Røyk, risiko – og rette ben

Software-Infrastrukturen für das Risiko- und Katastrophenmanagement

Neben der wichtigen Klärung der fachlichen Abstimmung in allen Phasen des Risikound Katastrophenmanagements nimmt die Bereitstellung einer geeigneten Software-Infrastruktur eine zunehmend wichtigere Rolle ein. Der Beitrag betrachtet diese Anforderungen aus der Sicht der Informatik an Hand der Konzeption eines Web-Portals zur Kernreaktor-Fernüberwachung (KFÜ) und des EU-Projekts ORCHESTRA beschr...

Optimal Policy in OG Models

In the present paper general stationary overlapping generations economies with many commodities in every period and many different consumers in every generation are considered. A government maximizes a utilitarian social welfare function, which is the sum of weighted averages of utilities for generations, through fiscal policy, i.e., monetary transfers and taxes. Situations both with and withou...

Risiko und Nutzen von Wissensschnittstellen - Ein Gestaltungsansatz

Ben Scheres

that are in danger of becoming extinct or have already done so. It’s remarkable as the combined effort of hundreds of thousands of people, many of them amateurs, to compile data on the status of their favorite taxa. For amphibians, we know that there were 1437 species described by taxonomists before 1900. Of these, 18 are either extinct or presumed extinct. After 1900, taxonomists described 496...

Placebo. Historie, biologi og effekt

Since 1950 or so, placebos and their effect have generated a considerable interest in certain medical communities, in particular among psychiatrists and the designers of clinical trials, yet the only significant external study of this phenomenon to appear has been Howard Brody's doctoral investigation, Placebos and the philosophy ofmedicine, published in 1980. In 1997, however, three book-lengt...