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Dissertation
Experimental Investigation of Augmented Electromagnetic Accelerators
(2017-03-03)
Elektromagnetische Schienenbeschleuniger verwenden elektrische Energie für die Beschleunigung von trägen Massen und erreichen Geschwindigkeiten, die mit konventionellen Beschleunigungstechnologien nur mit hohem Aufwand erreicht werden können. Die einfachste Konfiguration eines solchen Beschleunigers besteht aus zwei Schienen aus leitfähigem Material, die über eine gleitende Strombrücke elektrisch miteinander verbunden sind. Für die Beschleunigung der Strombrücke ist ein großer Strom erforderlich, der einige Mega-Ampere ...
Dissertation
Thermal Impacts on Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) (Electrical, Thermal and Mechanical Characteristics)
(2015-06-16)
Ein Drittel des weltweiten gesamten Energiebedarfs wird durch Gebäude verbraucht. Um diesen Energiebedarf teilweise zu decken, den erheblichen Energieverbrauch zu reduzieren und weiterhin andere Gebäudefunktionen beizubehalten, ist Gebäudeintegrierte Photovoltaik (BIPV) eine der am besten geeigneten Lösungen für die Gebäudenanwendung. Im Bezug auf eine Vielzahl von Gestalltungsmöglichkeiten, sind die Randbedingungen der BIPV-Anwendungen eindeutig anders im Vergleich zu Standard-PV-Anwendungen, insbesondere bezüglich ...
Buch
The future of people and nature in Southern Transylvania
(Pensoft Publishers Ltd., 2015)
Many things have changed in Southern Transylvania over the last 30 years – communism ended, the Saxons have all but left, Romania is now part of the European Union (EU), and people use mobile phones and computers. With this small book, we invite our readers to think about, and discuss, what might happen in Southern Transylvania over the next 30 years. What will communities feel like in 2043, what will the landscape look like, and what will happen to wild nature in the process? Nobody can predict precisely what the ...
Working paper
Warenströme in Mitteleuropa – Die Integrationsleistungen der Logistik im 20. Jahrhundert
(2018-09-01)
The paper first explains the concept of logistics in the context of the mass consumer society. It uses the case studies of the Speicherstadt in Hamburg and the Rhenania warehouse in Mannheim to describe warehouse management as part of logistics. The article distinguishes between bulk goods and packaged goods. The logistics of bulk goods are explained by the transport services of Rhine shipping and by the transport services of the railways, with tensions in railway policy between France and Germany being outlined. The ...
Aufsatz
Three principles for co-designing sustainability intervention strategies: Experiences from Southern Transylvania
(2019-12-19)
Transformational research frameworks provide understanding and guidance for fostering change towards sustainability. They comprise stages of system understanding, visioning and co-designing intervention strategies to foster change. Guidance and empirical examples for how to facilitate the process of co-designing intervention strategies in real-world contexts remain scarce, especially with regard to integrating local initiatives. We suggest three principles to facilitate the process of co-designing intervention ...
Working paper
Einstellungen zu Heterogenität und Unterrichtskriterien bei Lehramtsstudierenden: Eine quantitative Studie zu Stereotypen und Vorurteilen
(2014)
Das Thema der Heterogenität ist aus der öffentlichen Diskussion der Bildungssituation ebenso wie in den Lehramtsstudiengängen in Deutschland mittlerweile nicht mehr wegzudenken. Inzwischen besteht zumindest unter PädagogInnen und ErziehungswissenschaftlerInnen der Konsens, dass gegenüber einer zunehmend heterogenen Schülerschaft und dabei insbesondere gegenüber SchülerInnen mit Migrationshintergrund Sensibilität, neue Lehrmethoden und interkulturelles Wissen nötig sind. Allerdings ist umgekehrt nur wenig Wissen darüber ...
Aufsatz
Mathematical Models in the Description of Pregnane X Receptor (PXR)-Regulated Cytochrome P450 Enzyme Induction
(2018-06-15)
The pregnane X receptor (PXR) is a drug/xenobiotic-activated transcription factor of crucial importance for major cytochrome P450 xenobiotic-metabolizing enzymes (CYP) expression and regulation in the liver and the intestine. One of the major target genes regulated by PXR is the cytochrome P450 enzyme (CYP3A4), which is the most important human drug-metabolizing enzyme. In addition, PXR is supposed to be involved both in basal and/or inducible expression of many other CYPs, such as CYP2B6, CYP2C8, 2C9 and 2C19, CYP3A5, ...
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Numerical Solution of Viscoelastic Fluid-Structure-Diffusion Systems with Applications in Ophthalmology
(2019-09-04)
The research of fluid-structure interaction problems is a continuously growing field, especially regarding applications in medicine and biology. We present the coupling of a potentially viscoelastic fluid with multiple hyperelastic structures incorporating chemical processes in the arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian framework. This monolithic formulation allows a robust numerical solution with Newton's method. The discretization is based on the backward Euler scheme for temporal discretization and the Galerkin finite ...
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Three-Dimensional Gradients of Cytokine Signaling between T Cells
(2015-04-29)
Immune responses are regulated by diffusible mediators, the cytokines, which act at sub-nanomolar concentrations. The spatial range of cytokine communication is a crucial, yet poorly understood, functional property. Both containment of cytokine action in narrow junctions between immune cells (immunological synapses) and global signaling throughout entire lymph nodes have been proposed, but the conditions under which they might occur are not clear. Here we analyze spatially three-dimensional reaction-diffusion models ...