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On a close examination, the Romanian cultural space suggests the existance of a spiritual and cultural incompatibility between Romanian existential feeling and the Faustian man, endowed with the personality and character of Faustus. The Faustian character, Faustus and his literary myth have been imported in Romanian culture. Under the circumstances, this paper investigates the manner in which Faustian aspects and motives reflect in Romanian literature.
Eine Ausstellung des Jüdischen Museum Frankfurt zeigte vor einigen Jahren eine umfangreiche Sammlung von Postkarten mit antisemitischen Darstellungen, Abbildungen und Zeichnungen. Die Ausstellung führte vor Augen, wie gängig antisemitische Motive bereits bei der Einführung der Postkarte 1870 im alltäglichen Leben waren. Auf Grußkarten zu Geburtstagen und aus dem Urlaub wurden – mal unzweideutig, mal in Form subtiler Karikaturen – antisemitische Bildpolemiken verbreitet. Die kleinen Zeichnungen, die tausendfach ihren Weg in Privathaushalte gefunden haben mussten (anders lassen sich die zahlreichen Exemplare, die man noch immer auf Flohmärkten erwerben kann, nicht erklären), zeigen genauso wie wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Forschungen zur Rassenlehre und Anthropologie, dass der spezifisch „jüdische Körper“ keine Erfindung der Nationalsozialisten war. Diese griffen für ihre antisemitische Ideologie auf Ideen, wissenschaftliche Forschungen und rassistische Paradigmen zurück, die bereits seit dem 19. Jahrhundert entwickelten. Judenfeindliche Bilddarstellungen freilich gab es bereits im frühen Mittelalter. Und doch kann man die „Herstellung des jüdischen Körpers“ als nationalsozialistisches Projekt bezeichnen, waren doch Zentrum und Fundament der nationalsozialistischen Weltanschauung der propagierte Unterschied zwischen Rassen, allen voran zwischen „Ariern“ und Juden. Welche Bedeutung und Dimension die Vorstellung von der jüdischen Physiognomie während des Nationalsozialismus, vor allem für die Verfolgten hatte, und welche Auswirkungen dies auf die Praxis der Verfolgung und die Praktiken des Sich-Entziehens hatte, wird im Folgenden zu schildern sein. Juden wurden aus einem einzigen Grund gejagt: weil sie Juden waren. Die nähere Betrachtung der Verfolgungspraxis soll zeigen, dass die rassistische und antisemitische Ideologie auch unmittelbare Auswirkungen auf die Wahrnehmung des „jüdischen Körpers“ hatte.
We performed an experiment under long-term microgravity conditions aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to obtain information on the energetics and experimental constraints required for the formation of chondrules in the solar nebula by ’nebular lightning’. As a simplified model system, we exposed porous forsterite (Mg2 SiO4) dust particles to high-energetic arc discharges. The characterization of the samples after their return by synchrotron microtomography and scanning electron microscopy revealed that aggregates had formed, consisting of several fused Mg2SiO4 particles. The partial melting and fusing of Mg2SiO4 dust particles under microgravity conditions leads to a strong reduction of their porosity. The experimental outcomes vary strongly in their appearance from small spherical melt-droplets (∅≈90 µm) to bigger and irregularly shaped aggregates (∅≈350 µm). Our results provided new constraints with respect to energetic aspects of chondrule formation and a roadmap for future and more complex experiments on Earth and in microgravity conditions.
Der literarische Mythos des Dr. Faust – Ansätze und Eckpunkte einer Phänomenologie im Überblick
(2013)
Due to its multidimensional model of identity, the literary myth of Dr. Faustus is suitable for a phenomenological analysis. This paper investigates this identity model as well as the most important aspects that must taken into account in this respect: its modulations, interpretations and variations, the instances of relevant expression that the literary myth of Dr. Faustus has adopted in its transformations across cultures and time.
In order to gain further insights into early solar system aggregation processes, we carried out an experiment on board the International Space Station, which allowed us to study the behavior of dust particles exposed to electric arc discharges under long-term microgravity. The experiment led to the formation of robust, elongated, fluffy aggregates, which were studied by scanning electron microscopy, electron backscatter diffraction, and synchrotron micro-computed tomography. The morphologies of these aggregates strongly resemble the typical shapes of fractal fluffy-type calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs). We conclude that a small amount of melting could have supplied the required stability for such fractal structures to have survived transportation and aggregation to and compaction within planetesimals. Other aggregates produced in our experiment have a massy morphology and contain relict grains, likely resulting from the collision of grains with different degrees of melting, also observed in some natural CAIs. Some particles are surrounded by igneous rims, which remind in thickness and crystal orientation of Wark–Lovering rims; another aggregate shows similarities to disk-shaped CAIs. These results imply that a (flash-)heating event with subsequent aggregation could have been involved in the formation of different morphological CAI characteristics.
The present contribution is meant as an approach to the debate mentioned in the heading. It is important to find ways, to make on one side the learning and the cultivation of the German language attractive for the young people and on the other side to regain again the peoples’ conscious, here and there, for the centuries-long German culture and history. Teachers of both sexes as well as the students who are going to become teachers are the future multipliers par excellence. Due to a variety of integral pedagogical and linguistic didactical concepts –meant simultaneously for transmitting information, meeting, exchange and networking – there have to be found innovative ideas, precise proposals have to be worked out, which both also strengthen the social relevance of the local Institutions and German Departments respectively Faculties, which qualify teachers for the German language and providing in this way a contribution to the harmonization of the civil society.
A single wavelength heterodyne interferometer has been set up to investigate the free electron density integrated axially along the line of sight (line density) in a theta-pinch plasma to determine its applicability as a plasma target for ion beam stripping. The maximal line density reached in this experiment was (3.57 ± 0.28) × 1018 cm−2 at 80 Pa and 20 kV. The findings demonstrate the pulsed character of the line density and its increase by raising the load voltage and the working gas pressure. Additionally, the results were compared with spectroscopic free electron density estimations, which were carried out by Hβ -line broadening and peak separation. The time behavior of the line density indicates that its peak value is delayed by about 10 μs compared to the spectroscopic results. This effect is due to the formation of an extended, magnetically compressed plasma column in the vicinity of the current maximum, although the highest volumetric free electron density is reached near the current zero crossing. Since the line density is an essential parameter in describing the stripping capabilities of the plasma target, the interferometric diagnostic is superior to a spectroscopic diagnostic, because it directly provides integrated values along the line of sight. Furthermore, the measurements of the line density in this experiment partially show nonphysical negative values, which is due to gaseous effects and residual shot vibrations.
OXA-48-like carbapenemases are among the most frequent carbapenemases in Gram-negative Enterobacterales worldwide with the highest prevalence in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. Here, we investigated the so far uncharacterized carbapenemase OXA-484 from a clinical E. coli isolate belonging to the high-risk clone ST410 regarding antibiotic resistance pattern, horizontal gene transfer (HGT) and genetic support. OXA-484 differs by the amino acid substitution 214G compared to the most closely related variants OXA-181 (214R) and OXA-232 (214S). The blaOXA–484 was carried on a self-transmissible 51.5 kb IncX3 plasmid (pOXA-484) showing high sequence similarity with plasmids harboring blaOXA–181. Intraspecies and intergenus HGT of pOXA-484 to different recipients occurred at low frequencies of 1.4 × 10–7 to 2.1 × 10–6. OXA-484 increased MICs of temocillin and carbapenems similar to OXA-232 and OXA-244, but lower compared with OXA-48 and OXA-181. Hence, OXA-484 combines properties of OXA-181-like plasmid support and transferability as well as β-lactamase activity of OXA-232.