MONA HOPPENRATH*, MARINA SELINA, AIKA YAMAGUCHI AND BRIAN LEANDER Senckenberg Research Institute, German Centre for Marine Biodiversity Research, Südstrand 44, D-26382 Wilhelmshaven, Germany A. V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology FEB RAS, Far Eastern Federal University,Vladivostok 690041, Russia University of British Columbia, Departments of Botany and Zoology, #3529-6270 University Boule...

Levipalatum texanum n. gen., n. sp. (Nematoda: Diplogastridae), an androdioecious species from the south-eastern USA Erik J. RAGSDALE 1, Natsumi KANZAKI 2 and Ralf J. SOMMER 1,∗ 1 Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Spemannstraße 37, Tübingen, Germany 2 Forest Pathology Laboratory, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, 1 Matsunosato, Ts...

Human hantavirus disease cases, caused by Puumala virus (PUUV), are mainly recorded in western and southern areas of Germany. This bank vole reservoir survey confirmed PUUV presence in these regions but its absence in northern and eastern regions. PUUV occurrence is associated with the presence of the Western bank vole phylogroup.

It is often assumed that cohabitation is much less stable than marriage. If cohabitation becomes more common among parents, children may be increasingly exposed to separation. However, little is known about how the proportion of cohabiting parents relates to their separation behavior. Higher shares of childbearing within cohabitation might reduce the proportion of negatively selected couples am...

1 Institute of Clinical Medicine-Neurology, University of Eastern Finland, 70210 Kuopio, Finland 2Neurology, Neurocenter, University Hospital of Kuopio, 70210 Kuopio, Finland 3Instituto de Biof́ısica Carlos Chagas Filho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 21941-902 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 4D’Or Institute of Research and Education, 22281-100 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 5Fraunhofer Research I...

The German unī cation process imposed a signī cant price-cost squeeze on eastern ̄rms. Important technology di®erences between the East and the West generated high pressures on the competitive position of eastern manufacturing ̄rms when product and factor markets integration took place. In order to avoid mayor employment and output costs, the government subsidized eastern ̄rms. A similar proces...

Ingwald Obernberger, Graz University of Technology, Austria Friedrich Biedermann, Thomas Brunner, Bioenergy 2020+ GmbH, Austria Olli Sippula, Jorma Jokiniemi, University of Eastern Finland Christoffer Boman, Umeå University, Sweden Fredrik Niklasson, Linda Bäfver, SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden Hans Hartmann, Technology and Support Centre of Renewable Raw Materials, Germany John Finn...

BACKGROUND We analyzed changes in smoking by length of stay among immigrants in Germany and related them to the "smoking epidemic" model and the acculturation theory. METHODS We used data from a longitudinal survey (German Socio-economic Panel). Immigrants were identified by country of birth (Turkey: respondents n = 828, observations n = 3871; Eastern Europe: respondents n = 2009, observation...

Europe is reorganizing its international value chain. I document these changes in Europe's international organization of production with new survey data of Austrian and German firms investing in Eastern Europe. I show estimates of the share of intra-firm trade between Austria and Germany on the one hand and Eastern Europe on the other. Furthermore, I present empirical evidence of the drivers of...

OBJECTIVE To describe regional differences between eastern and western Germany with regard to food, nutrient and supplement intake in 9-12-year-old children, and analyse its association with parental education and equivalent income. DESIGN Data were obtained from the 10-year follow-up of the two prospective birth cohort studies - GINIplus and LISAplus. Data on food consumption and supplement ...