BACKGROUND Exploring cultural differences may improve understanding about the social processes underlying the stigmatisation of people with mental illness. AIMS To compare public beliefs and attitudes about schizophrenia in Central Europe and North Africa. METHOD Representative national population surveys conducted in Germany (2011) and in Tunisia (2012), using the same interview mode (face...

Abstract Previous cross-sectional studies highlight persistent East–West differences in gender ideologies after German reunification. This study examines the extent to which East and West have converged whether are still relevant for younger cohorts who experienced childhood around time of reunification, or 1989. Using data from Family Panel pairfam (2008–2019) regime-specific socialization thr...

The text provides a short summary of a representative survey on NDE in Germany that has been conducted in 1997-1998 which is the first of this kind in Europe. On the background of previous research on NDE, we are posing several problems which have been central to our investigation. These problems include: the assumption of a unified pattern of experience, of the universality of the pattern, of ...

  Introduction: This in-vitro study investigated the initial 24h bond strength between different composites and zirconia after application of four different adhesive systems. Methods: A total of 120 specimens of zirconia (InCoris, Sirona, Germany, Bernsheim) were ground with a 165 µm grit rotating diamond disc. Thirty specimens were each additionally treated with Cimara Zircon “CZ” (VOCO GmbH, ...

ABSTRACT This study examines the social, political, and fantasmatic logics involved in production of contemporary discourses about Scandinavia as a symbolic site imagined place sexual moral decay gender dysphoric dystopia by actors global anti-gender movement. Empirically, we draw on rich digital archive multi-modal media texts from an ongoing research project movements Russia Germany – two cou...

The benefits of anaerobic digestion (AD) of dairy manure vary from economic (reduced power costs/income from excess electricity/heat), to environmental (reduced greenhouse gas emissions, better control over field application of digestate) to social (through reduced odor during storage and application). However to realize these benefits economically, is the true challenge of AD, and a part of th...

Intergenerational Transmission of Educational Attainment in Germany: The Last Five Decades Over the last decades the German education system underwent numerous reforms in order to improve "equality of opportunity", i.e. to guarantee all pupils equal access to higher education. At the same time internationally comparative evidence yields that Germany features particularly low intergenerational m...

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How can a democratic culture develop among people who have lived for decades in an autocratic system? We examine this issue in the unified Germany, which provides a unique case, but for this very reason a particularly instructive one. German unification integrated two communities with a common history until the end of the Second World War. For a period of 50 years thereafter they lived in two d...