[Telemedicine for mental disorders: Presentation and initial results of a telephone-based care approach].

Objective: A telephone-based health program for people with depressive and anxiety disorders as well as stress, already implemented in the standard care of a private health insurance company, as well as the initial evaluation results will be presented.

Methods: The program, based on several months of telephone support for patients from medical professionals, focuses on teaching psychoeducational content, behavioral therapy techniques, and emotional support. In the current program, the German version of the DASS 21 questionnaire was used, which detects distress in the dimensions of depression, anxiety and stress as well as overall psychological stress.

[The Psychotherapist and Neurologist Ernst Jolowicz (1882-1958): An International Career in the Shadow of Anti-semitism and Emigration].

The study focuses on the life and work of the German-Jewish neurologist Dr. Ernst Jolowicz who was born in 1882. Originally from Poznan in present-day Poland, Jolowicz had gained his initial professional experience in the German Empire before serving as a neurologist at the Western Front during the First World War.

Yield of dwarf tomatoes grown with a nutrient solution based on recycled synthetic urine.

Extended human spaceflight missions require not only the processing, but also the recycling of human waste streams in bio-regenerative life support systems, which are rich in valuable resources. The Combined Regenerative Organic food Production project of the German Aerospace Center aims for recycling human metabolic waste products to produce useful resources. A biofiltration process based on natural communities of microorganisms has been developed and tested.

The influence of nitrogen concentration and precipitation on fertilizer production from urine using a trickling filter.

Planetary habitation requires technology to maintain natural microbial processes, which make nutrients from biowaste available for plant cultivation. This study describes a 646 day experiment, in which trickling filters were monitored for their ability to mineralize nitrogen when loaded with artificial urine solutions of different concentrations (40, 60, 80 and 100% v/v). Former studies have indicated that increasing urine concentrations slow nitrogen conversion rates and induce growing instability.

Natural microbial populations in a water-based biowaste management system for space life support.

The reutilization of wastewater is a key issue with regard to long-term space missions and planetary habitation. This study reports the design, test runs and microbiological analyses of a fixed bed biofiltration system which applies pumice grain (16-25 mm grain size, 90 m(2)/m(3) active surface) as matrix and calcium carbonate as buffer. For activation, the pumice was inoculated with garden soil known to contain a diverse community of microorganisms, thus enabling the filtration system to potentially degrade all kinds of organic matter.