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The use of agricultural plastic covers has become common practice for its agronomic benefits such as improving yields and crop quality, managing harvest times better, and increasing pesticide and water use efficiency. However, plastic covers are suspected of partially breaking down into smaller debris and thereby contributing to soil pollution with microplastics. A better understanding of the sources and fate of plastic debris in terrestrial systems has so far been hindered by the lack of adequate analytical techniques for the mass-based and polymer-selective quantification of plastic debris in soil. The aim of this dissertation was thus to assess, develop, and validate thermoanalytical methods for the mass-based quantification of relevant polymers in and around agricultural fields previously covered with fleeces, perforated foils, and plastic mulches. Thermogravimetry/mass spectrometry (TGA/MS) enabled direct plastic analyses of 50 mg of soil without any sample preparation. With polyethylene terephthalate (PET) as a preliminary model, the method limit of detection (LOD) was 0.7 g kg−1. But the missing chromatographic separation complicated the quantification of polymer mixtures. Therefore, a pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS) method was developed that additionally exploited the selective solubility of polymers in specific solvents prior to analysis. By dissolving polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), and polystyrene (PS) in a mixture of 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene and p-xylene after density separation, up to 50 g soil became amenable to routine plastic analysis. Method LODs were 0.7–3.3 mg kg−1, and the recovery of 20 mg kg−1 PE, PP, and PS from a reference loamy sand was 86–105%. In the reference silty clay, however, poor PS recoveries, potentially induced by the additional separation step, suggested a qualitative evaluation of PS. Yet, the new solvent-based Py-GC/MS method enabled a first exploratory screening of plastic-covered soil. It revealed PE, PP, and PS contents above LOD in six of eight fields (6% of all samples). In three fields, PE levels of 3–35 mg kg−1 were associated with the use of 40 μm thin perforated foils. By contrast, 50 μm PE films were not shown to induce plastic levels above LOD. PP and PS contents of 5–19 mg kg−1 were restricted to single observations in four fields and potentially originated from littering. The results suggest that the short-term use of thicker and more durable plastic covers should be preferred to limit plastic emissions and accumulation in soil. By providing mass-based information on the distribution of the three most common plastics in agricultural soil, this work may facilitate comparisons with modeling and effect data and thus contribute to a better risk assessment and regulation of plastics. However, the fate of plastic debris in the terrestrial environment remains incompletely understood and needs to be scrutinized in future, more systematic research. This should include the study of aging processes, the interaction of plastics with other organic and inorganic compounds, and the environmental impact of biodegradable plastics and nanoplastics.
Agriculture requires a sustainable intensification to feed the growing world population without exacer-bating soil degradation and threatening soil quality. Globally, plastic mulching (PM) is increasingly used to improve crop growth and yields and consequently agronomic productivity. However, recent literature reported also critical aspects of PM for soil quality and showed contradictory outcomes. This might result from the numerous applications of PM in different climates across various crops, soils and agri-cultural techniques. Thus, a closer look is necessary on how PM influences soil processes under certain climate and cultivation conditions to obtain a comprehensive understanding of its effects, which is im-portant to evaluate PM in terms of a sustainable agriculture.
The aim of this PhD thesis was to understand how multiannual PM influences soil properties and pro-cesses under the temperate, humid Central European cultivation conditions and to evaluate the resulting consequences for soil quality. I designed a three-year field study to investigate the influence of PM (black polyethylene, 50 μm) on microclimate, structural stability, soil organic matter (SOM) and the concentrations of selected fungicides and mycotoxins in three soil layers (0–10, 10–30 and 30–60 cm) compared to straw mulching (SM). Both mulching types were applied in a drip-irrigated ridge-furrow system in strawberry cultivation.
PM shifted the soil microclimate to higher soil temperatures and lower soil moistures. The higher soil temperature seems thus to be the key factor for the increased crop growth and yields under the present humid climate. The reduced soil moisture under PM indicated that under PM the impeded rainfall infil-tration had a stronger effect on the water balance than the reduced evaporation. This indicate an ineffi-cient rainwater use in contrast to arid climates. PM changed the water cycling in the ridges from down-ward directed water flows to lateral water flows from furrows to ridges. This reduced nitrogen leaching in the topsoil (0–10 cm) in the strawberry establishment period. The plastic mulches avoided aggregate breakdown due to rapid soil wetting and excess water during rainfalls and thus maintained a loose and stable soil structure in the surface soil, which prevents soil compaction and made soil less prone to erosion. PM changed carbon fluxes and transformation so that a larger total and more stable SOM was observed. Thus, the higher belowground biomass productivity under PM compensated the impeded aboveground biomass input and the temperature-induced SOM decomposition. However, SM increased the labile and total SOM in the topsoil after the first experiment year and promoted microbial growth due to the aboveground biomass incorporation. PM reduced fungicide entry into soil compared to SM and reduced consequently the fungal biomass reduction and the biosynthesis of the mycotoxin deoxyni-valenol. The modified microclimate under PM did not increase mycotoxin occurrence. In this context, PM poses no risk for an increased soil contamination, impairing soil quality. This PhD thesis demon-strated that the PM effects on soil can vary depending on time, season and soil depth, which emphasizes the importance to include soil depth and time in future studies.
Compared to semiarid and arid regions, the PM effects found in this PhD thesis were small, absent or in another way. I attributed this to the fact that PM under humid climate reduced instead of increased soil moisture and that SM had due to straw und strawberry canopy a similar ‘covering effect’ as PM. Thus, generalizing the PM effects on soil across different climates seems hardly possible as they differ in type and extent depending on climate. A differentiated consideration is hence necessary to evaluate the PM effects on soil quality. I conclude that PM under temperate, humid climate might contribute to reduce soil degradation (e.g., SOM depletion, erosion, nutrient leaching, soil compaction and soil contamina-tion), which sustains soil quality and helps to enable a sustainable agricultural intensification. However, further research is necessary (1) to support my findings on a larger scale, longer time periods and across various soil and crop types, (2) to address remaining open questions and (3) to develop optimization to overcome the critical aspects of PM (e.g. macro- and microplastic waste in soil, mulch disposal).
Resumen del libro impreso : Walden, R. (2008). Psicología arquitectónica: Escuela, escuela superior y edificios de oficinas del futuro. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers. Las personas desean, por lo general, un “contr ol“ sobre las condiciones de su entorno (comp. Flammer, 1990; Burger, 1992). Esta necesidad queda de manifiesto en forma de autoorganizaciones de la arquitectura y la autorregulación de los factores de estrés. Por esta razón, el concepto de control del medio ambiente se aplica como criterio central para los entornos construidos en los tres estudios de caso: de la escuela, de la universidad y de la s oficinas. Los métodos de encuesta "Programming" (desarrollo del programa orientado al usuario), "U ser-Needs Analysis" (análisis de necesidades del usuario) y "Post-Occupancy Evaluation" (análisis post-ocupacional) se explican con vistas a su importancia para la "Building Performance Evaluation" (evaluación del rendimiento del edificio) (Preiser & Araña, 1997; 2005). La “evaluación arquitectónica de Koblenz“ se presenta como instrumento para evaluar los entornos construidos en tres variantes. Los resultados elegidos de dichos tres estudios se relacionan, a su vez, con dos entornos diferentes. Los efectos de la arquitectura sobre el rendimiento de los usuarios (comp. Estudios BOSTI, 1984 y 2001) se establecen en la parte empírica en tres estudios de edificios innovadores (Escuela Waldorf en Köln, Universidad de Koblenz, Post Tower en Bonn). La eficacia se mide a través de: 1) el rendimiento de aprendizaje y laboral, 2) el bienestar y 3) el control del medio ambiente, así como 4) el comportamiento social en el caso del estudio escola r y con la ayuda de 16 (edificios de oficina) y 21 (universidades) criterios psicológicos para el éxito de las organizaciones. La meta de los tres estudios es, entre otras cosas, revisar el concepto teórico de "control del medio ambiente" y poder dar nuevas recomendaciones para mejorar en las reformas y ta mbién en las nuevas construcciones. Por eso, dos planteamientos centrales son: en el análisis de necesidades del usuario, la opinión del edificio "en la actualidad", ¿se diferencia de la evaluación de la “importancia en el futuro”?; las características de la arquitectura ¿tienen repercusión en los criterios de rendimiento?. Con los estudios se desarrollaron tres teoremas según el enfoque de facetas (Borg, 1996) y dos esquemas para la evaluación de calidad de los edificios escolares y de oficinas. De los esquemas se obtuvieron: para la escuela, 139 preguntas para 26 profesores y 86 preguntas para 122 alumnos; para la escuela superior, 203 preguntas para 147 estudian tes y 28 docentes, así como para el edificio de oficinas 254 preguntas para 56 censores estudiantiles. Las características particulares de los edificios se calificaron mediante una escala de +2 ☺☺ ("en la actualidad" muy buenas y “en el futuro” muy importantes respectivamente) a –2 // ("en la actualidad" muy malas y “en el futuro“ muy insignificantes respectivamente). Los tres criterios principales de rendimiento, especialmente para la evaluación de la “importancia en el futuro“, están correlacionados uno con el otro en los tres estudios, por lo general, de manera sustancial y muy significativa, de manera que se puede esperar que una evaluación superior del control del medio ambiente llevada a cabo por los usuarios conduzca a más bienestar y que, sobre ambas variables, también puedan ser aumentadas las evaluaciones de rendimientos de aprendizaje y laboral “en el futuro“. Según los resultados de los tres estudios, los usuarios y los censores desean por ejemplo, en los tres entornos, la posibilidad de retiro: en la escuela, en forma de oficinas de alumnos, nichos y tresillos en el aula; en la universidad, en forma de bancos protegidos en el área exterior y mesas de trabajo, por ejemplo, en la cafetería; y en el edificio de ofic inas a través de menos transparencia en las oficinas compartidas y con eso menos visión de todas las actividades entre jefes y compañeros. Las relaciones de los criterios de rendimiento centrales establecidas en los tres estudios dejan suponer de modo justificado que, mediante mejoras concretas de aspectos importantes del entorno -sobre todo de aquellos que permiten el control del mismo-, se puede influir de manera positiva sobre el bienestar y, con esto, sobre el rendimiento de los usuarios. Palabras claves: necesidades del usuario, análisis; evaluación del rendimiento del edificio; control del medio ambiente (autoorganización, regulación de los factores de estrés, control social), bienestar, rendimientos de aprendizaje y laboral, comportamiento social; criterios del éxito de las Resumen 5 organizaciones; teoría de las facetas; esquema para la evaluación de la calidad de los edificios; recomendaciones para la construcción de edificios con visión de futuro.
Abstract for the print-book: Walden, R. (2008). Architectural Psychology: School, University Campus, and Office Building of the Future. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers (in German). The need for display of self in architecture and for users' self-regulation of stress factors, which demonstrate that users crave individual control of their environment (cf. Flammer, 1990; Burger, 1992) motivated this study to use the concept of environmental control as a central criterion for the evaluation of built environment. It was applied to three case studies: a school, a university campus, and an office building. Advantages and disadvantages of the data- gathering methods of architectural Programming, User-Needs Analysis, and Post-Occupancy Evaluation were analyzed to highlight their significance in terms of Building Performance Evaluation as described by Preiser and Sc hramm (1997, 2005). The “Koblenz Architecture Questionnaire” was used as an instrument for assessing the built environment of the three case studies, and the study reports selected findings from these questionnaires. The investigation seeks to determine the effect of architecture - especially buildings' provisions for user control of environmental conditions - on user performance (cf. BOSTI studies, 1984, 2001) in three innovative buildings: the Waldorf School in Cologne, the new campus for the University in Koblenz, and the Office Tower of the Deutsche Post World Net AG in Bonn. Performance is measured in terms of (1) Lear ning and Work Efficiency, (2) Well-being, (3) Environmental Control, (4) Social Behavior (the latter just for the school project), and by means of 21 and 16 additional psychological criteria for success of the organization in the cases of the university and the office building, respectively. The study aims, among other things, at reassessing the theoretical concept of 'environmental control' and at making recommendations for both improvement of existing buildings and the design of new projects. Two central questions are: In User-Needs Analysis, what is the difference between the assessment of a building for its current use and its estimated performance in future? Do certain architectural features influence user assessments on the given performance criteria? In the studies, three mapping sentences were developed according to the 'facet approach' (Borg, 1996) as well as two systems to judge the quality of school and office buildings. Using these systems, information was obtained in all three studies to construct questionnaires. In the school study, teachers were asked 139 questions, pupils 86 questions. Responses were obtained from 26 teachers and 122 pupils. For the university, 147 students and 28 faculty members responded to 203 questions. For the office building, 56 student-experts were asked 254 questions. Characteristics of the built environment were rated using the following scale: +2 ☺☺ (very good “at present”, and accordingly very important “in the future”) down to –2 // (very bad “at present”, and very unimportant “in the future”). A general finding was a high and significant co rrelation between the responses for the three main performance criteria in all three case studies, especially for the 'importance for the future' aspect. This supports the conclusion that a perception of higher degree of environmental control by users will lead to an increased sense of well-being and consequently, there will also be a higher expectation of improved work or learning efficiency 'in the future'. The three studies further show for example that users in all three environments desire 'retreat opportunities' which may take the form of student offices in schools, niches and small group seating in classrooms, and sheltered seating in outdoor areas and work tables in the cafeteria for the university. For the offices, users wanted more visual privacy (less transparent office partitions in Combi Offices) for less visual control of their activities by supervisors and co-workers. The relationships found by the studies between the responses on the central performance criteria and the spatial characteristics of the three buildings support the contention that focused improvements in the built environment, especially with respect to features that enhance user control of environmental conditions, will influence users’ well-being as well as work performance and work or learning efficiency in a positive way.
Abstract zum Print-Buch: Walden, R. (2008). Architekturpsychologie: Schule, Hochschule und Bürogebäude der Zukunft. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers. Menschen wünschen sich im Allgemeinen „Kontrolle“ über ihre Umweltbedingungen (vgl. Flammer, 1990; Burger, 1992). Dieses Bedürfnis kommt in Form von Selbstgestaltungen von Architektur und Selbstregulierungen von Stressoren zum Ausdruck. Aus diesem Grund wird das Konzept der Umweltkontrolle als zentrales Kriterium für gebaute Umwelten in allen drei Fall-Studien zu Schule, Hochschule und Büro angewendet. Die Erhebung smethoden Programming (nutzerorientierte Programmentwicklung), User-Needs Analysis (Nutzer-Bedarfs-Analyse) und Post-Occupancy Evaluation werden im Hinblick auf ihren Stellenwert für die Building Performance Evaluation (Gebäudeleistungsevaluation) (Preiser & Schramm, 1997; 2005) erläutert. Der „Koblenzer Architekturfragebogen“ wird als Instrument zur Beurteilung von gebauten Umwelten in drei Varianten vorgestellt. Es werden zu den drei Studien jeweils ausgewählte Ergebnisse zu zwei verschiedenen Umweltbereichen berichtet.
Auswirkungen von Architektur auf Performance von Nutzern (vgl. BOSTI-Studien, 1984, 2001) werden im empirischen Teil in drei Studien zu innovativen Gebäuden (Waldorfschule in Köln, Universität in Koblenz, Post Tower in Bonn) ermittelt. Performance wird gemessen anhand von 1) Lern- und Arbeitsleistungen, 2) Wohlbefinden und 3) Umweltkontrolle sowie 4) Sozialverhalten im Fall der Schulstudie und mit der Hilfe von 16 (Bürogebäude) bzw. 21 (Universität) psychologischen Kriterien für den Erfolg von Organisationen. Ziel aller drei Studien ist unter anderem, das theoretische Konzept „Umweltkontrolle“ zu überprüfen und Empfehlungen für Verbesserungen von Um- bzw. Neubauten benennen zu können. Zwei zentrale Frages tellungen lauten daher: Unterscheidet sich in einer User-Needs Analysis eine Einschätzung des Gebäudes „zur Zeit“ von der Beurteilung der „Wichtigkeit in Zukunft“? Haben Merkmale der Architektur Auswirkungen auf die Performance-Kriterien?
Zu den Studien wurden drei Abbildungssätze nach dem Facettenansatz (Borg, 1996) und zwei Schemata zur Beurteilung der Qualität von Schul- und Bürogebäuden entwickelt. Aus den Schemata wurden zur Schule 139 Fragen für 26 Lehrer und 86 Fragen für 122 Schüler gewonnen, zur Hochschule 203 Fragen für 147 Studierende und 28 Dozenten sowie zu dem Bürogebäude 254 Fragen für 56 studentische Beurteiler. Einzelne Merkmale von Gebäuden wurden anhand einer Skala von +2 ☺☺ („zur Zeit“ sehr gut bzw. sehr wichtig „in Zukunft“) bis –2 // („zur Zeit“ sehr schlecht bzw. sehr unwichtig „in Zukunft“) bewertet. Die drei Performance-Hauptkriterien, insbesondere zu der Einschätzung der „Wichtigkeit in Zukunft“, korrelieren in der Regel in allen drei Studien substanziell und hoch signifikant miteinander, so dass erwartet werden kann, dass eine höhere Ei nschätzung von Umweltkontrolle durch die Nutzer
zu mehr Wohlbefinden führt und über beide Va riablen auch die Beurteilungen von Lern- und Arbeitsleistungen „in Zukunft“ gesteigert werden können. Nach den Ergebnissen der drei Studien wünschen si ch die Nutzer bzw. Beurteiler beispielsweise in allen drei Umwelten Rückzugsmöglichkeiten, in der Schule in Form von Schülerbüros, Nischen und Sitzgruppen im Klassenzimmer, in der Universität in Form von geschützten Bänken im Außenbereich und Arbeitstischen zum Beispiel in der Cafeteria und im Bürogebäude durch weniger Transparenz im Kombibüro und damit weniger Einsicht aller Tätigkeiten durch Vorgesetzte und Kollegen. Die in den drei Studien ermittelten Zusammenhänge der zentralen Perfor mance-Kriterien lassen begründet annehmen, dass durch gezielte Verbesserungen wichtiger Umweltaspekte, insbesondere solcher, die Umweltkontrolle ermöglichen, das Wohlbefinden und somit die Leistung von Nutzern positiv beeinflusst werden kann.
Menschen wünschen sich im Allgemeinen "Kontrolle" über ihre Umweltbedingungen. Dieses Bedürfnis kommt in Form von Selbstgestaltungen von Architektur und Selbstregulierungen von Stressoren zum Ausdruck. Aus diesem Grund wird das Konzept der Umweltkontrolle als zentrales Kriterium für gebaute Umwelten in allen drei Fall-Studien zu Schule (Waldorfschule Köln), Hochschule (Universität Koblenz) und Bürogebäude (Post Tower Bonn) angewendet. Im deutschen Sprachraum werden damit erstmalig in einer Monographie psychologische Untersuchungen von innovativen Gebäuden in Anlehnung an die International Building Performance Evaluation (Gebäudeleistungsevaluation) beschrieben. Der "Koblenzer Architekturfragebogen" wird als Instrument zur Beurteilung von gebauten Umwelten in drei Varianten vorgestellt. Bis zu 21 psychologische Kriterien für den Erfolg von Organisationen werden pro Studie angewandt. Ziel aller drei Studien ist unter anderem, Empfehlungen für Verbesserungen von Um- und Neubauten benennen zu können. Zwei zentrale Fragestellungen lauten daher: Unterscheidet sich in einer User-Needs Analysis eine Einschätzung des Gebäudes "zur Zeit" von der Beurteilung der "Wichtigkeit in Zukunft"? Haben Merkmale der Architektur Auswirkungen auf die Performance-Kriterien? Zu den Studien wurden drei Abbildungssätze nach dem Facettenansatz und zwei Schemata zur Beurteilung der Qualität von Schul- und Bürogebäuden entwickelt. Die in den drei Studien ermittelten Zusammenhänge der zentralen Performance-Kriterien lassen begründet annehmen, dass durch gezielte Verbesserungen wichtiger Umweltaspekte, insbesondere solcher, die Umweltkontrolle ermöglichen, das Wohlbefinden und somit die Leistung von Nutzern positiv beeinflusst werden können.
For software engineers, conceptually understanding the tools they are using in the context of their projects is a daily challenge and a prerequisite for complex tasks. Textual explanations and code examples serve as knowledge resources for understanding software languages and software technologies. This thesis describes research on integrating and interconnecting
existing knowledge resources, which can then be used to assist with understanding and comparing software languages and software technologies on a conceptual level. We consider the following broad research questions that we later refine: What knowledge resources can be systematically reused for recovering structured knowledge and how? What vocabulary already exists in literature that is used to express conceptual knowledge? How can we reuse the
online encyclopedia Wikipedia? How can we detect and report on instances of technology usage? How can we assure reproducibility as the central quality factor of any construction process for knowledge artifacts? As qualitative research, we describe methodologies to recover knowledge resources by i.) systematically studying literature, ii.) mining Wikipedia, iii.) mining available textual explanations and code examples of technology usage. The theoretical findings are backed by case studies. As research contributions, we have recovered i.) a reference semantics of vocabulary for describing software technology usage with an emphasis on software languages, ii.) an annotated corpus of Wikipedia articles on software languages, iii.) insights into technology usage on GitHub with regard to a catalog of pattern and iv.) megamodels of technology usage that are interconnected with existing textual explanations and code examples.
Enterprise Collaboration Systems (ECS) werden zunehmend als Kernkomponenten des digitalen Arbeitsplatzes in Unternehmen eingesetzt, die mit der Implementierung dieser neuen Softwaregattung jeweils unterschiedliche Ziele für die innerbetriebliche Zusammenarbeit verfolgen. Diese Ziele werden in der Praxis oftmals nicht eindeutig genug formuliert. Der Einsatz von traditionellen Controlling-Kennzahlen mit dem Schwerpunkt auf Termineinhaltung und Kosten sind zudem ungeeignet, um die Realisierung des individuellen Nutzens von ECS zu messen. Diese Forschungsarbeit beschreibt die Entwicklung und Anwendung des Benefits Scorecards for Collaboration Platforms in Enterprises (SCoPE) Frameworks, das als ein Rahmenwerk für die kennzahlengestützte Nutzenmessung von ECS dient und an dem Goal-Question-Metrics-Approach der NASA sowie der Balance Scorecard von Kaplan & Norton angelehnt ist. Die Ergebnisse tragen zu einem breiteren Verständnis der kennzahlenbasierten Nutzenanalyse für ECS in Organisationen bei. Das Benefits-SCoPE-Framework wurde in enger Zusammenarbeit mit Experten aus 16 Anwenderunternehmen im Rahmen der Initiative IndustryConnect entwickelt. In einem design-orientierten Ansatz wurde ein ausgewählter Methodenmix angewandt, inklusive Experteninterview, Fokusgruppe, Workshop und Card Sorting. Der von Anwenderunternehmen erwartete Nutzen des ECS wird in spezifische, durch Kennzahlen beantwortbare Fragestellungen umformuliert und fragmentiert. Insgesamt konnten so 313 nutzenorientierte Fragen von drei Anwenderunternehmen identifiziert werden. Die durchgeführte Kategorisierung der Fragen verdeutlicht zum einen das gemeinsame Verständnis der Unternehmen hinsichtlich der entscheidenden Faktoren für die Nutzenrealisierung von ECS und zum anderen die Nutzen-ziele, die die Unternehmen durch den Einsatz des ECS anvisieren. Die Entwicklung und Erhebung von Kennzahlen zur quantitativen Beantwortung von ausgewählten Fragestellungen wird mit funktions-fähigen Prototypen auf einer operativen Kollaborationsplattform demonstriert, die seit mehr als sieben Jahren im Einsatz ist und mehr als 5.000 registrierte Benutzer aufweist. Die Kennzahlenentwicklung, die Auswahl der Datenerhebungsmethode, die Durchführung der Messung sowie die Interpretation der Messergebnisse werden im Framework durch die Verwendung von Benefits Scorecards unterstützt. Die individuelle Orchestrierung mehrerer Benefits Scorecards repräsentiert die Struktur eines Ordnungssystems zur ECS-Nutzenanalyse in Anwenderunternehmen und verdeutlicht das Vorgehen zur Erhebung der äquivalenten Daten.
The ongoing loss of species is a global threat to biodiversity, affecting ecosystems worldwide. This also concerns arthropods such as insects and spiders, which are especially endangered in agricultural ecosystems. Here, one of the main causing factors is management intensification. In areas with a high proportion of traditionally managed grassland, extensive hay meadows that are cut only once per year can still hold high levels of biodiversity, but are threatened by conversion into highly productive silage grassland. The Westerwald mountain range, western Germany, is such a region. In this thesis, I compare the local diversity of bees, beetles, hoverflies, leafhoppers, and spiders of five grassland management regimes along a gradient of land-use intensity. These comprise naturally occurring grassland fallows, three types of traditionally managed hay meadows, and intensively used silage grassland. By using three different sampling methods, I recorded ground-dwelling, flower-visiting, and vegetation-dwelling species. The results show that in most cases species richness and diversity are highest on fallows, whereas variation among different managed grassland types is very low. Also, for most sampled taxa, fallows harbour the most distinct species assemblages, while that of other management regimes are largely overlapping. Management has the largest effect on species composition, whereas environmental parameters are of minor importance. Long-term grassland fallows seem to be highly valuable for arthropod conservation, even in a landscape with a low overall land-use intensity, providing structural heterogeneity. In conclusion, such fallows should be subsidized agri-environmental schemes, to preserve insect and spider diversity.
Social Media is a world-wide phenomenon which has drastically changed the way humans communicate, the availability of information, as well as a crucial tool for various businesses. This has also heavily influenced the sporting community which presents the focus of this study. The work aims to examine the self-presentation, on the media platform Instagram, of footballers from FC Bayern Munich, to gain an understanding of how athletes use this medium as a communication and marketing tool to build their brand. Instagram was chosen due to it being a platform on which users post visual images as their primary communication mechanism. There are many social media uses for professional athletes. From the sharing of personal lives, professional highlights, and opinion, to product placement and endorsements, athletes are closer to fans and consumers than ever before. Social media also puts the athlete in charge of the message, image, and content regarding their careers and their lives Ten footballers were selected against specified criteria and examined against Goffman’s theory of self-presentation (1959) to formulate the research question: “Which forms of presentation of football players of FC Bayern Munich ́s Instagram posts achieve the highest user engagement?”
Empirical research analysed the effect of different visual and contextual forms on user engagement rates.
Through the works literature review, individual hypotheses were derived and tested in a quantitative standardized media content analysis. The first 50 Instagram posts of each of the ten FC Bayern Munich football players with the most followers were analyzed using IBM SPSS Statistics software. From the visual aspect seven photo categories were developed which were examined in relation to their engagement rate with the posts. Within the contextual framework, the importance and effect of the number of tags and hashtags used were analyzed.
Findings revealed differences to previous research on an athlete ́s use of written social media outlets such as Facebook and Twitter, as the majority of visual images posted by athletes were in sporty settings, thus reflecting frontpage-performance strategies according to the self-presentation theory. Further results showed that a greater utilization of hashtags and tags do not correlate with a higher impact on the engagement rates. Personal brand management implications for athletes are examined in greater detail in the discussion.
Invasive species play increasing roles worldwide. Invasions are considered successful when species establish and spread in their exotic range. Subsequently, dispersal is a major determinant of species’ range dynamics. Mermessus trilobatus, native to North America, has rapidly spread in Europe via aerial dispersal. Here we investigated the interplay of ecological and evolutionary processes behind its colonisation success.
First, we examined two possible ecological mechanisms. Similar to other invasive invertebrates, the colonisation success of Mermessus trilobatus might be related to human-induced habitat disturbance. Opposite to this expectation, our results showed that densities of Mermessus trilobatus decreased with soil disturbance in grasslands suggesting that its invasion success was not connected to a ruderal strategy. Further, invasive species often escape the ecological pressures from novel enemies in their exotic ranges. Unexpectedly, invasive Mermessus trilobatus was more sensitive to a native predator than native Erigone dentipalpis during our predator susceptibility trials. This indicates that the relation between the invasive spider and its native predator is dominated by prey naïveté rather than enemy release.
The remaining three chapters of the thesis investigated the dispersal behaviour of this invasive species. Hitherto, studies of passive aerial dispersal used wind as the primary dispersal-initiating factor despite a recent demonstration of the effects of the atmospheric electric fields on spiders’ pre-dispersal behaviour. During our experiments, only the wind facilitated the flight, although electric fields induced pre-dispersal behaviour in spiders. Consequently, studies around passive aerial dispersal should control electric fields but use wind as a stimulating factor.
Rapidly expanding species might be disproportionately distributed in their exotic range, with an accumulation of dispersive genotypes at the leading edge of their range. Such imbalanced spatial segregation is possible when the dispersal behaviour of expanding species is heritable. Our results showed that the dispersal traits of Mermessus trilobatus were heritable through both parents and for both sexes with recessive inheritance of high dispersal ability in this species.
Following the heritability experiments, we documented an accelerated spread of Mermessus trilobatus in Europe and tested whether dispersal, reproduction or competing ability was at the source of this pattern. Our results showed that the accumulation of more mobile but not reproductive or competitive genotypes at the expansion front of this invasive species gave rise to an accelerated range expansion by more than 1350 km in under 45 years.
Invasive Mermessus trilobatus is inferior to native sympatric species with respect to competing ability (Eichenberger et al., 2009), disturbance tolerance and predation pressure. Nevertheless, the species successfully established in its exotic range and spread by accelerating its expansion rate. Rapid reproduction that balances the high ecological pressures might be the other potential mechanism behind its colonisation success in Europe and deserves further investigation.
Men are currently underrepresented in traditionally female care-oriented (communal) engagement such as taking parental leave, whereas they are overrepresented in traditionally male (agentic) engagement such as breadwinning or leadership. We examined to what extent different prototypical representations of men affect men’s self-reported parental leave-taking intentions and more generally the future they can imagine for themselves with regard to work and care roles (i.e., their possible selves). We expected prototypes of men that combine the two basic stereotype dimensions of agency and communion to increase men’s communal intentions. In two experiments (N1 = 132, N2 = 233), we presented male participants with contrived newspaper articles that described the ideal man of today with varying degrees of agency and communion (between-subjects design with four conditions; combined agentic and communal vs. agentic vs. communal vs. control condition). Results of Experiment 1 were in line with the main hypothesis that especially presenting a combination of agency and communion increases men’s expectations for communal engagement: As compared to a control condition, men expected more to engage in caretaking in the future, reported higher parental leave-taking intentions, and tended to expect taking longer parental leave. Experiment 2 only partially replicated these findings, namely for parental leave-taking intentions. Both experiments additionally provided initial evidence for a contrast effect in that an exclusive focus on agency also increased men’s self-reported parental leave-taking intentions compared to the control condition. Yet, exclusively emphasizing communion in prototypes of men did not affect men’s communal intentions, which were high to begin with. We further did not find evidence for preregistered mechanisms. We discuss conditions and explanations for the emergence of these mixed effects as well as implications for the communication of gendered norms and barriers to men’s communal engagement more broadly.
Harvesting Season?
(2022)
Efforts to induce customers to buy groceries through the Internet have existed for around twenty years. Early on, the market structures of the digital grocery trade were still strongly fragmented and poorly coordinated. Due to the technological advancement in the past decade, the digital purchase of groceries has become more attractive. The adoption rate of these services varies greatly between different regions. In Germany in particular, the digital grocery trade is stagnating at a comparatively low level. In this regard, this dissertation analyzes both the retail-side market structures and the expectations and obstacles of German consumers.
The year 2020 connotes a turning point for the online grocery trade, as daily routines such as grocery shopping were subject to strict regulations imparted at a governmental level in order to reduce COVID-19 infections. At the same time, despite this opportunity, the digital grocery trade has not yet established itself nationwide in Germany. This can be attributed to a lack of investments, but also to inadequate digitization measures. A stronger synchronization between the digital and stationary offer, better integration of digital food services at a regional level as well as adapted, target group-appropriate digital solutions for the efficient breakdown of usage barriers will benefit service usage. The importance of stable food chains and distribution channels was illustrated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Further research should help to develop the digital food trade into a stable and sustainable supplementation of the stationary store.
Agricultural plastic covers made from polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) provide increased yields and an improved crop quality. However, such covers are suspected of partially breaking down into smaller debris and thereby contributing to soil pollution with microplastics. To scrutinize this, we randomly sampled 240 topsoil cores (0–5 cm) from eight fields which were covered with fleeces, perforated foils, and plastic mulches for less than 2 years. Samples from the field periphery (50 m perimeter) served as a reference. Visual plastic debris > 2 mm was analyzed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Smaller, soil-associated plastic debris was dispersed from 50 g of fine soil (≤ 2 mm) using sodium hexametaphosphate solution and density-separated with saturated NaCl solution. The collected PE, PP, and polystyrene (PS) debris was selectively dissolved in a mixture of 1,2,4-trichlorobenzene and p-xylene at 150 °C and quantified by pyrolysis–gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS). We counted six PE and PS fragments > 2 mm in two out of eight fields. By contrast, Py-GC/MS detected PE, PP, and PS contents in the fine soil of six fields (6 % of all samples). In three fields, PE levels of 3–35 mg kg−1 were potentially associated with the use of thinner and less durable perforated foils (40 µm thickness). This was slightly more pronounced at field edges where the plastic covers are turned and weighed down. By contrast, 50 µm thick PE films were not shown to emit any plastic debris. PP contents of 5–10 mg kg−1 were restricted to single observations in the field centers of three sites. At one site, we found expanded PS particles > 2 mm that concurred with elevated PS levels (8–19 mg kg−1) in the fine soil. Both PP and PS were distributed indistinctly across sites so that their source remained unresolved. In addition, the extent to which plastic contents of up to 7 mg kg−1 in the field periphery of some sites were attributed to wind drift from the covered fields or from external sources needs to be investigated in future studies. Our results suggest that the short-term use of thicker and more durable plastic covers should be preferred over thinner or perforated films to limit plastic emissions and accumulation in soil.
Die Arbeit stellt eine Systematisierung der wissenschaftsphilosophischen Gedanken der klassischen Pragmatisten (Charles S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey) dar.
Deren Erfahrungstheorie sowie die Bestimmung des Verhältnisses von Theorie und Praxis bilden die Grundlage einer holistischen Wissenschaftsphilosophie.
Die exemplarische Anwendung auf klassische wissenschaftstheoretische Fragestellungen zeigt die Aktualität des Ansatzes.
Today’s agriculture heavily relies on pesticides to manage diverse pests and maximise crop yields. Despite elaborate regulation of pesticide use based on a complex environmental risk assessment (ERA) scheme, the widespread use of these biologically active compounds has been shown to be a threat to the environment. For surface waters, pesticide exposure has been observed to exceed safe concentration levels and negatively impact stream ecology leading to the question whether current ERA schemes ensure a sustainable use of pesticides. To answer this, the large-scale “Kleingewässer-Monitoring” (KgM) assessed the occurrence of pesticides and related effects in 124 streams throughout Germany, Central Europe, in 2018 and 2019.
Based on five scientific publications originating from the KgM, this thesis evaluated pesticide exposure in streams, ecological effects and the regulatory implications. More than 1,000 water samples were analysed for over 100 pesticide analytes to characterise occurrence patterns (publication 1). Measured concentrations and effects were used to validate the exposure and effect concentrations predicted in the ERA (publication 2). By jointly analysing real-world pesticide application data and measured pesticide mixtures in streams, the disregard of environmental pesticide mixtures in the ERA was evaluated (publication 3). The toxic potential of mixtures in stream water was additionally investigated using suspect screening for 395 chemicals and a battery of in-vitro bioassays (publication 4). Finally, the results from the KgM stream monitoring were used to assess the capability to identify pesticide risks in governmental monitoring programmes (publication 5).
The results of this thesis reveal the widespread occurrence of pesticides in non-target stream ecosystems. The water samples contained a variety of pesticides occurring in complex mixtures predominantly in short-term peaks after rainfall events (publications 1 & 4). Respective pesticide concentration maxima were linked to declines in vulnerable invertebrate species and exceeded regulatory acceptable concentrations in about 80% of agricultural streams, while these thresholds were still estimated partly insufficient to protect the invertebrate community (publication 2). The co-occurrence of pesticides in streams led to a risk underestimated in the single substance-oriented ERA by a factor of about 3.2 in realistic worst-case scenarios, which is further exacerbated by a high frequency at which non-target organism are exposed to pesticides (publication 3). Stream water samples taken after rainfall caused distinct effects in bioassays which were only explainable to a minor extent by the many analytes, indicating the relevance of unknown chemical or biological mixture components (publication 4). Finally, the regulatory monitoring of surface waters under the Water Framework Directive (WFD) was found to significantly underestimate pesticide risks, as about three quarters of critical pesticides and more than half of streams at risk were overlooked (publication 5).
Essentially, this thesis involves a new level of validation of the ERA of pesticides in aquatic ecosystems by assessing pesticide occurrence and environmental impacts at a scale so far unique. The overall results demonstrate that the current agricultural use of pesticides leads to significant impacts on stream ecology that go beyond the level tolerated under the ERA. This thesis identified the underestimation of pesticide exposure, the potential insufficiency of regulatory thresholds and the general inertia of the authorisation process as the main causes why the ERA fails to meet its objectives. To achieve a sustainable use of pesticides, the thesis proposes substantial refinements of the ERA. Adequate monitoring programmes such as the KgM, which go beyond current government monitoring efforts, will continue to be needed to keep pesticide regulators constantly informed of the validity of their prospective ERA, which will always be subject to uncertainty.
Satzung der örtlichen Studierendenschaft an der Universität Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau
Zweite Ordnung zur Änderung der Prüfungsordnung für den Bachelorstudiengang „Psychologie“ des Fachbereichs Psychologie der Universität Koblenz-Landau,
Campus Landau
Grundordnung der Universität Koblenz
Wahlordnung für die Wahlen der Organe der Universität Koblenz
Redaktionelle Korrektur betreffend die Satzung zur Festsetzung von Zulassungszahlen an der Universität Koblenz-Landau für das Studienjahr 2020/2021
Redaktionelle Korrektur betreffend die Fünfzehnte 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
Redaktionelle Korrektur betreffend die Vierzehnte 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
Redaktionelle Korrektur betreffend die Zweiundzwanzigste Ordnung zur Änderung der Prüfungsordnung für die Prüfung im Zwei-Fach-Bachelorstudiengang an der Universität Koblenz-Landau
Vierundzwanzigste Ordnung zur Änderung der Ordnung für die Prüfung im lehramtsbezogenen Zertifikatsstudiengang (Erweiterungsprüfung) an der Universität Koblenz-Landau und der Hochschule Koblenz
Ordnung zur Änderung der Beitragsordnung des Studierendenwerks Koblenz
Eine Ursache des Insektenrückgangs ist die Abnahme der für Arthropoden wichtigen Lebensräume. Der kleinstrukturierte Obstanbau als Dauerkultur mit vielfältigen Strukturen (Bäume, Grünland, offener Boden) kann als Refugium wirken. Gerade Dauerkulturen, welche über viele Jahre bestehen bleiben, können einen großen ökologischen Wert für Insekten und Spinnentiere darstellen, wenn die negativen Einflüsse der Bewirtschaftung durch gezielte Maßnahmen minimiert werden. Im Gegensatz zu den gut untersuchten Streuobstwiesen liegen bisher nur wenige oder ungenaue Daten über die Arthropodenfauna in Erwerbsobstanlagen vor. Ziele dieser Arbeit sind eine genauere Erfassung der Arthropodenfauna in Erwerbsobstanlagen, Benennung der Einflussfaktoren und Erarbeitung einer indikatorgestützten Bewertungsmethode mit Entwicklung von Maßnahmen zur Förderung der Biodiversität. Es wurde eine intensive Erfassung der Insekten und Spinnentiere auf Basis von Individuenzahlen, Verteilung der Tiere auf Großgruppen, Artenzahlen der Käfer (inkl. Rote Liste) und Wanzen, deren Diversität und der sie beeinflussenden Faktoren auf vier Erwerbsobstflächen und einer Streuobstwiese als Referenzfläche in der Gemeinde Zornheim (Rheinland-Pfalz) untersucht. Mittels des erarbeiteten Bewertungsbogens wurden die Auswirkungen der fünf Faktorenkomplexe: Sonderstrukturen, Anlagenstruktur, Beschattung, Mahdregime und Einsatz von Pflanzenschutzmitteln auf die Arthropodenfauna erhoben und die auf der Fläche zu erwartende Biodiversität ermittelt. Die visuelle Darstellung der Einflussfaktoren mit Netzdiagrammen zeigt biodiversitätsbeeinträchtigende Faktoren und ermöglicht so Empfehlungen zur Aufwertung der Biodiversität. Die Bewertungsmethode kann nach Verifizierung im Rahmen von erfolgsorientierten Agrarumwelt- und Klimamaßnahmen (AUKM), zur Anerkennung von Kompensationsmaßnahmen (z.B. PIK) und zur Ermittlung des ökologischen Wertes (Ökosystemdienstleistung) von Obstanlagen genutzt werden. In modifizierter Form könnte es ebenfalls im Bereich der Flächenbewertung in Landschafts- und Bauleitplanung eingesetzt werden.
Social media provides a powerful way for people to share opinions and sentiments about a specific topic, allowing others to benefit from these thoughts and feelings. This procedure generates a huge amount of unstructured data, such as texts, images, and references that are constantly increasing through daily comments to related discussions. However, the vast amount of unstructured data presents risks to the information-extraction process, and so decision making becomes highly challenging. This is because data overload may cause the loss of useful data due to its inappropriate presentation and its accumulation. To this extent, this thesis contributed to the field of analyzing and detecting feelings in images and texts. And that by extracting the feelings and opinions hidden in a huge collection of image data and texts on social networks After that, these feelings are classified into positive, negative, or neutral, according to the features of the classified data. The process of extracting these feelings greatly helps in decision-making processes on various topics as will be explained in the first chapter of the thesis. A system has been built that can classify the feelings inherent in the images and texts on social media sites, such as people’s opinions about products and companies, personal posts, and general messages. This thesis begins by introducing a new method of reducing the dimension of text data based on data-mining approaches and then examines the sentiment based on neural and deep neural network classification algorithms. Subsequently, in contrast to sentiment analysis research in text datasets, we examine sentiment expression and polarity classification within and across image datasets by building deep neural networks based on the attention mechanism.
This study examines the contribution of saving and credit cooperatives (SACCOS) on the improvement of members‘ socio economic development in Rwanda: Opportunities and challenges‖, Evidence from Umwalimu SACCO- Huye District‖. The appearance of saving and credit cooperatives or credit unions has been known as remedy for social ills rooted in poverty because of its efficiency in loans or credits dispensation, social equality for enhancement and reduction of poverty amongst low income earners. Therefore, millions and millions of poor people and non-bankable in developing countries (or third world countries) have been provided access to formal financial services through saving and credit cooperatives‘ programs.
The targeted population concerned by the study was 1,940 members of USACCO from which a sample of 92 respondents was purposively selected. The study has adopted a combination of correlation and descriptive research design. It has employed both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The study used both primary and secondary data. The primary data was collected using questionnaire and interview and, while secondary data was collected using documentations techniques whereby, Manual of procedures and Credit policies of USACCO and financial reports have been consulted. The analysis of data was done using SPSS version 21. The data was presented in form of tables, charts and graphs designed by SPSS v. 21. The bio-characteristics of respondents showed that, the majority of respondents were women with 55.4%, majority of respondents‘ age is between 26 to 45 years Furthermore, and majority 77.20% of respondents were married. 100% of respondents attended school, where the majority of respondents attended secondary school with certificate A2.
The study has revealed that Umwalimu SACCO services offered to its members have a positive effect on the improvement of members‘ welfare. It was found that USACCO services have slightly affected income level of members, assets acquired, access to education and medical care as well as small income generating activities established by members in Huye District. The analysis of data also revealed that there are some variables which have effected USACCO members‘ socio-economic status, these were listed as: Education background of a member, number of dependents, the occupation of a member, and number of loans got from USACCO, government programs against teachers‘ welfare, and membership duration played very important role on the improvement of standard living of teachers. All these variables were found to have positive effects on teachers‘ socio-economic status, except the family size of respondents.
In addition, the findings showed that, the majority of respondents confirmed that, they did not find opportunities to save with other financial institutions, and other respondents did not have access to loan from other financial institutions due to complicated loan requirements. In addition, after they
have joined USACCO, their deplorable status somewhat changed, both socially and economically which has contributed to the improvement of their welfare. Therefore, the study testified that, the welfare of USACCO members in terms of assets acquired, income increased was improved compared to situation before joining USACCO. The study concludes that ―the level of improvement of living conditions of teachers depends largely to the level of loan granted by USACCO to teachers and membership duration. If the level of teachers‘ loan and saving increases, there will be also improvement of teachers‘ wellbeing‖ and finally, USACCO financial service is a veritable instrument for better improvement of economic and social conditions of teachers. The study recommends that, USACCO should provide frequent and regular trainings on business management game to their members. This could help members for good management of their loans and reducing loan defaulters‘ cases observed at USACCO. Challenges observed were lack of physical collateral security required by USACCO, complicated loan requirements terms and conditions and insufficient trainings on business management game.