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Being able to move around in the community including using different modes of transport is a prerequisite for being able to participate in activities outside home. This can be particular challenging for people with cognitive impairments. Still, research regarding public transport for people with cognitive impairments is scarce. In this narrative review scientific literature focusing on people with cognitive impairments and their needs in public transport, was identified and summarised. All aspects in the travel chain perspective were of interest. Literature search engines Scirus, Elin and Cinahl were used during the search.
Thirty-four articles were included and analysed according to which part of the travel chain they covered in the used model. The results showed that the articles were unevenly allocated to the different parts of the model. Future studies based on real-world experiences are essential, and more user-centred approaches should be adopted. Moreover, there is a need for the development and evaluation of evidence-based rehabilitation. Finally, more research is needed to foster societal awareness of the problems and needs in the public transport of people with cognitive impairments taking the whole travel chain into consideration.
Plant-based food additives in functional foods can improve consumer’s nutrient uptake and promote optimal health effects. Considering the ongoing development of new technologies for extracting bioactive substances the potential pricing of these substances plays a major role in assessing the overall profitability of new technologies. The study therefore assessed potential prices for not yet commercially existing bioactive substances from wood by carrying out a business-to-businesssurvey. Applying the van Westendorp method the study identified a potential price in context of varying product properties like different health claims or increasing purities. The Indifference Price of 101.5 €/kg can be considered as a guide value to assess the overall profitability. The study identified potential price ranges for such products and provided information that can be used for according pricing strategies. © 2014, OGA-Osterreichische Gesellschaft fur Agrarokonomie.
Communication is an important tool in maintaining legitimacy and acceptability of forest sector operations and activities, and expectations by the general public on the forest sector conduct in Europe are in general very high. Despite this, there is scarce research in cross-national contexts on how forest sector sustainability is communicated to the general public and what development areas can be identified in terms of communication content. This study applies a qualitative content analysis in four forestry-rich European countries (Austria, Finland, Germany, and Slovenia). The state of online communication of 61 companies and 19 industry associations was qualitatively analyzed in 2014 with a focus on eight core sustainability topics of interest that were identified via an international forest sector stakeholder feedback process. Our results show some great similarities, but also some interesting differences in terms of communication frequency and weight of hot topics across countries. The most frequently communicated area was economic contribution of forests (in Finland and Austria), followed by debate over forest conservation versus production (Germany) and the concept-added value of wood (in Slovenia). With the exception of Slovenia, the role of forests in combating global warming was emphasized more frequently within industry associations than among individual forest industry companies. Characteristically, current content of sustainability communicatio
n focuses on supplying factual information. Thus, there is a need for developing more targeted and bidirectional forms of stakeholder communication in the future, emphasizing also more active use of social media channels and empowering organizations to promote interactive communication and collaborative learning.
Roboter mit Himbeeren, Ein Überblick über Roboterbausätze und GPIO Bibliotheken auf Raspberry Pi (2)
(2015)
Eine ressourcenschonende Bewässerung von Nutzpflanzen wird durch
den Klimawandel in den nächsten Jahren immer größere Bedeutung gewinnen. Eine Möglichkeit, das für Pflanzen zur Verfügung stehende Wasserpotential beurteilen zu können, ist die Nutzung von klimatischen Faktoren und Computermodellen. In diesem Beitrag wird die Entwicklung eines auf dem Forschungsprojekt agriOpenLink basierten Softwaresystems zur Abschätzung der Evapotranspiration auf einer landwirtschaftlichen Nutzfläche beschrieben. Der Fokus dieses Berichts liegt auf dem Softwareframework, welches auf semantischer Technologie basiert und formalisiertes landwirtschaftliches Wissen sowie Computermodelle zur Abschätzung der Evapotranspiration beinhaltet. Es werden erste experimentelle Ergebnisse diskutiert und die semantische Technologie bezüglich praktischer Nutzung evaluiert.
Driver Capability Monitoring in Highly Automated Driving: from state to capability monitoring
(2015)
Since the early 1980s, shock wave treatment has been the golden standard treatment option for the disintegration of kidney stones in urology. A wide range of beneficial effects of shock waves on the human body was soon identified, starting with first observations of bone densification at the iliac crest after treatment of kidney stones. Since then, the indications for shock wave therapy have conquered areas apart from the field of urology. Nowadays, shock wave therapy is used for a variety of indications such as tendinopathies or impaired bone healing.
Furthermore, patients suffering from poor wound healing such as diabetic foot ulcers and also chronic, non-healing wounds are treated successfully with shock waves. Despite the versatile application fields of shock wave therapy, the general principles underlying the beneficial effect of this treatment still remain to be fully elucidated. Several in vitro and in vivo studies, mostly involving osteoblast like cells and the osteo-inductive potential of shock wave treatment, already highlighted the role of the activation of mechanotransductory signaling pathways. For the clinical application of shock wave therapy as an accepted treatment for critically healing wounds (e.g. chronic or diabetic wounds, burns), general mechanistic evidence to explain the underlying mechanisms is essential. These data would facilitate the standardized application of this non-invasive, cost efficient and low- risk bearing therapy, which can be performed in an outpatient setting.
First of all, an in vitro set-up was established and the necessary technical parameters for the optimal application of shock wave treatment on cell cultures were defined in this thesis. For this purpose, a molecule uptake assay was used as a functional assay. The following aims of this study were to elucidate the effect of shock wave treatment on intracellular signaling in vitro and to ultimately describe their role in the wound healing effect of shock wave treatment in vivo. To identify universal effects of shock wave treatment on intracellular signaling mechanisms, various cell lines were used, including the human U937 monocytic cell line, a human Jurkat T-cell line, the human MG63 osteosarcoma cell line, the C3H10T1/2 mouse mesenchymal progenitor cell line as well as primary human peripheral mononuclear cells. For the first time, the affected signaling cascade leading to the proliferative effect of shock wave treatment in vitro was described in detail in mouse C3H10T1/2 cells as well as in human adipose tissue-derived stem cells and human Jurkat T-cells. Further, ATP release from shock wave treated cells was shown to initiate intracellular Erk1/2 signaling activation via purinergic signaling. The thereby ultimately increased proliferation was reported to be dependent on shock wave treatment triggered Erk1/2 pathway activation. An in vivo study on impaired wound healing in rats confirmed the hypothesis on the essential role of Erk1/2 signaling in the shock wave treatment induced wound healing effect. Data clearly indicate the crucial importance of the Erk1/2 signaling cascade in the proliferative and wound healing effect of shock wave treatment.
Conclusively, purinergic signaling activated Erk1/2 signaling cascades play an essential role in the shock wave treatment induced proliferative and wound healing effect. The thereby broadened knowledge on the underlying mechanistic principles of the effect of shock wave treatment contributes to the establishment of shock wave therapy as a feasible standard treatment for soft tissue wound healing disorders such as diabetic or chronic wounds.
Dance in the Circular City
(2015)
Living Mathematics—some limits for abstraction in mathematics and their relation to experience
(2015)
Kleinwindkraft in Österreich
(2015)
Using HL7 FHIR for medical device integration HL7 Standards: Overview, examples, success stories
(2015)
AsTeRICS Framework
(2015)
Neck Braces in Motocross: Different Designs and Their Effects on Muscular Activity of the Neck
(2015)
Structure and Substance in Functional Discourse Grammar: The case of the Binominal Noun Phrase
(2015)
Behausungen für Gedanken
(2015)