TY - RPRT A1 - Fuchs, Florian T1 - “Disney Dreams!“ – A Nighttime Spectacular in the Tension Field of Crowds, Communion, Emotion, and Religion N2 - The text deals with the nighttime spectacular of Disneyland Paris´ "Disney Dreams!" from the perspectives of mass, community, religion and emotions. It tries to open up this pop cultural show sociologically and theologically. N2 - Der Text beschäftigt sich mit der Abendshow des Disneyland Paris "Disney Dreams!" aus den Perspektiven Masse, Gemeinschaft, Religion und Emotionen. Es wird versucht, diese popkulturelle Show soziologisch und theologisch zu erschließen. KW - Soziologie KW - Phänomenologische Soziologie KW - Theologie KW - Disney KW - mass KW - emotion KW - theme park KW - event KW - Praktische Theologie KW - Ritual KW - Disney KW - Emotion KW - Event KW - Masse KW - Themenpark Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-159949 N1 - Die englische Fassung dieses Working Papers ist unter folgendem Link verfügbar: nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-159931 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tauscher, Sabine A1 - Nakagawa, Hitoshi A1 - Völker, Katharina A1 - Werner, Franziska A1 - Krebes, Lisa A1 - Potapenko, Tamara A1 - Doose, Sören A1 - Birkenfeld, Andreas L. A1 - Baba, Hideo A. A1 - Kuhn, Michaela T1 - β Cell-specific deletion of guanylyl cyclase A, the receptor for atrial natriuretic peptide, accelerates obesity-induced glucose intolerance in mice JF - Cardiovascular Diabetology N2 - Background: The cardiac hormones atrial (ANP) and B-type natriuretic peptides (BNP) moderate arterial blood pressure and improve energy metabolism as well as insulin sensitivity via their shared cGMP-producing guanylyl cyclase-A (GC-A) receptor. Obesity is associated with impaired NP/GC-A/cGMP signaling, which possibly contributes to the development of type 2 diabetes and its cardiometabolic complications. In vitro, synthetic ANP, via GC-A, stimulates glucose-dependent insulin release from cultured pancreatic islets and β-cell proliferation. However, the relevance for systemic glucose homeostasis in vivo is not known. To dissect whether the endogenous cardiac hormones modulate the secretory function and/or proliferation of β-cells under (patho)physiological conditions in vivo, here we generated a novel genetic mouse model with selective disruption of the GC-A receptor in β-cells. Methods: Mice with a floxed GC-A gene were bred to Rip-CreTG mice, thereby deleting GC-A selectively in β-cells (β GC-A KO). Weight gain, glucose tolerance, insulin sensitivity, and glucose-stimulated insulin secretion were monitored in normal diet (ND)- and high-fat diet (HFD)-fed mice. β-cell size and number were measured by immunofluorescence-based islet morphometry. Results: In vitro, the insulinotropic and proliferative actions of ANP were abolished in islets isolated from β GC-A KO mice. Concordantly, in vivo, infusion of BNP mildly enhanced baseline plasma insulin levels and glucose-induced insulin secretion in control mice. This effect of exogenous BNP was abolished in β GC-A KO mice, corroborating the efficient inactivation of the GC-A receptor in β-cells. Despite this under physiological, ND conditions, fasted and fed insulin levels, glucose-induced insulin secretion, glucose tolerance and β-cell morphology were similar in β GC-A KO mice and control littermates. However, HFD-fed β GC-A KO animals had accelerated glucose intolerance and diminished adaptative β-cell proliferation. Conclusions: Our studies of β GC-A KO mice demonstrate that the cardiac hormones ANP and BNP do not modulate β-cell's growth and secretory functions under physiological, normal dietary conditions. However, endogenous NP/GC-A signaling improves the initial adaptative response of β-cells to HFD-induced obesity. Impaired β-cell NP/GC-A signaling in obese individuals might contribute to the development of type 2 diabetes. KW - cylic GMP KW - guanylyl cyclase-A KW - insulin KW - natriuretic peptides KW - obesity KW - β-cells Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-176322 VL - 17 IS - 103 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Scherpf, Thorsten A1 - Schwarz, Christopher A1 - Scharf, Lennart T. A1 - Zur, Jana-Alina A1 - Helbig, Andeas A1 - Gessner, Viktoria H. T1 - Ylide-Functionalized Phosphines: Strong Donor Ligands for Homogeneous Catalysis JF - Angewandte Chemie - International Edition N2 - Phosphines are important ligands in homogenous catalysis and have been crucial for many advances, such as in cross-coupling, hydrofunctionalization, or hydrogenation reactions. Herein we report the synthesis and application of a novel class of phosphines bearing ylide substituents. These phosphines are easily accessible via different synthetic routes from commercially available starting materials. Owing to the extra donation from the ylide group to the phosphorus center the ligands are unusually electron-rich and can thus function as strong electron donors. The donor capacity surpasses that of commonly used phosphines and carbenes and can easily be tuned by changing the substitution pattern at the ylidic carbon atom. The huge potential of ylide-functionalized phosphines in catalysis is demonstrated by their use in gold catalysis. Excellent performance at low catalyst loadings under mild reaction conditions is thus seen in different types of transformations. KW - carbanion KW - homogeneous catalysis KW - phosphine ligands KW - structure elucidation KW - ylides Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-228551 VL - 57 IS - 39 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kuai, Yue A1 - Gong, Xin A1 - Ding, Liya A1 - Li, Fang A1 - Lei, Lizhen A1 - Gong, Yuqi A1 - Liu, Qingmeng A1 - Tan, Huajiao A1 - Zhang, Xinxia A1 - Liu, Dongyu A1 - Ren, Guoping A1 - Pan, Hongyang A1 - Shi, Yaoyao A1 - Berberich-Siebelt, Friederike A1 - Ma, Zhengrong A1 - Zhou, Ren T1 - Wilms’ tumor 1-associating protein plays an aggressive role in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and forms a complex with BCL6 via Hsp90 JF - Cell Communication and Signaling N2 - Background Wilms’ tumor 1-associating protein (WTAP) is a nuclear protein, which is ubiquitously expressed in many tissues. Furthermore, in various types of malignancies WTAP is overexpressed and plays a role as an oncogene. The function of WTAP in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL), however, remains unclear. Methods Immunohistochemistry was applied to evaluate the levels of WTAP expression in DLBCL tissues and normal lymphoid tissues. Overexpression and knock-down of WTAP in DLBCL cell lines, verified on mRNA and protein level served to analyze cell proliferation and apoptosis in DLBCL cell lines by flow cytometry. Finally, co-immunoprecipitation (Co-IP), IP, and GST-pull down assessed the interaction of WTAP with Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) and B-cell lymphoma 6 (BCL6) as well as determined the extend of its ubiquitinylation. Results WTAP protein levels were consistently upregulated in DLBCL tissues. WTAP promoted DLBCL cell proliferation and improved the ability to confront apoptosis, while knockdown of WTAP in DLBCL cell lines allowed a significant higher apoptosis rate after treatment with Etoposide, an anti-tumor drug. The stable expression of WTAP was depended on Hsp90. In line, we demonstrated that WTAP could form a complex with BCL6 via Hsp90 in vivo and in vitro. Conclusion WTAP is highly expressed in DLBCL, promoting growth and anti-apoptosis in DLBCL cell lines. WTAP is a client protein of Hsp90 and can appear in a complex with BCL6 and Hsp90 in DLBCL. Down-regulation of WTAP could improve the chemotherapeutic treatments in DLBCL. KW - WTAP KW - BCL6 KW - Hsp90 KW - complex KW - DLBCL Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-230168 VL - 16 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Keller, Alexander A1 - Brandel, Annette A1 - Becker, Mira C. A1 - Balles, Rebecca A1 - Abdelmohsen, Usama Ramadan A1 - Ankenbrand, Markus J. A1 - Sickel, Wiebke T1 - Wild bees and their nests host Paenibacillus bacteria with functional potential of avail JF - Microbiome N2 - Background: In previous studies, the gram-positive firmicute genus Paenibacillus was found with significant abundances in nests of wild solitary bees. Paenibacillus larvae is well-known for beekeepers as a severe pathogen causing the fatal honey bee disease American foulbrood, and other members of the genus are either secondary invaders of European foulbrood or considered a threat to honey bees. We thus investigated whether Paenibacillus is a common bacterium associated with various wild bees and hence poses a latent threat to honey bees visiting the same flowers. Results: We collected 202 samples from 82 individuals or nests of 13 bee species at the same location and screened each for Paenibacillus using high-throughput sequencing-based 16S metabarcoding. We then isolated the identified strain Paenibacillus MBD-MB06 from a solitary bee nest and sequenced its genome. We did find conserved toxin genes and such encoding for chitin-binding proteins, yet none specifically related to foulbrood virulence or chitinases. Phylogenomic analysis revealed a closer relationship to strains of root-associated Paenibacillus rather than strains causing foulbrood or other accompanying diseases. We found anti-microbial evidence within the genome, confirmed by experimental bioassays with strong growth inhibition of selected fungi as well as gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. Conclusions: The isolated wild bee associate Paenibacillus MBD-MB06 is a common, but irregularly occurring part of wild bee microbiomes, present on adult body surfaces and guts and within nests especially in megachilids. It was phylogenetically and functionally distinct from harmful members causing honey bee colony diseases, although it shared few conserved proteins putatively toxic to insects that might indicate ancestral predisposition for the evolution of insect pathogens within the group. By contrast, our strain showed anti-microbial capabilities and the genome further indicates abilities for chitin-binding and biofilm-forming, suggesting it is likely a useful associate to avoid fungal penetration of the bee cuticula and a beneficial inhabitant of nests to repress fungal threats in humid and nutrient-rich environments of wild bee nests. KW - 16S metabarcoding KW - American foulbrood KW - anti-microbial activit KW - bacterial genomics KW - bioassays KW - European foulbrood KW - Paenibacterin KW - phylogenomics KW - bee disease KW - pathogen vector Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-177554 VL - 6 IS - 229 ER - TY - THES A1 - Klotzky, Jens T1 - Well-posedness of a fluid-particle interaction model T1 - Existenz und Eindeutigkeit von Entropielösungen eines Partikel-Fluid-Modells N2 - This thesis considers a model of a scalar partial differential equation in the presence of a singular source term, modeling the interaction between an inviscid fluid represented by the Burgers equation and an arbitrary, finite amount of particles moving inside the fluid, each one acting as a point-wise drag force with a particle related friction constant. \begin{align*} \partial_t u + \partial_x (u^2/2) &= \sum_{i \in N(t)} \lambda_i \Big(h_i'(t)-u(t,h_i(t)\Big)\delta(x-h_i(t)) \end{align*} The model was introduced for the case of a single particle by Lagoutière, Seguin and Takahashi, is a first step towards a better understanding of interaction between fluids and solids on the level of partial differential equations and has the unique property of considering entropy admissible solutions and the interaction with shockwaves. The model is extended to an arbitrary, finite number of particles and interactions like merging, splitting and crossing of particle paths are considered. The theory of entropy admissibility is revisited for the cases of interfaces and discontinuous flux conservation laws, existing results are summarized and compared, and adapted for regions of particle interactions. To this goal, the theory of germs introduced by Andreianov, Karlsen and Risebro is extended to this case of non-conservative interface coupling. Exact solutions for the Riemann Problem of particles drifting apart are computed and analysis on the behavior of entropy solutions across the particle related interfaces is used to determine physically relevant and consistent behavior for merging and splitting of particles. Well-posedness of entropy solutions to the Cauchy problem is proven, using an explicit construction method, L-infinity bounds, an approximation of the particle paths and compactness arguments to obtain existence of entropy solutions. Uniqueness is shown in the class of weak entropy solutions using almost classical Kruzkov-type analysis and the notion of L1-dissipative germs. Necessary fundamentals of hyperbolic conservation laws, including weak solutions, shocks and rarefaction waves and the Rankine-Hugoniot condition are briefly recapitulated. N2 - Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit dem Modell einer skalaren partiellen Differentialgleichung mit singulärem Quellterm, das die Interaktion zwischen einem reibungsfreiem Fluid, dargestellt durch die Burgers Gleichung, und einer gegebenen, endlichen Menge von sich in dem Fluid bewegenden Partikeln beschreibt, die eine punktweise Zugkraft auf das Fluid auswirken und durch eine entsprechende Reibungskonstante charakterisiert sind. \begin{align*} \partial_t u + \partial_x (u^2/2) &= \sum_{i \in N(t)} \lambda_i \Big(h_i'(t)-u(t,h_i(t)\Big)\delta(x-h_i(t)) \end{align*} Das Modell wurde für den Fall der Interaktion mit einem einzelnen Partikel durch Lagoutière, Seguin and Takahashi eingeführt, stellt einen ersten Schritt zu einem besseren Verständnis der Interaktion zwischen einem Fluid und Festkörpern auf dem Level der partiellen Differentialgleichungen dar und hat die einzigartige Eigenschaft, dass Entropielösungen und die Interaktion mit Schockwellen berücksichtigt werden. Das Modell wird zu einer beliebigen, endlichen Anzahl von Partikeln erweitert und Interaktionen wie das Verschmelzen und Spaltung von Partikeln werden behandelt. Existierende Theorie der Entropie-Zulässigkeit im Hinblick auf Interfaces und Erhaltungsgleichungen mit unstetiger Flussfunktion wird zusammengefasst, die Resultate werden verglichen und für die Regionen mit Partikelinteraktionen angepasst. Zu diesem Zweck wird die Theorie der Germs, eingeführt von Andreianov, Karlsen und Risebro, auf den vorliegenden Fall eines nicht-erhaltenden Interfaces erweitert. Für das Riemann Problem von auseinanderdriftenden Partikeln werden die exakten Lösungen berechnet und eine Analyse des Verhaltens von Entropielösungen über die von den Partikeln erzeugten Interface wird genutzt, um ein physikalisch sinnvolles und mit der Theorie eines einzelnen Partikels konsistentes Verhalten beim Verschmelzen und Spalten von Partikeln herzuleiten. Mit Hilfe einer expliziten Konstruktionsmethode, hergeleiteten L-infinity Beschränkungen, einer Approximation der Partikelpfade und Kompaktheitsargumenten wird gezeigt, dass das entsprechende Cauchy Problem wohlgestellt ist. Eindeutigkeit im Raum der schwachen Entropielösungen wird mit beinahe klassischen Argumenten der Theorie von Kruzkov sowie der Theorie von L1-dissipativen Germs gezeigt. Notwendige Grundlagen zu hyperbolischen Erhaltungsgleichungen, unter anderem die Theorie schwacher Lösungen, Schock- und Verdünnungswellen sowie die Rankine-Hugoniot Bedingung, werden in Grundzügen am Anfang der Arbeit wiederholt. KW - Hyperbolische Differentialgleichung KW - Entropielösung KW - Fluid-Partikel-Strömung KW - Burgers-Gleichung KW - Korrekt gestelltes Problem KW - Existenz und Eindeutigkeit KW - Entropiebedingung KW - Well-posedness KW - Entropy admissibility condition Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-169009 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bakhtiarizadeh, Mohammad Reza A1 - Hosseinpour, Batool A1 - Shahhoseini, Maryam A1 - Korte, Arthur A1 - Gifani, Peyman T1 - Weighted gene co-expression network analysis of endometriosis and identification of functional modules associated with its main hallmarks JF - Frontiers in Genetics N2 - Although many genes have been identified using high throughput technologies in endometriosis (ES), only a small number of individual genes have been analyzed functionally. This is due to the complexity of the disease that has different stages and is affected by various genetic and environmental factors. Many genes are upregulated or downregulated at each stage of the disease, thus making it difficult to identify key genes. In addition, little is known about the differences between the different stages of the disease. We assumed that the study of the identified genes in ES at a system-level can help to better understand the molecular mechanism of the disease at different stages of the development. We used publicly available microarray data containing archived endometrial samples from women with minimal/mild endometriosis (MMES), mild/severe endometriosis (MSES) and without endometriosis. Using weighted gene co-expression analysis (WGCNA), functional modules were derived from normal endometrium (NEM) as the reference sample. Subsequently, we tested whether the topology or connectivity pattern of the modules was preserved in MMES and/or MSES. Common and specific hub genes were identified in non-preserved modules. Accordingly, hub genes were detected in the non-preserved modules at each stage. We identified sixteen co-expression modules. Of the 16 modules, nine were non-preserved in both MMES and MSES whereas five were preserved in NEM, MMES, and MSES. Importantly, two non-preserved modules were found in either MMES or MSES, highlighting differences between the two stages of the disease. Analyzing the hub genes in the non-preserved modules showed that they mostly lost or gained their centrality in NEM after developing the disease into MMES and MSES. The same scenario was observed, when the severeness of the disease switched from MMES to MSES. Interestingly, the expression analysis of the new selected gene candidates including CC2D2A, AEBP1, HOXB6, IER3, and STX18 as well as IGF-1, CYP11A1 and MMP-2 could validate such shifts between different stages. The overrepresented gene ontology (GO) terms were enriched in specific modules, such as genetic disposition, estrogen dependence, progesterone resistance and inflammation, which are known as endometriosis hallmarks. Some modules uncovered novel co-expressed gene clusters that were not previously discovered. KW - endometriosis KW - module KW - weighted gene co-expression network KW - hub genes KW - expression Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-177376 VL - 9 IS - 453 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Qamar, Muhammad Uzair A1 - Azmat, Muhammad A1 - Abbas, Azhar A1 - Usman, Muhammad A1 - Shahid, Muhammad Adnan A1 - Khan, Zahid Mahmood T1 - Water Pricing and Implementation Strategies for the Sustainability of an Irrigation System: A Case Study within the Command Area of the Rakh Branch Canal JF - Water N2 - The command area of the Rakh branch canal grows wheat, sugarcane, and rice crops in abundance. The canal water, which is trivial for irrigating these crops, is conveyed to the farms through the network of canals and distributaries. For the maintenance of this vast infrastructure; the end users are charged on a seasonal basis. The present water charges are severely criticized for not being adequate to properly manage the entire infrastructure. We use the residual value to determine the value of the irrigation water and then based on the quantity of irrigation water supplied to farm land coupled with the infrastructure maintenance cost, full cost recovery figures are executed for the study area, and policy recommendations are made for the implementation of the full cost recovery system. The approach is unique in the sense that the pricings are based on the actual quantity of water conveyed to the field for irrigating crops. The results of our analysis showed that the canal water is severely under charged in the culturable command area of selected distributaries, thus negating the plan of having a self-sustainable irrigation system. KW - irrigation pricing KW - value of water KW - distributary KW - culturable command area KW - sustainable irrigation system Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-224711 VL - 10 IS - 4, 509 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Werner, Rudolf A. A1 - Bundschuh, Ralph A. A1 - Higuchi, Takahiro A1 - Javadi, Mehrbod S. A1 - Rowe, Steven P. A1 - Zsótér, Norbert A1 - Kroiss, Matthias A1 - Fassnacht, Martin A1 - Buck, Andreas K. A1 - Kreissl, Michael C. A1 - Lapa, Constantin T1 - Volumetric and Texture Analysis of Pretherapeutic \(^{18}\)F-FDG PET can Predict Overall Survival in Medullary Thyroid Cancer Patients Treated with Vandetanib JF - Endocrine N2 - Purpose: The metabolically most active lesion in 2-deoxy-2-(\(^{18}\)F)fluoro-D-glucose (\(^{18}\)F-FDG) PET/CT can predict progression-free survival (PFS) in patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) starting treatment with the tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) vandetanib. However, this metric failed in overall survival (OS) prediction. In the present proof of concept study, we aimed to explore the prognostic value of intratumoral textural features (TF) as well as volumetric parameters (total lesion glycolysis, TLG) derived by pre-therapeutic \(^{18}\)F-FDG PET. Methods: Eighteen patients with progressive MTC underwent baseline \(^{18}\)F-FDG PET/CT prior to and 3 months after vandetanib initiation. By manual segmentation of the tumor burden at baseline and follow-up PET, intratumoral TF and TLG were computed. The ability of TLG, imaging-based TF, and clinical parameters (including age, tumor marker doubling times, prior therapies and RET (rearranged during transfection) mutational status) for prediction of both PFS and OS were evaluated. Results: The TF Complexity and the volumetric parameter TLG obtained at baseline prior to TKI initiation successfully differentiated between low- and high-risk patients. Complexity allocated 10/18 patients to the high-risk group with an OS of 3.3y (vs. low-risk group, OS=5.3y, 8/18, AUC=0.78, P=0.03). Baseline TLG designated 11/18 patients to the high-risk group (OS=3.5y vs. low-risk group, OS=5y, 7/18, AUC=0.83, P=0.005). The Hazard Ratio for cancer-related death was 6.1 for Complexity (TLG, 9.5). Among investigated clinical parameters, the age at initiation of TKI treatment reached significance for PFS prediction (P=0.02, OS, n.s.). Conclusions: The TF Complexity and the volumetric parameter TLG are both independent parameters for OS prediction. KW - personalized medicine KW - Positronen-Emissions-Tomografie KW - medullary thyroid carcinoma KW - tyrosine kinase inhibitor KW - TKI KW - vandetanib KW - 18F-FDG KW - positron emission tomography KW - 2-deoxy-2-(18F)fluoro-D-glucose KW - PET Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-167910 SN - 1355-008X ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Madan, Christopher R. A1 - Bayer, Janine A1 - Gamer, Matthias A1 - Lonsdorf, Tina B. A1 - Sommer, Tobias T1 - Visual Complexity and Affect: Ratings Reflect More Than Meets the Eye JF - Frontiers in Psychology N2 - Pictorial stimuli can vary on many dimensions, several aspects of which are captured by the term ‘visual complexity.’ Visual complexity can be described as, “a picture of a few objects, colors, or structures would be less complex than a very colorful picture of many objects that is composed of several components.” Prior studies have reported a relationship between affect and visual complexity, where complex pictures are rated as more pleasant and arousing. However, a relationship in the opposite direction, an effect of affect on visual complexity, is also possible; emotional arousal and valence are known to influence selective attention and visual processing. In a series of experiments, we found that ratings of visual complexity correlated with affective ratings, and independently also with computational measures of visual complexity. These computational measures did not correlate with affect, suggesting that complexity ratings are separately related to distinct factors. We investigated the relationship between affect and ratings of visual complexity, finding an ‘arousal-complexity bias’ to be a robust phenomenon. Moreover, we found this bias could be attenuated when explicitly indicated but did not correlate with inter-individual difference measures of affective processing, and was largely unrelated to cognitive and eyetracking measures. Taken together, the arousal-complexity bias seems to be caused by a relationship between arousal and visual processing as it has been described for the greater vividness of arousing pictures. The described arousal-complexity bias is also of relevance from an experimental perspective because visual complexity is often considered a variable to control for when using pictorial stimuli. KW - visual complexity KW - affect KW - arousal KW - valence KW - eyetracking KW - emotion Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-190015 SN - 1664-1078 VL - 8 IS - 2368 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Werner, Rudolf A. A1 - Marcus, Charles A1 - Sheikhbahaei, Sara A1 - Solnes, Lilja B. A1 - Leal, Jeffrey P. A1 - Du, Yong A1 - Rowe, Steven P. A1 - Higuchi, Takahiro A1 - Buck, Andreas K. A1 - Lapa, Constantin A1 - Javadi, Mehrbod S. T1 - Visual and Semiquantitative Accuracy in Clinical Baseline 123I-Ioflupane SPECT/CT Imaging JF - Clinical Nuclear Medicine N2 - PURPOSE: We aimed to (a) elucidate the concordance of visual assessment of an initial I-ioflupane scan by a human interpreter with comparison to results using a fully automatic semiquantitative method and (b) to assess the accuracy compared to follow-up (f/u) diagnosis established by movement disorder specialists. METHODS: An initial I-ioflupane scan was performed in 382 patients with clinically uncertain Parkinsonian syndrome. An experienced reader performed a visual evaluation of all scans independently. The findings of the visual read were compared with semiquantitative evaluation. In addition, available f/u clinical diagnosis (serving as a reference standard) was compared with results of the human read and the software. RESULTS: When comparing the semiquantitative method with the visual assessment, discordance could be found in 25 (6.5%) of 382 of the cases for the experienced reader (ĸ = 0.868). The human observer indicated region of interest misalignment as the main reason for discordance. With neurology f/u serving as reference, the results of the reader revealed a slightly higher accuracy rate (87.7%, ĸ = 0.75) compared to semiquantification (86.2%, ĸ = 0.719, P < 0.001, respectively). No significant difference in the diagnostic performance of the visual read versus software-based assessment was found. CONCLUSIONS: In comparison with a fully automatic semiquantitative method in I-ioflupane interpretation, human assessment obtained an almost perfect agreement rate. However, compared to clinical established diagnosis serving as a reference, visual read seemed to be slightly more accurate as a solely software-based quantitative assessment. KW - Single-Photon-Emissions-Computertomographie KW - SPECT KW - Parkinson’s disease KW - Parkinsonism KW - DaTscan KW - 123I-Ioflupane KW - SPECT KW - SPECT/CT Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-168181 SN - 1536-0229 VL - 44 IS - 1 ER - TY - THES A1 - Knauer, Kim T1 - Vegetation Dynamics in West Africa - Spatio-temporal Data Fusion for the Monitoring of Agricultural Expansion T1 - Vegetationsdynamik in Westafrika - Raumzeitliche Datenfusion zur Kartierung landwirtschaftlicher Expansion N2 - West Africa is one of the fastest growing regions in the world with annual population growth rates of more than three percent for several countries. Since the 1950s, West Africa experienced a fivefold increase of inhabitants, from 71 to 353 million people in 2015 and it is expected that the region’s population will continue to grow to almost 800 million people by the year 2050. This strong trend has and will have serious consequences for food security since agricultural productivity is still on a comparatively low level in most countries of West Africa. In order to compensate for this low productivity, an expansion of agricultural areas is rapidly progressing. The mapping and monitoring of agricultural areas in West Africa is a difficult task even on the basis of remote sensing. The small scale extensive farming practices with a low level of agricultural inputs and mechanization make the delineation of cultivated land from other land cover and land use (LULC) types highly challenging. In addition, the frequent cloud coverage in the region considerably decreases the availability of earth observation datasets. For the accurate mapping of agricultural area in West Africa, high temporal as well as spatial resolution is necessary to delineate the small-sized fields and to obtain data from periods where different LULC types are distinguishable. However, such consistent time series are currently not available for West Africa. Thus, a spatio-temporal data fusion framework was developed in this thesis for the generation of high spatial and temporal resolution time series. Data fusion algorithms such as the Enhanced Spatial and Temporal Adaptive Reflectance Fusion Model (ESTARFM) enjoyed increasing popularity during recent years but they have hardly been used for the application on larger scales. In order to make it applicable for this purpose and to increase the input data availability, especially in cloud-prone areas such as West Africa, the ESTARFM framework was developed in this thesis introducing several enhancements. An automatic filling of cloud gaps was included in the framework in order to use even partly cloud-covered Landsat images for the fusion without producing gaps on the output images. In addition, the ESTARFM algorithm was improved to automatically account for regional differences in the heterogeneity of the study region. Further improvements comprise the automation of the time series generation as well as the significant acceleration of the processing speed through parallelization. The performance of the developed ESTARFM framework was tested by fusing an 8-day NDVI time series from Landsat and MODIS data for a focus area of 98,000 km² in the border region between Burkina Faso and Ghana. The results of this test show the capability of the ESTARFM framework to accurately produce high temporal resolution time series while maintaining the spatial detail, even in such a heterogeneous and cloud-prone region. The successfully tested framework was subsequently applied to generate consistent time series as the basis for the mapping of agricultural area in Burkina Faso for the years 2001, 2007, and 2014. In a first step, high temporal (8-day) and high spatial (30 m) resolution NDVI time series for the entire country and the three years were derived with the ESTARFM framework. More than 500 Landsat scenes and 3000 MODIS scenes were automatically processed for this purpose. From the fused ESTARFM NDVI time series, phenological metrics were extracted and together with the single time steps of NDVI served as input for the delineation of rainfed agricultural areas, irrigated agricultural areas and plantations. The classification was conducted with the random forest algorithm at a 30 m spatial resolution for entire Burkina Faso and the three years 2001, 2007, and 2014. For the training and validation of the classifier, a randomly sampled reference dataset was generated from Google Earth images based on expert knowledge of the region. The overall classification accuracies of 92% (2001), 91% (2007), and 91% (2014) indicate the well-functioning of the developed methodology. The resulting maps show an expansion of agricultural area of 91% from about 61,000 km² in 2001 to 116,900 km² in 2014. While rainfed agricultural areas account for the major part of this increase, irrigated areas and plantations also spread considerably. Especially the expansion of irrigation systems and plantation area can be explained by the promotion through various national and international development projects. The increase of agricultural areas goes in line with the rapid population growth in most of Burkina Faso’s provinces which still had available land resources for an expansion of agricultural area. An analysis of the development of agricultural areas in the vicinity of protected areas highlighted the increased human pressure on these reserves. The protection of the remnant habitats for flora and fauna while at the same time improving food security for a rapidly growing population, are the major challenges for the region in the future. The developed ESTARFM framework showed great potential beyond its utilization for the mapping of agricultural area. Other large-scale research that requires a sufficiently high temporal and spatial resolution such as the monitoring of land degradation or the investigation of land surface phenology could greatly benefit from the application of this framework. N2 - Westafrika ist eine der am schnellsten wachsenden Regionen der Welt. Das jährliche Bevölkerungswachstum liegt in mehreren Ländern der Region über drei Prozent. Seit den 1950er Jahren erlebte Westafrika eine fünffache Zunahme der Einwohner, von 71 auf 353 Millionen Menschen im Jahr 2015 und es wird erwartet, dass die Bevölkerung der Region bis zum Jahr 2050 auf fast 800 Millionen Menschen steigen wird. Dieser Trend hat ernsthafte Konsequenzen für die Nahrungsmittelsicherheit, da die landwirtschaftliche Produktivität in den meisten Ländern Westafrikas immer noch auf einem vergleichsweise niedrigen Niveau liegt. Um diese geringe Produktivität zu kompensieren, schreitet die Ausweitung der landwirtschaftlichen Flächen rasch voran. Die Kartierung und Überwachung der landwirtschaftlichen Gebiete in Westafrika ist eine schwierige Aufgabe, auch auf der Basis der Fernerkundung. Die kleinräumigen, extensiven Anbaumethoden mit geringem landwirtschaftlichen Input und mangelnder Mechanisierung stellen für die Abgrenzung der Anbauflächen von anderen Landbedeckungs- und Landnutzungstypen (LULC) eine große Herausforderung dar. Darüber hinaus wird die Verfügbarkeit von Erdbeobachtungsdaten durch häufige Wolkenbedeckung in der Region erheblich reduziert. Für die genaue Kartierung der landwirtschaftlichen Fläche in Westafrika ist eine hohe zeitliche sowie räumliche Auflösung notwendig, um die meist kleinen Felder abgrenzen zu können und Daten aus Zeiträumen zu erhalten, in denen unterschiedliche LULC-Typen unterscheidbar sind. Allerdings sind solch konsistente Zeitreihen für Westafrika derzeit nicht verfügbar. Daher wurde in dieser Arbeit ein raum-zeitliches Datenfusions-Framework entwickelt, um räumlich und zeitlich hoch aufgelöste Zeitreihen zu erzeugen. Daten-Fusions-Algorithmen wie das Enhanced Spatial and Temporal Adaptive Reflectance Fusion Model (ESTARFM) erfreuten sich in den letzten Jahren zunehmender Beliebtheit, wurden aber kaum auf größeren Skalen verwendet. Um die Nutzbarkeit für diesen Zweck zu verbessern und die Verfügbarkeit der Eingangsdaten vor allem in wolkenreichen Gebieten wie Westafrika zu erhöhen, wurde das ESTARFM-Framework in dieser Arbeit entwickelt. In diesem Framework wurden mehrere Verbesserungen eingebaut. Ein automatisches Füllen von Wolkenlücken wurde eingefügt, um auch teilweise wolkenbedeckte Landsat-Bilder für die Fusion zu verwenden, ohne Lücken auf den Ausgabebildern zu erzeugen. Darüber hinaus wurde der ESTARFM-Algorithmus verbessert, um regionale Unterschiede in der Heterogenität der Studienregion automatisch zu berücksichtigen. Weitere Verbesserungen umfassen die Automatisierung der Zeitreihenerzeugung sowie die signifikante Beschleunigung der Prozessierungsgeschwindigkeit mittels Parallelisierung. Die Leistungsfähigkeit des entwickelten ESTARFM-Frameworks wurde durch die Fusion einer 8-tägigen NDVI-Zeitreihe aus Landsat- und MODIS-Daten für ein Fokusgebiet von 98.000 km² im Grenzgebiet zwischen Burkina Faso und Ghana getestet. Die Ergebnisse dieses Tests demonstrieren die Fähigkeit des ESTARFM-Frameworks, genaue, zeitlich hoch aufgelöste Zeitreihen zu erzeugen, die die räumlichen Details auch in einer solch heterogenen und wolkenreichen Region bewahren können. Das erfolgreich getestete Framework wurde anschließend angewendet um konsistente Zeitreihen zu erzeugen, die als Grundlage für die Kartierung der landwirtschaftlichen Fläche in Burkina Faso für die Jahre 2001, 2007 und 2014 dienten. In einem ersten Schritt wurden mittels des ESTARFM-Frameworks zeitlich (8 Tage) und räumlich (30 m) hoch aufgelöste NDVI-Zeitreihen für das ganze Land und die drei Jahre abgeleitet. Mehr als 500 Landsat- und 3000 MODIS-Szenen wurden zu diesem Zweck automatisch verarbeitet. Aus den fusionierten ESTARFM NDVI-Zeitreihen wurden phänologische Metriken extrahiert und zusammen mit den einzelnen NDVI-Zeitschnitten als Basis für die Abgrenzung von Regenfeldbau, bewässerten landwirtschaftlichen Flächen und Plantagen genutzt. Die Klassifikation wurde mit dem Random-Forest-Algorithmus in einer räumlichen Auflösung von 30 m für ganz Burkina Faso und die drei Jahre 2001, 2007 und 2014 durchgeführt. Basierend auf Expertenkenntnissen der Region wurde ein zufällig beprobter Referenzdatensatz aus Google-Earth-Bildern generiert, der für die Kalibrierung und Validierung des Klassifikators diente. Die Klassifikationsgenauigkeiten von 92% (2001), 91% (2007) und 91% (2014) demonstrieren die Leistungsfähigkeit der entwickelten Methodik. Die daraus erzeugten Karten zeigen eine Ausweitung der landwirtschaftlichen Fläche um 91%, von etwa 61.000 km² im Jahr 2001 auf 116.900 km² im Jahr 2014. Während der Regenfeldbau den größten Teil dieser Zunahme ausmacht, haben sich auch bewässerte Flächen und Plantagen erheblich ausgebreitet. Insbesondere die Ausweitung der Bewässerungssysteme und der Plantagenfläche lässt sich mit der Förderung durch verschiedene nationale und internationale Entwicklungsprojekte erklären. Die Zunahme der landwirtschaftlichen Gebiete geht einher mit dem raschen Bevölkerungswachstum in den meisten Provinzen Burkina Fasos, welche noch über ungenutzte Landressourcen verfügen. Eine Analyse der Entwicklung der landwirtschaftlichen Fläche im Umland von Schutzgebieten verdeutlicht den erhöhten anthropogenen Druck auf diese Reservate. Der Schutz der verbliebenen Habitate für Flora und Fauna bei gleichzeitiger Verbesserung der Nahrungsmittelsicherheit für eine schnell wachsende Bevölkerung stellen die großen Herausforderungen für die Zukunft der Region dar. Das entwickelte ESTARFM-Framework zeigt großes Potenzial für weitere Anwendungen, die über die Kartierung landwirtschaftlicher Fläche hinausgehen. Großflächige Forschung, die eine hinreichend hohe zeitliche und räumliche Auflösung erfordern, wie die Überwachung von Bodendegradation oder die Untersuchung von Phänologie der Landoberfläche, könnten von der Anwendung des ESTARFM-Framework erheblich profitieren. KW - Fernerkundung KW - Landwirtschaft KW - Westafrika Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-164776 ER - TY - THES A1 - Fekete, Alexander T1 - Urban Disaster Resilience and Critical Infrastructure T1 - Urbane Katastrophen-Resilienz und Kritische Infrastruktur N2 - Urban areas are population, culture and infrastructure concentration points. Electricity blackouts or interruptions of water supply severely affect people when happening unexpected and at large scale. Interruptions of such infrastructure supply services alone have the potential to trigger crises. But when happening in concert with or as a secondary effect of an earthquake, for example, the crisis situation is often aggravated. This is the case for any country, but it has been observed that even highly industrialised countries face severe risks when their degree of acquired dependency on services of what is termed Critical Infrastructure results in even bigger losses when occurring unexpectedly in a setting that usually has high reliability of services. N2 - Die Forschung zu Naturgefahren und Katastrophen hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren weniger mit der reinen Erforschung der Gefahrenseite, sondern zunehmend mit Auswirkungsprozessen von Krisen und Katastrophen auf Gesellschaft, Umwelt, Politik, und andere Bereichen befasst. Da sich die Gesellschaft immer weiter vernetzt, sei es durch moderne Technologien, Warenströme oder Kommunikation, haben sich auch die Auswirkung von beispielsweise Naturkatastrophen zu global spürbaren Auswirkungen hin entwickelt. Das Habilitationsvorhaben befasst sich mit Städten und Siedlungsformen als Bündelungspunkten mehrerer Risiken. International bekannt geworden ist dieses Thema unter anderem unter dem Begriff „Resiliente Stadt“. In Städten und anderen Sicherungsräumen bündeln sich nicht nur Siedlungen und Bevölkerung sondern auch Infrastrukturknotenpunkte. Städte sind also nicht nur Orte von möglichen Naturkatastrophen-Einwirkungen, sondern auch Orte in denen sich Ausfälle beispielsweise der Elektrizitätsversorgung, der Wasserversorgung oder anderer lebenswichtiger Versorgungsdienstleistungen besonders spürbar bemerkbar machen. Lebenswichtige Versorgungseinrichtungen werden seit Mitte der Neunzigerjahre auch unter dem Themenfeld „Kritische Infrastrukturen“ untersucht. Die Forschung hierzu wurde vor allem durch einzelne Vorfälle, wie etwa Bombenanschlägen in den USA, Internet Angriffen oder auch durch längere Stromausfälle, beispielsweise durch Hochwasser, auch in Deutschland ein zunehmend bekanntes Thema. Dieses Themenfeld wurde einerseits durch die Politik und andererseits durch die Wissenschaft aufgegriffen und vorangetrieben. Interessanterweise haben sich jedoch die Forschungsbereiche Naturgefahrenforschung und kritische Infrastruktur weitgehen getrennt entwickelt. Diese Arbeit untersucht daher insbesondere, welche Wechselwirkungen zwischen diesen beiden Bereichen bestehen, und entwickelt Methoden, um sowohl qualitative als auch quantitative Ansätze zur Identifizierung, zur Beobachtung, und zur vergleichenden Analyse zu entwickeln. Bei der Methodenentwicklung stützt sich die Arbeit auf die Entwicklung räumlicher Verwundbarkeitsindikatoren, die im Bereich der Naturgefahrenforschung entwickelt wurde, und untersucht die weitere Entwicklung hin zu Resilienz-Analysen. Hierbei werden sowohl physikalische Faktoren zur Bemessung von Katastrophenauswirkungen, zum Beispiel Exposition und Niederschlagsmengen mit demographischen Indikatoren verknüpft. Im Bereich kritischer Infrastrukturen kommt noch eine weitere Methodik hinzu: die Einschätzung der Kritikalität; damit ist die Bedeutung der Auswirkungen von Versorgungsausfällen für die Gesellschaft gemeint. Dabei werden auf der einen Seite sowohl Schwachpunkte und Schwachstellen der Versorgungsnetze identifiziert, auf der anderen Seite werden Auswirkungen auf die Gesellschaft, wie etwa auf physiologische Überlebensfunktionen, Nahrungsgrundlagen, Wirtschafts- und Wertesysteme untersucht. KW - Risikomanagement KW - Risikoanalyse KW - Naturgefahr KW - Naturkatastrophe KW - Resilienz KW - Kritische Infrastruktur KW - Urbane Resilienz KW - Resiliente Stadt Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-163251 SN - 978-3-946573-13-5 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Stennett, Tom A1 - Mattock, James A1 - Vollert, Ivonne A1 - Vargas, Alfredo A1 - Braunschweig, Holger T1 - Unsymmetrical, Cyclic Diborenes and Thermal Rearrangement to a Borylborylene T2 - Angewandte Chemie, International Edition N2 - Cyclic diboranes(4) based on a chelating monoanionic, benzylphosphine linker were prepared by boron-silicon exchange between arylsilanes and B\(_2\)Br\(_4\). Coordination of Lewis bases to the remaining sp\(^2\) boron atom yielded unsymmetrical sp\(^3\)-sp\(^3\) diboranes, which were reduced with KC\(_8\) to their corresponding trans-diborenes. These compounds were studied by a combination of spectroscopic methods, X-ray diffraction and DFT calculations. PMe\(_3\)-stabilized diborene 6 was found to undergo thermal rearrangement to gem- diborene 8. DFT calculations on 8 reveal a polar boron-boron bond, and indicate that the compound is best described as a borylborylene. KW - boron KW - borylene KW - multiple bonds KW - rearrangement KW - DFT calculations Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-160258 N1 - This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: T. E. Stennett, J. D. Mattock, I. Vollert, A. Vargas, H. Braunschweig, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 4098., which has been published in final form at DOI: 10.1002/anie.201800671. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving. VL - 57 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schliermann, Anna A1 - Nickel, Joachim T1 - Unraveling the connection between fibroblast growth factor and bone morphogenetic protein signaling JF - International Journal of Molecular Sciences N2 - Ontogeny of higher organisms as well the regulation of tissue homeostasis in adult individuals requires a fine-balanced interplay of regulating factors that individually trigger the fate of particular cells to either stay undifferentiated or to differentiate towards distinct tissue specific lineages. In some cases, these factors act synergistically to promote certain cellular responses, whereas in other tissues the same factors antagonize each other. However, the molecular basis of this obvious dual signaling activity is still only poorly understood. Bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) and fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) are two major signal protein families that have a lot in common: They are both highly preserved between different species, involved in essential cellular functions, and their ligands vastly outnumber their receptors, making extensive signal regulation necessary. In this review we discuss where and how BMP and FGF signaling cross paths. The compiled data reflect that both factors synchronously act in many tissues, and that antagonism and synergism both exist in a context-dependent manner. Therefore, by challenging a generalization of the connection between these two pathways a new chapter in BMP FGF signaling research will be introduced. KW - bone morphogenetic protein KW - fibroblast growth factor KW - signal transduction KW - cross-talk KW - signal integration Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-177358 SN - 1422-0067 VL - 19 IS - 10 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Santoro, Nicole A1 - Labopin, Myriam A1 - Giannotti, Federica A1 - Ehninger, Gerard A1 - Niederwieser, Dietger A1 - Brecht, Arne A1 - Stelljes, Matthias A1 - Kröger, Nicolaus A1 - Einsele, Herman A1 - Eder, Matthias A1 - Hallek, Michael A1 - Glass, Bertram A1 - Finke, Jürgen A1 - Ciceri, Fabio A1 - Mohty, Mohamad A1 - Ruggeri, Annalisa A1 - Nagler, Arnon T1 - Unmanipulated haploidentical in comparison with matched unrelated donor stem cell transplantation in patients 60 years and older with acute myeloid leukemia: a comparative study on behalf of the ALWP of the EBMT JF - Journal of Hematology & Oncology N2 - Background: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is both more common and with more biologically aggressive phenotype in the elderly. Allogenic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) is the best treatment option in fit patients. Either HLA-matched unrelated donor (MUD) or haploidentical (Haplo) donor are possible alternative for patients in need. Methods: We retrospectively compared non-T-cell-depleted Haplo (n = 250) to 10/10 MUD (n = 2589) in AML patients >= 60 years. Results: Median follow-up was 23 months. Disease status at transplant differs significantly between the two groups (p < 10(-4)). Reduced intensity conditioning (RIC) was administrated to 73 and 77% of Haplo and MUD, respectively (p = 0.23). Stem cell source was the bone marrow (BM) in 52% of the Haplo and 6% of MUD (p < 10(-4)). Anti-thymocyte globulin (ATG) was most frequently used in MUD (p < 10(-4)) while post-Tx cyclophosphamide (PT-Cy) was given in 62% of Haplo. Engraftment was achieved in 90% of the Haplo vs 97% of MUD (p < 10(-4)). In multivariate analysis, no significant difference was found between Haplo and MUD for acute (a) graft versus host disease (GVHD) grade II-IV, relapse incidence (RI), non-relapse mortality (NRM), leukemia free survival (LFS), graft-versus-host-free-relapse free survival (GRFS), and overall survival (OS). Extensive chronic (c) GVHD was significantly higher for MUD as compared to Haplo (HR 2, p = 0.01, 95% CI 1.17-3.47). A propensity score analysis confirmed the higher risk of extensive cGVHD for MUD without differences for other outcomes. Conclusions: Allo-SCT from both Haplo and MUD are valid option for AML patients >= 60 years of age with similar results. Transplantation from MUD was associated with higher extensive cGVHD. Our findings suggest that Haplo is a suitable and attractive graft source for patients >= 60 with AML in need of allo-SCT. KW - MUD KW - Haploidentical KW - Allogeneic stem cell transplantation KW - Acute myeloid leukemia KW - Elderly Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-227315 VL - 11 ER - TY - THES A1 - Becker, Martin T1 - Understanding Human Navigation using Bayesian Hypothesis Comparison T1 - Verstehen menschlichen Navigationsverhaltens mit hypothesengetriebenen Bayes'schen Methoden N2 - Understanding human navigation behavior has implications for a wide range of application scenarios. For example, insights into geo-spatial navigation in urban areas can impact city planning or public transport. Similarly, knowledge about navigation on the web can help to improve web site structures or service experience. In this work, we focus on a hypothesis-driven approach to address the task of understanding human navigation: We aim to formulate and compare ideas — for example stemming from existing theory, literature, intuition, or previous experiments — based on a given set of navigational observations. For example, we may compare whether tourists exploring a city walk “short distances” before taking their next photo vs. they tend to "travel long distances between points of interest", or whether users browsing Wikipedia "navigate semantically" vs. "click randomly". For this, the Bayesian method HypTrails has recently been proposed. However, while HypTrails is a straightforward and flexible approach, several major challenges remain: i) HypTrails does not account for heterogeneity (e.g., incorporating differently behaving user groups such as tourists and locals is not possible), ii) HypTrails does not support the user in conceiving novel hypotheses when confronted with a large set of possibly relevant background information or influence factors, e.g., points of interest, popularity of locations, time of the day, or user properties, and finally iii) formulating hypotheses can be technically challenging depending on the application scenario (e.g., due to continuous observations or temporal constraints). In this thesis, we address these limitations by introducing various novel methods and tools and explore a wide range of case studies. In particular, our main contributions are the methods MixedTrails and SubTrails which specifically address the first two limitations: MixedTrails is an approach for hypothesis comparison that extends the previously proposed HypTrails method to allow formulating and comparing heterogeneous hypotheses (e.g., incorporating differently behaving user groups). SubTrails is a method that supports hypothesis conception by automatically discovering interpretable subgroups with exceptional navigation behavior. In addition, our methodological contributions also include several tools consisting of a distributed implementation of HypTrails, a web application for visualizing geo-spatial human navigation in the context of background information, as well as a system for collecting, analyzing, and visualizing mobile participatory sensing data. Furthermore, we conduct case studies in many application domains, which encompass — among others — geo-spatial navigation based on photos from the photo-sharing platform Flickr, browsing behavior on the social tagging system BibSonomy, and task choosing behavior on a commercial crowdsourcing platform. In the process, we develop approaches to cope with application specific subtleties (like continuous observations and temporal constraints). The corresponding studies illustrate the variety of domains and facets in which navigation behavior can be studied and, thus, showcase the expressiveness, applicability, and flexibility of our methods. Using these methods, we present new aspects of navigational phenomena which ultimately help to better understand the multi-faceted characteristics of human navigation behavior. N2 - Menschliches Navigationsverhalten zu verstehen, kann in einer Reihe von Anwendungsgebieten große Fortschritte bringen. Zum Beispiel können Einblicke in räumliche Navigation, wie etwa in Innenstädten, dabei helfen Infrastrukturen und öffentliche Verkehrsmittel besser abzustimmen. Genauso kann Wissen über das Navigationsverhalten von Benutzern im Internet, Entwickler dabei unterstützen Webseiten besser zu strukturieren oder generell die Benutzererfahrung zu verbessern. In dieser Arbeit konzentrieren wir uns auf einen Hypothesen-getriebenen Ansatz, um menschliches Navigationsverhalten zu verstehen. Das heißt, wir formulieren und vergleichen Hypothesen basierend auf beobachteten Navigationspfaden. Diese Hypothesen basieren zumeist auf existierenden Theorien, Literatur, vorherigen Experimenten oder Intuition. Beispielsweise kann es interessant sein zu vergleichen, ob Touristen, die eine Stadt erkunden, eher zu nahegelegenen Sehenswürdigkeiten laufen, als vornehmlich große Strecken zurückzulegen. Weiterhin kann man in Online-Szenarien vergleichen, ob Benutzer zum Beispiel auf Wikipedia eher semantisch navigieren, als zufällig Artikel anzusurfen. Für diese Szenarien wurde HypTrails entwickelt, ein Bayes’scher Ansatz zum Vergleich von Navigationshypothesen. Doch obwohl HypTrails eine einfach zu benutzende und sehr flexible Methode darstellt, hat es einige deutliche Schwachstellen: Zum einen kann HypTrails keine heterogenen Prozesse modellieren (z.B., um das Verhalten von ver- schiedenen Nutzergruppen, wie etwa von Touristen und Einheimischen, zu unterscheiden). Außerdem bietet HypTrails dem Benutzer keine Unterstützung bei der Entwicklung neuer Hypothesen. Dies stellt vor allem in Kombination mit großen Mengen an Hintergrundinformationen und anderen Einflussgrößen (z.B., Sehenswürdigkeiten, Beliebtheit von Orten, Tageszeiten, oder verschieden Benutzereigenschaften) eine große Herausforderung dar. Außerdem kann sich das Formulieren von adäquaten Hypothesen abhängig vom Anwendungsszenario als schwierig erweisen (z.B. aufgrund von kontinuierlichen, räumlichen Koordinaten oder zeitlichen Nebenbedingungen). In dieser Arbeit setzen wir an eben jenen Problemstellungen an. Unsere Hauptbeiträge bestehen dabei aus den Ansätzen MixedTrails und SubTrails, die vor allem die ersten beiden genannten Schwachstellen adressieren: MixedTrails stellt einen Ansatz zum Vergleich von Hypothesen dar, der auf HypTrails basiert, es aber ermöglicht heterogene Hypothesen zu formulieren und zu vergleichen (z.B., bei Benutzergruppen mit unterschiedlichem Bewegungsverhalten). Während SubTrails eine Methode darstellt, die das Entwickeln neuer Hypothesen unterstützt, indem es die automatische Entdeckung von interpretierbaren Subgruppen mit außergewöhnlichen Bewegungscharakteristiken ermöglicht. Weiterhin, stellen wir eine verteitle und hochparallele Implementierung von HypTrails, ein Werkzeug zur Visualisierung von räumlicher Navigation zusammen mit Hintergrundinformationen, sowie ein System zur Sammlung, Analyse und Visualisierung von Daten aus dem Bereich des Participatory Sensing vor. Schließlich, führen wir mehrere Studien in verschiedenen Anwendungsbereichen durch. Wir untersuchen etwa räumliche Navigation basierend auf Photos der Onlineplattform Flickr, Browsing-Verhalten der Nutzer auf dem Verschlagwortungssystem BibSonomy, und das Arbeitsverhalten von Nutzern einer kommerziellen Crowdsourcing-Plattform. Dabei entwickeln wir mehrere Ansätze, um mit den Eigenheiten der spezifischen Szenarien umgehen zu können (wie etwa kontinuierliche räumliche Koordinaten oder zeitliche Nebenbedingungen). Die Ergebnisse zeigen die Vielzahl von Anwendungsgebieten und Facetten, in denen Navigationsverhalten analysiert werden kann, und illustrieren so die Ausdrucksstärke, vielseitige Anwendbarkeit und Flexibilität unserer Methoden. Gleichzeitig, geben wir neue Einblicke in verschiedene Navigationsprozesse und ermöglichen so einen wichtigen Schritt hin zum Verständnis der vielfältigen Ebenen menschlichen Navigationsverhaltens. KW - Bayesian model comparison KW - Bayes-Verfahren KW - Mensch KW - Raumverhalten KW - Hypothesis comparison KW - Model comparison KW - Web navigation KW - Geo-spatial behavior KW - Navigation analysis KW - Räumliches Verhalten KW - Data Science KW - Human behavior KW - Bayes analysis KW - Mobility KW - Mobilität KW - Statistische Hypothese KW - Spatial behavior KW - Social Media Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-163522 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lausch, Angela A1 - Borg, Erik A1 - Bumberger, Jan A1 - Dietrich, Peter A1 - Heurich, Marco A1 - Huth, Andreas A1 - Jung, András A1 - Klenke, Reinhard A1 - Knapp, Sonja A1 - Mollenhauer, Hannes A1 - Paasche, Hendrik A1 - Paulheim, Heiko A1 - Pause, Marion A1 - Schweitzer, Christian A1 - Schmulius, Christiane A1 - Settele, Josef A1 - Skidmore, Andrew K. A1 - Wegmann, Martin A1 - Zacharias, Steffen A1 - Kirsten, Toralf A1 - Schaepman, Michael E. T1 - Understanding forest health with remote sensing, part III: requirements for a scalable multi-source forest health monitoring network based on data science approaches JF - Remote Sensing N2 - Forest ecosystems fulfill a whole host of ecosystem functions that are essential for life on our planet. However, an unprecedented level of anthropogenic influences is reducing the resilience and stability of our forest ecosystems as well as their ecosystem functions. The relationships between drivers, stress, and ecosystem functions in forest ecosystems are complex, multi-faceted, and often non-linear, and yet forest managers, decision makers, and politicians need to be able to make rapid decisions that are data-driven and based on short and long-term monitoring information, complex modeling, and analysis approaches. A huge number of long-standing and standardized forest health inventory approaches already exist, and are increasingly integrating remote-sensing based monitoring approaches. Unfortunately, these approaches in monitoring, data storage, analysis, prognosis, and assessment still do not satisfy the future requirements of information and digital knowledge processing of the 21st century. Therefore, this paper discusses and presents in detail five sets of requirements, including their relevance, necessity, and the possible solutions that would be necessary for establishing a feasible multi-source forest health monitoring network for the 21st century. Namely, these requirements are: (1) understanding the effects of multiple stressors on forest health; (2) using remote sensing (RS) approaches to monitor forest health; (3) coupling different monitoring approaches; (4) using data science as a bridge between complex and multidimensional big forest health (FH) data; and (5) a future multi-source forest health monitoring network. It became apparent that no existing monitoring approach, technique, model, or platform is sufficient on its own to monitor, model, forecast, or assess forest health and its resilience. In order to advance the development of a multi-source forest health monitoring network, we argue that in order to gain a better understanding of forest health in our complex world, it would be conducive to implement the concepts of data science with the components: (i) digitalization; (ii) standardization with metadata management after the FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability) principles; (iii) Semantic Web; (iv) proof, trust, and uncertainties; (v) tools for data science analysis; and (vi) easy tools for scientists, data managers, and stakeholders for decision-making support. KW - forest health KW - in situ forest monitoring KW - remote sensing KW - data science KW - digitalization KW - big data KW - semantic web KW - linked open data KW - FAIR KW - multi-source forest health monitoring network Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-197691 SN - 2072-4292 VL - 10 IS - 7 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Petersen, Jens A1 - Lindner, Joachim O. A1 - Mitric, Roland T1 - Ultrafast Photodynamics of Glucose T2 - Journal of Physical Chemistry B N2 - We have investigated the photodynamics of \(\beta\)-D-glucose employing our field-induced surface hopping method (FISH), which allows us to simulate the coupled electron-nuclear dynamics, including explicitly nonadiabatic effects and light-induced excitation. Our results reveal that from the initially populated S\(_{1}\) and S\(_{2}\) states, glucose returns nonradiatively to the ground state within about 200 fs. This takes place mainly via conical intersections (CIs) whose geometries in most cases involve the elongation of a single O-H bond, while in some instances ring-opening due to dissociation of a C-O bond is observed. Experimentally, excitation to a distinct excited electronic state is improbable due to the presence of a dense manifold of states bearing similar oscillator strengths. Our FISH simulations explicitly including a UV laser pulse of 6.43 eV photon energy reveals that after initial excitation the population is almost equally spread over several close-lying electronic states. This is followed by a fast nonradiative decay on the time scale of 100-200 fs, with the final return to the ground state proceeding via the S\(_{1}\) state through the same types of CIs as observed in the field-free simulations. KW - photodynamics KW - nonadiabatic dynamics KW - conical intersections KW - carbohydrates Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-159155 N1 - This document is the unedited Author’s version of a Submitted Work that was subsequently accepted for publication in Journal of Physical Chemistry, copyright © American Chemical Society after peer review. To access the final edited and published work see doi:10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b08602 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Strohmeier, Michael A1 - Walter, Thomas A1 - Rothe, Julian A1 - Montenegro, Sergio T1 - Ultra-wideband based pose estimation for small unmanned aerial vehicles JF - IEEE Access N2 - This paper proposes a 3-D local pose estimation system for a small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with a weight limit of 200 g and a very small footprint of 10 cm×10cm. The system is realized by fusing 3-D position estimations from an Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) transceiver network with Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensor data and data from a barometric pressure sensor. The 3-D position from the UWB network is estimated using Multi-Dimensional Scaling (MDS) and range measurements between the transceivers. The range measurements are obtained using Double-Sided Two-Way Ranging (DS-TWR), thus eliminating the need for an additional clock synchronization mechanism. The sensor fusion is accomplished using a loosely coupled Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) architecture. Extensive evaluation of the proposed system shows that a position accuracy with a Root-Mean-Square Error (RMSE) of 0.20cm can be obtained. The orientation angle can be estimated with an RMSE of 1.93°. KW - UAV KW - navigation KW - pose estimation KW - distance measurement KW - DecaWave KW - extended Kalman filter KW - UWB Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-177503 VL - 6 ER -