TY - JOUR A1 - Fedchenko, Dmitry A1 - Tarkhanov, Nikolai Nikolaevich T1 - A Rado theorem for the porous medium equation JF - Boletin de la Sociedad Matemática Mexicana N2 - We prove that if u is a locally Lipschitz continuous function on an open set chi subset of Rn + 1 satisfying the nonlinear heat equation partial derivative(t)u = Delta(vertical bar u vertical bar(p-1) u), p > 1, weakly away from the zero set u(-1) (0) in chi, then u is a weak solution to this equation in all of chi. KW - Quasilinear equations KW - Removable sets KW - Porous medium equation Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s40590-017-0169-3 SN - 1405-213X SN - 2296-4495 VL - 24 IS - 2 SP - 427 EP - 437 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - GEN A1 - Ahnert, Thomas A1 - Decultot, Elisabeth A1 - Grote, Simon A1 - Lifschitz, Avi T1 - The German Enlightenment T2 - German history : the journal of the German History Societ N2 - The term Enlightenment (or Aufklärung) remains heavily contested. Even when historians delimit the remit of the concept, assigning it to a particular historical period rather than to an intellectual or moral programme, the public resonance of the Enlightenment remains high and problematic—especially when equated in an essentialist manner with modernity or some core values of ‘the West’. This Forum has been convened to discuss recent research on the Enlightenment in Germany, different views of the term and its ideological use in public discourse outside academia (and sometimes within it). KW - Enlightenment KW - Aufklarung KW - historiography KW - eighteenth century Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghx104 SN - 0266-3554 SN - 1477-089X VL - 35 SP - 588 EP - 602 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Haile, Mekbib Gebretsadik A1 - Kalkuhl, Matthias A1 - Algieri, Bernardina A1 - Gebreselassie, Samuel T1 - Price shock transmission BT - evidence from the wheat-bread market value chain in Ethiopia JF - Agricultural economics N2 - This study assesses the degree of vertical price transmission along the wheat-bread value chain in Ethiopia. This is pursued by applying a vector error correction model and an impulse response analysis using monthly price data for the period 2000-2015. Our analysis considers transmission of price shocks across different market levels, including from the international and domestic wheat grain markets at the upstream to the domestic wheat bread market at the downstream of the value chain. The empirical findings indicate that significant cointegration exists across prices of the different market stages. There is a transmission from international prices to domestic prices at downstream markets, in particular to flour and bread prices. Prices at upstream markets are largely influenced by the domestic wholesale market. In general, the speed of adjustment is quite slow with a half-life of about one year for restoring the equilibrium price relationship. As price margins between the different market stages in the value chain have substantially decreased in the last 15 years, higher transmission, and thus exposure to international market shocks, can be expected in the future. The results also show that causal relationships exist between prices at different market stageswith the wholesale market identified as the key market level where prices and price expectations are formed. KW - Q02 KW - Q11 KW - Q13 KW - L11 KW - M31 KW - Value chain KW - Price transmission KW - Impulse response KW - Wheat KW - Ethiopia Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12373 SN - 0169-5150 SN - 1574-0862 VL - 48 IS - 6 SP - 769 EP - 780 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Guerrero-Ramirez, Nathaly Rokssana A1 - Craven, Dylan A1 - Reich, Peter B. A1 - Ewel, John J. A1 - Isbell, Forest A1 - Koricheva, Julia A1 - Parrotta, John A. A1 - Auge, Harald A1 - Erickson, Heather E. A1 - Forrester, David I. A1 - Hector, Andy A1 - Joshi, Jasmin Radha A1 - Montagnini, Florencia A1 - Palmborg, Cecilia A1 - Piotto, Daniel A1 - Potvin, Catherine A1 - Roscher, Christiane A1 - van Ruijven, Jasper A1 - Tilman, David A1 - Wilsey, Brian A1 - Eisenhauer, Nico T1 - Diversity-dependent temporal divergence of ecosystem functioning in experimental ecosystems JF - Nature ecology & evolution N2 - The effects of biodiversity on ecosystem functioning generally increase over time, but the underlying processes remain unclear. Using 26 long-term grassland and forest experimental ecosystems, we demonstrate that biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships strengthen mainly by greater increases in functioning in high-diversity communities in grasslands and forests. In grasslands, biodiversity effects also strengthen due to decreases in functioning in low-diversity communities. Contrasting trends across grasslands are associated with differences in soil characteristics. Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0325-1 SN - 2397-334X VL - 1 IS - 11 SP - 1639 EP - 1642 PB - Nature Publ. Group CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rein, Patrick A1 - Ramson, Stefan A1 - Lincke, Jens A1 - Felgentreff, Tim A1 - Hirschfeld, Robert T1 - Group-Based Behavior Adaptation Mechanisms in Object-Oriented Systems JF - IEEE software N2 - Dynamic and distributed systems require behavior adaptations for groups of objects. Group-based behavior adaptation mechanisms scope adaptations to objects matching conditions beyond class membership. The specification of groups can be explicit or implicit. KW - group-based behavior adaptation KW - lively groups KW - ContextErlang KW - entity-component-system KW - predicated generic functions KW - active layers KW - reactive object queries KW - context groups KW - implied methods KW - object-oriented languages KW - software engineering KW - software development KW - contextual-variability modeling Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2017.4121224 SN - 0740-7459 SN - 1937-4194 VL - 34 IS - 6 SP - 78 EP - 82 PB - Inst. of Electr. and Electronics Engineers CY - Los Alamitos ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fitzi, Gregor A1 - Marcucci, Nicola T1 - Durkheim in Germany BT - the performance of a classic JF - Journal of Classical Sociology Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1468795X17735991 SN - 1468-795X SN - 1741-2897 VL - 17 IS - 4 SP - 271 EP - 275 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fitzi, Gregor T1 - Dialogue. Divergence. Veiled Reception. Criticism: Georg Simmel’s relationship with Emile Durkheim JF - Journal of Classical Sociology N2 - Simmel was the only German sociologist who directly cooperated with Durkheim. After an initial impression of convergence between the sociology of social facts and the sociology of social forms, a break between the two founders of sociology became inevitable. Yet, Durkheim and Simmel went on positioning themselves against one other in the years ahead. Durkheim’s allegation of ‘individual psychologism’ induced Simmel to a veiled reception of Durkheim’s methodological approach that permitted him to refine the sociological epistemology he eventually presented in the Soziologie published in 1908. On this basis, he was able to formulate a final criticism of the sociology of social facts as a social psychology. KW - Sociology of social facts KW - sociology of social forms KW - moral sociology KW - transnormative sociology KW - criticism of social psychology Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1468795X17735994 SN - 1468-795X SN - 1741-2897 VL - 17 SP - 293 EP - 308 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER - TY - GEN A1 - Fitzi, Gregor A1 - Joas, Hans A1 - Marcucci, Nicola T1 - Interview by Gregor Fitzi and Nicola Marcucci with Hans Joas on the reception of Emile Durkheim in Germany. Berlin: Humboldt University of Berlin, 6 October 2014 T2 - Journal of Classical Sociology N2 - The interview offers a reconstruction of the German reception of Durkheim since the middle of the 1970s. Hans Joas, who was one of its major protagonists, discusses the backdrop that finally permitted a scholarly examination of Durkheim’s sociology in Germany. Focussing on his personal reception Joas then gives an account of the Durkheimian themes that inspire his work. KW - Durkheim KW - human rights KW - modernity Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1468795X17736131 SN - 1468-795X SN - 1741-2897 VL - 17 IS - 4 SP - 382 EP - 398 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER - TY - GEN A1 - Fitzi, Gregor A1 - Marcucci, Nicola A1 - Müller, Hans-Peter T1 - Interview by Gregor Fitzi and Nicola Marcucci with Hans-Peter Müller on the reception of Emile Durkheim in Germany. Berlin: Humboldt University of Berlin, 25 February 2015 T2 - Journal of Classical Sociology N2 - Just after the publication of the Theory of Communicative Action in 1981, a new generation of interpreters started a different reception of Durkheim in Germany. Hans-Peter Müller, sociologist and editor of the German translation of Leçons de sociologie, reconstructs the history of the German Durkheim’s Reception and illuminates the reasons for his interest in the French sociologist. He delivers different insights into the background which permitted the post-Habermasian generation to reach a new understanding of Durkheim’s work by enlightening the scientific and political conditions from which this new sensibility emerged. KW - Durkheim’s German Reception, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, Jürgen Habermas Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/1468795X17736132 SN - 1468-795X SN - 1741-2897 VL - 17 IS - 4 SP - 399 EP - 422 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Groop, Per-Henrik A1 - Cooper, Mark E. A1 - Perkovic, Vlado A1 - Hocher, Berthold A1 - Kanasaki, Keizo A1 - Haneda, Masakazu A1 - Schernthaner, Guntram A1 - Sharma, Kumar A1 - Stanton, Robert C. A1 - Toto, Robert A1 - Cescutti, Jessica A1 - Gordat, Maud A1 - Meinicke, Thomas A1 - Koitka-Weber, Audrey A1 - Thiemann, Sandra A1 - von Eynatten, Maximilian T1 - Linagliptin and its effects on hyperglycaemia and albuminuria in patients with type 2 diabetes and renal dysfunction BT - the randomized MARLINA-T2D trial JF - Diabetes obesity & metabolism : a journal of pharmacology and therapeutics N2 - Aims: The MARLINA-T2D study (ClinicalTrials. gov, NCT01792518) was designed to investigate the glycaemic and renal effects of linagliptin added to standard-of-care in individuals with type 2 diabetes and albuminuria. Methods: A total of 360 individuals with type 2 diabetes, HbA1c 6.5% to 10.0% (48-86 mmol/ mol), estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) >= 30 mL/min/1.73 m(2) and urinary albumin-tocreatinine ratio (UACR) 30-3000 mg/g despite single agent renin-angiotensin-system blockade were randomized to double-blind linagliptin (n = 182) or placebo (n = 178) for 24 weeks. The primary and key secondary endpoints were change from baseline in HbA1c at week 24 and time-weighted average of percentage change from baseline in UACR over 24 weeks, respectively. Results: Baseline mean HbA1c and geometric mean (gMean) UACR were 7.8% +/- 0.9% (62.2 +/- 9.6 mmol/mol) and 126 mg/g, respectively; 73.7% and 20.3% of participants had microalbuminuria or macroalbuminuria, respectively. After 24 weeks, the placebo-adjusted mean change in HbA1c from baseline was -0.60% (-6.6 mmol/mol) (95% confidence interval [CI], -0.78 to -0.43 [-8.5 to -4.7 mmol/mol]; P <.0001). The placebo-adjusted gMean for time-weighted average of percentage change in UACR from baseline was -6.0% (95% CI, -15.0 to 3.0; P =.1954). The adverse-event profile, including renal safety and change in eGFR, was similar between the linagliptin and placebo groups. Conclusions: In individuals at early stages of diabetic kidney disease, linagliptin significantly improved glycaemic control but did not significantly lower albuminuria. There was no significant change in placebo-adjusted eGFR. Detection of clinically relevant renal effects of linagliptin may require longer treatment, as its main experimental effects in animal studies have been to reduce interstitial fibrosis rather than alter glomerular haemodynamics. KW - antidiabetic drug KW - clinical trial KW - diabetic nephropathy KW - DPP-IV inhibitor KW - glycaemic control KW - linagliptin Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/dom.13041 SN - 1462-8902 SN - 1463-1326 VL - 19 IS - 11 SP - 1610 EP - 1619 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER -