Berlin, im Dezember 1914

Keeping up appearances: Police Rhetoric, Public Trust and “Police Scandal” in London and Berlin, 1880-1914

Studienfachübergreifende Lehre im Fach Werkstofftechnik an der HTW Berlin - ein Praxisbeispiel

Seit dem Wintersemester 2012/13 werden an der HTW Berlin die Lehrinhalte des Grundlagenfaches Werkstofftechnik des Studienganges Maschinenbau in eigenständige MikroLehr/-Lernmodule (also in Themenkomplexe, die nicht aufeinander aufbauen) „zerlegt“ und den Studierenden auf der Lernplattform moodle zur Verfügung gestellt. Basis des Präsenzunterrichts ist das moderne Lehrformat des sog. „Design-le...

Melting Pots: Berlin Digital meets Berlin Culture

Forming, storming, norming and performing [1] – a well-known phase-modulation model of team building is probably reliable to describe the changeful relationship of Berlin Cultural and Berlin Digital in the Melting Pot of the metropolis. The pretty, shy bride awkwardly meets a nerdy, hyperactive groom when after the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9th, 1989, the wedding looms on the horizon:...

Dmd053199 1914..1922

Naturally occurring furanocoumarin compounds psoralen (PRN) and isopsoralen (IPRN) are bioactive constituents found in herbaceous plants. They are widely used as active ingredients in several Chinese herbal medicines. In this study, the CYP1A2 inhibitory potential of PRN and IPRN was investigated in rats in vitro and in vivo as well as in human liver microsomes. Both compounds exhibited reversi...

Max Perutz (1914–2002)

Become a scientist, Ernest Rutherford would urge his friends, for then you will never be old, you will remain all your life a child at play. So it proved for the evergreen Max Perutz, who did his last experiment only weeks before he died at the fine age of eighty-seven. Perutz embraced Noël Coward's dictum that 'work is fun, work is much more fun than fun'. In an eventful life, beset in its ear...