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36
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1645
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56

Overview

Ortwin Simon is affiliated with Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. Their research spans multiple disciplines, chiefly within Medicine and Business, Management and Accounting.

The main fields of study in their work include:

  • Medicine
  • Business, Management and Accounting

Among the subfields covered are:

  • Management Information Systems
  • Neurology
  • Accounting
  • Physiology
  • Molecular Medicine

The central research topics addressed by Ortwin Simon include:

  • Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
  • Accounting and Organizational Management
  • Financial Reporting and XBRL
  • Botulinum Toxin and Related Neurological Disorders
  • Neurological disorders and treatments
  • Pain Mechanisms and Treatments
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria

Recent publications demonstrate the breadth of their work across these topics:

  • Thermal modernization and improvement of ingeneering systems of campus F of National University "Yuri Kondratyuk Poltava Polytechnic", 2023, published in Ventilation Illumination and Heat Gas Supply
  • Accounting Ethics and Quality of Financial Reporting: A Case of District Local Governments in Northern Uganda, 2025, published in Open Journal of Business and Management
  • Adult Botulism of Unknown Source with Post-toxin Anti-GQ1b Antibodies: Implications for Molecular Mimicry, 2025, published in Preprints.org
  • Mortality impact of carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) colonization and infection: a retrospective cohort study, 2025, published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Ortwin Simon frequently collaborates with multiple coauthors, reflecting interdisciplinary approaches. Notable coauthors include:

  • Regev Cohen
  • Shelly Lipman-Arens
  • Yael Galnoor Tene
  • Linor Ishay
  • Lamis Mahamid

Their publications have appeared in a range of academic venues, including:

  • Ventilation Illumination and Heat Gas Supply
  • Open Journal of Business and Management
  • Preprints.org
  • Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Best Publications

  • Performance, diarrhea incidence, and occurrence of Escherichia coli virulence genes during long-term administration of a probiotic Enterococcus faecium strain to sows and piglets.

    D. Taras;W. Vahjen;M. Macha;O. Simon

  • Probiotic feed additives - effectiveness and expected modes of action

    O. Simon;A. Jadamus;W. Vahjen

  • Bacterial responses to different dietary cereal types and xylanase supplementation in the intestine of broiler chicken.

    Katrin Hübener;W. Vahjen;O. Simon

  • Comparative studies on the in vitro properties of phytases from various microbial origins

    F A Igbasan;K Männer;G Miksch;R Borriss

  • Effects of dietary fat type and xylanase supplementation to rye-based broiler diets on selected bacterial groups adhering to the intestinal epithelium. on transit time of feed, and on nutrient digestibility.

    Sven Dänicke;Wilfried Vahjen;Ortwin Simon;Heinz Jeroch

  • Influence of xylanase-supplemented feed on the development of selected bacterial groups in the intestinal tract of broiler chicks

    W. Vahjen;K. Gläser;K. Schäfer;O. Simon

  • Response of performance characteristics and fecal consistency to long-lasting dietary supplementation with the probiotic strain Bacillus cereus var. toyoi to sows and piglets

    David Taras;Wilfried Vahjen;Moritz Macha;Ortwin Simon

  • Progression of mycotoxin and nutrient concentrations in wheat after inoculation with Fusarium culmorum.

    K Matthäus;S Dänicke;W Vahjen;O Simon

  • An investigation into the variability of extract viscosity of wheat‐relationship with the content of non‐starch‐polysaccharide fractions and metabolisable energy for broiler chickens

    G. Dusel;H. Kluge;Karola Glaser;O. Simon

  • Isolation and identification of mixed linked beta -glucan degrading bacteria in the intestine of broiler chickens and partial characterization of respective 1,3-1,4-beta -glucanase activities.

    Lutz Beckmann;Ortwin Simon;Wilfried Vahjen

  • Probiotics in pigs — modulation of their intestinal distribution and of their impact on health and performance

    D. Taras;W. Vahjen;O. Simon

  • Growth behaviour of a spore forming probiotic strain in the gastrointestinal tract of broiler chicken and piglets.

    Anke Jadamus;W. Vahjen;O. Simon

  • Effect of the probiotic Enterococcus faecium NCIMB10415 on cell numbers of total Enterococcus spp., E. faecium and E. faecalis in the intestine of piglets.

    Vahjen W;Taras D;Simon O

  • Comparison of a xylanase and a complex of non starch polysaccharide-degrading enzymes with regard to performance and bacterial metabolism in weaned piglets

    Wilfried Vahjen;Tanja Osswald;Klaus Schäfer;Ortwin Simon

  • Interactions between dietary fat type and enzyme supplementation in broiler diets with high pentosan contents: effects on precaecal and total tract digestibility of fatty acids, metabolizability of gross energy, digesta viscosity and weights of small intestine

    Sven Dänicke;Heinz Jeroch;Wolfgang Böttcher;Ortwin Simon

  • Studies on the effects of essential-oil-based feed additives on performance, ileal nutrient digestibility, and selected bacterial groups in the gastrointestinal tract of piglets.

    K. Maenner;W. Vahjen;O. Simon

  • Estimation of rate of protein synthesis by constant infusion of labelled amino acids in pigs

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  • Interactions between dietary fat type and xylanase supplementation when rye-based diets are fed to broiler chickens 2. Performance, nutrient digestibility and the fat-soluble vitamin status of livers.

    S. Dänicke;O. Simon;H. Jeroch;M. Bedford

  • In vitro and in vivo characteristics of bacterial phytases and their efficacy in broiler chickens

    E.A.I. Elkhalil;K. Männer;R. Borriss;O. Simon

  • Interactions between dietary fat type and xylanase supplementation when rye-based diets are fed to broiler chickens. 1. Physico-chemical chyme features.

    S Dänicke;O Simon;H Jeroch;M Bedford

  • Specific enumeration of the probiotic strain Enterococcus faecium NCIMB 10415 in the intestinal tract and in faeces of piglets and sows.

    M Macha;D Taras;W Vahjen;A Arini

  • Effects of conjugated linoleic acids on protein to fat proportions, fatty acids, and plasma lipids in broilers.

    Ortwin Simon;Klaus Männer;Klaus Schäfer;Angelos Sagredos

  • Influence of the probiotic strain Bacillus cereus var. toyoi on the development of enterobacterial growth and on selected parameters of bacterial metabolism in digesta samples of piglets.

    A Jadamus;W Vahjen;K Schafer;O Simon

  • Apparent precaecal digestibility of nutrients and level of endogenous nitrogen in digesta of the small intestine of growing pigs as affected by various digesta viscosities.

    J Bartelt;Anke Jadamus;Frigga Wiese;Ewa Swiech

  • Xylanase Supplementation of Wheat-Based Rations for Broilers: Influence of Wheat Characteristics

    George Dusel;Holger Kluge;Heinz Jeroch;Ortwin Simon

Frequent Co-Authors

Wilfried Vahjen
Wilfried Vahjen Freie Universität Berlin
Sven Dänicke
Sven Dänicke Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut
Rainer Borriss
Rainer Borriss Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Holger Kluge
Holger Kluge Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Ralf Greiner
Ralf Greiner Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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