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Collaborative project: Enhancing local food security and nutrition through promoting the use of Baobab (Adansonia digitata L.) in rural communities in Eastern Africa. Subproject 2 (Project)
.... - Hypothesis: Increased utilisation of baobab has an impact on the nutritional status of various community groups (e.g., women, children) in the study area. - Objectives: (a) determine nutritional status and the role of baobab in daily diets; (b) assess the impact of commercial baobab utilisation on nutritional status of various community groups; and (c) determine the impact of baobab as food on the nutrition and health status of selected households and schoolchildren. - Methods: Investigations on nutritional status, food culture, seasonality of nutrition, baobab availability, accessibility, utilisation, chemical and sensory characteristics, clinical and biochemical impacts. ...
Funding period: 2016 - 2019
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Nutrient discharge systems under brackish water conditions (Project)
...The aim of the project is the removal of dissolved and particulate waste products from the water of RAS with the following sub-projects: 1. Investigating how modified moving bed filter under the influence of brackish water, 2. ...
Funding period: 2012 - 2015
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Climate change and water balance in Saxony (part 2) (Project)
...Objectives: 1. Investigation of the fundamental impact of climate change on water catchments in Saxony (forecasts for the quantity / quality of surface water, soil and groundwater) and assessment of water catchment areas according to the vulnerability of their water resources to climate change 2. ...
Funding period: 2009 - 2010
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SFB 552: A4 - Socioeconomic analysis of land use systems of rural households (Project)
...Its research findings show that 20.6% of the households in the research area live on less than 1 US$ PPP capita-1 day-1. Poorer households have less access to credit markets and live in locations with poorer market and road infrastructure, where lower prices and higher price variability for cocoa are observed. The income activities of the poorest households are highly dependent on natural resources, i.e. use of forest products and conversion of forest land for agriculture, whereas the better-off households are particularly involved in activities outside the agricultural sector. ...
Funding period: 2007 - 2010
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Establishment of normal human neural progenitor cells as an in vitro screening model for the evaluation of the neurotoxic potential of chemicals (Project)
...The new EU Regulation on dealing with registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemical substances (REACH) entered into force of 1 June 2007. REACH demands the evaluation of the neurotoxic potential of chemicals which are produced with a volume > 1t. ...Additionally an in vitro test system provides better control of the experimental environment (e.g. local chemical concentration) as well as better observation and intervention possibilities on a cellular level (e.g. microscopy, micromanipulation) than animal experiments. ...The goal of this project is to evaluate if these cells are suited for the detection of neurotoxic threats to the adult nervous system.Therefore, neurospheres will be cultured for an extended time period (1-4 weeks). In these ?aging? cultures, we will (i) investigate if cells mature, (ii) establish endpoints which predict neurotoxicity and (iii) check for reliability of these endpoints by using selected and well know neurotoxins....
Funding period: 2007 - 2010
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Interspecies variability between man, rabbit and rat in function and structure of major xenobiotic transport proteins in the placenta (Project)
...According to OECD test guidelines 414 and 416 developmental toxicity studies are normally performed in animals, i.e. in rats or rabbits. In some cases the obtained data cannot be di-rectly transferred to the situation in humans (Newman et al., 1993) as there are major inter-species differences regarding the anatomy of the placenta as well as the expression of pro-teins involved in metabolism and transport of xenobiotics. ...Depend-ing on the localisation of transporters and direction of the transport (maternal - foetal oder foetal - maternal) the passage of a substance might either be facilitated or prevented/aggravated.Some proteins of the ABC transporter family are highly expressed in tissues that are either particular susceptible to damage by xenobiotics (e.g. brain, testis) or highly exposed (e.g. liver, kidneys) and seem to play a major role in the toxicokinetics e.g. in the blood-placenta passage.The expression of these ABC transporters in different species is an important criterion for the extrapolation from animal data to humans but only little research is done on this topic, esp. in the rabbit where the sequences of the ABC transporters Mdr1 (multidrug resistance 1) and Bcrp (breast cancer resistance protein) are not even known....
Funding period: 2009 - 2011
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Polyomaviruses in beef (Project)
...In the project, PCR methods for the detection of the bovine polyomaviruses 1 to 3 (BPyV1-3) were developed. Thereafter, 102 beef meat samples from Germany were analyzed using the developed methods. BPyV-1 was detected in only one of the samples, whereas BPyV2 and BPyV3 were not detected. ...
Funding period: 2015 - 2015
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Monitoring the stability of the anaerobic digestion process through CO2 partial pressure in the reactor slurry (Project)
...A novel method for stability monitoring of the AD process was developed from year-long applications of CO2 partial pressure (pCO2) measurement in the reactor slurry within the applicant's working group. The project "Monitoring of process stability in biogas reactors using CO2 partial pressure within the slurry” addresses the following aims: (1) Extensive tests for the relationship between pCO2 and currently used stability parameters such as volatile acids/alkalinity ratio (VFA/TIC), acid concentrations etc., (2) Extensive tests in full scale reactors especially in those with flexible feeding system, (3) comparative evaluation of commercially available pCO2 systems in terms of their use within the full-scale plant environment, (4) economical feasibility together with (5) system adaptation for a broad biogas market and finally (6) elaboration of pCO2 thresholds for optimal AD process. ...
Funding period: 2020 - 2022
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Export opportunities of animal welfare meat originated from Germany (Project)
...First, work package WP-1 presents the current state of knowledge. In work package WP-2 expert interviews provide an overview of the meat market in the respective countries which also help to give a first indication of consumer expectations. Based on the outcome of WP-1 and 2 work package 3 qualitatively examines consumer attitudes, preferences and willingness to pay with the help of focus group discussions. ...In work package 2 semi-structured expert interviews of the respective meat markets are carried out. ...
Funding period: 2019 - 2022
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Evaluation of the law to better protect the consumers against cost traps in electronic commerce - button solution (Project)
...The German lawmakers have reacted to this by adopting the Law for better consumer protection against cost traps in electronic commerce, which came into effect on August 1st 2012. In the context of this evaluation, resulting consequences of the new law are analyzed from a legal point of view and under special consideration of the practical implementation. To this end, four evaluation aspects, i.e. the degree of goal achievement, resulting costs, arising side effects and overall acceptance, are assessed in the scope of four evaluation steps: (1) scientific legal review, (2) four empirical studies concerning the practical implementation, (3) comprehensive data analysis and (4) legal assessment and recommendations for further actions. ...
Funding period: 2013 - 2014
