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First person – Judith S. Cruz Ortega
No full textFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Judith S. Cruz Ortega is first author on ‘Actin cytoskeleton remodeling defines a distinct cellular function for adhesion G protein-coupled receptors ADGRL/latrophilins 1, 2 and 3’, published in BiO. Judith is a PhD student in the lab of Antony Jr Boucard, at Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico, investigating the molecular basis of brain cellular communication
International year of older persons: Mentoring research project
No full textA report, by Judith MacCallum and Susan Beltman, Murdoch University, that identifies models of good practice of mentoring in school settings. The report looks at issues associated with the implementation of mentoring programs in school settings and key recommendations for consideration by Australian schools and education systems
Insurance law and the Financial Ombudsman Service [in 3 volumes]
No full textThis thesis is the only study there is of the workings of the Financial Ombudsman Service ('FOS') and a comparison between court and FOS attitudes and approaches to insurance cases. A court and the FOS may decide matters differently because the FOS does not have to apply the law strictly, whilst a court does. The author of this thesis has examined the FOS and Financial Services Authority ('FSA') websites, handbooks and other material, and all of the near monthly journals of Ombudsman News ('O.N.') since the FOS began in 2001, analysing it against the law to determine the question of this thesis: whether the FOS should in fact apply the law strictly, and not allow principles of fairness and reasonableness to override the law in the particular circumstances of a case. Should certainty of outcome and of applying law established and modified over hundreds of years be sacrificed to allow the FOS to apply its overriding discretion in the interests of justice in a relatively few cases? Should both insurers and insureds be able to obtain legal advice on their relative positions, without that advice having to mention unpredictable outcomes if the ombudsman chooses not to follow the strict legal position? If the law does not offer the consumer insured enough protection, should the FOS be the forum that does, and if so, does it give enough protection? This study does not look at the decisions of the Insurance Ombudsman Bureau ('IOB') which preceded the FOS. Where a point is not dealt with below, it has not been highlighted in FOS publications to date and it is unclear how relevant IOB decisions on that point will be
The Firs Theatrical Judith
No full textMarulić‚s poem Judith saw several stage adaptations. It was first done for the Osijek stage, in 1935. In 1940 Marko Fotez adapted the poem on the occasion of the solemn opening of the Croatian National Theater in Split. In 1979 the Judith had its third production. This time it was dramatized by Tonko Maroević, directed by Marin Carić and staged at the Split Summer Festival. The same authors produced a puppet version of the piece, staged in Zadar in 1991.
The author of the first Osijek dramatization of the Judith (the production of 1935) was Zora Vuksan-Barlović (1887-1935), the first Croatian professional woman-director. First a very successful actress in Zagreb, she continued her training in Vienna, Berlin (Max Reinhardt) and Paris. She was active in Osijek between 1916 and 1935.
It is difficult to explain what motivated her to choose the Judith for the celebration of the 25th anniversary of her theatrical activity. However, it is indicative that she picked out those sections of the poem whose content and dramatic quality fitted into the structure of Greek tragedy. Her production of the Judith gave the Croatian theater one of its very few heroines, bearers of national aspirations
Clashing deities in the book of <i>Judith</i>: A Greimassian perspective
No full textThe shaping of a text with a specific kind of plot is suggestive of the fundamental values that the author desires to either promote or discourage within the reader’s community and its worldview. The Judith narrative is not an exception to this claim or rule. Scholars have contributed much in establishing the underlying purpose of Judith and came up with intuitive contributions to the field of study. However, the investigation of the overarching fundamental values that generated the story of Judith remains a gap to be filled in Judith research. The goal of this article is to fill this gap by investigating the fundamental values that the author desires to promote or discourage within the community, using the thematic analysis of the Greimassian semiotic approach. Subsequently, the present article reveals that the Judith narrative was designed to be an ideological vehicle in its intent, aimed at rejuvenating and revitalising the core values of the Jewish religion during the difficult times of the Second Temple period
Unfulfilled Desires in the Story Collection Lettipark by Judith Hermann
No full textThis diploma thesis focuses on thematic interpretation of the short stories collection Lettipark by Judith Hermann, which was released in 2016 in German language. The Czech translation was published in 2018. Within individual interpretations never realized images, expectations and dreams will be accented. They may be regarded as unfulfilled desires of the main characters of the short stories. One part of this diploma thesis also includes the categorization of the author into German literature since the middle 90's of the last century until today. The prose writer's reception in the Czech Republic is also taken into consideration. KEY WORDS German literature, short story, desire, Judith Hermann, character analysis, thematic interpretatio
A Concise Synthesis of (S)-(+)-1-(4-{2- Bis-(4-Fluorophenyl)Methoxy - Ethyl}Piperazin-1-Yl)-2-Phenylpropan-2-Ol Dimaleate
No full text(S)-(+)-1-(4-{2-[Bis-(4-fluorophenyl)methoxy]-ethyl} piperazin-1-yl)-2- phenylpropan-2-ol dimaleate was prepared in several steps from (S)-(+)- atrolactic acid by a process permitting synthesis of multigram quantities. With the information provided by asymmetric synthesis, the X-ray crystal structure was solved
Annotated Translation of Selected Chapters from "Zwischen den Zeichen" (2018) by Judith S. Farwick
No full textThis bachelor thesis provides an annotated translation of an original German text into Czech. The translated text comprises five chapters of the book Zwischen den Zeichen: Notizentechnik ohne Worte. Ein Lehr- und Übungsbuch by the German author Judith S. Farwick, which is a textbook and workbook primarily intended to aid interpreting students. The bachelor thesis consists of the actual translation and a commentary, which contains a translation analysis describing the used translation method, shifts made during the translation process, and the ways of solving encountered translation problems. Key words translation, translation analysis, translation shifts, note-taking for interpreters, interpreting symbols, consecutive interpretin
Ideology and intertextuality: Intertextual allusions in Judith 16
No full textThis article utilised the theory of intertextuality to investigate the way in which religious texts, specifically Judith 16, generate meaning in the act of the production of texts. The groundbreaking work on intertextuality done by Julia Kristeva served as the theoretical point of departure. Kristeva utilised Mikhail Bakhtin’s literary theory to develop her own views on intertextuality. According to the theory of intertextuality, all texts are intersections of different texts and are therefore polyvalent. The article argued that the ideology (or ideologies) of author(s) of texts underpin the ways in which other texts are used and alluded to. The purpose of the investigation was to illustrate how intertextual allusions in Judith 16 are used to describe ‘God/the Lord’ as a God of war and, thereby, to maintain an already existing ideology of war:
We know now that a text is not a line of words releasing a single ‘theological’ meaning (the ‘message’ of the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash. The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture. (Barthes, cited in Beal 1992:27
Gender and leadership in Judith: A Greimassian contribution
No full textThe structuring of the narrative with characters assigned to fulfil particular roles is often indicative of an author’s possible intent. Thus, characterisation, in a story, is not neutral about its rhetorical intent; it generally reveals cultural values that the author or editor desires to either promote or reject, within a community. Judith seems to support this claim, in relation to the issue of Jewish leadership within the narrative. In more recent years, Judith has attracted the attention of many scholars and accordingly, a number of intuitive contributions have already been made to this particular area of research. However, the story is still capable of yielding far more detail concerning, inter alia, the blunders made within the Jewish religious leadership at the time. In this regard, this article attempts to uncover the real concern about the nature of Jewish leadership as encapsulated in the narrative of Judith using a Greimassian semiotic approach. Following the results from the analysis, the article contends that in the context of the narrative, Judaism not only suffered adversity from external forces but also from within, because of the deficiency of its own leadership. For this reason, an alternative leadership personified by Judith, rooted in spiritual values, was desired
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