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Do People Choose Optimal Health Insurance Plans?
(Hamburg, Hamburg State: Latest Thinking, 2017), 14 mins
The health insurance market is driven by the individual choices consumers make on their insurance plans. The research presented in this video explores the questions of how consumers choose these plans, whether they are able to pick the plan most suited to their situation and whether they switch to another and bett...
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(Hamburg, Hamburg State: Latest Thinking, 2017), 14 mins
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The health insurance market is driven by the individual choices consumers make on their insurance plans. The research presented in this video explores the questions of how consumers choose these plans, whether they are able to pick the plan most suited to their situation and whether they switch to another and better health insurance plan when they have the opportunity to do so. JOACHIM WINTER explains that, after running statistical analyses and...
The health insurance market is driven by the individual choices consumers make on their insurance plans. The research presented in this video explores the questions of how consumers choose these plans, whether they are able to pick the plan most suited to their situation and whether they switch to another and better health insurance plan when they have the opportunity to do so. JOACHIM WINTER explains that, after running statistical analyses and conducting experimental surveys, his research group found that consumers do not tend to pick ideal plans because often they focus too much on price and not so much on other cost-influencing factors. The researchers also discovered that switching rates to other plans are very low. These findings have implications for behavioral economics as well since they more generally offer valuable data on consumers’ choice behavior.
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Field of Study
Business & Economics
Content Type
Instructional material
Contributor
Joachim Winter
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Latest Thinking
Topic / Theme
Health insurance industry, Economics
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How Can Chemicals Be Produced in a More Sustainable Process?
(Latest Thinking, 2018), 13 mins
KAI SUNDMACHER’s aim is to introduce a more sustainable process to chemicals production. As he explains in this video, for new technological developments in chemical process engineering a new methodology is needed that is able to include many decision variables in order to find the best pathway from the raw mate...
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(Latest Thinking, 2018), 13 mins
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KAI SUNDMACHER’s aim is to introduce a more sustainable process to chemicals production. As he explains in this video, for new technological developments in chemical process engineering a new methodology is needed that is able to include many decision variables in order to find the best pathway from the raw materials to the target product. Therefore, his research team developed an elementary process function (EPF) methodology which allows them...
KAI SUNDMACHER’s aim is to introduce a more sustainable process to chemicals production. As he explains in this video, for new technological developments in chemical process engineering a new methodology is needed that is able to include many decision variables in order to find the best pathway from the raw materials to the target product. Therefore, his research team developed an elementary process function (EPF) methodology which allows them to analyze the pathway of fluid elements and the goal is to steer this fluid element along an ideal pathway towards the final state, thereby discovering the most sensitive manipulating variables. Already, the researchers have found many real-world applications for this EPF methodology, such as in the chemicals production industry, in solids production and in biotechnology.
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Field of Study
Business & Economics
Content Type
Instructional material
Contributor
Kai Sundmacher, 1965-
Date Published / Released
2018
Publisher
Latest Thinking
Topic / Theme
Manufacturing processes, Chemical industry
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How Does Tourism Change People and Places?
(Latest Thinking, 2017), 11 mins
The classic image that tourists and travelers should only leave footprints and take photos is put into question by CARSTEN WERGINs academic investigation of how tourism has changed the world. In this video, he describes his interest in the question of how tourism impacts on particular places and people. In his fie...
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(Latest Thinking, 2017), 11 mins
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The classic image that tourists and travelers should only leave footprints and take photos is put into question by CARSTEN WERGINs academic investigation of how tourism has changed the world. In this video, he describes his interest in the question of how tourism impacts on particular places and people. In his field studies and during participant observations he has found that tourism is not only a global industry, it also actively changes the wo...
The classic image that tourists and travelers should only leave footprints and take photos is put into question by CARSTEN WERGINs academic investigation of how tourism has changed the world. In this video, he describes his interest in the question of how tourism impacts on particular places and people. In his field studies and during participant observations he has found that tourism is not only a global industry, it also actively changes the world on various levels, for example in regards to perceptions of the environment or approaches to heritage at tourist destinations. This suggests that tourism should not merely be considered a global industry but rather a globe-making activity.
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Field of Study
Business & Economics
Content Type
Instructional material
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Latest Thinking
Topic / Theme
Tourism industry
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How Is the UNESCO World Heritage Title Being Awarded and What Are Its Consequences?
(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 14 mins
The UNESCO World Heritage title has become a powerful global brand. It influences people’s decisions of where to travel and conveys prestige and national pride. CHRISTOPH BRUMANN and his research group investigated how this title is being awarded and what its consequences are on the ground at the chosen sites. B...
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(Germany: Latest Thinking, 2017), 14 mins
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The UNESCO World Heritage title has become a powerful global brand. It influences people’s decisions of where to travel and conveys prestige and national pride. CHRISTOPH BRUMANN and his research group investigated how this title is being awarded and what its consequences are on the ground at the chosen sites. Brumann explains in this video that using a two-fold anthropological approach, the researchers found that, since 2010, national interest...
The UNESCO World Heritage title has become a powerful global brand. It influences people’s decisions of where to travel and conveys prestige and national pride. CHRISTOPH BRUMANN and his research group investigated how this title is being awarded and what its consequences are on the ground at the chosen sites. Brumann explains in this video that using a two-fold anthropological approach, the researchers found that, since 2010, national interests have become the guideline for the UNESCO World Heritage Committee decisions, often brushing aside expert advice. On the local level, they discovered that communities often had little influence on the management of the sites and that these were rather maintained in the line of national interests. These findings suggest an unexpected assertion of national interests in contrast to global institutions’ advice.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Instructional material
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Latest Thinking
Speaker / Narrator
Christoph Brumann, fl. 2010
Person Discussed
Christoph Brumann, fl. 2010
Topic / Theme
Tourism industry, Cultural anthropology, Ethnosociology, Archaeological sites
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Mine 21
directed by Stephen L. Garrett, fl. 2007; produced by Stephen L. Garrett, fl. 2007; interview by Alexa Fults and Kelsey Arbuckle (Privately Published, 2020), 27 mins
On December 8, 1981, Mine 21, one of several underground coal-mines operated by Grundy Mining Company in the unincorporated area between Palmer and Whitwell, Tennessee, exploded and killed thirteen miners. While not on the same scale as the disasters in Fraterville (May 19, 1902, in which 216 miners were killed) o...
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directed by Stephen L. Garrett, fl. 2007; produced by Stephen L. Garrett, fl. 2007; interview by Alexa Fults and Kelsey Arbuckle (Privately Published, 2020), 27 mins
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On December 8, 1981, Mine 21, one of several underground coal-mines operated by Grundy Mining Company in the unincorporated area between Palmer and Whitwell, Tennessee, exploded and killed thirteen miners. While not on the same scale as the disasters in Fraterville (May 19, 1902, in which 216 miners were killed) or Cross Mountain (December 9, 1911, in which 84 died), Mine 21 was the worst mining disaster in Tennessee since the introduction of mod...
On December 8, 1981, Mine 21, one of several underground coal-mines operated by Grundy Mining Company in the unincorporated area between Palmer and Whitwell, Tennessee, exploded and killed thirteen miners. While not on the same scale as the disasters in Fraterville (May 19, 1902, in which 216 miners were killed) or Cross Mountain (December 9, 1911, in which 84 died), Mine 21 was the worst mining disaster in Tennessee since the introduction of modern safety precautions. The Department of Labor would eventually rule that “a cigarette lighter taken into a coal mine in violation of Federal regulations touched off a methane explosion,” but “accused the Grundy County Mining Company, the mine’s operator, of failure to evacuate workers from a methane-laden shaft, to adequately ventilate the shaft and to enforce a Federal regulation prohibiting smoking materials in a mine” (New York Times, May 5, 1982). The matter went all the way to the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources, chaired by Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Massachusetts).
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Field of Study
American History, American Studies
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Stephen L. Garrett, fl. 2007
Author / Creator
Stephen L. Garrett, fl. 2007, Alexa Fults, Kelsey Arbuckle
Date Published / Released
2019, 2020
Publisher
Privately Published
Person Discussed
J. T. Shadrick, Max Fraser, Barbara Myers, Jimmy Holtzclaw
Topic / Theme
Mining towns, Coal mines and mining, Family and Culture, Late 20th Century (1975–2000), 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
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