluricentricity of German). In addition, working with dialect texts allows learners to be immersed in the everyday reality of their target language by experiencing the diglossia that is prevalent in most German-speaking areas. In this way, the texts help students realise that there is not just one standardised form of expression in German that is correct and permissible. The unadulterated tone and idiosyncrasies of literary works in dialect also offer an insight into the emotional world of the people who use the language and into their unique culture and mentality. This is illustrated with the help of two dialect poems ("Drei Vëigl fliagn" and "Die 5 Johreszeitn") by the South Tyrolean author Maridl Innerhofer (1921-2013)
