Publications by authors named "S Volker"

Background: Ideally, health services and interventions to improve dental health should be tailored to local target populations. But this is not the standard. Little is known about risk clusters in dental health care and their evaluation based on small-scale, spatial data, particularly among under-represented groups in health surveys.

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  • - Chemicals manufacturing significantly contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, with over half coming from ammonia and oxygenates like methanol and ethylene glycol.
  • - The study discusses how newly developed electrolyzer systems can convert hydrocarbons to oxygenates and reduce fossil-based emissions by up to 88% without requiring low-carbon electricity.
  • - Even using electricity with a higher carbon footprint, emissions from the global chemical industry can still be reduced by up to 39%, and the paper offers guidance for researchers interested in this area.
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The concept of Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) describes innovative industrial work procedures, in which human staff works in close vicinity with robots on a shared task. Current HRC scenarios often deploy hand-guided robots or remote controls operated by the human collaboration partner. As HRC envisions active collaboration between both parties, ongoing research efforts aim to enhance the capabilities of industrial robots not only in the technical dimension but also in the robot's socio-interactive features.

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The straightforward synthesis of three organotin clusters endowed with six triarylamine-based moieties is reported herein. The optoelectronic properties of the molecules, as well as their ability to form gels, were investigated. The association ability of the compounds was studied as well by means of variable temperature nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis) spectroscopy.

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(1) The project "Tatort Streetlight" implements an insect-friendly road light design in a four year before-after, control-impact (BACI) approach involving citizen scientists. It will broaden the stakeholder interests from solely anthropogenic perspectives to include the welfare of insects and ecosystems. Motivated by the detrimental impacts of road lighting systems on insects, the project aims to find solutions to reduce the insect attraction and habitat fragmentation resulting from roadway illumination.

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