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Eastern Europe: In Search of Form
Preview: Almost 70 years ago Czesław Miłosz wrote that what distinguishes Eastern European(s) is a specific, essential “lack of form – external and internal.” All their positive characteristics and virtues come from their fundamental vice which is a ...
Przemysław Bursztyka
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Monetary transmission mechanism in Central and Eastern Europe: Gliding on a wind of change [PDF]
This paper surveys recent advances in empirical studies of the monetary transmission mechanism (MTM), with special attention to Central and Eastern Europe.
Coricelli, Fabrizio +2 more
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The genealogy of Eastern European difference: an insider’s view [PDF]
The view of Eastern Europe as a locus of complex family organisation and familistic societal values has reached the status of general dogma in Western social sciences and demography.
Mikolaj Szoltysek
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First birth trends in developed countries [PDF]
Levels and trends of various facets concerning first births are continuously changing. The evidence confirms that the postponement of first births is an ongoing and persisting process which started in western countries among cohorts of the 1940s, but ...
Jean-Paul Sardon, Tomas Frejka
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Review: Vedrana Veličković, Eastern Europeans in Contemporary Culture: Imagining New Europe
Joel Heyes
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FDI in the Mediterranean Region: a Comparison with CEE Experience [PDF]
The research paper was designed to identify the factors that would explain the patterns and the determinants of FDI in the Mediterranean region during 1990-1997. The most important fact characterising this period has been the extension of the Association
Alessandrini, Sergio, Resmini, Laura
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Abstract Invasive gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) have replaced the native red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) across much of Great Britain over the last century. Several factors have been proposed to underlie this replacement, but here we investigated the potential for dietary competition in which gray squirrels have better feeding performance than ...
Philip G. Cox, Peter J. Watson
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Abstract Domesticated European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) have long been chosen as laboratory model organisms. Despite this, there has been no definitive study of the vertebral musculature of wild rabbits. Relevant descriptions of well‐studied veterinary model mammals (such as dogs) are generally applicable, but not appropriate for a species ...
Nuttakorn Taewcharoen +3 more
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