For the past 45 years GerrtU.Jny has lwd two health care systems: one in the former Federal Republic of Germany and one in the former German Democratic Republic. The system in the Federal Republic was undergoing some imponant reforms when German reunification took place in October 1990. Now the system in eastern Germany is undergoing a major transformation to bring it more into line with that i...

Sea-to-air and diapycnal nitrous oxide fluxes in the eastern tropical North Atlantic Ocean A. Kock, J. Schafstall, M. Dengler, P. Brandt, and H. W. Bange Forschungsbereich Marine Biogeochemie, IFM-GEOMAR, Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften, Düsternbrooker Weg 20, 24105 Kiel, Germany Forschungsbereich Ozeanzirkulation und Klimadynamik, IFM-GEOMAR, Leibniz-Institut für Meereswissenschaften...

Ethnic German Immigration from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to Germany: the Effects of Migrant Networks This paper employed a widely accepted theoretical concept, the ‘theory of migrant networks’ to look at the recent immigration and absorption experience of ethnic Germans (Aussiedler) from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union in Germany. Consistent with network theory, the ...

Due to legislative protection, many species, including large carnivores, are currently recolonizing Europe. To address the impending human-wildlife conflicts in advance, predictive habitat models can be used to determine potentially suitable habitat and areas likely to be recolonized. As field data are often limited, quantitative rule based models or the extrapolation of results from other stud...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to quantify progress towards measles elimination in Germany from 2007 to 2011 and to estimate any potential underreporting over this period. METHODS We determined the annual incidence of notified cases of measles - for each year - in northern, western, eastern and southern Germany and across the whole country. We then used measles-related health insurance claims to estimate...

We estimate mortality rates by a measure of socio-economic status in a very large sample of male German pensioners aged 65 or older. Our analysis is entirely nonparametric. Furthermore, the data enable us to compare mortality experiences in eastern and western Germany conditional on socio-economic status. As a simple summary measure, we compute period life expectancies at age 65. Our findings s...

AIMS We examined the geographic variations in InTIME-II, a randomized double-blind trial comparing alteplase with lanoteplase for myocardial infarction. METHODS AND RESULTS We compared baseline characteristics, management, and outcomes in four regions (Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, and Latin America) and in countries with historically different management approaches (Germany ...

Distribution and origin of ozone in the eastern Mediterranean free troposphere during MINOS (August 2001) G.-J. Roelofs, B. Scheeren , J. Heland, H. Ziereis, and J. Lelieveld Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, Utrecht University, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Deutsches Zentrum für Luftund Raumfahrt, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany Max Planck Institute...