Post-imperialism, postcolonialism and beyond: towards a periodisation of cultural discourse about colonial legacies

Taking German history and culture as a starting point, this essay suggests a historical approach to reconceptualising different forms of literary engagement with colonial discourse, colonial legacies and (post-) colonial memory in the context of Comparative Postcolonial Studies. The deliberate blending of a historical, a conceptual and a political understanding of the ‘postcolonial’ in postcolonial scholarship raises problems of periodisation and historical terminology when, for example, anti-colonial discourse from the colonial period or colonialist discourse in Weimar Germany are labelled ‘postcolonial’. The colonial revisionism of Germany’s interwar period is more usefully classed as post-imperial, as are particular strands of retrospective engagement with colonial history and legacy in British, French and other European literatures and cultures after 1945. At the same time, some recent developments in Francophone, Anglophone and German literature, e.g. Afropolitan writing, move beyond defining features of postcolonial discourse and raise the question of the post-postcolonial

Eignungsauswahl fuer den Flugverkehrskontrolldienst - Jahresbericht 1994 zum Beratungsvertrag mit der Deutschen Flugsicherung.

Der Bericht gibt eine Öbersicht ueber den Entwicklungsstand des Eignungsauswahlverfahrens fuer Flugverkehrskontrollpersonal der DFS Deutschen Flugsicherung GmbH. Dazu gehoeren Statistiken, Flussdiagramme und Angaben ueber den Arbeitsaufwand im Jahre 1994. Darueber hinaus werden die wissenschaftlichen Begleitarbeiten beschrieben, die der Kontrolle und Weiterentwicklung des Verfahrens dienen. Dazu gehoeren Forschungsprojekte zur Methodenentwicklung im Bereich der Persoenlichkeitsdiagnostik sowie des Kommunikations- und Kooperationsverhaltens ebenso wie weitere Untersuchungen zur Erprobung eines computergesteuerten dynamischen Tests zur Flugverkehrskontrolle

Eignungsauswahl für den Flugverkehrskontrolldienst - Jahresbericht 1993 zum Beratungsvertrag mit der DFS GmbH

Der Bericht gibt eine Übersicht über den Entwicklungsstand des Eignungsauswahlverfahrens für Flugverkehrskontrollpersonal der DFS Deutschen Flugsicherung GmbH. Dazu gehören Statistiken, Flußdiagramme und Angaben über den Arbeitsaufwand im Jahre 1993. Darüber hinaus werden die wissenschaftlichen Begleitarbeiten beschreiben, die der Kontrolle und Weiterentwicklung des Verfahrens dienen. Dazu gehören Forschungsprojekte zur Methodenentwicklung im Bereich der Persönlichkeitsdiagnostik sowie des Kommunikations- und Kooperationsverhaltens ebenso wie weitere Untersuchungen zur Erprobung eines computergesteuerten dynamischen Tests zur Flugverkehrskontrolle

Aging affects response to cyclic tensile stretch: paradigm for intervertebral disc degeneration

Much evidence supports a fundamental role for mechanical forces in modulating differentiation, homeostasis, and remodelling of musculoskeletal cells. Little is known, however, regarding mechanobiology and gene expression of intervertebral disc (IVD) cells from older individuals. To characterise the effect of mechanical stimulation on cells from older discs, an in vitro study of IVD cells harvested from different aged pigs was conducted to measure extracellular matrix (ECM) gene expression in response to cyclic tensile stress (CTS). Gene expression of annulus fibrosus (AF) cells from IVDs of mature and older pigs was quantified for the predominant ECM genes; type I collagen, type II collagen and aggrecan, and matrix metalloproteinase 1 (MMP-1), a collagenase that degrades fibrillar collagens.AF cells cultured on flexible-bottom plates were stretched 10 % at 0.5 Hz frequency. After 24 h, gene expression was assayed using reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Basal mRNA levels without stretching for type II collagen and aggrecan were lower in older annular cells whereas MMP-1 levels were higher compared to mature cells. Following CTS, an adaptive response was elicited in annular cells from both age groups. ECM protein genes were upregulated, whereas MMP-1 was downregulated. The magnitude of response was significantly greater in older cells as compared to mature cells. These data suggest that the cells from the AF of older animals manifest lower basal levels of mRNA for type II collagen and aggrecan and higher levels of MMP-1 possibly due to decreased tensile stress experienced in vivo and is not the result of reduced capacity for response

Eignungsauswahl fuer den Flugverkehrskontrolldienst. Entwicklungsstand und Kontrolle des Verfahrens. Jahresbericht 1994 zum Beratungsvertrag mit der Deutschen Flugsicherung GmbH

This paper describes the state of the selection system for Air Traffic Control personnel of the DFS Deutsche Flugsicherung GmbH in 1994. This includes statistics, flow charts and information about man power. The scientific work of controlling and improving the selection system is also mentioned, including research and development projects concerning the assessment of personality characteristics and the assessment of communicative/cooperative behaviour. Further research concerning the development of a dynamic computer-controlled ATC-Test is also described. (orig.)Available from TIB Hannover: RN 4166(95,2) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEDEGerman