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The Bibliographic Concept of Work in Cataloguing and its Issues
Get PDFThis report explores the IFLA’s document Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR). It discusses the notion of work in cataloguing as it was built since the 1950s, inasmuch this notion constitutes the conceptual framework for the proposal. Also, the entity-relationship database modeling (ERDM) system is described as far as such model provides to FRBR the operative elements that make it functional. ERDM gives to FRBR a user-centered approach as well. In its third chapter, the report tests the FRBR model through its application to a set of items belonging to the novel Rayuela, by Julio Cortázar, held at the Benson Latin American Collection of the University of Texas at Austin. Finally, some critical issues are raised along with general conclusions regarding the functionality of the mode
Norma Coverdale, B.A.: the treatment of women in selected works of Henry de Montherlant
Get PDFThe aim of this thesis is to determine how women are treated in selectedworks of Henry de Montherlant. This is explored by examining their relationshipswith other women as well as with men. Inevitably, this leads to an analysis ofthe multifaceted area of love. Part I researches Montherlant's prose work and included in this section is the investigation of the importance of 'l'ordre male' to the author and the influence this exerts over his early prose work in the areas of tauromachy, war and sport, and where the male adherence to this concept leaves women. The 'syncretisme et alternance' which is central to Montherlant's thinking is explored in this section.Part 2 is concerned with Montherlant's theatre in which the psychological development of the main characters is of great importance. It is in this section that a comparative study is made of the influence of Mme. Elisabeth Zehrfuss' written contribution to La Reine morte. Her unpublished notes are set out in full in the Appendix. The thesis also draws on the unpublished correspondence between Henry de Montherlant and Elisabeth Zehrfuss between the years 1934 and 1945. An investigation is made as to whether or not there are any differences between the way women are treated in Montherlant's prose and in his theatre and the conclusion is drawn that there are
Good faith in soverign debt restructuring: the evolution of an open norm in 'localised' contexts?
Get PDFSince the Argentine debt crisis in 2001 (and the settlement of 2005) the influence and credibility of the official sector especially the IMF is at a historical low. It is in this context that changes in sovereign bond contracts, for instance, the widespread adoption of collective action clauses raise questions about future debt restructurings. Market participants, especially creditors overwhelmingly believe that contract modification is important but only ‘at the margins’. If contractual change is marginal, what then are the mechanisms that will ensure fair and orderly debt workouts?
In the absence of a global, multilateral, regulatory framework for sovereign debt restructuring, our examination of changes in the period leading up to the Argentine settlement and after, reveals that market participants may instead be relying on good faith to do the job with the court recognising similar expectations. Good faith, though entrenched as a legal norm in several domestic jurisdictions, such as Germany and the U.S., is a relative newcomer to sovereign debt workouts. This evolving norm is not institutionally embedded and unlike the domestically entrenched version, is not a legal rule with specific requirements that needs to be fulfilled. We conclude by showing that good faith is an open norm ‘localised’ inter alia in formal and informal contexts in which market participants interact with each other and therefore conceptually similar to Treu und Glauben as recognised in section 242 BGB
Representative Bureaucracy and the Willingness to Coproduce: An Experimental Study
No full textRelying on the theory of representative bureaucracy—specifically, the notion of symbolic representation—this article examines whether varying the number of female public officials overseeing a local recycling program influences citizens’ (especially women's) willingness to cooperate with the government by recycling, thus coproducing important policy outcomes. Using a survey experiment in which the first names of public officials are manipulated, the authors find a clear pattern of increasing willingness on the part of women to coproduce when female names are more represented in the agency responsible for recycling, particularly with respect to the more difficult task of composting food waste. Overall, men in the experiment were less willing to coproduce across all measures and less responsive to the gender balance of names. These findings have important implications for the theory of representative bureaucracy and for efforts to promote the coproduction of public services.This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Riccucci, Norma M., Van Ryzin, Gregg G. & Li, Huafang. (2015). Representative Bureaucracy and the Willingness to Coproduce: An Experimental Study. Public Administration Review, which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/puar.12401. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.Peer reviewe
Norma Denver
No full textNorma Denver was honored for being a Girl Scout hero. Norma is a dedicated teacher for 25 years for the Uintah School District. She has worked with the Ute Tribe and is the co-author of the Ute History Book, "An Historical Study of the Utes." She is an officer in the Roosevel BPW Club. She serves on a committee to help start an archives and museum for the Ute Indian Tribe
Norma Field: Japanese Women\u27s Pursuit of Global Justice
No full textNorma Field discusses a brief history of Japanese feminism, shares information from the International Women\u27s Tribunal of Japanese Military Sexual Slavery and reviews Japanese women\u27s labor history. She explores Japanese women\u27s roles in society, particularly how they were affected by World War II.
A student of modern and contemporary Japanese literature and culture, Field has written about everything from Japanese novels to the moral and legal questions of crimes against women in World War II, and from the use of Japanese nationalist symbols to the integration of Koreans into Japanese society.
She is the William J. and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Robert S. Ingersoll Professor in Japanese Studies at the University of Chicago.
Field\u27s current research interests include proletarian literature of the 1920s and 1930s and the role of the Communist Party, especially with respect to women and the arts. My Grandmother\u27s Land, a collection of her essays including several originally written in Japanese, was recently published to wide acclaim in Japan.
Field grew up in Tokyo and later attended Pitzer College in California, where she earned her bachelor\u27s degree in European studies. She then changed her focus to East Asian studies, and earned a master\u27s from Indiana University and a doctorate from Princeton University.
She came to the University of Chicago as an assistant professor in 1983 and was appointed professor in 1993. She is the author of The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of Genji, In the Realm of a Dying Emperor and From My Grandmother\u27s Bedside: Sketches of Postwar Tokyo
Staging Norma
No full textThe sculpture Norma was created in the USA in the 1940s in the field of tension between what something is and what something should be. Around eight decades later, the Israeli choreographer and director Saar Magal thematises Norma in her dance piece 10 Odd Emotions. Stefanie Hampel first looks at the materialisation of what was considered ‘normal’ at the time and analyses the sculptures Norma and Normman by Abram Belskie and Robert Latou Dickinson from 1943. Against the backdrop of Saar Magal's piece 10 Odd Emotions, the author explores the questions of what deconstructive, media-specific potential theatre has here and how human bodies are (re)arranged on stage.PublishedIm Spannungsfeld des Normalen – zwischen dem, wie etwas ist, und dem, wie etwas sein soll – entsteht in den USA der 1940er Jahre die Skulptur Norma. Rund acht Jahrzehnte später thematisiert die israelische Choreografin und Regisseurin Saar Magal Norma in ihrem Tanzstück 10 Odd Emotions. Stefanie Hampel befasst sich zunächst mit der Materialisierung dessen, was damals als „normal“ gelten sollte und analysiert die Plastiken Norma und Normman von Abram Belskie und Robert Latou Dickinson aus dem Jahr 1943. Vor dem Hintergrund von Saar Magals Stück 10 Odd Emotions geht die Autorin den Fragen nach, welches dekonstruktive, medienspezifische Potenzial dem Theater hier zukommt und wie menschliche Körper auf der Bühne (neu) angeordnet werden
Norma linguística na teorização de Eugenio Coseriu
Get PDFThis master’s dissertation investigates the concept of linguistic norm widely known in the
field of linguistics and tributary to the Romanian linguist Eugenio Coseriu. With this
objective and with the aid of the method of linguistic historiography, it analyzes this concept,
highlighting its sources, motivations and describing the way in which the author reworks it
from his disagreement with Ferdinand de Saussure’s language and speech dichotomy. Coseriu
stablishes the notion of norm as a link between the Saussurean dichotomy, defining it as a
system of obligatory accomplishments, of cultural impositions, which varies according to the
community. Therefore, norm is conceived as the collective realization of the system, while
speech is the individual and concrete realization of the norm. Thus, Coseriu redefines the
language and speech dichotomy in the tripartite concept system, norm and speech as an
attempt to overcome the limitations of Saussurian theorization. The most notorious theoretical
debate in the process of re-elaboration of this concept is the one Coseriu establishes with
Saussure, but a not so apparent and little publicized motivation arises from Coseriu’s contact
with Louis Hjelmslev’s schema/system, norm and use distinctions. In addition to highlighting
Coseriu’s sources for the re-elaboration of the concept of norm, this dissertation seeks to
answer why Coseriu recovers and re-elaborates a concept that Hjelmslev himself had already
abandoned and rejected. As this dissertation shows, Coseriu not only recovers and re-
elaborates the concept of norm, but makes it a key concept of his linguistic theory and for
which he will always be remembered.Esta dissertação de mestrado investiga o conceito de norma linguística amplamente conhecida
no campo da linguística e tributária ao linguista romeno Eugenio Coseriu. Com esse objetivo
e com o auxílio do método da historiografia linguística analisa esse conceito evidenciando
suas fontes, motivações e descrevendo a forma como o autor o reelabora a partir de sua
discordância com dicotomia língua e fala de Ferdinand de Saussure. Coseriu estabelece a
noção de norma como um elemento de ligação entre a dicotomia saussuriana, definindo-a
como um sistema de realizações obrigatórias, de imposições culturais, que varia de acordo
com a comunidade. Logo, a norma é concebida como a realização coletiva do sistema,
enquanto a fala é a realização individual e concreta da norma. Assim, Coseriu redefine a
dicotomia língua e fala no conceito tripartite sistema, norma e fala como uma tentativa de
superar as limitações da teorização saussuriana. O embate teórico mais notório nesse processo
de reelaboração desse conceito é o que Coseriu estabelece com Saussure, mas uma motivação
não tão aparente e pouco divulgada surge do contato de Coseriu com as distinções
esquema/sistema, norma e uso de Louis Hjelmslev. Além de evidenciar as fontes de Coseriu
para a reelaboração do conceito de norma, esta dissertação busca responder por que Coseriu
recupera e reelabora um conceito que o próprio Hjelmslev já havia abandonado e rejeitado.
Como esta dissertação evidencia, Coseriu não apenas recupera e reelabora conceito de norma,
mas faz dele um conceito chave de sua teoria linguística e pelo qual será sempre lembrado
Kristen mystik. Ur psykologisk synvinkel. Del I
No full textThis is the third volume in a serial of books focusing on the concept of mystical death and related ideas, as described within the Christian mystical tradition and its Jewish and Greek roots. In the succeeding chapters these mystical elements and their development are followed up, both within the Western and Eastern Christian traditions. In the final chapters the author presents the German and Dutch mystical schools in the fourteenth century. Using scholarly translations of Christian mystical texts and modern research within the field, the author presents influential Christian mystics in a chronological and thematic way. The study is psychological in the sense that the author gives attention not only to experiential and behavioural aspects but also to the psychology of the mystics themselves. Some fundamental questions are: How is human personality defined by Christian mystics? Which techniques are used in order to reach beyond personality defined as such? What kind of experiences do these exercises lead to? To what end does the mystic pursue these activities? Special attention is given to the phenomenon of mors mystica, the notion that human personality has to die and to be reborn in a transformed state. As to interpretations from the perspective of modern psychology the author draws attention to his earlier studies, related to the psychology of asceticism, visionary experience and descriptions of mystical death. Christian techniques of visualisation are analysed with reference to HansCarl Leuner’s research on guided affective imagery. This psychological interpretation has not been presented in earlier studies of the author
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