Deutsch-Boehm Family collection 1834-1938 Bulk: 1834-1892

The collection holds original official documents pertaining to the ancestors of Hermann Deutsch, such as his father, Hugo Deutsch, and his grandfather, Simon Deutsch, and the last will and testament of Abraham Nathan Meyer, great-grandfather of Hermann Deutsch. Also included are documents for Hermann Boehm. There is a printed obituary by Hugo Preuss for Hugo Deutsch and the copy of a 1938 document, declaring the end of the Simon Boehm company.

Photograph of oil painting portrait of Samuel Loewen; Berlin Portraits Men

circa 1747 in Potsdam - 30 November 1827 in Berlin; father of Rosa Valentin

Memoirs : Heida Hermanns Holde /

The author's mother Alice Goldschmidt was a gifted piano player, who studied with Carl Maria Breithaupt and became his most talented student. Childhood recollections. Early musical awakening. Outbreak of World War One. Recollections of air raids and scarceness of food. Inflation and political instability in post-war Germany. Piano lessons by her mother from an early age. Heida made her debut at age fourteen with the Wiesbaden Symphony under the conductor Carl Schuricht, who became a close mentor and friend. Close relationship to her mother, who had a great influence on her professional career. Heida had a number of outstanding teachers, among them Artur Schnabel, Karl Leimer and Egon Petri. Heida was accepted as a student of Petri at the "Hochschule fuer Musik" in Berlin, where she studied between 1922-1925. Salon at her aunt's house with guests such as the playwright Georg Kaiser and Siegfried Wagner. Her sister Elsie received her Ph.D. in economics and moved to Berlin as well. Heida graduated from the "Hochschule" in 1925. Soon after she won an international piano competition in Berlin. Engagements with various conductors such as Max Fiedler and Otto Klemperer. Private lessons with Arthur Schnabel and Carl Friedberg, the co-founder of Juilliard. Due to occasional experiences of antisemitism during her music career Heida decided to change her name from Goldschmidt to Hermanns. Position at the "Hoch Conservatory" in Frankfurt. Encounter with the music critic Artur Holde, Heida's future-husband. Engagement and wedding in 1932. Move to Berlin.

Walter, Greta and Karl Loewenstein Collection. 1821-2004 Bulk: 1933-1989

This collection holds papers of members of the Loewenstein family, especially Walter and Karl Loewenstein. Among the papers here are examples of Walter Loewenstein's writing, documentation of life in Rietberg in Westphalia (Germany) during the late 1930s and early 1940s, and correspondence concerning the fate of several family members during this time. Papers relating to Karl Loewenstein focus on his wartime activities. The genealogy of the Brandenstein family is also represented here along with a few papers of other family members. The collection consists of unpublished manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, official and restitution documentation, notebooks and notes, genealogical research, and fliers.

Staubkorn im Sandsturm.

Fate of the Jewish physician Karl Goldberg, novel written in 1944. Novel is only partially autobiographical.

Schmidl-Speyer Family Collection 1914-1935, 1988-1993

Autographs: Postcards and picture postcards (all photocopies) written by luminaries such as Richard Beer- Hofmann, Otto Brahm, Josef Floch to Paula Schmidl-Speyer, Anton Hanak, Theodor Herzl, Wilhelm Mueller-Hofmann, Arthur Schnitzler, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Jakob Wassermann, and David Wolfson.

Rosalie Unger Collection 1856-1990

Two letters to Rosalie Unger in Oppeln (today Opole, Poland) from Adolf Heilborn and Berta Neustadt (née Fraenkel); and one letter to Max Neustadt from Leopold Rosenbaum (all photocopies). Also included is an explanatory letter from Harvey P, Newton.

Eugen Fuchs Collection 1903-1960

Articles by Fuchs; letters to his son; obituaries.

Stammbaum der Familie Epstein-Baer-Heilbrunn.

Family tree since 1627

Whole-genome sequencing identifies EN1 as a determinant of bone density and fracture

The extent to which low-frequency (minor allele frequency (MAF) between 1-5%) and rare (MAF

Prediction of individual genetic risk to prostate cancer using a polygenic score

BACKGROUND Polygenic risk scores comprising established susceptibility variants have shown to be informative classifiers for several complex diseases including prostate cancer. For prostate cancer it is unknown if inclusion of genetic markers that have so far not been associated with prostate cancer risk at a genome-wide significant level will improve disease prediction. METHODS We built polygenic risk scores in a large training set comprising over 25,000 individuals. Initially 65 established prostate cancer susceptibility variants were selected. After LD pruning additional variants were prioritized based on their association with prostate cancer. Six-fold cross validation was performed to assess genetic risk scores and optimize the number of additional variants to be included. The final model was evaluated in an independent study population including 1,370 cases and 1,239 controls. RESULTS The polygenic risk score with 65 established susceptibility variants provided an area under the curve (AUC) of 0.67. Adding an additional 68 novel variants significantly increased the AUC to 0.68 (P = 0.0012) and the net reclassification index with 0.21 (P = 8.5E-08). All novel variants were located in genomic regions established as associated with prostate cancer risk. CONCLUSIONS Inclusion of additional genetic variants from established prostate cancer susceptibility regions improves disease prediction. Prostate 75:1467–1474, 2015. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

The effects of height and BMI on prostate cancer incidence and mortality: A Mendelian randomization study in 20,848 cases and 20,214 controls from the PRACTICAL consortium

Background Epidemiological studies suggest a potential role for obesity and determinants of adult stature in prostate cancer risk and mortality, but the relationships described in the literature are complex. To address uncertainty over the causal nature of previous observational findings, we investigated associations of height- and adiposity-related genetic variants with prostate cancer risk and mortality. Methods We conducted a case–control study based on 20,848 prostate cancers and 20,214 controls of European ancestry from 22 studies in the PRACTICAL consortium. We constructed genetic risk scores that summed each man’s number of height and BMI increasing alleles across multiple single nucleotide polymorphisms robustly associated with each phenotype from published genome-wide association studies. Results The genetic risk scores explained 6.31 and 1.46 % of the variability in height and BMI, respectively. There was only weak evidence that genetic variants previously associated with increased BMI were associated with a lower prostate cancer risk (odds ratio per standard deviation increase in BMI genetic score 0.98; 95 % CI 0.96, 1.00; p = 0.07). Genetic variants associated with increased height were not associated with prostate cancer incidence (OR 0.99; 95 % CI 0.97, 1.01; p = 0.23), but were associated with an increase (OR 1.13; 95 % CI 1.08, 1.20) in prostate cancer mortality among low-grade disease (p heterogeneity, low vs. high grade <0.001). Genetic variants associated with increased BMI were associated with an increase (OR 1.08; 95 % CI 1.03, 1.14) in all-cause mortality among men with low-grade disease (p heterogeneity = 0.03). Conclusions We found little evidence of a substantial effect of genetically elevated height or BMI on prostate cancer risk, suggesting that previously reported observational associations may reflect common environmental determinants of height or BMI and prostate cancer risk. Genetically elevated height and BMI were associated with increased mortality (prostate cancer-specific and all-cause, respectively) in men with low-grade disease, a potentially informative but novel finding that requires replication.

Letras, 1984, nº 10 (número completo)

Contenido: Los modos de producción y “reproducción” del texto literario y la noción de apertura / Diego Catalán – La poesía de Santiago Sylvester: entre la protección y el desamparo / Alicia Chibán – Cultura y espiritualidad: San Juan de Dios / María Rosa Saurín de la Iglesia – Sobre algunos problemas en el estudio del romancero español / Daniel Devoto – La música en Hermann Hesse y Thomas Mann / Dolores de Durañona y Vedia – En busca de Orélie Antoine Primero / Luis Martínez Cuitiño – Aproximaciones a Benito Lynch y su obra / María Luisa Montero – El suicidio de Melibea: ¿Voluntad personal o influencia mágica? / Iván Marco Pelicaric – Notas sobre la titulación de capítulos en Galdós / Beatriz Entenza de Solare – Reseñas bibliográficas

Arboles de sombra e intensidad del cultivo afectan el rendimiento de café (Coffea arabica L.) y la valoración ecológica en Masatepe, Nicaragua

En el año 2000 se establecieron dos repeticiones de un ensayo de café, en el Centro de Capacitación y Servicios Regionales del Café del Pacífico Sur – UNICAFE; una tercera repetición fue establecida en el año 2001 en el Centro Experimental Campos Azules (CECA) del INTA, en el Municipio de Masatepe, departamento de Masaya, Nicaragua. El propósito general del ensayo fue evaluar la influencia de diferentes tipos de sombra: Simaruba glauca + Tabebuia rosea (SGTR), Simaruba glauca + Inga laurina (SGIL), Samanea Saman + Tabebuia Rosea (SSTR), Inga laurina + Samanea saman (ILSG) y un cafetal a Pleno sol (PS), con dos niveles de insumo Convencional intensivo (CI) y Convencional moderado (CM), sobre la producción y rendimiento de café oro y la valoraron de los servicios ambientales como Biodiversidad, Captura de carbono, Conservación de suelo y de agua. Además, se incluyeron los tratamientos orgánico intensivo (OI) y Orgánico moderado (OM). Se determinó que la sombra afectó la producción de café oro, pero mejoró el rendimiento en comparación al cultivo a pleno sol. La combinación de sombra de SGTR interactuando con las aplicaciones de insumos orgánicos intensivos, registró mejor producción promedio (2674 kg oro ha -1 ) de la cosecha 5, superando al tratamiento a pleno sol con uso de insumos convencionales intensivo. Cafetales bajo especies arbóreas y nivel de sombra adecuada con un manejo orgánico intensivo pueden llegar a la misma producción que el cultivo a pleno sol con un tratamiento intensivo convencional. Adicional a esto, los sistemas con sombra mejoran la calidad y las condiciones ecológicas, también agregan valor por la madera, leña y frutos producidos y/o el pago por los servicios ambientales. El tratamiento SGTR brindó las mejores condiciones de hábitat y conservación de suelo, sin embargo, respecto a la fijación de carbono la combinación SSIL fue superior (24.41 SGTR vs 92.64 SSIL). Futuras investigaciones deberán evaluar más detalles sobre el efecto, uso y valor ecológico de especies de sombra y su influencia particular en la calidad en taza a diversas altitudes.

Manual: Diagnóstico, monitoreo y auditoria de las buenas prácticas agricolas en cafetales a través del sistema de semáforo

La Universidad Nacional Agraria (UNA), institución de educación superior, autónoma, que promueve el desarrollo y fortalecimiento de la sociedad nicaragüense, que forma profesionales en el campo agropecuario y forestal y genera conocimientos científicos, pone en manos de la sociedad nicaragüense el manual Diagnostico, Monitoreo y Auditoria de Buenas Prácticas Agrícolas en Cafetales a través del Sistema de Semáforo, que posee información práctica y perentoria para una gerencia del sistema agroforestal café con ética, y con responsabilidad social, ambiental, empresarial y profesional. La información que se presentan en el manual es fruto de la experiencia desarrollada por décadas de los connotados especialistas y académicos insignes Hermann Alfred Jürgen Pohlan, de origen alemán y profesor honorario de nuestra institución; y Dennis José Salazar Centeno, nicaragüense y actual Decano de la Facultad de Agronomía de esta alma mater. El objetivo de la serie GUÍAS TÉCNICAS es apoyar a productores, técnicos y estudiantes en la toma de decisiones sobre la producción de los cultivos, la producción forestal, el manejo pecuario y los procesos agroindustriales que den mayor competitividad al sector agropecuario y forestal. De igual forma, contribuir al manejo integral de las fincas, desde una perspectiva agro ecológica. La publicación de las GUÍAS TÉCNICAS, se constituye en una de las estrategias con que cuenta la UNA para la difusión de su quehacer universitario. Estas se unen al Centro Nacional de Documentación Agropecuaria (CENIDA), así como a la infraestructura y equipo para la investigación, (laboratorios y personal técnico), a los medios de divulgación de los resultados, eventos científicos y la revista científica La Calera. Las GUÍAS TÉCNICAS son publicadas con el propósito de hacerlas accesibles a una amplia audiencia, que incluye productores, profesionales, técnicos, y estudiantes, de tal forma que se constituyan en una herramienta de consulta, enseñanza y aprendizaje, que motiven la investigación y la adopción de tecnologías, y que contribuyan de la mejor manera al desarrollo agropecuario y forestal de Nicaragua. La publicación de esta obra es posible gracias al apoyo financiero del Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE) a través del Programa Agroambiental Mesoamericano (MAP), del Servicio Alemán de Intercambio Académico (DAAD), institución que garantizó el trabajo colaborativo entre ambos especialistas, lo que posibilitó la culminación exitosa del presente manual y del Consejo Nacional del Café (CONACAFE) por sus aportes en la revisión técnica de esta obra. Para ellos nuestra eterna gratitud.