The Faculty of Agricultural, Nutritional and Engineering Sciences: E-Dissertationen
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Effect of soil mechanical properties, root tip geometry, and mucilage on penetration resistance to root growth
(2026-03-19)Plant root systems are vital for global food security, yet their growth is constrained by soil compaction, which increases penetration resistance and reduces root elongation. Plants mitigate this through the secretion of ... -
Mobile Robot State Estimation Based on Aided Inertial Navigation
(2026-03-18)Robust and accurate state estimation is a fundamental building block that enables mobile robots to achieve autonomy. To achieve this goal, modern mobile robots are typically equipped with a variety of sensors, such as ... -
Estimation of the protein value of pig feeds from fibre-bound crude protein fractions
(2026-03-18)Crude Protein (CP) and Amino acids (AA) are essential nutrients for diverse processes in the pig's body therefore an adequate CP and AA supply for pigs is important to sustain performance and animal health. The utilisation ... -
Explainable Machine Learning-based Frameworks to Investigate The Appearance of Naturalness in Satellite Imagery
(2026-03-17)Natürlichkeit ist ein zentraler Indikator für den Biodiversitätsschutz und das Funktionieren von Ökosystemen und damit von hoher Relevanz für Umweltmonitoring und Entscheidungsunterstützung. Diese Arbeit untersucht das ... -
Innovation adoption among smallholder farmers in Bangladesh and effects on agricultural production and dietary quality
(2026-03-16)Securing sufficient and diverse, nutritious food for all is challenging, especially in developing countries, where the economy is often largely dependent on agriculture. Governments are introducing various interventions ... -
From Closed- to Open-World Panoptic Segmentation
(2026-03-10)Autonomous robotic technologies are increasingly transforming industries by enabling intelligent machines to perform complex tasks with minimal human intervention, increasing efficiency, safety, and scalability. Robots can ... -
The nutrition transition in low- and middle-income countries: The role of socioeconomic factors, culture, and the food environment
(2026-03-10)Many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are undergoing a nutrition transition, where diets are shifting from traditional staples to energy-dense processed foods, often contributing to poor nutrition outcomes, including ... -
Green Window Views – Assessing Visible Urban Green Spaces in Residential Areas to Promote Environmental Justice in Open Space Planning
(2026-03-05)Urban green spaces are key to sustainable urban development, yet climate change, urban densification, and rising land and rental prices increasingly restrict access and reinforce social inequities. Sustainable Development ... -
Off-farm employment, gender, and nutrition in rural Africa
(2026-03-05)How do rural households in Africa diversify their income sources, and what are the implications of off-farm employment for welfare? This dissertation attempts to answer these questions by presenting four essays focusing ... -
Road Infrastructure Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Complex Interactions Between Rural Livelihoods and Biodiversity Conservation
(2026-03-03)Road infrastructure development in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is rapidly expanding, creating both economic opportunities and ecological challenges that require urgent attention from researchers and policymakers. This ... -
The impact of water-soluble environmental aerosols on the drought tolerance of forest trees: a Germany-wide field study
(2026-03-02)Forest trees in Germany and around the world are showing increasing drought damage symptoms and higher mortality rates due to climate change. Trees suffer direct damage from drought periods and heat waves, and forest ... -
Field-based evidence of root plasticity under abiotic stresses and tillage
(2026-02-18)Modern agriculture faces the dual challenge of increasing food productivity while preserving soil health and biodiversity under a changing climate. Roots are central to this dilemma, as they dictate nutrient uptake, soil ... -
Learning Discriminative Representations and Generative Approaches for Outdoor 3D LiDAR Data
(2026-02-18)Mobile robots have become part of our everyday lives nowadays to automate tasks that are monotonous, repetitive, or dangerous to humans, such as autonomous driving. The automation of the driving task is complex to achieve ... -
Spatio-Temporal Scene Understanding for Vehicles in Urban Environments
(2026-02-17)Mobile robots are already present in our lives to support people in tasks they are not able or do not want to do. Driving machinery across large fields to help in food production, replacing human workers in repetitive tasks ... -
Effects of β-glucan-rich oyster mushroom powder on ad libitum energy intake and LDL-cholesterol concentrations considering mechanisms modulating food intake and cholesterol metabolism in adults: Results from double-blind randomized controlled trials
(2026-02-13)Edible mushrooms, such as oyster mushrooms (<em>Pleurotus ostreatus, P.o.</em>), possess a high nutritional value and contain various bioactive compounds, including β-glucans, ergosterol, and lovastatin. These components ... -
Unsupervised Learning for In-Field Phenotyping Leveraging Domain Knowledge
(2026-02-12)The growing world population and the unsustainability of common farming practices are challenging our agricultural production system, which has to cope with the increased demand for food, feed, fuel, and fiber, without ... -
In Silico Evaluation of the Water and Carbon Flows in the Soil-Rhizosphere-Plant Continuum
(2026-02-10)<strong>Background and Motivation:</strong> Changes in water and carbon balances both impact and are impacted by the processes of soil microbial communities and plants, creating complex feedback loops. Climate change is ... -
Relevance and management of root-knot nematodes in tomato production in Nepal
(2026-02-06)Tomato (<em>Solanum lycopersicum</em> L.) is one of the most economically significant crops worldwide. In Nepal, tomato production is greatly affected by root-knot nematodes (RKN; <em>Meloidogyne</em> spp.). Despite their ... -
Climate Resilience Actions and Coffee Households' Food (in)security in Western Honduras
(2026-01-29)In Central America, particularly in Honduras, coffee production is vital to rural economies. However, extreme weather events such as droughts negatively impact coffee and food production, affecting food security of rural ... -
Effects of biological and technical subsoil amelioration on root growth and crop performance in cereal crops
(2026-01-27)In the face of climate change, optimizing root systems to enhance subsoil water and nutrient extraction is increasingly vital for resilient and efficient crop production. Subsoil amelioration approaches such as deep tillage, ...
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