Between Technological Innovation and Pagan Tradition: The Representation of Lithuania in Contemporary German Travel Literature by Aleksej Burov, Tomas Vytautas Kotovičius

“…Lithuania’s geographic location is tied not to Eastern or Northern Europe, but rather to Central Europe. …”
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BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT - THE CASE OF WESTERN BALKAN COUNTRIES by Zijad Džafić

“…Many evidence from the countries of central Europe show that the development of SMEs and entrepreneurship is a key factor for a successful transformation from command to market based economy in WBCs. …”
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Application of the ESRI Geostatistical Analyst for Determining the Adequacy and Sample Size Requirements of Ozone Distribution Models in the Carpathian and Sierra Nevada Mountains by Witold Fraczek, Andrzej Bytnerowicz, Michael J. Arbaugh

“…Models of O3 distribution in two mountain ranges, the Carpathians in Central Europe and the Sierra Nevada in California were constructed using ArcGIS Geostatistical Analyst extension (ESRI, Redlands, CA) using kriging and cokriging methods. …”
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Where the wild things are...stored? The management and return of seized wildlife by Anna Saito

“…By using multiple methods including documentary analysis, seizure data analysis and key informant interviews, this study examines seizure management in four countries: Kenya and Uganda in East Africa and Germany and Czech Republic in Central Europe. Wildlife continues to be treated in many instances even after seizure on the basis of continued commodification, or enters a transient state of simultaneous commodification and decommodification, which influences seizure management framing and implementation. …”
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BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT - THE CASE OF WESTERN BALKAN COUNTRIES by Zijad Džafić

“…Many evidence from the countries of central Europe show that the development of SMEs and entrepreneurship is a key factor for a successful transformation from command to market based economy in WBCs. …”
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Dedolomitization Potential of Fluids from Gypsum-to-Anhydrite Conversion: Mass Balance Constraints from the Late Permian Zechstein-2-Carbonates in NW Germany by M. Hallenberger, L. Reuning, J. Schoenherr

“…The Zechstein-2-Carbonates represent one of the most prolific hydrocarbon systems of Central Europe. Carbonate reservoir quality is primarily controlled by mineralogy, with dolomite representing moderate-to-good porosities and calcite commonly representing low porosities. …”
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The Benefit of Biodiversity – Polemic View of Environmental, Social and Ethical Aspects of Czech Philosophers and Environmentalists by Jan Lípa, Ladislav Rozenský, Petr Ondrušák, Josef Dolista

“… This text will deal with the issue of the benefit of biodiversity in the polemic context of the works of Czech and Central European philosophers and environmentalists with the essential ideas of selected world thinkers and with environmental practice in Central Europe. To validate this thesis, the authors of this work chose an essay dealing with professional monographs and professional articles on this topic, focusing on the continuity of ideas of the authors of the Central European region. …”
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The extraction of synoptic patterns, and monitoring the origin and pathway of dust storms; Case study: Ardabil province, Iran by Behrouz Sobhani, Mehdi Aalijahan

“…Pattern No. 1 and 2 are almost similar to each other and represent the occurrence of a deep trough that formed from Central Europe and extended to the middle of the Red Sea. …”
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Monitoring of Ozone Risk for Forests in the Czech Republic: Preliminary Results by Vít Šrámek, Radek Novotný, Emilie Bednárová, Hana Uhlírová

“…Ozone (O3) is supposed to represent a significant risk for the health of forest ecosystems in Central Europe. So far, however, its impact on stands growing under natural conditions has not been clearly proved. …”
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Analysis and Discussion of Atmospheric Precursor of European Heat Summers by Christine Träger-Chatterjee, Richard W. Müller, Jörg Bendix

“…However, inspection of the geopotential at 850 hPa shows that a Greenland-North Sea-Dipole is connected with extreme summers in Central Europe. This motivated the introduction of the novel Greenland-North Sea-Dipole-Index, GNDI. …”
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Attributing the effects of climate change and forest disturbance on runoff using distributed modeling and indicators of hydrological alteration in Central European montane basins by Jakub Langhammer, Jana Bernsteinová

“…Study region: Eight unregulated basins in the headwaters of five mid-latitude mountain ranges in Central Europe, including the Šumava Mts. (Vydra, Blanice), Krkonoše (Mumlava, Úpa), Orlické Mts. …”
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Temperature and Host Fruit During Immature Development Shape Adult Life History Traits of Different <i>Ceratitis capitata</i> Populations by Georgia D. Papadogiorgou, Nikos T. Papadopoulos

“…This study examines how developmental temperature and host fruit type affect adult longevity and fecundity in medflies from six populations spanning Southern to Central Europe. Larvae were reared on apples and bitter oranges at three constant temperatures (15, 20, and 25 °C), with pupae maintained under the same thermal conditions until adult emergence. …”
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The Late Permian Kupferschiefer Fossils and the Geological Educational Trail in the UNESCO Global Geopark TERRA.vita (NW Germany) by Tobias Fischer, Lothar Schöllmann, Johannes Haunert

“…The iconic Kupferschiefer is a stratigraphic marker horizon of the Upper Permian in Northern and Central Europe, which is recognized internationally as a unique stratum because of its outstanding preservation of fish, reptile, and plant fossils. …”
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Examining Gravettian and Magdalenian mobility and technological organization with IR spectroscopy by Benjamin Schürch, Nicholas J. Conard, Patrick Schmidt

“…Several studies have used macroscopic analyses to propose the long-distance transport of raw material during the Gravettian and the Magdalenian of the Swabian Jura in Central Europe. Until now hypotheses about raw material transport in this region were not based on reproducible analyses. …”
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Acute Coronary Syndrome as an Unusual Initial Presentation of T-Prolymphocytic Leukemia: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Christian R. Klein, Felix Jansen, Peter Brossart, Marco Herling, Georg Feldmann

“…T-prolymphocytic leukaemia (T-PLL) is the most common mature T-cell leukaemia in Central Europe and is often manifested by rapidly increasing lymphocytosis, marked bone marrow infiltration and splenomegaly. …”
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Jan Václav Michna z Vacínova a emblematická výzdoba kostela sv. Jakuba Většího v Kratonohách by Pavel Panoch

“…The pulpit in the form of the sea monster belongs to the group of so called Naturkanzeln imitating nature and it is probably the first known example of this topic in Central Europe. The architecture of the main altar was inspired by the image of the sepulchre of St. …”
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Information needs research in Russia and Lithuania, 1965-2003 by Elena Maceviciute

“…The invisibility of research on information needs from the East and Central Europe in the West suggested an exploration of the published research output from Lithuania and Russia from 1965 to 2003.…”
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Understanding the spread of agriculture in the Western Mediterranean (6th-3rd millennia BC) with Machine Learning tools by Maria Elena Castiello, Emmanuele Russo, Héctor Martínez-Grau, Ana Jesus, Georgina Prats, Ferran Antolín

“…While farming practices and settlements in the Western Mediterranean differ greatly from those known in the Eastern Mediterranean and central Europe, the extent to which these differences are connected to the local environment and climate is unclear. …”
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Issues of arms control in transatlantic relations (1963–1975) by V. A. Veselov

“…This article examines three cases related to the deliberations between NATO allies on the prohibition of nuclear weapons tests, the preparation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, and negotiations on the mutual reduction of armed forces and conventional armaments in Central Europe. The study shows that though the United States had the final say in developing solutions to arms control problems in all three cases, the positions of its NATO allies significantly affected both the course of the negotiation and the content of the agreements. …”
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Learning from Large-Scale Wearable Device Data for Predicting the Epidemic Trend of COVID-19 by Guokang Zhu, Jia Li, Zi Meng, Yi Yu, Yanan Li, Xiao Tang, Yuling Dong, Guangxin Sun, Rui Zhou, Hui Wang, Kongqiao Wang, Wang Huang

“…., North China, Central China, South China, and South-Central Europe. The anonymised sensor data from approximately 1.3 million wearable device users are used for model verification. …”
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