A team of economists from the University of Passau has shown how Facebook ads can be used to identify people at risk of developing diabetes.
How will the future labor market look and are European education systems endowing the next generation with the skills they will need to succeed? These questions are at the heart of a new research project at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
What are the links between migrant career prospects and their working abroad in the EU? This was a guiding question of a research project coordinated by the University of Bamberg. The project aimed to develop a long-term approach to supporting migrant worker integration and combating labor shortages in the EU.
In collaboration with business partners, researchers are developing ways to improve mobility in rural regions and expand e-vehicle charging infrastructure.
Successful negotiating skills are important in business—but training this ability is both time-consuming and costly. To remedy this, researchers at HNU have combined speech recognition, artificial intelligence, machine learning and virtual reality to develop a virtual negotiation training.
Affective reactions—or gut feelings—play a key role in consumer decision-making. Researchers at the University of Passau are seeking to understand this process better and help consumers make better decisions.
The internet giants need smart regulation. At Passau University, Information Systems professor Jan Krämer and his team are developing models for this.
Together with partners, Bayreuth business IT specialists have developed a secure way of exchanging data in the energy system for the German Energy Agency (dena). The report “Fundamentals and significance of data spaces for the energy industry” was published on April 25. The authors are Prof. Dr. Jens Strüker and Dr. Marc-Fabian Körner from the University of Bayreuth.
Some truffles are particularly expensive and therefore often the target of food fraud. For example, high-priced Piedmont truffles (Tuber magnatum) are often difficult to distinguish from the cheaper spring truffles (T. borchii) on the basis of their appearance. Two scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich have now developed a new method of analysis. This allows both truffle species to be distinguished objectively and clearly using just two marker compounds. "The method is also fundamentally suitable for routine analyses," explains principal investigator Martin Steinhaus.
An international team of management scholars headed by Andreas König at the University of Passau studies how CEO humour—i.e., humour used by chief executive officers—affects the way infomediaries such as journalists and analysts evaluate companies. Some types of CEO humour may have a different consequences than one would expect, or desire.