Dinoflagellate cyst records from the East Greenland continental margin

Late Weichselian and Holocene dinoflagellate cyst assemblages have been investigated at two stations situated close to the modern Polar Front at the continental margin oft East Greenland. Both the concentrations of dinoflagelate cysts and the assemblage composition reflect changes in the surface water conditions, occurring in distinct steps during the past 15,000 years. Low concentrations of dinoflagellate cysts during Termination Ia suggest harsh environmental conditions, most probably caused by an extensive sea-ice cover and/or a high influx of low salinity meltwater. A surface water warming was recorded from 13,000 - 12,000 years BP, related to the inflow of warmer water trom the North Atlantic into the western Norwegian-Greenland Sea. The interval between Terminations la and Ib was characterized by a strong seasonality with an extensive sea-ice cover in winter and relatively warm surface waters in summer. At the transition to the Holocene, a reorganisation of the hydrography resulted in surface water conditions characteristic for the Holocene with three well-defined major water masses and oceanographic fronts The modern water mass conditions at both stations were established at the end of Termination Ib, around 6,400 to 6,800 years BP. In general, the influence of colder surface waters was more pronounced at the location off Scoresby Sund throughout the Holocene. Arctic water had the strongest influence at both stations in the middle Holocene. A progressive cooling with an increase in sea-ice cover is time-transgressivelyrecorded at both stations during the Holocene, indicating that the Polar Front moved to its present position or that branches of the zonal currents expanded from the East Greenland shell eastward during tlie last 3,000 years.

Kindertotenlieder = Songs on the death of infants = Chants sur la mort d'enfants /

Duration: 20 min.

Der deutsche Schulgesang von Johann Adam Hiller bis zu den Falkschen Allgemeinen Bestimmungen (1775-1875) Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Gesangpädagogik.

Vita.

Oude Nederlandsche spreuken en spreekwoorden;

A reprint of two pamphlets "Ghemeene Duytsche spreekwoorden: Adagia oft proverbia ghenoemt ... P.W. 1550. Gheprent toe Campen ... by my Peter Warnersen," and "Les proverbes anciens, flamengs et françois, correspondants de sentence les uns aux autres, colligés et ordonnés par M. François Goedthals. Anvers, Impr. de C. Plantin, 1568."

Male quartettes : sacred and secular : A choice collection of the most popular sacred and seculat male quartettes /

Sacred. Beyond the smiling and the weeping -- Come, ye disconsolate -- Consolation -- I am with thee -- I can trust -- It is not death -- Jesus, my Lord -- Keep praying at the gate -- Nearer -- Nearer my home -- Pray for the wanderer -- Remember me, o mighty one -- Rock of ages -- Steal away -- Sweet hour of prayer -- They crucified my Lord -- We are going down the valley -- When the mists have cleared away -- Secular. A little farm well tilled -- Brightly now the moon is beaming -- Call John -- Gideon's band -- Love -- Night wind -- Oft in the stilly night -- O, I am a merry sailor lad -- Poor old Joe -- Say so -- Sleep on thy pillow -- Stars of the summer night -- The cobbler and the crow -- The school master -- The tack -- Three crows -- Three little kittens -- Who built the ark? -- Wouldn't you like to know.

Songs of Ireland : 100 most popular Irish songs /

For voice and piano.

Threatening Messages in Climate Change Communication

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2016-06

Microstructure control in Sn-0.7mass%Cu alloys

Soldering alloys based oft the Sn-Cu alloy system are amongst the most favourable lead-free alternatives due to a range of attractive properties. Trace additions of Ni have been found to significantly improve the soldering characteristics of these alloys (reduced bridging etc.). This paper examines the mechanisms underlying the improvement in soldering properties of Sn-0.7 mass%Cu eutectic alloys modified with concentrations of Ni ranging front 0 to 1000 ppm. The alloys were investigated by thermal analysis during solidification, as well as optical/SEM microanalyses of fully solidified samples anti samples quenched during solidification. It is concluded that Ni additions dramatically alter the nucleation patterns and solidification behaviour of the Sn-Cu6Sn5 eutectic anti that these changes are related to the superior soldering characteristics of the Ni-modified Sn-0.7 mass%Cu alloys.

Volcanic resurfacing and the early terrestrial crust: Zircon U-Pb and REE constraints from the Isua Greenstone Belt, southern West Greenland

The oldest known bona fide succession of elastic metasediments Occurs in the Isua Greenstone Belt. SW Greenland and consists of a variety of mica schists and rare metaconglomerates. The metasediments are in direct contact with a felsic metavolcanic lithology that has previously been dated to 3.71 Ga. Based on trace element geochemical data for 30 metasediments, we selected the six samples with highest Zr concentrations for zircon extraction. These samples all yielded very few or no zircon, Those extracted from mica schists yielded ion probe U/Pb ages between 3.70 and 3,71 Ga. One metaconglomerate sample yielded just a single zircon of 3.74 Ga age. The mica schist hosted zircons have U/Pb ages. Th/U ratios, REE patterns and Eu anomalies indistinguishable from zircon in the adjacent 3.71 Ga felsic metavolcanic unit. Trace element modelling requires the bulk of material in the metasediments to be derived from variably weathered mafic lithologies but some metasediments contain substantial contribution from more evolved source lithologies. The paucity of zircon in the mica schists is thus explained by incorporation of material from largely zircon-free volcanic lithologies. The absence of older zircon in the mica schists and the preponderance of mafic source material imply intense, mainly basaltic resurfacing of the early Earth. The implications of this process are discussed, Thermal considerations suggest that horizontal growth of Hadean crust by addition of mafic ultramafic lavas must have triggered self-reorganisation of the protocrust by remelting. Reworking oft Hadean crust may have been aided by burial of hydrated (weathered) metabasalt due to semi-continuous addition of new voluminous basalt Outpouring,;, This process Causes a bias towards eruption of Zr-saturated partial melts at the surface with O-isotope corn posit ion,, potentially different from the mantle. The oldest zircons hosted in sediments would have been buried to substantial depth or formed in plutons that crystallised at some depth from which it took hundreds of millions of years for them to be exhumed and incorporated into much younger sediments. (C) 2005 Elsevier B.V.All rights reserved.

Editorial

This special issue of the Journal of the Operational Research Society is dedicated to papers on the related subjects of knowledge management and intellectual capital. These subjects continue to generate considerable interest amongst both practitioners and academics. This issue demonstrates that operational researchers have many contributions to offer to the area, especially by bringing multi-disciplinary, integrated and holistic perspectives. The papers included are both theoretical as well as practical, and include a number of case studies showing how knowledge management has been implemented in practice that may assist other organisations in their search for a better means of managing what is now recognised as a core organisational activity. It has been accepted by a growing number of organisations that the precise handling of information and knowledge is a significant factor in facilitating their success but that there is a challenge in how to implement a strategy and processes for this handling. It is here, in the particular area of knowledge process handling that we can see the contributions of operational researchers most clearly as is illustrated in the papers included in this journal edition. The issue comprises nine papers, contributed by authors based in eight different countries on five continents. Lind and Seigerroth describe an approach that they call team-based reconstruction, intended to help articulate knowledge in a particular organisational. context. They illustrate the use of this approach with three case studies, two in manufacturing and one in public sector health care. Different ways of carrying out reconstruction are analysed, and the benefits of team-based reconstruction are established. Edwards and Kidd, and Connell, Powell and Klein both concentrate on knowledge transfer. Edwards and Kidd discuss the issues involved in transferring knowledge across frontières (borders) of various kinds, from those borders within organisations to those between countries. They present two examples, one in distribution and the other in manufacturing. They conclude that trust and culture both play an important part in facilitating such transfers, that IT should be kept in a supporting role in knowledge management projects, and that a staged approach to this IT support may be the most effective. Connell, Powell and Klein consider the oft-quoted distinction between explicit and tacit knowledge, and argue that such a distinction is sometimes unhelpful. They suggest that knowledge should rather be regarded as a holistic systemic property. The consequences of this for knowledge transfer are examined, with a particular emphasis on what this might mean for the practice of OR Their view of OR in the context of knowledge management very much echoes Lind and Seigerroth's focus on knowledge for human action. This is an interesting convergence of views given that, broadly speaking, one set of authors comes from within the OR community, and the other from outside it. Hafeez and Abdelmeguid present the nearest to a 'hard' OR contribution of the papers in this special issue. In their paper they construct and use system dynamics models to investigate alternative ways in which an organisation might close a knowledge gap or skills gap. The methods they use have the potential to be generalised to any other quantifiable aspects of intellectual capital. The contribution by Revilla, Sarkis and Modrego is also at the 'hard' end of the spectrum. They evaluate the performance of public–private research collaborations in Spain, using an approach based on data envelopment analysis. They found that larger organisations tended to perform relatively better than smaller ones, even though the approach used takes into account scale effects. Perhaps more interesting was that many factors that might have been thought relevant, such as the organisation's existing knowledge base or how widely applicable the results of the project would be, had no significant effect on the performance. It may be that how well the partnership between the collaborators works (not a factor it was possible to take into account in this study) is more important than most other factors. Mak and Ramaprasad introduce the concept of a knowledge supply network. This builds on existing ideas of supply chain management, but also integrates the design chain and the marketing chain, to address all the intellectual property connected with the network as a whole. The authors regard the knowledge supply network as the natural focus for considering knowledge management issues. They propose seven criteria for evaluating knowledge supply network architecture, and illustrate their argument with an example from the electronics industry—integrated circuit design and fabrication. In the paper by Hasan and Crawford, their interest lies in the holistic approach to knowledge management. They demonstrate their argument—that there is no simple IT solution for organisational knowledge management efforts—through two case study investigations. These case studies, in Australian universities, are investigated through cultural historical activity theory, which focuses the study on the activities that are carried out by people in support of their interpretations of their role, the opportunities available and the organisation's purpose. Human activities, it is argued, are mediated by the available tools, including IT and IS and in this particular context, KMS. It is this argument that places the available technology into the knowledge activity process and permits the future design of KMS to be improved through the lessons learnt by studying these knowledge activity systems in practice. Wijnhoven concentrates on knowledge management at the operational level of the organisation. He is concerned with studying the transformation of certain inputs to outputs—the operations function—and the consequent realisation of organisational goals via the management of these operations. He argues that the inputs and outputs of this process in the context of knowledge management are different types of knowledge and names the operation method the knowledge logistics. The method of transformation he calls learning. This theoretical paper discusses the operational management of four types of knowledge objects—explicit understanding; information; skills; and norms and values; and shows how through the proposed framework learning can transfer these objects to clients in a logistical process without a major transformation in content. Millie Kwan continues this theme with a paper about process-oriented knowledge management. In her case study she discusses an implementation of knowledge management where the knowledge is centred around an organisational process and the mission, rationale and objectives of the process define the scope of the project. In her case they are concerned with the effective use of real estate (property and buildings) within a Fortune 100 company. In order to manage the knowledge about this property and the process by which the best 'deal' for internal customers and the overall company was reached, a KMS was devised. She argues that process knowledge is a source of core competence and thus needs to be strategically managed. Finally, you may also wish to read a related paper originally submitted for this Special Issue, 'Customer knowledge management' by Garcia-Murillo and Annabi, which was published in the August 2002 issue of the Journal of the Operational Research Society, 53(8), 875–884.

Die Manns im Exil:Dieter Strauss folgt vier Generationen der Schriftstellerfamilie auf internationalen Wegen

Review of: Dieter Strauss: Oh Mann, oh Manns. Exilerfahrungen einer berühmten deutschen Schriftstellerfamilie. Peter Lang Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2011 „Noch ein Buch über die Manns?“ überschreibt Dieter Strauss eher rhetorisch als selbstkritisch das erste Kapitel seines Buches „Oh Mann, oh Manns. Exilerfahrungen einer berühmten deutschen Schriftstellerfamilie“, das im vergangenen Jahr bei Peter Lang erschienen ist. Er weiß nur zu gut, dass das Publikumsinteresse an dieser Familie mehr als 50 Jahre nach Thomas Manns Tod ungebrochen ist, und er verfolgt ein ambitioniertes Projekt. Auf den kaum mehr als 100 Seiten seines Buches versucht er, sich nicht weniger als acht Repräsentanten der Familie Mann zu widmen und ihre Auslandserfahrungen zu beleuchten. Man scheut sich, dem Autor zu folgen und für das hier behandelte durchgängig den Begriff „Exil“ zu verwenden, der in seiner klassischen Definition einen politischen Aspekt enthält, welcher zwar bei den mittleren Generationen vorhanden ist, aber für Julia Mann, die halb-brasilianische Mutter von Heinrich und Thomas, und für ihren Urenkel Frido kaum veranschlagt werden kann. Diese methodische Unsauberkeit bleibt leider nicht die einzige Schwäche, die bei der Lektüre des schmalen aber kostspieligen Bändchens auffällt. Die Entscheidung des Autors, das Augenmerk auf die internationale Dimension im Leben der Manns zu legen, entspringt vermutlich seiner persönlichen Geschichte als Goethe-Institut-Leiter im Ausland, und Strauss nähert sich dem Thema mit einer entsprechend großen Sensibilität für transnationale Lebensläufe. Zugleich stellt die Existenz der Manns zwischen den Kontinenten in der Tat einen Aspekt der Familiengeschichte dar, dessen Einfluss in der Mann-Forschung bisher nicht ausreichend gewürdigt worden ist. Das spricht beides zunächst für dieses Buch. Leider verspricht Strauss jedoch mehr, als er angemessenerweise halten kann. So wird dem Leser unter anderem in Aussicht gestellt, das Buch könne auf die Fragen nach dem selbstzerstörerischen Lebensstil mehrerer Familienmitglieder (besonders Erika Manns) eine Antwort geben. Diese bleibt freilich aus. Einerseits muss das fast zwangsläufig der Fall sein, weil sich aus dem komplexen Geflecht persönlicher, psychischer und politischer Umstände, die auf die Manns einwirkten, so schwer klare Beweggründe ermitteln lassen – wenngleich die negativen Erfahrungen des Exils, besonders aber auch die desillusionierende Nachkriegszeit sicher eine bedeutende Rolle spielten. Andererseits kann Strauss aber auch deshalb nur wenig Antworten oder Thesen liefern, weil sein Buch kaum argumentiert. Immer wieder vermisst man beim Lesen eine Einordnung und Bewertung des Beschriebenen. Darüber hinaus sind die einzelnen Teile nur lose aneinandergefügt und es wird häufig unmittelbar von einem Mitglied der Familie zum nächsten gewechselt. Diese Technik der übergangslosen Aneinanderreihung kommt oft sogar dann zur Anwendung, wenn von verschiedenen Generationen die Rede ist. Anstelle eines Musters übergreifender Übereinstimmungen, was möglicherweise die Intention dieser Zeitsprünge ist, ergibt sich aufgrund der mangelnden Leserführung leider ein konfuser Gesamteindruck. Zudem besteht das Buch in weiten Teilen aus einer Zitatmontage. Dies hat Vor- und Nachteile. Dass die Manns, wie Strauss einleitend erläutert, „selbst zu uns sprechen“, macht die Hauptfaszination des Buches aus. Auf engem Raum findet man hier viele Äußerungen über die Erfahrung des Heimatverlustes, der politischen Verfolgung und des Fußfassens im Ausland versammelt. Wir folgen insbesondere Heinrich und Thomas, Klaus und Erika, wie sie teils enthusiastisch, teils widerstrebend Deutschland verlassen und wie sich ihr Verhältnis zur Heimat und zu ihren Gastländern, insbesondere zu den kontrovers beurteilten USA, entwickelt und wandelt. Dadurch entsteht in der Tat ein erfreulicher Eindruck von Unmittelbarkeit, der dem Leseerlebnis zuträglich ist und dem Buch über die zeitliche Distanz der Äußerungen hinweg eine große Lebendigkeit verleiht. Die so erfolgreich vermittelte Eloquenz aller Mitglieder dieser Schriftstellerfamilie geht jedoch bei Strauss auf Kosten von Analyse und Argumentation. Häufig werden die Zitate kaum eingeordnet, und zumeist allenfalls knapp kommentiert. Etwas flapsige Formulierungen wie „klar, dass“ und „logisch, dass“ beeinträchtigen das Lesevergnügen leider zusätzlich und auch der leicht alberne Titel des Buches ist dem Ernst des Inhalts nicht angemessen. Die offensichtliche Scheu, das Dargestellte auch zu bewerten, entspringt möglicherweise auch einer mangelnden Auseinandersetzung mit dem Forschungsstand. Darauf deutet zumindest die weitgehende Abwesenheit von Sekundärliteratur in der Bibliografie hin. Lediglich Klaus Harpprechts erfolgreiche Thomas Mann-Biografie sowie Irmela von der Lühes einflussreiche Lebensbeschreibung von Erika Mann sind dort vertreten. Namen wie Hermann Kurzke sucht man vergebens, und Hans Wysling ist zwar vorhanden, wird aber falsch buchstabiert. Dementsprechend knapp fällt das Fazit des Buches aus, das anstelle einer abschließenden Bewertung oder Einordnung der Auslandserlebnisse der Manns ihre „Anpassung an die Fremde“ in eine rechnerisch bestimmte „Regelmäßigkeit“ in ihrer Anpassung an die Fremde konstatiert. So bleibt am Ende ein Gefühl der Enttäuschung darüber, dass man so viel und doch zugleich so wenig erfahren hat. Wer eine knappe Zusammenstellung von Original-Äußerungen zum Thema sucht, dem sei dieses Buch empfohlen. Wahre Mann-Enthusiasten tun vermutlich besser daran, gleich zu den Briefen und Tagebüchern dieser „einzigartigen Familie“ (Marcel Reich-Ranicki) zu greifen.

An evaluation of the impact upon productivity of ending resale price maintenance on books

Report prepared for the OFT by the Centre for Competition Policy at University of East Anglia. An examination of the ending of RPM aims to improve understanding of how competition interventions affect productivity, provide a methodological framework that could inform future evaluations and provide inputs to the ongoing debate about the effects of RPM.

The psychosocial impact of an activity holiday for young children with severe food allergy:a longitudinal study

Background Food allergy has been shown to severely affect quality of life (QoL) in children and their families. The Anaphylaxis Campaign UK supports families with allergic children and as part of that support ran an activity holiday for those with food allergy. This study investigated the effectiveness of this activity holiday for reducing anxiety and improving QoL and food allergy management for these children. Methods Measures were taken at baseline, at the start of the activity holiday, at the end of the holiday, at 3 and 6 months follow-up. Children (n = 24) completed a paediatric food allergy–specific QoL questionnaire (PFA-QL), a generic QoL questionnaire (PedsQL™), the Spence Children's Anxiety Scale (SCAS) and the Children's Health Locus of Control (CHLC) scale at all stages of the study. Results There were significant improvements in social QoL, food allergy–specific QoL, total CHLC and internal locus of control scores over time (p > 0.05). There were significant decreases in powerful others locus of control, total anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder scores (p < 0.05). Greater anxiety significantly correlated with poorer QoL at all time points; no correlations with locus of control were significant at the 3- and 6-month follow-up. Conclusions The activity holiday was of significant benefit to the children who took part, providing support for the need for activity holidays such as this for children with severe food allergy. Ways in which adaptive locus of control and improved quality of life can be facilitated need to be further explored.

Großbritannien nach der Europa-Wahl:Abkehr von Europa, Abkehr vom Vereinigten Königreich?

Die britische Politik wird gerade jetzt aufmerksam von anderen europäischen Ländern verfolgt. Die britischen Wähler/innen schicken den Rechtspopulisten Nigel Farage wieder nach Brüssel. Er gilt als unterhaltsamer und charismatischer Redner, sein Markenzeichen ist das Pint Beer in der Hand. Die britischen Parteien zeigen sich derzeit oft skeptisch gegenüber der EU: seien es Labour-Vertreter, die alles andere als Begeisterung bei der Aufstellung des Spitzenkandidaten Martin Schulz zeigten, oder die Tories, die eine Volksabstimmung über den Europa-Austritt im Jahr 2017 im Falle eines Wahlsieges im Jahr 2015 angekündigt haben und in der Zwischenzeit so tun, als wären sie wirklich lieber schon draußen. Zu dem schwierigen Verhältnis zu Europa kommt derzeit noch die brisante innenpolitische Situation mit dem möglichen Austritt von Schottland aus dem Vereinigten Königreich hinzu. Die Schotten stimmen in einer Volksabstimmung im September 2014 ab, der Ausgang wird derzeit laut Umfragen immer knapper.

Links between migration and the presence of foreign combatants in armed conflict

This article explores the connections between migration and foreign combat, offering an improved definition of „foreign fighters,” and a general concept of foreign combatants’ behaviour as an anomalous form of migration. In contrast with the popular discourse and terrorism-related concerns about present-day Western European foreign fighters in Iraq and Syria (and their return to Europe) and Middle Eastern migrant refugees (and their arrival in Europe), the intention of this article is to offer a conceptually thorough consideration of the causal connections between movements of migration and the presence of foreign combatants in armed conflict, informed by a wide sample of cases. Such an assessment has to take place with a view to all forms of migration (including forced migration), all forms of foreign combat (not only foreign combat on the side of non-state actors as David Malet's oft-cited but overly restrictive definition would imply), and regions of the world beyond the Middle East and Islamic countries. Along these guiding lines, the article points out many comparatively rarely considered cases of foreign combat as well as the underestimated obstacles in the way of fighting abroad. Taking account of the latter allows refutation of a key implication of „new war theory” (its focus on „greed” as a motive of combatants), in light of the continued importance of cultural factors and ideological motives for participation in foreign combat.