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Instrumental calculation, cognitive role-playing, or both?: self-perceptions of Seconded National Experts in the European Commission
2011
This is the authors’ final, accepted and refereed manuscript to the article Most work studying micro-processes of integration – i.e. how agents develop identities and decision-making behaviours within a particular institution – offers explanations based on either instrumental rationality or socialisation. This article proposes a two-dimensional framework that allows analysing under which conditions both logics of social action co-exist. Our empirical analysis employs a unique dataset from a 2011 survey of all 1098 currently active Seconded National Experts (SNEs) in the European Commission. We find that a) instrumental cost-benefit calculation and cognitive role-playing (as semi-reflexive s…
Representative Bureaucracy and the Role of Expertise in Politics
2015
This is an open access journal from Cogitatio http://www.cogitatiopress.com The vast majority of existing studies on bureaucratic representation focus on bureaucracies’ permanent and internal staff. Yet, the rising sophistication of modern democracies and the technocratization of political life are gradually inducing an increased reliance on external experts to assist in the development and implementation of policy decisions. This trend, we argue, raises the need to extend studies of bureaucratic representation to such external and non-permanent experts in governmental affairs. In this article, we take a first step in this direction using seconded national experts (SNEs) in the European Com…
Forecasting : theory and practice
2022
Forecasting has always been at the forefront of decision making and planning. The uncertainty that surrounds the future is both exciting and challenging, with individuals and organisations seeking to minimise risks and maximise utilities. The large number of forecasting applications calls for a diverse set of forecasting methods to tackle real-life challenges. This article provides a non-systematic review of the theory and the practice of forecasting. We provide an overview of a wide range of theoretical, state-of-the-art models, methods, principles, and approaches to prepare, produce, organise, and evaluate forecasts. We then demonstrate how such theoretical concepts are applied in a varie…
The overstated generational gap in online news use? A consolidated infrastructural perspective
2021
Recent research by Taneja et al. suggested that digital infrastructures diminish the generational gap in news use by counteracting preference structures. We expand on this seminal work by arguing that an infrastructural perspective requires overcoming limitations of highly aggregated web tracking data used in prior research. We analyze the individual browsing histories of two representative samples of German Internet users collected in 2012 ( N = 2970) and 2018 ( N = 2045) and find robust evidence for a smaller generational gap in online news use than commonly assumed. While short news website visits mostly demonstrated infrastructural factors, longer news use episodes were shaped more by …
Vortrag über den Entwurf einer Centralschule für Handel und Gewerbe im Riga, gehalten am 19. Februar 1859 im Locale des Rigaschen Börsen-Comité's
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Diskontinuierliche Komposita aus terminologischer Sicht: Wort vs. Phrase in Fachkorpora
2017
International audience; Im Mittelpunkt des Beitrags, der an der Schnittstelle zwischen Wortbildung, Phraseologie und Terminologie anzusiedeln ist, steht die Frage nach dem morphologischen bzw. syntaktischen Status bestimmter terminologisch relevanter Oppositionspaare des Typs A + N bzw. N + N, wie in (1) und (2):(1)Die Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass Länder mit vielen innovativen Unternehmens-gründungen ein vergleichsweise hohes wirtschaftliches Wachstum haben. (Inter-netbeleg, 31.8.2010)(2)Man könnte annehmen, ein hohes Wirtschaftswachstum wäre gut für uns alle, ein nied-riges eben schlecht. (Internetbeleg, 31.8.2010)Solche Einheiten werfen auf die immer wieder diskutierte Frage der Pol…
Transformation of Ochratoxin A by Microorganisms Isolated from Tempranillo Grapes in Wine Systems
2020
Mycotoxins are toxic metabolites produced by various genera of fungi. Fungi belonging to species of the genera Aspergillus and Penicillium are the main source of ochratoxin A (OTA) in wine. The reduction of OTA in must and wine has been studied using physical, chemical, and biological technologies. In this paper, we report on the capacity of different cultures isolated from Tempranillo winegrapes contaminated with fungus to degrade OTA in tryptic soy broth (TSB) medium at pH 3.5 and 6.5. We studied the interaction between OTA and four isolates during alcoholic fermentation of red wine. This study showed that microorganism isolates reduced the content of OTA in TSB medium and in the wine exp…
Scrotal Masses
2009
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Von (pragma-)semantischer Valenz zu Frames in der Beschreibung der Argumentstruktur (von Transferverben)
2019
International audience; An ausgewählten - auffälligen – Beispielen aus dem Bereich der Transferverben (Besitzwechselverben) geht der Beitrag der Frage nach den potentiellen Übergängen von valenz-basierten zu frame-semantischen Beschreibungsansätzen von Argumentstrukturen nach. Es werden dabei die folgenden drei Thesen zur Diskussion gestellt:(i)Die Wechselbeziehungen zwischen (pragma-semantischer) Valenz und Frame-Semantik können noch ausgebaut werden (Ziem/Lasch 2013: 110-142).(ii)Die semantische Dimension kann nur holistisch erfasst werden (Busse 1995, 2008, 2012).(iii)Eine Zurückführung auf abstraktere Konstruktionen ist immer möglich (oder gar wünschenswert!). In einem ersten Teil werde…
Non-destructive determination of ‘Big Bang’ nectarine quality and harvest maturity
2021
In nectarines, potential shelf life and quality at consumption are closely related to the ripeness stage of fruit at harvest. Usually, the harvest is based on color, firmness, sugar and acids content of fruit, although these determinations are carried out through destructive methods and in a limited number of samples. The technique of Vis/Nir spectroscopy is used for the development of a non-destructive index based on the difference of absorbance (IDA) between two wavelengths near the absorption peak of chlorophyll-a, and it allows monitoring of changes in ripeness processes directly in the field. The objective of this paper is to track changes in quality that occur during nectarine ripenes…