In Rudolf Alexander Boschwitz’ novel ‚The Traveller‘ (1939), Jewish businessman Silbermann is forced to make a series of train journeys through Nazi Germany after failed attempt escape across the border. Gradually, he begins realise that cannot persecution. However, while always in danger being exposed as Jewish, journey also offers him insights into National Socialist regime, e.g. how opportun...

Abstract This study provides a systematic comparative analysis of seven common cross-national measures state capacity by focusing on three measurement issues: convergent validity, interchangeability, and case-specific disagreement. The author finds that the validity is high, but interchangeability low. means even highly correlated can lead to completely different statistical inferences. cause t...

Invariant structures on homogeneous manifolds are of fundamental importance in differential geometry. Recall that an affinor structure F (i.e., a tensor field F of type (1,1)) on a homogeneous manifold G/H is called invariant (with respect to G) if for any g ∈ G we have dτ(g)◦F = F ◦dτ(g), where τ(g)(xH)= (gx)H . An important place among homogeneous manifolds is occupied by homogeneousΦ-spaces ...

Even small, taken-for- granted words can have a strong influence on the pedagogical effect of writing conference. In this study, we examined how experienced and trained center tutors’ use discourse marker so helped them to connect ideas manage their conferences with students. We extent which six types varied according English L1 (EL1)/ L2 (EL2) status interlocutor. studied 26 conferences: 13 in...