[Victims of Acts of Violence during the Procedure of the Victim Reparation Law - Characteristics of the Affected, Acts, Perpetrators and Predictors for the Period Until Claim of Help Provided by Law].

Aim Of The Study: Coping with psychological trauma plays a central role in victims of acts of violence. The Victim Reparation Law (in German: Opferentschädigungsgesetz, OEG) provides services for the reparation of participation. To further improve the care of the affected persons, the characteristics of the victims were determined in relation to the acts and the perpetrators.

Rapid adaptation to microgravity in mammalian macrophage cells.

Despite the observed severe effects of microgravity on mammalian cells, many astronauts have completed long term stays in space without suffering from severe health problems. This raises questions about the cellular capacity for adaptation to a new gravitational environment. The International Space Station (ISS) experiment TRIPLE LUX A, performed in the BIOLAB laboratory of the ISS COLUMBUS module, allowed for the first time the direct measurement of a cellular function in real time and on orbit.

[Minor Victims of Violent Acts in the Context of the Victim Reparation Law].

Objective: A descriptive analysis of victim compensation applications for children and adolescents as well as sociodemographic and trauma-specific information concerning victims and perpetrators.

Method: We did analysis of 100 victim-compensation application files based on a self-developed category system.

Results: The files included solely interpersonal trauma, 59 % of which are type II trauma.

Factors influencing endothelial function in healthy pre- and post-menopausal women of the EU-RISC study.

Background: We studied the impact of lifestyle, body composition, different insulin sensitivity indices and the first insulin response in healthy pre- and post-menopausal women with a low cardiovascular risk profile (the EU-RISC study, 'Relationship between Insulin Sensitivity and Cardiovascular Disease' (n = 51, 47 ± 4 years, body mass index 23.6 ± 3.7 kg/m(2), waist girth 79.