TY - RPRT A1 - Weßling, Matthias T1 - How to deal with foreign cultures: an cross-cultural training-approach based on the didactical methodology of 'experiential learning' following Kolb & Fry N2 - Many companies still conduct the worldwide management of people as if neither the external economic nor the internal structure of the firm had changed. The costs of cross-cultural failure, for individuals and their companies, are enormous: personal and family costs; financial, professional and emotional costs; costs to one’s career prospects, to one’s self-esteem, to one’s marriage and family. This scenario describes sufficiently the reason for learning “the art of crossing cultures” (Craig Storti). To this end, this research paper describes an innovative approach of cross-cultural training, following the didactical ideas of Kolb and Fry, the so-called 'experiential learning'. N2 - Viele international agierende Unternehmen verfahren mit dem weltweiten Personalmanagement so, als wenn sich weder der ökonomische Kontext noch die internen Strukturen der Firmen geändert hätten. Die Kosten von interkulturellen Mißverständnissen und Fehlschlägen sind enorm - sowohl für alle beteiligten Personen, als auch für die betroffenen Unternehmen: hier geht es um berufliche, emotionale, soziale Kosten bis hin zu Beeinträchtigungen der Selbstwertschätzung oder auch der ehelichen Paarbeziehungen. Dieses Szenario beschreibt die Notwendigkeit, sich intensive auseinanderzusetzen mit dem, was Craig Storti "the art of crossing cultures" nennt. Vor diesem Hintergrund beschreibt das vorliegende Forschungspapier einen innovativen Ansatz für ein interkulturelles Managementtraining auf der methodischen Basis der didaktischen Idee des 'experiential learning' nach Kolb und Fry. KW - Interkulturelles Lernen KW - Kulturvergleich KW - Interkulturelles Management KW - Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen KW - Völkerpsychologie KW - Interkulturelles Training KW - Managementtraining KW - Erfahrungslernen KW - Interkulturelles Lernen KW - Kulturvergleichende Psychologie KW - Cross-Cultural Training KW - Intercultural Awareness KW - Experiential Learning KW - Managementtraining KW - Cross-Cultural Psychology Y1 - 2009 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Welden, Rene A1 - Nagamine Komesu, Cindy A. A1 - Wagner, Patrick H. A1 - Schöning, Michael Josef A1 - Wagner, Torsten T1 - Photoelectrochemical enzymatic penicillin biosensor: A proof-of-concept experiment JF - Electrochemical Science Advances N2 - Photoelectrochemical (PEC) biosensors are a rather novel type of biosensors thatutilizelighttoprovideinformationaboutthecompositionofananalyte,enablinglight-controlled multi-analyte measurements. For enzymatic PEC biosensors,amperometric detection principles are already known in the literature. In con-trast, there is only a little information on H+-ion sensitive PEC biosensors. Inthis work, we demonstrate the detection of H+ions emerged by H+-generatingenzymes, exemplarily demonstrated with penicillinase as a model enzyme on atitanium dioxide photoanode. First, we describe the pH sensitivity of the sensorand study possible photoelectrocatalytic reactions with penicillin. Second, weshow the enzymatic PEC detection of penicillin. KW - enzymatic biosensor KW - penicillin KW - penicillinase KW - photoelectrochemistry KW - titanium dioxide photoanode Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/elsa.202100131 SN - 2698-5977 N1 - Corresponding auhtor: Michael J. Schöning VL - 2 IS - 4 SP - 1 EP - 5 PB - Wiley-VCH CY - Weinheim ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wagner, Torsten A1 - Schöning, Michael Josef T1 - Preface of the Special Issue of I3S 2005 in Jülich (Germany) N2 - International Symposium on Sensor Science, I3S 2005 <3; 2005; Juelich, Germany> In: Sensors 2006, 6, 260-261 ISSN 1424-8220 KW - Biosensor KW - I3S 2005 KW - International Symposium on Sensor Science Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:a96-opus-1365 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wagner, Thorsten A1 - Kohl, Claus-Dieter A1 - Fröba, Michael A1 - Tiemann, Michael T1 - Gas sensing properties of ordered mesoporous SnO2 N2 - We report on the synthesis and CO gas-sensing properties of mesoporous tin(IV) oxides (SnO2). For the synthesis cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTABr) was used as a structure-directing agent; the resulting SnO2 powders were applied as films to commercially available sensor substrates by drop coating. Nitrogen physisorption shows specific surface areas up to 160 m2·g-1 and mean pore diameters of about 4 nm, as verified by TEM. The film conductance was measured in dependence on the CO concentration in humid synthetic air at a constant temperature of 300 °C. The sensors show a high sensitivity at low CO concentrations and turn out to be largely insensitive towards changes in the relative humidity. We compare the materials with commercially available SnO2-based sensors. KW - Biosensor KW - Tin oxide KW - sensing properties KW - CO KW - humidity Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:a96-opus-1422 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vu, Duc-Khoi A1 - Staat, Manfred T1 - An algorithm for shakedown analysis of structure with temperature dependent yield stress N2 - This work is an attempt to answer the question: How to use convex programming in shakedown analysis of structures made of materials with temperature-dependent properties. Based on recently established shakedown theorems and formulations, a dual relationship between upper and lower bounds of the shakedown limit load is found, an algorithmfor shakedown analysis is proposed. While the original problem is neither convex nor concave, the algorithm presented here has the advantage of employing convex programming tools. KW - Einspielen KW - Temperaturabhängigkeit KW - Fließgrenze KW - Shakedown KW - shakedown analysis KW - yield stress Y1 - 2004 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Uibel, Thomas A1 - Blaß, Hans Joachim ED - Cecotti, A. T1 - Determining Suitable Spacings and Distances for Self-tapping Screws by Experimental and Numerical Studies T2 - Proceedings of the 11th World Conference on Timber Engineering, WCTE 2010 : World Conference on Timber Engineering; [June 20 - 24, 2010, Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy] . Vol. III, Riva del Garda, Italy 2010 Y1 - 2010 N1 - Extended abstract. Full paper: DVD, Session 55, ID 108, 9 Seiten SP - 669 EP - 670 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Uibel, Thomas A1 - Blaß, Hans Joachim T1 - A new method to determine suitable spacings and distances for self-tapping screws T2 - Meeting ... / International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction, Working Commission W18 - Timber Structures N2 - The determination of spacing, edge and end distance requirements for self-tapping screws requires numerous and comprehensive insertion tests. Yet the results of such tests cannot be transferred to other types of screws or even to screws of different diameter because of differences in shape or geometry. To reduce the effort of insertion tests a new method was developed which allows the estimation of required spacings, distances and timber thickness. Y1 - 2010 SN - 1864-1784 N1 - Paper 43-21-2 VL - 43 PB - Lehrstuhl für Ingenieurholzbau und Baukonstruktionen CY - Karlsruhe ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Tymecki, Lukasz A1 - Glab, Stanislaw A1 - Koncki, Robert T1 - Miniaturized, planar ion-selective electrodes fabricated by means of thick-film technology N2 - Various planar technologies are employed for developing solid-state sensors having low cost, small size and high reproducibility; thin- and thick-film technologies are most suitable for such productions. Screen-printing is especially suitable due to its simplicity, low-cost, high reproducibility and efficiency in large-scale production. This technology enables the deposition of a thick layer and allows precise pattern control. Moreover, this is a highly economic technology, saving large amounts of the used inks. In the course of repetitions of the film-deposition procedure there is no waste of material due to additivity of this thick-film technology. Finally, the thick films can be easily and quickly deposited on inexpensive substrates. In this contribution, thick-film ion-selective electrodes based on ionophores as well as crystalline ion-selective materials dedicated for potentiometric measurements are demonstrated. Analytical parameters of these sensors are comparable with those reported for conventional potentiometric electrodes. All mentioned thick-film strip electrodes have been totally fabricated in only one, fully automated thickfilm technology, without any additional manual, chemical or electrochemical steps. In all cases simple, inexpensive, commercially available materials, i.e. flexible, plastic substrates and easily cured polymer-based pastes were used. KW - Biosensor KW - Potentiometry KW - thick-film technology KW - screen-printing KW - ion-selective electrodes Y1 - 2006 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:a96-opus-1506 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Tran, Thanh Ngoc A1 - Staat, Manfred A1 - Kreißig, R. T1 - Calculation of load carrying capacity of shell structures with elasto-plastic material by direct methods N2 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Material Theory and Nonlinear Dynamics. MatDyn. Hanoi, Vietnam, Sept. 24-26, 2007, 8 p. In this paper, a method is introduced to determine the limit load of general shells using the finite element method. The method is based on an upper bound limit and shakedown analysis with elastic-perfectly plastic material model. A non-linear constrained optimisation problem is solved by using Newton’s method in conjunction with a penalty method and the Lagrangean dual method. Numerical investigation of a pipe bend subjected to bending moments proves the effectiveness of the algorithm. KW - Finite-Elemente-Methode Y1 - 2007 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Tran, Thanh Ngoc A1 - Staat, Manfred A1 - Kreißig, R. T1 - Finite element shakedown and limit reliability analysis of thin shells N2 - A procedure for the evaluation of the failure probability of elastic-plastic thin shell structures is presented. The procedure involves a deterministic limit and shakedown analysis for each probabilistic iteration which is based on the kinematical approach and the use the exact Ilyushin yield surface. Based on a direct definition of the limit state function, the non-linear problems may be efficiently solved by using the First and Second Order Reliabiblity Methods (Form/SORM). This direct approach reduces considerably the necessary knowledge of uncertain technological input data, computing costs and the numerical error. In: Computational plasticity / ed. by Eugenio Onate. Dordrecht: Springer 2007. VII, 265 S. (Computational Methods in Applied Sciences ; 7) (COMPLAS IX. Part 1 . International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE)). ISBN 978-1-402-06576-7 S. 186-189 KW - Finite-Elemente-Methode KW - Limit analysis KW - shakedown analysis KW - Exact Ilyushin yield surface KW - Random variable KW - First Order Reliabiblity Method Y1 - 2007 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Tran, Thanh Ngoc A1 - Staat, Manfred ED - Onate, E. T1 - Uncertain multimode failure and limit analysis of shells T2 - 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI) ; 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM V) ; 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD VI) ; July 20-25, 2014, Barcelona Y1 - 2014 SP - 1 EP - 12 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Tran, Thanh Ngoc A1 - Pham, Phu Tinh A1 - Staat, Manfred T1 - Reliability analysis of shells based on direct plasticity methods N2 - Abstracts der CD-Rom Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM8) and 5th Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS 2008) 30.06. - 04.07.2008 Venedig, Italien. 2 Seiten Zusammenfassung der Autoren mit graph. Darst. und Literaturverzeichnis N2 - Abstracts of the Proceedings of the 8th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM8) and 5th Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS 2008) June 30th - July, 4th 2008, Venice, Italy. 2 pages with abstracts of the authors, Ill. and references. KW - Finite-Elemente-Methode KW - Limit analysis KW - Shakedown analysis KW - First-order reliability method KW - second-order reliability method KW - Sensitivity Y1 - 2008 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Tran, Thanh Ngoc A1 - Novacek, V. A1 - Tolba, R. A1 - Klinge, U. A1 - Turquier, F. A1 - Staat, Manfred T1 - Experimental and Computational approach to study colorectal anastomosis. ISB2011, Proceedings of the XXIII Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics, Brussels, Belgium, July 3-7, 2011 N2 - Summary: This paper presents a methodology to study and understand the mechanics of stapled anastomotic behaviors by combining empirical experimentation and finite element analysis. Performance of stapled anastomosis is studied in terms of leakage and numerical results which are compared to in vitro experiments performed on fresh porcine tissue. Results suggest that leaks occur between the tissue and staple legs penetrating through the tissue. KW - Anastomose KW - Finite-Elemente-Methode KW - Biomechanik KW - Anastomosis KW - Finite element method KW - Biomechanics Y1 - 2011 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Tran, Ngoc Trinh A1 - Staat, Manfred A1 - Stavroulakis, G. E. ED - Onate, E. T1 - A multicriteria method for truss optimization T2 - 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI) ; 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM V) ; 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD VI) ; July 20-25, 2014, Barcelona Y1 - 2014 SP - 1 EP - 12 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Tippkötter, Nils A1 - Roth, Jasmine T1 - Purified Butanol from Lignocellulose – Solvent‐Impregnated Resins for an Integrated Selective Removal JF - Chemie Ingenieur Technik N2 - In traditional microbial biobutanol production, the solvent must be recovered during fermentation process for a sufficient space-time yield. Thermal separation is not feasible due to the boiling point of n-butanol. As an integrated and selective solid-liquid separation alternative, solvent impregnated resins (SIRs) were applied. Two polymeric resins were evaluated and an extractant screening was conducted. Vacuum application with vapor collection in fixed-bed column as bioreactor bypass was successfully implemented as butanol desorption step. In course of further increasing process economics, fermentation with renewable lignocellulosic substrates was conducted using Clostridium acetobutylicum. Utilization of SIR was shown to be a potential strategy for solvent removal from fermentation broth, while application of a bypass column allows for product removal and recovery at once. KW - Biofuel KW - Biorefinery KW - Butanol KW - Clostridium acetobutylicum KW - Lignocellulose Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cite.202000200 SN - 1522-2640 VL - 92 IS - 11 SP - 1741 EP - 1751 PB - Wiley-VCH CY - Weinheim ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Thomessen, Karolin A1 - Thoma, Andreas A1 - Braun, Carsten T1 - Bio-inspired altitude changing extension to the 3DVFH* local obstacle avoidance algorithm JF - CEAS Aeronautical Journal N2 - Obstacle avoidance is critical for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating autonomously. Obstacle avoidance algorithms either rely on global environment data or local sensor data. Local path planners react to unforeseen objects and plan purely on local sensor information. Similarly, animals need to find feasible paths based on local information about their surroundings. Therefore, their behavior is a valuable source of inspiration for path planning. Bumblebees tend to fly vertically over far-away obstacles and horizontally around close ones, implying two zones for different flight strategies depending on the distance to obstacles. This work enhances the local path planner 3DVFH* with this bio-inspired strategy. The algorithm alters the goal-driven function of the 3DVFH* to climb-preferring if obstacles are far away. Prior experiments with bumblebees led to two definitions of flight zone limits depending on the distance to obstacles, leading to two algorithm variants. Both variants reduce the probability of not reaching the goal of a 3DVFH* implementation in Matlab/Simulink. The best variant, 3DVFH*b-b, reduces this probability from 70.7 to 18.6% in city-like worlds using a strong vertical evasion strategy. Energy consumption is higher, and flight paths are longer compared to the algorithm version with pronounced horizontal evasion tendency. A parameter study analyzes the effect of different weighting factors in the cost function. The best parameter combination shows a failure probability of 6.9% in city-like worlds and reduces energy consumption by 28%. Our findings demonstrate the potential of bio-inspired approaches for improving the performance of local path planning algorithms for UAV. KW - UAV KW - Obstacle avoidance KW - Autonomy KW - Local path planning Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13272-023-00691-w SN - 1869-5590 (Online) SN - 1869-5582 (Print) N1 - Corresponding author: Karolin Thomessen PB - Springer CY - Wien ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Surtees, A. J. A1 - Gillespie, A. A1 - Kern, Alexander A1 - Rousseau, A. T1 - DEVELOPMENT OF A RISK ASSESSMENT CALCULATOR BASED ON A SIMPLIFIED FORM OF THE IEC 62305-2 STANDARD ON LIGHTNING PROTECTION N2 - Neue Blitzschutznorm IEC 62305. Entwicklung einer einfachen Software zur Risikoabwägung N2 - IEC Technical Committee 81 is currently creating the new IEC 62305 series of standards on Lightning Protection. Working Group 9 is responsible for Part 2 of this series, which deals with the assessment and management of risk its CDV (Committee Draft for Voting) stage and has been circulated to National Committees for comment. The paper details the development of the Simplified IEC Risk Assessment Calculator software tool as described in Informative Annex J of IEC62305-2 Ed.1/CDV 2. This tool is intended as a simplified implementation of the more rigorous treatment of risk management found in the written document. It is designed to be relatively intuitive for users who wish to obtain an initial assessment of risk sensitivity, but should not be considered a substitute to a full understanding of the methods provided in the standard when dealing with more complicated structures or those where greater risks to personal or system operation are involved. KW - Risiko KW - Risikoabwägung KW - Blitzrisiko KW - Blitzschutz KW - Risk KW - Risk Management KW - Risk Assessment KW - Lightning Risk KW - Lightning Protection Y1 - 2004 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Stopforth, Riaan A1 - Ferrein, Alexander A1 - Steinbauer, Gerald T1 - Europe and South African collaboration on the Mechatronics and Robotics systems as part of the SA Robotics Center T2 - ICRA 2015 Developing Countries Forum N2 - Mechatronics consist of the integration of mechanical engineering, electronic integration and computer science/ engineering. These broad fields are essential for robotic systems, yet it makes it difficult for the researchers to specialize and be experts in all these fields. Collaboration between researchers allow for the integration of experience and specialization, to allow optimized systems. Collaboration between the European countries and South Africa is critical, as each country has different resources available, which the other countries might not have. Applications with the need for approval of any restrictions, can also be obtained easier in some countries compared to others, thus preventing the delays of research. Some problems that have been experienced are discussed, with the Robotics Center of South Africa as a possible solution. Y1 - 2015 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Steuer-Dankert, Linda A1 - Bernhard, Sebastian A1 - Langolf, Jessica A1 - Leicht-Scholten, Carmen T1 - Managing change and acceptance of digitalization strategies - Implementing the vision of „Internet of Production“ (IoP) in existing corporate structures T2 - Textile Impulse für die Zukunft: Aachen-Dresden-Denkendorf International Textile Conference 2022 : 1. – 2. Dezember 2022, Eurogress Aachen N2 - The vision of the Internet of Production is to enable a new level of crossdomain collaboration by providing semantically adequate and context-aware data from production, development & usage in real-time. Y1 - 2022 SP - 153 EP - 153 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Steuer-Dankert, Linda A1 - Bernhard, Sebastian A1 - Langolf, Jessica A1 - Leicht-Scholten, Carmen T1 - About the paradox of sustainable production and what we can do about it! T2 - Joint SCORAI-ERSCP-WUR conference on transforming consumption-production systems toward just and sustainable futures (SCP23), July 5-8, 2023, Wageningen, The Netherlands N2 - Sustainability is playing an increasingly important role. Not least due to the definition of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in the framework of the agenda 2030 by the United Nations (UN) in 2015 (United Nations, n.d.), it has become clear that the cooperation of different actors is needed to achieve the defined 17 goals. Industry, as a global actor, has a special role to play in this. In the course of sustainable production processes and chains, the industry is confronted with the responsibility of reflecting on the consequences of its own trade on an ecological, economic, and also social level and deriving measures that, according to the definition of sustainability (Hauff, 1987), will also enable future generations to satisfy their needs. While the ecological pillar of sustainability is already being addressed by different industrial initiatives (Deloitte, 2021), it is questionable to what extent the economic and, above all, the social pillars of sustainability also play a decisive role. Accordingly, it is questionable to what extent sustainability in its triad of social, ecological, and economic aspects is taken into account holistically at all, and thus to what extent the industry contributes to achieving the 17 goals defined by the UN. This paper presents a qualitative study that explores these questions. Interviewing 31 representatives from the manufacturing industry in Germany, results indicate a Paradox of Sustainable Production expressed by a theoretical reflection of the need for focusing on people in production processes on the one hand and a lack of addressing the social pillar of sustainability in concepts on the other hand. However, while it is a troublesome finding given the striking need for sustainable development (The-Sustainable-Development-Goals-Report-2022; Kropp 2019; von Hauff 2021; Roy and Singh 2017), the paradox directly lays out a path of resolving it. This is because, given its nature, we can see that we could resolve it via the implementation of strong educational efforts trying to help the respective people of the manufacturing industry to understand the holistic and interdependent character of sustainable development (The-Sustainable-Development-Goals-Report-2022). Y1 - 2023 N1 - Volltext auf dem Opus-Server verfügbar ER -