This dissertation deals with the opportunities and restrictions that parties face in an election campaign at the supranational level of the EU. Using communication science concepts of agenda-setting (focus: media) and agenda-building (focus: political parties), the first part of the study is based on the election campaign for the European Parliament (EP) in 2014. It analyses to what extent political parties put the EU on the agenda. Second, it is examined whether parties have used their structural advantage of being able to influence the media agenda at the supranational level during the election campaign in the context of the EP election campaign. Third, it is examined whether parties can gain an advantage for the visibility of their campaigns by rejecting EU integration and the associated conflictual communication. Fourth and final, it will be explored whether agenda-building can influence the rankings of specific policy issues on the media agenda in the European context. First, the analyses show that a European political focus of election campaign communication can no longer be found only on the part of the small (eurosceptic) parties. Second, parties have a good chance of being present in media coverage if the they pursue a European political focus in their campaign communication. Third, a negative tone in party communication turns out not to be decisive for the parties' visibility in the election campaign. Fourth, a clear positioning on political issues also prepares parties for restrictions of the further development of a European thematic agenda. After a discussion of these results, the paper concludes with an assessment of the analysis limitations and an outlook on further research approaches.

Im Zentrum der Untersuchung steht die Entwicklung des künstlerischen Siebdrucks in Deutschland seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg. Nach der thematischen Einführung und einer ersten kritischen Bestandsaufnahme der Forschung zum Siebdruck wird im Folgenden der Verlauf und die methodische Vorgehensweise der Arbeit verdeutlicht. Im zweiten Kapitel „Etablierung einer künstlerischen Technik“ wird zuerst die Geschichte des Siebdrucks dem Rahmen dieser Arbeit gemäß nachgezeichnet. Nachfolgend wird in einem Unterkapitel dargestellt, wie sich die Serigrafie als künstlerisches Verfahren parallel zum industriellen Siebdruck etablierte. In der Folge wendet sich die Untersuchung der Entstehung und Entwicklung des künstlerischen Siebdrucks in Deutschland zu. Dabei wird Willi Baumeister als Beispiel für die erste Generation von Künstlern in Deutschland herangezogen, die sich mit der Serigrafie beschäftigte. Im nächsten Schritt wird ein Überblick zu den Willi Baumeister nachfolgenden deutschen bzw. deutschsprachigen Serigrafie–Künstlern präsentiert. In dem sich anschließenden Exkurs-Kapitel liegt der Schwerpunkt auf der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Künstler und Drucker. Dabei werden an Beispielen namhafter Drucker wie Luitpold Domberger und Hans-Peter Haas unter anderem Einflüsse der Drucker auf die Entstehung und den Ausdruck der Kunstwerke aufgezeigt.Nach einer Einführung in die Entstehung und Geschichte der Serigrafie in Deutschland und einem ersten Überblick über deutsche Serigrafie-Künstler wird im vierten Kapitel der Einsatz der Serigrafie-Technik bei verschiedenen Künstlern aus unterschiedlichen Zeiträumen eingehend untersucht. Besonderes Augenmerk gilt dabei dem Einfluss der Technik auf die Ausdrucksmöglichkeiten und Inhalte der Werke, die Anwendung innerhalb einer und verschiedener Kunstrichtungen sowie die Experimente, die mit der Siebdrucktechnik gemacht wurden. Dazu werden Werke ausgewählter Künstler analysiert. Im Fokus stehen Künstler der Pop Art, des Neuen und des Kritischen Realismus, der Abstrakten und Konkreten Kunst. Ferner werden Künstler, deren Werk durch einen expressiven, bisweilen primitiven Charakter geprägt ist, in die Betrachtung mit einbezogen. Eine weitere Gruppe bilden Künstler, die die Serigrafie in einen Zusammenhang zur Architektur und zum öffentlichen Raum stellen. Die aus der Untersuchung hervorgehenden Ergebnisse dienen insbesondere dazu, die Charakteristika der Technik in ihrer künstlerischen Verwendung herauszustellen und Aspekte einer künstlerisch motivierten Weiterentwicklung aufzuzeigen. Die Entwicklung des druckgraphischen Werkes und der Technik von Gerd Winner werden in Kapitel 5 eingehend untersucht. Auf diese Weise lässt sich eine systematische, nicht rein formale, sondern ästhetische und inhaltliche Darstellung der Serigrafie in Deutschland erstellen. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt dabei auf der Frage, wie sich die Technik und deren Neuerungen auf den Inhalt auswirkten.

Sustainable water management requires methods for assessing ecological stream quality. Many years of limnological research are needed to provide a basis for developing such methods. However, research of this kind is still lacking in Turkey. Therefore, the aim of this doctoral thesis was to provide basic research in the field of aquatic ecology and to present methods for the assessment of ecological stream quality based on benthic invertebrates. For this purpose, I selected 17 tributaries of the Euphrates with a similar typology/water order and varying levels of pollution or not affected by pollution at all. The characterisation of the natural mountain streams was the first important step in the analysis of ecological quality. Based on community indices, I found that the five selected streams had a very good ecological status. I also compared the different biological indications, collected on two occasions ¬– once in spring (May) and once in autumn (September) – to determine the optimal sampling time. The macroinvertebrate composition differed considerably between the two seasons, with the number of taxa and Shannon index being significantly higher in autumn than in spring. In the final step, I examined the basal resources of the macroinvertebrates in the reference streams with an isotope analysis. I found that FPOM and biofilm were the most relevant basal resources of benthic invertebrates. Subsequently, based on the similarity of their community structures, I divided the 17 streams into three quality classes, supported by four community indices (EPT [%], EPTCBO [%], number of individuals, evenness). In this process, 23 taxa were identified as indicators for the three quality classes. In the next step, I presented two new or adapted indices for the assessment of quality class. Firstly, I adapted the Hindu Kush-Himalaya biotic index to the catchment area of the Euphrates and created a new, ecoregion-specific score list (Euph-Scores) for 93 taxa. The weighted ASPT values, which were renamed the Euphrates Biotic Score (EUPHbios) in this study, showed sharper differentiations of quality classes compared to the other considered ASPT values. Thus, this modified index has proved to be very effective and easy to implement in practical applications. As a second biological index, I suggested the proportion of habitat specialists. To calculate this index, the habitat preferences of the 20 most common benthic invertebrates were identified using the new habitat score. The proportion of habitat specialists differed significantly among the three quality classes with higher values in natural streams than in polluted streams. The methods and results presented in this doctoral thesis can be used in a multi-metric index for a Turkish assessment programme.

Die Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung kann als ein zentrales Element einer konsequenten Unternehmensstrategie zur Umsetzung der gesellschaftlichen Verantwortung (Corporate Social Responsibility) angesehen werden. Um die Unternehmen bei dieser Aufgabe zu unterstützen stellt die Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) mit ihren G4 Leitlinien einen Orientierungsrahmen bereit, dessen Anwendung sich allerdings für Klein und Mittelunternehmen sehr komplex gestaltet. Ein branchenspezifisches Sector Supplement für den Weinbau existiert derzeit noch nicht. Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit ist es, diese Forschungslücke durch die Entwicklung weinbauspezifischer Nachhaltigkeitsaspekte und Indikatoren zu schließen, um den Betrieben eine selbstständige GRI-konforme Berichterstattung zu ermöglichen. Der Prozess zur Identifikation wesentlicher Nachhaltigkeitsaspekte und -indikatoren erfolgt mittels Erhebungs- und Auswertungsmethoden der qualitativen Sozialforschung in Form von Workshops, betrieblichen Vorortanalysen und Experteninterviews. Parallel dazu erfolgt eine umfassende Analyse der weinbaulichen Wertschöpfungskette in Form einer Internet- und Literaturrecherche. Diese umfasst vorrangig die ökologischen Nachhaltigkeitsaspekte als diejenigen Bestandteile weinbaulicher Tätigkeiten, die sich sowohl positiv als auch negativ auf die Umwelt auswirken können. Anschließend erfolgt die zentrale Priorisierung der identifizieren Handlungsfelder und Nachhaltigkeitsthemen durch die Stakeholder. Zur Visualisierung der bewerteten Handlungsfelder dient das Instrument der Wesentlichkeitsanalyse. Auf dieser Basis erfolgt die Entwicklung eines Handlungsleitfadens zur Erstellung von Nachhaltigkeitsberichten in der Weinwirtschaft. Hiermit erlangen Weingüter die praktische Kompetenz ein eigenes Nachhaltigkeitsreporting anzugehen. Im Rahmen der Arbeit wurde auch ein elektronisches Tool entwickelt, das den Betrieben die Möglichkeit eröffnet, betriebliche Umweltaspekte zu erfassen und zu bewerten. Gleichzeitig wird den Anwendern damit die Generierung eines überbetrieblichen Vergleichs der Umweltleistung ermöglicht (Benchmarking). Eine weitere Forschungsfrage der vorliegenden Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Biodiversitätserfassung und -bewertung für Rebland. Hintergrund sind die bisher nur geringen Funde auf der durch das Bundesamt für Naturschutz festgelegten Kennartenlisten bzw. den HNV-Stichprobenflächen (High nature value farmland-Indikator) für Rebland. Hierzu wurde mittels Geoinformationssystemen das Artenvorkommen in rheinland-pfälzischen Weinanbaugebieten analysiert und 30 Pflanzenarten als Indikatorarten für den Weinbau abgeleitet. Ergänzend wurden weinbergstypische, geschützte Tierarten als „Bonusarten“ identifiziert. Die Indikatorarten werden den Winzern als ein Instrument zur eigenständigen Erfassung der Biodiversität in den Weinbergen dienen und im Rahmen einer Nachhaltigkeitsberichterstattung herangezogen werden können.

Gegeben sei eine Basis b>=10 und eine Ziffer a0 aus der Menge {0,..., b − 1}. Wir untersuchen, ob es unendlich viele Primzahlen gibt, die in ihrer b-adischen Zifferndarstellung die Ziffer a0 nicht besitzen. Ferner schätzen wir die Anzahl dieser Primzahlen, die kleiner sind als X = b^k, nach oben und unten ab. Damit gelingt uns eine Verallgemeinerung von Maynards Beweis für den Fall b = 10 und wir nutzen hierzu auch die in seiner Arbeit verwendeten Werkzeuge. Unter Anderem benötigen wir die Hardy-Littlewoodsche Kreismethode sowie diverse Siebmethoden, um die Minor Arcs zu kontrollieren. Schließlich sehen wir, dass wir Maynard's Aussage vor allem dann auf beliebige Basen b>= 10 und ausgeschlossene Ziffern a0 aus {0, ..., b − 1} übertragen können, wenn zwei betragsmäßig größte Eigenwerte von Matrizen, die von b und a0 parametrisiert werden, bestimmte Abschätzungen erfüllen. Dass diese Abschätzungen im Fall b>=102 erfüllt sind, beweisen wir im letzten Kapitel. Für die Fälle b = 10 und b = 11 liegt ebenfalls ein Mathematica-Code vor, der die Abschätzungen bestätigt.

The dissertation examines the self-concept of Indian religious women in German care institutions. For the analysis, the method of grounded theory was selected from empirical social research. The investigation field interviewed 26 Indian religious women and 5 employers. The theoretical foundations of mission history were the standard of the missionary ministry, the expression of the German and Indian concept of care, the concept of culture in its structural conditionality of dimensions and models with reference to the organization "religious community". The direct relation to the research question was served by the hierarchical self-concept model according to Shalveson and another model by Bracken, which was used to interpret the empirical results. In the five core categories and their subcategories, the main motive was "being a missionary". Indian religious women refer to themselves as "European missionaries" and want to bring the love of Christ to the sick, the needy and the elderly through their care and nursing work. In order for the Indian religious women to be able to work even more optimally in their self-concept in Germany, it is advisable to develop a requirement profile, to consider certain framework conditions in advance and to design new models of life.

Computer modelling of human partial body structures is becoming increasingly important for medical application. This is an interdisciplinary field of research in which new methods can be developed through the cooperation of physics, mathematics, computer visualistics and medicine. These methods can be used to make more precise statements about the mechanical loads of internal force-transmitting structures, such as intervertebral discs, ligaments, joints and muscles, during motion sequences. At the beginning of this work, the importance of the need for research in computer modeling, specialized in the area of the spine, is presented. In the following, the basic anatomical structures will be discussed, including intervertebral discs, ligaments, facet joints and musculature. Algorithms are then developed to create individual lumbar spine models from CT data in a short time and semi-automatically. Methods will be developed to model the presented force transmitting structures of the spine, such as the intervertebral discs, ligaments, facet joints and muscles. In addition different imaging methods (MRT data, x-ray film, x-ray functional images) will be presented and validate the lumbar spine models. Finally, the algorithms developed will be used to create a larger number of individual lumbar spine models, which will then be examined for similarities and differences with regard to internal loads as well as for physiologically correct movement sequences. In particular, the relative momentary center of rotation between two adjacent vertebrae is calculated.

In the present dissertation, the structural interaction between potassium waterglass and aluminium metaphosphates (aluminium tetrametaphosphate and aluminium hexametaphosphate) were investigated in terms of the resettlement behaviour of the metaphosphates as hardening agents. The crystalline phase composition was described qualitatively and quantitatively in terms of powder diffraction patterns combined with Rietveld refinement. The amorphous phase content was determined by different spectroscopic methods (e.g. solid-state NMR, ATR-IR, and Raman spectroscopy). The solubility behaviour of the chemical hardening agents was investigated by optical emission spectroscopy and electron absorption spectroscopy. The mechanical properties of the samples were measured by three-point bending tests, resonance damping frequency analysis, and acid test. The structural framework of the chemically hardened waterglasses was explored by scanning electron microscopy method. It could be proven, that the reaction mechanism of the resettlement is strongly dependent on the structure of the aluminium metaphosphate. After the dissolution of the aluminium ions of aluminium tetrametaphosphate through the alkalic environment of the potassium waterglass, a potassium tetrametaphosphate is developed through an ion-exchange reaction with the waterglass` potassium ions. In the hexametaphosphate system, no analogous structure could be proven. Parallel to the ion-exchange reaction an incremental depolymerization of the cyclic metaphosphate structure to the final crystalline product potassium dihydrogen phosphate occurs. The drop in pH value due to the addition of the respective aluminium metaphosphate initiates a polycondensation of the potassium waterglass due to the decreasing stabilization of the waterglass. This process is increased by the depolymerization products of the metaphosphate, that remove further quantities of the alkali ions, which accelerates the polycondensation reaction due to a further decrease in pH value. The dissolved aluminium ions from the aluminium metaphosphate penetrate into the amorphous, hardening silica network and develops an alumosilicate binder matrix. Furthermore, amorphous hydrated aluminium phosphate phases develop in separate domains beside silicate, alumosilicate phases, and the crystalline phase contents e.g. potassium dihydrogenphosphate and the incomplete reacted aluminium metaphosphate. Consequently, the chemically hardened potassium waterglass binder is not necessarily homogenous. Regarding the mechanical and chemical properties, in summary with increasing alkali modulus the mechanical flexural strength, and the young modulus drop, while the chemical resistance towards acid attack, and the porosity of the samples increase. The change in the cyclic structure from aluminium tetrametaphosphate to aluminium hexametaphosphate leads to a drop in the acid resistance, the porosity of the samples, the flexural strength, and the young modulus.

Previous research revealed that teachers hold beliefs about gifted students combining high intellectual ability with deficits in non-cognitive domains, outlined in the so-called disharmony hypothesis. Since teachers’ beliefs about giftedness can influence which students they identify as gifted, the empirical investigation of beliefs is of great practical relevance. This dissertation comprises three research articles that investigated teacher beliefs about gifted students’ characteristics in samples of pre-service teachers using an experimental vignette approach. Chapter I starts with a general introduction into beliefs, and presents the research aims of the present dissertation. The first article (Chapter II) focused on the interaction of beliefs about giftedness and gender in a sample of Australian pre-service teachers and tested if social desirability occurred when using the vignette design. Beside evidence for beliefs in line with the disharmony hypothesis, results revealed typical gender stereotypes. However, beliefs about giftedness appeared not to be gender specific and thus, to be similar for gifted girls and boys. The vignette approach was found to be an adequate design for assessing teacher beliefs. The second article (Chapter III) investigated teacher beliefs and their relationship to motivational orientations for teaching gifted students in a cross-country sample of German and Australian pre-service teachers. Motivational orientations comprise cognitive components (self-efficacy) and affective components (enthusiasm). Findings revealed beliefs in the sense of the disharmony hypothesis for pre-service teachers from both countries. Giftedness when paired with beliefs about high maladjustment was found to be negatively related to teachers’ self-efficacy for teaching gifted students. The third article (Chapter IV) examined the role of teachers’ belief in a just world for the formation of beliefs using a sample of Belgian pre-service teachers. It was found that the stronger pre-service teachers’ belief in a just world was, the more they perceived gifted students’ high intellectual ability as unfair and thus, neutralized that injustice by de-evaluating students’ non-cognitive abilities. In a general discussion (Chapter V), findings of the three articles are combined and reflected. Taken together, the present dissertation showed that teacher beliefs about gifted students’ characteristics are not gender specific, generalizable over countries, negatively related to teacher motivation and can be driven by fairness beliefs.

Will Eisners Graphic Novels zeugen von einer tiefgehenden Identitifation mit dem Judentum als Volkszugehörigkeit, Religion und Kultur und spiegeln das Judentum in all seinen Facetten wider. Dabei ist besonders hervorzuheben, dass die Entwicklung des Gesamtwerks parallel verläuft zur Geschichte der Emanzipation der jüdischen Bevölkerung in New York City. Der Band clustert die jüdischen Aspekte in Eisners Werk in beispielsweise Faktoren kollektiver Erinnerung, Umgang mit und Kampf gegen Antisemitismus und religiöse Besonderheiten.

Aims and findings of the dissertation The completed research uses holistic, politological and historical approaches to present how, during the studied period of the administrations of Clinton to Obama, the liberal, rule-based world order system is gradually supplemented and replaced by a system of realist imposition of vital interests that have short-term effects, preferring military means combined with continuous military optimisation. This also explains a continuity between the leading-power policy of administrations in this study (1993-2017) and the subsequent period of the “transactional leadership of Trump”(1), with its recognizable, far-reaching effects of aiming to reduce idealistic Grand Strategy elements and measures of a benevolent order by passing on costs to and reducing the benefits of European NATO allies. The results of this dissertation, such as the increasingly evident dissolution of a multilateral fundamental order, therefore indicate that Trump’s foreign and security policy to date should be regarded as a clearly noticeable crisis symptom, rather than the cause of a decline in the world order established after 1945. This decline is synonymous with the erosion of the transatlantically initiated bipolar “American system”. Its implementation was the result of the “lesson of two world wars”, based on modern concepts of order introduced by the Enlightenment and the founding criteria of the United States: thus its dissolution is also an indicator of the failure of contemporary criteria of order that thrive in the “American way of life”. The cause of the described development is shown to be a constantly exacerbating overall threat, from Clinton to Obama, which is connected to the consistent erosion of US supremacy. Among other aspects, this is based on climate change effects postulated in 1979, which multiply the threat while coinciding with American peak production of fossil fuels and increased demand on resources in the context of dwindling raw material resources. Furthermore, during the period of this study, the “US conservative revolution”, which began in the 1980s, increasingly affected foreign and security policy, combining with a consolidation in the influence of corporations and lobby groups in fields such as policy implementation and new underlying conditions. They include the onset of digitisation, entailing a high consumption of resources, and a growing world population faced with specific demographic indicators. Additionally, the maintenance of the armaments sector, originally a result of bipolar development, as the economic basis of military supremacy and the slow decline of the Dollar hegemony since around 1973, should also be taken into account. Complex interaction between Grand Strategy implementation according to the premise of expanding US-American dominance under neoconservative and Christian Right-wing influences, as well as asymmetrical and reactivated conventional security threats and threat multipliers clearly indicate the linear development of the overall threat in the period between 1993 and 2017: in the context of Grand Strategy statements, above all the understanding of defence against this threat, of the latter’s multiplying factors and the market economy explains the following with respect to the US far-right in a complex interaction with the growth of transnational corporations, lobby groups, individuals(2), informal networks and state actors with respect to objects of threat and threat multipliers(3) in connection with the post-bipolar, global anchoring of US economic and consumer patterns: US adaptation of its reaction to this threat – while consolidating imperial presidency(4) and weakening the system of checks and balances – including its implications of a bipolar liberal order. In this way, the necessary continued leadership within NATO through the US-proposed NATO reform can be seen as an appropriate implementation of transformed threat-reaction measures and the legitimisation of systemic adaptation. It equally becomes clear that the established threat reaction measures only provide a short-term defence: instead, they enhance the asymmetric and conventional threat, as well as threat multipliers – by introducing arms races and breaking down arms control – thereby heightening the overall threat. The consequence is the consistently growing likelihood of a conflict of hitherto unimaginable proportions. At the same time, the urgent need to mobilise transatlantic cooperation with respect to supporting global cooperation between state and non-government actors is illustrated with respect to the roots of the threat and its deteriorating underlying conditions: each increase in the overall threat, the adapted US security policy and its continuation in NATO is connected to an erosion of rule-based underlying criteria during the studied period. This continuously and consistently undermines the basis of the above-stated, ever-increasingly important cooperation, to prevent or at least limit the successive erosion of the bipolar “American system” under future dystopias. The research results completely overturn the state of research to date, since for instance it is possible to show that, by means of NATO transformation findings, no transatlantic sharing of burdens on an equal footing and no NATO reform in accordance with its founding principles can be achieved. The same also applies to European opposition to the actual anchoring of NATO transformation positions(5), which is based on the erosion of the bipolar liberal order system and the maintenance of US advantages as well as the consolidation of particular interests they facilitate. Furthermore, it is apparent that a line of continuity in the threat-reaction measures from Clinton to Obama exists with varying external effects, along with an underlying pattern of “Battleship America” – as opposed to a multilaterally orientated foreign and security policy under Clinton, which merged into a unilateral, radical swing under G. W. Bush 43 following 9/11, but was reverted by the Obama administration. A comprehensive wealth of literature was used of the doctoral thesis, as reflected by the extensive bibliography: they firstly include diverse American and European publications, monographs and relevant secondary literature, including biographies, publications of various kinds of important political planning and implementation, as well as collected volumes and research articles from specialist journals on all fields of research and politological methodology and theory. The same applies to publications by leading European and American institutions, research centres and think tanks. Furthermore, this author used publications and documents by governments, foreign ministries, defence ministries, other government bodies and Nato. Dissertation structure This dissertation is divided into two volumes and one Appendix: Volume 1 discusses Focus 1, namely a process-tracing in the context of offensive neorealist positioning. Volume 2 presents Focus 2, which is based on the preceding focus in making a structured, focussed comparison in the context of defensive neorealist positioning. The Appendix volume contains further discussion of Chapter 1, Volume 1 with respect to the state of research, literature and sources, theoretical positioning and the choice of the region of study and selected European NATO partners. Furthermore, a historical chapter provides underlying information for process-tracing in Chapter 2, Volume 1, an index of images and abbreviations, and a bibliography. The entire dissertation uses qualitative methods to focus on these two mutually supporting, building on each other, themes to investigate the following from a US-perspective: firstly the overriding US security-policy reaction to a new overall threat and secondly, its continuation combined with the opportunity of for enabling and legitimising it within and through NATO during the studied period from Clinton to Obama. Based on the first part of this hypothesis, Focus 1 (Volume 1) establishes a connection between, on the one hand, maintaining the bipolar Grand Strategy target of consolidating the USA as a leading, regulating power, bipolar foreign-policy Grand Strategy indicators and a new overall threat that is developing in a complex way, and, on the other, the necessity of its continued leadership within NATO and the required NATO transformation according to US-proposed NATO transformation positions. Focus 2 (Volume 2) is based on the second part of the hypothesis, investigating the transatlantic negotiation process to establish these US-proposed NATO transformation positions: in this context, Volume 2 investigates whether the attempt to actually secure and consolidate such US supremacy was unsuccessful in the face of resistance from selected European NATO partners, namely France, Germany and the United Kingdom. The overall result shows that due to a complex, developing, linear increase in the overall threat, the chance for the USA to consolidate its status as a leading power is steadily diminishing. This must be compensated by adapting US security policy. The resulting American security-policy realignment based on the initiated “revolution in military affairs” in turn modifies the indicators of bipolar collective security guarantees. Everything is enabled and legitimised by means of actually securing US NATO-transformation positions. The actual implementation of such NATO transformation – representing the consistent adaptation of US security policy – enables a mission-orientated, rapid response, flexible, global security projection. It also creates conditions for “alliances of choice” within NATO. Furthermore, the modification of a “bipolar NATO” exacerbates the erosion of key achievements of civilisation as a result of adapted US security policy, as well as undermining the tasks of bipolar collective security guarantees through diminished benefits to European NATO partners. The actual anchoring of NATO transformation positions is achieved by reactivating the conventional threat in the context of the Ukraine crisis of 2014 and the extension of NATO partnership rings on a global level, without providing them with NATO membership status, thus avoiding globalisation in a mutual defence case. The German and French resistance is particularly intensive through the involvement of European founder states, while the formation of a European leadership triumvirate consisting of France, Germany and the United Kingdom does not take place. Moreover, a relevant investigation of causes particularly shows that despite constant mutually supporting US security reaction measures with varying international effects and actual continued leadership within NATO, the overall threat is not receding: this leads to a constant increase in the overall threat, a loss of influence of state actors, the diffusion and concentration of power and the increased probability of reactive conventional, nuclear, cyber and ecological destruction scenarios. On this basis, the consequence is an increasingly comprehensive and rapidly responding precision defence combined with growing securitization to compensate for the ongoing containment of US supremacy. This developing process steadily diminishes the reach and power of a liberal, rule-based, bipolar “American system” and the establishment of “idealistic, liberal” elements of US-Grand Strategy. This entails a further reduction in benefits for European NATO allies and increasing US cost-cutting demands – based on the successive NATO transformation positions that build on each other and Obama’s “smart power”(6) during the period studied in this dissertation. Thus the chance is receding of developing the post-bipolar, globally adopted American way of life with individual national character, which is regarded as “non-negotiable”: for instance its articulation is expressed through increasing right-wing populism, the election of outsider-candidates, the dissolution of traditional party systems, isolationist tendencies combined with burgeoning ethnic, regional movements, the rejection of supranationalism, and religious fundamentalism. At the same time, the ongoing erosion of global public goods is apparent. This all paves the way to limiting the benevolent American regulating power and state actors’ leverage – and therefore to a return to classic power politics in the context of a resulting diffusion and concentration of power. In view of the urgency of a long-term containment of asymmetrical or conventional threats to security, or aspects that exacerbate such threats or clusters thereof, as well as underlying global conditions, this undermines the ability to achieve the following: to achieve transatlantic cooperation by broadening the range of levels and actors in the spirit of proactive and expanded, networked security to achieve according global cooperation with respect to containing the root causes of threats. Overall, this research work reveals how and why the anticipated “peace dividend” and the notion of an “age of hope”, as postulated by President Clinton, were hardly perceptible during the period of study between 1993 and 2017. Notes (1) Cf. Braml, Josef (2018), Trumps transaktionaler Transatlantizismus, in: Jäger, Thomas (Hrsg.), Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, Oktober 2018, Volume 11, Ausgabe 4, S. 439-448, Wiesbaden. (2) Cf. National Intelligence Council (Ed.) (2012), Global Trends 2013: Alternative Worlds (NIC 2012-001), https://publicintelligence.net/global-trends-2030/, last accessed: 12.04.19. See also the “international financial leadership, self-selected at Davos” cit. McCoy, Alfred W. (2017), In the Shadows of the American Century. The Rise and Decline of US Global Power, Chicago. (3) In 1990, the threat-enhancing nature of climate change was already postulated with respect to asymmetric objects of threat as well as conventional and complex clusters: “Over the next half century, the global average temperature may increase by approximately 4 degrees C. (…) All nations will be affected. (…) How much time will there be to confirm the amount of change and then to act? (…) However, many believe that we will have waited too long to avoid major dislocation, hardship and conflict – on a scale not as yet seen by man“. Cf. Kelley, Terry P. (1990), Global Climate Change. Implications For The United States Navy (The United States Naval War College, Newport, RI), http://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/weather/climatechange/globalclimatechange-navy.pdf, last accessed: 30.03.19. Cf. Mazo, Jeffrey (2010), Climate Conflict. How global warming threatens security and what to do about it, London, Abingdon. This supports the thesis of a developing, constant overall threat during the period between 1993 and 2017. (4) Cf. Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. (1973), The Imperial Presidency, Boston. (5) In this dissertation, the proposed US positions on NATO adaptation, the NATO Response Force and the Global Partnership Initiative are described as “NATO transformation positions”: Their actual establishment was connected to a NATO transformation with the consistent continuation of adapted US security policy. (6) Cf. Nossel, Suzanne (2004), Smart Power. Reclaiming Liberal Internationalism, http://www.democracyarsenal.org/SmartPowerFA.pdf, last accessed: 26.08.17, Nye, Joseph S. Jr. (2011), The Future of Power, New York, Nye, Joseph S. Jr. (2011), Macht im 21sten Jahrhundert. Politische Strategien für ein neues Zeitalter, München, Rodham Clinton, Hillary (2010), Leading Through Civilan Power. Redefining American Diplomacy and Development, in: Foreign Affairs, November/December 2010, Vol. 89, No.6, S. 13-24.

Student misbehavior and its treatment is a major challenge for teachers and a threat to their well-being. Indeed, teachers are obliged to punish student misbehavior on a regular basis. Additionally, teachers’ punishment decisions are among the most frequently reported situations when it comes to students’ experiences of injustice in school. By implication, it is crucial to understand teachers’ treatment of student misbehavior vis-à-vis students’ perceptions. One key dimension of punishment behavior reflects its underlying motivation and goals. People generally intend to achieve three goals when punishing misbehavior, namely, retribution (i.e., evening out the harm caused), special prevention (i.e., preventing recidivism of the offender), and general prevention (i.e., preventing imitation of others). Importantly, people’s support of these punishment goals is subject to hierarchy and power, implying that teachers’ and students’ punishment goal preferences differ. In this dissertation, I present three research projects that shed first light on teachers’ punishment and its goals along with the students’ perception of classroom intervention strategies pursuing these goals. More specifically, I first examined students’ (i.e., children’s) general support of each of the three punishment goals sketched above. Furthermore, I applied an attributional approach to understand and study the goals teachers intend to achieve when punishing student misbehavior. Finally, I investigated teachers’ and students’ support of the punishment goals regarding the same student misbehavior to directly compare their views on these goals and reactions pursuing them. In sum, the findings show that students generally prefer retribution and special prevention to general prevention, whereas teachers prefer general prevention and special prevention to retribution. This ultimately translates into a "mismatch" of teachers and students in their preferences for specific punishment goals, and the findings suggest that this may indeed enhance students’ perception of injustice. Overall, the results of the present research program may be valuable for the development of classroom intervention strategies that may reduce rather than enhance conflicts in student-teacher-interactions.

This PhD thesis with the title "Engineering Criminal Agents" demonstrates the interplay of three different research fields captured in the title: In the centre are Engineering and Simulation, both set in relation with the application field of Criminology - and the social science aspect of the latter. More precisely, this work intends to show how specific agent-based simulation models can be created using common methods from software engineering. Agent-based simulation has proven to be a valuable method for social science since decades, and the trend to increasingly complex simulation models is apparent, not at least due to advancing computational and simulation techniques. An important cause of complexity is the inclusion of 'evidence' as basis of simulation models. Evidence can be provided by various stakeholders, reflecting their different viewpoints on the topic to model. This poses a particular burden by interrelating the two relevant perspectives on the topic of simulation: on the one hand the user of the simulation model who provides the requirements and is interested in the simulation results, on the other hand the developer of the simulation model who has to program a verified and validated formal model. In order to methodically link these two perspectives, substantial efforts in research and development are needed, where this PhD thesis aims to make a contribution. The practical results - in terms of software - were achieved by using the multi-faceted approach mentioned above: using methods from software engineering, in order to become able to apply methods from computational social sciences, in order to gain insights into social systems, such as in the internal dynamics of criminal networks. The PhD thesis shows the research involved to create these practical results, and gives technical details and specifications of the developed software. The frame for research and development to achieve these results was provided mainly by two research projects: OCOPOMO and GLODERS.

Plasma membranes are essential for life because they give cells an identity. Plasma membranes are almost impermeable to fluids and substances. Still, transport between inside and outside needs to be possible. An important transport way is endocytosis. This mechanism relies on membrane-associated proteins that sense and induce curvature to the plasma membrane. However, the physics and structural dynamics behind proteins acting on membranes is not well understood. There is a standard method in vitro to investigate membrane-associated proteins sensing spherical geometries: They are incubated on unilamellar vesicles. This procedure allows to analyze these proteins in their bound state. This approach is inappropriate for GRAF1 (GTPase Regulator Associated with Focal Adhesion Kinase-1), a key player in endocytosis because it senses tubular geometries instead. However, GRAF1 extrudes lipid tubes from vesicles that can be analyzed. Still, this is a limited method because these tubes suffer from inhomogeneity and they do not enable the observation of intermediate and lower concentration binding states. To overcome this issue they can be incubated on pre-tubular structures called nanotemplates. There have been studies using carbon nanotubes and Galactosylceramide lipid tubes as nanotemplates. These approaches require complex chemical modifications or expensive components and they are not necessarily flexible. In this work we present a simple and easy new approach to prepare nanotemplates using Folch lipid mixture. We show on the basis of BPG, a truncate of GRAF1, that our nanotemplates are suitable for Cryo-EM and that it is possible to use IHRSR (Iterative Helical Real Space Reconstruction) to analyze the structure of BPG in its bound state. Moreover, the qualification for Cryo-EM allows to use plunge freezing to interrupt the incubation on our nanotemplates abruptly. This enables the analysis of intermediate binding states to understand the binding process.

Lakes and reservoirs are important sources of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Although freshwaters cover only a small fraction of the global surface, their contribution to global methane emission is significant and this is expected to increase, as a positive feedback to climate warming and exacerbated eutrophication. Yet, global estimates of methane emission from freshwaters are often based on point measurements that are spatio-temporally biased. To better constrain the uncertainties in quantifying methane fluxes from inland waters, a closer examination of the processes transporting methane from sediment to atmosphere is necessary. Among these processes, ebullition (bubbling) is an important transport pathway and is a primary source of uncertainty in quantifying methane emissions from freshwaters. This thesis aims to improve our understanding of ebullition in freshwaters by studying the processes of methane bubble formation, storage and release in aquatic sediments. The laboratory experiments demonstrate that aquatic sediments can store up to ~20% (volumetric content) gas and the storage capacity varies with sediment properties. The methane produced is stored as gas bubbles in sediment with minimal ebullition until the storage capacity is reached. Once the sediment void spaces are created by gas bubble formation, they are stable and available for future bubble storage and transport. Controlled water level drawdown experiments showed that the amounts of gas released from the sediment scaled with the total volume of sediment gas storage and correlated linearly to the drop in hydrostatic pressure. It was hypothesized that not only the timing of ebullition is controlled by sediment gas storage, but also the spatial distribution of ebullition. A newly developed freeze corer, capable of characterizing sediment gas content under in situ environments, enabled the possibility to test the hypothesis in a large subtropical lake (Lake Kinneret, Israel). The results showed that gas content was variable both vertically and horizontally in the lake sediment. Sediment methane production rate and sediment characteristics could explain these variabilities. The spatial distribution of ebullition generally was in a good agreement with the horizontal distribution of depth-averaged (surface 1 m) sediment gas content. While discrepancies were found between sediment depth-integrated methane production and the snapshot ebullition rate, they were consistent in a long term (multiyear average). These findings provide a solid basis for the future development of a process-based ebullition model. By coupling a sediment transport model with a sediment diagenetic model, general patterns of ebullition hotspots can be predicted at a system level and the uncertainties in ebullition flux measurements can be better constrained both on long-term (months to years) and short-term (minutes to hours) scales.

Within the framework of a participatory action research approach, teachers and their students were accompanied scientifically with a focus on Montessori pedagogy and music in an upper secondary grammar school for three years (from 2012-2015). Based on attitude- and self-efficacy-theories, inclusive instruction as well as agent-based research, the aim was to examine the implementation of an inclusive learning - and school-culture at this grammar school – an institution which is part of the highly selective education system at secondary II level in Austria. It has been possible to reconstruct the understanding of teachers concerning inclusion and conceptions of man as well as their selfefficacy of competences to teach in an inclusive environment by means of qualitative and quantitative data. To examine attitudes and selfefficacy of teacher competences, international and national tested scales SACIE-R (Sentiments, Attitudes and Concerns about Inclusive Education-Revised) and TEIP (Teacher Efficacy for Inclusive Practice) were used in a German version. Furthermore, the empirical survey was extended by a webbased national questionnaire for teachers in different types of schools, from primary to secondary level (n= 427) to allow comparative analysis. Interviews, which were evaluated content-analytically and ques-tionnaires for parents (n=37) and students (n=19) offered an indepth insight into everyday educational practice from different perspectives. The synopsis of the result shows, that it was possible for a rather young team of teachers with very positive attitudes towards inclusion, to implement a supportive and vivid learning - and school culture. Nevertheless, the efforts of the teachers did not exceed the system limits. The development towards a ‘school for all’, a logical consequence of theoretical approaches concerning inclusion, was not discovered. The current research is verifying the corefindings of inclusive - and agent-based research. Further findings can be related to the selective structures of the education system in secondary II.

Im Fokus der Arbeit steht die Frage des Kompetenzzuwachses in und durch außerunterrichtliche Sport- und Bewegungsangebote an rheinland pfälzischen Ganztagsschulen, die von Trainerinnen und Trainern angeboten und durchgeführt werden. Um dieser Fragestellung nachzugehen, wurden zunächst Schul- und Unterrichtsqualitätsmodelle auf das außerunterrichtlichen Sport- und Bewegungsangebot übertragen, um das zu untersuchende Setting im Kontext der rheinland-pfälzischen Ganztagsschullandschaft zu verorten und mögliche Einflussfaktoren und Wechselwirkungen vor dem Hintergrund des Kompetenzzuwachses der Teilnehmerinnen und -nehmer aufzuzeigen. Dem nachgestellt wurden während der Darlegung theoretischer Vorüberlegungen, wie z.B. Aspekte zum außerschulischen Bildungsverständnis und Sport und Bewegung in den Erziehungswissenschaften, Kategorien und Kriterien ermittelt, deren Nachweis den Kompetenzzuwachs der Schülerinnen und Schüler stark vermuten lassen. Die Untersuchungsleitlinie dieser Arbeit wurde ein qualitatives Forschungsdesign eingebunden. Die herangezogene Forschungsstrategie bildet eine vergleichende Fallanalyse. Als Erhebungsmethode dient das Experteninterview; ein problemorientiertes Interview im Übungsleiterinnen und -leitern, die für die Planung und Durchführung der in rheinland-pfälzischen Ganztagsschulen implementierten Sport- und Bewegungsangebote verantwortlich zeichnen. Die Auswertung erfolgte über eine modifizierte Form der qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse. In der Summe konnte aufgezeigt werden, dass es sich bei den untersuchten Sport- und Bewegungsangeboten um hochwertige Settings handelt, in denen Kriterien und hypothetische Annahmen aus den Schul- und Unterrichtsqualitätsmodellen aufgezeigt werden konnten und somit günstige Voraussetzungen –die aktive Teilnahme vorausgesetzt– für den Kompetenzerwerb der Schülerinnen und Schüler an Ganztagsschulen vorliegen.

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.

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.

The concept of hard and soft news (HSN) is regarded as one of the most important concepts in journalism research. Despites this popularity, two major research voids can be assigned to the concept. First, it lacks conceptual clarity: the concept gets used interchangeably with related concepts such as sensationalism, which has led to fuzzy demarcations of HSN. Also, it is still not agreed on of which dimensions the concept in composed. Second, little is known about the factors that influence the production of news in terms of their hard or soft nature. The present disserta-tion casts a twofold glance on the HSN concept – it aims to assess the conceptual status of the concept and production of hard and soft news. At the outset, this dissertation delineates the theoretical base for three manuscripts in total and presented considerations on concepts in social sciences in general and hard and soft news in particular as well as the production of news, particularly of hard and soft news. The first paper proposed a theoretical frame-work model to distinguish HSN and related concepts. Based on a literature review of in total five concepts, this model suggested a hierarchy in which these concepts can be discerned according to their occurrence in media content. The second pa-per focused on the inner coherence of the HSN concept in its most recent academ-ic understanding. The results of a factorial survey with German newspaper jour-nalists showed that, indeed, four out of five dimensions of the HSN concept com-prised what the journalists understood by it. Hence, the most recent academic un-derstanding is to a great extent coherent. The third study shed light on the produc-tion of HSN, focusing on the influence of individual journalists’ and audience’s characteristics on whether news was presented in hard or soft way. The findings of a survey with simulated decision scenarios among German print journalists showed that the HSN dimensions were susceptible to different journalistic influ-ences and that a perceived politically uninterested audience led to a softer cover-age. The dissertation concluded with connecting these findings with the considera-tions on concept evaluation and the production of news. Implications for research on and with the concept of HSN were presented, before concluding with limitations and suggestions for future research.

Different techniques (weight loss, electrochemical, and spray corrosion measurements) have been used to evaluate four sarcosine derivatives to inhibit corrosion and one commercial compound as synergist. The basic metal was low carbon steel CR4 tested at different conditions. As working media mainly neutral water and 0.1 M NaCl was applied. The protective film was formed on the steel surface via direct absorption of the tested substances during the immersion process. A highly improved corrosion protection with direct correlation to the molecular weight and carbon chain length of the tested compounds was detected. The protection of steel CR4 against corrosion in 0.1 M NaCl enhanced with increasing concentration of selected sarcosine compounds. The best inhibitor throughout all tested concentrations and all evaluation systems was Oleoylsarcosine (O) with efficiencies up to 97 % in potentiodynamic polarization (PP), 83 % electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), and 85 % weight loss (WL) at 100 mmol/L as highest concentration tested here. The second best inhibitor was Myristoylsarcosine (M) with efficiencies up to 82 % in PP, 69 % in EIS, and 75 % in WL at highest concentration. The inhibitor with the shortest hydrocarbon chain in this series is Lauroylsarcosine (L). It showed lowest effects to inhibit corrosion compared to O and M. The efficiencies of L were a bit more than 50 % at 75 and 100 mmol/L and less than 50 % at 25 and 50 mmol/L in all used evaluation systems. Furthermore, the overall efficiency is promoted with longer dip coating times during the steel CR4 immersion as shown for 50 mmol/L for all present derivatives. This survey indicated 10 min as best time in respect of cost and protection efficiency. The commercial inhibitor Oley-Imidazole (OI) improved significantly the effectiveness of compound Cocoylsarcosine (C), which contains the naturally mixture of carbon chain lengths from coconut oil (C8 - C18), and enhanced protection when used in combination (C+OI, 1:1 molar ration). In this system the efficiency increased from 47 % to 91 % in PP, from 40 % to 84 % in EIS, and from 45 % to 82 % in WL at highest concentration. Spray corrosion tests were used to evaluate all present sarcosine substances on steel CR4 in a more realistic system. The best inhibitor after a 24 h test was O followed by the combination C+OI and M with efficiencies up to 99 %, 80 %, and 79 %, respectively. The obtained results indicate a good stability of the protective film formed by the present inhibitors even after 24 h. All evaluation systems used in the current investigation were in good agreement and resulted in the same inhibitor sequence. Furthermore, the adsorption process of the tested compounds is assumed to follow the Langmuir type isotherm. Response surface methodology (RSM) is an optimization method depending on Box- Behnken Design (BBD). It was used in the current system to find the optimum efficiency for inhibitor O to protect steel CR4 against corrosion in salt water. Four independent variables were used here: inhibitor concentration (A), dip coating time (B), temperature (C), and NaCl concentration (D); each with three respective levels: lower (-1), mid (0), and upper (+1). According to the present result, temperature has the greatest effect on the protection process as individual parameter followed by the inhibitor concentration itself. In this investigation an optimum efficiency of 99 % is calculated by the following parameter and level combination: upper level (+1) for inhibitor concentration, dip coating time, and NaCl concentration while lower level (-1) for temperature.

The PhD thesis offers a long-term investigation of German TV debates with regard to the extent to which the topics dealt with in the debates correspond to the political problems perceived by the voters and whether the actor-specific topics discussed in the TV debates have an influence on the voters' perception of the problems and the perceived responsiveness of the political actors. To this purpose, contents and effects of the Chancellor debates 2002-2013 and the TV debates between 1997 and 2016 are examined at the state level. The empirical investigation is based on an implementation and evaluation of content analyses, the evaluation of opinion polls and the investigation of experimental data on the occasion of the chancellor duels in 2002, 2009 and 2013. The analyses show that TV debates are not only show events, but that the focus of TV debates is on political content (rather than entertaining elements), that the (camp-specific) responsiveness of the format has increased over time, and that successful persuasion - as one of two theme management strategies - by challengers in particular can lead viewers to better assess the effectiveness of the political system.

Die vorliegende Arbeit verfolgt das Erkenntnisinteresse, die Hindernisse auf der Ebene der kulturellen Muster und Wertvorstellungen zu ermitteln, die der Implementierung eines dualen Ausbildungssystems nach bundesdeutschem Vorbild in den USA entgegenwirken. Es wird ein Einblick in die historische und systematische Verwobenheit von gesellschaftlichen Teilstrukturen gegeben und verdeutlicht, warum solche Teilstrukturen nicht ohne Weiteres in andere gesellschaftliche Kontexte übertragen werden können. Nach einer begrifflichen und theoretischen Grundlegung von deutschen und US-amerikanischen Formen betrieblicher Ausbildung werden die beiden Systeme miteinander verglichen, um signifikante Unterschiede zu identifizieren und dabei erste Anhaltspunkte für vorhandene Inkompatibilitäten auf der strukturellen Ebene zu erhalten. Hierbei steht die Frage im Vordergrund, inwieweit die dominanten und dauerhaften Charakteristika und Komponenten des deutschen Ausbildungsmodells im US-amerikanischen System wiedergefunden werden können. Durch die Einnahme einer kulturalistischen Perspektive werden die kulturspezifischen Werte und Praktiken Deutschlands und der USA erarbeitet, um die Kulturgebundenheit der Struktur, Organisation und Rahmenbedingungen von dualen Berufsausbildungen zu verdeutlichen. Hierfür wird eine Kombination aus einem etischen und einem emischen Vorgehen angewandt und die ermittelten Daten in Form einer kontrastierenden Darstellung aufbereitet, aus der die prägnantesten Kulturunterschiede hervorgehen. Mit Hilfe der erlangten Erkenntnisse werden Ansätze für ein System der dualen Berufsausbildung in den USA entwickelt, das die Implikationen aus dem Kulturvergleich aufgreift und so die für das deutsche System charakteristischen Merkmale unter Berücksichtigung der spezifischen kulturellen Muster adaptiert.

Tradierte Managementsysteme und primär auf die Erfüllung finanzieller Ziele ausgerichtete Führungsansätze scheinen heute der wirtschaftlichen Dynamik nicht mehr gewachsen. Die Zahl ausgebrannter Führungskräfte und Mitarbeiter nimmt zu. Ebenso der volkswirtschaftliche Schaden durch schlechte Führungsleistung. Zwar beeinflussen externe Faktoren wie globaler Wettbewerb, aufkeimende Handelskriege, die Digitalisierung in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft die Rahmensetzungen für Unternehmen. Die Entscheidung über Erfolg oder Misserfolg verlagert sich aber signifikant nach Innen. Diese Arbeit zeigt auf, dass Wissenschaftler und erfolgreiche CEOs einen Paradigmenwechsel fordern, da sie Kommunikationsbereitschaft und Kommunikationsfähigkeit als die relevanten Erfolgsfaktoren identifizieren. Unterstützend bestätigen interdisziplinäre Erkenntnisse und Forschungsergebnisse anderer Disziplinen – speziell der Neurowissenschaften, die Wirksamkeit einer Kommunikationskultur, die alle Sinne des Menschen aktiviert. Das Phänomen der Kommunikation ganzheitlich zu verstehen und mittels dialogbasiertem Management umzusetzen, wird zum neuen Erfolgsschlüssel und wirkt sich auf alle unternehmerischen Prozesse, Führungs- und Interaktionssituationen aus. Unabhängig von Betriebsgröße und Branche. Die durch Dialog in Gang gesetzte positive reziproke Eskalation führt dazu, dass Kollegen/Mitarbeiter ihr Können und ihr Engagement in viel höherem Maße freiwillig zur Verfügung stellen, als es z.B. finanzielle Anreizsysteme je bewirken können. Die Empirie dieser Forschungsarbeit spiegelt das Wissen der 22 hoch erfolgreichen österreichischen CEOs, Führungskräfte und Firmeneigentümer über Interne Kommunikation und deren Annäherung an diese Führungsaufgabe wider. In der Folge sind Leit-Ideen das vernetzte Ergebnis der theoretischen und empirischen Analysen. Diese daraus destillierten Leit-Ideen stehen für einen radikal dialogbasierten Kommunikationsansatz, der sämtliche Management-, Geschäfts- und Unterstützungsprozesse determiniert. Verstehen CEOs und Führungskräften eine dialogbasierte Interne Kommunikation als eindeutig ihnen zufallende Führungsaufgabe, kann heute und in Zukunft die Querschnittsmaterie Interne Kommunikation zum größten Ressourcen-Pool für unternehmerischen Erfolg werden, so die diesbezüglichen Schlussfolgerungen.

Die vorliegende Arbeit geht der Frage nach, wie sich Teilhabe und Inklusion von Menschen mit Lernschwierigkeiten in der allgemeinem Erwachsenenbildung realisieren lassen und was wesentliche Elemente und Rahmenbedingungen einer inklusiven Erwachsenenbildung mit Menschen mit Lernschwierigkeiten sind. Menschen mit Lernschwierigkeiten haben ein gesetzlich verankertes Recht auf Teilhabe an inklusiver Erwachsenenbildung. Inklusive Erwachsenenbildung bezeichnet gemäß der UN-BRK die Teilnahme und Partizipation auch von Menschen mit Lernschwierigkeiten an allgemeiner Erwachsenenbildung, im Vordergrund steht das gemeinsame Lernen im regulären Programm allgemeiner Erwachsenenbildungseinrichtungen. In der Aufarbeitung des theoretischen Diskurses und der praktischen Realisierung inklusiver Erwachsenenbildung zeigt sich allerdings, dass das Erwachsenenbildungsangebot für diese Personengruppe und die Möglichkeiten der Teilhabe am allgemeinen Erwachsenenbildungssystem in Deutschland eingeschränkt sind. Umfassende Praxismodelle inklusiver Erwachsenenbildung sind erst in Ansätzen vorhanden, auch die Rahmenbedingungen gelingender inklusiver Erwachsenenbildung wurden kaum systematisch aufgearbeitet. Somit gilt es, für den Bereich der Erwachsenenbildung Konzepte zu entwickeln, die den Abbau von Barrieren und die Förderung von gleichberechtigter Teilhabe und Inklusion unterstützen. Es ist davon auszugehen, dass die Kenntnis von wesentlichen Elementen und Rahmenbedingungen allgemeine Erwachsenenbildungseinrichtungen bei der Implementierung und Weiterentwicklung inklusiv gestalteter Erwachsenenbildung unterstützen und somit die Teilhabemöglichkeiten für Menschen mit Lernschwierigkeiten gezielt erweitern kann. Ziel dieser Arbeit ist deshalb die Erhebung und Beschreibung von wesentlichen Elementen und Rahmenbedingungen inklusiver Erwachsenenbildung. Da es in Deutschland an Erfahrungswerten sowie der systematischen Ausarbeitung notwendiger Realisierungsbedingungen inklusiver Erwachsenenbildung mangelt, richtet die vorliegende Arbeit ihren Blick in einem zweiten Schritt auf die ‚Inspiring Practice’ anderer Länder. In einer empirischen qualitativ- explorativen Studie in elf Erwachsenenbildungseinrichtungen und -institutionen Englands werden mit Hilfe von 55 Leitfadeninterviews wesentliche Elemente und Rahmenbedingungen aus Sicht der beteiligten Akteure erhoben und ausgewertet. Flankiert durch teilnehmende Beobachtungen, Dokumentenanalysen und Gespräche liefern die Ergebnisse zugleich einen Einblick in die praktische Umsetzung inklusiver Erwachsenenbildung in England. Die Wahl fiel auf England, weil in diesem europäischen Land inklusive Erwachsenenbildung bereits seit den 1990er Jahren als fester Bestandteil des Bildungssystems verankert ist und umfängliche Erfahrungen gesammelt werden konnten. Aus der Analyse dieser Erfahrungswerte werden in der Diskussion und Zusammenschau mit theoretischen Überlegungen und praktischen Umsetzungen richtungsweisende Impulse für die Weiterentwicklung der inklusiven Erwachsenenbildung in Deutschland abgeleitet und in einem Perspektivkonzept einer inklusiven Erwachsenenbildung zusammengefasst.

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.

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.

Während es eine Vielzahl von Arbeiten zu der technologischen Entwicklung im Bereich der erneuerbaren Energien gibt, fehlt es jedoch bislang an einer mikroökonomischen Analyse der Verhaltensmuster der Akteure im Umfeld von Anlagen nach dem EEG. Als Akteure kommen hier in erster Linie der Anlagenbetreiber selbst und der Staat in Betracht. Im Hinblick auf Anlagenbetrieb und Vergütung der erzeugten Energie können beide mit unterschiedlichsten Interessen und Nutzenkalkülen aufeinander treffen. Diese Arbeit untersucht mikroökonomische Aspekte des EEG-Förderungssystems. Im Mittelpunkt der Betrachtung stehen die Förderungsmechanismen für Biogasanlagen, die im Hinblick auf mögliche Prinzipal-Agenten-Konflikte einer Untersuchung unterzogen werden.

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.

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.

Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit war die Beantwortung folgender Fragestellungen: 1. Wie wirksam ist ein evidenzbasiertes Expositionsmanuals bei Panikstörung mit Agoraphobie in der Routineversorgung? 2. Was sind mögliche Barrieren und Hindernisse bei der Umsetzung der Exposition? 3. Was sind Prädiktoren früher Veränderungen im Therapieverlauf? Methode: Im Rahmen einer prospektiven Längsschnittstudie wurden die Daten der vorliegenden Studie mit denen der Multicenter-Studie von Gloster et al. (2011) mittels Effektstärken und Testung auf Äquivalenz verglichen. Grundlage war das Manual von Lang, Helbig-Lang, Westphal, Gloster und Wittchen (2011). Die Patientinnen und Patienten und Therapeutinnen und Therapeuten wurden zu den Hausaufgaben, der Umsetzung im Alltag und der therapeutischen Beziehung befragt. Zusätzlich wurde die wechselseitige Beeinflussung von therapeutischer Allianz und dem Behandlungserfolg im Therapieverlauf untersucht. In Anlehnung an Westra, Marcus und Dozois (2007) wurde getestet, ob bei es Patientinnen und Patienten mit einer hohen Hausaufgaben-Compliance und einer positiven Behandlungserwartung vor Beginn der Therapie zu einer frühen Reduktion der Panik-Symptomatik kommt und ob frühe Veränderungen durch die Compliance und die Behandlungserwartung beeinflusst werden. Ergebnisse: 1. Die Behandlung war in der Versorgungspraxis nicht weniger effektiv als in der Multicenter-Studie. 2. Die Abbrecherquote lag bei 20.59%. Die meisten Behandelten gaben an, ihre Hausaufgaben wie besprochen erledigt zu haben und schätzten sie nicht übermäßig schwer ein. Die Umsetzbarkeit der Anforderungen im Alltag wurde von den Patientinnen und Patienten sehr hoch eingeschätzt. Die meisten Therapeutinnen und Therapeuten stimmten der Aussage, die Umsetzung der massierten Exposition sei im therapeutischen Alltag nicht praktikabel eher nicht oder gar nicht zu. Je negativer die Einschätzungen der therapeutischen Beziehung durch die Behandelten war, umso höher waren die Panikwerte am Ende der Therapie. Der HAQ-S korrelierte mit dem Outcome zu r = .21, der HAQ-F zu r = .37. 3. Die beiden Mediator-Hypothesen von Westra et al. (2007) konnten nicht bestätigt werden. Diskussion: Die Behandlung ist in der Routineversorgung wirksam und praktikabel. Die Hausaufgaben scheinen frühe Veränderungen nicht zu prädizieren. In späteren Arbeiten des Forschungsprojektes wird notwendig sein, zudem die differentielle Wirksamkeit des angepassten Manuals zu untersuchen, und zwar mittels drei aktiver Vergleichsgruppen: massierte Exposition versus prolongierte Exposition versus die Kombination beider.

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.

Homonegative discrimination such as the denial of leadership qualities and higher salaries concern not only lesbians and gay men but also individuals who were perceived as lesbian or gay (Fasoli et al., 2017). Hence, it is assumed that especially straight people become victims of homonegative discrimination (Plöderl, 2014). The perception of sexual orientation is indeed stereotype-driven (e.g., Cox et al., 2015) but there is a lack of knowledge on how accurate stereotypes are – particularly those referring to speech. Despite a variety of sociophonetic and social psychological research related to sexual orientation and gender, an encompassing understanding is missing on how sexual orientation is expressed and perceived. The present thesis aims to fill these gaps. The two major aims of the present work are a) the examination of the accuracy of speech stereotypes in the context of sexual orientation and b) the development of a model on how sexual orientation is interpersonally construed. Overall, the present thesis comprises five manuscripts with the following aspects in common: They integratively deal with social psychological and sociophonetic perspectives, share a social identity approach, and primarily center speech instead of facial appearance. Moreover, mostly German and German native speaking participants, respectively, have been investigated. Manuscript 1 establishes the Traditional Masculinity/Femininity-Scale as a reliable and valid instrument for assessing gender-role self-concept. The invention was necessary because existing scales insufficiently represented the self-ascribed masculinity/femininity yet (e.g., Abele, 2003; Evers & Sieverding, 2014). Manuscripts 2, 3, and 4 address the (in)accuracy of speech stereotypes regarding stereotypic content and suggested within-group homogeneity. This is carried out by the application of different methodological approaches. On the one hand, relevant acoustic parameters of lesbian/gay and straight women and men were averaged for each group. On the other hand, voice morphing was applied in order to create prototypical and naturally sounding voice averages (Kawahara et al., 2008). Lesbians and straight women differed in none, gay and straight men in one of the analyzed acoustic parameters only. In contrast, a fine-grained psychological analysis yielded various evidence for acoustic within-group heterogeneity. In particular, the exclusivity of sexual orientation and gender-role self-concept have been acoustically indexicalized which suggests that speech stereotypes are inaccurate. However, voice averages do carry perceivable sexual orientation information. Hence, speech stereotypes can be considered as exaggerations of tiny kernels of truth. In Manuscript 5, previous literature on the interpersonal construction of sexual orientation is integrated in a model: The Expression and Perception of Sexual Orientation Model (EPSOM). This model postulates an indirect route and describes how sexual orientation information is transmitted from producer to perceiver by proposing three mediating components. Thereby, the model is able to offer an explanation why sexual orientation can be perceived with above-chance but far-away-from-perfect accuracy. Overall, the present thesis provides meaningful impulses for enhancements of research on social markers of sexual orientation and gender. This thesis offers a model on how sexual orientation is expressed and perceived, shows the benefits of combining sociophonetic and social psychological approaches, and points out the value of applying novel methods and technologies. Beyond that, the present thesis offers useful implications for practice. Speech stereotypes in the context of sexual orientation can be rejected as inaccurate – for example, native German straight men do not nasalize more or less than gay men. Thereby, the present thesis contributes to an erosion of stereotypes and a potential reduction of homonegative discrimination.

Die Forschung im Bereich der modellbasierten Objekterkennung und Objektlokalisierung hat eine vielversprechende Zukunft, insbesondere die Gebäudeerkennung bietet vielfaltige Anwendungsmöglichkeiten. Die Bestimmung der Position und der Orientierung des Beobachters relativ zu einem Gebäude ist ein zentraler Bestandteil der Gebäudeerkennung. Kern dieser Arbeit ist es, ein System zur modellbasierten Poseschätzung zu entwickeln, das unabhängig von der Anwendungsdomäne agiert. Als Anwendungsdomäne wird die modellbasierte Poseschätzung bei Gebäudeaufnahmen gewählt. Vorbereitend für die Poseschätzung bei Gebäudeaufnahmen wird die modellbasierte Erkennung von Dominosteinen und Pokerkarten realisiert. Eine anwendungsunabhängige Kontrollstrategie interpretiert anwendungsspezifische Modelle, um diese im Bild sowohl zu lokalisieren als auch die Pose mit Hilfe dieser Modelle zu bestimmen. Es wird explizit repräsentiertes Modellwissen verwendet, sodass Modellbestandteilen Bildmerkmale zugeordnet werden können. Diese Korrespondenzen ermöglichen die Kamerapose aus einer monokularen Aufnahme zurückzugewinnen. Das Verfahren ist unabhängig vom Anwendungsfall und kann auch mit Modellen anderer rigider Objekte umgehen, falls diese der definierten Modellrepräsentation entsprechen. Die Bestimmung der Pose eines Modells aus einem einzigen Bild, das Störungen und Verdeckungen aufweisen kann, erfordert einen systematischen Vergleich des Modells mit Bilddaten. Quantitative und qualitative Evaluationen belegen die Genauigkeit der bestimmten Gebäudeposen. In dieser Arbeit wird zudem ein halbautomatisches Verfahren zur Generierung eines Gebäudemodells vorgestellt. Das verwendete Gebäudemodell, das sowohl semantisches als auch geometrisches Wissen beinhaltet, den Aufgaben der Objekterkennung und Poseschätzung genügt und sich dennoch an den bestehenden Normen orientiert, ist Voraussetzung für das Poseschätzverfahren. Leitgedanke der Repräsentationsform des Modells ist, dass sie für Menschen interpretierbar bleibt. Es wurde ein halbautomatischer Ansatz gewählt, da die automatische Umsetzung dieses Verfahrens schwer die nötige Präzision erzielen kann. Das entwickelte Verfahren erreicht zum einen die nötige Präzision zur Poseschätzung und reduziert zum anderen die Nutzerinteraktionen auf ein Minimum. Eine qualitative Evaluation belegt die erzielte Präzision bei der Generierung des Gebäudemodells.

Introduction: In March 2012 a secessionist-Islamist insurgency gained momentum in Mali and quickly took control of two-thirds of the state territory. Within weeks radical Islamists, drug smugglers and rebels suddenly ruled over a territory bigger than Germany. News of the abuse of the population and the introduction of harsh Sharia law spread soon, and word got out that the Malian Army had simply abandoned the land. The general echo of the IC was surprise, a reaction that was, as this research will show, as unfunded as it was unconstructive*. When Malian state structures collapsed, the world watched in shock, even though the developments couldhave been anticipated –and prevented. Ultimately, the situation had to be resolved by international forces (most notably French troops), who are still in Mali at the time of writing (Arieff 2013a: 5; Lohmann 2012: 3; Walther and Christopoulos 2015: 514f.; Shaw 2013: 204; Qantara, Interview, 2012;L’Express, Mali, 2015; Deutscher Bundestag, MINUSMA und EUTM Mali, 2016; UN, MUNISMA, 2016; Boeke and Schuurmann 2015: 801; Chivvis 2016: 93f.). This research will show that the developments in Mali in 2012 have been developing for a long time and could have been avoided. In doing so, it will also show why state security can never be analyzed or consolidated in an isolated manner. Instead, it is necessary to take into account regional dynamics and developments in order to find a comprehensive approach to security in individual states. Once state failure occurs, not only does the state itself fail, but the surrounding region equally failed to prevent the failure. Weak states are a growing concern in many world regions, particularly in Africa. As international intervention often proves unsustainable for various reasons*, the author believes that states which cannot stabilize themselves need a regional agent to support them. This regional agent should be a Regional Security Complex (RSC) asdefined by Barry Buzan and Ole Waever (Buzan and Waever 2003). As the following analysis will show, Mali is a case in point. The hope is that this study will help avoid similar failures in the future by making a strong case for the establishment of RSC’s. …

Im Zentrum der Arbeit steht die Frage, inwiefern erwachsenenpädagogische Professionalität und Qualitätsmanagement als je eigene Zugänge der Qualitätssicherung im Kontext der Weiterbildung miteinander kompatibel sind. Diese Frage wird seit den 1990er Jahren diskutiert und stellt sich gegenwärtig neu, u.a. angesichts branchenspezifischer Ansätze wie der Lernerorientierten Qualitätstestierung in der Weiterbildung (LQW). Zur Beantwortung werden einschlägige Vertreter des Professionalitäts- und Qualitätsmanagementzugangs aus einer handlungstheoretischen Perspektive vergleichend im Hinblick auf ihre Handlungsordnungen gegenübergestellt. Grundlage bildet eine kategoriengeleitete, heuristisch angelegte Dokumentenanalyse sowohl von Grundlagentexten als auch von Normen- und Anforderungskatalogen. Die Untersuchung zeigt, dass die Passung differenziert und jenseits dichotomisierender Gegenüberstellungen von Pädagogik bzw. Profession und Organisation oder von Pädagogik und Ökonomie zu beurteilen ist: Zum einen wird die Heterogenität der Einzelansätze deutlich, welche sich in unterschiedlichem Umfang als kompatibel zueinander erweisen. Zum anderen werden entlang einzelner Handlungsdimensionen sowohl Anschluss- als auch Bruchstellen sichtbar. Als ein weiterer zentraler Befund lässt sich festhalten, dass auch die Art der Spannungsverhältnisse zwischen erwachsenenpädagogischer Professionalität und Qualitätsmanagement unterschieden werden muss: Während die Spannungen zwischen den gegensätzlichen methodischen Strategien (z.B. zwischen professionellem Fallbezug und organisationaler Standardisierung) gradueller Natur sind und „bearbeitet“ werden können, zeigen sich zwischen den programmatischen Zweck- und Aufgabenbestimmungen kategoriale Unterschiede und antinomische Konstellationen. So verweisen das professionelle Leitprinzip der Teilnehmerorientierung sowie die für die Qualitätsmanagement-Ansätze maßgebliche Kunden- bzw. Lernerorientierung auf jeweils eigene sowie voneinander abweichende Vermittlungskonzepte, die nicht widerspruchsfrei zusammengeführt werden können.

In der Möbelbranche in Deutschland existieren seit mehreren Jahren branchenweite Bemühungen, zwischenbetriebliche Kooperationen durch organisatorische und technische Lösungen (z.B. Standardisierung von Austauschformaten) zu unterstützen. In einigen Branchensegmenten (vor allem Küche und Polster) konnten sich Infrastrukturen zur Integration etablieren, die von vielen Branchenteilnehmern akzeptiert und genutzt werden. Trotz dieser Entwicklung sind in den genannten Branchensegmenten überraschende Phänomene in jüngerer Vergangenheit zu beobachten: Mängel in der Prozessintegration zwischen Branchenakteuren, Unterschiede im Standardisierungsfortschritt zwischen den Branchensegmenten und die Entstehung unterschiedlicher Infrastrukturen zur zwischenbetrieblichen Integration. Bei näherer Betrachtung der beobachteten Phänomene offenbart sich ein hoch-komplexes Zusammenspiel der in der Möbelbranche agierenden Akteure auf drei unterschiedlichen Ebenen (institutionell, organisatorisch und technisch). Um die verantwortlichen Zusammenhänge zu verstehen, ist eine ganzheitliche Betrachtung relevanter Faktoren erforderlich. Dafür gibt es bislang nur wenige überzeugende Konzepte. Die Konfigurationsanalyse nach Lyytinen und Damsgaard betrachtet Unternehmensnetzwerke als Konfigurationen zwischenbetrieblicher Integration, die einem stabilen Muster von Kooperationsformen entsprechen. Sie ist insbesondere dafür geeignet, Unternehmensnetzwerke auf Branchenebene zu untersuchen. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die Konfigurationsanalyse mittels eines speziell dafür entwickelten bzw. angepassten Forschungsdesigns zum ersten Mal operationalisiert. Dazu wurden in 21 Interviews mit 19 Organisationen Daten zu Konfigurationen zwischenbetrieblicher Integration in zwei Branchensegmenten der Möbelbranche (Küche und Polster) in Deutschland erhoben, analysiert und Erklärungsansätze für die drei oben genannten Phänomene entwickelt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass komplexe Konstellationen von Brancheneigenschaften die existierenden Konfigurationen begründen. Insgesamt wurden vier Konfigurationstypen (Mittler, Branche, Dyade und Triade) identifiziert, die in 17 konkreten Konfigurationen zum Einsatz kommen (Mittler (4-mal), Branche (5-mal), Dyade (6-mal) und Triade (2-mal)). Die Ursachen für die beobachteten Phänomene sind vielfältig. Insbesondere sind bestimmte branchenbezogene Charakteristika (u.a. Produkteigenschaften),der Wettbewerb zwischen Akteursklassen und zuletzt die wirtschaftliche Überlegenheit des Handels gegenüber den Herstellern ausschlaggebend. Der Standardisierungsfortschritt in den Branchensegmenten und die zugrunde liegenden Infrastrukturen sind vor allem von dem betriebswirtschaftlichen Nutzenpotenzial abhängig, das ihnen jeweils zugeschrieben wird. Die Prozessintegration hingegen benötigt eine zentral steuernde Instanz zur erfolgreichen IOIS-Diffusion.

The presence of anthropogenic chemicals in the natural environment may impact both habitats and human use of natural resources. In particular the contamination of aquatic resources by organic compounds used as pharmaceuticals or household chemicals has become evident. The newly identified environmental pollutants, also known as micropollutants, often have i) unknown ecotoxicological impacts, ii) unknown partitioning mechanisms, e.g. sorption to sediments, and iii) limited regulation to control their emission. Furthermore, like any compound, micropollutants can be transformed while in the environmental matrix to unknown transformation products (TPs), which add to the number of unknown chemicals to consider and thus increase the complexity of risk management. Transformation is at the same time a natural mechanism for the removal of anthropogenic compounds, either by complete degradation (mineralisation) or to innocuous TPs. However, how transformation occurs in real-world conditions is still largely unknown. During the transport of micropollutants from household wastewater to surface water, a large amount of transformation can occur during wastewater treatment—specifically during biological nitrifying–denitrifying treatment processes. The thesis considers the systematic optimisation of laboratory investigative techniques, application of sensitive mass-spectrometry-based analysis techniques and the monitoring of full-scale wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) to elucidate transformation processes of five known micropollutants. The first of the five compounds investigated was the antibiotic trimethoprim. Incubation experiments were conducted at different analyte spike concentrations and different sludge to wastewater ratios. Using high-resolution mass spectrometry, a total of six TPs were identified from trimethoprim. The types of TPs formed was clearly influenced by the spike concentration. To the best of our knowledge, such impacts have not been previously described in the literature. Beginning from the lower spike concentration, a relatively stable final TP was formed (2,4-diaminopyrimidine-5-carboxylic acid, DAPC), which could account for almost all of the transformed trimethoprim quantity. The results were compared to the process in a reference reactor. Both by the detection of TPs (e.g., DAPC) and by modelling the removal kinetics, it could be concluded that only experimental results at the low spike concentrations mirrored the real reactor. The limits of using elevated spike concentrations in incubation experiments could thus be shown. Three phenolic micropollutants, the antiseptic ortho-phenylphenol (OPP), the plastics additive bisphenol A (BPA) and the psychoactive drug dextrorphan were investigated with regard to the formation of potentially toxic, nitrophenolic TPs. Nitrite is an intermediate in the nitrification– denitrification process occurring in activated sludge and was found to cause nitration of these phenols. To elucidate the processes, incubation experiments were conducted in purified water in the presence of nitrite with OPP as the test substance. The reactive species HNO2, N2O3 and the radicals ·NO and ·NO2 were likely involved as indicated by scavenger experiments. In conditions found at WWTPs the wastewater is usually at neutral pH, and nitrite, being an intermediate, usually has a low concentration. By conducting incubation experiments inoculated with sludge from a conventional WWTP, it was found that the three phenolic micropollutants, OPP, BPA and dextrorphan were quickly transformed to biological TPs. Nitrophenolic TPs were only formed after artificial increase of the nitrite concentration or lowering of the pH. However, nitrophenolic-TPs can be formed as sample preparation artefacts through acidification or freezing for preservation, creating optimal conditions for the reaction to take place. The final micropollutant to be studied was the pain-reliever diclofenac, a micropollutant on the EU-watch list due to ecotoxicological effects on rainbow trout. The transformation was compared in two different treatment systems, one employing a reactor with suspended carriers as a biofilm growth surface, while the other system employed conventional activated sludge. In the biofilm-based system, the pathway was found to produce many TPs each at relatively low concentration, many of which were intermediate TPs that were further degraded to unknown tertiary TPs. In the conventional activated sludge system some of the same reactions took place but all at much slower rates. The main difference between the two systems was due to different reaction rates rather than different transformation pathways. The municipal WWTPs were monitored to verify these results. In the biofilm system, a 10-day monitoring campaign confirmed an 88% removal of diclofenac and the formation of the same TPs as those observed in the laboratory experiments. The proposed environmental quality standard of 0.05 μg/L might thus be met without the need for additional treatment processes such as activated carbon filtration or ozonation.

Hintergrund: Veränderte gesetzliche Rahmenbedingungen in der stationären Altenhilfe, die demografische Entwicklung mit dem steigenden Bedarf an Pflegekräften einerseits und die Tatsache, dass immer weniger Menschen aufgrund des Images des Berufes und der Arbeitsbedingungen in der Pflege tätig sein wollen andererseits, machen es notwendig neue Wege zu suchen. Die Träger im Sozial- und Gesundheitswesen sind gefordert, Konzepte zu entwickeln, die ihre Wirtschaftlichkeit sichern, gleichzeitig aber auch den Belastungen und der Unzufriedenheit von Mitarbeitenden entgegenwirken. Es braucht Gestaltungsräume, um Lösungen im Konflikt zwischen Anspruch und Machbarkeit zu finden und so dem alltäglichen Stress, der Mitarbeiterfluktuation und dem drohenden Leistungsabfall entgegenzuwirken. Durch das Praxisprojekt eines sozial-karitativen Trägers zur Implementierung einer ´Konstruktiven Konfliktkultur´ in einer stationären Altenhilfeeinrichtung sollte eine Organisationskultur geschaffen werden, in der Konflikte offen angesprochen werden, eine Offenheit für Veränderungsprozesse entsteht, Belastungen reduziert und die Mitarbeitenden an die Organisation gebunden werden. Dazu wurden drei pädagogische Interventionen entwickelt, durch die die Mitarbeitenden und die Führungskräfte in ihrer Konfliktfähigkeit geschult werden sollten. Methode: Die wissenschaftliche Begleitung dieses Praxisprojektes fand als Evaluationsstudie statt. Zu drei Erhebungszeitpunkten wurde eine repräsentative Mitarbeitergruppe dieser Einrichtung zu den Themen Konflikterleben, Führungsverhalten, Macht/ Regeln und Veränderungen durch qualitative Leitfadeninterviews befragt. Die Auswertung und Analyse der Daten erfolgte im Sinne der qualitativen Inhaltsanalyse nach Mayring und floss ein in eine formative Prozessevaluation der einzelnen Interventionen und einer summativen Effektevaluation zu Bewertung der Zielerreichung des Projektes. Ergebnis: Die einzelnen Interventionen des Projektes konnten nicht dazu beitragen, dass eine ´Konstruktiven Konfliktkultur´ nachhaltig entwickelt werden konnte. Zwar gab es in der Bewusstseinsspanne des Projektes einen expliziten Wissensgewinn, jedoch mehr bei den Führungskräften als bei den Mitarbeitenden. Die Führungskräfte sahen im Projekt einen Gewinn, für einen Teil der Mitarbeitenden war es sogar Zeitverschwendung. Anhand der Ergebnisse lassen sich drei Merkmale herauskristallisieren, die kennzeichnend sind für die zugrundeliegenden Denk-, Urteils-, und Handlungsstrukturen in sozialen Organisationen im Umgang mit Konflikten: Konflikte sind nicht wahrnehmbare Konstrukte der Alltagswelt. Sie manifestieren sich aufgrund fehlender Legitimation in Überforderung und eine ´Konstruktiven Konfliktkultur´ kann nicht auf das Wissen Einzelner aufbauen, sondern benötigt verbindliche Handlungsstrukturen für alle Organisationsmitglieder gleichermaßen. Ergebnisinterpretation: Durch die Einbeziehung wissenssoziologischer und konfliktsoziologischer Theorien und deren Einordnung in Institutionen – und Organisationstheorien konnten die Ergebnisse diskutiert und neue Erkenntnisse über Konflikte in Organisationen, die sich in drei Spannungsfeldern zeigen, gewonnen werden. Die Spannungsfelder bewegen sich zwischen dem Konflikt als nicht-wahrnehmbarem Alltagsphänomen auf der einen Seite und einer manifestierten Belastung auf der anderen Seite, dem Gewohnheitswissen im alltäglichen Umgang einerseits und einem fehlenden Handlungswissen andererseits, einer funktional-positiven Sicht hier und einer dysfunktional-negativen Sicht dort. Anhand dieser Spannungsfelder kann die Konfliktmentalität und ihre Entstehung und auch die Möglichkeit ihrer Veränderbarkeit reflektiert und können Erfolgsfaktoren für die Implementierung einer ´Konstruktiven Konfliktkultur´ entwickelt werden. Schlussfolgerung: Wissen, Legitimation und Institutionalisierung und die Stärkung der Wahrnehmungen sind der Schlüssel für die Veränderung der Konfliktmentalität in sozialen Organisationen. Nachhaltigkeit erhält die Thematik aber erst, wenn alle Organisationsmitglieder eine gewisse Handlungsnotwendigkeit für sich erkennen. Aktuell steht die Organisationsentwicklung für den expliziten Veränderungswillen von Management, der jedoch auf ein gewisses Beharrungsvermögen von Mitarbeitenden trifft.

For a comprehensive understanding of evolutionary processes and for providing reliable prognoses about the future consequences of environmental change, it is essential to reveal the genetic basis underlying adaptive responses. The importance of this goal increases in light of ongoing climate change, which confronts organisms worldwide with new selection pressures and requires rapid evolutionary change to avoid local extinction. Thereby, freshwater ectotherms like daphnids are particularly threatened. Unraveling the genetic basis of local adaptation is complicated by the interplay of forces affecting patterns of genetic divergence among populations. Due to their key position in freshwater communities, cyclic parthenogenetic mode of reproduction and resting propagules (which form biological archives), daphnids are particularly suited for this purpose. The aim of this thesis was to assess the impact of local thermal selection on the Daphnia longispina complex and to reveal the underlying genetic loci. Therefore, I compared genetic differentiation among populations containing Daphnia galeata, Daphnia longispina and their interspecific hybrids across time, space, and species boundaries. I revealed strongly contrasting patterns of genetic differentiation between selectively neutral and functional candidate gene markers, between the two species, and among samples from different lakes, suggesting (together with a correlation with habitat temperatures) local thermal selection acting on candidate gene TRY5F and indicating adaptive introgression. To reveal the candidate genes’ impact on fitness, I performed association analyses among data on genotypes and phenotypic traits of D. galeata clones from seven populations. The tests revealed a general temperature effect as well as inter-population differences in phenotypic traits and imply a possible contribution of the candidate genes to life-history traits. Finally, utilizing a combined population transcriptomic and reverse ecology approach, I introduced a methodology with a wide range of applications in evolutionary biology and revealed that local thermal selection was probably a minor force in shaping sequence and gene expression divergence among four D. galeata populations, but contributed to sequence divergence among two populations. I identified many transcripts possibly under selection or contributing strongly to population divergence, a large amount thereof putatively under local thermal selection, and showed that genetic and gene expression variation is not depleted specifically in temperature-related candidate genes. In conclusion, I detected signs of local adaptation in the D. longispina complex across space, time, and species barriers. Populations and species remained genetically divergent, although increased gene flow possibly contributed, together with genotypes recruited from the resting egg bank, to the maintenance of standing genetic variation. Further work is required to accurately determine the influence of introgression and the effects of candidate genes on individual fitness. While I found no evidence suggesting a response to intense local thermal selection, the high resilience and adaptive potential regarding environmental change I observed suggest positive future prospects for the populations of the D. longispina complex. However, overall, due to the continuing environmental degradation, daphnids and other aquatic invertebrates remain vulnerable and threatened.

The Web contains some extremely valuable information; however, often poor quality, inaccurate, irrelevant or fraudulent information can also be found. With the increasing amount of data available, it is becoming more and more difficult to distinguish truth from speculation on the Web. One of the most, if not the most, important criterion used to evaluate data credibility is the information source, i.e., the data origin. Trust in the information source is a valuable currency users have to evaluate such data. Data popularity, recency (or the time of validity), reliability, or vagueness ascribed to the data may also help users to judge the validity and appropriateness of information sources. We call this knowledge derived from the data the provenance of the data. Provenance is an important aspect of the Web. It is essential in identifying the suitability, veracity, and reliability of information, and in deciding whether information is to be trusted, reused, or even integrated with other information sources. Therefore, models and frameworks for representing, managing, and using provenance in the realm of Semantic Web technologies and applications are critically required. This thesis highlights the benefits of the use of provenance in different Web applications and scenarios. In particular, it presents management frameworks for querying and reasoning in the Semantic Web with provenance, and presents a collection of Semantic Web tools that explore provenance information when ranking and updating caches of Web data. To begin, this thesis discusses a highly exible and generic approach to the treatment of provenance when querying RDF datasets. The approach re-uses existing RDF modeling possibilities in order to represent provenance. It extends SPARQL query processing in such a way that given a SPARQL query for data, one may request provenance without modifying it. The use of provenance within SPARQL queries helps users to understand how RDF facts arederived, i.e., it describes the data and the operations used to produce the derived facts. Turning to more expressive Semantic Web data models, an optimized algorithm for reasoning and debugging OWL ontologies with provenance is presented. Typical reasoning tasks over an expressive Description Logic (e.g., using tableau methods to perform consistency checking, instance checking, satisfiability checking, and so on) are in the worst case doubly exponential, and in practice are often likewise very expensive. With the algorithm described in this thesis, however, one can efficiently reason in OWL ontologies with provenance, i.e., provenance is efficiently combined and propagated within the reasoning process. Users can use the derived provenance information to judge the reliability of inferences and to find errors in the ontology. Next, this thesis tackles the problem of providing to Web users the right content at the right time. The challenge is to efficiently rank a stream of messages based on user preferences. Provenance is used to represent preferences, i.e., the user defines his preferences over the messages' popularity, recency, etc. This information is then aggregated to obtain a joint ranking. The aggregation problem is related to the problem of preference aggregation in Social Choice Theory. The traditional problem formulation of preference aggregation assumes a I fixed set of preference orders and a fixed set of domain elements (e.g. messages). This work, however, investigates how an aggregated preference order has to be updated when the domain is dynamic, i.e., the aggregation approach ranks messages 'on the y' as the message passes through the system. Consequently, this thesis presents computational approaches for online preference aggregation that handle the dynamic setting more efficiently than standard ones. Lastly, this thesis addresses the scenario of caching data from the Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud. Data on the LOD cloud changes frequently and applications relying on that data - by pre-fetching data from the Web and storing local copies of it in a cache - need to continually update their caches. In order to make best use of the resources (e.g., network bandwidth for fetching data, and computation time) available, it is vital to choose a good strategy to know when to fetch data from which data source. A strategy to cope with data changes is to check for provenance. Provenance information delivered by LOD sources can denote when the resource on the Web has been changed last. Linked Data applications can benefit from this piece of information since simply checking on it may help users decide which sources need to be updated. For this purpose, this work describes an investigation of the availability and reliability of provenance information in the Linked Data sources. Another strategy for capturing data changes is to exploit provenance in a time-dependent function. Such a function should measure the frequency of the changes of LOD sources. This work describes, therefore, an approach to the analysis of data dynamics, i.e., the analysis of the change behavior of Linked Data sources over time, followed by the investigation of different scheduling update strategies to keep local LOD caches up-to-date. This thesis aims to prove the importance and benefits of the use of provenance in different Web applications and scenarios. The exibility of the approaches presented, combined with their high scalability, make this thesis a possible building block for the Semantic Web proof layer cake - the layer of provenance knowledge.

Im schulischen Kontext wird dem Prozess der Erkenntnisgewinnung in eigenverantwortlichen Lernprozessen immer mehr Bedeutung beigemessen. Experimentelles Arbeiten wird in den nationalen Bildungsstandards als Prozess beschrieben, welcher vier Teil-schritte durchläuft: (1) Fragestellung entwickeln, (2) Experimente durchführen, (3) Daten notieren und (4) Schlussfolgerung ziehen [1]. In der fachdidaktischen Forschung gibt es bisher keine Untersuchungen, die explizit den Teilschritt der Datenaufnahme und dessen Bedeutung behandeln. In dieser Arbeit werden die unterschiedlichen Definitionen der naturwissenschaftlichen Protokollformen voneinander abgegrenzt sowie im Rahmen von drei Teilstudien die Bedeutung des Protokollierens für die Lernwirksamkeit untersucht. Zusätzlich wird eine Auswertungsmethode für die Qualität von Erarbeitungsprotokollen vorgestellt.

This dissertation will discuss the theories of exponents of the philosophy of dialogue. Through that it shall establish the basis to reflect entrepreneurial leadership action. The goal is to find an approach for the development of a dialogical leadership culture. The empirical part shall examine on what basis, in correlation with a dialogical leadership style, subjective assumptions are made by managers in their leadership action who work in inpatient nursing services. Furthermore, it shall address the question of how those subjective assumptions can be considered and utilized towards establishing future dialogically oriented leadership cultures and the development of coinciding management personnel. It shall also debate the question to what extent the philosophy of dialogue includes theoretical concepts which can be used to describe a leadership culture. The intellectual approach of Martin Bubers is especially taken into consideration. Based on these theoretical grounds, the attempt shall be made to develop the basic intention of a dialogical leadership culture which will appropriately justify a didactical concept for the development of management personnel in nursing services.

Pelagic oxyclines, the transition zone between oxygen rich surface waters and oxygen depleted deep waters, are a common characteristic of eutrophic lakes during summer stratification. They can have tremendous effects on the biodiversity and the ecosystem functioning of lakes and, to add insult to injury, are expected to become more frequent and more pronounced as climate warming progresses. On these grounds, this thesis endeavors to advance the understanding of formation, persistence, and consequences of pelagic oxyclines: We test, whether the formation of metalimnetic oxygen minima is intrinsically tied to a locally enhanced oxygen consuming process, investigate the relative importance of vertical physical oxygen transport and biochemical oxygen consumption for the persistence of pelagic oxyclines, and finally assess their potential consequences for whole lake cycling. To pursue these objectives, the present thesis nearly exclusively resorts to in situ measurements. Field campaigns were conducted at three lakes in Germany featuring different types of oxyclines and resolved either a short (hours to days) or a long (weeks to months) time scale. Measurements comprised temperature, current velocity, and concentrations of oxygen and reduced substances in high temporal and vertical resolution. Additionally, vertical transport was estimated by applying the eddy correlation technique within the pelagic region for the first time. The thesis revealed, that the formation of metalimnetic oxygen minima does not necessarily depend on locally enhanced oxygen depletion, but can solely result from gradients and curvatures of oxygen concentration and depletion and their relative position to each other. Physical oxygen transport was found to be relevant for oxycline persistence when it considerably postponed anoxia on a long time scale. However, its influence on oxygen dynamics was minor on short time scales, although mixing and transport were highly variable. Biochemical consumption always dominated the fate of oxygen in pelagic oxyclines. It was primarily determined by the oxidative breakdown of organic matter originating from the epilimnion, whereas in meromictic lakes, the oxidation of reduced substances dominated. Beyond that, the results of the thesis emphasize that pelagic oxyclines can be a hotspot of mineralization and, hence, short-circuit carbon and nutrient cycling in the upper part of the water column. Overall, the present thesis highlights the importance of considering physical transport as well as biochemical cycling in future studies.

Rheinlandpfälzischer Maler und Grafiker, der den Weg der Abstraktion nicht mitgegangen ist und seinen eigenen Stil, der in abstrahierter Form gegenständlich und figürlich blieb, fand.

World’s ecosystems are under great pressure satisfying anthropogenic demands, with freshwaters being of central importance. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment has identified anthropogenic land use and associated stressors as main drivers in jeopardizing stream ecosystem functions and the biodiversity supported by freshwaters. Adverse effects on the biodiversity of freshwater organisms, such as macroinvertebrates, may propagate to fundamental ecosystem functions, such as organic matter breakdown (OMB) with potentially severe consequences for ecosystem services. In order to adequately protect and preserve freshwater ecosystems, investigations regarding potential and observed as well as direct and indirect effects of anthropogenic land use and associated stressors (e.g. nutrients, pesticides or heavy metals) on ecosystem functioning and stream biodiversity are needed. While greater species diversity most likely benefits ecosystem functions, the direction and magnitude of changes in ecosystem functioning depends primarily on species functional traits. In this context, the functional diversity of stream organisms has been suggested to be a more suitable predictor of changes in ecosystem functions than taxonomic diversity. The thesis aims at investigating effects of anthropogenic land use on (i) three ecosystem functions by anthropogenic toxicants to identify effect thresholds (chapter 2), (ii) the organic matter breakdown by three land use categories to identify effects on the functional level (chapter 3) and (iii)on the stream community along an established land-use gradient to identify effects on the community level. In chapter 2, I reviewed the literature regarding pesticide and heavy metal effects on OMB, primary production and community respiration. From each reviewed study that met inclusion criteria, the toxicant concentration resulting in a reduction of at least 20% in an ecosystem function was standardized based on laboratory toxicity data. Effect thresholds were based on the relationship between ecosystem functions and standardized concentration-effect relationships. The analysis revealed that more than one third of pesticide observations indicated reductions in ecosystem functions at concentrations that are assumed being protective in regulation. However, high variation within and between studies hampered the derivation of a concentration-effect relationship and thus effect thresholds. In chapter 3, I conducted a field study to determine the microbial and invertebrate-mediated OMB by deploying fine and coarse mesh leaf bags in streams with forested, agricultural, vinicultural and urban riparian land use. Additionally, physicochemical, geographical and habitat parameters were monitored to explain potential differences in OMB among land use types and sites. Regarding results, only microbial OMB differed between land use types. The microbial OMB showed a negative relationship with pH while the invertebrate-mediated OMB was positively related to tree cover. OMB responded to stressor gradients rather than directly to land use. In chapter 4, macroinvertebrates were sampled in concert with leaf bag deployment and after species identification (i) the taxonomic diversity in terms of Simpson diversity and total taxonomic richness (TTR) and (ii) the functional diversity in terms of bio-ecological traits and Rao’s quadratic entropy was determined for each community. Additionally, a land-use gradient was established and the response of the taxonomic and functional diversity of invertebrate communities along this gradient was investigated to examine whether these two metrics of biodiversity are predictive for the rate of OMB. Neither bio-ecological traits nor the functional diversity showed a significant relationship with OMB. Although, TTR decreased with increasing anthropogenic stress and also the community structure and 26 % of bio-ecological traits were significantly related to the stress gradient, any of these shifts propagated to OMB. Our results show that the complexity of real-world situations in freshwater ecosystems impedes the effect assessment of chemicals and land use for functional endpoints, and consequently our potential to predict changes. We conclude that current safety factors used in chemical risk assessment may not be sufficient for pesticides to protect functional endpoints. Furthermore, simplifying real-world stressor gradients into few land use categories was unsuitable to predict and quantify losses in OMB. Thus, the monitoring of specific stressors may be more relevant than crude land use categories to detect effects on ecosystem functions. This may, however, limit the large scale assessment of the status of OMB. Finally, despite several functional changes in the communities the functional diversity over several trait modalities remained similar. Neither taxonomic nor functional diversity were suitable predictors of OMB. Thus, when understanding anthropogenic impacts on the linkage between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning is of main interest, focusing on diversity metrics that are clearly linked to the stressor in question (Jackson et al. 2016) or integrating taxonomic and functional metrics (Mondy et al., 2012) might enhance our predictive capacity.

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird das thermochemische Wechselwirkungsverhalten verschiedener Magnesiakohlenstoffmaterialen in Abhängigkeit verschiedener Einflussgrößen wissenschaftlich untersucht. Schwerpunkte der experimentellen Arbeiten bilden thermoanalytische Experimente, Gefügeuntersuchungen der Magnesiakohlenstoff-Proben sowie thermodyna-mische Berechnungen und Auswertungen durch CAT (Computer Aided Thermochemistry) mittels des Softwarepakets FactSage. Erster Themenbereich dieser Arbeit ist die Untersuchung des Einflusses der in dem Rohstoff Magnesia enthaltenen mineralogischen Nebenphasen Merwinit (C3MS2), Monticellit (CMS) und Belit (C2S) auf den carbothermisch induzierten Verschleiß im MgO-C-Material. Für die Messreihen wurden die Nebenphasen eigens synthetisiert und hiermit MgO-C-Nebenphase-Modellwerkstoffe hergestellt. Die Nebenphase Monticellit ist unbeständig gegenüber der carbothermischen Reduktion. Monticellit wird im MgO-C-Gefüge durch Kohlenstoff reduziert und hieraus ergibt sich ein erhöhter Gewichtsverlust des Probenmaterials. Auch Merwinit wird bei T = 1600°C reduziert, der Gewichtsverlust wird dadurch allerdings nicht erhöht. Belit ist im MgO-C-Gefüge stabil gegenüber carbothermischer Reduktion. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt der Arbeit lag auf der Untersuchung des Einflusses des klassischen Antioxidans Aluminium auf die thermochemische Stabilität von MgO-C. Bei geringen Sauerstoffpartialdrücken ist die Reaktion des Aluminium-Metalls bzw. des bereits zu Al4C3 carbidisierten Aluminiums mit dem steineigenen Periklas unter Mg(g)-Bildung möglich, was einen erhöhten Gewichtsverlust zur Folge hat. Aber auch nach der Oxidation zu Al2O3 bzw. Spinell liegt Aluminium in signifikanten Mengen als Al(g) und Al2O(g) in der Gasphase vor und greift des Weiteren die Nebenphasen an, was ebenfalls zu einem messbaren Gewichtsverlust führt. Dritter Arbeitsschwerpunkt war die Untersuchung des Einflusses des Umgebungsdruckes auf die carbothermische Reduktion von MgO. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass der Druck sich in zweierlei Hinsicht auf die carbothermische Reduktion von MgO auswirkt. Zum einen bewirkt ein sinkender Umgebungsdruck eine Beschleunigung der carbothermischen Reduktion durch die Verschiebung des thermodynamischen Gleichgewichts auf die Produktseite. Des Weiteren sorgt er für einen schnelleren Abtransport der Produktgase vom Reaktionsort und ver-hindert somit die Einstellung eines lokalen Gleichgewichts im Gefüge. Dritter Effekt ist die mit steigendem Druck verstärkt ablaufende Kohlenstoffoxidation durch Umgebungssauerstoff, da die Sauerstoffmenge in der Umgebung des MgO-C-Materials vom Umgebungsdruck bestimmt wird. Für die Geschwindigkeit des thermochemischen Verschleißes von Magnesiakohlenstoffmaterialien, der immer eine Kombination aus Kohlenstoffoxidation und carbothermischer Reduktion darstellt, bedeutet dies, dass sie in Abhängigkeit vom Umgebungsdruck in unterschiedlichem Ausmaß von diesen beiden Reaktionen beeinflusst wird.

Agricultural land-use may lead to brief pulse exposures of pesticides in edge-of-field streams, potentially resulting in adverse effects on aquatic macrophytes, invertebrates and ecosystem functions. The higher tier risk assessment is mainly based on pond mesocosms which are not designed to mimic stream-typical conditions. Relatively little is known on exposure and effect assessment using stream mesocosms. Thus the present thesis evaluates the appliacability of the stream mesocosms to mimic stream-typical pulse exposures, to assess resulting effects on flora and fauna and to evaluate aquatic-terrestrial food web coupling. The first objective was to mimic stream-typical pulse exposure scenarios with different durations (≤ 1 to ≥ 24 hours). These exposure scenarios established using a fluorescence tracer were the methodological basis for the effect assessment of an herbicide and an insecticide. In order to evaluate the applicability of stream mesocosms for regulatory purposes, the second objective was to assess effects on two aquatic macrophytes following a 24-h pulse exposure with the herbicide iofensulfuron-sodium (1, 3, 10 and 30 µg/L; n = 3). Growth inhibition of up to 66 and 45% was observed for the total shoot length of Myriophyllum spicatum and Elodea canadensis, respectively. Recovery of this endpoint could be demonstrated within 42 days for both macrophytes. The third objective was to assess effects on structural and functional endpoints following a 6-h pulse exposure of the pyrethroid ether etofenprox (0.05, 0.5 and 5 µg/L; n = 4). The most sensitive structural (abundance of Cloeon simile) and functional (feeding rates of Asellus aquaticus) endpoint revealed significant effects at 0.05 µg/L etofenprox. This concentration was below field-measured etofenprox concentrations and thus suggests that pulse exposures adversely affect invertebrate populations and ecosystem functions in streams. Such pollutions of streams may also result in decreased emergence of aquatic insects and potentially lead to an insect-mediated transfer of pollutants to adjacent food webs. Test systems capable to assess aquatic-terrestrial effects are not yet integrated in mesocosm approaches but might be of interest for substances with bioaccumulation potential. Here, the fourth part provides an aquatic-terrestrial model ecosystem capable to assess cross-ecosystem effects. Information on the riparian food web such as the contribution of aquatic (up to 71%) and terrestrial (up to 29%) insect prey to the diet of the riparian spider Tetragnatha extensa was assessed via stable isotope ratios (δ13C and δ15N). Thus, the present thesis provides the methodological basis to assess aquatic-terrestrial pollutant transfer and effects on the riparian food web. Overall the results of this thesis indicate, that stream mesocosms can be used to mimic stream-typical pulse exposures of pesticides, to assess resulting effects on macrophytes and invertebrates within prospective environmental risk assessment (ERA) and to evaluate changes in riparian food webs.

Die Entstehung von Gründungsteams wird bisher lediglich als Abfolge von Suche, Auswahl und Gewinnung von Gründerpersonen verstanden. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird auf Basis von 47 interviewten Gründerpersonen ein neues Verständnis für die Entstehung von Gründungsteams geschaffen. Dabei wird im Stil der Grounded Theory das bisher vorherrschende Model der Teamentstehung maßgeblich erweitert. So wird eine neue Art der Unterscheidung von Grünerpersonen entdeckt, welche auf die Intention von Teammitgliedern abzielt. Zudem zeigt sich, dass Teams in einem iterativ-epiodischen Prozess entstehen und Veränderungen von Teamzu-sammmensetzungen Bestandteil der Entstehung sind. Aufgrund der in dieser Arbeit geschaffenen neuen Erkenntnisse zur Teamentstehung können Handlungsempfehlungen für Gründerpersonen und die Gründungsförderung gegeben werden. Zudem werden neue Untersuchungsgebiete für Gründungsteams eröffnet, die das hier entwickelte Modell als Bezugsrahmen für weitere Forschung nehmen können.

The provision of electronic participation services (e-participation) is a complex socio-technical undertaking that needs comprehensive design and implementation strategies. E-participation service providers, in the most cases administrations and governments, struggle with changing requirements that demand more transparency, better connectivity and increased collaboration among different actors. At the same time, less staff are available. As a result, recent research assesses only a minority of e-participation services as successful. The challenge is that the e-participation domain lacks comprehensive approaches to design and implement (e-)participation services. Enterprise Architecture (EA) frameworks have evolved in information systems research as an approach to guide the development of complex socio-technical systems. This approach can guide the design and implementation services, if the collection of organisations with the commonly held goal to provide participation services is understood as an E Participation Enterprise (EE). However, research & practice in the e participation domain has not yet exploited EA frameworks. Consequently, the problem scope that motivates this dissertation is the existing gap in research to deploy EA frameworks in e participation design and implementation. The research question that drives this research is: What methodical and technical guides do architecture frameworks provide that can be used to design and implement better and successful e participation? This dissertation presents a literature study showing that existing approaches have not covered yet the challenges of comprehensive e participation design and implementation. Accordingly, the research moves on to investigate established EA frameworks such as the Zachman Framework, TOGAF, the DoDAF, the FEA, the ARIS, and the ArchiMate for their use. While the application of these frameworks in e participation design and implementation is possible, an integrated approach is lacking so far. The synthesis of literature review and practical insights in design and implementation of e participation services from four projects show the challenges of adapting architecture frameworks for this domain. However, the research shows also the potential of a combination of the different approaches. Consequently, the research moves on to develop the E-Participation Architecture Framework (EPART-Framework). Therefore, the dissertation applies design science research including literature review and action research. Two independent settings test an initial EPART-Framework version. The results yield into the EPART-Framework presented in this dissertation. The EPART-Framework comprises of the EPART-Metamodel with six EPART-Viewpoints, which frame the stakeholder concerns: the Participation Scope, the Participant Viewpoint, the Participation Viewpoint, the Data & Information Viewpoint, the E-participation Viewpoint, and Implementation & Governance Viewpoint. The EPART-Method supports the stakeholders to design the EE and implement e participation and stores its output in an architecture description and a solution repository. It consists of five consecutive phases accompanied by requirements management: Initiation, Design, Implementation and Preparation, Participation, and Evaluation. The EPART-Framework fills the gap between the e participation domain and the enterprise architecture framework domain. The evaluation gives reasonable evidence that the framework is a valuable addition in academia and in practice to improve e-participation design and implementation. The same time, it shows opportunities for future research to extend and advance the framework.