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Gründächer im urbanen Raum und ihre Ökosystemleistungen
Urbane blau-grüne Infrastrukturen (Gründächer, grüne Fassaden, Baumrigolen etc.) erbringen wichtige Ökosystemleistungen. Sie dienen als Retentionsflächen für Niederschlagswasser und ermöglichen damit ein integ...
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Catastrophe, Sublimity, and Digital Thinking in Blake’s Vala or The Four Zoas
Amongst the verbal/visual cruxes encountered in Vala or The Four Zoas none has provoked more debate than the presence, in this work, of two seventh Nights. Rather than asking whether the two were intended to beco...
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Coupling a NURBS contact interface with a higher order finite element discretization for contact problems using the mortar method
In this paper, a contact problem between two bodies, discretized by finite elements, is solved by adding an auxiliary NURBS layer between the bodies. The advantages of a smooth contact formulation in a NURBS a...
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“Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!”: Ōe Kenzaburō and William Blake on Bodies, Biopolitics, and the Imagination
Ōe Kenzaburō’s Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! describes the narrator’s engagement with the poetry of Blake and growing relation with Eeyore/Hikari, his brain-damaged son. As these at first disparate narrati...
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A regularized model for impact in explicit dynamics applied to the split Hopkinson pressure bar
In the numerical simulation of impact phenomena, artificial oscillations can occur due to an instantaneous change of velocity in the contact area. In this paper, a nonlinear penalty regularization is used to a...
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Open AccessA human macrophage – hepatocyte co-culture model for comparative studies of infection and replication of Francisella tularensis LVS strain and subspecies holarctica and mediasiatica
Francisella tularensis, a gram-negative bacterium replicates intracellularly within macrophages and efficiently evades the innate immune response. It is able to infect and replicate wi...
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Artificial Environments, Virtual Realities, and the Cultivation of Propensity in the London Colosseum
The panorama is routinely identified with the modern attempt to contain everything within a single view or picture—and as such, with one of the earliest steps in a narrative that leads, by way of the diorama an.....
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The Sound of Exodus (EX3), “World Building” and the Museum of the Future: Adaptive, Listener-Centered Auditory Display for Multimodal Narrative in Advanced Visualization Spaces
In the transdisciplinary world of cyber-archaeology, the “EX3 – Exodus, Cyber-archaeology and the Future” (EX3) exhibition offered a unique opportunity for researchers from many academic disciplines to work to...
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From the English to the French Revolution: The Body, the World and Experience in Locke’s Essay, Bentley’s ‘A Prospect of Vapourland’ and Blake’s Songs
The execution of Charles I in 1649 and Louis XVI in 1793 are key events in the shift from monarchical to modern political orders, and from religious to secular sources of authority, while also evoking the spec...
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Open AccessPerformance of seven serological assays for diagnosing tularemia
Tularemia is a rare zoonotic disease caused by the Gram-negative bacterium Francisella tularensis. Serology is frequently the preferred diagnostic approach, because the pathogen is highly infectious and difficult...
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Spatio-temporal dynamics of endophyte diversity in the canopy of European ash (Fraxinus excelsior)
Leaf-inhabiting endophytic fungi of Fraxinus excelsior growing in a floodplain forest were isolated during 2008 to investigate vertical community structure, species richness and seasonal variation. The analysis o...
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Open AccessGerman Francisella tularensis isolates from European brown hares (Lepus europaeus)reveal genetic and phenotypic diversity
Tularemia is a zoonotic disease caused by Francisella tularensis that has been found in many different vertebrates. In Germany most human infections are caused by contact with infected European brown hares (Lepus...
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Sensibility in Ruins: Imagined Realities, Perception Machines, and the Problem of Experience in Modernity
Sensibility is commonly thought to distinguish the democratic present from the authoritarian past, while at the same time, because it depends on a refinement not available to the crowd, setting it in oppositio...
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‘Rouze up O Young Men of the New Age!’: William Blake, Theodore Roszak, and the Counter Culture of the 1960s–1970s
‘[T]he voice of Blake … is the voice I have now’, Allen Ginsberg remarked in 1975 (‘Notes’ 28). Although few claimed so completely to possess or to be possessed by Blake, throughout the 1960s and 1970s he seem...
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Prevalence of Francisella tularensis in brown hare (Lepus europaeus) populations in Lower Saxony, Germany
Francisella tularensis is the aetiological agent of tularemia. Hares, rabbits, and small rodents are the main hosts, but humans can be infected and develop severe clinical symptoms. In Germany, tularemia in human...
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Genetic characterization of a novel calicivirus from a chicken
We describe the identification and genetic characterization of a novel enteric calicivirus, detected by transmission electron microscopy and RT-PCR in two clinically normal chickens and in a chicken with runti...
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The future of the CAVE
The CAVE, a walk-in virtual reality environment typically consisting of 4–6 3 m-by-3 m sides of a room made of rear-projected screens, was first conceived and built in 1991. In the nearly two decades since its...
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Inside the Imagination-Machines of Gothic Fiction
Coleridge remarked in disgust that the entire ‘materiel and imagery’ of gothic fiction’s waking dreams are ‘supplied ab extra by a sort of mental camera obscura manufactured at the printing office, which pro temp...
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Drawing Lines: Bodies, Sexualities and Performance in The Four Zoas
In The Four Zoas, Blake appropriates elements of the spiritual system elaborated by the Swedish visionary, Emanuel Swedenborg, drawing in particular on his The Delights of Wisdom pertaining to Conjugial Love [sic...
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Extending Corporate Boundaries: Managing Electronic Networks of Practice
Elektronische Praxisnetzwerke können einer Organisation helfen, Wissen effektiver zu entdecken und zu teilen, indem das Lernen sowohl innerhalb der Organisation als auch von Einheiten außerhalb der Organisatio...
