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A new species of Culcua Walker (Diptera: Stratiomyidae), C. lingafelteri Woodley, new species, is described from northern Vietnam. It is diagnosed relative to other species using the recent revision of the genus by Rozkošný and Kozánek (2007). This is the first species of Culcua reported from Vietnam.
The implementation of the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA), 1999 is reviewed in this book, focussing on the development and reform of financial governance arrangements after 2000. South Africa has a long way to go to ensure that financial reforms are translated into service delivery gains. Implementing reforms and making sure that citizens benefit is proving difficult, yet the convergence of various government agencies in addressing financial governance is beginning to inspire the kind of confidence needed to overcome the country's financial governance challenges. The authors find that, despite the challenges, the PFMA has begun to make a difference and, if properly implemented, may still provide the ground for a fundamental transformation of public-sector service delivery.
The late Julius Kambarage Nyerere was nicknamed 'Musa' (Moses) during the later, post-independence years for leading his people from slavery and guiding them toward a free land of prosperity - the Promised Land. The Tanzanian odyssey chronicled in this book, which first appeared ten years ago as Tanzanians to the Promised Land, has been updated with new research. The author- also an engineer and a journalist- offers an enlightened and unbiased discussion of the journey and both sides of the contributions - successes and failures - made by former presidents and their systems of administration: the late Mwalimu Julius K. Nyerere, Alhajj Ali H. Mwinyi, and Mr. Benjamin W. Mkapa. Tanzanians' hopes and expectations of the incumbent president, H.E. Mr. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, are also discussed. It is not intended as a political campaign of any kind, for any party or any individual. As a brief, yet comprehensive guide to the understanding of our nation's political and economic history, it puts forward suggestions concerning important areas of the country's economic development. Nyerere unfortunately didn't live to see his people arrive at the hoped-for destination, and I. J. Werrema's original inspiration to write, at forty years of independence, is sustained because after fifty years The Promised Land is Still Too Far.
How can African theology survive the self-repetition of mere cultural apologia or contextualization-stereotypes, and mature into a critical theoretical discipline responding to the challenges of the postmodern world-order? Dr. Humphrey M. Wawe contributes here a sound theological reflection using the hitherto unused methodological paradigm of mapping the inroads in the 'transaction' between the Bible and African culture.
This book brings and blends together a dozen scholarly articles published by the author since the 1970s. It sketches two different yet related stories: first, that of one of the most ancient and prestigious African civilizations, the antiquity and sophistication of which are becoming more and more prominent as field research unfolds their many facets. Second, the story of the researcher himself, who has had to alter and shift his approach to that civilization as he got to meet Grassfielders, colleagues, friends and scholars who changed his views about the Grassfields kingdoms and their people. This book bears witness to those many encounters. Historical and anthropological research is not only a question of relevant theories and methodologies. It is also a human endeavour made of networks and friendships.
The Trials of an Half Orphan
(2012)
Death strikes and claims the mother of Martin Smith when he is still in primary five, leaving him and his siblings at the mercy of a volcanic tempered and cruel father. No longer prepared to accept any beatings from his father, he runs away from home and takes up residence in a deserted house in a neighbouring village with little to live on. His fate appears sealed. Just when all hope seems lost, appears Mr Finley Banks - a Peace Corp Volunteer and teacher. Martin Smith is pleased to be treated like a son once more, only for Mr Finley Banks to come to the end of his stay in the country five years later. How will things turn out with him gone? Set in Cameroon and Italy, this is a story of opportunities and opportunism. It is the story of the trials, thrills and tribulations of a young African half orphan boy determined to make it in life.
Sons of revolutionaries, a classic Huck Finn/Tom Sawyer duo must grow up and find themselves when President-for-Life Robert Mugabe tightens his grip on white landowners and plunges Zimbabwe into anarchy. Julie Wakeman-Linn's striking debut-part buddy road trip, part familial dramedy--focuses on two racially blended families as they outwit the world of diplomats, ex-pats, safari tourists, street rats, border guards, and the mercurial landscape. The result is an electrifying video capture of Africa in 1997 overflowing with intense color, tenacious characters, and riotous details.
Das IAB-Betriebspanel ist eine jährliche, repräsentative Betriebsbefragung des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung der Bundesagentur für Arbeit, die seit 1993 in Zusammenarbeit mit TNS Infratest auf Bundesebene erhoben wird. Seit 2000 werden in Rheinland-Pfalz auch auf Länderebene ausreichend Betriebe befragt, so dass nun zum elften Mal eine gesonderte Auswertung für Rheinland-Pfalz vorgenommen werden kann. Verantwortlich für die Befragung ist in Rheinland-Pfalz das Ministerium für Soziales, Arbeit, Gesundheit und Demografie. Betraut mit der Auswertung der Paneldaten für das Land Rheinland-Pfalz ist die Gesellschaft für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Kultur (GEWAK) in Frankfurt am Main. Ziel des IAB-Betriebspanels ist es, Informationen und Erkenntnisse über die wirtschaftliche Situation, die Entwicklung des Arbeitsmarktes sowie das betriebliche Beschäftigungsverhalten in Rheinland-Pfalz zu gewinnen. Die daraus ableitbaren Erkenntnisse bieten regionalen wie auch lokalen Akteuren eine fundierte Basis für problemadäquates Handeln. Zu diesem Zweck werden in regelmäßigen Abständen Kurzreports herausgegeben, welche über zentrale Ergebnisse der Befragung berichten. Beim vorliegenden Report, dessen Thema die atypische Beschäftigung und die Tarifbindung ist, handelt es sich um den zweiten Report aus der Befragungswelle 2011. Im vorliegenden Panel wurden 819 Betriebe durch eine Stichprobenauswahl in Rheinland-Pfalz erfasst. Die Ergebnisse wurden auf alle etwa 101.000 rheinland-pfälzischen Betriebe hochgerechnet und sind repräsentativ im Hinblick auf die Wirtschaftszweige und Betriebsgrößenklassen. Grundgesamtheit der Bruttostichprobe ist die Betriebsdatei der Bundesagentur für Arbeit, in der alle Betriebe enthalten sind, welche mindestens einen sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten haben.
Die betriebliche Ausbildung und die betriebliche Weiterbildung besitzen gleichermaßen eine Schlüsselfunktion bei der Rekrutierung und Sicherung des Fachkräftebestands. Während die Ausbildung ein breites Grundlagenwissen vermittelt, dient die betriebliche Weiterbildung v.a. der spezifischen Anpassungs- und Höherqualifizierung, so dass beide Bereiche komplementär funktionieren. Dies bedeutet allerdings nicht, dass ihre Nutzung auch parallel verläuft; beide Instrumente zeigen in den letzten 11 Jahren eine sehr unterschiedliche Entwicklung. Ein genauer Blick auf die präferierte Art der Weiterbildung liefert kein einheitliches Bild. Während die „traditionellen“ externen Kurse und Lehrgänge eine langsame und stetige Aufwärtsentwicklung verzeichnen, waren bei den flexiblen Formen: selbstgesteuertes Lernen mit Hilfe von Medien, Weiterbildung am Arbeitsplatz sowie Teilnahme an Vorträgen, Tagungen etc. nach zum Teil deutlichen Rückgängen wieder bedeutende Anstiege zu verzeichnen. Deutliche Unterschiede ergeben sich auch zwischen den Betrieben mit Fachkräftebedarf und der Gesamtheit der Betriebe dahingehend, dass sich Betriebe mit Fachkräftebedarf durch ein weit überdurchschnittliches Aus- und Weiterbildungsengagement auszeichnen. Im Gegensatz zu allen Betrieben scheinen sie die Aus- und Weiterbildungsaktivitäten strategisch zur Fachkräftesicherung einzusetzen. Beachtliche Differenzen zeigen sich auch zwischen den beiden Typen von Betrieben mit Fachkräftebedarf. Betriebe, die keine Besetzungsprobleme bei Fachkräftestellen erwarten, zeichnen sich dadurch aus, dass es ihnen wesentlich häufiger gelingt, angebotene Ausbildungsplätze zu besetzen sowie Auszubildende mit einer abgeschlossener Ausbildung im Betrieb zu halten. Offensichtlich verfügen sie über die erforderlichen internen Strukturen, Anreize sowie Attraktivität, um Auszubildende an ihren Betrieb zu binden.
Das IAB-Betriebspanel ist eine jährliche, repräsentative Betriebsbe-fragung des Instituts für Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung der Bundes- agentur für Arbeit, die seit 1993 in Zusammenarbeit mit TNS Infratest auf Bundesebene erhoben wird. Seit 2000 werden in Rheinland-Pfalz auch auf Länderebene ausreichend Betriebe befragt, so dass nun zum elften Mal eine gesonderte Auswertung für Rheinland-Pfalz vorge- nommen werden kann. Verantwortlich für die Befragung ist in Rheinland-Pfalz das Ministerium für Soziales, Arbeit, Gesundheit und Demografie. Betraut mit der Auswertung der Paneldaten für das Land Rheinland-Pfalz ist die Gesellschaft für Wirtschaft, Arbeit und Kultur (GEWAK) in Frankfurt am Main. Ziel des IAB-Betriebspanels ist es, Informationen und Erkenntnisse über die wirtschaftliche Situation, die Entwicklung des Arbeitsmarktes sowie das betriebliche Beschäftigungsverhalten in Rheinland-Pfalz zu gewinnen. Die daraus ableitbaren Erkenntnisse bieten regionalen wie auch lokalen Akteuren eine fundierte Basis für problemadäquates Handeln. Zu diesem Zweck werden in regelmäßigen Ab- ständen Kurzreports herausgegeben, welche über zentrale Ergebnisse der Befragung berichten. Beim vorliegenden Report, dessen Thema der Fach- kräftebedarf und die betriebliche Fachkräftesicherung ist, handelt es sich um den ersten aus der Befragungswelle 2011. Im vorliegenden Panel wurden 819 Betriebe durch eine Stichprobenauswahl in Rheinland-Pfalz erfasst. Die Ergebnisse wurden auf alle etwa 101.000 rheinland-pfälz-ischen Betriebe hochgerechnet und sind repräsentativ im Hinblick auf die Wirtschaftszweige und Betriebsgrößenklassen. Grundge-samtheit der Bruttostichprobe ist die Betriebsdatei der Bundesagentur für Arbeit, in der alle Betriebe enthalten sind, welche mindestens einen sozialversicherungspflichtig Beschäftigten haben.
Die Zukunftsfähigkeit ist ein Thema, dem sich alle Betriebe stellen müssen, besonders angesichts der Auswirkungen des demografischen Wandels. Folglich sollte dieses Thema noch stärker in den Fokus der strategischen Ausrichtung der Betriebe rücken. Gleichzeitig handelt es sich um einen Sachverhalt, der aufgrund seiner Komplexität nicht leicht zu erfassen ist. Dies hängt u.a. damit zusammen, dass er auch langfristige Strategien umfasst, deren Effekte zum Teil erst künftig richtig zum Tragen kommen. Folglich konnte dieses komplexe Konstrukt mit den Daten des IAB-Betriebspanels nur ansatzweise erfasst werden. Wie die Ergebnisse zeigen, sind die rheinland-pfälzischen Betrieben in vielen Bereichen, die für die Zukunftsfähigkeit von besonderer Relevanz sind und die auf Basis des IAB-Betriebspanels dargestellt werden können, recht gut aufgestellt. Dies zeigt sich z.B. in Bereichen wie der Weiterbildung, dem Anteil von Frauen in Führungspositionen, dem Anteil der Frauen in Tätigkeiten, die einen(Fach-) Hochschulabschluss erfordern oder dem technischen Stand der Anlagen.
Dennoch lassen sich auch Bereiche identifizieren, in denen noch ungenutzte Potenziale bestehen und deren Förderung dazu beitragen könnte, die Zukunftsfähigkeit der rheinland-pfälzischen Betriebe zu erhöhen. Da die Ergebnisse neben den generellen Entwicklungen zeigen, dass sich teilweise deutliche Unterschiede zwischen den Sektoren ergeben, erscheint es sinnvoll, Handlungsansätze zum Teil branchenspezifisch auszurichten. Vornehmlich sind die Betriebe gefordert, sich durch ein breites Spektrum an Aktivitäten, wie z.B. innovative Tätigkeiten, organisatorische Veränderung sowie Maßnahmen zur Gesundheit oder Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie bzw. Chancengleichheit sowie durch zahlreiche weitere Strategien nachhaltig auszurichten, um ihre Zukunft zu sichern. Dennoch können die Verbände sowie die Politik durch entsprechende Rahmenbedingungen und Unterstützungsmaßnahmen diesen Prozess fördern und die rheinland-pfälzischen Betriebe bei dieser Entwicklung unterstützen.
This book examines some facets of gender relations in Cameroon - symmetry in male-female relationships, women's access to land in traditional society, socialization into gender roles through language textbooks in schools, the association life of women, widowhood and inheritance, social capital and entrepreneurship, husband-wife relations in early German colonial encounters - as socially and historically constructed realities from a multidisciplinary perspective, bringing together some social sciences and humanities. The studies point to the fact that these relations are as much rooted in traditions and customs fashioned in several benchmark epochs in African history - arming women with formidable social and cultural capitals or making of them victims of social structures over which they have little control - as they are constantly evolving in contemporary times and transforming women into agents in their own affairs as well as those of the new societies in the making.
The bicultural polity of Cameroon has become problematic over the years. In addition to the increasing marginalization experienced by its English speaking component in many domains (politics, administration, economy, culture), it is facing mounting inequality and disarray despite the nation-building aspirations at reunification in 1961. This book examines the very basis of the union crisis by tracing the causes to the asymmetrical nature of negotiations between the contracting partners the founding fathers of the union and the politics of guile and force that has characterized the regimes in Yaound. From a federal model that takes the equality of the contracting parties as a given, the polity has developed into an ethno-regional patchwork designed by its architects to be essentially unequal in nature. Consequently, the segmented Anglophone community can exist only in contradiction within itself. They have been worked into the regimeís statecraft of consciously maintaining or re-activating ethnic boundaries inherited from colonialism. An analysis of the cultural and linguistic dimension of the union shows contrasting drives between the assimilation/attempts to dominate by the French-speaking component and resistance by Anglophones. The analyses further show the projected harmonization and rollback by the State, the creative blends and the crystallization around continuing or reproduced colonial experiences, a fierce competition between elites with a drive to impose the culture of the demographically dominant and a refusal to accept the idea of a linguistic minority. The contentious experience, Yenshu Vubo argues, can still be remedied by reforms in a politics of possibilities.These reforms must be ready to re-examine the constitutional basis of the union by revisiting the often dismissed question of the form of the state defined as one and indivisible (a new federal architecture as requested by several political voices). Institutions should be restructured to attend to diversity issues and essential linguistic differences while consolidating any strategic gains of the union such as the creative blends and the acceptance of specifi cities of each community, statutory equality of citizenship and the essential clauses of the fi rst federation.
International development has its origins in the histories of nineteenth and early twentieth-century European colonisation. What happens when a leading colonial power decides to transform a model tropical colony, relying on head-loading of goods as the predominant form of transport, into a modern market economy on the back of the greatest British industrial ingenuity of the time - railways? In this meticulously researched book, Komla Tsey brings to light the historical origins of a wide range of issues confronting present-day international development researchers and policy-makers, such as technology transfer, wealth creation versus equity of access, and ways to evaluate the benefits of development work, especially across cultures. In the context of the early twenty-first-century international investment interests in resource-rich Africa, Tsey argues, forensic historical research is required to determine the precise nature and scale of the financial and humanitarian injustices committed by British colonialists during the construction of major public works projects. More than providing opportunities to take possible legal actions for reparations, this research should also serve as a reminder to present-day African policy-makers and their international and local business partners that the injustices and blatant abuses of power of the past should never be repeated.
Deutsch im Kreis Schanfigg
(2012)
In dieser Arbeit wird unter Schanfigg nach Kessler "Schanfigg im weitern Sinne" verstanden, d.h. die Dörfer des politischen Kreises Schanfigg [...]. Da Dialekte im Gegensatz zu Hochsprachen nicht-normierte Sprachvarietäten darstellen, zeichnen sich die Ortsgrammatiken durch eine jeweils enorme Formenvielfalt in lautlicher und in morphologischer Hinsicht aus. Dies war denn auch eines der Ziele der Untersuchung: Mit Hilfe der Prager Phonologie und der auf ihr beruhenden Morphologie sollte aufgezeigt werden, wie groß die allophonische und allomorphische Bandbreite ist, derer sich die Sprecher im Gespräch unbewußt bedienen. Sehr schön läßt sich dies anhand der Verbalmorphologie bei den unregelmäßigen Verben (Kurzverben) aufzeigen. Ein weiteres Ziel der Untersuchung war es, die Stellung der Ortsdialekte des Schanfiggs und ihres Gesamts, also das Schanfigger Diasystem, innerhalb der dem Schanfigg benachbarten Mundarten darzustellen. Idealerweise hätten das Prättigau, das Churwaldner Tal und die Churer bzw. Churerrheintaler Mundarten herangezogen werden müssen. Da aber leider keine Untersuchungen zu den Verhältnissen im Prättigau und im Churwaldner Tal vorhanden sind, wurden die Schanfigger Verhältnisse mit denjenigen der Stadt Chur (vgl. Eckhardt 1991) und des Deutschen im Bezirk Imboden (vgl. Toth und Ebneter 1996) verglichen.
The book investigates what have become of Cameroonian transnational family and friendship ties in the age of the mobile phone and the internet that make people readily available and reachable. Most theoretical literature states that these tools of sociality cement transnational social relationships through instantaneous interaction. To capture the different experiences and impressions on the significance of these media in easing communication for migrants and non-migrants, Tazanu draws on ethnographic accounts based on his fieldwork in Freiburg (Germany) and Buea (Cameroon). He argues that it is mainly the migrants who maintain or are expected to maintain ties with non-migrants back in Cameroon through calls and material support. The main finding of the study is that cell phones and the internet have facilitated discontents, grudges, insults, fights, avoidance, arguments and estrangement of relationships much more than they have contributed to binding friends or families through direct mediation. Underlying these aspects of distanciation are the high expectations and sometimes contradictory motives for instant virtual interaction. Non-migrants' accounts suggest that direct availability and reachability should lead to uninterrupted transnational interaction and also that the cultural practices of remittances from migrants are easily requested and coordinated. Such motives are generally contrary to migrants' wishes, willingness or ability to support friends and families in Cameroon. These unexpected outcomes arising from rapid speed of interaction questions the advantages that are often associated with instant sociality across space and time. The finding is a call for the cultural background and life-world experiences of media users to be taken into consideration when theorising the significance of information technology in the debate on media globalisation.
This book encompasses a history of identity-building amongst Khwe San people, and of contestations for authority over land and natural resources in Namibia?s West Caprivi. The politics of authority in this contested borderland area were significantly shaped by state and NGO interventions into local institutions and land use between the late 1930s and 2006. Julie J. Taylor pays close attention to the role of NGOs in these processes. She shows that, in their relationship with West Caprivi?s residents, NGOs unintentionally contributed towards the hardening and politicising of ethnic difference, including through the implementation of land mapping projects. At the same time, in their relationship with the state, NGOs often worked to ?depoliticise? struggles over authority, thus inadvertently reinforcing the state?s authority in the area.
In the instinct to survive those who are able to dominate the competition go about their activities as if others (humans and non-humans) did not matter or did not have interests. Selfishness becomes more prevalent as a people move from elementary economic systems to modern economic systems. The major reason why economic systems collapse is human selfishness. Despite all the achievements in science and technology, there are still poor people in the world and environmental cataclysms have become daily occurrences. This is because the would-be agents of development, such as Multinational Corporations and states, are largely motivated by selfishness. Unfortunately, poor economies pursue development using borrowed models formulated for selfish reasons. Needless to say, the solution to current economic and environmental challenges does not lie in abstract economic jargons or more advanced technological machinery but in taming the evil of human selfishness. This book makes a strong case for a vaccine against the virus of selfishness, namely, education for altruistic egoism.
This book offers an intriguing account of the complex and often contradictory relations between music and society in Freetown's past and present. Blending anthropological thought with ethnographic and historical research, it explores the conjunctures of music practices and social affiliations and the diverse patterns of social dis/connections that music helps to shape, to (re)create, and to defy in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown. The first half of the book traces back the changing social relationships and the concurrent changes in the city's music life from the first days of the colony in the late 18th century up to the turbulent and thriving music scenes in the first decade of the 21st century. Grounded in this comprehensive historiography of Freetown's socio-musical palimpsest, the second half of the book puts forth a detailed ethnography of social dynamics in the realms of music, calibrating contemporary Freetown's social polyphony with its musical counterpart.
The Gathering Storm
(2012)
The slow awakening of the people of Bulembe to the true meaning of 'independence' encapsulated in the parallel stories of the Kamuyuga family, who shed their old identity and turn into the wealth-grabbing 'Alkarims', and the Lubele family, who remain exploited peasants. But do the people remain forever caught under the burdens of the past, blinded by the skin-deep 'changes' to the present? This is revealed through the eyes of Simon Lubele, son of Bulembe dedicated to real change. Hamza Sokko renders the tranquil beauty of the Anyalungu plateau on which Bulembe lies, deep-rooted customs of its peasants, the crushing twin burdens of static African tradition and oppressive colonial machinery with poignancy and quiet insight.
Swimming with Cobras
(2012)
Swimming with Cobras is a memoir about a journey to find a foothold in a foreign land grappling with its own identity, offering rare and important insight into a corner of South Africa's past. Rosemary Smith's life as an activist in the Eastern Cape began when she moved from England with her South African born husband in the mid-1960s. They made their home in Grahamstown where they raised four children. As a member of the Black Sash she participated in events spanning three decades in an intensely politicised and oppressed province. Through her involvement she made the transition to full integration in a country that at first struck her as alien and strange.
Surveys during the summer of 2004 and August 2009 on Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, USA resulted in collection of 1064 adult spiders representing 84 species. Barcoding of spiders collected in 2009 resulted in DNA barcode data for 212 specimens representing 63 species. DNA barcode data were then used to facilitate the identification of otherwise unidentifiable juvenile and female specimens as well as to investigate phylogenetically four lineages with large branch lengths between specimens. Using morphological and DNA barcode identifications provided a more complete list of identified specimens than was possible using morphological data alone.
Idasa's Democracy Index - initially developed for South Africa - is being expanded into Southern Africa in an effort to broaden the capacity of individuals and organisations monitoring and supporting democratic governance efforts in the region. This inaugural Democracy Index for Namibia is intended to set a benchmark for democracy to be measured against. The tool assesses the country's depth of democracy through five focus areas: participation, elections, accountability, political rights, and human dignity. The research relies on expert analysis to answer a set of questions that interrogate how closely, in practice, democracy meets the broad ideal of self-representative government. More specifically, to what extent can citizens control elected officials and government appointees who make decisions about public affairs? And how equal are citizens to one another in this accountability process? The purpose of the scores is to assist citizens in making their own judgements, based on the information made available, to stimulate national debate and to provide democracy promoters with a tool for identifying issues and needs that can be addressed by education, advocacy, training, institution building and policy revision.
Based on two “uni-ocellate” females, the world’s first introductions of the milliped order Stemmiulida are recorded from Florida, United States (US). One individual was collected in 1976 in Gainesville, Alachua County (Co.)., in northcentral peninsular Florida, and the other was taken in 1991 some 408 km (255 mi) to the south-southeast in Pompano Beach, Broward Co. The absence of further individuals and additional samples suggests that the introductions did not result in viable populations, and stemmiulidans are not presently established in the state; the Gainesville site was reinvestigated in 2012 without finding additional specimens. New records from Mexico include the first from Chiapas, Oaxaca, Tabasco, Yucatan, San Luis Potosí, and Tamaulipas states, with the northernmost ordinal locality now becoming Rancho del Cielo, northwest of Gómez Farias, in the last. A northward range expansion of about 460 km (288 mi) from the previous limit, Xalapa, Veracruz, the site lies a mere 40 km (25 mi) south of the Tropic of Cancer and only some 320 km (200 mi) south of the Rio Grande and the US border at McAllen, Hidalgo Co., Texas. Indigenous Stemmiulida are not expected in the forested Rio Grande Valley of southernmost Texas, but their occurrence in the adjoining Mexican state renders such a discovery more plausible than before.
Snoqualmia, new genus, is described for two species of polydesmid millipeds from the northwestern
United States: Snoqualmia snoqualmie, new species, from Washington State, and S. idaho, new species,
from Idaho. Males of S. idaho possess unusually complex gonopods, perhaps the most complex to be found in the Order
Polydesmida. Snoqualmia is placed in context with other polydesmid genera known from North America. The
polydesmid fauna of North America is discussed, as well as characters of the gonopods of the family.
Regionale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Metropolregionen FrankfurtRheinMain und Stuttgart im Vergleich
(2012)
Aus einer Handlungsperspektive begründen die Ergebnisse der Studie, dass Rankings für regionalpolitisches Handeln nicht geeignet sind. Sie begründen auch, dass die Bestimmungsfaktoren regionaler Wettbewerbsfähigkeit teilweise in Regionen übereinstimmen, teilweise aber auch bemerkenswerte Unterschiede sowohl hinsichtlich der Bedeutung als auch der Stärke bestehen. Schließlich machen sie deutlich, dass regionalpolitisches Handeln an den Regionalspezifika der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit ansetzen sollte: Sollen die Stärken der Region FrankfurtRheinMain verbessert und/oder die Schwächen verringert werden? Sollte diese Studie zum Anstoß der Diskussion beitragen, wäre eine ihrer Zielsetzungen erfüllt.
Bare and Breaking
(2012)
Karin Schimke is a widely published journalist and columnist, and the Cape Times books editor. She also works as a writing tutor and mentor, an author of non-fiction - including the best-selling Fabulously Forty and Beyond, co-written with Margie Orford - of children's books and of short stories. She edited Open, an anthology of erotic short stories written by some of South Africa's best known women writers. Her poetry has appeared in South Africa Writing, New Contrast, New Coin and Carapace magazines. Bare and Breaking is her first collection of poems.
Der Mietspiegel ist ein Instrument im deutschen Vergleichsmietensystem, mit dem die Mietpreise auf dem privaten Wohnungsmarkt reguliert werden sollen. Frankfurt am Main war Pionier bei der Durchsetzung des Mietspiegels in der Bundesrepublik: Bereits in den 1960er Jahren wurden Mietprognosen von der Vereinigung der Haus-, Grund- und Wohnungseigentümer (Haus & Grund) veröffentlicht, die bei Rechtsstreitigkeiten schlichtende Funktion erfüllen sollten; 1974 kam es zur Bildung einer Kommission, in der neben der Stadt Frankfurt u.a. Repräsentant_innen der beiden Mietparteien vertreten waren und die den ersten Mietspiegel herausgab (vgl. Lammel 2007: 4); 1990 kam es schließlich zur bundesweit ersten Erstellung eines Mietspiegels mittels der Regressionsanalyse – einer Methode, die damals von Seiten der Vermieter_innenverbände heftig angefeindet wurde (vgl. ebd.: 6ff., Hummel 1993), mittlerweile jedoch allgemein als anerkannt gilt (vgl. BMVBW 2002: 39). In Frankfurt kommt diese Methode bis heute zur Anwendung, obwohl sie nach wie vor in der Kritik der Vermieter_innenverbände steht (vgl. exemplarisch Ridinger 2011). Entsprechend lehnten diese bspw. den Mietspiegel 2008 geschlossen ab, während die Mieter_innenverbände ihm durchweg zustimmten (vgl. Amt für Wohnungswesen 2008: 4). Haus & Grund äußerte sich damals in Vertretung der Kleineigentümer_innen wie folgt:
„Der einseitig von der Stadt aufgezwungene Mietspiegel kann seinen Hauptzweck, nämlich für eine Befriedung zwischen Mietern und Vermietern zu sorgen, nicht erfüllen“ (Haus & Grund 2009).
2010 wendete sich das Bild: Während die Vermieter_innenverbände dem neuen Mietspiegel mehrheitlich zustimmten, stimmte ein Mieter_innenverband dagegen und zwei enthielten sich der Stimme. Beispielhaft auch hier die Erklärung von Haus & Grund:
„Frankfurter Vermieter können aufatmen. Der neue Frankfurter Mietspiegel 2010 ermöglicht Mietsteigerungen um durchschnittlich 4,4 Prozent. (...) Die Innenstadt wurde durch die Einführung von zwei neuen Wohnlage-Kategorien stark aufgewertet, die Liste der Durchgangsstraßen wurde merklich reduziert, und der restaurierte Stilaltbau erhält endlich die Zuschläge, die ihm gebühren. Freuen dürfte viele Vermieter zudem, dass auch Balkone, Terrassen, Loggien und Rollläden wieder Zuschläge erhalten, ebenso wie modernisierte Bäder“ (Haus & Grund 2011a).
In der Folge kam es zu teilweise drastischen Mieterhöhungen, die zum Protest verschiedener Stadtteilinitiativen führten (FR 2011b, 2011c). In der Diskussion um die Fortschreibung des Mietspiegels 2010 wurde von der IG BAU seine Abschaffung gefordert (vgl. FR 2012d).
The species of the "modestus" group of the genus Psalidognathus Gray (Cerambycidae: Prioninae) (currently with four species and three subspecies), which are recognized mainly by the antennomeres without apical spines, are studied. Psalidognathus thomsoni Lameere, 1885 is revalidated as a species distinct from P. modestus Fries, 1833. Psalidognathus erythrocerus reichei Quentin and Villiers, 1983 and P. erythrocerus pubescens Quentin and Villiers, 1983 are considered as different species from P. erythrocerus Reiche, 1840. Psalidognathus colombianus Demelt, 1989 and Psalidognathus modestus chocoensis Salazar, 2005 are synonymized with P. modestus, syn. nov. Psalidognathus rufescens, although belonging to “friendii” group, is redescribed and some remarks are added. Species redescribed: P. erythrocerus; P. modestus; P. reichei; P. rufescens; P. onorei Quentin and Villiers, 1983; and P. thomsoni. Psalidognathus cerberus sp. nov. is described from Colombia and Ecuador. A provisional key is provided to males of species of "modestus" group.
This book is largely the personal account by Patrick Mbunwe Samba, of how life in his home village of Binshua has been permeated throughout by belief in witchcraft. The book not only provides a historical account informed by his reminiscences of his childhood, it shows as well that even today, belief in witchcraft is very widespread. Witchcraft exerts a profound influence on society in Binshua and in Cameroon in general. The book also provides accounts of the experiences of others, some of them very recent, and gives examples of what injustices and suffering can be caused by the notion that any misfortune must have been caused by witchcraft. For the overwhelming majority of people in village communities such as Binshua, Samba argues, anything not immediately understandable is witchcraft - which is synonymous with mystery. Many educated Africans, too, revert to such traditional attitudes in stressful situations. It may be thought surprising that in spite of the impact of Christianity, Western culture and the improved level of education, the majority of people still believe in witchcraft, and that this phenomenon not only persists but is actually increasing. The book perplexes and challenges by avoiding to provide simple answers to the question whether which witchcraft is real or imagined.
This handy book is a beginner's complete course in the Swahili language, designed especially for foreigners. The book is a result of the author's many years of teaching experience. It is divided into two parts: part one covers pronunciation; Swahili greetings and manners; classification of nouns; adjectives, verbs, adverbs, etc. in twenty-eight lessons and thirty-six exercises. part two includes a study of Swahili usage in specific situations (e.g. at home, in the market, on the road, at the airport, etc.); eleven further lessons and thirteen exercises; the key to the exercises in Parts One and Two; and a Swahili-English vocabulary of words used in the book.
Wherever there is a person's right, there is a corresponding duty imposed upon that person to respect the rights of others. This co-existence of rights and duties may be explained better by the principle of reciprocity of rights and duties. Such is the basis of Land as a Human Right: A History of Land Law and Practice in Tanzania. The esteemed author documents Tanzanian land law along its line of historical development (pre- and post-independence) whereby the thorny issues about 'rights' and 'duties' of the landed, landless and the intermediaries are elucidated. This volume is not limited to events in Tanzania, but includes jurisprudence of land law of other countries in order to tap some interpretative devices of our own by way of analogies. Various case types- reported and unreported, local and foreign- provide a tangible content to what would otherwise be pure theory. He also makes references to local newspapers as a way of tapping the public responses about land-related matters. His survey of such cases in and outside Tanzania led automatically to judgments touching on women's right to matrimonial property and inheritance; individual and collective rights to land; and the right to land of the indigenous peoples. It is the author's view that land law has remained poorly documented in Tanzania. There is plenty of literature about Land Law, yet these sources are not easily available or even accessible to every interested person. Equally, some of the available literature is so old that it may not always depict land law and/or practice as we tend to understand it today. This volume is a comprehensive text on land law in which all the necessary land law principles are highlighted with great precision. Advocate Rwegasira does this with a human rights approach, believing that it is through this approach that a person's right to land, whether individual or collective, can best be explained, especially in this era when conflict over land is unabatedly becoming central in family, communal and societal relations. The language of human rights is for all of us to speak. It follows, therefore, that practitioners both of the bar and the bench will also find it useful for quick reference, much as will do policy makers, law reformers and the general public in and outside Tanzania.
This book deals with colonialism on a Namibian periphery and considers both the German colonial period as well as South African rule in the country. The marginality of the Kaoko region within this colonial topography of power is analysed as a dynamic and fractured feature where power relations and constellations remained highly contested. The dynamics of gender within a regional society constituted of men and women, African and European, receive special attention within frameworks engaging with colonial photography, oral histories and gendered visions.
Cell phones and the Internet have been the recipients of in-depth research on their increased and rapid integration into everyday life and the innovative appropriations associated with them in many societies. The cell phone has attracted particular attention in its perceived abilities to both enhance and destruct social relationships. Our increased access to social media and to the cell phone has taken social networking to an unprecedented level. These communication technologies are revered by many as great, all-purpose, all-positive communication devices in spite of their flaws. They are overwhelmingly bestowed with agency and superiority. Too often, they are idolized with little regard to how they affect and are affected by their users on a personal level. The mutual shaping between technology and society is not adequately acknowledged. Technologies, in spite of the seemingly endless possibilities offered by their many functions, can quite literally be sterile and useless objects outside of conscious and tangible human effort. Cell phones and the Internet, though undoubtedly capable of providing myriad beneficial opportunities for their users, need at long last to be put in their place. This book is a contribution in that regard. Kindled by her own intimate history with her cell phone and a growing curiosity about ICTs in general, this book is a culmination of Crystal Powell's thoughts, reactions to and interpretations of some of the literature on these technologies. The book draws on and critically reviews contributions by some leading authors on the social shaping of ICTs and social media to offer a more nuanced and complex understanding of technology in relation to those who use and are used by it.
Our Father is an accessible but theologically astute book, employing sound biblical scholarship, systematic theological reflection, and socio-cultural assessments which aid understanding of the profound implications for our time in history and of the sixty-seven words that comprise the Lord's Prayer.
Ross Parsons has been working with HIV-positive children in Mutare since 2005. As a child psychotherapist, he was interested in exploring how a therapeutic group, meeting regularly, might offer a way of elaborating and meeting their needs. His account of these experiences is presented as a rare blend of anthropological and psychotherapeutic approaches to the study of children, and he is candid about the close, even intimate, relationships that resulted: 'I have crossed the classical ethnographic and psychoanalytic boundary of the cool observer. The therapist, while still awkwardly present, has also become an advocate in pursuit of the ethnographic.' The period of his research coincided with one of deep crisis in Zimbabwe's economy: employment opportunities were few, public health and education services were in decay, and the prospects were grim for those on the margins of society. 'In the course of my fieldwork I have attended too many funerals.' In the absence of state support, the poor look variously to international NGOs, and to the church. Parsons offers telling insights into the crossroads of donated pharmaceuticals and Christian faith, and is constantly alert to the place of traditional spirituality and ties of kinship.
Labour Law in Namibia
(2012)
Labour Law in Namibia is the first comprehensive and scholarly text to analyse labour law in the country, the Labour Act of 2007, and how it affects the common law principles of employment relations. Concise and extensively researched, it examines the Labour Act in detail in 16 chapters that include the employment relationship; duties of employers and employees; unfair dismissal and other disciplinary actions; the settlement of industrial disputes; and collective bargaining. Over 500 relevant cases are cited, including court rulings in other countries, and comparative references to the labour laws of other Commonwealth countries, notably South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia and the United Kingdom, making it a reference and comparative source book for common law countries in the SADC region and beyond. Written by an authority in the field of labour law, this is a unique reference guide for key players in labour relations, including teachers and students of law, legal researchers and practitioners, human resource and industrial relations practitioners, employers and employer's organisations, employees and trade unions, public servants and public policy advisors, and the academic community internationally. In clear and uncomplicated English, the book is accessible to professional and lay people. A comprehensive list of contents, tables of cases and statues, bibliography and index, assist the reader.
Niemand wird als Märtyrer geboren – auch nicht in der arabischen Welt, wo dieser Begriff seit einigen Jahren Hochkonjunktur hat. Bei der Stilisierung zum Märtyrer spielen Literatur und bildende Künste eine zentrale Rolle: Ohne Literatur gäbe es keine Märtyrer, niemand würde sich ihrer erinnern. Könnte ein Akt des Martyriums begangen werden ohne seine vorherige symbolische Produktion, ohne seinen öffentlichen Lobpreis und seine Huldigung als Vorbild für Tugend und Heldentum?
Friederike Pannewick beschäftigt sich mit verschiedenen Konstellationen von Opfer, Tod und Liebe, angefangen mit der frühislamischen arabischen Literatur bis hinein ins 21. Jahrhundert. Stationen sind der frühislamische Schlachtfeldmärtyrer, der Liebestod, weibliches Martyrium und Selbstmordattentäterinnen, aber auch moderne Dichtung und Romane, die die propagandistische Wirkungsmacht von Märtyrerfiguren in der blutigen Geschichte der zeitgenössischen arabischen Welt kritisch reflektieren und ästhetisch dekonstruieren.
Land Law in Nigeria
(2012)
This study, in nineteen chapters, deals with the various issues pertaining to land law in Nigeria. Namely: Concept of ownership; ownership and communal land holding under customary land tenure; individual land ownership; family land ownership; alienation under customary law; nature of customary tenancy; pledge; the law of property; an overview of the effect of the Land Use Act on customary ownership of land; The Nigerian Land Use Act; Land Use Act 1978; ways of declaration of title to land; legal mortgage; the position of landlord and tenant; the procedure for recovery of premises under the recovery of premises law; classification of right of occupancy; nature of prescription; march towards the reform of the Land Use Act.
The celebrated Nigerian writer Tanure Ojaide relates here his experience of living in the United States where he has been based teaching and writing since 1996. Drawing the Map of Heaven picks up where his earlier memoir, Great Boys. An African Childhood which charted his upbringing in Nigeria by his Grandmother, left off. Less a purely personal tale and more a story of the many other African immigrants in the United States Ojaide in the text uses 'we' to speak collectively for a traditionally communal society now residing in an individualistic setting. As much a reflection of an African background as an American experience Drawing the Map of Heaven is a unique portrait of the African in the United States
Stars of the Long Night
(2012)
Set in the Niger Delta this novel tells the tale of a women's struggle for equality in a traditional patriachal society. Set against the once-in-a-generation festival at which the one chosen by the gods performs the dance of 'the mother mask', Ojaide weaves a tale of suspense while displaying the traditions and religious beliefs that define the Niger Delta.
Aufgabe dieser Magisterarbeit ist die digitale Visualisierung von literarischen Strukturen digitalisierter Literatur. Textgrundlage bilden ausgewählte Loreley-Gedichte. Nach einer theoretischen Einordnung dieser Arbeit sowie zweier Digitalisierungsprojekte der Literaturwissenschaft (Heinrich-Heine-Portal und Projekt Loreley) sollen im Hauptteil die Möglichkeiten einer grafischen Illustration mit digitalen Mitteln formaler und semantischer Strukturen erörtert und exemplarisch demonstriert werden. Als Auszeichnungssprache zur digitalen Erfassung sowie zur Kodierung der Interpretationen wird die XML-Applikation TEI-Lite verwendet. Die Visualisierung erfolgt mittels XSLT als XHTML und SVG.