@phdthesis{Kodes2023, author = {Kodes, Jan}, title = {Zum Verh{\"a}ltnis von E-Learning-Praktiken Studierender und den E-Learning-Angeboten wie -Potenzialen an Universit{\"a}ten: eine explorative empirische Studie}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-12704}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Passau}, pages = {VII, 270 Seiten}, year = {2023}, abstract = {In der vorliegenden Dissertation wird untersucht, wie Studierende bei der Pr{\"u}fungsvorbereitung auf die vorhandenen E-Learning Angebote zur{\"u}ckgreifen wie Dozierende E-Learning Angebote in der Lehre einsetzen und wie die Potenziale von E-Learning-Angeboten an den Universit{\"a}ten besser ausgesch{\"o}pft werden und die Studierenden bei der Pr{\"u}fungsvorbereitung zu unterst{\"u}tzen. Als Studiendesign wurde eine Kombination von quantitativen und qualitativen Methoden gew{\"a}hlt. An den verschiedenen Fakult{\"a}ten der Universit{\"a}t Passau wurde zu Beginn eine quantitative Befragung unter Studierenden zu deren Nutzung von Lehrmaterialien und Medienangeboten durchgef{\"u}hrt. Danach folgten qualitative Lehrenden- und Experteninterviews zum Medieneinsatz in der Lehre. Zum Abschluss wurden in einer zweiten quantitativen Befragung Studierender die Zusammenh{\"a}nge von Lernmotivation, Lernstrategien und Pr{\"u}fungsangst genauer untersucht. In den Ergebnissen zeigte sich, dass die Studierenden die E-Learning-Angebote nur dann annehmen, wenn sie daraus einen unmittelbaren Nutzen ziehen. Den Lehrenden stehen die entsprechenden Ressourcen zum Einsatz digitaler Medien h{\"a}ufig nicht zur Verf{\"u}gung. Kurz zusammengefasst bedeutet E-Learning an Universit{\"a}ten vor allem Folgendes: Hochladen und Verwalten von Lernmaterialien auf Lernplattformen, zus{\"a}tzlich die Bereitstellung von Videoaufzeichnungen bei Veranstaltungen mit hoher Teilnehmerzahl. Vereinzelt werden noch elektronische Klausuren oder Live Votings angeboten. Des Weiteren konnte nachgewiesen werden, dass die weiblichen Studierenden, unabh{\"a}ngig vom Fachsemester, {\"u}ber eine h{\"o}here Lernmotivation als die m{\"a}nnlichen Studierenden verf{\"u}gen. Wenn Studierende sich mehr Lernstrategien zu eigen machen, ist sowohl deren Pr{\"u}fungsangst als auch die Anzahl der Arbeitsst{\"o}rungen geringer. K{\"u}nftig sollten die digitalen Medien verst{\"a}rkt dazu eingesetzt werden, die Studierenden zur aktiven Mitarbeit anzuregen. Die Lehrenden sollten Zugriff auf spezielle technische Ausr{\"u}stungen sowie auf didaktische Qualifizierung und Beratung haben, damit sie auch anspruchsvolle Medienangebote wie Webbasiertes Lernen oder Apps umsetzen k{\"o}nnen.}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Fritz2023, author = {Fritz, Manuela}, title = {Health challenges of the 21st century - Empirical essays on the health and economic burden of non-communicable diseases and climate change in Southeast Asia}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-12649}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Passau}, pages = {x, 224 Seiten}, year = {2023}, abstract = {In the ongoing 21st century, low- and middle-income countries will face two health challenges that are thoroughly different from what these countries have been dealing with in preceding centuries. First, they are confronted with surging rates of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and second, climate change will take its toll and is predicted to cause catastrophic health impairments and exacerbate chronic health conditions further. Both will pose a disproportionate health and economic burden on low- and middle-income countries, which are also the countries least able to cope with them. By threatening individual health and socioeconomic improvements, and by putting an immense burden on already constrained health care systems, they impede the progress in poverty reduction and widen health inequities between the rich and the poor. Against this background, this thesis investigates the potential of NCD prevention and treatment measures in the context of Southeast Asia, with case studies in Indonesia. Specifically, it seeks to understand what kind of health interventions have the potential to be (cost-)effective considering the cultural background, lifestyle, health literacy and health system capacities in the region. Further, this thesis analyzes the interplay between NCDs and climate change and assesses the financial burden that both might pose in the decades to come. Hence, this thesis contributes to a better understanding of how the two health challenges of the 21st century, NCDs and climate change, can be addressed in the context of Southeast Asia and offers insights into what type of health policies and interventions can play a supportive role.}, language = {en} } @phdthesis{Koenigbauer2023, author = {K{\"o}nigbauer, Andreas}, title = {Intermedi{\"a}re und {\"o}ffentliche Meinungsbildung - Eine kritische W{\"u}rdigung des deutschen und europ{\"a}ischen Regulierungskonzepts von NetzDG bis DSA}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-12462}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Passau}, pages = {X, 208 Seiten}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Die Arbeit untersucht die Wechselwirkungen und Friktionen zwischen verschiedenen Regelwerken auf deutscher und europ{\"a}ischer Ebene, welche die Regulierung der Medien- und Informationsintermedi{\"a}re im Interesse der {\"o}ffentlichen Meinungsbildung bezwecken.}, language = {de} } @phdthesis{Alhamzeh2023, author = {Alhamzeh, Alaa}, title = {Language Reasoning by means of Argument Mining and Argument Quality}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-12699}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Passau}, pages = {ix, 154 Seiten}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Understanding of financial data has always been a point of interest for market participants to make better informed decisions. Recently, different cutting edge technologies have been addressed in the Financial Technology (FinTech) domain, including numeracy understanding, opinion mining and financial ocument processing. In this thesis, we are interested in analyzing the arguments of financial experts with the goal of supporting investment decisions. Although various business studies confirm the crucial role of argumentation in financial communications, no work has addressed this problem as a computational argumentation task. In other words, the automatic analysis of arguments. In this regard, this thesis presents contributions in the three essential axes of theory, data, and evaluation to fill the gap between argument mining and financial text. First, we propose a method for determining the structure of the arguments stated by company representatives during the public announcement of their quarterly results and future estimations through earnings conference calls. The proposed scheme is derived from argumentation theory at the micro-structure level of discourse. We further conducted the corresponding annotation study and published the first financial dataset annotated with arguments: FinArg. Moreover, we investigate the question of evaluating the quality of arguments in this financial genre of text. To tackle this challenge, we suggest using two levels of quality metrics, considering both the Natural Language Processing (NLP) literature of argument quality assessment and the financial era peculiarities. Hence, we have also enriched the FinArg data with our quality dimensions to produce the FinArgQuality dataset. In terms of evaluation, we validate the principle of ensemble learning on the argument identification and argument unit classification tasks. We show that combining a traditional machine learning model along with a deep learning one, via an integration model (stacking), improves the overall performance, especially in small dataset settings. In addition, despite the fact that argument mining is mainly a domain dependent task, to this date, the number of studies that tackle the generalization of argument mining models is still relatively small. Therefore, using our stacking approach and in comparison to the transfer learning model of DistilBert, we address and analyze three real-world scenarios concerning the model robustness over completely unseen domains and unseen topics. Furthermore, with the aim of the automatic assessment of argument strength, we have investigated and compared different (refined) versions of Bert-based models that incorporate external knowledge in the decision layer. Consequently, our method outperforms the baseline model by 13 ± 2\% in terms of F1-score through integrating Bert with encoded categorical features. Beyond our theoretical and methodological proposals, our model of argument quality assessment, annotated corpora, and evaluation approaches are publicly available, and can serve as strong baselines for future work in both FinNLP and computational argumentation domains. Hence, directly exploiting this thesis, we proposed to the community, a new task/challenge related to the analysis of financial arguments: FinArg-1, within the framework of the NTCIR-17 conference. We also used our proposals to react to the Touch{\´e} challenge at the CLEF 2021 conference. Our contribution was selected among the «Best of Labs».}, language = {en} } @article{SteinbrinkAufenvenneHaaseetal.2023, author = {Steinbrink, Malte and Aufenvenne, Philipp and Haase, Christian and Pochadt, Max}, title = {Matilda in der Humangeographie: Gender Citation Gap und Zitierpartikularismus}, series = {GW Unterricht}, journal = {GW Unterricht}, number = {169}, publisher = {Verlag der {\"O}sterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften}, doi = {10.1553/gw-unterricht169s5}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-12504}, pages = {5 -- 21}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Vergeschlechtlichte Ungleichheiten in der Wissenschaft sind seit langem bekannt und bestehen trotz aller Gegenmaßnahmen fort. Gender Gaps zeigen sich nicht nur in der universit{\"a}ren Personalstruktur, sondern auch in der Wissenschaftspraxis: Akademische Leistungen von Frauen erhalten oft weniger Anerkennung. Hierf{\"u}r hat sich die Bezeichnung Matilda-Effekt etabliert. Dieser Beitrag nimmt die f{\"u}r die Reputationsverteilung zentrale Praxis des Zitierens netzwerkanalytisch in den Blick und fragt, ob es in der deutschsprachigen Humangeographie einen Gender Citation Gap gibt.}, language = {de} } @article{SenglHeinke2023, author = {Sengl, Michael and Heinke, Elfi}, title = {Teaching Journalism Literacy in Schools: The Role of Media Companies as Media Educators in Germany}, series = {Media and Communication}, volume = {volume 11}, journal = {Media and Communication}, number = {issue 2}, publisher = {Cogitatio Press}, address = {Lisbon, Portugal}, doi = {10.17645/mac.v11i2.6389}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-12499}, pages = {53 -- 63}, year = {2023}, abstract = {German journalism is facing major challenges including declining circulation, funding, trust, and political allegations of spreading disinformation. Increased media literacy in the population is one way to counter these issues and their implications. This especially applies to the sub-concept of journalism literacy, focusing on the ability to consume news critically and reflectively, thus enabling democratic participation. For media companies, promoting journalism literacy seems logical for economic and altruistic reasons. However, research on German initiatives is scarce. This article presents an explorative qualitative survey of experts from seven media companies offering journalistic media education projects in German schools, focusing on the initiatives' content, structure, and motivation. Results show that initiatives primarily aim at students and teachers, offering mostly education on journalism (e.g., teaching material) and via journalism (e.g., journalistic co-production with students). While these projects mainly provide information on the respective medium and journalistic practices, dealing with disinformation is also a central goal. Most initiatives are motivated both extrinsically (e.g., reaching new audiences) and intrinsically (e.g., democratic responsibility). Despite sometimes insufficient resources and reluctant teachers, media companies see many opportunities in their initiatives: Gaining trust and creating resilience against disinformation are just two examples within the larger goal of enabling young people to be informed and opinionated members of a democratic society.}, language = {en} } @techreport{Klumpp2023, author = {Klumpp, Lorenz}, title = {Populism by the media: Bildtypen in der Darstellung des politischen Personals auf Compact-Covern - eine Forschungsdokumentation}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-12458}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Die vorliegende Forschungsdokumentation stellt die in einer Studie ermittelten Bildtypen auf Covern des Compact-Magazins detailliert mittels der ikonographisch-ikonologischen Analyse vor. Vor dem theoretischen Hintergrund des populism by the media kann aufgezeigt werden, dass sich in der visuellen Darstellung von PolitikerInnen auf den Compact-Titelbildern sowohl Variationen in der visuellen Inszenierung der populistischen Dichotomie zwischen ‚Volk' und ‚Elite' finden als auch die rechtspopulistische Konstruktion eines ethnokulturell homogenen Volkes.}, language = {de} } @book{Gerhold2023, author = {Gerhold, Maximilian}, title = {Anwaltliche Berufsaus{\"u}bung im Dienste des Rechtsstaats : eine grundrechtsdogmatische deutsch-franz{\"o}sische Studie}, publisher = {Mohr Siebeck}, address = {T{\"u}bingen}, isbn = {978-3-16-162296-0}, doi = {10.1628/978-3-16-162296-0}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-12775}, publisher = {Universit{\"a}t Passau}, pages = {XXIX, 552 Seiten}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Rechtsanw{\"a}lte haben rechtsordnungs{\"u}bergreifend eine wichtige rechtsstaatliche Funktion. Doch anders als die richterliche Unabh{\"a}ngigkeit, die in den europ{\"a}ischen wie mitgliedstaatlichen Verfassungstexten ausdr{\"u}cklich erw{\"a}hnt wird, gilt dies f{\"u}r Rechtsanw{\"a}lte und die Rechtsanwaltschaft als Institution zumeist nicht. Der berufsfreiheitliche und verfassungsgerichtliche Schutz anwaltlicher Berufsaus{\"u}bung in Deutschland kennt keine Entsprechung in Frankreich, wo dieser bislang der berufsst{\"a}ndischen Selbstverwaltung {\"u}berantwortet ist. Der Autor vermisst die anwaltliche Berufsfreiheit im deutschen Verfassungsrecht neu. Diese stellt sich als dienende Freiheitsgew{\"a}hrleistung dar. Zugleich werden erstmals grundrechtliche Maßst{\"a}be f{\"u}r die Regulierung des Anwaltsberufs in Frankreich aufgezeigt. Der Grundrechtsvergleich l{\"a}sst als gemeinsame Elemente die Fremdn{\"u}tzigkeit und Normgepr{\"a}gtheit der anwaltlichen Grundrechte hervortreten. Die Arbeit ist 2023 mit dem Dissertationspreis »Prix des affaires« der Deutsch-Franz{\"o}sischen Hochschule und dem Promotionspreis des Vereins der Freunde und F{\"o}rderer der Rechtswissenschaften an der Universit{\"a}t Passau e.V. ausgezeichnet worden.}, language = {de} } @article{DeinerFeldmeierFraseretal.2023, author = {Deiner, Adina and Feldmeier, Patric and Fraser, Gordon and Schweikl, Sebastian and Wang, Wengran}, title = {Automated test generation for SCRATCH programs}, series = {Empirical Software Engineering}, volume = {28}, journal = {Empirical Software Engineering}, number = {3}, publisher = {Springer Nature}, address = {Berlin}, doi = {10.1007/s10664-022-10255-x}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023091108301581209964}, pages = {1 -- 63}, year = {2023}, abstract = {The importance of programming education has led to dedicated educational program- ming environments, where users visually arrange block-based programming constructs that typically control graphical, interactive game-like programs. The SCRATCH programming environment is particularly popular, with more than 90 million registered users at the time of this writing. While the block-based nature of S CRATCH helps learners by preventing syntactical mistakes, there nevertheless remains a need to provide feedback and support in order to implement desired functionality. To support individual learning and classroom settings, this feedback and support should ideally be provided in an automated fashion, which requires tests to enable dynamic program analysis. In prior work we introduced W HISKER , a framework that enables automated testing of S CRATCH programs. However, creating these automated tests for S CRATCH programs is challenging. In this paper, we therefore investigate how to automatically generate W HISKER tests. Generating tests for S CRATCH raises important challenges: First, game-like programs are typically randomised, leading to flaky tests. Second, S CRATCH programs usually consist of animations and interactions with long delays, inhibiting the application of classical test generation approaches. Thus, the new application domain raises the question of which test generation technique is best suited to produce high coverage tests capable of detecting faulty behaviour. We investigate these questions using an extension of the W HISKER test framework for automated test generation. Evaluation on common programming exercises, a random sample of 1000 S CRATCH user programs, and the 1000 most popular S CRATCH programs demonstrates that our approach enables W HISKER to reliably accelerate test executions, and even though many SCRATCH programs are small and easy to cover, there are many unique challenges for which advanced search-based test generation using many-objective algorithms is needed in order to achieve high coverage.}, language = {en} } @article{Narh2023, author = {Narh, John}, title = {The resource curse and the role of institutions revisited}, series = {Environment, Development and Sustainability}, volume = {27}, journal = {Environment, Development and Sustainability}, publisher = {Springer Nature}, address = {Berlin}, doi = {10.1007/s10668-023-04279-6}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2024030609203689018522}, pages = {8187 -- 8207}, year = {2023}, abstract = {Many studies have shown that natural resource abundant countries with strong institutions tend to escape the resource curse. Institutional quality has been examined using broad indices of rule of law, the rate of murder, the share of the shadow economy and provision of public goods. Nonetheless, we need to locate the specific institutional conditions under which the curse manifests since some "rule of law" countries like Nigeria and Angola are generally classified as resource cursed. In this review, I argue that managing and distributing natural resource wealth through a centralised planning strategy and lack of a binding long-term national development plan are institutional conditions that encourage government unaccountability as they do not restrict policy makers against discretionary distribution of natural resource windfall, rent seeking, clientelism and corruption which contribute to poor economic development and growth. Also, inadequate regulations on how to address the potential or actual impacts of natural resource extraction on the livelihood of local people and the environment tend to precipitate grievance-induced resource conflict.}, language = {en} }