Oliver Twist

"Something covered with an old blanket": Nancy and other dead mothers in Oliver Twist.

In Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, Julia Kristeva outlines her theory of abjection as a simultaneous fascination and horror stemming from sensorial reminders of the subject's primal, psychological relation to the mother. In this essay, I show how these psychological perspectives can potentially result in acts of physical violence, which I call the "abject response." Applied to literatu...

Die Autoren Oliver Berthold Oliver Günther

RFID: Consumer Fears and Consumer Protection RFID introduction is a hotly debated public policy issue. The technology enables physical environments to become more interactive and supportive by tagging each item with a chip that wirelessly communicates with a service-enriched backend infrastructure. Based on a number of user studies at Humboldt-Universität and at the Auto-ID Center, this article...

Oliver Hobert

Oliver Hobert is an Associate Professor at Columbia University Medical School in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and is an Investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He has obtained his Diploma degree in Biochemistry with Gerhard Krauss at the University of Bayreuth in Germany, and his PhD with Axel Ullrich at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Mart...

- Oliver Schoen

In contrast to prior studies examining strategic alliances as a discrete governance structure (e.g., alliance versus M&A), we investigate their particular contractual features. A focus on the contractual provisions that firms employ in alliances also permits a more finegrained understanding of alliance design relative to broad taxonomies of collaborative agreements that are currently in use (e....

Oliver Hart