311 research outputs found
Doing work. Atypical employment in the film and in the automobile industry in comparison
No full textSchiek D, Apitzsch B. Doing Work. Atypische Arbeit in der Film- und Automobilbranche im Vergleich. Berliner Journal für Soziologie. 2013;23(2):181-204
Wie wird kreative Arbeit "gemacht"? Film- und Autoproduktion im Vergleich
No full textApitzsch B, Schiek D. Wie wird kreative Arbeit "gemacht"? Film- und Autoproduktion im Vergleich. In: Löw M, ed. Vielfalt und Zusammenhalt. Verhandlungen des 36. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 2012. Frankfurt: Campus; 2014
A Fractional Ramp Generator with Improved Linearity and Phase-Noise Performance for the Use in Heterodyne Measurement Systems
No full textConcepts for the generation and the measurement of highly linear frequency ramps are presented. The fractional ramp synthesiser concept shown here is able to generate frequency ramps with a very low phase noise level, a very good frequency linearity and reproducibility. Related to the bandwidth of the generated frequency ramps of 4.5 GHz a relative linearity error below 4·10–10 is demonstrated in a prototype system. This linearity error is close to the limit set by the phase noise floor of the ramp generators and marks a significant improvement over existing aproaches (Musch and Schiek, 2000). The basic measurement sensitivity due to the phase noise is 1.8·10–10 without averaging. As the phase noise is important for the linearity of the frequency ramp the set-up has to be optimised for a good phase noise behaviour, too. In order to achieve this good phase noise a special phase-frequency detector is introduced that is especially designed for the use in a fractional phase locked loop
Novel Algorithms for FMCW Range Finding with Microwaves. Stolle, R.; Heuermann, H.; Schiek, B.
No full textDas Hessische Gleichberechtigungsgesetz
No full textAn introduction to legislation for the state of Hessen (within Germany), aiming to promote substantive equality in employment for women in the public service. The author has written this piece of legislation as a public servant
Frauenförderung oder Diskriminierungsschutz? Perspektiven der "Frauenquote" nach "Kalanke"
No full textThis article discusses how legislation referred to as "positive action" could be revised after the European Court of Justice handed down its "Kalanke" ruling. That ruling stated that a preference rule demanding that employers chose an equally qualified woman over a man for posts where women are underrepresented must be tempered by a clause allowing to prefer the man if he can rely on specific circumstances. The author recalls the reasons why men, before these preference rules were created for posts in public employment in Germany, were usually preferred for higher salaried posts. These were the principles that those who served longest and had more children and a non-salaried spouse were treated preferentially if equally qualified. Due to past sex discrimination and ongoing gender stereotypes, men were usually longer in employment and more often married to a non-salaried spouse than women, while these factors did not have any relation to qualification, or even suitability to fill the relevant posts. The author argues that creating the women's quota instead of openly stating that promotions had in the past been based on indirectly discriminatory criteria was in a way a more diplomatic option, avoiding telling senior male public servants that they were in post because they profited from gender discrimination. The author concludes that the preference rules could be replaced by eliminating indirect discrimination, but that this road would be much more devisive
Positive Action in Community Law
No full textThis article analyses the ECJ ruling in the Kalanke case, which also constitutes the Court's first ruling on positive action (known as affirmative action in the USA). The author criticises the narrow approach taken by the Court, which considers positive action as an exception to equal treatment, thus prioritising a merely formal notion of equality as the basis of EU anti-discrimination law. She develops a more coherent notion by conceptualising equality as a substantive concept, which then means that positive action is a necessary element of equality law. This is the author's first publication in English (readers whose native language is English should recall when they published their first article in another world language at this stage - this author only managed to do so at the age of 33, after having been in academia for 2 years as a senior lecturer)
Positive Action before the European Court of Justice - New Conceptions of Equality in Community Law?
No full textThis article analyses the ECJ Case law on positive action, focused on the Badeck ruling, which concerned a piece of legislation which the author wrote as government lawyer between 1991 and 1993. It develops a concept of positive action that allows an even wider scope, stressing that positive action always has to be conceptualised in recognition of asymmetric power relations
Anmerkung zu BAG 3.4.2003 - 6 AZR 633/01 AP Nr 185 § 242 BGB Gleichbehandlung
No full textThis annotation analyses an equal pay case relating to wage supplements for public servants and employees in the public service in relation to their family size. Those supplements were calculated differently for employees and public servants. The claimants submitted that this resulted in disparate impact on women and men respectively, but were unable to bring the relevant statistics. The author considers that the Federal Labour Court is right in rejecting these claims, but argues that the Court did not apply the complex concept of indirect discrimination under EU law correctly
Demonstrating the feasibility of standardized application program interfaces that will allow mobile/portable terminals to receive services combining UMTS and DVB-T
No full textCrucial to the commercial exploitation of any service combining UMTS and DVB-T is the availability of standardized API’s adapted to the hybrid UMTS and DVB-T network and to the technical limitations of mobile/portable terminals. This paper describes work carried out in the European Commission Framework Program 5 (FP5) project CONFLUENT to demonstrate the feasibility of such Application Program Interfaces (API’s) by enabling the reception of a Multimedia Home Platform (MHP) based application transmitted over DVB-T on five different terminals with parts of the service running on a mobile phone
- …
