Johannes Rothe als didaktischer Chronist

In der Renaissance der Beschäftigung mit Johannes Rothe, die in den letzten Jahren zu erleben ist, wird besonders die Editionslage ganz neu aufgestellt. Mit den Editionen des ›Elisabethlebens‹, der ›Eisenacher Chronik‹ und der ›Landeschronik‹ liegen drei Werke erstmals in wissenschaftlichen Ausgaben vor. Die von Christoph Huber mit Pamela Kalning vorgelegte Neuausgabe des ›Ritterspiegels‹ erschließt das Werk und Rothes Arbeitsweise eingehend. Bald ist mit dem Abschluss der Ausgabe der ›Geistlichen Brustspange‹ durch Jens Haustein zu rechnen, die endlich einen Text veröffentlicht, der schon vor einem Dreivierteljahrhundert in den Druck gebracht werden sollte, und damit die letzte Lücke im Zugang zu Rothes Werken schließt. Es besteht also jetzt die Gelegenheit, das Oeuvre Revue passieren zu lassen und grundlegende Fragen, wie die nach seinem Einsatz didaktischer Sprechweisen, in Querschnitten zu untersuchen

Planting density effects on growth and survival of four pine species after 22 and 30 years on the eastern Highland Rim, TN

Pinus taeda L. (loblolly pine), P. Virginiana Mill. (Virginia pine), P. echinata Mill, (shortleaf pine), and P. strobus L. (eastern white pine) were planted in two acre split plots at 6x6 foot spacings, 9x9 foot spacings, 12x12 foot spacings and 15x15 foot spacings on the eastern Highland Rim of Tennessee in 1965. The site was converted from hardwoods following a clearcut, injection of 2,4,5-T on cull trees and a prescribed burned. Height and diameter were measured at ages 22 and 30. Survival, tree dimensions (height, diameter, individual tree volume, and value per tree) and stand dimensions (basal area per acre, volume per acre and value per acre) were compared among spacings, species and for the combined affects of species and spacing on these parameters. By age 22, competition at the closest spacing had begun to decrease survival. Planting density had no consistent impact on height growth but diameter growth increased with each increase in initial spacing. Stand dimensions decreased as spacing increased. White pine and loblolly pine grew better on this site than shortleaf pine and Virginia pine. At 22 and 30 years, loblolly pine and white pine planted at a 6x6 foot spacing and followed closely by white pine at a 9x9 foot spacing had higher volumes than any species at all spacings. The greatest merchantable volume as expressed as a value per acre was achieved by white pine at the 9x9 foot spacing followed by white pine at all other spacings

Preference fusion and Condorcet's Paradox under uncertainty

Facing an unknown situation, a person may not be able to firmly elicit his/her preferences over different alternatives, so he/she tends to express uncertain preferences. Given a community of different persons expressing their preferences over certain alternatives under uncertainty, to get a collective representative opinion of the whole community, a preference fusion process is required. The aim of this work is to propose a preference fusion method that copes with uncertainty and escape from the Condorcet paradox. To model preferences under uncertainty, we propose to develop a model of preferences based on belief function theory that accurately describes and captures the uncertainty associated with individual or collective preferences. This work improves and extends the previous results. This work improves and extends the contribution presented in a previous work. The benefits of our contribution are twofold. On the one hand, we propose a qualitative and expressive preference modeling strategy based on belief-function theory which scales better with the number of sources. On the other hand, we propose an incremental distance-based algorithm (using Jousselme distance) for the construction of the collective preference order to avoid the Condorcet Paradox.Comment: International Conference on Information Fusion, Jul 2017, Xi'an, Chin