Background. Excessive loss of muscle mass in advanced age is a major risk factor for decreased physical ability and falls. Physical activity and exercise training are typically recommended to maintain muscle mass and prevent weakness. How exercise in different stages of life relates to muscle mass, grip strength, and risk for weakness in later life is not well understood.Methods. Baseline data on 891 ...
Over the past two decades, research and development (R&D) activities in eastern Germany have increased substantially, albeit to a lesser extent than in western Germany. Furthermore, R&D in eastern Germany was primarily conducted by research in the government sector and less so by universities and businesses. In 2013, overall, R&D activities in eastern Germany reached 86 percent of the western German ...
Gert G. Wagner has been elected Speaker of Section B “Economics, Social Sciences, Spatial Research“ of the Leibniz Association. He will be a member of the Executive Board for the next two years. The member institutes of the Leibniz Association form five sections that reflect its scientific profile and expertise. The main tasks of the Sections are to drive the sharing of scientific experience ...
Ingrid Tucci will be leaving the SOEP on November 1. She applied to the 2015 researchers’ competition of the French National Center for Scientific Research in the area of sociology and her achievements and research were evaluated as the best. Starting in November, she will be working at the CNRS Institute of Labour Economics and Industrial Sociology (LEST - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie ...
Very few research-intensive sectors and larger enterprises—research concentrated in public-sector and publicly funded research institutes and universitiesOver the past two decades, research and development (R&D) activities in eastern Germany have increased substantially, albeit to a lesser extent than in western Germany. Furthermore, R&D in eastern Germany was primarily conducted by public-sector ...
Mr. Eickelpasch, after reunification, we saw a substantial increase in research and development, or R&D, activities in eastern Germany. How big is the gap between the east and the west of the country today? If we look at the number of R&D employees as a share of the total workforce in Germany, or what is known as R&D labor intensity, and R&D expenditure as a percentage of GDP, it becomes ...
Uwe Sunde, longtime SOEP user and recently elected as deputy chairman of the SOEP Survey Committee, has been awarded the renowned Gossen Prize of the "Verein für Socialpolitik" at its annual conference. The Gossen Prize is awarded every year to honor a German-speaking economist working in central Europe, whose work has gained international renown. The aim of the award is to promote the internationalization ...
Jürgen Schupp was appointed in September 2015 to the advisory board to the administration of the project “Zivilgesellschaft in Zahlen” (Placing Civil Society on the Economic Map, ZiviZ) of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft, a non-profit organization promoting science and education in Germany. His term is for two years.
