Interesting Notes from Europe.

SOME INTERESTING AGARICS FROM IRAN

An account of nine Agarics, namely, Macrolepiota procera, M. rhacodes. Lepiota leprica, L. holospilota, Coprinus comatus, C. plicatilis, C. scobicola, C. disseminatus and C. flocculosus, were collected from different localities that is Noor city of Mazandaran, Maragheh city of East Azarbaijan and Karaj and Varamin cities of Tehran province are described in details. Species namely Lepiota lepric...

Notes Tsunamis and Earthquakes: What Physics Is Interesting?

Tsunamis present a wonderful opportunity to explain physics at work. Instructors can enrich a physics with a topic that can catch the students' attention as as convey some very nice ideas, many of which are Regrettably, fluid dynamics is not well covered physics curricula, but the ideas have natural !IIDC~cti1:>ns to basic conservation Jaws, optics, and quantum a;nam1~s. They can also be used t...

Contrast Mining from Interesting Subgroups

Subgroup discovery methods find interesting subsets of objects of a given class. We propose to extend subgroup discovery by a second subgroup discovery step to find interesting subgroups of objects specific for a class in one or more contrast classes. First, a subgroup discovery method is applied. Then, contrast classes of objects are defined by using set theoretic functions on the discovered s...

Editorial Guidance Notes Britain in Europe and Europe in Britain: the Europeanisation of British Politics? Introduction

Notes and Comments Party System Volatility in Post-Communist Europe

In their 2014 article in the British Journal of Political Science, Eleanor Neff Powell and Joshua A. Tucker examine the determinants of party system volatility in post-communist Europe. Their central conclusion is that replacement volatility – volatility caused by new party entry and old party exit – is driven by long-term economic performance. This article shows that this conclusion is based e...