In this paper, I explore conditions that contribute to a rare outcome in ethnic party systems: the election of parties with moderate positions on interethnic relations. More specifically, I investigate why voters of the small, impoverished, and ethnically fragmented states of Bosnia and Macedonia, which share the same electoral system, chose parties with divergent positions on interethnic relat...

s from highly similar citation pairs from Republic of Macedonia are shown in the Figures 1-10 as they are analyzed by eTBLAST software and deposited in Déjà vu database. One of the highly similar citation pair (ID 32191) published update of the investigation about thalassemias and other hemoglobinopathies in Yugoslavia in 1992 and update of the similar investigation in the Republic of Macedonia...

An operational monitoring, as well as high resolution local-scale meteorological and air quality forecasting information system for Western Macedonia, Hellas, has been developed and is operated by the Laboratory of Atmospheric Pollution and Environmental Physics / TEI Western Macedonia since 2002, continuously improved. In this paper the novelty of information system is presented, in a dynamic,...

This Paper describes the design and development of an innovative Information system application that uses Google maps and GIS to record and present Natura 2000. For the pilot case study it was selected Natura 2000 in Central Macedonia, Greece. It constitutes a web application and can be expanded to record all Natura 2000 in Greece. It addresses to simple users which will have the opportunity to...

AIM To analyze and present epidemiological patterns of human brucellosis cases and the main factors for the appearance and spread of B. melitensis infection among animals and humans in R. Macedonia in the period from 1980 to 2009. METHODS Retrospective study based on the epidemiological reports and official data on brucellosis cases from the Institute for Public Health in Skopje and other ins...

AIM To present the phases and activities over the period of the existence and work of the Military Hospital in Skopje, from its establishment in 1944 to its transformation on 01.01.2010. METHODS A retrospective study based on available archive materials, encyclopaedias and other sources of information and review of the relevant literature, and personal experiences, observations and memories o...

Although Macedonia is among the top emigration countries in the world, and in spite of the fact that private transfers from abroad have covered more than 50% of the trade deficit in the last ten years, relatively little is known about the determinants of the remittances and their impact on the macroeconomic stability of the Macedonian economy. The purpose of our paper is to offer an econometric...

The diversity of vegetative compatibility (vc) types and mating type was estimated in populations of the chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, throughout Macedonia and from selected areas in Greece. Nearly all of the 786 isolates (94%) from Macedonia were in a single vc type, EU-12; all 379 isolates from Greece were EU-12. Only six of 20 populations in Macedonia had more than one vc...