Christian Brandes – författare

Understanding Faults: Detecting, Dating, and Modeling offers a single resource for analyzing faults for a variety of applications, from hazard detection and earthquake processes, to geophysical exploration. The book presents the latest research, including fault dating using new mineral growth, fault reactivation, and fault modeling, and also helps bridge the gap between geologists and geophysicists working across fault-related disciplines. Using diagrams, formulae, and worldwide case studies to illustrate concepts, the book provides geoscientists and industry experts in oil and gas with a valuable reference for detecting, modeling, analyzing and dating faults.

Presents cutting-edge information relating to fault analysis, including mechanical, geometrical and numerical models, theory and methodologiesIncludes calculations of fault sealing capabilitiesDescribes how faults are detected, what fault models predict, and techniques for dating fault movementUtilizes worldwide case studies throughout the book to concretely illustrate key concepts

Understanding Faults: Detecting, Dating, and Modeling offers a single resource for analyzing faults for a variety of applications, from hazard detection and earthquake processes, to geophysical exploration. The book presents the latest research, including fault dating using new mineral growth, fault reactivation, and fault modeling, and also helps bridge the gap between geologists and geophysicists working across fault-related disciplines. Using diagrams, formulae, and worldwide case studies to illustrate concepts, the book provides geoscientists and industry experts in oil and gas with a valuable reference for detecting, modeling, analyzing and dating faults.- Presents cutting-edge information relating to fault analysis, including mechanical, geometrical and numerical models, theory and methodologies- Includes calculations of fault sealing capabilities- Describes how faults are detected, what fault models predict, and techniques for dating fault movement- Utilizes worldwide case studies throughout the book to concretely illustrate key concepts

Understanding Faults: Detecting, Dating, and Modelling reveals the dynamic world of faults and earthquakes. It offers a single resource for analysing faults for a variety of applications, from hazard detection and earthquake processes to geophysical exploration. Chapters explore the intricate processes of fault detection, utilizing various methods to identify and characterize faults in different settings. Numerical modelling techniques are used to simulate fault behaviour and seismic activity, providing insights into fault dynamics and earthquake mechanisms. The book also closely examines faults under laboratory conditions, presenting analogue experiments that study fault growth and behaviour. The dating of fault movement sheds light on the timing of fault activity, providing crucial information for understanding seismic hazards and tectonic processes. Additionally, fault sealing mechanisms and their implications are examined, revealing how faults evolve and interact with their surrounding environment. A unique perspective is offered on faults in the context of the world’s energy transition, by analysing the role of faults in energy-related exploration, such as geothermal energy. By inspecting faults from multiple angles, including geological, geophysical, and energy perspectives, the book provides a comprehensive understanding of fault systems and their significance in various domains.Presents cutting-edge information relating to fault analysis, including mechanical, geometrical and numerical models, theory and methodologiesProvides methods for dating fault activity and calculating fault sealExamines a variety of worldwide case studies to clearly illustrate key concepts

Christian Brandes und Michael Heller diskutieren Missverständnisse zur Koexistenz von Agilität und Qualitätsmanagement in IT-Projekten. Diese sind nach ihrer Ansicht oft Ursache von Irritationen oder gar Frustrationen bei QM-Verantwortlichen, die Transitionen von „klassischen“ zu agilen Vorgehensweisen vollziehen müssen. Die Autoren lösen diese Missverständnisse auf und präsentieren Erfolgsfaktoren aus der Praxis für hochqualitative agile Softwareentwicklung. Abschließend stellen sie aktuelle Trends aus der agilen Community vor und bewerten diese aus Qualitätssicht.

Christian Brandes und Michael Heller diskutieren Missverständnisse zur Koexistenz von Agilität und Qualitätsmanagement in IT-Projekten. Diese sind nach ihrer Ansicht oft Ursache von Irritationen oder gar Frustrationen bei QM-Verantwortlichen, die Transitionen von „klassischen“ zu agilen Vorgehensweisen vollziehen müssen. Die Autoren lösen diese Missverständnisse auf und präsentieren Erfolgsfaktoren aus der Praxis für hochqualitative agile Softwareentwicklung. Abschließend stellen sie aktuelle Trends aus der agilen Community vor und bewerten diese aus Qualitätssicht.

Seminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,6, http://www.uni-jena.de/, language: English, abstract: In the era of Globalisation international investment flows are large. Even small and medium sized companies are active in foreign countries and economies are increasingly interdependent. Despite this globalisation process there is no unified legal framework concerning international investments and the disputes which may arise from them. In this perspective global governance is lacking behind globalisation. International investment is one of the key drivers of economic development. Investors demand legal security, also in countries where domestic governance is weak in order to minimise the non-commercial risks. International Investment Agreements (IIA) between two or more countries serve as primary legal basis to govern and protect international investments and to settle disputes between investors and states. The framework of thousands of IIAs and within it the system of Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) is fragmented and increasingly subject to harsh critique of providing inconsistent arbitration awards and lacking legitimacy in general. This paper addresses the development of ISDS provisions in investment agreements and how the current system could be reformed. Chapter two provides a historical overview of investment treaty practice, the roots of the current system and the development of private courts of arbitration. Main ISDS institutions and their rules will be introduced. The following section will point out the arguments in favour and opposing ISDS. Critique will be made visible on examples of prominent cases as well as on overall findings from treaty analysis. The final chapter deals with possibilities to reform, amend or even replace today s ISDS regime. It will address recent megaregional agreements such like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and their possible roles in shaping future rules which will govern international investment flows.

Master's Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Economics - Other, grade: 1,7, http://www.uni-jena.de/, language: English, abstract: Many developing countries do not only suffer from weak institutions, poor economic performance and corruption, but also from separatist movements and violent civil conflicts. The question arises why some countries could achieve economic growth and development, while others never experienced considerable economic development and are trapped in a vicious circle of re-occurring violent conflicts and economic deterioration. Since developing countries tend to be more diverse in terms of ethnicity, language and religion and many civil conflicts appear to have an ethnic or religious component, diversity is regarded as a main cause of economic and political instability. Furthermore, many scholars consider higher levels of diversity in the least developed countries to be the crucial factor that leads to inefficient policy decisions and impedes growth and development. This master thesis addresses the question how diversity affects economic and political stability and elaborates appropriate parameters which are further used in a composite indicator (CI) to quantify a country s stability, respectively instability. The thesis is structured as follows:After a review of the literature on the relations between diversity and economic development and civil conflicts in chapter two, the historic and environmental conditions under which different ethnic and linguistic groups emerged are described. Further, the effects of external shocks which shaped ethnic development in the special case of Africa are assessed. Chapter four introduces the most common measurements of ethnic, linguistic and religious diversity and describes the differences between fractionalisation and polarisation. Several studies describing the effects of different aspects of diversity on various economic and political outcomes are discussed. This is followed by chapter five which is addressing the causes of instability and civil conflict. It is examined how conflict, as the major outcome of instability, is related to and can be driven by diversity and which roles economic and institutional aspects play in explaining civil conflicts. In the subsequent part, several indicators which capture different aspects of stability are critically assessed. Further, parameters and their respective weights towards a new composite indicator of instability are elaborated. Subsequently, chapter seven concludes.