2,414 research outputs found
Real-time crowding information can help contain Covid-19
No full textA study shows that when people have crowding information about medical practices, they tend to select less crowded ones - by Martin Adam, Dominick Werner, Charlotte Wendt and Alexander Benlia
Empowering users to control ads and its effects on website stickiness
No full textAbstractWebsite providers find it increasingly difficult to convince users to accept advertisements (ads) on their websites. In this study, we investigate ad quantity customization (AQC) as a practice to counter these challenges. AQC refers to the technological means through which website providers enable users to determine the amount of ads displayed on their websites. Drawing on psychological empowerment theory, we demonstrate in an online experiment with 395 participants that AQC can pay off: A website with AQC elicits significantly higher website stickiness than a website without AQC, even if the website without AQC contains no ads at all. We furthermore find that perceived empowerment, informational fit-to-task and perceived enjoyment mediate the effect of AQC on website stickiness. Our study thus contributes to Information Systems research on web customization and offers website providers actionable recommendations to keep their users involved, interested and retained.</jats:p
Sidonie Werner Collection. 1957
No full textThis collection contains 2 letters from Grete Stern describing the work of Sidonie Werner (1957), as well as a brief biographical sheet of Sidonie Werner by another
author (circa 1957). There is also a letter of thanks from Leo Baeck Institute regarding Greta Sterns' efforts to provide information on Werner (1957).Social worker, founder of Jüdischen Frauenbundes (JFB) and Israelitischen Humanitären Frauenvereins (home for senior women) in Hamburg.The original German language inventory is available in the folderProcessed for digitizationLinked to online manifestationdigitize
Input control and its signalling effects for complementors' intention to join digital platforms
No full textExisting information systems (IS) research on platform control has largely focused on examining how input control (i.e., the mechanisms used to control platform access) affects complementors' intentions and behaviours after their decision to join a digital platform. Yet, our understanding of how input control is perceived before this decision and how such perceptions influence prospective complementors' intention to join a platform is still nascent. In this regard, our study views input control as a salient signal that shapes prospective complementors' expected benefits and costs (i.e., their performance and effort expectancy), and ultimately their decision to join a digital platform. Drawing on signalling theory and the antecedent‐benefit‐cost (ABC) framework, we conducted a randomized online experiment in the context of donation‐based crowdfunding. The experiment results offer empirical support for this view by showing that input control has distinct and complex signalling effects for prospective complementors. In particular, our findings reveal curvilinear and competing signalling effects, with perceived input control increasing both performance expectancy (at a decreasing rate) and effort expectancy (at an increasing rate). Also, we find that performance expectancy linearly increases prospective complementors' intention to join a platform, whereas effort expectancy linearly decreases their intention to do so. These findings imply that the overall relationship between perceived input control and intention to join follows an inverted U‐shape curve, which means that neither a low nor a high, but a moderate degree of perceived input control maximizes prospective complementors' intention to join. In sum, the results of our study provide novel and important insights into the signalling role that perceived input control plays in shaping prospective complementors' decision to join a digital platform
Werner Warmbrunn Collection. 1885-2006
No full textThe Werner Warmbrunn Collection documents life and professional activities of Werner Warmbrunn and to a smaller extent, members of his immediate family. The collection consists of correspondence, diaries and memoirs, educational documents, printed materials, and unpublished poetry by David Warmbrunn and Werner Warmbrunn. Included in the collection are Werner Warmbrunn’s personal correspondence (mostly from the late 1930s); professional correspondence pertaining to his work at Stanford University and Pitzer College; as well as correspondence of his parents, David and Lilly. However, the core of the collection consists of Werner Warmbrunn’s diaries dating back to the late 1930s. Additionally, there is unpublished poetry by Werner Warmbrunn and David Warmbrunn, printed materials, and photo albums arranged topically by Werner Warmbrunn.Werner Warmbrunn was born on July 3rd, 1920, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His father, Dr. David Warmbrunn was a chemist, who owned a commercial laboratory. In 1936 the Warmbrunn family moved to Amsterdam, Holland. In 1939, his parents left Holland and settled in the United States. Werner Warmbrunn remained in Holland and attended a Quaker agricultural boarding school. In 1941 he came to the United States where he stayed with his sister on a farm near Cornell, Ithaca. He earned his BA in 1943 at Cornell University and his Ph.D. in History at Stanford University. Between 1949 and 1952 Werner Warmbrunn served as a Co-Director at the Peninsula School in Menlo Park, California. From 1952 to 1964 he was a foreign student adviser and director at Bechtel International Student Center, Stanford University. In 1963, he was invited to Pitzer College by its president, John Atherton. Werner Warmbrunn helped design the academic programs for the new college (Pitzer College, an undergraduate liberal college was founded in 1963) and developed its community. Werner Warmbrunn is the author of two books: The Dutch Under German Occupation, 1940-1945 and The German Occupation of Belgium 1940-1945. Werner Warmbrunn retired in 1991. He died in 2009.Processeddigitize
Werner Bergengrün Collection. 1941-1966
No full textThis collection contains photocopies of correspondence and obituarial material regarding Werner Bergengrün. There is
also material pertaining to Johannes Urzidil that may or may not be connected with Werner Bergengrün. The earliest correspondence is
to the Urzidils in New York from an acquaintance in England, indicating that the war will get worse but he should visit when it is
over (1941). Following the 1941 Urzidil letter are obituaries for Werner Bergengrün from 1964. There is a 1966 letter from Lotte
Bergengrün to Johannes Urzidil, indicating that Werner was sick for some time and his last poem is dated 1962. The last item in the
collection is a letter from "Fritta B." in Munich to Johannes Urzidil, exchanging greetings.Werner Bergengrün (1892-1964) was a Baltic German author. He married Lotte Hensel, a descendent of Moses
Mendelssohn.Processed for digitizatio
Containing COVID-19 through physical distancing: the impact of real-time crowding information
No full textForgotten and Newly Discovered Author - Werner Bräunig
No full textDiese Abschlussarbeit befasst sich mit dem "vergessenen" Autor Werner Bräunig (1934-1976). Er wurde wieder im Jahre 2007 "entdeckt", als sein verbotener Roman "Rummelplatz" erschien. In den ersten zwei Kapiteln werden kurz die Geschichte und die Literatur der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (DDR) beschrieben. In dem Hauptteil beschäftigt sich die Arbeit mit dem Leben und den Werken von Werner Bräunig, hauptsächlich mit dem Roman "Rummelplatz". In diesem Teil wird auch die Bräunigs Beteiligung an dem kulturpolitischen Programm der Sozialistischen Einheitspartei Deutschlands (SED) sog. "Bitterfelder Weg" erklärt. Am Ende der Arbeit wird die Zensur in der DDR erwähnt. Gerade wegen der Zensur konnte Bräunig sein Roman nicht veröffentlichen.This bachelor's thesis deals with a "forgotten" author Werner Bräunig (1934-1976). His previously forbidden novel "Rummelplatz" was not published until 2007 and thanks to that the author was "newly discovered". In the first two chapters, the history and literature of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) are briefly described. The thesis's main part is dealing with Werner Bräunig's life and work, primarily his novel "Rummelplatz". This part also clarifies Bräunig's participation in the political-cultural program Socialist Unity Party of Germany, so called "Bitterfeld way". At the end of the thesis mentions a censorship in the GDR, because of which Bräunig could not publish his novel.Tato závěrečná práce se zabývá „zapomenutým“ autorem Wernerem Bräunigem
(1934-1976). Jeho dříve zakázaný román „Rummelplatz“ vyšel až v roce 2007 a díky
tomu byl tento autor „znovu objeven“. V prvních dvou kapitolách jsou krátce popsány
dějiny a literatura Německé demokratické republiky (NDR). V hlavní části se práce
zabývá životem a tvorbou Wernera Bräuniga, především románem „Rummelplatz“.
V této části je také vysvětlena Bräunigova účast na kulturně-politickém programu
Sjednocené socialistické strany Německa tzv. „Bitterfeldské cesty“. V závěru práce je
zmínka o cenzuře v NDR, kvůli které nemohl Bräunig svůj román publikovat.Katedra cizích jazykůDokončená práce s úspěšnou obhajobo
Accounting and the Birth of the Notion of Capitalism
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to cast a new light on the post-Sombartian debate. It contributes to some understanding of the birth of the concept of capitalism itself. The author argues that the history of how the concept of capitalism was invented is an example of the influence of accounting ideas on economic and sociological thinking.capitalism; accounting; Karl Marx; Werner Sombart
Author – Narrator – Defendant: A legal Approach to Werner Kofler\u27s Voice
No full textGernot Waldner nähert sich dem Phänomen Stimme am Beispiel des Autors Werner Koflers aus juristischer Perspektive. Der Beitrag analysiert detailliert die rhetorischen Strategien in den Akten jenes Prozesses, den der Journalist Michael Jeannée 1991 anlässlich einer Passage in Koflers Der Hirt auf dem Felsen wegen üblicher Nachrede anstrengte. Waldner zeigt nicht nur Widersprüche der Argumentationen auf, sondern leitet daraus Auswirkungen auf Koflers Poetik ab. Koflers Prosa Üble Nachrede – Furcht und Unruhe erscheint in dieser Lesart als Verarbeitung des Prozesses und als formale Reaktion auf konkrete juristische Vorgehensweisen, wie etwa die Identifikation einer Erzählstimme mit dem Autor.
Author – Narrator – Defendant: A legal Approach to Werner Kofler\u27s Voice: Gernot Waldner approaches the phenomenon of voice from a legal perspective using the example of Werner Kofler. The contribution provides a detailed analysis of the rhetorical strategies in the files of the court case following journalist Michael Jeannée filing for defamation because of a passage in Kofler\u27s Der Hirt auf dem Felsen. He not only shows contradictions in the arguments but deduces effects on Kofler\u27s poetics. From this perspective, Kofler\u27s prose piece Üble Nachrede – Furcht und Unruhe emerges as a working through of the court case and as a formal reaction to concrete legal procedures, for instance identifying narrative voice with the author.Gernot Waldner approaches the phenomenon of voice from a legal perspective using the example of Werner Kofler. The contribution provides a detailed analysis of the rhetorical strategies in the files of the court case following journalist Michael Jeannée filing for defamation because of a passage in Kofler’s Der Hirt auf dem Felsen. He not only shows contradictions in the arguments but deduces effects on Kofler’s poetics. From this perspective, Kofler’s prose piece Üble Nachrede – Furcht und Unruhe emerges as a working through of the court case and as a formal reaction to concrete legal procedures, for instance identifying narrative voice with the author
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