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An ethnic group's specific social life depends on a selection of manners in which members approach one another or take position towards a person or group. The characteristics of this conventional...

Dynamic capabilities describe the firms' capacity to adapt their resources with regard to external shifts in order to maintain or to even enlarge competitive advantage. In this essay the author...

The present thesis aimed to investigate the effects of psychological stress on the microbicidal potential of human macrophages in order to shed more light on the mechanisms that underlie...

Silizium ist ein wichtiger Rohstoff unserer modernen Welt. Mikroelektronik, Sensorik und Photovoltaik sind drei wichtige Anwendungsgebiete, die aus unserem t?glichen Leben heute nicht mehr...

Biofilms play a major role in material cycles and contribute to technical systems significantly. Despite their interference with the functionality of technical equipment or the product quality their...

Variations in insulin regulation reflect either as tissue insulin resistance or insulin dysregulation result in moderate to severe hyperinsulinemia in horses and ponies suffering from the Equine...

The natural behavior of pigs is adapted to very complex environments and is characterized by a high proportion of exploratory behaviour. In modern, intensive husbandry systems, the behaviour pigs...

control other than the seed coating effective to reduce the plant damage (ERICHSEN 2006). Since the use of neonicotinoids as a seed treatment in oilseed rape was strongly restricted by the EU in 2013...

Non-globular FG domains constitute the permeability barrier of nuclear pore complexes (NPCs), which control all macromolecular exchange between nucleus and cytoplasm. Whilst objects smaller than...

Die Entwicklung von innovativen L?sungen durch Freiwillige in Online Communities - sogenannten "Open Collaberative Innovation" (OCI) Communities - hat beachtliche Aufmerksamkeit durch die...

Beschreibung Gases have to be specifically mixed with a continuous liquid phase to perform a reaction with high yield and selectivity. The time scales of mixing are determined by the transport...

As digitalization has caused major changes within various traditional industries, firms are forced to explore new technological paths and access knowledge beyond their boundaries. This dissertation...

Semidefinite Optimization has attracted the attention of many researchers over the last twenty years. It has nowadays a huge variety of applications in such different fields as Control, Structural...

On 14 December 2010 the European Commission presented its Proposal to amend the most important instrument on European international civil procedure, the Regulation 44/2001 ( Brussels I ). Against the...

The stabilization of the carrier-envelope phase of ultrashort laser pulses went through a rapid development from the first publication of a feasible concept in 1999 to being a mature tool for...

Actuaries working in claims reserving are often faced, among others, with the following two tasks: the prediction of future outstanding loss liabilities, as well as the quantification of their risk...

The separation of isotopes has always been a challenge because of their identical size, shape and thermodynamic properties. Nowadays, the extraction of deuterium is performed e.g. by the Girdler...

Die vorliegende Arbeit besch?ftigt sich mit Oberfl?chendiffusion und Strukturbildung an Oberfl?chen, speziell im Fall Silber auf Silizium. Unterschiedliche Methoden werden kombiniert um Si(001) und...

Contrary to what we might expect, China has a higher proportion of women in senior executive roles than almost any other country in the world, far outstripping Western countries such as the USA,...

The legume pod borer, Maruca vitrata, causes severe damage on legume crops in the tropics. The larvae are mainly controlled by synthetic insecticides but without satisfying results. Monitoring of the...

In recent decades the frequency and severity of natural disasters increased. This development is accompanied by an increase in catastrophe related economic losses and is assumed to continue for the...

Various thermal wood modification technologies have been developed in Europe during the past decades that differ notably in the process conditions applied. However, the changes in wood properties by...

Beschreibung The work at hand participates with the energy transition toward decarbonized electricity production by providing a method to analyze the incentives for the dispatchable fleet to provide...

The political contention that considers forests to be mere economic assets to achieve state welfare has slowly changed into a more conservative view since the Ninth World Forestry Congress in Mexico...

Modern high-power broad area (BA) diode lasers are important building blocks for the materials processing industry, combining high optical output power with high conversion efficiency. However, their...

Ce livre estune contribution ?la description dusena̰r (langue senufo parl?e au Burkina Faso) et ?l'analyse des traits de l'influence du jula v?hiculaire (du Burkina Faso) sur le senar. L'analyse...

Mit dieser sequentiellen Querschnittsstudie wurde die Verbindung zwischen der vorhandenen Gem?sevielfalt ("Produktion") und der Nahrungsvielfalt von Frauen ("Konsum") in drei verschiedenen Distrikten...

Beschreibung Water Security is emerging as a primary sustainability challenge across the globe in the 21st century. It is a determinant for security in various societal and environ-mental aspects...

This thesis discusses potential pathways and driving forces for lipid transport through crystalline fat suspensions such as chocolate. Observation of macroscopic migration indicated that structure...

The boiling line of diesel fuels is relevant for the combustion in modern engines. Biodiesel shows a boiling behavior that is very different to diesel fuel. To adapt the boiling line, metathesis...