Does Accrual Accounting Reduce Public Investment? Evidence from Three Recent Evaluation Studies by Désirée I. Christofzik, Florian Dorn, Stefanie Gäbler, Christian Raffer, Felix Rösel

“…Three recent studies evaluated the effect of accrual accounting in German local governments — with surprising key findings. …”
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Nothing Risked, Nothing Gained: Richard Powers' Gain and the Horizon of Risk by Aaron Jaffe

“…This essay interprets Richard Powers' sixth novel Gain with reference to the German sociologist Ulrich Beck's concept of “second modernity.” …”
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Fix the Supply Side! Demand Stimulus Will Not Cure What Ails by Jan Philipp Fritsche, Patrick Christian Harms

“…Abstract The explosion of Covid-19 cases is looming in Germany. The German Society for Epidemiology has warned that the number of cases could soon overshoot the capacity of the healthcare system. …”
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LIVING STANDARDS IN MODERN GERMANY by L. D. Efanova, S. A. Shmukler

“…This article reflects the main directions of achieving an optimal standard of living for German citizens, determines the main aspects of its maintenance. …”
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Zum metasprachlichen Mehrwert der deutschen Kompositionsfuge by Roman Sadziński, Witold Sadziński

“…German composition fugues are inconspicuous and difficult to define, especially since their occurrence amounts to only about 30% of the total number of compositions. …”
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’n Speelbaarheidsbenadering vir die vertaling van rolprente by Louis Calitz

“…The model is then tested by being used for the analysis of the German film Mephisto directed by Istvan Szabo. …”
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Socio-ethical Objections to Assisted Suicide by Manfred Spieker

“…Recent court rulings, in particular by the German Federal Constitutional Court, reveal far-reaching changes in the understanding of human nature. …”
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‘Making audible to one a roar of sound where others find perfect stillness’: Soundscape in George Eliot’s The Lifted Veil and the physiological acoustics by Lilia Miroshnychenko

“…The article suggests how the ideas in physiological acoustics summed up and further developed by Hermann von Helmholtz, a German physicist, whose figure won popularity among Victorian intellectuals from the middle of the century, could be appropriate to George Eliot’s early writing. …”
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L’imitation des tissus précieux sur quelques sculptures valdôtaines, entre XVe et XVIe siècle by Alessandra Vallet

“…It is an imported technique, that seems to originate from the neighboring areas of Savoy or that spread along the commercial routes, connecting the westerner part of the Aosta Valley to the german-speaking cultural areas.…”
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Reforming Cyclical Adjustment in the Debt Brake: Respond to Revised Assessments with a Delay by Jana Kremer, Jan Kuckuck, Karsten Wendorff

“…Abstract In this article, we point out requirements for potential output estimates used for cyclical adjustment in the German debt brake. Further, we propose supplementing the cyclical component in the debt break with an error term — regardless of the specific potential output estimation approach. …”
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COVID-19, Influenza and Economic Activity — An Impact Analysis Perspective by Adalbert Winkler

“…Abstract The German debate about the policy implications of the coronavirus becomes increasingly heated given different views on the mortality rate from SARS CoV-2, as well as the epidemiological and economic impact of lockdown measures imposed by the government. …”
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Město jako areál revoluce. Sabinovy poslední romány o revoluci 1848 by Jiří Štajf

“…The Original Novel of the Latest Times”] (1875) and “1848: Předbřeznoví revoluční bouřliváci v Rakousku” [“1848: Pre-March Revolutionary Rebels in Austria“] (German original 1876, Czech translation 1927). The emphasis is put on the way the author, a former “revolutionary rebel”, draws the influence of the bloody street battle participants` experience on the changes in their action motivation. …”
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Conquering new frontiers in research on store atmospheres: Kinetic and synesthetic qualities by Christian Julmi

“…Second, the concept of bridging qualities from German philosopher Hermann Schmitz is introduced as a promising alternative to the study of store atmospheres avoiding the identified incommensurability. …”
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Dihotomy of Law: Historical Analysis, Current Trends, a Combination of Private and Public Principles in Civil Law by M. V. Tregubov

“…The article is devoted to the perception of private and public law in the tradition of the Romano-German legal family. With the use of formal-logical, sociological-legal and retrospective methods of research the author studies the transformation of views on the grounds of differentiation of private and public law, analyzes the current trends in the development of scientific thought on the problem of dichotomy of law, the combination of private and public principles in civil law is studied. …”
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Innovation Policy in the New Legislative Period: A New Strategic Direction? by Daniel Feser

“…Abstract The innovation policy of the new German government is at the threshold between the traditional and the transformative. …”
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Fiscal Policy Guidelines: Between Bidenomics and Debt Brake by ZG Überblick

“…This raises the exciting question of what lessons German economic policy can learn from the economic and financial policy realignment in the US.…”
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Antonia Baehr’s My Dog is my Piano and Abecedarium Bestiarium: Theatre of the Bestiary, Bestiaries of Theatre by Esther Köhring

“…The argument combines material from theory of the bestiary (bestiaries as figuration of theory), as well as from the cultural history of the bestiary (bestiaries as cultural form) with an analysis of the work of contemporary German choreographer and performer Antonia Baehr. …”
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Financing Investments in the Future: Pragmatic Solutions Are Needed by Monika Schnitzer, Achim Truger

“…Abstract Since the new German federal government has imposed tight fiscal policy restrictions on itself, a pragmatic approach is needed to finance the spending requirements of the transformation. …”
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Translation, adaptation, and validation of the Care Coordination Instrument for cancer patients by Anne Werner, Anke Steckelberg, Alexandra Strobel, Andreas Wienke, Heike Schmidt, Dirk Vordermark, Patrick Michl, C. Benedikt Westphalen, Julia Lühnen

“…We aimed to translate, adapt, and validate the CCI for Germany (CCI German version). Methods The original English version contains 29 items in three domains, measured on a 4-point Likert scale (strongly disagree to strongly agree). …”
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Endurance and Resistance Training Affect High Fat Diet-Induced Increase of Ceramides, Inflammasome Expression, and Systemic Inflammation in Mice by Cornelia Mardare, Karsten Krüger, Gerhard Liebisch, Michael Seimetz, Aline Couturier, Robert Ringseis, Jochen Wilhelm, Norbert Weissmann, Klaus Eder, Frank-Christoph Mooren

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