@phdthesis{Arkarapotiwong,
  author    = {Arkarapotiwong, Piyadech},
  title     = {THE INVESTIGATION OF LIVING HERITAGE ATTRIBUTES IN LIVING HERITAGE SITES},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2408},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20150619-24086},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {303},
  abstract  = {The conservation of living heritage sites is a highly complex process. Two factors need careful consideration in order to achieve a balance in the management of such sites: the conservation demands of conservation experts for built heritage and the needs of local people for development of their heritage living space. The complexity of factors involved make for an interesting study of living heritage, taken up by this research in its main case study of the town of Nan in Thailand. Research into the historical background of Nan and its cultural heritage reveals a living heritage site, which is both unique and diverse. Present day Nan was examined using a variety of analysis tools, which were applied to data from interviews, empirical data, field surveys, and documents, in order to better understand the nature of the living heritage site and changing trends over time. Luang Prabang in Lao PDR, a World Heritage site since 1995, was also selected as a further case study with which to compare Nan's potential World Heritage status from a point of view of changes to living heritage attributes. The outcomes of the research indicate the importance of the management of the sites, which can be at risk of losing balance by focusing on one aspect of heritage to the detriment of the other. The conservation perspective, if allowed to dominate, as in Luang Prabang, can cause irreparable damage to the social fabric, where the development needs of the town are not met. This research concludes that a balance of power amongst stakeholders in the collaborative networks managing such sites is vital to sustaining a balance of living heritage attributes.},
  subject      = {Kulturerbe},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Aurin,
  author    = {Aurin, Ingo},
  title     = {Spurencodierung und Ber{\"u}hrungsmessung},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2397},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20150526-23975},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {148},
  abstract  = {In der vorliegenden Ph.D.-Arbeit werden die Bereiche Materialit{\"a}t, Objektkultur und Physical Computing adressiert. Der Autor erkennt nun durch die durchlaufene intensive theoretische Betrachtungsweise des Themas Materialit{\"a}t die Bedeutung von Tastsinn und Objektoberfl{\"a}chen f{\"u}r den Alltag des praktizierenden Gestalters und proklamiert eine Wende und Hinwendung der Designpraxis zu den Potenzialen von Materialit{\"a}t und deren Bedeutung f{\"u}r die Akteure. Die Aufgabe der Praxisforschung ist es, eine inklusive Optimierungsmethode des Produktdesigns zu gestalten, mit der Designentwicklungen durch {\"u}berpr{\"u}fbare Nutzungsdaten optimiert werden k{\"o}nnen. Die taktile Pilotmethode ergab auf Basis der Generierung von Nutzerkarten Erkenntnisse {\"u}ber biometrische Werte, individuelle K{\"o}rpergr{\"o}ßen und unterschiedliche Handhabungsprinzipien.},
  subject      = {Materialit{\"a}t},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Budarapu,
  author    = {Budarapu, Pattabhi Ramaiah},
  title     = {Adaptive multiscale methods for fracture},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2391},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20150507-23918},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  abstract  = {One major research focus in the Material Science and Engineering Community in the past decade has been to obtain a more fundamental understanding on the phenomenon 'material failure'. Such an understanding is critical for engineers and scientists developing new materials with higher strength and toughness, developing robust designs against failure, or for those concerned with an accurate estimate of a component's design life. Defects like cracks and dislocations evolve at nano scales and influence the macroscopic properties such as strength, toughness and ductility of a material. In engineering applications, the global response of the system is often governed by the behaviour at the smaller length scales. Hence, the sub-scale behaviour must be computed accurately for good predictions of the full scale behaviour. Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations promise to reveal the fundamental mechanics of material failure by modeling the atom to atom interactions. Since the atomistic dimensions are of the order of Angstroms ( A), approximately 85 billion atoms are required to model a 1 micro- m^3 volume of Copper. Therefore, pure atomistic models are prohibitively expensive with everyday engineering computations involving macroscopic cracks and shear bands, which are much larger than the atomistic length and time scales. To reduce the computational effort, multiscale methods are required, which are able to couple a continuum description of the structure with an atomistic description. In such paradigms, cracks and dislocations are explicitly modeled at the atomistic scale, whilst a self-consistent continuum model elsewhere. Many multiscale methods for fracture are developed for "fictitious" materials based on "simple" potentials such as the Lennard-Jones potential. Moreover, multiscale methods for evolving cracks are rare. Efficient methods to coarse grain the fine scale defects are missing. However, the existing multiscale methods for fracture do not adaptively adjust the fine scale domain as the crack propagates. Most methods, therefore only "enlarge" the fine scale domain and therefore drastically increase computational cost. Adaptive adjustment requires the fine scale domain to be refined and coarsened. One of the major difficulties in multiscale methods for fracture is to up-scale fracture related material information from the fine scale to the coarse scale, in particular for complex crack problems. Most of the existing approaches therefore were applied to examples with comparatively few macroscopic cracks. Key contributions The bridging scale method is enhanced using the phantom node method so that cracks can be modeled at the coarse scale. To ensure self-consistency in the bulk, a virtual atom cluster is devised providing the response of the intact material at the coarse scale. A molecular statics model is employed in the fine scale where crack propagation is modeled by naturally breaking the bonds. The fine scale and coarse scale models are coupled by enforcing the displacement boundary conditions on the ghost atoms. An energy criterion is used to detect the crack tip location. Adaptive refinement and coarsening schemes are developed and implemented during the crack propagation. The results were observed to be in excellent agreement with the pure atomistic simulations. The developed multiscale method is one of the first adaptive multiscale method for fracture. A robust and simple three dimensional coarse graining technique to convert a given atomistic region into an equivalent coarse region, in the context of multiscale fracture has been developed. The developed method is the first of its kind. The developed coarse graining technique can be applied to identify and upscale the defects like: cracks, dislocations and shear bands. The current method has been applied to estimate the equivalent coarse scale models of several complex fracture patterns arrived from the pure atomistic simulations. The upscaled fracture pattern agree well with the actual fracture pattern. The error in the potential energy of the pure atomistic and the coarse grained model was observed to be acceptable. A first novel meshless adaptive multiscale method for fracture has been developed. The phantom node method is replaced by a meshless differential reproducing kernel particle method. The differential reproducing kernel particle method is comparatively more expensive but allows for a more "natural" coupling between the two scales due to the meshless interpolation functions. The higher order continuity is also beneficial. The centro symmetry parameter is used to detect the crack tip location. The developed multiscale method is employed to study the complex crack propagation. Results based on the meshless adaptive multiscale method were observed to be in excellent agreement with the pure atomistic simulations. The developed multiscale methods are applied to study the fracture in practical materials like Graphene and Graphene on Silicon surface. The bond stretching and the bond reorientation were observed to be the net mechanisms of the crack growth in Graphene. The influence of time step on the crack propagation was studied using two different time steps. Pure atomistic simulations of fracture in Graphene on Silicon surface are presented. Details of the three dimensional multiscale method to study the fracture in Graphene on Silicon surface are discussed.},
  subject      = {Material},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{CamposMedina,
  author    = {Campos Medina, Fernando},
  title     = {The Role of Individuals in Socio-Urban Exclusion : A case study on the School Institution in Santiago de Chile},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2388},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20150505-23888},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {184},
  abstract  = {This is a work concerned with the increasing processes of social exclusion in cities nowadays. In approaching this phenomenon, the research highlights how people interact with their institutional environments. This is also, perhaps centrally, an investigation into the possibility to engage an individual perspective to understand the transformation in urban experience, which is orienting society to new uses and forms of exclusion. Following the perspective deployed by the so-called "sociology of individuals" in French sociology or "reengagement of agency" in the Anglo-Saxon world; I claim that individuals as well as collectives are gaining increasing power to question and re-organize institutions. This re-organization, in the case of socio-urban institutions, is no guarantee for major levels in integration, cohesion, and equality. Unfortunately, social institutions are becoming hard in its exclusionary capabilities under people intervention during the last four decades. I believe that urban sociology is a field of struggle between different perspectives competing to "make sense" of social phenomena in cities. The orientation supported in this research is just one on many and it follows the roots of people and their life experiences within cities and how they influence the processes that shape the city. The last formulation is possibly not the clearest, because as we all know, references to "inhabitants" are presented in every variant of urban sociology. Nevertheless, there are not many variants focusing on peoples' capability to influence institutional environments and by this way affecting the urban condition in which they find themselves. The particular institution selected for this study is the "School". This thesis is organized around two parts: part one includes the conceptual framework, methodological approach, and historical contextualization; part two describes three case studies produced to analyse the forms of and the relations between individuals and school institution. Part one starts from a premise: within the context of declining welfare State in the case of industrialized countries, an important part of urban studies focuses on economic and spatial restructuration. Confronted with the same situation, a part of social sciences shifts to the individuals' agency and social uncertainty. This research is embedded in the last theoretical description presented above, thus, because it tries to observe urban processes from the perspective of the individual and outside of developed economies. In this sense, Latin America represents a fundamental reference because urban conditions are historically marked by weak institutional arrangements to integrating people and large levels of marginality and exclusion among population. In this scenario individuals' practices around inclusion-exclusion have an essential meaning in everyday life. Part two offers three study cases in which the relation between individuals and school institutions has been analyzed for the Metropolitan area of Santiago de Chile (MAS). Using different methodological resources an exhaustive account on three levels is presented: i) geo-referencing State intervention in public policies connected with neighborhood and schools to understand the form and extent of socio-urban exclusion in MAS, ii) narrative biographies applied to parents with children attending primary school, in order to reconstruct the familiar process of school selection and describing its impacts on the stabilization of school as an exclusionary device, and iii) autoethnography to describe in detail the temporal dimension involved in stabilizing actions which reinforces social mechanisms of urban integration-exclusion during the last three decades in Chile. A key argument advanced by this research proposes that: the way in which the idea of integration is enacted by people in their biographical careers imprints changes on the institutional orientation and by this way, contributes to the reorganization urban life. The high level of social exclusion in Santiago de Chile is not accountable without considering transformation in all socio-urban institutions, especially the school. No family considers social integration with people from a low social, economical or cultural background as relevant orientation for school selection. This particularity of the Chilean social reality is not derivable from any big capitalistic or modernization processes impacting our cities. Within the light of the thesis findings, I conclude that socio-urban institutions logics must be reassessment under the influences of people actions and representations. I also propose a consideration to major complementarities between urban studies and urban-institutions analysis. The school institutions is not just a sectorial field reserved to the researcher in education, on the contrary, it represent a key entrance to address people's experience in their institutional urban environments. The re-emergence of social and urban movements in 2010, under the "Arab Spring" or the "Chilean Student Movements", is not only a demonstration in the public space as result of major global trends. These situations are in essence, for this research, individuals gathering together and calling for recognition and autonomy inside institutional environment that tends to reject them. Similar situation was the focus of the Latin American urban sociology research, within the focus on grassroots and urban social movements at the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 1970s. In both cases, socio-urban institutions, unaware of recognition requirements claimed by inhabitants, are not beyond individual or collective reach. My main concern is to show that socio-urban institutions are constantly re-shaped as a result of individual action, what makes the difference, is the spirit that we all, socially, imprint on the logics of our socio-urban institutions, moving them to inclusion or exclusion.},
  subject      = {urban studies},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Che,
  author    = {Che, Fei},
  title     = {The Socio-spatial transition of Beijing, in between communal space and associative space},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2436},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20150721-24368},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {290},
  abstract  = {Abstract In this research, based on socio-spatiality as the starting point, it has conducted extensive city space analysis to advance a new urban social space theory. Resting upon the basis of traditional continent philosophy, this social space theory has adopted the structuration methods, at the same time trying to build certain combination between theoretical frame work establishment and empirical observations. Therefore, the socio-spatial transition study is neither a macro theory of traditional structuralism nor a typology of urban planning theory, or a positivism social geography, but an operative theory on practical purpose. Firstly, what's distinct from the traditional structuralism is that this study examines the endless transiting structural relations, not macroscopic narrations of absolute definition and structure. In fact, any city and space are always co-existed in their structurational transiting relationship, thus research in transition has become the main body of this study. And case study is a must for research in transition, as part of efforts to apply the structuration concept into practice reason. Secondly, this study first establishes the fundamental structuration concept of socio-spatial transition, which, as an operative tool, is applied to conduct transition analysis on specific case about the City of Beijing. Therefore, as a social space theory, referring to as science, remains criticism of traditional continent philosophy. However, this criticism did not working on the level of ideology or conceptions, but on transiting under structural relations, keeping it from incompetent ideology criticism of continental critical theory. Unfortunately contemporary urban and space development have now gone extremely unbalanced under a background of globalization; yet traditional macro theories are incapable of either producing significant impact on practice or helping people identify practical problems. While facing general issues, particularly the Chinese urban issue category established on a meta-structured city mode, the micro-case study has plunged into dilemma for unknowing either to ask questions or to answer questions. Therefore, this study is set to identify dilemma and find direction for future relevant research. In this dissertation, Beijing is used as a model, and structuration methods as tools. It has extensively analyzed the social-spatial transition of the city space of Beijing, acquiring brand-new knowledge of its urban space development. It is helpful to an in-depth understanding of the city space development not only in Beijing, but also in many other cities that were influenced by the capital model of Beijing. Since the start of reform and opening-up, China has created a unique development mode of the new-styled metropolitan and urbanization in history. This research is expected to analyze or decode what China's urban development in between communal space and associative space.},
  subject      = {Stadtsoziologie},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Chen,
  author    = {Chen, Hsi-Jen},
  title     = {Kulturelle Unterschiede bei der Nutzung von Smartphones in Deutschland, China und Taiwan},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2351},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20150223-23517},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {230},
  abstract  = {Theoretischer Teil: Durch den Vergleich der Daten, die sowohl von den Instituten bzw. Statistikunternehmen z. B. Google, Bundesnetzagentur und Statista in Deutschland, 中国互联网络信息中心 in China, FIND in Taiwan usw. zur Verf{\"u}gung gestellt wurden, als auch durch die von mir durchgef{\"u}hrten Umfragen in den jeweiligen L{\"a}ndern, sowie durch die Interviews in Weimar, zeigen sich die kulturellen Unterschiede sowie die Gemeinsamkeiten bei der Nutzung des Smartphones. Dar{\"u}ber hinaus ergaben sich noch einige Konsequenzen bei den Interpretationen dieser Ergebnisse, die eng mit der Entstehung der kulturellen Unterschiede zusammenh{\"a}ngen. Praktischer Teil: Der erste Entwurf ist eine visuelle Tastatur. Um die Bildschirmtastatur zu verbessern, versucht type right ! (der Name meines Entwurfs) das Problem von Vertippen beim Eingeben zu l{\"o}sen. type right ! hat zwei Schwerpunkte: 1. ge{\"a}nderte Positionen der Buchstaben und Zeichen und 2. ge{\"a}nderte Form der Taste. Der zweite Entwurf handelt von einem Konzept einer App f{\"u}r die Integrationsm{\"o}glichkeit der Kommunikation.},
  subject      = {Smartphone},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Chen,
  author    = {Chen, Pu},
  title     = {Die Reise der Zeichen - Eine Studie zur symbolischen Bildwelt der Xiy{\"u}-Kultur an der Seidenstraße},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2355},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20150225-23553},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {281},
  abstract  = {The present study focuses on the traditional visual Xiyu-Signs of various ethnic groups with the example of Xinjiang in northwest China, along the ancient path of the Silk Road. The research should be understood as an experiment to a systematic presentation of the symbolic visual world in Xinjiang and therefore in a broader sense as an experiment to preserve the endangered Xiyu-Cultural Heritage. Due to the profound change in China and the Go-West-Strategy of China's economic programme an efficient way must be found to bring modernization and tradition in harmony. This study describes, analyses and evaluates exemplarily, how signs and symbols of knowledge and culture have been mixed between eastern and western cultures along the Silk Road in Xinjiang. It displays how they have been transferred and how far the Xiyu-Culture reflects, that Xinjiang was a meeting point of eastern and western cultures. In the process of my research three main questions arose: Firstly, what can the experience model of the ancient Silk Road contribute to the understanding of cultural development in today's information age? Secondly, what does cultural diversity mean for communication in Xinjiang? Is there an increase of media technology in the field of visual communication because of international influences? Thirdly, how can Xinjiang benefit from the opportunities given by the Go-West-Strategy of China's economic programme in an increasingly globalized world and find a balance between culture and economic prosperity? Therefore, this study uses a method that integrates a cultural-anthropological perspective. Characteristics of the traditional visual Xiyu-Signs, their significance for the ethnic groups in Xinjiang and cultural exchanges between Europe and Asia are discussed based on a field work, and the particular influence of trade and transport routes is presented. The visual signs of the Xiyu-Culture are shown from the time before the Islamization to today's Islamic period. The research shows that the signs are not place-bound cultural phenomena or local tradition; they are rather influenced by regional, national and international cultures consciously or unconsciously. They are a result of cultural communication. Finally the signs of Xiyu-Culture of Xinjiang are thoroughly researched with the Go-West-Strategy of the Chinese government. Economic development brings to Xinjiang not only modernization and prosperity, but also a cultural and ecological imbalance. Mankind formed everything into structure, what he perceives around him, with signs. The Xiyu-Signs create a visual structure. The Xiyu-Culture still has influence on the lifestyle of the ethnic groups in Xinjiang. Today, the confrontation between the traditional Xiyu-Culture and economic development has led to a serious conflict in Xinjiang. This study is a critical interpretation of the current situation of Xiyu-Culture and the Chinese economic program in Xinjiang. It also contributes to the analysis of the hitherto insufficiently recognized interactions between history, culture, politics and economics of cultural globalization in Xinjiang.},
  subject      = {Seidenstraße},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Elzanowski,
  author    = {Elzanowski, Jerzy},
  title     = {Ruin conversions : violence, architecture and commemoration in post-1944 Warsaw},
  doi       = {10.14288/1.0166955},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  abstract  = {Promotion an der Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar (Dr. phil.) und zugleich PhD an der University of British Columbia Vancouver. 2015 auf dem Server der University of British Columbia mit Embargo ver{\"o}ffentlicht. Das Embargo wird immer wieder verl{\"a}ngert. Aktuell: This item is embargoed until 2026-06-30, you need to request access to be able to view the item's media before that date.},
  subject      = {Umwandlung},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Forler,
  author    = {Forler, Christian},
  title     = {Analysis Design \& Applications of Cryptographic Building Blocks},
  publisher = {Shaker Verlag},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2376},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20150330-23764},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {213},
  abstract  = {This thesis deals with the basic design and rigorous analysis of cryptographic schemes and primitives, especially of authenticated encryption schemes, hash functions, and password-hashing schemes. In the last decade, security issues such as the PS3 jailbreak demonstrate that common security notions are rather restrictive, and it seems that they do not model the real world adequately. As a result, in the first part of this work, we introduce a less restrictive security model that is closer to reality. In this model it turned out that existing (on-line) authenticated encryption schemes cannot longer beconsidered secure, i.e. they can guarantee neither data privacy nor data integrity. Therefore, we present two novel authenticated encryption scheme, namely COFFE and McOE, which are not only secure in the standard model but also reasonably secure in our generalized security model, i.e. both preserve full data inegrity. In addition, McOE preserves a resonable level of data privacy. The second part of this thesis starts with proposing the hash function Twister-Pi, a revised version of the accepted SHA-3 candidate Twister. We not only fixed all known security issues of Twister, but also increased the overall soundness of our hash-function design. Furthermore, we present some fundamental groundwork in the area of password-hashing schemes. This research was mainly inspired by the medial omnipresence of password-leakage incidences. We show that the password-hashing scheme scrypt is vulnerable against cache-timing attacks due to the existence of a password-dependent memory-access pattern. Finally, we introduce Catena the first password-hashing scheme that is both memory-consuming and resistant against cache-timing attacks.},
  subject      = {Kryptologie},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Jia,
  author    = {Jia, Yue},
  title     = {Methods based on B-splines for model representation, numerical analysis and image registration},
  doi       = {10.25643/bauhaus-universitaet.2484},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20151210-24849},
  school      = {Bauhaus-Universit{\"a}t Weimar},
  pages     = {200},
  abstract  = {The thesis consists of inter-connected parts for modeling and analysis using newly developed isogeometric methods. The main parts are reproducing kernel triangular B-splines, extended isogeometric analysis for solving weakly discontinuous problems, collocation methods using superconvergent points, and B-spline basis in image registration applications. Each topic is oriented towards application of isogeometric analysis basis functions to ease the process of integrating the modeling and analysis phases of simulation. First, we develop reproducing a kernel triangular B-spline-based FEM for solving PDEs. We review the triangular B-splines and their properties. By definition, the triangular basis function is very flexible in modeling complicated domains. However, instability results when it is applied for analysis. We modify the triangular B-spline by a reproducing kernel technique, calculating a correction term for the triangular kernel function from the chosen surrounding basis. The improved triangular basis is capable to obtain the results with higher accuracy and almost optimal convergence rates. Second, we propose an extended isogeometric analysis for dealing with weakly discontinuous problems such as material interfaces. The original IGA is combined with XFEM-like enrichments which are continuous functions themselves but with discontinuous derivatives. Consequently, the resulting solution space can approximate solutions with weak discontinuities. The method is also applied to curved material interfaces, where the inverse mapping and the curved triangular elements are considered. Third, we develop an IGA collocation method using superconvergent points. The collocation methods are efficient because no numerical integration is needed. In particular when higher polynomial basis applied, the method has a lower computational cost than Galerkin methods. However, the positions of the collocation points are crucial for the accuracy of the method, as they affect the convergent rate significantly. The proposed IGA collocation method uses superconvergent points instead of the traditional Greville abscissae points. The numerical results show the proposed method can have better accuracy and optimal convergence rates, while the traditional IGA collocation has optimal convergence only for even polynomial degrees. Lastly, we propose a novel dynamic multilevel technique for handling image registration. It is application of the B-spline functions in image processing. The procedure considered aims to align a target image from a reference image by a spatial transformation. The method starts with an energy function which is the same as a FEM-based image registration. However, we simplify the solving procedure, working on the energy function directly. We dynamically solve for control points which are coefficients of B-spline basis functions. The new approach is more simple and fast. Moreover, it is also enhanced by a multilevel technique in order to prevent instabilities. The numerical testing consists of two artificial images, four real bio-medical MRI brain and CT heart images, and they show our registration method is accurate, fast and efficient, especially for large deformation problems.},
  subject      = {Finite-Elemente-Methode},
  language  = {en}
}