Men are despite the ongoing progress of gender equality surprisingly absent as actors for gender-equality. Previous research has stated that men, although they support gender equality as a value, promote gender-equality reforms less than their female counterparts. This has led to a theory explaining that men have a gendered leeway, arguing that men have the freedom to support gender equality or not - a freedom women lack. Men are perceived as secondary actors compared to women, actors that lack an interest in gender equality. However, there are men that promote gender equality. Therefore, this paper aims to answer why, how, and what possible obstacles and possibilities men have when promoting gender equality. By interviewing male critical actors, this study answers the questions posed. In short, men promote gender equality when the possibility is available to them. Furthermore, this paper proposes counterarguments against previous research by arguing that men can be critical actors with attached interests.

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Text in German / This dissertation is a contribution to cybernetics, a sub-discipline ofPractical Theology. It is a dialogue between theology and management science. The first part discusses whether such a dialogue is reasonable at all. There are a lot of parallels between wisdom theology in the Old Testament and modern management theory. We discuss the benefits and the limitations of wisdom, and the way Israel took advantage of wisdom knowledge of the surrounding peoples. Finally, we draw conclusions for the way how church leadership could integrate knowledge from management theory. The main part of this dissertation is on anthropology and leadership. McGregor invented 1957/60 the so-called theories X andY. He demonstrated that leadership styles of managers are affected by the way they look at their subordinates. Leaders who regard people as lazy (theory X) will try to movitate people by extrinsic factors. Theory Y assumes that human beings have intrinsic motives to work. This assumption is an implicit basis of modem leadership concepts. The background and influence of these theories are explained. Especially, we follow the way from the anthropology of the reformators to theory X and from theory X (Taylorism) to theory Y. Limitations of theory Y are also discussed. In the next step we describe various facets of Old Testament anthropology dealing with man's willingness and capacity to work. The significance of the imago dei in this context is discussed by and large. Finally, we compare these facets with the theories X and Y. Result: The reformators emphasized one-sidedly the undignity of human beings implying that many Protestants consider theory Y as too positive, too humanistic. Old Testament portrays both the dignity and the undignity of human beings. Old Testament anthropology correlates better with theory Y. Thus theory Y is not an antibiblical theory. / Practical Theology / D.Th (Practical Theology)

Title: INSTITUTIONAL ARBITRATION Key words: Institutional arbitration, Arbitration Court attached to the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic, London Court of Institutional Arbitration The purpose of my thesis is to describe and compare legal rules related to the international arbitration in the Czech Republic and in England. The Czech Republic was chosen because of the origin of the author and her studies of the Czech law. England was chosen as a place where the institutional arbitration has a long tradition and as one of the birthplaces of the arbitration. The thesis is focused on the comparison of the legal acts which regulates the arbitration in these two countries and the arbitration rules in compliance with which the arbitral proceedings is carried on in front of the Arbitration Court attached to the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic in Prague and in front of the London Court of Institutional Arbitration. The thesis is composed of an introduction, five chapters and a conclusion. Chapter One, which outlines the history of the arbitration is followed by the general characterisation of the arbitration, categorization of different types of the arbitration and the explanation of the basic...

Nas últimas décadas diversos tipos de meio suporte têm sido propostos para a melhoria da eficiência e/ou aumento da compacidade de reatores biológicos tratando esgoto sanitário. No presente trabalho de doutorado são apresentados os resultados obtidos com a aplicação de um novo tipo de reator biológico anaeróbio de fluxo ascendente com leito de fibras flexíveis aplicado ao tratamento de esgoto sintético. Sua concepção foi motivada pelas dificuldades verificadas em alguns tipos de reatores de leito expandido, os quais ao longo do tempo de operação podem perder suas características hidrodinâmicas iniciais, devido ao acúmulo de biomassa, passando a apresentar expansão não homogênea do leito. A proposta de uso da fibra de nylon como meio suporte se deveu a sua capacidade de atuar como leito flexível - quando fixo em apenas uma de suas extremidades - que, devido á sua flexibilidade, apresenta também características parecidas às de leito móvel. Nesse novo tipo de concepção de leito, a biomassa aderida às fibras flexíveis adquirem forma de longos filamentos, os quais, devido ao próprio escoamento do esgoto e à rotação do eixo em que as fibras são fixadas, permanecem estendidos de modo a proporcionar elevada relação volume/superfície. Essa biomassa na forma de finos filamentos permanece firmemente aderida ás fibras flexíveis, reduzindo o potencial de perda de biomassa juntamente com o efluente e também de possíveis obstruções de poros, comum em leitos granulares. Para o estudo, foi projetada, construída, operada e avaliada durante 458 dias, uma instalação piloto constituída de seis reatores na forma de colunas verticais com escoamento contínuo e ascendente, operando em paralelo. Nesses reatores foram variados parâmetros de configuração e operação, como: i) a densidade de fibras flexíveis que compuseram o leito de fibras flexíveis; ii) a rotação do eixo vertical onde foram fixadas as fibras do leito; iii) o tempo de detenção hidráulica (nas etapas de 1 a 4 foram testados TDH de 9; 6; 4 e 3 horas, respectivamente); iv) a interrupção da rotação em reator em andamento. Foram analisadas as eficiências de remoção de carga orgânica e do perfil vertical dos reatores, assim como foi realizada a avaliação da composição da biomassa encontrada no biofilme, com análise de imagem e microscopia. Os resultados demonstram que a configuração dos reatores forneceram excelentes resultados de remoção de carga orgânica e também se mostraram aptos para se adaptar as variações de vazões aplicadas ao longo do trabalho, sendo observados os melhores resultados na Etapa 1 da fase 1, onde o Reator 2 apresentou eficiência de remoção de 91% de DQO total, 96% de DQO filtrada, 86% de DBO e 60% de SST. Também foi possível observar que os reatores com maiores densidades de fibras apresentaram melhores eficiências e permaneceram mais estáveis em face às características investigadas. Quanto à aplicação de rotação foi possível observar sua interferência positiva sobre a eficiência de remoção dos reatores, principalmente para as densidades de fibras inferiores e que o aumento de sua rotação também trazia melhorias na remoção de carga orgânica. Já para a avaliação da interrupção da rotação foi possível observar a redução de eficiência para os parâmetros avaliados. Também foram analisados três pós-tratamentos do efluente do reator anaeróbio por flotação, sedimentação (com e sem coagulante) e filtração em filtro de fibras flexíveis. O pós-tratamento mais adequado para ser aplicado em conjunto ao reator anaeróbio de fibras flexíveis foi a flotação, por separação (sem adição de coagulante), que apresentou remoção de 71%de turbidez, 51% de cor aparente, 40% de DQO, 25% de DQO filtrada, 34% de fósforo total e 52% de SST. Na avaliação do pós-tratamentos físico-químico mais adequado, a flotação por ar dissolvido apresentou melhores resultados utilizando o coagulante PAC em dosagem de 14 mg.L-1 do princípio ativo de Al2O3, com eficiência de remoção do sistema de 84% de turbidez, 73% de cor aparente, 50% de DQO total e 31% de DQO filtrada, 45% de fosforo total e 62% SST. / In the last decades, many different types of support media have been proposed for improving the efficiency and / or increasing the compactness of biological reactors treating domestic sewage. The results obtained in the application of a new type of up flow anaerobic bioreactor with flexible fibers bed applied to synthetic wastewater treatment are presented in this PhD thesis. Its design was motivated by the difficulties observed in some types of expanded bed reactors, which may lose their initial hydrodynamic characteristics during operation time, due to the biomass accumulation, leading to inhomogeneous bed expansion. The proposed nylon fiber is used as the support media due to its ability to operate as flexible bed - when it is fixed at only one end - which, due to its flexibility, also has characteristics similar to the moving bed. In this new type of bed design, the biomass attached to the flexible fibers acquire the form of long filaments, which, due to the sewage flow and the rotation axis in which the fibers are fixed, remain extended in order to provide high volume /surface ratio. This biomass in the form of fine filament remains firmly attached to the flexible fibers, thereby reducing the potential loss of biomass along with the effluent, as well as possible pore clogging, which are common in granular beds. For this study, a pilot installation consisted of six parallel reactors in the form of vertical columns with continuous upflow was designed, constructed, operated and evaluated for 458 days. In these reactors were varied configuration settings and operation as: i) the density of flexible fibers that composed the bed of flexible fibers; ii) the rotation of the vertical axis where the bed fibers were fixed; iii) the hydraulic retention time (in steps 1 to 4, HDTs of 9, 6, 4 and 3 hours were tested, respectively); iv) interruption of the rotation in the reactor in progress. The organic load removal and the reactors vertical profile efficiencies were analyzed, as well as the biomass composition found in biofilm, with image analysis and microscopy. The results demonstrate that the configuration of reactors provided excellent results of organic load removal and also proved to be able to adapt to variations in flow rates applied during the tests. The best results were observed in Step 1 in phase 1, where the reactor 2 presented removal efficiency of 91% of total COD, 96% of filtered COD, 86% of BOD and 60% of SST. Reactors with higher fiber density presented improved efficiencies and remained more stable, considering the investigated characteristics. The application of rotation was proved to cause a positive interference on the efficiency of the reactors removal, mainly for lower fiber density, and the increase of this rotation also brought improvements in the organic load removal. The rotation interruption caused en efficiency reduction for the evaluated parameters. Three post-treatments of the effluent of anaerobic reactor were analyzed: flotation, sedimentation (with and without coagulant) and filtration on flexible fibers filter in phase 2. The most suitable post-treatment to be applied along with the anaerobic reactor with flexible fibers was the flotation by separation (without addition of coagulant), which presented removal of 71% of turbidity, 51% of apparent color, 40% of COD, 25% of filtered COD, 34% of total phosphorus and 52% of SST. In the evaluation of the most appropriate chemical-physical post-treatment, the dissolved air flotation presented better results when using the PAC coagulant in the dosage of 14 mg.L-1 of the active principle of Al2O3, with removal efficiency of 84% of turbidity, 73% of apparent color, 50% of total COD, 31% of filtered COD, 45% of total phosphorus and 62% of TSS.

C'est essentiellement sur les bactéries libres que portent les études récentes en écologie microbienne d'eau douce, et seulement quelques études ont concerné les communautés bactériennes attachées. Dans cette étude basée sur l'analyse des séquences du gène 16SARNr, la diversité des communautés bactériennes attachées ainsi que de la fraction libre a été étudiée sur deux systèmes d'eau douce ; un lac mésotrophe (le lac du Bourget) et un lac hypereutrophe (le lac Villerest). La diversité des Actinobacteria, Betaproteobacteria et Verrucomicrobia libres et attachées a été étudié en relation avec les variables environnementales, dans le lac du Bourget pendant deux périodes à dominances contrastées de phytoplancton. L'analyse des résultats a montré une différence au niveau phylogénétique entre les communautés bactériennes attachées et libres des trois groupes de bactéries étudiées. Le clade betaI, dominait les Betaproteobacteria des fractions libres et attachées, avec 57,8% de la totalité des unités taxinomiques opérationnelles (OTUs). Pour les Actinobacteria, le groupe d'acIV a été détecté comme le plus abondant, suivi par acI avec respectivement 45% et 25% du total des OTUs. De même, les groupes Verrucomicrobia d'eau douce, à savoir CREPA29, FukuN18, CL120-10 sont apparus comme les plus importants, avec 22,3%, 16,15% et 14,61% des OTUs respectivement. Cette étude a permis de définir 15 nouveaux clades putatifs représentant la diversité bactérienne d'eau douce des Betaproteobacteria (lbI-lbVIII), Actinobacteria (acLBI) et Verrucomicrobia (CRE-PA29, FukuS27, BourFI-BourFIV). Par ailleurs, 12 groupes représentant la diversité de phylogénétique des Betaproteobacteria, Actinobacteria et Verrucomicrobia contiennent exclusivement des OTUs de la fraction attachée. La dynamique saisonnière souligne les changements des phylotypes bactériens distincts pour les deux communautés attaché et libre. Les Actinobacteria dans la fraction attachée était associée avec la biomasse des Chrysophyceae et N-NO3, et les Betaproteobacteria avec la biomasse de Chlorophyceae et de la richesse du phytoplancton tandis que les Verrucomicrobia de cette même fraction ont semblé être principalement influencés par la richesse du phytoplancton, l′abondance des rotifères et les nutriments inorganiques (N-NO3, SiO2). D'autre part, dans les communautés libres, peu de clades d'actinobacterie dépendent des nutriments ou du phytoplancton, alors que les Betaproteobacteria et Verrucomicrobia ont été principalement associés avec les paramètres biologiques (i.e. phytoplancton et copépodes). Pendant le bloom des cyanobacteries (Microcystis sp.) dans le lac Villerest, les Betaproteobacteria, Gammaproteobacteria, Alphaproteobacteria, Bacteroidetes et Actinobacteria ont été détectés comme taxa dominants dans les banques de clones du gène 16S ARNr. Toutefois Verrucomicrobia et Deinococcus-Thermus sont apparus relativement moins abondants dans les deux fractions, tandis que,Gemmatimonadetes, Acidobacteria, Chloroflexi, Planctomycetes, Deltaproteobacteria, Firmicutes et Op11 sont apparus comme des phyla mineurs dans la banque de clones des communautés bactériennes attaché et libre. Les Betaproteobacteria (n=118) attachées sont apparus comme le groupe dominant, suivi par Gammaproteobacteria (n=74) et Bacteroidetes (n=52). L'analyse phylogénétique des séquences obtenues pour la banque de clone de la fraction libre a montré que la plupart des OTUs appartiennent à Betaproteobacteria (n=192), suivi par Bacteroidetes (n=132) et Actinobacteria (n=61). Tandis que les Gammaproteobacteria (n=42) et Alphaproteobacteria (n=42) sont présents dans des proportions égales dans la banque de clones du 16S ARNr libre. (...) / The free-living bacteria point of view dominates in recent research of freshwater microbial ecology, only a few studies have focused on attached bacterial communities. In present study, based on 16S rRNA gene sequences, diversity of attached and free-living bacterial community was investigated from two freshwater aquatic systems ; a mesotrophic lake Bourget and a hypereutrophic lake Villerest. The diversity of attached and free-living Actinobacteria, Betaproteobacteria and Verrucomicrobia, in relation to environmental variables was investigated from lake Bourget during two contrasting periods of phytoplankton dominance. Comparison analyses showed a phylogenetic difference between attached and free-living bacterial communities of all three studied bacterial groups. The betaI, appeared as most dominant among all clades representing phylogenetic diversity of freshwater Betaproteobacteria, for both attached and free-living fractions, contributing to 57.8% of of the total retrieved opertational taxonomic units (OTUs). For Actinobacteria, the acIV cluster was detected as dominant, followed by acI accounting for 45% and 25% of the total retrieved OTUs respectively. Similarly, freshwater Verrucomicrobia cluster namely, CRE-PA29, FukuN18, CL120-10 appeared as dominant, comprising 22.3%, 16.15% and 14.61% of the total retrieved OTUs respectively. This study allowed defining 15 new putative clades representing the freshwater bacterial divesity of Betaproteobacteria (lbI-lbVIII), Actinobacteria (acLBI) and Verrucomicrobia (CRE-PA29, FukuS27, BourFI-BourFIV). In addition, 12 clusters representing the phylogenetic diversity of Betaproteobacteria, Actinobacteria and Verrucomicrobia were exclusively comprised of OTUs from the attached fraction. The seasonal dynamics of environmental variables have been reflected as changes in distinct bacterial phylotypes for both attached and free-living communities. The attached bacterial communities of Actinobacteria showed affiliation with Chrysophyceae biomass and N-NO3, while attached Betaproteobacteria were affiliated with biomass of Chlorophyceae and phytoplankton richness. Similarly attached verrucomicrobial communities appeared to be mainly influenced by phytoplankton richness, rotifers abundances and inorganic nutrients (NNO3,SiO2). On the other hand, within free-living communities, few actinobacterial clades were found to be dependent on either nutrients or phytoplankton communities, whereas Betaproteobacteria and Verrucomicrobia were mainly associated with biological parameters (i.e. phytoplankton and copepods communities). In another study during a cyanobacterial (Microcystis sp.) bloom from lake Villerest, Betaproteobacteria, Gammaproteobacteria, Alphaproteobacteria, Bacteroidetes and Actinobacteria were detected as prevalent taxa among the 16S rRNA gene clone libraries, however, Verrucomicrobia and Deinococcus-Thermus appeared as comparatively less abundant bacterial groups in both fractions. Whereas, Gemmatimonadetes, Acidobacteria, Chloroflexi, Planctomycetes, Deltaproteobacteria, Firmicutes and Op11 were appeared as minor phyla in clone libraries of attached and free-living bacterial communities. For attached bacterial communities Betaproteobacteria (n=118) appeared as most dominant group, followed by Gammaproteobacteria (n=74) and Bacteroidetes (n=52). The phylogenetic analysis of the sequences obtained for the clone library from free-living fraction showed that most of the OTUs belonged to Betaproteobacteria (n=192) followed in decreasing order by Bacteroidetes (n=132) and Actinobacteria (n=61) whereas Gammaproteobacteria (n=42) and Alphaproteobacteria (n=42) appeared in equal proportion in free-living 16S rRNA clone libraries. (...)

Les systèmes photovoltaïques à concentration, ou CPV, reposent sur le principe de la concentration des rayons du soleil sur une cellule photovoltaïque à très haut rendement. Le CPV reste jeune face au photovoltaïque (PV) classique qui accumule plus de 30 ans de retour d’expérience.La pérennisation de cette technologie CPV ne passera que par la démonstration d’une certaine maturité. Aussi, la question de la fiabilité de ces systèmes est plus que jamais d’actualité. Dans ce contexte, le Commissariat à L’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA) a répondu à la sollicitation lancée par des fabricants de modules CPV français sur la thématique de la conception et de la fiabilisation de modules CPV par une collaboration de ses différents laboratoires, dont le Laboratoire des Modules Photovoltaïques (LMPV). C’est au sein de ce laboratoire que s’effectuent les travaux de thèse. La diversité des éléments constituant un module CPV a poussé les travaux de thèse à se concentrer sur le coeur fonctionnel des modules : les assemblages CPV. Une première partie des travaux de thèse a consisté à mettre en place les bons outils de caractérisation, en partant parfois d’une feuille blanche. La mesure de caractéristique IV dans l’obscurité, la mesure de réponse spectrale, la tomographie RX ou encore l’électroluminescence sont autant de moyens de caractérisation de cellules multi-jonctions amenés par les travaux de thèse. Les efforts conduits sur l’électroluminescence auront permis l’invention d’une nouvelle technique de caractérisation des interfaces cellule/ substrat des assemblages CPV, concrétisée par le dépôt d’un brevet. Une collaboration entre le laboratoire d’accueil et l’Institut de l’Energie Solaire (IES) à Madrid a permis l’accès à la mesure de performance des assemblages CPV sous éclairement. Tous ces moyens ont rendu possible une caractérisation fine des assemblages CPV et ont permis de s’intéresser à leur robustesse-fiabilité, deuxième partie des travaux de thèse. Deux types d’assemblages CPV ont été étudiés durant les travaux de thèse. Le premier, basé sur un substrat Direct Bonded Copper (DBC) correspond à l’état de l’art et est le plus utilisé dans l’industrie CPV. Le deuxième, en rupture technologique avec l’état de l’art, repose sur un Substrat Métal Isolé (SMI), et a été intégralement développé par le CEA et ses partenaires industriels. L’étude de la robustesse de ces assemblages CPV a été faite par l’emploi de tests de vieillissement accéléré dont la nature est justifiée par le retour d’expérience et la définition des spécifications environnementales. Aucune défaillance n’a été observé sur chacun des types d’assemblage. Les assemblages SMI se comportent comme les assemblages DBC, considérés comme références. Les travaux de thèse offrent donc un premier retour d’expérience propre au laboratoire d’accueil et la mise en place d’une infrastructure complète de caractérisation d’assemblage CPV permet aujourd’hui au CEA d’être un acteur clé du CPV en France. / Concentrating Photovoltaic (CPV) is based on the concentration of solar rays on very-high efficienciessolar cells. Multi-junction architectures used in CPV systems reach efficiency superior to44% under concentration. This has created great interest for this technology over the past decade.Nevertheless, CPV has still to be proven reliable. This work contributes to this goal.CPV assemblies -or receivers- are defined by the electrical, mechanical and thermal cohesionof a multi-junction solar cell on an appropriate substrate. The complexity of multi-junctionarchitecture does not allow their characterization with the existing PV tools. Therefore, the firstachievement of the work was the development of a complete infrastructure for the characterizationof such devices. The second part developed accelerated ageing tests and analysis methods to studythe degradation process of these assemblies.A new method for the characterization of die-attached CPV cell assembly has been provensuccessful. It is called EEL for Enhanced ElectroLuminescence. This method is cost effective andreally fast and has therefore been patented. Regarding the characterization of performance of CPVcell assembly under illumination (2nd part of the thesis), collaboration has been made with theInstituto de Energìa Solar (IES) in Madrid, Spain. Thanks to this collaboration, two types of CPVcell assemblies have been studied. One based on the Direct Bonded Copper (DBC) substrate, correspondingto the state-of-the-art and most used type of substrate in CPV industry. The other is acompletely new type of substrate, inspired by the Insulated Metal Substrate (IMS). This new IMSbased CPV cell assembly has been developed by the CEA and its industrial partners. The reliabilitystudy of these CPV cell assemblies (DBC and IMS) has been conducted through acceleratedageing tests. It has been shown that none of the DBC or IMS cell assembly present infant mortalityor failure upon ageing.This work has launched the CPV activity at INES. Results on receivers now need to be confirmedon complete CPV-modules and systems.

Το χρώμιο (Cr) αποτελεί έναν από τους σημαντικότερους ρύπους του φυσικού περιβάλλοντος. Η ευρεία βιομηχανική χρήση του χρωμίου έχει ως αποτέλεσμα την απελευθέρωση μεγάλων ποσοτήτων του μετάλλου στο περιβάλλον κυρίως με τη μορφή του εξασθενούς χρωμίου (Cr(VI)). Το εξασθενές χρώμιο, μία από τις σταθερές μορφές του χρωμίου στο περιβάλλον, είναι ευδιάλυτο, υψηλά τοξικό, καρκινογενές και μεταλλαξιγόνο. Οι σύγχρονες μέθοδοι επεξεργασίας του εξασθενούς χρωμίου χρησιμοποιούν μικροοργανισμούς, στηριζόμενες στη μεταβολική και κυτταρική τους δράση. Πρόκειται για διεργασίες πιο ανταγωνιστικές, αποτελεσματικές και οικονομικές έναντι των συμβατικών φυσικοχημικών μεθόδων (χημική αναγωγή, ανταλλαγή ιόντων, διήθηση, ηλεκτροχημική επεξεργασία, προσρόφηση σε ενεργό άνθρακα, αντίστροφη όσμωση και μεμβράνες) καθώς παρουσιάζουν μικρές ενεργειακές απαιτήσεις, χαμηλό πάγιο και λειτουργικό κόστος και τέλος μικρότερη παραγωγή τοξικής λάσπης. Η βιολογική αναγωγή του εξασθενούς χρωμίου απαιτεί την παρουσία ενός δότη ηλεκτρονίων. Το ρόλο αυτό παίζει ο οργανικός άνθρακας, ο οποίος είναι απαραίτητος για την πραγματοποίηση της διεργασίας αυτής. Στην παρούσα διδακτορική διατριβή μελετήθηκε η επεξεργασία υγρών χρωμικών βιομηχανικών αποβλήτων, με ταυτόχρονη εκμετάλλευση/αξιοποίηση αγροτοβιομηχανικών παραπροϊόντων/αποβλήτων (μελάσα - χαμηλού κόστους και ορρός γάλακτος – μηδενικού κόστους), χρησιμοποιώντας βιολογικές μεθόδους. Αρχικά, πραγματοποιήθηκαν πειράματα για τη βελτιστοποίηση του ρυθμού αναγωγής των μεικτών αερόβιων γηγενών καλλιεργειών σε αντιδραστήρες αιωρούμενης ανάπτυξης. Στη συνέχεια χρησιμοποιήθηκε η μεικτή καλλιέργεια για τη μελέτη της βιολογικής αναγωγής του εξασθενούς χρωμίου σε αντιδραστήρες σταθερής κλίνης πιλοτικής κλίμακας με πλαστικό πληρωτικό υλικό, σε διάφορες λειτουργικές συνθήκες, στοχεύοντας στην μέγιστη απόδοση των συστημάτων και την αποφυγή λειτουργικών προβλημάτων. Το βιολογικό σύστημα που χρησιμοποιήθηκε στην παρούσα διδακτορική διατριβή, αποτελεί μία πολύ αποτελεσματική μέθοδο επεξεργασίας βιομηχανικών αποβλήτων επιβαρυμένων με το τοξικό εξασθενές χρώμιο, χρησιμοποιώντας οικονομικές πηγές άνθρακα όπως η μελάσα και ο ορρός γάλακτος. Η μέθοδος αυτή είναι πολλά υποσχόμενη, συνδυάζοντας υψηλά ποσοστά απομάκρυνσης με εξαιρετικά χαμηλές δαπάνες λειτουργικού κόστους. / Chromium is one of the most serious pollutants of natural environment. The widespread industrial use of chromium leads to the release of large quantities of this metal in the environment, mainly in the form of hexavalent chromium. The hexavalent chromium, one of the most stable forms that we can notice in the environment, is soluble, highly toxic carcinogenic and mutagenic. Contemporary water processing techniques of hexavalent chromium use micro-organisms, based on their metabolic and cellular activity. These procedures are more competitive, more effective and certainly financially affordable over the conventional physicochemical methods (chemical oxidation or reduction, ion exchange, filtration, electrochemical treatment, activated carbon adsorption, reverse osmosis and membrane technologies) as they show low energy demands, low maintenance cost and a smaller production of toxic mud. The biological reduction of hexavalent chromium requires the presence of an electron donor. This part is covered by organic carbon that is essential for carrying out the process. The present thesis studied the treatment of liquid industrial chromate waste and the exploitation/utilization of agroindustrial byproducts/wastewaters (molasses - low cost and cheese whey- zero cost), using biological methods. At the beginning, experiments were conducted to optimize the reduction rate of mixed aerobic indigenous cultures in suspended growth reactors. Subsequently, the mixed culture was used for the biological reduction of the hexavalent chromium, in laboratory pilot scale fixed bed reactors, with plastic media, in various functional conditions targeting to the maximum system performance and the prevention of functional problems. The biological system used in the present thesis constitutes a very effective method of processing industrial wastewater polluted with the toxic hexavalent chromium, by using affordable sources of carbon, such as molasses and cheese whey. This is a quite promising method, combining high removal rates with extremely low operating expenditure.

Text in German / This dissertation is a contribution to cybernetics, a sub-discipline ofPractical Theology. It is a dialogue between theology and management science. The first part discusses whether such a dialogue is reasonable at all. There are a lot of parallels between wisdom theology in the Old Testament and modern management theory. We discuss the benefits and the limitations of wisdom, and the way Israel took advantage of wisdom knowledge of the surrounding peoples. Finally, we draw conclusions for the way how church leadership could integrate knowledge from management theory. The main part of this dissertation is on anthropology and leadership. McGregor invented 1957/60 the so-called theories X andY. He demonstrated that leadership styles of managers are affected by the way they look at their subordinates. Leaders who regard people as lazy (theory X) will try to movitate people by extrinsic factors. Theory Y assumes that human beings have intrinsic motives to work. This assumption is an implicit basis of modem leadership concepts. The background and influence of these theories are explained. Especially, we follow the way from the anthropology of the reformators to theory X and from theory X (Taylorism) to theory Y. Limitations of theory Y are also discussed. In the next step we describe various facets of Old Testament anthropology dealing with man's willingness and capacity to work. The significance of the imago dei in this context is discussed by and large. Finally, we compare these facets with the theories X and Y. Result: The reformators emphasized one-sidedly the undignity of human beings implying that many Protestants consider theory Y as too positive, too humanistic. Old Testament portrays both the dignity and the undignity of human beings. Old Testament anthropology correlates better with theory Y. Thus theory Y is not an antibiblical theory. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / D.Th (Practical Theology)