Technische Hochschule Mannheim

Job demands and resources of vocational education teachers: the role of resilience and social support in well-being, job satisfaction, and burnout

Abstract Background In their daily working lives, teachers are confronted with numerous job demands, including conflicts with individual colleagues or the school management, learners with high heterogeneity or a lack of motivation, and technical issues. Dealing with these job dem...

Attractor dynamics underlie sequence working memory in data-constrained recurrent neural networks

Sequences of stimuli can be maintained in working memory by encoding each item, together with its position, as a distinct pattern of neural population activity. Competing hypotheses about the underlying dynamics have been proposed: patterns of activity might be supported either b...

Data Synthesis Improves 3D Myotube Instance Segmentation

Abstract Myotubes are multinucleated muscle fibers serving as key model systems for studying muscle physiology, disease mechanisms, and drug responses. Mechanistic studies and drug screening thereby rely on quantitative morphological readouts such as diameter, length, and branchi...

Rapid Clinical Improvement Temporally Associated with Off-Label LetiFend® Vaccination in Canine Leishmaniasis: A Case Report

Canine leishmaniasis (CanL), caused by Leishmania infantum, can be difficult to manage in dogs with severe clinical disease, particularly when established treatments are impractical or poorly tolerated. We report an approximately 3-year-old mixed-breed dog from Sardinia with clin...

Employees at risk within the “absent presence” paradox: a longitudinal comparison from non-smart to smart-working reward system in the Italian private/public sector

Purpose This contribution explores the evolution of employee motivation as a strategic asset in organisations. The objective is to investigate how the value of reward systems (monetary vs non-monetary) is changing in the era of the Smart Working Model (SWM), the paradoxes of the...

Connections: A Smarter Way to Target Influencers

Jacob Goldenberg, Andreas Lanz, Florian Stahl, and Daniel Shapira show that managers and creators who build ties with nearby, low-status influencers outperform those who cultivate high-status influencers. This efficient means of expanding audiences uses the existing dynamics of s...

Lessons from the field: usability (engineering) in regulated healthcare

Abstract Regulated healthcare settings continue to face gaps between established HCI methodology, user-centered design principles, and everyday clinical practice. Although standards and regulatory frameworks mandate usability engineering, their integration into regulated clinical...