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Capacity remuneration mechanisms are a widespread instrument to foster investment. The growing interest in electricity storage raises the question how these mechanisms interact with storage plants. Using a stylized capacity planning model, we demonstrate that an exclusion of storage plants from capacity mechanisms leads to welfare losses. Even if storages are not explicitly excluded, the setup of capacity mechanisms can discriminate storage implicitly we therefore discuss typical mechanism design parameters and their impact on storage plants. Three case studies describe the actual situation of storage plants in the PJM system, Ireland and Spain. Finally the findings are summarized to general principles for storage-compatible capacity mechanisms.

Die Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung verdeutlicht, welche Chancen sich für Kinder bieten, die in einer mehrsprachigen Umgebung aufwachsen, und wie der Weg zu mehr als einer Muttersprache bewältigt werden kann. Insbesondere die genaue, wissenschaftlich fundierte Kenntnis dieses Wegs kann und soll es erleichtern, auf Kritik und vermeintliche Misserfolge während des Erwerbsprozesses richtig zu reagieren und den Kindern die Möglichkeit zu geben, mehrsprachig in die Schulzeit zu starten. Das Arbeitsbuch hat daher zwei Hauptanliegen: Es wird einerseits in die aktuelle Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung eingeführt, andererseits das empirische Arbeiten mit Spracherwerbsdaten eingeübt. Der Fokus liegt auf der simultanen Mehrsprachig keit. Die Einführung richtet sich an Studierende der Romanistik (Französisch-Italienisch), Germanistik (Deutsch), Allgemeinen Sprachwissenschaft und Erziehungswissenschaften und soll dazu beitragen, die Thematik in die Ausbildung der zukünftigen Lehrer aufzunehmen. Die dritte Auflage wurde inhaltlich überarbeitet und an aktuelle Erkenntnisse angepasst.

The aim of the current work was to investigate the possibilities of a standardization in neuropsychological diagnostics.Different surveys among psychodiagnosticians have shown, that there are already informal test-standards present for different psychological fields. These standards have been used to put tests together for a test-battery, which also takes theoretical and statistical basics into consideration and therefore means quality assurance for neuropsychological diagnostics.Neuropsychologists were asked for their testing habits to assess the actual testing standard. Furthermore, the relationship between testpsychological data and the sociomedical decision was examined to assure, that the test-battery includes all of the prognostic relevant test-parameters.Both the literature and the own work confirm the existence of an informal standard in using tests and the relevance of neuropsychological tests in predicting return to work. Due to these results and in order to assess the psychological variables in a sophisticated, reasonable, and economic way, the following tests were included in the test battery: Tests for attention (TMT or ZBFT, d2, KRT), memory (ZGV, ZGR, VEG, IST-2000R MF), higher cognitive functions (LPS 3, LPS 5, LPS 10, IST-2000R RE, IST-2000R WÜ, WST, TvH), and emotional variables (FPI-R).The test-battery was divided into two sessions each lasting ninety minutes. In case patients have a reduced cognitive loading capacity, it was possible to leave out the last test of each session without influencing the other test results. The testing was computer-assisted and was performed in groups of two to four patients. During ten months, 265 patients of the NRZ Magdeburg (mainly rehabilitation-phase D) were tested.Statistical evaluations have shown, that the test-battery is reliable enough. The examination of validity confirmed the expected factorial structure, the predictive value of the battery, and relationships between the results in the test-battery and localization of impairment, age, education, and sex.Observations during testing have shown, that even patients, who had no further experience in using computers, managed the computer-assisted tests. In addition, the testing in groups was practicable in neurological patients, especially in patients with similar levels of achievement. However, it would be useful for the practicability in clinical daily routine, if the test-instructions would be all interactive and would enable an adaptive selection of test-difficulty for the complex tests KRT and TvH.In summary the results of the current work show, that it is possible to develop a test-battery in order to standardize neuropsychological diagnostics, which consists of accepted and well-known tests and is sophisticated, reasonable, and economic for testing neurological patients.However, it was not the aim to reduce the variety of psychodiagnostic methods in neurological rehabilitation to this test-battery. The battery is seen as a screening to get an overall view of the patients deficits and possibilities to compensate before more sophisticated individual testing is done.