@phdthesis{PerezChaparro2022,
  author    = {P{\´e}rez Chaparro, Camilo Germ{\´a}n Alberto},
  title     = {Non-HIV comorbidities and exercise in German people living with HIV},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-56084},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-560842},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {149},
  year      = {2022},
  abstract  = {The post-antiretroviral therapy era has transformed HIV into a chronic disease and non-HIV comorbidities (i.e., cardiovascular and mental diseases) are more prevalent in PLWH. The source of these non-HIV comorbidities aside from traditional risk factor include HIV infection, inflammation, distorted immune activation, burden of chronic diseases, and unhealthy lifestyle like sedentarism. Exercise is known for its beneficial effects in mental and physical health; reasons why exercise is recommended to prevent and treat difference cardiovascular and mental diseases in the general population. This cumulative thesis aimed to comprehend the relation exercise has to non-HIV comorbidities in German PLWH. Four studies were conducted to 1) understand exercise effects in cardiorespiratory fitness and muscle strength on PLWH through a systematic review and meta-analyses and 2) determine the likelihood of German PLWH developing non-HIV comorbidities, in a cross-sectional study. Meta-analytic examination indicates PLWH cardiorespiratory fitness (VO2max SMD = 0.61 ml·kg·min-1, 95\% CI: 0.35-0.88, z = 4.47, p < 0.001, I2 = 50\%) and strength (of remark lowerbody strength by 16.8 kg, 95\% CI: 13-20.6, p< 0.001) improves after an exercise intervention in comparison to a control group. Cross-sectional data suggest exercise has a positive effect on German PLWH mental health (less anxiety and depressive symptoms) and protects against the development of anxiety (PR: 0.57, 95\%IC: 0.36 - 0.91, p = 0.01) and depression (PR: 0.62, 95\%IC: 0.41 - 0.94, p = 0.01). Likewise, exercise duration is related to a lower likelihood of reporting heart arrhythmias (PR: 0.20, 95\%IC: 0.10 - 0.60, p < 0.01) and exercise frequency to a lower likelihood of reporting diabetes mellitus (PR: 0.40, 95\%IC: 0.10 - 1, p < 0.01) in German PLWH. A preliminary recommendation for German PLWH who want to engage in exercise can be to exercise ≥ 1 time per week, at an intensity of 5 METs per session or > 103 MET·min·day-1, with a duration ≥ 150 minutes per week. Nevertheless, further research is needed to comprehend exercise dose response and protective effect for cardiovascular diseases, anxiety, and depression in German PLWH.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Teckentrup2019,
  author    = {Teckentrup, Lisa},
  title     = {Understanding predator-prey interactions},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-43162},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-431624},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {ix, 133},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Predators can have numerical and behavioral effects on prey animals. While numerical effects are well explored, the impact of behavioral effects is unclear. Furthermore, behavioral effects are generally either analyzed with a focus on single individuals or with a focus on consequences for other trophic levels. Thereby, the impact of fear on the level of prey communities is overlooked, despite potential consequences for conservation and nature management. In order to improve our understanding of predator-prey interactions, an assessment of the consequences of fear in shaping prey community structures is crucial. In this thesis, I evaluated how fear alters prey space use, community structure and composition, focusing on terrestrial mammals. By integrating landscapes of fear in an existing individual-based and spatially-explicit model, I simulated community assembly of prey animals via individual home range formation. The model comprises multiple hierarchical levels from individual home range behavior to patterns of prey community structure and composition. The mechanistic approach of the model allowed for the identification of underlying mechanism driving prey community responses under fear. My results show that fear modified prey space use and community patterns. Under fear, prey animals shifted their home ranges towards safer areas of the landscape. Furthermore, fear decreased the total biomass and the diversity of the prey community and reinforced shifts in community composition towards smaller animals. These effects could be mediated by an increasing availability of refuges in the landscape. Under landscape changes, such as habitat loss and fragmentation, fear intensified negative effects on prey communities. Prey communities in risky environments were subject to a non-proportional diversity loss of up to 30\% if fear was taken into account. Regarding habitat properties, I found that well-connected, large safe patches can reduce the negative consequences of habitat loss and fragmentation on prey communities. Including variation in risk perception between prey animals had consequences on prey space use. Animals with a high risk perception predominantly used safe areas of the landscape, while animals with a low risk perception preferred areas with a high food availability. On the community level, prey diversity was higher in heterogeneous landscapes of fear if individuals varied in their risk perception compared to scenarios in which all individuals had the same risk perception. Overall, my findings give a first, comprehensive assessment of the role of fear in shaping prey communities. The linkage between individual home range behavior and patterns at the community level allows for a mechanistic understanding of the underlying processes. My results underline the importance of the structure of the landscape of fear as a key driver of prey community responses, especially if the habitat is threatened by landscape changes. Furthermore, I show that individual landscapes of fear can improve our understanding of the consequences of trait variation on community structures. Regarding conservation and nature management, my results support calls for modern conservation approaches that go beyond single species and address the protection of biotic interactions.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Cheng2018,
  author    = {Cheng, Lung-Pan},
  title     = {Human actuation},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-418371},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {xiv, 85},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Ever since the conception of the virtual reality headset in 1968, many researchers have argued that the next step in virtual reality is to allow users to not only see and hear, but also feel virtual worlds. One approach is to use mechanical equipment to provide haptic feedback, e.g., robotic arms, exoskeletons and motion platforms. However, the size and the weight of such mechanical equipment tends to be proportional to its target's size and weight, i.e., providing human-scale haptic feedback requires human-scale equipment, often restricting them to arcades and lab environments. The key idea behind this dissertation is to bypass mechanical equipment by instead leveraging human muscle power. We thus create software systems that orchestrate humans in doing such mechanical labor—this is what we call human actuation. A potential benefit of such systems is that humans are more generic, flexible, and versatile than machines. This brings a wide range of haptic feedback to modern virtual reality systems. We start with a proof-of-concept system—Haptic Turk, focusing on delivering motion experiences just like a motion platform. All Haptic Turk setups consist of a user who is supported by one or more human actuators. The user enjoys an interactive motion simulation such as a hang glider experience, but the motion is generated by those human actuators who manually lift, tilt, and push the user's limbs or torso. To get the timing and force right, timed motion instructions in a format familiar from rhythm games are generated by the system. Next, we extend the concept of human actuation from 3-DoF to 6-DoF virtual reality where users have the freedom to walk around. TurkDeck tackles this problem by orchestrating a group of human actuators to reconfigure a set of passive props on the fly while the user is progressing in the virtual environment. TurkDeck schedules human actuators by their distances from the user, and instructs them to reconfigure the props to the right place on the right time using laser projection and voice output. Our studies in Haptic Turk and TurkDeck showed that human actuators enjoyed the experience but not as much as users. To eliminate the need of dedicated human actuators, Mutual Turk makes everyone a user by exchanging mechanical actuation between two or more users. Mutual Turk's main functionality is that it orchestrates the users so as to actuate props at just the right moment and with just the right force to produce the correct feedback in each other's experience. Finally, we further eliminate the need of another user, making human actuation applicable to single-user experiences. iTurk makes the user constantly reconfigure and animate otherwise passive props. This allows iTurk to provide virtual worlds with constantly varying or even animated haptic effects, even though the only animate entity present in the system is the user. Our demo experience features one example each of iTurk's two main types of props, i.e., reconfigurable props (the foldable board from TurkDeck) and animated props (the pendulum). We conclude this dissertation by summarizing the findings of our explorations and pointing out future directions. We discuss the development of human actuation compare to traditional machine actuation, the possibility of combining human and machine actuators and interaction models that involve more human actuators.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Buchmann2012,
  author    = {Buchmann, Carsten M.},
  title     = {Modelling the structuring of animal communities in heterogeneous landscapes : the role of individual home range formation, foraging movement, competition and habitat configuration},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-59031},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {This thesis aims at a better mechanistic understanding of animal communities. Therefore, an allometry- and individual-based model has been developed which was used to simulate mammal and bird communities in heterogeneous landscapes, and to to better understand their response to landscape changes (habitat loss and fragmentation).},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Ette2009,
  author    = {Ette, Ottmar},
  title     = {Entre mundos v{\´i}as de Alexander von Humboldt hacia la conciencia universal},
  volume    = {X},
  number    = {19},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1617-5239},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-42815},
  pages     = {15 -- 30},
  year      = {2009},
  abstract  = {Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), quien en su espectacular carta escrita en junio de 1829 desde Siberia y dirigida a su hermano Wilhelm rechazara contundentemente el cargo de director del hoy llamado Altes Museum en la isla de los Museos, nunca permiti{\´o} que le encadenaran a instituci{\´o}n alguna. Tanto su pensamiento como su escritura que se desarrollaron a lo largo de tres d{\´e}cadas y acompa{\~n}aron el quehacer de tres generaciones de cient{\´i}ficos, se alimentaban de sus viajes que le permitieron crear una ciencia desde el movimiento y en constante movilidad. En cuanto a la historia, no le interesaba lo acumulado, sino lo acomodado. La ciencia humboldtiana, fundada tanto emp{\´i}rica- como {\´e}ticamente, desenvolvi{\´o} una nueva forma de comprender el sistema "tierra" sobre la base de una l{\´o}gica relacional: todo es acci{\´o}n rec{\´i}proca. La presente contribuci{\´o}n dilucida el devenir hist{\´o}rico del pensamiento de Humboldt, pone de relieve sus mundos de lectura, sus mundos cartogr{\´a}ficos y sus mundos de la lengua en el contexto de la globalizaci{\´o}n acelerada y asimismo plantea los retos y desaf{\´i}os de una ciencia de la vida humboldtiana en el siglo XXI.},
  language  = {es}
}
@misc{HollEtteKnoblochetal.2009,
  author    = {Holl, Frank and Ette, Ottmar and Knobloch, Eberhard and Rodr{\´i}guez, Jos{\´e} {\´A}ngel and Durisch Acosta, Christian and Astuhuam{\´a}n Gonzales, C{\´e}sar W. and Covarrubias, Jos{\´e} Enrique and K{\"u}gelgen, Helga von and P{\´e}rez Brignoli, Hector and Kraft, Tobias and Einert, Katharina},
  title     = {HiN : Alexander von Humboldt im Netz = Humboldt und Hispano-Amerika : Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft (Vol. 1)},
  volume    = {X},
  number    = {19},
  editor    = {Ette, Ottmar and Knobloch, Eberhard},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  issn      = {1617-5239},
  doi       = {10.25932/publishup-3187},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-42917},
  pages     = {155},
  year      = {2009},
  abstract  = {Inhalt: - Frank Holl: Vorwort / Prefacio - Ottmar Ette: Entre mundos - v{\´i}as de Alexander von Humboldt hacia la conciencia universal - Eberhard Knobloch: Alexander von Humboldts Weltbild - Jos{\´e} {\´A}ngel Rodr{\´i}guez: El culto a Humboldt en Venezuela - Christian Durisch Acosta: Die Humboldt-Rezeption in Ecuador - ein kulturgeschichtlicher Beitrag zum ecuadorianischen Nationsbildungsprozess - C{\´e}sar W. Astuhuam{\´a}n Gonz{\´a}les: Incas, J{\´i}varos y la obra de Humboldt Vues des Cordill{\`e}res - Jos{\´e} Enrique Covarrubias: La recepci{\´o}n de la figura y obra de Humboldt en M{\´e}xico 1821-2000 - Helga von K{\"u}gelgen: Klassizismus und vergleichendes Sehen in den Vues des Cordill{\`e}res - Hector P{\´e}rez Brignoli: Alexander von Humboldt en Centroam{\´e}rica y en el R{\´i}o de la Plata - Tobias Kraft und Katharina Einert: Das ganze Werk in einem Netz? Bibliographie online verf{\"u}gbarer Alexander-von-Humboldt-Digitalisate},
  language  = {mul}
}
@book{CeglarekWulschFrenzeletal.2006,
  author    = {Ceglarek, Petra and Wulsch, Iris and Frenzel, Tom and Ihle, Wolfgang},
  title     = {Gesundheitsf{\"o}rderung in Brandenburger Kindertagesst{\"a}tten : eine Bestandsaufnahme},
  publisher = {Universit{\"a}tsverlag Potsdam},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  isbn      = {978-3-939469-50-6},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-13105},
  publisher      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {112},
  year      = {2006},
  abstract  = {Theoretischer Hintergrund: Eine fr{\"u}hzeitige Gesundheitsf{\"o}rderung wird als wesentliches Bestimmungsst{\"u}ck zur Pr{\"a}vention k{\"o}rperlicher und psychischer Erkrankungen angesehen. Als ideales Setting f{\"u}r eine gezielte Gesundheitsf{\"o}rderung wird der Lebensraum Kita angesehen. Fragestellungen: Welche Aktivit{\"a}ten zur Gesundheitsf{\"o}rderung gibt es bisher in den Brandenburger Kitas? Spielt hier die Bildungsn{\"a}he/-ferne der betreuten Kinder eine Rolle? In welchen Bereichen gibt es den gr{\"o}ßten Fort- und Weiterbildungsbedarf der Mitarbeiterinnen? Methode: Untersuchung einer Stichprobe von 269 Brandenburger Kitas mit insgesamt 21 653 betreuten Kindern. Erfassung struktureller Rahmenbedingungen, p{\"a}dagogischer Konzepte, Aktivit{\"a}ten zur Gesundheitsf{\"o}rderung, Partizipation und Fortbildungsbedarf. Ergebnisse: Es zeigte sich eine nachhaltige Umsetzung von Aktivit{\"a}ten und große Kreativit{\"a}t. Dabei standen vor allem Angebote der Bereiche Bewegung und Ern{\"a}hrung im Zentrum. Psychosoziale Themen wurden seltener als Schwerpunkt benannt, wohingegen hierf{\"u}r der gr{\"o}ßte Fortbildungbedarf (Ranking der Fortbildungsthemen: 1. Psychosoziale Entwicklung, 2. Psychische Probleme, 3. Stressbew{\"a}ltigung) vorlag.},
  language  = {de}
}