Für die Tierseuchenbekämpfung stehen Daten aus behördlichen ITSystemen sowie der epidemiologische Ermittlung vor Ort zur Verfügung. Vorhandene Datenbestände sind nicht immer aktuell und nachvollziehbar für jeden Betrieb vorhanden und zusätzliche Ermittlungen im Tierseuchenfall sind zeitintensiv und binden Personal. In diesem Artikel wird ein IT-Tool vorgestellt, welches durch sein technisches u...

Introduction With the decline in the overland Silk Routes in the fifth century AD, traders from West Asia looked increasingly to the sea for alternative routes to China, and the silk they so highly valued. By the seventh century, with new advances in rigging technology and celestial navigation, they had successfully mastered the long seaborne journey, establishing the transoceanic sailing route...

In this paper, I provide an easy road to nominalism which does not rely on a Field-type nominalization strategy for mathematics (Field 1980). According to this proposal, applications of mathematics to science, and alleged mathematical explanations of physical phenomena, only emerge when suitable physical interpretations of the mathematical formalism are advanced. And since these interpretations...

Ruiying Li 1,2,*, Qiang Dong 1, Chong Jin 1 and Rui Kang 1,2 1 School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Beihang University, No. 37, Xue Yuan Road, Beijing 100191, China; [email protected] (Q.D.); [email protected] (C.J.); [email protected] (R.K.) 2 Science and Technology on Reliability and Environmental Engineering Laboratory, No. 37, Xue Yuan Road, Beijing 100191, China * Corres...

Road traffic safety is receiving increasing attention. Different real-time safety indicators relying on traffic sensor data can be found in the literature. Some are based on the posterior analysis of crash and traffic data; while others are based on real time traffic risk assessment using microscopic parameters (e.g., short time headways). Other non-traffic related parameters have an impact on ...

To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of either the recent death or coming dominance of anonymity have been greatly exaggerated. This paper is a beginning effort to lay out some of the conceptual landscape needed to better understand anonymity and identifiability in contemporary life. I suggest 7 types of identity knowledge involving legal name, location, symbols linked and not linked back to these...

1 University of California, San Diego, Department of Mathematics, La Jolla, CA 92093-0112, USA. phone: +001 858 534-4889, fax: +001 858 534-5273, e-mail: [email protected] 2 Technical University Hamburg-Harburg, Department of Mathematics, D-21071 Hamburg, Germany. phone: +49 40 42878 3670, fax: +49 40 42878 2696, e-mail: [email protected] 3 DERA, St. Andrews Road, Malvern Worcs. WR14 3PS, Uni...

This paper investigates the e ect of performance measurement on the optimal e ort allocation by salespeople when rms are concerned about retention of salespeople with higher abilities. It shows that introducing salespeople performance measurement may result in productivity, pro t, and welfare losses when all market participants optimally respond to the expected information provided by the measu...

Molecular Materials Centre, School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science, The University of Manchester, PO Box 88, Sackville Street, Manchester M60 1QD, England, Process Engineering Group, PR&D, AstraZeneca, Silk Road Business Park, Charter Way, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 2NA, England, and Preformulation and Biopharmaceutics, PAR&D, AstraZeneca, Silk Road Business Park, Charter Way, M...

This paper discusses the concept of a structurally safe traffic system. The crucial question is how potential errors occurring in traffic can be reduced by revising the layout of the road environment. Two considerations play an important role: inherent safety and self-explaining properties. Inherent safety refers to the reduction of potentially dangerous encounters. Traffic systems having self-...