iv CHAPTER 1 – THESIS ORGANIZATION AND LITERATURE REVIEW 1 Thesis Organization 1 Abstract 1 Background Entry and detection of antibiotics in the environment 2 Movement and transport of erythromycin in the environment 5 Effects of antibiotics on organisms 8 Potential for the development of bacterial resistance in the environment 10 Problem formulation and research objectives 10 References 12 Fig...

Acknowledgements First of all, I would like to thank Lutz Kettner for supervising my thesis. In countless and fruitful discussions, he has delivered invaluable insight into the field of computational geometry and gave valuable feedback to my practical work, whenever it was required. Without him, this thesis would not have been possible in this form. Hachenberger for their self-sacrifying proof ...

2 Acknowledgements I would like to thank my advisor, Karen Faulk, for all her help throughout the process of researching, writing, and refining this thesis. This project would not have been possible without her guidance and patience, and I am incredibly grateful she has been my advisor and mentor over the last year. I would also like to thank the History Department and the Global Studies facult...

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This thesis argues for the need to examine the user experience in video game play using the setting and methods of interactive art. It proposes to investigate the field of game art from a user perspective by situating it at the intersections of art, games and interactive media. It then gives a thorough depiction of the accompanying thesis project MOVE, an installation using computer vision and ...

The Office of Graduate Studies has verified and approved the above named committee members. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my thesis advisor Dr. Simon Foo for his constant guidance and advice. I would also like to thank him for being my advisor during the course of my degree. I would like to thank Dr. Uwe Meyer-Baese for his encouragement and support during the research. I am gratef...

Acknowledgements The research presented in this thesis is motivated by a joint project of T-Systems Nova GmbH Technologiezentrum and the Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin, financed by Deutsches Forschungsnetz e.V. Working on this project was very instructive for me. The cooperation with Jörg Rambau, Diana Poensgen and Sven O. Krumke was very pleasant. I wish to thank them for t...

Statement Hereby I confirm that this thesis is my own work and that I have documented all sources used. Herewith I agree that my thesis will be made available through the library of the Com-2 Acknowledgements I want to thank the following people who made this work possible: Prof. Joachim Weickert for accepting my proposal as the topic of my Master's Thesis. Prof. Andrés Bruhn for again agreeing...

2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank our thesis advisor Benny Sällberg (phd student) for providing us with the opportunity to work over the past six months in the Signal Processing Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering. We thank him for the guidance he has provided and the confidence he has shown in our work. We also thank him for the spontaneous replies from him when we had que...

We study the predictability of geometric concepts, in particular those de ned by boolean combinations of simple geometric objects. First, we give a negative result, showing that the problem of predicting the class of convex polytopes encoded by listing their vertices is prediction complete for P . Thus, an e cient solution to this prediction problem implies the existence of e cient solutions to...