Budapest Nephrology School (BNS) could have celebrated its 30th event if it had not been interrupted by COVID pandemic for a few years. Yet, the organization of 27th BNS in August 2023 resumed its ...successful and traditional activities at Semmelweis University, in the beautiful central European city of Budapest. In over two decades, BNS has faithfully adapted to the changes and developments of medical science and clinical nephrology, the fact which has kept it unique and attractive for nephrologists from across the globe. With such a long history and representing the top international professors of nephrology, BNS has proved to be a successful one-week, in-person refreshing course which has attracted over 1600 medical doctors from more than 60 countries. It has well served as an academic meeting point suitable for networking and exchange of up-to-date knowledge presented by the best international experts in nephrology. The dedication and focus of these experts on education, research and patient care represent the very concept of translational medicine. The invaluable experience of the past 27 years has set the standards for BNS to contribute to the evolution of translational nephrology in Europe in the next decade.
The concept of neighbourhood units has been existing for almost 100 years.
Its basic elements have been continuously re-emerging in both theory and practice. It has recently been highlighted by the ...concept of “15-minute cities”, with which it shares many similarities.
Although the communist leadership of the post-WWII Eastern Bloc demanded the Western principles of urban planning and architecture to be denounced by architects, Perry's neighbourhood unit concept was integrated into Soviet professional practice under the name “micro-rayons”. Afterwards, it was widely and rigorously used in other communist countries as well.
This paper examines - based on the example of two actual housing estates built based on the neighbourhood unit concept in the 1950s in Budapest – which characteristics, seen as attractive during the planning phase, of the for-sale apartments located in the example areas are still considered valuable by owners, and which are used as buzzwords to bring up market value. The goal is to evaluate which urbanistic/urban design guidelines, formulated and prioritised during the planning phase, are still relevant in the eyes of the current inhabitants. To answer this question, the study analyses the text of real estate advertisements.
•The current concept of „15-minute cities” shows several conceptual similarities with with the principles of neighbourhood units•Housing estates built in state socialist countries in the 1950s were also based on the Neighbourhood Unit Concept.•This housing estates’ main value are considered by the residents the good location and high proportion of green areas.•According to the survey, community is not among the most valuable characteristics of housing estates.•Urbanistic advantages of neighbourhood units take prevalence over quality demands towards apartments.
Deploying shallow geothermal solutions is critical for meeting energy demands while supporting decarbonisation targets. In densely populated areas, drilling large numbers of boreholes may lead to ...thermal interactions between closely located borehole heat exchangers. This paper presents a novel method termed the infinite borehole field model to estimate the technical shallow geothermal potential, especially in urban regions. The thermal interactions between boreholes are considered using finite element models simulating the operation of a single borehole in a larger field. Mathematical optimisation is used to find the amount of thermal energy that can be annually extracted while keeping the borehole wall temperature above freezing point of water. The method considers thermogeological details of geological formations including downward-increasing ground temperature, geothermal heat flux, thermal conductivity, heat capacity, porosity, density, and advective heat transfer. Results of our case study indicate that 100 m deep thermally independent boreholes can produce 14.20 MWh/a for 50 years on average. However, boreholes in an infinite borehole field spaced 20 m apart produce 7.80 MWh/a. A further investigation including advective heat transfer indicated that high velocity groundwater flow can significantly enhance borehole yield. Our method provides a generalised approach which can be beneficial prior to detailed site investigations.
This research note discusses the text of How Is Critical Economic Theory Possible, seeking to locate it in the moment of its own creation; against the object of its critique, in Das Kapital itself; ...and to relate it to the moment of the arrival of the Budapest School in Australia and its effects and influence on the emergent journal Thesis Eleven.
Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a debilitating chronic pain condition that, although exceedingly rare, carries a significant burden for the affected patient population. The complex and ...ambiguous pathophysiology of this condition further complicates clinical management and therapeutic interventions. Furthermore, being a diagnosis of exclusion requires a diligent workup to ensure an accurate diagnosis and subsequent targeted management. The development of the Budapest diagnostic criteria helped to consolidate existing definitions of CRPS but extensive work remains in identifying the underlying pathways. Currently, two distinct types are identified by the presence (CRPS type 1) or absence (CRPS type 2) of neuronal injury. Current management directed at this disease is broad and growing, ranging from non-invasive modalities such as physical and psychological therapy to more invasive techniques such as dorsal root ganglion stimulation and potentially amputation. Ideal therapeutic interventions are multimodal in nature to address the likely multifactorial pathological development of CRPS. Regardless, a significant need remains for continued studies to elucidate the pathways involved in developing CRPS as well as more robust clinical trials for various treatment modalities.
The article uncovers the voices of secular Jewish writers who wrote about Budapest at the turn of the twentieth century in the same progressive literary journals. Their literary depictions of ...Budapest illustrate the quest of secular Jews to discover new points of identification in the urban environment. How do Hungarian Jewish writers in Budapest characterize the city, Pest? How do they envision the major tenets of their own 'urbanness', of being 'pesti'? Why do they invent themselves as pesti? I aim to draw a Jewish image of Budapest featuring the central concept of pesti as their place of belonging.
My Journey Home Ozsvath, Zsuzsanna
2019, 2019-01-01, 2019-12-10
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This poignant story of survival, friendship, and love begins with the the author's childhood during the Holocaust in Hungary. It captures life after the war's end in Communist-ruled Hungary and ...continues with her and her husband's flight to Germany and eventually the United States.
The historiography of the fine arts museum in Europe is a narrative that has mostly followed the arc of the developing nation-state after the French Revolution. This approach has often focused on the ...emergence of the public museum as part of an ‘exhibitionary complex’ that helped to shape an ‘imagined community’ of patriotic citizens during the long nineteenth century. For the most part these nationally-based perspectives have been extremely productive, but they cannot do justice to many of the museums that emerged in the Austro-Hungarian Empire before its collapse. Indeed, the three authors of this excellent volume remind us that many of the ‘national’ fine arts museums of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire took shape well before the outbreak of war in 1914 and only took on their official status as representatives of their specific ‘nations’ in the years after 1918. Thus, the historiography of museums in central Europe needs a more nuanced approach. As the volume’s editor and contributor Matthew Rampley writes, ‘current state boundaries are not a meaningful framework for the study of museums in Habsburg Central Europe.’ This volume both suggests and models that new framework. To make their point the authors use several, more complicated (social, trans-national, and local) approaches to demonstrate how museums in the Empire’s important cities (Lemberg, Prague, Budapest, Cracow, and Zagreb) emerged from a complex set of Imperial, local and, as the century progressed, civic and nationalist ambitions. Together the authors unanimously argue in favor of viewing Austria-Hungary as a ‘shared cultural space’ with complex interactions that formed a web of relationships across the many nationalities of the Empire—a web that remains invisible to the post-1945 observer. This invitation to complexity is both convincing and compelling and it opens a broad field of new research possibilities. Well-written and exquisitely researched, the volume also inadvertently highlights one of the greatest challenges to future scholars: fluency in the local languages. We are grateful to these authors to have given us this volume in English. Insofar as it models several museological approaches, it can be useful to any scholar who is interested in the historiography of museums in Europe’s long nineteenth century.
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