Psychotherapeutic training in Germany is about to be changed soon: master’s graduates clinical psychology will able become state-licensed psychotherapists. It therefore mandatory teach basic psychotherapeutic skills at the universities. This article presents examples of application-oriented courses psychology, which have been tried and tested Philipps University Marburg for years. During practi...

ANN 702 MODERN CONCEPTS OF FEEDING MONOGASTRIC ANIMALS 2+0 ANN 703 NUTRITION AND RUMEN FERMENTATION 1+1 ANN 704 ADVANCES IN MICRONUTRIENTS 1+0 ANN 705 ADVANCED TECHNIQUES IN NUTRITION AND RESEARCH 1+2 ANN 706 ADVANCES IN FEED TECHNOLOGY 1+1 ANN 707 CLINICAL NUTRITION 1+1 ANN 708 NUTRIENT AND DRUG INTERACTION 2+0 ANN 709 NEW FEED RESOURCES AND TOXICANTS IN ANIMAL FEEDING 2+0 ANN 791 DOCTORAL SEM...

A PhD and medical doctor turned ethicist, Leon Kass calls himself an unlicensed humanist. Throughout his unique career he has sought to impact others and engage important cultural issues. This he has accomplished over the course of many years by studying biochemistry, teaching humanities, writing articles and books on ethics, and serving as chair of the President?s Council on Bioethics. Kass ha...

Disasters such as the magnitude-9 Great East Japan Earthquake occur periodically. We considered this experience while developing measures against a predicted earthquake in Nankai Trough. This report includes summary of 10 disastrous infectious diseases for which countermeasures seminar was held. Thirty-five speakers from twenty-one organizations performed lectures. Besides diseases, conference ...

This report documents the program and the outcomes of Dagstuhl Seminar 15081 “Holistic Scene Understanding”. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and ideas are put together in this paper. The first section descri...

In this essay, Jennifer Richards suggests that a study of Gabriel Harvey’s neglected poetry and prose qualifies his current reputation as a purely pragmatic Renaissance humanist. In his literary writings, Harvey explores the different ways in which social bonds are formed and sustained; this interest is also manifested in his marginalia. Richards considers the continuity between Harvey’s work a...

Functional and humanist perspectives relevant to counterurbanization studies are applied to examine the processes of growth and development of rural settlements affected by tourism. Based on a survey of tourism lodges located in several settlements in the Annapurna region of Nepal, this paper analyzes tourism-induced growth in such accommodations and its implications on changing characteristics...

http://pliny.cch.kcl.ac.uk Our Digital Humanities community has been arguably in existence for about 50 years, and its pioneers – people like JB Smith and Rosanne Potter – expected right from the start that computing would have an enormous effect on scholarship. In fact, however, our effect on how most scholars work has been very small. Although tremendously innovative techniques have been deve...

In everyday practice, geothermal energy is treated both by us professionals, and regular users as one of renewable energy sources. Although we tend to concentrate on its utility and technical value, geothermal is also part of our civilization and history. Therefore, it is worthwhile to spend some time investigating this kind of energy to learn its role and place in historical and cultural herit...

Interactivity and open-ending are two concepts which have gained popularity with the incursion of hypertext in the field of literary creation. However, their meaning is not unanimous as there is a multiplicity of coexisting definitions. This chapter organizes definitions in two poles, which mark two different approaches to the study of literature in the age of the new information technology: th...