Transformational healing: the phenomenology of fulfilment in the face of adversity.

In the last two decades, there has been an explosion of scholarship in the phenomenology of health and illness of great practical significance for clinicians and the allied health professions. 'Healing' has been distinguished from medical 'cure' insofar as it involves a process of existential re-integration even in the face of ongoing illness and incapacity. This article goes further than much existing literature in the field: it examines ways in which illness can trigger for some ' healing'-that is, not simply a return to previous functioning, but positive alterations that open one's life to enhanced fulfilment, authenticity and/or connection.

Disturbance of hibernating bats due to researchers entering caves to conduct hibernacula surveys.

Estimating population changes of bats is important for their conservation. Population estimates of hibernating bats are often calculated by researchers entering hibernacula to count bats; however, the disturbance caused by these surveys can cause bats to arouse unnaturally, fly, and lose body mass. We conducted 17 hibernacula surveys in 9 caves from 2013 to 2018 and used acoustic detectors to document cave-exiting bats the night following our surveys.

Diversity and ice nucleation activity of in drone-based water samples from eight lakes in Austria.

Bacteria from the complex (comprised of at least 15 recognized species and more than 60 different pathovars of ) have been cultured from clouds, rain, snow, streams, rivers, and lakes. Some strains of express an ice nucleation protein (hereafter referred to as ice+) that catalyzes the heterogeneous freezing of water. Though has been sampled intensively from freshwater sources in the U.