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Dissertation
Role of neurotransmitter GABA in the brain of the Madeira cockroach Rhyparobia maderae with focus on the circadian system
(2019-02)
All living things are subject to biological rhythms. Circadian rhythms are generated by internal clocks which influence many biochemical and physiological processes, as well as various behaviors of an organism. These oscillators are synchronized by external "Zeitgeber" signals such as light-dark changes, temperature changes, as well as social contacts. Different studies identified the accessory medulla (AME), small neuropil at the ventromedian edge of the medulla, as the circadian pacemaker center of the cockroach ...
Dissertation
Energy transfer in free-standing van der Waals heterostructures after optical excitation
(2019)
The wide range of layered van der Waals materials is interesting due to its plenty of deviating characteristics. The structure of all these materials is built from covalently joined layers, which are stacked by van der Waals forces. Aside from this structural similarity the specific characteristics spread out in a variety of electronic and optical properties. The electronic properties of layered materials vary from pure insulators to metallic conductors and can even depend on the number of layers. In the work presented ...
Preprint
Large-scale heat pumps: market potential and barriers, classification and estimation of efficiency
(2019-12-20)
Heat pumps powered by renewable electricity have a significant potential to become a critical technology to disruptively decarbonize an economy. An essential step towards this goal is the development of an accurate understanding and model of how heat pumps in large-scale implementations perform in terms of economics, energy, and the environment. In this study, the influence of system design and operating conditions on the Coefficient of Performance (COP) of large-scale (> 50 kWth) electric driven mechanical compression ...
Konferenzveröffentlichung
Insights into Using IT-Based Peer Feedback to Practice the Students Providing Feedback Skill
(University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hamilton Library, ScholarSpace, 2019)
The skills students need nowadays have changed over the last decades. The required skills are shifting more and more towards higher order thinking skills, such as critical thinking, collaboration and communication. One of the main ways of practicing these skills is through formative feedback, which consists of self-assessment and peer-assessment in our setting.
However, today’s lecturers are facing the challenge that the number of students per lecture is continuously increasing, while the available budget is stagnating. ...
Aufsatz
Coupled atomistic-continuum simulation of the mechanical properties of single-layered graphene sheets
(2019-11-18)
The purpose of this work is the multiscale modeling of a single-layered graphene sheet. The model is divided into three parts. One is an atomistic domain which is simulated with the atomic-scale finite element method (AFEM). Another is a continuum domain. In this domain, the mechanical properties are investigated by using a finite element based on a nonlocal continuum shell model with a high order strain gradient. To be exact, it is a 4-node 60-generalized degree of freedom (DOF) Mindlin–Reissner finite shell element ...
Dissertation
Development, Verification and Analysis of a Fault Injection Tool for Improving Dependability of FPGA Systems
(2019-11)
Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) has been involved in various applications in the last couple of decades, such as aerospace, biomedical instrumentation, safety-critical systems, and spacecraft, due to their remarkable features. These features include parallelism, reconfiguration, self-healing capabilities, availability, low cost and low design turn-around time. FPGA devices are sensitive to Single Event Effects (SEE), which can be caused by various sources, such as α-particles, cosmic rays, atmospheric neutrons, ...
Preprint
Existence of parameterized BV-solutions for rate-independent systems with discontinuous loads
(2019-09-25)
We study a rate-independent system with non-convex energy and in the case of a time-discontinuous loading. We prove existence of the rate-dependent viscous regularization by time-incremental problems, while the existence of the so called parameterized BV-solutions is obtained via vanishing viscosity in a suitable parameterized setting. In addition, we prove that the solution set is compact.
Aufsatz
„Erzählinstanz ja, Erzähler ungern“
(2019)
In Thilo Refferts Kinderhörspielen Nina und Paul, Leon und Leonie sowie Fünf Gramm Glück wird mit Formen multiperspektivischen und metaleptischen Erzählens, außerdem mit nichtmenschlichen Erzählinstanzen experimentiert. Die jeweils besondere narratologische Faktur wird im Beitrag untersucht und im Kontext des aktuellen Kinderhörspiels diskutiert.
Teil eines Buches
Wörter ohne Wortart. Präpositionaladverbien, die keine sind
(Institut für Germanistik, 2019)
Wörter wie "darum" oder "worauf" werden traditionell der Wortart "Adverb" (,Präpositional-/Pronominaladverb‘) zugeordnet. Dies steht im Widerspruch dazu, dass sie auf Satzebene nicht nur adverbiale, sondern auch Präpositionalobjekte sein können. Adverbien können jedoch keine Objektwerte repräsentieren. Im Beitrag wird zu zeigen sein, dass hier eine Verwechslung von grammatischer Form und grammatischem Wert vorliegt. "Adverb" ist keine Form, die funktions- und wertoffen wäre, sondern eine wertbezogene Wortart. ...
Aufsatz
European Study on heat recovery in non-residential buildings
(2019-08-13)
The HR (heat recovery) is generally assessed very positively from a business and economic point of view. In order to demonstrate this development, a first study will evaluate around 5,000 design data elements. First, the designs are evaluated with the question of how the key efficiency characteristics of the HR have changed throughout the course of the years 2014 to 2017. Afterwards, all relevant design files are subjected to an economic efficiency calculation under defined conditions, in order to determine the ...