@phdthesis{KurulganDemirci2012,
  author    = {Kurulgan Demirci, Eylem},
  title     = {The effect of rhAPC on contractile tension : an in-vitro sepsis model of cardiomyocytes and endothelial cells},
  year      = {2012},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Buedenbender2012,
  author    = {B{\"u}denbender, Martin},
  title     = {Entflechtungskonzepte f{\"u}r Strom{\"u}bertragungsnetze : ein {\"o}konomischer Vergleich},
  series = {M{\"u}nstersche Schriften zur Kooperation ; Bd. 101},
  journal   = {M{\"u}nstersche Schriften zur Kooperation ; Bd. 101},
  publisher = {Shaker},
  address   = {D{\"u}ren},
  isbn      = {978-3-8440-1460-0},
  pages     = {XVII, 401 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {Netzsektoren und deren ad{\"a}quate Regulierung sind ein sehr relevantes und aktuelles Thema. Dies gilt sowohl f{\"u}r die {\"o}konomische Theorie, die sich sehr intensiv damit auseinandersetzt und in den letzten Jahrzehnten zahlreiche neue Erkenntnisse gewonnen hat. Es gilt ebenso f{\"u}r die Politik, in der Regulierungsfragen kontrovers diskutiert werden und dies nicht nur unter {\"o}konomischen Gesichtspunkten. Es gilt selbstverst{\"a}ndlich f{\"u}r die regulierten Unternehmen selbst, deren T{\"a}tigkeit durch die staatlichen Regulierungsvorgaben markant beeinflusst wird. Nicht nur die konkreten Inhalte der Regulierungsregime sowie die verbleibenden Freiheitsgrade in der Ausgestaltung sind von Bedeutung, sondern ebenso die Umsetzung durch die Regulierungsbeh{\"o}rden. All dies gilt f{\"u}r den Strommarkt und seinen regulatorischen Hintergrund in besonderer Weise. Die Entflechtung der Strom{\"u}bertragungsnetze von der Stromproduktion und damit die Vorgaben f{\"u}r die Organisation der Wertsch{\"o}pfungsketten in den Elektrizit{\"a}tsunternehmen sind seit dem Beginn des europ{\"a}ischen Liberalisierungsprozesses der Stromm{\"a}rkte ein wichtiges und kontrovers diskutiertes Regulierungselement. Den Fokus bildet das vertikale Unbundling, das letztlich die Diskriminierung von Wettbewerbern durch Anbieter mit aggregierten Wertsch{\"o}pfungsketten verhindern soll, indem diese gezwungen werden, ihren "Netzteil" anders zu organisieren oder zu verkaufen. Den Mitgliedsstaaten blieben Freir{\"a}ume in der Ausgestaltung, die in Deutschland erst vor kurzem konkretisiert wurden, und die f{\"u}r die regulierten Unternehmen die Nutzung eines Wahlrechts beinhalten. Der wirtschaftspolitischen folgt nun eine unternehmerische Abw{\"a}gungsentscheidung.},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Bragard2012,
  author    = {Bragard, Michael},
  title     = {The integrated emitter turn-off thyristor : an innovative MOS-gated high-power device. - (Aachener Beitr{\"a}ge des ISEA ; 62)},
  publisher = {Shaker},
  address   = {Aachen},
  isbn      = {978-3-8440-1152-4},
  pages     = {III, 164 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {This thesis introduces the Integrated Emitter Turn-Off (IETO) Thyristor as a new high-power device. Known state-of-the-art research activities like the Dual GCT, the ETO thyristor and the ICT were presented and critically reviewed. A comparison with commercialized solutions identifies the pros and cons of each type of device family. Based on this analysis, the IETO structure is proposed, covering most benefits of each device class. In particular the combination of a MOS-assisted turn-off with a thyristor-based device allows a voltage-controlled MOS switching and the low on-state voltage of the thyristors. The following synthesis of an IETO device stands on a three-dimensional field of optimization spanned by electric, mechanical and thermal aspects. From an electric point of view, the lowest possible parasitic inductance and resistance within the commutation path are optimization criteria. The mechanical construction has to withstand the required contact pressure of multiple kilo Newtons. Finally, thermal borders limit the maximum average current of the device. FEM simulations covering these three aspects are performed for several design proposals. An IETO prototype is constructed and measurements on various test benches attest thermal, mechanical and electric performance. A local decoupling of the external driver stage and the presspack housing is presented by a cable connection. This separation enables a thermal and mechanical independence, which is advantageous in terms of vibrations and thermal cycles including increased reliability. The electric pulse performance of the prototype device is a factor of 3.1 above today''s solutions. In single-pulse measurements, a current up to 1600 A was successfully turned off at 115°C with an active silicon area of 823 mm². One reason for this increased turn-off capability is the extremely low-inductive construction. Additional functionality of the IETO thyristor like over-current self-protection and defined short-circuit failure state are successfully verified.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Stapenhorst2012,
  author    = {Stapenhorst, Carolin},
  title     = {The concept as an operant instrument within the interdisciplinarity of the architectural design process},
  publisher = {Politecnico di Torino},
  address   = {Turin},
  pages     = {242 Seiten},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {In the introduction to their book "What is philosophy?" Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari deplore the inflationary and trivialised use of the term concept: "Finally, the most shameful moment came when computer science, marketing, design and advertising, all the disciplines of communication, seized hold of the word concept itself and said: 'This is our concern, we are the creative ones, we are the ideas men! We are the friends of the concept, we put in our computers.' " This doctoral thesis shares the concern of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, but still, it is a thesis in architecture and thus collocated within the field of the representatives of the "ideas men". It engages in architectural design theory, and refers in particular to the investigation of methodological approaches within the design process. Therefore, the thesis will not contribute to the philosophical dimension of the term, but intends to overcome its imprecise use within the architectural discourse, in compliance with Eug{\`e}ne Viollet-le-Duc's admonition relative to vague definitions: "Dans les arts, et dans l'architecture en particulier, les d{\´e}finitions vagues ont caus{\´e} bien des erreurs, ont laiss{\´e} germer bien des pr{\´e}jug{\´e}s, enraciner bien des id{\´e}es fausses. On met un mot en avant, chacun y attache un sens diff{\´e}rent." The term concept in architecture is very often used as pure marketing collateral, it serves to sell an idea, a product, a design. Its functional applicability is reduced to a special manner of illustration, produced as one of the various design presentation documents at the end of the design process. In contrast, the original contribution of this thesis aims to give a precise, instrumental dimension to the term concept: the concept is the expression of a specific logic, capable to guide the decisional sequences of the process and thus to improve the quality of the designed projects. The motivation to define a specific instrumentality of the concept is closely connected to the issue of interdisciplinarity in the architects' profession. The interdisciplinary character of the architectural field is widely accepted and discussed as such, but the thesis intends to give a more precise definition of the various kinds of competences involved by classifying them into either the internal or the external group. The traditional notion of interdisciplinarity, predominantly seen as collaboration between architects and technical experts, and, most notably, the historical, sometimes contentious, relationship between architects and engineers is described. Referring to recent developments, the transformation of the architect's role within the professional sphere, marked by an increasing importance of diverse influences and linked to a growing risk of marginalisation, is illustrated. The thesis describes different ways to adapt to this specific kind of interdisciplinarity, which generally requires the architect's ability to connect and to integrate various contents, different points of view and diverse scales. On the other hand, the big potential which is implicit in the interdisciplinary field is exposed: architects can inform their core competence, the design, by extracting contents of different disciplinary competences, pertaining or not pertaining to their own professional field. They have the possibility to cross fields of external competences in a selective way and by doing so they can build up a corpus of knowledge capable to generate and communicate guidelines and systematic methodologies for their design. At the end, the analysis of these two aspects allows the definition of a more specific professional profile of the architect as specialist of interdisciplinarity. The thesis is concerned with the theories around the design process. The design process is seen as open to inspection and critical evaluation, with major focus on the decisional sequences which characterise it. It concentrates on the process' descriptiveness and the degree of self-conscious approaches applied within it. The importance of regulative, strategic mechanisms is illustrated by testimonies taken from a series of design researches and leads to the functional definition of the figure of the concept as representation of a coherent set of ideas, as generator of a project-specific system of rules and as communicator of decisional strategies. The concept's function is furthermore defined as communicative interface which generates and transmits the system of rules authoritative for all the disciplinary competences involved in the design process, a communicative interface which constitutes a basis of shared convictions capable to increase the efficiency of collaboration. Furthermore, the concept's capacity to explore and elaborate the contents of external disciplines is identified as a possible methodological approach to innovative design thinking. The approach to a specific functional definition of the concept is continued by the description of a series of instruments that are simultaneously generating and communicating it. It is outlined to which degree the concept itself is already the result of an ideational process, collocated within the initial phase of the design proceedings, serving as a guideline to them, but still continuously evolving and adapting in its progression. In addition, it is illustrated how all the diverse instruments of the concept are operational media through which the knowledge transition between different disciplines can occur. The considerations about the concept as operational instrument of design are elaborated with regard to a number of examples of didactical applications that are particularly involved in the development and teaching of specific design methods. These examples illustrate the interrelations between design theory and design education. They are derived from very different schools of architecture and diverse mindsets, but all of them transmit models of conceptual design thinking.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Boerner2013,
  author    = {B{\"o}rner, Sebastian},
  title     = {Optimization and testing of a low NOx hydrogen fuelled gas turbine},
  publisher = {Universit{\´e} Libre de Bruxelles},
  address   = {Bruxelles},
  pages     = {XVI, 144 S.},
  year      = {2013},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Pfaff2013,
  author    = {Pfaff, Raphael},
  title     = {Evaluation and extension of the potential for application of the behavioural framework to practical engineering problems},
  pages     = {XVI, 231 S.},
  year      = {2013},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Czarnecki2013,
  author    = {Czarnecki, Christian},
  title     = {Entwicklung einer referenzmodellbasierten Unternehmensarchitektur f{\"u}r die Telekommunikationsindustrie},
  publisher = {Logos},
  address   = {Berlin},
  isbn      = {9783832535100},
  pages     = {230 Seiten},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {Die Telekommunikationsindustrie hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten einen enormen Wandel vollzogen. F{\"u}r Telekommunikationsunternehmen erfordert dies fundamentale Umstrukturierungen von Strategie, Prozessen, Anwendungssystemen und Netzwerktechnologien. Dabei spielen Unternehmensarchitekturen und Referenzmodelle eine wichtige Rolle. Zwar existieren in der Praxis anerkannte Referenzmodelle, aber wie sind diese f{\"u}r eine systematische Transformation zu gestalten? Wie sieht eine konkrete L{\"o}sung f{\"u}r die Telekommunikationsindustrie aus? Als Antwort stellt Christian Czarnecki in seinem Buch eine referenzmodellbasierte Unternehmensarchitektur vor. Basierend auf einer umfangreichen Untersuchung von Transformationsprojekten werden Probleme und Anforderungen der Praxis identifiziert, f{\"u}r die mit Methoden der Unternehmenstransformation, Referenzmodellierung und Unternehmensarchitektur ein L{\"o}sungsvorschlag entwickelt und evaluiert wird. Dieser besteht u. a. aus detaillierten Anwendungsf{\"a}llen, Referenzprozessabl{\"a}ufen, einer Zuordnung von Prozessen zu Anwendungssystemen sowie Handlungsempfehlungen zur Virtualisierung. F{\"u}r Wissenschaftler und Studierende der Wirtschaftsinformatik zeigt das Buch neue Erkenntnisse einer anwendungsorientierten Referenzmodellierung. F{\"u}r Praktiker liefert es eine methodisch fundierte L{\"o}sung f{\"u}r die aktuellen Transformationsbedarfe der Telekommunikationsindustrie. Christian Czarnecki arbeitet seit 2004 als Unternehmensberater und hat viele Telekommunikationsunternehmen bei deren Transformation begleitet. In 2013 erfolgte die Promotion zum Doktoringenieur an der Otto-von-Guericke-Universit{\"a}t Magdeburg.},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Geenen2013,
  author    = {Geenen, Eva-Maria},
  title     = {Studies of Epstein-Barr virus EBNA2 and its interactions with host cell factors},
  publisher = {Universit{\´e} de Grenoble},
  address   = {Grenoble},
  pages     = {125 S.},
  year      = {2013},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Groebel2013,
  author    = {Groebel, Simone},
  title     = {Zusammensetzung der Bioz{\"o}nose der Methanbildung unter Anwendung molekularbiologischer Methoden : Auswahl und Immobilisierung eines prozesstragenden Organismus auf einem Biosensor mit dem Ziel der {\"U}berwachung der Prozessstabilit{\"a}t kommerzieller Biogasanlagen},
  publisher = {Univ.-Bibliothek},
  address   = {Rostock},
  year      = {2013},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Werner2014,
  author    = {Werner, Frederik},
  title     = {Development of light-addressable potentiometric sensor systems and their applications in biotechnological environments},
  pages     = {XI, 149 S.},
  year      = {2014},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Schusser2015,
  author    = {Schusser, Sebastian},
  title     = {Sensor-based degradation monitoring for the evaluation of (bio)degradable polymers},
  publisher = {Universiteit Hasselt ; FH Aachen},
  address   = {Hasselt ; Aachen},
  pages     = {145 Seiten},
  year      = {2015},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Gossmann2015,
  author    = {Goßmann, Matthias},
  title     = {Entwicklung eines autokontraktilen Herzmuskelmodells zur funktionalen Medikamenten- und Toxinforschung},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsbibliothek Duisburg-Essen},
  address   = {Duisburg ; Essen},
  year      = {2015},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Seifarth2015,
  author    = {Seifarth, Volker},
  title     = {Ureteral tissue engineering : development of a bioreactor system and subsequent characterization of the generated biohybrids},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsbibliothek Duisburg-Essen},
  address   = {Duisburg ; Essen},
  year      = {2015},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{BassamAbduljabbar2015,
  author    = {Bassam Abduljabbar, Rasha},
  title     = {Physikalisch-chemische Steuerung der Proteinstabilit{\"a}t in biologischen Systemen},
  year      = {2015},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Duong2015,
  author    = {Duong, Minh Tuan},
  title     = {Hyperelastic modeling and soft-tissue growth integrated with the smoothed finite element method - SFEM},
  publisher = {RWTH Aachen University},
  pages     = {174 S.},
  year      = {2015},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Foeckler2016,
  author    = {F{\"o}ckler, Nicole},
  title     = {Biomarker zur Prognose von Fr{\"u}hgeburten : ein biomedizintechnischer Ansatz},
  publisher = {Deutsche Zentralbibliothek f{\"u}r Medizin},
  address   = {K{\"o}ln},
  doi       = {10.4126/FRL01-006401575},
  pages     = {VII, 117 S.},
  year      = {2016},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Gaigall2016,
  author    = {Gaigall, Daniel},
  title     = {Vergleich von statistischen Tests im verbundenen und unabh{\"a}ngigen Stichprobenfall},
  publisher = {Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universit{\"a}t Hannover},
  address   = {Hannover},
  doi       = {10.15488/8678},
  pages     = {281 Seiten},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Es werden Effizienzbegriffe zum Vergleich von statistischen Tests basierend auf verschiedenen statistischen Experimenten eingef{\"u}hrt. Dabei handelt es sich um die schon aus dem Vergleich von statistischen Tests in je demselben Modell bekannten asymptotischen relativen Effizienzen wie die Hodges-Lehmann-Effizienz, die Bahadur-Effizienz und die Pitman-Effizienz sowie um Kriterien basierend auf Volumina von Konfidenzbereichen. Effizienzaussagen werden unter anderem f{\"u}r Likelihood-Quotienten-Tests und Waldsche Tests im Rahmen eines allgemeinen multivariaten parametrischen Modells erhalten. Statistische Tests zur Pr{\"u}fung von Hypothesen {\"u}ber die relative Wirksamkeit zweier Experimente werden vorgeschlagen. Auf der Grundlage der erhaltenen Ergebnisse erfolgt ein Vergleich der Wirksamkeit von korrespondierenden Verfahren bei verbundener Stichprobenerhebung und unabh{\"a}ngiger Stichprobenerhebung. Die Rolle der Kovarianzmatrix bei verbundener Stichprobenerhebung wird insbesondere unter der Annahme, dass die zugrunde liegenden Verteilungen durch k-parametrische Exponentialfamilien modellierbar sind, herausgearbeitet. Verbindungen zu Effizienzbegriffen bei Punkt- und Konfidenzbereichssch{\"a}tzverfahren werden aufgezeigt. Ausf{\"u}hrlichere Untersuchungen betreffen die korrespondierenden Hotellingschen T²-Tests im multivariaten Normalverteilungsfall, die klassischen Homogenitatstests bei k × k-Kontingenztafeln und die Wilcoxon Tests in nichtparametrischen Lagealternativmodellen},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Frotscher2016,
  author    = {Frotscher, Ralf},
  title     = {Electromechanical modeling and simulation of thin cardiac tissue constructs - smoothed FEM applied to a biomechanical plate problem},
  year      = {2016},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Mainz2017,
  author    = {Mainz, Stefan},
  title     = {Zur Berechnung der Tragf{\"a}higkeit von d{\"u}nnwandigen Koppelpfetten aus Kaltprofilen f{\"u}r Biegung um die schwache Achse und Torsion},
  address   = {Hamburg},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:1373-opus-3798},
  pages     = {261 Seiten},
  year      = {2017},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Keinz2018,
  author    = {Keinz, Jan},
  title     = {Optimization of a Dry Low NOx Micromix Combustor for an Industrial Gas Turbine Using Hydrogen-Rich Syngas Fuel},
  publisher = {Universit{\´e} Libre de Bruxelles - Brussels School of Engineering Aero-Thermo-Mechanics},
  address   = {Br{\"u}ssel},
  year      = {2018},
  language  = {en}
}