TY - JOUR A1 - Heierli, Joachim A1 - Purves, Ross S. A1 - Felber, Andreas A1 - Kowalski, Julia T1 - Verification of nearest-neighbours interpretations in avalanche forecasting JF - Annals of Glaciology N2 - This paper examines the positive and negative aspects of a range of interpretations of nearest-neighbours models. Measures-oriented and distributionoriented verification methods are applied to categorial, probabilistic and descriptive interpretations of nearest neighbours used operationally in avalanche forecasting in Scotland and Switzerland. The dependence of skill and accuracy measures on base rate is illustrated. The purpose of the forecast and the definition of events are important variables in determining the quality of the forecast. A discussion of the application of different interpretations in operational avalanche forecasting is presented. KW - avalanche Y1 - 2004 SN - 1727-5644 VL - 38 IS - 1 SP - 84 EP - 88 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ziemons, Karl A1 - Heinrichs, U. A1 - Streun, M. A1 - Pietrzyk, U. T1 - Validation of GEANT3 simulation studies with a dual-head PMT ClearPET™ prototype JF - 2003 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, Vol. 5 N2 - The ClearPET™ project is proposed by working groups of the Crystal Clear Collaboration (CCC) to develop a 2nd generation high performance small animal positron emission tomograph (PET). High sensitivity and high spatial resolution is foreseen for the ClearPET™ camera by using a phoswich arrangement combining mixed lutetium yttrium aluminum perovskite (LuYAP:Ce) and lutetium oxyorthosilicate (LSO) scintillating crystals. Design optimizations for the first photomultiplier tube (PMT) based ClearPET camera are done with a Monte-Carlo simulation package implemented on GEANT3 (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland). A dual-head prototype has been built to test the frontend electronics and was used to validate the implementation of the GEANT3 simulation tool. Multiple simulations were performed following the experimental protocols to measure the intrinsic resolution and the sensitivity profile in axial and radial direction. Including a mean energy resolution of about 27.0% the simulated intrinsic resolution is about (1.41±0.11)mm compared to the measured of (1.48±0.06)mm. The simulated sensitivity profiles show a mean square deviation of 12.6% in axial direction and 3.6% in radial direction. Satisfactorily these results are representative for all designs and confirm the scanner geometry. Y1 - 2004 SN - 1082-3654 SP - 3053 EP - 3056 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kirchhof, M. A1 - Kraft, Bodo T1 - UML-based modeling of architectural knowledge and design N2 - IASSE-2004 - 13th International Conference on Intelligent and Adaptive Systems and Software Engineering eds. W. Dosch, N. Debnath, pp. 245-250, ISCA, Cary, NC, 1-3 July 2004, Nice, France We introduce a UML-based model for conceptual design support in civil engineering. Therefore, we identify required extensions to standard UML. Class diagrams are used for elaborating building typespecific knowledge: Object diagrams, implicitly contained in the architect’s sketch, are validated against the defined knowledge. To enable the use of industrial, domain-specific tools, we provide an integrated conceptual design extension. The developed tool support is based on graph rewriting. With our approach architects are enabled to deal with semantic objects during early design phase, assisted by incremental consistency checks. KW - UML KW - UML KW - Unified Modeling Language KW - UML KW - Unified Modeling Language Y1 - 2004 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hoffschmidt, Bernhard A1 - Fend, Thomas A1 - Pitz-Paal, Robert A1 - Reutter, Oliver T1 - Two novel high-porosity materials as volumetric receivers for concentrated solar radiation / Thomas Fend ; Robert Pitz-Paal ; Oliver Reutter ... Bernhard Hoffschmidt JF - Solar energy materials & solar cells. 84 (2004), H. 1 Y1 - 2004 SN - 0927-0248 SP - 291 EP - 304 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Dersch, Jürgen A1 - Geyer, Michael A1 - Herrmann, Ulf A1 - Jones, Scott A. A1 - Kelly, Bruce A1 - Kistner, Rainer A1 - Ortmanns, Winfried A1 - Pitz-Paal, Robert A1 - Price, Henry T1 - Trough integration into power plants—a study on the performance and economy of integrated solar combined cycle systems JF - Energy : the international journal Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0360-5442(03)00199-3 SN - 0360-5442 N1 - SolarPACES 2002, Zürich, Switzerland, 4–6 September 2002 VL - 29 IS - 5-6 (Special Issue SolarPaces) SP - 947 EP - 959 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Lüpfert, E. A1 - Herrmann, Ulf A1 - Price, Henry A1 - Zarza, E. A1 - Kistener, R. ED - Ramos, C. T1 - Towards Standard Performance Analysis for Parabolic Trough Collector Fields T2 - 12th International Symposium Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems, October 6-8, 2004, Oaxaca Mexico ; SolarPACES International Symposium, 12 Y1 - 2004 SN - 968-6114-18-1 PB - Instituto de Investigaciones Electricas CY - [s.l.] ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mang, Thomas T1 - Thermosensitive Magnetic Nanoparticles for Bioanalytical and Therapeutical Applications JF - Biomedizinische Technik = Biomedical Engineering. 49 (2004), H. 2 Y1 - 2004 SN - 0013-5585 SP - 1006 EP - 1007 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Digel, Ilya A1 - Zhubanova, Azhar A. A1 - Nojima, H. A1 - Artmann, Gerhard T1 - The use of bactericidal effects of cluster ions generated by plasma in medical biotechnology JF - Biotechnologija : teorija i praktika (2004) Y1 - 2004 SN - 1028-9399 SP - 46 EP - 52 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Walk-Lauffer, Bernd A1 - Raupach, Michael A1 - Dilger, Klaus A1 - Böhm, Stefan A1 - Mundt, F. A1 - Dilthey, Ulrich A1 - Schleser, Markus T1 - The interconnection between inner filaments of textile reinforcement by means of polymer modified concrete T2 - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Innovative Materials and Technologies for Construction and Restoration : : Lecce, June 6 - 9, 2004 / Università degli Studi di Lecce / ed. Antonio La Tegola. Vol. 1: Key-notes, materials, construction Y1 - 2004 SP - 150 EP - 159 PB - Liguori CY - Napoli ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Blome, Hans-Joachim A1 - Wilson, Thomas L. T1 - The entangled Universe JF - Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology, Proceedings of the 13th Course of the International School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics, held in Erice, Italy, 2-14 June 2002 / edited by Maurice M. Shapiro ... [et al.] Y1 - 2004 SN - 981-238-727-7 SP - 23 EP - 38 PB - World Scientific Publishing CY - New Jersey, NJ ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ziemons, Karl A1 - Achten, R. A1 - Auffray, E. A1 - Müller-Veggian, Mattea T1 - The ClearPET™ neuro scanner: a dedicated LSO/LuYAP phoswich small animal PET scanner JF - 2004 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium conference record : Nuclear Science Symposium, Medical Imaging Conference ; 16 - 22 October 2004, Rome, Italy ; [including the Symposium on Nuclear Power System (SNPS), 14th Room Temperature Semiconductor X- and Gamma-Ray Detectors Workshop and special focus workshops] / NPSS, Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society. Guest ed.: J. Anthony Seibert Y1 - 2004 SN - 1082-3654 N1 - Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2004 IEEE SP - 2430 EP - 2433 PB - IEEE Operations Center CY - Piscataway, NJ ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Ziemons, Karl A1 - Auffray, E. A1 - Barbier, R. A1 - Brandenburg, G. T1 - The ClearPET TM LSO/LuYAP phoswich scanner: a high performance small animal PET system JF - 2003 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, Vol. 3 N2 - A 2nd generation high performance small animal PET scanner, called ClearPET™, has been designed and a first prototype is built by working groups of the Crystal Clear Collaboration (CCC). In order to achieve high sensitivity and maintain good uniform spatial resolution over the field of view in high resolution PET systems, it is necessary to extract the depth of interaction (DOI) information and correct for spatial degradation. The design of the first ClearPET™ Demonstrator based on the use of the multi-anode photomultiplier tube (Hamamatsu R7600-M64) and a LSO/LuYAP phoswich matrix. The two crystal layers of 8*8 crystals (2*2*10 mm3) are stacked on each other and mounted without light guide as one to one on the PMT. A unit of four PMTs arranged in-line represents one of 20 sectors of the ring design. The opening diameter of the crystal ring is 137 mm, the axial detector length is 110 mm. The PMT pulses are digitized by free-running ADCs and digital data processing determines the gamma energy, the phoswich layer and even the pulse arrival time. Single gamma interactions are recorded and coincidences are found by software. The gantry allows rotation of the detector modules around the field of view. The measurements have been done using the first LSO/LuYAP detector cassettes. Y1 - 2004 SN - 1082-3654 SP - 1728 EP - 1732 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Auffray, E. A1 - Bruyndonckx, P. A1 - Devroede, O. A1 - Fedorov, A. A1 - Ziemons, Karl T1 - The ClearPET project JF - Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment N2 - The Crystal Clear Collaboration has designed and is building a high-resolution small animal PET scanner. The design is based on the use of the Hamamatsu R7600-M64 multi-anode photomultiplier tube and a LSO/LuYAP phoswich matrix with one to one coupling between the crystals and the photo-detector. The complete system will have 80 PM tubes in four rings with an inner diameter of 137 mm and an axial field of view of 110 mm. The PM pulses are digitized by free-running ADCs and digital data processing determines the gamma energy, the phoswich layer and even the pulse arrival time. Single gamma interactions are recorded and coincidences are found by software. The gantry allows rotation of the detector modules around the field of view. Simulations, and measurements a 2×4 module test set-up predict a spatial resolution of 1.5 mm in the centre of the field of view and a sensitivity of 5.9% for a point source in the centre of the field of view. Y1 - 2004 SN - 0168-9002 N1 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Imaging Technologies in Biomedical Sciences VL - 527 IS - 1-2 SP - 171 EP - 174 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Streun, M. A1 - Brandenburg, G. A1 - Brökel, M. A1 - Fuss, L. A1 - Larue, H. A1 - Parl, C. A1 - Zimmermann, E. A1 - Ziemons, Karl A1 - Halling, H. T1 - The ClearPET data acquisition JF - 2003 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, Vol. 5 N2 - Within the Crystal Clear Collaboration a modular system for a small animal PET scanner (ClearPET™) has been developed. The modularity allows the assembly of scanners of different sizes and characteristics in order to fit the specific needs of the individual member institutions. Now a first demonstrator is being completed in Julich. The system performs depth of interaction detection by using a phoswich arrangement combining LSO and LuYAP scintillators which are coupled to multi-channel photomultipliers (PMTs). A free-running ADC digitizes the signal from the PMT and the complete scintillation pulses are sampled by an FPGA and sent with 20 MB/S to a PC for preprocessing. The pulse provides information about the gamma energy and the scintillator material which identifies the interaction layer. Furthermore, the exact pulse starting time is obtained from the sampled data. This is important as no hardware coincidence detection is implemented. All single events are recorded and coincidences are identified by software. An advantage of that is that the coincidence window and the dimensions of the field of view can be adjusted easily. The ClearPET™ demonstrator is equipped with 10240 crystals on 80 PMTs. This paper presents an overview of the data acquisition system. Y1 - 2004 SN - 1082-3654 SP - 3097 EP - 3100 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Chudoba, Rostislav A1 - Butenweg, Christoph A1 - Peiffer, F. T1 - Technical information system for collaborative material research JF - Advances in engineering software Y1 - 2004 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.advengsoft.2004.03.021 SN - 1873-5339 (E-Journal); 0965-9978 (Print) VL - Volume 35 IS - Issue 10-11 SP - 747 EP - 756 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Hellwig, Angelika A1 - Volkmann, Lutz T1 - Sufficient conditions for λ′-optimality in graphs of diameter 2 JF - Discrete mathematics Y1 - 2004 SN - 1872-681X (E-Journal); 0012-365X (Print) VL - Vol. 283 IS - Iss. 1-3 SP - 113 EP - 120 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Selmer, Thorsten A1 - Andrei, Paula I. A1 - Pierik, Antonio J. A1 - Zauner, Stefan T1 - Subunit composition of the glycyl radical enzyme p-hydroxyphenylacetate decarboxylase. A small subunit, HpdC, is essential for catalytic activity / Andrei, PI. ; Pierik, AJ. ; Zauner , S. ; Andrei-Selmer, LC. ; Selmer, T. JF - European Journal of Biochemistry. 271 (2004), H. 11 Y1 - 2004 SN - 0014-2956 SP - 2225 EP - 2230 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Srnanek, R. A1 - Geurts, J. A1 - Lentze, M. A1 - Irmer, G. A1 - Donoval, D. A1 - Brdecka, P. A1 - Kordos, P. A1 - Förster, Arnold A1 - Sciana, B. A1 - Radziewicz, D. A1 - Tlaczala, M. T1 - Study of d-doped GaAs layers by micro-Raman spectroscopy on bevelled samples JF - Applied surface science . 230 (2004), H. 1 -4 Y1 - 2004 SN - 0169-4332 N1 - ISSN der E-Ausg.: 0169-4332 SP - 379 EP - 385 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Keusgen, M. A1 - Schöning, Michael Josef T1 - Strategies for biosensoric detection of potential drugs in nature JF - Biomedizinische Technik. 49 (2004), H. 2 Y1 - 2004 SN - 0932-4666 SP - 1004 EP - 1005 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Selmer, Thorsten A1 - Scott, Richard A1 - Näser, Ulrike A1 - Friedrich, Peter T1 - Stereochemistry of hydrogen removal from the 'unactivated' C-3 position of 4-hydroxybutyryl-CoA catalysed by 4-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydratase / Scott, R. ; Näser, U. ; Friedrich, P. ; Selmer, T. ; Buckel, W. ; Golding, BT. JF - Chemical Communications : ChemCom (2004) Y1 - 2004 SN - 1364-548X SP - 1210 EP - 1211 ER -