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The article focuses on Collaborative Research Center SFB 1294 "Data assimilation: The seamless merging of data and Models" has been managed by the German Research Foundation at the University of Potsdam. It mentions seamless integration of large amounts of data into complex ones computer modeling is one of the major challenges of the mathematical sciences in the 21st century. It also mentions assimilation is through applications in meteorology, hydrology and the search for raw materials.

The paper discusses the migration of German Jewish psychiatrists from Nazi Germany to Palestine during the 1930s. It focuses on their special assimilation process as immigrants who belonged to a culture different from the dominant Eastern European socialist Zionism and as a professional group which belonged to a marginalized discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A report is presented of a November 2-4, 2012 conference in Berlin, Germany on the youth cultures of Eastern Europe. Topics of discussion included the role of young adults in post-socialist Eastern European society, social assimilation of young East German and Lithuanian men, and medial depictions of young people in Russia.

The article reports on a conference on the historiography of Jewish history, held in Hamburg, Germany, from June 22-23, 2012. Discussions revolved around the main theme of the meeting, namely the role the study of the history of Jews and Judaism in Germany has played in the development of historiography on Germany more broadly since the 1960s. Detailed papers touched on such subjects as research on the Holocaust in Germany and Austria, Jewish assimilation, and German scholarship on medieval Jewish history.

Raymond Aron is one of the greatest innovators of postwar liberalism, by the assimilation to his speech the sociological thought, the Keynesian economics and the political realism. In that sense, their highest contribution were the concept of in-dustrial society, a realistic view of representative democracy, an historical sociology applied to international relations, a critic of the political and economic Hayek's neo-liberalism and his view of Marxism-Leninism as a secular religion. The reception of his work in Spain had some difficulties, first by the existence of an authoritarian political regime and then by emergence of a new left heavily influenced by Marxism. However, at present, Aron is a highly respected intellectual in political and intellec-tual circles of the spanish right. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The term trialogue means the best possible equally contributing cooperation between affected patients and therapists as well as the self-evident inclusion of relatives. This is true for therapy, antistigma efforts by the planning of care, in associations such as the German Society for Bipolar Disorders and by assimilation of guidelines. Trialogue has a history and in its current version many levels and a hopeful vision of characteristics of understanding and treatment. This idea is presented here and relationships with characteristics of understanding and therapy of bipolar disorders will be made. Finally the recommendations of guidelines on trialogue will be presented and essential headings will be discussed under the aspect of trialogue: where and how are basic ideas and core demands of associations of affected persons and relatives considered? How is the process of trialogue to be assessed for the assimilation of guidelines? What are the chances and risks for the implementation? How can trialogue support the implementation? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A biography of a German-Jewish author and journalist Moritz Goldstein is presented. It presents an overview of his childhood and family situation, discusses his views concerning the permanent homelessness of Jews, and analyzes his essay "Deutsch-jüdischer Parnaß," which questioned the destiny of Jews in Germany and spurred a debate, the Kunstwart-Debatte. Further discussions include Goldstein's double identity as a Jew and a German, antisemitism, nationalism, and cultural assimilation.

The article reports on a May 2010 conference sponsored by the Institute for European History (IEG) of Mainz, Germany, under the title "Battle of the Spoken and Written Word. Russification in Eastern Europe, in the Caucasus, and in Siberia in the 19th to the 21st Century." The meeting discussed Russification in Eastern Europe through language assimilation, through construction of Russian churches, and through changes in borders and geographic place names.

In this article, the assimilation of members into the faith community is discussed. When a church has found its identity in being a 'missional faith community', the outcome is growth. Growth cannot take place if the church is unable to assimilate new members into church life. People are only assimilated into the faith community when they are interconnected through relationships, and experience a fundamental sense of belonging. This article discusses aspects of membership assimilation, namely intention, active participation, and culture. A model is proposed whereby leaders can evaluate the functional worth of people for the faith community at any level of assimilation. This model can also assist leaders in creating processes to assimilate members more effectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While the economic, political, and military bonds between Spain and Nazi Germany have received much attention, the close cultural exchange between the two fascist states is little known. Thanks to its neutrality in World War I, Spain became a top priority of German cultural foreign policy in the 1930s. The Hitler government not only sought to extend its influence through German culture in Spain, but also encouraged Hispanic culture in Germany through the creation of German-Spanish societies. From 1930 to 1945 the Deutsch-Spanische Gesellschaftin Berlin (DSG) emerged as a main axis of the cultural relations between the two countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents report from a November 14-15, 2014 conference in Bautzen, Germany on the ethnic history of Lusatia, Germany hosted by the Sorbisches Institut cultural institute and the Oberlausitzische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften e. V. humanities society. Topics of presentations delivered included the development of regional identities for racial minorities in Lusatia, social and economic influences on the assimilation of Sorbs in Lusatia in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the portrayals of homeland and nation in Sorbian art.

The article reports on a conference on the history of Jews in Westphalia, Germany, held in Dorsten, Germany, from March 27-28, 2012. Topics of discussion included the representation of minorities in local history museums, the assimilation of rural Jews in 19th- and 20th-century Germany, and the experience of Jewish refugees who had fled Nazi persecution upon their return to Germany after 1945.