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Monte Carlo-based techniques allow comprehensively describing the uncertainty propagation through any measuring process or any retrieving scheme. In this work, they have been used to evaluate the...

Climate change and the depletion of fossil fuels are increasing the urgency to develop clean, cheap, and renewable energy sources. Solar water splitting to form molecular hydrogen and oxygen is an...

This dissertation deals with the efficient operation of LNG liquefaction plants based on the concept of self-optimizing control. Self-optimizing control is known as a promising alternative to...

Imagine you see an old lady stumbling and you are the only person who could help her. Would you miss your bus after a long working day and take the next bus that leaves in one hour in order to fulfil...

Polynomial systems arise in many applications: robotics, kinematics, chemical kinetics, computer vision, truss design, geometric modeling, and many others. Many polynomial systems have solutions...

In the broad field of numerical simulation of granular flow, many distinct challenges are faced. Aside from the nontrivial task of defining granular flow'', the first challenge is its modeling...

The development of drug delivery systems took place just a few decades ago, and its evolution has brought about considerable therapeutic and economic impact. The progress from preformed implants to...

The unique combination of (a) highly brilliant x-rays produced in a modern third generation synchrotron source, (b) the availability of a fast, single-photon counting area pixel detector and (c) a...

This book is the translation of a dissertation in the field of English Literature at the Freie Universit?t Berlin. The approach of this book is to challenge the situation of the postcolonial theory...

Since the end of the 20th century the governments of various Gulf states have been attempting to diversify their oil-dependent economies. This has resulted in a new type of urbanism, which the author...

Since the early 1990s, hallucinogenic drugs, such as psilocybin, have been increasingly used to investigate the neuronal basis of altered states of consciousness and psychosis. Furthermore, renewed...

Bei der vorliegenden Arbeit handelt es sich um eine Metaanalyse nach der Cochrane-Methode zum atypischen Antipsychotikum Quetiapin im Vergleich zu anderen atypischen Antipsychotika in der...

Das Entstehen b?sartiger Tumore unter der erforderlichen immunsuppressiven Therapie stellt eines der Hauptprobleme nach Organtransplantationen dar. W?hrend durch Lebertransplantation (LTx) in den...

Reflected and diffracted waves have different nature and role in the applied seismics. Diffractions itself can be classified in both real seismic and hypothetical diffractions. The real seismic...

With the emergence of non-invasive methods like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI), there is growing evidence of maturational changes in both neuro-anatomical structures and...

"Presenteeism" - as a notion created as a counterpart to absenteeism - is being given increasing attention in socio-economic sciences as the phenomenon of attending work despite sickness. The present...

"Die weltweite Armut bis zum Jahr 2015 halbieren" - so lautet das erste der acht Milleniumsentwicklungsziele. Leider sind Unterern?hrung, Hunger und ein Leben unterhalb des absoluten Existenzminimums...

Recent years brought a shift in the focus of Web applications towards social interaction, collaboration and networking. One aspect in this context is the rising importance of social media, which...

Protists are by far the most diverse and abundant eukaryotes in soils. Nevertheless, very little is known about individual representatives, the diversity and community composition and ecological...

While human listeners have little problems in dealing with the strong variation in spoken language, the same cannot be said about automatic speech recognition (ASR). This work compares recognition...

This dissertation aims to develop, evaluate and use new radiogenic isotopic proxies for paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic reconstructions at sub-millennial resolution. The Fe-Mn oxyhydroxide...

The development of axial aircraft compressors has led to high stage loadings and therewith reductions in entire engine size and weight. This trend also promotes several disadvantages such as the...

In this publication a tropical intersection theory is established with analogue notions and tools as its algebro-geometric counterpart. The developed theory, interesting as a subfield of convex...

In the past years, the scientific interest in ZnO was renewed because improved processing and better theoretical understanding raised hope for various new applications, for instance in opto-...