Environment in the Western Balkan Region is determined by the stage of development, economic structure, burdens of war destruction, stage in approaching and joining the EU and the limits of support. Industrial emissions, mining activities, and the communal waste burdening are key issues among environmental damages in the region which has very dangerous transboundary impact as well. Bilateral in...

The participants in this study of young children’s social identity in the border region of Ireland, reside in several areas along both sides of the border separating Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The settings ranged between pre-school (3/4 years) and 6/7 years. The key criterion for selection of the participants was that they crossed the border to avail of, mainly, educational/c...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the precise species of tick vector and the Borrelia spirochete pathogen at the Heilongjiang Province international border with Russia. METHODS In this study, ticks were collected from 12 Heilongjiang border crossings (including grasslands, shrublands, forests, and plantantions) to determine the rate and species type of spirochete-infected ticks and the most prevalent ...

Psychiatry is unique in medicine in being on the border between science and the humanities. Science provides insight into the 'causes' of a problem, enabling us to formulate an 'explanation', while the humanities provide insight into its 'meanings' and helps with our 'understanding'. The new interdisciplinary field of 'philosophy of psychiatry' has developed to explore the range of issues relev...