Molecular Screening of Microorganisms Associated with Discolored Wood in Dead European Beech Trees Suffered from Extreme Drought Event Using Next Generation Sequencing by Witoon Purahong, Benjawan Tanunchai, Sara Fareed Mohamed Wahdan, François Buscot, Ernst-Detlef Schulze

“…Here, we propose a molecular method for fast screening of microorganisms associated with European beech decline after an extreme drought period (2018) in a forest of Thuringia, Germany. We used Illumina sequencing with a recent bioinformatics approach based on DADA2 to identify archaeal, bacterial, and fungal ASVs (amplicon sequence variants) based on bacterial and archaeal 16S and fungal ITS genes. …”
Get full text

Alpine, Variscan, eo-Variscan belts: comparison between hot and cold orogens from the examples of French segments by Faure, Michel

“…In Paleozoic or Mesozoic, microcontinents such as Apulia and Sesia or Armorica and Saxo-Thuringia were individualized. The oceanic convergence stage was associated with the development of arcs and back-arc basins in the Variscan belt but magmatic arcs are missing in the W. …”
Get full text

„Nicht für Erich Honecker früher oder heute für Angela Merkel, sondern für sich selber“ – Eine Fallstudie zu ehrenamtlichen Engagementformen im ländlichen Raum zwischen gesellschaf... by Tom Schwarzenberg, Judith Miggelbrink, Frank Meyer

“…Hence, using a case study conducted in the Altenburger Land in Thuringia we analyse the socially embedded negotiation of responsibilities between municipal actors and voluntary workers on the one hand and trace the influencing factors on voluntary activities considered relevant by involved actors on the other hand. …”
Get full text

The contribution of knowledge-intensive firms to employment growth: a Granger causality approach for German regions by Mathias Heidinger, Michaela Fuchs, Alain Thierstein

Get full text

Panpipes as units of cultural analysis and dispersal by Gabriel Aguirre-Fernández, Damián E. Blasi, Marcelo R. Sánchez-Villagra

Get full text

Effects of incomplete inter-hospital network data on the assessment of transmission dynamics of hospital-acquired infections. by Hanjue Xia, Johannes Horn, Monika J Piotrowska, Konrad Sakowski, André Karch, Hannan Tahir, Mirjam Kretzschmar, Rafael Mikolajczyk

“…We studied this bias using data from three German regional insurance companies covering four federal states: AOK (historically "general local health insurance company", but currently only the abbreviation is used) Lower Saxony (in Federal State of Lower Saxony), AOK Bavaria (in Bavaria), and AOK PLUS (in Thuringia and Saxony). To understand how incomplete data influence network characteristics and related epidemic simulations, we created sampled datasets by randomly dropping a proportion of patients from the full datasets and replacing them with random copies of the remaining patients to obtain scale-up datasets to the original size. …”
Get full text

Accuracy Assessment of GEDI Terrain Elevation and Canopy Height Estimates in European Temperate Forests: Influence of Environmental and Acquisition Parameters by Markus Adam, Mikhail Urbazaev, Clémence Dubois, Christiane Schmullius

“…This paper analyzes the accuracy of the first version of GEDI ground elevation and canopy height estimates in two study areas with temperate forests in the Free State of Thuringia, central Germany. Digital terrain and canopy height models derived from airborne laser scanning data are used as reference heights. …”
Get full text

Influence of litter diversity on dissolved organic matter release and soil carbon formation in a mixed beech forest. by Andrea Scheibe, Gerd Gleixner

“…We investigated the effect of leaf litter on below ground carbon export and soil carbon formation in order to understand how litter diversity affects carbon cycling in forest ecosystems. 13C labeled and unlabeled leaf litter of beech (Fagus sylvatica) and ash (Fraxinus excelsior), characterized by low and high decomposability, were used in a litter exchange experiment in the Hainich National Park (Thuringia, Germany). Litter was added in pure and mixed treatments with either beech or ash labeled with 13C. …”
Get full text

Evidence for benefits and risks of tadalafil as a non-prescription medicine: review and evaluation using the Group Delphi technique to achieve consensus amongst clinical experts by Kurt Miller, Uwe May, Wolf-Dietrich Beecken, Georgios Hatzichristodoulou, Michael Böhm, Stefan Fink

Get full text

Repeatable high-resolution statistical downscaling through deep learning by D. Quesada-Chacón, K. Barfus, C. Bernhofer

“…The perfect prognosis approach was applied using the <i>ERA5</i> reanalysis and the <i>ReKIS</i> (Regional Climate Information System for Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia) dataset. The results were validated with the robust VALUE framework. …”
Get full text

Determinants of sepsis knowledge: a representative survey of the elderly population in Germany by Sarah Eitze, Carolin Fleischmann-Struzek, Cornelia Betsch, Konrad Reinhart, the vaccination60+ study group

“…Methods A telephone survey was carried out with a representative sample of 701 Germans from 16 federal states and a separate cohort of 700 participants from Thuringia, all aged ≥ 60 years. Sepsis knowledge was assessed via a 10-item questionnaire. …”
Get full text

INVESTIGATION OF SENTINEL-1 TIME SERIES FOR SENSITIVITY TO FERN VEGETATION IN AN EUROPEAN TEMPERATE FOREST by M. M. Mueller, M. M. Mueller, C. Dubois, T. Jagdhuber, T. Jagdhuber, C. Pathe, C. Pathe, C. Schmullius

“…In this study, a dense Copernicus Sentinel-1 time series is analyzed to gain a better understanding of the influence of undergrowth vegetation, in particular of eagle fern (<i>Pteridium aquilinum</i>), on the C-band SAR signal in a temperate forest in the Free State of Thuringia, Germany. Even if signals from the ground below the canopy may not be expected at C-band, previous studies showed seasonal fluctuations of the backscatter for temperate forests without canopy closure, notably for evergreen coniferous stands. …”
Get full text

<i>Aliarcobacter butzleri</i> from Water Poultry: Insights into Antimicrobial Resistance, Virulence and Heavy Metal Resistance by Eva Müller, Mostafa Y. Abdel-Glil, Helmut Hotzel, Ingrid Hänel, Herbert Tomaso

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the antimicrobial susceptibility and resistance profile of two <i>A. butzleri</i> isolates from Muscovy ducks (<i>Cairina moschata</i>) reared on a water poultry farm in Thuringia, Germany, and to create a database to fill this capability gap. …”
Get full text

Changes to utilization and provision of health care in German GP practices during the COVID 19-pandemic: Protocol for a mixed methods study on the viewpoint of GPs, medical practic... by Susanne Doepfmer, Kemal Akdenizli, Hiwa Dashti, Christoph Heintze, Frank Kaden, Lisa Kuempel, Doreen Kuschick, Natascha Medrow, Andrea Neidhardt-Akdenizli, Susanna Otto-Gogoll, Isabelle Reicherdt, Lydia Steenweg, Kahina Toutaoui

“…<h4>Methods</h4> The study is carried out within the RESPoNsE research practice network in three of Germany’s federal states: Berlin, Brandenburg, and Thuringia (RESPoNsE—Research practice network east). …”
Get full text

Add Germany to the List—Adventive Population of <i>Trissolcus japonicus</i> (Ashmead) (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) Emerges in Germany by Christine Dieckhoff, Sophie Wenz, Maura Renninger, Anne Reißig, Helmut Rauleder, Claus P. W. Zebitz, Jana Reetz, Olaf Zimmermann

Get full text

Epidemiology of reported <it>Yersinia enterocolitica </it>infections in Germany, 2001-2008 by Werber Dirk, Stark Klaus, Rosner Bettina M

“…High incidences occurred in the eastern German federal states Thuringia, Saxony, and Saxony-Anhalt. Differences in incidences across federal states were driven primarily by incidence differences in children under five years. …”
Get full text

Changes to utilization and provision of health care in German GP practices during the COVID 19-pandemic: Protocol for a mixed methods study on the viewpoint of GPs, medical practic... by Susanne Doepfmer, Kemal Akdenizli, Hiwa Dashti, Christoph Heintze, Frank Kaden, Lisa Kuempel, Doreen Kuschick, Natascha Medrow, Andrea Neidhardt-Akdenizli, Susanna Otto-Gogoll, Isabelle Reicherdt, Lydia Steenweg, Kahina Toutaoui

“…<h4>Methods</h4>The study is carried out within the RESPoNsE research practice network in three of Germany's federal states: Berlin, Brandenburg, and Thuringia (RESPoNsE-Research practice network east). …”
Get full text

Multipleâ€criteria analysis in the construction of motorways by Friedel Peldschus

“…Several construction variants are discussed for the extension of the motorway network in Thuringia (Germany). The best variant is determined according to several criteria: construction period, costs, durability, environmental protection and economic viability. …”
Get full text

Stand, Probleme, Perspektiven der Ausbildung im Fachseminar SoWi by Anselm Cypionka, Heike Hornbruch, Waltraud Kallenbach

“…The following discussion tries to work against this deficit basically, as specialized leaders from three Federal states (Hessen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Thuringia) represent and evaluate the situation in their field of work. …”
Get full text

Learning from Other Community Renewable Energy Projects: Transnational Transfer of Multi-Functional Energy Gardens from the Netherlands to Germany by Maria Rosaria Di Nucci, Michael Krug, Lucas Schwarz, Vincenzo Gatta, Erik Laes

“…We analysed the transfer case of a community renewable energy initiative, the multifunctional energy gardens, from the Netherlands to the German federal State of Thuringia, and extracted lessons with an overall validity for the transferability of drivers and success factors. …”
Get full text