Institute for Communication and Leadership

The present, seventh, volume of the series "From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria" offers profitable re-visitations of old themes, as well as explorations of new themes and problems. The volume focuses on the literature, culture, and political and social history of Britain in a period when the structures of industrial modernity were being created, and examines Britain’s imprint on the global cultural heritage, including class, gender and race-based hierarchies that persist in varying degrees into the present.

Ab den 1950er Jahren entwickelte sich das Leipziger Gewandhausorchester zum musikalischen Aushängeschild der DDR. Mithilfe von Orchestertourneen, großenteils ins westliche Ausland, betrieb das DDR-Regime eine Politik der kulturellen Anerkennung und grenzte sich performativ von der Bundesrepublik ab. Allerdings folgten Publika, Konzertagenturen und Medien im Ausland dieser Inszenierung nur bedingt. Anstatt die DDR affirmativ zu repräsentieren, erwiesen sich die Konzerte als mehrdeutig, da sie in ihren Formaten und Programmen überwiegend langfristigen Kontinuitäten des europäischen Musikbetriebs folgten und da Akteure der Aufnahmeseite eigene Interessen artikulierten. Die Tourneeerfolge bemaßen sich weniger an einer spezifischen DDR-Kulturdiplomatie als an ihrer internationalen Anschlussfähigkeit.

Empirical cases from the Danish food market are examined in order to critically discuss the respective modes of communication in light of the premises of socially responsible consumer marketing. This analysis suggests that specific marketing instruments are used to sell animal products by blurring the difference between the paradigms of animal welfare used by producers, and the paradigms of animal welfare implicit in the public understanding of the concept. These instruments rely on the ethical, political and sustainable consumption discourses in order to sell one image of animal welfare in intensive animal production while the production at the same time presupposes a quite different paradigm of animal welfare. Two cases are used to illustrate this: (1) the Danish dairy company Arla Foods' campaign with the tagline 'Closer to nature'; and (2) selected 'quality brands' that present themselves as welfare-oriented alternatives to conventionally produced animal products, but with only marginal improvements. The rhetoric of both cases specifically manifests a deep coherence between nature, farm, animal and end product, and thereby creates associations of production tied to lives living in nature – thus attempting to display a green, eco-, climate-, and animal friendly production. The tension between marketing and the idea of ethical consumerism is apparent as the need for independent information to make value-based choices is challenged by the liberal rules of the market and more specifically by the lack of a restrictive food labelling policy. The relationship between the ways in which animal welfare is communicated and emphasized through food marketing, and commonly held perceptions of acceptable standards for animal welfare, is discussed and the need for transparency in the area of animal welfare stressed.

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We present a novel scheduling algorithm, Duplicate Scheduling with Deadlines (DSD). This algorithm implements the ABE service [5] which allows interactive, adaptive applications, that mark their packets green, to receive a low bounded delay at the expense of maybe less throughput. ABE retains the best-effort context by protecting flows that value higher throughput more than low bounded delay, whose packets are marked blue. DSD optimises green traffic performance while satisfying the constraint that blue traffic must not be adversely affected. Using a virtual queue, deadlines are assigned to packets upon arrival, and green and blue packets are queued separately. At service time, the deadlines of the packets at the head of the blue and green queues are used to determine which one to serve next. It supports any mixture of TCP, TCP Friendly and non TCP Friendly traffic.We motivate, describe and provide an analysis of DSD, and show simulation results.KeywordsQueue LengthLoss RatioEarliest Deadline FirstRandom Early DetectionActive Queue ManagementThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.