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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.
Die vorliegende Arbeit wurde verfasst, um Einflüsse und Zusammenhänge von Mitarbeiterzufriedenheit auf Burnout zu erforschen. Zudem wurde der Frage nachgegangen, inwieweit organisationsbedingte Variablen beim Zusammenhang von Mitarbeiterzufriedenheit und Burnout bei Flugbegleitern eine Rolle spielen. Hierfür wurde die Airline-Branche, genau genommen das Kabinenpersonal als Repräsentant, verwendet und eine umfangreiche Arbeitsplatzanalyse durchgeführt.
Zur Erfassung der vielfältigen Dimensionen der Mitarbeiterzufriedenheit diente der Fragebogen zur Erfassung der Mitarbeiterzufriedenheit (FEMAZU), sowie für die Facetten von Burnout die Burnout-Screening-Skalen (BOSS) "Beruf" und "körperliche Beschwerden". Die organisationsbedingten Variablen wurden im Zuge einer Gruppendiskussion erhoben und zu entsprechenden Statements ausformuliert, um für den Fragebogen verwendet werden zu können. Dieser wurde im nach der Erstellung durch einen Pretest praktisch validiert. Die Online-Erhebung erfolgte anhand 420 Flugbegleitern im deutschsprachigen Raum.rnZu der quantitativen Erhebung wurde eine qualitative Methode angewandt, um detaillierter Informationen bezüglich der Komplexität in Entstehung und Verlauf der Krankheitsgeschichte von Burnout zu bekommen und Hinweise für die Einwirkung organisationsbedingter Variablen zu erhalten.
Entsprechend der repräsentativen Stichprobe in der vorliegenden Arbeit konnte ein starker Zusammenhang von Mitarbeiterzufriedenheit auf die verschiedenen Facetten von Burnout erwiesen sowie überwiegend signifikante Ergebnisse verzeichnet werden. Als wesentliche Einflussvariablen konnten individuelle Ziele, Arbeitsbedingungen, Aufgabenfeld, Empowerment, Commitment, Emotionsregulation und Work-Life-Balance identifiziert werden. Bedingt durch die ohnehin sehr speziellen Arbeitsbedingungen im Berufsleben der Flugbegleiter sollten die Airlines bei ihren Mitarbeitern auf eine ausgeglichene Work-Life-Balance achten. Die Ergebnisse zeigten hierfür deutliche Zusammenhänge mit Mitarbeiterzufriedenheit und Burnout. Um entsprechende ausfallsbedingten Kosten vorzubeugen, wurde in der vorliegenden Arbeit eine Handlungsempfehlung gegeben. Durch die hohe Flexibilitätsanforderung in der Tätigkeit des Kabinenpersonals sowie den zahlreichen physiologischen Einflüssen wie beispielsweise Lärm, Jetlag, Schichtdienst oder Zeitverschiebungen ist es für Unternehmen, die auf langfristige Mitarbeiter setzen besonders wichtig, an dieser Stelle häufigen und langen krankheitsbedingten Fehlzeiten vorzubeugen. Eine höhere Planstabilität, ein größerer Einfluss auf die Plangestaltung und ausreichend Ruhezeit würde beispielsweise der Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Privat entgegen kommen.
Andere in der Literatur als bedeutend eruierten Variablen, wie bspw. die Arbeitsplatzsicherheit und der Zivilstand, zeigten keine oder nur eine sehr geringe Signifikanz. Abschließend wurden Faktoren, welche einen Einfluss auf das Ergebnis haben könnten, ausführlich erläutert und diskutiert sowie eine Empfehlung für die Praxis und zukünftige wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen abgeleitet. Insbesondere der Forschungsausblick zeigt, dass der Zusammenhang der Dimensionen Mitarbeiterzufriedenheit und Burnout, welche anhand der Stichprobe der Flugbegleiter in dieser Arbeit erhoben wurde, noch umfassende Erforschungen erfordert, um hier vor allem für die Wirtschaft Verbesserungen und entsprechende Kostenreduktion bewirken zu können. Sowohl für die Wirtschaft als auch die Wissenschaft wäre eine engere Zusammenarbeit wünschenswert und gewinnbringend.
Veränderungen in dem komplexen Wirkungsgefüge eines Agrarökosystems können erhebliche Auswirkungen auf die lokale Biozönose zur Folge haben. Die Überdachung von Obstkulturen mit Netzen oder Folien zum Schutz vor Hagel und Regen stellt eine solche Veränderung dar. Im Rahmen dieser Dissertation wurde anhand einer biozönotischen Risikoanalyse der Einfluss intensiver Landnutzung in Obstkulturen sowie der Einfluss von Kulturschutzeinrichtungen auf die drei Gilden tagaktive Greifvögel, insektivore Vögel und Arthropoden untersucht. Greifvögel, insektivore Vögel und räuberische Arthropoden üben als Prädatoren wichtige Regulationsfunktionen im Nahrungsnetz eines Ökosystems aus. Arthropoden stellen zudem eine wichtige Nahrungsressource dar. Arten aller drei Gilden gelten als Bioindikatoren für Veränderungen im Ökosystem. Phytophage Arthropoden können landwirtschaftlich genutzte Monokulturen erheblich schädigen, weshalb die konventionelle Landwirtschaft zur gezielten Tötung solcher Schädlinge Insektizide einsetzt. Pestizidbehandlungen haben allerdings oft auch Auswirkungen auf viele Nützlinge und andere Organismen im Agrarökosystem.
Die visuelle Erfassung beider Vogelgilden sowie das Fangen der Arthropoden mit Boden- und Flugfallen erfolgte von März bis Juli in den Jahren 2011-2013 auf fünf Untersuchungsflächen im rheinland-pfälzischen Obstanbaugebiet Mainz-Bingen. Es wurden zwei benachbarte Apfelkulturen (eine Kontrollfläche und eine Versuchsfläche mit Hagelschutznetz) und zwei benachbarte Kirschkulturen (eine Kontrollfläche und eine Versuchsfläche ab 2012 mit Folien-Netz-Überdachung) sowie eine nahegelegene Streuobstfläche im lokalen NSG Höllenberg als naturnahe Kontrollfläche untersucht. Zusätzlich wurden im ersten Untersuchungsjahr vom 15. März bis 28. Juli 2011 auf allen Flächen die Ergebnisse einer täglichen automatischen akustischen Erfassung durch ein Stereo-Aufnahmegerät („Songmeter 2“, Wildlife Acoustics) mit denen einer wöchentlichen rein visuellen Erfassung der Vögel verglichen. Es gab keine signifikanten Unterschiede in Detektionseffizienz und Arterfassung der Avifauna zwischen beiden Methoden. Die lokale α-Diversität nach Simpson unterschied sich ebenfalls nicht signifikant zwischen beiden Methoden. Das akustische Monitoring detektierte mehr seltene (=weniger als zehn Funde im Untersuchungszeitraum) Vogelarten; 29% der Arten wurden ausschließlich akustisch nachgewiesen und knapp 13% ausschließlich visuell. Sieben Vogelarten unterschieden sich signifikant in ihrer ermittelten Abundanz zwischen beiden Methoden: Bachstelze, Feldlerche, Mauersegler und die Greifvögel Mäusebussard und Turmfalke waren besser bzw. der Schwarzmilan ausschließlich mit dem visuellen Monitoring zu erfassen, während der Fasan ausschließlich durch das akustische Monitoring nachgewiesen werden konnte. Für die Abundanzschätzung von 48 Vogelarten war es unerheblich, ob sie akustisch oder visuell erfasst wurden. Da seltene Arten bei biozönotischen Untersuchungen keine wesentliche Rolle spielen und die Auswertung der Akustikaufnahmen sehr zeitaufwändig war, wurden für die Risikoanalyse nur die visuell ermittelten Daten berücksichtigt.
Für die Greifvogel-Gilde wurden sechs Arten nachgewiesen, fünf auf der Kirschkontrollfläche und jeweils vier Arten auf den anderen Flächen. Die drei häufigsten Arten waren Mäusebussard, Turmfalke und Schwarzmilan. Greifvögel wurden im Luftraum der Flächen oder auf Sitzwarten wie Zäunen, Pfählen, Bäumen und Kulturschutzeinrichtungen bei der Nahrungssuche oder beim Revierverhalten beobachtet. Es konnte kein Einfluss der Landnutzung auf Greifvögel aufgezeigt werden, Diversität und Abundanz unterschieden sich nicht zwischen den Obstkulturen und der naturnahen Streuobstfläche im NSG. Ein Einfluss von Kulturschutzeinrichtungen auf Greifvögel konnte ebenfalls nicht nachgewiesen werden, die überdachten Flächen wurden genauso oft frequentiert wie die Kontrollflächen. Greifvögel überflogen innerhalb ihrer großen Aktionsräume auch die überdachten Obstkulturen zur Nahrungssuche und wurden weiterhin bei der Ansitzjagd am Rand der Versuchsflächen gesichtet. Zudem wurde der Turmfalke beim Ansitzen unter der Folien-Netz-Überdachung der Kirschkultur sowie beim Fressen auf dieser Überdachung sitzend beobachtet. Für die Insektivoren-Gilde wurden 52 Vogelarten nachgewiesen. Die Streuobstfläche im NSG wies die höchste Artenzahl von 40 auf, gefolgt von der Apfelkontrollfläche mit 27 Arten. Die Apfelversuchsfläche wies dagegen eine geringere Artenzahl von 19 auf, während die Artenzahlen beider Kirschkulturen mit 19 und 18 annähernd gleich gewesen sind. Die zehn häufigsten Arten waren in Reihenfolge ihrer Abundanz Kohlmeise, Star, Rabenkrähe, Amsel, Mauersegler, Bachstelze, Blaumeise, Buchfink, Feldlerche und Stieglitz. Insektivore Vögel wurden überwiegend nahrungssuchend am Boden und in Bäumen der Flächen oder beim Revierverhalten wie Singen, Rufen und Vigilanz auf Sitzwarten Zäunen, Pfählen sowie Kulturschutzeinrichtungen beobachtet. Die intensive Landnutzung der Obstkulturen führte im Vergleich zur naturnahen Streuobstfläche im NSG sowohl auf der Apfel- als auch auf der Kirschkontrollfläche zu einer hochsignifikant geringeren monatlichen Vogelartenzahl. Eine signifikant niedrigere Abundanz der insektivoren Vögel wies jedoch nur die Kirschkontrollfläche auf. Es wurden negative Effekte der intensiven Landnutzung auf die monatliche Abundanz von Gartenrotschwanz, Amsel und Blaumeise nachgewiesen, welche in den Obstkulturen hochsignifikant seltener beobachtet wurden. Der Einsatz von Kulturschutzeinrichtungen führte lediglich beim Hagelschutznetz zu einer zusätzlichen signifikanten Verringerung der monatlichen Vogelartenzahl. Die Folien-Netz-Kombination zeigte keinen signifikanten Einfluss auf die Vogeldiversität. Die Gesamtabundanz der Insektivoren-Gilde blieb in beiden Obstkulturen von Kulturschutzeinrichtungen unbeeinflusst. Abundanzen einzelner Arten zeigten jedoch abweichende Ergebnisse: Die Ringeltaube wurde unter dem Hagelschutznetz der Apfelkultur im Vergleich zur Kontrollfläche gar nicht beobachtet. Die Kohlmeise kam unter der Folien-Netz-Überdachung der Kirschkultur signifikant seltener vor, während der Wiedehopf hier etwa zehnmal häufiger vorkam als auf der Kirschkontrollfläche und der Streuobstfläche im NSG Höllenberg. Entscheidender Faktor für die starke Nutzung der Kirschkulturen waren für den Wiedehopf die vorhandenen vegetationsfreien Bodenbereiche, in denen diese Art bevorzugt nach Nahrungsinsekten sucht. Störungen durch die bei Wind laut flatternde Folienüberdachung auf darunter nahrungssuchende Wiedehopfe wurden nicht beobachtet.
Für die Arthropoden-Gilde wurden 185963 Individuen aus 18 Gruppen gefangen. Der Großteil von 79% dieser Individuen ließ sich Springschwänzen, Ameisen, Zweiflüglern oder Käfern zuordnen. Weitere 20% verteilten sich auf Webspinnen, Asseln, Hautflügler, Milben, Doppelfüßer, Weberknechte, Schnabelkerfe und Ohrwürmer. Die restlichen sechs Arthropodengruppen stellten den restlichen Individuenanteil von 0,9%. Hinsichtlich der determinierten 12910 Käfer-Imagines aus 403 Arten waren Artenzahl, Diversität sowie Anzahl seltener Arten und Habitatspezialisten sandiger Lebensräume in allen drei Untersuchungsjahren auf der naturnahen Streuobstfläche im NSG Höllenberg am höchsten. Die über Bodenfallen ermittelte Arthropoden-Trockenbiomasse lag je nach Fläche bei 9 bis 26 Gramm pro Jahr und die über Flugfallen ermittelte Arthropoden-Trockenbiomasse bei 0,6 bis 4,8 Gramm pro Jahr. Obwohl im Mittel jährlich 5,8 Pestizidbehandlungen in den Kirschkulturen sowie 14,6 Behandlungen in den Apfelkulturen durchgeführt wurden und Insektizide dabei anteilig bis zu 57% ausmachten, konnte kein Einfluss der intensiven Landnutzung mit dem Einsatz von Pestiziden auf die Arthropoden-Trockenbiomasse nachgewiesen werden. Kulturschutzeinrichtungen zeigten ebenfalls keinen Einfluss auf die Arthropoden-Trockenbiomasse.
Diese biozönotische Risikoanalyse belegt, dass der Einsatz von Kulturschutzeinrichtungen zumindest bei Hagelschutznetzen langfristig nachweisbare negative Effekte auf die Diversität von insektivoren Vögeln bewirken kann, welche über die vorhandenen negativen Folgen der intensiven Landnutzung in Obstkulturen hinausgehen. Da intensiv bewirtschaftete Obstkulturen bereits ohne Kulturschutzeinrichtungen zu einer Verarmung der lokalen Biozönose führen, sollte aus ökologischer Sicht vor der Errichtung von Kulturschutzeinrichtungen verlässlich abgewogen werden, ob der zusätzliche Verlust an Biodiversität durch die Verbesserung von Flächenstrukturen der Obstkulturen kompensierbar ist.
Warum kann ich mir nicht vorstellen, meine Haare wachsen zu lassen, insbesondere meine Körperhaare? Diese Frage und das damit verbundene Unbehagen motivierten mich 2016 zur Entwicklung meines Dissertationsprojektes.
Die Suche nach einer Antwort führt zu einer Studie, die einen feministisch-phänomenologischen Erfahrungsbegriff zentral setzt. Bedeutsam für die Entwicklung eines solchen Begriffs sind die phänomenologischen Beiträge „Zur poststrukturalistischen Kritik an der Erfahrung im Kontext der feministischen Philosophie“ (Stoller 2005) von Silvia Stoller und „Phänomenologie, Poststrukturalismus und feministische Theorie. Zum Begriff der Erfahrung“ (Alcoff 1997) von Linda Martín Alcoff. Darauf aufbauend verfolgt das Dissertationsprojekt zunächst das Anliegen, Erfahrungen sichtbar zu machen, indem sie veranschaulicht und zur Sprache gebracht werden. Auf diese Weise wird es möglich, Erfahrungen hinterfragen zu können, um anschließend Antworten entwickeln zu können. Demnach beruhen mein Unvermögen, Körperhaare wachsen zu lassen, sowie das damit einhergehende Unbehagen darauf, eine drohende Erfahrung der Fremdheit mir selbst gegenüber abwenden zu wollen. Zu einer solchen Fremderfahrung würde es kommen, wenn ich durch meine Körperhaare damit konfrontiert werde, dass ich mir fremd bin. Jedoch um sich selbst kennenzulernen sind Menschen nach phänomenologischem Verständnis (vgl. Meyer-Drawe 2001: 141-142) auf andere Menschen angewiesen, da sie sich selbst erst durch andere bewusst werden können. Doch stellt es angesichts des gelebten Ideals der Haarlosigkeit (vgl. Labre 2002: 120-122, Strmljan 2018: 406) eine Herausforderung dar, meine drohende Fremderfahrung, aufgrund der Konfrontation mit meinen Körperhaaren, im Kontakt mit anderen Menschen zu überwinden, sodass ich eine solche Fremderfahrung vermeide, indem ich meine Körperhaare entferne. Als Resultat verbleibt mein Unbehagen darüber, dem Ideal der Haarlosigkeit zu entsprechen.
Zu einer solchen Antwort gelange ich anhand einer Studie, die folgender Forschungsfrage folgt:
Wie erfahren sich Menschen beim Waxing in einem Kosmetikstudio unter den Bedingungen der binären Geschlechterordnung?
Dass die Erfahrungen in einem Kosmetikstudio erforscht werden, begründet sich damit, dass in einem solchen der Zugang zu Erfahrungen bei der Entfernung von Körperhaaren möglich wird. Körperhaare zu entfernen ist zwar ein alltäglicher Umgang mit Körpern, jedoch intim und persönlich, sodass ein Zugang schwierig wird. Eine Lösung stellt hierfür ein Kosmetikstudio dar. Als Praktikantin in dem Kosmetikstudio Beautystudio werden mir Erfahrungen beim Waxing – einer kosmetischen Technik der Haarentfernung – zugänglich.
Auf solche Weise Daten zu erheben folgt dem ethnographischen Vorgehen der teilnehmenden Beobachtung. Forscher*innen nehmen beobachtend vor Ort teil und erheben Daten, indem sie Notizen, Protokolle und schließlich Studien erstellen. Mittels eines solchen Forschungsstils können Forscher*innen Erfahrungen in einer Studie zentral setzen, da sie so Erfahrungen selbst machen können und Zugang zu den Erfahrungen anderer erhalten (vgl. Amann/ Hirschauer 1997: 29-30, Breidenstein et al. 2013: 86-87, 103, 177-178).
Im Zuge der Datenerhebung zeigt sich wiederum, dass im Umgang mit Körperhaaren die Bedingungen der binären Geschlechterordnung wirksam werden. Beispielsweise wird in vielen Situationen die dichotome Differenz zwischen Männern und Frauen betont, ohne dass es konkret für die kosmetische Anwendung notwendig zu sein scheint. So erklärt sich, dass für die Analyse und das Hinterfragen der zur Sprache gebrachten Erfahrungen ein geschlechtertheoretisches Konzept herangezogen wird, welches Erfahrungen hinsichtlich der Bedingungen der binären Geschlechterordnung befragen kann. Eine solche Betrachtung der Daten bietet Gesa Lindemanns Konzept „Der leiblich-affektiven Konstruktion des Geschlechts“ (1992).
Basierend auf dem feministisch-phänomenologischen Erfahrungsbegriff, dem ethnographischen Vorgehen und dem Geschlechterkonzept Lindemann zeigt sich, dass Menschen beim Waxing erfahren (können), mit anderen Menschen verbunden und sich selbst unverbunden zu sein. Dabei wird die Haut zum Kristallisationspunkt der Verbindung zu anderen Menschen (und auch Apparaten). Durch die Berührungen wird einerseits Verbundenheit gestaltet und eine gegenseitige Zuwendung erfahrbar, andererseits wird diese aber auch unterbrochen, wenn durch das Waxing Schmerz zugefügt wird oder Menschen durch Blicke entblößt werden. So wird die Haut zum Medium zwischen den Erfahrungen der Verbundenheit und Unverbundenheit.
(Hinweisen möchte ich an dieser Stelle, dass alle Namen und Orte anonymisiert sind. Demnach handelt es sich beim Beautystudio um den anonymisierten Namen des Kosmetikstudios, in welchem ich forschte. Auf diese Weise soll die Persönlichkeit der Kontaktpersonen im Feld gewahrt bleiben.)
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Purpose: Leader-follower communication plays an important role in all organizations. However, research on school leadership did not focus on communication competency (CC) and its impact on school quality (e.g. on teachers' commitment, job satisfaction) so far; there is a striking lack of theory and empirical data. Therefore, this paper describes the development and validation of a standardized measure for CC of school principals. It is based on a theoretical framework with LMX as a communication-based approach to leadership and an interpersonal communication process model. Design/Methodology: CC was conceptualized as a 3-dimensional construct. Five studies were conducted with German teachers and school principals from all types of schools (total N=1649): selection of items via expert ratings, exploring the dimensionality, cross-validation of the structure, test-retest-reliability, external validity. Results: Analyses led to a 3-factor solution - Altercentrism, Knowledge and Willingness to Communicate, Self-Regulation - with 14 items and good internal consistencies. CFA, exploring the nomological network, and invariance measurement supported construct validity. Limitations: Empirical studies still have to be conducted to evaluate the application in other leader - follower contexts apart from school. Research/Practical Implications: The measure and the theoretical framework can be applied for analyzing principal - teacher interactions in detail and for detecting problems in communication processes. The measure can also be used for feedback processes and for demand-oriented trainings.Originality/Value: For the first time, this paper explicitly combines the concepts of CC and leadership in schools and provides a measure within a theoretical framework to assess principals' CC. Such a valid instrument is the prerequisite for further investigating the importance of CC in the context of (school) leadership.
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.
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.
Within this thesis time evaluated predicate/transition nets (t-pr/t-nets) have been developed for the purpose to model, simulate and verify complex real-time systems. Therefore, t-pr/t-nets integrate concepts to model timing constraints and can be analysed by the means of structural analysis such as the calculation of s- and t-invariants as well as the identification of traps and co-traps. The applicability of t-pr/t-nets to model, simulate and verify complex systems in the domain of safety-critical real-time systems is proven by the Earliest-Deadline-First-Protocol (EDF) and the Priority-Inheritance-Protocol (PIP). Therefore, the EDF and PIP are modeled by means of t-pr/t-nets. The resulting t-pr/t-nets are verified using structural analysis methods. Due to the enormous complexity and the applicability of structural analysis methods for the verification of the EDF and PIP, it can be shown that t-pr/t-nets are appropriate to model, simulate and verify complex systems in the field of safety-critical real-time systems.
Chemical plant protection is an essential element in integrated pest management and hence, in current crop production. The use of Plant Protection Products (PPPs) potentially involves ecological risk. This risk has to be characterised, assessed and managed.
For the coming years, an increasing need for agricultural products is expected. At the same time, preserving our natural resources and biodiversity per se is of equally fundamental importance. The relationship of our economic success and cultural progress to protecting the environment has been made plain in the Ecosystem Service concept. These distinct 'services' provide the foundation for defining ecological protection goals (Specific Protection Goals, SPGs) which can serve in the development of methods for ecological risk characterisation, assessment and management.
Ecological risk management (RM) of PPPs is a comprehensive process that includes different aspects and levels. RM is an implicit part of tiered risk assessment (RA) schemes and scenarios, yet RM also explicitly occurs as risk mitigation measures. At higher decision levels, RM takes further risks, besides ecological risk, into account (e.g., economic). Therefore, ecological risk characterisation can include RM (mitigation measures) and can be part of higher level RM decision-making in a broader Ecosystem Service context.
The aim of this thesis is to contribute to improved quantification of ecological risk as a basis for RA and RM. The initial general objective had been entitled as "… to estimate the spatial and temporal extent of exposure and effects…" and was found to be closely related to forthcoming SPGs with their defined 'Risk Dimension'.
An initial exploration of the regulatory framework of ecological RA and RM of PPPs and their use, carried out in the present thesis, emphasised the value of risk characterisation at landscape-scale. The landscape-scale provides the necessary and sufficient context, including abiotic and biotic processes, their interaction at different scales, as well as human activities. In particular, spatially (and temporally) explicit landscape-scale risk characterisation and RA can provide a direct basis for PPP-specific or generic RM. From the general need for tiered landscape-scale context in risk characterisation, specific requirements relevant to a landscape-scale model were developed in the present thesis, guided by the key objective of improved ecological risk quantification. In principle, for an adverse effect (Impact) to happen requires a sensitive species and life stage to co-occur with a significant exposure extent in space and time. Therefore, the quantification of the Probability of an Impact occurring is the basic requirement of the model. In a landscape-scale context, this means assessing the spatiotemporal distribution of species sensitivity and their potential exposure to the chemical.
The core functionality of the model should reflect the main problem structures in ecological risk characterisation, RA and RM, with particular relationship to SPGs, while being adaptable to specific RA problems. This resulted in the development of a modelling framework (Xplicit-Framework), realised in the present thesis. The Xplicit-Framework provides the core functionality for spatiotemporally explicit and probabilistic risk characterisation, together with interfaces to external models and services which are linked to the framework using specific adaptors (Associated-Models, e.g., exposure, eFate and effect models, or geodata services). From the Xplicit-Framework, and using Associated-Models, specific models are derived, adapted to RA problems (Xplicit-Models).
Xplicit-Models are capable of propagating variability (and uncertainty) of real-world agricultural and environmental conditions to exposure and effects using Monte Carlo methods and, hence, to introduce landscape-scale context to risk characterisation. Scale-dependencies play a key role in landscape-scale processes and were taken into account, e.g., in defining and sampling Probability Density Functions (PDFs). Likewise, evaluation of model outcome for risk characterisation is done at ecologically meaningful scales.
Xplicit-Models can be designed to explicitly address risk dimensions of SPGs. Their definition depends on the RA problem and tier. Thus, the Xplicit approach allows for stepwise introduction of landscape-scale context (factors and processes), e.g., starting at the definitions of current standard RA (lower-tier) levels by centring on a specific PPP use, while introducing real-world landscape factors driving risk. With its generic and modular design, the Xplicit-Framework can also be employed by taking an ecological entity-centric perspective. As the predictive power of landscape-scale risk characterisation increases, it is possible that Xplicit-Models become part of an explicit Ecosystem Services-oriented RM (e.g., cost/benefit level).
This thesis is concerned with an issue of considerable importance to the development of revision skills: the role of teacher feedback. Prompted by the concern to develop a model of instruction which will help students write to the best of their capacities, the present study forms a proposal: an interactive model of revision. The study researches whether the kind of feedback proposed in this model is indeed a helpful tool for revision and whether the kind of negotiated revision that occurs is a vehicle for learning. The first section of the thesis reviews different areas of literature which are relevant to the study. More specifically, Chapter 2 presents the historical and theoretical foundations of different writing instructional practices and sheds light on issues concerning the use of the process approach. It also reviews research based on sociocognitive theoretical perspectives in an attempt to delineate the impact of interpersonal or social activity on individual performance and progress. Chapter 3 examines issues associated with the process approach in particular and illustrates how theory and method come together in a process writing classroom. Chapter 4 presents the differences in revising behaviours between experienced and inexperienced writers in both L1 and L2 contexts and the various ways these differences have been justified. It also highlights a number of issues which have been identified as contributing to effective revision. Particular attention is paid to the role that teacher feedback has to play as a means of promoting substantive student revision with an instructional emphasis on fluency, organisation and language. Chapter 5 presents an interactive model of revision, which envisions a communicative exchange between two partners, the student-writer and the teacher-reader, collaborating in order to develop awareness of revision strategies and establish criteria for effective writing. Chapter 6 investigates the epistemological basis of the research and presents a set of research questions and hypotheses, which guided the investigation. Chapter 7 frames the context of the research and details the methods used to collect the data from the study. The study involved 100 Year 7 students in two gymnasia in Koblenz, Germany. During the time of the investigation, the students wrote and revised five tasks. Three of these tasks were revised after receiving teacher feedback, which focused on aspects such as appropriacy and sufficiency of information, organization, coherence and grammatical accuracy. The study investigates the effects of this kind of focused feedback on the students" revisions and explores the relationship between revision and text improvement. Large quantitative and qualitative data sets were generated during the research. The quantitative data was based on the student documents (1000 original and revised drafts) whereas the qualitative data emerged from student questionnaires and seven case studies. Chapter 8 presents descriptions of the data analyses. More specifically, it describes the initial and final coding of the revisions traced in the student documents. Then it focuses on the type of qualitative analysis employed in the case studies in order to investigate the relationship between revision and text improvement. The final section of the chapter describes the questionnaire analysis, which was carried out to investigate attitudes, benefits and constraints from the implementation of the model. Chapter 9 examines the statistical results from the analysis of the students" revisions. More specifically, it explores the revisions made by the students across tasks and the relationships between the features of the teacher feedback and these revisions. The analysis highlights patterns in the development of revision skills and positive correlations of student revisions with features of the teacher feedback. Chapter 10 looks at the descriptive data from the case studies of seven individual student writers. The analysis of this data illustrates how the specific students negotiated the revisions and sheds more light on the relationship between feedback, revision and text improvement. Chapter 11 contains the analysis of the students" answers to the questionnaire, which provide illuminative information about the feedback-related attitudes. In Chapter 12, the thesis reaches its final destination. The journey over the paths of literature exploration, data gathering and data analysis ends with reflections on the messages that emerge from the data analysis. The conclusion reached is that young students can learn how to revise their writing and focused feedback is a viable pedagogic option for teaching revision. In addition to discussing the findings, this final section considers the pedagogical implications for the teaching of writing and suggests possible avenues for further work.
Instructor feedback on written assignments is one of the most important elements in the writing process, especially for students writing in English as a foreign language. However, students are often critical of both the amount and quality of the feedback they receive. In order to better understand what makes feedback effective, this study explored the nature of students’ assessments of the educational alliance, and how their receptivity to, perceptions of, and decisions about using their instructors’ feedback differed depending on how strong they believed the educational alliance to be. This exploratory case study found that students not only assessed the quality of the educational alliance based on goal compatibility, task relevance, and teacher effectiveness, but that there was also a reciprocal relationship between these elements. Furthermore, students’ perceptions of the educational alliance directly influenced how they perceived the feedback, which made the instructor’s choice of feedback method largely irrelevant. Stronger educational alliances resulted in higher instances of critical engagement, intrinsic motivation, and feelings of self-efficacy. The multidirectional influence of goal, task, and bond mean that instructors who want to maximize their feedback efforts need to attend to all three.
Die Arbeit entwickelt eine eigenständige medienphilosophische Lesart der Philosophie Jaques Derridas, die zu einer sprachtheoretischen Grundlegung von Sprache als Medium herangezogen wird. Im Rahmen dieser Konzeption wird der Grundbegriff der Vermittlung eingeführt von dem ausgehend deutlich wird, inwiefern jedes Vermittlungsgeschehen in einer ästhetischen Erfahrung gründet.
Maßnahmen der Führungskräfteentwicklung verfolgen das Ziel den Führungsnachwuchs des Unternehmens zu bilden und für einen reibungslosen Einstieg in die Füh-rungsaufgabe zu sorgen. In der Literatur gibt es zahlreiche Theorien und Modelle zu Führung und deren Entwicklung, doch offen bleibt meist, wie es um den praktischen Einsatz und die Effektivität steht. Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die Identifikation wesentlicher Bestandteile der Führungskräfteentwicklung, die effektiv Einfluss auf (Nachwuchs-)Führungskräfte nehmen. Drei Studien beschäftigen sich jeweils mit unter-schiedlichen Schwerpunkten mit der Gestaltung und Wirksamkeit von modularen Programmen der Führungskräfteentwicklung. Zur Beschreibung der Gestaltung wurde eine Expertenbefragung unter Verantwortlichen für Führungskräfteentwicklung in 4 Großunternehmen durchgeführt. Zur Prüfung der Wirksamkeit wurden zwei Prädiktoren erfolgreichen Führens, die praktische Führungsintelligenz und die Führungswirksamkeitserwartung (FWE), in zwei repräsentativen modularen Programmen gemessen. Dafür wurden zwei quasiexperimentelle Designs mit Prätest-Posttest durchgeführt: ein Design mit zusätzlicher Kontrollgruppe (Nexp = 14, Nkontr = 12), ein Design mit zusätzlicher Fremdeinschätzung (N = 11 bis N =57 je nach Messzeitpunkt und beteiligten Variablen). Die praktische Führungsintelligenz wurde anhand eines für die Untersuchung entwickelten Situational Judgment Tests (SJTs) gemessen. Neben der FWE (in Anlehnung an die Skala zur Erfassung der beruflichen Selbstwirksamkeitserwartung, BSW-Skala) wurden weitere Konstrukte wie Selbstregulation (Locomotion-Assessment-Fragebogen, L-A-F), Optimismus (Skala Optimismus-Pessimismus-2, SOP2) Selbstmanagement (Fragebogens zur Erfassung von Ressourcen und Selbstmanagementfähigkeiten, FERUS) erfasst, sowie explorativ entwicklungsförderliche Merkmale erhoben. Entsprechend der Annahme verdichten sich die Ergebnisse auf drei Merkmale wirksamer Trainingsgestaltung: Erfahrungssammlung, Feedback, Selbstreflexion. Es konnte nachgewiesen werden, dass Programme mit hohem erfahrungsorientiertem Trainingsanteil, die Erfolgserlebnisse und Modelllernen fördern sowie persönliche Gespräche und Feedback beinhalten, die FWE (ŋ2 = .24, ŋ2 = .50) und die praktische Führungsintelligenz (ŋ2 = .54). signifikant (p<.05) steigern. Deutlich wurde auch der enge Zusammenhang zwischen Merkmalen der Person (wie Ausprägung der FWE oder Selbstregulationsfähigkeiten) und der Wirksamkeit der Programme. Aus den Ergebnissen werden Empfehlungen zur praktischen Umsetzung in der Führungskräfteentwicklung abgeleitet und Anregungen für zukünftige Forschung diskutiert.
In einem randomisierten Kontrollgruppen-Design wurde die Wirksamkeit zweier ambulanter psychologischer Tinnitus-Therapien (12-wöchige psychologische Tinnitus-Therapie (PTT) sowie 4-wöchige psychologische Kurzzeit-Tinnitus-Therapie (KPTT)) miteinander verglichen. Die Überprüfung der Wirksamkeit erfolgte mittels folgender Parameter: Tinnitusbelastung, subjektive Lautheit, Dauer der Tinnituswahrnehmung, Tinnitusbelästigung, Copingfähigkeit, Stimmung, Depressivität, Schlaf und Kontrollüberzeugung. An der Studie nahmen 90 Patienten mit chronischem Tinnitus teil, die zufällig der PTT, der KPTT oder einer Wartekontrollgruppe (WKG) zugeteilt wurden. Die Datenerhebung erfolgte zu drei Messzeitpunkten: vor Therapiebeginn, nach Therapieende sowie 6 Monate nach Therapieende. Beide Interventionen führen zur signifikanten Reduktion der Tinnitusbelastung, der subjektiv wahrgenommenen Lautheit, der Dauer der Tinnituswahrnehmung und der Tinnitusbelästigung. Weiterhin führen beide Therapien zum Erlernen und zur Anwendung von effektiven Copingstrategien und damit auch zur Erhöhung der Kontrollüberzeugung. Alle berichteten Verbesserungen bleiben auch 6 Monate nach dem Therapieende stabil. Nachdem in der WKG nach 4 und nach 12 Wochen keine signifikanten Veränderungen beobachtet werden konnten, sind die Veränderungen in den Therapiegruppen in den o.g. Variablen als Therapieeffekte zu sehen. Keine der beiden Interventionen führt zu einer signifikanten Veränderung des Schlafes und der Stimmung. Als einziger signifikanter Prädiktor des Therapieerfolgs hat sich die Tinnitusdauer herausgestellt. Während die PTT unabhängig von der Tinnitusdauer zu einer Reduktion der Tinnitusbelastung führt, ist die KPTT umso wirksamer, je kürzer die Tinnitusdauer ist. Das Vorhandensein einer komorbiden psychischen Störung, die Ausgangsbelastung sowie die Veränderungsbereitschaft beeinflussen die Therapiewirksamkeit nicht. Da sich diese beiden ambulanten psychologischen Tinnitus-Therapien nicht in ihrer Wirksamkeit und in ihren langfristigen Auswirkungen voneinander unterscheiden, kann resümiert werden, dass beide gut für eine ambulante psychologische Behandlung von Patienten mit chronischem Tinnitus geeignet sind. Die kürzere KPTT ist jedoch aufgrund des niedrigeren Zeit- und Kostenaufwandes als effizienter zu bewerten.
Wirkfaktoren von Achtsamkeit: Wirkt Achtsamkeit durch Verringerung der affektiven Reaktivität?
(2009)
Die vorliegende Forschungsarbeit untersucht mögliche Wirkfaktoren von Achtsamkeit. Wirkfaktoren sind dabei die Prozesse, die die Effekte von Achtsamkeit auf Wohlbefinden und Gesundheit vermitteln. Bisherige Studien des Forschungsfelds haben sich auf den Nachweis der Wirksamkeit (vgl. Baer, 2003; Grossman, Niemann, Schmidt & Walach, 2004) sowie die Entwicklung von psychometrischen Achtsamkeitstests konzentriert (z.B. Brown & Ryan, 2003; Walach et al., 2006). Die Frage nach den Wirkfaktoren von Achtsamkeit ist demgegenüber bisher weitgehend unbeantwortet. Erst seit kurzem widmen sich Forschungsarbeiten dieser Frage (Arch & Craske, 2006; Shapiro, Carlson, Astin & Friedman, 2006; Zeidler, 2007). Kenntnis der Wirkfaktoren von Achtsamkeit ist der Schlüssel zum Verständnis des Phänomens sowie zur Verbesserung von Interventionen. Aus diesem Grund ist die Erforschung der Wirkfaktoren von Achtsamkeit die nächste zentrale Aufgabe des Forschungsfelds. Basierend auf einer Analyse des theoretischen Fundaments des Konstrukts " insbesondere der buddhistischen Psychologie " wird in dieser Arbeit "Verringerung von affektiver Reaktivität" als Wirkfaktor angenommen (Kalupahana, 1992; Davids, 2002; De Silva, 2005). Affektive Reaktivität bezeichnet die Tendenz, auf affektive Reize (z.B. unangenehme Bilder) mit affektiven Reaktionen (z.B. negativen Gefühlen) zu antworten. Das entsprechende Mediatormodell (Prädiktor: Achtsamkeit; Mediator: affektive Reaktivität; Kriterium: habituelles Wohlbefinden) wird in drei Studien empirisch untersucht. Studie I (N=247) fokussiert auf eine behaviorale Operationalisierung von affektiver Reaktivität anhand von expliziten (z.B. Bewertung aversiver Bilder) und impliziten (z.B. Emotional Stroop) Maßen. Studie II (N=221) erfasst alle Variablen des Modells mit Fragebögen. Beide Studien sind korrelativ und querschnittlich aufgebaut. Studie III (N=189) induziert experimentell State-Achtsamkeit und prüft die Effekte auf die Bewertung aversiver Bilder. Insgesamt bestätigen die Studien das vorgeschlagene Modell teilweise. Dabei finden sich soÂwohl für Fragebogen als auch für behaviorale Erfassung hypothesenkonforme Ergebnisse. AlÂlerdings sind die Effekte für fragebogenbasierte Operationalisierungen stärker als für behaviorale Erfassung von affektiver Reaktivität. Das Design der Studien begrenzt die interne Validität, so dass die Ergebnisse als erste Hinweise zu verstehen sind. Zukünftige Studien sollten sich weiter auf diesen Wirkfaktor aber auch auf weitere mögliche Wirkfaktoren konzentrieren. Zur Erhöhung der internen Validität sind längsschnittliche Designs, experimentelle Designs und alternative OperationalisierÂungen vonnöten.
The trends of industry 4.0 and the further enhancements toward an ever changing factory lead to more mobility and flexibility on the factory floor. With that higher need of mobility and flexibility the requirements on wireless communication rise. A key requirement in that setting is the demand for wireless Ultra-Reliability and Low Latency Communication (URLLC). Example use cases therefore are cooperative Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) and mobile robotics in general. Working along that setting this thesis provides insights regarding the whole network stack. Thereby, the focus is always on industrial applications. Starting on the physical layer, extensive measurements from 2 GHz to 6 GHz on the factory floor are performed. The raw data is published and analyzed. Based on that data an improved Saleh-Valenzuela (SV) model is provided. As ad-hoc networks are highly depended onnode mobility, the mobility of AGVs is modeled. Additionally, Nodal Encounter Patterns (NEPs) are recorded and analyzed. A method to record NEP is illustrated. The performance by means of latency and reliability are key parameters from an application perspective. Thus, measurements of those two parameters in factory environments are performed using Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) (IEEE 802.11n), private Long Term Evolution (pLTE) and 5G. This showed auto-correlated latency values. Hence, a method to construct confidence intervals based on auto-correlated data containing rare events is developed. Subsequently, four performance improvements for wireless networks on the factory floor are proposed. Of those optimization three cover ad-hoc networks, two deal with safety relevant communication, one orchestrates the usage of two orthogonal networks and lastly one optimizes the usage of information within cellular networks.
Finally, this thesis is concluded by an outlook toward open research questions. This includes open questions remaining in the context of industry 4.0 and further the ones around 6G. Along the research topics of 6G the two most relevant topics concern the ideas of a network of networks and overcoming best-effort IP.
Schwere chronische Erkrankungen beeinträchtigen nicht nur das Leben des Patienten; sie haben auch Auswirkungen auf dessen gesamtes soziales Umfeld: Besonders psychische Erkrankungen wie Schizophrenie, die mit Störungen des Denkens, des Bewusstseins und des (Selbst-)Erlebens einhergehen, führen oft zum Abbruch der meisten sozialen Kontakte, so dass als Bezugspersonen für den Patienten in der Regel nur die engsten Familienangehörigen bleiben. Durch die Erkrankung verändert sich dabei der gewohnte, vertrauensvolle Umgang zwischen Patient und Familie sowie zwischen den einzelnen Familienangehörigen untereinander. Die Umstände der stationären Behandlung in akuten Krankheitsphasen sowie die Folgen und/oder (Neben)Wirkungen der Nachbehandlung in stabilen Phasen haben oft weit reichende Konsequenzen für den Alltag der mit dem Patienten lebenden Angehörigen. Neben der professionellen, institutionell verankerten psychiatrischen Versorgung ist die Betreuung durch die Angehörigen in ihrer Rolle als Laienhelfer die tragende Säule der ambulanten Patientenversorgung. Daher wird seit einigen Jahren in der psychiatrischen Forschung gefordert, die Angehörigen als Kotherapeuten in Therapie und Nachsorge einzubeziehen. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersucht die qualitativ ausgerichtete Arbeit, wie behandelnde Psychiater und Angehörige von schizophren Erkrankten in Nachsorgeterminen, sog. Katamnesegesprächen, miteinander reden. Das Hauptaugenmerk der empirischen Gesprächsanalysen liegt darauf, wie die Angehörigen versuchen, die Therapie "ihres" Patienten zu beeinflussen und wie sie ihre eigenen Befindlichkeiten in den Gesprächen mit dem Arzt thematisieren. In 24, an den Grundsätzen von Handlungssemantik und Sequenzanalyse orientierten, Detailanalysen einer Auswahl zentraler sprachlicher Handlungen zeigt sich, dass die Psychiater es keineswegs mit Angehörigen zu tun haben, deren Verhalten einzig von Schüchternheit oder unhinterfragter Akzeptanz professionell-medizinischer Therapie-Maßnahmen geprägt ist. Vielmehr sehen sie sich durchaus mitteilungsbedürftigen und kritischen Klienten gegenüber: Neben Widersprüchen und Vorschlägen vollziehen die Angehörigen besonders im Hinblick auf die Behandlung des Patienten vor allem Handlungen, die dem Muster Kritisieren zuzuordnen sind. In Bezug auf ihre eigenen Bedürfnisse stellt sich das Handlungsmuster Belastungen äussern als zentral heraus. Die Handlungen mit Bezug auf die Therapie des Patienten gehen dabei oft Hand in Hand mit denjenigen, die sich auf die eigenen Belastungen der Angehörigen beziehen: Zum einen machen sich die Angehörigen Gedanken um den Patienten und dessen Zustand; zum anderen zeigt sich in ihren Äußerungen, dass sie in ihren Gedanken und Gefühlen selbst zutiefst von der Krankheit ihres geliebten Kindes, (Ehe-)Partners, Bruders, der Schwester oder Schwägerin mit betroffen und verunsichert sind. Die Analysen widmen sich daher auch der Frage, ob und wie die Anmerkungen der Angehörigen vom jeweiligen Arzt konstruktiv umgesetzt werden bzw. werden können. Die Arbeit plädiert für eine doppelt ausgerichtete Unterstützung der Angehörigen: zum einen im Hinblick auf ihre Funktion als Kotherapeuten sowie zum anderen im Hinblick auf ihre Bedürfnisse als von der Erkrankung (Mit)Betroffene und (Mit-)Leidende.
Experten der Praxis haben zur Wirkung von Heimerziehung ihre Meinung. Die Einschätzung der Adressaten verhält sich dazu nicht immer deckungsgleich. In der vorliegenden Arbeit arbeitet der Autor im fallinterpretativen-hermeneutischen Untersuchungsdesign die Konstruktionen von jungen Menschen, die im Heim leben zu ihren persönlichen Wirkungsvorstellungen und "überzeugungen bzgl. der Ursachen ihrer eigenen Veränderung und Entwicklung heraus. Diese Konstruktionen werden in Bezug gesetzt zu den aktuellen Ergebnissen aus der Heimerziehungsforschung. Diese Befunde werden ins Verhältnis gesetzt mit den Ergebnissen aus der vorliegenden Untersuchung und dadurch untermauert, konkretisiert, ergänzt und erweitert. Daraus werden Folgerungen für die Praxis abgeleitet. Das Zusammenspiel von konzeptionellem Rahmen, Strukturen und Bedingungen der Heimerziehung wird im Zusammenhang mit den Interessen, den Aneignungsbemühungen und den Selbstwirksamkeitserfahrungen der Adressaten diskutiert und dargestellt Die aus der Untersuchung erwachsenen Ableitungen werden im historischen Aufriss des Pädagogischen Bezugs reflektiert, mit dem Versuch einer aktuellen Ortsbestimmung der Pädagogischen Beziehung. Außerdem werden die Grundzüge der Positive Peer Culture wiedergegeben und mit Praxisbeispielen illustriert
Der Tod des Lebenspartners ist ein Ereignis, das sehr viele Menschen in ihrem Leben irgendwann betrifft. Die große Anzahl an Trauerratgebern, meist auf Glaubensgrundsätzen oder individuellen Erfahrungsberichten beruhend, macht das gesellschaftliche Bedürfnis nach Verständnis und Hilfen bei der Trauerbewältigung deutlich, suggeriert jedoch einen fortgeschrittenen Forschungsstand, der faktisch nicht besteht. Empirische Daten fehlen weitgehend. In Deutschland ist bisher wenig Trauerforschung zu verzeichnen, aber auch auf internationaler Ebene fehlen aussagekräftige Daten innerhalb des ersten Jahres der Trauer. Mit dieser Studie wurde das in der Forschung bestehende Vermeidungsverhalten, Betroffene schon früh nach dem Tod des Ehepartners wissenschaftlich zu befragen, überwunden. Auch bestand bisher in der Trauerforschung eine weitreichende Theorienarmut, indem Daten ohne Bezug zu bestehenden Persönlichkeits- und Stressmodellen erfasst wurden. Es wurde somit bisher versäumt, bestehende psychologische Theorien für das Thema Trauer nutzbar zu machen. Über die Auswertung von Todesanzeigen konnten 66 Teilnehmer für eine Längsschnittstudie gewonnen werden. Die Teilnehmer wurden über Fragebogen zu den drei Messzeitpunkten drei Monate, sechs Monate und neun Monate nach dem Tod des Lebenspartners befragt. Auf der Grundlage der Set-Point-Theorie des Glücks, der Persönlichkeitsmodelle des Optimismus nach Carver und Scheier und der Handlungsorientierung nach Kuhl sowie nach den Stressmodellen von Lazarus und dem Ressourcen-Konservierungs-Modell von Hobfoll wurden Hypothesen zur Gestalt des Trauerverlaufs generiert und entsprechende Variablen in die Befragung aufgenommen. Neben soziodemographischen Daten wurden Persönlichkeitsvariablen, Ressourcenvariablen sowie Bewältigungsstrategien erfasst. Als abhängige Variablen wurden die depressive und psychosomatische Symptomatik und die allgemeine Lebenszufriedenheit in die Studie aufgenommen. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass der Trauerverlauf primär durch eine Veränderung depressiver Symptome und nicht durch eine Veränderung psychosomatischer Symptome oder der allgemeinen Lebenszufriedenheit gekennzeichnet ist. Innerhalb des ersten halben Jahres nach dem Todesereignis ist eine deutliche Besserung der depressiven Symptome bei den Hinterbliebenen messbar. Das hervorstechendste Ergebnis ist, dass die Akzeptanz den zentralen Faktor erfolgreicher Trauerbewältigung darstellt. Die Akzeptanz hängt nicht nur mit den abhängigen Variablen zusammen, sondern ist auch ein signifikanter Prädiktor zur Vorhersage der Veränderungen depressiver und psychosomatischer Symptome sowie der allgemeinen Lebenszufriedenheit. Zwar hängt auch eine positive Neubewertung mit geringeren Symptomen zusammen, jedoch hängt dieser Zusammenhang von der Akzeptanz ab. Eine ausgeprägte Aufmerksamkeitsfokussierung auf Gefühle und Ausdruck von Gefühlen kennzeichnet eine stärkere Trauerreaktion. Handlungsorientierte Bewältigungsstrategien zeigten sich im Gegensatz zu emotionszentrierten Bewältigungsstrategien im Trauerverlauf nicht wirksam. Optimisten zeigen sich bei Verlust des Partners weniger belastet als Pessimisten, aber auch die Überlegenheit der Optimisten gegenüber den Pessimisten wird vor allem durch die Fähigkeit zur Akzeptanz vermittelt. Der Verlust finanzieller Ressourcen stellt für Hinterbliebene, insbesondere für Frauen, einen bedeutsamen weiteren Belastungsfaktor dar, der bei dem Tod des Ehepartners zusätzlich auftritt. Auch wenn die Teilnehmer nach dem Tod des Partners eine gesteigerte soziale Unterstützung erlebten, konnte jedoch nicht wie erwartet eine positive Wirkung einer gesteigerten sozialen Unterstützung auf den Trauerverlauf ausgemacht werden. Gründe hierzu wurden diskutiert. Insgesamt erwiesen sich die angewandten psychologischen Modelle zum Verständnis des Trauerverlaufs als hilfreich. Insbesondere die aus dem Persönlichkeitsmodell des Optimismus nach Carver und Scheier und die aus dem Stressmodell von Lazarus generierten Annahmen ließen sich auf die Gestalt des Trauerverlaufs übertragen. Aus den Ergebnissen dieser Studie konnten Hinweise zur Prävention besonderer Belastungen bei dem Tod des Lebenspartners gewonnen werden. Ebenso konnten Aspekte ausgemacht werden, die die Unterscheidung einer klinisch bedeutsamen Depression von einer normalen Trauerreaktion erleichtern können. Des Weiteren hat die Arbeit aufzeigen können, welche Schwerpunkte bei der Intervention anhaltend schwerer Trauerreaktionen gelegt werden sollten. Forscher arbeiten schon daran, eine pathologische Trauerreaktion zu identifizieren, was langfristig dazu führen kann, dass eine pathologische Trauer in die Klassifikation psychischer Störungen aufgenommen wird. Wichtig ist jedoch zunächst, eine normale Trauerreaktion zu verstehen, um eine pathologische Trauer von einer normalen Trauer unterscheiden zu können. Denn Trauer, so schmerzhaft das Erleben ist, ist grundsätzlich Teil des normalen Lebens.
Die Effekte kognitiv-behavioraler Interventionen bei Patienten mit multiplen somatoformen Symptomen liegen lediglich in einem mittleren Bereich und damit deutlich unter den in der Psychotherapiewirkungsforschung angegebenen Effektstärken. Bislang ist es jedoch nicht gelungen, eindeutig replizierbare, patientenseitige Prädiktoren, die für den Erfolg oder Misserfolg einer kognitiv-behavioralen, ambulanten Therapie bei somatoformen Beschwerden verantwortlich sein können, zu finden. In einem längsschnittlichen Untersuchungsdesign wurde an 78 Patienten (mit mindestens zwei somatoformen Körperbeschwerden), die an einer ambulanten Gruppenintervention teilgenommen haben, die Bedeutung von Symptomintensität und -anzahl, soziodemographischen Variablen, komorbiden psychischen Störungen sowie krankheits- und therapiebezogenen Einstellungen und Verhaltensweisen für die Prädiktion des kurzfristigen Therapieerfolgs untersucht. In bivariaten Analysen zeigte sich ein signifikanter Zusammenhang der zu Beginn der Behandlung erfassten Symptomanzahl, Ängstlichkeit, dysfunktionalen Kognitionen und der Inanspruchnahme medizinischer Ressourcen mit dem Therapieerfolg. Alter, Geschlecht, Bildungsniveau sowie das Vorliegen einer komorbiden Angststörung oder einer depressiven Edpisode waren nicht mit dem Therapieoutcome assoziiert. In multiplen Regressionsanalysen konnten die signifikanten Zusammenhänge jedoch nur für die Symptomanzahl und mit Einschränkungen für die Ängstlichkeit bestätigt werden. Die Ergebnisse werden vor dem Hintergrund des empirischen Forschungsstandes hinsichtlich ihrer praktischen Bedeutung für die differenzielle Therapieindikation diskutiert.
Recent estimates have confirmed that inland waters emit a considerable amount of CH4 and CO2 to the atmosphere at the regional and global scale. But these estimates are based on extrapolated measured data and lack of data from inland waters in arid and semi-arid regions and carbon sources from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) as well insufficient resolution of the spatiotemporal variability of these emissions.
Through this study, we analyzed monthly hydrological, meteorological and water quality data from three irrigation and drinking water reservoirs in the lower Jordan River basin and estimated the atmospheric emission rates of CO2. We investigated the effect of WWTPs on surrounding aquatic systems in term of CH4 and CO2 emission by presenting seasonally resolved data for dissolved concentrations of both gases in the effluents and in the receiving streams at nine WWTPs in Germany.
We investigated spatiotemporal variability of CH4 and CO2 emission from aquatic ecosystems by using of simple low-cost tools for measuring CO2 flux and bubble release rate from freshwater systems. Our estimates showed that reservoirs in semi-arid regions are oversaturated with CO2 and acted as net sources to the atmosphere. The magnitude of observed fluxes at the three water reservoirs in Jordan is comparable to those from tropical reservoirs (3.3 g CO2 m-2 d-1). The CO2 emission rate from these reservoirs is linked to changes of water surface area, which is the result of water management practices. WWTPs have been shown to discharge a considerable amount of CH4 (30.9±40.7 kg yr-1) and CO2 (0.06±0.05 Gg yr-1) to their surrounding streams, and emission rates of CH4 and CO2 from these streams are significantly enhanced by effluents of WWTPs up to 1.2 and 8.6 times, respectively.
Our results showed that both diffusive flux and bubble release rate varied in time and space, and both of emission pathways should be included and variability should be resolved adequately in further sampling and measuring strategies. We conclude that future emission measurements and estimates from inland waters may consider water management practices, carbon sources from WWTPs as well spatial and temporal variability of emission.
Virtueller Konsum - Warenkörbe, Wägungsschemata und Verbraucherpreisindizes in virtuellen Welten
(2015)
Virtual worlds have been investigated by several academic disciplines for several years, e.g. sociology, psychology, law and education. Since the developers of virtual worlds have implemented aspects like scarcity and needs, even economic research has become interested in these virtual environments. Exploring virtual economies mainly deals with the research of trade regarding the virtual goods used to supply the emerged needs. On the one hand, economics analyzes the meaning of virtual trade according to the overall interpretation of the economical characteristics of virtual worlds. As some virtual worlds allow the change of virtual world money with real money and vice versa, virtual goods are traded by the users for real money, researchers on the other hand, study the impact of the interdependencies between virtual economies and the real world. The presented thesis mainly focuses on the trade within virtual worlds in the context of virtual consumption and the observation of consumer prices. Therefore, the four virtual worlds World of Warcraft, RuneScape, Entropia Universe and Second Life have been selected. There are several components required to calculate consumer price indices. First, a market basket, which contains the relevant consumed goods existing in virtual worlds, must be developed. Second, a weighting scheme has to be established, which shows the dispersion of consumer tendencies. Third, prices of relevant consumer goods have to be taken. Following real world methods, it is the challenge to apply those methods within virtual worlds. Therefore, this dissertation contains three corresponding investigation parts. Within a first analysis, it will be evaluated, in how far virtual worlds can be explored to identify consumable goods. As a next step, the consumption expenditures of the avatars will be examined based on an online survey. At last, prices of consumable goods will be recorded. Finally, it will be possible to calculate consumer price indices. While investigating those components, the thesis focuses not only on the general findings themselves, but also on methodological issues arising, like limited access to relevant data, missing legal legitimation or security concerns of the users. Beside these aspects, the used methods also allow the examination of several other economic aspects like the consumption habits of the avatars. At the end of the thesis, it will be considered to what extent virtual world economic characteristics can be compared with the real world.
Aspects like the important role of weapons or the different usage of food show significant differences to the real world, caused by the business models of virtual worlds.
This work is about three subjects: Virtualisation, real-time computing and parallel computing. Taken by itself, each of these subjects has already been wellresearched, however, when considering all three together, as is necessary when looking at embedded systems, numerous questions as well as new possibilities arise. In this work we develop models describing the behaviour and requirements of real-time applications which execute in a hierarchy of processes as they do when running in a virtual machine. Also, the real-time capabilities of existing virtual machines are evaluated and new interfaces for virtualisation of multiprocessor machines which take into account the characteristics of embedded systems"specifically real-time computing" are defined, implemented and tested. This enables safe, secure and efficient coexistence of programs with largely differing time constraints within separate virtual machines on a single, common multiprocessor computer.
Die bisherige Forschung zur Diagnosekompetenz hat trotz langjähriger Forschungstraditionen für die Praxis kaum relevante Befunde erbracht. Dies wurde in der vorliegenden Arbeit als Anlass für den Vorschlag genommen, diagnostische Kompetenz als reine Urteilsgenauigkeit, gemäß der Komponentenanalyse nach Cronbach (1955), zu erweitern. Mit der Einführung der Beobachtungskompetenz als einer weiteren Facette diagnostischer Kompetenz knüpft die vorliegende Studie zudem an der Forschung zu formativem Assessment an.
Die zentralen Fragen der Arbeit beziehen sich darauf, wie die beiden Facetten der diagnostischen Kompetenz Urteilsgenauigkeit und Beobachtungskompetenz von pädagogischen Fachkräften im Elementarbereich ausgeprägt sind, ob diese Facetten zusammenhängen und wie sie durch bereichsspezifische Fortbildungen und explizit durch verschiedene Fortbildungsansätze (Lehrgangs- vs. Lernwegsorientierung) verändert werden können. Untersucht wurden insgesamt 103 Erzieherinnen aus 21 Einrichtungen mit eigens für die Arbeit entwickelten Instrumenten (Fragebögen, Filmvignetten).
Zur Beantwortung der ersten Forschungsfrage, wie die bereichsspezifische diagnostische Kompetenz von Erzieherinnen hinsichtlich der Facetten Urteilsgenauigkeit und Beobachtungskompetenz ausgeprägt ist, zeigt sich, dass Erzieherinnen das Niveau ihrer Gruppe im Vergleich der Urteilsgenauigkeits-Komponenten am besten einschätzen können (Niveaukomponente), mit Tendenz zur Überschätzung. Auch die Wahrnehmung von Unterschieden zwischen den Kindern ihrer Gruppe gelingt ihnen gut (Personenkomponente), dabei neigen sie eher zu einer Überschätzung der Heterogenität. Wesentlich schwerer fällt es ihnen, spezifische Aufgabenschwierigkeiten im mathematischen Bereich korrekt einzuschätzen (Merkmalskomponente) und Unterschiede zwischen den Kindern im Hinblick auf einzelne Aufgaben (Wechselwirkungskomponente) zu beurteilen. Die Erzieherinnen sind jedoch sehr gut in der Lage, die Kinder entsprechend ihrer Leistungen in eine Rangreihenfolge zu bringen, wie es die Korrelationskomponente der Personenkomponente zeigt. Die Beobachtungskompetenz von Erzieherinnen zeigt sich in der Anzahl erkannter Fähigkeiten von Kindern während verschiedener Tätigkeiten mit mathematischem Bezug. Dabei wurde der Schwierigkeitsgrad der Beobachtung mittels Expertinneneinschätzung berücksichtigt. Die Erzieherinnen erkennen durchschnittlich die Hälfte der mathematischen Fähigkeiten von Kindern in verschiedenen komplexen Alltagssituationen bei mathematischen Tätigkeiten. Die zweite Forschungsfrage, ob es einen Zusammenhang zwischen der Urteilsgenauigkeit und der Beobachtungskompetenz gibt, kann klar beantwortet werden. Erwartungswidrig zeigt die vorliegende Untersuchung, dass die Facetten Urteilsgenauigkeit und Beobachtungskompetenz voneinander unabhängig sind. Damit konnte die Annahme, dass auf der einen Seite eine genaue summative Beurteilung auf einer Vielzahl kompetenter Einzelbeobachtungen beruht, auf der anderen Seite aber häufige gezielte Einzelbeobachtungen in ihrer Summe zu einem genaueren Gesamturteil führen, nicht bestätigt werden. Die dritte Forschungsfrage, ob eine bereichsspezifische Fortbildung von Erzieherinnen zur Verbesserung ihrer Urteilsgenauigkeit führt, muss verneint werden. Dagegen beeinflusst der Faktor Zeit (neun Monate zwischen Prä- und Posttest) die Fähigkeit der Erzieherinnen, Unterschiede zwischen den Kindern signifikant besser wahrzunehmen (Personenkomponente) und spezifische Aufgabenschwierigkeiten signifikant besser einzuschätzen (Merkmalskomponente). Damit verbessert sich auch die globale Urteilsgenauigkeit über die Zeit signifikant. Auf die Einschätzung des Leistungsniveaus der Gruppe (Niveaukomponente) sowie von Unterschieden zwischen den Kindern für einzelne Items (Wechselwirkungskomponente) hat jedoch auch der Faktor Zeit keinen signifikanten Einfluss.
Die vierte Forschungsfrage, ob die Unterschiede in der Veränderung der Urteilsgenauigkeit von Erzieherinnen davon abhängig sind, nach welchem Ansatz sie Kinder bereichsspezifisch fördern, lässt sich zusammenfassend verneinen. Die Art und Weise der bereichsspezifischen Förderung spielt keine Rolle für die Variabilität der Urteilsgenauigkeit von Erzieherinnen. Auch die Unterschiedlichkeit in den einzelnen Urteilsgenauigkeitskomponenten lässt sich nicht auf die Art der Fortbildung zurückführen.
Die fünfte Forschungsfrage, ob sich die Beobachtungskompetenz von Erzieherinnen durch eine bereichsspezifische Fortbildung beeinflussen lässt, kann aufgrund einer signifikanten Zunahme der Beobachtungskompetenz nach nur zwei Fortbildungstagen bejaht werden. Damit wird die These gestützt, dass eine Fortbildung zur bereichsspezifischen Förderung für eine gezielte und damit fokussiertere Wahrnehmung früher bereichsspezifischer Kompetenzen bedeutsam ist, selbst wenn sie nicht explizit auf diagnostische Kompetenz, sondern allgemein auf Förderung ausgerichtet ist
Die sechste Forschungsfrage zielt auf Veränderungen der Beobachtungskompetenz von Erzieherinnen in Abhängigkeit von Fortbildungen in verschiedenen bereichsspezifischen Förderansätzen ab. Für eine Zunahme der Beobachtungskompetenz, so zeigt sich, spielt der bereichsspezifische Ansatz, welcher der Fortbildung zugrunde gelegt ist, keine Rolle.
Die vorliegende Studie ist die erste Arbeit, die sowohl Beobachtungskompetenz (Forschung zu formativem Assessment) als auch Urteilsgenauigkeit (Accuracy-Forschung) anhand derselben Stichprobe untersucht. Trotz des im Ergebnis nicht nachgewiesenen Zusammenhangs zwischen Urteilsgenauigkeit und Beobachtungskompetenz stellt die Studie für die zukünftige Forschung bedeutsame Hinweise für die weitere Untersuchung der Facetten diagnostischer Kompetenz bereit.
Im Hinblick auf den frühpädagogischen Kontext zeigt die vorliegende Arbeit zum einen, dass ein ökologisch valides Treatment (Fortbildung) in einem Umfang von zwei Tagen implizit zu einer Verbesserung diagnostischer Kompetenzen führen kann. Zum anderen wird hier erstmalig im deutschsprachigen Raum die Messung der Urteilsgenauigkeit unter vollumfänglicher Erfüllung eines auf Hoge und Coladarci (1989) beruhenden Anforderungsprofils durchgeführt. Ein weiteres Alleinstellungsmerkmal dieser Studie ist die erstmals mit einer Mindestanzahl von vier Einschätzungen pro Erzieherin unter Berücksichtigung der Kontaktzeiten zwischen Erzieherinnen und Bezugskindern erfolgte Erhebung der Urteilsgenauigkeit von Erzieherinnen.
Das Grundwasser unterliegt zahlreichen Nutzungen, gleichzeitig ist es Lebensraum einer artenreichen, hoch angepaßten Fauna. Verunreinigungen des Grundwassers mit Kontaminationen unterschiedlichsten Ursprungs stellen eine wachsende Problematik dar. Für das Monitoring von Altlastflächen werden bisher überwiegend physiko-chemische Methoden eingesetzt. Als weitere Möglichkeit bietet sich ein grundwasserfaunistisch begründetes Monitoring an. Da Freilanduntersuchungen über das Auftreten und die Verteilung von Grundwasserfauna in Altlastflächen bisher fehlen, widmet sich die vorliegende Dissertation dieser Thematik. Ein grundsätzliches Problem grundwasserfaunistischer Untersuchungen ist das Fehlen standardisierter Sammelmethoden. Daher erwies es sich als notwendig, die für die Untersuchung der Altlastflächen optimale Sammelmethode zu identifizieren. Insoweit liefert ein vorangehender Methodenvergleich die Grundlage für das Altlasten-Projekt. Ziel des Methodenvergleichs war es herauszufinden, ob die in Kluftgrundwasserleitern im Vergleich mit Lockergesteinsleitern festgestellte Artenarmut und die meist niedrigen Abundanzen habitat- oder auch methodenbedingt sind. Unter Verwendung eines phreatobiologischen Netzsammlers, einer pneumatischen Kolbenhubpumpe (System NIEDERREITER) und eines Quellnetzes wurden im Naturraum Pfälzerwald 16 Grundwasser-meßstellen (je 8 in den Kluftaquiferen des Buntsandsteins und den sandig-kiesigen Aquiferen der Talauen) und 8 Quellen, sowie 4 Grundwassermeßstellen in der pfälzischen Rheinebene hydrochemisch und faunistisch beprobt. Die Grundwässer beider Naturräume unterschieden sich sowohl hydrochemisch wie auch in ihrer faunistischen Zusammensetzung signifikant voneinander. Aus methodischer Sicht zeigten alle Sammeltechniken, mit Ausnahme der Quellbeprobung, trotz gewisser Unterschiede, qualitativ vergleichbare Ergebnisse. Ziel des Hauptteils der Arbeit " dem Altlasten-Projekt " war die Gewinnung erster empirischer Daten über das Vorkommen und die Verteilung von Grundwasserfauna in Abhängigkeit von Altlasten. Des weiteren sollten über die Korrelation der Grundwasserfauna mit hydrochemischen Parametern und den Koloniezahlen erste Ansätze für eine bioindikative Eignung gefunden werden. Basierend auf den Ergebnissen des methodischen Teils wurden unter Verwendung des phreatobiologischen Netzsammlers fünf in der pfälzischen Rheinebene liegende Untersuchungsstandorte (sechs Einzelschäden), die Kontaminationen unterschiedlicher Art aufwiesen, untersucht. Dabei handelte es sich um drei militärische und zwei industrielle Altlasten sowie eine Hausmülldeponie. Insgesamt wurden 91 Meßstellen, die sich im Zustrom, direkt im Schaden sowie im Abstrom befanden, zweimalig beprobt. Trotz der ausgeprägten Heterogenität der untersuchten Altlaststandorte sowie geringer Arten- und Taxazahlen und Abundanzen weisen die Verteilungsmuster auf Sensitivitäten der Fauna gegenüber Grundwasserverunreinigungen hin. In bezug auf einzelne Schadstoffe (LCKW, PCE, AKW) deuten sich schadstoffspezifische Verteilungsmuster der Fauna an. Das abundanteste Taxon der Untersuchung - die Nematoda - traten an den LCKW / PCE- kontaminierten Standorten nur in geringsten Abundanzen auf, ebenso wie die Parastenocaridae (Crustacea). Oligochaeta und einzelne Cyclopoida-Arten (Crustacea) scheinen hingegen deutlich höhere Konzentrationen dieses Schadstoffs zu tolerieren. Eine gegensätzliche Faunenverteilung wurde an den AKW- kontaminierten Standorten beobachtet. Hier zeigten sich die Nematoda wesentlich toleranter als alle anderen Taxa, ebenso wie die Parastenocaridae. Hingegen traten die Oligochaeta und Cyclopoida oberhalb geringer Konzentrationen nur noch sporadisch auf. Die abundanteste Cyclopoida-Art der gesamten Untersuchung, Diacyclops languidoides, konnte in Anwesenheit von AKW nicht nachgewiesen werden.
The (un-)controlled application of olive oil mill wastewater (OMW) has positive and negative effects on soil quality. On the one hand it can be used as fertilizer, on the other hand especially the occurrence of soil water repellency is problematic. Due to this fact the objective of this study was to characterize the effects of OMW application on soil and to investigate the mechanisms that are in combination with changes of soil organic matter quality responsible for soil water repellency depending on the climatic conditions.
At first several locations of uncontrolled OMW disposal were screened for positive and negative im-pacts. Then, laboratory incubation experiments and finally a field experiment in Israel were conducted in order to determine the influence of climatic conditions. Besides standard soil parameters (pH, elec-tric conductivity, total carbon, dissolved organic carbon , specific UV-Absorption) it was focused on the determination of phenolic compounds, the carbon isotope ratio, the water drop penetration time and the contact angle as well as the thermal analysis.
This thesis shows that soil water repellency of OMW-polluted soils depends on the climatic conditions, i.e. the application season. In the laboratory as well as in the field the wettability of the soil was strongly reduced under hot and dry conditions. It was observed, that the stable carbon fraction characterized by a high calorific value is responsible for soil water repellency. In particular, amphiphilic substances, e.g. fatty acids, may interact with soil particles as a consequence of drying. On the contrary, no reduc-tion of the wettability of the soil was determined under moist conditions and degradation of organic matter of the OMW was enhanced. Nevertheless, too strong irrigation or rainfall, e.g. in winter, may leach phenolic ingredients of the OMW into the groundwater.
At the same time the application led to an increase of organic and inorganic nutrients, which should be emphasized as a positive effect. Due to these results, a controlled application of olive oil mill wastewater as alternative, low-cost and sustainable treatment option is recommended. But, instead of the current application season winter, the olive mill wastewater should be stored and not be spread before spring in order to avoid negative impacts on the soil.
Response-Shift bezeichnet eine Veränderung des Bewertungshintergrunds für subjektive Konzepte wie bspw. der gesundheitsbezogenen Lebensqualität (GLQ) im Rahmen der Auseinandersetzung mit einer schweren bzw. chronischen Erkrankung. Krebserkrankungen werden als Auslöser eines Response-Shifts angesehen. Response-Shift kann in drei verschiedenen Formen auftreten: Als Rekalibrierung, Reprioritisierung und Neukonzeptualisierung der GLQ. Eine Erfassung dieser drei Response-Shift-Prozesse bei einer homogenen Stichprobe von PCa-Patienten in der onkologischen Rehabilitation liegt in Deutschland bisher nicht vor. Es wurden von insgesamt 212 Prostatakrebspatienten (PCa-Patienten) in der Anschlussheilbehandlung Daten zur GLQ mittels des EORTC-QLQ-C30 vor Beginn der Maßnahme sowie 3 Monate nach Beginn erhoben und in die Auswertung zur Response-Shift-Erfassung aufgenommen. Die Prozesse Rekalibrierung, Reprioritisierung und Neukonzeptualisierung wurden mit Hilfe der konfirmatorischen Faktorenanalyse (KFA) erfasst. Eine Rekalibrierung läßt sich auf der Ebene der Messfehler und Intercepts überprüfen. Die Reprioritisierung und Neukonzeptualisierung kann anhand der Veränderung der Faktorladungen untersucht werden. Bei dem Vorgehen handelt es sich um einen Ansatz aus der Invarianzmessung von Variablen und Parametern im Längsschnitt. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde untersucht, ob in der Gesamtstichprobe ein Response-Shift auftritt, und falls ja, in welcher Form (Fragestellung 1). Weiterhin sollte anhand von Subgruppenanalysen (Medianisierung) geprüft werden, welchen Einfluss einerseits das Ausmaß der Veränderung der globalen Lebensqualität (Fragestellung 2) und andererseits die Variablen Benefit-Finding, Selbstwirksamkeit sowie Positive und Negative Affektivität (Fragestellung 3) auf einen Response-Shift haben. Es konnte ein Basismodell der GLQ zu zwei Messzeitpunkten bei den PCa-Patienten identifiziert werden, dass als geeignet bezeichnet wurde, um einen Response Shift in der vorliegenden Stichprobe zu untersuchen (ï£2/df = 1.50, RMSEA = 0.05, CFI = 0.98, TLI = 0.97). Ein so genanntes Nullmodell, in dem alle Response-Shift relevanten Parameter für beide Messzeitpunkte als gleich angenommen wurde, wies eine inakzeptable Modellpassung auf (ï£2/df = 5.30, RMSEA = 0.14, CFI = 0.76, TLI = 0.71). Über die Ableitung geschachtelter Modellvergleiche konnte ausgehend von dem Nullmodell ein Response-Shift-Modell berechnet werden, dass wiederum eine gute Passung aufwies (ï£2/df= 1.31, RMSEA = 0.04, CFI = 0.99, TLI = 0.98). In der vorliegenden Gesamtstichprobe wurden Rekalibrierungsprozesse auf den Skalen Physische, Kognitive und Rollenfunktionsfähigkeit identifiziert, die sich auf die Kalkulation der beobachteten Effekte auf Skalenebene auswirkten. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass Response Shift einen erheblichen Einfluss auf die beobachteten Effekten auf Skalenebene hat (Fragestellung 1). So schätzen PCa-Patienten ihre Physische und Rollenfunktionsfähigkeit zum 2. Messzeitpunkt positiver ein, ohne dass dies auf Veränderungen der GLQ zurückgeführt werden kann. Unabhängig von der Veränderung der GLQ zwischen den Messzeitpunkten schätzen die Patienten ihre Kognitive Funktionsfähigkeit zum Postmesszeitpunkt negativer ein als zur ersten Messung. In den Subgruppenanalysen zeigt sich, dass das Ausmaß der Veränderung der globalen Lebensqualität einen Einfluss auf die Anzahl von Response-Shift-Prozessen hat. Dies gilt ebenso für die Variablen Benefit-Finding, Selbstwirksamkeit und Positive Affektivität. Jedoch lassen sich Unterschiede im Ausmaß von Response-Shift-Effekten zwischen verschiedenen Subgruppen nicht eindeutig nachweisen (Fragestellung 2 und 3). Response Shift sollte bei Untersuchungen der GLQ bei Krebserkrankungen mehr Berücksichtigung finden. Das setzt jedoch voraus, dass die Methoden zur Erfassung des Phänomens weiterentwickelt werden. Mit der hier eingesetzt Methode der KFA im Längsschnitt steht ein geeignetes Verfahren zur Verfügung, das Response-Shift bei einfachen Prä-Post-Messungen erfassen kann. Praktisch relevant erscheint das Ergebnis der Arbeit im Zusammenhang mit der Überprüfung der Wirksamkeit von Maßnahmen der onkologischen Rehabilitation. Werden zur Evaluation Skalen eingesetzt, die response-shift-beeinflusst sind, darf nicht ohne Weiteres auf eine Veränderung des zugrundeliegenden Konstrukts geschlussfolgert werden. In der vorliegenden Arbeit würde die Veränderung der GLQ anhand der Veränderung der manifesten Werte der Skalen Physische und Rollenfunktionsfähigkeit eher überschätzt. Anhand der Skala Kognitive Funktionsfähigkeit würden Veränderungen der GLQ jedoch eher unterschätzt. Somit bietet sich der KFA-Ansatz an, um die Änderungssensitivität von Lebensqualitätsinstrumenten zu prüfen und diese entsprechend weiter zu entwickeln. Außerdem bietet die Methode Möglichkeiten, um inhaltliche Einflussfaktoren auf einen Response-Shift zu prüfen.
In the context of augmented reality we define tracking as a collection of methods to obtain the position and orientation (pose) of a user. By means of various displaying techniques, this ensures a correct visual overlay of graphical information onto the reality perceived. Precise results for calculation of the camera pose are gained by methods of image processing, usually analyzing the pixels of an image and extracing features, which can be recognized over the image sequence. However, these methods do not regard the process of image synthesis or at least in a very simplyfied way. In contrast, the class of model-based methods assumes a given 3D model of the observed scene. Based on the model data features can be identified to establish correspondences in the camera image. From these feature correspondences the camera pose is calculated. An interesting approach is the strategy of analysis-by-synthesis, regarding the computer graphics rendering process for extending the knowledge about the model by information from image synthesis and other environment variables.
In this thesis the components of a tracking system are identified and further it is analyzed, to what extend information about the model, the rendering process and the environment can contribute to the components for improvement of the tracking process using analysis-by-synthesis. In particular, by using knowledge as topological information, lighting or perspective, the feature synthesis and correspondence finding should lead to visually unambiguous features that can be predicted and evaluated to be suitable for stable tracking of the camera pose.
Die Dissertation bietet einen internationalen Vergleich von Gestaltungsmustern der Flexibilitätssteuerung von Unternehmen mit Schwerpunkt auf die Automobilindustrie. Vor dem Hintergrund unterschiedlicher nationaler institutioneller Systeme werden betriebliche Flexibilitätsstrategien analysiert und deren Hintergründe und Funktionsweisen detailliert erläutert. Die Analyse institutioneller Rahmenbedingungen erfolgt mittels der "Varieties of Capitalism". Die Eruierung von Flexibilitätsstrategien basiert auf einer internationalen Fallstudie.
Praktika als gängige Lehr-Lernformate in hochschulischen Kontexten setzen stets die Zusammenarbeit verschiedener Institutionen und Personen voraus, da Studierende mit einem Praktikum den Lernort der Universität verlassen und in einen beruflichen Handlungszusammenhang mit den zugehörigen organisationalen Strukturen versetzt werden. Praktika werden unter anderem als Elemente der Berufsorientierung gesellschaftliche Implikationen zugeschrieben. Als Format innerhalb eines hochschulischen Bildungsgangs sind sie darüber hinaus mit didaktischen Begründungen verbunden und durch die Beteiligung verschiedener Personen auch mit individuellen Interessen. Studierende sind während eines Praktikums in der Rolle als Praktikant*in in besonderer Weise individuell gefordert. Ergänzt werden diese Perspektiven durch die Betrachtung disziplinärer und professioneller Implikationen, die sich für Praktika erziehungswissenschaftlicher Studiengänge ergeben. Zusammenarbeit findet in Praktika zwischen Organisationen, in Organisationen und zwischen Personen statt. Der geringe Forschungsstand zu Perspektiven auf Fragen der Zusammenarbeit für in erziehungswissenschaftliche Studiengänge integrierte Praktika bietet den Anlass der Studie. Um die verschiedenen Perspektiven auf Praktika als Zusammenarbeit zu erheben, werden qualitative episodische Interviews sowohl mit den Studierenden und Lehrenden einer Universität, als auch mit für Praktika verantwortlichen Tätigen aus dem beruflichen Bereich durchgeführt, die nach der qualitativen inhaltlich strukturierenden Inhaltsanalyse ausgewertet werden. Aus der Auswertung der geführten Interviews mit den drei Akteur*innen-Gruppen ergibt sich ein Einblick darin, wie sich Zusammenarbeit zwischen pädagogisch tätigen Institutionen, Universitäten und Studierenden in und durch Praktika konkretisiert. Es werden beispielsweise Aspekte der Interaktionsbezogenen Dimensionen beschrieben, wie auftauchende Dilemmata, Resonanzen, Kulturen des Umgangs, Interessenslagen und Konstellationen von Akteur*innen. Diese werden ergänzt um Aspekte der Dimensionen mit Bezug zu Institutionen, Umwelt, Aufgaben und Personen. Die Interviewaussagen von drei interviewten Akteur*innen-Gruppen Studierende, Praxisanleiter*innen, universitäre Lehrende werden vergleichend anhand dieser Dimensionen betrachtet und als Ergebnisse dieser Studie dargestellt. Die Ergebnisse liefern Aussagen dazu, wie Zusammenarbeit in Praktika erziehungswissenschaftlicher Studiengänge von den beteiligten Akteur*innen-Gruppen wahrgenommen wird. Dies kann dazu beitragen die differierenden Perspektiven anschlussfähig zu machen für die didaktische und organisatorische Gestaltung von Praktika durch Institutionen wie Universitäten und Praktikumseinrichtungen, aber auch durch Initiative von Studierenden in der Rolle als Praktikant*innen während eines erziehungswissenschaftlichen Studiums. Auch für weitere Forschungsprojekte zum Zusammenwirken der Beteiligten in Praktika kann die Studie Anstöße bieten.
The present thesis investigates attitudes and prosocial behavior between workgroups from a social identity and intergroup contact perspective. Based on the Common In-group Identity Model (CIIM; Gaertner & Dvoidio, 2000), it is hypothesized that "optimal" conditions for contact (Allport, 1954) create a common identity at the organizational level which motivates workgroups to cooperate and show organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) rather than intergroup bias. Predictions based on the CIIM are extended with hypotheses derived from the In-group Projection Model (IPM; Mummendey & Wenzel, 1999) and the Self-Categorization Model of Group Norms (Terry & Hogg, 1996). Hypotheses are tested with data from N1 = 281 employees of N2 = 49 different workgroups and their workgroup managers of a German mail-order company (Study 1). Results indicate that group- and individual-level contact conditions are predictive of lower levels of intergroup bias and higher levels of cooperation and helping behavior. A common in-group representation mediates the effect on out-group attitudes and intergroup cooperation. In addition, the effect of a common in-group representation on intergroup bias is moderated by relative prototypicality, as predicted by the IPM, and the effect of prosocial group norms on helping behavior is moderated by workgroup identification, as predicted by the Self-Categorization Model of Group Norms. A longitudinal study with Ntotal = 57 members of different student project groups replicates the finding that contact under "optimal" conditions reduces intergroup bias and increases prosocial behavior between organizational groups. However, a common in-group representation is not found to mediate this effect in Study 2. Initial findings also indicate that individual-level variables, such as helping behavior toward members of another workgroup, may be better accounted for by variables at the same level of categorization (cf. Haslam, 2004). Thus, contact in a context that makes personal identities of workgroup members salient (i.e., decategorization) may be more predictive of interpersonal prosocial behavior, while contact in a context that makes workgroup identities salient (i.e., categorization) may be more predictive of intergroup prosocial behavior (cf. Tajfel, 1978). Further data from Study 1 support such a context-specific effect of contact between workgroups on interpersonal and intergroup prosocial behavior, respectively. In the last step, a temporal integration of the contact contexts that either lead to decategorization, categorization, or recategorization are examined based on the Longitudinal Contact Model (Pettigrew, 1998). A first indication that a temporal sequence from decategorization via categorization to recategorization may be particularly effective in fostering intergroup cooperation is obtained with data from Study 2. In order to provide a heuristic model for research on prosocial behavior between workgroups, findings are integrated into a Context-Specific Contact Model. The model proposes specific effects of contact in different contexts on prosocial behavior at different levels of categorization. Possible mediator and moderator processes are suggested. A number of implications for theory, future research and the management of relations between workgroups are discussed.
By the work presented in this thesis, the CH4 emissions of the River Saar were quantified in space and time continuously and all relevant processes leading to the observed pattern were identified. The direct comparison between reservoir zones and free-flowing intermediate reaches revealed, that the reservoir zones are CH4 emission hot spots and emitted over 90% of the total CH4. On average, the reservoir zones emitted over 80 times more CH4 per square meter than the intermediate reaches between dams (0.23 vs. 19.7 mol CH4 m-2 d-1). The high emission rates measured in the reservoir zones fall into the range of emissions observed in tropical reservoirs. The main reason for this is the accumulation of thick organic rich sediments and we showed that the net sedimentation rate is an excellent proxy for estimating ebullitive emissions. Within the hot spot zones, the ebullitive flux enhanced also the diffusive surface emissions as well as the degassing emissions at dams.
To resolve the high temporal variability, we developed an autonomous instrument for continuous measurements of the ebullition rate over long periods (> 4 weeks). With this instrument we could quantify the variability and identify the relevant trigger mechanisms. At the Saar, ship-lock induces surges and ship waves were responsible for over 85% of all large ebullition events. This dataset was also used to determine the error associated with short sampling periods and we found that with sampling periods of 24 hours as used in other studies, the ebullition rates were systematically underestimated by ~50%. Measuring the temporal variability enabled us to build up a conceptual framework for estimating the temporal pattern of ebullition in other aquatic systems. With respect to the contribution of freshwater systems to the global CH4 emissions, hot spot emission sites in impounded rivers have the potential to increase the current global estimate by up to 7%.
Graph-based data formats are flexible in representing data. In particular semantic data models, where the schema is part of the data, gained traction and commercial success in recent years. Semantic data models are also the basis for the Semantic Web - a Web of data governed by open standards in which computer programs can freely access the provided data. This thesis is concerned with the correctness of programs that access semantic data. While the flexibility of semantic data models is one of their biggest strengths, it can easily lead to programmers accidentally not accounting for unintuitive edge cases. Often, such exceptions surface during program execution as run-time errors or unintended side-effects. Depending on the exact condition, a program may run for a long time before the error occurs and the program crashes.
This thesis defines type systems that can detect and avoid such run-time errors based on schema languages available for the Semantic Web. In particular, this thesis uses the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and its theoretic underpinnings, i.e., description logics, as well as the Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL) to define type systems that provide type-safe data access to semantic data graphs. Providing a safe type system is an established methodology for proving the absence of run-time errors in programs without requiring execution. Both schema languages are based on possible world semantics but differ in the treatment of incomplete knowledge. While OWL allows for modelling incomplete knowledge through an open-world semantics, SHACL relies on a fixed domain and closed-world semantics. We provide the formal underpinnings for type systems based on each of the two schema languages. In particular, we base our notion of types on sets of values which allows us to specify a subtype relation based on subset semantics. In case of description logics, subsumption is a routine problem. For
the type system based on SHACL, we are able to translate it into a description
logic subsumption problem.
Water scarcity is already an omnipresent problem in many parts of the world, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. The dry years 2018 and 2019 showed that also in Germany water resources are finite. Projections and predictions for the next decades indicate that renewal rates of existing water resources will decline due the growing influence of climate change, but that water extraction rates will increase due to population growth. It is therefore important to find alternative and sustainable methods to make optimal use of the water resources currently available. For this reason, the reuse of treated wastewater for irrigation and recharge purposes has become one focus of scientific research in this field. However, it must be taken into account that wastewater contains so-called micropollutants, i.e., substances of anthropogenic origin. These are, e.g., pharmaceuticals, pesticides and industrial chemicals which enter the wastewater, but also metabolites that are formed in the human body from pharmaceuticals or personal care products. Through the treatment in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) as well as through chemical, biological and physical processes in the soil passage during the reuse of water, these micropollutants are transformed to new substances, known as transformation products (TPs), which further broaden the number of contaminants that can be detected within the whole water cycle.
Despite the fact that the presence of human metabolites and environmental TPs in untreated and treated wastewater has been known for a many years, they are rarely included in common routine analysis methods. Therefore, a first goal of this thesis was the development of an analysis method based on liquid chromatography - tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) that contains a broad spectrum of frequently detected micropollutants including their known metabolites and TPs. The developed multi-residue analysis method contained a total of 80 precursor micropollutants and 74 metabolites and TPs of different substance classes. The method was validated for the analysis of different water matrices (WWTP influent and effluent, surface water and groundwater from a bank filtration site). The influence of the MS parameters on the quality of the analysis data was studied. Despite the high number of analytes, a sufficient number of datapoints per peak was maintained, ensuring a high sensitivity and precision as well as a good recovery for all matrices. The selection of the analytes proved to be relevant as 95% of the selected micropollutants were detected in at least one sample. Several micropollutants were quantified that were not in the focus of other current multi-residue analysis methods (e.g. oxypurinol). The relevance of including metabolites and TPs was demonstrated by the frequent detection of, e.g., clopidogrel acid and valsartan acid at higher concentrations than their precursors, the latter even being detected in samples of bank filtrate water.
By the integration of metabolites, which are produced in the body by biological processes, and biological and chemical TPs, the multi-residue analysis method is also suitable for elucidating degradation mechanisms in treatment systems for water reuse that, e.g., use a soil passage for further treatment. In the second part of the thesis, samples from two treatment systems based on natural processes were analysed: a pilot-scale above-ground sequential biofiltration system (SBF) and a full-scale soil aquifer treatment (SAT) site. In the SBF system mainly biological degradation was observed, which was clearly demonstrated by the detection of biological TPs after the treatment. The efficiency of the degradation was improved by an intermediate aeration, which created oxic conditions in the upper layer of the following soil passage. In the SAT system a combination of biodegradation and sorption processes occurred. By the different behaviour of some biodegradable micropollutants compared to the SBF system, the influence of redox conditions and microbial community was observed. An advantage of the SAT system over the SBF system was found in the sorption capacity of the natural soil. Especially positively charged micropollutants showed attenuation due to ionic interactions with negatively charged soil particles. Based on the physicochemical properties at ambient pH, the degree of removal in the investigated systems and the occurrence in the source water, a selection of process-based indicator substances was proposed.
Within the first two parts of this thesis a micropollutant was frequently detected at elevated concentrations in WWTPs effluents, which was not previously in the focus of environmental research: the antidiabetic drug sitagliptin (STG). STG showed low degradability in biological systems and thus it was investigated to what extend chemical treatment by ozonation can ensure attenuation of it. STG contains an aliphatic primary amine as the principal point of attack for the ozone molecule. There is only limited information about the behaviour of this functional group during ozonation and thus, STG served as an example for other micropollutants containing aliphatic primary amines. A pH-dependent degradation kinetic was observed due to the protonation of the primary amine at lower pH values. At pH values in the range 6 - 8, which is typical for the environment and in WWTPs, STG showed degradation kinetics in the range of 103 M-1s-1 and thus belongs to the group of readily degradable substances. However, complete degradation can only be expected at significantly higher pH values (> 9). The transformation of the primary amine moiety into a nitro group was observed as the major degradation mechanism for STG during ozonation. Other mechanisms involved the formation of a diketone, bond breakages and the formation of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA). Investigations at a pilot-scale ozonation plant using the effluent of a biological degradation of a municipal WWTP as source water confirmed the results of the laboratory studies: STG could not be removed completely even at high ozone doses and the nitro compound was formed as the main TP and remained stable during further ozonation and subsequent biological treatment. It can therefore be assumed that under realistic conditions both a residual concentration of STG and the formed main TP as well as other stable TPs such as TFA can be detected in the effluents of a WWTP consisting of conventional biological treatment followed by ozonation and subsequent biological polishing steps.
Despite the significant presence of neuroactive substances in the environment, bioassays that allow to detect diverse groups of neuroactive mechanisms of action are not well developed and not properly integrated into environmental monitoring and chemical regulation. Therefore, there is a need to develop testing methods which are amenable for fast and high-throughput neurotoxicity testing. The overall goal of this thesis work is to develop a test method for the toxicological characterization and screening of neuroactive substances and their mixtures which could be used for prospective and diagnostic hazard assessment.
In this thesis, the behavior of zebrafish embryos was explored as a promising tool to distinguish between different neuroactive mechanisms of action. Recently, new behavioral tests have been developed including photomotor response (PMR), locomotor response (LMR) and spontaneous tail coiling (STC) tests. However, the experimental parameters of these tests lack consistency in protocols such as exposure time, imaging time, age of exposure, endpoint parameter etc. To understand how experimental parameters may influence the toxicological interpretation of behavior tests, a systematic review of existing behavioral assays was conducted in Chapter 2. Results show that exposure concentration and exposure duration highly influenced the comparability between different test methods and the spontaneous tail coiling (STC) test was selected for further testing based on its relative higher sensitivity and capacity to detect neuroactive substances (Chapter 2).
STC is the first observable motor activity generated by the developing neural network of the embryo which is assumed to occur as a result of the innervation of the muscle by the primary motor neurons. Therefore, STC could be a useful endpoint to detect effect on the muscle innervation and also the on the whole nervous system. Consequently, important parameters of the STC test were optimized and an automated workflow to evaluate the STC with the open access software KNIME® was developed (Chapter 3).
To appropriately interpret the observed effect of a single chemical and especially mixture effects, requires the understanding of toxicokinetics and biotransformation. Most importantly, the biotransformation capacity of zebrafish embryos might be limited and this could be a challenge for assessment of chemicals such as organophosphates which require a bioactivation step to effectively inhibit the acetylcholinesterase (AChE) enzyme. Therefore, the influence of the potential limited biotransformation on the toxicity pathway of a typical organophosphate, chlorpyrifos, was investigated in Chapter 5. Chlorpyrifos could not inhibit AChE and this was attributed to possible lack of biotransformation in 24 hpf embryos (Chapter 5).
Since neuroactive substances occur in the environment as mixtures, it is therefore more realistic to assess their combined effect rather than individually. Therefore, mixture toxicity was predicted using the concentration addition and independent action models. Result shows that mixtures of neuroactive substances with different mechanisms of action but similar effects can be predicted with concentration addition and independent action (Chapter 4). Apart
from being able to predict the combined effect of neuroactive substances for prospective risk assessment, it is also important to assess in retrospect the combined neurotoxic effect of environmental samples since neuroactive substances are the largest group of chemicals occurring in the environment. In Chapter 6, the STC test was found to be capable of detecting neurotoxic effects of a wastewater effluent sample. Hence, the STC test is proposed as an effect based tool for monitoring environmental acute and neurotoxic effects.
Overall, this thesis shows the utility and versatility of zebrafish embryo behavior testing for screening neuroactive substances and this allows to propose its use for prospective and diagnostic hazard assessment. This will enhance the move away from expensive and demanding animal testing. The information contained in this thesis is of great potential to provide precautionary solutions, not only for the exposure of humans to neuroactive chemicals but for the environment at large.
Augmented reality (AR) applications typically extend the user's view of the real world with virtual objects.
In recent years, AR has gained increasing popularity and attention, which has led to improvements in the required technologies. AR has become available to almost everyone.
Researchers have made great progress towards the goal of believable AR, in which the real and virtual worlds are combined seamlessly.
They mainly focus on issues like tracking, display technologies and user interaction, and give little attention to visual and physical coherence when real and virtual objects are combined. For example, virtual objects should not only respond to the user's input; they should also interact with real objects. Generally, AR becomes more believable and realistic if virtual objects appear fixed or anchored in the real scene, appear indistinguishable from the real scene, and response to any changes within it.
This thesis examines on three challenges in the field of computer vision to meet the goal of a believable combined world in which virtual objects appear and behave like real objects.
Firstly, the thesis concentrates on the well-known tracking and registration problem. The tracking and registration challenge is discussed and an approach is presented to estimate the position and viewpoint of the user so that virtual objects appear fixed in the real world. Appearance-based line models, which keep only relevant edges for tracking purposes, enable absolute registration in the real world and provide robust tracking. On the one hand, there is no need to spend much time creating suitable models manually. On the other hand, the tracking can deal with changes within the object or the scene to be tracked. Experiments have shown that the use of appearance-based line models improves the robustness, accuracy and re-initialization speed of the tracking process.
Secondly, the thesis deals with the subject of reconstructing the surface of a real environment and presents an algorithm to optimize an ongoing surface reconstruction. A complete 3D surface reconstruction of the target scene
offers new possibilities for creating more realistic AR applications. Several interactions between real and virtual objects, such as collision and occlusions, can be handled with physical correctness. Whereas previous methods focused on improving surface reconstructions offline after a capturing step, the presented method de-noises, extends and fills holes during the capturing process. Thus, users can explore an unknown environment without any preparation tasks such as moving around and scanning the scene, and without having to deal with the underlying technology in advance. In experiments, the approach provided realistic results where known surfaces were extended and filled in plausibly for different surface types.
Finally, the thesis focuses on handling occlusions between the real and virtual worlds more realistically, by re-interpreting the occlusion challenge as an alpha matting problem. The presented method overcomes limitations in state-of-the-art methods by estimating a blending coefficient per pixel of the rendered virtual scene, instead of calculating only their visibility. In several experiments and comparisons with other methods, occlusion handling through alpha matting worked robustly and overcame limitations of low-cost sensor data; it also outperformed previous work in terms of quality, realism and practical applicability.
The method can deal with noisy depth data and yields realistic results in regions where foreground and background are not strictly separable (e.g. caused by fuzzy objects or motion blur).
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.
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.
Organic substances play an essential role for the formation of stable soil structures. In this context, their physico-chemical properties, interactions with mineral soil constituents and soil-water interactions are particu-larly important. However, the underlying mechanisms contributing to soil particle cementation by swollen or-ganic substances (hydrogels) remains unclear. Up to now, no mechanistic model is available which explains the mechanisms of interparticulate hydrogel swelling and its contribution to soil-water interactions and soil structur-al stability. This mainly results from the lack of appropriate testing methods to study hydrogel swelling in soil as well as from the difficulties of adapting available methods to the system soil/hydrogel.
In this thesis, 1H proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxometry was combined with various soil micro- and macrostructural stability testing methods in order to identify the contribution of hydrogel swelling-induced soil-water interactions to the structural stability of water-saturated and unsaturated soils. In the first part, the potentials and limitations of 1H NMR relaxometry to enlighten soil structural stabilization mechanism and vari-ous water populations were investigated. In the second part, 1H-NMR relaxometry was combined with rheologi-cal measurements of soil to assess the contribution of interparticulate hydrogel swelling and various polymer-clay interactions on soil-water interactions and soil structural stability in an isolated manner. Finally, the effects of various organic and mineral soil fractions on soil-water interactions and soil structural stability was assessed in more detail for a natural, agriculturally cultivated soil by soil density fractionation and on the basis of the experiences gained from the previous experiments.
The increased experiment complexity in the course of this thesis enabled to link physico-chemical properties of interparticulate hydrogel structures with soil structural stability on various scales. The established mechanistic model explains the contribution of interparticulate hydrogels to the structural stability of water-saturated and unsaturated soils: While swollen clay particles reduce soil structural stability by acting as lubricant between soil particles, interparticulate hydrogel structures increase soil structural stability by forming a flexible polymeric network which interconnects mineral particles more effectively than soil pore- or capillary water. It was appar-ent that soil structural stability increases with increasing viscosity of the interparticluate hydrogel in dependence on incubation time, soil texture, soil solution composition and external factors in terms of moisture dynamics and agricultural management practices. The stabilizing effect of interparticulate hydrogel structures further in-crease in the presence of clay particles which is attributed to additional polymer-clay interactions and the incor-poration of clay particles into the three-dimensional interparticulate hydrogel network. Furthermore, the simul-taneous swelling of clay particles and hydrogel structures results in the competition for water and thus in a mu-tual restriction of their swelling in the interparticle space. Thus, polymer-clay interactions not only increase the viscosity of the interparticulate hydrogel and thus its ability to stabilize soil structures but further reduce the swelling of clay particles and consequently their negative effects on soil structural stability. The knowledge on these underlying mechanisms enhance the knowledge on the formation of stable soil structures and enable to take appropriate management practices in order to maintain a sustainable soil structure. The additionally out-lined limitations and challenges of the mechanistic model should provide information on areas with optimization and research potential, respectively.
Based on dual process models of information processing, the present research addressed how explicit disgust sensitivity is re-adapted according to implicit disgust sensitivity via self-perception of automatic behavioral cues. Contrary to preceding studies (Hofmann, Gschwendner, & Schmitt, 2009) that concluded that there was a "blind spot" for self- but not for observer perception of automatic behavioral cues, in the present research, a re-adaption process was found for self-perceivers and observers. In Study 1 (N = 75), the predictive validity of an indirect disgust sensitivity measure was tested with a double-dissociation strategy. Study 2 (N = 117) reinvestigated the hypothesis that self-perception of automatic behavioral cues, predicted by an indirect disgust sensitivity measure, led to a re-adaption of explicit disgust sensitivity measures. Using a different approach from Hofmann et al. (2009), the self-perception procedure was modified by (a) feeding back the behavior several times while a small number of cues had to be rated for each feedback condition, (b) using disgust sensitivity as a domain with clearly unequivocal cues of automatic behavior (facial expression, body movements) and describing these cues unambiguously, and (c) using a specific explicit disgust sensitivity measure in addition to a general explicit disgust sensitivity measure. In Study 3 (N = 130), the findings of Study 2 were replicated and display rules and need for closure as moderator effects of predictive validity and cue utilization were additionally investigated. The moderator effects give hints that both displaying a disgusted facial expression and self-perception of one- own disgusted facial expression are subject to a self-serving bias, indicating that facial expression may not be an automatic behavior. Practical implications and implications for future research are discussed.
Abstract The present work investigates the wetting characteristics of soils with regard to their dependence on environmental parameters such as water content (WC), pH, drying temperature and wetting temperature of wettable and repellent soils from two contrasting anthropogenic sites, the former sewage disposal field Berlin-Buch and the inner-city park Berlin-Tiergarten. The aim of this thesis is to deepen the understanding of processes and mechanisms leading to changes in soil water repellency. This helps to gain further insight into the behaviour of soil organic matter (SOM) and identifying ways to prevent or reduce the negative effects of soil water repellency (SWR). The first focus of this work is to determine whether chemical reactions are required for wetting repellent samples. This hypothesis was tested by time and temperature dependence of sessile drop spreading on wettable and repellent samples. Additionally, diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform (DRIFT) spectroscopy was used to determine whether various drying regimes cause changes in the relative abundance of hydrophobic and hydrophilic functional groups in the outer layer of soil particles and whether these changes can be correlated with water content and the degree of SWR. Finally, by artificially altering the pH in dried samples applying acidic and alkaline reagents in a gaseous state, the influence of only pH on the degree of SWR was investigated separately from the influence of changes in moisture status. The investigation of the two locations Buch and Tiergarten, each exceptionally different in the nature of their respective wetting properties, leads to new insights in the variety of appearance of SWR. The results of temperature, water content and pH dependency of SWR on the two contrasting sites resulted in one respective hypothetical model of nature of repellency for each site which provides an explanation for most of the observations made in this and earlier studies: At the Tiergarten site, wetting characteristics are most likely determined by micelle-like arrangement of amphiphiles which depends on the concentration of water soluble amphiphilic substances, pH and ionic strength in soil solution. At low pH and at high ionic strength, repulsion forces between hydrophilic charged groups are minimized allowing their aggregation with outward orientated hydrophobic molecule moieties. At high pH and low ionic strength, higher repulsion forces between hydrophilic functional groups lead to an aggregation of hydrophobic groups during drying, which results in a layer with outward oriented hydrophilic moieties on soil organic matter surface leading to enhanced wettability. For samples from the Buch site, chemical reactions are necessary for the wetting process. The strong dependence of SWR on water content indicates that hydrolysis-condensation reactions are the controlling mechanisms. Since acid catalyzed hydrolysis is an equilibrium reaction dependent on water content, an excess of water favours hydrolysis leading to an increasing number of hydrophilic functional groups. In contrast, water deficiency favours condensation reactions leading to a reduction of hydrophilic functional groups and thus a reduction of wettability. The results of the present investigation and its comparison with earlier investigations clearly show that SWR is subject to numerous antagonistically and synergistically interacting environmental factors. The degree of influence, which a single factor exerts on SWR, is site-specific, e.g., it is dependent on special characteristics of mineral constituents and SOM which underlies the influence of climate, soil texture, topography, vegetation and the former and current use of the respective site.
Larvae of Cx.pipiens coocurred with Cladocera, but the latter established delayed in time. Biotope structure influenced time of species occurrence with ponds at reed-covered wetlands favouring crustacean development, while ponds at grassland biotopes favoured colonization by mosquito larvae. The mechanisms driving the negative effect of crustaceans on mosquito larvae were investigated within an experiment under artificial conditions. Crustacean communities were found to reduce both oviposition and larval development of Cx.pipiens. Crustacean communities of high taxa diversity, including both predatory and competing crustaceans, were more effective compared with crustacean communities dominated by single taxa. Presence of crustacean communities characterised by high taxa diversity increased the sensitivity of Cx.pipiens larvae towards Bti and prolonged the time of recolonization. In a final step the combined approach, using Bti and crustaceans, was evaluated under field conditions. The joint application of Bti and crustaceans was found to reduce mosquito larval populations over the whole observation period, while single application of Bti caused only short-term reduction of mosquito larvae. Single application of crustaceans had no significant effect, because high abundances of prior established mosquito larvae impeded propagation of crustaceans. At combined treatment, mosquito larvae were reduced by Bti application and hence crustaceans were able to proliferate without disturbance by interspecific competition. In conclusion, natural competitors were found to have a strong negative impact on mosquito larval populations. However, a time span of about 2 weeks has to be bridged, before crustacean communities reached a level sufficient for mosquito control. Results of a combined approach, complementing the short-term effect of the biological insecticide Bti with the long-term effect of crustaceans, were promising. Using natural competitors within an integrated control strategy could be an important tool for an effective, environmentally friendly and sustainable mosquito management.
The role of alternative resources for pollinators and aphid predators in agricultural landscapes
(2021)
The world wide decline of insects is often associated with loss of natural and semi-natural habitat caused by intensified land-use. Many insects provide important ecosystem services to agriculture, such as pest control or pollination. To efficiently promote insects on remaining semi-natural habitat we need precise knowledge of their requirements to non-crop habitat. This thesis focuses on identifying
the most important semi-natural habitats (forest edges, grasslands, and semi-open habitats) for pollinators and natural enemies of crop pests with respect to their food resource requirements. Special
attention is given to floral resources and their spatio-temporal distribution in agricultural landscapes.
Floral resource maps might get closer at characterizing landscapes the way they are experienced by insects compared to classical habitat maps. Performance of the two map types was compared on the prediction of wild bees and natural enemies that consume nectar and pollen, identifying habitats of special importance in the process. In wild bees, influences of spatio-temporal floral resource availability were analysed as well as habitat preferences of specific groups of bees. Understanding dietary needs of natural enemies of crop pests requires additional knowledge on prey use. To this end, ladybird gut contents have been analysed by means of high-throughput sequencing for insight into aphid prey-use.
Results showed, that wild bees were predicted better by floral resource maps compared to classical habitat maps. Forest edge area, as well as floral resources in forest edges had positive effects on abundance and diversity of rare bees and important crop pollinators. Similar patterns were retained for grassland diversity. Especially early floral resources seemed to have positive effects on wild bees. Crops and fruit trees produced a resource pulse in April that exceeded floral resource availability in May and June by tenfold. Most floral resources in forest edges appeared early in the season, with the highest floral density per area. Grasslands provided the lowest amount of floral resources but highest diversity, which was evenly distributed over the season.
Despite natural enemies need for floral resources, classical habitat maps performed better at predicting natural enemies of crop pests compared to floral resource maps. Classical habitat maps revealed a positive effect of forest edge habitat on the abundance of pest enemies, which translated into improved aphid control. Results from gut content analysis reveal high portions of pest aphid species and nettle aphids as well as a broader insight into prey spectra retained from ladybirds collected from sticky traps compared to individuals collected by hand. The aphid specific primer designed for this purpose will be helpful for identifying aphid consumption by ladybirds in future studies.
Findings of this thesis show the potential of floral resource maps for understanding interactions of wild bees and the landscape but also indicate that natural enemies are limited by other resources. I would like to highlight the positive effects of forest edges for different groups of bees as well as natural enemies and their performance on pest control.
Ray tracing acceleration through dedicated data structures has long been an important topic in computer graphics. In general, two different approaches are proposed: spatial and directional acceleration structures. The thesis at hand presents an innovative combined approach of these two areas, which enables a further acceleration of the tracing process of rays. State-of-the-art spatial data structures are used as base structures and enhanced by precomputed directional visibility information based on a sophisticated abstraction concept of shafts within an original structure, the Line Space.
In the course of the work, novel approaches for the precomputed visibility information are proposed: a binary value that indicates whether a shaft is empty or non-empty as well as a single candidate approximating the actual surface as a representative candidate. It is shown how the binary value is used in a simple but effective empty space skipping technique, which allows a performance gain in ray tracing of up to 40% compared to the pure base data structure, regardless of the spatial structure that is actually used. In addition, it is shown that this binary visibility information provides a fast technique for calculating soft shadows and ambient occlusion based on blocker approximations. Although the results contain a certain inaccuracy error, which is also presented and discussed, it is shown that a further tracing acceleration of up to 300% compared to the base structure is achieved. As an extension of this approach, the representative candidate precomputation is demonstrated, which is used to accelerate the indirect lighting computation, resulting in a significant performance gain at the expense of image errors. Finally, techniques based on two-stage structures and a usage heuristic are proposed and evaluated. These reduce memory consumption and approximation errors while maintaining the performance gain and also enabling further possibilities with object instancing and rigid transformations.
All performance and memory values as well as the approximation errors are measured, presented and discussed. Overall, the Line Space is shown to result in a considerate improvement in ray tracing performance at the cost of higher memory consumption and possible approximation errors. The presented findings thus demonstrate the capability of the combined approach and enable further possibilities for future work.
Grassland management has been increasingly intensified throughout centuries since mankind started to control and modify the landscape. Species communities were always shaped alongside management changes leading to huge alterations in species richness and diversity up to the point where land use intensity exceeded the threshold. Since then biodiversity became increasingly lost. Today, global biodiversity and especially grassland biodiversity is pushed beyond its boundaries. Policymakers and conservationists seek for management options which fulfill the requirements of agronomic interests as well as biodiversity conservation alongside with the maintenance of ecosystem processes. However, there is and will always be a trade-off.
Earlier in history, natural circumstances in a landscape mainly determined regionally adapted land use. These regional adaptions shaped islands for many specialist species, and thus diverse species communities, favoring the establishment of a high β-diversity. With the raising food demand, these regional and traditional management regimes became widely unprofitable, and the invention of mineral fertilizers ultimately led to a wide homogenization of grassland management and, as follows, the loss of biotic heterogeneity. In the course of the green revolution, this immediate coherence and the dependency between grassland biodiversity and traditional land use practices becomes increasingly noticed. Indeed, some traditional forms of management such as meadow irrigation have been preserved in a few regions and thus give us the opportunity to directly investigate their long-term relevance for the species communities and ecosystem processes. Traditional meadow irrigation was a common management practice to improve productivity in lowland, but also alpine hay meadows throughout Europe until the 20th century. Nowadays, meadow irrigation is only practiced as a relic in a few remnant areas. In parts of the Queichwiesen meadows flood irrigation goes back to the Middle Ages, which makes them a predestined as a model region to study the long- and short-term effects of lowland meadow irrigation on the biodiversity and ecosystem processes.
Our study pointed out the conservation value of traditional meadow irrigation for the preservation of local species communities as well as the plant diversity at the landscape scale. The structurally more complex irrigated meadows lead to the assumption of a higher arthropod diversity (Orthodoptera, Carabidae, Araneae), which could not be detected. However, irrigated meadows are a significant habitat for moisture dependent arthropod species. In the light of the agronomic potential, flood irrigation could be a way to at least reduce fertilizer costs to a certain degree and possibly prevent overfertilization pulses which are necessarily hazardous to non-target ecosystems. Still, the reestablishment of flood irrigation in formerly irrigated meadows, or even the establishment of new irrigation systems needs ecological and economic evaluation dependent on regional circumstances and specific species communities, at which this study could serve as a reference point.
Aquatic macrophytes can contribute to the retention of organic contaminants in streams, whereas knowledge on the dynamics and the interaction of the determining processes is very limited. The objective of the present study was thus to assess how aquatic macrophytes influence the distribution and the fate of organic contaminants in small vegetated streams. In a first study that was performed in vegetated stream mesocosms, the peak reductions of five compounds were significantly higher in four vegetated stream mesocosms compared to a stream mesocosm without vegetation. Compound specific sorption to macrophytes was determined, the mass retention in the vegetated streams, however, did not explain the relationship between the mitigation of contaminant peaks and macrophyte coverage. A subsequent mesocosm study revealed that the mitigation of peak concentrations in the stream mesocosms was governed by two fundamentally different processes: dispersion and sorption. Again, the reductions of the peak concentrations of three different compounds were in the same order of magnitude in a sparsely and a densely vegetated stream mesocosm, respectively, but higher compared to an unvegetated stream mesocosm. The mitigation of the peak reduction in the sparsely vegetated stream mesocosm was found to be fostered by longitudinal dispersion as a result of the spatial distribution of the macrophytes in the aqueous phase. The peak reduction attributable to longitudinal dispersion was, however, reduced in the densely vegetated stream mesocosm, which was compensated by compound-specific but time-limited and reversible sorption to macrophytes. The observations on the reversibility of sorption processes were subsequently confirmed by laboratory experiments. The experiments revealed that sorption to macrophytes lead to compound specific elimination from the aqueous phase during the presence of transient contaminant peaks in streams. After all, these sorption processes were found to be fully reversible, which results in the release of the primarily adsorbed compounds, once the concentrations in the aqueous phase starts to decrease. Nevertheless, the results of the present thesis demonstrate that the processes governing the mitigation of contaminant loads in streams are fundamentally different to those already described for non-flowing systems. In addition, the present thesis provides knowledge on how the interaction of macrophyte-induced processes in streams contributes to mitigate loads of organic contaminants and the related risk for aquatic environments.
The protected areas of Rwanda are facing various challenges resulting from the anthropogenic activities of the surrounding communities especially in the adjacent area to Cyamudongo isolated rain forest, which results in climate change, soil degradation, and loss of biodiversity. Therefore, this study aims to broaden current knowledge on the impact of sustainable Agroforestry (AF) on the Carbon (C) stock and Biodiversity conservation on the surroundings of Cyamudongo isolated rain forest and Ruhande Arboretum.
To understand this, the permanent sample plots (PSPs) were established mainly in the designed four transects of four km long originating on the boundary of the Cyamudongo isolated rain forest following the slope gradient ranging from 1286 to 2015 m asl. A total number of 73 PSPs were established in the Cyamudongo study area while 3 PSPs were established in the Ruhande AF plot. The Arc Map GIS 10.4 was used to design and map the sampling areas while GPS was used for localization of collected items. Statistical significance was analyzed through the R-software especially for wood and soil variables while for biodiversity indicator species, MVSP Software 3.0 was used to determine the Shannon Diversity indices and similarities among species.
In this study, I have obtained comprehensive results demonstrating that in all study areas, the various AF tree species contribute differently to C stock and C sequestration and the amount of C stored and removed from the atmosphere depends on different factors such as tree species, plantation density, growth stage, or the age of establishment, applied management practices, wood specific density (WSD), wood C concentration, and climatic conditions. The estimated quantity of sequestrated C for 2 years and 34 years AF species were 13.11 t C ha -1 yr-1 (equivalent to 48 t CO2 ha -1 yr-1) and 6.85 t ha-1 yr-1 (equivalent to 25.1 t CO2 ha -1 yr-1) in Cyamudongo and Ruhande respectively. The estimated quantity of C stored by the Ruhande AF plot is 232.94 t ha-1. In Cyamudongo, the overall C stored by the AF systems was 823 t ha-1 by both young tree species established by the Cyamudongo Project (35.84 t ha-1) and C stored by existed AF species before the existence of the Project (787.12 t ha-1). In all study areas, the Grevillea robusta was found to contribute more to overall stored C compared to other species under this study.
The tests revealed differences in terms of nutrient contents (C, N, C: N ratio, K, Na, Ca, and Mg) for various AF tree species of Cyamudongo and Ruhande study areas. The differences in terms of correlation for various variables of AF tree species in different study areas varied with tree species, age, stage of growth, and tree shape. By comparing the correlation coefficients for various tree variables for young and mature AF tree species, the results showed a high correlation variability for young species than mature or old species recorded in different environmental conditions of Cyamudongo and Ruhande study areas.
The recorded soil pH mean value across in Cyamudongo study area is 4.2, which is very strongly acidic. The tests revealed that the soil pH, C, C: N ratio, OM, NH4+, NO3-+NO2-, PO43-, and CEC were significantly (P < 0.05) different in various soil depths whereas the N was not statistically significant. The pH, N, C: N ratio, CEC, NH4+, PO43-, and Al3+ showed a significant difference across land uses whereas the C and NO3-+NO2- did not show any statistical difference. All tested chemical elements showed a statistical difference as far as altitude ranges are concerned. The only NH4+, PO43-, and CEC showed significant differences with time whereas all other remaining chemical elements did not show any statistical significance. The bulk density of soil was statistically different across land uses and altitude ranges. The soil pH was very strongly correlated with CEC, Mg, and Ca in cropland (CL) whereas it was strongly correlated in both AF and natural forest (NF) except for Mg, which was moderately correlated in AF. Furthermore, its correlation with K was strong in CL, moderate in AF while it was weak in NF. Finally, the pH correlation with Na was weak in both AF and CL whereas it was negligible in NF. The overall estimated soil C stock of the study area was 16848 t ha -1.
The sustainable AF practices changed significantly the frequency of reptiles, amphibians, and flowering plants while there was no statistical change observed on ferns with time. In terms of species richness, 16 flowering plants, 14 ferns, 5 amphibians, and 3 reptiles were recorded and monitored. These findings add to a growing body of literature on the impact of AF on the C stock, soil improvement, and Biodiversity. It is recommended that further researches should be undertaken for the contribution of other AF tree species to the C stock found in the agricultural landscape around all protected areas of Rwanda and the impact on them on the soil and biodiversity.
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.
Tagging systems are intriguing dynamic systems, in which users collaboratively index resources with the so-called tags. In order to leverage the full potential of tagging systems, it is important to understand the relationship between the micro-level behavior of the individual users and the macro-level properties of the whole tagging system. In this thesis, we present the Epistemic Dynamic Model, which tries to bridge this gap between the micro-level behavior and the macro-level properties by developing a theory of tagging systems. The model is based on the assumption that the combined influence of the shared background knowledge of the users and the imitation of tag recommendations are sufficient for explaining the emergence of the tag frequency distribution and the vocabulary growth in tagging systems. Both macro-level properties of tagging systems are closely related to the emergence of the shared community vocabulary. rnrnWith the help of the Epistemic Dynamic Model, we show that the general shape of the tag frequency distribution and of the vocabulary growth have their origin in the shared background knowledge of the users. Tag recommendations can then be used for selectively influencing this general shape. In this thesis, we especially concentrate on studying the influence of recommending a set of popular tags. Recommending popular tags adds a feedback mechanism between the vocabularies of individual users that increases the inter-indexer consistency of the tag assignments. How does this influence the indexing quality in a tagging system? For this purpose, we investigate a methodology for measuring the inter-resource consistency of tag assignments. The inter-resource consistency is an indicator of the indexing quality, which positively correlates with the precision and recall of query results. It measures the degree to which the tag vectors of indexed resources reflect how the users perceive the similarity between resources. We argue with our model, and show it with a user experiment, that recommending popular tags decreases the inter-resource consistency in a tagging system. Furthermore, we show that recommending the user his/her previously used tags helps to increase the inter-resource consistency. Our measure of the inter-resource consistency complements existing measures for the evaluation and comparison of tag recommendation algorithms, moving the focus to evaluating their influence on the indexing quality.
Technical products have become more than practical tools to us. Mobile phones, for example, are a constant companion in daily life. Besides purely pragmatic tasks, they fulfill psychological needs such as relatedness, stimulation, competence, popularity, or security. Their potential for the mediation of positive experience makes interactive products a rich source of pleasure. Research acknowledged this: in parallel to the hedonic/utilitarian model in consumer research, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers broadened their focus from mere task-fulfillment (i.e., the pragmatic) to a holistic view, encompassing a product's ability for need-fulfillment and positive experience (i.e., the hedonic). Accordingly, many theoretical models of User Experience (UX) acknowledge both dimensions as equally important determinants of a product's appeal: pragmatic attributes (e.g., usability) as well as hedonic attributes (e.g., beauty). In choice situations, however, people often overemphasize the pragmatic, and fail to acknowledge the hedonic. This phenomenon may be explained by justification. Due to their need for justification, people attend to the justifiability of hedonic and pragmatic attributes rather than to their impact on experience. Given that pragmatic attributes directly contribute to task-fulfillment, they are far easier to justify than hedonic attributes. People may then choose the pragmatic over the hedonic, despite a true preference for the hedonic. This can be considered a dilemma, since people choose what is easy to justify and not what they enjoy the most. The present thesis presents a systematic exploration of the notion of a hedonic dilemma in the context of interactive products.
A first set of four studies explored the assumed phenomenon. Study 1 (N = 422) revealed a reluctance to pay for a hedonic attribute compared to a pragmatic attribute. Study 2 (N = 134) demonstrated that people (secretly) prefer a more hedonic product, but justify their choice by spurious pragmatic advantages. Study 3 (N = 118) confronted participants with a trade-off between hedonic and pragmatic quality. Even though the prospect of receiving a hedonic product was related to more positive affect, participants predominantly chose the pragmatic, especially those with a high need for justification. This correlation between product choice and perceived need for justification lent further support to the notion that justification lies at the heart of the dilemma. Study 4 (N = 125) explored affective consequences and justifications provided for hedonic and pragmatic choice. Data on positive affect suggested a true preference for the hedonic - even among those who chose the pragmatic product.
A second set of three studies tested different ways to reduce the dilemma by manipulating justification. Manipulations referred to the justifiability of attributes as well as the general need for justification. Study 5 (N = 129) enhanced the respective justifiability of hedonic and pragmatic choice by ambiguous product information, which could be interpreted according to latent preferences. As expected, enhanced justifiability led to an increase in hedonic but not in pragmatic choice. Study 6 (N = 178) manipulated the justifiability of hedonic choice through product information provided by a "test report", which suggested hedonic attributes as legitimate. Again, hedonic choice increased with increased justifiability. Study 7 (N = 133) reduced the general need for justification by framing a purchase as gratification. A significant positive effect of the gratification frame on purchase rates occurred for a hedonic but not for a pragmatic product.
Altogether, the present studies revealed a desire for hedonic attributes, even in interactive products, which often are still understood as purely pragmatic "tools". But precisely because of this predominance of pragmatic quality, people may hesitate to give in to their desire for hedonic quality in interactive products - at least, as long as they feel a need for justification. The present findings provide an enhanced understanding of the complex consequences of hedonic and pragmatic attributes, and indicate a general necessity to expand the scope of User Experience research to the moment of product choice. Limitations of the present studies, implications for future research as well as practical implications for design and marketing are discussed.
This study examines the contribution of saving and credit cooperatives (SACCOS) on the improvement of members‘ socio economic development in Rwanda: Opportunities and challenges‖, Evidence from Umwalimu SACCO- Huye District‖. The appearance of saving and credit cooperatives or credit unions has been known as remedy for social ills rooted in poverty because of its efficiency in loans or credits dispensation, social equality for enhancement and reduction of poverty amongst low income earners. Therefore, millions and millions of poor people and non-bankable in developing countries (or third world countries) have been provided access to formal financial services through saving and credit cooperatives‘ programs.
The targeted population concerned by the study was 1,940 members of USACCO from which a sample of 92 respondents was purposively selected. The study has adopted a combination of correlation and descriptive research design. It has employed both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The study used both primary and secondary data. The primary data was collected using questionnaire and interview and, while secondary data was collected using documentations techniques whereby, Manual of procedures and Credit policies of USACCO and financial reports have been consulted. The analysis of data was done using SPSS version 21. The data was presented in form of tables, charts and graphs designed by SPSS v. 21. The bio-characteristics of respondents showed that, the majority of respondents were women with 55.4%, majority of respondents‘ age is between 26 to 45 years Furthermore, and majority 77.20% of respondents were married. 100% of respondents attended school, where the majority of respondents attended secondary school with certificate A2.
The study has revealed that Umwalimu SACCO services offered to its members have a positive effect on the improvement of members‘ welfare. It was found that USACCO services have slightly affected income level of members, assets acquired, access to education and medical care as well as small income generating activities established by members in Huye District. The analysis of data also revealed that there are some variables which have effected USACCO members‘ socio-economic status, these were listed as: Education background of a member, number of dependents, the occupation of a member, and number of loans got from USACCO, government programs against teachers‘ welfare, and membership duration played very important role on the improvement of standard living of teachers. All these variables were found to have positive effects on teachers‘ socio-economic status, except the family size of respondents.
In addition, the findings showed that, the majority of respondents confirmed that, they did not find opportunities to save with other financial institutions, and other respondents did not have access to loan from other financial institutions due to complicated loan requirements. In addition, after they
have joined USACCO, their deplorable status somewhat changed, both socially and economically which has contributed to the improvement of their welfare. Therefore, the study testified that, the welfare of USACCO members in terms of assets acquired, income increased was improved compared to situation before joining USACCO. The study concludes that ―the level of improvement of living conditions of teachers depends largely to the level of loan granted by USACCO to teachers and membership duration. If the level of teachers‘ loan and saving increases, there will be also improvement of teachers‘ wellbeing‖ and finally, USACCO financial service is a veritable instrument for better improvement of economic and social conditions of teachers. The study recommends that, USACCO should provide frequent and regular trainings on business management game to their members. This could help members for good management of their loans and reducing loan defaulters‘ cases observed at USACCO. Challenges observed were lack of physical collateral security required by USACCO, complicated loan requirements terms and conditions and insufficient trainings on business management game.
The belief in a just world in face of injustice: victim, observer, and perpetrator perspectives
(2021)
Injustice happens every day either to us, to our neighbors, or people across the world. Yet, believing that the world is a fair place helps us to cope with this injustice and motivates us to behave fairly. Scholars have found that these functions that the belief in a just world (BJW) serves are crucial for maintaining mental health. However, the conditions under which BJW is functional and when people give up this belief are not well studied. The current dissertation aims to examine: when the BJW can be shattered, the role of the external world and other internal resources in face of injustice, and the role of BJW in predicting corrupt behavior. Three studies were conducted corresponding to each party of injustice: a victim, an observer, and a perpetrator.
Study 1 examined the effects of criminal victimization on BJW and buffering role of perceptions of justice in the criminal justice process. A cross-sectional study showed that victims of very severe crimes such as domestic violence and human trafficking had lower personal BJW than non-victims and victims of less severe crimes, and higher informational justice perceptions reduced the effect of victimization on the personal BJW. Study 2 aimed to test the changes in BJW after observing severe injustice. A longitudinal study showed that after observing school rampage attacks that happened at other schools, BJW of adolescent participants increased. Moreover, life satisfaction and perceived social support moderated the change of BJW. Study 3 examined relationships between BJW and corrupt behavior. A cross-sectional study showed that personal BJW can predict bribery behavior.
The findings of three studies provided evidence that BJW does not function in isolation. An external world and internal resources can reduce the threat of injustice on BJW. BJW plays an important role in predicting unfair behavior therefore authorities should aim to maintain the BJW of their citizens.
Due to their confinement to specific host plants or restricted habitat types, Auchenorrhyncha are suitable biological indicators to measure the quality of chalk grassland under different management practices for nature conservation. They can especially be used as a tool to assess the success of restoring chalk grassland on ex-arable land. One objective of this study was to identify the factors which most effectively conserve and enhance biological diversity of existing chalk grasslands or allow the creation of new areas of such species-rich grassland on ex-arable land. A second objective was to link Auchenorrhyncha communities to the different grassland communities occurring on chalk according to the NVC (National Vegetation Classification). Altogether 100 chalk grassland and arable reversion sites were sampled between 1998 and 2002. Some of the arable reversion sites had been under certain grazing or mowing regimes for up to ten years by 2002. Vegetation structure and composition were recorded, and Auchenorrhyncha were sampled three times during the summer of each year using a "vortis" suction sampler. Altogether 110 leafhopper species were recorded during the study. Two of the species, Kelisia occirrega and Psammotettix helvolus, although widespread within the area studied, had not previously been recognized as part of the British fauna. By displaying insect frequency and dominance as it is commonly done for vegetation communities, it was possible to classify preferential and differential species of distinct Auchenorrhyncha communities. The linking of the entomological data with vegetation communities defined by the NVC showed that different vegetation communities were reflected by distinct Auchenorrhyncha communities. Significant differences were observed down to the level of sub-communities. The data revealed a strong positive relationship between the diversity of leafhoppers species and the vegetation height. There was also a positive correlation between the species richness of Auchenorrhyncha and the diversity of plant species. In that context it is remarkable that there was no correlation between vegetation height and botanical diversity. There is a substantial decrease in Auchenorrhyncha species richness from unimproved grassland to improved grassland and arable reversion. The decline of typical chalk grassland and general dry grassland species is especially notable. Consequently, the number of stenotopic Auchenorrhyncha species which are confined to only a few habitat types, are drastically reduced with the improvement of chalk grassland. Improved grassland and arable reversion fields are almost exclusively inhabited by common habitat generalists. The decrease in typical chalk grassland plants due to improvement is mirrored in the decline of Auchenorrhyncha species, which rely monophagously or oligophagously on specific host plants. But even where suitable host plants re-colonize arable reversion sites quickly, there is a considerable delay before leafhoppers follow. That becomes especially obvious with polyphagous leafhoppers like Turrutus socialis or Mocydia crocea, which occur on improved grassland or arable reversion sites only in low frequency and abundance, despite wide appearance or even increased dominance of their host plants. These species can be considered as the most suitable indicators to measure success or failure of long term grassland restoration. A time period of ten years is not sufficient to restore species-rich invertebrate communities on grassland, even if the flora indicates an early success.
Today’s agriculture heavily relies on pesticides to manage diverse pests and maximise crop yields. Despite elaborate regulation of pesticide use based on a complex environmental risk assessment (ERA) scheme, the widespread use of these biologically active compounds has been shown to be a threat to the environment. For surface waters, pesticide exposure has been observed to exceed safe concentration levels and negatively impact stream ecology leading to the question whether current ERA schemes ensure a sustainable use of pesticides. To answer this, the large-scale “Kleingewässer-Monitoring” (KgM) assessed the occurrence of pesticides and related effects in 124 streams throughout Germany, Central Europe, in 2018 and 2019.
Based on five scientific publications originating from the KgM, this thesis evaluated pesticide exposure in streams, ecological effects and the regulatory implications. More than 1,000 water samples were analysed for over 100 pesticide analytes to characterise occurrence patterns (publication 1). Measured concentrations and effects were used to validate the exposure and effect concentrations predicted in the ERA (publication 2). By jointly analysing real-world pesticide application data and measured pesticide mixtures in streams, the disregard of environmental pesticide mixtures in the ERA was evaluated (publication 3). The toxic potential of mixtures in stream water was additionally investigated using suspect screening for 395 chemicals and a battery of in-vitro bioassays (publication 4). Finally, the results from the KgM stream monitoring were used to assess the capability to identify pesticide risks in governmental monitoring programmes (publication 5).
The results of this thesis reveal the widespread occurrence of pesticides in non-target stream ecosystems. The water samples contained a variety of pesticides occurring in complex mixtures predominantly in short-term peaks after rainfall events (publications 1 & 4). Respective pesticide concentration maxima were linked to declines in vulnerable invertebrate species and exceeded regulatory acceptable concentrations in about 80% of agricultural streams, while these thresholds were still estimated partly insufficient to protect the invertebrate community (publication 2). The co-occurrence of pesticides in streams led to a risk underestimated in the single substance-oriented ERA by a factor of about 3.2 in realistic worst-case scenarios, which is further exacerbated by a high frequency at which non-target organism are exposed to pesticides (publication 3). Stream water samples taken after rainfall caused distinct effects in bioassays which were only explainable to a minor extent by the many analytes, indicating the relevance of unknown chemical or biological mixture components (publication 4). Finally, the regulatory monitoring of surface waters under the Water Framework Directive (WFD) was found to significantly underestimate pesticide risks, as about three quarters of critical pesticides and more than half of streams at risk were overlooked (publication 5).
Essentially, this thesis involves a new level of validation of the ERA of pesticides in aquatic ecosystems by assessing pesticide occurrence and environmental impacts at a scale so far unique. The overall results demonstrate that the current agricultural use of pesticides leads to significant impacts on stream ecology that go beyond the level tolerated under the ERA. This thesis identified the underestimation of pesticide exposure, the potential insufficiency of regulatory thresholds and the general inertia of the authorisation process as the main causes why the ERA fails to meet its objectives. To achieve a sustainable use of pesticides, the thesis proposes substantial refinements of the ERA. Adequate monitoring programmes such as the KgM, which go beyond current government monitoring efforts, will continue to be needed to keep pesticide regulators constantly informed of the validity of their prospective ERA, which will always be subject to uncertainty.
This thesis deals with the verbal categories tense and aspect in the context of analysing the English perfect. The underlying notion of time is examined from the viewpoint of etymology and from the viewpoint of fields of knowledge that lie outside the immediate scope of temporal semantics, e.g. mathematics. The category tense is scrutinised by discussing the concept of Reichenbach tense and the concept of correlation (Giering). The starting point of the discussion of the category verbal aspect is the dichotomy perfective vs. imperfective in the Slavic languages. The main part about the perfect is concerned with the possessive perfect as a cross-linguistic phenomenon (including a comparison of the English and the Slavic perfect) and focuses on the usage and the meaning of the English present perfect. There are three appendices which are an integral part of this dissertation. Appendix A deals with the systematization of English verb forms and their graphical representation. Three different visualizations are presented, two of which are genuine to this paper. Appendix B reproduces the target setting according to which an animated visualization of English infinitives was programmed. Appendix C represents a synopsis of approaches to the English perfect in grammars and textbooks.
One of the main goals of the artificial intelligence community is to create machines able to reason with dynamically changing knowledge. To achieve this goal, a multitude of different problems have to be solved, of which many have been addressed in the various sub-disciplines of artificial intelligence, like automated reasoning and machine learning. The thesis at hand focuses on the automated reasoning aspects of these problems and address two of the problems which have to be overcome to reach the afore-mentioned goal, namely 1. the fact that reasoning in logical knowledge bases is intractable and 2. the fact that applying changes to formalized knowledge can easily introduce inconsistencies, which leads to unwanted results in most scenarios.
To ease the intractability of logical reasoning, I suggest to adapt a technique called knowledge compilation, known from propositional logic, to description logic knowledge bases. The basic idea of this technique is to compile the given knowledge base into a normal form which allows to answer queries efficiently. This compilation step is very expensive but has to be performed only once and as soon as the result of this step is used to answer many queries, the expensive compilation step gets worthwhile. In the thesis at hand, I develop a normal form, called linkless normal form, suitable for knowledge compilation for description logic knowledge bases. From a computational point of view, the linkless normal form has very nice properties which are introduced in this thesis.
For the second problem, I focus on changes occurring on the instance level of description logic knowledge bases. I introduce three change operators interesting for these knowledge bases, namely deletion and insertion of assertions as well as repair of inconsistent instance bases. These change operators are defined such that in all three cases, the resulting knowledge base is ensured to be consistent and changes performed to the knowledge base are minimal. This allows us to preserve as much of the original knowledge base as possible. Furthermore, I show how these changes can be applied by using a transformation of the knowledge base.
For both issues I suggest to adapt techniques successfully used in other logics to get promising methods for description logic knowledge bases.
Empirical studies in software engineering use software repositories as data sources to understand software development. Repository data is either used to answer questions that guide the decision-making in the software development, or to provide tools that help with practical aspects of developers’ everyday work. Studies are classified into the field of Empirical Software Engineering (ESE), and more specifically into Mining Software Repositories (MSR). Studies working with repository data often focus on their results. Results are statements or tools, derived from the data, that help with practical aspects of software development. This thesis focuses on the methods and high order methods used to produce such results. In particular, we focus on incremental methods to scale the processing of repositories, declarative methods to compose a heterogeneous analysis, and high order methods used to reason about threats to methods operating on repositories. We summarize this as technical and methodological improvements. We contribute the improvements to methods and high-order methods in the context of MSR/ESE to produce future empirical results more effectively. We contribute the following improvements. We propose a method to improve the scalability of functions that abstract over repositories with high revision count in a theoretically founded way. We use insights on abstract algebra and program incrementalization to define a core interface of highorder functions that compute scalable static abstractions of a repository with many revisions. We evaluate the scalability of our method by benchmarks, comparing a prototype with available competitors in MSR/ESE. We propose a method to improve the definition of functions that abstract over a repository with a heterogeneous technology stack, by using concepts from declarative logic programming and combining them with ideas on megamodeling and linguistic architecture. We reproduce existing ideas on declarative logic programming with languages close to Datalog, coming from architecture recovery, source code querying, and static program analysis, and transfer them from the analysis of a homogeneous to a heterogeneous technology stack. We provide a prove-of-concept of such method in a case study. We propose a high-order method to improve the disambiguation of threats to methods used in MSR/ESE. We focus on a better disambiguation of threats, operationalizing reasoning about them, and making the implications to a valid data analysis methodology explicit, by using simulations. We encourage researchers to accomplish their work by implementing ‘fake’ simulations of their MSR/ESE scenarios, to operationalize relevant insights about alternative plausible results, negative results, potential threats and the used data analysis methodologies. We prove that such way of simulation based testing contributes to the disambiguation of threats in published MSR/ESE research.
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Die Dissertation ist in einem empirisch-qualitativen Forschungssetting eingebettet, bei der das Team-Teaching als Unterrichtsmethode im Forschungsfokus steht. Die Erhebung des empirischen Datenmaterials erfolgt einerseits mittels teilnehmender Beobachtung im Forschungsfeld und andererseits durch ein Gruppeninterview, das mit Lehrkräften geführt wird, die über einen gewissen Beobachtungszeitraum Erfahrungen mit der Unterrichtsmethode des Team-Teaching gesammelt haben. Für die hier zu Grunde gelegte Feldforschung wird das „theoretical sampling“ zum Einsatz kommen, das 1967 von Glaser und Strauss im Rahmen einer empirischen Untersuchung begründet worden ist.
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In der Einleitung wird das Forschungsinteresse, der Forschungsstand und die zentrale Forschungsfrage der Dissertation beschrieben. Im zweiten Kapitel folgt der theoretische Teil mit einer differenzierten Definition des Team-Teachings als Unterrichtsmethode. Es folgt eine allgemeine Definition zum Unterricht, um die spezifischen Merkmale des Team-Teachings differenziert herausarbeiten zu können. Die empirischen Daten werden im Rahmen einer teilnehmenden Beobachtung im Unterricht der Oberstufe einer Förderschule mit dem Förderschwerpunkt Lernen und sozial-emotionale Entwicklung erhoben. Deshalb sind im Theorieteil der Förderschwerpunkt und die curricularen Aspekte zum Förderschwerpunkt dargestellt. Die Bedeutung der Unterrichtsmethode des Team-Teachings für das Unterrichtssetting in einer Förderschule mit dem sozial-emotionalem Förderschwerpunkt ist ebenfalls im Theorieteil verortet.
Im dritten Kapitel werden die qualitativen und quantitativen Erhebungsinstrumente beschrieben und Hypothesen formuliert. Die Darstellung der Methoden zur Aufbereitung des Datenmaterials ist im vierten Kapitel verortet. Die Interpretation der Forschungsergebnisse erfolgt im fünften Kapitel. Die qualitative und quantitative Datenauswertung des empirischen Datenmaterials ist im sechsten Kapitel dargestellt. Die Dissertation schließt im siebten Kapitel mit einen Fazit und Ausblick.
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.
The diversity within amphibian communities in cultivated areas in Rwanda and within two selected, taxonomically challenging groups, the genera Ptychadena and Hyperolius, were investigated in this thesis. The amphibian community of an agricultural wetland near Butare in southern Rwanda comprised 15 anuran species. Rarefaction and jackknife analyses corroborated that the complete current species richness of the assemblage had been recorded, and the results of acoustic niche analysis suggested species saturation of the community. Surveys at many other Rwandan localities showed that the species recorded in Butare are widespread in cultivated and pristine wetlands. The species were readily distinguishable using morphological, bioacoustic, and molecular (DNA barcoding) features, but only eight of the 15 species could be assigned unambiguously to nominal species. The remaining represented undescribed or currently unrecognized taxa, including three species of Hyperolius, two Phrynobatrachus species, one Ptychadena species, and one species of Amietia. The diversity of the Ridged Frogs in Rwanda was investigated in two studies (Chapters III and IV). Three species of Ptychadena were recorded in wetlands in the catchment of the Nile. They can be distinguished by morphological characters (morphometrics and qualitative features) as well as by their advertisement calls and genetics. The Rwandan species of the P. mascareniensis group was shown to differ from the topotypic population as well as from other genetic lineages in sub-Saharan Africa and an old available name, P. nilotica, was resurrected from synonymy for this lineage. Two further Ptychadena species were identified among voucher specimens from Rwanda deposited in the collection of the RMCA, P. chrysogaster and P. uzungwensis. Morphologically they can be unambiguously distinguished from each other and the three other Rwandan species. A key based on qualitative morphological characters was developed, which allows unequivocal identification of specimens of all species that have been recorded from Rwanda. DNA was isolated from a Rwandan voucher specimen of P. chrysogaster, and the genetic analysis corroborated the species" distinct status.
A species of Hyperolius collected in the Nyungwe National Park was compared to all other Rwandan species of the genus and to morphologically or genetically similar species from neighbouring countries. Its distinct taxonomic status was justified by morphological, bioacoustic, and molecular evidence and it was described as a new species, H. jackie. A species of the H. nasutus group collected at agricultural sites in Rwanda was described as a new species in the course of a revision of the species of the Hyperolius nasutus group. The group was shown to consist of 15 distinct species which can be distinguished from each other genetically, bioacoustically, and morphologically.
The aerial performance, i.e. parachuting, of the Disc-fingered Reed Frog, Hyperolius discodactylus, was described. It represents a novel observation of a behaviour that has been known from a number of Southeast Asian and Neotropical frog species. Parachuting frogs, including H. discodactylus, exhibit certain morphological characteristics and, while airborne, assume a distinct posture which is best-suited for maneuvering in the air. Another study on the species addressed the validity of the taxon H. alticola which had been considered either a synonym of H. discodactylus or a distinct species. Type material of both taxa was re-examined and the status of H. alticola reassessed using morphological data from historic and new collections, call recordings, and molecular data from animals collected on recent expeditions. A northern and a southern genetic clade were identified, a divide that is weakly supported by diverging morphology of the vouchers from the respective localities. No distinction in advertisement call features could be recovered to support this split and both genetic and morphological differences between the two geographic clades are marginal and not always congruent and more likely reflect population-level variation. Therefore it was concluded that H. alticola is not a valid taxon and should be treated as a synonym of H. discodactylus.
Taxonomy and Systematics of Spiny-Backed Treefrogs, Genus Osteocephalus (Amphibia: Anura: Hylidae)
(2015)
The pan-Amazonian treefrog genus Ostecephalus is poorly understood both on a taxonomic and phylogenetic level. The status of several frogs already or not yet referred to the genus is unclear and the relationships among the genus and with respect to related genera is not understood. In this work O. cabrerai (Cochran and Goin, 1970) from Colombia and Peru is redescribed and O. festae (Peracca, 1904) from the foothills of the Andes in Ecuador is revalidated. Hyla inframaculata Boulenger, 1882, from the lower Amazon in Brazil, is reallocated to Osteocephalus and O. elkejungingerae (Henle, 1981) from the Andean foothills in Peru is shown to be a synonym of Hyla mimetica (Melin, 1941), the valid name being O. mimeticus. Hyla vilarsi Melin, 1941 is considered a valid species in the genus Osteocephalus and revalidated from the synonymies of several other frogs. Three new species, O. castaneicola from northern Bolivia and southern Peru, O. duellmani from a sub-Andean mountain range in southern Ecuador, and O. camufatus from central Amazonian Brazil, are described. A phylogenetic analysis based on up to nine mitochondrial genes and one nuclear one reveals the paraphyly of the genus as previously understood with respect to the genus Tepuihyla. A new taxonomy is proposed, securing the monophyly of Osteocephalus and Tepuihyla by rearranging and redefining the content of both genera. A new genus, Dryaderces, is erected for the sister group of Osteocephalus. The colouration of newly metamorphosed individuals is proposed as a morphological synapomorphy for Osteocephalus. Five monophyletic species groups within Osteocephalus are recognized, three species of Osteocephalus (O. germani, O.rnphasmatus, O. vilmae) and three species of Tepuihyla (T. celsae, T. galani, T. talbergae) synonymized and three species (Hyla helenae to Osteocephalus, O.rnexophthalmus to Tepuihyla and O. pearsoni to Dryaderces gen. n.) reallocated. Furthermore, nine putative new species are flagged (an increase to 138% of the current diversity), an indication that species numbers are largely underestimated, with most hidden diversity centred on widespread and polymorphic nominal species. The evolutionary origin of breeding strategies within Osteocephalus is discussed in the light of this new phylogeny and a novel type of amplexus (gular amplexus) is described.
Education and training of the workforce have become an important competitive factor for companies because of the rapid technological changes in the economy and the corresponding ever shorter innovation cycles. Traditional training methods, however, are limited in terms of meeting the resulting demand for education and training in a company, which continues to grow and become faster all the time. Therefore, the use of technology-based training programs (that is, courseware) is increasing because courseware enables self-organized and self-paced learning and, through integration into daily work routines, allows optimal transfer of knowledge and skills, resulting in high learning outcome. To achieve these prospects, high-quality courseware is required, with quality being defined as supporting learners optimally in achieving their learning goals. Developing high-quality courseware, however, usually requires more effort and takes longer than developing other programs, which limits the availability of this courseware in time and with the required quality.
This dissertation therefore deals with the research question of how courseware has to be developed in order to produce high-quality courseware with less development effort and shorter project duration. In addition to its high quality, this courseware should be optimally aligned to the characteristics and learning goals of the learners as well as to the planned usage scenarios for the knowledge and skills being trained. The IntView Method for the systematic and efficient development of high-quality courseware was defined to answer the research question of this dissertation. It aims at increasing the probability of producing courseware in time without exceeding project schedules and budgets while developing a high-quality product optimally focused on the target groups and usage scenarios.
The IntView Methods integrates those execution variants of all activities and activity steps required to develop high-quality courseware, which were identified in a detailed analysis of existing courseware development approaches as well as production approaches from related fields, such as multimedia, web, or software engineering, into a systematic process that in their interaction constitute the most efficient way to develop courseware. The main part of the proposed method is therefore a systematic process for engineering courseware that encompasses all courseware lifecycle phases and integrates the activities and methods of all disciplines involved in courseware engineering, including a lifecycle encompassing quality assurance, into a consolidated process. This process is defined as a lifecycle model as well as a derived process model in the form of a dependency model in order to optimally support courseware project teams in coordinating and synchronizing their project work. In addition to the models, comprehensive, ready-to-apply enactment support materials are provided, consisting of work sheets and document templates that include detailed activity descriptions and examples.
The evaluation of the IntView Method proved that the method together with the enactment support materials enables efficient as well as effective courseware development. The projects and case studies conducted in the context of this evaluation demonstrate that, on the one hand, the method is easily adaptable to the production of different kinds of courseware or to different project contexts, and, on the other hand, that it can be used efficiently and effectively.
The genus Cheilolejeunea (Spruce) Schiffn. (Lejeuneaceae, Jungermanniopsida) is represented by 23 species in continental tropical Africa. The morphological characters such as features of the stem, leaf, lobule and perianth traditionally used to separate the taxa at both species and generic level have been found to be unstable. The species are variably ranked in several subgenera including Cheilolejeunea (Spruce) Schiffn., Euosmolejeunea Schiffn., Strepsilejeunea (Spruce) Schiffn. and Xenolejeunea Kachroo & Schust. Although the genus has never been monographed, there are a few regional taxonomic accounts for America, Australia and China. A comprehensive revision of Cheilolejeunea species is lacking in Africa where the existing studies are based on single subgenus and sub-regional flora or checklist compilations, which are sometimes without identification keys. This study revises the taxonomy of Cheilolejeunea and the closely allied genus Leucolejeunea A. Evans, in continental Africa based on morphological data analysed using phenetic and phylogenetic methods.
Dracaena L. (Ruscaceae) is a predominantly African genus with a smaller centre of diversity in South-East Asia. The taxonomy of the 29 species occurring in Central, East and Southern Africa was revised through phenetic and phylogenetic analyses of the morphology as well as through herbarium, literature and field studies. An infrageneric classification is proposed, in which four sub-genera are recognised for the first time. A taxonomic account for the study area incorporating an identification key, distribution maps and an IUCN Red List assessment is presented. Analysis of Dracaena phytogeography reveals that the Guineo-Congolian centre of endemism is the richest with 21 species while the Maputaland-Pondoland regional mosaic and the Guinea-Congolia/Sudania regional transition zone are the poorest, having only one species each. Investigation of the ecology of Dracaena in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya, shows that it plays an important role in the forest ecology and is an indicator of forest quality.
A taxonomic revision of the genus Pteris in tropical Africa revealed 26 species. An identification key to the species is provided. Morphological characters were used to prepare a cladistic analysis of the relevant taxa. Each species was evaluated concerning the IUCN red list status. Only Pteris mkomaziensis was considered as Near Threatened, and all other species only as Least Concern. An inventory of the ferns of Kakamega Forest / Kenya and Budongo Forest / Uganda revealed 85 species in Kakamega and 66 species in Budongo. Life form spectra were analysed and the ferns were studied for their value for bioindication.
The present study deals with the synthesis of N-phenacylpyridinium salts and their use as photoinitiators for epoxy resins. The use and suitability of phenacyl salts as photoinitiators for epoxy resins has already been described in previous studies. The individual impact of the specific components on the rate constants of epoxy reaction has not been investigated in detail. Based on the structure of N-phenacylpyridinium salt the substances described in the present study were varied due to the exchange of counter ion and different substituents. Investigating the impact of the specific substituent with focus on the reaction of epoxy groups there is a dependence found for three main factors. First, depending on whether to use a phenyl or methyl group as substituent there was found an impact on the process of photolysis. Furthermore, concerning the dependences on the pyridine derivative and the counter ion, it was found that pyridine derivatives with electron withdrawing groups and counter ions, which can build strong acids, accelerate the rate constants of the epoxy reaction. Vice versa, pyridine derivatives with electron donating groups and counter ions, which can form weaker acids, decrease the rate constants.
The determined rate constants and the formulation of substances discussed in the present thesis in an adhesive formulation show the suitability of selected substances as photoinitiators for the polymerization of epoxy resins.
Nanoparticles are sensitive and robust systems; they are particularly reactive due to their large surface area and have properties that the bulk material does not have. At the same time, the production of nanoparticles is challenging, because even with the same parameters and conditions, the parameters can vary slightly from run to run. In order to avoid this, this work aims to develop a continuous synthesis in the microjet reactor for nanoceria. The aim is to obtain monodisperse nanoparticles that can be used in biosensors.
This work focuses on two precipitation syntheses with the intermediate steps of cerium carbonate and cerium hydroxide, as well as a microemulsion synthesis for the production of nanoceria. The cerium oxide nanoparticles are compared using different characterisation and application methods. The synthesised nanoparticles will be characterised with respect to their size, stability, chemical composition and catalytic capabilities, by electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy and photoelectron spectroscopy.
The biosensor systems to evaluate the nanoceria are designed to detect histamine and glucose or hydrogen peroxide, which are resulting from the oxidation of histamine and glucose. Hydrogen peroxide and glucose are detected by an electrochemical sensor and histamine by a colorimetric sensor system.
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.
Previous research concerned with early science education revealed that guided play can support young children’s knowledge acquisition. However, the questions whether guided play maintains other important prerequisites such as children’s science self-concept and how guided play should be implemented remain unanswered. The present dissertation encompasses three research articles that investigated 5- to 6-year-old children’s science knowledge, science theories, and science self-concept in the stability domain and their relation to interindividual prerequisites. Moreover, the articles examined whether children’s science knowledge, science theories, and science self-concept can be supported by different play forms, i.e., guided play with material and verbal scaffolds, guided play with material scaffolds, and free play. The general introduction of the present dissertation first highlights children’s cognitive development, their science self-concept, and interindividual prerequisites, i.e., fluid and crystallised intelligence, mental rotation ability, and interest in block play. These prerequisites are applied to possible ways of supporting children during play. The first article focused on the measurement of 5-to-6-year-old children’s stability knowledge and its relation to interindividual prerequisites. Results suggested that children’s stability knowledge could be measured reliably and validly, and was related to their fluid and crystallised intelligence. The second article was concerned with the development of children’s intuitive stability theories over three points of measurement and the effects of guided and free play, children’s prior theories as well as their intelligence on these intuitive theories. Results implied that guided play with material and verbal scaffolds supported children’s stability theories more than the other two play forms, i.e., guided play with material scaffolds and free play. Moreover, consistency of children’s prior theories, their fluid and crystallised intelligence were related to children’s theory adaptation after the intervention. The third article focused on the effect of the playful interventions on children’s stability knowledge and science self-concept over three points of measurement. Furthermore, the reciprocal effects between knowledge acquisition and science self-concept were investigated. Results implied that guided play supported knowledge acquisition and maintained children’s science self-concept. Free play did not support children’s stability knowledge and decreased children’s science self-concept. No evidence for reciprocal effects between children’s stability knowledge and their science self-concept was found. Last, in a general discussion, the findings of the three articles are combined and reflected amidst children’s cognitive development. Summarising, the present dissertation shows that children’s science knowledge, science theories, and science self-concept can be supported through guided play that considers children’s cognitive development.
The distributed setting of RDF stores in the cloud poses many challenges. One such challenge is how the data placement on the compute nodes can be optimized to improve the query performance. To address this challenge, several evaluations in the literature have investigated the effects of existing data placement strategies on the query performance. A common drawback in theses evaluations is that it is unclear whether the observed behaviors were caused by the data placement strategies (if different RDF stores were evaluated as a whole) or reflect the behavior in distributed RDF stores (if cloud processing frameworks like Hadoop MapReduce are used for the evaluation). To overcome these limitations, this thesis develops a novel benchmarking methodology for data placement strategies that uses a data-placement-strategy-independent distributed RDF store to analyze the effect of the data placement strategies on query performance.
With this evaluation methodology the frequently used data placement strategies have been evaluated. This evaluation challenged the commonly held belief that data placement strategies that emphasize local computation, such as minimal edge-cut cover, lead to faster query executions. The results indicate that queries with a high workload may be executed faster on hash-based data placement strategies than on, e.g., minimal edge-cut covers. The analysis of the additional measurements indicates that vertical parallelization (i.e., a well-distributed workload) may be more important than horizontal containment (i.e., minimal data transport) for efficient query processing.
Moreover, to find a data placement strategy with a high vertical parallelization, the thesis tests the hypothesis that collocating small connected triple sets on the same compute node while balancing the amount of triples stored on the different compute nodes leads to a high vertical parallelization. Specifically, the thesis proposes two such data placement strategies. The first strategy called overpartitioned minimal edge-cut cover was found in the literature and the second strategy is the newly developed molecule hash cover. The evaluation revealed a balanced query workload and a high horizontal containment, which lead to a high vertical parallelization. As a result these strategies showed a better query performance than the frequently used data placement strategies.
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.
Speziell in Anwendungen mit intensiver Temperatur- und Korrosionsbeanspruchung finden vermehrt Phosphate als sogenannte chemische Binder für Hochleistungskeramiken Verwendung. Konkret ist die Summe der Reaktionsverläufe während des Bindemechanismus in Folge einer thermisch-induzierten Aushärtung und somit die Wirkungsweise von Phosphatbindern prinzipiell innerhalb der Fachliteratur nicht eindeutig untersucht. Innerhalb dieser Arbeit wurden aufbauend auf einer umfangreichen strukturanalytischen Prüfungsanordnung (Festkörper-NMR, RBA, REM-EDX) einer exemplarischen phosphatgebundenen Al₂O₃-MgAl₂O₄-Hochtemperaturkeramikzusammensetzung unter Einbeziehung verschiedenartiger anorganischer Phosphate grundlegende Bindemechanismen charakterisiert. Mechanisch-physikochemische Eigenschaftsuntersuchungen (STA, Dilatometrie, DMA, KBF) deckten zudem den Einfluss der eingesetzten Phosphate auf die Eigenschaftsentwicklungen der Feuerfestkeramiken bezüglich des Abbindeverhaltens, der Biegefestigkeit sowie der thermischen Längenänderung auf, welche mit Strukturänderungen korreliert wurden. Es wurde gezeigt, dass sich Bindemechanismen bei Verwendung von Phosphaten temperaturgeleitet (20 °C ≤ T ≤ 1500 °C) grundsätzlich aus zwei parallel ablaufenden Reaktionsabfolgen zusammensetzen, wobei die sich entwickelnden Phosphatphasen innerhalb der Keramikmasse quantitativ und qualitativ bezüglich ihrer Bindewirkung bewertet wurden. Zum einen wurde die Bildung eines festigkeitssteigernden Bindenetzwerks aus Aluminiumphosphaten meist amorpher Struktur identifiziert und charakterisiert. Dieses bindungsfördernde, dreidimensionale Aluminiumphosphatnetzwerk baut sich innerhalb der Initialisierungs- und Vernetzungsphasen temperaturgeleitet kontinuierlich über multiple Vernetzungsreaktionen homogen auf. Zum anderen werden Reaktionsabfolgen durch parallel ablaufende Strukturumwandlungen nicht aktiv-bindender Phosphatspezies wie Magnesium-, Calcium- oder Zirkoniumphosphate ergänzt, welche lediglich thermische Umwandlungsreaktionen der Ausgangsphosphate darstellen. Vermehrt bei T > 800 °C geht das phosphatische Bindenetzwerk Festkörperreaktionen mit MgAl₂O₄ unter Ausbildung und Agglomeration von Magnesium-Orthophosphat-Sinterstrukturen ein. Die Bildung dieser niedrigschmelzenden Hochtemperaturphasen führt zu einem teilweisen Bruch des Bindenetzwerks.
Thousands of chemicals from daily use are being discharged from civilization into the water cycle via different pathways. Ingredients of personal care products, detergents, pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and industrial chemicals thus find their way into the aquatic ecosystems and may cause adverse impacts on the ecology. Pharmaceuticals for instance, represent a central group of anthropogenic chemicals, because of their designed potency to interfere with physiological functions in organisms. Ecotoxicological effects from pharmaceutical burden have been verified in the past. Therapeutic groups with pronounced endocrine disrupting potentials such as steroid hormones gain increasing focus in environmental research as it was reported that they cause endocrine disruption in aquatic organisms even when exposed to environmentally relevant concentrations. This thesis considers the comprehensive investigation of the occurrence of corticosteroids and progestogens in wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluents and surface waters as well as the elucidation of the fate and biodegradability of these steroid families during activated sludge treatment. For the first goal of the thesis, a robust and highly sensitive analytical method based on liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) was developed in order to simultaneously determine the occurrence of around 60 mineralocorticoids, glucocorticoids and progestogens in the aquatic environment. A special focus was set to the compound selection due to the diversity of marketed synthetic steroids. Some analytical challenges have been approved by individual approaches regarding sensitivity enhancement and compound stabilities. These results may be important for further research in environmental analysis of steroid hormones. Reliable and low quantification limits are the perquisite for the determination of corticosteroids and progestogens at relevant concentrations due to low consumption volumes and simultaneously low effect-based trigger values. Achieved quantification limits for all target analytes ranged between 0.02 ng/L and 0.5 ng/L in surface water and 0.05 ng/L to 5 ng/L in WWTP effluents. This sensitivity enabled the detection of three mineralocorticoids, 23 glucocorticoids and 10 progestogens within the sampling campaign around Germany. Many of them were detected for the first time in the environment, particularly in Germany and the EU. To the best of our knowledge, this in-depth steroid screening provided a good overview of single steroid burden and allowed for the identification of predominantly steroids of each steroid
type analyzed for the first time. The frequent detection of highly potent synthetic steroids (e.g. triamcinolone acetonide, clobetasol propionate, betamethasone valerate, dienogest, cyproterone acetate) highlighted insufficient removal during conventional Summary wastewater treatment and indicated the need for regulation to control their emission since the steroid concentrations were found to be above the reported effect-based trigger values for biota. Overall, the study revealed reliable environmental data of poorly or even not analyzed steroids. The results complement the existing knowledge in this field but also providednew information which can beused particularly for compound prioritization in ecotoxicological research and environmental analysis. Based on the data obtained from the monitoring campaign, incubation experiments were conducted to enable the comparison of the biodegradability and transformation processes in activated sludge treatment for structure-related steroids under aerobic and standardized experimental conditions. The compounds were accurately selected to cover manifold structural moieties of commonly used glucocorticoids, including non-halogenated and halogenated steroids, their mono- and diesters, and several acetonide-type steroids. This approach allowed for a structure-based interpretation of the results. The obtained biodegradation rate constants suggested large variations in the biodegradability (half-lifes ranged from < 0.5 h to > 14 d). An increasing stability was identified in the order from non-halogenated steroids (e.g. hydrocortisone), over 9α-halogenated steroids (e.g. betamethasone), to C17-monoesters (e.g. betamethasone 17-valerate, clobetasol propionate), and finally to acetonides (e.g. triamcinolone acetonide), thus suggesting a strong relationship of the biodegradability with the glucocorticoid structure. Some explanations for this behavior have been received by identifying the transformation products (TPs) and elucidating individual transformation pathways. The results revealed the identification of the likelihood of transformation reactions depending on the chemical steroid structure for the first time. Among the identified TPs, the carboxylates (e.g. TPs of fluticasone propionate, triamcinolone acetonide) have been shown persistency in the subsequent incubation experiments. The newly identified TPs furthermore were frequently detected in the effluents of full-scale wastewater treatment plants. These findings emphasized i) the transferability of the lab-scale degradation experiments to real world and that ii) insufficient removals may cause adverse effects in the aquatic environment due to the ability of the precursor steroids and TPs to interact with the endocrine system in biota. For the last goal, the conceptual study for glucocorticoids was applied to progestogens.
Here, two sub-types of the steroid family frequently used for hormonal contraception were selected (17α-hydroxyprogesterone and 19-norstestosterone type). The progestogens showed a fast and complete degradation within six hours, and thus empathizes pronounced biodegradability. However, cyproterone acetate and dienogest Summary have been found to be more recalcitrant in activated sludge treatment. This was consistent with their ubiquitously occurrence during the previous monitoring campaign. The elucidation of TPs again revealed some crucial information regarding the observed behavior and highlighted furthermore the formation of hazardous TPs. It was shown that 19-nortestosterone type steroids are able to undergo aromatization at ring A in contact with activated sludge, leading to the formation of estrogen-like TPs with a phenolic moiety at ring A. In the case of norethisterone the formation of 17α-ethinylestradiol was confirmed, which is a well-known potent synthetic estrogen with elevated ecotoxicological potency. Thus, the results indicated for the very first time an unknown source of estrogenic compounds, particularly for 17α-ethinylestradiol. In conclusion, some steroids were found to be very stable in activated sludge treatment, others degrade well, and others which do degrade but predominantly to active TPs depending on their chemical structure. Fluorinated acetal steroids such as triamcinolone acetonide and fluocinolone acetonide are poorly biodegradable, which is reflected in high concentrations detected ubiquitously in WWTP effluents. Endogenous steroids and their most related synthetic once such as hydrocortisone, prednisolone or 17α-hydroxyprogesterone are readily biodegradable. Regardless their high influent concentrations, they are almost completely removed in conventional WWTPs. Steroids between this range have been found to form elevated quantities of TPs which are partially still active, which particularly the case for betamethasone, fluticasone propionate, cyproterone acetate or dienogest. The thesis illustrates the need for an extensive evaluation of the environmental risks and carried out that corticosteroids and progestogens merit more attention in environmental regulatory and research than it is currently the case
Statistical eco(-toxico)logy
(2017)
Freshwaters are of immense importance for human well-being.
Nevertheless, they are currently facing unprecedented levels of threat from habitat loss and degradation, overexploitation, invasive species and
pollution.
To prevent risks to aquatic ecosystems, chemical substances, like agricultural pesticides, have to pass environmental risk assessment (ERA) before entering the market.
Concurrently, large-scale environmental monitoring is used for surveillance of biological and chemical conditions in freshwaters.
This thesis examines statistical methods currently used in ERA.
Moreover, it presents a national-scale compilation of chemical monitoring data, an analysis of drivers and dynamics of chemical pollution in streams and, provides a large-scale risk assessment by combination with results from ERA.
Additionally, software tools have been developed to integrate different datasets used in ERA.
The thesis starts with a brief introduction to ERA and environmental monitoring and gives an overview of the objectives of the thesis.
Chapter 2 addresses experimental setups and their statistical analyses using simulations.
The results show that current designs exhibit unacceptably low statistical power, that statistical methods chosen to fit the type of data provide higher power and that statistical practices in ERA need to be revised.
In chapter 3 we compiled all available pesticide monitoring data from Germany.
Hereby, we focused on small streams, similar to those considered in ERA and used threshold concentrations derived during ERA for a large-scale assessment of threats to freshwaters from pesticides.
This compilation resulted in the most comprehensive dataset on pesticide exposure currently available for Germany.
Using state-of-the-art statistical techniques, that explicitly take the limits of quantification into account, we demonstrate that 25% of small streams are at threat from pesticides.
In particular neonicotinoid pesticides are responsible for these threats.
These are associated with agricultural intensity and can be detected even at low levels of agricultural use.
Moreover, our results indicated that current monitoring underestimates pesticide risks, because of a sampling decoupled from precipitation events.
Additionally, we provide a first large-scale study of annual pesticide exposure dynamics.
Chapters 4 and 5 describe software solutions to simplify and accelerate the integration of data from ERA, environmental monitoring and ecotoxicology that is indispensable for the development of landscape-level risk assessment.
Overall, this thesis contributes to the emerging discipline of statistical ecotoxicology and shows that pesticides pose a large-scale threat to small streams.
Environmental monitoring can provide a post-authorisation feedback to ERA.
However, to protect freshwater ecosystems ERA and environmental monitoring need to be further refined and we provide software solutions to utilise existing data for this purpose.
Obwohl Kinder beim Bauen mit Bauklötzen bereits früh Erfahrungen mit Aspekten der Stabilität von Bauwerken, wie z. B. Kräfteverteilung, Standfestigkeit sowie Gleich- und Gegengewicht, sammeln und es verschiedene Studien gibt, die den fächerübergreifenden Lerngehalt von Bauklötzen hervorheben, ist das Verständnis bezüglich der Stabilität von Bauklotzanordnungen bisher kaum erforscht. Daher wurde untersucht, welche Vorstellungen sechs- bis siebenjährige Kinder zur Stabilität von Bauklotzanordnungen zeigen und welche Unterstützungsmaßnahmen eine Vorstellungsveränderung anregen. In Studie 1 und 2 zeigt sich, dass Kinder in der Schuleingangsphase erste Vorstellungen zur Stabilität von Bauklotzanordnungen haben. Über verschiedene Analysen wurden schwierigkeitsbestimmende Merkmale bzw. lösungsrelevante Dimensionen identifiziert. Kinder mit ca. fünf Jahren orientieren sich eher an der geometrischen Mitte und beziehen somit die Abstandsdimension ein, bei Neunjährigen berücksichtigen hingegen knapp über die Hälfte bereits den Massenmittelpunkt. Folglich reicht die „Bauerfahrung“ von Kindern bis zum neunten Lebensjahr nicht aus, um die Fähigkeit, Bauklotzanordnungen bezüglich ihrer Stabilität zu beurteilen, vollständig zu entwickeln. Deshalb wurde in Studie 3 untersucht, inwieweit sich eine Vorstellungsveränderung zur Stabilität von Bauklotzanordnungen mithilfe verschiedener Unterstützungsmaßnahmen innerhalb einer kurzen Lerneinheit anregen lässt. Dabei wurden verschiedene materiale und verbale Unterstützungsmaßnahmen in Form von Fotos und gezielten sprachlichen Instruktionen in einem systematischen Vergleich gegenübergestellt. Die Ergebnisse weisen nach, dass bereits mit einer kurzen Lerneinheit ein Wissenszuwachs bei Siebenjährigen angeregt werden kann, insbesondere wenn sie durch Fotos und gezielte sprachliche Instruktionen unterstützt werden. Die Ergebnisse sind ein erster Schritt für die Entwicklung eines naturwissenschaftlichen Unterrichts zur Stabilität von Bauklotzanordnungen.
Wie hingen Sprache und Gewalt im Nationalsozialismus zusammen? Ausgehend von der konstitutiven Sprachphilosophie des kanadischen Philosophen Charles Taylor untersucht die Dissertation die destruktive Wirkmacht der Sprache am Fall des Nationalsozialismus, der auf ungekannte Weise in die Sprache eingriff und damit Gewalt begünstigte, die bis heute ohnegleichen ist.
Spektroskopie zweiatomiger Moleküle bei Einstrahlung ultrakurzer Laserpulse und ihre Anwendung
(2020)
Even with moderate pulse energies and average powers, ultrashort pulse lasers achieve very high peak powers, whose effect on matter is fundamentally different from that of other light sources. The high electric field strength does not only cause an increase of optically nonlinear effects such as second harmonic generation, but it is also responsible for the “cold“ ablation, which leads to colder plasmas. An investigation of these two circumstances in terms of a simplification of the pulse duration measurement and an improvement of the molecular formation in cooling plasmas is the topic of this work. In this context, it is shown that when selecting suitable process parameters, especially when purposefully defocusing the medium, the use of ultrashort pulse lasers improves the spectroscopy of several emitting molecules such as aluminum oxide. Therefore, their detection is possible even without the time-resolving spectrometers required in literature. In addition, ultrashort pulses enable spatially resolved crystallization of zinc oxide on zinc surfaces prepared by basic means. The resulting wurtzites usually align their c-axis approximately perpendicular to the underlying surface and can be used to generate scattered second harmonics. Fiber-based femtosecond lasers with pulse energies in the microjoule range, pulse durations of a few 100fs and very low maintenance requirements have proven to be a powerful instrument for these purposes. For measuring the pulse duration, the high pulse energy also enables the usage of frequency doublers with much lower conversion eciencies. Despite nonuniform crystal axes, the scattering second harmonic generating aluminum nitride has proven to be particularly suitable for optical autocorrelation. Compared to the commonly used monocrystalline beta-barium borate, the sintered aluminum nitride ceramic plates facilitate the adjustment, simplify the material handling and reduce the expenses by two to three orders of magnitude. The method developed in this work is therefore also suitable for confirmatory measurements of the pulse duration during the production process of such systems – especially when the occurring pulse energies are high or rather too high for beta-barium borate.
Wild bees are essential for the pollination of wild and cultivated plants. However, within the
last decades, the increasing intensification of modern agriculture has led to both a reduction and fragmentation as well as a degradation of the habitats wild bees need. The resulting loss of pollinators and their pollination poses an immense challenge to global food production. To support wild bees, the availability of flowering resources is essential. However, the flowering period of each resource is temporally limited and has different effects on pollinators and their pollination, depending on the time of their flowering.
Therefore, to efficiently promote and manage wild bee pollinators in agricultural landscapes, we identified species-specific key floral resources of three selected wild bee species and their spatial and temporal availability (CHAPTERS 2, 3 & 4). We examined, which habitat types predominantly provide these resources (CHAPTERS 3 & 4). We also investigated whether floral resource maps based on the use of these key resources and their spatial and temporal availability explain the abundance and development of the selected wild bees (CHAPTERS 3 & 4) and pollination (CHAPTER 5) better than habitat maps, that only indirectly account for the availability of floral resources.
For each of the species studied, we were able to identify different key pollen sources, predominantly woody plants in the early season (April/May) and increasingly herbaceous plants in the later season (June/July; CHAPTERS 2, 3 & 4). The open woody semi-natural habitats of our agricultural landscapes provided about 75% of the floral resources for the buff-tailed bumblebees, 60% for the red mason bees, and 55% for the horned mason bees studied, although they accounted for only 3% of the area (CHAPTERS 3 & 4). In addition, fruit orchards provided about 35% of the floral resources for the horned mason bees on 4% of the landscape area (CHAPTER 3). We showed that both mason bee species benefited from the resource availability in the surrounding landscapes (CHAPTER 3). Yet this was not the case for the bumblebees (CHAPTER 4). Instead, the weight gain of their colonies, the number of developed queen cells and their colony survival were higher with increasing proximity to forests. The proximity to forests also had a positive effect on the mason bees studied (CHAPTER 3). In addition, the red mason bees benefited from herbaceous semi-natural habitats. The proportion of built-up areas had a negative effect on the horned mason bees, and the proportion of arable land on the red mason bees. The habitat maps explained horned mason bee abundances equally well as the floral resource maps, but red mason bee abundances were distinctly better explained by key floral resources. The pollination of field bean increased with higher proportions of early floral resources, whereas synchronous floral resources showed no measurable reduction in their pollination (CHAPTER 5). Habitat maps also explained field bean pollination better than floral resource maps. Here, pollination increased with increasing proportions of built-up areas in the landscapes and decreased with increasing proportions of arable land.
Our results highlight the importance of the spatio-temporal availability of certain key species as resource plants of wild bees in agricultural landscapes. They show that habitat maps are ahead of, or at least equal to, spatio-temporally resolved floral resource maps in predicting wild bee development and pollination. Nevertheless, floral resource maps allow us to draw more accurate conclusions between key floral resources and the organisms studied. The proximity to forest edges had a positive effect on each of the three wild bee species studied. However, besides pure food availability, other factors seem to co-determine the occurrence of wild bees in agricultural landscapes.
The research described in this thesis was designed to yield information on the impact of particle-bound pesticides on organisms living in the interface between sediment and water column in a temporarily open estuary (TOCEs). It was hypothesized that natural variables such as salinity and temperature and anthropogenic stressors such as particle-bound pesticides contribute to the variability of the system. A multiple line of evidence approach is necessary due to the variability in sediment type, contaminant distribution and spatial and temporal variability within the ecosystem in particular within TOCEs. The first aim of this thesis was to identify which particle-bound pesticides are important to the contamination of the Lourens River estuary (Western Cape, South Africa), taking into account their environmental concentrations, physico-chemical and toxicological properties (Exposure assessment). The second aim was to identify spatial and temporal variations in particle bound pesticide contamination, natural environmental variables and benthic community structure (effect assessment). The third aim was to test the hypothesis: "does adaptation to fluctuating salinities lead to enhanced survival of the harpacticoid copepod Mesochra parva when exposed to a combination of particle associated chlorpyrifos exposure and hypo-osmotic stress during a 96 h sediment toxicity test?" The last aim was to identify the driving environmental variables (including natural and anthropogenic stressors) in a "natural" (Rooiels River) compared to a "disturbed" (Lourens River) estuary and to identify if and how these variables change the benthic community structure in both estuaries. Data produced in this research thus provide important information to understand the impact of pesticides and its interaction with natural variables in a temporarily open estuary. To summarise, this study indicated, by the use of the multi-evidence approach, that the pesticides endosulfan and chlorpyrifos posed a risk towards benthic organisms in a temporarily open estuary in particular during spring season. Furthermore an important link between pesticide exposure/ toxicity and salinity was identified, which has important implications for the management of temporarily open estuaries.
This study was conducted in Nyungwe National Park (NNP); a biodiversity hotspot Mountain rainforest of high conservation importance in Central Africa, but with little knowledge of its insect communities including butterflies, good indicators of climate change, and forest ecosystem health. The study aimed at availing baseline data on butterfly species diversity and distribution in NNP, for future use in monitoring climate change-driven shifts and the effects of forest fragmentation on the biodiversity of Nyungwe. Butterflies were collected seasonally using fruit-baited traps and hand nets along elevational transects spanning from 1700 m up to 2950 m of altitude. Two hundred forty-two species including 28 endemics to the Albertine Rift and 18 potential local climate change indicators were documented. Species richness and abundance declined with increasing elevation and higher seasonal occurrence was observed during the dry season. This was the first study on the spatial and temporal distribution of butterflies in NNP and further studies could be conducted to add more species and allow a depth understanding of the ecology of Nyungwe butterflies.
We consider variational discretization of three different optimal control problems.
The first being a parabolic optimal control problem governed by space-time measure controls. This problem has a nice sparsity structure, which motivates our aim to achieve maximal sparsity on the discrete level. Due to the measures on the right hand side of the partial differential equation, we consider a very weak solution theory for the state equation and need an embedding into the continuous functions for the pairings to make sense. Furthermore, we employ Fenchel duality to formulate the predual problem and give results on solution theory of both the predual and the primal problem. Later on, the duality is also helpful for the derivation of algorithms, since the predual problem can be differentiated twice so that we can apply a semismooth Newton method. We then retrieve the optimal control by duality relations.
For the state discretization we use a Petrov-Galerkin method employing piecewise constant states and piecewise linear and continuous test functions in time. For the space discretization we choose piecewise linear and continuous functions. As a result the controls are composed of Dirac measures in space-time, centered at points on the discrete space-time grid. We prove that the optimal discrete states and controls converge strongly in L^q and weakly-* in Μ, respectively, to their smooth counterparts, where q ϵ (1,min{2,1+2/d}] is the spatial dimension. The variational discrete version of the state equation with the above choice of spaces yields a Crank-Nicolson time stepping scheme with half a Rannacher smoothing step.
Furthermore, we compare our approach to a full discretization of the corresponding control problem, precisely a discontinuous Galerkin method for the state discretization, where the discrete controls are piecewise constant in time and Dirac measures in space. Numerical experiments highlight the sparsity features of our discrete approach and verify the convergence results.
The second problem we analyze is a parabolic optimal control problem governed by bounded initial measure controls. Here, the cost functional consists of a tracking term corresponding to the observation of the state at final time. Instead of a regularization term for the control in the cost functional, we consider a bound on the measure norm of the initial control. As in the first problem we observe a sparsity structure, but here the control resides only in space at initial time, so we focus on the space discretization to achieve maximal sparsity of the control. Again, due to the initial measure in the partial differential equation, we rely on a very weak solution theory of the state equation.
We employ a dG(0) approximation of the state equation, i.e. we choose piecewise linear and continuous functions in space, which are piecewise constant in time for our ansatz and test space. Then, the variational discretization of the problem together with the optimality conditions induce maximal discrete sparsity of the initial control, i.e. Dirac measures in space. We present numerical experiments to illustrate our approach and investigate the sparsity structure
As third problem we choose an elliptic optimal control governed by functions of bounded variation (BV) in one space dimension. The cost functional consists of a tracking term for the state and a BV-seminorm in terms of the derivative of the control. We derive a sparsity structure for the derivative of the BV control. Additionally, we utilize the mixed formulation for the state equation.
A variational discretization approach with piecewise constant discretization of the state and piecewise linear and continuous discretization of the adjoint state yields that the derivative of the control is a sum of Dirac measures. Consequently the control is a piecewise constant function. Under a structural assumption we even get that the number of jumps of the control is finite. We prove error estimates for the variational discretization approach in combination with the mixed formulation of the state equation and confirm our findings in numerical experiments that display the convergence rate.
In summary we confirm the use of variational discretization for optimal control problems with measures that inherit a sparsity. We are able to preserve the sparsity on the discrete level without discretizing the control variable.
Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Zusammenhänge zwischen sozialer Kompetenz und den Big Five der Persönlichkeit. Nach einer Erörterung des Kompetenzbegriffs in der Psychologie wird ein Überblick über die verschiedenen theoretischen Ansätze zur sozialen Kompetenz sowie deren Erfassungsmöglichkeiten gegeben. Daneben wird das Fünf-Faktoren-Modell der Persönlichkeit hinsichtlich seiner Entwicklung und seines Stellenwerts innerhalb der Persönlichkeitsforschung analysiert und Anwendungsmöglichkeiten sowie Erfassungsmethoden der Big Five werden dargelegt. Im Anschluss werden theoretisch gefundene spezifische Zusammenhänge der beiden Konstrukte aufgezeigt. Die daraus resultierenden theoretischen Modelle zu den Zusammenhängen zwischen sozialer Kompetenz und Persönlichkeit sowie die damit verbundenen empirischen Hypothesen werden mithilfe von Strukturgleichungsmodellen an einer Stichprobe von jungen Erwachsenen aus der deutschsprachigen Schweiz überprüft. Die Strukturgleichungsmodelle können mit akzeptablen bis guten Gütekriterien beibehalten werden. Eine zusätzliche Kreuzvalidierung an einer zweiten unabhängigen Stichprobe bestätigt die Ergebnisse in weiten Teilen. Eine weitere Modellprüfung an einer französischsprachigen Stichprobe gibt erste Hinweise für eine kulturübergreifende Generalisierung. Die Ergebnisse der empirischen Studie werden sowohl methodisch als auch mit Bezug auf die theoretischen Ausführungen diskutiert und es werden Implikationen für die weitere Forschung erörtert.
Soil organic matter (SOM) is a key component responsible for sequestration of organic molecules in soil and regulation of their mobility in the environment. The basic structure of SOM is a supramolecular assembly responding dynamically to the environmental factors and the presence of interacting molecules. Despite of the advances in the understanding of sorption processes, the relation between sorbate molecules, SOM supramolecular structure and its dynamics is limited. An example of a dynamic nature of SOM is a physicochemical matrix aging that is responsible for SOM structural arrangement. The underlying process of the physicochemical aging is the formation of water molecule bridges (WaMB) between functional groups of molecular segments. Since WaMB influence the stiffness of SOM structure, it was hypothesized that formation of WaMB contributes to the sequestration of organic molecules. However, this hypothesis has not been tested experimentally until now. Furthermore, the knowledge about the influence of organic molecules on WAMB is based solely on computer modeling studies. In addition, the influence of organic molecules on some physical phases forming SOM is not well understood. Especially, the interactions between organic molecules and crystalline phases represented by aliphatic crystallites, are only presumed. Thus, the investigation of those interactions in unfractioned SOM is of high importance.
In order to evaluate the involvement of WaMB in the sequestration of organic molecules and to increase our understanding about interactions of organic chemicals with WaMB or aliphatic crystallites, the following hypotheses were tested experimentally. 1) Similarly to crystalline phases in synthetic polymers, aliphatic crystallites, as a part of SOM, cannot be penetrated by organic molecules. 2) The stability of WaMB is determined by the ability of surrounding molecules to interact with water forming WaMB. 3) WaMB prevent organic molecules to leave the SOM matrix and contribute thus to their immobilization. In order to test the hypotheses 1 and 2, a set of experiments including treatment of soils with chosen chemicals was prepared. Interaction abilities of these chemicals were characterized using interaction parameters from the Linear Solvation Energy Relationship theory. WaMB characteristics were monitored using Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) allowing to measure the WaMB thermal stability and the rigidity of SOM matrix; which in turn was determined by the heat capacity change. In addition, DSC and 13C NMR spectroscopy assessed thermal properties and the structure of aliphatic crystallites. The spiking of samples with a model compound, phenol, and measurements of its desorption allowed to link parameters of the desorption kinetics with WaMB characteristics.
The investigation showed that the WaMB stability is significantly reduced by the presence of molecules with H-donor/acceptor interaction abilities. The matrix rigidity associated with WaMB was mainly influenced by the McGowan’s volume of surrounding molecules, suggesting the importance of dispersion forces. The desorption kinetics of phenol followed a first order model with two time constants. Both of them showed a relation with WaMB stability, which supports the hypothesis that WaMB contribute to the physical immobilization of organic molecules. The experiments targeted to the crystallites revealed their structural change from the ordered to the disordered state, when in contact with organic chemicals. This manifested in their melting point depression and the decrease of overall crystallinity. Described structural changes were caused by molecules interacting with specific as well as non-specific forces, which suggests that aliphatic crystallites can be penetrated and modified by molecules with a broad range of interaction abilities.
This work shows that chosen organic molecules interact with constituents of SOM as exemplified on WaMB and aliphatic crystallites, and cause measurable changes of their structure and properties. These findings show that the relevance of aliphatic crystallites for sorption in soil may have been underestimated. The results support the hypothesis that physicochemical matrix aging significantly contributes to the immobilization of organic chemicals in SOM.
The term “Software Chrestomaty” is defined as a collection of software systems meant to be useful in learning about or gaining insight into software languages, software technologies, software concepts, programming, and software engineering. 101companies software chrestomathy is a community project with the attributes of a Research 2.0 infrastructure for various stakeholders in software languages and technology communities. The core of 101companies combines a semantic wiki and confederated open source repositories. We designed and developed an integrated ontology-based knowledge base about software languages and technologies. The knowledge is created by the community of contributors and supported with a running example and structured documentation. The complete ecosystem is exposed by using Linked Data principles and equipped with the additional metadata about individual artifacts. Within the context of software chrestomathy we explored a new type of software architecture – linguistic architecture that is targeted on the language and technology relationships within a software product and based on the megamodels. Our approach to documentation of the software systems is highly structured and makes use of the concepts of the newly developed megamodeling language MegaL. We “connect” an emerging ontology with the megamodeling artifacts to raise the cognitive value of the linguistic architecture.
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.
Social entrepreneurship is a form of entrepreneurship that marries a social mission to a competitive value proposition. Notably, social entrepreneurship fosters a more equitable society by addressing social issues and trying to achieve an ongoing sustainable impact through a social mission rather than purely profit maximization. The topic of social entrepreneurship has appealed considerably to many different streams of research. The focus on understanding how and why entrepreneurs think and act is a significant justification for future research. Nevertheless, the theoretical examination of this phenomenon is in its infancy. Social entrepreneurship research is still largely phenomenon-driven. Specifically, Social Entrepreneurial Intention is in an early stage and lacks quantitative research. Therefore, this thesis proposes to address this need. The thesis’ objectives are twofold: (1) develop a formation model for Social Entrepreneurial Intentions in general and (2) test the model by conducting an empirical study. Based on these objectives, the two research questions guiding the thesis are (1) what factors influence the intention of a person to become a social entrepreneur and (2) what relationships exist among these factors.
In order to answer these two research questions, this thesis uses purposeful research design, which is a combination of literature review and empirical study. The literature review is based on a comprehensive range of books, articles, and research papers published in leading academic journals and conference proceedings in different disciplines such as entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education, management, social psychology, and social economics. The empirical study is conducted via a survey of 600 last-year students from four universities in three regions in Vietnam: Hanoi, Da Nang, and Ho Chi Minh. The data are analyzed with SPSS-AMOS version 24, using screening data, scale development, exploratory factor analysis, and confirmation factor analysis. The thesis ascertains that Entrepreneurship Experience/Extra-curricular Activity, Role Model, Social Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy, and Social Entrepreneurial Outcome Expectation directly and positively affect the intention of the Vietnamese students to be social entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurship Education also influences the Social Entrepreneurial Intention, but not directly, otherwise indirectly via Social Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy and Social Entrepreneurial Outcome Expectation. Similarly, Perceived Support has no direct relationship to Social Entrepreneurial Intention; however, it shows an indirect link via the mediator ‘Social Entrepreneurial Outcome Expectation’. Furthermore, the dissertation brings new insights to the social entrepreneurship literature and provides important implications for practice. Limitations and future directions are also provided in the thesis.
Enterprise Collaboration Systems (ECS) have become substantial for computer-mediated communication and collaboration among employees in organisations. As ECS combine features from social media and traditional groupware, a growing number of organisations implement ECS to facilitate collaboration among employees. Consequently, ECS form the core of the digital workplace. Thus, the activity logs of ECS are particularly valuable since they provide a unique opportunity for observing and analysing collaboration in the digital workplace.
Evidence from academia and practice demonstrates that there is no standardised approach for the analysis of ECS logs and that practitioners struggle with various barriers. Because current ECS analytics tools only provide basic features, academics and practitioners cannot leverage the full potential of the activity logs. As ECS activity logs are a valuable source for understanding collaboration in the digital workplace, new methods and metrics for their analysis are required. This dissertation develops Social Collaboration Analytics (SCA) as a method for measuring and analysing collaboration activities in ECS. To address the existing limitations in academia and practice and to contribute a method and structures for applying SCA in practice, this dissertation aims to answer two main research questions:
1. What are the current practices for measuring collaboration activities in Enterprise Collaboration Systems?
2. How can Social Collaboration Analytics be implemented in practice?
By answering the research questions, this dissertation seeks to (1) establish a broad thematic understanding of the research field of SCA and (2) to develop SCA as a structured method for analysing ac-tivity logs of ECS. As part of the first research question, this dissertation documents the status quo of SCA in the academic literature and practice. By answering the second research question, this dissertation contributes the SCA framework (SCAF), which guides the practical application of SCA. SCAF is the main contribution of this dissertation. The framework was developed based on findings from an analysis of 86 SCA studies, results from 6 focus groups and results from a survey among 27 ECS user companies. The phases of SCAF were derived from a comparison of established process models for data mining and business intelligence. The eight phases of the framework contain detailed descriptions, working steps, and guiding questions, which provide a step by step guide for the application of SCA in practice. Thus, academics and practitioners can benefit from using the framework.
The constant evaluation of the research outcomes in focus groups ensures both rigour and relevance. This dissertation employs a qualitative-dominant mixed-methods approach. As part of the university-industry collaboration initiative IndustryConnect, this research has access to more than 30 leading ECS user companies. Being built on a key case study and a series of advanced focus groups with representatives of user companies, this dissertation can draw from unique insights from practice as well as rich data with a longitudinal perspective.
Social Business Documents: An Investigation of their Nature, Structure and Long-term Management
(2018)
Business documents contain valuable information. In order to comply with legal requirements, to serve as organisational knowledge and to prevent risks they need to be managed. However, changes in technology with which documents are being produced introduced new kinds of documents and new ways of interacting with documents. Thereby, the web 2.0 led to the development of Enterprise Collaboration Systems (ECS), which enable employees to use wiki, blog or forum applications for conducting their business. Part of the content produced in ECS can be called Social Business Documents (SBD). Compared to traditional digital documents SBD are different in their nature and structure as they are, for example, less well-structured and do not follow a strict lifecycle. These characteristics bring along new management challenges. However, currently research literature lacks investigations on the characteristics of SBD, their peculiarities and management.
This dissertation uses document theory and documentary practice as theoretical lenses to investigate the new challenges of the long-term management of SBD in ECS. By using an interpretative, exploratory, mixed methods approach the study includes two major research parts. First, the nature and structure of Social Business Documents is addressed by analysing them within four different systems using four different modelling techniques each. The findings are used to develop general SBD information models, outlining the basic underlying components, structure, functions and included metadata, as well as a broad range of SBD characteristics. The second phase comprises a focus group, a case study including in-depth interviews and a questionnaire, all conducted with industry representatives. The focus group identified that the kind of SBD used for specific content and the actual place of storage differ between organisations as well as that there are currently nearly no management practices for SBD at hand. The case study provided deep insights into general document management activities and investigated requirements, challenges and actions for managing SBD. Finally, the questionnaire consolidated and deepened the previous findings. It provides insights about the value of SBD, their current management practices as well as management challenges and needs. Despite all participating organisations storing information worth managing in SBD most are not addressing them with management activities and many challenges remain.
Together, the investigations enable a contribution to practice and theory. The progress in practice is summarised through a framework, addressing the long-term management of Social Business Documents. The framework identifies and outlines the requirements and challenges of and the actions for SBD management. It also indicates the dependencies of the different aspects. Furthermore, the findings enable the progress in theory within documentary practice by discussing the extension of document types to include SBD. Existing problems are outlined along the definitions of records and the newly possible characteristics of documents emerging through Social Business Documents are taken into account.
In this work has been examined, how the existing model of the simulation of cables and hoses can be advanced. Therefore an investigation has been made on the main influences to the shape simulation and the factors of constraints and side conditions were analyzed. For the validation of the accuracy, the simulation has to be compared to real specimen behavior. To obtain a very precise digitalization of the shape, the choice was made to use a laser scanner that converts the pointcloud into a .vrml file which can be imported into the simulation environment. The assumption was that the simulation method itself has the highest impact to the simulated shape. This is why the capabilities of the most sophisticated methods have been analyzed. The main criterion for the success of a simulation approach proved not to be accuracy, as expected. Process integration and usability showed to be of higher interest for the efficient exertion. Other factors like the pricing, the functionality and the real-time capability were assayed as well. The analyzed methods are based on the solution of the equations of elasticity with different ways of discetization, finite-elements and a spring-impulse-system. Since the finite-element-system takes several minutes for the computation of the shape and the spring-impulse-system reacts retarded on user manipulation, the competitiveness of these approaches is low. The other methods distinguish more in real-time performance, data interfaces and functionality than in accuracy. For the accuracy of a system, the consideration of other factors proved to be very important. As one of these main factors, the accurate assignment of the material properties was indicated. Until the start of this work, only the finite-element-approach dealt with this factor, but no documentation or validation is provided. In the publications of the other methods, the material properties are estimated to obtain a plausible simulation shape. Therefore the specific material values of real specimen have been measured and assigned to the simulation. With the comparison to the real shape it has been proven that the accuracy is very high with the measured properties. Since these measurements are very costly and time consuming, an investigation on a faster and cheaper way to obtain these values has been made. It has been assumed that with the knowledge of the cross-section it should be possible to compute the specimen behavior. Since the braid distribution changes individually from specimen to specimen, a more general way to obtain the values needed to be found. The program composer has been developed, where only the number of the different braids and the taping is entered. It computes with very high precision the stiffness, the density and the final diameter of the bundle. With the measured values and the fitting to the real shape it has been proven that the simulation approach reflects the precise behavior of cables and hoses. Since the stiffness of the single braids is wasteful to measure, a measurement setup was created where the stiffness has a large impact to the shape. With known density, the stiffness of the specimen can be reconstructed precisely. Thus a fast and beneficial way of obtaining the stiffness of a cable has been invented. The poissons ratio of cables and bundles cannot be measured with a tensile test, since the inner structure is very complex. For hoses, the variation of the inner diameter has been measured during the tensile test as well. The resulting values were reasonable, but their accuracy could not be proven. For cables and hoses, it has been tried to obtain the poissons ratio via the computation of the cross section, but the influence of individual changes and the crosstalk of the braids is very high. Therefore a setup was constructed where the torsion stiffness can be measured. For cables and hoses, the individual cross-sections and taping lead to varying results. For hoses, expected and repeatable good values for the poissons ratio were obtained. The low influence of the poisons ratio in the range between 0 and 0.5 has been proven. Therefore we decided to follow the advice of [Old06] and our own experiences to set the poisons ratio for cables and bundles to 0.25. With the knowledge of the measurability and the capabilities of the developed program composer, a procedure to obtain material properties for bundles has been designed. 1. Measurement of the braid density with via pyknometer or mass, length and diameter. 2. Empirical reconstruction of the stiffness with the designed setup. 3. Composing the bundle with the program composer. 4. Adding a factor for the taping and transfer the values to the simulation. The model of the cable simulation has been improved as follows: The main influences in the simulation of cables and hoses are the simulation method, the material properties and the geometric constraints. To obtain higher accuracy, an investigation on the correct material properties is indispensable. The scientific determination of material properties for the simulation of cables, bundles and hoses has been performed for the first time. The influence of geometrical constraints has been analyzed and documented. The next steps are the analysis of pre-deformation and further investigations to the determination of the poisons ratio with a more precise torsion test. All analysis were made with the simulation approach fleXengine. A comparison to other simulation methods would be of high interest.
The estimation of the potential risk of pesticide entries into streams - and therefore the potential risk for the ecosystems - is an important requirement for the planning of risk mitigation strategies. Especially on the landscape level the required event triggered sampling methods are conjuncted with considerable efforts with regard to input data, time and personnel. To circumvent these problems simulation models form a reasonable alternative. The aims of this work were (A) the development of a simulation tool for the estimation of pesticide entries into surface waters on the landscape level, and (B) the application of the simulator for an exposure- and risk-assessment as well as the assessment of negative effects of pesticides on aquatic communities. Section 1 - Exposure-, Risk- and Effects In sections 1.1 and 1.2 the simulation model was applied to a multitude of small and medium sized streams in an agricultural impacted study area around the city of Braunschweig, Germany. Section 1.3 gives an overview of the simulators field of application and the general system structure. Section 1.1 - Scenario based simulation of runoff-related pesticide entries into small streams on a landscape level (English publication, p. 27): In this paper we present a simulation tool for the simulation of pesticide entry from arable land into adjacent streams. We used the ratio of exposure to toxicity (REXTOX) model proposed by the OECD which was extended to calculate pesticide concentrations in adjacent streams. We simulated the pesticide entry on the landscape level at 737 sites in small streams situated in the central lowland of Germany. The most significant model parameters were the width of the no-application-zone and the degree of plant-interception. The simulation was carried out using eight different environmental scenarios, covering variation of the width of the no-application-zone, climate and seasonal scenarios. The highest in-stream concentrations were predicted at a scenario using no (0 m) buffer zone in conjunction with increased precipitation. According to the predicted concentrations, the risk for the aquatic communities was estimated based on standard toxicity tests and the application of a safety factor. Section 1.2 - Linking land use variables and invertebrate taxon richness in small and medium-sized agricultural streams on a landscape level (English publication, p. 50): In this study the average numbers of invertebrate species across an arable landscape in central Germany (surveys from 15 years in 90 streams at 202 sites) were assessed for their correlation with environmental factors such as stream width, land use (arable land, forest, pasture, settlement), soil type and agricultural derived stressors. The stress originating from arable land was estimated by the factor "risk of runoff", which was derived from a runoff-model (rainfall induced surface runoff). Multivariate analysis explained 39.9% of the variance in species number, revealing stream width as the most important factor (25.3%) followed by risk of runoff (9.7%). Section 1.3 - Informationssystem zur ökotoxikologischen Bewertung der Gewässergüte in Bezug auf Pflanzenschutzmitteleinträge aus der Landwirtschaft - Systemaufbau und Anwendungsmöglichkeiten (German publication, p. 61): Section 1.3 contains a short overview of the simulation tool, the field of application and some examples of use, covering the effects of the width of the buffer zone as well as the creation of risk maps on the landscape level. Section 2 - The simulation tool An important aspect for the employment of a simulation model in the context of risk assessment is the applicability in practice: the accessibility of the needed input data, the conversion of the mathematical model into a software application that can be run on any current personnel computer and also an appropriate end-user documentation of the system. Section 1.4 - Informationssystem zur ökotoxikologischen Bewertung der Gewässergüte in Bezug auf Pflanzenschutzmitteleinträge aus der Landwirtschaft - Simulationsmodell und Systemaufbau (German report, p. 67): In this section a general overview of the simulation model as well as the schematic system structure given. Section 1.5 - Benutzerhandbuch (German report, p. 71): The user manual contains details concerning the installation of the system, generation of the required input data and the general use of the system. Moreover it presents some application examples (what-if analyses). Section 1.6 - Technical documentation (German report, p. 104): The technical documentation describes internal structures and processes of the simulation system. Section 1.6 provides information regarding the required structure of input/output tables.
Reactive local algorithms are distributed algorithms which suit the needs of battery-powered, large-scale wireless ad hoc and sensor networks particularly well. By avoiding both unnecessary wireless transmissions and proactive maintenance of neighborhood tables (i.e., beaconing), such algorithms minimize communication load and overhead, and scale well with increasing network size. This way, resources such as bandwidth and energy are saved, and the probability of message collisions is reduced, which leads to an increase in the packet reception ratio and a decrease of latencies.
Currently, the two main application areas of this algorithm type are geographic routing and topology control, in particular the construction of a node's adjacency in a connected, planar representation of the network graph. Geographic routing enables wireless multi-hop communication in the absence of any network infrastructure, based on geographic node positions. The construction of planar topologies is a requirement for efficient, local solutions for a variety of algorithmic problems.
This thesis contributes to reactive algorithm research in two ways, on an abstract level, as well as by the introduction of novel algorithms:
For the very first time, reactive algorithms are considered as a whole and as an individual research area. A comprehensive survey of the literature is given which lists and classifies known algorithms, techniques, and application domains. Moreover, the mathematical concept of O- and Omega-reactive local topology control is introduced. This concept unambiguously distinguishes reactive from conventional, beacon-based, topology control algorithms, serves as a taxonomy for existing and prospective algorithms of this kind, and facilitates in-depth investigations of the principal power of the reactive approach, beyond analysis of concrete algorithms.
Novel reactive local topology control and geographic routing algorithms are introduced under both the unit disk and quasi unit disk graph model. These algorithms compute a node's local view on connected, planar, constant stretch Euclidean and topological spanners of the underlying network graph and route messages reactively on these spanners while guaranteeing the messages' delivery. All previously known algorithms are either not reactive, or do not provide constant Euclidean and topological stretch properties. A particularly important partial result of this work is that the partial Delaunay triangulation (PDT) is a constant stretch Euclidean spanner for the unit disk graph.
To conclude, this thesis provides a basis for structured and substantial research in this field and shows the reactive approach to be a powerful tool for algorithm design in wireless ad hoc and sensor networking.
Since the Bologna reform a continuous improvement of the lessons’ quality at school, which is often connected with the professionalization of the future teachers and the teaching post education, is aimed by Alliance and federal states. The quality of the lessons is connected with the professionalization of the future teacher and the teaching post education. In most studies about quality improvement the consideration occurs predominantly from the university view and it is seldom related on the subject Sport. The quality study is established on these two points and leads to the main question: Are there any differences in the teachers‘ and learners‘ perceptions of the professionalization of sport teachers in the certain education phases in Rheinland-Pfalz?
With the help of 101 guide interviews and the evaluation according to the Grounded Theory this source question can be answered straight. There were interviewed teachers of the universities, of the state study seminars and the school, as well as learners, to that refer trainees and students. During the study the „missing school relation” crystallizes consistent in all personal groups as key element (core category) in the first and second education phase. The interviewed, which belong to different school forms, give relevant concrete, specific for sport and partially subject covering optimization proposals. As a result a main focus forms untimely relations to the school everyday life and at the same time collect teaching experiences with learning groups at school to get to know their different motor abilities and skills. The improvement approaches concern the university phase and the training period in the study seminars and schools, and the involved consider for necessary a more intensive interlinking of the individual institutions. A mutual, continuous cooperation for the professionalization in the sportsman's education and therefore the optimization of the sports teacher training is very important for all involved.
Immer häufiger kommt es zum Einsatz von Servicepersonal in Krankenhäusern und anderen pflegerischen Einrichtungen um dem Fachkräftemangel in der Pflege zu kompensieren. Die vorliegende Arbeit zeigt eine Kompatibilität von Tätigkeiten von Servicepersonal und Professionstheorien der Pflege, sowie einen Lernbedarf für Servicepersonal im Setting der stationären Pflege im Krankenhaus.
Pflegeexperten sind der Meinung, dass ein Einsatz von Servicepersonal, das in der Lage ist, durch definierte Tätigkeiten und Anforderungen Pflegepersonal zu unterstützen, notwendig ist. Zur Entwicklung von Handlungskompetenz für ausgewählte Tätigkeiten bietet ein situatives, tätigkeitsbezogenes Anforderungsprofil, gegliedert nach dem Kompetenzmodell in persönliche, soziale, methodische und fachliche Kompetenz, eine Grundlage für eine Bildungsmaßnahme für Servicepersonal.
Die Erkenntnisse dieser Arbeit tragen einen Teil dazu bei, den gegenwärtigen und künftigen Herausforderungen der Pflege gewachsen zu sein.
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.
Im Kontext chronischer Schmerzerkrankungen sind neben dem physischem Schmerzerleben auch Emotionen, wie Depressivität, Angst, Scham und Ärger von großer Relevanz. So leiden beispielsweise ca. 70 % der Menschen mit chronischen Schmerzen unter wiederkehrendem Ärger. Die Forschung zu spezifischen emotionsfokussierten psychologischen Behandlungsansätzen ist jedoch begrenzt. Eine Möglichkeit der Behandlung könnten sogenannte mitgefühlsbasierte Ansätze darstellen. So ist Selbstmitgefühl bei chronischem Schmerz beispielsweise assoziiert mit einer geringeren Schmerzintensität sowie geringerer physischer und emotionaler Beeinträchtigung, wie Depressivität, Angst und Ärger. In der vorliegenden Dissertation wurde die Relevanz von Selbstmitgefühl im Kontext von akutem und chronischem Schmerz unter der besonderen Berücksichtigung von Ärger evaluiert.
Zunächst wuden in einem Überblicksartikel Interventionsstudien (N = 19) zu Behandlungsansätzen von chronischen Schmerzen zusammengefasst, welche Veränderungen in Ärger oder verwandten Aspekten berichteten (Studie 1). Nur zwei der eingeschlossenen Studien untersuchten spezifische Interventionen zur Bewältigung von Ärger. Insgesamt wiesen die Studien große Unterschiede hinsichtlich der Qualität, Stichprobe, Intervention (Art, Dauer, Setting) wie auch der Messinstrumente für Ärger auf. Die vielversprechendsten Ergebnisse zeigten sich für akzeptanz- und mitgefühlsbasierte Ansätze. Als mögliche Fundierung zukünftiger Forschung wurde zudem das „Prozess Modell der Ärger-Regulation bei chronischem Schmerz“ vorgeschlagen und diskutiert.
Da sich mitgefühlsbasierte Ansätze als potentiell wirksam zur Bewältigung von Ärger erwiesen, wurde die Relevanz von Selbstmitgefühl im Kontext von chronischem Schmerz anhand einer kontrollierten Längsschnittstudie (t1: NT1 = 1228; t2: NT2 = 376) evaluiert (Studie 2 & 3). In Studie 2 wurde Selbstmitgefühl anhand der zwei Faktoren „compassionate self-responding (CS)“ und „reduced uncompassionate self-responding (RUS)“ definiert. Hierbei erwies sich CS als distinktes Konstrukt im Vergleich zu Psychologischer Inflexibilität und Selbstwert. RUS und Selbstwert schienen das gleiche latente Konstrukt zu repräsentieren. Die
Relevanz dieser Konzepte für schmerzbezogene Konzepte, wie auch Depressivität und Ärger wurde in Studie 3 überprüft. Nur RUS und nicht CS stellte hierbei einen eigenständigen Prädiktor für schmerzbezogene Aspekte dar. Psychologische Inflexibilität, genauer Vermeidungsverhalten, erwies sich zudem als Prädiktor mit breiterer Relevanz, jedoch konnte keiner der untersuchten Prädiktoren eigenständig Ärger vorhersagen.
Die Relevanz von Selbstmitgefühl zur Bewältigung von akutem Schmerz wurde in einer experimentellen Studie evaluiert (Studie 4). Die Emotionsregulationsstrategien Selbstmitgefühl, Akzeptanz und Ablenkung erwiesen sich als vergleichbar hilfreich hinsichtlich Schmerztoleranz, -Intensität und –Aversion.
Selbstmitgefühl scheint demnach auch im Kontext von Schmerz vor allem in spezifischen Kontexten oder für bestimmte Subgruppen von Bedeutung zu sein. Zukünftige Forschung sollte sich daher auf einen adaptiven Einsatz der Emotionsregulationsstrategie Selbstmitgefühl konzentrieren. Im Speziellen sollte die Wirkung von mitgefühlsbasierten Interventionen auf Ärger bei Schmerz genauer evaluiert werden.
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.