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Resistance is futile: taming the beasts of antibiotic resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
(2019)Tuberculosis (TB) has been declared a global public health emergency more than a quarter of a century ago and while significant progress has been made to reduce the mortality and infection rates, there is still a long way to go to the ultimate goal of eradicating TB. While we have efficient treatment regimens, even the shortest regimen for fully drug-sensitive TB is already 6 months long. This regimen, while effective at treating ...Doctoral Thesis -
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Forest Structure Characterization from SAR Tomography
(2019)Forests cover about 30 % of the Earth's land surface. They are an important element of the carbon and water cycle as they can act as both sinks and sources. As a result, they can influence the local and global climate. At the same time, forests are an important economic factor as they provide wood and food, and of high ecological importance as they provide habitat for numerous plants and animals. Due to its importance, the mapping, inventory ...Doctoral Thesis -
Photochemical Processes of Natural and Anthropogenic Contaminants Relevant to the Environment
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Semantic Segmentation and Mapping for Natural Environments
(2019)Research on reconstruction of objects and environments in three dimensions has made great progress over the past decade. Applications such as building maps of environments, creating 3D models for robot manipulation, and generating digital content for use in movies, games and virtual environments all benefit from techniques that can reconstruct objects with high fidelity and accuracy. Robustness of the reconstruction pipeline can be improved ...Doctoral Thesis -
Solid-State NMR Studies of Large Protein Assemblies
(2019)Amongst other applications, solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy can provide atomic-resolution data for the determination of protein structures and dynamics. This is true in particular for protein assemblies that cannot be crystallised or are too large for solution-state NMR. While understanding the dynamics of a protein is of great importance for a full appreciation of its molecular machinery, this thesis has a focus ...Doctoral Thesis -
Cardinal Characteristics of the Continuum Based on Asymptotic Density
(2019)A cardinal characteristic of the continuum is a cardinal number strictly greater than the cardinality of the natural numbers, and less than the cardinality of the continuum (i. e. the real numbers). In general, we are only interested in those cardinal characteristics of the continuum that consistently are strictly less than the continuum. Asymptotic density is a concept from number theory used to describe how large certain subsets ...Doctoral Thesis