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Abstract The main goal of the study is the quantification of the disparities in the recycling rates of the individual types of waste in the European Union member countries. The data on the waste recycling rates for the period 2004–2021 come from Eurostat. A linear regression analysis is engaged for the analytical processing.
Beata Gavurova +3 more
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Dear Colleagues, This year marks the celebration of a remarkable event in the cultural history of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania – the establishment of the printing house of Francysk Skaryna in Vilnius and the beginning of book printing in Lithuania. The
Rimvydas Petrauskas
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Co-existence of languages in the area of the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the light of the works of Jan Karłowicz The article discusses the issues of the co-existence of languages in the former Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the consequences of the
Elżbieta Koniusz
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Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics
Abstract In this study, we explore the long‐run effects of Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Using a robust regression discontinuity design, we identify persistent differences in socio‐economic development across the South Livonia–Courland and the South Livonia–Lettgallia borders that emerged as a result of the ...
Theocharis N. Grigoriadis, Alise Vitola
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ABSTRACT This article explores the development of Italian popular and educational cartography following the national unification of 1861. While Italy had a long‐standing cartographic tradition dating back to the Renaissance, this tradition had rapidly declined in the late modern age due to political fragmentation. The late 19th century saw a revival of
Matteo Proto
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Pierre‐Joseph Buc'hoz: did he deserve his bad reputation?
Summary A biography and critique of Pierre‐Joseph Buc'hoz (1731–1807) – lawyer, physician, mineralogist, naturalist, compiler and publisher – is provided. Often criticised as being a mass‐plagiariser, this is commented on, based on a detailed examination of several of his publications.
Nicholas Hind
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Heritage of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish Northeastern Borderlands in the light of erudite linguistics The essay contains reflections on the ways of using erudite linguistics, a young discipline created by me, in the study of the Grand ...
Katarzyna Węgorowska
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Predicative Possession in Ukrainian and Intra‐Slavonic Language Contact1
Abstract Ukrainian has two inherited syntactic forms for possessive have: a transitive one with a lexical have‐verb, and an intransitive, originally locative be‐construction. On the basis of four corpus studies, the article establishes their relative frequency in Middle Ukrainian writing (17th and 18th c.), Modern Ukrainian dialects (20th c.), and ...
Jan Fellerer
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Sex differences in elite track and field performances and inferences about steroid doping
Abstract Females likely experience larger performance benefits from androgenic‐anabolic steroids than males. We set out to determine if there were temporal differences in select athletics (track and field) records between females and males. Exploratory aims included: (1) evaluating the improvements in female and male world records over time, and (2 ...
Diana B. Collantes +5 more
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Svarbi studija apie dingusį ir atrastą litvakų pasaulį
Rec.: Šarūnas Liekis, Antony Polonsky, Chaeran Freeze (eds.), Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry: Jews in the Former Grand Duchy of Lithuania since 1772, Oxford: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2013, 509 p.
Stanislovas Stasiulis
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