@phdthesis{Mitidieri2015,
  author    = {Mitidieri, Gaetano},
  title     = {Wissenschaft, Technik und Medien im Werk Alfred D{\"o}blins im Kontext der europ{\"a}ischen Avantgarde},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-364-0},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-89390},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {970},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Ziel dieser Studie ist es die bislang nur sporadisch untersuchten Wechselverh{\"a}ltnisse zwischen den Kulturbereichen Wissenschaft/Technik und Literatur am herausragenden Beispiel des Oeuvres des Schriftstellers und Arztes Alfred D{\"o}blin aufzusp{\"u}ren. Hierbei scheint seine {\"a}rztlich-psychiatrische Laufbahn, die eine breite Grundlage wissenschaftlicher Diskurse anbietet, wie auch seine avantgardistische Literaturpraxis diese gegenseitige Befruchtung gef{\"o}rdert zu haben. Im Hinblick auf den Forschungsgegenstand und -zweck ist ein kulturwissenschaftlicher Ansatz versucht worden. Dieser vielperspektivische Ansatz, der von der Pr{\"a}misse eines Wechselspiels aller Kulturbereiche untereinander ausgeht, gestattet eine dem Gegenstand angepasste Verkn{\"u}pfung von verschiedenen Arbeitsmethoden wie der philologisch-literarhistorischen mit der konstruktivistischen und der komparatistischen. Hierbei ist eine Einbeziehung wissenschafts- und technikphilosophischer Reflexion wie auch eine dementsprechend erweiterte kulturhistorische Kontextualisierung vorgenommen worden. Die hier vorgelegte Analyse fokussiert auf wissenschaftlich-technische Bez{\"u}ge sowohl in thematischer Hinsicht als auch in der Textgestaltung der schriftstellerischen Werke D{\"o}blins bis 1924. Gleichzeitig wird die diskursgepr{\"a}gte, sprachliche und literarische Dimension seiner wissenschaftlichen Studien und technischer Texte - wie Krankenakte - hervorgehoben. Dieses erweiterte ‚Oeuvre'-Konzept gestattet die Analyse der psychiatrischen, klinisch-{\"a}rztlichen und biochemischen Schriften D{\"o}blins sowie seiner Erz{\"a}hlwerke, seiner vielgestaltigen Publizistik und seiner intermedialen Anregungen aus den neuen audiovisuellen Medien. Dadurch wird eine diskurskritische kultur{\"u}bergreifende Interdiskursivit{\"a}t wie auch eine ‚Hybridit{\"a}t' aller Texte aufgezeigt, die die Grundunterschiede zwischen Textsorten und Gattungsgrenzen relativiert.},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Reimer2015,
  author    = {Reimer, Anna Maria},
  title     = {The poetics of the real and aesthetics of the reel},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-95660},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {298},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {The dissertation proposes that the spread of photography and popular cinema in 19th- and 20th-century-India have shaped an aesthetic and affective code integral to the reading and interpretation of Indian English novels, particularly when they address photography and/or cinema film, as in the case of the four corpus texts. In analyzing the nexus between 'real' and 'reel', the dissertation shows how the texts address the reader as media consumer and virtual image projector. Furthermore, the study discusses the Indian English novel against the backdrop of the cultural and medial transformations of the 20th century to elaborate how these influenced the novel's aesthetics. Drawing upon reception aesthetics, the author devises the concept of the 'implied spectator' to analyze the aesthetic impact of the novels' images as visual textures. No God in Sight (2005) by Altaf Tyrewala comprises of a string of 41 interior monologues, loosely connected through their narrators' random encounters in Mumbai in the year 2000. Although marked by continuous perspective shifts, the text creates a sensation of acute immediacy. Here, the reader is addressed as implied spectator and is sutured into the narrated world like a film spectator ― an effect created through the use of continuity editing as a narrative technique. Similarly, Ruchir Joshi's The Last Jet Engine Laugh (2002) coll(oc)ates disparate narrative perspectives and explores photography as an artistic practice, historiographic recorder and epistemological tool. The narrative appears guided by the random viewing of old photographs by the protagonist and primary narrator, the photographer Paresh Bhatt. However, it is the photographic negative and the practice of superimposition that render this string of episodes and different perspectives narratively consequential and cosmologically meaningful. Photography thus marks the perfect symbiosis of autobiography and historiography. Tabish Khair's Filming. A Love Story (2007) immerses readers in the cine-aesthetic of 1930s and 40s Bombay film, the era in which the embedded plot is set. Plotline, central scenes and characters evoke the key films of Indian cinema history such as Satyajit Ray's "Pather Panchali" or Raj Kapoor's "Awara". Ultimately, the text written as film dissolves the boundary between fiction and (narrated) reality, reel and real, thereby showing that the images of individual memory are inextricably intertwined with and shaped by collective memory. Ultimately, the reconstruction of the past as and through film(s) conquers trauma and endows the Partition of India as a historic experience of brutal contingency with meaning. The Bioscope Man (Indrajit Hazra, 2008) is a picaresque narrative set in Calcutta - India's cultural capital and birthplace of Indian cinema at the beginning of the 20th century. The autodiegetic narrator Abani Chatterjee relates his rise and fall as silent film star, alternating between the modes of tell and show. He is both autodiegetic narrator and spectator or perceiving consciousness, seeing himself in his manifold screen roles. Beyond his film roles however, the narrator remains a void. The marked psychoanalytical symbolism of the text is accentuated by repeated invocations of dark caves and the laterna magica. Here too, 'reel life' mirrors and foreshadows real life as Indian and Bengali history again interlace with private history. Abani Chatterjee thus emerges as a quintessentially modern man of no qualities who assumes definitive shape only in the lost reels of the films he starred in. The final chapter argues that the static images and visual frames forwarded in the texts observe an integral psychological function: Premised upon linear perspective they imply a singular, static subjectivity appealing to the postmodern subject. In the corpus texts, the rise of digital technology in the 1990s thus appears not so much to have displaced older image repertories, practices and media techniques, than it has lent them greater visibility and appeal. Moreover, bricolage and pastiche emerge as cultural techniques which marked modernity from its inception. What the novels thus perpetuate is a media archeology not entirely servant to the poetics of the real. The permeable subject and the notion of the gaze as an active exchange as encapsulated in the concept of darshan - ideas informing all four texts - bespeak the resilience of a mythical universe continually re-instantiated in new technologies and uses. Eventually, the novels convey a sense of subalternity to a substantially Hindu nationalist history and historiography, the centrifugal force of which developed in the twentieth century and continues into the present.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Bittermann2015,
  author    = {Bittermann, Klaus},
  title     = {Semi-empirical sea-level modelling},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-93881},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {v, 88},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Semi-empirical sea-level models (SEMs) exploit physically motivated empirical relationships between global sea level and certain drivers, in the following global mean temperature. This model class evolved as a supplement to process-based models (Rahmstorf (2007)) which were unable to fully represent all relevant processes. They thus failed to capture past sea-level change (Rahmstorf et al. (2012)) and were thought likely to underestimate future sea-level rise. Semi-empirical models were found to be a fast and useful tool for exploring the uncertainties in future sea-level rise, consistently giving significantly higher projections than process-based models. In the following different aspects of semi-empirical sea-level modelling have been studied. Models were first validated using various data sets of global sea level and temperature. SEMs were then used on the glacier contribution to sea level, and to infer past global temperature from sea-level data via inverse modelling. Periods studied encompass the instrumental period, covered by tide gauges (starting 1700 CE (Common Era) in Amsterdam) and satellites (first launched in 1992 CE), the era from 1000 BCE (before CE) to present, and the full length of the Holocene (using proxy data). Accordingly different data, model formulations and implementations have been used. It could be shown in Bittermann et al. (2013) that SEMs correctly predict 20th century sea-level when calibrated with data until 1900 CE. SEMs also turned out to give better predictions than the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 4th assessment report (AR4, IPCC (2007)) models, for the period from 1961-2003 CE. With the first multi-proxy reconstruction of global sea-level as input, estimate of the human-induced component of modern sea-level change and projections of future sea-level rise were calculated (Kopp et al. (2016)). It turned out with 90\% confidence that more than 40 \% of the observed 20th century sea-level rise is indeed anthropogenic. With the new semi-empirical and IPCC (2013) 5th assessment report (AR5) projections the gap between SEM and process-based model projections closes, giving higher credibility to both. Combining all scenarios, from strong mitigation to business as usual, a global sea-level rise of 28-131 cm relative to 2000 CE, is projected with 90\% confidence. The decision for a low carbon pathway could halve the expected global sea-level rise by 2100 CE. Present day temperature and thus sea level are driven by the globally acting greenhouse-gas forcing. Unlike that, the Milankovich forcing, acting on Holocene timescales, results mainly in a northern-hemisphere temperature change. Therefore a semi-empirical model can be driven with northernhemisphere temperatures, which makes it possible to model the main subcomponent of sea-level change over this period. It showed that an additional positive constant rate of the order of the estimated Antarctic sea-level contribution is then required to explain the sea-level evolution over the Holocene. Thus the global sea level, following the climatic optimum, can be interpreted as the sum of a temperature induced sea-level drop and a positive long-term contribution, likely an ongoing response to deglaciation coming from Antarctica.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Bojahr2015,
  author    = {Bojahr, Juliane},
  title     = {Aktivierung des humanen S{\"u}ßgeschmacksrezeptors im zellbasierten Testsystem},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-93331},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {XIII, 174},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Zellbasierte heterologe Expressionssysteme bieten ein einfaches und schnelles Verfahren, um neue S{\"u}ßstoffe oder S{\"u}ßverst{\"a}rker zu finden. Unter Verwendung eines solchen Testsystems, konnte ich in Zusammenarbeit mit der Symrise AG, Holzminden und dem Institut f{\"u}r Pflanzenbiochemie in Halle/Saale die vietnamesische Pflanze Mycetia balansae als Quelle eines neuen S{\"u}ßstoffs identifizieren. Deren Hauptkomponenten, genannt Balansine, aktivieren spezifisch den humanen S{\"u}ßrezeptor. Chim{\"a}re Rezeptoren zeigten, dass die amino-terminalen Dom{\"a}nen der S{\"u}ßrezeptoruntereinheiten, welche ein Großteil der Liganden des S{\"u}ßrezeptors binden, f{\"u}r dessen Aktivierung durch Balansin A nicht notwendig sind. Voraussetzung f{\"u}r die Anwendung zellbasierter Testsysteme zum Auffinden neuer S{\"u}ßstoffe ist jedoch, dass s{\"u}ße Substanzen gesichert identifiziert werden, w{\"a}hrend nicht s{\"u}ße Substanzen zuverl{\"a}ssig keine Rezeptoraktivierung aufweisen. W{\"a}hrend in HEK293 TAS1R2 TAS1R3To Galpha15i3-Zellen S{\"u}ßrezeptoraktivierung gegen{\"u}ber nicht s{\"u}ß schmeckenden Substanzen beobachtet wurde, konnte mit den HEK293PEAKrapid Galpha15-Zellen ein zuverl{\"a}ssiges Testsystem identifiziert, welches den S{\"u}ßgeschmack der untersuchten Substanzen widerspiegelte. Es fanden sich keine Hinweise, dass akzessorische Proteine oder verwandte Rezeptoren des S{\"u}ßrezeptors das unterschiedliche Verhalten der Zellen verursachen. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass die Verwendung unterschiedlicher G-Proteine die Signalamplituden des S{\"u}ßrezeptors beeinflusst, die Unterschiede zwischen den Zellsystemen jedoch nicht vollst{\"a}ndig erkl{\"a}rt. Keine der untersuchten Galpha-Proteinchim{\"a}ren spiegelte die intrinsische S{\"u}ße der Substanzen wider. Wenn auch nicht urs{\"a}chlich f{\"u}r die Diskrepanz zwischen S{\"u}ßrezeptoraktivierung in vitro und S{\"u}ßgeschmack in vivo, so weisen die Ergebnisse dieser Arbeit auf eine Interaktion der S{\"u}ßrezeptoruntereinheiten mit dem humanen Calcium-sensing Rezeptor hin. Vanillin und Ethylvanillin konnten als neue Agonisten des Calcium-sensing Rezeptors identifiziert werden. Wie die vorliegende Arbeit zeigt, k{\"o}nnen sich kleine Unterschiede im Zellhintergrund deutlich auf die Funktionsweise heterolog exprimierter Rezeptoren auswirken. Dies zeigt wie wichtig die Wahl der Zellen f{\"u}r solche Screeningsysteme ist.},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Soulie2015,
  author    = {Souli{\´e}, Virginie},
  title     = {Sessile droplets of salt solutions on inert and metallic surfaces},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-90329},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {In this thesis we investigate the evaporation behaviour of sessile droplets of aqueous saline solutions on planar inert and metallic surfaces and characterise the corrosion phenomenon for iron surfaces. First we study the evaporation behaviour of sessile salty droplets on inert surfaces for a wide range of salt concentrations, relative humidities, droplet sizes and contact angles. Our study reveals the range of validity of the well-accepted diffusion-controlled evaporation model and highlights the impact of salt concentration (surface tension) gradients driven Marangoni flows on the evaporation behaviour and the subsequent salty deposit patterns. Furthermore we study the spatial-temporal evolution of sessile droplets from saline solutions on metallic surfaces. In contrast to the simple, generally accepted Evans droplet model, we show that the corrosion spreads ahead of the macroscopic contact line with a peripheral film. The three-phase contact line is destabilized by surface tension gradients induced by ionic composition changes during the course of the corrosion process and migration of cations towards the droplet perimeter. Finally we investigate the corrosion behaviour under drying salty sessile droplets on metallic surfaces. The corrosion process, in particular the location of anodic and cathodic activities over the footprint droplet area is correlated to the spatial distribution of the salt inside the drying droplet.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Boettle2015,
  author    = {B{\"o}ttle, Markus},
  title     = {Coastal floods in view of sea level rise},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-91074},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {xiii, 111},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {The sea level rise induced intensification of coastal floods is a serious threat to many regions in proximity to the ocean. Although severe flood events are rare they can entail enormous damage costs, especially when built-up areas are inundated. Fortunately, the mean sea level advances slowly and there is enough time for society to adapt to the changing environment. Most commonly, this is achieved by the construction or reinforcement of flood defence measures such as dykes or sea walls but also land use and disaster management are widely discussed options. Overall, albeit the projection of sea level rise impacts and the elaboration of adequate response strategies is amongst the most prominent topics in climate impact research, global damage estimates are vague and mostly rely on the same assessment models. The thesis at hand contributes to this issue by presenting a distinctive approach which facilitates large scale assessments as well as the comparability of results across regions. Moreover, we aim to improve the general understanding of the interplay between mean sea level rise, adaptation, and coastal flood damage. Our undertaking is based on two basic building blocks. Firstly, we make use of macroscopic flood-damage functions, i.e. damage functions that provide the total monetary damage within a delineated region (e.g. a city) caused by a flood of certain magnitude. After introducing a systematic methodology for the automatised derivation of such functions, we apply it to a total of 140 European cities and obtain a large set of damage curves utilisable for individual as well as comparative damage assessments. By scrutinising the resulting curves, we are further able to characterise the slope of the damage functions by means of a functional model. The proposed function has in general a sigmoidal shape but exhibits a power law increase for the relevant range of flood levels and we detect an average exponent of 3.4 for the considered cities. This finding represents an essential input for subsequent elaborations on the general interrelations of involved quantities. The second basic element of this work is extreme value theory which is employed to characterise the occurrence of flood events and in conjunction with a damage function provides the probability distribution of the annual damage in the area under study. The resulting approach is highly flexible as it assumes non-stationarity in all relevant parameters and can be easily applied to arbitrary regions, sea level, and adaptation scenarios. For instance, we find a doubling of expected flood damage in the city of Copenhagen for a rise in mean sea levels of only 11 cm. By following more general considerations, we succeed in deducing surprisingly simple functional expressions to describe the damage behaviour in a given region for varying mean sea levels, changing storm intensities, and supposed protection levels. We are thus able to project future flood damage by means of a reduced set of parameters, namely the aforementioned damage function exponent and the extreme value parameters. Similar examinations are carried out to quantify the aleatory uncertainty involved in these projections. In this regard, a decrease of (relative) uncertainty with rising mean sea levels is detected. Beyond that, we demonstrate how potential adaptation measures can be assessed in terms of a Cost-Benefit Analysis. This is exemplified by the Danish case study of Kalundborg, where amortisation times for a planned investment are estimated for several sea level scenarios and discount rates.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Schnitzler2015,
  author    = {Schnitzler, Carola},
  title     = {Phonologische Bewusstheit und Schriftspracherwerb},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-92370},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {IV, 52},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Die vorliegende Arbeit besch{\"a}ftigt sich mit der Fragestellung, inwieweit die Integrit{\"a}t der phonologischen Sprachverarbeitung f{\"u}r den erfolgreichen Schriftspracherwerb bei deutschsprachigen Kindern relevant ist. Hierbei bilden F{\"a}higkeiten zur phonologischen Bewusstheit (PhB) den Schwerpunkt. Der erfolgreiche Schriftspracherwerb ist nicht nur f{\"u}r den Bildungserfolg mit den damit verbundenen beruflichen und sozio‑{\"o}konomischen Perspektiven wichtig, sondern auch f{\"u}r die aktive Teilhabe am sozialen und kulturellen Leben in unserer Gesellschaft. Die Bestandteile dieser publikationsbasierten Dissertation sind eine Monographie (Schnitzler, 2008), ein Beitrag in einem Sammelwerk (Schnitzler, 2013) sowie zwei Zeitschriftenartikel (Schnitzler, 2014, 2015). Die ersten beiden Publikationen besch{\"a}ftigen sich mit der Entwicklung der PhB sowie Zusammenh{\"a}ngen zwischen PhB und Schriftsprachfertigkeiten. Die beiden Zeitschriftenartikel besch{\"a}ftigen sich mit dem LRS‑Risiko deutschsprachiger Kinder, die im Vorschulalter aufgrund phonologischer Aussprachest{\"o}rungen (PhAS) logop{\"a}disch behandelt werden. Hierzu wurden in Schnitzler (2015) die Ergebnisse einer selbst durchgef{\"u}hrten Studie dargestellt. In dieser Studie wurden m{\"o}gliche Einfl{\"u}sse zus{\"a}tzlicher nicht‑phonologischer Symptome und der Art der phonologischen Aussprachest{\"o}rung kontrolliert. Die Ergebnisse weisen darauf hin, dass zum Schulbeginn und w{\"a}hrend der Schuleingangsphase genau beobachtet werden sollte, ob Kinder {\"u}ber altersentsprechende F{\"a}higkeiten zur PhB verf{\"u}gen und ob sie diese segmental‑phonologischen Wissensbest{\"a}nde bewusst aktivieren und beim Lesen und Schreiben effizient nutzen. Dies gilt insbesondere f{\"u}r Kinder, f{\"u}r die ein erh{\"o}htes LRS‑Risiko besteht. Verf{\"u}gen Kinder zu dieser Zeit {\"u}ber unzureichend spezifizierte phonologische Repr{\"a}sentationen, ist eine fr{\"u}hzeitige Intervention im Sinne einer Pr{\"a}vention von LRS angezeigt.},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Obu2015,
  author    = {Obu, Jaroslav},
  title     = {Effect of mass wasting on soil organic carbon storage and coastal erosion in permafrost environments},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-90599},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {iii, 93},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Accelerated permafrost thaw under the warming Arctic climate can have a significant impact on Arctic landscapes. Areas underlain by permafrost store high amounts of soil organic carbon (SOC). Permafrost disturbances may contribute to increased release of carbon dioxide and methane to the atmosphere. Coastal erosion, amplified through a decrease in Arctic sea-ice extent, may also mobilise SOC from permafrost. Large expanses of permafrost affected land are characterised by intense mass-wasting processes such as solifluction, active-layer detachments and retrogressive thaw slumping. Our aim is to assess the influence of mass wasting on SOC storage and coastal erosion. We studied SOC storage on Herschel Island by analysing active-layer and permafrost samples, and compared non-disturbed sites to those characterised by mass wasting. Mass-wasting sites showed decreased SOC storage and material compaction, whereas sites characterised by material accumulation showed increased storage. The SOC storage on Herschel Island is also significantly correlated to catenary position and other slope characteristics. We estimated SOC storage on Herschel Island to be 34.8 kg C m-2. This is comparable to similar environments in northwest Canada and Alaska. Coastal erosion was analysed using high resolution digital elevation models (DEMs). Two LIDAR scanning of the Yukon Coast were done in 2012 and 2013. Two DEMs with 1 m horizontal resolution were generated and used to analyse elevation changes along the coast. The results indicate considerable spatial variability in short-term coastline erosion and progradation. The high variability was related to the presence of mass-wasting processes. Erosion and deposition extremes were recorded where the retrogressive thaw slump (RTS) activity was most pronounced. Released sediment can be transported by longshore drift and affects not only the coastal processes in situ but also along adjacent coasts. We also calculated volumetric coastal erosion for Herschel Island by comparing a stereo-photogrammetrically derived DEM from 2004 with LIDAR DEMs. We compared this volumetric erosion to planimetric erosion, which was based on coastlines digitised from satellite imagery. We found a complex relationship between planimetric and volumetric coastal erosion, which we attribute to frequent occurrence of mass-wasting processes along the coasts. Our results suggest that volumetric erosion corresponds better with environmental forcing and is more suitable for the estimation of organic carbon fluxes than planimetric erosion. Mass wasting can decrease SOC storage by several mechanisms. Increased aeration following disturbance may increase microbial activity, which accelerates organic matter decomposition. New hydrological conditions that follow the mass wasting event can cause leaching of freshly exposed material. Organic rich material can also be directly removed into the sea or into a lake. On the other hand the accumulation of mobilised material can result in increased SOC storage. Mass-wasting related accumulations of mobilised material can significantly impact coastal erosion in situ or along the adjacent coast by longshore drift. Therefore, the coastline movement observations cannot completely resolve the actual sediment loss due to these temporary accumulations. The predicted increase of mass-wasting activity in the course of Arctic warming may increase SOC mobilisation and coastal erosion induced carbon fluxes.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Prokhorov2015,
  author    = {Prokhorov, Boris E.},
  title     = {High-latitude coupling processes between thermospheric circulation and solar wind driven magnetospheric currents and plasma convection},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-92353},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {117},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {The high-latitudinal thermospheric processes driven by the solar wind and Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF) interaction with the Earth magnetosphere are highly variable parts of the complex dynamic plasma environment, which represent the coupled Magnetosphere - Ionosphere - Thermosphere (MIT) system. The solar wind and IMF interactions transfer energy to the MIT system via reconnection processes at the magnetopause. The Field Aligned Currents (FACs) constitute the energetic links between the magnetosphere and the Earth ionosphere. The MIT system depends on the highly variable solar wind conditions, in particular on changes of the strength and orientation of the IMF. In my thesis, I perform an investigation on the physical background of the complex MIT system using the global physical - numerical, three-dimensional, time-dependent and self-consistent Upper Atmosphere Model (UAM). This model describes the thermosphere, ionosphere, plasmasphere and inner magnetosphere as well as the electrodynamics of the coupled MIT system for the altitudinal range from 80 (60) km up to the 15 Earth radii. In the present study, I developed and investigated several variants of the high-latitudinal electrodynamic coupling by including the IMF dependence of FACs into the UAM model. For testing, the various variants were applied to simulations of the coupled MIT system for different seasons, geomagnetic activities, various solar wind and IMF conditions. Additionally, these variants of the theoretical model with the IMF dependence were compared with global empirical models. The modelling results for the most important thermospheric parameters like neutral wind and mass density were compared with satellite measurements. The variants of the UAM model with IMF dependence show a good agreement with the satellite observations. In comparison with the empirical models, the improved variants of the UAM model reproduce a more realistic meso-scale structures and dynamics of the coupled MIT system than the empirical models, in particular at high latitudes. The new configurations of the UAM model with IMF dependence contribute to the improvement of space weather prediction.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Koehler2015,
  author    = {K{\"o}hler, Anke},
  title     = {Theoriebasierte Betreuung des Schulpraktikums im Lehramtsstudium Englisch},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-91531},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Der Beitrag der Dissertation „Theoriebasierte Betreuung vom Schulpraktikum im Lehramtsstudium Englisch" zum wissenschaftlichen Diskurs liegt in der Verbindung von Theoriebereichen der Professionalisierungsforschung und angewandten Linguistik mit Untersuchungen zur hochschuldidaktischen Begleitung und Betreuung im ersten Unterrichtspraktikum des Lehramtsstudiums, dem fachdidaktischen Tagespraktikum, an der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam. Ein interaktionsanalytisches Vorgehen wurde eingesetzt zur Weiterentwicklung des hochschuldidaktischen Settings einer disziplinenverbindenden, fachwissenschaftlichen Begleitung von Praktika im komplexen Kontext Schule. Die Implementierung entsprechender Formate ins regul{\"a}re Studium wurde in einer {\"u}ber drei Jahre angelegten iterativen Studie turnusm{\"a}ßig evaluiert.},
  language  = {de}
}