E-Dissertationen: Browsing E-Dissertationen by Title
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Data-driven Image Generation for Crop Growth Modeling
(2025-01-09)Crop growth models play a crucial role in agriculture as they help to understand how crops grow and thrive. They allow farmers to predict how much harvest they can expect, which is important when planning, storing, and ... -
Dealing With Bribery in an Emission Tax Scheme: Theoretical and Experimental Evidence Based on the Indonesian Case
(2013-09-27)This dissertation is stemmed from the necessity of finding the optimal mixture of emission tax policies that induces the compliance under the presence of bribery, by taking the case of Indonesia. The Indonesian government ... -
Decentralized energy in India and its synergies with Water-Energy-Food security (WEF) nexus
(2018-11-15)The majority of rural Indian households remain dependent on traditional, inefficient and harmful household energy technologies. Rural households make their energy decisions with respect to the Water-Energy-Food security ... -
Deciphering the role of apoplastic root barriers in the interaction between sedentary nematodes and Arabidopsis
(2018-12-13)The plant-parasitic nematode species Heterodera schachtii and Meloidogyne incognita infect economically important crop plants in the entire world. Their infection causes yield losses, but effective and environmentally ... -
Decision analysis and hyperspectral imaging to support farmers in ornamental heather production
(2022-02-02)Ornamental Heather (<em>Calluna vulgaris</em>) is an important crop for the farmers of Germany’s Lower Rhine region. These farmers produce more than 78% of the ornamental heather in Germany. Successful production of this ... -
Decision making under risk in agriculture: An experimental and survey based analysis
(2017-11-03)Risk, and risk management are inherent to agricultural production. We distinguish two categories of factors influencing the farmers’ decision on risk management strategy: external and internal factors. Factors external to ... -
Deep phenotyping of dairy cows with different body condition for characterizing their adaptability to the onset of lactation
(2026-05-22)Metabolic and endocrine functions of dairy cows under non- optimal body condition (underconditioned or over-conditioned) exhibit marked abnormalities that result in a significant decrease in milk production. Underconditioned ... -
Deep soil carbon accrual after land restoration in the Atlantic Forest, Brazil
(2024-11-28)Soils play a crucial role in the global carbon cycle, not only by storing most of terrestrial carbon but also by actively participating in carbon sequestration and emission processes. Reliable estimates of soil organic ... -
Demand for organic food in Switzerland
(2019-08-20)The aim of this dissertation is to better understand the functioning of the organic food market in Switzerland. Over the last three decades the market for organic food in Switzerland has developed positively and continues ... -
Demokratisierung und Perspektiven der bäuerlichen Partizipation in Madagaskar
(2001)Alle nachkolonialen Regierungen und Regimes in Madagaskar entzogen sich der freien Wahlentscheidung, der Einflussnahme und der Kontrolle der Gesellschaft. Seit Ende der 80er Jahre befindet sich Madagaskar in einem Prozess ... -
Deposits of foliar-applied herbicides: characterization and relevance for bio-efficacy as evaluated in selected weed species
(2013-10-07)The main focus is to elucidate and characterize the effect of formulation on the deposition patterns and the consequences for the foliar uptake of herbicides, either through cuticular or stomatal pathways. Glyphosate (Gly) ... -
Der Einfluss der O-GlcNAc-Modifikation auf das Prozessieren des Amyloid Precursor Proteins (APP) sowie auf die Regulation der Cdk5
(2004)O-glykosidisch gebundenes N-Acetylglucosamin (O-GlcNAc) an Serin- und Threoninresten von Proteinen ist eine posttranslationale Modifikation von cytosolischen Proteinen, Kernproteinen und cytoplasmatischen Domänen von ... -
Der Einfluss von Nonylphenolen auf die Entwicklung des Nervensystems und die synaptische Plastizität
(2019-11-13)Bei Nonylphenolen handelt es sich um eine Gruppe chemischer Verbindungen mit aromatischem Ring, Hydroxylgruppe und einer Nonyl-Seitenkette, die entweder verzweigt oder linear vorliegen kann. Das technische Nonylphenol ... -
Designing conservation-incentives for Tanzania’s ecological corridors: cost-effectiveness and behavioral determinants
(2025-05-27)The global forest resources assessments show that the world lost about 420 million hectares of forest between 1990 and 2020, mainly due to deforestation. Between 2010 and 2020, Africa experienced the highest annual net ... -
Detection and Attribution of Spatiotemporal Trends of Climatic Disaster Mortality in Nepal
(2024-02-16)The socioeconomic impacts of climatic disasters are increasing globally. Some studies have argued that this increasing trend results from the growing population and assets exposed to hazardous events. Other studies have ... -
Detection and characterization of QTL in a porcinen Duroc-Pietrain resource population
(2005)In the present thesis, genome scans were performed for QTL detection in a F2 resource population which was reciprocally crossed between Duroc and Pietrain. 1085 F2 progeny within 38 full-sib families were produced from ... -
Detection, identification, and quantification of fungal diseases of sugar beet leaves using imaging and non-imaging hyperspectral techniques
(2011-02-22)Plant diseases influence the optical properties of plants in different ways. Depending on the host pathogen system and disease specific symptoms, different regions of the reflectance spectrum are affected, resulting in ... -
Determinants and health risks of overweight and obesity among children and adolescents in Germany
(2010-03-02)The worldwide growing prevalence of overweight and obesity is becoming an important public health concern, also among children and adolescents. To establish effective prevention strategies, it is important to identify ... -
Determinants of incentive-based forest governance in the Amazon: Evidence from Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil
(2018-02-07)Command-and-control policies are often criticized as insufficient to tackle tropical deforestation. Over the past two decades, both academics and policy-makers have promoted incentive-based policies, such as payments for ... -
The Determinants of Long-Term Growth in Smallholder Agriculture in Rwanda: An Intergenerational Analysis
(2015-06-03)The current study explores the determinants of long-term growth in small-scale agriculture in a rural area of Rwanda, with a special focus on intergenerational mobility of income and poverty over the past two and a half ...
