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measured the energy converted from food into heat and mechanical work (Rubner, 1902). Several other scientists worked on a theory of nutrition and work to enhance human performance in industry and the military [...] energy for their work in factories. After von Helmholtz’s publi- cation on the conservation of the “living force,” 11 it seemed obvious working men had to convert their food into mechanical work and that these [...] march on an empty stomach” illustrates the equilibrium between food consumption and work, but not, necessarily, the work typical for a soldier. Ancient sources written by Roman quartermasters around 100

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• Eijkman and Beri-Beri

a job working as a geolo- gist in the Alsace-Lorraine. On May 18, 1768, at the age of twenty-four, he was chosen to become a member of French Academy of Science. In the following year, he worked on the [...] servation of mass and discovered that hydrogen, in combination with ox- ygen, produces water. His work was characterized by organizational skills, abundance of good ideas, universality, and modernism. [...] acquired a license to run a solicitor practice. It was likely due to his studies in Law that his works were so well written, with their meanings always easily comprehensible, clear, well-defined, and fully

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• Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier and respiration

radioactivity. She worked out the equipment used to measure the radioactivity in the substances used in farming, and in 1924, together with Catherine Chamie, she published the work on radioactive decay [...] decay constant of radon. While assisting her mother, and even replacing her in working in the Institute, Irene took up the research on the alpha particles emitted by the polonium – the element discovered by [...] way in the absorbent (air or different gases). In the following years, Irene still referred in her works to the number of ions appearing in the air under the effect of the element radium C radioactivity

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• Joliot-Curie and artificial radioactivity

the scientist or scientists who made the discovery, c) the country and the institution they worked in. Working collaboratively in your group please place the date of the above discoveries in the axis of [...] chemical element is initially displayed in the works of Aristotle (4th century BC), it was redefined by Dalton (1661) and Mendeleev (1871) with his work on the periodic table of elements. According to [...] Maria Curie. You can find information about the life, the contribution and the recognition of the work of Maria Curie. 1. Please compare the socio-economic environment in which she grew up and took the

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• Maria Skłodowska-Curie: discoverer of two radioactive elements

by Working Group II declines to deliver figures which are comparable to the costs of climate protection given by Working Group III (cf. IPCC 2014a, p. 450). On the other hand, the report by Working Group [...] sub-reports. While the report of Working Group III discusses and illustrates the costs of the different strategies for mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, and Working Group II also covers the adaptive [...] Emissions The IPCC predominantly quantifies the costs of climate protection in the report by Working Group III. The Working Group explicitly points out that the estimated costs do not include the benefits of climate

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Netherlands. He was the seventh child of Christiaan Eijkman and Johanna Alida Pool. Christiaan’s father worked as a headmaster at the local school. When he was only a few years old, his family relo- cated to [...] chief medical officer to the island of Java in the Indies, accompanied by his new wife. There, he worked as an army surgeon for two years. Unfortu- nately, he contracted a severe case of malaria in 1885 [...] his recovery from malaria, Eijkman began studying a new field of medicine called bacteriology. He worked in Josef Forster's laboratory in Amsterdam and also in Robert Koch's bacteriological laboratory in

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• Eijkman and Beri-Beri

make sure that the work was going efficient and that the quality of the weapons was as expected. When Thompson stood in the workshop, he immediately felt anger raise as most of the work- men stood around [...] for a tool to be prepared were not his idea of efficiency. Thus, he demanded that the workers should work with a blunt drill whilst the other one was still sharpened. Yet, they refused by arguing that the [...] Thomp-son felt that this issue deserves some more of his attention, so he mumbled to the workers ‘Work on, and be more efficient’ and went back to his carriage to go home, thinking about this problem.

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• Rumford and calorics

responsible approaches to employment and work, Proceedings for the ACREW/KLC Conference 2006, jointly hosted by the Australian Centre for Research in Employment and Work, Monash University and the Department [...] Clusters, ESCP-EAP Working Paper Nr. 27, Berlin, September 2007. • Dietl, H. M., Royer, S. & Stratmann, U.: Wertschöpfungsorganisation und Differenzierungsdilemma in der Automobilindustrie Working, Paper No. 64 [...] n für zwei- und mehrseitige Dienstleistungsmärkte, Working Paper No. 63, Institute for Strategy and Business Economics, University of Zurich Working Paper Series, ISSN 1660-1157, December 2006. • Royer

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• Prof. Dr. Susanne Royer

and primary information used in the scientific work. On the other side it shows how wide and deep in scope and scientific reflection the researcher worked. 6 All sources used to complete the thesis must [...] of 80:20 The final mark of the course is calculated as follows: Average grade of prequalification work (60 CP) x 2/3 + Grade of Final exam (30 CP) x 1/3 = Final Mark II. Master thesis 1. Purpose of the [...] examination, which concludes the scientific task. It is de- signed to prove the candidate’s ability to work independently and scientifically on a given problem within a specified period of time and to present

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Karl Marx resumed this position in his main work, Capital, as follows: "Let us now picture to ourselves … a community of free individuals, carrying on their work with the means of production in common, in [...] Concepts in Pure Sociology"). In this work he introduced the difference between two analytically op- posed types of social relations.1 Beside Henry Maine's works on ancient societies and Otto von Gierke's [...] tt & Thomasberger, 2005). Secondly it was shaped by his work as an outstanding analyst of international political and economical affairs working for the Österreichischer Volkswirt. His analysis of the

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