Terraced landscapes in Slovakia

Evolution dynamics in terraced NK landscapes

We consider populations of agents evolving in the fitness landscape of an extended NK model with a tunable amount of neutrality. We study the statistics of the jumps in mean population fitness which occur in the ‘punctuated equilibrium’ regime and show that, for a wide range of landscapes parameters, the number of events in time t is Poisson distributed, with the time parameter replaced by the ...

Territorial Analysis of the Agricultural Terraced Landscapes of Tuscany (Italy): Preliminary Results

Terraced areas have existed in Italy since ancient times, and they continue to be characteristic elements of the cultural identity of the country. The progressive abandonment of rural areas and farmland that began in the 1960s has led to the disintegration and disappearance of many terraces, representing one of the problems connected with the deterioration of the historic Tuscan agricultural la...

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...

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