cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Umweltschutz als sozio-ökonomische Innovation in Südkorea. Ein Vorbild für Deutschland?
Creators: name: Lee, Yeong Heui
name: Bückmann, Walter
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2016

description: This essay argues that modem environmental protection is a stimulus for innovation. Innovative moves - whether technical, economic, social or cultural - are frequently stimulated by legislation and, vice-versa, themselves have an effect on legislative decisions and the application of law. This applies most particularly in the case of legislation, which has been used to translate the principle of sustainability into the legal framework and into planning. In South Korea as in Germany, the instrument of legislation was used in an attempt to keep - by guidance and regulation - the many and varied dangers and risks of industrial-economic development, which are now also being recognised through the acquisition of new scientific knowledge, to a socially and ecologically compatible level. As a part of this innovation process, which is modifying social and economic development, there occurred several disjunctions in moving from the environment legislation principle of averting danger to the precautionary principle, and then to the principle of sustainability. In particular in South Korea, environmental legislation in accordance with sustainability has been an innovation which stimulated new developments, as in soil conservation legislation, with a special law for installations and facilities, and in water legislation regulating the use of rain water and grey or re-cycled (treated) water.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 36 Nr. 1-2 (2005): Internationales Asienforum
Nach dem Tsunami: Bericht über Erfahrungen in Sri Lanka und Südindien
Creators: name: Hellman-Rajanayagam, Dagmar
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2016

description: In January-February 2005 the author travelled to some of the areas affected by the Tsunami of 26th December 2004 in northeastern Sri Lanka and India. The Northeast was most severely affected. An additional problem here is that the area is controlled and administered by different powers: while in Amparai, Batticaloa and Trincomalee the Sri Lankan government is in control, the Vanni and the coast around Mullaitivu are controlled and governed by the L TIE. This led to problems with the organisation and distribution of aid. The World Bank estimates that US $1.5 billion will be required for reconstruction and rehabilitation, but only a fraction of these funds can be released because neither of the parties to the conflict has yet been able to agree about a joint mechanism for the distribution of aid. This means that people have to remain in welfare and transit camps for inordinate lengths of time, which in turn leads to a visible apathy and despair among the victims. This is in stark contrast to India (Tamilnadu) where the people affected have shown a remarkable resilience and organisational skill in dealing both with the physical and political effects of the disaster.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 36 Nr. 1-2 (2005): Internationales Asienforum
Das Antisezessionsgesetz der VR China und die Aufhebung des EU-Waffenembargos
Creators: name: Haase, Holger
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2016

description: On March 14, 2005, the National People's Congress passed an "Anti-Secession Law". It authorizes the Chinese government to employ non-peaceful means to protect China's sovereignty and territorial integrity. While Chinese media describe this law as "peaceful" and accepted by most of the people, Western and Taiwanese media call it a "war-law", maintaining that it will make the relationship between China and Taiwan worse. On account of this law, there is a discussion in the USA and Europe as to whether the arms embargo should be lifted or not. The German and French government want to do so, because they believe China has made progress as regards human rights. The government of the US opposes such a move, because in their view human rights are not the main problem but the ChinaTaiwan question. Lifting the arms embargo would destroy the military balance in favour of the People's Republic.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 36 Nr. 1-2 (2005): Internationales Asienforum
Die indische Diaspora in den Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika
Creators: name: Gottschlich, Pierre
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2016

description: During the last decade, Indian Americans have become increasingly visible as an important ethnic group in the United States of America. This article examines the history of Asian Indians in the U.S. It describes the circumstances of the life of a rather small Indian diaspora in the United States during the 19th and early 20th century as well as the development of the post-1965 Indian American community. Here, the focus shifts to the notable inner cleavages within the group. Special attention is also given to its socio-economic profile and the consequences and implications thereof. Additionally, the political engagement of today's Asian Indians in the United States is assessed. In a concluding section, possible future developments within the Indian diaspora in the U.S., both economically and politically, are described.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 36 Nr. 1-2 (2005): Internationales Asienforum
Targeting Alternative Sites on the Androgen Receptor to Treat Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer
Creators: name: Lallous, Nada
name: Dalal, Kush
name: Cherkasov, Artem
name: Rennie, Paul S.
Publisher: name: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Year: 2019

description: Recurrent, metastatic prostate cancer continues to be a leading cause of cancer-death in men. The androgen receptor (AR) is a modular, ligand-inducible transcription factor that regulates the expression of genes that can drive the progression of this disease, and as a consequence, this receptor is a key therapeutic target for controlling prostate cancer. The current drugs designed to directly inhibit the AR are called anti-androgens, and all act by competing with androgens for binding to the androgen/ligand binding site. Unfortunately, with the inevitable progression of the cancer to castration resistance, many of these drugs become ineffective. However, there are numerous other regulatory sites on this protein that have not been exploited therapeutically. The regulation of AR activity involves a cascade of complex interactions with numerous chaperones, co-factors and co-regulatory proteins, leading ultimately to direct binding of AR dimers to specific DNA androgen response elements within the promoter and enhancers of androgen-regulated genes. As part of the family of nuclear receptors, the AR is organized into modular structural and functional domains with specialized roles in facilitating their inter-molecular interactions. These regions of the AR present attractive, yet largely unexploited, drug target sites for reducing or eliminating androgen signaling in prostate cancers. The design of small molecule inhibitors targeting these specific AR domains is only now being realized and is the culmination of decades of work, including crystallographic and biochemistry approaches to map the shape and accessibility of the AR surfaces and cavities. Here, we review the structure of the AR protein and describe recent advancements in inhibiting its activity with small molecules specifically designed to target areas distinct from the receptor’s androgen binding site. It is anticipated that these new classes of anti-AR drugs will provide an additional arsenal to treat castration-resistant prostate cancer.
All-optical signal regeneration using parametric soliton switch
Creators: name: Collecutt, G. R.
name: Drummond, Peter
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A photonic switch in the form of a logical and gate within a planar waveguide was proposed. Investigations by numerical simulation were performed with two very interesting results. Firstly, the switch displays a highly digital response with respect to perturbations in the first two parameters, and secondly the switch continues to perform well with relative energy imbalances of up to a factor of 2. Thus not only could this switch be used very effectively as an all-optical and logic gate but by combining a signal with a well timed clock pulse-train, time domain multiplexing, demultiplexing, and signal regeneration in both pulse timing and pulse energy can be performed.
PIERRE-ANTOINE DONNET / ANNE GARRIGUE: Le Japon: la fin d'une économie ; MASAFUMI MATSUBA: The Contemporary Japanese Economy ; FRIEDERIKE BOSSE / PATRICK KOELLNER (eds.): Reformen in Japan
Creators: name: Rothacher, Albrecht
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2016

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 37 Nr. 3-4 (2006): Internationales Asienforum
THOMAS WEYRAUCH: Gepeinigter Drache. Chinas Menschenrechte im Spätstadium der KP-Herrschaft
Creators: name: Richter, Thomas
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2016

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 37 Nr. 3-4 (2006): Internationales Asienforum
Similarity, attraction and initial conditions in an example of nonlinear diffusion
Creators: name: Suslov, Sergey
name: Roberts, A. J.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Similarity solutions play an important role in many fields of science. The recent book of Barenblatt (1996) discusses many examples. Often, outstanding unresolved issues are whether a similarity solution is dynamically attractive, and if it is, to what particular solution does the system evolve. By recasting the dynamic problem in a form to which centre manifold theory may be applied, based upon a transformation by Wayne (1994), we may resolve these issues in many cases. For definiteness we illustrate the principles by discussing the application of centre manifold theory to a particular nonlinear diffusion problem arising in filtration. Theory constructs the similarity solution, confirms its relevance, and determines the correct solution for any compact initial condition. The techniques and results we discuss are applicable to a wide range of similarity problems.
KAREL STEENBRINK: Catholics in Indonesia, 1808-1942. A Documented History. Vol. 1: A Modest Recovery, 1808-1903
Creators: name: Graf, Arndt
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2016

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 37 Nr. 3-4 (2006): Internationales Asienforum
การสร้างภาพสามมิติของการเจริญบริเวณอุ้งเชิงกรานในตัวอ่อนไก่อายุ 9 วัน
Creators: name: ณัฐเมธี เครือภูงา
Publisher: name: กองบริหารการวิจัย
Year: 2563
Subjects: ภาพสามมิติ
อุ้งเชิงกราน
ตัวอ่อนไก่

description: วารสารวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี, 28, 6, 1087-1097
ฤทธิ์ทางชีวภาพของสารเบอร์บีรีนที่แยกจากเถาแห้ม
Creators: name: ชุติมา แก้วพิบูลย์
Publisher: name: กองบริหารการวิจัย
Year: 2563
Subjects: แห้ม
เบอร์บีรีน
ฤทธิ์ทางชีวภาพ

description: วารสารวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี, 28, 6, 1099-1106
ANNE PETERS (comp.) / HEINZ BECHERT (ed.): Birmanische Handschriften, Teil 5: Die Katalognummern 901-1015
Creators: name: Schendel, Jörg
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2016

description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 37 Nr. 3-4 (2006): Internationales Asienforum
Systematic review of the effectiveness of training programs in writing for scholarly publication, journal editing, and manuscript peer review (protocol)
Creators: name: Galipeau, James
name: Moher, David
name: Skidmore, Becky
name: Campbell, Craig
name: Hendry, Paul
name: Cameron, D W
name: Hébert, Paul C
name: Palepu, Anita
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: An estimated $100 billion is lost to ‘waste’ in biomedical research globally, annually, much of which comes from the poor quality of published research. One area of waste involves bias in reporting research, which compromises the usability of published reports. In response, there has been an upsurge in interest and research in the scientific process of writing, editing, peer reviewing, and publishing (that is, journalology) of biomedical research. One reason for bias in reporting and the problem of unusable reports could be due to authors lacking knowledge or engaging in questionable practices while designing, conducting, or reporting their research. Another might be that the peer review process for journal publication has serious flaws, including possibly being ineffective, and having poorly trained and poorly motivated reviewers. Similarly, many journal editors have limited knowledge related to publication ethics. This can ultimately have a negative impact on the healthcare system. There have been repeated calls for better, more numerous training opportunities in writing for publication, peer review, and publishing. However, little research has taken stock of journalology training opportunities or evaluations of their effectiveness. Methods We will conduct a systematic review to synthesize studies that evaluate the effectiveness of training programs in journalology. A comprehensive three-phase search approach will be employed to identify evaluations of training opportunities, involving: 1) forward-searching using the Scopus citation database, 2) a search of the MEDLINE In-Process and Non-Indexed Citations, MEDLINE, Embase, ERIC, and PsycINFO databases, as well as the databases of the Cochrane Library, and 3) a grey literature search. Discussion This project aims to provide evidence to help guide the journalological training of authors, peer reviewers, and editors. While there is ample evidence that many members of these groups are not getting the necessary training needed to excel at their respective journalology-related tasks, little is known about the characteristics of existing training opportunities, including their effectiveness. The proposed systematic review will provide evidence regarding the effectiveness of training, therefore giving potential trainees, course designers, and decision-makers evidence to help inform their choices and policies regarding the merits of specific training opportunities or types of training.
Choose your partners: flexible provision of higher education in Australia
Creators: name: Ling, P. N.
name: Arger, G.
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Most Australian universities claim as a matter of policy, if not practice, to embrace flexible provision of higher education. Implicit in the expressions used - 'flexible provision', 'flexible learning', 'flexible delivery' - is the notion of providing choice to learners. The choices made available may be in various domains such as time, pace and place of study, program entry and exit points, content selection, assessment tasks, and media used for tuition. One possible domain for choice is the choice to learn independently or in collaboration with others. This paper was stimulated by a Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DETYA) Evaluations and Investigations project which investigated the effectiveness of models of flexible provision of higher education in Australia. The investigation raises questions about the extent to which new learning technologies, which afford choice in various domains, are much used to facilitate voluntary collaboration between learners. It also raises questions about collaboration between providers and others which has the potential both to broaden and to narrow choice for learners. The paper provides instances of collaborative arrangements for learners facilitated by use of new learning technologies and instances of collaboration between providers, and between providers and the wider community, which extend the choices of learners. The paper advances a set of criteria which might be employed to evaluate the effectiveness of such arrangements.
Do women gamble for the same reasons as men?
Creators: name: Moore, Susan
name: Thomas, Anna
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: A study involving 83 female and 72 male gamblers tested the direct and interactional effects of avoidance coping and five dysphoric moods on problem gambling. Important differences were found between female and male gamblers. For female gamblers loneliness, boredom, anxiety, depression and avoidance coping all independently predicted problem gambling as was expected. Additionally, as expected, interactions between each mood and avoidance coping significantly predicted problem gambling, such that female gamblers with high dysphoria and high avoidance coping tended to show substantially more symptoms of problem gambling than those high in only one variable. In contrast, results for males revealed that only loneliness, boredom and stress significantly predicted problem gambling. Contrary to expectations neither avoidance coping nor the any of the interactional relationships between dysphoric mood and avoidance coping predicted problem gambling. These results supported research by Brown and Coventry (1997) and suggest that some females may be gambling to escape dysphoric moods. There was no indication that this motivation applies to male gamblers.
A new exposure metric for traffic-related air pollution? An analysis of determinants of hopanes in settled indoor house dust
Creators: name: Sbihi, Hind
name: Brook, Jeffrey R.
name: Allen, Ryan W.
name: Curran, Jason H.
name: Dell, Sharon D.
name: Mandhane, Piush
name: Scott, James A.
name: Sears, Malcolm R.
name: Subbarao, Padmaja
name: Takaro, Timothy K.
name: Turvey, Stuart E.
name: Wheeler, Amanda J.
name: Brauer, Michael (Of University Of British Columbia)
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Background: Exposure to traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) can adversely impact health but epidemiologic studies are limited in their abilities to assess long-term exposures and incorporate variability in indoor pollutant infiltration. Methods: In order to examine settled house dust levels of hopanes, engine lubricating oil byproducts found in vehicle exhaust, as a novel TRAP exposure measure, dust samples were collected from 171 homes in five Canadian cities and analyzed by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry. To evaluate source contributions, the relative abundance of the highest concentration hopane monomer in house dust was compared to that in outdoor air. Geographic variables related to TRAP emissions and outdoor NO2 concentrations from city-specific TRAP land use regression (LUR) models were calculated at each georeferenced residence location and assessed as predictors of variability in dust hopanes. Results: Hopanes relative abundance in house dust and ambient air were significantly correlated (Pearson’s r=0.48, p<0.05), suggesting that dust hopanes likely result from traffic emissions. The proportion of variance in dust hopanes concentrations explained by LUR NO2 was less than 10% in Vancouver, Winnipeg and Toronto while the correlations in Edmonton and Windsor explained 20 to 40% of the variance. Modeling with household factors such as air conditioning and shoe removal along with geographic predictors related to TRAP generally increased the proportion of explained variability (10-80%) in measured indoor hopanes dust levels. Conclusions: Hopanes can consistently be detected in house dust and may be a useful tracer of TRAP exposure if determinants of their spatiotemporal variability are well-characterized, and when home-specific factors are considered.
HPC Workload Analysis and Optimization
Creators: name: Minasyan, Hovhannes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This poster was created for the 2024 EPCC PhD poster session.

It describes the project proposal of how the information gathered from historical HPC workloads can be utilized to optimize the system performance and increase the throughput. This goal is achieved via two directions of work. The first one includes workload analysis and trend detection over time, which allows us to predict future workloads and better address the users' needs. The second one is understanding how the location or distribution of the job across the nodes of a supercomputer can affect the runtime.
title: Профессиональная этика бухгалтеров
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Профобразование
Year: 2024

description: В учебнике освещены исторические этапы формирования и развития профессиональной этики бухгалтера, международное и национальное регулирование профессиональной этики бухгалтеров. Раскрыто содержание кодексов профессиональной этики и положений профессионального стандарта «Бухгалтер». В книгу включены также тестовые задания для повторения пройденного материала. Подготовлен с учетом требований Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта среднего профессионального образования. Предназначен для студентов, обучающихся по специальности среднего профессионального образования «Экономика и бухгалтерский учет (по отраслям)», изучающих дисциплину «Профессиональная этика».
Development Stage Theory and Industrial Growth Patterns. Asian NIEs and Selected Advanced Economies Compared (1980-1995)
Creators: name: Nam, Chang Woon
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2016

description: The East Asian miracle was real. Prior to the 1997 economic and currency crises, Asian NIEs - Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan - achieved remarkable annual GDP growth. In particular, growth in the industrial sector has made a significant contribution to the general economic development in these countries. Furthermore, fast economic growth and active state interventions like those adopted in most NIEs were accompanied by various structural changes in industry. Based on development stage theory this study compares primarily the specialisation pattern of Asian NIEs and its transformation with that of more advanced economies like Japan, West Germany and the US for the period of 1980- 95.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 37 Nr. 3-4 (2006): Internationales Asienforum
Randomised controlled trial of an interactive multimedia decision aid on hormone replacement therapy in primary care
Creators: name: Murray, Elizabeth
name: Davis, Hilary
name: Tai, Sharon See
name: Coulter, Angela
name: Gray, Alastair
name: Haines, Andy
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Objective: to determine whether a decision aid on hormone replacement therapy influences decision making and health outcomes. Design: Randomised controlled trial. Setting 26 general practices in the United Kingdom. Participants: 205 women considering hormone replacement therapy. Intervention: Patients' decision aid consisting of an interactive multimedia programme with booklet and printed summary. Outcome measures: Patients' and general practitioners' perceptions of who made the decision, decisional conflict, treatment choice, menopausal symptoms, costs, anxiety, and general health status. Results: Both patients and general practitioners found the decision aid acceptable. At three months, mean scores for decisional conflict were significantly lower in the intervention group than in the control group (2.5 v 2.8; mean difference - 0.3, 95% confidence interval - 0.5 to - 0.2); this difference was maintained during follow upp A higher proportion of general practitioners perceived that treatment decisions had been made mainly or only by the patient in the intervention group than in the control group (55% v 31%; 24%, 8% to 40%). At three months a lower proportion of women in the intervention group than in the control group were undecided about treatment (14% v 26%; - 12%, - 23% to - 0.4%), and a higher proportion had decided against hormone replacement therapy (46% v 32%; 14%, 1% to 28%); these differences were no longer apparent by nine months. No differences were found between the groups for anxiety, use of health service resources, general health status, or utility. The higher costs of the intervention were largely due to the video disc technology used. Conclusions: An interactive multimedia decision aid in the NHS would be popular with patients, reduce decisional conflict, and enable patients to play a more active part in decision making without increasing anxiety. The use of web based technology would reduce the cost of the intervention.
Der Yasukuni-Schrein in Tōkyō
Creators: name: Dähler, Richard
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2016

description: The Yasukuni-Shrine in the centre of Tōkyō, not far from the Imperial Palace, is again and again the focus of international attention. China and Korea are particularly touchy about Japanese political leaders, prominent amongst them Prime Ministers as the key figures, paying their respects to the War Dead at a site considered as a symbol of Japanese nationalism and militarism. These visits are taken as tokens of Japan's unwillingness to honestly deal with its past. This paper provides a background to the history of the Shrine, its political implications, questions related to war and guilt and aims to give insights into Japanese views.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 37 Nr. 3-4 (2006): Internationales Asienforum
การประเมินผลการดูแลผู้ป่วยเบาหวาน และประสิทธิผลการปรับเปลี่ยนพฤติกรรมการบริโภคอาหารในผู้ป่วยเบาหวานที่ไม่สามารถควบคุมระดับน้ำตาลในเลือดได้ โดยประยุกต์ใช้ทฤษฎีการรับรู้ความสามารถตนเอง
Creators: name: รัตนาภรณ์ ฮิมหมั่นงาน
Publisher: name: กองแผนงาน
Year: 2555
Subjects: การดูแลผู้ป่วยเบาหวาน พฤติกรรมการบริโภค ทฤษฎีการรับรู้ความสามารถตนเอง

description: วารสารควบคุมโรค, 38, 3, 184-196
Philippine Women on the Move. A Transnational Perspective on Marriage Migration
Creators: name: Lauser, Andrea
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2016

description: The paper discusses how Philippine transnational marriage migration is intertwined in complex and paradoxical ways with global, local and personal matters. Criticizing the dominant discourse that narrowly perceives Asian women in general, and Filipinas in particular, as either "mail-order" brides or overseas workers my argument blurs the artificial analytical division between marriage migrants (wives) and labour migrants (workers, mainly domestic workers). My presentation focuses on the life histories of different Filipina women in order to illustrate the intersections and multiplicity of roles as wives, mistresses, workers, mothers, daughters and citizens in a transnational migratory space. The stories illustrate how Filipina migrants use different socio-cultural and socio-economic situations across transnational spaces - and at times against local gender constructions - in order to renegotiate and reclaim a respectable and desired marital status. On the one hand these women are subject to manifold localized, legal, religious-moral definitions as women and wives, on the other hand they utilize more or less creatively and actively structural differences and new opportunities across transnational spaces to redefine themselves. The stories show both the women's agency and the importance of structural factors.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 37 Nr. 3-4 (2006): Internationales Asienforum
Artenreiche bukolische Landschaft – wie schaffen wir sie?
Creators: name: Kunz, Werner
Publisher: name: Biologie in unserer Zeit - BiuZ
Year: 2024

description: Wer dieses Buch liest, lernt nicht nur etwas über die Kuh, sondern er erweitert seinen Horizont über Naturschutz, Artenschutz und Landschaftsgestaltung. Es wird heutzutage so viel über Natur- und Umweltschutz geredet – dafür gibt es Vereine, Ämter und Ministerien –, aber die Kuh wird von allen Institutionen vernachlässigt. Wer daran zweifelt oder das für abwegig hält, der lese dieses Buch. Aber er wird dazu mehr als einige Tage brauchen, denn die Fülle der vom Autor recherchierten Details lässt sich nicht an wenigen Abenden einsehen und verstehen.
description: Biologie in unserer Zeit - BiuZ, Bd. 54 Nr. 3 (2024): Ursprung des Lebens
275. Geburtstag von Edward Jenner
Creators: name: Irsch, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Biologie in unserer Zeit - BiuZ
Year: 2024

description: Widerstand gegen Impfungen gab es zu allen Zeiten. Die Debatten zur Corona-Impfung sind kein neuzeitliches Phänomen. Schon zu Zeiten als sich der englische Landarzt Edward Jenner mit den Menschenpocken beschäftigte, wetterten Kirchenvertreter „Gottlos!“ und druckten in Zeitungen Spottbilder, auf denen sich Geimpfte in Kühe verwandeln. Erste Impfgegnerorganisationen wurden 1869 in Leipzig und Stuttgart gegründet; in der Weimarer Republik hatte der Reichsverband zur Bekämpfung der Impfung rund 300.000 Mitglieder. Doch die Gegenargumente überwogen: Zwar wurden immer wieder durch mangelnde Hygiene und Unkenntnis Krankheiten auf Geimpfte übertragen; auch allergische Reaktionen sorgten für Tote. Und erst im Verlauf des 19. Jahrhunderts erkannte man, dass gegen Pocken bisweilen nur eine Zweitimpfung zum Ziel führte. Doch am Ende war der Pockenschutzimpfung der durchschlagende Erfolg nicht mehr abzusprechen.
description: Biologie in unserer Zeit - BiuZ, Bd. 54 Nr. 3 (2024): Ursprung des Lebens
"Let's not rock the boat". Frauenorganisationen und Demokratisierung in Malaysia
Creators: name: Dannecker, Petra
name: Spiegel, Anna
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2016

description: This paper focuses on the Malaysian women's movement and its potential for democratisation. Civil society actors in Malaysia have to face various restrictions set by a developmentalist and increasingly authoritarian political system and have to deal with increasing particularism based on ethnic and religious identities. This development is due to the ethno-nationalist state project and the process of a, partly state-driven, Islarnisation both of which have accelerated since the 1970s. It is argued that in Malaysia the discourse on Gender Equality and Women's Rights is ideally suited to constitute a public sphere and the formulation of political dissent. The transformational potential of this public sphere, which women's organisations build up through strategies of popularisation of feminist ideas and transnational networking, is grounded in the possibility of linking gender issues to broader societal issues like democratisation, sustainable development and religious pluralism. Within this space alternative visions of gender relations, development, and the political system are formulated.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 37 Nr. 3-4 (2006): Internationales Asienforum
Mit Monet lernen, wie grauer Star das Sehvermögen ändert
Creators: name: Dahm, Ralf
Publisher: name: Biologie in unserer Zeit - BiuZ
Year: 2024

description: Der französische Impressionist Claude Monet ist für Biolog/-innen ein besonders faszinierender Maler. Zum einen befreite er als junger Künstler die Malerei aus den verstaubten Ateliers der Akademie und führte sie ins Freie. Zum anderen zeigt sein Spätwerk, wie sich die Sicht verändert, wenn sich im Alter die Augenlinsen trüben. Die Ausstellung „Monets Garten“ nähert sich dem Werk des Impressionisten auf interaktive Weise.
description: Biologie in unserer Zeit - BiuZ, Bd. 54 Nr. 3 (2024): Ursprung des Lebens
Gonadotropin-releasing hormone type II (GnRH-II) agonist regulates the invasiveness of endometrial cancer cells through the GnRH-I receptor and mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK)-dependent activation of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2
Creators: name: Wu, Hsien-Ming
name: Wang, Hsin-Shih
name: Huang, Hong-Yuan
name: Lai, Chyong-Huey
name: Lee, Chyi-Long
name: Soong, Yung-Kuei
name: Leung, P. C. K.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: More than 25% of patients diagnosed with endometrial carcinoma have an invasive primary cancer accompanied by metastases. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) plays an important role in reproduction. In mammals, expression of GnRH-II is higher than GnRH-I in reproductive tissues. Here, we examined the effect of a GnRH-II agonist on the motility of endometrial cancer cells and its mechanism of action in endometrial cancer therapy. Methods Immunoblotting and immunohistochemistry (IHC) were used to determine the expression of the GnRH-I receptor protein in human endometrial cancer. The activity of MMP-2 in the conditioned medium was determined by gelatin zymography. Cell motility was assessed by invasion and migration assay. GnRH-I receptor si-RNA was applied to knockdown GnRH-I receptor. Results The GnRH-I receptor was expressed in the endometrial cancer cells. The GnRH-II agonist promoted cell motility in a dose-dependent manner. The GnRH-II agonist induced the phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and JNK, and the phosphorylation was abolished by ERK1/2 inhibitor (U0126) and the JNK inhibitor (SP600125). Cell motility promoted by GnRH-II agonist was suppressed in cells that were pretreated with U0126 and SP600125. Moreover, U0126 and SP600125 abolished the GnRH-II agonist-induced activation of MMP-2. The inhibition of MMP-2 with MMP-2 inhibitor (OA-Hy) suppressed the increase in cell motility in response to the GnRH-II agonist. Enhanced cell motility mediated by GnRH-II agonist was also suppressed by the knockdown of the endogenous GnRH-I receptor using siRNA. Conclusion Our study indicates that GnRH-II agonist promoted cell motility of endometrial cancer cells through the GnRH-I receptor via the phosphorylation of ERK1/2 and JNK, and the subsequent, MAPK-dependent activation of MMP-2. Our findings represent a new concept regarding the mechanism of GnRH-II-induced cell motility in endometrial cancer cells and suggest the possibility of exploring GnRH-II as a potential therapeutic target for the treatment of human endometrial cancer.
Thaksins kurzlebiger Triumph. Thailands Wahlen vom 6. Februar 2005
Creators: name: Nelson, Michael H.
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2016

description: On September 19, 2006, Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was overthrown by a military coup d' etat. This might have come as a surprise given that Thaksin's unprecedented election triumph in 2005 seemed to reflect his long-term domination of Thai politics. Soon after the election, however, Thaksin's power began to erode. Prolonged mass protests in Bangkok culminated in Thaksin dissolving parliament just a year later, and ordering new elections for April 2006. This article first sketches core events, including an unusual intervention by the king, and the assumption of a political role by the country's highest courts. It then places Thaksin in the political reform context, emphasizing that his project of expanding his personal power had superseded the intentions of the political engineering that had led to the constitution of 1997. The third part of the article contains a detailed analysis of the election and its results, thus providing an important backdrop for interpreting the outcome of the first post-coup election, envisaged for the beginning of 2008. This part was written with an eye on the elections that had been scheduled for October 2006, but were overtaken by the coup.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 37 Nr. 3-4 (2006): Internationales Asienforum
Eisvogel – je schillernder, umso attraktiver
Creators: name: Irsch, Wilhelm
Publisher: name: Biologie in unserer Zeit - BiuZ
Year: 2024

description: … mit dieser Kurzformel lassen sich vielleicht etwas salopp, aber nicht weniger treffend die Ergebnisse tschechischer Ornithologen umschreiben. Das Eisvogelmännchen (Alcedo atthis, Abbildung 1) macht nicht nur eine schillernde Figur, was das Gefeder angeht. Der bunt schillernde Federschmuck ist offenbar gleichzeitig auch ein „Markenzeichen“, wenn es etwa darum geht, eine Familie zu gründen, denn es signalisiert „ehrlich“ die Qualität der Männchen. Dies hat das tschechische Forschungsteam in drei Jahren Freilandarbeit festgestellt.
description: Biologie in unserer Zeit - BiuZ, Bd. 54 Nr. 3 (2024): Ursprung des Lebens
title: Профессиональные ценности и этика бухгалтеров и аудиторов
Creators: name: ELS IPR BOOKS
Publisher: name: Ай Пи Ар Медиа
Year: 2024

description: Учебник подготовлен в соответствии с программой курса «Профессиональные ценности и этика бухгалтеров и аудиторов». Его целью является систематизация полученных знаний при изучении дисциплины с учетом требований профессиональных стандартов «Бухгалтер» и «Аудитор». Издание включает теоретическое изложение принципов и правил поведения профессионального бухгалтера и аудитора, а именно международного и национального регулирования, характеристики профессиональных стандартов, кодексов этики. В конце книги предлагаются тестовые задания для повторения всего объема материалов и тем. Учебник ориентирован на законодательные и нормативные акты Российской Федерации, действующие по состоянию на 01.06.2024 г. Подготовлен в соответствии с требованиями Федерального государственного образовательного стандарта высшего образования. Учебник предназначен для студентов, обучающихся по укрупненной группе специальностей и направлений подготовки «Экономика и управление», изучающих дисциплины «Профессиональные ценности и этика бухгалтеров и аудиторов», «Профессиональная этика бухгалтера и аудитора». Материалы издания могут заинтересовать также преподавателей экономических факультетов вузов, специалистов по бухгалтерскому учету и аудиту, слушателей системы повышения квалификации, профессиональных бухгалтеров и аудиторов.
Außerschulische Lernorte auf dem Gebiet der Mikrobiologie
Creators: name: Baumgärtel, Christin
Publisher: name: Biologie in unserer Zeit - BiuZ
Year: 2024

description: Außerschulische Lernorte mit pädagogisch-didaktischen Bildungsangeboten spielen bei der Gestaltung des formalen Biologie-Lernens eine wichtige Rolle. Zoos, Botanische Gärten und Museen ermöglichen Lernenden anschauliche, motivierende und häufg reale Begegnungen mit der Natur. Je nach Schwerpunkt der Institution werden Aspekte des Natur- und Artenschutzes, aktuelle Forschungsbefunde oder die Bedeutung biologischer Sammlungen – ob lebendig oder archiviert – thematisiert.
description: Biologie in unserer Zeit - BiuZ, Bd. 54 Nr. 3 (2024): Ursprung des Lebens
Community television and the transition to digital broadcasting
Creators: name: Rennie, Ellie
Publisher: name: Swinburne
Year: 2024

description: Digital transmission technologies have brought with them the promise of a better picture for all. The new system is said to provide better quality transmission, an increase in the number of services and a new dimension in broadcasting experience through audience participation. For the community sector, however, digital television is threatening the survival of current services. Whilst access, decentralisation, and participation have become key words of the transition phase, there is a risk that, in the application and development of digital transmission systems, prior broadcasting patterns of concentrated ownership control will prevail. This paper attempts to define the challenges involved in securing a public space in Australian television's new landscape and anlyses the impact of the digital legislation on the public sphere. recent developments indicate that the democratic forum of community television may need more support than ever before.
Tropenkrankheiten wandern nordwärts
Creators: name: Kronberg, Inge
Publisher: name: Biologie in unserer Zeit - BiuZ
Year: 2024

description: Die Bevölkerung gemäßigter Klimazonen blieb lange verschont von Tropenkrankheiten, denn Erreger und Überträger sind überwiegend an dauerhaft feuchtwarme Umweltbedingungen angepasst. Inzwischen ist das Klima im Norden aber einladender geworden und der Transport durch internationalen Handel, Tourismus und Migration kann Viren, Bakterien, Pilze, Parasiten und deren Überträgerarten zusammenbringen. Bei der Krankheitsüberwachung und Prävention müssen daher nicht nur medizinische, sondern auch ökologische Aspekte berücksichtigt werden.
description: Biologie in unserer Zeit - BiuZ, Bd. 54 Nr. 3 (2024): Ursprung des Lebens
Die Zeichen lesend. Islamische Interpretationen und Reaktionen auf den Tsunami in Aceh
Creators: name: Kraus, Werner
Publisher: name: Internationales Asienforum
Year: 2016

description: The paper discusses different Islamic reactions to explain the misery and death caused by the gigantic earthquake and tsunami of 26 December 2004 in Aceh/Indonesia. Basically three different models developed: 1. The tsunami has to be understood as a punishment by Allah. Different reasons why the Acehnese had to be punished by the Almighty and Merciful were developed by different religious groups. 2. The tsunami has to be understood as a trial. Allah wanted to find out if the death of hundreds of thousands of his believers would tempt the faith of the survivors. 3. The tsunami taught the believers that nobody has the right to question God's actions. A true Muslim has to accept whatever happens to him since it is part of the Almighty's infinite wisdom. During three visits to Aceh (February and September 2005 and July 2006) the author conducted a large number of informal interviews, collected theological books, poems, songs, novels, and newspaper articles. He shows that in the course of time the "punishment" version was more and more accepted by the ulama and the people alike. The aftermath of the tsunami supported the introduction of sharia law in Aceh and strengthened the Islamic elements in Acehnese society. Acehnese tend now to punish themselves in order to be spared further punishment by Allah.
description: Internationales Asienforum, Bd. 37 Nr. 3-4 (2006): Internationales Asienforum
Die Heilpflanze des Jahres 2024 aus tierökologischer Sicht
Creators: name: Schmidt, Olaf
Publisher: name: Biologie in unserer Zeit - BiuZ
Year: 2024

description: Der Schwarze Holunder (Sambucus nigra) wurde vom Naturheilverein Theophrastus zur Heilpflanze des Jahres 2024 ausgerufen. Wirkstoffe wie Flavonoide und ätherische Öle, ein hoher Vitamin-C-Gehalt der Früchte sowie Gerb- und Mineralstoffe sind ursächlich für die Verwendung als Heilpflanze. Im folgenden Beitrag soll nicht die heilkräftige Wirkung des Holunders im Vordergrund stehen, sondern seine ökologische Bedeutung.
description: Biologie in unserer Zeit - BiuZ, Bd. 54 Nr. 3 (2024): Ursprung des Lebens
One size does not fit all in severe infection: obesity alters outcome, susceptibility, treatment, and inflammatory response
Creators: name: Wacharasint, Petch
name: Boyd, John H.
name: Russell, James A.
name: Walley, Keith R. (Keith Robert)
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Introduction: Obesity is an increasingly common comorbidity in critically ill patients. Whether obesity alters sepsis outcome, susceptibility, treatment, and response is not completely understood. Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis comparing three group of septic shock patients based on the intervals of actual body mass index (BMI) in patients enrolled in the VASST (Vasopressin and Septic Shock Trial) cohort. Primary outcome measurement was 28-day mortality. We tested for differences in patterns of infection by comparing the primary site of infection and organism. We also compared the treatments (fluids and vasopressors) and inflammatory response, measuring adipose tissue-related cytokine concentrations (interleukin [IL]-6, monocyte chemotactic protein [MCP]-1, tumor necrosis factor [TNF]-α, and resistin) in plasma in a subset of 382 patients. Of the 778 patients in VASST, 730 patients who had body weight and height measurements were analyzed. Patients with BMI <25 kg/m2 (n = 276) were grouped as a reference and compared to 'overweight' (25< BMI <30 kg/m2, n = 209) and 'obese' (BMI >30 kg/m2, n = 245) patients. Results: Obese patients had the lowest 28-day mortality followed by overweight patients while patients with BMI <25 kg/m2 had the highest mortality (p = 0.02). Compared to the patients with BMI <25 kg/m2, obese and overweight patients also had a different pattern of infection with less lung (obese 35%, overweight 45%, BMI<25 kg/m2 50%, p = 0.003) and fungal infection (obese 8.2%, overweight 11%, and BMI<25 kg/m2 15.6%, p = 0.03). Per kilogram, obese and overweight patients received less fluid during the first four days (p<0.05) and received less norepinephrine (obese 0.14, overweight 0.21, BMI <25 kg/m2 0.26 µg/kg/min, p<0.0001) and vasopressin (obese 0.28, overweight 0.36, BMI <25 kg/m2 0.43 µU/kg/min, p<0.0001) on day 1 compared to patients with BMI <25 kg/m2. Obese and overweight patients also had a lower plasma IL-6 concentration at baseline (obese 106 [IQR 34-686], overweight 190 [IQR 44-2339], BMI <25 kg/m2 235 [IQR 44-1793] pg/mL, p = 0.046). Conclusions: Overall obesity was associated with improved survival in septic shock and differences in pattern of infection, fluids, and vasopressors. Importantly, the magnitude of inflammatory IL-6 response is muted in the obese.
Teil 3: Mehr Kuhfladen in die Landschaft – oder: Was es mit dem Insektensterben auf sich hat
Creators: name: Kremer-Schillings, Willi
Publisher: name: Biologie in unserer Zeit - BiuZ
Year: 2024

description: Biologie in unserer Zeit - BiuZ, Bd. 54 Nr. 3 (2024): Ursprung des Lebens
Establishing the Melbourne injecting drug user cohort study (MIX): rationale, methods, and baseline and twelve-month follow-up results
Creators: name: Horyniak, Danielle
name: Higgs, Peter
name: Jenkinson, Rebecca
name: Degenhardt, Louisa
name: Stoové, Mark
name: Kerr, Thomas
name: Hickman, Matthew
name: Aitken, Campbell
name: Dietze, Paul
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2015

description: Background: Cohort studies provide an excellent opportunity to monitor changes in behaviour and disease transmission over time. In Australia, cohort studies of people who inject drugs (PWID) have generally focused on older, in-treatment injectors, with only limited outcome measure data collected. In this study we specifically sought to recruit a sample of younger, largely out-of-treatment PWID, in order to study the trajectories of their drug use over time. Methods Respondent driven sampling, traditional snowball sampling and street outreach methods were used to recruit heroin and amphetamine injectors from one outer-urban and two inner-urban regions of Melbourne, Australia. Information was collected on participants’ demographic and social characteristics, drug use characteristics, drug market access patterns, health and social functioning, and health service utilisation. Participants are followed-up on an annual basis. Results 688 PWID were recruited into the study. At baseline, the median age of participants was 27.6 years (IQR: 24.4 years – 29.6 years) and two-thirds (67%) were male. Participants reported injecting for a median of 10.2 years (range: 1.5 months – 21.2 years), with 11% having injected for three years or less. Limited education, unemployment and previous incarceration were common. The majority of participants (82%) reported recent heroin injection, and one third reported being enrolled in Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST) at recruitment. At 12 months follow-up 458 participants (71% of eligible participants) were retained in the study. There were few differences in demographic and drug-use characteristics of those lost to follow-up compared with those retained in the study, with attrition significantly associated with recruitment at an inner-urban location, male gender, and providing incomplete contact information at baseline. Conclusions Our efforts to recruit a sample of largely out-of-treatment PWID were limited by drug market characteristics at the time, where fluctuating heroin availability has led to large numbers of PWID accessing low-threshold OST. Nevertheless, this study of Australian injectors will provide valuable data on the natural history of drug use, along with risk and protective factors for adverse health outcomes associated with injecting drug use. Comprehensive follow-up procedures have led to good participant retention and limited attrition bias.