Kino-Enthusiasmus. Die Schenkung Heimo Bachstein

Heimo Bachstein, Jahrgang 1937, war Sparkassenangestellter und Filmenthusiast. Er lebte in Marktheidenfeld unweit von Würzburg, wo er 2011 starb. In den 1960er Jahren begann er, Filmplakate und Fotografien zu sammeln, schrieb filmkritische Texte und Vorträge, korrespondierte mit Verleihern, Filmemachern und Festivalleitungen, agierte als Jurymitglied und wurde gelegentlich als Schauspieler besetzt. Im Laufe von fünf Jahrzehnten entstand auf diese Weise in seiner Wohnung ein „Filmkunstarchiv“ – so eine von Bachsteins Bezeichnungen –, das kurz vor seinem Tod als Schenkung an die Bauhaus-Universität Weimar kam

Fine-Grained Specification and Control of Data Flows in Web-based User Interfaces

When building process-intensive web applications, developers typically spend considerable effort on the exchange of specific data entities between specific web pages and operations under specific condi- tions, as called for by business requirements. Since the WWW infrastructure provides only very coarse data exchange mechanisms, we introduce a notation for the design of fine-grained conditional data flows between user interface components. These specifications can be interpreted by a data flow controller that automatically provides the data entities to the specified receivers at run-time, relieving developers of the need to implement user interface data flows manually

Analyses and Declarations of Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Canned Seafood May Help to Quantify Their Dietary Intake

The American Heart Association (AHA) recently confirmed common recommendations of one to two fish dishes per week in order to prevent cardiovascular disease (CVD). Nevertheless, the natural fluctuations of lipids and fatty acids (FA) in processed seafood caught little public attention. Moreover, consumers of unprocessed seafood in general do not know how much omega-3 fatty acids (omega-3 FA) within servings they actually ingest. The few studies published until today considering this aspect have been re-evaluated in today’s context. They included four observational studies with canned fatty coldwater fish (mackerel and herring from the same region, season, producer and research group). Their outcomes were similar to those conducted in the following years using supplements. Cans containing seafood (especially fatty coldwater fish) with declared content of omega-3 FA are ready-to-use products. Human studies have shown a higher bioavailability of omega-3 FA by joint uptake of fat. Canned fatty coldwater fish contain omega-3 FA plus plenty of fat in one and the same foodstuff. That suggests a new dietary paradigm with mixed concepts including several sources with declared content of omega-3 FA for reducing the cardiovascular risk and other acknowledged indications

Entwicklung und aktuelle Situation der Verlandungsvegetation des Dümmers (Niedersachsen)

Die Verlandungsvegetation des Dümmers wurde seit Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts mehrfach untersucht. 2006 erfolgte erstmals eine flächendeckende Kartierung der gesamten Verlandungszone. Seit der 1953 abgeschlossenen Eindeichung war diese massiven Veränderungen unterworfen. Bereits kurz nach Deichschluss kam es zu einer massiven Reduktion der seeseitigen, durchfluteten Schilfbestände (Phragmites australis). Weite Röhrichtpartien entwickelten sich zunächst zu Wasserschwaden-Beständen (Glyceria maxima), dann wieder zu Schilfröhrichten. Nach einer zwischenzeitlichen Stagnation der Röhrichtabbrüche in den 1980er Jahren kam es in den letzten 15-20 Jahren zu erneuten erheblichen Flächenverlusten. Die ehemals typischen Teichbinseninseln (Schoenoplectus spp.) sind inzwischen weitestgehend verschwunden. Die Wasserrosenfelder (Nuphar lutea, Nymphaea alba) verloren seit den 1990er Jahren erheblich an Fläche. Alle Verluste an der Verlandungsvegetation dürften zunächst durch die Gewässerbelastung, in neuerer Zeit vor allem durch zu hoch gehaltene Sommerwasserstände verursacht sein. Die ehemals üppige und artenreiche submerse Vegetation starb nach der Eindeichung vollständig ab. Nach einer unerwartet eingetretenen Klarwasserphase wurde 2001 erstmals wieder Potamogeton pectinatus nachgewiesen, seitdem wurden weitere Laichkraut-Arten, zwei Arten der Armleuchteralgen (Chara fragilis, Nitella mucronata) und weitere Tauch- und Schwimmblattpflanzen nachgewiesen. Die voraussichtlich 2009 erfolgende Umleitung des Bornbaches, über den ein Großteil der heutigen Nährstofffracht in den Dümmer gelangt, dürfte die Bedingungen für die submerse Vegetation entscheidend verbessern.The silting vegetation of Lake Dümmer has been investigated at different times throughout the 20th century. In 2006 we made the first complete mapping of all vegetation types. Since embanking had been finished in 1953, the vegetation changed dramatically. Reedbanks reduced much and the vegetation changed from dominance of Phragmites australis to Glyceria maxima, later Phragmites took back large parts. After a stagnation of devastion of reedbanks, after the 1980ties again large areas of reedbanks disappeared. Small islands of Schoenoplectus spp., which were very typical for the lake, nearly disappeared. The vegetation of the emergent plants Nuphar lutea and Nymphaea alba has started to disappear in the 1990ties. All devastation of silting vegetation seem to correlate with water pollution in the first decades, in recent years the water levels in summer are too high for reproduction of plants. The submerse vegetation was quite rich in species and biomass before embanking, then it completely disappeared. Since 2001, there is a slight recovery of such vegetation, including some species of Potamogeton spp. and Characeae. After the diversion of the Bornbach, a highly polluted stream in 2009, nitrification will be reduced giving good perspectives for a further recovery of submerse vegetation

Real-time measurement of temperature and volume of the weld pool in wire-arc additive manufacturing

The quality of the material deposition and contour accuracy produced by WAAM (Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing) depends on process parameters such as the temperature and the volume of the weld pool. The control of the welding process can be substantially improved by obtaining real-time signals of the weld-pool temperature and volume. In this paper, we present a new optical sensor that can measure the quantities through the welding arc. We have developed a ratio pyrometer with narrowband filters that suppresses the radiation from the plasma. We present our new sensor in this paper and demonstrate its capability to measure the weld-pool temperature pyrometrically and the weld-pool area by digital image processing as a real-time signal through the arc. In addition, we estimate the weld-pool volume from its area and the known material inflow

A General Model of Mobile Environments: Simulation Support for Strategic Management Decisions

Since the ability of Workforce Management Systems to handle mobility induced challenges of mobile environments like data-communication cut-offs, reduced network bandwidth, and security concerns improved recently, the optimization efforts of mobile enterprises increasingly focus on the organizational setup of their mobile environment. This includes issues like, e.g., the dimension and staffing of regional subdivisions, qualification balance of the workforce, and resource allocation strategies. While this multitude of possible adjustment parameters for optimization prevents from the analytical prediction of organizational change efforts, simulation is a promising approach to analyze mobile environments and their change. In this work we present a formal model representing a generalization of mobile environments. This model can be utilized to examine the cost situation and performance of both real mobile enterprises and projected future development scenarios of such enterprises. The model is developed using colored petri nets (CPN) and the software suite CPN Tools. We show that our model is capable of predicting the outcomes of organizational change projects by the utilization of simulation and present a validation of our model based on real-world data of a German gas and power supply