Numerical investigation of micro and macro mechanical behaviour of granular media via a discrete element approach

Magdeburg, Univ., Fak. für Mathematik, Diss., 2009

Disposable, micro-fluidic biosensor array for online analysis of adherent cells activity combining quartz crystal resonators and impedance measurement techniques

Magdeburg, Univ., Fak. für Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Diss., 2011

Modeling of micro- and nanostructures made of films and crystals/fibers arrays

Magdeburg, Univ., Fak. für Maschinenbau, Diss., 2013

Micro scale modeling grain boundary damage under creep conditions

Magdeburg, Univ., Fak. für Maschinenbau, Diss., 2014

Estudos sobre a alimentação mineral do cafeeiro XXVII. Efeito da adubação N, P e K no teor de macro e micro nutrientes do fruto e na qualidade da bebida do café

O efeito da adubação N, P e K na composição mineral do grão (macro nutrientes, B e Zn) e na qualidade da bebida (prova de xícara) foi estudado. Utilizou-se um ensaio de adubação NPK, 3x3x3 plantado em 1955 em Ribeirão Preto, S. P. As amostras foram colhidas a dedo, despolpadas e degomadas no mesmo dia. Verificou-se que somente a adubação nitrogenada aumentou significativamente o teor de N no grão. Altos niveis de K na adubação diminuíram o teor de B e de Zn no grão. O teor de N no grão foi correlacionado negativamente com a qualidade da bebida. A adubação potássica quando excessiva prejudicou a qualidade da bebida mas de uma maneira não consistente. O aumento da produção causado pela adubação nitrogenada e potássica compensam economicamente o pequeno prejuízo causado na qualidade da bebida, que não chega a ser de 0,5 grau na escala utilizada.

Micro-macro analysis of creep behavior in a multi-pass weld

Magdeburg, Univ., Fak. für Maschinenbau, Diss., 2014

The Discrimination of Colored Acrylic, Cotton, and Wool Textile Fibers Using Micro-Raman Spectroscopy. Part 1 : In Situ Detection and Characterization of Dyes

Raman spectroscopy has been applied to characterize fiber dyes and determine the discriminating ability of the method. Black, blue, and red acrylic, cotton, and wool samples were analyzed. Four excitation sources were used to obtain complementary responses in the case of fluorescent samples. Fibers that did not provide informative spectra using a given laser were usually detected using another wavelength. For any colored acrylic, the 633-nm laser did not provide Raman information. The 514-nm laser provided the highest discrimination for blue and black cotton, but half of the blue cottons produced noninformative spectra. The 830-nm laser exhibited the highest discrimination for red cotton. Both visible lasers provided the highest discrimination for black and blue wool, and NIR lasers produced remarkable separation for red and black wool. This study shows that the discriminating ability of Raman spectroscopy depends on the fiber type, color, and the laser wavelength.

The Importance of Graduates for the Scottish Economy: A “Micro-to-Macro” Approach

There have been numerous attempts to assess the overall impact of Higher Education Institutions on regional economies in the UK and elsewhere. There are two disparate approaches focussing on: demand-side effects of HEIs, exerted through universities’ expenditures within the local economy; HEIs’ contribution to the “knowledge economy”. However, neither approach seeks to measure the impact on regional economies that HEIs exert through the enhanced productivity of their graduates. We address this lacuna and explore the system-wide impact of the graduates on the regional economy. An extensive and sophisticated literature suggests that graduates enjoy a significant wage premium, often interpreted as reflecting their greater productivity relative to non-graduates. If this is so there is a clear and direct supply-side impact of HEI activities on regional economies through the employment of their graduates. However, there is some dispute over the extent to which the graduate wage premium reflects innate abilities rather than the impact of higher education per se. We use an HEI-disaggregated computable general equilibrium model of Scotland to estimate the impact of the growing proportion of graduates in the Scottish labour force that is implied by the current participation rate and demographic change, taking the graduate wage premium in Scotland as an indicator of productivity enhancement. We conduct a range of sensitivity analyses to assess the robustness of our results. While the detailed results do, of course, vary with alternative assumptions about future graduate retention rates and the size of the graduate wage premium, for example, they do suggest that the long-term supply-side impacts of HEIs provide a significant boost to regional GDP. Furthermore, the results suggest that the supply-side impacts of HEIs are likely to be more important than the expenditure impacts that are the focus of most “impact” studies.

The effects of agglomeration on wages: evidence from the micro-level

This paper estimates individual wage equations in order to test two rival non-nested theories of economic agglomeration, namely New Economic Geography (NEG), as represented by the NEG wage equation and urban economic (UE) theory , in which wages relate to employment density. The paper makes an original contribution by evidently being the first empirical paper to examine the issue of agglomeration processes associated with contemporary theory working with micro-level data, highlighting the role of gender and other individual-level characteristics. For male respondents, there is no significant evidence that wage levels are an outcome of the mechanisms suggested by NEG or UE theory, but this is not the case for female respondents. We speculate on the reasons for the gender difference.