Sailing in troubled waters : drinking water provision in Timisoara ; paper for the conference 'Alltag der Globalisierung. Perspektiven einer transnationalen Anthropologie', January 16-18, 2003, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main

After more than a decade of post-socialist transition, transition theories are increasingly criticised for their inability to grasp the new post-socialist reality. However, even in the light of political, economic, social and cultural restructuring processes taking place on a global scale, the structural legacies of socialist and pre-socialist development are not erased. On the contrary, they continue to play an important role by filtering the impact of global tendencies upon post-socialist societies. With reference to a case study from the Romanian city of Timisoara I will address in the following the ambivalencies connected to the efforts of local elites in the process of implementing global-level requirements in a post-socialist environment

USING ONTOLOGY’S IN HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

Abstract: In today’s business environment, human resource management is playing an important role and it is present in each organization. Human resource management (HRM) is the strategic and coherent approach to the management of an organization's most valued assets - the people working in the organization. We try to design an ontology for human resource management, and we want to encompass in it all common items no matter in which area we want to apply this structure. This paper wants to propose a model for a human resource management system. This future structure will be incorporated into an ontology. Ontologies are used to capture knowledge about some domains of interest and in our case, it is used to capture knowledge about an human resource management system.Ontology, Knowledge Representation, HRM.

A method to create disordered vortex arrays in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates

We suggest a method to create turbulence in a trapped atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). By replacing in the upper half part of our box the wave function, Psi, with its complex conjugate, Psi^{*}, new negative vortices are introduced into the system. The simulations are performed by solving the two-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation (2D GPE). We study the successive dynamics of the wave function by monitoring the evolution of density and phase profile.Comment: 17 pages, 12 figures. Accepted by the Canadian Journal of Physic

“ Alles oder Nichts ” ? The outer boundaries of the German citizenship debate

In this article we explore how constitutionally enshrined and historically conditioned conceptions of membership in Germany have continued to frame citizenship debates over the last two decades. These debates have been revived both by domestic developments, such as mass migration, and by external factors, such as European integration. The larger question examined is the extent to which, at least in the European Union, conceptions of “ citizenship ” now evolve in reaction to “ internal ” or “ external ” factors, and how the balance of such factors shapes the outcome of particular changes in policy. In our inquiry, we look fi rst at the evolution of policy on access to full citizenship in Germany and then at that of its attendant rights and obligations. Finally, we draw certain general conclusions from the German example for European integration and for possible scenarios of coexistence of the national and European citizenship models

They Aren’t, Until I Call Them

In the story of the three baseball umpires, two novice umpires compete in boasting how they respect «truth» and the way things «really» are. One says, «I call them the way I see them»; the other, trying to trump this remark, responds, «I call them the way they are». Then enters the third, most seasoned umpire, saying, «They aren’t, until I call them». This book deals with two widely argued issues in literature criticism today, performativity and subjectivity. How do people become who they are? What scripts do they follow when they «do» gender, race, and sexuality? Tying into speech act theories and subjectivity theories, as well as gender, race, and sexuality studies, the author explores – through the close reading of several American texts – the many ways words make «things» in literature

’The Empire Means Order’: Images of the Austrio-Hungarian Monarchy in Romanian Fictional Films About the First World War

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Exploring the Mechanisms of Telomerase Regulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Cells are the building blocks of all life forms; inside them is the organism's DNA, packaged tightly away in chromosomes. At the ends of each chromosome, there are special structures called telomeres. Telomeres protect the ends of each chromosome from degradation and fusion. However, telomeres shorten each time a cell divides. If telomeres reach a critically short length, the cell stops dividing and can undergo either senescence or apoptosis. A protective enzyme called telomerase is responsible for adding new telomeric sequence to overcome telomere shortening. Telomere dysfunction is associated with ageing, cancer, and other diseases. The focus of this thesis is the mechanism of telomerase recruitment and activation in the model organism Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The recruitment and activation of telomerase to the telomeres are key points of regulation, mediated by a complex set of interactions between telomere-associated proteins, telomeric DNA, and the RNA subunit of telomerase. One of the central proteins in this process is Cdc13, which binds to the single-stranded DNA overhang at the chromosome end. cdc13-2 is a well-characterized mutant allele of the gene, which changes amino acid 252 from glutamic acid to lysine. Telomerase is unable to elongate telomeres in this mutant, resulting in telomere shortening, replicative senescence, and ultimately cell death. In Chapters 2 and 3, we describe our unexpected finding that mutation of two additional genes, PIF1 and MEC1, can both independently, through separate mechanisms, suppress the cdc13-2 phenotype. Overall, my work further illustrates the complexity of telomerase regulation