„Arme Konrad“ lebt

Edvard Konrad

This paper explores the relationships between basic cultural characteristics of countries and some economic indexes. As cultural characteristics, the data from The Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness Research Program (GLOBE) about the 9 cultural dimensions for 60 countries were used. Two facets of cultural dimensions were measured: the perceptions of actual practices and...

Konrad Lorenz

Born on 7 November 1903, Lorenz was the second and last child of Emma Lorenz and Dr. Adolf Lorenz, a distinguished and wealthy orthopedic surgeon. Growing up in comfortable surroundings at the family home in the village of Altenberg, on the outskirts of Vienna, the young Lorenz was allowed to pursue his enthusiasms as an animal lover. His interest in animals and evolution as an adolescent led h...

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The Lebt Chopper for the Spiral2 Project*

The Spiral2 driver uses a slow chopper situated in the common section of the low energy beam transport line to change the beam intensity, to cut off the beam in case of critical loss and to avoid hitting the wheel structure of rotating targets. The device has to work up to 10 kV, 1 kHz repetition frequency rate and its design is based on standard power circuits, standard vacuum feed-through and...

On Konrad Zuse’s Developments

Konrad Zuse, a German engineer, did pioneer work when he constructed several programcontrolled calculators. In this essay, his developments between 1936 and 1945 are described. In Section 1, the basic concepts of Zuse’s machines, such as binary and floating-point arithmetic, are explained. These principles have been implemented in Zuse’s first four general purpose machines, the Z 1, Z 2, Z 3, a...