Bericht der Arbeitsgruppe "Open-Access-Publikationsplattformen"

Die Open-Access-Strategie des Landes Berlin von 2015 formuliert den Anspruch: "Als langfristiges Ziel wird der Aufbau einer landesweiten Open-Access- Infrastruktur für Monografien, Sammelbände und Zeitschriften in Kooperation mit an wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen agierenden Infrastrukturdienstleistern, sowie mit in Berlin ansässigen Verlagen und Publikationsdienstleistern angestrebt." Eine landesweite Berliner Open-Access- Publikationsinfrastruktur soll dabei von den vorhandenen infrastrukturellen und wissenschaftlichen Expertisen mehrerer, kooperativ agierender Einrichtungen in Berlin profitieren und qualitativ hochwertige Publikationen zu fairen Kosten umsetzen. Die Arbeitsgruppe "Open-Access- Publikationsplattformen" mit Vertreter/innen mehrerer Berliner Forschungseinrichtungen wurde beauftragt, dafür notwendige Vorarbeiten zu leisten. So wurden im ersten Teil des Berichtes die an Berliner wissenschaftlichen Einrichtungen bereits bestehenden Publikationsinfrastrukturen erfasst. Im zweiten Teil wurden drei Modelle für den Aufbau einer landesweiten Open-Access-Publikationsinfrastruktur für Monografien, Sammelbände und Zeitschriften beschrieben. The Berlin Open Access Strategy claims: "It is a long-term goal to establish a Berlin-wide open access infrastructure for monographs, anthologies and periodicals – as a cooperation of infrastructure service providers located at research institutions as well as Berlin-based publishers and publishing service providers." A Berlin-wide open access publishing infrastructure should be based on the existing infrastructural and scholarly expertise of several, cooperating institutions in Berlin and result in high-quality publications at fair costs. A working group "Open Access Publishing Platforms" consisting of representatives of several Berlin research institutions was set up and commissioned to carry out the necessary preliminary work. The first part reports on existing publication infrastructures run by Berlin research institutions. The second part describes three possible model for re- structuring and setting up a Berlin-wide open access publishing infrastructure for monographs, anthologies and journals

A Failure-Tolerant Approach for Autonomous Mobile Manipulation in RoboCup@Work

In this paper we summarize how the LUHbots team was able to win the 2015 RoboCup@Work league. We introduce various failure handling concepts, which lead to the robustness necessary to outperform all the other teams. The proposed concepts are based on failure prevention and failure handling

Rethinking capital mobility, re‐regulating financial markets

The globalisation hypothesis has altered many of the common-sense ‘truths’ around which the social world is organised.* In particular, globalisation is thought to restrict the parameters of the politically and economically possible. Indeed, the notion of constrained choice is so pronounced that we are increasingly confronted with the image of globalisation’s ‘logic of no alternative’; an image which is predicated on the assumption of perfect capital mobility. Capital is considered to be sufficiently rational to take advantage of enhanced exit options from the national economy in circumstances in which its interests are served by moving off-shore. Moreover, global markets are also assumed to have exploited contemporary technological developments to such an extent that they now clear instantaneously; consequently, allowing capital to further its interests wherever in the world new profit opportunities arise. Thus, we are presented with the fundamental ‘reality’ of globalisation as currently narrated throughout much of the west: unless the market can be allowed to restore a competitive global equilibrium, capital will exit high-wage, high-cost western economies and re-locate in lower-wage, lower-cost, newly industrialising economies. Under the auspices of ever more hostile wage competition from the newly industrialising economies, globalisation is commonly presumed to act as a trigger for an ‘inevitable’ job displacement effect as capital deserts the advanced industrialised economies

Redefining the MED13L syndrome

Congenital cardiac and neurodevelopmental deficits have been recently linked to the mediator complex subunit 13-like protein MED13L, a subunit of the CDK8-associated mediator complex that functions in transcriptional regulation through DNA-binding transcription factors and RNA polymerase II. Heterozygous MED13L variants cause transposition of the great arteries and intellectual disability (ID). Here, we report eight patients with predominantly novel MED13L variants who lack such complex congenital heart malformations. Rather, they depict a syndromic form of ID characterized by facial dysmorphism, ID, speech impairment, motor developmental delay with muscular hypotonia and behavioral difficulties. We thereby define a novel syndrome and significantly broaden the clinical spectrum associated with MED13L variants. A prominent feature of the MED13L neurocognitive presentation is profound language impairment, often in combination with articulatory deficits

Foreign Direct Investment in the South Caucasus

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The South Caucasus After the Global Economic Crisis

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Transferring Learning to Practice with e-Learning : Experiences in Continuing Education in the Field of Ambient Assisted Living

The article describes an analysis of the use of e-learning to improve the learning transfer to practice in continuing education. Therefore an e-learning offer has been developed as a part between two attendance periods of a training course in the field of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL). All participants of the course were free to use the e-learning offer. After the end of the e-learning part we compared the e-learning users to the other participants. Using an online questionnaire we explored if there are differences in the activities in the field AAL after the training course. The results show that e-learning is beneficial especially for communication processes. Due to the fact that the possibility to talk about the learning content is an essential factor for the learning transfer, e-learning can improve the learning success

Towards a Pan-European Information Space

When disasters occur, key factors for minimizing damages and loss of lives are access to necessary information and effective communication between emergency services. In cross-border disaster management, further challenges arise: language barriers, uneven know-how, organisational and technical differences in particular concerning communication and data or information exchange. To address those challenges, the FP7-Project EPISECC (Establish Pan-European Information Space to Enhance Security of Citizens) is working on the concept of a common information space to improve interoperability and efficiency while managing cross-border disasters. This involves researching on a common taxonomy and ontology as well as on interoperability functionalities and tools. A first step on this direction is the analysis of how disasters have been and are being managed. This paper reports on an inventory of disasters designed to consolidate such knowledge and aimed at being the basis for this information space. First gaps identified in communication/information management are also presented

Development of seamless woven node element structures for application in integral constructions

In order to advance consistent lightweight construction principles in automotive and mechanical engineering, support frame construction made from high-performance materials is becoming more commonplace. These consist of complexly structured nodular connection elements. The required connection elements have not yet been produced satisfactorily. The developed node element structures in this paper are produced on a shuttle weaving loom by flattening and weaving them as multi-surface woven fabrics. The development of the woven concept for the realization of node element structures is based on the fragmentation of the individual sub-elements. The goal of this research is development of a flexible technology for weaving fabrics and intended for the integral realization of woven nodular semi-finished products with complex geometries and connections, which are to be used to connect Fiber-reinforced Plastic components in support frame structures

Development of spatially branched woven node structures on the conventional weaving loom

The increasing need of consistent implementation of lightweight constructions in many technical fields makes the manufacture of near net-shaped node structure to be used in textile-reinforced composites a subject of great interest. The manufacture of the node structure is required to provide a strong node point whilst maintaining the circumference of each adjoining strut. Despite a variety of available methods to produce three-dimensional nodal fabric, the required geometry for the complex nodular connection element has not yet been fully achieved. Furthermore, the available methods have limitations. The developed woven concept in this work allows for maintaining the configuration of the node structure and dimensions of the tubes, especially at the node points. As a result, all tubes positioned at node points are fully open; this is accomplished without distorting the surrounding area once the flat woven node structure is removed from the loom and erected into three-dimensional configuration. In order to produce a three-dimensional structure on a conventional weaving machine, the structure must be flattened in an appropriate way. By using a mathematical algorithm, it is possible to graph the flattened structure precisely. The developed weaving concept and relating calculation are applied to create the weaving plan of the spatial nodal structures, which can be produced on a shuttle weaving loom. The developed concept in this paper will provide repeatable manufacturing of complex node structures by using the conventional weaving loom. The struts of node structures manufactured using this method can be woven at any angle and with spatial arrangements