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Socio-Economic Impact Anomalies of River Flood According to El Niño Southern Oscillation in East Australia
(2024)River floods are among the most frequent natural disasters, causing significant damages. Due to climate change and socio-economic development, river flood impact risk is projected to increase in the future. The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the Earth’s prominent inter-annual climate variability, seems to influence the risk of socio-economic river flood impacts. This thesis uses a new river flood model to confirm the links that ...Master Thesis -
Heatwave and Drought Adaptation to Enhance Health and Livelihood Resilience in Kenya - A Policy Review
(2024)Climate change poses substantial threats to the resilience and wellbeing of people in Kenya, especially concerning their health and livelihoods. Recognizing its vulnerability to climate change, Kenya underscores the critical importance of adaptation and resilience as primary responses to climate change. Recent developments such as the new medium term climate adaptation plans published in 2023 have reshaped climate adaptation planning in ...Master Thesis -
Increasing CCRIF's Risk Diversification under Climate Change: Strengthening Disaster Risk Financing Efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean
(2024)Risk disaster financing efforts are an important pillar for building resilience in the aftermath of an event to reduce macro-economic effects on a country’s economy through pre-agreed financial arrange- ments (Bollmann Andreas & Wang Shaun S., 2019). Moving from ex-post to ex-ante financial instru- ments the certainty on the amount of money and time delivered is increased which can positively in- fluence the recovery of a country (World ...Master Thesis -
Advanced Biomolecular Controllers for Inflammation Regulation in Mammalian Systems
(2024)Homeostasis, a critical physiological process, enables living organisms to sustain stable internal environments, thereby ensuring their survival and optimal functioning amidst fluctuating external conditions. At its core, this dynamic equilibrium is crucially governed by the immune system, which deploys an extensive array of cellular and molecular entities to safeguard the organism from pathogenic threats, while concurrently maintaining ...Doctoral Thesis -
Vivianite formation and transformation processes in intertidal sediments and the influence of isomorphic substitution
(2024)Phosphorus (P) is an essential nutrient for primary production, yet excessive concentrations can lead to eutrophication in aquatic ecosystems. The chemical form in which P is associated within sediments impacts its bioavailability. Under reducing, non-sulfidic conditions, the ferrous phosphate mineral vivianite can play a substantial role in P sequestration in coastal sediments, positively affecting water quality. Despite vivianite's ...Doctoral Thesis -
A new system of wearables and nearables to monitor sleep: from the lab to real-world application
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Stabilization of Colloidal Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals by Solid-Phase Ion Engineering
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Effects of endosymbionts on aphid vectors: Implications for plant virus transmission and ecology
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The role of mammalian inner nuclear membrane proteins in heterochromatin tethering
(2024)Doctoral Thesis