Going to Pieces: Paul Monette and the Fragments of the Tribe

Author of the highly acclaimed Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir (1988) and winner of the 1992 National Book Award for his autobiography Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story, Paul Monette died of complications from AIDS in Los Angeles on February 12, 1995. His most recent work, Last Watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal and Otherwise (1994), is his third volume in a trilogy of autobiographical writing on growing up gay, coming-out, and living with AIDS. A graduate of Phillips Academy and Yale University, Monette received a number of awards for his writing and his work as an outspoken voice in the battle against AIDS, including the National Book Award, three Lambda Literary awards, the PEN Center West Freedom to Write Award, and three honorary doctorate degrees, from Wesleyan University, the City University of New York, and the State University of New York at Oswego. A memorial service was held for Monette on Sunday, February 19, 1995, at the Directors Guild of America on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles. Paul Monette was 49.     

Sensitivity of the Optimum to Perturbations of the Profit or Weight of an Item in the Binary Knapsack Problem

In the binary single constraint Knapsack Problem, denoted KP, we are given a knapsack of fixed capacity c and a set of n items. Each item j, j = 1,...,n, has an associated size or weight w_j and a profit p_j. The goal is to determine whether or not item j, j = 1,...,n, should be included in the knapsack. The objective is to maximize the total profit without exceeding the capacity c of the knapsack. In this paper, we study the sensitivity of the optimum of the KP to perturbations of either the profit or the weight of an item. We give approximate and exact interval limits for both cases (profit and weight) and propose several polynomial time algorithms able to reach these interval limits. The performance of the proposed algorithms are evaluated on a large number of problem instances.     

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Dual Career Couples als eine Variante von Work-Life-Integration

Dual Career Couples as a form of work-life-integrationThe author discusses the situation of dual career couples, when both are university graduates following an own career. Basing on a respective publication she delineates the current, mostly American research and reports on several German research projects, which endeavour to analyse the relation between gender and inequality in dual career couples.     

Von der Supervision zur Mediation und zurück

From supervision to mediation and vice versaMediation in organizations becomes more and more important because of increasing conflicts. The question is, which competencies of the counsellor are necessary, and above all, whether mediation is a particular method. The author explains the method of mediation and illustrates his concept of “patchwork-mediation”. This procedure allows to build a bridge between supervision and mediation.     

Ebert. Wolfgang (2001): Systemtheorien in der Supervision — Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektiven

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食品老字号品牌在来华留学生中的传播效果研究——以北京市为例

随着经济全球化的加速,食品老字号品牌应重视国际消费者,制定品牌发展的国际化战略,走出国门,重塑品牌形象.本文以北京市为例,通过对来华留学生这一群体展开调查,评估北京食品老字号品牌在来华留学生中的传播效果,调查发现北京食品老字号品牌在来华留学生中品牌知晓度和满意度都不高.如何充分利用来华留学生在华期间制定具有针对性的且行之有效的品牌传播策略,如何开展国际化品牌传播战略是北京食品老字号品牌想要提高知名度,走向国际市场亟待解决的问题.     

文化自信视域下大学生思想政治教育应对历史虚无主义的策略分析

近年来,历史虚无主义诋毁中国传统文化,亵渎红色革命文化,破坏社会主义先进文化,影响大学生对传统文化时代价值的认识、对社会主义制度的认同和对马克思主义指导地位的认可.为此,大学生思想政治教育必须在文化自信视野下,以"加强教育、坚定自信"为根本导向,以"抢占阵地、亮出旗帜"为根本任务,以"关键在党、关键在人"为根本遵循,着力消除历史虚无主义的影响.