For the last decade, the East German economy has been suffering from high unemployment and low economic growth. 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 fruitful development of entrepreneurship and how this ma...

In this paper, I tackle the relat ionship between East and West from a cultural perspective.Though the difference is wide, they have in common a considerable number of social norms. Try ing to make a focuson how the West regards the East on the level of normal individuals, I analyse Kim Barnes’ novel “In the Kingdom of Men”. Her protagonists migrate from hometown ‘Oklahoma’ to ‘Saudi Arab ia’ o...

Results from a large-scale, capture–recapture study of humpback whales Megaptera novaeangliae in the North Atlantic show that migration timing is influenced by feeding ground origin. No significant differences were observed in the number of individuals from any feeding area that were re-sighted in the common breeding area in the West Indies. However, there was a relationship between the proport...

A main feature characterising the transition process of eastern Germany is the scope with which East-West migration took place before, during, and after the German reunification. Overall, 4 million individuals left East Germany to migrate to the west between 1989 and 2007 (gross migration). Taking into account West-East migration, cumulative net migration amounted to 1.7 million persons. This r...

German unification and the subsequent breakdown of economic activity in East Germany initiated enormous migration flows from East to West Germany. People from East Germany moved towards West Germany, where wages are higher and employment opportunities are more favourable. Our paper takes a somewhat broader perspective; it analyses migration flows between four macro regions, i.e. East, North, So...

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The sequences of the coat protein gene of a representative sample of 40 isolates of Rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) from 11 African countries were analysed. The overall level of nucleotide diversity was high (approximately 14%). Great geographical distances between the sites where isolates were collected were consistently associated with high genetic distances. In contrast, a wide range of gene...

Much research has been conducted to document and sometimes to provide proximate explanations (e.g., Confucianism vs. Western philosophy) for East–West cultural differences. The ultimate evolutionary mechanisms underlying these cross-cultural differences have not been addressed. We propose in this review that East–West cultural differences (e.g., independent versus interdependent self construal;...

Although larval supply is essential to the maintenance of many marine populations, relatively little is known about the processes influencing the supply of larvae to nearshore habitats. To measure the temporal and spatial patterns of larval supply to the island of Barbados, West lndies, an array of light traps was deployed at 3 sites along the west coast for 2 spring recruitment seasons (1991-9...