Der Zirkus als interkulturelles und poetologisches Modell bei Kafka. Von akrobatischen Schreibüngen, einer Artistik in der Schwebe und sechs Variationen über die ‚Erziehung‘

in Höhne, Steffen; Weinberg, Manfred (Eds.) Kafka im interkulturellen Kontext (in press)

Zitat und Anderssprachigkeit

in Dembeck, Till; Parr, Rolf (Eds.) Literatur und Mehrsprachigkeit. Ein Handbuch (2017)

Zivilcourage in der Schule - Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zur Prädiktion von Hilfeverhalten

Scientific Conference (2007, September)

Zivilisation auf dem Treibriemen. Die USA im Urteil der deutschen Literatur um und nach 1900

in Becker, Frank; Reinhardt-Becker, Elke (Eds.) Mythos USA. "Amerikanisierung" in Deutschland seit 1900 (2006)

Zivilisationskritik als dichterische Einbildungskraft. Überlegungen zur literarischen Aneignung der Modernisierung um und nach 1900

in Hickethier, Knut; Schumann, Katja (Eds.) Die schönen und die nützlichen Künste. Literatur, Technik und Medien seit der Aufklärung. Festschrift für Harro Segeberg zum 65. Geburtstag (2007)

Zölibat, "viri probati" und Laienstand

Article for general public (2017)

Zombies, Conspiracies, and Esthetics in Crisis. A Computational Engagement with Genre Esthetics

in Ritzer, Ivo (Ed.) Media and Genre. Dialogues in Aesthetics and Cultural Analysis (2021)

This chapter analyzes narrative representations of political crises in two different genres—the zombie film and the political thriller—by focusing on the question whether a movie only speaks of such ... [more ▼]

This chapter analyzes narrative representations of political crises in two different genres—the zombie film and the political thriller—by focusing on the question whether a movie only speaks of such societal disruptions, or if it also develops an esthetics of disruption that provokes or challenges its viewers. A political esthetics of disruption would be one that could show reality as not-yet-framed, as something that is open for interpretation, meaning and conflict. Such moments of esthetic and political in-determination can appear on different levels of cinematic representation; they can refer to the formulas and stereotypes of genre, to the semantics of space in mainstream cinema, to pictorial traditions or to the political imaginary as a whole. In their analysis, the authors approach movies on at least three different levels: on the level of content with a focus on the political crisis the film presents; on the level of narrative structure; and on the level of esthetic design, which they analyze by a computational calculation of the course of esthetic parameters across the movies. Based on these case studies, the article summarizes methodological implications of the demonstrated digitized approach by advocating an organic and embedded application of computation in film genre analysis. [less ▲]

Zones protégées Natura 2000 en Grande Région SaarLorLux

E-print/Working paper (2010)

The Natura 2000 system of protected areas is at the heart of the European Union's environment and biodiversity policy. It is an EU network of protected areas under the 1992 Habitats Directive (of 21 May ... [more ▼]

The Natura 2000 system of protected areas is at the heart of the European Union's environment and biodiversity policy. It is an EU network of protected areas under the 1992 Habitats Directive (of 21 May 1992, 92/43/EEC) and the 1979 Birds Directive (of 2 April 1979, 79/409/EEC). [less ▲]

The Zoom City: Working From Home, Urban Productivity and Land Use

E-print/Working paper (2022)

Who will benefit and who will lose from a permanent increase in working from home (WFH)? This paper investigates the impact of WFH on cities of different sizes, highlights the dangers of too much WFH, and ... [more ▼]

Who will benefit and who will lose from a permanent increase in working from home (WFH)? This paper investigates the impact of WFH on cities of different sizes, highlights the dangers of too much WFH, and discusses aspects of the disagreement between workers and firms. Our results suggest that WFH raises urban productivity and average wages only in large cities. We also study the optimal fraction of WFH and show that workers-residents have incentives to adopt an inefficiently high WFH scheme. The implementation of remote work in the short run---at fixed rents and wages---implies higher benefits for long-distance commuters and lower benefits or even losses for short-distance ones. It also implies benefits for some firms and losses for others, which potentially explains the low prevalence of WFH before the pandemic. Finally, we show that advances in digital technology, which increase the productivity of remote workers, lead to increased welfare benefits. A calibration exercise for the average and the largest European capital cities sheds more light on the impact of WFH on cities of different sizes. [less ▲]

ZoomIn: Discovering Failures by Detecting Wrong Assertions

in Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) (2015, May)

Automatic testing, although useful, is still quite ineffective against faults that do not cause crashes or uncaught exceptions. In the majority of the cases automatic tests do not include oracles, and ... [more ▼]

Automatic testing, although useful, is still quite ineffective against faults that do not cause crashes or uncaught exceptions. In the majority of the cases automatic tests do not include oracles, and only in some cases they incorporate assertions that encode the observed behavior instead of the intended behavior, that is if the application under test produces a wrong result, the synthesized assertions will encode wrong expectations that match the actual behavior of the application. In this paper we present ZoomIn, a technique that extends the fault-revealing capability of test case generation techniques from crash-only faults to faults that require non-trivial oracles to be detected. ZoomIn exploits the knowledge encoded in the manual tests written by developers and the similarity between executions to automatically determine an extremely small set of suspicious assertions that are likely wrong and thus worth manual inspection. Early empirical results show that ZoomIn has been able to detect 50% of the analyzed non-crashing faults in the Apache Commons Math library requiring the inspection of less than 1.5% of the assertions automatically generated by EvoSuite. [less ▲]