TY - THES A1 - Weiner, Mareike T1 - Cradle to Cradle – An analysis of the market potential in the German outdoor apparel industry N2 - The purpose of this study is to investigate the market potential in the German outdoor apparel industry by focusing on sustainable production in terms of environmental and human health. A literature study of the Cradle to Cradle (C2C) design concept is provided, as it represents a solution for pollution, waste and environmental destruction caused by the current industrial design and waste management. The data for the subsequent market- and competitive analysis of the German outdoor apparel industry was collected through secondary research in order to identify several key market indicators for the assessment of the market potential. The outcome of this research is the identification of a positioning strategy for outdoor apparel according to the C2C design concept. The results show stagnant growth rates in recent years in the German outdoor apparel market and strong rivalry among the competitors. However, a significant market potential was calculated and beneficial trends for sustainable outdoor brands were recognised. These findings reveal the existence of a market potential for an outdoor apparel brand according to the C2C design concept. By following a positioning strategy of transparency and full commitment to a sustainable production, the company might be able to gain market shares from its competitors, as future predictions indicate slow growth rates in the market. The results of this analysis can be of great interest for entrepreneurs that plan to enter the German outdoor apparel industry. KW - C2C KW - Outdoor KW - Nachhaltigkeit KW - Freiluftsport KW - Bekleidungsindustrie KW - Marktpotenzial Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-10515 ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Biopolymers - facts and statistics N2 - One of the main concerns of this publication is to furnish a more rational basis for discussing bioplastics and use fact-based arguments in the public discourse. Furthermore, “Biopolymers – facts and statistics” aims to provide specific, qualified answers easily and quickly for decision-makers in particular from public administration and the industrial sector. Therefore, this publication is made up like a set of rules and standards and largely foregoes textual detail. It offers extensive market-relevant and technical facts presented in graphs and charts, which means that the information is much easier to grasp. The reader can expect comparative market figures for various materials, regions, applications, process routes, agricultural land use, water use or resource consumption, production capacities, geographic distribution, etc. T3 - Biopolymers - facts and statistics - 3 KW - bioplastics KW - biopolymers KW - land use KW - water use KW - market data facts KW - process routes Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-10166 SP - 4 EP - 46 CY - Hannover ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Limaye, Dnyanesh T1 - Development of Medical Devices JF - Current Therapeutic Research N2 - The medical devices sector helps save lives by providing innovative health care solutions regarding diagnosis, prevention, monitoring, treatment, and alleviation. Medical devices are classified into 1 of 3 categories in the order of increasing risk: Class I, Class II, and Class III.1 Medical devices are distinguished from drugs for regulatory purposes based on mechanism of action. Unlike drugs, medical devices operate via physical or mechanical means and are not dependent on metabolism to accomplish their primary intended effect. KW - clinical trials KW - EMA KW - medical devices KW - USFDA Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-9105 VL - 78 IS - Supplement SP - S9 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ibeneme, Georgian C. A1 - Nwaneri, Ada Caroline A1 - Ibeneme, Sam C. A1 - Ezenduka, Pauline A1 - Strüver, Vanessa A1 - Fortwengel, Gerhard A1 - Okoye, Ifeoma Joy T1 - Mothers’ perception of recovery and satisfaction with patent medicine dealers’ treatment of childhood febrile conditions in rural communities JF - Malaria Journal N2 - Background Infant mortality in rural areas of Nigeria can be minimized if childhood febrile conditions are treated by trained health personnel, deployed to primary healthcare centres (PHCs) rather than the observed preference of mothers for patent medicine dealers (PMDs). However, health service utilization/patronage is driven by consumer satisfaction and perception of services/product value. The objective of this study was to determine ‘mothers’ perception of recovery’ and ‘mothers’ satisfaction’ after PMD treatment of childhood febrile conditions, as likely drivers of mothers’ health-seeking behaviour, which must be targeted to reverse the trend. Methods Ugwuogo-Nike, in Enugu, Nigeria, has many PMDs/PHCs, and was selected based on high prevalence of childhood febrile conditions. In total, 385 consenting mothers (aged 15–45 years) were consecutively recruited at PMD shops, after purchasing drugs for childhood febrile conditions, in a cross-sectional observational study using a pre-tested instrument; 33 of them (aged 21–47 years) participated in focus group discussions (FGDs). Qualitative data were thematically analysed while a quantitative study was analysed with Z score and Chi square statistics, at p < 0.05. Results Most participants in FGDs perceived that their child had delayed recovery, but were satisfied with PMDs’ treatment of childhood febrile conditions, for reasons that included politeness, caring attitude, drug availability, easy accessibility, flexibility in pricing, shorter waiting time, their God-fearing nature, and disposition as good listeners. Mothers’ satisfaction with PMDs’ treatment is significantly (p < 0.05) associated with mothers’ perception of recovery of their child (χ2 = 192.94, df = 4; p < 0.0001; Cramer’s V = 0.7079). However, predicting mothers’ satisfaction with PMDs’ treatment from a knowledge of mothers’ perception of recovery shows a high accord (lambda[A from B] = 0.8727), unlike when predicting mothers’ perception of recovery based on knowledge of mothers’ satisfaction with PMDs’ treatment (lambda[A from B] = 0.4727). Conclusions Mothers’ satisfaction could be the key ‘driver’ of mothers’ health-seeking behaviour and is less likely to be influenced by mothers’ perception of recovery of their child. Therefore, mothers’ negative perception of their child’s recovery may not induce proportionate decline in mothers’ health-seeking behaviour (patronage of PMDs), which might be influenced mainly by mothers’ satisfaction with the positive attributes of PMDs’ personality/practice and sets an important agenda for PHC reforms. KW - Patent medicine dealers KW - Childhood febrile conditions KW - Mothers’ perception of recovery KW - Mothers’ satisfaction KW - Rural community Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-9234 VL - 15 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Strüver, Vanessa T1 - Publication Bias JF - Current Therapeutic Research N2 - According to the Declaration of Helsinki, as well as the Statement on Public Disclosure of Clinical Trial Results of the World Health Organization, every researcher has the ethical obligation to publish research results on all trials with human participants in a complete and accurate way within 12 months after the end of the trial.1,2 Nevertheless, for several reasons, not all research results are published in an accurate way in case they are released at all. This phenomenon of publication bias may not only create a false impression on the reliability of clinical research business, but it may also affect the evidence of clinical conclusions about the best treatments, which are mostly based on published data and results. KW - author KW - editor KW - peer review KW - publication bias Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-9147 VL - 78 IS - Supplement SP - S7 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mayr, Philipp A1 - Tudhope, Douglas A1 - Golub, Koraljka A1 - Wartena, Christian A1 - De Luca, Ernesto William T1 - Editorial for the 15th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems Workshop (NKOS 2016) T2 - NKOS 2016 : Networked Knowledge Organization Systems Workshop ; Proceedings of the 15th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems Workshop (NKOS 2016) co-located with the 20th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries 2016 (TPDL 2016), Hannover, Germany, September 9, 2016. N2 - Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS), in the form of classification systems, thesauri, lexical databases, ontologies, and taxonomies, play a crucial role in digital information management and applications generally. Carrying semantics in a well-controlled and documented way, Knowledge Organisation Systems serve a variety of important functions: tools for representation and indexing of information and documents, knowledge-based support to information searchers, semantic road maps to domains and disciplines, communication tool by providing conceptual framework, and conceptual basis for knowledge based systems, e.g. automated classification systems. New networked KOS (NKOS) services and applications are emerging, and we have reached a stage where many KOS standards exist and the integration of linked services is no longer just a future scenario. This editorial describes the workshop outline and overview of presented papers at the 15th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems Workshop (NKOS 2016) in Hannover, Germany. KW - Informationsmanagement Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-11130 UR - http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1676/editorial.pdf SP - 1 EP - 6 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Aga, Rosa Tsegaye A1 - Wartena, Christian A1 - Drumond, Lucas A1 - Schmidt-Thieme, Lars T1 - Learning thesaurus relations from distributional features T2 - LREC 2016, Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation N2 - In distributional semantics words are represented by aggregated context features. The similarity of words can be computed by comparing their feature vectors. Thus, we can predict whether two words are synonymous or similar with respect to some other semantic relation. We will show on six different datasets of pairs of similar and non-similar words that a supervised learning algorithm on feature vectors representing pairs of words outperforms cosine similarity between vectors representing single words. We compared different methods to construct a feature vector representing a pair of words. We show that simple methods like pairwise addition or multiplication give better results than a recently proposed method that combines different types of features. The semantic relation we consider is relatedness of terms in thesauri for intellectual document classification. Thus our findings can directly be applied for the maintenance and extension of such thesauri. To the best of our knowledge this relation was not considered before in the field of distributional semantics. KW - distributional semantics KW - thesauri KW - context vectors KW - supervised machine learning KW - Thesaurus KW - Überwachtes Lernen KW - Semantik Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-10894 SN - 978-2-9517408-9-1 SP - 2071 EP - 2075 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Limaye, Dnyanesh A1 - Kale, M. A1 - Chitre, N. A1 - Deshapande, D. A1 - Desai, R. A1 - Limaye, Vaidehi A1 - Fortwengel, Gerhard T1 - Cost-effectiveness Study of Antihypertensive Drugs in Mumbai, India JF - Current Therapeutic Research N2 - Hypertension is a serious global public health problem. It accounts for 10% of all deaths in India and is the leading noncommunicable disease.1 Recent studies have shown that the prevalence of hypertension is 25% in urban and 10% in rural people in India.2 It exerts a substantial public health burden on cardiovascular health status and health care systems in India.3 Antihypertensive treatment effectively reduces hypertension-related morbidity and mortality.1 The cost of medications has always been a barrier to effective treatment. KW - antihypertensive KW - cost-effectiveness KW - hypertension KW - India Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-9160 VL - 78 IS - Supplement SP - S2 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Limaye, Dnyanesh A1 - Todi, K. A1 - Shroff, J. A1 - Ramaswamy, A. A1 - Kulkarni, P. A1 - Limaye, Vaidehi A1 - Fortwengel, Gerhard T1 - Cost-effectiveness Study of Antidiabetic Drugs in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients From Mumbai, India JF - Current Therapeutic Research N2 - Diabetes is fast gaining the status of a potential epidemic in India, with >62 million individuals currently diagnosed with the disease.1 India currently faces an uncertain future in relation to the potential burden that diabetes may impose on the country. An estimated US$ 2.2 billion would be needed to sufficiently treat all cases of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in India.2 Many interventions can reduce the burden of this disease. However, health care resources are limited; thus, interventions for diabetes treatment should be prioritized. KW - antidiabetic KW - cost-effectiveness KW - diabetes mellitus KW - India Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-9151 VL - 78 IS - Supplement SP - S2 EP - S3 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Aga, Rosa Tsegaye A1 - Drumond, Lucas A1 - Wartena, Christian A1 - Schmidt-Thieme, Lars T1 - Integrating distributional and lexical information for semantic classification of words using MRMF T2 - Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers, Osaka, Japan, December 11-17 2016 N2 - Semantic classification of words using distributional features is usually based on the semantic similarity of words. We show on two different datasets that a trained classifier using the distributional features directly gives better results. We use Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Multirelational Matrix Factorization (MRMF) to train classifiers. Both give similar results. However, MRMF, that was not used for semantic classification with distributional features before, can easily be extended with more matrices containing more information from different sources on the same problem. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the novel approach by including information from WordNet. Thus we show, that MRMF provides an interesting approach for building semantic classifiers that (1) gives better results than unsupervised approaches based on vector similarity, (2) gives similar results as other supervised methods and (3) can naturally be extended with other sources of information in order to improve the results. KW - Klassifikation KW - Semantik Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-11153 SP - 2708 EP - 2717 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Aga, Rosa Tsegaye A1 - Wartena, Christian T1 - CogALex-V Shared Task: HsH-Supervised – supervised similarity learning using entry wise product of context vectors T2 - Proceedings of the Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon, December 12, 2016, Osaka, Japan N2 - The CogALex-V Shared Task provides two datasets that consists of pairs of words along with a classification of their semantic relation. The dataset for the first task distinguishes only between related and unrelated, while the second data set distinguishes several types of semantic relations. A number of recent papers propose to construct a feature vector that represents a pair of words by applying a pairwise simple operation to all elements of the feature vector. Subsequently, the pairs can be classified by training any classification algorithm on these vectors. In the present paper we apply this method to the provided datasets. We see that the results are not better than from the given simple baseline. We conclude that the results of the investigated method are strongly depended on the type of data to which it is applied. KW - Klassifikation Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-11163 SP - 114 EP - 118 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fleischmann, Nina A1 - Tetzlaff, Britta A1 - Werle, Jochen A1 - Geister, Christina A1 - Scherer, Martin A1 - Weyerer, Siegfried A1 - Hummers-Pradier, Eva A1 - Mueller, Christiane A. T1 - Interprofessional collaboration in nursing homes (interprof): A grounded theory study of general practitioner experiences and strategies to perform nursing home visits JF - BMC Family Practice N2 - Background: Interprofessionalism, considered as collaboration between medical professionals, has gained prominence over recent decades and evidence for its impact has grown. The steadily increasing number of residents in nursing homes will challenge medical care and the interaction across professions, especially nurses and general practitioners (GPS). The nursing home visit, a key element of medical care, has been underrepresented in research. This study explores GP perspectives on interprofessional collaboration with a focus on their visits to nursing homes in order to understand their experiences and expectations. This research represents an aspect of the interprof study, which explores medical care needs as well as the perceived collaboration and communication by nursing home residents, their families, GPS and nurses. This paper focusses on GPS' views, investigating in particular their visits to nursing homes in order to understand their experiences. Methods: Open guideline-interviews covering interprofessional collaboration and the visit process were conducted with 30 GPS in three study centers and analyzed with grounded theory methodology. GPS were recruited via postal request and existing networks of the research partners. Results: Four different types of nursing home visits were found: visits on demand, periodical visits, nursing home rounds and ad-hoc-decision based visits. We identified the core category "productive performance" of home visits in nursing homes which stands for the balance of GPŚ individual efforts and rewards. GPS used different strategies to perform a productive home visit: preparing strategies, on-site strategies and investing strategies. Conclusion: We compiled a theory of GPS home visits in nursing homes in Germany. The findings will be useful for research, and scientific and management purposes to generate a deeper understanding of GP perspectives and thereby improve interprofessional collaboration to ensure a high quality of care. KW - Grounded theory KW - General practitioners KW - Interdisciplinary communication KW - Nursing homes KW - Physician-nurse relations Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-10023 VL - 17 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Emmert, Martin A1 - Meszmer, Nina A1 - Sander, Uwe T1 - Do health care providers use online patient ratings to improve the quality of care? BT - Results from an online-based cross-sectional study JF - Journal of Medical Internet Research N2 - Background: Physician-rating websites have become a popular tool to create more transparency about the quality of health care providers. So far, it remains unknown whether online-based rating websites have the potential to contribute to a better standard of care. Objective: Our goal was to examine which health care providers use online rating websites and for what purposes, and whether health care providers use online patient ratings to improve patient care. Methods: We conducted an online-based cross-sectional study by surveying 2360 physicians and other health care providers (September 2015). In addition to descriptive statistics, we performed multilevel logistic regression models to ascertain the effects of providers' demographics as well as report card-related variables on the likelihood that providers implement measures to improve patient care. Results: Overall, more than half of the responding providers surveyed (54.66%, 1290/2360) used online ratings to derive measures to improve patient care (implemented measures: mean 3.06, SD 2.29). Ophthalmologists (68%, 40/59) and gynecologists (65.4%, 123/188) were most likely to implement any measures. The most widely implemented quality measures were related to communication with patients (28.77%, 679/2360), the appointment scheduling process (23.60%, 557/2360), and office workflow (21.23%, 501/2360). Scaled-survey results had a greater impact on deriving measures than narrative comments. Multilevel logistic regression models revealed medical specialty, the frequency of report card use, and the appraisal of the trustworthiness of scaled-survey ratings to be significantly associated predictors for implementing measures to improve patient care because of online ratings. Conclusions: Our results suggest that online ratings displayed on physician-rating websites have an impact on patient care. Despite the limitations of our study and unintended consequences of physician-rating websites, they still may have the potential to improve patient care. KW - Patient care KW - Physician-rating website KW - Public reporting KW - Quality measures KW - Quality of health care Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-10180 VL - 2016 IS - 9 SP - 1 EP - 14 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ibeneme, Sam C. A1 - Anyachukwu, Canice Chukwudi A1 - Nwosu, Akachukwu A1 - Ibeneme, Georgian C. A1 - Bakare, Muideen A1 - Fortwengel, Gerhard T1 - Symptoms of Poststroke Depression among Stroke Survivors: An Appraisal of Psychiatry Needs and Care during Physiotherapy Rehabilitation JF - Scientifica N2 - Purpose. To identify stroke survivors with symptoms of poststroke depression and the extent of psychiatry needs and care they have received while on physiotherapy rehabilitation. Participants. Fifty stroke survivors (22 females and 28 males) at the outpatient unit of Physiotherapy Department, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, who gave their informed consent, were randomly selected. Their age range and mean age were 26–66 years and 54.76 ± 8.79 years, respectively. Method. A multiple case study of 50 stroke survivors for symptoms of poststroke depression was done with Beck’s Depression Inventory, mini mental status examination tool, and Modified Motor Assessment Scale. The tests were performed independently by the participants except otherwise stated and scored on a scale of 0–6. Data were analyzed using -test for proportional significance and chi-square test for determining relationship between variables, at p < 0.05. Results. Twenty-one (42.0%) stroke survivors had symptoms of PSD, which was significantly dependent on duration of stroke ( = 21.680, df = 6, and p = 0.001), yet none of the participants had a psychiatry review. Conclusions. Symptoms of PSD may be common in cold compared to new cases of stroke and may need psychiatry care while on physiotherapy rehabilitation. KW - Poststroke depression Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-8590 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ibeneme, Sam C. A1 - Egbosionu, Viola A1 - Ibeneme, Georgian C. A1 - Ezuma, Amarachi A1 - Ettu, Theresa A1 - Nwankwo, Joseph A1 - Limaye, Dnyanesh A1 - Nna, Emmanuel T1 - Evidence of allergic reactions and cardiopulmonary impairments among traders operating from foodstuff warehouses JF - BioMed Research International N2 - Background: Foodstuff traders operating from warehouses (FTFW) are potentially exposed to dangerous rodenticides/pesticides that may have adverse effects on cardiopulmonary function. Methods: 50 consenting male foodstuff traders, comprising 15 traders (21–63 years) operating outside warehouses and 35 FTFW (20–64 years), were randomly recruited at Ogbete Market, Enugu, in a cross-sectional observational study of spirometric and electrocardiographic parameters. 17 FTFW (21–57 years) participated in focus group discussions. Qualitative and quantitative data were analysed thematically and with independent t-test and Pearson correlation coefficient at p < 0.05, respectively. Results: Most FTFW experienced respiratory symptoms, especially dry cough (97,1%) and wheezing (31.4%) with significant reductions in forced vital capacity (FVC) (t = -2.654; p = 0.011), forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) (t = -2.240; p = 0.030), maximum expiratory flow rate (FEF200-1200) (t = -1.148; p = -0.047), and forced end-expiratory flow (FEF25-75) (t = -1.11; p = 0.007). The maximum mid-expiratory flow (FEF25-75) was marginally decreased (p > 0.05) with a significantly prolonged (p < 0.05) QTc interval. Conclusion: Allergic response was evident in the FTFW. Significant decrease in FVC may negatively impact lung flow rates and explains the marginal decrease in FEF25-75, which implies a relative limitation in airflow of peripheral/distal airways and elastic recoil of the lungs. This is consistent with obstructive pulmonary disease; a significant decrease in FEF75-85/FEV1 supports this conclusion. Significant decrease in FEF200-1200 indicates abnormalities in the large airways/larynx just as significantly prolonged ventricular repolarization suggests cardiac arrhythmias. KW - Allergie KW - Gesundheitsschaden KW - Lebensmittelgroßhandel KW - Enugu KW - Nigeria Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-10294 VL - 2016 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Heller, Lambert A1 - Blümel, Ina A1 - Cartellieri, Simone A1 - Wartena, Christian T1 - Discovery and efficient reuse of technology pictures using Wikimedia infrastructures. A proposal T2 - Tenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM), Cologne, Germany, 17-20 May 2016 N2 - Multimedia objects, especially images and figures, are essential for the visualization and interpretation of research findings. The distribution and reuse of these scientific objects is significantly improved under open access conditions, for instance in Wikipedia articles, in research literature, as well as in education and knowledge dissemination, where licensing of images often represents a serious barrier. Whereas scientific publications are retrievable through library portals or other online search services due to standardized indices there is no targeted retrieval and access to the accompanying images and figures yet. Consequently there is a great demand to develop standardized indexing methods for these multimedia open access objects in order to improve the accessibility to this material. With our proposal, we hope to serve a broad audience which looks up a scientific or technical term in a web search portal first. Until now, this audience has little chance to find an openly accessible and reusable image narrowly matching their search term on first try - frustratingly so, even if there is in fact such an image included in some open access article. KW - Open Access KW - Wikimedia Commons KW - Wikidata KW - Information Dissemination Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-8743 N1 - This paper was accepted and presented at the wiki workshop of ICWSM 2016, though due to technical reason it was not included in the conference report. ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Billhardt, Holger A1 - Dunkel, Jürgen A1 - Lujak, Marin A1 - Fernández, Alberto A1 - Hermoso, Ramón A1 - Ossowski, Sascha T1 - An architecture for situation-aware evacuation guidance in smart buildings T2 - Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Ambient Intelligence for Large Premises (AmILP 2016) co-located with the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2016), The Hague, the Netherlands, August 28, 2016 N2 - Smart Cities require reliable means for managing installations that offer essential services to the citizens. In this paper we focus on the problem of evacuation of smart buildings in case of emergencies. In particular, we present an abstract architecture for situation-aware evacuation guidance systems in smart buildings, describe its key modules in detail, and provide some concrete examples of its structure and dynamics. KW - situation-awareness KW - recommender systems KW - smart buildings Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-10662 UR - http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1778/AmILP_5.pdf ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Patzelt, Christiane A1 - Heim, Susanne A1 - Deitermann, Bernhilde A1 - Theile, Gudrun A1 - Krauth, Christian A1 - Hummers-Pradier, Eva A1 - Walter, Ulla T1 - Reaching the elderly: understanding of health and preventive experiences for a tailored approach – results of a qualitative study JF - BMC Geriatrics N2 - Background: Often preventive measures are not accessed by the people who were intended to be reached. Programs for older adults may target men and women, older adults, advanced old age groups and/or chronically ill patients with specific indications. The defined target groups rarely participate in the conception of programs or in the design of information materials, although this would increase accessibility and participation. In the German “Reaching the Elderly” study (2008–2011), an approach to motivating older adults to participate in a preventive home visit (PHV) program was modified with the participatory involvement of the target groups. The study examines how older men and women would prefer to be addressed for health and prevention programs. Methods: Four focus groups (N = 42 participants) and 12 personal interviews were conducted (women and men in 2 age groups: 65–75 years and ≥ 76 years). Participants from two districts of a major German city were selected from a stratified random sample (N = 200) based on routine data from a local health insurance fund. The study focused on the participants’ knowledge about health and disease prevention and how they preferred to be approached and addressed. Videos of the focus groups were recorded and analysed using mind mapping techniques. Interviews were digitally recorded, transcribed verbatim and subjected to qualitative content analysis. Results: A gender-specific approach profile was observed. Men were more likely to favor competitive and exerciseoriented activities, and they associated healthy aging with mobility and physical activity. Women, on the other hand, displayed a broader understanding of healthy aging, which included physical activity as only one aspect as well as a healthy diet, relaxation/wellness, memory training and independent living; they preferred holistic and socially oriented services that were not performance-oriented. The “older seniors” (76+) were ambivalent towards certain wordings referring to aging. Conclusions: Our results suggest that gender-specific needs must be considered in order to motivate older adults to participate in preventive services. Age-specific characteristics seem to be less relevant. It is more important to pay attention to factors that vary according to the individual state of health and life situation of the potential participants. KW - Elderly KW - Prevention KW - Health promotion KW - Healthy aging KW - Target groups KW - Information materials KW - Gender KW - Qualitative research KW - Focus groups Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:1111-2017010510396 SN - 1471-2318 VL - 2016 IS - 16:210 SP - 1 EP - 12 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Chas, Sarah Jane A1 - Kale, M. A1 - Konwert, Stefanie A1 - Meißler, Luise A1 - Limaye, Dnyanesh T1 - Influence of Socioeconomic Factors on Nutrition During Childhood in Germany and India JF - Current Therapeutic Research N2 - Malnutrition, nutritional deficiency, or undernutrition is an imbalanced nutritional status resulting from insufficient intake of nutrients to meet normal physiologic requirements. Malnutrition in childhood has both short-term consequences and long-term consequences on mental and physical health as well as the overall health development of children. Of all regions in the world, the Asia and the Pacific region has achieved the fastest rate of economic growth. There is no evidence that this rapid economic growth translates into a decline in malnutrition of children in Asian countries such as India. KW - childhood KW - malnutrition KW - socioeconomic demographic determinants KW - Germany KW - India Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-8957 VL - 78 IS - Supplement SP - S10 EP - S11 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Limaye, Vaidehi A1 - Limaye, Dnyanesh A1 - Desai, R. A1 - Seth, J. A1 - Prabhu, S. A1 - Fortwengel, Gerhard T1 - Prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders among dentists from Mumbai, India JF - Current Therapeutic Research N2 - The world health organization defines musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) as “a disorder of muscles, tendons, peripheral vascular system not directly resulting from an acute or instantaneous event.1 Work related MSDs are one of the most important occupational hazards.1 Among many other occupations, dentistry is a highly demanding profession that requires good visual acuity, hearing, depth perception, psychomotor skills, manual dexterity, and ability to maintain occupational postures over long periods. KW - dentist KW - musculoskeletal disorders, KW - occupational disorders KW - Mumbai, India Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-9063 VL - 78 IS - Supplement SP - S11 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ibeneme, Sam C. A1 - Asogwa, E. A1 - Okoye, I. A1 - Fortwengel, Gerhard A1 - Asogwa, O. A1 - Ezuma, A. T1 - Boosting the CD4 Count in HIV Infection: Comparative Effects of Highly Active Anti-retroviral therapy (HAART) and Different Modalities of Physical Exercise on Biomarkers of Immunity JF - Current Therapeutic Research N2 - A decline in the CD4 count is a common feature in HIV/AIDS, suggesting a compromise in immunity of patients. In response, highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is prescribed to slow-down a diminution in the CD4 count and risk of AIDS-related malignancies. However, exercise may improve both the utility and population of innate immune cell components, and may be beneficial for patients with HIV infection. Comparing the effects of different exercises against HAART, on CD4 count, helps in understanding the role and evidence-based application of exercises to ameliorate immune deficiency. KW - clinical research KW - Nigeria KW - developing country KW - HAART KW - HIV Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-8945 VL - 78 IS - Supplement SP - S1 EP - S2 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Le, T. A1 - Pisarck, N. A1 - Salameh, A. A1 - Reckemeyer, S. A1 - Kale, M. A1 - Limaye, Dnyanesh T1 - Malnutrition Awareness Among University Students From Mumbai, India, and Hannover, Germany JF - Current Therapeutic Research N2 - Malnutrition is the condition in which the body does not get the right amount of proteins, vitamins, or other nutrients.1 The global prevalence of malnutrition was reported as 13% in 2015.2 The subregion of South Asia is especially known as a critical area for severe wasted children aged <5 years.3 In India, 38.4% of children aged <3 years are stunted, and 46% are underweight.4 Malnutrition can lead to mortality as well as disabilities and long-term consequences such as cognitive disabilities, less economic productivity, or diseases. KW - Malnutrition KW - Children KW - Awareness KW - Mumbai KW - Hannover Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-9053 VL - 78 IS - Supplement SP - S10 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kindler, Florentina A1 - Fortwengel, Gerhard A1 - Hewitt, B. T1 - Legal requirements on secondary use of medical data in the EU and USA – A case study JF - Current Therapeutic Research N2 - The use of secondary data in health care research has become a very important issue over the past few years. Data from the treatment context are being used for evaluation of medical data for external quality assurance, as well as to answer medical questions in the form of registers and research databases. Additionally, the establishment of electronic clinical systems like data warehouses provides new opportunities for the secondary use of clinical data. Because health data is among the most sensitive information about an individual, the data must be safeguarded from disclosure. KW - medical data KW - data protection KW - European Union KW - USA Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-8968 VL - 78 IS - Supplement SP - S12 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Strüver, Vanessa T1 - The principle of benefit from drug development for patients in clinical research JF - Current Therapeutic Research N2 - From an ethical perspective, clinical research involving humans is only acceptable if it involves the potential for benefit. Various characteristics can be applied to differentiate research benefit. Often benefit is categorized in direct or indirect benefit, whereby indirect benefit might be further differentiated in collective or benefit for the society, excluding or including the trial patient in the long term. Ethical guidelines, such as the Declaration of Helsinki in its latest version, do not precisely favor a particular type of benefit. KW - patient benefit KW - social benefit KW - direct benefit KW - indirect benefit KW - clinical trial Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-9070 VL - 78 IS - Supplement SP - S12 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fneish, Firas T1 - Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Risk Evaluation and Advice in Undergraduate Students in Ashrafieh, Lebanon JF - Current Therapeutic Research N2 - Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a chronic lifestyle disease. It has become evident that T2DM occurs even among the younger age groups.1 In Lebanon, T2DM has a major public health impact through high disease prevalence, significant downstream pathophysiologic effects, and enormous financial liabilities.2 KW - Type 2 diabetes mellitus KW - Lebanon Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-9085 VL - 78 IS - Supplement SP - S5 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tornieporth, Nadia A1 - Fneish, Firas A1 - Fortwengel, Gerhard T1 - Clinical Research and Standard of Care — An Unresolved Question? JF - Current Therapeutic Research N2 - Ever since the 1996 revision of the Declaration of Helsinki, the World Medical Association has attempted to address ethical and scientific concerns of its diverse stakeholders for Articles 33 (use of placebo) and 34 (posttrial provisions), most recently in 2013. Both are inextricably linked to standard of care, an essential element of any comparative, interventional clinical trial. But has this now 20-year-long ethical debate truly been put to rest? The choice of standard of care in clinical trials remains a complex issue, particularly for comparative trials conducted in emerging countries. KW - bioethics KW - clinical research KW - Declaration of Helsinki KW - placebo KW - standard of care Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-9113 VL - 78 IS - Supplement SP - S4 EP - S5 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Limaye, Vaidehi A1 - Limaye, Dnyanesh A1 - Fortwengel, Gerhard T1 - A Study to Assess the Vaccination Coverage of University Students in Mumbai, India T2 - Current Therapeutic Research N2 - Immunization is the most cost-effective intervention for infectious diseases, which are the major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Vaccines not only protect the individual who is vaccinated but also reduce the burden of infectious vaccine-preventable diseases for the entire community.1 Adult vaccination is very important given that >25% of mortality is due to infectious diseases.2 There is a scarcity of information on the vaccination status of young adults and the role of socioeconomic conditions in India. KW - adult vaccines KW - education KW - income KW - Mumbai, India KW - university students Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-9122 VL - 78 IS - Supplement SP - S3 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ibeneme, Sam C. A1 - Eni, G. A1 - Ezuma, A. T1 - Roads to Health in Nigeria – Understanding the Intersection of Culture and Healing JF - Current Therapeutic Research N2 - The most important attribute for which we all aspire as human beings is good health because it enables us to undertake different forms of activities of daily living. The emergence of scientific knowledge in Western societies has enabled us to explore and define several parameters of “health” by drawing boundaries around factors that are known to impact the achievement of good health. For example, the World Health Organization defined health by taking physical and psychological factors into consideration. KW - clinical research KW - Nigeria KW - clinical trial KW - developing country Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bsz:960-opus4-9132 VL - 78 IS - Supplement SP - S1 ER -