Im Rahmen von Fachanwendungen und E-Government müssen digitale Daten einer Langzeitarchivierung unterzogen werden. Da digitale Daten normalerweise digital gespeichert werden, hat man neben der Problematik der langzeitarchivierungsfähigen Dateiformate auch das Problem der nachhaltigen Langzeitarchivierung auf Medien. Wenn diese auf digitalen Medien stattfindet, ist mit einer regelmäßigen Medienm...

Over the last two decades a number of heatwaves have brought the need for heatwave early warning systems (HEWS) to the attention of many European governments. The HEWS in Europe are operating under the assumption that there is a high correlation between observed and forecasted temperatures. We investigated the sensitivity of different temperature mortality relationships when using forecast temp...

In recent years, a number of firms from Asia and Latin America have been internationalizing their businesses to access new markets and to acquire new technology. This follows similar attempts only a few years earlier by leading firms from countries such as Korea and Taiwan. Much research has gone during the last two decades into understanding the success of Korean and Taiwanese firms. In this p...

We call syntactic coding a technique which converts syntactic principles or constraints on representations into grammatical rules which can be implemented in any given rule grammar. In this paper we show that any principle or constraint on output trees formalizable in a certain fragment of dynamic logic over trees can be coded in this sense. This allows to reduce in a mechanical fashion most of...

Der demografische Wandel ist in den deutschen Behörden angekommen. Das Bewerberfeld bei Ausschreibungen für Personaleinstellungen wird von den Personalbereichen zunehmend schlechter, bei hochqualifizierten Stellen bereits heute als kritisch eingeschätzt. Die daraus abgeleiteten Handlungsstrategien stützen sich dabei auf "alte Muster" und berücksichtigen nicht die weiteren Begleiterscheinungen d...

Effective approaches to non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention require intersectoral action targeting health and engaging government, industry, and society. There is an ongoing vigorous exploration of the most effective and appropriate role of government in intersectoral partnerships. This debate is particularly pronounced with regards to the role of government in controlling unhealthy foods...

Background: Given the appropriateness of cyberspace and its interconnectedness, each country is expected to minimize the possibility of harmful actions by securing and continuously monitoring the Internet and the virtual world. Of course, part of this goal will be achieved through the adoption of appropriate national laws and, in part, through proper education of citizens and the development of...