@misc{Schulz2002,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Schulz, Frank},
  title     = {'How can you go to a Church that killed so many Indians?' : Representations of Christianity in 20th century Native American novels},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-0001154},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2002},
  abstract  = {Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht Romane indianischer Autorinnen und Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts hinsichtlich ihrer Repr{\"a}sentation von Konflikten zwischen amerikanischen Ureinwohnern und der vorherrschenden christlichen Religion des allgemeinen gesellschaftlichen Umfelds. Verschiedene Schwerpunkte sind zu erkennen, die im Laufe des Jahrhunderts immer wieder dargestellt und in ver{\"a}nderter Perspektive betrachtet werden. Sowohl historische Konflikte der Kolonialisierung und Christianisierung als auch die immerw{\"a}hrende Frage indianischer Christen -- 'Wie kannst Du in eine Kirche gehen, die so viele Indianer umgebracht hat?' [Alexie, Reservation Blues] -- werden in den Romanen diskutiert und in meiner Arbeit analysiert. Es wird ferner versucht, eine literaturgeschichtliche Klassifizierung der einzelnen Werke entsprechend ihrer Repr{\"a}sentation dieser Probleme vorzunehmen. In Anlehnung an Charles Larsons chronologisch-thematische Darstellung indianischer Prosa, werden die Kategorien rejection, (syncretic) adaptation, and postmodern-ironic revision eingef{\"u}hrt, um die unterschiedlichen Darstellungsweisen zu beschreiben. Anhand der f{\"u}nf Hauptbeispiele ist eine Entwicklung der zeitgen{\"o}ssischen indianischen Literatur zu beobachten, die sich von der engen Definition der 1960er und 70er Jahre zugunsten eines breiteren und vielf{\"a}ltigeren Ansatzes l{\"o}st und dabei mittels interkultureller und intertextueller Referenzen, postmoderner Ironie, und einem neuen indianischen Selbstbewußtsein auch neue Positionen gegen{\"u}ber dem Glauben der einstigen Kolonialmacht einnimmt. Gutachter / Betreuer: Prof. R{\"u}diger Kunow ; Dr. J{\"u}rgen Heiß},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Schiller2004,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Schiller, Beate},
  title     = {Between afrocentrism and universality : detective fiction by black women},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-5478},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2004},
  abstract  = {This paper focuses on mysteries written by the Afro-American women authors Barbara Neely and Valerie Wilson Wesley. Both authors place a black woman in the role of the detective - an innovative feature not only in the realm of female detective literature of the past two decades but also with regard to the current discourse about race and class in US-American society. This discourse is important because detective novels are considered popular literature and thus a mass product designed to favor commercial instead of literary claims. Thus, the focus is placed on the development of the two protagonists, on their lives as detectives and as black women, in order to find out whether or not and how the genre influences the depiction of Afro-American experiences. It appears that both of these detective series represent Afro-American culture in different ways, which confirms a heterogenic development of this ethnic group. However, the protagonist's search for identity and their relationships to white people could be identified as a major unifying claim of Afro-American literature. With differing intensity, the authors Neely and Wesley provide the white or mainstream reader with insight into their culture and confront the reader\&\#39;s ignorance of black culture. In light of this, it is a great achievement that Neely and Wesley have reached not only a black audience but also a growing number of white readers.},
  subject      = {black women's literature},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{vondemBussche2006,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {von dem Bussche, Jens},
  title     = {Modelling the spatial distribution of blackbird (Turdus merula) and ring ouzel (Turdus torquatus) in Switzerland},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-14012},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {To characterise the habitat preferences of ring ouzel (Turdus torquatus) and blackbird (T. merula) in Switzerland, we adopt species distribution modelling and predict the species' spatial distribution. We model on two different scales to analyse in how far downscaling leads to a different set of predictors to describe the realised habitat best. While the models on macroscale (grid of one square kilometre) cover the entire country, we select a set of smaller plots for modelling on territory scale. Whereas ring ouzels occur in altitudes above 1'000 m a.s.l. only, blackbirds occur from the lowlands up to the timber line. The altitudinal range overlap of the two species is up to 400 m. Despite both species coexist on macroscale, a direct niche overlap on territory scale is rare. Small-scale differences in vegetation cover and structure seem to play a dominant role for habitat selection. On macroscale however, we observe a high dependency on climatic variables mainly representing the altitudinal range and the related forest structure preferred by the two species. Applying the models for climate change scenarios, we predict a decline of suitable habitat for the ring ouzel with a simultaneous median altitudinal shift of +440 m until 2070. In contrast, the blackbird is predicted to benefit from higher temperatures and expand its range to higher elevations.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Sperfeld2006,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Sperfeld, Robert},
  title     = {Decentralisation and establishment of local government in Lesotho},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-10867},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {This diploma thesis deals with the process of political and administrative decentralisation in the Kingdom of Lesotho. Although decentralization in itself does not automatically lead to development it became an integral part of reform processes in many developing countries. Governments and international donors consider efficient decentralized political and administrative structures as essential elements of "good governance" and a prerequisite for structural poverty alleviation. This paper seeks to analyse how the given decentralization strategy and its implementation is affecting different features of good governance in the case of Lesotho. The results of the analysis confirm that the decentralisation process significantly improved political participation of the local population. However, the second objective of enhancing efficiency through decentralisation was not achieved. To the contrary, in the institutional design of the newly created local authorities and in the civil service recruitment policy efficiency considerations did not matter. Additionally, the created mechanisms for political participation generate relevant costs. Thus it is impossible to judge unambiguously on the contribution of decentralisation to the achievement of good governance. Different subtargets of good governance are influenced contrarily. Consequently, the adequacy of the concept of good governance as a guiding concept for decentralisation policies can be questioned. The assessment of the success of decentralisation policies requires a normative framework that takes into account the relations between both participation and efficiency. Despite the partly reduced administrative efficiency the author's overall impression of the decentralisation process in Lesotho is positive. The establishment of democratically legitimised and participatory local governments justifies certain additional expenditure. However, mistakes in the design and the implementation of the decentralisation strategy would have been avoidable.},
  subject      = {Dezentralisation},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Lunemann2006,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Lunemann, Carolin},
  title     = {Quantum cryptography : security analysis of multiuser quantum communication with embedded authentication},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-12756},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {Three quantum cryptographic protocols of multiuser quantum networks with embedded authentication, allowing quantum key distribution or quantum direct communication, are discussed in this work. The security of the protocols against different types of attacks is analysed with a focus on various impersonation attacks and the man-in-the-middle attack. On the basis of the security analyses several improvements are suggested and implemented in order to adjust the investigated vulnerabilities. Furthermore, the impact of the eavesdropping test procedure on impersonation attacks is outlined. The framework of a general eavesdropping test is proposed to provide additional protection against security risks in impersonation attacks.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Koechert2007,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {K{\"o}chert, Karl},
  title     = {Development of a method to assess EAAT1 transcription levels in Alzheimer's disease},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-15965},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2007},
  abstract  = {Zur Zeit leiden ca. 24 Millionen Menschen auf der ganzen Welt unter Demenz, Alzheimer macht dabei 50-60\% aller Demenzf{\"a}lle aus. Da der Anteil der Bev{\"o}lkerung, der an Demenz leidet, proportional zum Alter zunimmt und der Anteil {\"a}lterer Menschen in der Gesellschaft von Jahr zu Jahr steigt, wird Alzheimer immer mehr zu einem ernstzunehmenden, gesellschaftlichen Problem. Zum Stand der heutigen Forschung ist es etabliert, dass die Aminos{\"a}ure Glutamat - quantitativ einer der wichtigsten Neurotransmitter im Zentralen Nervensystem (ZNS) - toxische Konzentrationen erreichen kann wenn sie - im Zuge der {\"U}bertragung von Aktionspotentialen - nach ihrer Freisetzung nicht aus dem Synaptischen Spalt entfernt wird. Viele Studien haben gezeigt, dass in der Alzheimerschen Krankheit die Glutamataufnahme beeintr{\"a}chtigt ist, was zu toxischen Konzentrationen von Glutamat und dem daraus folgenden Absterben von Neuronen f{\"u}hrt. Der exitatorische Aminos{\"a}uretransporter 1 (EAAT1) geh{\"o}rt zu der Familie der Na+-abh{\"a}ngigen Glutamattransporter und stellt nach EAAT2 den quantitativ wichtigsten Glutamattransporter im ZNS dar. In diesem Projekt wurde eine bis dahin f{\"u}r den Menschen nicht bekannte EAAT1 Spleißvariante, in der Exon 3 ausgeschnitten wird, nachgewiesen. Diese Variante wurde EAAT1Δ3 genannt und stellt damit mit EAAT1Δ9 die zweite f{\"u}r EAAT1 nachgewiesene Spleißvariante dar. Eine auf real-time RT-PCR basierende Methode wurde entwickelt, um die Transkripte von EAAT1 wildtyp (EAAT1 wt), EAAT1Δ3 und EAAT1Δ9 zu quantifizieren. Proben aus verschiedenen Hirnarealen wurden aus einem Set von Kontrollen und Alzheimerf{\"a}llen bei der Quantifizierung verwendet. Die gew{\"a}hlten Areale sind von der Alzheimerschen Krankheit unterschiedlich stark betroffen. Dies diente als interne Kontrolle f{\"u}r die durchgef{\"u}hrten Experimente und erm{\"o}glichte so die Differenzierung zwischen beobachteten Effekten: Nur Effekte die alleinig in von Alzheimer betroffenen Gehirnarealen auftreten, k{\"o}nnen als spezifisch f{\"u}r die Krankheit angesehen werden. Die Resultate diese Projektes zeigen, dass EAAT1Δ3 in sehr geringer Anzahl transkribiert wird, die nur 0.15\% der EAAT1 wt Transkription entspricht. Dahingegen entspricht das EAAT1 Δ9 Transkript im Durchschnitt 26.6\% des EAAT1 wt Transkripts. Es wurde nachgewiesen, dass die Transkriptionsrate aller EAAT1 Varianten in Alzheimerf{\"a}llen signifikant reduziert ist (P<0.0001). Dies unterst{\"u}tzt die Theorie, dass bei Alzheimerf{\"a}llen die EAAT1 Proteinexpression stark reduziert und der Glutamattransport, der normalerweise durch diesen Transporter gew{\"a}hrleistet wird, stark eingeschr{\"a}nkt ist. Dies wiederum resultiert in toxisch hohen Glutamatkonzentrationen und damit dem Absterben von Neuronen. Die gefundene Reduktion der EAAT1Transkription ist nicht spezifisch f{\"u}r Gehirnareale die von Alzheimer betroffen sind, sondern tritt in selbem Maße in nicht von Alzheimer betroffenen Gehirnarealen auf. Daraus l{\"a}sst sich schließen, dass die Reduktion der EAAT1 Transkription eher ein Resultat eines in der Alzheimerschen Krankheit pr{\"a}senten, grundlegenden Krankheitsmechanismus ist als deren Ursache.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Honka2007,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Honka, Agnes},
  title     = {Writing an alternative Australia : women and national discourse in nineteenth-century literature},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-16502},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2007},
  abstract  = {In this thesis, I want to outline the emergence of the Australian national identity in colonial Australia. National identity is not a politically determined construct but culturally produced through discourse on literary works by female and male writers. The emergence of the dominant bushman myth exhibited enormous strength and influence on subsequent generations and infused the notion of "Australianness" with exclusively male characteristics. It provided a unique geographical space, the bush, on and against which the colonial subject could model his identity. Its dominance rendered non-male and non-bush experiences of Australia as "un-Australian." I will present a variety of contemporary voices - postcolonial, Aboriginal, feminist, cultural critics - which see the Australian identity as a prominent topic, not only in the academia but also in everyday culture and politics. Although positioned in different disciplines and influenced by varying histories, these voices share a similar view on Australian society: Australia is a plural society, it is home to millions of different people - women, men, and children, Aboriginal Australians and immigrants, newly arrived and descendents of the first settlers - with millions of different identities which make up one nation. One version of national identity does not account for the multitude of experiences; one version, if applied strictly, renders some voices unheard and oppressed. After exemplifying how the literature of the 1890s and its subsequent criticism constructed the itinerant worker as "the" Australian, literary productions by women will be singled out to counteract the dominant version by presenting different opinions on the state of colonial Australia. The writers Louisa Lawson, Barbara Baynton, and Tasma are discussed with regard to their assessment of their mother country. These women did not only present a different picture, they were also gifted writers and lived the ideal of the "New Women:" they obtained divorces, remarried, were politically active, worked for their living and led independent lives. They paved the way for many Australian women to come. In their literary works they allowed for a dual approach to the bush and the Australian nation. Louisa Lawson credited the bushwoman with heroic traits and described the bush as both cruel and full of opportunities not known to women in England. She understood women's position in Australian society as oppressed and tried to change politics and culture through the writings in her feminist magazine the Dawn and her courageous campaign for women suffrage. Barbara Baynton painted a gloomy picture of the Australian bush and its inhabitants and offered one of the fiercest critiques of bush society. Although the woman is presented as the able and resourceful bushperson, she does not manage to survive in an environment which functions on male rules and only values the economic potential of the individual. Finally, Tasma does not present as outright a critique as Barbara Baynton, however, she also attests the colonies a fascination with wealth which she renders questionable. She offers an informed judgement on colonial developments in the urban surrounds of the city of Melbourne through the comparison of colonial society with the mother country England. Tasma attests that the colonies had a fascination with wealth which she renders questionable. She offers an informed judgement on colonial developments in the urban surrounds of the city of Melbourne through the comparison of colonial society with the mother country England and demonstrates how uncertainties and irritations emerged in the course of Australia's nation formation. These three women, as writers, commentators, and political activists, faced exclusion from the dominant literary discourses. Their assessment of colonial society remained unheard for a long time. Now, after much academic excavation, these voices speak to us from the past and remind us that people are diverse, thus nation is diverse. Dominant power structures, the institutions and individuals who decide who can contribute to the discourse on nation, have to be questioned and reassessed, for they mute voices which contribute to a wider, to the "full", and maybe "real" picture of society.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Trapp2007,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Trapp, Matthias},
  title     = {Analysis and exploration of virtual 3D city models using 3D information lenses},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-13930},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2007},
  abstract  = {This thesis addresses real-time rendering techniques for 3D information lenses based on the focus \& context metaphor. It analyzes, conceives, implements, and reviews its applicability to objects and structures of virtual 3D city models. In contrast to digital terrain models, the application of focus \& context visualization to virtual 3D city models is barely researched. However, the purposeful visualization of contextual data of is extreme importance for the interactive exploration and analysis of this field. Programmable hardware enables the implementation of new lens techniques, that allow the augmentation of the perceptive and cognitive quality of the visualization compared to classical perspective projections. A set of 3D information lenses is integrated into a 3D scene-graph system: • Occlusion lenses modify the appearance of virtual 3D city model objects to resolve their occlusion and consequently facilitate the navigation. • Best-view lenses display city model objects in a priority-based manner and mediate their meta information. Thus, they support exploration and navigation of virtual 3D city models. • Color and deformation lenses modify the appearance and geometry of 3D city models to facilitate their perception. The presented techniques for 3D information lenses and their application to virtual 3D city models clarify their potential for interactive visualization and form a base for further development.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Meyer2007,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Meyer, Eike},
  title     = {Democracy promotion by the European Union in Morocco within the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19591},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2007},
  abstract  = {The intention of this master-thesis is a critical assessment of the European Union´s (EU) approach to external democracy promotion in Morocco. The study follows a comparative approach and compares the approach pursued by the EU within the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), incepted in 2004, with the approach that it had developed up until then under the framework of the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (EMP). The comparison is done with the intention to analyse, to what degree it is justified to speak of a new impetus for democratisation through the ENP in partner countries. The analysis takes into consideration the range of possible instruments for external democracy promotion in the categories „diplomacy", „conditionality" and „positive instruments". For the comparison of democracy promotion under the EMP and the ENP it is suggested to compare the implemented measures in respect to three distinct dimensions: As a first dimension, instruments of democracy promotion are analysed with respect to the focus on indirect vs. direct instruments, e.g. those which aim at establishing socio-economic preconditions favourable to successful democratisation, vs. those which immediately intervene in the processes of political reform. As a second dimension, it is asked whether there has been a shift in the democracy promotion approach on a continuum between consensual cooptation and coercive intervention. As a third dimension, finally, it is analysed whether the approach has undergone a general intensification of efforts, e.g. whether the approach to democracy promotion has become a more active one. The analysis in this master-thesis comes to the conclusion that since the inception of the ENP the EU is indeed pursuing a slightly more direct and certainly a more active approach to democracy promotion in Morocco, while no significant change can be observed in comparison to the strictly partnership-oriented and consensual approach of the EMP. It can be argued that, under the ENP, relations to Morocco have indeed become somewhat more "political", although at the same time they are still not pro-actively oriented at a political liberalisation of the political regime. Reforms promoted by the EU in Morocco are modest and largely in line with the reform agenda of the Morrocan government itself - e.g. a still largely authoritarian monarchy. Concrete reform steps directed at an opening of the political space, which is largely reserved to the king and its administration, are neither demanded nor supported by democracy promotion instruments, also under the ENP.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Paun2007,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Paun, Christopher},
  title     = {Democratization and police reform},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-19487},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2007},
  abstract  = {This paper compares police reforms during democratization in Poland, Hungary, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. It analyses the changes to the structure of the democratic control of the police in each reform, paying special attention to the decentralization versus centralization aspect of it. The research question of this paper is: Why are some states decentralizing the democratic control of the police, while others are centralizing it, both with the aim of democratization? The theoretical background of this study are theories about policy diffusion and policy transfer. Therefore this study can be categorized as part of two different research areas. On the one hand, it is a paper from the discipline of International Relations. On the other hand, it is a paper from the discipline of Comparative Politics. The combined attention to international and national factors influencing police reform is reflected by the structure of this paper. Chapter 3 examines police structures and police reforms in established democracies as possible role models for new democracies. Chapter 4 looks at international and transnational actors that actively try to influence police reform. After having examined these external factors, three cases of police reform in new democracies are examined in chapter 5.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Jackisch2007,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Jackisch, Conrad},
  title     = {Towards applied modeling of the human-eco-system an approach of hydrology based integrated modeling of a semi-arid sub-catchment in rural north-west India},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-13513},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2007},
  abstract  = {The development of rural areas concerning food security, sustainability and social-economic stability is key issue to the globalized community. Regarding the current state of climatic change, especially semi-arid regions in uenced by monsoon or El Ni{\~n}o are prone to extreme weather events. Droughts, ooding, erosion, degradation of soils and water quality and deserti cation are some of the common impacts. State of the art in hydrologic environmental modeling is generally operating under a reductionist paradigm (Sivapalan 2005). Even an enormous quantity of process-oriented models exists, we fail in due reproduction of complexly interacting processes in their effective scale in the space-time-continuum, as they are described through deterministic small-scale process theories (e.g. Beven 2002). Yet large amounts of parameters - with partly doubtful physical expression - and input data are needed. In contradiction to that most soft information about patterns and organizing principles cannot be employed (Seibert and McDonnell 2002). For an analysis of possible strategies on the one hand towards integrated hydrologic modeling as decision support and on the other hand for sustainable land use development the 512 km2 large catchment of the Mod river in Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh, India has been chosen. It is characterized by a setting of common problems of peripheral rural semi-arid human-eco-systems with intensive agriculture, deforestation, droughts and general hardship for the people. Scarce data and missing gauges are adding to the requirements of data acquisition and process description. The study at hand presents a methodical framework to combine eld scale data analysis and remote sensing for the setup of a database focusing plausibility over strict data accuracy. The catena-based hydrologic model WASA (G{\"u}ntner 2002) employes this database. It is expanded by a routine for crop development simulation after the de Wit approach (e.g. in Bouman et al. 1996). For its application as decision support system an agentbased land use algorithm is developed which decides on base of site speci cations and certain constraints (like maximum pro t or best local adaptation) about the cropping. The new model is employed to analyze (some) land use strategies. Not anticipated and a priori de ned scenarios will account for the realization of the model but the interactions within the system. This study points out possible approaches to enhance the situation in the catchment. It also approaches central questions of ways towards due integrated hydrological modeling on catchment scale for ungauged conditions and to overcome current paradigms.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Wickert2007,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Wickert, Claudia},
  title     = {Breeding white storks in former East Prussia : comparing predicted relative occurrences across scales and time using a stochastic gradient boosting method (TreeNet), GIS and public data},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-13532},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2007},
  abstract  = {In dieser Arbeit wurden verschiedene GIS-basierte Habitatmodelle f{\"u}r den Weißstorch (Ciconia ciconia) im Gebiet der ehemaligen deutschen Provinz Ostpreußen (ca. Gebiet der russischen Exklave Kaliningrad und der polnischen Woiwodschaft Ermland-Masuren) erstellt. Zur Charakterisierung der Beziehung zwischen dem Weißstorch und der Beschaffenheit seiner Umwelt wurden verschiedene historische Datens{\"a}tze {\"u}ber den Bestand des Weißstorches in den 1930er Jahren sowie ausgew{\"a}hlte Variablen zur Habitat-Beschreibung genutzt. Die Aufbereitung und Modellierung der verwendeten Datens{\"a}tze erfolgte mit Hilfe eines geographischen Informationssystems (ArcGIS) und einer statistisch-mathematischen Methode aus den Bereichen „Machine Learning" und „Data-Mining" (TreeNet, Salford Systems Ltd.). Unter Verwendung der historischen Habitat-Parameter sowie der Daten zum Vorkommen des Weißstorches wurden quantitative Modelle auf zwei Maßstabs-Ebenen erstellt: (i) auf Punktskala unter Verwendung eines Rasters mit einer Zellgr{\"o}ße von 1 km und (ii) auf Verwaltungs-Kreisebene basierend auf der Gliederung der Provinz Ostpreußen in ihre Landkreise. Die Auswertung der erstellten Modelle zeigt, dass das Vorkommen von Storchennestern im ehemaligen Ostpreußen, unter Ber{\"u}cksichtigung der hier verwendeten Variablen, maßgeblich durch die Variablen ‚forest', ‚settlement area', ‚pasture land' und ‚coastline' bestimmt wird. Folglich l{\"a}sst sich davon ausgehen, dass eine gute Nahrungsverf{\"u}gbarkeit, wie der Weißstorch sie auf Wiesen und Weiden findet, sowie die N{\"a}he zu menschlichen Siedlungen ausschlaggebend f{\"u}r die Nistplatzwahl des Weißstorches in Ostpreußen sind. Geschlossene Waldgebiete zeigen sich in den Modellen als Standorte f{\"u}r Horste des Weißstorches ungeeignet. Der starke Einfluss der Variable ‚coastline' l{\"a}sst sich h{\"o}chstwahrscheinlich durch die starke naturr{\"a}umliche Gliederung Ostpreußens parallel zur K{\"u}stenlinie erkl{\"a}ren. In einem zweiten Schritt konnte unter Verwendung der in dieser Arbeit erstellten Modelle auf beiden Skalen Vorhersagen f{\"u}r den Zeitraum 1981-1993 getroffen werden. Dabei wurde auf dem Punktmaßstab eine Abnahme an potentiellem Bruthabitat vorhergesagt. Im Gegensatz dazu steigt die vorhergesagte Weißstorchdichte unter Verwendung des Modells auf Verwaltungs-Kreisebene. Der Unterschied zwischen beiden Vorhersagen beruht vermutlich auf der Verwendung unterschiedlicher Skalen und von zum Teil voneinander verschiedenen erkl{\"a}renden Variablen. Weiterf{\"u}hrende Untersuchungen sind notwendig, um diesen Sachverhalt zu kl{\"a}ren. Des Weiteren konnten die Modellvorhersagen f{\"u}r den Zeitraum 1981-1993 mit den vorliegenden Bestandserfassungen aus dieser Zeit deskriptiv verglichen werden. Es zeigt sich hierbei, dass die hier vorhergesagten Bestandszahlen h{\"o}her sind als die in den Z{\"a}hlungen ermittelten. Die hier erstellten Modelle beschreiben somit vielmehr die Kapazit{\"a}t des Habitats. Andere Faktoren, die die Gr{\"o}ße der Weißstorch-Population bestimmen, wie z.B. Bruterfolg oder Mortalit{\"a}t sollten in zuk{\"u}nftige Untersuchungen mit einbezogen werden. Es wurde ein m{\"o}glicher Ansatz aufgezeigt, wie man mit den hier vorgestellten Methoden und unter Verwendung historischer Daten wertvolle Habitatmodelle erstellen sowie die Auswirkung von Landnutzungs{\"a}nderungen auf den Weißstorch beurteilen kann. Die hier erstellten Modelle sind als erste Grundlage zu sehen und lassen sich mit Hilfe weitere Daten hinsichtlich Habitatstruktur und mit exakteren r{\"a}umlich expliziten Angaben zu Neststandorten des Weißstorches weiter verfeinern. In einem weiteren Schritt sollte außerdem ein Habitatmodell f{\"u}r die heutige Zeit erstellt werden. Dadurch w{\"a}re ein besserer Vergleich m{\"o}glich hinsichtlich erdenklicher Auswirkungen von {\"A}nderungen der Landnutzung und relevanten Umweltbedingungen auf den Weißstorch im Gebiet des ehemaligen Ostpreußens sowie in seinem gesamten Verbreitungsgebiet.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Flassig2008,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Flassig, Robert Johann},
  title     = {Dusty ringlets in Saturn's ring system},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-27046},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2008},
  abstract  = {Recently, several faint ringlets in the Saturnian ring system were found to maintain a peculiar orientation relative to Sun. The Encke gap ringlets as well as the ringlet in the outer rift of the Cassini division were found to have distinct spatial displacements of several tens of kilometers away from Saturn towards Sun, referred to as heliotropicity (Hedman et al., 2007). This is quite exceptional, since dynamically one would expect eccentric features in the Saturnian rings to precess around Saturn over periods of months. In our study we address this exceptional behavior by investigating the dynamics of circumplanetary dust particles with sizes in the range of 1-100 µm. These small particles are perturbed by non-gravitational forces, in particular, solar radiation pres- sure, Lorentz force, and planetary oblateness, on time-scales of the order of days. The combined influences of these forces cause periodical evolutions of grains' orbital ec- centricities as well as precession of their pericenters, which can be shown by secular perturbation theory. We show that this interaction results in a stationary eccentric ringlet, oriented with its apocenter towards the Sun, which is consistent with obser- vational findings. By applying this heliotropic dynamics to the central Encke gap ringlet, we can give a limit for the expected smallest grain size in the ringlet of about 8.7 microns, and constrain the minimal lifetime to lie in the order of months. Furthermore, our model matches fairly well the observed ringlet eccentricity in the Encke gap, which supports recent estimates on the size distribution of the ringlet material (Hedman et al., 2007). The ringlet-width however, that results from our modeling based on heliotropic dynamics, slightly overestimates the observed confined ringlet-width by a factor of 3 to 10, depending on the width-measure being used. This is indicative for mechanisms, not included in the heliotropic model, which potentially confine the ringlet to its observed width, including shepherding and scattering by embedded moonlets in the ringlet region. Based on these results, early investigations (Cuzzi et al., 1984, Spahn and Wiebicke, 1989, Spahn and Sponholz, 1989), and recent work that has been published on the F ring (Murray et al., 2008) - to which the Encke gap ringlets are found to share similar morphological structures - we model the maintenance of the central ringlet by embedded moonlets. These moonlets, believed to have sizes of hundreds of meters across, release material into space, which is eroded by micrometeoroid bombardment (Divine, 1993). We further argue that Pan - one of Saturn's moons, which shares its orbit with the central ringlet of the Encke gap - is a rather weak source of ringlet material that efficiently confines the ringlet sources (moonlets) to move on horseshoe-like orbits. Moreover, we suppose that most of the narrow heliotropic ringlets are fed by a moonlet population, which is held together by the largest member to move on horseshoe-like orbits. Modeling the equilibrium between particle source and sinks with a primitive balance equation based on photometric observations (Porco et al., 2005), we find the minimal effective source mass of the order of 3 · 10-2MPan, which is needed to keep the central ringlet from disappearing.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Fruebing2008,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Fr{\"u}bing, Judith},
  title     = {The third generation of Indians in Britain : cultural identity and cultural change},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-42668},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2008},
  abstract  = {Over the last decades Britain´s ethnic minorities have successfully established themselves in a multicultural society. In particular, Indian - Hindu communities generally improved their social and economic situation. In this context, the third generation of British Indians is now growing up. In contrast to the previous generation of the Indian diaspora, these children grow up in an established ethnic community, which learned to retain its religion, traditions and culture in a foreign environment. At the same time, these children are part of the multicultural British society. Based on the academic discussion about the second generation of immigrated ethnic communities, when the youth often suffered from cultural differences, racism and discrimination and therefore rejected aspects of their culture of origin, this paper assumes that the loss of the culture of origin further increases in the third generation. This thesis follows the main theories about the connection between generation and integration. It is believed that the preference of western culture influences the personal, ethnic and cultural identity of young people. This leads to the rejection of traditional bonds. Before introducing this thesis various theoretical concepts are discussed which are inevitable for the comprehension of the diasporic situation in which British Indian youngsters grow up. As part of the worldwide Asian Indian diaspora Indian families in Britain maintain manifold links to Indian communities in various countries. Particularly, the link to India plays a decisive role; the subcontinent is referred to as an abstract homeland, especially by the first generation. While the grandparents strongly adhere to their Indian culture and Hindu religion, the second generation already generated cultural change. In this process various cultural values of the Indian ethnic community have been questioned and modified. Further, the second generation pushed the integration into the British society by giving up the dependence on the ethnic network. This paper is based on a hybrid and fluent definition of culture. This definition also applies to the underlying understanding of identity and ethnicity. Due to migration, cultural contact and the multilocality of the diaspora, diasporic and post-diasporic identities and cultures are characterized by hybridity, heterogeneity, fragmentation and flexibility. Particularly, in the younger generation - though dependent on a number of social and structural factors - cultural change and mixture happen; in this process new ethnicities and identities evolve. In the second and third part of this paper the thesis of loss of culture of origin is refuted on the basis of findings from empirical research. British - Indian youngsters in London have been questioned for the study. Half of the youngsters are related to a sampradaya, a Hindu sect. This enables the author to compare youngsters who do not belong to a particular religious group with those who are included into a religious and / or ethnic community through a sampradaya. The analysis of the findings which are based on qualitative and quantitative social research shows that the young people have great interest in their culture of origin and that they aim to maintain this culture in the diaspora. They identify as Indian and are proud of their cultural differences. In this, they differ from the second generation. In contrast to the generation of their grandparents the Indian identity of the third generation is not based on nostalgic memories. They confirm and emphasize their postdiasporic difference in a western multicultural society. The findings from the survey hereby exceed the thesis from Hansen's theory about the rediscovery of the culture of origin in the third generation. The comparison of both groups shows that in the context of the differentiation of postmodern and postcolonial communities also ethnic groups become increasingly differentiated. Therefore, the Indian heritage and culture does not play the same role for every young British Indian.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Dietrich2008,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Dietrich, Jan Philipp},
  title     = {Phase Space Reconstruction using the frequency domain : a generalization of actual methods},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-50738},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2008},
  abstract  = {Phase Space Reconstruction is a method that allows to reconstruct the phase space of a system using only an one dimensional time series as input. It can be used for calculating Lyapunov-exponents and detecting chaos. It helps to understand complex dynamics and their behavior. And it can reproduce datasets which were not measured. There are many different methods which produce correct reconstructions such as time-delay, Hilbert-transformation, derivation and integration. The most used one is time-delay but all methods have special properties which are useful in different situations. Hence, every reconstruction method has some situations where it is the best choice. Looking at all these different methods the questions are: Why can all these different looking methods be used for the same purpose? Is there any connection between all these functions? The answer is found in the frequency domain : Performing a Fourier transformation all these methods getting a similar shape: Every presented reconstruction method can be described as a multiplication in the frequency domain with a frequency-depending reconstruction function. This structure is also known as a filter. From this point of view every reconstructed dimension can be seen as a filtered version of the measured time series. It contains the original data but applies just a new focus: Some parts are amplified and other parts are reduced. Furthermore I show, that not every function can be used for reconstruction. In the thesis three characteristics are identified, which are mandatory for the reconstruction function. Under consideration of these restrictions one gets a whole bunch of new reconstruction functions. So it is possible to reduce noise within the reconstruction process itself or to use some advantages of already known reconstructions methods while suppressing unwanted characteristics of it.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Donges2009,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Donges, Jonathan Friedemann},
  title     = {Complex networks in the climate system},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-49775},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2009},
  abstract  = {Complex network theory provides an elegant and powerful framework to statistically investigate the topology of local and long range dynamical interrelationships, i.e., teleconnections, in the climate system. Employing a refined methodology relying on linear and nonlinear measures of time series analysis, the intricate correlation structure within a multivariate climatological data set is cast into network form. Within this graph theoretical framework, vertices are identified with grid points taken from the data set representing a region on the the Earth's surface, and edges correspond to strong statistical interrelationships between the dynamics on pairs of grid points. The resulting climate networks are neither perfectly regular nor completely random, but display the intriguing and nontrivial characteristics of complexity commonly found in real world networks such as the internet, citation and acquaintance networks, food webs and cortical networks in the mammalian brain. Among other interesting properties, climate networks exhibit the "small-world" effect and possess a broad degree distribution with dominating super-nodes as well as a pronounced community structure. We have performed an extensive and detailed graph theoretical analysis of climate networks on the global topological scale focussing on the flow and centrality measure betweenness which is locally defined at each vertex, but includes global topological information by relying on the distribution of shortest paths between all pairs of vertices in the network. The betweenness centrality field reveals a rich internal structure in complex climate networks constructed from reanalysis and atmosphere-ocean coupled general circulation model (AOGCM) surface air temperature data. Our novel approach uncovers an elaborately woven meta-network of highly localized channels of strong dynamical information flow, that we relate to global surface ocean currents and dub the backbone of the climate network in analogy to the homonymous data highways of the internet. This finding points to a major role of the oceanic surface circulation in coupling and stabilizing the global temperature field in the long term mean (140 years for the model run and 60 years for reanalysis data). Carefully comparing the backbone structures detected in climate networks constructed using linear Pearson correlation and nonlinear mutual information, we argue that the high sensitivity of betweenness with respect to small changes in network structure may allow to detect the footprints of strongly nonlinear physical interactions in the climate system. The results presented in this thesis are thoroughly founded and substantiated using a hierarchy of statistical significance tests on the level of time series and networks, i.e., by tests based on time series surrogates as well as network surrogates. This is particularly relevant when working with real world data. Specifically, we developed new types of network surrogates to include the additional constraints imposed by the spatial embedding of vertices in a climate network. Our methodology is of potential interest for a broad audience within the physics community and various applied fields, because it is universal in the sense of being valid for any spatially extended dynamical system. It can help to understand the localized flow of dynamical information in any such system by combining multivariate time series analysis, a complex network approach and the information flow measure betweenness centrality. Possible fields of application include fluid dynamics (turbulence), plasma physics and biological physics (population models, neural networks, cell models). Furthermore, the climate network approach is equally relevant for experimental data as well as model simulations and hence introduces a novel perspective on model evaluation and data driven model building. Our work is timely in the context of the current debate on climate change within the scientific community, since it allows to assess from a new perspective the regional vulnerability and stability of the climate system while relying on global and not only on regional knowledge. The methodology developed in this thesis hence has the potential to substantially contribute to the understanding of the local effect of extreme events and tipping points in the earth system within a holistic global framework.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Haakh2009,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Haakh, Harald Richard},
  title     = {Cavity QED with superconductors and its application to the Casimir effect},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-32564},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2009},
  abstract  = {Diese Diplomarbeit untersucht den Casimir-Effekt zwischen normal- und supraleitenden Platten {\"u}ber einen weiten Temperaturbereich, sowie die Casimir-Polder-Wechselwirkung zwischen einem Atom und einer solchen Oberfl{\"a}che. Hierzu wurden vorwiegend numerische und asymptotische Rechnungen durchgef{\"u}hrt. Die optischen Eigenschaften der Oberfl{\"a}chen werden dann aus dielektrischen Funktionen oder optischen Leitf{\"a}higkeiten erhalten. Wichtige Modellen werden vorgestellt und insbesondere im Hinblick auf ihre analytischen und kausalen Eigenschaften untersucht. Es wird vorgestellt, wie sich die Casimir-Energie zwischen zwei normalleitenden Platten berechnen l{\"a}sst. Fr{\"u}here Arbeiten {\"u}ber den in allen metallischen Kavit{\"a}ten vorhandenen Beitrag von Oberfl{\"a}chenplasmonen zur Casimir-Wechselwirkung wurden zum ersten mal auf endliche Temperaturen erweitert. F{\"u}r Supraleiter wird eine analytische Fortsetzung der BCS-Leitf{\"a}higkeiten zu rein imagin{\"a}ren Frequenzen, sowohl innerhalb wie außerhalb des schmutzigen Grenzfalles verschwindender mittlerer freier Wegl{\"a}nge vorgestellt. Es wird gezeigt, dass die aus dieser neuen Beschreibung erhaltene freie Casimir-Energie in bestimmten Bereichen der Materialparameter hervorragend mit der im Rahmen des Zwei-Fluid-Modells f{\"u}r den Supraleiter berechneten {\"u}bereinstimmt. Die Casimir-Entropie einer supraleitenden Kavit{\"a}t erf{\"u}llt den Nernstschen W{\"a}rmesatz und weist einen charakteristischen Sprung beim Erreichen des supraleitenden Phasen{\"u}bergangs auf. Diese Effekte treten ebenfalls in der magnetischen Casimir-Polder-Wechselwirkung eines Atoms mit einer supraleitenden Oberfl{\"a}che auf. Es wird ferner gezeigt, dass die magnetische Dipol-Wechselwirkung eines Atomes mit einem Metall sehr stark von den dissipativen Eigenschaften und insbesondere von den Oberfl{\"a}chenstr{\"o}men abh{\"a}ngt. Dies f{\"u}hrt zu einer starken Unterdr{\"u}ckung der magnetischen Casimir-Polder-Energie bei endlichen Temperaturen und Abst{\"a}nden oberhalb der thermischen Wellenl{\"a}nge. Die Casimir-Polder-Entropie verletzt in einigen Modellen den Nernstschen W{\"a}rmesatz.{\"A}hnliche Effekte werden f{\"u}r den Casimir-Effekt zwischen Platten kontrovers diskutiert. In den entsprechenden elektrischen Dipol-Wechselwirkungen tritt keiner dieser Effekte auf. Die Ergebnisse dieser Arbeit legen nahe, das bekannte Plasma-Modells als Grenzfall eines Supraleiters bei niedrigen Temperaturen (bekannt als London-Theorie) zu betrachten, statt als Beschreibung eines normales Metalles. Supraleiter bieten die M{\"o}glichkeit, die Dissipation der Oberfl{\"a}chenstr{\"o}me in hohem Maße zu steuern. Dies k{\"o}nnte einen experimentellen Zugang zu den optischen Eigenschaften von Metallen bei niedrigen Frequenzen erlauben, die eng mit dem thermischen Casimir-Effekt verkn{\"u}pft sind. Anders als in entsprechenden Mikrowellen-Experimenten sind hierbei die Energien und Impulse unabh{\"a}ngige Gr{\"o}ßen. Die Messung der Oberfl{\"a}chenwechselwirkung zwischen Atomen und Supraleitern ist mit den heute verf{\"u}gbaren Atomfallen auf Mikrochips m{\"o}glich und der magnetische Anteil der Wechselwirkung sollte spektroskopischen Techniken zug{\"a}nglich sein},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Mulansky2009,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Mulansky, Mario},
  title     = {Localization properties of nonlinear disordered lattices},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-31469},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2009},
  abstract  = {In this thesis, the properties of nonlinear disordered one dimensional lattices is investigated. Part I gives an introduction to the phenomenon of Anderson Localization, the Discrete Nonlinear Schroedinger Equation and its properties as well as the generalization of this model by introducing the nonlinear index α. In Part II, the spreading behavior of initially localized states in large, disordered chains due to nonlinearity is studied. Therefore, different methods to measure localization are discussed and the structural entropy as a measure for the peak structure of probability distributions is introduced. Finally, the spreading exponent for several nonlinear indices is determined numerically and compared with analytical approximations. Part III deals with the thermalization in short disordered chains. First, the term thermalization and its application to the system in use is explained. Then, results of numerical simulations on this topic are presented where the focus lies especially on the energy dependence of the thermalization properties. A connection with so-called breathers is drawn.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{BaerHenney2009,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Baer-Henney, Dinah},
  title     = {On natural and probabilisic effects during acquisition of morphophonemic alternations},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-36819},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2009},
  abstract  = {The acquisition of phonological alternations consists of many aspects as discussions in the relevant literature show. There are contrary findings about the role of naturalness. A natural process is grounded in phonetics; they are easy to learn, even in second language acquisition when adults have to learn certain processes that do not occur in their native language. There is also evidence that unnatural - arbitrary - rules can be learned. Current work on the acquisition of morphophonemic alternations suggests that their probability of occurrence is a crucial factor in acquisition. I have conducted an experiment to investigate the effects of naturalness as well as of probability of occurrence with 80 adult native speakers of German. It uses the Artificial Grammar paradigm: Two artificial languages were constructed, each with a particular alternation. In one language the alternation is natural (vowel harmony); in the other language the alternation is arbitrary (a vowel alternation depends on the sonorancy of the first consonant of the stem). The participants were divided in two groups, one group listened to the natural alternation and the other group listened to the unnatural alternation. Each group was divided into two subgroups. One subgroup then was presented with material in which the alternation occurred frequently and the other subgroup was presented with material in which the alternation occurred infrequently. After this exposure phase every participant was asked to produce new words during the test phase. Knowledge about the language-specific alternation pattern was needed to produce the forms correctly as the phonological contexts demanded certain alternants. The group performances have been compared with respect to the effects of naturalness and probability of occurrence. The natural rule was learned more easily than the unnatural one. Frequently presented rules were not learned more easily than the ones that were presented less frequently. Moreover, participants did not learn the unnatural rule at all, whether this rule was presented frequently or infrequently did not matter. There was a tendency that the natural rule was learned more easily if presented frequently than if presented infrequently, but it was not significant due to variability across participants.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Winkler2011,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Winkler, Michael},
  title     = {Thinning and turbulence in aqueous films},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-53107},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {This thesis covers the topic "Thinning and Turbulence in Aqueous Films". Experimental studies in two-dimensional systems gained an increasing amount of attention during the last decade. Thin liquid films serve as paradigms of atmospheric convection, thermal convection in the Earth's mantle or turbulence in magnetohydrodynamics. Recent research on colloids, interfaces and nanofluids lead to advances in the developtment of micro-mixers (lab-on-a-chip devices). In this project a detailed description of a thin film experiment with focus on the particular surface forces is presented. The impact of turbulence on the thinning of liquid films which are oriented parallel to the gravitational force is studied. An experimental setup was developed which permits the capturing of thin film interference patterns under controlled surface and atmospheric conditions. The measurement setup also serves as a prototype of a mixer on the basis of thermally induced turbulence in liquid thin films with thicknesses in the nanometer range. The convection is realized by placing a cooled copper rod in the center of the film. The temperature gradient between the rod and the atmosphere results in a density gradient in the liquid film, so that different buoyancies generate turbulence. In the work at hand the thermally driven convection is characterized by a newly developed algorithm, named Cluster Imaging Velocimetry (CIV). This routine determines the flow relevant vector fields (velocity and deformation). On the basis of these insights the flow in the experiment was investigated with respect to its mixing properties. The mixing characteristics were compared to theoretical models and mixing efficiency of the flow scheme calculated. The gravitationally driven thinning of the liquid film was analyzed under the influence of turbulence. Strong shear forces lead to the generation of ultra-thin domains which consist of Newton black film. Due to the exponential expansion of the thin areas and the efficient mixing, this two-phase flow rapidly turns into the convection of only ultra-thin film. This turbulence driven transition was observed and quantified for the first time. The existence of stable convection in liquid nanofilms was proven for the first time in the context of this work.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Zuellich2011,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Z{\"u}llich, Gunda},
  title     = {Migration and development in Senegal : a system dynamics analysis of the feedback relationships},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-57836},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {This thesis investigates the reciprocal relationship between migration and development in Senegal. Therewith, it contributes to the debate as to whether migration in developing countries enhances or rather impedes the development process. Even though extensive and controversial discussions can be found in the scientific literature regarding the impact of migration on development, research has scarcely examined the feedback relationships between migration and development. Science however agrees with both the fact that migration affects development as well as that the level of development in a country determines migration behaviour. Thus, both variables are neither dependent nor independent, but endogenous variables influencing each other and producing behavioural pattern that cannot be investigated using a static and unidirectional approach. On account of this, the thesis studies the feedback mechanisms existing between migration and development and the behavioural pattern generated by the high interdependence in order to be able to draw conclusions concerning the impact of changes in migration behaviour on the development process. To explore these research questions, the study applies the computer simulation method 'System Dynamics' and amplifies the simulation model for national development planning called 'Threshold 21' (T21), representing development processes endogenously and integrating economic, social and environmental aspects, using a structure that portrays the reasons and consequences of migration. The model has been customised to Senegal, being an appropriate representative of the theoretical interesting universe of cases. The comparison of the model generated scenarios - in which the intensity of emigration, the loss and gain of education, the remittances or the level of dependence changes - facilitates the analysis. The present study produces two important results. The first outcome is the development of an integrative framework representing migration and development in an endogenous way and incorporating several aspects of different theories. This model can be used as a starting point for further discussions and improvements and it is a fairly relevant and useful result against the background that migration is not integrated into most of the development planning tools despite its significant impact. The second outcome is the gained insights concerning the feedback relations between migration and development and the impact of changes in migration on development. To give two examples: It could be found that migration impacts development positively, indicated by HDI, but that the dominant behaviour of migration and development is a counteracting behaviour. That means that an increase in emigration leads to an improvement in development, while this in turn causes a decline in emigration, counterbalancing the initial increase. Another insight concerns the discovery that migration causes a decline in education in the short term, but leads to an increase in the long term, after approximately 25 years - a typical worse-before-better behaviour. From these and further observations, important policy implications can be derived for the sending and receiving countries. Hence, by overcoming the unidirectional perspective, this study contributes to an improved understanding of the highly complex relationship between migration and development and their feedback relations.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Langer2011,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Langer, Marco},
  title     = {The effect of native forest dynamics upon the arrangements of species in oak forests-analysis of heterogeneity effects at the example of epigeal arthropods},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-55588},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {The heterogeneity in species assemblages of epigeal spiders was studied in a natural forest and in a managed forest. Additionally the effects of small-scale microhabitat heterogeneity of managed and unmanaged forests were determined by analysing the spider assemblages of three different microhabitat structures (i. vegetation, ii. dead wood. iii. litter cover). The spider were collected in a block design by pitfall traps (n=72) in a 4-week interval. To reveal key environmental factors affecting the spider distribution abiotic and biotic habitat parameters (e.g. vegetation parameters, climate parameters, soil moisture) were assessed around each pitfall trap. A TWINSPAN analyses separated pitfall traps from the natural forest from traps of the managed forest. A subsequent discriminant analyses revealed that the temperature, the visible sky, the plant diversity and the mean diameter at breast height as key discriminant factors between the microhabitat groupings designated by the TWINSPAN analyses. Finally a Redundant analysis (RDA) was done revealing similar environmental factors responsible for the spider species distribution, as a good separation of the different forest types as well as the separation of the microhabitat groupings from the TWINSPAN. Overall the study revealed that the spider communities differed between the forest types as well as between the microhabitat structures and thus species distribution changed within a forest stand on a fine spatial scale. It was documented that the structure of managed forests affects the composition of spider assemblages compared to natural forests significantly and even small scale-heterogeneity seems to influence the spider species composition.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Muriu2012,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Muriu, Abraham Rugo},
  title     = {Decentralization, citizen participation and local public service delivery : a study on the nature and influence of citizen participation on decentralized service delivery in Kenya},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-65085},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {Governments at central and sub-national levels are increasingly pursuing participatory mechanisms in a bid to improve governance and service delivery. This has been largely in the context of decentralization reforms in which central governments transfer (share) political, administrative, fiscal and economic powers and functions to sub-national units. Despite the great international support and advocacy for participatory governance where citizen's voice plays a key role in decision making of decentralized service delivery, there is a notable dearth of empirical evidence as to the effect of such participation. This is the question this study sought to answer based on a case study of direct citizen participation in Local Authorities (LAs) in Kenya. This is as formally provided for by the Local Authority Service Delivery Action Plan (LASDAP) framework that was established to ensure citizens play a central role in planning and budgeting, implementation and monitoring of locally identified services towards improving livelihoods and reducing poverty. Influence of participation was assessed in terms of how it affected five key determinants of effective service delivery namely: efficient allocation of resources; equity in service delivery; accountability and reduction of corruption; quality of services; and, cost recovery. It finds that the participation of citizens is minimal and the resulting influence on the decentralized service delivery negligible. It concludes that despite the dismal performance of citizen participation, LASDAP has played a key role towards institutionalizing citizen participation that future structures will build on. It recommends that an effective framework of citizen participation should be one that is not directly linked to politicians; one that is founded on a legal framework and where citizens have a legal recourse opportunity; and, one that obliges LA officials both to implement what citizen's proposals which meet the set criteria as well as to account for their actions in the management of public resources.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Gassner2012,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Gassner, Alexandra Carina},
  title     = {The character of the core-mantle boundary : a systematic study using PcP},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-63590},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {Assuming that liquid iron alloy from the outer core interacts with the solid silicate-rich lower mantle the influence on the core-mantle reflected phase PcP is studied. If the core-mantle boundary is not a sharp discontinuity, this becomes apparent in the waveform and amplitude of PcP. Iron-silicate mixing would lead to regions of partial melting with higher density which in turn reduces the velocity of seismic waves. On the basis of the calculation and interpretation of short-period synthetic seismograms, using the reflectivity and Gauss Beam method, a model space is evaluated for these ultra-low velocity zones (ULVZs). The aim of this thesis is to analyse the behaviour of PcP between 10° and 40° source distance for such models using different velocity and density configurations. Furthermore, the resolution limits of seismic data are discussed. The influence of the assumed layer thickness, dominant source frequency and ULVZ topography are analysed. The Gr{\"a}fenberg and NORSAR arrays are then used to investigate PcP from deep earthquakes and nuclear explosions. The seismic resolution of an ULVZ is limited both for velocity and density contrasts and layer thicknesses. Even a very thin global core-mantle transition zone (CMTZ), rather than a discrete boundary and also with strong impedance contrasts, seems possible: If no precursor is observable but the PcP_model /PcP_smooth amplitude reduction amounts to more than 10\%, a very thin ULVZ of 5 km with a first-order discontinuity may exist. Otherwise, if amplitude reductions of less than 10\% are obtained, this could indicate either a moderate, thin ULVZ or a gradient mantle-side CMTZ. Synthetic computations reveal notable amplitude variations as function of the distance and the impedance contrasts. Thereby a primary density effect in the very steep-angle range and a pronounced velocity dependency in the wide-angle region can be predicted. In view of the modelled findings, there is evidence for a 10 to 13.5 km thick ULVZ 600 km south-eastern of Moscow with a NW-SE extension of about 450 km. Here a single specific assumption about the velocity and density anomaly is not possible. This is in agreement with the synthetic results in which several models create similar amplitude-waveform characteristics. For example, a ULVZ model with contrasts of -5\% VP , -15\% VS and +5\% density explain the measured PcP amplitudes. Moreover, below SW Finland and NNW of the Caspian Sea a CMB topography can be assumed. The amplitude measurements indicate a wavelength of 200 km and a height of 1 km topography, previously also shown in the study by Kampfmann and M{\"u}ller (1989). Better constraints might be provided by a joined analysis of seismological data, mineralogical experiments and geodynamic modelling.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Metzke2013,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Metzke, Sarah},
  title     = {Synthesis and characterization of transition metal nitrides and carbides for catalysis and electrochemistry application},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-69835},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {It was the goal of this work to explore two different synthesis pathways using green chemistry. The first part of this thesis is focusing on the use of the urea-glass route towards single phase manganese nitride and manganese nitride/oxide nano-composites embedded in carbon, while the second part of the thesis is focusing on the use of the "saccharide route" (namely cellulose, sucrose, glucose and lignin) towards metal (Ni0), metal alloy (Pd0.9Ni0.1, Pd0.5Ni0.5, Fe0.5Ni0.5, Cu0.5Ni0.5 and W0.15Ni0.85) and ternary carbide (Mn0.75Fe2.25C) nanoparticles embedded in carbon. In the interest of battery application, MnN0.43 nanoparticles surrounded by a graphitic shell and embedded in carbon with a high surface area (79 m^2/g) were synthesized, following a previously set route.The comparison of the material characteristics before and after the discharge showed no remarkable difference in terms of composition and just slight differences in the morphological point of view, meaning the particles are stable but agglomerate. The graphitic shell is contributing to the resistance of the material and leads to a fine cyclic stability over 140 cycles of 230 mAh/g after the first charge/discharge and coulombic efficiencies close to 100\%. Due to the low voltage towards Li/Li+ and the low polarization, it might be an attractive anode material for lithium ion batteries. However, the capacity is still noticeably lower than the theoretical value for MnN0.43. A mixture of MnN0.43 and MnO nanoparticles embedded in carbon (surface area 93 m^2/g) was able to improve the cyclic stability to over 160 cycles giving a capacity of 811 mAh/g, which is considerably higher than the capacity of the conventional material graphite (372 mAh/g). This nano-composite seems to agglomerate less during the process of discharge. Interestingly, although the capacity is much higher than of the single phase manganese nitride, the nano-composite seems to only contain MnN0.43 nanoparticles after the process of discharge with no oxide phase to be found. Concerning catalysis application, different metal, metal alloy, and metal carbide nanoparticles were synthesized using the saccharide route. At first, systems that were already investigated before, being Pd0.9Ni0.1, Pd0.5Ni0.5, Fe0.5Ni0.5 and Mn0.75Fe2.25C using cellulose as the carbon source were prepared and tested in an alkylation reaction of toluene with benzylchloride. Unexpectedly, the metal alloys did not show any catalytic activity, but the ternary carbide Mn0.75Fe2.25C showed fine catalytic activity of 98\% conversion after 9 hour reaction time (110 °C). In a second step, the saccharide route was modified towards other carbon sources and carbon to metal ratios in order to improve the homogeneity of the samples and accessibility of the particle surfaces. The used carbon sources sucrose and glucose are similar in their basic structure of carbohydrates, but reducing the (polymeric) chain length. Indeed, the cellulose could be successfully replaced by sucrose and glucose. A lower carbon to metal ratio was found to influence the size, homogeneity and accessibility (as evidenced by TEM) of the samples. Since sucrose is an aliment, glucose is the better choice as a carbon source. Using glucose, the synthesis of Cu0.5Ni0.5 and W0.15Ni0.85 nano-composites was also possible, although the later was never obtained as pure phase. These alloy nano-composites were tested, along with nickel0 nanoparticles also prepared with glucose and on their catalytic activity towards the reduction of phenylacetylene. The results obtained let believe that any (poly) saccharide, including lignin, could be used as carbon source. The nickel0 nano-composites prepared with lignin as a carbon source were tested along with those prepared with cellulose and sucrose for their catalytic activity in the transfer hydrogenation of nitrobenzene (results compared with exposed nickel nanoparticles and nickel supported on carbon) leading to very promising results. Based on the urea-glass route and the saccharide route, simple equipment and transition metals, it was possible to have a one-pot synthesize with scale-up possibilities towards new material that can be applied in catalysis and battery systems.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Frank2013,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Frank, Mario},
  title     = {TEMPLAR : efficient determination of relevant axioms in big formula sets for theorem proving},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-72112},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2013},
  abstract  = {This document presents a formula selection system for classical first order theorem proving based on the relevance of formulae for the proof of a conjecture. It is based on unifiability of predicates and is also able to use a linguistic approach for the selection. The scope of the technique is the reduction of the set of formulae and the increase of the amount of provable conjectures in a given time. Since the technique generates a subset of the formula set, it can be used as a preprocessor for automated theorem proving. The document contains the conception, implementation and evaluation of both selection concepts. While the one concept generates a search graph over the negation normal forms or Skolem normal forms of the given formulae, the linguistic concept analyses the formulae and determines frequencies of lexemes and uses a tf-idf weighting algorithm to determine the relevance of the formulae. Though the concept is built for first order logic, it is not limited to it. The concept can be used for higher order and modal logik, too, with minimal adoptions. The system was also evaluated at the world championship of automated theorem provers (CADE ATP Systems Competition, CASC-24) in combination with the leanCoP theorem prover and the evaluation of the results of the CASC and the benchmarks with the problems of the CASC of the year 2012 (CASC-J6) show that the concept of the system has positive impact to the performance of automated theorem provers. Also, the benchmarks with two different theorem provers which use different calculi have shown that the selection is independent from the calculus. Moreover, the concept of TEMPLAR has shown to be competitive to some extent with the concept of SinE and even helped one of the theorem provers to solve problems that were not (or slower) solved with SinE selection in the CASC. Finally, the evaluation implies that the combination of the unification based and linguistic selection yields more improved results though no optimisation was done for the problems.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Debre2014,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Debre, Maria},
  title     = {Testing the limits of civil society in Jordan},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-72974},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {iii, 108},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {Civil society is either considered as a motor of democratization or stabilizer of authoritarian rule. This dichotomy is partly due to the dominance of domains-based definitions of the concept that reduce civil society to a small range of formally organized, independent and democratically oriented NGOs. Additionally, research often treats civil society as a 'black box' without differentiating between potential variations in impact of different types of civil society actors on existing regime structures. In this thesis, I present an alternative conceptualization of civil society based on the interactions of societal actors to arrive at a more inclusive understanding of the term which is more suited for analysis in non-democratic settings. The operationalization of the action-based approach I develop allows for an empirical assessment of a large range of societal activities that can accordingly be categorized from little to very civil society-like depending on their specific modes of interactions within four dimensions. I employ this operationalization in a qualitative case study including different actors in the authoritarian monarchy of Jordan which suggests that Jordanian societal actors mostly exhibit tolerant and democratically oriented modes of interaction and do not reproduce authoritarian patterns. However, even democratically oriented actors do not necessarily take on an oppositional positions vis-{\`a}-vis the authoritarian regime. Thus, the Jordanian civil society might not feature a high potential to challenge existing power structures in the country.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Treiber2014,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Treiber, Victor Oviedo},
  title     = {Rural poverty, vulnerability and food insecurity},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-302-2},
  issn      = {2197-8069},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-71263},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {viii, 68},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {Bolivia is one of the poorest countries in Latin America. This study analyzes whether rural poverty increases the incidence of food insecurity and whether food insecurity perpetuates the condition of poverty among the rural poor in Bolivia. In order to achieve this aim, the risks that households face and the capacity of households to implement coping strategies in order to mitigate vulnerability shocks are identified. We suggest that efforts by households to become food secure may be difficult in rural areas because of poverty and the vulnerability associated with a lack of physical assets, low levels of human capital, poor infrastructure, and poor health; as well as the precarious regional environment aggravating the severity of vulnerability to food insecurity.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Sauer2015,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Sauer, Tim-Oliver},
  title     = {Quasi-condensation in low-dimensional Bose gases},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-87247},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {154},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {The subject of the present thesis is the one-dimensional Bose gas. Since long-rang order is destroyed by infra-red fluctuations in one dimension, only the formation of a quasi-condensate is possible, which exhibits suppressed density fluctuations, but whose phase fluctuates strongly. It is shown that modified mean-field theories based on a symmetry-breaking approach can even characterise phase coherence properties of such a quasi-condensate properly. A correct description of the transition from the degenerate ideal Bose gas to the quasi-condensate, which is a smooth cross-over rather than a phase transition, is not possible though. Basic conditions for the applicability of the theories are not fulfilled in this regime, such that the existence of a critical point is predicted. The theories are compared on the basis of their excitation sprectum, equation of state, density fluctuations and related correlation functions. High-temperature expansions of the corresponding integrals are derived analytically for the numerical evaluation of the self-consistent integral equations. Apart from that, the Stochastic Gross-Pitaevskii equation (SGPE), a non-linear Langevin equation, is analysed numerically by means of Monte-Carlo simulations and the results are compared to those of the mean-field theories. In this context, a lot of attention is payed to the appropriate choice of the parameters. The simulations prove that the SGPE is capable of describing the cross-over properly, but highlight the limitations of the widely used local density approximation as well.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Spille2015,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Spille, Lea},
  title     = {Deciding who to blame for rape and robbery in Turkey},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-42327},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-423279},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {v, 123},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {The present study investigated the attribution of responsibility to victims and perpetrators in rape compared to robbery cases in Turkey. Each participant read three short case scenarios (vignettes) and completed items pertaining to the female victim and male perpetrator. The vignettes were systematically varied with regard to the type of crime that was committed (rape or robbery), the perpetrator's coercive strategy (physical force or exploiting the victim's alcohol-induced defenselessness), and the victim-perpetrator relationship prior to the incident (stranger, acquaintance, or ex-partner). Furthermore, participant gender and acceptance of rape myths (beliefs that justify or trivialize sexual violence) were taken into account. One half of the participants completed the rape myth acceptance (RMA) scales first and then received the vignettes, while the other half were given the vignettes first and then completed the RMA scales. As expected, more blame was attributed to victims of rape than to victims of robbery. Conversely, perpetrators of rape were blamed less than perpetrators of robbery. The more participants endorsed rape myths, the more blame was attributed to the victim and the less blame was attributed to the perpetrators. Increasing levels of RMA were associated with an increase in victim blame (VB) in both rape and robbery cases, but the increase in rape VB was significantly more pronounced than in robbery VB. Increasing RMA was associated with an attenuation of perpetrator blame (PB) that was more pronounced for rape than for robbery cases, but the difference was not significant. As expected, victims of rape were blamed more when the perpetrator exploited their defenselessness due to alcohol intoxication than when they were overpowered by physical force. Contrary to the hypothesis, this was also true for robbery victims. Rape victims who knew their attacker (ex-partner or acquaintance) were blamed more than victims who were assaulted by strangers. Contrary to the hypothesis, robbery victims who were assaulted by an ex-partner were blamed more than acquaintance or stranger robbery victims. As predicted, the closer the relationship between victim and perpetrator, the less blame was attributed to perpetrators of rape while this factor had no effect on PB in robbery cases. Men compared to women attributed more blame to the victims and less blame to the perpetrators. As expected, these gender differences in blame attributions were partially mediated by gender differences in RMA: After RMA was taken into account, the gender differences disappeared nearly completely for VB and were significantly reduced in PB. The order of presentation of the vignettes and the RMA measures was systematically varied to test the causal influence of RMA on rape blame attributions. The hypothesis that RMA causes VB and PB in rape cases (as opposed to the other way around or both are caused by a third variable) was not supported. Possible reasons for this failed manipulation and its implications for the mediation model are discussed. With regard to blame attribution in rape cases, the present results match what was expected from previous studies which were mainly conducted in "Western" countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, or Germany. The present results support the notion that the victim-perpetrator relationship and the victim's alcohol consumption are cross-culturally stable factors for blame attribution in rape cases. It was expected that blame attribution in robbery cases would be unaffected by the perpetrator's coercive strategy and the victim-perpetrator relationship, but the results were inconsistent. One unexpected effect is particularly noteworthy: When the perpetrator used physical force, more blame was attributed to rape than to robbery victims, but intoxicated victims were blamed more and almost equally so for both types of crime. Perpetrators who exploited drunk victims were blamed less in both rape and robbery cases. These results contradict German results collected with the German version of the same instruments (Bieneck \& Krah{\´e}, 2011). Turkey is a Muslim country and alcohol is surrounded by a certain taboo. Possibly, the results reflect a cultural difference in that intoxicated victims are generally blamed more for their victimization and this factor is not limited to rape cases.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Scharrer2016,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Scharrer, Christian},
  title     = {Relating diameter and mean curvature for varifolds},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-97013},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {42},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {The main results of this thesis are formulated in a class of surfaces (varifolds) generalizing closed and connected smooth submanifolds of Euclidean space which allows singularities. Given an indecomposable varifold with dimension at least two in some Euclidean space such that the first variation is locally bounded, the total variation is absolutely continuous with respect to the weight measure, the density of the weight measure is at least one outside a set of weight measure zero and the generalized mean curvature is locally summable to a natural power (dimension of the varifold minus one) with respect to the weight measure. The thesis presents an improved estimate of the set where the lower density is small in terms of the one dimensional Hausdorff measure. Moreover, if the support of the weight measure is compact, then the intrinsic diameter with respect to the support of the weight measure is estimated in terms of the generalized mean curvature. This estimate is in analogy to the diameter control for closed connected manifolds smoothly immersed in some Euclidean space of Peter Topping. Previously, it was not known whether the hypothesis in this thesis implies that two points in the support of the weight measure have finite geodesic distance.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Wack2016,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Wack, Christian},
  title     = {Acceptance criteria as part of the German energy turnaround},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-395173},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {88},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Die vorliegende Arbeit ist eine Fallstudie zum Netzausbauprojekt „Suedlink". Sie gliedert sich demnach in vier wesentliche Abschnitte: 1. In einem theoretischen Teil werden die f{\"u}r diese Arbeit wichtigen Theorien der „Sozialen Akzeptanz" nach W{\"u}stenhagen et al. (2007), der „Schritte der Partizipation" nach M{\"u}nnich (2014) und der Governance-Theorie nach Benz und Dose (2011) erl{\"a}utert. 2. In einem methodischen Teil werden die f{\"u}r diese Arbeit relevanten Methoden diskutiert und kritisch erl{\"a}utert. 3. In einem qualitativ-empirischen Teil werden die Informationen der Experteninterviews ausgewertet und anhand der vorgestellten Theorien eingeordnet. In dem vierten und letzten Teil der Arbeit wird eine empirisch-quantitative Analyse der gesellschaftlichen Akzeptanz gegen{\"u}ber S{\"u}dlink vorgenommen. In dieser Arbeit soll mithilfe qualitativer und quantitativer Methoden zwei Fragen gekl{\"a}rt werden. 1. Welche Governance-Aspekte waren f{\"u}r eine gesetzliche Priorit{\"a}t von Erdkabeln im Ausbau von Hochspannungs{\"u}bertragungsgleichstromleitungen entscheidend? Hierf{\"u}r wurden intensive Dokumentenanalysen und verschiedene Experteninterviews durchgef{\"u}hrt. 2. Die zentrale Fragestellung dieser Arbeit besch{\"a}ftigt sich mit der Frage, inwiefern lokale und individuelle Faktoren die Akzeptanz von Suedlink beeinflussen. Hierbei ist interessant zu sehen, welchen Einfluss der gesetzliche Erdkabelvorrang bei der Akzeptanzbildung der Bev{\"o}lkerung gegen{\"u}ber Suedlink gespielt hat. F{\"u}r die Beantwortung wurde ein Online-survey konzipiert, welcher zwischen M{\"a}rz und Juli 2016 {\"u}ber B{\"u}rgerinitiativen, Landr{\"a}te und soziale Netzwerke verteilt wurde. Nach Abschluss der Datenerhebung wurden dieser unter Verwendung deskriptiv-quantitativer Methoden ausgewertet. Die Auswertung der Umfrage zeigt auf, das Erdkabel alleine keine nennenswerte Akzeptanz schaffen (vgl. dazu Menges und Beyer, 2013). Vielmehr stehen individuell und lokale Faktoren und Kriterien im Vordergrund der Beurteilung. Zum Beispiel spielt die Qualit{\"a}t der Partizipation und Einbindung der B{\"u}rger sowie die N{\"a}he zur Erdverkabelung und die finanzielle Mehrbelastung eine Rolle bei der Beurteilung von Erdkabeln. Zudem wird deutlich, das Befragte aus B{\"u}rgerinitiativen wesentlich kritischer gegen Suedlink allgemein und gegen{\"u}ber Erdkabeln im speziellen sind. Ferner ist signifikant, dass Eigenheimbesitzer jegliche Bauform ablehnen.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Schmidt2016,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Schmidt, Andreas},
  title     = {Udmurt as an OV language},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-89465},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {iii, 94},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {This is the first study to investigate Hubert Haider's (2000, 2010, 2013, 2014) proposed systematic differences between OV and VO language in a family other than Germanic. Its aim is to gather evidence on whether basic word order is predictive of further properties of a language. The languages under investigation are the Finno-Ugric languages Udmurt (as an OV language) and Finnish (as a VO language). Counter to Kayne (1994), Haider proposes that the structure of a sentence with a head-final VP is fundamentally different from that of a sentence with a head-initial VP, e.g., OV languages do not exhibit a VP-shell structure, and they do not employ a TP layer with a structural subject position. Haider's proposed structural differences are said to result in the following empirically testable differences: (a) VP: the availability of VP-internal adverbial intervention and scrambling only in OV-VPs; (b) subjects: the lack of certain subject-object asymmetries in OV languages, i.e., lack of the subject condition and lack of superiority effects; (c) V-complexes: the availability of partial predicate fronting only in OV languages; different orderings between selecting and selected verbs; the intervention of non-verbal material between verbs only in VO languages; (d) V-particles: differences in the distribution of resultative phrases and verb particles. Udmurt and Finnish behave in line with Haider's predictions with regard to the status of the subject, with regard to the order of selecting and selected verbs, and with regard to the availability of partial predicate fronting. Moreover, Udmurt allows for adverbial intervention and scrambling, as predicted, whereas the status of these properties in Finnish could not be reliably determined due to obligatory V-to-T. There is also counterevidence to Haider's predictions: Udmurt allows for non-verbal material between verbs, and the distribution of resultative phrases and verb particles is essentially as free as the distribution of adverbial phrases in both Finno-Ugric languages. As such, Haider's theory is not falsified by the data from Udmurt and Finnish (except for his theory on verb particles), but it is also not fully supported by the data.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Fischer2016,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Fischer, Friederike},
  title     = {SLA research and course books for EFL},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-395163},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {63},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Die vorliegende Arbeit besch{\"a}ftigt sich mit der Grammatikvermittlung im Englischunterricht. Im Rahmen dessen wird ein Schulbuch (English G 21 A2) daraufhin untersucht ob es kompatibel mit aktuellen Theorien zum Zweitspracherwerb ist. Zu Beginn der Arbeit werden historische und aktuelle Auffassungen zur Grammatikvermittlung zusammengefasst und im Anschluss der aktuelle Rahmenlehrplan auf seine Aussagen hinsichtlich der zu vermittelnden Grammatik im Fremdsprachenunterricht untersucht. Hierbei wird deutlich dass der Rahmenlehrplan des Landes Brandenburg wenige Vorgaben bez{\"u}glich der grammatischen Ph{\"a}nomene, die behandelt werden sollen, gibt. Dies erkl{\"a}rt unter anderem den hohen Stellenwert, den Lehrb{\"u}cher im Fremdsprachenunterricht haben. Sie dienen den Lehrenden als Materialquelle und gleichzeitig als Richtlinie daf{\"u}r, welche Themen wie und in welcher Reihenfolge unterrichtet werden k{\"o}nnen. Es folgt eine {\"U}bersicht {\"u}ber kognitive Theorien des Zweitspracherwerbs und des Sprachunterrichts, u.a. Krashens Monitorhypothese, R. Ellis' Weak Interface Modell oder Pienemanns Processability Theory. Auf der Basis dieser Theorien werden Kriterien f{\"u}r die Gestaltung von Schulb{\"u}chern, die einen m{\"o}glichst aktuellen Erkenntnissen folgenden Grammatikunterricht unterst{\"u}tzen herausgearbeitet. Dazu geh{\"o}ren das Anbieten von viel zielsprachlichem Input, Bereitstellung von {\"U}bungen (practice) und bewusstmachenden Aktivit{\"a}ten (consciousness-raising activities), das Beachten der Erwerbssequenz und das Bereitstellen eines diagnostischen Instruments sodass die Sch{\"u}lerinnen und Sch{\"u}ler herausfinden k{\"o}nnen, wo sie im Fremdsprachenerwerb stehen und woran sie noch arbeiten m{\"u}ssen. Auch das Anbieten vieler Gelegenheiten zur (individuellen) Wiederholung wird als sehr wichtig herausgestellt. All diese Vorgaben stehen nat{\"u}rlich unter dem Vorbehalt dass Schulb{\"u}cher den Unterricht nur in begrenztem Maße beeinflussen k{\"o}nnen und die endg{\"u}ltigen Entscheidungen von den Lehrenden in der Situation getroffen werden. F{\"u}r den Analyseteil wird eine kommunikative Absicht, die in der Regel im Englischunterricht der Sekundarstufe 1 behandelt wird, herausgegriffen. Es handelt sich dabei um die F{\"a}higkeit, {\"u}ber die Zukunft zu sprechen. Dazu werden zun{\"a}chst die M{\"o}glichkeiten im Englischen {\"u}ber die Zukunft zu sprechen beschrieben und in der didaktischen Analyse f{\"u}r die Vermittlung im Unterricht reduziert. Nach einer Beschreibung des betrachteten Schulbuchs und der Behandlung dieses Themas in diesem Buch wird dies mit den ausgearbeiteten Kriterien verglichen. Hierbei stellt sich heraus, dass das Buch in vielen Punkten durchaus mit aktuellen Zweitspracherwerbstheorien kompatibel ist (z.B. bez{\"u}glich des Einarbeitens von Erkl{\"a}rungen zu grammatikalischen Strukturen) in anderen jedoch noch Raum f{\"u}r Verbesserungen besteht (z.B. bez{\"u}glich der F{\"u}lle des Inputs und der Anzahl an bewusstmachenden Aktivit{\"a}ten).},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Thomae2017,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Thom{\"a}, Jonas},
  title     = {Swearing in a public place},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-409521},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {81},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {Die vorliegende Arbeit behandelt das Vorkommen von Schimpfw{\"o}rtern auf der online Plattform "Reddit". Die drei zugrundeliegenden Forschungsfragen sind: Wie oft werden Schimpfw{\"o}rter benutzt? Wie werden diese von den Lesern aufgenommen? Beeinflusst das Thema einer Konversation die Reaktion der Leser und die allgemeine H{\"a}ufigkeit der Nutzung? Die zugrundeliegenden Daten beinhalten fast 900 Millionen W{\"o}rter und stammen aus dem Februar 2017. Sie sind damit h{\"o}chstaktuell und repr{\"a}sentativ. Im Vergleich zu anderen Untersuchungen ist das Korpus damit wesentlich gr{\"o}ßer. Zus{\"a}tzlich werden im theoretischen Teil die linguistischen Grundlagen zu Schimpfw{\"o}rtern er{\"o}rtert. Dazu geh{\"o}ren u.a. Konzepte wie die H{\"o}flichkeitstheorie, das Thema Tabu und die dazugeh{\"o}renden Worte und Zensur. Dies wird getan um die Faktoren, die die Benutzung und Verwendung von Schimpfw{\"o}rtern beeinflussen darzulegen. Dabei wird herausgestellt, was Schimpfw{\"o}rter so besonders im Vergleich zu anderen Wortgruppen macht. Zudem werden weitere Forschungsergebnisse, die aus anderen Korpora stammen dargelegt und hinterher mit den Resultaten verglichen. Dies beinhaltet Korpora die sich ebenfalls aus Onlinekommunikationen zusammensetzen, sowie Korpora die gesprochene Sprache wiedergeben. Die Ergebnisse aus allen dargestellten Korpora behandeln Ergebnisse aus der englischen Sprache. Die Ergebnisse dieser Studie weisen daraufhin, dass die Schimpfw{\"o}rter auf Reddit ungef{\"a}hr gleichh{\"a}ufig wie auf anderen Plattformen benutzt werden. Die Reaktionen auf diese Schimpfw{\"o}rter ist {\"u}berdurchschnittlich positiv, was darauf schließen l{\"a}sst, dass die Benutzung von Schimpfw{\"o}rtern auf Reddit nicht als unh{\"o}flich aufgefasst wird. Zudem konnte ein Einfluss des Diskussionsthemas auf die H{\"a}ufigkeit und Rezeption von Schimpfw{\"o}rtern festgestellt werden.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Elsaesser2017,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Els{\"a}sser, Joshua Philipp},
  title     = {Institutional interplay in global environmental governance},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-406183},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {V, 64},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {The Rio Conventions stand at the centerpiece of international cooperation within the governance area of climate change, biodiversity, and desertification. Due to substantial environmental and political linkages, there are interrelations between the three regimes. This study seeks to examine the inter-institutional relationship between the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention on Biological Diversity and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification by analyzing and assessing their horizontal interplay activities from the starting point of their genesis at Earth Summit in 1992 until today. In this research, I address the connections between the three conventions and identify the conflicting, cooperative, and synergetic aspects of inter-institutional relationship. While the overall empirical analysis suggests weak indications of a conflictive type, this research asserts that the interplay activities have thus far led to a cooperative relationship between the Rio Conventions. Moreover, increasing coordination and collaboration between the conventions' treaty secretariats signals characteristics of a synergetic relationship, which could open up a potential window of opportunity for these actors to further engage and progress in institutional management in the future. In a conclusion, this study explores the possibility of the formation of an overarching environmental institution as a result of joint institutional management within the complex of climate change, biodiversity, and desertification.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Petersen2017,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Petersen, Gesa Maria},
  title     = {Source array and receiver array analysis of Vogtland/ West Bohemia earthquake clusters},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-406671},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {107},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {Die Region Vogtland/ West B{\"o}hmen im Grenzgebiet zwischen Deutschland und Tschechien ist bekannt f{\"u}r ihre geologische Aktivit{\"a}t. Holoz{\"a}ner Vulkanismus, Gasaustritte an Mofetten und Quellen und wiederkehrende Erdbebenschw{\"a}rme sind Ausdruck geodynamischer Prozesse im Untergrund. W{\"a}hrend des Erdbebenschwarms 2008/2009 in Nov{\´y} Kostel installierte die Universit{\"a}t Potsdam ein tempor{\"a}res Array in Rohrbach, in einer Epizentraldistanz von etwa 10 km und mit einer Aperatur von etwa 0.75 km. 22 Erdbeben wurden f{\"u}r Quellarray- beam forming ausgew{\"a}hlt. Quellarrays sind {\"o}rtliche Cluster von Erdbeben, die von einer Empf{\"a}ngerstation aufgezeichnet werden. Wegen der Reziprozit{\"a}t der Green'schen Funktionen k{\"o}nnen diese in {\"a}hnlicher Weise genutzt werden wie Empf{\"a}ngerarrays, bei denen mehrere Stationen ein einzelnes Beben aufzeichnen. Die Kreuzkorrelationskoeffizienten aller Beben des Quellarrays, aufgezeichnet an einer einzelnen Station, sind in der Regel h{\"o}her als f{\"u}r einzelne Ereignisse, die an allen Stationen des Empf{\"a}ngerarrays aufgezeichnet wurden. Dies deutet hinsichtlich der aufgel{\"o}sten Frequenzen auf einen heterogenen Untergrund unter den Array-Stationen und ein vergleichsweise homogenes Quellarray-Volumen hin. Beam forming wurde mit den horizontalen und vertikalen Spuren aller Quellarray-Beben, aufgezeichnet auf allen 11 Stationen des Empf{\"a}ngerarrays, durchgef{\"u}hrt. Die Ergebnisse wurden im Hinblick auf Konversionen und reflektierte Phasen analysiert. W{\"a}hrend die theoretische Richtung der direkten P-Welle im Falle der Quellarray-Aufzeichnungen gut {\"u}bereinstimmt, wird eine Empf{\"a}ngerarray-Missweisung von 15° bis 25° beobachtet. Eine PS Phase, die der direkten P Phase folgt und eine m{\"o}gliche SP Phase, die kurz vor der direkten S-Phase ankommt, wurden auf den summierten Spuren mehrerer Stationen interpretiert. Aus der Betrachtung der Laufzeiten resultiert eine Konversionstiefe von 0.6-0.9 km Tiefe. Ein zweites Quellarray, bestehend aus 12 tieferen Beben wurde zus{\"a}tzlich analysiert, um eine nach ca. 0.85 s ausschließlich auf den Aufzeichnungen tieferer Beben auftretende Strukturphase zu deuten. Zus{\"a}tzlich zum beam forming wurden zwei Lokalisierungsmethoden von Reflexionen und Konversionen f{\"u}r einfach reflektierte/konvertierte Phasen entwickelt und zur Auswertung verwendet. W{\"a}hrend die erste, analytische Methode eine homogene Geschwindigkeit entlang des Laufwegs annimmt, wird in der zweiten Methode eine 3-D-Rastersuche ausgef{\"u}hrt, in der ein 1-D-Geschwindigkeitsmodell verwendet wird. Auf Grund der eindeutigen beam forming Ergebnisse und der hohen {\"A}hnlichkeit der Wellenformen der Erdbeben, die f{\"u}r das Quellarray genutzt wurden, bieten Quellarrays bestehend aus Mikrobeben aus dem untersuchten Gebiet gute M{\"o}glichkeiten zur Untersuchung von Krustenstrukturen.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Rottler2017,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Rottler, Erwin},
  title     = {Implementation of a snow routine into the hydrological model WASA-SED and its validation in a mountainous catchment},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-50496},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-504963},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {IV, 64},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {In many regions of the world, snow accumulation and melt constitute important components of the hydrologic cycle. With the objective to improve model performance of the hydrological model WASA-SED (Water Availability in Semi-Arid environments - SEDiments) in catchments affected by snow and ice, a physically-based snow routine has been implemented into the model. The snow routine bases on the energy-balance method of the ECHSE (Eco-hydrological Simulation Environment) software. A first test application has been conducted in two sub-basins of the Is{\´a}bena river catchment (Central Spanish Pre-Pyrenees). Results were validated using satellite-derived snow cover data. Furthermore, a rainfall gauge correction algorithm to restore the liquid precipitation signal of measurements affected by solid precipitation was applied. The snow module proved to be able to capture the dynamics of the snow cover forming during the cold months of the year. The temporary storage of water in the snow cover is able to improve simulations of river discharge. General patterns of the temporal evolution of observed and simulated snow cover fractions coincide. The work conducted only represents a first step in the process of implementation and evaluation of a physically-based snow routine into WASA-SED. Future work is necessary to further improve and test the snow routine and to resolve difficulties that occurred during model applications in the catchment.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Holtz2018,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Holtz, Johannes Niklas},
  title     = {Civil servants' commitment to change - a factor of success regarding the reform of public budgeting and accounting in the State of Brandenburg?},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {2190-4561},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-420792},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {IV, 79},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {This study investigates the reform of the public budgeting and accounting system (Doppik) in Brandenburg. On the one hand, this thesis aims to identify the key variables shaping employees' commitment to change and, on the other hand, to examine the extent employees' commitment to change influences the implementation process of the reform. The results of this study show that the commitment of civil servants towards the Doppik is primarily determined by the content, but also by the context of the reform. Moreover, it is revealed for the case of Brandenburg that civil servants' affective commitment to change has a significant positive influence on the perceived success of the reform implementation. The results of the study are not only of high scientific importance, but also of practical relevance. The recommendations developed in this study offer grounded guidelines on how to successfully implement the Doppik on local level in Brandenburg.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Steiglechner2018,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Steiglechner, Peter},
  title     = {Estimating global warming from anthropogenic heat emissions},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-49886},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-498866},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {The forcing from the anthropogenic heat flux (AHF), i.e. the dissipation of primary energy consumed by the human civilisation, produces a direct climate warming. Today, the globally averaged AHF is negligibly small compared to the indirect forcing from greenhouse gas emissions. Locally or regionally, though, it has a significant impact. Historical observations show a constant exponential growth of worldwide energy production. A continuation of this trend might be fueled or even amplified by the exploration of new carbon-free energy sources like fusion power. In such a scenario, the impacts of the AHF become a relevant factor for anthropogenic post-greenhouse gas climate change on the global scale, as well. This master thesis aims at estimating the climate impacts of such a growing AHF forcing. In the first part of this work, the AHF is built into simple and conceptual, zero- and one-dimensional Energy Balance Models (EBMs), providing quick order of magnitude estimations of the temperature impact. In the one-dimensional EBM, the ice-albedo feedback from enhanced ice melting due to the AHF increases the temperature impact significantly compared to the zero-dimensional EBM. Additionally, the forcing is built into a climate model of intermediate complexity, CLIMBER-3α. This allows for the investigation of the effect of localised AHF and gives further insights into the impact of the AHF on processes like the ocean heat uptake, sea ice and snow pattern changes and the ocean circulation. The global mean temperature response from the AHF today is of the order of 0.010 - 0.016 K in all reasonable model configurations tested. A transient tenfold increase of this forcing heats up the Earth System additionally by roughly 0.1 - 0.2 K in the presented models. Further growth can also affect the tipping probability of certain climate elements. Most renewable energy sources do not or only partially contribute to the AHF forcing as the energy from these sources dissipates anyway. Hence, the transition to a (carbon-free) renewable energy mix, which, in particular, does not rely on nuclear power, eliminates the local and global climate impacts from the increasing AHF forcing, independent of the growth of energy production.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Galetzka2018,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Galetzka, Cedric},
  title     = {Reward and prediction errors in Bayesian sensorimotor control},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-50350},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-503507},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {53},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Midbrain dopamine neurons invigorate responses by signaling opportunity costs (tonic dopamine) and promote associative learning by encoding a reward prediction error signal (phasic dopamine). Recent studies on Bayesian sensorimotor control have implicated midbrain dopamine concentration in the integration of prior knowledge and current sensory information. The present behavioral study addressed the contributions of tonic and phasic dopamine in a Bayesian decision-making task by alternating reward magnitude and inferring reward prediction errors. Twenty-four participants were asked to indicate the position of a hidden target stimulus under varying prior and likelihood uncertainty. Trial-by-trial rewards were allocated based on performance and two different reward maxima. Overall, participants' behavior agreed with Bayesian decision theory, but indicated excessive reliance on likelihood information. These results thus oppose accounts of statistically optimal integration in sensorimotor control, and suggest that the sensorimotor system is subject to additional decision heuristics. Moreover, higher reward magnitude was not observed to induce enhanced response vigor, and was associated with less Bayes-like integration. In addition, the weighting of prior knowledge and current sensory information proceeded independently of reward prediction errors. Taken together, these findings suggest that the process of combining prior and likelihood uncertainties in sensorimotor control is largely robust to variations in reward.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Reger2018,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Reger, Carolin},
  title     = {Dating of alluvial fans from NW Argentina using cosmogenic nuclides and optically stimulated luminescence technique},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-47147},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-471470},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {4, IV},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Alluvial fans are important geomorphic markers and sedimentary archives of tectonic and climatic changes. Hence, basins providing perfect studying conditions can often be found in arid regions due to the low weathering impact and thus well preservation of sedimentary features. Twelve samples for optically/infrared stimulated luminescence (OSL/IRSL) dating and one depth profile for cosmogenic radionuclide dating (10Be) were collected in the Santa Maria Valley in NW Argentina, where the exceptional preservation of several generations of alluvial fans allow exploring the external forcing conditions that led to repeated cycles of incision and aggradation. The results of the OSL/IRSL dating yielded ages ranging between 0.4 ± 0.1 ka and 271.8 ± 24.5 ka. Previous studies next to the study area indicate a depositional age of 1.5-2 Mio years for the oldest generation of alluvial fans, which might still be supported by our ongoing 10Be dating. Due to field observations, sediment provenance, stratigraphic characteristics and the geomorphic pattern of erosion, seven (/eight) generations of alluvial fan deposits were recognized. Comparing my ages with global glaciation cycles as well as linking them to temperature proxies retrieved from a lake on the Altiplano Plateau, a good fit between alluvial fan accumulation phases and global glacial periods (corresponding to cold/wet phases within the central Andes) is observed. This suggests that aggradation occurs during the early stages of glacial periods, while incision is expected at the end of glacial phases. This pattern might be linked to variations in the vegetational cover (controlled by water availability), which will decrease/increase during hot and dry/cold and wet interglacial/glacial phases favoring/limiting sediment production and will increase/decrease during cold and wet/hot and dry glacial/interglacial phases. Even though the eastern Andean margin is showing neotectonic activities and is assumed to be active up to recent times, deformation and seismicity might most probably have played only a minor role in relation to the rather short timescale reflected by the data.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Tuncer2019,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Tuncer, Diba},
  title     = {Pedagogy of integrity},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-43229},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-432294},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {99},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Die Masterarbeit „Integrit{\"a}tsp{\"a}dagogik. Eine Analyse der Konzeption und der Durchf{\"u}hrung des Masterstudiengangs Anglophone Modernities in Literature and Culture" befasst sich mit kolonialen Mustern in der Hochschulbildungspraxis, arbeitet einen theoretisch-fundierten Rahmen f{\"u}r Dekolonisierung akademischer Lehr-/Lernpraxis auf den mikro- und mesodidaktischen Handlungsebenen aus und schl{\"a}gt konkrete L{\"o}sungswege und Dekolonisierungspraktiken vor, die besonders f{\"u}r Studieng{\"a}nge, deren inhaltlichen Ausrichtungen sich postkolonialen Thematiken widmet, von großer Relevanz sind. Anders als typische postkoloniale Studien, besteht die Arbeit nicht nur aus einer theoretischen Ausarbeitung, sondern auch aus einer eigenen empirischen Untersuchung (Triangulation zwischen Dokumentenanalyse und einer Umfrage). In der Arbeit wird die These vertreten und entlang der Arbeit begr{\"u}ndet, dass Bildung von kolonialen Mustern befreit werden soll, damit Partizipation f{\"u}r alle m{\"o}glich wird. Substanz f{\"u}r die Argumentation zur These liefern unterschiedliche Konzeptionen von kritischer P{\"a}dagogik, wie z.B. Ausarbeitungen von Paulo Freire und bell hooks, und deren Verschr{\"a}nkung mit Konzeptionen {\"u}ber anthropologische Modalit{\"a}ten des Lernens Erwachsener (u.a. Mezirow's transformatives Lernen; Arnold's Deutungsmusteransatz) und modernen Ausarbeitungen, die Lernen und sozialer Gerechtigkeit zu verbinden suchen (u.a. der in dem US-amerikanischen Raum verbreitete Ansatz des Social Justice Learning). Weitere Thesen der Abschlussarbeit sind, dass (1) die vorzufindenden Ungleichhalt-erhaltenden Dynamiken an westlichen Hochschulen eine Erbe der kolonialen Zeit und Denkweise darstellen, die im Bildungsbereich weiterhin wirken und im Kontext von Internationalisierung, Migration und Partizipation zur Multiplizierung von sozialer Ungleichheit f{\"u}hren; (2) dass alle, aber besonders diejenigen Studieng{\"a}nge, die sich inhaltlich mit Ungleichheitsph{\"a}nomenen, gesellschaftlicher und kultureller Vielfalt, Macht und herrschaftskritischen Thematiken sowie mit postkolonialer Kritik befassen, bem{\"u}ht sein sollten, im selbst-verantworteten Lernraum Pr{\"a}missen von Equity und Ausgleich von Machtverh{\"a}ltnissen sowie Chancengleichheit f{\"u}r Lehrende und Studierende zu verk{\"o}rpern, um glaubw{\"u}rdig zu bleiben; (3) dass Dekolonisierung vom Bildungsraum durch entsprechendes didaktisches Handeln auf den Meso- (Institution) und Mikroebenen (Lehr-/Lernarrangements) bei ausreichender Wille und Bereitschaft verantwortlicher Fachkr{\"a}fte an Hochschulen m{\"o}glich sind. Das Thema wird auch in einer empirischen Untersuchung bearbeitet. Durch Sichtung von repr{\"a}sentativen Dokumenten mithilfe der Methode ‚close reading', die der Studiengang ver{\"o}ffentlicht hat, durch die exemplarische Analyse der Konzeption einer Lehr-/Lernveranstaltung sowie anhand von einer Studierendenumfrage wird untersucht, inwiefern der Masterstudiengang „Anglophone Modernities in Literature and Culture" an der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam Anforderungen an einer dekolonisierten Hochschulbildung erf{\"u}llt bzw. Wille f{\"u}r dekoloniale Bildungsarbeit wahrnehmbar ist. Die Untersuchungsergebnisse zeugen vom Bedarf f{\"u}r st{\"a}rkere normative Positionierung vonseiten des Studiengangs, w{\"a}hrend viele Praktiken identifiziert wurden, die f{\"u}r das Bekenntnis des Studiengangs zur Partizipation, sozialer Gerechtigkeit und Diversity zeugen. Im letzten Kapitel werden die Ergebnisse der theoretischen Ausarbeitung und der empirischen Untersuchung in dem Konzept einer auf Integrit{\"a}t basierenden P{\"a}dagogik geb{\"u}ndelt und Vorschl{\"a}ge f{\"u}r die Unterrichtspraxis im Studiengang formuliert, die helfen sollen, die Diskrepanz zwischen Wille und Praxis zu {\"u}berwinden, und f{\"u}r das Anstoßen dekolonisierender Entwicklungen an anderen Lehrst{\"u}hlen auch aufschlussreich sein k{\"o}nnten. Ein zentrales Ergebnis der Masterarbeit ist die interdisziplin{\"a}re Herangehensweise im Forschungsdesign, welche postkoloniale Theorien zu Erwachsenenbildung auf der bestehenden akademischen Bildungspraxis bezieht sowie exemplarisch an einer Hochschule in der Form von Fallstudie f{\"u}r einen Studiengang konkret {\"u}berpr{\"u}ft. Des Weiteren liefert die Ausarbeitung Theorie-abgeleiteten Kriterien f{\"u}r die Analyse von Studieng{\"a}ngen in Hinblick auf koloniale Praktiken bzw. Dekolonisierung sowie einen Katalog von Schritten, die implementiert werden k{\"o}nnen, wenn sich ein Studiengang im Rahmen von internen Entwicklungsprozessen von Ungleichheitspraktiken befreien m{\"o}chte. In der theoretischen Ausarbeitung wird der bestehende Begriff der traditionellen bzw. nicht-traditionellen Studierenden weiterentwickelt, so dass dadurch {\"U}berlegungen {\"u}ber Differenzlinien und Diversit{\"a}t von Studierenden differenzierter aufgestellt werden k{\"o}nnen, als wenn dabei lediglich Race, Class, Gender-Kriterien in Betracht gezogen w{\"u}rden. Dar{\"u}ber hinaus wird in der Arbeit der Begriff der Integrit{\"a}tsp{\"a}dagogik (Pedagogy of Integrity) entwickelt und begr{\"u}ndet, was einen konkreten Umgang mit Dekolonisierung der Hochschulbildungspraxis vorschl{\"a}gt und normative sowie praxis-bezogene Implikationen beinhaltet. Dadurch sucht die Abschlussarbeit, einen konkreten Beitrag zur gerechten Gestaltung vom Lehr-/Lernraum im deutschen Hochschulbereich zu leisten, welcher sich unabh{\"a}ngig von sozio-{\"o}konomischer, sozial-kultureller, religi{\"o}ser Herkunft sowie unabh{\"a}ngig von Nationalit{\"a}t, Hautfarbe, Geschlecht, sexueller Orientierung und Alter der Menschen an der Hochschule f{\"o}rderlich auswirkt und allen Lehrenden und Studierenden in gleicher Weise erm{\"o}glicht, sich akademisch zu entwickeln und den wissenschaftlichen Diskurs in ihren jeweiligen Disziplinen durch tats{\"a}chliche, gelebte Partizipation, mitzugestalten.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{BrigardTorres2019,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Brigard Torres, Juan Camilo},
  title     = {An aesthetic cartography of fast},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-46933},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-469333},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {89},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {In this cartography, I examine M.K. Gandhi's practice of fasting for political purposes from a specifically aesthetic perspective. In other words, to foreground their dramatic qualities, how they in their expressive repetition, patterning and stylization produced a/effected heightened forms of emotions. To carry out this task, I follow the theater scholar Erika Fischer-Lichte's features that give name to her book {\"A}esthetik des Performativen (2004). The cartography is framed in a philosophical presentation of Gandhi's discourse as well as of his historical sources. Moreover, as a second frame, I historicize the fasts, by means of a typology and teleology in context. The historically and discoursively framed cartography maps four main dimensions that define the aesthetics of the performative: mediality, materiality, semioticity and aestheticity. The first part analyses the medial platforms in which the fasts as events have been historically recorded and in which they have left their traces and inscriptions. These historical sources are namely, newspapers, images, newsreels and a documentary film. Secondly, the material dimension depicts Gandhi's corporeal condition, as well as the spatiality and temporality of the fasts. In the third place, I revise and reformulate critically Fischer-Lichte's concepts of "presence" and "representation" with resonating concepts of G. C. Spivak and J. Ranci{\`e}re. This revision illustrates Gandhi's fasts and shows the process of how an individual may become the embodiment or representation of a national body-politic. The last chapter of the cartography explores the autopoetic-feedback loop between Gandhi and the people and finishes with a comparison of the mise en sc{\`e}ne of the hunger artists with the fasts of the Indian the politician, social reformer, and theologian. The text concludes interpreting Gandhi's practice of fasting under the light of the concepts of "intellectual emancipation" and "de-subjectivation" of the philosopher J. Ranci{\`e}re. The four main concerns of this cartography are: Firstly, in the field of Gandhi's reception, to explore the aesthetic dimension as both alternative and complementary to the two hegemonic interpretative lenses, i.e. a hagiographic or a secular political understanding of the fasts. From a theoretical perspective, the cartography pursues to be a transdisciplinary experiment that aims at deploying concepts that have been traditionally developed, derived from and used in the field of the arts (theater, film, literature, aesthetic performance, etc.) in the field of the political. In brief, inverting an expression of Ranci{\`e}re, to understand politics as aesthetics. Thirdly, from a thematic point of view, the cartography inquires the historical forms of staging and perception of hunger. Last yet importantly, it is an inquiry of the practice of fasting as nonviolence, what Gandhi, its most sophisticated modern theoretician and practitioner considered its most radical expression.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Metz2019,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Metz, Malte},
  title     = {A quasi-dynamic and self-consistent rupture model to simulate earthquake ruptures},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-47310},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-473100},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {xi, 113},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Dynamic earthquake rupture modeling provides information on the rupture physics as the rupture velocity, frictions or tractions acting during the rupture process. Nevertheless, as often based on spatial gridded preset geometries, dynamic modeling is depending on many free parameters leading to both a high non-uniqueness of the results and large computation times. That decreases the possibilities of full Bayesian error analysis. To assess the named problems we developed the quasi-dynamic rupture model which is presented in this work. It combines the kinematic Eikonal rupture model with a boundary element method for quasi-static slip calculation. The orientation of the modeled rupture plane is defined by a previously performed moment tensor inversion. The simultanously inverted scalar seismic moment allows an estimation of the extension of the rupture. The modeled rupture plane is discretized by a set of rectangular boundary elements. For each boundary element an applied traction vector is defined as the boundary value. For insights in the dynamic rupture behaviour the rupture front propagation is calculated for incremental time steps based on the 2D Eikonal equation. The needed location-dependent rupture velocity field is assumed to scale linearly with a layered shear wave velocity field. At each time all boundary elements enclosed within the rupture front are used to calculate the quasi-static slip distribution. Neither friction nor stress propagation are considered. Therefore the algorithm is assumed to be "quasi-static". A series of the resulting quasi-static slip snapshots can be used as a quasi-dynamic model of the rupture process. As many a priori information is used from the earth model (shear wave velocity and elastic parameters) and the moment tensor inversion (rupture extension and orientation) our model is depending on few free parameters as the traction field, the linear factor between rupture and shear wave velocity and the nucleation point and time. Hence stable and fast modeling results are obtained as proven from the comparison to different infinite and finite static crack solutions. First dynamic applications show promissing results. The location-dependent rise time is automatically derived by the model. Different simple kinematic models as the slip-pulse or the penny-shaped crack model can be reproduced as well as their corresponding slip rate functions. A source time function (STF) approximation calculated from the cumulative sum of moment rates of each boundary element gives results similar to theoretical and empirical known STFs. The model was also applied to the 2015 Illapel earthquake. Using a simple rectangular rupture geometry and a 2-layered traction regime yields good estimates of both the rupture front propagation and the slip patterns which are comparable to literature results. The STF approximation shows a good fit with previously published STFs. The quasi-dynamic rupture model is hence able to fastly calculate reproducable slip results. That allows to test full Bayesian error analysis in the future. Further work on a full seismic source inversion or even a traction field inversion can also extend the scope of our model.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Victor2019,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Victor, Vincent},
  title     = {The Role of Bargaining Power},
  series = {Potsdam Economic Papers},
  journal   = {Potsdam Economic Papers},
  number    = {6},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-86956-449-4},
  issn      = {2197-8069},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-42068},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-420689},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Neoclassical theory omits the role of bargaining power in the determination of wages. As a result, the importance of changes in the bargaining position for the development of income shares in the last decades is underestimated. This paper presents a theoretical argument why collective bargaining power is a main determinant of workers' share of income and how its decline contributed to the severe changes in the distribution of income since the 1980s. In order to confirm this hypothesis, a panel data regression analysis is performed that suggests that unions significantly influence the distribution of income in developed countries.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Kim2020,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Kim, Taeyeong},
  title     = {The involvement of the two German states in Korea during the 1950s in the context of the Cold War},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-48731},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-487315},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {100},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {This master thesis will analyze the background of the involvement of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in Korea during the 1950s in the context of the Cold War. In both Korean states, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) as well as the Republic of Korea (ROK), the so-called humanitarian aid that was provided to them in the form of medical and economic assistance to help surmount the hardship of the postwar period is remembered with great appreciation to this day. However, critical views on the German engagement in Korea are still relatively hard to find. In this paper, two exemplary cases will be studied: the GDR's city reconstruction project in the North Korean cities of Hamheung and Heungnam and the FRG's medical assistance to the ROK by means of the West German Red Cross Hospital in Busan. By looking at primary sources like governmental documents, this thesis will examine the geopolitical conditions and particular national interests that stood behind the German development and humanitarian aid for the Korean states at that time, thus shedding light on the political goals the two German states pursued, and the benefit they expected to derive from their engagement in Korea. Sources consulted include primary archival materials, secondary sources like monographs, journal articles, contemporary newspaper articles, and interviews with contemporary witnesses.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Schuetze2020,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Sch{\"u}tze, Christin},
  title     = {Comprehension of gender-neutral forms and the pseudo-generic masculine in German: a visual world eye-tracking study},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-48415},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-484157},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {192},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Geschlechtergerechte und -inklusive Sprache hat sich w{\"a}hrend der vergangenen Jahre zu einem umstritteten Thema entwickelt und wird interdisziplin{\"a}r von der theoretischen bis zur Psycho-Linguistik, Soziologie sowie Wirtschaft diskutiert - und von allen, die Sprache nutzen. Untersuchungen zum Deutschen, die haupts{\"a}chlich auf Frageb{\"o}gen beruhen (im {\"U}berblick von Braun et al. 2005), L{\"u}ckentexte verwenden (Klein 1988) und Kategorisierungen mit Bildzuordnung abfragen (Irmen \& K{\"o}hncke 1996) disqualifizieren generisch verwendete maskuline Formen als pseudo-generisch: sie verfehlen ihre grammatisch vorgeschriebene Funktion, Referent*innen jeden Geschlechtes einzubeziehen. Ausgewogenere, Geschlechter gleichermaßen benennede Ausdr{\"u}cke (Paarformen wie Lehrer und Lehrerinnen) stellen explizite Referenz her zu weiblicher Pr{\"a}senz und Teilhabe, wodurch sie folglich eine gleichberechtigtere Interpretation beg{\"u}nstigen. Echtzeit("online")-Methoden, um die Verarbeitung geschlechtersensibler Sprache zu untersuchen, sind innerhalb der Forschung zum Ph{\"a}nomenon {\"u}berraschend selten vertreten, abgesehen von den Reaktionszeitmessungen (Irmen \& K{\"o}hncke 1996, Irmen \& Kaczmarek 2000) und Blickbewegungsstudien beim Lesen (Irmen \& Schumann 2011). Zus{\"a}tzlich wurde geschlechterneutrale Sprache (GNS) in der Mehrheit der Experimente nicht fokussiert, und wenn GNS Teil der Stimulusmaterialien war, fielen die Ergebnisse uneindeutig aus (De Backer \& De Cuypere 2012), oder sie befanden solche Alternativen als uneffektiv ({\"a}hnlich der maskulinen Generika, s. Braun et al. 2005), obwohl Richtlinien zu nicht-diskriminierender Sprache diese gemeinhin/ empfehlen. Geschlechterneutrale (GN) Ausdr{\"u}cke f{\"u}r pers{\"o}nliche Referenz im Deutschen umfassen • nominalisierte Partizipien; Substantivierungen im Allgemeinen: Interessierte, Lehrende • Kollektiva im Singular: Publikum, Kollegium • Zusammensetzungen (u. a. mit einer Begrifflichkeit von "-person"): Ansprechpersonen, Lehrkr{\"a}fte • Paraphrasierungen, die ein (genderisiertes) Subjekt umschreiben und somit in den Hintergrund r{\"u}cken: z. B. Passiv- und Relativkonstruktionen In einer Blickbewegungsstudie im "visual world"-Design wurde das Verst{\"a}ndnis von Generika unter der Verwendung maskuliner Nomen und GN-Formen f{\"u}r Rollen- und Berufsbezeichnungen im Plural getestet. In komplexen Stimulusszenarien sollte Referenz zu den auf einem Bildschirm pr{\"a}sentierten Referent*innen hergestellt werden. Am Ende einer jeden Stimuluseinheit wurde eine Frage gestellt, sodass das Bild, das mit den Referent*innen am ehesten {\"u}bereinstimmt, (erneut) identifiziert werden musste. Die Grafiken bildeten 1) eine einzelne Person (Protagonist*in des Settings) ab, 2) eine ausschließlich weibliche Personengruppe, 3) eine ausschießlich m{\"a}nnliche Gruppe, 4) eine gemischtgeschlechtliche Gruppe bestehend aus weiblichen und m{\"a}nnlichen Mitgliedern. Diese Gruppenreferent*innen wurden auditiv vorgestellt mit entweder a) Maskulina (die Lehrer), b) spezifisch weiblichen Nomina, also Feminina (die Lehrerinnen), oder c) einer der oben genannten drei nominalen GN-Varianten (die Lehrkr{\"a}fte). Die Ergebnisse best{\"a}tigen den h{\"a}ufigen m{\"a}nnlichen Bias, eine Schlagseite grammatisch maskuliner Formen, die generisch verwendet werden, hin zu m{\"a}nnlichen Referenten, das heißt, deren spezifisch m{\"a}nnliche Interpretation. Weiterhin hatte der Grad an Stereotypizit{\"a}t von Nomen - wie stereotyp Rollen und Berufe be-/ gewertet werden - einen Einfluss auf die Antworten. Die GN-Alternativen, welche generell daf{\"u}r bekannt sind bzw. wurden indefinite Referenz zu erzielen (ergo "markiert" sind f{\"u}r geschlechterfaire Sprache), stellten sich als am qualifiziertesten heraus, gemischtgeschlechtliche Interpretationen hervorzurufen. War eine pers{\"o}nliche Referenz zuvor mit GN-Termini etabliert worden, wurde eine inklusive(re) Antwort durchg{\"a}ngig bewirkt. Darauf deuten sowohl Blickbewegungen als auch Antwortproportionen hin, doch unterschiedlichen Ausmaßes in Abh{\"a}ngigkeit vom GN Nominaltyp. Konzepte, die in ihrer linguistischen Form von Geschlecht abstrahieren (es "neutralisieren") treten als inklusiver in Erscheinung, und sind somit bessere Kandidatinnen f{\"u}r eine generische Referenz als jener im Maskulinum.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Tschisgale2020,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Tschisgale, Paul},
  title     = {Introduction to the Glauber dynamics for the Curie-Weiss Potts model},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-48676},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-486769},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {104},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {This thesis aims at presenting in an organized fashion the required basics to understand the Glauber dynamics as a way of simulating configurations according to the Gibbs distribution of the Curie-Weiss Potts model. Therefore, essential aspects of discrete-time Markov chains on a finite state space are examined, especially their convergence behavior and related mixing times. Furthermore, special emphasis is placed on a consistent and comprehensive presentation of the Curie-Weiss Potts model and its analysis. Finally, the Glauber dynamics is studied in general and applied afterwards in an exemplary way to the Curie-Weiss model as well as the Curie-Weiss Potts model. The associated considerations are supplemented with two computer simulations aiming to show the cutoff phenomenon and the temperature dependence of the convergence behavior.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Kim2020,
  type      = {Master Thesis},
  author    = {Kim, Taeyeong},
  title     = {The involvement of the two German states in Korea during the 1950s in the context of the Cold War},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-52603},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-526039},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {100},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {This master thesis will analyze the background of the involvement of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in Korea during the 1950s in the context of the Cold War. In both Korean states, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) as well as the Republic of Korea (ROK), the so-called humanitarian aid that was provided to them in the form of medical and economic assistance to help surmount the hardship of the postwar period is remembered with great appreciation to this day. However, critical views on the German engagement in Korea are still relatively hard to find. In this paper, two exemplary cases will be studied: the GDR's city reconstruction project in the North Korean cities of Hamheung and Heungnam and the FRG's medical assistance to the ROK by means of the West German Red Cross Hospital in Busan. By looking at primary sources like governmental documents, this thesis will examine the geopolitical conditions and particular national interests that stood behind the German development and humanitarian aid for the Korean states at that time, thus shedding light on the political goals the two German states pursued, and the benefit they expected to derive from their engagement in Korea. Sources consulted include primary archival materials, secondary sources like monographs, journal articles, contemporary newspaper articles, and interviews with contemporary witnesses.},
  language  = {en}
}