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Der Beitrag beruht auf einem Vortrag am Achten Deutsch-Österreichisch-Schweizerischen Symposium für Gesellschafts- und Kapitalmarktrecht vom Juni 2017 im Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht in Hamburg. Dürfen Unternehmen Mittel ihrer Gesellschaft unentgeltlich für soziale, politische oder kulturelle Zwecke investieren? Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach, ob politisches Engagement von Unternehmen und insbesondere korporative Freigiebigkeit wie Spenden zulässig sind. Unter anderem wird auch auf die Frage eingegangen, ob staatliche Regulierung von politischem Engagement von Unternehmen erforderlich und wünschenswert ist. ; + ID der Publikation: unilu_26601 + Reihe: ZSR-Beiheft + Sprache: Deutsch + Letzte Aktualisierung: 2018-08-22 11:03:56

Spender von Körperfragmenten werden gegenwärtig vom biomedizinischen Forschungsregime exkludiert. Die Deutungshoheit über die gespendeten Körperfragmente bleibt folglich allein bei den Forschenden. Die vom rechtswissenschaftlichen Diskurs vorgeschlagene Lösung lautet wiederum: Ermächtigung der Exkludierten durch Anerkennung neuer subjektiver Rechte am menschlichen Körper. In diesem Beitrag wird ein anderer Weg eingeschlagen, namentlich die Anerkennung eines impersonalen Rechts des fragmentierten und entgrenzten menschlichen Körpers selbst. Die Funktion dieses Rechts soll nach der hier vertretenen These darin bestehen, die Deutungsoffenheit dieses Körpers vor einseitigen Bestimmungen seitens einzelner Akteure zu bewahren. Schließlich soll aufgezeigt werden, wie ein solches Recht im Kontext der Biobankenforschung umgesetzt werden kann. ; + ID der Publikation: unilu_28703 + Sprache: Deutsch + Letzte Aktualisierung: 2018-05-16 12:10:19

The notion of transition receives noticeable attention in political as well as scientific arenas. In the policy arena in the Netherlands, significant results have not been achieved yet despite all the efforts on 'managing' the transition to a sustainable energy sector. Although the scientific literature on transitions contains publications from 25 countries, the US was most important before 2000 and authors from the Netherlands have been dominant since. Simulations of energy transitions are in its early stages, compared to their potential. Our bibliographical analysis of the transition literature shows that the number of papers mentioning simulations is low, only 19 out of 142, and their young. Most of those papers describe case studies that focus on autonomous, unmanaged transitions; only a few aim their simulations at transition management. Complex systems theory tells us that energy infrastructures – true socio-technical systems – cannot be designed. Therefore, transition management is a paradox: when transitions are expected to take decades, how could we know what actions to take now in order to shape energy infrastructures in such a way that the preferred transition will occur over decades? And at the end of the day, how could we attribute the result to transition management activities, whether the transition was successful or not? This paradox is no argument to wait: policy issues regarding energy infrastructures have to be made today. Therefore, we have set out for simulations of energy transition, using agent-based models, as to support energy transition management. Results from three cases – regarding CO2 reduction from power generation, the electricity-intensity of consumer lighting, and a spot market for LNG trade – have proved that it is possible to gain useful insights in how the myriad of decisions made in energy infrastructures can be influenced in a way that a transition is likely. ; Infrastructures, Systems and Services ; Technology, Policy and Management

Online version of an article, originally published as: Ferguson, Susan, The Radical Ideas of Mary Wollstonecraft, Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique, Vol. 32, No. 3 (Sep., 1999), pp. 427-450.

An accessible introduction to the life of a great man, and a unique perspective on 20th Century politics. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched. ; Includes bibliographical references and indexes. ; An accessible introduction to the life of a great man, and a unique perspective on 20th Century politics. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched. ; Mode of access: Internet.

The rebellious spirit of 1968 was characterised, among other things, by a strong aversion to authority of any form. In Dutch children's literature, this spirit is personified by the author Miep Diekmann. From the end of the 1950s until the end of the 1980s, Diekmann contested all kinds of social injustice, both in her children's books and in her critical work. This article discusses how she challenged the status quo in Dutch children's literature, firstly through her efforts to improve the cultural status of children's literature, and secondly through writing books with a different view of the world than the one with which children were then familiar. In interviews, reviews, and discussions with politicians, she successfully appealed for more academic and critical attention for books for young readers. With her children's books she wanted to make her readers think independently about all kinds of social injustice. Whereas in her first books a tension can be observed between her ambition to make children aware of forms of inequality and her intention to let her reading audience judge for themselves, in her later novels, in particular in De dagen van olim, [The Days of Yore] (1971), she presents social injustice in a way that leaves more to the imagination of her readers.

Evaluation of researchers' output is vital for hiring committees and funding bodies, and it is usually measured via their scientific productivity, citations, or a combined metric such as the h-index. Assessing young researchers is more critical because it takes a while to get citations and increment of h-index. Hence, predicting the h-index can help to discover the researchers' scientific impact. In addition, identifying the influential factors to predict the scientific impact is helpful for researchers and their organizations seeking solutions to improve it. This study investigates the effect of the author, paper/venue-specific features on the future h-index. For this purpose, we used a machine learning approach to predict the h-index and feature analysis techniques to advance the understanding of feature impact. Utilizing the bibliometric data in Scopus, we defined and extracted two main groups of features. The first relates to prior scientific impact, and we name it 'prior impact-based features' and includes the number of publications, received citations, and h-index. The second group is 'non-prior impact-based features' and contains the features related to author, co-authorship, paper, and venue characteristics. We explored their importance in predicting researchers' h-index in three career phases. Also, we examined the temporal dimension of predicting performance for different feature categories to find out which features are more reliable for long- and short-term prediction. We referred to the gender of the authors to examine the role of this author's characteristics in the prediction task. Our findings showed that gender has a very slight effect in predicting the h-index. Although the results demonstrate better performance for the models containing prior impact-based features for all researchers' groups in the near future, we found that non-prior impact-based features are more robust predictors for younger scholars in the long term. Also, prior impact-based features lose their power to predict more than other features in the long term.

"In More Than Words: Turn #MeToo into #ISaidSomething, Kirsten Anderson shares her remarkable journey from the debilitating despair of harassment to hope. After years of employment in a verbally abusive environment at the Iowa Statehouse, she lost her identity as an assertive, career-minded, confident, and empowered woman. Her relationship with her toxic employer ended when she was fired just hours after issuing a formal complaint. A legal and personal journey ensued. Anderson won her case. Since then, she has made it her mission to educate others about the complexities of sexual harassment, bullying, and retaliation in the workplace. By sharing the realities targets of harassment face, she intends to educate readers, help targets move forward and initiate change in toxic work environments to eliminate harassment once and for all"--

In this research, several improvements to the European Union Emissions Trading System (EU ETS) were analysed. The EU ETS is a market for emission allowances and the European Union's main instrument for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (of which CO2 is the main component). However, the CO2 allowance price in this market has been highly volatile and generally too low to stimulate significant long-term reductions in CO2 emissions. National and system-wide price floors and ceilings were investigated, prompted by the UK's implementation of a CO2 price floor through a supplementary CO2 tax. The effects of the "backloading" of CO2 allowances and the proposed Market Stability Reserve were also investigated. While the latter measures may increase dynamic efficiency, this research showed that a well-designed price corridor is even more efficient, while still achieving the long-term abatement targets and stabilising prices. Furthermore, different methods for adjusting the CO2 emissions cap in response to changes in renewable energy policies were investigated. Finally, the impact of investors' risk aversion on the functioning of the CO2 market was evaluated. The analyses were conducted with the use of EMLab-Generation, an agent-based model that simulates two interconnected electricity markets with a joint CO2 emissions trading system. In this model, the companies have limited knowledge about the future, which makes it possible to investigate the impact of public policy instruments on long-term investment dynamics. ; Engineering Systems and Services ; Technology, Policy and Management