University of Erfurt

Pathbreak: A Biodiversity-Food-Governance Game for experiential reimagination of social-environmental futures

Social dilemmas are central to addressing biodiversity loss, yet tools to make them tangible remain critically scarce. Pathbreak: A Biodiversity-Food-Governance Game provides an engaging and hands-on experience to explore social dilemmas between short- and long-term, individual a...

Climate Change and Healthcare System Resilience: Stakeholder Perspectives on Mitigating Climate-Related Health Impacts in Low-Resource Settings

Climate change increasingly threatens human health and healthcare system effectiveness by intensifying existing vulnerabilities and pressures. In sub-Saharan Africa, Nigeria is particularly vulnerable to climate-related hazards, including food insecurity, extreme weather events a...

Heat Perceptions, Behaviors, and Barriers of Unhoused Individuals in Germany

ABSTRACT Heat waves pose critical health risks for unhoused people. However, little is known about how this population perceives and copes with heat, particularly in Europe. Employing a sequential mixed‐methods approach, we investigated dimensions of unhoused individuals’ heat pe...

II. Chronologies

Abstract Despite a recent shift towards Global South-centred histories of development, women in and from Asia and Africa remain largely neglected in the historiography. In response, this Arenas issue examines the implications of situating the roles and experiences of women at the...

Psychotherapy remission prediction models show limited cross-clinic generalizability in routine outpatient care

Abstract Clinical prediction models for psychotherapy outcomes have the potential to assist therapists in planning a patient’s individual treatment, but their clinical utility depends on maintaining predictive performance across settings. We assessed prediction of post-treatment...

Towards and beyond the ‘Fall’: rethinking Rome’s end

Knöpges, Ellen Muehlberger, and the three anonymous reviewers for their inspiration, helpful suggestions and critique.We particularly thank Neville

The FraiLtx Study Protocol: A Prospective, Single-Center Observational Study on Frailty, Systemic Inflammation, and Monocyte Subsets in Liver Transplant Candidates

Introduction: Frailty is a multidimensional syndrome characterized by diminished physiological reserve and increased susceptibility to stressors, resulting in poor perioperative outcomes. While commonly associated with elderly patients, frailty is increasingly recognized in liver...

Das Geschenk, das bleibt: Inschriften als Produzenten ritueller Handlungslogiken

Zusammenfassung Durch die Fokussierung auf die Wirkung ritueller Inschriften trägt diese Studie zum Verständnis von römischen Opferpraktiken als dynamisches Zusammenspiel von Handlung, Objekt und Text bei. Opfer werden in diesem Beitrag als Medium religiöser Kommunikation verstan...

Effectiveness of an on-site vaccination campaign for patients with cancer

Abstract Background Patients with haematological or oncological malignancies are at increased risk of severe infections. Vaccination is a key preventive strategy and is recommended by National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups (NITAGs). Yet, vaccination rates in this populat...

Cultivar‐Specific Production of Unreduced Pollen in the Ornamental Bigleaf Hydrangea ( Hydrangea macrophylla ssp. macrophylla )

ABSTRACT Unreduced gametes naturally promote polyploidization and are valuable in breeding polyploid offspring. Bigleaf hydrangea ( Hydrangea macrophylla ssp. macrophylla ), a major ornamental crop, has shown spontaneous polyploidization rates ranging from 0% to 94% in previous c...

Chatbots reduce health-related conspiracy beliefs not because of but despite being perceived as AI

<title>Abstract</title> Beliefs in conspiracy theories and their resistance to correction pose critical challenges to public health. A potential countermeasure to this is the use of Large Language Model (LLM) driven debates about conspiracy theories. Yet while this approach yield...

Deep sleep on a light European train: modularity and lightweight, key to profitable night trains

Current night trains pose a challenge to economic efficiency due to ageing vehicles, limited space and high operating costs, among other things. The AliSa project is rethinking European night trains by developing a modular and lightweight sleeping car concept. A coach concept is...