Researchers I met in Europe

I-35: Europe: Declining Fertility Despite IVF

Although fertility rates are falling in many countries, Europe is the continent with the lowest. As men and women choose to have fewer children, total fertility rates in Europe have fallen below replacement levels: for a total fertility rate of 1.5, the rate is around 1.7 children per woman for the cohorts born in 1965. This is due to individual decisions arising from the instability of modern ...

I I - Mesolithic Europe

APE - Academic Publishing in Europe: Researchers, Librarians and Publishers

Dr. Karl-Peter Winters (German Association of Publishers and Booksellers, Frankfurt, Germany) opened the Fifth International Conference on Academic Publishing in Europe (APE 2010) “Researchers, Librarians and Publishers”. Dr. Winters highlighted that 2009 was yet another important year in the transition to digital publishing, with the topics of reading devices and content carriers gaining more ...

Screening Evaluation System--Europe (SESy_Europe) met skin cancer screening.

Skin tumors are the most frequent malignancies in the white population worldwide and have reached the proportion of an epidemic disease. Since non-melanocytic skin cancers can be cured when timely detected, given that still malignant melanoma may have good prognosis if early diagnosed, and considering the key role of primary care in cancer screening advising and implementation, the internationa...

How Europe Rediscovered its History and Met Resistance

Reurbanisation and the pursuit of more compact settlement structures are only just starting to become mainstream vocabulary in the USA and Australia, and have probably been driven by market mechanisms rather than a rigorously promoted planning paradigm. In Europe, the situation is starkly different. Similar to their New World counterparts, many European cities experienced rapid suburban expansi...