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„Und ihr – ihr machtet schon ein Leier-Lied daraus“
Authors: Weidner Daniel 
Published: April 2018

AbstractFriedrich Nietzsche’s writings have often been read as ‘prophetic’, i.e. as authoritative cultural criticism that establishes new ‘values’ and points toward a new culture. Nietzsche himself draws heavily on biblical language and imagery, including the figure of the prophet. The essay addresses this relation in two ways: it analyzes how, especially the early reception, considers Nietzsche’s writings as ‘prophetic’ and how Nietzsche himself reads the prophets as protagonists of the re-evaluation of values. Moreover, a closer ‘Nietzschean’ reading of biblical prophecy shows that both Nietzsche and the prophets claim to pronounce a truth that transcends common understanding and that both refer to a language of radical destruction which eventually leads to the destruction of the very prophetic message itself. Thus, the figure of Nietzsche as a prophet can be read as an emblem of the fundamental epistemological crisis at the end of the nineteenth century, which changed the modes of theoretical discourse.
Wie man chinesisch dichtet, ohne chinesisch zu verstehen
Authors: Klawitter Arne 
Published: April 2018

AbstractThe starting point of the essay is the observation that a number of important German translations of Chinese poetry have been accomplished by poets who were neither able to speak nor read Chinese. The question that arises from this is: what could be considered to be the actual significance of these translations? Albert Ehrenstein’s translation of Bo Juyi’s poems (in Germany also known as Pe-lo-thien) might provide an answer to this question. This essay focuses on his idea of political motivated ‚conceptual translation’ and attempts to demonstrate the transition from indirect allusion to the political appeal.
Dazwischen: Medea. Zu einer transgressiven Figur(ation) bei Euripides
Authors: Pister David 
Published: April 2018

AbstractMedea kills. But why? For her murders, mythological sources provide plenty of explanations: She kills as an abandoned wife, as a vengeful princess, as an insane melancholic person, or as a hurt woman. Yet, these attempts to locate her motivation in a social, political, psychological, or even biological sphere don’t do Medea justice at all. Instead of locating her motivation in one of these categories, I will develop Medea as a transgressive figuration of the in-between, that is: a figuration that cannot be located in one category or the other and I will consider the murders of Euripides’ Medea as a catalyst that is capable of setting this figuration in motion. Whenever Medea kills, she can indeed be located in a category. Yet, as soon as each murder makes the process of localization possible, the figuration of Medea has already moved into another in-between.
Mythologies identitaires et « idéologie (auto)biographique » dans l’écriture mémorielle du post-totalitarisme roumain
Authors: Crihană Alina 
Published: April 2018

AbstractHaving survived an age in which legitimizing political narratives have smothered personal histories, Romanian writers are now increasingly interested in personal memoirs. The identity myths of post-war writing surface in the life stories published after 1989, emerging in a context that favors “the return of the repressed.” The mythology of “resistance via culture” is conditioned by an (auto)biographical ideology. It is latent in the personal writings of the “East-Ethic revisionists” and manifest in publications that advocate political dissidence via the aesthetic. The resultant myth-laden histories perform a therapeutic function in the authors’ profound inner identity reconstruction and a restorative function concerning their public image.
„Much book, little know“ – Enzyklopädie als Lederstrumpf
Authors: Richter Jörg Thomas 
Published: April 2018

AbstractThough James Fenimore Cooper’s five Leatherstocking-Tales (1823–1841) seem unlikely candidates for an encyclopaedic poetics, they encompass frontier life in an extensive scope, integrating a wide range of sources as well as using immense descriptive detail that often enough overgrows their plot. Even more to the point is the often voiced scepticism towards academic knowledge. By taking the tales as a test case for the ‘encyclopaedic novel‘, I explore how encyclopaedic reference shifts in the genesis of these five novels. In addition, a survey of contemporary publishing shows a similar fluidity in the various bearings that encyclopaedic forms could take on at the time. Given the double flexibility of the status and formation of encyclopaedic knowledge, both in the Leatherstocking tales and in contemporary discourse, the article suggests a less strict, more profane and popularly grounded, as well as more historically relative notion of what constitutes an encyclopaedic narrative. As to the Leatherstocking tales, I suggest that they occupy an epistemic space that was then only recently given up by academic encyclopaedic thought, and that they do so by claiming an encyclopaedic function of their own.
From Staged to Disguised Self-Translation: Heine and Celan in France
Authors: Weissmann Dirk 
Published: April 2018

AbstractHeinrich Heine and Paul Celan have often been compared, mainly because of their shared Parisian exile and Jewish identity. Yet we should add another dimension to this comparison, by examining the authors’ relationship to the French versions of their texts. In fact, although Heine and Celan have always considered themselves as German-speaking writers, their perfect bilingualism and active participation in French literary circles made it possible for them to exert an early and considerable influence upon their own reception in France. This particularly affected the translation of their works, which were intensely managed and controlled by both poets. However, their influence took very different forms: Heine alleged to be the author of the French version of his writings, hiding the work of the translator, whereas Celan never wanted to appear as a self-translator, even if he played a key role in the development of the French translations of his works. Thus Heine’s French works appear to be staged self-translations, produced mostly by French translators, while many of the French translations of Celan are actually very close to disguised self-translation. In both cases the original connection between the author and his text is upheld and the movement of estrangement and disappropriation, inherent in translation, is impeded or even stopped.
Von dem Trauma des anderen und der Sehnsucht nach Behausung in Lutz Seilers Roman Kruso (2014)
Authors: Wennerscheid Sophie 
Published: April 2018

AbstractDrawing on Sara Ahmed’s concept of the ‘body not at home’ on the one hand and on the concept of the disturbing ‘foreign body’ (Fremdkörper) as deployed in various trauma studies on the other, this article explores how the traumatized body is to be understood as a disoriented and unstable body. Trauma, however, is not only something that leaves one restless. It also connects one with the trauma of another and leads to mutual understanding. Having been affected by the wound of another, a certain kind of communication among the wounded emerges, which makes traumatic memory accessible. How such an affective impact may look can be shown by examining Lutz Seiler’s award-winning novel Kruso (2014). Set on the isle of Hiddensee shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Seiler tells the story of two men, Kruso and Ed, both traumatized by the loss of a loved one. As both are East German castaways and equally affected by their loss, they develop an intimate relationship, one not void of suppressed desire, mistrust, and aggression. Only years after Kruso’s death is Ed able to come to terms with the past and find a place for burying the vanished dead.
Development of conditional imperatives in Japanese: A diachronic constructional approach
Authors: Kikuta Chiharu Uda 
Published: April 2018

AbstractThis paper proposes a diachronic construction grammar analysis of the conditional imperative in Japanese to demonstrate that a constructional approach provides an effective model for language change. The Japanese conditional imperative comprises two types with distinct properties, but no study to date has successfully analyzed how the two types appeared and are related to each other. In diachronic construction grammar, language change is situated in the context of a construction as well as in relation to other constructions linked in a network. This perspective makes it a particularly beneficial model for accommodating the case in question. The construction developed in two steps, exemplifying different types of language change, both of which, however, are motivated by analogy between different constructions. Adopting the multiple inheritance analysis, I contend that the construction first emerged as a result of the reanalysis of a sequence of an imperative sentence and a subsequent sentence as a type of the conditional construction. A later development reflected another case of construction-based analogy: the daughter construction inherited the host-class expansion that occurred in the parent, and the new type emerged as a result of coercion to accommodate the expansion. Thus the development of the Japanese conditional imperative not only finds a consistent analysis in this framework, but provides valuable insight into the workings of the construction network. This paper also addresses the issues of the inheritance model, and suggests the present case argues for a model with default inheritance at the construction level, which runs counter to previous studies which have restricted the overrides of default inheritance to the level of construct.
La nécessité des traductions. Translating legislation in a young parliamentary regime. The case of Belgium (1830–1895)
Authors: Nouws Bieke , Meylaerts Reine 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
In order to better understand the features and purposes of translation in multilingual states, this study looks at nineteenth-century translation policies in Belgium, a young state (founded in 1830) with liberal ambitions and a multilingual population. More specifically, it deals with the parliamentary debates on the translation into Flemish of the Bulletin des Arrêtés, Bulletin Officiel and Moniteur belge, the consecutive official journals for the publication of new legislation. Until now, language history and language policy researchers have paid too little attention to the key role played by translation and the many aspects of translation policies to consider (such as spelling, timing, translators … ), matters that go to the heart of identity issues in politics and that, consequently, aroused great emotion in some Members of Parliament (MPs).
Language, translation and interpreting policies in prisons: Protecting the rights of speakers of non-official languages
Authors: Martínez-Gómez Aída 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
Despite the human rights principle of no discrimination, the growing numbers of imprisoned linguistic minorities around the world face multiple inequalities related to communication barriers: from cultural and social isolation to lack of equal access to facilities and services. This international survey of prison language policies shows that, in general terms, the protection of prisoners’ language rights responds to non-binding international provisions and scarce broadly-defined national ones. At the individual level, however, prison systems can be grouped according to two distinctive factors: (a) the comprehensiveness of their prison language policies, and (b) the type of policy instruments used to provide for language issues. This article describes the content and extent of language, translation and interpreting policies in forty prison systems around the world, placing a final focus on California and England and Wales, which emerge as examples of good practice that could potentially inspire other systems.
Psychological deictic–te kurucompared to passive: The case of victims’ stories in Japanese
Authors: Minagawa Harumi 
Published: April 2018

AbstractJapanese is often said to be stronger than English in construing an event and reporting it from the subjective position. While the auxiliary verb–te kuru‘COME’ is one of the deictic devices that reports an event from a subjective perspective, very limited attention has been given to the use of–te kuruwhen it denotes ‘psychological deixis’ (Sawada 2000). Using on-line postings of sexual harassment victims, this study examines how the psychological–te kuruexpresses the victims’ experience subjectively particularly in comparison with the much-studied passive structure. While showing that the two syntactic structures would often be interchangeable in the data, the study reveals that when the victim feels powerless and subdued by the offender’s act upon her/him, only the passive is used, while if the victim has a sufficient sense of power to feel anger,–te kurutends to be used. The study argues that the semantic traits of the passive [associated with the perfective aspect] and–te kuru[which is interpreted as ‘psychological inchoative’ in this study] are reflected in the choices made in the victims’ narratives.
On the grammaticalization of Japanese verbal negative marker
Authors: Kishimoto Hideki 
Published: April 2018

AbstractIn Japanese, the verbal negative markernaiappears in both negated verbs (as a sentential negator) and compound negative adjectives (as an affix). Negativenaiused as a sentential negator is a syntactically independent word devoid of adjectival properties despite its adjectival inflection, whereas negativenaiappearing in negative adjectives is a derivational affix. On the basis of idiomatic expressions, the present article argues that the lexical wordnai‘null, empty’ has developed into the affixnaiwhile retaining its lexical properties via morphologization. On the other hand, the functional negatornaiis argued to have emerged from the same lexical wordnaivia decategorialization, which induces a shift from a lexical to a functional category. The analysis taking the two uses ofnaito trace back to the common source of the lexical negative adjective wordnaiprovides a natural account for whynaihas these two totally different uses.
Glycated hemoglobin A1c as a screening test for detecting type 2 diabetes mellitus in obese children and adolescents
Authors: Yoon Jong Seo , So Cheol Hwan , Lee Hae Sang , Hwang Jin Soon 
Published: April 2018

Abstract

Background:
The diagnostic cutoff points for indicators of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in the pediatric population have not been defined thus far.

Methods:
A retrospective, single-center study was conducted from April 2003 to May 2016. We enrolled 236 overweight or obese children and adolescents aged 4–17 years. Thirty-nine (26.9%) of 145 patients had T2DM according to the oral glucose tolerance test results.

Results:
A glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) level of 6.5% had a sensitivity and specificity of 87.2% and 98.5%, respectively, for detecting T2DM. The optimal HbA1c cutoff level for T2DM was >6.2% (94.7% sensitivity, 95.5% specificity).

Conclusions:
We observed that the use of an HbA1c level of 6.5% had a lower sensitivity for detecting T2DM than an HbA1c level of >6.2%.
Still too little, too late? Ten years of growth hormone therapy baseline data from the NordiNet® International Outcome Study
Authors: Polak Michel , Konrad Daniel , Tønnes Pedersen Birgitte , Puras Gediminas , Šnajderová Marta 
Published: April 2018

Abstract

Background:
We investigated time trends in age, gender, growth hormone (GH) dose and height standard deviation score (SDS) in children with GH deficiency (GHD), born small for gestational age (SGA) or with Turner syndrome (TS) starting GH treatment.

Methods:
Data were obtained from children enrolled in the NordiNet® International Outcome Study (IOS) between 2006 and 2015 in the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Serbia and Montenegro (all indications), and Switzerland and the UK (GHD only). Trends were analyzed by linear regression. Patients were divided by age into early-, medium- or late-start groups in three different time periods.

Results:
Approximately one-third of children starting treatment for GHD were girls, with no apparent increase in proportion over time. The mean baseline age for starting treatment decreased significantly (p<0.001) for both GHD and SGA in the Czech Republic and Germany. In the other countries studied, over 40% of children started treatment for GHD and SGA late (girls >10, boys >11 years) between 2013 and 2015. The mean baseline GH doses were largely within recommended ranges for GHD and SGA, but below the lowest recommended starting dose for TS in almost every year since 2011 except in France.

Conclusions:
Approximately one-third of children starting treatment for GHD were girls. Between 2013 and 2015, more than 40% of children started treatment for GHD and SGA late except in Germany and the Czech Republic. TS patients received below-recommended doses. These results highlight the need for earlier identification of short stature in children, particularly girls, and for dose optimization in TS.
Crystal structure of acetonitrile{bis(2-benzimidazolylmethyl)amine-κ3
N,N′,N′′}-{maleato-κO}zinc(II) perchlorate - acetonitrile (1/1), C24H24ClN7O8Zn
Authors: Chen Jiang-Li , Wang Chen , Su Guo-Hua , Nie Feng-Mei 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
C24H24ClN7O8Zn, triclinic, P1̅ (no. 2), a = 10.0834(7) Å, b = 10.8269(7) Å, c = 13.1958(8) Å, α = 77.658(5)°, β = 77.135(5)°, γ = 87.797(5)°, V = 1371.93(15) Å3, Z = 2, R
gt(F) = 0.0410, wR
ref(F
2) = 0.1015, T = 105.6 K.
A new disodium hafnium borate Na2Hf(BO3)2: synthesis, crystal structure, DFT calculations and luminescent properties
Authors: Shi Jian-Chao , Zhao Dan , Ma Zhao , Zhang Rui-Juan , Xue Ya-Li , Liu Bao-Zhong 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
A ternary borate Na2Hf(BO3)2 has been prepared using a high temperature molten salt method and structurally determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. It crystallizes in dolomite-type structure with trigonal space group R3̅, and features a layer structure containing [Hf(BO3)2] layers and Na atom layers perpendicular to the c-axis. Band structure calculation using the density functional theory (DFT) method indicates that Na2Hf(BO3)2 has an indirect bond gap of about 4.76 eV. The photoluminescence excitation and emission spectra, decay curve, and the color coordinates of Na2Hf(BO3)2 were investigated. The results show that it can be efficiently excited by UV light (302 nm) and presents blue-green emission (centred at 480 nm), which may be attributed to the lattice defect emission.
Coupled Plasmon Resonances and Gap Modes in Laterally Assembled Gold Nanorod Arrays
Authors: Kumar Jatish , Wei Xingzhan , Barrow Steven J. , Funston Alison M. , Thomas K. George , Mulvaney Paul 
Published: April 2018

Abstract
The assembly of metal nanocrystals offers a flexible method for creating new materials with tunable, size-dependent optical properties. Here we study the lateral assembly of gold nanorods into arrays, which leads to strong colour changes due to surface plasmon coupling. We also demonstrate the first example of gap modes in colloid systems, an optical mode in which light waves propagate in the channels between the gold rods. Such modes resonate at wavelengths which strongly depend on the gap width and length.
Fast Network Oscillations in the Newborn Rat HippocampusIn Vitro
Authors: Palva J. Matias , Lamsa Karri , Lauri Sari E. , Rauvala Heikki , Kaila Kai , Taira Tomi 
Published: April 2018

Spontaneous neural activity is crucial for the formation of the intricate patterns of cortical connectivity during development. In particular, temporal correlations in presynaptic and postsynaptic activity have been hypothesized to be a critical determinant in the selection of neurons that are to become wired together. To date, however, temporally correlated activity in the neonatal brain has been believed to take place with a precision of tens of milliseconds to seconds.Here we describe a novel type of a fast network oscillation associated with millisecond synchronization of pyramidal cell firing in newborn rat hippocampusin vitro. Individual pyramidal neurons fired mainly at lower gamma frequencies (20–40 Hz) but were synchronized into a high-frequency (100–400 Hz) population oscillation that was reflected in field potential spikes and intracellular AMPA–kainate receptor-mediated currents. The high-frequency population oscillation was patterned by a gamma-frequency modulatory oscillation. The gamma modulation was imposed by GABAergic currents, which exerted an inhibitory action on pyramidal neurons. Patterned activity based on GABAergic inhibition and glutamatergic excitation thus occurs already in newborn hippocampus. The network oscillations described here may be a mechanism for selective coincidence detection with a millisecond range temporal precision to shape the patterns of connectivity within the emerging hippocampal synaptic circuitry.
Enhanced and Impaired Attentional Performance After Infusion of D1 Dopaminergic Receptor Agents into Rat Prefrontal Cortex
Authors: Granon Sylvie , Passetti Filippo , Thomas Kerrie L. , Dalley Jeffrey W. , Everitt Barry J. , Robbins Trevor W. 
Published: April 2018

The role in spatial divided and sustained attention of D1 and D2-like dopamine (DA) receptors in the rat prelimbic medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) was investigated in a five-choice serial reaction time task. Rats were trained to detect brief flashes of light (0.5–0.25 sec) presented randomly in a spatial array of five apertures. When performance stabilized, animals received bilateral microinfusions of either the D1 DA receptor antagonist SCH 23390, the D1 DA receptor agonist SKF 38393, or the D2 DA antagonist sulpiride into the mPFC. Rats were divided into two groups, with low (<75% correct) and high (>75%) baseline levels of accuracy. Infusions of the D2 receptor antagonist sulpiride had no significant effect on any task variable. SCH 23390 (0.3 μg) selectively impaired the accuracy of attentional performance in rats in the high baseline condition. By contrast, SKF 38393 (0.06 μg) enhanced the accuracy of attentional performance in the low baseline condition, a lower dose (0.03 μg) also increasing the speed of making correct responses. Finally, the beneficial effects of SKF-383893 on choice accuracy were antagonized by SCH 23390 (1.0 μg).The results provide apparently the first demonstration of enhanced cognitive function after local administration of a D1 receptor agonist to the mPFC and suggest dissociable roles of D1 and D2 DA receptors of the mPFC in modulating attentional function.