TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jung, Alexander
A1  - Müller, Wolfram
A1  - Staat, Manfred
T1  - Optimization of the flight technique in ski jumping: the influence of wind
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiomech.2019.03.023
IS  - Early view
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gorzalka, Philip
A1  - Schmiedt, Jacob Estevam
A1  - Schorn, Christian
T1  - Automated Generation of an Energy Simulation Model for an Existing Building from UAV Imagery
JF  - Buildings
N2  - An approach to automatically generate a dynamic energy simulation model in Modelica for a single existing building is presented. It aims at collecting data about the status quo in the preparation of energy retrofits with low effort and costs. The proposed method starts from a polygon model of the outer building envelope obtained from photogrammetrically generated point clouds. The open-source tools TEASER and AixLib are used for data enrichment and model generation. A case study was conducted on a single-family house. The resulting model can accurately reproduce the internal air temperatures during synthetical heating up and cooling down. Modelled and measured whole building heat transfer coefficients (HTC) agree within a 12% range. A sensitivity analysis emphasises the importance of accurate window characterisations and justifies the use of a very simplified interior geometry. Uncertainties arising from the use of archetype U-values are estimated by comparing different typologies, with best- and worst-case estimates showing differences in pre-retrofit heat demand of about ±20% to the average; however, as the assumptions made are permitted by some national standards, the method is already close to practical applicability and opens up a path to quickly estimate possible financial and energy savings after refurbishment.
KW  - Modelica
KW  - heat transfer coefficient
KW  - heat demand
KW  - building energy modelling
KW  - building energy simulation
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings11090380
SN  - 2075-5309
N1  - This article belongs to the Special Issue "Application of Computer Technology in Buildings"
VL  - 11
IS  - 9
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Funke, Harald
A1  - Esch, Thomas
A1  - Roosen, Petra
T1  - Powertrain Adaptions for LPG Usage in General Aviation
JF  - MTZ worldwide
N2  - In general aviation, too, it is desirable to be able to operate existing internal combustion engines with fuels that produce less CO₂ than Avgas 100LL being widely used today It can be assumed that, in comparison, the fuels CNG, LPG or LNG, which are gaseous under normal conditions, produce significantly lower emissions. Necessary propulsion system adaptations were investigated as part of a research project at Aachen University of Applied Sciences.
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s38313-021-0756-6
VL  - 2022
IS  - 83
SP  - 58
EP  - 62
PB  - Springer Nature
CY  - Basel
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rigling, Andreas
A1  - Bigler, Christof
A1  - Eilmann, Britta
A1  - Feldmeyer-Christe, Elisabeth
A1  - Gimmi, Urs
A1  - Ginzler, Christian
A1  - Graf, Ulrich
A1  - Mayer, Phillip
A1  - Vacchiano, Giorgio
A1  - Weber, Pascal
A1  - Wohlgemuth, Thomas
A1  - zweifel, Roman
A1  - Dobbertin, Matthias
T1  - Driving factors of a vegetation shift from Scots pine to pubescent oak in dry Alpine forests
JF  - Global Change Biology
N2  - An increasing number of studies have reported on forest declines and vegetation shifts triggered by drought. In the Swiss Rhone valley (Valais), one of the driest inner-Alpine regions, the species composition in low elevation forests is changing: The sub-boreal Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) dominating the dry forests is showing high mortality rates. Concurrently the sub-Mediterranean pubescent oak (Quercus pubescens Willd.) has locally increased in abundance. However, it remains unclear whether this local change in species composition is part of a larger-scale vegetation shift. To study variability in mortality and regeneration in these dry forests we analysed data from the Swiss national forest inventory (NFI) on a regular grid between 1983 and 2003, and combined it with annual mortality data from a monitoring site. Pine mortality was found to be highest at low elevation (below 1000 m a.s.l.). Annual variation in pine mortality was correlated with a drought index computed for the summer months prior to observed tree death. A generalized linear mixed-effects model indicated for the NFI data increased pine mortality on dryer sites with high stand competition, particularly for small-diameter trees. Pine regeneration was low in comparison to its occurrence in the overstorey, whereas oak regeneration was comparably abundant. Although both species regenerated well at dry sites, pine regeneration was favoured at cooler sites at higher altitude and oak regeneration was more frequent at warmer sites, indicating a higher adaptation potential of oaks under future warming. Our results thus suggest that an extended shift in species composition is actually occurring in the pine forests in the Valais. The main driving factors are found to be climatic variability, particularly drought, and variability in stand structure and topography. Thus, pine forests at low elevations are developing into oak forests with unknown consequences for these ecosystems and their goods and services.
Y1  - 2012
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12038
SN  - 1354-1013 (Print)
SN  - 1365-2486 (Online)
VL  - 19
IS  - 1
SP  - 229
EP  - 240
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Jildeh, Zaid B.
A1  - Oberländer, Jan
A1  - Kirchner, Patrick
A1  - Keusgen, Michael
A1  - Wagner, Patrick H.
A1  - Schöning, Michael Josef
T1  - Experimental and Numerical Analyzes of a Sensor Based on Interdigitated Electrodes for Studying Microbiological Alterations
JF  - physica status solidi (a): applications and materials science
N2  - In this work, a cell-based biosensor to evaluate the sterilization efficacy of hydrogen peroxide vapor sterilization processes is characterized. The transducer of the biosensor is based on interdigitated gold electrodes fabricated on an inert glass substrate. Impedance spectroscopy is applied to evaluate the sensor behavior and the alteration of test microorganisms due to the sterilization process. These alterations are related to changes in relative permittivity and electrical conductivity of the bacterial spores. Sensor measurements are conducted with and without bacterial spores (Bacillus atrophaeus), as well as after an industrial sterilization protocol. Equivalent two-dimensional numerical models based on finite element method of the periodic finger structures of the interdigitated gold electrodes are designed and validated using COMSOL® Multiphysics software by the application of known dielectric properties. The validated models are used to compute the electrical properties at different sensor states (blank, loaded with spores, and after sterilization). As a final result, we will derive and tabulate the frequency-dependent electrical parameters of the spore layer using a novel model that combines experimental data with numerical optimization techniques.
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/pssa.201700920
SN  - 1862-6319
VL  - 215
IS  - 15
PB  - Wiley-VCH
CY  - Weinheim
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Böhnert, Arno
A1  - Blaschke, Florian
A1  - Biewendt, Marcel
T1  - Impact of sustainability on the strategic direction of luxury companies
JF  - European Journal of Marketing and Economics
N2  - Today’s society is undergoing a paradigm shift driven by the megatrend of sustainability. This undeniably affects all areas of Western life. This paper aims to find out how the luxury industry is dealing with this change and what adjustments are made by the companies. For this purpose, interviews were conducted with managers from the luxury industry, in which they were asked about specific measures taken by their companies as well as trends in the industry. In a subsequent evaluation, the trends in the luxury industry were summarized for the areas of ecological, social, and economic sustainability. It was found that the area of environmental sustainability is significantly more focused than the other sub-areas. Furthermore, the need for a customer survey to validate the industry-based measures was identified.
KW  - Operations
KW  - Brands
KW  - Luxury
KW  - Change
Y1  - 2022
SN  - 2601-8659
VL  - 6
IS  - 1
SP  - 70
EP  - 85
PB  - Revistia
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ditzhaus, Marc
A1  - Gaigall, Daniel
T1  - Testing marginal homogeneity in Hilbert spaces with applications to stock market returns
JF  - Test
N2  - This paper considers a paired data framework and discusses the question of marginal homogeneity of bivariate high-dimensional or functional data. The related testing problem can be endowed into a more general setting for paired random variables taking values in a general Hilbert space. To address this problem, a Cramér–von-Mises type test statistic is applied and a bootstrap procedure is suggested to obtain critical values and finally a consistent test. The desired properties of a bootstrap test can be derived that are asymptotic exactness under the null hypothesis and consistency under alternatives. Simulations show the quality of the test in the finite sample case. A possible application is the comparison of two possibly dependent stock market returns based on functional data. The approach is demonstrated based on historical data for different stock market indices.
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11749-022-00802-5
SN  - 1863-8260
VL  - 2022
IS  - 31
SP  - 749
EP  - 770
PB  - Springer
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Eilmann, Britta
A1  - de Vries, Sven M. G.
A1  - den Ouden, Jan
A1  - Mohren, Godefridus M. J.
A1  - Sauren, Pascal
A1  - Sass-Klaassen, Ute G. W.
T1  - Origin matters! Difference in drought tolerance and productivity of coastal Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.)) provenances
JF  - Forest Ecology and Management
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2013.03.031
SN  - 1872-7042 (Online)
SN  - 0378-1127 (Print)
VL  - 2013
IS  - 302
SP  - 133
EP  - 143
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Zhantlessova, Sirina
A1  - Savitskaya, Irina
A1  - Kistaubayeva, Aida
A1  - Ignatova, Ludmila
A1  - Talipova, Aizhan
A1  - Pogrebnjak, Alexander
A1  - Digel, Ilya
T1  - Advanced “Green” prebiotic composite of bacterial cellulose/pullulan based on synthetic biology-powered microbial coculture strategy
JF  - Polymers
N2  - Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a biopolymer produced by different microorganisms, but in biotechnological practice, Komagataeibacter xylinus is used. The micro- and nanofibrillar structure of BC, which forms many different-sized pores, creates prerequisites for the introduction of other polymers into it, including those synthesized by other microorganisms. The study aims to develop a cocultivation system of BC and prebiotic producers to obtain BC-based composite material with prebiotic activity. In this study, pullulan (PUL) was found to stimulate the growth of the probiotic strain Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG better than the other microbial polysaccharides gellan and xanthan. BC/PUL biocomposite with prebiotic properties was obtained by cocultivation of Komagataeibacter xylinus and Aureobasidium pullulans, BC and PUL producers respectively, on molasses medium. The inclusion of PUL in BC is proved gravimetrically by scanning electron microscopy and by Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy. Cocultivation demonstrated a composite effect on the aggregation and binding of BC fibers, which led to a significant improvement in mechanical properties. The developed approach for “grafting” of prebiotic activity on BC allows preparation of environmentally friendly composites of better quality.
KW  - coculture
KW  - pullulan
KW  - exopolysaccharides
KW  - prebiotic
KW  - bacterial cellulose
Y1  - 2022
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3390/polym14153224
SN  - 2073-4360
N1  - This article belongs to the Special Issue "Cellulose Based Composites"
VL  - 14
IS  - 15
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Biewendt, Marcel
A1  - Blaschke, Florian
A1  - Böhnert, Arno
T1  - A review of contemporary challenges in business culture
JF  - International Journal of Applied Research in Business and Management
N2  - The following article deals with the basic principles of intercultural management and possible improvements in terms of cultural, ethnic and gender diversification. The results are exemplarily applied to a bank located in Germany. The aim of this paper is to find out to what extent intercultural management could improve the productivity of Relatos-Bank in dealing with foreign employees or employees with a different cultural background. To achieve this goal, the authors con-duct a literature research. The main sources of information are books, journal articles and internet sources. It becomes clear that especially the different perceptions of different generations have a potential for conflict, which can be counteracted by applying presented scientific models. Equalizing the salaries of female and male employees and equalizing the rights and distribution of power could also be the key to becoming an open-minded, dynamic and fair organization that is pre-pared for the rapidly changing environment in which it operates.
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.51137/ijarbm.2021.2.1.1
SN  - 2700-8983
VL  - 2
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
PB  - Wohllebe & Ross Publishing
CY  - Hamburg
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Dallas, Shannon
A1  - Salphati, Laurent
A1  - Gomez-Zepeda, David
A1  - Wanek, Thomas
A1  - Chen, Liangfu
A1  - Chu, Xiaoyan
A1  - Kunta, Jeevan
A1  - Mezler, Mario
A1  - Menet, Marie-Claude
A1  - Chasseigneaux, Stephanie
A1  - Declèves, Xavier
A1  - Langer, Oliver
A1  - Pierre, Esaie
A1  - DiLoreto, Karen
A1  - Hoft, Carolin
A1  - Laplanche, Loic
A1  - Pang, Jodie
A1  - Pereira, Tony
A1  - Andonian, Clara
A1  - Simic, Damir
A1  - Rode, Anja
A1  - Yabut, Jocelyn
A1  - Zhang, Xiaolin
A1  - Scheer, Nico
T1  - Generation and Characterization of a Breast Cancer Resistance Protein Humanized Mouse Model
JF  - Molecular Pharmacology
N2  - Breast cancer resistance protein (BCRP) is expressed in various tissues, such as the gut, liver, kidney and blood brain barrier (BBB), where it mediates the unidirectional transport of substrates to the apical/luminal side of polarized cells. Thereby BCRP acts as an efflux pump, mediating the elimination or restricting the entry of endogenous compounds or xenobiotics into tissues and it plays important roles in drug disposition, efficacy and safety. Bcrp knockout mice (Bcrp−/−) have been used widely to study the role of this transporter in limiting intestinal absorption and brain penetration of substrate compounds. Here we describe the first generation and characterization of a mouse line humanized for BCRP (hBCRP), in which the mouse coding sequence from the start to stop codon was replaced with the corresponding human genomic region, such that the human transporter is expressed under control of the murine Bcrp promoter. We demonstrate robust human and loss of mouse BCRP/Bcrp mRNA and protein expression in the hBCRP mice and the absence of major compensatory changes in the expression of other genes involved in drug metabolism and disposition. Pharmacokinetic and brain distribution studies with several BCRP probe substrates confirmed the functional activity of the human transporter in these mice. Furthermore, we provide practical examples for the use of hBCRP mice to study drug-drug interactions (DDIs). The hBCRP mouse is a promising model to study the in vivo role of human BCRP in limiting absorption and BBB penetration of substrate compounds and to investigate clinically relevant DDIs involving BCRP.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1124/mol.115.102079
SN  - 1521-0111
VL  - 89
IS  - 5
SP  - 492
EP  - 504
PB  - ASPET
CY  - Bethesda, Md.
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kleefeld, Andreas
A1  - Pieronek, J.
T1  - Elastic transmission eigenvalues and their computation via the method of fundamental solutions
JF  - Applicable Analysis
N2  - A stabilized version of the fundamental solution method to catch ill-conditioning effects is investigated with focus on the computation of complex-valued elastic interior transmission eigenvalues in two dimensions for homogeneous and isotropic media. Its algorithm can be implemented very shortly and adopts to many similar partial differential equation-based eigenproblems as long as the underlying fundamental solution function can be easily generated. We develop a corroborative approximation analysis which also implicates new basic results for transmission eigenfunctions and present some numerical examples which together prove successful feasibility of our eigenvalue recovery approach.
KW  - elastic scattering
KW  - method of fundamental solutions
KW  - Interior transmission eigenvalues
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/00036811.2020.1721473
SN  - 1563-504X
VL  - 100
IS  - 16
SP  - 3445
EP  - 3462
PB  - Taylore & Francis
CY  - London
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Anik, Sabri
A1  - Frohberg, Martin G.
A1  - Kapoor, Madan Lal
T1  - Experiments and theoretical considerations on the solution of oxygen in binary metal alloys
JF  - Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft für physikalische Chemie
Y1  - 1983
SN  - 0005-9021
SN  - 0940-483X
VL  - 87
IS  - 12
SP  - 1201
EP  - 1204
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Heuermann, Holger
A1  - Harzheim, Thomas
A1  - Cronenbroeck, Tobias
T1  - First SIMO harmonic radar based on the SFCW concept and the HR transfer function
JF  - Remote sensing
N2  - This paper presents a new SIMO radar system based on a harmonic radar (HR) stepped frequency continuous wave (SFCW) architecture. Simple tags that can be electronically individually activated and deactivated via a DC control voltage were developed and combined to form an MO array field. This HR operates in the entire 2.45 GHz ISM band for transmitting the illumination signal and receives at twice the stimulus frequency and bandwidth centered around 4.9 GHz. This paper presents the development, the basic theory of a HR system for the characterization of objects placed into the propagation path in-between the radar and the reflectors (similar to a free-space measurement with a network analyzer) as well as first measurements performed by the system. Further detailed measurement series will be made available later on to other researchers to develop AI and machine learning based signal processing routines or synthetic aperture radar algorithms for imaging, object recognition, and feature extraction. For this purpose, the necessary information is published in this paper. It is explained in detail why this SIMO-HR can be an attractive solution augmenting or replacing existing systems for radar measurements in production technology for material under test measurements and as a simplified MIMO system. The novel HR transfer function, which is a basis for researchers and developers for material characterization or imaging algorithms, is introduced and metrologically verified in a well traceable coaxial setup.
KW  - MUT measurement; scanner
KW  - transponder
KW  - SFCW
KW  - harmonic radar
KW  - nonlinear radar
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13245088
SN  - 2072-4292
N1  - This article belongs to the Special Issue "Nonlinear Junction Detection and Harmonic Radar"
VL  - 13
IS  - 24
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Horbach, Andreas
A1  - Duong, Minh Tuan
A1  - Staat, Manfred
T1  - Modelling of compressible and orthotropic surgical mesh implants based on optical deformation measurement
JF  - Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2017.06.012
SN  - 1751-6161
VL  - 74
SP  - 400
EP  - 410
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wegner, Lena
A1  - von Arx, Georg
A1  - Sass-Klaassen, Ute G. W.
A1  - Eilmann, Britta
T1  - ROXAS – an efficient and accurate tool to detect vessels in diffuse-porous species
JF  - IAWA Journal / International Association of Wood Anatomists
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1163/22941932-00000034
SN  - 0928-1541 (Print)
SN  - 2294-1932 (Online)
VL  - 34
IS  - 4
SP  - 425
EP  - 432
PB  - Brill
CY  - Leiden
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Richter, Charlotte
A1  - Braunstein, Bjoern
A1  - Stäudle, Benjamin
A1  - Attias, Julia
A1  - Suess, Alexander
A1  - Weber, Tobias
A1  - Mileva, Katja N.
A1  - Rittweger, Joern
A1  - Green, David A.
A1  - Albracht, Kirsten
T1  - Gastrocnemius medialis contractile behavior is preserved during 30% body weight supported gait training
JF  - Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
N2  - Rehabilitative body weight supported gait training aims at restoring walking function as a key element in activities of daily living. Studies demonstrated reductions in muscle and joint forces, while kinematic gait patterns appear to be preserved with up to 30% weight support. However, the influence of body weight support on muscle architecture, with respect to fascicle and series elastic element behavior is unknown, despite this having potential clinical implications for gait retraining. Eight males (31.9 ± 4.7 years) walked at 75% of the speed at which they typically transition to running, with 0% and 30% body weight support on a lower-body positive pressure treadmill. Gastrocnemius medialis fascicle lengths and pennation angles were measured via ultrasonography. Additionally, joint kinematics were analyzed to determine gastrocnemius medialis muscle–tendon unit lengths, consisting of the muscle's contractile and series elastic elements. Series elastic element length was assessed using a muscle–tendon unit model. Depending on whether data were normally distributed, a paired t-test or Wilcoxon signed rank test was performed to determine if body weight supported walking had any effects on joint kinematics and fascicle–series elastic element behavior. Walking with 30% body weight support had no statistically significant effect on joint kinematics and peak series elastic element length. Furthermore, at the time when peak series elastic element length was achieved, and on average across the entire stance phase, muscle–tendon unit length, fascicle length, pennation angle, and fascicle velocity were unchanged with respect to body weight support. In accordance with unchanged gait kinematics, preservation of fascicle–series elastic element behavior was observed during walking with 30% body weight support, which suggests transferability of gait patterns to subsequent unsupported walking.
KW  - AlterG
KW  - rehabilitation
KW  - gait
KW  - walking
KW  - ultrasound imaging
KW  - series elastic element behavior
KW  - muscle fascicle behavior
KW  - unloading
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2020.614559
SN  - 2624-9367
VL  - 2021
IS  - 2
PB  - Frontiers
CY  - Lausanne
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bernecker, Andreas
A1  - Klier, Julia
A1  - Stern, Sebastian
A1  - Thiel, Lea
T1  - Sustaining high performance beyond public-sector pilot projects.
Y1  - 2018
IS  - September 2018
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Eilmann, Britta
A1  - Sterck, Frank J.
A1  - Wegner, L.
A1  - de Vries, Sven M. G.
A1  - von Arx, G.
A1  - Mohren, Godefridus M. J.
A1  - den Ouden, Jan
A1  - Sass-Klaassen, Ute G. W.
T1  - Wood structural differences between northern and southern beech provenances growing at a moderate site
JF  - Tree Physiology
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1093/treephys/tpu069
SN  - 1758-4469  (Online)
SN  - 0829-318X (Print)
VL  - 34
IS  - 8
SP  - 882
EP  - 893
PB  - Oxford University Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Duong, Minh Tuan
A1  - Nguyen, Nhu Huynh
A1  - Staat, Manfred
T1  - Physical response of hyperelastic models for composite materials and soft tissues
JF  - Asia pacific journal on computational engineering
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40540-015-0015-x
SN  - 2196-1166
VL  - 2
IS  - 3 (December 2015)
SP  - 1
EP  - 18
ER  -