More importantly, the collaboration involved further investigations based on first-principles calculations, which improved the quality of this work to a great extent.
At this point, I would like to express special thanks to Dr. Eva Rauls.
The present thesis would not have been possible without her assistance and mentoring with respect to the utilized methods required by the new approach of investigation as well as her expertise in the materials system.
-I am greatly thankful for the possibility to repeatedly visit the theroy group in Paderborn.
+I am greatly thankful for the possibility to repeatedly visit the theory group in Paderborn.
In this context, Dr. Simone Sanna is acknowledged for respective technical support and Michael Weinl, doctoral student of Prof. J\"org K. N. Lindner back then, for accomodation.
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Residing in the office of the undergraduates, I would like to thank all of the many fellow students I met during this time.
Interesting and not necessarily scientific discussions appeared on the daily agenda.
-I am likewise thankful to all the other members of the devision for the distinctive and pleasant working environment.
+I am likewise thankful to all the other members of the devision for the distinctive and pleasant working environment and the permanent willingness to discuss.
-... university ... studium universales ... meta, berthold, erika, michael, leo, katja
+For discussions aside from natural science, I am grateful to the small but fine reading group formed on the fringes of the temporary student protests in 2009.
+I would like to thank Meta Schnell, Berthold Arlt, Michael Lippok, Erika Rempel, Leo Sellinger, Michaela Strattner, Katja Teich and Matthias Link for the numerous sessions reviewing elements of the critical theory of society.
-... lebenspartner ...
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-... family (vererbung sozialer zugehoerigkeit) ...
+I am grateful to Melanie Lenk for moral support during my time as a diploma and doctoral student.
+For the nice time we had and, in particular, for her patience and care in stressful times as well as for encouraging internet telephony calls during my stays abroad, I will always be thankful.
+Dear Mali, you will always be in my mind, wherever life as a teacher may take you.
+I would like to thank Stefanie Rajkay accompanying me during the last stages of this work.
+Although there cannot be a right life amidst wrongs \cite{adorno_mm}, I am glad for our joint effort to organize and try to anticipate a way of life that would be the actual right one in a free society.
+Last but not least, I would like to express my gratitude to my parents Wilfriede and Karl Zirkelbach, who contributed to a great extent to pursue a scientific career without major difficulties.
+My brother Till Zirkelbach is greatly acknowledged for backup of any kind of concerns.
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