193 research outputs found
Frequency response of the superconducting gravimeter SG056
The two sensors of the SG 056 double-sphere superconducting gravimeter at BFO (Black Forest Observatory, Germany) show differences in their response to long-period seismic signals. Their frequency response deviates from the nominal GGP1-filter (8th-order Bessel low-pass). We experimentally derive parameterized models for the sensor’s full frequency response by application of square-wave and down-sweep drive signals to the feedback circuit and subsequent inversion. The latter is carried out with the program calex in the time domain which iteratively minimizes the least-squares misfit between the output signal predicted with the filter model and the actual output of the sensor. We seek for values of eigenperiod and damping of the four 2nd-order subsystems of 8th-order low-pass filters. The resulting filters deviate considerably from the nominal response of the GGP1-filter also in that they are not Bessel filters. Remaining residuals indicate that the models are not able to capture the exact response. Nevertheless, they substantially reduce amplitudes of waveform-residuals in long-period earthquake recordings by a factor of four. The filter response curves approach their DC-limit (frequency f = 0Hz) within the frequency band of the drive signals. Thus we estimate the asymptotic signal delay ΔtDC to be considered in tidal analysis to be ΔtDCG1 = 10.44s for the lower sensor G1 (heavier sphere) and ΔtDCG2 = 9.86s for the upper sensor G2 (standard sphere). The accuracy of these values appears to be not better than 0.07s. For signals recorded with voltmeters on the UIPC data-acquisition and distributed through the IGETS data center (formerly
GGP) ΔtDCG1 = 9.84s and ΔtDCG2 = 9.26s
TOWARDS CROSS-ORGANISATIONAL E-GOVERNMENT: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH
One of the most challenging issues in current e-Government initiatives is the seamless exchange of information and the efficient collaboration between public administrations, companies and the private sector. Either from an intra- or cross-organisational point of view spanning processes across multiple authorities leads to a collaboration of autonomous units under consideration of law and regulations. Despite the organisational dimension current approaches are mainly technical solutions – e.g. interoperability frameworks. Within this paper we present an integrated approach which incorporates organisational aspects of the public sector and which supports the correspondent implementation of solutions for cross-organisational e-Government by adopting Model-Driven-Development practices
(Schw)Ehre, wem (Schw)Ehre gebührt : Festschrift zur Verabschiedung von Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h.c. Bernhard Heck
Die Festschrift zur Verabschiedung von Prof. Bernhard Heck enthält 41 Beiträge aus dem Freundeskreis, der Kollegenschaft sowie von ehemaligen Promovierenden. Der Schwerpunkt der Arbeiten liegt auf den Gebieten der Physikalischen und Satellitengeodäsie sowie der Geodynamik und spiegelt das vielfältige Wirken von Bernhard Heck wider. Abgerundet wird die Schrift durch Beiträge zur Ausbildung am Geodätischen Institut des KIT und zur Stellung der Geodäsie im gesellschaftlichen Kontext
Cultural appropriation of spaces and things
This proceedings volume gathers papers presented at the symposium “Cultural Appropriation of Spaces and Things” held in Siegen, Germany in October 2019.
All over the world, children are confronted with an increasingly complicated and fast-moving world. Children need elementary cultural techniques and skills to shape their own lives and enable them to find individual interpretations of meaning. In addition to the acquisition of classical cultural techniques such as arithmetic, writing and reading, the competent handling of spaces and things – through manifold processes of appropriation and reflection – is crucial. It forms the basis and prerequisite for the development of competences or abilities that are suitable for understanding the dimensions, the complexity and changeability of their world and enable them to critically deal with associated problems and find appropriate solutions.
The aim of the conference was to find suitable ways for children all over the world for a methodically and didactically guided examination of their natural, social and technical environment. At the same time, the aim was to achieve a mutual enrichment of monodisciplinary research accesses. It also included a self-critical reflection of one’s own culturally shaped approaches of research.Contents:
Martin Gröger, Christian Prust, Alexandra Flügel: Preface
LECTURES
Alexandre Avelino Giffoni Junior, Sebastião Lázaro Pereira, Alberto Barella Netto: Haus Früher Hilfen UniRV: A historic building in process in the heart of Brazil
Hyeongjoo Kim: Designing and Applying the Moral Turing Test for Korean Children
Karen Barfod and Peer Daugbjerg: Teaching Science and Mathematics Outside the Classroom, a pilot study on assessing inquiry-based practices
Jan Höper: Towards integrated science education by using mobile technologies outdoors
WORKSHOPS
Mareike Janssen: Exploring the things of life: First insights into chemical processes with sparkling water as an example
Julia Gaffron, Martin Gröger: Children like to experiment, many teachers apparently do not
Volker Heck: Alexander von Humboldt - The Voyage to the Americas as an approach to science in Primary School
Thomas Sukopp: Interculturality in Philosophy Education: Challenges and Prospects of Education for Sustainable Development in Primary Schools
POSTERS
André Dorn, Martin Gröger: ESD in general studies -prospective general studies teachers deal with the educational concept of ESD in a student-oriented and cooperative manner
Andree Georg: From Carlowitz to Sustainable Development and Education for Sustainable Development
Irina Landrock: Children at NS Memorial Sites
Dr. Markus Schaal: Martha Muchow in the Context of the New Sociology of Childhood What Can a Classic Still Teach Us Today?
Martin Gröger: Open air laboratory FLEX – Starting to learn chemistry in a near-natural learning environment
Martin Gröger: FoodLAB - a molecular gastronomic experimental laboratory in teacher training
Martin Gröger: How Alexander von Humboldt saw the world from a chemist’s point of view
Matthias Weipert: Extracurricular learning locations in the historical perspective of general studies - the example of the Wendener Hütte
Mirko Schommer: Spatial Orientation - Competence expectations and common misconceptions based on map projections
Sarah Gaubitz: Options for handling complex problems of global change from the perspective of primary school children
Swaantje Brill: Museum Field Trips in Primary School: An Approach to Children’s Perspectives
Urs Gießelmann and Uta Birkhölzer: The “Hauberg” as an extracurricular learning locatio
Spatial differentiation of gene expression in Aspergillus niger colony grown for sugar beet pulp utilization
Citation: Benoit, I., Zhou, M. M., Duarte, A. V., Downes, D. J., Todd, R. B., Kloezen, W., . . . de Vries, R. P. (2015). Spatial differentiation of gene expression in Aspergillus niger colony grown for sugar beet pulp utilization. Scientific Reports, 5(1), 1-13.
https://doi.org/10.1038/srep13592Degradation of plant biomass to fermentable sugars is of critical importance for the use of plant materials for biofuels. Filamentous fungi are ubiquitous organisms and major plant biomass degraders. Single colonies of some fungal species can colonize massive areas as large as five soccer stadia. During growth, the mycelium encounters heterogeneous carbon sources. Here we assessed whether substrate heterogeneity is a major determinant of spatial gene expression in colonies of Aspergillus niger. We analyzed whole-genome gene expression in five concentric zones of 5-day-old colonies utilizing sugar beet pulp as a complex carbon source. Growth, protein production and secretion occurred throughout the colony. Genes involved in carbon catabolism were expressed uniformly from the centre to the periphery whereas genes encoding plant biomass degrading enzymes and nitrate utilization were expressed differentially across the colony. A combined adaptive response of carbon-catabolism and enzyme production to locally available monosaccharides was observed. Finally, our results demonstrate that A. niger employs different enzymatic tools to adapt its metabolism as it colonizes complex environments
Measurement of the cosmic ray spectrum above eV using inclined events detected with the Pierre Auger Observatory
A measurement of the cosmic-ray spectrum for energies exceeding
eV is presented, which is based on the analysis of showers
with zenith angles greater than detected with the Pierre Auger
Observatory between 1 January 2004 and 31 December 2013. The measured spectrum
confirms a flux suppression at the highest energies. Above
eV, the "ankle", the flux can be described by a power law with
index followed by
a smooth suppression region. For the energy () at which the
spectral flux has fallen to one-half of its extrapolated value in the absence
of suppression, we find
eV.Comment: Replaced with published version. Added journal reference and DO
Außerschulische Lernorte von Kindern : Reflexionen - Konzeptionen - Perspektiven
Weitere Hrsg.: Martin Gröger, Daria Johanna Schneider, Jutta Wiesemann.
Publikation anlässlich der Tagung „Orte und Räume der Generationenvermittlung
– Außerschulisches Lernen von Kindern“, Universität Siegen, 5.-6. Oktober 2017Die Wertschätzung des außerschulischen Lernens hat in der Schulpädagogik eine lange Tradition und ist besonders in der Grundschule und im Sachunterricht etabliert. Mit einem Blick auf Möglichkeiten der Vernetzung schulischer und außerschulischer Lernwelten rückt das Bildungspotenzial und die Bildungswirksamkeit außerschulischer Lernorte zunehmend in den Aufmerksamkeitsfokus bildungspolitischer, schulpädagogischer sowie didaktischer Reflexion.
Eine Gelegenheit zu einer vertieften Auseinandersetzung mit diversen außerschulischen Lernarrangements bot die Tagung zum Thema „Orte und Räume der Generationenvermittlung – außerschulisches Lernen von Kindern“, die im Oktober 2017 an der Universität Siegen stattfand.
Die vielfältigen Impulse und wertvollen Überlegungen der Tagungsteilnehmerinnen und -teilnehmer werden in der vorliegenden Publikation „Außerschulische Lernorte von Kindern – Reflexionen – Konzeptionen – Perspektiven“ aufgegriffen.
Die Beiträge des Bandes gliedern sich in drei Themenblöcke: zum einen werden konzeptionelle Überlegungen zum außerschulischen Lernort vorgestellt, zum anderen eröffnet der Band Einblicke in die Entwicklung und Ausgestaltung sowie in den Einsatz von Materialien am außerschulischen Lernort. Der dritte Themenblock gibt abschließend einige Beispiele für die mannigfaltigen Möglichkeiten, schulische und außerschulische Lernorte effektiv zu vernetzen
Energy Estimation of Cosmic Rays with the Engineering Radio Array of the Pierre Auger Observatory
The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) is part of the Pierre Auger
Observatory and is used to detect the radio emission of cosmic-ray air showers.
These observations are compared to the data of the surface detector stations of
the Observatory, which provide well-calibrated information on the cosmic-ray
energies and arrival directions. The response of the radio stations in the 30
to 80 MHz regime has been thoroughly calibrated to enable the reconstruction of
the incoming electric field. For the latter, the energy deposit per area is
determined from the radio pulses at each observer position and is interpolated
using a two-dimensional function that takes into account signal asymmetries due
to interference between the geomagnetic and charge-excess emission components.
The spatial integral over the signal distribution gives a direct measurement of
the energy transferred from the primary cosmic ray into radio emission in the
AERA frequency range. We measure 15.8 MeV of radiation energy for a 1 EeV air
shower arriving perpendicularly to the geomagnetic field. This radiation energy
-- corrected for geometrical effects -- is used as a cosmic-ray energy
estimator. Performing an absolute energy calibration against the
surface-detector information, we observe that this radio-energy estimator
scales quadratically with the cosmic-ray energy as expected for coherent
emission. We find an energy resolution of the radio reconstruction of 22% for
the data set and 17% for a high-quality subset containing only events with at
least five radio stations with signal.Comment: Replaced with published version. Added journal reference and DO
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