Best practice in transdisciplinary research - Swiss td-award Winners 2013

Transdisciplinary research plays an increasing role in topics of societal relevance and impact. The td-net of the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences awards innovative transdisciplinary research every other year. The last td-award was given in 2013. This special focus of GAIA features the six prize-winning projects, presenting short summaries of their work. Explaining its selection in the following introduction, the Jury of the td-net honours the awardees, and puts their work into a global perspective.

Shire bet Aharon : gezangen der Kohaniem ; voor alle feesten

bewerkt naar de bestaande melodie͏̈n, tweestemmig ingerigt, door A. Berlijn

What is the best time point to identify patients at risk of developing persistent low back pain?

BACKGROUND Early identification of patients at risk of developing persistent low back pain (LBP) is crucial. OBJECTIVE Aim of this study was to identify in patients with a new episode of LBP the time point at which those at risk of developing persistent LBP can be best identified.METHODS: Prospective cohort study of 315 patients presenting to a health practitioner with a first episode of acute LBP. Primary outcome measure was functional limitation. Patients were assessed at baseline, three, six, twelve weeks and six months looking at factors of maladaptive cognition as potential predictors. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed for all time points. RESULTS The best time point to predict the development of persistent LBP at six months was the twelve-week follow-up (sensitivity 78%; overall predictive value 90%). Cognitions assessed at first visit to a health practitioner were not predictive. CONCLUSIONS Maladaptive cognitions at twelve weeks appear to be suitable predictors for a transition from acute to persistent LBP. Already three weeks after patients present to a health practitioner with acute LBP cognitions might influence the development of persistent LBP. Therefore, cognitive-behavioral interventions should be considered as early adjuvant LBP treatment in patients at risk of developing persistent LBP.

Salomon Munk, Professor am Collége de France : Vortr. im Wiener Bet ha-Midrasch am 21. Januar

geh. von Ad. Jellinek

Sefer Bet ha-limud : oder Israelitische Kinderschule ; ein Hülfsbuch zur Erlernung der hebräischen und französischen

Abraham Hjorth

Mafteaḥ Bet ʻEver hoc est Clavis Domus Heber, Reserans Januam ad Significationem Hieroglyphicam Literaturæ Hebraicæ perspiciendam : Opus hoc dividitur in duas Partes ...

Studio atque labore Casparis Neumanni

Reshimah mi-sifre ḥ. ḳ. bet ha-midrash ʿEts Ḥayim de-Ashkenazim poh Amśṭerdam ha-birah

Deutscher Titel fingiert, orientiert an Freimann-Kat., S. 38 : Katalog der im Lehrhaus Ez Chajim der aschkenasischen Gemeinde in Amsterdam befindlichen Bücher

Reshimah shel sifre ʿeḳed ha-sefarim bet ha-midrash shel Sefaradim ʿEts Ḥayim : be-ḳ.ḳ. ... Amśṭerdam ; mesuderet ʿal derekh alfa beta ṿe-numerus

Übersetzung d. Hauptsachtitels, orientiert an Freimann-Kat.: Katalog der im Lehrhaus Ez Chajim der sefardischen Gemeinde in Amsterdam befindlichen Bücher

Bet ha-sefer : nachgelassen von Giuseppe Almanzi, Jacob Emden, M. J. Loewenstein und anderen ... 1868 öffentlich versteigert wurden durch Frederik Muller ...

Red. von M. Roest

Naḥalat Shimʿoni : hu reshimat bet otsar ha-sefarim asher heniaḥ aḥaraṿ ... Avraham Shimʿon ben ... Mosheh Zelig ha-Leṿi Shṭeyer ...

[Lima Lemans]

Ḥesheḳ Shelomoh : hu reshimat bet otsar ha-sefarim asher heniaḥ aḥarav Shelomoh Zalman ... Rubens

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