Plea for female academics in Germany

Getting Published for Academics

It is by no means a trivial matter to undertake a research project and produce an academic paper to a publishable standard. However, it is not as difficult as many university teachers who do not publish believe. The single most difficult step is the first one of getting started. Once this has been taken the apparent enormity of the problem often substantially dwindles. Eight points are suggeste...

Telepresence Robots for Academics

Telepresence robotics is a sophisticated form of robotic remote control in which a human operator has a sense of being on location – that is, of being telepresent. I propose a demonstration of two telepresence robots, one floor model (VGo) and one tabletop model (KUBI). In this proposal, I describe the technology and briefly summarize the research that led to the purchase of the robots. The res...

A Plea For Microsimulation

German demographic or educational projections are conventionally based on macrosimulations. Macrosimulation models use average values of the simulation parameters to compute the updating process. Additionally, the proportions of educational graduate rates stay constant in these models. In this paper I introduce a discrete event microsimulation model which is designed to project the graduate rat...

A Plea for Barabbas.

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