Impact of a hand hygiene curriculum and group handwashing station at two primary schools in East Africa

Handwashing drastically reduces the transmission of deadly, preventable diseases. Schools, even those with limited resources, have the power to promote handwashing through simple, effective interventions. This study evaluated the impact of a school-based handwashing program consisting of two interventions: a hand-hygiene curriculum and group handwashing station. Mixed quantitative and qualitative pre/post intervention surveys were administered to students at one primary school in Kenya (n=38) and at one primary school in Uganda (n=57). Identical procedures were followed at each school. Paired t-tests for pre/post-surveys demonstrated an increase in students’ knowledge (

Möglichkeiten und Grenzen strafrechtlicher Vermögensabschöpfung im Bereich der Markenpiraterie: Eine wirtschaftsstrafrechtliche Untersuchung zum Anwendungsbereich deutscher Vermögensabschöpfungsvorschriften in Fällen vorsätzlicher Schutzrechtsverletzungen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Verfalls i.S.d. §§ 73 ff. StGB

Die Arbeit analysiert den Anwendungsbereich der strafrechtlichen Vermögensabschöpfung im Bereich der sog. Produkt- und Markenpiraterie. Ausgehend von der Erkenntnis, dass herkömmliche strafrechtliche Repressalien – insbesondere die Verhängung von Freiheits- oder Geldstrafen – bisher keine wirksame Eindämmung professionell und massenhaft begangener Schutzrechtsverletzungen bewirken konnten, liegt der Fokus der Untersuchung auf dem Verfall i.S.d. §§ 73 ff. StGB. Behandelt werden zunächst einige wichtige grundsätzliche Fragen, wie die nach der Anwendbarkeit dieses Rechtsinstituts auf Fälle mit Auslandsbezug nach deutschem Strafanwendungsrecht (§§ 3 ff. StGB) sowie die nach dem Umfang des bei Markenpiraterie erlangten "Etwas" i.S.v. § 73 Abs. 1 S. 1 StGB. Darüber hinaus beleuchtet der Autor insbesondere die Reichweite der Verfallssperre des § 73 Abs. 1 S. 2 StGB, den Kreis der möglichen Verfallsadressaten sowie das Konkurrenzverhältnis des Verfalls zum Rechtsinstitut der Einziehung i.S.d. §§ 74 ff. StGB. Weitere Schwerpunkte bilden das Verfahren der – nationalen und gemeinschaftsrechtlichen – Grenzbeschlagnahme sowie die Möglichkeiten der transnationalen Vermögensabschöpfung bei grenzüberschreitenden Sachverhalten

Cassini ISS astrometry of the Saturnian satellites: Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Iapetus, and Phoebe 2004-2012

This work was mainly funded by European Community’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement 263466 for the FP7-ESPaCE, and partially by UPMC-EMERGENCE (contract number EME0911), for which R.T. and V.L. are grateful. R.T. was also supported by the Cassini mission. In addition, this work was supported by the Science and Technology Facilites Council (Grant No. ST/F007566/1) and C.D.M. and N.J.C. are grateful to them for financial assistance. C.D.M. is also grateful to the Leverhulme Trust for the award of a Research Fellowship

Torenia asiatica L. als Schaupflanze

Vom Obergärtner Pasewald

A Healthy Mind

A healthy mind imprisoned by an impaired body can break a person. It can suck the life out of them—but only if they let it

Photogrammetric co-registration and photometric analysis of HRSC Phobos images

HRSC images from Mars Express Phobos flybys are used to study the photometric character of the surface of the Martian satellite. This investigation involves measuring of surface reflectance and illumination angles for estimates of a phase curve, and fitting of theoretic photometric functions. As results we obtain information on multispectral and physical properties of the Phobos surface as well as photometrically corrected geomorphological and albedo maps

Multiscale visualization of 3D geovirtual environments using view-dependent multi-perspective views

3D geovirtual environments (GeoVEs), such as virtual 3D city models or landscape models, are essential visualization tools for effectively communicating complex spatial information. In this paper, we discuss how these environments can be visualized using multi-perspective projections [10, 13] based on view-dependent global deformations. Multi-perspective projections enable 3D visualization similar to panoramic maps, increasing overview and information density in depictions of 3D GeoVEs. To make multi-perspective views an effective medium, they must adjust to the orientation of the virtual camera controlled by the user and constrained by the environment. Thus, changing multi-perspective camera configurations typically require the user to manually adapt the global deformation — an error prone, non-intuitive, and often time-consuming task. Our main contribution comprises a concept for the automatic and view-dependent interpolation of different global deformation preset configurations (Fig. 1). Applications and systems that implement such view-dependent global deformations, allow users to smoothly and steadily interact with and navigate through multi-perspective 3D GeoVEs