While regional mortality inequalities in Germany tend to be relatively stable in the short run, over the course of the past century marked changes have occurred in the country's regional mortality patterns. These changes include not only the re-emergence of stark differences between eastern and western Germany after 1970, which have almost disappeared again in the decades after the reunificatio...

Europe is reorganizing its international value chain. I document these changes in Europe’s international organization of production with new survey data of Austrian and German firms investing in Eastern Europe. I show estimates of the share of intrafirm trade between Austria or Germany on the one hand and Eastern Europe on the other. Furthermore, I present empirical evidence of the drivers of t...

A 12 year-old boy in Germany developed urinary schistosomiasis in January 2014. He had bathed in rivers in south-eastern Corsica five months earlier. Before this case, human schistomiasis had not been reported on the island, although its vector, the snail Bulinus truncatus, locally transmitted the zoonotic Schistosoma bovis. The boy’s father excreted S. haematobium ova that were not viable; the...

States in south-eastern Brazil were recently affected by the largest Yellow Fever (YF) outbreak seen in a decade in Latin America. Here we provide a quantitative assessment of the risk of travel-related international spread of YF indicating that the United States, Argentina, Uruguay, Spain, Italy and Germany may have received at least one travel-related YF case capable of seeding local transmis...

A. Sinelnikova, ∗ A. J. Niemi, 1, 3, 4, † Johan Nilsson, ‡ and M. Ulybyshev § Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala University, P.O. Box 516, S-75120, Uppsala, Sweden Nordita, Stockholm University, Roslagstullsbacken 23, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden Laboratory of Physics of Living Matter, School of Biomedicine, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia Department of Physics, Bei...

Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 3 Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, Division of Interventional Cognitive Neurology, Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, Department of Psychology, Institute of Behavioral Sciences, ...

The pancreatic amylase (AMY2, E.C. 3.2.1.1) polymorphism has been studied in 2346 individuals from south-central and south-eastern Bulgaria. The allele frequencies have been determined as AMY2*1 = 0.9520 and AMY2*2 = 0.0480. The neighbor joining tree of seven subpopulations revealed only small genetic distances. Compared with other populations, the Bulgarian sample clustered with samples from R...

The transition from a bipolar to post-bipolar system of international relations and the reunification FRG GDR in 1990 marked beginning new stage history Germany. article examines period transformation adaptation foreign policy reunited Germany realities world order. purpose this study is analyze main directions German during chancellorship Helmut Kohl. At that time it was important for strength...