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The title of the annual report 2013 "Shaping change: The University Addresses Society‘s Probing Challenges" reveals the great importance placed on social, economic and technological changes at the university.
This key aspect thus runs through the contents of the 90-page annual report like a common thread, without losing track of the enormous variety of research and teaching at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University. Whether the exploration of gaps in robot safety during a European Intensive Programme, a report about the Philipines crisis region from a graduate who has worked as an organizer for Care International, or the chapter "What does change look like?" – The annual report provides the full spectrum of opportunities, activities and findings of university members.
Rendering techniques for design evaluation and review or for visualizing large volume data often use computationally expensive ray-based methods. Due to the number of pixels and the amount of data, these methods often do not achieve interactive frame rates. A view direction based rendering technique renders the users central field of view in high quality whereas the surrounding is rendered with a level of detail approach depending on the distance to the users central field of view thus giving the opportunity to increase rendering efficiency. We propose a prototype implementation and evaluation of a focus-based rendering technique based on a hybrid ray tracing/sparse voxel octree rendering approach.
Das Management von Sicherheit und Gesundheit bei der Arbeit beinhaltet die Praevention psychischer Fehlbelastungen und psychischer Erkrankungen. Die gesetzliche Grundlage der Praeventionsaktivitaeten der gesetzlichen Unfallversicherung wird aufgefuehrt. Anschliessend wird verdeutlicht, in welchen Handlungsfeldern und mit welchen Instrumenten die gesetzliche Unfallversicherung die Praevention psychischer Erkrankungen in den Betrieben unterstuetzt. Als theoretischer Rahmen fuer Praeventionsmassnahmen werden das Dreiebenenmodell psychischer Belastungen (Mitarbeiter, Unternehmen, Gesellschaft) und das Dreiebenen-Interventionsmodell psychischer Erkrankungen skizziert. Die betriebliche Praevention erfolgt im Idealfall auf der Basis konkreter innerbetrieblicher Regelungen. Dies wird beispielhaft fuer den Umgang mit E-Mails und die Regelungen zur Erreichbarkeit naeher beschrieben.
This paper gives an overview of the development of Fair Trade in six European countries: Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. After the description of the food retail industry and its market structures in these countries, the main European Fair Trade organizations are analyzed regarding their role within the Fair Trade system. The following part deals with the development of Fair Trade sales in general and with respect to the products coffee, tea, bananas, fruit juice and sugar. An overview of the main activities of national Fair Trade organizations, e.g. public relation activities, completes the analysis. This study shows the enormous upswing of Fair Trade during the last decade and the reasons for this development. Nevertheless, it comes to the conclusion that Fair Trade is still far away from being an essential part of the food retail industry in Europe.
Software repository data, for example in issue tracking systems, include natural language text and technical information, which includes anything from log files via code snippets to stack traces. However, data mining is often only interested in one of the two types e.g. in natural language text when looking at text mining. Regardless of which type is being investigated, any techniques used have to deal with noise caused by fragments of the other type i.e. methods interested in natural language have to deal with technical fragments and vice versa. This paper proposes an approach to classify unstructured data, e.g. development documents, into natural language text and technical information using a mixture of text heuristics and agglomerative hierarchical clustering. The approach was evaluated using 225 manually annotated text passages from developer emails and issue tracker data. Using white space tokenization as a basis, the overall precision of the approach is 0.84 and the recall is 0.85.
Schon der Titel des Jahresberichts 2013 "Den Wandel gestalten: Hochschule stellt sich drängenden Fragen der Gesellschaft" offenbart, welche Bedeutung gesellschaftlichen, wirtschaftlichen und technologischen Veränderungen an der Hochschule beigemessen wird.
Dieses Schwerpunkthema zieht sich folglich wie ein roter Faden durch die Inhalte des 90 Seiten starken Jahresberichts, ohne dabei die enorme Vielfalt von Forschung und Lehre an der Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg aus den Augen zu verlieren. Ob nun die Ergründung von Lücken in der Robotersicherheit während eines europäischen Intensivprogramms, ein Bericht aus dem Krisengebiet Philippinen von einer Absolventin, die als Organisatorin für Care International tätig ist, oder das Kapitel "Was bedeutet Wandel?" - der Jahresbericht bildet das ganze Spektrum der Möglichkeiten, Aktivitäten und Erkenntnisse der Hochschulangehörigen ab.
Das sogenannte „Deutschlandstipendium“ ist 2010 ins Leben gerufen worden. Gemäß den gesetzlichen Vorgaben sollen die Stipendien nach Begabung und Leistung vergeben werden. Darüber hinaus sollen auch gesellschaftliches Engagement oder besondere soziale, familiäre oder persönliche Umstände berücksichtigt werden. Bei der Finanzierung sind die Hochschulen zunächst auf das Einwerben privater Fördermittel angewiesen, die von Bund und Land um denselben Betrag aufgestockt werden. Die privaten Mittelgeber können für die von ihnen anteilig finanzierten Stipendien festlegen, aus welchen Studiengängen ihre Stipendiaten ausgewählt werden sollen. Die Hochschulen haben jedoch darauf zu achten, dass ein Drittel aller zu vergebenden Stipendien ohne eine entsprechende Zweckbindung vergeben werden. Einen direkten Einfluss auf die Auswahl einzelner Kandidaten dürfen die Förderer nicht haben. Vor diesem Hintergrund sind die Hochschulen angehalten, Anreize für private Förderer zu schaffen und parallel Bewerbungs- und Auswahlverfahren zu konzipieren, die die genannten gesetzlichen Vorgaben einhalten. Dadurch entsteht bei den Hochschulen ein erheblicher Verwaltungsaufwand. Zu dessen Reduzierung wird in diesem Artikel ein transparenter, nachvollziehbarer, zeit- und kostensparender Prozess durch einen programmierten Workflow beschrieben.
Unternehmen nutzen teilweise veraltete Betriebssystem-Software, die nicht mehr gewartet werden. Beispiele sind "Windows XP" oder ab 14.05.2015 "Windows Server 2003" der Firma Microsoft. Das Paper analysiert die Situation im Hinblick auf signifikante Risiken wie z.B. die mögliche Versagung von Jahresabschlusstestaten und schlägt Maßnahmen für das Management vor.
This review is divided into two interconnected parts, namely a biological and a chemical one. The focus of the first part is on the biological background for constructing tissue-engineered vascular grafts to promote vascular healing. Various cell types, such as embryonic, mesenchymal and induced pluripotent stem cells, progenitor cells and endothelial- and smooth muscle cells will be discussed with respect to their specific markers. The in vitro and in vivo models and their potential to treat vascular diseases are also introduced. The chemical part focuses on strategies using either artificial or natural polymers for scaffold fabrication, including decellularized cardiovascular tissue. An overview will be given on scaffold fabrication including conventional methods and nanotechnologies. Special attention is given to 3D network formation via different chemical and physical cross-linking methods. In particular, electron beam treatment is introduced as a method to combine 3D network formation and surface modification. The review includes recently published scientific data and patents which have been registered within the last decade.
The ability to track moving people is a key aspect of autonomous robot systems in real-world environments. Whilst for many tasks knowing the approximate positions of people may be sufficient, the ability to identify unique people is needed to accurately count people in the real world. To accomplish the people counting task, a robust system for people detection, tracking and identification is needed.
Robots, which are able to carry out their tasks robustly in real world environments, are not only desirable but necessary if we want them to be more welcome for a wider audience. But very often they may fail to execute their actions successfully because of insufficient information about behaviour of objects used in the actions.
Trotz einer sauber aufgesetzten Projektplanung und der konsequenten Einhaltung der vorgeschriebenen PM-Methodik verfehlen Projekte oft ihre Zielvorgaben. Einer der wichtigsten Gründe hierfür ist die stark gestiegene Komplexität. Diese erfordert eine neue Sichtweise auf das Projektmanagement, wie Olaf Ihlow in seinem Trend-Beitrag meint.
This work describes extensions to the well-known Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) model to account for IEEE802.11n point-to-point links. The developed extensions cover adaptions to the throughput and delay estimation for this type of link as well peculiarities of hardware and implementations within the Linux Kernel. Instead of using simulations, the approach was extensively verified on real-world deployments at various link distances. Additionally, trials were conducted to optimize the CWmin values and the number of retries to maximize throughput and minimize delay. The results of this work can be used to estimate the properties of long-distance 802.11 links beforehand, allowing the network to be planned more accurately.
Der Begriff der Nachhaltigkeit ist heute weit verbreitet, und seine Nutzung erstreckt sich auf alle Gesellschaftsbereiche. Als abstraktes Leitprinzip bleibt oftmals unklar, wie der Begriff definiert und ausgelegt wird. Seine Unbestimmtheit trägt zur Verwässerung und inflationären Verwendung bei. Erschwerend wirkt zusätzlich die unzureichende Trennung des politischen vom alltagssprachlichen Begriff der Nachhaltigkeit.
In den letzten Jahren ist das Thema Nachhaltigkeit zu einem Schlüsselthema in vielen wissenschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Diskursen geworden. Ausgehend von natur-, technik-, politik- und zunehmend wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Auseinandersetzung mit Fragestellungen im Kontext von Nachhaltigkeit, sind diese in den Mittelpunkt gesellschaftlicher und politischer Wahrnehmung gerückt.
Perception is one of the most important cognitive capabilities of an entity since it determines how an entity perceives its environment. The presented work focuses on providing cost efficient but realistic perceptual processes for intelligent virtual agents (IVAs) or NPCs with the goal of providing a sound information basis for the entities' decision making processes. In addition, an agent-central perception process should rovide a common interface for developers to retrieve data from the IVAs' environment. The overall process is evaluated by applying it to a scenario demonstrating its benefits. The evaluation indicates, that such a realistically simulated perception process provides a powerful instrument to enhance the (perceived) realism of an IVA's simulated behavior.
Exposure to microgravity conditions causes cardiovascular deconditioning in astronauts during spaceflight. Until now, no specific drugs are available for countermeasure, since the underlying mechanism is largely unknown. Endothelial cells (ECs) and smooth muscle cells (SMCs) play key roles in various vascular functions, many of which are regulated by purinergic 2 (P2) receptors. However, their function in ECs and SMCs under microgravity conditions is still unclear. In this study, primary ECs and SMCs were isolated from bovine aorta and verified with specific markers. We show for the first time that the P2 receptor expression pattern is altered in ECs and SMCs after 24 h exposure to simulated microgravity using a clinostat. However, conditioned medium compensates this change in specific P2 receptors, for example, P2X7. Notably, P2 receptors such as P2X7 might be the important players during the paracrine interaction. Additionally, ECs and SMCs secreted different cytokines under simulated microgravity, leading into a pathogenic proliferation and migration. In conclusion, our data indicate P2 receptors might be important players responding to gravity changes in ECs and SMCs. Since some artificial P2 receptor ligands are applied as drugs, it is reasonable to assume that they might be promising candidates against cardiovascular deconditioning in the future.
The analytical pyrolysis technique hyphenated to gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) has extended the range of possible tools for the characterization of synthetic polymers and copolymers. Pyrolysis involves thermal fragmentation of the analytical sample at temperatures of 500–1400 °C. In the presence of an inert gas, reproducible decomposition products characteristic for the original polymer or copolymer sample are formed. The pyrolysis products are chromatographically separated using a fused-silica capillary column and are subsequently identified by interpretation of the obtained mass spectra or by using mass spectra libraries. The analytical technique eliminates the need for pretreatment by performing analyses directly on the solid or liquid polymer sample. In this article, application examples of analytical pyrolysis hyphenated to GC–MS for the identification of different polymeric materials in the plastic and automotive industry, dentistry, and occupational safety are demonstrated. For the first time, results of identification of commercial light-curing dental filling material and a car wrapping foil by pyrolysis–GC–MS are presented.
It has become increasingly clear that caspases, far from being merely cell death effectors, have a much wider range of functions within the cell. These functions are as diverse as signal transduction and cytoskeletal remodeling, and caspases are now known to have an essential role in cell proliferation, migration, and differentiation. There is also evidence that apoptotic cells themselves can direct the behavior of nearby cells through the caspase-dependent secretion of paracrine signaling factors. In some processes, including the differentiation of skeletal muscle myoblasts, both caspase activation in differentiating cells as well as signaling from apoptotic cells has been reported. Here, we review the non-apoptotic outcomes of caspase activity in a range of different model systems and attempt to integrate this knowledge.
During space missions astronauts suffer from cardiovascular deconditioning, when they are exposed to microgravity conditions. Until now, no specific drugs are available for effective countermeasures, since the underlying mechanism is not completely understood. Endothelial cells (ECs) and smooth muscle cells (SMCs) play crucial roles in a variety of cardiovascular functions, many of which are regulated via P2 receptors. However, their function in ECs and SMCs under microgravity condition is still unknown. In this study, ECs and SMCs were isolated from bovine aorta and differentiated from human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs), respectively. Subsequently, the cells were verified based on specific markers. An altered P2 receptor expression pattern was detected during the commitment of hMSC towards ECs and SMCs. The administration of natural and artificial P2 receptor agonists and antagonists directly affected the differentiation process. By using EC growth medium as conditioned medium, a vessel cell model was created to culture SMCs and vice versa. Within this study, we were able to show for the first time that the expression of some P2 receptors were altered in ECs and SMCs grown for 24h under simulated microgravity conditions. On the other hand, in some P2 receptor expressions such as P2X7 conditioned medium compensated this change.
In conclusion, our data show that P2 receptors play an important functional role in hMSC differentiation towards ECs and SMCs. Since some P2 receptor artificial ligands are already used as drugs for patients with cardiovascular diseases, it is reasonable to assume that in the future they might be promising candidates for treating cardiovascular deconditioning.