The EMBO Conference on Ribosome Synthesis held last summer explored the latest breakthroughs in ribosome assembly and how it affects disease. Both of these topics have recently seen important advances that enlighten how almost 200 proteins cooperate to produce a ribosome and how the cell responds to a malfunction in this process.

As part of an interdisciplinary project on the environmental history of the Viennese Danube, the past river landscape was reconstructed. This article describes the different types of historical sources used for the GIS-based reconstruction, the underlying methodological approach and its limitations regarding reliability and information value. The reconstruction was based on three cornerstones: ...

The sterlet (Acipenser ruthenus L.) is a bottom-feeding fish species with a direct exposure to contaminants from water and sediments. Although heavy metal pollution is believed to be one of the main threats to the sterlet population in the Danube River basin, there is a lack of knowledge of the exact impact of heavy metals on their survival. In the present study, effects of heavy metal pollutio...

Insight into the pathways of biodegradation and external factors controlling their activity is essential in adequate environmental risk assessment of chlorinated aliphatic hydrocarbon pollution. This study focuses on biodegradation of 1,2-dichloroethane (1,2-DCA) in microcosms containing sediment sourced from the European rivers Ebro, Elbe and Danube. Biodegradation was studied under different ...

The aim of this study is to examine the empirical cointegration, long-run and short-run dynamics causal relationships between carbon emissions, energy consumption economic growth in 14 Danube region countries over period 1990–2019. autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing methodology was applied for each examined variables as a dependent variable. Limited by length time series, we e...

The reviewed volume is one output of the Interreg DTP Monumentalized Early Iron Age Landscapes in Danube river basin (acronym Iron-Age-Danube) program, which involved professionals from Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia.

The Interreg DTP project “Living Danube Limes” aims to establish a stepping stone and sound foundation for the creation of cultural route spanning whole area. identifies Roman heritage in Region as unifying, common historical heritage. Four tiers compose holistic approach valorising along Danube: archaeology history, museums sites, preservation sustainable tourism solutions, raising public awar...

The impact of global climate change is also felt in Hungary. An undesirable effect (associated with rising temperatures) mainly the increase frequency, intensity, and length summer heat waves. In this respect, region Southern Great Plain Danube-Tisza Region are particularly endangered, but number wave days has increased throughout country recent decades. This study takes climatic data sets Baja...

Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, which resulted in a massive biotic exchange between the Rhine and Danube drainages (Rahel 2007, Leuven et al. 2009). Less clear cut are situations that involve restoring connectivity in waterways that were historically connected or fragmenting currently connected systems (Fausch et al. 2009, Jackson and Pringle 2010). In fact, maintaining isolation or even intentionally...