@unpublished{Rosowski2021, author = {Rosowski, Udo}, title = {{\"U}bersicht {\"u}ber die Arbeitsverh{\"a}ltnisse im {\"o}sterreichischen Kohlebergbau nach dem Berggesetz von 23. Mai 1854}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-9049}, pages = {57 Seiten}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Eine zusammenfassende Darstellung der sozialen Lage der Bergleute im {\"o}sterreichischen Bergbau existiert bisher noch nicht. Mit dieser Arbeit sollen einige Aspekte des Arbeitsverh{\"a}ltnisses der {\"o}sterreichischen Bergleute nach Inkrafttreten des Allgemeinen Berggesetzes beleuchtet werden.}, language = {de} } @unpublished{Lucke2016, author = {Lucke, Robin Jan}, title = {How Securitization Theory Can Benefit from Psychology Findings}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-6216}, pages = {20 Seiten}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Securitization Theory has been applied and advanced continuously since the publication of the seminal work "Security - A New Framework for Analysis" by Buzan et al. in 1998. Various extensions, clarifications and definitions have been added over the years. Ontological and epistemological debates as well as debates about the normativity of the concept have taken place, furthering the approach incrementally and adapting it to new empirical cases. This paper aims at contributing to the improvement of the still useful framework in a more general way by amending it with well-established findings from another discipline: Psychology. The exploratory article will point out what elements of Securitization Theory might benefit most from incorporating insights from Psychology and in which ways they might change our understanding of the phenomenon. Some well-studied phenomena in the field of (Social) Psychology, it is argued here, play an important role for the construction and perception of security threats and the acceptance of the audience to grant the executive branch extraordinary measures to counter these threats: availability heuristic, loss-aversion and social identity theory are central psychological concepts that can help us to better understand how securitization works, and in which situations securitizing moves have great or little chances to reverberate. The empirical cases of the 9/11 and Paris terror attacks will serve to illustrate the potential of this approach, allowing for variances in key factors, among them: (point in) time, system of government and ideological orientation. As a hypotheses-generating pilot study, the paper will conclude by discussing further research possibilities in the field of Securitization.}, subject = {Securitization}, language = {en} } @unpublished{Yakouchyk2018, author = {Yakouchyk, Katsiaryna}, title = {Belarusian State Ideology: A Strategy of Flexible Adaptation}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-6028}, pages = {20 Seiten}, year = {2018}, abstract = {While in some Eastern European countries a wave of colored revolutions challenged existing political orders, Belarus has remained largely untouched by mass protests. In Minsk, the diffusion of democratic ideas leading to the mobilization of population meets a stable authoritarian regime. Nevertheless, the stagnating democratization process cannot be only attributed to the strong authoritarian rule and abuse of power. Indeed, Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko still enjoys popularity by a large part of the population. Although international observers report that elections in Belarus have never been free and fair, few commentators doubt that Lukashenko would not have won in democratic elections. This evidence suggests that the regime succeeded in building a strong legitimizing basis, which has not been seriously challenged during the last two decades. This paper explores the authoritarian stability in Belarus by looking at the patterns of state ideology. The government effectively spreads state ideology since the early 2000s. Ideology departments have been created in almost all state institutions. The education sector has been affected by the introduction of the compulsory course "The Fundamentals of Belarusian State Ideology" at all universities, and increasing attention to the patriotic education at schools. Based on document analysis, I trace the creation of "ideological vertical" in Belarus and focuse on the issue of ideology in education and youth policy sectors.}, language = {en} } @unpublished{Ratusny2018, author = {Ratusny, Armin}, title = {Flussterrassen und Hochwasser in Passau und die 'Hohe Kunst' regionaler Geomorphologie und Landschaftsgeschichte, eine Suche nach der Wahrheit oder: Noch eine (gedruckte) Katastrophe im Katastrophenjahr 2013}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-5321}, pages = {26}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Der Beitrag rezensiert den Aufsatz von Dieter Anhuf: Der Naturraum Passaus - Gepr{\"a}gt durch (Hoch-)Wasser und Eis. In: W. Gamerith, D. Anhuf, E. Struck (Hrsg.): Passau und seine Nachbarregionen. Orte, Ereignisse, Verbindungen - ein geographischer Wegweiser. Regensburg 2013, S. 13-24.}, language = {de} } @unpublished{ZwicklbauerSeifertGranitzer2016, author = {Zwicklbauer, Stefan and Seifert, Christin and Granitzer, Michael}, title = {DoSeR - A Knowledge-Base-Agnostic Framework for Entity Disambiguation Using Semantic Embeddings}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-3670}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Entity disambiguation is the task of mapping ambiguous terms in natural-language text to its entities in a knowledge base. It finds its application in the extraction of structured data in RDF (Resource Description Framework) from textual documents, but equally so in facilitating artificial intelligence applications, such as Semantic Search, Reasoning and Question \& Answering. In this work, we propose DoSeR (Disambiguation of Semantic Resources), a (named) entity disambiguation framework that is knowledge-base-agnostic in terms of RDF (e.g. DBpedia) and entity-annotated document knowledge bases (e.g. Wikipedia). Initially, our framework automatically generates semantic entity embeddings given one or multiple knowledge bases. In the following, DoSeR accepts documents with a given set of surface forms as input and collectively links them to an entity in a knowledge base with a graph-based approach. We evaluate DoSeR on seven different data sets against publicly available, state-of-the-art (named) entity disambiguation frameworks. Our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches that make use of RDF knowledge bases and/or entity-annotated document knowledge bases by up to 10\% F1 measure.}, language = {de} } @unpublished{Kreitmeier2012, author = {Kreitmeier, Wolfgang}, title = {Asymptotic optimality of scalar Gersho quantizers}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus-27080}, year = {2012}, abstract = {In his famous paper Gersho stressed that the codecells of optimal quantizers asymptotically make an equal contribution to the distortion of the quantizer. Motivated by this fact, we investigate in this paper quantizers in the scalar case, where each codecell contributes with exactly the same portion to the quantization error. We show that such quantizers of Gersho type - or Gersho quantizers for short - exist for non-atomic scalar distributions. As a main result we prove that Gersho quantizers are asymptotically optimal.}, subject = {Maßtheorie}, language = {en} } @unpublished{KreitmeierLinder2011, author = {Kreitmeier, Wolfgang and Linder, Tamas}, title = {Entropy Density and Mismatch in High-Rate Scalar Quantization with R{\´e}nyi Entropy Constraint}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus-26132}, year = {2011}, abstract = {Properties of scalar quantization with \$r\$th power distortion and constrained R\'enyi entropy of order \$\alpha\in (0,1)\$ are investigated. For an asymptotically (high-rate) optimal sequence of quantizers, the contribution to the R\'enyi entropy due to source values in a fixed interval is identified in terms of the "entropy density" of the quantizer sequence. This extends results related to the well-known point density concept in optimal fixed-rate quantization. A dual of the entropy density result quantifies the distortion contribution of a given interval to the overall distortion. The distortion loss resulting from a mismatch of source densities in the design of an asymptotically optimal sequence of quantizers is also determined. This extends Bucklew's fixed-rate (\$\alpha=0\$) and Gray \emph{et al.}'s variable-rate (\$\alpha=1\$)mismatch results to general values of the entropy order parameter \$\alpha\$}, subject = {Maßtheorie}, language = {de} } @unpublished{KreitmeierLinder2011, author = {Kreitmeier, Wolfgang and Linder, Tamas}, title = {High-Resolution Scalar Quantization with R{\´e}nyi Entropy Constraint}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus-23787}, year = {2011}, abstract = {We consider optimal scalar quantization with \$r\$th power distortion and constrained R\'enyi entropy of order \$\alpha\$. For sources with absolutely continuous distributions the high rate asymptotics of the quantizer distortion has long been known for \$\alpha=0\$ (fixed-rate quantization) and \$\alpha=1\$ (entropy-constrained quantization). These results have recently been extended to quantization with R\'enyi entropy constraint of order \$\alpha \ge r+1\$. Here we consider the more challenging case \$\alpha\in [-\infty,0)\cup (0,1)\$ and for a large class of absolutely continuous source distributions we determine the sharp asymptotics of the optimal quantization distortion. The achievability proof is based on finding (asymptotically) optimal quantizers via the companding approach, and is thus constructive.}, subject = {Maßtheorie}, language = {de} } @unpublished{Kreitmeier2011, author = {Kreitmeier, Wolfgang}, title = {Optimal vector quantization in terms of Wasserstein distance}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus-22502}, year = {2011}, abstract = {The optimal quantizer in memory-size constrained vector quantization induces a quantization error which is equal to a Wasserstein distortion. However, for the optimal (Shannon-)entropy constrained quantization error a proof for a similar identity is still missing. Relying on principal results of the optimal mass transportation theory, we will prove that the optimal quantization error is equal to a Wasserstein distance. Since we will state the quantization problem in a very general setting, our approach includes the R\'enyi-\$\alpha\$-entropy as a complexity constraint, which includes the special case of (Shannon-)entropy constrained \$(\alpha = 1)\$ and memory-size constrained \$(\alpha = 0)\$ quantization. Additionally, we will derive for certain distance functions codecell convexity for quantizers with a finite codebook. Using other methods, this regularity in codecell geometry has already been proved earlier by Gy\"{o}rgy and Linder.}, subject = {Maßtheorie}, language = {en} } @unpublished{Kreitmeier2009, author = {Kreitmeier, Wolfgang}, title = {Hausdorff measure of uniform self-similar fractals}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus-17948}, year = {2009}, abstract = {Let d \&\#8805; 1 be an integer and E a self-similar fractal set, which is the attractor of a uniform contracting iterated function system (UIFS) on Rd. Denote by D the Hausdorff dimension, by HD(E) the Hausdorff measure and by diam (E) the diameter of E. If the UIFS is parametrised by its contracting factor c, while the set \ω of fixed points of the UIFS does not depend on c, we will show the existence of a positive constant depending only on \ω, such that the Hausdorff dimension is smaller than one and HD = (E) D if c is smaller than this constant. We apply our result to modified versions of various classical fractals. Moreover we present a parametrised UIFS where \ω depends on c and HD < diam(E)D, if c is small enough.}, subject = {Maßtheorie}, language = {en} }