Germany stumbles on enacting plan to integrate eastern scientists

Tobacco industry influence on science and scientists in Germany.

Using tobacco industry documents, we examined how and why the tobacco industry sought to influence science and scientists in Germany as a possible factor in explaining the German opposition to stricter tobacco regulation. Smoking and health research programs were organized both separately by individual tobacco companies and jointly through their German trade organization. An extensive network o...

Economic Transition in Eastern Germany

ONLY A FEW months after the Berlin Wall came down in the fall of 1989, the West German government decided that it should establish a currency union with East Germany. I Shortly thereafter, the West and East German governments agreed to economic, monetary, and social union. By July 1991, the State Treaty, which formalized the union, came into force; by October, the German Democratic Republic cea...

Access to AIDS medicines stumbles on trade rules.

Deteriorating health satisfaction among immigrants from Eastern Europe to Germany

BACKGROUND: Migrants from Eastern Europe constitute more than 5% of Germany's population. Since population health in their countries of origin is poor their health status upon arrival may be worse than that of the native-born German population (hypothesis H1). As a minority, they may be socio-economically disadvantaged (H2), and their health status may deteriorate quickly (H3). METHODS: We comp...

Online Education: A Unique Opportunity for Cognitive Scientists to Integrate Research and Practice

That there is a rapid expansion of online education is much better understood than what its consequences will be. This symposium considers that one key feature of “real-world” education that takes place on the Internet is that it provides a high level of experimental control and automatic data collection & analysis, which can support cognitive science research that was previously only possible ...