Feier des 80. Geburtstages von MAX BORN/Zum 70. Geburtstag von ERWIN FUES

Paracelsus. Das Werk—die Rezeption. Beiträge des Symposiums zum 500. Geburtstag von Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, genannt Paracelsus (1493–1541)

which progressed into nearby areas resulting in epidemic waves, then a climatic stage in the form of an extensive core area, and finally spreading to previously spared areas of central Europe. Perhaps the most innovative component of the structural relationships is the proposition that "the usual outcome of the flow of plague during a cycle was that an area of terminal disease activity became a...

Max von Pettenkofer Award

In August 1892, a cholera outbreak struck Hamburg. In just a few months, 17 000 cases of the illness were recorded resulting in 8600 deaths within a population of about 640 000 (Evans, 1987). At its peak intensity, only a few weeks after the onset, a thousand illnesses and five hundred deaths were reported daily in the city. Intense but short-lived cholera outbreaks had struck Hamburg and other...

Medizin und Verbrechen. Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Walter Wuttke

explanations which medicine offered for the Gulf veterans' strange symptoms-fatigue, headaches, diarrhoea, shortness of breath, and impaired memory. As Wheelwright explains, two main schools of thought soon emerged-the stress hypothesis and the toxic exposure hypothesis; and, although he pretends for a while to be even-handed between them, it is soon apparent that his money is on stress. Elaine...

Empirische Analyse von Bewertungskommentaren des Reputationssystems von eBay

Online-Auktionshäuser wie eBay nutzen Reputationssysteme zur Lösung des Vertrauensproblems. Ein Nachteil heutiger Reputationssysteme ist, dass Händler ihre Bewertungen nicht immer entsprechend ihrer wahren Meinung abgeben. Dieser Beitrag untersucht empirisch anhand von Bewertungskommentaren des Reputationssystems von eBay, ob und in welchem Umfang es Abweichungen zwischen den abgegebenen Bewert...

Abschlußbericht des Projektes "Erkundung von Berufs- und Tätigkeitsfeldern von computerlinguistInnen"