To mark the 50th year of FAECF, the European Federation of the National Window and Curtain Walling Manufacturers ' Association, this paper looks back at the development of the façade with a focus on curtain walling and asks: "Is there anything new under the sun?" While on the face of it, the building …

Probiotic bacteria harbor effector molecules that confer health benefits, but also adaptation factors that enable them to persist in the gastrointestinal tract of the consumer. To study these adaptation factors, an antibiotic-resistant derivative of the probiotic model organism Lactobacillus plantarum …

To solve the problem of phosphorus leaching, the new method which uses iron-coated sand to absorb the ortho-P through the drainage pipes was generated recently. However, the method still need more research to apply it in practice. For this purpose, a main question of the thesis is generated: how is the …