A research team from the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich (LSB) has succeeded in automating an established method for the gentle, artifact-avoiding isolation of volatile food ingredients. As the team's current comparative study now shows, automated solvent-assisted flavor evaporation (aSAFE) offers significant advantages over the manual process. It achieves higher yields on average and reduces the risk of contamination by nonvolatile substances.
The further people in Sub-Saharan Africa live from the coast, the greater the likelihood of a comparatively low standard of living. This is the conclusion reached by economists at the University of Bayreuth in a study of 17 African coastal countries published in the Review of Development Economics. Proximity to ports attracts people with higher levels of knowledge and education, promotes the growth of cities and the expansion of infrastructure, and thus increases prosperity. To achieve similar standards of living, geographically determined disadvantages in regions of Africa far from the coast would have to be offset by targeted measures, which often do not happen.
The German federal government introduced the ‘fuel discount’ on June 1, 2022. This reduction in energy taxes means that consumers should pay less for fuel. A team of researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have now investigated to what extent the oil companies pass on the tax cuts and what impact the fuel discount is actually having on consumers’ wallets.
Dr. Edward Asiedu experienced poverty in his childhood in Ghana. Now he is researching ways to ensure that poor children do not become poor parents. With the support of a fellowship, he is now developing a blueprint for actions at the University of Passau as first visiting professor of the Passau International Centre of Advanced and Interdisciplinary Studies (PICAIS). On Wednesday, 13 July, he will be sharing highlights from his research at a symposium about digitalisation in Africa.
Thanks to batteries, households with a photovoltaic system on their roofs can now use more of the solar power they have generated themselves. A large number of new business models for decentralized energy supply is not the only feature of the battery market that Prof. Dr. Hans-Martin Zademach, professor of Economic Geography at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (KU) is researching in his new project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Freight and goods traffic has increased to a degree that it now makes up nearly 30 percent of all the traffic in German cities. “The coronavirus pandemic has reinforced and accelerated this trend, as online trade and with it deliveries have boomed,” says Prof. Dr. Pirmin Fontaine. He holds the junior professorship for Operations Management at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-ingolstadt (KU) and is currently looking into the potential of cargo bikes for city deliveries.
Production workers instructed with augmented reality glasses can work much faster than colleagues instructed with analog methods. However, an international study shows that they are less capable of internalizing their tasks and of making suggestions to improve production processes. These insights may help companies when adapting AR applications to their needs and balancing productivity gains against process optimization priorities.
A new research project on the modernisation of SignWriting is being launched at Landshut University of Applied Sciences. The aim is to improve deaf people’s ability to communicate on a digitally-driven labour market.
The University of Bayreuth is once again among the top 10 universities in Germany in the subjects of law and economics. In the WirtschaftsWoche University Ranking 2022, it is - as in the previous year - the only smaller university in Germany to achieve a place in the top group in these subjects. The ranking is based on the assessment of HR managers from SMEs and industry, and once again shows that doors on the job market are wide open for Bayreuth graduates.
When the demand for workers significantly exceeds the supply, companies in the United States place less emphasis on formal degrees when it comes to job applications. Instead, skills and competencies become more important. This is the conclusion of a study with the participation of Christina Langer, which has now been published in the renowned Harvard Business Review. Christina Langer is a research associate at the Chair of Macroeconomics at the Ingolstadt School of Management Ingolstadt (WFI) of Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and a visiting scholar at the ifo Institute in Munich.
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