Academic literature on the topic 'German literature – explication'

Abstract This article reviews foundational research on the problem of unmarked word order in German. Focussing on the two most influential seminal papers by Lenerz (1977) and Höhle (1982), I argue that their attempts to determine unmarked, normal word order (either by definition or by explication) is flawed by the fact that both authors presuppose a certain empirical data base without offering a complete grammatical analysis of the data in question. I contend that a more comprehensive, linguistically satisfying analysis of these data will in turn presuppose a pre-given notion of unmarked, normal word order, thus making for a circular definition or explication. As is well-known, normal word order interacts with factors like point of view, thematic roles, animacy, and others. I will argue that influential suggestions for designing a precise theory of these interactions are unsuccessful on both methodological and empirical grounds. I suggest that the traditional modular analysis based on cumulation and treshold values is still the best model we have at present; however, a large and hitherto unresolved issue is the vast variety of contradicting acceptability judgments found in the literature. A careful analysis of these meta-data should enable us to determine paradigmatic core cases while, at the same time, leave room for deviations in various directions, and even for individual ad hoc preferences at the periphery.

For the first time in the Russian-language literature, the article analyzes the works of the English mathematician, geographer and astronomer Thomas Harriot (1560–1621) related to the binary number system. The various variants of the binary notation of numbers presented in the works, examples of converting a decimal number to a binary number and vice versa, examples of four arithmetic operations in the binary number system, the execution methods of which coincide with modern ones, as well as an example of multiplication by an original method, the name of which can be translated in Latin as "another method is sequential addition" are given. All this allows us to conclude that Thomas Harriot described the binary number system earlier than the great German scientist Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who did so in his work "Explication de l'Arithmétique Binaire" in 1703.

The purpose of the article is to identify the features of the expression of temporal future tense semantics in various types of subordinate clauses of complex sentences, which so far have not received adequate coverage in linguistic literature. Analyzed are utterances with complex sentences containing direct speech, obtained with the random sampling method from the German fictional and publicistic texts. The total volume of the analyzed material makes up 1089 linguistic units with future tense semantics. In spite of dependent character of predication in the subordinate clause, the explication of future tense semantics in it is very heterogeneous. The most frequent types of subordinate clauses with future-oriented meaning in both analyzed discourses are conditional clauses, attribute, object, and subject clauses as well as subordinate clauses of time and purpose. The diverse repertoire of linguistic means, among which are not only grammatical ones (for example, Präsens, Futur I, Perfekt, Konditionalis I, Präteritum Konjunktiv), but also lexical and grammatical (for example, modal verb constructions), allows of formal and semantic variation, revealing a certain sensitivity in relation to discursive characteristics of the utterance. The most significant explicators of future tense semantics in the subordinate clause are the grammatical forms Präsens and Futur I. Präsens is characterized by high frequency in all types of subordinate clauses and “neutrality” against Futur I, which has limitations when used, for example, in conditional clauses, subordinate clauses of time and purpose, in view of their future time orientation. Futur I can also serve to focus attention on the upcoming action, which contributes to frequency of its use in dependent predication. The semantics of perfect forms, modal verbs, their functional synonyms and conjunctive forms also reveals certain combination preferences by expressing future tense semantics in a subordinate clause.

Frank in this article treats the disagreement between François Lyotard and Jürgen Habermas over whether there are arguments that cannot be decided rationally. Lyotard identifies rational undecidability as the “postmodern condition.” Habermas objects that reasonable procedures do exist that are adequate for the resolution of any argument among reasonable participants. Frank judges Lyotard’s argument as unpersuasive yet blames Habermas for dismissing altogether the idea of rationally undecidable disagreements. Frank then turns from contemporary philosophy to early German Romantic hermeneutics and literary theory to substantiate a claim that unresolvable disagreement exists even amid consensus. “Every consensus,” Frank writes in explication of Friedrich Schleiermacher, “contains a residual misunderstanding that will never entirely go away, and this is why no consensus as to either the meaning or the interpretation of the world can ever be final or universally valid.” Frank moreover cites the even more radical position of Friedrich Schlegel: “All truth is relative—but together with that proposition another must be coordinated: there is essentially no such thing as error.” Frank’s own conclusion, reached after comparing these Romantic notions with Jacques Derrida’s concept of différance, is that “the shaping of consensus will never lead us to a universal symbolism that everyone must make use of in the same way.”

Abstract Given the current call for interdisciplinarity, we reflect on pragmatic methodological implementations of collaborative research – by drawing on empirical evidence from two large-scale cross-disciplinary research projects and by theoretically framing them in trilingual contexts (German, French, and English). These are two major innovations compared to the existing body of literature in this domain. Our empirical analysis shows that multi-, inter- or trans-disciplinary collaboration is an oscillating process along a spectrum of cross-disciplinarity – spanning additive, converging and synthesizing work patterns, i.e. multi-, inter-, and transdisciplinarity. Such an umbrella-term avoids the common amalgamation of ‘interdisciplinarity’ as the overarching category (cross-disciplinarity of whatever form) and one of the relevant subcategories (the specific work form that a research team chooses). Concretely, if the majority of methods are developed through communal negotiation processes, then a truly interdisciplinary analysis of research results can only be guaranteed through recursive self-reflexive loops. Initial research questions may still be additive and interactions can oscillate during the project process between addition und tentative convergence. We label this process situative interdisciplinarity. Multi-, inter- and transdisciplinarity are thus subsumed as a processual entity: flexible, possibly hybrid subforms of cross-disciplinarity. It needs constant reactivation, framing, timing and mediation by project managers. The major challenge lies in the collaborative transfer of concepts, theories, methods and research subjects. This transfer requires translation, explication and transposition of the various disciplinary ‘languages’ and can only be converged in an open-minded, team-oriented and reflexive work environment.

In the paper, the author states that in the UK the emergence of theoretical compendia that represent and simultaneously revise the literary landscape of this country (as well as the United States), determines the necessity to outline the boundaries of the period, which in these works is defined as post-postmodernism. The latter concept has no clear theoretical explication and is discussed in the form of literary directions (altermodernism, digimodernism, metamodernism) that define new aesthetic and philosophical grounds that differ from postmodernism. In the paper, the author substantiates the historical boundaries of post-postmodernism, in particular emphasizing the factors that led to the formation of a new literary paradigm after 2000s. The ideas of British theorists on «realisms» in contemporary British literature have been developed with the emphasis on the presentation of new worldview models and identities in the contemporary British novels. A review of «The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction» (edited by D. O’Gorman and R. Eaglestone) is represented, which gives a condensed view of the aesthetic and philosophical pursuits of the contemporary British novel. The transformation of the archetype of Home in the paradigm of the contemporary (postpostmodern) novel has been spotlighted. Attention is drawn to explaining the representation of «one’s own» and «another’s» («alien») concepts, which reconstructs the traditional idea of Home as a space of protection and security. The transcultural processes inherent in the British novel have been discussed. The new character of the worldview (based on the materials of the novels by D. Mitchell and M. Haddon) has been outlined, which gives reason to speak abouta special postpostmodern way of observing the reality and provide its interpretations. The outline of the corpus of epistemological problems in the contemporary British novel actualizes the experience of philosophy of I. Kant, which is emphasized primarily by British theorists, referring in their own interpretative models to this tradition of German classical philosophy, which becomes important for the post-postmodern novels since 2000s.

AbstractTraditional frontier literature identifies a positive correlation between land availability and fertility. A common explanation is that the demand for child labour is higher in newly established frontier regions compared to older, more densely populated farming regions. In this paper, we contribute to the debate by analysing the relationship between household composition and land availability in a closing frontier region, i.e. the Graaff-Reinet district in South Africa’s Cape Colony from 1798–1828. We show that the number of children in farming households increased with frontier closure, while the presence of non-family labourers decreased over time. Contrasting with the classic interpretation, we explain this by acknowledging that the demand for family labour was not a function of its marginal productivity and that farmers reacted differently to diminishing land availability depending on their wealth. Poorer households, which made up the majority of this frontier population, responded to shrinking land availability by employing relatively more family labour, while the wealthiest group invested in strengthening market access.TRANSLATED ABSTRACTS FRENCH – GERMAN – SPANISHJeanne Cilliers et Erik Green. L’hypothèse sur la disponibilité de terres et la main d’œuvre dans une économie de colons: richesse, main d’œuvre et composition du ménage à la frontière sud-africaine.La littérature traditionnelle de la frontière identifie une corrélation positive entre la disponibilité de terres et la fertilité. Une explication courante est que la demande de travail des enfants est supérieure dans les régions frontalières nouvellement établies, par comparaison avec d’anciennes régions agricoles plus densément peuplées. Dans cet article, nous contribuons au débat en analysant la relation entre la composition du ménage et la disponibilité de terres dans une région frontalière en train de fermer, le district de Graaff-Reinert dans la Colonie du Cap en Afrique du Sud, entre 1798 et 1828. Les auteurs montrent que le nombre des enfants dans les ménages agricoles augmenta avec la fermeture des frontières, tandis que la présence d’ouvriers agricoles non familiaux déclina au fil des ans. Contrairement à l’interprétation classique, nous expliquons ce phénomène en reconnaissant que la demande de travailleurs familiaux ne dépendit pas de sa productivité marginale, et que les exploitants agricoles réagirent différemment selon leur richesse à la disponibilité de terres diminuante. Les foyers plus pauvres, qui constituaient la majorité de cette population frontalière, répondirent à la disponibilité de terres déclinante en employant relativement plus de main d’œuvre familiale, tandis que le groupe le plus riche investit dans le renforcement de l’accès au marché.Traduction: Christine Plard

AbstractBased on a review of the literature and historical evidence, I argue that the use of the methodological principle known as the priority principle in Anglo-American Nietzsche scholarship is inconsistent and irreconcilable with historical evidence. It attempts to demarcate between the published works and the Nachlass. However, there are no agreed upon necessary and sufficient conditions of a particular textual object being considered “Nachlass.” This absence leads to implicit and often tacit value demarcation criteria that can be broadly grouped into four types of consideration: publication, authorization, publicness, and audience. Each of these criteria pick out a different set of texts as “Nachlass.” Thus, despite the veneer of agreement, the most broadly accepted methodological approach in the Anglo-American tradition of Nietzsche scholarship is applied inconsistently. I argue that we must either offer necessary and sufficient conditions for a piece of text being Nachlass, or we ought to abandon such abstract criteria altogether and embrace a contextual and historical approach. I then argue that the first option is impossible given historical evidence. I conclude this article by explicating several recent German approaches to the Nachlass which I think can offer a new possible approach.

Abstract My paper discusses the controversial relationship between literature and literary studies by using the example of the term ›migration literature‹. It demonstrates in the first part that ›migration literature‹ as a term in literary studies does not expose explications of rational reconstructions of a conceptual content in Harald Fricke’s and Klaus Weimar’s understanding. In its history (Adelson 1991; 2004), ›migration literature‹ goes back to a chain of different terms and definitions as Gastarbeiter- or Ausländerliteratur and reflects strategies of homogenization and exclusion. From the 1980s forward, those terms produce in cultural contexts a semantic field that propagates culture based on a definition of ex negativo (Tafazoli 2019). The first part of my paper describes an outline of influences of homogenization and reductionism on the discourses of migration in literary studies and explains in the second part an asymmetrical relationship between motive on the one hand and terminology on the other. The term ›migration literature‹ seems to dominate this relationship by determination of a source of ›accepted truths‹ related to the life and background – specifically to the place of birth and the origin – of the author (Bay 2017). By prioritization of criteria beyond narrative reality, literary studies led in the 1980s and 1990s discourses on migration on the sidelines of canon of German speaking literature (Weigel 1991; Wilpert 2001). With regard to terminological determination in order to produce interpretative sovereignty (Foucault 1994), my paper exemplifies in the second part that the term ›migration literature‹ collects selected and limited fields of social, historical and political knowledge in perspective adjustment and in order to classify literature beyond aesthetic criteria. By this means, inductive standards (Müller 2010a; 2010b) classify the literary object ›migration‹ ontologically and regardless of factuality of the author’s life on the one hand and fictionality of narrative text on the other. The ontological classification has been used, for example, in contexts that replace the figure of stranger (Fremder) by the figure of migrant and determines the latter as figuration of external space of culture. The replacement suggests a perspective rigidity in the cultural production of knowledge that flows into a terminological classification and claims with the term ›migration literature‹ sovereignty over culture. From this point of view, the author and his work should be located in the external space of canonized literature. The second part of my paper comes to the conclusion that the term ›migration literature‹ has been developed in politicized frames of external-textual ›accepted truths‹ and bases its stability on cultural essentialism and exclusion regardless of heterogenetic appearance (Bhatti 2015). With regard to theories of »literature on the move« (Ette 2001), my paper understands that migration has always formed a considerable part of literary production. Therefore, migration could be understood as a literary motive. This meaning would undermine an ontological understanding of culture. Narrative texts develop poetics of migration and create by figurations of migration a poly-perspectivity in which migration advances to a polysemantic motive. My paper discusses these thoughts in the context of cultural memory in the third part and understands varied and multifaceted constructions of cultural memory on all sides of cultural borders. This part confronts the asymmetrical relationship between motive and terminology with discussions on migration as narrative of cultural memory that belongs to cultural majority and minority equally, at the same time and in the same space. Based on this understanding, my paper argues that migration as a motive construct shapes and leads discourses of culture under the conditions of global re-formation. The shift of the perspective from conceptual classification to close-readings of literary constructions should lead us to considerations about the openness of the narrative in distinction to terminological unity and should also initiate a paradigm shift in locating migration in discourses of literary studies. The theoretical considerations will be exemplified in the fourth section by Mohammad Hossein Allafis Frankfurter Trilogie that is a collection of the novels Die Nächte am Main (1998), Die letzte Nacht mit Gabriela (2000) and Gabriela findet einen Stapel Papier (2012). The fourth part of my paper examines in Frankfurter Trilogie a reading that integrates migration as a motive into the discourse of cultural memory of global challenges. Using the example of the Trilogie, this part of my paper demonstrates that discussions on migration in the context of cultural memory could initiate a shift in the perspective of reception from conceptual homogenization to narrative openness. The shift of perspective shows that literature translates the questions of community into the aesthetic perception of the form of culture and civilization in which the community actually articulates and appears itself and shows also that reading of migration as a statement about one nation has lost its explanatory power. The last part of my paper resumes my thoughts and takes position in the current fields of research in literary studies.

La producción de conocimiento a través de la investigación académica está siendo cada vez más exigida y cuestionada, en un entorno de crisis socio-económica e institucional generalizada de la Universidad. Por su parte, la investigación académica se ve exigida para dar respuesta a las presiones y necesidades del entorno, concretamente a las prioridades de las organizaciones productivas y del mercado. Al mismo tiempo, la investigación en gestión, contabilidad y finanzas es cuestionada por conseguir un impacto muy modesto, en términos de relevancia y difusión de sus hallazgos a un público más amplio, que trascienda el contexto de los mismos investigadores. Estas exigencias y cuestionamientos reclaman una reflexión detenida por parte de los académicos; por ello, en este editorial queremos aportar algunos breves elementos para el debate.Boaventura de Sousa santos, uno de los más influyentes pensadores sociales contemporáneos, ha senalado que actualmente la Universidad vivencia una crisis de hegemonía, una crisis de legitimidad y una crisis institucional (De Sousa, 2007).Hoy en día, el conocimiento autorizado ya no se genera solo en la Universidad, lo que tiene implicaciones profundas en su centralidad-hegemonía y en la forma en que la sociedad misma ve a esta institución. En la sociedad del conocimiento, las empresas y otras entidades privadas parecen preocuparse por la creación del conocimiento, tanto o más que la Universidad y el propio Estado. La presión por la innovación atraviesa todo el tejido societal y no se entiende por fuera de la generación de nuevo conocimiento, con capacidad de ser usado y asimilado colectivamente. Allí, la tensión entre conocimiento e interés toma un realce particular, puesto que los fines altruistas y los mecanismos que acompañaron los procesos de producción de conocimiento en la "academia" se ven desplazados y/o transformados en un escenario de nuevas prioridades económicas (Habermas, 1982).La crisis de legitimidad de la Universidad surge en el marco de las contradicciones sociales y de las funciones y valores que la misma Universidad asumió en la modernidad (De sousa, 2007). El proyecto de educación de masas, bajo el amparo de los valores de la ilustración, implicaba el aumento de la cobertura de la educación superior como un camino hacia la construcción de una sociedad más democrática e incluyente. Pero las relaciones complejas entre educación para el ascenso social, reproducción de los valores dominantes y de la alta cultura y la prioridad en las necesidades económicas (mano de obra para el trabajo) han llevado a que, sobre todo en los países industrializados, la educación superior no logre colmar todas las expectativas de retornos económicos y/o de desarrollo democrático de tales sociedades.Finalmente, la crisis institucional de la Universidad deviene de la contradicción de sus valores, entre ellos la autonomía necesaria para la búsqueda del conocimiento comprometido solo con el bien común y la verdad, y las exigencias crecientes de eficiencia y de gestión bajo los parámetros de las entidades empresariales. La transformación paulatina de las prioridades y valores de las clases dominantes llevó a que la Universidad lentamente perdiera el compromiso estatal de su financiación, teniendo que desplegar procesos de gestión de sus ingresos y costos. La búsqueda de ingresos hace que sus actividades misionales se adapten al mercado, por ejemplo, con impactos profundos en la creación de conocimiento desinteresado, en la formación para la ciudadanía o en el cultivo de la estética y las artes liberales (Nussbaum, 2010).De esta manera, la conjunción de estas crisis conduce a la situación social, institucional y económica que hoy viven las universidades, no solo en Colombia, sino en gran parte del mundo industrializado, que podemos catalogar francamente como "crítica". Es en tal contexto en el que la presión por desarrollar agendas de investigación más "aplicadas" o cercanas a las necesidades de las organizaciones y del mercado se torna prioritaria en las instituciones universitarias. Es también en este contexto donde la relevancia es entendida como la consecución de aplicaciones concretas de los resultados de investigación a problemas organizacionales, con retornos económico-financieros positivos conseguidos en el mercado (p.e. patentes, contratos de [&D, etc.).Es innegable que en el ámbito de las ciencias de gestión, de la contabilidad y de las finanzas, la naturaleza de tales conocimientos reclama un vínculo muy profundo con el mundo organizacional. No obstante, debemos diferenciar con cuidado la búsqueda del conocimiento y la verdad, de la generación de publicidad o de la producción de relatos que pretenden legitimidad. La investigación aplicada se torna más relevante y confiable para conocer el mundo empresarial, cuando está soportada en marcos conceptuales y estructuras teóricas robustas, que son propias de la investigación básica y que permiten entregar sentido explicativo y comprensivo a los eventos empíricos; todo ello implica que no solo la aplicación es válida para la investigación en nuestras disciplinas. Pero al mismo tiempo, la investigación aplicada puede poner a prueba los referentes teóricos traídos de otras latitudes y ser germen para la construcción de un conocimiento endógeno de nuestra realidad tropical (Mora-Osejo y Fals-Borda, 2004).De esta manera, el vínculo entre Universidad, por una parte, y entorno empresarial y mercado, por otra, requiere ser permanente repensado y reconstruido. Debemos comprender que los tiempos de la generación del conocimiento no necesariamente siguen los ritmos de la producción empresarial, expuesta a las presiones para la subsistencia económica en la lucha del mercado. Pero también debemos entender que la comprensión, intervención y transformación de nuestra realidad reclama un proceso disciplinado y comprometido con la entrega de resultados tangibles, que repercutan en sugerencias y estrategias de acción para el mediano y largo plazo.La relevancia de los resultados de investigación y la efectividad de su difusión vienen siendo también discutidas. Una evaluación de las diferentes posturas no puede perder de vista el contexto de crisis que la Universidad afronta. En el fondo, la relevancia de la investigación universitaria es cuestionada dadas las crisis financiera y de legitimidad que esta institución enfrenta. El debate por el sentido de la publicación universitaria y académica debe ser abordado, sin perder de vista los matices sociológicos que están inmersos en la producción del conocimiento. De ello se desprende la conveniencia de admitir que los académicos son individuos que actúan en estructuras sociales y con ciertos grados de agencia-autonomía; por tanto, también pueden ser más o menos altruistas, utilitaristas, interesados u oportunistas.Si bien la difusión de los resultados de investigación primero requiere del lente experto de los académicos, para garantizar el carácter científico de los hallazgos y la autorregulación responsable, no es menos cierto que la investigación debe trascender el reducido espacio de los claustros, impactando a los actores con capacidad de decisión política y económica y a la opinión pública. No obstante, no solo la Universidad está en crisis. La sociedad enfrenta una crisis de iniquidad y valores democráticos que tiene pocos precedentes. En un escenario como estos, la verdad puede ser incómoda, no solo para el poder económico (que hoy se funde con el poder político) sino para los propios ciudadanos. El riesgo sería confundir relevancia y pertinencia, solo con conocimiento interesado y retórica de legitimación sobre el statu quo en el mundo organizacional y en el mercado global.Por estas razones, entre otras, desde esta tribuna que es [NNOVAR, invitamos a los académicos iberoamericanos de las ciencias de gestión (así como de otras ciencias sociales), para plantear debates y reflexiones que permitan aumentar nuestra comprensión de la realidad organizacional de la región. Estamos comprometidos con el conocimiento científico para el bienestar social y para la construcción de procesos organizacionales más sostenibles. Trabajaremos en conseguir que la revista no solo sea un medio de difusión dirigido a académicos, sino en que la base de profesionales, empresarios y tomadores de decisiones públicas que acceden a nuestra publicación sea cada vez mayor.En este número presentamos diez (10) artículos de investigación, agrupados en tres (3) de nuestras tradicionales secciones: Estrategia y organizaciones, Contabilidad y finanzas, y Educación y empleo.En la primera sección, Estrategia y organizaciones, recogemos cuatro (4) artículos.Desde Uruguay, el profesor Luis silva-Domingo aporta su investigación bajo el título "Management Control: Unsolved Problems and Research Opportunities". En este trabajo el autor identifica un conjunto de conceptos centrales para el control de gestión, llamando la atención sobre la importancia del consenso entre los académicos e investigadores para fortalecer este campo de conocimientos. Los tres conceptos clave que requieren mayores acuerdos son: el problema del control de gestión; la definición y caracterización de los mecanismos del control de gestión; y, finalmente, el alcance de los sistemas de control de gestión.En una colaboración hispano-chilena, los profesores Patricia Huerta, Paloma Almodóvar, Liliana Pedraja, José Navas y Sergio Contreras nos presentan el artículo "Factores que impactan sobre los resultados empresariales: un estudio comparativo entre empresas chilenas y españolas". El trabajo realiza una importante revisión de la literatura sobre los factores que definen el resultado empresarial. Al mismo tiempo, lleva a cabo una muy juiciosa contrastación en empresas de los dos países estudiados, entregando evidencia empírica sobre los factores que influyen decisivamente en los resultados empresariales.Las profesoras españolas Natalia Vila e [Nés Kúster contribuyen a este número con el trabajo titulado "¿Conduce la internacionalización al éxito de una empresa familiar?: aplicación al sector textil". Esta investigación buscó contrastar en las empresas del sector textil espanol, un sector altamente competitivo, la manera en que la internacionalización promovió el éxito empresarial. Para ello, asumió como variables definitorias del éxito empresarial: los resultados empresariales (volumen de ventas, nivel de beneficios, etc.) y los indicadores de desempeño (satisfacción de los clientes, reputación percibida, calidad, etc.). La investigación se basó en encuestas realizadas a 154 gerentes de empresas textiles de España.Para cerrar esta sección, se presenta en la revista el artículo titulado "Project Management in Development Cooperation. Non Governmental Organizations", de autoría de los profesores Maricela Montes-Guerra, Aida De-Miguel, Amaya Pérez-Ezcurdia, Faustino Gimena y Mauricio Díez-silva, fruto de una colaboración colombo-espanola. En esta investigación, los autores llaman la atención sobre la relevancia de la gestión de proyectos para las iniciativas de apoyo y cooperación internacional al desarrollo. En particular, el trabajo permite concluir que la gestión de proyectos puede mejorar la eficiencia y la rendición de cuentas de tales proyectos.Nuestra sección de Contabilidad y finanzas está constituida, igualmente, por cuatro (4) artículos científicos.El primer artículo de esta sección es de autoría del profesor colombiano Javier Humberto Ospina Holguín, y se titula "Medidas dinámicas de predictibilidad en el índice S&P 500 y sus determinantes". Esta investigación buscó medir la predictibilidad del índice Standard and Poor's 500. Para ello construyó un algoritmo basado en medidas dinámicas de predictibilidad. La investigación concluye que el mercado no es estáticamente predecible, sino que la predictibilidad evoluciona dinámicamente, lo que corrobora la hipótesis teórica de la tendencia adaptativa del mercado.Los profesores españoles Fernando Azcárate Llanes, Manuel Fernández Chulián y Francisco Carrasco Fenech aportan el trabajo "Memorias de sostenibilidad e indicadores integrados: análisis exploratorio sobre características definitorias. Una reflexión crítica". Esta investigación buscó caracterizar las empresas que publican memorias de sostenibilidad (informes de desarrollo sostenible, siguiendo la guía No. 3 del Global Reporting [niciative-GR[ G3-) y que contienen indicadores integrados. A partir de la realización de un análisis clúster, el trabajo permitió agrupar a las empresas que producen los informes (memorias) de mayor calidad. Se concluye que las memorias muestran deficiencias, pese al alto reconocimiento que, en materia de Responsabilidad social, tienen las empresas que las emiten.Bajo el título "El empleo de la Webmetría para el análisis de los indicadores de desempeño y posición financiera de la empresa: un análisis exploratorio en diversos sectores económicos de los Estados Unidos", presentamos la colaboración de los profesores Esteban Romero Frías, Liwen Vaughan y Lázaro Rodríguez Ariza, de universidades de España y Canadá. Esta investigación busca identificar si existe relación entre las variables financieras y los enlaces recibidos por empresas de diversos sectores económicos. El trabajo buscó extender los hallazgos previos de la literatura, más allá de empresas del sector de tecnología, particularmente en el contexto estadounidense. Los resultados muestran que existe un vínculo entre el número de enlaces que reciben las páginas web de las empresas y su dimensión económica (posición y desempeño financiero).Cierra esta sección con la investigación de los profesores espanoles Belén Vallejo-Alonso, José Domingo García-Merino y Gerardo Arregui-Ayastuy, artículo titulado "Motives for Financial Valuation of Intangibles and Business Performance in SMEs". Este trabajo buscó analizar la relación existente entre los motivos que llevan a la valoración de los intangibles y el desempeño de las pequeñas y medianas empresas (Pymes). La investigación empírica implicó entrevistar telefónicamente a 369 gerentes financieros de Pymes españolas y la vinculación de sus respuestas con el análisis de la información financiera de tales empresas. Los resultados muestran que las Pymes consideran que la valoración financiera de sus intangibles permite un mejor desempeño.En la sección de Educación y empleo, para este número, publicamos dos (2) resultados de investigación.El primer trabajo se denomina "¿Es posible potenciar la capacidad de liderazgo en la universidad?", fruto de la colaboración de los profesores Carmen Delia Dávila Quintana, José-Ginés Mora, Pedro Pérez Vázquez y Luis Eduardo Vila, quienes están vinculados con universidades de España y el Reino Unido. El trabajo analizó la importancia de la educación superior en el comportamiento de los egresados en el puesto de trabajo, particularmente en las dimensiones del liderazgo orientado a las tareas, las relaciones y al cambio. A partir de modelos de ecuaciones estructurales, los resultados muestran que el comportamiento de los egresados como líderes depende crucialmente de determinadas competencias clave.El segundo artículo, fruto del trabajo de las investigadoras colombianas Silvia Morales Gualdrón y Astrid Giraldo Gómez, se titula "Análisis de una innovación social: el Comité Universidad Empresa Estado del Departamento de Antioquia (Colombia) y su funcionamiento como mecanismo de interacción". La investigación buscó caracterizar el Comité Universidad Empresa Estado (CUEE) del Departamento de Antioquia, desde la teoría de redes y la teoría de la comunicación funcional. La metodología observada fue cualitativa y se basó en entrevistas a profundidad y en la triangulación de documentos, tales como las actas del CUEE. El trabajo concluye que el CUEE opera como una red de conocimiento en el que la comunicación, la deliberación, la confianza y la negociación se construyen por medio del consenso.Como siempre, estamos seguros de que nuestros lectores encontrarán valiosos estos trabajos. También, partimos de reconocer que nuestros colaboradores continúan aportando a la comprensión de la dinámica organizacional y socioeconómica, en un ambiente complejo y retador como el que enfrenta hoy la Universidad internacional e iberoamericana.

This thesis examines the content and reception of Ibsen's Peer Gynt. Chapter I begins with a summary of Ibsen's life and influences, placing Ibsen and his plays into a historical context. Chapter II is a detailed explication of .Peer Gynt, which illustrates the correlation between Ibsen's biography and Peer's life, the extensive use of Nordic folklore and the philosophy of Kierkegaard, Goethe, and Hegel. These issues and ideas are examined in order to create a theory of Ibsen's intended message to the public. In chapter III the immediate reception of Peer Gynt in Scandinavia is discussed, as well as the extended reception of Peer Gynt in Germany. This demonstrates the difference in the critics' reception, in relation to their time period, culture, and translation. The nationalistic German Dietrich Eckart is an extreme example of how a trusted translator of Peer Gynt produced a falsified translation of the dramatic poem, which he used to promote an ideal specific to his time period and culture, thus illustrating how a falsified translation can affect the interpretation and criticism of a text. The thesis concludes by demonstrating how important translation is as a factor in the critical reception of a text.

This thesis addresses the traumata associated with Poland’s frontier changes in 1945, within a collective memory paradigm. These events include expulsions from German territories incorporated into Poland, and population transfers between Poland and the USSR. The thesis addresses two components: a central trauma complex, and the resulting collective memory discourse. Being a matter of historical record, the statistical details and chronology of these events are seldom contested, although they have often been instrumentalised by various stakeholders. Instead, the relevant collective memory discourse has focused on the production of broad, often exculpatory, narrative frameworks designed to explain a set of largely accepted facts. Accordingly, my thesis is primarily focused on this collective memory discourse. As an active phase, dominated by stakeholders with a high level of emotional investment in the narration and memorialisation of the relevant events, this collective memory discourse is currently undergoing a transition to the domain of History as a scholarly pursuit. This transition is best symbolised by the fact that, as of 2016, for the first time since 1945, all restrictions on the acquisition of agricultural land and forests in Poland’s former German territories, by Germans, will be lifted. Thus, for surviving expellees, the right of return, in conjunction with the potential to purchase any formerly held real estate and landholdings, will become a de jure reality, marking the end of the region’s long postwar period. Arguably, therefore, one can now engage, at a retrospective, analytical level, with the relevant collective memory discourse without being drawn into it. In order to navigate this complex discourse, I have developed a number of analytical and conceptual tools, which I hope may prove useful beyond this project. In this sense, this thesis can be viewed as a proof of concept. Chief among these tools are a novel working definition of collective memory as a discrete phase in the historification and mythologizing of traumatic events, and a three-level model designed for the consistent analysis of narrative texts, artefacts and cultural productions. By tracing the relevant collective memory discourse through a number of 4 disparate fields, including political myth-making, historiography, toponymic practice, cartography and literature, I have been able to test these analytical and conceptual tools to breaking point, often benefiting from the resulting heuristic gain wherever lived complexity defies simplistic analytic idealisation. To ensure a focused exposition of the theoretical framework and the sources analysed, this thesis is primarily centred upon Lower Silesia and the following broad research questions: what geo-socio-political power dynamics resulted in Poland’s postwar frontier changes and the associated traumata, and how were they justified at the time? How have historians reacted over time to Poland’s postwar frontier changes, and the humanitarian consequences, as well as to contemporary framework narratives relating to these events? How has the toponymic re-inscription of Poland’s former German territories influenced the relevant collective memory discourse, and to what extent have cartographic representations of postwar Poland been influenced by changing geo-political configurations? How have the prevailing socio-political conditions in postwar Germany and Poland constrained literary contributions to the relevant collective memory discourse? And, finally, in what ways, has literature contributed in turn, to the relevant collective memory discourse and the establishment of hegemonic historical narratives? This thesis presents a number of specific findings, the most significant of which is that political contingencies can result in a surprising deflection of collective memory discourse into seemingly unrelated fields, and can trigger a ripple effect, which has the ability to globalise collective memory discourse under certain circumstances. Similarly, my analysis of shared topoi in the works of German and Polish historians and literary authors demonstrates that, far from generating its own framework of reference based on specific traumatic events, collective memory discourse is exquisitely sensitive to broader socio-political narratives. In addition, I contend that mainstream historical narratives tend to simplify, for example, through the imposition of a chronology on multidirectional memories, and by focusing on homogenizing accounts of the collective at the expense of 5 individual narratives. In contrast, literature and local cultural performances often resist such simplification, thus preserving complexity. Viewed in this light, the pursuit of Cultural and Literary Studies addresses a clear problem within, and usefully augments, traditional historical scholarship. By carefully analysing a subset of Polish and German literature, historiography and cultural artefacts produced in response to the traumatic events in question, my thesis seeks to trace the transition from highly localised stakeholder-led collective memory discourses to hegemonic historical narratives developed and maintained in the service of broader geo-political agendas.

Salomon Maimon, an important contemporary of Kant, has been given renewed attention thanks in part to the work of Gilles Deleuze. Although like Kant, Maimon sought to bridge the gap between understanding and sensation, concepts, and intuition, he diverged by conceiving of them as differences of degree along a continuum, rather than as different in kind, as had Kant. Despite this departure from Kant, Joshua Wilner demonstrates that Maimon’s assemblage of a priori and a posteriori sources of cognition gets unmoored in ever more infinitesimal concerns. This is the case because of the central, complex role differentials play in Maimon’s thought. As Wilner argues, Maimon’s thought becomes increasingly vexed as he approaches the problem of representation. His explication of the uncertain relation between Vorstellung and Darstellung and between intuitive cognition and symbolic cognition unfolds, or disassembles, with a breadth of creativity worthy of study.

Chapter four focuses on Robinson’s five-letter series on German literature, in particular Goethe and Schiller, in the Monthly Register and Encyclopaedian Magazine (1802–03) that accompanied his transmissions of Kantianism to England, as well as his articles on Lessing in the Unitarian Monthly Repository of Theology and General Literature (1806). Read against the backdrop of Robinson’s explications of Kant and informal discussion of August Wilhelm Schlegel, all of these writings emerge as erudite, autonomous attempts at resolving the impasse between aesthetic autonomy and literature’s moral relevance detailed in the preceding chapter. These attempts are further characterized by an experimental oscillation between Kantian and post-Kantian approaches to art, and demonstrate that Robinson was increasingly regarding literary form as those universal parameters that may facilitate moral discourse across national, cultural, and historical gulfs. The letters on German literature, and afterwards the appreciation of the ‘free-thinking spirit and love of humanity’ (Diana Behler) in Lessing’s cosmopolitanism, hence enabled Robinson to establish in terms of practical criticism his ‘ethical turn’ away from notions of full aesthetic autonomy and towards his critical principle of ‘Free Moral Discourse’.

Introdução: O hipotireoidismo é a baixa produção de hormônios pela glândula tireoide sendo eles a tiroxina e triiodotironina responsáveis pelas funções neurológicas, cardíacas e gastrointestinais. A deficiência desses hormônios está diretamente ligada ao metabolismo onde na diminuição deles leva-se a produção de tireotrofina ou tireotrópico que atuam na regulação dos hormônios tireoidianos, porém pode provocar uma baixa metabólica. Objetivo: Conceder conhecimentos sobre o hipotireoidismo e suas mudanças fisiológicas dentro do organismo. Material e métodos: Foi abordado neste estudo de forma explicativa, uma pesquisa embasada em bibliografias e fontes de pesquisas online como por exemplo: plataforma de estudos Sanar Flix, Kenhub, Sistema Online de Busca e Análise de Literatura Médica (MEDLINE), Google Scholar (para artigos complementares), Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde (LILACS). Foram utilizados artigos selecionados usando como relevância os anos de 2010 a 2021. Resultados: O hipotireoidismo pode-se acarretar a diminuição da atividade metabólica dada a hipoatividade geral o que leva o acumulo de glicosaminoglicanos nos interstícios teciduais levando a manifestações em maioria dos sistemas do organismo, os sinais apresentados vão depender do grau e tempo da doença tendo como principais sintomas dificuldades de concentração, bradicardia, ressecamento da pele, mialgia, intolerância a frio, ganho de peso, possíveis edemas aumento da prolactina e gonadotrofina, hiporreflexia entre outros sinais. Conclusão: Portanto conclui-se que o hipotireoidismo é uma disfunção hormonal que pode acarretar inúmeros problemas por estar relacionada ao metabolismo como por exemplo a relação com o sistema cardiovascular que aumenta o risco de doenças cardíacas levando a dificuldades a práticas de exercícios físicos, com isso deve-se realizar os possíveis tratamentos sendo o principal deles a reposição hormonal.