Elizabeth Boa and Janet Wharton, eds.: Women and the Wende: Social Effects and Cultural Reflections of the German Reunification Process

Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994. (German Monitor, 31), 264 p

The Difficulty of Saying I : Translation and Censorship of Christa Wolf\u27s Der geteilte Himmel

The end of the GDR in 1990 triggered a vivid literary debate in Germany which focused on the interrelationship of politics, literature, and criticism. In this context, the work of Christa Wolf was attacked as primary example of self-censorship and collaboration. In my article, I argue that Wolf became the target of literary criticism largely because of her attempt to express female subjectivity in her texts. In my contrastive analysis of Der geteilte Himmel (1963) and its English translation (1965), I read Wolf\u27s text as an initial attempt at a socialist modernism. The continued value of this and subsequent works by Wolf lies in the accuracy and complexity with which she probes human behavior under adverse historical circumstances. Even a text like Der geteilte Himmel, which on a surface level reads merely like a political vote for socialism in the GDR as well as the writer\u27s support for the division of Germany, eludes the binary opposition of East/West, them/us that critics have used to categorize Wolf\u27s work. The hybrid nature of the text serves as example of Wolf\u27s sincerity as a writer, evidence of her personal integrity, as well as her relentless commitment to a social alternative

A Real Option and a Game Theoretic Approach to Corporate Investment Strategy under Competition

Presents a real options and game-theoretic approach to corporate investment strategy under competition. Analysis of aspects of competition in a microeconomic framework; Forecasting of operating cash inflows based on economic rents or excess profits; Implications of results obtained

Presence and species identity of rumen flukes in cattle and sheep in the Netherlands

The purpose of the study was to gain knowledge about the prevalence and identity of rumen flukes (RF) in cattle and sheep in the Netherlands. Routine faecal examinations of diagnostic submissions between May 2009 and September 2014 showed a mean annual herd or flock RF prevalence of 15.8% for cattle and 8.0% for sheep. Prevalence in cattle was higher after 2012 than before, which may reflect a change in detection method as well as an increase in true prevalence. During November and December 2014, an abattoir survey was conducted to allow for scoring of rumen fluke burden and to obtain specimens for molecular species characterization. Over 8 visits to 5 abattoirs in areas deemed to pose a high risk for trematode infection, 116 cows and 41 sheep from 27 herds and 10 flocks were examined. Prevalence of RF was higher in beef cattle than in dairy cattle and higher in cattle than in sheep. Median fluke burden was >100 specimens per animal for most positive animals. Using a semi-quantitative RF density score as a gold standard, sensitivity and specificity of a modified quantitative Dorsman egg counting method were estimated at 82.6% and 83.3%, respectively. Of 14 collected adult rumen flukes, twelve (8 bovine and 4 ovine specimens) were identified as Calicophoron daubneyi. The other two, of bovine origin, were identified as Paramphistomum leydeni, which was unexpected as in other European countries all recently collected rumen flukes in both cattle and sheep were identified as C. daubneyi. The findings implicate that multiple rumen fluke species, intermediate host species and transmission cycles may play a role in rumen fluke infections in the Netherlands

Barbara Mabee: Die Poetik von Sarah Kirsch. Erinnerungsarbeit und Geschichtsbewußtsein

Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1989. 282 p

Ute Brandes: Anna Seghers

Berlin: Colloquium, 1992. 93 p