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Interkulturelle Bibliotheksarbeit ganz praktisch: das Portal www.interkulturellebibliothek.de
Authors: Schneehorst Susanne 
Published: May 2014

Zusammenfassung:
Deutschland hat sich zum Einwanderungsland entwickelt. Viele Bibliotheken haben auf den demografischen Wandel reagiert und definieren sich zunehmend als Lernorte (inter-)kultureller Bildung. Es mangelt jedoch an zentralen Informations- und Serviceangeboten für den Bestandsaufbau in Fremdsprachen und für die Gestaltung interkultureller Bibliotheksangebote. Die dbv-Kommission Interkulturelle Bibliotheksarbeit bietet u. a. durch das Web-Portal www.interkulturellebibliothek.de den Bibliotheken vor Ort theoretische und praktische Hilfestellungen.
Endogenous Merger with Learning
Authors: Erutku Can 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
We look at a concentrated market structure to determine the more likely merger when firms are initially asymmetric. A feature of the analysis is that a high cost firm participating in a merger can learn from the low cost participant. The determination of the equilibrium ownership structure (EOS) rests on the size of the cost asymmetries and learning abilities. Using an endogenous merger model, we find that the EOS always involves a merger between the two most efficient firms. This result holds whether firms adopt a decentralized or centralized structure post-merger and whether learning abilities are known or uncertain pre-merger. In most cases, welfare increases after the merger.
The role of protein-derived free radicals as intermediaries of oxidative processes
Authors: López-Alarcón Camilo , Arenas Andrea , Lissi Eduardo , Silva Eduardo 
Published: May 2014

AbstractThe fact that proteins are the main target of reactive species formed in the cells and extracellular fluids has led to the realization of a great deal of research devoted to revealing the molecular and biological consequences associated with the presence of intermediary protein radicals. This review article describes and comments upon the main chemical pathways involving primary proteic radicals.
CXCL14 antagonizes the CXCL12-CXCR4 signaling axis
Authors: Hara Takahiko , Tanegashima Kosuke 
Published: May 2014

AbstractCXCL12 and CXCL14 are evolutionarily conserved members of the CXC-type chemokine family. CXCL12 binds specifically to the G-protein-coupled receptor CXCR4 to induce the migration of primordial germ cells, hematopoietic stem cells, and inflammation-associated immune cells. In addition, CXCL12-CXCR4 signaling is often enhanced in malignant tumor cells and facilitates increased proliferation as well as metastasis. Although macrophage migration inhibitory factor and extracellular ubiquitin interact with CXCR4 as agonistic factors, CXCL12 was believed to be the sole chemokine ligand for CXCR4. However, a very recent report revealed that CXCL14 binds to CXCR4 with high affinity and efficiently inhibits CXCL12-mediated chemotaxis of hematopoietic progenitor and leukemia-derived cells. CXCL14 does not directly cross-compete with CXCL12 for the CXCR4 binding but instead inactivates CXCR4 via receptor internalization. Because both CXCL12 and CXCL14 are expressed during embryogenesis and brain development in mice, these two chemokines could function in an interactive fashion. We propose that the CXCL14 gene has been conserved from fish to man due to its role in fine-tuning the strength of CXCL12-mediated signal transduction. In addition to its biological implications, the above finding will be important for designing anti-cancer compounds targeting the CXCL12-CXCR4 signaling axis. In fact, a stabilized dimeric peptide containing the C-terminal 51–77 amino acid residues of CXCL14 has been shown to have stronger CXCL12 antagonistic activity than full-length CXCL14.
The acquisition of comparative constructions by English learners of Chinese: An explorative study from a college Chinese language classroom
Authors: Lee Seunghun J. , Li Xiao 
Published: May 2014

AbstractThis explorative study reports how three types of comparative constructions in Mandarin Chinese, namely adjectival, adverbial and differential comparatives, are acquired by English learners in a college Chinese-language classroom. We start with a hypothesis that the syntactic structures of the adverbial comparative and the differential comparative will be a potential challenge to learners because these two constructions are neutralized in English comparatives. However, the results of the three in-class tests we conducted indicate that learners have more difficulty with the adjectival comparative and the adverbial comparative than the differential comparative. Based on these results, we discuss effects of L1 transfer, difficulties in acquiring structures that involve optional components, and differences between heritage and non-heritage learners in learning Chinese as a second language.
Synthesis of Me2 TiO4 and MeFe2 O4 spinels and their use in organic alkyd resin-based anticorrosion coatings
Authors: Kalendová Andrea , Veselý David , Kohl Miroslav 
Published: May 2014

AbstractThe anticorrosion properties of paints containing mixed metal oxide-based pigments were examined. Spinels with the cation combinations Ti-Zn-Mg or Fe-Zn-Mg were synthesized. Core-shell pigments with zinc oxide and magnesium oxide layers were also prepared. The pigments were synthesized from the oxides or carbonates by the high-temperature solid-phase process. The anticorrosion and physico-mechanical properties of film of paints based on an alkyd resin modified with soy oil and containing the pigments at a volume concentration of 10% were investigated. The highest anticorrosion efficiency was observed with the ferrite-based pigments. The anticorrosion efficiency was found to increase with increasing Zn contents of the pigments.
Linear stability of algebraic Ricci solitons
Authors: Jablonski Michael , Petersen Peter , Williams Michael Bradford 
Published: May 2014

Abstract

We consider a modified Ricci flow equation whose stationary solutions include Einstein and Ricci soliton metrics, and we study the linear stability of those solutions relative to the flow. After deriving various criteria that imply linear stability, we turn our attention to left-invariant soliton metrics on (non-compact) simply connected solvable Lie groups and prove linear stability of many such metrics. These include an open set of two-step solvsolitons, all two-step nilsolitons, two infinite families of three-step solvable Einstein metrics, all nilsolitons of dimensions six or less, and all solvable Einstein metrics of dimension seven or less with codimension-one nilradical. For each linearly stable metric, dynamical stability follows from a generalization of the techniques of Guenther, Isenberg, and Knopf.
Successful vaginal packing in placenta previa
Authors: Kesrouani Assaad , Tadros Teddy , Attieh Elie , Daher Alain 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
Severe bleeding from placenta previa usually leads to immediate delivery. We report a case of a 23 weeks twin pregnancy who presented profuse bleeding while she was in the operating room for cervical cerclage. Cervical compression with a pack was applied in an attempt to gain time whilst preparing for cesarean section. The attempt was successful in halting bleeding and helped to extend the pregnancy until 33 weeks. We did not find a similar case in the literature and our conclusion was that in carefully selected cases, vaginal packing could be an immediate option to stop bleeding in placenta previa.
Semiotics, under the Challenge of Globalization
Authors: Marcus Solomon 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
Taking into account that the slogan of the next World Congress of Semiotics refers to global semiotics, we analyze, in this context, the different meanings of global and of the associated terms, such as civilization, culture and communication. We distinguish two notions of culture and several aspects of global semiotics, while civilization is shown to be the first proposed notion of culture. Communication is a much more complex activity, whose relation to sign process is not yet clarified. We conclude that no status of semiotics could be accepted that is incompatible with its global nature. Semiotics is a meta-discipline global in all respects. We point out in this way the complexity of the tasks of the 11th World Congress of Semiotics.
On the Change of the Middle Item and Cultural Markedness
Authors: Peng Jia 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
In the dynamic relation of “the positive - the middle item - the alien”, the middle item is pressed by both ends. The pressure from the positive on the middle item, whose intensity is related to cultural tolerance, is driven by the need to maintain its position. That from the alien on the middle item comes from the claim for the selfoverturn of the subculture as well as the pursuit by art of its own markedness. At different levels of culture, the pressure on the middle item is different. The subtle and complex tension among the three influences the developmental trend of culture
Subject, Dialogue and Transcendence in Sophocles’s Oedipus at Colonus
Authors: Hočevar Drina 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
In Sophocles’ play Oedipus at Colonus, Colonus, and more specifically the location near the sacred grove, is more than the setting of a story; it is a place significant in itself where the main character, Oedipus, will experience a transformation from “negation towards “affirmation in his transcendental journey. The place found by Oedipus allows him to acquire inner vision for understanding himself and others; it is where prophetic vision of the past will meet, in the memory of the subject, with prophetic visions of the future. His sense of guilt becomes more transparent and the tragic hero is revealed in his inner self as innocent.
“Le Soleil”. Representation or Re-presentation?
Authors: Kaczmarczyk Katarzyna 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
The music of Grażyna Pstrokońska-Nawratil, in its composer’s premises, grows, above all, out of a fascination with the sea. This idea is realized, among others, by the musical piece Le soleil. It refers to three well-known paintings: Claude Monet’s Impression, soleil levant (Andante), Georges Seurat’s Un Dimanche a la Grande Jatte (Presto) and Vincent van Gogh’s Le chemin avec des cypress (Andante). Thus, the question arises regarding the relation between the paintings and the Polish composer’s music: Does this relation fit the category of ekphrasis, adapted by Siglind Bruhn from a theory of literature, to musical studies? To answer this question, the present study undertakes a search for quasi-painting structural features of Pstrokońska-Nawratil’s music in the context of the problem of musical space-time
Semiosis and Phase Transitions in Biology: a Peircean View
Authors: Fernández Eliseo 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
Since the days of Darwin and Wallace, evolution has been a leading unifying factor in biological theorizing, along with other key conceptual strands from thermodynamics, genetics, and molecular biology. Physics, whose explanatory resources underpin those of the physical sciences, has until quite recently stood impervious to evolutionary thought however. The thoroughly ahistorical conception of nature promoted by traditional physics, bundled with other philosophical preconceptions, conspired against any conceptual unification of physics with biology other than strict reductionism. This article aims to show that Peircean semiotics combined with new developments in both physics and biology augur new prospects for reversing this situation by means of a non-reductive unification of physical and biological theories leading to a truly evolutionary natural philosophy - including cosmology. For several reasons, such an upcoming synthesis could become auspicious to the incorporation of biosemiotic ideas as central explanatory resources in biology (in contrast to the present situation). To develop the reasons behind this expectation, I offer first a summary of some remarkable developments in cosmology, particle physics, condensed matter physics and biology, all of which relate to the notions of symmetry breaking, phase transitions and scale invariance. Next, I indicate how these trends merge with the rise of novel forms of causation (e.g. circular, downward, reciprocal) in systems biology and self-organization theories. Finally, I speculate on how the characteristic form of causation in biosemiotic transactions (i.e. semiosis) may relate to other types of causal action deployed within living systems.
The Generic Structure of the Editorials of People’s Daily and Its Variability
Authors: Xin Bin 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
Genre was once seen as something categorically fixed and immutable and such a view of genre can still be found in some contemporary studies of genres though it has been challenged by more and more theorists in both the literary and the linguistic circles, who hold a fairly dynamic view of genres. The analysis in this paper will demonstrate that, though we can identify a definite generic structure in the editorials of People's Daily, there are noticeable generic variations arising from the different occasions and/or purposes of those editorials. The results of the analysis will also show that different cultural conventions and different ways of thinking of different peoples often play an important role in the shaping of genres resulting in major or minor structural variations in the same genre in different languages.
The Logic of Phenomena: Semiotic Structures of West and East in Communicology and Culture
Authors: Lanigan Richard L. 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
The article offers a general introduction to the semiotic sign-systems that constitute the logic by which communication and culture function together to create the human world of expression and perception. There are two styles of logic that characterize a western egocentric (individual) perspective and an eastern sociocentric (group) perspective on cultural communicology. The cultural attitudes and practices of America (U. S. A . ) and China (PRC) are used to compare and contrast these two phenomenological styles of human logic: the causal disjunctive ( either/or) logic of the West and the causal conjunctive (both/and) logic of the East.
The Hypoiconic Metaphor and the Abductive Mode of Inference
Authors: Sørensen Bent , Thellefsen Torkild 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
In this article we suggest a possible relation between C. S. Peirce's (1839-1914) concept of metaphor and abduction. To our knowledge Peirce never did analyze nor even mention , the two concepts in the same context. But we understand the hypoiconic metaphor as rooted in the abductive mode of inference; the hypoiconic metaphor is part of an intricate relation between experience, body, inference, and guessing instinct as a semeiotic mechanism which can convey novel ideas.
Peirce’s Semiotic Categories from the Viewpoint of the Graphic Designer
Authors: Skaggs Steven 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
This article begins with Peirce's ten sign classes, derived from his three trichotomies of sign relations, and adapts this taxonomy to graphic design. The paper presents a table that graphically illustrates the sign classes and their inter-relationships, and it argues for a shift in the traditional terminology to allow a tighter fit with contemporary graphic design usage and practice. This article may be seen as a companion piece, and extension, to the article in Chinese Semiotic Studies by the same author in 2010 which questioned whether a designer ever completes an argument.
Tartu Summer Schools of Semiotics at the Time of Juri Lotman
Authors: Salupere Silvi 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
The article gives a brief overview of Summer Schools in semiotics of the 1960s and 1970s that took place near Tartu, at Kääriku sports centre of the University of Tartu, and later in Tartu. These Summer Schools on secondary modelling systems were certainly the most important scientific events in the field of semiotics in Soviet Union. These meetings drew together the members of Tartu-Moscow Semiotics School. An unconstrained atmosphere of these conferences allowed a freedom of discussion that the participants had not experienced earlier and that they recall decades after.
Ren ( 仁) Humanist Ethics and Semiotics in the Future
Authors: Li Youzheng 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
The term “semiotics” is better used as a more desirable approach for promoting the modernization of global humanities. In place of a mere study of signs a new semiotics should be related to the institutionalized and institutionalizing mechanism of semantic production and communicative constitution with respect to the entire social and human sciences. For the sake of attaining this correct scientific goal semiotics should be linked with an ethics of subjectivity. Both Husserl and Wang Yangming, with different styles, provide us with the model of ethical practice that can make the semiotic scholar become spiritually capable of insisting on scientific truth against the prevailing scholarly utilitarianism caused by present-day commercialized globalization.
On the Cultural Turn of Translation Studies in China in the New Millennium: A Semiotic Appraisal and Prognosis
Authors: Han Lei 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
In the early years of the new millennium, Chinese scholars in translation studies were still debating, belatedly, the “cultural turn”, particularly with regard to two issues: (1) the distinction between the ontology of translation and the ontology of translation studies, and (2) the so-called “paradigm shift” triggered by the cultural turn. Stemming from a critique of the two ontologies and questioning the paradigm shift, this paper serves the following critical purposes. It appeals for a return to textuality by reinstating the role of language in translation studies; i.e., it seeks to clarify how language functions on the boundary between translation and non-translation on both the object-language and meta-language levels, and calls for a new meta-theoretical orientation of translation studies. Scholars participating in the Chinese debate over the cultural turn have regrettably overlooked the fact that semiotics has long since renovated translation studies, especially in terms of the discipline’s system-specificity and intersystemic relationships. Semiotic input on translation studies may enable the Chinese researcher to better formulate, pose and answer the crucial question: What is translation? Four versions of a semiotic approach to translation studies can be identified or envisaged: (1) the influence of Peircean “semeiotics”; (2) a structural linguistics-informed methodology, such as that of the Russian formalists and their Slavonic followers; (3) the impact of biosemiotics; and, finally, (4) the influence of cultural semiotics represented by the Tartu School. This essay provides a critical survey of the Chinese debate on the cultural turn and suggests a prognosis based on the aforementioned semiotic approaches.
Semiotics as a Global Discipline
Authors: Hakim Arif 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
Semiotics has tremendous potential as a subject to be studied globally since it deals with the signs and sign-processes that exist in every society. In addition, it interprets culture, and related phenomena, by means of the scientific method. Further, the domain of semiotics includes social, temporal and spatial phenomena, from aerospace to the human mind, and from prehistory to the remote future. Viewed in this light, semiotics could be regarded as an essential discipline of the academic world. This paper explains the necessity of studying semiotics worldwide, its nature and characteristics, and its scope as a global discipline.
Abolishing Belief to Make Room for Knowledge: An Analysis of the “Contract” Underlying Reality TV
Authors: Jost François 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
This article aims to build a semiotic frame necessary for the analysis of television, in particular current formats of “reality” TV. First, it questions the concept of contract, which is the basis of many models of TV communication. As soon as one abandons the paradigm of textual immanence and adopts a more pragmatic perspective, this model loses power, develops cracks and fissures. Some examples show that it does not function for current TV programs in so far as TV formats such as Big Brother intentionally play on an ambiguity among three “worlds”, which are the interpretants of any TV genre: the real world, the world of fiction and the ludic world. Networks make promises as to the generic nature of a program and viewers are free to believe them or not. The author analyzes two programs the ambiguous anchorage of which in some world creates an opposition between those viewers who believe and those who do not, between the gullible and the incredulous. These programs displace content belonging to the domain of belief (or inversely to the domain of the “suspension of disbelief”) into the domain of knowledge. Such examples provide evidence that the notion of contract is epistemologically inadequate for the analysis of present-day media.
A Metaphysic for Semiotics
Authors: Rattasepp Silver 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
One aspect of theoretical thought is the position, sentiment or temperament chosen by the thinker, one that guides the thinker’s thought onward to new avenues. A “flat ontology” is proposed as one such possibility for semioticians, one that would take a nonhierarchical field of diversity as its basic ontological stance. In light of this flat ontology - which can be seen as a view on semiosphere -, two issues are briefly explored: reductionism vs. holism, and three models of relationship: self-actional, interactional, and transactional
Tartu Variations: Objects, Subjects and the Third Way
Authors: Rodríguez Higuera Claudio Julio 
Published: May 2014

Abstract
This article presents a consideration regarding semiosis and the theoretical problems faced in semiotics in cases where the approach to the phenomenon is taken under limiting conditions such as a singular focus on subjects or objects in semiosis. These problems, exemplified as disjointed components of the Tartu-Moscow school can be faced and overcome given a complex approach as the paradigm established by the combination of parts given in Tartu-Moscow semiotics through its heritage of complex subject-system relations in the semiosphere. The implications of this thought are considered as a potential solution to the issues of limiting semiosis to either a singular or dual reference of signification, creating a coherent tool for the analysis of semiosis beyond the vague definition of the action of signs.