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Enabling Community
No full textENABLING COMMUNITY
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Rezension zu Agnieszka Haas und Timo Janca (Hgg.): Annäherungen an das Innere des Menschen. Diagnosen und Therapien des Seelischen in der deutschsprachigen Literatur und Ästhetik
No full textMatthis Glatzel und Sigmund Jakob-Michael Stephan rezensieren Agnieszka Haas' und Timo Jancas „Annäherungen an das Innere des Menschen. Diagnosen und Therapien des Seelischen in der deutschsprachigen Literatur und Ästhetik“ (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego 2022)
Canine pyometra: a model for the analysis of serum CXCL8 in inflammation
No full textInterleukin-8 (IL-8 or CXCL8) is a highly selective pro-inflammatory chemokine, that is elevated in sera of humans and animals with various inflammatory diseases. CXCL8 is possibly involved in uncontrolled inflammation and the development of a systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) and sepsis. Nevertheless, its behavior and precise properties in the course of inflammation are not fully understood. Thus, we used naturally occurring canine pyometra as a model of inflammation, in order to examine the behavior of serum CXCL8 in relation to the disease intensity and commonly analyzed inflammatory mediators. Using a commercially available canine ELISA kit, a significant increase of CXCL8 was determined in the serum of 23 dogs with pyometra compared with 35 healthy dogs. Interestingly, serum CXCL8 did not increase in severely diseased patients and behaved contrary to white blood cells (WBC), neutrophils and C-reactive protein (CRP). The measurement of serum CXCL8 may provide valuable information about the extent of ongoing lesions and could be a useful complement for existing laboratory tests
Entanglement, fidelity, and topological entropy in a quantum phase transition to topological order
No full textWe present a numerical study of a quantum phase transition from a spin-polarized to a topologically ordered phase in a system of spin-1/2 particles on a torus. We demonstrate that this non-symmetry-breaking topological quantum phase transition (TOQPT) is of second order. The transition is analyzed via the ground state energy and fidelity, block entanglement, Wilson loops, and the recently proposed topological entropy. Only the topological entropy distinguishes the TOQPT from a standard QPT, and remarkably, does so already for small system sizes. Thus the topological entropy serves as a proper order parameter. We demonstrate that our conclusions are robust under the addition of random perturbations, not only in the topological phase, but also in the spin-polarized phase and even at the critical point. RI Haas, Stephan/C-4103-2008; Lidar, Daniel/A-5871-200
Vielfalt gestalten, Begegnung wagen! Werbung für interreligiöse Praxis in christlichen Sozialunternehmen
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