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With the growing scientific output that is produced, its getting more important to automate the extraction of knowledge from articles. This bachelor thesis will describe an approach doing exactly this. Scientific articles will be obtained from a database.
These articles will be preprocessed to gain a set of training data, to update a language model that already exists for Python library spaCy. The model will be trained to recognize different sorts of entities regarding to the virus rabies. After this process the model will be used for ten articles and the extracted knowledge will be used to extend the Open Research Knowledge Graph.
Digitalisation is shaping a new consumption era characterised by high connectivity, mobility and a broad range of easily accessible information on products, prices and alternatives. As a result, it becomes more difficult than ever to understand modern consumers along their complex and dynamic path to purchase. However, mobile data about consumers’ behaviour captured on their phone has high potential for facing this challenge. Yet, there is no solution on how to use this data to follow the consumers on their mobile devices. This thesis proposes a first approach on how mobile data collected with smartphone sensing technology can be analysed to assess mobile consumer behaviour along their customer journey. Based on current practices in customer journey analytics, a mobile customer journey model is developed and three analysis concepts are created, which are implemented in an explorative analysis. The results show that mobile sensing data presents a great opportunity for analysing mobile behaviour in three main research areas: examining the touchpoint performance of a brand across mobile apps, describing different target groups by their smartphone usage behaviour and deriving real customer journeys on users’ devices. Nonetheless, further exploration is necessary to unlock the full potential of mobile data in customer journey analytics.
Präsentation des Vortrags "The role of OiF in the American library world", über die Arbeit des Office of Intellectual Freedom (Chicago) der ALA, gehalten am 6. Mai 2015 an der Fachhochschule Köln im Rahmen des berufsbegleitenden Masterstudiengangs "Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft".
In the last few years the issue of curation of research data has become a topic of enhanced interest in scientific communities. But there is no clear understanding of how to deal with curation of research data. Regarding the situation in Germany, there was no clear picture of the methods that different academic disciplines use to preserve and curate their research data. Even more there was no clear understanding and consensus which role libraries could or should play in this issue. A baseline study was conducted in cooperation with nestor and the D-Grid GmbH in Germany. The study gives more stable data to scientists, service infrastructure experts and politicians to foster strategic concepts for digital curation and preservation in and between the disciplines. The survey addressed eleven disciplines including the humanities, social sciences, psycholinguistics, pedagogics, classical studies, geoscience, climate research, biodiversity, particle physics, astronomy and medicine. Results can be seen as more or less representative for the situation in Germany. Findings show that libraries and data centers are involved but there is no clear result on the role libraries should or will play in the field. Libraries which are in close connection to scientists have an advantage in being addressed as institutions responsible for digital curation and preservation. Librarian’s competences regarding research data still have to be proofed. Nevertheless individual scientists and research data centers might need librarian´s expertise regarding the application of metadata standards and the provision of services in connection with the research data curated by institutions. Qualification and training regarding curation of research data is still at its beginning and should be addressed by programs of universities.
Relevance: Political and private initiatives call for more female founders in start-ups as well as entrepreneurship but with regard to academic research not many studies focused yet on interdisciplinary studies on especially female start-up founders. There is more need to understand the topic to further encourage female founders.
Research question: The research question of this thesis is analysing what kind of patterns can be seen in the entrepreneurial, sociocultural and psychological profile of female founders compared in start-up ecosystems of three different countries, namely Germany, France and Israel?
Approach: I conducted 21 interviews, seven for each city, with a semi-structured guideline focusing on the entrepreneurial, sociocultural and psychological profile. The interviews were transcribed and afterwards analysed by combining the different profiles to find possible patterns. In a final step the observations from each country were compared to one another.
Findings: There are several possible patterns for each country evident. However, a cross-cultural comparison was made difficult by the heterogeneous groups of respondents. It was nevertheless possible to conclude on four crosscultural hypotheses: 1) Female entrepreneurs prefer to work first before starting their own business; 2) The female entrepreneurial profile is risk-taking, purpose-driven, innovative and autonomous; 3) Immigration has a positive effect on the intention to start a business; 4) The majority of female entrepreneurs have a higher education and come from a middle to upper social class.
This thesis examines how financial institutions can address outcomes of the global financial crisis (GFC) such as mistrust of customers and ambitious requirements of regulations such as Basel III. Moreover, the market is facing a dramatic sociocultural change which creates the necessity to realign retail banks’ strategies. It will be outlined why social media is an important trend for the financial sector and which methods can be used to achieve a competitive advantage through customer-centricity. On the one hand the financial sector will be analysed to determine which of Porter’s five forces are shaping it. On the other hand, it will be shown how social media can be used to achieve a competitive advantage. This thesis will find out that social media is an important medium for retail banks to gain back customers’ trust in financial institutions and to focus on the customers’ needs. By engaging customers on social media platforms such as Facebook or Twitter, financial institutions can even create value beyond financial products and increase their innovative drive. Best practice examples of Banks such as CBA, ING Direct, Wells Fargo, and ICICI prove that. The implications are that social media gives customers the power to shape the bank of tomorrow and in turn banks can gain valuable insights into customers’ needs. Financial products and services will make more use of social media platforms and increase customers’ engagement through sharing, commenting and liking.
Several cultural heritage institutions all around the world have set up special services, trainings, courses or programs focusing on curation of digital material. Digital curation is a multifaceted task with a great variety of responsibilities, preconditions and objectives. For the first time in this field the DigCurV project offers a framework to locate competences and skills related to vocational education and training regarding digital curation processes. Referring to this framework should be a good starting point for differentiated educational activities focusing on special target groups, their educational background, the objectives of the digital curation process, and the material which has to be curated. Based on this, additional frameworks comprising these educational activities can be set up – still referring to the DigCurV framework partially or in total. This will offer the opportunity to compare educational activities regarding content and the results achieved. Beside these efforts regarding content and concepts of digital curation education there is another ongoing challenge: getting people involved and making them eager to curate (their) digital material properly. The curation job is hardly glamorous or much admired. For the most part it is a service-oriented back office activity demanding functionality and perfection. For a long time, specialists will be needed – and will need qualified training – to meet these requirements. Increasing awareness of the need for digital curation by professionals and the public offers opportunities to get digital curation professionals and their skills involved even in everyone’s working environment.
In the second decade of the 21st century, far-right ideas and groups have made themselves present and active in politics in the west, even winning local and national elections in some countries, such as the United States, Brazil and Hungary. While having specific ideological and cultural differences in its many forms in different countries, the far-right movement on an international scale has proven to be similar in its core and tactics.
This new-born far-right is in essence populist, defends conservative values, and navigates in what in popular use - and to some extent in academic discourse - is called post-truth politics. The concept of post-truth politics can be summarized as an increasing disregard to factual evidence in political discourse and decision-making. As the term “post-truth” suggests, facts regarding what is in discussion and the opinion of experts are secondary, if important at all, in comparison to emotional aspects being communicated. The condition for the success of the message is its appeal to the listener’s beliefs and values. Given this conjecture, conspiracy theories and science denialism can be powerful rhetorical tools in political discourse. A politician who constantly communicates using these tactics is Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Since before he was elected, the then candidate had always been heavily present in social media and been accused of spreading disinformation and fake news on his online profiles, which continued during his term. As the Covid-19 pandemic started, the executive organ of the Brazilian government minimized the importance and gravity of the situation in disregard to the orientation of the massive majority of the scientific community. In October 2021 Brazil reached over 600.000 deaths by COVID since the beginning of the pandemic, according to official data, which makes the country the 7th on the ranking of deaths per million.
This thesis aims to, firstly, discuss the interaction and causes of the rise of the far-right, post-truth politics, social media and the communication of conspiracy theories and science denialism in political discourse in general, but also to go deeper in the Brazilian context, in order to understand the events that lead to President Bolsonaro’s election, his ideology, rhetoric and communication. The second goal of this thesis is to identify conspiracy theories and science denialism in the official communication of the Brazilian government in regard to the COVID-19 pandemic; classify the content according to the structure of conspiracy theorization and science denialism; and analyze these findings within the scope of interactions described in the first part of the thesis. The third goal of this thesis is to discuss the findings of the second part and the outcomes (deaths, vaccination rate and willingness, adoption and disrespect of public health measures) of the pandemic in Brazil so far and to suggest topics for further research.
In recent years, access to and curation of research data have become a topic of discussion in national and international think tanks and advisory groups. There are various concepts and suggestions to stimulate and improve competences in dealing with research data. In addition, semantic web technologies and Linked Open Data are raising the awareness for access to data and environments in which data can be processed, retrieved, reused and preserved. Competences in dealing with these challenges will extend the scope of work and the tasks not only of researchers but of librarians as well. In the context of a survey on digital preservation of research data in Germany, research data-related tasks have been identified and consequences for the scope of library activities and qualification needs of librarians have been suggested. Competences in collecting, describing, and processing domain-related data in connection with other activities in digital curation of research data gain in importance. LIS (Library and Information Science) curricula should cover these extended qualification needs.
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