In post-unification Germany, lingering conflicts between East and West Germans have found some unusual outlets, including a debate of the relative superiority of East and West German 'Ampelmännchen' pedestrian traffic signs. In our study, we probed the visual efficacy of East and West German Ampelmännchen signs with a Stroop-like conflict task. We found that the distinctive East German man-with...

Christopher Reithmann1*, Britt-Maria Beckmann2, and Stefan Kääb2 Medizinische Klinik I, Helios Klinikum München-West, Akademisches Lehrkrankenhaus der Universität München, Steinerweg 5, 81241 München, Germany; and Medizinische Klinik I, Klinikum Grosshadern, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site Munich Heart Alliance, Munich, Germ...

Adult females of two invasive species, Aedes albopictus and Aedes japonicus japonicus, were collected for the first time in July and August 2011 in Germany. Previously, only immature stages of these species had been found in the country. Repeated detection of these species reveals the Upper Rhine Valley in south-west Germany to be a particularly sensitive region for the introduction and establi...

Between 1 June and 31 December 2016, 13,023 blood donations from the University Hospital Aachen in Germany were routinely screened for West Nile virus (WNV) RNA using the cobas TaqScreen WNV Test. On 28 September 2016, one blood donor was tested positive. Subsequent analysis revealed an acute Usutu virus (USUV) infection. During the ongoing USUV epizootics in Germany, blood transfusion services...

One condition for the stability of democratic systems is the development of a political culture that is congruent with the implemented structure. As the presented data shows, in unified Germany this kind of congruence exists only in West Germany. In East Germany a majority of citizens is supporting democracy as well, but have a rather skeptical attitude toward the liberal democracy of Germany. ...

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...

Teenage Pregnancies and Births in Germany: Patterns and Developments We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) and from the German Mikrozensus. Following the international literature we derive hypotheses on the patterns of teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teena...

N. R. Badnell,1,* K. Spruck,2,3 C. Krantz,3 O. Novotný,4 A. Becker,3 D. Bernhardt,2 M. Grieser,3 M. Hahn,4 R. Repnow,3 D. W. Savin,4 A. Wolf,3 A. Müller,2 and S. Schippers2,5 1Department of Physics, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G4 0NG, United Kingdom 2Institut für Atomund Molekülphysik, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Leihgesterner Weg 217, 35392 Giessen, Germany 3Max-Planck-Institut fü...

In several studies, hedonic methods have been used successfully for the ex post assessment of the accuracy of inflation measurement. Most of these studies relate to high-tech products, with respect to which traditional methods of compiling price indices often fail. We apply hedonic methods to rental housing services, which display less quality progress. However, as German households spend about...