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Changing environmental context during encoding can influence episodic memory. This study examined the memorial consequences of environmental context change in children. Kindergartners, first and fourth graders, and young adults studied two lists of items, either in the same room (no context change) or in two different rooms (context change), and subsequently were tested on the two lists in the room in which the second list was encoded. As expected, in adults, the context change impaired recall of the first list and improved recall of the second. Whereas fourth graders showed the same pattern of results as adults, in both kindergartners and first graders no memorial effects of the context change arose. The results indicate that the two effects of environmental context change develop contemporaneously over middle childhood and reach maturity at the end of the elementary school days. The findings are discussed in light of both retrieval-based and encoding-based accounts of context-dependent memory.
Der Beitrag stellt das laufende Forschungsprojekt „Sexuelle Gewalt gegen Mädchen und Jungen in Institutionen“ des Deutschen Jugendinstituts vor. Inhalt ist eine quantitative retrospektive Befragung zum Vorkommen, Ausmaß und zum Umgang mit sexueller Gewalt in Schulen, Internaten sowie stationären Einrichtungen der Hilfen zur Erziehung. Anhand von Fokusgruppen soll die Perspektive der Fachkräfte und Beratungsstellen einbezogen werden.
Electronic spectroscopy of molecules profits greatly from superfluid helium droplets serving as a gentle cryogenic matrix. Characteristic features of electronic spectra in helium droplets are a solvent shift, phonon wings, and in rare cases a splitting of zero phonon lines. For the majority of molecules investigated so far in helium droplets the vibrational fine structure in electronic spectra resembles what was observed in a supersonic jet. The electronic spectra of three methylated anthracene derivatives and one phenylated anthracene discussed in this paper reveal remarkable effects in the vibrational fine structure due to solvation in helium droplets.
For all four compounds the vibrational frequencies were almost not affected by the helium environment. However, if the electronic excitation is accompanied by nuclear rearrangement, the spectra showed remarkable line broadening in helium droplets. This is the case for 2-methylanthracene and 9-phenylanthracene. The corresponding line shape was of Lorentzian type and, thus, attributed to damping of the excited system by the helium environment. According to the linewidth the damping time constant was determined to be about 0.3 ps in the case of 2-methylanthracene and 0.1 ps for 9-phenylanthracene.
The number of embedded systems in our daily lives that are distributed, hidden, and ubiquitous continues to increase. Many of them are safety-critical. To provide additional or better functionalities, they are becoming more and more complex, which makes it difficult to guarantee safety. It is undisputed that safety must be considered before the start of development, continue until decommissioning, and is particularly important during the design of the system and software architecture. An architecture must be able to avoid, detect, or mitigate all dangerous failures to a sufficient degree. For this purpose, the architectural design must be guided and verified by safety analyses. However, state-of-the-art component-oriented or model-based architectural design approaches use different levels of abstraction to handle complexity. So, safety analyses must also be applied on different levels of abstraction, and it must be checked and guaranteed that they are consistent with each other, which is not supported by standard safety analyses. In this paper, we present a consistency check for CFTs that automatically detects commonalities and inconsistencies between fault trees of different levels of abstraction. This facilitates the application of safety analyses in top-down architectural designs and reduces effort.
Efficient safety analyses of complex software intensive embedded systems are still a challenging task. This article illustrates how model-driven development principles can be used in safety engineering to reduce cost and effort. To this end, the article shows how well accepted safety engineering approaches can be shifted to the level of model-driven development by integrating safety models into functional development models. Namely, we illustrate how UML profiles, model transformations, and techniques for multi language development can be used to seamlessly integrate component fault trees into the UML.
International Aspects of Social Marketing / Higher Education and Graduate Programs in Germany.
(2010)
The work reported in this thesis addresses the problem of structure-borne sound transmission in buildings. Vibrating sources, such as services plant and domestic appliances, transmit vibro-acoustic power, causing noise complaints by occupants in rooms removed from the source room. There is not yet an accepted practical method of predicting the installed power into floors or supporting walls, and thence the resultant sound pressure in rooms.
This study concentrates on the prediction of the installed power from mechanical installations in lightweight buildings composed of framed and ribbed plates. To identify the characteristics of such receiver elements, a field survey has been undertaken, which involved measurement of the point and transfer mobilities of common wall and floor structures. It is shown that the range of measured values of receiver point mobility is surprisingly small and that the constructions investigated often displayed thin plate-like characteristics, with relatively small spatial variations in point mobility. These field measurements give support to the notion of averaging over contacts.
This single equivalent receiver mobility has been assembled both from measured data and from the approximate method and then used in combination with single equivalent source data, to yield an approximate prediction of the installed power. The agreement obtained between the exact and approximate values allowed consideration of a practical implementation of the approximate prediction method, based on a reception plate method which yields the activity and mobility of the tested machine as single equivalent values.
Physical determinants of phytoplankton production, algal stoichiometry, and vertical nutrient fluxes
(2010)
Most phytoplankters face opposing vertical gradients in light versus nutrient supplies but have limited capacities for vertical habitat choice. We therefore explored a dynamical model of negatively buoyant algae inhabiting a one-dimensional water column to ask how water column depth and turbulence constrain total (areal) phytoplankton biomass. We show that the population persistence boundaries in water column depth-turbulence space are set by sinking losses and light limitation but that nutrients are most limiting to total biomass in water columns that are neither too shallow or too weakly mixed (where sinking losses prevail) nor too deep and turbulent (where light limitation prevails). In shallow waters, the most strongly limiting process is nutrient influx to the bottom of the water column (e.g., from sediments). In deep waters, the most strongly limiting process is turbulent upward transport of nutrients to the photic zone. Consequently, the highest total biomasses are attained in turbulent waters at intermediate water column depths and in deep waters at intermediate turbulences. These patterns are insensitive to the assumption of fixed versus flexible algal carbon-to-nutrient stoichiometry, and they arise irrespective of whether the water column is a surface layer above a deep water compartment or has direct contact with sediments.
Die Forschung und Entwicklung im Bereich der Bauakustik erfolgt bislang schwerpunktmäßig durch aufwändige messtechnische Parameterstudien. Eine wesentliche Reduzierung dieses Aufwands kann dadurch erreicht werden, dass die Bauteil-Parameterstudien nicht mehr ausschließlich durch Messungen erfolgen, sondern auch anhand von geeigneten Berechnungsmodellen durchgeführt werden. Dazu wurde ein umfassendes Berechnungsmodell erarbeitet und anhand von Messergebnissen validiert. Wesentliche Grundlage für die volumenorientierte akustische Simulation ist dabei die p-Version der Methode der Finiten Elemente. Auf Basis der numerischen Berechnungen wurden die Wechselwirkungen der Deckenkomponenten untersucht und optimierte Konstruktionen erarbeitet. Nach deren messtechnischen Überprüfung konnten die Ergebnisse in Form von Konstruktionshilfen für optimierte Aufbauten zusammengestellt werden.
In der Baupraxis wird von Bauexper-
ten immer wieder ein Einfluss auf die
Schalldämmung durch unterschiedli-
che Dachdeckungen wahrgenommen.
Vergleichende Messungen an ver-
schiedenen Dachaufbauten mit un-
terschiedlichen Dachdeckungen erga-
ben bereits in der Vergangenheit bei
unabhängigen Untersuchungen gerin-
gere Schalldämm-Maße bei Dach-
deckungen aus Dachziegeln gegen -
über Dachdeckungen aus Dachsteinen
[1], [2]. Dies führte zu re duzierten
Schall dämmwerten bei Eindeckungen
aus Dachziegeln [3], [4]. Die Ursa-
chen für die Unterschiede in der
Schalldämmung waren bislang nicht
ausreichend geklärt, da der Einfluss
der höheren Masse bei den Dachstei-
nen allein nicht plausibel erschien.
Zur Klärung der Zusammenhänge
wurden im ift Schallschutzzentrum,
Rosenheim in Zusammenarbeit mit
den Firmen Monier Braas und Gutex
weiterführende Messungen durchge-
führt, deren Ergebnisse nachfolgend
vorgestellt werden. Zunächst werden
vergleichende Messungen von Dach-
aufbauten mit unterschiedlichen
Dachdeckungen dargestellt und dann
Ergebnisse von Kleinversuchen nur
mit Dachdeckungen ohne Dachauf-
bau und Dämmung vorgestellt, bei de-
nen auch der Zusammenhang zwi-
schen Fugendurchlässigkeit und
Schalldämmung der Dachpfannen
untersucht wurde [5].
Up to now the research and development in the field of building acoustics is based mainly on measurements. In consequence the development and optimization of a new building component is a very tedious and expensive task. A considerable reduction of these costs could be achieved, if the optimization relying on measurements would be replaced – at least to some extent – by a computational prediction model. For these models it is necessary to represent not only the component and the adjacent rooms but also the excitation in a suitable way. This paper gives an overview of models for the excitation generated by a standard tapping machine taking into account the interaction between the impacting steel cylinders of the tapping machine and the vibrating surface of the floor.
Online Identification of Learner Problem Solving Strategies Using Pattern Recognition Methods
(2010)
Learning and programming environments used in computer science education give feedback to the users by system messages. These are triggered by programming errors and give only "technical" hints without regard to the learners' problem solving process. To adapt the messages not only to the factual but also to the procedural knowledge of the learners, their problem solving strategies have to be identified automatically and in process. This article describes a way to achieve this with the help of pattern recognition methods. Using data from a study with 65 learners aged 12 to 13 using a learning environment for programming, a classification system based on hidden Markov models is trained and integrated in the very same environment. We discuss findings in that data and the performance of the automatic online identification, and present first results using the developed software in class.
Reverberation effects as observed by room microphones severely degrade the performance of automatic speech recognition systems. We investigate the use of dereverberation by spectral subtraction as proposed by Lebart and Boucher and introduce a simple approach to estimate the required decay parameter by clapping hands. Experiments on small vocabulary continuous speech recognition task on read speech show that using the calibrated dereverberation improves WER from 73.2 to 54.7 for the best microphone. In combination with system adaptation, the WER could be reduced to 28.2, which is only a 16% relative loss of performance comparison to using a headset instead of a room microphone.
The aim of this secondary analysis is to explicate taken-for-granted practices in the health care system in which the life stories of six women with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are embedded. A secondary analysis of life stories of six women with RA, which were assigned to a typology named "rheumatoid arthritis as a source for new challenges" (STAMM et al., 2008) in the primary narrative study, was conducted. The theoretical framework applied for the analysis was informed by feminist standpoint theory and feminist philosophy. In the present analysis, each of the women challenged established health care practices and the cognitive authority of medicine at a certain point in their life story reflections. Becoming more conscious about health care practices enabled the women to acknowledge their own knowledge and to make choices about their health. The findings challenge health care providers to engage in critical reflexivity to become conscious about and to transform taken-for-granted practices as embedded in larger systems and to create health care environments that enable dialogue between clients and health care providers.
Purpose: This study aimed to gain knowledge about environmental factors (EFs) that impact work and social life participation of people with multiple sclerosis (MS) in Austria and Switzerland to extend the knowledge of participation and to identify key areas for measuring participation.
Method: A three-round Delphi study was conducted defining patients as experts. In the 1st round, qualitative data was gathered through questionnaires, analyzed with content analysis, and factors were assigned to EFs as classified in the ICF. In the 2nd and 3rd round, experts judged EFs according to its relevance to obtain consensus (cut-off 75%). Categories were ranked on a scale from mostly important to important.
Results: One hundred and twelve Austrian and 109 Swiss experts were recruited. The content analysis revealed 768 EFs. The study resulted in a list of 176 consensus factors for Austria and 177 Switzerland. Five categories revealed to be highly important, 12 moderately important, 6 fairly important, and 10 important.
Conclusions: This study indicates that participation in work or social life is influenced by physical, social, attitudinal, and policy factors. Consensus factors afford insights into areas for consideration in the development of participation outcome measurements and support a comprehensive and inclusive rehabilitation approach.
Holzbalkendecken sind bekannt für deren hohe Trittschallpegel im tieffrequenten Bereich, insbesondere unter 100 Hz. Auf den Frequenzbereich ab 50 Hz erweitere SpektrumAnpassungswerte (CI,50-2500) erreichen mitunter Werte bis 20 dB und belegen die schlechte Trittschalldämmung bei tiefen Frequenzen.
Konstruktive Maßnahmen zur Verbesserung sind schwierig und meist mit einer deutlichen Erhöhung der flächenbezogenen Masse verbunden. Als alternative Maßnahme könnten auf den Frequenzbereich zwischen 50 Hz und 100 Hz abgestimmte Helmholtzresonatoren dienen, welche als konstruktive Komponente des Deckenaufbaus den tieffrequenten Trittschall absorbieren. Im Rahmen dieser Forschungsarbeit wurden derartige Resonatoren entwickelt und auf deren verbessernde Wirkung hinsichtlich Trittschalldämmung untersucht.
In einem ersten Arbeitsschritt wurden die Helmholtzresonatoren auf deren vibroakustische Eigenschaften vermessen. Die Helmholtzresonatoren waren ausgebildet als quaderförmige Kästen aus Gipskartonplatten mit einer i.d.R. schlitzförmigen Öffnung (Resonatorhals). Es zeigte sich, dass die aus der Literatur gängigen Dimensionierungsregeln anwendbar sind, jedoch aus material- und fertigungstechnischen Gründen als auch aus anwendungsspezifischen Randbedingungen wie Einbaulage, Einbaugröße, etc. für diesen Anwendungszweck modifiziert werden müssen. Im Einzelnen wurde der Einfluss der Dichtigkeit und der Lagerung des Resonatorkastens, der Bedämpfung des Resonatorhohlraums, der Bedämpfung sowie der Geometrie und der Positionierung des Resonatorhalses untersucht. Die schallabsorbierende Wirkung konnte durch unterschiedliche Versuche zur Messung der Absorptionseigenschaften sowohl im freien Schallfeld als auch in einer Druckkammer als Modell eines Deckenhohlraums nachgewiesen werden.
In einem zweiten Arbeitsschritt wurde die schallabsorbierende Wirkung der Helmholtzresonatoren auf eine Verbesserung der tieffrequenten Trittschalldämmung der gesamten Holzbalkendecke untersucht. Es zeigte sich, dass die Ankopplung des Helmholtzresonators an die Luft des Deckenhohlraums die deutlich besseren Ergebnisse zeigt. Hierzu wurden für viele Varianten von Helmholtzresonatoren hinsichtlich deren Einbaulage, Positionierung, Bedämpfung und Lage des Resonatorhalses, etc. Luft- und Trittschallmessungen gemäß der Normenreihe DIN EN ISO 140 durchgeführt als auch durch Geher erzeugter Trittschall gemessen. Sowohl in den Schalldämm-Maßen als auch in den Norm-Trittschallpegeln im tieffrequenten Bereich konnten deutlich Verbesserungen erzielt werden. Speziell im gewählten Frequenzbereich der Abstimmung der Resonatoren (50 – 100 Hz) zeigten sich Verbesserungen in den durch Geher erzeugten Trittschallpegeln von 5 bis 10 dB pro Terz.
Objective: Many studies published in the journal WORK in the recent decades have discussed work and employment trends. However, the dimensions of these contributions over time have not been reviewed. The main objective of this study was to investigate the knowledge development in regard to work-related rehabilitation in WORK over the last two decades.
Methods: A scoping review was conducted using the following five stages: (i) identifying research question, (ii) identifying relevant studies, (iii) study selection, (iv) charting, summarizing, and collating the data, and (v) reporting the results. Studies were selected from the WORK Article Database.
Results: Seventy-five relevant studies were identified. The findings reflect that WORK has published papers from across the world, with most of the studies from the United States, Sweden, Canada, and Hong Kong. The complexity and multi-factorial nature of work-related rehabilitation was reflected in the application of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed method research approaches, as well as case studies. Study participants were characterized by work, and non-work related injuries, systematic diseases/chronic illness, fulfilled certain socio-demographic characteristic, and represented various stakeholders. Fewer studies drew on secondary resources. In the findings one re-occurring theme has been noted: 'maintaining/obtaining/returning to secure and stable employment/work'.
Conclusions: Four key-reflections evolved from this scoping review that provide potential avenues for future research. These key-reflections include (i) the national, transnational and international dimension of the reviewed studies, (ii) the various societal levels informing work-related rehabilitation practices, (iii) the diversity of methodologies applied in current research, and (iv) the variability of terminology used within the reviewed studies. The journal WORK has published a variety of research over the last two decades and contributed significantly to our current understanding of work-related rehabilitation. However, further research in these reflective areas would expand the current knowledge base.
Objective: The aim of the present study was to explore how contextual factors affect the everyday activities of women and men with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), as evident in their life stories.
Methods: Fifteen people with RA, who had retired early due to the disease, were interviewed up to three times, according to a narrative biographic interview style. The life stories of the participants, which were reconstructed from the biographical data and from the transcribed ‘told story’ were analysed from the perspective of contextual factors, including personal and environmental factors. The rigour and accuracy of the analysis were enhanced by reflexivity and peer‐review of the results.
Results: The life stories of the participants in this study reflected how contextual factors (such as gender, the healthcare system, the support of families and social and cultural values) shaped their everyday activities. In a society such as in Austria, which is based on traditional patriarchal values, men were presented with difficulties in developing a non‐paid‐work‐related role. For women, if paid work had to be given up, they were more likely to engage in alternative challenging activities which enabled them to develop reflective skills, which in turn contributed to a positive and enriching perspective on their life stories. Health professionals may thus use some of the women's strategies to help men.
Conclusion: Interventions by health professionals in people with RA may benefit from an approach sensitive to personal and environmental factors.
Objectives: A historical review of the editorial board and the founding editor of WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment and Rehabilitation was conducted to examine the understanding of the editorship and contributions of this team to the knowledge in WORK.
Participants: The team of four authors worked together to identify an approach to evaluate the contributions and impact of WORK's editorial board (EB) on the journal's scholarship. The editor-in-chief (EIC) and editorial board members were participants in this evaluation.
Methods: Informative and formative evaluations were used to investigate how knowledge was shaped through the development of an epistemic community of scholars in the field of work. Metrics of the EB composition and participation in the journal as well as surveys and interviews with the board and the editor-in-chief were analyzed.
Results: The EB represents an international community of scholars with a common interest in work and who contribute academically both within WORK and beyond. The epistemic community that has evolved through the editorial board represents a pluralistic perspective on work that is needed to inform practice, and knowledge.
Conclusion: Future directions to continue to advance knowledge through WORK's editorial board and EIC are elaborated.
Sollen Klassenräume über Fenster belüftet werden, kann dies über Stoßlüftung oder genau dosierte Dauerlüftung erfolgen. Messungen verschiedener Institutionen zeigen, dass die erforderliche regelmäßige Stoßlüftung in Schulen nicht praktiziert wird.
Damit eine Dauerlüftung aber funktionieren kann, muss ermittelt werden, welcher Fenstertyp bei welcher Öffnungsweite bei behaglichen thermischen Verhältnissen im Raum den notwendigen Luftwechsel gewährleistet. Deshalb wurden an einem Freilandversuchsstand des Fraunhofer‐Instituts für Bauphysik Schwingflügel und Kippflügel auf ihre Eignung zur Dauerlüftung in Klassenräumen untersucht.
Da sich bei den vielen Einflussfaktoren auf die freie Lüftung die deskriptive Analyse oft als sehr schwierig erweist, wird ein besonderes statistisches Verfahren, ein Entscheidungsbaumverfahren verwendet, das sowohl hinsichtlich der Auswahl der Einflussgrößen und der Modellüberanpassung sehr günstige statistischmethodische Eigenschaften besitzt.
Mit diesem Verfahren können Einflussgrößen mit unterschiedlichen Skalenniveaus adäquat in die Auswertung einbezogen werden. Dabei erhält man ein intuitiv interpretierbares Regelwerk, welches dem Anwender einen erklärenden Einblick in die Zusammenhangsstruktur des untersuchten Prozesses liefert.
The CALO Meeting Assistant (MA) provides for distributed meeting capture, annotation, automatic transcription and semantic analysis of multiparty meetings, and is part of the larger CALO personal assistant system. This paper presents the CALO-MA architecture and its speech recognition and understanding components, which include real-time and offline speech transcription, dialog act segmentation and tagging, topic identification and segmentation, question-answer pair identification, action item recognition, decision extraction, and summarization.
Data fusion plays a central role in more and more automotive applications, especially for driver assistance systems. On the one hand the process of data fusion combines data and information to estimate or predict states of observed objects.
On the other hand data fusion introduces abstraction layers for data description and allows building more flexible and modular systems.The data fusion process can be divided into a low-level processing (tracking and object discrimination) and a high level processing (situation assessment).
High level processing becomes more and more the focus of current research as different assistance applications will be combined into one comprehensive assistance system.
Different levels/strategies for data fusion can be distinguished: Fusion on raw data level, fusion on feature level and fusion on decision level.
All fusion strategies can be found in current driver assistance implementations.
The paper gives an overview of the different fusion strategies and shows their application in current driver assistance systems. For low level processing a raw data fusion approach in a stereo video system is described, as an example for feature level fusion the fusion of radar and camera data for tracking is explained.
As an example for a high level fusion algorithm an approach for a situation assessment based on multiple sensors is given. The paper describes practical realizations of these examples and points out their potential to further increase traffic safety with reasonably low cost for the overall system.
Introduction: The aim of this review was to gain an understanding of the first 20 years of contributions to WORK within the assessment domain and to reflect on the perspectives underscoring this knowledge base.
Method: A narrative review of assessment articles using the WORK ARTicle database was conducted. Assessment articles were searched using issues from 1990 to 2009. Descriptive data was analyzed to examine historical trends of the specific types and dimensions of articles, the regional location of the contributions, and the methodological accordance. A reflective process was used by an editorial board member of WORK to inductively interpret perspectives and contextual issues that underpinned the evolution of the assessment domain in WORK.
Results: Over half of N= 108 of the articles on assessment in WORK focused on establishing or reporting reliability and validity of assessments used in clinical practice or evaluation research. The majority of the assessment articles were predominantly focused on the person. Contributions of articles were from 5 regions: North America, Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa.
Conclusions: Assessment articles in WORK have contributed to the development of evidence to support assessment of the worker. These articles represent a knowledge base that emphasizes evidence-based assessments to evaluate what a person can and cannot do to participate in work. Efforts are needed to expand knowledge generation in assessment to include more evaluations on the workplace and occupation dimensions, and that also considers the worker in context.
Betriebliche Prozesse
(2010)
This paper deals with the preparation of the Small GEO mission and the accommodation of a GPS receiver as an experiment. The expected benefits of using the GPS receiver for Small GEO are explained. The feasibility of using GPS for position determination is investigated by simulation using a MosaicGNSS receiver, which was stimulated by a Spirent RF signal generator. A procedure, how to evaluate flight data on ground is outlined. Success criteria of the experiment and the minimal size of the downlink stream required and reserved for the receiver TM are presented.