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Hautverdächtig
No full textBook Title: Postcolonial Studies; Racial Profiling
Chapter Title: Hautverdächtig
Author(s): Mohamed Wa Baile, Ellen Höhne
Publisher: transcript Verlag
DOI: 10.14361/9783839441459-004
ISBN(s): 978-3-8376-4145-5, 978-3-8394-4145-9
ISSN(s): 2703-1233, 2703-124
The author is dead, long live the author
No full textThe death of the author has been greatly exaggerated. Readers still seek what Virginia Woolf called the shadowy figure of the author in the pages of their books
Book Review: Mabepari wa Bongo
No full textBook Title: Mabepari wa BongoBook Author: Frown. P. NyoniDar es Salaam University Press, 2007. ISBN 9976604718, 9789976604719.
This is My Country: the Kenyan author, Ngugi wa Thiong’o
No full textThis review article explores the life and writing of Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong'
Trial protocol and preliminary results for a cluster randomised trial of behavioural support versus brief advice for smoking cessation in adolescents
No full textBackground: Many young people report they want to stop smoking and have tried to do so, but most of their
quit attempts fail. For adult smokers, there is strong evidence that group behavioural support enhances quit rates.
However, it is uncertain whether group behavioural support enhances abstinence in young smokers trying to quit.
Findings: A cluster randomised trial for young people trying to stop smoking to compare the efficacy of a schoolbased
9 week intensive group behavioural support course versus a school-based 7 week brief advice only course.
Participants were assessed for evidence of tobacco addiction and nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) was used if it
was deemed appropriate by the therapist. Both types of course aimed to recruit approximately one hundred
participants from approximately ten schools.
The primary outcome was successful quitting at 4 weeks after quit day judged according to the Russell standard.
Had the trial been completed, abstinence at 6 months after quit day and the relationships between successful quit
attempts and 1) psychological assessments of dependence prior to quitting 2) salivary cotinine concentration prior
to quitting and 3) sociodemographic characteristics would also have been assessed. The proportion of participants
who stopped smoking in each arm of the trial were compared using Chi square tests.
The trial was stopped shortly after it had started because funding to support the therapists running the stop
smoking group behavioural support programme was withdrawn. Only three stop smoking courses were completed
(two group support courses and one brief advice pharmacotherapy course). Seventeen participants in total entered
the trial. At the end of the courses, one participant (10%) attending the group support programme had stopped
smoking and no participant attending the brief advice programme had stopped smoking.
Discussion: The trial was stopped so we were unable to determine whether group support helped more young
people to stop smoking than brief advice. Engagement and recruitment of participants proved much more difficult
than had been anticipated. Fifteen of the seventeen participants reported that quitting smoking was either pretty
important or very important to them. Thus, the stop smoking success rate could, nevertheless, be considered
disappointing.
Trial registration: Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN2518193
'Translated from the Gikuyu by the author' : Ngugi wa Thiong'o's self-translation of Wizard of the Crow
No full textNgugi wa Thiong’o wrote Murogi wa Kagogo in Gikuyu in 2004, and published the English version, Wizard of the Crow, in 2006, announcing on the title page that the novel is ‘A translation from Gikuyu by the author’. The complex interplay of languages in Ngugi’s self-translation is central to understanding the novel for two main reasons. Firstly, Ngugi’s dictator novel depicts the political, economic and social intricacies that have characterised the postcolonial African state and, as stories and realities collapse into one another, the reader realises that the eponymous Wizard of the Crow is the embodiment of the writer in postcolonial society. Consequently, the play of languages in the text raises questions about the role of the writer in the face of dictatorship. Secondly, the reader is invited to question the status of the translated text in light of Ngugi’s advocacy of writing in indigenous languages. The author of a literary work must first make a choice of language and then consider how the language will be used. When that work is, in turn, translated, this raises another set of questions about the status of the text, as well as the status of the translation. My interest here then, is not in the similarities or dissimilarities between Murogi wa Kagogo and the English version, but instead Ngugi’s preoccupation with the question of language in Wizard of the Crow and the text’s critical status as self-translation
WA Newspaper's contempt finding
No full textIn July 2004, Western Australia's largest circulating daily newspaper, The West Australian, identified a nine-year-old ward of the State, thereby breaching a statutory provision. It described him as a "suburban terrorist" and a "menace to society". A year later the Supreme Court of Western Australia reminded the media that such coverage can also be a menace to society and imposed $20,000 in fines for contempt of court. In this article the author surveys contempt law from a media perspective and considers the case in question
Mo Yans "Wa"
No full textIn dieser Arbeit werden die Themen Geburtenkontrolle und bäuerlicher Widerstand behandelt und es wird eine Verbindung der beiden Bereiche hergestellt. Historische und soziopolitische Aspekte werden beleuchtet und die Frage, ob die Durchsetzung der Geburtenkontrolle auf dem Land möglich ist oder nicht, wird beantwortet. Gerüst der Schrift ist Mo Yans „Wa“. Deshalb spielen der Autor und sein Werk eine große Rolle und auch die Beantwortung der Forschungsfrage stützt sich in der Argumentation hauptsächlich auf diesen Roman, der von der Geburtenplanung in China handelt.This thesis is an attempt to establish a connex between birth control and peasant resistance. In the process of finding an answer to the question of whether or not birth control is possible in rural China historical and socio political aspects are considered. Mo Yan`s "Wa" is framework to the thesis. Therfore, the author and his novel play an important role and are crucial to finding an answer to the above mentioned question
Rason, WA, 1998 (P683), elevation line data
No full textMaintenance and Update Frequency: notPlannedStatement: This Rason, WA, 1998 (P683), elevation line data is an airborne-derived elevation data for the Rason, WA, 1998. The survey was acquired under the project No. 683 for the geological survey of WA. A total of 32300 line-kilometres of data at a line spacing of 400m and 60m terrain clearance were acquired during this survey. The elevation data was calculated using the altimeters and Global Positioning System (GPS) sensor used for the benefit airborne of magnetic and radiometric data on the same survey. The elevation is the height relative to the Australian Height Datum GDA94 (AUSGEOID09). Details of the specifications of individual airborne surveys can be found in the Fourteenth Edition of the Index of Airborne Geophysical Surveys (Percival, 2014). This Index is also available online at http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/79134.
Reference:
Percival, P.J., 2014. Index of airborne geophysical surveys (Fourteenth Edition).The Digital Elevation Model represents ground surface topography between points of known elevation. The elevation data was calculated using the altimeters and Global Positioning System (GPS) sensor used for the benefit of airborne magnetic and radiometric data on the same survey. The elevation is the height relative to the Australian Height Datum GDA94 (AUSGEOID09). The processed elevation data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose.<br/> These line dataset from the Rason, WA, 1998 survey were acquired in 1998 by the WA Government, and consisted of 32300 line-kilometres of data at 400m line spacing and 60m terrain clearance
Ashburton, WA, 2006 (P1134), elevation line data
No full textMaintenance and Update Frequency: notPlannedStatement: This Ashburton, WA, 2006 (P1134), elevation line data is an airborne-derived elevation data for the Ashburton, WA, 2006. The survey was acquired under the project No. 1134 for the geological survey of WA. A total of 106235 line-kilometres of data at a line spacing of 400m and 60m terrain clearance were acquired during this survey. The elevation data was calculated using the altimeters and Global Positioning System (GPS) sensor used for the benefit airborne of magnetic and radiometric data on the same survey. The elevation is the height relative to the Australian Height Datum GDA94 (AUSGEOID09). Details of the specifications of individual airborne surveys can be found in the Fourteenth Edition of the Index of Airborne Geophysical Surveys (Percival, 2014). This Index is also available online at http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/79134.
Reference:
Percival, P.J., 2014. Index of airborne geophysical surveys (Fourteenth Edition).The Digital Elevation Model represents ground surface topography between points of known elevation. The elevation data was calculated using the altimeters and Global Positioning System (GPS) sensor used for the benefit of airborne magnetic and radiometric data on the same survey. The elevation is the height relative to the Australian Height Datum GDA94 (AUSGEOID09). The processed elevation data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose.<br/> These line dataset from the Ashburton, WA, 2006 survey were acquired in 2006 by the WA Government, and consisted of 106235 line-kilometres of data at 400m line spacing and 60m terrain clearance
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