since the late seventies the german literary scene has witnessed a rising presence of german writers of foreign extraction examining their intercultural experiences on pivotal topics like refugees, schism, alienation, identity crises, and social and cultural conflicts. this paper deals with the method of presentation of the conflicts and problems related to culture, society and identity as depi...

The distribution of center self-embeddings and extrapositions in German is assumed to reflect a universal performance strategy of minimizing memory load during parsing. Self-embedded relative clauses of embedding depth 2 were semi-automatically analysed in a treebank of German newspaper texts. Clause length and especially extraposition distance are found as the main distinctive parameters betwe...

Expressionism emphasized energetic and dynamic mark making in contrast to the more reflective and spiritual Color Field abstraction. The Color Field movement stressed the overall consistency of form and process and less on gestural brushstrokes of its counterpart and can be seen in the prints of Latvian artists Ivars Hirss and Adja Yunkers. Abstract Expressionism favored highly abstract imagery...

In this article I examine the architecture and architectural thinking of Finnish Academician Reima Pietilä (1923–93) in relation to his design methodology. was an architect with original, creative, artistic personality, who set out early career develop form language, theory modern architecture, moving it towards organic expressionism. nature mysticism a source inspiration for him, ‘nature archi...

While Cloud Computing has become an important topic in research and practice in recent years and widely adopted by consumers and companies around the globe, especially German small and mediumsized enterprises (SME) are reluctant with the respect to using cloud services. Scientific literature on cloud adoption in German SMEs is still scarce, in particular with respect to the use of PaaS solution...

Background The responsiveness of a health system is considered to be an intrinsic goal of  health systems and an essential aspect in performance assessment. Numerous studies have analysed health system responsiveness and related concepts, especially across different countries and health systems. However, fewer studies have applied the concept for the evaluation of specific healthcare delivery s...

This paper analyzes post–1991 sectoral US and German productivity growth and finds supporting evidence that productivity growth accelerations were largely spurred by interaction of ICT investment and high-skill intensity. While the US experienced dramatic increases in productivity growth in High-Skill-Intensive goods-producing and services sectors, German counterparts substantially lagged behin...