Globalization, European integration, and social change have devaluated traditional social democratic policy instruments. This book compares and explores how social democratic governments have had to adapt and whether they have successfully managed to uphold old social democratic goals and values in the light of these challenges. This volume examines the policy measures of social democratic parties in government in a comparative framework. The authors focus on traditional social democratic goals and tools, in particular, fiscal, employment, and social policy, in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark. They identify three policy patterns in social democratic governments: traditional, modernized, and liberalized social democracy and provide a comparative account of the explanatory power of the national context for policy adopted by social democratic parties. Finally, the extent to which social democratic parties have been able to use the European Union as a political space for social democratic governance and policy-making is examined. Social Democracy in Power will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, comparative politics, European studies and public policy.

Globalization, European integration, and social change have devaluated traditional social democratic policy instruments. This book compares and explores how social democratic governments have had to adapt and whether they have successfully managed to uphold old social democratic goals and values in the light of these challenges. This volume examines the policy measures of social democratic parties in government in a comparative framework. The authors focus on traditional social democratic goals and tools, in particular, fiscal, employment, and social policy, in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark. They identify three policy patterns in social democratic governments: traditional, modernized, and liberalized social democracy and provide a comparative account of the explanatory power of the national context for policy adopted by social democratic parties. Finally, the extent to which social democratic parties have been able to use the European Union as a political space for social democratic governance and policy-making is examined. Social Democracy in Power will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, comparative politics, European studies and public policy.

Ende der 90er Jahre waren sozialdemokratische Parteien in den meisten Landern der Europaischen Union an der Regierung beteiligt. Wie erfolgreich waren die unterschiedlichen Parteien in ihrer Reformpolitik? Folgten sie einem einheitlichen Dritten Weg? Mit dem Buch liegt eine in sich geschlossene, vergleichende empirische Untersuchung der Regierungspolitik sozialdemokratischer Parteien auf europaischer Ebene seit Mitte der 90er Jahre vor. Auf Grundlage von Landerstudien (zu Grossbritannien, Frankreich, Deutschland, Niederlande, Schweden und Danemark) wird die Politik sozialdemokratischer Regierungen analysiert und deren Fiskal-, Beschaftigungs- und Sozialpolitik in vergleichender Perspektive bewertet. Ausserdem untersuchen die Autoren, inwieweit sozialdemokratische Parteien die Europaische Union zur Erweiterung ihres Handlungsspielraumes nutzten.

Diploma Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject Computer Science - Applied, grade: 1, Technical University of Berlin, language: English, abstract: Network Measurements play an essential role in operating and developing today's Internet. A variety of measurement applications demand for multipoint network measurements, e.g. service providers need to validate their delay guarantees from Service Level Agreements and network engineers have incentives to track where packets are changed, reordered, lost or delayed. Multipoint measurements create an immense amount of measurement data which demands for high resource measurement infrastructure. Data selection techniques, like sampling and filtering, provide efficient solutions for reducing resource consumption while still maintaining sufficient information about the metrics of interest. But not all selection techniques are suitable for multipoint measurements; only deterministic filtering allows a synchronized selection of packets at multiple observation points. Nevertheless a fillter bases its selection decision on the packet content and hence is suspect to bias, i.e the selected subset is not representative for the whole population. Hash-based selection is a filtering method that tries to emulate random selection in order to obtain a representative sample for accurate estimations of traffic characteristics. The subject of the thesis is to assess which hash function and which packet content should be used for hash-based selection to obtain a seemingly random and unbiased selection of packets. This thesis empirically analyzes 25 hash functions and different packet content combinations on their suitability for hash-based selection. Experiments are based on a collection of 7 real traffic groups from different networks.

The Munich-based German Research Council-funded post-graduate research group 'Textual Criticism as a Basis and Method in Historical Studies' brought together editor and text theoreticians from the Classics, art history, musicology and philosophy. The interdisciplinary nature of the research group is reflected in the contributions to this collection, which contains smaller-scale editions and manuscript studies alongside studies on text theory and editing history. The volume marks the 65th birthday of Hans Walter Gabler, who was spokesman of the research group from 1996 to its conclusion in 2002.

With reference to the relationship between text and author, a subject as challenging as it is problematic in textual criticism terms, the members of the Munich postgraduate research group on ATextual Criticism as Foundation and Method in Historical StudiesA here present the findings of their Venice symposium and in so doing give impressive evidence of their competence on the practical and theoretical plane. The range of subjects addressed stretches from inscriptions from the ancient world and medieval authorial awareness to musical works of the Renaissance and from there to texts culled from present-day literary works. In terms of editorial history, the spectrum extends from the beginnings of textual criticism in the writings of J.J. Bodmer and J. Grimm to the textual genesis approach in editorial practice of the modern age.

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 1996 im Fachbereich Ingenieurwissenschaften - Nachrichtentechnik / Kommunikationstechnik, Note: 1,0, Technische Universitat Dortmund (Unbekannt), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Inhaltsangabe: Einleitung: Die optische Nachrichtentechnik gewinnt in der Telekommunikation mit dem wachsenden Bedarf an hohen Ubertragungsraten und der Globalisierung der Informationsverarbeitung an Bedeutung. Die Bauteile der integrierten Optik sind aufgrund ihrer Anwendungsmoglichkeiten innerhalb der optischen Nachrichtentechnik von grossem Interesse, da bei Verteilungs- und Schaltfunktionen auf die Umwandlung in elektrische Signale verzichtet werden kann. Das im Rahmen dieser Diplomarbeit betrachtete Bauteil, der passive optische Sternkoppler, findet vorwiegend in lokalen Netzen seine Anwendung. Die hierbei verwendbaren Materialien mussen gewahrleisten, dass die Lichtwellenleiter geringe Ubertragungsverluste durch Dampfung und Dispersion besitzen und reproduzierbar herzustellen sind. Die Moglichkeit der Kopplung an andere optische Komponenten wie Glasfasern, Lichtquellen und Photodetektoren ist ebenso wichtig. Diese Forderungen erfullen verschiedene Substratmaterialien wie z. B. Glas, Polymere und nicht zuletzt Silizium. Die Herstellung des Sternkopplers auf Siliziumsubstrat hat verschiedene Vorteile. Standardsiliziumwafer besitzen eine qualitativ hochwertige Oberflache und sind deshalb ein geeignetes Substrat fur optische Wellenleiter. Die Siliziumtechnologie ist gut erforscht und zur Abscheidung und Strukturierung der Lichtwellenleiterschichten kann auf Verfahren der Halbleitertechnologie zuruckgegriffen werden. Ein weiterer Vorteil ist das einfach herzustellende, arteigene Oxid des Siliziums mit guten optischen Eigenschaften. Aufgrund des grossen finanziellen und zeitlichen Aufwandes ist es sinnvoll, vor der technologischen Realisierung eine simulatorische Opitimierung durchzufuhren. Aus diesem Grund teilt sich diese Diplomarbeit zu etwa gleichen Teilen in einen