Data from the German TwinLife Study: Genetic and Social Origins of Educational Predictors, Processes, and Outcomes

The major aim of the German TwinLife study is the investigation of gene-environment interplay driving educational and other inequalities across developmental trajectories from childhood to early adulthood. TwinLife encompasses an 8-year longitudinal, cross-sequential extended twin family design with data from same-sex twins of four age cohorts (5, 11, 17, and 23 years) and their parents, as well as their non-twin siblings, partners, and children, if available, altogether containing N = 4,096 families. As such, TwinLife includes unique and openly accessible data that allows, but is not limited to, genetically informative and environmentally sensitive research on sources of inequalities regarding educational attainment, school achievement, and skill development

Water waste from surfactant chemistry: risk or opportunity?

Most biotransformations have been mediated in water as the bulk medium, usually with the addition of surfactants as solubility enhancers. Scattered reports and research interest of selected groups have also driven the usage of water in chemical transformations. But it is not until the advent of Phase-Transfer Catalysis that water could be envisioned as a medium of choice, if not entirely, at least partially. Closer to us, Lipshutz’ seminal report on the use of benign by design surfactant to conduct a large variety of transformations sparked our attention and led us as early as 2011 to aggressively enter the field. We rapidly saw in it significant opportunities from a sustainability standpoint especially, with the prospect of establishing a new paradigm where most chemical transformations could be run sustainably and advantageously in water. With the support of our academic partners, Professor Lipshutz and Sachin Handa, a large and continuously growing number of synthetic methodologies were established to conduct the most important transformations of our portfolio in water, and have been implemented on scale in our plants. An immediate aspect that we needed to address became that of the waste water management. Indeed, while we had demonstrated the absolute needs in water to be lesser than compared to traditional process in organic solvents, we still needed to demonstrate that the water could be disposed safely and that no inherent risk could occur due to the usage of the surfactant. The following manuscript describes our approach to the problem and our recommendations to control the quality of our waste water, and dispose of it in the most sustainable manner

Die Entrepreneurshipforschung in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Eine Resonanzanalyse

In den letzten Jahrzehnten hat sich die Anzahl an Zeitschriftenpublikationen im Forschungsfeld Entrepreneurship beträchtlich erhöht. Zur Analyse der Wahrnehmung dieser Studien schlägt die vorliegende Studie mit dem Resonanzfaktor (RF) ein relatives Maß vor, das die Anzahl an Zitationen eines Artikels in Relation zu den erwarteten Zitationen für einen Artikel des jeweiligen Alters setzt. Dieser Resonanzfaktor wird angewendet auf insgesamt 257 Entrepreneurshipartikel aus den Jahren 1997 bis 2007 und ihre jeweils bis zum Jahr 2010 erzielten Google Scholar-Zitationen. Alle betrachteten Veröffentlichungen wurden von Forschern aus Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz publiziert. Die Studie identifiziert Trends hinsichtlich Publikationen und Publikationskanälen und diskutiert – basierend auf dem Resonanzfaktor – die bedeutendsten Arbeiten in den vier Themenkategorien ‘Unternehmerische Gelegenheit‘, ‘Gründerpersönlichkeit‘, ‘Organisation und Management‘ und ‘Umwelt und Rahmenbedingungen‘ über den Betrachtungszeitraum

Strategies to Tackle the Waste Water from α-Tocopherol-Derived Surfactant Chemistry

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