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Price Stabilization on World Agricultural Markets

An Application to the World Market for Sugar

By: Bernd Lucke

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Price Stabilization on World Agricultural Markets

An Application to the World Market for Sugar

By: Bernd Lucke

International commodity markets have traditionally attracted the attention of economists, econometricians, and policy makers especially in and following politically tumultuous times. For instance, the primary commodity price boom of 1973/74 and the subsequent period of highly volatile world market prices initiated increased research on commodity markets which quickly focused on possible price stabilization schemes, particularly on buffer stocks. Simultaneously, the issue clearly advanced in priority on the political agenda, such that the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) proposed an "Integrated Program for Commodities" (IPC) intended to stabilize the world market prices of ten so-called "core commodities"l (UNCTAD (1974, 1976a), Behrman (1979)). Many developing nations welcomed the IPC almost enthusiastically, but it did not receive more than lukewarm support by major industrialized countries, apparently due to the experience with some thirty international commodity agreements past World War II2. Critical evaluations have, among others, been presented by McNicol (1978), Gordon-Ashworth (1984), and Macbean & Nguyen (1987). The most detailed of these studies is Gordon-Ashworth's, who concludes that "on balance ... the performance of international commodity agreements has been too unreliable and their distributive effects too uneven to secure the development goals that have been set" (1984, p. 284)3. Consequently, the IPC turned out to be quite controversial a topic on the UNCTAD's 1976 meeting in Nairobi and has not been able to gain any impetus since. lThese were cocoa, coffee, copper, cotton, jute, rubber, sisal, sugar, tea, and tin.

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3642467822

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Digital Government

Strategy, Government Models and Technology

By: Bernd W. Wirtz

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Digital Government

Strategy, Government Models and Technology

By: Bernd W. Wirtz

Digitization, the global networking of individuals and organizations, and the transition from an industrial to an information society are key reasons for the importance of digital government. In particular, the enormous influence of the Internet as a global networking and communication system affects the performance of public services. This textbook introduces the concept of digital government as well as digital management and provides helpful insights and strategic advice for the successful implementation and maintenance of digital government systems.

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3031130863

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Wages and Employment Across Skill Groups

An Analysis for West Germany

By: Bernd Fitzenberger

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Wages and Employment Across Skill Groups

An Analysis for West Germany

By: Bernd Fitzenberger

For some time, it has been debated whether a lack of wage flexibility is at the roots of the high and persistent unemployment in West Germany. In the presence of a skill bias in labor demand, which increases the relative de mand for more highly skilled labor over time, there only seems to exist the choice between higher wage inequality or higher unemployment rates. This study scrutinizes whether and in what way this line of thought is consis tent with empirical findings for West Germany. The analysis ranges from extensive descriptive evidence on wage trends to the estimation of a struc tural model of wage bargaining. As the most important database, I use the IAB-Beschiiftigtenstichprobe from 1975 to 1990. This study was accepted as a Habilitation thesis by the Department of Economics and Statistics of the University of Konstanz in October 1998. The only major change relates to appendix B on the block bootstrap procedure now summarizing the main aspects of the method. I am very grateful to my advisor Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Franz for his support, encouragement, and inspiration. From 1993 to 1997, he ran the Center for International Labor Economics at the University of Konstanz in such a way that it provided a fruitful environment for empirical research in labor economics. I am also indebted to Prof. Dr. Winfried Pohlmeier and to Prof. Dr. Gerd Ronning for undertaking the task to evaluate my Habilitation thesis.

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3642586872

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Taming Fruit

How Orchards Have Transformed the Land, Offered Sanctuary and Inspired Creativity

By: Bernd Brunner

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Taming Fruit

How Orchards Have Transformed the Land, Offered Sanctuary and Inspired Creativity

By: Bernd Brunner

A captivating cultural and scientific history of orchards, for readers of Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire and Mark Kurlansky’s Salt. Throughout history, orchards have nourished both body and soul: they are sites for worship and rest, inspiration for artists and writers, and places for people to gather. In Taming Fruit, award-winning writer Bernd Brunner interweaves evocative illustrations with masterful prose to show that the story of orchards is a story of how we have shaped nature to our desires for millennia. As Brunner tells it, the first orchards may have been oases dotted with date trees, where desert nomads stopped to rest. In the Amazon, Indigenous people maintained mosaic gardens centuries before colonization. Modern fruit cultivation developed over thousands of years in the East and the West. As populations expanded, fruit trees sprang from the lush gardens of the wealthy and monasteries to fields and roadsides, changing landscapes as they fed the hungry. But orchards don’t just produce fruit; they also inspire great artists. Taming Fruit shares paintings, photographs, and illustrations alongside Brunner's enchanting descriptions and research, offering a multifaceted-—and long-awaited—portrait of the orchard.

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1771644087

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Error Analysis

A comprehensive bibliography

By: Bernd Spillner

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Error Analysis

A comprehensive bibliography

By: Bernd Spillner

Errors are information. In contrastive linguistics, they are thought to be caused by unconscious transfer of mother tongue structures to the system of the target language and give information about both systems. In the interlanguage hypothesis of second language acquisition, errors are indicative of the different intermediate learning levels and are useful pedagogical feedback. In both cases error analysis is an essential methodological tool for diagnosis and evaluation of the language acquisition process. Errors, too, give information in psychoanalysis (e.g., the Freudian slip), in language universal research, and in other fields of linguistics, such as linguistic change.This bibliography is intended to stimulate study into cross-language, cross-discipline and cross-theoretical, as well as for language universal, use of the numerous, but sometimes hard to come by, error analysis studies. 5398 titles covering the period 1578 up to 1990 (with work in more than 144 languages and language families) are cited, cross-referenced, and described. The subject areas covered are numerous. For example: Theoretical Linguistics (Linguistic Typology, Cognitive Linguistics), Historical Linguistics (Language Change), Applied Linguistics (e.g. Speech Disorders), Translation, Mother Tongue Acquisition, Foreign Language Learning (Negative Transfer, Intralingual and Interlingual Errors), Psychoanalysis (Slips of the Tongue), Typography, Shorthand, Clinical Linguistics and Speech Pathology, Reading Research, Automatic Error Detection, Contact Linguistics (Code-switching, Interference), etc.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027284792

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Hermann Haken: From the Laser to Synergetics

A Scientific Biography of the Early Years

By: Bernd Kröger

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Hermann Haken: From the Laser to Synergetics

A Scientific Biography of the Early Years

By: Bernd Kröger

Hermann Haken (born 1927) is one of the “fathers” of the quantum-mechanical laser theory, formulated between 1962 and 1966, in strong competition with American researchers. Later on, he created Synergetics, the science of cooperation in multicomponent systems. The book concentrates on the development of his scientific work during the first thirty-five years of his career. In 1970 he and his doctoral student Robert Graham were able to show that the laser is an example of a nonlinear system far from thermal equilibrium that shows a phase-transition like behavior. Subsequently, this insight opened the way for the formulation of Synergetics. Synergetics is able to explain, how very large systems show the phenomenon of self-organization that can be mathematically described by only very few order parameters. The results of Haken’s research were published in two seminal books Synergetics (1977) and Advanced Synergetics (1983). After the year 1985 Haken concentrated his research on the macroscopic foundation of Synergetics. This led him towards the application of synergetic principles in medicine, cognitive research and, finally, in psychology. A comprehensive bibliography of Hermann Haken’s publications (nearly 600 numbers) is included in the book.

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3319116894

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Counsellor Competencies

Developing Counselling Skills for Education, Career and Occupation

By: Bernd-Joachim Ertelt,William E. Schulz,Andreas Frey

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Counsellor Competencies

Developing Counselling Skills for Education, Career and Occupation

By: Bernd-Joachim Ertelt,William E. Schulz,Andreas Frey

Career and student counselling is a complex task that requires a high level of professionalism. This book introduces basic counselling skills in vocational and educational guidance. It is based on important scientific models. The book presents internationally recognized counselling approaches which include among others micro counselling, solution focused brief counselling and competence oriented counselling. It also addresses possibilities for the use of artificial intelligence. The book offers direct guidance for the consulting practice and supports competence development through case studies, tasks and didactically designed exercises. It is suitable as a guide for the training of consulting professionals in the field of career guidance.

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3030874133

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Setting Signs for Europe

Why Diacritics Matter for European Integration

By: Bernd Kappenberg

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Setting Signs for Europe

Why Diacritics Matter for European Integration

By: Bernd Kappenberg

More than 20 years have passed since the introduction of the Universal Character Set. However, legacy applications still sometimes cannot even render German umlauts correctly. Part of this problem is a hidden political agenda: Consciously or unconsciously, patterns of the Cold War are continued in the interaction between Western and Eastern European languages. This book examines the current use of diacritical marks in Western Europe, such as the use of names from Slavic languages in electronic data processing systems. The role of the media as multiplier receives particular attention, with most error examples taken from actual media coverage.Considering international, EU, and national law and referring to ground-breaking court decisions, Kappenberg answers the question: 'Is there a right to diacritical marks in people's names?' This is followed by a description of current practice in several European countries.Finally, Setting Signs for Europe answers the question how in the framework of the EU's multilingualism policy effective approaches can be created to raise awareness among software vendors, the media, government agencies, and individuals regarding the correct handling of diacritics. Kappenberg also assesses the use of diacritics as a style element and offers an improved input method for diacritics.

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Columbia University Press

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3838267036

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Fritz Perls in Berlin 1893 - 1933

Expressionism Psychoanalysis Judaism

By: Bernd Bocian

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Fritz Perls in Berlin 1893 - 1933

Expressionism Psychoanalysis Judaism

By: Bernd Bocian

Using Fritz Perls as an example, this book recalls the representatives of an urban avant-garde culture who were driven out of Europe, emigrated, and for the most part found a new homeland in the USA. Many an element of the lost avant-garde spirit later found its way back to Europe in an enriched form. This monograph is the first to focus in greater depth on the German-European roots of Gestalt therapy. It thereby bridges the continents at the same time.

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EHP - Verlag Andreas Kohlhage

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3897976099

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Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL): A Methodology of Bilingual Teaching

By: Bernd Klewitz

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Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL): A Methodology of Bilingual Teaching

By: Bernd Klewitz

Learning foreign languages is a process of acquiring authentic contents in cultural contexts. In this respect, bilingual programs provide an effective connection between content-based studies and linguistic activities. The European umbrella term CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) not only comprises the aims and objectives of a sustainable format of teaching foreign languages but also the priority of content over language, in other words: language follows content, as in the Bauhaus precept form follows function. But in order to effectively integrate content and language, a comprehensive pedagogical approach is needed that goes beyond existing curricula and guidebooks. Bernd Klewitz aims at establishing the CLIL methodology by linking content requirements of subject areas, especially those in the social sciences, with linguistic building blocks and tools. The integrative methodology of bilingual programs extends to the study of literature, traditionally a domain of language tuition, but thought to be a seminal part of CLIL as well. The building blocks and language tools presented in this volume focus on learning foreign languages in cultural contexts, aims, and objectives of CLIL, parameters of an integrated bilingual teaching strategy, dimensions of bilingual learning, elements of a CLIL concept, Literary CLIL, CLIL tools and strategies, modules with worked examples, challenges, and desiderata, and a comprehensive glossary. Each section is completed with an interactive part of review, reflection, and practice.

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3838215133

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German Mergers & Acquisitions in the USA

Transaction management and success

By: Bernd Wübben

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German Mergers & Acquisitions in the USA

Transaction management and success

By: Bernd Wübben

Bernd Wübben analyzes the success of 87 German mergers and acquisitions in the USA during the period from 1990 to 2004. Employing a study of the capital markets’ reaction and a survey of acquirers’ executives, he shows that US transactions on average enhanced value for German companies and their shareholders. The author integrates the findings of both methodologies to identify the determinants of transaction success, including characteristics of the German acquiring and the US target companies as well as of the acquisition structure and management.

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3835094696

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Beiträge zum Göttinger Umwelthistorischen Kolloquium 2007 - 2008

By: Bernd Herrmann,Graduiertenkolleg Interdisziplinäre Umweltgeschichte

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Beiträge zum Göttinger Umwelthistorischen Kolloquium 2007 - 2008

By: Bernd Herrmann,Graduiertenkolleg Interdisziplinäre Umweltgeschichte

This annual yearbook presents essays in environmental history based on lectures given at the Göttingen study group 2Environmental History3 by external authors. As previous yearbooks it is dedicated to the plurality of approaches in environmental history and serves as a valuable source for information about current research in that realm. Seit seiner Gründung vor annähernd 25 Jahren hat sich das Göttinger UmwelthistorischeKolloquium zu einer Einrichtung entwickelt, welche die vielfältigen,thematisch einschlägigen Aktivitäten des Standortes wie auch des deutschsprachigenRaumes durch Austausch von Forschungsergebnissen und Sichtweisenbündelt. Von hier haben auch einige Unternehmungen ihren Ausgang genommen,welche zum heutigen Profil der Umweltgeschichte spürbar beitrugen.Der Band vereinigt Beiträge zum Kolloquium des Sommersemesters 2007 und des Wintersemesters 2007/08.

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Universitätsverlag Göttingen

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3940344397

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Über das Vergnügen an tragischen Gegenständen

Studien zum antiken Drama

By: Bernd Seidensticker

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Über das Vergnügen an tragischen Gegenständen

Studien zum antiken Drama

By: Bernd Seidensticker

Bernd Seidensticker ist im In- und Ausland als herausragender Forscher auf dem Gebiet des antiken Dramas bekannt. Insofern ist eine Sammlung seiner kleineren Arbeiten zu diesem Thema, die teilweise an entlegenen Orten publiziert worden sind, ein großes Desiderat. Die Arbeiten demonstrieren die große Spannweite von Seidenstickers Interessen: neben Studien zu Echtheitsfragen des üuuml;ber- lieferten Textes stehen Arbeiten zu zentralen Fragen der Interpretation, wie z. B. zur Rolle des Charakters oder dem Problem der tragischen Peripetie. Neben der griechischen Tragöouml;die kommen auch das Satyrspiel, eines der wichtigen Arbeitsfelder des Autors, und das lateinische Drama in den Blick. Die Sammlung richtet sich in erster Linie an Klassische Philologen, aber auch Literaturwissenschaftler anderer Fäauml;cher, und Theater- wissenschaftler werden die Sammlung mit großem Gewinn benutzen.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3598730241

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"... mein Acker ist die Zeit"

Aufsätze zur Umweltgeschichte

By: Bernd Herrmann

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"... mein Acker ist die Zeit"

Aufsätze zur Umweltgeschichte

By: Bernd Herrmann

Die hier zusammengestellten Aufsätze verdanken sich letztlich sämtlich der langjährigen Bemühung des Autors, der Umweltgeschichte im Wissenschaftsbetrieb ihren Platz als fächerübergreifendes Gespräch zu sichern. Als Querschnitt durch seine umwelthistorischen Arbeiten der letzten Jahre dokumentieren sie einen Teil der Publikationstätigkeit des Autors. Sie hat naturgemäß ihren Schwerpunkt in biologischer Thematik, von hier aus thematisiert sie aber immer auch eine allgemein umwelthistorische Perspektive.

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Price Stabilization on World Agricultural Markets

An Application to the World Market for Sugar

By: Bernd Lucke

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Price Stabilization on World Agricultural Markets

An Application to the World Market for Sugar

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Challenging Mathematics In and Beyond the Classroom

The 16th ICMI Study

By: Edward J. Barbeau,Peter J. Taylor

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Challenging Mathematics In and Beyond the Classroom

The 16th ICMI Study

By: Edward J. Barbeau,Peter J. Taylor

In the mid 1980s, the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (ICMI) inaugurated a series of studies in mathematics education by comm- sioning one on the influence of technology and informatics on mathematics and its teaching. These studies are designed to thoroughly explore topics of c- temporary interest, by gathering together a group of experts who prepare a Study Volume that provides a considered assessment of the current state and a guide to further developments. Studies have embraced a range of issues, some central, such as the teaching of algebra, some closely related, such as the impact of history and psychology, and some looking at mathematics education from a particular perspective, such as cultural differences between East and West. These studies have been commissioned at the rate of about one per year. Once the ICMI Executive decides on the topic, one or two chairs are selected and then, in consultation with them, an International Program Committee (IPC) of about 12 experts is formed. The IPC then meets and prepares a Discussion Document that sets forth the issues and invites interested parties to submit papers. These papers are the basis for invitations to a Study Conference, at which the various dimensions of the topic are explored and a book, the Study Volume, is sketched out. The book is then put together in collaboration, mainly using electronic communication. The entire process typically takes about six years.

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Price Stabilization on World Agricultural Markets

Price Stabilization on World Agricultural Markets

Digital Government

Digital Government

Wages and Employment Across Skill Groups

Wages and Employment Across Skill Groups

Taming Fruit

Taming Fruit

Error Analysis

Error Analysis

Hermann Haken: From the Laser to Synergetics

Hermann Haken: From the Laser to Synergetics

Counsellor Competencies

Counsellor Competencies

Setting Signs for Europe

Setting Signs for Europe

Fritz Perls in Berlin 1893 - 1933

Fritz Perls in Berlin 1893 - 1933

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL): A Methodology of Bilingual Teaching

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL): A Methodology of Bilingual Teaching

German Mergers & Acquisitions in the USA

German Mergers & Acquisitions in the USA

Beiträge zum Göttinger Umwelthistorischen Kolloquium 2007 - 2008

Beiträge zum Göttinger Umwelthistorischen Kolloquium 2007 - 2008

Über das Vergnügen an tragischen Gegenständen

Über das Vergnügen an tragischen Gegenständen

"... mein Acker ist die Zeit"

"... mein Acker ist die Zeit"

Price Stabilization on World Agricultural Markets

Price Stabilization on World Agricultural Markets

Challenging Mathematics In and Beyond the Classroom

Challenging Mathematics In and Beyond the Classroom

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