Browsing by Subject "Germany"
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Do You Want to Hear the Bad News? The Value of Diagnostic Tests for Alzheimer's Disease.
(Value Health, 2016-01)OBJECTIVE: The diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains difficult. Lack of diagnostic certainty or possible distress related to a positive result from diagnostic testing could limit the application of new testing ... -
Evaluating the Effect of Intermittent Renewables on the Wholesale Electricity Market in Germany
(2014-04-24)For years, Germany has been a pioneer in the aggressive build out of intermittent renewables (solar and wind). The Energy Concept launched in 2010, in conjunction with previously established federal energy policies, has ... -
Evidence from case-control and longitudinal studies supports associations of genetic variation in APOE, CETP, and IL6 with human longevity.
(Age (Dordr), 2013-04)In this study, we investigated 102 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) covering the common genetic variation in 16 genes recurrently regarded as candidates for human longevity: APOE; ACE; CETP; HFE; IL6; IL6R; MTHFR; ... -
Flashbulb memories and posttraumatic stress reactions across the life span: age-related effects of the German occupation of Denmark during World War II.
(Psychol Aging, 2006-03)A representative sample of older Danes were interviewed about experiences from the German occupation of Denmark in World War II. The number of participants with flashbulb memories for the German invasion (1940) and capitulation ... -
Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies common variants in CTNNA2 associated with excitement-seeking.
(Translational psychiatry, 2011-10-18)The tendency to seek stimulating activities and intense sensations define excitement-seeking, a personality trait akin to some aspects of sensation-seeking. This trait is a central feature of extraversion and is a component ... -
Moral Politics: Global Humanitarianism, Africa, and West Germany, 1960-1985
(2022)This dissertation excavates historical fragments, moments, and broader patterns of humanitarian connection between West Germany and the wider world, and specifically to Nigeria-Biafra and Ethiopia, from the 1960s to the ... -
Mother, Matron, Matriarch: Sanctity and Social Change in the Cult of St. Anne, 1450-1750
(2009)As a saint with no biblical or historical basis for her legend, St. Anne could change radically over time with cultural and doctrinal shifts even as her status as Mary's mother remained at the core of her legend and provided ... -
Preferring Refugees: How German Attitudes Changed During the European Refugee Crisis and Along Historical State Divides
(2017-05-15)The 2015 refugee crisis brought 1.3 million migrants to Europe; of those, one million sought asylum in Germany, bringing profound social and political repercussions. Germany is now challenged with aiding and integrating ... -
Reproductive improvement and senescence in a long-lived bird.
(Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2010-04-27)Heterogeneity within a population is a pervasive challenge for studies of individual life-histories. Population-level patterns in age-specific reproductive success can be broken down into relative contributions from selective ... -
The importance of regional availability of health care for old age survival - Findings from German reunification.
(Popul Health Metr, 2015)BACKGROUND: This article investigates the importance of regional health care availability for old age survival. Using German reunification as a natural experiment, we show that spatial variation in health care in East Germany ... -
The Modernist Kaleidoscope: Schoenberg's Reception History in England, America, Germany and Austria 1908-1924
(2014)Much of our understanding of Schoenberg and his music today is colored by early responses to his so-called free-atonal work from the first part of the twentieth century, especially in his birthplace, Vienna. This early, ... -
The Wesselhoefts: A medical dynasty from the age of Goethe to the era of nuclear medicine.
(Journal of medical biography, 2017-11)For six generations, members of the Wesselhoeft family have practiced medicine in Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Canada and/or the USA. In the early decades of the 19th century, two Wesselhoeft brothers left Europe to eventually ... -
"Three and a Half Men": the Bülow-Hammann System of Public Relations before the First World War
(2009)This dissertation analyzes the history of the press bureau of the German Foreign Office before the First World War. Methodologically, the work tries to locate European international history in a larger political, intellectual, ...
