This article studies the Turkish-German writer Kemal Kurt’s Ja, sagt Molly (1998) [‘Yes, says Molly’], an ironic meta-fiction to which little critical attention has been paid. Kurt questions the representation of Turks as untutored aspirants to Western culture and challenges the traditional images of exclusion and discrimination. Through a study of his use of pastiche and references to World Li...

The theory of valuations was started in 1912 by the Hungar-ian mathematician Josef K urschh ak who formulated the valuation axioms as we are used today. The main motivation was to provide a solid foundation for the theory of p-adic elds as deened by Kurt Hensel. In the following decades we can observe a quick development of valuation theory , triggered mainly by the discovery that much of algeb...

Kurt Levin's statement “There is nothing more practical than a good theory” says not so much about what is good for practice as what it means to have a good theory. There exist a number of competing theories in the business process domain. The current paper is devoted to one of them that lies outside the mainstream direction. The purpose of the paper is not to present the theory as such, but to...