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Contents: 1 Introduction 2 Experiment 3 Data 4 Symbolic dynamics 4.1 Symbolic dynamics as a tool for data analysis 4.2 2-symbols coding 4.3 3-symbols coding 5 Measures of complexity 5.1 Word statistics 5.2 Shannon entropy 6 Testing for stationarity 6.1 Stationarity 6.2 Time series of cycle durations 6.3 Chi-square test 7 Control parameters in the production of rhythms 8 Analysis of relative phases 9 Discussion 10 Outlook
A numerical bifurcation analysis of the electrically driven plane sheet pinch is presented. The electrical conductivity varies across the sheet such as to allow instability of the quiescent basic state at some critical Hartmann number. The most unstable perturbation is the two-dimensional tearing mode. Restricting the whole problem to two spatial dimensions, this mode is followed up to a time-asymptotic steady state, which proves to be sensitive to three-dimensional perturbations even close to the point where the primary instability sets in. A comprehensive three-dimensional stability analysis of the two-dimensional steady tearing-mode state is performed by varying parameters of the sheet pinch. The instability with respect to three-dimensional perturbations is suppressed by a sufficiently strong magnetic field in the invariant direction of the equilibrium. For a special choice of the system parameters, the unstably perturbed state is followed up in its nonlinear evolution and is found to approach a three-dimensional steady state.
We investigate numerically the appearance of heteroclinic behavior in a three-dimensional, buoyancy-driven fluid layer with stress-free top and bottom boundaries, a square horizontal periodicity with a small aspect ratio, and rotation at low to moderate rates about a vertical axis. The Prandtl number is 6.8. If the rotation is not too slow, the skewed-varicose instability leads from stationary rolls to a stationary mixed-mode solution, which in turn loses stability to a heteroclinic cycle formed by unstable roll states and connections between them. The unstable eigenvectors of these roll states are also of the skewed-varicose or mixed-mode type and in some parameter regions skewed-varicose like shearing oscillations as well as square patterns are involved in the cycle. Always present weak noise leads to irregular horizontal translations of the convection pattern and makes the dynamics chaotic, which is verified by calculating Lyapunov exponents. In the nonrotating case, the primary rolls lose, depending on the aspect ratio, stability to traveling waves or a stationary square pattern. We also study the symmetries of the solutions at the intermittent fixed points in the heteroclinic cycle.
The dynamics of tail-like current sheets under the influence of small-scale plasma turbulence
(1999)
A 2D-magnetohydrodynamic model of current-sheet dynamics caused by anomalous electrical resistivity as result of small-scale plasma turbulence is proposed. The anomalous resistivity is assumed to be proportional to the square of the gradient of the magnetic pressure as may be valid for instance in the case of lower-hybrid-drift turbulence. The initial resistivity pulse is given. Then the temporal and spatial evolution of the magnetic and electric fields, plasma density, pressure, convection and resistivity are considered. The motion of the induced electric field is discussed as indicator of the plasma disturbances. The obtained results found using much improved numerical methods show a magnetic field evolution with x-line formation and plasma acceleration. Besides, in the current sheet, three types of magnetohydrodynamic waves occur, fast magnetoacoustic waves of compression and rarefaction as well as slow magnetoacoustic waves.
Sulphur, a macronutrient essential for plant growth, is among the most versatile elements in living organisms. Unfortunately, little is known about regulation of sulphate uptake and assimilation by plants. Identification of sulphate signalling processes will allow to control sulphate acquisition and assimilation and may prove useful in the future to improve sulphur-use efficiency in agriculture. Many of genes involved in sulphate metabolism are regulated on transcriptional level by products of other genes called transcription factors (TF). Several published experiments revealed TF genes that respond to sulphate deprivation, but none of these have been so far been characterized functionally. Thus, we aimed at identifying and characterising transcription factors that control sulphate metabolism in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. To achieve that goal we postulated that factors regulating Arabidopsis responses to inorganic sulphate deficiency change their transcriptional levels under sulphur-limited conditions. By comparing TF transcript profiles from plants grown on different sulphate regimes, we identified TF genes that may specifically induce or repress changes in expression of genes that allow plants to adapt to changes in sulphate availability. Candidate genes obtained from this screening were tested by reverse genetics approaches. Transgenic plants constitutively overproducing selected TF genes and mutant plants, lacking functional selected TF genes (knock out), were used. By comparing metabolite and transcript profiles from transgenic and wild type plants we aimed at confirming the role of selected AP2 TF candidate genes in plant adaptation to sulphur unavailability. After preliminary characterisation of WRKY24 and MYB93 TF genes, we postulate that these factors are involved in a complex multifactorial regulatory network, in which WRKY24 and MYB93 would act as superior factors regulating other transcription factors directly involved in the regulation of S-metabolism genes. Results obtained for plants overproducing TOE1 and TOE2 TF genes suggests that these factors may be involved in a mechanism, which is promoting synthesis of an essential amino acid, methionine, over synthesis of another amino acid, cysteine. Thus, TOE1 and TOE2 genes might be a part of transcriptional regulation of methionine synthesis. Approaches creating genetically manipulated plants may produce plant phenotypes of immediate biotechnological interest, such as plants with increased sulphate or sulphate-containing amino acid content, or better adapted to the sulphate unavailability.
Sicherung und Entwicklung von Böden und ihren Funktionen in Niederungen durch Naturschutzmaßnahmen
(2007)
Mit dem 1999 in Kraft getretenen Bundesbodenschutzgesetz ist eine wichtige Grundlage geschaffen, den Boden u. a. stärker in Planungs- und Zulassungsverfahren zu berücksichtigen. Die Ziele des Gesetzes, die nachhaltige Sicherung und Wiederherstellung von Bodenfunktionen, können wegen fehlender gesetzlicher Instrumente allerdings nicht eigenständig umgesetzt werden. Eine Schnittstelle zur Realisierung bodenbezogener Erhaltungs- und Entwicklungsziele bieten deshalb naturschutzrechtliche Instrumente wie die Landschaftsplanung, die Eingriffsregelung und Pflege- und Entwicklungspläne von Schutzgebieten. Am Beispiel beeinträchtigter Niederungsböden wird in der Arbeit hinterfragt und aufgezeigt, inwieweit auf das Schutzgut Boden bezogene Maßnahmenplanungen wie Wiedervernässung und Extensivierung mit naturschutzrechtlichen Instrumenten effektiv erstellt und umgesetzt werden können. Es liegt die Hypothese zugrunde, dass eine genaue Ist-Zustandserfassung von Niederungsböden auf Grundlage der in der naturschutzfachlichen Planungspraxis gängig herangezogenen Kartengrundlagen nicht möglich ist. Für die Bestimmung der Entwicklungspotenziale von Niederungsböden sowie die Erarbeitung detaillierter Maßnahmenplanungen ist eine gezielte Vor-Ort-Erhebung planungsrelevanter Bodenmerkmale erforderlich, auf die jedoch häufig verzichtet wird. Zudem wird bisher den Wirkungen von Maßnahmen auf das Leistungsvermögen und die Funktionsfähigkeit sowie den erforderlichen Ausgangsvoraussetzungen zu wenig Beachtung geschenkt. Dies erschwert die Umsetzung mit naturschutzrechtlichen Instrumenten. Ziel der Arbeit ist es, verallgemeinerbare Handlungsempfehlungen für die Durchführung von Vor-Ort-Erhebungen und die Ableitung von Aufwertungspotenzialen von Niederungsböden für eine zielgerichtete Maßnahmenkonzeption und sachgerechte Umsetzung zu formulieren. Auf der Basis einer Literaturanalyse und einer Untersuchung der aktuellen Standortausprägung in einem Beispielgebiet, dem Polder "Götz-Gollwitz", der in der entwässerten Niederung der "Mittleren Havel" (Bundesland Brandenburg)liegt, - wird untersucht, wie die Maßnahmen Wiedervernässung und Extensivierung auf die Bodeneigenschaften wirken und welche Veränderungen zum Erhalt und zur Verbesserung der Funktionsfähigkeit der Böden führen. - werden die aktuellen Substrat- und Bodentypen, die hydromorphen Verhältnisse sowie die Vegetationsausprägung gekennzeichnet. Es erfolgt ein Vergleich der Ergebnisse mit der Aussagekraft von standortkundlichen Kartenwerken. - werden Entwicklungsszenarien skizziert. Es wird aufgezeigt, welche Ausgangsvoraussetzungen und durchzuführenden Maßnahmen für die Erreichung bodenbezogener Ziele im Polder "Götz-Gollwitz" erforderlich und welche Wirkungen dabei auf den Boden, die derzeitige Flächennutzung sowie auf die Biotop- und Artenausstattung zu erwarten sind. Auf Basis der prognostizierten Standortveränderungen erfolgt die Diskussion, inwieweit es in Abhängigkeit der Szenarien bzw. der dabei getätigten Maßnahmen im Einzelnen zum Erhalt bzw. zur Verbesserung der Funktionsfähigkeit von Böden kommt. Für die Formulierung von Handlungsempfehlungen - wird anhand dreier häufig auftretender Ausgangszustände eine vom Beispielgebiet losgelöste Diskussion zum Erhalt und zu Verbesserungsmöglichkeiten der Leistungs- und Funktionsfähigkeit von Böden geführt. Dabei erfolgt die Unterscheidung, ob konkrete Maßnahmen als Ausgleichs- und Ersatzmaßnahmen aus der naturschutzrechtlichen Eingriffsregelung oder durch Pflege- und Entwicklungspläne als sonstige Minderungs-, Erhaltungs- oder Entwicklungsmaßnahmen umgesetzt werden können. - werden die Aktualität sowie Flächen- und Aussagenschärfe von Kartengrundlagen bewertet und ein Teil der Bodenparameter bestimmt, die unbedingt im Gelände zu erheben sind, um Ziele und Maßnahmen gezielter abzuleiten. - wird aus den Untersuchungen abgeleitet, mit welchem Aufwand und Methoden eine Überprüfung der aktuellen Standortausprägung zu erfolgen hat. Die Herleitung eines vertretbaren Erhebungsaufwandes (Punktdichte und -anordnung) wird durch verschiedene Rechenbeispiele unterstützt, die auf Basis der Honorarordnung für Architekten und Ingenieure (HOAI) und der im Beispielgebiet aufgebrachten Arbeitszeit kalkuliert werden. Die Vorgehensweise für die Prüfung und Erhebung des aktuellen Bodenzustandes sowie Ableitung der Aufwertungspotenziale von Bodenfunktionen wird in einem Ablaufschema dargestellt. Schlussfolgerungen beziehen sich auf Erreichung bodenbezogener Zielvorstellung in Abhängigkeit von den Anforderungen naturschutzrechtlicher Planungsinstrumente. Es wird die Bedeutung von Vor-Ort-Erhebungen als wertvollen Planungsbeitrag herausgestellt und die Notwendigkeit und Möglichkeiten aufgezeigt, für die Ebene der Maßnahmenplanung finanzielle Mittel zur Begleichung der Kosten von Vor-Ort-Erhebungen aufzubringen. Die vorliegende Arbeit leistet einen substanziellen Beitrag dazu, bodenbezogene Maßnahmenplanungen in Niederungsgebieten künftig realistischer und sachgerecht mit Instrumenten des Naturschutzes durchführen zu können.
The nonlinear interaction of waves excited by the modified two-stream instability (Farley-Buneman instability) is considered. It is found that, during the linear stage of wave growth, the enhanced pressure of the high-frequency part of the waves locally generates a ponderomotive force. This force acts on the plasma particles and redistributes them. Thus an additional electrostatic polarization field occurs, which influences the low-frequency part of the waves. Then, the low-frequency waves also cause a redistribution of the high-frequency waves. In the paper, a self-consistent system of equations is obtained, which describes the nonlinear interaction of the waves. It is shown that the considered mechanism of wave interaction causes a nonlinear stabilization of the high-frequency waves’ growth and a formation of local density structures of the charged particles. The density modifications of the charged particles during the non-linear stage of wave growth and the possible interval of aspect angles of the high-frequency waves are estimated.
The ill-posed inversion of multiwavelength lidar data by a hybrid method of variable projection
(1999)
The ill-posed problem of aerosol distribution determination from a small number of backscatter and extinction lidar measurements was solved successfully via a hybrid method by a variable dimension of projection with B-Splines. Numerical simulation results with noisy data at different measurement situations show that it is possible to derive a reconstruction of the aerosol distribution only with 4 measurements.
Der Beitrag stellt das Konzept „alltägliche Lebensführung“ in den Kontext aktueller erwachsenenpädagogischer Diskussionen. Erstens wird der Frage nachgegangen, warum die Erwachsenenpädagogik ein Interesse am Lebensführungskonzept haben kann. Dieses Interesse ist an die Erwartung gebunden, mehr über das alltägliche, nichtinstitutionalisierte Lernen von Erwachsenen zu erfahren. Zweitens wird dargelegt, wie das Konzept der alltäglichen Lebensführung durch eine subjektwissenschaftliche Erwach-senenpädagogik eine Ergänzung erfahren könnte. Dies betrifft insbesondere die lernende Veränderung bzw. die Veränderungsfähigkeit alltäglicher Lebensführungsregeln. Mit anderen Worten: die Erwachsenenpädagogik kann ihrerseits einen Beitrag zum Lebensführungskonzept leisten.
Der folgende Beitrag problematisiert aus einer didaktiktheoretischen und lerntheoretischen Perspektive Lehr-, Lernverhältnisse im Internet und stellt das didaktische Konzept einer Online-Lernberatung für Weiterbildungsprozesse in betrieblichen Modernisierungskontexten vor. Es wird zunächst die These begründet, dass Weiterbildung in gesellschaftlichbetrieblichen Modernisierungskontexten in vielen Fällen eine beratungsorientierte Didaktik - im Unterschied zu einer vermittlungsorientierten Didaktik - erfordert. Daran anschließend wird aus einer lerntheoretischen Perspektive „verstehen/beraten“ als zentraler Referenzpunkt didaktischen Handelns vorgestellt. Schließlich werden am Beispiel des Forschungs- und Entwicklungsprojektes be-online die Vor- und Nachteile des Mediums Internet für eine beratungsorientierte Didaktik dargelegt und zukünftige Forschungsperspektiven aufgezeigt. Dieser Beitrag konzentriert sich also auf didaktik- und lerntheoretische Begründungen sowie auf eine Problematisierung der Umsetzungsmöglichkeiten für eine beratungsorientierte Didaktik im Internet. Dabei wird der spezifische Charakter dieser Zeitschrift als Online- Zeitschrift genutzt, um an verschiedenen Stellen Verbindungen zu bildungspraktischen Darstellungen der Online-Lernberatung im Internet herzustellen (www.projekt-be-online.de). Die theoretischen Begründungen und die praktischen Darstellungen mögen zusammen einen vertieften Einblick in den Versuch einer Online-Lernberatung geben.
In Gerichtsshows wie „Richter Alexander Hold“, „Richterin Barbara Salesch“ und „Das Strafgericht“ agieren Laiendarsteller semi-spontan als Teilnehmer einer fiktiven Gerichtsverhandlung. Hier wird also eine kommunikative Gattung aus der öffentlichen Kommunikation – die Gerichtsverhandlung – als Folie für eine Unterhaltungssendung genutzt. In dieser Arbeit wird die Gerichtsshow mithilfe des Konzeptes der kommunikativen Gattung beschrieben. Die Darstellung findet auf den verschiedenen Ebenen der kommunikativen Gattung "Binnenebene", "situative Realisierungsebene" und "Außenstruktur" statt. Außerdem wird dem Modell der kommunikativen Gattung als weitere Ebene die "mediale Außenstruktur" hinzugefügt, um die Beschreibbarkeit des Mediengesprächs "Gerichtsshow" zu verbessern. Die Analyse der Gerichtsshow zeigt, dass hier durch die Beteiligten eine Kontextualisierung als Gerichtsverhandlung aufgebaut wird. Die Teilnehmer müssen jedoch zugleich Aufgaben bewältigen, die denen einer Unterhaltungssendung entsprechen. Eine zentrale Aufgabe der Beteiligten ist daher das ständige Aushandeln zwischen der Produktion der Kontextualisierung als Gerichtsverhandlung einerseits und der Erfüllung der Anforderungen einer Unterhaltungssendung andererseits. In diesem Aushandlungsprozess entsteht eine gerichtsshowspezifische Darstellung von Kommunikation vor Gericht, die in dieser Arbeit mithilfe von rechtssoziologischen Konzepten wie dem der "Verfahrensgerechtigkeit" in ihrer Bedeutung im Diskurs um Recht und Gerechtigkeit eingeordnet wird. Die Analyse findet anhand von transkribierten Ausschnitten aus den Sendungen „Richter Alexander Hold“, „Richterin Barbara Salesch“ und „Das Strafgericht“ statt.
Biomakromoleküle sind in der Natur für viele Abläufe in lebenden Organismen verantwortlich. Dies reicht vom Aufbau der extrazellulären Matrix und dem Cytoskelett über die Erkennung von Botenstoffen durch Rezeptoren bis hin zur Katalyse der verschiedensten Reaktionen in den Zellen selbst. Diese Aufgaben werden zum größten Teil von Proteinen übernommen, und besonders das spezifische Erkennen der Interaktionspartner ist für alle diese Moleküle äußerst wichtig, um eine fehlerfreie Funktion zu gewährleisten. Als Alternative zur evolutiven Erzeugung von optimalen Bindern und Katalysatoren auf der Basis von Aminosäuren und Nukleotiden wurden von Wulff, Shea und Mosbach synthetische molekular geprägte Polymere (molecularly imprinted polymers, MIPs) konzipiert. Das Prinzip dieser künstlichen Erkennungselemente beruht auf der Tatsache, dass sich funktionelle Monomere spezifisch um eine Schablone (Templat) anordnen. Werden diese Monomere dann vernetzend polymerisiert, entsteht ein Polymer mit molekularen Kavitäten, in denen die Funktionalitäten komplementär zum Templat fixiert sind. Dadurch ist die selektive Bindung des Templats in diese Kavitäten möglich. Aufgrund ihrer hohen chemischen und thermischen Stabilität und ihrer geringen Kosten haben “bio-inspirierte” molekular geprägte Polymere das Potential, biologische Erkennungselemente in der Affinitätschromatographie sowie in Biosensoren und Biochips zu ersetzen. Trotz einiger publizierter Sensorkonfigurationen steht der große Durchbruch noch aus. Ein Hindernis für Routineanwendungen ist die Signalgenerierung bei Bindung des Analyten an das Polymer. Eine Möglichkeit für die markerfreie Detektion ist die Benutzung von Kalorimetern, die Bindungs- oder Reaktionswärmen direkt messen können. In der Enzymtechnologie wird der Enzym-Thermistor für diesen Zweck eingesetzt, da enzymatische Reaktionen eine Enthalpie in einer Größenordnung von 5 – 100 kJ/mol besitzen. In dieser Arbeit wird die Herstellung von katalytisch geprägten Polymeren nach dem Verfahren des Oberflächenprägens erstmalig beschrieben. Die Methode zur Immobilisierung des Templats auf der Oberfläche von porösem Kieselgel sowie die Polymerzusammensetzung wurden optimiert. Weiter wird die Evaluation der katalytischen Eigenschaften über einen optischen Test, sowie das erste Mal die Kombination eines kalorimetrischen Transduktors – des Thermistors – mit der Analyterkennung durch ein katalytisch aktives MIP gezeigt. Bei diesen Messungen konnte zum ersten Mal gleichzeitig die Bindung/Desorption, sowie die katalytische Umwandlung des Substrats durch konzentrationsabhängige Wärmesignale nachgewiesen werden.
Our dynamic Sun manifests its activity by different phenomena: from the 11-year cyclic sunspot pattern to the unpredictable and violent explosions in the case of solar flares. During flares, a huge amount of the stored magnetic energy is suddenly released and a substantial part of this energy is carried by the energetic electrons, considered to be the source of the nonthermal radio and X-ray radiation. One of the most important and still open question in solar physics is how the electrons are accelerated up to high energies within (the observed in the radio emission) short time scales. Because the acceleration site is extremely small in spatial extent as well (compared to the solar radius), the electron acceleration is regarded as a local process. The search for localized wave structures in the solar corona that are able to accelerate electrons together with the theoretical and numerical description of the conditions and requirements for this process, is the aim of the dissertation. Two models of electron acceleration in the solar corona are proposed in the dissertation: I. Electron acceleration due to the solar jet interaction with the background coronal plasma (the jet--plasma interaction) A jet is formed when the newly reconnected and highly curved magnetic field lines are relaxed by shooting plasma away from the reconnection site. Such jets, as observed in soft X-rays with the Yohkoh satellite, are spatially and temporally associated with beams of nonthermal electrons (in terms of the so-called type III metric radio bursts) propagating through the corona. A model that attempts to give an explanation for such observational facts is developed here. Initially, the interaction of such jets with the background plasma leads to an (ion-acoustic) instability associated with growing of electrostatic fluctuations in time for certain range of the jet initial velocity. During this process, any test electron that happen to feel this electrostatic wave field is drawn to co-move with the wave, gaining energy from it. When the jet speed has a value greater or lower than the one, required by the instability range, such wave excitation cannot be sustained and the process of electron energization (acceleration and/or heating) ceases. Hence, the electrons can propagate further in the corona and be detected as type III radio burst, for example. II. Electron acceleration due to attached whistler waves in the upstream region of coronal shocks (the electron--whistler--shock interaction) Coronal shocks are also able to accelerate electrons, as observed by the so-called type II metric radio bursts (the radio signature of a shock wave in the corona). From in-situ observations in space, e.g., at shocks related to co-rotating interaction regions, it is known that nonthermal electrons are produced preferably at shocks with attached whistler wave packets in their upstream regions. Motivated by these observations and assuming that the physical processes at shocks are the same in the corona as in the interplanetary medium, a new model of electron acceleration at coronal shocks is presented in the dissertation, where the electrons are accelerated by their interaction with such whistlers. The protons inflowing toward the shock are reflected there by nearly conserving their magnetic moment, so that they get a substantial velocity gain in the case of a quasi-perpendicular shock geometry, i.e, the angle between the shock normal and the upstream magnetic field is in the range 50--80 degrees. The so-accelerated protons are able to excite whistler waves in a certain frequency range in the upstream region. When these whistlers (comprising the localized wave structure in this case) are formed, only the incoming electrons are now able to interact resonantly with them. But only a part of these electrons fulfill the the electron--whistler wave resonance condition. Due to such resonant interaction (i.e., of these electrons with the whistlers), the electrons are accelerated in the electric and magnetic wave field within just several whistler periods. While gaining energy from the whistler wave field, the electrons reach the shock front and, subsequently, a major part of them are reflected back into the upstream region, since the shock accompanied with a jump of the magnetic field acts as a magnetic mirror. Co-moving with the whistlers now, the reflected electrons are out of resonance and hence can propagate undisturbed into the far upstream region, where they are detected in terms of type II metric radio bursts. In summary, the kinetic energy of protons is transfered into electrons by the action of localized wave structures in both cases, i.e., at jets outflowing from the magnetic reconnection site and at shock waves in the corona.
Contents: 1 Introduction 2 Formation and destruction of sporadic E-layers 3 Temporal variations of parameters of sporadic E-layers during earthquake preparation 3.1 Temporal variations of fbEs with time-scales of a few hours 3.2 Study of fbEs variations with characteristic time-scales of 0.5-3 hours 3.3 Variations of the parameters of sporadic E-layers with characteristic time-scales of 15-45 minutes 3.4 Sporadic E-layer variations with characteristic time-scales of 2-15 minutes 4 On the spatial scales of sporadic E-layer disturbances related to seismic activity 5 Complex experimental researches of the ionosphere, electromagnetic noise and the geomagnetic field 5.1 Ionospheric and electromagnetic phenomena of the Kayraccum earthquake in 1985 5.2 Comparison of anomalies with characteristic time-scales of 2-3 hours for ionospheric E- and F-layers, and temporal behaviour of electromagnetic noise emission intensity 5.3 Night airglow emissions in the E-region before earthquakes and sporadic E-layer variations 6 Physical models of lithosphere-ionosphere links 6.1 Lithosphere-ionosphere links due to AGW 6.2 Electromagnetic models for the lithosphere-ionosphere coupling 6.3 Sporadic E-layers as current generators 7 Discussion and conclusion
Im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchung steht die Mobilitätsbereitschaft von Schülerinnen und Schülern im Land Brandenburg im Vorfeld ihrer Ausbildungsphase. Aus ihren Ausbildungs- und Berufswünschen, ihren Berufsausbildungsort- und Studienortpräferenzen und ihren Lebenszielen lassen sich Einflüsse auf Entscheidungsabläufe ableiten. In die Entscheidungsfindung spielt auch die regionale Herkunft mit hinein. Der Einfluss lässt sich jedoch nicht auf die individuelle Zufriedenheit mit dem Wohnort zurückführen, sondern primär durch die Wahrnehmung der Schüler der mit der Wohnregion verbundenen Chancen und Perspektiven für die Umsetzung der eigenen Lebensziele begründen.
Mit dem Beitritt zur Europäischen Union am 01.05.2004 eröffneten sich Polen auch neue Chancen zur weiteren Modernisierung von Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur des Landes. Aus diesem Blickwinkel beschreibt die vorliegende Studie aus wirtschafts- und sozialgeographischer Perspektive die aktuellen transformativen Prozesse in Landwirtschaft und ländlichem Raum Polens seit 1990. Dabei werden nach einem Exkurs zum historischen Wandel der Agrarverfassungen die Transformationsprozesse in der Landwirtschaft als Branche (Privatisierung, Produktionsfaktoren, betriebliche Verhältnisse, Zweig- und Raumstrukturen) und die Entwicklungenen in der nachgelagerten Lebensmittelindustrie analysiert. Es folgt eine Darstellung der demographisch-sozialen und siedlungsstrukturellen Veränderungen im ländlichen Raum, um schließlich auch Fragen der Einbeziehung der polnischen Landwirtschaft in die Europäische Integration aufzugreifen.
The central melanin-concentrating hormone (MCH) system has been intensively studied for its involvement in the regulation of feeding behaviour and body weight regulation. The importance of the neuropeptide MCH in the control of energy balance has been underlined by MCH knock out and Melanin-concentrating hormone receptor subtype 1 (MCHR-1) knock-out animals. The anorectic and anti-obesity effects of selective MCHR-1 antagonists have confirmed the notion that pharmacological blockade of MCHR-1 is a potential therapeutic approach for obesity. First aim of this work is to study the neurochemical “equipment” of MCHR-1 immunoreactive neurons by double-labelling immunohistochemistry within the rat hypothalamus. Of special interest is the neuroanatomical identification of other hypothalamic neuropeptides that are co-distributed with MCHR-1. A second part of this study deals with the examination of neuronal activation patterns after pharmacological or physiological, feeding-related stimuli and was introduced to further understand central regulatory mechanisms of the MCH system. In the first part of work, I wanted to neurochemically characterize MCHR-1 immunoreactive neurons in the rat hypothalamus for colocalisation with neuropeptides of interest. Therefore I performed an immunohistochemical colocalisation study using a specific antibody against MCHR-1 in combination with antibodies against hypothalamic neuropeptides. I showed that MCHR-1 immunoreactivity (IR) was co-localised with orexin A in the lateral hypothalamus, and with adrenocorticotropic hormone and neuropeptide Y in the arcuate nucleus. Additionally, MCHR-1 IR was co-localised with the neuropeptides vasopressin and oxytocin in magnocellular neurons of the supraoptic and paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus and corticotrophin releasing hormone in the parvocellular division of the paraventricular hypothalamic nucleus. Moreover, for the first time MCHR-1 immunoreactivity was found in both the adenohypophyseal and neurohypophyseal part of the rat pituitary. These results provide the neurochemical basis for previously described potential physiological actions of MCH at its target receptor. In particular, the MCHR-1 may be involved not only in food intake regulation, but also in other physiological actions such as fluid regulation, reproduction and stress response, possibly through here examined neuropeptides. Central activation patterns induced by pharmacological or physiological stimulation can be mapped using c-Fos immunohistochemistry. In the first experimental design, central administration (icv) of MCH in the rat brain resulted in acute and significant increase of food and water intake, but this animal treatment did not induce a specific c-Fos induction pattern in hypothalamic nuclei. In contrast, sub-chronic application of MCHR-1 antagonist promoted a significant decrease in food- and water intake during an eight day treatment period. A qualitative analysis of c-Fos immunohistochemistry of sections derived from MCHR-1 antagonist treated animals showed a specific neuronal activation in the paraventricular nucleus, the supraoptic nucleus and the dorsomedial hypothalamus. These results could be substantiated by quantitative evaluation of an automated, software-supported analysis of the c-Fos signal. Additionally, I examined the activation pattern of rats in a restricted feeding schedule (RFS) to identify pathways involved in hunger and satiety. Animals were trained for 9 days to feed during a three hour period. On the last day, food restricted animals was also allowed to feed for the three hours, while food deprived (FD) animals did not receive food. Mapping of neuronal activation showed a clear difference between stareved (FD) and satiated (FR) rats. FD animals showed significant induction of c-Fos in forebrain regions, several hypothalamic nuclei, amygdaloid thalamus and FR animals in the supraoptic nucleus and the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus, and the nucleus of the solitary tract. In the lateral hypothalamus of FD rats, c-Fos IR showed strong colocalisation for Orexin A, but no co-staining for MCH immunoreactivity. However, a large number of c-Fos IR neurons within activated regions of FD and FR animals was co-localised with MCHR-1 within selected regions. To conclude, the experimental set-up of scheduled feeding can be used to induce a specific hunger or satiety activation pattern within the rat brain. My results show a differential activation by hunger signals of MCH neurons and furthermore, demonstrates that MCHR-1 expressing neurons may be essential parts of downstream processing of physiological feeding/hunger stimuli. In the final part of my work, the relevance of here presented studies is discussed with respect to possible introduction of MCHR-1 antagonists as drug candidates for the treatment of obesity.
Microsaccades are an important component of the small eye movements that constitute fixation, the basis of visual perception. The specific function of microsaccades has been a long-standing research problem. Only recently, conclusive evidence emerged, showing that microsaccades aid both visual perception and oculomotor control. The main goal of this thesis was to improve our understanding of the implementation of microsaccade generation within the circuitry of saccade control, an unsolved issue in oculomotor research. We make a case for a model according to which microsaccades and saccades result from mutually dependent motor plans, competing for expression. The model consists of an activation field, coding for fixation at its center and for saccades at peripheral locations; saccade amplitude increases with eccentricity. Activity during fixation spreads to slightly peripheral locations in the field and, thus, may result in the generation of microsaccades. Inhibition of remote and excitation of neighbouring locations govern the dynamics of the field, resulting in a strong competition between fixation and saccade generation. We propose that this common-field model of microsaccade and saccade generation finds a neurophysiological counterpart in the motor map of the superior colliculus (SC), a key brainstem structure involved in the generation of saccades. In a series of five behavioral experiments, we tested implications of the model. Predictions were derived concerning (1) the behavior of microsaccades in a given task (microsaccade rate, amplitude, and direction), (2) the interactions of microsaccades and subsequent saccades, and (3) the relationship between microsaccadic behavior and neurophysiological processes at the level of the SC. The results yielded strong support for the model at all three levels of analysis, suggesting that microsaccade statistics are indicative of the state of the fixation-related part of the SC motor map.
In single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) one is interested in reconstructing the activity distribution f of some radiopharmaceutical. The data gathered suffer from attenuation due to the tissue density µ. Each imaged slice incorporates noisy sample values of the nonlinear attenuated Radon transform (formular at this place in the original abstract) Traditional theory for SPECT reconstruction treats µ as a known parameter. In practical applications, however, µ is not known, but either crudely estimated, determined in costly additional measurements or plainly neglected. We demonstrate that an approximation of both f and µ from SPECT data alone is feasible, leading to quantitatively more accurate SPECT images. The result is based on nonlinear Tikhonov regularization techniques for parameter estimation problems in differential equations combined with Gauss-Newton-CG minimization.
The aim of this paper is to describe an efficient strategy for descritizing ill-posed linear operator equations of the first kind: we consider Tikhonov-Phillips-regularization χ^δ α = (a * a + α I)^-1 A * y ^δ with a finite dimensional approximation A n instead of A. We propose a sparse matrix structure which still leads to optimal convergences rates but requires substantially less scalar products for computing A n compared with standard methods.
The determination of the atmospheric aerosol size distribution is an inverse illposed problem. The shape and the material composition of the air-carried particles are two substantial model parameters. Present evaluation algorithms only used an approximation with spherical homogeneous particles. In this paper we propose a new numerically efficient recursive algorithm for inhomogeneous multilayered coated and absorbing particles. Numerical results of real existing particles show that the influence of the two parameters on the model is very important and therefore cannot be ignored.
We have numerically studied the bifurcations and transition to chaos in a two-dimensional fluid for varying values of the Reynolds number. These investigations have been motivated by experiments in fluids, where an array of vortices was driven by an electromotive force. In these experiments, successive changes leading to a complex motion of the vortices, due to increased forcing, have been explored [Tabeling, Perrin, and Fauve, J. Fluid Mech. 213, 511 (1990)]. We model this experiment by means of two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with a special external forcing, driving a linear chain of eight counter-rotating vortices, imposing stress-free boundary conditions in the vertical direction and periodic boundary conditions in the horizontal direction. As the strength of the forcing or the Reynolds number is raised, the original stationary vortex array becomes unstable and a complex sequence of bifurcations is observed. Several steady states and periodic branches and a period doubling cascade appear on the route to chaos. For increasing values of the Reynolds number, shear flow develops, for which the spatial scale is large compared to the scale of the forcing. Furthermore, we have investigated the influence of the aspect ratio of the container as well as the effect of no-slip boundary conditions at the top and bottom, on the bifurcation scenario.
This paper deals with the electrical conductivity problem in geophysics. It is formulated as an elliptic boundary value problem of second order for a large class of bounded and unbounded domains. A special boundary condition, the so called "Complete Electrode Model", is used. Poincaré inequalities are formulated and proved in the context of weighted Sobolev spaces, leading to existence and uniqueness statements for the boundary value problem. In addition, a parameter-to-solution operator arising from the inverse conductivity problem in medicine (EIT) and geophysics is investigated mathematically and is shown to be smooth and analytic.
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 Niño 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 (Güntner 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.
Die moderne Kultur- und Sozialgeschichte lässt sich – auf den Ebenen des Transports, der Informationsübertragung und der interpersonellen Kommunikation – als ein sich permanent steigernder Beschleunigungsprozess beschreiben. Insbesondere neuartige Medientechnologien verkürzen die zeitlichen Intervalle der Kommunikation zunehmend. Es ist davon auszugehen, dass sich die dem Geschwindigkeitsimperativ unterliegenden neuen Kommunikationsbedingungen in sprachlichen Innovationen niederschlagen und diese wiederum Indikatoren für Sprachwandel sind. In der jüngsten linguistischen Forschung wird allerdings vielfach die These geäußert, der Sprachgebrauch in den neuen Medien indiziere fundamentale Veränderungen der Schriftlichkeit und führe zu einem sprachlichen Verfall besonderen Ausmaßes. Diese These soll am Beispiel schriftbasierter Alltagskommunikation – vom Telegramm über den Brief und der Internetkommunikation bis hin zur SMS-Kommunikation – in medien-, kultur- und texthistorischen Zusammenhängen überprüft werden. Es geht darum, die kulturhistorischen Modalitäten der Medien- und Beschleunigungsgenese aufzudecken und spezifische mediale und kontextuelle Bedingungen sprachlicher Veränderungen herauszustellen.
Global Circulation Models of climate predict not only a change of annual precipitation amounts but also a shift in the daily distribution. To improve the understanding of the importance of daily rain pattern for annual plant communities, which represent a large portion of semi-natural vegetation in the Middle East, I used a detailed, spatially explicit model. The model explicitly considers water storage in the soil and has been parameterized and validated with data collected in field experiments in Israel and data from the literature. I manipulated daily rainfall variability by increasing the mean daily rain intensity on rainy days (MDI, rain volume/day) and decreasing intervals between rainy days while keeping the mean annual amount constant. In factorial combination, I also increased mean annual precipitation (MAP). I considered five climatic regions characterized by 100, 300, 450, 600, and 800 mm MAP. Increasing MDI decreased establishment when MAP was >250 mm but increased establishment at more arid sites. The negative effect of increasing MDI was compensated by increasing mortality with increasing MDI in dry and typical Mediterranean regions (c. 360–720 mm MAP). These effects were strongly tied to water availability in upper and lower soil layers and modified by competition among seedlings and adults. Increasing MAP generally increased water availability, establishment, and density. The order of magnitudes of MDI and MAP effects overlapped partially so that their combined effect is important for projections of climate change effects on annual vegetation. The effect size of MAP and MDI followed a sigmoid curve along the MAP gradient indicating that the semi-arid region (≈300 mm MAP) is the most sensitive to precipitation change with regard to annual communitie
A water quality model for shallow river-lake systems and its application in river basin management
(2007)
This work documents the development and application of a new model for simulating mass transport and turnover in rivers and shallow lakes. The simulation tool called 'TRAM' is intended to complement mesoscale eco-hydrological catchment models in studies on river basin management. TRAM aims at describing the water quality of individual water bodies, using problem- and scale-adequate approaches for representing their hydrological and ecological characteristics. The need for such flexible water quality analysis and prediction tools is expected to further increase during the implementation of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) as well as in the context of climate change research. The developed simulation tool consists of a transport and a reaction module with the latter being highly flexible with respect to the description of turnover processes in the aquatic environment. Therefore, simulation approaches of different complexity can easily be tested and model formulations can be chosen in consideration of the problem at hand, knowledge of process functioning, and data availability. Consequently, TRAM is suitable for both heavily simplified engineering applications as well as scientific ecosystem studies involving a large number of state variables, interactions, and boundary conditions. TRAM can easily be linked to catchment models off-line and it requires the use of external hydrodynamic simulation software. Parametrization of the model and visualization of simulation results are facilitated by the use of geographical information systems as well as specific pre- and post-processors. TRAM has been developed within the research project 'Management Options for the Havel River Basin' funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research. The project focused on the analysis of different options for reducing the nutrient load of surface waters. It was intended to support the implementation of the WFD in the lowland catchment of the Havel River located in North-East Germany. Within the above-mentioned study TRAM was applied with two goals in mind. In a first step, the model was used for identifying the magnitude as well as spatial and temporal patterns of nitrogen retention and sediment phosphorus release in a 100~km stretch of the highly eutrophic Lower Havel River. From the system analysis, strongly simplified conceptual approaches for modeling N-retention and P-remobilization in the studied river-lake system were obtained. In a second step, the impact of reduced external nutrient loading on the nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations of the Havel River was simulated (scenario analysis) taking into account internal retention/release. The boundary conditions for the scenario analysis such as runoff and nutrient emissions from river basins were computed by project partners using the catchment models SWIM and ArcEGMO-Urban. Based on the output of TRAM, the considered options of emission control could finally be evaluated using a site-specific assessment scale which is compatible with the requirements of the WFD. Uncertainties in the model predictions were also examined. According to simulation results, the target of the WFD -- with respect to total phosphorus concentrations in the Lower Havel River -- could be achieved in the medium-term, if the full potential for reducing point and non-point emissions was tapped. Furthermore, model results suggest that internal phosphorus loading will ease off noticeably until 2015 due to a declining pool of sedimentary mobile phosphate. Mass balance calculations revealed that the lakes of the Lower Havel River are an important nitrogen sink. This natural retention effect contributes significantly to the efforts aimed at reducing the river's nitrogen load. If a sustainable improvement of the river system's water quality is to be achieved, enhanced measures to further reduce the immissions of both phosphorus and nitrogen are required.
There is already strong evidence that temperate lakes have been highly vulnerable to human induced climate warming during the last century. Hitherto climate impact studies have mainly focussed on the impacts of the recent long-term warming in winter and spring and little is known on the influence of climate warming on temperate lakes in summer. In the present thesis, I studied some aspects, which may have been strongly involved in determining the response of a lake to climate warming in summer. Thereby I have focussed on climate induced impacts on the thermal characteristics and the phenology and abundance of summer plankton in a shallow polymictic lake (Müggelsee, Germany). First, the influence of climate warming on the phenology and abundance of the lake plankton was investigated across seasons. Fast-growing spring phytoplankton and zooplankton (Daphnia) advanced largely synchronously, whereas long-term changes in the phenology of slow-growing summer zooplankton were clearly species-specific and not synchronised. The phenology and/or abundance of several summer copepod species changed according to their individual thermal requirements at decisive developmental stages such as emergence from diapause in spring. The study emphasises that not only the degree of warming, but also its timing within the annual cycle is of great ecological importance. To analyse the impact of climate change on the thermal characteristics of the lake, I examined the long-term development of the daily epilimnetic temperature extrema during summer. The study demonstrated for the first time for lakes that the daily epilimnetic minima (during nighttime) have increased more rapidly than the daily epilimnetic maxima (during daytime), resulting in a distinct decrease in the daily epilimnetic temperature range. This day-night asymmetry in epilimnetic temperature was likely caused by an increased nighttime emission of long-wave radiation from the atmosphere. This underlines that not only increases in air temperature, but also changes in other meteorological variables such as wind speed, relative humidity and cloud cover may play an important role in determining the lake temperature with respect to further climate change. Furthermore, a short-term analysis on the mixing regime of the polymictic lake was conducted to examine the frequency and duration of stratification events and their impacts on dissolved oxygen, dissolved nutrients and summer phytoplankton. Even during the longest stratification events (heatwaves in 2003 and 2006) the thermal characteristics of the lake differed from those typically found in shallow dimictic lakes, which exhibit a continuous stratification during summer. Particularly, hypolimnetic temperatures were higher, favouring the depletion of oxygen and the accumulation of dissolved nutrient in the hypolimnion. Thermal stratification will be very likely amplified in the future, thus, I conclude that polymictic lakes will be very vulnerable to alterations in the thermal regime with respect to projections of further climate change during summer. Finally, a long-term case study on the long and short-term changes in the development of the planktonic larvae of the freshwater mussel Dreissena polymorpha was performed to analyse the impacts of simultaneous changes in the thermal and in the trophic regime of the lake. Both the climate warming and the decrease in external nutrient load were important in determining the abundance of the pelagic larvae by affecting different features of the life-history of this species throughout the warm season. The long-term increase in the abundance and length of larvae was related to the decrease in external nutrient loading and the change in phytoplankton composition. However, the recent heatwaves in 2003 and 2006 have offset this positive effect on larval abundance, due to unfavourable low oxygen concentrations that had resulted from extremely long stratification events, mimicking the effects of nutrient enrichment. Climate warming may thus induce counteracting effects in productive shallow lakes that underwent lake restoration through a decrease in external nutrient loading. I conclude that not only the nature of climate change and thus the timing of climate warming throughout the seasons and the occurrence of climatic extremes as heatwaves, but also site-specific lake conditions as the thermal mixing regime and the trophic state are crucial factors governing the impacts of climate warming on internal lake processes during summer. Consequently, further climate impact research on lake functioning should focus on how the different lake types respond to the complex environmental forcing in summer, to allow for a comprehensive understanding of human induced environmental changes in lakes.
The stability of the quiescent ground state of an incompressible, viscous and electrically conducting fluid sheet, bounded by stress-free parallel planes and driven by an external electric field tangential to the boundaries, is studied numerically. The electrical conductivity varies as cosh–2(x1/a), where x1 is the cross-sheet coordinate and a is the half width of a current layer centered about the midplane of the sheet. For a <~ 0.4L, where L is the distance between the boundary planes, the ground state is unstable to disturbances whose wavelengths parallel to the sheet lie between lower and upper bounds depending on the value of a and on the Hartmann number. Asymmetry of the configuration with respect to the midplane of the sheet, modelled by the addition of an externally imposed constant magnetic field to a symmetric equilibrium field, acts as a stabilizing factor.
The bifurcations in a three-dimensional incompressible, electrically conducting fluid with an external forcing of the Roberts type have been studied numerically. The corresponding flow can serve as a model for the convection in the outer core of the Earth and is realized in an ongoing laboratory experiment aimed at demonstrating a dynamo effect. The symmetry group of the problem has been determined and special attention has been paid to symmetry breaking by the bifurcations. The nonmagnetic, steady Roberts flow loses stability to a steady magnetic state, which in turn is subject to secondary bifurcations. The secondary solution branches have been traced until they end up in chaotic states.
Antike in Potsdam-Sanssouci
(2007)
Die in diesem Band zusammengestellten Beiträge sollen zu einer aktiven Auseinandersetzung mit der Antikerezeption auf dem Parkgelände von Potsdam-Sanssouci anregen. Ein Aufsatz zur Gartenkunst in der Antike und in Sanssouci leitet den Band ein. Den Hauptteil bilden zahlreiche Führungsblätter zur Mythologie, Architektur, Malerei u.a. Sie sind besonders als Grundlage für die Planung von Exkursionen mit Schülergruppen geeignet, richten sich aber auch ganz allgemein an Freunde der Antike. Weitere Informationstexte, antike Quellen, Lösungen zu den Führungsblättern sowie Karten und praktische Hinweise für einen Potsdam-Besuch runden den Band ab.
The solar tachocline is a thin transition layer between the solar radiative zone rotating uniformly and the solar convection zone, which has a mainly latitudinal differential rotation profile. This layer has a thickness of less than $0.05R_{\sun}$ and is subject to extreme radial as well as latitudinal shears. Helioseismological estimates put this layer at roughly $0.7R_{\sun}$. The tachocline mostly resides in the sub-adiabatic, non-turbulent radiative interior, except for a small overlap with the convection zone on the top. Many proposed dynamo mechanisms involve strong toroidal magnetic fields in this transition region. The exact mechanisms behind the formation of such a thin layer is still disputed. A very plausible mechanism is the one involving a weak, relic poloidal magnetic field trapped inside the radiative zone, which is responsible for expelling differential rotation outwards. This was first proposed by \citet{RK97}. The present work develops this idea with numerical simulations including additional effects like meridional circulation. It is shown that a relic field of 1~Gauss or smaller would be sufficient to explain the observed thickness of the tachocline. The stability of the solar tachocline is addressed as the next part of the problem. It is shown that the tachocline is stable up to a differential rotation of 52\% in the absence of magnetic fields. This is a new finding as compared to the earlier two dimensional models which estimated the solar differential rotation (about 28\%) to be marginally stable or even unstable. The changed stability limit is attributed to the changed stability criterion of the 3-dimensional model which also involves radial gradients of the angular velocity. In the presence of toroidal magnetic field belts, the lowest non-axisymmetric mode is shown to be the most unstable one for the radiative part of the tachocline. It is estimated that the tachocline would become unstable for toroidal fields exceeding about 100~Gauss. With both formation and stability questions satisfactorily addressed, this work presents the most comprehensive analysis of the physical processes in the solar tachocline to date.
Im Zuge des Transformations- und Globalisierungsprozesses in Rumänien kommt es in den letzten 15 Jahren zu einer Annäherung an westliche Lebensmuster und parallel dazu zu einer Binnendiversifizierung der Lebensverhältnisse. Allerdings wird das Land nicht flächendeckend von den internationalen ökonomischen Verflechtungen erfasst, sondern es lässt sich eine noch stärkere regionale Ausdifferenzierung als vor der Wende von 1989 beobachten. Traditionelle und moderne Gesellschaften leben nach wie vor nebeneinander. In vielen ländlichen Räumen Rumäniens, so besonders in der wirtschaftlich eher schwachen Dobrudscha, haben sich traditionelle Lebensweisen, Besitzstrukturen, Arbeitstechniken und Bewirtschaftungsformen bis in die heutige Zeit erhalten. Im September 2004 wurden im Rahmen eines Geländekurses unter Berücksichtigung der Raum- und Minderheitenforschung sechs ausgewählte ethnische Minderheiten der Kulturlandschaft Dobrudscha, die in der wissenschaftlichen Literatur meist nur am Rande untersucht wird, während des noch laufenden Transformationsprozesses genauer betrachtet. Dabei wurde mit Hilfe von Experten- und Betroffenen-Interviews die ethnische, ökonomische, politische und kulturelle Situation in der Region dargestellt und analysiert. Karten, Tabellen und 50 Farbfotografien ergänzen den Band.
Our Solar system contains a large amount of dust, containing valuable information about our close cosmic environment. If created in a planet's system, the particles stay predominantly in its vicinity and can form extended dust envelopes, tori or rings around them. A fascinating example of these complexes are Saturnian rings containing a wide range of particles sizes from house-size objects in the main rings up to micron-sized grains constituting the E ring. Other example are ring systems in general, containing a large fraction of dust or also the putative dust-tori surrounding the planet Mars. The dynamical life'' of such circumplanetary dust populations is the main subject of our study. In this thesis a general model of creation, dynamics and death'' of circumplanetary dust is developed. Endogenic and exogenic processes creating dust at atmosphereless bodies are presented. Then, we describe the main forces influencing the particle dynamics and study dynamical responses induced by stochastic fluctuations. In order to estimate the properties of steady-state population of considered dust complex, the grain mean lifetime as a result of a balance of dust creation, life'' and loss mechanisms is determined. The latter strongly depends on the surrounding environment, the particle properties and its dynamical history. The presented model can be readily applied to study any circumplanetary dust complex. As an example we study dynamics of two dust populations in the Solar system. First we explore the dynamics of particles, ejected from Martian moon Deimos by impacts of micrometeoroids, which should form a putative tori along the orbit of the moon. The long-term influence of indirect component of radiation pressure, the Poynting-Robertson drag gives rise in significant change of torus geometry. Furthermore, the action of radiation pressure on rotating non-spherical dust particles results in stochastic dispersion of initially confined ensemble of particles, which causes decrease of particle number densities and corresponding optical depth of the torus. Second, we investigate the dust dynamics in the vicinity of Saturnian moon Enceladus. During three flybys of the Cassini spacecraft with Enceladus, the on-board dust detector registered a micron-sized dust population around the moon. Surprisingly, the peak of the measured impact rate occurred 1 minute before the closest approach of the spacecraft to the moon. This asymmetry of the measured rate can be associated with locally enhanced dust production near Enceladus south pole. Other Cassini instruments also detected evidence of geophysical activity in the south polar region of the moon: high surface temperature and extended plumes of gas and dust leaving the surface. Comparison of our results with this in situ measurements reveals that the south polar ejecta may provide the dominant source of particles sustaining the Saturn's E ring.
Aus dem Inhalt dieser Ausgabe: Artikel und Miszellen: Karl E. Grözinger: Manfred Voigts zum Sechzigsten - 2.5.2006 Caspar Battegay: Wie nicht erinnern? - Die Frage nach der Jüdischkeit in Heinrich Heines autobiographischen Texten Edith Lutz: Heinrich Heine im "Verein für Cultur und Wissenschaft der Juden" Jakob Hessing: Wahrheit und Dichtung - Die Damaskusaffäre und Heines Der Rabbi von Bacharach Elvira Grözinger: Im Venusberg. Zu Gesundheit und Krankheit bei Heinrich Heine zwischen Eros und Thanatos Sabine Bierwirth: Meilenstein der Zeitgeschichtsschreibung: Heinrich Heines Berichte über die Judenverfolgung in Damaskus 1840 Hans Otto Horch: Die unheilbar große Brüderkrankheit - Zum programmatischen Zeitgedicht Das neue Israelitische Hospital zu Hamburg von H. Heine Hendrik Madsen: Vom Überleben der toten Schrift - Eine medientheoretisch orientierte Lektüre des Jeremiabuches Manfred Voigts: Moses Mendelssohn und Franz Kafka: Die Heilige Schrift Olivia Franz-Klauser: Samaritanerforschung im 19. Jahrhundert: Die Anfänge der historischen Kritik im Schatten religiöser Vorurteile, gezeigt an der Rezeption Moritz Heidenheims (1824-1898) Rezensionen: Mark R. Cohen: Unter Kreuz und Halbmond. Die Juden im Mittelalter (Daniel Jütte) Erika Timm: Historische jiddische Semantik. (Karl E. Grözinger) David B. Ruderman, Giuseppe Veltri (Hrsg.): Cultural Intermediaries. Jewish Intellectuals in Early Modern Italy (Daniel Jütte) Gian Maria Varanini, Reinhold C. Mueller (Hrsg.): Ebrei nella Terraferma veneta del Quattrocento (Daniel Jütte) Stefanie B. Siegmund: The Medici State and the Ghetto of Florence (Daniel Jütte) Johannes Mordstein: Selbstbewußte Untertänigkeit (Robert Jütte) Werner Heegewaldt, Oliver Sander (Hrsg.): Salomo Sachs (Elvira Grözinger) Philipp Theisohn: Die Urbarkeit der Zeichen. Zionismus und Literatur - eine andere Poetik der Moderne (Joachim Schlör) Jascha Nemtsov: Die Neue Jüdische Schule in der Musik (Susanne Hudak-Laziç) Ines Sonder: Gartenstädte in Eretz Israel. (Robert Jütte) Cilly Kugelmann (Hrsg.): Weihnukka. Geschichten von Weihnachten und Chanukka. (Daniel Jütte) Moshe Zimmermann, Yotam Hotam (Hrsg.): Zweimal Heimat. Die Jeckes zwischen Mitteleuropa und Nahost. (Anat Feinberg) Birgit Schlachter: Schreibweisen der Abwesenheit. (Elvira Grözinger) Jüdische Studien in aller Welt: Juden und Judentum im Iran - Einige zufällige und weniger zufällige Reiseeindrücke (Hans-Michael Haußig) Nachrichten Rückblicke
Two-dimensional bouyancy-driven convection in a horizontal fluid layer with stress-free boundary conditions at top and bottom and periodic boundary conditions in the horizontal direction is investigated by means of numerical simulation and bifurcation-analysis techniques. As the bouyancy forces increase, the primary stationary and symmetric convection rolls undergo successive Hopf bifurcations, bifurcations to traveling waves, and phase lockings. We pay attention to symmetry breaking and its connection with the generation of large-scale horizontal flows. Calculations of Lyapunov exponents indicate that at a Rayleigh number of 2.3×105 no temporal chaos is reached yet, but the system moves nonchaotically on a 4-torus in phase space.
We investigate the cognitive control in polyrhythmic hand movements as a model paradigm for bimanual coordination. Using a symbolic coding of the recorded time series, we demonstrate the existence of qualitative transitions induced by experimental manipulation of the tempo. A nonlinear model with delayed feedback control is proposed, which accounts for these dynamical transitions in terms of bifurcations resulting from variation of the external control parameter. Furthermore, it is shown that transitions can also be observed due to fluctuations in the timing control level. We conclude that the complexity of coordinated bimanual movements results from interactions between nonlinear control mechanisms with delayed feedback and stochastic timing components.
The stability of the quiescent ground state of an incompressible viscous fluid sheet bounded by two parallel planes, with an electrical conductivity varying across the sheet, and driven by an external electric field tangential to the boundaries is considered. It is demonstrated that irrespective of the conductivity profile, as magnetic and kinetic Reynolds numbers (based on the Alfvén velocity) are raised from small values, two-dimensional perturbations become unstable first.
Three-dimensional bouyancy-driven convection in a horizontal fluid layer with stress-free boundary conditions at the top and bottom and periodic boundary conditions in the horizontal directions is investigated by means of numerical simulation and bifurcation-analysis techniques. The aspect ratio is fixed to a value of 2√2 and the Prandtl number to a value of 6.8. Two-dimensional convection rolls are found to be stable up to a Rayleigh number of 17 950, where a Hopf bifurcation leads to traveling waves. These are stable up to a Rayleigh number of 30 000, where a secondary Hopf bifurcation generates modulated traveling waves. We pay particular attention to the symmetries of the solutions and symmetry breaking by the bifurcations.
The ill-posed problem of aerosol size distribution determination from a small number of backscatter and extinction measurements was solved successfully with a mollifier method which is advantageous since the ill-posed part is performed on exactly given quantities, the points r where n(r) is evaluated may be freely selected. A new twodimensional model for the troposphere is proposed.
Die durch Phosphatidylserin Decarboxylase (PSD) katalysierte Decarboxylierung von Phosphatidylserin (PS) zu Phosphatidylethanolamin (PE) ist für Mitochondrien in Hefe und Mäusen von essentieller Bedeutung. Im Rahmen der vorliegenden Dissertation wurde erstmals die Rolle dieses PE-Syntheseweges in Pflanzen untersucht. Die drei in Arabidopsis identifizierten PSD Gene atPSD1, atPSD2, atPSD3 codieren für Enzyme, die in Membranen der Mitochondrien (atPSD1), der Tonoplasten (atPSD2) und des Endoplasmatischen Retikulums (atPSD3) lokalisiert sind. Der Beitrag der einzelnen PSDs zur PE-Synthese wurde anhand von psd Null-Mutanten untersucht. Dabei stellte sich atPSD3 als das Enzym mit der höchsten Aktivität heraus. Alternativ zum PSD-Weg wird in Arabidopsis PE auch mittels Aminoalkohol-phosphotransferase synthetisiert. Der Verlust der gesamten PSD-Aktivität, wie es in der erzeugten psd Dreifachmutante der Fall ist, wirkt sich ausschließlich auf die Lipidzusammensetzung in der Mitochondrienmembran aus. Demzufolge wird extramitochondriales PE hauptsächlich über die Aminoalkoholphosphotransferase synthetisiert. Die veränderte Lipidzusammensetzung der Mitochondrienmembran hatte jedoch keinen Einfluss auf die Anzahl, Größe und Ultrastruktur der Mitochondrien sowie auf das ADP/ATP-Verhältnis und die Respiration. Neben der Bereitstellung von Reduktionsäquivalenten beeinflusst die Funktionalität der Mitochondrien auch die Bildung von Blüten- und Staubblättern. Diese Blütenorgane waren in der psd Dreifachmutante stark verändert, und der Blütenphänotyp ähnelte der APETALA3-Mutante. Dieses homöotische Gen ist für die Ausbildung von Blüten- und Staubblättern verantwortlich. Für die Erzeugung der Mutanten psd2-1 und psd3-1 wurde ein T-DNA Vektor verwendet, der den Promotor des APETALA3 Gens enthielt, welcher in den Mutanten psd2-1, psd3-1 sowie psd2-1psd3-1 und der psd1psd2-1psd3-1 Dreifachmutante eine vergleichbare Co-Suppression des APETALA3 Gens hervorruft. Der Blütenphänotyp trat jedoch nur in der psd Dreifachmutante auf, da nur in ihr die Kombination von geringen Funktionstörungen der Mitochondrien, hervorgerufen durch veränderte Lipidzusammensetzung, mit der Co-Suppression von APETALA3 auftritt.
Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; Working papers of the SFB 632. - Vol. 8
(2007)
The 8th volume of the working paper series Interdisciplinary Studies on Information Structure (ISIS) of the SFB 632 contains a collection of eight papers contributed by guest authors and SFB-members. The first paper on “Biased Questions” is an invited contribution by Nicholas Asher (CNRS, Laboratoire IRIT) & Brian Reese (University of Texas at Austin). Surveying English tag questions, negative polar questions, and what they term “focus” questions, they investigate the effects of prosody on discourse function and discourse structure and analyze the interaction between prosody and discourse in SDRT (Segmented Discourse Representation Theory). Stefan Hinterwimmer (A2) explores the interpretation of singular definites and universally quantified DPs in adverbially quantified English sentences. He suggests that the availability of a co-varying interpretation is more constrained in the case of universally quantified DPs than in the case of singular definites, because different from universally quantified DPs, co-varying definites are inherently focus-marked. The existence of striking similarities between topic/comment structure and bimanual coordination is pointed out and investigated by Manfred Krifka (A2). Showing how principles of bimanual coordination influence the expression of topic/comment structure beyond spoken language, he suggests that bimanual coordination might have been a preadaptation of the development of Information Structure in human communication. Among the different ways of expressing focus in Foodo, an underdescribed African Guang language of the Kwa family, the marked focus constructions are the central topic of the paper by Ines Fiedler (B1 & D2). Exploring the morphosyntactic facilities that Foodo has for focalization, she suggests that the two focus markers N and n have developed out of a homophone conjunction. Focus marking in another scarcely documented African tone language, the Gur language Konkomba, is treated by Anne Schwarz (B1 & D2). Comparing the two alleged focus markers lé and lá of the language, she argues that lé is better interpreted as a syntactic device rather than as a focus marker and shows that this analysis is corroborated by parallels in related languages. The reflexes of Information Structure in four different European languages (French, German, Greek and Hungarian) are compared and validated by Sam Hellmuth & Stavros Skopeteas (D2). The production data was collected with selected materials of the Questionnaire on Information Structure (QUIS) developed at the SFB. The results not only allow for an evaluation of the current elicitation paradigms, but also help to identify potentially fruitful venues of future research. Frank Kügler, Stavros Skopeteas (D2) & Elisabeth Verhoeven (University of Bremen) give an account of the encoding of Information Structure in Yucatec Maya, a Mayan tone language spoken on the Yucatecan peninsula in Mexico. The results of a production experiment lead them to the conclusion that focus is mainly expressed by syntax in this language. Stefanie Jannedy (D3) undertakes an instrumental investigation on the expressions and interpretation of focus in Vietnamese, a language of the Mon-Khmer family contrasting six lexical tones. The data strongly suggests that focus in Vietnamese is exclusively marked by prosody (intonational emphasis expressed via duration, f0 and amplitude) and that different focus conditions can reliably be recovered. This volume offers insights into current work conducted at the SFB 632, comprising empirical and theoretical aspects of Information Structure in a multitude of languages. Several of the papers mine field work data collected during the first phase of the SFB and explore the expression of Information Structure in tone and non-tone languages from various regions of the world.
Development and application of novel genetic transformation technologies in maize (Zea mays L.)
(2007)
Plant genetic engineering approaches are of pivotal importance to both basic and applied research. However, rapid commercialization of genetically engineered crops, especially maize, raises several ecological and environmental concerns largely related to transgene flow via pollination. In most crops, the plastid genome is inherited uniparentally in a maternal manner. Consequently, a trait introduced into the plastid genome would not be transferred to the sexually compatible relatives of the crops via pollination. Thus, beside its several other advantages, plastid transformation provides transgene containment, and therefore, is an environmentally friendly approach for genetic engineering of crop plants. Reliable in vitro regeneration systems allowing repeated rounds of regeneration are of utmost importance to development of plastid transformation technologies in higher plants. While being the world’s major food crops, cereals are among the most difficult-to-handle plants in tissue culture which severely limits genetic engineering approaches. In maize, immature zygotic embryos provide the predominantly used material for establishing regeneration-competent cell or callus cultures for genetic transformation experiments. The procedures involved are demanding, laborious and time consuming and depend on greenhouse facilities. In one part of this work, a novel tissue culture and plant regeneration system was developed that uses maize leaf tissue and thus is independent of zygotic embryos and greenhouse facilities. Also, protocols were established for (i) the efficient induction of regeneration-competent callus from maize leaves in the dark, (ii) inducing highly regenerable callus in the light, and (iii) the use of leaf-derived callus for the generation of stably transformed maize plants. Furthermore, several selection methods were tested for developing a plastid transformation system in maize. However, stable plastid transformed maize plants could not be yet recovered. Possible explanations as well as suggestions for future attempts towards developing plastid transformation in maize are discussed. Nevertheless, these results represent a first essential step towards developing chloroplast transformation technology for maize, a method that requires multiple rounds of plant regeneration and selection to obtain genetically stable transgenic plants. In order to apply the newly developed transformation system towards metabolic engineering of carotenoid biosynthesis, the daffodil phytoene synthase (PSY) gene was integrated into the maize genome. The results illustrate that expression of a recombinant PSY significantly increases carotenoid levels in leaves. The beta-carotene (pro-vitamin A) amounts in leaves of transgenic plants were increased by ~21% in comparison to the wild-type. These results represent evidence for maize to have significant potential to accumulate higher amounts of carotenoids, especially beta-carotene, through transgenic expression of phytoene synthases. Finally, progresses were made towards developing transformation technologies in Peperomia (Piperaceae) by establishing an efficient leaf-based regeneration system. Also, factors determining plastid size and number in Peperomia, whose species display great interspecific variation in chloroplast size and number per cell, were investigated. The results suggest that organelle size and number are regulated in a tissue-specific manner rather than in dependency on the plastid type. Investigating plastid morphology in Peperomia species with giant chloroplasts, plasmatic connections between chloroplasts (stromules) were observed under the light microscope and in the absence of tissue fixation or GFP overexpression demonstrating the relevance of these structures in vivo. Furthermore, bacteria-like microorganisms were discovered within Peperomia cells, suggesting that this genus provides an interesting model not only for studying plastid biology but also for investigating plant-microbe interactions.
In nature one commonly finds interacting complex oscillators which by the coupling scheme form small and large networks, e.g. neural networks. Surprisingly, the oscillators can synchronize, still preserving the complex behavior. Synchronization is a fundamental phenomenon in coupled nonlinear oscillators. Synchronization can be enhanced at different levels, that is, the constraints on which the synchronization appears. Those can be in the trajectory amplitude, requiring the amplitudes of both oscillators to be equal, giving place to complete synchronization. Conversely, the constraint could also be in a function of the trajectory, e.g. the phase, giving place to phase synchronization (PS). In this case, one requires the phase difference between both oscillators to be finite for all times, while the trajectory amplitude may be uncorrelated. The study of PS has shown its relevance to important technological problems, e.g. communication, collective behavior in neural networks, pattern formation, Parkinson disease, epilepsy, as well as behavioral activities. It has been reported that it mediates processes of information transmission and collective behavior in neural and active networks and communication processes in the Human brain. In this work, we have pursed a general way to analyze the onset of PS in small and large networks. Firstly, we have analyzed many phase coordinates for compact attractors. We have shown that for a broad class of attractors the PS phenomenon is invariant under the phase definition. Our method enables to state about the existence of phase synchronization in coupled chaotic oscillators without having to measure the phase. This is done by observing the oscillators at special times, and analyzing whether this set of points is localized. We have show that this approach is fruitful to analyze the onset of phase synchronization in chaotic attractors whose phases are not well defined, as well as, in networks of non-identical spiking/bursting neurons connected by chemical synapses. Moreover, we have also related the synchronization and the information transmission through the conditional observations. In particular, we have found that inside a network clusters may appear. These can be used to transmit more than one information, which provides a multi-processing of information. Furthermore, These clusters provide a multichannel communication, that is, one can integrate a large number of neurons into a single communication system, and information can arrive simultaneously at different places of the network.
We have studied the bifurcation structure of the incompressible two-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations with a special external forcing driving an array of 8×8 counterrotating vortices. The study has been motivated by recent experiments with thin layers of electrolytes showing, among other things, the formation of large-scale spatial patterns. As the strength of the forcing or the Reynolds number is raised the original stationary vortex array becomes unstable and a complex sequence of bifurcations is observed. The bifurcations lead to several periodic branches, torus and chaotic solutions, and other stationary solutions. Most remarkable is the appearance of solutions characterized by structures on spatial scales large compared to the scale of the forcing. We also characterize the different dynamic regimes by means of tracers injected into the fluid. Stretching rates and Hausdorff dimensions of convected line elements are calculated to quantify the mixing process. It turns out that for time-periodic velocity fields the mixing can be very effective.
The dynamics of noisy bistable systems is analyzed by means of Lyapunov exponents and measures of complexity. We consider both the classical Kramers problem with additive white noise and the case when the barrier fluctuates due to additional external colored noise. In case of additive noise we calculate the Lyapunov exponents and all measures of complexity analytically as functions of the noise intensity resp. the mean escape time. For the problem of fluctuating barrier the usual description of the dynamics with the mean escape time is not sufficient. The application of the concept of measures of complexity allows to describe the structures of motion in more detail. Most complexity measures sign the value of correlation time at which the phenomenon of resonant activation occurs with an extremum.
Biochemical and physiological studies of Arabidopsis thaliana Diacylglycerol Kinase 7 (AtDGK7)
(2006)
A family of diacylglycerol kinases (DGK) phosphorylates the substrate diacylglycerol (DAG) to generate phosphatidic acid (PA) . Both molecules, DAG and PA, are involved in signal transduction pathways. In the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, seven candidate genes (named AtDGK1 to AtDGK7) code for putative DGK isoforms. Here I report the molecular cloning and characterization of AtDGK7. Biochemical, molecular and physiological experiments of AtDGK7 and their corresponding enzyme are analyzed. Information from Genevestigator says that AtDGK7 gene is expressed in seedlings and adult Arabidopsis plants, especially in flowers. The AtDGK7 gene encodes the smallest functional DGK predicted in higher plants; but also, has an alternative coding sequence containing an extended AtDGK7 open reading frame, confirmed by PCR and submitted to the GenBank database (under the accession number DQ350135). The new cDNA has an extension of 439 nucleotides coding for 118 additional amino acids The former AtDGK7 enzyme has a predicted molecular mass of ~41 kDa and its activity is affected by pH and detergents. The DGK inhibitor R59022 also affects AtDGK7 activity, although at higher concentrations (i.e. IC50 ~380 µM). The AtDGK7 enzyme also shows a Michaelis-Menten type saturation curve for 1,2-DOG. Calculated Km and Vmax were 36 µM 1,2-DOG and 0.18 pmol PA min-1 mg of protein-1, respectively, under the assay conditions. Former protein AtDGK7 are able to phosphorylate different DAG analogs that are typically found in plants. The new deduced AtDGK7 protein harbors the catalytic DGKc and accessory domains DGKa, instead the truncated one as the former AtDGK7 protein (Gomez-Merino et al., 2005).
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.
Inhalt 1 Einleitung 2 Transplantation und Effektivität/Effizienz von Institutionen 2.1 Institutionen und institutioneller Wandel 2.2 Pfadabhängigkeit der institutionellen Entwicklung 2.3 Inkonsistenz der institutionellen Entwicklung 2.4 Determinanten der Effektivität von Institutionen 2.5 Effizienz transplantierter Institutionen 3 Wettbewerbspolitik in Russland 3.1 Die institutionelle Verankerung der Wettbewerbspolitik 3.2 Marktstruktur und Wettbewerbspolitik 3.3 Das Wettbewerbsgesetz von 2006 3.4 Verstöße gegen das Wettbewerbsgesetz 4 Welche Fehler hat Russland bei der Transplantation derWettbewerbspolitik gemacht? 5 Ist Ineffektivität von transplantierten Institutionen unvermeidlich? 6 Abschließende Bemerkungen
Do institutions matter?
(2006)
Contens 1 Introduction 2 Institutions and the Institutional Change 2.1 Institutions and Theoretical Concepts in Economics 2.2 Path Dependence 2.3 Inconsistence of Institutional Development 2.4 Determinants of Effectiveness 2.5 Efficiency of New Institutions 3 What is “Competition Policy”? 4 The Competition Policy in Russia as an Institution 4.1 Establishment of the Competition Policy as an Institution 4.2 Market Structure and Competition Policy 4.3 Measures of Competition Policy 4.3.1 Prohibition of Competition Restrictive Agreements or Concerted Actions 4.3.2 Abuse of Dominance 4.3.3 Merger Control 4.3.4 Restrictive Action to Competition of Administrative Bodies 4.4 Violations of the Competition Law 4.5 Problems of the Russian Competition Policy 5 Which Mistakes Russia has made with the Implementation of theCompetition Policy? 6 Is a Lacking Effectiveness of Transplanted Institutions Inevitable? 7 Concluding Remarks