453 research outputs found
Philosophie und Verbrechen : der Philosoph Andreas Urs Sommer im Gespräch mit Katrin Wenzel
No full textIdeology, constitutional culture and institutional change: the EU constitution as reflection of Europe’s emergent postmodernism
No full textUsing the example of the European Constitution, this paper argues that ideology plays a much more important role in institutional change than has been indicated hitherto in the literature. Rather than being an intellectual parlor-game, Postmodernism has emerged through European high culture to find its voice in the new Constitution. Although it was rejected by a critical mass of voters, the proposed Constitution offers a telling glimpse into the European intellectual mindset – especially since politicians are now bruiting the possibility of ratifying the constitution via compliant legislatures rather than fickle referenda. Anomalies in the document are better explained by the post-World War Two emergence of postmodern philosophy in Europe than by more traditional explanations from political economy.European constitution, postmodernism, political economy, institutional change
Effectiveness of One-Euro-Jobs: Do programme characteristics matter?
No full text"Recent labour market reforms in Germany introduced a workfare programme called One-Euro-Jobs with roughly 700,000 means-tested benefit recipients participating per year. In programme design leeway is given to local actors to respond to regional and individual factors. The legislature has set only key features of One-Euro-Jobs: One-Euro-Jobs are required to be additional and temporary jobs of public interest. Using administrative data for participants who entered the programme in spring 2005 this paper investigates medium-term effects of the programme and the association between flexibility in design and effect heterogeneity. First, effects of different types of One-Euro-Jobs (according to planned duration and weekly working hours) compared to non-participation ('waiting') are estimated and second, programme types are compared directly by pairwise matching to disentangle selection and programme effects. As expected lock-in effects are larger for participation with a longer planned duration, whereas this is not the case for more intensive programmes in terms of working hours. In the medium term, One-Euro-Jobs do not generally increase the employment prospects for men in East Germany beyond two years after programme start and longer and more intensive participations even decrease employment prospects. In West Germany, One-Euro-Jobs in general increase the employment chances and longer participations lead to slightly higher employment opportunities roughly two years after programme start. The initial advantages of short participations decrease over time. " (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))Arbeitsgelegenheit - Erfolgskontrolle, berufliche Reintegration, Arbeitslosengeld II-Empfänger, Workfare, Arbeitsmarktchancen, Geschlechterverteilung, Westdeutschland, Ostdeutschland, Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Translating culture: Matthee’s <i>Kringe in ’n bos</i> as a case in point
No full textThe translation of “cultural identity” in a novel such as “Kringe in ’n bos” contributes towards the definition of a uniquely South African representation of time and space in the global context. When translation is studied as a product of its socio-historical context, the translator is faced with problems of translating ideology and cultural identity in literature. Realia constitute a particular challenge to the translator because, according to the definition, precise equivalents of these words do not exist in other languages, which could cause shifts in the target language text. This article considers the concept of translatability and concludes that, despite the problems encountered, an adequate and satisfactory German translation from the Afrikaans original should be possible.
The question of translatability assumes an interesting dimension as the Afrikaans novel was translated into English by the author herself. The privileged position of author-translator granted Matthee a near-perfect understanding of the different layers of meaning and intention of the source text and eliminated the gap between the author and translator. However, one gains the impression that the German translator (Stege) resorted to transference as a strategy to avoid translation and it emerges that most instances of definite mistranslations are, indeed, attributable to Stege’s unfamiliarity with the South African context
Progress in Controlling HealthCare Associated Infections: A Historical Perspective
No full textRichard P. Wenzel, MD, MSc, is professor and former chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, Virginia (1995-2009). From 2003-2008, he was President of MCV Physicians, the clinical practice plan for over 600 physicians, and Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs.
For eight years (1992 to 2000), he was a member of the editorial board of The New England Journal of Medicine, and, in September 2001, became the journal’s first Editor-at-Large, a position he still holds. He is the prolific author of over 500 publications, the editor of six textbooks and the lead editor of A Guide for Infection Control in the Hospital, already translated into eight languages for free distribution to health care workers in developing countries. His popular book, Stalking Microbes, was published in the summer of 2005. His medical thriller, Labyrinth of Terror, was released in October, 2010.
Dr. Wenzel\u27s research has focused on the prevention and control of hospital-acquired infections, especially bloodstream infections (BSIs) and sepsis. He is a nationally recognized expert on antibiotic resistance and its impact.
Dr. Wenzel is a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI), the Association of American Physicians (AAP) and a charter member of the Surgical Infections Society. He is also former president of the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and former councilor of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA). He has trained 50 hospital epidemiologists worldwide. From 2006-08, Dr. Wenzel was President of the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID)
Eterna - Programs for tidal analysis and prediction
No full textEterna, the 'Earth tide data processing package', was created by the late Prof. Hans-Georg Wenzel at the Black Forest Observatory and the University of Karlsruhe in the 1990s. This collection of programs established one standard of tidal analysis and prediction in the Earth tide community. Originally distributed only in the form of executable binaries, source code started to be distributed in the community after Hans-Georg Wenzel passed away in 1999.Access to source code is essential in order to keep the program running on new computer platforms with recent compilers. Minor (and in a few cases major) modifications where applied by researchers to correct errors or support new features. This resulted in the unpleasant situation that different versions of the programs are circulated, where the relation to the original version is unclear (in particular with respect to source code modifications) and a clear statement is missing what holders of the source are allowed to do or not. Meanwhile (20 years after Eterna was first published) technical means are commonplace to publically distribute source code together with proper licensing and with each single modification being properly documented (such that the original author must not be blamed for mistakes introduced later).In the belief that it would be in the intention of Hans-Georg Wenzel to support the continued use of Eterna in the tidal community, while allowing a clear distinction between current modifications and his original version and in the consent with his widow, Marion Wenzel, we publish the source code under terms of the GNU General Public License on a server of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) which is the successor of the University of Karlsruhe.We present the software as now is available in a gitlab repository, documenting all changes applied to the original code. The software is complemented by data examples, which were distributed together with the original binary executable on CD-Rom
Immuno‐MALDI‐TOF MS: New perspectives for clinical applications of mass spectrometry
No full textThe discovery of novel biomarkers by means of advanced detection tools based on proteomic analysis technologies necessitates the development of improved diagnostic methods for application in clinical routine. On the basis of three different application examples, this review presents the limitations of conventional routine diagnostic assays and illustrates the advantages of immunoaffinity enrichment combined with MALDI-TOF MS. Applying this approach increases the specificity of the analysis supporting a better diagnostic recognition, sensitivity, and differentiation of certain diseases. The use of MALDI-TOF MS as detection method facilitates the identification of modified peptides and proteins providing additional information. Further, employing respective internal standard peptides allows for relative and absolute quantitation which is mandatory in the clinical context. Although MALDI-TOF MS is not yet established for clinical routine diagnostics this technology has a high potential for improvement of clinical diagnostics and monitoring therapeutic efficacy.BMBF [0313684B
Primary Sample Space Path Guiding
No full textWe present a scheme for unbiased path guiding. Different from existing methods that focus on constructing structures in spatial-directional domain, we work in primary sample space. We collect records containing a few dimensions of random numbers as well as the luminance that the resulting path contributes. A multiple dimensional structure is built with collected information. After this, random numbers are drawn from this structure and is used to feed the path tracer. Using this scheme, we are able to work completely outside the rendering kernel. We demonstrate that our method is practical and can be efficient. We manage to reduce variance and reduce zero radiance paths by only working in the primary sample space.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Computer Graphics and Visualisatio
SPATIO-TEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF WARM DENSE PLASMAS: MOLECULAR DYNAMICS MODELING
No full textSPATIO-TEMPORAL EVOLUTION OF WARM DENSE PLASMAS: MOLECULAR
DYNAMICS MODELING Cole Wenzel and Gennady Miloshevsky
Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, 401
West Main St, Richmond, VA 23284-3015
The exo-atmospheric detonation of nuclear device would be of great impact on the material integrity of orbiting satellites. The spectral energy distribution of high intensity X-ray flux, ~10 28 -10 35 photons/(cm 2 ∙s), originating from a nuclear blast is described by the Planck\u27s blackbody function with the temperature from 0.1 keV to 10 keV. Particular damage would occur to the multi-layered, solar cell panels of satellites. However, the X-ray flux incident upon the solar panels is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from a point where a weapon was detonated. For example, the X-ray flux is reduced by a factor of 10 -10 at the distance of 100 km. Even accounting for this geometric factor, the enormous power density, ~0.1 - 10 4 GW/cm 3 , absorbed within a few microns of a Ge slab of solar cells produces the extreme pressures and temperatures. The X-ray induced blow-off and Warm Dense Plasma (WDP) formation on the surface of materials, particularly in a gap between the unshielded Ge elements is initiated. In this work, the profiles of deposited energy and power density produced by cold X- rays (~ 1 keV) in the multi-layered materials are calculated using the Monte Carlo method within the Geant4 software toolkit. The power density is used as an input for the Molecular Dynamics (MD) modeling of WDP formation and expansion into vacuum. The MD computational model is implemented within the LAMMPS software toolkit. The spatio-temporal evolution of WDP as well as its temperature, stress, and mass density distribution are investigated for different X-ray irradiation conditions. Presenting author: Cole Wenzel This work is supported by Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Grant No. DTRA1‐19‐1‐0019.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/gradposters/1070/thumbnail.jp
Ist das Volk der König? Überlegungen zu der Frage, wer in einer Demokratie herrscht – und wie
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