The Order of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent De Paul Motherhouse Freiburg, in the Archdiocese Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany), 1846-1945

Inspired by Claude Langlois‘ ground-breaking 1984 work Le Catholicisme au féminin, this thesis explores a Roman Catholic female religious order during its first one hundred years, starting in 1846. Although Langlois set the example with French congregations in the nineteenth century and many scholars all over the world followed in his footsteps, the echo in Germany was by far shorter. This study fills the gap for a specific German region by taking a specific order as a model. The Order of the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul was historically and geographically not only the oldest and biggest of that part of Germany but it was also attributed the label ‘conservative’ as a characteristic feature. On the background of the great political and social upheavals of the turbulent and eventful German history of the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth history, this thesis will focus on the role of the Order in the world, and it will explore its sisters as being agents or instruments in their respective fields of work. It will also show if and what the archival material reveals as a possible tension between conservative order and female agency. This study argues that although the Order grew over time into a major player in the social field, and the sisters became indispensable helpers in the parishes, so much so that the people saw them as female representatives of the Catholic Church, the sisters never acted on their own behalf but for the greater good of their motherhouse in Freiburg, for the Church and for the souls of the believers. The present thesis set out to find the Order and its sisters in action in the files of archives in Freiburg, Strasbourg and Karlsruhe

Tackling Problems of Maintenance and Evolution in Industry 4.0 Scenarios Using a Distributed Architecture

Growing complexity in Industry 4.0 environments goes hand in hand with an increasing number of vulnerabilities. Due to internal and external influences, these vulnerabilities can cause a negative effect on the production process as well as the finished product. These influences include e. g., defective machine tools, deviations in quality or configuration changes of an assembly line, which in turn require to adjust the model and the workflow of the respective facility to prevent risks to human health or minimise costs due to production stops. To evaluate the necessity of a novel approach to handle these vulnerabilities and influences along with their subsequent system adaptation, three emerging problems are identified and provide the basis for the discussion of a distributed architecture that aims to facilitate the evolution of context models, workflows and configurations while allowing for reasonable involvement of human operators

A Cross-Disciplinary Process Modelling Language for Validating Reconfigured Production Processes

Modelling and reconfiguration of production processes require knowledge across different domains. This in-depth knowledge is necessary to avoid possible side effects that could threaten the production plant, the workpiece or the worker. Therefore, process modelling approaches allow adding additional data to the steps of a process. Such additions can be constraints, which need to be fulfilled before a step can be executed. Upon reconfiguration of production processes, these constraints need to be validated to ensure that the objective of the process is still met. However, this task demands expertise in the field of process modelling as well as in the domain of the production process and the production plant. To the best of our knowledge, state-of-the-art production process modelling approaches are unable to determine the semantic validity of a reconfigured production process. In this paper, we introduce a domain-specific modelling language dedicated to model and validate constraints between production steps. With this approach, we aim to assist the operator in reconfiguring production processes. We evaluate this approach in three case studies and show that our approach can detect violated constraints in production processes

Detection of Short-Term Fluctuations in Measurement Systems by Determination of Extreme Values and Range

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Detection and Exclusion of Alcoholism in Men on the Basis of Clinical Laboratory Findings

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