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Working Paper: Modeling Infection Risk in Local Public Transport
(2024)
To model the infection risk in local public transport, additional information on the personal contacts during a trip with local public transport as well as the contact duration with them is necessary. As morning student traffic in local public transport vehicles was assumed to hold a high infection risk during the COVID-19 pandemic, staggered school starting times were tested in the city of Herne in Germany. The data obtained during this time was used to create a calculation tool for the number of personal contacts ...
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Climate Change and Consumption Patterns in Latin America: The Urgency of a Structural Transformation
(2024-02)
• Climate change obstructs Latin America's development, affecting the economy, society, and the environment. A substantial investment is needed for the 2050-2070 deep decarbonization process.
• Latin America's unsustainable development in the last five decades has boosted consumption, employment, and poverty reduction but falls short in addressing chronic poverty and high-income concentration. This undermines economic dynamics and exposes society to climate change impacts.
• A just climate transition requires changes ...
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Exchange of Ideas #2
(2017)
This catalogue is a publication of the University of Kassel to conclude the guest professorship of Yael Mer during the academic year 2015/2016. It is digitally published and is the second in a series of guest professor-catalogues for the Product Design Course of the School of Art and Design Kassel.
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Exchange of Ideas #1
(2015)
This catalogue is a publication of the University of Kassel to conclude the guest professorship of Ineke Hans during the academic year 2014/2015. It is digitally published and is the first in a series of guest professor catalogues for the Product Design Course of the School of Art and Design Kassel.
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To Stay or to Go? Outmigration of Nurses from Ghana. A GPN / UCC Project
(2024-02)
The Global Partnership Network (GPN) is a unique network of 12 universities and 18 civil society groups for research, teaching, and training in all continents around SDG 17 “Global Partnership for Sustainable Development”. The GPN has been functioning since 2020, headquartered in Germany at the University of Kassel and funded by the German Federal Government. It aims to provide policy-relevant research in three areas: development cooperation, global economy, and knowledge production, keeping in mind that international ...
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To Stay or to Go? Recruitment and Outmigration of Nurses from India. A GPN / JNU Project
(2024-02)
The Global Partnership Network (GPN) is a unique network of 12 universities and 18 civil society groups for research, teaching, and training in all continents around SDG 17 “Global Partnership for Sustainable Development”. The GPN has been functioning since 2020, headquartered in Germany at the University of Kassel and funded by the German Federal Government. It aims to provide policy-relevant research in three areas: development cooperation, global economy, and knowledge production, keeping in mind that international ...
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Mathematical Management
(2023-07-14)
Der Aufstieg des Fachgebietes Operations Research, das mathematische Modelle zur Steuerung von Wirtschaftsunternehmen bereitstellt, in der politischen Wissenskultur von Cold War Science der USA nach 1945 wird aufgezeigt und dann übergeleitet zur Institutionalisierung von Operations Research in den Universitäten von Europa und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Die Vorläuferorganisationen zur Deutschen Gesellschaft für Operations Research werden dargestellt und das Zusammenspiel der Jahrestagung dieser Gesellschaft mit ...
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Marktstudie zu regionalen Bio-Lebensmitteln in Hessen
(2022)
Die vorliegende Studie gibt einen ersten Einblick in die aktuelle Situation der landwirtschaftlichen Öko-Erzeugung, der Verarbeitung und des Handels ökologischer Lebensmittel in Hessen. Am Beispiel von ausgewählten Wertschöpfungsketten (WSK) wird untersucht, welche Schwächen und Stärken und welche Herausforderungen für regionale Produktion, Verarbeitung und Handel von ökologischen Lebensmitteln bestehen. Ziel der Studie ist es, die aktuelle Situation darzustellen, Schwachstellen zu identifizieren und Ansatzpunkte zu ...
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One Way Logistics in Freight Transport
(2022)
The European railroad companies founded the International Container Bureau in Paris in 1933. The Swiss company Hupac successfully developed container transport with transalpine freight transport by rail between Germany and Italy. In the 1930s, Europe and the U.S. had agreed on a common ISO standard for 20 foot containers and 40 foot containers, so that empty containers could be exchanged between the various shipping companies in the global supply chains. But this standard is not compatible with the metric system of ...