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Fundmeldungen : Neufunde - BestÀtigungen - Verluste
Die Fundmeldungen in Band 24 von Botanik und Naturschutz in Hessen tragen die laufenden Nummern 1750 bis 1872 und stammen von Rolf Angersbach, Kurt Baumann, Ralph BaumgÀrtel, Dieter Bickler, Dirk Bönsel, Wolfgang Ehmke, Christian Feuring, Thomas Gregor, Volker Holzgreve, Karsten Horn, Heinz Kalheber, Gerwin Kasperek, Matthias Kellner, Detlef Mahn, Hans Reichert, Bernd Sauerwein, Hjalmar Thiel, BÀrbel Wellmann und Jochen Wulfhorst
Selective Amygdalohippocampectomy: Indications and Follow-up
Selective amygdalohippocampectomy (AHE) offers a real chance of cure only in patients with welldefined, precisely localized "epileptogenic areaâ, i.e. seizure focus. Therefore, a priori only a small proportion of all patients with epilepsy can meet the criteria for selective surgical interventions. From the evidence in patients meeting the criteria for AHE, we conclude that this technique is to be preferred to the "standardâ anterior temporal lobectomy and represents a more selective but still effective surgical treatment of epileps
Fair financing in Germany's public health insurance: income-related contributions or flat premiums
Social justice in health care insurance relates to both, the utilisation of services and the financing of the system. With respect to the latter, in its World Health Report 2000 the WHO promoted a concept of fair financing that asks for contributions to health care financing that are proportional to households' capacity to pay. This claim contains three dimensions: the rejection of risk-related premiums, the claim that all households with equal income should pay equal premiums (horizontal justice), and the suggestion that higher income should lead to proportionally higher premiums (vertical justice). In this paper we first discuss the normative dimension of fair financing and develop a slightly modified version of the WHO's normative framework. Second, empirical findings based on WHO data and on data from the ECuity project are presented for selected countries. While the WHO concept does not allow drawing unambiguous conclusions, the latter shows, that Germany's system is regressive. With respect to the normative framework developed we can therefore conclude that future reforms should make the system more progressive. Against this background, two recent alternative strategies for reforming health financing, the BĂŒrgerversicherung and the GesundheitsprĂ€mie, are discussed. While both reform options are to be judged as more or less equivalent regarding horizontal justice and the rejection of risk-related premiums, some evidence is given towards the inferiority of the GesundheitsprĂ€mie model with respect to vertical justice. --
War As Morally Unintelligible: Sovereign Agency and the Limits of Kantian Autonomy
Kantâs treatment of war is usually discussed as part of his political philosophy or philosophy of history. In contrast, this essay locates these discussions in direct reference to major elements of his moral philosophy: autonomy, the categorical imperative, and the moral relationality of the kingdom of ends. Within this context, Kantâs account of war, particularly in writings from the 1790s, can be read as affirming war as morally unintelligible: It is the expression of a collective withdrawal from the constitutive relationality of moral community. This results in a radical disparity in the exercise of moral autonomy by the sovereign agency of the state with respect to peace, on one hand, and with respect to war, on the other
Empowering Practitioners: A Conceptual Framework for Value Co-Creation through Smart Service Innovation Methodologies
Smart services offer great innovation potential by incorporating digital technologies into non-digital value-creation processes. As smart service innovation poses significant challenges to organizations, existing research has contributed to understanding and addressing this phenomenon by developing various methods, tools, and processes. Yet, the academic community often still fails to bridge the âlast mileâ and help practitioners apply this knowledge in their specific application contexts. This article outlines how research can empower practitioners by systematically providing methodological knowledge for smart service innovation. We review and contrast existing methodologies and present a conceptual framework for value co-creation through smart service innovation methodologies. In addition, we identify six essential resource types required in these methodologies and propose emergent research avenues to guide future contributions to smart service innovation research
EMPOWERING PRACTITIONERS: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR VALUE CO-CREATION THROUGH SMART SERVICE INNOVATION METHODOLOGIES
Smart services offer great innovation potential by incorporating digital technologies into non-digital value-creation processes. As smart service innovation poses significant challenges to organizations, existing research has contributed to understanding and addressing this phenomenon by developing various methods, tools, and processes. Yet, the academic community often still fails to bridge the âlast mileâ and help practitioners apply this knowledge in their specific application contexts. This article outlines how research can empower practitioners by systematically providing methodological knowledge for smart service innovation. We review and contrast existing methodologies and present a conceptual framework for value co-creation through smart service innovation methodologies. In addition, we identify six essential resource types required in these methodologies and propose emergent research avenues to guide future contributions to smart service innovation research
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Kafka's Reality and Nabokov's Fantasy. On Dwarves, Saints, Beetles, Symbolism, and Genius.
The article focuses on the influence of the novel "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka on the writing of the author Vladimir Nabokov. It discusses examples of where the influence can be observed, including Nabokov's novel "Look at the Harlequins!". Nabokov's views on realist fiction are explored and his work as a teacher of Kafka's literature is discussed.English and American Literature and Languag
The separating variety for the basic representations of the additive group
For a group acting on an affine variety , the separating variety is
the closed subvariety of encoding which points of are separated
by invariants. We concentrate on the indecomposable rational linear
representations of dimension of the additive group of a field of
characteristic zero, and decompose the separating variety into the union of
irreducible components. We show that if is odd, divisible by four, or equal
to two, the closure of the graph of the action, which has dimension , is
the only component of the separating variety. In the remaining cases, there is
a second irreducible component of dimension . We conclude that in these
cases, there are no polynomial separating algebras.Comment: 14 page
Next-Generation EU DataGrid Data Management Services
We describe the architecture and initial implementation of the
next-generation of Grid Data Management Middleware in the EU DataGrid (EDG)
project.
The new architecture stems out of our experience and the users requirements
gathered during the two years of running our initial set of Grid Data
Management Services. All of our new services are based on the Web Service
technology paradigm, very much in line with the emerging Open Grid Services
Architecture (OGSA). We have modularized our components and invested a great
amount of effort towards a secure, extensible and robust service, starting from
the design but also using a streamlined build and testing framework.
Our service components are: Replica Location Service, Replica Metadata
Service, Replica Optimization Service, Replica Subscription and high-level
replica management. The service security infrastructure is fully GSI-enabled,
hence compatible with the existing Globus Toolkit 2-based services; moreover,
it allows for fine-grained authorization mechanisms that can be adjusted
depending on the service semantics.Comment: Talk from the 2003 Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics
(CHEP03), La Jolla,Ca, USA, March 2003 8 pages, LaTeX, the file contains all
LaTeX sources - figures are in the directory "figures
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