TY  - CHAP
A1  - Hingley, Peter
A1  - Dikta, Gerhard
T1  - Finding a well performing box-jenkins forecasting model for annualised patent filings counts
T2  - International Symposium on Forecasting, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 2019
Y1  - 2019
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Attar, Mandana Hossein Zadeh
A1  - Merk, Hans F.
A1  - Kotliar, Konstantin
A1  - Wurpts, Gerda
A1  - Röseler, Stefani
A1  - Moll-Slodowy, Silke
A1  - Plange, Johann
A1  - Baron, Jens Malte
A1  - Balakirski, Galina
T1  - The CD63 basophil activation test as a diagnostic tool for assessing autoimmunity in patients with chronic spontaneous urticaria
JF  - European Journal of Dermatology
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1684/ejd.2019.3680
VL  - 29
IS  - 6
SP  - 614
EP  - 618
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Mennicken, Max
A1  - Peter, Sophia K.
A1  - Kaulen, Corinna
A1  - Simon, Ulrich
A1  - Karthäuser, Silvia
T1  - Transport through Redox-Active Ru-Terpyridine Complexes Integrated in Single Nanoparticle Devices
JF  - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
N2  - Transition metal complexes are electrofunctional molecules due to their high conductivity and their intrinsic switching ability involving a metal-to-ligand charge transfer. Here, a method is presented to contact reliably a few to single redox-active Ru-terpyridine complexes in a CMOS compatible nanodevice and preserve their electrical functionality. Using hybrid materials from 14 nm gold nanoparticles (AuNP) and bis-{4′-[4-(mercaptophenyl)-2,2′:6′,2″-terpyridine]}-ruthenium(II) complexes a device size of 30² nm² inclusive nanoelectrodes is achieved. Moreover, this method bears the opportunity for further downscaling. The Ru-complex AuNP devices show symmetric and asymmetric current versus voltage curves with a hysteretic characteristic in two well separated conductance ranges. By theoretical approximations based on the single-channel Landauer model, the charge transport through the formed double-barrier tunnel junction is thoroughly analyzed and its sensibility to the molecule/metal contact is revealed. It can be verified that tunneling transport through the HOMO is the main transport mechanism while decoherent hopping transport is present to a minor extent.
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b11716
SN  - 1932-7455
VL  - 124
IS  - 8
SP  - 4881
EP  - 4889
PB  - ACS Publications
CY  - Washington, DC
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pilas, Johanna
A1  - Selmer, Thorsten
A1  - Keusgen, Michael
A1  - Schöning, Michael Josef
T1  - Screen-printed carbon electrodes modified with graphene oxide for the design of a reagent-free NAD+-dependent biosensor array
JF  - Analytical Chemistry
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.9b04481
VL  - 91
IS  - 23
SP  - 15293
EP  - 15299
PB  - ACS Publications
CY  - Washington
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Grundlach, Michael
A1  - Baumann, Martin
A1  - Engelmann, Ulrich M.
ED  - Dössel, Olaf
T1  - How Multimodal Examinations Can Increase Sustainable Student Gain by Aligning Teaching and Assessment
JF  - Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering
N2  - Modern industry and multi-discipline projects require highly trained individuals with resilient science and engineering back-grounds. Graduates must be able to agilely apply excellent theoretical knowledge in their subject matter as well as essential practical “hands-on” knowledge of diverse working processes to solve complex problems. To meet these demands, university education follows the concept of Constructive Alignment and thus increasingly adopts the teaching of necessary practical skills to the actual industry requirements and assessment routines. However, a systematic approach to coherently align these three central teaching demands is strangely absent from current university curricula. We demonstrate the feasibility of implementing practical assessments in a regular theory-based examination, thus defining the term “blended assessment”. We assessed a course for natural science and engineering students pursuing a career in biomedical engineering, and evaluated the benefit of blended assessment exams for students and lecturers. Our controlled study assessed the physiological background of electrocardiograms (ECGs), the practical measurement of ECG curves, and their interpretation of basic pathologic alterations. To study on long time effects, students have been assessed on the topic twice with a time lag of 6 months. Our findings suggest a significant improvement in student gain with respect to practical skills and theoretical knowledge. The results of the reassessments support these outcomes. From the lecturers ́ point of view, blended assessment complements practical training courses while keeping organizational effort manageable. We consider blended assessment a viable tool for providing an improved student gain, industry-ready education format that should be evaluated and established further to prepare university graduates optimally for their future careers.
KW  - constructive alignment
KW  - examination
KW  - long-term retention
KW  - multimodal
KW  - practical learning
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 2364-5504
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/cdbme-2021-2019
VL  - 7
IS  - 7/2
SP  - 73
EP  - 76
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pöttgen, Philipp
A1  - Ederer, Thorsten
A1  - Altherr, Lena
A1  - Pelz, Peter F.
T1  - Developing a control strategy for booster stations under uncertain load
JF  - Applied Mechanics and Materials
N2  - Booster stations can fulfill a varying pressure demand with high energy-efficiency, because individual pumps can be deactivated at smaller loads. Although this is a seemingly simple approach, it is not easy to decide precisely when to activate or deactivate pumps. Contemporary activation controls derive the switching points from the current volume flow through the system. However, it is not measured directly for various reasons. Instead, the controller estimates the flow based on other system properties. This causes further uncertainty for the switching decision. In this paper, we present a method to find a robust, yet energy-efficient activation strategy.
KW  - Technical Operations Research (TOR)
KW  - Booster Station
KW  - Pump System
KW  - Discrete Optimization
Y1  - 2015
SN  - 1662-7482
U6  - https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.807.241
N1  - Ebenfalls weltweit einsehbar unter:
http://wl.fst.tu-darmstadt.de/wl/publications/paper_151123_SFB805_
ICUME_Developing_a_Control_Strategy_for_Booster_Stations_under_Uncertain_Load_poettgen_ederer_pelz_altherr.pdf
VL  - 807
IS  - 807
SP  - 241
EP  - 246
PB  - Trans Tech Publications
CY  - Bäch
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Büsgen, André
A1  - Klöser, Lars
A1  - Kohl, Philipp
A1  - Schmidts, Oliver
A1  - Kraft, Bodo
A1  - Zündorf, Albert
T1  - Exploratory analysis of chat-based black market profiles with natural language processing
T2  - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications
N2  - Messenger apps like WhatsApp or Telegram are an integral part of daily communication. Besides the various positive effects, those services extend the operating range of criminals. Open trading groups with many thousand participants emerged on Telegram. Law enforcement agencies monitor suspicious users in such chat rooms. This research shows that text analysis, based on natural language processing, facilitates this through a meaningful domain overview and detailed investigations. We crawled a corpus from such self-proclaimed black markets and annotated five attribute types products, money, payment methods, user names, and locations. Based on each message a user sends, we extract and group these attributes to build profiles. Then, we build features to cluster the profiles. Pretrained word vectors yield better unsupervised clustering results than current
state-of-the-art transformer models. The result is a semantically meaningful high-level overview of the user landscape of black market chatrooms. Additionally, the extracted structured information serves as a foundation for further data exploration, for example, the most active users or preferred payment methods.
KW  - Clustering
KW  - Natural Language Processing
KW  - Information Extraction
KW  - Profile Extraction
KW  - Text Mining
Y1  - 2022
SN  - 978-989-758-583-8
U6  - https://doi.org/10.5220/0011271400003269
SN  - 2184-285X
N1  - 11th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications DATA - Volume 1, 83-94, 2022, Lisbon, Portugal
SP  - 83
EP  - 94
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Mandekar, Swati
A1  - Holland, Abigail
A1  - Thielen, Moritz
A1  - Behbahani, Mehdi
A1  - Melnykowycz, Mark
T1  - Advancing towards Ubiquitous EEG, Correlation of In-Ear EEG with Forehead EEG
JF  - Sensors
N2  - Wearable EEG has gained popularity in recent years driven by promising uses outside of clinics and research. The ubiquitous application of continuous EEG requires unobtrusive form-factors that are easily acceptable by the end-users. In this progression, wearable EEG systems have been moving from full scalp to forehead and recently to the ear. The aim of this study is to demonstrate that emerging ear-EEG provides similar impedance and signal properties as established forehead EEG. EEG data using eyes-open and closed alpha paradigm were acquired from ten healthy subjects using generic earpieces fitted with three custom-made electrodes and a forehead electrode (at Fpx) after impedance analysis. Inter-subject variability in in-ear electrode impedance ranged from 20 kΩ to 25 kΩ at 10 Hz. Signal quality was comparable with an SNR of 6 for in-ear and 8 for forehead electrodes. Alpha attenuation was significant during the eyes-open condition in all in-ear electrodes, and it followed the structure of power spectral density plots of forehead electrodes, with the Pearson correlation coefficient of 0.92 between in-ear locations ELE (Left Ear Superior) and ERE (Right Ear Superior) and forehead locations, Fp1 and Fp2, respectively. The results indicate that in-ear EEG is an unobtrusive alternative in terms of impedance, signal properties and information content to established forehead EEG.
KW  - in-ear EEG
KW  - correlation
KW  - forehead EEG
KW  - impedance spectroscopy
KW  - biopotential electrodes
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3390/s22041568
SN  - 1424-8220
VL  - 22
IS  - 4
SP  - 1
EP  - 19
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Philipp, Mohr
A1  - Efthimiou, Nikos
A1  - Pagano, Fiammetta
A1  - Kratochwil, Nicolaus
A1  - Pizzichemi, Marco
A1  - Tsoumpas, Charalampos
A1  - Auffray, Etiennette
A1  - Ziemons, Karl
T1  - Image reconstruction analysis for positron emission tomography with heterostructured scintillators
JF  - IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences
N2  - The concept of structure engineering has been proposed for exploring the next generation of radiation detectors with improved performance. A TOF-PET geometry with heterostructured scintillators with a pixel size of 3.0×3.1×15 mm3 was simulated using Monte Carlo. The heterostructures consisted of alternating layers of BGO as a dense material with high stopping power and plastic (EJ232) as a fast light emitter. The detector time resolution was calculated as a function of the deposited and shared energy in both materials on an event-by-event basis. While sensitivity was reduced to 32% for 100 μm thick plastic layers and 52% for 50 μm, the CTR distribution improved to 204±49 ps and 220±41 ps respectively, compared to 276 ps that we considered for bulk BGO. The complex distribution of timing resolutions was accounted for in the reconstruction. We divided the events into three groups based on their CTR and modeled them with different Gaussian TOF kernels. On a NEMA IQ phantom, the heterostructures had better contrast recovery in early iterations. On the other hand, BGO achieved a better contrast to noise ratio (CNR) after the 15th iteration due to the higher sensitivity. The developed simulation and reconstruction methods constitute new tools for evaluating different detector designs with complex time responses.
KW  - TOF PET
KW  - Heterostructure
KW  - Metascintillator
KW  - Multiple TOF kernels
KW  - Image Reconstruction
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1109/TRPMS.2022.3208615
SN  - 2469-7311
SN  - 2469-7303
VL  - 7
IS  - 1
SP  - 41
EP  - 51
PB  - IEEE
CY  - New York, NY
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Baringhaus, Ludwig
A1  - Gaigall, Daniel
T1  - A goodness-of-fit test for the compound Poisson exponential model
JF  - Journal of Multivariate Analysis
N2  - On the basis of bivariate data, assumed to be observations of independent copies of a random vector (S,N), we consider testing the hypothesis that the distribution of (S,N) belongs to the parametric class of distributions that arise with the compound Poisson exponential model. Typically, this model is used in stochastic hydrology, with N as the number of raindays, and S as total rainfall amount during a certain time period, or in actuarial science, with N as the number of losses, and S as total loss expenditure during a certain time period. The compound Poisson exponential model is characterized in the way that a specific transform associated with the distribution of (S,N) satisfies a certain differential equation. Mimicking the function part of this equation by substituting the empirical counterparts of the transform we obtain an expression the weighted integral of the square of which is used as test statistic. We deal with two variants of the latter, one of which being invariant under scale transformations of the S-part by fixed positive constants. Critical values are obtained by using a parametric bootstrap procedure. The asymptotic behavior of the tests is discussed. A simulation study demonstrates the performance of the tests in the finite sample case. The procedure is applied to rainfall data and to an actuarial dataset. A multivariate extension is also discussed.
KW  - Bootstrapping
KW  - Collective risk model
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2022.105154
SN  - 0047-259X
SN  - 1095-7243
VL  - 195
IS  - Article 105154
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -