Results obtained in this study indicate that treatment with HU and simultaneous radiotherapy is safe and effective with disease stabilization in the majority of patients. Randomized trials comparing radiosurgery versus radiochemotherapy versus fractionated radiotherapy are warranted.
Wal-Mart entered the German market at the end of 1997 but is still running at a loss in its 92 stores. This article tests the hypothesis that there are two main reasons for Wal-Mart's problems in Germany. First of all, Wal-Mart is competing against very strong and well established deep discounters, especially Aldi. Secondly, there is the difference between the so-called Wal-Mart culture and German customer values. So far, Wal-Mart has not managed to close this gap or create a positive image in Germany. The first part of the article describes the differences between the two retail companies Wal-Mart and Aldi, whereas the second part focuses on the consumer perspective. Four hundred people were interviewed on the phone about their shopping behaviour in the city of Würzburg (northern Bavaria, 140,000 inhabitants). This survey is part of an international study also undertaken in Canada, Great Britain and China.
Crops are a very special type of human artifact, living organisms literally rooted
in their environments. Crops suggest ways to embed rootedness in mobility
studies, fleshing out the linkages between flows and matrices and thus developing effective frameworks for reconnecting local and global history. Our
focus here is on the movements, or failures to move, of “cropscapes”: the
ever-mutating ecologies, or matrices, comprising assemblages of nonhumans
and humans, within which a particular crop in a particular place and time
flourishes or fails. As with the landscape, the cropscape as concept and analytical tool implies a deliberate choice of frame. In playing with how to frame
our selected cropscapes spatially and chronologically, we develop productive
alternatives to latent Eurocentric and modernist assumptions about periodization,
geographical hierarchies, and scale that still prevail within history of technology, global and comparative history, and indeed within broader public
understanding of mobility and history.
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