Derivation and Mapping of Critical Loads for Nitrogen and Trends in Their Exceedance in Germany by Hans-Dieter Nagel, Heinz-Detlef Gregor

“…The risk of environmental damage remains at an unacceptable level. The German maps show the degree to which the critical loads are exceeded, and they present current developments and an expected future trend. …”
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On the Possibility and Plurality of Worlds: from The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde to Le Crime étrange de Mr Hyde by Jean-Pierre Naugrette

“…Such aesthetic models as German expressionism, both filmic and pictorial, but also Klee, Bacon or Kubrick constitute as many references and material for building up a new narrative world. …”
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L’établissement du Runde Berg et les sites de hauteur en territoire alaman (ive-ve s. apr. J.-C.) by Dieter Quast

“…AD, whereas new immigrants belonging to the Elbe Germanic culture settle: the Alamanni. The region takes the name of Alamannia in the 4th c. …”
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Linguistic Means of Image Development of Gerhard Chroeder in the Run up to and After First Year in Office by E. S. Goncharova

“…This article is dedicated to the analysis of the linguistic means that influenced image development of the German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in the run-up and during the first year in office. …”
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Afghan Pashtun asylum seekers’ ideological resistance in Germany by Ashfaq takkar

“… This article provides the migration experiences of Afghan Pashtun asylum seekers who have migrated from Afghanistan to German cities of Landshut and Cologne. This ethnographic study focuses more explicitly on how asylum seekers' patterns of resistance materialise against deportation and temporal rationalities (waiting and time). …”
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مواقع التواصل الاجتماعیة الأکادیمیة by ایمان على سعد, د. خالد عبد الفتاح محمد Mohamed, د. اسماعیل رجب غریب Ghareeb

“…The research deals with the definition of social networking sites foracademic purposes, the date of their launch, the intellectual production ofacademic communication sites, the need to use them, the dangers of using them,and the exclusion of the most popular social networking sites.(1) Research Gate, founded in 2008 in Berlin by Ijad Madisch, HorstFickenscher, and Sören Hofmayer, (2) the site of Academia.edu, which wasfounded in 2008 in San Francisco by Richard Price, (3) Mendeley, founded in2007 by three German doctoral students; and (4) the Zotero site, launched in2006.The study pointed out that it is advantageous to use social networkingsites for academics Such as: sharing and discovering sources, supportingcooperation, developing identity and self, and communication.The risk of using it to researchers: wasting time, lack of enough activeusers, inefficient use, and lack of digital identity management.The risk of using it on institutions: the spread of knowledge that can beused badly by competitors, and lack of control over the reputation of institutions.Finally, the study pointed to the existence of two views on the relationshipbetween the use of social networking sites and academic achievement: The firstpoint of view: confirms that the relationship is negative between social networkingsites and academic achievement, and the second view assumes a positiverelationship between them.…”
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A Politics of Working-Class Culture and the Culture of Working-Class Politics: The Aesthetics and Activism of Amber Film and Photography Collective and the Berwick Street Film Coll... by Jessica Williams Boyall

“…By engaging in a comparative reading, I highlight the breadth of Amber’s oeuvre, tracing the development of their filmmaking strategies—which included agitprop, the fusion of factual and fictional formal elements and transnational collaboration with the German Democratic Republic’s film production company, Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft (DEFA)—to demonstrate that, contrary to criticisms levelled by contemporary theorists clustered around Screen magazine and the British Film Institute, Amber transcended the constraints of Documentary Realism by incorporating radical avant-garde aesthetics into their oppositional practice. …”
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French Сolonizers on “Other” Сolonizers: Britain and Germany in Narratives of Paul Leroy‑Beaulieu and Jules Ferry by Taisiia M. Demicheva

“…At the same time, the image of the German colonizer came out quite different. That colonizer appeared as a malicious, suddenly appearing on the colonial arena rival, who made a number of mistakes. …”
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Analysis of the Influencing Factors of Enterprise Environmental Ethics on Enterprise Economic Performance by Yufang Jiang, Xujie Lyu

“…The experimental results show that the long-term dissemination of innovation and reputation factors in environmental ethics is conducive to the dissemination of green innovative technologies and products, obtaining the attention and recognition of more enterprises and stakeholders, broadening the scope of cooperation and sales, and obtaining the support of German consumers. Environmental ethics has a short-term direct effect on performance. …”
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The development of Russian federalism in the 1990s (on the example of the Omsk region) by M. S. Novikov

“…As part of the national administrative construction, the Azov German National District was created in the Omsk region. …”
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Language-dependent knowledge acquisition by Christian G.K. Hahn, Henrik Saalbach, Clemens Brunner, Roland Grabner

“…Thirty-six university students learned arithmetic facts of three different operations over four days either in English or in German. Afterwards, they were tested in both languages with concurrent assessments of self-reports and electrophysiological activity. …”
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Roma Eterna? Roman rule explains regional well-being divides in Germany by Martin Obschonka, Fabian Wahl, Michael Fritsch, Michael Wyrwich, P. Jason Rentfrow, Jeff Potter, Samuel D. Gosling

“…In this study, we examine the role of ancient cultures, specifically the impact of Roman civilization around two thousand years ago, on the macro-psychological character of German regions. We compare present-day regions that were advanced by Roman culture with those that remained outside of Roman influence. …”
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Investigating PFAS emissions of light- and heavy-duty fuel cell electric vehicles by T. Lange, M. Dietrich, H. Schlottmann, V. Valkov, V. Mackert, I. Radev, H. Hoster

“…Despite these findings, the product water from all vehicles remains within the non-critical range according to current German national PFAS guidelines. However, the results highlight the need for further research and effective strategies to mitigate PFAS emissions from PEM fuel cells in the future.…”
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MycoNews 2021: President’s message, IMA statutes, news, reports, awards, personalia, and book news by David L. Hawksworth

“…in Poland, and the centenary of the German Mycological Society (DGFM). Birthday greetings from IMA go to David Farr, Marie-Agnés Letrouit-Galinou, Maria Olech, Angela Restrepo, Carol Shearer, James Trappe, and Shun-ichi Udagawa. …”
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CHURCH SLAVONIC VERSION OF CAESAR BARONIUS ANNALES ECCLESIASTICI AND CHUDOV TRANSLATIONS FROM THE 17TH CENTURY: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF VOCABULARY by Maria O. Novak

“…The common features are as follows: the widespread use of composita (compounds) not supported by the Polish text; equally widespread use of verbs with the -stvo- formant; the choice of words of Greek origin as equivalents for lexical units of Slavic and German origin; elimination of Latin borrowings, familiarized in the Polish text, and their translation through Slavic derivatives. …”
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Review of Prediction Models to Estimate Activity-Related Energy Expenditure in Children and Adolescents by Suzanne M. de Graauw, Janke F. de Groot, Marco van Brussel, Marjolein F. Streur, Tim Takken

“…Inclusion criteria were development or validation of an accelerometer-based prediction model for the estimation of AEE in healthy children or adolescents (6–18 years), criterion measure: indirect calorimetry, or doubly labelled water, and language: Dutch, English or German. Results. Nine studies were included. Median methodological quality was 5.5±2.0 IR (out of a maximum 10 points). …”
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Serial Production, Serial Photography, and the Writing of History in Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance by Flora Valadié

“…By photographing men and women from all walks of life, Sander thus created a typological catalogue of more than 600 photos of the German people, a part of which was later published in his book Face of our Time. …”
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From the Small Screen to the Big Screen: The Super8's Distribution of Sandokan TV series by Nicole Braida

“… ‘From the small screen to the big screen’ proclaims the advertising text of the Super8’s of a television series distributed in 1979 by the German company Piccolo Film, emphasizing the novelty and the potential of format. …”
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Analysing Geo-linguistic Dynamics of the World Wide Web: The Use of Cartograms and Network Analysis to Understand Linguistic Development in Wikipedia by Liao Han-teng, Petzold Thomas

“…It is argued that although certain more developed language versions such as English and German may have central positions in connecting all languages, there exists another pattern that can best be explained by geo-linguistic factors. …”
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Determination of the Correlation Dependence Between Static and Dynamic Modulus of Deformation of the Granular Sub-Ballast Layers by Ižvolt Libor, Dobeš Peter, Mečár Martin

“…Based on the above-mentioned reasons, the presented article is focused on the analysis of set values of the dynamic modulus of deformation, obtained through light dynamic load test LDD 100, and the static modulus of deformation obtained by employing the test procedure set out in the methodology regarding the sub-ballast layers diagnostics used for German railways (DIN 18 134) and the methodology used for the Railways of the Slovak Republic (regulation ŽSR TS4).…”
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