239 research outputs found
5-Minute Tales for Bedtime
No full textThis book represents a curiosity from the publishing world. The book is a shorter version of Bedtime Tales done by the same author and illustrator in 1989 for Cathay Books of Octopus Press. There it had 144 pages, whereas here it has 112. Fourteen of the fifteen fables presented there are again offered here, with the same plates. They are now on differently numbered pages. Only GA has been cut. As I wrote there, the colorful, soft illustrations are pleasing and fun. Sometimes the end of a fable is softened. For example, the tortoise is only bruised when the eagle drops him from the sky.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Linda Jenning
As Long as the Water Flows: Indian Irrigation Projects
No full textIn this red paper the author describes Indian irrigation projects based on internal studies by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/lhnac/1003/thumbnail.jp
"Places of Remembrance": Spaces for Historical and Political Literacy. A Lesson Report
No full textPurpose: The article shows the use of specific educational media in social studies in vocational schools to foster a differentiated historical and political literacy.
Design/methodology/approach: Accordingly, the article examines a sequence of lessons taught by the author in a vocational classroom, fostering reflexive historical-political awareness of Germany’s post-war coping with the fascist constitution 1933-1945 and specifically of contemporary legal proceedings concerning the persecution and subsequent murder of six million Jewish people during the Holocaust.
Findings: Teaching techniques comprise explorative learning through guided city walks, document analysis and expert visits, in-class-discussions, the and individual student-teacher-conversations and, particularly, contact with exhibits employed as educational media, originating from an art exhibition in public space covering various unsettling steps of exclusion against Jewish citizens before 1942.
These materials turn out to bridge the gap from ignorance to learning by the acquisition of knowledge, demonstrating the use of artistic visual representations as educational media in the social studies classroom, especially while addressing students with little prior knowledge and understanding.
Research limitations/implications: As a lesson report, the article draws on classroom observations.
Practical implications: The approach presented includes various implications for classroom application
Profiling substrate promiscuity of wild-type sugar kinases for multifluorinated monosaccharides
No full textFluorinated sugar-1-phosphates are of emerging importance as intermediates in the chemical and biocatalytic synthesis of modified oligosaccharides, as well as probes for chemical biology. Here we present a systematic study of the activity of a wide range of anomeric sugar kinases (galacto- and N-acetylhexosamine kinases) against a panel of fluorinated monosaccharides, leading to the first examples of polyfluorinated substrates accepted by this class of enzymes. We have discovered four new N-acetylhexosamine kinases with a different substrate scope, thus expanding the number of homologs available in this subclass of kinases. Lastly, we have solved the crystal structure of a galactokinase in complex with 2-deoxy-2-fluoro galactose, giving insight into changes in the active site that may account for the specificity of the enzyme towards certain substrate analogues
Schule und Gesellschaft während des Vormärz in der Freien und Hansestadt Lübeck
No full textDer Beitrag überprüft in Bezug auf die von geringer ökonomischer und gesellschaftlicher Dynamik gekennzeichnete Freie und Hansestadt Lübeck die These, das städtische Schulwesen des Vormärz sei geprägt durch mobilitätsfördernde Schulformen mit sozialheterogenen Schülergruppen statt durch Schultypen zur schichtenspezifischen Reproduktion. Aussagen zur Sozial- und Altersstruktur der Schülerschaft ermöglicht die statistische Auswertung der Daten aller städtischen Schüler des Jahres 1843. Grundlage dieser Aussagen ist neben der realhistorischen Erfassung des Schulsystems ein eigens entworfenes Modell des städtischen Sozialgefüges. Nahezu 90% der städtischen Schülerschaft lassen sich auf diese Weise sozial verorten. Der historische Befund zur Bildungsbeteiligung der unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen Gruppen ist nicht geeignet, die These für Lübeck zu stützen. (DIPF/Orig.)Reffering to the weak economic and social dynamism which characterized the Hanseatic town of Lübeck, the author examines the thesis that the municipal school systems of the early nineteenth century typically consisted of types of schools with socially heterogeneous student bodies which promoted social mobility instead of social class reproduction. The analysis of the social class structure and the age distribution of the student body is based on data on all municipal students of the year 1843. The author develops his own categorical system to describe the social structure of the urban population of that time. Nearly 90 % of the municipal student body can thus be characterized with regard to their social status. As far as Lübeck is concerned, the historical findings on school attendance of the different social groups do not support the above thesis. (DIPF/Orig.
Gedichte /
No full textScott Offen Fund in memory of Herbert OffenMr. Offen, ScottStamped on flyleaf, page 11 and page 25: Eigentum Ältestenrat der Juden in Wien.Label pasted to front cover: 1841 Eigentum Ältestenrat der Juden in Wien.Cataloging20040405bought by Scott Offen via Antiq. Loecker.Digital imag
Die Alpen von Maine : Exilerfahrung in Amerika am Oskar-Maria-Graf-Stammtisch, New York.
No full textMA (Magister) thesis about former Austrian and German Jews in New York CityMagisterarbeit at the University of LeipzigBibliography : p.256Includes texts by George Harry Asher; Hannah Busoni; Fenja Ginsburg; Gaby Glueckselig; Leo Glueckselig; Charlotte Gutman; Richard Gutman; Lilly Ruth Hull; Herbert Hull; Trudy Jeremias; Alex Olsen; Anneliese Pagel; Margot Scharpenberg; Lola GruenthalDan Wyman BooksScott Offen Fund in memory of Herbert OffenDan Wyman German Judaica titles for the LBI Library #14
Analysis of Hamiltonian boundary value problems and symplectic integration: a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics at Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand
No full textListed in 2020 Dean's List of Exceptional ThesesCopyright is owned by the Author of the thesis. Permission is given for a copy to be downloaded by an individual for research and private study only. The thesis may not be reproduced elsewhere without the permission of the Author.Ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and partial differential equations (PDEs) arise in most scientific disciplines that make use of mathematical techniques. As exact solutions are in general not computable, numerical methods are used to obtain approximate solutions. In order to draw valid conclusions from numerical computations, it is crucial to understand which qualitative aspects numerical solutions have in common with the exact solution. Symplecticity is a subtle notion that is related to a rich family of geometric properties of Hamiltonian systems. While the effects of preserving symplecticity under discretisation on long-term behaviour of motions is classically well known, in this thesis
(a) the role of symplecticity for the bifurcation behaviour of solutions to Hamiltonian boundary value problems is explained. In parameter dependent systems at a bifurcation point the solution set to a boundary value problem changes qualitatively. Bifurcation problems are systematically translated into the framework of classical catastrophe theory. It is proved that existing classification results in catastrophe theory apply to persistent bifurcations of Hamiltonian boundary value problems. Further results for symmetric settings are derived.
(b) It is proved that to preserve generic bifurcations under discretisation it is necessary and sufficient to preserve the symplectic structure of the problem.
(c) The catastrophe theory framework for Hamiltonian ODEs is extended to PDEs with variational structure. Recognition equations for -series singularities for functionals on Banach spaces are derived and used in a numerical example to locate high-codimensional bifurcations.
(d) The potential of symplectic integration for infinite-dimensional Lie-Poisson systems (Burgers' equation, KdV, fluid equations,...) using Clebsch variables is analysed. It is shown that the advantages of symplectic integration can outweigh the disadvantages of integrating over a larger phase space introduced by a Clebsch representation.
(e) Finally, the preservation of variational structure of symmetric solutions in multisymplectic PDEs by multisymplectic integrators on the example of (phase-rotating) travelling waves in the nonlinear wave equation is discussed
The Weight of History
No full textThis is a short work of creative ethnographic prose that relies solely upon crafted narrative to show rather than explain its message. In the mid 1990s, I spent two years doing ethnographic fieldwork with European traveling circuses. One troupe I worked in for a considerable amount of time included members of 16 different nationalities. They had a posted rule banning the display of national flags or symbols within their circus community, and – other than some fleeting heated moments during World Cup soccer – seemed to keep conflicts by nationality group to a minimum. Nonetheless, historical tensions rested barely under the surface. Although none of the people portrayed here were alive for the events of WWII, that conflict still echoed down into everyday life in the circus over 50 years later. This story is based upon actual characters and events the author experienced, although all individuals’ names and some identifying characteristics have been changed
Leben und Wirken des Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, gewöhnlich Rambam auch Maimonides genannt. Prodrom und Einladung zur Subskription, auf eine, mit erläuternden Anmerkungen begleiteten deutschen Uibersetzung des von diesem hochgefeyerten Manne verfaßten hermeneutisch- philosophisch-theologischen Werkes More nebuchim : nebst einem Probebogen /
No full textPeter Beer, Austrian educator and author, representative of radical
Haskalah in the Habsburg empire. Only one installment of his translation of the Moreh was
published. It was sharply criticised by Joseph Derenbourg. (EJ 4, p. 379)Includes bibliographical references.Scott Offen Fund in memory of Herbert OffenCatalogingRashi Catalogue Maimonides 24-4 Moreh Nevukhim / Nr. 230WDJBmajor importance20041028Digital imageDescription based on print version record
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