Artist Rafaello Busoni (l) outdoors speaking with Dr. Heinz Kallmann.

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Family in war - a personal chronicle : [1938-1943].

The book contains an introduction by Paul Weisz and a collection of family letters written during World War II. The letters were written between February 1938 and September 1945. Some were translated into English and complemented by commentary by the editor, Paul Weisz. Paul Weisz' introduction is 10 pages long and serves as a short memoir by itself. He provides a family chronicle, the living circumstances of his family, and his childhood in Vienna. He ends in 1938 when the family was eager to leave Austria. The following years are covered by the various letters he brought together in this book. The authors are cousin Willie, then already in Palestine, his father Samuel, his mother Stephanie, and his sister Ruth. His father and mother fled to Belgium, but were arrested after the beginning of World War II. They were deported to internment camps in France (St. Cyprien). His sister Ruth tried to escape from Austria to Palestine via the Danube. She got stuck in Yugoslavia, and was interned in Sabac internment camp. Paul's mother died in France in 1942, his father was sent to a concentration camp in Poland and murdered. His sister Ruth was murdered in Yugoslavia. Paul was released in Canada, and was enabled to go to college. He later named his children after his family members who did not survive the Nazi terror: Stephanie, Ruth, and Samuel.

Miraculous Survival 1939-1982

Description of war years in France and Spain, including experiences in internment camps, life in hiding, etc.; emigration to USA.

Hermann Falck's Erdenweg und tragisches Ende 9. April 1943 1917-1943

Biography of Hermann Falck and story of his execution; contains copies of various letters.

Portrait of Max Boehm ( 1871-1944 ).

The model is seated, facing the viewer and looking straight at him. He is wearing a business suit and holding a cigar. The pose is relaxed abd the color tonalities warm, with the yellow background dominant. Heavy impasto is used for face and hands. Neg. 37599 Signed upper right, also dated

Michaelson family papers, undated, 1892-1920, 1943-1944, 1965, 1992, 1994, 1999-2000.

The Michaelson family papers include early family correspondence, documents, and ephemera; genealogical research conducted by Ms. Appleby, Anna���s granddaughter; copies of New York City marriage certificates kept by Louis B. Michaelson, Rabbi, between 1906-1907; and Anna Michaelson���s copies of original birth records that she kept as midwife in the Lower East Side in New York City between 1892-1916.

Bernard C. Ehrenreich papers undated, 1871-1971

Primarily correspondence, scrap-books, etc. relating to activities as rabbi in Montgomery, Alabama and Stockton, California. Includes also extensive correspondence from Jewish servicemen in World War I and II, Intercollegiate Menorah Association, Zeta Beta Tau Fraternity and Camp Kawaga and letters from Stephen S. Wise, Mordecai M. Kaplan and Leon J. Obermayer. Contains also collection of picture postal cards and original minute-book of the Central Bureau of the Federation of American Zionists of Greater New York.

Beate Block Collection 1887-1943

The collection holds primarily the trans-atlantic correspondence of Irma Sondhelm and various family members, 1894-1943. Also included is a fashion pamphlet, 'Die gutgekleidete Dame : Ein Modenbrevier, Luxemburg, 1930.

Supistamista, rationalisointia vai kehitt��mist��? : Valtiovarainministeri��n j��rjestelyosaston j��rjest��m��n henkil��st��koulutus- ja tutkimustoiminnan rakentuminen osaksi valtionhallintoa vuosina 1943-1971

The study examines the personnel training and research activities carried out by the Organization and Methods Division of the Ministry of Finance and their becoming a part and parcel of the state administration in 1943-1971. The study is a combination of institutional and ideological historical research in recent history on adult education, using a constructionist approach. Material salient to the study comes from the files of the Organization and Methods Division in the National Archives, parliamentary documents, committee reports, and the magazines. The concentrated training and research activities arranged by the Organization and Methods Division, became a part and parcel of the state administration in the midst of controversial challenges and opportunities. They served to solve social problems which beset the state administration as well as contextual challenges besetting rationalization measures, and organizational challenges. The activities were also affected by a dependence on decision-makers, administrative units, and civil servants organizations, by different views on rationalization and the holistic nature of reforms, as well as by the formal theories that served as resources. It chose long-term projects which extended to the political decision-makers and administrative units turf, and which were intended to reform the structures of the state administration and to rationalize the practices of the administrative units. The crucial questions emerged in opposite pairs (a constitutional state vs. the ideology of an administratively governed state, a system of national boards vs. a system of government through ministries, efficiency of work vs. pleasantness of work, centralized vs. decentralized rationalization activities) which were not solvable problems but impossible questions with no ultimate answers. The aim and intent of the rationalization of the state administration (the reform of the central, provincial, and local governments) was to facilitate integrated management and to render a greater amount of work by approaching management procedures scientifically and by clarifying administrative instances and their respon-sibilities in regards to each other. The means resorted to were organizational studies and committee work. In the rationalization of office work and finance control, the idea was to effect savings in administrative costs and to pare down those costs as well as to rationalize and heighten those functions by developing the institution of work study practitioners in order to coordinate employer and employee relationships and benefits (the training of work study practitioners, work study, and a two-tier work study practitioner organization). A major part of the training meant teaching and implementing leadership skills in practice, which, in turn, meant that the learning environment was the genuine work community and efforts to change it. In office rationalization, the solution to regulate the relations between the employer and the employees was the co-existence of the technical and biological rationalization and the human resource administration and the accounting and planning systems at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. The former were based on the school of scientific management and human relations, the latter on system thinking, which was a combination of the former two. In the rationalization of the state administration, efforts were made to find solutions to stabilize management ideologies and to arrange the relationships of administrative systems in administrative science - among other things, in the Hoover Committee and the Simon decision making theory, and, in the 1960s, in system thinking. Despite the development-related vocabulary, the practical work was advanced rationalization. It was said that the practical activities of both the state administration and the administrative units depended on professional managers who saw to production results and human relations. The pedagogic experts hired to develop training came up with a training system, based on the training-technological model where the training was made a function of its own. The State Training Center was established and the training office of the Organization and Methods Division became the leader and coordinator of personnel training.

Forgotten records of Chrysopelea taprobanica Smith, 1943 (Squamata: Colubridae) from India

The colubrid snake Chrysopelea taprobanica Smith, 1943 was described from a holotype from Kanthali (= Kantalai) and paratypes from Kurunegala, both localities in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) (Smith 1943). Since its description, literature pertaining to Sri Lankan snake fauna considered this taxon to be endemic to the island (Taylor 1950, Deraniyagala 1955, de Silva 1980, de Silva 1990, Somaweera 2004, Somaweera 2006, de Silva 2009, Pyron et al. 2013). In addition, earlier efforts on the Indian peninsula (e.g. Das 1994, 1997, Das 2003, Whitaker & Captain 2004, Aengals et al. 2012) and global data compilations (e.g. Wallach et al. 2014, Uetz & Ho��ek 2015) did not identify any record from mainland India until Guptha et al. (2015) recorded a specimen (voucher BLT 076 housed at Bio-Lab of Seshachalam Hills, Tirupathi, India) in the dry deciduous forest of Chamala, Seshachalam Biosphere Reserve in Andhra Pradesh, India in November 2013. Guptha et al. (2015) further mentioned an individual previously photographed in 2000 at Rishi Valley, Andhra Pradesh, but with no voucher specimen collected. Guptha���s record, assumed to be the first confirmed record of C. taprobanica in India, is noteworthy as it results in a large range extension, from northern Sri Lanka to eastern India with an Euclidean distance of over 400 km, as well as a change of status, i.e., species not endemic to Sri Lanka. However, at least three little-known previous records of this species from India evaded most literature and were overlooked by the researchers including ourselves.

La Teor��a Crítica de la Tecnolog��a y el dise��o asistido por valores

Objetivo y metodolog��a: Dentro del perfil buscado por la Universidad Cat��lica Argentina para sus Ingenieros Industriales se encuentran, entre otras, las siguientes cualidades distintivas: ���Entender�� que la Ingenier��a es una profesi��n creativa e innovadora que, combinando la ciencia y la tecnolog��a, junto con la econom��a, la administraci��n y la sociolog��a, se propone tratar y resolver problemas integrando todos los elementos involucrados y buscando, dentro de un marco ��tico, la mejor soluci��n en beneficio de la calidad de vida del hombre y de la sociedad.���/.../ El an��lisis de este caso se enmarcara dentro de la Teor��a Crítica de la Tecnolog��a y el concepto de ���c��digo t��cnico���, observando c��mo estos c��digos act��an de manera oculta o invisible, estratificando valores e intereses en normas, reglas, criterios y procedimientos. En cuanto a este ��ltimo punto, se presentar�� el Value Sensitive Design (VSD) o Dise��o por Valores, una metodolog��a de dise��o que actualmente asoma como una luz de esperanza para la integraci��n de los valores a los desarrollos tecnol��gicos e ingenieriles...

La problem��tica del cambio en los proyectos de desarrollo para S. C. de Bariloche : (1930- 1943)

El objetivo principal es analizar las diferentes concepciones en torno al cambio en el ��mbito local y regional de San Carlos de Bariloche durante la d��cada considerada paradigm��tica por la historiograf��a general, esto es la de la d��cada de 1930, per��odo que contiene la llegada de la instituci��n que se erige como marca de identidad local, la Direcci��n de Parques Nacionales (en adelante, DPN). Para esto se plantean los siguientes objetivos espec��ficos: a) Dise��ar una indagaci��n desde tres perspectivas: la del Estado Nacional, materializada en la presencia de Parques Nacionales1 y su primer presidente Exequiel Bustillo; la de la localidad barilochense, encarnada en la figura del Ingeniero Emilio Frey; y la del coronel Jos�� Mar��a Sarobe, quien trae a colaci��n una visi��n regional patag��nica integral a la luz de proyectos de desarrollo precedentes. b) Realizar un relevamiento de fuentes vinculadas a estas tres perspectivas que abrevan en: memorias personales, publicaciones oficiales, documentaci��n local, prensa y publicaciones espec��ficas en torno a la regi��n. c) Analizar cada conjunto de fuentes. d) Integrar las distintas perspectivas a fin de avanzar hacia un an��lisis complejo de la problem��tica.

El perfil del ingeniero desde la perspectiva de la teor��a crítica de la tecnolog��a

Resumen: En la actualidad, coexisten diferentes formas de entender la tecnolog��a y el proceso tecnol��gico. En tanto que la tecnolog��a ocupa un lugar de relevancia en las sociedades actuales, las apreciaciones que se derivan de una u otra posici��n pueden diferir ampliamente en las formas y mecanismos de abordaje y, por ende, en sus consecuencias. Desde la Teor��a Crítica de la Tecnolog��a, Andrew Feenberg propone que el desarrollo tecnol��gico deber��a ser un proceso democr��tico, que permita la participaci��n de los diversos actores involucrados. Considera incorporar a aquellos grupos que en muchos de los procesos de desarrollo que se llevan a cabo en el presente no participan en la etapa de dise��o y que sufren sus impactos. Para que este proceso de democratizaci��n sea posible, los diferentes actores sociales deben estar preparados. El presente trabajo profundizar�� sobre el perfil del ingeniero emergente de la Teor��a Crítica de la Tecnolog��a y su contraste con el modelo propuesto en las carreras de ingenier��a. Intentar�� determinar de qu�� modo el perfil de ingeniero vigente puede contribuir a la implementaci��n de procesos de democratizaci��n en el dise��o tecnol��gico.