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Small Changes in Patient Arrival and Consultation Times Have Large Effects on Patients' Waiting Times: Simulation Analyses for Primary Care
Grot, Matthias; Kugai, Simon; Degen, Lukas; Wiemer, Isabel; Werners, Brigitte; Weltermann, Birgitta (2023-01-18)(1) Background: Workflows are a daily challenge in general practices. The desired smooth work processes and patient flows are not easy to achieve. This study uses an operational research approach to illustrate the general ... -
Small embeddings, forcing with side conditions, and large cardinal characterizations
Njegomir, Ana (2019-09-26)In this thesis, we provide new characterizations for several well-studied large cardinal notions. These characterizations will be of two types. Motivated by seminal work of Magidor, the first type characterizes large ... -
Small farms: Changing structures and roles in economic development
von Braun, Joachim; Mirzabaev, Alisher (2015-10)Small farms are the largest employment and small business group among the poor. Their businesses use mostly labor and local resources and face local constraints, but at the same time, they are affected by increasingly ... -
Small Molecules, Big Impact: Investigating Hydrides in the Interstellar Medium
Jacob, Arshia Maria (2021-06-16)This thesis investigates hydride molecules in the interstellar medium (ISM) and their use as diagnostics of different phases of the ISM. Particular emphasis is given to the central CH radical, a probe of diffuse and ... -
Small-scale irrigation potential in Sub-Saharan Africa: Targeting investments in technologies, locations and institutions
Koo, Jawoo; Olayide, Olawale E.; Sangaré, Saadatou (2019-01)The limited access to water the during dry season or a drought greatly restricts farming opportunities and productivity increases in Sub-Saharan Africa. Irrigation can thus be a promising solution to boost levels of ... -
Small-scale Physical and Chemical Structure of Diffuse and Translucent Molecular Clouds along the Line of Sight to the Galactic Center
Thiel, Vivien (2019-05-02)Diffuse and translucent molecular clouds constitute a large part of the molecular interstellar medium (ISM) in our Galaxy as well as in other spiral galaxies. In particular, the envelopes of giant molecular clouds (GMCs), ... -
Small-scale studies of the Milky Way disc and halo gas with absorption-line spectroscopy
Nasoudi Shoar, Soroush (2012-12-13)Progressive studies in the last decades have shown that the interstellar medium (ISM) is more complex and dynamic than previously thought. The presence of the small-scale structures, structures on scales below 1 pc, has ... -
Smallholder agricultural mechanization in Africa: Addressing governance challenges of state- and market-led mechanization efforts
Daum, Thomas; Birner, Regina (2017-08)In the past decade, agricultural mechanization has returned to Africa’s development agenda, which has led to a variety of state and market-led initiatives to promote mechanization. Overwhelming evidence suggests that past ... -
Smallholder Participation in the Commercialisation of Vegetables: Evidence from Kenyan Panel Data
Muriithi, Beatrice W.; Matz, Julia Anna (2014-02)This paper describes the participation of smallholders in commercial horticultural farming in Kenya and identifies constraints and critical factors that influence their decision to participate in this industry by selling ... -
SMNrp und TUBA: Isolierung und Charakterisierung zweier neuer Gene mit Homologie zu SMN, dem Krankheitsgen der spinalen Muskelatrophie
Plöttner, Oliver (2002)Spinale Muskelatrophie, die zweithäufigste autosomal rezessive Erbkrankheit mit Todesfolge beim Menschen, wird durch Mutationen im <em>SMN1</em>-Gen verursacht, die zu einem Mangel an funktionellem SMN-Protein in den Zellen ... -
Smooth 4-Manifolds and Surface Diagrams
Behrens, Stefan (2014-06-18)Surface diagrams are a diagrammatic representation of smooth, 4-dimensional manifolds. In fact, a surface diagram encodes a 4-manifold together with a map onto the 2-sphere. After giving a detailed proof of this correspondence, ... -
Smoothed Analysis of Selected Optimization Problems and Algorithms
Brunsch, Tobias (2014-03-20)Optimization problems arise in almost every field of economics, engineering, and science. Many of these problems are well-understood in theory and sophisticated algorithms exist to solve them efficiently in practice. ... -
Social assimilation and labor market outcomes of migrants in China
Cai, Shu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. (2020-12)Previous research has found identity to be relevant for international migration, but has neglected internal mobility as in the case of the Great Chinese Migration. However, the context of the identities of migrants and ... -
Social interactions and aspirations formation in rural Ethiopia
Mekonnen, Daniel Ayalew (2016-12)The recent literature postulates that aspirations are one of the key determinants of economic decision making, and that aspirations are formed socially through observations and by learning from ‘relevant others’ (or the ... -
Social interactions, aspirations, and agricultural innovations: Linkages with income and food security in rural Ethiopia
Mekonnen, Daniel Ayalew (2016-11-09)The persistence of poverty in some parts of the society across the globe inspired recent studies in development economics to embrace the use of multidisciplinary tools and concepts to better understand the situation of the ... -
The Social Interface of Smart City Development: An empirical study in Magelang City, Indonesia
Pratama, Arif Budy (2023-08-31)What happens when a local government at the city level adopts the smart city concept as its urban development strategy? In this study, I pose an inquiry into how smart city policy is made and implemented in everyday urban ... -
Social Media as a Tool for Transparency and Good Governance in the Government of Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Hussain, Yasir (2014-10)This article focuses on a social media initiative of the Chief Secretary of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) using the popular social network platform Facebook as a tool to enhance E-Government services in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), a ... -
Social Preferences and Incentives in the Workplace
Altmann, Steffen (2009-08-12)Most economic exchanges are not based on fully contingent, explicit contracts, but rather rely on informal agreements that specify the contracting parties' obligations only imprecisely. In the labor market, contractual ... -
Social-aware Robot Navigation based on Deep Reinforcement Learning
Zhou, Yanying (2024-04-24)With the increase of applications involving autonomous mobile robots, there is a growing need for them to navigate safely and effectively in environments shared with humans. In recent years, social-aware robot navigation ... -
Socially gainful gender quotas
Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter (2014-05)We study the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital. We assume that individuals’ formation of human capital is influenced by the prospect of landing high-pay top positions, and that these positions are ...