154 research outputs found
Vom Wandel der Wasserinfrastruktur. Wassersensible Städte als Chance begreifen.
No full textIm Gespräch mit Katharina Dienes erläutert Jan Hendrik Trapp neue Tendenzen in der Entwicklung städtischer Wasserinfrastrukturen
What is this Philosophia Anyway?
No full textThis chapter explores contemporary understandings of philosophy in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, as both a repository of final truth and a practical, life-changing discipline, demanding life-long commitment to a project of self-formation. Drawing attention to the curious position of philosophy as both an insider and a self-conscious outsider to conventional educated culture (paideia), it suggests that greater unease and greater potential for anxiety attended philosophia and philosophoi in the world of the novel than is often acknowledged. Michael Trapp is Professor of Greek Literature and Thought at King\u27s College London. He is the author of Philosophy in the Roman Empire: Ethics, Politics and Society, and the editor of Socrates from Antiquity to the Enlightenment and Socrates in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (all Ashgate, 2007)
European Union efforts to fight judicial corruption: the Romanian case
No full textThis Master’s thesis addresses the EU efforts to fight judicial corruption in Romania. I argue that EU membership conditionality was relatively effective to lower the level of judicial corruption before Romania entered the EU in 2007. In addition, the EU socialization
and the domestic factors – legacy of communism, objective-material factors, and public opinion and levels of public trust – are quite influential regarding the implementation of EU initiatives and show the complexity of the Romanian case. Rather than using
merely the top-down logic of corruption indices or governance indicators, I also apply a bottom-up perspective and therefore particularly draw attention on disregarded measurement. This approach bears the benefit of capturing a range of informal practices that
are misinterpreted by the recent conceptualization of corruption. The before-after case study design and the process-tracing method allowed the analysis of pre-accession and post-accession conditionality in the context of judicial corruption. By assessing the EU
progress reports, the NIT scores and reports, the CPI and the GRECO reports, I found several remarkable developments regarding the fight against judicial corruption.Two of the key elements of EU conditionality – conditions and monitoring – have evolved significantly.
Thus, the introduction of post-accession benchmarks and the strengthening of the monitoring process represent important steps in the evolution of EU efforts to fight judicial corruption in Romania. However, the analysis shows that it is difficult to compensate
the pre-accession conditionality through post-accession monitoring mechanisms.
Although the analysis confirms that EU efforts had a significant impact to fight judicial corruption in Romania before accession, there is still room for improvements for the post-accession phase. Regarding the incentive structure, the analysis of the key documents finds evidence that this element of EU conditionality may be the main weakness. After Romania entered the EU, the EU lost its attractive accession advancement rewards
and was merely able to rely on explicit threats to induce compliance. However, the limited penalizing power of the remedial and preventive sanctions set up in the
framework of the CVM causes a fairly weak incentive structure which negatively influenced the effectiveness of post-accession conditionality.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesIncludes vitaby Marius Benjamin Trap
Cognition and cognitive rehabilitation in adult and juvenile patients with multiple sclerosis
No full textAbstract: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is accompanied by cognitive deficits in half of adult patients and in
one third of children. These deficits have a serious impact on daily functioning of patients and
may influence the ability to achieve educational goals and participate in professional and
social life. Therefore, the focus of this thesis is on cognitive deficits, especially the core
deficit regarding working memory (WM), and their treatment with cognitive rehabilitation.
The present dissertation contains three original manuscripts that target these topics and further
investigate A) the importance of cognitive functioning and the utility of neuropsychological
testing in MS patients, B) different patterns of response to WM training regarding cognitive
and brain function in adults with MS, and C) effects of WM training in juvenile patients with
MS
Emblems divine and moral ; together with Hieroglyphics of the life of man /
No full textMode of access: Internet.Library copy bound as 2 v. Bound with v. 2: The school of the heart, or, The heart (of itself gone away from God) brought back again to Him, and instructed by Him / by the author of The synagogue ..
Measuring the labour income share of developing countries: Learning from social accounting matrices
No full textThis paper is the first to address the challenges of measuring the labour income share of developing countries. The poor availability and reliability of national accounts data, and the fact that self-employed people, whose labour income is hard to capture, account for a major share of the workforce and often work in the informal sector, render its computation difficult. I consult social accounting matrices as an additional source of information to construct a labour share dataset backed up with microeconomic evidence. First descriptive results show a significant downward trend in labour shares of developing countries since the early 1990s
The roll of the professional caregivers in the donation medicine
No full textZusammenfassung: Die Transplantationsmedizin ist eine Errungenschaft des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts, die das Leben eines Menschen qualitativ verbessern oder sogar retten kann. Or-gane von Hirntoten werden im Rahmen der Explantation entnommen und in den Körper von Organempfängerinnen und Organempfängern transplantiert. Ob einem Hirntoten Organe ent-nommen werden dürfen, entscheidet jede/jeder österreichische Mitbürger/Mitbürgerin zu Leb-zeiten selbst mittels des Widerspruchsregisters des Landes Österreich. Ist das nicht der Fall, entscheiden Angehörige über die Organspende. Für die Angehörigen sind der Aufenthalt auf der Intensivstation und der Kontakt zu ihrem hirntoten Familienmitglied eine besonders trauma-tisierende Situation, in deren Bewältigung die professionell Pflegenden aktiv eingreifen können. Dabei ist die Pflege und Betreuung von potentiellen Organspenderinnen und Organspendern für die professionell Pflegenden selbst eine belastende Ausnahmesituation. Die interpersonalen Aspekte nach Joyce Travelbee zeigen, wie wichtig die Beziehung zwischen Patientinnen und Patienten und deren Familienmitgliedern ist und wie die Beziehungsgestaltung gelingen kann.
Ziel: Es wurde versucht, das Empfinden von Patientinnen und Patienten, Angehörigen und den professionellen Pflegepersonen im Organspendeprozess zu ergründen, um eine Beziehungs-gestaltung zu ermöglichen.
Ergebnisse: Nach dem Transplantationsskandal (2012) in Deutschland litt auch das Vertrauen der Österreicherinnen und Österreicher in die Transplantationsmedizin. Das Empfinden von Angehörigen und Familienmitgliedern auf der Intensivstation wird als besonders traumatisch beschrieben. Es wird als eine Zeit des Hoffens und Bangens bezeichnet, die als emotionale Ausnamesituation empfunden wird. Die Ambivalenz, in der der Hirntod auftritt, macht diesen für die Angehörigen schwer begreifbar. Professionell Pflegende empfinden die Betreuung von trau-erden Angehörigen im Organspendeprozess als besonders wichtig und erleben in ihren Aufga-ben ebenfalls eine Ambivalenz in ihrer Rolle und in ihren Kompetenzen. Im gesamten Organspendeprozess haben professionell Pflegende eine besondere Beziehung zu Patientinnen und Patienten und den Angehörigen, potentiellen Organspenderinnen und Organspendern. Sie werden zu Verbündeten, Ratgeberinnen/Ratgebern und nehmen eine Schlüsselstelle ein, durch die Hilfe, Trost und Unterstützung erfahren wird.Background: Transplant surgery is an invention of the 20 th century that changes life in its quality and saves it respectively. Organs of Brain-dead are explanted and implanted into bodies of organ recipients. If organs are going to be transplanted after brain-death is decided during lifetime in Austria by refusal registration in a national system. If this hasen`t been decided during lifetime, relatives are consulted. For relatives this scenario including the intensive ward itself, the contact to their brain-dead relative is emotionally very challenging. Stuff is necessary for coping this stressing situation, but on the other hand they also have to nurse the brain-dead patient. Caring for the grieving relatives and nursing the potential organ donor is a specially challenging situation. The interpersonal aspects of J.T show how important the relation between patients and their family are and how this is archieved successfully
Aim: We aimed to investigate the emotion and field of tension between patients, relatives and stuff within the process of organtransplantation.
Results: The organtranplant scandal in 2014 in Germany influenced the trust into transplant surgery and public opinion in Austria negatively.The visit of intensive care units is reported to feel stressful and emotionally challenging for family members of brain-dead patients. For relatives feelings like hope and trepidation are commen, and interpreted as exceptional situation. The ambivalence in which brain-death occurs makes is hard to understand for relatives. Also for the members of stuff caring for relatives and nursing the brain-dead patient is an overwhelming situation also undergoing ambivalence regarding. In the whole process of organ transplantation stuff develops an unique relation to their brain-dead patients and their family members and in-teract as adviser and comforter in this extraordinary situation
Advances in Model-Based Design of Flexible and Prompt Energy Systems -- The CO2 Capture Plant at the Buggenum IGCC Power Station as a Test Case
No full textPre-combustion CO2 capture applied to integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plants is a promising technical solution to reduce CO2 emissions due to fossil-fuelled electricity generation in order to meet environmental targets in a carbon-constrained future. The pre-combustion capture process allows to effectively remove CO2 from synthetic gas prior its combustion at high partial pressures. In addition, the net energy efficiency of decarbonised IGCC plants is estimated to be higher than that of conventional pulverized coal steam power plants integrating carbon capture. However, the removal of CO2 leads to a high efficiency penalty for the thermal power plant and an increase in system complexity. Moreover, the integration of carbon capture into the very complex gasification process and combined cycle power plant leads to technical problems as far as dynamic operation is concerned. Transient performance of future IGCC power plants becomes extremely relevant in order to balance the rapidly growing share of electricity converted from inherently intermittent renewable sources, such as wind and solar energy. The work documented in this thesis was part of a larger research project involving the utility company Vattenfall, the Energy research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) and the Delft University of Technology aimed at the development of pre-combustion CO2 capture technology to be applied in a future commercial-scale IGCC power plant. A unique, fully instrumented CO2 capture pilot plant was realized at the Buggenum IGCC power station in the Netherlands in order to demonstrate the technology, to investigate its performance and to generate data for model validation. The most relevant research objectives of this thesis are to improve and develop general tools and methodologies which i) facilitate detailed steady-state performance analysis and sophisticated optimization of process design and operating conditions and ii) enable studies on process dynamics already during the early design phase in order to support the choice of equipment and control strategies aiming at the improvement of transient performance. The tools and methods are developed for the case-specific analysis of the pre-combustion CO2 capture plant at the Buggenum IGCC power station. With respect to generalization, it is worth to highlight that the adopted system engineering techniques and tools are applicable to the design of a larger class of chemical and energy conversion systems with minor changes.Aerodynamics, Wind Energy, Flight Performance and PropulsionAerospace Engineerin
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