The Privatisation of a National Project:

The settlements along the Trans-Israel Highway illustrate the privatisation of the national settlement enterprise. To understand this process, this dissertation focuses on the settlement production mechanism, which consists of the reciprocal interests of the government and various private groups to develop and domesticate the border area between the State of Israel and the occupied West-Bank -  the Green-Line. Centring on the spatial privileges the state granted to diverse spatial agents, this dissertation examines the manner in which different favoured groups were given the power to colonise, plan, develop and market space as a means to enhance the state’s power over it. Investigating the gradual transformation of this production mechanism, this dissertation explores the increasing privatisation of the local economy and culture, as well as how this was manifested in the built environment. Examining the modifications in the architectural and urban products this mechanism produced, this dissertation analyses the materialisation of the privatised national settlement project and how it transformed together with the changing political and economic interests

High pressure cosmochemistry applied to major planetary interiors: Experimental studies

The infrared spectra of H2O ice VII and D2O ice VII were studied and techniques were developed for measuring adiabats of phases of NH3-H2O to 5 GPa. A mixing system for pressurized fluids was constructed in which liquid solutions of definite compositions can be prepared and loaded reliably into diamond cells in a project which seeks to determine the properties and boundaries of several high pressure phases of the H2-He-H2O-NH3-CH4 system. These data are needed to constrain theoretical models of the interiors of the major planets

High pressure cosmochemistry applied to major planetary interiors: Experimental studies

Progress is reported in the development of the P-T-X diagram for 0 less than or = X less than or = 0.50 and in the development of techniques for measuring adiabats of phases of NH3-H2O. The partial phase diagram is presented, investigations of the compositions of ammonia ices are described, and methods for obtaining the infrared spectra of ices are discussed

Who is Columbine? Forgetting the public in contemporary memorial sites

Includes bibliographical references.2015 Summer.The Columbine Memorial in Littleton, Colorado honors and remembers the thirteen victims of the Columbine High School shooting. The memorial presents itself as an open, public space in which all are welcomed to visit, mourn, or reflect as they wish upon the events of April 20, 1999; however, the memorial’s rhetorical tactics seem intended exclusively for a particular and privatized public—namely, the survivors, family members, and intimates of those killed in the shooting. Through critique of the Columbine Memorial as a public memory place, this occurrence presents a rhetorically oriented instance of “forgetting the public.” Forgetting the public, as conceived here, results from the privileging of individualized memories within public commemorative sites, ultimately leaving those visitors outside of a narrowly circumscribed public unacknowledged by the memorial site. I contend that forgetting publics prevents public identification with memorial sites, which disrupts the epideictic processes necessary for a memorial to achieve its intended civic purposes. This study critically examines the memorial’s employment of specific rhetorical tactics, as viewed through the relationship between private and public memory. This lens reveals three trends occurring within the memorial that inform our understanding of contemporary memorial sites, including Presence/Absence, Intimacy/Publicity, and Discursivity/Materiality. Specific examples within each trend demonstrate an apparent forgetting of the public, ultimately leading to the conclusion that the Columbine Memorial perpetuates the privileging of private interests over those of the general public

Post-Socialist Neoliberalism: Towards a New Theoretical Framework of Spatial Production

During the past five decades, the neoliberal market economy has become one of the most influential forces in the process of spatial production, transforming cities worldwide by subjecting them to the rationale of global finance. In a world where religions and ideologies continue to lose their influence, financial supremacy has turned into an adequate substitute. The global nature and overarching impact of neoliberalism has made it the research focus of a vast cohort of urban and architectural scholars, historians, theoreticians, geographers, and economists, leading to a significant body of literature that discusses the relationship between the market economy and the built environment on all scales. This "globality" of neoliberalism is recently being disputed by its widely-accepted depiction as a western phenomenon with varied local implementations. Post-socialist neoliberalism, we argue, is not an isolated occurrence but rather an extreme case that accentuates the distinct features of neoliberal spatial transformations, making its characteristics more evident and traceable. This thematic issue challenges the notion of neoliberalism as solely a post-Fordist Keynesian phenomenon, proposing a new theoretical framework that redefines the neoliberalization of the built environment as a global spectacle with diverse, yet analogous, localized expressions across various spatial scales

Untersuchungen zur Aufnahme von Antibiotika durch Nutzpflanzen

Christine Schwake-AnduschusPaderborn, Univ., Diss., 200

Decolonisation, gentrification, and the settler-colonial city: Reappropriation and new forms of urban exclusion in Israel

Focusing on the immigration of upper-middle-class Palestinian families to the Israeli town of Upper-Nazareth, originally built by the state to enhance Jewish presence in the area, this paper frames the concept of decolonising gentrification. Accordingly, it studies a unique inconsistency between economic class and ethnonational hegemony, which enables upwardly Arab minority families to overcome ethnic barriers and to exercise social and spatial mobility. Therefore, this paper explains how these socio-political dynamics challenge the local settler-colonial aspects of urban development and enable the reappropriation of colonised urban space. Focusing on the case of Upper-Nazareth and its former ‘Officers’ Neighbourhood’, we examine a distinctive contradiction between political power and economic abilities that triggers a unique case of gentrification, where the colonised minority gentrifies the colonising hegemony. At the same time, this decolonising gentrification, as we argue, takes place in restricted urban enclaves, and relies on an ethno-class price gap as it is only the minority upper-class who is willing to pay the increasing prices, due to their limited options. Therefore, as this paper shows, decolonising gentrification simultaneously challenges and recreates urban settler-colonialism, enabling limited market-oriented reappropriation while triggering ethnic-based accumulation and new forms of neoliberal exclusion

Anatomische Untersuchungen der oberen Atemwege an Präparaten von Früh- und Neugeborenen zur Verbesserung der Atemwegssicherung

Die Atemwegssicherung bei Früh- und Neugeborenen stellt in der medizinischen Praxis nach wie vor eine Herausforderung dar. In dieser Studie wurde die Anatomie der oberen Atemwege von totgeborenen Neugeborenen mit einem Gestationsalter von 25 bis 44 Wochen untersucht, um das Atemwegsmanagement zu verbessern und die Entwicklung von Atemwegshilfen, insbesondere supraglottischen Atemwegshilfen, zu fördern. Winkel und Durchmesser der oralen und nasalen Intubationswege von 22 anatomischen Präparaten Früh- und Reifgeborener wurden bestimmt, in Beziehung zum Gestationsalter gesetzt und auf statistische Signifikanz überprüft. Von den oralen und nasalen Intubationswegen wurden mit einem zahnärztlichen Silikonabformmaterial Abformmodelle hergestellt und anschließend 3D-Scans angefertigt. Keiner der untersuchten Winkel zeigte eine signifikante Korrelation mit dem Gestationsalter, jedoch wiesen vier der untersuchten Durchmesser im Bereich des harten und weichen Gaumens eine statistisch signifikante positive Korrelation mit dem Gestationsalter auf. Es lässt sich festhalten, dass die Winkel der Atemwege von Früh- und Neugeborenen nicht systematisch vom Gestationsalter abhängen. Aus anatomischer Sicht können daher Larynxmasken auch für Frühgeborene gut geeignete Atemwegshilfen sein. Das Design von Larynxmasken für kleine Frühgeborene sollte bezüglich der Größe, nicht jedoch bezüglich der Form angepasst werden. Die gewonnenen Daten können als Grundlage für die Entwicklung von supraglottischen Atemwegshilfen und Atemwegssimulatoren für die medizinische Ausbildung und das klinische Training dienen

Market and Counterparty Credit Risk: Selected Computational and Managerial Aspects

The thesis can be placed within the literature on market and counterparty credit risk, contributing along the following three dimensions: 1. Interest rate risk (IRR) management: The thesis starts with an overview on asset liability management (ALM) in general and IRR management in particular. It then gives a novel procedure for structuring swap overlays for pensions funds, allowing for optimal hedging of IRR without affecting the strategic asset allocation (SAA). The thesis also offers an extension of the analysis of the Cairns (2004) stochastic interest rate model Deriving respective model-based sensitivity measures (Cairns deltas). It finally applies the model to a practical application, analyzing it when it comes to long-term contracts. 2. Pricing and managing counterparty credit risk A compact overview on counterparty credit risk (CCR) and credit valuation adjustment (CVA) is given. This is followed by a unique analyses around valuation, relevant accounting and regulatory requirements as well as pricing and mitigation, esp. Illustration of how CVA capital charge shows the tautology behind the discussions around regulatory requirements. The thesis contributes also to the discourse on debt valuation adjustment (DVA), e.g. showing that some aspects are not that unintuitive as presumed (e.g. DVA is being priced). 3. CVA modeling and wrong way risk. The thesis gives an overview on credit risk modeling in general and credit spreads in particular. It especially revisits the CVA for CDS model introduced by Brigo and Capponi (2010), giving e.g. A) a step-by-step implementation guide, esp. w.r.t to parts Brigo and Capponi (2010) left open; B) a computational tune-up, incl. a demonstration of its robustness across a variety of scenarios, and a realistic case study; C) a novel analysis of the Brigo & Capponi (2010) model in particular and CVA modeling in genera