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Dissertation
Finite Element Simulations for the Design of Therapeutic Approaches for Retinal Diseases
(2022)
The retinal disease age-related macular degeneration is the most common cause of vision loss in industrialized countries. In this thesis, motivated by the drug (antibody) treatment of this disease, we designed long-term three dimensional Finite Element simulations of the drug distribution in the healthy human eye. The underlying model consists of a time-dependent convection-diffusion equation coupled to a stationary Darcy equation describing the flow of the aqueous humor through the vitreous medium. We replaced the ...
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Conputational Linguistic Approach to Implicit Sentiment Analysis: Politeness and Sentiment Interaction
(2022)
Sentiment analysis is a hot topic in many research fields such as linguistics, computer science and marketing. With the development of technology, machines can reach very high performance on explicit sentiment analysis both sentence-level and aspect-level. The role of computational linguists has also changed from handcrafting scoring rules to guide training data annotation as the algorithms are developed from rule-based scoring to deep learning models that can extract language features themselves. Moreover, research ...
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Multifinalität von Verlust- und Trennungserfahrungen in der frühen Adoleszenz
(2022)
Zahlreiche Erkenntnisse aus den bisherigen Untersuchungen zu den langfristigen Auswirkungen einer Scheidung auf die Kinder konvergieren in der Einsicht, dass eine elterliche Trennung mit negativen psychosozialen Folgen einhergehen kann, dies jedoch nicht zwangsläufig muss. Ein einheitliches Muster von Scheidungsfolgen konnte bisher nicht gefunden werden. So zeigten bisherige Studien, dass die individuellen Trennungsverläufe und die damit einhergehenden Stressoren aber auch Ressourcen der Kinder und Familien die ...
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Exploring risk and sustainability performance in base of the pyramid supply chains
(2022-07)
In the contemporary business world, the real competition is not among individual businesses but rather between supply chains. Companies, which are part of efficient supply chains, are considered destined to outperform their competitors being part of inefficient supply chains. Moreover, performance has been a matter of concern for researchers for decades and is the primary aim of any firm’s existence. The definition of performance includes the performance measurement (PM) concept and further supports the notion that ...
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Diffusion of Material Flow Cost Accounting and its Contribution to Sustainable Development
(2022)
This thesis aims to analyze how further take-up of Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA) in practice can be encouraged to support sustainable development. To achieve the aim of the thesis, three studies on MFCA are conducted at multiple levels. The first study provides a better understanding of MFCA application at the corporate level in developing countries, which are characterized by rapid structure transformation leading to serious environmental problems. The second study considers the contextual and transformational ...
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Community-Based Associations and Rural Development in Rwanda: A Local Perspective on the Contribution of Social Capital to Human Capabilities
(2022)
The post-World War II political discourse around development has stimulated academic debates in recent decades. While some of these debates simply aim to transform the development mainstream, many others among the post-colonial thinkers are more critical of and even reject mainstream development ideologies. Despite the valuable academic debates, most development practitioners seem to have remained unresponsive to some of the allegations. Their concept is incorporated in much of the contemporary political narratives ...
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Generalized Involutive Bases and Their Induced Free Resolutions
(2022-05)
In this thesis, we generalize several types of involutive and marked bases for ideals in quotient rings of commutative polynomial rings. We apply these new types of bases to the analysis of infinite free resolutions and of Hilbert schemes defined over certain types of quotient rings. We are mostly concerned with Pommaret and Janet bases; the marked bases we consider are marked over monomial submodules that are quasi-stable, i.e., that possess finite Pommaret bases.
Involutive bases of the types we consider induce ...
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A Language Ecosystem for Modeling Microservice Architecture
(2022)
The ongoing digital transformation of our economy and society poses significant challenges towards modern software systems. Application areas like Smart Cities and Industry 4.0 set high requirements on software quality attributes like scalability and reliability. At the same time, IT companies face an ever-growing demand in flexibility and continuous improvements of delivery cycles. Microservice Architecture (MSA) is a novel approach to the realization of software architectures that aims to foster their scalability, ...
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Implementation of targettarget-orientated approaches in antibiotic and homeopathic treatment of acute bovine clinical mastitis in dairy practice
(2022-07)
Diese kumulative Dissertation hatte das übergeordnete Ziel Rahmenbedingungen (Voraussetzungen) für einen hohen Behandlungserfolg bei der antibiotischen und homöopathischen Mastitistherapie auf Milchviehbetrieben zu identifizieren sowie mögliche Optionen zur Erhöhung der Heilungsraten zu ermitteln. Darüber hinaus wurde die Steigerung des Behandlungserfolges unter der Maßgabe eines reduzierten Antibiotikaverbrauchs untersucht.
Dissertation
Patterns of Practice - Interdisciplinary Negotiation of Cultural Complexity through Practice-Based Methods in Informatics
(2022)
Following the principle of knowing through making, this thesis discusses development and application of a practice-based methodology for construction of digital artefacts within
cultural contexts. It addresses the epistemological diversity and complexity inhering within interdisciplinary projects, suggesting methodological devices able to navigate the variegated disciplinary landscape present within respective development projects. The conceptual pair complexity/complication acts as theoretical point of reference ...