Ecosystems in Slovakia

Update on rickettsioses in Slovakia.

The reported incidence of vector-borne diseases including various cases of Rickettsioses in humans is increasing due to a combination of climatic and social factors, escalating the opportunities for contact between people and ticks, fleas or lice. Many of the emerging infectious diseases currently challenging human health in Europe are transmitted by ticks which normally feed on domestic or wil...

Educational Robotics Initiatives in Slovakia

We summarize, categorize, and analyze the various kinds of educational robotics initiatives in Slovakia and share our experience we have obtained while organizing the contests and preparing non-contest robotics educational activities. We argue that the team-work is highly undervalued in the current school system, and that robotics contests and project work are a very suitable platform to streng...

Best of ASCO ® Slovakia 2011 “ Place : Holiday Inn , Bratislava , Slovakia

Slovaks in Czechia – Czechs in Slovakia

Czech and Slovak are two closely related languages which together form the Czecho-Slovak sub-group of the West Slavonic languages, to which there belong two further subgroups, the Lusatian and the Lechitic. In spite of their similarity and a nearly complete mutual intelligibility (see below), the literary languages are clearly differentiated, which is among other things due to the fact that the...

Diversity of Plants and Animals in Mountain Ecosystems in Tajikistan

Tajikistan is a hotspot of plant and animal species diversity and endemism andis important for the conservation of biodiversity on a global scale. The country is located ata biological crossroads. Species from Central and Northern Europe, Central Asia, theMiddle East, and North Africa mingle here with endemics found nowhere else. Therichness of Tajikistan‘s biodiversity shows up at the genetic,...