The online activity of Internet users has repeatedly been shown to provide a rich information set for various research fields. We focus on job-related searches on Google and their possible usefulness in the region of the Visegrad Group--the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. Even for rather small economies, the online searches of inhabitants can be successfully utilized for macroecon...

The reported incidence of vector-borne diseases including various cases of Rickettsioses in humans is increasing due to a combination of climatic and social factors, escalating the opportunities for contact between people and ticks, fleas or lice. Many of the emerging infectious diseases currently challenging human health in Europe are transmitted by ticks which normally feed on domestic or wil...

This preliminary communication presents the first record of predaceous thrips Scolothrips longicornis Priesner, 1926 (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) in Slovakia. As a well known predator of numerous spider mites, e.g. Tetranychus urticae or Eutetranychus orientalis it has been considered as a suitable biological control agent recently. Tetranychids mites are harmful agriculture pests, causing damage ...

While familial cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease are extremely rare all over the world, 3 familial clusters were observed between 1983-2000 in a relatively small area situated in the North of Slovakia. Prevalence of CJD in this area exceeded the overall prevalence in Slovakia more than 8 times. The majority of CJD patients admitted consuming sheep brain. Most patients lived in small secluded v...

This paper uses remote sensing data from 1989 to 2000 to examine the impacts of price liberalization, land tenure, and biophysical characteristics on farmland abandonment in the border region of Poland, Slovakia, and Ukraine. Using regression analysis and matching estimators, we find that differences in biophysical characteristics, rather than in tenure systems, best explain the variation in ab...

Petr Lazar,1,* Tomáš Bučko,2,3,† and Jürgen Hafner4 1Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Palacky University Olomouc, Tr. 17. Listopadu 12, 771 46 Olomouc, Czech Republic 2Department of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Ilkovičova 6, SK-84215 Bratislava, Slo...

1 Department of Physics, National Institute of Technology, 620 0015 Tiruchirappalli, India 2 DCMPMS, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, 400 005 Mumbai, India 3 Department of Physics, Periyar University, 636 011 Salem, India 4 Laboratory of Crystallography, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland 5 Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland...

Focused on dubbing and subtitling, the aim of the proposed article is to cover relevant matters of audiovisual translation theory and practice in 21st century Slovakia and to discuss the reality of the professional milieu and its broader sociocultural consequences in Slovakia. This might support an increase in the quality of translated products and emphasise the importance of further academic r...

Hydrological drought is defined by long-term decrease in levels and flows of water bodies. The task of this paper is to analyze and identify statistical trends of low flows in streams in the eastern Slovakia. Methodology for evaluating hydrological drought is based on statistical analysis of observed low stream flows at chosen river stations – annual and seasonal. Mann-Kendall statistical test ...

2nd ECS Workshop 2009 Annexins, targets and calcium-binding proteins in pathology June 3–6, 2009, Smolenice, Slovakia