Implication of the endogenous midgut microbiota on cell genotoxicity and biological fitness of Culex pipiens complex (Diptera: Culicidae) by Alaa Fouaad, Nagwa A. Rashdan, Refaat M. Gabre, Emtithal M. Abdel-Samie

“…Furthermore, it is a native in Europe, Asia and Africa. Results The current study aimed to find a new mosquito biocontrol agents through using the isolated endogenous midgut microbiota, Atlantibacter hermannii, Klebsiella sp. and Enterobacter cloacae, that were isolated from Culex pipiens complex females’ gut. …”
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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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ENERGY DIPLOMACY OF TURKEY by V. Ozdemir, I. A. Guliyev

“…Turkey made efforts to position as an alternative gas supply route, taking advantage of concern about increasing Europe's dependence on Russian exports. Last years Turkey has set itself the important task - to turn from transit country into a regional gas hub. …”
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OUTSOURCING IN RETAIL by Radojko Lukić

“…In the future, because of its economic importance, outsourcing will certainly be more applied in the retail sector of respective countries, with the expectation of a growing trend at approximately the same level as it is in developed countries in Europe and America. …”
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Regionalisation of the Republic of Slovenia by Stane Vlaj

“…The paper confronts this project with international criteria and standards as well as with some cases of regionalisation in the European Union (EU) and in the Council of Europe (CE) member states. The author recognises that in almost all CE member states, far-reaching reforms of regional authorities have been completed, are in progress or are planned for the years ahead. …”
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Micropower Impulse Radar: A Novel Technology for Rapid, Real-Time Detection of Pneumothorax by Phillip D. Levy, Tracey Wielinski, Alan Greszler

“…It is has the CE Mark and is available for sale in Europe. Post market studies are planned starting in May of 2011. …”
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INTERNATIONAL CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS: ESTABLISHMENT, DEVELOPMENT AND FEATURES OF FUNCTIONING by Петро ПІДСАДНЮК

“…With the help of an interdisciplinary approach, it was possible to identify the historical background of the origin of the phenomenon of selfless human activity, a systematic political and legal analysis of international and domestic legislation helped to identify the peculiarities of the functioning of international charitable organizations in the United States, Europe and Ukraine, and a generalization of the obtained results crystallized the foundations and features of their direct involvement in problem areas. …”
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Research of defects of hot-rolled steel having rolling nature of formation of the rolling shop no. 1 of rolling mill 850 at OJSC «BSW – Management Company of Holding «BMC» by I. A. Kovaleva, Yu. A. Potapenko

“…Rolling is the final stage of the metallurgical cycle and has a great influence on the quantity and quality of products, as well as on various technological and economic indicators of the plant.The OJSC « BSW – Management Company of Holding «BMC» is working on the development and supply of hot-rolled round products for the automotive industry in Western Europe.The increasing requirements for the quality of the surface of hot-rolled steel are a powerful incentive to improve the technology of its production, which is impossible without the use of modern methods of control and proper identification of detected defects.The article presents the results of the study of defects of hot-rolled products of rolling mill № 1 850, having the rolling nature of formation.Metallographic study was conducted on the basis of: visual inspection of defects, in some cases with the preparation of a template for the study of macrostructure and location of defects; analysis of images of the microstructure of the cross section of the sample in the area of defects. …”
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Establishment of political and diplomatic relations between Lithuania and France in 1918-1920: Exchange of mistrust by Vilma Bukaitė

“…After the areas of interest in Europe had been divided among the great powers, Great Britain became prevalent in the Baltic states. …”
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Survival feature and trend of female breast cancer: A comprehensive review of survival analysis from cancer registration data by Dan-Dan Tang, Zhuo-Jun Ye, Wan-Wan Liu, Jing Wu, Jing-Yu Tan, Yan Zhang, Qun Xu, Yong-Bing Xiang

“…Overall, North America and Oceania had the best survival, and, for Europe, survival was worst in Eastern Europe. The survival in some Asian countries was disturbing. …”
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Global human exposure of atmospheric polybrominated diphenyl ethers: Variation patterns of exposure pathways and phase contributions by Pengtuan Hu, Shimin Zhong, Jin Guo, Mengyao Wang, Shiyu Shi, Donghai Liu, Hao Yu, Fujie Zhu, Yi-Fan Li, Zhiguo Cao

“…The highest daily intake was found in Africa (75.4 pg/(kg·day)), followed by Asia (21.8 pg/(kg·day)), North America (5.38 pg/(kg·day)) and Europe (1.92 pg/(kg·day)). Inhalation pathways dominated human exposure to atmospheric PBDEs. …”
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The authority of the printed word in the Lithuanian village of the XIX century by Džiuljeta Maskoliūnienė

“…Despite obvious unfavorable circumstances, which emerged in Lithuania in the 19th century as well as in Western Europe, both society and culture started to democratize. …”
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Les textiles dans les tombes gauloises à dépôt de crémation en vase métallique : usages pratiques, mises en scène et perspectives anthropologiques (seconde moitié du vie s.-ve s. a... by Elsa Desplanques

“…BC, across an immense geographical area, covering part of present-day Europe, from Scandinavia to Cyprus and Western to Central Europe. …”
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A Data-Driven Air Transportation Delay Propagation Model Using Epidemic Process Models by B. Baspinar, E. Koyuncu

“…In network model construction, we have utilized historical flight-track data of Europe and performed analysis for certain days involving certain disturbances. …”
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No longer euroskeptics: the evolution of the strategy of «Brothers of Italy» by Maria O. Shibkova, Alena I. Nebyanskaya

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High-resolution isotope dietary analysis of Mesolithic and Neolithic humans from Franchthi Cave, Greece. by Valentina Martinoia, Anastasia Papathanasiou, Sahra Talamo, Rebecca MacDonald, Michael P Richards

“…Franchthi Cave, in the Greek Peloponnese, is a well-known Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic site, with several human burials. In many parts of Europe there is clear evidence from archaeological and isotopic studies for a diet change between the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods. …”
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Analysis of the sexual dimorphism of metric variables of the cranial base: Archaeo-anthropological and forensic implications by Alexandra Boucherie

“…., occipital, temporal bones and bony labyrinth) using a corpus of 611 skulls and 121 bony labyrinths from identified individuals – both immature and adult – from Western Europe. The study shows how the expression of this sexual dimorphism becomes more marked on the temporal bone as from the pubertal growth peak. …”
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Robustness Analysis of the Regional and Interregional Components of the Weighted World Air Transportation Network by Issa Moussa Diop, Cherif Diallo, Chantal Cherifi, Hocine Cherifi

“…Indeed, it contains five local components covering different regions (North America-Caribbean, Europe-Russia, East and Southeast Asia-Oceania, Africa-Middle East-Southern Asia, and South America) and one global component linking these regions. …”
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Early Neolithic of Southern Belarus: current state and prospects for study by Oleg Yu. Tkachev, Maryia I. Tkacheva

“…The authors relate the appearance of ceramics, the main sign of the beginning of the Neolithic for the forest zone of Eastern Europe, to impulses originating from the Southern Bug and Dniester. …”
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Budapest nephrology school – 30 years of history – from modest start to an international success: systematic summary of the 27th BNS held between 28th August and 2nd of September 2... by Orsolya Cseprekál, Laszlo Rosivall

“…The invaluable experience of the past 27 years has set the standards for BNS to contribute to the evolution of translational nephrology in Europe in the next decade.…”
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