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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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Assessment of the variation of marbling and intramuscular fat content of beef, and validation of possible factors to increase sensory beef quality
(2021-11)
This thesis focuses on the intramuscular fat content (IMF) or the marbling of beef as main parameters of sensory beef quality. The aim is to identify the high variability of these traits and to verify possible influences such as genetics, age, gender and feeding strategies to increase marbling.
The first part of this research focuses on the variation of quality traits within a genetically homogeneous line of an endangered German beef cattle breed “Rotes Höhenvieh” (RHV). The intramuscular fat content of beef samples ...
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Bewertung von Eigenspannungen nach dem Laserstrahlhärten von komplex geformten Komponenten und additiv gefertigten Bauteilen
(2021)
Die Laserstrahlbearbeitung hat sich im Laufe der letzten Jahre zu einem wichtigen Forschungsschwerpunkt in industrieller und akademischer Hinsicht entwickelt. Neben der Erschließung neuer Anwendungsgebiete durch den Vorteil einer hohen Bearbeitungsflexibilität überzeugt die laserbasierte Materialbearbeitung vor allem durch einen lokal beeinflussbaren Energieeintrag. Jedoch sind derzeit mit zunehmender geometrischer Komplexität und Bauteilgröße nur begrenzte Tiefenwirkungen der gewünschten Druckeigenspannungen ...
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Algorithms for Emotion Recognition
(2023)
Technological advancements have increasingly facilitated emotion recognition through physiological sensors integrated into intelligent devices, such as earables and wristbands. People commonly wear these devices in their everyday lives (i.e., in the wild). Patterns can be extracted from various physiological signals, enabling the recognition of emotions. This capability can be integrated into diverse applications, such as attention management systems, human-robot interaction, and stress detection, enhancing them to ...
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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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Plastic packaging waste management in Germany: Evaluating and optimizing material flows and environmental impacts
(2023)
Since 1990, the annual plastic packaging consumption by private end users in Germany more than doubled. This trend can be attributed to plastic's advantageous properties such as its low weight, cost-effectiveness, and customizable features. However, plastic packaging is also widely criticized due to its dependency on fossil fuels, short lifespan, and potential contribution to marine littering. The tension between the popularity of plastic packaging and the environ-mental challenges associated with a short-term product ...
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Investigation and Elimination of Substructures in Formal Concept Analysis focusing on Boolean Suborders and Subcontexts
(2023)
In the field of Formal Concept Analysis, data is mainly presented in so-called formal contexts, which assign to a set of objects their respective attributes. From those concept lattices can be generated, where the objects are grouped with respect to their common attributes to represent the relationships in the data in a way that enhances the understandability for humans. However, since a concept lattice can be of exponential size compared to its associated formal context, the presented relationships often become hard ...
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Regulatory mechanisms of Protein kinase A - Isoform mediated fine-tuning
(2023)
cAMP-dependent protein kinase (PKA) is a crucial part in eukaryotic signal transduction and controls biological processes. With a multitude of substrates, a great variety of cellular functions are regulated by PKA. Regulation of metabolism, cell growth and -differentiation, conductivity of ion channels, movement of sperm cells, embryonic development, neuroplasticity as well as conversion of short- to long-term memory are just examples for the many tasks of the kinase. To achieve and coordinate these diverse functions, ...
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Entwicklung und Erprobung einer kognitiv-sensorischen Methodik für die Erhöhung der Reliabilität von erhobenen Daten in Bezug auf Nachhaltigkeit und Konsumentenverhalten in Deutschland und in der Ukraine
(2023)
Die menschlichen Sinne werden als Brücke zwischen der Mitwelt und dem menschlichen Körper sowie als entscheidender Faktor bei der Bildung von Ernährungserfahrungen beginnend schon im Mutterleib betrachtet. Diese Studie zielt darauf ab, wissenschaftlich zu untersuchen, wie der Wandel hin zu einer nachhaltigen Ernährung unterstützt werden kann, indem das Konsumentenverhalten sowie deren Flexibilität und Änderungsbereitschaft mithilfe einer neuen kognitiv-sensorischen Methode bewertet und bemessen wird.
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