Using data from the first round of the national Gender and Generations Surveys of Russia, Romania, and Bulgaria, and from a similar survey of Hungary, which were all collected in recent years, we study rates of entry into marital and non-marital unions. We have used elements from the narrative of the Second Demographic Transition (SDT) as a vehicle to give our analysis of the data from the four...

Consensus panel: Daniel Surbek (Switzerland*), Gabriela Caracostea (Romania*), Yves Jacquemyn (Belgium*), Susana Santo (Portugal*), Lennart Nordström (Sweden*), Tulia Todros (Italy*), Branka Yli (Norway*), George Farmakidis (Greece*), Sandor Valent (Hungary*), Bruno Carbonne (France*), Kati Ojala (Finland*), José Luis Bartha (Spain*), Joscha Reinhard (Germany*), Anneke Kwee (Netherlands*), Roma...

Open Distance Learning (ODL) has adopted new forms due to the development of networking technologies like the Internet and the Web. These forms can help young people with locomotive disabilities or social difficulties to be integrated into the contemporary knowledge-based economy. In this paper ODL methods and suitable supporting open learning environments based on the Web are briefly presented...

This article discusses the relationship between race and physical anthropology in Hungary and Romania between 1900 and 1940. It begins by looking at institutional developments in both countries and how these influenced the most important Hungarian and Romanian anthropologists' professional and research agendas. Drawing from a wide range of primary sources, the article reveals the significant ro...

F. Beiuşeanu,1 C. Horea,1 E.-V. Macocian,1 T. Jurcuţ,1 L. Vitos,2,3,4 and L. Chioncel5,6 1Department of Physics, University of Oradea, RO-410087 Oradea, Romania 2Applied Materials Physics, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm SE-100 44, Sweden 3Department of Physics and Materials Science, Uppsala University, PO Box 516, SE-75120 Uppsala, Swed...

In this paper, we report the survey results from executives of companies in ten countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) – Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovak Republic, and Slovenia – regarding their companies’ capital budgeting practices. We document interesting insights on how theoretical corporate finance concepts are applied by practit...

Dear Editor, Outside of mid-western United States,1 histoplasmosis is endemic in pockets of Asia (like Indonesia) and Europe (Italy, Hungary, Romania, Britain).2 It is caused by H. capsulatum, a fungus found in barns, old houses or soil contaminated with bird droppings. Airborne spores infect those who inhale it. Disease manifestation is myriad, ranging from a sub-clinical infection to an organ...

The analysis of capital markets efficiency has attracted a considerable number of studies in empirical finance, but conflicting and inconclusive outcomes have been generated. The aim of this paper is to find any evidence that the selected emergent capital markets (eight emergent European and BRIC markets, namely Hungary, Romania, Estonia, Czech Republic, Brazil, Russia, India and China) abide b...

Through the introduction of a comparative party-state model, I will first demonstrate that due to specific structural and dynamic constraints, the capacity of party-states to learn is both limited and uneven. Differences in the room for manoeuvre are defined by structural and dynamic specifics of power distribution. These will determine the invariable implementation of structurespecific instrum...

Described from the steppe zones north of the Black Sea, Caucasus, and central Asia, Gryllotalpa stepposa Zhantiev was recently recorded from a few localities in Greece, R. Macedonia, and Bulgaria. In May 2015, several specimens were collected from Ivrinezu Mare in Romania, which suggested a continuous distribution area of the species, stretching from the central Balkans to central Asia. Thus, t...