Naturwissenschaften, Mathematik und Informatik
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Demand for Processed Indigenous Fruit and Vegetable Products – Insights from East Africa
(2022-06-24)There is an increasing understanding that food systems need to provide not only calories but micronutrients as well. Simultaneously, consumption patterns are transforming around the globe. Convenience foods that are quick ... -
C–H Activation via Iridium and Rhodium Electrocatalysis and Undirected Electrochemical Fluorination
(2022-06-24)In past decades, transition metal-catalyzed C–H activation has emerged as an increasingly viable toolbox for the step- and atom economic formation of C–C and C–Het bonds. However, oxidative C–H transformations heavily rely ... -
Seasonal habitat use and breeding performance of the Eurasian Skylark (Alauda arvensis) in Central European farmland
(2022-06-21)The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union has often been identified as a driver of recent agricultural intensification and thus of biodiversity loss. All major taxa, including vascular plants, arthropods, ... -
Links between international trade, local food production, and household living standards: Empirical insights from West Africa
(2022-06-21)Sustainable food production, responsible consumption, poverty reduction, and decent living standards are important global objectives reflected in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In achieving ... -
Biodiversity Governance: Non-State and Sub-National Initiatives in Latin America
(2022-06-21)Non-state and sub-national actors have been increasingly taking action to address biodiversity loss, however, only relatively recently their initiatives started being integrated into international biodiversity governance. ... -
Decision-Making During Ongoing Actions
(2022-06-21)Contemporary theories of action-based decision-making suggest that making decisions between goods, and specifying the actions required to obtain these goods, are parallel and intertwined processes, which allows for highly ... -
Effective simulations of interacting droplets
(2022-06-20)Liquid-liquid phase separation is ubiquitous in everyday life, such as formation of oil droplets in water. This phenomena has been observed in biological cells as well, where membrane-less organelles, also known as ... -
Applying Mobile Consumer Neuroscience for Food Marketing - the Special Case of fNIRS
(2022-06-17)This work demonstrates the potential of consumer neuroscience (CN) employed to empirically study consumer behavior in the field of food marketing. Two mobile CN tools – functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and ... -
Dicationic Chelating Phosphines – Synthesis, Structure And Reactivity Towards Dienes
(2022-06-17)A new family of bidentate dicationic phosphine ligands incorporating an additional electron donating group was designed and synthesized. Obtained ligands were characterized using spectroscopical methods and single crystal ... -
Fast methods for metagenomic sequence search and annotation
(2022-06-16)The past two decades have seen the development of metagenomics, the study of genes and genomes of multiple organisms simultaneously. In contrast to traditional genomic techniques, which require isolating and growing ... -
Solar surface flows during active region emergence
(2022-06-16)The aim of this thesis is to improve our understanding of the emergence of magnetic flux in the form of active regions (ARs) to the solar surface. Active regions are concentrations of strong magnetic field at the surface ... -
The role of RNA in synapse physiology and neurodegeneration in models of Parkinson’s disease
(2022-06-14)Synaptic dysfunction is an early alteration in multiple neurodegenerative disorders. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is characterised by the accumulation of α-synuclein (αsyn) in pathological inclusions known as Lewy bodies ... -
Price Discovery Measures in Agricultural Economics
(2022-06-14)The present dissertationis devoted to the issue of price discovery in agricultural markets. Price discovery is considered one of the central functions of financial markets and is usually analyzed empirically for highly ... -
Anti-apoptotic and neuroprotective erythropoietin/CRLF3-signalling in insects and humans
(2022-06-14)The cytokine receptor like factor 3 (CRLF3) evolved together with the eumetazoan nervous system and is present in all major groups of Animalia. Based on sequence similarities, CRLF3 was assigned to the family of class 1 ... -
Regulation of mechanical feedback amplification in the Drosophila ear
(2022-06-09)Ears achieve their exquisite sensitivity using positive mechanical feedback (Ashmore et al., 2010). Like pushing a swing augments its swing, sound-induced vibrations are enhanced by motile responses of auditory receptor ... -
Matrix Product State Approaches to Non-equilibrium Spectral Quantities of Strongly Correlated Fermions in One Dimension
(2022-06-09)In this thesis we numerically study non-equilibrium phenomena in one-dimensional quantum many-body systems. We discuss extensions of the concepts of spectral functions and of the optical conductivity to time-dependent ... -
Materials Design and Engineering for High Energy-Density Rechargeable Zinc-air Batteries
(2022-06-09)The growing demands for energy and the associated environmental pollution have sparked a great deal of interest in the development of clean energy technologies including fuel cells, metal-air batteries, supercapacitors, ... -
Responses of net primary production and plant-available soil nutrients to elevated nutrient input in a tropical forest on highly weathered soil
(2022-06-07)Globally, tropical forests are highly productive ecosystems and play a critical role in sequestering anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, accounting for up to half of the terrestrial biosphere’s carbon ... -
Role of Neuroligin-2 and its Interacting Inhibitory Synapse Organizers in the Circuits of Fear Learning and Anxiety
(2022-06-03)Neuroligin-2 (Nlgn2) is a synaptic adhesion molecule that promotes the maturation and function of inhibitory synapses. Lack of Nlgn2 in mice produced a reduction in inhibitory synaptic transmission in many brain regions. ... -
Prospects for climate change mitigation of Scots pine and European beech forests
(2022-06-03)The historic large-scale forest conversion in the northern German lowlands resulted in a man-made dominance of Scots pine, in a landscape that would naturally be dominated by forests of European beech. Since drawbacks of ...