TY - JOUR A1 - Baumgartner, Werner A1 - Fidler, Florian A1 - Weth, Agnes A1 - Habbecke, Martin A1 - Jakob, Peter A1 - Butenweg, Christoph A1 - Böhme, Wolfgang T1 - Investigating the locomotion of the sandfish in desert sand using NMR-Imaging JF - PLOS ONE N2 - The sandfish (Scincus scincus) is a lizard having the remarkable ability to move through desert sand for significant distances. It is well adapted to living in loose sand by virtue of a combination of morphological and behavioural specializations. We investigated the bodyform of the sandfish using 3D-laserscanning and explored its locomotion in loose desert sand using fast nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) imaging. The sandfish exhibits an in-plane meandering motion with a frequency of about 3 Hz and an amplitude of about half its body length accompanied by swimming-like (or trotting) movements of its limbs. No torsion of the body was observed, a movement required for a digging-behaviour. Simple calculations based on the Janssen model for granular material related to our findings on bodyform and locomotor behaviour render a local decompaction of the sand surrounding the moving sandfish very likely. Thus the sand locally behaves as a viscous fluid and not as a solid material. In this fluidised sand the sandfish is able to “swim” using its limbs. KW - magnetic resonance imaging KW - body limbs KW - swimming KW - lizards KW - deserts Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0003309 SN - 1932-6203 VL - 3 IS - 10 PB - Plos CY - San Francisco, California, US ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fleischhaker, Robert A1 - Evers, Jörg T1 - Four-wave mixing enhanced white-light cavity JF - Physical Review A - Atomic, molecular, and optical physics Y1 - 2008 SN - 0556-2791 VL - 78 IS - 5 SP - 051802(R) ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fleischhaker, Robert A1 - Evers, Jörg T1 - Nonlinear effects in pulse propagation through Doppler-broadened closed-loop atomic media JF - Physical Review A - Atomic, molecular, and optical physics Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.77.043805 SN - 1050-2947 VL - 77 IS - 4 SP - 043805 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mahmoudi, Mohammad A1 - Fleischhaker, Robert A1 - Sahrai, Mostafa A1 - Evers, Jörg T1 - Group velocity control in the ultraviolet domain via interacting dark-state resonances JF - Journal of physics B: Atomic, molecular and optical physics Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/41/2/025504 SN - 0953-4075 SN - 1361-6455 VL - 41 IS - 2 SP - 25504 EP - 25600 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Gellert, Christoph A1 - Norda, Hannah A1 - Butenweg, Christoph T1 - Nonlinear behaviour of masonry under cyclic loading T2 - 7th European Conference on Structural Dynamics, EURODYN 2008 : 7-9 July 2008, Southampton Y1 - 2008 SP - 1 EP - 12 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Butenweg, Christoph A1 - Gellert, Christoph A1 - Meskouris, Konstantin T1 - Ein neuer Ansatz zum Nachweis von Mauerwerksbauten T2 - Berichte der Fachtagung Baustatik - Baupraxis 10 : am 17. und 18. März 2008 in Karlsruhe / Hrsg.: Werner Wagner. Institut für Baustatik, Universität Karlsruhe (TH) Y1 - 2008 SN - 978-3-935322-14-0 SP - 103 EP - 116 PB - Inst. für Baustatik, Univ. Karlsruhe (TH) CY - Karlsruhe ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Butenweg, Christoph A1 - Gellert, Christoph T1 - Displacement based design of masonry structures T2 - Proceedings of the 14th International Brick and Block Masonry Conference : (Incorporating the 8th Australasian Masonry Conference) : Sydney, Australia, 13.-20. February 2008 / ed. Mark Masia ... Y1 - 2008 SN - 978-19-2070-1-92-5 SP - 1 EP - 10 PB - University of Newcastle CY - Callaghan ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Butenweg, Christoph A1 - Gellert, Christoph A1 - Reindl, Lukas T1 - Capacity design of masonry buildings under cyclic loading T2 - Seismic Risk : Earthquakes in North-Western Europe ; international colloquium ; Liège on 11 and 12 September 2008 / Belgian Seismic Group (BeSeiG). Ed.: T. Camlebeeck ... Y1 - 2008 SN - 978-2-87456-063-7 SP - 201 EP - 208 PB - Editions de l'Université de Liège CY - Liège ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Butenweg, Christoph A1 - Gellert, Christoph A1 - Kranzler, Thomas T1 - Pseudo-dynamische Versuche an Reihenmittelhäusern – Vergleich mit aktuellen Berechnungsansätzen JF - Mauerwerk : European journal of masonry Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dama.200800397 SN - 1437-1022 (E-Journal); 1432-3427 (Print) VL - Volume 12 IS - Issue 6 SP - 315 EP - 326 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Meskouris, Konstantin A1 - Butenweg, Christoph T1 - Erdbebensichere Auslegung von Bauwerken nach DIN 4149:2005 T2 - Betonkalender 2008: Konstruktiver Wasserbau, erdbebensicheres Bauen. Band 2 Y1 - 2008 SN - 978-3-433-01839-2 (Print) ; 978-3-433-01854-5 (E-Book) U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9783433600702.ch5 SP - 1 EP - 54 PB - Ernst & Sohn CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mottaghy, Darius A1 - Vosteen, Hans-Dieter A1 - Schellschmidt, Rüdiger T1 - Temperature dependence of the relationship of thermal diffusivity versus thermal conductivity for crystalline rocks JF - International Journal of Earth Sciences Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00531-007-0238-3 SN - 1437-3262 VL - 97 IS - 2 SP - 435 EP - 442 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baier, C. A1 - Mottaghy, Darius A1 - Ziegler, M. A1 - Rath, V. T1 - Numerische Simulation des Gefrierprozesses bei der Baugrundvereisung im durchströmten Untergrund JF - Bauingenieur Y1 - 2008 SN - 0005-6650 VL - 83 IS - 2 SP - 49 EP - 60 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Borchert, Jörg ED - Romeike, Frank T1 - Risikomanagement in der Energiewirtschaft : Eine Risikoanalyse der elektrizitätswirtschaftlichen Wertschöpfungskette T2 - Rechtliche Grundlagen des Risikomanagements : Haftungs- und Strafvermeidung für Corporate Complience Y1 - 2008 SN - 978-350-310647-9 SP - 231 EP - 270 PB - Erich Schmidt CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jungbluth, Christian A1 - Borchert, Jörg T1 - Möglichkeiten der Strompreisbeeinflussung im oligopolistischen Markt JF - ZNER Zeitschrift für Neues Energierecht Y1 - 2008 IS - 4 SP - 314 EP - 323 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Rens, Gavin A1 - Ferrein, Alexander A1 - Poel, Etienne van der T1 - Extending DTGolog to deal with POMD-Ps T2 - Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (PRASA 2008) Y1 - 2008 SP - 49 EP - 54 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hellmanns, Mark A1 - Böhm, Stefan A1 - Dilger, Klaus T1 - Weight and noise reduction in power transmissions through epoxy resin foams T2 - Proceedings of the 31st annual meeting of the Adhesion Society : 17. - 20.2.2008, Austin, Texas Y1 - 2008 SP - 291 EP - 293 PB - Adhesion Society CY - Blacksburg ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Gümpel, Paul A1 - Dören, Horst-Peter A1 - Gebel, Wolfgang A1 - Heimann, Winfried A1 - Morath, Rudolf A1 - Schmitz, Karl W. A1 - Uhlig, Georg T1 - Rostfreie Stähle. Grundwissen, Konstruktions- und Verarbeitungsweise = Stainless steels. 4., völlig neu bearb. Aufl. Kontakt & Studium ; Bd. 493 Y1 - 2008 SN - 978-3-8169-2689-4 PB - Expert-Verl. CY - Renningen ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Dören, Horst-Peter ED - Gümpel, Paul T1 - Schweißtechnische Verarbeitung nichtrostender Stähle T2 - Rostfreie Stähle. Grundwissen, Konstruktions- und Verarbeitungshinweise Y1 - 2008 SN - 978-3-8169-2689-4 SP - 140 EP - 174 PB - Expert Verlag CY - Renningen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pieper, Martin T1 - Nonlinear integral equations for an inverse electromagnetic scattering problem JF - Journal of Physics Conference Series. 124 (2008) Y1 - 2008 SN - 1742-6596 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Pieper, Martin A1 - Ivanyshyn, Olha T1 - Nonlinear integral equations for a 3D inverse acoustic scattering problem : abstract / O. Ivanyshyn and M. 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