Deflation, Kreditklemme, Bankenkrise - Erwacht Deutschlands Finanzindustrie 2004 aus ihrem (medialen) Albtraum?

»Deflation«, »Kreditklemme« und »Bankenkrise« waren die Schlagworte in derFinanzpresse des Jahres 2003. Insbesondere hier zu Lande wurde über Monate in den Medien davon gesprochen, dass sich Deutschland in der japanischen Malaise befände. In ihrem Beitrag gehen Prof. Dr. Stephan Paul, Dr. Stefan Stein, Universität Bochum, und Prof. Dr. H. Jörg Thieme, Universität Düsseldorf, der Frage nach, in wie weit diese Befürchtungen gerechtfertigt und welche Trends für dieFinanzbranche im Jahr 2004 zu beobachten sind.Bankenkrise, Preisniveau, Wechselkurs, Deflation, Börsenkurs, Deutschland, Vereinigte Staaten, Japan

The Division of Federal Spending for Environmental Programs and Space Agencies

With the rise of privately owned space programs/organizations, such as SpaceX, the amount of federal funding towards NASA has come into question. In the modern day, the government is providing money to an organization that is being matched by privately funded organizations, like SpaceX, when there are more pressing matters affecting us here on our own planet. One of these pressing matters is environmental conservation. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is researching ways to save life on our planet, such as ways to stop climate change, stop global warming, and reduce carbon dioxide, which will affect us in the near future more than events occurring in space. The EPA works at preserving nature and the climate due to its ability to drastically and rapidly change life while space exploration is changing our lives at a slower rate. Therefore, it is more important to fund agencies like the EPA, rather than NASA, thus meaning that the EPA should get an increase in funding, while NASA should receive less

On becoming a counselor: challenges and opportunities to support interpersonal skills training

Well-developed interpersonal skills are crucial for all social interactions. However, understanding how interpersonal skills are taught or learned, and how technology can play a part in this, is yet an under-researched area in CSCW and HCI research. To start addressing this gap, our research explores the learning processes of counselling students, for whom developing interpersonal skills forms a fundamental part of their university education. We followed an iterative process to gain an in-depth understanding of a specific counselling program in the UK, combining interviews and low-fidelity technology prompts. Overall, 26 participants comprising tutors, students and expert counsellors took part. Our findings first provide insights into the highly collaborative and social learning process of the students. We highlight the complexity of interpersonal reflection as a crucial process for developing counselling skills, and identify the challenges to learning that students face. Second, we build on this understanding to draw out empirically grounded design considerations around opportunities for technology innovation in this setting

On becoming a counselor: challenges and opportunities to support interpersonal skills training

Well-developed interpersonal skills are crucial for all social interactions. However, understanding how interpersonal skills are taught or learned, and how technology can play a part in this, is yet an under-researched area in CSCW and HCI research. To start addressing this gap, our research explores the learning processes of counselling students, for whom developing interpersonal skills forms a fundamental part of their university education. We followed an iterative process to gain an in-depth understanding of a specific counselling program in the UK, combining interviews and low-fidelity technology prompts. Overall, 26 participants comprising tutors, students and expert counsellors took part. Our findings first provide insights into the highly collaborative and social learning process of the students. We highlight the complexity of interpersonal reflection as a crucial process for developing counselling skills, and identify the challenges to learning that students face. Second, we build on this understanding to draw out empirically grounded design considerations around opportunities for technology innovation in this setting

Conceptualizing A Digital Twin Based On The Asset Administration Shell For The Implementation Of Use Case Specific Digital Services

In the context of ongoing digitalization, manufacturing companies face new challenges and the need to expand their portfolios to include new digital services. Enriching their portfolio with digital services can be an opportunity for manufacturing companies to position themselves in emerging collaborative production networks and thus make their business model fit for the future. The paper ties in with the activities from the Product Lifecycle Enrichment as a Service (PLCEaaS) research project. Within this context, use cases for digital services have already been derived, modelled, and documented in various workshops. The respective digital services directly address external customers and internal stakeholders from development. The central enabler for the new digital services is the digital twin based on the asset administration shell, which makes the necessary data available and thus supports interoperability. The asset administration shell is enriched with use case-specific submodels. The procedure for structuring these submodels is shown in this paper using the research project as an example. This includes modelling the digital services with a standardized modelling language based on the semi-structured use cases described so far. As a result, we obtain an asset administration shell enriched with several submodels - some of which may be based on standardization activities already underway or represent proprietary submodels. Likewise, it is considered whether more submodels are required to implement the domain-specific use cases that are currently not yet addressed in standardization activities. The paper ends with an outlook on the further research activities that are necessary to prototype the planned project and describes which criteria can be used to evaluate the defined submodels in the later course of the project

La littérature française du dixneuvième siècle. Bibliographie des principaux prosateurs, poètes, auteurs dramatiques et critiques ...

Cover-title.At head, title in English; at foot, title in German."Avec indication 1 ̊pour chaque auteur, du lieu et de l'année de sa naissance, et, s'il y a lieu, de sa mort; 2 ̊pour chaque ouvrage, de son format, de son éditeur et de la date de sa première édition; 3 ̊à la suite de chaque auteur, des biographies et des critiques littéraires parues soit sous forme de livre, soit dans les revues et journaux, tant en France qu ́à l'étranger.

Magnetic resonance thermometry: methodology, pitfalls and practical solutions

Clinically established thermal therapies such as thermoablative approaches or adjuvant hyperthermia treatment rely on accurate thermal dose information for the evaluation and adaptation of the thermal therapy. Intratumoural temperature measurements have been correlated successfully with clinical end points. Magnetic resonance imaging is the most suitable technique for non-invasive thermometry avoiding complications related to invasive temperature measurements. Since the advent of MR thermometry two decades ago, numerous MR thermometry techniques have been developed, continuously increasing accuracy and robustness for in vivo applications. While this progress was primarily focused on relative temperature mapping, current and future efforts will likely close the gap towards quantitative temperature readings. These efforts are essential to benchmark thermal therapy efficiency, to understand temperature-related biophysical and physiological processes and to use these insights to set new landmarks for diagnostic and therapeutic applications. With that in mind, this review summarises and discusses advances in MR thermometry, providing practical considerations, pitfalls and technical obstacles constraining temperature measurement accuracy, spatial and temporal resolution in vivo. Established approaches and current trends in thermal therapy hardware are surveyed with respect to potential benefits for MR thermometry

Estimation of ultrasonic attenuation and mean backscatterer size via digital signal processing

The backscattered rf signals from the lungs of fetal sheep during their last trimester of development were digitized and processed in an attempt to correlate ultrasonic parameters with measured functional parameters related to lung maturation. The broad-band, post-TGC, rf signal of a commercial B-mode ultrasonic scanner was digitized at a sampling rate of 25 MHz. Sorting excluded data from regions of rib shadowing and other nonlung structures from analysis. The sorted data were used to estimate the slope of the ultrasonic attenuation coefficient with respect to frequency via linear regression on the average difference of the logarithm of power spectra from separated data segments. The power spectra were also corrected for attenuation, averaged and used to compute the power cepstrum of the backscattered signal which can be related to mean backscatterer radius. Results are presented for eight fetal sheep.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/24941/1/0000368.pd

Body Matters:Exploration of the Human Body as a Resource for the Design of Technologies for Meditation

Much research on meditation has shown its significant benefits for wellbeing. In turn, there has been growing HCI interest for the design of novel interactive technologies intended to facilitate meditation in real-time. In many of these systems, physiological signals have been mapped onto creative audiovisual feedback, however, there has been limited attention to the experiential qualities of meditation and the specific role that the body may play in them. In this paper, we report on workshops with 24 experts exploring the bodily sensations that emerge during meditation. Through material speculation, participants shared their lived experience of meditation and identified key stages during which they may benefit from additional aid, often multimodal. Findings emphasize the importance of recreating mindful physical sensations during moments of mind-wandering; in particular for supporting the regulation of attention through a range of embodied metaphors and haptic feedback, tailored to key transitions in the meditation process