The first attempts at synthetizing the diversity of Brazilian rock art sites and the spread of graphic similarities envolved a certain amount of environmental determinism and traditionalism. We propose an agent-based ...

Since the first detection of a circumbinary planet with the Kepler space telescope in 2011 nine more circumbinary planets have been discovered. All these circumbinary Kepler systems have two things in common: First they ...

This thesis studies the dynamics of dust and planets in turbulent accretion disks. As source for the turbulence in the disk the vertical shear instability (VSI) was investigated, a hydrodynamic instability with a unique ...

Proteins are molecular machines crucial for the function of living cells. Some proteins occur in the cell membrane, whilst others, in particular globular proteins, occur freely in the extra- and intracellular environment. ...