Jacques Delors: Mensch und Methode = Jacques Delors: Man and Method. IHS Political Science Series: 2001, No. 73

This working paper, which is based on a lecture at the Institute of Advanced Studies, focuses on the work of a great European: Jacques Delors. His name is connected to milestones of the European integration process: the internal market und the Economic and Monetary Union to just name two. Within this paper Prof. Heinrich Schneider places these projects into a larger context. Although he focuses on biographical details and on the economic-political background of the politics of the "Delors-Commission," he describes in a very convincing manner the visions of Jacques Delors and what became of them

Text-Mining-Methoden im Semantic Web

Zusammenfassungen: Aufbau, Pflege und Nutzung groβer Wissensdatenbanken erfordern den kombinierten Einsatz menschlicher und maschineller Informationsverarbeitung. Da groβe Teile des menschlichen Wissens in Textform vorliegen, bieten sich Methoden des Text Mining zur Extraktion von Wissensinhalten an. Dieser Artikel behandelt Grundlagen des Text Mining im Kontext des Semantic Web. Methoden des Text Mining werden besprochen, die für die halbautomatische Annotierung von Texten und Textteilen eingesetzt werden, insbesondere Eigennamenerkennung (Named-Entity Recognition), automatische Schlüsselworterkennung (Keyword Recognition), automatische Dokumentenklassifikation, teilautomatisches Erstellen von Ontologien und halbautomatische Faktenerkennung (Fact Recognition, Event Recognition). Es werden auch kritische Hintergrundfragen aufgegriffen. Das Problem der zu hohen Fehlerrate und der zu geringen Performanz automatischer Verfahren wird diskutiert. Zwei Beispiele aus der Praxis werden vorgestellt: Erstens das Forschungsprojekt OntoGene der Universität Zürich, in dem Protein-Protein-Interaktionen als Relationstripel aus der Fachliteratur extrahiert werden, und zweitens ein ontologiebasierter Tag-Recommender, der die manuelle Vergabe von Schlüsselwörtern an Wissensressourcen unterstütz

Early Holocene aeolian sediments in southwestern Crete−preliminary results

The soilscapes along the southern and western coast of Crete (Greece) are dominated by coarse-grained reddish-brown slope sediments whose natural (pre-anthropogenic) configuration and properties are difficult to reconstruct due to the long history of intense land use. As a consequence, datable terrestrial sediment archives of pre-anthropogenic genesis are scarce. We present preliminary results of a study performed on an accumulation within an alluvial fan south of Stomio Bay in southwestern Crete. The studied profile is located in a small depression and is composed of a sequence of sandy to silty yellowish-brown calcareous sediments overlying coarse-grained slope sediments, including a fossil topsoil horizon. Based on macroscopic, micromorphological, geochemical, geophysical and mineralogical analysis, we interpret the fine-grained sediments to have a local aeolian origin. OSL dating indicates a final deposition phase during the early Holocene. Considering the scarcity of early Holocene terrestrial archives in Crete, the analysed profile provides valuable data for the reconstruction of landscape dynamics and paleoecological conditions as well as soil-sediment configurations during this time period. Additional research is needed to address the specific source area(s) as well as the ages of the deposition of slope sediments and formation of the fossil topsoil

The praxeological square as a method for the intercultural study of religious movements

Schäfer H. The praxeological square as a method for the intercultural study of religious movements. In: Gramley S, Schneider R, eds. Cultures in Process: Encounter and Experience. The Bielefeld English and American Studies. Vol 2. Bielefeld: Aisthesis; 2009: 6-20

Jacques Delors: Mensch und Methode

'Dieses Working Paper, dem ein Vortrag am Institut für Höhere Studien vorausging, handelt vom Wirken eines 'großen Europäers': Jacques Delors. Mit seinem Namen verbinden sich Meilensteine der europäischen Integration: Europäischer Binnenmarkt, Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion, um nur zwei zu nennen. Der Autor stellt in diesem Paper diese Projekte in einen größeren Zusammenhang. Er berichtet zwar auch über biographische Details und über wirtschaftspolitische Hintergründe und Kontextbedingungen der Politik der Delors-Kommission, aber vergegenwärtigt zugleich auf sehr eindringliche Weise die Visionen von Jacques Delors und was aus ihnen wurde.' (Autorenreferat)'This working paper, which is based on a lecture at the Institute of Advanced Studies, focuses on the work of a great European: Jacques Delors. His name is connected to milestones of the European integration process: the internal market und the Economic and Monetary Union to just name two. Within this paper the author places these projects into a larger context. Although he focuses on biographical details and on the economic-political background of the politics of the 'Delors-Commission', he describes in a very convincing manner the visions of Jacques Delors and what became of them.' (author's abstract)

THE SUCCESS OF A SOCCER KICK DEPENDS ON RUN UP DECELERATION

The purpose of the study was to relate the motion of the centre of mass (CoM) during run ups in soccer full insteps kicks with the obtained ball speeds. Nineteen experienced play-ers performed kicks onto the goal and their full body kinematics as well as ball motion were analysed in three dimensions using two high speed video cameras. Higher decel-erations of the CoM with the last step are associated with higher ball velocities and higher thigh angular impulses. Those data suggest, that an intensive breaking of the CoM veloc-ity provides a prerequisite to transfer a portion of the CoM impulse into angular impulse of the thigh. High angular impulse of the thigh however can be beneficial for fast instep kicks

Relatedness facilitates cooperation in the subsocial spider, Stegodyphus tentoriicola

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Cooperative hunting and foraging in spiders is rare and prone to cheating such that the actions of selfish individuals negatively affect the whole group. The resulting social dilemma may be mitigated by kin selection since related individuals lose indirect fitness benefits by acting selfishly. Indeed, cooperation with genetic kin reduces the disadvantages of within-group competition in the subsocial spider <it>Stegodyphus lineatus</it>, supporting the hypothesis that high relatedness is an important pre-adaptation in the transition to sociality in spiders. In this study we examined the consequences of group size and relatedness on cooperative feeding in the subsocial spider <it>S. tentoriicola</it>, a species suggested to be at the transition to permanent sociality.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>We formed groups of 3 and 6 spiders that were either siblings or non-siblings. We found that increasing group size negatively affected feeding efficiency but that these negative effects were reduced in sib-groups. Sib groups were more likely to feed cooperatively and all group members grew more homogenously than groups of unrelated spiders. The measured differences did not translate into differential growth or mortality during the experimental period of 8 weeks.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The combination of our results with those from previous studies indicates that the conflict between individual interests and group interests may be reduced by nepotism and that the latter promote the maintenance of the social community.</p

Additamenta amputationum ex nosocomio chirurgico Dorpatensi petita : dissertatio inauguralis

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