German science in six days.

Comparative evaluation of six German TTS systems

An application-specific perceptual evaluation was carried out in order to compare six high-quality German text-to-speech systems. Subjects judged the systems’ reading of an email message and a newspaper article according to four applicationspecific questions and six voice quality attributes. The results indicate significant differences between the systems. Possible applications of the systems w...

German Medical Science: Editorial 2014

At the end of the year 2013 the open access portal “German Medical Science” (gms) has attained a well-established stage of development documented by the number of published articles and abstracts and by the electronic visits to the portal. Meanwhile 3,208 articles and 46,800 abstracts have been published. The portal will this year integrate a section for electronic books, the first project pend...

Post-Normal Science in a German Landscape

This essay explores the management and creation of ignorance via an exploration of the landscape of eastern Germany, which has seen profound social, political, and technological changes over the past several decades. Like in many places around the world decision makers in eastern Germany are seeking to reach a future state where seemingly conflicting outcomes related to the economy and the envi...

Jeopardy Proposal for the Remaining Six Days of the g3 Experiment

10 years of German Medical Science

Along with the first interdisciplinary e-journal other scientific medical societies transfered their printed journals to the electronic publishing procedure thus generating the academic portal “German Medical Science”. All articles in “German Medical Science” are peer-reviewed, edited, and published online in open access. Additionally a wide number of congress proceedings and reports are publis...