Publications by authors named "P Erhard"

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  • Impulsivity in eating is linked to obesity, and delay discounting (DD) tasks help understand impulsive decision-making by comparing immediate versus delayed rewards.
  • The study focused on adult women, comparing two groups with different body mass indexes (BMI) to analyze their decision-making related to food and money rewards.
  • Results showed that participants with higher BMI (group B) had a steeper discounting for food rewards and exhibited less brain activation in areas related to executive control during decision-making, highlighting impulsivity as a key factor to address in interventions for obesity.
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Binder jetting is a highly productive additive manufacturing (AM) method for porous parts. Due to its cost-effectiveness, it is used for large components and quantities ranging from prototyping to series production. Post-processing steps like sintering or infiltration are common in several applications to achieve high density and strength.

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Previous studies have shown that variations of experimental functional analysis (FA) can be used effectively as part of the functional behavioral assessment process in educational settings. The purpose of the current study was to review the literature pertaining to FA of problem behavior in schools focusing on method, topographies, and results. Results of this review showed that analog functional analysis (AFA) are conducted most often in school settings; but recent trends show that use of adapted formats (e.

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Additive manufacturing of casting cores and molds is state of the art in industrial application today. However, improving the properties of chemically bonded casting cores regarding temperature stability, bending strength, and surface quality is still a major challenge. The process of slurry-based 3D printing allows the fabrication of dense structures and therefore sinterable casting cores.

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Tooling, especially for prototyping or small series, may prove to be very costly. Further, prototyping of fiber reinforced thermoplastic shell structures may rely on time-consuming manual efforts. This perspective paper discusses the idea of fabricating tools at reduced time and cost compared to conventional machining-based methods.

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