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Die Arbeit untersucht den Bezug der Artemis zu Frauen. Neben den meist in der Forschungsliteratur erörterten Aspekten der Artemis als Geburtsgöttin und Beschützerin der Kindheit und der Jugend leistet Artemis bei entscheidenden biologischen Ereignissen im Leben von Frauen Beistand, die den gynäkologischen Aspekt vor Augen stellen. Es handelt sich dabei um die Menarche, die eheliche Vereinigung, die Entbindung und das Wochenbett. Zu diesem Zweck wurden im ersten Teil der Arbeit einschlägige Funktionsepiklesen zusammengestellt, die Zeugnis von diesem Wirkungskreis der Artemis ablegen. Mit Bezug auf die aus dem ersten Teil gewonnenen Ergebnisse untersucht der zweite Teil der Arbeit diese Hilfe der Artemis anhand von Kulten auf der Südwestpeloponnes.
Die vorliegende Arbeit widmet sich der wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung der Drittbeteiligung im Verfahren vor dem EGMR. Die Arbeit unterscheidet dabei zwischen vier potentiellen Drittbeteiligungsakteuren und setzt sich spezifisch mit den verschiedenen, bislang wenig behandelten Fragestellungen der Drittbeteiligung anderer Personen als derjenigen des Beschwerdeführers und dem gegnerischen Konventionsstaat auf der Grundlage des Art. 36 Abs. 2 EMRK auseinander. Als Herzstück der Arbeit wird der Einfluss der Stellungnahmen Drittbeteiligter auf die Judikatur des EGMR untersucht. Im Wege eines Vergleichs mit der verfahrensrechtlichen Ausgestaltung der Drittbeteiligung vor anderen internationalen Spruchkörpern erfolgt abschließend eine wertende Betrachtung des derzeitigen Rechtsrahmens der Drittbeteiligung vor dem EGMR.
The RNAs of many viruses contain a frameshift stimulatory element (FSE) that grants access to an alternate reading frame via −1 programmed ribosomal frameshifting (PRF). This −1PRF is essential for effective viral replication. The −1PRF efficiency relies on the presence of conserved RNA elements within the FSE, such as a slippery sequence, spacer, and a downstream secondary structure – often a hairpin or a pseudoknot. The PRF efficiency is also affected by trans-acting factors such as proteins, miRNAs and metabolites. The interactions of these factors with the RNA and the translation machinery have not yet been completely understood. Traditional ensemble methods used previously to study these events focus on the whole population of molecular species. This results in innate averaging of the molecular behavior and a loss of heterogeneity information.
Here, we first established the experimental workflow to study the RNA structures and the effect of potential trans-acting factors using single-molecule force spectroscopy technique, optical tweezers. Additionally, to streamline the data analysis, we developed an algorithm for automatized data processing.
Next, we harnessed this knowledge to study viral RNA elements responsible for stimulation of PRF and how the presence of trans-acting factors affects the RNA behavior. We further complemented these single-molecule structural data with ensemble functional assays to gain a complex view on the dynamics behind the programmed ribosomal frameshifting.
Specifically, two different viral RNA elements have been studied in the presented work. First, the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 FSE and the role of extended sequences have been explored. Then, the mode of action of the host-encoded trans-acting factor ZAP-S inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 PRF has been examined. Finally, the mechanism of the trans-acting viral factor induced PRF in Encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) has been uncovered.
Thermoplastic polymers have a history of decades of safe and effective use in the clinic as implantable medical devices. In recent years additive manufacturing (AM) saw increased clinical interest for the fabrication of customizable and implantable medical devices and training models using the patients’ own radiological data. However, approval from the various regulatory bodies remains a significant hurdle. A possible solution is to fabricate the AM scaffolds using materials and techniques with a clinical safety record, e.g. melt processing of polymers. Melt Electrowriting (MEW) is a novel, high resolution AM technique which uses thermoplastic polymers. MEW produces scaffolds with microscale fibers and precise fiber placement, allowing the control of the scaffold microarchitecture. Additionally, MEW can process medical-grade thermoplastic polymers, without the use of solvents paving the way for the production of medical devices for clinical applications. This pathway is investigated in this thesis, where the layout is designed to resemble the journey of a medical device produced via MEW from conception to early in vivo experiments. To do so, first, a brief history of the development of medical implants and the regenerative capability of the human body is given in Chapter 1. In Chapter 2, a review of the use of thermoplastic polymers in medicine, with a focus on poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL), is illustrated, as this is the polymer used in the rest of the thesis. This review is followed by a comparison of the state of the art, regarding in vivo and clinical experiments, of three polymer melt AM technologies: melt-extrusion, selective laser sintering and MEW. The first two techniques already saw successful translation to the bedside, producing patient-specific, regulatory-approved AM implants. To follow in the footsteps of these two technologies, the MEW device parameters need to be optimized. The MEW process parameters and their interplay are further discussed in Chapter 3 focusing on the importance of a steady mass flow rate of the polymer during printing. MEW reaches a balance between polymer flow, the stabilizing electric field and moving collector to produce reproducible, high-resolution scaffolds. An imbalance creates phenomena like fiber pulsing or arcing which result in defective scaffolds and potential printer damage. Chapter 4 shows the use of X-ray microtomography (µCT) as a non-destructive method to characterize the pore-related features: total porosity and the pore size distribution. MEW scaffolds are three-dimensional (3D) constructs but have long been treated in the literature as two-dimensional (2D) ones and characterized mainly by microscopy, including stereo- and scanning electron microscopy, where pore size was simply reported as the distance between the fibers in a single layer. These methods, together with the trend of producing scaffolds with symmetrical pores in the 0/90° and 0/60/120° laydown patterns, disregarded the lateral connections between pores and the potential of MEW to be used for more complex 3D structures, mimicking the extracellular matrix. Here we characterized scaffolds in the aforementioned symmetrical laydown patterns, along with the more complex 0/45/90/135° and 0/30/60/90/120/150° ones. A 2D pore size estimation was done first using stereomicroscopy, followed by and compared to µCT scanning. The scaffolds with symmetrical laydown patterns resulted in the predominance of one pore size, while those with more complex patterns had a broader distribution, which could be better shown by µCT scans. Moreover, in the symmetrical scaffolds, the size of 3D pores was not able to reach the value of the fiber spacing due to a flattening effect of the scaffold, where the thickness of the scaffold was less than the fiber spacing, further restricting the pore size distribution in such scaffolds. This method could be used for quality assurance of fabricated scaffolds prior to use in in vitro or in vivo experiments and would be important for a clinical translation. Chapter 5 illustrates a proof of principle subcutaneous implantation in vivo experiment. MEW scaffolds were already featured in small animal in vivo experiments, but to date, no analysis of the foreign body reaction (FBR) to such implants was performed. FBR is an immune reaction to implanted foreign materials, including medical devices, aimed at protecting the host from potential adverse effects and can interfere with the function of some medical implants. Medical-grade PCL was used to melt electrowrite scaffolds with 50 and 60 µm fiber spacing for the 0/90° and 0/60/120° laydown patterns, respectively. These implants were implanted subcutaneously in immunocompetent, outbred mice, with appropriate controls, and explanted after 2, 4, 7 and 14 days. A thorough characterization of the scaffolds before implantation was done, followed by a full histopathological analysis of the FBR to the implants after excision. The scaffolds, irrespective of their pore geometry, induced an extensive FBR in the form of accumulation of foreign body giant cells around the fiber walls, in a manner that almost occluded available pore spaces with little to no neovascularization. This reaction was not induced by the material itself, as the same reaction failed to develop in the PCL solid film controls. A discussion of the results was given with special regard to the literature available on flat surgical meshes, as well as other hydrogel-based porous scaffolds with similar pore sizes. Finally, a general summary of the thesis in Chapter 6 recapitulates the most important points with a focus on future directions for MEW.
Chapter 1
Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials provide a strategy to improve external quantum efficiencies of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). Because of spin-statistics, 25% singlet and 75% triplet excitons are generated in an electronic device. Conventional organic emitters cannot harvest the triplet excitons, due to low spin orbit coupling, and exhibit low external quantum efficiencies. TADF materials have to be designed in such a way, that the energy gap between the lowest singlet and triplet states (ΔES-T) is sufficiently small to allow reverse intersystem crossing (rISC) in organic systems. An established structure property relationship for the generation of TADF materials is the spatial separation of HOMO and LUMO via an orthogonal arrangement of donor and acceptor in donor-π-acceptor (D-π-A) compounds. This is achieved by increasing the steric bulk of the π-bridge. However, this is not always the most efficient method and electronic parameters have to be considered. In a combined experimental and theoretical study, a computational protocol to predict the excited states in D-π-A compounds containing the B(FXyl)2 (FXyl = 2,6-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl) acceptor group for the design of new TADF emitters is presented. To this end, the effect of different donor and π-bridge moieties on the energy gaps between local and charge-transfer singlet and triplet states was examined. To prove the computationally aided design concept, the D-π-B(FXyl)2 compounds Cbz-π (1), Cbz-Meπ (2), Phox-Meπ (3), Phox-MeOπ (4), and MeO₃Ph-FMeπ (5) were synthesized and fully characterized. The photophysical properties of these compounds in various solvents, polymeric film and in a frozen matrix were investigated in detail and show excellent agreement with the computationally obtained data (Figure 5.1). A simple structure-property relationship based on the molecular fragment orbitals of the donor and the π-bridge which minimize the relevant singlet-triplet gaps to achieve efficient TADF emitters is presented.
Chapter 2
Three-coordinate boron is widely used as an acceptor in conjugated materials. In recent years the employment of trifluoromethylated aryls was shown to improve the acceptor properties of such boranes. Astonishingly, the use of ortho-trifluoromethylated aryls in boron containing systems also improves the stability of those systems in regard to their inherent reactivity towards nucleophiles. Borafluorenes are stronger acceptors than their non-annulated triarylborane derivatives. In previous studies, the effect of trifluoromethylated aryls as the exo-aryl moieties in borafluorenes, as well as the effect of fluorination on the backbone, were examined. As the latter suffers from a very low stability, systems using trifluoromethyl groups, both on the exo-aryl as well as the borafluorene backbone were designed in order to maximize both the stability as well as the acceptor strength.
Three different perfluoroalkylated borafluorenes were prepared and their electronic and photophysical properties were investigated. The systems have four trifluoromethyl moieties on the borafluorene moiety as well as two trifluoromethyl groups at the ortho positions of their exo-aryl moieties. They differ with regard to the para-substituents on their exo-aryl moieties, being a proton (FXylFBf), a trifluoromethyl group (FMesFBf) or a dimethylamino group (p NMe2-FXylFBf), respectively. Furthermore, an acetonitrile adduct of FMesFBf was obtained and characterized. All derivatives exhibit extraordinarily low reduction potentials, comparable to those of perylenediimides. The most electron deficient derivative FMesFBf was also chemically reduced and its radical anion isolated and characterized. Furthermore, the photophysical properties of all compounds were investigated. All compounds exhibit weakly allowed lowest energy absorptions and very long fluorescent lifetimes of ca. 250 ns up to 1.6 μs; however, the underlying mechanisms differ. The donor substituted derivative p-NMe2-FXylFBf exhibits thermally activated delayed fluorescence from a charge transfer (CT) state, while the FMesFBf and FXylFBf borafluorenes exhibit only weakly allowed locally excited (LE) transitions due to their symmetry and low transition dipole moments, as suggested by DFT and TD-DFT calculations.
Chapter 3
Conjugated dendrimers find wide application in various fields, such as charge transport/storage or emitter materials in organic solar cells or OLEDs. Previous studies on boron containing conjugated dendrimers are scarce and mostly employ a convergent synthesis approach, lacking a simple, generally applicable synthetic access. A new divergent approach was designed and conjugated triarylborane dendrimers were synthesized up to the 2nd generation. The synthetic strategy consists of three steps:
1) functionalization, via iridium catalyzed C–H borylation;
2) activation, via fluorination of the generated boronate ester with K[HF2] or [N(nBu)4][HF2]; and
3) expansion, via reaction of the trifluoroborate salts with aryl Grignard reagents.
The concept was also shown to be viable for a convergent approach. All but one of the conjugated borane dendrimers exhibit multiple, distinct and reversible reduction potentials, making them potentially interesting materials for applications in molecular accumulators (Figure 5.7).
Based on their photophysical properties, the 1st generation dendrimers exhibit good conjugation over the whole system. The conjugation does not further increase upon expansion to the 2nd generation, but the molar extinction coefficients increase linearly with the number of triarylborane sub-units, suggesting a potential application as photonic antennas.
Chapter 4
A surprisingly high electronically-driven regioselectivity for the iridium-catalyzed C–H borylation using [Ir(COD)OMe]2 (COD = 1,5-cyclooctadiene) as the precatalytic species, bis(pinacolato)diboron (B2pin2) as the boron source and 4,4’-ditertbutyl-2,2’-bipyridin (dtbpy) as the ligand of D-π-A systems with diphenylamino (1) or carbazolyl (2) moieties as the donor, bis(2,6-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl)boryl (B(FXyl)2) as the acceptor, and 1,4-phenylene as the π-bridge was observed. Under these conditions, borylation was observed only at the sterically least encumbered para-positions of the acceptor groups. As boronate esters are versatile building blocks for organic synthesis (C–C coupling, functional group transformations), the C–H borylation represents a simple potential method for post-functionalization by which electronic or other properties of D-π-A systems can be fine-tuned for specific applications. The photophysical and electrochemical properties of the borylated (1-(Bpin)2) and unborylated (1) diphenylamino-substituted D-π-A systems were investigated. Interestingly, the borylated derivative exhibits coordination of THF to the boronate ester moieties, influencing the photophysical properties and exemplifying the non-innocence of boronate esters.
Der Band versammelt aktuelle Beiträge, die der sprachwissenschaftlichen Erforschung der Kodifizierung der Sprache, insbesondere des Deutschen, gewidmet sind. Es finden sich sowohl historisch als auch gegenwartssprachlich, sowohl theoretisch als auch empirisch-exemplarisch orientierte Untersuchungen, Stellungnahmen und Ausblicke. Sprach-systematisch stehen phonetische, graphematische, syntaktische sowie soziolinguistische Blickrichtungen im Vordergrund. Darüber hinaus werden verschiedentlich die methodologischen Probleme reflektiert, die mit der Annahme eines Sprachkodex, seiner Formulierung und seiner möglichen Wirkung auf die Sprachentwicklung verbunden sind. Die meisten Aufsätze gehen auf eine entsprechende Tagung zurück, die im Februar 2015 am Institut für deutsche Philologie der Universität Würzburg stattfand.
Enterprise applications in virtualized data centers are often subject to time-varying workloads, i.e., the load intensity and request mix change over time, due to seasonal patterns and trends, or unpredictable bursts in user requests. Varying workloads result in frequently changing resource demands to the underlying hardware infrastructure. Virtualization technologies enable sharing and on-demand allocation of hardware resources between multiple applications. In this context, the resource allocations to virtualized applications should be continuously adapted in an elastic fashion, so that "at each point in time the available resources match the current demand as closely as possible" (Herbst el al., 2013). Autonomic approaches to resource management promise significant increases in resource efficiency while avoiding violations of performance and availability requirements during peak workloads.
Traditional approaches for autonomic resource management use threshold-based rules (e.g., Amazon EC2) that execute pre-defined reconfiguration actions when a metric reaches a certain threshold (e.g., high resource utilization or load imbalance). However, many business-critical applications are subject to Service-Level-Objectives defined on an application performance metric (e.g., response time or throughput). To determine thresholds so that the end-to-end application SLO is fulfilled poses a major challenge due to the complex relationship between the resource allocation to an application and the application performance. Furthermore, threshold-based approaches are inherently prone to an oscillating behavior resulting in unnecessary reconfigurations.
In order to overcome the deficiencies of threshold-based
approaches and enable a fully automated approach to dynamically control the resource allocations of virtualized applications, model-based approaches are required that can predict the impact of a reconfiguration on the application performance in advance. However, existing model-based approaches are severely limited in their learning capabilities. They either require complete performance models of the application as input, or use a pre-identified model structure and only learn certain model parameters from empirical data at run-time. The former requires high manual efforts and deep system knowledge to create the performance models. The latter does not provide the flexibility to capture the specifics of complex and heterogeneous system architectures.
This thesis presents a self-aware approach to the resource management in virtualized data centers. In this context, self-aware means that it automatically learns performance models of the application and the virtualized infrastructure and reasons based on these models to autonomically adapt the resource allocations in accordance with given application SLOs. Learning a performance model requires the extraction of the model structure representing the system architecture as well as the estimation of model parameters, such as resource demands. The estimation of resource demands is a key challenge as they cannot be observed directly in most systems.
The major scientific contributions of this thesis are:
- A reference architecture for online model learning in virtualized systems. Our reference architecture is based on a set of model extraction agents. Each agent focuses on specific tasks to automatically create and update model skeletons capturing its local knowledge of the system and collaborates with other agents to extract the structural parts of a global performance model of the system. We define different agent roles in the reference architecture and propose a model-based collaboration mechanism for the agents. The agents may be bundled within virtual appliances and may be tailored to include knowledge about the software stack deployed in a specific virtual appliance.
- An online method for the statistical estimation of resource demands. For a given request processed by an application, the resource time consumed for a specified resource within the system (e.g., CPU or I/O device), referred to as resource demand, is the total average time the resource is busy processing the request. A request could be any unit of work (e.g., web page request, database transaction, batch job) processed by the system. We provide a systematization of existing statistical approaches to resource demand estimation and conduct an extensive experimental comparison to evaluate the accuracy of these approaches. We propose a novel method to automatically select estimation approaches and demonstrate that it increases the robustness and accuracy of the estimated resource demands significantly.
- Model-based controllers for autonomic vertical scaling of virtualized applications. We design two controllers based on online model-based reasoning techniques in order to vertically scale applications at run-time in accordance with application SLOs. The controllers exploit the knowledge from the automatically extracted performance models when determining necessary reconfigurations. The first controller adds and removes virtual CPUs to an application depending on the current demand. It uses a layered performance model to also consider the physical resource contention when determining the required resources. The second controller adapts the resource allocations proactively to ensure the availability of the application during workload peaks and avoid reconfiguration during phases of high workload.
We demonstrate the applicability of our approach in current virtualized environments and show its effectiveness leading to significant increases in resource efficiency and improvements of the application performance and availability under time-varying workloads. The evaluation of our approach is based on two case studies representative of widely used enterprise applications in virtualized data centers. In our case studies, we were able to reduce the amount of required CPU resources by up to 23% and the number of reconfigurations by up to 95% compared to a rule-based approach while ensuring full compliance with application SLO. Furthermore, using workload forecasting techniques we were able to schedule expensive reconfigurations (e.g., changes to the memory size) during phases of load load and thus were able to reduce their impact on application availability by over 80% while significantly improving application performance compared to a reactive controller. The methods and techniques for resource demand estimation and vertical application scaling were developed and evaluated in close collaboration with VMware and Google.
Ziele der textlinguistisch-pragmatisch angelegten Arbeit sind einerseits die inhaltliche Darstellung der Stereotype, die Briten und Deutsche im Spiegel der überregionalen Printmedien voneinander haben, andererseits die Analyse der sprachlichen Mittel, mit deren Hilfe diese Stereotype ausgedrückt werden. Damit soll eine Stilistik stereotyper Ausdrucksformen erstellt werden, wobei Stereotype hier als versprachlichte Vorurteile gegenüber Mitgliedern einer Personengruppe aufgefasst werden. Da die Behauptung des Eigenen und die Abwehr des Fremden zwei untrennbare Aspekte der Gruppenidentität sind, werden Auto- und Heterostereotype in ihrem Bezug zueinander thematisiert, wodurch die Spiegelfunktion nationaler Stereotype sehr deutlich wird: Die Ergebnisse der Inhaltsanalyse und der thematischen Längs- und Querschnitte zeigen, dass die Nationenbilder weitgehend asymmetrisch strukturiert, ja über weite Strecken komplementär zueinander angelegt sind. Untersucht wird zudem, inwieweit sich die unterschiedlichen Zeitungstypen in ihrer Verwendung stereotyper Äußerungen unterscheiden. Anhand der Verteilung der Stereotype auf die Ressorts und Textsorten lassen sich schließlich Rückschlüsse auf die Funktionen dieser Strukturen in der Presse ziehen.
Die steigende Relevanz von Einzelhandelsagglomerationen zählt zu den zentralen raumbezogenen Elementen des Strukturwandels im Einzelhandel. Sowohl geplante Einkaufszentren als auch Standortkooperationen von eigentlich in interformalem Wettbewerb stehenden Betriebsformen prägen immer mehr die Standortstrukturen des Einzelhandels. Die vorliegende Untersuchung beschäftigt sich mit dem räumlichen Einkaufsverhalten der Konsumenten im Zusammenhang mit derartigen Erscheinungen. Zunächst werden aus verschiedenen theoretischen Perspektiven (Mikroökonomie, Raumwirtschaftstheorie, verhaltenswissenschaftliche Marketing-Forschung) jene positiven Agglomerationseffekte im Einzelhandel hergeleitet, die auf dem Kundenverhalten basieren; hierbei lassen sich verschiedene Typen von Kopplungs- und Vergleichskäufen als relevante Einkaufsstrategien identifizieren. Die angenommene (positive) Wirkung von Einzelhandelsagglomerationen wird mithilfe eines ökonometrischen Marktgebietsmodells – dem Multiplicative Competitive Interaction (MCI) Model – auf der Grundlage primärempirisch erhobener Marktgebiete überprüft. Die Analyseergebnisse zeigen überwiegend positive Einflüsse des Potenzials für Kopplungs- und Vergleichskäufe auf die Kundenzuflüsse einzelner Anbieter, wenngleich sich diese in ihrer Intensität und Ausgestaltung unterscheiden. Die Untersuchung zeigt die Relevanz von Agglomerationseffekten im Einzelhandel auf, wobei ein quantitatives Modell auf der Basis des häufig verwendeten Huff-Modells formuliert wird, mit dem es möglich ist, diese Effekte zu analysieren. Konkrete Anwendungen hierfür finden sich in der betrieblichen Standortanalyse und der Verträglichkeitsbeurteilung von Einzelhandelsansiedlungen.
Experienzielle Kommunikation. Wie kann soziales Miteinander in komplexen Situationen gelingen?
(2016)
Wie ist im „Chaos“ der Postmoderne ein soziales Miteinander möglich, das Stabilität und Halt bietet und in dem sich Individuen dennoch in ihrer Autonomie völlig frei entfalten können?
Tony Hofmann skizziert in seiner Dissertation Antworten auf diese essenzielle Frage. Das Herzstück des Buches, das „Prozessmodell der experienziellen Kommunikation“, zeichnet sich durch eine achtsamkeitsorientierte, körper- und erlebensbezogene Grundhaltung aus (Focusing). Menschen, die experienziell kommunizieren, erleben
• Kongruenz der eigenen Intention mit den tatsächlichen, ausgesprochenen Worten (Ich - Ich),
• ein schöpferisches Potenzial im Kontakt mit dem jeweiligen Gegenüber (Ich - Du) und
• die Freiheit, auf die (oft unvorhersehbare) Eigendynamik eines Gesprächs aktiv Bezug nehmen zu können (Ich - Es/Wir).
Hiervon ausgehend werden pädagogische Prinzipien und konkrete Fragesätze abgeleitet, die in der Praxis anwendbar sind. Sie ermöglichen eine stimmige Bezogenheit aufeinander, bei der Gegensätze zur Ressource werden.
Die Arbeit richtet sich an Kolleginnen und Kollegen, die an Hochschulen, aber auch in pädagogischen, sonderpädagogischen und psychosozialen Praxisfeldern tätig sind, und die ein Interesse daran haben, ein eindeutiges und klar kommunizierbares fachliches Profil, sowie persönliche Stimmigkeit im beruflichen Handeln zu entwickeln.