TY - JOUR A1 - Genslein, Christa A1 - Hausler, Peter A1 - Kirchner, Eva-Maria A1 - Bierl, Rudolf A1 - Baeumner, Antje J. A1 - Hirsch, Thomas T1 - Graphene-enhanced plasmonic nanohole arrays for environmental sensing in aqueous samples JF - Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology N2 - The label-free nature of surface plasmon resonance techniques (SPR) enables a fast, specific, and sensitive analysis of molecular interactions. However, detection of highly diluted concentrations and small molecules is still challenging. It is shown here that in contrast to continuous gold films, gold nanohole arrays can significantly improve the performance of SPR devices in angle-dependent measurement mode, as a signal amplification arises from localized surface plasmons at the nanostructures. This leads consequently to an increased sensing capability of molecules bound to the nanohole array surface. Furthermore, a reduced graphene oxide (rGO) sensor surface was layered over the nanohole array. Reduced graphene oxide is a 2D nanomaterial consisting of sp2-hybridized carbon atoms and is an attractive receptor surface for SPR as it omits any bulk phase and therefore allows fast response times. In fact, it was found that nanohole arrays demonstrated a higher shift in the resonance angle of 250–380% compared to a continuous gold film. At the same time the nanohole array structure as characterized by its diameter-to-periodicity ratio had minimal influence on the binding capacity of the sensor surface. As a simple and environmentally highly relevant model, binding of the plasticizer diethyl phthalate (DEP) via π-stacking was monitored on the rGO gold nanohole array realizing a limit of detection of as low as 20 nM. The concentration-dependent signal change was studied with the best performing rGO-modified nanohole arrays. Compared to continuous gold films a diameter-to-periodicity ratio (D/P) of 0.43 lead to a 12-fold signal enhancement. Finally, the effect of environmental waters on the sensor was evaluated using samples from sea, lake and river waters spiked with analytically relevant amounts of DEP during which significant changes in the SPR signal are observed. It is expected that this concept can be successfully transferred to enhance the sensitivity in SPR sensors. KW - diethyl phthalate KW - environmental sensing KW - nanohole array KW - nanosphere lithography KW - surface plasmon resonance Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-398623 IS - 7 SP - 1564 EP - 1573 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Höller, Christoph A1 - Zeitler, Berndt T1 - Playing ball with transients on the force plate and on the reception plate T2 - Noise control for a better environment. PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNOISE 2019. The 48th International Congress and Exhibition on Noise Control Engineering, June 16-19, Madrid KW - Impact Noise KW - Reception Plate KW - Transient Excitation KW - Heavy Soft Impact Source Y1 - 2019 UR - http://www.sea-acustica.es/fileadmin//INTERNOISE_2019/Fchrs/Proceedings/2160.pdf PB - INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NOISE CONTROL ENGINEERING ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Höller, Christoph A1 - Zeitler, Berndt A1 - Reinhold, S. A1 - Jakob, A. A1 - Hopkins, C. T1 - Charakterisierung von Körperschallquellen auf der Empfangsplatte mit Hilfe von orthogonalen Funktionen T2 - Tagungsband - DAGA 2019 : 45. Jahrestagung für Akustik : 18.-21. März 2019, Rostock Y1 - 2019 UR - https://pub.dega-akustik.de/DAGA_2019/data/daga19_proceedings.pdf SN - 978-3-939296-14-0 SP - 93 EP - 96 PB - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Akustik e.V. CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Yeap, Kim Ho A1 - Meister, Tobias A1 - Oh, Zi Xin A1 - Nisar, Humaira T1 - Circuit Modelling Methodology for Dual-band Planar Antennas JF - APPLIED COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS SOCIETY JOURNAL N2 - This paper presents a simple and systematic approach to determine the equivalent frequency-independent circuit model for a dual-band planar antenna. The Foster Canonical network synthesis technique with two RLC tanks has been employed to generate the two resonant bands of the antenna. The transfer function model is subsequently refined using a data fitting algorithm (viz the Nelder-Mead simplex algorithm). Parametric adjustments are performed at the final stage in order to further improve the accuracy of the final parameters. KW - COMPACT KW - Data-fitting algorithm KW - equivalent circuit KW - Foster canonical network KW - PATCH KW - planar antenna KW - resonant bands KW - SHAPED ANTENNA Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.47037/2021.ACES.J.360822 VL - 36 IS - 8 SP - 1112 EP - 1115 PB - APPLIED COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETICS SOC ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Singla, Rashmi A1 - de Ponte, Ulrike ED - Mayer, Claude-Hélène ED - Vanderheiden, Elisabeth T1 - Love in the Context of Transnational Academic Exchanges: Promoting Mental Health and Wellbeing T2 - International Handbook of Love N2 - Educational and cultural dimensions of transnational academic exchange such as student exchanges, double degree programmes, internships have been researched but the romantic dimensions are almost overlooked, especially qualitatively, while Green (EU’s Erasmus study abroad programme is ‘responsible for 1m babies’, 2014) documents that one quarter students on Erasmus exchange scheme met their long-term partner while studying abroad. The chapter explores love, with focus on formation of intimate relations in academic exchanges in the European settings. The method is case-studies drawn from two projects based in Denmark, the first about ethnically intermarried couples (Singla, Intermarriage and mixed parenting: Promoting mental health & wellbeing, crossover love. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and the second, an ongoing project about LAT (Living Apart Together) transnational couples (Singla & Varma, LAT (Living Apart Together) transnational couples: Promoting mental health and wellbeing, 2018), moving beyond ‘methodological nationalism and- conjugalism’. The theoretical framework is Cultural Psychology and foreground is a combination of Narrative Psychology, intersectionality, digital emotional reflexivity and transnationalism. Moreover, aspects related to figuring out criteria of the exchange situation abroad, which can underpin explaining the high rate of long-term relationships while studying abroad, are included. Those aspects are based on a framework, in which intercultural and developmental psychological findings are linked. The 3–4 case studies are drawn from empirical research with eight couples in the first study and 20 couples in the second. The narratives are thematically analysed, whereas two themes regarding participants’ motivation for establishing relationship despite differences and long-term sustaining of the relationship are described in the chapter. Preliminary findings nuance the phenomenon of love in academic exchanges, invoking concepts such as educational homogamy, balancing independence and togetherness, diversities of connectivities intersecting social media and intimacies. Furthermore, the significant others’ support and opposition of these couples’ love dynamics are covered, along with considerations linked to the concept of the emotional availability (Saunders, Kraus, Barone & Biringen, Frontiers in Psychology, 2015) based on Bowlby’s attachment theory and the shared third (Benjamin, Psychoanalytic Quarterly, 73(1), 5–46, 2004). Lastly, ‘good practices’ for promoting the mental health and wellbeing of such academic exchange couples are delineated along with suggestions for relevant services for those experiencing psychosocial problems. Educational and cultural dimensions of transnational academic exchange such as student exchanges, double degree programmes, internships have been researched but the romantic dimensions are almost overlooked, especially qualitatively, while Green (EU’s Erasmus study abroad programme is ‘responsible for 1m babies’, 2014) documents that one quarter students on Erasmus exchange scheme met their long-term partner while studying abroad. The chapter explores love, with focus on formation of intimate relations in academic exchanges in the European settings. The method is case-studies drawn from two projects based in Denmark, the first about ethnically intermarried couples (Singla, Intermarriage and mixed parenting: Promoting mental health & wellbeing, crossover love. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and the second, an ongoing project about LAT (Living Apart Together) transnational couples (Singla & Varma, LAT (Living Apart Together) transnational couples: Promoting mental health and wellbeing, 2018), moving beyond ‘methodological nationalism and- conjugalism’. The theoretical framework is Cultural Psychology and foreground is a combination of Narrative Psychology, intersectionality, digital emotional reflexivity and transnationalism. Moreover, aspects related to figuring out criteria of the exchange situation abroad, which can underpin explaining the high rate of long-term relationships while studying abroad, are included. Those aspects are based on a framework, in which intercultural and developmental psychological findings are linked. KW - Academic exchange KW - Diversities of connectivities KW - Educational homogamy KW - Emotional availability KW - Intimate relationship KW - Love KW - Narrative psychology Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-3-030-45995-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45996-3_32 VL - 67 SP - 599 EP - 620 PB - Springer International Publishing CY - Cham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bedi-Visschers, Marion T1 - Von der hilfreichen Kätzin zum Gestiefelten Kater JF - Tierstudien 15/2019 : Tiere erzählen Y1 - 2019 UR - https://download.e-bookshelf.de/download/0012/6113/68/L-O-0012611368-0041192977.pdf VL - 8 IS - 15 SP - 33 EP - 44 PB - Neofelis Verlag ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Li, Shisong A1 - Stock, Michael A1 - Schlamminger, Stephan T1 - A new magnet design for future Kibble balances JF - Metrologia N2 - We propose a new permanent magnet system for Kibble balance experiments, which combines advantages of the magnet designs invented by the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and by the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM). The goal of the proposed magnet system is to minimize the coil-current effect and to optimize the shielding at the same time. In the proposed design, a permanent magnet system with two gaps, each housing a coil, is employed to minimize the coil current effect, by reducing the linear coil-current dependence reported for the single air gap design by at least one order of magnitude. Both air gaps of the magnet are completely surrounded by high-permeability material, and hence the coils are shielded from outside magnetic fields and no magnetic field leaks outside of the magnet system. An example of the new magnet system is given and the analysis shows that the magnetic field in the air gap can be optimized to meet the requirement to be used in Kibble balances. KW - II WATT BALANCE KW - inductance force KW - JOULE BALANCE KW - Kibble balance KW - magnetic field KW - magnetic shielding KW - MARK-II KW - NATIONAL INSTITUTE KW - NIM KW - PLANCK CONSTANT KW - standards KW - SYSTEM KW - TECHNOLOGY Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1088/1681-7575/aab2ea VL - 55 IS - 3 SP - 319 EP - 325 PB - IOP PUBLISHING ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rothleitner, Christian A1 - Schlamminger, Stephan T1 - Invited Review Article: Measurements of the Newtonian constant of gravitation, G JF - Review of Scientific Instruments N2 - By many accounts, the Newtonian constant of gravitation G is the fundamental constant that is most difficult to measure accurately. Over the past three decades, more than a dozen precision measurements of this constant have been performed. However, the scatter of the data points is much larger than the uncertainties assigned to each individual measurement, yielding a Birge ratio of about five. Today, G is known with a relative standard uncertainty of 4.7 x 10(-5), which is several orders of magnitudes greater than the relative uncertainties of other fundamental constants. In this article, various methods to measure G are discussed. Alarge array of different instruments ranging from the simple torsion balance to the sophisticated atom interferometer can be used to determine G. Some instruments, such as the torsion balance can be used in several different ways. In this article, the advantages and disadvantages of different instruments as well as different methods are discussed. A narrative arc from the historical beginnings of the different methods to their modern implementation is given. Finally, the article ends with a brief overview of the current state of the art and an outlook. KW - acceleration KW - ADJUSTMENT KW - ATOM KW - BALANCE KW - CODATA RECOMMENDED VALUES KW - FORCE KW - FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICAL CONSTANTS KW - INTERFEROMETRY KW - MASS KW - PRECISION-MEASUREMENT Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4994619 VL - 88 IS - 11 PB - AIP Publishing ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bresinsky, Markus T1 - Understanding Hybrid Warfare as Asymmetric Conflict : Systemic Analysis by Safety, Security and Certainty JF - On-line Journal Modelling the New Europe N2 - The emergence of innovative methods and operations in asymmetric conflicts as for example unidentifiable soldiers during the Crimean conflict in 2014 or sophisticated cyberattack against Estonia in 2007 was a trigger for both analysts and scholars to rethink scientific concepts of asymmetric conflict. With introduction of the concept 'hybrid warfare' a new systematic element was established in scientific research. Nevertheless, the concept is discussed rather controversially and often its scientific value is questioned. Most of the literature describes the empirical phenomena of hybrid warfare, but does not provide a theoretical based argumentation. This paper addresses the neglected aspect of systemic analysis by focusing on vulnerability of modern societies and outlines a concept based on the theoretical idea of safety, security and certainty to grasp the underlying driving factors of new forms and methods in asymmetric conflicts. The analysis presented here shows that sociology and system engineering have already developed valuable conceptual definitions of safety, security and certainty that can be used for the analysis of asymmetric conflicts. The missing link, closed by this paper, was an interdisciplinary approach to integrate these concepts into an analysis framework. The findings indicated that the new forms of asymmetric conflicts can be understood as a concise and precise analysis of systemic weaknesses of nation states and their societies. Still, Western European nations focus their security policy mainly on past challenges of war and peace. Therefore, societies of these nations remain highly vulnerable to safety threats and uncertainty. The presented theoretical framework supported this result and should, therefore, be of value to analysts and scientists alike aiming to identify the underlying systemic factors of innovative asymmetric conflict. KW - Certainty KW - Hybrid warfare KW - safety KW - Security KW - Systemic analysis KW - Theoretical framework Y1 - 2016 UR - https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/understanding-hybrid-warfare-as-asymmetric/docview/1872206522/se-2 IS - 21 SP - 29 EP - 51 PB - Babes-Bolyai University ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schliermann, Rainer ED - Hengelmolen-Greb, A. ED - Jöbges, M. T1 - Fußball T2 - Leitfaden Physiotherapie in der Neurologie. Physiotherapie in der Neurologie Y1 - 2019 SP - 443 EP - 444 PB - Elsevier ER -