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Photo realistic rendering of fur is a common problem in computer graphics and is often needed in animation films. This work presents two illumination models, originally presented for human hair rendering. The first model is from Marschner et al. presented in 2003, which is the basis of many other models. The second model is from d’Eon et al., which was presented in 2011. Both models are implemented into a path tracer, which simulates global illumination. The special features of fur fibers in contrast to human hair fibers will be shown and an explanation, to why both models can also be used for fur rendering, will be given. The main point of interest is a realistic visualization of fur. In addition to that the performance of both models will be compared and a suggestion to improve the performance will be given and evaluated in form of the use of a cylindrical intersection object for path tracing.
Finanzordnung Abteilung Landau
Satzung der örtlichen Studierendenschaft an der Universität Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau
Wahlordnung der örtlichen Studierendenschaft der Universität Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau
Habilitationsordnung des Fachbereichs 3: Mathematik / Naturwissenschaften der Universität Koblenz-Landau, Campus Koblenz
Satzung zur Festsetzung von Zulassungszahlen an der Universität Koblenz-Landau für das Studienjahr 2018/2019
Satzung zur Festsetzung der Normwerte für den Ausbildungsaufwand (Curricularnormwerte) der Universität Koblenz-Landau
Ordnung für die Prüfung im Masterstudiengang Master of Engineering Ceramic Science and Engineering - Nichtmetallisch-anorganische Werkstoffe und Technologien (NAWT) - an der Hochschule Koblenz und der Universität Koblenz-Landau (Kooperativer Masterstudiengang)
Zweiundzwanzigste Ordnung zur Änderung der Prüfungsordnung für die Prüfung im lehramtsbezogenen Bachelorstudiengang an der Universität Koblenz-Landau
Neunzehnte Ordnung zur Änderung der Prüfungsordnung für die Prüfung in den Masterstudiengängen für das Lehramt an Grundschulen, das Lehramt an Realschulen plus, das Lehramt an Förderschulen sowie das Lehramt an Gymnasien an der Universität Koblenz-Landau
Zehnte Ordnung zur Änderung der Prüfungsordnung für die Prüfung im lehramtsbezogenen Bachelorstudiengang Berufsbildende Schulen an der Universität Koblenz-Landau, der Hochschule Koblenz und der philosophisch-Theologischen Hochschule Vallendar
Neunte Ordnung zur Änderung der Ordnung für die Prüfung im Masterstudiengang Lehramt an berufsbildenden Schulen an der Universität Koblenz-Landau, der Hochschule Koblenz und der Philosophisch-Theologischen Hochschule Vallendar
Achtzehnte Ordnung zur Änderung der Ordnung für die Prüfung im lehramtsbezogenen Zertifikatsstudiengang (Erweiterungsprüfung) an der Universität Koblenz-Landau
Sechzehnte Ordnung zur Änderung der Prüfungsordnung für die Prüfung im Zwei-Fach-Bachelorstudiengang an der Universität Koblenz-Landau
Zweite Ordnung zur Änderung der Gemeinsamen Prüfungsordnung für den Bachelorstudiengang „Angewandte Naturwissenschaften“ und den Masterstudiengang „Chemie und Physik funktionaler Materialien“ an der Universität Koblenz-Landau
Vierte Ordnung zur Änderung der Ordnung für die Prüfung im Bachelorstudiengang und im Masterstudiengang BioGeoWissenschaften der Universität Koblenz-Landau
Zweite Ordnung zur Änderung der Gemeinsamen Prüfungsordnung für den Bachelorstudiengang „Mathematische Modellierung“ und den Masterstudiengang „Mathematical Modeling of Complex Systems“ an der Universität Koblenz-Landau
Within aquatic environments sediment water interfaces (SWIs) are the most important areas concerning exchange processes between the water body and the sediment. These spatially restricted regions are characterized by steep biogeochemical gradients that determine the speciation and fate of natural or artificial substances. Apart from biological mediated processes (e.g., burrowing organisms, photosynthesis) the determining exchange processes are diffusion or a colloid-mediated transport. Hence, methods are required enabling to capture the fine scale structures at the boundary layer and to distinguish between the different transport pathways. Regarding emerging substances that will probably reach the aquatic environment engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) are of great concern due to their increased use in many products and applications. Since they are determined based on their size (<100 nm) they include a variety of different materials behaving differently in the environment. Once released, they will inevitable mix with naturally present colloids (< 1 μm) including natural nanomaterials.
With regard to existing methodological gaps concerning the characterization of ENMs (as emerging substances) and the investigation of SWIs (as receiving environmental compartments), the aim of this thesis was to develop, validate and apply suitable analytical tools. The challenges were to i) develop methods that enable a high resolution and low-invasive sampling of sediment pore water. To ii) develop routine-suitable methods for the characterization of metal-based engineered nanoparticles and iii) to adopt and optimize size-fractionation approaches for pore water samples of sediment depth profiles to obtain size-related information on element distributions at SWIs.
Within the first part, an available microprofiling system was combined with a novel micro sampling system equipped with newly developed sample filtration-probes. The system was thoroughly validated and applied to a freshwater sediment proving the applicability for an automatic sampling of sediment pore waters in parallel to microsensor measurements. Thereby, for the first time multi-element information for sediment depth profiles were obtained at a millimeter scale that could directly be related to simultaneously measured sediment parameters.
Due to the expected release of ENMs to the environment the aim was to develop methods that enable the investigation of fate and transport of ENMs at sediment water interfaces. Since standardized approaches are still lacking, methods were developed for the determination of the total mass concentration and the determination of the dissolved fraction of (nano)particle suspensions. Thereby, validated, routine suitable methods were provided enabling for the first time a routine-suitable determination of these two, among the most important properties regarding the analyses of colloidal systems, also urgently needed as a basis for the development of appropriate (future) risk assessments and regulatory frameworks. Based on this methodological basis, approaches were developed enabling to distinguish between dissolved and colloidal fractions of sediment pore waters. This made it possible for the first time to obtain fraction related element information for sediment depth profiles at a millimeter scale, capturing the fine scale structures and distinguishing between diffusion and colloid-mediated transport. In addition to the research oriented parts of this thesis, questions concerning the regulation of ENPs in the case of a release into aquatic systems were addressed in a separate publication (included in the Appendix) discussing the topic against the background of the currently valid German water legislation and the actual state of the research.
This thesis addresses the automated identification and localization of a time-varying number of objects in a stream of sensor data. The problem is challenging due to its combinatorial nature: If the number of objects is unknown, the number of possible object trajectories grows exponentially with the number of observations. Random finite sets are a relatively new theory that has been developed to derive at principled and efficient approximations. It is based around set-valued random variables that contain an unknown number of elements which appear in arbitrary order and are themselves random. While extensively studied in theory, random finite sets have not yet become a leading paradigm in practical computer vision and robotics applications. This thesis explores random finite sets in visual tracking applications. The first method developed in this thesis combines set-valued recursive filtering with global optimization. The problem is approached in a min-cost flow network formulation, which has become a standard inference framework for multiple object tracking due to its efficiency and optimality. A main limitation of this formulation is a restriction to unary and pairwise cost terms. This circumstance makes integration of higher-order motion models challenging. The method developed in this thesis approaches this limitation by application of a Probability Hypothesis Density filter. The Probability Hypothesis Density filter was the first practically implemented state estimator based on random finite sets. It circumvents the combinatorial nature of data association itself by propagation of an object density measure that can be computed efficiently, without maintaining explicit trajectory hypotheses. In this work, the filter recursion is used to augment measurements with an additional hidden kinematic state to be used for construction of more informed flow network cost terms, e.g., based on linear motion models. The method is evaluated on public benchmarks where a considerate improvement is achieved compared to network flow formulations that are based on static features alone, such as distance between detections and appearance similarity. A second part of this thesis focuses on the related task of detecting and tracking a single robot operator in crowded environments. Different from the conventional multiple object tracking scenario, the tracked individual can leave the scene and later reappear after a longer period of absence. Therefore, a re-identification component is required that picks up the track on reentrance. Based on random finite sets, the Bernoulli filter is an optimal Bayes filter that provides a natural representation for this type of problem. In this work, it is shown how the Bernoulli filter can be combined with a Probability Hypothesis Density filter to track operator and non-operators simultaneously. The method is evaluated on a publicly available multiple object tracking dataset as well as on custom sequences that are specific to the targeted application. Experiments show reliable tracking in crowded scenes and robust re-identification after long term occlusion. Finally, a third part of this thesis focuses on appearance modeling as an essential aspect of any method that is applied to visual object tracking scenarios. Therefore, a feature representation that is robust to pose variations and changing lighting conditions is learned offline, before the actual tracking application. This thesis proposes a joint classification and metric learning objective where a deep convolutional neural network is trained to identify the individuals in the training set. At test time, the final classification layer can be stripped from the network and appearance similarity can be queried using cosine distance in representation space. This framework represents an alternative to direct metric learning objectives that have required sophisticated pair or triplet sampling strategies in the past. The method is evaluated on two large scale person re-identification datasets where competitive results are achieved overall. In particular, the proposed method better generalizes to the test set compared to a network trained with the well-established triplet loss.
Volumetrische Beleuchtung
(2018)
Volumetric lighting is a common lighting phenomena in nature and carries an important role in the realistic appearance of computergenerated images. This thesis explains the physical background of this phenomena and lists common modells for visualising volumetric lighting in Computergraphics. Following this, this thesis compares three methods for visualising volumetric lighting with modern graphics hardware and compares these according to their abilities, restrictions and performance in an OpenGL implementation.
Systemic neonicotinoids are one of the most widely used insecticide classes worldwide. In addition to their use in agriculture, they are increasingly applied on forest trees as a protective measure against insect pests. However, senescent leaves containing neonicotinoids might, inter alia during autumn leaf fall, enter nearby streams. There, the hydrophilic neonicotinoids may be remobilized from leaves to water resulting in waterborne exposure of aquatic non-target organisms. Despite the insensitivity of the standard test species Daphnia magna (Crustacea, Cladocera) toward neonicotinoids, a potential risk for aquatic organisms is evident as many other aquatic invertebrates (in particular insects and amphipods) display adverse effects when exposed to neonicotinoids in the ng/L- to low µg/L-range. In addition to waterborne exposure, in particular leaf-shredding invertebrates (= shredders) might be adversely affected by the introduction of neonicotinoid-contaminated leaves into the aquatic environment since they heavily rely on leaf litter as food source. However, dietary neonicotinoid exposure of aquatic shredders has hardly received any attention from researchers and is not considered during aquatic environmental risk assessment. The primary aim of this thesis is, therefore, (1) to characterize foliar neonicotinoid residues and exposure pathways relevant for aquatic shredders, (2) to investigate ecotoxicological effects of waterborne and dietary exposure on two model shredders, namely Gammarus fossarum (Crustacea, Amphipoda) and Chaetopteryx villosa (Insecta, Trichoptera), and (3) to identify biotic and abiotic factors potentially modulating exposure under field conditions.
During the course of this thesis, ecotoxicologically relevant foliar residues of the neonicotinoids imidacloprid, thiacloprid and acetamiprid were quantified in black alder trees treated at field relevant levels. A worst-case model – developed to simulate imidacloprid water concentrations resulting from an input of contaminated leaves into a stream – predicted only low aqueous imidacloprid concentrations (i.e., ng/L-range). However, the model identified dietary uptake as an additional exposure pathway relevant for shredders up to a few days after the leaves’ introduction into the stream. When test organisms were simultaneously exposed (= combined exposure) to neonicotinoids leaching from leaves into the water and via the consumption of contaminated leaves, adverse effects exceeded those observed under waterborne exposure alone. When exposure pathways were separated using a flow-through system, dietary exposure towards thiacloprid-contaminated leaves caused similar sublethal adverse effects in G. fossarum as observed under waterborne exposure. Moreover, the effect sizes observed under combined exposure were largely predictable using the reference model “independent action”, which assumes different molecular target sites to be affected. Dietary toxicity for shredders might, however, be reduced under field conditions since UV-induced photodegradation and leaching decreased imidacloprid residues in leaves and thereby the toxicity for G. fossarum. In contrast, both shredders were found unable to actively avoid dietary exposure. This thesis thus recommends considering dietary exposure towards systemic insecticides, such as neonicotinoids, already during their registration to safeguard aquatic shredders, associated ecosystem functions (e.g., leaf litter breakdown) and ultimately ecosystem integrity.
The present thesis gives an overview of the general conditions for the programming of graphics cards. For this purpose, the most important Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) available on the market are presented and compared. Subsequently, two standard algorithms from the field data processing, prefix sum and radixsort are presented and examined with regard to the implementation with parallel programming on the GPU. Both algorithms were implemented using the OpenGL-API and OpenGL compute shaders. Finally, the execution times of the two algorithms were compared.
The present thesis describes the development of an OpenGL-based tool visualizing cavities of proteins, which can be observed during a static docking simulation. The goal is to achieve knowledge about interactions between proteins and ligands based on information about distances between them. At first chemical basics, which motivate the topic and are important for understanding the topic and the used algorithms, are presented. Furthermore existing software, which deals with similar issues, is described. Next the prerequisites for the development of the program are presented and the tool is described in detail. Concluding the tool is evaluated concerning performance and usage and a summarizing conclusion is given. The program turns out as a helpful tool for current research and a good base for further and deeper research projects.
Fresh water resources like rivers and reservoirs are exposed to a drastically changing world. In order to safeguard these lentic ecosystems, they need stronger protection in times of global change and population growth. In the last years, the exploitation pressure on drinking water reservoirs has increased steadily worldwide. Besides securing the demands of safe drinking water supply, international laws especially in Europe (EU Water Framework Directive) stipulate to minimize the impact of dams on downstream rivers. In this study we investigate the potential of a smart withdrawal strategy at Grosse Dhuenn Reservoir to improve the temperature and discharge regime downstream without jeopardizing drinking water production. Our aim is to improve the existing withdrawal strategy for operating the reservoir in a sustainable way in terms of water quality and quantity. First, we set-up and calibrated a 1D numerical model for Grosse Dhuenn Reservoir with the open-source community model “General Lake Model” (GLM) together with its water quality module “Aquatic Ecodynamics” library (AED2). The reservoir model reproduced water temperatures and hypolimnetic dissolved oxygen concentrations accurately over a 5 year period. Second, we extended the model source code with a selective withdrawal functionality (adaptive offtake) and added operational rules for a realistic reservoir management. Now the model is able to autonomously determine the best withdrawal height according to the temperature and flow requirements of the downstream river and the raw water quality objectives. Criteria for the determination of the withdrawal regime are selective withdrawal, development of stratification and oxygen content in the deep hypolimnion. This functionality is not available in current reservoir models, where withdrawal heights are generally provided a priori to the model and kept fixed during the simulation. Third, we ran scenario simulations identifying an improved reservoir withdrawal strategy to balance the demands for downstream river and raw water supply. Therefore we aimed at finding an optimal parallel withdrawal ratio between cold hypolimnetic water and warm epilimnetic or metalimnetic water in order to provide a pre-defined temperature in the downstream river. The reservoir model and the proposed withdrawal strategy provide a simple and efficient tool to optimize reservoir management in a multi-objective view for mastering future reservoir management challenges.
During the last couple of years the extension of the internet into the real world, also referred to as the Internet of Things (IoT), was positively affected by an ongoing digitalization (Mattern and Floerkemeier, 2010; Evans, 2013). Furthermore, one of the most active IoT domains is the personal health ecosystem (Steele and Clarke, 2013). However, this thesis proposes a gamification framework which is supported and enabled by IoT to bring personal health and IoT together in the context of health-insurances. By examining gamification approaches and identifying the role of IoT in such, a conceptual model of a gamification approach was created which indicates where and how IoT is ap-plicable to it. Hence, IoT acts as enabler and furthermore as enhancer of gamified activities. Especial-ly the necessity of wearable devices was highlighted. A stakeholder analysis shed light on respective benefits which concluded in the outcome, that IoT enabled two paradigm shifts for both, the insur-ance and their customer. While taking the results of the examination and the stakeholder analysis as input, the previously made insights were used to develop an IoT supported gamification framework. The framework includes a multi-level structure which is meant to guide through the process of creat-ing an approach but also to analyze already existing approaches. Additionally, the developed frame-work was instantiated based on the application Pokémon Go to identify occurring issues and explain why it failed to retain their customer in the long term. The thesis provides a foundation on which fur-ther context related research can be orientated.
The physical-biological interactions that affect the temporal variability of benthic oxygen fluxes were investigated to gain improved understanding of the factors that control these processes. This study, for the first time is able to resolve benthic diffusive boundary layer (DBL) dynamics using the newly developed lifetime-based laser induced fluorescence (τLIF) oxygen imaging system, which enables study of the role of small-scale fluid mechanics generated by benthic organism activity, and hence a more detailed analysis of oxygen transport mechanisms across the sediment-water interface (SWI).
The net benthic oxygen flux across the sediment-water interface is controlled by sediment oxygen uptake and oxygen transport. While the oxygen transport is largely influenced by turbulence driven by large-scale flows, sediment oxygen uptake is mainly affected by oxygen production and biological- and chemical-oxygen degradation of organic matter. Both processes can be enhanced by the presence of fauna and are intimately coupled. The benthic oxygen flux can be influenced by fauna in two ways, i.e. by modulating the availability of oxygen, which enhances the sediment oxygen uptake, and by enhancing the transport of oxygen.
In-situ and a series of laboratory measurements were conducted to estimate the short- and seasonal variability of benthic fluxes including the effects of burrow ventilation activity by tube-dwelling animals using eddy correlation (EC) and τLIF oxygen imaging techniques, respectively.
The in-situ benthic oxygen fluxes showed high variability at hourly and seasonal timescales, where statistical analysis indicated that current velocity and water depth were the most significant predictors of benthic oxygen flux at the waterside, which co-varied with the discharge, temperature, and oxygen concentration. The range of variability of seasonal fluxes corresponded to the friction velocities which were driven by large-scale flows. Application of a simplified analytical model that couples the effect of hydrodynamic forcing of the diffusive boundary layer with a temperature-dependent oxygen consumption rate within the sediment showed that friction velocity and temperature cause similar variability of the steady-state benthic oxygen flux.
The application of τLIF oxygen imaging system in bioturbation experiments enabled the investigation and discovery of insights into oxygen transport mechanisms across the sediment-water interface. Distinct oxygen structures above burrow openings were revealed, these were associated with burrow ventilation. The DBL was degraded in the presence of burrow ventilation. Advective transport generated by the energetic plumes released at burrow outlets was the dominant transport driving mechanism. The contribution of diffusive flux to the total estimated decreased with increasing larval density. For a range of larvae densities, commonly observed in ponds and lakes, sediment oxygen uptake rates increased up to 2.5-fold in the presence of tube-dwelling animals, and the oxygen transport rate exceeded chironomid respiration by up to a factor of 4.
The coupled physical-biological factors affecting net benthic oxygen flux can be represented by temperature, which is a prominent factor that accounts for both oxygen transport and sediment oxygen uptake. Low oxygen transport by flow coincided with high summer temperatures, amplified by a reduction of benthic population density and pupation. It can also, however, be offset by increased ventilation activity. In contrast, low temperature coincided with high oxygen concentrations, an abundance of larvae, and higher flow is offset by less burrow ventilation activity. Investigation of the effect of hydrodynamics on oxygen transport alone suggested that the expected increase of benthic oxygen flux under global warming can be offset by a reduction in flow velocity, which could ultimately lead to increasing carbon burial rates, and in a growing importance of anaerobic mineralization pathways with increasing emission rates of methane.
This study suggests a significant contribution of biological induced benthic oxygen flux to physical transport driven by large-scale flow-fields contributing to bottom-boundary layer turbulence.
Estuaries are characterized by a longitudinal salinity gradient. This gradient is one of the main environmental factors responsible for the distribution of organisms. Distinguishing salinity zones is of crucial importance, e.g., for the development of tools for the assessment of ecological quality. The methods most often applied for classifying water according to salinity are the Venice System and the method of Bulger et al. (1993), both of which determine zone boundaries using species occurrences relative to mean salinity. However, although these methods were developed for homoiohaline waters, they have also been routinely applied to poikilohaline systems. I tested the applicability of both methods using salinity and macroinvertebrate data for the poikilohaline Elbe Estuary (Germany). My results showed that the mid-estuary distribution of macro-invertebrates is determined by variation in salinity rather than by mean salinity. Consequently, neither of the two methods is applicable for defining salinity zones in the Elbe Estuary. Cluster analysis combined with a significance test, by contrast, was a better tool for identifying the boundaries of salinity zones in poikilohaline systems.
In many estuaries, such as the Elbe Estuary, a maximum turbidity zone (MTZ) develops, where suspended matter accumulates owing to circulation processes. It is assumed that the MTZ is a stressful environment with an excess of organic matter, high deposition rates, large variations in salinity, and dredging activities. Under such harsh conditions, populations might remain below the carrying capacity, and it is assumed that competition is of little importance, as predicted by the stress gradient hypothesis. I tested whether competition for food is important in the MTZ of the Elbe Estuary using stable isotope analysis of the macroinvertebrate community. The isotopic niches of no two taxa within a feeding group overlapped, which indicated different resource use and the absence of competition. The main reasons for the lack of overlap of isotopic niches were differences in habitat, feeding behavior, and migration behavior.
The Elbe Estuary is nowadays highly industrialized and has long been subjected to a plethora of human-caused alterations. However, it is largely unknown what changes occurred in benthic communities in the last century. Hence, I considered taxonomic and functional aspects of macrobenthic invertebrates of the Elbe Estuary given in data from 1889 (most natural state), 1985 and 1986 (highly polluted state), and 2006 (recent state) to assess benthic community shifts. Beta-diversity analysis showed that taxonomic differences between the sampling dates were mainly due to species turnover, whereas functional differences were predominantly a result of functional nestedness. Species number (S), functional richness (FRic), and functional redundancy reached minimum values in 1985 and 1986 and were highest and rather similar in 1889 and 2006. The decline in FRic from 1889 to 1985/1986 was non-random, consistent with habitat filtering. FRic, functional beta diversity, and S data suggested that the state of the estuary from 1889 was almost re-established in 2006. However, the community in 1889 significantly differed from that in 2006 owing to species replacement. My results indicate that FRic and FR in 1889 could have promoted ecosystem resilience and stability.
Redaktionelle Korrektur betreffend die Habilitationsordnung des Fachbereichs 3: Mathematik/Naturwissenschaften
Erste Ordnung zur Änderung der Promotionsordnung des Fachbereiches 2: Philologie / Kulturwissenschaften
Promotionsordnung des Fachbereichs 4: Informatik
Teilgrundordnung für das Qualitätsmanagementsystem der Universität Koblenz-Landau
Ordnung zur Qualitätssicherung und -entwicklung in Studium und Lehre an der Universität Koblenz-Landau
Modern software projects are composed of several software languages, software technologies and different kind of artifacts. Therefore, the understanding of the software project at hand, including the semantic links between the different parts, becomes a difficult challenge for a developer. One approach to attack this issue is to document the software project with the help of a linguistic architecture. This kind of architecture can be described with the help of the MegaL ontology. A remaining challenge is the creation of it since it requires different kind of skills. Therefore, this paper proposes an approach for the automatic extraction of a linguistic architecture. The open source framework Apache Jena, which is focusing on semantic web technologies like RDF and OWL, is used to define custom rules that are capable to infer new knowledge based on the defined or already extracted RDF triples. The complete approach is tested in a case study on ten different open source projects. The aim of the case study is to extract a linguistic architecture that is describing the use of Hibernate in the selected projects. In the end, the result is evaluated with the help of different metrics. The evaluation is performed with the help of an internal and external approach.
Changing Lives through Relocation - Ethnography of a Socialized Housing Project in the Philippines
(2018)
Changing lives through relocation - This is the vision of a socialized housing project in the Philippines which is subject of this dissertation. It is a polyphonic ethnography that investigates the transition process from an informal, marginalized, self-organized lifestyle in squatter areas and dumpsite settlements to an institutionalized and policy-based life in the socialized housing project. The transition process is analyzed from a material cultural perspective taking into account selected aesthetic theories. With this approach, the dissertation aims to contribute to the study of the aesthetic dimension of everyday life from an ethnographic perspective. Aesthetics are applied on three levels: (1) On the theoretical level, the concepts of social aesthetics and atmospheres enrich the analysis of the interrelation between the residents and their new house in the socialized housing project. (2) On the methodological level, the relevance of aesthetic experiences for the ethnographic knowledge process are discussed. And (3) on the descriptive level, selected and thematically relevant sensory and aesthetic experiences of the researcher inform the ethnographic account in the form of memoirs. By incorporating aesthetic theories, the dissertation gives a more holistic account of the dynamics active in the transition process. It shows that the change of lifestyle is experienced sensorily through the daily physical engagement with the new material environment, i.e. its specific materiality and infrastructure, its affordances and constraints giving rise to new experiences and needs. In this process, the residents become aware of the differences between the past and present way of life and thus experience the new challenges through their physical being in the new material environment. On the one hand, this evokes a nostalgic attitude towards their previous life, but on the other hand, it also gives form to ideas of a possible future.
Die Vermeidung von Lebensmittelabfällen als nicht-technische Strategie zur Umsetzung der Bioökonomie
(2018)
Das Konzept der Bioökonomie beruht auf der Vision einer Wirtschaft, die durch die bevorzugte Verwendung biogener Rohstoffe unabhängiger wird von der Nutzung fossiler Quellen und gleichzeitig einen Beitrag zu Klima- und Ressourcenschutz, Ernährungssicherung und Stärkung der heimischen Wirtschaft leisten kann. Da die land- und forstwirtschaftliche Bio-masseproduktion aufgrund knapper Flächen jedoch begrenzt ist und sich bereits heute die negativen Folgen einer verstärkten Nachfrage zeigen, wird bezweifelt, dass sich die Vision in nachhaltiger Weise realisieren lässt. Offizielle Bioökonomie-Strategien setzen auf einen Technik-basierten Umsetzungspfad, in der Hoffnung, mit Hilfe technischer Innovationen Biomasseproduktion und Umweltverbrauch zu entkoppeln. Kritiker aus Wissenschaft und Zivilgesellschaft stehen diesem Weg skeptisch gegenüber. Sie befürchten, dass Effizienzsteigerungen und die Entwicklung neuer, umweltverträglicher Konversionsprozesse nicht ausreichen werden, um potentiell negative Folgen einer verstärkten Biomassenutzung abzuwenden. Angesichts der natürlichen Grenzen der Biosphäre sehen sie vor allem nicht-technische Ansätze zur Veränderung von Produktions- und Konsummustern als unverzichtbare Voraus-setzungen an. Mit der Formulierung eines sozial-ökologischen Umsetzungspfads wird eine Modifizierung des Bioökonomie-Konzepts gefordert, von einem bloßen Wandel der Ressourcenbasis hin zu einer umfassenden gesellschaftlichen Transformation, mit dem Ziel, Ressourcenverbrauch und Rohstoffproduktion neu zu justieren.
Die Arbeit stellt anhand des Beispiels der Lebensmittelabfälle die Bedeutung nicht-technischer Ansätze für die Realisierung der Bioökonomie heraus. Die Basis bilden fünf Publikationen, von denen sich drei mit dem Aufkommen von Lebensmittelabfällen, den Ursachen ihrer Entstehung und möglichen Vermeidungsstrategien befassen. Die anderen beiden Veröffentlichungen behandeln Flächenkonkurrenzen in der Landwirtschaft sowie Implementierungspfade der Bioökonomie. Die Arbeit kommt zu dem Schluss, dass der Beitrag von Lebensmittelabfällen zur Bioökonomie auf zwei Weisen denkbar ist: Entweder können diese als Ausgangsstoff für die Biogasproduktion oder die Bioraffinerie genutzt werden, was der aktuell vorherrschenden Vorstellung entspricht. Oder es können durch eine Reduktion des Abfallaufkommens Ressourcen, die bisher in die Bereitstellung nicht konsumierter Lebensmittel flossen, für andere Biomassenutzungen freigesetzt werden.
Die Analyse des Abfallaufkommens und der damit verbundenen Umweltwirkungen, aber auch vorhandene Studien über die ökologischen Wirkungen von Abfallvermeidungs- und verwertungsoptionen zeigen, dass die Vermeidung unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Ressourceneffizienz die sinnvollere Option darstellt. Die Arbeit hebt das Potenzial hervor, das sich aus der Berücksichtigung einer Reduktion von Lebensmittelabfällen für die Bioökonomie ergeben könnte. So ist denkbar, dass durch einen effizienteren Umgang mit den bereits produzierten Nahrungsmitteln Ressourcen freigesetzt werden können, die den Spielraum für die Realisierung der Bioökonomie verbessern würden oder aber Perspektiven entstehen für alternative Formen des Landbaus, die eine umweltverträglichere Biomasseproduktion ermöglichen könnten. Da nicht-technische Ansätze in der aktuellen Bioökonomie-Debatte kaum Berücksichtigung finden, besteht Bedarf, diese in das politische Konzept der Bioökonomie einzubeziehen und den wissenschaftlichen Diskurs für diese Aspekte zu öffnen.
This thesis connects the endeavors of the winemaker’s intention in perfect and profitable wine making with an innovative technological application to use Internet of Things. Thereby the winemaker’s work may be supported and enriched – and enables until recent years still unthinkable optimization of managing and planning of his business, including close state control of different areas of his vineyard, and more than that, not ending up with the single grapevine. It is exemplarily shown in this thesis how to measure, transmit, store and make data available, exemplarily demonstrated with “live” temperature, air and soil humidity values from the vineyard. A modular architecture was designed for the system presented, which allows the use of current sensors, and similar low-voltage sensors, which will be developed in the future.
By using IoT devices in the vineyard, the winemaker advances to a new quality of precision of forecasted data, starting from live data of his vineyard. Of more and more importance, the winemaker can start immediate action, when unforeseen heavy weather conditions occur. Immediate use of current data enabled by a Cloud Infrastructure. For this system, an open service infrastructure is employed. In contrast to other published commercial approaches, the described solution is based on open source.
As an alone-standing part of this work, a physical prototype for measuring relevant parameters in the vineyard was de-novo designed and developed until fulfilling the set of specifications. The outlined features and requirements for a functioning data collection and autonomously transmitting device was developed, described, and the fulfilment by the prototype device were demonstrated. Through literature research and supportive orientationally live interviews of winemakers, the theory and the practical application were synchronized and qualified.
For the development of the prototype the general principles of development of an electronic device were followed, in particular the Design Science Research development rules, and principles of Quality Function Deployment. As a characteristic of the prototype, some principles like re-use of approved construction and material price of the building blocks of the device were taken into consideration as well (e.g. housing; Arduino; PCB). Parts reduction principles, decomplexation and simplified assembly, testing and field service were integrated to the development process by the modular design of the functional vineyard device components, e.g. with partial reference to innovative electrical cabinet construction system Modular-3.
The software architectural concept is based on a three-layer architecture inclusive the TTN infrastructure. The front end is realized as a rich web client, using a WordPress plugin. WordPress was chosen due to the wide adoption through the whole internet, enabling fast and easy user familiarization. Relevant quality issues have been tested and discussed in the view of exemplary functionality, extensibility, requirements fulfilment, as usability and durability of the device and the software.
The prototype was characterized and tested with success in the laboratory and in field exposition under different conditions, in order to allow a measurement and analysis of the fulfilment of all requirements by the selected and realized electronic construction and layout.
The solution presented may serve as a basis for future development and application in this special showcase and within similar technologies. A prognosis of future work and applications concludes this work.
Schrift ist in ihrer Besonderheit verkannt, versteht man sie allein als Mittel zur Stillstellung gesprochener Sprache. Phänomene wie Schriftbildlichkeit, Operativität und die Physiognomie des Schriftbildes machen Schrift zu einem Medium. In der Entwicklung und in der Verwendung von Schriftgebrauchsformen in unterschiedlichen Kontexten werden sowohl die Eigenschaften, die Schriftzeichen mit verbalen Zeichen gemeinsam haben, als auch die Potentiale, die sie mit pikturalen Zeichen gemeinsam haben, genutzt. Daher werden in der vorliegenden Arbeit die Funktionalisierungsmöglichkeiten von Schriftgebrauchsformen vor dem Hintergrund der Symboltheorie Nelson Goodmans vorgestellt. Eine an die ästhetische Theorie angelehnte Herangehensweise ermöglicht es, gerade die bildlichen Aspekte von Schriftformen – die bislang in schrifttheoretischen Arbeiten meist als irrelevant ausgeblendet werden – zu berücksichtigen. Es wird ein dynamischer Kompetenzbegriff in Anlehnung an J.G. Schneider entwickelt, der alle Fähigkeiten umfasst, die benötigt werden, um Schriftgebrauchsformen erfolgversprechend verwenden zu können. Zu diesen Fähigkeiten gehören nicht nur grammatische und orthographische Kompetenz, sondern ebenso Geschmack und die Fähigkeit zur Analogiebildung. An Beispielen verschiedener Schriftverwendungen wird gezeigt, wie unterschiedlich Schriftgebrauchsformen eingesetzt werden können. So wird Schrift als Kulturtechnik darstellbar und mithin verdeutlicht, dass die Art und Weise, wie Menschen ihre Kultur, ihre Welt, aber auch ihre spezifische Umgebung und eigene Identität modellieren, von Schriftverwendungen geprägt und verändert wird.
Assessment of renewable energy potentials based on GIS. A case study in southwest region of Russia
(2018)
In the present thesis, the initial conditions for the development of RES potentials for the production of wind, solar and biomass energy in the Krasnodar region (southwestern region of the Russian Federation) are examined using a multi-criteria assessment methodology. For the assessment of the RES potentials at regional scale, the prosed multi-criteria methodology based on the geographic information systems (GIS) and has been complemented by the evaluation and analysis of primary and secondary data as well as economic calculations relevant related to economic feasibility of RES projects.
This Bachelor thesis illustrates the connection between the technologies Augmented and Virtual Reality and creates an expedient interdependency of the two forms of presentation. For this purpose, an application in the area of interior design has been implemented, where designing a room can be made more intuitive by using Augmented Reality, as it provides a realistic impression of the planned apartment with a Virtual Reality simulation. Based on the relevant knowledge, a project-concept has been drafted and realized by using several development systems. During a series of tests this implementation has been evaluated and subsequently optimized. The result confirms the assumption, that Augmented and Virtual Reality with their strengths can be combined to an evident solution. This thesis is relevant for computer science students as well as for people interested in innovative solutions.
In dieser Arbeit wird ein System zur Erzeugung und Darstellung stereoskopischen Video-Panoramen vorgestellt. Neben der theoretischen Grundlagen werden der Aufbau und die Funktionsweise dieses Systems erläutert.
Dazu werden spezielle Kameras verwendet, die Panoramen aufnehmen
können und zur Wiedergabe synchronisiert werden. Anschließend wird ein Renderer implementiert, welcher die Panoramen mithilfe einer VirtualReality Brille stereoskopisch darstellen kann. Dafür werden separate Aufnahmen für die beiden Augen gemacht und getrennt wiedergegeben. Zum Abschluss wird das entstandene Video-Panorama mit einem Panorama eines schon bestehenden Systems verglichen.
This paper describes the robots TIAGo and Lisa used by team homer@UniKoblenz of the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, for the participation at the RoboCup@Home 2018 in Montreal, Canada. Further this paper serves as qualification material for the RoboCup-@Home participation in 2018. A special focus is put on novel system components and the open source contributions of our team. This year the team from Koblenz won the biggest annual scientianc robot competition in Montreal in the RoboCup@Home Open Platform track for the third time and also won the RoboCup@Home German Open for the second time. As a research highlight a novel symbolic imitation learning approach was demonstrated during the annals. The TIAGo robotic research platform was used for the first time by the team. We have released packages for object recognition, a robot face including speech synthesis, mapping and navigation, speech recognition interface via android and a GUI. The packages are available (and new packages will be released) on http://wiki.ros.org/agas-ros-pkg. Further information can be found on our project page http://homer.uni-koblenz.de.
This paper describes the robot Lisa used by team
homer@UniKoblenz of the University of Koblenz Landau, Germany, for the participation at the RoboCup@Home 2016 in Leipzig, Germany. A special focus is put on novel system components and the open source contributions of our team. We have released packages for object recognition, a robot face including speech synthesis, mapping and navigation, speech recognition interface via android and a GUI. The packages are available (and new packages will be released) on http://wiki.ros.org/agas-ros-pkg.
Hintergrund
Das neue Modell einer Knieorthese Condlya 4 soll die Bewegungsfreiheit im Knie nur geringfügig einschränken, so dass viele sportliche Bewegungen weiterhin gewährleistet sind. Dennoch stabilisiert die Orthese das Gelenk soweit, dass Scherbewegungen vermieden werden und während der Rehabilitationsphase nach Knieverletzungen und Instabilitäten bereits nach kurzer Zeit mit dem Sport wieder begonnen werden kann.
Das Ziel der Arbeit
Ziel der Masterarbeit war es mittels Bewegungsanalyse den Einfluss der Knieorhese auf die Bewegungsqualität des Handstands zu prüfen. Zu dieser 2D- Analyse wurden die Bewegungsabläufe mit mehreren digitalen Hochgeschwindigkeitskameras (OptiTrack Flex 3) aus zwei Ebenen gefilmt. Über die an anatomischen Fixpunkten angebrachten Markern wurden die Aufnahmen mit der Software MyoVideo am Rechner mittels automatischem Marker Tracking verarbeitet. Damit konnten die zeitlichen Verläufe von Marker-Koordinaten und Gelenkwinkeln aufgezeigt werden.
Ergebnisse
Die Ergebnisse dieser Untersuchung bestätigten, dass die untersuchte Knieorthese Condyla 4 für den Sport geeignet ist und keinen negativen Einfluss auf die Bewegungsqualität des Handstands nimmt. Die Anwendung der Knieorthese lässt sich dadurch auch auf andere Elemente aus dem Bereich des Turnens übertragen, bei denen die unteren Extremitäten ähnlichen Belastungen ausgesetzt sind.
The cytological examination of bone marrow serves as clarification of variations in blood smears. It is also used for the clarification of anemia, as exclusion of bone marrow affection at lymphoma and at suspicion of leukemia. The morphological evaluation of hematopoietic cells is the basis for the creation of the diagnosis and for decision support for further diagnostics. Even for experienced hematologists the manual classification of hematopoietic cells is time-consuming, error-prone and subjective. For this reason new methods in the field of image processing and pattern recognition for the automatic classification including preprocessing steps are developed for a computer-assisted microscopy system. These methods are evaluated by means of a huge reference database. The proposed image analysis procedures comprise methods for the automated detection of smears, for the determination of relevant regions, for the localization and segmentation of single hematopoietic cells as well as for the feature extraction and classification task. These methods provide the basis for the first system for the automated, morphological analysis of bone marrow aspirates for leukemia diagnosis and are therefore a major contribution for a better and more efficient patient care in the future.
We examine the systematic underrecognition of female scientists (Matilda effect) by exploring the citation network of papers published in the American Physical Society (APS) journals. Our analysis shows that articles written by men (first author, last author and dominant gender of authors) receive more citations than similar articles written by women (first author, last author and dominant gender of authors) after controlling for the journal of publication, year of publication and content of the publication. Statistical significance of the overlap between the lists of references was considered as the measure of similarity between articles in our analysis. In addition, we found that men are less likely to cite articles written by women and women are less likely to cite articles written by men. This pattern leads to receiving more citations by articles written by men than similar articles written by women because the majority of authors who published in APS journals are male (85%). We also observed Matilda effect reduces when articles are published in journals with the highest impact factors. In other words, people’s evaluation of articles published in these journals is not affected by the gender of authors significantly. Finally, we suggested a method that can be applied by editors in academic journals to reduce the evaluation bias to some extent. Editors can identify missing citations using our proposed method to complete bibliographies. This policy can reduce the evaluation bias because we observed papers written by female scholars (first author, last author, the dominant gender of authors) miss more citations than articles written by male scholars (first author, last author, the dominant gender of authors).
This thesis deals with Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI). The objectives of the work are to clarify the term RRI and to identify the current state of research in the field. RRI is a concept significantly shaped by the European Commission (EC). It is composed of responsibility, research and innovation, which will be considered individually to begin with. According to the definition by Clausen (2009) used here, responsibility is made up of a subject ("Who takes responsibility"), an object ("for what,"), one or several addressees ("to whom") and authorities ("and why?"). In the conceptual chapter of this thesis, the role of organisations as subjects of responsibility is grounded in the fact that they work toward a certain purpose. More importantly, though, society as an important addressee and authority of responsibility, increasingly calls for organisations to take responsibility for the consequences and wider impacts of their actions. The field of sustainability, with its pillars of economical, ecological and social issues, is considered a key object of responsibility. Innovation and research as an integral part of it are understood as complex processes aiming at reaching corporate goals in novel ways. By means of a literature analysis according to Webster & Watson (2002) the current state of research on RRI is explored. Most of the literature used is identified as conceptual in nature. Despite the great uncertainty that still prevails, four dimensions of RRI can be identified: Deliberation, Anticipation, Reflexivity, and Responsiveness. Taking into account the results of the literature review, the dimensions offered by the EC are classified as important activities rather than conceptual dimensions. Research and innovation in alignment with RRI involves stakeholders, particularly society, in the process right from the beginning. It also examines its potential impacts and continually reflects on its motivations and underlying values. The most important aspect is the adaptability of the process in response to the results from the other dimensions. All activities are based on responsibility and sustainability and are integrated through appropriate management and governance. In addition to conceptual work, little research has been done especially with regard to operationalisation and implementation of RRI. For the latter, the embedding in a stage-gate process according to Cooper (2010) is suggested here. However, the actual design of the conceptual dimensions still needs to be specified. In addition, overall awareness of RRI needs to be sharpened and a commitment to RRI made.
VR Fresken
(2018)
Das Projekt VR Fresken setzte sich zum Ziel, mit Hilfe von virtueller Realität im Rahmen einer Museumsausstellung historisch rekonstruierte Räume und deren Deckenfresken interaktiv erlebbar zu machen. In dieser Arbeit werden die eingesetzten Techniken und Technologien beleuchtet, der Anwendungsfall der VR für den Einsatz im Museum untersucht, sowie eine Evaluation der Software im Alltagsbetrieb im Museum durchgeführt.
Veränderungen in dem komplexen Wirkungsgefüge eines Agrarökosystems können erhebliche Auswirkungen auf die lokale Biozönose zur Folge haben. Die Überdachung von Obstkulturen mit Netzen oder Folien zum Schutz vor Hagel und Regen stellt eine solche Veränderung dar. Im Rahmen dieser Dissertation wurde anhand einer biozönotischen Risikoanalyse der Einfluss intensiver Landnutzung in Obstkulturen sowie der Einfluss von Kulturschutzeinrichtungen auf die drei Gilden tagaktive Greifvögel, insektivore Vögel und Arthropoden untersucht. Greifvögel, insektivore Vögel und räuberische Arthropoden üben als Prädatoren wichtige Regulationsfunktionen im Nahrungsnetz eines Ökosystems aus. Arthropoden stellen zudem eine wichtige Nahrungsressource dar. Arten aller drei Gilden gelten als Bioindikatoren für Veränderungen im Ökosystem. Phytophage Arthropoden können landwirtschaftlich genutzte Monokulturen erheblich schädigen, weshalb die konventionelle Landwirtschaft zur gezielten Tötung solcher Schädlinge Insektizide einsetzt. Pestizidbehandlungen haben allerdings oft auch Auswirkungen auf viele Nützlinge und andere Organismen im Agrarökosystem.
Die visuelle Erfassung beider Vogelgilden sowie das Fangen der Arthropoden mit Boden- und Flugfallen erfolgte von März bis Juli in den Jahren 2011-2013 auf fünf Untersuchungsflächen im rheinland-pfälzischen Obstanbaugebiet Mainz-Bingen. Es wurden zwei benachbarte Apfelkulturen (eine Kontrollfläche und eine Versuchsfläche mit Hagelschutznetz) und zwei benachbarte Kirschkulturen (eine Kontrollfläche und eine Versuchsfläche ab 2012 mit Folien-Netz-Überdachung) sowie eine nahegelegene Streuobstfläche im lokalen NSG Höllenberg als naturnahe Kontrollfläche untersucht. Zusätzlich wurden im ersten Untersuchungsjahr vom 15. März bis 28. Juli 2011 auf allen Flächen die Ergebnisse einer täglichen automatischen akustischen Erfassung durch ein Stereo-Aufnahmegerät („Songmeter 2“, Wildlife Acoustics) mit denen einer wöchentlichen rein visuellen Erfassung der Vögel verglichen. Es gab keine signifikanten Unterschiede in Detektionseffizienz und Arterfassung der Avifauna zwischen beiden Methoden. Die lokale α-Diversität nach Simpson unterschied sich ebenfalls nicht signifikant zwischen beiden Methoden. Das akustische Monitoring detektierte mehr seltene (=weniger als zehn Funde im Untersuchungszeitraum) Vogelarten; 29% der Arten wurden ausschließlich akustisch nachgewiesen und knapp 13% ausschließlich visuell. Sieben Vogelarten unterschieden sich signifikant in ihrer ermittelten Abundanz zwischen beiden Methoden: Bachstelze, Feldlerche, Mauersegler und die Greifvögel Mäusebussard und Turmfalke waren besser bzw. der Schwarzmilan ausschließlich mit dem visuellen Monitoring zu erfassen, während der Fasan ausschließlich durch das akustische Monitoring nachgewiesen werden konnte. Für die Abundanzschätzung von 48 Vogelarten war es unerheblich, ob sie akustisch oder visuell erfasst wurden. Da seltene Arten bei biozönotischen Untersuchungen keine wesentliche Rolle spielen und die Auswertung der Akustikaufnahmen sehr zeitaufwändig war, wurden für die Risikoanalyse nur die visuell ermittelten Daten berücksichtigt.
Für die Greifvogel-Gilde wurden sechs Arten nachgewiesen, fünf auf der Kirschkontrollfläche und jeweils vier Arten auf den anderen Flächen. Die drei häufigsten Arten waren Mäusebussard, Turmfalke und Schwarzmilan. Greifvögel wurden im Luftraum der Flächen oder auf Sitzwarten wie Zäunen, Pfählen, Bäumen und Kulturschutzeinrichtungen bei der Nahrungssuche oder beim Revierverhalten beobachtet. Es konnte kein Einfluss der Landnutzung auf Greifvögel aufgezeigt werden, Diversität und Abundanz unterschieden sich nicht zwischen den Obstkulturen und der naturnahen Streuobstfläche im NSG. Ein Einfluss von Kulturschutzeinrichtungen auf Greifvögel konnte ebenfalls nicht nachgewiesen werden, die überdachten Flächen wurden genauso oft frequentiert wie die Kontrollflächen. Greifvögel überflogen innerhalb ihrer großen Aktionsräume auch die überdachten Obstkulturen zur Nahrungssuche und wurden weiterhin bei der Ansitzjagd am Rand der Versuchsflächen gesichtet. Zudem wurde der Turmfalke beim Ansitzen unter der Folien-Netz-Überdachung der Kirschkultur sowie beim Fressen auf dieser Überdachung sitzend beobachtet. Für die Insektivoren-Gilde wurden 52 Vogelarten nachgewiesen. Die Streuobstfläche im NSG wies die höchste Artenzahl von 40 auf, gefolgt von der Apfelkontrollfläche mit 27 Arten. Die Apfelversuchsfläche wies dagegen eine geringere Artenzahl von 19 auf, während die Artenzahlen beider Kirschkulturen mit 19 und 18 annähernd gleich gewesen sind. Die zehn häufigsten Arten waren in Reihenfolge ihrer Abundanz Kohlmeise, Star, Rabenkrähe, Amsel, Mauersegler, Bachstelze, Blaumeise, Buchfink, Feldlerche und Stieglitz. Insektivore Vögel wurden überwiegend nahrungssuchend am Boden und in Bäumen der Flächen oder beim Revierverhalten wie Singen, Rufen und Vigilanz auf Sitzwarten Zäunen, Pfählen sowie Kulturschutzeinrichtungen beobachtet. Die intensive Landnutzung der Obstkulturen führte im Vergleich zur naturnahen Streuobstfläche im NSG sowohl auf der Apfel- als auch auf der Kirschkontrollfläche zu einer hochsignifikant geringeren monatlichen Vogelartenzahl. Eine signifikant niedrigere Abundanz der insektivoren Vögel wies jedoch nur die Kirschkontrollfläche auf. Es wurden negative Effekte der intensiven Landnutzung auf die monatliche Abundanz von Gartenrotschwanz, Amsel und Blaumeise nachgewiesen, welche in den Obstkulturen hochsignifikant seltener beobachtet wurden. Der Einsatz von Kulturschutzeinrichtungen führte lediglich beim Hagelschutznetz zu einer zusätzlichen signifikanten Verringerung der monatlichen Vogelartenzahl. Die Folien-Netz-Kombination zeigte keinen signifikanten Einfluss auf die Vogeldiversität. Die Gesamtabundanz der Insektivoren-Gilde blieb in beiden Obstkulturen von Kulturschutzeinrichtungen unbeeinflusst. Abundanzen einzelner Arten zeigten jedoch abweichende Ergebnisse: Die Ringeltaube wurde unter dem Hagelschutznetz der Apfelkultur im Vergleich zur Kontrollfläche gar nicht beobachtet. Die Kohlmeise kam unter der Folien-Netz-Überdachung der Kirschkultur signifikant seltener vor, während der Wiedehopf hier etwa zehnmal häufiger vorkam als auf der Kirschkontrollfläche und der Streuobstfläche im NSG Höllenberg. Entscheidender Faktor für die starke Nutzung der Kirschkulturen waren für den Wiedehopf die vorhandenen vegetationsfreien Bodenbereiche, in denen diese Art bevorzugt nach Nahrungsinsekten sucht. Störungen durch die bei Wind laut flatternde Folienüberdachung auf darunter nahrungssuchende Wiedehopfe wurden nicht beobachtet.
Für die Arthropoden-Gilde wurden 185963 Individuen aus 18 Gruppen gefangen. Der Großteil von 79% dieser Individuen ließ sich Springschwänzen, Ameisen, Zweiflüglern oder Käfern zuordnen. Weitere 20% verteilten sich auf Webspinnen, Asseln, Hautflügler, Milben, Doppelfüßer, Weberknechte, Schnabelkerfe und Ohrwürmer. Die restlichen sechs Arthropodengruppen stellten den restlichen Individuenanteil von 0,9%. Hinsichtlich der determinierten 12910 Käfer-Imagines aus 403 Arten waren Artenzahl, Diversität sowie Anzahl seltener Arten und Habitatspezialisten sandiger Lebensräume in allen drei Untersuchungsjahren auf der naturnahen Streuobstfläche im NSG Höllenberg am höchsten. Die über Bodenfallen ermittelte Arthropoden-Trockenbiomasse lag je nach Fläche bei 9 bis 26 Gramm pro Jahr und die über Flugfallen ermittelte Arthropoden-Trockenbiomasse bei 0,6 bis 4,8 Gramm pro Jahr. Obwohl im Mittel jährlich 5,8 Pestizidbehandlungen in den Kirschkulturen sowie 14,6 Behandlungen in den Apfelkulturen durchgeführt wurden und Insektizide dabei anteilig bis zu 57% ausmachten, konnte kein Einfluss der intensiven Landnutzung mit dem Einsatz von Pestiziden auf die Arthropoden-Trockenbiomasse nachgewiesen werden. Kulturschutzeinrichtungen zeigten ebenfalls keinen Einfluss auf die Arthropoden-Trockenbiomasse.
Diese biozönotische Risikoanalyse belegt, dass der Einsatz von Kulturschutzeinrichtungen zumindest bei Hagelschutznetzen langfristig nachweisbare negative Effekte auf die Diversität von insektivoren Vögeln bewirken kann, welche über die vorhandenen negativen Folgen der intensiven Landnutzung in Obstkulturen hinausgehen. Da intensiv bewirtschaftete Obstkulturen bereits ohne Kulturschutzeinrichtungen zu einer Verarmung der lokalen Biozönose führen, sollte aus ökologischer Sicht vor der Errichtung von Kulturschutzeinrichtungen verlässlich abgewogen werden, ob der zusätzliche Verlust an Biodiversität durch die Verbesserung von Flächenstrukturen der Obstkulturen kompensierbar ist.
Knowledge-based authentication methods are vulnerable to Shoulder surfing phenomenon.
The widespread usage of these methods and not addressing the limitations it has could result in the user’s information to be compromised. User authentication method ought to be effortless to use and efficient, nevertheless secure.
The problem that we face concerning the security of PIN (Personal Identification Number) or password entry is shoulder surfing, in which a direct or indirect malicious observer could identify the user sensitive information. To tackle this issue we present TouchGaze which combines gaze signals and touch capabilities, as an input method for entering user’s credentials. Gaze signals will be primarily used to enhance targeting and touch for selecting. In this work, we have designed three different PIN entry method which they all have similar interfaces. For the evaluation, these methods were compared based on efficiency, accuracy, and usability. The results uncovered that despite the fact that gaze-based methods require extra time for the user to get familiar with yet it is considered more secure. In regards to efficiency, it has the similar error margin to the traditional PIN entry methods.
The aquatic environment is exposed to multiple environmental pressures and mixtures of chemical substances, among them petroleum and petrochemicals, metals, and pesticides. Aquatic invertebrate communities are used as bioindicators to reflect long-term and integral effects. Information on the presence of species can be supplemented with information on their traits. SPEAR-type bioindicators integrate such trait information on the community level.
This thesis aimed at enhancing specificity of SPEAR-type bioindicators towards particular groups of chemicals, namely to mixtures of oil sands-derived compounds, hydrocarbons, and metals.
For developing a bioindicator for discontinuous contamination with oil-derived organic toxicants, a field study was conducted in the Canadian oil sands development region in Northern Alberta. The traits ‘physiological sensitivity towards organic chemicals’ and ‘generation time’ were integrated to develop the bioindicator SPEARoil, reflecting the community sensitivity towards oil sands derived contamination in relation to fluctuating hydrological conditions.
According to the SPEARorganic approach, a physiological sensitivity ranking of taxa was developed for hydrocarbon contamination originating from crude oil or petroleum distillates. For this purpose, ecotoxicological information from acute laboratory tests was enriched with rapid and mesocosm test results. The developed Shydrocarbons sensitivity values can be used in SPEAR-type bioindicators.
To specifically reflect metal contamination in streams via bioindicators, Australian field studies were re-evaluated with focus on the traits ‘physiological metal sensitivity’ and ‘feeding type’. Metal sensitivity values, however, explained community effects in the field only weakly. Instead, the trait ‘feeding type’ was strongly related to metal exposure. The fraction of predators in a community can, thus, serve as an indicator for metal contamination in the field.
Furthermore, several metrics reflecting exposure to chemical cocktails in the environment were compared using existing pesticide datasets. Exposure metrics based on the 5% fraction of species sensitivity distributions were found to perform best, however, closely followed by Toxic Unit metrics based on the most sensitive species of a community or Daphnia magna.
Die Zielsetzung der vorliegenden Masterarbeit lag darin, die instrumentelle Gewäs-seranalytik im Freiland für Schüler*innen erschließbar zu machen.
Als Maßnahme der Master-Thesis wurde eine arbeitsteilige Lerneinheit rund um das Thema Gewässeranalytik für den außerschulischen Chemieunterricht der Sekun-darstufe II konzipiert und evaluiert. Die Konzeption erfolgte in Anlehnung an die Lehrpläne der Fächer Biologie, Geografie, Physik und Chemie des Landes Rhein-land-Pfalz. Zur Bewertung der Gewässergüte kam das digitale Messsystem Einstein Labmate für zahlreiche physikalisch-chemische Parameter zur Verwendung. Zu-sätzlich wurde das Online-Portal FLUVIDAT Saar zur rudimentären Bestimmung von Indikatororganismen sowie für eine Einordnung der Gewässerstruktur genutzt.
Im Rahmen der begleitenden Evaluation wird der Forschungsfrage nachgegangen, in wie weit die konzipierte Einheit praxistauglich und adressatengerecht für den Chemieunterricht der Oberstufe ist. Dies wird anhand der Konstrukte „Aktuelles Inte-resse“ und „Cognitive Load“ mit einem Fragebogen, einer Videoanalyse mit litera-turbasiertem Codierleitfaden sowie einem Lesbarkeitsindex der zugrundeliegenden Experimentieranleitungen überprüft.
Die Ergebnisse der Datenauswertung zeigten ein hohes aktuelles Interesse der Schüler*innen sowie eine angemessene kognitive Belastung. Durch die Erhebung der lernbezogenen kognitiven Belastung zeigte sich, dass die im unteren Bereich liegende Schwierigkeit der Materialien kognitive Kapazitäten zur Schemabildung frei gab.
Soil organic matter (SOM) is a key component responsible for sequestration of organic molecules in soil and regulation of their mobility in the environment. The basic structure of SOM is a supramolecular assembly responding dynamically to the environmental factors and the presence of interacting molecules. Despite of the advances in the understanding of sorption processes, the relation between sorbate molecules, SOM supramolecular structure and its dynamics is limited. An example of a dynamic nature of SOM is a physicochemical matrix aging that is responsible for SOM structural arrangement. The underlying process of the physicochemical aging is the formation of water molecule bridges (WaMB) between functional groups of molecular segments. Since WaMB influence the stiffness of SOM structure, it was hypothesized that formation of WaMB contributes to the sequestration of organic molecules. However, this hypothesis has not been tested experimentally until now. Furthermore, the knowledge about the influence of organic molecules on WAMB is based solely on computer modeling studies. In addition, the influence of organic molecules on some physical phases forming SOM is not well understood. Especially, the interactions between organic molecules and crystalline phases represented by aliphatic crystallites, are only presumed. Thus, the investigation of those interactions in unfractioned SOM is of high importance.
In order to evaluate the involvement of WaMB in the sequestration of organic molecules and to increase our understanding about interactions of organic chemicals with WaMB or aliphatic crystallites, the following hypotheses were tested experimentally. 1) Similarly to crystalline phases in synthetic polymers, aliphatic crystallites, as a part of SOM, cannot be penetrated by organic molecules. 2) The stability of WaMB is determined by the ability of surrounding molecules to interact with water forming WaMB. 3) WaMB prevent organic molecules to leave the SOM matrix and contribute thus to their immobilization. In order to test the hypotheses 1 and 2, a set of experiments including treatment of soils with chosen chemicals was prepared. Interaction abilities of these chemicals were characterized using interaction parameters from the Linear Solvation Energy Relationship theory. WaMB characteristics were monitored using Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) allowing to measure the WaMB thermal stability and the rigidity of SOM matrix; which in turn was determined by the heat capacity change. In addition, DSC and 13C NMR spectroscopy assessed thermal properties and the structure of aliphatic crystallites. The spiking of samples with a model compound, phenol, and measurements of its desorption allowed to link parameters of the desorption kinetics with WaMB characteristics.
The investigation showed that the WaMB stability is significantly reduced by the presence of molecules with H-donor/acceptor interaction abilities. The matrix rigidity associated with WaMB was mainly influenced by the McGowan’s volume of surrounding molecules, suggesting the importance of dispersion forces. The desorption kinetics of phenol followed a first order model with two time constants. Both of them showed a relation with WaMB stability, which supports the hypothesis that WaMB contribute to the physical immobilization of organic molecules. The experiments targeted to the crystallites revealed their structural change from the ordered to the disordered state, when in contact with organic chemicals. This manifested in their melting point depression and the decrease of overall crystallinity. Described structural changes were caused by molecules interacting with specific as well as non-specific forces, which suggests that aliphatic crystallites can be penetrated and modified by molecules with a broad range of interaction abilities.
This work shows that chosen organic molecules interact with constituents of SOM as exemplified on WaMB and aliphatic crystallites, and cause measurable changes of their structure and properties. These findings show that the relevance of aliphatic crystallites for sorption in soil may have been underestimated. The results support the hypothesis that physicochemical matrix aging significantly contributes to the immobilization of organic chemicals in SOM.
Social Business Documents: An Investigation of their Nature, Structure and Long-term Management
(2018)
Business documents contain valuable information. In order to comply with legal requirements, to serve as organisational knowledge and to prevent risks they need to be managed. However, changes in technology with which documents are being produced introduced new kinds of documents and new ways of interacting with documents. Thereby, the web 2.0 led to the development of Enterprise Collaboration Systems (ECS), which enable employees to use wiki, blog or forum applications for conducting their business. Part of the content produced in ECS can be called Social Business Documents (SBD). Compared to traditional digital documents SBD are different in their nature and structure as they are, for example, less well-structured and do not follow a strict lifecycle. These characteristics bring along new management challenges. However, currently research literature lacks investigations on the characteristics of SBD, their peculiarities and management.
This dissertation uses document theory and documentary practice as theoretical lenses to investigate the new challenges of the long-term management of SBD in ECS. By using an interpretative, exploratory, mixed methods approach the study includes two major research parts. First, the nature and structure of Social Business Documents is addressed by analysing them within four different systems using four different modelling techniques each. The findings are used to develop general SBD information models, outlining the basic underlying components, structure, functions and included metadata, as well as a broad range of SBD characteristics. The second phase comprises a focus group, a case study including in-depth interviews and a questionnaire, all conducted with industry representatives. The focus group identified that the kind of SBD used for specific content and the actual place of storage differ between organisations as well as that there are currently nearly no management practices for SBD at hand. The case study provided deep insights into general document management activities and investigated requirements, challenges and actions for managing SBD. Finally, the questionnaire consolidated and deepened the previous findings. It provides insights about the value of SBD, their current management practices as well as management challenges and needs. Despite all participating organisations storing information worth managing in SBD most are not addressing them with management activities and many challenges remain.
Together, the investigations enable a contribution to practice and theory. The progress in practice is summarised through a framework, addressing the long-term management of Social Business Documents. The framework identifies and outlines the requirements and challenges of and the actions for SBD management. It also indicates the dependencies of the different aspects. Furthermore, the findings enable the progress in theory within documentary practice by discussing the extension of document types to include SBD. Existing problems are outlined along the definitions of records and the newly possible characteristics of documents emerging through Social Business Documents are taken into account.
How does gameplay influence the fun in video games? This article will search for an answer to this question by using a self-made video game created from scratch. This video game will be programmed in two versions with differences only in gameplay. Several test persons are then to play this game. A survey will be answered afterwards. In order to gain values that are merely influenced by gameplay changes, thoughts on the game design and conception were made. Results suggest that gameplay has a big impact on fun in video games. But gameplay isn't the only responsible factor that makes a video game amusing. Psychological aspects are present when the gameplay of a video game changes.
Es wird ein Augmented-Reality Ansatz zur Erforschung modularer OSGi-Softwaresysteme präsentiert. Der Prototyp wird unter der Verwendung der Microsoft HoloLens implementiert. Module, wie Komponenten und Packages, werden in einer virtuellen Stadt dargestellt. Dieser Ansatz ermöglicht es dem Anwender, die Software-Architektur mittels intuitiver Navigation zu erkunden: Spracheingabe, Blickpunkt- und Gestenkontrolle. Eine multifunktionale Benutzeroberfläche wird vorgestellt, die für verschiedene Zielgruppen adaptiert werden kann. Viele veröffentlichte Visualisierungen weisen keine klare Zielgruppendefinition auf. Das Konzept kann leicht auf andere Darstellungsformen, wie beispielsweise der Inselmetapher übertragen werden. Erste Ergebnisse einer Evaluierung, die mittels kleiner strukturierter Interviews gewonnen werden konnten, werden präsentiert. Die Probanden mussten vier Programm-verständnis Aufgaben lösen und ihren Aufwand, sowie ihre Arbeitsbelastung einschätzen. Die Ergebnisse bilden eine gute Grundlage für weitere Forschung im Bereich der Software- Visualisierung in Augmented Reality.
Das Ziel der vorliegenden Masterarbeit ist es, einen Einführungskurs in die Computervisualistik mit dem Schwerpunkt Computergrafik zu konzeptionieren und zu prototypisieren. Der Kurs sollte Grundlagen der Computergrafik vermitteln und dabei Bezüge zu anderen Veranstaltungen des Studiums herstellen, um Motivation und Verständnis für die komplexen Zusammenhänge der Studieninhalte in der Computervisualistik zu schaffen. Der aktuelle Studiengangplan weist hier bislang ein erkennbares Defizit auf. Für den Einführungskurs wurden prototypische Lerneinheiten auf Grundlage der didaktischen Methode der Moderation und unter Verwendung von Unity entwickelt. Konzept und Prototypen wurden an Probanden ohne informationstechnischen Hintergrund evaluiert. Die Ergebnisse zeigten, dass Unity eine geeignete Oberfläche für die Vermittlung der Informationen bietet. Diese stieß auf Akzeptanz und konnte leichte Zugänglichkeit bei den Probanden aufweisen, obwohl die Lerneinheiten selbst kleinere Schwächen aufwiesen. Im Anschluss an die erste Evaluationsphase wurde eine qualitative Umfrage mit Alumini der Computervisualistik durchgeführt. Die Ergebnisse bestätigten den Bedarf nach einer einführenden Veranstaltung zur Orientierung und zur Förderung von Motivation und Verständnis für die breiten Themengebiete der Computervisualistik.
Topic models are a popular tool to extract concepts of large text corpora. These text corpora tend to contain hidden meta groups. The size relation of these groups is frequently imbalanced. Their presence is often ignored when applying a topic model. Therefore, this thesis explores the influence of such imbalanced corpora on topic models.
The influence is tested by training LDA on samples with varying size relations. The samples are generated from data sets containing a large group differences i.e language difference and small group differences i.e. political orientation. The predictive performance on those imbalanced corpora is judged using perplexity.
The experiments show that the presence of groups in training corpora can influence the prediction performance of LDA. The impact varies due to various factors, including language-specific perplexity scores. The group-related prediction performance changes for groups when varying the relative group sizes. The actual change varies between data sets.
LDA is able to distinguish between different latent groups in document corpora if differences between groups are large enough, e.g. for groups with different languages. The proportion of group-specific topics is under-proportional to the share of the group in the corpus and relatively smaller for minorities.
Companies try to utilise Knowledge Management (KM) to gain more efficiency and effectiveness in business. The major problem is that most of these KM projects are not or rarely based on sustainable analyses or established theories about KM. Often there is a big gap between the expectations and the real outcome of such KM initiatives. So the research question to be answered is: What challenges arise in KM projects, which KM requirements can be derived from them and which recommendations support the goal of meeting the requirements for KM? As theoretical foundation a set of KM frameworks is examined. Subsequently KM challenges from literature are analysed and best practices from case studies are used to provide recommendations for action on this challenges. The main outcome of this thesis is a best practice guideline,which allows Chief Knowledge Officers (CKOs) and KM project managers to examine the challenges mentioned in this thesis closely, and to find a suitable method to master these challenge in an optimal way. This guideline shows that KM can be positively and negatively influenced in a variety of ways. Mastering Knowledge Management (KM) in a company is a big and far-reaching venture and that technology respectively Information Technology (IT) is only a part of the big picture.
In dieser Forschungsarbeit wird eine Methode zur anwendungsbasierten Verknüpfung von Anforde-rungen und Enterprise Collaboration Softwarekompenten vorgestellt. Basierend auf dem etablierten IRESS Modell wird dabei ein praxistaugliches Mappingschema entwickelt, welches Use Cases über Kol-laborationsszenarien, Collaborative Features und Softwarekomponenten mit ECS verbindet. Somit las-sen sich Anforderungen von Unterhemen in Form von Use Cases und Kollaborationsszenarien model-lieren und anschließend über das Mappingschema mit konkreten ECS verbinden. Zusätzlich wird eine Methodik zur Identifikation von in Softwarekomponenten enthaltenen Collaborative Features vorge-stellt und exemplarisch angewandt.
Anschließend wird ein Konzept für eine Webapplikation entworfen, welches das vorgestellte Mapping automatisiert durchführt, und somit nach Eingabe der Anforderungen in Form vom Use Cases oder Kol-laborationsszenarien, die ECS ausgibt, die eben diese Anforderungen unterstützen.
Raytracing mit Vulkan
(2018)
Der Schwerpunkt der vorliegenden Bachelorarbeit war die Entwicklung eines einfachen Raytracerprogrammes unter der Verwendung der Vulkan API, und das Einschätzen des Mehraufwandes im Vergleich zum Performancegewinn. Das Programm wird in dieser Arbeit vorgestellt. Die Vulkan Komponente des Programms wird detailliert erklärt. Anschließend wird das Programm mit einem, unter der Verwendung von OpenGL geschriebenen, ähnlichen Raytracerprogramm verglichen. Beide Programme verwenden dabei den gleichen Raytracer, der im Fragmentshader implementiert ist. Der Test ergibt, dass der mithilfe von Vulkan geschriebene Raytracer deutlich langsamer ist, als das zum Vergleich dienende OpenGL Programm.
Carabids, which are frequently distributed in agricultural landscapes, are natural enemies of different pests including slugs. Semi-natural habitats are known to affect carabids and thus, their potential to support natural pest control.
The impact of semi-natural habitats was investigated on carabids and slugs within different non-crop habitats (chapter 2). Most carabids and Deroceras reticulatum showed preferences for herbaceous semi-natural habitats, while Arion spp. occured mainly in woody habitats. An increase of predatory carabid abundance, which was linked to an inclining amount of semi-natural habitats in the landscape, and a decrease of Arion spp. densities, indicated a high potential for slug control in structural rich landscapes.
Effects of semi-natural habitats were investigated on predatory carabids and slugs in 18 wheat fields (chapter 3). Predatory carabid species richness was positively affected by the increasing amount of semi-natural habitats in the landscape, whereas predatory carabid abundance was neither influenced by adjacent habitat type nor by the proportion of semi-natural habitats in the landscape. The target pest species showed divergent patterns, whereas Arion spp. densities were highest in structural poor landscapes near woody margins. D. reticulatum was not affected by habitat type or landscape, reflecting its adaptation to agriculture. Results indicate an increased control of Arion spp. by carabids in landscapes with a high amount of semi-natural habitats.
Effects of semi-natural habitats and the influence of farming system was tested on carabid distribution within 18 pumpkin fields (chapter 4). Carabid species richness generally increased with decreasing distance to the field margins, whereas carabid abundance responded differently according to the adjacent habitat type. Farming system had no effect on carabids and landscape heterogeneity only affected carabids in organic pumpkin fields.
Slug and slug egg predation of three common carabid species was tested in single and double species treatments in the laboratory (chapter 5). Results show additive and synergistic effects depending on the carabid species. In general, semi-natural habitats can enhance the potential of slug control by carabids. This counts especially for Arionid slugs. Semi-natural habitats can support carabid communities by providing shelter, oviposition and overwintering sites as wells as complementary food sources. Therefore, it is important to provide a certain amount of non-crop habitats in agricultural landscapes.
The purpose of this thesis is to explore the sentiment distributions of Wikipedia concepts.
We analyse the sentiment of the entire English Wikipedia corpus, which includes 5,669,867 articles and 1,906,375 talks, by using a lexicon-based method with four different lexicons.
Also, we explore the sentiment distributions from a time perspective using the sentiment scores obtained from our selected corpus. The results obtained have been compared not only between articles and talks but also among four lexicons: OL, MPQA, LIWC, and ANEW.
Our findings show that among the four lexicons, MPQA has the highest sensitivity and ANEW has the lowest sensitivity to emotional expressions. Wikipedia articles show more sentiments than talks according to OL, MPQA, and LIWC, whereas Wikipedia talks show more sentiments than articles according to ANEW. Besides, the sentiment has a trend regarding time series, and each lexicon has its own bias regarding text describing different things.
Moreover, our research provides three interactive widgets for visualising sentiment distributions for Wikipedia concepts regarding the time and geolocation attributes of concepts.