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Statistical coalescence model analysis of J / psi production in Pb + Pb collisions at 158 A GeV
(2001)
Production of J/psi mesons in heavy ion collisions is considered within the statistical coalescence model. The model is in agreement with the experi- mental data of the NA50 Collaboration for Pb+Pb collisions at 158 A·GeV in a wide centrality range, including the so called anomalous suppression domain. The model description of the J/ psi data requires, however, strong enhancement of the open charm production in central Pb+Pb collisions. This model prediction may be checked in the future SPS runs.
The J/psi yield at midrapidity at the top RHIC (relativistic heavy ion collider) energy is calculated within the statistical coalescence model, which assumes charmonium formation at the late stage of the reaction from the charm quarks and antiquarks created earlier in hard parton collisions. The results are compared to the new PHENIX data and to predictions of the standard models, which assume formation of charmonia exclusively at the initial stage of the reaction and their subsequent suppression. Two versions of the suppression scenario are considered. One of them assumes gradual charmonium suppression by comovers, while the other one supposes that the suppression sets in abruptly due to quark-gluon plasma formation. Surprisingly, both versions give very similar results. In contrast, the statistical coalescence model predicts a few times larger J/psi yield in the most central collisions.
Objective: Most patients suffering with rheumatic diseases who undergo surgical treatment are receiving immune-modulating therapy. To determine whether these medications affect their outcomes a national registry was established in Germany by the German Society of Surgery (DGORh). Data from the first 1000 patients were used in a pilot study to identify relevant corisk factors and to determine whether such a registry is suitable for developing accurate and relevant recommendations.
Design and participants: Data were collected from patients undergoing surgical treatments with their written consent. A second consent form was used, if complications occurred. During this pilot study, in order to obtain a quicker overview, risk factors were considered only in patients with complications. Only descriptive statistical analysis was employed in this pilot study due to limited number of observed complications and inhomogeneous data regarding the surgery and the medications the patients received. Analytical statistics will be performed to confirm the results in a future outcome study.
Results: Complications occurred in 26 patients and were distributed equally among the different types of surgeries. Twenty one of these patients were receiving immune-modulating therapy at the time, while five were not. Infections were observed in 2.3% of patients receiving and in 5.1% not receiving immunosuppression.
Conclusions: Due to the low number of cases, inhomogeneity in the diseases and the treatments received by the patients in this pilot study, it is not possible to develop standardised best-practice recommendations to optimise their care. Based on this observation we conclude that in order to be suitable to develop accurate and relevant recommendations a national registry must include the most important and relevant variables that impact the care and outcomes of these patients.
Caspase-8 is an aspartate-specific cysteine protease, which is best known for its apoptotic functions. Caspase-8 is placed at central nodes of multiple signal pathways, regulating not only the cell cycle but also the invasive and metastatic cell behavior, the immune cell homeostasis and cytokine production, which are the two major components of the tumor microenvironment (TME). Ovarian cancer often has dysregulated caspase-8 expression, leading to imbalance between its apoptotic and non-apoptotic functions within the tumor and the surrounding milieu. The downregulation of caspase-8 in ovarian cancer seems to be linked to high aggressiveness with chronic inflammation, immunoediting, and immune resistance. Caspase-8 plays therefore an essential role not only in the primary tumor cells but also in the TME by regulating the immune response, B and T lymphocyte activation, and macrophage differentiation and polarization. The switch between M1 and M2 macrophages is possibly associated with changes in the caspase-8 expression. In this review, we are discussing the non-apoptotic functions of caspase-8, highlighting this protein as a modulator of the immune response and the cytokine composition in the TME. Considering the low survival rate among ovarian cancer patients, it is urgently necessary to develop new therapeutic strategies to optimize the response to the standard treatment. The TME is highly heterogenous and provides a variety of opportunities for new drug targets. Given the variety of roles of caspase-8 in the TME, we should focus on this protein in the development of new therapeutic strategies against the TME of ovarian cancer.
We relate time-varying aggregate ambiguity (V-VSTOXX) to individual investor trading. We use the trading records of more than 100,000 individual investors from a large German online brokerage from March 2010 to December 2015. We find that an increase in ambiguity is associated with increased investor activity. It also leads to a reduction in risk-taking which does not reverse over the following days. When ambiguity is high, the effect of sentiment looms larger. Survey evidence reveals that ambiguity averse investors are more prone to ambiguity shocks. Our results are robust to alternative survey-, newspaper- or market-based ambiguity measures.
Sympetrum fonscolombii is for the first time reported for Tuva (Tyva Republic, Russia), as found in the UbsuNur Depression. New data are provided on Odonata of the Turan or TuranUyuk Depression of Tuva, including the first record of Somatochlora exuberata in Tuva beyond the Todzha Depression and Coenagrion armatum, C. ecornutum, Aeshna juncea, A. grandis, Somatochlora graeseri and Libellula quadrimaculata for the first time reported for the Turan Depression. New distributional data and comments on Ophiogomphus spinicornis Selys, 1878 are added. Somatochlora alpestris found at Lake Oyskoe is for the first time reported for the southern Krasnoyarskiy Kray.
The Tyva Republic, within the Russian Federation, has acquired its present name in 1991. It was formerly known as the Tuvinian Autonomous Region within the USSR. Its common names in the past centuries were Uryankhaiskii Krai or Soyotskii Krai. In modern Russian, it is known under the name Tuva (not Tyva), which will be used further in the text. This country, for example, embraces the sources of the great Siberian river Yenisei and its capital, the town of Kyzyl, represents the geographical centre of Asia. To date, this vast and clear cut territory was hitherto almost unexplored in odonatological respect. In particular, it was not visited by the outstanding Siberian odonatologist B. F. Belyshev. Scarce materials from the recent Tuvinian territory were mentioned by Valle (1942), who considered it to be Mongolian. In the only paper concerning the dragonflies of Tuva in particular (two localities in its very south) 14 species were reported (Zaika & Kosterin 1990). The "transitional form between Ophiogomphus serpentinus and O. reductus” considered in that work, however, turned out to be the Chinese-Mongolian species Ophiogomphus spinicornis (Kosterin, 1999). Finally, one of us published two works on the general lentic fauna of the Ubsu-Nur Hollow in general (Zaika, 1996) and Lake Tere-Khol' in particular (Zaika, 1999), where 26 and 9 species were listed, respectively. The latter work was based on larval identification. Because this is difficult, this information should be taken with caution. The presence of species such as Ischnura pumilio and Cordulia aenea was not confirmed by records of adults and may be erroneous.
Part 1, Oleg E. Kosterin and Vladimir I. Solovyev, page 1-43:
Odonata found in mid-summer 2015 and 2016 at the north-westernmost Black Sea Coast of the Caucasus, with the first record of Cordulegaster picta Selys, 1854 in Russian Federation
Abstract: Results are presented of brief odonatological examination of the Black Sea coastal northwesternmost spurs of the Caucasus between Anapa and Gelendzhik (mostly at Kabardinka village), Russia, in late July/early August 2015 and early-mid July 2016. In total, 28 Odonata species were found, including Cordulegaster picta for the first time in Russia. For C. picta and Caliaeschna microstigma, the world’s northernmost records were made. New localities of species rare in this area are reported: one for Coenagrion scitulum and three for Selysiothemis nigra, including their breeding habitat. Numerous migrant individuals of Pantala flavescens were observed in many localities in 2015 but none in 2016. Observations on trophic activity of Aeshna affinis and A. mixta are reported, the former showing predominantly matutinal and vespertinal activity and the latter diurnal activity. Occurrence of the Chalcolestes spp. in the Caucasus is discussed.
Part 2, Oleg E. Kosterin, page 45 - 57:
Calopteryx virgo feminalis subsp. nov., a long known under the same name but hitherto formally nameless subspecies from the Caucasian Black Sea Coast
Abstract: The populations of Calopteryx virgo of the Black Sea Coast of the Caucasus have females with the distal hindwing part darkened and males with the underside of S10 and appendages whitish, They are known for more than a century and deserve a subspecific status but since the name feminalis Bartenev, 1910 proposed to them is unavailable, a new subspecies is formally erected under the same name, Calopteryx virgo feminalis Kosterin subsp. nov., with the following type locality: Russia, Krasnodarskiy Kray, Gelendzhik Municipality, Kabardinka village, the Doob River lowermost reaches, 44°38'26-53'', 37°55'55''-57'58'' E.
Phnom Kulen is a small and low plateau in the northern Cambodia still partly covered with evergreen forests and isolated from similar habitats by the Cambodian Lowland at least for 60 km. A preliminary checklist of its Odonata is provided, including 97 species. Burmagomphus sp. cf. willamsoni and Macromia callisto are for the first time reported for Cambodia.
Part 1, Oleg E. Kosterin, page 1-11:
Taxonomical notes on Indolestes Fraser, 1922 (Lestidae, Zygoptera). 1. Indolestes gracilis expressior ssp. nov. from eastern Cambodia
Abstract: Indolestes gracilis expressior ssp. nov. is described by a male from Cambodia, Mondulkiri Province, the river upstream of Buu Sraa Waterfall 12°34’ N 107°25’ E. Another male presumably belonging to this subspecies was illustrated from southern Laos in literature. The new subspecies is characterised by more inflated apical part of the cercus than in earlier known subspecies and is thought to range in plateaux of eastern Cambodia ?and southern Laos, although very rare.
Part 2, Oleg E. Kosterin and Roberto Poggi, page 13-20:
Taxonomical notes on Indolestes Fraser, 1922 (Lestidae, Zygoptera). 2. Indolestes birmanus (Selys, 1891) is bona species
Abstract: The holotype of Lestes birmana Selys, 1891 (currently Indolestes birmanus (Selys, 1891)), housed in Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova, is examined and depicted
for the first time. Its cerci are not attenuated apically, hence this taxon cannot be a subspecies of Indolestes gracilis (Hagen in Selys, 1862).
Two new subspecies of Hemicordulia tenera Lieftinck, 1930 (Corduliidae) from Cambodia and Thailand
(2015)
Hemicordulia tenera donnellyi ssp. nov. (holotype ♂: Chieng Mai Prov., Kunklang: highway 1009, Restaurant; 16°32.0’ N 98°31.3’ E, 1000 m, 22 v 1996, FSCA) and H. t. vikhrevi ssp. nov. (holotype ♂: Cambodia, Koh Kong Province, ~13 km ENE of Koh Kong, ‘Hemicordulia brook’, 11°39’55’’ N, 103°05’34’’ E, 315 m, 04 xii 2010, RMNH) are described from North Thailand and South-West Cambodia, respectively. The nominotypical H. tenera tenera Lieftinck, 1930 is distributed in the Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Java and Sumatra. Although these three subspecies are genetically very close, they are distinguishable by the relative length and shape of the caudal appendages.
The Odonata fauna of flat marshy areas of the Gulf of Siam coast in Koh Kong Province of Cambodia, containing 55 species, is considered. The published data of 2010- 2013 and new data of 2014 and 2016 on the surroundings of Koh Kong town are compiled and the first data on the area of large swampy Melaleuca forests at Andoung Tuek village are presented as well as some occasional photographic records. Gynacantha bayadera, Lyriothemis mortoni and Pornothemis serrata were for the first time recorded for Cambodia. Mortonagrion falcatum was found unexpectedly abundant at Andoung Tuek.
More Odonata found at the Cardamonean foothills in Koh Kong Province of Cambodia in 2014-2018
(2018)
Still unpublished data on Odonata of the coastal foothills of the Cardamom Mts. in Koh Kong Province, SW Cambodia obtained in 2014-2018 are provided. Tetrathemis flavescens Kirby, 1889 is for the first time reported for Cambodia and Risiophlebia guentheri Kosterin, 2015 for SW Cambodia. The photographic records from this area of Gynacantha basiguttata Selys, 1882, Gynacantha demeter Ris, 1911, Heliaeschna crassa Krüger, 1899, Amphithemis curvistyla Selys, 1891 and Pornothemis serrata Krüger, 1902 have been confirmed by specimens. The known local faunas of two neighbouring rivulets in Koh Kong Province, rich in Odonata, are updated and summarised.
In the period 18th – 31st May 2017, 33 localities were examined for Odonata in the Central Zagros area of Iran: 16 in Markazi Province, 14 in Lorestan Province and 3 in Esfahan Province; in 27 of those localities Odonata were found, 25 species in total. For Markazi Province, only one species, Calopteryx splendens, was previously reported (and also found by us), so of 17 species found there 16 are formally new provincial records (Epallage fatime, Lestes barbarus, Coenagrion ornatum, C. persicum, Enallagma cyathigerum, Ischnura elegans, I. intermedia, I. pumilio, Platycnemis kervillei, Anax imperator, Anaciaeschna isoceles, Caliaeschna microstigma, Libellula depressa, Onychogomphus lefebvrii, Orthetrum brunneum, Sympetrum fonscolombii). Of 17 species
found in Lorestan, 5 are new for this province (L. barbarus, Aeshna mixta, Orthetrum taeniolatum, Sympetrum arenicolor, S. striolatum). Only two species were seen in Esfahan Province, in which little time was spent. Notes on variation and taxonomy are provided for Sympecma paedisca, C. ornatum (considered to be a senior synonym of C. vanbrinkae because of variation in the presumed main diagnostic character), E. cyathigerum, I. elegans, Gomphus schneideri (including discussion of G. amseli), as well as notes on habitats of most species and the general characteristics of the area.
Results of a brief examination of the spring aspect of Odonata at the Abrau Peninsula and some nearby localities on 2127th May 2018 are presented. Lestes dryas and Caliaeschna microstigma are reported for the Peninsula for the first time, revealing the world northernmost record of the latter. Some old data of Odonata at Novorossiysk and some recent erroneous data on the Krasnodarskiy Kray are referenced and discussed. The known Odonata fauna of the Abrau Peninsula reaches 38 species.
In the second half of February 2014, Odonata were searched for nine days on Bali andfour days on Lombok, the western Lesser Sundas, Indonesia. One species, Orthetrum chrysishas been for the first time recorded for Bali and six species, Nosostictaemphyla, Idionyx murcia, Brachydiplax chalybea, Agrionoptera insignis, Neurothemisramburii, Rhyothemis phyllishave been for the first time recorded for Lombok. The previous lit-erature concerning the two islands is analysed. To the moment, 55 Odonata species (3 unidentified) are known for Bali and 39 for Lombok, although the actual faunas of both islands are supposed to be equally rich, and further studies on Lombok are necessary. Odonata faunas of Bali and Lombok mirror each other in respect of high shares,29 and 23%, of Odonata species ranging to the west and east of the two islands, respectively. Efficiency of Lombok Strait as a biogeographical boundary was estimated as high as 0.6, so Wallace Line is of importance for Odonata. Some diagnostic characters of N. emphyla, N. ramburii, R. phyllis phyllisand Procordulia sambawanaand a taxo-nomical situation around Prodasineura autumnalisand P. humeralis, which is not justified biogeographically, are discussed. Short notes on habitats and assemblages of Odonata are added.
Results are presented of a brief odonatological examination of the Abrau and Taman' Peninsulas at the northwesternmost Caucasian Black Sea coast in Krasnodarskiy Kray, Russia, on July 2026, 2017. Twenty three species have been observed at the former peninsula and five at the latter. The Odonata records at the Abrau Peninsula are summarised, to include 34 species.
A glance at the Odonata of the Cambodian coastal mountainous regions : end of dry season in 2010
(2010)
During a visit to the coastal regions of Cambodia within the Provinces of Koh Kong, Kampong Saom, Kampot and Kep within April 12-23, 2010, 59 species of Odonata were found. Of these, 51 were identified, 2 preliminarily identified (1 by exuviae, 1 to a known species with the valid name unresolved), 1 dubious (Aciagrion cf. pallidum), 3 not identified (just visual observations) and 2 seemingly undescribed, namely Burmagomphus sp. and Microgomphus sp. Fourteen species were recorded for the first time for this country, namely Neurobasis chinensis, Dysphaea gloriosa, Euphaea masoni, Onychargia atrocyana, Copera marginipes, Copera vittata, Prodasineura autumnalis Prodasineura verticalis sensu Asahina, 1983, Lathrecista asiatica, Orthetrum chrysis, Rhyothemis obsolescens, Tramea transmarina euryale, Zygonyx iris malayana, Zyxomma petiolatum; taking the current checklist for Cambodia up to 83 species. Some features of the collected specimens relevant to their taxonomy are discussed. Brief field notes are provided and Odonata records enumerated. The habitats and community of Odonata at the Cardamon Mts. foothills at the end of dry season are discussed.
The Cardamom foothills were re-assessed for Odonata in the late dry season of 2015 within E Thailand and SW Cambodia. In the narrow coastal strip of Trat Province of Thailand bordering to Cambodia, 44 species (1 unidentified) were recorded, of which 15, namely Agriocnemis nana, Archibasis viola, Ischnura senegalensis, Pseudagrion microcephalum, P. williamsoni, Acisoma panorpoides, Brachythemis contaminata, Brachydiplax farinosa, Hydrobasileus croceus, Macrodiplax cora, Rhyothemis plutonia, R. variegata, Tholymis tillarga and Trithemis pallidinervis were recorded for Trat Province for the first time. That increased the number of species recorded for the province to 61. Preliminary checklists of Odonata of Ream Peninsula (that is of Ream National Park) and of Koh Rong Island were complied, mostly on the data of this trip, to count 45 species (2 unidentified) and 17 species, respectively. As many as 36 species were recorded at the village of O’Som, Pursat Province. Copera marginipes is added to species recorded from Bokor Hill Station. Superficially similar males of Pseudagrion australasiae and P. microcephalum were observed in the same locality in Ream National Park.
Results are presented of an odonatological survey of 23 localities in Thala Barivat District of Stung Treng Province, northern Cambodia, on July 26 – August 1, 2016. Most localities were situated in areas of open low deciduous dipterocarp forests on gravel soils, some at hillside areas of tall evergreen dipterocarp forest. The great Mekong River right bank was studied within 7 km downstream of its Nimith (Nimet, Khon Thai, Labak Koun, Khone Pha Pheng) Waterfall. In total, 55 species were found, of which 52 identified to species and three to genus. Two species, Gynacantha saltatrix Martin, 1909 and Macrogomphus matsukii Asahina, 1986, were recorded in Cambodia for the first time. Five obligatory lotic species were found at the Mekong River, namely Dysphaea gloriosa, Prodasineura coerulescens, Burmagomphus asahinai, Nychogomphus duaricus and Onychothemis testacea, including tenerals of P. coerulescens and B. asahinai. Most probably these species breed in the Mekong reach which is enriched with oxygen downstream of the great waterfall cascade.
Part 1, Oleg E. Kosterin, page 1-28:
On the Odonata of North Kazakhstan Province. I. First data on Petropavlovsk
Abstract: The fauna of Odonata of the environs of Petropavlovsk, North Kazakhstan, was for the first time examined on two short trips in late June and mid August 2015. Thirty five species were revealed. Coenagrion ecornutum was recorded in Kazakhstan for the first time, Gomphus vulgatissimus the second time and Stylurus flavipes the third time. Range expansion of C. ecornutum is discussed. Comparison is attempted of the known local Odonata faunas of the environs of Petropavlovsk, Omsk and Novosibirsk cities residing at the same latitude in the West Siberian Lowland. The Petropavlovsk fauna is very close to that of Omsk. The earlier published Kazakh records of G. vulgatissimus and S. flavipes are clarified and corrected. Breeding of Aeshna viridis in Ishim River (lacking water soldier) is supposed.
Part 2, Oleg E. Kosterin, page 29-46:
Odonata registered on a short excursion to Kyshtovka District, Novosibirsk Province, Russia
Abstract: During a fourday trip to Kyshotovka District, the most northwestern district of Novosibirsk Province, 21 species of Odonata were recorded. Two significant findings were made: that of Coenagrion ecornutum is most northern in West Siberia, and that of Lestes macrostigma is perhaps the northernmost in its range. The latter species was found over small, shallow, freshwater pools along a roadside. The diversity of this species’ habitats in Siberia in comparison to its uniform habitats at brackish water in Western Europe is discussed.
Results of the odonatological survey of the coastal SW regions of Cambodia on November 28 - December 11, 2001, are presented, including field notes, enumeration of all records by locality, discussion of interesting specimens and their taxonomy and of seasonality aspects. Fifteen (14 named) species have been added to the known fauna of Cambodia: Aristocypha fenestrella (Rambur, 1842), Rhinagrion viridatum Fraser, 1938, Lestes elatus Hagen in Selys, 1862, L. platystylus Rambur, 1842, Aciagrion tillyardi Laidlaw, 1919, Agriocnemis f. femina (Brauer, 1868), Archibasis viola Lieftinck, Ceriagrion calamineum Laidlaw, 1951, Mortonagrion aborense (Laidlaw, 1914), M. falcatum Lieftinck, 1934, Pseudagrion microcephalum (Rambur, 1842), 1948, Paragomphus capricornis (Förster, 1914), Hemicordulia undescr. spec., Macrodiplax cora (Brauer, 1867), Nannophya pygmaea Rambur, 1842, plus a provisionally identified Ceriagrion indochinense Asahina, 1976. The country list now achieves 106 named species (not counting Prodasineura verticalis sensu Asahina, 1983, C. indochinense and Hemicordulia sp.). Coeliccia megumii Asahina, 1984 is synonymised with C. kazukoae Asahina, 1984. The differences between Ceriagrion olivaceum Laidlaw, 1914 and C. calamineum Lieftinck, 1951 are discussed.
Results of an odonatological survey of Mondulkiri Province of Cambodia, at the foothills and Central Plateau of the Annamese Mts. in June 8 – June 17, 2014 are presented. Of 106 Odonata species met (46 zygopterans, 60 anisopterans), 97 were identified to previously known named species, of which 15 are reported for the first time for Cambodia, namely Mnais mneme Ris, 1916, Rhinocypha seducta Hämäläinen et Karube, 2001, Philoganga loringae Fraser, 1927, Rhinagrion hainanense Wilson et Reels, 2001, Amphiallagma parvum (Selys, 1876), Ceriagrion chaoi Asahina, 1967, Paracercion malayanum (Selys, 1876), Prodasineura doisuthepensis Hoess, 2007, Protosticta grandis Asahina, 1985, Tetracanthagyna waterhousei McLachlan, 1898, Gomphidia kruegeri Martin, 1904, Heliogomphus chaoi Karube, 2004, Leptogomphus baolocensis Karube, 2001, Microgomphus jurzitzai Karube, 2000, Onychothemis culminicola Förster, 1904, and two species for which the specimens collected on this trip were described as new subspecies: Indolestes gracilis expressior Kosterin, 2015, Coeliccia poungyi dasha Kosterin, 2016. Five species collected on this trip have been described elsewhere as new to science, namely Onychargia priydak Kosterin, 2015, Prodasineura hoffmanni Kosterin, 2015, Asiagomphus reinhardti Kosterin et Yokoi, 2016, Euthygomphus schorri Kosterin, 2016 and Risiophlebia guentheri Kosterin, 2015. So the total number of the first country records of named species made on this trip is 22. Still four species found may be undescribed. The number of named species recorded in Cambodia has reached 178. Remarks on taxonomy and variation of Euphaea masoni Selys, 1879, E. ochracea Selys, 1859, Aciagrion approximans (Selys, 1876), and Lamelligomphus castor Lieftinck, 1941 are provided. Characters of mature males of R. seducta are updated. Notes on habitats and habits of some species are provided. Onychothemis culminicola and O. testacea Laidlaw, 1902 seem to exclude each other at rivers, the former occupying smaller and more elevated ones; a putative hybrid male was observed. General notes on the area and field impressions are briefly outlined.
A survey of Odonata in North Ethiopia, on the route Debre Libanos – Bahir Dar – Woldia – Hayk – Mile – Awash – Debre Zeyit crossing the provinces of Oromia, Amhara and Afar, in July 29 - August 10, 2012 yielded 38 species, including two endemics of Ethiopia and five species not hitherto reliably reported for this country in the literature: Pseudagrion commoniae (Forster, 1902), P. hamoni Fraser, 1955, P. salisburyense Ris, 1921, Bradinopyga strachani (Kirby, 1900) and Ictinogomphus ferox (Rambur, 1842). The number of Odonata species recorded in Ethiopia thus reached 104. Seventeen main localities were visited, on average showing 4.9 species per locality. A small branch of Jara River, Amhara, was the richest one (15 species). Comments on specimens of Pseudagrion spernatum Selys, 1881 and Nesciothemis farinosa (Forster, 1898) and notes on the country in general and particular habitats of Odonata are provided.
Specimens of Burmagomphus asahinai Kosterin, Makbun and Dawwrueng, 2012 and Burmagomphus divaricatus Lieftinck, 1964 from SW and NE Cambodia show differences in the development of the light pattern. One male of the latter species has unusual posterior spinules on posterior hamuli. Two males of Orientogomphus minor(Laidlaw, 1931) from the same locality in NE Cambodia have substantial differences in the thoracic and abdominal pattern. NE Cambodian specimens of Gomphidia abbotti Williamson, 1907 and Lamelligomphus castor (Lieftinck, 1941) have minor differences from data on these species from literature. Caution is necessary when composing and using keys for identification of the mentioned genera of gomphids.
Results of the odonatological survey of the coastal SW regions of Cambodia in August 12-28, 2011 are presented. Those include general notes on the Odonata fauna in late rainy season, enumeration of all records by locality, discussion of interesting specimens and their taxonomy, and notes on habitats and habits of some species. Of 87 named Odonata species encountered during the trip, 15 are reported for the first time for Cambodia, namely Aciagrion hisopa (Selys, 1876), Anax immaculifrons Rambur, 1842, Burmagomphus divaricatus Lieftinck, 1964, Gomphidictinus perakensis (Laidlaw, 1902), Merogomphus parvus (Kruger, 1899), Nepogomphus walli (Fraser, 1924), Idionyx thailandica Hamalainen, 1985, Macromia cupricincta Fraser, 1024, Macromia septima Martin, 1904, Macromidia rapida Martin, 1907, Agrionoptera insignis (Rambur, 1842), Lyriothemis elegantissima Selys, 1883, Onychothemis testacea Laidlaw, 1902, Orthetrum luzonicum (Brauer, 1868), Orthetrum testaceum (Burmeister, 1839). The country list now reaches 125 named species.
Macromidia genialis buusraaensis subspecies nova (Odonata, Synthemisidae s.l.) from eastern Cambodia
(2018)
Macromidia genialis buusraaensis subspecies nova is described from 10 males and 2 females from three localities of Mondulkiri Province, the eastern Cambodia (the type locality: a brook downstream Buu Sraa Waterfall 12°34' N 107°25' E). The new subspecies is close to M. g. shanensis Fraser, 1927 and differs from it by an additional, and the broadest, yellow spot on S7. It is partly syntopic with Macromidia rapida Martin, 1907. A brief overview of the current knowledge of the genus Macromidia Martin, 1907 is provided.
New data on Odonata of the Preah Sihanouk Province of Cambodia obtained in March 2017 and November 2018 are presented. The presence of Onychargia atrocyana Selys, 1865 in Cambodia is confirmed. Twentyone species are added to the known fauna of the Kbal Chhay Waterfall environs, 19 species to that of Ream Peninsula and 4 to that of Koh Rong Island. The total number of species registered for Kampong Saom Peninsula amounts to 74. The presented data are rather of historical importance since most of the remaining forest has been quickly and irreversibly logged a few months ago. The validity of Gynacantha demeter Ris, 1911 as a species distinct from G. dohrnii Krüger, 1899 is doubted.
Phnom Tumpor is a scarcely accessible basalt table mountain in the Cardamom Mts. in Pursat Province of Cambodia. On top surface it bears tall evergreen forest (ca 1100 m a.s.l.), concealing a slow rivulet, O'Gran, being a chain of deep pools. It was examined odonatologically on March 1418th, 2019. Six common species were recorded in dry and burnt scrub on the Phnom Tumpor slopes and ten on the forested upper surface at O'Gran, among them Polycanthagyna erythromelas (Selys, 1891) and Macromia sp. cf. pinratani Asahina, 1987 for the first time in Cambodia. The peculiarities of the males of Coeliccia kazukoae Asahina, 1984 from Phnom Tumpor and the problem of distinguishing females of M. pinratani and M. moorei are discussed.
Odonatological results of a trip across the southern Far East of Russia, from nearly the border of North Korea to Khabarovsk from July 1st to 16th, 2014, are presented. In total, 50 species were recorded, including those with limited presence in Russia, such as Paracercion calamorum, P. hieroglyphicum, P. plagiosum (for this species the 3rd Russian locality is reported), Pseudocopera tokyoensis, Stylurus annulatus (2nd Russian locality), Sinictinogomphus clavatus; Trigomphus citimus, Macromia daimoji (3rd Russian locality), M. manchurica, Deielia phaon, Lyriothemis pachygastra (2nd Russian locality). For S. annulatus, M. manchurica and D. phaon the northernmost known localities in the world are reported. D. phaon, earlier reported from one locality in Russia, have been found in five localities in Primorye and for the first time reported for Khabarovskiy Kray in general and Bol'shekhekhtsirskiy State Nature Reserve in particular. A trend of mutual exclusion of two abundant Shaogomphus postocularis epophthalmus and S. schmidti is supposed: the lowermost Ussuri River / Amur River, respectively. Variation in Paracercion spp. and Macromia amphigena fraenata is discussed.
Lake Tonle Sap in NW Cambodia is the largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia and one of the most productive freshwater ecosystems in the world, so its banks are a home for ca 1,5 million people. It serves as a natural reservoir of the excess water of the Mekong River and cyclically changes its area from 2,500 km2 in May to 16,000 km2 in October. Its banks are naturally occupied by temporarily inundated forest and scrub, at present mostly replaced by rice fields. The present day semiaquatic vegetation of the lake is to a large extent formed by invasive plant species. The hitherto existing data on Odonata of the lake are very scarce. The author briefly examined the bank and floodplain at the NW part of the lake in February/March 2017, June and November 2018 and December 2019. Five main localities studied are described and illustrated
in detail. In total 41 odonate species of four families (22 in Libellulidae) were found. Most of them are common and widespread lentic species but Macrogomphus phalantus is a species hitherto known only by few specimens from swamped forests of Borneo and Sumatra; its Tonle Sap population was earlier described by the author as the subspecies M. phalantus jayavarman Kosterin, 2019. The earlier published report by Seehausen et al. (2016) of Sinictinogomphus clavatus (not found by the author) was a considerable extension of the known species’ range to the south. Six species were found in all main examined localities and ten only in one of them. At any season at the lake immediate bank (that is water front at the lowest level), Brachythemis contaminata predominates overwhelmingly, Orthetrum sabina and Crocothemis servilia are numerous, two damselfly species, Pseudagrion microcephalum and P. rubriceps, invariably occur at floating vegetation (mostly water hyacinth), and Trithemis pallidinervis, Urothemis signata, Rhyothemis phyllis, R. variegata and Tholymis tillarga are common at bushes. Agriocnemis nana, Ceriagrion praetermissum, Ischnura senegalensis, Macrogomphus phalantus, and Aethriamanta aethra were occasionally met at the lake bank. Other 26 species were found, with different occurrence and quantity, on the lake floodplain. Variation of the male occiput coloration of Amphiallagma parvum is commented.
Prey Long (Prey Lang) Forest is the largest remaining lowland rainforest in Indochina, shared by Stung Treng, Preah Vihear, Kampong Thom and Kratie Provinces of Cambodia, which has been persisted until present because of the lack of roads. It includes patches of unique evergreen swamp forests. Odonata of Prey Long forest, including Cheum Takong forest swamp, was briefly examined in December 2019, while the already deforested area was examined in June 2018. The former examination resulted in 40 species, the latter in 34 species, 60 species in total. Two species, Copera chantaburii Asahina, 1984 and Burmagomphus williamsoni Förster, 1914, are for the first time reported for Cambodia from the deforested area (Chey Saen District of Preah Vihear Province). The swamped forest of Cheum Takong provided 17 species, 5 of which were not found elsewhere in the considered area, 3 are rare and 4 generally Sondaic. Prey Long Forest should be re-examined in the rainy season soon after the road to Spong village is constructed.
Coeliccia poungyi dasha subsp. nov. (Odonata, Platycnemididae, Calicnemiinae) from eastern Cambodia
(2016)
Coeliccia poungyi dasha is described from the Annamense Mts. in the eastern Cambodia (holotype: Cambodia, Mondulkiri Province, a brook, a left tributary of the main river downstream Buu Sraa Waterfall, 12°34'0119'' N 107°24'50''25' 03'' E, 416490 m a.s., 15.06. 2014, RMNH). The new subspecies differs from the nominotypical one in coloration of the mesepisternum in males and end of the abdomen in both sexes, as well as in the length of the terminal lobe of the genital ligula.
Goethe and the Sublime
(2013)
The dissertation situates the Goethean sublime in an obscured countermovement of resistance to the aestheticization the concept underwent in the 18th century. Before the encounter with the English aesthetic concept of the sublime, the German notion of das Erhabene (the sublime) named not a category of aesthetic experience, but a social affect. In contrast to the Sublime of Edmund Burke's theory, which explicitly excludes melancholy from the sources of the Sublime, das Erhabene is an affect related to the self-overcoming of melancholic subjectivity. As the aestheticized notion of the sublime displaced das Erhabene, Goethe became one of the most radical innovators of the aesthetics of the sublime. But as is demonstrated in chapters on The Sorrows of Young Werther, Elective Affinities, Faust and Wilhelm Meister, he did so with the aim of recovering the displaced meaning of das Erhabene as social affect. Goethe's sublime aims to show at every turn that the so-called "aesthetic experience" of the sublime is really displaced social affect. His treatment of the sublime therefore constitutes a radical critique of the establishment of aesthetics as an independent sphere of inquiry. There is for Goethe no way to understand aesthetic experience independently of its social context. By reconnecting the sublime it to the original social meaning of das Erhabene, Goethe recovers the aesthetics of the sublime as a means of mediating and facilitating the movement of subjectivity from frustrated stasis to divine creativity; i.e., from exclusion to participation in the material creation of reality.
Im Thale von Ferghana
(1877)
Die Autorin der vorliegenden Monographie gehört zu der jüngeren Generation slowakischer Germanisten, die sich systematisch der Forschung deutschsprachiger Kinder und Jugendliteratur widmet. Im Rahmen ihrer Forschung orientiert sie sich auf literaturtheoretische und literaturhistorische Aspekte der Literatur für Kinder in den deutschsprachigen Ländern.
Im Dezember 1995 wurden aus verschiedenen Gewässertypen der Insel Hainan, China, Proben genommen, um sie auf das Vorkommen von Rotatorien (Rädertiere) zu untersuchen. Es konnten 195 Spezies nachgewiesen werden, davon 187 monogononte und 8 digononte (bdelloide) Arten. Daneben wurden Formen aus 5 Gattungen und Bdelloidae beobachtet, deren Identifikation aufgrund von Konservierungsartefakten nicht möglich war. Von den nachgewiesenen Arten ist Cephalodella qionghaiensis neu für die Wissenschaft, daneben werden von Keratella micracantha eine neue Form und von Notholca acuminata eine neue Varietät beschrieben.
Erstmals wird die Rädertierfauna des 1985 neu entstandenen Kinda-Stausees im Einzugsgebiet des Panlaung-Flusses in Burma (Myanmar) beschrieben und im verbreitungsgeschichtlichen Zusammenhang diskutiert. Die Arbeit ist zugleich die bislang umfassendste Untersuchung von Rotatorien aus dieser tiergeographisch interessanten asiatischen Region. Die Plankton- und Aufwuchsproben wurden auf mehreren Exkursionen 1987-89 gesammelt. Insgesamt konnten 94 monogononte und 5 bdelloide Rädertier-Arten nachgewiesen werden; davon ist Wulfertia kindensis neu für die Wissenschaft. Die überwiegende Zahl der Spezies sind Kosmopoliten.
Die Rotatorienfauna einiger Gewässer des Naturschutzgebietes „Heiliges Meer“ im Kreis Steinfurt
(2001)
Die planktontische und die benthische Rotatorienfauna des NSG Heiliges Meer, Krs. Steinfurt, Nordrhein-Westfalen, wurde durch monatliche Beprobung von eutrophen, oligotrophen und dystrophen Gewässern zwischen Oktober 1999 und Oktober 2000 untersucht. Insgesamt konnten 195 Rädertierarten festgestellt werden, davon waren 166 Monogononta und 29 Bdelloidea.
Vom 3. 11. 1982 bis zum 17. Juli 1984 wurden in mehrwöchigen Abständen aus dem Litoral am NW-Ufer und Ostufer und in vier Freiwasserbereichen des Dümmers 11 Probenserien entnommen und auf ihren Rotatorienbestand hin geprüft. Es wurden insgesamt 95 Rädei1ier-Species gefunden. Das Untersuchungsergebnis wurde mit den von PERNER-MANEGOLD (1952) vorgelegten Listen, die insgesamt 32 Arten enthielten, verglichen. Davon konnten nur noch 25 aufgefunden werden. Bei den vermißten Rädertieren handelt es sich um Organismen, die Ansprüche an ein xeno- bis oligosaprobes Milieu stellen (Notholca foliacea, Ploesoma truncata, Conochilus hippocrepis, Euchlanis triquetra, Platyias quadricornis, Keratella testudo, Polyarthra minor). Die 70 neuen Rotatorien leben meist in den Dekompositionszonen über abgestorbenen Makrophyten, aber auch im Periphyton der im See nach der Eindeichung noch erhaltenen submersen Pflanzenwelt, u. a. Scirpus-lacustris-Horste, Nymphea-alba- und Nuphar-luteum-Bestände. Synchron mit den Probenentnahmen wurden einige abiotische ökologische Daten gemessen, die auch bei den Einzelbesprechungen von 14 Species zur Beschreibung ihrer ökologischen Ansprüche Verwendung finden. Die Extreme im Jahresgang waren für Sauerstoff: 2.4 mg/I (Juli 1983) und 28.5 mg/I (Juni 1984); für die Wassertemperatur: 10 C (Januar, Februar, März 1984) und 280 C (Juli 1983).
Dem jungen, künstlich geschaffenen Alfsee im Flußgebiet der Hase, einem Nebenfluß der Ems, NW-Deutschland, wurden vom Februar bis Oktober 1986 insgesamt an neun Tagen je eine Plankton- und Aufwuchsprobe entnommen und auf ihren Rotatorienbestand hin untersucht. Es wurden in der Untersuchungszeit 136 Rädertier-Arten incl, einiger infrasubspezifischer Taxa festgestellt, davon waren 34 Plankter, 90 Aufwuchsformen und 12 semiplanktonische Formen. Zur massenhaften Entwicklung im Plankton neigten Brachionus angularis, B. calyciflorus incl. versch. forma, Keratella cochlearis, K. quadrata, Notholca squamula, Polyarthra vulgaris, P. dolichoptera, P. vulgaris var.longiremis, Synchaeta oblonga und S. tremula; im Aufwuchs waren es Cephalodella catellina und C. ventripes. Perennierend waren nur wenige Species. Die meisten Arten insbesondere im Aufwuchs traten nur sporadisch und in geringer Individuendichte auf. Die Probenentnahmen wurden von synchronen chemisch-physikalischen Messungen begleitet. Extreme im Jahresgang waren für die Wassertemperatur 1,5 °C (11.02.1986) und 29,8 °C (01.07.1986); Sauerstoff 9,4 mgll O2 (28.10.1986) und 22,0 mg/I O2 (01.07.1986).15 Einzelbesprechungen erwähnenswerter Species mit originalen Abbildungen werden vorgelegt, darunter zwei für NW-Deutschland neue Arten: Resticula plicata WULFERT1935 und Encentrum longipes WULFERT 1960.
Im Rahmen eines Forschungsvorhabens über die Rotatorienfauna Jamaikas wurden 117 Proben (Juni bis August 1993) genommen. Es konnten 149 Morphen nachgewiesen werden, davon 127 monogononte und 22 digononte Formen. Da Konservierungsartefakte die Identifizierung behinderten, konnten nur 143 Spezies bestimmt werden, darunter auch Cephalodella irisae n.sp. und Cephalodella intuta jamaicaiensis n.ssp. Die wichtigsten Arten werden mit Bemerkungen zu ihrer systematischen Stellung, Taxonomie und Biogeographie dargestellt.
Während der zweiten Feldphase (März bis April 1994) des Forschungsvorhabens über die Rotatorienfauna Jamaikas wurden 39 Proben genommen. Es konnten 135 Morphen nachgewiesen werden, davon 120 monogononte und 15 digononte Formen. Daneben wurden Formen aus 6 Gattungen beobachtet, deren Identifikation aufgrund von Konservierungsartefakten nicht möglich war. Von den 135 Morphen sind 61 zum ersten Mal für Jamaika nachgewiesen; insgesamt sind für diese Insel jetzt 211 Rotatorien bekannt. Die wichtigsten Arten werden mit Bemerkungen zu ihrer Taxonomie, Biogeographie und Ökologie dargestellt.
Während eines Forschungsaufenthaltes in Jamaika, August bis Oktober 1991, wurden von einer Gruppe der AG Aquatische Ökologie der Universität Oldenburg/O. aus Phytotelmata der bodenständigen Bromelie Aechmea paniculigera GRISEB zwei Probenserien entnommen, um sie auf ihren Bestand an Rotatorien zu untersuchen. Es wurden 13 monogononte und 8 digononte (bdelloide) Morphen gefunden. Da neben lethalen auch Konservierungsartefakte die Identifizierung behinderten, konnten nur 17 Species bestimmt werden. Diese, darunter auch die bisher unbekannte Lecane (Monostyla) janetzkyi nov. spec., werden mit Bemerkungen zu ihrer systematischen Stellung, Taxonomie und Biogeographie sowie mit Abbildungen dargestellt.
1. Die Rotatorienfauna des Darnsees in Epe bei Bramsche, Kr. Bersenbrück, wurde zum ersten Male untersucht. In der Beobachtungszeit vom 1. V. 1959-28. 11. 1961 konnten 174 Formen festgestellt werden, unter denen sich sowohl Vertreter des Eulimnoplanktons als auch des Heleoplanktons befanden. Die Fülle der Arten konzentriert sich auf das Litoral und fällt hier besonders im Algenbewuchs auf. Im Pelagial fanden sich bisher nur 32 Arten. 2. Eine große Anzahl der Illorikaten, insbesondere viele nach der Kontraktion unbestimmbare Bdelloidae, wurden nimt erfaßt. In der aufgestellten Faunenliste finden sich 3 nicht sicher bestimmte Spezies: Colurella oblonga DONNER, Dicranophorus uncinatus (MILNE) und Collotheca gracilipes (EDMONDSON). 3. Alle aufgefundenen Spezies sind zum Teil schon recht lange bekannt und von früheren Autoren beschrieben; doch sind einige davon bisher in Mitteleuropa nur selten gefunden worden: Macrochaetus subquadratus, Microcoides robustus, Lepadella dactyliseta, Lepadella amphitmpis, Lecane opias, Lecane perplexa, Lecane perpusilla, Lecane stenroosi, Trichocerca uncinata, Testudinella reflexa, Testudinella parva, Testudinella parva var. bidentata, Testudinella emarginula, Ptygura hachiata var. bispicata, Ptygura velata, Collotheca algicola. Auffallend ist die Armut an Brachionusarten und das Fehlen der Gattung Pedalia. Neu beschrieben wurde Brachionus angularis f. caudatoides. 4. Die Zusammensetzung der Rotatorienfauna im Verlauf emes Jahres ändert sich ständig: Als perennierende Arten zeigten sich: Braehionus angularis, Keratella eochlearls, Lepadella patella, Lepadella triptera, Lepadella acuminata, Colurella obtusa, Colurella uncinata var. bieuspidata, Lecane closterocerca, Monomnata longiseta, Trichocerca poreelfus, Asplanchna priodonta, Testudinella patina, Steph.-moeeros fimbriatus, Collotheca campanulata, C. ornata var. comuta, Rotaria tardigyada, Rotaria Totatoyia. Als kaltstenotherme Arten traten auf: Filinia maior und Notholca labis. Zu den warmstenothermen Formen gehören hier: Trichotria tetractis, Anuraeopsis fissa, Platyias quadricomis, Platyias patulus, Brachionus quadridentatus, Leeane quadridentata, Lecane biturea, Polyarthra euryptera, Pompholyx sulcata, Ploesoma truncatum, Aseomorpha sattans, Ascomorpha ecaudis, Chromogaster ovalis, Conoehiloides dossuarius, Collotheea pelagiea, Collotheea mutabilis. Manche dieser Arten, die ein starkes Herbstmaximum aufweisen, verschwinden erst nach den ersten Nachtfrösten. Brachionus angularis, Keratella cochlearis, Asplanehna priodonta, Pompholyx sulcata und Ascomorpba saltans zeigten sich als dicyclische Formen mit ausgeprägten Frühjahrs- und Herbstmaxima. Conoehiloides dossuarius kam nur im September zur Massenentwicklung. 5. Die Untersuchungen werden in den kommenden Jahren fortgesetzt und in einem besonderen Nachtrag zu dieser Arbeit veröffentlicht.
In den Jahren 1996 bis 1998 wurden aus dem Rio Paraguay und einigen kleinen Stiligewässern (Baias) in der Nähe der Stadt Corurnba Proben gezogen, um sie auf das Vorkommen von Rotatorien zu untersuchen. In diesen Proben konnten insgesamt 216 Spezies nachgewiesen werden, davon 202 monogononte und 14 digononte (bdelioide) Arten. Bei einzelnen Individuen z. B. der Gattung Cephalodella (Monogononta) bzw. der Familie Bdelioidea traten Konservierungsartefakte auf, die sich nicht eindeutig einer Art zuzuordnen ließen. 78 monogononte und 12 digononte Spezies sind für das Gebiet erstmalig genannt. Mit Hilfe von Abbildungen werden einige bemerkenswerte Arten hinsichtlich ihrer Taxonomie, Ökologie und Verbreitung besprochen.
Dicranophorus robustus H. & M. wurde nach seiner Erstbeschreibung nach Funden in der Nearktis bisher nur in einigen Gewässern der Paläarktis und Orientalis wieder angetroffen. Wenige Autoren haben zudem die Beschreibung des Typus überprüft. Einige führten den Carnivoren lediglich in ihren Faunenlisten auf. Beobachtungsfehler führten zur Aufstellung einer ssp. Nach Untersuchungen lebender Tiere aus dem Heideweiher, Naturschutzgebiet "Heiliges Meer", und aus einer Moorblänke, Hahlener Moor, beide Gewässer in NWDeutschland, und Untersuchungen von konservierten Exemplaren aus Kanada, Iran und WAustralien, werden ergänzende Angaben zur Morphologie, Anatomie, Biologie, Verbreitung sowie kritische Anmerkungenn zur Taxonomie dieser Rädertierart genannt.
Fünf in Naturreservaten Madagaskars gesammelte Moosproben wurden auf ihre Besiedlung mit Rotatorien (Rädertiere)untersucht. Es konnten 9 monogononte und 25 digononte (bdelioide) Species gefunden werden, darunter Macrotrachela herzigana, eine bisher unbekannte Spezies. 25 Arten waren bisher aus Madagaskar nicht bekannt.
Qualitative Planktonproben, die in den Jahren 1985 und 1986 in dem tropischen Lago do Macaco, einem Ufersee des Rio Trombetas, einem der aus dem Nordwesten kommenden Nebenflüsse des Amazonas, gezogen wurden, sind auf ihren Gehalt an Rotatorien untersucht worden. Es wurden auffallend viele endemische Arten der Neotropis gefunden, insgesamt 12 von 49. Sechs seltene (Anuraeopsis sioli KOSTE; Ascomorpha klementi HAUER; Brachionus gessneri HAUER; Brachionus urceolaris amazonica KOSTE& ROBERTSON; Keratella nhamunda KOSTE& ROBERTSON; Paranuraeopsis quadriantennata KOSTE)und zwei Modifikationen (Trichocerca pusilla LAUTERBORN 1898 nov. f. grandis und Trichocerca similis (WIERZEJSKI 1893) f. grandis nach HAUER)werden mit Unterstützung von Abbildungen besprochen.
Hiermit wird zum ersten Mal über die Rotatorienfauna Kalimantans berichtet. Die Probenentnahmen erfolgten in einem Überschwemmungsgebiet am äquatorialen Mittellauf des Sungai Mahakam. Auch in Niedrigwasserzeiten perennieren dort ausgedehnte, bewaldete Sümpfe und Flachseen, in denen sich die aquatische Lebewelt konzentriert, um zu überleben. Die Artendiversität war sehr hoch. In den Proben wurden 117 Litoral- und 41 Planktonformen festgestellt. Darunter waren für SE-Asien 19 neue Rädertiere, fünf bisher unbekannte infrasubspezifische Morphen und zwei nov. spec.: Brachionus schwoerbeli und Lecane (s.str.) braumi. Außerdem wird mit Hilfe von Abbildungen über die Taxonomie einiger seltener Arten diskutiert sowie über ihre globale Verbreitung berichtet.
Von 1966-1969 wurden an fünf Stellen der Hase, einem Nebenfluß der Ems (Nordwestdeutschland) alle vier Wochen Probenserien aus dem Ufersand, dem Aufwuchs der Wasserpflanzen, von der Oberfläche des Schlammes und aus dem offenen Wasser entnommen und ihre Mikrofauna mikroskopisch auf ihren Anteil an Rotatorien untersucht. Es konnten in dem Flußabschnitt zwischen den Städten Osnabrück und Ouakenbrück 187 Rädertierarten festgestellt werden. Obwohl sie zum Teil aus Nebengewässern des Einzugsgebietes des Flusses eingeschwemmt sind, können die meisten, insbesondere die Formen des Mikrobenthos, als echte Flußbewohner angesehen werden. Von den 36 Arten mit den stärksten Populationen, die in dem erwähnten Zeitraum in dem Hase-Abschnitt lebten, sind' fast alle Indikatororganismen für mäßig (beta-mesosaprobe) bis stark (alpharnesosaprobe) verunreinigte Gewässerzonen.
In Billabongs des Magela-Creek, einem Nebenfluß des East-Alligator-Rivers, wurden im Jahre 1980 Planktonproben von Mr. RUSSEL TAIT, Ja-Ja-Camp der Pancontinental Mining, Darwin, Australien, N.T., gezogen. Die während der Regenzeit miteinander verbundenen Gewässer liegen in der Nähe von Jabiluka (12° 40'S/132° 50'E), wo die oben erwähnte Gesellschaft ein Uran-Erzbergwerk betreibt. Das mit der Untersuchung der Proben beauftragte Zoological Department der Universität Adelaide, S-Australien übersandte mir durch Dr. R. J. SHIEL Teilproben (3-5 ml) mit der Bitte, die darin enthaltenen Rädertiere (Rotatorien), eine Tierklasse der Aschelminthes, zu bestimmen. Nach Abschluß meiner Untersuchungen lege ich eine Liste mit 174 Rädertier-Taxa (incl. 25 für den Kontinent Australien bisher unbekannte) vor. Vier für die Wissenschaft neue Arten:
Dicranophorus halbachi n. sp., Lepadella (s. str.) minorui, Lepadella (s. str.) lindaui n. sp. und Testudinella greeni n. sp. werden beschrieben, abgebildet und mit Unterstützung vergleichender Tabellen hinsichtlich ihrer systematischen Stellung und ihres taxonomischen Ranges diskutiert Außerdem werden interessante Aberrationen seltener Arten sowie einiger Kosmopoliten wie Balatro calvus CLAPARÈDE, Cephalodella panarista MYERs, Testudinella insinuata HAUER, Lepadella latusinus (HILGENDORF), Lepadella ovalis (O.F.M.) und Notommata pachyura (GOSSE) f. triangulatus KIRKMAN besprochen und dargestellt. Die untersuchte Rädertier-Fauna N-Australiens zeigt insgesamt eine Ähnlichkeit mit der Indonesiens (Java, Sumatra, Bali), die von HAUER (1937/1938) nach dem Material der Deutschen Limnologischen Sunda-Expedition erforscht und beschrieben wurde. Auch die australischen Rotatorien-Taxozönosen werden durch viele kosmopolitische Species, die mit pansubtropischen und pantropischen Arten zusammenleben, charakterisiert, weisen aber auch einige endemische Tiere wie z. B. Brachionus dichotomus SHEPHARD und Br. dichotomus reductus KOSTE & SHIEL auf. Die Frage, ob die in dieser Arbeit erwähnten neuen Rotatorien auch Endemiten des australischen Kontinents sind, kann erst nach weiteren Untersuchungen beantwortet werden.
9 Planktonproben, die Prof. Dr. K. BÖTTGER, Zool. Inst. der Christian-Albrechts- Univ. zu Kiel, BRD, in 5 Kleingewässern in der Nähe von Concepcion Planktonproben, die Prof. Dr. K. BÖTTGER, Zool. Inst. der Christian-Albrechts- Univ. zu Kiel, BRO, in 5 Kleingewässern in der Nähe von Concepcion, Paraguay, im Oktober 1985 für den Verfasser gezogen hatte, wurden auf ihren Bestand an Rotatorien untersucht. Es wurden 138 Species festgestellt. 24 waren Planktonrädertiere und 114 Bewohner der litoralen Gewässerzonen. Für die biogeographische Region der Neotrapis sind neu: Cephalodella biungulata WULFERT 1937, Dicranophorus halbachi KOSTE 1981, Enteroplea lacustris EHRENBERG 1830, Harringia rousseleti DEBEAUCHAMP 1912, Itura chamadis HARRING & MYERS 1928, Lacinu- laria elliptica SHEPHARD 1897, Monommata cf. arndti REMANE 1933 und Resticula melandocus (GOSSE 1887). 2 für die Wissenschaft neue Arten werden beschrieben: Cephalodella hollowdayi n. sp. und Lecane (s. str.) boettgeri n. sp.n
100 years since the end of German colonial rule in Namibia, the relationship between the former colonial power and the Namibian communities who were affected by its brutal colonial policies remains problematic, and interpretations of the past are still contested. This book examines the ongoing debates, conflicts and confrontations over the past. It scrutinises the consequences of German colonial rule, its impact on the descendants of victims of the 190408 genocide, Germanys historical responsibility, and ways in which post-colonial reconciliation might be achieved.
"Verhaltenswissenschaftliche Theorien oder mikroökonomische Theorie?" - das ist nicht die Frage, wenn es um die Erklärung menschlichen Verhaltens in Organisationengeht. Sie schließen sich nämlich nicht gegenseitig aus, sondern ergänzen sich. Deshalb sollten sie gemeinsam, und zwar in einem integrativen und nicht in einem additiven Sinne zumbesseren Verständnis und zur wirksameren Beeinflussung menschlicher Handlungen in Organisationen genutzt werden. Der vorliegende Aufsatz will dazu und zur Vermeidung bzw. Überwindung verfehlter Frontbildungen einen Beitrag leisten. Die ökonomische Effizienz von Anreizsystemen, die in der Regel nicht direkt beurteilt werden kann, sondern indirekt über adäquate Ersatzkriterien oder -wie hier- über plausible Bedingungen, ist, wie sich schnell erkennenläßt, ein besonders treffliches Objektfürderartige Bemühungen unter marktwirtschaftichen Bedingungen.
Purpose: To correlate inflammatory and proangiogenic key cytokines from undiluted vitreous of treatment-naïve central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) patients with SD-OCT parameters.
Methods: Thirty-five patients (age 71.1 years, 24 phakic, 30 nonischemic) underwent intravitreal combination therapy, including a single-site 23-gauge core vitrectomy. Twenty-eight samples from patients with idiopathic, non-uveitis floaterectomy served as controls. Interleukin 6 (IL-6), monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1), and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF-A) levels were correlated with the visual acuity (logMar), category of CRVO (ischemic or nonischemic) and morphologic parameters, such as central macular thickness-CMT, thickness of neurosensory retina-TNeuro, extent of serous retinal detachment-SRT and disintegrity of the IS/OS and others.
Results: The mean IL-6 was 64.7pg/ml (SD ± 115.8), MCP-1 1015.7 ( ± 970.1), and VEGF-A 278.4 ( ± 512.8), which was significantly higher than the control IL-6 6.2 ± 3.4pg/ml (P=0.06), MCP-1 253.2 ± 73.5 (P<0.0000001) and VEGF-A 7.0 ± 4.9 (P<0.0006). All cytokines correlated highly with one another (correlation coefficient r=0.82 for IL-6 and MCP-1; r=0.68 for Il-6 and VEGF-A; r=0.64 for MCP-1 and VEGF-A). IL-6 correlated significantly with CMT, TRT, SRT, dIS/OS, and dELM. MCP-1 correlated significantly with SRT, dIS/OS, and dELM. VEGF-A correlated not with changes in SD-OCT, while it had a trend to be higher in the ischemic versus the nonischemic CRVO group (P=0.09).
Conclusions: The inflammatory cytokines were more often correlated with morphologic changes assessed by SD-OCT, whereas VEGF-A did not correlate with CRVO-associated changes in SD-OCT. VEGF inhibition alone may not be sufficient in decreasing the inflammatory response in CRVO therapy.
Introduction. To evaluate clinical feasibility and reproducibility of cytometric bead assay (CBA) in nondiluted vitreous samples of patients with age-related macular degeneration (ARMD), diabetic macular edema (DME), and central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO). Methods. Twelve patients from a single clinics day qualified for intravitreal injections (ARMD n = 6, DME n = 3, CRVO n = 3) and underwent a combination treatment including a single-site 23 gauge core vitrectomy which yielded a volume of 0.6 mL undiluted vitreous per patient. Interleukin-6 (IL-6), vascular endothelial growth factor isoform A (VEGF-A), and monocyte chemo-attractant protein-1 (MCP-1) were assessed directly from 0.3 mL at the same day (fresh samples). To assess the reproducibility 0.3 ml were frozen for 60 days at -80°, on which the CBA was repeated (frozen samples). Results. In the fresh samples IL-6 was highest in CRVO (median IL-6 55.8 pg/mL) > DME (50.6) > ARMD (3.1). Highest VEGF was measured in CRVO (447.4) > DME (3.9) > ARMD (2.0). MCP-1 was highest in CRVO (595.7) > AMD (530.8) > DME (178). The CBA reproducibility after frozen storage was examined to be most accurate for MCP1 (P = 0.91) > VEGF (P = 0.68) > IL-6 (P = 0.49). Conclusions. CBA is an innovative, fast determining, and reliable technology to analyze proteins in fluids, like the undiluted vitreous, which is important to better understand ocular pathophysiology and pharmacology. There is no influence of intermittent storage at -80° for the reproducibility of the CBA.
Background: There is absence of specific biomarkers and an incomplete understanding of the pathophysiology of exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Methods and findings: Eighty-eight vitreous samples (73 from patients with treatment naïve AMD and 15 control samples from patients with idiopathic floaters) were analyzed with capillary electrophoresis coupled to mass spectrometry in this retrospective case series to define potential candidate protein markers of AMD. Nineteen proteins were found to be upregulated in vitreous of AMD patients. Most of the proteins were plasma derived and involved in biological (ion) transport, acute phase inflammatory reaction, and blood coagulation. A number of proteins have not been previously associated to AMD including alpha-1-antitrypsin, fibrinogen alpha chain and prostaglandin H2-D isomerase. Alpha-1-antitrypsin was validated in vitreous of an independent set of AMD patients using Western blot analysis. Further systems biology analysis of the data indicated that the observed proteomic changes may reflect upregulation of immune response and complement activity.
Conclusions: Proteome analysis of vitreous samples from patients with AMD, which underwent an intravitreal combination therapy including a core vitrectomy, steroids and bevacizumab, revealed apparent AMD-specific proteomic changes. The identified AMD-associated proteins provide some insight into the pathophysiological changes associated with AMD.
Die mikroskopische Anatomie sowie die pathologische Anatomie bilden einen wichtigen Baustein der Ausbildung von Medizin- und Zahnmedizinstudenten. Da die zeitlichen und personellen Kapazitäten in den Instituten für Pathologie bzw. Anatomie keine vierundzwanzigstündige Betreuung erlauben, bestand der Wunsch, ein zeit- und ortsunabhängiges webbasiertes und interaktives multimediales Lernprogramm zu entwickeln. Es sollte den Studierenden beim Erlernen der Histologie und Histopathologie helfen und die Präsenzveranstaltungen am Mikroskop und Vorlesungen Ergänzen. Das Lernprogramm wurde mit zahlreichen hochauflösenden Bildern aller histologischen Präparate, die Bestandteil der Histologie- und Histopathologiekurse sind, in verschiedenen Vergrößerungen ausgestattet und in die Kurse des Frankfurter Curriculum für Medizin- und Zahnmedizin integriert. Darüber hinaus wurden alle histologischen Webseiten mit den entsprechenden histopathologischen Seiten verlinkt und umgekehrt. Ein Autorensystem zur Aktualisierung, Korrektur und Erweiterung der Programme wurde entwickelt. Mit der Hilfe der Evaluation durch die Studierenden wurde das System im Verlauf stark verbessert. Die hohe Zahl der Zugriffe auf die Website über das Internet (500.000 – 800.000 im Monat) weist auf die hohe Akzeptanz und Beliebtheit des Programms hin. Im wesentlichen zeigt die vorliegende Arbeit, dass internet-basierte Multimedia-Projekte von Studierenden verwendet werden und ihnen helfen, komplexe Sachverhalte der Histologie und Histopathologie zu erlernen. Die enge Verzahnung zwischen histologischen und histopathologischen Themen und Präparaten ermöglicht Studierenden der vorklinischen Fächer, über krankheitsbedingte Veränderungen zu erfahren, Studierende der klinischen Fächer hingegen können das histologische Basiswissen rekapitulieren. Das Autorensystem kann zur Entwicklung weiterer webbasierter Anwendungen, wie z. B. Virtuelle Mikroskopie oder Wissensprüfungsprogramme für die Histologie/Histopathologie, verwendet werden.
This paper discusses the implications of transnational media production and diasporic networks for the cultural politics of migrant minorities. How are fields of cultural politics transformed if Hirschmann’s famous options ‘exit’ and ‘voice’ are no longer constituting mutually exclusive responses to dissent within a nation-state, but modes of action that can combine and build upon each other in the context of migration and diasporic media activism? Two case studies are discussed in more detail, relating to Alevi amateur television production in Germany and to a Kurdish satellite television station that reaches out to a diaspora across Europe and the Middle East. Keywords: migrant media, transnationalism, Alevis, Kurds, Turkey, Germany
Migranten werden in politischen Debatten oft als festgefügte Gemeinschaft betrachtet, die in ihrer eigenen nach außen abgeschotteten Welt leben – in einer Parallelgesellschaft. Doch ist das wirklich so? Wie gestalten insbesondere junge Leute mit Migrationshintergrund ihre sozialen Bindungen, wenn sie sich in der urbanen Clubszene europäischer Großstädte bewegen? Das Team um die Soziologin und Kulturanthropologin Kira Kosnick untersucht die Dynamiken dieser Prozesse.
This working paper is based on a lecture given at the Summer School “Multiple Inequalities in the Age of Transnationalization”, June 23-27 2014 at Goethe University Frankfurt. In it, I explore the linkages between sexuality and migration and aim to show that instead of deeming them a narrow subfield of migration studies, thinking through these linkages has much wider implications for different fields, including post- and decolonial queer studies, the study of race and sexuality, the study of citizenship and state projects of inclusion/exclusion, and for work that attempts to ce-center the predominant knowledge production focused on the Global North.
Über Bernstein
(1991)
Hitze-Stress-Transkriptionsfaktoren (Hsfs) stellen die zentralen regulatorischen Komponenten einer Signal-Transduktionskette dar, welche die Aktivierung von Hitze-Stress-induzierbaren Genen bewirken. Die Sequenzierung des Genoms von Arabidopsis thaliana (Arabidopsis) führte zu der Entdeckung von 21 Genen, die für putative Hsfs codieren. Aufgrund struktureller Charakteristika und phylogenetischer Analysen wurden die 21 Hsfs in die Klassen A, B und C aufgeteilt. Der Hauptteil der vorliegenden Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der funktionellen Charakterisierung der Hsf Familie aus Arabidopsis. Um generelle Konzepte zur Funktion von pflanzlichen Hsfs als Aktivatoren zu unterstützen, wurden als Ausgangspunkt ausgewählte Hsfs aus Lycopersicon peruvianum (Tomate) zu detaillierten Analysen herangezogen. Hsfs besitzen, ähnlich anderen Transkriptions -aktivierenden Proteinen, eine modulare Struktur. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurden funktionelle Module der 21 Arabidopsis Hsfs untersucht, die für den Oligomerisierungs-Zustand, die intrazelluläre Lokalisation sowie das Transkriptions-aktivierende Potential von Bedeutung sind. Essentiell für die Funktion von Klasse A Hsfs als Transkriptions-Aktivatoren sind kurze Peptidmotive, die durch aromatische und große hydrophobe Aminosäure-Seitenketten geprägt sind, die in einer sauren Umgebung eingebettet sind (AHA Motive: aromatic, large hydrophobic and acid amino acid residues). Es wurde mit GST pull-down Assays gezeigt, dass AHA Motive mit ausgewählten Transkriptions-Komplexen interagieren. Das generelle Konzept für AHA Motive als kohäsive Elemente zur Interaktion mit der Transkriptions- Maschinerie wurde durch Mutationsanalysen verifiziert, besonders detailliert am Beispiel von LpHsfA2 und LpHsfA1 aus Tomate in Reporter-Assays in Tabak-Protoplasten und Hefe als auch GST pull-down Experimenten gezeigt. Im Kontrast zu den Klasse A Hsfs besitzen Klasse B und C Hsfs keine AHA Motive. Diese zeigten auch keine eigene Aktivator-Funktion aber Experimente deuten darauf hin, daß sie Coregulatoren für Klasse A Hsfs darstellen. Es wurde gezeigt, dass diese pflanzliche Besonderheit bei Tomate als auch Arabidopsis existiert. Alle 21 Arabidopsis Hsfs wurden als Transkripte nachgewiesen, ihre Expression verhält sich sehr dynamisch in bezug auf Hitze-Stress als auch Entwicklungssignale. Die präsentierte funktionelle Charakterisierung der Hsf Familie von Arabidopsis gibt erste Einsichten in das komplexe Netzwerk der Hsfs und demonstriert bereits, dass im Vergleich zu anderen Organismen, wie z.B. Drosophila und Hefe mit einem Hsf und Säugern mit drei Hsfs, das komplexe pflanzliche Hsf System eine fein regulierte und effiziente Voraussetzung für Pflanzen darstellt, um schnell und vor allem erfolgreich auf Umwelteinflüsse zu reagieren, denen sie nicht entfliehen können.
How to write (international) legal histories that would be true to their protagonists while simultaneously relevant to present audiences? Most of us would also want to write "critically" – that is to say, at least by aiming to avoid Eurocentrism, hagiography and commitment to an altogether old-fashioned view of international law as an instrument of progress. Hence we write today our histories "in context". But this cannot be all. Framing the relevant "context" is only possible by drawing upon more or less conscious jurisprudential and political preferences. Should attention be focused on academic debates, military power, class structures or assumptions about the longue durée? Such choices determine for us what we think of as relevant "contexts", and engage us as participants in large conversations about law and power that are not only about what once "was" but also what there will be in the future.
In The Gentle Civilizer of Nations, I suggested that international law began in the 1860’s as part of liberal entrenchment in Europe as the clouds of nationalism, racism and socialism were rising in the political horizon. It began as a project of practicalmen, attorneys and lawyers active in politics and parliament, and not out of philosophical contemplation or system-construction. University professors were involved, but these were professors of something that was seen more as a craft than a science. What they aimed at was to "civilize" the behaviour of their nations, but also the colonies, and to do this by coordinating liberal legislative reform in Europe, by supporting formal empire in the colonies, and by doing all this as part of a set of cosmopolitan legal projects they grouped into their "international law" (Droit international, diritto internazionale, Völkerrecht). ...
Political theology’s recent rise to academic prominence has, no doubt, been inspired by the sense of a certain staleness of standard (read: Anglo-American) analytical political and legal theory. Especially postcolonial and postmodern philosophy has resuscitated debates about the reality of secularization in Europe, pointing out that much of our shared political metaphysic is indeed that – a metaphysic – with close historical links to debates in theology. That should be no surprise. For almost half a millennium theology stood as the primus inter pares among the three "higher faculties" at European universities. The best minds at work in Europe explained the social and political changes to European audiences within a fully God-centric intellectual universe. Awareness of that fact, as Wim Decock points out in this massive and brilliant work, not only assists us in understanding the development of our political and legal vocabularies. It also enables us to grasp the contingency of our present debates, the way opposite standpoints on political and legal obligation refer back to assumptions about human nature, the roles of individual and society and the nature of "law" that are hard to detach from religious speculation. ...
The article presents a brief overview of research and publication in the history of international law in Europe today. The upsurge of interest in historical studies is traced back to a sense of present transformation, with historical studies seeking to explore both aspects of continuity and change in the international legal system. The article outlines three tasks for the discipline in the future: to begin work for international law’s Ideengeschichte, to focus on the relationship between the West and its "Other", and to undertake studies in the historical sociology of international law.
We provide evidence on the extent to which survey items in the Preference Survey Module and the resulting Global Preference Survey measuring social preferences − trust, altruism, positive and negative reciprocity − predict behavior in corresponding experimental games outside the original participant sample of Falk et al. (2022). Our results, which are based on a replication study with university students in Tehran, Iran, are mixed. While quantitative items considering hypothetical versions of the experimental games correlate significantly and economically meaningfully with individual behavior, none of the qualitative items show significant correlations. The only exception is altruism where results correspond more closely to the original findings.
This paper explores consequences of consumer education on prices and welfare in retail financial markets when some consumers are naive about shrouded add-on prices and firms try to exploit it. Allowing for different information and pricing strategies we show that education is unlikely to push firms to disclose prices towards all consumers, which would be socially efficient. Instead, price discrimination emerges as a new equilibrium. Further, due to a feedback on prices, education that is good for consumers who become sophisticated may be bad for consumers who stay naive and even for the group of all consumers as a whole
Rezension zu: Social preferences: an introduction to behavioural economics and experimental research, by Michalis Drouvelis, Newcastle upon Tyne: Agenda Publishing, 2021, 205 pages, £22.99, ISBN 978-1-78821-417-9 (paperback).
The RFQ direct injection project (RFQ-DIP) for the neutrino physics experiment IsoDAR aims at an efficient injection of a high-current H²⁺ beam into the dedicated 60 MeV driver cyclotron. Therefore, it is intended to use a compact 32.8 MHz RFQ structure of the split-coaxial type as a pre-buncher. To determine the thermal elongation of the 1.4 m long electrode rods as well as the thermal frequency detuning of the RF structure at a maximum nominal power load of 3.6 kW, an extensive thermal and structural mechanical analysis using COMSOL Multiphysics was conducted. The water heating along the cooling channels as well as the properties of heat transfer from the copper structure to the cooling water were taken into account, which required CFD simulations of the cooling water flow in the turbulent regime. Here we present the methods and results of the sophisticated thermal and structural mechanical simulations using COMSOL and provide a comparison to more simplistic simulations conducted with CST Studio Suite.
This dissertation presents the development of a new radio frequency quadrupole (RFQ) structure of the 4-rod type with an operating frequency of 108 MHz for the acceleration of heavy ions with mass-to-charge ratios of up to 8.5 at high duty cycles up to CW operation ("continuous wave") at the High Charge Injector (HLI) of the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt.
The need to develop a completely new RFQ for the HLI arises from the fact that with the previously designed and built 4-rod RFQ structure, which was commissioned at the HLI in 2010 as part of the planned HLI upgrade program, the desired operating modes in both pulsed and CW operation could not be achieved even after several years of operating experience and considerable efforts to eliminate or at least mitigate the severe operational instabilities. Mechanical vibrations of the electrodes, which result in strong modulated power reflection, as well as the high thermal sensitivity proved to be particularly problematic.
In addition to the RF design of the new RFQ by simulations performed with the CST Microwave Studio software, the focus of the investigations fell on the mechanical analysis of vibrations on the electrode rods caused by RF operation, for which the ANSYS Workbench software was used. Due to the high thermal load of the RFQ structure of more than 30 kW/m in CW operation, an accurate analysis of the thermal effects on electrode deformation as well as resulting frequency detuning of the resonator is also required, which was investigated by simulations within the capabilities of CST Mphysics Studio.
Based on the results of the design studies carried out by simulations and the thereby achieved design optimizations, a 4-rod RFQ prototype with 6 stems was finally manufactured, on which most of the properties expected from the simulations could be validated by measurements of the RF characteristics as well as of the vibration behavior.
Finally, based on the results of the pre-tests and considering a newly developed beam dynamics concept, a completely revised RF design for a new full-length HLI-RFQ was derived from the prototype design.
Daß es neben dem unstrittigen Mittelmaß an lebenspraktischer Ratgeberliteratur auch originelle Traditionsbegründer gab, soll im folgenden am Beispiel von Karl Philipp Moritz gezeigt werden. Zwar wird er mit seinen Beiträgen zur Philosophie des Lebens als einer der frühesten Namensgeber für die Bewegung bis hinauf zum Lexikonartikel erwähnt, eine inhaltliche Auseinandersetzung fand aber bisher kaum statt. Ein gutes Beispiel dafür ist eine jüngere Darstellung zur Lebensphilosophie (1993) von Ferdinand Fellmann. In wenigen Zeilen wird Moritz´ Werk kurz erwähnt und hervorgehoben, daß er “psychologische Erkenntnisse mit pädagogischen Intentionen” verbinde. Schon im nächsten Absatz versieht ihn Fellmann aber mit dem Etikett “romantische Lebensphilosophie”, trotz der markierten Gegensätze gemeinsam mit Friedrich Schlegel, dem Verfasser von Vorlesungen zur Philosophie des Lebens (1827). Zusammen werden sie einer ersten Epoche zugerechnet, von der sich eine zweite radikal unterscheide, die erstmals mit Nietzsche, Bergson und Simmel zu einer “Theorie der Selbsterfahrung” ansetze. Gegen diese schroffe Entgegenstellung möchte ich aus zwei Gründen deutliche Kontinuitäten zwischen Moritz und der moderneren Lebensphiloso-phie betonen: Erstens sind seine Beiträge ein literarisch ambitioniertes Experiment mit Darstellungsformen, die sich ähnlich konträr zur akademischen Schulphilosophie der jeweiligen Zeit verhalten wie Schopenhauers Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit (1851) oder Nietzsches Menschliches, Allzu-menschliches (1878). Zweitens entfaltet Moritz in diesem Frühwerk Überlegungen zur Selbstbeobachtung, zu Selbstgefühl und Selbstreflexion, die das Magazin zur Erfahrungsseelenkunde sowie den Anton Reiser vorbereiten und letztlich durchaus zu einer “Theorie der Selbsterfahrung” in Fellmanns Sinne führen. Kaum zufällig haben die von ihm aufgebotenen Autoren sich gelegentlich auf Moritz berufen.
We document the structure of firm-bank relationships across the eleven largest euro area countries and present new stylised facts using novel data from the recent credit registry of the Eurosystem - AnaCredit. We look at the number of banking relationships, reliance on the main bank, credit instruments, loan maturity and interest rates. The granularity of the data allows us to account for cross country differences in firm characteristics. Firms in Southern European countries borrow from a larger number of banks and obtain a lower share of credit from the main bank compared to those in Northern European countries. They also tend to borrow more on short term, more expensive instruments and to obtain loans with shorter maturity. This is consistent with the hypothesis that Southern European countries rely less on relationship banking and obtain credit less conducive to firm growth, in line with the smaller average size of Southern European firms. Instead, no clear pattern emerges in terms of interest rates, consistent with the idea that banks appropriate part of the surplus generated by relationship lending through higher rates.
ASSR hat sich in der Diagnostik von Hörstörungen und der Hörgeräteanpassung von Kleinkindern etabliert. Wir möchten einen Vergleich in der Auswertung von ASSRs und frequenzspezifischen ABRs im Rahmen der Hörgeräteanpassung von Kleinkindern vorstellen. Wir untersuchten jeweils die ASSRs und die ABRs mit der GSI Audera und der GN Otometrics Chartr. Untersucht wurden insgesamt bisher 130 Kinder. Zunächst wurden die Mittelwerte der einzelnen vier Frequenzen (0,5; 1; 2; 4 kHz) sowie die jeweiligen Korrelationen zum Click-Stimulus der ABR, welche weiterhin als Goldstandard gilt, korreliert. Die Messungen wurden geräteintern durchgeführt. Die Messungen der ASSRs zeigen besonders im Bereich der leichten und mittelschweren Hörstörungen deutliche, nicht abschätzbare, Abweichungen, so dass wir die ASSR als alleinige Basis für die Hörgeräteanpassung bei Kleinkindern nicht empfehlen können.
Background: We have analyzed the outcome of patients with localized extraskeletal Ewing sarcoma (EES) treated in three consecutive Cooperative Weichteilsarkomstudiengruppe (CWS) soft tissue sarcoma (STS) studies: CWS-91, CWS-96, and CWS-2002P.
Methods: Patients were treated in CWS-91 with four- (vincristine, dactinomycin, doxorubicin, and ifosfamide [VAIA] or cyclophosphamide [VACA II]) or five-drug (+etoposide [EVAIA]) cycles, in CWS-96 they were randomly assigned to receive VAIA or CEVAIE (+carboplatin and etoposide), and in CWS-2002P with VAIA III plus optional maintenance therapy (MT) with cyclophosphamide and vinblastine. Local therapy consisted of resection and/or radiotherapy (RT).
Results: Two hundred forty-three patients fulfilled the eligibility criteria. The 5-year event-free survival (EFS) and overall survival (OS) were 63% (95% confidence interval [CI] 57–69) and 73% (95% CI 67–79), respectively. The 5-year EFS by study was 64% (95% CI 54–74) in CWS-91, 57% (95% CI 48–66) in CWS-96, and 79% (95% CI 67–91) in CWS-2002P (n.s.). The 5-year OS was 72% (95% CI 62–82) in CWS-91, 70% (95% CI 61–79) in CWS-96, and 86% (95% CI 76–96) in CWS-2002P (n.s.). In CWS-96, 5-year EFS and OS in the VAIA arm versus the CEVAIE were 65% (95% CI 52–81) versus 55% (95% CI 39–76) log-rank p = .13, and 85% (95% CI 75–96) versus 61% (95% CI 45–82), log-rank p = .09.
Conclusion: Our analysis provides interesting information on the treatment and specificities of EES, which can be useful for a better understanding of this rare entity and should be considered in the development of future clinical trials for Ewing sarcoma defined as FET–ETS fusion positive tumors.
Johann Christian Reil (1759-1813) zählt um 1800 zu den einflußreichsten Medizinern im deutschen Raum. Er leistete Pionierarbeit auf dem Gebiet der Neurologie, gründete mit dem Archiv für die Physiologie 1795 die erste deutsche Fachzeitschrift auf diesem Gebiet und war ein geschätzter Arzt und Psychiater. Mit den Autoren der romantischen Periode stand er persönlich und intellektuell in Verbindung – unter anderem als ärztlicher Betreuer von Schleiermacher in dessen Hallenser Zeit. 1795 erschien seine Schrift Von der Lebenskraft, die zu den Klassikern der Medizingeschichte gerechnet wird. Reils epochemachende Arbeiten wirken an dem großen Umbruch der Lehre vom menschlichen Körper mit, der sich im 18. Jahrhundert zuträgt. Dieser Wechsel der medizinischen Episteme geht auf verschiedenen Ebenen vor sich und betrifft weit auseinanderliegende Gebiete der sich damals erst ausdifferenzierenden modernen Wissenslandschaft. Ich will versuchen, ihn in einigen Stichworten überblicksweise zu skizzieren: 1. Abkehr von den Heilmethoden der Humoralpathologie 2. Schließung des Körpers 3. Übergang zu organologischer Differenzierung 4. Zentralstellung des Nervensystems
Der prägnante Moment fand nicht statt : Vaterlosigkeit und Heilige Familie in Lenz´ Hofmeister
(2004)
Wer vom Populismus sprechen will, darf über den Liberalismus nicht schweigen. Es macht die Analyse komplexer, weil diejenigen, die sie betreiben, sich nicht mehr als unbeteiligte Beobachter ausgeben können. Allein schon der Begriff Populismus markiert ja eine Perspektive von außen, denn heutige Populisten nennen sich gewöhnlich nicht so. Wer den Begriff verwendet, ist unter den Vorzeichen eines sich immer weiter polarisierenden politischen Feldes also in der Regel dem Gegenlager der 'Liberalen' zuzurechnen. Dessen Vertreter sind an einer beide Seiten umgreifenden Dynamik beteiligt. Insofern ist auch die Art, wie sie über den Populismus sprechen, Teil des politischen Spieles. Deshalb reicht es nicht, das 'Narrativ des Populismus' mit seinen charakteristischen Merkmalen zu isolieren und, was ein leichtes Spiel ist, als trügerisch zu entlarven. Das Bild muss ergänzt werden um eine Analyse auch des 'liberalen Narrativs': der perspektivischen Verzerrungen, die es enthält, seiner Leerstellen und Ambivalenzen, vor allem aber der Gründe für seine geschwundene Integrationskraft sowohl im nationalen als auch im Weltmaßstab.
[D]ie Analogie zwischen den vertikalen Ordnungen der Körper- und der Gesichtszonen [wird] in mindestens einem wesentlichen Detail gestört. Dieses Detail ist die Nase. In der alteuropäischen Physiognomik bildet sie ein herausragendes Detail in dem umfassenden System der Ähnlichkeiten, das den Menschen nicht nur zu den kosmischen Elementen, sondern auch zu den Tieren und deren Eigenschaften in Beziehung setzte. [...] Spätestens seit dem 18. Jahrhundert wird diese Tierähnlichkeit als ganze prekär, und das macht gerade die Nase zu einem physiognomischen Ärgernis.
Objectives and Methods: Intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients is a major concern due to the increased risk of mortality. Few studies have examined ICH specifically in newly diagnosed AML patients receiving intensive induction chemotherapy (IC) and prophylactic platelet transfusions during thrombocytopenia <10/nL. This retrospective cohort study included 423 newly diagnosed AML patients without acute promyelocytic leukemia who underwent IC between 2007 and 2019. We assessed risk factors, clinical features, and outcomes of ICH.
Results: 17 of 423 patients (4%) suffered ICH during hospital stay, and 4 patients (24%) died directly because of ICH despite routine prophylactic platelet transfusions. Patients with ICH had a negatively impacted overall survival (median OS, 20.1 vs. 104.8 months) and were more likely not to continue with curative treatment. Main risk factors were female gender, severe thrombocytopenia, and decreased fibrinogen. Patients with subsequent ICH also had laboratory signs of liver dysfunction.
Conclusions: Intracranial hemorrhage remains a potentially deadly complication with notable incidence despite prophylactic platelet substitution, suggesting that additional prophylactic interventions may be required to further reduce the frequency of ICH in high-risk patients. Unrecognized genetic factors may simultaneously predispose to AML and platelet dysfunction with ICH.
The optimal follow-up care for relapse detection in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients in first remission after consolidation therapy with intensive chemotherapy is not established. In this retrospective study, we evaluate the diagnostic value of an intensive relapse surveillance strategy by regular bone marrow aspirations (BMA) in these patients. We identified 86 patients with newly diagnosed non-promyelocytic AML who had reached complete remission (CR) after intensive induction and consolidation chemotherapy between 2007 and 2019. Annual relapse rates were 40%, 17%, and 2% in years 1–3, respectively. Patients in CR were surveilled by BMA scheduled every 3 months for 2 years, followed by BMA every 6 months. This surveillance regimen detected 29 of 55 relapses (53%), 11 of which were molecular relapses (20%). The remaining 26 of 55 relapses (47%) were diagnosed by non-surveillance BMA prompted by specific suspicion of relapse. Most patients showed concurrent morphological abnormalities in peripheral blood (PB) at time of relapse. Seven percent of all morphological relapses occurred without simultaneous PB abnormalities and would have been delayed without surveillance BMA. Intensified monthly PB assessment paired with BMA every 3 months during the first 2 years may be a highly sensitive relapse surveillance strategy.
Hintergrund und Fragestellung: Beweggrund dieser Studie war es, die Therapie von rezidivierten indolenten Non-Hodgkin Lymphomen mit neuen Kombinationen zu untersuchen. Die Kombination des monoklonalen Antikörpers Rituximab mit Fludarabin und Bendamustin wird verabreicht und im Hinblick auf Überleben, Ansprechraten und Toxizität verglichen. Patienten und Methoden: 99 Patienten mit rezidiviertem indolenten Non-Hodgkin Lymphom verschiedener Histologien und Mantelzell Lymphomen wurden in dieser multizentrischen Studie in die Arme Bendamustin-Rituximab oder Fludarabin-Rituximab randomisiert und erhielten 6 Zyklen des jeweiligen Regimes alle 4 Wochen. Die Dosierung war wie folgt: Rituximab 375 mg/m² an Tag 0 und entweder 90 mg/m² Bendamustin an Tag 1 und 2 oder 25 mg/m² Fludarabin an Tag 1-3. Ergebnisse: Von den 97 auswertbaren Patienten ergab sich eine ORR von 82% für die BR-Gruppe mit einer CR von 46% und PR von 36%. Die mit F-R behandelten Patienten erreichten eine ORR von 55% mit einer CR-Rate von 23% und PR von 32%. P-Werte für die ORR ist 0,0078. Die PFS ist signifikant unterschiedlich (p=0,0019), günstiger für BR, der Median der BR-Gruppe ist noch nicht erreicht, der der F-R Gruppe ist 12. Der Unterschied der infektiösen Toxizität ist nicht signifikant, unter Bendamustinbehandlung ereigneten sich jedoch schwerwiegendere Infektionen als unter Fludarabin, Hämatotoxizität war etwa gleich verteilt auf beide Gruppen. Schlussfolgerung: Die Kombination Bendamustin-Rituximab ermöglichte signifikant bessere Remissionsraten und PFS als die Kombination Fludarabin-Rituximab. Die vorbeschriebenen schwerwiegenden hämatotoxischen Nebenwirkungen von Fludarabin wurden in unserer Studie nicht bestätigt, unter der Kombination Bendamustin-Rituximab ereigneten sich schwerwiegendere Infektionen als unter F-R. Bendamustin erreicht signifikant bessere Therapieergebnisse als Fludarabin mit akzeptablen Nebenwirkungen in der Therapie der indolenten Non-Hodgkin-Lymphome.
Background: Endothelin-1 signalling plays an important role in pathogenesis of pulmonary hypertension. Although different endothelin-A receptor antagonists are developed, a novel therapeutic option to cure the disease is still needed. This study aims to investigate the therapeutic efficacy of the selective endothelin-A receptor antagonist TBC3711 in monocrotaline-induced pulmonary hypertension in rats.
Methods: Monocrotaline-injected male Sprague-Dawley rats were randomized and treated orally from day 21 to 35 either with TBC3711 (Dose: 30 mg/kg body weight/day) or placebo. Echocardiographic measurements of different hemodynamic and right-heart hypertrophy parameters were performed. After day 35, rats were sacrificed for invasive hemodynamic and right-heart hypertrophy measurements. Additionally, histologic assessment of pulmonary vascular and right-heart remodelling was performed.
Results: The novel endothelin-A receptor antagonist TBC3711 significantly attenuated monocrotaline-induced pulmonary hypertension, as evident from improved hemodynamics and right-heart hypertrophy in comparison with placebo group. In addition, muscularization and medial wall thickness of distal pulmonary vessels were ameliorated. The histologic evaluation of the right ventricle showed a significant reduction in fibrosis and cardiomyocyte size, suggesting an improvement in right-heart remodelling.
Conclusion: The results of this study suggest that the selective endothelin-A receptor antagonist TBC3711 demonstrates therapeutic benefit in rats with established pulmonary hypertension, thus representing a useful therapeutic approach for treatment of pulmonary hypertension.
Background: The increasing number of cases and hospital admissions due to COVID-19 created an urgent need for rapid, reliable testing procedures for SARS-CoV-2 in Emergency Departments (ED) in order to effectively manage hospital resources, allocate beds and prevent nosocomial spread of infection. The ID NOW™ COVID-19 assay is a simple, user-friendly, rapid molecular test run on an instrument with a small footprint enabling point-of-care diagnostics.
Methods: In the first wave, outsourced RT-PCR testing regularly required 36-48 hours before results were available. This prospective study was conducted in the second wave (October 2020-April 2021) and evaluated the impact the implementation of the ID NOW™ COVID-19 test in the ED had on clinical care processes and patient pathways. 710 patients were recruited upon arrival at the ED which included those presenting clinical symptoms, asymptomatic individuals or persons fulfilling epidemiological criteria. The first anterior nasal swab was taken by trained nurses in the ambulance or a separate consultation room. The ID NOW™ COVID-19 test was performed in the ED in strict compliance with the manufacturer’s instructions and positive or suspected cases were additionally tested with RT_PCR (cobas SARS-COV-2 RT-PCR, Roche) following collection of a second nasopharyngeal NP specimen.
Results: Swabs directly tested with the ID NOW™ COVID-19 test showed a diagnostic concordance of 98 % (sensitivity 99.59 %, specificity 94.55 %, PPV 97.6 %, NPV 99.05 %) compared to RT-PCR as reference. The 488 patients that tested positive with the ID NOW™ COVID-19 had a Ct range in RT-PCR results between 7.94 to 37.42 (in 23.2 % > 30). Two false negative results (0.28%) were recorded from patients with Ct values > 30. 14 (1.69%) discordant results were reviewed case-by-case and usually associated with either very early or very advanced stages of infection. Furthermore, patients initially negative with the ID NOW™ COVID-19 test and admitted to the hospital were tested again on days 5 and 12: no patient became positive.
Discussion: The ID NOW™ COVID-19 test for detection of SARS-CoV-2 demonstrated excellent diagnostic agreement with RT-PCR under the above-mentioned patients pathways implemented during the second wave. The main advantage of the system was the provision of reliable results within a few minutes. This not only allowed immediate initiative of appropriate therapy and care for COVID-19 (patient benefit) but provided essential information on isolation and thus available beds. This drastically helped the overall finances of the department and additionally allowed more patients to be admitted including those requiring immediate attention; this was not possible during the first wave since beds were blocked waiting for diagnostic confirmation. Our findings also show that when interpreting the results, the clinical condition and epidemiological history of the patient must be taken into account, as with any test procedure. Overall, the ID NOW™ COVID-19 test for SARS-CoV-2 provided a rapid and reliable alternative to laboratory-based RT-PCR in the real clinical setting which became an acceptable part of the daily routine within the ED and demonstrated that early patient management can mitigate the impact of the pandemic on the hospital.
Structured RNA regions are important gene control elements in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Here, we show that the mRNA of a cyanobacterial heat shock gene contains a built-in thermosensor critical for photosynthetic activity under stress conditions. The exceptionally short 5´-untranslated region is comprised of a single hairpin with an internal asymmetric loop. It inhibits translation of the Synechocystis hsp17 transcript at normal growth conditions, permits translation initiation under stress conditions and shuts down Hsp17 production in the recovery phase. Point mutations that stabilized or destabilized the RNA structure deregulated reporter gene expression in vivo and ribosome binding in vitro. Introduction of such point mutations into the Synechocystis genome produced severe phenotypic defects. Reversible formation of the open and closed structure was beneficial for viability, integrity of the photosystem and oxygen evolution. Continuous production of Hsp17 was detrimental when the stress declined indicating that shutting-off heat shock protein production is an important, previously unrecognized function of RNA thermometers. We discovered a simple biosensor that strictly adjusts the cellular level of a molecular chaperone to the physiological need.
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Die historische Übersetzungsforschung ist eine Disziplin, die sich noch ziemlich in den Anfängen befindet. Es fehlen wichtige Dinge sowohl hinsichtlich der bibliographischen Aufarbeitung (wenngleich die Bibliographie von Hans Fromm aus den 1950er Jahren hier immer noch gute Dienste leistet), besonders aber hinsichtlich der Personen der Übersetzer, über die häufig gar nichts bekannt ist. Zu vielen sehr unbedeutenden und gar nicht gelesenen Schriftstellern der Zeit liegen mehr Informationen vor als zu Übersetzern, die eine ganze Fülle von Werken vor ein deutsches Massenpublikum gebracht haben. Dabei kann man aus der Untersuchung von historischen Übersetzungen eine Menge lernen. Nicht nur, was die praktische Übersetzungsarbeit angeht, sondern vor allem in Blick auf unsere eigene Kultur- und Literaturgeschichte.
Nach seiner Erfindung um die Wende vom 18. zum 19. Jahrhundert wurde der romantische Rhein in Deutschland bald als Abgrenzungskriterium zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich instrumentalisiert. Eine Ursache ist selbstverständlich die politische Situation: Deutschland ist zersplittert und steht unter französischer Besatzung, als sich
Clemens Brentano und Achim von Arnim 1802 auf ihre berühmte
Rheinfahrt begeben und Friedrich Schlegel 1803 auf der Reise nach Frankreich, über die er in seiner Zeitschrift Europa berichtet, den Rhein als Sinnbild Deutschlands entdeckt.
Tragfähig konnte die politische Instrumentalisierung des Rheins allerdings nur deshalb sein, weil sie auf einer seit der Jahrhundertwende schnell angewachsenen und von breitesten Bevölkerungsschichten in Deutschland mitgetragenen Tradition beruhte. Solche Traditionen zu
stiften und damit überhaupt erst so etwas wie eine nationale deutsche Kultur, in Absetzung und Überbietung von anderen, bereits bestehenden Nationalkulturen wie etwa der französischen zu begründen, war eines der Hauptanliegen der romantischen Bewegung. Insofern ist selbst den
Gründervätern des Rheinmythos zumindest indirekt der deutsch-französische Gegensatz als Antrieb nicht fremd.
Es handelt sich beim kulturellen Transfer um ein höchst komplexes Feld von Interaktionen, die keineswegs in linear-einsinniger Weise beschreibbar sind, sondern eingebunden bleiben in gesellschaftliche Dynamiken und deshalb historisch variabel sind. Eine solche historische Variable, die Einfluss auch auf die Transferprozesse zwischen Deutschland und Frankreich nimmt, ist die zu verschiedenen historischen Zeitpunkten jeweils unterschiedliche Wahrnehmung der französischen Gegenwartsliteratur. Einige Aspekte dieser Wahrnehmung im deutschen Vormärz untersucht Bernd Kortländer im Folgenden.