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    Trinity Restoration Inc.: Southside Cultural Center Economic Impact Study

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    Economic development has shifted from location-oriented business models towards a more all-encompassing model that recognizes the advancement of human capital or intellectual property as continuously increasing in value. This microcosmic characteristic of development extends to aid in the growth of society as a whole. The Arts and Culture attract a demographic of inspired and motivated people to the area. It results in the development of the society surrounding art venues. The general population will always seek out entertainment, by installing a venue of artistic expression in South Providence that will motivate the community and propel development. This phenomena has been proven, as denoted through the historical evaluation of artistic venues across America that have generated economic growth in their respective communities

    Die Entwicklung der regionalen und ĂĽberregionalen Tagespresse in Deutschland seit 1989

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    Diese Arbeit beschreibt die Entwicklung der Tageszeitungen in Deutschland seit der Wende im Herbst 1989. Zusammengefasst kann gesagt werden, dass der Verlauf in Ost- und Westdeutschland unterschiedlich abgelaufen ist. Warum dies so war und wie die unterschiedliche Entwicklung im einzelnen aussah, wird dargestellt. Dabei wird auch der Frage nachgegangen, warum die Pressemärkte in den beiden Landesteilen noch immer gespalten sind. Um dies zu beantworten, war es nötig, die Einflüsse, die auf den Pressemarkt der neuen Bundesländer eingewirkt haben, darzustellen und das Nutzungsverhalten der ostdeutschen und westdeutschen Bürger miteinander zu verglichen. An Hand der gewonnenen Ergebnisse wird beschrieben, wie sich diese auf die gesamte Entwicklung ausgewirkt haben. Am Ende der Betrachtung steht die aktuelle Krise der Tageszeitungen, ausgelöst durch den Zusammenbruch des Werbemarkts. Ebenfalls wird ein Ausblick in die Zukunft gegeben. Dabei werden die Folgen und Auswirkungen der Entwicklung in Deutschland beschrieben. Und auf die Fragen eingegangen, ob die Presse noch die ihr zugeteilten Aufgaben vollständig erfüllen kann und welche weiteren Gefahren diese Entwicklung birgt. Im Anschluss werden Möglichkeiten dargestellt, die dieser Entwicklung entgegenwirken. Kommissionen, Gesetze und Kontrollen werden kurz vorgestellt und untersucht, in wie weit diese Kontrollmöglichkeiten heute noch nützlich sind

    Theodor Hellbrügge: 85 years of age – Ad multos transannos, sanos, fortunatos et beatos

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    We honor Theo HellbrĂĽgge's acclaimed endeavors in the rehabilitation, or rather the prehabilitation of handicapped children. So far, he has focused on obvious handicaps, and we trust that he will include concern for everybody's silent handicaps in the future by screening for abnormal variability inside the physiological range. Therein, we introduce cis- and trans-years, components of transdisciplinary spectra that are novel for biology and also in part for physics. These components have periods, respectively, shorter and longer than the calendar year, with a counterpart in magnetoperiodism. Transyears characterize indices of geomagnetic activity and the solar wind's speed and proton density. They are detected, alone or together with circannuals, in physiology as well as in pathology, as illustrated for sudden cardiac death and myocardial infarction, a finding calling for similar studies in sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). As transyears can beat with circannuals, and depend on local factors, their systematic mapping in space and time by transdisciplinary chronomics may serve a better understanding of their putative influence upon the circadian system. Longitudinal monitoring of blood pressure and heart rate detects chronome alterations underlying cardiovascular disease risk, such as that of myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death. The challenge is to intervene in a timely fashion, preferably at birth, an opportunity for pediatricians in Theo HellbrĂĽgge's footsteps

    Analysis of the historical structural change in the German lignite mining area of Lusatia (case study)

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    This case study examined the structural change in Lusatia caused by the system change from a centrally planned economy to a market economy in the period 1990-2015. It analysed the structural change process and the structural policies implemented as a reaction to this process with the objective to make this knowledge available for future structural change processes in other (coal) regions by deploying various qualitative and quantitative methods of empirical social and economic research. A discourse analysis helped to recognise who supported which structural policy approaches and why - and thus gives indications of the possible relevance of experiences for other regions

    Temperature suppression of STM-induced desorption of hydrogen on Si(100) surfaces

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    The temperature dependence of hydrogen (H) desorption from Si(100) H-terminated surfaces by a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) is reported for negative sample bias. It is found that the STM induced H desorption rate (RR) decreases several orders of magnitude when the substrate temperature is increased from 300 K to 610 K. This is most noticeable at a bias voltage of -7 V where RR decreases by a factor of ~200 for a temperature change of 80 K, whilst it only decreases by a factor of ~3 at -5 V upon the same temperature change. The experimental data can be explained by desorption due to vibrational heating by inelastic scattering via a hole resonance. This theory predicts a weak suppression of desorption with increasing temperature due to a decreasing vibrational lifetime, and a strong bias dependent suppression due to a temperature dependent lifetime of the hole resonance.Comment: 5 pages, RevTeX, epsf files. Accepted for surface science letter

    Biot-JKD model: simulation of 1D transient poroelastic waves with fractional derivatives

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    A time-domain numerical modeling of Biot poroelastic waves is presented. The viscous dissipation occurring in the pores is described using the dynamic permeability model developed by Johnson-Koplik-Dashen (JKD). Some of the coefficients in the Biot-JKD model are proportional to the square root of the frequency: in the time-domain, these coefficients introduce order 1/2 shifted fractional derivatives involving a convolution product. Based on a diffusive representation, the convolution kernel is replaced by a finite number of memory variables that satisfy local-in-time ordinary differential equations. Thanks to the dispersion relation, the coefficients in the diffusive representation are obtained by performing an optimization procedure in the frequency range of interest. A splitting strategy is then applied numerically: the propagative part of Biot-JKD equations is discretized using a fourth-order ADER scheme on a Cartesian grid, whereas the diffusive part is solved exactly. Comparisons with analytical solutions show the efficiency and the accuracy of this approach.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1210.036
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