TY - GEN A1 - Halfpap, Stefan A1 - Schlosser, Rainer T1 - A Comparison of Allocation Algorithms for Partially Replicated Databases T2 - 2019 IEEE 35th International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) N2 - Increasing demand for analytical processing capabilities can be managed by replication approaches. However, to evenly balance the replicas' workload shares while at the same time minimizing the data replication factor is a highly challenging allocation problem. As optimal solutions are only applicable for small problem instances, effective heuristics are indispensable. In this paper, we test and compare state-of-the-art allocation algorithms for partial replication. By visualizing and exploring their (heuristic) solutions for different benchmark workloads, we are able to derive structural insights and to detect an algorithm's strengths as well as its potential for improvement. Further, our application enables end-to-end evaluations of different allocations to verify their theoretical performance. Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-1-5386-7474-1 SN - 978-1-5386-7475-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDE.2019.00226 SN - 1084-4627 SN - 2375-026X SN - 1063-6382 SP - 2008 EP - 2011 PB - IEEE CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baroni, Gabriele A1 - Schalge, Bernd A1 - Rakovec, Oldrich A1 - Kumar, Rohini A1 - Schüler, Lennart A1 - Samaniego, Luis A1 - Simmer, Clemens A1 - Attinger, Sabine T1 - A Comprehensive Distributed Hydrological Modeling Intercomparison to Support Process Representation and Data Collection Strategies JF - Water resources research N2 - The improvement of process representations in hydrological models is often only driven by the modelers' knowledge and data availability. We present a comprehensive comparison between two hydrological models of different complexity that is developed to support (1) the understanding of the differences between model structures and (2) the identification of the observations needed for model assessment and improvement. The comparison is conducted on both space and time and by aggregating the outputs at different spatiotemporal scales. In the present study, mHM, a process‐based hydrological model, and ParFlow‐CLM, an integrated subsurface‐surface hydrological model, are used. The models are applied in a mesoscale catchment in Germany. Both models agree in the simulated river discharge at the outlet and the surface soil moisture dynamics, lending their supports for some model applications (drought monitoring). Different model sensitivities are, however, found when comparing evapotranspiration and soil moisture at different soil depths. The analysis supports the need of observations within the catchment for model assessment, but it indicates that different strategies should be considered for the different variables. Evapotranspiration measurements are needed at daily resolution across several locations, while highly resolved spatially distributed observations with lower temporal frequency are required for soil moisture. Finally, the results show the impact of the shallow groundwater system simulated by ParFlow‐CLM and the need to account for the related soil moisture redistribution. Our comparison strategy can be applied to other models types and environmental conditions to strengthen the dialog between modelers and experimentalists for improving process representations in Earth system models. KW - hydrological models KW - assessments KW - monitoring strategies KW - improvements Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1029/2018WR023941 SN - 0043-1397 SN - 1944-7973 VL - 55 IS - 2 SP - 990 EP - 1010 PB - American Geophysical Union CY - Washington ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Chapman, Eric M. A1 - Lant, Benjamin A1 - Ohashi, Yota A1 - Yu, Bin A1 - Schertzberg, Michael A1 - Go, Christopher A1 - Dogra, Deepika A1 - Koskimaki, Janne A1 - Girard, Romuald A1 - Li, Yan A1 - Fraser, Andrew G. A1 - Awad, Issam A. A1 - Abdelilah-Seyfried, Salim A1 - Gingras, Anne-Claude A1 - Derry, William Brent T1 - A conserved CCM complex promotes apoptosis non-autonomously by regulating zinc homeostasis JF - Nature Communications N2 - Apoptotic death of cells damaged by genotoxic stress requires regulatory input from surrounding tissues. The C. elegans scaffold protein KRI-1, ortholog of mammalian KRIT1/CCM1, permits DNA damage-induced apoptosis of cells in the germline by an unknown cell non-autonomous mechanism. We reveal that KRI-1 exists in a complex with CCM-2 in the intestine to negatively regulate the ERK-5/MAPK pathway. This allows the KLF-3 transcription factor to facilitate expression of the SLC39 zinc transporter gene zipt-2.3, which functions to sequester zinc in the intestine. Ablation of KRI-1 results in reduced zinc sequestration in the intestine, inhibition of IR-induced MPK-1/ERK1 activation, and apoptosis in the germline. Zinc localization is also perturbed in the vasculature of krit1(-/-) zebrafish, and SLC39 zinc transporters are mis-expressed in Cerebral Cavernous Malformations (CCM) patient tissues. This study provides new insights into the regulation of apoptosis by cross-tissue communication, and suggests a link between zinc localization and CCM disease. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09829-z SN - 2041-1723 VL - 10 PB - Nature Publ. Group CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Winter, Benjamin A1 - Schneeberger, Klaus A1 - Dung, N. V. A1 - Huttenlau, M. A1 - Achleitner, S. A1 - Stötter, J. A1 - Merz, Bruno A1 - Vorogushyn, Sergiy T1 - A continuous modelling approach for design flood estimation on sub-daily time scale JF - Hydrological sciences journal = Journal des sciences hydrologiques N2 - Design flood estimation is an essential part of flood risk assessment. Commonly applied are flood frequency analyses and design storm approaches, while the derived flood frequency using continuous simulation has been getting more attention recently. In this study, a continuous hydrological modelling approach on an hourly time scale, driven by a multi-site weather generator in combination with a -nearest neighbour resampling procedure, based on the method of fragments, is applied. The derived 100-year flood estimates in 16 catchments in Vorarlberg (Austria) are compared to (a) the flood frequency analysis based on observed discharges, and (b) a design storm approach. Besides the peak flows, the corresponding runoff volumes are analysed. The spatial dependence structure of the synthetically generated flood peaks is validated against observations. It can be demonstrated that the continuous modelling approach can achieve plausible results and shows a large variability in runoff volume across the flood events. KW - derived flood frequency KW - continuous modelling KW - temporal disaggregation KW - flood hazard KW - synthetic flood events Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/02626667.2019.1593419 SN - 0262-6667 SN - 2150-3435 VL - 64 IS - 5 SP - 539 EP - 554 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eberli, Gregor P. A1 - Bernoulli, Daniel A1 - Vecsei, Adam A1 - Sekti, Rizky A1 - Grasmueck, Mark A1 - Lüdmann, Thomas A1 - Anselmetti, Flavio S. A1 - Mutti, Maria A1 - Della Porta, Giovanna T1 - A Cretaceous carbonate delta drift in the Montagna della Maiella, Italy JF - Sedimentology : the journal of the International Association of Sedimentologists N2 - The Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) bioclastic wedge of the Orfento Formation in the Montagna della Maiella, Italy, is compared to newly discovered contourite drifts in the Maldives. Like the drift deposits in the Maldives, the Orfento Formation fills a channel and builds a Miocene delta-shaped and mounded sedimentary body in the basin that is similar in size to the approximately 350 km(2) large coarse-grained bioclastic Miocene delta drifts in the Maldives. The composition of the bioclastic wedge of the Orfento Formation is also exclusively bioclastic debris sourced from the shallow-water areas and reworked clasts of the Orfento Formation itself. In the near mud-free succession, age-diagnostic fossils are sparse. The depositional textures vary from wackestone to float-rudstone and breccia/conglomerates, but rocks with grainstone and rudstone textures are the most common facies. In the channel, lensoid convex-upward breccias, cross-cutting channelized beds and thick grainstone lobes with abundant scours indicate alternating erosion and deposition from a high-energy current. In the basin, the mounded sedimentary body contains lobes with a divergent progradational geometry. The lobes are built by decametre thick composite megabeds consisting of sigmoidal clinoforms that typically have a channelized topset, a grainy foreset and a fine-grained bottomset with abundant irregular angular clasts. Up to 30 m thick channels filled with intraformational breccias and coarse grainstones pinch out downslope between the megabeds. In the distal portion of the wedge, stacked grainstone beds with foresets and reworked intraclasts document continuous sediment reworking and migration. The bioclastic wedge of the Orfento Formation has been variously interpreted as a succession of sea-level controlled slope deposits, a shoaling shoreface complex, or a carbonate tidal delta. Current-controlled delta drifts in the Maldives, however, offer a new interpretation because of their similarity in architecture and composition. These similarities include: (i) a feeder channel opening into the basin; (ii) an excavation moat at the exit of the channel; (iii) an overall mounded geometry with an apex that is in shallower water depth than the source channel; (iv) progradation of stacked lobes; (v) channels that pinch out in a basinward direction; and (vi) smaller channelized intervals that are arranged in a radial pattern. As a result, the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) bioclastic wedge of the Orfento Formation in the Montagna della Maiella, Italy, is here interpreted as a carbonate delta drift. KW - Carbonate contourite drift KW - delta drift KW - Maiella Mountains KW - Orfento Formation KW - prograding lobes Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12590 SN - 0037-0746 SN - 1365-3091 VL - 66 IS - 4 SP - 1266 EP - 1301 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Zech, Alraune A1 - Attinger, Sabine A1 - Bellin, Alberto A1 - Cvetkovic, Vladimir A1 - Dietrich, Peter A1 - Fiori, Aldo A1 - Teutsch, Georg A1 - Dagan, Gedeon T1 - A Critical Analysis of Transverse Dispersivity Field Data JF - Groundwater : journal of the Association of Ground-Water Scientists and Engineers, a division of the National Ground Water Association N2 - Transverse dispersion, or tracer spreading orthogonal to the mean flow direction, which is relevant e.g, for quantifying bio-degradation of contaminant plumes or mixing of reactive solutes, has been studied in the literature less than the longitudinal one. Inferring transverse dispersion coefficients from field experiments is a difficult and error-prone task, requiring a spatial resolution of solute plumes which is not easily achievable in applications. In absence of field data, it is a questionable common practice to set transverse dispersivities as a fraction of the longitudinal one, with the ratio 1/10 being the most prevalent. We collected estimates of field-scale transverse dispersivities from existing publications and explored possible scale relationships as guidance criteria for applications. Our investigation showed that a large number of estimates available in the literature are of low reliability and should be discarded from further analysis. The remaining reliable estimates are formation-specific, span three orders of magnitude and do not show any clear scale-dependence on the plume traveled distance. The ratios with the longitudinal dispersivity are also site specific and vary widely. The reliability of transverse dispersivities depends significantly on the type of field experiment and method of data analysis. In applications where transverse dispersion plays a significant role, inference of transverse dispersivities should be part of site characterization with the transverse dispersivity estimated as an independent parameter rather than related heuristically to longitudinal dispersivity. Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/gwat.12838 SN - 0017-467X SN - 1745-6584 VL - 57 IS - 4 SP - 632 EP - 639 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Luetkecosmann, Steffi A1 - Faupel, Thomas A1 - Porstmann, Silvia A1 - Porstmann, Tomas A1 - Micheel, Burkhard A1 - Hanack, Katja T1 - A cross-reactive monoclonal antibody as universal detection antibody in autoantibody diagnostic assays JF - Clinica chimica acta N2 - Diagnostics of Autoimmune Diseases involve screening of patient samples for containing autoantibodies against various antigens. To ensure quality of diagnostic assays a calibrator is needed in each assay system. Different calibrators as recombinant human monoclonal antibodies as well as chimeric antibodies against the autoantigens of interest are described. A less cost-intensive and also more representative possibility covering different targets on the antigens is the utilization of polyclonal sera from other species. Nevertheless, the detection of human autoantibodies as well as the calibration reagent containing antibodies from other species in one assay constitutes a challenge in terms of assay calibration. We therefore developed a cross-reactive monoclonal antibody which binds human as well as rabbit sera with similar affinities in the nanomolar range. We tested our monoclonal antibody S38CD11B12 successfully in the commercial Serazym (R) Anti-Cardiolipin-beta 2-GPI IgG/IgM assay and could thereby prove the eligibility of S38CD11B12 as detection antibody in autoimmune diagnostic assays using rabbit derived sera as reference material. KW - Monoclonal antibody KW - Detection KW - Autoimmune diagnostics KW - Cross reactivity KW - Assay calibration Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cca.2019.09.003 SN - 0009-8981 SN - 1873-3492 VL - 499 SP - 87 EP - 92 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - THES A1 - Krentz, Konrad-Felix T1 - A Denial-of-Sleep-Resilient Medium Access Control Layer for IEEE 802.15.4 Networks T1 - Eine Denial-of-Sleep-Resiliente Mediumzugriffsschicht für IEEE-802.15.4-Netzwerke N2 - With the emergence of the Internet of things (IoT), plenty of battery-powered and energy-harvesting devices are being deployed to fulfill sensing and actuation tasks in a variety of application areas, such as smart homes, precision agriculture, smart cities, and industrial automation. In this context, a critical issue is that of denial-of-sleep attacks. Such attacks temporarily or permanently deprive battery-powered, energy-harvesting, or otherwise energy-constrained devices of entering energy-saving sleep modes, thereby draining their charge. At the very least, a successful denial-of-sleep attack causes a long outage of the victim device. Moreover, to put battery-powered devices back into operation, their batteries have to be replaced. This is tedious and may even be infeasible, e.g., if a battery-powered device is deployed at an inaccessible location. While the research community came up with numerous defenses against denial-of-sleep attacks, most present-day IoT protocols include no denial-of-sleep defenses at all, presumably due to a lack of awareness and unsolved integration problems. After all, despite there are many denial-of-sleep defenses, effective defenses against certain kinds of denial-of-sleep attacks are yet to be found. The overall contribution of this dissertation is to propose a denial-of-sleep-resilient medium access control (MAC) layer for IoT devices that communicate over IEEE 802.15.4 links. Internally, our MAC layer comprises two main components. The first main component is a denial-of-sleep-resilient protocol for establishing session keys among neighboring IEEE 802.15.4 nodes. The established session keys serve the dual purpose of implementing (i) basic wireless security and (ii) complementary denial-of-sleep defenses that belong to the second main component. The second main component is a denial-of-sleep-resilient MAC protocol. Notably, this MAC protocol not only incorporates novel denial-of-sleep defenses, but also state-of-the-art mechanisms for achieving low energy consumption, high throughput, and high delivery ratios. Altogether, our MAC layer resists, or at least greatly mitigates, all denial-of-sleep attacks against it we are aware of. Furthermore, our MAC layer is self-contained and thus can act as a drop-in replacement for IEEE 802.15.4-compliant MAC layers. In fact, we implemented our MAC layer in the Contiki-NG operating system, where it seamlessly integrates into an existing protocol stack. N2 - Mit dem Aufkommen des Internets der Dinge (IoT), werden immer mehr batteriebetriebene und energieerntende Geräte in diversen Anwendungsbereichen eingesetzt, etwa in der Heimautomatisierung, Präzisionslandwirtschaft, Industrieautomatisierung oder intelligenten Stadt. In diesem Kontext stellen sogenannte Denial-of-Sleep-Angriffe eine immer kritischer werdende Bedrohung dar. Solche Angriffe halten batteriebetriebene, energieerntende oder anderweitig energiebeschränkte Geräte zeitweise oder chronisch ab, in energiesparende Schlafmodi überzugehen. Erfolgreiche Denial-of-Sleep-Angriffe führen zumindest zu einer langen Ausfallzeit der betroffenen Geräte. Um betroffene batteriebetriebene Geräte wieder in Betrieb zu nehmen, müssen zudem deren Batterien gewechselt werden. Dies ist mühsam oder eventuell sogar unmöglich, z.B. wenn solche Geräte an unzugänglichen Orten installiert sind. Obwohl die Forschungsgemeinschaft bereits viele Denial-of-Sleep-Abwehrmechanismen vorgeschlagen hat, besitzen die meisten aktuellen IoT-Protokolle überhaupt keine Denial-of-Sleep-Abwehrmechanismen. Dies kann zum einen daran liegen, dass man des Problems noch nicht gewahr ist, aber zum anderen auch daran, dass viele Integrationsfragen bislang ungeklärt sind. Des Weiteren existieren bisher sowieso noch keine effektiven Abwehrmechanismen gegen bestimmte Denial-of-Sleep-Angriffe. Der Hauptbeitrag dieser Dissertation ist die Entwicklung einer Denial-of-Sleep-resilienten Mediumzugriffsschicht für IoT-Geräte, die via IEEE-802.15.4-Funkverbindungen kommunizieren. Die entwickelte Mediumzugriffsschicht besitzt zwei Hauptkomponenten. Die erste Hauptkomponente ist ein Denial-of-Sleep-resilientes Protokoll zur Etablierung von Sitzungsschlüsseln zwischen benachbarten IEEE-802.15.4-Knoten. Diese Sitzungsschlüssel dienen einerseits der grundlegenden Absicherung des Funkverkehrs und andererseits der Implementierung zusätzlicher Denial-of-Sleep-Abwehrmechanismen in der zweiten Hauptkomponente. Die zweite Hauptkomponente ist ein Denial-of-Sleep-resilientes Mediumzugriffsprotokoll. Bemerkenswert an diesem Mediumzugriffsprotokoll ist, dass es nicht nur neuartige Denial-of-Sleep-Abwehrmechanismen enthält, sondern auch dem Stand der Technik entsprechende Mechanismen zur Verringerung des Energieverbrauchs, zur Steigerung des Durchsatzes sowie zur Erhöhung der Zuverlässigkeit. Zusammenfassend widersteht bzw. mildert unsere Denial-of-Sleep-resiliente Mediumzugriffsschicht alle uns bekannten Denial-of-Sleep-Angriffe, die gegen sie gefahren werden können. Außerdem kann unsere Denial-of-Sleep-resiliente Mediumzugriffsschicht ohne Weiteres an Stelle von IEEE-802.15.4-konformen Mediumzugriffsschichten eingesetzt werden. Dies zeigen wir durch die nahtlose Integration unserer Mediumzugriffsschicht in den Netzwerk-Stack des Betriebssystems Contiki-NG. KW - medium access control KW - denial of sleep KW - internet of things KW - Mediumzugriffskontrolle KW - Schlafentzugsangriffe KW - Internet der Dinge Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-439301 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Demal, Till Joscha A1 - Heise, Melina A1 - Reiz, Benedikt A1 - Dogra, Deepika A1 - Braenne, Ingrid A1 - Reichenspurner, Hermann A1 - Männer, Jörg A1 - Aherrahrou, Zouhair A1 - Schunkert, Heribert A1 - Erdmann, Jeanette A1 - Abdelilah-Seyfried, Salim T1 - A familial congenital heart disease with a possible multigenic origin involving a mutation in BMPR1A JF - Scientific reports N2 - The genetics of many congenital heart diseases (CHDs) can only unsatisfactorily be explained by known chromosomal or Mendelian syndromes. Here, we present sequencing data of a family with a potentially multigenic origin of CHD. Twelve of nineteen family members carry a familial mutation [NM_004329.2:c.1328 G > A (p.R443H)] which encodes a predicted deleterious variant of BMPR1A. This mutation co-segregates with a linkage region on chromosome 1 that associates with the emergence of severe CHDs including Ebstein’s anomaly, atrioventricular septal defect, and others. We show that the continuous overexpression of the zebrafish homologous mutation bmpr1aap.R438H within endocardium causes a reduced AV valve area, a downregulation of Wnt/ß-catenin signalling at the AV canal, and growth of additional tissue mass in adult zebrafish hearts. This finding opens the possibility of testing genetic interactions between BMPR1A and other candidate genes within linkage region 1 which may provide a first step towards unravelling more complex genetic patterns in cardiovascular disease aetiology. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-39648-7 SN - 2045-2322 VL - 9 PB - Nature Publ. Group CY - London ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Alexiadou, Artemis T1 - A form-function mismatch? BT - The case of Greek deponents JF - Of trees and birds. A Festschrift for Gisbert Fanselow KW - Festschrift KW - Informationsstruktur KW - Linguistik KW - Morphologie KW - Syntax KW - festschrift KW - information structure KW - linguistics KW - morphology KW - syntax Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-432235 SN - 978-3-86956-457-9 SP - 107 EP - 117 PB - Universitätsverlag Potsdam CY - Potsdam ER -