The Erosion of Union Membership in Germany: Determinants, Densities, Decompositions Union density in Germany has declined remarkably during the last two decades. We estimate socio-economic and workplace-related determinants of union membership in East and West Germany using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel by means of ChamberlainMundlack correlated random effects probit models. Drawing...

The Employment of Mothers: Recent Developments and their Determinants in East and West Germany We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences disappear over time, and whether there are differences in the ...

Due to non-homogeneous spread of sunlight, sensing nodes possess non-uniform energy budget in rechargeable Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). An energy-aware workload distribution strategy is therefore necessary to achieve good data accuracy subject to energy-neutral operation. Our previously proposed Energy Aware Sparse approximation Technique (EAST) can approximate a signal, by adapting sensor ...

We present a case study where a concept vehicle is remodeled using a new systems modeling approach, the EAST ADL (Architecture Description Language). EAST ADL is a language for modeling and development of software based systems. The application domain is automotive software-based systems. The language has been developed within the project EAST-EEA by representatives of European automotive indus...

W.K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University, Hickory Corners, MI 49060, USA Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA Department of Mathematics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA Department of Earth and Environmental Sc...

This study evaluates and quantifies the variation in vegetation, plant nutrients, and microclimate across four topographic aspects in an Appalachian watershed (398399430N, 798459280W). The study found that the north and east aspects were 27–50% more productive than the west and southwest aspects. Species groups that showed strong aspect preference included yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera...

Data on radiocarbon (14C), 137Cs, 210Pb, and 241Am levels in an ombrotrophic peat sequence from a montane site on the east coast of Ireland are compared with data from a similar sequence at an Atlantic peatland site on the west coast. The 14C profiles from the west and east coasts show a broadly similar pattern. Levels increase from 100 pMC or less in the deepest horizons examined, to peak valu...

East Germany’s unemployment rate still doubles that of West Germany and for the last decade its economic growth has been below that of other transition countries. Policy makers often point to the lack of entrepreneurship as one of East Germany’s main problems. This paper addresses the question of how East Germany’s integration into an established economy, West Germany, may have hindered a fruit...