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Writings of an inconvenient author. The prose of Kay Hoff
No full textDer 1924 in Neustadt in Holstein geborene, heute in Berlin lebende, Kay Hoff hat in seiner mehr als 50 Jahre andauernden Schriftstellerkarriere seinen Ruf als unbequemer, das heißt gesellschaftliche und politische Missstände unmissverständlich tadelnder, Autor häufig in Werk und Wirken unter Beweis gestellt. Leben und Schaffen des promovierten Germanisten zeigen sich geprägt durch das, was er selbst bezeichnet als seinen „wichtigsten Lebenseinschnitt [...]: das Kriegsende 1945.“ So gehören Vergangenheitsbewältigung und Schuld, aus immer neuen Perspektiven betrachtet, zu seinen zentralen Fragen; dazu treten nach und nach weitere Themen: die Kritik am Kleinbürgertum, die Skepsis gegenüber der Sprache, die Konfrontation zwischen konservativ-bürgerlicher und progressiv-kritischer Literatur, die Krise des Individuums und immer wieder die Probleme zwischenmenschlicher Beziehungen. In späteren Werken wird der Themenkreis noch erweitert um Erörterungen über Wahrheit und Wirklichkeit, Verlust und Vergänglichkeit sowie um den Generationskonflikt. Das Werk Kay Hoffs ist äußerst vielfältig und, den Schaffensjahren entsprechend, umfangreich. Neben sieben Romanen veröffentlichte er Dutzende von Erzählungen und zwölf Gedichtbände (der letzte erschien 2006), darüber hinaus verfasste er vierzig Hörspiele und Funk-Features sowie mehrere Fernsehspiele. Als unbequem gilt Hoff auch, weil er durch den Einatz einer Vielzahl von Stilmitteln sowie durch besondere sprachliche und strukturelle Konstruktionen ein leichtes Konsumieren seiner Texte verhindert. So fällt in den frühen Romanen die Tendenz zum nicht-linearen Erzählen auf, häufig vorgetragen in einem ironischen, satirischen Ton. Die Expositionen werden ausgespart oder verkürzt und verschiedene Stilmittel, wie Multiperspektivismus, Montage, Ellipse und Anakoluth, kommen zum Einsatz. Der Gebrauch dieser Stilmittel steigert sich bis zum dritten Roman Drei. Anatomie einer Liebesgeschichte, dem eine ausgeprägt experimentelle Form zugrunde liegt. Danach, in Wir reisen nach Jerusalem, dem letzten Roman des nach Jürgen Petersen sogenannten Frühwerks, ist ein deutlicher Rückgang an stilistischen Erprobungen zu verzeichnen, bis Hoff mit Janus, dem Beginn des Spätwerks, endgültig zum narrativen Erzählen zurückfindet. Übereinstimmend gilt sowohl für die frühen als auch für die späten Romane, die stets aus ihrer jeweiligen Entstehungszeit heraus formuliert sind, dass auf eine spannungsgeladene, aktionsreiche Handlung verzichtet wird und statt dessen die Wiedergabe von Gesprächen und Reflexionen den Vorrang erhalten. Das Ende der Romane bleibt meist offen, wobei Lösungsmöglichkeiten allenfalls angedeutet werden oder die zirkuläre Konstruktion auf die Ausgangskonstellation zurückverweist. Die Erzählungen sind den Romanen thematisch vielerorts verwandt, und auch stilistisch zeigen sich ähnliche Entwicklungen. Während Hoff in den frühen Erzählungen der Nachkriegsjahre in knapper, nüchterner Sprache den Überlebenskampf „kleiner“ Leute schildert, entstehen in den 60er Jahren experimentelle Arbeiten, in denen sich die ehedem von außen an die Figuren herangetragenen Probleme zu inneren Krisen gewandelt haben. In der Kurzprosa der jüngeren Zeit kehrt Hoff dann wieder zu stärker narrativen Erzählformen zurück. Die Dissertationsschrift stellt die erste Monografie über Arbeiten von Kay Hoff dar. Trotz der mehr als fünfzigjährigen Schreibtätigkeit, während der er in bekannten Verlagen und Literaturzeitschriften sowie im Hörfunk veröffentlichen konnte und für seine Arbeiten mit einer Reihe von Auszeichnungen geehrt wurde, blieben Hoff und seinem Werk bisher eine angemessene Beachtung in der wissenschaftlichen Forschung wie auch in der lesenden Öffentlichkeit versagt. Die Ziele der Dissertationsschrift sind daher, eine Einführung in Hoffs Prosawerk zu leisten, einen literaturwissenschaftlichen Diskurs anzuregen sowie eine breitere Leserschaft auf seine Arbeiten aufmerksam zu machen.Kay Hoff was born in 1924 in Neustadt in Holstein. In more than 50 years of writing he proved his reputation as an inconvenient author who criticizes social and political deficiencies. Life and work of this graduated Germanic Philologist is impressed on World War II, as he says, his “most important period of life”. So guilt and the process of coming to terms with the past are the central issues; this comes along with other topics: criticism on petty bourgeoisie, considerations about language, literature, the crisis of the individual and human relations. At a later period topics like truth, realness, loss, perishableness and the generation gap were added. The opus of Kay Hoff is, according to his years of working, very multifarious and comprehensive. It contains seven novels, dozens of novellas, twelve poem anthologies, forty radio plays and several TV-plays. Hoff is also considered an inconvenient writer because he avoids an effortless reading of his works through multiplicity of linguistical and structural constructions. Especially in his early novels he applies a lot of different stylistic devices. In particular his third novel Drei. Anatomie einer Liebesgeschichte has a distinctive experimentel form. After this, in Wir reisen nach Jerusalem, according to Jürgen Petersen the last novel of the early works, there is a noticeable decline of stylistic trials. With Janus, the beginning of his late work, Hoff finally finds back to narrative telling. It is effective for all his novels, that Hoffs resigns of a thrilling story line. Instead of that he prefers dialogues and reflexion. The novels are open-ended and offer no denouements. The novels are related to the novellas in many issues. In the early novellas of the post-war period Hoff describes the struggle for existence of ordinary people. In the sixties occur experimental works which show people in psychologic crisis. Even here Hoff turns back in his late work to more narrative tellings. The thesis is the first monograph about the works of Kay Hoff. Despite of his long career as an author Hoff is fairly unknown among readers and experts. Hence the aim of the thesis is an introduction in Hoffs prose work as well as to initiate a scientifical discussion and not least to get through to the reading public
Was uns das Fernsehen bietet – zwischen Beobachtung und Voyeurismus
No full textMassive Kritik am Fernsehen übt der Fernsehkritiker Hans Hoff aus Düsseldorf. Es würden Show und Unterhaltung statt Information geboten. Der Autor verdeutlicht seine Aussagen mit Beispielen der privaten Fernsehsender, der Kriegsberichterstattung aus dem Irak und anhand von Talkshows im öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk. Auch bei ARD und ZDF würden Boulevard-Magazine immer mehr Sendeplatz einnehmen. Für Hoff liegt das "Grundproblem" des Fernsehens darin, dass je echter Fernsehen wirke, desto unechter sei es. Das Fernsehen gaukele zunehmend eine Welt vor, die es so nur im Fernsehen und artverwandten Medien gebe und in der Realität mit Fiktion verwechselt werde. Die Grenzen würden verschwimmen, wenn die reale Welt der fiktionalen immer ähnlicher werde. Es gebe allerdings immer noch sehr gute Sendungen im deutschen Fernsehen, und es lohne, sich diese gezielt herauszusuchen. EnglishHans Hoff: What TV offers us – between watching and voyarism In this vividly and emotionally presented speech the author critisizes television for favoring shows and entertainment programs over information. To confirm his thesis he gives examples such as reports on the war in Iraq aired by German private TV stations and talk-shows aired by German public TV. Today even the two German public TV stations ARD and ZDF are favoring entertainment programms. The author regards it as the main problern of television programms in these days that the more realistic they appear the less real they are.Television leads viewers to believe in a world which is only real in itself and in which fiction is taken for reality. And if the real world is continually transformed into fiction, all boundaries are disappearing. At the end of his article, the author confirms, however, that in German TV a lot of excellent programs can still be found - but you have to look out for them.
Hooker's sea lions at Macquarie Island, 1965-1980
No full textProgress Code: completed<b>Purpose</b><br/>Summaries of sea lion sightingsLocations and activities of Hooker's sea lions on Macquarie Island compiled by an unknown author. The data were compiled from biology log books.<br/><br/>The data were transcribed by John van den Hoff from the original “Observations of Hooker’s sea lions on Macquarie Island from 1965-1980”, author unknown. A pdf scan of the original data is available in the download file. <br/><br/>Number of sea lions seen = the number of sea lions seen on the sighting occasion. e.g. 1 = 1, 1 of 2 means two seals were seen, etc. <br/>Body size = relative assessment of age where large = adult and small = juvenile<br/>Individual identification number = a value given to individually recognisable sea lions<br/>Disturbed = sea lion was aware of observe
Musterstandardarbeitsanweisung Präanalytik/Exemplary standard operation procedure pre-examination/Arbeitsgruppe Richtwerte der Deutschen Vereinten Gesellschaft für Klinische Chemie und Laboratoriumsmedizin
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DIN EN ISO 15189 und die Richtlinien der Bundesärztekammer zur Qualitätssicherung laboratoriumsmedizinischer Untersuchungen fordern die Regelung präanalytischer Variablen, um Ergebnisse so vergleichbar wie möglich zu machen. Die Arbeitsgruppe Richtwerte der Deutschen Vereinten Gesellschaft für Klinische Chemie und Laboratoriumsmedizin hat eine Musterstandardarbeitsanweisung entworfen, die an die lokalen Gegebenheiten angepasst werden kann. Die Anwendung dieser Standardarbeitsanweisung trägt zur Validität der bei der Überwachung von Referenzintervallen gewonnenen Ergebnisse bei.</jats:p
Student and Master: The Correspondence of Bogumił Hoff and Oskar Kolberg
No full textThe article concerns the relationship between two eminent researchers of folk culture – the still largely unknown Bogumił Hoff and the “father of Polish ethnography” Oskar Kolberg. Their collaboration was analyzed based on their correspondence, which, although preserved and published, has so far not attracted much scientific attention. The author reveals the intricacies behind the relationship between the student (who later “discovered” the resort town of Wisła) and the teacher – author of the voluminous work entitled Lud, a study of Polish folk traditions. Their joint fieldwork in the Grand Duchy of Poznań, conducted in the 1860s, was planned to result in a separate volume written by Kolberg and illustrated by Hoff. Unfortunately, financial problems significantly delayed the release schedule and led to further misunderstandings. Kolberg took control over the drawings and refused to give them back to his debtor. And although Hoff continued in his efforts to support Kolberg’s plans, he never managed to reclaim his works. One thing he did get from his master was a research method, which he used in his work Lud cieszyński, jego właściwości i siedziby, an ethnographic study of the inhabitants of Wisła, a town in Cieszyn Silesia, located at the source of the Vistula – Poland’s longest and largest river.
Despite their strained relationship, Hoff remained faithful to his teacher, with whom he shared a fascination with ethnography and music, a publishing venture, denomination, and a circle of friends. Moreover, both were descendents of polonized German protestant families, who came from Mecklenburg in the first half of the 19th century, and they both had a great impact on the development of Polish ethnography – Kolberg on a national scale, and Hoff on a local one
Exploring the longitudinal effects of sleep and physical activity on academic achievement across middle childhood and adolescence
No full textObjective: Research has documented normative declines in school motivation and achievement across adolescence. There is some evidence to suggest that engaging in sufficient levels of sleep and physical activity across the transition to middle school might support subsequent achievement. Less is known about the role of pubertal development and sex in the relationship between health behaviors (e.g., sleep and physical activity) in middle childhood and changes in achievement across middle childhood and adolescence. Method: Participants in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development were followed from birth through age 15, starting in 1991. Sleep and physical activity were assessed when children were in 6th grade achievement was assessed in 5th grade and again at age 15. Structural equation modeling was used to test associations between sleep, physical activity and directly assessed achievement and child reported academic self-concept across middle childhood and adolescence. Results: Findings suggest that there are long-term effects of sleep, indexed by self-reported general sleep problems, on changes in picture vocabulary skills. Children who report more sleep problems in 6th grade experienced greater declines in picture vocabulary skills across middle childhood and adolescence. Hours of sleep, time spent in physical activity, and time spent in sedentary behavior were not significantly associated with achievement outcomes. Conclusion: Sleep problems in middle childhood appear to have adverse effects on verbal comprehension skills across middle childhood and adolescence. These findings provide some evidence that improving sleep quality in middle childhood may help minimize losses in verbal comprehension and crystallized intelligence across middle childhood and adolescence.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2020-05-01The student, Bethany Hoff, accepted the attached license on 2018-04-20 at 16:51.The student, Bethany Hoff, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2018-04-20 at 17:08.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2018-04-24 at 08:43.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #12411 on 2018-08-31 at 17:21:10Made available in DSpace on 2018-09-04T20:36:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Vocational interest development from adolescence to adulthood: a meta-analysis on mean-level change
No full textInterests are among the most widely applied individual difference constructs in education and psychology. Despite their widespread usage, it is not known whether vocational interests undergo mean-level changes with age. If interests do change, in what direction? And do changes vary across age, kinds of interests, and gender? In the current meta-analysis, we aggregate effect sizes from 53 longitudinal studies on mean-level change in vocational interests, containing 98 total samples and 20,927 participants. Meta-analytic regression models were used to assess patterns of change during different age periods spanning early adolescence to middle adulthood. Results showed that mean-level interest scores increase slightly with age (d = .04). This age effect primarily involved interest in People orientation (d = .09) rather than Things orientation (d = .00). Patterns of change also varied across age categories. Mean-level interest scores decreased during early adolescence (d = -.10) before increasing throughout late adolescence (d = .09). During young adulthood, mean-level interest scores continued to change, but the direction of change varied across kinds of interests. Gender differences associated with occupational stereotypes showed distinct patterns of change across age categories. Gender gaps in Realistic and Social interests widened during early adolescence, but tended to decrease throughout the remainder of adolescence and young adulthood. Overall, findings suggest that vocational interest intensity undergoes meaningful changes from adolescence to adulthood, with theoretical and practical implications concerning the development of vocational interests.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2018-08-01The student, Kevin Hoff, accepted the attached license on 2016-07-21 at 15:22.The student, Kevin Hoff, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2016-07-21 at 15:26.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2016-07-22 at 13:43.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #10060 on 2016-11-10 at 12:27:38Made available in DSpace on 2016-11-10T18:35:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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RESULTS OF ADULTS TREATED FOR METASTATIC MEDULLOBLASTOMA USING THE PEDIATRIC PROTOCOL HIT 2000. A PROSPECTIVE MULTICENTER OBSERVATIONAL STUDY
No full textAn improved indirect approach for determining reference limits from intra-laboratory data bases exemplified by concentrations of electrolytes
No full textBackground: The current dogma of establishing intra-laboratory reference limits (RLs) and their periodical reviewing cannot be fulfilled by most laboratories due to the expenses involved. Thus, most laboratories adopt RLs from external sources often neglecting the problems of transferability. Presently accepted validation concepts still require experimental expenses. Several attempts were undertaken to derive RLs from the large data pools stored in modern laboratory information systems. Former indirect procedures were not generally accepted, but were recently further developed and combined with direct exclusion criteria and applied to estimate RLs of the catalytic activity concentrations of enzymes. This approach was now applied to several electrolytes in serum and plasma most commonly applied in clinical chemistry. Methods: A smoothed kernel density function was estimated for the distribution of the mixed data of the sample group (combined data of non-diseased and diseased subjects). It was assumed that the "central" part of the distribution of all data represents the non-diseased ("healthy") population (non-pathological values) with high probability. The central part was defined by truncation points using an optimisation method, and was used to estimate a Gaussian distribution of the values of nondiseased subjects. This distribution was now considered as the distribution of the non-diseased subgroup. The percentiles of this parametrical distribution were calculated to obtain unimodal reference intervals. Results: The RLs obtained from different laboratories were similar to recently published values established by direct procedures. Stratification for gender was not necessary, but in some cases for age. With rising age, an increase of the upper RL and of the reference range was observed for potassium. Hospitalisation affected the RLs of sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium, but not of phosphate. In the case of sodium, the data of at least five regional laboratories could be combined to common RLs. The presented indirect procedure was further validated with a large dataset of potassium concentrations from the NHANES III study with five groups of different health status. Conclusions: The proposed strategy of combining exclusion criteria with an indirect method led to RLs from intra-laboratory data pools for electrolytes which were plausible in comparison to published data obtained by the generally accepted direct approach. The combined concept, however, still requires further investigations. Therefore, it is presently only recommended for checking and reviewing already existing RLs
PRIMITIVE NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS OF THE BRAINSTEM: CLINICAL FINDINGS OF A RARE DISEASE WITH A VERY UNFAVORABLE DIAGNOSIS
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