“&” — “Or” — “If ” — “Then” (“&” — “Eller” — “Hvis” — “Så”) by Solvej Balle: Identifying genre

The aim of this article is to contribute to a deeper understanding of Danish minimalism by performing a genre analysis of Solvej Balle’s four short prose books (brief fictional prose) — “&”, “Or”, “If ” and “Then” — written over a 23-year period, between 1990 and 2013. The four texts are connected by a commonality of motifs and thematic elements, identical form and linguistic structure and therefore they comprise a rather unusual tetralogy. Balle’s texts are viewed in the context of the development of Danish literature of that period with an emphasis on minimalist aesthetics and their origins. Balle belongs to a generation of writers associated with the flourishing of minimalism in Danish literature at the end of the 20th century. The characteristic features of her few works are their intellectual elitism and elaborate, sophisticated form. All of her works are experimental, but the four texts of the “tetralogy” are the quintessence of a genre experiment in search of a new minimal aesthetic. The article deals with the characteristic features of the formal organisation of the four books, including their linguistic structure that indicate the cross-genre nature of Balle’s texts and allow to identify them as a hybrid of a pointillist novel and a prose poem.

Taking Hold of the Future: Active Childbirth Practices and Beliefs in Romania (in the Home Country and in Migration)

The relatively recent urbanization process in Romania allowed traditional knowledge to be transmitted, despite industrialization and technology diffusion. Childbirth is still a mysterious event, and magic thinking fills in the gaps of science in order to keep parents confident and at peace. Taboos are obeyed after birth and before christening, only to reach the phase when the future can be moulded: specific elements are chosen for the ritual bath, the child has to touch several objects that would make them smart, a good singer, etc. A year later, their future occupation will be predicted in a specific ceremony. All these active practices are found in urbanites’ families, and also in Romanian immigrant communities in Western Europe. Rituals are mostly compared to neighbouring countries, but also to other distant cultures that show striking similarities. This large geographical spread indicates Indo-European synergies. The identical form of the post-liminal practice of haircutting in Eastern Europe and the Asian rite of passage have not been previously dwelt upon, and it implies the existence of traditional thinking universalia.

ECLECTIC ARCHITECTURE ON MASJID PUSDAI BUILDING IN BANDUNG

Abstract- Eclectic architecture is a product of globalization in which architectural styles from different places and time intertwine each other. The development of eclectic architecture in Indonesia tends to follow the trend, neglecting the local value. A study towards eclectic architecture is necessary to raise society’s concern towards the identification of foreign and local architectural style. Masjid PUSDAI Bandung is selected as a research object to represent these issues above, in which the architectural style of Spain, Indian, and Javanese mosque intertwined each other. The research’s purpose towards the research object as a representation of eclectic architecture is to define the meaning of eclectic architecture in Masjid PUSDAI as well as to understand the form of eclecticism in Masjid PUSDAI. The eclectic architecture form will be analyzed towards the mixture of Indian, Spain, and Javanese mosque architecture style.Literature study as a theoretical base consist of the main theories such as the theory of eclectic architecture and theory of form and technic, as well as the supporting theories such as the architecture of Spain, Indian, and Javanese mosque. A comparative-qualitative approach is used as research method. This method compares the documentation from building observation with the literature theories for a further analysis.Through this research it can be concluded that the eclectic architecture form of Masjid PUSDAI Bandung is seen through mixture of two to three architecture style among its elements, thus forming a new architecture style. However, the intertwinement of architecture style doesn’t show on several elements. Some of them show an identical form which is used in Indian, Spain, and Javanese mosque.This research is expected to educate readers, architecture students, and experts in academic fileds, about how to execute the eclectic architecture design in public facilities, especially on mosques in Indonesia. Keywords: eclectic, architecture, mosque

Barotropic FRW cosmologies with Chiellini damping in comoving time

For nonzero cosmological constant Λ, we show that the barotropic FRW cosmologies as worked out in the comoving time lead in the radiation-dominated case to scale factors of identical form as for the Chiellini dissipative scale factors in conformal time obtained recently by us in Phys. Lett. A 379, 882 (2015). This is due to the Ermakov equation which is obtained in this case. For zero cosmological constant, several textbook solutions are easily obtained as particular cases of our formulas and hypergeometric solutions are also reminded.

Information about articles retraction

(retraction) Based on the decision of the Editorial Board of the journal 'Serbian Archives of Medicine' made at the meeting of the members of the Editorial Board October 12, 2010, the following articles are retracted from 'Serbian Archives of Medicine' because they were published in other journals in almost identical form ('duplicate publications'): Sveti Luka i njegov kult kao svetog vraca u srpskom narodu Zorica Mitrovic, Ljiljana Markovic, Maja Nenadovic Srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo, 2004, vol. 132, br. 9-10, str. 364-368 DOI: 10.2298/SARH0410364M, Previously published in: Arhiv za farmaciju, 2003, vol. 53, br. 6, str. 507-521 Sveti Luka i njegov kult kao svetog vraca u srpskom narodu Zorica Mitrovic. <br><br><font color="red"><b>Link to the retracted article <u><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/SARH0410364M">10.2298/SARH0410364M</a></b></u></font>

'Is' Als Voorloper Van Finietheid

The acquisition of fmiteness, more particularly the morphological marking of finiteness is a well-known obstacle in L2 acquisition by adult learners. This paper deals with an interlanguage stage in the acquisition of Dutch by Turkish and Moroccan learners producing a remarkable pattern that occurs neither in the target language, nor in the learners' native language. These learners use lexical markers (free morphemes) as precursors of fully inflected thematic verbs. In this pattern, the lexical marker is (copula 3SG) is linked either to an infinitival, an inflected form, or to a second, identical form is. This pattern is considered from different perspectives: functional-semantic, syntactic, and developmental. It is argued that this lexical marker is deprived of meaning and that its function is primarily syntactic. The inference is that syntax precedes morphology, especially free morphology in adult L2 acquisition.

Computing Evolutionary Chains in Musical Sequences

Musical patterns that recur in approximate, rather than identical, form within the body of a musical work are considered to be of considerable importance in music analysis. Here we consider the "evolutionary chain problem": this is the problem of computing a chain of all "motif" recurrences, each of which is a transformation of ("similar" to) the original motif, but each of which may be progressively further from the original. Here we consider several variants of the evolutionary chain problem and we present efficient algorithms and implementations for solving them.

Participles In 'Afar: Evidence For the Restructuring of Verb Suffixes

fa In both the Prefix and Suffix conjugations of ‘Afar the distinction between perfect and non-perfect aspects is generally maintained in main verb forms. Mood forms, such as the imperative and jussive, are, however, exceptions to this. The morphological means whereby this aspect distinction is realized is essentially different in the two conjugations although historically one of these means derives from the other. One accidental result of this historical derivation is that two affixes of identical form have come to occupy comparable locations in the structure of the verb. One of them occurs in certain Prefix verb forms, the other in certain Suffix verb forms. In most constructions the functions of these affixes are quite distinct. There are, however, certain constructions in the two conjugations, which clearly correspond functionally to each other, but in which the distribution of the two affixes is anomalous. In this paper the questions are looked at in the light of an internal reconstruction of some areas of the verbal system, with the result that a hypothesis of partial (contextually determined) restructuring is presented as the most plausible means of explaining the anomalies.

Roman Bureaucratese

The theory and fact of the Roman emperor's position were strikingly at variance in the fourth century. ‘Quod principi placuit legis habuit vigorem’ may hav been the established doctrine, but when he spoke to his proconsuls, the emperor said rather, ‘You must order the proceedings [of civil suits] to be on luded on the third day, or at the latest on the fourth day, or at any rate on the fifth’; or, to the civil service, ‘Let the greedy hands of the officials now forbcar, let theln forbear, I say. The stutter and shrillness do not fit an autocrat, nor the repetitions; but repetitions are characteristic of the Codes. An entire decree might have to be re-enacted, in almost identical form, eight or ten time, evidently because no one had paid any attention to it. Against this merely ornamental legislation, against ‘the ruler who lays down a law and is reckoned unable to enforce it,’ Libanius might protest, yet, three times imperatively summoned to the capital, he simply remained in Antioch. A contenlporary, Valerianus v. c., flouted one decree after another, one judicial decision after another, and flouted, too, the authority of the praetorian prefect, the proconsul, the urban prefect, and the imperial secret police, one of whom he allegedly killed with his own hands. Between the emperor and his subjects, and between his theoretical omnipotence and his actual powers, the essential link was the bureaucracy. Plainly, it was not doing its job. It is the argument of this paper that part of the difficulty lay in the failure of all ranks of government to get through to each other.