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Gerda L. Schulman Collection 1938-1993
No full textThis collection consists of two folders: one containing Gerda Schulman's Austrian Heritage Collection questionnaire with biographical details of her experience in Vienna before the Anschluss and subsequent immigration, as well as degrees and professional certificates. The second folder contains publications by Gerda Schulman from her professional career as a psychologist. The second folder also includes a letter from 1938, originally published in the book "Thomas Mann Letters".digitizedGerda Schulman (née Lang) was born 1915 in Vienna, Austria. She finished her law studies at the University of Vienna just a few weeks before the Anschluss in March of 1938. She and her Dutch husband, Hans fled to Amsterdam, and they immigrated to the U.S. in 1939 where she started her studies in psychology. She eventually became a family therapist and a published author of scientific works.Itemized list of collection in folder 1Austrian Heritage CollectionProcessed for digitizatio
Gerda Lerner Family Collection 1939-1978
No full textThe collection contains materials related to several members of the Kronstein/Neumann/Mueller families; both original documents as well as additional biographical information and excerpts from Gerda Lerner's book "A Death of One's Own". The bulk consists of correspondence, mainly written from Ilona Kronstein's exile in Nice to her daughter Gerda in the United States. In one letter, Ilona Kronstein describes a brief stay in the Gurs camp. Most of the correspondence has been summarized by John and Eva Englander, the summaries are included in the folders.Austrian Heritage CollectionGerda Lerner, October 2003; April 2004 (Addenda 1)The Gerda Lerner Papers are on deposit at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute. See also the Nora Kronstein-Rosen Family Collection at the LBI (AR 25257)Ilona Kronstein (nee Neumann) was born in Budapest in 1897 to Sigmund Neumann and Emma Deutsch. In 1918, she met Robert Kronstein. The couple married a year later and moved to Vienna. They had two daughters: Gerda, born in 1920, and Nora, born in 1925. Between 1928 and 1933 Ilona studied art with Johannes Itten. She opened her own studio in 1933. In 1938, after several weeks in a Gestapo prison, she fled with her two daughters, Gerda and Nora, to Liechtenstein, where her husband was already waiting. After a few months in Vaduz, she went to a small town near Nice and solely devoted herself to art. It was in Nice that she became friends with the painter Rudolf Ray. In 1940 she was detained in the concentration camp at Gurs for several weeks and from 1941 onwards she began to show signs of multiple sclerosis. Her family managed with great difficulty to get her back to Liechtenstein in 1942 and to obtain medical assistance for her in Switzerland. She died in Zurich in 1948.In 2000, the Jewish Museum Vienna exhibited drawings and pastels by Ilona Kronstein, which her daughters Gerda Lerner and Nora Kronstein-Rosen donated to the museum in 1997.Ilona's sister Margit Neuer (born 1899) was a physician and perished in Auschwitz. Her second sister Klara (born 1903) married Alexander Mueller, a psychiatrist and close co-worker of Alfred Adler. As a stateless person he was denied residence in several countries and forcibly sent across the border back to Germany, until he finally obtained residence in Holland. After the Nazi takeover of the Netherlands, he and his wife fled to Budapest, where they survived the Russian siege and he survived Eichmann's death march to Austria. After the end of the war they first returned to The Netherlands, then found refuge in Switzerland, where Alexander Mueller accepted a position at the University of Zuerich. He died in 1968.Elizabeth Breznitz, née Klein, was born in Léva (then Hungary, today Levice, Slovakia). Her first husband, Leo Kalmer, died in a concentration camp in Bavaria; she was liberated from Auschwitz in 1945, but her father and her stepmother perished. After the war she lived in Plzen, Czech Republic. Her letters are of great interest to understand the daily life of a Holocaust survivor in Czechoslovakia.Gerda Kronstein came to the US in 1939, where she married Carl Lerner in 1941. She received her Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1966. She is one of the founders of women's history and a former President of the Organization of American Historians. In 1972, she founded the first graduate (M.A.) program in women's history in the US at Sarah Lawrence College. In 1980 she founded the first PH.D. program in women's history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has won many honors, including 17 honorary degrees and is the author of 13 books.See also the catalog of an exhibition held at the Juedisches Museum Wien in 2000: Die Welt der Ili Kronstein = the world of Ili Kronstein : Werke 1938-1943 / herausgegeben von Werner Hanak im Auftrag des Juedischen Museums Wien. Wien : Juedisches Museum Wien, 2000. (LBI Library call number: q 156)Alexander Mueller’s only published book, “Du sollst ein Segen sein! : Grundzuege eines religioesen Humanismus“, GBS-Verlag, 1954 („You shall be a blessing! : main traits of a religious humanism”) has been transferred to the LBI libraryGerda Lernerdigitize
Names Calling / Prague Winter / Flight to England.
No full textThe memoirs were written in 1998. History of the Stein and Eisenberger family. The author’s mother Erna was the daughter of the well-respected solicitor Dr. Wilhelm Eisenberger. She got married to a Gentile, with whom she had a daughter, the author’s older sister Anna. After their divorce she got married to Arnold Stein, father of the author. Brief recollections of the author’s childhood. Jump to life in Karlsbad under the Nazi rule in 1938. Move to Prague. Fervent preparations in order to be able to emigrate. With the help of Trevor Chadwick Gerda was sent to England on a children’s transport in March of 1939.Gerda Mayer was born as Gerda Stein in 1927 in Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia. She emigrated with a Kindertransport to England in 1939.See also Arnold and Erna Stein Collection (AR 5085)Stein, ArnoldStein, KamillaStein, Philip, 1839-1932Anti-SemitismChristmasHolocaus
What is water worth? : recreational benefits and increased demand following a quality improvement
No full textThis study focuses on valuation of natural resources and particularly valuation of the quality of a natural resource. The aim is to value an improvement of water quality, measured as sight depth, in the bay Himmerfjärden in the Stockholm archipelago. It is desirable to attain a value of a one metre sight depth improvement in Himmerfjärden and to analyse how a sight depth improvement affects the demand for travelling to Himmerfjärden. A condtional logit model is applied to obtain these values from survey data. The benefits of a one metre sight depth improvement in Himmerfjärden, will yield 162 260-1 599 420 SEK per year, adjusted to the price level of 2007. The estimated value depends on how travel time is treated and whether a commute variable is included or not. Furthermore will a one per cent sight depth improvement in Himmerfjärden increase the demand for travelling to Himmerfjärden with approximately 0.13-0.18 trips on a given choice occasion. These results indicate that there are values attained to the quality of a natural resource
Cost-Benefit Analysis in a Framework of Stakeholder Involvement and Integrated Coastal Zone Modeling
No full textActive involvement of local stakeholders is currently an increasingly important requirement in European environmental regulations such as the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) and the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). The same is true for economic analyses such as cost-benefit analysis (CBA). For example, the Swedish WFD implementation requires i) quantification of cost and benefits of proposed measures and ii) stakeholder involvement. How can these two requirements be integrated in practice? And can such requirements facilitate implementation of projects with a potential net benefit? This paper presents a stepwise CBA procedure with participatory elements and applies it for evaluating nutrient management options for reducing eutrophication effects in the coastal area of Himmerfjärden SW of Stockholm, Sweden. The CBA indicates a positive net benefit for a combination of options involving increased nitrogen removal at a major sewage treatment plant, creation of new wetlands and connecting a proportion of private sewers to sewage treatment plants. The procedure also illustrates how the interdisciplinary development of a coupled ecological-economic simulation model can be used as a tool for facilitating the involvement of stakeholders in a CBA.cost-benefit analysis; stakeholder involvement; integrated modeling; eutrophication
Ekonomisk värdering med scenariometoder : En vägledning som stöd för genomförande och upphandling
No full textAtt ekonomiskt värdera ekosystemtjänster, hälsa, kulturmiljötjänster och annat som saknar ett marknadspris är både användbart och nödvändigt i många sammanhang i vårt samhälle. Genom ekonomisk värdering av sådana så kallade ickemarknadsvaror kan beslutsunderlag som t.ex. samhällsekonomiska konsekvensanalyser bli mer kompletta. Ekonomisk värdering spelar också en viktig roll för att kunna skapa internationella, nationella, regionala och lokala räkenskapssystem som ger bättre information om hållbar utveckling än vad dagens räkenskapssystem ger. Vidare ger ekonomisk värdering en grund för att hitta lämpliga nivåer på styrmedel som t.ex. miljösubventioner och miljöskatter. För att i praktiken genomföra ekonomisk värdering finns en rad olika värderingsmetoder att tillgå. Den här vägledningen handlar om den grupp av värderingsmetoder som på svenska brukar kallas scenariometoder ( stated preference methods). Behovet av en sådan vägledning förklaras bland annat av att scenariometoder är attraktiva på grund av sin flexibilitet och förmåga att fånga in totala ekonomiska värden. Samtidigt innefattar tillämpningar av scenariometoder vanligen ett flertal komplicerade bedömningar, inklusive att bedöma när det är lämpligare att använda sig av andra värderingsmetoder. Vidare har tidigare studier indikerat att myndigheter som behöver ekonomiska värderingar inte anser sig ha tillräckligt underlag eller tillräcklig kompetens att ta fram detta underlag och/eller för att kunna använda dessa värden. Detta försvårar genomförandet av det arbete som myndigheterna behöver göra i sin verksamhet, exempelvis arbete med konsekvensanalyser. Därför har vägledningen ett tvådelat syfte. Den avser att i) ge stöd åt myndigheter/ personer utan förkunskaper om scenariometoder vid upphandling av scenariostudier, och ii) ge stöd vid myndighetens eget utförande av en scenariostudie. Slutmålet med vägledningen är att den ska ge ett för myndigheter gemensamt och transparent underlag för att kunna beställa eller utföra scenariostudier på för myndigheter angelägna områden. Det är även en fördel om scenariostudier genomförs på ett enhetligt sätt eftersom det skapar jämförbarhet mellan studier. Studierna kan sedan användas t.ex. i samhällsekonomiska konsekvensanalyser för att belysa nyttan av olika åtgärdsförslag. Vägledningen ger en allmän bild över scenariometoders roll för beslutsunderlag och består av ett antal kapitel som belyser särskilt viktiga moment i utvecklandet av en scenariostudie. Innehållet består dels av löptext som är skriven på en nivå som inte kräver förkunskaper i scenariometoder. Den texten är framför allt tänkt att vara användbar för en upphandling av en scenariostudie och som stöd för att kunna följa, förstå och utvärdera arbetet i en scenariostudie. Som hjälpmedel för detta finns även ett antal kontrollfrågor. Dessutom innehåller vägledningen rekommendationer – detta markeras i texten genom att ordet ”rekommendationer” eller ”rekommenderar” anges i fetstil. I innehållet finns även fem boxar med fördjupningar. NATURVÅRDSVERKET RAPPORT 6469 Ekonomisk värdering med scenariometoder 7 Dessa belyser ett urval viktiga moment i samband med scenariostudier och är främst avsedda som stöd åt läsare med förkunskaper om scenariometoder. Vägledningen är indelad i följande elva kapitel: Kapitel 1: Inledning . Detta kapitel ger en bakgrund till vägledningen och redovisar vidare dess syfte och hur arbetet med att ta fram vägledningen har gått till. Kapitel 2: Varför behövs scenariometoder? Här förklaras hur scenariometoder ger viktig information för samhällsekonomiska konsekvensanalyser. Kapitlet går också igenom hur scenariometoder skiljer sig ifrån andra metoder för att värdera ickemarknadsvaror. Vidare introduceras de scenariometoder som vägledningen framför allt handlar om: the contingent valuation method (CV-metoden eller scenariovärderingsmetoden som den ibland kallas på svenska) och choice experiments (CEmetoden). Kapitel 3: Urval av respondenter och typ av undersökning. I detta kapitel ges råd beträffande lämpligt urval av respondenter för en scenariostudie. En central fråga att ställa sig är vems värdering av en förändring som undersökningen syftar till att skatta. Vidare diskuteras hur data om respondenternas värdering bör samlas in – genom personliga intervjuer, telefonintervjuer, postenkät, webbenkät eller någon kombination? Kapitel 4: Definition av hypotetisk förändring . En viktig del av uppläggningen av en scenariostudie är att definiera den hypotetiska förändring av tillgången på ickemarknadsvaran som ska värderas. Kapitlet går igenom vad som är viktigt att tänka på i detta definitionsarbete. Kapitel 5: Beskrivning av värderingsscenario. Alla scenariostudier går ut på att beskriva och kommunicera ett scenario beträffande tillgången på den ickemarknadsvara som ska värderas. Kapitlet går bland annat igenom de komponenter som ett värderingsscenario består av. Kapitel 6: Val av betalningsviljefråga . Den fråga i en scenariostudie som ska ge information om respondenternas värdering kan utformas på olika sätt. Kapitlet går igenom de tillgängliga huvudvarianterna för CV-studier och även hur det så kallade kostnadsattributet kan se ut i CE-studier. Kapitel 7: Metoder för att hantera hypotetisk bias. En vanlig kritik mot scenariometoder är att resultaten kan bli snedvridna till följd av metodernas hypotetiska karaktär, dvs. att metoderna inte baserar sig på individers faktiska marknadsbeteende. Kapitlet presenterar två huvudtekniker som har utvecklats för att minska risken för sådan s.k. ”hypotetisk bias”. NATURVÅRDSVERKET RAPPORT 6469 Ekonomisk värdering med scenariometoder 8 Kapitel 8: Testning av undersökningsinstrumentet. Värderingsscenariet och de frågor som respondenterna ska besvara måste alltid vara föremål för omsorgsfull testning. Kapitlet presenterar två tekniker som lämpligen ingår i sådan testning, dels att använda sig av fokusgrupper och dels av pilotstudier. Kapitel 9: Svarsfrekvens och bortfallsanalys . I detta kapitel ges rekommendationer kring hur bortfall bör hanteras i en scenariostudie. Kapitel 10: Grundläggande analys av data . Vanligen syftar en scenariostudie till att beräkna medelbetalningsvilja och total betalningsvilja för den population som har studerats. Kapitlet redovisar hur sådana beräkningar vanligen går till. Kapitel 11: Resursåtgång för en scenariostudie. Inte minst som stöd för upphandling exemplifieras i detta kapitel typiska arbetsmoment för en scenariostudie och tidsåtgången för dessa moment. Vägledningen innehåller dessutom material från två tidigare genomförda scenariostudier i appendix A och B. Scenariostudien vars undersökningsinstrument finns i appendix A gällde betalningsviljan för att inrätta Högarps by i Småland som ett kulturreservat. I appendix B finns ett undersökningsinstrument som användes för att skatta betalningsviljan för miljöförbättringar i ett svenskt kustområde. I flera av kapitlen används materialet i appendix A och B för konkretiseringar och exemplifieringar.Economic valuation of ecosystem services, health, cultural environmental services or other goods that do not have a market price is useful and necessary in several societal contexts. Economic valuation of these types of non-market goods makes decision support tools, such as cost-benefit analyses, more complete. Economic valuation also plays an important role in the creation of international, national, regional and local accounting systems to provide improved information on sustainable development, than do current systems. Economic valuation can also support the choice of efficient levels for policy instruments such as environmental subsidies or environmental taxes. There are several valuation methods that can be used in this kind of economic valuation. This report aims to provide guidance on the group of valuation methods called stated preference methods. The need for such guidance is explained by the attractive features of stated preference methods, such as flexibility, and capacity to estimate total economic values. However, stated preference methods usually also include several complex judgments and choices, as well as determining whether other valuation methods would be more appropriate. Earlier studies have shown that although Swedish authorities require this kind of economic valuation, they rarely possess the expertise or supporting materials needed to conduct these studies, develop the material needed, or use estimated values for valuing non-market goods. This makes it difficult for Swedish authorities to perform the work required, such as carrying out cost-benefit analysis. Consequently, this report has two aims: i) Providing support to authorities and individuals who lack familiarity with economic valuation when procuring a stated preference study, and ii) providing authorities with support in conducting their own stated preference studies. The goal of this report is to provide Swedish authorities with a single clear guide to support them in their procurement and conduct of stated preference studies in fields relevant for each authority. A uniform method for conducting studies is desirable as it facilitates comparisons between studies. Stated preference studies can be used in cost-benefit analyses, for example, to assess the benefits of proposed management plans or action programmes. This guide provides a general picture of the role of stated preference methods as a decision support tool, and describes the crucial components of a stated preference study. The guide consists of a general introduction that does not require any prior knowledge of stated preference methods. This introduction is meant as a support in the procurement of stated preference studies. The general introduction can aid in acquiring an understanding of this area sufficient to follow and assess the conduct of a stated preference study. Most sections include questions that can be used for examining and assessing the process of conducting the study. To help in the development of a study, the report also provides recommendations, marked in bold text. NATURVÅRDSVERKET RAPPORT 6469 Ekonomisk värdering med scenariometoder 10 Finally, there are five sections of in-depth information on important elements of stated preference studies. These are intended for individuals with some prior knowledge of stated preference methods. The guide consists of the following eleven sections: Section 1: Introduction . This section provides the background of, this guide, and presents the aims and the process of developing it. Section 2: Why are stated preference methods needed? Stated preference methods are needed because cost-benefit analyses require economic information on nonmarket goods. This section also provides a presentation of other methods for economic valuation of non-market goods, and the differences between these methods and stated preference methods. In addition, this guide presents the main two stated preference methods described presented: the contingent valuation method and choice experiments . Section 3: Selection of respondents and choice of survey method. The section provides advice on how to select a sample of respondents for a stated preference study. A central issue is identifying the group whose evaluation of a given change the study intends to measure. Methods for collecting data are presented, such as personal interviews, telephone interviews, and mailed and Internet surveys. A combination of methods might be necessary or appropriate. Section 4: Definition of hypothetical change . An important part of a stated preference study is to define the hypothetical change in the provision of the non-market good to be valued in the study. The section provides advice for defining these kinds of changes. Section 5: Description of valuation scenario. All valuation scenarios are intended to describe and communicate a scenario concerning the changed provision of a non-market good to be valued in the study. The section describes the components of a valuation scenario. Section 6: Choice of a willingness to pay question . The question in a stated preference study that will provide information on how a respondent values a good can be designed in several ways. The section presents the main alternatives for stated preference studies. It also describes how the cost attribute of a choice experiment can be designed. Section 7: Methods for handling hypothetical bias. A common criticism of stated preference methods is that their result can be biased due to the hypothetical character of the methods, as compared with an individual’s actual market behaviour. The section presents two main methods for handling hypothetical bias. Section 8: Testing of the survey instrument. The valuation scenario and the questions in the survey instrument always need to be tested carefully. The section presents two techniques that can be used for testing; focus groups and pilot studies. Section 9: Response rate and analysis of non-responses . The section provides recommendations for handling non-responses in a stated preference study. Section 10: Basic data analysis . A stated preference study is usually intended to assess average willingness to pay and total willingness to pay in the population studied. This section provides information as to how this is done. Section 11: Use of resources for carrying out a stated preference study. This section provides support for procuring a stated preference study and gives examples of the time schedule and typical elements in the process of developing a stated preference study. In Appendixes A and B, the guide provides material from two previously conducted stated preference studies. The survey instrument of the stated preference study in Appendix A concerned the willingness to pay for making the village of Högarp in the province of Småland into an historical and cultural heritage site. The survey instrument in Appendix B was used for measuring the willingness to pay for environmental improvements in a Swedish archipelago area. Several sections refer to the material in Appendixes A and B to give practical examples
Torsk på fisk - att ersätta en resurs
No full textI den här uppsatsen testas om importen av nya vita fisksorter som tog fart vid millennieskiftet har påverkat efterfrågan på den svenska torsken. Med hjälp av two-stages least squares skattas efterfrågan för torsk samt en omvänd korspriselasticitet för torsk och de två vita fisksorterna Hoki och Alaska Pollock. Resultaten tyder på att efterfrågan på torsk har ökat och att konsumenterna inte uppfattar Alaska Pollock och Hoki som substitut till torsk
Professional and amateur hockey players' nutritional knowledge, eating habits and dietary composition
No full textMaģistra darba temats „Profesionālu hokejistu un amatieru zināšanas par uzturu, ēšanas paradumi un uztura sastāvs”. Autore Gerda Brangule, darba vadītāja Dr. biol., prof. Inta Māra Rubana. Maģistra darbs sastāv no 77 lappusēm, 12 attēliem, 9 tabulām, 74 literatūras avotiem. Darbs rakstīts latviešu valodā.
Sporta uzturs pastāvīgi tiek pētīts un attīstās. Sporta uzturs ir vislielākais papildu faktors jebkuram fiziski aktīvam indivīdam vai elites sportistam. Piemērots uzturs palīdz treniņu un atjaunošanās procesā, uzlabo vielmaiņas pielāgošanos slodzei un sportiskos sasniegumus. Darba praktiskās daļas mērķis ir salīdzinoši novērtēt HK „Dinamo Rīga” un amatieru hokejistu zināšanas par uzturu, ēšanas paradumus un uztura sastāvu. Pētījumā tika izmantota aptaujas anketa par uztura zināšanām un trīs dienu uztura reģistrēšana.Master’s thesis topic is “Professional and amateur hockey players' nutritional knowledge, eating habits and dietary composition”. The author is Gerda Brangule, supervisor Dr. Biol., prof. Inta Mara Rubana. Master's thesis consists of 77 pages, 12 figures, 9 tables, 74 literature sources. Work is written in Latvian.
Sports nutrition is constantly being studied and developed. Sports nutrition is the biggest additional factor to any physically active individual or an elite athlete. Proper nutrition helps to train and recover, improves metabolic adaptation to load and athletic performance.
Practical work aims at comparative evaluation of HK "Dinamo" and amateur hockey players’ nutritional knowledge, eating habits and dietary composition.
The study used a questionnaire on dietary knowledge and a three-day dietary recording
Les Delassements D\u27Eros : sexuality and gender identity in Gerda Wegener\u27s erotic aquarelles
No full textThis thesis examines the representations of sexuality and gender identity in Gerda Wegener\u27s erotic illustrations in Les Delassements D\u27Eros: Douze Sonnets Lascifs ( The Amusements of Eros: Twelve Lustful Sonnets ). In 1925, Gerda Wegener, a Danish artist, collaborated with Louis Perceau, a French poet and connoisseur of erotica, to illustrate a book of erotic poetry known as Les Delassements D\u27Eros. Her illustrations consist of twelve watercolors, called aquarelles, with female-female sex as well as other sexual mythological and carnival imagery. For many years, both the author and the artist were unknown because the book was published anonymously due to its erotic content. The popular female model in her artworks was her husband, Einar, who in 1930 underwent the first successful sex reassignment surgery to identify as a woman. Through the inclusion of Einar as her female model in her illustrations as well as female-female sex, Gerda pushes and blurs the boundaries of gender and sexuality during the early twentieth century in Paris. Her works explore the fashioning of identity and the collapse of cultural barriers, and express a passion for women and beauty, all of which are still relevant today
Gerda Buddenbrook : eine verführte Verführerin : eine Studie dieser Frauenfigur unter der Perpektive der typisierten Formen der Femme Fragile and Femme Fatale
No full textThe author attempts to show how, in Buddenbrooks, Gerda Buddenbrook reveals mythological and symbolist features which are only to be apparent to a significant degree in Thomas Mann's later work. The article also explains how this figure — based on the autor's mother Katia — is part of the long tradition of «femmes fatales»
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