This dissertation explores how the urban context of Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo) influences the use of medicinal plants and the strategies of medicinal plant users. Medicinal plants are a highly contested resource ...

Heuristics are usually discussed as an individual phenomenon, but this raises the question of whether heuristics may also be applied at a collective level. The paper examines this heuristic decision making at a group ...

The starting point of this dissertation is the idea that it is in the interest of society to foster prosocial behavior. Far more debatable is which strategies are suitable to promote prosocial behavior. In this thesis, I ...

This doctoral dissertation is comprised of three autonomous studies all aiming at answering the research question of “Which ideation techniques enhance the idea quality in idea generation?”. A systematic literature review ...

In public and political debates young ethnic minority men are commonly labelled as a ‘problem group’ and in scientific discourses researchers attest them difficulties with identity development. Taking into account that ...

The upswing of ethnic, or movements often characterized as ethno-nationalistic, is a phenomenon taking place all over the world. With the end of the cold war most armed conflicts were now interpreted overhastly as ethnically ...

Information asymmetries are common characteristics of the relationship between investors and the management of a firm. These asymmetries can lead to inefficient resource allocation and welfare losses. This thesis aims to ...

The dissertation is divided in two parts. The first part examines the case of how traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) can be protected by formal institutions of collective property rights against unauthorized use by ...

The intangible costs of data breach events encompass for instance the loss of investor confidence, reputational damage and loss of competitive advantage. Yet, existing literature sheds light on this phenomenon only to a ...

Short summary: The dissertation describes and analyzes direct and indirect manifestations of exchange and reference between local religious communities in the ctities Gelsenkirchen and Recklinghausen, located in the German ...

The TRIPS-Agreement under the umbrella of the World Trade Organization (WTO) forms a cornerstone in the international regulation of intellectual property rights protection. The agreement ...

Vor dem Hintergrund der gesellschaftlichen Veränderungen, welche in hohem Maße auf das Aufkommen der neuen Informations-und Kommunikationstechnologien (IuKT) und insbesondere der Internettechnologie zurückzuführen sind, ...

New Zealand and Germany have both had similar experiences with migration. However, the two countries differ substantially in their political approach to migration and the social integration ...

Differences in time allocation enlighten patterns of gendered poverty. This thesis disentangles the interlinked nature of deprivations in leisure time and income as well as income inequality and carbon emissions. Regressions ...

This dissertation examines the actual social outcomes of one of the largest and most prominent social policies of the Indian government in the field of poverty reduction and education – the so-called Mid Day Meal Scheme ...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is one of the most widespread mental disorders among children and adolescents. Studies have shown respective results for Germany as well as for Saudi-Arabia. Many of the young ...

The subject of the present dissertation is the relevance of the children's room as a place of children's development, experience and education. Besides presenting a historical survey of the children's room in German ...

This doctoral thesis is concerned with research into small and medium enterprises (SMEs). It consists of four essays on the specific roles of smaller firms in the fields of innovation and the business cycle. The first three ...

The interaction between business game players and business games is a simulation of an interaction with the complex system of an enterprise. Typically the player has the feeling of being ...

Die Fähigkeit, komplexe Probleme zu lösen, hat als Forschungsgegenstand in den vergangenen Jahren merklich das Interesse der Erziehungswissenschaften auf sich gezogen. Auch in ihrer Ausformung zur Kompetenz gilt sie als ...

This dissertation aimed to reconstruct the meaning of sportive actions and social interactions in the small lifeworld of the gym in the context of body dissatisfaction among men. A qualitative research design was chosen ...

Central to the euro-american assumptions of "natural" kinship is the idea of biogenetic kinship. Conception, symbolized through sexual intercourse of the potential parents, thereby constitutes ...

Smallholder agriculture is the mainstay of rural households in developing countries. In recent years, smallholder agriculture has been affected by the surge in large-scale farms that have acquired land in rural regions of ...

The action-oriented approach to teaching is a method that links both knowledge and action. Following the concepts of learning by doing or rather a learning by communicating, students apply and practice their language skills ...

The dissertation deals with the legitimisation of mosque construction projects in urban society. A particular focus is on the multi-dimensional relations between mosque communities and their social environment. Methodologically, ...

Teachers' beliefs have a significant role in classroom activities of teachers and students' achievement. For example, constructivist beliefs have a positive effect on students' achievement in mathematics (Dubberke et al., ...

Research by linguists, psychologists and cognitive scientists has shown that the grammatical and lexical structures of languages affect human cognition. This hypothesis of linguistic relativity has been taken up by economists ...

Poverty remains one of the most pressing global challenges, affecting people’s livelihood in far more than the mere income dimension: The poor suffer from limited access to education, health care and nutrition, face ...

In my dissertation entitled “Local Knowledge, Disease and Healing in a Papua Community”, I describe and analyse the concepts, knowledge and practices concerning the health and disease of the Tehit people in the South Sorong ...