296 results match your criteria: "Leuphana University Luneburg.[Affiliation]"
Conserv Biol
February 2015
Centre of Methods & Institute of Ecology/Faculty of Sustainability, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Scharnhorststrasse 1, Lüneburg 21335, Germany; Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology, Savoyen Strasse 1, Vienna, 1160, Austria; Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal and Cátedra de Biogeografía, FCEFyN (CONICET-Universidad Nacional de Córdoba), Casilla de Correo 495, (5000), Córdoba, Argentina.
Chemosphere
February 2015
Sustainable Chemistry and Material Resources, Institute of Sustainable and Environmental Chemistry, Faculty of Sustainability, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Scharnhorststraße 1/C13, DE-21335 Lüneburg, Germany. Electronic address:
Anticancer drugs are harmful substances that can have carcinogenic, mutagenic, teratogenic, genotoxic, and cytotoxic effects even at low concentrations. More than 50 years after its introduction, the alkylating agent cyclophosphamide (CP) is still one of the most consumed anticancer drug worldwide. CP has been detected in water bodies in several studies and is known as being persistent in the aquatic environment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEur J Health Econ
November 2015
Institute for Community Medicine, Section Methods in Community Medicine, University of Greifswald, Walther-Rathenau-Strasse 48, 17475, Greifswald, Germany.
Background: Results from existing studies indicate that different respondent groups' health state valuations in cost-utility analyses are not equivalent.
Objectives: The objectives in our study were to analyse differences in health state valuations among three respondent groups in the context of medical rehabilitation in Germany.
Methods: Using the time trade-off (TTO) technique, valuations of EQ-5D-3L health states were obtained from patients with musculoskeletal diseases, healthy volunteers and health care professionals.
Scand J Work Environ Health
November 2014
Leuphana University Lüneburg, Innovation Incubator, Division Health Trainings Online, Rotenbleicher Weg 67, 21335 Lüneburg, Germany.
Objective: The primary purpose of this randomized controlled trial (RCT) was to evaluate the efficacy of internet-based problem-solving training (iPST) for employees in the educational sector (teachers) with depressive symptoms. The results of training were compared to those of a waitlist control group (WLC).
Methods: One-hundred and fifty teachers with elevated depressive symptoms (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, CES-D ≥16) were assigned to either the iPST or WLC group.
Swiss Med Wkly
May 2015
Centre for Social Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics, University Hospital of Psychiatry, Zurich, Switzerland; Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapie III, University of Ulm, Germany.
Questions Under Study: Restricted government budgets are forcing countries to implement more efficient health measures. Unlike in somatic medicine, the process of evaluating payment systems in psychiatry in Switzerland is ongoing. A pilot approach in one psychiatric hospital, here called "new remuneration system (NRS)", was introduced to better control length of stay (LOS) by combining a lump sum with degressive daily rates.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Hazard Mater
August 2014
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Nireas - International Water Research Center, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box 20537, 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus. Electronic address:
Cocktails of pharmaceuticals are released in the environment after human consumption and due to the incomplete removal at the wastewater treatment plants. Pharmaceuticals are considered as contaminants of emerging concern and, a plethora of journal articles addressing their possible adverse effects have been published during the past 20 years. The emphasis during the early years of research within this field, was on the assessment of acute effects of pharmaceuticals applied singly, leading to results regarding their environmental risk, potentially not realistic or relevant to the actual environmental conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOecologia
September 2014
Institute of Ecology, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Scharnhorststr.1, 21335, Lüneburg, Germany,
Global change is predicted to cause non-random species loss in plant communities, with consequences for ecosystem functioning. However, beyond the simple effects of plant species richness, little is known about how plant diversity and its loss influence higher trophic levels, which are crucial to the functioning of many species-rich ecosystems. We analyzed to what extent woody plant phylogenetic diversity and species richness contribute to explaining the biomass and abundance of herbivorous and predatory arthropods in a species-rich forest in subtropical China.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChemosphere
September 2014
Sustainable Chemistry and Material Resources, Institute of Sustainable and Environmental Chemistry, Leuphana University Lüneburg, C13, DE-21335 Lüneburg, Germany. Electronic address:
The presences of micro-pollutants (active pharmaceutical ingredients, APIs) are increasingly seen as a challenge of the sustainable management of water resources worldwide due to ineffective effluent treatment and other measures for their input prevention. Therefore, novel approaches are needed like designing greener pharmaceuticals, i.e.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Public Health
June 2014
Innovation Incubator, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg , Germany.
Mental disorders are common in almost all industrialized countries and many emerging economies. While several trials have shown that effective treatments exist for mental disorders, such as pharmacotherapy, psychological interventions, and self-help programs, the treatment gap in mental health care remains pervasive. Unrestricted access to adequate medical care for people with mental disorders will be one of the pressing public mental health tasks in the near future.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEnviron Int
September 2014
Sustainable Chemistry and Material Resources, Institute of Environmental Chemistry, Faculty of Sustainability, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Scharnhorststrasse 1, D-21335 Lüneburg, Germany. Electronic address:
In 2030, the World Health Organization estimates that more than 350 million people will be diagnosed with diabetes. Consequently, Metformin - the biguanide drug of choice orally administered for diabetes type II - is anticipated to see a spike in production. Unlike many pharmaceutical drugs, Metformin (Met) is not metabolized by humans but passes through the body unchanged.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPLoS One
October 2015
Department of Arctic and Marine Biology, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway.
Saproxylic insects play an important part in decomposing dead wood in healthy forest ecosystems, but little is known about their role in the aftermath of large-scale forest mortality caused by pest insect outbreaks. We used window traps to study short-term changes in the abundance and community structure of saproxylic beetles following extensive mortality of mountain birch in sub-arctic northern Norway caused by an outbreak of geometrid moths. Three to five years after the outbreak, the proportion of obligate saproxylic individuals in the beetle community was roughly 10% higher in forest damaged by the outbreak than in undamaged forest.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPLoS One
January 2015
Systematic Botany and Functional Biodiversity, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
Future climates are likely to include extreme events, which in turn have great impacts on ecological systems. In this study, we investigated possible effects that could mitigate stem breakage caused by a rare and extreme ice storm in a Chinese subtropical forest across a gradient of forest diversity. We used Bayesian modeling to correct stem breakage for tree size and variance components analysis to quantify the influence of taxon, leaf and wood functional traits, and stand level properties on the probability of stem breakage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFront Public Health
May 2014
Competence Tandem, Innovation Incubator, Leuphana University Lüneburg , Lüneburg , Germany ; University of Zurich , Zurich , Switzerland ; Laboratory of Neuroscience, LIM27, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo , Brazil.
Introduction: Although antidepressants play a major role in the treatment of patients with depression, it is unclear which specific antidepressants are more efficacious than others. This study aims to analyze the relationship between several antidepressant substances and the time to readmission as well as the probability of being in hospital in a given week by using prescription data.
Methods: The database was health-insurance claim data from the new Federal States in Germany.
Biol Conserv
January 2014
Denver Zoological Foundation, 2300 Steele St., Denver, CO 80205, USA.
Wild Bactrian camels () are listed as Critically Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and only persist in some of the most remote locations in northern China and southern Mongolia. Although the species has been recognized as an umbrella species for the fragile central Asian desert ecosystem and has been high on the conservation agenda, little is known about the species' habitat requirements, with most information coming from anecdotal sightings and descriptive studies. We compiled the only available telemetry data from wild camels worldwide.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSci Total Environ
June 2014
Sustainable Chemistry and Material Resources, Institute of Sustainable and Environmental Chemistry, Leuphana University Lüneburg, C13, DE-21335 Lüneburg, Germany. Electronic address:
Recent studies have confirmed that the aquatic ecosystem is being polluted with an unknown cocktail of pharmaceuticals, their metabolites and/or their transformation products (TPs). Although individual chemicals are typically present at low concentrations, they can interact with each other resulting in additive or potentially even synergistic mixture effects. Therefore it is necessary to assess the environmental risk caused by these chemicals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChemosphere
November 2014
Institute of Sustainable and Environmental Chemistry, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Scharnhorststraße 1, D-21335 Lüneburg, Germany. Electronic address:
The presence of pharmaceuticals, especially antibiotics, in the aquatic environment is of growing concern. Several studies have been carried out on the occurrence and environmental risk of these compounds. Ciprofloxacin (CIP), a broad-spectrum anti-microbial second-generation fluoroquinolone, is widely used in human and veterinary medicine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBehav Brain Sci
February 2014
Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen, 5015 Bergen, Norway. http://www.uib.no/personer/Gisela.Boehm#profil.
Contrasting independent with socially influenced decision making does not capture crucial differences in decision making. Independence is fictional, and social influences substantially permeate preference construction. A distinction between deliberate and intuitive decision making would be more useful, and the problem in the big-data era is deciding when it is better to rely on deliberation and when to trust one's intuitions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNew Phytol
May 2014
Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, University of Halle, Am Kirchtor 1, D-06108, Halle, Germany.
Biodiversity loss may alter ecosystem processes, such as herbivory, a key driver of ecological functions in species-rich (sub)tropical forests. However, the mechanisms underlying such biodiversity effects remain poorly explored, as mostly effects of species richness - a very basic biodiversity measure - have been studied. Here, we analyze to what extent the functional and phylogenetic diversity of woody plant communities affect herbivory along a diversity gradient in a subtropical forest.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAddiction
March 2014
Department of Clinical Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University and VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Division of Online Health Training, Innovation Incubator, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany.
Background And Aims: To review published studies on the effectiveness of combining cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) and motivational interviewing (MI) to treat comorbid clinical and subclinical alcohol use disorder (AUD) and major depression (MDD) and estimate the effect of this compared with usual care.
Methods: We conducted systematic literature searches in PubMed, PsycINFO and Embase up to June 2013 and identified additional studies through cross-references in included studies and systematic reviews. Twelve studies comprising 1721 patients met our inclusion criteria.
Chemosphere
December 2014
Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Institute of Coastal Research, Max-Planck-Strasse 1, 21502 Geesthacht, Germany.
The populations of American (Anguilla rostrata) and European eels (Anguilla anguilla) have been declining rapidly in the last decades. Organic contaminants are suspected to be one of the possible causes for the decline; however, so far there have been few investigations of the uptake of specific compounds by different life cycle stages (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBMC Psychiatry
November 2013
Division of Online Health Training, Innovation Incubator, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany.
Background: A diagnosis of diabetes mellitus types 1 or 2 doubles the odds of a comorbid depressive disorder. The combined diseases have a wide range of adverse outcomes, such as a lower quality of life, poorer diabetes outcomes and increased healthcare utilisation. Diabetes patients with depression can be treated effectively with psychotherapy, but access to psychological care is limited.
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December 2013
Institute for Environmental and Sustainability Communication/UNESCO Chair "Higher Education for Sustainable Development", Leuphana University Lüneburg, Scharnhorststraße 1, 21335, Lüneburg, Germany,
The Leuphana Semester at Leuphana University Lüneburg, together with the module "Science bears responsibility" demonstrate how innovative methods of teaching and learning can be combined with the topic of sustainable development and how new forms of university teaching can be introduced. With regard to module content, it has become apparent that, due to the complexity of the field of sustainability, a single discipline alone is unable to provide analyses and solutions. If teaching in higher education is to adequately deal with this complexity, then it is necessary to develop inter- and transdisciplinary approaches that go beyond a purely specialist orientation.
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February 2014
Institute of Ecology, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Scharnhorststrasse 1, 21335, Lüneburg, Germany,
The effects of species loss on ecosystems depend on the community's functional diversity (FD). However, how FD responds to environmental changes is poorly understood. This applies particularly to higher trophic levels, which regulate many ecosystem processes and are strongly affected by human-induced environmental changes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLipids
September 2013
Faculty of Sustainability, Institute of Sustainable and Environmental Chemistry, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Scharnhorststr. 1, C13, 21335, Lüneburg, Germany.
The first step of bioadhesion on dental surfaces is the formation of the acquired pellicle. This mainly acellular layer is formed instantaneously on all solid surfaces exposed to oral fluids. It is composed of proteins, glycoproteins and lipids.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPLoS One
March 2014
Institute of Ecology, Leuphana University Lüneburg, Lüneburg, Germany.
Detailed understanding of a species' natural history and environmental needs across spatial scales is a primary requisite for effective conservation planning, particularly for species with complex life cycles in which different life stages occupy different niches and respond to the environment at different scales. However, niche models applied to conservation often neglect early life stages and are mostly performed at broad spatial scales. Using the endangered heath tiger beetle (Cicindela sylvatica) as a model species, we relate presence/absence and abundance data of locally dispersing adults and sedentary larvae to abiotic and biotic variables measured in a multiscale approach within the geographic extent relevant to active conservation management.
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