Cultural Change Towards a Gender-Neutral Landscape in Science, Academia and Research in 2025

Austria has a long tradition of gender equality policy measures in science, academia and research. Since the 1980s, a mix of measures has been successively introduced to promote excellent female scientists and academics, establish women’s and gender studies and remove the structural barriers for women. Accordingly, an increase in the share of women in all areas and functions in science, academia and research and the inclusion of gender studies in an increasing number of disciplines has been achieved in recent years. Despite this, the notion of the “scientific ideal” has remained almost unchanged, i.e. is still based on a typically male scientific career. This notion essentially considers a “good” scientist to be one who can devote his life totally to science and has no other restrictions on his time or commitments outside science. The question now is, what – and where – can we add to the existing policy mix to change this situation, i.e. to revise this notion of the “ideal”. At a series of workshops, researchers, academics and other experts used creative methods to develop their visions of a gender-neutral landscape in science, academia and research in 2025. These visions were then used to identify relevant fields of action for initiating cultural change. This paper summarises the results of this discursive process and outlines how the process that began with this project could now be continued

Expectation-driven interaction: a model based on Luhmann's contingency approach

We introduce an agent-based model of interaction, drawing on the contingency approach from Luhmann's theory of social systems. The agent interactions are defined by the exchange of distinct messages. Message selection is based on the history of the interaction and developed within the confines of the problem of double contingency. We examine interaction strategies in the light of the message-exchange description using analytical and computational methods.Comment: 37 pages, 16 Figures, to appear in Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation

Unterstützungsnotwendigkeiten des AMS zur Erleichterung des beruflichen Wiedereinstieges von Frauen: Eine Studie des AMS Vorarlberg

Die vorliegende Studie 'Unterstützungsnotwendigkeiten des AMS zur Erleichterung des beruflichen Wiedereinstieges nach längerer Beschäftigungspause', die im März 2004 im Auftrag des AMS Vorarlberg von dem Salzburger Institut Solution - Sozialforschung & Entwicklung abgeschlossen wurde, geht auf Prognosen zur längerfristigen Entwicklung des Vorarlberger Arbeitsmarktes zurück. So etwa kommt die vom Europäischen Zentrum für Wirtschaftsforschung und Strategieberatung im Jahr 2001 erstellte Studie (Mohr/Duvinage/ Knittel 2001) zur Einschätzung, daß vor allem im Dienstleistungsbereich sowie in Gewerbe und Handwerk ein Beschäftigungszuwachs zu verzeichnen ist, während in der Industrie die Beschäftigungszahlen insgesamt rückläufig sind. Vor dem Hintergrund der konjunkturellen Entwicklung komme es langfristig gesehen zu einem steigenden Arbeitskräftebedarf, der ein zentrales Problem für viele Vorarlberger Unternehmen in nahezu allen Branchen darstellen werde. Für das AMS Vorarlberg ist nun von Interesse, wie insbesondere Frauen, die längere Zeit ihre Erwerbstätigkeit unterbrochen haben, für den Arbeitsmarkt zurückgewonnen werden können. Es sollte erhoben werden, wie der Wiedereinstieg in den Arbeitsmarkt möglichst attraktiv gestaltet werden kann und welche Maßnahmen und Angebote das AMS für Frauen vorsehen sollte, um ihnen den Wiedereinstieg nach einer Beschäftigungspause zu erleichtern. Zusätzlich sollte damit auch dem Prinzip des Gender Mainstreaming entsprochen werden

Expectation-Driven Interaction: a Model Based on Luhmann's Contingency Approach

We introduce an agent-based model of interaction, drawing on the contingency approach from Luhmann\'s theory of social systems. The agent interactions are defined by the exchange of distinct messages. Message selection is based on the history of the interaction and developed within the confines of the problem of double contingency. We examine interaction strategies in the light of the message-exchange description using analytical and computational methods.Contingency, Message Exchange Model, Interaction, Expectation-Expectation, Asymptotic Analysis

Garvey-Kelson Relations for Nuclear Charge Radii

The Garvey-Kelson relations (GKRs) are algebraic expressions originally developed to predict nuclear masses. In this letter we show that the GKRs provide a fruitful framework for the prediction of other physical observables that also display a slowly-varying dynamics. Based on this concept, we extend the GKRs to the study of nuclear charge radii. The GKRs are tested on 455 out of the approximately 800 nuclei whose charge radius is experimentally known. We find a rms deviation between the GK predictions and the experimental values of only 0.01 fm. This should be contrasted against some of the most successful microscopic models that yield rms deviations almost three times as large. Predictions - with reliable uncertainties - are provided for 116 nuclei whose charge radius is presently unknown.Comment: 4 pages and 3 figure

Saturation properties and incompressibility of nuclear matter: A consistent determination from nuclear masses

Starting with a two-body effective nucleon-nucleon interaction, it is shown that the infinite nuclear matter model of atomic nuclei is more appropriate than the conventional Bethe-Weizsacker like mass formulae to extract saturation properties of nuclear matter from nuclear masses. In particular, the saturation density thus obtained agrees with that of electron scattering data and the Hartree-Fock calculations. For the first time using nuclear mass formula, the radius constant $r_0$=1.138 fm and binding energy per nucleon $a_v$ = -16.11 MeV, corresponding to the infinite nuclear matter, are consistently obtained from the same source. An important offshoot of this study is the determination of nuclear matter incompressibility $K_{\infty}$ to be 288$\pm$ 28 MeV using the same source of nuclear masses as input.Comment: 14 latex pages, five figures available on request ( to appear in Phy. Rev. C