@techreport{BhaiyaJahrHappel2007, author = {Bhaiya, Madhur and Jahr, Andreas and Happel, Holger}, title = {Harvesting-Combine-Flow Simulation Technique}, address = {D{\"u}sseldorf}, organization = {Autorenkollektiv}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-4239}, year = {2007}, abstract = {CFX 11.0 is a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) program for simulating the behavior of systems involving fluid flow, heat transfer, and other related physical processes. It works by solving the equations of fluid flow (in a special form) over a region of interest, with specified (known) conditions on the boundary of that region. This tool is used here to analyse the straw cutter which is used to comminute the straw which is left standing in the field after stripper header has stripped the grains from the crops. Stripper Header is a new technique different to conventional harvester machines and it is still under development and testing. It works on the principle in which grains are first stripped off from the head of the standing crop which helps in much reduced intake freeing up the separation systems to handle a larger volume of grains. But with this, the new problem of the disposal of the long, uncut straw left after stripping of grains arose. So a straw cutter is used after the stripper header stage in this Combine Harvester, where the rotor is equipped with pressed steel blades and rotates towards the crop, i.e., it cuts and lifts the straw over the top. This technique is environment friendly because previously farmers would have to burn the long, uncut straw standing in the fields while in this case mulched straw can be used for min-till systems. This rotor based straw cutting machine is analysed here which helps us in increasing power efficiency and comminution rate and quality of cut straw particles. Here fluid flow simulation has been preferred over particle simulation: - CFX 10.0 tool is not very effective for particle simulation techniques and computation time is increased considerably. - It's very hard to realize particle simulation in CFX 10.0 because we have to define size and properties of each particle and besides this wall conditions would have to be defined differently for every boundary. - Besides this, it's hard to realize cutting effect with straw particles in CFX 10.0 which otherwise would be comminuted in real life conditions. - The results obtained from fluid simulation are validated using experimental results and found to be nearly the same which clearly contradicts any need of performing particle simulation.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{Herder1997, author = {Herder, Jens}, title = {Cooperative Tools for Teaching : an Impact of a Network Environment}, series = {Annual Report of the Information Systems and Technology Center, University of Aizu, October 1997}, booktitle = {Annual Report of the Information Systems and Technology Center, University of Aizu, October 1997}, address = {Aizu}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-827}, pages = {3 -- 8}, year = {1997}, abstract = {Education at the University of Aizu is focussed upon computer science. Besides being the subject matter of many courses, however, the computer also plays a vital role in the educational process itself, both in the distribution of instructional media, and in providing students with valuable practical experience. All students have unlimited access (24-hours-a-day) to individual networked workstations, most of which are multimedia-capable (even video capture is possible in two exercise rooms). Without software and content tailored for computer-aided instruction, the hardware becomes an expensive decoration. In any case, there is a need to better educate the instructors and students in the use of the equipment. In the interest of facilitating effective, collaborative use of network-based computers in teaching, this article explores the impact that a network environment can have on such activities. First, as a general overview, and to examine the motivation for the use of a network environment in teaching, this article reviews a range of different styles of collaboration. Then the article shows what kind of tools are available for use, within the context of what has come to be called Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW).}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{Herder1998, author = {Herder, Jens}, title = {Sound Spatialization Framework: An Audio Toolkit for Virtual Environments}, series = {First International Conference on Human and Computer, Aizu-Wakamatsu, September 1998}, booktitle = {First International Conference on Human and Computer, Aizu-Wakamatsu, September 1998}, address = {Aizu}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-788}, pages = {6}, year = {1998}, abstract = {The Sound Spatialization Framework is a C++ toolkit and development environment for providing advanced sound spatialization for virtual reality and multimedia applications. The Sound Spatialization Framework provides many powerful display and user-interface features not found in other sound spatialization software packages. It provides facilities that go beyond simple sound source spatialization: visualization and editing of the soundscape, multiple sinks, clustering of sound sources, monitoring and controlling resource management, support for various spatialization backends, and classes for MIDI animation and handling.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{Herder1997, author = {Herder, Jens}, title = {Tools and widgets for spatial sound authoring}, series = {CompuGraphics ' 97, Sixth International Conference on Computational Graphics and Visualization Techniques: Graphics in the Internet Age, Vilamoura, Portugal}, booktitle = {CompuGraphics ' 97, Sixth International Conference on Computational Graphics and Visualization Techniques: Graphics in the Internet Age, Vilamoura, Portugal}, address = {Portugal}, isbn = {972-8342-02-0}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-896}, pages = {87 -- 95}, year = {1997}, abstract = {Broader use of virtual reality environments and sophisticated animations spawn a need for spatial sound. Until now, spatial sound design has been based very much on experience and trial and error. Most effects are hand-crafted, because good design tools for spatial sound do not exist. This paper discusses spatial sound authoring and its applications, including shared virtual reality environments based on VRML. New utilities introduced by this research are an inspector for sound sources, an interactive resource manager, and a visual soundscape manipulator. The tools are part of a sound spatialization framework and allow a designer/author of multimedia content to monitor and debug sound events. Resource constraints like limited sound spatialization channels can also be simulated.}, language = {en} } @techreport{Bleuel2009, author = {Bleuel, Hans-H.}, title = {The German banking system and the global financial crisis: causes, developments and policy responses}, number = {8}, editor = {Kalmring, Dirk}, address = {D{\"u}sseldorf}, organization = {Fachhochschule D{\"u}sseldorf}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-5116}, year = {2009}, abstract = {Germany's banking sector has been severely hit by the global financial crisis. In a German context as of February, 2009, this paper reviews briefly the structure of the banking industry, quantifies effects of the crisis on banks and surveys responses of economic policy. It is argued that policy design needs to enhance transparency and enforce the liability principle. In addition, economic policy should not eclipse principles of competition policy.}, language = {en} } @techreport{Thiel2009, author = {Thiel, Christoph}, title = {Constructing lattice bases by means of approximations}, address = {D{\"u}sseldorf}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-6128}, year = {2009}, abstract = {The construction of a basis of a certain lattice of interest is a basic tool in many fields of algorithmic number theory. All too often we can not compute with the original lattices because of irrational numbers involved but have to work with approximations of them. While helpful bounds were shown about the reduction of lattice bases in cite{buchmann94reducing}, here we introduce the notion of a \$(epsilon,delta)\$-constructable basis of a lattice and determine the precision of vectors that is necessary to extend a set to a \$(epsilon,delta)\$-constructable basis.}, language = {en} } @misc{Buckley1998, type = {Master Thesis}, author = {Buckley, Andrea}, title = {Medical social work in Ireland and Germany : a comparison of a personal social service in two different welfare states}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-3292}, school = {Fachhochschule D{\"u}sseldorf}, pages = {79}, year = {1998}, abstract = {Diese Masterarbeit wurde als Abschlußarbeit f{\"u}r den Studiengang Master of European Social Policy Analysis an der National University of Ireland Maynooth eingereicht . Der Titel lautet : Soziale Arbeit im Krankenhaus in Irland und Deutschland: ein Vergleich einer personenbezogenen sozialen Dienstleistung in zwei verschiedenen Wohlfahrtsstaaten. Sie beschreibt und analysiert den Kontext bzw. die Rahmenbedingungen, in dem Soziale Arbeit im Krankenhaus (Sozialdienst im Krankenhaus) stattfindet. Hier wird der Bezug zwischen gesellschaftlichem Kontext als Ganzem, dem Gesundheitssystem im allgemeinen (Makroebene) und den Rahmenbedingungen im Krankenhaus (Mesoebene) besonderes Augenmerk gewidmet. Die Idee dieser Arbeit ist, einen kurzen historischen {\"U}berblick {\"u}ber die Entwicklung der Krankenhaussozialarbeit (Mikroebene) in beiden L{\"a}ndern zu geben, sowie Hintergrundinformationen dar{\"u}ber, was Soziale Arbeit / Sozialdienst im Krankenhaus beinhaltet. Der untersuchte Zeitraum reicht von 1980 bis heute. Die Hauptuntersuchungsfragen lauten: Welche Interdependenzen gibt es zwischen Makro-, Meso- und Mikroebene? Haben Ver{\"a}nderungen im Gesundheitssystem bzw. der Gesundheitspolitik im Allgemeinen und hinsichtlich der Krankenh{\"a}user im Besonderen die Arbeit im Krankenhaussozialdienst beeinflusst und wenn ja, wie? Welche Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede gibt es in diesem Kontext in den beiden untersuchten L{\"a}ndern?}, language = {en} } @techreport{Vogel2017, author = {Vogel, Peter}, title = {Investing as Random Trial}, series = {Trading}, journal = {Trading}, number = {1}, publisher = {Hochschule D{\"u}sseldorf}, address = {D{\"u}sseldorf}, issn = {2567-2347}, doi = {10.20385/2567-2347/2017.1}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-11118}, pages = {39}, year = {2017}, abstract = {We introduce an investment algorithm for a market of individual securities. The investment algorithm is derived from constraints depending on investment parameters in order to limit the risk and to take into account an individual investor. One constraint is devoted to trading costs. Purchased securities are selected randomly among securities that meet the buy condition, making trading a random trial. Simulations with historical price data are demonstrated for a simple example: The buy condition is evaluated on the basis of the price relationship for two subsequent trading days and the sales condition is defined by holding securities only for one day. A trading expert evaluates the expected return for the investment algorithm with respect to the random selection. Thus, the expert informs precisely on how many market players perform using the same investment algorithm. Its findings are for a parametrized set of buy conditions simultaneously, which makes a trading expert a valuable tool for theorists as well as for practitioners. In our example, the trading expert demonstrated clearly a significant mean reversion effect for a horizon of one day.}, language = {en} } @techreport{AuthDierkesLeiberetal.2017, author = {Auth, Diana and Dierkes, Mirjam and Leiber, Simone and Leitner, Sigrid}, title = {Reconciling employment and elderly care within the "adult worker model": typical arrangements of caring sons}, address = {D{\"u}sseldorf}, issn = {2509-6958}, doi = {10.20385/2509-6958/2017.2}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-10459}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Reconciling work and family life is one of the main issues of welfare state policies in the fields of childcare and long-term care. On that account, policy and research are focused almost exclusively on women - often on the reconciliation of work and childbearing - and social policy at the state level. In our study, we concentrate on men who reconcile gainful employment with elderly care, and we include the company level - a level of analysis often neglected in traditional theoretical approaches and typologies of comparative welfare state research. In Germany, during the last decade, the share of sons who are responsible for taking care of their elderly relatives has remarkably increased. In our qualitative research, we carried out comparative case studies in eleven German companies. We conducted around 60 interviews with male employees caring for an elderly relative, as well as with members of the works councils and human resources departments in different kinds of companies. We analysed which familial, social, professional, legal as well as occupational resources are central for these men, how they cope with reconciling work and care, and which gaps in the welfare system they identify. Interestingly, the overwhelming majority of the caring sons claim not to have problems in reconciling work and care, although they spend significant time on caring. In this paper we try to explain this pattern by looking at their typical care arrangements. We found that while women tend to organise employment around care, men rather seem to organise care around their employment. Given the feminist critique of the "adult worker model" this is an interesting result and needs theoretical reflection. Do men have the solution to the care-blindness of the "adult worker model" without falling into the "cold modern model of care"? Which resources are mainly used in "adult worker care arrangements"? Where are the limits of the approach?}, language = {en} } @techreport{GreilSchwarzStein2018, author = {Greil, Stefan and Schwarz, Christian and Stein, Stefan}, title = {Perceived Fairness in the Taxation of a Digital Business Model}, editor = {Kalmring, Dirk}, address = {D{\"u}sseldorf}, issn = {2365-3361}, doi = {10.20385/2365-3361/2018.47}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-15759}, pages = {27}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The "fair" taxation of digital business models is challenging. One of the key aspects - both policy makers and the public opinion consider as most pressuring - is the determination of intragroup transfer prices for intangibles used in digital business models. In this paper, we address the issue of a "perceived fair" taxation of the digital economy in the light of the arm's length principle based on a survey with transfer pricing experts. The aim of the survey is not to estimate arm's length profit allocations but rather to elicit fairness considerations in different transfer pricing related scenarios. In a digital economy framework where arm's length profits are distributed extremely inequitably, subjects perceive this distribution of profits as most unfair compared to more balanced scenarios. Consequently, subjects propose a "fair" distribution of profits that substantially differs from the exogenously given arm's length allocation. In scenarios with a more balanced arm's length allocation of profits, we find that the perceived fairness for the expert groups increases while a control group of business students is almost not influenced by the arm's length allocation of profits.}, language = {en} }