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Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The incidence of Tick‐borne encephalitis (TBE) cases has increased. The presumed location of transmission of Tick‐borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) has been expanding increasingly in the western parts of Europe during the past decade. There has also been an increased incidence of surveillance‐reported TBE cases in southern Sweden and southern ...
H. H. Askling, D. Zavadska
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Fiscal indulgence in Central Europe: loss of the external anchor? [PDF]
In recent years, fiscal performance in Central Europe has steadily deteriorated, in contrast to the improvement in the Baltics. This paper explores the determinants of such differences among countries on the path to EU accession.
Berger, Helge +2 more
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Underutilised crops in Europe: An interdisciplinary approach towards sustainable practices
Archaeometry, EarlyView.Abstract In the context of a rapidly growing global population and significant climatic and environmental change, there is an urgent need to produce nutritious food in a sustainable manner. Some crops are underutilised in Europe, despite their suitability to local environments, viability for sustainable production and potential to improve diets.
Meriel McClatchie +18 more
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The Provenance of Silver in the Viking‐Age Hoard From Bedale, North Yorkshire
Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The acquisition of silver was a key motive propelling the Viking expansion out of Scandinavia; identifying the sources of Viking silver during the early part of the Viking Age can provide critical insights into the relative significance of western European and eastern, Islamic wealth in the Viking expansion.
Jane Kershaw +5 more
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Economic Inequality in Central, East and Southeast Europe [PDF]
The article analyses the issue of economic inequality in the transition economies of Central, East and Southeast Europe. It consists of a literature review and a descriptive analysis as well as an econometric modelling exercise.
Mario Holzner, Sebastian Leitner
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Boreas, EarlyView.This review presents an investigation of the evolution of the Baltic Sea basin and its connections through the Eemian Stage, based upon sequences of marine and associated deposits from the White Sea to the Southwest Baltic, via the Karelian channel. Pollen analyses, foraminiferal and ostracod analyses provide the evolution of relative sea‐level change,
Philip L. Gibbard, Karen L. Knudsen
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Redistributional Preferences and Imposed Institutions [PDF]
To what extent do imposed institutions shape preferences? We consider this issue by comparing the market-versus-state attitudes of respondents from a capitalist country, Finland, and an ex-communist group of Baltic countries, and by arguing that the ...
Alberto Chong, Mark Gradstein
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Boreas, EarlyView.We analyse the geological processes of a coastal embayment in the Kattegat. Using high‐resolution seismic data and sediment cores, we describe a geological evolution from glacial to shallow marine stages with a variety of preserved facies from different depositional settings, including glacio‐lacustrine, telmatic, limnic and coastal environments.
Katrine Juul Andresen +8 more
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Boreas, EarlyView.We summarize the current state of knowledge on the age of the Middle Pleistocene ice advances into northern central Europe and provide 25 new single‐grain feldspar luminescence ages of Elsterian and Saalian glacigenic sediments to constrain the age of the ice advances and their tentative correlation with marine isotope stages/substages.
Niklas von Soest +10 more
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Economic Growth in Georgia: Historical Perspectives and Prognosis [PDF]
While output declined in virtually all transition economies in the initial years, the speed and extent of the recovery that followed has varied widely across these countries. The paper examines some aspects of transition experiences of 1990s and dynamics
Alexander Milnikov +2 more
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