Generalized Additive Model Implementation for Germany Real Estate Market - Model, API, UI Development

Internship Report presented as the partial requirement for obtaining a Master's degree in Data Science and Advanced AnalyticsHedonic pricing approach one of the most accepted methodologies for the real estate price assessment by delivering attribute-based value. It emerges from the value changing regarding object attributes conditions. In real estate market, these changes can be property renovation, material, and construction depreciation, or even expanding the plot area. The scope of the internship report is to be explained the development first prototype General Additive Model of predicting House square meter price basis on Hedonic pricing theory for a certain region of Germany. In addition to the model development, bringing it into live via Rest API and User Interface is explained in this report. Data Science Service GMBH is the owner of the project and specialized in real estate property appraisal that is derived from statistical learning models, currently only at Austria. The outcome of this project enables us to get into Germany Real Estate Market as well. The necessary data has been brought by German Market Partner, Forschung und Beratung für Wohnen, Immobilien und Umwelt GmbH (F+B), however Data Science Service GMBH (DSS) is responsible for delivering the model product from beginning to end. R Programming Drake package is used for parallel computation and to be generated maintainable adaptive data pipeline. Parameter selection based on information criteria has been done for each model in every kind of real estate property. Lastly, the statistical model is delivered by rest API to UI (Shiny Application), both are developed with R programming language

Vergleich von neuseeländischen und „einheimischen“ Holsteinkühen in erster Laktation unter Vollweide auf einem Biobetrieb

Cow types adapted to forage-based production systems are of particular interest for organic milk production, because of the limited use of additives (concentrates, pharmaceuticals etc.). The objective of this project was to study the aptitude of New Zealand Holstein cows (HNZ) to produce milk in a pasture-based production system with a shortened calving season (February to mid April) under organic conditions. 11 HNZ were compared 2007 to 11 farm-bred, “Swiss” Holstein cows (HCH), all of them during their first lactation, in a rotational pasture system on the organic farm “l’Abbaye” in Sorens (CH). With an average live weight (LW) at the beginning of 469 kg and a height at withers (WH) of 130 cm the HNZ were considerably smaller compared to HCH with 609 kg LW and 147 cm WH. During the first lactation the HNZ gained more body mass (63 kg vs. 24 kg, P < 0.03) and had a higher average body condition score (3.03 vs. 2.77, P < 0.04). The milk production per HNZ was lower by 1000 kg milk (P < 0.004) respectively 800 kg energy-corrected milk (ECM) (P < 0.02). No differences were detected between the two cow types concerning the ECM production per 100 kg metabolic weight. Milk protein and lactose contents were significantly higher for HNZ and milk fat content was not significantly different. The somatic cell counts were similar for both types. Although the adaptation period on farm for HNZ had been short, they produced the same amount of ECM per kg metabolic weight and gained more body mass compared with HCH

Le marché et le politique. Le rôle de l'action publique dans le développement de la musique ancienne

En se fondant sur l’étude du rôle du soutien public dans le développement du monde de la musique ancienne, l’article se propose d’avancer des éléments de repérage des dimensions marchandes et politiques de ce soutien public. Contre les représentations indigènes, il montre que le soutien public, instrumenté par des marchés (le marché des subventions et le marché des concerts), a été fondamental dans ce développement en raison de son caractère à la fois systématique et incontrôlé.By studying the role of public support in the development of early music in France, the paper proposes criteria to discuss this support as politics and as implemented by the market. The public authorities are commonly said to play no role in this development : early music actors are supposed to develop only through their own forces, with few subsidies and with no cultural policy in support of them. It is shown that public action has had a much more important role than what is commonly considered, and that their action has passed through a particular mechanism : the market

Early Iron Age Kinneret – Early Aramaean or Just Late Canaanite? Remarks on the Material Culture of a Border Site in Northern Palestine at the Turn of an Era

In recent years, scholars have identified Early Iron Age Kinneret as belonging either to the kingdom of Geshur1 or at least as being part of an early Aramaean polity.2 It is the purpose of this paper to reexamine the archaeological evidence for such an assumption and to critically test the currently available data against this hypothesis

Multiframe visual-inertial blur estimation and removal for unmodified smartphones

Pictures and videos taken with smartphone cameras often suffer from motion blur due to handshake during the exposure time. Recovering a sharp frame from a blurry one is an ill-posed problem but in smartphone applications additional cues can aid the solution. We propose a blur removal algorithm that exploits information from subsequent camera frames and the built-in inertial sensors of an unmodified smartphone. We extend the fast non-blind uniform blur removal algorithm of Krishnan and Fergus to non-uniform blur and to multiple input frames. We estimate piecewise uniform blur kernels from the gyroscope measurements of the smartphone and we adaptively steer our multiframe deconvolution framework towards the sharpest input patches. We show in qualitative experiments that our algorithm can remove synthetic and real blur from individual frames of a degraded image sequence within a few seconds

"Die Revision des Erwachsenenschutzrechts ist gelungen"

Oberrichter Peter Kunz geht in Pension. Er lässt seine Tätigkeit am Kindes- und Erwachsenenschutzgericht Revue passieren und würdigt das neue Erwachsenenschutzrecht als eine gelungene Gesetzesrevision. Von den in der Praxis tätigen Fachper­sonen wünscht er sich Respekt gegenüber den Betroffenen