Jürg Tschopp Photo courtesy of Université de Lausanne. On March 22, the field of Immunology lost one of the great Biochemists of his generation a few months from his 60th birthday. Dr. Jürg Tschopp grew up in Basel in his beloved Switzerland. As a youth, he proved to be a gifted athlete. He was nationally recognized in the decathlon and, naturally, growing up a mere stones-throw from the Alps w...

This study investigated the precipitation and temperature climatologies over India from large ensemble (100 members) historical climate simulations in two recent past periods (1951–1980 1981–2010). The main focus was to statistically examine usefulness of such by discussing (1) their distribution patterns, (2) annual cycle climatologies, (3) frequency distributions potential spatial patterns va...

The controversy that results seems to stem not from different definitions of "consciousness," as some of the participants suggest, but rather from a lack of agreement upon the meaning of "explain." Transcripts of a hypnoanalytic treatment session and of Beck's movie, "Unconscious Motivation," are used by Lewis R. Wolberg to illustrate "Hypnotic Phenomena." Marcel Monnier summarizes the changes ...

Tree-ring samples from Chinese Pine (Pinus tabulaeformis Carr.) that were collected in the Taihe Mountains on the western Loess Plateau, China, were used to analyze the effects of climate and drought on radial growth and to reconstruct the mean April-June Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) during the period 1730-2012 AD. Precipitation positively affected tree growth prim...

The beginning of Bateson’s communication theory dates to 1951. In that year Bateson published together with the psychiatrist Jurgen Ruesch, “Communication: The Social Matrix of Psychiatry” (Ruesch and Bateson, 1951). In this book Bateson initiated the beginnings of a modern and today widely absorbed communication theory which until today still remains often unconnected with his name. He introdu...