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Biodiversity has gained huge importance as a fundamental concept for environmental conservation, yet the physical support of biodiversity (e. g., soils, landforms and geological units, recognized as geodiversity) remains little observed within the scientific community. ...

Empirical studies indicate that the transition to parenthood is influenced by an individual’speer group. To study the mechanisms that create interdependencies across individuals’transition to parenthood and its timing we apply an agent–based simulation model. Webuild a ...

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have developed into complex toolboxes and require analysts to formulate spatial questions according to the requirements of the data formats and tools provided by their specific GIS-application. The recently proposed language for spat...

Modern scholarship realizes that statutory law of Árpádian Hungary may not have meant to regulate actual situations, but only to follow general medieval patterns of Christian rulers issuing codes of law. Sources on actual legal practice show a different picture of the p...

Using data from Opinions about the Environment and Global Warming 2010, a nationally representative survey of 3900 adults, this study investigates demographic differentials in levels of concern about climate change and climate-relevant behaviours. The factor analysis of...

The present paper analyses third-millennium BC clay figurines from three sites, Tell Djassa el Gharbi, Tell Abu Hafur and Tell Rad Shaqrah, all located in the Khabur River basin (central Jazirah, Syria) and researched in the 1980s and 1990s by the Polish Centre of Medit...

One of the salient features of Oxford, MS Bodley 649, a fifteenth-century sermon collection, is its frequent switching from Latin to English – and back to Latin again. Building on Wenzel’s (1994) groundbreaking work on macaronic sermons, I discuss the rhetorical charact...