Náboženská a církevně-správní situace na Chrudimsku v 18. století ve světle zpovědních výkazů by Ladislav Nekvapil

“…At the same time, it also investigates, from a temporal perspective, the causes of fluctuations of the numbers of non- Catholics, their activation (or activation of Evangelic emigration) as well as other factors influencing their survival and resistance in the folk environment in Bohemia. This also leads to the question of coexistence of Catholics and non-Catholics in rural settings. …”
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Observations on old Serbian terminology for iron mining and processing: Želězo and gvozdje by Loma Aleksandar B.

“…The word železník in this sense, apparently calqued on Middle High German îsensmit, is attested in Old Czech, wherefrom it appears to have spread to Slovenia (place name Železniki) and perhaps also to the medieval Serbia, where the development of mining can be traced back to the mid-thirteenth century owing to the German settlers (OSerb Sasi, ‘Saxons’); presumably a part of them originated from the Czech lands; at least their first settlement on the Serbian soil, Brskovo, seems to have been named after Brzkov in the mining district around Jihlava (Iglau), on the historical border between Bohemia and Moravia. The newcomers spoke Middle High German, but probably not without some Slavic admixtures based on the bilingualism that had taken hold in their native country. …”
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Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato infection in the Czech Republic by Roman Chlibek, Jan Smetana, Kateřina Kybicová, Martina Malikova, Frederick J. Angulo, Alexandra Loew-Baselli, Ye Tan, Aleš Ondřejíček, Gordon Brestrich, Andreas Pilz, Jennifer C. Moïsi, James H. Stark

“…The IgM/IgG prevalence was 7.8 % (6.5 −9.2 %) in Bohemia and 15.3 % (12.2 −19.0 %) in Moravia. There were an estimated 30,563 (26,550 −34,962) symptomatic incident Bbsl infections in adults in the Czech Republic in 2012, for an incidence of 352.2 (306.0 −402.9) symptomatic Bbsl infections per 100,000 adults per year. …”
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Diplomacy and Recruitment of Mercenaries before the Battle of Žalgiris by Sven Ekdahl

“…An arbitration had to be announced by King Venceslas of Bohemia on 9 February 1410 at the latest. In the meantime, in December 1409, Jagiello and Vytautas met at Brest-Litowsk in order to discuss and prepare a campaign against Prussia after the end of the armistice. …”
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The phosphorus negotiation game (P-Game): first evaluation of a serious game to support science-policy decision making played in more than 20 countries worldwide by Nils Haneklaus, Mary Kaggwa, Jane Misihairabgwi, Sherif Abu El-Magd, Naima Ahmadi, Jamal Ait Brahim, Aloyce Amasi, Andrea Balláné Kovács, Łukasz Bartela, Hajar Bellefqih, Redouane Beniazza, Jaroslav Bernas, Essaid Bilal, Tomislav Bituh, Yelizaveta Chernysh, Viktoriia Chubur, Jelena Ćirić, Claudia Dolezal, Andrea Figulová, Janja Filipi, Gordana Glavan, Tibor Guzsvinecz, László Horváth, Sasho Josimovski, Martin Kiselicki, Maja Lazarus, Maja Kazazić, István Komlósi, Ali Maged, Tebogo Mashifana, Gordana Medunić, Emina Mehić, Felhi Mongi, Kelvin Mtei, Dennis Mwalongo, Jerome Mwimanzi, Jakub Nowak, Oqba Basal, Khaoula Qamouche, Małgorzata Rajfur, Hynek Roubík, Mijalche Santa, Cecília Sik-Lányi, Maike Sippel, Gerald Steiner, Anna Skorek-Osikowska, Anton Slavov, Paweł Świsłowski, Ali Tlili, Kalina Trenevska-Blagoeva, Ivan Tschalakov, Tomáš Vlček, Stanisław Wacławek, Ivan Zlatanović, Matúš Mišík, Hendrik Brink, Tzong-Ru Lee

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