TY - JOUR
A1 - Al-Naji, Majd
A1 - Schlaad, Helmut
A1 - Antonietti, Markus
T1 - New (and old) monomers from biorefineries to make polymer chemistry more sustainable
JF - Macromolecular rapid communications
N2 - This opinion article describes recent approaches to use the "biorefinery" concept to lower the carbon footprint of typical mass polymers, by replacing parts of the fossil monomers with similar or even the same monomer made from regrowing dendritic biomass. Herein, the new and green catalytic synthetic routes are for lactic acid (LA), isosorbide (IS), 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA), and p-xylene (pXL). Furthermore, the synthesis of two unconventional lignocellulosic biomass derivable monomers, i.e., alpha-methylene-gamma-valerolactone (MeGVL) and levoglucosenol (LG), are presented. All those have the potential to enter in a cost-effective way, also the mass market and thereby recover lost areas for polymer materials. The differences of catalytic unit operations of the biorefinery are also discussed and the challenges that must be addressed along the synthesis path of each monomers.
KW - biodegradable polymers
KW - biorefineries
KW - carbohydrate‐ based
KW - monomers
KW - green polymers
KW - lignocellulosic biomass
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/marc.202000485
SN - 1022-1336
SN - 1521-3927
VL - 42
IS - 3
PB - Wiley-VCH
CY - Weinheim
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Al-Saedy, Ammar Jaffar Muhesin
A1 - Tarchanov, Nikolaj Nikolaevič
T1 - A degree theory for Lagrangian boundary value problems
JF - Žurnal Sibirskogo Federalʹnogo Universiteta = Journal of Siberian Federal University; mathematics & physics
N2 - We study those nonlinear partial differential equations which appear as Euler-Lagrange equations of variational problems. On defining weak boundary values of solutions to such equations we initiate the theory of Lagrangian boundary value problems in spaces of appropriate smoothness. We also analyse if the concept of mapping degree of current importance applies to Lagrangian problems.
N2 - Мы изучаем те нелинейные уравнения с частными производными, которые возникают как уравнения Эйлера-Лагранжа вариационных задач. Определяя слабые граничные значения решений таких уравнений, мы инициируем теорию лагранжевых краевых задач в функциональных пространствах подходящей гладкости. Мы также анализируем, применяется ли современная концепция степени отображения к лагранжевым проблемам.
KW - nonlinear equations
KW - Lagrangian system
KW - weak boundary values
KW - quasilinear Fredholm operators
KW - mapping degree
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.17516/1997-1397-2020-13-1-5-25
SN - 1997-1397
SN - 2313-6022
VL - 13
IS - 1
SP - 5
EP - 25
PB - Sibirskij Federalʹnyj Universitet
CY - Krasnojarsk
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Albert, Justin Amadeus
A1 - Owolabi, Victor
A1 - Gebel, Arnd
A1 - Brahms, Clemens Markus
A1 - Granacher, Urs
A1 - Arnrich, Bert
T1 - Evaluation of the Pose Tracking Performance of the Azure Kinect and Kinect v2 for Gait Analysis in Comparison with a Gold Standard
BT - A Pilot Study
JF - Sensors
N2 - Gait analysis is an important tool for the early detection of neurological diseases and for the assessment of risk of falling in elderly people. The availability of low-cost camera hardware on the market today and recent advances in Machine Learning enable a wide range of clinical and health-related applications, such as patient monitoring or exercise recognition at home. In this study, we evaluated the motion tracking performance of the latest generation of the Microsoft Kinect camera, Azure Kinect, compared to its predecessor Kinect v2 in terms of treadmill walking using a gold standard Vicon multi-camera motion capturing system and the 39 marker Plug-in Gait model. Five young and healthy subjects walked on a treadmill at three different velocities while data were recorded simultaneously with all three camera systems. An easy-to-administer camera calibration method developed here was used to spatially align the 3D skeleton data from both Kinect cameras and the Vicon system. With this calibration, the spatial agreement of joint positions between the two Kinect cameras and the reference system was evaluated. In addition, we compared the accuracy of certain spatio-temporal gait parameters, i.e., step length, step time, step width, and stride time calculated from the Kinect data, with the gold standard system. Our results showed that the improved hardware and the motion tracking algorithm of the Azure Kinect camera led to a significantly higher accuracy of the spatial gait parameters than the predecessor Kinect v2, while no significant differences were found between the temporal parameters. Furthermore, we explain in detail how this experimental setup could be used to continuously monitor the progress during gait rehabilitation in older people.
KW - motion capture
KW - evaluation
KW - human motion
KW - RGB-D cameras
KW - digital health
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/s20185104
SN - 1424-8220
VL - 20
IS - 18
PB - MDPI
CY - Basel
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Albrecht, Anna Helena
T1 - Untreue als politisches Delikt
JF - Goltdammer’s Archiv für Strafrecht
Y1 - 2020
SN - 0017-1956
VL - 167
IS - 12
SP - 703
EP - 723
PB - C.F. Müller
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Albrecht, Torsten
A1 - Winkelmann, Ricarda
A1 - Levermann, Anders
T1 - Glacial-cycle simulations of the Antarctic Ice Sheet with the Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM)
BT - part 2: parameter ensemble analysis
JF - The Cryosphere : TC ; an interactive open access journal of the European Geosciences Union
N2 - The Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM) is applied to the Antarctic Ice Sheet over the last two glacial cycles (approximate to 210 000 years) with a resolution of 16 km. An ensemble of 256 model runs is analyzed in which four relevant model parameters have been systematically varied using full-factorial parameter sampling. Parameters and plausible parameter ranges have been identified in a companion paper (Albrecht et al., 2020) and are associated with ice dynamics, climatic forcing, basal sliding and bed deformation and represent distinct classes of model uncertainties. The model is scored against both modern and geologic data, including reconstructed grounding-line locations, elevation-age data, ice thickness, surface velocities and uplift rates. An aggregated score is computed for each ensemble member that measures the overall model-data misfit, including measurement uncertainty in terms of a Gaussian error model (Briggs and Tarasov, 2013). The statistical method used to analyze the ensemble simulation results follows closely the simple averaging method described in Pollard et al. (2016).
This analysis reveals clusters of best-fit parameter combinations, and hence a likely range of relevant model and boundary parameters, rather than individual best-fit parameters. The ensemble of reconstructed histories of Antarctic Ice Sheet volumes provides a score-weighted likely range of sea-level contributions since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) of 9.4 +/- 4.1m (or 6.5 +/- 2.0 x 10(6) km(3)), which is at the upper range of most previous studies. The last deglaciation occurs in all ensemble simulations after around 12 000 years before present and hence after the meltwater pulse 1A (MWP1a). Our ensemble analysis also provides an estimate of parametric uncertainty bounds for the present-day state that can be used for PISM projections of future sea-level contributions from the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-633-2020
SN - 1994-0416
SN - 1994-0424
VL - 14
IS - 2
SP - 633
EP - 656
PB - Copernicus Publ.
CY - Göttingen
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Albrecht, Torsten
A1 - Winkelmann, Ricarda
A1 - Levermann, Anders
T1 - Glacial-cycle simulations of the Antarctic Ice Sheet with the Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM)
BT - Part 1: boundary conditions and climatic forcing
JF - The Cryosphere : TC ; an interactive open access journal of the European Geosciences Union
N2 - Simulations of the glacial-interglacial history of the Antarctic Ice Sheet provide insights into dynamic threshold behavior and estimates of the ice sheet's contributions to global sea-level changes for the past, present and future. However, boundary conditions are weakly constrained, in particular at the interface of the ice sheet and the bedrock. Also climatic forcing covering the last glacial cycles is uncertain, as it is based on sparse proxy data.
We use the Parallel Ice Sheet Model (PISM) to investigate the dynamic effects of different choices of input data, e.g., for modern basal heat flux or reconstructions of past changes of sea level and surface temperature. As computational resources are limited, glacial-cycle simulations are performed using a comparably coarse model grid of 16 km and various parameterizations, e.g., for basal sliding, iceberg calving, or for past variations in precipitation and ocean temperatures. In this study we evaluate the model's transient sensitivity to corresponding parameter choices and to different boundary conditions over the last two glacial cycles and provide estimates of involved uncertainties. We also discuss isolated and combined effects of climate and sea-level forcing. Hence, this study serves as a "cookbook" for the growing community of PISM users and paleo-ice sheet modelers in general.
For each of the different model uncertainties with regard to climatic forcing, ice and Earth dynamics, and basal processes, we select one representative model parameter that captures relevant uncertainties and motivates corresponding parameter ranges that bound the observed ice volume at present. The four selected parameters are systematically varied in a parameter ensemble analysis, which is described in a companion paper.
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-14-599-2020
SN - 1994-0416
SN - 1994-0424
VL - 14
IS - 2
SP - 599
EP - 632
PB - Copernicus
CY - Göttingen
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Aldiyarov, Abdurakhman
A1 - Sokolov, Dmitriy
A1 - Akylbayeva, Aigerim
A1 - Nurmukan, Assel
A1 - Tokmoldin, Nurlan
T1 - On thermal stability of cryovacuum deposited CH4+H2O films
JF - Low temperature physics
N2 - Whereas stable homogenous states of aqueous hydrocarbon solutions are typically observed at high temperatures and pressures far beyond the critical values corresponding to individual components, the stability of such system may be preserved upon transition into the region of metastable states at low temperatures and low pressures. This work is dedicated to the study of the thermal stability of a water-methane mixture formed by cryogenic vapor phase deposition. The obtained thin films were studied using vibrational spectroscopy in the temperature range of 16-180 K. During thermal annealing of the samples, characteristic vibrational C-H modes of methane were monitored alongside the chamber pressure to register both structural changes and desorption of the film material. The obtained results reveal that upon the co-deposition of methane and water, methane molecules appear both in non-bound and trapped states. The observed broadening of the characteristic C-H stretching mode at 3010 cm(-1) upon an increase in temperature of the sample from 16 to 90 K, followed by narrowing of the peak as the temperature is reduced back to 16 K, indicates localization of methane molecules within the water matrix at lower temperatures.
KW - molecular crystals
KW - water-methane films
KW - vibrational spectroscopy
KW - low
KW - temperature
KW - methane localization
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1063/10.0002156
SN - 1063-777X
SN - 1090-6517
VL - 46
IS - 11
SP - 1121
EP - 1124
PB - American Institute of Physics
CY - Melville
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Alexoudi, Xanthippi
A1 - Mallonn, Matthias
A1 - Keles, Engin
A1 - Poppenhäger, Katja
A1 - von Essen, Carolina
A1 - Strassmeier, Klaus
T1 - Role of the impact parameter in exoplanet transmission spectroscopy
JF - Astronomy and astrophysics : an international weekly journal
N2 - Context
Transmission spectroscopy is a promising tool for the atmospheric characterization of transiting exoplanets. Because the planetary signal is faint, discrepancies have been reported regarding individual targets.
Aims
We investigate the dependence of the estimated transmission spectrum on deviations of the orbital parameters of the star-planet system that are due to the limb-darkening effects of the host star. We describe how the uncertainty on the orbital parameters translates into an uncertainty on the planetary spectral slope.
Methods
We created synthetic transit light curves in seven different wavelength bands, from the near-ultraviolet to the near-infrared, and fit them with transit models parameterized by fixed deviating values of the impact parameter b. First, we performed a qualitative study to illustrate the effect by presenting the changes in the transmission spectrum slope with different deviations of b. Then, we quantified these variations by creating an error envelope (for centrally transiting, off-center, and grazing systems) based on a derived typical uncertainty on b from the literature. Finally, we compared the variations in the transmission spectra for different spectral types of host stars.
Results
Our simulations show a wavelength-dependent offset that is more pronounced at the blue wavelengths where the limb-darkening effect is stronger. This offset introduces a slope in the planetary transmission spectrum that becomes steeper with increasing b values. Variations of b by positive or negative values within its uncertainty interval introduce positive or negative slopes, thus the formation of an error envelope. The amplitude from blue optical to near-infrared wavelength for a typical uncertainty on b corresponds to one atmospheric pressure scale height and more. This impact parameter degeneracy is confirmed for different host types; K stars present prominently steeper slopes, while M stars indicate features at the blue wavelengths.
Conclusions
We demonstrate that transmission spectra can be hard to interpret, basically because of the limitations in defining a precise impact parameter value for a transiting exoplanet. This consequently limits a characterization of its atmosphere.
KW - planets and satellites: atmospheres
KW - planets and satellites: gaseous
KW - planets
Y1 - 2020
U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-605378
SN - 0004-6361
SN - 1432-0746
VL - 640
PB - EDP Sciences
CY - Les Ulis
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Alirezaeizanjani, Zahra
A1 - Großmann, Robert
A1 - Pfeifer, Veronika
A1 - Hintsche, Marius
A1 - Beta, Carsten
T1 - Chemotaxis strategies of bacteria with multiple run modes
JF - Science advances
N2 - Bacterial chemotaxis-a fundamental example of directional navigation in the living world-is key to many biological processes, including the spreading of bacterial infections. Many bacterial species were recently reported to exhibit several distinct swimming modes-the flagella may, for example, push the cell body or wrap around it. How do the different run modes shape the chemotaxis strategy of a multimode swimmer? Here, we investigate chemotactic motion of the soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida as a model organism. By simultaneously tracking the position of the cell body and the configuration of its flagella, we demonstrate that individual run modes show different chemotactic responses in nutrition gradients and, thus, constitute distinct behavioral states. On the basis of an active particle model, we demonstrate that switching between multiple run states that differ in their speed and responsiveness provides the basis for robust and efficient chemotaxis in complex natural habitats.
KW - exploit
KW - flagellum
KW - instability
KW - time
Y1 - 2020
U6 - https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz6153
SN - 2375-2548
VL - 6
IS - 22
PB - American Association for the Advancement of Science
CY - Washington
ER -
TY - JOUR
A1 - Alisch, Julia
A1 - Kirchner, Vera
T1 - Escape Rooms - eine Methode mit Potenzial für die ökonomische und politische Bildung?
JF - Unterricht Wirtschaft + Politik
Y1 - 2020
SN - 2191-6624
SN - 2751-1243
IS - 03
SP - 53
EP - 55
PB - Friedrich Verlag GmbH
CY - Hannover
ER -