University of Augsburg

Persistent Street Network and Changing Tourism-Related Functional Space: A Case Study of Pingyao, China, 2009–2023

The rise of tourism in historical cities has become a widely observed global phenomenon. As both urban heritage and channels of movement, streets influence the spatial distribution of tourism-related functions. It is important to understand how this influence has evolved over tim...

A data-driven approach to forecasting end-of-life photovoltaic module waste

Photovoltaic (PV) technology is central to the transition towards net-zero energy systems. Today’s deployment, however, translates into a growing wave of electronic waste once modules reach end of life. Robust projections of future waste streams are therefore critical for the tim...

Characterizing lightning NO x production in the Ebro Valley with meteosat 12 LI and LMA observations

Abstract. Lightning is one of the main sources of NOₓ in the Earth’s atmosphere, yet there is considerable variability in NOₓ production during thunderstorms. In this study, we combined optical lightning data from the Meteosat Third Generation (MTG) Lightning Imaging (LI) instrum...

Digital Anti-Forensics Research: The Next 10 Years

Anti-forensics refers to techniques designed to obstruct forensic analysis. While such methods are increasingly used by cybercriminals, they also provide valuable insights for researchers by revealing weaknesses in forensic tools and thereby contributing to their robustness. Desp...

The effects of ICAP learning activities on learning outcomes

Background The Interactive-Constructive-Active-Passive (ICAP) framework makes assumptions about the relationships between observable types of learning activities (passive, active, constructive, interactive), cognitive processes, and learning outcomes. Yet, rigorous empirical stud...

Quantum Sampling and Moment Estimation for Transformed Gaussian Random Fields

Abstract. We present a quantum algorithm for efficiently sampling transformed Gaussian random fields in [Formula: see text]-dimensional domains, based on an enhanced version of the classical moving average method. Pointwise transformations enforcing boundedness are essential for...

Buying big numbers: Users’ experiences with purchased followers, views, and likes

Abstract This paper investigates how discourses surrounding the purchase of followers are constructed and how they shape social legitimacy within platform-mediated public spheres. Purchased engagement metrics are conceptualized as elements of a sociotechnical dispositif embedded...

Outcomes of front-line tagraxofusp in patients with blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN) in a real-world scenario

Abstract Tagraxofusp (TAG), a CD123-directed protein-drug conjugate, is approved in front-line and relapsed/refractory blastic plasmacytoid dendritic cell neoplasm (BPDCN). Multicenter real-world outcomes and the contribution of up-front consolidation post-TAG remain less defined...

Ideathons as anti-oppressive social work pedagogy: a case study with counternarrative

Anti-oppressive practice is central to social work, yet social work education offers limited opportunities for students to negotiate power and practice collective responses to structural oppression. This qualitative case study examined participants’ experiences of the Digital Jus...

Should I drink water or wine? Impacts of online nutritional counseling on the alcohol consumption of elderly individuals with mild cognitive impairment

Abstract Background People with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) have an increased health risk when they consume alcohol in comparison with people without cognitive impairment. Excessive alcohol consumption is an established modifiable risk factor that contributes to the risk of d...

The WoKaS-Iso database: workflow for a global compilation of oxygen-18 and deuterium records in karst springs and cave drip water for enhanced understanding of karst systems

For analysing karst hydrogeological systems, observations of karst springs and cave drips are considered indispensable. In addition to hydrometric observations, knowing the oxygen and hydrogen stable isotope ratios has improved the understanding of vadose zone and aquifer dynamic...

Symmetric spaces with rectangular unit lattices, revisited

In this paper we study compact Riemannian symmetric spaces whose maximal tori are as simple as possible: metric products of circles. In particular, using representation theory, we construct explicitly an isometric embedding of such spaces $X$ into Euclidean space with the propert...

SEDCoT: Enhancing LLM-Based COBOL Code Translation via Symbolic Execution and Delta Debugging

COBOL remains critical across banking, insurance, and government infrastructure. However, maintenance is increasingly challenging due to outdated technologies, sparse documentation, and developer retirement, necessitating code translation into modern languages like C. Traditional...

Positive scalar curvature with point singularities

We show that in every dimension n≥8, there exists a smooth closed manifold Mn that does not admit a smooth positive scalar curvature (psc) metric, but M admits an L∞-metric that is smooth and has psc outside a singular set of codimension ≥8. This provides counterexamples to a con...

Diagnosing autoimmune encephalitis in psychiatry: clinical recommendations and unresolved challenges from the GENERATE network

Psychiatric syndromes can be caused by underlying autoimmune encephalitis (AE). This represents a diagnostic challenge at the interface of psychiatry and neurology. While AE mostly manifests with a combined, complex neuropsychiatric syndrome, some patients with AE may (initially)...

Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex

Imagine a plate of brown bread and wheat mush, devoid of any spices or joy – food that is neither sexy nor queer. That was the ideal diet prescribed in Anglo-Victorian Britain and the US for the ro...

Borosulfates Hosting Se 4 2+ Ions—Crystal Structures, Chemical Bonding, Optical Spectroscopy, and Magnetism

ABSTRACT Despite consistent growth in the number of compounds known to host homo‐ and hetero polycations of group 16 elements, only two, Se 4 [HS 2 O 7 ] 2 and Se 4 [S 4 O 13 ], provided an exclusively oxidic coordination environment, the former being the first structural charact...

Beyond the Static Approximation: Assessing the Impact of Conformational and Kinetic Broadening on the Description of TADF Emitters

Abstract Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) is a promising route toward high-efficiency, metal-free organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). However, the characterization of TADF kinetics in solid-state thin films is often complicated by pronounced multiexponential pho...

Seasonal influenza vaccination coverage and population health burden in Europe during the 2019/2020 and 2021/2022 influenza seasons: an ecological panel analysis using principal-component-adjusted multivariable regression

Background Few studies have examined whether country-level seasonal influenza vaccination coverage is associated with population health burden. We assessed the associations of influenza vaccination coverage with all-cause mortality and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) acros...

The road ahead: How the future of learning is shaped through individual differences

The future of learning is often framed through technological change. Here, we show that these developments do not replace, but emphasize, long-standing questions in educational psychology, concerning why learners benefit differently from the same opportunities, how learning envir...