The Berlin Wall as Living Ornament

A medical student trapped behind the Berlin Wall, 1961.

Primary Hydatid Disease of the Chest Wall Presenting as a Chest Wall Tumor

Hydatid cyst is a parasitic disease that is endemic in Mediterranean areas, South America, North Africa, Australia, and Iran. Although the liver and lung are the most common involved organs, but the other organs in human body also can be involved by hydatid cyst. Chest wall involvement by hydatid cyst is a rare condition, which may be misdiagnosed as chest wall tumor in the endemic areas. Herei...

The E¤ect of Migration on NativesEmployment Outcomes: Evidence from the Fall of the Berlin Wall

I study the impact of East-West internal migration in Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall on wages and unemployment rates in West German local labor markets. Because migrants’ choice of destination is likely to be correlated with local labor market conditions, I instrument migration ‡ows into each western labor market with the distance to each of the East German regions sending migrants a...

Strategies for the exploration of ornament performance

Performing music is a creative process, even if notated music is performed. It is creative in the sense that performers have to establish and refine an interpretation of the music, given the under-specification of western notation and the aesthetic demands to provide an individual, but coherent, interpretation. Part of the practice is to explore interpretations and refine a chosen interpretatio...

Melting Pots: Berlin Digital meets Berlin Culture

Forming, storming, norming and performing [1] – a well-known phase-modulation model of team building is probably reliable to describe the changeful relationship of Berlin Cultural and Berlin Digital in the Melting Pot of the metropolis. The pretty, shy bride awkwardly meets a nerdy, hyperactive groom when after the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th, 1989, the wedding looms on the horizon:...