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Interview with Michael Novak, philosopher, educator and author
No full textMichael Novak, at the time of this interview, was an associate professor of philosophy and religious studies at the State University of New York-Westbury and author of The Rise of the Unmeltable Ethnic. Novak believes that the tragedy of the American education system is that it separates people from their roots and creates a schism between the educated and the uneducated. In this interview with WTMJ-TV host Jim Peck, Novak describes what he sees as two major trends on the current American scene: the increasing growth of metropolitan government coupled with a general move toward family and community self-sufficiency.GrayscaleSoun
Personal and Biobibliography of the Slovenian Author Lojze Novak
No full textABSTRACTPurpose: The article explores the life and work of the Slovenian author Lojze Novak in order to get more recognition of the author in Slovenia. The article initially deals with the publishing activities of Argentina\u27s diaspora. Methodology/approach: In order to create the bibliography the following bibliographic methods were used: searching and collecting the Novak´s works, bibliographic description as well as the arrangement of his opus. Novak´s works were obtained from Argentina, specifically from the Tine Debeljak legacy, Novak’s descendants, his contemporaries, friends and acquaintances, and from the National and University Library (NUK). Bibliographic descriptions are based on the primary documents therefore the data are accurate and verified. Bibliographic descriptions follow the Guidelines for the application of the ISBDs to the description of component parts (1998). Novak\u27s personal bibliography includes 60 units arranged into published (52) and unpublished (8) works. Published works which consist of works of fiction (46) and nonfiction (6) are arranged chronologically by the publication year whereas within each year they are organised alphabetically. Novak´s biobibliography which includes 6 works and is arranged chronologically has also been produced through this process. Results: Since the author Lojze Novak has not won recognition in Slovenia yet, he has been introduced to our country by the personal bibliography and biobibliography that resulted from this research. Originality/practical implications: By doing the research into Novak´s opus eight of his unpublished works in manuscript form were discovered and included in his primary personal bibliography. It is therefore a comprehensive bibliography in the field.IZVLEČEKNamen: Prispevek želi predstaviti življenje in delo slovenskega pisatelja Lojzeta Novaka ter pripomoči k njegovi boljši prepoznavnosti. Rojen je bil v Prekmurju in je kasneje emigriral v Argentino, kjer je ustvarjal predvsem kratko prozo. Obravnavana je tudi publicistična dejavnost argentinske diaspore. Metodologija: Za izdelavo bibliografije so bile uporabljene naslednje bibliografske metode: iskanje in zbiranje Novakovih del, bibliografski opis ter ureditev. Novakova dela so bila pridobljena iz Argentine, natančneje iz zapuščine Tineta Debeljaka, ter od Novakovih potomcev in še živečih vrstnikov, prijateljev in znancev, nekaj pa tudi iz Narodne in univerzitetne knjižnice. Bibliografski opisi temeljijo na primarnih dokumentih, zato so podatki natančni in preverjeni. Bibliografski opisi del so izdelani na osnovi Smernic za uporabo ISBD-jev pri opisu sestavnih delov (1998). Rezultati: Novakova osebna bibliografija, ki skupaj obsega 60 enot, je urejena glede na objavljena (52) in neobjavljena dela (8). Objavljena dela so razdeljena na leposlovna (46) in neleposlovna (6) dela, znotraj tega je ureditev kronološka po letnicah, v okviru posamezne letnice pa po abecedi naslovov del. Izdelana je tudi Novakova objektivna bibliografija, ki obsega šest del, in je urejena kronološko.Izvirnost/uporabnost raziskave: Novakova osebna, primarna bibliografija je sedaj nadgrajena z osmimi neobjavljenimi deli v obliki rokopisov. Bibliografija je izčrpna
Robert Novak
No full textRobert Novak (February 26, 1931 – August 18, 2009) was an American syndicated columnist, journalist, television personality, author, and conservative political commentator. After working for two newspapers before serving for the U.S. Army in the Korean War, he became a reporter for the Associated Press and then for The Wall Street Journal. He teamed up with Rowland Evans in 1963 to start Inside Report, which became the longest running syndicated political column in U.S. history and ran in hundreds of papers. They also started the Evans-Novak Political Report, a notable biweekly newsletter, in 1967. Novak and Evans played a significant role for CNN after the network\u27s founding. He worked as a well-known television personality in programs such as Capital Gang, Crossfire, and Evans, Novak, Hunt, & Shields. He also wrote for numerous other publications such as Reader\u27s Digest.https://nsuworks.nova.edu/nsudigital_forums/1075/thumbnail.jp
Film screening and discussion: Citizen Vaclav Havel Goes on Vacation
No full textThis is the archive of a film screening and discussion given by Jan Novak, author and filmmaker
Wavelet Analysis of Central European Stock Market Behaviour During the Crisis
No full textIn the paper we test for the different reactions of stock markets to the current financial crisis. We focus on Central European stock markets, namely the Czech, Polish and Hungarian ones, and compare them to the German and U.S. benchmark stock markets. Using wavelet analysis, we decompose a time series into frequency components called scales and measure their energy contribution. The energy of a scale is proportional to its wavelet variance. The decompositions of the tested stock markets show changes in the energies on the scales during the current financial crisis. The results indicate that each of the tested stock markets reacted differently to the current financial crisis. More important, Central European stock markets seem to have strongly different behaviour during the crisis.ewavelet analysis, multiresolution analysis, Central European stock markets, financial crisis
A Translation of Selected Short Stories by Helga M. Novak
No full textThis project is a translation of twenty short stories by Helga Novak, a contemporary author born in eastern Berlin. The stories were all written between 1965 and 1980. They are divided into four sections: Fish Factory, Carpet Weaving, Traveling, and Sojourn in a Crazy House. The first three sections consist of very short stories, approximately one page long, taken from Novak\u27s collection called Geselliges Beisammensein (Social Gathering). The last section is made up of three longer stories, each about 10 pages long, taken from Aufenthalt in einem irren Haus (Sojourn in a Crazy House), which represent some of Novak\u27s later work. I have also included a translator\u27s introduction, relating some of my experiences in translating a longer work and my position in the discourse of translation theory
An Interview with Joseph D. Novak
No full textJoseph Novak’s career in teaching has spanned over four
decades; he is now professor emeritus of Education and Biology
at Cornell University, visiting senior scientist at the
University of West Florida Institute for Human and Machine
Cognition, and president of Joseph D. Novak Knowledge
Consultants, Inc. He is the author of 26 books, including
Learning How To Learn (1), translated into 9 languages; 29
book chapters; and over 100 articles published in professional
journals. He has consulted for several corporations, federal
agencies, and for more than 400 schools and colleges in the
U.S.A. and abroad. In July 1995 Professor Novak resigned
from active teaching at Cornell and subsequently has been
working with corporations using concept mapping for research
and development efforts to create and transfer knowledge
and information in corporate environments; he also
teaches clients how use concept mapping to capture and
archive expert knowledge. Perhaps this interview will capture
some of his expert knowledge for Journal readers
The Hidden Influence of Suarez on Kant's Transcendental Conception of 'Being', 'Essence' and 'Existence'
No full textCritical philosophy has been presented by Kant as an overcome of the 18th century Schulmetaphysik’s schemes; yet, it is also true that the metaphysics of the «School» has provided Kant with the essential framework of transcendental philosophy. In these perspectives the Kantian change can be seen as a profound rethinking of the meaning and function of some basic notion in modern ontology, starting from the Jesuit Scholasticism and expecially from the DM by Suárez: «ens» and «essentia», «possibilis» and «realis», «objectum» and «causa», «efficiens» and «transcendens». Such notions are reinterpreted by Kant in order to become new structures of critical metaphysics, but at the same time they maintain the essential core of the original meaning: in fact they explicitly realize their meaning within the Kantian system
Tail Behavior of the Central European Stock Markets during the Financial Crisis
No full textIn the paper we research statistical properties of the Central European stock markets. We focus mainly on the tail behavior of the Czech, Polish, and Hungarian stock markets and compare them to the benchmark U.S. and German stock markets. We fit the data of the 4-year period from March 2005 to March 2009 with the stable probability distribution model and discuss its tail behavior. As the estimation of the tail exponent is very sensitive to the size of the data set, the estimates can be misleading for short daily samples. Thus, we employ high-frequency 1-minute data, which proves to be a good choice as it reveals interesting findings about the distributional properties. Furthermore, we study the difference in stock market behavior before and during the financial crisis.financial crisis, tail behavior, stock markets, stable probability distribution
THE NOVAK COLLECTION. Mappae Croaticae in the National and University Library Collection of Maps and Atlases
No full textTHE NOVAK COLLECTION. Mappae Croaticae in the National and University Library Collection of Maps and Atlases (ZBIRKA NOVAK. Mappae Croaticae u Zbirci zemljovida i atlasa NSK) by Dubravka Mlinarić and Mira Miletić Drder was published in Croatian at the end of 2017 and launched officially on 28 February 2018 at the National and University Library (NUL). The publisher was the Library, with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Science and Education of the Republic of Croatia. The book is 319 pages long and is an original scholarly work which presents for the first time one of the most important cartographic collections in Croatia. The authors are top experts and scientists in the history of cartography and nobody knows the Novak Collection better than they do (apart from its owner and author, the late Dr. Drago Novak). Many years of work, some with him during his lifetime, lie behind this edition
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