TY - CHAP A1 - Menne, Jannis A1 - Becker, Rolf A1 - Sonntag, Jan A1 - Waldmann, Anja A1 - Kreter, Ana C. A1 - Wiedemann, Steffi T1 - AI-Driven Approaches for Animal Welfare Monitoring in Agroforestry Systems N2 - Climate change and shifting agricultural practices require innovative methods to monitor and improve animal welfare for pasture-based and other outdoor livestock. Agroforestry systems, integrating livestock with trees, shrubs and other woody vegetation, might provide shade, shelter, diversified feed and improved microclimates but require advanced monitoring to assess their impact on animal well-being. As part of the Agroforestry Living Laboratory at Rhine-Waal University, we are developing AI-driven, sensor-based solutions to monitor livestock welfare, focusing on small ruminants as well as poultry. To achieve this, we are evaluating AI-based monitoring methods to improve our understanding of animal welfare, while evaluating the role of different data sources. Sensors on animals collect data on movement patterns, and shade use, potentially providing insights into behavioral adaptations and stress responses. Stationary non-invasive camera systems are tested using computer vision and AI to assess posture, interactions, and activity on individual and group levels. Additionally, microclimate sensors might measure environmental conditions such as temperature, humidity, and radiation to evaluate their effects on animal behavior. As agroforestry systems are often in remote areas without external power, we also analyze the potential of self-sustaining sensor networks powered by solar energy and edge computing. These systems minimize energy consumption through deep-sleep modes and decentralized data processing, ensuring continuous monitoring without constant human intervention. By integrating AI-driven pattern recognition with agroforestry systems, we aim to establish an autonomous, energy-efficient monitoring network for further insights into animal welfare, behavioral changes, and environmental adaptation. Though still in development, early findings suggest these methods might enhance data-driven decision-making for sustainable pasture management, benefiting both animal welfare and agroforestry system resilience. KW - animal welfare monitoring KW - agroforestry systems KW - Sensor-based monitoring KW - pasture based livestock systems Y1 - 2025 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:1383-opus4-23348 SP - 44 PB - European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP) CY - Zuerich ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Weinbach, Heike A1 - Al Cabir, Yasmin A1 - Zander, Margherita A1 - Swiderek, Thomas A1 - Stroop, Nicola A1 - Nürenberg, Denise A1 - Knippert, Max ED - Weinbach, Heike ED - Al Cabir, Yasmin T1 - Veränderung ist möglich - Kinderarmut in Deutschland und im Kreis Kleve N2 - Die Publikation zum Thema Kinderarmut ist eine Dokumentation einer Vortragsreihe im Rahmen der Mittwochsakademie der Fakultät Gesellschaft & Ökonomie der Hochschule Rhein-Waal. In den Beiträgen werden die Konstanz und die Regionalität von Kinderarmut thematisiert sowie Lösungsansätze dargestellt, die sowohl individuell als auch strukturell Sinn machen. Die Beiträge repräsentieren Perspektiven auf Kinderarmut aus Theorie und Praxis. Die Ziele dieser Publikation sind die Bereitstellung von Wissen und Anregungen für umsetzbare Handlungen. KW - Kinderarmut KW - Klassismus KW - Armut KW - Kinderrechte KW - Kindergrundsicherung; KW - Kleve Y1 - 2025 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:1383-opus4-22467 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - van Bruggen, Jannike A1 - Bockmühl, Dirk A1 - Bruckmann, Dirk A1 - Gebauer, Jens A1 - Reiser, Dirk A1 - Wichern, Florian A1 - Darr, Dietrich T1 - SUFACHAIN - Sustainable Agroforestry Value Chains in Central Asia N2 - The agricultural sector represents an important means of livelihood for the rural population in Central Asia, while the region's agricultural and forest landscapes are at risk of degradation due to population growth and economic development. The SUFACHAIN project aims to analyse agroforestry systems and integrate them into local land use systems, while developing products and technologies that contribute to the sustainable use of resources and create local value. In close collaboration with local partners, the project will (1) analyse and design sustainable agroforestry systems, (2) improve quality in the foods made from agroforestry products, (3) develop efficient technologies for the re-use of waste materials from the processing chain, (4) improve transparency along the supply chain, (5) increase local value by valorising selected ecosystem services and (6) develop attractive market niches for agroforestry products. T3 - Beiträge des Forschungs- und Transfertags der Hochschule-Rhein Waal - 03 Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:1383-opus4-17660 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Watson, Conor A1 - Rummel, Pauline A1 - Beule, Lukas A1 - Schlösser, Charlotte A1 - Hemkemeyer, Michael A1 - Schwalb, Sanja A1 - Preißing, Timo A1 - Vögerl, Jakob A1 - Wichern, Florian T1 - Excellent excrement? The potential benefits and drawbacks of soil amendment with frass N2 - Insect rearing is a rapidly growing sector in Europe, with larval protein production projected to exceed 1 Mt in 2025. The by-product frass is a mix of larval faeces, exoskeletons and undigested substrate. Given its potential as a soil improver, frass could make insect production a “zero waste” industry. However, its positive reputation has not been thoroughly scrutinized with regard to environmental impacts. We therefore conducted experiments to investigate the effects of frass application on the soil microbial community, release of greenhouse gases and heavy metal availability. The main conclusions were: 1) Frass is nutritious and can benefit the soil microbial biomass, but rapid loss of C and N reduces its fertiliser and organic amendment potential 2) Co-application of frass with urease inhibitors could allow it to be utilised as a slow-release N fertiliser 3) Concurrent soil amendment of frass with nitrification inhibitors prevents soil nitrite accumulation 4) All frass types tested are suitable as ameliorative amendments to heavy-metal contaminated soils T3 - Beiträge des Forschungs- und Transfertags der Hochschule-Rhein Waal - 05 Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:1383-opus4-17689 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hansen, Ute A1 - Huth, Miriam A1 - Platte, Frank A1 - Stawicki, Piotr A1 - Struck, Alexander A1 - Tewes, Thomas A1 - Wenda, André T1 - Entwicklung innovativer Verfahren zur mikrobiologischen Qualitätsüberwachung in Echtzeit N2 - Entwicklung biophysikalischer Verfahren zur schnellen Identifikation mikrobieller Kontaminationen in Gewässern – Vorstellung des InnoMiBiQ-Projektes Ute Hansen1, Miriam Huth2, Frank Platte2, Piotr Stawicki3, Alexander Struck3, Thomas J. Tewes2, André Wenda1 1 Fakultät Kommunikation und Umwelt, Hochschule Rhein-Waal, Friedrich-Heinrich-Allee 25, 47475 Kamp-Lintfort 2 Fakultät Life Sciences, Hochschule Rhein-Waal, Marie-Curie-Straße 1, 47533 Kleve 3 Fakultät Technologie und Bionik, Hochschule Rhein-Waal, Marie-Curie-Straße 1, 47533 Kleve Daten zur mikrobiellen Wasserbelastung liegen bei Anwendung etablierter Standardmethoden erst nach Tagen vor. Ziel des InnoMiBiQ Projektes ist die Entwicklung eines schnellen biophysikalischen Verfahrens zur Identifikation mikrobieller Kontaminationen in Gewässern. Gefördert wird das Projekt mit zweijähriger Laufzeit im Rahmen des Focus Forschung HAW Programms des Ministeriums für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen. Die Förderlinie FF HAW-Kooperation zielt auf eine verbesserte HS-interne interdisziplinäre Kooperation und den Auf- und Ausbau eines attraktiven Forschungsschwerpunkts. Ausgangspunkt der Arbeiten war das in der Arbeitsgruppe von F. Platte und in Kooperation mit der AG Hygiene (Prof. Bockmühl) von T. Tewes entwickelte Verfahren zur Identifizierung von Mikroorganismen mit Hilfe der Raman-Spektroskopie. Experimentelle Arbeiten wurden zu der Frage durchgeführt, ob die Methodik für die Identifizierung einzelner Bakterien in Gewässerproben anwendbar ist und welche Probenvorbehandlungs- und Datenverarbeitungsprozeduren unter Berücksichtigung der Automatisierbarkeit erforderlich sind. Die Ergebnisse bzgl. der Raman-spektroskopischen Identifizierung der Bakterienzellen waren vielversprechend. Problematisch ist allerdings, dass es gilt, wenige bakterielle Zellen zwischen einer sehr großen Zahl anderer Partikel zu identifizieren. Ideen für ein Raman-basiertes schnelles Partikel-Scan-Verfahren wurden entwickelt. Untersucht wurde auch, ob neben Mikroorganismen weitere Wasserkontaminationen mit Hilfe der Raman-Spektroskopie nachweisbar sind. Hier standen Verunreinigungen durch Mikroplastik (speziell Reifenabrieb), Ölfilme, Sulfat und Nitrat im Mittelpunkt. Im Rahmen zahlreicher „networking“-Aktivitäten wurden Kontakte zu Herstellern von Partikelmess-Systemen aufgebaut und Kooperationen mit Anbietern von Raman-Spektrometern initiiert mit dem Ziel, über F&E Projekte die Entwicklung eines kontinuierlich arbeitenden des Raman-Systems voranzubringen. Projektskizzen wurden entwickelt und Anträge auf Forschungsförderung eingereicht. Dass schnelle, kontinuierlich arbeitende biophysikalische Verfahren zur Identifikation von Gewässer-Kontaminationen erforderlich sind, wurde von potentiellen Anwendern bestätigt. Nur eine zeitlich hoch aufgelöste Überwachung der Wasserqualität kann Katastrophen wie das Fischsterben in der Oder verhindern. T3 - Beiträge des Forschungs- und Transfertags der Hochschule-Rhein Waal - 06 Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:1383-opus4-17674 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Meinen, Vanessa T1 - Steering sustainable events performance: Towards a more balanced assessment of sustainable associations events N2 - Research scope Perpetual economic growth tests the limits of what earth can provide, but it also spurs new awareness for sustainable thinking and action. Duties such as corporate social responsibility reporting as well as shifting customer demands are placing increased pressure on the association events industry to acknowledge the importance of sustainability and implement sustainable event management strategies. Association events tend to have an economic, social and environmental impact on the places in which they occur. These impacts can be both positive and negative. They can also have substantial leveraging and multiplier effects, can be used to elevate awareness of sustainability even further and, most importantly, help transform this awareness into action, for example by influencing stakeholders’ behaviour and minimising behavioural gaps. The events and meetings industry has traditionally relied on economic performance measures, eschewing social and environmental costs and benefits. However, recent studies have underlined the necessity for a more holistic approach. This approach is fleshed out in the present research. It aims to offer stakeholders, decision-makers, event managers, associations and congress organisers a strategical instrument with which to identify the economic, social and environmental impacts of a planned event in order to utilise them in a targeted, sustainable fashion within the respective field of operation. The strategic measures for optimising event impacts were derived from the results of the empirical study. Moreover, these measures will serve to anchor the sustainable association event strategy within business operations as well as internal and external communications. Gifford’s Dragons of Inaction can be applied to determine possible barriers and, finally, to strive to minimise the gap between sustainability consciousness and sustainable behaviour. To this end, the effectiveness of cooperating attitudes, behaviour-oriented forms of intervention such as intentions or incentives for actions, and perceived consequences can be assessed and evaluated in terms of their essential dimensions. Methodology A number of research steps have been undertaken within this model, beginning with a literature review. This laid the foundation for subsequent empirical studies conducted as semi-structured expert interviews, followed by an online Delphi forecast as well as a survey among participants of an association event of the German Scouts (DPSG). Findings As shown in the primary research in both studies, social and economic measures are regarded as most important, environmental measures are most often adopted instead. Not all dimensions are considered to be part of sustainability. Social and economic aspects are considered necessary for an association’s success and are considered important strategic instruments connected mainly to positive implications on a psychological level such as image, trust and satisfaction. As it is seen as a competitive advantage and the terminology is unclear to many in the event industry, communication efforts must be targeted in order to facilitate implementation and, later, allow for the possibility of measuring sustainable event management. Holistic aspects should be made clear in order to support initiatives and ideally reduce the behavioural gap between sustainability awareness and actual behaviour. Associations like the German scouts are risk-averse by nature. They function as custodians of a sector or profession and their standards demand continuity as well as consistency. Innovation, however, is associated with risk, experimentation and (superfluous) change. Both primary and secondary research efforts have shown that barriers to innovation include a lack of time, resources (money or staff in particular), or simply innovation know-how. Therefore, implementing change or, in this case, more sustainable measures in event planning, requires an individual, tailor-made approach which is pro-active and problem-solving in order to promote broader implementation of the already developed Green Events Guidelines throughout the whole association. The findings of this mixed-method approach were used to develop a model to integrate, assess and steer event management sustainability from the perspective of event planners and associations, and propose a new concept for converting theory into applied practice for the industry. Bibliography Getz, D. (2019), Event Impact Assessment. Theory and methods for event management and tourism, Oxford: Goodfellow Publishers Gifford, R. (2011a): The Dragons of Inaction. Psychological Barriers That Limit Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, American Pschologist, Vol. 66, No 4, S. 290-302 Große Ophoff, M. (2012): Green Meetings und Events: Nachhaltiges Tagen in Deutschland, in: Schreiber, M.-T. (eds.): Kongresse, Tagungen und Events. Potenziale, Strategie und Trends der Veranstaltungswirtschaft, München: Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag. Oblasser, C. and Riediger M. (2015) Nachhaltiges Veranstaltungsmanagement mit Strategie, Berlin: Verlag Wissenschaft and Praxis. Raj, R. and Musgrave, J. (2009): Event Management and Sustainability, Oxford: Cabi International. T3 - Beiträge des Forschungs- und Transfertags der Hochschule-Rhein Waal - 01 KW - Nachhaltigkeit Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:1383-opus4-17658 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Lamik, Jonas T1 - Publikationsfonds der Hochschule Rhein-Waal. Rahmendaten und Förderkriterien N2 - Die Bibliothek der Hochschule Rhein-Waal unterstützt bereits seit mehreren Jahren Open-Access-Veröffentlichungen, um digitale wissenschaftliche Information ohne finanzielle, gesetzliche oder technische Einschränkungen zugänglich zu machen. Um das Publikationsaufkommen qualitativ und quantitativ weiterzuentwickeln, steht ab dem Haushaltsjahr 2023 an der Hochschule Rhein-Waal erstmals ein Fonds für Ausgaben im Zusammenhang mit Open-Access-Publikationen bereit. Der Publikationsfonds umfasst 100.000 € und steht, verwaltet von der Bibliothek, ab sofort zur Verfügung. Das Poster stellt vor, welche Publikationstypen gefördert werden können, welche Kriterien für eine Förderfähigkeit erfüllt sein müssen und welche weiteren Publikationsdienstleistungen die Bibliothek anbietet. Darüber hinaus wird ein kurzes Schlaglicht auf die weitere Entwicklung des Publikationsfonds und der Publikationsförderung geworfen. T3 - Beiträge des Forschungs- und Transfertags der Hochschule-Rhein Waal - 04 Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:1383-opus4-17613 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Merbecks, Ute T1 - Corporate Digital Responsibility in Germany N2 - Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR) is a recently developing new management concept in response to the increasing challenges caused by digital transformation. In Germany, this self-governance approach influenced the political discussions and led to a more integrative and collaborative multi-policy strategy beyond pure regulatory regimes. The launch of the German CDR-code by the German action group in June 2021 is a milestone to capture ethical problems in digitalised firms by voluntary commitments from signatories. However, little empirical evidence on the current state of CDR-initiatives at German corporations is available up-to now. This project addresses the identified research gap by performing a qualitative analysis of the disclosed information on CDR in nonfinancial reports of the DAX 30 companies from 2020. T3 - Beiträge des Forschungs- und Transfertags der Hochschule-Rhein Waal - 02 KW - Corporate Digital Responsibility KW - Digitalisation KW - Sustainability Reporting KW - Corporate Responsibility KW - Business Ethics Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:1383-opus4-17637 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Dixon, Liza A1 - Megill, William M. A1 - Nebe, Karsten T1 - Trust in Automation: An On-Road Study of Trust in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems N2 - Appropriate user trust is critical in ensuring the acceptance and safe use of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). Despite the prevalence of ADAS on-road today, there is a limited understanding of how trust is affected by a user’s first contact with the system on-road. Ten participants without prior experience were introduced to a level 2 system and completed an on-road test drive session. Utilizing a mixed- methods approach including the Trust in Automation (TiA) questionnaire, verbal trust scores, and Facial Emotion Recognition (FER), trust in the system was measured at key milestones. TiA scores increased in a majority of participants, and a significant shift in the factor Reliability/Competence (p<0.05) was observed post-drive. According to FER scores, participants with a gain in TiA post-drive and those with a loss in TiA post-drive, more frequently displayed the emotions happy and angry, respectively. Results indicate that trust increases after a user’s first experience with ADAS and further that FER may be predictive of user trust in automation. KW - Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) KW - Trust KW - Human-Machine interaction KW - Human-Automation interaction KW - Autonomous vehicles Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:1383-opus4-4017 PB - IARIA - International Conference on Advances in Vehicular Systems, Technologies and Applications CY - Wilmington, DE, USA ER -