The warden's barracks at a satellite camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp in Schwerte the city has proposed housing around 20 refugees in buildings at the camp A housing shortage for asylum seekers in Germany has led one city to propose a controversial solution that would place 21 refugees in a barracks on the grounds of a Nazi-era concentration camp who is a spokesman for the city of Schwerte in North Rhine Westphalia tells the Westdeutsche Allgemeine newspaper it isn't the first time this would be done Schwerte officials also placed refugees at what was once a forced labor branch of the notorious Buchenwald camp during World War II Schwerte officials say the building they plan to use for the latest asylum seekers was actually built after the war In addition to lodging the earlier refugees But other German officials — including the premier of North Rhine Westphalia — say the plan is unacceptable A growing chorus is criticizing Schwerte for being insensitive toward the refugees and the camp's painful history who is deputy director of the Buchenwald memorial told DPA news agency that what the city is proposing is a "bad solution." 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Volume 9 - 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.623718 This article is part of the Research TopicEnvironmental DNA Innovations for ConservationView all 19 articles The quantitative measurement of environmental DNA (eDNA) from field-collected water samples is gaining importance for the monitoring of fish communities and populations The interpretation of these signal strengths depends on the amount of target eDNA shed into the water shedding rates are presumably associated with species-specific traits such as physiology and behavior Although such differences between juvenile and adult fish have been previously detected the general impact of movement and energy use in a resting state on eDNA release into the surrounding water remains hardly addressed we compared eDNA shedding between seven fish species occurring in European freshwaters and sculpin exhibit distinct adaptions to microhabitats The fish were housed in aquaria with constant water flow and their activity was measured by snapshots taken every 30 s Water samples for eDNA analysis were taken every 3 h and energy use was determined in an intermittent flow respirometer After controlling for the effect of fish mass our results demonstrate a positive correlation between target eDNA quantities as measured with digital PCR the model based on data from individual fish was only partly transferable to groups which showed lower activity and higher energy use Our findings highlight the importance of fish physiology and behavior for the comparative interpretation of taxon-specific eDNA quantities Species traits should therefore be incorporated into eDNA-based monitoring and conservation efforts Although reporting the presence/absence of particular species is the starting point of these endeavors a more quantitative interpretation of field-derived eDNA data is key for the general application of this technology these results were primarily obtained for individuals at the same life stage these individuals were supposedly closer to reproductive maturity the fish species were kept separately in aquaria fed with lake water In accordance with the regulations of the Austrian Animal Experiment Act (December 28 2012) (Tierversuchsrechtsänderungsgesetz and with the Directive 2010/63/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union (September 22 2010) on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes (chapter 1 all fish were reared according to regular agriculture (aquaculture) practice including the provision of appropriate tank size and temperatures within the species’ thermal tolerance range distress or lasting harm was inflicted on the animals confirmed by the fact that mortality rates were low and equal between rearing groups no ethics approval and no IACUC protocol was required for the experiments performed the respirometry experiments were discussed with the legislative authorities (Austrian Federal Ministry of Education Science and Research and the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna) and the conclusion was that the assessment of basic metabolism under these conditions (small fish sizes in relatively large chambers) does not incur pain suffering or distress to the fish and no formal animal experimentation protocol was required the experiment was carried out twice: once with individual fish and once with groups of three fish per aquarium The day before the experiment and for its duration the respective fish were not fed to avoid contamination by fish feed and minimize the effects of defecation Each run started with 1 day of familiarization The setup of the aquarium experiment carried out with seven fish species: five individual fish were put in fish tanks for water sampling (eDNA) and activity recordings (days 1 and 2) followed by respirometer measurements (three individuals on days 3 and 4; two individuals plus empty control chamber on days 5 and 6) For Phoxinus phoxinus and Squalius cephalus the experiment was repeated using groups of three individuals per tank and respirometer chamber All equipment used for this process was cleaned with sodium hypochlorite (5%) and rinsed with tap water prior to each use; DNA-free gloves were always worn. On the second day, 2 l water samples were taken every 3 h from 9:00 AM to 12:00 AM (six samples) at the back end of each aquarium (opposite to the inflow) using flexible tubes and 2 l wide neck bottles (Figure 2) Due to the high flow rates (entire water volume replaced every 11 min) the water level in each aquarium self-adjusted automatically after every sampling The water samples were immediately filtered in an adjacent laboratory using glass microfiber filters (1.2 μm pore width Whatman GF/C) and one negative control (2 l MilliQ-water) was included per sampling event the filters were individually placed in 2 ml reaction tubes and stored at –28°C until further processing in a special diagnostic molecular laboratory at the Department of Zoology pH was measured in three arbitrarily selected aquaria using a Hach HQ40 device to evaluate potential microorganism-induced oxygen decrease the mass [g] and total length [mm] of each fish were determined before placing them together in a fish tank For respirometer measurements of fish groups the three individuals previously sharing an aquarium were put together in a respirometer chamber each filter was soaked with 200 μl of lysis buffer consisting of TES-buffer (0.1 M TRIS 2% sodium dodecyl sulfate; pH 8) and proteinase K (20 mg/ml) in a ratio of 19:1 and incubated at 56°C over night in a rocking platform filters were transferred with DNA-free forceps to a perforated inset which was repositioned in the top half of the original 2 ml reaction tube and centrifuged for 10 min at 20,000 g filters were discarded and the lysate at the bottom of the reaction tube (300–800 μl) was used for DNA extraction Insets were cleaned in sodium hypochlorite (2.5%) for at least 30 min thoroughly washed with MilliQ-water (10 wash steps) and reused DNA extraction was carried out with the Biosprint 96 instrument (Qiagen) using the Biosprint 96 DNA blood Kit (Qiagen) and the Biosprint 96 tissue extraction protocol following the manufacturer’s instructions except for using 100 μl of TE-buffer instead of AE-buffer for DNA elution Extractions were carried out in 96-well plates and four negative controls (containing TES-buffer instead of lysate) were included per plate a custom DNA-uptake program was set up: three uptake plates were used and 300 μl of lysate 300 μl AL-buffer and 300 μl isopropanol were mixed per well in each plate if only a total of 400 μl were available after centrifugation) were replaced by TES-buffer 30 μl MagAttract was added per well in the first plate Using custom “binding” steps of the robotic platform the DNA contained in the first plate was transferred to the second one a binding step was carried out in the second plate before transferring and releasing the entire collected DNA into the third plate which was then used for the Biosprint 96 tissue extraction protocol each eluate was transferred to a 1.5 μl reaction tube for subsequent PCR a positive control (DNA extract from target species tissue) and a negative control (molecular grade water) were included in dPCR all of which resulted positive and negative All filtration and extraction controls resulted negative as well Digital PCR assays used to amplify fish eDNA As pH was not measured in all aquaria after each water sampling missing values were estimated by averaging measurements taken at the respective fish tank before and after the skipped time step If measurements at the first or last water sampling were missing the values of the following or previous time step The cleared activity dataset was visually inspected and summarized for each time step: for example data obtained during the preceding day were associated with the first eDNA sampling event at 9:00 AM and measurements between 9:00 AM and 12:00 PM were considered relevant for the second water sampling at 12:00 PM Mean activity was calculated per time interval No cleared activity data was available for one S thymallus individual at a single time step each energy use [J/h] was averaged across the values obtained from individual measurement intervals for each fish and fish group this was not possible for one individual and one group of C energy use was estimated as the mean of the available values and energy use were normalized by the mass of the respective fish individual prior to all further analyses The results of one-way repeated measurements ANOVA with rank transformation examining a potential effect of sampling on pH The best performing model passed the consecutive check for outliers and overdispersion; the 95%-CI for its fixed effects were derived via bootstrapping (200 simulations) Covariate structures of the candidate Gamma GLMM with a log link function To test the differences between single and grouped fish in the different stages of the experiment a data subset containing only values obtained from single and grouped P and mean activity (all normalized by fish mass) of the four distinct fish categories were tested for normality and homogeneity of variance with Shapiro-Wilk and Bartlett tests differences between groups were examined via Kruskal-Wallis tests followed by Wilcoxon Rank Sum tests with Benjamini-Hochberg-corrected p-values cephalus were predicted using the model previously established for single fish (only possible when not incorporating the random effect of fish individual) Pairwise Wilcoxon tests were used to verify whether there was a significant difference between predicted and measured target eDNA copy numbers for both species separately and combined The energy use per gram fish mass was highest for O and energy use for each fish species in the experiment Key parameters obtained during the experiment for single fish Boxplots display target eDNA copies per μl extract Fish species are abbreviated: “Cot gob,” Cottus gobio; “Onc myk,” Oncorhynchus mykiss; “Pho pho,” Phoxinus phoxinus; “Sal fon,” Salvelinus fontinalis; “Sal tru,” Salmo trutta; “Squ cep,” Squalius cephalus; “Thy thy,” Thymallus thymallus and energy use were normalized by fish mass to control for the effect of this confounding variable Table 5. Results of the ordinal ranking based on ΔAICc for the GLMM (Table 3) The highest weight (ω = 0.52) GLMM (model #3) describing the measured eDNA copy numbers via (A) the fixed effects: mean activity and (B) the random effect fish individual (31 groups Graphic representation of the GLMM estimates (model #3) best describing the obtained target eDNA copy numbers: (A) fixed effects and (B) random effect of individual fish significance codes of denoted fish species indicate differences in comparison to the base category Cottus gobio Fish species are abbreviated: “Cot gob,” Cottus gobio; “Onc myk,” Oncorhynchus mykiss; “Pho pho,” Phoxinus phoxinus; “Sal fon,” Salvelinus fontinalis; “Sal tru,” Salmo trutta; “Squ cep,” Squalius cephalus; “Thy thy,” Thymallus thymallus in addition to individual numbers from 1 to 5 Asterisks denote p-values smaller than: 0.05 (*) Significant differences were also detected between the four groups regarding mean activity (Chi2 = 80.95; p < 0.001) and energy use (Chi2 = 36.77; p < 0.001): mean activity was significantly higher when fish were kept solitary compared to having them in groups for both species (p < 0.001) energy use was significantly higher for grouped individuals of P and energy use (normalized by fish mass) in aquaria obtained from single and grouped individuals of Phoxinus phoxinus and Squalius cephalus Different lower case letters above boxplots code for significant differences (p < 0.05) between categories which are abbreviated as: “Pho pho,” Phoxinus phoxinus (single fish); “Pho pho g,” Phoxinus phoxinus grouped fish; “Squ cep,” Squalius cephalus (single fish); “Squ cep g,” Squalius cephalus grouped fish For groups of Phoxinus phoxinus (Pho pho g) and Squalius cephalus (Squ cep g) measured and predicted copy numbers are plotted: left predicted copy numbers are compared between species; right comparison of measured copy numbers between the two species The measured copy numbers were log-transformed to enable a direct comparison with the values predicted by the Gamma GLMM with log-link function; the random effect of individual fish could not be taken into account for this prediction cephalus a significant difference between measured and predicted copy numbers was detected (W = 609; p < 0.05) This experiment confirms the hypothesized positive relationship between eDNA shedding and fish activity The species identity and thereby associated physiological differences were found to influence the amount of released eDNA and the positive relationship between energy use and eDNA signals was not significant our data show that models of eDNA shedding cannot always be generalized from experiments with individual fish to fish groups For a conclusive habitat-scale estimation of fish communities with eDNA-based methods it is therefore necessary to incorporate species physiology and behavior into the analysis We can confirm the positive relationship between fish activity (i.e. movement) and eDNA shedding independent of the introductory phase of an experiment it was not possible to determine the actual reason for the elevated eDNA levels associated with higher activity as both higher metabolic rates during movement and higher water volumes shearing against the fish body could be responsible for this effect this result indicates that signals emitted by highly active fish (e.g. during spawning or predatory behavior) potentially mimic higher levels of fish biomass There were distinct differences in eDNA shedding between the species, with T. thymallus, P. phoxinus, and S. cephalus emitting the most eDNA. The adaptation to habitats with stronger currents (Freyhof and Kottelat, 2007) namely an increased mucus production in combination with comparably large scales The underlying taxonomy could also contribute to this pattern if cyprinids (P cephalus) generally release more DNA into the surrounding water via their gills Another explanation for the high eDNA shedding of cyprinids in this experiment could be the stress induced by solitary housing The model estimating eDNA concentrations for individual fish could not fully explain the findings obtained for grouped fish: the activity of both P cephalus was significantly lower when fish were held in groups while their energy use was significantly higher A change in measurement precision regarding activity and energy use (respirometer more precise activity measurement less precise for fish groups) could explain these contradictory results phoxinus individuals did not differ from values predicted with a model based on single fish The number of study animals in future experiments should thus be increased to better control for such effects within a species Our results demonstrate that for the successful application of eDNA-based methods on a habitat scale it is necessary to incorporate fish physiology and behavior not only in the study design and sampling process [e.g., by sampling at different depths and in different micro-habitats (Littlefair et al., 2020)], but also during data analysis (Barnes and Turner, 2016; Thalinger et al., 2021a) Seasonal patterns could have a much stronger effect on eDNA concentrations in the water column as previously assumed: for instance many cyprinids in European freshwaters seek calm areas without current during the winter Their eDNA is less likely to spread through the water column and additionally their decreased activity lowers the detection probability even further the eDNA shedding of diverse fish species and families in relation to their biomass and energy use should be investigated to deepen our understanding of taxon-specific effects estimations of fish biomass from eDNA quantities in field-collected samples should at least take distinct physiology and behavior into account especially for comparative analyses between species or seasons The datasets presented in this study can be found in online repositories. 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are taking their toll on our drinking water Join us on a journey around Europe to see why protecting ecosystems matters and to discover some of the best water solutions an animated explainer series and live debate - find out why Water Matters We give you the latest climate facts from the world’s leading source analyse the trends and explain how our planet is changing We meet the experts on the front line of climate change who explore new strategies to mitigate and adapt This year’s International Holocaust Remembrance Day will be somewhat different from the usual memorial services held around the world The event takes place on 27th January every year to mark the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau the biggest and most notorious Nazi death camp in Europe the site draws thousands of visitors every year who want to try and process the continent is scattered with tributes to one of humanity’s darkest eras some of these memorials are operating under coronavirus restrictions the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe stands close to the Brandenburg Gate The undulating design of 2,711 concrete slabs - all varying sizes - might create a sense of disorientation The idea is to open a discussion as to why it replicates the way the world was turned upside down during the Holocaust The constantly changing levels beneath your feet coupled with the way the path’s direction frequently alters course is meant to mirror the sense of dislocation associated with the events of 1941 - 1945 are in a grid formation so people can walk among them it offers the chance for quiet contemplation in the heart of the city Located in the historic Marais district of Paris the Shoah Memorial is a wall engraved with the names of 76,000 Jewish people deported from France during the Nazi regime The concept of the wall was ‘understanding the past to illuminate the future’ It was Europe’s first Holocaust archive when it opened to the public in 2005 and - when things are normal - it often hosts temporary exhibitions as tribute to genocides from the 20th Century the Wall of Righteous names nearly 4,000 men and women who protected Jewish people between 1942 and 1944 Perhaps one of the most visually striking commemorative installations for the Holocaust is the Shoes on the Daube Promenade in Budapest This trail of iron artwork represents the thousands of people who were executed along the riverbank during the war antisemitic organisation operating in Budapest at the time quickly responded to what they saw happening in Germany in the 1940s 80,000 Jewish families were exiled from Hungary and during the march to the Austrian border 20,000 people were lined up along the river Danube The design of each individual shoe in the line-up represents how no one - no matter what background Schwerte in western Germany was a Nazi sub-camp during the years of the war Its main memorial was erected in 1990 to commemorate those taken to the Schwerte camp This included the building of a railway line carved in stone and lying down to act as the sleepers on the track The most well-known holocaust memorial of all the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau has been transformed into a lasting reminder of what happened behind its gates 76 years ago Auschwitz remains closed for now due to coronavirus restrictions but a virtual commemoration focused on the fate of children in Auschwitz is available online from today The Memorial and Museum of Auschwitz has been preserved to show subsequent generations the realities of the Nazi regime This week we have images of the "no pants" subway ride in Mexico City and New York fish collected from an abandoned department store in Bangkok We want to hear what you think about this article. Submit a letter to the editor or write to letters@theatlantic.com A collection of winning and honored images from this year’s nature-photo competition A collection of amazing recent images made with the Hubble Space Telescope Mourners of Pope Francis gathered at the Vatican scenes from the the second weekend of Coachella 2025 and landscapes of the Earth’s arctic and subarctic regions Wer am Feiertag frische Brötchen kaufen möchte Wie zufrieden sind Sie heute mit Ihrem Besuch auf ruhrnachrichten.de Wir arbeiten stetig an der Verbesserung von ruhrnachrichten.de dabei ist Ihre Meinung für uns unverzichtbar Diese Funktion steht nur unseren Abonnenten zur Verfügung Westphalia-based Sparkasse HagenHerdecke and Sparkasse Lüdenscheid merge their business operations this year The combined entity will be named Sparkasse an Volme und Ruhr “One of the core problems of such a merger of savings banks is that the legal regulations of savings bank law on the one hand and antitrust law on the other hand are hardly coordinated,” said Dr Thomas Thiede LLM “Banking law provides that only neighbouring savings banks can merge – antitrust law evaluates the merger in directly neighbouring markets quite critically.” In light of the decrepit road connections between the two regions SPIEKER & JAEGER’s Dr Achim Herbertz added: “The fiasco involving the run-down bridges may have had a positive effect after all it is hardly possible to get from Lüdenscheid to Hagen quickly and vice versa from Hagen to Lüdenscheid The circumstance of the directly neighbouring markets may have had less of an effect this way.” SPIEKER & JAEGER advised on the merger of the Dortmund and Schwerte savings banks whose considerable market share in their respective cities merited close scrutiny by the German Federal Cartel Office (‘FCO’) It was found that the savings banks generally operated in the territory of their parent municipalities meaning that the institutions involved were not quite genuine competitors very few citizens of Schwerte were actually customers of the savings bank in Dortmund and vice versa “There are no disadvantages to the detriment of consumers,” commented Dr Thomas Thiede SPIEKER & JAEGER advised Sparkassen with a team comprising partners Dr Thomas Thiede “The cleverest case is won before it begins.” We have adhered to this premise for more than 100 years we overcome all the legal hurdles in advance Our law firm is a partnership (limited professional liability) with 25 experienced and specialised lawyers We take care of our clients’ legal interests in Germany and abroad banking law and family and inheritance law “We don’t just talk about the business hub Good legal advice is the art of finding the right solution for your needs in property law and also in a conflict situation “Two high-performing partners are joining forces and thus setting the course for a successful future.” The merger of the Sparkasse HagenHerdecke and Lüdenscheid will come together to form “Sparkasse an Volme und Ruhr” After initially arriving at discussions in autumn 2021 advanced talks of the merger of the two savings banks All regulatory requirements as well as all committee-dependent requirements have been met The legal merger took effect retrospectively from 1 January 2022 Day one of the new ‘Sparkasse an Volme und Ruhr’ company will begin on Wednesday 31 August  2022 The final approvals only arrived very recently in late August 2022; the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of Finance and the Arnsberg District Government approved the merger The board members of the two savings banks are looking forward to a new chapter “Two high-performing partners are joining forces and thus setting the course for a successful future,” emphasised Markus Hacke added: “In view of the challenges in the coming years two savings banks have found that they complement each other perfectly.” The business area of the Sparkasse extends Volme und Ruhr to those within the municipalities of Hagen which together have a population of about 320,000 Sparkasse an Volme und Ruhr will serve around 155,000 private customers In the nineties critical art starts to take centre stage in the exploits of a generation that are undoubtedly moving away from the constraints of genre continuing the trend started in the sixties by artists such as Joseph Beuys (questioning traditional artistic materials) and Andy Warhol (who established the direct relationship between art consumption and assembly line production); moreover there are numerous cases in which critical value ends up as an aesthetic category 1952) is one of the forerunners of this generation signs and messages commonly agreed upon by culture and tradition Trockel's works aim to reflect on the possible alternatives locked in signs bearing witness to meaning not as an inherent factor an historical and contextually conditioned attribute This exhibition considers the way Trockel unfurls her message through using irony and the devaluation of signs the shift of signs towards propaganda for decorative purposes which can be seen in her textile paintings (actually computer designed and made by machine) for instance in her 1987 piece where a pattern of a woman appears iconographically reminiscent of Russian Constructivism and the latent irony in Painting machine and 56 brush strokes (1990) in which the brushes have been made from locks of hair from 56 artists Trockel resolves to suggest alternative associations as she insists on using domestic and daily objects; Sidra Stich the exhibit's curator alongside Elizabeth Sussman “She evokes stereotypes to then knock them down.” This is evident throughout her work as she calls into question the representation of women in modern society enclosed in the capitalist tyranny of image consumption substantiated by the atavistic principles of their social role and duties (objects of desire Around 1983 Trockel begins to focus on particularly feminist iconography sculpture and drawing as her mediums over the dominance of video and performance at the time Elisabeth Sussman notes how significant this is as: “Towards 1985 Trockel can be seen producing a series of images generated from the critical perspectives that would dominate the decade: sexuality and its representation in the world of commerce and consumption.” This assertion is updated and confirmed by Trockel herself as she states how the constant themes in her work are women contradictions and a reaction against precepts in fashion Berkeley Art Museum (June 12 - September 8 Collaboration with different agents and international political and cultural collectives A confederation of artistic internationalism made up of seven European museums Berlin residents Mareike Geiling (left) and her boyfriend Geiling and Kokoschke helped launch a website that matches Germans willing to share their homes with new arrivals Asylum-seekers are flooding into Germany in record numbers with more than 200,000 applying for that status last year This is fueling tensions on several fronts. Overwhelmed local officials often house the new arrivals in old schools and re-purposed shipping containers in neighborhoods where they aren't always welcome. The western German city of Schwerte even proposed placing 21 refugees in a barracks on the grounds of a Nazi-era concentration camp Berlin residents Mareike Geiling and her boyfriend "We don't like the idea of putting these people into one place where many adds: "Many asylum-seekers have to stay there for years .. because they are not allowed to do anything they are not allowed to have German classes sometimes and sometimes it's not a city it's a village and there's nothing to do and so you get depressed after years and stuff like this," he adds So the couple decided to launch Refugees Welcome, a website in English and German that matches asylum-seekers with people willing to share their homes with them They have more than 400 applications in the works — in Germany as well as Austria they are far from the city and so we like the idea that they are really living with us She and Kakoschke were the first Germans to open their doors Geiling is away most of this year on a teaching job in Cairo so last December the couple sublet her room in their fourth-floor working-class neighborhood of Wedding to a Muslim man from Mali who is afraid of giving his name for safety reasons has applied for asylum and is awaiting a work permit Kakoschke and Geiling (who happened to be back in Berlin when NPR visited to the apartment) say they rely on donations to cover the new roommate's $430 share of rent and utilities Just like in any apartment shared by multiple people They cook meals jointly and split up housework Kakoschke jokes that the apartment has never been cleaner The roommate says he still can't believe Germans would open their apartment to asylum-seekers the people here don't want to see people like us in their land," he says he had more or less been living on the streets since arriving from Italy a year ago Refugees walk along on a street near the Initial Reception Camp Marienfelde in Berlin Marienfelde camp has been a transitional home for refugees in Germany for more than 60 years But the recent influx of asylum-seekers is straining the system "Sometimes I'd take the bus from different sector to different sector at nighttime until Then he'd "get out and sleep for 20 minutes and go back on the train again sometimes and go back in the mosque and pray there for 30 minutes and sleep there for one hour." He says it was his German teacher who found out about the roommate program and put him in touch with the couple It's easy to see that he and the couple get along well and they say they have learned a lot about each other's cultures "I think I just asked when we met the first time if it's OK for him that I drink alcohol," Kakoschke says with a laugh Site developed by     Copyright © Yedioth Internet As the global demand for fish rises and aquaculture expands rapidly ensuring the welfare of fish during slaughter becomes increasingly imperative given their susceptibility to pain and distress Achieving humane slaughter entails either instant killing or rendering fish unconscious until their demise or immobilized states during the slaughter process poses significant challenges Thorsten Schwerte at the University of Innsbruck and Dr Albin Gräns at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences are collaborating on an international effort user-friendly method capable of real-time assessment of various stunning and slaughter techniques at aquaculture facilities This innovative approach involves monitoring brain activity to determine if stunning or slaughter methods instantly renders fish dead or irreversibly unconscious By providing insights into enhancing stunning and slaughter practices this project endeavors to alleviate the suffering of countless individual fish Non-invasive technique for determining changes in the state of consciousness in fish (A) The portable and robust field setup for evaluating the effectiveness of slaughter practices on-site at an aquaculture facility (B) The custom-made cutaneous brain electrodes used to measure the electroencephalogram (EEG) of rainbow trout which allows the detection of visually evoked responses (VERs) from a flashing stroboscope light (C) A clear example of VERs present in the EEG of a conscious fish prior to stunning as well as (D) the effects on the brain activity of a fish following an effective stun (green line fish unconscious) and ineffective stun (red line Phone: +43 512 507-0 Contact us Legal Privacy Accessibility Certificates “Kosmos” was the title given by the great naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1769- 1859) to his culminating work who was well aware that the Spanish explorer was not the first European to discover the New World made his decision on philosophical grounds comes from accumulated knowledge; the real discoverer is the one who opens up new frontiers of knowledge In this exhibition the German artist Rosemarie Trockel (Schwerte long been admired for her highly independent exploration of certain fundamental questions places her work in the company of others whom she regards as kindred spirits A GERMAN boy has died after being shocked with 15,000 volts of electricity while taking a photo on a train in a freight yard The boy, 13, was playing in near the train yard in Schwerte, Germany Railway employees noticed a bright flash of light around 9 pm on Monday evening and called the authorities After switching off the overhead electric lines which supply power to the trains He was taken to hospital with severe burns on his body Warnings were previously posted by federal police reading: "Electricity is able to jump the air and reach the ground in an arc through the body." Local media said another nine-year-old suffered serious injuries and was taken to a hospital According to a police spokesman, both boys are from the town of Recklinghausen. Police confirmed several other young people were involved in the accident but did not give further details. but local media said upwards of 35 firemen and rescue workers were deployed to the accident site Rescue teams were searching the track bed and using drones to look for victims interior minister of the North Rhine-Westphalia told journalists: "It's horrible "Children and trains and at such a young age it's just horrible what happened here and one can only hope the parents will have the strength to overcome this great misfortune." Another tragedy unfolded in a German children's home last month, when an 11 year old boy stabbed a 10 year old girl to death. The tragic incident happened at a child and youth welfare facility in Wunsiedel, in the Bavaria region in Germany Other children were on a skiing trip at the time of tragedy but the girl - identified as Lena - was understood to be too nervous to go She was set to be reunited with her dad for Easter Our journalists strive for accuracy but on occasion we make mistakes. For further details of our complaints policy and to make a complaint please click this link: thesun.co.uk/editorial-complaints/