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Our understanding of the evolution of the earliest terrestrially adapted reptiles and amphibians during the time span 320 to 270 million years ago on the Pangaea supercontinent is known from only...

The increasing connectivity among vehicles increases their attack surface and challenges their security. Combining security and automotive real-time systems is challenging in many ways. The...

Against the background of 7.4 million accessions stored in genebanks, long-term survival of stored seeds is an important trait. This study intended to elucidate genetic and biochemical mechanisms...

In chemical biology, the fluorescent labeling of molecules and usage of fluorescence-based imaging techniques for visualizing molecular interactions at a subcellular level is a key feature and...

The work presented in this PhD-thesis concentrates on radial buckling phenomena of power transformer windings made from Continuously Transposed Conductors (CTC). Analytical and simulation-based...

Coal is a rock composed of organic and inorganic materials, which contains 50% or more than 75% organic material (Fig. 1). The organic matter mostly consists of carbon (c), but is also comprised of...

Size effects can cause a significant increase in the strength of a metal. In the past, this effect has been extensively investigated for fcc metals but until today only limited knowledge exists on...

Particularly in the upper stage development of rockets (launchers), gravity dominated fluid motion in upper stage tanks (sloshing) during flight represents an undesired dynamic effect. On the one...

Low Bond number open capillary channel flows have been shown to exhibit collapsing free surfaces when a critical flow rate is exceeded, a phenomenon that is referred to as choking. As shown in this...

This publication examines Europe's strong dependency on importing essential minerals and metals for their industries and if a strategic European Union Sovereign Wealth Fund (EUSWF) is a possible...

For people suffering from social anxiety disorder (SAD), social interactions imply severe distress. Nonetheless, little is known about the social-interactional effects of stress and the...

The sexiest lowland forests in Papua Indonesia, hosting many high-valued timber species, attract the country's authorities to allocate 94% as production forests. The main aim is to manage the forests...

In today's rapidly changing and hectic workplace laden with distractions and constant overload, managing one's own life can be a challenge in itself. What to do? A personal development plan (PDP) can...

The Preliminary Aircraft Design and Optimisation tool, PrADO, is an in-house program of the Institute of Aircraft Design and Lightweight Structures, TU Braunschweig, Germany, which covers a wide...

Carbon is the centerpiece in most chemicals and fuels. In light of climate change non-fossil paths to supply it are necessary. Carbon monoxide is a key molecule for carbon utilization. Forming it...

The rush of marketing expenditures in the Internet has made effectiveness and efficiency increasingly relevant. In particular, online firms offering free content need to provide powerful marketing...

The stance of 40 Bishops who put pen on paper to dedicate their lives and work for the Poor is in our today's world an example worth emulating and promoting. To live amid plenty and not feel the...

Haiku(R) is an open source, light, fast and user-friendly operating system that is inspired by the "Multimedia Operating System" BeOS(TM). At the moment Haiku is still under development and the...

This dissertation investigates the impact of the European regulatory measures MAD (Market Abuse Directive, introduced in 2003) and MiFID (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, introduced in...

Indonesia is known as one of the richest biodiversity countries in the world, with the most complex ecosystems (Petocz 1987). The country covers only 1.3% area of the globe, but it possesses about...

Transitional Justice is increasingly consolidating as a legal framework directed at providing an answer as to how to deal with the serious violations of human rights committed during a warlike...

Thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) are ceramic coating systems developed to reduce the heat transfer from a hot medium to the coated parts. This technology can be used in automotive exhaust systems to...

A system theory of the mind? It sounds like cybernetics, chaos theory, autopoiesis, or the theory of mind (TOM). This monograph, however, aims to break new ground. Leafing through this book, one...

During the past years, wireless communication systems have been rapidly advancing to meet the high data-rate requirements of various emerging applications. However, the existing transceivers have...

The theme of 2016 is "Solidarity in a competing world - fair use of resources". While on the one hand, one part of the world is profiting from natural resources, the other part of the world is...

Being organized into five chapters, this research detects the utilization of global and regional land use regimes by national bureaucracies. This research identifies domestic political background on...

The renewable material wood and hereof derived structural engineered wood products (EWPs) is widely acknowledged as being the major pillar of sustainable building constructions. Due to an increasing...

Sustainable Water Management is essential for the social, economic, and environmental growth of developing countries. Many of those had very high population growth rates in the last century, resulted...

Water is an indispensable element for human life. However, clean water supply is a worldwide issue nowadays. This is because of pollution due to anthropogenic activities that are related to the...

The present volume is the productive result of multilateral academic collaboration between institutions of higher education from Germany (Chemnitz), Macedonia (Ohrid, Bitola), Albania (Vlora) and...