This candidate declares that the thesis submitted is their original work and has not been submitted for any other awards. Any other sources used in the thesis are properly cited. The candidate also grants the Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg the right to archive and duplicate the thesis to check for plagiarism.

1. Declaration by the candidate
I hereby declare that this thesis is my own work and effort and that it has not been
submitted anywhere for any award. Where other sources of information have been used,
they have been marked.
The work has not been presented in the same or a similar form to any other testing
authority and has not been made public.
I hereby also entitle a right of use (free of charge, not limited locally and for an
indefinite period of time) that my thesis can be duplicated, saved and archived by the
Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg (OvGU) or any commissioned third party
(e. g. iParadigms Europe Limited, provider of the plagiarism-detection service “Turnitin”)
exclusively in order to check it for plagiarism and to optimize the appraisal of results.
Magdeburg, August 26, 2020
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