Ethics of Respect and Human Dignity. A Responsive Reading

One of the key concepts in recent moral debates is respect. The paper establishes the thesis that respect must first be understood as a responsive deontic demand. This occurs if beyond a universalisation of the practical law it keeps open the connection to the various pronominal versions and is shaped as response to a call which does not follow classical schemes of mere reciprocity but which takes into account the asymmetry of the other. For this reason main accounts of respect in contexts of human dignity (Immanuel Kant, Axel Honneth, Rainer Forst and others) are questioned in the horizon of the philosophy of Bernhard Waldenfels

Cicerón : el decorum y la moralidad de la Retórica.

Christian Felipe Pineda Pérez (Traductor

Substanzwertrechnung bei Leasingunternehmen im Stresstest

Aufgrund der typischen asymmetrischen Aufwands- und Ertragsverteilung bei Leasingunternehmen spiegelt das bilanzielle Eigenkapital den Unternehmenswert nur unzureichend wider. Um seitens Refinanzierungspartnern ein realitäsnäheres Bild der Unternehmenssituation zu erhalten, werden in der Substanzwertrechung zusätzlich zum Eigenkapital auch zukünftige, noch nicht realisierte Erträge einbezogen. Dabei werden zu erwartende Verluste in Form von Risikoabschlägen berücksichtigt. Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit wird die Ausfallwahrscheinlichkeit von Unternehmen in den als Leasingnehmer wichtigen Branchen Bau, Verkehr und Gesundheit in Abhängigkeit der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung modelliert. Unter Verwendung des Modells wird mittels einer Monte-Carlo-Simulation ein Stresstest durchgeführt. Auf diese Weise wird untersucht, wie stark sich die erwarteten Verluste ändern. Dies impliziert eine vergleichbare Veränderung des Unternehmenswertes und gibt Aufschluss über die Aussagekraft des Substanzwertes

Harmonically trapped fermions in one dimension: A finite temperature lattice Monte Carlo study

We study a one-dimensional two-component Fermi gas in a harmonic trapping potential using finite temperature lattice quantum Monte Carlo methods. We are able to compute observables in the canonical ensemble via an efficient projective approach. Results for density profiles, correlations, as well as energy-related observables are presented for systems with up to 80 particles and various temperatures. Our simulations reproduce known numerical results and compare well against available experimental data close to the ground state, while at higher temperature they are benchmarked against the exact solution of the two particle system. This provides an indication that a standard lattice discretization is sufficient to capture the physics of the trapped system. In the special case of a spin-imbalanced gas, we find no sign problem in the parameter ranges studied, allowing access without the need of specialized methods. This includes simulations close to the ground state and at large population imbalance, where we present results for density correlations, indicating pairing at finite total momentum.Comment: 11 pages, 6 figure

Plenary Session II – Mobility Track: When the Wheels Fall Off

This session captures the consumer experience throughout the transition process, their struggle to maintain control and solutions to help them preserve independence and identity

The influence of rate of behavior and predictability of rate conditions on observer accuracy, rate of observing responses, and allocation of observing time

The rate and predictability of a subject's behavior are related to observer accuracy. Since those factors often change during the course of applied research, the accuracy of observational data may inadvertently be influenced. The present study explored the relationship between rate and predictability of the subject's behavior and observers' accuracy and two other measures of observing behavior. Two assistants each presented a behavior at a rate of 3 or 1.1 behaviors/minute. Each assistant presented one behavior at one target, observed by two other assistants. The pairs of assistants alternated between these two roles. Each pair observed for four phases, each having six 20-minute sessions. The four phases differed in the rates of behavior at each target and in the predictability of the rates from session to session. The occurrence of the behaviors, the observers' indications of these occurrences, and the observers' electrooculograrns were simultaneously recorded. These recordings permitted assessment of observer accuracy of the rate of observing responses, and of the observing time allocated to each target