13 May 2022
The ride-hailing platform offers the business model of the on-demand business ecosystem in the era of the sharing economy. Platforms such as Uber, Lyft, and DiDi have become popular worldwide and established a strong position in urban transportation....
The goal of this study was to investigate the accountability of the technology acceptance model (TAM) for Uber taxi applications. As antecedents of usefulness, this study selected three elements: time information, price information, and driver inform...
Recently, Uber released datasets named Uber Movement to the public in support of urban planning and transportation planning. To prevent user privacy issues, Uber aggregates car GPS traces into small areas. After aggregating car GPS traces into small...
(1) Background: Uber Technologies are currently changing the pattern of urban transport. Statista reports that in the period 2017–2019 alone, the average monthly number of active Uber users worldwide increased by 126.5%, and the average monthly...
Recently, scholars have paid growing attention to ridesharing economy firms’ institutional work to obtain legitimacy. More specifically, they have pinpointed the need for further research to better understand the actions of institutional entrepreneur...
This paper addresses coverage loss and rapid energy depletion issues for wireless livestock sensor networks by proposing a UAV-based energy-efficient reconfigurable routing (UBER) scheme for smart wireless livestock sensor networking applications. Th...
Objectives: To evaluate the offer of children’s menus offered in fast food restaurants present in the Uber Eats delivery application through the Kids Menu Healthy Score ‘KIMEHS’ in Greater Santiago. Methods: Observational, descripti...
With the emergence of the sharing economy, a significant change in consumer behavior can be observed worldwide, which has a considerable impact on various industries. The rise of the sharing economy has changed the way people experience transport ser...
This paper discusses dynamics and differences of business models in the car-sharing industry and focuses on open innovation as the trigger of diverse business models among Uber in the U.S., DiDi Chuxing in China, and KakaoT in Korea. We seek to answe...
The Hook model is used in digital products to engage and retain users through the mechanism of habit formation. This paper explores the use of Hook model techniques in two mobile applications, one being a popular taxi service (Uber taxi) and the othe...
Ziel der vorliegenden Studie war es, im Einzugsgebiet des Kantonsspitals Olten in einer retrospektiven Analyse alle Frauen zu erfassen, die in den Jahren 1981 bis 1995 mit der Diagnose eines akuten Myokardinfarktes (AMI) hospitalisiert waren und über...
In most cities, discretionary passenger transport by car is predominantly supplied by taxi services. These services face competition from new digital platforms (UBER, Cabify, etc.) that connect users with the services offered by authorized drivers wi...
Multi-sided platforms (MSPs) can enable multiple user groups to create coordinated value. Like all transformative business models, these platforms emerged to resolve platform-related issues. Among the well-known MSPs, this research has focused on the...
The current business paradigm entails a narrow, profit-centered and managerially-focused nature. This article proposes that the study of the collaborative economy necessitates an inevitable shift in the conventional business paradigm and suggests tha...
1 January 2017
Vor acht Jahren ist der erste Band der Schriften und Vorträge von Paul Ricoeur in Frankreich erschienen. Er wurde aus den Archiven erstellt und nach dem Tod des grossen Religionsphilosophen, Hermeneutikers und Erzähltheoretikers veröffentlicht [...]
1 January 2017
1921 veröffentlichte der Neurologe F. Kaufmann aus Basel zwei Fallberichte zu schmerzhafter Fettsucht im Schweizer Archiv. 40 Jahre zuvor wurde Adipositas dolorosa als Krankheitsbild erstmals von F. X. Dercum umfassend beschrieben
1 January 2016
Was geschieht mit Theorie, wenn das Gras der Geschichte über ihr wächst? Was passiert mit theoretischen Vokabularen, wenn sie als Teil von generationenübergreifenden Erfah [...]
Previously, we estimated the net change in energy use from ridehail services in Austin Texas. This estimate was based, in part, on assumptions regarding the number of rides involving two pooled parties and the distance drivers commuted into their ser...
5 March 2022
In recent years, changes have occurred in consumption, ownership, and social relations, giving rise to new economic models in which technology enables new ways of connecting, creating, and sharing value. The nature of transport has transformed with t...
Traffic prediction is a topic of increasing importance for research and applications in the domain of routing and navigation. Unfortunately, open data are rarely available for this purpose. To overcome this, the authors explored the possibility of us...
1 January 1997
Die Antwort C. Ernsts auf den Kommentar von U. Kreuzer-Haustein und G. Schmidt macht erneut in aller Deutlichkeit klar, dass der nationalsozialistische Völkermord an den Juden und die darin zum Ausdruck kommende Identifizierung des deutschen Kollekti...
27 July 2020
Es gibt Filme, die lohnt es sich, als Psychiater gesehen zu haben, da sie es erlauben, ansonsten schwer begreifliche psychopathologische Prozesse und ungewöhnliche Erlebensweisen zu veranschaulichen. Beispiele für diese Art von Film mögen «Clean, Sha...
Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) use online-enabled apps to provide on-demand transportation services. TNCs facilitate travelers to connect with drivers that can offer them rides for compensation using driver-owned vehicles. The ride requests...
1 January 2007
The at the time famous but now practically forgotten controversy between the psychiatrist Ludwig Binswanger (1881–1966) and the neurologist and neuropathologist Fritz Lotmar (1878–1964) about the concept of aphasic disorders dragged on – with a few i...
1 January 2007
Two hundred years ago psychiatry began to establish itself as a practical and scientific institution. The views about the causation of and potential therapies for mental diseases were riddled with speculative metaphysical and religious thoughts [...]
1 January 2010
Our symposium deals with “Understanding and Its Limits”. I look upon this as an exhortation not to claim the unlimited nature of understanding, not to focus so much on the totality of contexts and meanings of the human condition, but rather to prompt...
Gelegentlich bleibt einem die Spucke weg [...]
1 January 2013
Using tests to acquire provisional knowledge for new patient pathways. Medicare has the authority to conduct demonstrations investigating new ways to deliver and pay for health care. From 1970 up to the end of 2012 some sixty demonstrations have been...
1 January 2016
Wir stehen in Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie vor bzw. schon mitten in einer neuen Herausforderung, die uns durch Flüchtlinge und Menschen, die um Asyl bei uns ersuchen, aufgegeben ist. Wer ist der Flüchtling für uns? Wie fremd fühlen wir uns den Mens...
1 January 2019
Language is a characteristic feature of human beings. It is the foundation of our relationships to others, to things, to ourselves; it is the foundation of communication with other people, recognition and representation of the world, and understandin...
This paper gives formal foundations and evidence from gene science in the post Barbara McClintock era that the Gödel Sentence, far from being an esoteric construction in mathematical logic, is ubiquitous in genomic intelligence that evolved with mult...
1 January 2008
Bei einem solchen Buch kann man sich fragen, ob es in die Kategorie der Originalforschungsarbeiten gehört, ob es ein Lehrbuchtext im Sinne Flecks1 ist oder, um noch eine Kategorie aus heutiger Sicht hinzuzu - fügen, ob es ein populärwissenschaftliche...
1 January 2001
This paper discusses its main theme through (1) presentation of, and (2) objections to Weizsäcker’s Social Disease and Social Recovery (1930). (1) Social disease in the narrow, elementary sense is a social neurosis specified as a legal and compensati...
Kaunia longipetiolata (Sch.Bip. ex Rusby) R. M. King and H. Rob. (Asteraceae) is a plant native to southern Ecuador. The dry leaves afforded, by steam distillation, an essential oil that was qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed by GC-MS and GC-F...
1 January 2008
«Ein wichtiges, ausserordentliches und eminent nützliches Buch, das keineswegs nur von Kranken und ihren Angehörigen, sondern auch von Gesunden, und eigentlich von jedermann gelesen werden sollte!» [...]
The secondary metabolites in Lobaria pulmonaria and L. scrobiculata collected in northeast Anatolia are studied using HPLC. Constictic, nortictic and stictic acids are the major components in L. pulmonaria; in addition connorstictic, cryptostictic, a...
1 January 2014
Case report of a 5-year-old child with Savant Syndrome (Savant autism). A 5-year-old child was presented, who is dis-playing evidence of Savant phenomenon (calendrical calculations in this child) in initial examinations. Detailed investiga-tion yield...
1 January 2003
Wer sich nach monatelanger Arbeit, Schwerarbeit übrigens, verbunden mit Feinarbeit – denn nicht alle Juwelen glänzen sogleich, bisweilen müssen sie behutsam abgewischt und dann betrachtet werden – schliesslich mit dem Buch in Gänze auseinandergesetzt...
1 January 2000
Clozapine is an atypical neuroleptic drug used for the treatment of schizophrenia. Because of the possible risk of agranulocytosis there are clear rules for the treatment with clozapine. A representative group of general practitioners and internists...
1 January 2005
Adolf Beck, a 27-year-old Polish physiologist from Krakow, published a report in the “Centralblatt für Physiologie” in November 1890 about a spontaneous and evoked electrical activity in the brain of dogs and rabbits. He showed that the spontaneous c...
Climate change is an important driver of soil erosion and sediment delivery to water bodies. We use observation data from 193 locations in the Elbe River basin as well as spatially distributed erosion rates and sediment delivery simulated in the WaTE...
The peach palm (Bactris gasipaes Kunth) is a palm tree native to the Amazon region, with plantations expanding to the Brazilian Southwest and South regions. This work is a critical review of historical, botanical, social, environmental, and nutrition...
Jatobá (Hymenaea courbaril) is a native tree abundant in Brazil. The fruit coat is an industrial by-product of jatobá flour processing, typically discarded. Presently, within the circular bioeconomy concept, there are efforts underway t...
Fungal laccases are promising oxidative enzymes for bioremediation applications, particularly in the degradation of synthetic dyes present in industrial effluents. Here, we evaluated the inhibitory effects of sodium chloride (NaCl) and sodium sulfate...
The immobilization of a laccase from Pycnoporus sanguineus UEM-20 via the formation of cross-linked enzyme aggregates (CLEAs) was optimized through a central composite design (CCD) of response surface methodology (RSM). Both free and immobilized enzy...
The validation of structural health monitoring (SHM) systems for aircraft is complicated by the extent and number of factors that the SHM system must demonstrate for robust performance. Therefore, a time- and cost-efficient method for examining all o...
(1) Background: Thiamine is an important cofactor for multiple metabolic processes. Its role in cancer has been debated for years. Our aim is to determine if thiamine can convert the cellular metabolic state of breast cancer cells from anaerobic to a...
(1) Glycoproteins account for ~80% of proteins located at the cell surface and in the extracellular matrix. A growing body of evidence indicates that α-L-fucose protein modifications contribute to breast cancer progression and metastatic diseas...
Laccase from Trametes versicolor was immobilized via the formation of interlinking enzyme aggregates (CLEA). Its free and immobilized enzymes were characterized, and its efficiency was tested via the removal of bisphenol A (BPA) in aqueous solution....
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