Many countries experience waning public trust in government, while digitisation of society is on the rise and public authorities continue to further digitise their services. If governments do not pay enough attention to the perspective of citizens and adopt a citizen-centric approach while designing …

Photographers, videographers, and other creative individuals have a growing workload and an increasing number of equipment that they need to carry every day. The damage of carrying heavy equipment has both short- and long-term effects on the health of these individuals. Mobility, fitting the user well …

Most research on hydrological risks focuses either on flood risk or drought risk, whilst floods and droughts are two extremes of the same hydrological cycle. To better design disaster risk reduction (DRR) measures and strategies, it is important to consider interactions between these closely linked phenomena. …

BACKGROUND: In critical care patients, reaching optimal β-lactam concentrations poses challenges, as infections are caused more often by microorganisms associated with higher MICs, and critically ill patients typically have an unpredictable pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic profile. Conventional intermittent …

This research has been carried out in Tainan region, Taiwan, which is famous with sufficient diversity of orchids. After 2014, the figure of exporting Taiwanese orchid decreased gradually because of global competition. However, small-scale orchid growers still have maintained the same production mode …

In diesem ersten LOGbuch, das die Internationale Bauausstellung IBA Heidelberg im vierten Jahr ihres Bestehens herausgibt, wird das ambitionierte Thema Wissen | schafft | Stadt ausgelotet und in seiner Relevanz für Heidelberg als Programm gefasst. Der erste Teil erläutert die Grundlagen des Diskurses …

A legal department’s objective is to support an organization in reaching its objectives, by seizing legal opportunity whenever possible and identifying and mitigating legal risks intelligently. To do this effectively, a proactive and structured approach is essential. Although times are changing, many …