1Global Energy Systems, Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, Villavägen 16, 752 36 Uppsala, Sweden 2Moscow School of Economics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia 3Faculty of Economics, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia 4The International College of Economics and Finance, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia 5Post Peak Living, San Francisco, CA, USA 6Management ...

Linguistic factors played a significant role in the origin and spread of accusations of witchcraft in Early Modern Spain. The preoccupation with witches’ words is at its root a preoccupation about the power of speech and, to a great extent, of female speech. Studies in some Early European countries have connected aggressive female speech styles with accusations of witchcraft, and this article o...

In this article I investigate whether the presence of structural breaks affects inference on the order of integration in univariate time series. For this purpose, we make use of a version of the tests of Robinson (1994) which allows us to test unit and fractional roots in the presence of deterministic changes. Several Monte Carlo experiments conducted across the paper show that the tests perfor...

OBJECTIVES In view of the sharp increase in the number of dentists in Spain, the aim of the present study was to analyse changes in the private dentist workload in Spain over the period 1987-97. METHODS Data were taken from censuses of the population and of dental practitioners, and from the Spanish National Health Interview Surveys. The percentage of people that had visited the dentist in th...

The relationships between the fruit features of Juniperus communis and the presence of fruit pests were studied in Sierra Nevada, SE Spain. The abundance of two insect species a pulp-sucking scale and a seed-predator wasp was surveyed with respect both to fruit characteristics and to viability of seeds contained therein. Seed-predator pressure was not significantly related to any fruit characte...

T. K. Yamada,1,2 R. Robles,3 E. Martinez,4 M. M. J. Bischoff,2 A. Vega,4 A. L. Vázquez de Parga,5 T. Mizoguchi,1 and H. van Kempen2 1Faculty of Science, Gakushuin University, 171-8588 Mejiro, Tokyo, Japan 2Institute for Molecules and Materials, Radboud University Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands 3Department of Physics, Uppsala University, SE-75121, Uppsala, Sweden 4De...

background: free-living amoebae (fla) are group of protozoa distributed worldwide in many habitats mainly water and soil related sources. some members of fla are able to act as opportunistic pathogens and are environmental carriers of other pathogenic agents such as bacteria and viruses. vermamoeba vermiformis is a highly abundant fla species in water bodies and has recently gained environmenta...

M. Silaev,1,2 P. Virtanen,1 T. T. Heikkilä,3 and F. S. Bergeret4,5,6 1O.V. Lounasmaa Laboratory, P.O. Box 15100, FI-00076 Aalto University, Finland 2Department of Theoretical Physics, The Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm SE-10691, Sweden 3Department of Physics and Nanoscience Center, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35 (YFL), FI-40014 University of Jyväskylä, Finland 4Centro de Fı́sica ...

Adresa za dopisivanje Manuel Monterde Catholic University of Valencia Department of Endodontics Valencia, Spain [email protected] Sažetak Svrha: Željelo se usporediti tehnike punjenja kanala – od lateralne kondenzacije do ostalih tehnika kondenzacije punila koje uključuju fizičke (temperatura: Soft-Core®, Obtura II®) i kemijske promjene (condensation: Guttaflow®, Resilon®) te njihov kon...