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Stasi Brainwashing in the GDR 1957 - 1990
This thesis examines the methods used by the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS), more commonly known as the Stasi, or East German secret police, for extraction of information from citizens of the German Democratic Republic for the purpose of espionage and covert operations inside East Germany, as it pertains to the deliberate brainwashing of East German citizens. As one of the most efficient intelligence agencies to ever exist, the Stasi’s main purpose was to monitor the population, gather intelligence, and collect or turn informants. They used brainwashing techniques to control the people of the GDR, keeping the populace paralyzed with fear and paranoia. By surrounding themselves with a network of informants they prevented actions against the dictatorial communist regime. Using the video testimonies of former prisoners, and former confidential informants who worked closely with and collaborated with Stasi agents, in combination with periodicals and previous historical studies, this work argues that the East German Police State’s brainwashing techniques had long and lasting consequences both for German citizens, and for the psychiatric health of former GDR citizens. The scope and breadth of the techniques and data compiled for use by the Stasi were exhaustive, and the repercussions of their use are still being felt and discovered twenty five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. This study aims to show the lasting effects brainwashing had on former informants and the Stasi’s victims
Stasi Brainwashing in the GDR 1957 - 1990
This thesis examines the methods used by the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (MfS), more commonly known as the Stasi, or East German secret police, for extraction of information from citizens of the German Democratic Republic for the purpose of espionage and covert operations inside East Germany, as it pertains to the deliberate brainwashing of East German citizens. As one of the most efficient intelligence agencies to ever exist, the Stasi’s main purpose was to monitor the population, gather intelligence, and collect or turn informants. They used brainwashing techniques to control the people of the GDR, keeping the populace paralyzed with fear and paranoia. By surrounding themselves with a network of informants they prevented actions against the dictatorial communist regime. Using the video testimonies of former prisoners, and former confidential informants who worked closely with and collaborated with Stasi agents, in combination with periodicals and previous historical studies, this work argues that the East German Police State’s brainwashing techniques had long and lasting consequences both for German citizens, and for the psychiatric health of former GDR citizens. The scope and breadth of the techniques and data compiled for use by the Stasi were exhaustive, and the repercussions of their use are still being felt and discovered twenty five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. This study aims to show the lasting effects brainwashing had on former informants and the Stasi’s victims
On structure-stabilizing electronic interferences in bcc-related phases. A research report
This study deals with cubic crystals where the contents of the simple cubic
unit cells are close to nnn-bcc sublattices ( = 2: diamond-
and zinc-blende type, = 3: -brasses). First-principle results on
the electronic structure are obtained from augmented LMTO-ASA calculations and
interpreted within a VEC-based Hume-Rothery concept which employs joined
planar-radial interferences to treat interference and hybridization on the same
footing. We show that the charge redistribution supports enhanced electronic
interference which causes the band energy to decrease. Several topics are
included such as stabilizing networks, hardness and -to- transfer,
co-operation of interferences, interplay between local radial order and global
planar order, electron-per-atom ratio, and the comparison with recent
FLAPW-based results.Comment: Structure formation, electronic interference, materials properties.
42 pages, 70 figures, 17 tables; replacement of a figure which appeared twic
Thyroid nodule
This issue of eMedRef provides information to clinicians on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and therapeutics of thyroid nodules
iDataCool: HPC with Hot-Water Cooling and Energy Reuse
iDataCool is an HPC architecture jointly developed by the University of
Regensburg and the IBM Research and Development Lab B\"oblingen. It is based on
IBM's iDataPlex platform, whose air-cooling solution was replaced by a custom
water-cooling solution that allows for cooling water temperatures of 70C/158F.
The system is coupled to an adsorption chiller by InvenSor that operates
efficiently at these temperatures. Thus a significant portion of the energy
spent on HPC can be recovered in the form of chilled water, which can then be
used to cool other parts of the computing center. We describe the architecture
of iDataCool and present benchmarks of the cooling performance and the energy
(reuse) efficiency.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures, proceedings of ISC 201
The Value of Value Sets
A common definition of value set will be provided and fully characterized relative to its proposed uses. We will describe, compare, and contrast several approaches to specifying and referencing value sets in a stable manner over time. The term “value set”, although ubiquitous within biomedical informatics has no common definition and has yet to be fully described in a formal manner. It is essential for the design and launch of new ontologies, biomedical informatics applications and data sharing environments that a common and well-‐ understood definition of “value set” is provided. It is also essential that options and trade-‐offs be understood for what type of technology is appropriate for the implementation and usage of particular types of value set for particular use cases
Animal Models of CNS Viral Disease: Examples from Borna Disease Virus Models
Borna disease (BD),
caused by the neurotropic RNA virus, Borna
Disease virus, is an affliction ranging from
asymptomatic to fatal meningoencephalitis across
naturally and experimentally infected
warmblooded (mammalian and bird) species. More
than 100 years after the first clinical
descriptions of Borna disease in horses and
studies beginning in the 1980's linking
Borna disease virus to human neuropsychiatric
diseases, experimentally infected rodents have
been used as models for examining behavioral,
neuropharmacological, and neurochemical responses
to viral challenge at different stages of life.
These studies have contributed to understanding
the role of CNS viral injury in vulnerability to
behavioral, developmental, epileptic, and
neurodegenerative diseases and aided evaluation
of the proposed and still controversial links to
human disease
LexOWL: A Bridge from LexGrid to OWL
The Lexical Grid project is an on-going community driven initiative that provides a common terminology model to represent multiple vocabulary and ontology sources as well as a scalable and robust API for accessing such information. In order to add more powerful functionalities to the existing infrastructure and align LexGrid more closely with various Semantic Web technologies, we introduce the LexOWL project for representing the ontologies modeled within the LexGrid environment in OWL (Web Ontology Language). The crux of this effort is to create a “bridge” that functionally connects the LexBIG (a LexGrid API) and the OWL API (an interface that implements OWL) seamlessly. In this paper, we discuss the key aspects of designing and implementing the LexOWL bridge. We compared LexOWL with other OWL converting tools and conclude that LexOWL provides an OWL mapping and converting tool with well-defined interoperability for information in the biomedical domain
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