Among all European countries, Germany absorbs by far the largest number of immigrants. But to date, German government has yet adopt a system that will effectively control influx foreigners. The immigration Ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe, which is due historical events and therefore constitutionally guaranteed, special case. It marked selection criteria (language tests), de facto quotas, mob...

A decision-maker is utility-sophisticated if he ranks acts according to their expected utility whenever such comparisons are meaningful. We characterize utility sophistication in cases in which probabilistic beliefs are not too imprecise, and show that in these cases utility-sophisticated preferences are completely determined by consequence utilities and event attitudes captured by preferences ...

1. Introduction Crime has been shown to exhibit marked variations over both space and time. Sherman (1989) reported that 3% of addresses are the subject of 50% of police call for service (Sherman, 1989 p.3). This is also the case with the temporal dimension; Van Koppen (1999) in his study of commercial robberies reported daily and weekly peaks and distinct increases in winter rather than in sum...

Determinants of Further Training: Evidence for Germany Based on a German representative sample of employees we explore the relevance and development of further training in private sector firms. We focus on formal training and explore possible individual and job-based determinants of its incidence. We also show changes over time during a 20 year observation period from 1989 to 2008. Most hypothe...

This study evaluates the temporal variability of the Antarctic surface mass balance, approximated as precipitation minus evaporation (P 2 E), and Southern Ocean precipitation in five global reanalyses during 1989–2009. The datasets consist of the NCEP/U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project 2 reanalysis (NCEP-2), the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) 25-year Re...

In the past the reallotment process has proven to affect the environmental conditions in the land development areas in a negative way. Over the last decades land development has gradually shifted from an instrument aimed at the improvement of an area in an agricultural way to a multi-functional instrument, in which more attention is paid to the possibilities to conserve and improve, e.g. ecolog...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 63, No. 4, 2015 (Libraries in a Postcommunist World: A Quarter of a Century of Development in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia: Part 2, edited by Hermina G.B. Anghelescu), pp. 704–724. © 2015 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract Slovakia is a young and progressive country that has undergone great changes since its establishment as a sovereign state. T...

arterial constriction combined with upper lobe blood diversion in the assessment of left ventricular failure, and went on to discuss the 'tubology' which should be recognised, and checked, on post-operative films. Paediatric Chest X-ray Interpretation, Dr. Raphael (National Heart Hospital) The neonatal chest radiograph should allow the Radiologist to answer two questions: Can pulmonary disease ...

Between the 1980s and late 1990s the Czech environmental movement has developed from two official national conservationist groups, which were recognized by the communist regime and which in their activities overlapped with more independent initiatives, into a complex network of diverse groups. Early in this past decade the standing of the environmental movement shifted from champions of democra...