Recommendation on methodical instructions on the collection of rumen juice

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for subject 9.2 ?Use of non-protein-nitrogen compounds in ruminant feeding“, prepared by the COMECON work-group on the occasion of the Methodical Conference held from 6th to 11th of February, 1969.

in Berlin, German Democratic Republic.

(Participating countries: People's Republic of Bulgaria, Hungarian People's Republic, German Democratic Republic, People's Republic of Poland, Roumanian Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Czechoslovak Socialist Republic).     

Methodische Hinweise zur Gewinnung von Pansensaft

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erarbeitet von der RGW-Arbeitsgruppe zum Thema 9.2. ?Die Verwendung nichteiweißartiger Stickstoffsubstanzen in der Fütterung der Wiederkäuer“ anläßlich der methodischen Konferenz vom 6. bis 11. Februar 1969 in Berlin, Deutsche Demokratische Republik.

(Beteiligte Länder: Volksrepublik Bulgarien, Ungarische Volksrepublik, Deutsche Demokratische Republik, Volksrepublik Polen, Sozialistische Rumänische Republik, Union der Sozialistischen Sowjetrepubliken, Tschechoslowakische Sozialistische Republik).     

Methodische Empfehlung zur Bestimmung von einigen Stoffwechselprodukten im Pansensaft und Blut

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erarbeitet von der RGW-Arbeitsgruppe zum Thema 9.2 ?Die Verwendung nichteiweißartiger Stickstoffsubstanzen in der Fütterung der Wiederkäuer“ anläßlich der methodischen Konferenz vom 6. bis 11. Februar 1969 in Berlin, Deutsche Demokratische Republik.

(Beteiligte Länder: Volksrepublik Bulgarien, Ungarische Volksrepublik, Deutsche Demokratische Republik, Volksrepublik Polen, Sozialistische Rumänische Republik, Union der Sozialistischen Sowjetrepubliken, Tschechoslowakische Föderative Sozialistische Republik).     

MAGNETIC FIELDS AND CONNECTIVE TISSUE REGULATION

Most clinically used magnetotherapies are supported by “black box” experimental and clinical data. On May 19, 2000, a meeting of the Working Group ‘Electrophysiology of Bone’ of the German Society of Osteology was held in Berlin to discuss the basic mechanisms of pathophysiological regulation to explain the therapeutic significance of various modes of clinical magnetotherapies.

This short paper outlines the discussion held at that meeting, which searched for a rational scientific understanding or basis for the use of various clinical magnetotherapies.     

Landscape assessment for sustainable planning

The 1st International Conference on Impact Assessment of Land Use Changes (IALUC) was held from the 6th to 9th of April 2008 at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. At the meeting, 160 oral presentations (including five plenary speeches) and 69 posters by representatives from 39 countries were presented. Papers and posters in four general sessions (Tools and Models, Policies and Scenarios, Scale and Indicators, and Participation and Socio-Economy) considered various aspects of the impact assessment of land use and landscape changes. This special section of the journal Ecological Indicators consists of nine selected presentations from different sub-sessions of the IALUC conference considering the use of indicators in landscape assessment.     

The skull of Combe Capelle

Since the end of World War II two of the most important anthropological artefacts of the Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte in Berlin, the skulls and skeletons of Le Moustier and Combe Capelle, were believed to be missing or destroyed, respectively. The postcrania were severely damaged during a fire after the museum was bombed in February 1945, while the skulls were brought to the Soviet Union in 1945. In 1965, the skull of the Neanderthal man from Le Moustier and the chain of the grave of Combe Capelle were found amongst the art objects returned by the Soviet Union into the German Democratic Republic in 1958. However, the Combe Capelle skull was still missing. In the end of 2001 this skull could be found and identified in a store-house of the museum. Now, one the oldest known representatives of Homo sapiens sapiens is again available for scientific research and public exhibitions.     

East-Side story: the standardisation of psychotropic drugs at the Charité Psychiatric Clinic, 1955-1970

The present article illustrates the history of psychotropic drugs introduced in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) from 1945 onwards. We begin by examining the introduction of an anti-depressant and a tranquilizer at the university psychiatric clinic, Charité, in East Berlin. On the basis of patient files, we consider the monitoring routines, altered by the use of psychotropic drugs, and the difficulties that arose when these routines were translated into existing research programs. In the 1960s, attempts to evaluate the psychiatric practice were based on psychopathology whereas at the end of the 1960s there was a shift to “target symptoms”.     

Besprechungen

Book review in this article
Annual Review of Phytopathology. Herausgegeben von J. G. H orsfall , K. J. B aker und D. C. H ildebrand .
Plant Virology, Proceedings of the 6th Conference of the Czechoslovak Plant Virologists, Olomouc (Olmütz) 1967.
Sdiimitsdiek, E., Grundzüge der Waldhygiene. Verlag Paul Parey, Hamburg und Berlin 1969.
Sdiwerdtfeger, F., Die Waldkrankheiten. Ein Lehrbuch der Forstpathologie unid des Forstschutzes. Dritte, neubearbeitete Auflage.     

Increased incidence of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in young women in the Mitte district, Berlin, Germany

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether the incidence of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), in particular of high grade CIN, increased in Berlin during the period 1970-1989 and whether the ages of women with CIN had decreased. STUDY DESIGN: In the former German Democratic Republic, which had a highly centralized public health system, all gynecologic operations performed on women living in the Mitte district of Berlin were carried out during the period 1970-1989 (when the Berlin Wall fell) in the gynecologic clinic of the Charité Hospital. RESULTS: The incidence of all CIN increased from year to year over the observation period: 0.04% (1970-1971), 0.10% (1980-1981), 0.39% (1988-1989). There was a particularly high increase in the incidence of high grade intraepithelial neoplasms (CIN 3): 0.016% (1970-1971), 0.056% (1980-1981), 0.25% (1988-1989). With a virtually unchanged age distribution for women in the Mitte district of Berlin, the median age of women with CIN 3 decreased significantly from 1970 to 1989, from 39.5 (1970) to 33 (1989) (P < .001). CONCLUSION: The increase in the incidence of CIN, especially of high grade CIN, as well as the reduction in age for onset of the disease, makes high participation in screening necessary, above all among young women.     

Focus on cancer prevention

Tumor Prevention and Genetics 2002, the 2nd International Conference and 7th Annual Meeting of The International Society of Cancer Chemoprevention (ISCaC) was held in St. Gallen, Switzerland, 14-16 February 2002.     

Evolutionary steps of ecophysiological adaptation and diversification of ruminants: a comparative view of their digestive system

Summary A review is made of the ruminant digestive system in its morphophysiological variations and adaptations relating to foraging behaviour, digestive physiology, to interactions between plants and ruminants and to geographic and climatic diversity of ruminants' ecological niches. Evidence is provided for evolutionary trends from an extreme selectivity mainly for plant cell contents and dependence upon a fractionated fore- and hindgut fermentation, to an unselective intake of bulk roughage subjected to an efficient plant cell wall fermentation, mainly in the forestomachs. The review is based on detailed comparative morphological studies of all portions of the digestive system of 65 ruminant species from four continents. Their results are related to physiological evidence and to the classification of all extant ruminants into a flexible system of three overlapping morphophysiological feeding types: concentrate selectors (40%), grass and roughage eaters (25%) and intermediate, opportunistic, mixed feeders (35%). Several examples are discussed how ruminants of different feeding types are gaining ecological advantage and it is concluded that ruminants have achieved high levels of digestive efficiency at each evolutionary stage, (including well-documented seasonal adaptations of the digestive system) and that ruminant evolution is still going on. Deductions made from the few domesticated ruminant species may have, in the past, biased scientific evaluation of the free-ranging species' ecology. The main threat to a continuous ruminant evolution and diversity appears to be man's neglect for essential ecological interactions between wild ruminants and their specific habitats, which he alters or destroys.Abbreviations bw body weight - CS concentrate selector - DFC distal fermentation chamber (distended caecocolon) - GR grass and roughage eater - IM intermediate (mixed) feeder - PFC proximal fermentation chamber (ruminoreticulum/forestomachs) - RR Ruminoreticulum - SCFA Short-chain fatty acis (acetic, butyric, propionic acid set free by rumen bacteriae) - SE Surface enlargement (of absorptive mucosa) Supported by German Research Community grant DFG Ho 273/6Dedicated to Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Dietrich Starck on the occasion of his 80th birthday     

Distribution of diploid sexual plants ofTaraxacum sect.Ruderalia in east-Central Europe,with special reference to Czechoslovakia

Herbarium specimens (c. 1 000) and population samples (76) have been screened for the occurrence of diploid representatives ofTaraxacum sect.Ruderalia (T. sect.Vulgaria, nom. illeg.). The area studied comprises German Democratic Republic, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and parts of Austria, Yugoslavia, and Rumania. Diploids are common from the Valley of the Moravia river on southwards. Isolated outpost localities are found in S. Poland and extend far to the north: neighbourhood of Berlin. Based on the pattern of distribution in Czechoslovakia, the Pannonian (thermophilous) phytogeographical character of the diploids is discussed. Special attention has been paid to morphological differences between di- and triploids in Czechoslovakia. The study provides a basis for further biosystematical and taxonomic studies in the relationships between diploids and polyploids as well as in the stability of agamospecies.     

The 14th International TNF Conference,Québec City,Canada – Des Progrės Récents aux Défis Futurs (Recent Advances toward Future Challenges)

This special issue of the Cytokine and Growth Factors Review is devoted to highlighting the exceptional science that was presented at the 14th International TNF Conference held in Québec City, Canada from July 7th to July 10th, 2013. In this beautiful and historic city, approximately 175 delegates gathered to hear and present the latest advances in the TNF superfamily (TNFSF) field across broad subjects such as cancer, signal transduction, tissue homeostasis, cell death and immunity. The science presented in oral and poster format was of the highest caliber, with exciting new stories “breaking” in this exciting inter-disciplinary area of research. We await with anticipation the next (15th) International TNF Conference to be held May 20–23rd, 2015 in Ghent, Belgium. Until then, À Bientôt!.     

News from the Biological Stain Commission no. 12

In this 12(th) issue of News from the Biological Stain Commission (BSC) under the heading of Regulatory affairs, the Biological Stain Commission's International Affairs Committee presents information from the meetings of ISO/TC 212/WG 1 Quality and competence in the medical laboratory and ISO/TC 212/WG 3 In vitro diagnostic products both held on 2 - 3 June 2010, plus information on the second plenary meeting of ISO/TC 212 Clinical laboratory testing and in vitro diagnostic test systems held on 4 June 2010. All meetings took place in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Finally, information is provided concerning the 25(th) meeting of CEN/TC 140 In vitro diagnostic medical devices held on 23 June 2010 in Berlin, Germany.     

Optimized N-mineralization parameters of loess soils from incubation experiments

Summary Nitrogen mineralization from long term incubation experiments with dried loess soils from southern Lower Saxony has been split by an optimization procedure into three contributing fractions: one from the resistant organic material (index rpm), another from decomposable plant residues (index dpm), and a third one from autolyzing microbial biomass (index bom). The nitrogen contents at the end of February averages 650 kg nitrogen per hectare and the 30 cm arable layer for the rpm, 30 to 50 kg N/ha for the dpm and about 65 kg N/ha for microbial biomass. The corresponding mean reaction coefficients at 35°C are .0058, .16 and about .35 per day, respectively. A rough approximation of the temperature dependence of the reaction coefficients has also been estimated.This paper was presented in part at the 1981 Congress of the German Soil Science Society held in Berlin, and at a colloquium at the Institute of Soil Chemistry, Pisa, Italy, Oct. 19th, 1981; nothing of it has been published before, however.     

A tribute to Achim Trebst at the time of his doctor honoris causa,University of Düsseldorf

On June 9, 2009, we celebrate the 80th birthday of Achim Trebst. I present below the “Tribute” (Laudatio) that I read on February 11, 2000 on the occasion of his receiving Doctor honoris causa of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. The text below is a translation from the original German to English with minor editorial changes by Govindjee.     

Initial data for the comparison of murein and pseudomurein conformations

In order to compare possible conformations of murein and pseudomurein from Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum with one another (especially with respect to the peptide moiety), X-ray diffraction data, density measurements, and conformational energy calculations were used. All results obtained indicated a similar certain layer-like arrangement and similar ringshaped peptide backbone conformations, thus pointing to similar construction principles for the two polymers.This article is dedicated to Professor Otto Kandler on occasion of his 60th birthday.Parts of this paper will be presented at the 2nd International Congress on Cell Biology to be held at Berlin from Aug. 31 to Sept. 5, 1980     

News from the Biological Stain Commission No. 12

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In this 12^th issue of News from the Biological Stain Commission (BSC) under the heading of Regulatory affairs, the Biological Stain Commission’s International Affairs Committee presents information from the meetings of ISO/TC 212/WG 1 Quality and competence in the medical laboratory and ISO/TC 212/WG 3 In vitro diagnostic products both held on 2 – 3 June 2010, plus information on the second plenary meeting of ISO/TC 212 Clinical laboratory testing and in vitro diagnostic test systems held on 4 June 2010. All meetings took place in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Finally, information is provided concerning the 25^th meeting of CEN/TC 140 In vitro diagnostic medical devices held on 23 June 2010 in Berlin, Germany.     

Polyploidy Among Isolates of Phytophthora infestans from Eastern Germany

The ploidy of 101 isolates of Phytophihora infestans from the eastern states of the Federal Republic of Germany (formerly the German Democratic Republic) was determined by Feulgen DNA microdensitometry. The isolates used in this investigation were collected during 11 growing seasons between 1976 and 1990. Fifty hyphal nuclei per isolate were used for DNA measurements. Polyploids predominated throughout the 15-year sampling period. Four of the isolates collected during 1989 were diploid. Based on the results of this investigation, there appears to have been no trend towards a diploid. sexual population during the sampling period.     

“You are special”: othering in biographies of “GDR children from Namibia”

The article analyses a historical case of politically induced flight. The so-called German Democratic Republic (GDR) children from Namibia are about 430 people brought to the GDR between 1979 and 1989. They came from Namibian refugee camps and were part of a solidarity project between South West African People’s Organization (SWAPO) and the GDR. They were educated to become the Namibian elite once the country had been liberated. Their stay was to be temporary, with the children identified as Namibian by SWAPO and GDR. The article reconstructs culturalist and biological-racist forms of othering as characteristic biographical experience of the young people which deny them belonging to GDR and Namibia. Simultaneously it examines how the young people irritate the categories of othering and create spaces of agency. They build a new hybrid language “Oshi German” thereby breaking culturalization and staying together as a collective in search of a place of belonging.