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Immobilization of Neodymium Complexes on Semiconductor Surfaces and Processing of GaAs-based Photonic Crystals
(2024)
Lanthanide ion luminescence exhibits characteristic narrow emission bands ranging from VIS to NIR along with relatively long emission lifetimes which makes them attractive for applications in lighting, sensing, and display technologies. The focus of this dissertation lies on the optical characterization of newly synthesized neodymium complexes bearing phosphonate ester ligands and the fabrication of photonic crystal (PhC) cavities. Micro-photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy is used to investigate the NIR emission bands ...
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New Approaches for the Quantification of Metabolic and Economic Trade-Offs Related to the Health and Longevity of Individual Dairy Cows
(2024)
Background: In dairy cows, negative associations between the genetic merit for milk yield and fitness traits as well as a lack of success in lowering the prevalence of production diseases have been noticed over the past 30 years across different production methods, herd sizes and countries. On the other hand, individual farms and individual cows within a farm succeed in simultaneously achieving high performance, low prevalence and high profitability, while others cannot cope with these challenges. Differences in milk ...
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Drivers for Fostering Agroforestry Systems in Temperate and Mediterranean Climates: Past, Present, and Future
(2024)
Traditional multifunctional agroforestry landscapes provide not only food but also support biodiversity and provide a multitude of ecosystem services. However, such landscapes have been frequently lost in the last decades. Given the multiple global challenges that have emerged from an industrial model of agriculture, agroforestry as a concept based on multifunctionality is increasingly regarded as key for sustainable food production systems of the future. To guide future land management and policies, past land-use ...
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Community-Resilience und Bürgerbeteiligung
(2023)
Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, anhand der Forschungsfragen dieser Grundlagenstudie einen Zusammenhang von Community Resilience und Bürgerbeteiligung nachzuweisen und den Weg zur weiteren Diskussion multipler Resilienz bzw. multiresilienter Gesellschaften zu eröffnen. Im theoretischen Teil der Arbeit wurden anhand der untersuchten Fachliteratur in ausgewählten Richtungen der Resilienzforschung keine Verbindungen zur Bürgerbeteiligung festgestellt. Ebenso zeigen die untersuchten Handbücher und Leitlinien zur Bürgerbeteiligung ...
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Functional Analysis of Src42A in embryonic epithelial morphogenesis of Drosophila melanogaster
(2023)
Src42A is one of the Src family kinases (SFKs) present in Drosophila melanogaster. In mammals there are 8 SFKs and so far, a loss of function analysis of SFKs were difficult to conduct due to their functional redundancy. In Drosophila, there are only two SFKs namely Src42A and Src64B, the former is essential for embryonic development and the latter is a non-essential gene. Since Src42A is supplied as a maternal component, the zygotic mutant were showing defects in later developmental stages, because the contribution ...
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Eine Philologie der Denkformen für Indien und Europa: Sanskrit-Sūtras und Semiotik in den Cultural Studies
(2023-12)
Die anglistisch-indologische Verortung von Sanskrit-Sūtras und Semiotik in den Cultural Studies beschreibt gleichsam metonymisch die Agenda einer Vorgehensweise im Verbund von Philologie und Philosophie, verschiedene Traditionen indischen Denkens für ein zeichenphilosophisches Programm der Kulturwissenschaften zu erschließen. Dabei dient die mikrologische Rekonstruktion von Denkformen im Sinne ihrer jeweiligen semiotischen Matrix und logischen Strukturen als methodischer Bezugspunkt für die Betrachtung exemplarischer ...
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Optimierung des Risikomanagements als Beitrag zur Steigerung des Projekterfolgs bei Produktentwicklungsprojekten am Beispiel der Automobilindustrie
(2024)
Die zunehmende Projektifizierung der letzten Jahrzehnte hat dazu geführt, dass der Beitrag von Projekten zur Erreichung der Unternehmensziele und damit zur unternehmerischen Wert-schöpfung in gleichem Maße gestiegen ist. Gleichzeitig sind Projekte aufgrund ihres einzigar-tigen Charakters mit Risiken und Unsicherheiten behaftet, deren Auftreten im Kontext der Produktentwicklung in der Automobilindustrie durch den Produktivitätsdruck sowie die stetig steigende Komplexität und Dynamik noch verstärkt wird. Die negativen ...
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Risk Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(2024)
In this PhD project it was aimed to learn about the potential and the challenges of risk communication in systemic risks by conducting applied research during the COVID-19 pandemic. Risk communication plays a crucial role in mitigating these risks by addressing risk beliefs in the population and thereby stimulating behavior change. In the synapsis of this project, however, the prevalence of heterogenous prior risk beliefs in different groups of the population were identified as a major challenge for risk communication ...
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Design and Implementation of Novel Optical Fabry-Pérot Arrays for Medical Applications
(2024)
Optical sensing systems find a wide range of applications, especially in the medical field, for intelligent, patient-operated health monitoring and early diagnosis, facilitating immediate responses to warnings. Advances in technology have enabled sensors miniaturization with spectrometers using low-cost Fabry-Pérot filters, allowing integration into mobile phones and wearable devices without compromising their resolution. The challenge in filter fabrication is deforming supporting posts deformation during polymer ...