Abstinente Jugendliche im Höhenrausch: Nüchternheit, Leistung und gesunder Lebensstil in der Schweizer Abstinenz- und Lebensreformbewegung (1885-1978)

This article discusses the assumption that also historical actors of the youth and life reform movement being abstinent from alcohol and drugs strived for inebriation. Although these forms of inebriation allowed to exceed physical and mental limits, they had to be compatible with the performance-oriented and healthy lifestyle of the movements. During the 20th century, abstinent adolescents, Wandervögel and life reformers organized mountain hikes as a healthy leisure activity without alcohol and drugs. In their tour reports they described their experiences in the mountains as a state of highness which in contrary to the drug-based intoxication improves one's self-control and perception. By doing so, they tried to adopt inebriation as cultural technology, but connected it to their ideals of health. They influenced a sober and rationalized “regime of consciousness” that during the 20th century expanded in different spheres of modern, performance-oriented societies

Greater than the sum of the parts: a qualitative content analysis of what constitutes a good treatment in the inpatient setting

Background The evaluation of psychotherapy is guided by established concepts, such as efficacy and effectiveness, and acceptability. Although these concepts serve as valid proxies, little is known about corresponding criteria for those directly involved in this treatment. This study aimed to explore inpatients’ and health professionals’ definitions of a good treatment in the inpatient setting. Methods Fifteen semi-structured interviews were conducted in a private psychiatric clinic in Switzerland and structured by qualitative content analysis. Different subsamples of the inpatient setting (patients N = 5; psychiatrists N = 5; other health professionals N = 5) were interviewed. Results In total, 546 text passages were grouped in 10 superordinate categories and identified as relevant for the concept of a good treatment. Participants stressed patient-specific (i.e., new insights; basic attitudes), treatment-specific (i.e., therapy methods and expertise; treatment success; therapy setting), and relationship-based (i.e., communication and feedback; relationships within the clinical setting; overcoming challenges and hurdles) components that are indispensable for a good therapeutic process. Components that are related to the clinical inpatient setting (i.e., setting and organization of the clinic; code of conduct) were also highlighted. Conclusions Patients’ and health professionals’ definitions of what constitutes a good treatment entails a wide array of aspects. The clinical setting is seen to offer unique components that are emphasized to have a healing effect

Wertprüfung der in Deutschland zugelassenen Winterweizen-Populationen

Mit dem Durchführungsbeschluss 2014/150/EU fordert die Europäische Kommission die Organisation eines zeitlich befristeten Experiments, welches Ausnahmen in Bezug auf das Inverkehrbringen von heterogenem Pflanzenmaterial zulässt. Das als Populationen bezeichnete heterogene Material muss die DUS-Kriterien der regulären Sortenzulassung nicht erfüllen. Stattdessen wird im Durchführungsbeschluss ein Mindestmaß für die Heterogenität der Populationen vorgeschrieben. In diesem Beitrag stellen wir Ergebnisse von Wertprüfungen der in Deutschland zugelassenen Winterweizen-Populationen vor, die 2016/17 und 2017/18 gemäß den Richtlinien für landwirtschaftliche Wertprüfungen und Sortenversuche des Bundessortenamts durchgeführt wurden. Erfasst wurden der Ertrag, agronomische Eigenschaften und Backqualitätseigenschaften

Stent thrombosis following bare-metal stent implantation: success of emergency percutaneous coronary intervention and predictors of adverse outcome

Aims To investigate the efficacy and outcome of emergency percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) in patients with stent thrombosis. Methods and results Between 1995 and 2003, 6058 patients underwent bare-metal stent implantation, of which 95 (1.6%) patients suffered from stent thrombosis. The timing of stent thrombosis was acute in 10 (11%), subacute in 61 (64%), and late in 24 (25%) patients. Procedural and clinical outcomes of emergency PCI for treatment of stent thrombosis were investigated. Emergency PCI was successful in 86 (91%), complicated by death in 2 (2%), and coronary artery bypass grafting in 2 (2%) patients. Myocardial infarction occurred in 77 (81%) patients with a peak creatine kinase level of 1466±1570 U/L. Left ventricular ejection fraction declined from 0.54±0.19 prior to 0.48±0.16 (P<0.05) at the time of stent thrombosis after emergency PCI. A 6 month major adverse clinical events comprised death (11%), reinfarction (16%), and recurrent stent thrombosis (12%) after emergency PCI. Multivariable logistic regression analysis identified the achievement of TIMI 3 flow (OR=0.1, CI 95% 0.01-0.54, P<0.001) and diameter stenosis <50% (OR=0.06, CI 95% 0.01-0.32, P<0.001) during emergency PCI to be independently associated with a reduced risk of cardiac death. Recurrent stent thrombosis was independently predicted by the omission of abciximab (OR=4.3, CI 95% 1.1-17.5). Conclusion Emergency PCI for treatment of stent thrombosis effectively restores vessel patency and flow. Patients presenting with stent thrombosis are at risk for recurrent myocardial infarction and recurrent stent thrombosi

Abstinente Jugendliche im Höhenrausch. Nüchternheit, Leistung und gesunder Lebensstil in der Schweizer Abstinenz- und Lebensreformbewegung

This article discusses the assumption that also historical actors of the youth and life reform movement being abstinent from alcohol and drugs strived for inebriation. Although these forms of inebriation allowed to exceed physical and mental limits, they had to be compatible with the performance-oriented and healthy lifestyle of the movements. During the 20th century, abstinent adolescents, Wandervögel and life reformers organized mountain hikes as a healthy leisure activity without alcohol and drugs. In their tour reports they described their experiences in the mountains as a state of highness which in contrary to the drug-based intoxication improves one's self-control and perception. By doing so, they tried to adopt inebriation as cultural technology, but connected it to their ideals of health. They influenced a sober and rationalized “regime of consciousness” that during the 20th century expanded in different spheres of modern, performance-oriented societies

equus: A provably robust and locality-aware peer-to-peer system

Peer-to-peer systems (p2p) are highly dynamic in nature. They may consist of millions of peers joining only for a limited period of time, resulting in hundreds of join and leave events per second. In this paper we introduce eQuus, a novel distributed hash table (DHT) suitable for highly dynamic environments. eQuus guarantees that lookups are always fast— in terms of both the delay and the total number of routing hops—, although peers may join and leave the network at any time and concurrently.