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Universities of the 21st century heavily depend on an efficient IT infrastructure for teaching, research and administration. E-Learning environments, blended learning and all sorts of multimedia and cooperative environments are important requirements for teaching at universities and for further education. Many of the organizational structures such as continuous examinations, interdisciplinary studies, ECTS system and many more require efficient examination administration systems as well as room and personnel management. Research is based on Internet inquiries, eScience, eLibrary and other IT supported media. Research results must be documented and archived in a digital way and results must be distributed and marketed through the Internet. The efficient administration of all kinds of resources of the university must be planned using management support systems. Decisions of university heads must be prepared from well documented statistics and analysis software. In the past, many of the applications named above for teaching, research and administration have been performed by separate software applications and run in distributed environments of universities. Powerful server structures and networking features as well as new software technology like service-oriented architectures make it necessary to recentralize the IT services of the university after a long period of decentralization. Based on metadirectories and unified access procedures, all of the software components must be integrated into a seamless IT infrastructure. To guarantee consistency, data must not be stored in a redundant way. Project IntegraTUM of Technische Universität München started in 2003 and is an umbrella project to define such a seamless IT infrastructure for a university with 22.000 students and approximately 10.000 staff. The talk describes the project, which besides the definition of new technology is based on a fundamental process analysis of the university and many changes in the organizational structure.
Working closely with teaching and research staff is critical to the success of libraries and information services. Indeed, the degree of integration with a University's academic work is one of the factors that distinguish a successful service from a poor one. This paper will consider the relationship between information services and how universities operate. Using the challenges facing institutions as a starting point - including the move towards a single European higher education market - the impact of information provision on institutional strategies will be explored. Information resources underpin all learning, teaching and research activities and the presentation will consider the professional practice which ensures that libraries and computing services are fully exploited. The focus on the experience of students is leading some institutions to integrate information services with a wide range of other activities and the paper will consider the opportunities and challenges which this brings, including the need to build working relationships with a broader range of professional groups.
Die Umstellung der Abrechnung unfallchirurgischer Patienten von der Bundespflegesatzordnung (BPflV) auf die von Diagnosis Related Groups (DRG) abhängige Vergütung stellt die Akutkrankenhäuser, die im Wesentlichen die Versorgung der Schwerstverletzten sicherstellen, vor erhebliche finanzielle Schwierigkeiten. Die Diskrepanz zwischen tatsächlichen Aufwendungen des Krankenhauses an Lohn- und Sachkosten zur Behandlung der Leicht- sowie Schwerverletzten und der Vergütung nach den German Diagnosis Related Groups (G-DRG) wird zur Existenzfrage der unfallchirurgischen Kliniken in Deutschland. Die vorliegende Arbeit will klären, wie hoch die finanziellen Aufwendungen sind, um in einem Haus der Maximalversorgung Patienten zu behandeln, die im Rahmen ihrer unfallchirurgischen Notfallbehandlung über den Schockraum aufgenommen werden. Es wurde berechnet, ob die ermittelten reellen Kosten sich durch die erhaltenen Erstattungen, bis zum 31.12. 2003 auf Grundlage des Krankenhauspflegesatzes und durch das zum 01.01.2004 eingeführte DRG-Vergütungssystem, decken lassen. Falls dies nicht der Fall ist, gilt darzustellen, in welchem Rahmen sich die Über- bzw. Unterdeckung bewegt und ob ein alternatives Vergütungssystem die entstandenen Kosten besser abbilden könnte. Für die vorliegende Arbeit wurden im Routineablauf des Schockraums der Universitätsklinik Frankfurt/Main im Zeitraum vom 01.09.2002 bis 31.08.2003 420 Erwachsene mit unterschiedlichen Verletzungsmustern prospektiv erfasst. Die Dokumentation erfolgte mittels des PC gestützten Online Dokumentationsprogramms Traumawatch ®. Aufgrund der Verletzungsmuster wurde bei allen Schockraumpatienten der Injury Severity Score (ISS) bestimmt und 5 Untergruppen gebildet (Gr.1 ISS < 9, Gr.2 ISS >= 9 < 16, Gr.3 ISS >= 16 < 25, Gr.4 ISS >= 25 < 41, Gr.5 ISS >= 41). Stichprobenartig wurden jeder Gruppe 10 Patienten entnommen und der Kostenkalkulation zugeführt. Zur Ermittlung der gesamten Personal- und Sachkosten, die durch die stationäre Behandlung der 50 Patienten entstanden, wurden Daten des Operativen Controllings der Universitätsklinik Frankfurt verwendet. Diese Berechnungen wurden den Erstattungen durch die BPflV und durch G-DRG gegenüber gestellt. Es ergab sich für die berechneten Schockraumpatienten bei einem mittleren ISS von 22,6 eine durchschnittliche Vergütung nach G-DRG von 14.557 Euro gegenüber Aufwendungen in Höhe von 19.010 Euro, welches einem Verlust von durchschnittlich 4.453 Euro pro Patient entspräche. Für die Klinik errechnete sich ein Gesamtverlust von ca. 1,5 Millionen Euro im Jahr für die Versorgung von 420 Patienten, die über den Schockraum aufgenommen wurden. Die Gegenüberstellung der Kosten und der Verletzungsschwere nach ISS-Klassifikation ergab einen Durchschnittswert von 1.300 Euro pro ISS-Punkt mit einer Korrelation von 0,98. Eine Vergütung in Abhängigkeit des ISS hätte Vorteile gegenüber der starren Einteilung in DRG-Gruppen, insbesondere der „Polytrauma DRGs“. Das bisher notwendige und zum Teil komplexe „Groupen“ der Patienten in eine Haupt- und Nebendiagnose würde entfallen. Als Grundlage der Vergütung wäre die international anerkannte, genau definierte und einfache Erfassung der Verletzungsschwere mittels ISS geeignet.
Aufgrund der immensen Bedeutung der Prävention von Infektionskrankheiten und nicht-infektionsbedingten Problemen bei jährlich mehreren Millionen in tropische und subtropische Regionen reisenden deutschen Passagieren sowie des derzeit nur fragmentarischen Bildes von der Qualität der reisemedizinischen Beratung in Deutschland widmete sich diese Datenerhebung der Feststellung der Vollständigkeit und in Teilen der Korrektheit der Empfehlungen zu präventiven Maßnahmen. Die Untersuchung hatte zum Ziel, die Inanspruchnahme einer Beratung bei verschiedenen Beratungsstellen zu eruieren und diese mit erfassten Personen- und Reisedatenmerkmalen in Beziehung zu setzen. Weiterhin wurden die reisemedizinische Beratung in Deutschland auf Schwachstellen hin überprüft und die Empfehlungen der Hausärzte mit denen der nicht-hausärztlichen professionellen Berater (Apotheken, Tropeninstitute, Gesundheitsämter und die Flughafenklinik Frankfurt am Main) verglichen. In einem 27 Punkte umfassenden Erhebungsbogen wurden umfangreiche Daten von Passagieren zu fünf repräsentativen Reisezielen (Dominikanische Republik, Kenia, Senegal, Südafrika, Thailand) am Flughafen Frankfurt am Main zur Zeit der Herbstferien 2001 gesammelt. Die Ergebnisse erfuhren in einem weiteren Schritt eine vorwiegend deskriptive Auswertung, Unterschiede zwischen den Beratungsstellen und -gruppen (Hausärzte, nicht-hausärztliche Berater, Laiengruppe) wurden im Rahmen der induktiven Statistik mittels des exakten Fisher-Tests genauer betrachtet. Von 603 Passagieren haben 91% reisemedizinische Informationen in irgendeiner Form eingeholt, wobei die Anteile für die verschiedenen Reiseziele zwischen 89% und 96% variieren. Eine Mehrfachberatung der Reisenden hat bei 77% der Teilnehmer stattgefunden, wobei sich keine Abhängigkeit vom Risikograd eines Bestimmungsortes zeigt. ...
Trends for distributed, open, and increasingly collaborative models of information delivery challenge the library's classic roles. In addition, trends within the research community for more interdisciplinary and collaborative scholarship create an opportunity for more enabling information infrastructure. In an age of Amazon, Google, and "social" tools, how should the library respond? My presentation will focus on strategies for bringing the library's "assets" into the flow of researchers' work. How can the library integrate its resources into the scholar's workflow? What are the emerging challenges of this integration?
Information supply is the genuine task of academic institutions as well as of publishers. Publishers profit from copyright provisions which give them exclusive rights in their products. The same copyright provisions are often the limiting factor when academic institutions try to improve their service to the academic community. This is the case in particular when it comes to digital access to information. In a so-called "Second Basket", the German copyright act has just been revised, introducing explicit legal exemptions for document deliveries and on the spot consultation of works contained in public libraries' collections. At the same time, unresolved issues remain with respect to existing legal exemptions as well as the new ones. What will the legal parameters look like for academic institutions once the "Second basket" has been put into force? How can libraries work with these provisions in practice?
Information Supply in the era of mass digitization Drawing on his experience at the Bodleian Library and now at the British Library, Ronald Milne will share his first-hand impressions of 'boutique' and mass digitization programmes, such as those being undertaken by Google and Microsoft, and their effect on information supply. Collections define libraries. What does this mean in the 21st Century? Will all libraries become equal as the digital revolution progresses? What might the digitization and indexing of millions of works mean for university researchers and the intellectually curious more generally? What are the benefits and what are the strategic issues that we are bound to consider?
We survey contributions to the analysis of household liabilities, highlighting relevant theoretical aspects and outlining how data sources may support empirical testing and measurement efforts. Specifically, we classify aspects of household debt, discussing the theoretical and policy relevance of heterogeneity across individual and country dimensions. Aiming to illustrate conceptual and measurement issues, we refer to the approaches and results of some recent relevant country-specific work on administrative and survey data, and we argue that research in this area would greatly benefit from availability of appropriately classified household liabilities data and of cross-country institutional information. JEL Classification: G1, E21
It is theoretically clear and may be verified empirically that efficient financial markets can make it less necessary for policy to try and offset the welfare effects of labour income risk and unequal consumption dynamics. The literature has also pointed out that, since international competition exposes workers to new sources of risk at the same time as it makes it easier for individual choices to undermine collective policies, international economic integration makes insurance-oriented government policies more beneficial as well as more difficult to implement. This paper reviews the economic mechanisms underlying these insights and assesses their empirical relevance in cross-country panel data sets. Interactions between indicators of international economic integration, of government economic involvement, and of financial development are consistent with the idea that financial market development can substitute public schemes when economic integration calls for more effective household consumption smoothing. The paper’s theoretical perspective and empirical evidence suggest that to the extent that governments can foster financial market development by appropriate regulation and supervision, they should do so more urgently at times of intense and increasing internationalization of economic relationships. JEL Classification: G1, E21
We review savings trends in Italy, summarizing available empirical evidence on Italians’ motives to save, relying on macroeconomic indicators as well as on data drawn from the Bank of Italy’s Survey of Household Income and Wealth from 1984 to 2004. The macroeconomic data indicate that households’ saving has dropped significantly, although Italy continues to rank above most other countries in terms of saving. We then examine with microeconomic data four indicators of household financial conditions: the propensity to save, the proportion of households with negative savings, the proportion of households with debt, and the proportion of households that lack access to formal credit markets. By international comparison, the level of debt of Italian households and default risk are relatively low. But in light of the deep changes undergone by the Italian pension system, the fall in saving is a concern, particularly for individuals who entered the labor market after the 1995 reform and who have experienced the largest decline in pension wealth. JEL Classification: D91
Household saving behavior : the role of literacy, information and financial education programs
(2007)
Individuals are increasingly in charge of their own financial security after retirement. But how well-equipped are individuals to make saving decisions; do they possess adequate financial literacy, are they informed about the most important components of saving plans, do they even plan for retirement? This paper shows that financial illiteracy is widespread among the US population and particularly acute among specific demographic groups, such as those with low education, women, African-Americans and Hispanics. Moreover, close to half of older workers do not know which type of pensions they have and the large majority of workers know little about the rules governing Social Security benefits. Lack of literacy and lack of information can affect the ability to save and to secure a comfortable retirement; few individuals rely on the help of financial advisors and ignorance about basic financial concepts can be linked to lack of retirement planning and lack of wealth. Financial education programs can help improve saving and financial decision-making, but much more can be done to improve the effectiveness of these programs. JEL Classification: D91
Recent models with liquidity constraints and impatience emphasize that consumers use savings to buffer income fluctuations. When wealth is below an optimal target, consumers try to increase their buffer stock of wealth by saving more. When it is above target, they increase consumption. This important implication of the buffer stock model of saving has not been subject to direct empirical testing. We derive from the model an appropriate theoretical restriction and test it using data on working-age individuals drawn from the 2002 and 2004 Italian Surveys of Household Income and Wealth. One of the most appealing features of the survey is that it has data on the amount of wealth held for precautionary purposes, which we interpret as target wealth in a buffer stock model. The test results do not support buffer stock behavior, even among population groups that are more likely, a priori, to display such behavior. The saving behavior of young households is instead consistent with models in which impatience, relative to prudence, is not as high as in buffer stock models. JEL Classification: D91
Individuals are increasingly put in charge of their financial security after retirement. Moreover, the supply of complex financial products has increased considerably over the years. However, we still have little or no information about whether individuals have the financial knowledge and skills to navigate this new financial environment. To better understand financial literacy and its relation to financial decision-making, we have devised two special modules for the DNB Household Survey. We have designed questions to measure numeracy and basic knowledge related to the working of inflation and interest rates, as well as questions to measure more advanced financial knowledge related to financial market instruments (stocks, bonds, and mutual funds). We evaluate the importance of financial literacy by studying its relation to the stock market: Are more financially knowledgeable individuals more likely to hold stocks? To assess the direction of causality, we make use of questions measuring financial knowledge before investing in the stock market. We find that, while the understanding of basic economic concepts related to inflation and interest rate compounding is far from perfect, it outperforms the limited knowledge of stocks and bonds, the concept of risk diversification, and the working of financial markets. We also find that the measurement of financial literacy is very sensitive to the wording of survey questions. This provides additional evidence for limited financial knowledge. Finally, we report evidence of an independent effect of financial literacy on stock market participation: Those who have low financial literacy are significantly less likely to invest in stocks. JEL Classification: D91, G11, D80
We consider the advantages and disadvantages of stakeholder-oriented firms that are concerned with employees and suppliers as well as shareholders compared to shareholder-oriented firms. Societies with stakeholder-oriented firms have higher prices, lower output, and can have greater firm value than shareholder-oriented societies. In some circumstances, firms may voluntarily choose to be stakeholder-oriented because this increases their value. Consumers that prefer to buy from stakeholder firms can also enforce a stakeholder society. With globalization entry by stakeholder firms is relatively more attractive than entry by shareholder firms for all societies. JEL Classification: D02, D21, G34, L13, L21
We introduce a multivariate multiplicative error model which is driven by componentspecific observation driven dynamics as well as a common latent autoregressive factor. The model is designed to explicitly account for (information driven) common factor dynamics as well as idiosyncratic effects in the processes of high-frequency return volatilities, trade sizes and trading intensities. The model is estimated by simulated maximum likelihood using efficient importance sampling. Analyzing five minutes data from four liquid stocks traded at the New York Stock Exchange, we find that volatilities, volumes and intensities are driven by idiosyncratic dynamics as well as a highly persistent common factor capturing most causal relations and cross-dependencies between the individual variables. This confirms economic theory and suggests more parsimonious specifications of high-dimensional trading processes. It turns out that common shocks affect the return volatility and the trading volume rather than the trading intensity. JEL Classification: C15, C32, C52
Von einem, der auszog, das Alter zu erkunden : Ulrich Peter Ritters ganz persönliche "Alterspolitik"
(2007)
20 Bücher und mehr als 80 Aufsätze füllen Ulrich Peter Ritters Veröffentlichungsregister. Ab 1975 unterrichtete der gebürtige Essener am Fachbereich 02 der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität als Professor für Hochschuldidaktik der Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Lehren für Studenten, die lehren lernen wollten, war damals en vogue. Und so gab Ritter im Wintersemester 1973/74 ein gut besuchtes Seminar für Tutoren sowie ein weniger frequentiertes Seminar zur Hochschuldidaktik für Hochschullehrer, wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter und Studenten. Das war der Anfang seiner Karriere in Frankfurt. Eigentlich könnte der heute 72-Jährige nach 26 Jahren Lehre und Forschung eine Hände getrost in den Schoß legen. Mitnichten! Sein Ruhestand ist ein Unruhestand. Er, der zeit seines Lebens forschte und lehrte, lebt nun – gemeinsam mit seiner Frau Judy (71), einer Diplompädagogin und Organisationsberaterin – die Modelle seiner Forschung. ...
Das Foto auf der Homepage von Prof. Dr. Norman Davis zeigt einen verschmitzt lächelnden, weißbärtigen Mann. Die Brille hat er keck auf die Nasenspitze geschoben. Entspannt sitzt der US-amerikanische Neurobiologe im blaugrau gemusterten Poloshirt an seinem Mikroskop, das in der Division of Neurobiology an der University of Arizona in Tuscon steht. Davis ist dort Research Professor im Team von Prof. Dr. John Hildebrand. Früher war er Lehrstuhlinhaber an einer der renommierten Ostküsten-Unis. Doch ans Aufhören dachte er auch im hohen Alter nicht. Stattdessen erforscht er nun als ganz normales Teammitglied ohne Extravaganzen. ...
Keine Bevölkerungsgruppe wächst so schnell wie die Gruppe der über 80-jährigen, 2050 werden es in Deutschland voraussichtlich zehn Millionen Menschen sein. Ganz ähnlich wie in vielen anderen Ländern auf allen Kontinenten, mit Ausnahme von Afrika. Aber ist die Medizin auf diese unausweichliche Entwicklung vorbereitet? »Noch nicht,« sagt Privatdozent Dr. Rupert Püllen, Altersmediziner und Chefarzt der Medizinisch-Geriatrischen Klinik der Frankfurter Diakonie- Kliniken. »Die Geriatrie führt unter den vielfältigen medizinischen Fachdisziplinen noch immer ein Schattendasein. Es mangelt an ausgebildeten Altersmedizinern ebenso wie an verlässlichen wissenschaftlichen Daten, aus denen sich evidenzbasierte Behandlungsstrategien für diese Altersgruppe ableiten lassen.« ...
Als Sie vor über drei Jahren das Forum »Alterswissenschaften und Alterspolitik« ins Leben gerufen haben, wollten Sie eine fächerübergreifende Zusammenarbeit in der Altersforschung initiieren. Was ist daraus geworden? Zenz: Wir haben zunächst einmal mit der öffentlichen Vorstellung von Frankfurter Forschungsprojekten begonnen. Im Rahmen einer Vortragsreihe sind immer wieder Wissenschaftler aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen zusammengekommen – aus Sportwissenschaft und Psychologie, Biologie und Hirnforschung, Ökonomie und Soziologie, Psychiatrie und Pädagogik. Dabei sind auch Fachhochschul- und Praxisprojekte einbezogen worden, um Beispiel vom Frankfurter Bürgerinstitut. Und immer haben wir Wert darauf gelegt, dass neben den etablierten Professoren der »wissenschaftliche Nachwuchs« zu Wort kam. ...