Department of Biotechnology, West Bengal University of Technology, BF – 142, Sector – 1, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700064, India; Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin, Institute for Horticultural Sciences, Department of Urban Horticulture, Lentzeallee 55/57, 14195 Berlin, Germany; West Bengal State University (Barasat, North 24 Parganas), Barasat Government College (Annexe Building), 10 KNC Road, Calcutta 7...

A study of distance estimations between German cities investigated the organization of mental maps and their specific deviations from reality. Potential factors for the deviation of mental maps from reality are physical barriers, emotional involvement, and semantic unity. Distance estimations between cities situated in different former parts of Germany (East or West) were systematically overest...

1Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, (CSIR), Hyderabad 500 007, India 2Molecular Microbiology Laboratory, Department of Biotechnology, University of North Bengal, Siliguri, West Bengal 734 430, India 3Experimental Limnology, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Alte Fischerhuette 2, 16775 Stechlin, Germany 4Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Potsdam Uni...

The fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 offered the unique opportunity to compare populations of a similar genetic and geographic background which had been living under quite different environmental exposure conditions for over 40 years. Since 1990 comparative epidemiological studies were performed between various regions in former East and West Germany with yearly questionnaires and 3 years' physi...

In this paper we study job shift patterns in the former German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). Our research questions concern (a) cross-country similarities and differences in (firm-internal and firm-external) job mobility, (b) an explanation of job shift patterns by labor market composition, and (c) influences of human capital and labor ma...