Wallbaum, T. ., Ananthanarayan, S. ., Matviienko, A. ., & Boll, S. C. (2020). A Real-time Distributed Toolkit to Ease Children’s Exploration of IoT. In Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society (S. 1–9).
Fan, B. ., Tasdemir, D. ., & Labes, A. . (2020). Inducing the Chemodiversity of Fucus vesiculosus-Derived Fungi by OSMAC Strategy for Discovery of New Anticancer Leads (S. Online-Ressource). Kiel: Universitätsbibliothek Kiel.
Oelze, N. ., Gruchmann, T. ., & Brandenburg, M. . (2020). Motivating Factors for Implementing Apparel Certification Schemes—A Sustainable Supply Chain Management Perspective. Sustainability, 12. http://doi.org/10.3390/su12124823
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The motivations for clothing companies to implement dedicated certification schemes as sustainability practices has received limited attention in sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) research so far. Therefore, it is important to understand how different rationales for the implementation of certification schemes have developed in the past because they considerably influence the overall success of sustainability management efforts. This paper picks up on this gap and presents the results of an in-depth comparative case study drawing on interviews conducted with five managers of three companies from the clothing sector in 2018 and abductive content analysis. By applying such a qualitative approach, this study explores motivations and benefits as well as elaborates on the implementation of certification schemes in apparel supply chains. It outlines that certification in the clothing sector is driven by strategic factors, marketing considerations, and information considering sustainability aspects. The study also shows that certification schemes may strengthen the marketing and competitive position of clothing companies as well as sustainability awareness in textile and apparel supply chains in general. Finally, a framework conceptualized from the findings of the interviews presents relevant SSCM practices in the clothing industry. Therefore, the present study contributes to theory building in SSCM by confirming and extending previous research on the implementation of certification schemes for sustainability, as well as to practice by examining reasons to apply certification schemes and potential performance outcomes.
Alhrshy, L. ., Jauch, C. ., & Kloft, P. . (2020). Development of a Flexible Lightweight Hydraulic-Pneumatic Flywheel System for Wind Turbine Rotors. Fluids, 5. http://doi.org/10.3390/fluids5040162
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In this paper, the design of a flexible piston accumulator for application in a hydraulic-pneumatic flywheel system in a wind turbine rotor is presented. The flywheel system enables a wind turbine to vary the inertia of its rotor blades to control the power output and, most importantly, to influence the vibratory behaviour of wind turbine components. The method used for designing the flexible accumulator is based on the one hand on test results of a flexible piston accumulator prototype, and on the other hand, on simulation results of a model of a flexible piston accumulator. As a result, a design of flexible piston accumulators for application in the flywheel system is implemented and compared with the design of conventional steel accumulators. Due to the proposed design of the flywheel system, the impact on the mechanical loads of a wind turbine is analysed. The simulation results show that the new design of the piston accumulators causes a lower impact on the mechanical loads of the wind turbine than a previously published design of piston accumulators. It is further shown that the considered wind turbine can take on the flywheel system without the need for reinforcements in the rotor blades.
Chirvi, M. ., & Schneider, C. . (2020). Preferences for Wealth Taxation - Design, Framing and the Role of Partisanship. arqus Discussion Paper.
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Empirical literature on preferences for wealth taxation almost exclusively focuses on either the emotionally loaded estate tax or rather general concepts of redistributive preferences. Yet, it remains unclear whether the exceptional opposition towards the estate tax is applicable to other instruments of net wealth taxation. This study presents, to our knowledge, the first investigation of how individuals want to tax wealth-across a variety of tangible wealth tax instruments. In doing so, we particularly test for the presence of framing effects, incidence concentration and the role of wealth characteristics within the different tax configurations. For this, we conducted a factorial vignette survey experiment with over 3,200 respondents on Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk). Each respondent was randomized into one of four burden-equivalent wealth tax instruments: an estate tax, a one-time wealth tax, a decennial wealth tax or a yearly wealth tax. Subsequently we asked each respondent to state her preferred overall lifetime tax burden for a set of hypothetical individuals. Our findings yield several interesting insights. First, we find that the exceptional opposition towards the estate tax is not applicable to other instruments of wealth taxation and is only valid for certain subgroups. In general, our empirical findings provide preferred tax rates between 12.8 to 14.9 percent of overall lifetime tax burden. Second, we document an exceptional opposition towards the mere name "estate tax" in relation to equivalent wealth tax instruments for certain subgroups. Republicans particularly reject the estate tax with a lower proposed effective tax rate of around 3.1 percentage points compared to all other wealth taxes-even the perfectly congruent one-time wealth tax. Third, we uncover the influence of normative preferences for specific design features on the support for a wealth tax. Proposed effective tax rates of the estate tax and the one-time wealth tax show a significant progressivity, whereas no progressivity can be observed for both periodical taxes. The presence of children has an especially significant negative effect in one-off wealth taxes at the end of the lifetime.
Tutdere, S. ., & Uzunkol, O. . (2020). Construction of arithmetic secret sharing schemes by using torsion limits. Hacettepe Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, 49, 638–647. http://doi.org/10.15672/hujms.460348
eri, J. S. M., Petersen, K. ., & Mendes, E. . (2020). An empirically evaluated checklist for surveys in software engineering. Information and Software Technology, 119, 106240.
Wentzlaff, T. ., Janke, F. ., Kockmeyer, M. ., Reinhold, S. ., & Teistler, M. . (2020). Navigation in Desktop 3D Games with Gamepads: Comparison of Two Approaches for Inexperienced Players. In Proceedings of the Conference on Mensch Und Computer (S. 165–168). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. http://doi.org/10.1145/3404983.3410018
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Common approaches for gamepad-based navigation in desktop 3D games are often not suited for inexperienced players. In particular, novices have difficulties in simultaneously controlling movement and viewing direction in a virtual 3D scene. Here, we compare the currently predominant 3D navigation approach with an alternative approach that is inspired by early 3D games. 20 test users with little or no 3D gaming experience used both approaches to walk along a test course in a virtual 3D scene containing different obstacles. Using the alternative navigation approach, the users finished the course faster and with fewer errors than with the predominant navigation approach. In addition, the pragmatic and the hedonic quality of the alternative approach were rated higher. As a conclusion, the presented alternative approach should be given consideration when designing 3D (serious) games or similar applications for inexperienced players, not only for gamepad-based navigation, but also for comparable interfaces like the typical combination of keyboard and mouse control.