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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798636303321

Autore

Hochman Erin R.

Titolo

Imagining a Greater Germany : Republican Nationalism and the Idea of Anschluss / / Erin R. Hochman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-5017-0661-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 pages) : illustrations, tables

Disciplina

320.54094309042

Soggetti

Nationalism - Germany - History - 20th century

Nationalism - Austria - History - 20th century

Anschluss movement, 1918-1938

Electronic books.

Germany Politics and government 1918-1933

Austria Politics and government 1918-1938

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. The Nationalization of Democracy in the Weimar and First Austrian Republics -- 2. The Search for Symbols: The Debates about the German Flag and the Austrian Anthem -- 3. Representative Democracy: Commemorating the Republics -- 4. Staging a Greater German Republic: Cross-Border Republican Rallies -- 5. Composing the Volk: Cultural Commemorations with Political Implications -- 6. Anschluss before Hitler: The Politics of the Österreichisch-Deutscher Volksbund -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Imagining a Greater Germany, Erin R. Hochman offers a fresh approach to the questions of state- and nation-building in interwar Central Europe. Ever since Hitler annexed his native Austria to Germany in 1938, the term "Anschluss" has been linked to Nazi expansionism. The legacy of Nazism has cast a long shadow not only over the idea of the union of German-speaking lands but also over German nationalism in general. Due to the horrors unleashed by the Third Reich, German nationalism has seemed virulently exclusionary, and Anschluss



inherently antidemocratic.However, as Hochman makes clear, nationalism and the desire to redraw Germany's boundaries were not solely the prerogatives of the political right. Focusing on the supporters of the embattled Weimar and First Austrian Republics, she argues that support for an Anschluss and belief in the großdeutsch idea (the historical notion that Germany should include Austria) were central to republicans' persistent attempts to legitimize democracy. With appeals to a großdeutsch tradition, republicans fiercely contested their opponents' claims that democracy and Germany, socialism and nationalism, Jew and German, were mutually exclusive categories. They aimed at nothing less than creating their own form of nationalism, one that stood in direct opposition to the destructive visions of the political right. By challenging the oft-cited distinction between "good" civic and "bad" ethnic nationalisms and drawing attention to the energetic efforts of republicans to create a cross-border partnership to defend democracy, Hochman emphasizes that the triumph of Nazi ideas about nationalism and politics was far from inevitable.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910299859303321

Autore

Gigengack Fabian

Titolo

Motion Correction in Thoracic Positron Emission Tomography / / by Fabian Gigengack, Xiaoyi Jiang, Mohammad Dawood, Klaus P. Schäfers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-08392-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (98 p.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering, , 2191-8112

Disciplina

004

006.6

616.0757

621.382

Soggetti

Optical data processing

Radiology

Signal processing

Image processing

Speech processing systems

Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics

Imaging / Radiology

Signal, Image and Speech Processing



Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Motion Estimation -- Motion Correction -- Further Developments in PET Motion Correction.

Sommario/riassunto

Respiratory and cardiac motion leads to image degradation in Positron Emission Tomography (PET), which impairs quantification. In this book, the authors present approaches to motion estimation and motion correction in thoracic PET. The approaches for motion estimation are based on dual gating and mass-preserving image registration (VAMPIRE) and mass-preserving optical flow (MPOF). With mass-preservation, image intensity modulations caused by highly non-rigid cardiac motion are accounted for. Within the image registration framework different data terms, different variants of regularization and parametric and non-parametric motion models are examined. Within the optical flow framework, different data terms and further non-quadratic penalization are also discussed. The approaches for motion correction particularly focus on pipelines in dual gated PET. A quantitative evaluation of the proposed approaches is performed on software phantom data with accompanied ground-truth motion information. Further, clinical applicability is shown on patient data. The book concludes with an outlook of recent developments and potential future advances in the field of PET motion correction.