Hermetikus irodalom Közép-Európában és a Kárpát-medencében = Hermetic Literature in Middle Europe (incl. Hungary)

Paracelsus sokáig ismeretlen munkái, vallási-filozófiai töredék-gondolatai fölfedezése nyomán - az 1570-es évektől kibontakozott a hermetizmusnak egy második, kora-újkori hulláma, ami eljutott az Alpoktól északra, végül Kelet-Közép-Európába is. Túlnyomóan már anyanyelvű irodalom és publicisztika szólaltatja meg ezt az áramlatot, amely sokat köszönhet a nagy olasz humanisták filológiai munkásságának és bölcseleti eszmélkedésének, de különbözik is attól: az istenismeretről, az emberről és a természetről fogalmazott traktátusokban ''saját nyelvet'' alakít ki (amely pl. a német nyelvű misztika terminológiájából csak részben merít); szakít a humanisták rövidtávú optimizmusával, bár vannak a milléniumot rajongva váró képviselői. A pályázat keretében ennek a hermetikus irodalomnak szerzőitől ill. a rájuk vonatkozó jelentős szakirodalomból tettünk magyar nyelven hozzáférhetővé szövegeket és írtunk tanulmányokat ennek a hagyománynak a 17. századi továbbéléséről. | With the discovery of previously unknown works and fragmentary theologico-philosophical thoughts of Paracelsus, a new Early Modern wave of Hermetic thinking emerged from the 1570s, which crossed the Alps towards the North, and eventually penetrated into East-Central Europe as well. This stream was dominantly mediated through vernacular literature and journalism, and owes much to the philological activity and the philosophical contemplations of the great Italian humanists. At the same time, it is also different from the Italian tendencies: it elaborates a 'distinctive language' (which builds on the terminology of, say, German mysticism only partially) in its tracts about man, nature and about experiencing God. This new wave breaks with the short-term optimism of the humanists, although there are representatives who expected the Millennium with great enthusiasm. With the help of this application, we made certain texts from the authors of this Hermetic literature, together with parts of the important secondary literature in Hungarian available, and we also wrote several studies dealing with the 17th century continuation of this tradition

Magyarországi tudósok levelezése, 16-19. század = Correspondence of Scholars of Hungary, 16-19. century

2005-2009 között a Magyarországi tudósok levelezése c. sorozat 6. tagjaként sajtókész állapotba került Weszprémi István ('orvostörténetírásunk atyja', 1723-1799) levelezése, 920.00 n terjedelemben. A levelek (latin, kisebb rész magyar nyelvűek) nagy részének átírását Vida Tivadar, a kiegészítéseket, bevezetést, jegyzeteket és mutatókat Szelestei N. László készítette. A közölt levelek száma 240, ebben 52 a levélíró, 46 a címzett. A sorozat 5. tagjának (Seidler, Andrea: Briefwechsel des Karl Gottlieb Windisch, Bp., 2008. 334 S.) kiadása - külön pályázati támogatással - szintén ebben a ciklusban történt. 2006-ban közzétettük a projektben részt vevők ide vonatkozó tanulmányait (Magyarországi tudósok levelezése a 18. században, Bp., 2008. 136 l.) Földesi Ferenc kötete (Lázár János levelezése) ebben a ciklusban jelentősen bővült, a kézirat külön támogatás nélkül is elkészül és pályázati támogatással sorozatunkban fog megjelenni a közeljövőben. Egy következő ciklusban Révai Miklós nyelvtudós (1650-1807) levelezését és Schedius Lajos (1768-1847) levelezését tartalmazó kötetek (szerzők: Thimár Attila, Deák Eszter) kerülhetnek kiadható állapotba. A kutatási tervf szerint vontunk be fiatalokat a projektbe, két kötet jelzi ezt (Illik Péter-Maczák Ibolya: Debreceni értelmiségiek levelei Dobai Székely Sámuelhez, 2007. 130 l.; Horváth Mária: Dobai Székely Sámuel és Kaprinai István levelezése, 2008. 152 l.). | Between 2005 and 2009 the sixth volume of the series 'Correspondence of Scholars in Hungary', the correspondence of István Weszprémi ('father of our medical history', 1723-1799), 920.000 n size, became ready to print. Most of the letters (written mainly in Latin, less in Hungarian) were transcribed by Tivadar Vida, the completions, introduction, notes and indices were made by László Szelestei N. The volume contains 240 letters, from 52 people to Weszprémi, and to 46 from him. The fifth member of the series (Seidler, Andrea: Briefwechsel des Karl Gottlieb Windisch, Budapest, 2008, 334 pp.) - with a special tender assistance - was published in this period, too. In 2006 a book was published with the studies of those taking part in the project (Magyarországi tudósok levelezése a 18. században, Budapest, 2008, 136 pp.) Ferenc Földesi's volume (correspondence of János Lázár) grew significantly in this period, the manuscript is going to be finished without special assistance and published in our series with tender assistance in the near future. In the following period the correspondence of the linguist Miklós Révai (1750-1807) and Lajos Schedius (1768-1847) - authors: Attila Thimár and Eszter Deák - will become ready to print. According to the research plan young researchers were drawn into the project, which resulted in two volumes already (Péter Illik - Ibolya Maczák: Debreceni értelmiségiek levelei Dobai Székely Sámuelhez, 2007, 130 pp; Mária Horváth: Dobai Székely Sámuel és Kaprinai István levelezése, 2008, 152 pp.)

Felekezetiség és múltteremtés. = Denominations and the Creation of their Past. Unknown and/or Unpublished Texts from the Prehistory of Transylvanian historia litteraria

A program kiindulópontját az a felismerés jelentette, hogy a 17-18. századi magyar művelődéstörténetével foglalkozó szakemberek nem tettek szervezett erőfeszítéseket az 1990-ben számukra is megnyílt erdélyi gyűjtemények kéziratos forrásainak feltárására. A munkaközösség tagjai arra vállalkoztak, hogy legalább megkezdjék e hiány pótlását. Rendszerességre törekvő feltáró munkát kezdeményeztek tehát olyan jeles gyűjteményekben, mint a kolozsvári akadémiai könyvtár (ez tartalmazza jelenleg a nagy erdélyi felekezetek iskolai könyvtárainak dokumentumait), a marosvásárhelyi Teleki Téka, a gyulafehérvári Batthyáneum és a szebeni Állami Levéltár. A csoport, ahol ez lehetségessé vált, az internet segítségével is hozzáférhetővé teszi e feltáró munka eredményeit, más esetekben a hagyományos formákat alkalmazva tájékoztatja a hazai szakembergárdát a forrásfeltárás elvégzett munkájáról. Másfelől nemzetközi konferenciákon tartott előadásokkal és nemzetközi könyvsorozatokban való szerepléssel is igyekszik bemutatni a nagy erdélyi népcsoportok és felekezetek vetélkedésének egy pozitív oldalát: a vitákban fontos szerepet kapott az egyes közösségek kulturális teljesítménye, s így szükségessé vált annak számbavétele is, hogy a legszélesebb értelemben vett historia litteraria területén milyen produkciót tudnak felmutatni. | Our program started out from the realisation that experts of 17th-18th Hungarian cultural history had made no organised attempt at processing the Transylvanian manuscript sources which became available for us in 1990. Participants of our project intended to make at least the first steps in eliminating this absence. Therefore they initiated exploratory work with a systematising purpose in such significant collections as the Library of the Academy of Kolozsvár (which currently holds the documents from the great Transylvanian denominations' school libraries), the Teleki Téka in Marosvásárhely, the Batthyaneum in Gyulafehérvár and the National Archives in Szeben. Where possible, results of the group were also published through the Internet, while in other instances conventional forms of communication were employed in order to inform Hungarian professionals about the achievements arising from the recovery of the sources. On the other hand, lectures at international conferences and articles published in international collections were utilised to demonstrate a positive facet of the competition among the great Transylvanian ethnicities and confessions: cultural performance played a key role in the debates, and it was inevitable to make an account of the products in the area of historia litteraria in its broadest sense

Late cardiac events after childhood cancer: Methodological aspects of the pan-european study pancaresurfup

Background and Aim Childhood cancer survivors are at high risk of long-Termadverse effects of cancer and its treatment, including cardiac events. The pan-European PanCareSurFup study determined the incidence and risk factors for cardiac events among childhood cancer survivors. The aim of this article is to describe the methodology of the cardiac cohort and nested case-control study within PanCareSurFup. Methods Eight data providers in Europe participating in PanCareSurFup identified and validated symptomatic cardiac events in their cohorts of childhood cancer survivors. Data onsymptomatic heart failure, ischemia, pericarditis, valvular disease and arrhythmia were collected and graded according to the Criteria for Adverse Events. Detailed treatment data, data on potential confounders, lifestyle related risk factors and general health problems were collected. Results The PanCareSurFup cardiac cohort consisted of 59,915 5-year childhood cancer survivors with malignancies diagnosed between 1940 and 2009 and classified according to the International Classification of Childhood Cancer 3. Different strategies were used to identify cardiac events such as record linkage to population/ hospital or regional based databases, and patient-And general practitioner-based questionnaires. Conclusion The cardiac study of the European collaborative research project PanCareSurFup will provide the largest cohort of 5-year childhood cancer survivors with systematically ascertained and validated data on symptomatic cardiac events. The result of this study can provide information to minimize the burden of cardiac events in childhood cancer survivors by tailoring the follow-up of childhood cancer survivors at high risk of cardiac adverse events, transferring this knowledge into evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and providing a platformfor future research studies in childhood cancer patients. © 2016 Feijen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited

Search for gravitational-lensing signatures in the full third observing run of the LIGO-Virgo network

Gravitational lensing by massive objects along the line of sight to the source causes distortions of gravitational wave-signals; such distortions may reveal information about fundamental physics, cosmology and astrophysics. In this work, we have extended the search for lensing signatures to all binary black hole events from the third observing run of the LIGO--Virgo network. We search for repeated signals from strong lensing by 1) performing targeted searches for subthreshold signals, 2) calculating the degree of overlap amongst the intrinsic parameters and sky location of pairs of signals, 3) comparing the similarities of the spectrograms amongst pairs of signals, and 4) performing dual-signal Bayesian analysis that takes into account selection effects and astrophysical knowledge. We also search for distortions to the gravitational waveform caused by 1) frequency-independent phase shifts in strongly lensed images, and 2) frequency-dependent modulation of the amplitude and phase due to point masses. None of these searches yields significant evidence for lensing. Finally, we use the non-detection of gravitational-wave lensing to constrain the lensing rate based on the latest merger-rate estimates and the fraction of dark matter composed of compact objects

Search for eccentric black hole coalescences during the third observing run of LIGO and Virgo

Despite the growing number of confident binary black hole coalescences observed through gravitational waves so far, the astrophysical origin of these binaries remains uncertain. Orbital eccentricity is one of the clearest tracers of binary formation channels. Identifying binary eccentricity, however, remains challenging due to the limited availability of gravitational waveforms that include effects of eccentricity. Here, we present observational results for a waveform-independent search sensitive to eccentric black hole coalescences, covering the third observing run (O3) of the LIGO and Virgo detectors. We identified no new high-significance candidates beyond those that were already identified with searches focusing on quasi-circular binaries. We determine the sensitivity of our search to high-mass (total mass M>70 M⊙) binaries covering eccentricities up to 0.3 at 15 Hz orbital frequency, and use this to compare model predictions to search results. Assuming all detections are indeed quasi-circular, for our fiducial population model, we place an upper limit for the merger rate density of high-mass binaries with eccentricities 0<e≤0.3 at 0.33 Gpc−3 yr−1 at 90\% confidence level

Ultralight vector dark matter search using data from the KAGRA O3GK run

Among the various candidates for dark matter (DM), ultralight vector DM can be probed by laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors through the measurement of oscillating length changes in the arm cavities. In this context, KAGRA has a unique feature due to differing compositions of its mirrors, enhancing the signal of vector DM in the length change in the auxiliary channels. Here we present the result of a search for U(1)B−L gauge boson DM using the KAGRA data from auxiliary length channels during the first joint observation run together with GEO600. By applying our search pipeline, which takes into account the stochastic nature of ultralight DM, upper bounds on the coupling strength between the U(1)B−L gauge boson and ordinary matter are obtained for a range of DM masses. While our constraints are less stringent than those derived from previous experiments, this study demonstrates the applicability of our method to the lower-mass vector DM search, which is made difficult in this measurement by the short observation time compared to the auto-correlation time scale of DM