Enablers and barriers in German online food retailing

This article discusses enablers and barriers in online food retailing in Germany. The German food retail sector is one of the largest in Europe; however, its online or Internet provision for customers lags way behind the United Kingdom and France. Prior research has considered the demand-consumer side of this dyad; however, little has been done on the online food supply-retail side. This article addresses that gap through exploratory empirical research with three retailers, three logistics service providers, and a marketing agency. There is good potential in this market but costs of fulfilment and service quality currently represent major barriers

Institutionalizing alternative economic spaces? An interpretivist perspective on diverse economies

This article offers an approach that helps geographers and others to carefully and critically reexamine prospects for diverse economies. We propose an interpretative institutionalist perspective is useful for elucidating overlooked opportunities for creating alternative economic visions and practices by revealing the process of ‘meaning making’ undertaken by actors in the process of developing policy responses to various dilemmas. We explore this notion in the context of de-growth or post-growth. De-growth is a way of thinking about the economy in ways that are not growth oriented, or fixated on GDP, but on the redistribution of wealth and living within the Earth’s ecosystems

Exploring success factors and constraints in German online food retailing

Paper presented at Rencontres Internationales de la Recherche en Supply Chain et Logistique (RIRL), Marseille, 20-21 May 2014. Abstract: This paper discusses success factors and constraints in online food retailing in Germany. While the German food retail sector is one of the largest in Europe, the sector’s online/Internet provision for customers lags way behind the UK and France. Prior research has considered the demand/consumer side of this dyad however little has been done on the supply/retail side. This paper addresses that gap through empirical research with three retailers, three logistics service providers and a marketing agency. There is good potential in this market but costs of fulfilment and service quality currently represent constraints

Initial Measurements with the PETsys TOFPET2 ASIC Evaluation Kit and a Characterization of the ASIC TDC

For a first characterization, we used the two KETEK-PM3325-WB SiPMs each equipped with a 3x3x5 mm${}^3$ LYSO scintillation crystal provided with the PETsys TOFPET2 ASIC Evaluation Kit. We changed the lower of two discriminator thresholds (D_T1) in the timing branch from vth_t1 = 5 - 30. The overvoltage was varied in a range of 1.25 V - 7.25 V. The ambient temperature was kept at 16{\deg}C. For all measurements, we performed an energy calibration including a correction for saturation. We evaluated the energy resolution, the coincidence resolving time (CRT) and the coincidence rate. At an overvoltage of 6 V, we obtained an energy resolution of about 10% FWHM, a CRT of approximately 210 ps FWHM and 400 ps FWTM, the coincidence rate showed only small variations of about 5%. To investigate the influence of the ambient temperature, it was varied between 12{\deg}C - 20{\deg}C. At 12{\deg}C and an overvoltage of 6.5 V, a CRT of approx. 195 ps FWHM and an energy resolution of about 9.5% FWHM could be measured. Observed satellite peaks in the time difference spectra were investigated in more detail. We could show that the location of the satellite peaks is correlated with a programmable delay element in the trigger circuit.Comment: This paper is under review with IEEE TRPMS. It has been presented in a talk at the PSMR 2018. This version of the manuscript was submitted as revision 2 to TRPMS after incrporating the comments of the reviewers. Only minor textchanges were made. Results, values and figures did not chang

Nhetoric: Rhetorical power in cyberspace

The Alpha group is a faction of the white supremacy movement that has established a virtual presence in cyberspace. Rhetorical strategies of agitation are practiced by the Alpha group on the World Wide Web in an effort to encourage visiting avatars to join the white supremacy movement. This study explores the rhetorical strategies of power and promulgation which Alpha uses in cyberspace. Analysis of Alpha\u27s digital discourse provide an opportunity to understand and evaluate the unique potentials that information technologies such as the World Wide Web bring to the rhetorical environment