Benelux Countries and 50 years' European Integration

50 Years of Time Parallel Time Integration

Time parallel time integration methods have received renewed interest over the last decade because of the advent of massively parallel computers, which is mainly due to the clock speed limit reached on today’s processors. When solving time dependent partial differential equations, the time direction is usually not used for parallelization. But when parallelization in space saturates, the time d...

Who gets a Mammogram amongst European women aged 50 - 69 years and why are there such large differences across European countries ?

On the basis of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement (SHARE), we analyse the determinants of who engages in mammography screening focusing on European women aged 50-69 years. A special emphasis is put on the endogeneity of subjective life expectancy and on the measurement and impact of physician quality. Our main findings are that physician quality, better education, having a partner, y...

East European Countries after the Breakup of Communism and the Ongoing Challenge of European Integration

The status of Europe and East Asia in the transition of world order can be analyzed under different aspects. One of the most important criteria distinguishing the different strategies of European and East Asian countries is the attitude towards regional integration versus cooperation. While Europe simultaneously tries to deepen and enlarge the area of integration, East Asian countries try to pr...

Prevalence of hepatitis A across various countries in the Middle East, African and Eastern European countries

50 years of Sterillium®