Methode zur Aktivenraten-Prognose in der Sportentwicklungsplanung

The quantitative sports development planning needed as a basis a forecast of sports practice on the quantitative extent and location. To support this it would be helpful to have cohort data, but their preparation needed at least a generation time, but then they would already be out of date. It is therefore appropriate to go back to resorted longitudinal data in lower age subdivisions which are, in a suitable manner with modified cross-sectional data are linked. Which is common practice, for example in the preparation of forecasting mortality tables for demographic prognosis. In the previous practice were predominantly empirical data on sport activity are kept constant and only linked to the future population. The survey results have only been published for age classes, which is unsuitable for a prognosis. The paper shows alternative how such class values in single year of age data can be transmitted when the results of an empirical study have been published only grouped. Then we made a suggestion as to how the development of cohorts in longitudinal section and the age specific sports activity can be linked to a forecast. For this, the sports activity is expressed as active rate (physically active inhabitants/1000 residents) defined and consistently over all ages from 0 to 99 years and more developed. From this it can be a measure of the active sporting years under the conditions of study year developed. These are the combined active rates, as can be expressed as years active in sports per inhabitant, when the ratios of the survey year would apply to the entire population. The new code is similar to the “combined birth rate” in the demography, where they give good services in analysis and forecasting. The forecast latitude per year of age is limited by external circumstances, so that it never reached 1000 active per 1000 inhabitants. These are the “obstacle rates” to determine inhabitants who are hindered to active sports at that age in that year. As the difference between the unattainable maximum of 1000 minus the obstacle rate to the current active rate results in the age specific prognosis latitude, called “potential rate”. From present periodic surveys of the extent of sporting engagements by age and sex and its projection on the entire forecast period results in “years with sport” expressible annual change. Oriented to the also changing annual potential rates may apply to the change volume sports years are divided annually to the individual age years. This is a data forecast oriented on longitudinal and cross-sectional data of the degree of physical activity in the form of an age-specific active rate.     

Professorenberufung gemäß UG 2002

Durch das UG 2002 wurde der Bereich der Personalrekrutierung an Universitäten in die autonome Aufgabenbesorgung der Universitätsorgane übertragen. Von diesem neuen Regelungsregime sind auch UniversitätsprofessorInnen erfasst. In diesem Zusammenhang besteht jedoch eine Fülle von Fragen – insbesondere jene, in welchem Umfang im Auswahlverfahren entsprechende Rechtsschutzperspektiven für übergangene bzw nicht berücksichtigte BewerberInnen bestehen. Dieser Fragestellung soll im folgenden Beitrag im Anschluss an die Darstellung des Berufungsverfahrens gem §§ 98 f UG 2002 nachgegangen werden.     

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HistCite analysis of papers constituting the h index research front

In the Essential Science Indicators (Thomson Reuters), a research front exists to the h index (entitled “GOOGLE SCHOLAR H-INDEX; SCIENCE CITATION INDEX; GENERALIZED HIRSCH H-INDEX; H INDEX; GOOGLE SCHOLAR CITATIONS”) consisting of a group of highly cited papers. We used HistCite to analyze the structure and relationships of the 45 papers forming the h index research front. Since we were interested in the topics of research on the h index at the front, we classified each paper according to its main topic. Six topics (inductively generated) were sufficient to classify the 45 papers: (1) citation database, (2) empirical validation study, (3) new application, (4) theoretical analysis, (5) new index development, and (6) literature review.     

Distance to the frontier and the perception of innovation barriers across European countries

Barriers to innovation have mainly been studied in a single country context. This paper studies differences in the perception of innovation barriers between innovative and non-innovative firms for 18 EU countries. The countries are grouped by their distance to the technological frontier using Community Innovation Surveys for the years 2002–2004 and 2004–2006. The results show that knowledge barriers related to the availability of skilled labour, innovation partners and technological knowledge are more important for firms located in countries close to the frontier, while the opposite is true regarding the availability of external finance. Moreover, while the share of innovators decreases with the distance to the technological frontier, the share of firms not interested or in no need of innovation increases. This is consistent with the idea that as firms approach the technological frontier, they increasingly need to focus on the creation of own knowledge and the adoption of innovation-based growth strategies to stay competitive.