@phdthesis{Abed2010,
  author    = {Abed, Jamil},
  title     = {An iterative approach to operators on manifolds with singularities},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-44757},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {We establish elements of a new approach to ellipticity and parametrices within operator algebras on manifolds with higher singularities, only based on some general axiomatic requirements on parameter-dependent operators in suitable scales of spaes. The idea is to model an iterative process with new generations of parameter-dependent operator theories, together with new scales of spaces that satisfy analogous requirements as the original ones, now on a corresponding higher level. The "full" calculus involves two separate theories, one near the tip of the corner and another one at the conical exit to infinity. However, concerning the conical exit to infinity, we establish here a new concrete calculus of edge-degenerate operators which can be iterated to higher singularities.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Ahnert2010,
  author    = {Ahnert, Karsten},
  title     = {Compactons in strongly nonlinear lattices},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-48539},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {In the present work, we study wave phenomena in strongly nonlinear lattices. Such lattices are characterized by the absence of classical linear waves. We demonstrate that compactons - strongly localized solitary waves with tails decaying faster than exponential - exist and that they play a major role in the dynamics of the system under consideration. We investigate compactons in different physical setups. One part deals with lattices of dispersively coupled limit cycle oscillators which find various applications in natural sciences such as Josephson junction arrays or coupled Ginzburg-Landau equations. Another part deals with Hamiltonian lattices. Here, a prominent example in which compactons can be found is the granular chain. In the third part, we study systems which are related to the discrete nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation describing, for example, coupled optical wave-guides or the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates in optical lattices. Our investigations are based on a numerical method to solve the traveling wave equation. This results in a quasi-exact solution (up to numerical errors) which is the compacton. Another ansatz which is employed throughout this work is the quasi-continuous approximation where the lattice is described by a continuous medium. Here, compactons are found analytically, but they are defined on a truly compact support. Remarkably, both ways give similar qualitative and quantitative results. Additionally, we study the dynamical properties of compactons by means of numerical simulation of the lattice equations. Especially, we concentrate on their emergence from physically realizable initial conditions as well as on their stability due to collisions. We show that the collisions are not exactly elastic but that a small part of the energy remains at the location of the collision. In finite lattices, this remaining part will then trigger a multiple scattering process resulting in a chaotic state.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Apt2010,
  author    = {Apt, Wenke},
  title     = {German foreign and security policy in transition: new constraints of demographic change},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  pages     = {280 S.},
  year      = {2010},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Arvidsson2010,
  author    = {Arvidsson, Samuel Janne},
  title     = {Identification of growth-related tonoplast proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-52408},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {In a very simplified view, the plant leaf growth can be reduced to two processes, cell division and cell expansion, accompanied by expansion of their surrounding cell walls. The vacuole, as being the largest compartment of the plant cell, plays a major role in controlling the water balance of the plant. This is achieved by regulating the osmotic pressure, through import and export of solutes over the vacuolar membrane (the tonoplast) and by controlling the water channels, the aquaporins. Together with the control of cell wall relaxation, vacuolar osmotic pressure regulation is thought to play an important role in cell expansion, directly by providing cell volume and indirectly by providing ion and pH homestasis for the cytosoplasm. In this thesis the role of tonoplast protein coding genes in cell expansion in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana is studied and genes which play a putative role in growth are identified. Since there is, to date, no clearly identified protein localization signal for the tonoplast, there is no possibility to perform genome-wide prediction of proteins localized to this compartment. Thus, a series of recent proteomic studies of the tonoplast were used to compile a list of cross-membrane tonoplast protein coding genes (117 genes), and other growth-related genes from notably the growth regulating factor (GRF) and expansin families were included (26 genes). For these genes a platform for high-throughput reverse transcription quantitative real time polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) was developed by selecting specific primer pairs. To this end, a software tool (called QuantPrime, see http://www.quantprime.de) was developed that automatically designs such primers and tests their specificity in silico against whole transcriptomes and genomes, to avoid cross-hybridizations causing unspecific amplification. The RT-qPCR platform was used in an expression study in order to identify candidate growth related genes. Here, a growth-associative spatio-temporal leaf sampling strategy was used, targeting growing regions at high expansion developmental stages and comparing them to samples taken from non-expanding regions or stages of low expansion. Candidate growth related genes were identified after applying a template-based scoring analysis on the expression data, ranking the genes according to their association with leaf expansion. To analyze the functional involvement of these genes in leaf growth on a macroscopic scale, knockout mutants of the candidate growth related genes were screened for growth phenotypes. To this end, a system for non-invasive automated leaf growth phenotyping was established, based on a commercially available image capture and analysis system. A software package was developed for detailed developmental stage annotation of the images captured with the system, and an analysis pipeline was constructed for automated data pre-processing and statistical testing, including modeling and graph generation, for various growth-related phenotypes. Using this system, 24 knockout mutant lines were analyzed, and significant growth phenotypes were found for five different genes.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Awad2010,
  author    = {Awad, Ahmed Mahmoud Hany Aly},
  title     = {A compliance management framework for business process models},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-49222},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {Companies develop process models to explicitly describe their business operations. In the same time, business operations, business processes, must adhere to various types of compliance requirements. Regulations, e.g., Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002, internal policies, best practices are just a few sources of compliance requirements. In some cases, non-adherence to compliance requirements makes the organization subject to legal punishment. In other cases, non-adherence to compliance leads to loss of competitive advantage and thus loss of market share. Unlike the classical domain-independent behavioral correctness of business processes, compliance requirements are domain-specific. Moreover, compliance requirements change over time. New requirements might appear due to change in laws and adoption of new policies. Compliance requirements are offered or enforced by different entities that have different objectives behind these requirements. Finally, compliance requirements might affect different aspects of business processes, e.g., control flow and data flow. As a result, it is infeasible to hard-code compliance checks in tools. Rather, a repeatable process of modeling compliance rules and checking them against business processes automatically is needed. This thesis provides a formal approach to support process design-time compliance checking. Using visual patterns, it is possible to model compliance requirements concerning control flow, data flow and conditional flow rules. Each pattern is mapped into a temporal logic formula. The thesis addresses the problem of consistency checking among various compliance requirements, as they might stem from divergent sources. Also, the thesis contributes to automatically check compliance requirements against process models using model checking. We show that extra domain knowledge, other than expressed in compliance rules, is needed to reach correct decisions. In case of violations, we are able to provide a useful feedback to the user. The feedback is in the form of parts of the process model whose execution causes the violation. In some cases, our approach is capable of providing automated remedy of the violation.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{AzizudDin2010,
  author    = {Aziz-ud-Din, Aziz},
  title     = {Molecular and physiological approaches towards growth-effecting genes in Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh.},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  pages     = {VII, 146 S. : Ill., graph. Darst.},
  year      = {2010},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Badura2010,
  author    = {Badura, Benjamin},
  title     = {Dezentralization, network governance and territorial competitiveness : theory with empirical evidence from local governments in El Salvador and Nicaragua},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  pages     = {246 S.},
  year      = {2010},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Bai2010,
  author    = {Bai, Shuo},
  title     = {Active hydrogels with nanocomposites},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  pages     = {VI, 109 Bl. : Ill., graph. Darst.},
  year      = {2010},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Belova2010,
  author    = {Belova, Valentina},
  title     = {Composite fabrication and surface modification via high intensity ultrasound},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  pages     = {113, XII S. : zahlr. Ill. und graph. Darst.},
  year      = {2010},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Bleiholder2010,
  author    = {Bleiholder, Jens},
  title     = {Data fusion and conflict resolution in integrated information systems},
  address   = {Potsdam},
  pages     = {171 S.},
  year      = {2010},
  language  = {en}
}