Ferdinand II. und die Juden : nach Aktenstücken in d. Archiven d. k.k. Ministerien d. Innern u. d. Aeussern

von G. Wolf

Zur Geschichte der jüdischen Cultusgemeinde Belovar (Kroatien) : (Festschrift zur Einweihung d. neuerbauten Synagoge am 19. Sept. 1881)

von M. Grünwald

Geschichte der Israeliten in Böhmen : von d. ältesten Zeiten bis zum Schlusse d. Jahres 1813

von Johann Franz v. Herrmann

Das Wiener Ghetto : seine Häuser und seine Bewohner. 1. das Judenviertel in der inneren Stadt bis zu seiner Aufhebung im Jahre 1421... 2. die Judenstadt im unteren Werd. 1625 - 1670. Mit 2 Pl. u. Textabb.

im Auftr. d. Hist. Komm. d. israelit. Kultusgemeinde in Wien bearb. von Ignaz Schwarz

Die Juden in Oesterreich : vom Standpunkte d. Geschichte, d. Rechts u. d. Staatsvortheils ; in 3 Büchern

[Verf.: Joseph Ritter v. Wertheimer]

Sage und Geschichte aus der Vergangenheit der israelitischen Gemeinde in Prag : Vortrag gehalten am 14. Jänner im Vereine "Afike Jehuda" in Prag

von Nathan Grün

Ausführlicher Rechenschafts-Bericht der umstehend namhaft gemachten, zu einer Partei gegliederten 35 Mitgl. d. ungarischen israelitischen Congresses

hrsg. von Israel Hildesheimer

Rezeption und Orthodoxie : gegenwärtiges Stadium dieser Angelegenheit. Nebst Beleuchtung antijüd. Agitationen Itzig Reichs ...; ein Beitr. z. Gesch. d. jüd. Partei-Streitigkeiten in Ungarn-Siebenbürgen

von M. Ehrentheil

Die Juden in Wiener-Neustadt : ein Beitr. zur Geschichte d. Juden in Oesterreich

von Max [Miksa] Pollak. Nach d. von Maurus Mezel besorgten Uebers. aus d. Ungar. bearb. von L. Moses

Vitamin D status among children and adolescents on anticonvulsant drugs in southern Switzerland.

INTRODUCTION It is recognised that vitamin D status is often inadequate (<50 nmol/l) in epileptic children, mainly because some anticonvulsant drugs induce the enzymes responsible for its metabolism. The purpose of the present study was to address vitamin D status among children and adolescents treated with anticonvulsant drugs and control subjects who reside in southern Switzerland, a high solar radiation region. METHODS Between January and May 2013, total serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D was assessed by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry in 58 children and adolescents with epilepsy and 29 controls residing in southern Switzerland. Dark-skinned individuals, females wearing dress styles covering practically the whole body and subjects with body mass index ≥85th percentile for age and sex were excluded. RESULTS Concentration of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D was similar in epilepsy patients (48 [37-62] nmol/l; median and interquartile range) and controls (53 [47-64] nmol/l). An inadequate serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration was common both among patients (55%) and control subjects (34%). Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D was significantly lower among patients treated with anticonvulsant drugs that induce the metabolism of vitamin D (30 [21-51] nmol/l) than among the remaining patients (51 [40-65] nmol/l) and controls. CONCLUSIONS The present study indicates a relevant tendency towards inadequate vitamin D status among children with and without anticonvulsant drug management who reside in southern Switzerland. This tendency is more prominent in patients treated with anticonvulsant drugs that induce the metabolism of 25-hydroxyvitamin D.

Vitamin D and central hypersensitivity in patients with chronic pain.

BACKGROUND Low vitamin D is implicated in various chronic pain conditions with, however, inconclusive findings. Vitamin D might play an important role in mechanisms being involved in central processing of evoked pain stimuli but less so for spontaneous clinical pain. OBJECTIVE This study aims to examine the relation between low serum levels of 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25-OH D) and mechanical pain sensitivity. DESIGN We studied 174 patients (mean age 48 years, 53% women) with chronic pain. A standardized pain provocation test was applied, and pain intensity was rated on a numerical analogue scale (0-10). The widespread pain index and symptom severity score (including fatigue, waking unrefreshed, and cognitive symptoms) following the 2010 American College of Rheumatology preliminary diagnostic criteria for fibromyalgia were also assessed. Serum 25-OH D levels were measured with a chemiluminescent immunoassay. RESULTS Vitamin deficiency (25-OH D < 50 nmol/L) was present in 71% of chronic pain patients; another 21% had insufficient vitamin D (25-OH D < 75 nmol/L). After adjustment for demographic and clinical variables, there was a mean ± standard error of the mean increase in pain intensity of 0.61 ± 0.25 for each 25 nmol/L decrease in 25-OH D (P = 0.011). Lower 25-OH D levels were also related to greater symptom severity (r = -0.21, P = 0.008) but not to the widespread pain index (P = 0.83) and fibromyalgia (P = 0.51). CONCLUSIONS The findings suggest a role of low vitamin D levels for heightened central sensitivity, particularly augmented pain processing upon mechanical stimulation in chronic pain patients. Vitamin D seems comparably less important for self-reports of spontaneous chronic pain.

Study of heavy-flavor quarks produced in association with top-quark pairs at s √ =7 TeV using the ATLAS detector

Using a sample of dilepton top-quark pair (tt ¯ ) candidate events, a study is performed of the production of top-quark pairs together with heavy-flavor (HF) quarks, the sum of tt ¯ +b+X and tt ¯ +c+X , collectively referred to as tt ¯  + HF . The data set used corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 4.7  fb −1 of proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV recorded by the ATLAS detector at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. The presence of additional HF (b or c ) quarks in the tt ¯ sample is inferred by looking for events with at least three b -tagged jets, where two are attributed to the b quarks from the tt ¯ decays and the third to additional HF production. The dominant background to tt ¯  + HF in this sample is tt ¯ +jet events in which a light-flavor jet is misidentified as a heavy-flavor jet. To determine the heavy- and light-flavor content of the additional b -tagged jets, a fit to the vertex mass distribution of b -tagged jets in the sample is performed. The result of the fit shows that 79 ± 14 (stat) ± 22 (syst) of the 105 selected extra b -tagged jets originate from HF quarks, 3 standard deviations away from the hypothesis of zero tt ¯  + HF production. The result for extra HF production is quoted as a ratio (R HF ) of the cross section for tt ¯  + HF production to the cross section for tt ¯ production with at least one additional jet. Both cross sections are measured in a fiducial kinematic region within the ATLAS acceptance. R HF is measured to be [6.2±1.1(stat)±1.8(syst)]% for jets with p T >25  GeV and |η|<2.5 , in agreement with the expectations from Monte Carlo generators.

Sēfer Maʿaśe H' : do einn werṭ der tzilṭ wi H' hoṭ giṭon gruśi nisim durch di talmide ḥachomim

[Simon Akiba Bär Ben-Josef]