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Germany, etc ; ethics; food quality; inventories; organic foods; surveys; Show all 6 Subjects
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... It is well known in consumer research on ethical and sustainable products that the attitudes of consumers recorded in studies and consumers' actual purchasing behaviour often differ. This gap between expressed attitude and actual behaviour is called the 'attitude-behaviour gap'. In this study, an item set for 'organic food' was developed, which less identify intentions and motivations but rather t ...
Germany, etc ; Collembola; autumn; biomass; body size; climate; climate change; cropland; detritivores; ecosystems; grasslands; invertebrates; land use; research; shrinkage; soil; spring; summer; temperature; tillage; Show all 20 Subjects
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... The biomass of invertebrate detritivores is an important driver of multiple ecosystem functions, yet little is known about how it changes in the context of global change. Taking Collembola communities as our focal groups, we conducted a study at the Global Change Experimental Facility (GCEF) in central Germany to assess how climate change (i.e., increased temperature by ∼0.55 °C across seasons, an ...
Germany, etc ; Brassica napus; agronomy; case studies; crop rotation; environmental impact; faba beans; field experimentation; groundwater contamination; nitrogen; nitrogen fertilizers; profits and margins; soil minerals; Show all 13 Subjects
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... Agriculture is a major contributor to nitrate groundwater contamination. Hence, farmers are demanded to reduce the environmental impact but simultaneously must provide sufficient food products. One important building block for this “sustainable intensification” are appropriate cropping strategies. The potential of modified crop rotations was evaluated in a high-yielding environment in Northern Ger ...
... Prior research shows that trademarks positively relate to startups' growth and survival. However, empirical evidence on the impact of intellectual property rights (IPRs), especially trademarks, on the development of social startups' hybrid outcomes is limited. Our study aims to fill this gap by investigating how early trademarking relates to the sustainability and economic outcomes of social start ...
... We present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects of displacement into components due to differences in the way that displaced and non-displaced workers are sorted across higher- and lower-paying employers (a sorting effect), differences in the quality of worker–employer matches that they enter into (a matching effect), and differences in their unobservable characteristics (a selection ...
... Working in the forest is dangerous, especially in the case of motor manual work, which represents a significant proportion of all forest work in Germany. Nevertheless, many accidents in the forest also happen during recreational activities. In the unfortunate case of an accident, rapid assistance is therefore crucial. For provision of this service, a network of 63,718 high quality permanent rescue ...
... Interactions between droplets are of fundamental importance for understanding phenomena involving droplet collision and coalescence that determine multiphase flow behavior. The quantitative understanding of these interactions is essential for the manipulation and control of emulsions or complex fluids. The existing methods for interaction force determination are typically based on expensive mechan ...
... This paper aims to provide a fresh historical perspective on the debates on vitalism and holism in Germany by analyzing the work of the zoologist Hans Spemann (1869–1941) in the interwar period. Following up previous historical studies, it takes the controversial question about Spemann’s affinity to vitalistic approaches as a starting point. The focus is on Spemann’s holistic research style, and o ...
... In 2018, a citizens’ initiative (CI) launched in the German State of Bavaria put forth the ‘policy idea’ of preserving and enhancing biodiversity and formulated a concrete policy proposal for implementing it. This policy idea diffused across Germany and resulted in the launch of similar CIs in the States of Baden-Württemberg, Brandenburg, Lower Saxony, and North Rhine-Westphalia. Research on polic ...
Sofia Brander; Sandra Baur; Roman Krais; J. Ole Ross; Aaron Orr; Ryan Sayne; Michael Howard; Michael Mayer; Mark Panisko; James C. Hayes; Andreas Bollhfer
... Station RN33 on Mount Schauinsland near Freiburg, Germany, is part of the International Monitoring System monitoring radioxenon in air (¹³¹ᵐXe, ¹³³Xe, ¹³³ᵐXe, and ¹³⁵Xe) for verification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Here, we present data from phase II testing of a new system, Xenon International at RN33, July 14th, 2021 to Jan 22nd, 2022, together with SPALAX data from the same ti ...
... Farmers are often reluctant to adopt sustainable agricultural practices despite a thorough formal regulatory framework combating unsustainable behaviour. To date, the literature in this area has largely focused on the behavioural aspects of decision-making, with an emphasis on monetary compensation. This paper is an exploratory attempt to develop a new theory for farmers' adoption decisions of sus ...
... Against the background of the current “Speed-Up Society,” which seems to foster a trade-off between economic success and climate change, we study whether the individual Pace of Life is associated with productivity and pro-environmental behavior on the micro-level. In a controlled laboratory environment with students in Germany, we measured the productivity of participants in a real effort task, qu ...
... We study the announcement effect of legislated tax changes on GDP in the US, Germany, and the UK. Using, as the shock of interest, narratively identified information about future tax changes at the quarter of their introduction to the legislative body, we analyse the dynamic results of Local Projections. After drafting tax cuts, economic activity declines (increases) in the US (the UK), but remain ...
... Can opinion polls be used to measure people's personal commitment to protecting the environment over the years, even with data that were not originally compiled from a longitudinal perspective? In a secondary analysis of 12 data sets collected over the course of 22 years and containing more than 28,000 person records, we demonstrate that opinions and reports of behavior can be aggregated into vali ...
... The measurement of radioxenons (¹³³Xe, ¹³¹ᵐXe, ¹³³ᵐXe, ¹³⁵Xe) in the atmosphere is a keystone for the verification of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). At the German Federal Office for Radiation Protection (Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz, BfS) activity concentrations of radioactive noble gases at several sites in Germany have been measured for more than 5 decades, initially to monito ...
Germany, etc ; agroforestry; stakeholders; sustainable development; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Since 2017, the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (HNEE) offers transformative learning modules in their curricula, which are called ITL—Innovative Teaching and Learning formats. Student tutors change into the role of teachers and organize lectures, excursions, and assignments at the Real-World Laboratory “Ackerbaum”—an agroforestry system in the federal state of Brandenburg, Germa ...
... Multi-task learning techniques allow the beneficial joint estimation of multiple target variables. Here, we propose a novel multi-task regression (MTR) method called ensemble of regressor chains with repetitive permutation scheme. It belongs to the family of problem transformation-based MTR methods which foresee the creation of an individual model per target variable. Subsequently, the combination ...
Germany, etc ; Japan; economics; China; Taiwan; Vietnam; Show all 6 Subjects
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... We conduct an experiment on dishonesty in China, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, and Vietnam to examine country differences in cheating behaviours, using the matrix task paradigm. Our results indicate that studies about honesty vary substantially when different tasks are used. ...
Germany, etc ; Dytiscidae; aedeagus; conservation areas; habitats; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The diving beetle Laccornis oblongus (Stephens, 1835) is recorded for the first time from Bavaria, southern Germany, which marks the most south-westerly record of the species known to date. Three specimens were collected in the Murnauer Moos nature reserve in Upper Bavaria. We summarize what is known about the species habitat in Germany and provide photographs of the sampling site and habitus, med ...
... Rural economies and agri-food systems are strongly affected by institutions and institutional settings, as evidenced by many scholars exploring the impact of agricultural policies. By contrast, intangible forms of institutions (e.g. routines, conventions) inscribed in economic practices and their interplay with formal institutions are not yet well understood within the field of agri-food studies. ...