In Ma’aseh Tuviyah, a Hebrew medical treatise published in Venice at the dawn of the eighteenth century, there is a magnificent illustration in which the human body is portrayed as a house. What was the function of such an illustration?What is its significance? In the following article I will postulate that such an illustration would have served primarily as a mnemonic device for (Jewish) stude...

different symposiums. The overall theme could be described as "for and against Paracelsus". Gundolf Keil is violently against Paracelsus whom he accuses of being misshapen, unoriginal, a bad physician and a bad surgeon. He is also against Karl Sudhoff for being too enthusiastic about his subject. Other contributions deal with Paracelsus's life, including his inglorious departure from Basel whic...

For the last 150 years many studies have shown the importance of earthworms for plant growth, but the exact mechanisms involved in the process are still poorly understood. Many important functions required for plant growth can be performed by soil microbes in the rhizosphere. To investigate earthworm influence on the rhizosphere microbial community, we performed a macrocosm experiment with and ...

There is a major concern among scientists over the elevated levels of arsenic (As) in drinking water in Bangladesh and some parts of India. Investigating the release of As from water filter sludge in soil and its uptake by plants may provide information about the management of As contaminated filter sludge. In this macrocosm study, iron based sludge containing granular ferric hydroxide (GFH) wa...

Bo He: Evaluation of the diagenetic role of iron as a sulfide buffer at Cape Lookout Bight, North Carolina (USA) (Under the direction of Stephen Meyers and Marc Alperin) Organic matter accumulation in marine environments is influenced by a range of factors, including primary production and the degree of subsequent biochemical degradation. Iron availability has important impacts on primary produ...

The purpose of this paper is to present different depictions the microcosm and macrocosm in works Boleslaw Prus representing various literary genres. In his imagery author Lalka (The Doll) exceptionally often creates enclaves abstracted from vastness external world, which overwhelms with its size multitude references. With regard Balzac’s idea realism, an attempt has been made define nature bound...

Indonesia has a rich array of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) forms on which artists can draw to create new and variations. Among these, two them are the sibling arts wayang puppetry topeng mask dance show significant overlap in character typology, repertoire other features. Outsiders often focus narrative content surmise these – first documented Hindu-Buddhist period (around ninth century),...

Individual-based models (IBMs) integrate behavioural, physiological, and developmental features and differences among individuals. Building on previous process-based models, we developed an IBM of larval Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) that included foraging, size-, temperature-, and food-limited growth, and environmental factors such as prey-field, turbulence, and light. Direct comparison between ...

The article focuses on three biographies of Josef Knecht from the novel by Hermann Hesse “The Glass Bead Game” with regard to postulates transpersonal psychology. A thorough study provides insight into peculiarities a unique literary technique – transfer “self” different historical periods means imagination, as kind “way self”, devotion truth through pagan voluntary sacrifice (“Rainmaker”), asc...