Working with A Secular Age. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Charles Taylor's Master Narrative

Charles Taylor’s monumental book A Secular Age has been extensively discussed, criticized, and worked on. This volume, by contrast, explores ways of working with Taylor’s book, especially its potentials and limits for individual research projects. Due to its wide reception, it has initiated a truly interdisciplinary object of study; with essays drawn from various research fields, this volume fosters substantial conversation across disciplines.

Impact of Taylor-Aris diffusivity on analyte and system zone dispersion in CZE assessed by computer simulation and experimental validation.

Application of pressure-driven laminar flow has an impact on zone and boundary dispersion in open tubular CE. The GENTRANS dynamic simulator for electrophoresis was extended with Taylor-Aris diffusivity which accounts for dispersion due to the parabolic flow profile associated with pressure-driven flow. Effective diffusivity of analyte and system zones as functions of the capillary diameter and the amount of flow in comparison to molecular diffusion alone were studied for configurations with concomitant action of imposed hydrodynamic flow and electroosmosis. For selected examples under realistic experimental conditions, simulation data are compared with those monitored experimentally using modular CE setups featuring both capacitively coupled contactless conductivity and UV absorbance detection along a 50 μm id fused-silica capillary of 90 cm total length. The data presented indicate that inclusion of flow profile based Taylor-Aris diffusivity provides realistic simulation data for analyte and system peaks, particularly those monitored in CE with conductivity detection.

Alte Strumpfstopferin [Illustration] : Ölgemälde (1882)

Max Liebermann

Altmännerhaus in Amsterdam [Illustration] : Ölgemälde (1882)

Max Liebermann

Prof. Richard Gottheil [Illustration] : Hörer 1882 - 1885

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Dr. Ignaz Kuranda [Illustration] : geb. 1811 - gest. 1884 ; Präsident: 1872 - 1882

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Dr. Leopold Kompert [Illustration] : geb. 1822 - gest. 1886

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Josef M. Ritter von Pfeiffer [Illustration] : geb. 1822 - gest. 1897

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Davids Totenklage um Saul und Jonathan : (II. Samuel 1,19 - 27)

M. A. Klausner

Jonathan schwört David brüderliche Treue [Illustration] : (Wandgemälde im Logenhaus der "Bnei Briss" zu Berlin)

Lesser Ury

Jonathan Uhlfelder

J. Blum

Does the Federal Reserve Follow a Non-Linear Taylor Rule?

The Taylor rule has become one of the most studied strategies for monetary policy. Yet, little is known whether the Federal Reserve follows a non-linear Taylor rule. This paper employs the smooth transition regression model and asks the question: does the Federal Reserve change its policy-rule according to the level of inflation and/or the output gap? I find that the Federal Reserve does follow a non-linear Taylor rule and, more importantly, that the Federal Reserve followed a non-linear Taylor rule during the golden era of monetary policy, 1985-2005, and a linear Taylor rule throughout the dark age of monetary policy, 1960-1979. Thus, good monetary policy is associated with a non-linear Taylor rule: once inflation approaches a certain threshold, the Federal Reserve adjusts its policy-rule and begins to respond more forcefully to inflation.

Ezechiel Landau's Gesuch an Maria Theresia gegen Jonathan Eibeschütz

Heinrich Graetz